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VOL. CXLVIH. No. 12

Whole Number 393 3

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Horticultural, and Live Stock Journal in the State.

DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1917

75 CENTS A YEAR
$2.25 FOR SYEAIS

Practical Farm Bookkeeping By c. P. REED

ANY farmers start in. keeping

books on January 1, and then

forget it along with other
equally commendable New Year’s reso-
lutions. We are prone to think of
these things more strongly at the close
of the year than at any other season.
The calendar year is not the natural
fiscal year for the farmer and should
seldom be used as such. The great
objection to starting accounts January
1 is that a large part of the crops are
marketed between November and Ap-
ril and the season’s business cannot
easily be closed up until these are mar-
keted. The farmers who are winter-
ing a barn full of stock necessarily
have a large amount of grain and fod-
der on hand and find it difficult to
make a satisfactory inventory in Jan-
uary.

The best time to start farm accounts
is just before the work on a new sea-
son’s crops can begin, as the feeding
supplies are low and the winter sales
of crops and animals have been made.
There is less possibility of error in an
inventory taken at that time and it
can be done more quickly. This is the
beginning of the natural fiscal year
for the Michigan farmer, and in most
cases should be March 31 or a few
days earlier. Some who have fattening
stock to turn off may want to wait a
little longer, especially if spring is
late, but in most cases it is better to
take the annual inventory and start
the account of the new year in time
to have it done before the earliest
date of starting the spring work.

Many account bodks are on the mar-
ket, but most of these are devised by
office book-keepers who do not realize
that farm accounts are simple and
must be simply handled. Each author
of these feels that his system will
meet the long-felt want and will im-
mediately become popular, but such
does not prove to be the case. The
book that will meet the needs of all
classes of farmers on all kinds of
farms is an impossibility and never
will be invented. The loose leaf sys-
tem was thought by some to be suffi-
ciently adaptable, but even that has
not met with favor.

The only practical way is for each
farmer to decide for himself the ac-
counts he wishes to keep, then get a
day—book such as is commonly sold for
twenty-five to thirty—five cents each,_
and fix it up to meet his own needs.
If he has clearly in mind at the start
What he wants his books to tell him at
the end of the year, he will have no
difficulty in doing this. If he wants
simply a memorandum of cash and
other transactions it is a very simple
matter, but something more than this
is needed.. An account that can serve
as a memorandum and still be in shape
to be easily summarized at the end of
the year is worth three times as much
as the daily memorandum and takes

no more time if properly started. To

properly start a system of this kind,
all~ thatils necessary is toiclassify at

A-

the start the accounts to be kept and
make a heading at the top of each
page indicating the account to be kept
on that page. When this is done,
thumb stickers purchased at the drug
store for ten cents can be attached
at the margin of the page as a dog-ear
index, or an index can be made at the
beginning of the book if the pages are
numbered. When the accounts are
thus classified it is easy to record from
day to day each transaction in its
proper place. If this is done, the sum—
mary at the end of the year can be
made very quickly. This summary and
the conclusions that can be drawn
from it, which will aid in determining
the future policy of managing the
farm, are the really worth while things
that come from book-keeping.

Anyone who has not kept accounts
in this manner will find it very inter-
esting and profitable. For the first
year or two he had better follow the
classification recommended by the Ag-
ricultural College. After he has used
this system for a year or more he may
be able to work out something which
will exactly suit his needs. Until he
has done this, he will be well repaid if
he follows out the suggestions of the
Cpllege. Their system provides for the

following summary at the end of the
year:
Capital Invested at Beginning of
Fiscal Year.

Value of live stock .............. $. . . .
Value of machinery ............ . . . .
Value of feeding stuffs .......... . . . .
Value of other supplies ......... . . . .
Value of real estate ............. . . . .
Ready money ..................

Total . . . . . ...................
Current Receipts.

Sales of crops. ............... ./.$
Sales of fruit and vegetables .....
Cattle net receipts ..............
Horses net receipts .............
Sheep net receipts ............ ,.
Hogs net receipts ..............
Poultry net receipts .............
Miscellaneous ..................
Increase in supplies .............

Total ........................

Current Farm Expenses.

Labor costs ................... $. .
Repairs (all kinds) .............
Feeds ..........................
Threshing, etc. .................
Seeds ........ . .................
Miscellaneous ..................
Decrease in supplies. ..

Total ........................

Farm income (receipts- -expenses)$..
Five per cent on investment. . .
Labormcome. ......

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It Will Enable the Farmer to Estimate the Cost of the Crop when Harvested.
An approximate knowledge offiiiWof producing any farm, product

is invaluable to any tanner. Cost'r

counting in practically all successful commercial enterprises.

15 are an important factor of ac-

orandum of labor and other crop costs will be a proper beginning of cost ac-

counting on the farm.

A simple mem- '

This summary shows the net income
of the farm from which is subtracted
five per cent interest on the total in-
vestment, and the result is the labor
income or the pay the farmer gets for
his own work. In addition to this he
has received what living the farm has
furnished his family in the way of food,
fuel and shelter.

In keeping a record of expenses, it is
a common mistake among farm people
to charge their household expenses in
as part of the farm expenses. It is
just as wrong for the farmer to do this
as it is for the druggist to charge his
family expenses in as part of his store
expenses. The College recommends
that all household accounts be so
classified at the end of the year as
follows:

Household Expenses.

Dry goods and clothing ......... .$. . . .
Groceries and provisions ........ . . . .
Education and amusement ..... . . . . .
Light afid fuel .................. . . . .
Miscellaneous .................. . . . .
Total..... .......... .........$

People often think that some record
should be kept of the ilving the farm
furnishes the family. If this is done,
the total amount can be added to the
farm receipts and also to the household
expenses. The result will then make
the farmer’s labor income comparable
to the wages of the job holder who
takes his entire living out of his salary
or labor income. The Agricultural Col-
lege or the United States Department
of Agriculture does not recommend
this as it requires a great deal more
work; so much work indeed that the
busy, hard—working individual finds it
more bother than it is worth. The De-
partment has collected information
which shows that the farm contributes
over $500 worth of fuel, food and shel~
ter to the average {arm family, com-
puted at farm values and not Detroit
or Chicago retail prices. The summary
presented above computes the farmer’s
labor on a basis which makes it com-
parable with the wages of the man
who is hired by the year and furnished
a house with such portion of living as
the farm can provide.

Space does not permit a complete
discussion of all the points involved in
keeping the records necessary to make
the above summary, and anyone wish-
ing for further information should
write to the Extension Department of
the Michigan Ag. licultuIal College. On-
ly a few points can be mentioned here.
Net receipts from cattle are figured by
subtratcing the cost of any cattle pur-
chased from the total cattle sales of
the year, and to this added any in-
crease in the value of the herd during
the year. In case there is a decreased
value of the herd as shown by the an-
nual inventory, that amount should be
subtracted from the sales. The net re-
ceipts from other stock may also be
figured in the same way. Depreciation
charges on work horses, milch cows,
tools and buildings must be based on
the present condition of the animal,
tool or building, and probable future

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DETROIT, MARCH 2.4, 1917

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

 

Too much consideration
can net be given to the
season's plans by the
p farmer who would make
the most of his opportunity this year.
In this connection there is no more
important phase of farm management
to be considered than that of making
the available labor yield the greatest
possible results in marketable product.
To this end it is essential that every
farmer plan his season‘s campaign to
avoid conflicting demands for labor by
the crops grown so far as that may be
possible. This will be difficult of ac-
complishment if the area of cash crops
is greatly increased, as seems desira-
ble under existing conditions of high
prices and shortage of food stuffs of
all kinds, hence the necessity of care-
ful planning, since it will be difficult
to increase the available labor in most
cases. .

At the outset it should be remember-
ed by the farmer who makes dairying
or live stock production a consider—
able factor in his business, as most
farmers in Michigan should, that grain
feeds are certain to be high in price,
as well as other marketable products,
and that hay, as well as other forage
feeds, will probably be much higher
next year than has been the case this
season, so that it will be doubtful econ-
omy to cut down the area of these
crops to devote a larger area to cash
crops. The cat crop, when it can be
put in without plowing, will prove a
labor saver, and may prove exception-
ally profitable this year. Corn. at pres-
ent values, can be more cheaply grown
than purchased for feed, and will re—
turn good profits when marketed in the
form of live stock or live stock prod‘
ucts at present and prspective val-
ues. The farmer who cuts down on
these crops this year is likely to make
a serious mistake, but in growing and
utilizing them short cut methods
should be used wherever practical. To
illustrate: Very many live stock feed-
ers have for years fed the corn crop
from the shock, thus eliminating the
labor of husking the grain. Where
silos are unavailable for the preserva-
tion of this feed, this method has been
a labor saver, and of late years the
plan of permitting the fattening stock
to harvest the corn themselves has
grown in favor. Details of this kind
are a proper subject of consideration
in planning the season’s work, since
where such methods are followed, a.
larger area of corn can be grown than
would be the case if old methods of
harvesting were contemplated with a
limited amount of labor available. This
is only one illustration of the fact that
if the best results are to be secured
under present conditions, precedent

The Season’s
Plans.

must be abandoned as a guide for the

 

future, and futiire plans he made JWhol-
ly‘ with regard to present rather than
past conditions. ' .

This is, of course, an individual

problem for every farmer. No general
plan of campaign can be successfully
outlined which will apply to even a fair
percentage of cases. For best results
each individual farmer should,give
careful consideration to the problems
involved in the conduct of a'succesSful
farm campaign during the coming sea-
son, and have his plans well in hand
before the first furrow is turned for
the season’s crop.
While much progress
has been made to-
ward the solution of
the highway problem
in recent years, yet many details re-
main to be worked out before the sat-
isfactory solution of the problem can
be said to have been reached. Working
under the county and township sys-
tems a rapidly increasing mileage of
permanent roads have been built in
Michigan in recent years.

Some of these roads which were con-
sidered permanent under traffic condi--
tions which existed at the time they
were built have since proven to be in-
sufficient to withstand the heavy and
rapidly moving traffic which they have
been called upon to bear. There is no
question but that with the increase of
permanent road mileage in this state,
the farmers over a very wide territory
will market their crops over these
highways by the use of automobile
trucks. Roads which are sufficient and
satisfactory for light traffic cannot be
expected to successfully carry heavy
commercial traffic of this kind, and on
trunk line roads leading into our com-
mercial centers it is becoming evident
that more permanent construction
than gravel or macadam roads will be
necessary. Either the surface of these
roads will have to be protected with
an efficient binder, or concrete or oth—
er form of paving construction will
have to be adopted.

The difficulties in railroad transpor-
tation which have made it necessary
for many automobile manufacturers to
deliver machines under their own pow-
er have increased the traffic over
many trunk line roads to an extent
which is calling for the solution of a
similar problem on many of these
highways. It is probable that the co-
operation of the government with the
states in permanent highway improve-
ment, while covering but a. small por-
tion of the improved road mileage,
will aid materially in the solution of
these problemssince the engineering
resources of the government will be
brought to bear in the solution of these
important road problems.

While it was inevitable that in a new
development of this kind many mis-
takes would be made in the solution
of new and difficult problems, yet the
results are perhaps more satisfactory
than might have been expected in the
permanent road improvement which
has been accomplished in Michigan
since the inception of this movement.
This fact is attested by the marked
change in public sentiment which is
everywhere noticeable. While there
are occasional communities in which
a consensus of Opinion among farmers
would favor a return to the old sys-

The Good Roads
Problem.

 

tem, yet these communities are the

exception rather than the rule. It is
everywhere recognized that the com-
munity gets more results for the dol-
lars expended for permanent road im-
provement under the present system
than was the case under‘ the old road
district plan. Notwithstanding the
fact that road taxes are higher, yet
actual results of consequence are se-
cured for the expenditure of the mon-
ey. Our roads are rapidly improving
in character, whereas under the old
system they were barely maintained
in a very indifferent condition. With
increased experience in road building,
and the adoption of methods which
time proves to be most practical, these

 
  

results are certain. to“ become? more - ” ‘»

satisfactory. ..
In staging a success:
The Arrival of ful and almost blood-
Russia. revolution at a time
when their country is
involved in the greatest of the world’s
wars, the people of Russia have sur-
prised the world as no other historical
event‘has recently surprised it. That
the Russian people will be warmly wel-
comed into the great brotherhood of
democratic peoples is everywhere evi-
dent. Traditionally phlegmatic and
deemed firmly bound by the precedent
of centuries of repression, if not op-
pression, they have suddenly demon.
strated their latent possibilities by a
boldness and unity of action whch is
without precedent in the world’s his-
tory.

Undoubtedly under the new order,
Russia will become a greater factor in
world affairs. Incidentally, this great
country’s possibilities in the way of ag-
ricultural production will doubtlessbe
more quickly realized. At the same
time, standards of living will be raised
as they have been raised by the Com-
mon people of other democracies in a
manner which will largely absorb in-
creased production.

But their task is only well begun.
The people of Russia will indeed be
fortunate if the task of building a new
government commensurate with the
needs of the people of that great coun-
try is accomplished with a fraction of
the ease with which the old govern-
ment was deposed from power. In this
struggle, the people of the United
States will wish them God speed.

At the general election
to be held on Monday,
April 2, there will be

Constitutional
Amendments.

submitted to the. elec->

tors three proposed amendments to the
constitution of the state. Two’of these
amendments are of a nature to be. eas-
ily understood by the average voter.
The first of these is a proposed addi-
tion to Article VIII of a new section
to be known as section 15a providing
that any drainage district established
under provision of law may issue bonds
for drainage purposes within such
district. '

The second proposed amendment is
to Section 1 of Article III of the con-
stitution, and its effect if adopted
would be to give any regularly enroll-
ed members of any citizens’ or naval
training camp held under the authority
of the government of the United States
by the state of Michigan, or any qual-
ified elector employed upon or in the
operation of railroad trains in this
state, or any sailor engaged or employ-
ed on the great lakes or coastwise
trade the right to vote although absent
from the township, ward or state in
which he resides. This proposed
amendment would also give to the leg-
islature power to pass lavvs covering
qualified electors who may be absent
from other causes than above specified.

The third amendment is of a more
important and far-reaching character.
This is a proposed amendment to Arti—
cle X of the constitution by adding a
section thereto to stand as Section 20
and to read as follows:

“Section 20. It shall be competent
for the state to acquire, purchase, take,
hold and operate any railroad or rail-
road property, belonging to any rail-
road or railway company in this state,
heretofore organized under a special
charter still in force and effect and
constituting a contract between the
state and said company, wherein the
right to purchase or acquire has been
reserved to the state, whenever in the
judgment of the legislature such ac-
quisition or purchasing is necessary to
protect and conserve the rights and in-
terests of the state under such charter
or contract. ' Any and all debts or obli-
gations of such company constituting
a lien upon such railroad, or railroad
property, may be assumed by the
state; and such road or property may
be leased, sold or disposed-of in such
manner as may be provided .by law.”

The effect of this section if adopted
is plainly stated in its wording. The

reason for its submission at thistime

ems. ,t. ll.

   
  

     

by the state under which the Detroit, "
Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad,

of the Grand Trunk system, is oberat~
ed, which has been a legal obStacle to

the collection of taxes assessed against

that road by the state, concerning

which litigation has‘been in progress ~
for a iumber of years, rather than as,

an entering wedge to the policy of rail-

road ownership in this state, since it

does not apply to railroads operating

under the general law.

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

, Foreign.

The European Wan—This last week
the British and French armies in
France have made remarkable inroads
into the Kaiser’s lines along the
Somme front. For a distance of 100
miles and to a depth .of twelve miles,
the Teutons have retreated before the
Allies. Over sixty cities and villages
are included in the territory left by
the Germans. The strategic military
positions around Bapaume, Peronne,
Noyon, Chaulnes and Nesle are among
the positions captured—Further suc-
cesses are attending the efforts of the
British and Russian troops in Asia
Minor. A wedge formed by .the Brit—
ish crowding north from Bagdad and
the Russians advancing through north‘
ern Persia to the southwest is forcing
the Turks to rapidly retreat to the
westward in the direction of Samara.
Russians have taken Baneh, Persia,
which lies within ten miles of the
Turkish border.—Attempts of the en-
tente troops to gain advantage north
of Monastir in Macedonia have failed,
according to Berlin reports. On the
Austro-Italian front a number of at-
tacks have been made by the Austri-
ans, but none of them have been suc-
cessful.-—While several engagements
in the Russian theatre of war have
taken place, no important changes in
the positions of the several armies op
erating there have occurred.

Russia is entering a new political
era. The old government has been
ended, and a new government under
the direction of the Duma, Russia’s
legislative body, is now controlling af-~
fairs until an election can be held. The
Duma is being supported by the army
and so far as can be ascertained ha;
the general backing of the people. Czar
Nicholas has abdicated, as have also
his son and Grand Duke Michael, in
whose favor the Czar reposed the gov‘
ernmental authority. This brings the
Romanoff dynasty to an end. The new
government bases its policy on the fol-
lowing principles: An immediate gen-
eral amnesty for all political and re-
ligious offenses; liberty of speech and
of the press; freedom for alliances, un-
ions and strikes; the abolition of all
social, religious and national restric-
tions; the establishment of a constitu-
tional assembly based on universal
suffrage; the substitution of a national
militia with chiefs elected by and re.
sponsible to the government, for the
present poliCe organization; communal
elections, and the abrogation of all re—
strictions for soldiers in the enjoy-
ment of social rights except when in
active service. The former Czar is
now enroute to his personal estate on
the south shore of Crimea.

National.

The big railroad strike which threat-
ened to tie up practically every indus-
try did not materialize. Both sides have
agreed to terms for the settlement of
the issues existing between them. The
conference committee of rail-road man-
agers early Monday morning announc-
ed it had given authority to the gov-
ernment’s mediators to make any ar-
rangements necessary with the rail-
road brotherhoods to end the threaten-
ed strike. As a result, the eight-hour
day will become effective regardless of
the decision‘of the Federal Supreme
Court on the Adamson law. A joint
committee is working out the details
which will provide for paying the men
The concessions on the part of the
ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work.
managers are virtually what the em-
ployee contended they would gain un-
der the Adamson law if it were declar-
ed unconstitutional.

What in all probability will amount
to the overt act on the part of Ger-
many which will bring that govern-
ment and the United States into a
state of war, was the submarining of
three United States ships with the loss
of_twenty-two,Americans. One of the
ships was torpedoed without warning.
Two of the ships were in the war zone
homeWard .bound and were not carry-
ing cargoes. Congress will meet on
April 16 for a special session unless'
President Wilson now deems itlwise,

. because of the above mentioned act on

the part. of G mom:

 
 

   
 

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- \ MARCH 24,1917; 'L

 

. The Oat Crop By N. A. CLAPP.

S the balmy breezes from the

south begin to sweep across the

ice-bound portions of the coun-
try, we begin to realize that spring-
time is at hand and we should begin
to plan to sow the seed for that very
important farm crop, the oats. It
seems that it is more than usually im-
portant this year as. the amount of
grain available for use is limited and
the oat crop of 1917 will not only be
needed to take its usual place, but the
oats will be needed as soon as they
can be raised, to tide over and meet
the necessities of farmers until the
season’s corn crop can be matured.

The cat crop ranks second in num-
ber of bushels raised, and third in
acreage of grains grown in the United
States. It is the hardiest of the culti-
vated cereals grown. It is not gener-
ally appreciated at its full value and
consequently it is not given the atten-
tion which it deserves and the prep-
aration of the ground for the crop is
too often done in a very indifferent
manner.

Formerly the cats were looked upon
as merely feed for farm horses and
the horses used to carry on business
in the cities. But now we know that
oat meal, properly prepared, is one of
the best foods we can select for use in
the family, and oats as a grain can be
very properly and beneficially used for
all the animals kept on the farm. The
oats not only give life, strength and
endurance to the farm‘ horses, but they
can be used with great benefit for the
dairy cows and all the growing young
stock, from the colts, calves, lambs
and pigs down to the chickens. While
farmers are often seen looking for
specially prepared feeds for their
young stock and hens, they can raise
right on the farm‘oats which are
among the very best muscle and
growth producers known. An enthusi-
ast used to say that “oats will make
the horses trot, the cows give milk,
the young stock grow and the hens lay
at less expense than any other feed
known.”

The Oat Crop’s Requirements.

The oat crop is produced in about
one hundred days from time of sowing,
consequently the plant food required
must be at once available. Therefore
the ground lnust be well prepared and
contain all the fertility needed in order
that the crop may be well fed from
the time the seed sprouts to the time
that the grain is matured. A field on
which corn has been raised the previ-
ous year, if it was sod ground, and
well manured, furnishes excellent con-
ditions with which to begin to prepare
for the cat crop.

Oats require a large amount of mois-
ture. Prof. King, of the Wisconsin
station, found that for each pound of
dry matter produced oats require 501
pounds of water. To meet the require-
ments of moisture should be the study
of the one who is preparing the ground
for the crop. We know that ground
that was plowed in the fall and is
soaked by water from melting snow
and early spring rains, is well saturat-
ed with water. If such ground is work‘
ed down, well pulverized and the seed
sown early in the spring, the condi-
tions are favorable for a supply of
moisture throughout the entire period
of growth.

Next to the fall—plowed ground is
the ground plowed early in the spring
before the moisture accumulated early
in the spring has had a chance to
evaporate. It is a mistake to delay
plowing oat grOund in the spring. The
plowing should be done as soon as the
gound is in suitable condition to be
plowed and then well worked before
the seed is sown.

Working the ground well will have
much to do toward retaining the mois-
ture that _is already in the soil. And
farther, if the ground is worked to a
fine tilth the small rootlets can per-

meate the mass and secure the plant
food necessary to give the young plants
a vigorous start. ,

If the ground is not too wet and sog-
gy, it is a good plan to run the roller
ahead of the drill. The roller serves
a triple purpose, it mashes the lumps,
compacts the soil and makes it possi-
ble. to have all the seed sown at a uni-
form depth.

Preparing the Seed.

If one has the variety of oats he de-
sires to sow it is an unwise plan to
neglect to screen the seed well before
sowing. There are small kernels, light
and chaffy material that should be
cleaned out in order to secure a stand
of stalks of uniform size. From the
small kernels Will grow Spindling
stalks on which will be small heads,
thereby lessening the possibiities of a
heavy yield of grain.

Amount of Seed to Sow.

It has been found that where as of
the small kernels are taken out of the
seed oats, that one bushel and a half
of all heavy kernels, evenly distribut-
ed and well covered, will be all that
can properly stand and produce heavy
heads. If the amount of .seed is in-
creased there will be a diminishing of
the size of the stools and heads, and
consequently a diminishing of the yield
of grain.

Treating the Seed for Smut.

It has been estimated by careful ob-
servers that the annual yield of the
oat crop of the country is reduced at
least ten per cent by smut. That
means an enormous loss. If it is not
more than one-half that amount the
loss is much greater than ought to be

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Some precautions should be taken
to prevent the treated seed from com-
ing in contact with the smut again.
Handle the seed only in clean bags or
in bags that have been saturated with
the formalin solution.

As a second precaution, spray the
hopper of the drill with the formalin
solution to make sure that none of the
seed will come in contact with smut
that may have adhered to the hOpper
when smutty grain had been sown
with it.

The increase in the yield of grain
and the added comfort in threshing
and handling grain free from smut,
will more than repay the trouble re-
quired to treat the seed.

 

CROP AND FERTILIZER QUES-
TlONS.

 

Acid Phosphate for Cats.

I want to sow 200 pounds of acid
phosphate to the acre in oats this
spring. Will. it injure the germination
of the oats to drill right in the drills
with the seed? I have a fertilizer at-
tachment on my drill. What kind of
fertilizer would you advise to drill with
corn and beans on clover sod and how
much per acre? 1 have 500 pounds of
hardwood ashes; how would you ad-
vise me to apply this to cats, corn
and beans, sow it broadcast or drill it
right in the drills with the seed?
Would it injure the germination of the
seed tghave it in the drills?

Montcalm Co.

No. 200 pounds of acid phosphate
will not in any way injure the seed.
If you were to use a large amount,
say 1000 pounds per acre, the greater
part of it should be drilled before sow-
ing the crop but 200 pounds is all right
and even more. I have used as much
as 500 pounds in this way.

I would screen the ashes and mix

 

 

 

 

Good Seed and Good Culture Make for Crops Like This.

tolerated. The loss can be prevented
by treating the seed before sowing.
The formalin treatment seems to be
the popular one of late years.

One method of treating the seed is
to select a clean place on the barn
floor, put the oats in a pile and
sprinkle with a solution made of one
pound of formaldehyde (slightly less
than one pint) to forty gallons of wa-
ter. It will take about one gallon of
the solution to a bushel of the grain.
The grain should be thoroughly mixed
by shoveling until all is saturated with
the solution. Immediately after shov-
eling and mixing, shovel into a pile
and cover it with sacks wet with the
solution. Allow the grain to remain
covered at least two hours before
spreading it out to dry.

Another method of treating the seed
is to take an open topped barrel or
large tub, put forty gallons of water
into it, and put into the water a pint of
the formalin, and stir thoroughly. Put
the oats into loose gunny sacks and
suspend sack and all in the solution,
kneading the sacks to be sure that all
the grain is saturated with the solu-
tion. The grain should be left in the
solution only long enough to make
sure that all has been wet. As soon
as treated in this manner the grain
can be spread out to dry gefore sow-
ing if it is to be sown with a drill. If
it is to be sown by hand it can be sown
while yet moist.

them with the acid phosphate, one-
third ashes and two-thirds acid phos‘
phate and put them on when I sowed
the crop.

This would be a good fitting for corn
or beans on a clover sod. The clover
sod ought to furnish enough nitrogen
for the crop.

Growing Emmer in Michigan.

After having missed a year of the
Michigan Farmer, I am on the roll
again, this time for three years, and
glad to be back. I wonder if you can
give me a little advice about the grain
called speltz or emmer? Will it grow
in this part of Michigan, (Grand Trav-
erse county)? Also is the feeding val—
ue anywhere near that of corn? Both
grain and straw. I have been told that
it is better than corn and being a small
grain it surely can be raised with less
labor. I usually grow six to eight
acres of corn. If advisable to do so,
how much speltz ought I raise to take
the place of the corn? How early
should one sow it and how much seed

per acre?
Benzie Co. J. 8., Jr.

I have grown emmer, both the win-
ter and the spring varieties, but I do
not believe they are in any way supe-
rior to our oats or barley for us here
in Michigan. I would prefer barley
for hog feed any time] One trouble in
growing a new plant is that we do not
know how. We haven’t the machinery
to sow it or handle it, etc.

I grew emmer three years and gave
it up, for I would prefer barley or
oats. It is sown and handled as you
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but more the nature of wheat than
com. I did not succeed in growing as
much per acre of emmer as, oats or
barley. Two bushels ‘of seed per acre
is about right.

Soy Beans with Corn.

Where can I buy soy beans for seed,
Hollybrooks preferred? How much
seed does it take to the acre in con-
nection with corn, mixed half-and-half?
How do you inoculate the seed and
where can I get the soil? This will
be my first experience with soy beans.
I wanted to plant them in connection
with corn for ensilage.

Wayne Co. A. B.

You can buy soy beans from any
reliable seed house. Any medium va-
riety will do. For ensilage corn eight
to ten quarts is about right and the
same amount of beans will be none too
many.

Several people advertise inoculated
soil, but if you can’t get the soil you
can buy the commercial culture and
inoculate the seed before planting.

Seeding Alfalfa in Corn.

I have a field of about four acres,
handy to the silo, upon which corn was
grown for the silo last season. We
plowed down a June grass and white
clover sod which had been pastured
for years. The soil is a gravelly loam.
Now we Wish to plant ensilage corn
here again and follow that with alfals
fa. Would it be the better plan to sow
sweet clover in corn at the last cul—
tivation and thus inoculate .soil for
alfalfa or would you advise sowing
alfalfa in the corn, using pure culture
to inoculate? Tested land for acidity
last autumn and found a trace of acid.
I expect to top-dress with stable ma-
nure before planting corn. I also have
a field of gravelly loam, running more
to clay than above, that has been
cleared for five years and has produc-
ed crops as follows: Potatoes, beans,
corn, idle one year, rye and sand Vetch.
This year it has a splendid stand of
sweet clover which was sown in the
rye and vctch but which smothered
except when vetch was light. I want
to cut this crop for hay as soon as fit,
about June 1 to 10. Then I would like,
If teas1ble, to plow, fit and sow to field
peas to put in silo with corn in fall.
Would this be practical? Do you think
that the pea vines would grow large
enough to pay in that time? If so,
what varieties would you advise? Also
would this leave ground in proper con-
dition for potato crop in 1918? There
is a wealth of humus in soil now and
could use plenty of manure before
planting potatoes.

Oceana Co. J. J. C.

I would not advise seeding alfalfa in
corn at the last cultivation. In the
first place it does not give the alfalfa
a fair chance. The corn takes all the
moisture from the alfalfa. And again
the land will be too rough or uneven
for a meadow. I would prefer to seed
to cats, or better, barley, the next
spring, at the rate of one bushel per
acre and seed IO alfalfa at the same
time, and I would inoculate the alfalfa
by using pure culture or earth from
another field. If you found even a.
trace of acid I would use two tons of
ground limestone per acre. You can
use the lime this season or next spring
before you sow the oats and alfalfa,
preferably this spring.

Soy Beans Better than Peas.

It will be too late in the season for
peas. They should be sown early, but
soy beans will come just right and will
come just right and will be quite as
satisfactory. The soy beans would
leave the land in good condition for
potatoes the next year, fully as good
as peas, and I think either crop would
be all right to follow with potatoes.

Best Way to Apply Fertilizer.

Kindly advise me in regard to sow-
ing fertilizer with beans, as some
think the fertilizer rusts the beans. Is
sowing seed in drill with the fertilizer
as good practice as sowing fertilizer
with a distributor made for sowing fer-
tilizer only?

Iosco Co. G. B.

The very best tool we have to apply
fertilizer is a grain drill with fertilier
attachment. This tool distributes the
fertilizer evenly and at the same time
mixes it with the soil. The fertilizer
distributor is all right but it does not
mix thefertilizer with the soil like the
drill. End the land should be harrow-
ed at once.

If the weather is dry sometimes fer-
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tirely remedied by cutting off the fer-
tilizer in the row 'with' the beans and
sowing it through the other hoes. If
you use more than 200 pounds-of fer—
tilizer per acre it is a good plan, in
fact, the best plan, to drill the fertilizer
before planting the beans and barrow
the land, thus getting a better distribu.
tion of the fertilizer. Then plant the
beans, using no fertilizer at time of
planting. COLON C. LILLIE.

 

THE USE OF CEMENT WITH OLD
PIPE.

 

I have been a subscriber to your val-
uable paper for over fifteen years an
I now have a question I would like to
see answered in its columns. A few
years ago I put in a water system with
a storage tank on a hill. Part of the
pipe used was not of the best grade
but was the only grade obtainable and
so I used it. Since, the pipe has sprung
several leaks. Now my question is
this: Would it be practicable to make
a small trough or sand ditch under the
pip.and then fill it with cement cov-
ering the pipe? I have thought that
would make a permanent job of it.
About fifteen rods would have to be
treated in this manner.

Antrim Co. E. B.

If concrete is to be used to repair a
leaky system of piping it will be neces-
sary that the cement be water-tight
and that it be continuous for the entire
length of the pipe which it is to
protect.

Figuring on the cost of such protec-
tion, using concrete it requires a. sec-
tion of concrete six inches in Width
and depth and will therefore require
about one-fourth cubic foot for each
foot of length of pipe. The cost of
concrete placed in this manner would
probably not be less than forty cents
per cubic foot, counting the cost of co-
ment, sand and labor. This would be
in addition to the cost of making the
necessary excavation and forms for
this work, one-quarter cubic foot would
therefore cost about ten cents, which
would be the cost per running foot of
the pipe repaired. If this pipe is less
than one and a half inches in diam-
eter, it will be seen that the cost of
new pipe would not greatly exceed the
cast of the concrete. It will also be
seen that it will require considerably
more labor to put this in properly than
pipe as it will be necessary that it be
made continuous so that no cracks will
be found in it. There is one more dif-
ficulty Which is apt to come out after
thercement has been laid for some
time. Any slight heaving or settling of
the pipe line will cause breaks or
cracks in the cement which may cause
trouble. It will also be noted that it
will be idfficult to put in the cement
6x6 inches in section. The probabili-
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much more cement would be put in
than this so the cost on which we have
figured is the minimum which could be
expected. The probabilities are that
it would be much higher as the time
required to put this in would be much
more than that required to lay a line of
new pipe. However, if the work is to
be done, a total of about three yards
of gravel, four to five barrels of ce-
ment would be required for the fifteen
rods of pipe. It would be necessary
to mix the concrete in the proportion
of about one part of cement to four
parts of gravel and to place it wet, so
that it could be puddled in place
around the pipe.

Mich: Ag. Col. H. H. MUSSELMAN.

FIELD STONES.

 

When I bought this farm several
years ago, one of the fields close to the
bay shore was in clover sod, and it
looked pretty smooth with the excep-
tion of a few large stones jutting up
above the surface of the land. I did
not break that field until two years ago
when I plowed for corn. Great was my
distress and chagrin fhcn I found
many more large-sized stones lying be-
neath .the sod. But as I was in the

midst a £116 sprmg'"“§vork, [1' " did not

stop to dig them out, but went onplow—

ing what I could, leaving the large.

stones alone.

When in com, I cultivated it as best
I could. Where I found lare stones
which were not visible before and
which were located with the aid or the
cultivator, I marked them with a few
good-sized cobbles or one large one. In
the fall after harveslt I hauled the
loose stones to one end of the field,
but did nothing with the large ones
until the following spring.

As soon as the frost was out of the'

ground I dug holes larger than the size
of the stones, at one side of the stones

d and deep enough so that when buried,

the stones would be one foot and a
half or more below the level of the
ground. Then with a pole I upset the
stones into their “graves” for once and
all. Here and there I found it neces-
sary to dig until the top of the hole
came up to my chin. ‘

Instead of filling the holes up at once
I left them open and when time came,
I began to plow. Here more loose
stones showed up that had escaped my
eye the year before. Where any one
of the uncovered holes was nearby, I
stopped the team to rest, and gathered
the loose stones and dumped them in-
to the hole until it was full up to two
feet below the level and then covered
it with earth. In case the hole was
not that full when I came to it with the
plow I just filled it up with earth at
once. Here again, the plow discovered
for me a few more large stones un-
derneath and I marked them with corn
stubbles and, when the horses stopped
to rest a, few furrows away from the
marked stones, I dug their “graves"
but left them uncovered for other pur—
poses, as you will soon see. Besides, I
threw some more loose stones into
them. '

After the plowing came the spring
toothed drag. 0f two pieces of board
I made a trough which fitted between
the two rear rows of teeth. As I drag-
ged the field still more stones were ex-
posed. I picked them up and piled
them in the trough until I came to the
nearest uncovered hole and dumped
the stones there. In case no hole was
nearby I piled them on the ground in
as few places as I could. After a little
practice I was able to pick the stones
without stopping the horses. Of course
I passed the drag around the holes and
dragged the rest of the field. Then I
filled the holes and dragged them and
sowed the field to cats and clover. At
cutting time I hired a neighbor to cut
it with his binder. He declared it was
in perfect condition. Now I rest easy
with the knowledge that when I cut the
clover this summer or plow the field it
will be smooth sailing,

Grand Traverse Co. A. A. S.

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life of service. In this way no posi-
tive rule can be laid down, but ten per
cent of the first cost of the machinery
and two per cent of the first cost'of a
well constructed building is not unrea-
sonable. With the present advance in
cost of materials, there may be cases
where it is unnecessary to charge any
depreciation.

Members of the Extension Depart—
ment of the College have presented
this method of summarizing farm busi-
ness at a large number of institutes
and other meetings and in every case
it has appealed to the good judgment
of the audience. Many of the farmers
present become interested and receive
assistance in starting their accounts
from (/their county agricultural agent.
Several‘of e agents report starting
in their county over one hundred farm-
ers with this system.

Editor’s Note.———Mr. Reed’s conclu~
sions are based on his experience in
farm management.demonstration wor
in which he has made a specialty o
the study of farm accounting for sew
era] years. , ,

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When to Apply Lime.

When is the best time to apply slak—
ed lime or builders’ lime to the land?
Would it be best to apply on sod after
same is plowed and work it in when
fitting the land for corn? Would it
help the corn? Would the lime hurt
the manure which has been applied to
this field and will be plowed under?
Would it be better to apply the lime
when fitting the land for oats next
fall? Would the lime hurt the manure
which is turned to the surface when
plowing for oats? What is the best
way to put it on, and how much should
be sown to the acre?

Hillsdale Co. H. D.

If carbonate of lime, either air-slak—
ed lime, ground limestone or marl, is
used, the best time to apply same
would undoubtedly be after the land is
plowed for corn this year, working the
lime into the soil when it is fitted. As
this is the cheapest form in which to
use lime and also the best adapted to
the purposes in view, it will be a bet-
ter plan to apply the ground lime-
stone this spring than caustic lime
next year. Some benefit will probably
be derived by the corn crop from this
application, but this benefit will not
be as marked as it will be with the
clover crop which follows the grain
crop in the rotation.

Carbonate of lime in the form of
ground limestone does not attack the
manure and permit the escape of
nitrogen through chemical action.
Caustic lime applied to the surface af-
ter the manure is plowed down would
not produce any marked effect of this
kind, for the reason that the lime will
become carbonated before it reaches
the manure which has been plibwed
dOWn.

The amount of limestone which
should be applied varies with different
degrees of soil acidity. Under normal
conditions in the writer’s community
two tons per acre will produce satis-
factory results for at least one period
in the crop rotation and perhaps for
longer.

It is best applied with a lime dis-
tributor, but can be applied with a ma-
nure spreader, shovel or any other
way by which it can be spread, but it
should be borne in mind that good
distribution is an important factor in
the efficiency of the application.

Seeding Clover and Timothy without
a Nurse Crop.

I have two acres of potato ground
which I wish to seed to timothy and
clover. If 1 seed it in the early spring
without other grain would I get a cut-
ting of hay this coming summer, and
would it be a paying crop of hay? It
is clay loam soil.

Mackinac Co. S. B. T.

Only under exceptional weather con-
ditions would a profitable crop of hay
be secured by seeding clover and tim-
othy in the early spring without a
nurse crop. It would be more profit-
able to seed same with a thin seeding
of oats, since the crop secured would
ordinarily be more valuable than would
the forage secured from the hay crop
alone.

Treating Seed Potatoes for Scab.

How do you treat potatoes with for-
maldehyde and how long before plant-
ing them? Are potatoes liable to be
.scabby where there is a lot of fresh
manure plowed under? Will treating
them make them smooth?

Livingston Co. M. J. M.

The most commonly used method of
treating seed potatoes for scab is what
is known as the formalin method. The
method of application is to soak the
potatoes for two hours in a solution
made of one pound of formalin or forty

per cent commercial formaldehyde in-

thirty gallons of water. This treatment
should not be given until just before
the potatoes are to be planted, and
care should be taken- that the sacks
are disinfected if the tubers are to be
handled in them, to prevent reinfec-
tion of the seed with the scab spores.

Potatoes are more likely to be scab-
by in a sweet soil which is favorable
to the development of any kind of bac-
teria. Bacterial growth will be stim-
ulated somewhat by the use of stable

 

manure, also by applications of lime,
but the potato crop is ordinarily im-
proved by such amendment in the soil,
consequently it is better to treat the
seed thoroughly, thus reducing this
difficulty to the minimum rather than
to avoid proper fertilization with this
idea in view.
Seeding Sweet Clover.

I would like to ask a few questions
in regard to starting sweet clover. I
have to nacres of light land that had
a good June grass sod on two years
ago this spring, which I planted to
corn the last two years. Most of it has
had one application of manure and the
corn has been good both seasons. Now
I want to seed this field to sweet clo-
ver, a little timothy and alsike clover,
to be used for pasture. Would it do to
seed with a bushel of oats to the acre
or would it be best to seed in April
without any nurse crop? This field
has never had any clover sown on it.
Will it be necessary to inoculate seed?

Oceana Co. J. B. P.

Under the conditions described,
there is probably no doubt that a suc-
cessful seeding of sweet clover with
the other grasses mentioned could be
secured on this land by seeding with
oats sown at the rate of one bushel
per acre. As a precaution, it would
be well to test this soil for acidity,
since if an acid condition is found,
it will pay to apply lime before seeding
it to the clover. '

A great deal of our light and open
soils which have been cultivated for
any considerable period of time re-
quire an application of lime before the
bacteria peculiar to sweet clover or
alfalfa, and often those who make a
host of the common clover, will thrive
in the soil, and without the presence of
these bacteria maximum success with
these leguminous crops cannot be se-
cured. Having provided the proper
conditions, it will pay to inoculate the
seed with a pure culture or the soil
with some earth taken from a success-
ful alfalfa or sweet clover field.

TAKING IN A PARTNER WITHOUT
CAPITAL.

 

How can I take a young married
man in as partner on a dairy farm of
150 acres? He to furnish no money
the first year, but will do all the work.
I have on the farm at the present time
twelve head of dairy cows and four
calves, also forty breeding ewes, six
work horses and four colts.

Oakland C0. P. E.

This must be largely a mutual agree—
ment between the parties. There is
no established rule about such things.
The young man should have a chance
to make more than ordinary wages be-
cause he takes chances with you. His
earnings depend on the season as well
as you. This makes it different from
the ordinary hired man who assumes
no risk whatever.

Ordinarily the land draws one-third,
the tenant finding all the stock and
tools. If each furnishes equally the
stock and tools kept in good shape, the
farmer ought to have three-fifths to
the tenant’s two-fifths. If the farmer
furnishes everything but labor, the
stock and tools should be kept of equal
value, all expenses paid and each get
one-half of the net proceeds.

It the farmer gives general super-
vision then this should.be taken into
consideration. The best way is to have
the tenant furnish all stock and tools,
he will take better care of them, but
of course this can not always be done.
In such cases it should be fixed up
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The spraying Equipment

HE effectiveness of spraying-de-
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on the character of the rig and
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‘is often governed by the size of the

rig, and the thoroughness on the kind

. of nozzle used. The most work is not

always done with the largest rig, or
are the highest trees reached with
the longest spray rods. In the earlier
days of the power sprayer it'was found
that there was yet considerable work
that the old hand-pump would do to
good advantage. In spraying the peach
orchards in the early spring when the‘
ground is soft it is possible at times
to go over as much as twelve acres,
and sometimes with younger trees
twenty acres in, a day. It is also found
more convenient in spraying pear and
plum orchards at that time.

A good hand-pump in a 100-gallon
tank was mounted on a substantial
platform truck and two men operated
the outfit, one driving the team and
working the pump and the other hand-
led the spray rod. It was not always
convenient to put two men on the rig,
however, so after a time a small gas
engine designed for operating a well-
pump was mounted by the side of the
spray tank and hitched to the pump
by means of a clamp fastened to the
handle, and one man could operate the
rig as well as the two formerly did.
This outfit has since probably put in
more days’ work than either of the
power rigs. It has done all of the work
in the peach orchards and considera-
ble in others where the trees were not
too large, and has been put in the ap-
ple orchards at times when one of the
larger rigs were out of order.

Power Rigs Most Economical.

Of course, where the orchards cone
sist largely of the larger trees the
large power rig is the logical machine,
but with orchards of the smaller trees,
or with small orchards of large trees
the lighter rig will be economical to
buy. It can be made to reach the. tops
of the large trees but will not do so
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in effective spraying is the prgssure
carried by the pump. There are three
factors governing this, the power, the
pump and the capacity of the nozzles.-
N‘eedlessto say, the power must be
adequate, and I think it is agreed that
not less than a gas engine of two and
a half to three horse power is called
for. Then the pump must be kept in
good working order. The plunger is
subject to a good deal of wear and the
packing must be watched. In the old
style of pumps with a single solid
plunger the packing soon becomes
worn so that the liquid flows past it
and the pressure goes dOWn Without
one’s discovering what is the matter.
The pumps now put out by all the
leading manufacturers have two up-
right cylinders with the packing
around the outside, which can be
tightened by giving a turn or two to
a collar around the tap of the plunger.
There is a decided advantage in these,
as it can readily be seen when the leak
begins and can be stopped without tak-
ing the pump apart. Occasionally, too,
a valve becomes stuck or obstructed
and only one side of the pump works.
This is always an obscure difficulty
but can be detected by the needle in
the gauge. This usually moves With
each stroke of the cylinders, and if
one side is clogged the gauge needle
will only advance with the pressure
stroke of the side that is working.
Convenience Necessary for Good
Work.

If the screen in the suction hose be~
comes broken it may allow a, twig to
be drawn in and lodge under one of the
valves and put that side of the pump
out of commission. Only last spring we
had a pump do this and the man ran it
two or three days, doing only half the
work that should have been done, and
of poor quality. In buying a pump it is
very safe~ to require tools for remov-
ing the valves, and keep them ready
for use.

The extension rods are another most
important accessory to the spraying
outfit. Very long ones will not be
found very practical. It is hard work
to carry these long poles reaching out
full length all day and few will be
found doing it. The bands will be
found smuewhere along on the rod
some distance from the end in order to
balance it and only one part of its
length is used very much. It is bung
ling to get around among the limbs as
well, especially where the trees spread
so as to nearly or quite meet. Dc-
pendence must be made on the nozzles
to carry the spray rather than on the
length of the rods. Mr. T. A. Farrand,
who does a large amount of spraying
in large apple orchards, has come to
use a rod only four feet long. In our
own practice, where we spray the
peach orchards early in the spring.
where we only spray one side of the
trees at a time and have to depend 011
the wind to carry the liquid ,through
the trees we have a brass rod four
feet long that we always use. This is
plenty long enough and is much easier
to handle than a longer rod.

Fixing Leaking Valves.

For large apple trees a man on the
ground sametimes uses a ten-foot rod,
but spraying from the top of the tank
we never use anything longer than
eight feet. These rods should always
be equipped with good shut-off valves
that shut tight. They seem to wear

rapidly and soon commence drizzling

when shut off. If a person is ingen-
ious they can often be ground in with
fine emery dust, but it is better to
throw them away and buy new when
they begin to leak badly, as they will
soon Waste more costly spray dope
If the rod and
hose connections leak they can be

made tight with gaskets cut out of a‘

piece of leather or old‘ rubberT—and

may save some unpleasant experiences

with the hands.
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“ fiow TO PLANT OUR TREES.

 

Young trees rather than-.old, large
ones, should be selected for plan‘t‘fiig.
One-year-old fruit trees are for,‘..the
most part preferable to two-year-Olds.
They transplant more readily and more
safely. The proper depth to plant is
the depth at which the tree stood in
the nursery.

Young trees frequently have a ten-
dency to subsequently tilt toward the
northeast and stand crooked. This is
due to the fact that our prevailing
winds during the growing season are
from the south and southwest, and to
the partial sunscald of the south or
west sides of the tree which results
from heating up of the sunny side of
the trunk during sunny days in late
Winter and subsequent sudden freezing
at night. The tree should be set. so
that its heavier side is toward the
southwest and so any sway in the
trunk will bend toward the southwest.
In this position the tree is much more
resistant of bending away from the
southwest wind, is shaded by the heav-
ier branches on the southeast side so it
is less liable to sunscald. In order

. quickly to determine which side is the

stronger, better developed, stiffer side
to set to the southwest, balance the
tree across the hand as it is caught up
for planting. The tree will roll over in
the hand until it comes at rest with the
heavy side toward the palm of the hand.
Plant this side to the southwest.

Before setting, trim any ragged
wounds on the roots and shorten very
long roots so they will not be cramp-
ed in planting. Tramp the soil firmly
from the bottom of the hole up, in set-
ting. When the hole is filled, spread
an inch of loose soil over the tranped
surface so as to prevent baking and
drying out.

Peach trees should be pruned back
most severely of any of our orchard
fruits when set. All the side branches
should be cut off close to, thus trim-
ming the tree to a single whip. This
which should then be shortened to
about two and a half feet in height.

Cherry trees should be pruned least
severely of any of our orchard fruits.
If well branChed, cut out the central
stem of the tree so as to leave an open
center. Leave three to five main out-
ward spreading limbs well distributed
around the trunk.

The reason for pruning the peach so
severely is because it readily puts out
strong new limbs from the main trunk.
On the other hand, the reason why the
branches of the sour cherry should not
be shortened is because they start
growth readily from the active buds
near the tip of the limb but will not
produce vigorous growth from the dor-
mant buds of the main stem or base of
the limbs.

The Japanese plum tree should be
shaped like the peach. Other plums,
apples, and pears should be formed as
follows: If the tree is an unbranched
one-year—old, having a single whip,
simply shorten the whip to two and a
half or three feet in height. If the tree
is well branched, out out its central
leader above the branching system to
give an open center. Shorten back the
branches which remain, one-third to
one-half their former length.

Mo. Ag. Col. J. C. WHITTEN.

 

GARDEN REDUCES LIVING EX-
PENSES.

 

The garden is the quickest and best
means of reducing the cost of living.
Present food prices can best be reduc-
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It will take several months to produce
a surplus of many food products, such
as meat, potatoes, and flour. Further-
more, the effect of this surplus on the
price which the consumer has to pay
is doubtful. t

By planting a garden the consumer
can relieve the food shortage directly
in a few weeks. He can substitute his
fresh garden vegetables for canned
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N the feeding of hogs there are
three things to be kept in mind as
the functions of the feed. These
are (1) the _maintenance of the ani-
mals; (2) their growth; and (3) the
laying on of fat. The relative import-

ance of these varies according to the

use to which the animal is being put;
but the first is always present, while
either or both of the others may be
absent wholly or in part. The feed
which goes to supply the demand for
maintenance is always to be consider-
ed a fixed expense, and where growth
or fattening is the primary, result
sought the portion of the ration which
goes for maintenance should be made
as small as possible in proportion to
the rest. 01' it would perhaps be bet-
ter to state the point the other way
about and say that the portion of the
ration which goes for growth or fat
should be made as large as possible in
proportion to that for maintenance.

ii. With such a. statement of the case it

follows that so long as the ration is
used efficiently and the pig’s digestion
does not break down the heavier the
ration fed the greater will be the gains
made and the less will be their cost.

" Greater care must be exercised to pre-

vent the break down of a pig’s diges-
tion if he is to be. used for breeding
' purposes than if he is to be fattened
and butchered because in the first case
he must remain healthy for a. number

 

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Elhc strain until he is fat.
Scientific Hog Feeding.

In that part of the country, the corn
belt, where most of our hogs are raised
and fed these facts are pretty closely
observed. Animals which are being
merely maintained from one period to
another for breeding or other purposes
are fed a limited ration just sufficient
to keep them in good order. Pigs which
are being grown for breeding purposes
are fed a much more liberal ration,
which, however, is designed in charac-
ter and abundance to stimulate rapid
growth but not extreme fattening. Fin-
ally, when it comes to fattening hogs
for slaughter they are fed all they will
clean up of a fat—producing feed, and
everything practicable is done to keep
the appetite constantly keen.

The usual feed for this purpose is
corn, and some farmers use it to the
exclusion of other feeds. As suggest-
ed above, the only limit to the amount
fed is the appetite of the pig. It has
been found, however, that if some pro-
tein concentrate be. fed in connection
with the corn the appetite is stimulat-
ed and in addition the larger amount
of feed eaten is more thoroughly as-
similated so that the result is cheaper
and more rapid gains. A good deal of
the experimental work in the feeding
of animals in the last twenty or thirty
years has been directed toward a de-
termination of the best feed combina-
tions until now a good feeder can put
very rapid and cheap gains on a pig.
The protein concentrate usually used
for this purpose is tankage.

Scientific Selection by the Pigs.

But after all this work, it has been
learned that although this knowledge
is of great theoretical importance it is
not of great importance in practical
feeding operations, for it has been
shown that if pigs are allowed free ac-
cess to both corn and a protein con-
centrate they will balance their own
ration and make better gains than un-
der the old methods with very skillful
feeders. It is because of this condition
that self-feeders pay in pig feeding. A
neighbor last summer fed out a bunch
of pigs to weigh over 200 lbs. at six
months of age. This was done by feed-
ing tankage, gornand some milk. The
tankage was fed from a_"feeder, and
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feeder, was kept before the pigs all. the

  

time. Another neighbor made a bunch
of pigs weigh 226 lbs. at six months.
The writer. does not know that the
owner used a self-feeder. He did make
the significant remark, though, that
from the time they were born the pigs
had never been hungry. These results,
although not establishing any record
for rapidity of gains, are certainly very
much above the average for hog feed-
ing on ordinary farms and compare
very favorably with those of expert
feeders. In fact, experiment station
reshltskas suggested in the first part
of this paragraph, have demonstrated
that the self-feeding method, by means
of which pigs balance their own ra—
tions and eat to the limit of their appe-
tite, gives better results than are pro-
duced by feeding according to any of
the established feeding standards.
These results speak for themselves.
and they certainly make it important
for the hog feeder to look into the cost
of self-feeders with a View to install-
ing them in his lots.

The matter of feeders to handle
tankage is fairly simple. Tankage is a
concentrated feed which is eaten in
comparatively small quantities and it
works readily in a feeder. A small
feeder can therefore be used and it
need not embody any unusual features
of construction. There are a number
of such feeders on the market. When
it comes to feeding corn, however, a’
feeder must be constructed to handle
ear corn, or the corn must be shelled.
The construction of a feeder to handle
shelled corn is but little more difficult
of course, than that of one to handle
tankage. There are also feeders on
the market guaranteed to handle ear
corn, and the farmer can easily make
one for himself. This is done by stor-
ing the corn in a rail pen. When it is
to be fed out, two or three rails are
taken out at the bottom on one side of
the pen, and the pigs work the corn
out as fast as they need it. Of course,
with the feeding of ear corn there is
inevitably some waste—more than oc-
curs with the feeding of shelled corn.
There seem to have been no experi-
ments carried out as yet, however, to
determine whether or not this waste
is great enough to make shelling pay.
Shelling’ does not ordinarily pay when
the hand-feeding method is followed
and its value with the new system is
at least doubtful. _

In conclusion, then, the writer Would
like to urge upon hog raisers a careful
consideration of the merits of the self-
feedlng system as a 'means of saving
labor and of getting the largest re-
turns from the pigs and from the feed.

THE PRICE OF HAY.

 

An acquaintance asked me if I
thought hay would bring a better price
later.‘ I thinkit is quite liable to. Of
course, one judges other people by
himself in a large way, and despite the
fact that we had a large amount of
hay last fall it looks now as 'if we
would need the whole of it to get us
through to pasture. Grain has been
so high that we have skrimped some-
what on grain and been very liberal
with the hay. I think we will have
enough but little or none to spare. If
hay has been used liberally to any
considerable extent it will not be so
plentiful this spring as many reasoned
it would be. HenCe in May and later,
hay may bring a better price. It is the
only stock food that has been cheap
this Winter and to give a proper clos-
ing to the year it ought to advance in
price.

‘ COLON C. LILLIE.

 

Sold His Cooke rels.

‘1 have sold all my cooker-e13. Your
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as twenty letters a. day. u—yvm, B.

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SUPPLEMENTAL FEEDS. ~

 

For several years past reliance has
been placed on ensilage, stored in the

silo, to tide the dairy and other stock 7

Over that portion of the summer sea-
son, when pasture feeds are not suffi-
cient to meet the needs of the stock,
and supplemental feeds have been but
rarely used, and not much talked about.
At the present time conditions are
such that it will be encessary to devise
some means by which the feeds requir-
ed by the stock can be supplied. It is
a rare thing to hear farmers say that
they have ensilage enough to feed their
stock through the spring and have any
left to tide the stock over those por-
tions of the summer when the pasture
feeds will be insufficient to meet the
needs of their stock. In other words,
there is a general shortage of ensilage
on account of the very poor corn crop
of 1916.

Among the crops suggested with
which to supply the summer needs of
the stock, are such as can be sown
very early in the spring and can be re-
lied on to produce abundantly of pal-
atable, succulent and nutritious feed.
Oats and peas have been used in the
past with great success and can be
recommended at the present time. Both
the oats and peas thrive during cool
weather and can be sown as soon as
the ground can be safely plowed and
prepared.

As it requires more time for the
peas to come up it has been found that
to sow Canada field peas, a bushel to
the acre, about four inches deep is a
good plan. A few days later sow two
bushels of oats to the acre the ordi-
nary depth. The delay in sowing the
oats gives the peas a chance to start
and allows the two crops to come
along together. A very common prac-
tice has been to mix a bushel of the
Canada field peas with two bushels of
oats and sow them together with a
wheat drill. Satisfactory results seem
to be obtained either way. If the
ground is rich and moist a large
amount of succulent feed is obtained.
If necessary the feeding can begin
very soon after the pods begin to form
on the pea vines. The cutting and
feeding can continue until both the
peas and oats ripen. If all is not need-
ed for summer feeding the crop can
be harvested and threshed. The pea
vines and the oat straw make a good
quality of hay and the grain can be
ground as feed for all kinds of farm
stock. The combination makes an ex-
cellent feed for the horses, dairy cows
and will promote a rapid growth if
fed to all kinds of young stock.

Another summer crop that will fur-
nish a large amount of feed and is rel-
ished by all kinds of stock, is sweet
corn. Select a patch of ground that is
very fertile. Plow as soon as the
weather and ground are, suitable, and
fit it Well. Stowel’s Evergreen is a
good variety to plant. Mark the ground
with the bean marker twenty-eight
inches apart each way and plant in
hills the same as beans, using a liberal
amount of seed. Cultivate frequently
to keep the weeds in check. One can
begin to use the fodder soon after it
has tasseled out, but better results are
obtained after the ears have reached
the roasting stage. It is relished by
the stock after it ripens. It can be cut
and saved for feeding in shocks, but if
piled in stacks or in the mow it will
spoil.

Alfalfa and June clover are excellent
soiling feeds. During the summer of
1902 conditions were such with me
that I had a scant supply of pasture
feeds all summer. I commenced feed-
ing alfalfa in May and we fed the
cows and young stock all summer. We
also had an abundance of June. clover
which was kept green by frequent
rains and we fed from it, between the
cuttings of alfalfa. My summer crop
of calves were fed inside the shed and
yard and not turned to grass at all.
The results were satisfactory.

Wayne Co. N. A. CLAPP.

 
       

 
  
   
 

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F we are aiming at high, marks of
I production there is but one thing

to do with the poor cow, and that
is to get rid of her. But, says one,
“We do not need to feed the poor cow
as much as we feed the better ones.
If we feed her according to what she
produces, may we not get a profit from
her?” Yes, we may sometimes get a
fair profit out of allow-producing ani-
mal by intelligent and careful feeding.
In fact, this may often be done, but
after all, it remains true that the low-
producing cows almost always produce
at greater cost, and the most economi-

,cal producers are those that give us
butter-fat in largest quantity.

The worst thing about a poor cow
is that there is little hope in her pos-
terity. If we continue to keep her and
.raise heifer calves from her, we have
with us always the problem of the poor
cow. True, it sometimes happens that
we may have the use of a very prepo-
tent sire whose get will prove much
better than their mothers were, but
those cases are rare. Taking even our
pure-bred bulls as they run the coun-
try over, dairy improvement so far as
the cows are concerned will be very
slow unless we weed out the poor ones,
or stop raising their calves.

Good Cows Hard to Tell.

But how are we to discover our poor
cows? Oh, anybody can tell a. poor
cow. 1 have told people again and again
about some of mine. I have confident-

. ly stated which one of my COWS was

the best one over and over again, and
as have you, kind reader. But I have
gotten the conceit taken out of me.

Mr. Helmcr Rabild, who was instru—
mental in organizing the first, cow-test-
ing association in America, used to
like to tell how his father taught the
boys to pick out the yood cows. The
unfortunate thing about it was, that
when the government of Denmark be
gan testing the COWS and the Rabild
herd was put to the test, the cow that
the old man thought was the best, was
number nine down the line.

The Value of the Testing Associations.

My guessing has not been a bit bet-
ter, and I doubt if any of us have much
on Mr. Rabild, Sr., when it, comes to
picking out cows by simply looking at
them.

If, then, we need to discover our
poor cows and weed them out, and if
the only way to do it Is to test them,
how shall we go about it? In the
minds of some, the cow-testing associa-
tion solves the problem. But does it?
How many such associations have we
in Michigan, and how many of all. the
cows in the state are tested in them?
But, you say, “The cow-testing associa-
tion is a new thing. Just give us a
little time."

The cow-testing association offers
the most practical, and the most ac-
curate method possible for discovering
what each cow in the herd is worth to
her owner. If the right individual has
been secured to do the testing, he will
carry from man to man in the associa-
tion information about feeds and feed-
ing, and also suggestions regarding the
care of the herds that will be worth
ve'ry much.

This is not all. The great business
of dairying will receive an impetus
through such a union of dairy people
as it can hardly get in any other way.
The cooperative spirit is fostered, and
once aroused and stimulated, it will
extend to other lines of useful service.

But there are only a few communi-
ties where cow-testing associations can
be organized and maintained. Right.
here is the difficulty—the tester can
handle one herd each day, or perhaps
two small ones, if they are close to—
gether. He will probably test from
twenty to twenty-six herds in the en—
tire associatiomrv-Nomanyho is com-
petent to do this work, will consent to
do it for less than six hundred dollars

 

a year. These twenty- or twenty-six,

people, as the case may be, must pay
this amount. If a man is milking from
fifteen to twenty-five cows he does not
object to the price, but if the commu-
nity is made up of people who milk
from fifteen down to four or five, then
the expense is the great obstacle.

What is the Small Dairyman Going
To Do?

But, do you say that the man who
milks less than fifteen cows ought not
to be called a dairyman? Well, we
have a local creamery here that makes
about 190,000 pounds of butter a year,
and there were only a few creameries
in the state that paid their patrons as
much last year for fat as ours, and the
majority of our patrons milk less than
ten cows. We know one man who
milks but six, and yet we call him one
of the very best dairymen. There are
thousands of men in Michigan who
milk five or six times as many cows
as he, who might learn valuable les-
sons from him.

Michigan is full of small dairymen,
and the cow~testing association is not
adapted to their needs, and yetit is
important that they should weed out
their poor cows. “'9 must find some
other way to do it.

It has always seemed to me that if
a part of the energy that is used up in
other channels could be employed in

organizing the people in the commu-_

nity who keep but few cows, and in
providing for regular and accurate
samples of their milk, and the testing
of it at the local creamery, or the sta-
tion where cream is delivered, much
might be accomplished at a cost that
would be only nominal.

Home Testing Practical.

We would use our very best.
efforts to induce people to do their
own testing. I truly believe that this
is the way in which most of this work
will finally be done.

I am ready at any time to unite with
my neighbors in a cow-testing associa-
tion. But I realize fully that we can
do the testing right at home for a tenth
part of. what it would cost us other
wise. Last night while two of us did
the chores, the other made the test.
It was all done by the time the writer
had gotten his part of the chores out
of the way, done just as accurately as
it could be done, and it did not cost
us more than thirty-five cents in time
and money. A pretty small sum to in-
vest for the knowledge that so many
men want, but never get because they
can not seem to wake up.

As a class, we shall never get very
far in the improvement of our herds
until we discover our poor cows and
realize the truth about the probable
future of their calves. It is just as
necessary that we should know the
value of the exceptionally good cow
coming from a good family of cows.
We shall not, dispose of all our aver-
age cows at. once, even if we know
them to be such, for if we were to do

so it would mean that many of us‘

would have no cows left, but we shall
all endeavor to obtain a few good ones
indeed and shall raise their daughters
from good sires.

And those average cows which we
keep because we have nothing better,
after we know what they are, we shall
be able to feed more intelligently. No
man can feed to the greatest advan-
tage to himself until he knows what
each cow is doing. As we stated in the
beginning, the high-produ ’ng animal
almost always produces at ower cost
and the poor cow nearly always makes
us pay dearly for the little she does,
but if we know her, we can greatly
modify'conditions in our favor. Again
and again people in cow-testing asso‘
ciations haVe found that certain cows
were fed at a loss, and by changing
the ration adapting the amount of feed

to the work perfonned they have put

the balance on the right side."
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‘ 11111101113211.1917.
DAIRY PROBLEMS.

How to Test Milk for Butter-fat.

Please give me a correct way of test-
ing milk and cream and tell me where
I can get a tester.

Montcalm Co. W. S.

The per cent of fat in milk is ascer-
tained by the Babcock test. There is
no other practical way. You can get
a tester of any dairy supply company.

A sample of milk is taken and sul-
phuric acid added to destroy the casin
or separate it from the fat. ‘In other
words, the fat is released or partially
separated from the casein and other
solids. Then, by centrifugal force the
fat is forced free from the casein and
collected into the neck of a graduated
bottle where the per cent can be read.

The Butter Won’t Come.

I have one cow which used to make
nice butter, but of late I can not get
butter from the cream. I have been
feeding bread cornstalks and hay. Per-
haps you can tell me the cause of it;
it generally locks like foam

Wayne Co. ..,B Sr.

I think the trouble is thatJ the cream

is not ripened and you are churning,

’or trying to churn, the cream too cold.

When you get enough cream for a
churning, warm it up gradually to 70
degrees. Stir occasionally, so cream
will be warmed uniformly throughout.
Let the cream stand in a temperature
of 70 degrees for 24 hours. This will
sour or ripen it. Then cool it to about
62 degrees and churn. This usually
brings the butter and takes the respon-
sibility from the cow.

The Best Cottonseed Meal.

Which would be the cheapest brand
of cottonseed meal to feed with silage,
clover hay and corn fodder ? I can get
one brand that analyzes as follows
Protein, 38.55 to 41; fat 6 to 8; crude
fibre 8 to 12; carbohydrates 24 to 28,
at $2.40 per 100 lbs. I can get an-
other brand at $2.50 per 100 lbs. that
analyzes: Protein 41 to 48; fat 7 to
12; crude fibre 4 to 9; carbohydrates
20 to 30. I can get another brand for
$1. 25 that analyzes: Protein 38. 6; fat
6; crude fibre 12; carbohydrates 22.

Calhoun Co. C. J. H.

You buy cottonseed meal for the pro-
tein it contains. Now, the brand con-
taining the largest per cent of protein
is nearly, in fact, always the cheapest.
I should buy the $2.50 brand.

Price of Milk for Cheese Making.

Please give us some information on
the cheese question. We sell our milk
on the butter-fat test. How many
pounds of standard cheese will 100 lbs.
of three per cent and four per cent
milk make? Also what is a fair price
for the making and marketing of chees
for the. making and marketing of
cheese? In other words, about how
much per pound should we receive for
butter-fat sold in the whole milk at
the present time?

Osceola Co. C. S. C.

I can not tell you just how much
cheese 100 pounds of three and four
per cent milk will make; four per cent
milk will make more cheese than three
per cent, because milk contains casin
and other milk solids in proportion to
the butter-fat content. Much depends
on the skill of the cheese maker in be-
ing able to save all the fat and incor-
porate it into the cheese. '

Cheese is bringing a splendid price
at present and milk should be worth as
much for cheese making as for butter
making, or more. Creameries are now
paying 40 to 42 cents, or more, for but-
ter-fat. ‘

How to Prevent a Heifer from Jump-
ing..

Have any of your subscribers got an
arrangement that you can put on a
cow to keep her from jumping fences?
I have a two— yeaI-old heifer that will
jump my 48-in. woven-wire fence with

a barbwire on top.
Kalamazoo Co. H. S. W.

Poor pastures usually make unruly
cattle. A cow seldom tries, or has any
desire, to jump out of good feed. That
is usually the way to stop this work.
Sometimes it won’t. Fix her with an
old-fashioned poke. Tie her head down
to her front feet.

If she seems to jump for the fun of
the thing, I would sell her to the butch-
er. Don’t sell her to a neighbor unless
he is a mean fellow and you want to
get even with him. COLON C. LILLIE.

 

  

THE MICHIGAN. AFARMER

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10 Jobs for a
Culti-Packer

Mulches Surface

The front wheels make ridges
and the back wheels split these
ridges and stir them over and
over.

5Firms' Loose’Soil
Wheels cut through top soil
firming out air spaces in soil
below. Moisture stays better
in firm soil.

Crushes Lumps

Curved Wheels crush the hard-
est lumps. Back wheels come
half way between front Wheels
—no lumps missed.

Saves Moisture

Packs new furrows and stirs
top 3011 to prevent evapora-
hen.

the heaved soil. resets the plant
and fills up frost cracks.

Cultivates Crops
Firms soil about roots, stirs
surface, breaks crusls. Wheels
detachable for straddling corn.

equally well.

Starts Seed
Firms soiharound seeds to
attract mo1sture and make
them sprout qu1ckly.

. 1‘ 7 1r .
Retards Blow1ng breaking crusts, sax 1nb moisture

Ridges at right angles to pre—
veiling winds retard wind liom
blowing the soil.

dealer and get acquainted with this tool.
Hinders Weeds .

 

 

The farmer who uses it rinlit will have it in the field from
early spring till late in tall for one purpose or another.
He will use it on every CIOp he grows---for preparinu the
seed bed, starting the seed, cultivating the crowing crop,

Expert
Opinion

Alfalfa

“On ordinary well plowed
ground. the plow. spring tooth
barrow and Culti-Packer are all
that are needed to prepare a
perfect seed bed. The Culti-
Packer greatly excels any other
implement we have ever used
for this purpose."

Chas. B. ll'iny, AUal/aZEzzzm

Corn

“Every one about the farm is
extremely enthusiastic over the
use of this tool. We used it on
corn ground after the corn had
been planted. It seemed almost
an ideal tool for this purpose."
0/110 State University

Wheat

“Rolling in the spring will com-
pact the soil about the plant
root and add vigorous growth of
wheat. Since the Cum-Packer
h.1s1ome on themarker we have

omctof 11111 if Duringa period

Stops Winter Killing 1. -, , .
In early spring it settles down More Than A Clad Buster 211111111 years ”rolling gm”; an

average increase 0! 5 bushels

The Culti—Packer with its two rows of heavy semi-steel 99? “a"
wheels crushes the worst lumps into a fine mellow seed
bed, but that is only one of ten farm jobs that it will do Oats

A Lbruslca ( 'ullcgc of Agriculture

“Compacting is usually done
with a smoothing harrou'. A
much better tool is tl11-111rru-
gated roller (Culti—Packor)which
can be used instead of the hur-
row after disking and sending."

Frank 1. Mann

General Crops

Read this list of Culti-Packer jobs and see what noted “Woare using the 01.111.11.111.“
farm authorities have to say about it---then go to your

on the experiment ileld here. It
certainly is one or the grandest
tools I have ever used on a.
farm."

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In newly seeded fields. will ,set
back little weeds, givmg crops
11 good start.

Levels Soil

Tears down high spots, builds
up low places, making field
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"We have used one of your
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,Quick Detachable Wheels

can be removed from axle in

one minute, leaving a gap for
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Wheels Always Split

Ridges; an arm keeps the

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The axle turns in steel roller

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REMEMBER once unpacking a
(barrel of apples and was amazed
to find that I had asked for apples
and had received a goodly supply of
stones. Of course, at that time I really
needed the stones for a stone wall but
I was not prepared to pay apple prices
for them. The stones were neatly en-
cases in a length of stove pipe and
their added weight made it appear that
I was getting a barrel of‘ Spys or some
other heavy variety. Needless to say,
I‘purchased no more apples from that
same party. But that statement can-
not end the case in question for the
same reason that the man from whom
I purchased the apples did not do the
packing but he did assume the respon-
sibility for the barrel and then passed
it on to me.

When the time comes that'the farm-
er has products to sell year after year,
the time will have arrived when it is
found that come-back sales are based
on confidence and that increaSed pric-
es are based on shouldered responsi-
bility. The man who packed the bar-
rel of apples mentioned above was un-
dodbtedly one who had only a few
trees in his orchard. Perhaps this
was the first year in ten when he had
any apples to sell and he didn‘t expect
to have any more to sell for ten more
years. Therefore he yielded to temp-
tation and ridded his farm of stones by
way of the apple barrel.

One of the biggest arguments for a
particular farm being organized on a.
basis of having each year certain pro-
ducts to sell is that in the meantime,
the products will have become more or
less standard and there will be devel-
oped a number of business friends who
will send in return orders. It is this
class of orders that each farmer must
cater to if he is to receive prices that
are commensurate with production
costs. Extended business is often
spoken of as a matter of “good will”
and when we come to analyze the sit~
uation closely, I feel that this state-
ment is true. I trade with a certain
grocer but because he will always
make right anything that is not: per-
fectly satisfactory. An article that we
do not want, he cheerfully takes back
and doesn’t growl under his breath
about “people knowing their own bus-
iness.” The grocer who does not gain
and keep the confidence of his custom-
ers will find his wallet reduced to the
thickness of a corn blade. This state-
ment that sales are based on confi-
dence applies as well to the farming
business as to any other.

Responsibility is Worth Money.

Since there has been such a clamor
for investigation into the ways and
means of marketing different commodi—
ties, it has been definitely ascertained
that the go-betweens between the pro-
ducer and the consumer add to the
cost price of their article because they
are forced to assume both the respon-
sibility and risk for the products they
so buy. The man who buys a case of
eggs assumes responsibility for the edi-
bility of the eggs and charges _a sell-
ing price in accordance with this re-
sponsibility so assumed. For instance,
a man buys ten dozen eggs at twenty—
five cents a dozen. He assumes respon-
sibility and if a consumer gets an egg
that will talk, it is brought back forth-
with. To provide against losses of
this character the selling price of the
eggs is increased to the point where
the risk can safely be assumed—and
then some. This makes it appear that
the middleman is getting unduly weal-
thy at the hands of the consumer.
Now, the point I wish to make is
that farming will become more profit-
able When the farmer assumes respon~
sibility for the thing he sells. This is
not .a new thought in commerce but it
has not been applied to things produc-
ed on the farm until rather recent

 

times. Various. commercial houses

an '. “Producer," and Co-
* By I. J. MATHEWS. '

nsumé,

have proven this and they assume the
responsibility for the thing that they
put in the hands of their retailers and
they limit the profits of the retailer by
limiting the price at which the article
must be sold; thus they prove' that
their responsibility to the ultimate con-
sumer is worth money. '

We have proven to our own satisfac-
tion, at least, that eggs for which we
held ourselves responsible retail at a
price so much in excess of “just eggs”
that we are amply repaid for the as-
sumption of this burden.

The way we do it is as follows: iVe
secured from a local store a stamping
outfit and stamp pad. Both these to—
gether cost twenty-five cents. Then we
had made a stamp for the person who
gathers the eggs. This cast fifteen
cents, making forty cents in all. Each
day, the eggs gathered are dated and
stamped so that when the consumer
gets his eggs, he knows .just how old
they are and if they are not good, he‘
knows by whom" cOmplaints will be en«
tertained. There is no trouble in sell—
ing these eggs at enough more to pay
us for this assumption. The grocer
pays us more than market prices be-
cause he knows that ‘we stand respon-
sible and he can therefore afford to
cut the price to the consumer.

Continuous Publicity Desirable.

While it is true that most farms do
not have products that can profitably
bear continuous publicity, yet in the
shakeup that must eventually take
place, it will become a farmer’s chief
concern to so organize his farm that
he will have some product for contin-
uous sale, not only throughout a year
but throughout a term of pears. The
farming business does not serve as a
hand-to-mouth proposition. One can-
not successfully move onto the farm
this year, back to town next, and so on
until he wears out the road between
the town and the farm. The best ad-
vice that cah be given to a young
farmer is to think well before going
into business. Let him ask himself
many times Whether he is fitted for
farming as a life work and then after
he has given his answer, let it be prov-
en several times and by different meth-
ods. If he decides to be a dairyman,
let him tackle a young calf and teach
it to drink from a pail. If he can do
this without feeling that he would like
to drown the calf in the milk pail, he
has at least some of the attributes of
a dairyman. If he wishes to become a
corn breeder, let him cultivate for
three Weeks under a. heartless sun, be-
hind a contrary team and in corn so
high that the air absolutely refuses to
circulate.

My heart goes out to the man who is
a reluctant farmer, tilling the soil not
because he wants to but because he
must, seeing. nothing in the cultivat-
ing but‘the drudgery of it all, seeing
nothing in the cattle but the weary
routine of carrying silage, dipping out
grain and shoveling manure. If the
business appeals in this light, shake off
the dust of the farm and seek some
more congenial work. .Every desert
has its oasis and if the oasis of your
farm experience is the largest part or
it, prepare to produce quality products
and this through a term of years in or-
der that you may have something that
will merit continuous advertising. Ad-
vertise this product continuously, not
spasmodically. '

Business Methods Imperative.

Of all people, perhaps there is no
one so loath to answer correspondence
as the farmer. I know just how diffi-
cult lt is to come in from a hard day’s
effort at stalking along over plowed
land; then sit down with a pen in hand
to answer a business letter. How great
the temptation to put it off until to~
morrow- and the tomorrow never
comes. The tomorrows that never

come lose many sales for busy tsm_ -‘

   

  

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MARCH 24,1917.
ers. The Selling end of farming is im-
portant enough, it would seem, so that
time should be taken off in the morn-
ing to attend to this important detail.

Letters should be answered prompt-
ly. Very often a letter is merely an
inquiry but the very fact that some
person inquires about your products is
a sign that his attention is focused
your way and that conviction may be
bad if you approach him right. I have
received many letters from those hav-
ing wares to sell; some of these writ-
ers seemed to realize that I was a pros-
pective purchaser, while many of them
took it for granted that I was inter-
ested in price only and the letter was
merely a string of lifeless quotations.
The personal element can be worked
quite effectively in selling farm pro-
ducts. Remember that the buyer will
be interested in What the product
means to him, not what it means to
you, and therefore don’t let price quo—
tations take up most of your letters.
The price is only incidental, quality
talks with most buyers and if it talks
loud enough, the price is promptly
forthcoming.

No farmer who has for sale articles
that have been advertised can afford
to be Without a typewriter. The type-
writer adds legibility to the letter, a
cause of many failures where hand
writing is used. After I have taken a
half hour of perfectly good time to de-
cipher a letter that appears more like
Sanskrit than English, I usually con-
clude that I wasn’t very much interest—
ed in the first place and forthwith ded-
icate the letter to the great god of
fire. Typewriters can be had compar-
atively cheap and they make the busi-
ness end of farming a pleasure where
often it was a b01e before I feel this
way about it: It certainly is a dis-
tasteful thought to get out a pen, ink
and paper; then put a newspaper over
the tablecloth and proceed to put my
convictions on paper. When my convic-
tionsare bound up in such a procedure
as this, I don’t burden other people
with them. The typewriter is, how-
ever ink, pen, paper, newspaper and
tablecloth all in one and appeals to
me after a day of hard work.

Retain Carbon Copy.

Many who use the typewriter do not
know the great value of carbon paper.
Carbon paper is a thin membrane cov-
ered with finely divided bits of carbon
or lampblack that has been dyed any
color desired. I have used red carbon.
paper for special work but use black
for mostkwork. A thin sheet of paper
is laid on the table, then the glossy
side of a piece of carbon paper is laid
down 011 the sheet of paper, then. the
letterhead is put on top of this and the
three are put into the machine with
the glossy side of the carbon paper vis-
ible on the under side of the roll. I
make it a practice to take a copy of
every letter I write. If the letters I
receive are written on one side only,
I make the carbon copy of my reply on
the back side of the original letter.

On several occasions these carbon
copies have proven most valuable.
Sometimes a customer claims that you
made prices to him that you feel rea-
sonably certain you never did. Refere-
ence to the carbon copy will show ex-
actly what quotations you did make.
Carbon paper may be used when writ-
ing with pen or pencil either and ev-
ery farmer should provide himself
with a few sheets of it so that his bus-
iness affairs can be administered with
more accuracy. This carbon paper can
be had at almost any stationery store.

The little slips between the producer
and his customers are costly and they
should be avoided. Responsibility for
the articles sold is well repaid by ex-
tra prices. Advertise as much as is
consistent with the article produced
and then sell just as advertised. The
typewriter helps and the carbon paper
~should be made a part of every farm~
er’s business equipment; a scrap of

carbon paper has avoided many a law-
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393—147 V

INFLUENCE OF THE SEVERE WIN-
TER UPON WORLD CROPS.

. The cold wave-which set in during
January throughout Europe, bringing
the temperature down to exceptionally
low levels in many places, has done
damage to autumn sown crops and has
considerably interfered with field work
in that month. This is the chief fea~
ture in the reports published in the
February number of the Bulletin of
Agricultural and Commercial Statistics
of the International Institute of Agri-
culture.

In France plowing and sowing were
perforce stopped, and nothing but cart-
ing of fertilizers was accelerated by
the abnormal temperature.

In that country a noticeable decline
in the area placed under cereals dur-
ing the autumn of‘ 1916 is reported.
The wheat area on January 1, 1917,
was only 4.277 thousands of hectares
or 85 per cent of that sown at the same
date in 1916; the area under rye was
828 thousands of hectares (90 per
cent) and that under oats was 651
thousands (95 per cent). The only in-
t-rease is in the area under barley,
amounting to 10 per cent over that of
1916; this year‘s return is 109 thou-
sand hectares. The condition' of an-
tumn sown crops on January 1, 1917,
was lower than that of the same date
last year, for wheat. barley and oats,
while for rye it was practically simi-
lar. In Great Britain and Ireland heavy
suowl’alls with icy winds prevailed dur-
i'ig the greater part of the month, and
caused much retardation in field work.
Still the crops that are above ground
look well in places where the snow is
not lying, but are nor sufficiently ad-
vanced for the time of year.

in Italy the weather was almost as
inclement as in the other two countries
mentioned. The condition of crops is
an average one, but the preparations
for spring sowing in North Italy have
been inaugurated only in a few prov-
inces. In the peninsula plentiful rains
have been generally favorable to these
preparations.

in British India, the sewing season
for wheat has been favorable on the
whole, in spite of too much rain in cer-
tain provinces, which hows-yer do not
recount for more than twenty-five per
(‘t‘llt of the whole area under this crop.
(in the other hand the important rice-
growing regions of Bengal, Bihar and
tirissa (where about onehall‘ the yield
of British India is produced as a rule)
have suffered from heavy rains and
floods, causing injury which cannot be
disregarded. In Japan, the sowing of
wheat and barley has been slightly re-
tarded by rains.

Passing to the countries of the south-
crn hemisphere, where the cereal har-
vest of 1916-17 is now completed, it
may be noted that Australia has modi:
tied previous estimates and now pub-I
lishes the folio-wing figures: Vthat,
39.048 thousands of quintals, or 100 per
t-ent of the crop of 191518: rye, 34
lllOllSZlIldS of quintals; barley 912 thou-
sands of quintals; oats 3.012 thou-
sands; maize 2.159 thousands of quin-
tals.

The result is that the crops for 1916‘
17 of the two principal countries in the
southern hemisphere (Argentian and
Australia) reach only 60.111 thousands
of Quintals of wheat as compared with
85.907 thousands in 1915-16. or 70 per
cent of the last mentioned yield.

‘ By comparison with the average
vield of the five years 1909-10 to 1913-
14, this year’s crop is only 92 per cent.

There are no great changes observ-
able in the results of the harvest of
1916 in the northern hemisphere.

As regards the potato crops, the Bul-
letin of the Rome Institute, now under
review, sums up the yields of France,
Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, the
Netherlands, Canada, the United

1 States and Japan with a total of 286.-
' 634 thousands of quintals, against 331.-

701 in 1915, and 364.578 the average of
1909 to 1913, representing respectively

 
  

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86 and 79 per cent of these two figures.
This is an unsatisfactory crop, espe-
cially considering that the cereal har-
vests have been by no means brilliant,

and that potatoes are consequently}

more in request than formerly.

The agricultural portion of the Bul-
letin also includes estimates of the
number or farm animals in some coun-
tries: In Great Britain and Ireland be-
tween June, 1915, and a twelvemonth
later, the number of horses increased
six per cent, that of cattle and sheep
two per cent, whilepigs decreased five
per cent. In the United States, on Jan-
uary 1, 1917, only cattle and mules
were more numerous than on January
1, 1916, while horses, sheep and pigs
were very much on a par at the two
dates. .

MICHIGAN FARMERS CO-OPERATE.

 

The newly formed Grand Rapids
Dairy Association, made up of the milk
producers supplying Grand Rapids con-
sumers, plan to form a $75,000 com-
pany, and to start operations in a cen-
tral distributing plant in the city on
or before November 1.

The Kalamazoo Celery Growers’ As-
sociation met in that city and elected
the following officers:- President, H.
L. Schippirs; vice-president, John De-
Loof; secretary-treasur’er, John Hy-
bek; trustees, George Vanderveen, A.
Bolle, J. Zant, and J. VanderMolen.
Every bunch of celery shipped out of
Kalamazoo will be graded this season.
In past years only the large shipments
have been graded.

The Eaton County Sugar Beet Grows
ers’ Association was formed at a meet-
ing held in Charlotte, with W. L. Hu-
ber, of Charlotte, as president and Clif<
ford O‘Neil, of Roxand, as secretary.
A chairman was appointed for each
township and it was voted to enter in-
to no contracts for less than $8 per ton
this year.

Saginaw county beet growers have
been holding a series of meeting in
the townships, which closed with a
round-up at Saginaw. They are hold-
ing out stoutly tor the flat rate of $8
a ton.

A state association of maple syrup
and sugar makers was formed at Char-
lotte, Eaton county, with L. D. Dickin-
son, of Charlotte, as president, and E.
C. Mandenberger, of East Lansing, as
secretary. The purpose is to encourage
better methods of manufacturing as
well as advertising and marketing
these products. Standard grades and
prices were established.

The. St. Louis Cooperative Creanr
ery Company of Gratiot county, enjoy-
ed a prosperous year and has paid a
cash dividend of two per cent, in ad-
dition to previous dividends during the
year. Directors were re-elected.

An organization will be perfected on
March 10, of Muskegon and Ottawa
county celery growers, under the name
of the Muskegon & Grand Haven Cel-
ery Growers' Association. The meet-
ing will be held at the court house,
Muskegon.

Hillsdale county farmers have done
an $80,000 business in live stock ship-
ments from Jonesville during the past
year. W. M. Glasgow is president and
Grant. S. Emery manager.

The Litchfield Shippers’ Association
of Hillsdale county, reports a business

of $106,385 during the past year under

management of L. B. Eggleston, an in—
crease of $44,167 over the previous
year. G. W. H hings is president
and H. D. LaFeur manager.

The Jefferson Dairy Association has
opened a. co-operative creamery at
Osseo, Hillsdale county.

The Square Deal Co—operative Asso-
ciation in Eaton county reports that
over $12,000 has been subscribed for
the elevator to be built at Charlotte.

The high prices being paid for waste
paper has enabled the school children
in many of the city schools to lay by
considerable sums from the sale of
paper collected and delivered at the
schools which they attend. This mon-
ey is used for various purposes, usu-
ally however, to supply phonographs,
moving picture apparatus and other
equiment desired by the teachers and
children.

More than ten million, men are re-
corded as killed, wounded, captured or
missing thus far in the European war
in the first complete tabulation of offié'
cial and semi-official reports of the var-
ious belligerents as received in Wash-
ington. The entente’s losses are given
as 6,318,500 as against 3,384,800 for the;
central empires. Russia is the heavi-
est loser so far with a grand total of.
3,084,200 men. The bulk Of‘these loss-
es occurred in the Mazurian Lake dis-
aster and the two retreats from the
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HE past winter a greater num-

ber of people than ever before

has enjoyed the pleasure of gath-
ering birds about premises merely by
offering a few scraps of food as an
attraction. The increasing interest in
this work is spreading so rapidly that
the number of birds commonly seen in
the neighborhood of our dwellings is
growing in no small way. This result
points to the fact that the birds are
profiting by our attempts and that
they like the treatment we are giving
them. It is good for us that such is
the case because only by treating them
as they desire to be treated can we do
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Homes for Our Feathered Friends
By V. E. L.

Summer is coming, however, and the
birds are beginning to make arrange
ments for a business other than that
of hunting something good to eat. The
warmer the days get the more plenti-
ful the natural food supply becomes
and the less frequently will the birds
call at the free lunch counter we pro-
vided for them during the winter
months. There are, happily, other
means of attracting birds to our homes,
means that will bring in summer as
good results as the food brought in

winter. These means are, as always,
founded on the wants and needs of
the birds.

About the first desire a bird has af-
ter warm weather comes is to find a
mate and then to find a suitable place
for the building of a nest. Right at
this point a wonderfully good work is
being done by thousands of people the
country over, and the work consists of
supplying as many as possible of these
suitable nesting places. That the birds
like our offerings is too evident to ad-

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mit of dispute in the face of the fact
that they return year after year and
bring others with them to enjoy the
safety and comfort of a ready-made
house that exactly fits their needs. The
amount of profit we derive from the
work is strongly hinted at in the lively
way we- are attempting to get all the
birds we can to stay with us. “Let
the birds do the work,” is the thought
of many a wise old horticulturist who
saves many dollars every year merely
by attracting birds to his premises.
Not many years ago the house wren,
the blue bird, the tree swallow and the
martin composed the list of the so-
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A Novel Parachute

By E. R. RICE

N the map of the T., O. & N. line
Barton showed in large type.
Two things made it an import-
ant station. Because of its excellent
facilities the company had built a great
tank there and all trains but the fast
ones stopped for, water. Because of
the natural beauty of the surrounding
country a fine observation tower had
also been erected beside the little
station.

A dozen or more people usually
climbed the winding stairs leading up
to" the observation room while their
trains waited for engines to be replen~
ished. The tower was forty to fifty
feet high and the View was magnifi-
cent.

Dan Bradford the young tation
agent, delighted in showing all visitors
the natural beauties and he prided him-
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grounds redit to the line. He ven-
tured suggest to the officials various

ways in which lasting impressions
be made on travellers and pleas-
ing 1 ental pictures carried away. He
even rent so far as to ask for a fifty-
foot ag pole and a flag that would
match it. When his request came in
the division superintendent smiled a
little and said:

“That youngster has the right idea.
Send him the best flag you can find.”

When the flag came and fluttered f01
the first time from the staff near the
observation tower Dan’s joy knew no
bounds. Tourists were pleased with
the idea and the company put into its
literature a cut of the Barton Station
as one of the beauty spots of the line.

But there was one man who was not
enthusiastic over Dan‘s idea of the
flag. John Proctor, the middle aged
engineer in charge of the pump at the
water tank was a stolid Englishman,
and loyal to the land of his birth. He
was a good engineer and performed his
duties well, but he lost no opportunity
to speak in a patronizing way of the
country so dear to Dan. When the flag
first went up he took it as a part of
Dan’s way of getting even with him
and resented it.

To all of his cuts, however, Dan re-
plied mildly and, knowing Proctor’s
real value, made no occasion to open
:1 break in their friendship. Neverthe-
less, the open or implied sneers of the
older man were trying.

“He’ll come around some day,”
thought Dan. “But if he does not the
flag stays, any how.”

And Proctor did come round. The
occasion which brought him will never
be forgotten by either himself or Dan.

On the morning of the day it happen-
ed Proctor had been in bad spirits.
Things had gone wrong with him some-
where, and he vented his ill feelings
on Dan, and it was directed along the
usual line of former difference. Dan
had replied warmly and Proctor in a
rage went to his engine house without
another word. His displeasure had not
worn off at noon, and instead of bring-
ing his dinner pail over to the station
as usual he went over to the hillside a
quarter of a mile away.

Dan was busy all the morning, and
had scarcely time to give his custom-
ary attention to the observation tower.
line. or two parties from morning
irains had gone up the stairs and Dan
had noted the untidy appearance of the
little room at the top. He was anx-
ious to put it in shape for the after-
noon. '

At twelve o’clock he took the report
from the wires that Number Four, the
fast passenger would be on time, pass-
ing Barton at twelve fifteen without
stopping.

“I’ 11 have time to fix up a thing or

two in the tower,” he said to himself. ,

“Thank goodness there is no one here
to bother.”

He went quickly up the stairs, and

 

into the observation room. It was oc-
tagonal in shape and ten feet in diam-
eter, with a window on every side.

The sash of one of these windows
was loose and rattled in the stiff
breeze. To give it attention Dan turn-
ed to close the trap door by which he
had come up. In his haste he let it
fall and when he tried to lift it again,
five minutes’ later, it refused to budge.
The clasp had sprung into position on
the under side and he was a prisoner.

The novelty of his position did not
alarm him for a moment for he thought
that he could easily call Proctor. Then
he remembered the events of the
morning, Proctor‘s pique, and his going
to the hills for his dinner. Moreover,
it came to him that Number Four was
nearly due.

With this thought in mind he opened
a window on that side of the tower
that looked out in the direction Proc-
tor had gone. Leaning out he search-
ed the hillside for the engineer but fail-
ed to find him. Nor did he get any
answer to his calls, though made again
and again.

But even then he was not alarmed
for though he did not get down in time
to speak the fast train the switch was
set and the track clear. Number Four
usually went by with a roar and a
cloud of dust.

He turned to again try to raise the
trap door. As he did :3th heard a
locomotive whistle.

“Number Four is not due for five
minutes,” he thought as he looked at
his watch.

Again the whistle sounded. Dan
started. “But that isn’t Number Four.
It’s a train from the other direction.”

.Even as he looked, smoke drifted
up from a train, a long freight, as it
swung into view a mile away. It was
on the open track and headed down
grade toward the water tower. It was
coming quickly on, directly in the path
of the fast train due to pass Barton a
few minutes later.

Dan’s mind was in a whirl, shut up
in the tower he could only wait for
what seemed a certain. deadly crash,
a terrible head-on collision.

But no! There must be some way
down in time to avert it, if, only he
could find it.

He tore open another window and
looked down. Too far. It was folly
to leap forty feet to the ground. Per-
haps he could reach one of the win-
down below. If only he had a rope.

But no rope was to be found, nor
could he make one from strips of torn
clothing. There was no time for that.
The way down must be quicker.

He called in desperation to Proctor,
but the wind that whistled around the
tower seemed to carry his voice in the
other direction. And then he heard
the whistle of the coming flyer and

caught sight of its smoke.

“A rope! A rope!” he kept repeat-
ing, and then his eyes fell upon one.
There along the flag staff, fifteen feet
away, was a means of escape if only
he could reach it.

“Can I do it?” he cried. The stiff
breeze outside blew the flag straight
out from its staff. The flowing'sheet
whipped in the wind over toward the
tower, but not near enough for Dan to
reach it. the tower diverting the direc-
tion of the air current. But Dan swung
open all the windows on that side and
the wind sucked through. The flag
swung within his grasp and with eager
hand he clutched it.

With rising hope he braced ‘himself
against the window frame and pulled
with all his might. But .the flag was
securely fastened, the rope held firm.
and his effort was nnavailing.

A daring, thought came to Dan. Why
not swing aeross to the pole and go
down that way?

“If I can’t pull it across to the fewer,

' was Dan’s conclusion.

 

No sooner thought than acted upon.
Carefully pulling the flag toward him
until he could get a firm hold with
both hands, Dan raised himself out to
the window ledge. Keeping his gaze
fixed on the pole a dozen feet away,
and scarcely breathing, he felt his feet
leave the ledge. Forva brief moment
he hung in mid-air.

The wind swung about his ears. The
fall seemed sickening as he’ swung
down and out. The flag pole swayed
under his weight and the pulley at its
top creaked. The rope tightened, but
held.

It took but a second, but it was
hours to Dan, for his body to swing
across the narrow space. The pole
rushed out to meet him, but on his
first swing he missed it by‘a foot. As
he came back, like a pendulum, he
threw out his arm and caught the
flag rope with one hand. His other
arm went round the pole in firm clasp.

Scarcely a second did he wait. With
arms and legs about the tapering mast
he slid quickly to the ground.

With not a moment to lose Dan dash-
ed around the tower and toward the
switch. He heard the shrieking of
whistles and the grinding roar of
wheels as the two trains raced forward.
Too late to stop, each engineer could
only hope that the friendly switch
would offer refuge. With sanded rails,
set brakes, and reversed engines they
stared grimly ahead awaiting the
crash. ,

As they looked Dan shot into View.
Never, it seemed to him, did he run so
fast. He reached the switch twenty
seconds ahead of the flyer. With des.
perate haste he threw it open and a
second later the hissing giant close be-
hind him headed in. The engineer of
Number Four divined Dan’s intentions,
threw off the brakes and pulled his
train to safety.

The freight engineer was not so for-
tunate. With a. heavily loaded train
behind him he was forced along. Grind-
ing, roaring, hissing, but with reduced
speed, the freight engine struck the
switch, just grazing the rear car of the
passener train. The great drivers
plowed forward over ties and hardened
road-bed for a distance of a hundred
feet. ~

It seemed to Dan who, having done
his best, had leaped aside, that the
long line would never halt.

But with jar and jolt and dust-cloud
the heavy box and coal cars bumped
down to a full stop.

As the train crews gathered around
him, Dan could only gasp out a part of
the explanation. In fact, it took a long
investigation on the part of the rail-
road officials to fix the blame for the
narrowly averted disaster. But every
trainman on the spot understood Dan’s
dash for the switch, that is, as much
of it as they had seen, and. they cheer-

 

the part the flag hadn played in it, they

cheered again.

What Dan appreciated more, how-
,ever, Was the warm praise John Proc-
tor gave him as the two, a little later,
stood gazing up at the floating emblem.

-“You’re a great boy, Dan,” said Proc-
tor, “and you’ve got a great flag.”

“A great flag,” Dan repeated, and
the two saluted it in loyal fashion.

Who Wins?

By W. K. PUTNEY

ES, that’s it—who wins? Is it
the fellow who says, “I don’t
know whether I can or not,” as

he goes into battle? Is it the chap
who shakes his head and looks doubt~
ful at-the problem before him?

No, it is the man or woman who
keeps head up and courage as high as
the head. Have you ever read the his-
tories of many of our best inventions?
Did you notice that in almost every
case success followed the most discour-
aging failure? That is a fact. Morse
won only because he “stuck to it.” He
was laughed at just as, Fulton was
when he put his steamboat out into
the river for its famous trip. Edison
failed miserably in some of his first
experiments and Columbus was ridi-
culed justbecause he said the earth
was round.

 

We think that the fun-makers were

the crazy ones when we read the story
of Columbus’ life. But are there not a
great number of things that we would
have ridiculed when they were first
mentioned? What would your great-
grandfather have saiduto see a boat go
sailing up and down a harbor without
anybody on board? Yet that is ex-
actly what that wonderful young in-
ventor and wireless. student, John
Hays Hammond, Jr., did. He made a
vessel about the size of an ordinary
motor boat go dancing up and down
the waters of Gloucester harbor. He
controlled that boat perfectly from his
wireless machine in his work tower.

A'short time ago there sailed into
one of our ports a submarine carrying
much needed goods for certain manu-
factures. It was the German Deutch-
land and she was the first commercial
submarine to come to the United
States. Yet, it was not so many years
ago that folks would have talked of.
witches if anything like that had hap-
pened.

We are living in a different world
today. We are striving to hold our
own—each and every one of Us. Only
those who hold their heads up and
fight fair in this strugglewill be win-
ners. The world does admire a hero
who wins after having a hard fight to
make good in the ordinary vocations
of life and when that person finally
does come to the top of the ladder;
there is always room for him and a
hearty welcome.

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The Wintergreen ‘Man

By ANNA GIRMUS

ITTLE BENNY lived with his
mother in the tiny house right
near the woods. They were very
poor, but they had a pig, some chick-
ens, a garden and a cow that Benny
drove to the woods each morning to
feed, and in the summer when people
came to the big hotel near the lake
and to the cottages and cabins, Ben-
ny’s mother washed and ironed for
them so that they got along very well.
Now Benny was a very happy little
boy. When he weeded in the garden
or drove the cow to the woods, he
whistled as lively as could be. But
one morning he walked along so still
that eyen old boss turned her head to
see if he was following. There wasn’t
a single smile on his face.
That morning his mother had to‘isit
down right when she was in the middle
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her hand to her head and the tears
stood in her eyes.

Benny was scared. He knew his
mother was sick. If only he could do
something so that she should not have
to work so hard, but he was just a
small boy.

“What is the matter?” asked a voice
right near him.

Benny jumped and looked around.
At first he saw no one. Then right
before him, in the path, he saw the
queerest little iman, a regular Tom
Thumb of a man, so small that Benny
could almost tuck him in his pocket.
He was dressed in a'suit of brownish
green. His coat and vest were button-
ed with red, red‘ Wintergreen berries
"and right in the top of his green. point-
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“Oh, yes, the sun is as bright as
ever,” said Benny, but he never smiled
a bit. “My mamma is Sick and I can’t
do anything. If only I was- big.”

“Sometimes, if we want to real hard,
we can do things even if we are not
big,” said the little old man;

"But I am so-small,” said Benny.

“Even if we are small, we can do
things, if we want to hard enough,”
the little man looked at Benny real
earnestly.

“But I can’t go to the woods and
cut' down trees like the men do in the
winter or work in the mill in the sum-
mer,” said Benny.

,‘Of course not,” said the little, old
man, “but don’t look so unhappy.” He
picked two leaves from a sassafras
bush that grew by the side of the path
and made a basket of them. Then he
put something in the balsket. Benny
could not see what it was. And he made
a cover from a third leaf. It looked
exactly like a big market basket when
he held itin his little hand.

“There, take that home with you,”

Now the strangest thing happened.
As soon as Benny took the basket in
his hand, it began to grow bigger and
bigger and heavier and heavier, until
by the time he reached home, it was
as big as a good-sized market basket
and so heavy that Benny‘s arm was
quite tired.

“I’ll try to get the others to you this
afternoon,” he heard his mother saying
to a strange lady, when he stepped
into the house. '

“Why, Benny! Where have you
been?” she said to Benny. “I wanted
you to take these clothes to the hotel.
What have you got there?” she asked
when she saw the basket.

' “Oh, it’s a basket,” said Benny.

“But where did you get it? Who
gave it to you ?” asked his mother.

Now Benny knew by this time that
the little old man was a fairy or some-
thing, but he knew that grown-ups
wouldn’t know so he said, “a little old
man gave it to me.”

“A little old man?” said his mother.
f‘Vl’hat’s in it?”

“I don’t know,” said Benny.

So the mother raised the cover. “It’s
nothing but Wintergreen berries,” she
said and was going to drop the cover.

“Wintergreen berries," said the oth-
er lady who was counting out money
to pay for the washing. “And such
nice ones. Would you sell some of
them?” .

“Of course we would,” said Benny’s
mamma. “We have no use for them.”

“I’ll take two quarts and give you
fifty cents a quart,” said the lady. “I
want some to send to a friend in the
city and some for my children.” 'And
she laid a big, round, silver dollar on
the table. “If you want .to sell more
of them, I’m certain that the people at
the hotel would be glad to buy them.”

“May I take them to the hotel, mam-
ma, and try to sell them?" asked Ben~
ny after the lady had gone.

“Why, I dOn’t care," said his mam-
ma. “Wash your hands and face,
brush' your hair and put on a clean
waist, first.”

So in a few minutes, Benny, looking
nice and clean, started for the hotel.

“There’s the boy now,” said the lady
who had bought the berries, when she
saw him coming.

“Come here, boy,” called a big man,
in a big voice. He was sitting in a
wheel chair. “Are they real winter-
green berries ?” he asked as Benny un-
covered his basket.

.“Yes, sir. I. guess so,” said Benny
for he remembered how he had got
them. .

“Guess so,” said the man in his big
yoice and he tasted a berry. “You
should be certain.”

Now the man’s voice was so big that

.it made Benny tremble, but his eyes

weren’t a bit scarry. , ,

 

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again. “Why aren’t'y'ou whistling? The

was so big he could be heard all over
the verandah., “Give me two quarts,
boy. Can you bring more tomorrow?
They are the finest I ever saw.”

“Yes, sir,” said Benny. “I’ll try,”
and as fast as he could measure them
out the. people took his berries.

“There, mamma,” he called as soon
as he stepped through the door. “Look
at what I have,” and he held up five
new, shiny silver dollars.

“That certainly will help a lot,” his
mother said. “Come and eat your
dinner.”

After dinner, Benny took his basket
and started for the place where he had
met the Wintergreen man. “Maybe he
will fill the basket for me again,” he
thought to himself. “Then I can sell
them tomorrow at the hotel.”

He found the place, but there was
no little old man. He looked around
carefully, but he could see nothing of
the high, pointed hat with the three
big berries. He looked and looked, but
saw no one. The tears came to his
eyes for he had been so sure that the
Wintergreen man would help him.

“Maybe he’s farther back in the
woods," he thought. So he started
down the path. Two or three times he
called, but he didn’t know the little
old man’s real name. He walked on
and on until he came to where he had
never been before, but he saw nothing
of the man. “What will I do. I prom—
ised the berries for tomorrow and I
won’t have a one.” he almost cried.

By this time he was so tired that he
thought he could not go another step,
but he wanted so to see the winter-
green fairy that he could not give up.

Then, just as he was thinking that
he must go back he came to a little
opening in the woods and the ground
was covered with the nicest, biggest
Wintergreen berries that Benny had
ever seen.

He forgot all about the little old man
and went to picking, and he picked and
picked and picked, but you know win-
tergre’en berries are small and it takes
a long time to pick a basket full and
the first thing Benny knew the sun
went down.

He started for home as fast as he
could go, but someway he did not take
the right path. It commenced to grow
dark and Benny could not see a tree
that he knew. Of course, he was dread-
fully scared. He hurried as fast as he
could, but the trees were so thick and
he saw no' way of getting out. He re-
membered about the bears that Tom
Glyn had seen that winter. And there]
were Wildcats and other things.
tried to run, but there were logs and
brush in his way and the basket was
heavy, if it was only half full. He didn’t
cry. He was too afraid to cry, but he
did most awfully/baht his mother.

At last it was so dark he could just
see the path. And then he stumbled
against something dark and soft and
big and furry. “A bear,” he thought.
He hurried to scramble up, and just
as he started to run, the furry some-
thing said “moo,” and got on its feet
and a. bell said ting-a-ling, and Benny
came back in a hurry. ,

“Nice old boss, good old boss,” he
whispered, and he put his arms tight
around old bosse’s neck.

Old Boss stood still just a minute
and then she started off. Benny follow-
ed her and in a little while they were
home.

The next morning Benny took a pail
and went back «to the Wintergreen
patch and long before noon he had his
basket full of berries.

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long, he would go to the woods, pick
his basket full of Wintergreen berries
and sell them at the hotel. So that
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his mother a lot and she did not have
to work so hard.

He looked for the little, old man
real often, but he never saw him again,
maybe because he did not need him
any more.

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Reaching the street, Stoddard set off
at a brisk walk toward the boarding-
house the address of which he had ob-
tained from Ales. Optimism was run-
ning strong within him. He knew now
to a certainty that Sadie was in Buf-
falo. He also knew that she needed
a job so badly that there was no
chance of her leaving the city, even
if she desired to, until she had earned
some money. He was sure he would
find her, though it took days and
weeks of searching.

Something else elated him. He had
a new and wonderful admiration for
Sadie Hicks. More than ever was she
remarkable in his eyes. Now he knew
the environment whence she had come.
He had seen the dreary and stifling
packing-room with the Shrimp and its
other denizens; he had breathed the
factory atmosphere, with all its cheap-
ness and sordidness and weariness.

And out of this she had come, like
some beautiful flower rearing itself
above a bed of weeds, unspoiled and
without the taint of it all. Back in
the dismal room where she earned her
seven dollars a week she had seen, not
the monotonous toil and the grimness
of human beings become machines,
but fair visions of her big outdoors.
Her mind had risen, though her body
might be chained.

“She shall have her dream when I
find her,” he said half aloud.

The boarding-house reminded him of
the factory. It was another bit of
environment that had made no impress
upon Sadie. It was clean, but prim
anh cheerless. All the hope, if any it
ever harbored, seemed gone from it.

“I am looking for Sadie Hicks,” he
told the landlady, who was lean, tired-
looking and “particular” about her
lodgers.

“She left last week,” was the an-
swer that accompanied a swift and
suspicious inspection of his person.

“Been back?”

“Came here yesterday afternoon, but
her room was let. I don’t have rooms
standin’ idle in my house.”

“Any idea where I can find her?”

‘1N0.,!

The door closed simultaneously with
the answer.

Stoddard lost a shade of his opti-
mism. Finding Sadie might not be so
simple after all. He walked slowly
down the street, his head bent and his
forehead wrinkled. Occasionally he
bumped into people, apologizing per-
functorily. Most of them started after
him.

Just what to do next puzzled him.
He thought of returning to the factory
and maintaining a vigil, in the hope
that Sadie might return, having failed
elsewhere to obtain anything to do.
But he decided this was too negative a
method and that in any event the time
for it had not arrived.

His costume was a handicap and an
annoyance, he soon discovered. It at-
tracted disconcerting attention. Also,
he was embarrassed for lack of money.
His capital was now eighty-five cents.

On revisiting the telegraph-office he
was disappointed to find that as yet
there had been no answer to his wired
request for money. They told him to
drop in later.

After that he did a great deal of
walking, up one street and down an-
other, with no very definite purpose in
view. He bought several newspapers
and studied the “want ad” pages with
a View to getting an idea of what sort
of jobs girls in a big city looked for.
This led him to the plan of advertis-
ing for Sadie, which struck him as
rather brilliant and simple. She would
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tise until his remittance came.

Then he thought of Sadie and the
movies and made a resolve to keep
close watch upon the gaudy picture-
palaces that evening, although he was
not sure that in her present financial
straits she could afford to spend nick-
els on luxuries. '

If all else failed he conceived the
scheme of sending out a general movie
alarm; he would have an appeal to
Sadie flashed on every picture-screen
in Buffalo. But this, too, was a mat-
ter for future consideration. His case
was not yet so desperate.

Stoddard was hungry. He counted
his money. Four, cents invested in
newspapers left him eighty-one cents.
As it was mid-afternoon he decided
to eat.

Several restaurant windows made a1-
luring appeals to his eyes, but not to
his finances. He wanted something
cheap. He secided not to spend more
than a quarter on his meal.

, At last he found his place. Stand-
ing on the sidewalk was a sign that
related the entire menu—all sorts of
combinations “with coffee, tea 'or
milk.” He studied the list with the
determination to obtain the maximum
of bulk for his money. Two fried
ggs with bacon, rolls, butter, and cof-
fee, all for a quarter, sounded a good
deal like breakfast, but he was not
particular. He went inside.

The place was narrow and dingy
with tables huddled in close array
against the walls. A girl cashier in:
spected him as he passed the desk and
curled her lip. The Royal boasted no
swells among its patrons; yet on the
other hand it rarely descended to the
entertainment of wild men in tatters.

Stoddard seated himself at an un-
occupied table, gave his order to an
impatient and indifferent girl, and be-
gan contemplating the passers—by with-
out. He grudged the minutes required
to fry his eggs; they were so many
lost in his quest. He heard the man
behind ‘him complaining of delayed
chops and heard a waitress answer
that she was not “his” waitress but
would convoy his sentiments to the
kitchen. ' .

The next thing Stoddard became
conscious of was a tremendous crash
of dishes directly behind him. Coffee
from a shattered cup spattered his
boots. Two wan-looking chops slid
across the tiled floor. He turned to
inspect the wrecked tray. Then he
glanced upward at the aproned wait-
ress who had dropped it. She was
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CHAPTER XX.
“I Love You!"

Stoddard neither did nor said any
of the things he had planned to do
and say when he found Sadie Hicks.
Instead he stood up and said stupidly:

“Hello.”

“Hello,” she answered like an echo.

Then the customer who had waited
for his chops ventured into the con-
versation.

“Say ” he rasped, glaring at Sadie.
“Think I’m payin’ to have my meals
served on the floor? I waited long
enough for them chops. This is a
deuce of a restaurant.”

Following which he tossed his nap-
kin into the mess on the floor and
walked out of the place.

A fat man with a cigar in his teeth
came running from the rear, glaring as
he approached. He shook his fist in
Sadie’s face.

“You said you was a waitress
he screamed shrilly. “See what you
done."

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He pointed tragically downward;

“I seen it,” said Sadie wearily.

"You a. waitress! Twenty cents'
worth of dishes gone, a quarter’s
worth of grub, and a Customer! Do
you think I’m runnin’ a hash-house?
Was that there man sittin’ on the floor
that you chuck his vittles on it?” ,‘

“Shut up!” said Stoddard shortly.
“Comeon, Sadie.”

“She comes to work only this morn'
in’ and—”

“Well, she’s quitting now. Here’s
a quarter for what I ordered. Chuck
my grub on the floor, too, if you like.”

Stoddard had Sadie by the arm and
was urging her toward the door. The
proprietor of the Royal followed them,
delivering himself of copiously worded
thoughts. I

“It ‘was a accident,” explained Sadie
as she was borne steadily in the direc-
tion of the street. “I—-”

“Keep still!” commanded Stoddard.
“Let’s get out of here.”

“Yes, sir,” answered Sadie meekly.

“Don't you say ‘sir’ to me.”

“No, sir.” '

The cashier girl stopped chewing
gum as they passed her desk; then
turned to the perspiring owner and
inquired calmly:

“Wholl I‘ charge them dishes to?”

Out on the sidewalk Stoddard and
Sadie were rapidly leaving the scene
of disaster behind. His grip on her
arm would have caused most girls to
cry out in pain. Stoddard was uncon-
scious of the viselike pressure his fin-
gers exerted. So was Sadie. She
walked mechanically, like a woman in
a trance.

Once she glanced up at him timidly.
His face was so grim that it frighten-
edher. His lips were set tightly, his
chin was thrust forward truculently,
as he hurried onward with long
strides. She had difficulty in keeping
pace with him but Stoddard took no
note of that either.

Only one thought occupied his mind.
He had captured Sadie. To carry her
off was mere instinct. He-had no idea
whither he was taking her, no plan
whatever. He was simply a captor
with his prey.

They turned into a busy shopping-
street and began bumping into people.
Stoddard brushed them’aside and drag-
ged Sadie onward. She tried to follow
his rapid step and found herself fairly
running. Not until her initial bewil-
derment begun to subside did she real-
ize that a crowd had started to follow,
laughing and hurling sidewalk wit.

“My hat!” she exclaimed. “It’s back
at the restaurant.”

“I’ll get you another,” he said
shortly.

On they walked. Sadie, looking be-
hind her fearfully, beheld a mirthful
gallery of followers. Her arms were
bare to the elbows, like those of Stod-
dard, and her apron was flying in the
wind.

“We’re follered,” she informed him
hesitatingly. “A crowd of people’s
after us.”- '

Stoddard glanced backward as if
abruptly wakened from a dream; then
mentally cursed the shopping-crowd
for a pack of idle curiosity seekers.
But he also realized the spectacle that
was being furnished for their amuse-
ment.

They reached a crossing where a
trolley-car had halted. Without taking
note of its direction or destination, he
propelled Sadie aboard the rear plat-
form and followed her. He handed
the conductor a dime.

“Transfers?” asked the official as
he stared at his new passengers.

“No,” answered Stoddard, and plung-
ed into the car behind Sadie.

She was already crowding into the
far corner of a crosswise seat, trying
to shrink from the scrutiny of won—
dering eyes. He sat beside her and
looked straight ahead, very stern of
countenance»

Persons in seats ahead of them, in-
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that spreads intelligence in a crowd,
turned to stare and grin But none
of the passengers spoke of the pair
save in whispers. The expression on
the big man’s face was too forbidding.

Sadie again ventured a glance at
her cantor. He seemed oblivious to her

piesence. Her own heart was beating
rapidly. She was excited, bewildered,
content. Just what it was all coming

to she did not attempt’to guess. She
simply knew she was free of the dis-
mal restaurant and a prisoner in the
hands of No. 44 . That was enough for
the present.

The car went onward for many
blocks, stopping often to disembark

passengers who had stared and smiled.

and to receive new ones, who took up
the scrutiny where others left it. Stod-
dard was unconscious of it all. He sat
With a frown on his face. his jaws set
tightly, his sinewy arms folded uncom-
promisingly across his broad chest.

Once Sadie spoke after more than a
quarter of an hour had elapsed

“Where where are we going?" she
asked hesitatingly.

“Anywhere,” was the answer
ceived.

She did not interrogate him as to
the location of “anywhere," and Stod-
dard, if he had any notions 011 the
subject, did not enlighten her.

They were running through a subur-
ban section now. Sadie knew it well;
she had ridden out that way on Sun-
days many a time. Stoddard paid no
attention to the changing landscape.
He was still sitting rigidly, eyes front.
Nearly all of the passengers had left
the car, but he was not aware of that
either.

Suburban villas gave way to country
houses, and city yards to fields anti
little clumps of woods. Sadie watched
the change with dreamy satisfaction.
She did not care where they were go-
ing nor possess any curiosity in the
matter. No. 44 would explain it all
when the time came. She was glad
that at any rate they were leaving the
city behind, for she knew that she pre-
sented a dreadful spectacle to the eyes

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'l‘he car was at the end of the line
and the conductor was switching the
trolley-pole, while the motorman, con-
troller in hand, now enjoyed his first
VlPlV

of his very extraordinary pas-
seugers.
“All out!”

Stoddard roused himself and stood
up. Then he reached for Sadie‘s arm.

“Come On," he said.

She followed with complete docility.
They found themselves on a dusty
country road. Still gripping her firm-
ly, he, began walking in a course away
from the city. They passed loosely
scattered farmhouses and stretches of
field and cow-pasture.

Sadie noted them, but her compan-
iOn saw them not. His mind was ut-
terly remote from their environment.
Not until the road began to wind
through a clump of woods did he give
any sign of being awake to his sur-
toundings.

A break in a stone wall 011 one side
of the road caught his eye. He steered
Sadie across the ditch and through the
opening. They walked onward among
the trees, down a sloping hillside. Pres-
ently the tinkle of water reached her
ears; then the silver flash of a. run-
ning brook was visible. They halted
at the brink of it.

Stoddard sighed and looked about
him. There was a little grassy spot a
few yards distant, past- which the
stream flowed musically. He led Sa-
die to it.

“Sit down,” he said.

She obeyed mechanically: then look-
ed up at him. He was studying her
with an expression that brought a
swift blush of recollection to her
cheeks. She dropped her glance and
began plucking blades of grass from
the sod at her feet. Stoddard, con-
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moment, seated himself cross- legged in

front of her.
“Now we ’re ready to talk ” he an
nounced.
“Yes,” she assented. “About what ?”
“Everything.”

“You begin,” she suggested.

Sadie was greatly puzzled, perhaps
a little disappointed. She was think-
ing of the morning in the Deepwater
when he stood with her hands impris-
oned in his, his glance reading her
very heart, while it revealed his own.

“Well, I received your letter,” he
said.

Sadie made no comment.

“I followed you as quickly as I
could,” he added. “I caught the late

train. I got here last night.”
She nodded.
“You had no business to run

away,” he said, and there was severity
in his voice. “It wasn’t fair.”

“VVasn’t it?" Her tone was small
and meek.

“You know it wasn’t. You wouldn’t
have dared to try it if I’d been there."

“Maybe not."

“Why did you do it?”

She gave him a swift, appealing
glance, but made no answer.

“Tell me why," he commanded.

“You—you got the letter. It. was in
there.”

“It was not," he declared sternly.
“You know it was not.”

“I- said there wasn't any
there for a girl, didn’t I?”

“But that was not the reason you
left. It was something else. Vl’hat
did Livingston say to you ‘2”

Sadie maintained a stubborn silence
for a full minute.

jobs up

“lo ahead and tell me. “'hat did
he say?”

“I—I cannot.”

“Nonsense. You must. What was

it that you think he was right about?
it’s almost impossible for him to be
right on anything.”

ijust can't say it, No. 44. Don’t
make me.”

“I've got to know." he said relent-
lGSSl)’.

“Please!"

“It was about memand you? V‘Vasn’t
it, Sadie?”

“N—no. Not exactly, Not all of it.”

Sadie was in a pitiable state of em-
barrassment. How could she tell him
what, Livingston said? How could she
confess that she loved him when her
owu ears were waiting for the message
that was unfinished on his lips?

“Go ahead."

“It was about a man and a woman,”
she faltered.

“Something like a parable 2’"

She nodded.

“Let me see if I can guess some of
it," said Stoddard. “He told you about
a man who was riclt and successful,
who had an education and a social po-
sition and ambitious relatives, and all
that sort of thing. Is that right?”

“Yes,” she. whispered.

“And then he told you about a
woman who was poor and had a very
lowly position in society and who did
not always talk after the fashion of ed-
ucated people. Didn’t he?”

“Yes.”

“I imagined it was something of that
sort,” he went on slowly. “Larry is
clever, in his contemptible way. He
made the two pictures exceedingly viv-
id, beyond doubt.”

“Not exactly,” she corrected. “I
—I told him about the woman.”
“He left that to you, did, be? He

just suggested it, for you to fill in the
details. Nice of Larry. Well, after
you had these two pietures before you,
what then?” ,

“He went away”,

“And left you to study them?”

She inclined her head in faint assent.

“Nothing else said? You’re sure?"

“He—he asked a question.”

“What was it?”

“That’s the part I can’t say,” she
answered in a whisper.

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called house birds. In those days the
birds were attracted to the premises
largely because of their song and beau-
ty. Their economic worth was not so
well understood as it is today. Of
course, we are now, as devoted to the
beautiful in birds as we ever were, but
we have developed an appreciation of
other values also. These other values
spell dollars and when money whis-

' pers we all strain our ears. to listen.

It is not necessary to repeat What the
money told. It is enough to know that
thousands of people are busy studying
the needs and natures of all birds that
might be -of any possible benefit to
humans. One of these important stud-
ies has to do with the kind of houses
various birds of undisputed benefit to
man will accept as fitting places in
which to rear their young.

The result of this investigation is
certainly most encouraging. Every
year now adds to the number and What
is more important and pleasing, the
variety of bird that can be induced to
leave its natural nesting place and
take up a home in one of the various
kinds of bird houses we build for that
purpose. The list has already reached
a number ten times as great as it was
a few years ago. The song sparrow
and even the downy woodpecker have
at last enlisted in the ranks of birds

 

 

Flower Pot Used to Furnish Jennie
Wren a Home.

that will live in a house which is not'
of their own construction.

It is commonly known that wood-
peckers excavate their own houses and
usually make a new one each year.
The old houses are readily accepted
by other birds less capable of drilling
into wood after the fashion of the
woodpeckers. In this way birds like
the wren, chick-a-dee, nuthatch, etc.,
find safe and well made nesting places.
This fact explains why we, as builders
of artificial bird houses, generally go
to the woodpecker for our ideas, and
why most of our bird houses have
something in common with the well-
made house of the woodpecker. For
instance, we construct houses with the
entrance from two to three inches
above the bottom, as in the case of the
wren house, or as much as a foot above
the bottom, as in the case of a house
for a screech owl or a flicker.

Not all birds, however, take to the
woodpecker design of house. Robins,
for instance, regard a mere shelf clos-
ed on one or two sides as being well
adapted to their needs and they will
quickly take care of any other con-
struction necessary for the formation
of a nest.

There a few birds that are content
to nest in almost any sort of place. The
wren and the blue bird are conspicuous
examples. Both of these birds will
take to a house so humble that it con-
sists of nothing but a tomato can fast-
ened to the top of a fence post “or to
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Old Woodpecker’s Hole Makes Best
Kind of a House.

six to ten feet from the ground. Of
course, the can is placed so that the
bottom will form the roof. An en-
trance seven-eighths of an inch wide
for wren, and one and a half inches
wide for the blue bird, is made near
the top. If bird houses of this kind
are erected it is a good idea to place
them where they will be in the shade
during the heat of the day because
the metal will get too hot for the birds
if the house is in the full light of the
sun.

Another good wren house can be
made from a common earthen flower
pot. Two small holes are made in the
rim of the pot and through these holes
wires are passed and made fast to a
board a little larger than the top of
the pot. Chip the edges of the hole in
the bottom of the pot until it is just
seven-eighths of an inch wide. This
size opening will admit the wren but
will keep out the English sparrow,
which is one of the worst enemies the
wren has. Seven—eighths of an inch is
not a very wide entrance and it has
been observed that the wren some-
times has trouble getting in nest ma-
terial through this entrance. But if
the opening is made wider the English
sparrows will enter and destroy the
wren’s nest. If the entrance is made
seven-eighths of an inch wide and a
little over an inch the other way the
wren will not be put to so much trou-
ble getting in ihe twigs, roots and
grasses out of which the nest is large-
ly constructed. The house wren or
Jenny Wren, as it is sometimes called,
is one of the popular birds with people.
Its warble is wenderfully sweet and
pleasing and accounts in a great way
for its many friends.

The birds that are more particular
in their requirements must have hous-
es with a definite diameter for both en-
trance and cavity and usually the
depth of the house must be in accord
with their specific needs. The chick-

 

 

 

 

Model of Bird Houses, Suited for the
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a-dee and nuthatch could hardly be in- -'

duced to neat in a tin can. The chick-
a-dee likes a deserted woodpecker’s
hole and an admirable house can be
put up for him if an old woodpecker’s
nest is cut out of a dead 'tree in the
woods, supplied with a piece of tin for
a roof and mounted ten or fifteen feet
from the ground.

Many times trees are found with
natural cavities that open to the out-
side through a knot hole. Such cavi-
ties make excellent b-ird houses when
out out and mounted properly. The
nuthatch in particular is given to nest
ing in places like these. If the cavity
is large enough a screech-oul might
make a home of it. This night-prowl-
ing bird with the large appetite for
mice and English sparrows, deserves
more credit than he gets. He is a.
great help around any farm.

A square cigar box with one side left
open forms a good attraction for the
phoebes and robins, or even the swal-
lows will take it if it is placed high
enough. Close up under the eaves is
the place to mount this house because
there it is protected from wind and
rain.

Martin houses must be different
from any other kind of bird house be-
cause martins choose to live in col-
onies. The social instinct of these
birds is a characteristic trait which is

 

 

The Blue Bird is Satisfied with a
Humble Structure.

lacking in most other birds. A martin
house can be made on almost any plan
just so it contains twelve or fifteen
rooms. Several small houses placed
close together will answer the purpose.
The idea is, if the house or group of
houses is not large enough t accom-
modate the whole colony of martins
there won’t any of the birds stay. So
if martin houses are to be made be
sure to get them large enough to ac-
commodate a large colony. Each room
in the martin house should be six inch-
es square with an entrance two and a.
half inches in diameter and placed
about an inch up from the floor. The
whole house should be ten or twenty
feet frOm the ground.

It is usually the case that birds of
the same species, with the exception
of martins, will not nest close togeth-
er. During the breeding season birds
are singularly intolerant of all others
of that particular kind although birds
of a different species as a rule get
along well enough together. For this
reason it is not advisable to put up
several houses all of which are intend-
ed to attract the same kind of a bird.
Vary the nature of the houses and the
chances of their being occupied will
be increased.

If the bird houses have been used
the year before they should be clean-
ed of all rubbish. A clean house is an
important factor in attracting birds.
The English sparrow should be dis-
couraged at every possible opportu-
nity. There are a great many desira-
ble'birds that find it wholly imossibié

to live about some of our homes on ac-’

count of this .pestiferous bird.

 
     

 

 

 

 

 


   

 

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quick at figures can readily multiply
four pounds by seven and get the
amount of chicken, bones and all, be-
fore cooking that those luckiess diners
consumed. It should have been called
a gravy dinner for that was what the.
chicken really was used for.

About the same time a party of peo-
ple, most of them from fine farms, at-
tended a reunion in a fine grove and
chicken was the chief meat served at
the meal though there were boiled
ham, meat loaf, salmon and some other
meats. The fried chicken averaged
straight through one-half chicken for
each person, including infants, and ev—
erything else was served in proportion.
Platter after platter of beautifully
browned chicken was crowded upon
the long table together with cakes,
pies, preserves, pickles, bread, meats
and all the fruits known to farms as
well as the products of the stores in
town, such as cheese, wafers, candies.
tinned meats and nuts.

Perhaps the most remarkable din-
nets with chicken for the basis are
served by restaurants, and really they
are not to “blame for slumping in these

 

to excuse a lack of self-control.
Many homes would change entirely

days of high prices. Years ago when
food supplies were cheap and abundant
the popular priced meal was a quarter
and in all the changing scenes and
places and prices of food supplies that
same quarter meal is the only one the
general public demands. There is no
help for it, the quantity served must
be cut down Nowadays the chicken
that finds its way to the restaurant is
cut up in a fearful and wonderful man-

then it is doctored with dressing,
gravy and biscuits until it can hardly
be recognized. The real artist in the

restaurant is the person who dishes

up. He piles up a little mound of
dressing and on it lays a sliver of
white and a sliver of dark meat with a
scanty lake of thin gravy all about it
and then he decorates the Whole with
little sprigs of parsley to hide its mea-
ger proportions.

Then there is the fearful and won—
derful chicken dinner of society which
never figures under that name. I once
knew a housekeeper who could take
one chicken and deacon it up with gel—
atine, peppers, seasonings and various
condiments and make that one bird
serve twenty—five people. When her
daughter married there were forty peo-
ple present at the wedding and she al-
lowed two medium-sized chickens for
the dinner served at noon. It has al~
ways been a source of wonder to me
how long that woman could keep a
hired man on the farm if she should
move to the country.

The normal chicken dinner is an en-
joyable affair with plenty of meat and
delicious gravy, but a dinner that
merely hints at chicken is a fraud.
Most of us have partaken of both kinds
and are ready to testify that plenty
or none” is the only safe rule for a
chicken dinner.

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BOYS AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

 

BY HARRIET HENDERSON.

What to do with the boys while
teaching domestic science to the girls
is often a question in the one-room,
one-teacher school. I have'found thét
domestic science and domestic art are
good subjects for boys as well as for
girls. All but the very small pupils
can join in the class work and differ-
ent groups may do the practice and
note—book work best suited to each.

Before organizing the classes I talk
to the pupils about the pleasure of
knowing how to do things and of how
it often becomes necessary to help
yourself. I mention the Y. M. C. A.
classes in a near-by city and how anx-
ious the boys and men are to learn
camp-cooking, etc. We talk of how
handy it is for boys to know how to
sew, and how doctors, guides, sailors,
and many other men know how to do
these things better than some women.
After a few days when the classes are
ready to start the boys are as interest-
ed as are the girls.

I have given the first lessons in the
form of a story which I read to the
pupils. Each one kept a note book,
writing down important points of the
lesson, recipes, experiments, etc. Any
project that did not turn out well was
talked over and the cause of failure
ascertained and written down, and the
work repeated. Different successful
methods were compared and some-
times copied.

This work was correlated with the
istudy of agriculture whenever possible.
When studying the potato, samples
were brought showing those unfit for
seed and those especially good for
seed, different types, etc. Before this
pupils had been told to bring salt, but-
ter and dishes and we baked some of
our sample potatoes in the ash—box of
the heater. We found that they bake
quicker if some of the hot ashes are
left, instead of having the box empty.
We tried both ways. Lessons on set-
ting the table, serving, etc., were also
given at this time.

\Vhen we came to the topics of food
values, and the chemistry of foods, the
work of the physiology and hygiene
classes, especially the boys, improved

 

human waste in water. 0 trouble. Kills ‘

wonderfully through correlation of
5the subjects. In such matters as
(stoves, why and when they draw well,

{etc., the boys went ahead of the girls
I and were naturally pleased to show Off
Etheir superior knowledge or under—
? standing of how to build fires in house
zand in camp.

I In the matter of house decoration
Iwe started with the outside of the
house and had both boys and girls in-
terested in choosing paint, its color,
durability, the style, construction, etc.

We came naturally to interior decor—
ation and talked of the men who de~
signed cloths and clothes, furniture
‘and wall and floor coverings. Adver-
jtising samples help to make this con-
fcrete and interesting. When I feared
,‘that any subject might not interest
.‘ boys because they thought it pertained
too much to women’s wOrk, I was care-
!ful to Start out with a story of mate-
rials, manufacturing, selling, etc., thus
interesting them first in their end of
the work.

In the sewing classes which the boys
were anxious to join, our first real
work after learning to name and illus-
trate the different stitches and mate-
rials, was mending and darning. Near
the first of this work I remember a
quiet little boy came smilingly and
told me that he had mended his fath-
er’s mittens. I was, I think, as pleas-
ed as he was and it turned out that his
father was pleased, too.

The work of these classes was very
interesting, carried on in this way and
the educational value was, I believe,
as great for the boys as for the girls.
The finished work handed in some-
times showed less natural aptitude in
the boys, but not always. And judged
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facts, and indirect aid in other sub-

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THE CARE OF WINDOW SHADES.

 

BY MARGARET KEYS.

Though much is being written on
household management, and domestic
science courses cover the care of the
house- from blacking a stove to serving
a twelve-course dinner, the writer has
seen very little on the care of window-
shades. They are an important consid-
eration in furnishings, and what is
more aggravating than to attempt to
raise a shade and have it balk or come
tumbling down on one’s head?

In order to care for a shade properly
one must know something of the me-
chanical construction of the roller. The
ends of the roller set into brackets at-
tached to the casing. One end of the
roller is hollow and encases a Spiral
spring some six or eight inches long.
This spring is controlled by two tiny
“dogs” which drop into a notch on the
end of the spring and hold it. As the
spring is wound up the action of the
roller becomes stiff. Under no circum-
stances should an ordinary carpet tack
be driven into the spring end of a.
roller. This is frequently done. Some
one pulls the shade too far down, tears
it from the roller and to mend it they
drive in a carpet tack. The tack being

too long passes through the hollow l'Oll-.

er into the spring and it is ruined. Use
only small tacks one-fourth inch long
on the spring end of your roller.

Sometimes it becomes necessary to
cut the roller to fit the casing. Any
woman handy with tools can do this.
Measure carefully the distance be-
tween your brackets. Insert a screw-
driver under the little plate at the end
of the roller. 'v'ork the plate loose,
then insert the claws of the hammer
under the plate and draw out the brad
just- as you would draw a nail. Cut the
roller squarely off with a saw. Lay
the plate back on the end, and drive
the brad into the center, holding the
roller in the hand. Do not rest the
other end on anything, as the pounding
might injure the spring. Then tear off
the cloth to fit the roller and tack the
edge back along the line on the roller.
It is only necessary to remove from
the roller what cloth is to be cut off.
Never tear a shade at the side fastened
to the spring end as it will ravcl and
the threads will become wound up in
the spring and cause trouble.

The life of a shade can be consider-
ably lengthened by turning end for
end. As they are of ample length, the
hem can be cut off, using a square to
get a straight edge. This end can be
fastened to the roller. Never attempt
to tear a. shade cross ways. Turn a.
new hem evenly- and carefully. Length-
en your sewing machine stitch to twice
the length for sewing and stitch the
hem with number forty thread. One
should use a rather coarse needle for
this work as the dressing in the shades
dulls the point of the needle.

Shades are greatly improved and
made sanitary by cleaning. Twice a
year at least, take them down, uni‘oll
full length on a flat, clean surface and
go over them with paper cleaner. This
removes smoke, dust and germs, and
brightens up the colors. Draw rings in
shades add to their appearance and
longevity by preventing finger marks
along the hem. When putting up the
brackets, one must see they are level
and firmly fastened so they will stand
the pull on them. Brackets once put
up ought never to be changed as fre-
quent changing mars the casings.

SALT AS A GERMICIDE.

 

BYMJULIA R. DAVIS.

We all appreciate salt as a house-
hold germicide, but some of us may
not know that it is the best dentriflce
that "can be used. I give this upon the
authority of the best dentists,'and also
upon the authority of experience.

If used as a ’wash‘frequently, it will
keep the gums in a healthy condition,

and if they have become diseased in
any way, the use of salt will help to
restore them to a state of firmness and
health.

After the gums and teeth have been
properly brushed, sufficient salt is plac-
ed in a glass of warm water to make
a strong solution. This is used as a
mouth wash.

Clean your brush by holding it un-
der the hot water tap. Then sprinkle
salt on the brush and hang it up to
dry. The salypei'meates to the center
of the tufts of the bristles, and ster-
ilizes them as wé’l’l as toughens them.

The next time the brush is used it
will be sterile and iiicrusted with salt
crystals which may be shaken off.

Try salt as a mouth wash, and you
will have healthy gums, and a. germ-
less mouth.

Another excellent use for table salt
is for a shampoo. Salt and fine corn
meal in equal parts rubbed on the
scalp, will cure dandruff when all else
fails.

 

HOME QUERIES.

 

Household Editor2—Mother would
like to know how to clean by blue silk
and wool crepe do chine dress. It is
only soiled from wearing. How do you
get rid of the odor after cleaning with
gasoline?—M. P.

It should wash nicely with a good
wool soap and warm water. Press on
the wrong side. Soap and water is
more satisfactory than gasolene. The
only way to get rid of the gasoline odor
is to hang the garment outdoors until
all odor is gone.

Household Editor:———We have taken
the Michigan Farmer for several years
and would feel lost, almost, without it.
I especially enjoy the magaine section.
There is always something helpful and
uplifting in it for each one in the fam-
ily. Now, I wish to ask if you will
kindly send a recipe for making hard
soap, with concentrated lye?—Reader.

Most cans have a, recipe printed on
the wrapper. Dissolve one can of lye
in fifteen quarts of water. Then add
eight pounds of grease and boil until
it becomes soap, one to four hours.
Then add four ounces of salt and boil
for ten minutes. The salt causes the
soap to separate from water and rise
to the top, when it may be dipped off
in molds 'or left to cool and harden.
Boiling water must be added as it
boils away to. keep about the same
quantity in the kettle all the time.
The soap may be perfumed just before
cooling.

Household Editor:—-Please tell me
how to make suct pudding that you
steam in cans and eat with a sauce,
and how to make the sauce also?—
Mrs. F. B. .

A cup each of molasses, sweet milk,
chopped suet, chopped raisins and cur-
rants, two and one-half cups of flour
sifted with one teaspoon of baking
powder. Mix fruit with part of flour.
Add suet last of all. \

Lemon Sauce—Add one and a half
cups of boiling water to one cup sugar
and three teaspoons of corn starch,
thoroughly mixed. When done add the
juice and grated rind of one lemon and
a tablespoon of biittei'.

Household Editorz—Will someone
please give me a recipe for coloring
blue on cotton with Chinese or Prus-
sian blue, and yellow with copperas?
—Mrs. E. M. B.

Household Editor:——Two or three
years ago there were published recipes
for dyes of all the standard colors. I
saved them and now that I want to use
them I cannot find the clipping...I hope
you can republish them.—Mrs. S.

To color a bright and permanent
yellow on cotton, requires two pounds
of lead and one pound of bichromate
of potash for eight pounds of rags. Dip
in the sugar of lead dye first, and then
in the potash solution, repeating the
process until the proper shade is
reached.

Bright Orange on Cotton—Color as
above directed for yellow, and then
dip the rags in a strong solution of

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Light Blue 011 Cotton. -—For six
pounds of rags take four ounces of
cbpperas four ounces of prussiate of
potash, one ounce of oil of vitriol. Boil
the rage in soft copperas water. Take
them out and drain them. Make a
new solution of the potash and, when
warm, put in the vitriol and then the
rags. Boil half an hour, rinse out and
dry.

Green on Cotton—Dye the rags a
light blue as above, and then color in
the yellow dye, repeating the dipping
until they are of the desired shade.

In using any of the above dyes care
must be taken to rinse the goods thor-
oughly before they are dyed to insure
perfect cleanliness, and even greater
care must be used to rinse them well
after coloring, as the dyes will other-
wise be liable to rot the rags.

Brown on Cotton—A beautiful
brown for either cotton or woolen is
secured by using two pound‘s of cutch,
two ounces of alum, and three ounces
of bichromate of potash. Dissolve the
cutch and alum in boiling water and
steep the goods two hours. \Vring out
and run them through the potash solu-
tion. The above will color ten pounds
of goods.

Then there was olive green oak
bark dye, secured by dipping the rags
first in alum water and then in a de-
coctiou of oak bark. The browu for
wool or silk is secured with walnut
shucks brightened with alum. Horse-

chestnut peels also give a brown 001-.

or. A mordant of muriate of tin turns
it to bronze, and’sugar of lead, a red-
dish brown shade.

Always use soft water in coloring if
possible, using about four gallons of
water to one pound of goods.

MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.

 

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McCall's Mag. and Pattern, mo.. .50
Poultry Success, mo. . . .- ........ .50
Regular price ................. $4.75
OUR PRICE ONLY $3.90
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Every Week .................... 1.00
Regular price ................ $122.5
OUR PRICE ONLY $2. 60
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Every Week .................... 1.00
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Regular price ................ $—7T60_
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Michigan Farmer, 3 yrs., wk. . .$1.75
Any etroit or Grand Rapids Daily
(except Detroit News) ......... 300
Poultry Success, mo ............. .50
Boys' Magazine, mo ............. 1.00
Today’s Mag. with Pattern, mo. .50
Regular price ................ $6.75
OUR PRICE ONLY $4.80
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Boys’ Magazine. mo ............. 1.00
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Regular price ................. $4.75

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GRAINS AN D SEEDS.

March 20, 1917.

Wheat—Wheat prices have substan-
tially recovered the loss sustained a
week ago. The satisfactory settlement
of the railroad trouble was the large
factor in giving strength to the market
at the opening session of this week.
While English and French victories on
the western front have heretofore act-
ed as bearish influences on the wheat
trade, the heavy drive now being pros-
ecaated against the 'l‘eutons has aided

'in advancing wheat values here be-

cause it seems to spell the defeat or at
least the restriction of submarine ac-
tivity in the Atlantic. Still another
strengthening factor was the determi‘
nation of the American government to
put an end to the attacks made by the
German submarines on American ship-
ping. It is reported by transportation
men that exports from the United
States will in all probability show lib-
eral increases in the near future. Re-
ports from Great Britain indicate a
fairly liberal quantity of the grain for
immediate use, but France is greatly
in need of supplies. Crop conditions
in this country vary widely in differ-
ent sections, with the general impres-
sion prevailing that the crop is below
average for this season. One year ago
No. 2 red wheat was quoted locally at
$11314 per bushel. Last week’s De-
troit quotations are:
No.2 No.1

.Red. White. May
Wednesday . . . . .1.92 1.89 1.94
Thursday .1.941/2 1.91% 1.961/2
Friday . . . . . . . . .1.951/3 1.021/2 1.971/2
Saturday . . . . . . .1.971/2 1.94%» 1.99%
Monday . . . . . . . .2.01 1.98 2.03
Tuesday . . . . .2.02 1.99 2.04

Chicago.—May wheat $18634; July
$1.57 57g; September $1.441/2.

Germ—This cereal continues strong,
and the market scored a one cent ad-
vance on the local board of trade on
Monday. A very strong undertone ex-
ists and all attempts to bear the mar-
ket have failed. Eastern buyers are
bidding for the grain, and the contin-
ued ‘cold weather and advancing‘prices
for live stock are encouraging farmers
to continue their feeding operations
beyond the intended periods, which is
keeping a. larger part of last year’s
crop in farmers’ hands. A year ago
No. 3 corn was quoted at 70c per bu.
Last week’s Detroit quloltatisons were:

0

. No. 3
Mixed. Yellow.
Wednesday . . . .. . . . . 1.11 1.12
Thursday . . . . . . . . . . 1.11 1.12
F‘I‘iday non-oooouo'o. 1911 1:12
Saturday . . . . . . . . . . 1.12 112%
Monday 1.13 1.131/2

Tuesday 1.15% 1.161/2
Chicago.——May corn $1.121/3; July
$1.10%; September $1.08%.
Oats—The recuperative powers of
this market, due to more liberal sup-
plies, were not as strong as those for
wheat and corn, and prices have not
as yet returned to the high level pre-
vailing two weeks ago. Standard oats
a year ago were quoted at 480 per
bushel. Last week’s Detroit quotations

were:
No. 3
Standard. White.
Wednesday ............ 65 64%
Thursday ............. 65 64%
Friday ................ 65 641/.»
Saturday .............. 65% 65
Monday ............... 65 1/2 65
Tuesday .............. 66 65 1%;
Chicago.——May oats 58 %c; July
56%0.

Rye.—Nearly a dime has been added
to rye values, and the market is firm
at the new figures. No. 2 rye is now
quoted at $1.59 per bushel.

Beans—The loss reported last week
has been regained in bean circles and
the market is steady, following a re-
vival of interest on the part of users
and brokers. Cash beans are quoted
on the Detroit market at $7.50 per bu.
In Chicago the trade is reported a lit-
tle easier with Michigan pea beans,
hand—picked, ranging from $7.50@7.85,
and red kidneys $6.75@7.15.

Peas.—.—Market steady, with the Chi-
cago price for field peas at $2.75@3.75
per bushel, sacks included.
MSeefilsgIOPrgmel rled clover $108";

are .7 ; asi e 11.40; ti
seed $2.60. $ mothy

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

Flown—Jobbing lots in one-eighth
paper sacks are selling on_the Detroit
market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best
ggtfont $10; secgnds $19.60; straight

. ; sprng pa ent 0. 0; 1‘
$9.00 per bbl. . ’ ye flour

Feed—In 100-1b.-sacks, jabbing lots
are: Bran $40; standard middlings

 

 

$40; fine midllings $45; cracked corn
$46; coarse corn meal $46; corn and
oat chop $42 per ton. . »

Hay.——ln carlots at Detroit: No. 1

" timothy $14.50@15; standard timothy

$13.50@14; No. 2 timothy $10@11;
light mixed $13.50@14; No. 1 mixed
$13.50@14; No. 1 clover $12@12.50.

Pittsburg.—No. 1 timothy $16.50@17;
No. 2. timothy $14.50@15.50; No. 1
light mixed, $15@15.50; No. 1 clover,
mixed, $16.25@16.75; No. 1 clover
$16.75@17.25.

 

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

 

Butter.—-This commodity is steady
and in active demand. Prices are un-
changed. Quotations: Creamery ex-
tras 381/20; do firsts 37c; packing stock
240 a pound.

Elgin.—-Market is steady at 40 cents
per pound which is 10 lower than last
week. ,

Chicago—A firm feeling existed at
unchanged prices. The demand is fair-
ly good and receipts moderate. Ex-
tra creameries 400; extra firsts 38@
39c; packing stock 26@261/2c.

Poultry.—This market is firm with
prices about -2c higher for hens and
springers. Receipts are light. No. 1
spring chickens 23@24c; No. 2 do 20@
22c; No. 1 hens 24@25c; No. 2 do 22
@230; small do 200; ducks 23@24c;
geese 19@200; turkeys 25@260.

Chicago.——Prices are unchanged and
the market is easy. Buyers believe
lower prices are due. Fowls 15@211/2c;
spring chickens 17@21140; ducks 17@
23c; geese 13@15c; turkeys 12@200.

Eggs—Cold weather brought higher
prices but the market is easy and low-
er prices are expected. Firsts 28%0;
current receipts 27=%c.

Chicago.—-—Market is easy although
prices are slightly higher than last
week. Consumptive demand is good.
Mild weather will probably bring low-
er prices. Fresh firsts 2615c; ordinary
firsts 25@26c; miscellaneous lots, cas-
es included 25@261/,»c.

 

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

 

Apples—Market firm with prices
unchanged. Baldwin $5@6; Spy $5@7;
Steele’s Red $5@7. At Chicago feeling
is easy although prices are unchanged.
Fancy stock is in greatest demand.
Less desirable grades are plentiful. No.
1 stock sells at $4@7 per bbl; No. 2 at
$2.25@3; orchard run $3.50@4.

Potatoes.——In carlots at Detroit in
sacks, Michigan long white $2.50@2.55
per bushel; Wisconsin $2.50@2.55. At
Chicago no Michigan stock was report-
ed. Market is quiet and weak.with a
tendency toward lower prices. Prices
range from $2.30@2.65 per bushel.

 

WOOL.

 

Although this is the season when
wool prices usually begin to soften up
a little, the scarcity of: stocks at the
present time gives the market a very
firm undertone. Prices keep on ad-
vancing and there seems to be no lim-
itation to the upward trend. Michigan
three-eighths-blood unwashed combing
sold in Boston last .week at 53c, and
quarter-blood of the same class went
at 510. Michigan wool growers are
now of the opinion that the 1917 crop
will ultimately sell off of the farms at
around the half dollar mark. Present
prices at Boston are. Michigan un-
washed delaines 50c; do combing 45@
52c; do clothing 40@42c.

___.____._.———
GRAND RAPIDS.

No much change is noted here in the
potato market, prices in the city con-
tinuing at $2.60@2.80, while the mar-
ket outside is around $2. The wise
gardener is buying his seed early, as
a scarcity is reported in onion sets
and some other things. The demand
for seed is expected to be unusually
heavy, since many of the vacant city
lots will be used for raising vegetables
this season. The egg market has shown
firmness on account of the cold weath-
er and the Easter demand. In poul-
try live fowls have advanced to 200.

 

DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.

There was fairly liberal trading
for the spring season at the Eastern
Market Tuesday morning, with prices
well maintained on all offerings ex-
cepting eggs, which are now down to
a 35c basis. Pork sold around 191/2c;
the bulk of the apples went from $1@
2 per bushel, with a few selling up to
$2.50; parsnips $2.75; carrots $1.25;
rhubarb 400 per large bunch.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.
. March 19, 1917.
. .' Cattle.
Receipts 60 ”cars. market 25@300

higher; choice to prime native steers
$11.75@12.75; fair to good $10.75@

 

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FA RM in it 5 *‘

11.75; plain and coarse $9.25@10.25;
yearlings $10.75@11.25; best handy
steers $10@11; fair to good $9.25@10;
handy steers and heifers, mixed $9@
9.75; light butcher steers $8.50@9;
western heifers $8.25@9.50; best fat
cows $7@7.75; cutters $5.75@6.25;
canners $4.50@5; fancy bulls $8.25@
9.50; butchering bulls $7.75@8 50;
common bulls $6@8.50; best fee ers
$7.50@8; best stockers $7@7.50; light
common $5.50@6; best milkers and
springers $80@110; mediums $60@75;
common $40@50.
Hogs.

Receipts 15 cars; market 10c high-
er; heavy $15.60@15.85; yorkers $15.50
@1675; pigs and lights $13.50@14.25.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 7 cars; market 25c high-
er; top lambs $16@16.15; yearlings
13@14; wethers $12.50@12.75; ewes
$11.50@12.

Calves.

Receipts 400;. steady; tops $15.50;
fair to good $13.50@14.50; fed calves

$5.50@7.

 

Chicago.
March 19, 1917.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts today.. 2,500' 6,500 8,000
Same day 1916..17,211 49,314 ' 15,359
Last week ...... 40,020 172,995 80,653
Same wk 1916..41,731 176,528 62,182

Country shippers held back their live
stock so generally because of the
threatened strike of the railroad work-
ers that the receipts today were mea-
ger in the extreme for Monday, and

everything sold higher. Cattle were

called 15@25c higher, with prices
largely nominal. The packers receiv-

ed a good share of the hogs direct from

other markets, and the supply on the
market was helped out some by the
10,576 hogs left over from last week.
Prices averaged 15c higher, with hogs
selling at $14.15@15.20. Hogs received
last week averaged in weight 207 lbs.
The sheep and lamb market was high-
er, with prime lambs bringing $15.

Cattle receipts were on such a mod-
erate scale last week, while the gen-
eral local and shipping demand was so
large that sellers were placed in a
very independent position, being able
to obtain much better prices than here-
tofore. Cattle were the highest ever
known in the long history of the mar-
ket, advancing 35@60c per 100 pounds,
and by Wednesday the greater part of
the steers sold at $10@12.35, with a
fair representation of choice .heavy
steers selling at $12.40@12.65. Steers
grading as good sold at $11.80 and up-
ward, while a medium grade brought
$10.75 and over and fair light killers
$9 and upward, with inferior little
steers going in; limited kind of way
down to $8 or even lower prices. Year-
lings that were desirable in quality
brought $11@12.50, and usually the
market was pretty much nominal for
prime beeves, with none offered, as the
feeding districts have hardly any left.
It was a strong market for butcher
stuff, with not enough to go around.
cows sellng at $7.10@10.75 and heifers
at $6.50@11.25, prime yearling heifers
being the high sellers. Cutters sold at
$6.25@7 and canners at $5@6.20, no
such, high prices for these cattle hav~
ing ever been paid before. Bulls found
ready buyers at $6.25@10, and there
was an active and high market for
calves, with light vealers purchased
for $12.50@14.25 and sales down to
$5.50@10.50 for heavy weight calves.
The stocker and feeder trade was rath-
er l‘arge, considering the moderate of-
ferings, with stockers selling at $6.50@
9.25. and desirable yearlings purchased
at $8.50 and over, while feeders were
taken at $8.75@9.75. The inferior
stockers and feeders were neglected
by buyers, the call centering on a good
kind, which showed decidedly the
most, firmness. The threatened rail-
road strike loomed up as the week ad—
vanced as a disturbing element in the
trade. During the latter part of the
week the railroads refused to take any
live stock for shipment because of the
threatened strike.

Hogs continued to command extraor-
dinarily high‘prices for still another
week, although breaks in the market
took place because of much larger re-
ceipts, many stock feeders rushing in
their hogs in order to get the high fig-
ures offered. As usual, much the larg-
est numbers arrived on Monday, the
receipts for that day numbering 53,602
head. With the large supplies of light
and underweight hogs selling at a
marked discount in prices, the spread
in quotations, became the widest seen
in several weeks, and prices for pigs
underwent several declines. The big
packing firms received large supplies
of hogs consigned to them direct from
other markets, using them as a club in
holding down prices. At the week’s
close hogs sold at $14@14.75 for light
bacon weights; $14.55@14.95 for the
heavy packers; $14.80@14.90 for light
shippers; $14.95@15.05 for heavy ship-
pers and $10.25@13.25 for pigs,~the

higher prices being paid for pigsl‘that .

weighed around 130 to 135 p‘ ds. -The
hog top for the week was $ 5.10.

Everything in the sheep or lamb line
brought extraordinarily high prices
last week, with the highest price paid
for prime Colorado light-weight year-
ling wethers ever received in the his-
tory of the trade while prime fat lambs
sold close to their recent high record,
although the market felt the influence
of larger receipts of Colorados and
westerns. Some big bunches of Colo-
rado fed ewes and yearlings were mar—
keted, and they brought very high
prices, as did all desirable feeding and
shearing lambs. Lambs closed at
$12.50@14.90; fat heavy lambs selling
at $13.85@14.60 and feeder and shear-
ing lambs at $13@14.40. Yearlings
closed at $11.25@14, wethers at $10.75
@1265, ewes at $8@12.25 and bucks at
$9.50@11.25. Wethers sold at the high-
est prices on record. «

Horses were in fair supply last week
and in the usual demand at current
prices, with army horses wanted at

$120 for riders and $150@160 for gun- _

ners for the French army. Horses re-
jected by the French buyers were poor
sellers at $50@75 for shipment east and
south. Good to choice 1600 to 1800-lb.
horses were wanted at $250@300, and
1@4l2)20 to 1550-lb. horses brought $225

 

LIVE STOCK NEWS.

 

The dairy industry of the south is
being developed in various quarters,
and a short time ago L. L. Johnson,
agricultural manager for the Santa Fe
system, with headquarters in Amarillo,
Texas,‘left for Wisconsin and Michi-
gan to purchase 400 head of Holstein
cows, to be divided between several
dairy associations, and it was said that
some cows were likely to be bought in
Oklahoma and Canada.

Recent receipts of sheep in the Chi—
cago market have been the smallest
ever known at this season of the year,
and lambs make up most of the daily
offerings, with 75 per cent at least of
the receipts hailing .from northern Col-
orado. Many of these lambs are heavy
in weight, but they have sold much bet-
ter than usual, as the price of wool has
advanced so much as tostimulate the
demand. Shearing lambs are very high
and much wanted.

The high cost of living is much dis-
cussed everywhere, and so far as
meats and other farm products are
concerned, the remedy appears to be
a return of a. portion of the swollen
populations of the larger cities to the
farming districts, thereby increasing
the production of live stock, grains,
vegetables, etc. Among the causes of
the enormous advances which have
taken place in meats, Professor How-
ard H. Smith, Chicago live stock com-
missioner, names as the most import-
ant the disappearance of cheap range
cattle, increase in exports of meats of
various kinds since the great war start-
ed, the short crops of grain last year
and the ravages of contagious disease
among American live stock. As is
generally known, the production of live
stock of all kinds has utterly failed to
keep pace with the rapid growth of our
population.

FARMERS UNITE IN MARKETING
MOVEMENT.

 

More than sitxy celery growers of
Muskegon and northern Ottawa county
met at Muskegon and completed the
organization of the Muskegon and
Grand Haven Celery Growers’ Associa-
tion, with officers as follows: Presi-
dent, Martin Berkema, Muskegon; sec-
retary and treasurer, W. J. Moorman.
Mr._ Moorman will represent the grow-
es in the Chicago market during the
season. Four of the Chicago commis-
Sion houses were represented. An in‘
structive talk was given on celery dis-
eases by Ezra Levin of Kalamazoo.
R. H. Elsworth, of ast Lansing, in
charge of market extension work, as-
Sisted in the organization. The plan
of carrying out co-operative selling on
the Chicago market in an extensive
way is being worked out and the
Grangers, Gleaners, fruit growers and
other organizations of the two coun-‘
ties have been asked to attend a fed-
eration meeting, to be held at. the
court house, Muskegon, on Saturday,
April 14.

It is planned to ship in carlots or in
consulerable quantities on the boats,
choosrng a few commission houses and
dealing with them excluively as long
as they get satisfactory treatment, de-
manding from these houses a duplicate

statement of their sales each day, to
.be furnished to the representative of

the Michigan federation in Chicago.
The three per cent commission usually
paid by the .Chicago houses to their
buyers at shipping points will be de-
manded for the federation and the

members.

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DETROIT- LIVE STOCK MARKET.

 

Thursday’s Market.
. March 22, 1917.
Cattle.

Receipts. 2578. The receipts in
the cattle division at the local yards
this week were very large for March
but the trade was active from start to
finish and prices on ali grades were
very high, quite a large number sell-
ing from $11@11. 50 per cwt, the bet-
ter grades of steers and bulls of all
kind held full steady, but all other

grades dropped 250 a hundred from

last week. Thos. E. Newton, president
of the Newton Packing 130., was one
of the busiest men in the 1ards and
bought the bulk of the high giade
stuff, paying $1125@1150 f01 around
100 head and over $9. 50 for many oth-
ers. .I. R. Waterbury, of Highland, had
a load of good ones that sold straight
for $11.25. The milch cow trade for
anything but prime grades was dull
all common grades going to canner
buyers.

The close was fairly active at the
early decline. Best heavy steers $11@
11.50; best handy weight butcher
steers $9.25@10; mixed steers and
heifers $8.50@9; handy light butch-
ers $8@8.25; light butchers $7.50
@775; best cows $8@8.75; butchei
cows $6.50@7.50; common cows $6@
6.25; canners $5.25@5.75; best heavy
bulls$9@9.75; bologna bulls $8@8.25;
stock bulls $6.50@7.25; milkers and
springers $50@85.

Sande], S., B. & G. sold Thompson
30 steers av 855 at $9.60. 9 do av 850
at $9.15, 1 cow wgh 1050 at $7, 1 do
wgh 940 at $8; to Mason B Co. 1 bull
well 1200 at $8.50 8 steers av 821 at
$90 25; to German 4 feeders av 875 at
$8; ,to Applebaum 5 butchers av 690
at $7.25; to Sullivan'P. Co. 3 cows av
977 at $6, 8 do av 1030 at $6.60; to
Newton B. Co. 2 do av 890 at $6.10,
2 do av 860 at $5.60, 7 steers av 784
at $8.75 26 do av 804 at $8.85, 2 do av
860 at 9, 7 butche1s av 630 at $7.10,
5 do av 816 at $7. 50, 2 steers av 1100 at
$3 50,15 do av 1105 at $9. 65, 17 do av
1141 at $9.65, 12 do av 970 at, $9, 4 do
av 892 at $9.25; to Sutton 18‘stocke1's
av 683 at $7.10;" to Mason B. Co." 12
butchers av 726 at $7.60; to Mindick
7 cows av 1003 at $7.50; to Garber 6
butchers av 926 at $7; to Hammond, S.
& Co 22 steers av 1040 at $10.

Erwin, S. & J. sold Newton B. Co.
14 steers av 919 at $9.75, 2 cows av
935 at $6.50; to Mindick 2 do av 1015
at $7.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 butchers
av 770 at $8, 1 cow wgh 1100 at $8.25,
1 do wgh 1100 at $7.25, 1 do wgh 1020
at $6, 5 do av 1048 at $7 ;to Hammond,
S. & Co. 9 cows av 964 at $6.50; to
Kamman B. CO. 9 butchers av. 871 at
$8 85, to Thompson 10 do av 892 at.
$8,1 bull wgh 1390 at $9, 2 do av 1290
at $8.50 3 steers av 750 at $9 14 butch-
ers av 840 at $8.50, 7 do av 746 at $8. 25,
7 steers av 1000 at $9.25, 23 do av
920 at $9.75; to Newton B. Co. 2 do a".
1,075 at $11, 8 canners av 1123 at $7. 75,
6 do av 878 at $5.75, 6 do av 866 at
$5.75, 10 cows av 1072 at $7.50, 6 do
av 1000. at $7.10, 10 do av 1072 at
$7.50, 12 canners av 860 at $5.75.

Veal Calves.

Receipts 817. The veal calf trade
was active and good grades 25@35c
higher than they were a week ago and
common steady, selling as follows: A
few fancy at $14.25@14.50; bulk of
good $13@14; heavy $6@8.

Erwin, S. & J. sold Nagle P. Co. 2
av 175 at $13.50; to Mich. B. Co. 29
:11' 160 at $14, 4 av 180 at $11, 3 av 140
at $13.75; to Thompson 12 av 160 at
$14, 2 av 220 at $11, 6 av 150 at $13.75,
4 av 150 at $13.25.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 931. The sheep and lamb
trade was very light and lambs never
sold so high on this market, the bulk
of the good bringing $15.50 a hundred;

sheep strong. Best lambs $15.50; fair

lambs $14@15;.1ight to common lambs
$11@,13; fair to good sheep $10@11;
culls and common $6@8.
COBishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. &
207 lambs av 84 at $15. 50; to New-
ton B. Co. 25 do av 70 at $15 15 do
av 55 at $14, 31 do av 90 at $15. 50, 9
sheep av 115 at $10; to Thompson 21
lambs av 75 at $15.25, 5 do av 45 at
$13; to 5Nagle P. Co. 60 do av 70 at
$14. 75, 5do av 90 at $15 40; to Sulli-
van P. Co. 128 do av 85 at $15. 50; to
Parker, W. & Co. 90 do av 85 at $15 50;
to Thompson 21 gong av 75 at $15. 25.

Receipts 3736. The hog trade was
active at last Week’s closing prices
and the quality was fair; good mixed
grades $1450@15-; good pigs $1.2 75@
1.3: Skips 8179 @11

 

 

 

19111::
Crop and Market Notes

_ Michigan.
‘ Gladwin 00., March 15,—Snow near-
ly all gone, and fields have been well
covered all winter. No maple syrup

 

made here. Farmers are getting ready!

for the spring work. Some hay and'
some potatoes still in farmers' hands.
Live stock is not looking as well this

spring. Some horses are being ship-
ped out. Beans $7.20; corn 97c; wheat
$1.79; oats 70c; butter-fat 400; eggs

300; hay $11@12._

Cass 00., March 12. -—We are having
rain and sleet but no snow, and winter
grains me in fair condition, though

MICHIGAN PARMER

 

the March winds were hard on the
wheat. Some cloverseed has beenl
sown. Not much stock being fed, asi
feed is scarce and haid to get. Tlierci
will be hay enough to get through the'
season, but grain must be shipped in.
Wheat $1.80; corn $1; oats 53c; rye
$1.30; potatoes $2; hogs $13; calves
$10; cows $50@75. Farm help scarce
and hard to get.

Sanilac 00., March 16.-—Ground has
been bare for two weeks, and it is
feared that winter grains will suffer.
So far, little maple syrup harvested,I
the weather being unfavorable. Con-I
siderable stock is being fed. Most
silos are empty, but there is plenty of
hay in barns. Not much produce yet
to be marketed. Wheat $1.98; oats 65c;
beans $7.40; butter-fat 410; eggs 26c;
fat cattle $7. 50; hogs $13.

Delta (30., March 15 ——Febr naiy tem—
pe1 ature averaged nine deg1 ees colder
than the ten yea1 average. There is
about thirty inches of snow, and badly
drifted, so there is’not much farm work
being done yet. The usual amount of
maple syrup will be made. There is
plentv of roughage but not much grain. l.
Potatoes are very scarce and selling at
$2@2 25 hay $14@15; eggs 40@45c;
butter 35@40c.

' Minnesota.

Stcarns 00., March 12.—This has
been a hard winter on feed of all kinds.
Snow is very deep, as we have not had
any warm Weather yet. Cattle and
hogs are scarce, also feed and rough-
age. Horses are sold very cheap at
auctions. Winter grains look very poor.
Not much of anything being marketed
except JZIOgS and cattle. Butter-fat 380;
eggs 210 wheat $1.98; corn $1; oats

$13. 50.
- New York.

Steuben 00., March 14.-No snow
except in the woods. Winter grains
and grass are in good condition. The
weather is not favorable for maple sy-
rup making yet; only a few farmers
produce syrup or sugar for the market,
and many groves have been cut in re-
cent years. Hay is in abundant sup-
ply, and sells for $10@‘12; potatoes
have been as high as $3.25 per bushel,
but are now 2; beans $7; butter 38@

 

 

 

40c; ggs 32@34c; apples 60c@$1 per

bushel. Fa1mers have been haulingl
manure and ‘lime. The high prices of
produce 'and grain will encourage

strong efforts for greater crops. but
scarcity of efficient farm help prom-
ises to be a hindrance.

Orleans Co., March 13.—Very little
snow left. Farmers are making prep-
arations for spring work. There is,
however, a shortage of seed, especially
potatoes. Vi'inter grains in good con-
dition so far. Not much stock being
kept, and there is plenty of rough fod-
der on hand. Baled hay is selling for
$9.50 but many are holding for higher
prices. Potatoes $2@3; beans $6@7;
wheat $1.80; milk $2.50 per cwt; pork
$15; sheep $14@16 per head; dairy
butter 300; eggs 300.

New Jersey.

Morris 00., March 13.~No snow on
the ground now. We had a heavy snow

a week ago, but it went off very fast. .

Winter wheat'and rye are not looking
very good. Very few public sales this
spring. All produce bringing big pric-
es. Farmers are short of roughage.
Potatoes retail at $3.25; eggs 320; but-
ter 420; ear corn $1.50 per cwt; milk
MAC 3. quart.

ShiawasseeI. 00., March 19.—Cold
northwest winds prevail with a light
fall of snow. Winter wheat is not com—
ing through the winter' in the best of
condition on account of the large
amount of ice covering the ground caus-
ed from the melting snow and freez-
ing. Rye also is looking rather injur-
ed. New meadou's are in fair condi-
tion, although some killing out on ac-
count of the light covering of snow
during the winter. A large number of
lambs are going to market and feeders
generally are well pleased with results
Good horses are in good demand, also
good fresh cows. Very few market:
able hogs in the country. A few farm-
ers are hauling hay to market. Plenty
of feed in farmers’ hands. Stock of
all‘kinds in good-condition. '

 

 

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HE rearing of chickens, in order
to be successful -or profitable,
requires all-the care that can be
given them, for proper care is one
point which must be considered. If
young chickens are well housed, have
good mothers or brooders, together
with good food and care, there is no
more danger of losses if they are
hatched early or late in the season.
The first essential to success is vig-
orous breeding stock. If the parent
stock of both genders should happen to
be constitutionally weak, all the care
will not restore the lack of initial vig-
or which is transmitted through the
fertilized germ. ‘If that initial vigor
should be lacking so that the chicks
are not strong when hatched, there is
little hope of their being successfully
raised. But even if such chicks should
be raised to maturity, they are not
worth the time and trouble, either for
egg production or for breeding pur-
poses.

One of the discouraging features in
raising chicks is to have many of them
die off. The trouble is fundamentally
a lack of vigor in the breeding stock,
though care and management has
sometimes something to do with the

T H E MI CH I on N ~

Raising Chicks to Maturity

  

 

:FARMER.,j’

it had better be avoided altogether.
The best protection the poultry keeper
can accomplish is to secure a variety
of grains and prepare his own feeding
ration.

In feeding baby chicks a combina-
tion feed that I have found to give sat-
isfactory results is a mixture of equal
parts of oat meal, or rolled oats, bran,
small-size cracked corn, wheat and
bread crumbs.

‘ The First Feeds.

This forms an excellent feed for the
young chicks and it may be fed from
the time they first begin to eat, when
from thirty-six to forty-eight hours old,
until they are several weeks old.

Such a feed mixture can be prepared
very easily and it will provide a com-
paratively well-balanced grain ration.
In early spring weather chicks should
be fed regularly three times a. day,
while four times a day is not too often
as the days grow longer. But care
should be taken not to over-feed at
any time. Feed should not be left
around to get soiled or become sour.
To keep up their natural heat and
vitality and to provide for their normal
growth, early_hatched chicks should be
thoroughly nourished, and this can

 

Free Range for Chicks will

losses that have been incurred. Not
only is it the loss of time during the
hatching period, but the later loss of
chicks involves the loss of time and
labor of the poultry keeper, the feed
consumed, and the prospects of profits
in late spring and early fall. These
are all discouraging features which
can largely be avoided by paying close
attention to the breeding stock and
egg incubation, whether natural or
artificial. If these conditions are ful-
filled, then the raising of chicks be-
comes largely a question of comfort-
able quarters, clean food and good
care and management. _
The Cause of Chicks Dying.

The cause of chicks dying off in
large numbers usually results in feed-
ing too heavily. If any great quantity
of feed is throwu at a time, more than
they can eat up readily, this feed is
trampled over by them and becomes
filthy, absorbing the foul gases which
makes it unfit for food. If in their
hunger they are forced to eat it, these
gases irritate the digestive organs of
the chicks, causing inflammation. The
chicks then drink large quantities of
water to allay the. fever; this results
in bowel trouble and the chick, having
but little vitality to draw on, soon lays
down and dies. Therefore, you can
readily see how important it is that
little chicks should be fed clean, sweet
grain and because of their crops being
so small they require but little food at
a time, but require it often.

To secure good results, purchased
feeds should be fresh ground from
wholesome grain. In the spring of the
year cracked grains spoil readily and
quickly, especially if they get damp,
and care should be given to the prep-
aration and handling of feeding stuffs
for young and growing chicks. If grain,
particularly corn, is in the least moldy

 

 

Promote Vigorous Growth.

only be done by giving attention to
their feeds and feeding.

The advantage in feeding dry food is
the exercise it forces the chicks to
take. This can be induced almost
from the start. Nothing makes achick
he lihier, stronger and a good feeder
moat; than plenty of exercise, which
is essential to a chicken, young or old.
This exercise is absolutely necessary
so long as the chicks are confined.
Give them plenty of range and they
will exercise without being coaxed, if
they are healthy and vigorous. Clover
chaff makes the best of litter in which
to throw the grain, but if this is not
available, then fine cut straw is very
good. I have quite often seen bran
used as a litter on the floor, but an ob-
jection to this is that the droppings
become mixed with it and the chicks
obtain unclean food.

Brooding Chicks Artificially.

Outdoor brooding by artificial means
can be practiced during the spring and
summer months and indoor brooding
during the winter months. Of these,
hovers and stoves are perhaps the
most popular foster-mothers. The
hover is used for brooding smaller
flocks, and the stoves are used to brood
larger units up to 500 chicks. Manu-
facturers usually rate the capacities
of their devices much higher than is
required.

There are several requirements to
be kept in mind for the best artificial
brooding of chicks. The hover should
be well ventilated, easily cleaned, ac-
cessible, partly darkened and so ar-
ranged that the chicks can run under
at any time to warm up quickly. The
compartment in which the brooding
device is placed should be well venti-
lated, lighted,” moderately warm and
should provide plenty of exercise room
for the chicks. After the brooder has

 

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been adjusted and warmed up, place.

the chicks under the hover. Their body
heat will increase the temperature un-
der the hover somewhat, but the regu-
lator will take care of the excess heat.
Frequently visit the hover, notice the
thermometer and adjust the regulator
slightly until the heat reaches and
maintains a temperature of ninety-five
degrees.

The forenoon is the best time to
transfer the chicks to the hover as it
allows time to adjust the temperature
properly and to accustom the chicks
to their new quarters before leaving
them at night. Baby chicks unless
supplied with ample heat, huddle for
warmth, both under and outside the
hover. The acquiring of this habit
should be prevented. Keep them con-
fined to or near the hover until they
learn it is the only place where they
can find heat they require. '

It will be necessary to confine them
close to the hover for the first few
days until they become hover-broke.
Make a simple circular chicks-guard
out of wire-cloth, chick netting, cloth-
covered frames. This is necessary to
prevent the chicks from wandering too
far from the heat of the hover, and to
teach them to find warmth of the arti-
ficial mother.

The following temperature with the
chicks outside the hover will prove
quite satisfactory: Ninety-five degrees
the first week, and reduce gradually to
ninety degreescby the seventh day;
reducing the temperature about five
degrees each week for the first few
weeks. At this rate the end of the
fourth week will find the temperature
about seventy-five degrees.

Steady Growth of Chicks Important.

The primary aim in the management
of chicks is growth. Many growers of
chicks do not realize the importance
of keeping the youngsters steadily
growing until the pullets reach laying
maturity. To keep the chicks steadily
growing so that the pullets shall be
laying in October, is the surest and
best road to a good profit.

Common causes of growth being
checked are lack of room in the coops,
not having abundant range and not
having good and sufficient food. It
seems almost unnecessary to urge giv-
ing the youngsters roomy coops, and
yet that is a point where very many
fall down. They do not realize that
growing chicks double in size in a. re-
markably short time. Many coops
which seem very roomy when we put
the fifty chicks into them, are sadly
over-crowded when the rapidly expand-
ing youngsters have become half-
grown.

The Value of ample range for grow-
ing youngsters is also of importance,
which cannot be too strongly empha-
sized. The best possible way to grow
future layers is to set the coops along
the edge of a corn field in summer and
allow 1; e pullets to range through the
corn at vill. With plenty of room in
the coop' at night, abundance of good
food and resh water to drink, plus am-
ple range with shade, pullets will grow
immensely.

Early spring-hatched pullets some
times require artificial heat until they
are eight or ten weeks of age, while
later hatched pullets can be weaned at
six to eight weeks. The actions of the
chicks may be taken as a more or less
accurate guide in this matter. The
youngsters roosting on the top of the
hover and in places other than .under
the hover is a Sign that artificial heat
is no longer required. If the weather
is mild and other conditions favorable,
they may be transferred to the grow-
ing coops or colony houses and as
above mentioned, placed along the
edge of a corn field.

A good colony house should provide
an abundance of fresh air and sun-
shine, it should be so constructed that
it will provide conditions necessary to
the health and growth of the chicks.
Growing pullets must not be crowded.
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One of - thegreatest advantages of
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need be little fear of the‘ youngsters
over-eating, becoming excessively fat
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and charcoal in hoppers, will soon fit
them in laying condition most any
time. '

Iowa. F. F. HUNs'rocx.

LICE AND MITE TROUBLE.

 

The development‘and growth of the
young chick can be greatly hindered
by the presence of lice and mites. They
will sap away its life and even if it is
able to withstand them. will be weaker
and undeniably tardy in its growth
and maturity.

There is considerable difference in
the treatment for .chicken lice and
chicken mites. The lice do not stay
on the coop or chicken» house, but on
the chicken itself, so that the disinfec-
tant must be applied directly to the
chicken in the form of a lice powder,
dip or spray; while the chicken mite
stays in the cracks about the coop or
chicken house or in crevices in the
roosts or nests ready to come out at,
night and go onto the body of the
chicken. To effectually rid the prem-
ises of mites it is necessary to apply
the disinfectant preparation ‘in the
form of a spray over the whole inside
ofthe. chicken house or coop and in
all the cracks and crevices and over
all the roosts, supports, nest boxes and
dropping boards. I have had good re-
sults in killing mites by spraying with
creosote oil or kerosene. This readily
soaks into the cracks and crevices and
destroys the mite as soon as it comes
in contact with- them. Crude carbolic
acid and crude petroleum can also be
used to good advantage.

As a home remedy for body and head
lice, I use a mixture made. up of three
tablespoonfuls of lard, one teaspooni‘ul
of kerosene and ten drops of some dis—
infectant mixed warm. I apply a few
drops of this mixture to the head,
around the vent and under each wing
of the chicken. This will rid them of
the lice.

Cleanliness is a very important fac-

tor in keeping the chicks free from_

mites and lice. The coops, henhouses
and roosts should be kept clean and
plenty of whitewash used. It not only
improves their quarters but adds very
greatly to the appearance of the chick-
en yards. I try to move the coops for
the. young chickens about every two
weeks and prefer to locate them close
to some good blue grass and clover.
Nebraska. PAUL H. EATON.
STIMULATE EARLY BROOD REAR-
ING.

Colonies that have become weaken-
ed over winter, either through improp-
er protection from the cold or insuffi-
cient quantity of stores are not in a
condition to take advantage of the
early flow of nectar from the fruit
and other blossoms. A large number
of workers is necessary if the colony
is to start early laying in of stores and
this can hardly be expected' of a col-
ony that has dwindled in numbers.

. Bees, like any of nature’s creatures,
will give their first attention to the
rearing of young and the perpetuation
of the species. Thus it is that the
queen and her workers turn their first
efforts to, the rearing of brood and the
strengthening of the colony in the
spring cf the year; the very time when
the honey flow is the heaviest and
iwhen the workers should be laying in
their most abundant supply of stores.
.. Fall feeding to induce late brood

 

 

7‘ prevent av. r'heatmg and crowd-ing.

rearing, ample supplies of stores left
in the hive, and proper protection from
the cold are the best means of insur-
ing a strong colony in the spring of
the year. Even with the strongest of
colonies,
advisable in order that they may have
their full quota of workers before the"
honey flow starts.

Feeding can be commenced as soon
as it is safe to open the hives in the
spring. Syrup made from pure cane
sugar and water in equal parts is used
for this "and is made up fresh and plac-
ed in the hives every day.

The water is first heated and the
sugar dissolved in the hot water. Ex~
treme care should be exercised in the
making as ,even a slight amount of
scorching will result in the death of
the bees. The safest plan is to re-
move the water from the fire before
adding the sugar.

Syrup should always be fed within
the hive. Where fed outside maraud-
ers from neighboring colonies are pret-
ty apt to be attiacted and robbing is
sure to ensue.

Any of the several types of inside
feeders will do very well, although the
super type is preferable to most oth-
ers. This is constructed in much the
same manner as is a super and fits on
over the hive body. It holds quite a
quantity of syrup and is so arranged
as to keep the bees out of the liquid
and to prevent their drowning.

A saucer in which has been placed
a piece of bread will answer the same
purpose as will a special feeder. The
bread will keep the bees out. of the
syrup but this method of feeding has
its drawbacks. A saucer will not hold
any quantity of the syrup and is fur-
ther in the way, sitting on the floor of
the hive as it must.

Rye flour fed in conjunction with the
syrup makes a good substitute for pol-
len. Pollen is one of the chief con-
stituents in the feed for the young, be-
ing mixed with nectar to make the
“bee bread” upon which the young are
reared. The flour may be placed in a
shallow pan in close proximity to the
hives. It is not necessary to place the
flourwithin the hives as it is with the
syrup and a single pan will-answer for
several colonies.

Feeding is not necessary after the
fruit blooms come 01' after the honey
flow has become fairly abundant. To
be most effective it should have been
done prior to this time and a large
number of workers produced for gath-
ering the stores from the earliest
blooms and blossoms.

Indiana. J. R. CAVANAGH.

 

EIGHT EGG POINTS.

 

H. L. Kempster, of the Missouri Ag-
ricultural College, gives the following
essentials for successful poultry feed-
ing:

1. Grain (scratch food) and ground
feed (mash).

2. Animal food, such as beef scrap
or sour skim-milk.

3 Grit and oyster shell.

5 Clean, fresh water.

6. Liberal feeding.

7 Plenty of exeriise.

8 Regular attention.

Hens eat from five to eight pounds
of. food a month, or sixty to eighty
pounds in a year. The daily food eat-
en by a hen is from three to four
ounces. The daily ration for 100 hens
is from nineteen to twenty-five pounds.

Hens drink about six pounds of milk
a month. One hundred hens drink two
and one-half gallons of milk daily.

On limited range a laying hen eats
two pounds of grit and three pounds of:
oyster shell in a year.

 

A poultry specialist claims to be able
to reduce loss among incubator chicks
by providing the broader with feather
dusters. The chicks in coming in con-
tact with the dusters imagine that they
are being brooded by a hen and con-
sequently do not become homesick and
despondent over the fact that they
have no mother to love them.

however, spring feeding is

 

   

POULTRY.

Homestead Farms

 

08.13 high] bred tested farm poultry; Stock thaté
With nature and conveugcnt Ital-{11191. curmzwill‘lta iv

. eggs t ru (10 inter; s cc
"Wily-Strain has given eggs th 1'11 the Winter
—- -—-—- “all passed.
M Lad 0111- poultry stock is all free

range. 1110 and: (exce threading
pens . n 1n or our ens are in
l’_l_’__lcl-—lcal Pollllry t'olony Houses holdingilll.50.100.
ml 151) fouls—housed as suits
convenience. as the40 average farmer will house his
fowll, they are bred to natural farm conditions and
will In with the care that the farmer can gi1e.
During the past. W inter eggs have been shlpped reg-
ularly to Chicago families-4am products (I out do-
livery. We offer;

Day-Old (hicks and Hatching Eggs

lilnglo Comb White Leghorn.
mingle Comb Black Mlnorcu
Barred Plymouth Rocks
lull Plymouth Rockl

Rhode Island Reds

Homestead Farms is demonstrating the mo1al and
economic value of federated interests; It is making
poultr1 a. profitable farm stock to the farmem of its
own immediate vicinity,

If you want Red Blood Practical Poultry that “ill
give eg in Winter as veil as in Summer. bu1'o11r
shock 11' ich 1s bred to condltions under which you can
yourself conveniently keep poultn.

We quote you prices and gl1e our own experience in
our descriptive circular which we will mail to you.
Will 1ou send fori 1.?

HOMESTEAD FARMS. Bloomingdale, Mich.

 

 

Good sstock; thfinf Isnyeazd 30
eg 1 . (11'
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Anconas
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ANOONAS Bose and Single Comb. Good breeding
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hatching. W. E. West. 11.] East Lansing Mich.

DAY-OLD CHICKS

of quality guaranteed to 1,500 miles. Eggs for
Hatching at low prices. Bar. Rocks, S. C. W. Leg-
horns. S. C. and R. C. Reds, “2 VVyandottes,
Bull and W. Orplngtons. Chii'klet catalog free.

cos'uru POULTRY rams, 11-19 Goshen, Indiana
Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs

From Bred- to-LM' Barred Rocks. 8. C. White Leghorns
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reasonable rices. Send for out Chic k Folder at once.

UELSB L ULTRY RANCH Petersburg. Ml<1.l1

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White. Brown Black Leghorna.Bar1-ed Rocks. R. l-
Rodu. Bred for high egg production. Circular free.
Book ordon early. Sunnybrook Poult: 1' Fuims Mll'll.

 

 

Hillmlule.

 

Cheaper than hatching eggs. “'1?
Baby ChiCRS specialize' 111 Leghorns. Rocks and

Reds. Send for catalogue. Twentieth Century
Hatchery Company. Box 162 New Washington Ohio.

 

' 50. 000 S C. W’hlta and Bron 11 I eghorns of.
Baby much- 31b 00 per 11.10.390.10 per 1 00‘ sat. ”.1111
mnteed. Also overs and Branders. Catalogue

rec. Wolverine Hatchery. 1301:2221,

ll. I. Cockcrcls

A. A. WOOD & EON
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1 v rce post, re a . i
tree. Fred Astling. SgnctnntlnePMi‘ch. ten or

Zeeland. Mich.

 

belt. breeding: $3 each. 2 for 8'1
special price on a number.
SA ALINE. MICH.

 

 

 

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8. 6. White leghoms

We have about 40 S. C. White Leghorn cock birds
for sale. These males are from 200 egg strain and
are oticring them for $3 each. Also about. 201)
line April hatched pullers at a great bargain.
Eggs for hatching March and April $5 pm 100.
We will gladv gi1 e referent es on all our sales.

KIIEIIIEL 3808.. 801524, Easlllnsinngich.

Barred ”Wk Eggs and 8“" Chicks Four Pullers

Layed 950 900Eggs in one year.
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Qty. 80: 12 Freoport.Mlchl..m

 

pure bred Youngs S. C. W Leghoml
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IOgue free M. KnollsB Butt he1v Holland. Mic..h R. 'i.

 

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BMIcli. l‘ggs, BabyChit ks, (‘ ot k.~ prices 11111 (outsid-
1113 quuhty “soother breeds. 1.9111 1‘. “heeler. Buryton. \li1:.h

 

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“Will" 8 at $1. 50 for 15. as for 30 $1 for 50. :1 1.1.1111
Pen No.1. 34 for 15. Also one 2 yr. old White Hol-
land Tom. B. B Fo11lor,Harttord, Mich.
ATCHING IEggs from my S. C. VI. Leghornsutilih
I'm per 1.1. It‘you want. to raise some prize 11mm m
send $3 for 1:1. White Line Poultrv Fax-.111 Hlllsdule Mi. 1.

BUFF LEGHORNS Pitt's.Eetf.i£::.°.1t.i‘r1
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Also W.Chin.1 Geese and M. Pekin duck
MRS .CLAUDIA BET’I‘S, Hillsdale. Mlchlgon

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Mar-hall. Mich.

M1 Young' sStrain S. C. “bite
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makers. St rong.1 igomus, bred- to laylstotk. Batu chicks
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Frcc catalogue. 11'. T1111 Applchrn. Holland. lick. R.7. Bo! Ill.

 

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Belding, Mich.

Free catalog. Rufus Morse.

 

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. Eastwood. N. Y. Licensor of Candee
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Early "History of the Grange

N November 15, 1867, in Wash‘
0 ington, D. C., was held the first

formal meeting of the group that
founded the Patrons of Husbandry,
now commonly called the Grange. On
November 15, 1916, forty-nine years lat-
er, in the same city, was held the
annual convention of the National
Grange that marks the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the organization. It is the only
large farmers’ organization in this
country that has maintained a contin-
uous existence for so long a period. It
is interesting at this time to review
the visions and vicissitudes of the or-
iginator, who was Oliver H. Kelley,
now reverentially called by the mem-
bership, “Father Kelley.” Mr. Kelley
left his native state, Massachusetts, in
1849 to pioneer on a Minnesota farm.
As to the occasion that resulted in the
start of the Grange he relates in his
history of the early work: “Excessive
drouth in northern Minnesota in 1862-
63 by which I was a considerable suf-
ferer induced me to take a clerkship
in the Department of Agriculture in
the winter of 1864. I returned to Min-
nesota in the spring. October 20, 1865,
Isaac Newton, Commisioner of Agricul—
ture, wrote me thus: ‘I am anxious
_to have you come to Washington. I
wish to see you on special business.’ ”

O11 reaching Washington in Novem-
ber Mr. Kelley was informed by Pres-
ident Johnson and Commissioner New—
ton that he was to be sent through
the south to obtain statistics and other
information, the former channels for
which had been cut off by the war.

Regarding his findings, Mr. Kelley
wrote: “In my interviews with plant-
ers, as a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity I was cordially received and
given much valuable information. I
became convinced that politicians
could never restore peace; if it came
at all, it must be through fraternity. I
mentioned in a letter to my niece, Miss
Caroline A. Hall, the idea of a. secret
society of agriculturists as an element
to restore kindly feelings among the
people of the south. She encouraged
the suggestion. From January to May,
1866, I was constantly in motion, and
this idea of an association was getting
fixed in my mind. I remember compar-
ing the Mississippi and its tributaries
to such a national organization and its
subordinates.”

Mr. Kelley talked the idea over with
various planters, who also endorsed it.
He returned to Washington on April
21, 1866. On his w1y back to Minne-
sota, he went to Boston. to visit rela-
tives. His niece, Miss Hall, being there
the plans for the organization were
made to take more definite shape, Miss
Hall urging that women be given full
membership. Mr. Kelley’s idea was
that a secret organization could be
most effective in rendering co-opera-
tive assistance between farmers in dif-
ferent sections in purchasing and mar-
keting and general protection. He
spent the summer on his farm in Min-
nesota, returning to Washington in the
fall to work in the Post Office Depart-
ment. Here he received encourage-
ment from W. H. Moreland, chief clerk
of the finance office, and “penciled out
a plan for the ritual.” Rev. John Trim-
bIe, a clerk in the Treasury Depart-
ment, as a friend of Kelley’s, also be-
came interested. Trimble, however
was so conservative in his interest
that he called himself “the wet blanket
of the institution.” He proved later a
very valuable successor of Mr. Kelley
as secretary from 1885 to his death in
1902, when he was succeeded by the
present secretary, C. M. Freeman, of
Ohio.

In August, 1867, they interested Wil-
liam Saunders, superintendent of the
government experimental gardens, in

‘ the project. Saunders, 011 a trip to St.

Louis late in August stopped along the
way; He wrote Kelley thus at Sandus—

ky: “I have mentioned your order to
a. good many, who agree that it is a
grand idea. Some will write you.”

Anson. Bartlett, of North Madison,
Lake county, Ohio, was the first to
write, and he suggested as a name for
the new order, “Patrons of Industry,”
which prompted Mr. Kelley to substi-
tute “Husbandry” to make “Patrons of
Husbandry,” which name was adopted
December 4, 1867. Mr. Bartlett also
objected to the word “lodges” which
Kelley, as a Mason, had proposed for
the local organizations. Kelley replied:
“How would ‘Granges’ do?” And so it
was determined. Mr. Bartlett wrote
many parts of the first ritual, the main
portion being furnished by Kelley. ‘A.
S. Moss, of Fredonia, Chautauqua coun-
ty, New York, was the second to in-
quire about the new proposition, in re-
sponse to circulars which Kelley had
sent abroad, and November 16, there
came a letter from another New York
farmer, F. M. McDowell, a. large fruit
grower of Wayne, Schuyler county,
which as Kelley prophetically said in
1875, “commenced an acquaintance of
vital importance to the order.” Mc-
Dowell gave the first important finan-
cial assistance, and served the Nation-
al Grange as treasurer from 7873 to
1893, when at his death his wife, Mrs.
Eva McDowell, took up the service and
has continued it to the present.

At the 1117991ng called by Kelley on
November 17, 1867, in Saunders’ office
in \«Vashington, there were present
Messrs. Kelley, Ireland, Saunders, and
Trimble; also J. R. Thompson, a Ver-
montcr employed in the Department of
Agriculture, who had become interest-
ed. Saunders was delegated to draw
up a preamble, which he did. Decem-
ber 4 following they all met again in
Saunders’ office to elect officers of
“The National Grange,” as they at once
named their organization. The slate
selected was: Master, Wm. Saunders;
overseer, Anson Bal‘tlett’, of Ohio, (not
present); lecturer, J. R. Thompson;
secretary, O. H. Kelley; treasurer,
Wm. Ireland; steward, Wm. Muir, of
Fox Creek, Missouri, (not present but
interested through correspondence);
assistant steward, A. S. Moss, of Fre-
donia, New York, (not present). Rev.
A. B. Grosh, of Washington, later be-
came interested and was chosen as
chaplain.

January 8, 1868, “a school of inspec-
tion” in the ritual work was started in
Washington, and named Potomac
Grange, No. 1, but it did not last long.
McDowell came to Washington to at-
tend this meeting and gave valuable
advice about policies. At this time the
Ceres, or seventh degree, which later
became the National Grange degree,
was instituted and McDowell became
first “high priest of Demeter” in it.

In the spring of 1868 Mr. Kelley de-
termined to try to organize some
Granges on his way home to Minne-
sota. He stopped at various places in
Pennsylvania and New York, without
success until he reached Fredonia,
Chautauqua county, New York, where
the previous interest of A. S. Moss
made it easy to start on April 16, 1868,
Fredonia, No. 1, the Grange that has
never surrendered its charter, and now
is the largest Grange in the order,‘
with about 700 members.

After the summer work on his farm
in Minnesota was over Kelley devoted
himself industriously to establishing
the order in his own state, but pro-
gress was slow, for funds were lacking.»
The second Grange to organize was at
Newton, Jasper county, Iowa, on April
17, 1868, the next day after Fredonia
was started, but it did not “hang to-
gether” as Fredonia has. Granite
Grange, Sauk Rapids, Benton county,
Minn., was started July 29, 1868, but
“die soon. Therefore, the first real
Gra go in Minnesota. was North Star,

M c1121, 17.

organized at St. Paul, on September 2,
1868.

At the end of his first year’s work
Kelley had only nine subordinate
Granges started. On February 23,
1869, Minnesota State Grange was or-
ganized at St. Paul with eleven Grang-
es“represented. The movement was
progressing slowly. Kelley was con-
stantly hampered by lack of funds be-
cause the only sources were the few
“dispensation” fees ($15 for each
Grange organized), his own limited in-
come, and what money friends of the
idea advanced. The officers of the
“National Grange” in Washington
proved most lethargic In interest and
help—Saunders was too busy, and the
others “forgot” when Kelley was not
present in person to enthuse them.

By the end of 1869 Kelley had start-
ed thirty-eight subordinate Granges, all
in Minnesota except one in Iowa, two
in Illinois and two in Indiana. ‘(Honey
Creek and Terre Haute).
of 1870 he reported the addition of
thirty-eight subordinate Granges and
one more state Grange (Illinois); dur-
ing 1871 he organized 130 subordinates,
besides Iowa and Wisconsin State
Granges, and reported subordinates in
sixteen states: New York, Iowa, Min-
nesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, (East
Cleveland Grange, organized March 2,
1870, was the first, Change in Ohio),
Tennessee, California, Missouri, Wis-
consin, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, So.
Carolina, Vermont, Kentucky and New
Jersey. In 187:3 he added 1,105 new
Grangcs, and seven state Granges; in
1873 over 8,000 subordinates and twen-
ty-two State G-ranges, among these
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Ken-
tucky and West Virginia; in 1874 over
10,000 subordinates and four more
State Granges.

By 1871 the work had become so im-
portant that Kelley felt the need of be-
ing in closer touch with the rest of
the National Grange officers, so that
he would not seem to be the whole
thing,” so he moved to Washington.
Even then he had quite a task to keep
them sufficiently interested. Finally,
in 1873, in Washington, D. C., the first
really representative meeting of the
National Grange was held, eleven
states being represented. Officers who
were really interested were selected
from various states. Dudley Adams,
of Iowa, became master; F. M. McDow-
ell, treasurer; Kelley, secretary, and
Miss Caroline Hall, the first lady as-
sistant steward. The masters have
been: Wm. Saunders, Washington,
D. 0., 1867-73; D. W. Adams, Iowa,
1873-75; J. T. Jones, Arkansas, 1875-
77; S. E. Adams, Minnesota, 1877-79;
J. J. Woodman, Michigan, 1879—85; Put
Darden, Mississippi, 1885-88, (died on
July 17'); James Draper, Massachu-

setts, filled out Darden’s term in 1888;~

J. H. Brigham, Ohio, 1888—97; Aaron
Jones, Indiana, 1897-1905; N. J. Bachel-
der, New Hampshire, 190541; Oliver
Wilson, Illinois, 1911 to present. The
choice of officers from among those
vitally concerned with what such an
order could afford them marked the
beginning of steadicr growth like the
past year’s record of 457 new Granges
built on much more enduring founda-
tions—Harriet Mason.

STATE GRANGE OFFICERS.

 

Master—John C. Ketcham, Hastings.

Overseer—C. H. Bramble, Tecumseh.

Lecturer—Dora H. Stockman, Lan-
sing.

Secretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—Frank Coward, Brenson.

Executive Committee—Jae. Helme,
Adrian; Geo B. Horton, Fruit Ridge;
J. W. Hutchins, Hanover; W. F. Tay-
lor, Shelby; Wm. H. Welsh, Sault Ste
Marie; N. P. Hull, Dimondale; Burr
Lincoln, Harbor Beach.

Our Motto: ——“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should.

be first improved. ”

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Address all communications relative
to the organization of» new Clubs to
Mrs. J. S. Brown, Howell, Mich.

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FARMERS’ CLUB PROJ ECTS.

 

There is undoubtedly a profitable
field for work by the Farmers' Clubs
of the state, especially those located in
counties which have county farm bu-
reaus, with accredited county agricul-
tural agents, in some line of special
demonstration work which would be
valuable to a majority of the member-
ship. In practically every community
there is some line of production which
is more or less general on all the
farms. This should be the case if it is
not, since local conditions are likely to
favor some special line which a major-
ity of farmers will find it profitable to
follow.

In this case a special demonstration
to determine the best varieties ‘to use,
the best cultural methods to follow,
the best method of storing, grading and
marketing would be most profitable.
The county agent would doubtless be
glad to co-operate with the Club to
that end if he were asked to do so, and
he could be of great aid in so doing.
Why not try out this plan this year?

In counties where there is no county
agent available for such- aid, the as-
sistance of an extension specialist from
M. A. C. might be secured, if a com-
mittee of the Club were appointed to
settle on some project in which the
greatest number of members would be
interested and make the necessary ar-
rangements.

Practical work of this kind would
undoubtedly be most beneficial to any
local Farmers’ Club. It only requires
the initiative of some member to bring
these beneficial results to the entire
membership.

BENEFITS OF THE STATE ASSO-
CIATION.

 

Discussion by C. B. Cook, at the re-
cent annual meeting.

I am always glad to add a word
along any line that makes for better
things in the future. I do believe
that this organization of the Farmers’
Clubs has been one of the best things
that ever happened to we farmers of
Michigan but I believe we must go one
Step further. The time is coming when
we want a little more team work in
the Association. The work today is
moving toward organization, business
organization, and until the farmers get
organized along business lines we can’t
compete with the fellows that are. We
have to waken up to that fact, and
I don’t know ofiany better organiza-
tion in Michigan today than the State
Association of Farmers’ Clubs to come
forward and take hold of this proposi.
tion along the lines of agriculture. It
seems to me that just as soon as we
get farmers of the state to studying
the situation and see where they are
from a dollars and cents standpoint we
get them to thinking. What has been
said this afternoon about the milk
proposition goes to show that we have
not been studying along that line. Now
as we go into the other lines of agri-
culture we find the same crying needs.
I believe that the time has come that
in counting the benefit of this organiza-
tion we must add another link to the
chain of good things and get together
along business lines to a very large
extent and just as far as possible get
some sort of an Organization going that
will talk up the business end of the
proposition in such a way as will make
the production of the farms pay the
farmers a fair profit and until we come
to that point our organization is going

, to miss the main point.

, , I want in, add when we get an organ-

isation' where we can do that kind of

 

    

business, then instead oi keeping quiet

let’s make a little more noise—let peo-
ple know what we are doing. The
large cities especially are very ignor-
ant regarding the problems the farm-
ers are up against. At the present
time, for instance, when the prices of
food stuffs are so high, they think the
farmers are coining money when they
are not doing so. I was talking with a
man in our town the other day who
mentioned the fact that farmers were
getting immensely rich. He said “Look
at the price of beans.” I told him that
so far as beans. were concerned I was
not going to get rich this year out of
them. That I had planted about fifteen
acres of beans and reaped about six.
Now then, let’s advertise our business
a little bit so that the people in town
will know something about it. I don’t
believe they are so selfish but they
don’t realize.

 

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

 

Favor Old Highway System—The
March meeting of the Salem Farmers’
Club was held at the pleasant home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rorabacher. About
fifty were present to enjoy the fine dim
her and program furnished by the men
of the Club. The program Opened with
music by the Club. Invocation by Rev.
Carter. The secretary’s report was
read and accepted. We then listened
to a humorous recitation by I. R. John-
son, “Those Dear Enamel Cheeks,” and
a reading by Rev. Carter, “The Dough-
nuts Mother Used to Make.” The ques-
tion of “Good Roads” was then taken
up.- Mr. Chase gave a paper favoring
the return to the pathmaster system
which, was followed by one by Mr. W.
Hamilton favoring the present one-man
system. Mr. W. Geiger then gave a
talk suggesting a new system. A very
lively discussion followed, after which
the Club decided to favor the pathmas-
ter system. After singing America
the Club adjourned to meet the first
Wednesday in April with Rev. and Mrs.
Baker at Salem.——Mrs. I. R. Johnson,
Cor. Sec.

Will Make Exhibit at County Fair.—--
On March 14 the members of the Essex
Farmers’ Club, of Clinton county, and
guests to the number of seventy, gath-
ered at the hospitable home of Mr. and
Mrs. Austin E. Cowles and a pleasant
and profitable meeting was enjoyed
while the March winds raged without.
This home has steam heat, electric
lights, and a farm water system, con-
veniences not often found in farm
homes. The farm of 310 acres is well
provided with necessary buildings and
tools, the main barn being forty by
175 feet in dimensions; attached to
this is a barn fifty by 100 feet in size.
In these barns 830 sheep and forty-five
head of steers are being fitted for the
spring market, while in another build-
ing 150 hogs are being prepared for
the block. President Cowles called the
Club to order and, following the usual
opening exercises, the Club decided to
make an exhibit of products of farm
and home at the coming county fair, a
committee being appointed to arrange
for the exhibit. A reading by Elbert
Mattor was the next number in which
was presented many facts, pertaining
to Michigan’s Agricultural College. An
earnest discussion of matters connect-
ed with M. A. C. followed. Mr. Childs,
of Perrinton C‘ondensary, who was on
the program for an address, was un-
avoidably absent, which was much re-
gretted. Adjournment for dinner be-
ing announced. the “aetivities” which
followed, afforded a pleasing variety
in the program. Being again called to
order, music was enjoyed, followed by
”Schools of the Present and Future,
from the Farmer’s Standpoint,” which
theme was treated in an earnest and
helpful address by Dr. J. Seatchaw.
The discussion of the subject was led
by School Commissioner T. H. Town-
send, who spoke earnestly and help-
fully, amon the many good thoughts
were the dllowing: “The School
should fit th child for future right liv‘
ing.” “The~ apable teacher should be
able to rightly interpret child life.”
Reference was made to the admirable
school system of Denmark. A general
and helpful discussion of this import.
ant subject followed. The next num-
ber was a paper by J. T. Daniells,
treating of “Historical Events, both'
Domestic and Foreign.” Miss Anabell
Millard favored the company with a
vocal solo, after which the question

,box provided several practical themes

for discussion. one of which, “The
Present County Highway Law,” was
examined and the manner in which it
“works out” was not approved. The
next meeting of the Club will be held
on April 25 at “Maple View Farm,”
with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Daniella—J.
T. Daniells, Cor. Sec. , ' .- .

 

 
  
    
 

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You’ll \get scores of furs every week with
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Fall and Winter. Your boy can set them,
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or three hundred dollars is a good roll to
pocket by Spring.

Start with a hall ozen Victors. (You can get them

from any hardware dealer.) They will pay for themselves
—-and a good profit besides in your first week of trapping.

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Brittle Hoofs—Sidebones.—~I have a
large work horse that is troubled with
brittle hoofs; besides he has Side-
bones. L. A. G., Shelby, Mich—Apply
wool fat or oil of tar to brittle hoofs
three times a week. Also keep his
feet moist and paint s‘idebones with
tincture iodine three or four times a
week. Also lower his heels.

Sore Neck—I have a horse that was
troubled with sore neck all last sum-
mer. Our Vet. prescribed a green—col-
ored salve, but it only palliated hlS
trouble. S. D. E., Inkster, Mich—First
of all your horse may be one that
should work in breast collar; however,
if you will use a zinc pad or 'deer skin
pad and be sure to have a nice fitting
collar, his neck might not get sore, but
after once becoming sore and horse
working every day, you Will find it
very difficult to keep the neck healed.
Dust on equal parts of powdered alum,
oxide of zinc and boric acid times a
day.

Stomach Worms—I copied a remedy
for stomach worms in horses out of
the Michigan Farmer some time ago
and my recollection was to give 20
grs. of santonine, 10 grs. of calomel
and 2 grs. of powdered gentian. Can
you not prescribe a cheaper remedy?
E. E. T., White Cloud, Mich—Give 1
oz. of rectified oil of turpentine and 12
ozs. of raw linseed oil twice a week.

Enlarged Shin—About a year ago
my horse hurt his leg in stable inJur-
ing fore part of shin near fetlock
joint, since then he has been lame,
especially starting, and I would like
to know how to treat the case. E.
M., Attica, Mich—Apply one part red
iodide mercury and eight parts of lard
to bunch once a week.

Indigestion——\Viakness.—I have _a
iorse live years old that is low_1n
flesh, perspires freely while standing
in stable and is weak. G. H. L., Has-
tings, l‘wIichr—Clip your horse, examine
his teeth, give him 1 dr. of. ground
nu}: vomica, 1 dr. of ground cmchona,
1 oz. of ground gentian and 1 dr. ace-
tate, of potash at a dose in feed three
times a day. Be sure and keepyour
stable well supplied with fresh air.

Tumor on Eyelid—I have a yearling
heifer that has a growth on upper eye-
lid which at first seemed to be a. wart.
I forgot to say that this bunch is grow-
ing rapidly and bleeds occasionally. F.
8., Turner, Mich.—-A bunch of this
kind should be cut out, then apply bor—
ic acid twice a day.

Cystic Ovarian Trouble—I have a
Holstein cow that comes in heat regu-
larly, but fails to get with call. J. 13.,
Coopcrsville, Mich—You had better
call-a competent Vet. and have him
crush ovarian cysts, then your cow
will perhaps breed. This is done
through the rectum and proves fairly
successful. .

Cow Coughs, also Fails to Come in
Heat.——l have a seven—year-old cow
that freshened the middle of January,
which frequently coughs. li‘urtherinore,
she has not been in heat. 1°. 1). VV.,
Atkins, Mich.#(}ive your cow good
care as she needs no treatment. She
will perhaps come in heat when warm
weather sets in.

Ind'gest.ion.——Have a seven-months-
old heifer that is n‘ot thI‘lVlll". L.

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'Twining, Mich—Change your heller’s

feed, increase her grain ‘ation and
give her a dessertspoonful of ground
gentian at a dose in feed two or three
times a day.

Indigestion—I have a, sow that
seems‘to have stomach trouble; she
bloais more or less after each meal.
J. L. N., Iron River, Mich.~M1 to-
gether equal parts of cooking soda,
ginger, gentian, powdered charcoal,
give sow a teaspoonl‘ul at a dose in
feed twice a day.

Rheumatism.—-Am having trouble
with my five-month old pigs and sev-
eral of them are traveling lame. They
are losing flesh and I have noticed af-
ter eating a few mouthfuls, they re-
turn l'rom trough, lie down and when
they get up, drag their hind feet. What-
ever this lameness is, it is painful. A.
C. K., Montague, Mich.——Give each five
month-old pig 5 grs. of salicylate of
soda at a dose three times a day.
Feed less corn, more oats, oil meal,
tankage and roots.

Looseness of Bowels.—-I bought five
pigs last fall which are now six
months old; they thrived well for
some time, but are now dull and have
more or less bowel trouble. W. S.,
Grosse Pointe, Mich—Mix together
one part sub—nitrate of bismuth, one
part ginger, one part ground cinna-
mon and four parts. ground gentian;
give each pig a teaspoonful at a. dose
two or three times a day.

BREEDERS’. DIRECTORY.

Change 'of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Days 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.

 

 

    

THIS GRADE GUERNSEY COW

in Illinois produced in one month 93.9 lbs. of but-.-
ier fat, equivalent to 109.5 lbs. butter—-over 3% lbs.
daily—and l566.l lbs. milk testing 6% fat.

GUERNSEYS are the MOST ECONOMICAL

Write {or a free breeder’s calendar and our beautiful bookish

THE AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB

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PRODUCERS of BUTTER FAT

BOX Wu . PETERBORO, N. H.

 

 

CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

Bulls by BLACK QUALITY ITO, sire, .First prize,
Breeders and Calf Herds Mich. State Fair 1916. We
also won first on Exhibitors Herd, Jr. Champion Bull,
Jr. Champion Female and Grand Cham ion Cow.Also
breeders of Percheron, Hackney and addle Horses.
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM, IONIA, MICH.

Aberdeen Angus

El ht bulls from eight. to ten months old. One show
bu l. eight yearling heifers bred. Our motto: size
with quality. best of breeding. Prices reasonable.
Inquire of F. J. WILBUR, CLIO, MICHIGAN.

 

 

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MILO D. CAMPBELL k CHAS. J. ANGEVINE

BEACH FARM
GUERNSEYS

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

CAMPBELL 8 ANGEVINE,

Coldwater, Michigan.

of service ago and calves from
Guernsey Bulls choice. Adv. reg. breeding.
T. V. HICKS. Route I, Battle Ceeek, Mich.

G U E R N 3 BY saw this;
Containin blood of world chameé’on .
HICKS’ OUER SEY FARM. Saginaw, . 8.. Mich

FOR SALE Re istered Guernse bulls and
an bull calves an Berkshire
swine. thebest breeding. John Ebels, ii. io. Holland. Mich.

For Sale Reg. Guernsey 5310’ 311223352“ 3%

farmers’ prices. E. A. Kellogg, Rockford, Mich.

Do You Want A Bull?

Ready For Service.

From a grand daughter of The King of tho
Pontiacn. Sired by a bull that is more than a half
brother to the Champion Holstein Cow oi‘ the
World. and whose dam is a 30 lb. 6% 5 fat daughter
of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke who has more 30 lb.
daughters than any other living bull. If you do
write for pedigree.

EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.

HOLSTEINS

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

Herd No. 2. Five yearling heifers, one yearling bull.
. Herd No. 3, Five Heifer calves and one bull,

Bulls ready for service and 6 to eight months old bulls
Prices will please you. If interested, write as soon as
you read this. L. E. CONNELL, Layette, Ohio.

“.T0 P N OTC ll ” Holslcius

By careful retention, for many years, of largest 'ro-
duciug females and use of superior sires, a hree ing
herdof wonderful quailt has been established. We
are selling young bullso this"'.I 0P NOTCH"qunl_ity
of serviceable age, at moderate prices. Information,
pedigrees,etc.. on application. McPHERSON FARMS
00., Howell, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

Bigelow’s Holstein Farms,
BREEDSVILLE, MICH.
Have Some Fine Registered Stock For Sale

 

 

 

' Dam first in Dairy test. Sire G.
Heg- “OISICIII Bull' Champion Michigan State Fair.
Price right. John A. Rinke, Warren, Mich.

' ' Friesian Heifers. 3 to 6
RegIStered HOISteln mos. old. Some from 30 lb.
sires. Priced to sell. Fred J. Lango, Sebewaing, Mich.

 

olstein Calves, 10 heifers. and 2bulla 15-16ths pure,
. 5 weeks old, beautifully marked,$20.00 each, crzited
for shipment anywhere. Edgewond Farm, Whitewater.‘Vis.

REG. HOLSTEINS: Herd headed by Albina Bonte
, Butter Boy No. 93124. Dain's record at 6 yrs. butter
28.53 lbs. milk 619.4, Yearly record at. 2% yrs, butler
802 lbs. milk 18622 lbs.W. B. READER. Howell, Mich

Cluny Sto ck Farm
100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100

Save Money! Buy Nowl
THE MILK AND BUTTER KIND

Full calves by a Sire whose 3 nearest dams average:
Milk. 7 (1. 658.2 lbs., Butter 30.6181bs, His dum‘s record
31.766 lbs. butter in 7 duo. as Jr. 4 yr. old, State record
for age when made. Make a saving on Price and
Express charges, and raise one of his sons for your
next herd sire. Prices and Pedigrees on application.

R. B. McPHERSON, HOWELL, MICH.

Holstein Bulls

1 to 9 months old. Dam's A. R. 0. Our herd sire is
Johanna McKinley Segis 3d. 7 nearest Dams aver-
age 27.26 BLISSVELDT FARMS, Jenlcon, Mich.

OAK LEAF FARM
Herd Sire
Ypsiland Sir Pietertle De Kol
Service bulls all sold. Buy a calf and raise'it. Fine
individuals 4 and 5 months old. E. H. Gearhartdz
Son, Marcellus, Mich., R. No. 4

' ' Young bull ready for service.
MENU“ "OISICIIIS. 301h. breeding. Satisfaction
guaranteed. W. B. Jones and J. F.Lutz, Cohoctah. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

EG. Holsteins. Place your order now for a bull calf.
I have cows due to freshen aoon. bred to the best.
bull in Mich. Elmer E. Smith, Redford. Michigan

EG. Holstein Bull. ready for service. fitted 'by‘ a
half-brothorof World's Champion cow. Bend card
I for pedigree & price. E. 3. Cornell. Howell. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

R.ofM-| JERSEY BULLS

 

THIS TIME! |R.ofM.

You keep cows for'profitfirookwater Farm breedsbulls that will increase value of every calf you nine.
The followmg are sired by Benedictine King who Will enter R. of M. this year on his record as a. sire of ll. of
M. cows. Not one of his daughters ever failed to make the Register of Merit. Calved June 5. 1916. Solid color-
dam, Brookwater Veda 208790, now on test, has made in 5 months and 21 days, 309.97 pounds of butter. Calve

July 3, 1916. Solid color; dam, Brookwater Loretta 271983. now on test, has made in 4 months and 2') days. 360.72
pounds of butter. Also three other bull calves, one of which is of unusual promise by Majesty's Intense and out
of a tested (Will make 70 ounds fat during January) granddaughter of Loretta D., champion cow for produc-
tion at the St. Louis Wor_ d’s Fair. One of these bulls we will sell at $75. Others higher. Extended pedi recs
and production records furnished on application. Let us know wh at kind of a bull you need. Visit. the arm

and see the calves, their dams and sires.
H. W. Mumford,0wner, . F. Foster.Manager.

BROOKWATER FARM .

NN ARBOR. RICHIGAN.

 

10 HOLSTEIN BULLS at FARMERS’ PRICES

Sired by Long Beach DeKol Korndyke. His sire Friend Hengerold DeKol B tt B . .
Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke. She. has a 1200 lb. record, 11-30 lb. sisters, 3-1‘d)0 lb. Alistzli's. 0Iler £1811? 3 dd‘dghigi“ 2:
Friend Hengerold DeKol Butter Boy has 1000 lb. year record. Has 4-30 lb. sisters, 3 sisters above 1200 in year.

LONG BEACH FARM,

AUGUSTA, (Kalamazoo, Co..) MICH

 

A26 LB. Jll. 4-YR.-0LD

A 20 lb. Sr. 2-yr.-old and a 15 lb. Jr. 2-yr.-old were
among the records recently made in our herd. All
cows in the herd have creditable A. It. 0. records and
are tuberculin tested.

PEACELAND STOCK FARM, Three Rivers, Mich.

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

 

! ' fl . . AI. .
Parham s Pedigree Stock Farm 20%???“ 0.3.3,
Male Calves, Show Bull ready for service no akin to
cows,lpriced $125. It. B. PARHAM, Bronson, Mich.

WINNWOOD H E R/D

John H.Winn.'Inc., Holton. Mich.
Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont, JlIich.

Have for sale 6 Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld
Holstein bulls. One 12 months: one 6 months; 'one 2
months, all out of A. It. 0. dams. One made 19 lbs.
butter in 7 days as 3. Jr. 2 year old. Another 21 lbs. in
7 days as a Jr. 3year old. Alsohave five others, same
breed from 2tois months. Must. sell at once. need the
room. ()ur DI‘lCCE-l will surprise you. John H. Winn,
Holion, Michigan.

1200-lb. Bred Young Bulls

Their sire. Maplecrest DeKol Hengerveld. We ofl'er
one born Feb. 12. 1916, out of a 21.“). cow from sister
to 32-lb. cow. His grandsire is sire of the famous
Banostine llolle DeKol, 1322.93 lbs. butter, 1 yr. lVrite
for pedigree and price.

HILLCREST FARM, F. B. Lay, Mgr.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

 

' Bull calf nearly white. Sire: Colnntha
HOISteIn Johanna Creamello Lad. Dani: Se'iis
Aggie Hengerveld De Kol. Write GEO. D. CLARKE,
Vassar, Mich., for photo and price.

months old from a 3) 1b. mm and good A. It. 0.
dams. Wm. Griffin. Howell, Mich. R. No. 5.

FOR SALE—Registered Holstein bull calves, 1 to

Holstein and Guernsey Heller and Bull calves
Choice selected promising dairy ('nlves,praotically pure
Holstein and pure Guernsey, but. not. registered, nice
color. $20.00 each, all express paid to any point.

MEADOW GLEN Whitewater, Wis.

FOR SALE Reg. Holstein cow, 10 yrs. old,

due May 1st, has betterthan a, 191b
record at 4yrs. old. Price $200.00. Chas. I. Cook,
Fowlerville, Box 438, Michigan.

 

()LS'I‘I‘IIN COWS: bred yearlings and calves for
sale. Every cow has produced a vigorous calf dur-
ing your. C. L. Hulett d: Son, Ukemos, Mich.

317 Buys your choice of two Reg. cows bred to a 5":
lb. grandson of “King of the Pontiacs." Cu
contracted at. $100 if heifer. B. B. lteavey, AkronJMich.

HEREFORDS

Both sexes and all ages for sale, our herd com-
prises about 100 head representing the blood of
such sires as Prime Lad 9th, Perfection Fair-
fax, Bonnie Brae 3d and Dale. Write us your

wants.;
ALLEN BROS” PAW PAW, MICII.

BOTH 8m
20 Herefords ALL AGES 3
EARL C. MCCARTY. Bad Axe, Michigan ‘
R. of M. Jersey herd offers for sale
maple lane tuberculin tested cows, bulls, bull
calves and heifer calves. carrying the best It. of M.
blood of the breed. IRVIN FOX. Allegan, Mich.

 

 

Get Rid of the

“Boarders ”

Do you keep cows or do they

keep you? Do you know

which are earning a profit and

which are merely paying their ' ‘

board. One community increased the average
net profit per cow 129% in a few years by testing.

Cows from regularly tested herds sell for more
money and so do their offspring. Knowing beats
, essingin dairy work. Get our free booklet,

‘What is Accomplished by Testing C0ws" and
learn how to build up your herd from animals of
known production. Every farmer should read
this booklet. It’s free. Senda postal today.

The American Jersey Cattle Club
346 West 23d St. New York City

 

' from high-producing dammwith
Jorsey Bill's Ior sale testing Asso. records. also on
semi-omoial test. 0. B. Wehner, R. 6. Allegan, Mich

* for sale, ready for service. Out of
Jersey BIIIIS good producing dams. Prices right.
R. B. FOWLER. 4 Hartford. Mich.

JERSEYS FOR SALE tarry:

service from R. of M. ancestors. Meadowland Farm,
Waterman eraterman. Packard Road.Ann Arbor, Mich.

Hill SALE BEGISIEBED JERSEY BULLS '

R d f rservice. Write your wants.
surrn aeiilhi‘inn, R. D. No.4. Howou, Michigan

 

 

' ' For sale, seven mos. old bull
Hillfld' Fal'm Jane’s calf fine, largo, individual
whosqcombined butter production of four nearest
dams is 2878 lbs. butter. C. dz 0. Deake. Ypsillnti, Mich.

Maple. Hill Farm Regislmd Jersey Gallic
Stock under 2% years all sold.
J. R. Worthington. R. No. 7, Lansing, Michigan

 

 

lllie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from R
.0 M. Cows, also heifer calves and several bred
heifers for sale. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvillo. Mich

The Wildwood Farm

Breeder of Line bred Mzijost strain of Jersey Cattle
Herd on It. of M. testfl‘uberculin tested. Bull calves for
sale. Type it Production is our motto. Alvin Bnldcn, Capnchich.

Shortliorn Callie of both Sex lor Sale

W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

Bidwell Shorthorns

“For Beef and Milk”

This heifer at 6 months has bone,
'. size and quality—Our own breeding.
’The blood of Scotch bulls. Imp.
bhenstone Albino and Imp. Villag-

er Registered stock always for sale.

BIDWELL 8100K Hill,

Box B, Tecumseh, Michigan.

 

 

 

Francisco Farm Shorthorns
Big Type Poland Chinas '

“They’re rugged—Jrhey pay the rent."
Nothing for sale at. present.
P. P. POPE, R. R. 3, Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

 

“Willows—Dal” 0' beef bred. Breeding stock all

_ages for sale at farmers prices. C. W. Crum-
Secy. Cent. Mich. Shorlhorn Brooderl' Assn. McBride. Iich.

Y 1 .
Shorlhorns For Sale.- afi‘thl’ddiitmlm“331.2112:

Write W. J. BELL, ROSE CITY. MICH GAN.

FOR Sale—Reg. Short Horn Bulls by Mnanlton
Monarch 2nd, :1 son of Avondale, from 11 to 13 mos.
old. John Schmidt. Reed City, B, No. 5.. Michigan

Shorthorus For, Sale 3.23%.. ”2113: 23%.? 535
heifers. W. B. McQuillan, Howell, Michigan.

Cattle For Sale

Loads feeders and two loads yearling steers. Also
can show you any number I, 2 and 3 years old from
600 to 1200 lbs. Isaac Shanstum. Fairiield, Iowa, 11-8.

M l R'd H ‘ -
SHORTHORNS “$23 1567“?- yfifiigthi’.
for sale. J. E. Tanswell. Mason. Michigan.

only one bull left f r a l . N
Ba‘es Silol‘lllorlls females for sale at Si'inya ti'icec.’

J. B. Hummel. - - - anon, Mic iigan

Hoos.
Durocs and Victorias

Heavy bone, lengthy Spring Bears and Gilts from prize
\VllllleI‘l-‘v‘flll‘eil by one of the best Sons of the Great De.—
fender A: other noted strains. M. ’1‘, STORY, Lowell, Mich.

swigarldale Farm Berkshires

Home of the greatest show herd in the State.
Stock of all ages and both sex for sale. including
some of the winners at the State Fair.Write us for
particulars and let us tell you about them and our

HOLSTEIN BULLS

some of them old enough for service, sired by
Maplecrest Korndyke Heiigerveld”(the Bull with
the best yearly record backing of any sire in the
world) and ‘G. «k B. Segis Ulrica Pledge 108790,"
all from A. R. O. Dams with good records and the
best of breeding, one very fine Grandson of the

FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR BULL

out of a 27 .39-lb. dam, all stock guaranteed to be
Just as represented and a credit of six months
will be given to responsible parties.

SWIGARTDALE FARM,

Petersburg, Mich.

ERKSHIRES: Gilts and mature sows that will far-
rpw in April and May. Mammoth Toulouse Geese.
Pekin Drakes $2 each.Chase Stock Farm, n.1, Marlene, Mich.

B ' Bears, seryiceable age, best blood
erkshlres. secretes?- Mitigate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

best of breeding, one
Fall Boa rs, spring boar by Prln 4th.,
35 summer and fall gilts open, or bred toJo.Orion1~lth
and held until safe in pig. Visitors welcome'hn’d satis-
faction uara nteed on mail orders. Sold bred sows
during eb. Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Mich.

18 b d m r l
Duroc Jerseys diminish “ °
Carey U. Edmonds, Hastings. Mich.

 

 

uroos, pigs of Sept.farrow.(Dama)by Joe Orion 2nd
Defender C, Superba. Highland King (Sires) Superb. King-
and Hoosier 1.0.0. Either sex. H.G.Keesler. Cusopolis, Mich.

 

Duroc Jersey Gilts HI: 33303 53°33
heavy honed Gilts, re lstered. All bred to our Herd
Boar, J ennlngl Pilot onndor No. 78373. BredforA r,
nd Ma furrow. Send for pedigree. Prices reasons!) 0
HE J NNINOS FARMS. R. F. D. I. VBIiloy. Mich

 

 

 


 
  

 

 
 
   
   

  
 
   
  
 

   
 

  

   
   
 
 
  
  
 
   
 
  
  
 
   
   
 
  
  
 
 
   
 
 
  
   
   
 
  
   
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
 
  
 
  
   
 
 
  
   
   
  
  
  
 
    
 
 
 
  
  

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4911339. ‘-isewerWeai'Olg3 0°

ithaattfreshetfedin the middle, of Janu-

ary, which frequently coughs. Further~
more, she has never been in heat. F.
l). W., Atkins, Mich—Give your cow
good care asshe needs no treatment.
She will perhaps come in heat when
warm weather sets in.

Mare Fails to Come in Heat—We
have a mare 16 years old which we
would like to breed, but she fails to
come in heat. H. B., New Era, Mich.—
Give your mare 1 dr. of ground nux
vomica, 2 drs. of ground capsicum, and
1/2 oz. of Fowler’s solution at a dose
in feed night and morning. If sheis in
low flesh, increase her grain ration.

Spring Tonic———Pinworms.———I would
like to know what would be a good
spring tonic and blood purifier for a
horse? Also, tell me how to rid a
horse of worms about an inch long
and as thick as a match that reside in
the rectum. G. L. H., Fennville, Mich.
——First of all bear in mind that a well
horse needs no medicine, but if out of
condition or sick, should have treat-
ment. Mix together one part ground
nux vomica, one part powdered sul-
phate iron, one part salt, one part of
grdund fenugreek, one part bicarbon-
ate soda, one part powdered charcoal
and four parts ground gentian; give
each horse a tablespoonful at a dose in
feed two or three times a day. Occa-
sionally wash out bowels with one part
coal tar disinfectant and 49 parts tepid
water.

Frozen Teat.—-I have a cow with
sore teat and I am inclined to believe
it has been frozen. This one teat is
considerably blocked and the udder is
somewhat inflamed. M. 0., Branch,
Mich. Dissolve 1 oz. acetate of lead
in a quart of water then add 4 ozs. of
glycerine and apply. it to sore and in-
flamed part of udder and teat twice
a day.

Pigs Cough.——-I keep from 50 to 100
head of hogs and for about ten months
some of my pigs have been troubled
with a hacking cough; they seem to
get it when about four months old. I
also bought a boar and after I had
him about. a month, he also began to
cough. I have 18 that I am fitting for
market which weigh 175 pounds or
more each. In this bunch there are
four which are coughing. Our local
Vet. told me to feed turpentine, which
I did, but it fails to make tan impres-
sion. J. S., Weidman, Mich—It is
possible that some of your hogs may
have tuberculosis which, if so, the
glands of throat or bowels are involv-
ed. Mix equal parts ginger, powdered
licorice and gentian together; give
each hog a teaspoonful in feed two or
three times a day. I might add that a
great many young hogs have tubercu-
losis, but they are fit for food.

Chronic Cough.—~I have a horse that
has been troubled with a cough for
quite a time and I would like to know
what to do for him. H. G. McC., Pratt-
ville, Mich—Rub his throat with equal
parts tincture iodine and camphorated
oil three times a week. Give him a 1/2
dr. of powdered lobelia, 1 dr. muriate
ammonia, 1 oz. ground licorice at a
dose in feed three times a day.

Chronic, Cough—Milk Fever.—Would
like to know if there is a cough rem-
edy that I can buy for my horses, one
which is already prepared. I would
like also to know if there is a remedy
for milk fever in coves. The milk from
my cows gets stringy. This happens
just before the cows are turned outvto
pasture in the spring. T. Z., Peacock,
Mich—Perhaps your druggist keeps in
stock a commercial cough remedy call-
ed Glyco-Heroin (Smith). Give 1 oz.
doses to each horse three or four times
a day. The air treatment which doubt-
less you have read about, if properly
applied will cure 95 per cent of cases
of milk fever. By thoroughly cleaning
your stable and discontinuing to milk
your cows too close to calving time,
also disinfecting your stable and prac-
ticing the utmost cleanliness you will
have no trouble with stringy milk. ’

Open Joint—One of my horses had
open joint, causing its death. I have
been told had it been properly treated
the horse would have lived. The hock
joint was the one affected. A. F., Utica,
Mich—«Even if skillfully treated an
open hock joint is very often incurable.

Scout‘s in rattler-I have 35 head of
two-yearold steers which I am feeding
20 bushels of ensilage at ,a feed twice
a day, four pounds of cottonseed meal
(per head, and about five bushels of
shelled corn daily. They also have all
the clover hay t y will eat for rough-
age. E. IL, U onport, Mich—Mix to-
gether equal rts of ginger, ground
cinnamon, pow ered sulphate of iron,
ground gentian charcoal, give each
nful or two at a dose
‘ . You must keep in mind
that the food and water supply is per-
haps what is causing this trouble and
unless a change is made their bowels
may continue to. be, loose.

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Chronic. .Cough.—I have a colt nine
months old that has had a cOugh since
last August. I might add that every
one of our horses had distemper last
summer. J. H., Elsie, Mich—Give the
colt a teaspoonful of glyco-heroin
(Smith) at a dose in soft feed or wa-
ter three or four times a day.

 

LIVE STOCK NEWS

The recent report issued by the fed-
al government showing the small re-
maining farm grain reserves of Wheat
and corn proved a bullish influence in
the grain markets of the country, the
corn stocks showing a decided short~
age, while feeding requirements in
the live stock districts are of enormous
proportions. Wherever any consider-
able amount of stock feeding is being
conducted, the feeding value of corn
has become unusually large, and in
recent weeks it has advanced above its
selling value. Recent actual experience
has demonstrated beyond any doubt

that corn put into cattle and hogs has
netted stockmen far more than $1 _a
bushel; and in numerous instances it
has netted not far from $2 a bushel;
while the shortage of fat cattle and
hogs is pretty certain to continue for
a good many Weeks.

Cattle have made further high rec—
ords quite recently, with meager re-
ceipts and a total absence of strictly
prime heavy beeyes and prime year-
lings much of the time. Cattle have
been mostly shipped out of many dis-
tricts, with scarcely any of the best
class left, and especially few cattle re-
main in such states as Iowa, South Da-
kota and Nebraska. The almost uni-
versal practice this season has been
for owners to cash in their cattle after
a short feeding period, in manyun-
stances amounting to only a warming-
up process, and even distillery feeders
have adopted this policy, cattle being
marketed from fifty to sixty days ahead
of the usual time. Thin old cows suit~
ed for canning purposes have sold par-
ticularly high all along, as they are
greatly needed by the packers for con-
verting into canned beef for supplying
heavy orders placed months ago.
Calves are marketed too freely, owners
succumbing to the bait offered in the
high prices prevailing everywhere, and
during February, Chicago received 12
per cent more calves than a year ago,
while the increase was 32 per cent in
St. Joseph, 79 per cent in Kansas City,
and 119 per cent in Fort Worth. More
breeding is being carried on in the
large districts of the far west than in
the. past but too many of the calves
are being converted into veal. The
market for stockers and feeders is

Hogs have sold within a short time
at far higher prices than ever before
in the history of the trade, the top in
the Chicago market for prime heavy
butchering barrows standing at $15.10
per 100 pounds. After prices had been
boomed at a lively pace, with advances
of as much as 25 cents per 100 pounds
in a single day or even more at times,
reactions were only natural, and sharp
breaks took place, leaving values far
higher than in past years however. All
the existing conditions have greatly
favored the selling side of the market,
with a serious shortage in the remain-

ing supply in feeding districts and the

largest local and shipping demand ever
witnessed. Marketings have been fall-
ing off materially, compared with ear-
lier this year and with the correspond-
ing time last year, and there is lively
competition between rival buyers for
the better class of heavy and light
hogs. Provisions have participated in
the upward movement of the raw ma-
terial, and within a short time pork
has wholesaled for $34 a barrel on the
Chicago Board of Trade, comparing
with $23 a year ago; followed by a
sharp decline in prices, in which
changes lard and short ribs shared.
The packers have placed heavy orders
for provisions for future delivery, and
they must have the hogs, no matter
what prices are prevailing. After they
catch up with their sales for future de-
livery, it seems not unlikely that hogs
will sell at lower prices, although a.
Shortage in supplies of both hogs and
cattle is expected for weeks ahead.
Few heavy hogs are marketed, and
during a recent fortnight the hogs mar-
keted in Chicago averaged only: 204
pounds, comparing with 211 pounds a

year ago, 232 pounds two years ago-

and 227 pounds three years ago. Farm-
ers have been making enormous prof-
its on their hogs, and several weeks
ago, when hogs were selling very much
lower than they are now, an Iowa
farmer sold on the Chicago market
three carioads of hogs that grossed
$6,184, or more than he paid for his
farm of 160 acres fifteen years ago, and
he slid he had five loads left of the
same class in his feed lots at home.

An»

 

Durocsr For Sale Big Heavy Boned
Fall boars and gilts, weight 125'“). to 200 lb. each. not
extra In: but in breeding flesh. Also one nines.
Percheron Stall on. color black and n good one.

M. A. Bray; Estate. Okomoo. (Inghom 00.) Mick.

DUTOC Sows and gilts bred to Eureka Cherry Kifi
and Crimson Critic son of Critic Model 1
champion Iowa Fair. W'. C. Taylor, Milan. Mich.

m Bows and gilts bred for Mar. & A r. furrow-.King
The COLDefender and Oakland ancy families.
E. D. Heydnuberk. Bell Phone. Wayland. Inch.

Pmnm ncnoos. Choice fall boars. One
areal: yearling boar. Choice Yellow Dent Seed Corn
for sale. rlo L. Dobcon. Quincy. Michigan.

Fall boars ready for service, sired by'a
numc 13733]! son of Orion Cherry King and Volun-
teer also book: orders for airing pi pairs not
skip. F. J. DR 01‘, Monroe. lit-11.. RSV].

 

DUROC Sows. tilt: and fall pin. Percheron
_ stud colts, one coming two. one com-
ing one. E. J. Aldrich. Tekomha. Mich

Duroc Jerseys. Six fall hours of big smooth
For sale kind. Prices ri ht. JOHN MeNICOLL,
Route 4, Station A, Bay lty, Mich.

Bears old enough for serviceaired
Duroc Jersey by Breakwater Cherry King, 825
each. lieg. & Del. Choice goods. J. R. Hicks.St.John.-.Mich

lluroc .lmeys. Bmding lloars and Sepl. Ellis
J. H. Banghart, - - - East Lansing, Mich.

“"3“" Bred giltoall sold. A few fall pigs left.
I Booking orders for spring pigs.
F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar. Mich.

 

Raise Chester Whites.

Like This

the original big producers

    

I HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to
scams. 1 cm help you. I_ want to place one be from
my great herd in way community where am not sire y
resented b then lino early developers 1 for market at.
“the ol Write for my plan~ ‘ More Honey from Hon."

9. I. mzumt. 3.1.1110, ”fillnd,Mlclflm

 

 

 

/Ion 0.1. 0's. & Chester While: /_ m

1.0 Oct. and Nov. boars sired by our undefeated Grand
Champion School Master. The boar that. has size and
Quality combined. All sold any age. Write and not. our
L ataloc'ue its free and describes our champions. We do
not any our hogs are the best but. we win the champ-
ions to prove it. We have 100 sows bred tn_our cham-
pion boars for Mar. and Apr. fan-ow. ARRY
CMNDELL & SUN, Cass City, Mich.

 

F CllfllCli nan cur 3:53.21

Prince WE, sired by “'ildwood

I 0- I. 0'. Prince 1110 lb.3yr. Grand Champion
3750. ‘ ’ C O I).

at. Iowa sold for blnp . .
I —J.Cu1 Jewett. Mason. Mich,

 

 

0. LC. and Chester White Swine

Strictly Big Type with Quality. (lilts bred for Spring
farrow, allsold. Five fine Sept. ilto bred for July
furrow. Have a few good fall pigs oft. either sex. We
are also booking orders for early Spring pigs. Con

furnish in mine not akin.
Newman's took Farm. Mariette. Mich. R. 1.

o I 6 Year old boar 2nd rize winner at Grand Rapids
' . - fair also spring xi ti and boars ready for ser-
vice. A. J. Barker. Belmont. Mich. . R l.

Bred gllts are allsold.
I

o: I. c- SWINEI Order a pair ora trio
not akin to breed in the spring. Rush in your order
before they are sold. Satisfaction guaranteed.

A. J. GORDEN. R. No. 3. Don. Mich.

 

’ Bred sows all sold. Have a few good
0' 1' C 8' last Sept. hours and this spring pigs.
mile west. of depot.

(lood growthy stock.
Nashville,;\lich.

Utlo B. Schulze, - . .

O. I.

0. D. Somervill,

O i c Gilts bred for June and July farmw.
'. o . 0 Also beam of September furrow.
H. W. MANN. - - - — Dans-ville. Mich.
O I C’s All Iold. Booking orders for the

- ‘ ' best of out winter and spring pigs.
(3. J. THOMPSON, < - Rockford. Michigan

 

Theron h bred 0. I. C. Swine. all
so (1 out. except fall pigs.
Green Lake. Mich. R.

 

 

a l 6 Choice gilt. all sold. Choice full igs out of
o - I prize winning stock. Write for ow price.
A. V. HAT'I‘, - - - - Gras- Lake, Mich.

 

! Buy the best and breed tl e l tt _
0' 1' C 3. Fall Gilt.“ and Hairs. C£l(l)%b?li
LEAF STUCK FARM. R. 1. Monroe. Mich.

 

O I C bred sows and gilts all sold. A few long
- - ~ ' bodied heavy boned fall boars to oler.
(l. l). A.\DIlEVVS, Damsville, Michigan

 

La rge Ty e P. . Emmi}
and April arrow all so 1!. A few good ones to he bred

for June furrow. Also some good fall 1 s 'th ' .
w. E. LIVINGSTON, rl’r't'Mex'. terrified.

Fund Chinas. As bl . as good, as grow in Iowa. Herd

headed by Go lath Far-vet. I can please you.
Robert Martin. R. 7. Hastings, Michigan

large In. Poland Ehlnalnd Sow Salt,Feb.20,‘17

Write for catalog. W. J. Hagelshaw, Augusta. Mich.

 

 

Poland China now bred. toll ' , '
Lift! SIM sex. Young Shorthorn covslfi'ndmfi:
month bull calf. Robert Neva. Pierson, Michigan
POLAND Chinas bred gilts all sold, still have some
choice fall pigslogllzaarae and medium type. at farm-

on prices. P. . R. 8. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRE SWINE filfihfifigbfgj

lines. of many of the most noted champions o the
breed I: herd boar. Claytons Lad. 18m to I brother of
LogkOut Lad. who was grand Champion at the Nation-
al wine Show. I am booking orders for spring pigs,”

be shipped about May let. Write me for prices.

George E. Starr. - - - Grass Lake. Mich.

AMPSHIRE HOGS all sold out. would sell one
herd hour and book orders for spring boar lea.
John W. Snyder, St. Johns, Michigan, R. IE

HORSES

Percheron Stallions
25 Must Be Sold .

Also 2' Imported
Clydesdale Stal-

lions. Spring Sale
Prices are now on

Palmer Bros,

P. 0. Bclding, lonia (20., Belding,Mich.

 

 

 

 

Raise mules and get rich.
fine largo Jacks, Jennys
and Mules. all ages for sale.A
lot of big registered Jocks. No
little choo Jacks for sale. All
gunranteet Jacks. Prices 8250
and up. Come on and see for
ourself or write me today.

REKLER'S JACK FARM,

   

West Elkton. Ohio

AT. HALF PRICE

Registered Porcherons. Big black stud colt - '

i'ilnmd gngrure.’ llig boned rugged filly 2 Iiastffigellzbi:
and seé.the:n,.plur of mares l and 5 years old. Come
1N0. C. U‘l‘LEl. Portland. Mich. Del Phone.

KENTUCKY JACKS and SADDLERS

no IONI Kentucky JACKS and Jml'l’s. Séhend

FIVE and OMAN all?“ STMLIONS. 3(4leng and
mares. Fancy IDLE TEAMS. WT US

ASK FOR OUR 1917 CATALOG.

THE COOK PARIS “I 4361.. LEXINGTON. 8V.

Perelman: Holdelns 1 us 811 '
Don; I). BUEI:I..ngEln'i “3|.“ sitgfgflaguroc‘

Two registered Percheron Stallions (' ef
F.“ :d‘ and one sew-n, Colts to show. “rice 311' £31:
tlculars. W. L. “AFFLE, Burlington, Mich.

 

'Valley Side Percherons

For sale: 6 black Percheron stallions cumin 2 and '1
yrs. old; these colts are sound, heavy boned an boss of
feet, rcgisteretl in P. S. ., priced to sell. I'nion
Phone 326-211. C. M. RICE, St. Johns, Michigan

' Offers a dark bay four year
"I. “NC“ “00* raflll old Belgian Stallion thatch
way above the average. In breeding size and quality
weighing over 309 lb. With good style and action. price
and terms fight, if interested write
OSCAR WOLF. - — 3'1“. LOUIS. MICE.

SHETLAND PO N I ES

Herd established 1’91. 21]) Head
to select from. Write Dept. If
for catalog.
The Shadyside Farms. North Bentou.0.

FOR SALE . 2 Black Percheron Stallions Reg-

" istered. one coming 3 next Juno
one 14 years used hi in here llyears. sound and all right.
Vl illlam M (:Cmdan. Duttuu, (Kent 00..) Michigan.

 

 

 

 

REGISTERED PERC HERON
resume“... “arias:

 

Registered Percherons ,.J,,,§‘“‘R§;’,:
l stallion conjiinfi 1 year. Mares and Fillies. Ill-him to

sell. in. ake, Duttou. Mich.
gofilegpdA finial-o stallion: For Sale.

- Oapuc. Mich.

 

 

 

SHEEP

OXFORD EWES

Yearlin s 835.00. Shropshires all ages
330. Al good ones and money makers.

Kopa Ken Farm, Klnderhookflleh.

Oxford Down Sheep 1“" EXIT"
M. F. GANSSLEY. Lennon. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

CATTLE
FOR SAL see-as: M...

Eight registered, balance high grades. ‘xcellent pm-
ducers, guaranteed right. Also some bred yearlin heif-
ers, registered apd high grades. Also some fall eifer
ctlves from ohmic stock. Good reunns for selling. Bell Phone-e
Hadley, P. 0- Kenmore, Mich. R. l, C.E. Hndgson. L. ll. Riley.

POULTRY
Single Comb Black Minerals 95:15.23

sired yullllh. cock bird. 8. IV. Milk, Saline.Mieh.

 

' 3'10 egg strain. Good winter layers.
Sac-M l. m: Baby chicks 150 each. Hatching
one so each. rdor now. C. W. Gordon. Fowlerville. Mich.

Brown Leglu rn eggs for hatchin . Also
“Id. calh dav—old'chicks. Order non".g

Frank Camburn. aline. Mich, R. D. No. 4.

 

21% Inn Poland “has §3"l.'f%’.f$is°ivl’$%fi?%fib“l§'

A. A. woon a ION. Saline. “Iohlfflfl:

HALLADAYS’ HAMP SH I R ES

All told. exc fall i s. We are booking orders for

81LVER. Golden. White Wynndottes. A few good
Golden cockcrels left. Eggs from farm Ilock.Whitcs $1.50 per 13;
other-583 par 15. $3 per 30. C.W.Brownmg. R. 2 Portland. Mich.

 

r RY some Silver Spangled Hamburg e gs for but ch-
ring. The Dutch o‘er-looting layers Wfiiito Rolland
Turkey eggs. Fine Belgian Hare Does bred to high class Bucks.

 

 

Marina 9 .8. . H. a laday & Son. Clinton. Mich. Pcdigmod. Stamp forclrculnrs. Rivcrview Farm. Vnsssr, Mich.
Nothin for lo but tall boars and Geeks» l :h. l B R

FINISH" sill”. fillies. Write for rices. I!” Infidel“ and Wig); ot%:(eggs%::ha€:£?gg.sgg

FLOYD MYERS. . No. 9. ecamr. Ind per 15. Mrs. B. W. BLACK, Caro, Michigan.

 

' ' . Am booki rd
llg lypo Poland film ““1... lg? it .. .al‘fifialfi‘.
mamtoed.‘ G. W. Bolton. . if e amazoo. Mich.

GI Stu! P. O. bred to all sold. Abs-long
Wed me bom‘goadyfonervuo. tales
(cl boanbySmocfli umbo.H.0.Sworu.8choolei-¢Ll_lcl.

 

 

Sh “ES Qualit. cooker-ell for sale.
8'. Wym‘h ' Frbe matilpfi list.
E. J. Getting. - - - - Hil s ale, Mich.

wgfiTE Wy‘anggtggs. A1 gage".i 1511338 {pr ha‘téogxl
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Blflfifr. 7e» Ngrris a...” Ypsilanuf’fiicmn .

  

 


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: Veterinary. =

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

 

Brittle Hoofs—Sidebones.—I have a
large work horse that is troubled with
brittle hoofs; besides he has side'-
bones. L. A. G., Shelby, Mich—Apply
wool fat or oil of tar to brittle hoofs
three times a week. Also keep hlS
feet moist and paint s‘idebones with
tincture iodine three or four times a
week. Also lower his heels.

Sore Neck—I have a horse that was
troubled with sore neck all last sum-
mer. Our Vet. prescribed a green-col-
ored salve, but it only palliated his
trouble. S. D. E.. Inkster, Mich—First
of all your horse may be one that
should work in breast collar; however,
if you will use a zinc pad or .deer skin
pad and be sure to have a nice fitting
collar, his neck might not get sore, but
after once becoming sore and horse
working every day, you Will find it
very difficult to keep the neck healed.
Dust on equal parts of powdered alum,
oxide of zinc and boric acid tW1ce a
day.

Stomach Worins.——I copied a remedy
for stomach worms in horses out of
the Michigan Farmer some time ago
and my recollection was to give 20
grs. of santonine, 10 grs. of calomel
and 2 grs. of powdered gentian. Can
you not prescribe a cheaper remedy?
E. E. T., White Cloud, Mich.——G1ve 1
oz. of rectified oil of turpentine and 12
ozs. of raw linseed oil twice a week.

Enlarged Shin—«About a year ago
my horse hurt his leg in stable injur-
ing fore part of shin near fetlock
joint, since then he has been lame,
especially starting, and I would like
to know how to treat the case. E.
M., Attica, Mich—Apply one part red
iodide mercury and eight parts of lard
to bunch once a week.

Indigestionv—lli’eaknessr—I. have _a
wise. five. years old that is low-1n
flesh, perspires freely while standing
in stable, and is Weak. G. H. L., Has-
tings. l‘-.Iieh.1—Clip your horse, examine
his teeth, give him 1 dr. of. ground
1111.: vomica, 1 dr. of ground cmehona,
1 oz. of ground gentian and 1 dr. ace-
tate of potash at a dose in feed three
times a day. Be sure and keep_your
stable well supplied with fresh air.

Tumor on Eyelid—J have a yearling
heii'er that has a growth on upper eye-
lid which at first seemed to be a wart.
I forgot to say that this bunch 1s grow-
ing rapidly and bleeds occaSionally. I‘.
S., Turner, Mich.—-A bunch of th1s
kind should be cut out, then apply bor-
ic acid twice a day.

Cistic Ovarian Trouble—l have a
I'Iolstein cow that comes in heat regu-
larly, but fails to get with calf. J. 13.,
Coopersville, Mich—You had better
call a competent Vet. and have him
crush ovarian cysts, then your cow
will perhaps breed. This is done
through the rectum and proves fairly
successful. .

Cow Coughs, also Fails to Come in
Heat—I have a seven—year-old cow
that t‘reshened the middle of January,
which frequently coughs. Furthermore,
she has not; been in heat. 1“. 1). VV.,
Atkins, Micli.——Give your cow good
care as she needs no treatment. She
will perhaps come in heat when warm
weather sets in.

Indigestion—Have a seven—months-
old heifer that is not thriving. L. R.,

"i‘wining, Mich—Change your heifer’s

feed, increase her grain 'ation and
give her a dessertspooniul ot ground
gentian'at a dose in feed two or three
times a day.

Indigestion—I have a sow that
seems to have stomach trouble; she
bloats more or less after each meal.
J. E. N., Iron River, Mich.~Mi to-
gether equal parts of cooking soda,
ginger, gentian, powdered charcoal,
give sow a teaspoont’ul at a dose in
feed twice a day.

Rheumatism.—Am having trouble
with my five-month old pigs and sev-
eral of them are traveling lame. They
are losing flesh and I have noticed af-
ter eating a few mouthfuls, they re-
turn i'i'om trough, lie down and when
they get up, drag their hind feet. What—
ever this lameness is, it is painful. A.
C. K., Montague, Mich—Give each five
month-old pig 5 grs. of salicylate of
soda at a dose three times a day.
Feed less corn, more oats, oil meal,
tankage and roots.

Looseness of Bowels.—I bought five
pigs last fall which are now six
months old; they thrived well for
some time, but are now dull and have
more or less bowel trouble. W. S.,
Grosse Pointe, Mich—Mix together
one part sub-nitrate of bismuth, one
part ginger, one part gi‘fiund cinna-
mon and four parts ground gentian;
give each pig a teaspoonful at a dose
two or three times a day.

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BREEDERS’, BIRISCTIIIIY.

Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Daysbefore 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.

 

 

THIS GRADE GUERNSEY cow

in Illinois produced in one month 93.9 lbs. of but-

ter

daily—and 1566.l lbs. milk testing 6% fat.
GUERNSEYS are the MOST ECONOMICAL

Write for a free breeder's calendar and our beautiful booklets

THE AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB

fat, equivalent to 109.5 lbs. butter-«aver 34} lbs.

PRODUCERS of BUTTER FAT

 

BOX W.M. PETERBORO, N. H.

 

 

CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

Bulls by BLACK QUALITY ITO, sire. First. prize,
Breeders and Calf Herds Mich. State Fair 1916. We
also won first. on Exhibitors Herd. Jr. Champion Bull,
Jr. Champion Female and Grand Champion Cow. Also
breeders of Percheron, Hackney and Saddle Horses.
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM, IONIA, MICH.

Aberdeen Angus

El ht bulls from eight to ten months old. One show
bu l, eight yearling heifers bred. Our motto: size
with quality. best, of breeding. Prices reasonable.
Inquire of F. J. WILBUR. CLIO, MICHIGAN.

 

/
MILO D. CAMPBELL L CHAS. J. ANGEVINE

BEACH FARM
(i UERNSEYS

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

CAMPBELL 8 ANGEVINE,

Coldwater, Michigan.

 

of service age and calves from
Guernsey Bulls choice. Adv. reg. breeding.
T. V. HICKS, Route l. Battle Ceeek, Mich.

G U E R N 8 BY SERU‘igiiifirfi
Containin blood of world chameé’ons.
HICKS' OUER SEY FARM. Saginaw. . 8.. Mich

FOR SALE Re istered Guernse bulls and
an bull calves an Berkshire
swine, the best breeding. John Elli'ls, ll. 10, Holland. Mich.

For Sale Reg. Guernsey 2333' 3.323513? 2%

fariners’ prices. E. A. Kellogg, Rockford, Mic .

Do You Want A Bull?

Ready For Service.

From a grand daughter of The King of the
Pontiacs. Hired by a. bull that is more than a half
brother to the Champion Holstein Cow of the
World. and whole dam is a 30 lb. 6% 5 fat daughter
of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke who has more 30 lb.
daughters than any other living bull. If you do
write for pedigree.

EDWIN S. 'LEWIS, Marchall', Mich.

HOLSTEINS

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

Herd No. 2, Five yearling heifers. one yearling bull.
Herd No. 3, Five Heifer calves and one bull.

Bulls ready for service and 6 to eight, months oldhulla
Pricca will please you. If interested, write as soon as
you read this. L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio.

 

 

 

R.ofM.| JERSEY BULLS

THIS TIME! |R-ofM.

You keep cows forprofltfirookwater Farm breeds bulls that will increase value of every calf you raise.
The followmg are sired by Benedictine King who will enter R. of M. this year on his record as a sire of R. of
M. cows. Not one of his daughters ever failed to make the Register of Merit. Calved June 5, 1916. Solid color-
dam, Brookwnter Veda 258796, now on test, has made in 5 months and 21 days, 300.97 pounds of butter. Calve

July 3, 1916. Solid color; dam, Iirookwater Loretta 27I9&3, now on. test, has made in 4 months and 2’) days, 360.72
pounds of butter. Also three other bull calves, one of which is of unusual promise by Majesty's Intense and out
of a tested Will make 70 oundsfat during January) granddaughter of Loretta D., champion cow for produc-
tion at the _t. Louis Wor_ d’s Fair. One of these bulls we will sell at. $75. Others higher. Extended podi recs
and production records furnished on application. Let us know wh at. kind of a bull you need. Visit the arm

and see the calves, their dams and sires.
H. W. Mumford, Owner. . F. Foster.Manager.

ROOKWATER FARM. ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN.

 

10 HOLSTEIN BULLS at FARMERS’ PRICES

Sired by Long Beach DeKol Korndyke. His sire Friend Hengerold DeKol B tt B . .
Pontiac Aaggie Kornd ke. She has a 1200 lb. record, 11-30 lb. sisters. 3-1310 lb. s‘istgelrs. OIIer £31111: : $333.3:- 3;

Friend Hengerold De 0] Butter Boy has 1000 lb. your record.

LONG BEACH FARM,

A26 [8. JR. 4-YH.-0I.ll

A20 lb. Sr. 2-yr.-old and a. 15 lb. Jr. 2-yr.-old were
among the records recently made in our herd. All
cows in the herd have creditable A. R. 0. records and
are tuberculin tested. -

PEACELAND STOCK FARM, Three Rivers, Mich.

Chas. Peters, Herdsman, C. L. Brody. aner. Port Huron Mich

 

' I
Parham s Pedigree Slack Farm %%%T.i.efg."c§£;
Mule Calves, Show Bull ready for service no akin to
eows,lpriced $125. it. B. PARHAM, Bronson, Mich.

WINNWOOD H E R D.

John H.Winn.'lnc., Holton. Mich.
Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont, illicit.

Have for sale 6 Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld
Holstein bulls. One 12 months; one 6 months; ‘one 2
months, all out of It. 0. dams. ()no made 191bs.
butter in 7 days as 3. Jr. 2 year old. Another 21 lbs. in
'7 days as a Jr. 3year old. Alsohave five others, same
breed from 21:06 months. Must sell at once. need the
room. 0111‘ prices will surprise you. John H. Winn,
Holton. Michigan.

1200-11). Bred Young Bulls

Their sire. Maplecrest DeKol Hengerveld. We offer
one born Feb. 12. 1916, out of a 21—“). cow from sister
to 32-11). coiv. His grundsire is sire of the famous
Banostine Belle DeKol, 1322.93 lbs. butter, 1 yr. lVrite
for pedigree and price.

HILLCREST FARM, F. B. Lay, Mgr.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

 

’ Bull calf nearly white. Sire: Colantha
HOISteln Johanna Creamelle Lad. am: Seals
Aggie Hengerveld Do Kol. Write GEO. D. CLARKE,
Vassar, Mich., for photo and price.

OR SALE—Registered Holstein bull calves, I to 6
months old from a 1) lb. sire and good A. Ii. 0.
dams. Wm. Griffin. Howell, Mich. R. No. 5.

Holden and fluernsay Heller and Bull calves
Choice selected promising dairy calves,practically pure
Holstein and pure Guernsey, but not. registered, nice
color. $20.00 each. all express paid to any point.

MEADOW GLEN Whitewater. Wis.

FOR SALE Reg. Holstein cow, 10 yrs. old.

due May 1st, has betterthaii a. lillb
record at. «iyrs. old. Price $200.00. Chas. I. Cook,
Fowlerville. Box 438, Michigan.

 

()LS'I‘I‘ZIN COWS; bred yearlings and calves for

. sale. Itvery cow has produced a. vigorous calf dur«
ing year. 0. L. Hulett & Son, Okemos, Mich.

 

“.T 0 P N 0TC II ” Holsteins

By careful retention, for many years, of largest (pro-
ducing females and use of superior sires, a bree ing
lierdof wonderful quailt has been established. We
are selling young bullso this“'1 OP NO’l‘CH"quality.
of serviceable age, at moderate prices. Information
pedigrees,etc., on application. MePHERSON FARMS
00.. Howell. Michigan.

 

 

Bigelow’s Holstein Farms,
BREEDSVILLE, MICH.
Have Some Fine Registered Stock For Sale

 

 

 

' Dam first in Dairy test. Sire G.
"38- Hakim" Bull- Champion Michigan State Fair.
Price right. John A. Itinke, Warren, Mich.

3175 Buys your choice of two Reg. cows bred to a 5":
lb. grandson of “King of the Pontiacs." Cal
contracted at. SlOOif heifer. B. B. Reavey, kroiiJMlch.

HEREFORDS

Both sexes and all ages for sale, our herd com-
prises about lOO head representing the blood of
such sires as Prime Lad 9th, Perfection Fair-
fax, Bonnie Brae 3d and Dale. Write us your

wants;
ALLEN BROS, PAW PAW, MlCll.

T
20 Herefords 3%LHA%%’§ES
EARL C. MCCARTY. Bad Axe. Michigan ’

 

 

' ‘ Friesian Heifers. 3 to 6
ReSIStered HOISteln mos. old. Some from 30 lb.
sires. Priced to sell. Fred J. Laiige, Sebewaing. Mich.

 

olstein Calves, 10 heifers. and Zbulls 15-16ths pure,
, 5 weeks old, beautifully inarked,32i).00 each. crated
for shipment anywhere. Edgewood Farm.Whitowaior,\Vis.

EG. HOLSTEINS: Herd headed by Albina Bonte
, Butter Boy No. 93124. Dain'fl record at 6 yrs. butter
»\"28.;‘i3 lbs. milk 619.4, Yearly record at. 2% yrs, butter
8021bs. milk 18622 lbs.W. B. READER, Howell, Mich

Cluny Stock Farm

100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100

Save Money! Buy Nowl
THE MILK AND BUTTER KIND
Full calves by a Sire whose 3 nearest dams average:
Milk, 7 d, 658.21bs., Butter 30.618 lbs. His dnm‘s record
31.765 lbs. butter in 7 daa. as Jr. 4 yr. old. State record
for age when made. Make a saving on Price and
Express charges, and raise one of his sons for your
next herd sire. Prices and Pedigrees on application.

R. B. McPHERSON, HOWELL, MICH.

Holstein Bulls

1 to9 months old. Dam's A. R. 0. Our herd sire is
Johanna McKinley Seals 3d. 7 nearest Dams aver-
age 27.26 BLISSVELDT FARMS, Jenicon. Mich.

OAK LEAF FARM
Herd Sire
Ypsiland Sir Pietertle De Kol
Service bulls all Hold. Buy a calf and raiae’it. Fine
individuals 4 and 5 months old. E. H. Gearhart&
Son, Marcellus, Mich., R. No. 4

' ' Young bull ready If r service.
Bchsiorod Nolsloms. 30in. ma... sauna...
guaranteed. W. B. Jones and J. F. Lutz, Cohoctali. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

EG. Holsteinn. Place yourorder now for abull calf;
I have cows due to freshen soon. bred to the beat.
bull in Mich. Elmer E. Smith. Redford, Michigan

 

 

REG. Holstein Bull. ready for service. Sir-ed 'by‘ a
half-brothorof World’s Champion cow. Bend card
I for pedigree & price. E. R. Cornell. Howell, Mich.

 

 

Be d ts.
‘surrna minim, R. D. No.4. Howell. Michigan

R. of M. Jersey herd offers for sale
Maple Lane tuberculin tested cows, bulls, bull
calves and heifer calves. carrying the best It. of M.
blood of the breed. IRVIN FOX, Allegan. Mich.

 

Get Rid of the

‘ ‘Boarders ’ ’

 

Do you keep cows or do they
keep you? Do you know
which are earning a profit and
which are merely paying their ‘
board? One community increased the average
net profit per cow 129% in a few'years by testing.
Cows from regularly tested herds sell for more
money and so do their offspring. Knowing beats
guessing in dairy work. Get our free booklet,
‘What is Accomplished by Testing Cows" and
learn how to build up your herd from animals of
known production. Every farmer should read
this booklet. It’s free. Sendai postal today.

The American JerseyCattle Club
346 West 236. St. New York City
___._J
Jorsay Bulls for Sale £223.?‘i‘;§§.°‘i~‘é%§’.§i“§i‘$"§§
semi-omoial test. 0. B. We nor, R. 6. Allegan. Mich
, d f ' .
Jersey Bulls figziafiioa‘ueéini. d‘L’JS.’Vi'>‘3?...‘3i‘.§h‘li
R. B. FOWLER, , Hartford. Mich.
JERSEYS FOR SALE 3.1%“???

service from R. of M, ancestors. Meadowland Farm,
Waterman eraterman. Packard Road.Ann Arbor, Mich.

FOR SALE nerrsisnrnmsn nous =

for service. rite your wan

 

 

 

Has 4-30 lb. sisters, 3 sisters above 1200111 year.

AUGUSTA, (Kalamazoo, Co_..) MICH

' ' Forsale, seven mos. old bull
HIllSld' Farm 1378818 calf fine, largo. individual
whoae_combined butter production of four nearest
dams is 2878 lbs. butter. C. & 0. Deake. Ypsilanti. Mich-

Maple. Hill Farm Registered Jersey Callie
Stock under 2% years all sold.
J. R. Worthington. R. No.7, Lansing. Michigan

 

 

Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from R
.of M. Cows, also heifer calves and several bred
heifers for sale. Colon 0. Lillie, Cooperaville, Mich

The Wildwood Farm

Breeder of Line bred Majesty strain of Jerse Cattle
Herd on It. of M. teutJ‘uberculin tested. Bull chives for
sale. Type & Production is our motto. Alvin Buldcn, Capac,Mich.

Shortliorn Cattle oi both Sex for Sale

W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michizan.

Bidwell Shorthorns

“For Beef and Milk”

This heifer at 6 months has bone.
size and quality—Our own breeding.
’1 he blood of Scotch bulls Imp.
bhenstone Albino and Imp. Millag-
er Registered stock always for sale.

BIDWELL 8100K Flllll,

Box B. Tecumseh, Michigan.

 

 

Francisco Farm Shorthorns
Big Type Poland Chinas '

“They’re rugged~They pay the rent."
Nothing for sale at present.
P. P. POPE, R. R. 3, Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

 

 

—Dairy or beef bred. Breeding stock all
Shodhoms ages for sale at farmers prices. C. W. Crum-
Secy. Cent. Mich. Shorthorn Breederl' ham. McBride. lich.

Write W. J. BELL, ROSE CITY. MICH GAN.

FOR Sale-Reg. Short Horn Bulls by Maanlton
Monarch 2nd. a son of Avondale. from 11 to 13 mos.
old. John Schmidt. Reed City, R. No. 5.. Michigan

Shortliorus For, Sale 323%. b.2133 m: 3.35
heifers. W. B. Mchiillan, Howell, Michigan.

Cattle For Sale

Loads feeders and two loads yearling steers. Also
can show you any number 1, 2 and 3 years old from
_600 to 1200 lbs. Isaac Shanstum, Fairfield, Iowa, R8.

.1 i R'd H . -
SHORTHORNS “5&8 lisiie' ygfxii'gfiii’s

for sale. J. E. Tanswell. Mason, Michigan.
only one bull left 1’ l . N
Bales Shorihorns females for sale at Siirnliva zit-cc.)

J. B. Hummel. - - Mason, Mic iigan

Hoes.
Durocs and Viciorias

Heavy bone, lengthy Spring Bears and Gilts from prize
\viiiiiers sired by one of the best, Sons of the Great; De-
fender & other noted strains. M. ’1‘, STORY, Lowell, Mich.

swigartdale Farm Berkshires

Home of the greatest show herd in the State.
Stock of all ages and both sex for sale, including
some of the Winners at the State Fair.Write us for
particulars and let us tell you about them and our

HOLSTEIN BULLS

some of them old enough for service, sired by
Mapleerest Korndylic Hengerveld”(the Bull with
the best yearly record backing of any sire in the
world) and ‘G. & B. Segis Ulrica Pledge 108790,”
all from A. R. 0. Dams With good records and the
best of breeding. one very fine Grandson of the

FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR BULL
out of a. 27.39—lb. dam, all stock guaranteed to be

just as represented and a credit of six months
Will be given to responsible parties.

SWIGARTDALE FARM,

Petersburg, Mich.

ERKSHIRES: Gilts and mature sows that will for
row in April and May. Mammoth Toulouse Geese.
Pekln Drakes $2 each-Chase Stock Farm, It. I, Mariette. Mich.

B k . Bears, serviceable age. best blood
li . . .
er shlresi 0.... Means:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

best of breedin , one
Fa ll Boa rs, an... boar by min 4......
35 summer and full gilts open, or bred toJo.0rion 14th
and held until safe in pig. Visitors welcome‘and satis-
faction guaranteed on mail orders. Sold 30 bred sows
during Feb. Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Mich.

18 bred ilts for sale
Duroc Jerseys m... to sell.
Carey U. Edmond» Hunting-I, Mich.

 

 

uroos, pigs of Sept.farrow.(Dams)by Joe Orion 2nd
Defender 0, Superba. Highland King (Sires) Superba King-
and Hoosier .I.O.C. Either sex. H.G.Keesler. Cusopolin. Iich.

 

Duroc Jersey Gilts {If 0?“;303 3°33
heavy boned Gilts, re istered. All bredto our Herd
Boar. Jennings Pilot. oundor No.73373. BradforA r

 

nd Ma furrow. Send for pedigree. Prices reason b 0'
in: .l Nines mums. n. no.1, annoy. Aircr-

 

Y b I .
Shorihorns For Sale. .Si‘tt..:.38siii°’io.”$3.235:

 


 

., on _' ' also *EpllsthCome,in.-_
f ail—Inf 3?. ’seven—year-old cow
Vthat freshened in the middle of Janu-
ary, which frequently coughs. Further-
more, she has never been in heat. F.
l). W., Atkins, Mich—Give your cow
good care as she needs no treatment.
She will perhaps come in heat when

warm weather sets in.

More Fails to Come in Heat—We
have a mare 16 years old which we
would like to breed, but she fails to
come in heat. H. B., New Era, Mich——
Give your mare 1 dr. of ground nux
vomica, 2 drs. of ground capsrcum, and
14-; oz. of Fowler’s solution at a dose
in feed night and morning. If sheis in
low flesh, increase her grain ration.

Spring Tonic—Pinworms—I would
like to know what would be a good
spring tonic and blood purifier for a
horse? Also, tell me how to rid a
horse of worms about an inch long
and as thick as a match that reside in
the rectum. G. L. H., Fennville, Mich.
~—First of all bear in mind that a well
horse needs no medicine, but if out of
condition or sick, should have treat-
ment. Mix together one part ground
nux vomica, one part powdered sul—
phate iron, one part salt, 'one part of
grOund fenugreek, one part bicarbon-
ate soda, one part powdered charcoal
and four parts ground gentian; give
each horse a tablespoonful at a dose in
feed two or three times a day. Occa-
sionally wash out bowels with one part
coal tar disinfectant and 49 parts tepid
water.

Frozen Teat.—-I have a cow with
sore teat and I am inclined to believe
it has been frozen. This one teat is
considerably blocked and the udder is
somewhat inflamed. M. 0., Branch,
Mich—Dissolve 1 oz. acetate of lead
in a quart of water then add 4 025. of
glycerine and apply it to sore and in-
flamed part of udder and teat twice
a day.

Pigs Cough.~—-I keep from 50 to 100
head of hogs and for about ten months
some of my pigs have been troubled
with a backing cough; they seem to
get it when about four months old. I
also bought a boar and after I had
him about a month, he also began to
cough. 1 have 18 that I am fitting for
market which weigh 175 pounds or
more each. In this bunch there are
four which are coughing. Our local
Vet. told me to feed turpentine, which
I did, but it fails to make an impres-
sion. J. S., Weidman, Mich—It is
possible that some of your hogs may
have tuberculosis which, if so, the
glands of throat or bowels are involv-
ed. Mix equal parts ginger, powdered
licorice and gentian together; give
each hog a teaspoonful in feed two or
three times a day. I might add that a
great many young hogs have tubercu-
losis, but they are lit for food.

Chronic Cough—I have a horse that
has been troubled with a cough for
quite a time and I would like to know
what to do for him. H. G. McC., Pratt-
ville, Mich.——-Rub his throat with equal
parts tincture iodine and camphorated
oil three times a week. Give him a 1/2
dr. of powdered lobelia, 1 dr. muriate
ammonia, 1 oz. ground licorice at a
dOSe in feed three times a day.

Chronic Cough—Milk Fever.——Would
like to know if there is a cough rem-
edy that I can buy for my horses, one
which is already prepared. I would
like also to know if there is a remedy
for milk fever in cows. The milk from
my cows gets stringy. This happens
just before-the cows are turned out to
pasture in the spring. T. Z., Peacock,
Mich—Perhaps your druggist keeps in
stock a commercial cough remedy call-
ed Glyco-Heroin (Smith). Give 1 oz.
doses to each horse three or four times
a day. The air treatment which doubt-
less you have read about, if properly
applied will cure 95 per cent of cases
of milk fever. By thoroughly cleaning
your stable and discontinuing to milk
your cows too close to calving time,
also disinfecting your stable and prac-
ticing the utmost cleanliness you will
have no trouble with stringy milk.

Open Joint—One of my horses had
open joint, causing its death. I have
been told had it been properly treated
the horse would have lived. The hock
joint was the one affected. A. F., Utica,
Mich—eEven if skillfully treated an
open hock joint is very ofte incurable.

SCOUI‘S in cattle—I have 35 head of
two-y'ear—old steers which I am feeding
20 bushels of ensilage at ,a feed twice
a day, four pounds of cottonseed meal
per head, and about {We bushels of
shelled corn daily. They also have all
the clover hay they will eat for rough-
age. E. H.. Unionport, Mich—Mix to-
gether equal parts of ginger, ground
cinnamon, powdered sulphate of iron,
ground gentian and charcoal, give each
one a tablespooan or two at a dose
twice a day. You must keep in mind
that the med and water supply is per-
haps what is causing this trouble and
unless a change is made their bowels
,maycontlnue to be loose.

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63H

'7

. Chronic- Cough—I have a colt nine
months old‘that has had a cough since
last August. I might add that every
one of our horses had distemper last
summer. J. H., Elsie, Mich.———Give the
colt a teaspoonful of glyco-heroin
(Smith) at a dose in soft feed or wa-
ter three or four times a day.

LIVE STOCK news

The recent report issued by the fed-
al government showing the small re-
maining farm grain reserves of wheat
and corn proved a bullish influence in
the grain markets of the country, the
corn stocks showing a decided short-
age, while feeding requirements in
the live stock districts are of enormous
proportions. Wherever any consider-
able amount of stock feeding is being
conducted, the feeding value of corn
has become unusually large, and in
recent weeks it has advanced above its
selling value. Recent actual experience
has demonstrated beyond any doubt

that com put into cattle and hogs has
netted stockmen far more than $1 a
bushel; and in numerous instances it
has netted not far from $2 a bushel;
while the shortage of fat cattle and
hogs is pretty certain to continue for
a good many weeks.

Cattle have made further high rec-
ords quite recently, with meager re-
ceipts and a total absence of strictly
prime heavy beeves and prime year-
lings much of the time. Cattle have
been mostly shipped out of many dis-
tricts, with scarcely any of the best
class left, and especially few cattle re-
main in such states as Iowa, South Da-
kota and Nebraska. The almost uni-
versal practice this season has been
for owners to cash in their cattle after
a short feeding period, in manyun-
stances amounting to only a warming-
up process, and even distillery feeders
have adopted this policy, cattle being
marketed from fifty to sixty days ahead
of the usual time. Thin old cows suit-
ed for canning purposes have sold par-
ticularly high all along, as they are
greatly needed by the packers for con.
verting into canned beef for supplying
heavy orders placed months ago.
Calves are marketed too freely, owners
succumbing to the bait offered in the
high prices prevailing everywhere, and
during February, Chicago received 12
per cent more calves than a year ago,
While the increase was 32 per cent in
St. Joseph, 79 per cent in Kansas City,
and 119 per cent in Fort Worth. More
breeding is being carried on in the
large districts of the far west than in
the past but too many of the calves
are being converted into veal. The
market for stockers and feeders is

Hogs have sold within a short time
at far higher prices than ever before
in the history of the trade, the top in
the Chicago market for prime heavy
butchering barrows standing at $15.10
per 100 pounds. After prices had been
boomed at a lively pace, with advances
of as much as 25 cents per 100 pounds
in a. single day or even more at times,
reactions were only natural, and sharp
breaks took place, leaving values far
higher than in past years however. All
the existing conditions have greatly
favored the selling side of the market,
with a serious shortage in the remain-

ing supply in feeding districts and the.

largest local and shipping demand ever
witnessed. Marketings have been fall-
ing off materially, compared with ear
lier this year and with the correspond-
ing time last year, and there is lively
competition between rival buyers for
the better class of heavy and light
hogs. Provisions have participated in
the upward movement of the raw ma-
terial, and within a short time pork
has wholesaled for $34 a barrel on the
Chicago Board of Trade, comparing
with $23 a year ago, followed by a
sharp decline in prices, in which
changes lard and short ribs shared.
The packers have. placed heavy orders
for provisions for future delivery, and
they must have. the hogs, no matter
what prices are prevailing. After they
catch up with their sales for future de-
livery, it seems not unlikely that hogs
will sell at lower prices, although a
Shortage in supplies of both hogs and
cattle is expected for weeks ahead.
Few heavy hogs are marketed, and
during a recent fortnight the hogs mar-
keted in Chicago averaged only 204

pounds, comparing with 211 pounds a-

year ago, 232 pounds two years ago
and 227 pounds three years ago. Farm-
ers have been making enormous prof-
its on their hogs, and several,weeks
ago, when hogs were selling very much
lower than they are now, an Iowa
farmer sold on the Chicago market
three carlbads of hogs that grossed
$6,184, or more than he paid for his
farm of 169 acres fifteen years ago, and
he said he had five loads left of the
same class in his food lots at home.

GANFA as...

Durocs For Sale Big Heavy Boned
Fall boars and elite, weight m lb. to 200 lb. ouch, not
extra (at but in food brooding flesh. Also one 314.303.
Percheron Stall on. color black and a good one.
M. A. Bray. Estate. Okemoo. (Inghom Co.) Mich.

DUI'OC Sows and gilts bred to Eureka Cherry King
and Crimson Critic son of Critic Model 191
champion Iowa Fair. ’. C. Taylor, Milan. Mich.
I...» Sons and gilts bred for Mar. & A r. farrow,King
, The COLDefender and Oakland ancy families.
E. D. Heydoubcrk.Bell Phone. Wayland. fllch.

 

INEHURBT DUROCS. Choice fall boars. One
Brent yearling boar. Choice Yellow Dent Seed Corn
for sale. Orlo L. Doboon. Quincy, Michigan.

 

Fall boars ready for service. sired by‘a
son of Orion Cherry King and Volun-
orders for s ri pig‘s, pairs not
01‘, Monroe, ic ., -. ].

lluroc lcmy:

teer also booki

akin. F. J. DR
Sows, gilt: and fall pin. Percheron

DUROC stud colts, one coming two. one com-

ins one. E. J. Aldrich. Tekonsha. Mich.

 

 

For Sal Duroc Jerseys. Six fall hours of big smooth
0 kind. Prices ri m. JOHN McNICOLL,

Route 4, Station A, Bay ity, Mich.
Bonrs old enough for servicesired

Dlll‘OC Jersey by Brookwater Cherry 111113825

each. lieg. & Del. Choice goodsJ. R. Hicks.St.Johns.Mich

 

 

Duroc .lmeys. Branding
J. H. Banghart, - .

Boa}? and Sept. Gill:

nst Lansing, Mich.

 

Ch {0 Bred gilta all sold. A few fall pigs left.
.3 "v Booking orders for spring p gs.
F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar. Mich.

 

Raise Chester Whites.
Like This

the original big producers

..~./

HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to
success. I can help you. l_want to place onevho from
my great hard in every community where am not all-ea y rep-
eu ! devulopprI—mdy for market at 31x

Write (or my plan— More Money from Hose."

6. a. mums, 3,), D. 10' Portland, moms...

 

 

 

% III 0. I. 9's. «1 Christ M: V, Tan

10 Oct. and Nov. boom sired by our undefeated Grand
Champion School Master. The boar that. has size and
quality combined. All sold any age. Write and got our
( atnlogue its free and describes our champions. We do
not lay our hogs are the best but we win the champ-
ions to prove it. We have 100 sows bred '.0_our cham-
pion boars for Mar. and Apr. fan-ow. REY T.
CRANDELL Jr SUN. Cass City, Mll'h.

 

 

Bred

f crater mm on 3.
Prince 5600?, sired by “'ildw
I 0': l Prince 1110 lb. Ryr. G1'iiinlf‘liainpitbn

o. '-
—"""'—'_ at Iowa sold for 3750. Ship C. . .
' —J. Carl J owett. Mason. Mich.

 

 

0. LC. and Chester White Swine

Strictly Big Type with Quality. (lilts bred for Spring
farrow, nllsold. Five lino Sept. zilto bred for July
for-row. Have a few good fall pigs left, either sex. We
are also booking orders for early Spring pigs- Gin

furnish in mire not akin.
Newman’s took Farm. Mariette, Mich. R. 1.

 

o I c Yearold boar 2nd rlze winner at Grand Rapids
- - {fau- also sprinlgi to and boars ready for ser-
vice. A. Barker, Belmont. Mich. . R l.

Bred gllts are all sold.

0. '- CI SWINE: Orderapair ora trio

not akin to breed in the spring. Rush in your order

before thefiare sold. Satisfaction guaranteed.

A. J. GO DEN, R. No. 3. Dorr, Mich.
Bred sows all sold. Have. a few good

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0' 1' C 8’ last Sept. hours and this sprlng piss.

Good growthy otock. mile west of depot.

Otto B. Schulze, - - - - Nash\'illc,:\'lich.

 

 

 

0 I C Thorou h bred O. I. C. Swine all
u a 0 so (1 out. except. full pigs.
0. D. Bomorvill, Grass Lake. Mich. R. D 4
O I _ Gilts bred for June and July farrow.
'. o . o Allo boars of September fan-ow.
H. W. MANN. - - - llansville. Mich.
O 1’ C95 All sold. Booking orders for the
' ' ' beat of on! winter and spring pigs.
(7. J. THOMPSON, . Rockford, Michigan
0 I 8 Choice giltoall sold. Choice fall igs out of
C - t prize winning stock. Write for ow price.

A. V. HATT. - < Grass Lake, Mich.
Buv the best and breed them better.

7
O— I- C 3. ran (iilts and Hours. CLOVER
LEAF srocn FARM, R. 1. Monroe, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

O l C bred sows and gilts all sold. A few long
0 o ' bodied heavy boned fall boars toofl’er.
(l. P. ANDREWS, Dansville, Michigan

Giltcbred

Lar e l‘y e P. . mm”,
and April arrow all so d. A few good ones to be bred
for June furrow. Also some good full pigs either sex.
W. E. LIVINGSTON, PABMA, MICK.

Chime. As bl , as good, as grow in Iowa. Herd
Pdnd headed by Go lath Farver. I can please you.
Robert Martin, R. 7. Hastings, Michigan

Large In: Mud Ellinalnd 3w M,Fcb.20,‘l7
Write for catalog. W. J. Hagolshaw. Augusta, Mich.
hm. 3% Poland China sow bred. toll pigs, either

sex. Young Shorthorn cow and four
month bull calf. Robert Neva, Pierson, Michigan

 

 

 

POLAND Chinas bred gilts all sold, still have some
choice fall pigs of large and in mm type. at farm-
P. 1). LONG, R. 8, Grand Rapids. MiCh.

ihl' Sept. furrow, either so .sl -

Bl! Ill. Poland c ed by Jumbo Wood. 8631;.
hot. . A. WOOD & ION. Snllno. Michigan

HALLADAYS’ HAMPSHI R ES

All cold. exc fall i a. We are booking orders for
spring pigs. . H. a laday & Son, Clinton, Mich.

“within Sllnt.H°‘h‘§3t§r

FLOYD MYERS.

on prices.

 

sale but fall boars and
Write for rices.
o. . ecatur. Ind

31-4152

HAMPSHIRE SWINE M" 11°" m‘ ‘
_ tains the blood
lines. of many of the most noted champions of tho
breed ll: herd boar. Claytons Led. 1833 is a brother of
Look Out Lad, who was grand Champion at the Nation—
al Swine Show. I am booking orders for spring pigs,“
be shipped about May let. Write me for prices.

George E. Starr. - - - Grass Lake, Mich.

 

AMPSHIRE EGGS all sold out. would sell one
herd boar and book orders for spring boar lgs.
John W. Snyder, St. Johns, Michigan, R. If

HORSES

Percheron Stallions
25 Must Be Sold

Also 2' Imported
Clydesdale Stal-
lions. Spring Sale
Prices are now on

Palmer Bros,

P. 0. Belding, lonia Co., BeldinuMioh.
J AC K 8
AND
M U L E S

Raise mules and get rich.

fine large Jacks, Jonnys
and Mules, all ages for sale.A
lot of big registered Jacks. No
little choc Jacks for sale. All
guarantee Jacks. Prices $250
and up. Come on and see for

our‘selt or write me toda .
RILKLER'S JACK FA M, West Elkton, Ohio

AT HALF PRICE

Registered Port-herons. Bigblu -k ‘t l ' l ' '

gonad (environ-2 llig boned ruggefii fin“? 2(gagtfolgellgb?
mid see/.tlieli‘i).pdn of mares l and 5 years old. Come
1N0. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. 3.! Phi".

KENTUCKY JACKS and SADDLERS

no IONI Kentucky JACKS and Juan’s. 95116114!
FIVE and OMAN GAITI‘D STMLIONS. geldings and
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Two registered Percheron Stallions, one four
and one seven. Colts to show. 'rite for par.
W. IL. ‘5 AFFLE, Burlington. Mich.

For Sale

ticulars.

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Valley Side Percherons
For sale: 6 black Percheron stallions coming: and "fl
you. old; theset-olts are sound, heavy boned'and best. of
feet, l‘t‘glstel‘é‘ll m P. S. A., priced to sell. Union
Phone 326-2“. 0. M. RICE. St. Johns, Michigan
Offers a dark bay four year

llll “Nil“ “09* [I'm old Belgian stallion than.

way above the average in breeding size and qualit
weighing over 2200 lb. n ith good style and action. pricz
and terms

ht. if interested write
OSCAR WOLF. b’l‘. LOUIS. MICE.

SHETLAND P O N 1 ES

Herd established “91. 2C“ Head
to select from. Write Dept. I'.‘
for catalog.

The Shadyside Farms, North Bentou,0.
FOR SALE . 2 Black Percheron Stallions Re -
' istered, one coming 3 next Juno

one 14 yours used him here llyears, sound and all ht.
William M vCrodan, Duttuu, (Kent 00..) Michtilgam

REGISTERED PERC HERON

flares and Stallionopricod to sell.Ins .tio l 't ‘
L. C HUNT. EATON R PlDSn. #071108]:

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Registered Percherons coming , , em

lstallioucomin lyear. M- es dFill’ .

sell. Wm. J. B ake, Dual-million res Pluedto
For Sale.

in???“ £21.2da" slant." Capuc. Mich.

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OXFORD EWES

Yearlin s 335.00. Shropshires all ages
$30. A] good ones and money makers.

Kope Kan Farm, Klnderhookflleb.

Oxford Down Sheep N" tiff“
M. F. GANSSLEY. ”MI. Michigan.

C A TTL E
FOR SAL .3“-..

Eight registered. balance high grades. xcellent pro.
ducers, guaranteed right. Also some bred yearlin heif-
ers. registered and high grades. Also some fall ifer
calves from above stock. Good reasons for selling. Bell Phone—-
Hadley, P. U- Metamoro. Iirli. R. l, C. E. llodgson, L. ll. Riley,

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Great b l g

Sllgle comb B‘OCK MlIOl'CflS c o c k e r e1.

aired yul‘) lb.cock bird. B. W'. Mills, Saline. Mich.
330 on strain. Good winter layers.

8.01M.“ ‘ Baby chicks 150 each. Hutchlu
ms 50 each. rder now. C. W. Gordon, Fowlerville. Illicit.

Brown Leghorn eggs for hatching. Also
SW. comb dav-old chicks. Order now.
Frank Camburn. aline. Mich. R. D. No. 4.

81LVER. Golden, W'hite Wyandottes. A few good
Golden cockcrcls left. Eggs from farm llnck.Whitcs $1.50 per 15;
others $3 per 15. $5 per 30. C.W.Browmng. R. 2 Portland. Mich.

 

7 BY some Silver Spangled Hamburg e gs for but oh-

ring. The Dutch 8‘ erlutlng layers Wilts Holland
Turkey eggs. Fine Belgian Hare Does bred tohigli class Bucks.
Pedigreed. Stamp for circulars. Bivervicw Farm. Vassar. Mich.

I“ 'ane Cooker-ole? each. Also Barred Rock

and Wynn otte eggs forhatching,$l.5
per 15. Mrs. R. W. BLACK, Caro, Michigan.

 

Dig lm Poland china if} ”3?" “l mtlffifififi
guaranteed: G. W. Bolton, $.11. {I omnzoo, Mich.

116‘! Strain P. O. brad gilt: all mid. A M It»;
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Quality cockorell for sale.
Silver Wyandottes. Fm mating 1...,
H. J. Getting, - - - - Hills ale, Mich.
WEITEWI ndot u. A.l lagers. Eggs for hatching
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0:15. per 100. peolol matinfiifi for
1. 7m Norris 5L. Ypsilanti. lohlnn.

 


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