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VOL. CXLVHI. No. 14

Whole Number 3935





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The Only Weekly Agricultural,





 





Horticultural,

DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1917





 





and Live Stock Journal in the State.





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The Economic Importance of Barnyard Manure





T seems that a discussion concern-

1 ing the value and economic import—



ance of barnyard manure is more

than justifiable at this time. From the

standpoint of the money value of ma-

nure, it is worth more per ton at the

present time than ever before. Soon

after the beginnning of the war in Eu-

rope, the source of most of our potash

supply was cut off. Practically our en-

tire supply of potash for commercial

fertilizers came from the Stassfurt

Salt Mines in Germany. The cost of

acid phosphate has also increased

slightly in price, due to the increased

demand for sulphuric acid' in the mak-

ing of munitions. Acid phosphate is

made by treating raw rock phosphate

with sulphuric acid, which converts

the phosphorus into a more available

form for plant use. Nitrogen in the

form in which it is purchased in com-

mercial fertilizers has always been

somewhat expensive, but it is even

more so at the present time. Nitrate

of soda, which before the war was a

very common form of commercial fer-

tilizer, has increased in price until it

is no longer economical to use it in

large quantities.



Nitrogen, phosphoric acid and pot-

ash are the three essential plant food

elements which the farmer purchases

in commercial fertilizers. The fore-

going statements concerning the in-

creased price of these materials in

commercial fertilizers should serve as

an incentive to encourage the farmer

to conserve his natural fertilizer re-

sources on his own "farm, namely, the

manure pile.



Barnyard manure is one of the old-

est and probably the most popular of

all fertilizers. Some of the earliest

agricultural writers have given honor-

able mention to barnyard manure as a

means of increasing the yield of crops

in those early days. It has stood the

test from that time until this and is

considered at this time, more than at

any other time, the cheapest and most

economical and reliable method of

maintaining the fertil-

ity of the soil.



The Composition of



Manure from Dif-



ferent Animals.



The term “manure,”

as discussed in this

article, will mean the

excreta of animals,

both solid and liquid,

together with the bed-

ding which is used as

an absorbent for the

liquid portion of the

manure. ,



The composition or

fertilizing value of ma-

nure depends on sev-

eral very important

factors as follows: (1)

kind of food fed to the

animal; ‘(2) class of

animal (whether cow,

h o r s e , sheep, hog,

etc.); (3) function of

animal (whether used





milk production, work animal, or what into its body is the direct source of

(3) age of animal; (5) kind of the manure produced.

litter used as bedding; (6) handling of tion of the manure, and its value as a

fertilizer is, therefore, going to depend

The food which the animal takes largely upon the fertilizing value of





not) ;





manure after it is produced.





 





By A.





F. HEAD





Dept. of Soils, M. A. C.





The composi-





 





 





 





its Cost on Any Farm.





 





 





 





 





 





 





the fbod fed. Some feeds Contain large

percentages of nitrogen and are some-.

times known as “concentrates.” If the

animal is being fed on very concen-

trated foods, the manure produced is

going to contain a high percentage of

the elements which are found most

abundant in the feed. A dairy cow

which is being fed on a ration high in

nitrogenous matter is going to produce

a manure high in nitrogen.



The function of the animal is also

very important. A dairy cow produc-

ing 6000 pounds of milk a year will use

a great deal of the phosphorus in the

food consumed, in the production of

her milk. A growing animal uses a

great deal of phosphorus in the build-

ing of bone and tissue. A fattening

steer or other mature animal will use

very little phosphorus in its mainte-

nance so that most of this element in

the feed will be recovered in the ma-

nure. A work horse will return in the

manure almost all the nitrogen and

minerals taken as food. To state this

matter a. little differently, the building

up and breaking down processes are

about equal in the work horse, provid-

ing he is a mature animal.



The kind of litter used for bedding

and the method of handling are factors

that will greatly-influence the value of

a ton of manure. These points will be

discussed in more detail later on.



The following table will serve to

give some idea of the average compo-

sition and value of the different ma.-

nures produced on the farm:





Average Composition of One Ton of

Fresh Manure.





n



a, . . . .



N) U2 U1 rm U2 a



2'8 vac? £3 88



#3 8 8's 8 ‘5 8 a is



Z c. 32-. cc :2. Eli a. > g.

Sheep . . .166 4.6 13.4 $3.39

Horse .. . . . .11.6 5.6 10.6 2.55

Fig . . . . . 9.0 3.8 12.0 2.14

COW . . 8. 8 3.2 8.0 1.89

Mixed . . . . . 9.0 4.2 10 4 2.08





The above table is important in that

it gives the farmer some idea of the

real fertilizing value





 





   





of the manure produc-

ed on his farm and

the relative value of

t h e s e different ma-

nuies per ton. In pur-

chasing fresh manure

one should know some-

thing concerning the

relative value per ton

of the different animal

manures so as to know

what price to pay. The

valuation of the fertil-

izing materials in the

above table and those

to follow are based on

fifteen cents a pound

for nitrogen, and five

cents a pound for the

phosphoric acid and

potash. This repre»

sents the market price

of these elements in

commercial fertilizers

before the war began.

(Continued on p. 443).
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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





 





 





 





 





With the country on





Agricultural the eve of war there

Preparedness. is a general recogni-

tion of the fact in





both official and business circles that

an ample supply of food stuffs is the

most essential factor of preparedness

for any eventuality which may arise.

This fact is plainly attested by the re-

cent appeal ol' the Secretary of Agri-

culture to the farmers of the country

"to farm as they have never farmed

before," for both economic and patri-

otic reasons. In this appeal Secretary

Houston has emphasized the fact that

this year the American farmer should

strive for the highest standard of effi—

ciency in the production and conserva-

tion of food. He has made a strong

plea to the farmers of the country to

recognize that it is not only their own

crop which they are growing this year,

but, that it is, in a sense, the nation’s

crop.



In line with this general recognition

of the special need of agricultural pre-



, paredness at this time is the recent

move on the part of the States’ Rela-

tions Service of the federal govern-

ment in asking county agents of the

various states to at once report,

through their superior officers, regard-

ing the agricultural resources and pos-

sibilities of their various counties for

the present crop year. Commercial

organizations are also discussing this

phase of industrial preparedness along

with the mobilization of the country’s

industrial resources as a vital factor of

effective preparedness.



On every hand it is recognized by

those who are familiar with industrial

conditions that the greatest handicap

with which the farmers of the state

and nation have to contend in any at-

tempt toward maximum production is

the unprecedented scarcity of availa-

ble labor with which to plant, cultivate

and harvest the. season’s crops. Mere

preachments are of no value in the so—

lution of this problem. It is a. condition

and not in any sense a theory with

which the farmers of the state and

country , must contend. Something

must be done to relieve this situation

if the problem is to be satisfactorily

solved.



The call for a survey of agricultural

resources in counties where agricul-

tural agents are employed suggests the

.most feasible means of national and

state aid in the solution of this vital

problem. The county agents already

employed could, under existing condi-

tions, do no more effective service for

the farmers of their counties than to

supply needed labor from outside

sources. While county agents are now

working in only about one-third of the

agricultural counties of the state, the



] Agricultural College has at its disposal





4‘





workers who are at once familiar with

the conditions to be met in various

special lines of production and have

the executive ability to temporarily

discharge such duties as might prop-

erly devolve upon a county agent in

this connection, and if these extension

workers could be temporarily assigned

to unorganized counties, a complete





.and efficient state organization could





be quickly effected so far as the coun-

try is concerned.





To make a plan of this kind effective

it would be necessary to secure the co-

operation of large employers of labor

in the industrial centers to the end

that such labor as might be required

to secure a maximum crop production

might be. temporarily diverted to that

end. At present conferences are being

held between state authorities and in-

terested and patriotic citizens of our

commercial centers in an attempt to





work out a comprehensive and feasible ,





plan by which farmers may be assured

of an adequate labor supply for the

harvesting of such crops as they may

be able to plant by the full utilization

of' resources at present available.

There is every reason why every farm-

er in the state should welcome coop—

eration to this end. There seems ab-

solutely no question but that agricul-





tural staples of all kinds will remain





high in price and yield a better profit

to their producers than ever before,

and there is every probability that

the country will need a greater supply

of staple food stuffs than ever before.

This is a national need which should

not, be neglected.



In this connection an appeal will be

made to the legislature at once for an

adequate appropriation to encourage

such a program of agricultural prepar-

edness as may be adopted. While

there is no doubt with regard to the

patriotic attitude of members of the

legislature toward any needed project

of this kind, yet expressions from their

constituents in approval of such a plan

would undoubtedly be welcomed as ev-

idence that they are acting in accord

with the sentiment of their constitu-

ency in taking such action, hence the

wisdom of advising your representa-

tives in the legislature of your per-

sonal views on this important question.





While they may properly welcome

such cooperation as is above outlined,

the farmers of the state should not,

however, limit their campaign of agri-

cultural preparedness to voicing this

sentiment. There is much-that each

farmer can individually accomplish for

his own and the public good in this

connection. By increasing the area de-

voted to the cereal grains which at

present and prospective prices will pay

as large a profit upon the labor invest-

ed as anything which could be grown

upon the land, the food resources of

the country would be best conserved.

By not only using the available ma-

nure, but giving supplementary fertil-

ization with commercial fertilizers

where same can be secured, this result

would be made more pronounced. If

only the usual area of perishable crops

such as potatoes and other vegetables

are grown, the farmer’s revenue from

this source will not be impaired, as

good prices will be assured for the pro-

duct, while by increasing the area of

the cereal crops, the staple food supply

will be increased at a profit to the

grower. Of special cash crops, such as

beans, the same may be said, while

contract crops, such as sugar beets,

may be profitably increased to the lim-

it of available labor under the favor-

able contract which is now being of-

fered. —



In this connection a word of encour-

agement to the farmer who is hesitat-‘

ing about the employment of high-

priced labor, in cases where opportu-

nity offers, will not be out of place. It

is true that present wage scales are





out of proportion to the labor income





possible tromtheir employment in crop





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a commence corps ”or extens on,





prodn an as. 2""j “ ,.

but conditions have ‘éhanged, and with

present prices of farm products "it is

possible to employ labor profitably at

a greatly increased wage.



In this same connection minor pub-

lic officials may be able to materially

aid this program of agricultural and

national preparedness. Where public

improvements such as road building,

draw heavily upon local labor, so as

to interfere with foodoproduction, such

improvements should be held in abey-

ance to the end that the labor may be

applied toward the insurance of an ad-

equate food supply. The present ex-

igency is one which requires “team

work,” as well as personal effort to the

end that the public welfare may be

conserved.





, Pursuant'to an ap-

Grow Sugar Beets. peal‘ from Gover-

nor Sleeper, the



sugar manufacturers of the state have

agreed to an increase in the price to

be paid beet growers for sugar beets

this season. This compromise will in

effect raise the price of beets to grow-

ers one dollar per ton. The sliding

scale contract previously offered by





the" factories will be changed so as to





provide for an increased payment,

above the minimum of $6 per ton for

beets, of $1 per ton for each $1 per

cwt. in the average price of sugar

above $5 per cwt. for the period of

four months which approximately cov-

ers the factory run. In other words,

if the average price of sugar is $7 per

cwt. beets would be settled for at $8

per ton;_ if sugar averaged $7.50 per

cwt. beets would be worth $8.50, etc.

This appeal was made by the Gover-

nor subsequent to a request from the

federal government for the stimulation

of agricultural production in every pos.

sible manner. The response of the

sugar manufacturers is in line with

the action of the cane sugar makers

of Louisiana, who recently tendered

thew government their factories and

plantations in a patriotic manner.





This basis of settlement had been

previously discussed by both sides to

the controversy, but without practical

results. The feasibility of this basis

of settlement was suggested to a mem-

ber of the committee of organized

growers by the Editor of, the Michigan

Farmer early in March. At a meeting

of the full membership of the execu-

tiv_e committee of organized growers,

the plan Was approved as a satisfac-

tory compromise. At a later confer-

ence between a sub-committee of the

executive committee of growers and

the managers of the sugar companies

this plan was submitted by the sub-

committee to the manufacturers, but

the, suggested compromise was not

then agreed upon.



There is every reason to believe that

this plan will net the growers even

better than the $8 per ton which they

demanded for beets. At the same time

it retains in effect the sliding scale

contract which is at once a protection

to the factories against conditions

which may obtain after the war, and

guarantees growers a fair participa-

tion’ in war time prices. The sugar

beet growers of the state should wel-

come this settlement as a most satis-

factory outcome to the controversy.

The outcome is a matter for general

congratulation both to the Governor,

who finally brought about ,a settle-

ment, the manufacturers who respond-

ed to the appeal, and the committee of

growers who laid the’toundation for a

possible settlement of this kind.



We believe that the large body of

growers represented by this commit-

tee shouid consider the settlement a

satisfactory outcome ' of their efforts,

and grow as liberal ' an acreage of

beets as their codditiOns will permit,

since the crop is certain to be a profit-

able One at the new price, and the

country is sure to need all the sugar





which domestlc'factories one produce.





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orclgm 1"-

has been more strenuous on the west-

ern front, the allies are daily occupy-

ing new territory and gradually crowd.

ing back the Germans. The front is





now within four miles of St. Quentin





and some of the important lines of

communication supporting the posi-

tions of the Kaiser’s troops are under

command of the British and French

guns. In the latest reports it is indi-

cated that St. Quentin has been large-

ly destroyed by fire and explosives,

possibly preparatory to an evacuation

by the German defenders. This po‘ t

was supposed to be an important 1i k

in the new Hindenberg line. Farther

to the north and extending into Bel-

gian territory fighting has been exceed.

ingly severe with comparatively little

change in the battle front. The French

have added to their victories in the

Laon battle sector by capturing. sever-

al trench systems which have enabled





them KO better organize the territory





recently occupied. Constant artillery

fire characterizes the fighting about

Verdun and along the trenches farther

to the casts—Aviation groups have

been very active on the Russian front.

Austnan troops penetrated the Rus-

sxan trenches in the region of Kirll-

bada, but were afterwards driven out

during a counter-engagement. In Mace-

donia the Teutons bombarded posi-

tions on the Vardar river and shelled

Monastir.-—Snow storms. in the Alps

prevented fighting on the Italian front.

Additional ground has been gained by

the British forces operating in Asia

Minor 35 miles north of Bagdad. Here

the Turks attempted to out-flank the

British but failed. Additional territory

has also been taken from the Turks in

Palestine near J erusalem.-—-‘During the

month- of March over a half million

ship tonnage was sunk by German

submarines.



Undue activity among members of

the- former royal family of Russia has

led the provisional government to

transfer all personages now with the

deposed emperor to the fortress of St.

Peter and St. Paul. An effort was be—

ing put forth by certain of these per-

sonages, it is declared, to proclaim

Grand Duke Nicholas as emperor. Re-

organization of the new democracy is

now going on very smoothly and

the military units on all fronts appear

to be in perfect harmony with the offi-

cials and the policy now being followed

by those in authority. Russian sol-

diers now on. the French war front

have pledged their allegiance to the

new government. , ,



Political disturbances were started

in Spain last week by classes looking

toward the establishment of a. demo-

cracy in place of the present govern-

ment. Early this week the ‘riots had

ceased and there appeared to be less

reason for believing a. change similar

to the one in Russia would occur, since

the citizens have subscribed liberally

to a large loan to consolidate the pub-

lic debt. In fact, the loan was over-

subscribed six times. 'The government





has also issued a decree‘ prohibiting .





the transfer of ships. This step was

taken to protect Spanish shipping by

preventing vessels from going to for-

eign countries.



Several leaders in the Cuban rebel-

lion have just been captured in Haiti.

Cuban arms have the rebels nearly

rounded up and it is but a matter of

time before normal conditions will be

reestablished.



National.



Congress convenes this week to con-

sider a definite» program of action for

the United States in connection with

its relations to the German govern

ment. Among the requests to be made

by President Wilson are a declaration

of a state of hostility now existing

with Germany, authority to use land

and naval forces for the defense of the

country and it sinterests, power to en-

large the army to 500,000 men, ap-

propriations, to properly equip this

army, provisions for additional navy

vessels and a larger marine corps, the

extension of financial support to the

allies, the enactment of provisions to

increase American tonnage upon the

high seas, and espionage and censor-

ship bills to keep valuable information

from reaching the enemy.



The fiftieth anniversary of the pura

chase of Alaska by the United States

government was recognized in Wash-

ington last Friday. The territory now

has a population of 65,000 people, and

with ~ its resources as yet scarcely

touched, this region has already

brought more than $750,000,000 into

the channels of American trade...





A New semAL. '





Our readers will be highly delighted

story, "Contra-

band,” by Randall Parrish, which will

start in next, week’s issue of then

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Potato Grower





By L. R. WALKER





ERNER FELT, the State Cham-

pion Potato Club boy of the state

of Michigan is a ninth grade stu-



dent of the National Mine school, Mar-

quette county. Verner is fifteen years

old but is large for his age, so much

so that the older boys of the town

made sport of him because he was in

a club of kids although many of the

other boys were as old as he. The

older boys bothered him so much that

he had about made up his mind that

he wouldn’t be in the club another year

although he wouldn’t shirk his work

on the crop then growing.



Verner was one of the first boys at

National Mine to decide joining a club,

and at the first meeting was elected

president. The boys made no mistake

in their selection as he made a good

presiding officer and was interested in

everyone of his fellow club members.

He spent ,one day in early fall with the

writer in visiting every boy’s plot and

he seemed as much interested in each

plot as he did in his own. Last spring

the boys of National Mine had some

difficulty in getting quarter-acre plots

and Verner had to take his from his

father’s back yard. It was stony and

very irregular and also was made up

of two parts connected by a small nar-

row strip wide enough for two or three

rows of potatoes. Verner supposed he

had a full-sized plot but when his yield

and profit became known the plot was

measured by two separate parties and

it was found to contain only thirty

square rods. This being the first year

of club work in the upper peninsula,

and knowing the difficulty that some

of the boys had in getting plots, the

state leader was a little lenient and

didn’t force this rule. He has said that

it must be lived up to hereafter re-

gardless of difficulties.



Verner had on his thirty square rods

seventy-five and one-half bushels of

potatoes. E. C. Lindemann, State Club

Leader, made a uniform price of thirty

cents a bushel for culls, $1.25 per bush-

el for marketable potatoes, and $2.00

per bushel for seed, in making up the

profit or loss of the club members of

the state. These set prices gave Ver-

ner Felt $125.87 as his crop value. He

has forty bushels of good seed left ov-

er which will undoubtedly make his

actual profit still higher than it was

determined at the time the contest

was closed. His total cost of produc-

tion, including all work, seed, fertilizer,

etc., was $31.56. This left a profit of





$94.37. His record as scored on the

four-point basis is as follows:



Yield, acre basis, bushels ...... 402.6

Profit, acre basis .............. $503.30

Quality of potatoes scored ..... 90

Story scored ................. 80





This gave him first place on yield

with a premium of $5.00; first place on

profit with a premium of $5.00 and the

state championship with a prize of

$8.00, a total of $18 won by his hard

work, his stick-to-it-iveness, push,

pluck and persistence. Verner is a

sticker for‘ next year and the boys who



’ laughed at him in the summer are now

becoming club members.

How the Crop was Grown.



The following is Verner’s story ,of

“How ’I Made my Crop of Potatoes.”



“I joined the club for the purpose of

learning to grow potatoes last May

and when the time came, proceeded as

follows: There had been some manure

put on part of the ground the year be-

fore. I then put manure on the re-

mainder, in all five loads. The land is

very hard to get here in a solid piece

so had to have it in an irregular patch.

The manure that had been placed on

the ground the year before was intend-

ed for pp’tatoes for our own use.



“I had the ground plowed twice, first

about the fifteenth of May, and drag-

ged it the same time, then again about

the, fifthof June. I put in six bushels





‘ ' of seed, planting them about four inch-





es deep, sixteen inches apart and thir-

ty inches between each row. When

they began to grow I hilled them and

picked the weeds out by hand. I did

not have any trouble with the bugs,

there were a few that I picked off by

hand. I did not have any trouble with

the frost because the ground where the

potatoes grew was high and the frost

did not get at them.



“The stalks grew up nice and big,

some of them were about three feet

tall, they were not very nice through

the dry weather but when the ground

became moist after the rain in the fall,

they started to grow nicely.



“I hoed my potatoes by hand be

cause it would be impossible to do it

with a horse and cultivator on account

of the ground being rough and full of

rocks. We had half of the ground in

with cats last year and half with pota-





 





A Group of National Mine Club Boys.





THE M .1" C HI re '





A-‘N‘ TAR M E R





own land to know something of the

amount produced by different animals

on the farm per year and the value of

this manure in dollars and cents as

compared with an equivalent value of

commercial fertilizers. '

The following table which appears

in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 192 should be

of interest in this connection.

Amount and Value of Manure Per 1000

Pounds of Live Weight of Dif-

ferent Farm Animals.





 





4—? . 3-0

g; i>>m >. «3 :13

83g 33% 835

f-a Q La '3 ‘40—!

53% >38 >38

Sheep . .34.1 7.2 26.09

Calves ...... 67.8 6.7 24.45

Hogs . . . . .56.2 10.4 37.96

Cows . . . . .74. 8. 29.27

Horse ....... 48.8 7 6 27.74





At the present prices of fertilizing

materials, one ton of the average farm

manure freshly produced is worth

about $4.00. Fifty average dairy cows

will produce in- one year enough ma-

nure, if properly cared for, to equal





 





The Tall Boy is Verner Felt. At the





Left in Rear is Cleo Farm, Second State Winner.





toes because I could not get any other

place where potatoes had not been

grown the year before.



“When the ground was measured,

there were thirty square rods. It was

very hard to measure it because the

ground was in a very irregular patch

with many test pits and stone piles.



“When I dug my potatoes seventy-

five and one-half bushels which were





more than $2,500 worth of nitrogen,

phosphoric acid, and potash if purchas-

ed in commercial fertilizers at present

prices. Farm manure is a valuable by-

product on the farm and its import-

ance as a fertilizer for the main-

tenance of soil fertility cannot be 0v-

er-estimated.

Losses in Manure.

If the greatest returns are to be





 





 





Verner Felt’s Plot at Digging Time.





R. C. lnselman, Club Leader, and J. W.





Weston, Leader of County Agents, at Side.





dug by hand. I worked about one hun-

dred and ninety hours in all.”





ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF BARN-

YARD MANURE.





 





(Continued from first page).



At the present time nitrogen is worth

about twenty-five cents per pound, pot-

ash about forty cents, while the price

of phosphoric acid is about the same

price as formerly with a very slight

increase. Since the element phosphor-

us exists in small amounts in most

manures it is of much less importance

than nitrogen and potash.



It should be of interest to the farmer

who produces manure to use on his’





realized from barnyard manure, it

must be properly cared for to prevent

its fertilizing value from being partial-

ly or totally destroyed. The liquid por-

tion of the manure contains about

three times as much fertilizing mate-

rial as the solid manure. Most of the

plant food or fertilizing ingredients in

the liquid manure is available to the

plant as soon as applied to the soil.

The most common loss of manure on

the farm is through leaching and heat-

ing of the manure pile, either inside or

outside of the barn. Let us consider

briefly the losses from leaching. Since

the liquid portion of the manure is the

most valuable portion, special effort

should be made to prevent its loss.





 





Sad as it may seem, very few farmers

exercise any care whatsoever to pre-

vent the loss of the liquid manure by

leaching.





Very few, if any, who read this arti-

cle have not seen a manure pile behind

a barn, gradually wasting away by the

rains leaching through it. The dark-

colored liquid which is often seen flow-

ing away from a manure pile contains

a great deal of soluble plant food

which is totally lost. Fig. 11 is an ac-

tual photograph taken of a manure pile

that has lost more than half of its fer-

tilizing value by leaching alone. No-

tice the dark-colored portion flowing

away. This is what many have term-

ed an unprofitable barnyard. Leaching

goes on inside as well as outside the

barn. Many have seen holes bored in

the bottom of a wooden floor to drain

away the liquid manure, small ditches

are dug leading away from the barn to

drain away the liquid from the manure

and many instances have been encoun-

tered where the farmer has built his

barn close to a stream so that the ma—

nure can be emptied into the stream,

thereby getting rid of it. How about

the losses which occur from the heat-

ing of manure piles? It is not uncom—

mon to walk into a stable that has

been closed up over night and almost

be driven out by the strong fumes of

ammonia. These ammonia fumes con-

tain nitrogen which is escaping from

the manure pile in large quantities.

Whenever manure is allowed to heat,

either in the ham or outside the barn

in a pile, nitrogen is being lost which

is usually the most valuable fertilizing

constituent of the manure. These loss-

es should not occur and must not oc-

cur in the future if the farm and the

farmer are to be successful. The man-

ufacturer cares for his by-product, why

not the farmer? The farmer who al-

lows his manure to lie in a pile in his

barn or behind his barn without some

means of protection should have his

attention called to the matter. If fresh

manure is exposed to the weather for

a period of two months it will lose

more than half of its fertilizing value.

The loss is greater than what one

would ever imagine.



At the New Jersey Experiment Sta-

tion four samples of manure were ex—

posed to the weather for varying

lengths of time and the loss of fertiliz-

ing ingredients determined. The fol-

lowing table gives the results of this

work and should be of considerable in-

terest in this connection.





Losses in Manure from Leaching.





.2



as ‘6 .3 .5



'6 3i] 8 '2, g :1 E}

.9 us 8 ° W 0 3 o

s s r: s 2% a *5 a

and Z s2. 9-4 «a a. a. a.

131 57.0 62.0 72.0

70 44.0 16.0 28.0

76 39.0 63.0 56.0

50 69.0 59.0 72.0

Average 51.0 51.1 61.1





The above table shows that the av.

erage loss amounted to more than fifty

per cent of the total value of the fer-

tilizing ingredients in the manure. The

writer has seen the manure on many

farms exposed to the weather for sev‘

eral months before it was applied to

the land. It is estimated that more

than $250,000,000 are wasted each year

in the United States by improper car-

ing for manure. The sad feature of

this loss is that it could easily be pre-

vented.



Preservation of Manure Upon the



Farm.



The best and most sane way to han-

dle the manure produced on the farm,

is to haul it directly to the field as

fast as it is produced and spread it

evenly over the land. There are occa‘

sions when this cannot be done, but on

most farms, such as the average farm

in Michigan, this practice can be fol-

lowed. If it is not possible to apply

directly to the field, a few gentle hints

as to the preservation of the manure

in the barn and in the pile will no

doubt be helpful. Where it is neces-
sary to store manure for any length of

’ , ~ time some means should be provided





to prevent it from heating and leach-





ing. A concrete manure pit, such as





shown in Fig. 111, is the most sensible

and economical method for storing ma—

nure. This pit is twenty-four feet long,

twelve feet wide and three feet deep

at the sides. It has a concave floor so

that the liquid manure cannot drain

away, it is also provided with a drive-

way so that one can drive through the

middle and load from either side. This

pit can be built quite cheaply by the

farmer himself. The size of the pit

will, of course, depend on the amount

of manure one wishes to store at any

given time. The manure pit should

pay for itself in a very short time, es-

pecially if it supplants the manure

pile behind the barn.



While a manure pit-is considered the

best way to store manure there are

other ways to handle the manure that

may prove somewhat as effective. An

open shed with a good roof and a tight

clay or wooden floor will serve as a

very good means of storage. If it is

necessary to pile the manure in a large

heap out in the Open for a short pe-

riod of time certain precautions should

be taken to insure as little loss as

possible. Build the pile so that the

sides will be quite vertical, thereby al-

lowing the water to run off rather

than soak into the pile. Make the pile

high enough so that not even the hard-

est. rains can soak through and drain

away the liquid manure. If the weath-

er is extremely dry be sure to keep

the heap well moistened to prevent

heating.



Covered barnyards are becoming

quite common where a great. deal of

yard feeding is carried on. A tight

roof, well supported, is all that is nec-

essary to prevent the rains from wash—

ing away the liquid manure. Where

much feeding is done the saving of

the manure will soon pay for the cost

of the shed.



A tight clay floor in the barn will

prevent a considerable loss of the liq-

uid manure. Sufficient bedding should

be used to completely absorb all the

liquid produced. The precautions just

mentioned are practical and simple

and if practiced will mean the saving

of much of the fertilizing value of the

manure.



Ifthe manure is kept well moistened

and compacted, either in the pit or out-

side, most of the heating will be pre—

vented. Bacteria that causes the heat-

ing or burning in the manure pile,

grow best and» work most. actively in

the presence of air, so that by compact-

ing and Wetting the. air is driven out,

thereby destroying the conditions fav-

orable for such bacterial growth.



Preservatives, such as gypsum or

land plaster, kainit, muriate of potash,

and acid phosphate, are often used in

the stable to prevent the loss of nitro-

gen in the form of ammonia. Gypsum,

or land plaster, is used most common-

ly, the other preservatives being some-

what injurious (0 the hoofs of the an-

imals. Gypsum. or land plaster, con-

verts the nitrogen compounds in the

manure into a form so that there is

much less danger of its being lost by

passing off as a gas. From one-half to

one pound of gypsum per animal,

spread over the manure in the barn

each day should serve to keep down a

considerable loss.



Floats. or raw rock phosphate, is

commonly applied to manure in the

stable more as a reinforcing material

rather than a preservative. Since mas

nure is low in phosphorus an applica-





tion of raw rock phosphate will help to‘





balance up its plant food elements, at

the same time the decay of the manure

may. aid in making the phosphorus in

the raw rock more available.





, Where the manure is hauled directly

to the field as soon. as produced, it is

seldom necessary to use preservatives.

“,Most‘kédisinfectant materials are injuri-





pue'hwhen applied to manure and are





seldom uSGd unless to.

breeding of files.

The Proper Application of Manure.





It has "been a common practice

among farmers for many years to ap-

ply the manure produced on the farm

as a top-dressing upon the land. This

practice has proven itself a good one

and has several fundamental princi—

ples underlying it. First, and most im-

portant of these principles is, that it

is nature’s way of applying her plant

food to the soil.

is for the elements of fertility to pass

gradually into the soil, especially the

soluble compounds of nitrogen. When

manure is applied as a top-dressing it

should be incorporated into the soil by

the use of a harrow or other suitable

implement, preparatory to planting the

field. Manure when applied as a top-

dressing may also serve as a mulch,

thereby preventing the loss of consid‘

erable moisture by evaporation.





When manure is hauled to the field

it should be spread evenly over the

land at that time rather than pile it in

small piles to be spread later. Placing

manure in small piles and allowing it

to stand for any length of time is a

very wasteful practice. The rains

leaching through it will carry the sol-

uble material down into thé soil, mak—

ing the soil beneath the pile more fer-

tile than the rest of the field. The re-

sult is an uneven growth of crops and

a lodging of the grain, due to an ex-

cess of nitrogen in these spots.



A manure spreader is the best and

most economical method of applying

manure to the land. The manure

spreader is second in importance, only

to the self-binder or reaper, as an im-

plement upon the farm. The manure

spreader is always ready for its par-

ticular purpose, the manure can be

spread easier and more evenly, and

the, amount’ applied can be regulated.





A good time to apply manure is on

the land that is to be plowed for corn.

Corn responds well to an application

of manure. Il‘ wheat follows the corn

it. will be greatly 'benefited from the

manure and there will be less chance

of the wheat lodging, than if the ma-

nure is applied directly to the wheat.

A practice which is very commonly

recommended is the application of ma-

nure to grass lands. This practice

should be encouraged since it gives ex-

cellent results. The individual farmer

himself should act as his own judge as

to the proper time to apply his manure

to get the maximum returns.



The amount of manure to apply var-

ies somewhat with the kind of manure

that is to be applied. From five to

eight tons per acre is a good applica-

tion of the average barnyard manure.

If it is desired to cover a large area

and only a limited amount of manure

is at hand, an application of five tons

per acre will suffice to give good re-

turns. Corn can withstand a much

heavier application of manure than

wheat, so that the crop will influence

to a certain degree the amount that is

to be applied at a given time. It is a

good plan to manure at least one crop

in the rotation, in this way covering a.

portion of the farm each year. In a

three-year rotation of corn, wheat and

grass, the manure can be applied to

the grass land just before it is to be

plowed for corn.



The importance and proper conser-

vation of barnyard manure cannot be

over emphasized. The success of many

farms may lie within the boundaries

of the manure pile. Conserve the by-

products onlthe farm for within them

may be. stored the true profits of the

farm.





 





MENDING LEAKY WATER PIPE.





 





To the man who is having trouble

with his water pipe as mentioned in

the Michigan Farmer of March 24, I

would say as follows: Take a length

of pipe one-quarter inch larger than

the pipe he wants to mend. and with a





 





I‘ prevent the 1





The natural tendency





Saw the pipe to be mended in tyro, and





.after smearing with thick paint, put.





the ends together inside . the larger



pipe. I have mended» many'leaks in



this way, and never had a failure.

Ionia Co. ‘ M'. SPALDING.





LILLIE EARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





I think a word of caution .ought to

go out to the farmer this spring about

planting too many potatoes and too

many beans. From what I hear on ev-

ery hand these two crops are liable to

be overdone. One man argues that

with potatoes at $2.50 to $3 per bushel

now they can not be cheaper next year.

But there is no sound argument in this

reasoning at all. The price this year

has nothing whatever to do with the

price next year. Potatoes are not like

grain crops, where a reserve is carried

over every year. The potato cop is

cleaned up every year and we all start

in new again. The previous year don’t

count at all.



With a large acreage and a big crop

we will produce more potatoes than

are wanted for consumption and as

they can not be held over for another

year they" are all thrown on the mar-

ket and the market is glutted and ruin-

ed. How long ago is it that we had

potatoes selling for fifteen cents per

bushel. Yes, and many thousands of

bushels were never sold at all. We

can easily produce those conditions

again. All that is necessary is a large

acreage and a good crop. With the

present price of seed potatoes it would

be too bad to do this.



Farmers are paying $2 a bushel for

little, small seed potatoes that can not

be sold for consumption. It takes

around ten bushels per acre for seed.

If potatoes should be cheap another

year the loss from this source alone

would be tremendous. Add to this the

use of the land, the labor, etc., and if

potatoes are cheap the loss would be

almost beyond comprehension. W’e

know farmers are prone to overdo

things like this. They lose their heads

when potatoes go to $2 and it takes a

pretty level headed fellow not to.



It seems to me no farmer is warrant-





ed, from a good business standpoint, in





putting in anything" above his usual

acreage. If we all do this we may be

reasonably sure of a profitable market.

That is better than to have a tremen-

dous big crop that sells below the cost

of production. My advice is, forget the

present. price of potatoes and plant

just the same acreage you would un-

der normal conditions. It is better to

be safe than sorry. Why, every vacant

lot in Grand Rapids and Detroit will

be planted to potatoes, all the vacant

lots in the small towns will befalso.

You can’t blame these people much.

for potatoes have been too high. This

will, of course, only last one year.

They will get enough of attempting to

grow their own potatoes in one season.

In fact, they will get enough of it long

before the season is over, but there

will be enough potatoes grown in this

way to affect the market this year.



Take careof the potato market for

next year by being conservative in

planting this spring. Better sell all

the potatoes you can possibly spare

for $2 than to plant so many that you

ruin your market for next year. The

safest way is not to plant quite so

many potatoes this spring as usual.



Beans-



The bean crop is a little different

because a surplus can be carried over.

But with the present price of seed

beans a. poor crop is almost sure to

bring a loss. Too large an acreage

means a poorly cared for crop and that

means loss. 'Where ' a man puts so

much money into seed he ought to have

some guarantee as to price. We can

be sure of a good price if we don’t raise

too, much, but if we do down goes

the market and the farmer alone

stands the loss. Think of those things

and phy safe. Gown 0. Linus.





 





 





Seeding Sweet Clover with Wheat.



Could you give me information con-

cerning the seeding of sweet clover

with fall wheat. Would the clover be

all right sowed in the spring the same

as June clover? How would you sow

it? Would you drill it in or would a

drill cut the wheat roots too much?

How much would you sow per acre?



Sanilac Co.



If sweet clover is to be seeded with

wheat, it would be better to drill same

in with a disk drill, gomg crosswise of

the drill rows, which would injure the

wheat verylittle. About ten to twelve

pounds of good hulled seed should be

sown.



Whether this method of sowing

sweet clover will result in a good stand

or not will be somewhat a matter of

experiment, since it has not been

grown in a commercial way for suffi-

cient time and under different condi-

tions in this state to give us absolute

knowledge of what may be expected of

the crop. It, however, requires a‘firm

seed bed for best results, and we can

see no reason why it would not make

a stand in wheat, if other conditions

are favorable.





Seeding Alfalfa in Winter Wheat.





I want a little information on sowing

alfalfa this spring with winter wheat.

Do you think I would get. a good catch

sown this way? How much seed would

you sow to the acre and how would

you sow the seed? This land is sand

and clay loam. I plowed under a big

crop of clover a year ago last fall.

Do you think I had better sow lime on

this piece of wheat? If so, how much

to the acre and how would you apply

same? Would it be beneficial sown on

top of the soil?



Newaygo Co. F. R. G.





Evidence as to the success of'this

method of seeding alfalfa in Michigan

is rather conflicting. Where only a

small quantity of alfalfa seed has been

used with cloverseed, very good results

have sometimes been secured. Where

attempts have been made to seed al-

falfa alone in wheat on land which has

been previously devoted to this crop

and which was not inoculated with the

bacteria for which alfalfa is the host

plant, many failures have been re-

ported. This method of seeding alfalfa

in Michigan may be considered to be

still in the experimental stage.



In case it is adopted it will be better

to sow it in combination with June clo-

ver, since this will in any event give

satisfactory results, and if a fair stand

of alfalfa is secured it will perpetuate

the meadow for a longer period than

if it were not sown in the combination,

and a natural inoculation of the soil

will be brought about to some extent.



Eradicating Sand Burs.





What is the best way to eradicate

sand burs on a field of about four

acres, whether by summer fallow or

by crop and cultivation?



Oceana Co. J. E. C.





Thorough cultivation is the best

method of eradicating sand burs. Sum-

mer fallowing would be the cheapest

method of accomplishing the desired

result so far as the labor cost is con-

cerned. If conditions are such that it

is desired to grow a cultivated crop.

considerable hand-hoeing will be re-

quired to accomplish the desired re-

sult. In this case root crops are gen—

erally considered best to grow since

they can be planted late and thorough

cultivation practiced for some time be-

fore. planting, which minimizes this

hand work in keeping the noxious

plants down.



Growing Oats After Oats.





I would like to know if we can raise

a good crop of oats where we raised a

heavy crop of oats last year. It Was

not seeded last year with clover seed

and now I would like to sow oats again





and seed it. The ground is of a rich

black clay loam soil.

Allegan Co.- B. M.





While it is not good farm «practice

to grow two ., small grain crops like

oats in succession on the same ground,

yet on strong land such as is described

in this inquiry, it would be more likely

to give satisfactory pits on. a?

less fertile m“
Pint. 713913:





WIDE vs. NARROW runes FOR

FARM WAGONS.





For many years advocates of good

roads have urged the use of wide tires

on wagons as a means of reducing the

needless wear of road surfaces. The

most convincing argument is usually

one that presents a prospect of finan-

cial advantage, and there is a good ar-

gument for wide tires based on their

saving to the farmer. In fact, it is a

better argument for such tires than

their service in_protecting roads. It

is based on facts ascertained by ex-

periments made by the United States

Office of Public Roads and Rural En-

gineering under the direction of E. B.

McCormick, chief of its division of

rural engineering.

How the Test was Made.



An earth road was plowed up, grad-

ed and then rolled with a ten-ton roller

weighing 450 pounds per inch of width

of the rim of the wheels. A wagon

was then loaded until the total weight

on the wheels was 5,000 pounds, and

the pull in pounds required to haul it

along the road was measured. The

wagon was equipped with one and a

half, two, three, four, five and six-inch

tires, and the weight of the loaded wag-

on was 883, 625, 417, 313, 250 and 208

pounds per inch width of tire for these

different widths. It will be noticed

that with one and a half-inch and two-

inch tires the wheels produced greater

loads on the road, per inch of width of

tire, than did the road roller used in

constructing the road, so that it is self-

evident that such tires will cut into a

new road somewhat and are therefore

undesirable.'After each test and before

the beginning of the next, the road

was replowed, graded and again rolled,

so as to have the conditions at the be-

ginning of each test as uniform as pos-

sible with an earth road. The tests

selected for comparison were those in

which moisture and weather-condi-

tions were identical.



The Result of the Test.



The results of all these tests show

that it takes a pull of about ninety-one

pounds per ton of gross load when one-

and a half-inch tires are used, eighty-

two pounds with two-inch tires, seven-

ty-four pounds with three-inch, sixty-

nine pounds with four-inch, and sixty-

six pounds with five-inch. With six-

inch tires the pull increases somewhat

above that with five-inch tires, indicat-

ing that for such a wagon and load

there is no advantage in increasing the

width of tire above five inches. From

these figures it will be seen that a

horse must exert itself about twenty-

three per cent more to pull the same

load with one and a‘ half-inch .tires

than with three-inch tires, and over

ten per cent more with two-inch than

with three-inch tires. Any such steady,

needless strain on the strength of the

horses, avoidable by substituting wide

for narrow tires, is a waste of the

farmer’s assets which he will be quick

to see when pointed out.





Width of Tires Indicated by the Test.



The width of tires recommended by

the Department of Agriculture is as

follows: One-horse wagon weighing

2,000 pounds loaded, two inches; light

two-horse wagon weighing 3500 pounds

loaded, two and a half inches; medium

two-horse wagon weighing 4,500

pounds loaded, three inches; standard

two-horse wagon weighing 6,800 pounds

four inches; heavy two-horse wagon

weighing 7,500 pounds loaded, five

inches.



With such tires not only will the

farmer work his horses to the best ad-

vantage, but he will also reduce the

amount of money that must be spent

.to keep the roads in a condition for

easy use. He will be a gainer in ev-

ery way. He can haul heavier loads

with the same team, he can haul the

same load with less exertion than with

narrow tires, and every time his ‘wide-

tired wagon goes over an earth road it

will roll~it instead of rutting it.





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





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machines have worked /

under every _

p o s s i bl e ‘

condition—se- l

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that resulted in The John Deere

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while leaves are still active and angle of test chang-

place hay upon clean stubble. ed by means of con-





Make straight windrows, and V°Ri°ntllev°"' 't

no dumping of rake is required. Th,mif,cfi,f,3Ӥ;g;

There is no bunching of hay 1n grows. higher where

turning corners. irrix'fiiwfiiifi'lifi

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for the free circulation

of air. The hay retains

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John Deere Spreader





The Spreader with

e Beater on

the Axle





M o u n t i n g '

the beater on

the axle simpli-

fied the con-

struction, elimi-

natgd troutblesome parts and

ma e possi 1e a successful low-

down spreader with big drive th§Y3Z‘i§?S’LtZIJ’E3'

wheels. Therearenoshaftstoget driven by menu";





out of line ' mOVing toward the

, no chains to cause beater—no bunching





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N traveling over the state one is im-

I pressed with the increasing inter-

est manifested by the growers in

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berries. Until late years these fruits

have been neglected, but plantings are

now on the increase and should con-

tinue, for the value of currants and

gooseberries has never been fully ap-

preciated. When we consider that they

are the hardiest of our cultivated

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it is surprising to find such small

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they often serve as a “filler-in crop”





crops may be a failure.

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Because of the hardiness and general

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gooseberries are heavy feeders and

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tion is necessary to keep up the dust

mulch and prevent evaporation of the

moisture as well as to keep down grass

and Weeds. Remember that plants of

this nature demand a cool moist soil

and a mulch of straw or sawdust may

be employed to good advantage to con-

serve the necessary moisture.



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Proper pruning of cur-rants is espe-

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Gooseberry Before Pruning.





ing may be done at any time when the

wood is dormant, although it is consid-

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growth starts in the spring, thus avoid-

ing the danger of the wood drying out

and winter-killed wood may also be re-

moved at the same time.





Trimming Gooseberries.



Pruning of gooseberries is very sim-

ilar to that of curl-ants. The fruit is

borne on one-year-old wood and from

spurs on the older branches. After

two or three years the wood begins to

fail and produces inferior fruit. After

the bushes come into bearing some of

the older wood should be removed each

year to give place to the younger, more

vigorous shoots. Keep the center open

in order to facilitate picking but not

too much so, for injury from sun scald

may result. Struggling branches with

a. tendency to touch the ground should

be removed to give a better circulation

of air. By careful pruning as outlined

and.spraying to preserve the foliage,

a currant or gooseberry planting should

last for a number of years. '



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PEACH POlNTERS.





 





The peach is not a long-lived tree

and every year some will die and have

to be replaced. The orchard map is

necessary to keep the trees of one va-

riety in certéin blocks so that the or-

chard will not become difficult to har-

vest because of indiscriminate plant-

ings of mixed varieties. Each year

some of the trees may have to be re-

moved because of the serious diseases

known as the yellows or the little

peach. The cost of new nursery stock

is a yearly expense to the owner of a

commercial peach orchardist. On the

large farm there is the additional cost

of labor for planting trees. .



Give Thorough Cultivation. *



Cultivation is necessary to produce

peaches and all during the hot days of

early summer the cultivators must be

busy plodding back and forth across

the orchards, forming the mulch which

conserves moisture and also keeping

down the weeds which steal the water

Which the trees need to produce an

abundance of juicy peaches. The cul-

tivators cannot go too close ‘to the

trees or they will be barked by the

horses or implements, no matter how

carefully the driver may try to guide

the‘team. This means that there'is a

certain area. close to the trees which





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around the treesitis a long and dun- ‘ f

cult work to finish up the hoeingin? a.

satisfactory manner.





Thinning, an Essential.



‘Peach trees will overhear and the

trees thickly loaded with fruit do not

have the strength to mature all of

them into fine large specimens which

will bring good prices from the com

sumer and enable the grower to dis-

pose of his fruit at a fair price even

when the market is glutted with infer‘

ior stock. This means that the trees

must be thinned and thinning a large

orchard is a long tedious job unless

there is an abundance of hired labor.

and labor means an expenditure of

money and more charges chalked up

'against that crop that is to be if noth-

ing happens. Thinning cannot be hur-

ried or the result will be careless work

and many branches injured by the

fruit being carelessly torn from the

The men who know how to

thin properly and work rapidly are

worth money to the peach grower, but

it is unfortunate that much of this

work must often be turned over to the

men who do not have the best interest

of their employer at heart. If thinning

is not practiced the returns from the

peach crop are seriously reduced as it

is only the first-class peaches that pay

much of a profit after all of the mis-

cellaneous production and selling costs

are deducted from the returns.





Summer Spraying Necessary.



The best results from the peach or-

chard will come where summer spray-

ing is practiced. The brown rot and

the plum curculio ruin many peaches

every year and the fruit which shows

spots of the brown rot or the gummy

exudations from curculio stings meets

with disfavor on the best market. This

summer spraying means another

charge against the peach crop, but ex-

periments prove that it pays. The

Department of Agriculture have con-

ducted many experiments along this

line and some of them in Michigan or-

chards. At one time I assisted in some

of these experiments at Benton Harbor

and the results of the summer Spray

ing were very apparent on the fruit.

The color even seemed to improve and

the peaches showed no signs of the rot

or the curculio stings. The best point

of all was the fact that these sprayed '

peaches” seemed to hold up after reach

ing the consumer’s home much longer

than fruit which had received no spray-

ing. The necessity. of this summer

spraying does not appeal to many fruit

growers, even in the fruit belt, but it

seems as if it will soon be one of the.

necessary operations on every peach

farm. Of course, it costs money and

again emphasizes the fact that the

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THE SPRAY NOZZLE.





 





' The subject of nozzles could form a

chapter by itself, not only as govern-

ing the pressure, but in its adaptation

to the work at hand. Pressure can be

maintained, other things being right,

only by limiting the nozzle capacity.

The nozzles choke back the flow of

liquid, and if the spray dope escapes

too freely'the nozzles must be reduced.





The number of nozzles carried furnish-





es no very definite criterion as to the

amount of liquid delivered. It is a

principle in geometry that a square

described on a given line has four

times the area of a square described

on half that line. The same principle

holds true in circles, and a nozzle with

a given-sized opening will deliver four

times the quantity of another with an

opening of only half the diameter. The

openings in nozzles wear rapidly, too,

and the delivering capacity increases

very fast in this way. If the pressure

is not maintained, one Of the things to

look after is the nozzles to see if the

openings have not become worn. But

it is well to carry sufficient nozzles so





‘that the liquid doesn’t have to escape





through the relief valve. It is econom-

ical to use about what spray the pump

furnishes, and the relief valves wear

rapidly when they are constantly in

use.



Types of Nozzles.



It is of vital importance to have noz-

zles adapted to the work in hand. Noz-

zles may be divided into two classes,

those making a fine mist-like spray,

and those making a coarser spray but

carrying the liquid farther. Unques-

tionably the first class, those which

make a misty, funnel-shaped spray fur-

nish the most ideal spray and for

smaller trees which can be reached by

them are the prOper ones to use, but

they do not carry the spray over to





six feet unless the wind happens to be ‘





favorable, and not so far as that if the

wind is in any way opposed, and it is

not feasible to reach the larger trees

with them even with long extension

rods. For large trees of all kinds

some kind of nozzle with more carry-

ing capacity is required, although

these make a coarser spray. They are

also more practical where, as is most

often the case, the wind is more or

less contrary. The Bordeaux or the

calla nozzles are good ones of this

class, and there are several special

nozzles that do very goood work. Noz-

zles don’t cost much and where a per-

son has orchards of different sized

trees, like apples and peaches, or some

large and some small apple trees, it is

well to have both kinds of nozzles on

hand. Theoretically the angle nozzles

are ideal for forcing the spray down

into the calices of the blossoms, but

practically when it comes to reaching





large apple trees the dope has to be





carried so far from the nozzles to

reach all parts of the trees that We

have never found any use for them.

We make no quarrel with those who

like them.



Where more than a single nozzle is

carried on a pole, as is usually done

with power, two styles of connections

are used, one in the shape of a Yand

the other U-shaped. The former are

good with the misty nozzles, but with

those carrying the spray to a'greater

distance the U is preferable, as the Y

spreads the spray too much.





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Azoturia

By G. H. CONN, V. S.

HIS condition is usually spoken

of as Azoturia by veterinarians,

and also by many of the laity,

but in some sections it is commonly

spoken of as “Crick in the Back.”

There is no other disease that has as

many terrors for the horse owner and





the veterinarian as has azoturia. Vet-.





erinarians are able to diagnose the

condition in practically one hundred

per cent of cases, but out of one hun~

dred veterinarians it is doubtful if you

would find ten that would agree on just

What was the cause of the condition,

and among this number you would find

just as much variance in the treat-

ment of this condition.





There are several features that stand

out prominently in clinical cases of this

disease, that make it quite difficult to

get at the real cause of the trouble.

Most Veterinarians have until the last

couple of years held to the toxemia

theory, that is, they thought that it

was caused by the absorption or'tak-

ing up of the circulation of the body

great quantities of poisonous materials

that are to be found in the body when

the excretory organs, such as the bow-

els and kidneys are not working prop-

erly. This theory will not stand in-

vestigation because any poison that

would be so severe as to render a





' horse’ so completely helpless in such a





short time would not abate so rapidly

as this condition sometimes does, nor

would it do so without any treatment.

Yet we see many mild cases of am-

turia that would recover in a few

hours without any t1 catment at all.





This disease is a cold weather dis-

ease as we see much more of it during

the cooler months of the year, and

very seldom during the hot months of

the year. It usuallyoccurs after a

short period of idleness and usually in

young growing horses, but does occur

in older horses. It. is much more se-

vere as a rule in city horses than it is

in country horses, which is due, no

doubt, to the more concentrated feed

that they receive, and the more vio-

lent exercise that they receive. In city

horses it many times comes on so sud-

denly that the driver has had no warn-

ing of it and the horse suddenly goes

down. In country horses, however,-you

will usually have ample warning that

it is coming on, as the symptoms ap-

pear before the disease is well estab-

lished. A larger number of city horses

die in proportoin to those affected than

do country horses.



Why immediate Attention is Neces—

sary.



It remained for a western veterinar-

ian to announce a theory that seems

to be the best that has been offered to

date, and one which will stand inves-

tigation pretty thoroughly. This they

have termed the mechanical theory.



The horse at rest is many times fed

rich nitrogenous feed that makes the

blood thick and heavy. The circula-

tion becomes sluggish, due to the lack

of exercise The great amount of nitro-

genous material in the blood will

make the muscles of the blood vessel

walls flaccid and u eak. They do not

have their normal elasticity. While on

the other hand the nervous system is

stimulated and the horse is feeling ex-

ceptionally good. You rarely see a

horse come down with azoturia that

did not feel better immediately preced-

ing the attack than he has for some

little time. The horse is taken out to

work or for use of any kind and since

he is feeling so good and his nerves

are stimulated so highly, and the blood

vessels are weaker than usual the ex-

ercise that he receives for the first

few minute‘s causes his heart to work

much faster than usual and in fact, the

horse will work the heart more in a

few. minutes than it would ordinarily

in a much longer time thus it pumps

“large quantities of blood into the blood





vessels that are not in shape to hnndh





 





makes the nuns: very mum and

brings abut a paralysis of the partic-

ular muscles in whichthls blood has

stopped. Most times if the animal is

stopped when the symptoms are first

noticed a rapid recovery takes place

as the vessels rid themselves of the

large amount of blood and in a few

hours the horse is normal. If, how-

ever, rest is not given at once, the ves-

sels beco c totally unable to remove

the large/vtuluantities of blood that was

pumped into these parts and it is only

a matter of several hours until it has

coagulated and then the animal dies

with symptoms similar to apoplcxy.



Varying Symptoms of Azoturia.



Azoturia usually manifests itself in

a number of ways. Some horses will

act very much like a horse with an at-

tack of acute indigestion and will look

around at the flank occasionally and

show quite a little pain, and even get

up and down a few times Others will

show an affection of the muscles of the

fore limb or of some other group of

muscles. Many of them will show a

marked lameness inone hind leg and

rarelyin both, together with a marked

swelling of the muscles over the loins.

Some horses are so very nervous that

it is almost impossible to give them

medicine by way of the mouth.



Now, in city horses they almost al-

ways go down, even with all that the

veterinarian may do. But the cases in

the country are more mild and many

of them, if receiving good care and at-

tention will remain upon their feet

throughout the attack. The animal

that does not recover enough to get

upon its feet at the end of forty-eight

hours is very apt to die. The majority

of those that recover will get up at or

before the expiration of twenty-four

hours. A few will remain down for

several days and then recover, but

these are exceptions to the rule.



Treatment at the Time of Attack.



Horses that go down with this con-





dition should not be put in slings,





neither should they be raised up in

them, as it does more harm than good.

Horses that are down should be turn-

ed over every three or four hours.

Horses that can not get up with the

aid of a couple of strong fellows lift-

ing on the tail, very rarely get up or

stay up very long, even when slings

are used. When the attack is coming

on do not fight the horse in an effort

to keep it on its feet, because the ex-

ertion that you cause it to put forth in

trying to stand will only aggravate the

condition. If the horse wants to lay

down, let. it do so, and then make it as

comfortable as possible. Rest is the

most essential thing in the treatment

so stop the animalOas soon as some

thing is noticed to be wrong, and keep

the animal as quiet. as possible. Do

not try to make some town or some

barn, but stop where you are and if

necessary blanket the horse, but above

all, keep him quiet.

Preventive Measures.



Horses that are lightly exercised and

then rested for thirty minutes before

going to work after a short period of

idleness, do not get azoturia. This light

exercise stimulates the circulation and

thus no clogging of the blood vessels

occurs and the azoturia is prevented.

Horses in which the grain ration is

very much reduced during the idle pe-

riod and whose bowels and kidneys

are kept working free from being fed

properly, very seldom contract this

disease. Horses that have been idle

for some little time. if they do get this

will have a much lighter attack than

those horses that have only been idle

for a day or so. Mares do not have

the disease as severely as do geldings

and the pércentage of recoveries is

much larger in them than it is in the

geldings.



It has been the common belief with





many people that the urine of ani:





male that are affected with azoturla'is

always dark colored, but such is not

the case. For the firsf several hours





 





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the urine may, be almost nominal in

m. butiftheanimaldoesnotrecov-

erm‘yrapidlyattheendofatew'

hours the urine is found to be dark in

color, sometimes being almoSt as dark

as soles. Many people' are of the

opinion that it is necessary to always

draw the urine as soon as the veteri-

narian arrives on the scene, but we

seldom follow this procedure any more

and we feel that our results are just

as good, if not better thanthey were

when we followed the other practice

of always drawing it early in the at-

tack. It has been our experience that

if you get the animal comfortable and

resting as it should, that it will be

only a matter of an- hour or so until it

will void the urine of its own volition.



When the animal is known to be

susceptible to this condition or when

it shows by its actions that something

is wrong, especially if it has been idle

for a-day or so, and if it has been. feel‘

ing exceptionally good for the first few

minutes after starting to work, then

suspect azoturia and stop the animal

at once and keep it just as. quiet as

possible. Send for a veterinarian as

once in a while a case that looks very

mild may seem to be getting along

very rapidly and all at once take a re‘

lapse and go down. Do not take any

chances, as they are sometimes the

cause of the loss of a valuable animal.



If you have an animal that is sus-

ceptible to these attacks cut down the

grain ration one-half or more when the

animal will be idle for a day or so, and

then give some exercise every day. If

perchance a day or two must be miss-

ed, before using again, exercise for a

few minutes and then place in the

barn and let the animal rest for a half

hour. Keep the bowels free by the use

of oil meal or bran.



There is no'treatment that is spe-

cific and the proper care and attention

that should be given by the owner

early in the attack and then the care

through the attack will many times

contribute more to the recovery than

anything that could be done.





ACTIVITIES OF MICHIGAN FARM.

ERS.





 





Directors of the Charlevoix County

Agricultural Society met at East Jor-

dan,‘ appointed division superintend-

ents and made other arrangements for

the fair to be held this year, Septem-

ber 2528 inclusive. Reports show a

balance of $228.99 on hand. D. L. Wilo

son was re—elected secretary.



The Saginaw County Farm Bureau

met at Saginaw and re-elected officers.

It was voted that all dues paid for 1917

be returned to members in the form of

improved varieties of seed for experi-

mental purposes. Thesc seeds will in-

clude the Grimm alfalfa, Red Rock

wheat, Worthy and Alexander oats.



Farmers held a well attended meet—

ing at White Cloud and reorganized

the Newaygo County Farm Bureau,





with the following officers: President,

T. I. Frye, Fremont; vice-president,

Joseph Roscma, Garfield: secretary-





treasurer, Herman McKinley, Grant.



The Isabella County Fair Associa-

tion held its, annual meeting at Mt.

Pleasant and reelected officers. A five-

day fair will be held this year and the

tentative dates are September 11-15.



L. L. Thomas, of Petoskey, is the

newly elected secretary of the, Emmet

County Agricultural Society, the pre-

mium list for the 1917 fair has been

enlarged and efforts will be made to

have a; record-breaking affair.



W. J. Orr, of Saginaw, president of

the Michigan Bean Jobbers’ Associa-

tion, is predicting that Michigan farm-

ers will plant 700,000 acres of beans

this year as compared with 450,000

acres last year.





Kent Co. ALMOND GRIFFEN.





 





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country when live stock men were in

such an independent position as today,

with the serious shortage of all kinds

of stock pointing unmistakably to con-

tinued high record prices. Corn selling

in feeding districts around the dollar

mark and on the Chicago market

around $1.13 a bushel is certainly go-

ing some, and yet experienced stock

feeders say it can be made to pay

well. Consequently, stock feeders have

been buying corn on farms in their

neighborhood at higher prices than

could be obtained by marketing it. Nu-

merous farmers have been planning to

restock their pastures with cattle as

soon as pastures are in good shape

once more, and considerable numbers

of stocker and feeder cattle have gone

out from Chicago and other western

markets, but inadequate offerings of

the better class and extremely. high

prices check the movement to a mark-

ed degree. As is generally known, the

packers have been for a long time in

the habit of outbidding country buyers

for fleshy feeders of the better class,

such as can be fattened in a compar-

atively short period, and this cuts se-

verely into the future supply of fat

beeves. Furthermore, the packers

have contracted for huge quantities of

tinned meats of low prices for sale to

the allied powers, and this brings out

a large demand for canners at far

higher prices than were ever paid in

former years. As usual, most of the

cattle marketed are ordinary in qual-

ity, and prime heavy cattle and prime

yearlings sell at record figures all the

time. Even canners and cutters bring

higher prices than finished beef cattle

have done in a number of past years.

Word comes from southern Texas that

small shipments of cattle this spring

to Oklahoma pastures are probable,

with two-year—olds. and aged steers at

$60_t0 $75. Short-fed and warmed-up

cattle have comprised most of the win-

tered cattle shipments, and few prime

beeves are left, most of the cattle fed

in Iowa, Nebraska, and the two Dako-

tas having been marketed. The cattle

raising industryhas increased from 20

" to 50 per cent during the last three

years in Wyoming, the two Dakotas,

Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Color-

ado and Washington, according to offi-

cial returns furnished by the federal





government; and yet Pacific coast buy-

ers have been buying cattle this spring

as far east as Montana and Texas,

something which never has happened

before. The best Colorado beet-fed cat-

tle were marketed earlier than usual,

and few are now left. The average

farmer shows a disinclination to en-

gage in fattening cattle for the market,

and Thomas Rust, of McLean county,

Illinois, maintains that carrying cattle

in the feed lot requires advances of 75

cents a month in market values, if dol-

lar corn is used in fattening them.





GENTLING THE COLT.





 





To raise a hind foot, put on a rope

as on the front foot and draw the foot

forward. To put a rope on the hind

foot of a wild horse, tie up a front

. foot, have the assistant hold his hand

over the eye on the same side as the

foot to be lifted, or take the headstall

in one hand, the tail in the other, and

whirl the horse until he becomes diz-

zy. While in this condition he may

be handled with safety. Lift the foot

forward two or three times and gentle

it. As soon as the horse gives in, car-

ry the foot backward into a shoeing

position and trim the hoof.





A short time ago 17 head of 1317-1b.

steers from Iowa sold on the Chicago

market for.$12.10 per 100 pounds. They

were bought on the fifteenth day of

last August in Omaha, when they aver-

aged 902 pounds. They were put in a

good blue grass pasture until October

15, and were then put in the feed yard

and fed for a month on ear corn and

two months on corn and stover The

last five weeks they were fed ground

shelled corn and all the clover hay

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animal will consume in from one to

two hours. The hay the calf does not

eat does it no good and while it is not

so bad to feed hay to excess as to feed

too much grain, it is entirely useless

to do so and should be avoided.



Feed Grain Dry.



It is important that the calf should

eat its grain dry. It is not had prao

tice to scald a little linseed meal and

put it into the milk, providing we let

it settle to the bottom of the pail and

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is nothing better than corn and the

calf will eat it whole quite as well as

in any other way. Indeed, I have seen

calves shell corn from the ear, eat it

and thrive as well as any calves could.

If we wish to feed it in that way, there

can be no objection to it whatever. Ex-

periments at our college a few years

ago demonstrated that there is great

loss in the feeding of whole corn to

older cattle, but the loss was very

slight when the calves consumed the

grain. Whole oats, too, are excellent

wheat bran and middlings are both

good. In fact, as we have .said, nearly

all the grains grown on the farm are

adapted to this purpose.

Best Roughage for Calf.



By the time the calf is six weeks old,

we may begin to feed ensilage, very

gradually at first, using care to see

that it is free from mold. In a little

while the calf will be able to consume

quite a quantity of ensilage and the

amount will increase as time advances.

The grain fed to the calf should always

depend in some degree upon the kind

of roughage consumed. There is no

better roughage than alfalfa hay. It

is .easily digested. The leaves of the

alfalfa seem to contain a principle in-

dispensable in the development of the

young animals and not present in oth-

er roughage, but alfalfa hay alone, is

not good for a calf. Taken in connec-

tion with skim-milk the ration is too

narrow, that is to say, the amount of

protein as related to the carbohydrates

and fat is in excess of the demands of

the animal." This condition is correct-

ed by the feeding of ensilage and grain

like corn, rich in carbohydrates.



Keep Calves Growing.



Now these calves should be kept

g1 owing all the time. They should not

be crowded like calves designed for

baby beef, but they .should be kept

growing. They should be fed plenty

of good feed in which the nutritive

ration is right. If calves come in the

fall, the grain may be omitted in the

fore part of the summer after they are

accustomed to grass pasture, but the

time in which a calf changes from a

winter ration composed of skim-milk,

grain and excellent roughage eaten in

the shelter of a comfortable stable, to

pasture grass consumed too often in

wind and rain, is a. critical time and

the change should be made gradually.

The calves should be turned out day-

times at first and sheltered nights and

some grain should be fed until they

are accustomed to the out-of-doors,

then if the pasture is good, the grain

may be omitted as we have said. The

Jersey or “Guernsey heifer may flesh-

en at two years or a little older. The

Holstein may well postpone the begin-

ning of the milking period until two

years and a half old.



Feed Carefully at Freelancing Time.



If freshening is to occur during the

winter, a substantial grain ration

should have been fed for some time

previous. Remember, the thing we

want to do is to develop this young

cow so that she can yield milk in a

profitable quantity. If we have fed

her liberally the second winter and

she has been on good pasture during

the second summer, she is a beautiful

animal. Now, if we begin to feed her

grain about three months before she

treshens and gradually increase the

ration until she is consuming four or

five pounds of grain per day, with en-

silage and good clover, the machinery

for the production of milk will have

been My developed. For a few days

m brandishing, we are going to be

very careful with her. For three days

we will give her no grain stall and

then only a little, very gradually in-

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the richneSs of the milk, is a very goo ' '

“rule Still there are many exceptions '

to this rule. When roughage is very

cheap, as it is this winter, and grain

is expensive, it is profitable to feed an

excess of roughage and a smaller ra?

tion of grain. Always watching the in-

dividual cow to see that she is not

over-fed. At the same time weigh and

test the milk that we may know what

she is actually doing and thus be able

to feed her enough to produce the milk

and maintain her body..

Method of Application Most Essential.

Now, this is the theory, the success

in its application will depend upon the

man. The longer I live, and the more

I see of Michigan and its dairies, the

more do I value the individual man in

the success of any program of devel-

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to develop a dairy. The man who can

do it is worthy of confidence and re-

spect.

W. F. TAYLOR.





PROTEIN AND MILK PRODUCTlON.





 





A great many dairymen and farmers

are laboring under the delusion that, if

a cow consumes plenty of protein, all

is well with milk production. While

protein is one of the most essential

elements in the daily rations it is by

no means as important as is usually

thought. Carried a little to extremes,

a cow would lose too much weight, if

she did not actually starve on it. A

cow should have a sufficient amount

of fat. on her to provide for her main-

tenance and protection fr‘om cold as

well as the stuff that enters into the

milk product. The means, as well as

the ends, should be considered for the

normal milk flow. Extremes of all

kinds are to be avoided to insure the

greatest profits. ‘



‘Whlle a cow can be treated some-

what like a machine, yet she has her

limits and it is well that her feeder

recognizes them. She can be broken

down as well as actual machinery. To

know the possibilities of a cow one

should well know how she is consti-

tuted. It is also well to study the ludi-

vidualities of cows. Different cows

may require different treatment. Ev-

ery herd Of cows should form an ex-

perimental dairy in itself. There should

be an actual account kept with each

cow. Charge her up with the cost of

food and give her credit for every

pound of milk produced. Let her ma-

nure pay for the trouble. In so doing

you can see from time to time how

you are succeeding with each cow. If

deemed necessary to'change the food,

that can be done intelligently. You

will find that his best to vary the m-

tious to conform to weather condi-

lions.



’ Variety in Best.



Nature did not intend that the cow

should subsist upon one food alone. No

matter how. well relished the particu-

lar food at one time, a change of diet

is necessary. As a rule no one article

of food contains the right propertion

of protein. While milk is rich in pro—

tein as well as its direct source, the

cow, yet a certain amount of carbohy-

drates and fat should be carefully

considered. To feed a certain amount

of protein regardless of the quantity

of the other elements is erroneous.

That error results from the one food

diet or when two or more foods are

wrongly combined. The central idea

of correct feeding lies in proportion.

Correctly proportion the ditcrent ele-

ments of the rations and the cow -

do the rest.



While the writer does not believe in

any particular standard of feeding, met

some standard or system should be

adopted. The best recognized stan-

dard on earth, not excepting the Ger-

man. should only be mad subject in

change. At host any standard only .

recognises average 13011111110113. the

standards. as make! by the-opi-

cultural department m _
'ratios from 1;6.6 to 1:4.4, according to

the amount of milk each cow is sup-

posed to produce. By this it will be

seen that the least protein results in

the lowest milk production, while the

narrowest ratio calls for the highest.

It is a debatable question Whether it is

best to feed'the ratio, 136.6, twelve

months of the year regardless of cli-

matic or weather conditions. I think

the cow would be more comfortable

during a zero spell with more fat. She

might not produce quite the normal

milk flow but she would be more com-

fortable on a wider ration. There is

but one way to feed the extreme nar-

row rations and that is to maintain

the temperature of her stable accord-

ing to that of the average summer.

Correct Proportion Necessary.



Many farmers are anxious to know

just how much to feed a cow to insure

the greatest milk flow. I firmly be-

lieve the cow is the best judge about

this matter. In fact, she exercises bet-

' ter judgment about quantity than do

human beings. She has sense enough

to stop when she has enough. Show

me the man, or woman, who will do

this. The only way that you can assist

the cow is to place before her twice

daily all the food correctly proportion-

ed that she can eat. If she’will over-

eat of this combination, it demon-

strates that she is poorly constituted.

The time when she is likely to over-eat

is when there is too much protein in

the food. She will eat, eat and eat to

get something that her system re-

quires and may finally get enough car-

bohydrates and fat, at the same time

have more protein than necessary, that

can only become a source of burden

and. poison to her system.



Have a Standard for Feeding.



There is no question that the health

of the cow has much to do with the

normal milk flow. The health can be

no better maintained than by feeding

a well balanced ration. Adopt a stan-

dard. Vary this standard to meet all

conditions. You may start by taking

for your standard the ratio of 1:5.

Watch results. If satisfied with the

milk flow, maintain this standard. If

not, and the weather is growing colder

widen your standard as 1:5.1 or 1:52.

Always make the change gradual. If

the milk flow is unsatisfactory and the

weather is growing warmer, narrow

your standard as 125.9 or 1:4.8 or.1:4.7.

The warmer the weather the greater

the amount of protein that can be fed.

The colder the weather the greater the

amount of carbohydrates and fat you

can feed. The milk flow can be ad-

justed in the manner the same as the

heat of the greenhouse can be regu-

lated.,-



The suggestions submitted takes for

granted that the farmer is able to fig-

ure his rations Or has access to a

friend or neighbor who can do so. I.

am sure that what has been said put

into practice will greatly add to the

profits of the milk business.



Wayne Co. E. W. GOOD.





DAIRY PROBLEMS.





 





Alfalfa Mea‘l.





Is the following a balanced ration for

dairy cows? Protein 20 per cent; fat

three per cent; fibre 18 per cent; car-

bohydrates 35 per cent. Ingredients

are cottonseed meal, bran, corn, alfal-

fa meal and molasses. I have nothing

but timothy hay for roughage.



Osceola Co. . .



Alfalfa meal, or alfalfa hay, is cer-





tainly good feed for dairy cows, and

it would be a splendid thing if you

could buy some near home to feed in

connection with your timothy hay, but

I wouldn’t advise you to pay freight on

alfalfa hay or alfalfa meal frOm Oma-

ha, Nebraska. This meal is nothing

except alfalfa hay ground up fine.

There is no particular advantage in

grinding it for cows; they can do their

own grinding and save the expense. It

doesn’t make it one bit better to have

it ground. ..



«I would suggest that it possible you





buy some clover hay to feed in connec-

tion with your timothy. You could at

least sell some of the timothy and buy

some clover which is better for the

cows. I would feed fresh cows a grain

ration. This alfalfa meal won’t take

the place of corn meal, oats and wheat

bran. Alfalfa is a roughage. What

you want is a concentrate to feed in

connection with your roughage. Corn

meal and bran mixed equal parts by

weight would make an excellent grain

ration to feed. In addition to that, if

you would feed about twopounds of

oil meal per day you would have quite

a satisfactory ration.



If the cows haven’t been used to

having a grain ration, you should com-

mence feeding only a few pounds a day

and gradually increase the corn meal

and bran and also the oil meal, but I

don’t think it is necessary to feed over

two pounds of oil meal per day per

cow. My judgment is that this would

be a much more satisfactory ration

than alfalfa meal to mix with timothy

hay. -

This Summer’s Cow Pasture.





I have a field that is seeded to clover

on the north half, and the south part

was in corn last year. I wish to use

the whole field for cow pasture this

year. What can I sow on the south

part that will make good pasture? It

is a cobble stone soil.



Calhoun Co. R. M. B.





It is almost impossible to sow any

kind of seed this spring that will make

a satisfactory cow pasture the present

summer. It takes longerto establish

a pasture. This half of the field that

is not in seed at present will not work

very well in with the other half al-

ready seeded to clover because the clo-

ver will be ready first for pasture. As

a matter of fact, new seed clover is

not in the best of condition for pas-

ture. We ought to have a heavier sod.

We ought to take longer to establish a

pasture. The cows tramping upon this

new seeding will destroy much of it;

it is not sufficiently rooted yet so but

what some of it will be pulled up- as it

is eaten by the cattle.



I would suggest that you seed this

land to cats or winter rye and at the

same time with a mixture of grass seed

and also Dwarf Essex rape. The cats

or rye will come on first and can be

pastured down. Some of this will be

destroyed by tramping. The rape will

grow immediately and some of this,

too, will be destroyed. Then the grass

seed, if it isn’t pastured too close, may

afford some very good pasture later in

the season, providing we have a proper

distribution of rainfall this summer.



In seeding this you‘ought to be quite

liberal with the seed as you want to get

a thick stand. I would suggest two

and a half bushels of oats or tw0 bush-

els of rye, six pounds of Dwarf Essex

rape, six pounds of common clover,

three pounds of timothy, and two

pounds of alsike clover per acre, and

seed it as early as the land will do the

work. ‘



OOLON C. LILLIE.





 





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The kicking cow is easily cured by

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in one end of it or a trunk strap and

pass it around the body of the cow.

Draw it tight. The cow usually will

jump a little at first, but when she

finds she cannot get out of the rope

she will stand—and cannot kick. If

this method causes the cow” to give

bloody milk, place the rope or stray

behind the udder and draw it up in the

same manner. With some cows this

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of the udder. Another method is to

hobble the cow by passing the rope

around each leg behind the udder, and

tying just above the books. This is

rather dangerous for the man tying

the rope. After the preventive meas-

ure has been repeated several times

the cow will stand readily to be

milked.





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How to Buy





HE fact that certain commercial



dairy feeds are bought and fed



to good dairy cows at a profit

induCes many men to invest in them

largely each year. Quite as many peo-

ple buy feeds who are not sure what

they need, nor what they are receiving

for the amount invested. They buy

because they feel that they must do

something to make the cows give more

milk if possible, and it must be admit‘

ted that some. buy with no great hope

of profit, but simply by the law of

suggestion, that is, they buy because

others do.





But the purchasing of dairy feeds is

largely on the increase, until the

amount bought at present is enormous.

A little of it bought directly from the

manufacturer, or the large dehler. but

by far the greater part is purchased at

home of the local dealer. There are

two objections to this practice, and I

want to call the attention of the reader

to them here. The first objection is,

that the dealer is not a dairyman, and

since he is not, he probably knows

just about as much about our business

as we know about his. This being

true, it should be clear to us that he

is a very poor judge of What we ought

to buy. There are thousands of tons

of feed bought each year of the dealer

at a long price that return no profit,

but on the contrary are fed at a loss,

because they are not, the feeds that are

needed under the circumstances. Again

not knowing the business, the dealer

is often induced to pay too much for

some particular kind of feed that is

known only by the company wishing

to sell it.



Last spring we were unloading a

car of commercial feed of unusually

high quality. While we were at work

a traveling man came along and tried

to sell us a car of a new feed, or rath-

er, of an old feed with a new name.

He wanted $32 a ton and we were de-

livering ours to the dairymeu at $28.50.

A hundred pounds of our feed was

worth a hundred and twenty-five

pounds of his, but had our people not

known more, about such matters than

the average dealer, we might have

done as many of them were doing——

we might have listened to his story

and paid by far too much for an in-

ferior article.



The other objection is, that feed

bought at retail costs too much. The

dairyman is a manufacturer. The feed

he uses is his raw material. Did you

ever hear of a manufacturer succeed-

ing by buying his raw material at re

tail. and selling his finished product at

wholesale? The dairyman is forced to

sell his product at wholesale in most

cases and if he retails it himself he

always does it undeI difficulties that

consume much of his surplus profits.

It is therefore his right, and it is also

his duty to buy his feed just as cheap-

ly as he can.



Do not understand me to find fault.

with the dealer because of the prices

usually asked for feeds handled by

him. Sometimes he asks too large a

profit, but usually he does the work

as reasonably as he can. There are a

great many people who feel that they



must buy of him, and I have nothing

but good will for him. When I get in

a car of feed for myself and the neigh-

bors, I always furnish the dealers in

our little town. I want them to get

the feed just as cheap as they can,

because the cheaper they buy it, the

less the people who deal with them

will have to pay for it.



Surveys taken within the last year,

in the dairy districts ought to satisfy

any thinking man that dairying offers

poor chances of getting something for

nothing. Little wonder that so many

people can not understand that it pays

to feed the cow liberally, when they





 





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are paying from three to five dollars

a ton more than they ought, for what

they give her.



There are a number of satisfactory

ways of purchasing feed direct. “There

there is a. local creamery, the cream-

ery can handle the feed as well or bet-

ter than to attempt it in any other

way. Our creamery buys a great deal

of feed for the patrons each year, and

saves them a very nice little sum of

money. If there is a cooperative as-

sociation in the community, or a cow

testing association, the association

may buy the feed. Again, if there is

a man in the neighborhood who will

give intelligent study to the matter.

who will keep track of the markets.

and in all ways try to serVe the com-

munity, such a man may buy the feed

in carlots for his neighbors, charging

just enough to pay for the service ren-

dered, and no more.



The writer is speaking now from ex-

perience, for he has done much of this

work. Fifty cents a ton is enough to

pay for the trouble of ordering and

delivering feed, if the purchasers al-

ways pay cash. Right here is the key

to the situation. They should Day cash.

They must do so if feed is to be hand-

led at fifty cents a ton, and the busi~

ness is to continue. A few days ago

I was talking with a man from another

part of the state who handles feed for

his neighbors. He sells at an advance

of a dollar arton. He does not always

get cash for the feed. He freely ad-

mits that it. can be done for fifty cents

if the terms are cash, and I am sure

that otherwise, his charge of a dollar

is not out of the way.



But. right here is the difficulty. Ev-

ery man who does pay cash, has to pay

an additional fifty cents because some-

one else gets trusted. It would be bet-

ter all around if each one paid cash,

even though the money must be hired.



The first thing to do if we would

have the advantages of direct buying.

is to unite in our purpose to buy our

feeds together. It does not matter so

much how we get at it. If there is a

creameryin our community, the cream-

ery can handle it. A (lo-operative com-

pany can do the work as we have said,

if there'is one near by, and if there is

not, then we should look for the right

man to do the work and co-opcrate

with him as long as he serves the in«

terests of the community.



The dairymen may make an a!»

rangement with a local dealer to ban-

dle the feed and pay him a sum agreed

upon for his services. But if this is

done the dairymen should not forget

their responsibility in the matter. The

dealer has so many lines to keep

watch of, that he of necessity can not

know as much about the feeds we

should buy, or market conditions, as

we may know, providing we know our

business as well as we ought, hence

we should inme ourselves and then

tell him just what we want.



Every' dairy community should buy

its feed direct. if such communities

will get together, study the feed prob

lem, instruct some individual or organ-

ization to buy for them, keep track of

market conditions, and ever and al~

ways be ready to pay cash when the

car of feed arrives, hundreds of dollars

may be saved to a single community

each year, and valuable lessons in co-

operation will be gotten.



This is not all. The subject of feeds

and feeding will receive much more

intelligent consideration. People who

are‘buying feeds together will compare

results and get valuable information

from such comparisons; As the sea-

sons pass and the feeds grown at home

fail in part, thus demanding changes

in the grain ration, the dairymen will

talk about it, and there will alivays be

someone who will know what ought to
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Extending Cooperation

By JENNIE BUELL





ELL, guess everybody’s satis-



fied! They ought to be!” “Yes,



that’s so!” Such were the part-

ing words between - two farmers as

they drove away from the second get-

together of the Onsted Co-operative

Association. And such seemed to be

the universal sentiment of the one

hundred and fifty people in attendance

that afternoon. Apparently the day

marked a lap in the Association’s his-

tory that had been run successfully.





From the meeting I went up town to

the co-operative store, which was eas-

ily found by the huge sign painted on

its side next the cross street of the

village of Onsted. Here was a double

store, two stories, occupied in every

available inch by goods and, at this

hour, so filled with clerks and people

that it was difficult to distinguish one

from the other, or to extricate one’s

self from the narrow aisle if caught in

the hustle of members who had stop-

ped to shop after the meeting, and yet

who wished to get home by chore

time. Directly opposite stands the dou-

ble store, fifty feet front and seventy-

five feet deep, that has been rented by

the Association for a term of years

and into which the co-operative busi-

ness will be moved in a few months.

In the new building will be a rest room

and a room for board and committee

meetings, also shelter for teams in the

rear will be provided—all much needed

accessories of a store where many out

of: town people trade.



In the store I talked with women

who were shopping or waiting, some of

them from five to seven miles out of

Onsted. “We have money invested in

this store,” one of them told me, “and

so come here to trade.” When asked

how the other merchants looked upon

the co-operative venture, one woman

said, “They made fun of us at first, but

now they must sit up and take notice.”



Onsted is a village situated among

the rich farming lands of northern Len-

awee county, and this Co-operative As-

sociation was organized June 1, 1915,

by the farmers thereabout. There are

now one hundred and twenty-five mem-

bers. These members met for their

“anniversary,” as they call it, at the

Grange Hall, coming before noon with

loaded baskets and having a genuine

picnic dinner together before taking up

the business. At two o’clock the audi-

ence came to order to listen to the re-

port of the manager, F. N. Morey. His

report showed that on December 31,

1915, the stock of general merchandise

in the co-operative store amounted to

$12,993.08 and a year later their inven-

tory showed it to be $13,410.40, but



' during the year their sales had amOunt-

ed to over $56,000. By paying cash and

thus securing all discounts, they had

been able to turn their money over and

over at a net profit of $1,752.39. In

the meantime they had bought $27,-

708.59 worth of farm produce and sold

it. One striking fact about a co—opera-

tive association seems to be that the

members buy much of themselves and

sell much to themselves; in other

words, they literally “mind their own

business.” In the stock shipping de-

partment Mr. Morey reported that the

Association had sold live stock to the

amount of $135,320.94 which netted a.

profit of $527.27.



The report of President Daniels was

significant as coming from the man in

whose mind the project started and

who has‘ stood loyally by it through

all the inevitable vicissitudes of its

youth. He said in part: “Today we

have reason to feel proud. The results

we have attained justify our hopes

when we started. At that time a few

men met at my home and went over

the matter of organizing a co-operative

association through which we might

transact our business for ourselves.



.We, now see possibilities before us





that are wonderful, almost beyond

reckoning; we have just touched as

yet, with our work, a few items of

what we may do.”



The next feature of the afternoon’s

program was an entirely informal ex-

pression of opinion upon various lines

of business—a straw vote, as it were,

to ascertain if there was sentiment

strong enough in any one or more di-

rections to warrant the Association in

an extension of its undertakings. First

a show of hands was called for on the

subject of a creamery and a fair num-

ber responded; on shipping hay, about

the same number expressed interest;

while there was a strong vote for buy-

ing feed together. Several other mat-

ters were talked over—-such as an ele-

vator, hay sheds, buying coal and ship-

ping eggs.



The plan of this Co-operative asso-





ciation is practically the same as that p





of the Tecumseh Association and oth-

ers, that is, when it organized it did

not add another store to compete with

those already located in Onsted, but

it bought out one of the stores already

doing business there, and engaged its

proprietor to become the Association’s

manager. Reports showed that six per

cent interest has been paid the mem-

bers on their shares for the use of

their money and, in addition, a six per

cent dividend has been dividedamong

members according to their trade with

the store; and non-members have re-

ceived a three per cent dividend on

patronage.



The shipping of live stock was a sec-

ond consideration but has proved high-

ly satisfactory. “It has meant more

than dividends,” said one man, “and is

considered by all a splendid thing. One

man from within two miles of Adrian

came here to ship stock with us.”

When it is considered that at the time

they began to ship together there were.

five buyers about Onsted, one under-

stands that this took courage and con-

viction on the part of the officers to

start and maintain the live stock de~

partment.



The speaker for this anniversary oc-

casion was Mr. H. J. Foreman, of

Rocky Ridge, Ohio, a director of the

Ottawa County (Ohio) Cooperative

Association. Mr. Foreman has been a

director of this association since its

organization in 1904, and consequently

had many valuable things to tell the

younger “Co-ops” of Onsted. He relat-

ed how they started in a general store

project with twenty members at the

outset and had only thirty-six members

at the end of three years; but, when

they then decided to build an elevator,

they were obliged to “get busy” and

secure more members and capital.

They now own at Rocky Ridge and

Graytown, Ohio, ,two stores, two ele—

vators, two hay and two coal sheds,

and last year did a business of $450,000

at a net profit of nearly $11,000. At

present they have a membership of

337 and are building a large cement

block store which will have modern

equipment for conducting their busi-

ness. They have kept the same mana-

ger during all this period, starting him

in at a salary of $75 and now paying

him $150 per month.



One of the interesting features of

Mr. Foreman’s talk was the fact that,

although their business has mutliplied

again and again during its thirteen

years and is now located in two towns,

with all departments in each town, it

is-still managed by one board of seven

directors and employs but one mana-

ger. He pointed out very forcefully

what a great saving in running expen-

ses this arrangement means.





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healthful work. Would you rather be

perched on a stool or selling calico

than be a free man on a farm? Which

is better?”



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metropolis of our country giving his

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country and the city as to business op-

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Social Regeneration vs. Farm Help

‘ By PROF. F. E. WEST





man really means business, I think his

chances of success are much better in

the country at the present time than

in the city. Competition in the city is

very strong but such is not the case in

the country. I can recall farm after

farm that is lying idle and not produc-

ing anything.



The question may be asked as to

why there are so many vacant places

if farming is a paying proposition? I

think the answer is fairly easy, it all

depends upon the farmer. If one has

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located as to market and altitude, there

will be very few failures. I recall one

man who sows his grain directly upon

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Such farming is a failure from the be-

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I believe that most boys from city

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half-holiday, the picnic, the fishing ex—

cursion, the lecture, etc. The farming

communities will have to put a little

money into the developing of social

centers. The county agent will be a

valuable man for the purpose of organ-

izing the community. Organize a ball

team and let Hartwick township play

Ross Lake township. Let the girls play

tennis and basketball. Repair the old

country church and have social func-

tions during theweek and preaching

on Sunday, not by Rev. Dry~as-a-Bone,

but by someone who knows the need

of the country and one who loves the

country and the country folks, not for

their chicken pies, but for the sake of

helping them. The old country church

with its long benches and with the

women on one side of the church and

the men on the other will not meet the

needs of the country today. Why not

tear out the old seats and convert the

church into a building that will answer





   

 

 





   





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service there the following morning.

If two separate buildings can be secur~

ed,_so much the better, but:- in many

communities the church .is already}

constructed and the money required to

build a. new building ,might better be

used in re-arranging the old building

so that it will answer for both social

and religious work.



To my mind the solution of the prob-

lem of farm help, especially the prop.

or kind of farm help, will require some

years and can never be settled in a

day or a' year. I think we should be-

gin at once to plan for this work. The

idea of working from four o’clock in

the morning until late at night will

have to be abandoned. In times of har-

vest when things are pressing we may

get some extra help by paying for ov-

ertime. I know this sounds absurd to

those of us who know what it means

to pull the last load of grain into the

barn at ten o’clock at night, but never-

theless, I think we will have to come

to some such a plan as I have suggest-

ed if we are to secure permanent help.





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BY AUNT QUILIJA.





 





A seed, an egg, a gray cocoon,



In April’s sunlight lay;



Near by, a sleeping child who’d grown

All weary of his play;



Outside the pane a dark old tree

Stood like a ghostly thing,



And over all the old, sweet thrall,

And deathless charm of spring.





A rustleelight, a whisper low,



On the sunny window-sill,



And the seed began: I am as dead

As the pebble on the hill;



Yet at my heart is a hidden life,

And some day I will rise



A blossom bright, with petals white,

And breath of paradise.





And then the egg: I seem as dead,

And my mottled shell as cold



As pebble, too, and yet, my friends,

A hidden life I hold;



Return me to my woodland home——

My mother’s downy nestT—



And some fair day I’ll sing the lay

Now prisoned in my breast.





The gray cocoon then lightly stirred,

And touching egg and seed,





1 Replied, I look as dead as you,





More worthless still indeed;



Yet hidden life I still can claim,

For from my tiny tomb



A brilliant thing will spread its wing

And burst the inner gloom.





Last of all the dark old tree:



To him who passes by,



Most lifeless one of all I seem,



Yet hidden life have I.



Tho bare my twigs that trace the air,

And etch the azure screen,



A wonderful, fair miracle



Will clothe them soon in green.





The Passing 0





would elect to plant his foundations.





express the reputation of _the district

but an accurate one to describe the

location - of the, school house. The

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The child awoke and gayly cried,

The strangest thing has happed;



The seed, the egg, the gray cocoon,

The dark old tree that napped,



Have all awaked and whispered, too,

And I have listening been;



So lifeless they and yet they say,

They’ve hidden life within.





A dream, my child, naught but a.

dream,

The mother low replies.

And brushing back the bonny hair

Looks in the clear young eyes;

Tomorrow mom is Easter day,

The bells will gladly ring,

The lilies white to prayer invite,

And choirs their anthem sing.





What means it all my wondering boy,

The anthems, lilies, bells?



Each in its way a message brings

And resurrection spells;



Said He who died on Calvary,

And conquered death and sin,



All who believe on me receive

Immortal life within;



Tho cilaimed by earth they shall come





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BY RUTH RAYMOND.

The brook’s faint ripple. The forest





hus ,

A pale green bud on each vine and

bush, '

A bird’s low note on the waking air,

A fragrant lily blossoming there,

A band of children softly singing

Till far and near Joy bells are ringing,

And over all the Springtime glory

While lips repeat the wondrous story

Of a risen Christ, Death speeds away

In the clear bright dawn of Easter Day.





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By GOLDIE ROBERTSON FUNK





HE school house stood backed

against the dense woods for all

the world like a six-eyed young

bull calf. Its foundations were planted

in sloshy mud where it couldn’t be

reached by either its friends or its en-

emies,. much as the suspicious bull





four settlers, no oné of whom was will—

ing to give any other part bf his place

for school purposes. In the middle of

this draw stood the little weather-beat-

en building, the ground under and

around it never wholly dry, and during

the rains a veritable lake of mud that

provided a home for countless toads

and a chorus of frogs so numerous that





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persistent depredations of both big and ,





little boys seemed not to diminish eith-

er their numbers or the volume .of

their screeches. the screechoe' em

lemon» by ‘
'hoots, since they. began the meanest

school was in session and stopped the

instant it closed.



One generation had waded in and

out of the school house uncomplaining-

ly-but that was a generation raised

‘by texts they’d learned to read by the

light of a. tallow candle and to prac-

tice daily before grim and God-fearing

I parents.



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. came and went and held in contempt

the dirty little school house no one!

; would make a move to better. Their

1 children loitered to and from it and

‘ . dreamed only of the day when they

could quit. To hasten that day and

.f incidentally to provide the excitement

2,. their healthy bodies craved, they har-

l ried away every teacher who had tried

' to teach them for so many terms that

the middle-aged ones remembered

naught to the contrary.

~ And it was entertaining to the old

folks, too. It was the only stirring

thing that happened at the Holler. The

Heffelfingers hadn’t spoken to the San.

derses for nine years for a reason that

no one remembered. One election night

ten years before, the W'addell boys had

fought the Powers boys who were the

most peaceful boys in the community.

True, the fighters and the fought had

both gone, but their parents and the

little Waddellses and Powerses re-

mained and nursed a stiff necked

grievance.

No three neighbors visited back and

forth. Time and never ending work in-

- creased the value of. their holdings.

But as soon as a boy or girl could mar-

ket his brawn in towu he shook the

mud of the Holler off his feet and left.

And nothing but sickness or death ev-

er brought them back willingly to the

bleak home neighborhood they’d hated.

“Bud Heffelfinger an‘ Bennie Wad-

.> - dell’ve run away!” News travels

quickly even where indifference and

Ahate brood and ‘fatten. Every ranch

mother of a ten or eleven-year-old boy

searched the round faces of her flock

and wondered if that bitter thing could

ever befall her. It was hard enough to

have them go out when the time came

——but to leave thanklessly-to sleep

and eat—God knows where.



For the second time in twenty years

Sarah Heffelfinger stood on the stoop

of the Waddell farmhouse.



Emily Waddell opened the door. But

she closed her lips in a thinldownward

pointing crescent that was lost'on her

worried neighbor.



”Come in.” Sarah Heffelfinger sat

down heavily. “What do you know?"



“Nothing.” '



“Bud never went to bed.”



“Neither did Bennie.” Silence fell

between the two women. ~



“Joe’s gone to town to hunt,” Emily

volunteered out of a crooked little hole

in the corner of her lips.



“I didn’t sleep a wink after I knew

Bud had gone,” Sarah’s chin trembled

and she wiped. her eyes with her apron.



“I—-I “walked the floor all night ”

Ben’s mother moaned into her hands,

the last bit of her reserve giving away-



“There—Em’ly—don't take on so,”



”- Bud's mother turned comforter. “I

guess their pas’ll find ’em. We’ll hope,

anyway.”



“I tried to think what we’ve done

that Bennie wanted to leave. His pa

isn’t hard on him, an’ he hasn’t hardly

a thing to do.”



,, . Sarah Heftelfinger straightened up

in her chair.

“I been’ thinking that way about

Bud, too, an’ I’ve concluded the blame

is all mine. Bud’s a good boy. He’s

full 0’ mischief an’ disobedient some-

times—{rust like I used to be myself;

More’n a. few chores .he hasn’t a thing

in God’s world to do—an' I’ve decided

that's what’s the matter. I went to

school, an' you did, an we both helped

our folks a right smart bit an’ we went

‘a to bed early an" got up early, an’———"

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She was extravagantly proud of him.

It seemed to her that nothing he set

his will upon could stand before him.

Even when he spent long hours over

strange columns and combinations of

figures that she did not understand she

still knew he was fighting, planning,

counting the victory. ‘



Then Sadie had found herself doing

things. Stoddard’s spirit of conquest

reigned in her own soul. She was

fighting, too—fighting against the

bondage that held her mind and speech

in check. And she gloried in it, be-

cause she knew that she, like her won-

derful husband, was gaining a victory.





She had become a slave to her books.

She drove herself relentlessly. Some-

times he tried to check her impetuos-

ity, but she would endure no restraint.

She wanted to learn—learn—learn!

She had a new vision before her. It

pictured a time when she would be

standing by his side, helping to fight

his battles.



It was a far day, she knew, but

that made her the more resolute to

achieve it. She did not tell him this,

but it was always in her heart and





" mind, spurring her.





“I’ll be helping him some day,” she

would whisper to herself. “I’ll be even

more than his wife; I’ll be his right

hand man.”



They had gone to the far land two

days after their marriage. His mother

knew only after they were on the sea

that she had a. daughter-in-law. For

several months afterward all else that

she knew had come from Larry Liv-

ingston. At first she did not believe.

Then, when she realized that Living-

ston spoke the truth, her heart was

filled with bitterness, resentment and

even horror. She felt that she could

never see her son again; that he had

passed out of her life in disgrace and

shame.



Then his letters had begun to come

—brave, joyous letters from a wilder-

ness. Slowly it dawned upon her that

her son was happy. That comforted

her. More and more he wrote to her

about his wonderful wife. She could

not and would not believe, yet she was

glad that her son believed. He was

back in her heart again, for the moth-

er in her would not be denied.



But as for the woman, she was a

thing apart. There could be no change

there. The mother-love was not broad

enough to cover both; the mother-jeal-

ousy still burned, a persistent flame.





Mrs. Stoddard was abroad when her

son and his wife returned from South

America. They had not lingered in

New York, but made swiftly for the

Deepwater, Where they always lived in

their dreams. Now they were lodged

again on the island where Fate had

cast them a year before and where

Love had built its camp—fire.



Stoddard’s .mother, returned to the

United States to learn that her son

and his wife were once more in their

forest Arcadia. Her heart ached for

a sight of her big boy.



Yet she hesitated. The other woman

was there, standing between them. It

was a letter, penned from the heart

of the great outdoors, that decided her.

The letter was from her son’s wife.



This time Stoddard had word of his

mother’s coming. Sadie was apprehen-

sive yet eager. She knew it would be

hard to forgive, for she herself had the

heart of a woman.



“But perhaps she’ll see—and under-

stand,” she told herself. “Maybe she’ll





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pared herself for the ordeal. In her

heart was a prayer that her husband

would be proud of. her, even when she

stood side by .side with the grand lady

she had once furtively looked upon

from a hiding place in the woods. ‘





“I think I’ll read another chapter

while we’re waiting,” she said, turning

to her husband. “Where did you put

my history, Jack?”



“I think it’s in the tent. Can’t you

rest a little, dear?”





“No,” she answered, shaking her

head gently. “I mustn’t rest. I don’t

want to rest. I want to keep going—

on and on. And I’m never tired.

That’s why I love it.”



He fetched the book. Sadie found

her chapter. She settled herself com-

fortably against a tree and read a page.

Then a quizzical look came into her

eyes.



“Jack!” she said.



“Yes?”



“Why couldn’t the colonists have

went somewhere else beside England

to buy their tea?”



“They were given no choice,” he an-

swred. “England enforced a monopoly.”



Sadie closed her book and looked at

him severely.



“That’s the second time I’ve caught

you today,” she chided, shaking her

finger at him. “I didn’t tell you the

first. I wanted to see if you’d do it

again. And you did!”



“What?”



“Broke the rule.”



“Did I?” he inquired innocently.



“You know very well you did. That

was only a trick question I asked you.

Didn’t you hear me say, ‘Have went?’

You know you did, Jack. But you nev-

er corrected me.”



“I don’t think I noticed,” he pleaded.



“But you must notice!” she declared.

“It’s the agreement. You mustn’t ever

let me say things like that. Every time

I do you’re to tell me. That’s twice

you’ve let me off today. How am I ever

going to get on if you don’t keep watch-

ing me?”



“But you’re getting on so wonder-

fully!” he protested. “It seems like

nagging to tell you of 'every little slip.”



“It’s not nagging,” said Sadie stout-

ly. “It’s part of the game. And you





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A agreed to play it, so I’m not going to





let you off. Why, if it hadn’t been for

that I’d never have learned to put on

my g’s. Even now I forget, sometimes.”



“But you’re so terribly strict with

yourself,” Stoddard sighed. “I don’t

care if you do drop a ‘g’ once in a

while.”



“But I care. I have to be strict with

myself. Who would be, if I weren’t?

Not you, you dear old easygoer. I

could speak factory English the rest of

my days, and you’d be satisfied.”



He nodded.



“But I wouldn’t,” she affirmed ve-

hemently. “And that’s why you sim-

ply must keep at nae—always. I mean

as long as there’s need of it. And the

harder you keep at me the shorter the

time will be, Jack.”



Stoddard surveyed his wife with

fond eyes.



“Let’s not read history now,” he

said, taking the book from her.

“School’s out for the day. Let’s talk.”



They were soon again on the subject

of his mother’s visit and Sadie’s fears.



“You mustn’t think that mother is

severe,” he was saying. “She’s not

really that way. But, you see, she has

been used to one sort of life and it’s

not easy for her to accept anything

else.”



“She’s strict about what is proper

and what isn’t, I suppose,” mused Sa-

die. _“That’s one thing that worries





,me—what she thinks about the way





we met.” » _





' j APRIL :1, 1917.“?



“I never told her that, dear. There

was house. She doesn’t know about

the letter and the shirt.



“Yes, she does,” said Sadie quietly.

“I told her in the letter I wrote.”



Stoddard looked at his wife in sur-

prise.



“It was best,” she went on, nodding.

“You’re her son, and she had a right

to know all about me. So I told her.



“You’d been sending her those beau-

tiful letters about me, but they weren’t

about the real me at all. I couldn’t

be all the things you said I was; not

yet, at any rate.



“When I wrote there wasn‘t any

praise in it—except about you. She

mustn’t ever tell you what I wrote

about you; there’ll be no living with

you if she does. '



“I told her who I was and what I

was and how I met you. I didn’t

leave out any of that part. And I told

her what I was trying to do. I had it

all spelled right, I’m, sure, because I

went. over all the hard words with the

dictionary. That’s why I’m wondering

what she’s going to think of me.”



He sat silently for a moment; then

reached for his wife’s hand.



“You did right,” he said. “I think

God gave you the cleanest courage ev-

er put into the soul of a woman.”





A little later, as they sat talking in

low voices, the sound of a motor boat

rounding into Pickerel Bay from the

South Arm reached their island. Sadie

fell into a constrained silence as the

craft drew nearer. When Stoddard

walked down to the rocks to meet it

she arose, went over to the tent and

aimlessly busied herself there.



Mrs. Stoddard was lifted ashore in

the arms of her son and stood clinging

to him in a long embrace.



“Just the same boy,” she said softly

as she searched his face with anxious

eyes. “My boy, John.”



He smiled down at her and patted

her shoulder. Then she drew away

from him and glanced about her.



“Where is my daughter ?” she asked.



The quietly spoken words thrilled

Stoddard. What a mother she was!

He turned and leaped up the embank-

ment, running across the clearing to

where Sadie stood. .



“Come!” he said, taking her by the

hand. “She has asked for her daughter.”



Sadie, a light of wonderment in her





' eyes, followed him.





The two women faced each other

for an instant in silence. The glance

of the elder was swift and keen, yet

there was a smiling tenderness in her

eyes. Then she put forth her arms.



“Come, daughter,” she said.



Stoddard turned his back and went

off a little distance, trying to swallow

a lump in his throat. When he turned

again he saw two women in each oth—

er’s arms, the golden-bronze head of

Sadie hidden against his mother’s

shoulder, while her figure trembled

with joyous sobs.





He went far down the island, his

heart filled with a great happiness. It

was more than an hour before he re-

turned, to find them sitting together

by the tent, one of Sadie’s hands clasp-

ed between his mother’s. Mrs. Stod-

dard looked up at him and smiled.



“When can I coax you two away

from your woods?” she said. “My

heart is hungry and selfish. I want my

son and daughter.under my own roof.”



It was just before the launch car-

ried Mrs. Stoddard back to the hotel

on Deepwater Island that she whisper-

ed to him:



“I came to make a sacrifice, but

there is none to be made. She is more

than you said. I love her. Bring her

t m esoon.” sB? Ehe ETAOINULD

to me soon.”



They watched the launch until it had

passed, from sight beyond a headland.

Then Stoddard’s glance swept slowly

over the warm tints of the September

landscape, and he sighed. ‘_ . ..



“I suppose we will have to go. pretty

soon,” he said. “Shewants you.





 





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“‘We can come back again, boy.”

“Why, we’ll come back in the





“spring,” he said. “I never thought of .





it before! We’ll stay a whole season.”

THE END. ‘





 





THE PASSING OF TOAD HOLLOW.





 





(Continued from page 457).

tented enough," Emily fell in behind

her stronger neighbor.



“Yes, we were, an’ it was havin’ ev—

ery minute full that kept us so. I

don’t mean with just work—but you

an’ me played—I mean we played to-

gether. I don’t know what’s the rea-

SOu our neighborhood is like it is. Even

the children can’t play together only

on the sly!”



“It’s'awtul!” Emily VVaddell explod-

ed. “1 just hate it sometimes. If we

didn’t own the place I’d leave it and

move to some other neighborhood!’



“Em’ly, I want to say something—

but you might get mad, an’ I wouldn’t

mean to make you mad.”



Thus reassured Emily promised not

to get mad.



“It’s this—~I’ve hated the neighbor-

hood, too, and wish I could run

away. But I'd take myself along. If

I moved into another bad neighbor-

hood I wouldn’t be bringing it anything

to better it. If I moved into a good

neighborhood I don‘t know as I’d be

any credit to it. Anyway, Em’ly, after

last night my eyes are open. Bud an’

Bennin ran away for the same reason

that you an' me would ’ve, gladly, time

an’ again. How can young things stand

it, then—no school, no' fun, no com-

panions, no way to work of! their spir-

its, an’ nothin’——nothin’ to aim at? I’ve

got to the heart of it, I know, but it

took this turrible thing to br—bring me

to my senses.” Both women cried soft-

ly again.



There!” Sarah Heffelfinger jerked

her apron away frOm her face. “That’s

the last tear I shed. I’m goin' to work

to do something to make this neighbor-

hood flt for us an’ our children to live

in. Why, I don’t hate you, Em—an’

next to my own kids I c’d love yOur

Bennie—"



“An’ I never hated you,” Emily

laughed throughthe last of her tears.

“I’ve started to see you a hundred

times but something always held me

back-—-an’ I’ve nearly died of lonesome-

ness.”



Sad lines, came into the older wom-

an’s face. “It’s all my own fault. I’m

older than you—something about me

must’ve kept you away. I must be

that way with Bud or he wouldn’t

want to slip away from me when he’s

not much more’n a baby. But you an’

me must begin all over again, Em’ly.





We’re just women, an’ our neighbors ,





are just women, an’ if we get lonesome

they do—an’ if we won't have kind

t‘eelin’s an’ do a little somethln' to

keep good feelin’ alive in the neighbor-

hood they won’t. An’ it's worse for the

young ones.”



“I do wish school would keep,” Em-

ily complained.



“It must. It will when us women

an’ our men folks get together an’ back

the teacher up. We‘ve never done

that yet. There ain’t no slip of a girl

can come out here an’ do much for our

kids unless her an’ the kids both know

we’re behind her. If I couldn’t teach

Bud to honor his father an‘ me she

can’t—an’ I’ll admit I’ve got so inter-

ested to see which'd beat, the teacher

or the kids, that I’ve never taught Bud

he had a share in keepin’ school. Oh,

I thought it all out in the dark last

night when I couldn’t sleep for thirikin’

of where little Bud might be a. sleep-

in’! An” I didn’t conclude we could

work any wonders either. I’ll be con-

tent it I can back track an’ pick up the

stitches I’ve dropped.”



“I’do anything,” Emily spoke with

the pent vehemence of years that had

dragged. dull and pointless over her

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HILE the warring nations of

V Europe are writing a terrible

history of destruction, our new-

discovered Alaska .is passing through

its infant period of construction. Few

people could say why the United States

sought this thought-to-be bleak, cold

and waste area, paying $7,500,000 for

a new spot on the world’s map one-

fifth the size of our country. The em-

pire slept in supreme secrecy for a

score of years, when man entered its

portal gates with determination, and

many an individual returned to civiliza-

tion with more gold to his credit than

the price paid for the addition.

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at Klukwan, Alaska.





000,000, or seventy-five times the pur-

chase price, by the end of 1914. This

represents more than $15,000 for each

white man, woman and child inhabit-

ing Alaska. Until the government vot-

ed to ‘construct the railroad, we

thought most of us, that Alaska was

a land of silent, frozen golden sands





and sudden fortunes. The fact is, Alas-‘





ka’s real resources have never been

reached, and the vig01ously derided

land is destined to support a nation

five times its size, with additional pro-

ducts for export.





And so we find that the poet’s words





of old:





“A land of allurement and promise,

Bold venture and strenuous deed.”





amply described this last undeveloped

free empire, which is equal in propor-

tion and wonders. The area is equal

to the original thirteen colonies, with

Maine, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Ten-

nessee, Kentucky and Michigan added;

has a range of latitude of one thousand

' one hundred miles, while its extreme

longitude would reach from the Atlan-

tice to the Pacific.



Stupendous mountain heights reach

1 three and four miles into the sky, loft-

i‘er than any in the country. The Yu-

,kon river is 2,300 miles in length and

its nearest rival a thousand miles. The

greatest glaciers in North America are

here, which cause those of continental

Europe to look like pygmies, while vol-

canoes still alive may be viewed from

a safe point. The country is not cold

and bleak like Labrador, although its

latitude is similar. The Japan current

acts as does the Gulf Stream in Eng-

land, so that plant and animal life

flourish with about 100,000 square

miles of land available for intensive

, agriculture.

.‘ The last pioneering enterprise of the



United States is at hand. A new land

'of, opportunity for thousands of Amer-





: j loans, for thousands upon thousands





from other lands who have the will

and the courage to do What our fore-





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By EARL





fathers did in the west in ’94, facing

a nameless unexplored wilderness

bearing an even more terrorizing repu-

tation than the new treasure land. Bus-

iness interests are alert to the stupen-

dous possibilities, wh'ile capital is busy

planning for the campaign.



Three men have liberated and ac-

claimed Alaska. The President sur~

prised Congress and the American peo-

ple by his progressive Alaskan policy,

in which he termed this empire “the

storehouse of the nation,” and urged





the unlocking of the storehouse by,





means of government railroads, and

varoius other forward movements. Next

in order is the secretary of the interior

who suggested wise movements for de-

velopment. The Alaskan representa-

tive in Congress must be given credit

for numerous beneficient bills, the sec—

curing of better mining and fishing

laws and civil rights for which Alas-

kans have been so long contending.

Although gold spurted from Alaskan

hills back in 1898, the years of 1914-16

will stand out as the period in which

Alaska was unlocked to the develop-

ing hand of man.



When one speaks of agriculture in

Alaska many are taken with a humor-

ous spell. Yet Alaska has already dem-

onstrated that it is capable of produc—

ing in abundance all that can be raised

in the Scandinavian countries, the

hardy cereals, the meats, the berries

and vegetables, upon which 9,000,000

people are presently living in luxury

in Norway, Finland and Sweden. The

fact that southeastern Alaska possess-

es a climate more equable than that

found in our National Capital city is

doubted by those who have not visited

the country. Nevertheless, the fact re-

mains—it is more temperate. The

northern sections possess a far more

desirable climate than St. Petersburg

or Stockholm, both famed as tourist

centers. Alaska, save in extreme north-

ern sections, has few winters that will

exceed those of northern Maine and





W. GAGE





Department of Agriculture, there are

more than 10,000 square miles of area

in the country today, adapted to graz-

ing and farming, a larger part in the

interior, in the great‘ Yukon valley

region.



Alaska’s population of 64,000 souls,

less than 40,000 of whom are whites,

purchase some half million dollars

worth of foreign imports, and domestic

goods to the value of $23,000,000. In

return, they send us nearl}r $40,000,000

worth of minerals and fishery products.

Alaskan waters abound in fish and this

industry is a great one. During the

year 1915, $14,500,000 worth of salmon

were caught and canned, as well as

$500,000 worth of halibut, $360,000

Worth of cod, $135,000 worth of herring

and $160,000 worth of whale oil and

fertilizer was produced. Ninety whales

were caught. Fish forms one of the

principal foods of the native popula-

tion.



The geological survey in its recent

report says that it would be safe to

estimate the coal deposits of Alaska as

150,000,000,000 tons, further advising

that the real figures would give many

times this total deposit. This estimate

would provide for an output of 10,000

tons per day for more than 40,000

years. There would seem to be no

need of fearing a coal famine so long

as our country holds the royal throne

of Alaskan coal deposits.



Tin is one of the mineral deposits

which the United States lacks. There

are untold deposits of this valuable

product in Alaskan mountains. Al‘

though but $5,000 worth of this min-

eral was accounted for in 1909, today

the annual product of the tin mines

amounting to approximately $150,000,

although the earth has merely been

scratched in this direction. Gypsum is

another valuable resource, bearing

$135,000 worth of industrial raw pro-

ducts. The oil fields give promise of

becoming very wealthy assets. Petro-

leum is particularly found in the re-





 





Agriculture Prominent In L1St of Alaska 3 Great Resources





our country with fully $2, 000, 000 per





”year, according to scientific calcula-





tion. .



Alaska has often been pictured as a

polar region. Polar climatic‘conditions

prevail only in the extreme northern

third of the territory, while the climate

of the Pacific coast is temperate, the

inland region having an especially

healthful and invigorating atmosphere.

Only on the seaward slope of the costal

mountains is the snowfall heavy

enough to impede railroad traffic.

Hardy cattle and sheep thrive in many

sections of the country, but the rein-

deer may be cited as an example of

what otherwise worthless land may

produce. In 1892 the government im~

ported a small herd of, these hardy an-

imals from Siberia. Today, under the

wise management of the Bureau of Ed-

ucation, the herds have increased to

50,000, and Dr. H. A. Brooks declares

that there are tens of millions of

acres of tundra in Northern Alaska

where these animals thrive as-pigs in

clover. Alaska may yet supply the

United States with frozen reindeer

meat as Australia does England with

shipments of frozen rabbit, especially

since venison is far superiOr to rabbit

meat. Reindeer have made the Eski-

mos a thrifty people, and the present

schools of Alaska are constructed

about the great reindeer industry, hav—

ing led the natives under civilized con-

ditions. Inasmuch as three men can

care for 1000 reindeer, it is easy to ap-

preciate just what this industry may

be made, in due time, both as a profit

to the Eskimo and the American

people.



Our Alaska has slumbered and slept,

the rest has done her good. In a. time

when our commercial leaders are anx-

ious as to the future supply of valu-,

able raw materials with which to car-

ry on American industry, this infant of

the northland comes with willing

heart to our aid. Now looms a great

future in which isolation shall have

no place, where the throb of industry

shall vibrate in a million places that





Even Switzerland’s Famous Glaciers Are Insignificant Beside those to be Fo und in Alaska.





New York in coldness. Both of these

states are recognized as valuable agri-

cultural sections. It has been estimat-

ed~that there are 50,000,000 acres of

land that will make homes for a people

as sturdy as those of New England.

The government had paid little at—

tention to Alaska, save to make proper

appropriations for the four experiment

stations, previous to appropriating

$35,000,000 for the government rail-

road. ..These stations are located at

Kodiak, Sitka, Fairbanks and Rampart.

At the latter stations, situated near the

Arctic circle, there is practically no

night from May 15 to August 1. This

supplies five months equal to middle

west conditions, allowing the success-

ful production of principal grain crops,

such as oats, barley, wheat, with pota-

toes the most paying crop. The aver-

age net proceeds from one acre of

Alaskan potatoes is about $600, while

strawberries grow successfully in near-

ly every community. According to the





gion near Controller Bay and Cook’s

Inlet.



The seal coat that my-lady wears is

the feature product of Alaska. The





market value of the fur skins taken.





from the backs of these semi-water an-

imals since the purchase of the coun-

try from Russia is approximately $70,-

000,000. The Pribilof Island group,

owned by our government is the

wealthiest seal—skin hunting grounds in

the world. Ninety per cent of the seal-

skins marketed in the cities of the

world come from the Pribilof group,

consisting of four islands in the Beh-

ring Sea. These were not discovered

until 1786, by a Russian explorer. Here

is found the chief rookery and breed-

ing grounds of this. strange animal.

The seal industry.not only supplies a

profitable occupation for the native

populace, but will improve in years to

come, , under conservative scientific

governmental management, a national

asset that will supply the treasury of





have been silent since time began,

where the teeming population shall

wrest untold riches from? the earth’s

bosom, and where shall be bred a race

of hardy, sturdy sons of America.





THE EASTER GIFT.





BY CORA A. MATSON DOLSON.





Last year above a little grave



I knelt and prayed to Him who gave:



“Grant, Lord, that through my tears I

see



Thy bow of promise gleam to me.”





Tomorrow, when the Easter wakes,



And dawn above the churchyard

breaks, , ‘



With lily flowers of rare perfume



These h ds will wreathe that self-

sa e tomb.





But little feet by mine will walk;



My ears will hark to childish talk;



And in my prayer my heart will bless



The Giver of home-happiness.



Fer this, Thy bow of promise, shone,



Gave me this trust to be mine own—-



These words that gleamed from out

heaven’s blue:



“My poor ye always have with you.”
Where Pride





F I had to be a washwoman I’d

I make a desperate effort to be the



best one in town," sputtered a

woman who had never done a day’s

work in her life. She was viewing with

wrath and indignation the laundry for

which she had just paid three dollars,

and which looked as though it had

been washed in a mud puddle and

ironed with cold irons. “I can’t under-

stand how people can send back such

work. I’d be ashamed to admit that I

couldn’t do better. You'd think honest,

human pride would make anybody in

any walk of life want to beat everyone

else in their profession, now wouldn’t

you?”



By one of those strokes of: fate, or

dispensations of Providence, whichever

you wish to call it, the little lady had

a chance to make good on her philoso—

phy. Within a month husband and

money were both gone, and she had to

go out to make her living. And 1 am

happy to say she lived up to her own

preaching. It was not washing she

chose, she hadn’t the muscle for that.

but as a saleswoman in a department

store she went to work to be the best

one in her line. The “honest, human

pride” she referred to stood her in

good stead. She was as proud of her

record as a clerk as she had been for-

merly to be called a society leader, and

a year’s time saw her the head of her

department. She gave her best to

whatever she had to do, that was her

rule of life, and a simple one. But it

is one which makes for success, what-

ever we are called upon to do.



Probably if eighty out of every one

hundred women asked told the truth

they would say they hate housework.

And the real reason in the majority of

cases would be because they are

ashamed of their work. For some rea-

son the modern woman seems to think

housework is beneath her and she was

really intended for “finer things.” That

is the real reason for the universal dis-

like for housework, and the' notorious-

ly poor housekeeping perpetrated in so

many homes.



Instead of deciding, when she mar-

ries, to be the best housekeeper in her

neighborhood the modern girl marries

with the secret intention of doing as

little housework as possible and in the

quickest possible time.

old-fashioned grandmother who ran a.

race every Monday to get her washing

out before the neighbors was a fool.

()n the contrary, the lady of a former

generation was the wise one. She had

an incentive in her work, the incentive

of beating her neighbor, which is a

very laudable one whether you are do-

ing a washing or playing a game of

cards to win a plate worth about ten

cents.



If the modern girl would adopt a

few of grandmother‘s ideas it would

revolutionize American housekeeping.

lt‘ shecould realize that the hand that

cooks the dinner is the hand that rules

the destinies of the. home and nation

she might think better-of her job. For

the mind is very much affected by the

body, and the body depends for its

health and energy upon the fuel, i. e.,

the food, it is given. Hence it behooves

the housewife to‘ feed herselLand fam-



. ily right. So that cooking and serving

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his best if he is illy nourished. So the

success of the worker is entirely de‘

pendent upon the success of the house-

keeper. If girls were only taught to

look at housework in this light, as the

most important of vocations instead of

something to be shunned and shirked,

life would be happier for thousands of

families.



You know the old tale, “for want of

a nail, the battle was lost.” I’ve al-

ways thought that if the worthy sol-

dier had had a decent breakfast that

morning he wouldn’t have forgotten so

important a thing as shoeing his horse

just before a battle. So the cook was

to blame, and it should be “For. want

of a good cup of coffee the battle was

lost," instead of that old horseshoe

nail.



Take pride in your work whatever it

is. If you are washing dishes see to it

that no one finds. anything but abso-

lutely clean, shiny bone-dry ware when

you are through; if you wash, let your

clothes be snowy; if you iron, leave no

wrinkles; if you dust, remember the

chair had legs as well as a back, and

if you sweep, don’t forget the room has

corners. If you go at housework in

this way you will soon find it a thing

to be proud of, instead of something

to approach each morning with a groan

and a sigh.



DEBORAH.





THE POPULAR BANANA.

3v JULIA n. DAVIS.



The banana is, unquestionably, one

of the most popular fruits on the mar-

ket today. Indeed it is said that if all

the bananas that are shipped into the

United States in one year were placed

end to end it would make a line which

would encircle the globe more than a

dozn times. This is remarkable when

we consider the fact that up to fifty

years ago very few Americans had

ever seen a bunch of bananas. This

fruit was a curiosity, and almost un-

known in the markets of this country.



India is the original home of the

banana, but at present it is cultivated

in almost every tropical country and

in the semi-tropical parts of the United

States. As the banana is seedless, the

propagation is effected solely by

sprouts, suckers, and by means of root

cuttings.



Cutting the stalks to secure the

bunches ends the life of the plants, for

they bear but once. However, when

a stalk has been cut, one or more new

suckers soon take its place. Thus a

continuous harvest is assured many

years before the old orchard requires

replanting. .



Bananas grow to a height of from

fifteen to thirty-five feet, and greatly

resemble palms, although their trunks

have not the solidity of the palm trunk.

They are only hollow stalks around

which a compact roll of leaves contin-

ually push upward. The leaves are

immense oblongs in shape, each bear-

ing a well-defined mid-rib and spread-

ing out like huge palms.



It is claimed that a grove of grown

plants of bananas will produce more

food-value per acre than any other

known crop. This nutritious fruit is

rich in starch, sugar, and nitrogenous

matter. Indeed, it forms the principal

article of food for millions of people in

hot countries, and by analysis has been

declared one of the very' best food

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country. For export the banana must

be gathered green, and is allowed to

turn yellow and ripen in a dark, cool

place. After once coming into full

bearing the bunches can be cut from

an orchard every week throughout the

year. It is estimated that a plantation

of seventy acres of bananas will, after

the first year, produce Upwards of 50,-

000 bunches annually.



In the countries where they are

grown the natives cook and serve the

banana in many ways. They bake

them, boil them, fry them in oil, and

make cakes from banana meal. The

following recipes will show many ways

of serving this universally popular

fruit.



Baked Bananas—Arrange bananas

in a shallow pan, cover and bake until

skins become very dark in color. Re-

move from skins and serve hot, sprink-

led with sugar.



Sauted Bananas—Remove the skins

from bananas, cut in halves lengthwise

and again out in halves crosswise.

Dredge with flour and saute in clari-

fied butter. Drain and sprinkle with

powdered sugar.



.Banana Fritte1‘s.~—Three bananas,

one cup of bread flour, two teaspoons

baking powder, one tablespoon of pow—

dered sugar, one-quarter teaspoon of

salt,~one-quarter cup of milk, one egg,

one tablespoon lemon juice. Mix and

sift dry ingredients. Beat egg until

light, add milk and combine mixtures.

Then add lemon juice, and banana

fruit forced through a sieve. Drop by

spoonfuls, fry in deep fat and drain.

Serve with lemon sauce, or sprinkle

with powdered sugar.



Banana Salad—Remove one section

of skin from each of four bananas.

Take out fruit, scrape and cut fruit

from‘one banana in thin slices, fruit

from other three bananas in one-half

inch cubes. Marinate cubes with

French dressing, add two spoonfuls of

nut meats. lefill skins, and garnish

each with the slices of banana. Stack

around a mound of lettuce leaves.



Banana Salad. No. 2.——Cut fine ban-

anas in slices lengthwise, as thick as

a dollar, and arrange them on a dish

so that the ends of the long semi—circle

slices meet and form a hollow center.

Pour over them one gill of sherry

made very sweet with sugar, into

which you have put one teaspoonful of

lemon juice. Let this get ice cold,

then fill C9nit‘l' with whipped cream

piled high. This is delicious.



Banana Cream.~—After peeling the

bananas mash them thoroughly. Allow

equal quantities of bananas and sweet

cream and to one quart of the mixture

allow one-quarter of a pound of sugar.

Beat together until the cream is very

light.



Banana Canlaloupe.——Half box gela-

tine or two tablespoons of granulated

gelatine, half cup of cold water, whites

of two eggs, one-quarter cup powdered

sugar, three-fourths cup scalded cream,

two-thirds cup of sugar, l'our bananas,

mashed pulp, one tablespoon of lemon

juice, whip from three and a half cups

of cream, twelve lady fingers. Soak

the gelatine in cold water, beat the

whites—of eggs slightly, add powdered

Sugar, and gradually hot cream, cook

over hot wateruntil it thickens; add

soaked gelatine and remaining sugar.

strain into a pan set in ice water, add

bananas and lemon juice, stir until it

begins to thicken, then fold in whip

from cream. Line a melon mold with

lady fingers trimmed to just fit sec-

tions of ymold, turn in the mixture,

spread evenly and‘chill.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





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UT you knew you were marrying

a farmer, didn’t you?” asked the

blunt old aunt when the young

wife wept and told her that the young

husband was inconsiderate because he

would not take her to town. “You

knew he was planning to make farm-

ing his life work and that he knew

nothing else to do. I think you are

very inconsiderate yourself, Julia. You

would ruin your husband’s business

prospects for a childish wish to move

to town. If you hated the country, as

you say, why didn’t you remain single

and take a position in town ?”



But no, the unreasonable young

woman wanted to be married and she

wanted her husband to move to town

with her. “He is too smart to bury

his talents in the country,” she sobbed.

“If he cared anything for my happiness

he would leave thishorrid farm at

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neither did she want to live in the

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got that young farmer'off the farm and

into a place in town and there they

are living today from hand to mouth.



He was a born farmer and all his train-



ing had been in that direction so he



could not succeed as well in town, try

as he might.



If there is any girl in the length and

breadth of the land planning a sim-

ilar course it would be well for the

young farmer to do some shrewd detec-

tive work before the wedding day. By

a little skillful pretending to be dissat-

isfied with farming himself, the young

lady will lead out in such a manner

that he can not mistake the signs.

Then he can have a plain heart to

heart talk before the ceremony and see

if she intends to nag him until moving

alone will bring peace. A farmer

should marry a girl in sympathy with

his occupationor he will have a most

miserable time of it.



Often a young lady in town falls in





 





love with a. .manly young farmer and ,





keeps still about her dislike of the

country until after the ceremony. We

had a girl in our community who said

she “adored” the country and made a.

great fuss over farming and farm life,

but once she married the man of her

choice she stopped “adoring” the coun-

try at once. She fretted and cried and

complained until he had to move to

town for peace.



It isn’t fair, dear girls, to deceive

your lovers. If you expect to nag your

husbands to move off the farm tell

them .so now. That is no more than

just, for then if they decide that they

can not take up any other occupation

it is better to part company than to

enter upon a. marriage contract that





Marrying





By HILDA RICHMOND





a F armcr





will surely bring trouble. You may win

out and take an unwilling farmer to

town, but you’ll have to pay the price

later on, as so many women have done.

It is very hard to transform a farmer

of twenty-two or twenty-five into a

skilled business man or a good mechan-

ic without a bit of training or experi-

ence and those who had tried living on

what such a man can earn in town

have found that farming would have

given them a better living at any rate.





If you intend to marry a farmer

make up your mind to be a model

farmer’s wife, for it is poor policy to

make a man think you are perfectly

content with his occupation and \then

turn about after the wedding and tell

him how you hate the country. If you

are positively unhappy on the farm

seek some occupation in town, but do

not take an unwilling farmer with you

if you want to be happy.





TO REMOVE STAINS.





 





To remove stains successfully from

all kinds of fabrics without injuring

the fabrics themselves, it is necessary

to know that animal fibres are readily

destroyed by alkalies, while vegetable

fibres are attacked by all but the

weakest acids, but are not affected by

alkalies.



To remove stains from cotton and

linen then it is quite safe to use the

rather strongly alkaline Javelle water.

This is prepared by placing one-pound

of washing soda in a porcelain-lined

kettle and adding one quart of boiling

water. To this add the clear liquid

which separates off when one—half

pound of chloride of lime is stirred in-

to two quarts of cold water and the

mixture allowed to settle. This solu-

tion should be bottled and kept in a

dark place. To remove stains, dilute

the Javelle water with an equal vol-

ume of hot water, and soak the stain

in the solution until it disappears.



Probably the best reagent for re-

moving stains from silk and wool is

three per cent hydrogen peroxide to

which is added four volumes of water

and one volume of ammonia. The

stain should be soaked in this mixture

for a few minutes, then dipped in a ten

per cent solution of sodium bisulphide.

If the stain is persistent, it may be

neCessary to repeat this treatment

several times, exposing the fabric to

the sun aid air between treatments.



Bleaching solutions can be used with

white goods only, as any reagent which

will remove stainswill also remove

colors.—~Col. Ag. College.





CLEANING THE CELLAR.





 





BY R. G. KIRBY.



The collar as a storehouse for can-

ned goods and vegetables should be

kept scrupulously clean, as authorities

state that disease may occur because

of the impure air which gathers in

some cellars. The cellar that contains

impure odors should be thoroughly air-

ed on a mild winter day. The floor

should be swept and. mopped and all

cobwebs brushed down from the walls

and ceiling. , ‘ .



One method of removing odors in a

cellar is to fill a bowl with lumps of

quicklime over which a few grains of

dry copperas have been scattered.

Sla'ck the lime thoroughly and the

steam arising from the. mixture will

remove bad odors in the cellar. Pow-

dered borax is a good disinfectant to

to scatter around the floor and corners

of a damp cellarfl Chloride of lime is

an excellent deodorizer and an inex-

pensive substance to use for purifying

the air in damp, ill-smelling places.

Charcoal has great powers of absorp-

tion and a few bags hung up in the

cellar will act as a deedorizer and ab?

sorb moisture. Powdered slack lime





‘will also prevent the musty and maul;





dy odors which are prevalent in many

damp cellars.



Because of the cellar being out of

sight the conditions there may become

very had before demanding attention.

Such conditions should not be tolerat-

ed, especially when the room is used

as a place for storing food products.

A few hours time can be very profit-

ably used in protecting the food stored

in the cellar as it undoubtedly bears a

great influence on the general health

of the family.





THE PLACE OF EGGS IN THE DIET.





 





Because of the peculiar food value

of eggs, their relative freedom from

waste, and the ease with which they

may be prepared, their use as meat

substitutes at least is often desirable.

even when a consideration of their

price alone would not so indicate.

While this is true or eggs served as

one of the principal dishes of a meal,

it often is not true of eggs used in

cakes, puddings, and other desserts

along with meats. It is in the latter

use of eggs that the housewife who

wishes to economize can try especially

to curtail consumption. A fact which

makes this latter practice easier is

that with the present availability of

baking powders, corn starch, gelatin,

etc., the use of eggs to insert lightness

or to thicken liquids is not now essen-

tial as it was in the past.



The principal food element furnish-

ed by eggs is protein, the tissue-build-

ing element whose presence in consid-

erable proportions also gives meats,

fish, milk, cheese, etc, their special

food value. Eggs can, therefore, be

substituted for the latter foods with-

out materially altering .the proportion

of protein consumed. In addition to

protein, eggs also furnish fat and a

number of valuable mineral elements,

including sulphur, phosphorus, iron,

calcium, and magnesium, in an easily

assimilahle form, and are believed also

to be rich in certain essential vitaliz-

ing elements called vitamins.



Like milk and unlike meats, eggs do

not contain substances convertible in

the body into uric acid. Their shells

constitute the only waste materials.

Ninety-seven per cent of the pertion

eaten, a high proportion compared to

other foods, is digested. No extended

cooking is necessary for eggs and there

is, therefore, a saving in time, labor

and fuel as compared with many other

foods—U. S. Dept. of Agrl.





HOT LUNCHES IN THE RURAL

SCHOOLS.





 





I am now teaching my third year in

the rural schools of Mecosta county. I

have found nothing that brings about

co-operation between parents, pupils

and teachers, like the hot lunches serv-

ed at noon. Since we began adding a

hot dish to our former cold lunches,

the parents have awakened to the fact

that the teacher is really working for

the comfort and welfare of the chil-

dren. They appreciate it and have

shown their appreciation by donating

food materials. '



Our first attempt was vegetable soup.

We purchased a twenty-five cent soup

bone, which we cooked until tender.

The next morning before school, the

older girls prepared the vegetables

which had been brought by the pupils.

These were added to the stock and al-

lowed to simmer all forenoon. As our

school room contains only an ordinary

heating stove, our variety has been

rather limited as yet. We have had

cream of tomato soup, bean soup and

hot chocolate. Our next attempt is to

be creamed potatoes, and thenmacar-

oni and tomatoes. A lady living near

the school has offered to bake potatoes

and beans for us. '



In addition to enjoying the palatable

lunches, it affords an excellent oppor:





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”table etiquette and wash dishes. The‘

boys do their part by keeping in a

supply of wood and water, emptying

scraps, and have even done their share

of the dishwashing, and are more than

willing tovdo something to “get even”

with me for making the hot lunch. pos-

sible. And just to see the children en-

joy their dinner more than repays me

for my trouble—Marion Bell, Dist. No.

6, Austin Township.



We began serving warm lunches this

year for the first, and although I had

thought of it for seine time and we

had raised money to buy a three—burn-

er-oil stove, it was a new idea to many

of the people of the community, and I

thought it best ”to begin rather slowly.

\Ve began by serving a warm lunch

only once in a while as a special treat

to the children. I was not very sure at '

first just how it would work out, as we

have over sixty children in school, and

l was afraid I might be undertaking

something that would not prove to be

practical. However, I found out that

if I had sixty children to cook for, I

also had sixty children who were ready

to help furnish the food materials and

help do the work.



As soon as I was sure that warm

lunches could be served without tak-

ing much {tom school time, we decid-

ed to have one regularly on Tuesdays.

It worked so well and the children

begged so hard that ..it was not long

before Friday also became a “hot lunch

day.” We have quite roomy cloak

rooms, and the girls willingly gave hall

of theirs to be used as a kitchen. Here

we placed our stove and cooking uten—

sils. Our cooking outfit is very simple,

consisting of a teakeltle, a large stew

kettle, a frying pan and a large pail.

Besides these, we have a large cooking

spoon, a soup dipper and some'other

small dishes and pails. Each child has

his own cup and spoon.



The work is all done by committees

and the children consider it a great

honor to be “appointed” on a commit-

tee. A committee consists of two,

three or four, according to the amount

of work to be done. As a rule, I think

the smaller committees do better work,

as each one is held more responsible

for the tasks. '



We begin to prepare our lunch usur

ally at the morning recess. and find

that a great amount of. work can be

accomplished in that fifteen minutes

if necessary. We never attempt to

have more than one dish on the same

day, and as yet, they have been very

simple. We have had cocoa, coffee,

potato soup, bean soup, tomato soup

:md vegetable soup. The vegetable

soup was the most elaborate of any-



_ thing we have undertaken, as it con-

tained meat, potatoes, cabbage, car-

rota, onions, etc., all of which had to

be put through a food chopper. How-

ever, it proved quite a success and the

committee were very proud to have

made _it.



The parents have been very good

about furnishing. I know they have

the welfare of their children at heart,

and it is worth any trouble on my part

that I may be forced to take in order

to make these warm lunches possible

to see the happy faces of the children

as they form in line and march up af-

ter their portion of, the food, whatever

it may be, that helps to make their

cold, ottehtitnes frozen, lunches appe-

tizing and nourishing—Hazel Laird,

Dist. No. 1, Deerfield Township.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





April 3, 1917.



Wheat—With the general belief on

Monday that congress would declare

that a state of war exists, wheat trad-

ing gained in strength, prices advanc-

ing 20 for cash. Wheat is very scarce

in this country, and while reports con-

flict as to the quantity of grain that

will be required by European countries

it is certain that every economy Wlll

be required to make it possible to sat-

isfy the necessary wants of our peo-

ple with the stocks at hand. Probably

40 per cent of winter wheat acreage

in this country was benefited by the

rains early this week, while the re-

maining area is suffering severely for

lack of moisture and a very large

acreage, especially in Kansas and Ne-

braska, will be abandoned and prob—

ably seeded to spring grains. One year

ago No. 2 red wheat was quoted on the

local market at $1.221/2 per bushel.

Last week’s Detroit quotations were

as follows:



No. 2 No. 1





Red. White.





 





May





Wednesday . . . .2.07 2.04 2.08

Thursday . . . .. . .2.10 2.07 2.11

Friday ......... 2.08 2.05 2.09

Saturday '. . . .2.07 2.04 2.08

Monday ........ 2.09 2.06 2.10





Chicago—May wheat $1.99% per bu;

July $1.67%.



Corn.—Buyers appear to be unable

to secure sufficient cash corn to sup-

ply their needs. On the local market

the price made a 30 advance on Mon-

day. A year ago No. 3 corn sold local-

ly at 74%,»c per bushel. Last weeks

Detroit quotations were:





No. 3 No. 3

Mixed. Yellow.

Wednesday ........ 1.21%, 1.22 1/2

Thursday .......... 1.26 1.27

Friday ............. 1.26 1.27

Saturday ........... 1.26 1.27

Monday ............ 1.29 1.30





Chicago—May corn $1.22 per bu;

July $1.205/3.



Oats.——This cereal has passed the

70c mark with the trade firm and de-

mand urgent at the new high figures.

Improvement in transportation faCili-

ties has stimulated activity in this

trade. Standard oats a year ago were

quoted at 481/2c per bushel. Last

week’s Detroit quotations were:





No. 3

Standard. White.

Wednesday . . . . ....... 69 681/2

Thursday ............. 691/2, 69

Friday ................ 70 69 1A;

Saturday .............. 70 69 1/5

Monday ............... 71 701/2





Chicago_.—May oats 637/30 per bu;

July 59%0.



Rye.———This cereal has made further

advances, with cash No. 2 now quoted

at $1.70 per bushel. .



Beans—«Although this market is dull

trading is on a higher level. Cash

beans are quoted at $7.60 on the local

market. At Chicago Michigan pea

beans, hand—picked, are quoted at $7.60.

@785; red kidneys $6.50@6.75. Farm-

ers are offered $7.25 at Greenville.



Seeds.-—Prime red clover $10.75 per

bushel; April $10.40; alsike $11.50;

timothy $2.60.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





Flour.——Jobbing lots in one’eighth

paper sacks are selling on the DetrOit

market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best

patent $10.10; seconds $9.80; straight

$9.50; spring patent $10.60; rye flour

$9.00 per bbl. .



Feed.-——In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots

are: Bran $41; standard middlings

$42; fine middlings $46; cracked corn

$49; coarse corn meal $49; corn and

oat chop $44 per ton.



Hay.——-In carlots at Detroit: No. 1

timothy $14.50@15; standard timothy

$13.50@14; No. 2 timothy $10@11;

light mixed $13.50@14; No. 1 mixed

$13.50@14; No. 1 clover $12@12.50.



Pittsburg—No. 1 timothy $16.50@17;





No. 2 timothy $14.50@15.50; No. 1

light mixed $15@16; No. 1 clover

mixed, $16.25@16.75; No. 1 clover

$16.75@17.25.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





 





Butter.——Market is strong and high-

er with demand good. Creamery extras

42c; do firsts 41c; packing stock 24%c

per pound.



Elgin.—The tendency of prices was

upward on account of small receipts.

The price based on sales is 430 which

is an advance of 30 over last week.



Chicago.——The market is firm and

higher. Receipts have increased but

not enough to keep up with increased

demand. Extra creameries 430; extra

firsts 42@421,§c; packing stock 280.





Poultry.——Market is firm with prices

for hens and springers higher. Re-

ceipts/light. No. 1 spring chickens

24@25c; No. 2 do 22@23c; No. 1 hens

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

20@220; ducks 23@24c; geese 19@

22c; turkeys 25@260.



Chicago.—-—Fow1s and spring chickens

are higher but other kinds are un-

changed. Fowls 240; spring chickens

24c; ducks 17@23c; geese 13@15c;

turkeys 12@200.



Eggs.——~Market steady with prices

2112c higher. Demand is good. Firsts

310; current receipts 301/20.



Chicag0.——Whi1e prices are higher

the feeling is easy as lower prices are

anticipated. Fresh firsts 30@301/;,c;

ordinary firsts 29@291/zc; miscellan-

eous lots, cases included 27@300.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Apples.——Market firm with prices

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

Steele’s Red $5@7. At Chicago the

market is dull and unchanged; stock

shows effects of storage. N0. 1 stock





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





$2.25@2.75; orchard run. $3.25@3.50.



Potatoes.—-Market easy and lower.

In carlots at Detroit in sacks, Michi-

gan $2.40@2.60 per bushel; Wisconsin

$2.40. At Chicago no Michigan stock

was reported. Market is active at for-

mer prices. Prices range from $2.25@

260 per bushel. At Greenville pota-

toes are very dull, theregbeing prac-

tically no demand and very few com-

ing in. The price ranges from $2.25@

2.30 per bushel.





WOOL.





 





With a general feeling that a tre-

mendous business will develop in the

wool circles within the next few weeks

the market continues to show increas-

ed strength, and prices are gradually

working to higher levels. Growers are

firm in their demand for high prices.

Michigan unwashed delaines are quot-

ed in Boston at 52c; do combing 47@

55c; do clothing 44@46c.





GRAND RAPIDS.





 





Not much change is noted in the po-

tato market, or in beans, but prices

are being well maintained. Some out-

side markets are quoting potatoes at

$2.25, others at $2. The egg market is

somewhat higher this week, dealers

paying 290 and express charges for

stock outside. Creamery butter ad-

vanced 30 this week. In grains, corn

is up to $1.15, with other grain prac-

tically the same as last week. Hay is

worth $12@14 on the city market. In

poultry, live fowls are quoted at 20@

210. In meats, hogs are worth 15@

16%0; calves 13@15c; mutton 13%c;

lambs 190.





DETROIT’ EASTERN MARKET.





 





There were scarcely a dozen teams

on the market Tuesday morning, and

trading was small. No apples were of-

fered; carrots were held at $1.25; eggs

380; chickens 320; rhubarb 500;°loose

hay is having slow trade with prices

generallyfinging from $17 @19 a ton.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





April 2, 1917.

Buffalo.



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 110 cars; hogs 55 d. d.; sheep 34

d. d.; calves 1500 head.



With 110 cars of cattle here today

there was a good strong demand for all

fat grades. The bulk of the shipping

cattle sold 25@50c higher and the me-

dium steers 15@25c higher, with the

cows and heifers strong to 10c higher.

The bulk of the good bulls sold fully

a quarter higher, but the milkers and

stockers were about steady. We look

for a liberal run of cattle next week

and a good trade on all fat grades.



Our hog trade was 10@15c lower on

the general run, and pigs unevenly

lower, with some classes as much as

500 per cwt. lower than Saturday’s

best time. A few selected hogs sold at

$15.80@15.90, with one load of fancy

at $15.95, the bulk around $15.70; pigs

as to weight and quality, from $12.50

@13; roughs generally $13.75@14;

stags $11@12. Our pig trade has been

in a demoralized condition for several

days past, and while prices look low

here, killers do not seem to want them

and quite a number are going over un-

sold.



With a moderate run of lambs today

our market opened slow, with prices

25c lower than the close of last week,

and lambs weighing over 83 lbs. very

slow sale. About eight loads unsold

and we look for steady prices the bal-

ance of the week, depending chiefly on

receipts.



We quote: Lambs $15.25@15.60;

cull to common $13@15.25; heavy

lambs $14.50@14.75; yearlings $13@

14; wethers $12.50@13; ewes $11@12;

bucks $10@11; best calves $15.75@,16;





 





 





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Chicago.

April 3, 1917.



. Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts tpday..16,000 49,000 18,000

Same day 1916.. 9,637 19,983 18,883

Last week ...... 48,442 144,037 19,196

Same wk 1916..43,590“149,975 52,176



The Monday receipts of cattle are

so small that prices are ruling steady





to strong. Hogs are off a dime, with





the best at $15.45 and the poorest light

lots at $14.40. Hogs marketed last

week averaged 215 lbs. A sale took

place today of four double-decks of

feeding and shearing lambs at $15.45,

a new high record.



Cattle started off last week with in-

adequate offerings of the better class,

which made new high records; but

killers were not eager to buy other

than choice beeves, and despite the

fact that less than 19,000 head arrived

on Monday, sales of, lots below $12 per

100'lbs. were very largely 10@15c 10w-

er before the day was over. The mar-

ket was in still worse shape on Tues-

day, with the chief weakneSs in steers

fetching $10@11.50, and on Wednesday

sales were on an average about 250

lower than at the close .of the previous

week f0r lots selling below $12. Lots

of steers selling at $10.25@11.50 were

60c or more lower than at the recent

high time, and a liberal run of Nebras-

ka steers landed at $11.75@12.20. Fol-

lowing Wednesday receipts of 17,874

cattle, there was a Thursday run of

only about 3,500 head, and prices firm-

ed up, although quotations were not

quotably higher. Taking the week as

a whole, the bulk of the beef steers

sold for $10.40@12.40, choice to extra

steers of heavy weight $12.25@12.95,

the top for the preceding week having

been $12.85. Steers classed as good

have been bringing $11.75@12.45, me-

dium grade $10.75@11.70 Good to

prime yearling steers have met with a

good demand, with sales at $11@12.50.

Cows went at $6.80@10.75; heifers at

$6.75@11.50; cutters $5.80@6.75; can-

ners $5@5.75; bulls $6.25@10. Calves

sold freely at $6.50@14.50 per 100 lbs.

for coarse heavy to prime light veal-

ers. The stocker and feeder trade was

checked by light offerings, and prices

were firm at $7@9.50 for the former

and $8.75@10 for the latter. -



Hogs were in good demand last

week, and prices increased to $15.55.

Hogs of very light weights sold much





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such a time as a new crop of pigs can

be. matured. At the close last week

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With sales of light bacon hogs at $14.45

@1525, heavy packers at $14.90@

15.40, light shippers at $15.30@15.45,

heavy shippers at $15.45@15.55 and

pigs at $10@14, prime pigs weighing

from 130 to 135 lbs going the highest.

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Thursday's Market.

April 5, 1917.

Cattle.





Receipts 1810. Receipts in all de-

partments at the local stock yards this

week were considerably below those of

a week ago. Thursday it rained hard

and conditions, especrally in the cattle

yards, were very bad. They are bemg

cleaned but very slow headway is be-

ing made, the company claiming they

cannot get men. , '



In the cattle division the market

was very active at an advance of 25¢

per cwt. on all grades. Buyers were

here from Cleveland, Boston and other

outside markets and the local dealers

seemed to want them. Prospects look

good for higher prices from now on.

Milch cows of quality sold well but the

common grades as usual went for can-

ners. The close was strong as fol-

lows: Best heavy steers $11@11.50;

best handy weight butcher steers $9.50

@1050; mixed steers and heifers $9@

10; handy light butchers $8.50@9.50;

light butchers $8@9; best cows $8.50

@9; butcher cows $7@8; common

cows $6@6.50; canners $5@5.75; best

heavy bulls $9@9.50; bologna bulls

$7.50@8.25; milkers and springers $50

@90.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Newton B. Co.

5 butchers av 884 at $8.50, 3 do av 943

at $8.50, 6 cows av 873 at $6.50, 2 do

av 805 at $7, 1 heifer Wgh 480 at $5;

to Sullivan P. Co. 21 steers av 1123 at

$10.40, 14 cows av 1057 at $7.25, 4 do

:u’ 965 at $5.75; .to Walk 1 bull wgh

1730 at $8.20; to Mindick Co. 2 steers

av 1850 at $10; to Cleveland A. Co. 1

bull wgh 1600 at $8, 5 cows av 1064

at $7.75, 1 do wgh 1220 at $5.75, 1'.

cow and bull av 1060 at $7; to Ham-

mond, S. & Co. 20 steers av 1010 at

$10, 5 butchers av 710 at $8.50 to 811111-

van P. Co. 1 steer wgh 810 at $10.50,

2 do av 1005 at $9, 5 do av 776 at $8.25,

2 do av 1325 at $10, 2 do av 990 at $9,

2 cows .av 965 at $6, 3 do av 1000 at

$5.75, 4 do av 957 at $5.75, 4 do av

1160 at $7.50; to Kamman B. Co. 14

steers av 976 at $9.75 to Thompson 2]

do av 1005 at $9.70; to Newton B. Co.

22 do av 1125 at $10.25; to B. L Co. 6

do av 1061 at $9.50, 5 cows av 1175 at

$8.35, 3 do av 1200 at $7, 5 do av 1110

at $8.50; to Cleveland A. Co. 1 do wgh

1280 at $8; to Hammond, S. & Co. 1

do wgh 1100 at $8.50, 5 steers av 1190

at $10.75, 1 do wgh 700 at $9.15, 11 do

av 800 at $9.15, ' ,

Veal Calves.



Receipts 1212. The veal calf trade

was active as it always is at Easter

time, and prices on all kinds opened

and closed Wednesday strong at last

week's prices.

brought $15.75@16, but the bulk of the

good ones brought ,$15@15.50; heavy

$7@9. The close on Thursday was

not so good and was fully 50c lower

than the opening.



Erwin, S. J. sold Mich. B. 00. 5 av

180 at $15.50, 27 av 135 at $15; to

Thompson 28 av 135 at $15, 4 av 100

at $12, 1 wgh 200‘ at $16, 4 av 95 at

$11, 6 av 150 at $15.50, 11 av 155 at $15,

5 av 145 at $15.50. -



McMullen, K. & J. sold Mich. B. Co.

30 av 130 at $15; to Parker, W. & Co.

'38 av 150 at $15.25, 4 av 125 at $15, 5

av 125 at $11, 6 av 135 at $14.50, 13 av

125 at $15.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 1375. The supply of sheep

and lambs was small but evidently

large enough for the demand. Lambs

were 25@50c lower than at the same

time last week, but sheep held full

steady as follows: Best lambs $14.75

@15; fair lambs $14@14.50; light to

common lambs $13.25@13.75; fair to

good sheep $11@11.50; culls and com~

mon $7 @9. .



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. &

Co. 27 lambs av 70 at $14.75, 51 do av

77 at $15.25, 5 sheep av 95 at $9.50;

to Nagle P. Co. 4 do av 120 at $9, 20

clip lambs av 75 at $11.75; to Swift &

Co. 213 lambs av 85 at $15.25.



Sandel, 8., B. & G. sold Thompson

19 lambs av 85 at $15. '



Erwin, S. & J. sold Thompson 28

lambs am at $14.75: to Mich. B. Co.

2 shee av 105 at $10.50, 57 lambs av

67 at 14.50; to Barlage 108 do av 35

at $14.75, 8 sheep av 95 at $10, 7

lambs av 110 at $18.50. .



McMullen, K & J. sold Young 99

lambs av 75 at $15. ‘



. Hogs.



Receipts 6.777. In the hog depart-



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of quality guaranteed to 1.500 miles. Eggs for

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White, Brown. Black Leghorns. Barred Rocks. n.1-

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OHN'S big beautiful hen-hatched Barred Rocks,

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‘ EGcs FROM STRAIN with

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for 500. Eggs for hatching, $10 for 100. Thousands of

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Selected hatching eggs.$l.50 per 15. arcel Postpaid:

85 per 100; 90% fertility uaranieed. .Strong‘Day-Old

Chicks, 81?. per 100 naranteed delivery alive and

lively. Everfresh Egg Farm. lonia. Mich.





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

for sale. These males are from 200 egg strain and

are offering them for $3 each. Also about ?00

fine April hatched pullets at a great bargain.

Eggs for hatching March and April $5 per 100.

We will glady give references on all our sales.





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CKS are booking orders now for spring do.

CE] 9 livery, different varieties, free booklet.

Freeport Hatchery. Box 12. Freeport, Michigan





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FOR SALE P‘iigckbrfigs foli- ehatcyli'ilrcim.

CHAS. KLETZLEN. BATH. MI E.





Baby Chick: pure bred Youngs S. C. W. Leghorns





I B ifRocksJamnow'bookin ordersfore

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Pen No. 1. $4 for 15. Also one 2 yr. old White Hol-

land Tom. B. B . Fowler. Hartford, Mich.





ATCHING Eggs from my 8. C. W. Leghorns utility

750 per 1.3. If you want to raise some prizeflwmnera

send $3 for 15. White Line Poultry Farm, Hillsdaie,Mich.





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My Young‘s Strain S. C.VVhite

Improve Your Poullry. Leghorn. are 3...... mo...

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MORSE’B White Leghorn. State Cup winners.Bred ‘





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C B our rtrid e.ooi .

R0 Ck COCkerels bi‘hn arid sufien 151%

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RHODB ISLAND REDS and PLYMOUTH ROCKS

~Miles 5 to 12 lbs. according to age” to 85:211. hens

weight 5 to 10 lbs.. eggs 15 for $1.00: ~100, 85; 1 , $6.

‘ Hammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to BBIbs. according.

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use of hens or with incubators,

is an easy matter compared with

getting them well started toward early

maturity. To rear a fair percentage of

young chicks one must have a thor-

ough knowledge of the requirements

necessary for their growth and devel-

opment.



During the first week or ten days af-

ter they are hatched special precau-

tions must be taken to guard against

bowel trouble. Withheld food for the

first forty-eight hours and give them

no water until a few hours after the

first food is given them, but after that

time a. supply 0f fresh water should be

kept constantly before them. As a

general proposition dry feeds are pre-

ferable; the feeding of soft meshes

prevents the chicks from securing as

much exercise as is necessary for their

proper growth and development, be-

sides eating soft food too greedily and

standing around has a tendency to

weaken their digestive organs and pow-

ers to resist disease. Young chicks

that are fed a mixture of small grains

scattered in a litter of cut clover or





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hours scratching and hunting for the

grain, thus securing the necessary ex-

ercise. "

The First Feeding.



Oat meal, cracked kaffir corn, millet

and grit are excellent materials to use

in the young chicks’ ration. We feed

our chicks twice the first day they re-

ceive grain, three times the second day

and four times a day after that until

they are six weeks old. It is a mistake

to feed too heavy rations mornings and

noons. The chicks thrive better when

they are allowed to become hungry for

the evening meal so that they will eat

enough to last them until morning. Af-

ter they begin to scratch in the litter

for the grain feeds we substitute crack-

ed corn, whole wheat and buckwheat

for the ration fed at the beginning.

Pure fresh wateris just as import-

ant as clean and wholesome food and

should be kept constantly before the

chicks after they are three days old.

The drinking vessel must be kept

clean, for filthy water means sick

chicks, and is a prolific source of dis-

ease germs that work havoc in the

flock.

On the average farm there is. little

to be gained by hatching the chicks too

early. The ideal time for young chicks

to come is about April 20. Then by

the time they are two weeks old the

weather conditions are usually favor-

able for allowing them to run outside

for a short time each sunshiny day.

Never allow them to hump up outside

and become chilled, but so long as they

are running around looking for choice

bits of food they will not be injured by

the exposure. ‘ The run in the open air

where they can exercise their instinc-

tive choice of grit and bits of food

causes them to eat larger quantities

and to assimilate it better. Then, too,

the chicks that run outside gather

green food, and insects too, add to the

variety of the rations. >



Some Other Essentials.

Green food and meat are necessary.

No prepared! feeds can take the place

of the tenderbits of grass and Small

insects.





 





 





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. Spring, Management of Chicks





a decided advantage over those that

are started earlier and fed succulent

vegetables and meat scraps. Of course,

these feeds are valuable and must be

fed if the chicks are hatched early, or

when they are-reared on a small lot,

but it has been my experience that

pullets of the American breeds hatch-

ed before the first of May and given

proper treatment and plenty of range

will be sufficiently developed to begin

laying before cold weather comes. The

Mediterranean breeds hatched two or

three weeks later will be ready for lay-

ing late in the fall. When one desires

earlier hatches, and has the equipment

necessary for successful brooding dur-

ing the cold weather, it will pay to

hatch early chicks, but it is a mistake

for the average farmer to attempt to

imitate the experienced poultrymam

unless he has adequate equipment and

a. fair knowledge of mechanical brood-

ing. It is not the number of chicks we

can hatch out during the proper season

so much as it is the number that we

can rear and develop into efficient pro-

ducers before winter comes.



Care must be taken to keep coops,

brooders, mother hens and all of the

equipment clean. The chicks must be

examined closely at short intervals for

lice, and if they are found, or there

are any signs of their work, the chicks

should be greased on top of the head

and under the wings with melted lard

twice a week until the pests are de-

stroyed. The coops and brooders

should be disinfected once a week with

crude carbolic acid, or some good com-

mercial disinfectant, to keep away dis-

ease germs.



New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





POULTRY HINTS.





The following interesting and in-

structive points were brought out by

the speakers at the Poultry Husbandry

Session during Farmers’ Week at the

Michigan Agricultural College.



Never give little chicks cold water;

even in hot weather temper water that

is just pumped before giving it to the

chicks.



Skim-milk or buttermilk is one of

the best of poultry feeds. Sour milk is

as valuable as sweet, but the kind that

is fed should not be changed—always

feed the milk either sweet or sour.



Hens fed on sound grain only will

give the strongest hatching eggs.



A hatchet is the best poultry rem-

edy, but. if medicine is desired use cas-

tor oil; this may be best administered

in capsules.



Breeders of Rhode Island Reds

should keep a brick over the door; a

typical Red has the shape of a brick,

and an even color from beak to tail.



Rocks and Wyandottes should be fed

carefully, for they have a tendency to

fat-up on the inside.



The incubator should start to hatch

at noon on the twentieth day.



The first chick hatched is the first

all through life.



Fence in the garden and not the

chickens.



White lobed hens always lay white

eggs.



A well conducted farm should be run

like a department store, and the poul-

try department should receive its just

share of attention.





lngham Co. A. MALONEY.





 





TH E' BROODER.





The choice of a brooder is a. rather

perplexing problem. There are so

many different kinds on the market,

and each is able to present such attrac-





tive features, and there is so little un- '





biased information on the subject that

the poultryman must generally gain

his knowledge by experience. At least

I tried very nearly everything from the





fifty-chick, lamp brooder to the_.‘1000- '





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There is no One system of brooding

that is best under all conditions. The

old hen may have many disadvantages

but is a mighty efficient breeder, and

with proper attention will raise a good—

1y portion of her flock. On farms where

but few chicks are hatched each sea-

son it is generally best to let the old

hen rear them; but where any great

number are raised the hen is an ex-

pensive, and often unreliable brooding

system. Much more time is necessary

to take care of a dozen broods with

hens than a hundred and fifty chicks in’

a broader, and time ”is one of the big

items of expense in raising poultry.

Further. during the early spring, when

they are most needed, broody hens are

scarce' Where poultry keeping is con-

ducted as a business proposition arti-

ficial brooding is a necessity.



There are five types of artificial

brooders. Only two of these are of

much interest to the farmer or poultry-

man; however, in order that the situa-

tion may be better understood I will

speak also of thOse types that are of

but passing interest.



A few years ago tireless brooders

had quite a boom. These work on the

same principle as the fireless cooker;

not supplying any heat but conserving

that already present. Under favorable

conditions chicks can be raised quite

satisfactorily in these brooders, but

more labor is required than where the

hens are used. As a commercial prop-

osition the tireless brooder is never

seriously considered. -



A long narrow house fitted with

some form of hot water heating plant

is termed a pipe system brooder. They

have many advantages but are very

expensive; this prohibits their use ex-

cept on the special poultry farms and

there they are being replaced by less

costly forms of brooding equipment.



Of late fuel oil brooders have receiv-

ed considerable attention from poul-

trymen; These are of two kinds; those

burning kerosene or distilate, and

those burning gasoline. The former

originated, and have been quite gener-

ally adopted, in the. great poultry dis.

trict around Petaluma, California.

When used with the cheap, easily ob~

tainable distilate as a fuel and under

the conditions present in this district

these stoves have worked well, but

when used with kerosene and in other

sections of the country they have not

given” satisfaction. The fuel cost is

excessive, and the burner has a ten-

dency to soot-up. clog the chimney,

and cause trouble. A few years ago

the Cornell Station developed a gaso-

line brooder. When a high-grade gaso-

line could be purchased for about

twelve cents a gallon these brooders

were very satisfactory; but the pres-

ent high price of gasoline makes their

operation expensive, while the low

quality of most of the gaSmine that is

on the market today often causes ser-

ious trouble by causing the burner to

clog and putting out the flame. Under

present conditions a fuel oil burning

brooder is not likely to prove satisfac-

tory.



There are many different kinds of

lamp brooders on the market but about

the only kind found practical by com-

mercial poultrymen is the portable

hover; this is a heating apparatus and

hover only, and is so constructed that

.the whole outfit may be moved from

house to house as occasion demands.

Portable hovers are made invarious

sizes; perhaps those capable of easily

handling 100 chicks are the most prac-

tical. Two of these placed in an eight

by eight colony house will prove very

efficient, and during mild weather will

provide nearly ideal brooding condi-

tions. This combination is particulars

ly valuable for the man whose busi-

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experimental stage. Practical machines

have been" on the market for only four

or five seasons, but in this time they

have gained a permanent place in the

poultry business. These brooders are

made in many sizes, but for the poul-

tryman brooding less than 3000 chicks

a season the 300-500 chick size is best.

One of this size may be purchased for

about $16, and when placed in an eight

by eight colony house will brood a

flock of 250 chickens very efficiently.

The cost of fuel ordinarily will not ex-

ceed fifty or sixty cents ”a week, and

the labor necessary to brood the chicks

will be reduced to a minimum.



In summing up I may say that where

only a few chicks are raised the hen

will generally give the best results;

where an incubator is used, and the

chicks are batched in lots of less than

200 a portable hover will prove satis-

factory; while for the man~ hatching

in greater numbers one of the coal

stove brooders is likely to prove to be

the most efficient form‘ of brooding

equipment. A. MALONEY.





 





HATCHING GEESE.





 





Will you please tell me how to

raise geese and take care of the gos-

lings and if eggs can be hatched by

an incubator, and how to take care of





them? What do you feed goslings on

the first few days? SUBSCRIBER.

Goose eggs can be successfully





batched in incubators, but it is not a

common practice, because it is doubt-

ful whether they would do well raised

in brooders.



Either geese or hens are commonly

used for hatching and rearing purpos-

es. If the eggs are hatched by hens

or incubators, it would be advisable to

add moisture to the eggs during the

first week by sprinkling the eggs or

nest with warm water. From four to

six eggs are usually placed under a

hen, and from ten to thirteen eggs un-

der a goose.



If hatched by hens, the hen should

be kept confined, and goslings not al-

lowed to go into the water, especially

if the water is cold. To be assured of

success in raising goslings, they should

not be hatched until graSS pasture is

fairly good, as grass is their chief diet.



In addition to that, they should be

fed any of the inashes recommended

for chickens or goslings. Special care

should be taken in seeing that all of

the feed is cleaned up at each meal, as

leftover food is very often a source of

disease.





 





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Please advise me what to do to

make my male birds mate. I have the

R. 1. Red hens and I bought three male

birds of the same kind, but they won’t

mate. They don’t fight and are peace-

able but two of the males have frosted

combs. C. F. H.



' Undoubtedly the frosted combs have

greatly interefred with the vigor of

your cockerels. It is commonly consid«

ered that birds with frosted combs are

of practically no value for breeding

purposes.



It would undoubtedly be best for you

to eliminate the two from your cock,

and if necessary buy other cockerels

from some breeder who has a reputa-

tion f0r raising vigorous stock of the

kind you wish to breed.





 





The poultry house should be placed

away from other farm buildings where

the drainage is good. Dampness is

very dangerous and the floor of the

poultry house must be higher than the

outside ‘soil. A house should never be

less than fourteen feet deep and four

square feet of floor space should be

allowed to each bird. When a cement

floor is used in the house it should be

made-in creases to prevent'the hens

from slipping. Don’t build the houses

too high or it will be difficult to keep

the birds warm. By using one-fourth-

inch mesh wire on the windows the

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land. to apply the time he is working for other

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made only to men working on Canadian farms

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Ofl'ora highl bred tested for. poultry; Stock that.

with natura. and convenient farmer care. will ive

has given eggs thri th W

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tango. no yards (exce t breedl

ml PM" pom). In Winter our one He'll:

140 1111le fowls—bousod as suits oonve ‘ ~

average farmer will house his fowli. ligllbi'maigcl

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Culture gives confidence. Self con- ish in regard to our work, “Study ’60

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certain principle, learned a fact, form- yesterday will not suffice for today,

ed a judgment, we should use what we neither will that of today answer for

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knowledge. child older grown, he not only sees

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Set for yourself some task requiring h00d: .

care and skill of: the hand, take pride “Still, as my horizon grew,



in it, and let the product be the result Larger grew my riches tOQ-”



of y0i 1. best effort, whether it be a Our larger riches are limited only

piece of needlework, the making of by our capacity to enjoy our surround‘

bread, or the construction of some use- ings. A broad and liberal culture must

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will feel an increase in the confidence

in your power to accomplish something

while difficulties will be more easily Discuss Farm Loan Law.—At the

conquered, and life will be proportion- third meeting of Ashley Grange, held

ately more interesting. ‘ flightrganzgggedhzllsual businessl hag

k Education includes abllfty to use our for the discussiondnogfe thvgsNaftigiiiil



nowledge, and is essential to success Farm Loan law. Our worthy chaplain,

in any calling. More than this, a well Mrs. Charles Kerr, kept the work from





furnished intellect and a cultured will becgming weariscimle by the occasional

. . rea ing 0 a unny s ory. ertain

are essential to our own happiness, and “snags” were encountered in this new

the most powerful of all arguments for law:

culture is the effect of such culture 1- The limit of interest the farm

upon the individual. It is always well 13%: ggmfiomgy charge .15 81.x Def; cent

. . r s n y is see {111g inves ment

to be prepared for emergenCles, there- at five per cent. The law faVOrS the

fore everyone needs to know much banks rather than the farmer. Uncle

more about his vocation than what $31111? mifildleman mania must be paid

mav be nece sarv - - or y t e farmer. The government

da'l t' Sf d t' to discharge hls borrows the postal savmgs of the farm

yly rou me 0 ‘1 195- er and others attwo per cent, but re-

i‘he measure of your knowledge of verse it, and let the farmer borrow of

any subject is your ability to use that the govenment and the rate 9f interest

subject. You have studied arithmetic. zinmultlplied by three—1t ls SIX per

Can you 8’0 into 3» store, take an in- Foreign countries are more consider-

v01ce, add the cost of transportation ate of their farmers.





The Canadian

to the original cost of the geods, and farmer could borrow government mon-

to this the merchant’s





. ey to drain his'farm at two per cent.

. required per They do not saddle the expense of the

cent of gain, and mark the selling price middleman on their farmers but lend

upon the various articles named? Can the money direct at a 10W rate 0f in-

you go into an office and reckon the tegeStbefauit 'n th 3. me t f

. . . . 1 e p y n 0 an an-

interest or discount on the bills that nual payment by any member of the-

may be presented to you? association of borrowers falls on the

It is said that “Agriculture is. the Either gneilbersdof Elleassociati'on- The

oldest of the arts and th can an .15 0“ y secured by the

e mOSt recent mortgage given by the borrower and





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' '4 Organize Live Stock Shippers’ Asso-

ciations—Through the efforts of the

Caledonia Farmers' Club a mass meet-

ing. was called March 16 for the pur-

pose of organizing a Farmers’ Live

"- Stock Shipping Association. With the

help of Mr. C. J. Miller, of Athens,

Mich, and Mr. R. B. H Tieche, of Nash-

ville, Mich., an organization aws com-

pleted with the following officers:

President, L. G. Kaechele; vice-presi-

dent, Jess W. Pickett; secretary and

treasurer, Sid Geib; manager, George

W. Pickett; board of directors, Gilbert

Klingman, W. Ruehs, Melvin

Shisler, Lewis Kaelhele, Jess W. Pick-

ett, Sid 'Geib, Bert Niemeyer. We

think this is the first live stock ship

pers’ association in Kent county. This

organization will be known as the Cel-



‘ edonia Shippers’ Union.



Discuss Vegetable Garden—Peach

Grove Farmers‘ Club‘ met in March at

the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Bra-

man. The meeting was called to order

by the president. There being no bus-

iness the meeting was turned over to

the, program committee. Mrs. Mawby

gave a talk on vegetable gardening,

which was followed by a few remarks

by Mr. Robinette, Mrs. Robinette and

Mr. Braman. Mrs. Robinette gave a pa-

per on “The Home Flower Garden.”

Mrs. Braman gave a paper on “Shrub-

bery and Plants for the Lawn.” Mrs.

Mawhy gave a talk on St. Patrick. Cur-

rent events were given by Ruby Finch.

Song by Sylvia Mellema. A vote of

thanks was extended to the host and

hostess and the meeting adjourned to

meet next at the home of Mr and Mrs.

S. G. Penyon.



A Big March Attendance.——Genoa



. li‘armers’ Club met at the pleasant

' home of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Haller, on

Saturday, March 10. After the Club,

which was unusually well attended,

had partaken of a bountiful dinner,

the meeting was called to order by

President L. R. Richards, and an inter-

esting program was carried out. H.

M. Haller gave an address on the State

Convention System, making its func-

tion clear to those who never attended

one. J. G. Hayes gave a general talk

on “Gleanings of the County Institute,”

summarizing all the main points on

subjects discussed there, and renewing

them in the minds of those present, as

well as bringing things of interest to

those unable to attend the institute.

Mrs. T. S. S. Curdy gave an interesting

account of the womans‘ section of the

institute, also summing up the chief

points of interest. Mrs. Hayes read a

fine paper, “The Chancellor of the Ex-

chequer,” proving that this is the solu-

tion of the pocket-book problem. The

idea is for the man and wife to each

have a share to spend for their own

use as they see fit. After the question



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(Continued from page 459).



“First thing. then, we want to take

the name off’n the district. Not one

i of us women would raise Ned if our

houses were stood over a toad holler,

l an’ no teacher can keep it clean

enough for self-restiectin‘ youngsters

to set in. That old school house is a

good enough school house if it was

painted up an‘ scrubbed out an’ the

draw filled an' dreened an‘ decent out-



houses built an' then if us women’ll

i just remember to see that it’s kep’

one-half as clean as we keep our hous-

es where the kids won’t spend half

their time if we do the right thing

hereafter. Jud says he'll do his part—”



“An’ Joe will, too. He’s tired o' the

way things ’ve been going, too,” Emily

promised.



It was after dark before Sarah Hef-

felflnger drove into‘ the home lane.

She had talked with every man and

woman in the district, including rent-

ers and foreigners, whose importance

hadgrown in her mind in one night

of home and neighborhood analysis.





 





shovels and a team and joined the men

and teams in Toad Hollow at eight

o’clock the next morning. At noon the

smell ofbacon and coffee called them

into“ the. fresh scrubbed school house.

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secretly thrilled to. thonew and friend-

lier order of things, worked no won-

ders but it cleansed windows and

desks and floor for the first time in the

history of the district. Their thoughts

given point by Sarah Heflelfinger the

women admitted it Was their business,

and nobody else's to see that their chil-'

dren’s school home was fit to sit and

breathe in.





When the men had eaten and gone

back to their filling in, and the women

had cleaned and packed away the dish-

es and sat mending, Sarah proposed

they agree to get together at the

school house one Friday afternoon a

month.



"Summer’s coming and I wish wel

c’d meet every two weeks an‘ bring

all the children an’ our sewin’ an’ havel

our men come to dinner an’ us make a

day of it. I can always get more done;

if I sew with somebody an' I’d just as

lief bring my sewin’ machine every

time.” It was thin little neighbor-

starved Cassie Sanders who proposed

this, and Emily Waddell added, “Joe

said he’d see the other directors an’

see if they’d put a reg’lar cook stove

in, ’stead 0’ this wornout ol’ heater.

We could get up our dinners on that,

an’ the children an’ teacher could beat

up their dinners, when school com-

mences—an” Em’ly “’addell’s face

shone twenty years younger, “I’d like

to give the kids a candy pull, an' we

c’d all have our Thanksgiving dinner

together, an’ maybe a Christmas tree.”



There was no doubt the women all

agreed with Emily.



“My Ellie misses her little brothers

an’ sisters an’ she wrote if it wasn’t

for this bein’ such a dull place she’d

give up clerkin' an' come home. I

wish we c’d do something for the

young ones as they grow up-—maybe

they wouldn’t all be so crazy to leave

home—oh, 1—" Minnie Powers caught

herself up as she remembered Bud

Heffelfinger and Bennie Waddell, not

yet found, but Sarah Heifelflnger had

stopped darning to listen to another

tell her findings, reasoned out, per-

haps in her dark'nights when she lay

and grieved that fifteen-year-old Ellie

had gone out among strangers and dan-

gers to search for her own fun.



“You’re right, Minniewl know you

are right, but it took my boy’s slippin’

away from me to show me. Oh, I don’t.

know why I’ve been so dumb—~an’

blind—an’ selfish! We had our good’

times when we was little an‘ then we

shut up just like clams when our own

come on an’ needed somethin’ doing.

When my babies was all little an’ safe

with me I wouldn’t a dreamed the good

Lord ’d had to take a club to me to

keep me awake."





"I ken’t mek spitch,” Dutch Voght’s

wife hesitated, “I like mine shillun go

to school—dere fader ees sad set the

school ees not keep—dere fader he

play wid hees shillun—me, I blay, also,

all 01' country games, an‘ dance, ah,

yess, small legs don’t git tiard—dey

mus move, move, an' so dere fd'der an’

me. we geef balp bud we no ken titch

mine shillun fetch Anglish book aboud

all animal—‘Read, mudder! ’ an’ I no

can read, an‘ dey beg dere fader an’

he ees sad for he ken’t read in Anglish,

too. Eet you git titcher mine shillun

will min’ an’ dere fader ees happy an‘

me—I ken’t mek spitch do."



“VVe’re always going to have a teach-

er after this Mrs. Voght” Sarah Hef-

felflnger explained, “an’ we want you

to come an’ bring your babies an’ sew-

ing an’ dinner an’ have your man and

the children come at noon an’ we’ll

sew an’ visit an’ by September we’ll

have our children taught to mind the

teacher, too—an’ we’ll practice up on

playing, too, an’ we’ll. want to learn

your games.” ”



“I come, yess,. dere fader he ees

glad,” nodded the heretofore unspeak-

able foreigner who, in the speech she

couldn’t make had voiced from her

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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. '



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Bulls by BLACK QUALITY ITO. sire. _First prize.

Breeders and Calf Herds Mich. State Fair 1916. We

also won first on Exhibitors Herd. Jr. Champion Bull.

Jr. Champion Female and Grand Champion Cow. Also

breeders of Percheron, Hackney and Saddle Horses.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. IONIA. MICH.





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

{noney refunded. Write and let us tell you about

hem.





CAMPBELL 8 ANGEVINE,

Coldwater, Michigan.





of service age and calves from

Guernsey Bulls choice. Adv. reg. breeding.

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





G U E R N S EY S‘BRUIiiI baiting

Containin blood of world cham ions.

HICKS' GUERl‘fSEY FARM. Saginaw. 8V. 8.. Mich





FOR SALE Registered Guernse bulls and

and bull calves an Berkshire



swine. thebest breeding. JnlluEllels. R. 10. Holland. Mich.

GUERNSEYS llull calf for sale. f r0 m

A. R. dam and cows on test.





GEO. N. CRAWFORD. - - - Holton. Mich.





“TopNolch’ ’ Holstien Herd Sires





No. 1. King Oakdale Colantha, No.

182831, Born Sept. 18, 195. His sire’s

three nearest dams average 30.87 lbs.

His dam is a 22.64 1h. iunior '4 year old.

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

the eight only combinations of three

direct generations of 30 1b. cows. His

dam’s sire carries 50% the same blood

as Grace Fayne 2d’s Homestead the first

35 1b. cow, granddam of Segis Fayne

Johanna, the only 501b. cow. Hand-

somely markednabout ,7; 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. 3% yr.

old daughter of King of the Pontiacs.

His dam is a 22.09 1b. granddaughter of

Pontiac Korndyke. His dam’S sire is

from a 28.99 lb. %anddaughter of Hen-

gerveld De K01. e traces four times to



ontiac Korndyke and three times to

Hengerveld De K01. Handsomely mark-

ed—about 3 white—Price $200 00.





McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.





Swigandale -Hulsleins





’ Our herd average 1916: 11000 lbs. per cow in.

cluding 6. 2 yr. olds. All of our cows have A. R.

0. records averaging 21 lbs—mostly made as 30r

4 yr. olds.





For Sale—Bull calf born Aug. 6. ’16. Sire Maple-

crest Korndyke Hengervcid (having highest

yearly record backing of any sire iii the

world). Dam Katie Pearlina Cornucopia.

139689. He is 3/; white—beatifully marked—-

straight top lines. very growthy and will be

ready for limited service by September 1917.

Agrand individual, price — - ~ - - $150



Bull Calf—Born Oct. 24. '16 Sire G. d: B- Segis

Ulrica Pledge No. 108790. Dam Hanibden Segis

Bessie No. 225929. This is a very toppy calf.

straight. masuline and most perfect dair

type Dam has a 21 lb. record as a 3 yr. 01 .

This calf will prove to be half the valne of

your herd if you rais your heifer calves.

Priceo-----------—$100



Also several younger calves from high producing

dams.



Lest We Forget—Home of the greatest show herd

of Berkshires in the State. A fine lot of open

and bred gilts. also boars of serviceable age.





SWIGARTDALE FARM‘

PETERSBURG, MICH.





Bigelow’s Holstein Farms,

BREEDSVILLE, MICH.

Have Some Fine Registered Stock For Sale





- ' Holstein Bulls





1to9 month-old. mm'.‘ 1.11.0. Our herd sire is

Johanna McKinley Segi- 3d. '1 nearest Dams aver-

.mma aussvun'r rants. Jenlson. Mich.





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Jerseys and Duroc Jerseys





The most important thing in buying a Jersey bull is to get one backed up by generations 0! high





Brookwater offers to sell a few choice bull calves of this kind.

The are selling—get yours soon. Also Duroc Jersey Fall Boats ready forepring service. Full

particu are and price on application. Better yet. visit the farm. ,





was. BROOKWATER FARM

Ann Arbor. Mich., R. 7.





 





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Sired by Long Beach DeKol Korndyke.





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Do You Want A Bull?





Ready For Service.

From a grand daughter of The King of the





brother to the Champion Holstein Cow of the

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

of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke who has more b.

daughters than any other living bull. If you do

write for pedigree.





EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.





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

5 weeks old. beautifully marked.8‘.5().00 each. orated

for shipment. anywhere. Edgewood Farm.Whitewater.Wis.





EG. HOLSTEINS: Herd headed by Albina Bonte



. Butter Boy No. 93124. Dani‘s record at 6 yrs. butter

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

802 lbs. milk 18022 lbs.W. B. READER. Howell. Mich





Cluny Stock Farm

100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100

THE MILK AND BUTTER KIND





Five splendid bull calves sold since January 1st. 1917.

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

a. sire whose dam holds sixth highest yearly butter rec-

ord. One from a sire whose three nearest dams aver-

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

a. son of Colantha 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.





OAK LEAF FARM

Herd Sire

Ypsiland Sir Pietertie De Kol

Service bulls all sold. Buy a calf and raise’it. Fine

individuals 4 and 5 months old. E. H. Gearhartd

Son. Marcellus. Mich.. R. No. 4.





' ' Young bull ready for service.

“'EISlCICd “0l3l0ln3. 30 lb. breeding. Satisfaction

guaranteed. W B. Jones and J. F. Lutz. Cohd‘ctali. Mich.





EG. Holsteins. Place your order now for a bull calf.

I 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.

half-brotherof World's Champion cow. Send card

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





' ' 00‘ re . A.R.O.

Parham s Pedigree Stock Farm 3.3%.?“ 00...,

Male Calves Show Bull madly; for service no a in to

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





842 Lbs. B U T-T E 12





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

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

reat randdam. Three choice young bulls from A.

t. O. £11118. 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. Inc., Holton, Mich.

Referencer Old State Bank. Fremont, finch.





Have for sale 6 Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld

Holstein bulls. One 12 months; onefi months; one

months, all out of . R. 0. dams. ()ne made 19 lbs.

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

7 days as a. Jr. 3year old. Also have five others. same

breed from 2t06 months. Must sell at once. need the

cm. Our firices will surprise you. John H. lVinn,





1200-11). Bred Youn Bulls





Their sire. Ma lecrest DeKol Hengerve d. We offer

one born Feb. 2. 1916. out of a 21-lb. cow from sister

to 32-11). cow. His grandsire is sire of the famous

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

for pedigree and rice.

HILLCRES FARM, F. B. Lay, Mgr.

Kalamazoo, Mich.





' I

in Good Young llolsloln Bows For Sale



I want to sell as soon as possible. TEN GOOD YOUNG

cows. Most of them are bred to "The Milk & Butter

Champion' a son of a worlds Recordtmilk cow and his

sire is a son of a worlds record butter cbw. We wil

have more cows than we can milk this Sprin . So this

is your chance to get a. few good ones. Also ave bull

calves and a few bulls ready for service. ,



L E. OONNELL. - - - - Fayette. Ohio





' Bull calf early white. Sire: Colantha

HOISteln Johanna Creamelle Lad. Darn: Segis

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

Vassar. Mich.. for photo and price.





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lithium and llusrnsoy Heller and llull calves

Choice selected promising dai rioalvesmracticall pure

Holstein and pure Guernsey. at not registers . nice

color. $20.00 each. all express paid to any point.

MEADOW GLEN Whitewater. Wis.





FOR SALE Reg. Holstein cow. 10 yrs old.



due May let. has better thana 19lb

record” at 4yrs. old. Price 82mm. Chas. I. Cook.

Fowlerville. Box 438. Michigan. .





OLSTEIN COWS: bred yearlings and calves for

sale. Every cow has produced a vigorous calf dur-

ing year. 0. L. Hulett & Son. Okemos. Mich. fl





F"; S". Holstein bull calf. dam A. R. O. 24 13. 4 yr,





old. Price 860. Reg. and Del. One from un-

tested dam 8‘30. .1. R Hicks, St. Johns. Mich.





Registered Holstein £3.‘?‘ti3.§8.‘.§21‘.o.}ai‘i£

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



' ‘ ‘V Beg; 'Kbl'stein‘Fri‘esian' Cattle

Immand nerd Herd average 12100 lb. m i l.k

each. John A. Rinks, Warren. Mich.





 





Pontiacs. Sired by a bull that is more than a half,





 





10 l-lOLSTElN BULLS at FARMERS’ PRICES





P t' A ' K d k Sh h 1200 1%.”; sireg‘rifirég llilenigeroldgggKoolleutter Boil



on me aggie orn e. c as a ‘ . recor . - ). s s ers. - . sisters. d . d h

Friend Hengerold De el Butter Boy has 1000 lb. year record. er am 1). aug ter 0:

AUGUSTA. (Kalamazoo. 00..) MICH





Dam a daughter of





Has 4-30 lb. sisters. 3 sisters above 1200 in year.





011 Our Easy Payment Plan Xfyw‘liiiil’eig‘i

Holstein Bull calf in our stables. Prices from $50 up.

Ypsiland Farms. Ypsilanti. Michigan





3175 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. Beavey. Akron,|Mich.





 





-YEAR-OLD Holstein cow; Butter 7 days. 15 75 lbs.



Her. dam: butter. 7 days. 25.13ibs. Very lar e.



mostly white. beautiful. Write for pedigree and e-

livered price. Hobart W. Fay. Mason, Mich.





2O Herefords REBATE“

EARL C. MCCARTY. 8.11 A30, MIChiflIn





HEREFORDS





Both sexes and all ages for sale, our herd com-

prises about 100 head representing the blood of

such sires as Prime Lad 9th, Perfection Fair-

fax, Bonnie Brae 3d and Dale. Write us your





wants.

ALLEN 111108., PAW PAW. MlCll.





R. of M. Jersey herd offers for sale

maple Lane tuberculin tested cows. bulls. bull

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

blood of the breed. IBVIN FOX. Allegan. Mich.





 





 





Dairymen !





—The Truth





You may be preiudiced against

the Jersey because you don't

know her. Look her up. She's

the Money Cow.

Get This Book—s history of

the breed al‘iddfl‘l“ of velry inter-

esting tests an a is. i

Thi. conclusiveloyéthai for pufie daiirzy typlelzpelgdi:

omy 0 pr uclion. n ' .

Book life and adaptability t: (:31: conduclimzi:

-—all these combined—she stands way

above Ithem all. This book uAbout Jerse

Cattle ll free. Get your copy now. You'll

find it mighty good reading.





The AmericanJereeyCattle Club

346 West 23rd Street. New York City





 





F0 R SA LE Twenty-five Jersey cows,

_ . two to ei ht years old.

Eight registered. balance high grades. Excellent pro-

ducers. guaranteed right. Also some bred yearlin heif-

ers. registe and high grades. Also some fall heifer

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

Hadley. P. (l- Metamora. Mich. R. l. 0.19. Hodgson. L.H. Riley.





from high-producing dams.with

Jen-0y all": It" sale testing Asso. records. also on

eemi-oflioial test. 0. B. We nor. 3. 6. Allegan. Mich





for sale. ready for service. Out of

Jerse Bulls good producing dams. Prices right.

R. B. _ OWLER, Hartford. Mich.





 





J ERSEYS FOR SALE 3‘33“”:“3:

service from R. of M. ancestors. Meadowiand Farm.

Waterman dWaterman. Packard Road.Ann Arbor. Mich.





Flill SALE REGISTERED JERSEY BULL!





Readfifor service. Write your wants.

SMITH & PA KER. R. D. No. 4. Howell. Michigan





FOR SALE Yearling Jersey bull from reg-1‘s-

ter of merit stock. HILLSDA E



FARM JERSEYS. Great producers.



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





Maple Hill Farm llo islmd Jomy calllo

Stock under 2 years all sold.

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





Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from R

of M owe. alsglheifer calves and several bred





heifers for sale. on O. Lillie. Cooper-ville, lioh





C

The Wildwood Farm

Breeder of Line bred Maiest strain of Jersey Cattle.

Herd on R. of M. test.'.l‘ubercu in tested.Buil calves for

sale. Type A. Production is our motto. Alvin Balden. Capac. Mich.





Shoriborn Callie of both Sex for Sale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.





Bidwall Shonhorns‘





“For Beef and Milk”





This heifer at 6 months has bone.

size and quality—our own breeding.

The blood of Scotch bulls Iinp.

Shenstone Albino and Imp. Vii ag-

er Registered stock always for sale.





lllllWELl. 8106K Hill,





Box B. Tecumseh. Michigan.





‘ RICHLAND SHORTHORNS





Sires in service. Village Archer and Albion Crest let.

rize 2 ear old and Junior Champion at the ioh.

gtat Fair in 1916. We offer a number of young bulls and

females for sale. Also some Aberdeen-Angus bulls o

serviceable age reasonable prices. Write your wants.

Tawas City.M





 





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Founder.—Have a mare that was

foundered 18 months ago; now her

hoofs are dry and brittle; I am inclin-

ed to believe that her boots are not

growing enough and I forgot to say

that she travels best on soft road. R.





- D., Traverse City, Mich—She should





be shod with a wide-webbed, rolling

motion shoe, and apply wool fat to

hoofs once or twice a day.





Indigestion.——We have a. cow three

years old that will soon freshen, at

which time she will have her second

calf. For the past few months she has

not thrived and is beginning to act

very much. like her mother, who died

young. D. G. 8., Flint, Mich—Perhaps

your cow needs a change of feed, also

give her 1/2 oz. of ground red cinchona,

1%; oz. ground gentian and two table-

spoonfuls of powdered charcoal at a

dose in feed two or three times a day.





Wart on Teat.———I have a heifer due

to calve in May; on her front teat, up

next to the bag she has what appears

to be a wart about the size of a wal-

nut and the neck of it is about the

size of a small finger. There are sev-

eral other small bunches near by

which appear like warts. F. K., Wayne,

Mich—Bunches of this kind’ are only

skin deep and should be cut out, at

which time all the wart-like tissue

should be cut off.



Contagious Abortion—I have two

cows three and five years old that lost

their calves at about seven months.

These cows have had good care and I

am unable to tell what should have

caused them to miscarry. I have three

more cows to calve which appear to be

all right. What would you advise me

to do? J. G., Twining, Mich.—Doubt-

less your cows suffered from contagi-

ous abortion infection and it is. now

too late to stop other cows aborting.

However, you had better give them

good care and keep your stable clean

and disinfected. I have repeatedly pre-

scribed through these columns how to

treat these kinds of diseases, but it

must be understood that the results of

such treatment is not always by any

means satisfactory.



Indigestion—I have some hogs that

are not thriving, have rather a poor

appetite for either slop or corn. They

are nearly a year old and only weigh

about 100 pounds. H. E. P., Monroe,

Mich—Mix together equal parts gin-

ger, gentian, bicarbonate soda and

charcoal, give each pig 3. teaspoonful

at a dose in feed night and morning.



Serous Abscess—I have a yearling

colt that had a bunch come on his

breast; our local Vet. called it an ab—

scess and lanced it. There was just

a watery discharge and the wound has

about healed, but there is still a bunch

and the tissues seem to be growing to

the bone. N. M., Richmond, Mich.—

Paint the bunch with tincture iodine

once a day.





mare with a growth beneath the lower

lid of the right eye. Burnt alum eats

it out, but does not cure it nor prevent

it growing very rapidly whenever the

alum does not cover. It is a granulat-

ed appearance resembling proud flesh.

E. L. W., Newaygo, Mich—Apply equal

parts of calomel and boric acid, or re-

move the growth with a knife, then

apply boric acid twice a day.



Paralysis—I would like to know

what can be done for a cow that suf-

fers from paralysis, is down and- una-

ble to get up, but has a fairly good ap-

petite. J. G., Lennon, Mich.—~Give

your cow 1 dr. fluid extract nux vom—

ica, 30 grs. of potassium iodide and 3

drs. of Fowler’s solution at a dose in

a quart of water as a. drench or in feed

or drinking water three ‘times a day.

Apply mustard and water to back

three times a week. She should be

placed in a sling and assisted on foot

twice daily.



Nasal Catarrh—Feline Distemper.—

I have a cat about two years old that

has something like distemper. A heavy

mucus discharge comes from both nos-

trils and eyes, and I might say that he

has been sick for some time and it is

rather offensive to have him come in

the house. Mrs. C. H., Fenton, Mich.—

Chronic nasal catarrh and sub-acute,in-

flammation of the mucus membranes

of head, following distemper, are usu-

ally incurable and healthy cats are so

plentiful that I do not believe you had

better attempt to treat him with any

degree of hope of effecting a cure. Cats

resist treating the nasal passages; be-

sides, it is not easy to give them medi-





 





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Ham Hoots—What shall I do for a-

horse whose hoof and frog or foot be-

comes hard, causing lameness? I

might say that I do not believe this

horse suffers from grain founder. W.

B., Hesperia; Mich—Stand horse in

tepid water one hour a day, then apply

lanolin (wool fat) to hard hoof once

a day. Wet clay is better than water

if you {can secure it.



Serous Abscess—I have a yearling

colt that had a bunch come on breast;

our local Vet. called it an abscess and1

lanced it. There was just a watery

discharge and the wound has about

healed, but there is still a bunch and

the'tissues seem to be growing to the

bone. N. M., Richmond, Mich—Paint

the bunch with tincture iodine once a

ay. .



Indigestion—Weakness.-—-I have a

horse five years aid that is low in

flesh, perspires freely while standing

in stable, and is weak. G. H. L., Hast-

ings, Mich—Clip your horse, examine

his teeth, give him 1 dr. of ground nux

vomica, 1 dr. ground cinchona, 1 oz. of

ground gentian and 1 dr. of acetate of

potash at a dose in feed three times a

day. Be sure and keep your stable

.well supplied with fresh air.

Paralysis—I would like to know

what can be done for a cow that suf-

fers from paralysis, is down and una-

ble to get up but has a fairly good-ap-

petite. J. G., ennon, Mich.—-Give your

cows 1 dr. of fluid extract nux vomica,

30 grs. of potassium iodide and 3 drs.

Fowler‘s solution at a dose in a quart

of water as a drench or in feed or

drinking water three times a day. Ap-

ply mustard and water to back three

times a week. She should be placed in

3 sling and assisted on foot. twice a

ay.



Partial Dislocation of Stifle.——I have

a. six-year-old cow that has a hitch in

one hind leg which shows every time

she is turned out. Her leg appears to

be perfectly stiff and rigid, then sud-

denly she appears to get over it and

walks fairly well. She has been in this

condition for nearly a year. F. M. L.,

Sand Lake, Mich.=——A chronic ailment

of this kind is not easily remedied;

however, you will obtain fairly good

results by clipping hair off stifle and

applying one part red iodide mercury,

one part powdered cantharides and

eight parts fresh lard twice a month.





Weakness—Our 01d gray horse has

not laid down for the past four or five

days. We cannot account for it. be-

cause this is the first we have noticed

him persist in standing up. We sus—

pected that it might be a stoppage of

his water, but with very little kidney

medicine he passed urine freely. When

led out of the stable, he will lie down

and roll as usual. M. A. 0,, Attica,

Mich—Perhaps you had better place

him in a box stall, instead of keeping

him in an open one. Also give him a

1/2 dr. of ground nux vomica, 1 dr. of

acetate of potash and 1/3 oz. of ground

gentian at a dose in feed three times

a day. Perhaps if he had enough exer-

cise or work to tire him, he would lie

down as usual.



Barren Mare—I have a mare now 16

years old that has raised several cOlts,

but failed to get With foal after being

bred a year ago,‘also last fall. She ap-

pears to be in fairly good health but

drinks too much water, is fed clover

hay and occasionally her bowels are

too loose. O. 11., Union City, Mich.—

Give your mare a teaspoonful of pow-

dered sulphate of iron, a tablespoonful

of cooking soda and a tablespoonful of

ground gentian at a dose in ground

feed three times a day. Feed her less

clover and avoid letting her drink

large quantities of water at a time, but

water her often. Dissolve 2 ozs. of hi-

carbonate of soda in three pints of

clean boiled water and after washing

out vagina with clean tepid water, in-

ject her with this soda solution six or

eight hours before she is mated. Per-

haps you had better breed her to a

Jack.



Hogs Have Worms—Please tell me

of a reliable remedy for worms in pigs

and colts. W. J. A., Laingsburg, Mich.

~—Those of us who have undertaken to

give individual hogs medicine, usually

find it a little difficult; therefore, the

most effectual method of medicating

swine, particularly when large num-

bers are to be treated, is accomplished

by medicating the slops or feed. The

least expensive remedies are sulphate

of iron, sulphate of copper and creo-

sote; but remember, any one of these

‘remedies given to pigs should be thor-

oughly mixed with the feed or slop

and the medicine should be given once

a day. It must also be remembered

that the excrement from wormy hogs

should be gathered and either treated

with lime or burned, for if it is not,

hogs that root in it remain parasitic.

Give a loo-lb. hog 10 grs. of powdered

sulphate iron at a dose daily, or 5 grs.





creosote. The dose of sulphate of iron





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





for a 1000 or 1200-1b. horse is 60 or





 





‘ 600 to 1200 lbs.





of sulphate of copper, or five drops of-





 

   

   





OF THE HOWELL

AT HOWELL,





some carrying 62; %

dation stock. Catalogs April 12. Mar





Francisco Farm Shorthorne

811% Type Poland Chinas





’re runned—l‘hey pay the rent."

sale at present.

Mt. Plenum: Mich.





 

   





othing for

R. R. 3





P. P POPE





     

 

 





3hr“ -Dsiry or beef bred. Breeding stock cl

"'3 ages for sole st farmers prices. 6. w. .-

Seey. Cent. Itch. Shortha- Ireedcrs' Asln.. leBridc. lick.





OR 8.1 —Rz. Short. Horn Bulls by Msrwclton

F Monnrgh 2n 3 son of Avondcle. from ll to Limos.

old. John Schmidt. Reed City. B. No. 5. Michigan.



Young bulls ready for





Shamans For sale service. also cows and

heifers. W. B.McQuillen. Howell. Michigan.





Sharlhorns For Sale.





Write W. J. BELL.





Cattle For Sale

Loads feeders and two loads yearling steers. Also

can show you any number , 2 and 3 years old from

Isaac Shanstum. Fairfield. Iowa. 8-8.





Young bulls 8100. Bred cows.

and heifers $150 for Trick sale.

ROBE CITY. MICE CAN.





2





The original milk strain.

No stock for sale at present

- - Mason. Michigan





Bales Shorthorn .





J. B..Hummel. -

. E -

SHORTHORNS {$3.13 fish 13%}... 353?.

on





for sale. J. E. Tenswcll. Meson. Mich .

HOOS.

Durocs and Victorian





Heavy bone, lengthy Spring Bears and Gilts from prize

winners sired by one of the best Sons of the (treat pe-

fender & other noted strains. Ill. T, STORY. ancll. MlCll.





BERKSHIRES: Gilta and mature sows that- will far-





row in April and May. Mammoth Toulouse Geese.

Pekin Drakes $2 esch.Clinse Stock Form. ll. 1. Marlene. Mich.





' Boers. seryieesble sue. best blood

Berkshires, mm...





High Glass Fall Bears and Gills





STOCK ARM.





CONSIGNMENT SALE CO.



MlCHIGAN,

80 Head of Registered Holstein 80

of superior breeding and individualitflfrom 30 to

of the blood of the new 50.681b. cow.





. 31-471





APRIL 26, 1917.





33 lb. sires or bred to such,

, Achance to get foun-

k B. Curdy, Secy., R. 6., Howell, Mich





o. |. c. SW'NE. Bred slits srecllsold.





I Order is pair or a trio

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

before the are sold. Satisfaction guaranteed.



A. J. 60 DEN. R. No. 3. Don. Mills.





0 I C98 Bred sows allsold. Hoveafew good

' ' ' last Sept. boars and this spring pl'.

Good .rowthy stock. it mile west of depot.



Otto B. Schulse. - - ‘ « Nashvi le.Mich.





0. I. C. Thoma}; bred o. I. c. Swine an





out exce t fall pigs.

0. D. Somervill. Grass Luke. M ch. 3. D. 4.

O. I





Gilts bred for June and July furrow.



o . 0 Also hours of September furrow.



H. W. MANIV. - - - - Dansville. Mich.



0 I C’s All sold. Booking orders for the



' - ' best of our winter and spring p as.



C. J. THOMPSON. - - Rockford. Michigan

0 | 9 Choice giltssll sold. Choice full



0 I -§rize winning stock. Write for ow rices



A. V. H TT. - - - - Grass Lake“ ich.



O I C’s guy the best and breed them better.



. - 7 . all (hits and Boom. CLOVER



LEAF STUCK FARM. R. 1.





0. I. C bred sows and





' bodied heavy





ins out of





Monroe. Mich.





ilts all sold. A few long

oned fall boars to offer.





 





G. P. ANDREWS, Dansville. Michigan

Gilt brel

La r e P. C e for fill-cl)





$6 ' VB



and April arrow all so . A fggd‘ood ones to bc bred

for June (arrow. Also some a full Kiss either sex.

W. E. LIVINGSTON. P EMA. MICE.





' I d Chinss. As bi . as good. us grow in Iowa. Herd

0 In headed by Go lath l‘urver. I can please you.

Robert Martin. R. 7, Kristin's, Michigan





Large Type Poland Ghlna Bred Sow Sals.F|b.2ll,'17





Write for catalog. W. J. Bagelshnw.





' Poland Chins sow bred. full pigs. either

[alga Silkd sex. Young horthorn cow and our

month hull calf. Robert Nevc. Pierson. Michigan





OLAND Chinns bred gilts all sold. still have some

lPchoice fnll pigs of large and medium type. atfurrn.

etc prices. . D. LONG. R. 8. Grand Rapids. Mich.

' ' Sept. furrow, either sensit-

lll: lype Poland Blunts .. b. an"... Wood. 300 11.,

he . A. A. WOOD I: SON. Feline. liehixnn.





__._______________._.._—————-

HALLADAYS’ HAMPSH I RES





All sold. exec t fall igs. We are booking orders for

' 8. H. fiulludny (it Son, Clinton, Mich.





 





spring pigs.

8% to £50. 2 tall yearlin sows to furrow in June. .8. O, , . , . ‘ . . .

W. Orpington eggs forgatching from géeng bills wi‘i‘iitefi- “IMDCIIIIO Sillllll. hothlggticr glfit‘z-uttoldnnliggs and

layers. 33 for 30 eggshewton Barnhnrt. t. o nsn c FLOYD MYERS. R. No. 9. ecatur. Ind





 





' We he re 3 ch )lCB

Duroc Jersey Cults 10. o. ‘30,". mgged

heavy boned Gilts. rc istered. All bred to our Herd

Boar. Jennings Pilot. onder No. 73313. Bred for A .





and May furrow. Send for podlg‘ree. Prices reasonsb c.

THE JENNINGS FARMS. V. . Shoesmith. Gen’l.

Mgr. Bniley. Mich.. R. F. D.|.





 





bred ‘lts for sale

price tosell.





Duroc Jerseys ‘8

Bastian. Mich.





Carey U. Edmonds.





uroes. pigs of Bept.farrow.(Dnms)by Joe Orion 2nd

DefenderC. Superbs. Highllnd King lSiresl Superb- King

and Hoosier J.O.C. Either sex. B.G.Keesler. Csssopolis. Iich.





Durocs For Sale Big Heavy Boned

Fall boars and gilts. weight 125 ll). to 2001b. ouch. not

extra fat. but in good breeding flesh, Also one yrl. eg.

Percheron Stallion. color black and a good one. .



M. A. Bray, Estate. Okemos. (lngham Co.) Mich.





 





D C Saws and gilts bred to Eureka Cherry King

“1'0 and Crimson Critic son of Critic Modellillli

champion Iowa. Fair. . C. Taylor. Milan, Mich.





 





A few big smooth Se t. gilts to be

Du rocs bred for early fall 11.311117“. Bell

Phone. E. D. Heydenbork. Wayland. Mich.





PINEHURST DUROCS. Choice fall boars. One

great yearling boar. Choice Yellow Dent Seed Corn





for sale. Orlo L. Dobson. Quincy. Michigan.





Bum 1mm





teer also booking orders for s rin





Fall boars ready for service, sired by a

son of Orion Cherry King and Volun-

pig‘s.)pairs not





 





akin. J. DRODT. Monroe. . ic .

Dnroc Jerseys. Six fall boars of bi smooth

F" 3'“ kind. Prices right. .10an MchCOLL.





Route 4, Station A. Bay City. Mich.





lluroc Jerseys.

J. H. Banghnrt. -





“"3““. Booking orders for Spring l 11:8.

1?. w. ALEXANDER. v ’





est Lansing. Mich.





Raise Chester Whites i

,y'





Like This .





:5 die odgmat u; produceri





 





HAVE started thousands breederson thereadto



success. lesnhelpyou. lwsntto laceone from

to

uh





In: nectbetd in cry co where am not nix-ea



3...“.1 Elm «fly 5 lope: —rcfly f Ianr



months on' Writs for my p'l‘n'iar— ‘ Mum 0“:ng ozs.

G. I. “33mm, 3", D. 10. Porn-all. Ulchlgnn





Breeding Bot}? and Sept. Gill:





Bred gilts all sold. A few fall pigs left.

asset. Mich.





   





' ' fall boars. Am bookingorden

8'8 l”). Palan china for sprint! pigs. satisfaction

guaranteed. G. W. Holton, R. ll. Kalamazoo. Mich.





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

Wled heavy boned boars ready forsarvlce. 2 nice

fol boars by Smooth Jumbo. H. i). Swsm.SchoolcrsitJilch.



My herd con-





HAMPSHIRE SWINE ”dunno...“





lines of many of tho most noted champions o the

breed My herd boar. (‘luytonH Lad. 18233 is a brother of

Look Out Lad. who wasnrand Champion at the Nation-

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

be shipped about May lat. Write me for prices.





 





Geor E. Stu rr. - - - G tans Luke. Mich.

AMPSHIRF. HOGS all sold out. would sell one





herd boar and book orders for spring bocrfigs.

John W. Snyder, St. Johns. Michigan. R. .





HORSES





Percheron Stallions

25 Must Be Sold





Also 2 Imported

Clydesdale Stal-

lions. Spring Sale

Prices are now on





Palmer Bros,





P. 0. Balding, lonla ($0.. Beldiungiit-h.



J AC KS

AND



M U L E S





Raise mules and get rich.

no line ionic Jacks. Jonnye

and Mules. s_l ages for sale.A

lot of big registered Jacks. No

little chess Jacks for sale. All

guarantee Jacks. PriceeSZSO

and up. Come on and see for ,

kourself or write me todc . - ~' ~" "“" ‘

film“ I JACK FAfiM. West Elkton. Ohio





FOR SALE





Imported Suifolk. Stallion Sudbourne Chlnsmuu (3970)

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

oughly kind and true to work 17! 0 pounds. s londid

family and no'better breed of farm and draft orses.

Price $600 and satisfactory gusranty.\l‘.W.Colli<-r Poniinchich.





AT HALF PRICE





Registered Percherons. Big black stud colt coming 3.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Inn 0. l. 0's. ll cluster While:





y

2

10 Oct. and Nov. boars sired by our undefes

Champion School Master. The hour that





23uality combined. All





not say our hogs are

ions to prove it. .

pion boars for Mar. and Apr. furrow.





SON. Cass City, Mich.





1

A Ion

tedGrsnd

has size and

sold any sue. Write and set our

atalogue its free and describes our champions. We do

the best but we win the chomp-

We have 100 sowsbred to our chum-

ARBY '1‘.





sound and sure. Big boned rugged flllv 1! net bred b '

M. A. 0. Also pair of mores 4 and z'» yoursx tild. Com;





and see them.

1N0. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. m I”...





KENTUCKY JACKS and SADDLERS





BIG BONI Kentucky JAGKS and JINNETS. Kuheud

I FAN Oluisti; ::::I.s|0fls. geldinzs and

'. ancy . WRIT! us.

ASK FOR OUR I917 CATALOG.



THE COOK FARMS In: Q’GL. LEXINGTON. S'-





 





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r CHOICE Illlllll ems .0 Bl



Prince 5mm. sired by Wildwo

I O. I. G'- Princelllo lb.3yr. Grand Cham ion

at Iowa sold for 8750. Ship 0. . D.

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0. LC. and Chester White Swine





Percheron. llslstcm. in IS, 8hr





DORR D. BUELL. mill.





F“ :II. and one seven Col '

. ts to show. rite for

ticulnrs. W. E. WAFFLE. Burli 11. Min . ”b





' SHETLAND P O N I ES





Herd established 1891. 200 Head

‘7— to select from. Write Dept. E





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Strictly Ii. '1' with anlity. Gillts bred for Spring

fnno . 1! $13,011” fine t. it bred fo J l iv ‘0’ catalog. .

fax-row. have n few good fslsl‘r’dgs oft... either serx. I e The Bhadyfl‘de Farms. North Bentomo.‘

on flic‘ booi owl" for early Spring pigs. Onn

as n s as n n.

ewmnn's Stock-Farm. Mariette. Mich. R. l. REGlSTERED PE R C H E R o N

> flares and Stallions priced to sell. ImWion invim'

o l c Yesrold boar 2nd prize winnerct Grand Rapids L c- HUNT. BATON R IDS. , -

- - ' fair also sprint: nl ts and hours ready‘ for scr-





 





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Augusta. Mich. .





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Two registered Percheron Stallions. one four
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