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VOL. CXLVIll. No. 13

Whole Number 3934





Essentials~ to SucccSSful E





1TH beans bringing unprece«

URI dented prices the acreage seed-

ed the coming season will un-

doubtedly be expanded far beyond the

area planted to beans in normal years.

States other than Michigan, California

and New York, the chief bean produc-

ing states, are turning their attention

to bean production.



Michigan, according to the last cen-

sus, plants each year a greater acreage

of beans than all other states combined.

The section of highest production is

located south of Saginaw Bay, extends

several counties to the. west and south

and includes the Thumb district in the

east,.but beans are grown to some ex-

tent in practically every county in the

southern peninsula and in many of

the upper peninsula, indicating that

the area of production is capable of

considerable expansion. It is safe to

conclude that the present high price is

sufficient incentive to cause the great

majority of bean growers to plant a

larger acreage to





' DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1917





ByJ.F.COX





by bean diseases is very largely due

to the planting of infected seed. That

“clean seed tends to yield clean beans”

is a saying current among the bean

growers.



Good seed beans should be clean,

free from diseased or otherwise discol-

ored beans, immature beans and for-

eign material. They should be Of high

germinability and of uniform type.

Careful hand-picking of beans to be

used for seed is strongly recommend-

ed. Hand-picking, however, even if

carefully done, will not make good

seed of a badly diseased lOt, since ap-

parently clean beans may come from

diseased pods. Beans of high pick

should not be used for seed purposes

no matter how carefully picked over.

No dips, sprays or seed treatments are

known which are effective in making a

diseased sample fit for seed.





yielding plants in the field is strongly



adviSed. Home-grown seed, from fields



seeded with clean beans from the north



is depended on in many localities as a



source of good seed.



Fertile, Well-prepared Soils Required

for High Yields.



Beans are best adapted to well-drain-

ed, fairly open fertile loams. Good

yields of beans are not secured on

poor soils. Acid or sour soils are not

suited to bean growing, for like most

legumes, the bean plant does best on

soils carrying limestone, or on soils

which have been well supplied with

lime. Muck soils and soils very rich

in organic matter tend to produce a

rank growth of vine and a late matur-

ing crop. Heayy clay soils are inclin-





ed to be somewhat late and wet for

beans though when well drained and

well supplied with organic matter high





75 CENTS A YEAR

$2.25 FOR 5 YEARS





can \Culture





crop of beans. When acid phosphate

is applied, either in connection with

manure or alone, the bean crop tends

to ripen more evenly and at a notice-

ably earlier date. On soils which have

been cropped hard complete fertilizers

carrying nitrogen and phosphorous and

potassium may prove profitable. Com-

plete fertilizers of 2-8-3 or 2-10-4 formu-

la are usually used, when they can

be secured at reasonable prices. At

present prices, acid phosphate alone

should return the greatest profit. It is

best to apply commercial fertilizers

broadcast before seeding. When beans

are planted with a grain drill the fer-

tilizer attachment may be used. In

this case the fertilizer should not be

fed in the same row with the beans

unless a small amount is used, since

the bean seedlings are very liable to

injury. Acid soils should be limed pre-

vious to seeding with beans. On such

soils the lime should be applied in

preparation for a clover crop rather



than just before plant-





 





beans than usual next





year. In addition,

many who have not

before raised beans





will try their hand at

bean growing. Begin-

ners before attempting

such an exacting crop

as beans, should thor-

oughly inform them-

selves in regard to the

proper methods of cul-

tivating and handling

the crop. Under pres-

ent conditions, with

meats and _other pro-

tein feeds bringing ex-

tremely high prices

there is a great de-

mand for a. cheaper

substitute, the place

.which the navy bean

has hitherto occupied.

It would seem that the

bean acreage could be

very largely expanded

with little danger of

over-production.

Commercial Bean





 





Varieties.

The types of com-

mercial beans most





 





 





widely grown in Mich-

igan are the pea bean,

medium bean and red and white kid-

ney beans. Of these the white pea

bean is in the greatest demand on the

market, and is considered the most de-

pendable to grow, since it will do best

under the widest range of conditions.

The medium bean is similar to the pea

bean, though somewhat larger and ,

more. oval in shape. The white and

red kidney beans are considered to re-

quire more fertile soils than the pea

or medium beans. Owing to the more

limited marketdemand, kidney beans

fluctuate considerably in price as 'com-

pared with the pea and medium.

Good Seed Should be Planted.

Good seed is of the highest import-





, ancein bean groWing. The loss caused





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Sending north for seed does not al-

Ways result in securing clean beans,

for the bean diseases have of late

spread ,widely over the northern bean

districts. Northern grown seed is only

superior when the beans come from

clean fields. All samples from the

north should be carefully inspected be-

fore buying, and information in regard

to conditions under which they were

produced secured. Where possible, a

sample of unpicked beans should be

secured for inspection.



As a general rule, it is wisest to use

beans for seed purposes grown in the

home locality, carefully hand-picking

the home-grown beans of lightest pick.

The selection of diseasefree, high-





 





A Typical Michigan Bean Field, with a Good Stand and Healthy Growth of Vines.





yields are obtained. On muck and clay

soils bean diseases do most damage,

while on well drained loams or sandy

loams the bean diseases do compara-

tively less injury. Light soils are like-

ly to be too droughty but may be im-

proved for bean growing by applying

manure or turning under green ma-

nure crops.



Under usual conditions manure is an

effective fertilizer for beans. It should

be applied, where possible, to the pre-

vious crop. Soils in Michigan are, as

a rule, deficient in phosphorous. Six

to eight tons of manure to the acre,

supplemented with two hundred to

three hundred pounds of acid phos-

phate should pave the way for a big





ing beans.

Should be Grown in

Rotation.



F or continued suc-

cess in production, the

bean crop must be in-

cluded in a good rota—

tion. Beans cannot fol-

low beans successfully

year after year owing

to the rapid decrease

in organic matter and

the increased injury

due to bean diseases

and insects. A good

clover sod is consider-





ed the best prepar-

ation for the bean

crop. Such a rotation





as the following is

well adapted to beans:

First year, beans;

second year, wheat,

rye, barley or oats,

seeded with clover;

third year, clover.

Corn or potatoes can

v.be included in the ro-

tation either before or

after beans. If the clo-

ver sod is very weedy

or plowed late, or if

strawy manure has

been applied late in

the spring, corn being a gross feeder

will do better under such conditions

than the bean crop.



A longer rotation can be secured by

seeding timothy or alsike, or both, -

with the clover and using two or more

years for hay and pasture.



The‘ following is suggested as a.

strong rotation: 1, corn; 2, oats; 3,

clover; 4, beans; 5, wheat; 6, clover. "

Plowing and Fitting Land for Beans.



It takes at least four to six weeks ‘

after plowing to get a seed bed in the

best condition for planting beans.

Plowing should be done in the fall or

as early in the spring as possible. Ear-

ly plowing gives opportunity for the

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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





The Federal Farm

Loan B o a r (1 recently

fixed the interest rate

on the farm loan bonds

and the interest rate on loans extended

to farmers. The bonds issued under

the federal farm loan act will bear

four and a half per cent interest, and

from the advices in the hands of the

farm loan board, it is expected that

these bonds will sell at a premium.

The interest rate on loans extended to

farmers under the Federal Farm Loan

Act has been fixed at five per cent per

annum. The law permits the farm

loan board to add to the interest rate

on the bonds a maximum of one per

cent to pay the cost of operating the

system, but in consideration of the

large volume of business assured the

federal land banks at the start, the

board determined that the business





Farm Loan

Interest Rates.





'could be successfully operated by fixing,





the rate'to farmers only one-half of

‘one per cent above the interest rate on

the investment bonds, which will be

issued against the five per cent farm

mortgages. The full subscription to

the capital stock of the twelve farm

loan banks, amounting to $750,000 for

each bank, has been placed at the dis-

pOSal of the several institutions and, as

soon as the appraisers who will pass

upon the land values have been named,

these banks which are already organ-

ized will give immediate consideration

to the thousands of applications for

loans filed by farm loan associations

under the lawf



While the federal farm loan banks

will be able to absorb only a small por-

tion of the total farm mortgage indebt-

edness of the country at the start, the

low interest rate offered, coupled with

the amortization plan of repayment,

will make this source of loans so at-

tractive as to have a sure effect upon

farm mortgage interest rates in gen-

eral. It is probable that this effect will

be most quickly noticed in states

where comparatively high interest

rates now prevail, including a large

part of the southern and western

states. The farmers in a number of





_ the eastern states now enjoy an inter-





est rate well below six per cent, and

here the effect will not be as pronounc-

ed. Michigan farmers pay an average of

6.6 per cent on a total of $118,950,000

of farm mortgage loans. _ '



Farm loan associations have been

formed in some of our northern com-

munities where interest rates are

above normal and where the opportu-

nity for and need of this federal rural





.‘g‘eredit aid is most in evidence. "Ap-

parently the federal rural credit plan





 

 

 

 

 





a starting off auspiciously, audits pro-

gregs and success, particularly in Mich-

ggan, will be'watched with interest by

every Michigan, Farmer, reader.





nations of “the law"



ed in our Columns, inquiries are ‘still

coming in fur information as to‘the

method of procedure by which farmers

seeking loans may avail themselves of

this source of capital. Briefly recapit-

ulated the conditions are as 'bllows:

Ten or more farmers desiring to “make

loans aggregating $20,000 or more or-

ganize a national farm loan associa-

tion through which~loans are made by

the federal land banks, in compliance

with the provisions of the act.



For detailed information regarding

the necessary procedure in organizing

such an association and securing loans

to its members through same, interest-

ed readers should- write the Federal

Farm Loan Board, Treasury Depart-

ment, Washington, D. C.





   





In another column of

The Sugar Beet this issue appears a

Controversy. statement from an ac-

— . tive' member of the

executive committee of the organized

beet growers of the state. This com-

munication advises growers that there

is apparently no prospect of an adjust-

ment of the differences' between the or-





ganized beet growers and the sugar,





manufacturers, and appeals to the loy-

alty of the beet growers in refusing to

grow beets on any contract not approv-

ed by the executive committee.



While it is a matter for sincere re-

gret that some equitable adjustment of

these differences cannot be brought

about at this time, since a normal do-

mestic production of sugar is likely to

be more important to the country this

year than ever before since the estab-

lishment of our sugar industry, yet

from the grower’s standpoint it is the

best possible time to held out for a

compensatory price. Other staple farm

products are abnormally high in price

and are almost certain to so continue

during the ensuing year, and there is

every prospect that these crops, of

which Michigan produces so great a

variety, will afford growers greater

profit than would the beet crop on the

proffered contracts.



To the end that the integrity of their

organization may be maintained and

an equitable settlement of this contro-

versy hastened, every beet grower who

has identified himself with this move-

mnt should remain loyal to the organ-

ization by following the advice of the

committee as set forth in the commu-

nication above mentioned.





One of the great east-

ern financial institu-

tions recently issued a

bulletin touching on

the importance of stimulating farm

production this year, which is worthy

of more than passing notice.



After reviewing the situation by

pointing out that crop reserves will be

practically exhausted before new crops

are grown, the need of ample produc-

tion in this country was plainly shown.

Reference was made to the near fail-

ure of the Argentine wheat crop and

the shortage of nearly fifty millidn

bushels in Australia, while the French

winter wheat crap is estimated at six-

ty-five per cent, the crop in Holland

unpromising and that of: England back-

ward.



Unfavorable weather conditions over

a considerable area of our own coun:

try has caused crop damage which

makes the situation still more unusual.

The higher cost of labor and materials

of all kinds entering into the produc-

tion of crops was pointed out as a pos-

sible reason why higher crop values

might not stimulate production to any

great extent this year.



The particularly valuable point of

this bulletin is the recommendation

contained that bankers and business

men’s organizations in all.parts of the

country take an interest in financing

the growing of this year’s farm crops.

Usually the interest of the financial in:-

stitutions of the country in its agricul-

ture has been confined tothe extent of





Financing the

Crop.





market _

'.realize that domestic production is as

Eessential to ‘prepamdness for any

eventualities ‘which may come as is

the'mobilization of the nation’s indus-

tries- for the manufacture of needed

equipment in case of War. Such an ap-

peal addressed to the banks and busi-

ness men of the country will be a pow-

erful influence for liberality in the fur-

nishing of funds for crop production

wherever such may be needed.



Every farmer whoneeds funds for

the purchase of seeds or new equip-

ment as an aid toward maximum pro—

duction should at once make his needs

known to his local banker and the lo-

cal distributors of farm equipment,

whose pleasure as ,well as duty it will

be in most cases to extend liberal cred-

it for these purposes. A





In addition to proposed

constitutional " amend-

ments to be voted up-

on at the April election

which were noted in our Editorial Com-

ment of last week, the Secretary of

State has given official notice of two

more amendments whiclrare to be sub—

mitted at the same time. One of these

is a proposed amendment to Section 21

of Article 6 of the constitution, the ef-

fect of which if adopted would be to

provide for an increase in the annual

salaries of the. Secretary of States,

State Treasurer and Auditor General

from $2,500 to $4,000.



Another proposed amendment is to

Section 26 of Article VIII of the con-

stitution to read as follows:





Section 26. The legislature may by

general law provide for the laying out,

construction, improvement and mainte-

nance of highways, bridges and cul-

verts by the state and by the counties

and townships thereof and by road dis-

tricts; and may authorize counties or

districts to take charge and control of

any highway within their limits for

such purposes. The legislature may

also by general law prescribe the pow-

ers and duties of boards of supervisors

in relation to highways, bridges and

culverts; may provide for county and

district road commissioners to be ap-

pointed or elected, with such powers

and duties as may be prescribed by

law: and may change and abolish the

powers and duties of township com-

missioners and overseers of highways.

The legislature niay provide ._ by law

for submitting the question of adopting

the county road system to the electors

of the, counties, and such road system

shall not go into operation in any coun-

ty until approved by a majority of the

electors thereof voting thereon. The

tax raised for road purposes by coun-

ties shall not exceed in any one year

five dollars upon each thousand dol-

lars of assessed valuation for the pre-

ceding yearg“ '





The effect of this proposed amend-

ment if adopted will be to extend to

the state the right to lay out, construct,

improve and maintain highways, bridg—

es and Culverts. This amendment is

considered necessary to enable the

state to originate plans for and build

roads as required by the federal aid.

road bill under which Michigan will

receive $2,186,756 of federal aid for

road building during the next five

years. In addition, this amendment

provides for the submission in counties

of the county road system and places

the limit of'the amount that may be

raised in any one year at $5 upon each

$1,000 of assessed valuation for the

preceding year.



Attention has been called to one of

the amendments referred to in our

comment last week by the secretary

of the Michigan association of county

drain commissioners. Among the argu-

ments presented by the adoption of

this proposed amendment pertaining to

bonding for drains, is that it will af-

fect only those in need of drainage pro-

jects, and that it will place such dis-

tricts on a par with cities which are

empowered to bond for sewers and sim-

ilar public improvements. Aside. from

a saving on the first cost of drains be-

cause. of the. ability‘te pay for the con—

struction,work.VWben done, attention is

called to thefact that itfwili be, possi;





 





 





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Amendments.





 





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give full Consideration to the " import

of proposed constitutional amendments

and. vote either for or against their

adoption, to the end that amendments

to our fundamental law may be advis-

edly adopted or rejected rather than.

be permitted to stand or fall be defallt.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK;





 





Foreign.

”The EurOpean Wan—French and

British troops continue to force the

Germans back on the western front al-

though the retreat has been slowing up

as the Kaiser’s forces approach what

is known as the “Hindenberg Line,

running through the towns of St. Quen-

tin, La Fere and Laon, in northern

France. The German retreat has given

to her enemies the salient from which

it has been expected from time to time

that a drive would be made upon Par-

i_s.—-While operations on the eastern

front. have been of minor Importance,

Russmns report that'a large number

of Germans are being concentrated

along the northern part of the front,

presumably for an offensive against St.

Petersburg' as soon as weather condi-

tions permit. Spring thaws are hold-

ing the armies on the Roumanian

front in check—In Macedonia, near

Monastir, and on the Italian front,





,much artillery activity prevails—The





Turks in Asia Minor have reorganized

their forces and are now offering

some resistance to the advancing Rus-

sians and Britishers who are gradually

eliminating the Turk from‘the valley

of the Euphrates. ‘



Germany’s offer to pay for the loss

of members of crews of Holland ships

recently torpedoed off Falmouth, and

to help the owners to purchase German

ships after the war, has been refused

by Holland. .



Several hundred men are reported to

have perished in a munition plant ex-

plosion at Cologne, Germany.



While the Chinese cabinet has sev-

ered diplomatic relations with Ger-

many, the president of the republic

takes the attitude that it would not be‘

wise for that country to join with the

entente allies against Germany at the

present time.



The new provisional government of

Russia is slowly working out its des.

tiny under trying circumstances. The

country is over-run with spies and Ger-

many is moving large bodies of troops





toward the Riga district presumably to





weaken the confidence of the Russian



people in the new government through



a bold stroke toward the Russian cap-



itol. This danger, however, is offset in



part by the friendly respects of the



allied governments of the entente.

Domestic.



President W‘ilson has called a spe-

cial session of congress for April 2.

The international crisis which the

country is now confronting made nec—

essary the convening of our national

legislative body. The recent sinking of

American ships by German submarines

has amounted to the overt act which,

according to previous diplomatic dec-

larations by this country actually es-

tablishes war relations between the

two nations, although official declara-

tion to that effect has not been made.

The president has called out guard

troops in ten easternlstates for the

protection of munition plants, railroads

and other public property from vio-

lence, the enlisted strength of the navy

has been advanced to the limit of 87,-

000 men, and factories throughout the

country are preparing for the manufac-

ture of the necessary war materials

needed in case of active hostilities.



An advance of ten per cent in wages,

and a Saturday half—holiday have been

granted to 40,000 shoe workers at

Brockton, Mass.



A survey of conditions in Colorado

shows that savings banks have gained

7,000 accounts and an increase of $6,-

314,426 in one year under the dry

regime. ' .



Last week another tornado swept

across Indiana, causing a considerable

loss of life and property. At New Al~

bany, Where great havoc was wrought

by the writhing winds, thirty-four per-

sons were killed. , ‘



Mrs. Helen FrancesFerris, wife of

former Governor _Ferris, died at her

home in Big Rapids last Friday night,

at the age' of sixty-four, following a

surgical operation. f



Railroads of the country are‘joining





in a plea-to 'the interstate commerce





commission for an increase in rates for

all commodities except coal, coke and

They also ask that the new tar-

iffs become effective in thirty days.1

The epidemic of scarlet foyer new





 





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raging'in Detroit has necessitated the ~





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f INCE the importance of the oat

S crop has come to be understood,

the question is often asked,

“Which is the best kind, of oats to

raise? Some fairly well posted indi-

viduals have gone so far as to say

that “there is no best kind.” I think





-such have not given the matter a rea-





sonable amount of consideration.



It is a matter pretty well under:

stood that some varieties or breeds of

oats are better adapted to the prevail-

ing conditions in some particular plac-

es than others. Some varieties meet

and endure prevailing conditions in

some particular place better than oth-

ers. It is claimed that there are near-

ly 150 varieties of cats, which would

give, if one had access to them, great

opportunities ’for selecting and utiliz-

ing the varieties that come nearest to

meeting their particular needs. But in

most localities there are but a few va-

rieties to select from. A thorough

knowledge of what will meet our needs

best will help some in making a choice

from among what is within their reach.



Among the desirable characteristics

which a variety of oats should possess,

is that of hardiness and freedom from

rust. A rust resisting variety is a

desirable feature and an indication of

great vitality and should command at-

tention in that direction. Another de-

sirable characteristic is that of-time

of ripening. Earliness or requiring but

a short time in which to grow and ma-

ture the grain, enables the crop to es-

cape many diseases and unfavorable

conditions which may confront and in-

jure a late maturing variety. The

third characteristic to be sought is

strength of straw. A very common

trouble with oats raised on fertile soils

in a rainy season which promotes. a

rank growth, is lodging, 'or falling

down. It is well to keep this weakness

in mind when selecting a variety to

raise or in improving the one that one

has been raising on the farm for some

time. The fourth characteristic is that

of a heavy-yielding variety. This is the

one feature that farmers are looking

for in a new variety. Productiveness

is a characteristic that can be bred

into a variety by patient selection of

seed, furnishing favorable conditions

of soil, moisture and fertility.



' Improved Varieties.

., There are those who will accept the

fact that animals can be greatly im-

proved by careful selections and sur-

rounding the best with favorable con-

ditions, but at the same time will not

admit that great changes have been

brought about by careful selections

and breeding our oats. One might as

well expect to get as good results by

keeping the old style fine wooled sheep

that had bare legs and bare bellies as

with the improved American Merino.

All the desired results can not be ob-

t'ained at once by surrounding the





' common varieties with favorable condi-





tions.



The Old Brindle cow that carried the

bell in a new country to indicate where

the herd was at, could never be made

by liberal feeding and tender care to

equal in milk production some of _the

Holstein cows of today. The fact

should be kept in mind that it has tak-

”en long periods of years to bring about





"the possibilities of milk production in





the improved Holstein cows. Ances-

tral influences have played an import-

ant part developing the modern Hol~

stein cow. There are long lines of

ancestors back of the Holsteins that





‘have been selected, bred and fed with





the one idea of productiveness in View,





while with the Brindle cow no atten-'





tion was paid to develOping the imme-





. diate or remote ancestors'along the





same lines. We may, properly say that

the Old Brindle cow is an indifferently

bred’ animal and an indifferent pro-





 





‘The BeSt Kind Of Oats





’ ByN. A. CLAPP





 





The same may be said in regard to

different varieties of oats. The so-

called common oats have been indiffer-

ently bred, but little or ‘no attention

has been paid in regard to selection of

best stalks, heads or stools, for they

have been kept~ along in a haphazard

manner, and the results are that they

are indifferent producers. While on

the other hand, some of the pure-bred,

well-bred and carefully bred varieties

are descended from stock that has, for

many years, been carefully selected

with desirable characteristics in View,

and are heavy producers. The seed

from the best varieties of oats have

within them characteristics of hardi-

ness and great vitality, enabling the

plants to send out a strong root sys-

tem capable of gathering a large

amount of plant foods, making a more

vigorous growth than the common oats

and with the inherent capabilities of

productiveness,.. can land will yield

abundantly of a large and heavy ker-

nel of oats. The hardy, rust-resisting,

early maturing kind with stiff straw

that can stand up well and produce

heavily,‘is the best kind of oats to

raise.



Wayne Co. N. A. CLAPP.





THE SPRING. GRASS SEEDING.





 





We are not careful enough, as arule

about our grass seeding, We leave it

altogether too much to chance, and

good luck. In fact, while we are will-

ing to concede in a general way the

importance of providing for good mead-

ows, pasture, and incidentally keeping

up the soil fertility, through this seed-

ing we do not give it the thorough

treatment we give to other seedings.



\Vhere spring seeding is done on

winter wheat, the seed should be sown

early, in fact I have never lost a seed-

ing by sowing too early, I have had

very poor, and uneven catches where

I have sown too late, at that I have

sown right in the snow in February.



Where the seeding is done with

spring crops, such as oats, or barley,

the seed should not be harrowed in too

deeply. The practice of sowing ahead

of the drill is a poor one, as a rule. It

gets in the little seeds too deep, and

to reach the surface they have to grow

a long spindling stem altogether lack~

ing in vitality, which becomes nearly

smothered before reaching the surface.



By far the best way is to seed after

the drill then harrow lightly with a

spike-tooth harrow, after which ground

should be rolled with a heavy roller,

especially so if the ground happens to

be Spring plowed. In fact, soil in this

latter condition as a rule, makes a

poor prospective seeding for grass.

However, if handled right, worked

enough to get a solid seed bed it some—

times gives good results.



Taken as a whole, we have been

sowing altogether too much timothy

for the good of our farms, and our own

pocket-books. There is a temptation

in the face of the very high prices for

clover seed, that have prevailed for a

number of years, to sow a mixture

with the timothy predominating, be-

cause of its consequences, and we shut

our eyes to the consequences. Timothy

is a soil robber, and it is rapidly losing

the little advantage it ever had through

a certain demand for it as horse feed

by the rapid supplanting of the horse

by the auto.



It is well to look after getting the

clover seed in good season, and where





possible, get it from some farm you ‘





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ally have enough varieties of weeds

locally, without importing new ones.

No matter how well the seed has been

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There have been more noxious weeds

introduced into pur lands through the

grass seeding than in any other way.



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It is mighty seldom that a field gets

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four lying idle through lack of seed,

losing at both ends, in crop, and lack

of fertilizing value to the land.



I do not know what crop gives as

good results from the amount of ex-

pense incurred as the clover crop. Also

I have found that on higher lands,

where _a few quarts to the bushel of

alfalfa is sown, it makes a better qual-'

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and gets the ground gradually inoculat-

ed to the growing of this very valuable

member of the clover family.



Isabella Co. W. J. COOPER.





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ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESSFUL

BEAN CULTURE.





 





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seed bed t6 settle and gives time in

which to secure a seed bed compara-

tively free of weeds by proper use of

the barrow and disc. On cloddy soils

the roller is often useful in packing

and pulverizing. Beans planted on

late plowed fields, particularly if shal-





low plowed, are likely to be affected





more by diseases and are more difficult

to keep free of weeds during cultiva-

tion. Early plowing and proper fitting

will greatly lessen the labor of later

cultivation.



Planting and Cultivating.



The period during which beans are

planted in Michigan ranges from June

1 to June 20. About June 10 is the

usual date over m0st of the bean dis-

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bed is well warmed and in good condi-

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or wet, for even germination and a

uniform start is secured only under





proper conditions.

The Mt of seed used in planting





an acre varies with the variety. About

three pecks of ordinary pea beans

(less if they run small), four peeks of

medium beans and five or six peeks

of kidney beans is the usual rate. An

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cup is left open and the drill wheel

allowed to follow its own track on the

return, thus planting three rows with

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close to the plants and fairly, deep.‘





The next cultivation, coming after a.

week or ten days should be further

from the plants and not so deep. The

following cultivations should be shal-

low, not.-more than two inches deep,

since the feeding roots of the bean

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oughness used in fitting the seed bed.

Four to five cultivations are, as a rule,

necessary. Beans should not be culti-

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at that time the beandiseases are car-

ried most easily from plant to plant.

Harvesting and Threshing.



Harvesting should be done when the

plants are mature but should not be

delayed until the pods are too ripe, as

cousiderable loss may be caused by

shattering. After “pulling” with the

bean harvester the beans are forked

into piles, or if the field is free from

stones and trash the side delivery rake

may be used. The piles should be

built high, and small at the bottom so

as to allow a more rapid curing and

lessen the damage from weathering.

When sufficiently cured to avoid all

danger of heating the cured plants

should be hauled into the barn. It is

considered a good indication that the

beans may be safely stored in the mow

when pressing with the thumb leaves

but slight impression on the bean seed.



Threshing is done from the barn or

stack. The bean thresher carries one

cylinder which is operated at‘a low

speed, and a second which is operated

at a high speed. When the plants car-

rying the beans are fed through the

cylinder going at low speed, the riper

beans are threshed out with a mini-

mum of splitting. The plants which

come from this cylinder unthreshed,

which are as a rule not so well ripen-

ed, then pass through a rapidly revolv-

ing cylinder which finishes the work of

threshing.



The average yield per acre of beans

for the state of Michigan for the past

ten years is 12.66 bushels. Yields of

eighteen to twenty bushels to the acre

are considered good yields though very

high yields of thirty-five bushels or

more are not infrequently reported.





FARM NOTES.





 





Applying Hen Manure to Potatoes.



I have a piece of sand and gravel

land which had a rather scattering

stand of alfalfa on for the past three

years that I wish to plant to early p0-

tatoes next spring. The land was cov-

ered with a. small amount of manure

last fall and plowed just before it

froze up. I propose to fit the land as

early as possible, furrow rows with a.

one-horse plow, three feet apart, scat-

ter a small amount of poultry manure

in the. bottom of the furrows and then

drop the seed about 18 inches apart In

the furrows and cover with a drag. I

have been told that the hen manure

will cause too much growth of vme at

I have

also seen it advocated that the more

growth of vine one gets the better the

yield on account of increased starch

gathering capacity through the leaves.

Is my plan good or is it wrong?



‘- Mecosta Co. W. H.



There would be little danger of pro-

moting too great a growth of vines by

the use of a. small quantity of hen ma-

nure where potatoes were planted, as

proposed in this inquiry, in fact, the

amount of available nitrogen which

would be applied in this manner would

be much less than would be the case

where a. liberal application of stable

manure were made to a clover or al-

falfa sud before plowing.



The writer’s experience in growing

potatoes on alfalfa sod has been very





favorable, and I believe that you would.





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of tubers, bub this is *' the exception

rather than the rule, and it is still

more rare to produce a liberal crop bf

potatoes where but a small growth of

vines is secured. '. _ '





Sweet Clover as a Green Manure crop.





I plowed down a clover, timothy.

June grass, sod during the drouth last

August. Kept it worked, and sowed

rye late in September. The soil’ is

sand. I wish to seed to clover, either

mammoth or sweet, and plow it down

after the rye comes off, for wheat. Will

sweet clover make a sufficient growth

to insure a supply of green manure,

and how heavy should it be sown?



Gratiot Co. R. B.





None of the clovers will give maxi-



mum results when sown in the spring

and plowed down for a green manure

crop in time to seed the land to wheat.

In order to prepare a good seed bed

for the wheat the land should be plow-

ed as soon as practical after the rye is

harvested, and none of the" clovers will

under average conditions make a su'fi-

cie‘ntly heavy growth before late au-

tumn to give a very substantial supply

of vegetable matter for green manur-

ing purposes.

_ Sweet clover is a more rank grower

than the common varieties, and if a

good standds secured on land well

adapted to the plant, it will make a

heavier growth the first, year than

will ordinary red clover. The experi-

ment ofsowing it in the spring to be

plowed down in the fall would be well

worth while, although as above noted,

nothinglike the results could be ex«

pected which could be attained if it

were allowed to stand until following

spring and plowed down when it has at-

tained a larger growth. The seed

should be sown at the rate of about ten

pounds per acre. -



Inoculation and Fertilizer for Soy



Beans.





I have some light sandy soil that has

been run quite badly. I have not the

manure to build it up. I was told to

sow soy beans. Would I need fertilizer

for the beans? Would the seed need

inoculation? How much seed should

I use per acre and where can I procure

it? I saw in the Michigan Farmer

how to test soil for acid with litmus

paper; where can I get the paper?

Also I want some fertilizer for oats

on such soil, also for meadow. I don’t





know just what analysis to procure. ,





Also if my soil is acid I Want some

lime for about ten acres.

Huron 00. L. '1‘.





Soy beans would probably do as well

on this kind of soil in present condi-

tion as any crop you could grow, but

of course if you harvest the crop and

remove it from the land the soil will

be only slightly improved. To perma-

nently improve thesoil the crop should

be plowed under. By fertilizing and

grewing such crops and seeding to clo-

ver the soil can be gradually improved

without sacrificing a whole crop.



On soil that has never produced soy



beans they should be inoculated with

the proper bacteria. This can be done

with dry earth from some field that

has successfully grown soy beans, or

you can purchase commercial culture

and apply to the seed.

”I would use nothing only acid phos

phate as a fertilizer on this crop. The

same for cats under present condi-

tions of the fertilizer market.



You can purchase litmus paper from‘

any‘drug store. -



Ground limestone can be purchased ‘

for about $1.25 per ton in, carlots in

bulk f. o. b. quarry. You will need to

apply about two tons per acre for best

results, one ton per acre will help.





In counties where agricultural bu-

reaus have been organized and county

agents are working any farmer who de-

sires to makes more thorough study

of Costs of production will be greatly

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Protecting orchards from Frost





N the spring the frosts do a great

deal of damage to fruits. Some

sort of protection against these





I frosts is needed in most parts of this

country and there are several methods _





by which protection can be afforded.

The most common of these are the use

of explosives, adding water—vapor to

the air, making artificial clouds, and

heating the atmosphere.



To determine just when the frost

will be severe enough to damage the

fruits is often a difficult problem. It

depends upon the period of growth the

plant is in at the time of the frost be-

cause if it is in a very active period

and is full of water it is liable to be in-

jured by the frost. The most advisa-

ble plan is to keep the atmosphere of

the orchard above the freezing point

at all times. If the orchard is near a

body of water the temperature will sel-

dom get below the freezing point as

the water cools much slower than the

land and will keep the air around it

warm. Windbreaks also help to ward

off frosts, but those orchards that are

not protected by the heat from a body

of water or by, windbreaks need some

other method of protection.



The Use‘of Moisture.



It is well known that frosts occur on

clear, still nights and but seldom on

cloudy nights, when the air has an

abundance of water-vapor. This fact

is taken advantage of by fruit growers

when they attempt to add water-vapor

to the air by spraying the trees and

flooding the ground. They use the

same sprayer that is used for the

spraying of insects, or they may even

go so far as to erect standpipes for the

spraying. It is doubtful whether the

latter practice is very profitable, as it

costs too much for the real good that

it does. In either case the trees and

vines are sprayed until very wet. This

makes the atmosphere about them

moist and helps to prevent the frost.



In some places, especially in Europe

where there are large vineyard dis-

tricts, explosives are used to prevent

frosts and hail storms. Guns are made

of heavy sheet metal and loaded with

large charges of gunpowder. When a

storm t’hreatens, these guns are fired





’ repeatedly and seem to have the ten-





dency to break up the layer of cold air

that settles in the lowlands

Smudges for Frost Protection.



Another use that is made of the fact

that frosts will not be so severe if the

air is clouded, is the use of smudges

in the orchard. The dense cloud of

smoke formed by these smudges pre-

vents the rapid radiation of heat from

the earth and thus raises the temper-

ature two or three degrees. To obtain

the best results the smudge should be





. uniform and very dense, and the fires





should burn slowly and be kept up as

long as there is any danger. Usually

an oil that contains a’great amount of

tar is used, but common materials,

such as leaves, sawdust, trimmings,

and grass may also be used. In some

orchards the trimmings are piled in

small piles, and if needed they are a

very economical material for forming

the smudge.



Crude petroleum mixed with saw-

dust will form a very/dense cloud of

smoke, and yet it is npt so very expen-

sive. In Europe the Lestout method is

used, in which small boxes about eight

inches square are placed thirty feet

apart all around the orchard. Crude

petroleum and sawdust are placed in

them and when ignited a dense black

cloud of smoke emits, which soon

forms a blanket over the entire or-

chard. The cost of this when used on

a large scale is about two or three

cents per acre for one night, but for

a small area the cost would probably

be much higher. 1.



By direct heating, which is the most





. commOn’ method used in the United





States at the present time, it is pos-





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atmosphere about the orchard as much

as ten degrees. 'Any material that will

burn, such as wood, trimmings, leaves,

shavings, and even coal and oil, can be

used for this heating. The refuse

from the orchard and farm make a

very economical material. The pile of

refuse or wood should be gotten ready

as soon as possible in the spring be-

fore the warm weather sets in so that

when a frost threatens the fires can

be started and kept going until all dan—

ger is past. The piles should be made

throughout the orchard at the rate of

about forty or fifty to the acre. They

should not all be fired at the same

time, but a few should be started and

then others fired as they are needed.

The temperature should be taken'at

all parts of the orchard, and care

should be taken that the outer rows of

the trees are well protected. If the

temperature gets too low fires can be

made outside the last row of trees.



The fires should not be made too

large, as large fires are apt to scorch

the blossoms and to cause current in

the air which will bring in the cold air

and thus defeat the purpose of the

fires. Four or five piles of wood or

their equivalent in refuse will make a

large enough fire. The temperature

should be kept at least to twenty-eight

degrees, and if this is impossible with

the heating system alone some mate-

.rial should be placed on the fires to

form a smudge, thus keeping the heat

nearer to the ground and raising the

temperature.



Oil Heaters for Frost Prevention.



There are a number of oil heaters

recommended for this purpose, but pos-

sibly the best is one which is merely

a sheet-iron pot large enough to hold

about five quarts. About one hundred

of these are used to the acre, and in

most cases, are kept going for four or

five hours. The cost of these pots is

about fifteen cents each, so the cost of

equipping one .acre can be figured at

about fifteen dollars. Different oils are

used in these heaters. The light oils

are not as good as the heavier ones,

because they have an asphaltum base,

which leaves a large deposit of asphalt

in the bottom of the pot, while the

heavier oils have a paraffine base and

do not leave a deposit. The quantity

of oil to be used varies. Experiments

ShOW that it takes about twelve and

one-half gallons every hour to raise

the temperature of an orchard five de-

grees. At normal times the oil will

not cost more than five cents a gallon,

making a cost of about sixty cents an

hour to heat one acre, but if any

amount of wind is stirring ‘this cost

will increase as more oil is needed.

This oil heating seems to be the best

method now in use and should be used

oftener. It can be depended on and is

not so expensive as to make it a poor

investment. E. F. ELDRIDGE.





 





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‘Lime-sulphur Freezing.



Will lime and sulphur frozen in a



barrel all winter be good to spray an

orchard this spring?



Gratiot Co. G. W.





Lime-sulphur is not injured by freez- ‘





ing as it does not freeze except at very

low temperature. Even if it does form

a slushy iCe it is not injured in any

way unless the barrel is made so that

it is not air tight, thus causing evapor-

ation. This evaporation changes the

strength of the mixture, thus making

it difficult to know what dilution to

make to get proper strength for spray-

ing. To be sure that the mixture is

strong enough fer scale spraying make

it stronger than under normal condi-

tions. Instead of diluting it to one to

eight, make it about one to six. This

will makeit effective and any increas-

ed strength of the solution for spray-

ing will not injure the trees in the

“least if the spraying is done when the

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UE to the large investment re-

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small percentage of our farmers

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of the country must be derived from

what is known as grade stock. Any.





portance to the farmers.





the dairy business upon a'la’rger scale.

Their problem, therefore, is which

method is best adapted to their par-

ticular situation, “Buying-in”'or “Grow-

ing-in ‘2” There is probably not a farm.

er who has this desire who is able to

buy a good dairy herd; this is the

dream that comes true to millionaires

who are not farmers after all. We

may buy a good dairy herd, but so

many have ‘found this method hazard-

ous and expensive, that it is best not

to recommend it. Others buy up sev~

eral animals at the various auctions

and farms before they come to know

that proper feed and management must

be given to these animals,





_ Start with Pure Sire.



The question of greatest importance

and most frequently asked is, “Can

such a herd be produced from a foun-

dation of common cows where the ini-

tial expense is the price of a good

pure—bred dairy sire?" It is possible

that a good-paying dairy herd be built

up from a foundation of common cows

through proper methods of feeding and

management and the use of a good

pure-bred dairy sire.



That this is possible has been fully

demonstrated in southwestern New

York, where the good work of the

Southwestern New York Holstein

Breeders’ Association is manifesting

its work through the introduction con-

tinually of more and more foundation

animals into the herds of grade stock.

The increased production revealed

each season, as a result of breeding





upward proves that under judicious

management, this is practical and

profitable.





But we must not forget the gospel

of ”bred-and-fed cross on grade dairy

cows.” There can be no doubt but

What common scrub cows will increase

in production with better care and





pure-bred dairy sires will be better

dairy animals than their dams. This

was not given a scientific basis for be-

lief, although practically everyone did

believe it, until the Iowa Experiment

Station demonstrated it through what

is known as the “Arkansas cow ex-

periment.” The work' covered eight

years of careful study of the influence

of environment on a herd of the most

commonplace scrub COWS and of the





 





environment and breeding of their

ldaughters, also scrubs, and of their

grade daughters by purebred sires. Al—

though this work will continue for sev-

eral- years, the professors assure us





 





that there is left no room for doubt,

with present findings in hand, but that

any breed of common cows'can be

built up into a profitable herd through

better feeding and breeding methods.

A Cow Experiment.



The “Arkansas cow experiment” fur-

nishes another important fact we have

been wondering about for some time.





The first satisfactory evidence is giv-





en regarding the relative (values of

feeding and breeding, making it very

clear that the largest increase in pro

duction in a herd must come through

the use of a goodfpurejbred sire.



, Prof. Beckman declares that the or-

iginal fourteen animals of this experi-

ment, numbering seven cows, four

yearling heifers, two heifer calves, and





they were brought from a remote farm-

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,‘ station, by Prof. H. G. Van Pelt, for the





the greater part of the dairy products





thing that will serve to increase the.

production of- the cows is of vital im:





Many farmers who own common.

dairy. animals are desirous, of; entering;





management, while their daughters by





a young bull, were a scrubby lot when





 

   





novel and useful experiment. This was

111 the summer of 1907.



These scrub. oows were given the-

same care as the best cattle in the

station barns, as regards care, shelter





and feed. This treatment has been





followed up to date. The herd num-

bers more than thirty head atlpreSent.

COmplete records have been kept of

their feeds and feed costs as well as

production. , .



, Productmn is Increased.



Records Show that only the younger

animals responded with—- an increased

production when given better care and

feed, whiCh”th1'foWs"light on the Work

of the dairy farmer,v"who should per-

form his upward task while his stack

are young. Two of the scrubs, No. 6

and No. 31, four years old, showed an

increase in production up to and in-

cluding the fourth period, when their

average yield was fifty-nine per cent

more milk and fifty-four per cent more

fat than in the first period. In the first

period at the farm the two averaged

3,084.6 pounds of milk; in the fourth

period, 4,907.1 pounds. After the fourth

period came a decline and in the sev-

enth period their average yield was

2,862.5 pounds of milk. . .



The professors report 11111th part

of the increase should be attributed to

their normal development; hows» er",

the greater part of the increase was

due to superiorfeeding and'milking.

The decline after the fourth period’of

lactation is what one would expect

from advancing age.”



In the records of the scrub COWS all

sired by scrub bulls, and which came

to the college farm as yearlings or as

calves, there is further evidence of the

influence of improved care and feeding,

for these seven animals had an aver-

age production of 3,841.2 pounds for

each of the twenty-five lactation peri-

ods as against 3,397.1 pounds for twen-

ty-nine lactation periods of the animals

that were mature on arrival, an in-

crease of thirteen per cent.



The Blood Tells.



Although environment has more or

less influence on production, as the

figures show, the introduction of good

dairy blood brought marked results in

incmased production. The first genei-

ation of Holstein grades fiom these

scrubs, four in number, showed an av-

erage milk production of 5,561.6 pounds

for each of twelve lactation periods, as

against an average of 3,397.1 pounds

for the original scrubs in twenty-nine

periods,'an increase of sixty-four per

cent. The increase in butter-fat

amounted to forty-one per cent.



The first generation of Guernsey

grades, four in number, showed an av

erage increase of twelve per cent in

the quantity of their milk and six per

cent in butter-fat. The bull used on

three of these animals was borrowed.

and proved to be of poor transmitting

quality, but the fourth was bred by a

college bull, and as a two—year-old pro

duced over 101 per cent more. milk and

107 per cent more butter-fat than her

scrub dam, developed under superior

station care, produced in her best year.



The first generation of grade Jerseys

showed an increase of seven per cent

in quantity of milk, twenty-four per

cent in pounds of fat and fifteen per

cent in fat as compared with the group

of original scrubs.



Although proper feeding and care

will serve to increase results, it was

fully demonstrated here, ,as elsewhere

over the country, that the} introduction

of new and better blood will do much

more to increase dairy efficiency.

Therefore, this is the answer to the

man who desired to know whether he

should “Buy-111 or Growin” the dairy

business. The best reSults will follow

where persistent, year-after-year up-

Ward breedihg is follpyved; learning by

slow but certain methods, the needs of

the stock you are handling. and mesh

ing this need.
Heavily-eared "Silage Corn. ‘



Should the grain ration" be the same

for dairy cows when fed, silage made

from corn that would husk 75 or .100

bushels per acre, as if the silage is

made from corn that would husk 25

bushels per acre, and each acre have

the same amount of stalks?



Tuscola Co. G. B. G.



As strange as it may seem to many,

the grain ration should be practically

the same. If the corn is heavily-cared

and the ears are well matured, that is

glazed when cut, the silage will be a

little richer in protein than if cut

green'and when the ears have been re-

moved. But the ratio or proportion of

digestible ingredients is practically the

same. Corn grown rather thick so

there are few ears or only nubbins,

analyses about the same as corn grown

thin enough so it is well cared. In the

case mentioned where you have the

same number of stalks per acre you

would have many more tons per acre

of silage, but the analysis of the crop

would vary but little if the corn is cut

when just glazed, as it should be for

silage.



We should aim to get the greatest

number of tons per acre. I think this

can be accomplished by planting ten

or twelve quarts of seed per acre.





The Lath and Plastered Silo.





I intend building a cow barn and

silo. “fill a 10x30-ft. silo be large

enough for eight COWS and possibly two

or three yearlings? Being a carpenter

myself, I could do all the work, can

buy the material for about $80. Would

you advise the lath and plaster silo,

are they practical and does ensilage

keep good? Would like to hear from

someone that knOWs something about

them. What kind of plaster should I

use, provided I decide to build of lath

and plaster?



Jackson Co. E. B. M.





I would build the silo 10x36 feet to

make sure.



The lath and plastered silo is a very

good one. It is serviceable and can be

built at less expense than most any

other kind, because the farmer can do,

if he has time, most of the labor him-

self, but I don’t think the silage close

, to the cement is of as good quality as

that close to the wood of’a‘ good stone

' silo; it lacks flavor and aroma.



I have this kind of silo myself and

never expect to have any other kind,

for they will last indefinitely, but I

have found out from experience the

facts stated above.



You should use rich cement plaster

made of two parts fine, sharp sand and

one part cement, a little lime mixed in

will do no harm and make the plaster

spread better. .



How to Determine Contents of Silo in

Tons.



How can. I determine the contents

of a silo, in tons?



W. G.





Allegan Co.

Carefully conducted experiments





have‘determined that, on the average,

silage weighs about forty pounds per

cubic foot. Therefore ascertain the

cubical contents of your silo to the

height of the silage and multiply by

forty. Then divide by 2000, and the

result will be contents in tons.

COLON C. LILLIE.





COWS AND ALFALFA.





 





It is a fact that a combination of

cows and alfalfa offer our farmers the

greatest opportunity on the farm. It

makes an ideal combination, for return-

ing to the soil those fertilizing ele-

ments, nitrogen, potassium and phos-

phorus, that are essential for all plant

life; while by selling grains, hay and

straw you are selling off large quanti-

ties of these‘elements. One ton of

corn sold as grain ,removes as much

fertility from your farm as the sale of

thirteen tons of butter. The alfalfa

returns large quantities of nitrogen to

the soil and the other elements, potas-

sium and phosphorus are returned in'

large quantities in the manure.



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, :11: is the highest in protein

content as it contains over twelve per

cent, :while wheat bran has eleven per

cent, oats nine and a half per cent and

corn a little less than eight per cent.





 





This wouldindieate that it is a more





valuable feed for cows than wheat.

bran and yet it only costs about one-

fourth as much.



Alfalfa is also highest in digestible

proteins of any of the legumes. It

yields about 900 pounds of digestible

protein per acre, while clover yields

only about 500 pounds per acre. As

protein is the most valuable element

in feed stuffs, you can readily see that

it is a much more valuable feed than

oats, peas, beets and the like.



Ohio. G. H. CONN.





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RAISING GOOD THRIFTY CALVES.

For a great many years'l have rais-

ed live stock and have built up several

good dairy herds during this time. It

takes a great deal of care and knowl-

edge to raise a calf properly and as it

should be raised. I never had any

time for a pot—bellied calf. In fact, I

never raised one myself but it is not

an uncommon thing to see them being

raised right around us. Over-feeding

is the cause of pot-bellied calves. Over-

feeding with slops and sour milk will

surely be the cause of pot-bellied

calves and must be guarded against if

wle want to raise calves that will ma-

ture into strong healthy cows and that

will be good producers and vigorous.

I never feed our calves sour milk at

any time and our calves grow nicely

and are always free from bowel trou-

bles. The young calves are left with

the mothers until her milk is fit for

use, which is usually covered by a

period of about two weeks, in some

cases a little longer. The cow’s first

milk contains elements necessary for

the proper development of the calf. In

teaching the calf to drink from a pail,

we allow three quarts of milk, which

is warm from the cow, twice a day for

a week or until such time that the

calf has had a nice start. The calves

are fed at regular periods just the

same as our other steek. This is very

important and must be carried out if

We want to be successful in feeding

and raising calves. After the first week

or so we reduce the amount of milk

from three quarts down to two quarts

of the new milk, and add to it a nice

porridge made by cooking two heaping

tablespoons of common white flour in

one quart of sweet milk taken from

the separator, The flour and milk is

boiled until it becomes thickened.





We keep a kettle especially for cock-

ing the cereals. Cereals add fattening

qualities to make up for the cream re-

moved from the ration. ‘





When our calves are four weeks old

the fresh milk is reduced to one ‘quart

and the separator‘milk increased so

that it will make up a four-quart ra-

tion, which amount is maintained, ad-

ding a generous amount of corn meal

and once a week a small amount of

salt. The calves are now taught to

eat dry- corn meal, chop, etc. This is

easily done. Just place a handful of

the chOp in the pail right after the calf

is through drinking.



It is really surprising how soon a

calf will begin to eat shelled corn and

other grains. When the calves begin

to eat chop and shelled corn freely, we

then place some nice clover or alfalfa

hay in a box handy, where it can learn

to nibble and eat it. When a calf has

been carefully fed and it has learned

to eat hay and grain it soon becomes

a great husky fellow. I have never

found any ration any better than hay

and corn for growing calves. This

seems to be entirely satisfactory and

keeps the calf in a healthy, thrifty

condition all the time and when turn-

ed out on pasture in the spring they

grow rapidly into strong healthy ani-

mals and are full of vigor.

Pennsylvania. H. W. Sworn.





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mal; and, there are not many who feel

they can afford a long price for one

that will only be regarded as an extra.



One of my neighbors, finding him-

self in that predicament last spring,

found a solution that proved entirely

satisfactory. Providing himself with

the services of a reliable veterinarian

he went on a little prospecting trip to-

the city. Operators of breweries, coal

yards, etc., have many fine specimens

of draft horses which they use for dray

purposes. The trouble from the city

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loads over the paved streets soon pro-

duces a footsm-eness that precludes

them from further service of that kind.

Right here is where the farmer’s op-‘§

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We have read with much interest in

these columns some articles dealing

with the profits to be had from the

raising of sheep for wool and mutton.

While we don’t profess to be a sheep

man, or to know much about the rela-

tive values of the different breeds of

sheep, we have had a little experience

on our own hook along these lines

which may prove of interest and value

to others in the same circumstances

in which we were at the time.



We had a little over four hundred

acres under cultivation, and what with

threshing machine, saw mill, lumber-

ing operations and other irons in the

fire, we were not in any rush to get

more land in shape. We had eighty

acres of cut-over hardwood land which

was growing up to briers and brush,

and on this we decided to try our hand

at sheep raising.



After fencing it with woven wire, we

turned in one hundred sheep. At the

end of the first season the briers were

pretty sick and the June grass was

showing up in spots all over the pas-

ture. '



The next spring we went over this

ground with our axes and cut down

all the green trees. and all the brush

that was high as our head; as soon as

there was feed enough in sight for the

sheep we turned them in again, and

the young sprouts shooting up from

the green stumps made excellent, pick-

ing. By the end of the season the

brush,was pretty badly whipped, ex-





brush piles protected it.





in making every penny count.

John W. Bate, the great effi-

ciency expert, has spent years

here to attain that.





He designed this whole 45-

acre plant to build Mitchell cars

economically. He equipped it

with thousands of special ma-

chines. Every part is built here

at the lowest factory cost. On

this year's output his methods

will save us at least $4,000,000.





But a S-passenger car will be _





There is no other factory like





this building high-grade cars.

Hundreds of Extras





You see the result in hun-

dreds of extras—all paid for by

factory savings. _



There are 31 features-dike a

power tire pump—which are prac-

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We have doubled our margins

of safety. This year every vital

part has 100 per cent over-

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Over 440 parts are built of

toughened steel. Many parts are

oversize. Many are built of costly

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See What Men. Miss





See what men miss who buy

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see the 31 attractions, most of

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$118 is the 'story of the’first boy 0 if, indeed, he was fortunate enough to

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fly, and how it ended. Before I A 6 us starved to death within this castle and

- (A Myth Story)





commence the story, we must under- no one dared to go in search of him.





stand each other or we shall not get By MARY L DANN As a result King Minos became very

on at all. Myth stories are not hope- angry with Daedalus and shut him and





to-die true stories, but are those the Zeppelins DOW floating above it. The winners were crowned with laurel his son Icarus up in a tower on an is-

people who lived away back hundreds Greece is not an oily, messy place. as leaves and their names 'Were known in land. Daedalus managed to find a way

of years ago believed to be true. its name might lead us to think, but every home in the land. In this city out of the prison, but he Gourd not es-

This story of Icarus is one that the one of the most beautiful in the world. there lived a carpenter by the name of cape from the island, as the king kept

fathers and mothers who lived in that There was a fine city in Greece call- Daedalus, W110 built ‘d very strange cas- a close watch on all the vessels.

very old country called Greece used to ed Olympia, where the people met 8V" tle f01‘ M11105, the king 0f Greece. This One day Daedalus said to his son,

tell to their children, and, strange to ery five years, in midsummer, for five castle was called The Labyrinth, and “Minos may control the sea, but he

_ say, they believed it. If you do not days of games and sports. These were it had Passages Winding and turning in does not control the air, so we will try

e know where Greece is, look it up in called the Olympian Games, and were and out and opening into each other, and escape that way.” There were

é your geographies. for it is one of the of five kinds, running, leaping, wrest- so that if one attempted to go into the many large birds on the island and

5 countries having‘ trouble in the war ling, hurling spears and boxing. There building, just as likely as not it would great quantities of feathers drifted

and there are many bomb dropping were also contests in music and poetry. take him a week to find his way out, about in the winds. These Daedalus





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his son very securely, and together

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plowman stopped still in his furrow,

all believing them to be gods. Sud-

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far behind that he Icoked like a mere

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not or would not' hear him.

went on up and up until suddenly he

was face to face with the blazing sun,

which scorched his white and pink





cheeks to an ugly brown and melted ‘





the wax which held the feathers in his

wings and they all came off. He flut-

tered his arms, but no feathers remain-

ed to catch the air and hold him up.

Screaming with fright and calling for





his father, he dropped headlong into





the sea. When Daedalus saw the

feathers floating in the blue waters

above Icarus, he plunged to the bot-

tom of the sea and brought up the sun-

scorched body, which he tenderly bur-

ied on a nearby island. This beautiful.

island he called Icaria, which name it

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THE CHICK-A-DEES.





 





BY L. MYRTLE SOURS.





From a tall old stump came a flash of

white



With a shadow of gray, then ’twas out

of sight.



0, little spirit of the snow,



How quick your movements when you

go!



Alas! that your kindred are so few,



This winter I have seen but two.



I saw him once in the box-wood tree



Half hidden from sight—a chick-a-dee.



Again ’neath the window, hopping

round,



I saw him pecking on the ground;



A coat of drab, a figure neat,



A yellow bill, and red-brown feet,



A clear cut line across his breast,



And then a lovely whitened vest.



Again upon the garden- ground



Flashes of white were moving round;



0,1es; it was our chick— a—dee—-



A pair of them ,moving cheeril1.



Two coats of drab whirled through the

air,



Four dark, spread wings, lined White

were there,





Two yellow bills that kissed each





‘With joy for





At least, the two bills met together—-

Two long dark tails, all white beneath,

Mmements more quick than you can

breathe,



Some tender, soft, yet clear cut notes

From out a pair of gray clad throats,

A Whirl of drab—a flash of white!—



Our chick- a-dees are out of sight.





EASTER MORNING.





 





BY MISS Z. I. DAVIS.





The beautiful lilies are blooming,

So radiant, spotless and fair,

Their beauty is seen in the garden,

Their fragrance is filling the air.

The Eastertide comes in the glory,

Of music, of gladness and light,

the‘ hearts that are

broken,

To turn into morning, their night.

The chime Of the bells is repeating,

The never-forgotten refrain,

That Christ, the Redeemer is risen,

That Jesus, the Lord, lives again.

The roses, the ferns and the lilies,

With love and true gladness

bring,

And scatter them all in His pathway,





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other— To honor the Lord and the King.

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Stoddard sat watching her, trying to

Obtain a glimpse of her face, which

she kept steadily averted from him.

Of a sudden the same magic thrill as

that which had swept over him that

instant when she was almost in his

arms, back on their island, surged in

his blood again.



He reached for her hands and seized

them.





“Sadie!"



He spoke rapidly now with joyous

confidence.



“I love you. I want you. I need

you! I‘m going to have you. Do you

understand? I’ve found you and I’m

going to keep you. That’s why I fol-

lowed 1‘ou here. You know it. I





would have followed you anywhere,

and forever, until I found you.



“I love you. DO you hear?

you!”



Her hands stirred in his grasp; she

shrank from him.



“Don’t ! " sheoexclaimed.



“I will. You belong to me.

love me.”



She drew away from his grip with

a sudden motion and struggled to her

feet. Stoddard leaped up, but she held

him from her with a gesture.





I love





You





“Don’t! I can’t bear it!"

“I tell you——”

“Stop!”-





There was a ring of command in her

voice.



“You mustn’t say it. I mustn’ t listen.

I thought it all out—after he asked me

the question’



She hesitated;

perately:



“Yes. it’s the question he asked. I

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loved the man! That was it!

what would she do? You know—I

There ain’t any other way!”



Stoddard’s eyes glowed as he watch-

ed her. She was facing him bravely

now, not flinching from his gaze,



“He said thatwlove meant a sacri-

fice,”°she went on rapidly. “He’s right.

He knew it. It does mean that. A





woman can’t drag down a man she”





loves. If she isn’t meant for him,

she’s got to give him-up.





“There! I’ve said it because you

made me. I’ve said I love you. It’s

true! And it’ll always be true! I can’t





ne1 eristcp that. But that’s all it’ll ever

be, because—because I love you too

much to hurt you!”





ll 1th a cry of triumph he brushed-





aside the arms that tried to ward him

off and drew her against his breast in

a mighty embrace.



“God bless you!” he murmured.

knew you loved me.”



She struggled in his arms sobbing,

but he held her fast.



“Don’t!” she gasped.

I got to give you 'up. I ain’t fit for

you. We're different. Think—your

mother, your sister! Ah, let me go!”



He was smiling down at the bronze





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hair that lay against his ragged flannel 6d





shirt. Gently he bent his lips to it.

Then he began talking to her as if she

were a child to be comforted.



“Cry, if you want to, dear. It

doesn’t make any difference. I’ve got

you now. I’m not going to give you up,

and you couldn’t give me up if you

wanted to.





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into your.heiiijt,y5Sadie. Do you think

that I haven’t th'oughtot an the things

you thought? Ah but I} have, dear!

I went over it all. And I fould it all

false and shallow and unworthy of a

sacrifice. And there cannot be any—-

and will not. ‘



“We love each other. That is the

‘ beginning» and the end of it.”



She sobbed quietly in his arms with-

out an effort to release herself.



“So you must put it all out of your

dear, foolish head,” he went on softly.

“Do you think I care if you do not

always talk as other women do? I love

you.



“Does it matter to me that you

worked in a factory? I love you.



“Does it make any difference be-

cause somebody sent,me to school and

forgot to send you. I love you.



“Nothing can stand against that.

Nothing will. Look at me, Sadie!”



She stirred a little. He heard her

whisper: ' '



“You’re—sure ?”



“You know it!”



Suddenly she lifted her head and met

his glance steadily. He saw a wonder-

ful light in her gray eyes. They were

timorous no longer, though her lips

trembled and the tears were still on

her cheeks. Then her arms were flung

around his neck fiercely.



“I won’t give you up!” she panted.

"I can’t! Maybe it’s wrong; I don’t

care! You said I belonged to you—

and I do! And you belong to me! I

——I tried to give you up, and some-

thing won’t let me. So now it’s forev-

er! Ah, Jack—Jack! Hold me close!”





For a little they stood thus, Sadie

clinging to him in silence, while the

little brook ran tinkling onward at

their feet. The brook was very old

and love was very old, so there was

nothing to pause and wonder at.



An hour later they were laughing

with the brook. Stoddard was finish-

ing a narration of his detention by the

immigration officials and of their trib~

ute to the bona-fide evidence of Sadie’s

citizenship.



“I did talk pretty plain,” oshe con-

fessed. “Slangin’ helps once in a while,

even if it ain’t proper.”



\‘When he reached the tale of the

Shrimp and the spanking, Sadie be,

came almost hysterical. She hugged

her big man in delight and begged him

to tell it all over again.



“I could ’ve done it myself,” she

said a little proudly, “only it. wouldn’t

’ve looked dignified.”



“Alys thought it was great,”

added.



“Alys?”



“No. 17."



Sadie bestowed upon him a look of

swift scrutiny.



“Where’d you get that Alys stufi?”

she demanded. -



“Oh, we got to be good friends,”

said Stoddard with affected careless-

ness, although his eyes were twinkling.



“Oh, you did!” exclaimed Sadie dis-

dainfully. “You mean that blonde

with the frizzes.



“Yes; nice-looking girl. She offered

to teach me to dance.”



“Oh, I bet she did!

thought she was good-lookin’, did you?”



Sadie had bridled at the mention of

the name and now she was trying to

look offended.



“Just good-looking, I said,” explained

Stoddard. “Not beautiful.”



His eyes were watching her as he

spoke. Sadie became mollifled.



“Am I really beautiful ?” she asked.



“Haven’t you ever thought so your-

self?”



“I knew; I was good-lookin’, she ad-

mitted. “It ain’t no harm for a girl to

know that, I guess, providin’ it’s true.

ButI guess I wasn’t ever stuck up

over it. But beautiful—Well, that

sounds like a lot more.”



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“What do you mean, Sadie?”





“I ain’t goin‘ to be a wife that you’ll.





be ashamed of. That’s what I mean.

You can hide me at first, but I won’t

always stay khid.



“You see, it’s this way: Right now I





ain’t fitto be takep'nowher‘e. among:





your kind 'of'fixpéhple: did Shame you.

I’d shame ‘mysélfj tool”

at me.





count it .’d nearly kill me. .



“That’s why I ran away. I never

understood exactly the difference be-

tween some women and others till I

seen your, mother. Then it came to

me right off what I really was. And

then when Mr. Livingston talked to me

I seen more of it. I seen it on your ac-

count, too. So I just had to go away.





“I didn’t dare wait for you to come

back. I knew what you was goin’ to

say to me; you’d almost said it. .And

once you’d ever told mé I wouldn’t ’ve

been able to go. I wasn’t strong enough

for that, Jack.”



“But you tried to give me up only

a little While ago,” he reminded her.



“Did 1? I’d almost forgotten. Seems

now like I couldn’t ’ve meant. it. Be—

cause if anybody told me I’d have to

give-you up now there’d—VVell, there’d

be fightin’, .I guess. But now we’ve got

each othe1-—— .



She paused momentarily as if the

phrase pleased her.



“Now we’ve get each other,” she

repeated, .“1 got to be raised up till I

stand level with you. I' got to be ed-

ucated.”



“I love you as you are,”

vehemently. _



“I know,” she nodded. “That makes

me think there’s something to me. But

I don’t love myself as much as I used

to: not since I met you—and wanted

you. Always, years back, I’d been

promisin’ myself that some day I’d

learn things, but thetime never came

round. It’s come now.



“That’s why you’ve got an awful big

job, Jack. You got to help me. You

got to teach me. I can’t stay ignorant

any more. You will, won't you, boy?”



“I’ll do anything for you, Sadie,” he

said solemnly.



Sadie lifted her head proudly. There

was the light of a great resolve in her

calm, gray eyes.



“I’m goin’ to be a credit to you some

day, Jack,” she said quietly.

it’ll be years, but it’ll come. I know it."



Darkness had come when Stoddard

and Sadie climbed aboard a city-

bound car at the trolley terminal. They

talked but little on the journey back.

His own mind was filled with reverent

wonder at the strong, clean-souled

woman who had come so strangely 111-

to his life, while in Sadie‘s there were

deep peace and content—and a rain-

how.



He had tWenty;si_\‘ cents in capital

when they-entered the telegraph-office

to inquire if a reply to his message

had been received, while Sadie was in

but little better financial tsate. Stod-

dard breathed a sigh of satisfaction as

the clerk counted a pile of bills and

shoved them across the desk.



“We’ll be civilized in an hour if

there are any stores open,” he said.



“I kind of like you the way you

are,” she said.



They were leaving when the clerk

called Stoddard back.



“There’s a message, too,” he said,

tossing an envelope upon the counter.



Stoddard read it and frowned.



“Bad news?” asked Sadie.





he declared





He‘ handed her the telegram. She ’





read:



Money wired as per your telegram.

Have just signed railroad-construction

contract for Argentina. Can you be

ready to take steamer sailing in three

days.



“Where’s Argentine, Jack?"



“South America.”





“And how long ’11 the job take?"





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(face rereading the message.





“Well,~ why don’ t you answer it?”

asked Sadie.

“But what am I going to say?”

“Say ‘Yes ”’ -

“But for a year! I can't wait for

you that long, Sadie!”

“You won’t'have to.

you.”

“But~—_ . '

“It’s the chanc‘e' I need. A. year’s

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“You mean you’ll—4’



“Marry you any time, Jack.”



She put her; hands on his shoulders

and smiled up at him but her eyes

were grave. . _



“I ain’t a doll- -baby, dear,” she said.

“I’m a woman. Wherevex you go I'm

goin’. That’s my idea of a wife.”





CHAPTER XXI.



Reunion. ‘



Another September had come in the



Deepwater. It was glowing and golden



wherever the lake stretched. But there



was one green island upon which the



sunlight seemed to rest like a benedic-



tion. It was an island quiet and



sturdy, knowing its own strength and

happiness and being content."





In a little brown glade among the,

trees stood a tent, the flap thrown

wide. There was an orderly stone fire-

place near by, from which wiSps -of

blue-gray smoke ascended. A bench

and a table had been built between

convenient trees. There was n’pile of

cut wood at one side of the clearing.





A green-bottomed canoe lay on the

shore a few yards distant. On every-

thing the sun was shining, while a soft

breeze came in from the lake, bearing

freshness and the sweet scents of early

fall.



A woman stepped out of the tent

and stood for a moment watching the

water. She was tall and straight and

fair, even through the smooth, brown





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‘tan that lay upon her cheeks. Her





deep bos’om rose and fell-softly under

an olive-drab throat. There was a red

scarf at her throat. A broad-brimmed

sombrero of felt shaded her eyes.

From beneath it strayed strands of

flaming bronze. Her tan skirt fell a.

little below her knees, where it was

met by high-laced boots. A leather belt

girdled her waist.





In her simple costume she gave the

impression of a woman richly dressed,

a woman who fitted her environment,

knew it, and was satisfied.





She stepped across the little camp,

looked in each direction along the

shore; then cupped her hands at her

lips and called:



“O-o-oh, Jack!”



An answering hail

from somewhere beyond a jutting

point. She began following the shore

in the direction of the sound. Pres-

ently she met a man. Save in one par-

ticular, he, too, was stoutly dressed

for the woods. His shirt was old and

worn and patched, and there were the

marks of careful stitching where' a.

rent had been closed in the shoulder.



“How do I look?” she asked.



“Magnificent.”



“I put on my very best.

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She turned slowly while he survey-





ed the costume.

“Couldn’t be better. You’re absolute

Iy stunning!”

She smiled and nodded despairingly.

“You always say that,” she said, "no

matter how I look.” "

“But it’s true, Sadie.”

:“I hope so. But. I'm always afraid

of your praising me, even when I

don’ t deserve it. When will she be

here?” _

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seems." ‘



She spoke ’slowly and with angodd

precision in her voice, as if each word

and sentence that came to her lips

passed" rigid censorship before utter-

anceIWas given it: B

i The big man slipped his arms about

his wife. They strolled slowly in the

direction of, the camp. ' ' ' _ ,

, "I’m a little frightened,” she" said

with a nervous laugh.



“I’m not," he declared promptly. “It’s

going to be an instant and complete

victory."



‘ “I always think she'll never forgive

me, Jack—for taking you. What do

you suppose she thinks I’m like? She’s

never had even a picture.”



A “I told her what you were like every

time I write. She knows that‘you are

very wonderful.”



Sadie patted his

ently. .



“You don’t understand women yet

she said. “It doesn’t count—what a

man says about the woman he loves.





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sees.”



“But I know her decision.” He nod-

ded confidently. '



“I mustn’t target to talk slowly,”.

she went'on. “I’m not very bad when

I stop and think carefully. Am 1,

Jack?”



"I simply marvel at you dear. Oh,

but that’s true! I didn’t believe any





f person could do it in a year.”





“That’s because we went away

Where I could have my schoolmaster





all to myself., I liked it down in‘Ar-i





gentine, Jack. I could‘get away from

everything and study,” was her‘explan-

atory reply.



“We may have to go again.”



“When?” She spoke quickly and

anxiously. ,



“Not for a year, at least. Perhaps

not then. But there’s a likelihood.”



“A year? Oh, that’s all right.”



She smiled enigmatically and tight-

ened her arm about his shoulders.



Their year in a far land had been a

wondrous one for Sadie Stoddard. She

had seen her big husband doing serious,

things, fighting and conquering and 1’31

tiently hewing obstacles from his path.



(Concluded next week).





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over a dozen that evening while I was

watching them. I watched them work,

but I could never see how they did it.

I would see them settle on an ear, and

in. a moment they would fly up 'with

the worm, without any digging or tear-

ing that I could see. They didn’t get a

worm from every car by any means,

though I have an idea the worms were

there. Probably they could only get

those conveniently located, though it

was full-sized worms they were carry-

ing away.



Last fall I was in the woods for

an outing, and sat still for awhile

and watched the birds. It was in 00

tober, and many of the birds were air

sent, but I saw five or six different

kinds busy searching the trunks and

limbs of the trees for insects. They

belonged to two families, the wood-

peckers and warblers, and they were

rustling for worms that afternoon in a

way that proved their usefulness. I

have seen these same kind of birds in

the orchards searching the fruit trees,

and the coddling moth larva is thinned

out to a great extent by them. The

little black and white spotted wood-

pecker and some of the warblers re~

semble each other so much you would

hardly recognize the difference, and it

does not matter. Hand out some suet

for them when it is cold, and encour-

age their visits to the orchard and it

will pay. Where wild haws and [crab-

aples abound probably the birds do as

much good for you in the woods as in

the orchard, for these wild trees are

regular incubating plants for orchard

pests. The birds see to it that the

pests do not flourish uninterruptedly

on these hosts and thereby lessen to a

great degree the constant danger to

nearby orchards, due to the presence

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a home of my own if it had not



been for a mistaken sense of humor

on the part of my family.” .The spin-

ster dressmaker snipped off a thread

as she spoke and squinted a failing eye

in an effort to locate the" eye of a

cambric needle.



“Instead, here I am knocking about

from place to place, making dresses

for other people’s children and think-

ing how much better I could run a

house than any of the women I sew

for.”



“What about your family?” prompt-

“Didn’t they like

the man?”



“Oh, it wasn’t any one man,” the

dressmaker explained. “There never

was any special man, for by the time

I was old enough to think seriously of

a man I always left the room when one

came it. It was just the family’s idea

of a good time. They began to tease

me about boys before I was fairly out

of the cradle. If I played with a little

boy he was my ‘beau.’ As I grew older

it got worse. I grew up big-boned and

awkward and the idea that I might

have a beau in earnest seemed a per-

fect scream to them all, even my moth-

er. Every boy or man who came to

the house gave them a fresh chance to

tease me. There was one bachelor,

about forty, who used to come when

I was only fifteen. They called him

my beau so much I used to run and

hide in the hay mow when I saw him

coming and stay until long after he

left. I’ve lost many a good dinner on

that chap’s account. But I’ve forgiven

him. He never knew it.



“Of course, I grew self-conscious and

more awkward. I flushed every time

I saw a man who was not a relative,

and if one spoke to me I choked and

spluttered so I couldn’t answer him.

This was a source of constantdelight

It gave them fresh ma-

terial for laughter. They could not

see that the more they teased the

worse I got. If they had only paid no

attention to me I’d have been all right.

It was not the men who bothered me

but the thought of how I’d be ridi-

culed later. .



“Poor mother! She never could

guess what I suffered. It was just

fun for her. But it was such agony

for me that I left home when I was

sixteen and never went back to live.





look a man in the face and talk to him

without blushing and stammering un-

til he thought I was a fool. .



“Of course, the poor chaps thought

I had designs on them, and they all

steered clear of me. If they could only

know even at this late day that I

didn’t want them, I’d feel better.



“I noticed this morning that your

husband was teasing Mattie about that

lad next door. Take warning by me

and make him stop. They’re nothing

but children, probably without a

thought of beaus or love-making. For

goodness sake let them stay so. Don’t

you put theidea into theirheads.

“And when Mattie does get a real

beau, you put that young Jack in irons

if he starts any joking. Just treat the

affair as a matter of course, and you’ll

save a lot of trouble. Girls are bound

to have beaus 'if they are attractive

and the less open attention you pay to

them, the better. Keep your eyes op-

en and your mouth shut. That’s the

best Way.





 





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A Mistaken Sense of Humor





me an old maid. The only time I ever

feel hard is when I have to start out

to work before daylight with the mer-

cury at fourteen degrees below. But

I’d like to save some other girl. You

be good to Mattie.”



DEBORAH.





SANDWICH FILLINGS FOR THE

SCHOOL DINNER PAIL.





 





By LULU G. PARKER.



The call of the school bell demands

suitable food for the children’s dinner

baskets, and sandwiches are almost

“must-haves.” Bread a ‘day old is

ideal, but a sharp knife to cut it into

thin slices, and something to put be-

tween, are the absolute essentials. Oil-

ed paper, such as comes around pack-

age crackers and cakes, or the regular

paraffin paper which is sold for the

purpose, should be wrapped around

each sandwich to keep it moist. There

are a number of sandwich fillings

which may be prepared at leisure and

stored in small glass cans or jelly

tumblers on the cool cellar shelves.

Some of these will keep for weeks in

a cool dry place.



Peanut butter is the old standby for

sandwiches. It. has real food value and

is a meat substitute aside from the

fact that most children like it. It can

be purchased in bulk from a reliable

dealer. If it is somewhat dry, work a

little fresh butter into it, or add a ta-

blespoonful of olive oil to each glass

of the peanut butter. Most meat grind-

ers have a peanut butter attachment,

the finest grinder plate. With this pea-

nut butter may be easily and econom-

ically made at home. Or the nuts may

even be pounded in a mortar, but this

is more trouble. Shell and remove the

thin brown skin from freshly roasted

peanuts. Grind or pound them to a

fine powder. Sprinkle lightly with salt

and work in half as much fresh butter

as there is peanut powder. Work into

a smooth paste and store in glass or

stone jars in a cool place.



Sweet Peanut Filling—To one-half

cup of finely ground peanuts add one

cup of grate‘d maple sugar, or light

brown sugar, and work in sufficient

fresh butter to make a stiff paste.

When ready to spread on the bread

moisten with a spoonful of sweet

cream.



Pounded Cheese—This will utilize

the scraps of left-over cheese which

have become too dry or unsightly to

serve. Remove the rind and run the

pieces through the meat grinder with

the fine-toothed attachment, or pound

to a paste in a mortar. To a half

pound of the cheese add one teaspoon-

ful each of made mustard, sugar, and

one-half teaspoonful of pepper. Mix

these together thoroughly and work in

enough melted butter to make a stiff

paste. Store in small jars covered

with paraffin. This will keep for weeks.

It is fine to spread between sandwich-

es which are to be toasted over a

camp fire.



Fruit Filling—Make a paste of chop-

ped nuts, dates, and prunes or figs.

This will keep for weeks in as cool

place if stored in tightly covered jars.

Any rich jam or marmalade "is fine to

spread between slices of brown bread.

. Fig Filling—One-half pound of ‘fine4

ly chopped ‘figs, one-third cup of sugar,

one-half cup of boiling water and two

tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Mix and

cook in a double boiler until thick

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hot if it is desired to keep' it for sev-

eral weeks.



Nut- -Ginger Pastas—Chop or roll Eng-

lish walnuts, mix with half as much

chopped, preserved ginger. When ready

to make the sandwiches moisten the

mixture with sweet cream.



Fish Sandwiches.——It pays to keep a

supply of sardines on the supply shelf.

These may be minced and mixed with

mayonnaise dressing at a moment’s

notice. Kippered herring, smoked her-

ring, and anchovies make good sand-

wiches also.



The following fillings may be pre-

pared the’ evening before the picnic

and kept on the ice-box or in a cold

cellar:



Chicken Salad Sandwiches—Chop

fine the left-over meat of a boiled or

baked chicken, after removing all skin

and fat. To each cupful of meat add

one teaspoonful of lemon juice, sprink-

ling the latter over the meat. Set in

the ice box. When ready to make the

sandwiches chop enough white celery

to make two-thirds cupful, season with

salt and white pepper, and mix with

the chicken. Moisten with salad dress-

ing and spread on a lettuce leaf be-

tween slices of white bread.



Egg Paste—Finely chop the whites

and mash the yolks of three hard boil-

ed eggs. Add two tablespoonfuls of

salad dressing and pepper and salt to

taste.



Salad Dressing—Beat two eggs to a

froth. Mix while dry one heaping ta-

blespoonful of sugar, one-half teaspoon-

ful of mustard, and a pinch each of

salt and white pepper. Add to this

the beaten eggs and one cup of vine-

gar. Pour into a- double boiler and

bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

Boil until creamy but not too thick.

Just before removing from the fire add

one tablespoonful of olive oil, or one

teaspoonful of butter. Beat until it is

smooth and creamy. This will keep in

a cold place for two or three days.



Sandwiches without Bread.-——These

are prime favorites with the children.

We use them also when we receive a

telephone call to jump into the auto

and go to an impromptu picnic, if

there is no fresh bread in the house.

Make baking powder biscuits a little

larger than usual. Chop fine any cold

chicken, veal, or other cold meat, or

canned sardines or salmon, season it

highly with salt, pepper, and celery





salt if it is liked. Add enough sweet '





cream to make a stiff paste. Cut the

tops from the biscuits, take out some

of the inside and/replace the crumbs

with the meat paste. These are extra

good when impaled on a sharp stick

and toasted in the school stove.





LETTE R BOX.





 





Household Editor.—-Not in a saucy

way, .but a friendly interchange of

opinions: The article on “Manners”

in a late number of The Farmer,~ is

very good. On the soup question it

might/have added that it should always

be taken from the side of the spoon,

not the end, and the spoon dipped

from, and not toward you, when taking

it from the dish. There should‘be a

reason for all things, and this sweep

of the spoon is not only more'graceful

but the soup is less liable to» drip. Also

taking it from the tip prevents an

awkward bend of the elbow.



The rule for going up and down

stairs is old, if not well established.

But I have always questioned the

“why” of it, and who will explain? It

seems to me going either direction the

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BY GRACIA SKULL.



In the early spring when such vege-

tables as beets. cabbage. onions, .etc.,

begin to lose their crispness and de-

teriorate I cook and peel and chop the

beets, chop the cabbage and" onions

and .add to them several quarts of sol-

id, canned tomatoes. I pour a boiling,

spiced vinegar over the mixed vegeta-

bles and seal in pint fruit jars. It

makes a delicious relish. Sometimes





I add chopped celery‘and a dozen or

'so sour cucumber pickles, also chop-'





ped. As there is always so much more

than we can make use of ourselves I

have from fifty to seventy-five pints to

sell every spring. Some of the cab-

bage, onions. carrots, turnips, celery,

etc,, I make into a condensed soup and

seal airtightr'While scalding hot. This

is fine'combined with a rich soup stock

and is quickly prepared in an emer-

gency. I usually put a few sweet pep-

pers in these condensed vegetables. A

cupful of 'riced potato made fresh and

added to the soup is a fine addition.





Before active work in vegetable and

flower garden begins, and before the

little“ chicks begin to come in such

great numbers and require so much of

our time and'attention', is the time





(when we should do up all odd jobs in-





doors. Sort out and mend such cloth-

ing as is fit to wear another summer.

From the men’s old overalls make

rompers for the children and garden

gloves and aprons for ourselves. Make-

braided rugs from such clothing as is

actually beyond mending. 7

This is a good time to do up the

summer’s sewing also, as time is not

pressing so strenuously. Too, this is

a good time tomake up those jars and

jars of fruit juices into delicious jellies

as. in spring, sugar is usually reason-

ably priced. This is also the proper

time to get out pencil and paper and

la out flower and vegetable gardens

9 . you desire to have them planted

to coming season. 'This will save

time when the actual planting time

comes and every minute is precious.

Closets'and the‘attic may be cleaned

at this time and put in readiness . to

receive our heavy clothing when we—

discard them f'or summer garments.

Throughout the winter and early

spring we should make it a point to do

considerable reading, and also study.

Good books, magazines, and a daily pa-

per are essential in the farm home.

However, we should not forget to

study our gricultural and other farm

bulletins. Also, we should study the

different seed catalogs and try to get

hold of the very best seed possible.





 

 





,Music'should not be forgotten in the





stress of farm life. Every home should

be provided with some sort of musical

instrument, and, in between whiles, or

“odd jobs,” mother should find time to

practice the old chords and sing the

old songs. I am reasonably sure that

father and .the rest of the family will

enjoy it.





Household Editor. -Will someone

please tell me how to fix silk rags for

a rug, how wide to cut them? Can

they be made into anything else? Is

tallow just as good to make hard soap





of as lard? Many thanks for past reci~ .1





pes ..—Mrs A. C.





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HOROUGHLY disgusted with

marketing conditions, a handful

of the pioneer cranberry grow-

ers of Wisconsin got together in 1905

and organized the Wisconsin Cranber-

ry Sales Company. Out/of this humble





Cranberry Exchange, a growers’ co-op-

erative organization that handles two-

thirds of all the cranberries raised in

the United States.



The organization met with success

from the start and might well serve

as a working plan for the co-operative

marketing of other farm products. The

increased production of cranberries

that resulted from better cultural con-

ditions and the substitution of cultivat—

ed scientifically managed bogs for the

wild grassy marshes, had brought

home to the Wisconsin growers the

marketing question with additional

force. A few of them undertook to

find a market themselves and were

able to dispose of a few barrels, but

only on the customary thirty to ninety

'days’ time. Not only was the retail

store found to be notoriously slow pay

but it would use only a. few barrels at

a time. Most of the cranberries had

to be marketed through commission

men. The growers were continually

complaining about the commission

merchants who were accused of fixing

prices or quoting high prices with a

deliberate attempt to deceive the ship-

per who did not know what his berries

were bringing until it was too late to

help matters. Much could be said on

the side of the commission man for too

often the grower knew very little about

grading or packing. Barrels were

sometimes used that lacked several

quarts of being the 100-quart standard

capacity but were shaped to give that

impression. The poor berries and rub-

bish at the center were forced off with

the best berries. Some markets de-

mand dark—colored berries, some the

long bugle-shaped varieties, some only

the very largest but the grower would

barrel them altogether regardless of

color, shape, size or soundness.



The marketing situation grew worse

each year until in February, 1905, the

growers in a joint meeting invited the

commission men to send one person

as a representative to buy for them

collectively. The commission men ac-

cordingly sent a man to do their buy-

ing. The Wisconsin growers then as-

sembled, ,talked over the situation and

finally agreed on a fixed price that

they thought the market would sus-

tain. In less than an hour, the con-

tract for the Whole crop was closed.



Cranberries immediately became a

cash crop and so satisfactory was the

whole scheme that the Wisconsin

Cranberry Sales Company was formed

and an Iowa company was secured as

salesman. This company was placed

under $50,000 bonds to the Wisconsin

Sales Company and agreed to sell the

association’s berries in the open mar-

ket for the ‘best obtainable price and

not to enter into any outside combina-

tion. They were to do. collecting, ad~

vertising, etc., and bear an expense

incurred through selling the fruit. As

compensation for their services, they

received a five per cent commission on

the price of the berries, F. O. B. ship-

ping point. Although the Wisconsin

crop was only 18,000 barrels, $42,000

was thereby saved to the growers by

this organizatiOn the first year. By

their united efforts the following

freight rate reductions were immedi-

ately secured on 200 barrel cars: For-

ty dollars on a car to California; $72

to all Northern Pacific points; $60 to

Winnipeg; $12 to Minneapolis, and $24

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Cranberries and Co-operation V

How One Industry Hp: ‘galtcigiéggplil'il Overcome the Usual Obstacles





By RALPH W. PETERSON





arketing.





could determine the volume of busi-

ness and therefore never suflered from

a. car shortage.





The Sales Company, by getting this

monopoly on the western territory

were able to avoid gluts in the market

and bad debts. At the end of the sea.-

son, not a single dollar was standing

out on bad accounts. Cape Cod berries

threatened at one time to spoil a local

market but the Sales Company went

in, bought them up, and diverted the

shipment to a new territory thus sav-

ing the prices for all concerned.





Success in the marketing of the Wis-

consin crop induced the plan for a na-

tional. organization. It was felt that

an advertising propaganda, and an

equal distribution Without friction, of

the entire cranberry crop, were mat-

ters for consideration and action by a

national organization. In August of

the same year the matter was laid. be-

fore the Cape Cod and New Jersey

growers. So convincing were the ar-

guments that the New England Cran-

berry Sales Company and the New

Jersey Cranberry sales Company were

immediately formed. The following

spring of 1907, the three sales compa-

nies organized a National Sales Com-

pany under the name of the National

Fruit Exchange known today as the

American Cranberry Exchange.





This organization has been a great

success for it has given cheaper and

better berries to the consumer and at

the same time has secured better pric-

es for the growers. The growers are

the only stockholders and they agree

to sell their entire cranberry crop

through the organization.





The opening price of the berries is

fixed by the board of directors elected

from the Sales Companies. This op-

ening price is made low enough in 01‘-

der to start the crop moving. The

price is then gradually raised to cover

the shrinkage and decay on' the ber-

ries. The 'price set must not be too

low or a brisk market will consume

the crop before the season is over. If

set too high, people will substitute

other fruits and a large part of the

crop may be forced to the dump for it

is common knowledge that a weak

market has a depressing effect on con-

sumption. The work of the American

Cranberry Exchange in analyzing con-'

ditions and arriving at an equable

price to the grower and consumer is

therefore of the utmost importance.

The spread in price to cover shrinkage

and overhead cost of holding, etc., is

about as follows: When September

berries are started at $5.00 per barrel,

October berries of similar character

should bring $5.75, in November $6.25,

December $6.50, January $6.75, Febru-

ary $7.00, March $7.25, and in April

$8.00. Present methods of storage re-

sult in about a thirty per cent loss be-

tween September and the following

May. Late-keeping cranberries will

command an extra premium over the

early varieties that must be moved

early in season even at a sacrifice in

price. ,



The retail price of cranberries has

an exceedingly important effect on the

consumption. Statistical tables for the

past thirty-five years show that while

the consumers will take a large crop

at $6.00 a barrel, a crop one-quarter

that large could not be marketed at

$12 a. barrel. Judge Gaynor, of Wis-

consin, found that retail dealers con-

sider the influence of price on con-

sumption to be about as follows: When

100 quarts of cranberries can be mar-

keted at eight cents a quart,‘ only

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cents, forty-five quarts at twelveand.

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predicted on the basis of the supply

and quality of the. crop at the end of

the picking season. Many retailers,

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ten $4;00 and $8.00 berries of different

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Less fruit would decay and there would

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Marketing Eggs





HE metho‘d‘ssof selling eggs will



depend upon conditions. Some



farmers will find it most profit-

able to ship their eggs, to the city mar-

ket, others can get larger net returns

by selling directly to selected custom-

ers. Those who have customers for

other products will do well to add

fancy eggs to the list. Even in the

smaller cities there are many people

who desire to get, and are willing to

pay for, strictly fresh eggs. Persistent

effort will locate customers of this

sort. Often a small advertisement in

the local paper will bring quick results.



To obtain the highest success the

first essential is to have good eggs. It

is not within the province of this arti-

cle to tell how to produce eggs that

will bring topinotch prices.- We are

trying to tell how to market them after

they are produced. Eggs should be

clean, of uniform size and color, and

have, good shells. They should be

gathered once, and preferably twice a

day. Nests should contain clean ma-

terial which should be changed at

least once a week to keep eggs from

getting soiled. The badly soiled eggs

can be used at home if not kept long.

No attempt should be made to market

them, even when washed.

eggs are those that have never been

dirty. Spots or discolorations may be

wiped off with a damp cloth. This

should be done when the eggs are

gathered. Small pullet eggs and any

that are below size should be used at

home, as should also extra‘large eggs.

Uniformity of size and coloring are

the first essentials. The farmer who

has a pure-bred flock will find his eggs

more uniform and that they will bring

him more money than if produced by

mongrel stock.



Sell only eggs that. are strictly fresh.

This does not mean what the man tes-

tifying before the Pure Food Commis-

sion contended—that the egg is no

longer strictly fresh when the animal

heat leaves it. But eggs should be

marketed from the farm not less fre-

quent than once a week, and better

twice or-three times. It helps in the

sale of eggs to pack in paper cartons





 





' on which the producer s name and





farm name are printed. Formerly such

cartons, holding one dozen each, did»

not cost more than one-half cent each,

if purchased by the thousand; today

however, they cost more on account of

the advance in‘ the price of paper. Ev-

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pay to market eggs in this way on ac-

count of the convenience, safety and





valuable advertising resulting. Some- ‘





times a grocer will be found who is

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Hotels demand the best eggs. If one

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he may be able to_contract to~ furnish

the supply at a few cents above the

market price. Hotels have a select

patronage and are glad to pay extra

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increased its patronage thereby. It

will take time to work up a demand





for fancy eggs but every farmer and.





poultryman ought to consider the mat-

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out question many farmers realize too

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New Hampshire. C. H. CHESLEY.





THE SUGAR BEET SITUATION.





 





As a member of the executive com-

mittee of the Michigan Beet Growers’

Association, I should like to make a

statement as to the sugar beet sit-

uation.



All chance of an adjustment between

the growers and the manufacturers

seems to be at an end; and if anyone

grows beets in Michigan this year, it

will be at a price and under conditions

dictated absolutely by the manufac-

turer, which prices and conditions are

regarded by the growers, and by every

disinterested tribunal that the propo-

sition has been placed before, as en-

tirely unequitable. If the farmers are

to have a. square deal, they must now

present a solid front and should pro-

ceed as follows:



First. Contract for no beets until

the companies present a contract a1»

proved by the executive committee of

the Beet Growers’ Association of Mich—

igan.



Second. If you or your neighboring

farmer have contracted under the

terms of the present contract, use ev-

eryhonorable means to secure the can-

cellation of the contract.



Third. If any farmer goes ahead and

raised beets this year, never lose an

opportunity to impress upon his mind

that. he is what, in labor circles, would

be called “unfair,” and that his action

is an injustice to his family and pro-

fession. - '



A resolution was passed at the State

Farmers’ Round-up Institute, held at

East Lansing, the first of March, ask-

ing the legislature for an investiga-

tion to determine the cost of growing

beets and.the cost of manufacturing

the same into sugar, that a knowledge

of what would conlstitute a fair divi-

sion of the products of the enterprise

could be. made public. This and all

similar investigations are welcomed by

the farmers. On the other hand, the

manufacturers are opopsed to a thor-

ough and disinterested investigation, a

very prominent representative of the

manufacturing end having made his

brags that nothing short of a supreme

court order would make him show the

books of the companies which he rep~

resented. If we farmers are to con-

tinue to raise beets, we must have a

square deal. The only way to get a

square deal from the, manufacturers is

to fight for it. If the sugar companies

secure a fairly satisfactory acreage

this year, under the terms offered the





”cause of the beet grower will receive '

a shock from which it will be many ,





years in recovering.



In conclusion, brother farmer, stand

pat and see that your neighbor does

the same. ‘





~ Shiawassee Co. A. B. Coon.





 





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4 * ‘March 27, 1917.

Wheat—Wheat prices established

new high records last week. Not only

is the cash market in a strong posmon

but the outlook for the future is very

encouraging to those who have this

grain to sell. European countries are

not securing the quantity of wheat

needed to satisfy their Wants while

the domestic consumption of the cer-

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for substitution makes it necessary to

use the different cereals in the accus-

tomed quantities. The crOp situation

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thatperhaps forty to fifty per cent of

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ed up and the fields sown to spring

grain. The central states are not suf-

fering so extensively, although most

reports give conditions much below

normal. The cash wheat trade is some-

what animated because millers are

convinced that there is not enough of

the desirable grades of wheat to carry

them through until another crop is

available. One year ago No. 2 red

wheat was selling at $1.14 per bushel.

Last week’s Detroit quotations were:

No. 2 No.1

Red. White. May





 





 





Wednesday . .2.00 1.97 2.02

Thursday . . . .2.00 1.97 2.02

Friday ......... 2.04 2.01 2.06

Saturday ....... 2.04 2.01 2.06

Monday ........ 2.04 2.01 2.06

Tuesday . . . . . 2 06 2 03 2.08





Chicago—May wheat $1.941/3; July

51.67%; Sept. $1.53%.



Corm—Quotations in this depart-

ment show a very substantial advance

since a week ago. Dealers seem con-

vinced of the shortage in supplies,

which with improvement in wheat val-

ues and the normal consumption

throughout this country, puts prices on

a new high plane. The cash situation

is very strong. One year ago No. 3

corn was quoted at 71%c. Last week’s

Detroit quotations were:





No. 3 No. 3



, Mixed. Yellow.

Wednesday . . . . . . 1.15% 1.16%

Thursday .......... 1.17% 1.18%

Friday ............. 1.19 1.20

Saturday ........... 1.20 1.21

Monday . ........... 1.21% 1.22%

Tuesday ............ 1.21 % 1.22%





Chicago—May corn $1.17%; July

$1.157/3; Sept. $1.43%. .



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rapidly and prices show an advance

corresponding to those of wheat and

corn. A year ago standard oats were

quoted at 48c per bushel. Last week’s

Detroit quotations were:





No. 3



‘ Standard. White.

Wednesday ............ 65% 65

Thursday ............. 66 65%

Friday ................ 67% 67

Saturday .............. 68 67%

Monday ............... 69 68 1/2

Tuesday ............... 69 68 %





Chicago—May oats 611430 per bu;

July 581740; Sept. 52%c.



Rye.——Rye advanced nearly 20c last

week with cash No. 2 now quoted at

$1.64 per bushel.



Beans.-~High prices and limited sup-

plies make this deal slow; however,



. values have advanced a half dollar dur—

ing the past week on the local market.

Cash and April beans are quoted at

$7.55 per bushel. On the Chicago mar-

ket the trade is steady at higher quo-

tations. The demand is alm st entire-

ly for hand-picked pea bea s, which

are now quoted at $7.60@7.85 per bu;

red kidneys $6.75@7.



Peas—Values are higher with the

trade ruling quiet. Field peas are

quoted in Chicago at $2.75@3.75 per

bushel, sacks included.



Seeds—Prime red clover $11; March

$10.60; timothy $2.60.





 





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Noun—Jobbing lots in .one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best

patent $10; seconds $9.70; straight

$9.40; spring patent $10.60; rye flour

$9.00 per bbl.



Feed.—In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots

are: "Bran $40; standard middlings

$40; fine midllings $45; cracked corn

$46; coarse corn meal $47; corn and

oat’chop $43 per ton.



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DAIRY ANDvPOU-LTRY PRODUCTS.





 





Butt’er.——Active deman has brought

higher prices. Receipts a e well clean»

ed up. Creamery extras 39c; do firsts

38c; packing stock 24%0.



Elgin.—Market is steady at 40 cents

per pound which is the same as last

week. '



Chicago—A firm feeling existed at

unchanged prices. The demand ‘is fair-

ly good and receipts moderate. Ex-

tra creameries 40c; extra firsts 38@

39c; packing stock 26@26%c.



Poultry.——Hens are higher but other-

wise the market is unchanged. Re-

ceipts are light. No. 1 spring chickens

23@24c; No. 2 do 20@22c; No. 1 hens

25@260; No. 2 do 23@24c; small do

20@22c; ducks 23@24c; geese 19@

200; turkeys 25@26c.



Chicago.—Fowls and spring chickens

are higher but other kinds are un-

changed. Fowls 220; spring chickens

18@23c; ducks 17@23c; geese 13@,

150. turkeys 12@20c.



Eggs.—Market steady with but a

slight advance for current receipts.

Firsts 28%c; current receipts '28c.



Chicago—Active demand brought

about higher prices. The increased re-

ceipts are not keeping up with demand.

Fresh firsts 27%@28c; ordinary firsts

26%@27%c; miscellaneous lots, cases

included 25@280.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLE8._





 





Apples-Market firm with prices

unchanged. Baldwin $5@6; Spy $5@7;

Steele’s Red $5@7. At Chicago feeling

is easy as stock does not hold up. Pric-

es are slightly lower,- No. 1 stock sells

at $3.50@6.50 per bbl; No. 2 at $2.25@

2.75; orchard run $3.25@3.50.



Potatoes.——In carlots, at Detroit in

sacks, Michigan long white $2.50@2.65

per bushel; Wisconsin $2.50@2.65. At

Chicago no Michigan stock was report-

ed. Market is quiet but firm at slight-

ly lower prices. Prices range from

$2.25@2.60 per' bushel.





WOOL.





 





There are no changes in the condi-

tions of this market. Prices are bold-

ing firm with an upward tendency still

in evidence. Whereas a year ago con-

tracts for territory wools were made at

25@30c, the prevailing figures this year

are from 40@45c per pound. This

should indicate something of the ad-

vance that producers of fleeces may

expect when the time arriVes for dis-

posal of this product. Dealers are

awaiting orders for military supplies

from the government and as a result

wools required to fill these orders have

advanced more than other grades. At

Boston Michigan unwashed delaines

are now quoted at 500; do combing 45

@520; do clothing 42@44c.





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rection of buying for storage purposes.

Live fowls have advanced to 20@210.

The bean market continues steady and

firm, with quotations ranging from

$7 25@8. Potatoes outside are quoted

at $2 while sales here in a small way

to the retail trade are being made at

$2.50@2.75. Some choice potatoes from

Idaho are now on the local market.

Lettuce has been advanced to 150 a

pound by the Grand Rapids Growers’

Association. Grain quotations by the

mills are as follows: Wheat, No. 2

red, $1.93; oats 65c; corn $1.10; rye

$1.25; barley $1.10; buckwheat $1.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





Prices are being well maintained on

the market, and on Tuesday apples

were selling largely from $1@2 per

bu; potatoes $2.75; parsnips $2.75;

carrots $1.75; eggs 35c; loose hay is

moving slowly, with prices generally

between $17@19 per ton.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

March 26, 1917.



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 140 cars; hogs 60 d. d.; sheep 30

d. d.; calves 1800 head. ~



With 140 cars of cattle today the

market was in a demoralized condi-

tion. There was only one of the big

packers in the market for the ship-

ping cattle and it was a case of take

whatever they would give. The bulk





 





.of these cattle sold $1 a hundred 'l‘ow-

,er than a week ago, and in some cases





they looked more. The? cow stuff,

stockers and bulls sold about steady.

We look for a fair run of cattle next.





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‘ ,Receip‘ts of bags today footed up a

total of sixty double deckshquality

again. poor with a good many pigs

among the offerings. This class sold

a strong quarter lower, and in some

cases 50c off from‘Saturday's opening.

A few selected hogs sold at $15.60, one

load of fancy at $15.65, with the bulk

from $15.25@15.50; roughs $13.50@

14; stags $10.50@11.50.



With a moderate run of lambs today

our market opened slow, with prices

15c lower than the close of last week.

All sold and we look for steady prices

the balance of the week, depending

chiefly on receipts.



We quote: Lambs $15.25@15.65;

heavy lambs $14.50@14.75; cull to

common $13@15.25; yearlings $13@14;

wethers $12.50@12.75; ewes ‘$11@

11.75; bucks»$10@11; best calves $14

@1450; common and light $10@13;

heavy $8.50@11; grassers $6@6.50.





 





Chicago.

March 26, 1917.





Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today..18.000 48,000 19,000

Same day 1916..15.480 37,090 8,484

Last week ...... 35,021 109,399 66,338

Same wk 1916..38,378 152,087 61,511



The week opens today with a small

Monday cattle supply, and prices are

mostly steady, with fair buying. Hogs

show little change, with sales at $14@

15.15. The packers received about

8,000 hogs consigned dierct to them

from other markets, as well as about

7,000' lambs, mostly from Denver. Hogs

marketed last week show a further

ismall gain in weight, the average

weight having been 212 lbs. The lamb

market is advancing again, and a sale

was made today of two dOuble-decks

of prime Colorado lambs at $15.40, still

another high record.



Cattle prices soared higher than ever

early last' week under unusually small

supplies, but weakened during the lat-

ter part of the week, with marked in—

crease in the receipts. The late trade

was slow, as demand was chiefly con-

cerned with prime fat beeves, only a

few of which were offered. Cows and

heifers joined with steers ”in the late

decline in prices, but the comparative-

ly small supplies of stockers and feed-

ers prevented them from weakening in

any marked degree. There was a lack

of prime yearling stockers, as well as

of superior fleshy feeders requiring on-

ly a short finish. During the week the

greater part of the beef steers found

buyers at a range of $10.25@12.35, with

a new high record when $12.85 was

paid for.a carload of 17 steers which

averaged 1510 pounds. Cattle of that

description have become scarce, and

there is also a great lack of prime

yearling‘ steers and heifers. Choice

steers have been selling at $12.50 and

over, with steers graded as good going

at $12 and upward, while a medium

grade brought $11 and over and fair

light killers $10 and upward, with lim-

ited sales of° inferior little steers down

to $8 or even lower. Yearling steers

of choice' quality were taken readily

at $11.75@12.50, with sales of pretty

good lots of these steers at $11 and

over and sales made down to $9.50 for

ordinary yearlings. An outlet for

butcher stuff was afforded at $7.10@

10.75' for cows and $6.65@11 for heif-

ers, with few yearling heifers choice

enough to bring more than $10.35. Cut-

ters were quick sellers at $6,25@7,

while canners were in lively demand at

$5@6.20, with bulls selling at $6.30@

9.75. Calves were higher than' ever,

especially for light weight vealers,

which sold at $14@15 per 100 pounds,

whik heavy calves went at $6.25@9.50.

The stocker and feeder trade was

hampered by the small supply, the for-

mer going at $7.25@9.50 and the latter

at $8.60@10.50. _



Hogs maintained their reputation for

advancing for still another week, the

unusually meager receipts, especially

early in the week, in connection with

an active all around local and eastern

shipping demand, placing prices at the

highest level ever recorded. After the

best weighty butcher hogs, such as

shippers are in the habit of buying, had

touched $15.25 per 100 pounds there

was a natural reaction, although it was

easy to see that the buyers wanted all

they could get hold of. It was. observ-

ed that the top of the market was ad-

vanced several times, while many of





the lower—priced light weight hogs re-‘





mained unchanged. This explains the

widening out of the spread in prices

between the common and the good

grades of hogs: At times the range of

prices was as much as $1.25 per 100

pounds. The ,bulk of the sales took

place within a range of 25c and prgs

sold at a big discount, demand being

slow. ' The week’s receipts of hogs

show a great falling off in numbers,





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their upward, course - for another" week,

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nessed, With a general demand which

much exceeded the limited receipts.

Colorado lambs comprised the fine!-

pal .share of the daily-offerings, these

selling high as a rule, and there are a

few big flocks of shearing lambs of the

better class. These were taken to ship

to .Mi‘chigan at the highest prices ever

paid. On the high days tops sold at

$15.35 for lambs, $14.25 for yearlings,

$12.90 for wethers and $12.50 for ewes.

The proportion of shorn stock was ma-

terially increased. Wooled fiocksclos-

ed as follows: Lambs $13.50@15.25;

yearlings $12@14.10; wethers $11@

12.75; -ewes $8@12.50; bucks $10@

11.25; feeding and shearing lambs

$13.50@14.80. Shorn lambs brought

$11@12.65.



Horses were in extremely small sup-

ply last week, and prices stood very

firm, as there was an unabated demand

espec1ally for army horses, these sell-

ing at $120 for riders and at $150@160

for gunners. EaStern shippers wanted

more good heavy horses than were of-

fered, the better class of heavy draft-

ers being worth $250@285 and sales

down to $185 for lighter weights. In-

ferior to fair horses sold at $60@120.





LIVE STOCK NEWS.





Weekly high records of 'prices for

cattle, hogs, sheep and lambs are still

chronicled, due to greatly inadequate

receipts most of the time. Early last

week the Chicago receipts of every-

thing in the live stock line fell off to

extremely meager numbers, with _Mon-

day arrivals reduced to 2,596 cattle,

6,729 hogs and 8,578 sheep and lambs,

this being explained by the fact that a

railway strike had been threatened the

preceding Saturday, resulting in stock

shippers generally postponing ship-

ments temporarily. Of course, the in-

evitable result was a further boom in

live stock prices all along the line,

with much higher values than were ev-

er paid in any former year.



Hogs soared a short time ago to





much higher prices than were ever





paid in the Chicago market before,

with meager receipts and a lively

local and eastern shipping demand,

prime heavy butcher lots of barrows

naturally going at the highest prices,

as they comprised but a small propor-

tion of the daily receipts. Chicago re-

ceipts have been averaging in weight

207 pounds, comparing with 204 pounds

a week earlier, 215 pounds one year

ago, 234 pounds two years ago and 232

pounds three years ago. Prime light

hogs on the "singeing" order, weighing

from 170 to 200 pounds have been

much sought after by Canadian pack-

ers for meeting large foreign orders

for hog meats, and these sold about

ten cents below the daily top quota:-

tions. The Dominion remaining hog

supply is very small, and the packers

of that country are forced to turn to

this country for large supplies.





 





 





 





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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKET.





Thursday’s Market. .

Cattle. A





Receipts 2060. Receipts in all de-

partments were considerably below.





those of a week ago at the local stock j





yards this week and in the: cattle de-

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the decline. 'Good prime steers were

scarce, as were milch cows, the bulk

of the receipts being common, that the

cow men do not relish. On Thursday





receipts were light and on this account .





the general market held steady at the

decline to the close, selling as follows:

Best heavy steers \$10.50@11; best

handy weight butcher steers $9@ 50;

mixed steers and heifers $8.50@ .75;

handy light butchers $7@7.75; light

butchers $6.50@7; best cows $7.50@8;

butcher cows $6.50@7; common cows

$6@6.50; canners $5@5.60; best heavy

bulls $8.75@9; bologna bulls $7.25@

7.75;~ stock bulls $6@6.50; feeders

$7.50@8; stockers $6.50@7.50; milkers

and springers $50@80. 1



Bishop, B. & H. sold Resnick 10

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at $6.50, 8 cows av 91 at $5.60; to

Nagle P. Co. 4 heifers av 760 at $7.75;

to GOose 4 cows av 1012 at $5.85, 5 do

av 912 at $5.85; to Sullivan P. Co. 6 do

av 940 at $6.75, 10 steers av 970 at

$9.75, 2 cows av 780 at $7, 4 do av 962

at $7.40, 5 do av 950 at $7; to Ham‘

mond, S. & C0. 10 do av~931 at $5, 1

bull wgh 1210 at $7.75, 1 do wgh 1100

at $7.50, 1 steer wgh 1200 at $9.25, 17

do av 1062 at $9.75, 1 cow wgh 1030 at

$8; to Applebaum 5 butchers av 674

at $6.40; to Mindick Co. 2 steers av

1450 at $9.25, 1 d0 wgh 1190 at $9; to

Allen 17 butchers av 994 at $8.25 to

Sullivan P. ()0. 7 .do av 714 at $8, 2 do

av 1075 at $8, 7 steers av 1124 at $10,

1 do wgh 800 at $8, 5 do av 1052 at

$10, 4 cows av 1062 at $7.35, 13 do av

1013 at $7.50, 16 steers av 1021 at $9.50,

5 do av 794 at $8; to Nagle P. Co. 1

bull wgh 1970 at $9.25; to Hammond,

S. & Co. 26 butchers av 756 at $7.75, 2

cows av 1160 at $8.25; to Brighton D.

M. Co. 3 steers av 1150 at $9.50, 4 cows

av 1000 at $7.50; to Hammond, S. &

Co. 18 butchers av 965 at $8.60, 22

steers av 856 at $9.50, 2 bulls av 1110

at $7.50; to Newton B. (30.17 steers

av 1005 at $9.50, 3 cows av 933 at $8.



‘ Veal Calves.



Receipts 1266. The veal calf trade

was active and about 500 higher than

last week, but grades selling at $13@

15; mediums $10@12.50; heavy $7@9;

the demand was unusually good,‘ the





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butchers wanting them for the Easter

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Sundel, S., B. & G. sold Sullivan P.i

Co. 3 av 165 at $14.50, 3 av 130 at $12,;

1 wgh 200 at $14.50, 7 av ~135 at $11,;

14 av 170 at $14, 10 av121 at $12.50;:

26 av 155 at $13.75; to ‘Newton B. Co.

3 av 155 at $12.50, 2 av 130 at $13.75;

to Nagle P. Co. 18 av 150 at $13.85, 8

av 130 at $13.60; to Burnstine 3 av 114

at $10, 9 av 150 at $14, 6 av 190 af$8.



McMullen, K. & J. sold Parker, W.

& Co. 5 av 155 at $13.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 2145. The sheep and lamb

trade opened up active with best lambs

Selling at $15.50, but. the close was

hardly as good, being a trifle draggy.

Prices for lambs are too high and the

butcher has his trouble getting his

money back, the consumer not relish-

ing the price. Best lambs $15.25@

15.50: fair lambs $14.50@15; light to

common lambs $13@14: fair to good

sheep $10@11; culls and common $7





8. ,



McMullen, K. & J. sold Parker, W.

& Co. 11 lambs av 85 at $15.50.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Nagle P. Co. 235

lambs av 75 at $15.50; to Thompson

125 do av 12 at $15.30, 44 do av 70 at

$15.25; to Mich. B. Co. 47 do av 80 at

$15, 17 sheep av 95 at $10; to Barlage

69 lambs av 65 at $15.30, 3 do av 60 at

$13; to Newton B. Co. 24 do av 55 at

$14.50, 3 sheep av 75 at $8.



. . Hogs.



Receipts 6378. In the hog depart-

ment the market early in the week for

gOOd mixed was $14.50@14.85, which

is last week's closing price. On Wed-

nesday they were 10c lower, the bulk

of thé'good bringing $14.75; on Thurs-

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HE following points were glean-

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er practical poultrymen at the round-

up institute.



A great artist has said that “mere

trifles make perfection but perfection

is not a mere trifle.” This is very true

in breeding fine poultry. Judge Card

advises the poultrymen to always car-

ry a. note book and jot down points





year he found that cold water fed to

his young chicks seemed to reduce

their vitality. He remembered that it

caused cramps in ducks by referring to

his experience note book and so decid-

ed to slightly warm the chicks’ water

and they immediately became more

vigorous.





To prove the relative values of a

simple and complex ration two pens

containing seventy pullets each were

used. The complex ration consisted

of 100 pounds of flour, 100 pounds

of ground oats, 100 punds of bran, 100

pounds of corn meal, 100 pounds of

alfalfa, 125 pounds of meat scrap, 150

pounds of gluten, twenty pounds of oil

meal.

fifty pounds ground oats, fifty pounds

bran and fifteen pounds of meat scrap.

All of the pullets were of the same age

and they produced about as mgny eggs

on the simple ration as on the complex

ration. It cost three per cent more to

produce the eggs with the complex

mash. The average farmer can scarce

1y take time to make complex mashes

and for this reason it is satisfying to

learn that geod results can be obtain-

ed with a simple ration.



Simple Feeding Methods Best.



A good method of feeding wheat and

corn as scratch feed is to use twice as

much corn as Wheat in the winter and

twice as much wheat as corn in the

summer. The same amount of each

can be used in the spring and fall.





The value of sour milk in the hen’s

ratiori should be appreciated on the

farm. Even at a price of five cents

per quart it is reported that sour milk

is an economical feed for laying hens.

Some experiments have proven that

hens will do as well on sWeet milk as

on sour milk but it does not pay to

switch from one to the other. As the

milk will usually sour in the summer

it is best to feed sour milk all of the

time.



It pays to breed from hens that lay

and lay in winter. A well-bred hen is

ruined by poor feeding but good feed-

ing may not make poor hens lay.





Cabbages and Mangels.



The excessive feeding of cabbage is

believed to have caused chicken pox

and one point which seems to prove

that contention'is the fact that there

has been scarcely any chicken pox this

year and also very few cabbages used

for chicken feed. Mangels are a very

good green feed and considered safer

than cabbages by some poultrymen.





Sprouted oats» can be fed to the best

advantage when the sprouts are about

one-quarter of an inch long as they are

said to contain more sugar at that

time. At that stage they are beter for

young chicks. Old hens are also ob‘

served to leave the long sprouts and

eat the smaller ones first.



In an effort to control lice do not

dust birds and grease them at the

same time. Judge Card advises dust-

ing the birds with Persian insect pow-

der, which is a very fine dust that will

clog the breathing pores of the pests.

When chicks are brooded with hens

it is frequently the custom to feed the

birds on boards in front of the brood

coops. Then theboards and cops are

moved occasionally and it may expose

”mould which has been growing on the

onground under the boards. If the chicks

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The simple ration contained,





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oult‘ry “Experts:





of the fungous growth are noted

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Castor oil is a good remedyfor the

stunted chicks and it should be given

in capsules. Pouring a spoonful of oil

down the bird’s throat may cause it

to strangle.



The rose bugs are deadly poison to

poultry and birds which have eaten

them Will act as if they had limber-

neck. Castor oil may be used at once

with good results. These rose bugs

come about the first of June and leave

about the tenth or twelfth and chicks

may be fastened up during the.danger

period. Chickens in yards seem to

have more trouble with the rose bugs

than free range birds, and so yarded

chicks must practically be confined to

their houses if the pests become seri-

ous.





 





 





 





Preventing Colds.



Feeding sound whole corn in the fall

seems to tone up the young birds and

assist in preventing colds. When a.

bird has a cold equal parts of ginger,

pepper and mustard rolled into dough

pills may be used to advantage. The

dose is one pill each night for three

nights. Castor oil is also good for con-

trolling colds in the flock.



When canker is chronic it goes

through the system of a bird and the

bird must be killed. Continual running

at the Ifose may be a sign of canker

and it does not pay to keep a bird that

may contaminate others. Sparrows

may carry chicken pox from one farm

to another. Apoplexy comes from over-

feeding and lack of exercise. Never

doctor a chicken that is not sick and

it is not necessary to use permanga-

nate of potash in the drinking water if

there are no colds in the flock.



The use of lice paint continually in

the poultry houses is a good prevent-

ive measure. To reduce expenses one-

half, kerosene can be mixed with the

lice paint. The paint gets in the feath-

ers when the birds are on the roosts‘

and it assists in preventing feather

eating.



Glycerine placed on a bird’s comb

before a freezing night will often pre-

vent freezing of the comb. The open

front poultry house gives the birds

plenty of fresh air and this means they

will have a good circulation to keep

them warm and there will be less dan—

ger of freezing. the combs.



“Going light” in fowls may be caused

by worms due to the use of high pow-

ered feeds and condimentals. Chicken

cholera occurs suddenly in the flock.

Judge card says, “If they do die—it is

it—if they don’t die—it isn’t it.”



The “wet flannel method” of apply-

ing moisture to eggs is practical. Wet

a piece of flannel large enough to cover

the eggs and place it in the incubator

on the night of the eighteenth day and

leave it until the next morning. This

seems to work very well in many kinds

of incubators-and it gives the eggs

enough moisture to make the breaking

of the shell an easy problem for the

chick. The water should be as hot as

the bands can bear when it is poured

on the flannel.



Chicks can scarcely be over-fed on

‘either bran or oats. Beef scrap does

not exactly substitute for worms and

bugs, as the scrap will decay while the

bugs and worms will dry up if they

are left dead for some time. Maybe

that is one reason for the better egg

records that are possible during the

spring and summer when there‘are

plenty f0 bugs on the range.



When you sell poultry you must sell

satisfaction at the same time, accord.

ing to D. E. Hale, a. Well-known poultry

judge. Go on the theory that the cus-

tomer is always right even if you “get

stung” sometimes. Advertising should

be considered part of the investment

of the poultryman who is ready to sell

his stock and eggs ‘to other breeders.

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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. -





[AMONG THE LIVE. chances.





 





 





A Very Successful Meeting of the

Ionia County Pomona Grange, No. 16,

was held with Portland on March 16.

In spite of the bad weather and rough

roads, ”175 enthusiastic members were

in attendance. At noon at dinner, em-

bracing all the substantials and deli-

cacies for which the Grange spreads

are noted, was served by the Portland

ladies. Promptly at 1:30 p. m. the

meeting was called to order by Worthy

Master Fred Eddy. After the usual

opening exercises, the meeting was in

the hands of the Worthy Lecturer, Mrs.

Myrtle Taylor. The program was fully

carried out to the satisfaction of all

present. The following program was

rendered: Address of welcome, Mas-

ter Grant Morse; response for Pomona

by Flora, M'r‘s. Lena Youngs; success,

Mrs. Ruth York; reading, Mrs. Frank

Pryer; *postalizing the wires; club

work for boys, J. C. Butler; song by

Grange, America: address by James

Helme, of Adrian; “Our Trip Through

the South and Cuba,” Mr. and Mrs.

P. C. Freeman: selection of seed beans

and corn, also treatment to prevent





smut in oats, M. A. C. Extension Work-





er; th mo t ractical wa of assisting here.

e s p y E. E. Credit Law of Great Benefit to the





a young person to success, Rev.





Bauck;



Laselle.. 6:00 p. m.,



7:30, public session.



cussion: Vl'hich is the greater factor





in makin a successful farmer, educa- _

g ‘ solving ture from headquarters about it. Next





tion or energy? Mr. Monroe;

labor problems for the farmer, Rev. E.





E. Bouck; what the legislature is do-

ing regarding the prohibition amend-

ment, Mr. Laselle; the need of a great-





instrumental solo, Miss Ruth Farmer?” , ,

refreshments. from last meeting, was again taken up.





Topics for dis- after some short discussion





2 i5 . .7, ,I ‘ "fl"



gFarmcrs Clubs;



‘mullfllllllllllli llllllllllllllllllllll

.CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





. Preparedness on the Farm—Social

Glen, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank

Brown, was the place of meeting of the

Washington Center Farmers’ Club on





_ Thursday. March 8. Ashort time be-





fore dinner the meeting was called to

order by President F. L. Cook. After

miscellaneous business and reading of

minutes the question of “Preparedness

on the Farm,” was discussed, led by

Frank Heinlen, who thought one way

of preparedness was in fitting the soil

first by drainage then by deep and

well-turned plowing. Plowing was

about as far as the men could get and

it took the ladies to remind them of

some very necessary preparedness

which is too often neglected, viz., get-

ting all tools ready from last year’s

breaks, etc., before the day they are

ready to be taken to the field. Dinner

was announced and all knew what pre-

paredness meant there. After this part

of the program was dispensed with the

house was again called to order and

were entertained with piano and violin

music by Mr. Gilman and Mr. Curren.

Roll call was responded to by naming

a dry state. “Are we Ready for Na-

tional Prohibition?” was led by Frank

Brown. The general trend of opinion

seemed to be that it would not be wise

to vote on national prohibition at pres-

ent, but in a short time there will be

enough dry states to enforce the law.

Mrs. C. N. Curren read an interesting

paper on Australia. “Why Should ev-

ery County have an Experiment

Farm?" was the next subject which

was to be led by Jotham Allen, who

was not present. The general opinion

was that we should have an experi-

ment farm and the county farm was

the place to have it. The farmers do

not have the time to try out the dif«

ferent experiments that could be done

The question, “Is the Rural





which was left unfinished





it was

again left over until next meeting

when we expect to have some litera-





was the question box. Among the sev-

eral questions was, “Does the average

woman know enough about the busi-

ness to manage affairs; should it be





er thrift in America, Mr. Toan. Ad- necessary for her to do so, and if not,





dress, Jas. Helme; life in the west, Jas.

English.





Mecosta County Pomona Grange met





at Fraternal Aid Hall, Big Rapids, on

March 15. Meeting was called to or-

der by Pomona Master John Kotke.

Reports and miscellaneous business

were! taken care of. A woman’s work

committee was appointed, and also a

committee "to communicate with the

different counties having county agri«

cultural agents, to gain information of

what benefit is to be derived from their

work. A recess was taken for the St.

Patrick social dinner hour. Neckties

of various hues, green predominating,

were sold at auction to the gentlemen.

This caused a great deal of excite-

ment among the brothers as they were

told by the auctioneer that he had full

control of the “food stuffs”





why not?" The average woman, al-

though capable, does not know enough

about affairs for the reason the hus-

band, who assumes the controlling in-

terest, does not take time or does not

care to let the wife know what she

should about any business. She needs

to be educated in that line. Co-opera-

tion in the home is as necessary as any

place else. Adjourned to meet with

Mr. and Mrs. Henry English the second

Thursday in April.——Cor. Sec.



Annual Meeting and Banquet.—-—The

annual banquet of the Howell Farm-

ers’ Club at the gymnasium of the

Presbyterian church was an enjoyable

affair. The dinner furnished by the

ladies’ aid was one of their best, and

the place for holding the banquet is

ideal. Plates were laid for 130, and





and lime times as many could be accom-





man without a tie could partake of th m ated if necessary. The dinner over





dinner with a partner. It is needless

to say that every tie was sold [in a

short time. At 1:30 the meeting was

opened with music by the Ferris.» Insti-

tute Orchestra. This was a surprise

feature as not one of the patrons knew

it until the orchestra arrived, and it

was greatly enjoyed by all. 'Recitation

by Miss Ruth Zimmer.

and encore by Fern Grange, the fifth

degree was conferred on a class of 12





, candidates, the work being given by





the Rodney Team in a very creditable

manner; the drill was very well, done.

Music by Pleasant View Grange was





After a solo tion of





the toastmaster, A. M. Wells, called the

company to order in a few pleasant re-

marks, comparing the present condi-

tions with _.those of pioneer days.

Bruce Newcomb and his sister Esther

furnished very acceptable music for

the occasion. The election of officers

before dinner resulted in the re—elec-

the same officers: A. M.

Wells, president; Mrs. R. R. Smith,

secretary. The first toast was assign-

ed to George Barnes who spoke of the

crisis in breaking off diplomatic rela-

tions with Germany, its causes and

possible results. Mrs. B. Comiskey





a comic duet, in which the strictly up< followed with an interesting reading





to—date city cousin, “Marie,” went to and responded to an encore. Efficiency

Vlslt her plain country cousin, “Mary,” was very nicely handled by Mrs. Web-

and was delightfully given much to ster Childs. She advocated efficiency,

the satisfaction- of all present. The not only in the matter of getting mon-

next meeting will beheld with Austin ey but in deVeloping true and noble

Grange on April» 5.. State Master John lives. Miss Alice Heeg with Miss Leah

C. Ketcham will be the chief speaker. Peavy at the piano, delighted the audi~

An Eastef saleof aprons. caps, towels ence With a vocal solo and responded

and fancy work of all kinds will be to an encore. Miss Helen Norton re-

held at this meeting. The Subordinate sponded to the toast, “The High Cost

Granges are asked to give their hearty of Living.” Miss Norton’s idea was

cooperation. All went to their homes that it was the way people lived and

feeling that it was.good to be at such worked, and not the high prices of

an enjoyable meeting where fraternal farm products, except potatoes and

ties were made a little stronger. The beans; that farmers should raise their

next‘meeting, with Austin Grange. will own vegetables. Rev. Brooke closed the

be largely looked forward to, as these afternoon feast of thoughts by giving

meetings. bring renewed vigor and a a fine talk on “The German People."





 





 





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A Legitimate

Investment





For Farmers





A limited amount of Stock

of the Imperial Chemi-

cal Company of Grand

Rapids, Michigan is

offered for sale.





It is desired to place this

stock in the hands of

farmers in order that

they may co-operate in

the manufacture and

sale of these goods and

profit accordingly.



The Imperial Chemical Com-

pany manufacture all kinds

of agricultural spraying

material, their produCts are

standard and are made from

formulas endorsed by the U.

S. Government and agri-

cultural colleges.



The business has shown 100%,

increase in the last three

months. This company is

under the management of

Grand Rapids business men

of highest standing.



Refer to any bank .in Grand

Rapids.



Full particulars will be given

upon request by writing to

the home office at Grand

Rapids, Michigan. Address





IMPERIAL CHEMICAL CO.,

Grand Rapids, Michigan





 





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l ot-water — Double-walled —- Copper

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Conditions easy touget big- .

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to Poultry Buccgca— Write for

It “by. Jun Bohan. Pros.





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Homestead Farms





Offers highly bred tested farm poultry: Stock that.

vnth natural and convenient farmer care, willgive

eggs thru the Winter: stock that





“llll 'SIIIIN bassivcn eggs thru the Winter

— Just passed.



“0‘ ”Old, Our poultry stock is all free



— range. no yards (except breeding





—



. pens). In Winter our Hens ar in

'I'dlcal Hill!” Colony Houses holding 30. 50.0100.

_—.- 140 and 150 [owls—housed as suits

convenience, as the average farmer will house his

fouls, they are bred to natural farm conditions and

WIII lay With the care that the farmer can give.





During the past Winter 93 s have been shi ed -

ulnrly to Chicago families“ arm products diff-hot. r3:

livery. We offer:





Day-Old Chicks and Hatching Eggs





Single Comb White Lenborns

Single Comb Black Mlnorcas

Barred Plymouth Rocks

Bull Plymouth Rock-



, White PI mouth locks



' Rhoda ls sud Reds





Homestead Farms is domonstratin the m l

gmgmic gal-{apt of] f oratsizd i Inter-slain: it isothank‘llg

.,'s nonrmoctt '

own immediate vicinity. ' 0 e farmers of I“

If you want Red Blood Practical Poultrv th .

give eggs in Winter as well ssin ummer, b33291]-

stock w ich ls bred toconditions under which you can

yourself conveniently keep poultry.

We quote you prices and vs our own ex '

_ penance in

mt descriptive circulor w ich w ' -

Will you send for it? 0 will mail to you.





HOMESTEAD FARMS. Bloomingdale. Mich.





 





 





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and Baby Chi ks. F

In?“ lld. E . Loyod 950 E2... 1:35.: ":33:

W. 0. Colman. ‘ . I. :Bontcn Harbor. Michigan.





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Baby Chicks I“- for Hotcbln‘

"Bred-today” strain. vlgorons. healthy stock. all sired

b Missouri Experiment Station males with pedigrees

0 an to 374 eggs in one year. Chicks. 8% for 100. “(ll

tonal). Eggs for hatching. 810 for 100. Thousand“)!

satisfied customers. Book your order at once for

our for. hatching and baby chicks of quslit . We

as Magic Brooders. best brood each.

capacity 300 to 500 chicks. . Mlchflon

Poultry Farm. Lansing. “Mlcbl‘sn's

urges: Poultry Farm."





LAYBILT S. l}. W. lEGllllllllS





large. Great layers, Pure While





Proved of: type from like ancestry. Not the “BeSt in

tho Wor ." but None Better for beauty and laying

ability. Lsybllt Leghor-s moan either bottorqnslity

at the some pr co or the some qusllt‘at s less price.

Selected butch!n¢e||s.fl.50 por15. srcol Postpaid :

I per 100: Ohio fertility guaranteed. . Sta-I Dov-Old

Chicks. '12 r 1 Guaranteed dour/cg alive sud

lively. Eve rest It; Farm, lo-Is. let.





8. 0. White Leghorn





We have about 40 S. C. White Leghorn cock birds

for sale. These males are from 200 egg strain and

are offering them for 83 each. Also about 200

line April hatched pullets at a great bargain.

Eggs for-hatching March and April $3 per to».

We will glady giVe references on all our sales.





(IEIIEI. "08., 80:624. Estllsnslngdlicll.





 





CIlCKs no booking orders now for spring de-

9 livery, different varieties. free booklet.

I’m listens", Box 12, Frayed. Mil-mun





‘ urc bred Youngs S. C. W. Leghorn.

"h’ uhmh 3nd P. B. Rocks. 8 cents and up. Catt

locus free. ll. Knolls Hatchery. Holland. Mich. 8. 3.





.d Whl L .

FOR SALE “32.31%. ro.‘“h§'.’§'§'§3.“'

CHAS. ILETZLEN, BATH. MICE.





F I ' Bull Rocked am now booklngorden fore-gs

"1 'l' 3 at $1.50 for 15. s; for30, :4 term. :7 for mu.

Pen No. 1. SI for 1.3. Al-o on. 2 yr. old White Ho].

land Tom. R. B.Fowlor. Hartford, Mich.





ATCHING Eggs from my s. ow. Leahorns utility

750 per 15. If you want to raise some prize winners

send 83 for 15. White Line Poultry Farm. Hillsdslrjlich





BUFF LEGHORNS P‘illi‘iz.§e$.;'3.’3f‘.‘t.§i““





Dr. William A. Smith, Petersbure, Mich.





E G G S for setting from R. C. Brown [mg

horns. leading strains in America.



Also W. China Geese and M. Pokin ducks.



MRS. CLAUDIA BITI‘S, Hillsdslc. Michigan





Euaday Whit. Mandolin. EEE”.$:,"’E—‘.T&hi£§.’lil.’

EGGLDLY RANCH. Marshall. Mich.





My Young's Strain S. C‘.Whita

lm’I'VC Your PWHU- Leghorns are great money

makers. Stmng,vigorous. bred-to-lafistock. Babychicks

SR to £1] per 100. Satisfaction gusrsnteed. Large Ordeys fills-i .

Free catalogue. W. Van Applcdorn. Holland. Iich.. “.7, Box 1“.





M ORSE‘B “'hite Le horns. State Cup winners. Bred

for eggs for years. . ow selling eggs. chi: and stock.





Free catalog. Rufus Morse. Balding, Mich.





0 ‘ . .

Pine Crest S. (1. While ..‘Z.’if.f“i‘ii&£3§¥.‘.

85 and 3 per 15. utility 88.00 per 100. M all. WILLIS

HOUGH. Pine Crest Farm. Royal Oak. Michigan.





R o c k Cockerels 59:33} 535‘ 3552'.."°l’;‘.;;

for hatching. Sheridan Poultry Yards.3hofldsn.Mloh.





 





 





RHODB ISLAND REDS and PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Males 6 to 12 lbs. according to a 032 to 35; P.R. hens

weight 6 to 10 lbs.. eggs 1?) for 81.00: 100, 85:120. $6.

Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 38lhs. sccordlng.

to sue 88 to 82), 10 eggs $4. A. E. Crsmton. Vassar. bin-h.





. Both Combs. Dark Red.

l. I. I'll chmk‘ dud [EB- Vl'inter Layers. Bred by

more Michigan farmers than any other strain Catalog.

tree. Interlakes Farm, Box 39.1.aurence, Mich.





 





 





llou Comb llhsds Island 15...... ““5““. 3W”

afterFeb. 13. Jennie Bull. .3231»??? iii” m2}:





Eggs and Chicks. P rob i

no and 50 Co RCIIS- stock. Also good Svdtltt‘h 63l-

lio Pups. 0. E. Hurley. Ludinton, Mich.





 





 





HODE I. Whites win in the egglm in '(‘OIlUchZ [lest

'egg and market fowl. Eggs $2 er 1.3, 3 per 471. Babe

chicks. . H. Jump, Jackson, I’llcliigan.





 





_ _ S. C. W'. Leghorna and Bzrred R ‘k

“fill l0 ll! Eggs, $1 for 1.3. sum for 26: 9.2.:...f.“.,-.‘.:

Alpine Pou try arm. It. 2, Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





RED tolay. 8. 0. “'hits Leghorns. from best ens in

Mich. Eggs. 81.50 per-18. $8 per 100. Chicks :0 per

Wdehvorsd. Leon 0. Wheeler, Barryton. Mich.





S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS





Bred for Heavy Laying 16 years—My Strain

Vlorld's Greatest Egg Producers. Eggs and Chicks.

Cir. Free. “'1“ Schadt, Box 1037, Gosheu, Indiana.





 





 





Leghorn Eggs for Hatching. also lvreedin

sf 0- WI stock. If you want Leghorns that will lay and

Wln write us. Hill-Crest. Poultry Farm," Ypsilanti."Mich





b ’ '

S. C. White lcghorn lil'*.§:‘.‘::‘?;."2.‘z°i.‘.il‘.





trnpnested stock. J. W'oodwardflement ity,Mich





 





08E Comb Rhode Island Red. is for h t h‘

Rapecml dark cherry red mating ”gland orifilfitllwlfl:

mstlncflperloeggs. Ridgmsu Red Farm. Vassar. Hich. ILA





Single Comb Black Minorcas $13215 " H"

sired by .10 lb. cock bird. 3. w. Mills, Saline, Wigs?





' zoo egg strain. Good " '

s'c'whlk [Ozon‘s Baby chicks 15c. ea(~ll.‘]ltfllslg Elli:

ms 50 each. Order now. (1W. Gordon, l-‘owlcrvillc. Mich.





Brown Leghorn’eggs f h t '

slug“ coulb day-old chicks. gmgrcffdllg. Also

Saline. Mica. R. D. No. 4.





ILVER. Golden White Wyandonea A r - ' ,



v . 0

Sfloldcn cockerels left. Eggs from farm flock.Whiics 31.53.5331!

others83per15. 80per30. C.W.Browniug. 3.2 Portland. lichl ‘





Frank Oamburn,





RY some Silver Spangled Hambur



g e for h . -

ing. The Dutch 0\ erlnsting layers w'ifila Ho’IIacslid

Turkey eggs. Fine Belgisn Hsre Does bred to high class Bucks.

Pedigrced. Stsmntor circulars. Riverview Farm. Vesssr. lich.





 





all" 'y‘.d.". gloskvovrels each. Also Barred Rock

.Van ottee f h . ' .L.

per 15. Mrs. R. w. BLACK. 0%.(iI-ic‘htiglhllg'n 5





 





Quality cockerols for sale.

Free matings ist.

- Hill ale, Mich.

WHITE Wyandottes. A.l Is on Quito h

31. :2 831025.87per1w. ‘ ‘ ' mm. ’

nun) km. 709 Norris stumifallifii. “finial-2‘





Silver Wysndottes.





H. J. (lettings, . . -
'. ‘iiREsiiERs' ~ iiiREcroRY.





 





‘ Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us





Ten Days before date of publication.





We Ofler a Few Specml Bargains

In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

bouillet rains, 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.





 





 

 





 

 

 





 

   

 

 





 

 

 

   

 

   





$81.86 rRorir PER cow PERYEAR ‘

over a. period of 7 YEARS is the average of





IT WAS THE GUERNSEY BULL THA'FDID 11'





THE AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB





 





A GRADE GUERNSEY HERD





IN WISCONSIN ' .





Write for our free booklets alien! GUERNSEYS





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 Exhihi tors Herd. Jr. Champion Bull.

Jr. Champion Female and Grand Champion Cow. Also

,breeders of Percheron, Hackney and b‘addle Horses.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. IONIA. MICH.





Aberdeen Angus





Eight 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.





FOR SALE Good Angus bulls. bred cows. and

heifers. Prices reasonable.

Geo. Hathaway & Son. Ovid. Mich.





 





MILO D. CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE





BEACH FARM .

GUERNSEYS





Average yearly production 422.3 lbs of fat. three

fourths of them making their records as two year

olds. By the use of a pure bred sire, a. big im—

provement can soon be attained if the right

selection is made. The breeding of the Beach

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 ANGEVlNE,

Coldwater, Michigan.





of service age and calves from

Guernsey Buns choice. Adv. reg. breeding.

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

—REGISTERED





G U E R N 3 BY BULL CALVEs





Containing blood of world chame‘i’ons.

HICKS’ GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. . 8.. Mich





FOR SALE Re istered Guernse bulls and

am bull calves an Berkshire

swine, the best breeding. John Ebels. R. 10, Holland. Mich.





“TopNutch”Holstien Herd Sires





No. 1. King Oakdale Colantha, No.

182831, Born Sept. 18, 1915. His sire’s

three nearest dams average 30.87 lbs.

His dam is a’22.64 lb. junior 4 year old.

His dam’s dam (30.59 bs.) heads one of

the eight only combinations of three

direct generations of 30 lb. cows. His

dam’s sire carries 50% the same blood

as Grace Fayne 2d’s Homestead the first

35 lb. cow, granddam of Segis Fayne

Johanna, the only 501b, cow. Hand-

somely marked—about Z, white—Price

$250.00.



No. 2. Segis Korndyke Axelina King,

No. 182935, Born Jan. 15, 1916. His sire

is brother to the $50,000.00 bull. His

sire is grandson to the great King Segis.

His sire is grandson to the first 37 lb.

cow. His sire’s dam is a 25.51 lb. 31 yr.

old daughter of King of the Pontiacs.

His dam is a 22.09 lb. granddaughter of

Pontiac Korndyke. His dam’ssire is

from a 28.99 lb. %anddaughter of Hen-



erveld De Kol. e traces four times to



ontiac Korndyke and three times to

Hengerveld De K01. Handsomely mark-

ed—about g white—Price $200.00.





McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.





 





Purebred Registered

H O L S T E l N

C A T T L E





Tilly Alcartra. a purebred Holstein-Friesian,

is the most wonderfu cow in the world. In36ficon-

secutive days she produced 30.451.4 pounds of milk

or about 15 tons. In two years she (produced 60,728



oxide of milk. She holds the worl ‘s milk reco

or one. two, three and four years. Holstein cows

hold all world's records for milk and butterfat

roduction. but the claim of the Holstein breed to

he title of the “most profitable dairy breei " is

not based on individual tests. It is the great un-

iformity of high productivencss of Holstein cows

everywhere that makes them the greatest money

makers for dairymen. the world over. There's big



money in the big “Black and “hits" Holsteiiis.





Send or FREE Illustrated Descriptive Bookish

.‘l'lie olsicln-l’ricslsn Association 0! America

F. L. Houghton. Sec‘y.. Box I“. lraiilcboro.Vl.





 





 





 





 





R. of MI JERSEY BULLS





 





THIS TIME! imam.





You keep. cows for profit.Brookwarer Farm breeds bulls that will increase value of every calf you raise.

The following 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, Brookwater Veda. 258796, now on test, has made in 5 months and 21‘days. 309.97 pounds of butter. Calved

July 3, 1916. Solid color: dam. Brookwater Loretta 271985. now on test, has made in 4 months and 25 days, 360.72

pounds of butter. Also three other bull calves. one of which is of unusual promise by Majesty‘s Inte use and out

of a tested (Will make 70 ounds fat durin January) granddaughter of Loretta D.. champion cow for produc-

tion at the St. Louis Wor d's Fair. One 0 these bulls we will sell at $75. Others higher. Extended pedi recs

and production records furnished on applicaigolili.0 0L1? us know wh at kind of a bull you need. Vis t the arm





and see the calves, their dams and sires.

H. W. Mumford.0wner. . F. Foster.Mnnager.





WATER FARM. ANN





 





ARBOR. MICHIGAN .





10 HOLSTEIN BULLS at FARMERS’ PRICES





Sired by Long Beach DeKol Korndyke. His sire Friend Hengerold DeKol Butter Boy.





Dam a daughter of





Pontiac Aaggie Kornd ke. She has a l‘lJO lb. record. 11-30 lb. sistfirs. 3-1‘11) lb. sisters. Her dam. a daughter of





Friend Hengerold De ol Butter Boy has 1000 lb. your record.

AUGUSTA, (Kalamazoo. 00..) MICH





LONG BEACH FARM.





 





Bigelow’s Holstein Farms,

BREEDSVILLE. MICH.

Have Some Fine Registered Stock For Sale





 





 





 





 





' Dam first in Dairy test. Sire G.

"Cg: HOISlfln flu". Champion Michigan State Fair.

Price right. John A. Rinke. Warren. Mich.





' ' Friesian Heifers. 3 to 6

Reglstered HOIStEIn mos. old. Some from 30 lb.

sires. Priced to sell. Fred J. Lange. Sebewaing. Mich.





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

5 weeks old. beautifully marked,$m.00 each, crated

for shipment auywlisie. l‘ldgewood Farm.Whitewaier,Wis.





REG. HOLSTEINS: Herd headed b Albina Bonte

Butter Boy No. 93124. Dam's recor at 6 yrs. butter

28.58 lbs. milk 619.4. Yearly record’at 2% yrs. butter

802 lbs. milk 18622 lbs.W. B. READER. Howell. Mich





Cluny Stock Farm





100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100

THE MILK AND BUl [ER KIND



Five splendid bull calves sold since January hit, 1917.

Only three more ready for sale at this time. One from

a sire whose dam holds sixih highest yearly butter rec-

ord. One from a si re whose three nearest dams aver~

age 30.6 lbs. butter and 658 milk in 7 days. One from

a son of (‘olantha Johanna Lad whose 7 nearest dams

average 28 lbs. of butter and 587 lbs. milk,



Write for pedigrees and prices.





R. BRUCE McPHERSON, HOWELL, MICH.





Holstein Bulls





1 toil months old. Dam's A. R. 0. Our herd sire is

Johanna McKinley Segls 3d. 7 nearest Dams aver.

age 27.26 BLISSVELDT FARMS. Jeni-on, Mich.





OAK, LEAF FARM

Herd Sire

Ypsilanti Sir Pletertie De Kol

Service bulls all sold. Bu a calf and raise it. Fine

individuals «1 and 5 mont is old. E. H. Gearhartdi

Son. Marcellus, Mich. R. No. -‘l.





 





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' ' Young bull ready for service.

liegISlBI'Iil "OISl'mS- 30 lb. breeding. Satisfaction

guaranteed. W. B.Jones and J. F. Lutz.’Colioctsb. Mich.





 





FIG. Holsteins. Place yourorder now forabull calf.

1 have cows due to freshen soon, bred to the best

bull in Mich. Elmer E. Smith. Redford. Michigan





 





EG. Holstein Bull, ready for service. Sired by a

hal f-brotheroi’ World's Champion cow. Send card

for pedigree iii price. E. R. Cornell. Howell. Mich.





' ‘ OE . . .0.

Parham : Pedigree Slack Farm 3092.935. ACE“,

Male Calves Show Bull madly for service no skin to

cows.lpriced $125. R. B. PA HAM. Bronson. Mich.





842 Lbs. Butter





Is the average of the semi-official records of our herd



bull'sdam (at. 2 yrs. ). his grand-dam (at 3 yrs.) and his



great (grand-dam. Three choics'young bulls from A.

i. O. ams. Herd tuberculin tested annually.





PEACELAND STOCK FARM, Three Rivers, Mich.





Chas. Peters, Herdsman. C. L. Brody,0wner, Port Huron. Mich





WINNWOOD H E R D





John H.Winn.'lnc., Holton, Mich.

Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont, Mich.





Have for sale 6 Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld

Holstein bulls. One 12 months: one 6 months; one 2

months. all out of dams. One made 19 lbs.

butter in 7 days as a Jr. 2 year old. Another 21 lbs. in



days as :1. Jr. Byear old. Also have five others. same

breed from 2toi‘i months. Must sell at once, need the

room. Our Krices will surprise you. John H. Winn.

Holton. Mic igan.





1200-“). Bred Young Bulls





Their sire. Mapleorest DeKol Hengerveld. We offer

one born Feb. 12. 1916. out of a 21-lb. cow from sister

to 32—h). cow. His grundsire is sire of the famous

Banostine Belle DeKol. 1322.93 lbs. butter, 1 yr. Write

for pedigree and [iii-ice.

HILLCRES FARM, F. B. Lay, Mgr.

Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





' Bull calf nearly white. Sire: Colantha

HOISteln Johanna Creamelle Lad. Dam: Seals

Aggie Hengerveld De Kol. Write GEO. D. CLARKE.

Vassar. Mich., for photo and price.





 





 





Do You Want A Bull?





Ready For Service.





From a grand daughter of The King of the

Pontiaoo. Hired by a bull that is more than a half

brother to the Champion Holstein Cow of the

World. and whose dam is a30 lb. 6% 5 fat dau hter

of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke who has more .

daughters than any other living bull. If you do

write for pedigree.





EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.





HOLSTEINS





 





u Herd-No.1. Five coWs, one two year old bull





erdNo. 2, Five» yearling heifers. one yearling bull.

eldNo. 3,.ll‘ive eifer calves and one bull.

Bulls read for service and 6 to eight months oldbulls





 





Prices wil lease on. 6! into ed, write as soon as

'you read th . . I. 0 L. Fayette. Ohio.





Holsioin and .Guurnsoy iieiior and Bull calm





Choice selected promising dairy cal ves.practicsll pure





Holstein and pure Guernsey. but not registers . nice '





color. $20.00 each. all express paid to any po nt.

MEADOW GLEN Whitewater. Wis.





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



due May 1st, has better than 3 191b

record at 4yrs. old. Price $200.00. Chas. I. Cook.

Fowler-ville. Box 438. Michigan.





OLSTEIN COWS; bred yearlings and calves for

sale. Every cow has produced a vigorous calf dur-

ing year. 0. L. Hulett if: Son. Okemos. Mich. ll





$175 Buys your choice of two Reg. cows bred to a 3?

lb. grandson of “King of the Pontiacs.” Cal

contracted at $100 if heifer. B. B. Reavey. AkronJMich.





ANTED—to pay for eight registered Holstien cowa

with part each cream check. Have good stable, sil-

age. alfalfa. experience. references. R D. Bailey,Gaylord,Mich.





20 Herefords £29535»?

Im c. MCCABTY. BIC A80. Mlchl‘tll





 





as -30 lb. sisters. 3 sisters above 1200 in year.





HEREFORDS





Both sexes and all afies 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.)-

ALLl-IN “08., PAW PAW, MlCll.





 





R. of M. Jersey herd ofiers for sale

maple lane tuberculin tested cows. bulls. bull

calves and heifer calves. carrying the best R. of M.

blood of the breed.





IRVIN FOX. Allegnn. Mich.





 





The All-Around

is the farmer’s-cow. She’shis

Jersey friend and pride—the beauti-

ful,gentle,ever-paying milk machine that lifts

the mortgage, builds up the fertility of the

farm, and puts the whole business on a sound.

paying, permanent basis. She ada ts herself

to all climates and all feeds an does not

need fancy care. She matures early and

lives long. And she’s so sleek,cleancut and

handsome, as to be the family pet and

I, pride. She produces well

and sells well. Learn

about her in our fine, free

book,“About Jersey Cat-

tle." Write for it now.





THE AMERICAN JERSEY

CATTLE CLUB

343 Wat23d5t..N.Y.Ciiy





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F0 R SA L E Twenty-five Jersey cows,



two to ei ht years old.

Eight registered. balance high grades. .xcellent pro-

ducers, guaranteed right. Also some bred yearlin heif-

ers. registered and high grades. Also some fall eifer

calves from above stock. Good reasons for selling. Bell Phone—

Hsdley, P. 0- Metamora. Mich. R. l. C.E. Hodgson. L. H. Riley.





from high-producing dams,with



13“., Bull: lor sale testin Asso. records, also on

semi-oflolsl test. 0. B. We nor. R. 6. Allegan. Mich

for sale. ready for service. Out of



JCI'SC Buns good producing dams. Prices right.

R. B. OWLER. Hartford. Mich.





 





 





 





JERSEYS FOR SALE 3.23:3”???

service from B. of M. ancestors. Meadowland Farm,

Waterman & Waterman. Packard Road. Ann Arbor. Mich.





FOR SALE REGISIEBED iEllSEY BULLS





Readafor service. Write your wants.

BMITHA: PA KER, R. D. No.4. Howell, Michigan





FOR SALE Yearling Jersey bull from regis-

ter of merit stock. HILLSDALE



FARM JERSEYS. Great producers.



C. & O. DEAKE, - - - Ypsilanti. Michigan





 





 





 





Maple Hill Farm liogisimd Jmcy caiilo

Stock under 2% years all sold.

J. B. Worthington. R. No. 7. Lansing. Michigan





 





Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from B

of M. Cows. also heifer calves and several bred

heifers for sale. Colon 0. Lillie. Cooper-ville. Mich





The Wildwood Farm





Breeder of Line bred Majesty strain of Jersey Cattle.

Herd on R. of M. test.’1‘ubercu in tested. Bull calves for

sale. Type 3:. Production is our motto. Alvin Bulden. Capstiich.





Jersey Calves, Both Sexes, Maids—El





Breeding. Walter Postifl'. Plymouth. Mich.





Shor‘i‘lriorn Callie oi both Sex ior Sale





. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.





«Bidwell Shorthorns





“For Beef and Milli”





This heifer at 6 months has bone.

size and quality—Our own breeding.

The blood of Scotch bulls Imp.

Shenstone Albino and Imp. Villag-

er Registered stock always for sale.





BIWELL STOCK Fill,





Box B, Tecumseh. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns

Big Type Poland Chinhs





"Thev’re rugged—They pay the rent."

A othing for sale at present. l

. Mt. Pleasant. Mich. .





P. P. POPE R. R 3





 





-—Dalry or beef bred. Breeding stock all

“William: ages for sale at farmers prices. C . Crum-

80o). Cont. Mich. Shel-thorn Breeders' Assn. McBride. Mich.





Shorlliorn: F0! Sale. ifiii'eii’é‘li'ii’siaiarlaii’gki‘lle‘:





'Write W. J. BELL. BOSE CITY. MICE GAN.





Fog: such—21:33. snortf genders; by laidtoxlgalton

" c ,.asono von ae. mm 0 mos.

old. 3'31; Schmidt. Reed City. R.No.5. Michigan.





Shortliorns For Sale 25.23.32: 32?: £35

heifers. W. B. MoQullisn. Howell, Michigan.





 





 





 





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Veterinary.

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CONDUCTED BY W‘. C. FAlR, V. S.





 





Weakness—I have a calf about 11

months old that commenced to grow

thin tWo months ago. I was then feed—

ing alfalfa and corn silage, but he re-

fused to eat this kind of feed any long-

er; since then I fed him five quarts of

skim-milk a day with stack food, but

he is now so weak that he can't get

up. He appears bright enough, but has

no appetite for food. M. W., Vander-

bilt, Mich.-—Give him 20 grs. of ground

nux vomica, 5 grs. of nitrate of soda

and 1 oz. of tincture gentian at a dose

in a pint of water as a drench three

times a. day.





Frozen Teat.——We have“'a’cow that

has a. sore and swollen teat. It was

f zen uring our recent cold weather.

s it anything to be alarmed about,

and What would you advise me to do

for same? I forgot to say that the

cow is thin. H. L. 13., Carleton, Mich.

Apply one part oxide of zinc and four

parts petrolatum once a, day. If the

parts were not badly frozen, then you

may expect a fairly satisfactory recov-





ery. Give her 1 oz. of cooking soda,





1 oz powdered charcoal and 1 oz. of

ground gentian at a dose in feed two

or three times a day.





Open Joint—My ten-year-old horse

was kicked in the hock joint by a

sharp-shod horse; this accident hap-

pened ten miles from home and the

pened ten miles from home and th

horse was driven home the next day,

then treated by our local Vet., who

said the joint was open. This first

Vet. advised us to call another Vet.

which we did, and he thought the

case curable; but later advised us to

destroy the horse. We kept the horse

for several days, then killed him. One

surprising thing was the difference of

opinion between the Vets, and I would

like to know if you think the case one

that could have been cured. J. I. B.,

Addison, Mich—Open joint, especially

in the hock, resulting from a kick and

not treated promptly and efficiently,

immediately after the accident, the

horse kept perfectly quiet in a. clean,

sanitary place seldom recovers. And

I should say in this kind of a case,

they scarcely ever recover.





Uric Acid Calculi.——What can be

done for a mare that occasionally pass-

es bloody urine? Whatever it is that

is causing this trouble does not seem

to affect her health. S. B., Milan,

Mich—Give her 1 dr. Hexamathylene

or 1 dr. Urotropin or 1 dr. of Uritone

at a dose in feed or drinking water

two or three times a day. I suggest

that you change her feed, and give her

plenty of good water to drink.



Thoroughpin.-——I have a horse that

has a puff extending through the hook

joint which has been on him since he

was a young colt. This hunch is soft,

has never caused soreness or lame-

ness, but it being there somewhat de-

preciate his value. What can I apply

that will remove it? R. C. 8., Rich-

mond, Mich—A bunch of this kind that

has been on for years, is not by any

means easily removed or reduced very

much in size. By clipping hair off and

applying one part powdered canthar-

ides and four parts lard twice a month,

you will obtain some results; however,

if I owned him I should leave him

alone and to the party who might buy

him, just say that it has never caused

lameness and is not likely to, and the

sale will be made.



Thrush—Knuckling.——I have a mare

16 years old that is troubled with

thrush; she is also lame in fetlock

joint and when moving she knuckles

considerable. This lameness came on

gradually and seems to vary. 0. H.

B., Unionville, Mich—Keep the foot

clean and dry, also apply equal parts

calomel and boric acid once a day. Ap-

ply to fetlock joints equal parts. of tur-

pentine, aqua ammonia and olive oil

three times a week. ' Or if you are not

using her, clip off hair and apply one

part red iodide mercury, one part pow-

dered cantharides and eight parts of

lard every two weeks. . '



Diseased Frog.—I.have a horse that

has a diseased frog and the longer I

doctor it, the werse it gets. In'fact,

none of the remediesl have applied

seem to have helped effect a‘cur‘e. S.





 





K. McL., Highland Park, Mich.-—Keep

the~ foot clean and apply equal parts





of calomel and “powdered charcoal Ponce





a'day. Remember that the .foot should

belkept clean and dry, as filth and tea

much moisture is usually the cause of

this thrush-like condition ofefrog.





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Next we set fire to all the dry brush

and/secured a pretty good burn .all

over the pasture; then taking a mix-

ture of timothy and clover we seeded

these burned patches and every other

place that looked as if the seed would





of a couple more years we had eighty

a‘cres of sod which was covered with

logs and stumps.



The soil being a_clay loam we blast-

ed out the stumps, which we're pretty

well rotted, and piled them up with

the logs in good big piles; then a good

burning in a dry time gave us a piece

of the best land which needed no sub-

duing.‘ We believe that this method

could be improved upon by cutting the

land into two or more lots, and turn

the sheep from one to the other as the



icki ets short.

D Asniogbreeds of sheep: We had

Merinos, Shropshires and ten full-

blooded Oxfords. We felt that the Ox-

fords were best suited to our purpose;

consequently, when we turned the

flock off they were all Oxford.



Many farmers will be apt to find

that it pays to “Kill two birds with

one stone” in this manner.



Otsego Co. G. F. DE LA MATER.





______,_____._.——--—

RICAN BERKSHIRE ASSOCIA-

AMETION SPECIAL PREMIUMS.





 





The American Berkshire Assoc1ation

has provided for speCial premiums

amounting to $1,200 at the National

Swine Show, to be held at Omaha, Ne-

braska, which, together with $800 oi;

l'ered by the National Swme Growers

Association, will make a claSSification

of $2,000 for Berkshires at that show.

An appropriation of $500 was'made tor

Berkshire barrows in the single and

pen classes at the International Live

Stock Exposition. This, With “the

amount offered by the Live_Stoc_k Ex-

position, will furnish a claSSification of

$1,000 for barrows. The Association

premiums at the International tor

Grand Champion dressed carcass, bar-

row, pen and Grand Championcarload,

if won by Berkshires, remains the

same. The total amount offered by

Association for Berkshire barrOWS at

the International totals $800 in cash

and trophies-



Special ribbons for all the classes

and Association medals for the cham-

pion boar, champion sow and get of

sire were provided for to be offered

at the Texas State Fair, Dallas, Texas;

The Southeastern Fair, Atlanta, Ga.;

The Louisiana State Fair, Shreveport,

La.; the Fort Worth, Texas, Show; the

Western Live Sltfck lSligw, Derag,

’ ‘ - 'ic- n o 'a , ansas ,

£010., Amei .i_ y Berkshire





Mo.; Western American _ .

Congress, Eastern American Berkshire

Congress, National SWine Show, and





international Live Stock Exposition.

A national campaign for advertismg

Berkshires through the agricultural

press was decided upon. By this means

it is the intention of the AssoCiation to

bring to the attention of the farmer

and breeder the excellent quality of





the Berkshire hog and, among jther --





things, the fact that the breed has won

more Grand Championships in the bar-

row classes at the international Live

Stock Exposition than all other breeds

combined. , _



The business of the American Berk-

shire Association during March exceed-

ed that of any month in the history of

the Association. The increase in reg-

istration was forty-five per cent greater

than inMarch, 1916.





HEREFORD BREEDERS ACTIVE.





 





At the annual meeting of Hereford

breeders held at M. A. 0., in January,

T. B. F. Sotham, of Lansing, was elect-

ed “official booster” and sale manager

for the association, with the idea. of

holding a combination sale sometime

during the year. Reports from breed-

ers from many sections of the state

showed the Hereford breeding business

to be in a prosperouscondition. Many

of the members thought a greater in-

terest might be created in the breeding





of pure-bred beef cattle if the Agricub





tural College would maintain high-

class. beef herds and push the work of

beef cattle extension as it does the

work of dairy extension. The officers

of the association are: President,

Louis ,Noi‘ton, Quimby; first vice-

president, Ralph Emery, Kalamazoo;

scoond"v1ce-president, Jay

.lonia: third vice-president, Ed J. Tay-

lor, Fremont; secretary and treasurer,





 

 





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





’ Before you place your order

for stalls, stanchions, litter carrier or barn



uipment of an kind send for the Draw Barn



uipmeni Boo which is free to you. It

illustrates and describes all the superior feat-

uresof Drew Stallsand Stanchions—tclls why

they are better—save more time—last longer

and give better satisfaction in every way. This book

financial}: nllcbout Drew Feed and Litter Carriers. Rod.



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Equipment.



Writeforthisbookto-





day. It will chow you

how to get the barn

equipment that means

satisfaction and long cer-

vice. It may nave you

money. Write for the

Drew Bun Book now-





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PROTECT YOUR STOCK

incrensc your profits. comply with the sani-

tlry demands of health nuthoribes. milk

companies. etc.. and at c coring of time,

cost and labor.





Make our stables. dairies, poultry houses and





. ght, cheerful and tree from lice, mites

and the germs of infectious disease! Instead of





sin: whitewash and than a disinfectant. use

Erasmus

m





It dicinfocu and pa in“ at the came time.

It is a finely powdered mineral pigment com-

bined with n germici fimeo stronger than

to catholic acid. but absolutely non-poisonous.

ill not harm mun. beast or fowl.

Ready to apply as soon as mixed with cold water

' . straining or bother u with white-

an applied with either-brush or spray-

er. Dries o clear white. Will not blister. fluke or

peel oil. Nodisagrceable odor. If your denier can-

not supply you. send us your ordsr and his name.

lo lbs. (10 1:13.). $1.00 an postage.

20 lbs. (20 coin. ), 82.00 delivered.

50 lbs. (60 gall). 84:00 delivered.

Trill ackngc, enough to cover 260 sq. ft. cad

p descriptive booklet. 26c pontpaid.





Cubolc Chemical Company

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. mm Illilbc. . Isaac ,Bhnnsigum‘. Foirfiolrbloww 3-8.





a. cow means lull n mat—rally 3



ion. because A poor producci- cost- as much

minor. If you have n



no some





chancel

d and she needs





treatment.



Kow~Kuro is the one cow medicine that

quickly tone: up the digestive and genital

organs and nuts I backward cow on her

feet. Try Kow-Kurc on your most doubt-

tul cow. It II especially ed'cctivc for the

prevention or cure of Abortion. Barrenncu,

Retained Afterbirth. Milk Fever, Lost Apps—

tlte, Booming, Bunches. etc.



sold by md denim and druncldc. II



.“c and 81.00 ”mg... Write for Inc

book. “Tho Home Cow Doctor."





DAIRY ASSOCIATION 00.. lam Vi.





 





Sale of 22 Grade Cows and

- 10 Heifers.





Those cows are some that have been raised on the farm

and have been breeding and raising the best heifer-

for 26 years. None older than 8 yours. All bred to fresh-

on from Aug. th. to Feb. 1 at... slow heifer-to in h-

on this spring. flows are hccvydaroducerc ct present

are 'tlvin. from 25 to 40 lbs. per oy.





Saletobo Apr. 3 rd. commencing at 12 noon.

KNOWLES BROS., Aznlic, Mich.





' Cattle For Sale





2 Loads feeders and two loads yenrll steers. Also

can show you any number I, 2 and years old from”





 

 





Bates Shortliori‘is. its.

(LB. Hummel. - '- - -

SHORTHORNS urinals Iranian;





for solo. J. E. Tnncwcll, Macon, Michi‘nn





nous.

Dunes and Victorian





Heavy bone, lengthy Spring Hours and Gilts from prize

winners sired by one o the best Sons oi.“ the Great De-

fender & other noted strains. M. T. STORY. Lowell. lich.





swigaridale 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 FairM'rite 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 Hengerveld"(the Bull with

the best yearly record backing of any sire in the

world) and ‘G. d: B. Segis Ulric: 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. 27.39-1b. dam, all stock guaranteed to be

Just as represented and a. credit of six months

will begiven to responsible parties.





SWIGARTDALE FARM.

Petersburg, Mich.

BERKSHIRES: Gilts and mature sows that will far-





rpw in April and May. Mammoth Toulouse Geese.

Pekin Drakes $2 ench.Chnsc Stock Farm. R. l, Mariette, Mich.





 





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' Boars, serviceable age. best blood

BflkShlfes, lines. Re istered. ELMHURST

STOCK 'ARM. Almont. Mich.





best of breeding, one

Fall Boa rs, spring hour by Prin 4th..

30 summer and fall gilts open, or bred toJo.()rion 14th

and held until safe in pig. Visitors welcome and satis-

faction aranteed on mail orders. Sold 30 bred sows

during eb. Newton Barnhart, St. Johns. Mich.





 





IS bred ilt.‘ for sale

Duroc Jerseys 9.1.65 .01.".

Carey U. Edmonds. Hastings, Mich.





Dumas, pigs of Sept.farrow.(Dams)by Joe Orion 2nd

DefenderC, Superln. Highland King (Siresl Superbn King

And Hoosier J.O.C. Eithci' sex. ll.G.Kceslcr. Cnssopolis, Mich.





' We have a choice

Duroc J ersey (hits ,0, 0. good ”fixed

heavy bonod Gilts, igterod. All bred to our erd

Boar, Jennings Pilot ound r No. 73373. Bred for Apr

and May furrow. Send for pc igree. Prices reasonable

THE JENNINGS FARMS. R. F. D. I. Ballcy. Mich





 

 

 

 

 





 

 





 





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bootot out winter ends :1 i .

C. J.,’1‘HOMPSON, - - Rockford,pl\lli‘gh¥g§:i





o I c Choice giltsnll sold. Choice full igs out of

0 . 0 prize Winning stock. Write for ow, rice-

A. V. HATT - . - - Grass Lcko.‘ ich.

7 Buv the best and breed them lotto .

0' I. C 8' Fall Gilts and Boats. CLO)VErR

LEAF STUCK FARM, Ii. mice, Mich.

O I C bred sows and gilts all sold. A few long

- ' . 0 V‘bodied heavy boned fall boars to odor.

G. P. ABDIH‘.“ S, Dansville, Michigan





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La rge l y Pe P. C. .0. ”J...

and April arrow all so d. A few nod ones to be bred

for June furrow. Also some goo full pigs either cox.

W. E. LIVINGSTON. PARMA: MICE.

Chinns. As bi , as good, as grow in Iowa. Herd



’CIIMI headed by Go inth tan-er. I can please you.

Robert Martin. R. 7, Hastings, Michigan





Large In: Poland China Brod Sow Sala,Fob.20,‘li





Write for catalog. “2 J. Hugelshaw, Augusta, Mich.





' Poland China sow bred, full igs, either

lll‘!‘ Shh sex. Young Bhonhorn cod? and four

month bull calf. Robert Neva, Pierson, Michiga-





POLAND Chincs bred gilts all sold, still have some

choice fall pigs of large and medium type. at farm-

ers prices. P. 1). LONG. R. 8. Grand Rapids. Mich.



' ‘ Sept. furrow, either sex sir

II; In» Poland China: ed by Jumbo Wood. 8001b.

hog. A. A. WOOD & SON. Saline. ”lg-hit“.





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All sold. except fal igs. We are booking orders for

spring pigs. 0. H. alladay dc Son. Clinton. Mich.





' ' Nothin for sale but fall boars and

"Numb“ SWIIle.‘ [i ts. Write forIgrii-es. -

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LARGE Strain P. C. bred gilts all sold. A few long

'bodied henvy boned bonrs ready for service. 2 men

{all hours by Smooth Jumbo.ii. 0.5wnrtz.Sclinolcrsitlich.





HAMPSHIRE SWIN My herd con.





tains the blood

lines. of mam of the most noted champions of the

breed My herd boar. Claytons Lad, 18233 in a. brother of

Look Out Lad, who was grand Champion at the Nation-

al Swine Show. I am booking orders for spring pigs,to

be shipped about May 1st. Write me for prices.



George EJ241712- - - H mm Lake, Mich.

HAMPSHIRE HOG-S all sold out. would sell one





herd hour and book orders for spring boar-Figs.

John V‘. Snyder. St. Johns. Michigan. R. .





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Durocs For Sale Big Heavy Boned

Full boars and gilts, weight 125 lb. to 200 lb. each, not

extrn (at but in good breeding flesh. Also one yi‘l.ch.

Percheron Stallion. color black and a good one.



M. A. Bray. Estate. Okcmol, (Inghcm Co.l Mich.





Saws and gi its bred to Eureka Cherry King

Durpc and Crimson Critic son of Critic Model 1916

championIowa Fair. W. C. Taylor, Milan. Mich.





A few big smooth Se t. gilts to be

Durocs bred for early fall (arrow. Bell

Phone. E. D. Heyienberk. Wayland. Mich.





PINEEURBT DUROCS. Choice fall bouts. One

great yearling boar. Choice Yellow Dent SeedCorn

for sole. Odo L. boon, Quincy, Michigan.





Fall boars ready for service, sired by‘a

numc J33.“ son of Orion Cherry King and Volun-

teeralso booking orders for exiting pigs, pairs not

akin, F. J. DRODT, Monroe, lic .. R. I.





For :‘I Duroc Jerseys. Six fall hours of big smooth



0 kind. Prices right. JOHN Mc ICOLL,

Route 4. Station AI Bay City: Mich.



’ll'ofi Jerse Bonn old enough forscrvicesired



y by Brookwntor Cherry King, 825



ouch. Reg. 4 Del. Choice goodsJJl. HickstStJolmleii-li





J. H. Banghart, - East Lansing. Mic l.



ch“.n Bred gilts all sold. A few full pigs left.

0 Bodkin. orders for spring pigs.



F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar, Mich.





 





 

   

   

   

   

   





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Catalogueits free and describes our champions. We do

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ions to prove it. “'e have 100 sows bred to our cham-

pion hours for Mar. and A pr. farmu'. ARRY T.

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0. I. c 0 Prince 1110 ms". Grand Chain ion

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.0. LC. and Chester White Swme

Strictly Big Type with Quality. Gilts bred for Spring

furrow. nllsold. Five fine Sept. ilts bred for July

furrow. Have a few good fall pigs oft. either sex. We

are also booking orders for early Spring pigs. Can

furnish in pairs not akin.



Newman's Stock Farm. Mnrlcttc. Mich. R. l.





y o I c You-old boar 2nd prize winner-ct Grand Rapids

. . ' fair also spring gi is and boats ready for scr-

vicc. A. J. Barker. Belmont. Mich. R. R. l





Brod gilts are allsold.

OI ll GI SW‘NE: Orderapnlr 01" trio

not akin to breed in the spring. Rush in your order

before the are sold. Satisfaction guaranteed.

A. J. 00 DEN. R. No. 3. Don. Mich.

9 Bred son's all sold. Have u few good

20;!" Chg. lui'iKSopé.bo_nirs and:iilziflsgpringg pigs.

-rowt Itoc. micweso epo.

Otto BfSchul go. - - - - Noshvil Ic, Mich.





o l Thorou h bred O. I. 0. Swing all

0 - o co (1 out exoo t fall pigs.

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Prices are now on



Palmer Bros,



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120 lino In 0 Jacks. Jcnnys

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lot of big registered Jacks. No

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FOR SALE





Imported Suffolk-Stallion Sudbourno Chlnaman (3970)

802. Chestnut. six years old, sound. good sire, thor-

oughly kind and true to work ”(0 pounds. splendid

family and no better breed of farm anddrntt horses.

Price 3600 and sntisflctory gunrnutyJ’V.W.Collicr, Pontiac.licll.





AT HALF PRICE





Registered Peri-herons. Big black stud colt coming 3.

sound and sure. Bu: boned rugged filly 2 past. bred by

M. A. 0. Also pair of mares 4 and .3 years old. Come

and see them.



1N0. C. BUTLER. Portlcnd. Mich. Boll Phone.





KENTUCKY JACKS and SADDLERS





llc BONE Kentucky JACK! and JENNEYS. 851103.41

FIVE and CUBA" CAITID STALLIONs.geldings and

mares. I zinc)" IDLE TEAHS. WRITE US.

ASK FOR OUR 1917 CATALOG.



THE COOK FARMS Box 436L. LEXINGTON. xv.





Pereharons, Holsloms, Inglis, Shropshim, Duran:

DORE D. BUELL Elm Irl. Mlchl‘nn.

For:ll€ Two registered Percheron Stallions, one four





. and one seven. (‘olts to show. Write for r-

ticnlnrs. W. E. “'AFFLE. Burlington. Mich. pa





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Herd established bill. 300 Head

to select from. “'rite Dept. IQ

for catalog.

The Shadyside Farms, North Benton.0.





REGISTERED PERC HERON





Morse and Stullionspriced to sell.Ins ectio in 't '

L. C.HUNT EATON R PlDSn. lelcelg‘.





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Rogglerod Clydesdale Slilllons For

By r. F. A. PETZ. . - - O



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Registered Percheron didm'ffi‘f. Gmlfi.

quick 52.119. R. C. “hitenight. Marcellus, iIlCh.



Stud colt coming tun. me o l .

PCIGIICI'OIIS Price right. Durm- brondzmvg. nll‘alllzgléi

E. J. Aldrich, 'l'ekniisha. Mlcli.. Bell Phone.

Registered Percherons ,.,,1,,,?,§;,‘ 1,13,;

1 stallion cumin 1 year. Min-es and Fillies. Priced to

:e_ll_. Wm. J. B ake, Dutton, Mich.

For Sale Registered "Black" Percheron Marc,





.3 rs. old. Bred for fall colt. Geo. N.

Wright, R. R. -70. 1, Lawrence, Michigan





SHEEP





Shropesliire Ewes





Mostly yearlings with lambs by side, extra good ‘

ones, come at once if you want them.





Kopa Kim Farm, Klndorllookfllch.





Oxford Down Sheep N" 32.2%

M. I". G‘A‘NBSL‘EY. .LOIIIOIi “hm
440 424





A coop PROFIT FROM-FALL PIGS.





 





On' December 1 I_had twenty-four-

September ,pigs, but practically no

grain. There was almost no local mar-

ket for pigs of this age at that time,

three dollars apiece being about the

best I could get for them. Grain prices

wtere so tempting that a great many

farmers did not feel like turning a cer-

tain gold mine into a commodity for

which the market was influenced by so

many unusual conditions. But my pigs

were in good condition, so I decided

to buy the necessary feed, especially

as I needed the additional manure on

the farm.

The Ration Fed.



At that time I was feeding about a

bushel of corn a day, and during the

entire feeding period, gave them twice

daily all the warm slop (chop and mid-

dlings) they would eat, made as thick

as it could be poured.



I did not use a self-feeder for two

reasons. The weather conditions were

very severe from the first and I did

not have a sheltered place for the

feeder, so the pigs would not come out

and eat as much as they needed. Sec-

ond, unless one has a platform around

the feeder, I have found that pigs of

this age waste a good deal of ground

feed by getting their feet in the feeder.





The pigs had before them constantly

hardwood ashes and a mixture of salt,

copperas and charcoal in the propor-

tions of two pounds each of copperas

and charcoal to fifty pounds of salt.



Twice during the winter I skipped

one feed, and at the next, fed in the

slop turpentine at the rate of two tea-

spoonfuls to a hundred-pound pig.

About twelve hours later I gave the

same amount of kerosene or epsom

salts. This was an extra preventative

against worms, as the pigs slept in a

section of a basement barn which was

rather dark and damp. They were not

bothered with lice.



Results.



On January 10 I sold eight pigs

which averaged about 84 pounds, for

which I received nine cents a pound.



February 1 I sold four sows 'for

breeding purposes, two of them being

as large as any, and two smaller. I

got eleven cents for these and they

averaged ninety-two pounds.



On February 26 I sold the remaind-

er, for which I received twelve cents.

Two of these were undersized, not

Weighing more than fifty pounds each.

That brought the average of the other

ten to 123 pounds.



The twenty-four pigs had brought

me altogether $260.60, and their feed

had cost $105.88. I had paid $39 a ton

for chop, and the price of middlings

had varied from $36 to $40 a ton. For





the corn, 1 paid from $1.00 to $1.15 a

bushel. This gave a gross profit of

$154. "2. This amount, less the value





of the pigs on December 1 estimated

at $3 each, leaves a net plofit of $82. 72.

I spent, not over an hour a day, for

which I received ninety-f ur cents for

my labor. I did not pay any interest

on the money spent for feed.



Had I kept all the pigs until the first

of April, or later, I would undoubtedly

have made a. much greater profit. The

averages would also have been propor-

tionately better, as I sold the best pigs

each time with the exception of two,

and I disposed of them just at the

time when they would have made the

most economical gains.





Typical Conditions.



The. feeding quarters were far from

ideal, and sometimes on account of

bad roads and weather, I was compell-

ed to feed several days at a time on

one kind of feed, and short rations at

that. Yet I think these conditions are

about typical of the average farm





where no special business is made of, ,





feeding hogs, and these figures seem

to show that a good profit can be made

even under fair conditions.





St. Joseph Co. C. M. D.





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