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Big Potato Yields.





See enclosed slips for account of. 615

bu. of potatoes grown on 1% acres, and

315 bu. grown on 1 acre, in a country of

abandoned farms—in Michigan we get

from 100 to 200 bu. Why the difference?

When my Massachusetts paper gave me

the yield I wrote the grower, whose letter I

enclose. My home was at Royalston.

'which joins Petersham. It is rocky land

~—stone picking after each plowing. One

acre of good land here is worth ten

there. H



Monroe Co. “MOSSBAC‘K.





The clippings mentioned simply noted

the large potato yields mentioned in this

indulry,’ but the 'letter from the grower

of the largest yield mentioned, which the

inquirer enclosed, throws some light on

the matter. In this letter the grower

states that the potatoes were planted on

land that was in corn last year, when

it was well manured. This year he states

that he used only “phosphate," which he

applied at the rate of about 1,800 lbs. to

the acre. He planted the potatoes in

rows three feet apart, dropping the seed,

which was cut to two eyes to the piece,

about 14 inches apart in the row. The

fertilizer was applied in the drill and

mixed with the soil by the use of a culti-

vator with all the teeth removed but two.

Three varieties were planted, go the large

yield would not appear to be due to the

variety grown. The grower closes his

very frank letter by stating that he is

glad to furnish these details, but that as

he had no idea of making a record yield

he kept no special account of the crop.

He states. however. that he always grOWS

a good crop and has had as high as 32:”)

bushels per acre before, bllt that this is

the best crop he ever had.



Now. in comparing these results with

those ordinarily secured in Michigan, let

us remember that the small farmer who

grows but 11/; acres of potatoes is much

more likcly to give them attention just

when they need it than the. man who

grows a large acreage, as many of our

Michigan growers do. Also, that the

Michigan man who grows but a small

acreage of potatoes generally does it as

a side line, “for his own use” only and

does not give the crop the attention which

it should have. liut this man showed

that he appreciated the requirements of

the crop and bad faith in his ability to

make it pay out by the liberal manner

in which he fertilized it. Notwithstand-



ing that the sod ground plowed for corn



the previous year was “well manured,”

he used 1.800 lbs. of commercial fertilizer

per acre on the potatoes. This takes

faith in the crop and in the grower’s abil-

ity to make it pay. as this fertilizer,

which from the rcsults secured was

probably high gl'adc goods, costs good

money. Not many Michigan growers have

-l‘(‘[l(‘il(‘(i the point where their faith in

the crop and in themselves would cause

them to make such a liberal investment

in fertilizer for the potato crop, even if

they were practically certain that it would

pay them. Yet the Maine growers do it

regularly and to a man, and this is not

the only instance on record in which the

farmers on the, worn lands of New Eng—

land have found the. same course profit-

able. It takes faith in agriculture and

in our own prowess as farmers to do

things the best we know how with any

crop grown on the farm. What our

Michigan farmers want is more of this

kind of faith, backed up by the best

knowledge obtainable from personal ex-

perience as well as study. Success in our

undertakings is largely due to the per—

sonal equation, whether that undertaking

be the growing of good crops of potatoes

or whatever it may be.



Smothering Thistles and Quack Grass.



I have about scvcn acres of land that

is badlv infested with thistles and quack

grass. .1 was told to sow hemp to smother

them out, and would like some :ld\'lce

thru your paper. How much would you

«w to the acre? I want to sow it next

spring and plow it under for fertilizer

next fall aim put it in wheat and clover.

Do you. know of anytéling better? I



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Curiously enough, while hemp was one

of the first plants grown in this country,

its culture is not at all familiar to most



present day farmers, altho it is still

grown to a considerable extent in a few

sections of the country, notably Ken-

tuckv. It is generally grown for the fiber

which it yields, it being a fiber plant of

lhe first rank. The fiber is used in the

making of cordagc, coarse cloth and bind-

ing twine. It is an erect annual, grow-



10 a height of seven to ten feet under

favorable conditions. It requires nearly

the same length of season as corn from



seed time to maturitY~ It is, however. a





very rapid growing plant, some specimens

seen by the writer at the Upper Peninsula

Experiment Station last Summer having

attained to a height of 3 to 4 feet in July.





 





At the Wisconsin station it has been rec-‘



“cmmended highly as a weed exterminator

probably on account of its vigorous habit

of growing and the dense shade it casts

when well grown. It Is, however, a plant

vshich requires a rich soil, rather reten-

tive of moisture for best results. It "needs

a soil well supplied with nitrogen to

make a good growth. On good strong

land which is badly infested with weeds

it might be a good crop to use to smother

them out in Michigan. But Canada this-

tles and quack grass do not; easily suc-

cumb to this kind of treatment, and

where it is desired to follow with wheat

it would probably be better to kill out

these pests by thoro summer following,

using thistle sweeps to cut off all these

weeds as fast as they show above the

ground. If this treatment is begun early

enough in the spring and followed up

thoroly enough it will kill out these un-

welcome plants, as no plant can long

survive if it is not allowed to develop

leaves. -



If hemp were used in the manner sug-

gested it would be impractical to plow it

down in the fall as contemplated, pro-

vided the crop were sufficiently heavy to

accomplish the purpose desired. While it

is sometimes grown for the seed, yet to

be of value in the eradication of foul

stuff from the land it should be sown

thickly as for fiber. Where grown for

this purpose it is ordinarily seeded in the

spring at about the time oats are sown,

from three peeks to a bushel of plump,

glossy seed being sown per acre and

lightly harrowed in. Where it is grown

for fiber it is generally alternated ‘with

clover or some other legume to provide

the nitrogen and humus essential to its

best development. Stable manure is very

beneficial to it on this account.



An experiment to determine the value

of hemp for the purpose of smothering

out weeds in Michigan would be most

interesting, but if the crop is to be grown

for this purpose on any considerable scale

it should be done under conditions which

will permit of the utilization of the fiber,

which is a valuable product. But for an

experiment, on a small scale this would

not be essential, and we would advise

the reader to so try it in comparison with

the summer fallow method of eradicating

the weed pests which he desires to ex—

terminate. and report the results for the

benefit of his brother farmers of the

Michigan Farmer family.



Seeding Clover Alone and with Wheat.



What is your opinion on plowing corn

ground after thru llusking and sowing to

clover early ill spring. Also what is your

advice on sowing clover seed on the snow

when seeding with wheat in spring?



St. Joseph Co. ARTHUR F. CARL.



If the corn ground is level so that it

will not encourage soil erosion it would

be good practice to fall plow and fit the

land and sow to clover alone early in the

spring. The case would be rare indeed,

vsiere a good stand of clover would not

be obtained by this method, and where

there is difiiculty in getting a. seeding of

clover this would undoubtedly pay.



On the heavier soils there is no better

time in which to sow clover seed on

wheat in the spring than when the frost

is going out of the ground and the sur-

face presents that honeycombed appear-

ance which insures a good covering of the

seed. Generally this is a better time to

sow it than on the snow. altho sometimes

it happens that there is a fall of snow

just when the ground is ill that desirable

condition. However, if sown on the snow

the seed will soon penetrate to the ground

in the bright days of spring and generally

enough of it will get covered to make a

good stand on the heavier soils if sown

then. On the lighter soils, which do not

honeycomb as readily by the action of the

frost, it is a safer plan to put the seed

into the ground with the harrow or the

drill, as it is desirable to get it in deeper

in this class of soils.



Fall vs. Spring Plowing for Oats.





I have a field which was. used for cul—

tivated crops 9. year ago, being then new

land. The past season I manured it and

planted late potatoes. The weeds got a

bad start and were never subdued. Now

I find it necessary to sow oats on this

field next year, and planned to plow this

fall and disc harrow it for oats in the

spring. Have also been advised to wait

until spring and then plow; that by this

latter method the weeds (thistles and pig

weed) would not grow till the field was

again plowed. Please advise which is

the better plan, or suggest a “best one."



Rerrien CO. H. G. BAITCH.



If this land is level so that the danger





of soil erosion would not be increased by

fall plowing, a good seed bed could be

prepared for the oats somewhat earlier

by fall plowing. So far as the weed

growth is concerned there would be noth-

ing to be gained by waiting until spring,

since thistles and other weed pests are

not so easily discouraged as that, as

thousands of spring plowed oats fields at-

test by their appearance each spring. If





. THE MICHIGAN fFARMER’.





 





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there is good weather and time in _which

to do it, fall plowing for oats, especially

on new land, will generallyprove profit-

able, Since it will often enable one, to get

the crop in earlier, which in itself _will

prove a discouragement to the weeds, and

generally a benefit to the crop. J





LAYING TILE IN QUICKSAND.





 





 





I wish to put in drain tile on a piece of

land that is quite level ‘and if I get deep

enough to avoid frost the bottom will be

sand. What would you advise to keep

the tile from sagging ill this quicksand

bottom. When wet in early spring the

land is under water, but later I thot

the tile would help. Also, what do you

think of sowing fertilizer broadcast for

oats that are to be sowed broadcast?



Muskegon Co. G. CONNELLY.





Tile can be laid successfully in quick-

sand without anything under them. Any

man who has laid tile will understand

hcw to do it. The ditch ought to be dug

to a line placed at the proper grade above

the ditch. Measure it down so that you

can put in the tile just as fast as the

dirt is removed so that the sides of the

ditch will not cave in. Then, if the tile

are laid and care is taken to put the dirt

over them so that it will press evenly on

both sides of the tile and on the top, there

will be no trouble about their getting out

of place. Of course. you cannot step on

the tile until after the ditch is fairly well

filled up, or it will get them out of place.

But after they are once laid and laid

properly, they will remain in the proper

shape and work perfectly for years. There

is no more trouble in getting them to

work after they are properly laid than it

would to have tile work in any kind of

land. Of course. you cannot dig Your

ditch, excavate it from one end to_ the

other, and scoop out the bottom and lay

your tile as you would in hard land. You

must dig a short distance and when the

last spadcful is taken out, put in your

tile before the sand has a chance to run

in, and then, as I say, you must not step

on them or you will get them out of

place. A little care taken in filling the

ditch for the first six inches will prevent

them from getting out of Shape and they

will work perfectly.



As your land is quite‘level, you must

see to it that you have plenty of fall in

the ditch and you ought to have a good

man, one who understands working to

a grade line to put in‘these tile and have

them work properly. Tile will work suc-

cessfully on land that overflows in the

spring if they are properly laid, but where

you have but little fall, great care must

be taken in laying the tile or they will

soon fill up. Tile will do no good until

the water goes down, but when the water

goes down so that it will drain thru the

tile, then it will drain your land and will

be of great help for late crops.



You ought to get just as good results

by sowing fertilizer broadcast for cats

that are to be broadcasted as you would

to sow in any other way. All the diffi-

culty is the extra expense, or, labor, in

applying the fertilizer. Sow the fertilizer

on the ground and harrow it in and then

sow your oats and harrow in, and there

is no reason why you would not get just

as good results as you would to fit the

land and then sow the fertilizer with a

fertilizer drill at the time you sow your

cats. What you want is to get the fer-

tilizer well incorporated into the soil,

well distributed thru it, and have no fear

but what the oat plant will find it. Of

course. it is an extra expense to go over

the land and sow this fertilizer by hand

when, if you had a fertilizer drill, you

could apply it at the same time you do

your cats and with no additional ex-

pense. COLON C. LILLIE.





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We think this an offer that ought to be

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guarantee goes with it; You can get all

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'. NOV. 20, 1909. .

THE POTATO cnop‘.





 





Some time ago we reported some of our

mistakes in fitting and planting a four-

acre field of late potatoes. The ground

was plowed rather wet. fitted three times

(heavy rains each time), and planted

with hand planters on June 21-24. There

were three varieties, Carman No. 2, Rural

New Yorker, and Million Dollar. The

Carman variety was from seed which was

not dug until November and altho we

could not notice that the seed was frost-

ed and it kept perfectly, it is possible that

this may have been the case, as at least

a third of the hills made only a feeble

growth and had but one or two small D0-

tatoes to the hill. In hills that had a fair

growth of vines there was a good yield,

some hills having as high as nine good

potatoes. The seed was put in a granary

in May or early June so its vitality W s

not exhausted by sprouting, and in mos

cases the original sprouts were not broken

off. It was treated with the formalin‘

solution recommended in the bulletins,

one—half pint of commercial formalin to

15 gallons of water, and left in two hours.

01’ course, the ground was rather hard

and not in good condition for potatoes,

but there were few missing hills in the

other varieties. If any one can offer an

explanation I should be glad for the in-

formation.



The other varieties made a fair growth

of vines and gave a good yield for the

chance they, had. There was little differ-

ence in the yield of either tho I think

the Rurals had a little the better of the

two. There seems to be little difference

in the two varieties.



The field yielded about 125 bushels per

acre. This would have been considerably

better if the Carman variety had not

been so nearly a failure. I think we shall

try five acres or more another season, and

I believe by .being more careful to work

the ground only when moisture conditions

are right and getting the seed in the

ground at least two weeks earlier we can

nearly double this season’s yield if the

season isIfavorable.



We have put the crop in the cellar



rather than take 30 cents at the car. I

notice there are a few frosted ones that

escaped our notice in picking and we may

have to go over them again before spring.

Possibly we shall sell a little later but

think we will chance holding for the

spring market. I hope the editor will give

final review of the potato crop and market

soon. .

Another little problem presented itself

this summer. Early potatoes planted in

an orchard were exceedingly scabby and

worm eaten. This piece had a good crop

of clean potatoes two years ago. That

fall a heavy dressing of wood ashes was

applied. This year’s seed was quite clean

and was treated. A strip along an osage

hedge had clean potatoes tho they were

few and small. Possibly there was little

ashes applied here, tho I do not remem-

ber. What was the trouble? Was it the

lime in the ashes, which is said to favor

scab?





Calhoun Co. S. B. H.





 





VALUE OF ROTATION.





 





Not so much the change of crops as it

is the opportunity to build the soil that

makes the practice of rotation a valuable

one. ‘



Corn followed by oats, and this by corn

again, does not increase the fertility of

the soil. While it makes each crop pro-

duce better than if one was grown con-

tinuously, yet the soil each year is re-

lieved of fertility without any being re-

turned. So the benefit is not in the

change, but in the fact that oats mature

by the early part of July, leaving some

months in which to grow a legume, like

cowpeas, and to apply manure, both of

which will increase the fertility of the

land. Therefore, in practicing rotation

every opportunity afforded to grow legu-

minous crops or to apply manure should

be embraced by the farmer.



No matter how crops are benefited by

a change of rotation, that rotation can-

not be said to be valuable to the soil un.

less it assists in increasing the supply

of plant food in that soil. To increase

the supply of fertility the farmer must

grow legumes and apply manure, and

rotation that does not include clover, al-

falfa, cowpeas or some of the other le-

gumes at least two years and a thoro

dressing of barnyard manure is not a.

valuable rotation.



Then again, the change of crops of dif-

ferent natures results in the different

methods of culture and will also greatly

benefit the soil.



Corn requires plowing. preparation of

the seed bed and several cultivations





 





which, if properly done, assists in im-

proving the mechanical condition of' the

soil. Small grains the'next year makes

it possible to fall plow any time between

the latter part of July and mid-winter

as desired by the farmer.



Fall plowing is beneficial since it sub-

Jects the upturned land to the action of

the frosts. All these varied methods of

plowing at different dates in the year are

beneficial to the soil and could not be

accomplshed if rotation were not prac-

ticed. Rotation in many instances is the

only remedy for some crop pests. Take

the many insects that infest wheat, in

fact, insects that harm nearly every crop.

Nearly all can be controlled, if not de-

stroyed, by changing the crop. The corn

root louse that causes much trouble can

be almost entirely destroyed by changing

to oats and then fall plowing before the

pigeon grass, smartweed and certain forms

of ragweeds become large enough to sup-

port the pests.



Nor is this true alone of the insect

pests, but also fungous diseases can be

held in check by rotation. Blight, smut

and rust can be held in check by a

change of crops, while they 'will multiply

and destroy crops if rotation is not fol-

lowed. It seems that nature demands

that rotation or change of crops be prac-

ticed, and if her demands are not com-

plied with the punishment is adminis-

tered in the form of insects and run-

down soil.



Certain weeds, too, thrive and grow

where but one crop is raised. Cockle

burrs are prominent where corn is grown

year after year, or where corn and small

grain are alternated without early fall

plowing. Foxtail and smartweed thrive

on lands where small grains have been

grown. Even as valuable as clover is,

such weeds as plantains and wild carrots

grow and take possession of lots that have

been reseeded to clover continuously for

many years.



A proper rotation means a variety of

crops, and a variety of crops will dis-

tribute the farm labor thruout the entire

year.





Illinois. R. B. RUSHING.





 





GOOD ROADS‘ IN MICHIGAN.





 





The road commissioners of VVexford

county have completed four miles of state

reward gravel road this year.



The proposition of working the jail

prisoners of Kalamazoo on the county

roads is being seriously considered in

Kalamazoo county. There is talk of build—

ing a model highway from Kalamazoo to

South Haven, via Mentha and Blooming-

dale, also of a thorofareiacross the state

by way of Kalamazoo. Active work in

building 32 miles of gravel roads in the

county, two miles in each township, will

rbegin in the spring.



Gratiot county has completed 12 miles

of state aid roads during 1909, consisting

of two miles each in Arcadia, Pine River,

Emerson and Sumner and one each in

North Star, Newark, Bethany and New

Haven townships. All are gravel roads.



Saginaw county has completed 21 miles

of state reward roads this season.



Delta county road commissioners have

adopted resolutions taking over as a part

of the county road system about 30 miles

of highway in Fairbanks, Garden and

Nahma townships. This road will connect

with the present county road in Mason-

ville township. It has been the practice

in the past to refund to those townships

their portion of the money raised for

county road purposes. The money re-

funded went into the general fund of the

townships. and the tax payers were not

gettirég the benefit intended from it.





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Howl Feed the Calves.





What is the best remedy to break calves

from sucking each other after feeding?

St, Joseph Co. ARTHUR F. CARL.





The best way to break calves of this

habit is to never let them get into it.

If they are kept from each other for a

time after, they are fed there will be no

trouble of this kind. The best way to

accomplish this is to have a calf pen

in the barn equipped with stanchions and

mangers for feeding the calves.

buckets or pails containing the milk can

then be placed in these mangers, where

they will not be tipped over, and the

stanchions closed. The calves may also

be fed any other ration desired in the

same manner, and if kept confined for a.

short time after feeding will not contract

the habit of sucking each other. This

may be thot too much bother by the man

who has been in the habit of feeding his

calves their milk in the pasture or barn

lot, but it will be found to be much better

for the calves to keep them where they

may be protected from the flies in the

summer and the cold storms of fall and

where their supply of feed may be regu-

lated with a nicety which will promote

a rapid growth and development, which

is essential to the profitable raising of

calves. whether for the dairy or the feed-

ing pen.



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Is corncob meal injurious to live stock?



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meal, it is a safe conclusion that the

feeding of this meal will not bring about

any injury to the stock to which it is fed.

In fact, it is loss apt to injure them than

corn meal, when fed alone and in large

quantities. This is probably for the rea-

son that the ground cobs give bulk to the

feed and thus make the mass more easily

permeated by the juices of the alimentary

canal. It is probable that this mechanical

effect is responsible for the favor in

which corn and cob meal is held by feed-

ers, since the cobs are largely fiber and

contain little nutriment. For this reason

they have little food value, but the fact

remains that corn and cob meal has given

nearly, and in some cases quite, as good

results as corn meal at the experiment





stations where comparisons have been

made between the two. Of course, the

best results cannot be secured where





either feed is used as the exclusive grain

ration, and where the ration is so com-

poundcd that the other foods used give it

sufficient bulk the results might not be

as favorable to the corn and cob meal.

The objection has often been raised that

the sharp, flintlike particles of cob will

injure the animal’s digestive apparatus,

but this contention does not seem to be

borne out by the facts where good judg-

ment is used in compounding and feeding

the ration.





THINNING OUT FOR THE WINTER.





There will be thousands of cows, horses,

shccp and chickens kept ovcr wintcr by

farmers that will not Sell for cnough in

the spring to pay for the food they will

consume from now till the grass starts

again. Many of those animals have “out-

lived their usefulness,” and quite {1S large

a number ncvcr had much usefulness to

outlive. Some of These animals are kept

your aftcr your as. :1 token of gratitude

for the good they have done. The lives

of some are protracted in the vain hope

that their last days will be" better than

their first. Some farmers seem to be-

come attached to animals that give them

a great deal of trouble, the some as

some mothers dote on children that be-

have in the same manner. Then again,

the majority of the farmers keep unpro—

ductive and unpromising animals over the

winter for the sake of the manure they

make. Now, it is unprofitable to keep

any kind of stock for this purpose. If

fodder is to bc uscd for manure it is hot-

tcr to let it rot and apply directly to the

land. This course saves the trouble of

feeding and also saves a very large

amount of material that is consumed in

kceping up repairs in the animal system.

Some keep unproductive animals year

after year because no one wishes to pur-

chase them. If animals have no value

in the market it is very evident that they

are unprofitable to keep and the sooner

they are disposed of the better it will be

for the owner.



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“land poor." There'is a still larger ‘nume _'

"her who are stock poor.





They keep cows

that give but a small amount of milk at

any time, and their season for giving

milk is short. The milk is alsd very poor

in quality. If the cows have calves they

make poor beef. If they are allowed. to

live they become no better milkers than

their mothers. It does not take very





many inferior cows to keep a farmer





poor. They use up the grass crop, and

considerable of the corn and grain crop,

employ the time of the farmer during the

winter in taking care of them, and give

no return for all the food and all the

labor they require. Their proper place Is

the beef barrel. It does not take a very

large number of plugs and useless horses

to keep a farmer poor. If they did noth-

ing worse than “to eat their own heads

off” during the winter, the case would not

be as bad as it is. V'But they do more

than this. They eat, in the course of the

Winter, much more than they will sell

for in the spring, and there is no return

for the trouble of keeping them. Sheep

that yield scant fleeces and'produce in—

ferior mutton tend to keep a farmer poor.

The tendency of nearly all dogs, whether

kept by the farmer or his neighbors, is in

the same direction.



No farmer should long remain “stock

poor.” If he has cows who do not give

an amount of milk during the season

equal to at least twice their weight, they

should be disposed of in some way, and

their places supplied by others. If a

farmer has not sufficient feed to fatten

them he should buy hay and grain from

farmers who have more feed than ani-

mals, or sell them to the latter to fatten

them. No unruly stock should be kept

on any farm longer than is required to

get it in a condition to be slaughtered.

As to horses that have outlived their use-

fulness. or never had any to outlive, they

should be disposed of under the best terms

possible. If a horse will command no

price at all, it is then best to dispose of

him at a shooting-match. His hide will

pay for taking off and he will no longer

help keep his former owner poor.



Van Buren Co. W. J. GRAND.





 





NATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.





 





The following National Association

meetings of stock breeders and allied or-

ganizations are to be held during the In-

ternational Live Stock- Exposition at Chi-

cago, at the times and places specified.



‘Saturday, November 27.



American Society of Animal Nutrition,

Exposition Hall, 8:00 p. m.



Monday, November 29.



Percheron Society of America, Expo-

sition Hall, 8:00 p. m.



Tuesday. November 30,



International Live Stock Exposition,

Association Assembly Hall, 8:00 p. m.



, Continental Dorset Club, Red Cross

Office, 2:00 p. In.



American Hampshire Swine Rec. Assn.,

Exposition Hall, 7:00 p, m.



American Rambouillet Sheep Breeders’

Assn., Wool Office, 8:00 p. m.



American Tamworth Swine Rec. Assn.,

Clydesdale Office, 8:00 p, m.



American Oxford Down Record Assn.,

Red Cross Office. 8:00 p. in.





Wednesday, December 1.



American Shorthorn Breeders' Assn.,

Grand Pacific Hotel, 8:00 p. In.



American Aberdeen—Angus Breeders’

Assn., Grand Pacific Hotel, 8:00 p. m.



American Southdown Breeders’ Assn.,

Woo] Office, 9:30 a. m.



American Shropshire Assn., Assembly

Hall. 10:00 a. m.



American Poland-China Record, As-





sembly Hall, 1:00 p. m.



Red Polled Cattle Clulb

Vi’ool Office. 2:00 p. m.



Hampshire Down Breeders‘ Assn.

America, Wool Office, 8:00 p. m.



American Clydesdale Assn., Clydesdale

Office, 8:00 p. m.



American Shetland Pony Club, Saddle

& Sirloin Club, 7:30 p. In.



American Shire Horse Assn., Exposition

Hall, 7:00 p. in.



American Berkshire Assn.,

Office. 2:00 p. m.



National Lincoln Sheep Breeders’ Assn.,

Assembly Hall. 8:00 p. m.



American Milch Goat Record Assn.,

Red Cross Ofi‘ice, 8:00 p. m.





of America,





of





Red Cross





Thursday. December 2, 1909.



Polled Durham Breeders’ Assn., T‘Vool

Ofi‘rce. 2:00 p, m.



American Galloway Brecders’ Assn.,

Galloway Office. 8:00 p. m.



American Suffolk Flock Reg. Assn.

Red Cross Office, 8:00 p, in.



American Cotswold Reg. Assn., Wool





Office, 8:00 p. m.

American Yorkshire Club, Red Cross

Ofiice, 2:00 p. m.





Chicago. 111.. October 13, 3009.

Troy Chemical Co, Binghampton. N. Y.

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GEORGE W. PARK, Manager.





 





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In these times of high priced grain the

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upon the farm. There are many products

which can be best utilized as a stock feed

by cooking. Notably, cull beans and pota-

toes alone or in combination with other

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hay may also be steamed to advantage,

provided the feed cooker is of the steam

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There is no question about the economy

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LIVE STOCK NOTES.





 





Favorable weather conditions and sat-

isfactory market prices have induced an

unusually liberal movement of western

range cattle to market recently, and the

receipts in Chicago have been among the

largest ever recorded in the early days of

November. The marekting of cattle from

the western ranges this season have been

unexpectedly large, and their average

quality has been remarkably good, caus-

ing them to bring extremely good prices

as a general rule, and leaving only a com-

paratively small percentage for the re-

quirements of cattle feeders. The season

is now nearing its close, and very soon

no more range stock will be offered in

western markets, thus leaving the field

for farm-cattle. Shipments of Texas

cattle from the Oklahoma and Kansas

pastures are also over for the season.

The corn belt feed lots contain limited

numbers of well fattenedcattle, and such

small numbers are being shipped to

market that prices are unusually high.

There are plenty of grass-fed farm cattle

that are being marketed all the time, and

these have had several sharp declines in

prices in recent weeks. The pasturage

is giving out in many sections, and

stormy weather will shortly force great

numbers of short-fed cattle of ordina“

to medium grade on the market. A goo

many feeder cattle have been shipped

into feeding sections during the autumn

months, and especially large numbers

have gone to regions east of Chicago, the

splendid corn crops raised in Ohio and

Indiana stimulating such purchases by

farmers in those states. The overwhel-

ming disposition among stockmen nearly

everywhere is to go_into short feeding

for the market, and c.10ice. rather heavy,

well-bred cattle are wanted for this pur-

pose, but very few are offered on the

market, and when any are marketed

they are apt to be purchased by killers,

who outbid feeders.



A great deal of new corn for delivery

as soon as husking is over is being con-

tracted for 50 cents a bushel. and that

seems to be as low as corn is likely to

sell, while many dealers and farmers ex-

pect it to sell higher later .on. Reports

from many sections state that, farmers

intend to feed a large Share of their corn

on the farm to cattle and hogs, altho

where the farmer has no young hogs left

it is the most difficult thing imaginable

to buy and stock hogs from neighboring

farmers. Some corn has been contracted

as high as 5260550, and some is withheld

at present from the market in the belief

that a higher price will be obtained. In

some parts of Illinois and northern Iowa

where husking was started recengv the

corn was discovered to be too green for

cribbing. and work was deferred. In

parts of central Kansas some farmers

have finished husking and turned in their

stock. Where farmers own healthy young

hogs they will make no mistake in fat—

tening them carefully for the market.

prominent live stock commission firm,

with Chicago headquarters and branch

houses at every western market of any

consequence, advises its country patrons

to “make the young hogs fat, thus adding

to your profits both ways. The corn will

make good money if marketed on the

hoof, and by reducing the amount of corn

offered on the market you help boost the

market price for the cereal.” This is the

very best advice that can be given at this

time, for hogs are known to a certainty

to be extremely scarce everywhere, and

without doubt extremely high prices will

be paid for them for many months. The

lack of marketable hogs is well reflected

in the extraordinary scarcity of provis-

ions, Chicago stocks having been reduced

to 38,170,185 lbs., compared with 51,604,250

lbs. a month ago and 58,505,248 lbs. a year

“go, Within a short time provisions have

advanced in price until January product

has sold practically on the basis of $7_.50

hogs, which is regarded as discounting

much that is bullish in the general Slt-

nation. It is generally agreed among the

best authorities that farmers hold 25 per

cent less hogs than _a year ago, and a

shortage of one-third 1n the Winter pack-

, 1 cause no surprise.



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vanced sharply under much smaller sup-

plies and a‘good demand, and several days

ago the best band of fed yearlings mar-

keted this season was bot by. a Chicago

packing firm for»$5.85 per 100 lbs. The

feeder demand, has been exceedingly ani-

mated all along, and high prices are still

paid for desirable lots of lambs and weth-

ers from the ranges, feeders frequently

outbidding slaughterers for wethers. The

demand for breeding ewes has been fairly

good, excepting for some really choice

yearling and two-year-old ewes, and these

are very hard to find. Colder weather is

resulting in the marketing of a great

many consignments of partly fattened

sheep and lambs from farming sections,

and this may be expected to continue for

a few weeks more,, but later on prime

live muttons will probably be scarce and

very high. All aeoounts agree that much

less feeding than usual will be carried

on this winter, for the percentage of

range feeder lambs marketed this season

has been very much smaller than in re—

cent years, and the big feeders are not

going to do much feeding, according to

all accounts that are received. It is es-

timated that from 100,000 to 150,000 lambs

will be fed in the San Luis Valley of Col-

orado, recent prices paid there for range

feeder lambs ruling from $5.25@5.30 per

100 lbs.



Bernard H. Heide, superintendent of

the International Live Stock Exposition,

which takes place in Chicago from No-

vember 27 to December 10, has announced

that only cattle, horses, swine and sheep

which have won championship and other

prize ribbons at live stock ShOWS held at

various places this year will be eligible.

This is rendered necessary on account of

the lack of space. It is practically cer-

tain that the exposition will display the

fattest and best cattle, hogs and sheep

ever shown. A short time ago there were

10,000 entries on hand. and they. have

been pouring in ever since, but it Will

be impossible to accommodate more than

9,000 head, which is 1,000 more than were

Shown last year.



With the close of October the western



packing season terminated, and the num-

ber of hogs packed fell 2,250,000 head

short of the packing of a year ago. The

western packing for the past week aggre-

gated 475,000 hogs, compared with 605,000

a year ago. Total stocks of provisions in

Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Milwau—

kee and St. Joseph on November 1, stood

at 88,335,000 lbs., compared with 113,298,-

000 lbs. a month earlier, and 140,852,000

lbs. a year ago. Lard stocks were only

32,000 tierces, compared with 57,000 tierces

a month earlier and 82,000 tierces a year

ago.

Kansas City has been receiving a good

many hogs in recent weeks, the great

bulk coming from southwestern Missouri,

southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma.

Farmers in these regions have gone into

breeding and raising hogs for the south-

western market very extensively within

the past year, and they have been liberal

shippers of late of a. fair class of swine,

but their weights are unusually light, the

average weight for two months having

been about 190 lbs., with very few car

lots averaging as heavy as 200 lbs.



Farmers in Atchison county, Missouri,

which feeds more cattle, perhaps, than

any other county in the state, have been

grinding their corn for cattle for several

years. Every farmer has a. grinder and

grinds the corn mostly cob and all. Then

mixed unions are used, such as cottonseed

meal. Farmers no longer waste their

corn, but use the mixed feeds generally

and find this course more profitable.



Reports from the western ranges state

that many millions of pounds of wool that

“'ill be taken from the Sheep’s backs half





'a year from now have been contracted





for, and as high as 223540 a pound has

been paid for the clip in Utah, compared

with 18%fiJ19c last year. Range sheep-

men are placing a high value on the next

clip of wool and expect to receive even

higher prices than were paid for this

year's clip.



A beef shortage within another year is

not unlikely, and the time has come for

farmers to feed more cattle. Too many

calves are converted into veal at western

markets, and even Texas, which has al-

ways been a great cattle-producing state,

has been selling off its calves, which

renders the outlook all the more serious.

The range outfits are going out of exist-

ence on account of the country being

settled up. and years will elapse before

the peOple taking up government land

will produce enough cattle to make good

the abandonment of cattle ranging.



A Chicago live stock commission house

that deals exclusively in horses and mules

reports that it experiences no trouble in

disposing of the right kinds of horses at

good prices, these embracing 1,200 to 1,400

lb. chunks, 1,200 to 1,300-lb. wagon horses

that are breedy looking, draft horses that

weigh at least as much as 1,500 lbs., and

feeding colts that weigh 1,500 lbs. and

upwards, with good. deep middle and two

good ends. They must look drafty. The

above named classes must be in good

flesh, but they must not necessarily be

hog fat. Of course, the feeding colts sell

best if not fat, but just in good thriving

condition. Drivers have but a limited

sale in these days of automobiles, and

southern chunks must be breedy, not very

old, and well broken, to sell from $100 to

$135 each, Inferior horses always sell

badly and are apt to lose money for coun-

try shippers.





 





Clean Barns.





All authorities agree that the fight

against disease in the human family, es-

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upon the health and sanitary surround-

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losis has especially emphasized this part,

and has forced upon dairymen’s atten-

tion the importance of sanitary barns and

barn equipment. Any interested cattle

owner can secure valuable information on

barn building and equipment by writing

a postal to W. D. James, Manager Kent

Mfg. C0,, 131 Cane St., Ft. Atkinson, Wis.

He Will send, without charge, a book and

details showing how to adapt his Model

Dairy Barnequipment to any need, either

In the building of a new barn, or remodel-

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Tuesday. Nov. 30th. 1 P. M.

50 CHOICE HEREFORDS

For catalogue write 0. R. Thomas. Secy.. American

Hereford Assn. Kansas City. Mo.

Wednesday. Dec. lot. 1 P. M.

50 Carefully Selected SHORTHORNS.

For catalogue write . Cowan. Asst. Secy.,

American Shorthorn Assn, U. S. Yards. Chicago.





Thursday. Dec. 2nd. 1 P. M.





50 Best Galloway: from herd ofN. 1’. Clarke

and others. For catalogue write R. W. Brown,

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50 Carefully Selected ABERDEEN-ANGUS.

For catalogue write Chas. Gray, Secy., Aberdeen-

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International Live Siook Exposition

UniOn Stock Yards, chioago, Nov. 2Tih to Dec. 10th.





”in, Added Attractions!

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Greater and Better Than Ever!





Thursday. Dec. 2nd. 1 P. M.

100 CHOICE SHE'I‘LANDS

Sale to be held under the auspices of the Shetland

Pony Club and in the Dexter Park Pavilion. south

of Exposition grounds. For catalogue write

Mortimer Levering, Secy.. American Shetland Pony

Club, Lafayette. Ind.

RAMBOUILLET SALE

Tuesday. Nov. 30th.

For catalogue write Dwight Lincoln. Secy.. Milford

Center, Ohio.

SHROPSHIRE SALE

Wednesday. Dec. let. 1 P. M.

For catalogue write Mortimer Levering. Becy..

Lafayette, Ind.

HAMPSHIRE BALE

Thursday. Dec. 2nd. 1 P. M.

For catalog write C. A. Tyler. Secy. Goldwater, Mich.





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when grains and produce are sold by measure or

fguess, instead of by weight—usually the honest

armer.





Who Pays for the Error?





and harvesting, can you feel that you have made

the most of your resources if you do not know

exactly how much you have to market—whereit

came from and how much it cost?





‘ _ ' as in the elevator or facto . Withou '

at the seller’s weights; estimate the amount of your crops-the gainrgf your livetslgolcckueiydy

perhaps, too often chickens are counted before they are hatched. '

in your barn—yard will enable you to credit every field with

its exact pioduction h youhcan keep tab on your feeders and

. . . now—no on y w en t ey are ready, but what the

costing and what they Will bring. When your crops are harvested—you know what? 3:15:

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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR,

CLEXELAND, OHIO. -





Advice thru this department is free to

our subscribers. Each communication

should state history and symptomsr e

case in full; also name and addres of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

the desired information in a reply that

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Stocking.—I have a 2-year-old colt that

snagged his foot. causing the sole to

slough out. However, it has healed

nicely. but left the pastern and fetlock

thickened, which I would like to have re-

duced. F. H.. Allen, Mich—You will find

it difficult to reduce the leg to its normal

size; however, fairly good results will fol-





low the use of iodine ointment applied.





every day or two. or apply one part red

iodide mercury and eight parts lard every

week.





Question About \‘i’ild Parsnips.——Hayei





apiece of new land on which there is some

wild parsnips. I should like to use this

lot to pasture horses. cattle. sheep, and

hogs. 'W’ill the parsnips cause sickness.

If so, to which stock and to what extent?

'M. P., Ashley. Mich.——The wild parsnip

if eaten by either horses. cattle. sheep or

hogs will act as a poison.



Thrush—I have a horse who has the

thrush very badly in all four feet; there-

fore, I would like to know what I had

better do for him. XV. T.. Beaverton,

Mich—Thrush is usually caused by wet

and filth: tliercforc. it will be necessary

for you to keep the feet dry and clean.

Trim away all ragged edges of frog in

order to allow the dressing of feet. Pour

some pcroxide-hydrog‘cn slowly into frog

twice a day; ten minute; after each ap-

plication apply some calomel and wedge

in some oakum to keep the dirt out.



Surfcit Buds—l have a horse that is

covered with little bunches on one side

of body: this skin eruption appears to

cause him trouble for he rubs himself.

Our local Vet. gave me a wash to apply.

but it failed to help him much. E, M. 8.,

T—Iasting. Mich—(“dye your horse ‘3 drs.

Donovan‘s solution and l 07.. fluid ex-

tract sarsaparilla at a dose in iccd three

times a day. His bowels should he kept

open and he should have ollltlt'ml' exer-

cise every day. Apply one part bichloride

mercury and 500 parts water to sore

parts of body or apply one part sulphur

and five parts lard to itchy parts of body

every day or two.



Sprained Legs-l have a mare that

sprained her hind leg last winter.

bathed it with hot water three times a

day for a long time. Exercise appears

to reduce the svvclling. but as soon as

she stands in barn it swells. “'hat had

i better do for hcr‘.’ F. \V. R.. Romeo.

Mich—Give 1 dr. iodide potassium and 1/2

oz. powdered rosin in feed night and

morning. Apply equal parts extract Witch

hazel. alcohol and water to swollen leg

twice a day; also bandage over with

cotton. .



Loss of Appetite—Have a heifer calf

six months old that appcared to be

troubled with sore eyes last September.

Our local Vet. trcuted her. but with poor

success. Her eyes ccascd discharging.

Somc time later a discharge bcg‘un com-

ing from nose. now she rcfuscs to cut.

She has been Very hearty for a heifer

in her condition. T), S. W” llillsdalc.

Mich.-(iiye your hcifcr a tablosimonful

of fluid extract acniian. one iublcsptmuful

of fluid extract ciuchona and a teaspoon—

ful of citrate potash at a dose in feed

two or three times a day.



Young Pigs Scour—I have pigs from

six wccks to thrcc months old that have

scours. Some of them have appeared

dumpish, do not eat well for ‘wceks and

then die. Have been feeding skim-milk

and middlings to the young ones an

milk. corn meal and rye meal to the

older ones. L. B. 3.. Plymouth. Mich——

Dissolve a small quantity of powdered

sulphate iron in their swill or much small

quantity in thcir feed. Onc gram at a

dose will be enough for pigs three or four

weeks old and it should be given three

times a day. Fiftccn grains will be plenty

for a full grown hog.



lili’lucnzzl‘fl’ink l0yel—Thursh.-—l have

a 2-ycar-old colt that, has lit-en in good

health until a few days ago. lx’opt him

in the barn for about two \Vccks past:

fcd him out: and hay: ihrcc days ago}

found his eyes swollen and closed and his

body coycrcd with small hloichcs.





case of thrush of short standing". F.



(i. Ithaca, Mich.~-~Your colt suffcrs from

inilucnza. (liyc 14; dr. acctunihd and TI

dr. powdered nitrate potash at a dose,

three times a day until his fcycr subsnles

lhcn Q’lYl" 2 drs_ fluid cxiruct gentian. if.

.lr. fluid extract nux yomica and '3 drs.

lluid extract cinchona at a dose in food

or water thrcc iimcs daily until he re—

Fl'e should be for] food of a laxa—





covers.



tiyc nature. For thrush. ihc fcct should

lie, kl‘lll (‘li‘flll élllti dry. some (‘rllonlcl

<hoilld ho dusted into civil of frog; once





:1 day and l-oycrcd with ahsorhont cotton.

oukum or a cloth to keep out dirt.





Swollcn Tlocks — Ring—Tinnc — Knuck—

l'mg.-.l hch :1 mare that went lame

W‘ct‘llllYZ both hock< are badly swollen.

She also has a ring—bone on onc hind leg‘

and knuckles on the other ice. but was

not lame, on it before. T would like f0





romovo the ring—lmnc and also cure the,

knuckling. I have applied swcct oil. tur-

pentilll“ and aqua :lnimonia couul parts

and have given her digitalis, gontian and

soda twice a day, C. C. 9., Twin Lake.

Micli.——Reduce her food supply for a fpw

days. Apply to hocks tuiuul parts spirits

camphor. extract witch hazel and alcohol.

Leave the ring—bone. alone and if the,

weak fetlock does not cause any lame—

ness or interferes with her usefulness you

had better leave it alone: however. it will

strengthen the ligaments of fetlock to





blister them with cerate of cantharides

every week or ten days.





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I AVING BENTED MY FARM I have for sale

2 B. L. K. Cow Milken. Complete. Good

as new. FRED. H. BADE. Farmlngton. Mich.





—A rporticn of my flock

Angora coats of line Angora: for sale

Cllelp. EDWARD GRAHAM. Marshall. Mich.

FOR SALE—Three Jennies, one coming 9 years





old. one two years old. and one one year old. For

particulars address. Loula Harmon. Ionic. Mich.





Pair oi Young Day Mares lol- Sale,

weigh 2.400 lbs. Will take one or two cheap light

horses. J. W. SLATER. Traverse City. Mich.





l’EllDliEllDll STALLLDIS. fffihflh‘é“; 355271555335?





on, reasonable prices. T. M. Southworth 5L Son, 3.13, Allen, Mich





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ERSEY BULL CALF born Mar. 13. ’09. 2nd Gulf





of a heifer that gave 8224 lbasof milk in 1 year;





first call as 2-year-old. tine individual. THE

MURRAY-WATEBMAN 00.. R. 6. Ann Arbor. Mich.





MARSTDN FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.





'I'. F. MAESTON. Bur Cl". Mlcillnll.





AIBYBRED Bhortborn Bull Calves For Sale-

Aluo a few heifers. good note: as good no cash—

(Cltlzens Telephone). J. B. Hummel. Mason. Mich.





TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS.





Top Notch registered young Holstein Bulls com-

binlng in themselves the blood of cows which now

hold and have in the past held World's Records for

milk and butter-fat at fair prices.



McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich.





HDLSTEII FBIESIAIIS £22233... fifiyfiififl





 





 





 





B. Rock cockerels. W. B. JONES. Oak Grove. Mich. '





 





“WM... $133155 All“ ] Holstein Battle.





Han more Imported Holstein-Frleclnn Gown.





than any farm In the Middle West. Registered



BULL CALVEB of the most fashionable breeding. 30



fine. registered. Duroc J eney now: due to fax-row econ.

SH EEP.



OTTSWOLD. Hampshire. and Southdown Bums



J for sale from Grand Champion and Sweepstakes





Flock. “909. at Kalamazoo. Detroit. New York. Ver-

mont, New J array. The Clover Blouom Fum, Port Austin, Mich.





—-A f .

HAMPSHIRES lingengaogzg ya;

Ram Lambs. E. A. HARDY. Dorr. Mich.





NATIONAL DELAINE RAMS FOR SALE.





All stock registered. F. L. BROKAW. Eagle. Mich.





PARSOI§..QLE.Q.BRR°WNS





Horn 0 p .

ROMEYN C. PARSONS. Grand Ledce. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd headed by UNDULA'I‘A BLACKBIRD

ITO 83836. one of the best sons of PRINCE [TO

50006. and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit

and Grand Rapids Fairs of 1907, 1908 and 1909. Herd

consists of Ericas. Blackbirds. Prices. etc.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla. Mich.





AmstES~A Dairy Breed of much merit.

' Young stock for sale—also Berk-

shire Pigs. and ten varieties highbred Cockerela.

Eggs In season. Mich. School for the Deaf. Flint.





' Breeders and Importers of high

"aph ““18. Farm class Guernaeya. Write us your

wants. E. dz J. T. MILLER. Birmingham, Mich.





HOLSTEINS





lulterboy Ella De Kol No. 49509 is for Sale.





Also three extra good bull calves. 5 yearling heifers.

8 good young cows. Must be sold before winter.

L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohlo.





—— 300 b ' fl lst db If .

noismNs .3... magnets...angel

etc. I. I“. SHORLVIAN. Fowlervllle, Mich.

HEREFORDS=—a2.ieeir.°.=lm





China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mloh.





HIGH GLASS JERSEY BULLS.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





1. Cheap and Good.





would also like to know what to do for a‘





Choice individuals. Island and St. Lambert breed-

ing. Can satisfy the discriminating breeder or

dairymnn. Inspection invited. Full information

cheerfully furnished. It you cannot visit our farm

at once. write

BROOKWATER FARM, Ann Arbor, Mich.

A. W. MUMFORD, Manager.





Northern Grown Jerse s.

ROYCROFT FARM. Sidnnw. Mic .





 





 





 





BUTTER BRED ”page“

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Sllver Creek. Allcxan County. Mlchixun.





 





 





 





 





Pure 8i. Lambert JERSEYS 323%??? 21%:

CLARENCE BRISTOL. Fenton. Mich. R.F.D.No.b-





‘ GUERNSEY HERD BULL lol' SALE—“$22.5;





lurrze. healthy. quick. sure. Chester White swine

‘ for sale. >WILL W. FISHER. Watervliet. Mich.





:LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS





We have some splendid young bulls for sale. Some

of them an old enough for service. They on from

cows with record: of 800 to 425 pounds of butter last

year. Write for description and prices.



j COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Mich.





 





 





 





RAMS and EWES.



OXFORD DOWN l. R. WATERBURY.

chhlund. Mich.



Oxford - Down 3 h eep “3353.23“



cattle to: sale. A. D. & J. A. DEGARMO. Muir. Mich.





A f d



OXFORD DOWNS fieldfi’mgfir



sale. H. J. De GARMO. R. No. 1. Clyde. Mich.

b d b . d



DXFDRD RAMS & EWES big. .anfipgiffig



prize-winning runs. for sale. Address either B. F.



Miller. Flint. Micb.. or Geo. L. Spillane. Flint. Mich.





' —-A few choice rams for

mum, Fll'fli ”Glam” the 1909 trade. Prices

right. D. E. TURNER ck SONS. Mosherville. Mich.

FOR SALE—Registered Ramboulllets. 80



ewes and 42 ram lumbu.



THOS. FLETCHER dz SON. Chelsea. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





B d f l t d D l l

lORIIEil ll". .nESpF’Hi’.n.éiE.S.i§°m. to: All:

shipped on approval. Rockford. Kent 00.. Mich.





HIGH-GUS





 





Merlnos & Delalnes; ewes shear

up to 241bs.. rams to 301bs., large

size. well covered. 8. H. Sanders. Ashtabula. Ohio.

REGLSTERE Von Homeyer anboulllet Rama

at Farmer’s Prices. Thou.



Wyckoff. Rambonlllet. U.B.A.. Orchard Lake. Mich.

' has choice registered anhoulllet



Log cabin Farm Sheep of both sex for Isle of farmn'

riccs. Ci'iml Phone Augusta. Chan. F. Roster. Angnltn. Nick.





20 RAM BOUILLET RAMS

(reg) left at a bargain. J. Q. A. Cook. Mon-ice, Mich.



Kidhk.Mln..ff -

KOPE'KON FAR"! linlgJ send(Lao-yeag-oldOSlfrl-gpss’lei‘lfo

ewes and bucks at prices you can afford to pay.





 





 





 





 





 





Choice MAPLE LAWN FARM

Shropshire Rams A. E. BACON &SON, Prop’s

Eor Sale. Sheridan. R. 10. Mich.





LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRES.





Have a fine lot of spring pm. both aexou. The type

for profitable pork production. Vigorous and strong

and of best blood linen. Satisfaction guaranteed.





F. A. BYWATER, Memphis, Mich.





 





Boa rs—Berkshlrc—-Boa rs





Two. Weighing 400 lbs. each. one 350. good ones. too.

and Cheap. Other smaller ones. They must go at

once. Guer-cey bull calves. Pekln Ducks. and

Barred Rock ccckerelu. HUPP FARM. Bir-

mingham. Michigan. G. C. HUPP. Manager.





Youn ato k f h i at t

BERKSHIRE: Fair pgize-vglnneligfit filtrtlIe‘iPaaanpriczs‘:

M. D. & G. B. Johnson. R. No. 8. Plymouth. Mich.





 





 





BERKSHll’lE sows bred for spring furrow. Plunder.





Longfellow a Muterpieoe families. Ex-

trn choice individuals same heat breeding on earth.

Alec 2 Very fine young been. 0. D. Woodhury, Lancing, Mich.





BERKSHIRES as: "2:33. ‘21:





strains. C. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac. Mich.





log!!!“ BID“ IEIKSJIIRES.





YCROFT FARM. Sidnuw. Mich.





Two’l-‘icaru. do for full service. A few Gilt! loft. Aloe A fine

lot of fall pig. ready for weaning. Either sex or pnlrl

polka. A. A. PAITULLO, Deckerville, Michigan.





ADAMS BROS. Improved Chester Whites. thch-

field. Mien. won 128 premium in '09. Booking

orders for bred acvu;bcnn mdy for lorvleo. M Rook, W.

Orpingtonflv. Leghorn cock'll. Sicrthorn bulls lady for IOIVLOO.





A 11 ‘lot i i

IIPBOVED CHESTER Willis. ”Jameggfifg

rowed In Marci: and April. Price 015. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Colon C. Lillie. Cooperavllle. Mich.





. Choi



IMPROVED CHEW-ills. .0, $5,223" 513.253,:ng

open. Also choice Holstein Bull Calves. of the bestoofi'

breeding. W. 0. Wilson. Okemos. Mich. Both phones.





nunoc JERSEY SWINE. trust Dela. it





for 15. J. H. BANGHABT. Lansing. Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Ila-til... Mich.





UROC BOARB for sale—Also 1 Reg. Percheron

Stallion sucking colt. gray. weight 700 lbs. M. A.

BBAY.Okemos. (Iugham Co.) Mich. Indpt. Phone.





0. l. C. SWINE—G’§2‘és§‘;o°.§





Chief. the World’s Champion and Grand Champ-

ion 0. I. C. Boar. heads my herd. be is also a

grandson of Tutesy. the World’s Champion now. I

am sold out of spring and J an inmw of both sexes.

A. J. GORDEN. R. F. D. No. 2. Don. Mich.





O I. C. swine of spring furrow. both sexes. Some

. Aug. and Oct. pigs. All of right type and breed-

ing.‘Geo. P. Andrews. Danaville. Ingbam 00.. Mich.





9 —50 READ of Flue S rlu

0' l‘ C S Pigs forSule.eithersex. Barge“.

strong stock. OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nash ville. Mich.





O. I. C. SWINE’S‘EL‘figsex‘TEZ‘EYL‘iE:





E. E. BEACH & SON. R. 3. Brighton. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





OR SALE—0. I. C’s—2 extra good boars. Some

choice pigs. Rose Comb Brown Leghorns, April

hatch. standard bred. at prices that will move them.

Satisfaction guaranteed. J. R. Inakcep. Holly. Mich.





I will ° Poll -

Nov. 13 a... .. PublicSale limm": ”lg:

Spell and Mclpba. the Grand Champs. at State

Fair. Write for catol Have a. few hours left at

farmera' prices. WM. AFFLE. Goldwater. Mich.





mum-cum DDARS—B'gv western m...





big bone, long bodies.

blglitters. $10 up.

yearlings $15. J.C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.





 





 





 





SUllllYSIDE SNRDPSHIRES. Signals? ‘lfilfoz'm:





ling rams of an rior quality Price $40 each-

H. C. ORA TON, Metamorn. Michigan.





' —Good ones from Imported

ShropShlre RaInseam Canadian stock. Also

eight ewes. Willis 8. Meade. .B" No. 3. Holly. Mich.





SHROPSHIRE YEARLING RAMS $16





(sixteen) each. Express paid to quick buyer

BOBT. GROVES. (Shepherd) 1t. D. 3: Pontiac. Mich.





SHROPSHIRES wfgiicgvi‘fig





$10 to $16 each. C. J THOMPSON. Rockford. Mich.

____________._..___.





snail—Phfilfilu srocx mu.





Will make special prices for. thirty dnyu. on ewes

from 1 to 8 years old. all bred to Imported Cooper.

and Manse“ rams to lamb in Much and April. also

on very choice owe lambs. this is to make room for an

importation that is going to arrive this spring.





 





 





 





'L. 8. DURHAM &80N8. Concord. MIc‘hllllI.





 





HOG-S.





l b (H . Sci cted

BERKSHIRE 301°r’éffi‘éiv‘li‘na‘3itsf‘gcmmi m.

pigs.“ ’1‘. V. HICKS. R. No. 11. Battle Creek._Mich.





 





P. c. BOARS—gggi’v growthy fellows,





money’s worth.

WOOD dc SONS. Saline. Mich.





0LAND~CHINA PIGS at a bargain—growthy.

heavy boned, lengthy. Six-ed by a. GOO-lb. yearling.

J. L. DILLMAN, B. F. D. No. 6. Downlziac'. Mich





POLANB-CHINAS‘R’M’HO“ strum, Choice





young boom ready for use.

Also cows. E. D. BllhOp. R. 88. Luke Odessa. Mich.





_ Long bodied. t b d. i

POI-“lb cflm‘s' pigs. both sex? :81.)ng gagesfngcgg

for snap—shot photo. Robert Neye. Pierson. Mich.





' —A few choice young

Poland-Oh'nas boars ready for use.

L. F. CONRAD a SON. 'R. No. 4. Lansing. Mich.





f t ll ‘

P- 0- BOARS:..t:zl.3.all.'uuzt





faction guaranteed. B. W. MILLS. Sultan. Mich.





Lust IMPROVED lonlslllEs-fea‘il‘m”.£





vice. 018. Young sows bred to furrow next a



:25. Fall pips either sex 310. Satisfaction guaranteed.



If you want the most economical feeder! possible.



breed your sows to a Yorkshire boar. Yorkshircc



are sure to be the most popular breed of the future

COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersvllle. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Shropshire Bucks. lambs 310;.





 





V)
Nov. 20, 415509.





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is Easily Made at Home





l‘You can make a full pint of

cough syrup in five minutes by this

recipe—enough to last a family a

long time—at a cost of only 54

cents. It is not only cheaper, but

better than the cough medicines

you buy. Its taste is pleasant-—

children like it. It stops obstinate

coughs in a. hurry, and is splendid

for other throat troubles.

Granulated Sugar Syrup....131,é oz.

Pinex ............. .....2%oz.

Put 2% oz. of Pinex in a. pint

bottle and fill up with granulated

sugar syrup made as follows: Take

a pint of granulated sugar, add

1/3 pint of warm water and stir

about 2 minutes. Take a teaspoon-

ful every one, tyvo or three hours.

This recipe will not work with

any of the ,weaker pine prepara—

tions. Use the, real Pinex itself,

which is the most valuable concen-

trated compound 'of Norway White

Pine Extract. All druggists have

it, or can get it easily on request.

j Strained honey can be used in-

stead of the syrup, and makes a very

fine honey and pine tar cough syrup.





 





 





 

 





 

 

 

 





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M

THE POULTRY MARKET SITUATION.





The trend of the poultry market during

recent weeks has served to emphasize

the importance of getting fowls into

proper condition before marketing. An

unusual proportion of thin, immature

stock and of cull stuff has appeared

among the receipts at all of the large

markets and the result has been a mate-

rial slump in prices. High grain values

are no doubt responsible for the desire

on the part of many farmers to clean up

their poultry yards without delay and

much stock that was entirely unfit for

market has been rushed off to stop the

consumption of high-priced grain. Deal—

ers and killers of course could not afford

to put such stock into cold storage, and

they also realized that a heaVy accumu-

lation of inferior and cull stuff would be

fatal, consequently prices had to be re-

duced to a point which would keep the

receipts well cleaned up. Meanwhile,

scarcely enough prime poultry has been

coming in to meet the requirements of

the trade and stock of good quality has

sold comparatively well. Some idea. of

the premium which good stook commands

over the inferior stuff may be had from

the fact that fowls grading choice to

fancy are selling readily in the New York

market at 160 while the poorer ones are

very hard to sell at 10@11c. On turkeys

the spread in prices is even greater, se—

lected stock bringing 20@21c, with culls

going below 120.



Among the fowls Which have been

rushed to market in such great numbers

there were, no doubt, a good many which

it would hardly pay to feed long at pres—

ent grain prices. However, it is just as

certain that a good proportion of these

fowls would have brot far better returns

had they been held and fed until they at

least approached marketable condition.

These heavy receipts may be assumed to

indicate that the surplus poultry from

many farms has been entirely disposed

of, presaging a shortage later on and an

advance in prices which should enable

even moderately good stock to return a

fair profit.





THE WINTER SUPPLY OF VEGE-

TABLE FOOD.





 





Vegetable food of some kind as a part

of the poultry ration is coming to be re-

garded as essential to the greatest suc—

cess in winter egg production. If this

has been kept in mind when harvesting

the late vegetable and root crops it is

probable that a number of products have

been secured, some of them to be fed in

the raw state and others to bc steamed or

cooked, for adding succulency to the ra-

tion‘ at a time when such food is difficult

to obtain.



Clover is a valuable winter food,

whether fed dry or steamed and fed in a

bran mash. Where clover hay is fed to

the stock the shatterings can be saved

for the hens, or a special supply of the

hay can be put aside solely for the use

of the poultry. This should be chopped up

into short lengths and steamed.



Cabbage is perhaps one of the best

green foods for winter use as it tends to

keep the poultry in good health, and the

fowls relish it very much. Cabbage heads

can be chopped up and cooked with ihc

mash, or they may be hung up in the

poultry house for the liens to pick at.

Cabbage can usually be obtained at small

cost in the full. and they are fairly easy

to keep thru cold weather. The best

way is to pit them. but freezing will not





 





 





hurt the cabbagcs for poultry food if they

ldo not. freeze and thaw alternately with

'cvery change of the weather.



Tui‘nips, beets and the small potatoes

not large enough for household use can

gbe used for poultry to good advantage.

‘Turnips are good as an appetizer. They

may be chopped fine and fed raw. or else

cooked with the mash. It is best not to

feed potatoes too liberally unless the fowls

jare receiving plenty of animal food. P0-

'tatoes are largely composed of starch. so

the fowls require animal food containing





a large proportion of protein to balance

up the starchy potatoes and make a

proper ration.





Onions, parsnips, etc., may also be given

to poultry in moderate quantities if cut

fine and cooked with the mash. Every

poultry raiser having a surplus of any of

these vegetables should store them in a

dry place as his flock of layers will make

profitable use of them before spring ar-

rives.





Indiana. W. F. PURDUE.





 





groundwate-





\.





"THE-MICHIGAN FARMER. .





A §OY’8 suCcEss WiTH DUCKS.





Ducks are interesting and profitable

fowls for the boys to raise. My boy, nine

years old, has :l'ust taken in a. little over

$5 from the sale of ducks and has saved

four from his little flock for breeders. The

feed consumed by them would not amount

to one-half the sum he has received for

them. The old ducks will begin laying in

March, and furnish eggs for the breakfast

table all thru spring work. Eaten with

ham, it would be difficult to find anything

better for the morning meal, especially

for those engaged in heavy farm work.

They are larger and richer than hen’s

eggs, and under good care the ducks lay

each night as regularly as the sun sets

and rises.





N. Y. CLARKE M. DRAKE.





SOME OBSTACLES T0 PROGRESS IN

BEE KEEPING.





 





Thirty years ago half the farmers and

some mechanics in northern Pennsylvania

kept bees, and they were the most profit—

able stock to be found on the farm. The

writer bot his first swarm in the spring

for $5 and in the fall had four strong

swarms—the mother swarm and three

others—an increase of three from one.

His investment of $5 had produced $15,

and he had not spent more than ten hours

in making hives and hiving bees and had

not been stung. The business continued

prosperous and profitable for a dozen

years, and the number of swarms in-

creased until the pasturagc was over-

stocked and the bees had to fly further





 





and farther from their hives to find flow-

ers that had not been culled. Finally in

their desperation thcy commenced plund-

ering each other’s stores, the stronger

colonies robbing the \veakci'.





It is evident then that bees, like all

workers, must have materials to work.

upon. They cannot make brick WllllOllli





straw any more than could the Cliildrcni

of Israel in Egypt. W'licn the foragef

ground becomes restricted, and they have2

to glean over a large territory to obtain

a scanty supply, their “hard times” come

upon them and they neither till the hives

nor increase in numbers.



Bees can be kept to good advantage in

a region where buckwheat is grown, as

the fragrant flowers furnish the indus-‘

trious little workers an abundant supplyi

of the choicest nectar at about the time,

the wild flowers and clover blossoms have?

faded and gone. Were it not that bees

are free commoners, and forage wherever

they please without regard to farm lines

and private rights, it would pay bee—keep-

ers to sow buckwheat at intervals from

May 1 to August 1, so as to have a Sll(‘—‘

ccssion of flowers for their bces to worlg

upon in addition to the wild plants. At:i

all events the. bee keeper should smv all

field of buckwhcat about which‘

will probably yield a double compensation

in an additional quantity of honey and a

crop of pancake grain.



Other causes besides the overstocking

of pasturage, may have had something

to do with the decline in bee keeping in

this region. It may be that farmers who

did not make a specialty of bees, grew

careless and did not give them the alien-

tion they require. It is not only knowl-.

edge but enthusiasm that is needed toi

insure success in any kind of business.

When men first get 21 new breed of cattle,

or a hive of bees, they are quite sure to

give them excellent cure for a while.

Consequently they do Well for a time,

probably as long as the excellent care is

continued; but let the superior cure and

extra attention ccusc and the new stock

will dolerim'alc. Eternal vigilant-c is the

price of success in bcc keeping as well

as in stock raising. I bud u swarm,

which was being \vinici'cd on its summer

stand, smothered to dcutli by a largo full,

of snow which I forgot to remove in time. i

It made my heart ache to find that, some





l

Jilly 1,





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l

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0f the poor little snowbound insects had

cndcavorcd to force, their way out thru

the snow and bud perished on tho way.





Those that remained in the liivc had suf-

focated for want of fresh :lll‘. A hole in

the side of the lich would have prevented

smothering; but I did not have any there

because I wanted to make all the bees

pass out and in of the bottom so :is to

better guard ihcir premises against in-

ii'usion of their grout enemy, the moth.





‘ White Leghorns.





 





A good way would be, where bees are,

wintcred on the summer stand. to have1

a hole in the side. of the hive to be kept}

closed during the moth miller season and}

opened at the beginning of winter. ‘



Pennsylvania. J. XV. INGHAM.





The Michigan Farmer‘

Years for $2.





, (7) 427



oman’s

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ver Man





 





Woman’s most glorious endowment is the

power to awaken and hold the pure and

honest love of a worthy man. When she

loses it and still loves on, no one in the

wide world can know the heart agony Slle

endures. The woman who suffers from

weakness and derangement of her special

womanly organism soon loses the power

to sway the heart of a man. Her general

health suffers and she loses her good

lookS, her attractiveness, her amiability

and (her power and prestige as a woman.

Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., with

the assistance of his staff of able physi-

cians, has prescribed for and cured many

thousands of women. He has devised a.

successful remedy for woman‘s ailments.

It is known as Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre-

scription. It is a positive specific for the

weaknesses and disorders peculiar to

women. It purifies, regulates, strengthens

and heals. Medicine dealers sell it. No

honest dealer will advise you to accept a.

substitute in order to make a little larger

profit.





It Makes Weak Women

Strong,

Sick Women

Well.





Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and

Strengthen Stomach, Liver and Bowels.





[HE GEM WIRE wmnni





Will wind barb Wire as fast as two

men can walk, using the same reels

as the wire came on. When one





 





reel is fully wound you can easily

remove same and replace with an

empty one in a very short space of

time.





It can be used for unreellng

the wire by simply

r e m o v i n g the

handle.



AGENTS WANTED. MANUFACTURED BY





PAUL V. AUSTIN, Attica, N. Y.

Furs, Hides, Wool !





We want 100,000 skunk, mink and muskrats.:We also

buy all kinds of furs. beef hides. horse hides, sheep

hides. wool. ginseng and golden seal roots. Furs

are extremely high. Write us today what you have

to offer and we will quote you our highest prices.





JASPER POTTS. 537 ,charles St, Wellsburg, w. Va.





Retail Price $2.5





 

   

 





 





 





 





TRAPPER use:

MONEY. Copy of Hunter-Trader—





 





Trapper, a monthly magazine. 160 or

‘-—- more pages about Steel Traps, Snares,

Deadtalls, Trapping Secrets, Raw Furs, Dogs, Big Genie Hunt-

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etc., all for 100. A. R. Harding Pub. 00., Box 279, Columbus, 0.





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BUFF Orpingtons for sale.—Cockerels, pullets and

hens, good stock,must be sold at once. Mrs. E.

M. Gray. Augusta, Mich. Bell Phone Galesburg Ex.





 





0R OCTOBER will sell yearling hens in White, Silver, Golden

Wyandottes, S. C. and R. C White and Brown Leghorns.

Light Brahmas, Barred Rocks, at $1 each in otl of 10 or more.





Nothing cheap but price. E. J. HASKINS, Plttsford, Mich.





 





WHITE: AND BUFF ORPINGTONS from my prize-winning

strain at living prices. Can also furnish B. Rocks, Elk

and R. C. White Minorces, W. C. B. Polish, Houdans and

II. II. KING. Willis, Michigan.





 





SILVER Laced Golden and White Wyandottes. A

fine lot of young stock all bred from prize winners

C. W. BROWNING, Portland. Mich;





ARGAINS in S. C. Brown Leghorns. 100 year-



ling hens 61 each, best (lock in Mich. First comes



gets the pick. Order from this ad. Satisfaction.

FRED MOTT. Lansing. Michigan.





been bre din th -

While wyandoues9 tlnuousl; agincgm leis):

A. Franklin Smith. R. F. D. No. 9, Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





 





 





 





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Mortimer \Villiam Lawrence, vice-pres—

ident and gcncral manager of the Law-

I'cnce Publishing Company, publishcrs 0f

the Ohio Farmcr and thc Michigan Farm—

cr, dicd at his home in Cleveland, 0.,

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the third son of Mr. M. .l. Lawrcncc, who

has published the Ohio|Farmer since

January 1, 1873, and the Michigan Farmer

since September 23, 1893. Mortimer

attended the Kentucky Street public

school, in Cleveland, later attending the

high schools in Denver, Colorado, wherc

his father had cngagcd in business and

taken up his rcsidcncc. After finishing

the high school he attcndcd the University

School, on acadcmy in (Tlcvcland. Hc en—

tered the agricultural course in the Ohio

State Univcrsity in thc fall of 1891. Ho

did not graduatc from the university but

took what studios hc thot would be of

value to him in his later work, which his

father had planncd should bc. upon the

papers to which ho had devotcd the hotter

part of his life. Ho was a mcmbcr of Phi

Gamma Delta and Theta Nu Epsilon fra—

tt-rnitics and always took a prominent

part in all college affairs. He loft the

univcrsity at the closc of the school year

in June, 1894. and immediatcly hogan to

work in the editorial dcpartmcnt of the

Ohio Farmer. liatcr ho was transfcrrcd

to the Michigan Farmer. in Dctroit. scrv-

ing in both the editorial and business

of’ficcs for one and onc—half ycars. Latcr

he rcturncd to the busincss office of the

Ohio Farmer whcrc ho continucd to do—

votc his great cncrgy to thc general in-

tcrcsts of The Lawrencc Publishing Co.

For thc past scvcral years ho had been

thc gcncral manager of tho business, and

his administration has bccn markcd by

grcat advanccs and improvcmcnts in

cvcry department. At the same time his

contact with tho outside business world

bro: him other business connections and

he was intercstcd in a numbcr of enter—

prises, but gavc the great bulk of his at-

tention to the business end of the Law-

rence Publishing Company. He was a

member of several of the best-known

clubs and organizations of the city and

was generally recognized as one of the

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER;





Cleveland. ‘He was married at Columbus,

0., September 4, i903, to Miss Nelle Belle

Jones. His widow, a. daughter, aged five

years, and a son aged 18 months survive

him; also his parents and three brothers.



Despair as we may of reconciling our-

selves to the fact, we are constantly

called upon to bow to the inevitable, and

submit to the taking away of our most

valued and most beloved friends, by

death. It is as natural for a man to die

as it is for him to be born; but the end

of the journey often comes far too quickly.

Mysterious death is no respocter of per-

sons—all must bow to it in time—~but

when one has the journey just well begun

and the affairs of life just adapting them-

selves to a smooth and regular running

order, it is greatly to be lamented that

he must lay down his- earthly interests

and pass over thedivide that separates

him from mortal eyes—into the Great

Beyond. ‘Such was the case with our

late, dearly-beloved friend. He had much

to live for, and for him life held worlds

of attractions. Attentive to business-—

industrious. far—sighted. keen, honest,

loyal, charitable, considerate, sensible——

he had built up a friendship that was

broader than the land. and he was cer-

tainly the most universally loved and

highly respected young man whom it has

been our pleasure to know. As a business

man he possessed the rare quality of be-





ing an cxccllcnt cxccutivc as well as a

balancc whccl; he kept things moving

but at the same time, by his genial pres—

cnce and happy manner, kcpt cveryonc

good naturcd. Those who were in contact

with him every day for years loved him

best, bccausc the dccpcr one went into

his personality thc more he would find

to admire and to love. Even those who

might differ from him on a matter of

policy never failed to accord him the ac-

knmvlcdgcment of clear reason and con-

sistency.



Ilc had a rcmarkably wide circle of de-

voted and loyal personal friends His

magnetic nature drew people to him with

a rare power, and once attracted he held

thcm by the same genial spirit that per-

vadcd all that he did. During an ac-

quaintance of many years, undcr all kinds

of circumstances. we have never heard

one person speak otherwise than well of

him. Intensely human, his broad mind

and charitable disposition placed him at

One with his felIOWS in a way that was

remarkable indeed. His liberality and

kindness forbade him to seek prcfcrment

for himself, but he was ever on the look-

out for a way to turn a favor to a friend.

Is it any wonder then, that today actually

thousands mourn his taking? Such men





 





,are rare, and that is why they are so





highly appreciated.



As a husband and a father, son and

brother, he was loving and deeply loved.

His home was his castle; and as soon as

the business of the day was finished he

always hurried home to greet his wife

and little ones, and to be at ease among

them and the many friends that were

wont to visit that home. He was never

too busy to stop and talk of homely things

which he thought deserved his attention,

and the benefit of his good judgment and

advice was always given freely to any

of his friends or relatives who might ask

it. It is indeed hard to attribute to him





any preponderating characteristics, and‘





it would be just as hard to imagine any

situation in which he would not be able

to take care of himself. He was an all-

around man in every sense, of that big

word. In the business, social and family

world he was universally loved and re-

spected. Quick to admit a. fault, he was

even more eager to .right a wrong than

be was to demand that similar action be

accorded him by someone else. He be-

lieved in working in the open, and if he

ever harbored hatred it was for dishonesty

and underhanded methods. No one can

ever say that this man was guilty of

either of these faults,



As an employer and manager of men

and women he was deeply loved, for in





working with thcm day after day and

year aftcr ycar his many excellent qual-

ities were constantly being drawn out. and

he was continually doing the many things

that attract follow bcings one to anothcr.

It was a common saying among the cm—

ploycs of the Lawrencc Publishing Com-

pany that one would bc willing to givc

his right hand for ".\Iorrit‘-." as ho was

familiarly known to all. And this was no

idlc boast, for all who had cvcr bccn

brot into intimatc contact with him

were immediately so dccply impressed

with his many good qualities that thcy

would gladly go to almost any extreme

for his sake. The same can be said of

all of the host of fricnds that he madc

outside of b sincss circles. He was in—

dccd a rarc combination of csscntials.

W'hat, then, are we to say concerning

the taking away of this man. who pos-

scssed such a host of good (Iualitics, who

had. so much to livc for, who had so

much, and so many dI-pcnding upon him?

1V9, can not but lament the fact. Still,

whatever is, is true; and this is one of

the hard things that we are called upon

to meet, from time to time. We all must

go sooner or later. but some of us must

go first. Life itself is made up of a suc—

cession of events, and each of us must





Nov. 2‘0,- 1909.





meet and endure what‘ the future'has

mapped out for us. We must take the

bitter with the sweet. But infdoing this

we will always find a'solace for the bit—

terness, in strengthening our appreciation

of the sweet and pleasant things; and

thus can we make life sweeter, better,

broader—for ourselves and for others.

This is what our departed friend would

have us do-—what he would counsel us

to do if he could be here and speak to us.

And in our memories of his short but

supremely useful and good life we can

find a solace that will at least dull the

pang 01‘ his taking off and an example

worthy of emulation—J. F. C.





 





CURRENT COMMENT.



Thanksgiving is the thot

Thanksgiving. of our-pen-and ink cover



design. The true spirit

of Thanksgiying is not for mere individ—

ual blessings but for the blessings that

reach our common humanity and in which

as a great brotherhOvd, we all share and

share alike.



The plow is the finest symbol of that

potent energy that brings to us earth’s

essential and choicest material gifts and

is entitled to its high place as significant

of the work and dignity and transcendent

importance of intelligent agricultural en-

deavor.



The Indian woman with her offering

signifies the natural wealth of America

and between the plow and the Indian

basket of fruit. appropriately indeed, ap-

pear the words of a typical American

woman. Caroline Hazard,



“And all that nature could command

She heaped on thee, great western land."



A touch of humor like, a dash of spice.

finds happy expression in the strutting

turkcy gobblcr which, as “a food eating

food" presents, as a final equation, the

welcome material good things for the

Inner man.



iVith the blessings that come to us thru

the intelligent comprehensive development

of agriculture, industry, commerce, art.

science. literature, education, progress

and religion, the year 1909 as their one

hundredth anniversary, gives emphasis

to our indebtedness to some of the world's

great intellects, great geniuses and great

hearts. Great. indeed, is our indebtedness to

the rythmic expression of exalting and

ennobiing thot of Tennyson and Holmes;

the soothing, refining music of Mendel-

sohn; the mighty contributions of Glad-

stone and Darwin to statcsmanship and

science; the constructive genius of Mc-

Cormick which a hundred-fold multiplied

our food—producing power, and then the

life of Abraham Lincoln—humanity‘s

hero—sweet exemplar of patient wisdom.

of heroic devotion, of patriotism, of love

and sympathy and truth. Truly

“A power was his beyond the touch of art

Or armed strength—his pure and mighty



heart."



Thanksgiving Day will be rich indeed.

in blessing if it leaves with us some—

thing of that kindly spirit that says to us

——“\‘Vith malice toward nonc, with charity

for all, with firmness In tho right as God

gives us to see the right, let Us strive on.“



On the afternoon



Honor Where Honor of December 15th,

ls Due. next, a significant



and fitting cere—



mony will be held in Memorial Hall of the

(‘olicgc of Agriculture at Urbana, Illinois,

in thc adn‘Iission of the name of Cyrus

Hal] McCormick to the Illinois Farmers‘

Hall of Famc. The fitting significance of

this ccrcmony is emphasized by the fact

that this is the first name to bc thus

honored by the commission appointed to

sclcct candidates for the Illinois Farmers'

Hall of Famc, which has been establishcd

for tho comrncmoration of the achicvc—

nn-nts of man who have rendered excep—

tionally uscful sci‘viccs in promoting agri-

culturc. It is also significant that this

ccrcmony will occur in the year 1909,

which marks the one hundredth anniver—

sary of tho birth of this great inventor.



In that century, the reaper, of which

he was the inventor, has revolutionized

the agriculture of the world, due, not only

to the inventive genius but as well to the

pcrscverance and sterling qualities of

Cyrus Hall McCormick. who indeed merits

a high place among the public benefactors

of his century. _



It is also most fitting that this cere—

mony will occur in the autumn, which is

a season of thanksgiving for the- blessings

which we have enjoyed. i



In the first page design of this, ourI

Thanksgiving number for 1909, the readerI

will note that Cyrus Hall McCormick has}

been given a place next to the great Lin-



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A PIONEER





NE by one the big “schooners” had

0 trailed in from the east, across



the tossing, jade-colored bosom of

the primitive pasture—lands, and had fin—

ally come to anchor in some part that

looked particularly favorable to the hardy

voyagers. One by one, tents had given

place to sod “shacks” and “dugouts,” and

here and there, as one traveled, a bit of

“breaking" or a straggling line of wire

fence betrayed the agricultural ambitions

of some hopeful pioneer.



Robert McDonald and Richard Wayne

had come from Ohio in the same white-

winged caravan, but on that eventful trip

not one word, friendly or otherwise, had

passed between them. It_was the old

story—tWo men and a woman, the men

both of passionate, jealous natures, the

woman pretty, coquettish, shallow, irre-

sponsible. She was not worthy the deep,

sacrificing affection of two great hearts,

but man—like, they looked not beneath

the surface. Over her they quarreled,

breaking the friendship of Damon and

Pythias by the first unkind word, the

first suspicious glance, the first out-crop-

ping of jealousy. And once broken, the

silver cords had parted strands forever.

Strange to say, each looked upon his one—

time friend as the successful rival, and

while Robert McDonald fancied that as

soon as success crowned Wayne’s efforts

in the new country he would return for

his bride, the latter was as firmly imbued

with the belief that pretty, blue-eyed

Dorothy Chalmers was the betrothed of

his rival, and only waited his word to

come to him. This mutual mistake had

never been rectified. because of the

blanket of silence that hung heavily be-

tween them, tho for nearly three years

their small fields had been tilled, their

few cattle pastured, their solitary meals

eaten, and their lonely nights spent,

within a mile of each other. This un-

natural silence was a pail that effectually

darkened the landscape for both of them,

yet it was never lifted because of the

bitterness that rankled in each heart over

a woman’s love—which, had they known

the truth, had never belonged to either of

them—and the stubborn pride that was

as unyielding as a wall of adamant.



With the dawn of the Thanksgiving

morning with which my story has to do,

came heavy, threatening clouds that were

the portent of a severe storm.



“A blizzard!” muttered Robert McDon-

ald, gazing away across the stretches of

shriveled grass to that dark army ad-

vancing, silent but deadly, across the win-

ter sky. “A Thanksgiving blizzard! But

why should I care? Could the world be

drearier? Let the storm rage, let the

wind howl, the snow and sleet drive, the

forces of nature battle, if they will; it

will be more in keeping with my mood.”



He turned and gazed for a long time

in the direction of the one sod house that

was in View to the south.



Never had it looked more solitary, more

distant, more pathetic in its loneliness.

A long sigh welled up from his bosom—

nature’s tribute to the constancy of man,

nature’s plaint for a friendship that had

been ruthlessly severed, but not killed,

by the demons, Jealousy and Pride. Then,

with lips closed, vice-like, and head set

at a more determined angle, he went back

to his own lonely cabin and proceeded

with his morning’s work indoors.



As he worked, restoring to some semb-

lance of tidiness the disordered room, and

washing up the dishes that were the ac-

cumulation of two or three days’ “bach-

ing,” his gaze, from time to time, sought

the western horizon against which was

outlined the newly built sod house of

more than commonly generous propor-

tions, and a newly arrived “schooner.”

He had not met the new-comers yet, nor

learned their identity, but was looking

forward eagerly to the day when he

should make their acquaintance, for

neighbors were few and far between and





 





. BY DAISY WRIGHT FIELD.





he longed for something to loosen the

awful grip of the prairie-bred loneliness

on his soul.



He had ridden by one day, near enough

to see a. woman, a slender, fair-haired

creature, rocking a baby "just inside the

doorway. White curtains fluttered at the

small, deep-set windows, and in one of

them he observed, with a thrill of home-

sickness, a scarlet geranium, far from its

native heath, was striving valiantly to

bloom.



The bit of blossom, out of place as it

seemed in the sod hovel on the withered

prairie, made a sort of color in his dull

life and warmed the cockles of his heart

—-for a. time. Then came the bitter re-

flection that while wife and baby and

flower might, within a few years, be

duplicated in his rival’s home, he mUst

expect only the same dull round of lonely,





Thanksgiving dinner, all by myself,” he

murmured. “I could make pumpkin pie,

and open some of that choke-cherry jell,

(lucky I got that wild fruit by the river

last summer; I wonder if Dick got any),

and I could kill that fat rooster, and get

up a pretty fair cake with the help of the

cook-book that Aunt Rachel so thotfully

provided for me. A roast chicken would

taste good with this atmosphere for an

appetizer.”



To plan was to execute, with Robert

McDonald, and soon he was deep in the

mysteries of cake—making, with the un-

fortunate rooster in the oven. At two

o'clock the meal was all in readiness, and

it did look inviting. There was a white

cover on the table, and the huge roast

chicken was flanked on either side by the

ruddy preserves and jell and accompanied

by a savory dressing. The cake, sliced





 





THEIR MAJESTIES,





 





BY CORA GAINES CARREL.





If corn is King—behold the Queen, each royal birthright bearing.

One in his golden coloring, one in the smile, she’s wearing.





Each perfect in Dame Nature’s form; one life and good health giving;

One in her Winsome loveliness, the heart and soul of living.





King of the field, fair autumn comes each year in gorgeous gowning,

To pay her homage at your feet to see again your crowning.





But to your childhood, Queen of Hearts, each day, allegiance vowing,





'All nations, prostrate and devout,





before your throne are bowmg.





 





 





 





bachelor days. After that the spot of red

in the settler‘s window had been a bit of

fire, eating into his morose and morbid

soul.



As he toiled, sleeves rolled up, an old

towel pinned round him in lieu of a

kitchen apron, his mood gradually be-

came reminiscent—almost tenderly so.

He was thinking of Thanksgiving five

years before—when he and Dick and Dor-

othy had partaken of a bountiful repast

together ‘in a neighbor’s spacious home,

and spent the evening in fun and frolic,

little dreaming of the bitter quarrel, the

cruel estrangement, that was to come.

They had been rivals then, in a simple

sense ,of friendly competition, but ah,

how faithfully each manly heart had

throbbed for the other, how eagerly they

had planned the sleigh rides, hunting

parties, and all the winter’s festivities

together.



“I’ve half a notion to have a real





thru the center, looked delicious to the

golden core, and the egg—salad would have

satisfied an epicure. The pumpkin pie

occupied an important place in a gala

dress of foamy frosting, and the homely

potato, humble every—day companion of

his meals, was glorified by being piled

high on a huge blue plate, whisked into

a mount of feathery whiteness, and dot-

ted with butter. A plate of the latter, a

tiny pitcher of real cream, a plate of hot

biscuit, a pot of steaming coffee—the

meal seemed indeed complete.



Yet it lacked something. \Vhat was it?

In desperation he brot forth from a box

beneath the bed the last bottle of the

home-made wine he had brot with him

from the east—~his aunt’s parting gift.

But still—the miSSing something was not

supplied. As he tried to sit down to the

table something seemed to choke him.

He could not touch the food.



He lay his head upon his arm on the





PROVIDENCE—A Thanksgiving Tale





edge of the table and sobbcd like a child.

The something was missing—a compan—

ion. Not a woman—not a wife—but a

friend; one who knew his moods and un-

derstood his needs. A mighty yearning

seized him to see Dick VVayne’s face

again, with the old jolly light in his eyes

-—to feel his strong hand-clasp, to hear

his hearty voice. The very silence be-

tween them seemed to cry aloud with a

thousand voices. Of his sudden humility

and yearning was born the determination

to put an end forever to the feud. He

would go to Dick, beg his forgiveness for

the long malice he had cherished, bring

him back to the cabin, and then—not

till then—partake of the dinner that was

meant for a feast of love and goodwill

to men.



Thrusting the biscuits, potatoes and

chicken back into the oven, he threw on

his cap, gloves, and overcoat and opened

the door. As he did so, a wave of sleet

and snow, borne in on the breath of an

icy, biting wind, filled the little room.

He had been too busy with his prepara-

tions for dinner to note the progress of

the storm, andan he saw, with dismay,

that the blizzard was in full blast. But

in the heat of his sudden resolve he hesi-

tated not to face the Juggernaut of the

plains, but staggering, half—blinded, to

the stable, got out his pony and headed

in what he supposed was the direction of

Dick‘s cabin.



The fine snow cut his face like needles;

his hands and his forehead ached with the

cold, but he pushed on—on—lill it seemed

that he had gone miles. Still no cabin.

Suddenly he heard a faint cry, almost at

his feet. The next instant his pony

reared backward, and in so doing flung

him into the snow. As he fell, his hand

came in contact with a human face, and

then a well—remembered voice cried:





“W'hocver you are, for the love of

Heaven, help me save this woman. I

found her and her baby, freezing to death

here on the prairie!"



A lull in the storm just then enabled

Robert to see his companion, a man who

held in his arms the unconscious form of

a woman, and a small bundle that must

contain a baby.



“My God, Dick,” he cried, “I, too, am

lost! But trust God. He may save us

yet, if by a miracle. Remember, it is the

blessed Thanksgiving eve!”



Then the awful darkness settled upon

them again and they were caught in the

deadly embrace of the whirling snow.

But thru the cold and darkness their

hands met and clung~pultry words were

all inadequate to express the sublimity

of their emotions, even could they have

been heard above the roaring 0f the

storm,



They lifted the woman to the pony's

back and staggered on, with torturing

slowness, Dick having passed the other.

tiny burden from his exhausted arms to

Robert’s sturdy grasp, where he sheltered

it as best he could against his great

throbbing heart.



They had not fought their way against

the storm more than twonty minutes

when they ran into a wall. A cry of

thankfulncss escaped their lips, and they

shouted glad nothings to each other. Fol—

lowing the wall a few feet, a light burst

full upon them, the light that Robert had

left burning upon his table when he went

forth into the storm. He had, as is often

the case when blinded by a blizzard, trav-

eled in a circle.



A moment later they were inside, the

pony with them. Dick carried the woman

to the little bed, and, taking the little

one from Robert’s arms, laid it beside

her,



“It is our neighbor, I suppose,”-he ex-

plained, as he busied himself unlacing

her shoes. “There’s no other woman

within ten miles, and besides, I saw her

start out walking awhile before the storm





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with my field-glass,

would keep an eye on her.”





recognize the signs of a blizzard.





 

 

 





 





over her face.

amazement, he started back.



“Look!” he cried, “It

Chalmers!"





 

 

 





Dorothy Chalmers any longer,





explained later when ti





on its mother's bosom.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





burst, with her baby in her arms: I

happened to be looking over that way

and I that then_ I





“I suppose, being a strangerf she didn’t

I be—

lieve her husband started for the sand

hilhs yesterday, and wasn’t there to warn

heir of the danger.” Robert remarked, as he

drew back the loose shawl that had fallen

Then, with a great cry of had wrought





is—Dorothy





And he was right—it was Dorothy. Not

for she

had been a wife almost three years, she

all three sat

around the delayed Thanksgiving dinner,

with the baby’s little yellow head pillowed

After the first

surprise was over, her blushes faded and

her eyes sparkled as of old, while her

tongue overfiowed with her great grati-

tude toward the preservers of her life.

The great wall of jealousy and distrust

swept away at one blow, the old friends

found their tongues, too, and laughed so

heartily and chatted so merrily that she





     





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pected their long feud.





cared for either of them. And they instrument with which these observations

looked upon her calmly now, as the wife are taken is called a sextant. It is the

of another—even without envy. She was‘same that is used by mariners to deter-





such bitterness





friend and friend.





to success and happiness in the new.





their own cabin.





As they rode home silently—home, for

both of them, meant Robert’s cabin just

then—a golden silence lay between them.

in a warm and

sheltered valley between the granite hills.





as the sunshine lies





It was broken at last by Robert.

“Where were you going,





“Why, Robert,”

Was coming to make it up with you!”





 





Finding The

By A. R.





' The almost simultaneous announce-

ments from Dr. Cook and Commander

Peary that each had planted-the Ameri-

can flag at the North Pole. the one nearly

a year before the other, stirred the civi-

lized world as few events have done in

recent years, and the subsequent conten-

tion of the last named explorer that he is

the first and only man entitled to the

honor of discovering the Pole has added

not a little to the general interest taken

in the‘gnatter by the reading public. Up

to a recent date the public has been

obliged to depend upon the. published

statements of the rival explorers for in—

formation upon which to base an opinion

as to the validity of their respective

claims. Commander Pcary’s records have

recently been passed upon by the Na—

tional Geographical Society and he has

been awarded a nocdal for the discovery

of the Pole in accordance with his claims,

altho none have disputed his claim to the

discovery. But the public is ever prone

to pay homage to the hero who, single

handed, has overcome like great diffi—

culties at the cost of greater personal ex-

ertion and suffering. Without doubt, and

possibly for this reason, the interested

reading public has deplored Commander





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Peary‘s attitude in this controversy as

most unfortunate. believing that there

was honor enough in so great an ac-





complishment for both explorers. But

the issue has becn raised, and its outcome

must depend, not upon the sympathetic

views of the public. but upon the critical

judgment of the scientists who will pass

upon the records submitted by the rival

explorers, a court which it may be fairly

presumed will bc unbiased by personal

opinions or prejudices. But it is probable

that some time will elapse before Dr.

Cook's data will be finally passed upon

by an American scientific body. since Dr,

Cook's records will first be submitted to

the University of (fopcnhagcn. pursuant

to his agreement after the cordial and

royal reception which he rcccivcd in the

little country of which that city is the

capital upon his return to civilization.

But, Sooner or latcr, and probably before

many weeks have elapsed. his records

will be passed upon by the scientists ap-

pointed for that purpose by the society

:ll)()VC mentioned. But in view of the

great. public interest in this matter, a

brief discussion of the nature of thc cvi—

(lcncc upon which such ctmtrovcrsics are

dccidcd and thc methods by which the

data is scoured by the Arctic explorcr

cannot but be of interest to the thinking

reader.



As a basis for the consideration of this

problem the reader should remember that,

owing to the inclination of the earth‘s

axis to the plane of its orbit, or path

around the sun, the polar day and night

do not correspond to ours. but that at the

North Pole the sun shines continually

for a period of six months and that a

Polar night of equal length succeeds this

Thus at the Pole, the sun grad-

ually rises to its zenith during three

months of time and declines as slowly

until it sinks below the horizon, its alti-

tude being practically the same for suc—

ceeding calendar days. This, however,

is true only at the pole, the midnight sun

just swinging clear of the horizon at the

Arctic (‘ircle at midsummer and marking

the passing of the calendar days with





long day-





 





North Pole.





Farmer.





 





lesser variations in apparent altitude as

the Pole is approached.





Another interesting condition that

should be borne in mind is the fact that

the compass, upon which we are prone

to look as pointing infallibly to the north,

really points to the magnetic pole, rather

than to the true pole. This has been lo-

Bay, and at any place between that point

and the true pole the compass needle will

point south instead of north, and if ob-

catcd to the northwestward of Hudson

served at a point to either side of a direct

line between the magnetic pole and the

true pole the needle will be deflected

more or less to the east or west as the

case. may be. Thus it will be seen that

while the compass is of value to the Arc~

tic explorer in holding to his course, yet

that course must be laid out by the aid

of astronomical observations, by which

means he also loeates his position.



Thus, while other evidence may be ac-

cepted as more or less competent, the

record of the astronomical observations

taken is by far the most vital and rele-





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A Mariner’s Sextant, with Diagram Showing Its Working Principle.





vant of any evidence that may bc sub-

mitter by Arctic explorers to the scien—

tists. who consider their claims, other evi-

dence being accepted as confirmatory or

otherwise. For instance, the nature and

extent of the equipment, the estimate of

distances covered each day by nicthonls

of dead reckoning. based upon the time

the parties traveled, the rccords of the

pedometers which they carried and the

condition of the land or sea ice over

which they journeyed as shown by their

records, as well as the evidence submitted

by the supporting parties and finally of

the natives Who were in the final dash

for the Pole, all have their proper hear—

ing as confirmatory evidence, but from

the. scientist’s point of view evidence of

this character would hardly be considered

to rank in importance with that included

in the records of astronomical observa-

tions made from day to day or from time

to time, as conditions permitted.



This premise being established. let us

then, for the benefit of the reader, briefly





‘ ‘ TH‘E"'MICHI,GAN FA‘R‘MER. ' '



who had been the cause of‘it never sus~

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and each realized, with relief, that he

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between

With the wine that

had come from the old home they drank





With the falling of night the storm died

away to an occasional moan and a fitful

fall of light, drifting snow, and so they

restored the settler’s wife and child to





Dick. when

you found Dorothy?” he questioned gently.

came the answer, “I





 

 

 

 





     

 





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.to'gether with the angle of the sun's as-





cension, as ascertained from the observa-

tion, he is able to locate his position in

degrees between the equator and the

pole.



Now, as above noted, the taking of

these astronomical observations on the

uneven surface of land or sea ice at the

far north, and in the intense cold of the

Arctic regions is more difficult than at

sea. In the first place, the natural hori-

zon cannot be used, as it is not a con-

stantly distinguishable line of known

level. Hence an artificial horizon must

be resorted to. The kind of artificial hori-

zon that is ordinarily used for land ob-

servations consists of a small vessel into

which mercury is poured and provided

with a glass cover or roof, as a protec-

tion from the wind, the glass having

plane and parallel sides to avoid refraction

of the light rays. The person using the

sextant then takes a position from which

the reflection of the sun can be seen in

this dish of mercury much the same as

the reflection of the sun can be observed

in a. pond of water when it is perfectly

still. The angle between the sun and its

reflection in this level surface of mercury

is then measured as described above,

When the sea horizon is used, except that

the angle obtained will be double the true

angle. But one difficulty with this type

of artificial horizon is that mercury

freezes at a temperature of about 40 de-

grees below zero, making it of doubtful

value for this use in polar regions. Other

non-freezing liquids are sometimes used,

and a. mirror equipped with a leveling

device is sometimes employed, but it is

obvious that it must be kept perfectly

level if the observations are to be of any

value, and this is a difficult proposition

at best. Other difficulties are also en-

countered; the breath of the user will

COngeal the lenses of the instrument and

obscure the vision; the silver backing of

the mirrors may crack and scale from the

cold, and the chronometers may fail to

keep accurate time under the unusual

conditions to which they must be sub-

jected for so long a time in an effort to

reach the Pole. This latter‘point, how-

ever, is not so important, for the reason

that the meridians converge at the pole

and errors” in fixing; the exact longitude

are not as important as they would be

farther to the south. In fact, when the

pole is reached there is no measurable

longitude, every observation is a meridian

observation, the sun remaining at the

same altitude, or so nearly so that the

difference cannot be distinguished by the

instruments used, thruout the calendar

day. From that point, as measured by

the appearance of the sun, there is no

north, no south, no east, no west and no

time, as we measure it in the temperate

zone. If a stake could be planted in a

vertical position at the pole, and in the

midst of a level surface, its shadow would

describe a perfect circle about the point





where it was planted. and the observa-.





tions above described would show the

sun to remain constantly at the same alti-

tude thruout the 24 hours which mark the

passing of the calendar day.



Step by step. as marked by their more

or less frequent observations, the scien-

tists to whom their records are submit-

ted will follow the journeys of Dr. Cook

as they have those of Commander Peary.

One by one the observations recorded

will be subjected to scientific scrutiny by

itself and in its relation to the others.

The simpler records of meteriological con-

ditions as indicated by barometer, ther-

mometer, wind velocities, storms, clouds,

etc., will come in for their proper share

of the scientists’ attention. The evidence

of a confirmatory nature will also be con-

sidered in its proper relation and, unless

“the doctors disagree” their findings will

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equally difficult for the layman to decide

the merits of their respective claims. But

the object of this article will have been

served, if the reader is left with a better

understanding of the problems involved

in such a decision.





LIFE’S LITTLE DEEDS.





 





 





B! EUGENE c. DOLSON.

N0 duty of supreme self-sacrifice,

Or few, at most, the longest lifetime





brings;

Not in great dreams our highest service





lies, >

But steadfast faithfulness in little things.





BY IDA BENSEN.





Sadly a chicken stood and mused



Upon the way that he was treated;

And much he thot he was abused,



Since to his pleadings, oft-repeated,

There had been no attention paid;



For corn he begged with all his might,

But all the grain he saw displayed



Was given the turkey as his right.

Turk gobbled corn from morn till night—«



At least it seemed so to the chick——

And grew so fat he was a sight,



The wonder was he was not sick.

He strutted round and looked so proud,



And was indeed a handsome fellow,

And now November winds blew loud,



And frost had made persimmons mellow.

The farmhouse was a busy place,



Thanksgiving Day was almost here;

The pumpkin with its jolly face



Gave promise of the coming cheer.





The turkey- looked around one morn

And saw his master drawing nigh,

Who, as he came, threw down some corn

Which quickly caught the turkey’s eye.

He gobbled it with all his might——

But what was this?—Alas for him.

His master seized and held him tight,

Altho he fought with beak and limb.

The farmer felt him, round and round—

“He is a beauty, without doubt,

No finer turkey could be found;

He’ll taste good when the folks come

out.” .

The skinny chicken learned with wonder

The turkey had been fed for dining.

“0 dear.” he thot, “I’ve made a blunder;

How foolish that I’ve been repining

Because they did not give me corn

Three times a day when he was fed;

I, too, w0uld now be all forlorn——

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Fig. 3.

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Fig. 4.

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" THE MICHIGAN . FARMER.





GOING TO GRANDFATHER'S FOR

THANKSGIVING.





 





BY LAVILLA W. MACOMBER.





 





(It was a beautiful, clear day, that

Thanksgiving when we all went to grand-

father’s. The air 'was keen and frosty

in our‘ little room upstairs, but we

tumbled merrily out at the first sum—

mons, and so excited were we at the

prospect of a day on the farm that our

impatient fingers very clumsily performed

their task of buttoning shoes and frocks,

while griddle-cakes and honey for once

held no attractions for us.





Very soon the pounding of hoofs on the

frozen ground outside announced he fact

that father had arrived with the team

from the livery barn. Mother and Baby

Belle, Ann and myself were tucked snugly

into the back seat with closely buttoned

curtains, while Brother Jamie occupied

the front seat with father.



The horses quickly carried us beyond

the town limits and onto the broad stony

pike across the marsh. A quick turn in

the road brot us to a thick bit of woods

where the boughs met overhead and the

cold November wind soughed thru their

grey-black branches. A moment more

and we were out on the low dipping road

in full sunlight and before us loomed the

county-line bridge with its long, arched

wooden body resting on high stone piers.



“What makes them put the bridge up

so high?” inquired Jamies.



“Huh!” grunted father, “Guess you

wouldn’t ask that question if you could

see old Sugar Creek tearing across this

road in the springtime. I’ve been thru

here. when the flood water was up over

the horses’ backs!”



“My, I'd like to see it

sighed adventurous Jamie.



The hollow, rcvcrbcrating sound of the

horses’ hoofs on the planks of the bridge

awed us into silence—but not for long.

As the team dcsccndcd the opposite slope

at a sharp trot we caught sight of a bril-

liant patch of color on a vine-draped tree

and exclaimed with delight.





that way!”





i!’





"Aw, that’s nothin, said matter—of—

i‘act father; “Wait till you see the sumacs

down the road a bit.”



“liut you won’t let us get out to see

them," sighed Ann, who could not be sat-

isfied with a passing glance and who

loved to pick pretty leaves.



“You shall get out when we come to

them,” promised mother, “and pick some

of the bobs for Grandma.”



“’e now eagerly scanned the road ahead





and finally sighted them long before

father did.

“Now, hurry up,” cautioned father, as





we tumbled out and began stamping

about to warm our feet; “It’ll be dinner-

time ’fore long.”



Sister Ann, who was less of a dreamer

than I, proceeded to gather the. dark-red,

velvety fruit which Grandmother prized

so highly for coloring purposes, while I

stood admiring the crimson, brown and

gold of the falling leaves. Just back of

the sumacs was a thicket of blackberry

canes, and higher up the old rail fence

which enclosed the field. Even the road

was interesting to us, for the soil was

a stiff, yellow clay much different from

the sand we had been accustomed to, and

there were nice deep ruts. half filled with

ice which resisted the kicks of Jamie’s

little brass—teed shoes.



.“XVhoa there, Prince; steady now,” said

father as the team approached a culvert.

“'hen father spoke in that cautious tone

we knew there was a bad spot in the road

and we braced our feet as the horses

came to a standstill. The fall rains had

washed the clay down from the bridge

and left a gap next to the planks which

the animals declined to cross without a

few preliminary side-steps and backings

and a great deal of impatient coaxing

from father.



By the time we had rclaxcd our hold

and were gazing curiously at the damaged

bridge, the' team suddenly sprang across

the opening, leaving us in a tagnlcd heap

on. mother’s feet.



“Vthre’s the state line, Papa?” in-

quired Ann, suddenly remembering that

the boundary line between southern Mich—

igan and northern Indiana lay some-

where on our route. .



“Passed it a mile back; by that tall

tree.” was the disappointing response.

“VVe’rc in Indiana now.” he continued by

way of consolation, “and we’ll soon be at

Grandpa’s.”



“See that long line '0 brush?” said

father to Jamie a little later, pointing

with the whip to an irregular line of;

scru'bby underbrush running thru the’





 





 





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Rain is plentiful—30 to 40 inches—and

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dozen full-grown black wolves there one





winter.” _

The wolf-run was -a. 'shallow ravine,

filled with flood—water in freshet time‘ but





dry the rest of the year and lined on.





either side' with hazel brush and wild

crab—apple trees, extending several miles

thru the pastures.



Soon we came to the country church-

yard, and on the crest of a hill far off

to the west we saw the long line of pop-

lars which marked the road leading to

our destination,

higher rise farther on could see the maple

grove which shielded grandfather’s barns

and cattle sheds from the cutting north

winds. The team went down the long

hill at a swinging trot and swept by the

little white schoolhouse on the corner,

where mother used to go to school.



Jamie tumbled clumsily out at the big

farm gate and slowly swung it open on

its creaking hinges, and the horses clat-

tered by up to the big, white farm-house.





A shout from father brot grandfather





to the door, an almanac in one hand and

his spectacles in the other.



“\Vell, well!” he exclaimed,

’spose you‘d get here so soon.”



Then grandmother appeared and bun-

dled us all in by the roaring kitchen fire,

where we children alternately laughed at

the big candy-covered cake on the table

and excitedly hugged both grandparents.

The kitchen had low, whitewashed ceiling

and walls and served as a dining room as

well as kitchen in winter. The long shelf

which occupied the space over the table

supported grandfather’s horse-pistol and

other firearms, with powder horns, and

shot, and piles of farm papers, all of

which were very interesting to Jamie.

The cupboard in the corner was filled

with grandmother’s best china. and on

top, between it and the ceiling, were

piled choice ears of seed corn.



However, the object which most inter-

ested us was a tiny stand made of spools

and broomsticks which stood by the

rocker in the corner. On top of this won-

derfully made stand was a box of winter-

green and mint candies, of which we were

especially fond.



Ann and I wandered into the front room

and gazed with pride. at a gorgeous bou—

quet of artificial flowers which we had

painstakingly made as a Christmas gift

for grandmother the previous season. The

ehina sheep on the clockshclf, the little

silver vases and bead spectacle cases were

all inspected, as well as the slippery

horse-hair sofa with bunches of grapes

carved on the back.



At dinner time we were delighted to

find the funny little bone-handled knives

and forks by our plates which grand-

mother allowed us to use on our visits.

'l‘hen there was Lil“: nugU brown turkey

and a glass dish full of bright-red jelly,

with thick slices Of dark, raisin—filled

cake and great. wedges of golden pie.



After dinner grandfather told delightful

stories.



“Ever have an ex team!” he exclaimed

at Jamie's question. “Well, I guess we

did. \\'hy, your mother can remember

when we didn’t have anything else to

drive 2111' had to go 40 miles with a load

of grain."



“Oh, my, I wouldn’t want to ride that

far," gasped Ann, who was weary of our

twenty—mile drive.



The short wintry day was soon ended

and we all gathered around the crackling

wood fire while grandfather got out his

spectacles and the big book of l’salms and

read aloud in his pleasant, monotonous

voice until Ann and I were nodding in

the. big rocker and baby Belle was fast





“Didn’t





asleep.



Then came the good—night kisses and

grandmother held the lamp in the frosty

little hallway while we all stumbled up

the narrow stairway into a big warm

room with two big white beds and the

nicest little stove and wood—box.



“Gran'pa said i eould ride old Cap to—

morrow," lllllllllllt‘tl Jamie, sleepily, and

t-;i('ll on.» planned on (unwitting the others

in getting up early to watch grandpa milk





the cow s.





Mark Twain, at a dinner in New York

told a story from his native town of Han-

nibal, Mo. “There are in the world,” he





said. “a good many men like Jonathan

Scarborough of Iiannibal. Scarborough

was one of those men with nothing evil

absolutely known against them who are

yet looked on, and no doubt justly, with

suspicion. It was thot. of Scarborough

that, for a poor man, he ate too much

chicken. And one day the blow fell. He

was arrested for chicken stealing. A wit-

ness was called to testify about Scarbor—

ough’s character. ‘Did you ever know

this man to steal poultry?’ said the law—

yer for the, defense. ‘No, I never did,’

said the witness. ‘But this is what I

do know: If I was a chicken, and Jona-

than Scarborough was about, I’d roost

high.’ "





 





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BY MA’RTHA SHEPARD LIPPINCOTT.





To live .or not to live!



I wonder which my fate will be.

Thanksgiving Day may pass,



But shall I Christmas ever See?

Foreboding fills my heart



With thots so full ofawful dread,

For fear ere many days



I may be cold and stiff and dead.





And men, in their delight,



Will look at me and smack their chops,

As for their holiday



They go around among the shops

And get their baskets filled;



And I—I cannot say a word

When smilingly they say,



“I think I’ll take this splendid bird."





I’ll scent a roast for me

When I into the kitchen go.

For what it means in there

Both Bridget and myself will know.

I do not like the Fall,

I dread to see it coming near,

For then my heart is filled

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plaids too pronounced. Rather, that the

all-pervading spirit be. one of appropriate-

ness.‘ Select cloth of firm but soft tex-

ture, gray maybe, in color, with a stripe

or plaid so delicate that it might be called

a. suggestion. As a hint the writer ven-

tures the remark that black holds an ad-





‘ vantage over all others; namely—it is ap-





propriate for all occasions. However,

the Observance of caution is especially

urged—the cloth must be of sufficient

quality to warrant a fast black. Once the

suitings, styles, etc., have been decided

upon, now will enter the real worriment

—the tailor. The business men of today

are gradually but surely patronizing the

large manufacturers for ready—to-wear

apparel, and judging from their natty,

stylish and well-fitted figures, it is far

from a case of misplaced confidence. The

manufacturers alive to the demand, offer

for consideration the best suitings and

latest designs, and by virtue of their en-

larged business are enabled to employ

the most skillful and highestopriced tail-

ors in the country. Railroads are ex-

pending millions reducing numbers of

curves that time may be gained; automo-

biles are displacing horses because they

are better “speed-eaters.” So when a

man can go into a store and in one hour’s

time select, buy and put on a suit of

“ready—made clothes”——made by the most

skillful tailors, goods manufactured brthe

best foreign and domestic mills, of pure

woolens and silk thread worsteds and

selected by men of experience, why should

not the conditions appeal to and claim a





. mighty number of devotees?





Also, these great manufacturers are

creators of styles—maybe one or five but-

tons adorn the sleeve a wide collar the

prevading cut. a sack, or what not, the

vogue. But they know what it is, “what-

ever it is.” and by favoring them you will

be well groomed. and in the meantime

learn to judge fairly well for yourself. In

short, you owe it to yourself and society





 





‘to look as well as you can, all the time





you can. and whenever you can. There

is an incongruity, when a thousand dollar

thorobred, encumbered with an old,

patched-up harness. is hitched to a dilap-

idated ‘buggy.’ How quickly is harmony

enthroned when a new rubber or silver-

mounted harness is substituted, and now

he trots in the shafts of the carriage.

How like the beast is man. He must be

consistent thruout: a new suit means a

new hat, new gloves. new ties, new all,

sans—anything old, save, yourself. \Vhilc,

of less intrinsic value. (equal or greater

care should be made in the selection of





the little things. For instance. the tin

may be silk, satin or knit. yct quality

and texture are not enough to guide

taste. Dame Fashion demands that pre—

ferment today. rests with the four—in—

hand. How long must the bow, ascot.

etc, remain in the windows awaiting





their cue, we know not. but must abide

the whimsical and ephemeral dictates of

this most tyrannical queen. In all and

with all use common scnse—and a large

share of observation. remembering with

another who said that “In actions as in

words will the same rule hold.” Alike

fantastic. if too new or old. “he not the

first by whom the new is tried nor yet

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* Urge Your Husbon to Move

* * ‘ to the Southwest





Tell him that you deserve an

easier life and a future which-

will be free from hardship.





The Southwest is making more families

happy and prosperous and contented than

any other section of America.





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CHURCH IN THE NEW SOUTHWEST





This church is one of seven in a new town which





had a population of 1.400 in 1905; in 1907, 8.500;

now it is close to 12.111). The wholesale houses do a busi-

ness of over $2,0(I).OO0.00 a year. The. town has water

works. electric lights. telephone—as have even much

smaller towns in the Southwest. There are three fine

school houses, three decent hotels, and all the other

comforts in cities three times its size up north. There is

an active Commercial Club and a Woman's Civic League.





It isn’t a Wilderness, but a beautiful land, with

a climate so delightful that it is a summer resort

and winter resort all in one and all the time. There are no oppressive

periods of unbearable heat; no stretches of cold and snow and sleet. This

is the garden spot and the garden plot of the continent—where men grow

stronger and live longer and women keep younger and healthier, Where

boys and girls grow up full of energy and vigor.





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In the Big. Overcrowded Cities





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with good stores and all conveniences. You





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and put in the bank, so that in a few years you will

possess a fine piece of property and be sure that you will be

provided for in the future.





If you would like to know all about the Southwest, write a letter telling

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Only The Wise See Their Chance.





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I wonder how many women who will

read these lines are sighing because they

never had a “chance?”



Of course, the average farmer’s wife is

contented and happy. Contented. be-

cause, tho she has to work hard. she has

a comfortable home and the love of hus-

band and children. Happy, because she

lives always close to God’s big, beautiful,

outdoor world and is always in touch

with dear Mother Nature.



But somewhere there are women, and

no matter how few the number is too

great, who feel that they are sadly out

of place. They imagine, and perhaps they

are right, that they were born for other

things than to “blush unseen and waste

their sweetness” in the pure, wholesome

air of the country.



Everything they read concerning the

work of women in the “big world” but

adds to their discontent. As tho a home

in the country were not a part, and the

best part, of the “big world.”



“I do not believe these women I read

of are one white more talented or more

capable than I,” declares these malcon-

tents. “And yet they are doing things

in the world while I am drudging away

here on the farm. Here is a woman

making a great name as a physician; an-

other is becoming famous thru her pen;

a third is beloved of all because of her

charities, while here is one, who from her

picture isn’t half as fine looking as I, and

yet she is a society queen.



“I might have been somebody, too, had I

ever had a chance. But what opportunity

is there for a woman penned up in the

country? My parents could not send me

to college, so how could I be a physician?

The editors send back everything I write

because my name is unknown. I haven’t

a cent to give to charity. And what is

the use of being nice looking if there is

no one to admire me but farm hands?



“I was never meant for the life I am

living. I was born for better things. I

could take my place among the great

ones of earth as easily as these other

women, had circumstances only dealt

more kindly with me. If I were only dif-

ferently situated 1 could do great things.

But what is the use trying to do any—

thing out of the ordinary in this dull

spot?”



But do you not know, disconsolate sis-

ters, that everyone who is worth while

gets her chance? \Vhat do you know of

the “chances” of these women you envy?

Perhaps your woman physician worked

her way thru college. Your famous





writer sent her articles to scores of edi-

tors before anyone would accept them,

and as for charity, there is a chance for

that in every community.



If these other women are doing some-

thing and you are not, it is because they

have some qualifications which you do

not possess. Your mind may be as keen.

but you are lacking in tact, good judg—

ment or foresight. Or you may be temp-

eramentally unfitted for any work which

would take you outside of your home.

Whatever the reason, if you think you

were meant for some great work and you

are still delving away at home, rest as-

sured you have overrated your own ability.



Or it may be your chance has come and

.you did not recognize it. This is a thing

which frequently happens. The chance

which leads to greatness is usually so

trivial a thing that only the wise can see

it. One woman writer's chance came thru

an opportunity to address envelopes in a

publishing house at 50 cents a thousand.

You wou.d not have accepted so insignifi-

cant a job. But this woman did and it

brot her in touch with men who saw at

once her capability and gave her the op-

portunity she had longed for.



Again, how do you know that you are

not having your “chance” right now?

Perhaps the experiences you are passing

thru now have been given you to prove

your mettle. Are you doing your work

well where you are? Are you measuring

up to the standard of true womanhood?

Rest assured if you are not, you are not

worthy of anything else, for she who is

not faithful in little things cannot be

trusted with the great.



And after all, is there any greater thing

than the making of a happy home? There

are many things which look greater in

the eyes of the world and of the ambi-

tious woman.



But is there any other thing which calls

for more. tact and patience; more wisdom

and common sense; more foresight and

business sagacity, to say nothing of love

and forbearance, than this same task of

home—making in the twentieth century.

If there is anything else which so taxes

the capabilities of woman, I have yet to

learn what it is.



\Vherefore, ye women who are sighing

for a chance, ask yourself, “Has my

chance come and been ignored?” If you

are sure it has not. take hope. For unless

the work for which you are best suited

is that in which you are now engaged,

rest assured your chance will come.



DOROTHY HUDSPITH.





 





 





 





 





 





PREPARING THE TURKEY.



The turkey is always the center—piece

of the Thanksgiving menu. Other meats

may form part of the feast. but

we always think it a poor Thanks-

giving day that does not give us a tur-

key. Ever since Governor Bradford sent

“foure men out in search of game“ that

they might have, a feast of Thanksgiving,

the turkey has held its supremacy; for it

was then a wild bird which the hunters

of this little Massachusetts colony laid

before the housewife; and no doubt it

was the skill of these first housewives

in preparing the bird that raised it to its

now popular position. Now nearly every

farmyard has a turkey fattening for its

Thanksgiving table, and perhaps also

for other tables in city homes.



Choose a young bird if possible. A

twelve-pound turkey or one above that,

is much better than one below that in

weight. Select a clean looking one with

smooth, black legs. When it has been

picked, dressed and cleaned it is ready

for the stuffing which seems to be its

natural accompaniment.



People’s tastes differ greatly in regard

to the kind of dressing to be used. Some

prefer a plain dressing, others like it

with the addition of herbs. Some prefer

an oyster, chestnut. sausage or celery

forcemeat. A good plain dressing is made

by taking a quart of Ibread crumbs and

seasoning it with a teaspoon of salt, and

a seant teaspoon of pepper, scald a half

cup of milk in a double boiler and add to

this one-half cup of butter. Add a table-

spoon of cold water to two eggs and beat

well, then add to the milk and butter.

Pour the mixture over the bread crumbs,

mix thoroly and stuff the turkey with

this, allowing ample room for it to swell.

Sew up the vents.





It is best to place the turkey breast

down in the pan as this will tend to

make the white meat juicy and delicious

since the juices will run down into it,

otherwise it is apt to be dry. Have the

oven very hot when the turkey is first

put in so that the outside may be seared

and the juices kept within. After it is

well browned, add at least a pint of

water, cover the pan and reduce the heat,

for it should cook slowly. The turkey

should be basted at least every fifteen

minutes and if needed add more water.

Turn at least once so that both sides

may be nice and browned, but be careful

not to pierce the fleshy part of the fowl

and thus let the juice escape. If the tar-

key is young allow about: fifteen minutes

for each pound; but if old at least twenty

or twenty-five minutes should be allowed.

THANKSGIVING DAY AND ST. CATH-



ERINE’S DAY, NOVEMBER 25.





 





BY EMILY L. RUSSEL.



How many of those who read in Long-

fellow‘s Evangeline, “Thou art too fair

to braid St. Catherine’s tresses,” know

that the allusion is to her identity with

old maids? Or, that the term a “Cath-

erine Bowl.” compounded of apples, spices

and a little wine, is so named because it

can be drunk with impunity even by

spinistcrs, who form a respectable por-

tion of every community. And, St. Cath—

erine, saint and martyr, is their patron-

ess, and has the 25th day of November

consecrated to her, which this year is

also Thanksgiving Day.



An ancient calendar gives the following

account of her: “She was born at Alex—

andria, and brot over to the Christian

religion about the year 305, which she

professed with the utmost resolution. Her

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their sacrifices, and upbraided the Emp-

eror Maxenlius to has face for his cruelty;

for all of which she was condemned to

die, by having a great wheel, stuck full

of spikes, with the points outward, rolled

over her body, which very likely gave

birth to'what is now commonly called

the “Catherine Wheel."



Camden says that in his time, reign of





Charles I, that the women and girls kept _





a fast on‘ St. Catherine’s day, the girls

that they may get good husbands, the

wives that they may be bettered by the

death or desertion of their present ones,

-On the occasion of Queen Victoria's

jubilee, when tickets for the ceremonials

in Westminister were selling for £100

apiece, a lady wrote to the Lord Cham-

berlain asking for one as representative

of a class she was sure he had over-

looked, viz., the spinsters .of England.

She got her ticket.





At all events they were not intended .





to be a neglected class in the days when





 





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nov. 20, 19.09.





Careful Doctor

Prescribed Change of Food Instead,

‘ of Drugs.





 





It takes considerab‘e courage for a.

doctor to deliberately prescribe only food

for a despairing patient, instead of re-

sorting to the usual list of medicines.



There are some truly scientific physi-

cians among the present generation who

recognize and treat conditions as they

are and should be treated regardless of

the value. to their pockets. Here’s an

instance:



“Four years ago I was taken with se-

vere gastritis and nothing would stay on

my stomach, so that I was on the verge

of starvation.



“I heard of a doctor who 'had a summer

cottage near me—a specialist from N. Y.,

and as a last hope, sent for him.



“After he examined me carefully he

advised me to try a small quantity of





 





the Holy Church put them under the Grape-Nuts at first, then as my stomach





patronage of St. Catherine.

One of the prettiest annuals, the dainty

“Love—in-a-Mist,"





became stronger to eat more.

“I kept at it and gradually got so I





which bears the could eat and digest three teaspoonfuls.





quaintest of blue flowers, enveloped in a Then I began to have color in my face,





green veil, is often called “St. Catherine’s memory became clear,





Wheel.”





 





THE DUST PROBLEM.





BY E. E. R.





If housewives would relieve themselves

of as much labor as possible in dusting

their rooms they must do away with

fancy moldings and carvings upon furni—

ture and woodwork. A baseboard which

is plain, or which has rounded instead of

sharply defined outlines, can be kept free

from dust much more easily than one

with half a dozen fiutings to catch and

hold particles of dirt. Nor is the plainer

one less attractive in appearance. Just

so with door and window casings. It is

the ilutings and headings which are so

difficult to keep clean and which re-

quire so much attention. If these are

plain dust finds no lodging place and the

smooth surface is easily wiped off and

kept clean. -



To take the carved furniture out of our

rooms and replace it with that of mis—

sion style would be to eliminate fully half

the labor in caring for them. The spin-

dles in a single arm chair ordinarily oc-

cupy more time in dusting than two

plainer pieces. When the spindles are

round and ornamented with half a dozen

or more, horizontal beadings the work is

correspondingly increased, Since each and

every one of these headings, whether

large or small. must receive individual

attention. A plain spindle may be quickly

wiped from top to bottom with nothing

to interfere with the free action of the

cloth.



Take the average open staircase with

its rail and banisters and note the great

number of places which catch and hold

the dust.



Probably there is no method by which

dust can be completely eliminated from

any room, used or unused. .The enemy

is found to invade it in spite of the most

determined effort. Yet by abolishing

carpets and installing hardwood floors a

great improvement will be noted.



Rugs, large and small, may be taken

up and carried out of doors for cleaning,

thereby relieving the necessity of filling

the house with dust. as is the case when—

ever ' broom is used upon a carpet. For

bedroom floors paint offers an excellent

substitute for hardwood, which is at the

present time so expensive. With a dry

mop or a cloth-covered broom this kind

of floor can be quickly and easily wiped

over and the dust removed. Small rugs

or strips of carpet may be placed in front

of bed, dresser and commode.



The case with which such a floor can

be cleaned recommends it from a 11V-

gicnie standpoint as well as that of labor

saving. Occasionally we see a woman

who continues to use the feather duster

but most housewives understand the folly

of flirting the dust off from one article

to settle upon something else. The best

duster is a good—sized square of soft

cloth like silkoline or cheesecloth. \Vhen

in use this should frequently be taken

outside and shaken, not shaken in the

house or even in the open door. VVrLsh

these cloths immediately after using and

hang to dry, thus ensuring a clean duster

every day.



Not until she tries it for herself can

any woman realize the amount of dust to

be, removed from her walls by means of

a dry, clean cloth. For convenience use

a broom which has a cloth drawn over

it and securely fastehed above the brush

part. After sweeping a carpet dust set-

tles back upon it .the same as upon the





where before

everything seemed a blank. My limbs.

got stronger and I could walk. So I

steadily recovered.



“Now after a year on Grape-Nuts I

weigh 153 lbs. My people were surprised

at the way I grew fleshy and strong on

this food."



Read the little book, "The Road to

W'ellville,” in pkgs. -



“There's a. Reason.” '



Ever read the above letter? A

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time. They are genuine. true

and full of human interest.





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furniture. To remove this and brighten

the carpet at the same time, 'go over it

with a clean mop wrung out of cold

water in which some ammonia has been

placed, using one‘teaspoon to a quart of

water.





THANKSGIVING GOODIES.





BY PANSY VIOLA VINEB,





Chestnut Stuffing.———Shell and blanch

the chestnuts, and then boil for a half

hour in water enough to cover them;

drain off the water and press nuts thru

a sieve' or ricer. Take as many bread

crumbs as you have chestnuts, the crumbs

should be fine, mix with the chestnuts,

then add three tablespoons of butter, a

scant tablespoon of salt, and half a tea-

spoon of pepper, a little chopped parsley

or onion to suit the taste. The seasoning

should not destroy the chestnut flavor.

Thirty chestnuts should be enough to

stuff a ten—pound turkey.



White Fruit Cake.——Cream together one

pound of sugar and one pound of butter.

Chop together one pound of blanched

almonds, one grated cocoanut. three

pounds of citron and add to the creamed

mixture: then stir in the whites of fifteen

eggs. Sift in two cups of flour in which

has been put two tablespoons of baking

powder. Beat up carefully, pour into a

well—greased mould and bake in a slow

oven for about three hours.



Apple Charlotte.—Take a dozen medium

sized apples, peel and quarter, place in a

stew pan and add to them a cup of su-

gar, a lemon rind, and two tablespoons

of butter, three tablespoons of water and

a little cinnamon. Cook until the apples

are soft and ready to stir into a jam.

Line a bake dish with slices of sponge

cake, using the whites of an egg to join

the slices together, dust over with sugar;

then pour in the apples. Cover with a

meringue made out of sugar and the

Whites-bf eggs. P1. in the oven for

just a moment. Serve with cream or

sauce.



Apple and Nut Salad.—-Choose large.

tart, red apples; cut off the tops and

scoop out the inside. Cut the flesh into

small pieces and mix with an equal

amount of nut meats, either hickory or

walnut. and just before3 serving stir in a

mayonnaise dressing and fill into the ap-





THE ' MICHIGAN FARMER.





ple cups. Place on the tops and serve

the apple oups on lettuce leaves.



Mince Pies.—Boil two pounds of tender

beef and chop fine, add one pound of cold

boiled tongue, and two pounds of beef

suet, freed from membrane, and chopped.

Pare and core enough tart apples to make

two pounds, chop fine. Wash and rub

dry two pounds of currants, and stone

two pounds of raisins and soak in a. cup

of sweet boiled-down cider. Chop to—

gether a half-pound of citron, an eighth

of a pound of orange and lemon peel, add

juice of two lemons and two oranges;

two pounds of sugar, a half teaspoon

each of cinnamon, cloves, allspice and

mace, a nutmeg, grated. Mix all the in-

gredients well together. A glass of cur-

rant jelly will add to the flavor. If a

cupful of cider does not moisten the

mincemeat enough, then add a little

more. The mixture will be all the better

if it stands a day or so before use.



Cranberry and Raisin Sauce.—Put a

cup of water in a saucepan and let an

orange peel simmer in it until tender,

remove the peel and add a cup of seeded

raisins, let these simmer until tender,

then add a quart of cranberries and the

juice .of an orange. Add a little more

water and let cook until the cranberries

pop, then add a pound of sugar, boil until

the required thickness.





THE TURKEY’S THANKSGIVING

CONUNDRUM.





 





The kitchen shelves were loaded with

pumpkin-pies and mince;



There was jelly in the pantry. and pre-

serves of peach and quince.



There were nuts and apples ready, and

the cakes were large and nice.



And the whole, farmhouse was fragrant

with the smell of cloves and spice.





Farmer Jones went to the woodshed,

where the brand new uxc was laid.



He picked it up hulf«smiling as he fell.

the, shining blade. .



Then a turkey trotted up, so fat that he

could hardly wobble:



He shook his old red head and cried out,

“Gobble, gobble, gobble!"



Said the former, “llo you know what day

tomorrow‘s goin’ to be?"



And the turkey—gobbler gobbled

“Don‘t ax me.”





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Prize-Winning Suggestions for Christmas Gifts.





A DAINTY DUSTING CAP.





 





(First Prize).

BY GERTRUDE MOREHEAD.



A dust cap makes

a pretty and inex-

pensive present and

a useful one, as

well. Use white

Indian linen, cut in

a circular pattern.

like the illustration.

and make it twenty-

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diameter. A luck is taken in it about

two inches from the edge for inserting a

rubber cord. Luce insertion is sewed

around the edge and :1 pretty bow of

pink ribbon fastened a little to one side.

of the front. It is handy to wear when

sweeping and keeps the dust from the

hair. It can be made of colored goods

but a white one is more easily laundered.





A USEFUL AND HANDY WORK TABLE.





 





 





 





 





 





 





A MATCH HOLDER.





(Third Prize).

BY MISS ANNA WAGNER.





Simple and easy

to make, yct al-

ways useful, is this

match-holder. Get

a small egg cup,

(for 5 cents), and

a wire egg—beater,

(also 5 cents), then

get narrow ribbon

of a dainty color.

Fasten the egg cup

in the center of the

beater, where the

X is marked in the

illustration, with

the. ribbon, leaving

a small bow on

each





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of the meshes of

the beater, making

a very pretty back-

ground. Tie a bow

on the handle, and one at the. top to hang

it up with. A child can easily make this

handy little present.



(Second Prize).





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BY MRS. \VM. S'I‘ROUP.





This work stand is quite simple and

can be made ornamental also. It is very

handy to set by a machine while. one is

sewing. The top of the stand is made

of one-inch board, twelve inches in

diameter. This is covered with colored

cambric, and finished around the edge

with black braid. In the centre is a pin

cushion, tacked to the top by four brass

headed tacks. Six three-penny nails are





 





driven in about half way. and placed an

inch and a half apart. These are to put

spools of thread over. The legs can be

made of three round window sticks, or

broom handles, thirty inches long, painted

black. Secure a round work basket, that

will fit inside of the legs and tie it in

place by bows of ribbon the same color

as the cambric used for the top. This

stand can also be made square, using a.

square basket.



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WHY THE WILLIAMS’ GIRLS

- LEARNED TO COOK.





(A Thanksgiving story).





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BY MARY FOSTER SNIDER.



Of the five bright, pretty daughters

who made the sunshine of the Williams’

home, only the two elder ones, Minnie and

Irene, knew anything about cooking. The

three younger ones were still attending

school and there had seemed no actual

necessity for their assistance up to the

time Gwen, the baby, had reached her

fourteenth birthday, 'but as their cir-

cumstances made it desirable for the fam-

ily to live without outside help, Mrs. Wil-

liams had been rather worried for some

time by the pronounced aversion of her

three school girls to even the smallest

task in the form of kitchen work.



Early in November, Mr. Williams an-

nounced at the breakfast table, one morn—

ing, that, altho it was their turn to invite

the family connections for Thanksgiving,

he had determined not to allow it, unless

he was assured the work of preparing

and serving the dinner would be shared

equally by each one of his children.



“Your mother, Minnie and Irene, are

always completely worn out after one of

these big gatherings,” he said, resolutely,

“and you younger girls are quite old

enough to take your part in the work.

You are really growing to be—well, de-

cidedly idle, to say the least, and not as

considerate as you should be. What do

y0u say about it? Are we to forego the

dinner this year?”



"Nonsense, Daddy,” Gwen said, with a

babyish pout. “We can just as well hire

someone to help as not. We girls have

enough to do with our studies, I think.”



"Of course we might hire someone to

help, “her father returned smilingly. “But

the cooking might not be as satisfactory,

and with five daughters at home there

seems no necessity for it. What do you

say, Mother?”



“I think you are right, as usual,” his

wife assented, pleasantly. “Of course,

we do not wish to encroach upon the

children’s study hours, still, they should

learn to keep house and cook. Minnie

and Irene were quite expert before they

were as old as Gwen, and without neg-

lecting school either.”



”That’s the very reason we’re not in

it,” Daisy said pcttishly. “\Vhy should

we be bothered until we are thru school,

when Minnie and Irene give you all the

help you need, Mother?”



“To make you a little more unselfish,

for one thing,” her father returned dryly,

before her mother could answer. “I ob-

serve that you have plenty of time for

every amusement that is going on, and

a good deal of visiting back and forth

with our neighbors. No. girlies, I don't

wish to seem hard, but you must take

your fair share in the kitchen work after

this. I intend your mother to retire be-

fore long and take life easy for the rest

of her days, and you must all help to

make it so.”



“What will you

married and away?”

pouting a little.



“Get her the best trained servant to be

found, of course. In the meantime I wish

you to each become as good a housekeeper

as she is, before any idea of marriage

comes into your nonsensical little heads.

Gwen, a baby like you to make such a

speech! It is absurd.” He laughed amus-

cdly, and Gwen blushed and drooped

her head for a minute. “IVell,” he said,

rising from the table, “you can think

it over all day and let Inc know your de-

cision tonight. Remember, however, if

you decide to have the dinner, it must be

quite as good a one as usual, and you will

require to practice on your dishes a. good

many days beforcham .”



When he entered the house in the eve-

ning Gwen rushed into his arms in a

pretty tumult. “Dearest, wisest of Dad-

dies,” she exclaimed merrily, we have

been discussing you and your decision

most of the day. As if we could not see

thru you! But we have all decided to

have that dinner and to make it the very

best one you have, ever eaten. We are

each going to take some special course

and practice on it between now and

Thanksgiving. I’m to make the salads,

dressings and all! That’s pretty difficult,

you know, but I mean to succeed. Daisy

is going to make the soup and something

dainty to serve with it, and Laura is to

make the dessert. All the other things

Minnie and Irene have ,promised to cook,

but we are all to combine in making the.

house and the table pretty. Now, you

won’t think us such horrid, disagreeable

girls any more, will you?” She was quite

out of breath and Mr. Williams laughed

as he pinched her soft cheek with tender

fingers.



“It is just because I do not wish you





do when we are all

Gwen asked, still





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to become ‘horrid, disagreeable girls’ that





I have at last interfered in your mother’s

domain. She and the‘elder girls are too

tender of my babies—they must bear their

share of the household burdens from this

on, or they will not grow into sweet, un-

selfish womanhood." He had his arms

around all three of his “babies” now and

they were paying earnest attention to

his little lecture. They were at heart

sweet—natured and lovable girls and not

entirely to blame for their careless and

selfish ways. Both parents were glad-

dened to observe how earnestly they

strove to overcome their tendencies to

self-indulgence after this little “talk.”



Many were the soups, salads and fancy

desserts served in the Williams' household

from that time until Thanksgiving. Some

of them were quite sufficiently delicious

to have been prepared by a cook of expe-

rience and none of them were really un-

palatable. Each special chef declared

she must experiment to discover the dish

that would be most enjoyable for the

holiday feast and their mother gave them

carte blanch with materials. When the

eventful day arrived sixteen happy per-

sons were assembled around the VVil-

liams’ dining table, and Mr. and Mrs.

Williams both glowed with pride as one

delicious dish after another was served

to their guests. For the first [time in

many years the happy mother knew what

it was to preside at her own Thanksgiv-

ing table without being too miserably tired

to care whether she herself partook of the

feast or not, and she enjoyed it all quite

as well as the most delighted or their

guests.



Gwen resurrected the discarded indi—

vidual butter “pats,” and used them to

hold salted nuts and olives at each cover.

They made dainty receptacles and saved

trouble in passing. Small cup-shaped

sponge cakes were hollowed out for the

ice cream, a spoonful of preserved pine-

apple put in the bottom of each, then

they were filled up with the cream, and

a little of the syrup mixed with chopped

walnut meats sprinkled over the top.



The table was simply but charmingly

decorated. The centerpiece was the fav-

orite Thanksgiving basket formed from

a polished pumpkin shell and filled with

the richest hued and most delicious fruits

to be obtained. The basket rested on an

oblong mat of gray green moss with bit-

ter sweet berries scattered over it. Daisy

had made dainty and delicious little bas-

kets of freshly popped corn stuck together

with hot maple syrup cooked to the candy

stage. These were really more like sau-

cers than baskets but little handles of

candied orange, straws were fastened to

them and the proud little manufacturer

preferred to call them baskets. They

were filled with tiny delicious mint drops

in red, yellow and white, made by Irene.





 





THIS WOMAN TELLS HOW SHE

CURED HER HUSBAND’S

JEALOUSY,





 





Editor “’oman's Dept.:—In reading the

article by “Elisabeth,” in last week’s

Michigan Farmer, on “Jealousy,” I took

note of a woman who asks for advice

from other women, on how to treat her

jealous husband. My husband was once

extremely jealous and I cured him by

trying to never speak to others, except

in his presence, and to speak only about

what is good of him. Praise him in ev-

erything, even evil ways, paint them over

and have others think he meant good.

Never tell him about his faults, nor even

let him know that you think he has any

faults. \Vith an earnest heart pray for

love, patience and kindness, and it will

surely come to you. If he is an indus-

trious man, tell your neighbors of it in

his presence. Teach the children to love

him. Never allow them to repeat any-

thing disagreeable about him, always be

cheerful in his presence and speak about

pleasant things. It will encourage him

to be pleasant and will give you a Chance

to say kind things about him, ,



I know this is a hard way, but it is a

beautiful way, and the only way anyone

can gain happiness. Have only such

company to whom you have spoken well

of him, in his presence, and those who

will be nice to him. If you gain his

love that way, by and by he will have

friends, as well as you. I have gained

my husband’s love in that way, and now

I have a happy home and can have as

Inuch company as I can find time to

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The highest medical authority ‘ . A





NOV. 20, 1909.





on foods,

Sir James Crichton Browne, LL. D.— F. R. S.





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gives the (best reasons for eating more





uaker Oats]





In an article published in the

Youth’s Companion of Septem-

ber 23rd, 1909, Dr. Browne, the

great medical authority on

foods, says, about brain and

muscle building——





HThere is one kind of food

that seems to me of marked





value as a food to the brain and





to the whole body throughout

childhood and adolescence

(youth), and that is oatmeal.





HOats are the most nutritious

of all the cereals, being richer

in fats, organic phosphorus and

lecithins.”





He says oatmeal is gaining

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as the mainstay of the Scottish

laborer’s diet and says it pro-





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His experiments prove that

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Oats not only furnishes the best

food for the human being, but

eating it strengthens and en-

larges the thyroid gland—this

gland is intimately connected

with the nourishing processes

of the body.



In conclusion he says-



HIt seems probable therefore

that the bulk and brawniness of

the Northerners (meaning the

Scotch) has been in some

measure due to the stimulation

of the thyroid gland by oatmeal

porridge in childhood.”



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material prosperity, as that of Lincoln

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he was of the humblest origin, yet at-

tained to great achievement.



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manner, and the farmers- of Michigan

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the farmer so that the result has been a

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—-——-—__‘_

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





Foreign.





Turkish envoys representin the new

Sultan of Turkey arrived in Washington

Sunday. The ambassy consists of Zia.

Pasha and Col: Aziz Bey.



The Persian parliament opened Monday

at Teheran in the presence of the Shah,

royal princes and many of the diplomatic

representatives. '



Martial law has been declared thruout

Argentine Republic for 60 days, owing to

the spread of the anarchistic propaganda.

The assassination of Senor Falcon, chief

of police of Buenos Ayrcs. and his secre-

tary, was the climax which moved the

federal executive to issue the drastic

proclamation. '



It is reported in Paris that Russia has

sold the East China railway to Japan for

30,000,000 roubles. Russia reserves the

rlght to use the line for the conveyance

of troops.



.The British government is planning to

give India a partial home rule under an

embryonic constitution which will admit

the natives to an important share in the

legislation of the country.



Dr. Owen. a Detroitcr, who claims to

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writer and prove to thc world that he

was the author of Shukcspcareun plays

and also contribute knowlcdge ihnt will

clizingo the rccordcd history of England

during the Elisabethan period.



National.





A New York publication of standing

charges that the government civil service

department has been under the control

of the sugar trust in so far as the service

could be used to further; the interests of

the trust and help it to overcome compo-

tition.



The steamer Hoyt went aground in a

storm off Bayficld, Wis, with a cargo of

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tempts have been made.



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besides thirty lives, is around $7,000,000

as the result of the storm which recently

swept over the island, and the floods

that accompanied it,



Nearly 400 men were entombcd in a.

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day. It is believed that the fire has bccn

extinguished but the air of the mine is

ihot to be uninhabitable and consequently

little hope is hold out for the victims.

Attempts to go into the mine have been

only partially successful.



That the property and the lives of those

farmers of Kentucky who have declined

to enter the pool for disposing of their

tobacco crop may be protected against

the attacks of night riders, the governor

of that state has allowed that farmers who

may shoot such night riders in protecting

their property will be pardoned by the

executive. In compliance with the an-

nouncement many farm homes are being

trzmsi‘ormcd into regular arsenals.



Two i‘occnt murders at Cairo, “1.. re-

Sulted in at double lynching thcro last

week. The siutc militia was cullcd out

to quiet the lynchcrs :md rcstoro ordor.

The lienency of the courts in handling

cases and the indifference of the police

department toward crime aroused some of

the more passionate lo securo immediate

justice and now the whole citizenship of

the place is determined to wipe out the

disordcring clcmcui‘. A grand jury will

be culled to lozli'li, if possible. the leaders

Of ihc lynching.



Pi'climinarv ropori's from the Congres-

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November 17, 1909.

Grains and Seeds. '





Wheat.—-The predictions of the bears

that values would go lower did not mate-

rialize in the wheat market. The hole

made in the supply by the shortage of

last year’s crop appears to have been

larger than was counted upon and the

market is now following an upward.tend-

ency with continued firmness in the new

position. Abroad that tendency is sup-

ported. The United Kingdom is getting

but a small part of the world‘s shipments

and the demand keeps the situation there

very firm at better prices, Millers in our

own northwest are buying apparently as

urgently as ever and their actions are

being «sustained by the strong flour trade.

The cold weather there is another bullish

feature of the trade. Visible supply for

the past week has decreased when a year

ago there was a material increase. The

advance in prices over last week’s values

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cents. A year ago we were paying

31.06940 per bu. Quotations for the week

are:



No. 2 No. 1



Red. White. Dec. May.

Thursday . . . .1.22 1.221/2 1.22% 1.24

Friday . ...... 1.22%, 1.22% 1.23 1.24%

Saturday . . . .1..211,§ 1.211/2 1.22 1.23%

Monday ..... 1.2217,, 1.22" 1.22% 1.24

Tuesday ..... 1.2214 1.2214 1.22%, 1.231/2

Wednesday . .1.211/z 1.211/2 1.22 1.22%



Conn—Quotations for this week are



given on the basis of new corn. The bulge





in the wheat deal, unfavorable weather

thruout the corn district, and predictions

from Argentine that the crop there is not

coming on as Well as it should, are giv-

ing the deal here strength, and material

advances in values have been made. Vis-

ible supply decreased during the week.





Following are the quotations for the

week:

No. 2

No. 2 Yellow.

Thursday . . .............. 591/2 601/;

Friday ............ 591/2 611/;

Saturday ................. 601/2 611/2

Monday .................. 61 62

Tuesday .................. 61 621,4,

Wednesday ............... 61 621,4





Oats.—Better prices are ruling in this

market. The influence of the wheat and

corn deals has been a bullish feature.

The local market is firm. One year ago

we paid 52%0 per bu for No. 3 oats. Vis-

ible supply shows a decrease. Quotations

for the week are:





Standard.

Thursday ...... 14

Friday ...... 42%,

Saturday ....... 4214

Monday . ..... . ..... . ............. 421,6

Tuesday .............. 42%,

Wednesday .................. 421/2





Beans.—-The same dull market that has

existed for many weeks past is still with

us and the prices given out by the board

are unchanged from a Week ago. They

are nominal and as follows:





Cash. Dec.

Thursday . . ...... . ......... $2.00 $1.98

Friday ........... 2.00 1.98

Saturday ................... 2.00 1.98

Monday .................... 2.00 1.98

Tuesday ................... 2.00 1.98

\i'ednesday ................ 2.00 1.98





Cloverseed.—The prices in this trade

are close to the lowest figures of last

week. The market is showing a large

amount of dealing and speculators seem

anxious to get hold of the product. Farm-

er's are selling their surplus quite liber-

ally which, however, does not amount to





the bulk that is usually offered. Quota-

tions for the week are:



Prime Spot. Mar. Alsike.

Thursday . . . . . . . . $8.60 $8.85 $7.75

Friday ........... 8.50 8.75 7.75

Saturday ......... 8.60 8.90 7.7”

Monday ....... 8.60 8.85 ‘ 7.75

Tuesday .......... 8.60 8.85 7.75

\Vednesday ....... 8.65 8.85 7.75





Rye.—-Quotation unchanged. Market is

dull, with little business being done. Cash

N0. 1 is quoted at 761/330 per bu.



Visible Supply of Grain.

This week. Last week.





Wheat ............... 28,587,000 29.475000

COrn ................. 2,400,000 2,425,000

Oats ................. 13,103,000 13,808,000

Rve .................. 1,050,000 743,000

Barlcv ............... 4,133,000 4,334,000





Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.

Noun—Market strong, with prices on





last week’s basis. Quotations are as

follows:

("lcar $580

Straight 5.8::

Patent Michigan ..................... 6.2:)

Ordinary Patent 5.95

Hay and Straw.v—Hay is advanced.

Straw steady. (‘ariot prices on track





are: No, 1 timothy, new, til-4.506015; No.

2 timothy, $13.5061/14; clover, mixed, $13.50

6014; rye straw, $7607.50; wheat and oat

straw. $650657 per ton.



Feed—Market unchanged and steady.

Bran, $24.50 per ton; coarse mid-

dlings, $25.50; fine middlings, $29.50;

cracked corn. $27; coarse corn meal, $27;

corn and oat chop, $2?.50 per ton.



Potatoes.——Farmers are crowding tubers

onto the market and the rush is crushing

prices. The average price paid now is

the lowest figure of a week ago. Mich—

igan grown are selling in car lots at 300

per bu.



Provisions.——Family pork, $26: mess

pork, $25; medium clear, $26; kettle rend—

ered lard, 151/2c; pure lard, 151/20; bacon,

17617171120; shoulders, 121/2c; smoked hams,

141/20; picnic hams, 121/20.



Dairy and Poultry Products. .



Button—In harmony With an eaS1er

feeling in some of the other butter mar-

kets the quotations for creameries and

packing stock declined 10 the past week.

The market is firm on the new baSlS.

Quotations are: Extra creamery. 30c per





 





   





 





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'lb; firsts, do., 290; dairy, 24c; packing





stock, '220. -



Eggs.—The call for eggs is urgent. Sup-

plies are limited and the market is very

firm. The price for fresh receipts, case

counted, cases included, is 26%c per doz.,

last week’s va’lue.



Poultry.———None of the lines of poultry

are showing any decided activity as yet.

Spring chickens are a little firmer and

selling at‘slightly improved values. Quo-

tations for the week are: Spring chick—





ens, 13c; hens, 10@110; roosters, 9c;

ducks 12@13c; geese, 9@100; turkeys,

15@160.



Cheese.——Steady. Michigan full cream,

160; York state, 170; limburger, 161,60;





Schweitzer, 20c; brick cream, 170 per lb.



Calves—Choice to fancy, 10@110; ordi-

nary, 8@9c per lb.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Cabbage.——Steady. Home-grown, $1

per bbl.



Onions.—Domestic offerings 65@700 per

bu. Spanish, $1.40 per crate.



Apples.—Snow, $5.50@6; Spy, $3.25@

3.50; common, $1.50@2.50. .



Cranberries—Cape Cod berries selling

at $2.25@2.50 per bu.



Vegetables.—Beets, 45c per bu; carrots,

450 per bu; cauliflower, $1.25 per doz;

hothouse cucumbers, 75c@1.25 per doz;

green onions, 121/20 per doz; green pep-

pers, 750 per bu; lettuce, 750 per bu;

mint, 250 per doz; parsley, 25@400 per

doz; radishes, 8@100 per doz; spinach,

600 per hamper; turnips, 750 per bu;

watercress, 2560300 per doz. ,





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.



The potato market is very dull, tubers

going slow at 2060250 at outside loading

stations. Of course, growers at these low

prices are not anxious to sell and many

thousands of bushels are going into pits

and potato houses, where they will be

held for a more favorable market. About

400 is being paid for small lots offered

on this market. The Grand Rapids Vege-

table Growers' Association opened a cen-

tral depot down town this week and let-

tuce is being shipped out at 8c per lb.

\Vheat is higher, advancing to $1.18 this

week. Creamery butter is 10 lower. In

meats, dressed hogs are steady at 91/260

100. Live turkeys are 10 higher, dealers

offering 15@16c for Thanksgiving stock.



Quotations follow:



Grain.——XVheat, $1.18; oats, 420;

680; buckwheat, 60c per bu; rye, 680.



Beans—Machine screened, $1.75.



Butter.#liuying prices, Dairy, No. 1.

250; creamery in tubs or prints, 291/20



er .

p Eggs—Case count, 260.



Apples—4567650; Keiffer pears, 60@650;

quinces. $2 per bu; grapes, 11@12c per 8

lb. basket.



Vegetables.~—Potatoes, 3560400; onions,

50@600 per bu; cabbage, 3060400 doz;

cauliflower, $1.506?1.60 per doz; beets, 400

per bu; carrots, 400; turnips, 35c; Hub-

bard squash, 10 lb; celery, 121/20; vege-

table oysters, 20c doz; parsley, 10c doz;

cucumbers. 600 doz.



Hogs—Dressed, 91/260100.



Live Poultry.~—Fowls, 10@110; roosters,

76080; turkeys, 1560160; spring chickens,

10@120; spring ducks, 1060120; young

geese, 960100; young turkeys, 17@180.





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New York.





Butter.—Market firmer, with creamery

grades a trifle higher. Western factory

firsts, 24@250; creamery specials, 31

311m.



Eggs—Irregular. owing to wide range

in quality. \Vcstern firsts to extras, 2960

350; seconds, 25%61‘270; fancy refrigerator

stock, 250 per dozen.



Poultry.——I)ressed, quiet. Western

chickens, broilers, 1560210; fowls, 1212,64)

141/20; turkeys. 1661200 per lb. Live-—

Slightly higher. Fowls, 14150; western

chickens, 15c; turkeys, 1261:16c,



Potatoes—Slight changes in prices not-

ed this week indicate more even quality

in the receipts. Market continues firm

on good stock. State and Michigan po-

tatoes in bulk now selling at $1.62@1.75

per 180 libs.



Hay and Straw. Lighter receipts have

given the market an undertone of

strength. The better grades of timothy

are higher. Hay. timothy, prime, large

bales, per 100 lb. 971,/-_.c6l$1; No. 3 a 1, 85

61950; Shipping, 8061‘821/20; packing, 5060

550; clover and clover mixed, 805900;

straw. long rye, 8(J6r021/gc; short. and

tangled rye, 600; oat and wheat, 5060550.





 





 





Chicago.



\Vheat.——No. 2 red, $1.206?1.21; Decem-

ber, $10714; May, $1.05.



(Torn—No. 2, 641/260645330;

601,40: May, 6115,00.



Oats. No. 3 white, 40156240340; Decem—

ber, 39%c; May, 413/110.



Butter-Ji‘he easier tone noted last week

is still in evidence, with demand showing

little. improvement. Creamcries, 261560

30c; dairies, 2461‘2Rc.



]<lggs.—Markct steady, with best grades

showing another fractional advance.

Prime firsts. 281/30; firsts, 271/20; at mark,

cases included, 201/260251/30 per doz.



Hay and Straw—Market strong under

unchanged prices. Quotations: Timothy.

choice, “56015.50; No. 1. $1461il4.50; No. 2

and No, 1 mixed. $12.506013.50; No. 3 and

No. 2 mixed, $106012: rye straw, $86179;

oat straw, $650607; wheat straw, $550606.



Potatoes—A material decline in offer—

ings has helped sustain values, they hav-

ing suffered little change in the past

week. Choice to fancy now quoted at 45

@480 per bu; fair to good, 3560400; poor,

3060340.





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Grain—“meat No. 2 red, $1.23; corn,

No. 3 white. new. 571/240; No. 3 yellow,

571/2c; oats, No. 2, 393/10; rye, No. 2. 731/20.



Hay—Timothy and clover~mixed con—

tinue quiet. with offerings about even

with the demand. High—grade clover

scarce and ready sale.

readily at advanced figures. Timothy,

No. 1. selling at $146015.50 per ton: N0.

2, $126013: No. 3. $96010; clover, No. 1.

$146016; No. 2, $13: clover mixed, $1160

13.50; alfalfa quota'ble at $17.50@18 for

No. 1 and $15@16 for No. 2





Alfalfa selling .





~Pota-toes.——Offerings of inferior stock

are still excessive, and under indifferent

demand. The market is dull and weak,

even the best stock meeting slow sale.

Prices are lower than a week ago, with

northern in car lots on track quoted at

2060300 for unripe and rough. to 35@45c

for fancy, smooth, well-matured stock.





Boston.





WOOL—Since supplies have been de-

creased to such proportions that the local

market cannot sustain a great deal of

interest, the attention of buyers is di-

verted to the wool producing sections of

the country where they are endeavoring

to get hold of the coming season’s crop

before it is Well developed. But the

farmers, especially of the west, have

pretty high ideas of what the material is

worth and are, therefore, not in a. mood

to let it get out of their hands unless

unusually good prices are offered. This

is what the buyers Will not do, conse-

quently their efforts are not netting them

any large deals. Leading quotations are:

Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces—XX, 37@

380; X, 3460350; N0. 1,washed, 40@4lc;

fine unwashed, 27@280; fine unmerchant-

able, 310; half blood combing, 37; three-

eighths blood combing, 370; quarter blood

combing, 3460350; delaine washed, 4060410.

Michigan, Wisconsin. and New York

fleecestine unwashed, 25617260; delaine

unwashed, 31@320; half blood unwashed,

3465350; three-eighths blood unwashed, 34

@350; quarter blood, 33@34c. Kentucky,

Indiana and Missouri fleeces—Three-

eighaths blood, 340; quarter blood, 32617330.





 





Elgln.

Butter—Market firm at 300 per 1b.,

which is 10 below last week’s price.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





 





Buffalo.

November 15, 1909.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

_ East Buffalo, N, Y.)



Receipts of sale stock here today as

follows: Cattle, 190 loads; hogs, 24,000

head; sheep and lambs, 25,000 head;

calves, 1,200. ,



.All grades of cattle, except the medium

kinds and stockers and feeders, sold

strong at last week‘s prices. The demand

for the medium grades was not as good

as last week and they sold a shade easier.

Feeders and stockers sold about 100 lower.

There were no cattle on the market

good enough to bring over $6.65 but had

there been some of the right kind they

would have brot considerably more. The

fresh cows and springers sold at strong

last week’s prices.



We quote: Best export steers, $65060

7; best 1.200 to 1,300-l'b. shipping steers,

3562560650; best 1,100' to 1,200-lb. do.,

$550636; medium 1,050 to 1,150-lb. steers,

$5605.25; light butcher steers, $475605;

best fat cows, $450605; fair to good do.,

$3.25613.75: trimmers, $2.25@2.50; best fat

heifers, $475605; fair to good do., $37569

4.25; common do., $3.256il3.50; best feeding

steers, 800 to 900-lb. dehorned, $4.256D

4.50; 700 to 750-Ib. dehorned stockers, $3.50

@4; 600 to 650—113. dehorned stockers,

$3.6061‘3.75; little common st’ockers, $3.;

3.25; best bulls. $4.25604.75; bologna bulls,

$3.506r3.75; stock bulls. $3603.25; best fresh

cows and springcrs, $506060; fair to good

do., $3561‘45; common do.,'$25@30.



The lamb market today was a little

lower than Saturday. About everything

is sold and we look for a little higher

prices the balance of the week.



We quote: Best lambs, $7.20607.25; fair

to good, $7607.15: culls, $5.506?6.50; skin

culls, $4605; yearlings. $5605.75; wethers,

$5675.25; ewes, 3545060475: cull sheep, $2617

3.25; best calves, $875609; fair to good

do., $6.506?7.50; heavy do., $4604.50; grass

calves, $3603.25.



The hog market opened about steady

with the close of last week. All grades

met with an active demand. The eastern

houses as well as the local packers, were

good buyers for the mixed and medium

weights and a fairly good clearance was

made.



“'e quote: Choice heavy. $8.20@8.25;

mixed and medium, $8.106r8.20; best york-

ers, $8.10608.15; light yorkers, $7.806D7.90;

pigs. $7.7561‘7.85; roughs, $7.30@7.35; stags

$6.25fi6.75.





 





Chicago.

' November 15, 1909.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 30,000 28,000 27,000





Same day last year ..49,128 62,765 37,461

Received last week ..66.053 124,819 111.098

Same week last year.78,940 196,763 123,764



Cattle were marketed more carefully

last week from feeding districts as a

result of the decline in prices a wcele

earlier, but the receipts from the western

ranges were surprisingly large for so late

in the season. Fed steers advanced 1060

15c on Monday and lost, the improvement

on YVednesday. but prime beeves were

scarccr than ever and still higher. with

a sale of 38 Angus 1,494-lb. steers at $9.25,

being 150 higher than any sale. in the open

market since 1882. Steers sold largely

at 5552560775, with inferior lots selling

at 33.85605 and a fair call for 1,150 to

1.400-lb. export cattle at $6.506?7.75. Good

steers went at $7.25 and upward. and

there was a better cow and heifer market

at $26?6.50, with not many prime enough

to sell above $5.25 while bulls went at

$250605, calves at ”50608.25. and milkers

and springers at $256065 each. Stockmen

engaged in preparing well—bred cattle for

the market should be encouraged in fin-

ishing them off carefully. for there is

known to be a great scarcity of matured

beevcs. Ohio has furnished some cattle.

and on Wednesday 80 steers from that

state that averaged 1.268 to 1.280 lbs.,

brot $7.40. Stockers had a fair sale at

$2.756M.40. and feeders were more active

and largelv 1060200 higher at $3.85605,30,

with a lack of choice heavy steers of the

feeder class. Eastern sections have pur—

chased a good many feeder cattle this

fall. and Ohio has been a good buyer, ow-

ing to the big corn crop raised. Western

range cattle were good sellers at $4.60

7.60 for steers and $3@5.10 for female





 





NOV. 20, 1909.





stock, but there was a small proportion

of steers that sold much above 86.

Another week opens- today with too

large a cattle supply, including some

5,000 western rangers. Stock from the

range sold rather freely at steady prices,

but fed cattle were mostly slow and 10@

150 lower, except choice beeves, which





were eXtremely scarce, no prime steers ‘





being offered.

. Hogs have been in active demand for

another week, with a considerably larger

eastern shipping demand than a few

weeks .ago, altho this outlet has been

larger in some recent years. The neces—

sxty of securing as many‘hogs as possible

to meet the wants of the packers in re-

plemshing their sadly reduced stocks of

provisions, to say nothing of the wants

of the fresh meat trade, tended to make

a high range of prices, and the undertone

was generally strong, altho after the best

shipping consignments were disposed of

the local packers were apt to buy the

cheaper class of swine at reduced figures.

The spread in prices has narrowed a good

deal since it was $1 or more, and recent

sales have been mostly within a range

of about 500, pigs selling much better.

Everywhere stock hogs are scarce and

wanted, and a big demand exists for

young breeding sows. Another week opens

today, and trade is lively at an average

further advance of 5c, hogs selling at

$775,608.25. Hogs marketed last week

averaged 227 lbs., compared with 225 lbs.

a week earlier and 215 lbs. a year ago.

Sheep and lambs have been marketed

quite freely from feeding districts during

the past week, the recent advance in

prices stimulating such shipments. and

as many range shipments were made as

could be expected so late in the season.

but very few range mutton lambs showed

up. There was an active demand for fat

mutton sheep and lambs, and inadequate

offerings brot about further good ad—

vances, lambs selling at $4.5061)7.55 for

inferior to prime grades, while range

feeder lambs were firm at $6.25@6.85.

Fed wethers were taken at 3547560540,

range wethers bringing $4.15@5.05. Ewes

were purchased at $2.50@5.25 for fed lots

and at $3.25604.75 for rangers. Yearlings

weighing above 100 lbs. went at $560606.

and 83-lb. yearlings sold up to $6.75.

Bucks and stags sold at $2.75@3.75, while

breeding ewes were taken fairly at $4617

5.25. Feeders paid $4604.50 for range

wethers and $4.90@5.40 for yearlings. To-

day’s market was active and unchanged.

The horse market was depressed last

week by greatly increased supplies, buy-

ers being unable to force reductions of as

much as $156025 per head, except for the

better class. Southern chunks were taken

mainly at 557060125, with light drivers

taken for southern shipment up to $140.

Better drivers were scarce and quotalble

at $150@300. while choice heavy drafters

had an outlet at $22560250, poorer ones

going at $1706D220. Loggers and feeders

sold at $170@225, and a large contract for

cavalry mounts has been filled at $130

@160. F.





 





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Exporters have begun to make large

purchasers of cattle recently in the Chi—

cago market, and after several months of

extreme dullness this outlet promises to

become once more a factor of consider-

able importance in the fat cattle trade.

This year prices for cattle in American

markets have been too high to admit of

a normal export business, and England

has been getting its supplies chiefly from

other sources, the Canadian northwest

grass cattle having made up a large share

of the fresh killed cattle in the United

Kingdom recently, but most of these cat-

tle have been shipped now. England gets

its cheap imported beef largely from South

America, but it wants choicer cuts of beef

from the United States.



There is the smallest supply of choice

heavy cattle in this country seen in a

long time, and high prices seem to be as-

sured for some time to come, but the

bird in the hand is worth while to hold

on to, and finished beeves should be mar-

keted without waiting for higher figures,

altho $10 per 100 lbs. has been predicted

for fancy steers for 1910. The real scarc—

ity of strictly prime cattle is shown by

the lack of steers good enough to sell

above $8.50 per 100 lbs. in the Chicago

market on a recent Monday, with receipts

of 24,338 head, altho prime beeves have

been selling for $8.75609.25, or the highest

prices for the top kind seen since 1882.

But buyers will not pay high prices for

thin cattle, and recent sales have been

made below $4, the spread in prices being

extraordinarily wide, with an abundance

of common and medium to pretty good

grades. Stormy weather always starts

plenty of partly fattened cattle to market

at this time of the year, and there are

plenty more yet to come. A good many

heifers are being held back, however, as

higher prices for fat lots are expected

before long, but fewer old western range

cows will be wintered on the range than

in recent years, high prices in the markets

proving an irresistable attraction to their

owners. They have been favored by the

packers, high prices of hides and a large

call for canned beef tending to increase

the demand.



: T, Henkle. secretary of the Inter-

national Live Stock Exposition. has issued

the premium list of the great horse show

to be held at the Chicago stock yards dur-

ing the second week of the International.

The program of entries is comprehensive,

and liberal premiums are offered, nearly

all the American registry societies offer-

ing gold medals and silver cups in the

championship classes of the various

breeds. . H. Moore and several firms

offer challenge cups valued at $200 to $500

for particular classes in harness. The

horse show is expected to be the greatest

ever held in this country, embracing Am—

erican bred trotting horses, German coach

and French coach classes, saddle horses,

Shetland ponies, etc. The exhibition is

always highly interesting to intending

breeders of horses, and farmers are sure

to find plenty of chances to purchase

high-grade stallions and mares of all

classes.





   





 





 





 





 





 





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Thursday’s Market.

,November 18, 1909.





Cattle.





Receipts, 779. Market active and 10@

25c higher; run light.



We quote: Extra dry-fed steers. and

heifers, $5.25@5.50; 'steers and heifers,

1,000 to 1,200, $4.75@5.25; steers and heif-

ers, 800 to 1,000, $4.35@4.75; steers and

heifers that are fat, 500 to 700, $3.50@4;

choice fat cows, $3.75@4.50; good fat

cows, $3.50@3.75; common cows, $3@3.25;

canners, $2@2.25; choice heavy bulls $3.75

4.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $3.50@

3.75; stock bulls. $3@3.25; choice feeding

steers, 800 to 1,000, $4@4.50; fair feeding

steers, 800 to 1,000, $3.75@4; choice stock-

ers, 500 to 700, $3.50@3.85; fair stockers,

500 to 700, $3@3.50; stock heifers. $2.75@

3; milkers, large, young, medium age,

$40@55; common milkers, $25@35.



Roe Com. Co. sold Rattkowsky 10

butchers av 452 at $3.25. 1 bull weighing

1,280 at $4; to Sullivan P. Co. 6 cows av

940 at $2.50, 2 do av 880 at $3.50, 3 do

av 857 at $2.50, 2 do av 850 at $3.50, 1

heifer weighing 780 at $3.25, 1 cow weigh-

ing 690 at $2, 8 butchers av 650 at $3.75;

to Mohr 2 stockers av 470 at $3.50; to

Fronn 9 butchers av 485 at $3.40; to Mich.

R. Co. 25 steers av 815 at $4.75, 1 do

weighing 770 at $4, 1 do weighing 820 at

$4.75, 1 cow weighing 1,020 at $2, 4 do av

1.132 at $3.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 do av

913 at $4.50, 1 bull weighing 1,280 at $4.50,

8 steers av 975 at $5.25, 1 bull weighing

1,500 at $4; to Mich. B. CO. 2 butchers

av 710 at $3.50, 4 steers av 812 at $4.50,

9 do av 1,041 at $5.25; to Lacalt 11 butch-

ers av 725 at $3.80.



Bishop. B. -& H. sold Hammond, S. &

(‘0, 8 cows av 1,009 at $2.75, 1 do weigh-

ing 900 at $3.25. 1 do weighing 750 at $2.25,

10 do av 957 at $2.75, 5 butchers'av 970

at $3.75. 2 steers av 950 at $5. 1 cow

weighing 1.080 at $4: to Fronn 6 butch.

heifers av 616 at $3.60; to Fronn 6 butch-

ers av 840 at $3.85, 9 do av 485 at $3.40;

to Sullivan P. CO. 3 cows av 1,023 at

$2.75, 4 do av 1,000 at $3.75; to Mich. 13.

(To. 24 steers av 888 at $4.35; to ’l‘homp-

son Bros. 2 bulls av 760 at $3.25; to Sul—

livan P. Co, 4 cows av 1,095 at $3.50, 8

do av 947 at $2.75. 6 do av 1,040 at $2.75,

1 do welghin 1.280 at $3.75, 1 bull weigh-

ing 1.100 at .75, 5 cows av 890 at $2.75,

9 butchers av 1.060 at $3.50, 1 bull weigh-

ing 1,500 at $3.75, 11 heifers av 782 at $4,

4 canners av 875 at 2.50, 6 heifers av 846

at $4.50, 6 cows av 920 at $3.25.



Spiccr & R. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

9 butchers av 760 at $3.50, 10 do av 940

at $4.50; to Bresnahan 3 do av 526 at

$3.40; to Mich. B. Co. 26 do av 830 at

$4.25, 10 do av 770 at $4.30, 3 do av 666

at $3.50; to Breitenbach Bros. 2 do av

575 at $3.75, 28 Steers av 780 at $4.40; to

Hammond, S. Co. 15 cows av 1,040

at $2.75, 1 do weighing 850 at $2.75. 14

steers av 1,086 at $5.50, 29 do av 813 at

$4.25, 2 cows av 865 at $2.75, 5 do av 892

at $2.75, 1 do weighing 960 at $2.50; to

Rattkowsk 4 d0 av 1,030 at $3.75, 2 bulls

av 700 at 3; to Lowcnstein Bros. 1 steer

weighing 500 at $3.75; to Sullivan P. Co.

2 bulls av 910 at $3.65. 3 cows av 963 at

$3.50; to Ogelthorp 13 steers av 1.050 at

$5.10; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 7 cowe av 1,136

at $3.75. .



Haley & McMullen sold Regan 14 heif-

ers av 540 at $3.50; to Lingeman 5 butch-

ers av 630 at $3.35, 1 heifer weighing 630

at $3.80, 1 do weighing 780 at $3.75, 2 do

av 545 at $3.20; to Goose 18 butchers av

317 at $3.40; t Sullivan P. Co. 12 do av

826 at $4, 3 ($0 av 840 at $4.30. 1 cow

weighing 1,080 at $3.50, 1 do weighing 900

at $2.50, 1 bull weighing 1.130 at $3.50;

to Kamman 5 cows av 964 at $3.45, 4 bulls

av 692 at $3.30. 4 heifers av 460 at $3.50,

10 cows av 972 at $3.40. 13 do av 320 at

$3.25, 2 heifers av 610 at $3.40: to Apple-

baum 4 butchers av 707 at $4: to Sullivan

P. Co. 1 bull weighing 1.53 at $3.85. 2

do av 800 at $3.35; to Mohr 10 stockers

' 563 at $3.00.

deennctt sold Mich. B. (‘0. 17_bnl<-hcrs

av 800 at $4, 5.do av 676 at $3.71.». 2 do av

‘ .375.



‘Allohitisgn sold Schlischcr 5 heifers av

540 at $3.75.





 





McLaughlin sold same 2 do av 710 at

"3.50. .,

Johnson sold Hammond. S. & Co. ..





heifers av 673 at $4.25.

McLaughlin sold Marx 3 butchers av

600 at $3.50.

Veal Calves.

259. Market active

Best. $7.50fl875:





and 2345





ci ts.

Rec D (:lllt‘l‘f—t $1





50c higher.





(D7. hiilch cows and Springcrs stcadv.

sI-Ialey & McMullen sold Parker. \V. &

(‘0. 4 av 130 at $7





Chencv & H. sold Fitzpatrick Bros.

49 at $7.50, _

108?)?ch & R. sold Mich, R. Co. 3 av 19;,

at $3.75. 7 av 145 at $8; to Nagie P. Co.

1 weighing 130 at $7.50. 4 av 250 at $5, 5

av 125 at $6.25, 6 av 155 at $8. ‘

Roe Com. Co. sold Nagle P. Co. 1 \Voig’li-

ipfl‘ 160 at $8: to Sullivan P. Co. 1 weigh-

.44 at . 1 Weighing; 101.11% $8.881

>' ' g 130 at $8. 1 weigiing . a w“.

“38923.5. B. & it. sold Naglc P. co.

m; 160 at $5; to Mich. B. co. 2 av 160 at

$7 50 9 av 135 at $7.75: to Newton E. Co.

2 'av' 135 at $8, 4 av 125 at $5. 10 av 128

qt $7.50; to Nagle$6P. Co. 1.4 av 145 at

‘ v 140 at .

$851,353 a& W. sold Hammond, S. & Co.





t .7. .



4 738$: golds Sullivan $3790. 1 weighing

‘. V 14.) at . 0.



“(33133.33 saold Burnstine 7 av 135 at





$7.50





 





» Sheep and; lambs; . .

- Receipts, 3,140. Market strong at last

Thursday’s prices. Run will be heavy;

arrivals very' late





Best lambs, $7@7.10: ' fair to good

lambs, $6.75@6.85; light to common

lambs, $5.50@6.25; fair to good sheep,





$3.75@4.25; culls and common, $2.50@3.

Spicer & R. sold Nagie P. Co. 30 sheep

av 105 at $3.25, 23 lambs av 85 at $7, 90

do av 75 at $6.75, 110 do av 75 at $6.85;

to Stoker 11 sheep av 80 at $4.50; to New-

ton B. Co. 37 lambs av 75 at $6.75.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

C0. 9 sheep av 105 at $4, 7 do av 100 at

$2.75, 18 do ay 125 at $3.75; to Mich. B.

Co. 14 lambs av 67 at $6.65, 75 do av 73

at $6.75; to Haise 27 do av 70 at $6.75, 33

do av 67 at $6.50, 14 do av 80 at $5, 50 do

av 68 at $6.65; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 52 do

av 83 at $7, 53 do av 65 at $6.65, 26 sheep

av 90 at $4, 9 do av 85 at $4, 9 do av 130

at $4, 26 lambs av 60 at $6.30. 17 do av

65 at $6.30; to Nagie P. Co. 15 do av 70

at $6.50, 14 sheep av 70 at $4. , ,

Johnson sold Mich. B. Co. 5 sheep av

125 at $3.50, 9 lambs av 80 at $6.50.

Duelle sold same 15 sheep av 125 at $3.

Roe Com. C0. sold Nagle P. Co. 11

sheep av 95 at $3.25, 7 lambs av 75 at

$5.50. 36 do av 75 at $6.75; to Sullivan P.

Co. 78 do av 80 at $6.90, 144- do av 83 at





$7, 24 sheep av 90 at $4.25, 11 do av

95 at $4.

Chase sold Newton B. Co. 4 sheep av





85 at $3, 28 lambs av 85 at $7.



Adams sold Nagie P. Co. 51 lambs av

80 at $6.90.



Stephens sold same 48 do av 75 at

$6.85, 8 sheep av 90 at $3.90.



Cheney & H. sold Fitzpatrick Bros. 15

sheep av 100 at $3.50, 15 lambs av 80





at $7.



Haley & McMullen sold Mich. B. Co.

17 lambs av 58 at $6.75; to Thompson

Bros. 90 sheep av 82 at $3.80.



Sharp &. W. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

39 sheep av 80 at $3, 57 lambs av 70





at $6.75.

Hons. '

Receipts, 4.429. Market 5f: 10c higher

than last Thursday. Bulk of sales,





Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $8508.10; pigs. $7.60417.65; light york-

ers, $7.90; stags, 1/3 off.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 32

av 175 at $7.85. 166 av 200 at $8.



Bishop. 1:. & H. sold same 115 av 105

at $7.60, 106 av 142 at $7.85.



Same sold Parker, \V. & Co. 144 av

170 at $8.05, 1,278 av 200 at $8.10, 57 av

135 at $7.75. 150 av 140 at $7.85, 1,568 av

170 at $8, 196 av 150 at $7.90.



Sundry shippers sold same 550 av 180

at $8.



Haley & McMullen sold Hammond. S.

& Co. 160 av 190 at $8.10, 516 av 180 at

$8, 150 av 150 at $7.90.



Spicer & R. sold same 358 av 180 at $8.

129 av 200 at $8.10, 53 av 210 at $8.15. 140

av 175 at $7.80.



Sgndry shippers sold same 650 av 185

at .





 





Friday’s Market.

November 12, 1909.

Cattle.



The run of cattle at the Michigan Cen-

tral stock yards Friday Was very light

and the market full steady with Thurs-

day on all grades.



Dry—fed steers,





315.25.655.50: steers and





heifers, 800 to 1.200. $475635; steers and

heifers, 800 to 1.000, $4.25fl4.75; steers





and heifers that are fat, 500 to 700, $3.25

((13.75; choice fat cows. $375104; good

fat cows, 1135070315: common cows, $2.75

3; canners. $2412.25; choice heavy bulls,

$3.50o4; fair to good bolognas. bulls.

$3.25: stock bulls, $2.50fr3; choice feeding

steers. 800 to 1.000. $4604.25; fair feeding

steers. 800 to 1.000. $375604; choice stock-

ers, 500 to 700. $3.50fl375; fair stockers,

500 to 700, $3653.50; stock heifers. $2.50@

3: milkers, large. young, medium age.

$40fi155; common milkcrs, $256535. -

Wilson sold Sullivan P. Go. 3 steers av

786 at $4. 2 cows av 1.080 at $3.50.

Sharp sold same 2 heifers av 900 at $5.

Waterman sold same 1 heifer weighing

840 at $4.50, 1 cow weighing 1,300 at $4.

Weeks sold same 3 bulls av 1,126 at

$3.35.

Weeks sold LaRoe 4 cows av 1,012 at

$3.40, 8 heifers av 663 at $3.55.

Robb Sold Mich. 13. C0. 4 cows av 1,117





at $3.75.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Rattkowsky 2 cow

and bull av 1.000 at $3.50, 2 heifers av

720 at $4.30. .



H B. McMullen sold Hammond. S. &

(‘11, 1 cow weighing 900 at $3. 1 bull

weighing 980 at $3.75. 1 do weighing 1,230

at $4, 2 cows av 800 at $2.50.



~Vea| Calves.





The vcol calf trade was active and 25617





50c higher than on 'l‘hursday for good

grodcs.

Rest. 375040850; others. $47177.





to Nagie P. (‘0. 3 :1\' 150 at $8.50,



S‘piccl' N: R. sold Nn‘llf’ P. (lo.

1.".1 :11 $0.50, 1 wcighine‘ 130 at $7,



Luckc sold Min-h. ll, (‘o. 12 av 145 at $8.



Sheep and Lambs.



Thp Shop‘p and l-nuh irudc, duality con—

sidered. was about the «mu» as on rl'hurs—

dav. thc Nnc‘lc Packing (“0. cleaning up

practically cvcrythins: in sight. and the

(lose was strong.



l’mst lnn’lhs, $077717:



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11 av





f-iir to good lambs.





“5027530; fight in ommon lambs, $5.50

@625: fair to good shccp, 33.50704; culls

and common. $9307"?!-



Ron (mm, (M, sold Pn-csnahan 32 sheep





m. 10': .H £2.75: +o Nnglo P. Co. 12 lambs

nv R8 at $1 22 do av 60 at $6.





MpMullon sold chsnahan 25 sheep av

80 :it $3.25.

Sumo sold Naglo P, Co. 75 lambs av





70 at $6.50.

Hogs.

'T‘hc hos trade was active and {vamp

higher than on Thursday. The quality

was tho best of the season,





Light m good butchers. $7.95o‘210:

pigs, $7.40W750: light yorkers. $7.80@





7.3.5: starts. 14: off.



Roe Com. ("o. sold Sullivan P. Co. 185

av 190 at $8.05.



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

763 av 170 at $8.



Same sold Hammond, S. & Co. 383 av

910 at $8.10.





THE Micr‘iiGAN PARMER.





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SALT AND PEPPER. —

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Rolled Gold Stick Pin. Roman

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Pen Knife. Two razor steel

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Sanitary Dripleu

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Pancy Pattern Sugar Shell and Butter

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Child’s Cup. Sil- ‘

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Brass Case Compass with

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Family Record. A very pretty piece of

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Family record of births, deaths and marriages,

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poultry, by perforat-

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LOOKING AT ONLY ONE END OF THE





DAIRY BUSINESS.





 





There is the producing end and the

marketing end in the dairy business. The

first duty of the dairyman is to produce

dairy products and the second is to sell

them, of course. Some dairymen, how-

ever, seem to look at only the selling end

of the business. At least, they give this

end the mOst attention and slight, to a

large degree, the most important end—

production. A farmer will worry over a

quarter of a cent a pound for butter-fat,

or a quarter of a cent a quart for milk,

or five cents a hundred, and think that

this little difference in price will ruin

him, when really it amounts to but very

little compared with the production. I

certainly don’t blame a farmer for get-

ting all he can out of his products. He

is entitled to the very highest market

price. He is not a good business man

unless he figures on the market end, but

too many of them seem to do the most

of their figuring on the market end and

do not consider the importance of the

producing end. To hear some farmers

talk you would think that if the creamery

man made a mistake of a half of one per

cent in his test for milk or cream that he

was being ruined, while the same farmer

by leaving his cows out in a bad storm,

or not feeding them a proper ration will,

by his own negligence or ignorance, cause

a greater loss than if he had lost 10 cents

a pound on the butter—fat. It is exactly

the same way with the farmer who sells

milk. To sell his butter—fat for one cent

less than the market price would be too

bad, but the loss would be comparatively

little by the side of. not taking proper

care of his cows, or properly feeding them,

or by improper milking. Poor milking

causes a. great loss to the daii'ymcn. If

cows are not milked regularly, if they

are not milkcd in the right way and kept

clean. the loss to the farmer could be

very much more than the loss of one cent

a pound in the selling of his butter—fat.



Again, if the farmer is attempting to

get along this winter by feeding what he

has on hand, his timothy hay. his corn

fodder, and his corn and oats that he has

raised with no additional feed, he is

losing much more than he would if he

sold his butter-fat at a reduced price.

He has other stock to feed his corn to,

and he cannot afford to feed too much

corn meal to his cows, especially if he

has corn silage. If he hasn‘t got hogs

or horses or hens to feed the corn to,

then it would pay him to sell the corn at

700 a busth and buy some other food

which would compound with the corn

stalks and timothy hay and make a better

balanced ration for his cows. The same

way with his oats. Outs at 450 or 500

a bushel are not to be compared with oil

meal and cottonseed meal in balancing a

ration where the roughage is Simply hay





and corn stalks. He can well afford to

sell the oats that he has on hand and

buy these foods, (altho they have ad-

vanced in price this winter), and make

a much more economical ration for his

cows. In this way he would prducc

chcnpcr. consequently he could afford to





sell chcnpcr and he ought not to look at

tho markct end of the business entirely

but should consider DI‘ODOI‘Iy the produc-

ing end.



Thcn again, many a farmer has one or

morc cows in his hcrd that is not taking

the food which he foods them and manu-

facturing it into milk {it a profit, He

might I|(‘iIt‘I‘ scll the food which he feeds

cows in lhc opcu mnrkcl‘ than to feed it

to a poor cow. llc should sort out the

cows that do not manufacture feed into





dairy products at a profit. He should

select those out, I any. and got rid of





them. This would be much more profit-

nblc than figuring cnth‘cly on the market

end. I don’t blame the former for mak-

ing a fuss bccnuso hc thinks he don’t

get as much for his product as he ought

to, not that: but I do blame him for giv-

ing‘ his wholc attention to this, and neg-

lecting the producing end.





THE HABIT OF GOING DRY.





 





One of the most unprofitable things on





 





Woodlined Slanohions.





make the most sanitary, strongest .

and neatest appearing barn equip-,





any farm is the cow that persists In going

dry three or four months before the time

for her to be fresh. There is a great deal

in habit and if a young cow is started

right she will go dry, say, for from four

to six weeks. That length of time is suf-

ficicnt for her to recruit up her strength.





It will pay to give extra food and care in

every possible way to the young cow so

as to keep up the flow of milk. If she

once forms the habit of going dry for a

long period she will be very apt to pass

the habit on to her progeny. In the pur-

chasing Of dairy cows this habit is one

of the very important considerations as

it really marks the difference between the

profitable and unprofitable cow.

Ohio. S. CONNELL.





WINTERING HEIFERS, MIXING THE

FEEDS, BREED QUESTION.





 





I have four yearling heifers which I

wish to hire wintcrcd. I let my farm for

one-third and I furnish team and tools

and seed. but I wish to pay the renter

for his third that he feeds to the young

stock. Vtht would his third of hay and

silage be worth for the four heifers. no

grain to be fed? I would alsolike to

know the best grain to feed to milch

cows whcrc timothy hay and silage ls

fed. Also, how Brown Swiss cattle com-

pare. with Jerseys for dairying.



Allegan Co. G. B.



The cost of wintering Jersey heifers

cannot be determined very accurately,

but only estimated. Since heifers are not

to be fcd grain, they should be and must

be fed liberally of roughage if they are

to do well. I venture to suggest that it

would be better economy to feed less

roughage and a little grain. I think the

ration would be cheaper and it would be

better for the heifers. But if they are

not fed grain I estimate that each heifer

would eat about 20 pounds of corn silage

and tcn pounds of hay pcr day, or the

four heifers for six months would eat

something like scvcn tons of corn silage





and thrcc and one—half tons of hay. Con-

sequently, knowing the price of corn

silage and hay, one could figure fairly





accurately the cost of wintering the hell‘-

ers. Since the renter is to get pay for

only one-third of the food, this would be

easily determined. If corn silage is worth

$2.50 per ton, as it is usually estimated.

it would cost $17 or $18 for the corn

silage, and if hay is worth $10 per ton





in the burn, it would cost something like





$35 for the hay.



G.

grain to feed with timothy hay and corn

silage. My belief is, as I have statcd in

The Farmer a number of times, and I

back up my belief by the actual feeding,

that cottonseed meal and oil meal are the

best feeds that can be obtained for mix-

ing with corn silage and clover). hay.

“‘hat I mean is. that they are suitable

foods, and the most economical feeds to

be fed with this roughage. What we are

figuring on is an economical ration. We

want one that the cows will not only do

will upon, but wc wunt thc grain to com-

blue with the r-lcmcnls of the roughage

and form :1 balanced ration. I fed

cows lust winlcr 2 lbs. of Cottonsccd mcal

and 2 lbs. of oil mcnl pcr day with clover

hay and corn silugc, and they did well.

I considered it on cconomicnl I‘nlion. Af—

ter my pcus and oats are fed this winter,

I shall fwd much thc sumo ration again.

I hear some ouc say that cottonsccd mcnl

is richer in protein than the oil meal, and

chcapcr, and why not food all cottonsccd





mcal. Simply-because I do not like to

food 4 lbs. of cottonsccd meal to cows,

especially cows that arc not uscd to it.

Then ugnin. it mukcs hurd, tnllowy but-

Icr. Four pounds of oil mcnl might be

loo luxnlivc. I think to food say. 2 lbs.

of collonsccd mcul :11. night and 2 lbs.





of oil Incal in tho morning, both put upon

1hc cnsilagc. is :lll ccouomicnl and n,

propcr rollon. You con l‘ccd them all the

lmy and cOrn sllagc ihcy will eat up clcnn

lwicc a day.



Brown Swiss .Icrsoys. This is n

qucsliou that cannot bc definitely scttlcd.

It varies with tho opinion of diffcrcnt

mcn. I do not pi‘ctcud to know much

about Brown Swiss. Frown Swiss crittlc,

as a brood. are now to Amcricn, 'l‘hcro

arc a numbcr of hcrds at our cxpcrimcnt

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(Inil'y brccd. At our own cxpcrimcnt sla-

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that were good dairy cows and} have no

doubt that lhcy arc all that their brecdci's

cluim for lhcm. of course. ulwnys allow-

ing for tho cutlmsiusm of the brccdcr.

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country in tho World, ’l‘hcy havc been

thoroly lcstcd undcr all

are considcrcd to be cconomicul producers

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oucsiion of broods we must remember

that very oflcn thcrc is more difference.

betwccn individuals of th some breed than

between individuals of different breeds.

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There is a growing dissatisfaction with

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horticultural principles. We have a. long

array of books upon horticulture as an

art, and as a commercial proposition, but

the uncovering of principles and their

arrangement in an orderly manner like

has been done with chemistry, physics,

medicine, stock feeding, soils, etc., are not

to be found; and the advance guard of the

clientage of horticultural teachers is now

so well informed on the things which

the pedagogues have to offer that there

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verify what was already known. This

work, of course, is to be commended. It

has helped the practical men to an un-

estimable degree. Its contribution to the

pocketbooks of farmers and fruit men

and gardeners of the country is almost

incalculable. But the work has only been

a leader to where we can feel there is

something ahead that we Should know

and can know if we approach the matter

in a scientific manner. What has been

done is but the scouting to apprehend

the movements of the general charge

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and mind unprejudiced by commercial

considerations are needed to carry the

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and there discover for the teacher and

the pupil and the practical man the prin-

ciples which will make their work more

certain. But few men are equipped for

this service. Those who are, are much

needed at the front. Our agricultural

colleges have a duty in finding these men

and seeing that they are given the proper

preliminary training for fighting with the

mysteries of nature till she is compelled

to give up the reason and the method of

her mysterious ways.





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With every facility at hand, as is usu-

ally the case upon every farm and ordi-

nary villagc home, for that matter, it is

not a. little singular that mushroom grow-

ing receives so little attention. Certainly

the lack of demand cannot furnish the

reason, as we believe the markets during

the winter season are never fully sup-

plied. But on the other hand, we believe

the chief lack of interest upon the sub-

ject arises from want of knowledge as

to the detail of successful growing.



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ter from a Chicago firm making inquiries

as to growers in our section of the coun-

try, with the desire of getting in touch

with them. They were unable to supply

their trade and their chief desire was to

get hold of more producers. So it would

seem that in this enterprise there is room

and to spare, and once started there is

no question as to enormous profits, com-

pared to the outlay. By the above we

do not advise a general stampede into

the business; but we rather would cau-

tion against large outlay until the detail

is learned by small undertakings and in-

creasing as circumstances demand.



That “experience is a dear school" may

be easily learned in this as well as many

ether undertakings into which we some-

times rush and t'hru lack of knowledge

as to detail, we meet our “\Vaterloo."

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or, in other words. keep near Shore until

some of the quicksands and eddies are

met and overcome in actual conflict. It

is not a business to be undertaken with

eyes shut and a haphazard method of

doing things; but is one which requires

skill, good judgment and determination

to succeed. With these requirements

there is no question as to success, and

no question as to markets when once we

have the goods. Here is an opening for

the bOys upon the farm or in the village

home where their spare time may be

profitably utilized and the foundation be

laid for a thriving business in the after

years. As to equipment, there need be

no great outlay. The chief requirements

are a. suitable place and good spawn. As

to the former, any good cellar or even a

shed will answer. There is no objection

to the house cellar, as, when properly





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THE 'MICHIGAN "‘FARMER.

prepared, there will be no unpleasant you cannot find soil in suitable condition

odors and a corner of any house cellar and may have to wait a. week or longer,

can be made an ideal spot for the work. losing the days that are most valuable.

_It should be so that ventilation can be It is easy to get plenty of good soil now

had when required, but so arranged that and store it . in any convenient place

a steady temperature can be maintained. where it will keep dry. It comes in

Any ordinary shed will answer but it handy for potting SOil in the winter as

must be frost—proof, and if not so already well as for the hot-bed. I like to have

it can rbe easily made so at trifling ex- the trenches for the beds all ready before

pense of covering outside and in with Winter set in, too. Then all that is neces-

building paper, or what is still cheaper, sary in the spring is to put in the {manure

covering over outside with straw or other and soil, and the bed is ready for use.

litter. The beds, if desired, can be made To make the garden a success a llberal

one above the other so that only small use of stable manure is essential, and the

space is required, or they can be made more We can put on in the fall the better

entirely upon the ground. It requires but it is for the ground. I haul it out and

little soil, but this must be of a texture spread it every week, never leaving it in

that will not bake, but always remain piles outside the stable to leach or burn,

friable. Good garden soil free of clay or losing its most valuable elements. On

forest loam, will be good. As to heating potato ground I believe it is less apt to

material, that should be horse manure cause scab if applied in the fall than

and thoroly cured before putting it in. the when Spread 0n the ground .lUSt before

beds. The curing is an important part, plowing. We use straw and leaves for

and the manure should carry a third or bedding the stock, so little of the liquid





more of its bulk in straw. Rye straw is manure is lost.

too long and tough but good wheat or oat

straw is better. The curing should be

done under cover so that freezing will

not interfere. The whole mass should be

thoroly forked from time to time and

dampened with water" whenever neces-

sary. The water and forking will keep

it from burning and it should be thus

handled until the straw turns brown and

will readily break up. The heating proc-

ess should be hurried as much as pos-

sible, but the mass must not be held until

the heat dies down else it can never be





Along in February you will be thinking

of starting seeds indoors for the earliest

plants. That seems like a long way off

but now is the time to make your flats

and window shelves or stands, and lay

in a supply of small flower pots. Save

the odd bits of boards when you clean

up and use them in making the supply of

flats. The size doesn’t particularly mat-

ter. The seeds will grow just as well if

some boxes are deeper or longer than

others.





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brot back. It will have to be put in while

the temperature is still high, 100 or more

degrees, and allowed to cool in the beds.

It should be damp enough when put in

the beds so that it will ball easily by

pressure of the fingers, and when prop-

erly cured and put into the bed there

will be no unpleasant odor. Thus placed

in the bed and covered with the soil the

temperature must range from 95 to 100

degrees and the thermometer will readily

indicate when the bed is ready for spawn-

ing.



As to the spawning, success or failure

will largely depend upon its worth. Much

that is sent out is entirely worthless and

will not grow at all, so great care is

necessary and the best way doulbtless is

to procure it of growers of known relia-

bility. I have none for sale and am not

advertising any grower, but there are

reliable men whose guarantee will be good

and it is well to deal with such parties,

as a poor article of spawn means entire

failure.



The above is simply an outline of a

business which, if carefully and intelli-

gently carried on, will bring success.



Wayne Co. J. E. Monsm.





LATE FALL GARDEN WORK.





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By the latter part of November all

Vegetables should be disposed of or stored

for the winter, but it sometimes happens

that the storing was not properly done

and the vegetables begin to rot. If such

is found to be the case sort over the

entire heap, removing all vegetables that

show any sign of decay; and in re-storing

the remainder be sure they are properly

protected and will not be subjected to

much variation of temperature. Potatoes

and apples will keep best if allowed to go

thru a sweat before storing.



Even for a small garden the hot-bed

is a necessity if extra early vegetables

are wanted. Now is the time to prepare

the soil for them if you have not already

done so. Next spring when you want to

start the hot-bed the probability is that





season for the man who likes to be pre-

pared to go right ahead with his work

in the spring. The tools should be looked

over carefully before being put away.

Some may need repairing or painting, and

none should be put away rusty or with

dirt adhering to them. Poles for lima

beans Should be stacked conveniently;

some rhubarb roots prepared for a winter

supply of that delicious vegetable; and

most important of all, a plan of next

year’s garden should be made. It need

not be made all at once, but begin early

and work it out gradually, so that you

can go ahead intelligently when the an-

nual spring rush is at hand.

Ohio. N. S. GREEN.





MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING.





 





Kalamazoo, December 7-8-9, are to be

kept 1n mind by all interested in fine

fruits and flowers, as the thirty—ninth an-

nual meeting of the Michigan State Horti-

cultural Society is to be held in the Celery

City on those dates. Among the speakers

are Hon. Alex. McNeil], chief of the fruit

division of Canada; Gabriel Hiester, presi-

dent of the Pennsylvania society; W. W.

Farnsworth, the noted Ohio fruit author—

ity; Prof. H. A, Huston, of Chicago; J.

C. B. Heaton, the apple authority, of Illi-

nois; Profs. Eustace, Pettit, Taft and

White, of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege; Miss Jennie Buell, lecturer of the

State Grange; Rev. Caroline Bartlett

Crane, of Kalamazoo; T. A. Farrand, of

Eaton Rapids, and many others of the

best Michigan fruit men.



With about $300 in merchandise prem-

iums offered for the best displays of fruits

and flowers, this year’s exhibition will be

the very finest in the history of the so-

ciety. The display of spraying machinery

and appliances will be the largest ever

seen in the state, there being no less than

15 power sprayers of all kinds now on the

list and more to come.



The annual banquet, with Prof. Thomas

Gunson as toastmaster, will be a. big fea-

ture and then there will be sight-seeing

trips, illustrated lectures, and other events

to make the sessions most interesting for

both ladies and gentlemen. Students of

the Agricultural College will conduct the

fruit judging for liberal prizes.



Secretary C. E. Bassett, Fennville, will

mail programs to all who drop him a card,

and will reserve space for all who have

anything to display.





 





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There are five Granges in Menominee

county. The largest one is Pioneer

Grange, located at Stephenson and having

now 300 members in good standing.

Strong Granges have been formed at

Powers, Carney. Nathan and Daggett by

County Deputy Evan Anderson. On Au—

gust 28\of this year Bro. J. W. Hutchins,

accompanied by Bro. John Wilde, organ-

ized Charity‘Pomona with a membership

of 87. One subsequent meeting has been

held and the list now numbers 104. The

next meeting of the Pomona will be held

at Powers, January 3, 1910. Special pas-

senger rates have been secured and'at

least 100 people will come up the line

from Stephenson, Daggett- and Carney to

attend the meeting. Bro. R. N. Seward

is Pomona lecturer and he is leaving no

stone unturned that will help to make

this meeting a splendid success. He is

captain of a degree team in Pioneer

Grange and this team, which has con-

ferred the subordinate degrees for some

time will be ready to give the degree of

Pomona at Powers on January 3.



Hospitality is a prominent virtue

among the Patrons of Menominee county.

In my work as state speaker in the recent

farmers’ institutes I have noted with

surprise and pleasure that not only the

state man but all the local speakers were

royally entertained by the Grange of the

locality in which the institute was held.

. The members of these Granges are sav-

ing money also. Since the organization

of Pioneer Grange a little over two years

ago the members have hot $10,000 worth

of flour and feed thru a contract of their

own making. besides patronizing State

Grange contracts ,liberally. Carney

Grange is also doing much work in this

line. The State Grange fire insurance

company is popular in this locality and

the local directors seem to do their work

Very well. With the agricultural school

at Menominee, the five local Granges and

a hustling Pomona, agriculture should

recei 'e an impetus that will tell mightily

in tux development of what will become,

in time, one of the best rural counties in

the state. W. F. TAYLOR.





COMBINING COUNTRY FORCES.





For the past three years Ypsilanti

Grange, under the leadership of Lecturer

Ennis R. Twist, has followed a policy of

making one program in every quarter an

open one and devoting it to the presenta—

tion by an outside speaker of some topic

of general in terest in the community.

People outside the Grange membership,

but known to have direct interest in the

particular subject to be considered, are

invited. Sometimes other organizations

which are working along this special line

are asked to attend or send representa-

tives to participate in the discussions. In

this way questions relating to dairying,

fruit culture. good roads, the state con-

stitution temperance. birds. schools and

the tariff have been presented. On Nov.

6 this event occurred for the present

quarter. when an all—day meeting in con-

junction with the Washtenaw County

School Teachers’ Association was held.

Members of Gleaner arbors and of Farm-

ers' Clubs. rural pastors and Sunday

school workers were cordially invited.

for a part of the aim of the program was

to consider how rural forces might

strengthen one another's efforts.



Just about one-half the teaching force

and local Grange membership was able

to attend. Plans had been made for sep—

arate sections in the morning but the dc-

sire to hear both programs led to com-

bining them, necessitating curtailment and

doing away with discussion. While. this

washinfortunate in one way, partial off-

set was gained by satisfaction in joining

forces along common lines and the sow—

ing of a very large crop of seed thots.





The morning opened with a paper on

“School Sanitation” by Dr. J, E. Mc-





Donald. of the State Board of Health,

giving explicit details of how school prem-

ises should be attended to in case pro-

vision is not already made for abundant

supplies of pure air and water, and for

keeping floors and walls clean and out-

buildings decent. H

Following this came a Conference on

Countrv Life." with a View to clearly set

forth its greatest needs and how the or-

"anizations rem‘eSented might work to





hieet them. Mr. . B. Graham, one of

Lenawee c0unty’s “large farmers” and

lecturer of its Pomona Grange. opened





s conference with a. concise. carefully

hlfiepared talk upon "The rural field and

its needs.” He said, in part: Country

life is the best it has ever been but its

ideal is not yet attained. Country life

should be of such nature that country

people may enioy the comforts of any

other people. The field for _its uplift, in

my opinion. lies in four directions: ,

Wetter farming. 2. Better or more even

distribution of farm products. 3. Domg

nway with the amassing of large for—

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initiative and referendum, better roads

and schools and more of them, readjust-

ment of taxation system, and every

farmer in the Grange.”



While Mr. Graham forcefully portrayed

some country life needs from the purely

business and material side. the next

speaker, Mr. L. E. Buell, State Secretary

of the Y. M, C. A., dealt with the same

topic from the standpoint of character-

building. In brief he said: “Because 60

per cent of the men and boys of the na-

tion are in the country, the Y. C. A.

is interested in this problem with you.

Let us have improvement of corn and

other farm crops, not alone for material

advancement, but thru that means to in-

spire and train the boys and girls. In

almost any gathering of leaders of politi-

cal, business, educational or moral enter-

prises, 75 per cent are usually from the

country; but this condition will soon be

reversed unless new attention is given

to country life. The city. with its gym-

nasiums, its nature study, manual train-

ing. etc., is systematically supplying its

boys with the opportunities which the

country boy has in his natural environ-

ment but often neglects to make the

most of. We need, therefore: 1, Thot

on the systematic development of boys

and girls. 2, Leadership. 3, Organiza-

tion that will set people at work doing

things, putting responsibility upon them

and so training leaders.- 4. Christianity,

Which will enable us to do away with

petty jealousies and bickerings.”



The subjects under discussion in the

morning overflowed into the afternoon

session. Miss Josenhans, member of

Saline Farmers’ Club and rural Sabbath

school teacher as well as Grange officer,

brot out the key to the conference in a

short but very choice paper upon the

various forces at work for a better coun-





try life and urged their co-operation.

Among other things she said: “The

Country Life Commission’s report gave





a large vision of what rural life may be-

come. It is most gratifying to workers

along these lines that the people as a

whole are giving'attention to the plans

now before them. In discussing and fur-

thering these plans we cannot put one

side the forces now in existence; in fact.

it would be impossible to carry out any

scheme for rural progress without their

foundations. We believe that the time

has come when a closer federation of all

ihcse forces should be accomplishcd.

These. forces, for convenience, may be

placed in three divisions: 1, Religious,

including the family life, church. Sunday





school, county Y. M. A, and the var—

ious societies connectcd more or loss

with the moral and spiritual life. 2, Ed-





ucational, composed of public schools. col—

lege of agriculture, experiment stations.

institutes, agricultural fairs. the farm

press, and should include the, university.

3. Industrial. as Grange. farmers’ club,

glcancr. farmers’ alliance, notional farm-

ers’ congress and others. The. country

church has lost its hold on rural commu-

nities because the people have not de-

manded all of its powers but have allowed

it to go down under the false impression

that, other societies could take its place.

I plcad for a just consideration of this

agency for rural uplift.



“Our educational system has been de-

reotive in that it has influenced rural

youth to flock to village and city. Our

schools must train for rural life. We

must have teachers who are in hearty

accord with rural conditions. Together

with pastors and other leaders in rural

communities thcv must lead in a social

and communal life. Thcrc is an under-

flow of discontent and inability to make

individual effort. Existing conditions are

such that we must work togcthcr for one

end of betterment. Organized or co-op-

erative effort has not been fully under-

stood. much as has been done in the past

quarter century: but too often, as organ—

izations, we have worked separately and

against one another. We welcome all

forces but we must have. above all, an

undcrstnnding of our ultimate object—

the greatest good to the whole rural com-

munity.”



Mr. R. H. Bailey showed one of the

state’s traveling libraries and urged it as

a helpful feature in anv home, school or

community. Prof. W. H. French, of Lan-

sing, presented the new farm and home

reading courses as the latest effort of the

Agricultural College to extend its use

into the homes of the men and women

who cannot go to the college itself. Re-

ferring to the discussions of the morning

meeting, Prof. French made a strong

point of his opinion that the greatest bor-

ricr to farm progress, as a rule. is the

farmers’ inability or unwillingness to take.

criticism. This be illustrated in various

ways in an address upon “Relations of

Parent and Teacher.” School patrons

are slow to see and act upon the fact

that no one person can do justice to eight

grades of pupils in one room. We need

two rooms and two teachers in most dis—

tricts and. forgetting old boundaries. to

satisfactory school is equipped, with a.

satisfactory school is souipped. with a

Work bench in it and all interested In the

activities of the neighborhood.



Delightful music interspersed the parts

of the program. It was a day in some

wavs unique to us: the Grange for fortv

years has labored along these lines within

itself. but here, was a recognition of a

new era when organizations shall meet

and confer together as individuals do.

nnlv dimly. yet. is the significance of this

later movement grasped. May it not be

an important part in the coming of the

“greater brotherhood of menu-man"



JENNIE BUELL.





 





COMING EVENTS.





 





Michigan State Grange, Thirty-seventh

Annual Session. at Traverse City, Dec-

ember 14-17.



Pomona Meetings. '



Eaton Co.. with Eaton Rapids Grange,

Saturday. Nov, 20.



Gratiot Co., with Liberty Grange. Sat-

urday, Nov. 27. Bro. Jason Woodman.

state speaker. Election of officers and

of State Grange delegates.



Kent Co.. with Cedar Springs Grange.

Thursday and Friday. Nov. and

Bro. Colon C. Lillie, state speaker,





 





‘_‘ THE!» MICHIGAN FARMER.‘





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Address all correspondence relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. W.

L. Cheney, Mason, Mich.





THE ANNUAL MEETING.





 





 





December 7-8, 1909.



Just a word to the recording secretar-

ies. The report blanks were sent you

the first of November and the Associa--

tional Secretary‘s report will not be com-

plete unless every one of those report

blanks are returned to her properly filled

out. Secretaries please be prompt.



Inquiries are being received about indi-

vidual membership to the State Associa-

tion.



At the regular meeting held in 1906

the following resolutions were passed:

“A member of any club, upon the pay-

ment of the sum of five dollars, may be-

come a life member of the association.

And a member of any club, upon the pay-

ment of the sum of fifty cents may be-

come a member for one year."



- Mas. W. L. CHENEY, Sec.





ATTEND THE ASSOCIATIONAL

MEETING.





 





The 17th Annual Meeting of the Mich-

igan State Association of Farmers’ Clubs,

is now near at hand and the indications

all point to a most profitable meeting.



The program committee has provided a

most excellent program and each and

every session will be full of good things

for all who attend. and don’t you forget

that all are welcome.



Practical subjects will be dealt with

by practical men and women—those who

know. from experience, what they are

“talking about.” Among the many sub-

jects to be considered are the following:

“The Fruit Question." “Farm Manage—

ment.” (and right here is where lots of

us fail), “Practical Temperance," and

truly a leading question at this present

crucial time in Michigan). “The State‘s

Financial Predicament,” (and you want

to know what it is). And mixed in. at

appropriate times, will be some excellent

music, and which you ought to hear and

enjoy.



And then there’s President Chandler's

address, “chuck full” of practical ideas,

(trimmed with wit). Say, had’nt you

better go over to Lansing on Decembcr





7 and 8, and “fill up” on these good

things? Take “a day off” and enjoy

yourself. It’ll do you good, and you need





it, and you’ll live longer and better. for

attending this meeting.

J. T. DANIELLS.





 





CLUB DISCUSSION-S.





Beautlfying School Grounds and Ceme-

teries—"A cordial welcome awaited the

20th Century Club at the home of Edward

Lee and wife. After the usual business

and the election of Mrs. Martha Dancer

as delegate to State Association, the

question, “Beautifying of rural school

grounds and,cen‘icterics," was opened by

Robert Tygh, who heartily favored the

idea and advocated planting shade trees

and flowers in the Sl‘IlOUI yard as it would

increase the, love for the beautiful, cause

the children to be interested in plant

growth and instill into their minds a love

for the Creator. He said it was impos-

sible to grow good. intellectual children

Without beautiful surroundings. 110. also

advocated beautifying rural cemeteries.

Here he met no opposition, as all were

agreed on this branch of the question,

but the school grounds Were another thing

as the majority said it was better for the

children to have plenty of exercise than

flowers; that physical exercise was neces-

sary for a healthy body and that a strong

body was necessary for a strong, active

brain. That flowers for tho girls might

be placed in some corner as a healthy,

normal boy would have little respect for

a flower bed, if it was in a direct line

taken by a base ball; that we would not

like our children‘s play to be barred by

lines. as in the Goldwater school. The

program completed, the (”‘lub adjourned

to meet the first \\'cducsday in I’lcccmbcr

with Mrs. “'m. Ilulchins, for clcction of

officers, discussion of the program of the

State, Association, and a sor-ial meeting

generallysfllcimic M. Ford. (‘or_ Sec.



Will Hold Thanksgiving Dinner.—Thc

Iiickory Farmers' (‘lub Ilt‘IlI its October

meeting at the beautiful farm home of

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Monti. Quite. a large

number wcre prcswnt. considering the

busy season when farmers are harvesting

their beets. The day was. fine and much

enjoyed by all present, especially tho din—

ner, which was fine. 1Vir. bionti lcd llio

discussion very ably. the subjcci' bcing

“\Vhat are the host methods of raising

hogs and preparing thcm for market?”

Mrs. Emma Moshcr read a paper which

was much approciatcd by all. on the sub-

ject, “Our social dulics. that are thov‘.’”

After the. program the (‘lub adjourned to

meet Nov. 18. at the home of Mr, and

Mrs. E. Purdy, for their Thanksgiving

dinner. and as is the cusiom of the club,

the. men have to serve the dinner on that

day so we expect something especially

good.



Discuss the Cream Separator.—The

Hadley and Elba Farmers’ (‘lub hold their

October meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Otis

Thompson. Mrs. William Rartcnfclder

read an excellent paper on “The Cream

Separator for the Farm.” which was fol-

lowed by a general discussion. It was

universially conceded that the cream sep—

arator has come to stay. The question

box furnished amusement as wcll as in-

struction. The next meeting will be at

the, home of Mr. and Mrs. John Simons.

Thursday. Nov, 1.9.



Favor “Natural" Roadsides.—The Sum-





 





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mit Farmers’ Club was pleasantly enter-

tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D.

M. Poling on the third Thursday of Octo-

ber. After an excellent dinner the Club

was called to order by the president. The

question, “Shall the farmer accept with-

out protest the new highway law in re-

gard to the removal of brush by the road-

side?” was opened by Mr. McDevitt, who

said in part: “At first on thinking of the

proposition I believed that no protest

should be made, but upon further consid—

eration I could see at once that it should

be contested. First, because it would be

monotonous to drive day after day with

all roads looking alike, but now when we

want a drive we go where different views

can be found. \Ve enjoy a beautiful sun-

set with its brilliant colored clouds. So

it is at this time of year to see the beau-

tiful colored leaves and then again the

shrubs act as a Wind shield, and not

enough attention is being paid to wind

protectors. Not enough attention is paid

to our roads (by our representatives, they .

vote money for the deepening of chan-

nels in our rivers for the steel trust to

bring down ore from the mines, but not

one cent to help our roads and highways.

Let us send out protests, with other

Clubs of our county. to them to remembed

about the roads.” Some of the club mem-

bers are in favor of the law, others are

not.



The Club Fain—The annual fair was

held this month. The exhibition hall was

prettily decorated and the exhibits num-

erous and of excellent quality. The lad—

ies' fancy work department showed many

beautiful specimens of needlework. Many

varieties of potatoes, apples, squash,

pumpkins, corn and other grains Were

exhibited, also chickens and rabbits. Also

a six—footed, five-legged calf. which be-

longed to Mr. Poling. The little bovine.

aliho only a few hours old, was very

lively, and late reports say that it is

growing and is in a fine healthy condition.

The members have some spccdy horses

and the latter part of the aftcrnoon was

devoted to horse racing. The. fastest time,

was 2:35. The club adjourncd to meet

with Mr. and Mrs. Mount the third Thurs—

day in Noveml)cr.——Mrs. John Gray, Cor.

Sec.



Elect Ex-President \Natkins as Dele-

gate.——Thc regular meeting of the Nor-

vell Farmers’ Club, of Jackson (70., was

held on October 30, in the Baptist church

and was attended by about thirty per-

sons. The dinner was served in the town

ball by the ladies’ aid and over fifty tick~

cts wwrc sold. President '1‘. B, Hulluday

callcd in order and after prayer by Rev. ,

F‘. I. l’ilnnchnrd and singing by the club,

it was volcd to continue the n‘icmbcrship

of the club in the state association and

L. “'hitnoy Vi’atkins was choscn as dclc-

gate to the annual meeting at Lansing in

Deccmber.



Do Not Hurry.——The essay by Miss

Elmo Holmes gave some reasons why wc

should not hurry. It is ii’iclcgant. It is

scarcely possible to be. graceful and lady—

likc when in a hurry. It does not Coll-

duce to the. practice of good manucrs. nor

to happiness. It is always worth while

to take time, to give the kindly Word and





the plcaszmt smile. Nor docs hurrv con—

(lucc lo accomplishmcnis. The, grcatcst

workcrs :irc quict \vorkcrs. Do not lct





dulics :u-cumulalc so that we, must hurry.

Strive lo :ucquirc IIII‘ habit of doing our

work quictly :llllI cfiicicnlly and more will

be acolumplishcd than if we are in :1

hurry.



Maintaining Soil Fertility.——At thc 0c-

lobcr nicciing of thc Conway l'nion

Farmers’ Club. the question, “The best

way to kccp up the fertility of the soil.“

was assigned to E. ll'ousc. Tic would

rccommcnd drawing 'all munurc back on

land, growing clovcr, top drossing whczit

and clovcr with munurc, plowing undcr

mammoth clovor and rye. also the use of

coimncrcial fcrlilizcrs. F. Curtis spoke

of boon dust as a good fci'iilizor. J. Sny-

dcr would use :1 manure sprcadcr and give

frcoucnt and lhoro cultivation to the soil.



The Prospects for Lamb Feeding.——Thc

usbject. "\Vlml' arc the prospects. for

lamb fccdingr the present season?“ Was

given to M. XVilkinson. He read some

cxtraci‘s from stock journals showing

that the price of fccdcrs was highcr than





last ycar, also that boy was higher, but

that there was a corrcsponding increase





in the price of mutton. Ho considcrcel

the prospects as good :is usual, he

question box was unusuallv good and brot





out some pretty livclv discussions. The

November mcciing of the Club will hr-

held with Mr. and Mrs. (‘arr on the last

Friday of the month.~—l\l1‘s. O E. C‘arr,

Cor. Soc.



MemOry Day Bearing Fruit—Tho talk

by T. B. Ilalladny on “Our (‘cnici‘cry,"

was very interesting. In 181:? :1 l-lnptisl:





society was formed to hold tho liilc. Rllll

$23 was paid to Harvey Auslin (or 98 rods

of land for :1 ccmciclfiv. 'l‘wo or lhrcc ml—

(litious havc bccn llllllll‘ since, onc bv Ml:

Converse who donalcd the land. About

IRTS a corporation \vns formed lo hold the





ground. and in 1977 it was deeded to tl=o

township board of llcnlth, \vhorc it still

rcsls. so the title is peril-cl. \\'b:lt (‘Hll

bo donc to beautify illc grounds? Fowl





cullivnlil'm is to l‘c urged so that lhc lnwu

mowcr can work casilv and l'rccly. 'l‘h»

row of maples along tho oust side should

bc cxi‘oudcll to tho uol'lll lino and a row

of ovcrgrccns might be sci along thc \vcsi





sidc to form n buckrzrouml iillll wind—

brcnk. A better systcm of rccordiug tho





location of graves should bc :llIflDIWI. :1

fircclny post with tho numbcr of tho lol

imbedded in tlic lop. at tho corncr of each

lot would cost but littlc. Ililhcrl'o it has

not been so. but now a sum of mouov

can be left to the township, board.

the income i‘hcrcof to be used in the care

of a lot or in providing ilowcrs. or in anv

way. in perpetuity. I am glad our title

is whcrc it is and not in a corporation.

Our legislature has sci aside two days.

May 25 and Scptcmbcr 20, for the im-

provcmcnt of our cemotcrics in each year.

Mr. Burgess said that thc town board

appropriated about $50 each year for the.

care, and improvement of the cemeterv.

and on motion, it was voted that they be

rcqucsicd to carry out the suggestions

made by Mr. Halladay so far as the plant-

ing of trees is concerned.
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