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Since the declaration

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the United States gov-

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medium of the Department of Agricul-

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essential factor in an early and satis-

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and the Michigan Farmer has under—

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the end that an adequate food supply

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insured.



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Apropos of the dis-

cussion relating to

the fixing of mini—

mum prices on farm

products by the federal government,

some significant developments have

occurred in Michigan which are at

once an assurance that Michigan farm-

ers will receive compensatory prices

for their products next fall and that

any minimum price which may be fix-

ed by the federal government will be

fair to the producers as measured by

private contracts already entered into

by Michigan producers.



The latest development along this

line occurred at the meeting of the

State Food Preparedness Committee

last week. At this meeting State Mar-

ket Director McBride submitted a plan

for the establishment of minimum

prices in Michigan by contract. Under

this plan definite contracts would be

made between farmers and business

or civic organizations of cities for dell:

nite amounts of food stuffs at a defl-

nite price. The tentative prices includ-

ed in the plan, carload‘ freight paid to

Michigan common points, were as fol«

lows: Potatoes, $1 per bushel; beans,

$6 per bushel; corn (shelled), $1.25 per

bushel; cabbage, one—half 'cent per

pound; carrots, one cent per pound;

rutabagas, one cent per pound. The

plan received commendation from the

committee and the markets office was

asked to look after the details of put-

ting same into eiTect. Incidentally Mr.

Prudden, of the Food Preparedness

Committee, started the movement by

placing a. tentative order for 50,006

bushels of potatoes (about eighty car-

loads), at the suggested price. At the

first food preparedness, conference call-

cd by Governor Sleeper, "President Orr

of the Michigan Bean Jobbers’ Asso-

ciation, also a member of the food com«

mittee, showed his faith in the future

of the bean market by entering into

contract with a prominent Gratiot

county farmer for the product, of a

large acreage of beans at $6 a bushel.



These initial contracts promise much

for the success of the plan of establish-

ing minimum prices by contract in

Michigan. Farmers who are interested

in this plan should address the State

Director of Markets, at East Lansing,

or apply to the county agent in their

county for further information and de-

tails concerning it. The willingness of

farmers to enter into contracts for the

delivery of specific amounts of food

stuffs at these suggested prices, and

the willingness of business or other

organizations or individuals in con-

suming centers to contract for them,

will determine the ultimate success of

the plan for the distribution of Michi-

gan farm products on a large scale. In

any event the advancement of the plan

will have a most beneficial effect on

the crystallization of public sentiment

as to the proper level of minimum

prices for farm products in the present

emergency. At the same time the sug-

gested prices should indicate a prob-

able minimum which should go far in

stimulating production on Michigan

farms.





Minimum Prices

by Contract.





Herbert C. Hoover,



Government Food former head of re-

COntrol. lief work in. Bel-

gium, has been or



pointed by President Wiison as food

commissioner for the United States.

nutfitbecloseottbewor,snd€eu~

gress will be asked to clothe him with

large powers in the administration of

food control. Mr. Hoover has had mac-

tical experience in his previous field of

work, and wide opportunity for first-

hand observation of food‘control smith?





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eds" p ., _ ,, ,

prove invaluable in the administration

of his newly created offi'be. 'He will

serve without pay and with volunteer

assistants. ~His initial statement as to

his views of food control measures is

most reassuring to all concerned ex-

cept the professional speculator in food

stuffs. As to the desirable ends to be

accbmplished by regulation, after com-

meeting on recent speculative price

disturbances, he says: .



“It is necessary for us to devise with

the best thought of this country tem-

porary balance wheels by which we

can-establish stability of price in the

great staples, bearing in mind always

that we must maintain a price that





will stimulate production by assuring.





good returns to the producer and at

the same time will diminish the cost

of living lest we fate social readjust-

ments, and strike disturbances with

consequent loss of nationalefficiency.”



As a means to the end of bringing

about these desirable results, Mr.

Hoover appeals to the patriotism of

the men and women of the country for

their support in the administration of

food control, and especiafly in the

elimination of waste. Producers and

distributors are reassured by the

statement that while broad powers are

essential to adequate food control such

control will be administered so far as

possible through the regular channels

of distribution, and with the aid of

separate executive bodies constituted

of the leaders of the country, produc-

ers, distributors, bankers and consum-

ers alike. Mr. Hoover closes his state-

ment by disclaimmg any inclination to

become. a food dictator and announcing

his ambition to help- the people to

solve their own problems. In this ef-

fort he is entitled to the cooperation

of every patriotic person in the

country.





On another page of this

issue appears a tabula-

tion of the experiences

of thirty farmers who

have during the past years added

acetylene gas plants to their farm

home equipment. _Many of these farm-

ers had had their plants inStalled for

five years and more, the total aggre-

gate use represented by all the reports

exceeding 130 years of experience un-

der varying farm conditions. In the

tible the experience is so arranged

that one’ can at a glance get the opin-

ion of any one of these thirty users or

all of them, upon the various practical

questions put to them, and in the last

column of the compilation is given in

abbreviated form such remarks as

each of the farmers wished to make.

Readers of this journal interested in

these plants will find this data very

helpful in judging as to the efficiency

of a gas plant upon the farm.





Gas Plants on

Form.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





Foreign.





The European War.—-—The- Allies con-

tinue to hammer the German line in

Northern France. The British now

hold Builecourt firmly in their posses-

sion and are fighting to straighten out

the line to the north of that point. .In

taking this position an additional mile

of the famous Hindenburg line has

been wrested from the Kaiser’s men

and the chances are improved for

throwing the whole line out of balance.

Farther to the south the army of. the

German crown prince. continues inef-

fectually its attempt to. break the

French front along the Chemin—des-

Dames. After an intense shell fire_ of

all calibers and the use of asphyXIat-

ing gas the Germans were able to get

out of their trenches in only a few m-

stances and in only one did they reach

theflrstfineofthemy,so .

was the responding fire of the French.

—With the intro-venom in political

conditions in Russia, the central pow—

ers have fear at; an aggressive mfliwy

movement on the eastern front and to

gain time and advantage the Germans

uns sesame attacked the Russians

in ‘7'”: lhyjnia sector. The Russians

also ‘ ‘ ' fiadriw in the vicinity of

checked an offensive east

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attacks by the Austrians. The latest

cables indicate that further successes

attended the operationsof the Italians

early. this week—~11: Macedonia artil-

lery duels and isolated infantry en-

ga emerits continue._



‘ollowing the discovery of a well-

formed plot for the fomenting of a

revolution in Costa Rica under the

leadership of Fix-president Gonzales,

search is now being made along the

uninhabited coasts of the country for

a German submarine base. .



Three Swedish ships laden with

grain for that. country, and guaranteed

safe transportation by Berlin, have

been sunk by undersea craft.



An explosive manufacturing plant at

Vienna, Austria, was destroyed by an

explosion in which nine men were kill—

ed and many injured, according to

news from Copenhagen.



National.



America’s military program includes

landing of 500,000 soldiers and a pow-

erful force of naval vessels, in Europe

within a year. The first expedition of

25,000 men will likely be sent by early

fall under the command of General

Pershing. America already has a flo-

tilla of submarine Chasers hunting for

enemy under-sea craft in the British

war zone.



The selective army bill calling for a

total of 1,600,000 troops has been

enacted into law. The measure pro—

vides for the registration of all males

between the ages of twenty-one to

thirty inclusive, from which the con-

scripted army is to be raised, for in-

creasing the regular army to its maxi-

mum war strength and for drafting in-

to federal service all national guard

units. June 5 has been chosen for

conscription registration day.



Colonel Roosevelt’s offer to organize

and command a large force of Ameri-

can _soldiers for service in France and

Belgium has been declined by the Pres-

ident. The men who had volunteered

their services in such an organization

and undertaking have been absolved





from any further connection with the i

They have been advised ‘





movement.

to enter military service in some way,,

but if this is impossible to serve the

country in her efforts to carry the bur-

dens of war.



The special war board for the con.-

trol of railway transportation through-

out the United States during the war

has issued instructions ordering that

passenger traffic be curtailed as much

as possible in order to free equipment

for the handling of freight.



A new steamship line connecting

Baltimore with South American ports

will be inaugurated May 30 by the saiL

ing of the steamship Senta;





 





 





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(Bulletin No. 4, Research Dept., Michigan F armer)

In the following table are given the experiences of thirty Michigan farmers with gas plants, ten of which have been in

operation for five years or more. Every precaution has been taken to accurately interpret the reports—no selection

has being made to color the character of the survey. Where blanks appear no answers were made. ‘





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5 I Livingston . Residence I There:1 is nothing to do but to fill generator. Plant should be installed so refuse can be conveniently ‘

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7 I Branch yrs. Outside . . . Lighting Lights are fine and the plant is easy to take care of. Would not take twice what I gave for outfit if I’ ' ' '

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I Cooking _ - plant outsrde on the level where it would be easier to remove refuse from generator.

Lighting p . . . . Same Yes ' _ ’ a Lights are bright, out of the way and an ornament to the rooms. My only expenses have been for .

- carbide. Saves much time in home. ' '

Lighting .' Larger Yes ' _ Bought my first plant in 1900 and present one 8 years ago.

Better to have plant located in a frost proof outside pit.

Lighting and -_. Same yes . _We get good light and are satisfied in a way but carbide does not last as long as claimed. Refilling in:

Cooking Winter is an unpleasant task. » -

Lighting 1, ' ' Same ....... Thinks ' .. We would not be without this plant. T

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Lighting 1.50 Same Yes I Isee no disadvantages in these plants. The improved lights keep me home more.

- relieved of the work of cleaning lamps.





Lighting 800 to Larger I Yes Best light for the eyes. Our plant is placedi n a cement cave in a side hill. We have had no’rebair

$1.60 expenses. . , _





Lighting and 200 _ Yes ' I am not sufficiently familiar with other systems of lighting to form an opinion of their relatiVe merits»

Coo ing but we are certainly very well pleased with our 16 years of experience.





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Minimum and Max1mum Prices





’ By JAMES N. MCBRIDE

State Director of Markets





INIMUM and maximum prices



for farm crops have been oppos-



ed by the speculation element.

These clearly see their undoing in the

narrowing of the price margin be-

tween minimum and maximum figures.

Unregulated trading makes the earth

and sky the‘limits. \Vith the changes

proposed by the United States the hori-

zon would be visible for both producer

and consumer.



H. C. Hoover, the mining engineer,

whose Belgian experience will prob-

ably make him food director in the

United States, points out that the 1916

wheat crop passed out of growers’

hands around an average of $1.30 per

bushel. Each advance in price until it

reached $3.30, measured the possible

margin of gain to speculators who took

that gain frOm the consumer, not for

the benefit of the producer, who would

have used it to produce more Wheat,

but for purposes unrelated to food

supply. The consumer has not kept

clear this distinction of profit return-

ing to production, or being- diverted

therefrom. For the United States to

have had a minimum price of $2.00, for

example, and a maximum of $2.25,

would have reduced wheat handling to

a merchandising proposition. The rail-

roads have a regulated transportation

or handling rate and it is this prospect

that the speculator sees in the United

States action on prices. To prevent

this, misleading tactics and specious

reasoning is employed, intended to de-

ceive.



Munitions Vs. Food Stuffs.



Some manufacturing concerns ten~

dered their plants to the United States

for the interest. on the investment, plus

salaries and depreciation. Here was

a minimum price on operations, which

was undoubtedly more than a mini-

mum price to agriculture would be,

with similar allowances. The turning

01 e1 of faims 011 such a basis with ad-

equate or similar payments for super-

intendence would banki upt the United

States treasury. A minimum price for

farm crops was distorted into a hold-

up game, while a halo of patriotism

surrounded the manufacturer. When

the United States Defense Board con-





.sidered all these n1atte1s,and especial-





ly when the United States was to be‘

come the world's greatest buye1 of

food stuffs, it was determined to treat

agriculture as it did or my othei indus-

try and place its cideis at a fair price.

\n o1der presupposes a known consid-

eration and calculations to meet it.

This was to be the minimum price for

staple crops. A few orders for copper

were made vastly under the market.

but this policy was wholly abandoned

as it Was seen to unsettle trade rela-

tions, just at the time the United

States was demanding service and

money. To get service and money

(taxes) from agriculture, some thought-

less thinkers would have had the Uni—

ted States make of agriculture an ex-

ception to this rule, which the defense

board early foresaw as a necessity.

Wholly disregarding this as an estab-

lished national policy, the food spec-

ulator opposed a minimum price or or-

der buying applied to agriculture, be-

cause .the consumer must be consider-

ed. The minimum price to have any

effect whatever, must increase the

food supply, which would tend to low-

er the price below v. hat the maximum

would be, if the supply was less, and

hence benefit the consumei.

Specious Arguments.



Next, it was unsafe for the farmer to

have a minimum price because in the

interest of the consumer, the United

States would make a lower price than

unrestricted supply and demand would

normally give. This presumption as-

sumes bad faith on the part of the





= United States government toward the





   

 





farmer, as well as ignorance of funda-

mental agiiculture. The simultaneous

fixing of minimum and maximum

prices assumes action without knowl-

edge of crop volume or conditions of

yield, else the promise of a minimum

that would increase production and af-

terwards a maximum that would neu~

tralize the promise of profit. This

would react the next year. This we

sumption is, however, not so unnatural,

considering the presumers who had

just done what Mr. Hoover had said of

the pi 10c paid the grower for the 1916

wheat cr.op Nor was it unnatural to

presume that the consumer was in

need of protection, considering what

had just happened to him in increas-

ing bread prices. Also at this time the





Chicago wheat board barred futures





dealing to save the “shorts” from ruin,

regardless of the wrongs inflicted on

the producers' average selling price of

$1.30, and on the consumer, with each

advance until $3.30 was reached.



The assumption of the guardianship

of the farmer against the dangers of a

minimum price and the protectorate

over the consumer from the harm the

farmer might do him, would be humor-





   





but the upscale-tor, and to him. enor-

mous profit.

The Speculator’s Waterloo.



The view is held by many that nev-

er again will civilized governments al-

low organized speculation in foods.

Like the menace of alcohol to national

existence in time of war, the food spec-

ulator will passthe way of the saloon

keeper. For each there is no economic

place, and both interfere with eth-

ciency. The arguments of the f00d

speculator in «the final analysis seem

like ones already discredited, as “in-

terference with personal liberties,” is

“necessary to maintain business” and

“a dead town without it.”





England has stopped wheat specula-

tion by a minimum price. Liverpool

no longer makes wheat prices for the

world. It is this governmental atti-

tude that has frightened the specula-

or's world. ‘



No honest farmer will fail to‘ wel-

come governmental inquiry into crop

costs and a fair minimum price, nor

will he oppose a maximum price from

the government, to prevent extortion.

As a practical fact, extortion is only

possible when food stuffs are concen-

trated in a few hands. Agriculture has

no such organization, or a minimum

price would not be necessary, or $1.30

wheat for 1916 possible.





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Don’t Use Diseased or Frosted Seed Beans





YEAR ago all authorities ’on

A bean diseases advised the use of



clean seed.‘ At that time it was

practically an impossibility to obtain

disease-tree beans for we had just had

two wet years during which few con-

trol methods had been employed. Such

conditions are especially favorable for

the development and spread of these

diseases, consequently there was a

general infection in all the bean grow-

ing sections of this part of the coun-

try and as beans from the far west do

not mature properly here, the pros-

pects for a big loss due to the use of

diseased seed was iminent in the

spring of 1916. A great many growers

got the best seed they could and hand-

picked it 11101 oughly. Others used

beans for seed that had no qualifica-

tion for merit except that, according

to the user, they were cheap. The

writer observed a number of instances

where beans with a ten to fifteen

pound pick, and even culls, were used

for seed. '



Due to the peculiarly dry summer

of 1916 and not to the foresight or

credit of the men who used poor .seed,

anthracnose practically disappeared

from our fields and blight was largely

held in check.



W'ith bean prices nearly triple those

of last spring and as a number of

farmers proved (2’) they could use dis‘

eased seed and not get a diseased crop,

some are planning on using culls from

last year and a few who have some

culls from the 1915 crop are thinking

of using them £01 seed. Both these

practices should be condemned as

criminally careless. Diphtheria is a

menace to a community and so is

quarantined and controlled; in a like

manner, cull beans, especially those

of 1915, if used for seed will be a men«

ace, not only to the community but to

the state and nation as well. With the

country called upon to strain every re-

souice to carry this war to a success-

ful conclusion and at the same time

feed our own and several other na-

tions, we should not think of using

anything but the best of seed. As far

as the grower himself is concerned,

while good seed may make a little

higher initial expense, he will be amp-

ly repaid for every cent he spends in

this way.



Bean diseases are not dimctly caus-

ed by the weather but they certainly





are greatly influenced by it. Now-





since mature stabbed in and chockod:





these diseases last year let us profit

by the experience of the past and do

our part in keeping them in check and

at any cost prevent a wholesale re-

infection.





The culls of the 1916 crop are in

most cases not badly diseased' but in

general they contain a large percent-

age of frosted beans. In some sec-

tions this year most of the “pick” is

due to these beans that were frozen

before mature. These will either not

germinate at all or will produce only

weak plants so they certainly should

not be used for seed.





From a recent survey of the situa«

tion. there appears to be plenty of

bean seed in Michigan at present. A

majority of the bean growers have

saved enough to supply their own

needs and there is a considerable re-

serve in the hands of jobbers.





On the other hand, there is an enor-

mous demand for these for food pur-

poses and there are a great number

of inquiries coming in from certain

sections of this and other states for

seed so no grower should delay find-

ing out the condition of his seed as to

its germinating power and freedom

from disease while it is still possible

to get other seed.



J. W. NICOLSON,

Extension Specialist M. A. C.





 





PLANT CORN.





 





Most Effective Substitute for Wheat

at Our Disposal.



The most effective way to remedy

the probable shortage in the. wheat

crop is to plant c0rn, says the United

States Department of Agriculture.



Ordinarily the quantity of corn pro-

duced in the United States is from

three to four times the quantity of





wheat, but only a very small portion





of the crop—from five to ten per cent

——has been used for human food. This

amount may be estimated in normal

times at about 200, 000, 000 bushels a

year. Not over five per cent has been

exported in peace times. A relatively

slight increase in the corn acreage,

therefore, will place many millions of

bushels more of human food at the

disposal of the world without interfer-

ing in any way with the feed needed

for the support of live stock.





In the past, with an abundance of

grain of other kinds, corn has not been





in great demand for human consump- .





abundant, circumatancesuwill compo .

more general recognition of the value "





of corn as human food. The depart-

ment is urging strongly the wider use

of corn in the diet. It is the best sub-

stitute for wheat that we have and can

be utilized in breads, mushes and a

variety of other ways. , We should





make every effort. to avail ourselves ,-





of it.



“Plant corn,” then, should be the

motto of every farmer in a. section

suited to the crop.





GROW BUGKWH EAT.





 





Buckwheat should be grown in largu

er quantity this year in New York,





Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wiscon-. .

sin, New England, and in the mountain '





sections of Maryland, West Virginia,

Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and

Tennessee, where it is known to be a

safe crop. It should be sown on land

where other crops have failed and on

old meadow and pasture lands where

the yields of hay and grass promise to

be. small. This is the advice given by

the United States Department of Agri-

culture to farmers in all states named,

but especially. to those in New York

and Pennsylvania, where about two.

thirds of the buckwheat crop of the

country is now grown. In the, more

northern states, buckwheat can be

sown almost anywhere, without refer-

ence to elevation, but farther south it

is best adapted to the uplands and

mountainous sections.





Buckwheat should be sown on land

prepared as for corn. It is an excellent

crop to sow where corn or some other

crop has been planted, but where a.

stand has not been secured. Best're-





sults are obtained where the land is





ploWed early and is well prepared, but





good results can be obtained by sow-





ing immediately after plowing and-har-

rowing.

Uses of Buckwheat.





Buckwheat is valuable as a human

food. It is also an excellent feed for

poultry. The middlings remaining as

a by—product after milling are, on ac-

count of their high protein content, a;

valuable feed for dairy cows. The pro‘

duction of buckwheat will help to pro.

vide food in many districts this year

for local consumption and thus help to

avoid the danger of shortage due to

possible lack of adequate transportan

tion facilities. '





 





CROP AND FERTILIZER QUES-

TIONS.





 





Buckwheat for Muck Land.



I have a field of about forty {10188 of

heavy June grass sod. The land is

mucky, with clay sub-soil. I would like

to know if buckwheat would be of any

use to subdue the June grass on this

land? I had a good crop of beets on

this land seven years ago. After the

beets I had oats, but they grew rather

too rank and lodged, thereby killing

out part of the seeding, which caused

the June grass to take a start, and it

has been left in that way ever since,

so that it is now almost a solid June

grass sod. Now, if you believe that

buckwheat would grow on this land,

then I would like to know what kind

of buckwheat to get, how much to sow

per acre and where the seed could be

obtained.



Gratiot Co. C. K.



Buckwheat, like any other plant, is

liable to grow too much straw on rich

muck land, and yet with a favorable

season you ought to be able to get a.

good crop. There is nothing, better

than buckwheat to smother out June

grass as it produces a dense shade.

The only trouble about buckwheat is





that if it blossoms during a spell of‘7





hot weather it doesn’t 1111 well and one

takes a chance on this crop. on my

soil I wduld rather raise buckwheat





sown the last of June or. the first of ,

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matured before the first frost or it is

gone. However, it probably should be

planted by the middle of June and take

your chance:



I have grown both the Pearl buck-

wheat and the common buckwheat and

I think the common buckwheat is as

good as the other. From three pecks

to a bushel is seed enough. You don't

want it too thick for a good crop. If

there is a thin stand the plants will

branch out in bushy form, are much

less liable to lodge, and usually fill bet-

ter than when the plants are thick.

You can purchase seed buckwheat

from any reliable seedsman. Your 10-

cal dealer can order it of the big whole-

sale seedsman for you.





My judgment would be that 200 lbs.

of acid phosphate per acre would has-

ten the development of buckwheat on

this soil and prove a splendid invest-





ment.

Fertilizer for Ensilage Corn.



We expect to erect a silo 10x32 feet.

Have six and a half acres, about half

of this field is sand loam and the other

half is clay loam. We plowed down a

heavy June grass and timothy sod last

year and it was partly covered With

manure. We have covered it again

this winter and want to plant it for

silage. How should we drill the corn

and how much seed per acre? Would

it pay to use some commercial fer-

tilizer; if so how much and what

analysis would you recommend?



Eaton Co. A. J. W.



Unless the land is very weedy, I

would plant ensilage corn in drills,

drilling the rows in three feet apart.

My judgment is that ensilage corn

should be planted considerably thicker

than corn for grain. I would plant not

less than eight or ten quarts per acre

and I would also plant some soy beans

with the corn. '





My judgment would be that it would

pay to use commercial fertilizer even

though this land was thoroughly well

manured with stable manure. If your

corn planter has a fertilizer attach-

ment I would put it on at the rate of

about 100 pounds per acre and drill in

with the corn and I would use a brand



, containing two per cent ammonia and

ten or twelve per cent of phosphoric





acid.

lnoculating Alfalfa Seed.





1 am plowing up five acres of alfalfa,

intending to re-seed to alfalfa, with a

bushel of barley per acre as a nurse

crop. In parts of this piece I am plow-

ing up alfalfa roots from one to three

feet long, but they do not seem to

have any nodules on them. Shall I

inoculate the seed again? Ground was

not thoroughly limed before, only 300

lbs. of hydrated lime per acre out of

wagon this year. I have ten tons of

finely ground limestone to “sweeten”

the piece with. I have a distributor

to put it on with. I have five acres

that I covered quite heavy with ma-

nure a year ago, scattering from the

wagon during the winter. Put it to

corn in spring. It did the corn more

harm than good as it was too thick, un-

even, and too much coarse litter in it.

I am intending to plow this, getting

the manure on top and planting to

beans. Am intending to lime this piece

some time before putting it to rye in





the fall after harvesting the beans.‘





The ground needs lime. In your opin-

ion would it increase the crop of beans

to any extent to lime before planting





them?

Barry Co. W. H. S.

Ordinarily, one would say that it





would not be necessary to inoculate

alfalfa seed in re-seeding an alfalfa

meadow, even though the seeding was

uneven, because there ought to be

plenty of alfalfa bacteria in the soil.

. However, if you got no nodules on the

roots of the alfalfa plants, it is barely

possible that the plants did not get

inoculated. It certainly would be the

safest way to inoculate and as it don’t

cost very much it would be a good bus-

iness proposition to do so. It is bet-

ter to be safe than sorry. '



I have no doubt but that this heavier

application of lime will be very bene-

ficial in getting a better stand of al-

;falfa. this time. If you have time I



certainly would advise putting the

.lim-e on the field that you intended for





rye this fall. Beans don’t do well in a

sour soil. In fact, this crop needs a

sweet or neutral soil much more than





rye and it will cost no more to apply '





it before you plant the beans than

afterwards. My judgment would be,

by all means apply the lime and work

it into the soil before the beans are

planted.

Applying Acid Phosphate.



Please advise me where I can buy

acid phosphate, price per ton, and the

amount to use per acre for beans, also

potatoes, how best to apply and when.



Calhoun Co. E. 0. P.



Acid phosphate can be purchased

from any reliable fertilizer manufac-

turer. You undoubtedly have a fertil-

izer agent in your town, and if he

hasn’t got acid phosphate on hand he

can order it for you, and I think that

this is the best commercial fertilizer

to use for beans; and this year espe-

cially, with potash so high that it is

out of the question, it is the best fer-

tilizer that you can use for potatoes.

Ordinarily, we would want some pot-

ash in a fertilizer for potatoes but acid

phosphate alone on most soils pro-

duces gratifying results.





In applying acid phosphate to beans,

about the best way is to plant the

beans with a grain fertilizer drill. Put

a partition in the fertilizer attachment





so it will not sow the fertilizer direct- _





ly in the row with the_beans and use

fertilizer in the rest of the hose. This

will distribute the fertilizer over all

the ground except right in the drill

with the beans, and as the roots devel-

op they will get the fertilizer and you

avoid the risk of the fertilizer, espe-

cially if the ground is hot and dry, in-

juring the germinating power of the





'seed.





Where a small amount of fertilizer

is used on potatoes it is best to apply

it right next to the row. If you have a

potato planter with fertilizer attach-

ment, this will distribute the fertilizer

on either side of the row as it is plant-

ed and mix it with the soil. If you

haven’t a fertilizer planter, it can be

distributed by hand along the potato

row, or it can be applied broadcast

with a fertilizer drill before the pota-

toes are planted. This is undoubtedly

the very best way to use fertilizer on

potatoes but it requires a heavier ap-

plication. From 100 to 200 pounds to

the acre will do when it is distributed

in the row alone; but if you apply it

broadcast, from 250 to 500 pounds is

more practical and it will give you a

better yield of potatoes.



Fertilizer is usually applied at the

time of planting the crop, but if you

applied it broadcast for either crop it

would be better to apply it a week or

so before you planted the crop and get

it well worked into the soil and dis-

solved in the soil moisture before the

crop is planted. Most people don’t do

this because it makes extra work in

applying. COLON C. LILLIE.





IMMATURE POTATOES NOT SUIT-

ABLE FOR PLANTING.





 





Farmers in the northeastern states

are warned not to plant newly harvest-

ed potatoes, especially the small, im-

mature stock now coming from the

south, in a statement issued today,

(May 11), by the United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture. Under the influ-

ence of the high price and unusual de-

mand for seed potatoes, these imma-

ture stocks, it is learned, are being

offered for planting. Newly harvested

potatoes, whether dug in the early

spring, summer or autumn, the depart-





ment’s specialists state, do not germi-





nate until after undergoing a certain

rest period, and results are sure to be

disappointing. Germination may be de-

layed six weeks or more, and in any

case will be uneven and the stand im-

perfect. The grower, therefore, is

warned not to purchase such seed, as

mere or less serious financial loss will

be sure to result if he plants it.





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amount of inflation in some businesses

to take care of the new demand, while

in others there has been retrogression

because their products are not needed

in this new order of things.



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stands out more prominently than any

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his farm on a business basis, and to

enjoy some of the advantages of life,

besides laying by some reserve for old

age.



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ever after the war demand is supplied,

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among the working class they would

be larger consumers of fruit than when

times were bad and money and work





Peaches Will Bring Good Prices this Year.





scarce. The average individual does

not save for future needs but spends

all he has for the Pleasures and neces-

sities of the moment. This is shown

by the fact that, in spite of the high

prices of everything, retail business

along all lines has been good and the

people have especially indulged in lux-

uries.



With the buying power of the

people increased as it has been, the

fruit grower can expect a better de

mand for his product than in normal

times. He should more rightly fear





“—“w ltimes of money scarcity, not times

7 of plenty, for in such times only the





well-todo and medium class who con

sider fruit as essential to a healthful

diet are the onlrmrs, while the

others cannot afford it.

Fruit and the Sugar Situation.



The price of sugar and its effect on

the use of fruit nor canning mnzosee is

often used as argument by the possi-

mist. While sugar is high, the sugar

experts believe tint it. has reached its

maximum price. Should it maintain

its present price there is no doubt but

what home canning will be carried on





ithis m mun-tine nee bonus the





idea of food: connotation will be thor-





oughly instilled in the minds of the‘





consuming public. The prevailing, idea

willnotbeoneofoeonmnof

doll-n, for they are plentiful, but rath-

er one of a. conservation of food. and





i" ‘as never heron the people. will have





a. feeling of security if‘they can have

astock at conned-goods atoll kinds

on hand. '



The canning factories will also make

their output as great as their capacity

and the supply of fruit and cans will

permit, for beside the ordinary demand

there will be an unusual demand for

canned fruit for army feeding purpos-

es. During the past year large quan-

tities of canned fruits went over to

feed the allied armies and now that

this country will also put an army in

the field this demand will be increased

considerably.



Production and Consumption.



Government reports show that in the

years 1915-1916 we preduced 320.000..





000 ‘worthoth-ultsand nuts mot e that;





in 19124913, the last two normal years.

In both periods we consumed more of

these products than we produced, but

in 1915-1916 the consumption over pro.

duction amounted to $29,000,000, while

in 1912-1913 it was only $17,000,000. The

value of the fruits maimed in 1915‘-

1916 was $33,000,000 more than that or

19124913. Also, the imports of the

two years or the war period were

$7,000,000 more than that at the two

years of the peace period while the

exports were $5,000,000 lees. Furtbcri

more, the value of the wheat and meat.

consumed during the war period has

decreased as compared with the peace

period, while the exports of these two

products have increased to a very

great extent. This indicates that'the

consumption of these two necessary

articles of diet have decreased while

that of fruit increased because fruit

was the most economical to buy.

Fruit Prices Advance.



Supply and demand are the main fac—

tors which determine the price ot our

farm products. ‘ Therefore a compari‘

son of the relation between the size of

the crop and the price during the war

period and before, will give some idea

of the demand of the two periods and

what we might expect while the pres-

ent conditions prevail. '



The apple crops of 1912 and 1915

were about alike, the former being es

timated at about 78,000,000 barrels and

the latter at about 77,000,000. The av-

erage farm price per bushel on. Decent

her 1, 1912, was 68 cents; in 1915 the

price at the same time of the year was

75 cents. In 1916 the crop amounted

to 67,000,000 barrels and the approxi-

mate December first price was 85

cents.





The above facts indicate that the de- ‘





mand for fruit thus far during the war

period has increased and that the pric-

es have been good on account of this

increased demand. There are no rea‘

sons why the demand this year should

not be very good at good prices, and

therefore there is every reason why

the fruit grower should feel optomistic

regarding the future and should use

every effort to grow a maximum crop

of good fruit.





 





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Fertilizing Tomatoes.





on 200 tomato plants. The ground was

into corn last year, and Wes founta~

ter to spread with spreader and drag

in, or to ewe in a quantity in each

hill? If the latter method is used how

much can safely be put in a. bill? Also

how um 1 comb“ those large green

tomato wanna? They nearly defoliat-

ed my plants loot year. I. W. C.





Thebeet' waytnprepare hen manure

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cruohitand mum on eqml

amount of dry earth, after which it

an, he. am quite liberally sound

they“. Abate two hand!!! and!

mind late the can. mud. sch to-

nne-punt uni who a anode-liberal

application. . .



If you'wish to put it into the-hm be-

fore setting the plant, be sure to mix

it tomrm the soil, otherwise

it will cause injury to the roots.



The only” scrim method of con-

trotling. the lam. tor-eta wrns. in to

hand-pick them. Poisoning with enr-

senoteol leadiseouwtimoe new,

but after the worm has reached a fair

size, it is difficult to get enough mison

on to materially affect the worms.



If you desire to control the worms

by spraying, it will be necessary to

keep the plants well covered with poi-

son, starting quite early in theseason.

About three pounds of arsenate of lead

to fifty gallons of Water, with Bor-





deaux mixture made ,at the rate of four»

pounds of copper sulphate to six 0





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Sweet'Clover for Hay.



Could a dairyman having a short clo-

ver crop overcome this disadvantage

by growing sweet clover for hay this

year? Soil is clay loam and well drain-

ed. Cottonseed meal cannot be secur-

ed. Would millet seed aid in balanc-

ing a grain ration with corn, oats,

buckwheat middlings and sugar man-

gels? H. E. R.



I am not familiar enough from ac-

tual experience with sweet clover to

warrant me in advising you very defi-

nitely about this plant. I seeded some

once with oats in the spring, but it

didn’t do very well. Of course, had it

been seeded alone on well prepared

land it undoubtedly would have done

much better. Sweet clover ought to

make a fairly good growth and possi-

bly you can depend upon it for hay this





year but I have never grown it and'





can only answer from outside informa-

tion, and that is nothing very definite.





I am positive, however, that if you

would sow oats and peas (they should

be sown at once), and cut this for hay,

that you would have a splendid substi-

tute for clover hay. Mix the peas and

oats equal parts by weight, and seed

at the rate of about three bushels per

acre. Cut and handle as you would

clover hay, cutting the crop when the

oats are in the milk and the pods of

the peas are nicely formed. Don’t let

them get anywhere near ripe. Handle

this as you would clover hay. After

it is nicely wilted in the swath it

ought to be raked up and put in cocks

and left for a day or so, then these

cocks opened up to the sun and wind.

Then it can be drawn into the barn,

and it makes a splendid substitute for

hay. All kinds of stock like it, and

dairy cows especially.



Millet seed would by no means be a

substitute for cottonseed meal because

it is not rich enough in protein. If you

have clover hay or pea and oat hay

you can have a splendid ration by mix-

ing corn and oats ground equal parts

with an equal amount of buckwheat

middlings. It would be hard to beat

that ration for cows. Then a feed of

mangels will furnish succulency and

make a first—class ration.



Storing Butter for Winter.



Will you please give me some good

recipe for a brine to cover butter for

laying down? When do you think is

the best time for laying it down for

winter use? Do you think it necessary

to make the butter more salty than for

present use? J. S. K.



This is a question that I don’t re-

member being asked for many years.

The idea of a farmer storing butter,

“putting down butter,” in June to be

used the next winter carries one back

to pioneer days when people had an

idea that cows wouldn’t give milk in

the winter time. Then June butter



, sometimes sold for eight or ten cents

a pound.



But the modern idea is to have cows’

milk the year around. A fair per cent

of the butter is now produced in the

winter time. Yet, of course, there is

still a surplus during spring months.

Now this is placed in cold storage and

put on the market in the winter time

when the smallest amount is produced.

The old-fashioned way of putting down

butter has now given place to cold

storage, but it can be kept so that it is

good butter in the winter time. There

is no secret about it.





The great thing to understand is

' that the buttermilk must“ be all work-

ed out of the butter. If you have

clean, pure butter, there isn’t very

much trouble about its keeping.- It is

the buttermilk that is left in the but

ter that causes it to become rancid.

Again, salt does very little toward pre-

serving butter. It is used to flavor it

'but it has very little effect in preserv-

ing. No one thinks of salting lard

when they want to put it down, be-

cause lard is pure fat, there is no but-

termilk in" it. If you had pure butter-

; fat there would be no” more trouble. in





 





keeping it than there would be in

keeping lard. So the thing to do is to

thoroughly wash the butter before salt-

ing, when it is in the granular form,

and then to carefully work it after-

wards and get out all the buttermilk.

Pack it in stone cracks and 'put it

away in as cool a place as you can get.

It Should be covered with good strong

brine to keep the air away as much as

posible. The only caution necessary

about this brine is that it should be

made from good pure water, that is,

water containing no organic matter.

If these ideas are followed, there is no

trouble about keeping butter in fairly

good shape.

A Balanced Ration for a Cow.



I would like advise on a good balanc-

ed ration for_ a cow. I have to buy ev-

erything, and want to know what





would be the cheapest, and still .be

good. C. E. H.





There is nothing better than clover

and alfalfa hay, so I would provide all

the clover or alfalfa hay that a cow

will eat up clean. As a grain ration,

there is nothing better than corn and

oat chop, or the whole‘ grains of corn

and oats ground together. They are

nearly as cheap as anything now. But

these grains do not contain quite

enough protein, so I would recommend

mixing 200 pounds of corn and cat

chop with 100 pounds of wheat bran

for the grain ration. Besides, as long

as you have no silage to feed, I would

feed dried beet pulp. It is a splendid

conditioner. I would recommend that

you feed four pounds of dried beet

pulp per day and a sufficient amount

of the grain mixture recommended

above to make one pound of grain per

day for every three pounds of milk the

cow gives. If you have not been feed—

ing as heavily as this of grain, I would

gradually increase until I reached this

limit.



If you can’t get the dried beet pulp,

then I would recommend that you feed

two pounds of oil meal per day and a

sufficient amount of corn and oat chop

with this to make the necessary

amount of grain. C'OLON C. LILLIE.





ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERI-

CAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB.





 





The forty-ninth annual meeting of

the American Jersey Cattle Club, held

at the Waldorf-Astoria, on Wednesday,

May 3, at which every state but one

was represented, disclosed that the

year just ended has been the most suc-

cessful in the history of the club.



The secretary’s report showed the

finances of the club to be in excellent

condition, and also showed a substan-

tial increase in the amount of business

transacted. During the year 36,117 Jer-

seys were entered in the herd register

and there were 34,499 transfers record—

ed, indicating an increase of seventeen

per cent over the year before in the

sale of Jerseys, which is the largest

increase in transfers that has been re-

corded for over twelve years. Eighty-

four new members were admitted to

the club during the year, bringing the

total membership up to 649 against 592

the year previous. There are now 100

applications for membership pending,

and it is expected that the club mem-

bership will soon be over 700.



A report on extension work brought

out the fact that Jersey breeders are

boosting the breed and its products

more energetically than they have ev-

er done before, and that great results

have been attained by the breeders in

their respective localities in stimulat—

ing interest in the breed. Field work-

ers attended over 500 meetings in the

interest of the breed, and have been

instrumental in organizing many state

and local associations. It is planned

to carry on this work more vigorously

during the coming year.



M. D. Munn, of St. Paul, Minnesota,

was unanimously re—elected president

of the American Jersey Cattle Club;

Edward Cary, of Carlton, Oregon, F. J.

Banister, of’Kansas City, Mo., W. Get-

tys, of Athens, Tenn., and George Bat-

ten, of New Jersey, were elected mem-

bers of the board of directors for a

term of three years. At a meeting of

the board of directors following the an-

nual meeting, F. W. Sessions, of Utica,

New York, was elected vice-president.

R. M. Gow was reappointed secretary.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





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N the bill which is now before con-

gress establishing a “governmental

food control” in this country, there



appears the following clause:





“In case of extreme emergency the

government shall have power to pur-

chase, store and substantially dispose

of food products.”





As may be readily seen, this is in

substance a proposition to take over

by the government the business of

farm products distribution, or market-

ing, as it is called when looked at from

the individual standpoint. The work

of this pursuit, as everyone knows, is

now done by middlemen. It is a busi-

ness in which the service rendered is

not always plain, while the charges exl

acted are always certain and some-

times excessive.



The country’s single example of

large-scale distribution which is not

taken care of by middlemen, is the dis-

tribution of mail by the national gov-

ernment. Mail distribution and farm

products distribution resemble each

other in many ways. Collections are

made in both instances of small quan-

tities from separate placesscattered

all over the country—virtually from

ocean to ocean and from Mexico to the

Dominion. In both cases distributions

are made to equally scattered termi-

nals—~the mail receiver in one case,

the consumer in the. other. In both

cases, the same plan of operation is

followed, namely, to accumulate both

mail and farm products in the large

cities and from there scatter them out

again to where needed. Vastly differ-

ent are the terminations of the two

distributions, however, since in the

case of the farm product, it must: be

sold before its journey is finished,

while in the case of mail it needs only

to be delivered.



If one asks now why is it that the

government can pick up mail any-

where and deliver it. everywhere as it

does, and do this for the low expense

of tw0 cents per ounce, must not the

answer be because of its postal or-

ganization, its mail specialists, and its

building and labor saving equipments?

Our mail service has these things and

it is unquestionably on this account

that mail can be carried so cheaply. If

anyone thinks that mail can be dis-

tributed for two cents per ounce with-

out these facilities let him try the di-

rect distribution of his own mail for

himself for a time as We so often hear

it urged that the direct distribution of

farm products should be done.



The truth is that whatever the com~

moditles are, whether mail or farm

products, if they are gathered up from

widely different points and scattered

out to other points, they simply must

be assembled at a few central points

before being again redistributed. The

milk distributing of any city illus-

trates this perfectly. Furthermore, the

operation of any of this machinery of

any sort is, of course, best done when

handled by specialists. In this day of

specialization no one would claim that

the mail distribution could be as well

done by the railroad engineers or con-

ductors as it is done by mail experts.



It now renmins to be seen whether

the government Can do this distribu-

tion work satisfactorily in accordance

with the proposed law. Farmers should

not be asked to place too much reli-

ance upon a plan which may or may

not work out. It is not a. job which

will hear much experimentation either

since farmers must dispose of their

products in the normal fashion and

consumers must have the usual de-

pendence for their supplies.



It will be seen at once that the dis~

tribution of farm products is a vastly

bigger undertaking than anything of

this port which the government has mix

dertaken before. The distribution of.

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Vernmcnt‘

.- By DR..W. O. HEDRICK





ence between the two classes is not

striking—the number of pieces of mail

handled by our post office last year

equaling some 14,000,000,000, while the

best tabulations of farm products ob-

tainable shows very nearly a similar

number of units of farm products. But.

here the resemblance ends, since mall

units are small in size and of durable

material, while farm products are the

reverse. Mall matter at its worst must

conform to certain rules laid ddwn by

the post ofllce department, While farm

products may consist of every sort of

product imaginable.



But other "difficulties are insignifl‘

cant in comparison with the difficulty

of selling the produCt as it must be

sold at the termination of its distribu-

tion. As was said before, there is no

difficulty of this sort in handling mail

since mail is a gift to the receiver,

while farm products must be sold. But

the government has no facilities for

dressing, displaying, advertising and

advancing farm products in the way

retailers do at the present time and

without these the quantity of products

disposed of to the consumer must cer-

tainly be much less than the quantity

disposed of at the present time. Truly

any large View of products distribu-

tion must regard the retailer as the

farmer’s representative in dealing with

the consumer. He is in the front line

of attack so far as representing the

farmer is concerned and no efficient

scheme of distribution can Well be

thought of which leaves him out. But

this service is wholly denied the farm-

er if governmental distribution is un-

dertaken.



The simple matter of local collec-

tions affords another impressive con-

trast. The one-horse mail wagon does

the one, a multitude of heavy teams

and wagons would be necessary for the

other. It is reliably estimated that the

average haul of farm products is six

and a half miles. The average load is

about a ton, and the costs of this haul

is from ten to twenty per cent of the

value of the load. Indeed, it is more

expensive to make this wagon haul in

the country than to transport the same

load from three to live hundred miles

by rail. One can see at once that mail





collection and products collection are



uite different things, and. the whole

ifierence should be fully appreciated

before a new plan is employed.





Another aspect of this enormous job '





of distributing the farm products of a

continent is the tremendous amount of

working capital which will be required.

At the present time the owuership of

the nation‘s food supplies is mainly in

the hands of different classes of mid-

dlemen. The local shipper is in pos-

session ot‘ some, the wholesalers of all

sorts hold vast quantities, and the re-

tailers have their stocks. They have

bought these from the farmer and

from each other, and they retain own-

ership until sold to the consumer. The

seven billions of dollars, for example,

which has recently been voted for war

purposes, and which by the way, is

twice what the Civil War cost, would

at least need to be duplicated if the

government Were to buy up farm pro-

ducts, as some nine or ten billion dol-

lars worth of farm products are an-

nually produced in this country. «



The difficulties to governmental dis-

tribution of products which have been

mentioned need not by any means he

looked upon as positive hindrances.

The thing may be done and done satis~

tactorily in spite of all these, but

has seemed to the writer, who is no

in the least interested in the middle-

man business, that the obstacles shOuld

be squarely faced, especially when a

scheme of such magnitude as this is

about to be undertaken.~





 





(Recent developments would indi-

cate that the marketing scheme pro

vided for in the measure referred to in

this accession, contemplates the use

of existing machinery and semio- to:

distributing farm Moots. Ii their:

true, than many of the difllculties re

ferred to by the writer would not ob

min, at least to the decree that they

would were the government under the

necessity of creating machinery to:

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MONG the traits of character

that are most admired and con-

sidered necessary to make noble



and desirable citizens, that of true

patriotism, a genuine love of home and

country, and a willingness to sacrifice

if need be, for the defense and suste-

nance of the same, isaa characteristic

held in high esteem at the present

time. The desired result of the pres-

ent crisis will not depend entirely on

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while they are away from home in the

service of their country, as well as!

the teeming millions engaged in the in-

dustrial arts necessary to supply the]

armies on the battlefields and in thel

quiet walks of life.



A peculiar kind of diet is required

during times of war. A generous meat

diet seems to be required for military

men and a generous mixed diet for the

industrial laborer. A large percentage

J of the hog meats, such as bacon,

. smoked hams and shoulders, 'can be

transported to and used by the armies

in all parts of the world, but the mil-

lions of laborers and their families in

the industrial centers can, and Will,

call for other classes of meats, such as

beef of various grades and quality.



As a rule the people of the eastern

= half of the United States have been



very negligent in regard to meeting the

necessities of the people who desire

meat as food. In that portion of the

United States east of the Chicago line,

sixty-five per cent of the population of

the country live, and in that portion of

the country west of the Chicago line,

seventy-five per cent of the live stock

of the country is bred and raised.

Since the stocking of the ranches in

the great west during the seventies,

the people of the east have not tried

to compete very strenuously with the

west in general stock raising. For a

long period of time stock of all kinds

was produced so cheaply in the West

that farmers of all classes stopped

raising cattle, especially for meat pur-

poses, letting the western farmers and

ranchmen have practically a monopoly

of the business. That usage has taken

on the character of a habit until now

it seems almost impossible to arouse

the eastern farmers to a sense of their

duty in the matter.

Michigan Farmers Should Get the Cat.

tle Raising Habit.

On many farms in many portions of

the state of Michigan pasture and

r roughage has been allowed to go to

waste because the farmers were out of

the habit of raising cattle for meat. If

feeders desired cattle to consume the

roughage of their farms it has been a

matter of necessity that they go to the

stock yards in Chicago to secure what

they desired, as such were not avail-

able at or near home. Such condi-

. tions should be changed and good beef

cattle bred and raised on Michigan

farms. Prices for cattle are high

enough at the present time to awaken

attention and cause a revival of the

old—time custom of breeding and rais-

ing beef cattle. The millions in our

cities are calling by high prices and

for several reasons they should be sup-

plied. It Will certainly be to the ad-

vantage of the farmers to raise the

stock to supply the demand at the

prices offered and a patriotic spirit will

be manifested by doing so. And then,

. by raising stock to consume the rough-

age the manure can be utilized to in-

crease the fertility of the soil.

Calf Raising Not Popular.



On farms where general farming is

followed there are usually a few cows

kept to supply the family with milk

and butter and to make some butter to

sell in the market. The prices in re-

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ter in the market seems to be very

limited. Farmers’ wives have fallen

out of the habit of making butter for

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On many farms the trouble incurred

to raise calves by hand has been a

barrier in the way and the tempting

high prices paid for veal calves have

been accepted and the beef proposi-

tion .has been overlooked. The calf

raising habit though often urged in the

agricultural press, has been diflicult to

reestablish.



Community Agitation Needed.



At the gatherings of the farmers, no

matter whether for social or for busi-

ness purposes, the subject of raising

more cattle to supply the needs of the

consumers should be discussed. The

thoughts of the members of the com-

munity should be directed to the sub-

ject. In fact, perhaps no better meth-

od of proceeding can be devised than

to work together as a community.

Beef sires can be secured and cattle

of a good, uniform quality can be rais-

ed that will not only be a credit to the

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Boys’ and Girls' Clubs.



In different parts of the country, in

order to stimulate an interest in the

matter of calf raising, calf clubs have

been organized and prizes offered to

the boys and girls who succeed best in

producing one or more calves. The

plan is a good one for several reasons.

In the. first place, it makes calf raising

popular and helps to get rid of a

“snobby” notion entertained by some

that to feed and care for stock is not

as dignified as to cut laces and tie

ribbons, or some other jobs in which

the self-important youths of small cal-

iber in small towns may be employed.

in the second place it helps to de-

velop a taste for animals on the farm

and sets the boys and girls to thinking

and studying the different feeds used

and the best methods of handling the

same.

to widen their ideas of manhood and

womanhood and give a consciousness

of the fact that each and every one is

an individual member of the commu-

nity and that the standing of each in

the community depends on the meas-

ure of their ability to perform the

work which they have undertaken;

that life is a battle of brains and abil-

ity and not of blood and ancestry.





When looked at from the standpoint

of patriotism the dignity and’import-

unce of the business of stock raising

as well as other branches of farming

is considered from the correct angles

is as important as any other calling.

The hosts at war must be fed because

men can only fight on their stomachs,

or when their stomachs are full. The

hosts which are shaping material re-

quired to supply the armies with weap-

ons and other necessities must also

be fed, for they also work on their

stomachs or What their stomachs hold

to nourish them. All of these, as well

as the masses in each and every call-

ing that makes up the aggregation of

our great population must be fed and

the food with which they must be sup-

plied must come from the farms in the

shape of meats, grains or vegetables.

Therefore it is just as dignified and

patriotic to feed and raise calves on

the farms as it is to Wield a sword or

carry a musket.





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There seems to be a tendency on the

part of some of the volunteer advisers

in cities to urge that farmers should

be prohibited from selling or slaugh-

tering young calves. Such a sugges-

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know that a large percentage of the

calves dropped, unless sired by good

beef-bred bulls, will not make good

and profitable meat animals. In other

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Beside the Culvert Arch





By EARL ROBERT RICE





LONG the line of the D. & M. in

A upper Michigan there is a place

where a range of hills crowds in

close to the railroad track. A spring

brook, fringed with overhanging brush

and choked with fallen tree trunks,

winds its way by cedar swamp and

open pine burnings, follows the curve

of the hills. It is a hard stream to

fish, but its deep, under-bank pools,

flanked by fine cover for trout, yield

rare prizes to the fisherman who may

have patience enough to search them

out.

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time.”



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assented to the selection. His dreams

of the out-of—doors, in contrast to the

heat and dust of the city, had for some

time featured just such a place as this.

“VVe’ll go out tonight, then,” said Jim.

“And stop at an old cedar camp a cou-

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to hit the stream. We can take the

six forty, and it’s only twenty-five

miles. Then in the morning we’ll make

an early call on the trout.”



They reached the cedar camp that

night at dusk—dusk of a late July

evening. What had been a busy place

from last early winter to late spring

was now deserted. The shanties of

the camp were quiet, and only the long

piles of ties near the track, awaiting

shipment, and the litter of bark and





shavings around the skidways and

along the sidings, told of recent ac-

tivities. Even the little stream, "whose

sawdust covered banks ran back to the

green of the svamp, seemed asleep,

save where it ducked under the rail-

road embankment through a heavy cul-

vert. The air was hot and heavy with

the smell of sawdust and cedar, and

Jim, experienced, knew that the sun

of clear July days was fast drying out

everything it reached, not only in the

clearing, but on the hillsides and even

in the brush of the swamp.



The boys went to sleep that night in

a shanty near the track and not far

from the bank of the stream. They





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rumbling midnight freight which puff-

ed noisily up the grade beyond the

camp. He watched, from an open win-

dow near his bunk, the twinkling tail-

lights as they disappeared in the dark-

ness. He remembered, next day, that

‘ the glow of the train lights came back

to him long ufta' the grade had cut off

the roar of the engine and the rumble

of u heels.



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Iimwhntitdoeofior nmamvy

sleeper when disturbed—he carer-slept.

When he finally awoke the camp was

red with light save in the shadows cast

by volumes of smoke going up from

cords of burning ties and piles of shav—

ings and sawdust. Farmed by the light

morning breeze one end of the camp

was fast becoming a glowing furnace.

The fire needed no urging and was

making its way steadily along, the fine

sawdust, dry as powder, inviting [its

spread in every direction.



\Vith all thoughts of the day’s fish-

ing driven from their minds the two

boys rushed out to fight the fire. How

it had started they could not tell. They

were equally unable to stop its pro—

gress. What could two men, with

meagre means for such work, do to

stop a North Michigan blaze when

fairly under way with such excellent

material before it 2’ They realized the

futility of their efforts almost before

they had begun.



“I’d like to see Detroit’s big engines

tackle this blaze," said Tom, as he

stepped back from a mound of dust

that suddenly began to smoulder al~

most at his feet. “It would certainly

be a great fight."



“It would,” said Jim. “It would take

a force of a hundred men to stop that

fire!”



“Come on.” he said 1 mt later,

“wemightuwdlgetonrmfioutot

the shanty before lint catch.”



They deposited their outfit at a safe

diam” tithe bulk of the stream.

and coming back as near as ”his.

watched the progress of the fire.



By seven o’clock the flames were

raging on both sides of the track for a

distance of twenty rods, and skidwnys

further back were catching. Sparks

had been carried across the little

stream, and choked with the pungent

smoke, the you man had been pow-

erless to put out the new furnace spots

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inac, and it mast pm here 30m.”



"I believe she’s coming. now!” he

said, and he listened a moment.



Sure enough, from up the track be-

yond the top of the ridge came the long

whistle of the morning passenger train

due to pass the camp at 8:14. A n10-

ment later the locomotive topped the

high grade and, with a rumble and

rush came sliding down toward the

fire-smitten camp.



Why the engineer did not stop at a

safe distance, why he ran his train in

between those burning piles of cedar

he could not explain afterward, save

that the thought he could make the

passage safely and quickly.



Jim and Tom held their breath as

the train swept into the smoke cloud

which hovered over the track. They

watched its progress over the heated

path, catching glimpses of the coaches

as they passed successive points.



“Don’t do it! Don’t do it!" shouted

Jim in a frenzy. “Oh, Tom,” he groan

ed, “they are slaving down right in

the middle of It”



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back out.



A an hour Quiet he liflt have

been mu in his am. it as

the great drivers were reversed they

spun a melt and then settled be-

tween the tracks, hopelessly stifled.

The two coaches, with fifty passengers

stood equally helpless between two

lines of blistering heat and swept with

blinding mire tint sought every

crack and movies in a seeming furious

effort to reach the inside.



In danger youth is quick to see, and

quick to act. Jim noted that the train

had come to a stop with the forward

passenger car a dozen feet from the

bank of the stream. The embankment

there was six or eight feet high and

its steep sides were fairly hire of lit-

ter and material on which the fire

might feed. Below the bank was he

mason-work of the culvert and 'a ong

its sides ran a narrow ledge clear out

to the water’s edge. It flashed upon

him that if the passengers and crew

could cross the dozen feet of open

from car steps to the culvert’s edge

they might escape through the passage

afforded by the course of the stream.



“It’s their only chance!“ he thought,

and to Tom he shouted, “Come on,

we’ll try it!”



The boys plunged into the stream

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the command.



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forward door of the car. The front end

of the car was deserted, but back to-

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struggling to open the. door, their only

means of escape in that direction.



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down. It s all right if you’ll stick to it

five minutes!"



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a crying child toward the door and a

man followed them. They hurried all

three down the steps and T0111 and the

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the culvert. The woman waded out,





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In Memoriam

By M. B. RANDOLPH





DAY, my heart is over the sea,

For over big blue brine,





A dirge, a funeral knell;

And so these words on mem’ry‘s mar-

ble car v ed

Full oft I read, theylare no sham.

The sad words, In 1 emoriam.





Once I posed as teacher:

Taut reins I held in public school:

But these were manly laddies

Needing neither rod nor rule;

I see them yet—their blue eyes wide

Oe’ r young Columbia) 3 lawless stride

Or slouching gait they walked beside:

Down the long halls they kept the

pace

With perfect step and boyish grace

Born to the manner quite were they,

With many a gallant air, and little

courtly way

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hold it still today.





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But our loud western ways .

Their spirits seemed to‘ shock,





And back to Albion‘s shores they trac-

that





I know not how or where he fares,

If loyal to the Stars and Stripes,



Or Iron Cross he wears,

If on his brow the dews of death



Or breathes he yet our troubled plan-



et’s breath;



This or that I ne’er shall know,



The veil that hides I cannot rend;

And yet on memory’ 8 marble penned



The words I read are still no sham,

The sad words, In Memoriam.





And then those Russian Jews;

Dear lads I see them yet;

The dark rich roses on their cheeks,

Their eyes of jet;

What prompted gifts they gave to me?

Not love methinks—l so austere——

Perhaps the fine philanthropy

That racial trait of which we hear;

It matters not within my heart

Meir boyish gifts I sytill hold dear.

Where are they now? To manhood





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to safety. The painted sides of the

cars blistered, and the windows snap-

ped. The smoke whirl-ed over and

around the band of rescuers. Tom’s

clothing caught fire, but he dashed a

bucket of water that someone handed

him over himself from head to foot,

and lost not a moment’s time in his

efforts. A child, gasping from fright

and heat combined, stumbled and fell,

but someone snatched it up and hand‘

ed it along the line. Passengers reach-

ed the steps only to shrink back from

the fierce heat that suddenly burst up-

on them, but firm hands grasped them

and compelled them to go on. Every

passenger reached the steps safely and

the waiting line below, thin-ranked but

true to the limit, steered them through

to the water. Long before all from the

first car were out the second car Was

opened and its helpless inmates were

started through vestibule and stale to-

ward the front.



"This way out! This way out!”

shouted Jim, and the line pressed for-

ward. Half blinded, hurrying, stumb-

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Mr. Home, a, business man of Chica-

go, and formerly a sailor, accepts an

invitation to go on an ocean cruise

with his old friend, Mr. Carrington, and

several of New York’s leading finan-

ciers. On the eve of the breaking out

of the. goat Euppean war they start

on the smeraldt. Abomumdmght of

the first day out the engines'suddenly

stop and Hams, trueto his sailor train:

ing, leaves his birth to learn the trou-

ble. He discovers soon that nothmg

serious has happened, but in a walk

about thedeukhespiesaw‘omwho

suddenly ‘ The sincere doe

lmtien oi the host the next morning

that no w Was aboard did not

convince B ' that his eyes phyed

him false, and m second fight out):

alone discovers and convenes, With

what proved to be a cultured and most

charming yom lady. During a cold.

driving rain on the night Wing,

"Esmeralda.” was rammed and b! fa-

word Museum in by sense un-

known ship. Many of the crew and

guests were some or imprisoned by

the impact. m persuades another

guest, Mch to so with Km to ru-

cue the girl, who was hidden some-~

where below. The enort which nearly

cost the lives of the men and left them

quite exhausted, was successful:



After a desperate struggle the three

persons reached the open deck and

worked their way aft‘where they dis-

covered that the remainder of the

guests and crew had abandoned the

wreck, being taken, no doubt. aboard

the steamer which had ran them down.

A moment later Vera located a small

dory and by its use they were able to

escape from the rapidly sinking yacht.

This was not accomplished without

Hollis issuing stern orders to McCann,

who promised to make trouble.





“You need have no fear for me,” I





answered reassuringly, and ventured,





to touch her hand where it rested on

the thwart between us. “I have been

:1 bucko mate, my lady, and learned

how to handle his kind. If he ever

draws a gun on me. out here, I’ll teach.

him smoothing he never learned in

yet in Wall Street”



The have of that day fairly dragged

along, as we stared out «1mm on

the same vista of sea and sky.” Twice

we thought.“ caught the gleam of a.

sail over the tumbled waters, only to

(Recover the object to be a floating

cloud. Once. smoke became visible to

the southeast, 3. thin wisp, barely

showing against the distant blue; but

the steamer passed us unseen below

the horizon. Keenan, so tar as I ob-

served, never so much as glanced in

our direction, but faced forward. He

found a package of entrance in his

coat pocket, and smoked two without

(Mug my tone. M be lay





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in: about mammals: at

last, m m,

MMafiItmm,avmas

mamas may reference to or

situation, and the fate of the yeah,

our conversation drifting here and

there. In am, I ten-nod med-about

her, little Mm! My like:

and dislikes, as we! as ”fences-in

life, yet nothing was said'which re-

vealed her W or W10 solve

the mystery 0! her presence on board

the Esmeralda. I could not feel that

she purposely concealed these” things,

yet nothing led to an explanation, and





I rather avoided the subject through ‘





fear of oflending her. I did learn, how

cyer, that her mind was bright and or

iginal, her language evidencing educa-

tion, while her reminiscences proved

that she had traveled widely, and seen

much of social life. W’e spoke of books,

of art, of drama, and she exhibited‘ev-

en a Wider range of knowledge on

these subjects than I possessed, While

her camments were keen and original

—not pedantic, nor bookish in any

-way, but the ontsDoken frankness of

young womanhood. Indeed, she was

wholesome all through,‘her_ face a mir-

ror. of her name, her eyes reflecting

rbaclr. eaclx‘ mood; _ Retenbefiure had I





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met one 0! her sex so deeply inter’est- '

i-ng, so unconventional and plain-spok- _





en. No doubt it was the way in which

we had been thrown together which

had broken down thus completely the

social barriers; but, be that as it may,

the result was admiration on my part,

which, perhaps, I did not Wholly con-

ceal. '



However, our conversation lapsed at

last, through sheer weariness on my

part I had been at the steering oar

so long. staring out into that drear ex-

panse of ocean and sky, that every





muscle of my body acted, and my eyes ' ‘





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could scarcely be forced to remain‘

open. In the silence she must have

noticed this, for she exclaimed sud-





nearly dead with fatigue. Let me take

the our while you sleep”

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mountains, accessible only t0'





Those is no sign of storm new, and the r-the closing pioneer and the





sea is even less rough than it was an

hour ago. You feel competent?”





‘Why, of course: you saw me steer.

If anything goes wrong I can call you

easilyenougb. Please lie down for a

few hours.”



I looked about, permitting her to

grasp the oar, and slip into my seat.



“Really I feel as if I must,” I said

regretfully, “and there can be no dan-

ger While things keep as the are now.

Call me, though, if there is a change

in the weather, for that jury mast Will

never stand any weight of wind.”



.“I promise; but I am a better boat-

man than you think.”



I lay down, pillowing my head on my

arm, but. remained awake some little

time, watching her movements. She

handled the boat easily, however, and

her calm coolness gave me such confi-

dence that, insensibly, rocked by the

gentle rise and fall ‘of the craft, I

drifted off into amass.



I must have slept for several hours

undisturbed for, when I finally opened

my eyes once more the sky above us

was beginning to turn purple with twi-

light, and the breeze had failed, so

that the sail flapped idly against its

improvised mast. This, perhaps, was

thenoise which had aroused me. I sat

up, wide awake instantly, and stand

about me in the bmt. There was little

change noticeable-7 Bibs Vera still





clung to the steering our, showing no .





outward signs 0! weariness, and greet-

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well, Mr. Home,” the girl soil cheer-

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how weary I was,” 1 Wired, adopting:

her manner, “but really you had no

right to let me lie so long. Why, I

must have been sleeping three or four

hours, and you will be tired on ”



“Oh, no: it was no trick at all. The

wind kept steady until just a few mo-

ments ago, and I do not feel in the

least fatigued.”



“And you have seen nothing, no

smoke, no sail?”



She shook her head, her eyes grown

grave.



"Not a thing; we seem to be abso-

lutely anne in the immensity of the

sea—~just one great wave after the

other. It—it gets on the nerves.”



“It certainly does; such a sight has

driven more than one insane.- But

what does this mean? Why is the his-

cuit bag out here 2” _





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water.





Over the sand-blown, tree-

less desert a truck train plows

its way with telephone material

and supplies.





Through dense forests line-

;mcn are felling trees and cut-

ting a swath for lines of; wire-

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cry.” I was weary and sleepy, yet dar-

ed not desert the steering our, for the

sea ran strong, on! the wind struck us

in sharp gusts. The shining water,

sparkling under the sun’s rays, blinded

my eyes, and altogether I was in no

mood for assuming a cheerfulness of

demeanor I was far frOm feeling. Yet

I dare not confess the truth and add to

the despondency ot’the girl beside me

whose eyes never seemingly left the

line of the horizon; yet who, as the

leaden hours slipped by without re—

ward, began to droop perceptibly, and

ply me with questions I found hard to

answer. We ~ talked little, for our

stock of commonplaces was completely

exhausted, and our minds centered

only upon one thing-the possibility

of rescue. Indeed, her palpable efforts

at 'cheerfulness hurt me more than her

silence, they were so plainly assumed,

and, when she glanced up at me, I

could perceive the lines of hopeless-

ness in her face, and the pleading of

her eyes. There was no coward in her

nature, no shrinking; never had I been

companion with a braver soul, yet she

already realized fully the desperation

of our situation, and no words of mine

brought comfort, or lasting confidence.

McCann remained like one stupefled;

never changing his posture. He had

turned his back upon us, and faced for-

ward, but whether to keep watch, or

doze, I could not determine, for his

body was slouched down into utter

shapelessness.



The sun blazed down upon us out of

a clear sky, glistening along the foam

of racing waves, but as noon approach-

ed, the southern sky became misty, the

clouds increasing in density until we

could see only a few hundred yards

beyond our bow. it was not a storm

cloud, and brought with it no fear of

disaster, but completely blotted out the

horizon, and gave a dark, sullen gloom

to the surrounding waters. I had per-

mitted the boat’s head to fall off, and,

with barely steerage way, the make-

shift of a sail flapping against the mast

we rose and fell on the giant surges.



It must have been three o’clock





rwhen McCann suddenly gave vent to





a startled roar, straightening to his





knees, and pointing straight ahead into ,





the smother. I stared, but saw noth-

ing except the grotesque forms assum-

ed by the whirling mist, but Vera lean-

ed out over the side, shading her eyes.



“What is it ?” I asked sharply.



“A ship yonderf" he shouted, but

without turning his head. “I saw it

plainly enough, but it has gone now."



“I see it, Mr. Hollis!” the girl cried

excitedly. “Right out there through

that lane of mist—it's a big steamer!"



“Straight ahead ?”



“Just a little this way—there! you

can see her now!"‘\ ~



I did, a mere glimpse, instantly ob-

scured, but visilne again a moment lat-

er. The fog seemed to drift apart,

leaving a broad lane, and in the very





‘ center appeared the steamer, looking





a. mammoth to our eyes. and already

so close that my first impulse was to

hail. But before I could put this into

execution, McCarm was on his feet,

gesticulating wildly.





.“Now, hang you!" he shouted, “put

us on board there, and I’ll show you

who I am. You brute, I dare you to

put us on board.”



“Sit down!" I ordered. “Now, keep

still, and stand by with that rope. I’ll

put you aboard all right, but until I

do. you will obey what I say, or go into

the water.”



I took my eyes of! him, and stared at

the vessel, conscious instantly that

something was wrong. Eyery detail

was clear by this time, each -r0pe and





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sand loss I guessed. her, her water line





red with rust where the black point

had disappeared. Loaded as shelwas,

the steep sides yet towered above us

menacingly, although the open rail

amidships gave me glimpse of her

deck. It appeared deserted, and the

vessel scarcely moved through the wa—

ter, a mere spiral of smoke showing

above one yellow funnel, a single

screw churning lazily to keep her un-

der control. The foremost was broken

off: at the tops, remaining a great splin~

ter, and Where the bridge and wheel~

house ought to be there was piled a

mass of wreckage, showing black

above the bulwarks. A wheel had

been rigged aft on the poop-deck, and

there alone I saw evidence of human

beings on board. One fellow stood

gripping the spokes, while another

leaned motionless against the rail fac-

ing forward. Neither one saw us, al-

though I swung my hat, and sent a hail

across the intervening water. The girl

glanced back into my face.



“What is the matter with them, Mr.

Hollis?” she asked. “Is something

Wrong?"



“I am afraid so; their foretop mast

is down, and it looks as though it had

smashed the bridge. and wheelhouse

when it fell. Theyhave rigged up an

emergency wheel aft. Can you make

out her name?”



“The Indian Chieffol Philadelphia.”



»“No regular liner—probably a tramp.

I never saw funnels painted like that

before, and she shows no flag. How-

ever, any port in a storm.”



I stood up, hollowing my hands.



“Ahoy there! Indian Chief, ahoy!”





 





CHAPTER X.



On Board the “Indian Chief.”

HE man leaning on the after rail

turned, and gazed down at us,

shading his eyes, and the heads

of a half dozen others bobbed up above

the forward bulwarks.

fellow alt plainly now, a broad, stock—

ily built man, with extremely red face,





wearing overalls, and a woolen shirt, ‘

In appearance '





open at the throat.

there was nothing of the officer about

him, yet it was his voice which finally

answered my hail, sending a. deep,

roaring note across the waters.



“Hullo, there. W'ho are yer? From

some, ship close by?” '



“We are passengers from the Ameri-

can yacht Esmeralda, sunk in collision

two nights ago, and have been afloat

ever since. Can you take us aboard?”



“Passengers, you say“?

passengers?"



“Yes.”



He turned, and spoke to the man

grasping the wheel, a tall, loose-joint-

ed fellow in straw hat and pink shirt.

There was a moment’s argument be—

fore he returned to his position at the

rail.



“I dunno as yer would be much bet-

ter off along with us than yer are thar

in the dinghy,” he called indiflerently.

“For, in a manner 0’ speakin’, we’re no

more than a wreck. I reckon that ain’t

no one among yer who knows how to

navigate 1’” '



I stood up, hollowing my hands to

make my voice carry more clearly.



“That is not a very sailor-like speech

my friend," I shouted, yet striving to

conceal anger. “But as you put hu-

manity on those terms, I'll answer you.

I have been in the merchant service,

and commanded ships.”



“Is that so? Sail or steam?”



“Steam—the old Atlas Line.

take us aboard?”





Do you





He did not answer directly, but had '

lost his air of indifference, striding





forward to the end of the beep, and

giving orders to the men forward. The





rail disappeared, and a moment later

the round, red face again appeared.

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HERE are five ways to can fruit,



known technically as the open



kettle, or hot pack method, the

cold pack single period method, the

cold water method, the intermittent, or

fractional-sterilization method, and the

vacuum-seal method. All of these are

right in their way, but one of them is

best for the housekeeper. Which one

that is and why, may be told when we

stop to think of just what is involved

in each way of canning.



The open kettle, or hot pack meth-

od, is the good old way of cooking the

fruit in the preserving kettel on top of

the range, then packing it at once into

scalding hot jars and sealing as quick-

ly as may be. This method kills the

bacteria present when the fruit is cook-

ed, but leaves time for fresh bacteria

or spores to enter the fruit after it is

cooked and before it is gotten into the

(cans. Careless housekeepers, too,

sometimes fail to sterilize can, top and

rubbers sufficiently and the fruit thus

put up spoils. It necessitates careful

watching while the fruit is cooking on

a hot stove, and is not a successful

way to preserve the natural color or

shape of delicate fruits. Neither is it

successful in canning of vegetables.



The cold water method is only in

canning very acid fruits whose natural

acids are a preservative against bac-

teria, such as rhubarb, green gooseber-

ries and perhaps cranberries. This

means to pack the uncooked fruit into

sterilized jars, and cover with cold wa-

ter, then seal tightly. The fruit should

first be looked over, washed and put

into a colander where scalding water

is quickly poured over it. It is then

packed at once and the cold water

poured into the cans to overflowing. If

you have running cold water it is a

good thing to slip the cans under the

tap and let the water run for at least

ten minutes. The cold water method

is a good one for putting up rhubarb

for pies, as it needs neither cooking

nor sugar and takes less time than the

cold pack method, with which it must

not be confounded.



The cold pack, single period method,

is the one now coming into favor

among housekeepers who like to pre-

serve the shape and color, and as near-

ly as possible, the natural flavor of the

fruit. In this way the fruit is first

blanched, which means it is immersed

in beiling water for a certain period,

the correct time for various fruits and

vegetables to be given in later arti-

cles, then quickly removed and dipped

in cold water. After blanching the

fruit is packed at once in cans, hot

syrup poured over them, the rubbers

and caps adjusted and the cans placed

in boiling water of sufficient depth to

cover the cans one inch. A wash boil.-

er may be used for this and a wooden

rack made to fit the boiler and lift the

cans off the bottom so that the water

may circulate underneath. Of course,

the rack must be fitted with handles

so that it may be safely lowered into

the water and raised again when the

cooking is finished. Lard cans may be

used instead of the boiler, or the roast-

er if it is high enough to accommodate

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_ cooking is done must have a tight fit-

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as well if the syrup is entirely omitted.



In the intermittent, or fractional-

sterilization method, the fruit is pack-

ed cold into sterilized jars, as for the

single .period method, but without

blanching and dipping in cold water,

and is then cooked for certain periods

on three successive days. This gives

good results, but takes much longer,

requires more fuel and labor, and is

rather discouraging for busy people.

Its results are no better than the sin-

gle period method, if the fruit or vege-

table is first blanched and dipped in

cold water.



The object of three successive days’

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which are objectionable, and this may

be done by blanching. Blanching will

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if the fruit is immediately dipped into

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spring is left up until cooking is com-

pleted, then pressed into place.



The single period is better for the

housekeeper than cooking on three

successive days, as by first blanching

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PREPAREDNESS AND THE SPRING

SEWING.





 





BY LULU G. PARKER.



“You always get such a lot of sewing

done when Miss Smith' comes to your

house. Last year she made twice as

many dresses for you in the same

length of time as she did for me. How

do you do it?”



That is what folks ask my neighbor





 





 





Electricity on the Farm Brings Home Conveniences.





so that the skin may be easily remov-

ed, without spoiling the looks-of the

pulp.



The vacuum~seal method is of little

importance. to the housekeeper who

cans for home use only. It requires

specially made jars, out of which all

air may be taken after the fruit is

cooked and packed into them.



For all-round canning, both of fruits

and vegetables, the cold pack single

period method is best. It better pre-

serves the natural color, flavor and

shape of fruits and vegetables, than

the old way of cooking first and then

packing into cans, and as the fruit, can,

top and rubber are all boiled together

we may be sure no bacteria gets into

the cans after the fruit is cooked. In

using the old style cans the tops are

screwed down until they just touch the

rubbers, then tightened after the cans

are removed from the “hot bath,” as

the boiling water, is termed. In using

spring top cans the lower half of the





across the road. Yet the sewing girl

likes to sew at Mrs. Neighbor’s. She

never hints at being over-worked, and

she receives no more wages. Do you

want to know the secret?



‘The time is Coming, in some locali-

ties it is on the way, when our girls

from the domestic science classes of

our up-to-datest schools will do their

own spring sewing. They will do it

well and happily with never a sigh for

help from the dressmaker who goes

out by the day. But many of us, of an

older and less well-rounded education,

find it necessary to hire the sewing

girl once or twice each year. For such

housewives, as well as for the woman

who must sandwich the sewing in be-

tween her housework, Mrs. Neighbor’s

secret may prove useful.



The secret is just “preparedness”.

Mrs. Neighbor getsi'r’eady for her sew—

ing week just as she gets ready for

fruit canning time or washday. This

means that she gathers together some





 

   

 

 





   





 





equipment which costs very little but

which keeps her from wasting time af-

ter the sewing is under way.



If she had a room to spare she would

make it a sewing-roomand keep it

sacred to sewing.( But lacking this she

turns a bed-room into a sewing-room

for sewing week). Here the sewing is

done without the necessity of clearing

up and folding away the work before

it is completed. Here she moves the

sewing machine and cleans and oils it

thoroughly, trying it out on a scrap of

the material which is to be sewed first,

and adjusting the stitch and tension.

The machine should stand out from a

window so that the operator can sit

with her back to a good light.



The sewing room has a trunk or old

bureau which holds all the material,

linings, hooks and eyes, buttons, etc.

Patterns are all in a. bag which is hung

in an accessible corner. Fashion pa-

pers are looked over and plans made

beforehand as far as possible.



The thread is kept on a home-made

spool-holder which sits within reach

of the sewing-machine. This spool-hold-

er‘is a small smooth board with brads

driven through it and extending out

one and one-half inches. The spools

are set over the brads so that thread

can be'draWn without removing them.



There is a scrap bag or big waste

basket near the machine or the table.

A work table is another necessity. This

should not be the dining-table because

it will cause too much delay to clear

it three times a day. The ironing-

board will do for a cutting table, but

is rather narrow when cutting clothes

for grown-ups. A regular folding sew-

ing-table is not expensive and will pay

for itself many times, as will a sleeve

board for use in pressing the new

work. A big old mirror is a useful

thing to have in making fittings.



Then plenty of pins, needles, basting

thread, a bit of chalk and a soft pencil

or charcoal stick for marking through

the perforations of patterns, a sharp

knife for ripping, and a tape measure

may be arranged in one draw of the

machine.



Clothes that are to be made over are

ripped, cleaned and pressed before the

seamstress arrives. The dressiest gown

is made last, so that its planning can

be talked over while fingers are busy

with other work that requires no dis—

cussion.



Our neighbor across the road works

with the sewing girl. She bastes and

does hand work, sews on hooks and

eyes, draws the bastings, even cuts

out after the pattern has been pinned

to the goods. In fact, she gives her

whole time to the sewing while the girl

is in the house.



For this reason the meals are ar-

ranged beforehand as far as possible.

Baked beans and brown bread, a New

England dinner of corned beef and cab-

bag‘e boiled together with other veg-

etables, all started at breakfast time,

or slices of roast meat or chicken

warmed over in its own gravy are

quickly served on sewing days. For

desserts there are any kind of pie

which is good cold, or canned fruit and

cake, or short-cake made of .stale

sponge cake smothered with a fruit

sauce and served with cream.



At Mrs. Neighbor’s" the sewing girl

simply takes off her hat, puts on her

apron, and sets to work. Prepared





ness, Hail! . __ , . ‘ ~
The most common way of using dan-

delions is as a'potherb, or greens. As

with most green vegetables. it is a

mistake to cook them more than is

needed to make them tender. If they

are boiled With oneeighth of a tea-

. spoonful (level), of cooking soda to

each quart of greens used, they will

keep their color better. Young dan-

delions may also be used uncooked as

salad, a custom less common in this

country than in Europe, where the

tender plants are sometimes blanched

like asparagus. If more dandelions

are available than can be used while

they are fresh, they may be preserved

for future use. They may be canned

by the method used by the canning

clubs for spinach, or they may be “put

down” in salt according to a house-

hold method. In many homes it is a

' common pract-lcepto preserve dande-

lion greens with salt in. stone crooks,

putting in first a layer of greens, then

.1 layer of salt, then more greens, and

so on, until the crock is filled. The

dandelions are then covered with a

close-fitting plate or board, on which a

weight (a clean piece of marble or a

stone), is placed to keep the greens

packed solid.



Other wild plants used as potherbs

are curly dock, pigweed or lamb’s quan

ters, chickweed, mustard shoots, pur-

ple milkweed shoots, young horserad-

ish leaves, marsh marlgold (some—

times called American cowslip), poke

sprouts, pepper cress, purslane or

“pusley,” and in the southwestern

states some sorts of cactus leaves and

stalks. If the bitter or acrid flavor is

too strong, as is frequently the case

with horse-radish leaves or poke

sprouts, for example, it may be less-

ened by changing the water once or

twice during cooking. Rightly cooked,

all of the plants mentioned are harm.

less. Marsh marigold is sometimes

said to be harmful, but this is not the

case with the cooked greens.



A little later in the season a few oth~

er potherbs appear which, though 'cul-

tivated rather than wild, are so sel-

dom utilized that to use them means

as much saving as if no care had been

spent to raise them. Among these

are the tops of turnips, radishes, beets

and onions, all of which may be cook-

ed like spinach or dandelion. The on-

ion tops should be cut up into inch

lengths before cooking.



There are also a few salad plants to

be had for the picking. Like all food

materials eaten without cooking, they

must be very carefully washed before

using. Water areas is perhaps the

one most generally known. It is also

cultivated. It should never be eaten

if it has been grown where there is

any chance of contamination from ty~

phoid fever or other diseases. This is

ti ue of any vegetable that is uncooked,

but must, be remembered especially-in

connection With plants growing near

water, since the latter may have car-

ried the disease germs a long way

from the place where the illness was.

Peppergrass or peppercress is another

wild plant useful for flavoring other

salads, if too sharp to use alone. Sor-

rel may also be used to give a pleas-

ant acid taste to lettuce or other mild-

flavored salads, though the ordinary

wild kind is too sour to use in quan-

tity as a potherb like the varieties cul-

tivated for that purpose.



Of plants cultivated in the flower

garden the leaves and unripe seeds of

nasturtium may be mentioned as a

seasoning for salads. ‘





 





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I wish to give a word or warning

against the suggestion seen in farm

U journals, that rhubarb tops be used

’ for greens. I am caring for a family of

men who ate greens made exclusive-

ly of rhubarb tops. All, except one





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five is able to stand alone. He ate the

greens on April 22, twenty-three days

ago. The tops contain Petroxalate

which, it seems, is converted into ox-

alic acid, and the family is suffering

from a severe type of“ oxalic acid poi-

soning. It may be safe to add a little

of the tops to a dish of greens, but

surely the making of greens exclusive-

ly from the rhubarb tops is very dan-

gerous. VJ. A. Surrn, M. D.





 





PRECAUTIONS AGAINST INFAN-

TlLE PARALYSIS.

BY ELLA 1;. ROCKW-UOD.



As the season approaches when the

dread scourge, infantile paralysis, may

again be expected to get in its deadly

work, parents should be particularly

careful to keep their children as far as

possible from any chance of infection.

The insidious nature of the disease and

the fact that so little is actually known

about it, even among the medical fra—

ternity, makes it all the more difficult

to combat.



Enough is understood, however, to

make plain that it is encouraged by

the presence of unsanitary conditions

generally, although many cases above

reproach in this respect have been re-

corded. Flies are carriers of germs of

all kinds so the necessity of guarding

against that pest is evident.



That the germs find their entrance

into the system through the facial op-

enings and that the momh and nostrils

are probably the place where these

gain lodgment seems to be quite gener-

ally accepted by scientists to be true.

A reputable physician who has devot-

ed much time to the study of this dis-

ease stated a few months ago that a

wise precaution toward prevention of

the scourge consisted in spraying the

throat twice daily with boric acid solu-

tion. So simple is this that no one

need be prevented from trying it and

the cleansing properties of the remedy

suggested are Well known.



Boracic, or boric, acid is so inexpen-

sive as to be within the reach of all,

and a solution prepared by pouring ov-

er it boiling water in proportion of one

teaspoonful of the powder to one quart

is all that is necessary. As this is

absolutely tasteless no child will ob-

ject to its use, and while it is not

claimed for it that it is a certain pre-

ventive it certainly will do no harm.



This is the solution which careful

twentieth century mothers are using

each morning on a pledget of antlsec-

tic cotton to swab out baby’s mouth

and to wash the little eyes, using three

separate pledgets for the operation,

one for the mouth and one for each of

the eyes. As a remedy for weak or

tired eyes of adults or children of any

age this solution is excellent, used

freely with an eye (-up or with a

dropper.





It is conceded that there is more V





danger of contracting the disease in

crowds and common sense would sug-

gest. keeping children quietly at home

during the period when infection is

most to be feared. The folly of the

mother who drags a little child through

a crowd, or who walks its legs off up

and ”down the street, when it ought to

be in bed is unexplainable. Young

children are much better off at home

and it can usually be arranged so there

is someone to stay with them when

the mother goes away. Especially at

‘a time when infantile paralysis is rag-

ing, this should certainly be done.





 





To brighten a shabby carpet, sweep

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May 22, 1917.



Wheat—Through the adoption of

emergency methods by boards of trade

over the country they have been able

to keep prices for the staple grains

within reasonable limitations. As a

result wheat values are off fully 40c

from a week ago. There has been

some improvement in the growmg

crop, recent rains supplying the much

needed moisture over both the winter

and spring wheat areas. Many fields,

however, have gotten beyond the point

where they can be savedand have, in

most instances, been plowed up and

prepared for other crops. Millers are

taking cash grain where they can find

it'and foreign countries are good buy-

es. The visible supply for the country

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lion bushels. One year ago the price

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Red. White. July

Wednesday . . . ..3.00 2.97 2.32

Thursday . . . .2.80 2.77 2.26





 





Friday . . . . . . . . .2.85 2.82 2.31

Saturday ....... 3.00 2.97 2.43

Monday ........ 3.00 2.97 2.38





Tuesday . . . . .3.02 2.99 2.36

Chicago.——July $2.32; Sept. $2.05.

Corn.—There is a scarcity of the



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for the trade. A liberal acreage is be-

ing put out through the central states

and in the north farmers are planning

on planting heavier than usual, al-

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son may force many Michigan farmers

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is held up much longer by unfavorable

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quoted at 73c per bushel. Last week’s

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N o. 3 No. 3



Mixed. Yellow.

Wednesday . . . . . . . . 1.67 1.69

Thursday . . . . . . . . . . 1.66 1.68

Friday ensues-0.0... 1.68 1.70

Saturday . . . . . . . . . . 1.73 1.75

Monday 1.7.3 1.75

Tuesday . ..........





1.73 1.75

Chicago.—July $1.56%; Sept $1.48%.

Oats—Although a large acreage of

oats has been sown, and in many dis-

tricts the small plants are doing nice-

1y, dealing in this cereal has taken on

increased activity, due largely to the

prohibition 'placed upon trading in

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with a good demand obtaining. A year

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per bushel. Last week’s Detroit quo-

tations were:





No.3



Standard. White.



W’ednesday ..... 74% 74

Thursday 73% 73

Friday ........ 73% 73

Saturday 75% 75

Monday . ..... 75% 75



Tuesday .............. 75 74%





Chicago.-——July 660; Sept. 55%0.



Rye—This cereal has advanced 50,

with cash No. 2 quoted at $2.25 per bu.



Beans—The local market is merely

a nominal one, there being practically

no cash offerings at hand. The board

quotes cash and June shipment at

$9.40 per bushel. At many up-state

points, beans are being purchased on

a $9.50 basis.



Seeds.—Prime red clover $10.90; Oc-

tober $11.85; alsike $11.50; timothy

$3.85 per bushel.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





Noun—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best

patent $16.60; seconds $16.30; straight

$16; spring patent $16.90; rye flour

$13.35 per bbl.



Feed.—ln 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots

are: Bran $41; standard middlings

$41; fine middlings $45; cracked corn

$68.50; coarse corn meal $67.50; corn

and oat chop $58 per ton.



Hay.——In carlots at Detroit: No. 1

timothy $17.50@18; standard timothy

$16.50@17; No. 2 timothy $15.50@16;

light mixed $16.50@17; No. 1 mixed

$14@14.50; No. 1 clover $13.50@14.



Pittsburg—No. 1 timothy $19@

19.25; No. 2 timothy $17@17.75; No.

1 light mixed $17@17.75; No. 1 clover

milxed $16.50@17; No. 1 clover $16.50



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Straw—In carlots, on track Detroit,





rye straw $10.50@11; wheat and oat

straw $9.50@10.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





Butter.—-—The market continues firm

_» , with demand good. Creamery extras





 





 





 





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"offered at 386; bidfia‘t 36%c;' creamery‘





firsts . offered, at .380, bid .at .361/2c;

packing stock 26c. * . ,



Elgin.—Market is firm at an advance

of 10 over last week.; Price, based'on

sales, is 380.



Chicago.—~Market continues steady

and without change. Demand is most-

ly for consumptive purposes. Extra

creameries 38c; extra firsts 37%0;

packing stock 290.



Eggs.—-The demand is active and the

market is firm. Fresh firsts offered at

360, bid 35%c.



Chicago—Prices are higher with the

market firm. The demand is fair.

Fresh firsts 34%@35%c; ordinary

firsts 32@32%c; miscellaneous lots,

cases included 32@35c.



Poultry.——The supply is abundant

and prices are lower. The’re’c‘ent high

prices of grain have undoubtedly caus-

ed selling of farm stocks. N0. 1 hens

23@24c; No. 2 do 22@23c; small do

22c; ducks 22@23c; geese 15@160 per

lb; turkeys 24@25c.



Chicago.——-Market

and without change. Receipts light

and demand moderate. Fowls 22%@

23c; roosters 16%0; broilers 1%@2

lbs. $6@7.50 per doz; ducks 12@16c;

geese _12@14c; turkeys 12@220.



Dressed Calves.——-Market at Detroit

is steady. Fancy 18%@19c; No. 2, 16

@17c per lb.



Chicago—The trade is light, receipts

being small; 50@60 lbs. weight 14@

14%c; 60@80-lb. weight 14%@15%c;

90@100 lbs. 16@17c.





remains steady





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Apples—The market is active and

prices remain unchanged. Baldwin $6;

Steele’s Red $8.50 per bbl. At Chicago

demand is good for well graded stock,

otherwise the demand is only fair. No.

1 stock sells at $3.50@6.50 per bbl;

No. 2 at $2.25@2.75; orchard run $3.25

@350.



Potatoes—Market is firm for old po-

tatoes because supply of old and new

is light. Quotations are: In carlots at

Detroit in sacks, Michigan $2.90@3

per bushel. At Chicago no Michigan

stock was reported. Market is slightly

higher but dull. Prices range from

$2.50@2.90 per bushel. At Greenville

potatoes are selling at $2.25@2.40 per

bushel. Only a few left.





WOOL.





 





Every indication points to a very

firm wool trade at the unprecedented-

ly high prices which are now ruling.

Many Michigan farmers are contract-

ing around 40@45c, thinking that to be

a high price, while others are making

arrangements with buyers at 50@55c,

with one report up to 58c for three-

eighths grade. It seems to be the con-

viction of unprejudiced students that

the top of the market has not been

reached and that values will keep on

going up. Dealers are very anxious, of

course, to get as large quantities in

hand as possible before the quotations

go higher, and are using every argu-

ment available to bear the trade.

There is a world shortage of wool that

will require years to resupply and for

this reason but little risk is taken by

waiting for a later market. At Boston

the trade continues very, very strong

with Michigan unwashed delaines quot-

ed at 550; do combing 48@61c; do

clothing 49@5lc.





GRAND RAPIDS.





 





The local egg market is firm at 33c.

Dairy butter is quoted at 30@31c._ As-

paragus, spinach and pieplant are in

good supply on the city market now.

Old potatoes Sell around $2.85. Buying

prices of grain for this week’s opening

at the mills are as follows: No. 2 red

wheat $2.89; oats 80c; corn $1.60; rye

$1.60; barley $1.50; beans $9.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





The market was of seasonable size

Tuesday morning with rhubarb and as-

paragus making up the bulk of the of-

ferings. The former was selling at 15c

per bunch for field grown and 40@450

for indoor; asparagus 90c@$1 per doz;

eggs 42.@450; lettuce $1.30@1.40. N0

butter or loose hay were in sight.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





May 21, 1917.

- Buffalo.



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 140 cars; hogs 50 d. d.; sheep 35

d. d.; calves 2200 head.



With 140 cars of cattle here today

the demand was strong for all grades

of fat cattle, the bulk of the weighty

shipping cattle selling 25c higher, and

the medium and butcher grades 15@

25c higher. All fat cows, heifers, and

bulls sold at strong prices, but the can-

ner trade was slow and the bulk of

them sold 25c lower than last week.

The feeder trade also was very draggy

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next Monday and a good trade on all





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We had a rather light run of hogs

today, about 50 double decks, demand

quite good and prices 5@100 higher

than Saturday, advance mostly on the

light weights. A few selected loads

sold up to $17, with the bulk around

$16.75, a few at $16.85. and $16.90. Pigs

and lights $14.50@15.50, as to weight

and quality; roughs $14.50@15; stags

$12@13. Everything sold at close and





‘outlook good for the balance of the





week.



With a moderate run of lambs today

our market opened up active and pric-

es 15c higher than the close of last

week. All sold and we look for higher

prices balance of the week, depending

chiefly' on receipts.





We quote: Lambs $16.50@16.75;

heavy I bs 15@15.50; cull to com-

mon $10 ; yearlings $13 @1450;





wethers $13.25@13.50; ewes $12.50@

13; bucks $8@11; best calves $15.50@

15.75; common and light $10@14;

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





 





Chicago.

May 21, 1917.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.





Receipts today..21,000 40,000 12,000

Same day 1916..15,804 38,879 17,538

Last week ...... 52,309 110,745 41,846

Same wk 1916. . .41,193 146,092 54,582





Hogs sold at the opening of the

week today at unchanged prices, top

being $16.50. For two weeks in suc-

cession the hogs received have aver-

aged 215 lbs. Cattle that are fat and

butcher stock are unchanged, but other

lots of steers are called at least a dime

lower, with the rain making buyers

late in starting in. Lambs and sheep

are firm.



Cattle were not marketed in exces-

sive numbers last week, and an active

general demand placed prices on still

higher levels for pretty much every-

thing offered. Steers sold anywhere

from $9@10 for very limited offerings

of little steers of inferior quality to

$13.10@13.70 for choice to fancy lots

of heavy corn-fed beeves, with the

greater part of the steers going at $11

@1315. Sales were made of fair kill-

ing steers of light weight at $10.50@

11.45, while a medium class of steers

found buyers at $11.50@12.50, and good

fat steers went at $12.60@13. Butcher-

ing lots of cattle had a full share in

the upward movement, with cows sell-

ing at $8.15@11’.50 and heifers mostly

at $8@12, yearling heifers of superior

quality bringing $10.85 and upward.

Yearling steers were active sellers,

with a marked scarcity of the better

kind, desirable lots fetching $11.75@

13.60 and sales made all the way down

to $10 for the commoner lots. Cutters

made a great record by selling at $7.60

@8.10, while canning cows found ready

outlet at $6.75@7.50, and. sales were

made of bulls at an extreme range of

$7.50@11. Calves went soaring in

prices under the influence of a lively

demand, buyers paying $13.75@14.75

for light vealers and down to $7.50@11

for the heavier offerings. Stockers and

feeders were not offered very freely,

and it was impossible to transact any

large volume of business, although ear-

ly in the week some fancyprices were

paid, stockers selling at $8@10.10, with

prime yearlings going at $9.50 and ov-

er and feeders at $9.25@10.60. Later

in the week buyers held back and re-

fused to pay early prices, the market

suffering a marked decline in quota-

tions. Milkers and springers had a

fair outlet, prices ruling at $70@125

per head, with good cows chiefly want-

ed. The country is averse to paying

more than $10 for feeders, and sales

at such figures are comparatively few.

Beef cattle averaged about 250 higher

than a week earlier.



Hogs started off last week with an

advance of about 25c per 100 lbs., the

Monday receipts being smaller than

usual, numbering 37,739 head, while

the local packers were active buyers.

Receipts on subsequent days were not

large, and the demand continued good,

but prices ruled considerably lower.

The receipts have been running too

largely on the lighter weights of hogs,

and decidedly more choice heavy bar-

rows than were offered could have

been used advantageously. Light hogs

had to be sold at greater or smaller





discounts from prices paid for heavy ‘





lots, and pigs were low sellers, with

choice lots averaging up to 135 lbs.

the highest Sellers. The week’s re-

ceipts were much smaller than a week

earlier and far less than a .year ago,

and after moderate declines, the mar-

ket closed on Saturday a dime higher

for the best than a week earlier. Light

bacon hogs closed at $15.10@16.10;

heavy packers at $15.80@16.30; light

shippers at $16.15@16.25 and pigs at

$11@14.35, lots averaging up to 135

lbs. going highest. Most of the pigs

sold at $12@13.50. Heavy shipping.

hogs brought $16.30@16.50.



Last week was one of the most re-





 





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in prices being sensationalin the ex-

treme, with lambs taking the lead, as

usual. When prime Colorado wooled

lambs reached $20.40 per 100 lbs., by

far the highest price ever paid in the

history of the trade, there was great

exmtement, advances being paid of

from.25@500 in a single day for prime

offerings. Everything in the live mut-

ton line participated in the boom, and

sellers gathered wholly unexpected

profits from their flocks. Lambs com-

prised the great bulk of the offerings,

and there was an increased proportion

of Colorado clipped lambs during the

latter days of the week. The week’s

receipts of lambs and sheep were un-

usually small in volume, and prime

wooled lambs advanced $1.40 per 100

lbs., with similanupWard movements

in other offerings. VVooled lots closed

as follows on Saturday: Lambs$18@

20.40; shearing lambs $12.75@16.75;

sprlng lambs $16@21; yearlings $12.50

@1750; wethers $14@16.25; ewes

$13.50@16; bucks $13@15; clipped

lambs closed at $12.75@16.75.' ‘

Horses were in moderate supply and

in good general demand last week at

firmer prices, with farm chunks sal-

able at $60@140 for common to fair

ones, good to choice drafters at $240@





300 or more, and expressers at $175@ '





210. Very few army horses offered.





LIVE STOCK NEWS.





 





The long continued sharp upward

movement of prices for corn has been

a serious hindrance in the path of the

production of beef and pork and lard,

and the thousands of stockmen in the

country have hastened to get their

holdings shipped to market, regardless

of their condition. At the same time

there are quite a number of farmers

who have reasoned differently and

have made it a point of holding their

cattle until they were well matured.

These experienced stockmen have

been selling their fat cattle at liberal

premiums over the prices paid for the

short-fed lots and have reaped sub-

stantial profits by doing so. But there

are numerous farmers who have used

up all of their corn and have experi-

enced lots of difficulty in obtaining

fresh supplies, and these men are ab-

solutely compelled to let their cattle

go to market without delay. Many in—

stances could be related of farmers

without feed applying to neighboring

farmers for supplies of corn to help

them out and the requests being refus-

ed. Usually in such instances farmers

owning the corn needed it for their

own stock or wanted it for tiding over

a possible crop failure.





 





 





 





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In a Safe. Company



With an organization which is

producing enough business to pay

for a stolen car each day, and a sur—

plus of $65,000 on hand and 21,700

policies issued, the Company is pre-

‘pared to meet all claims.



Auto owners realize that great

care should be used in driving and

that the ordinances. of most large

cities make it illegal to leave auto-

mobiles on the street without a

proper lock; yet accidents continu-

ally occur and cars are stolen.



The farmer and the business man

who joins a mutual should select

one that has a large membership

and a surplus on hand to meet

claims. '

. Should you have a large damage

claim against you, the only mutual

company in the state able to give

you prompt and efficient service

with money on hand to pay the

judgment, is the Citizens’ Mutual

Automobile Insurance Company, of

Howell, and the cost is only $1.00

for policy and 25c per H. P.





 





 





 





 





 





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taxnng land values only, will provide entire national



_ budget. Will force use of idleland. Increase crops,



Get busy. Write your Congressmen and Senators.

Literature supplied. Write



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fight steers 810.506

11.25; mixed. steers and heifers $3.50



10.50; handy light butchers $8.75



9.75; light butchers ‘

cows 39.50610; butcher cows 5775(4)

8.75; common cows $‘T@7.50; canners

$6.50@7; best heavy bulls $9.5w10;

bo hulls ”5009.25; stock hallo

$75008; {cadets WWSIM; stockers

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an 958 at $8.50; 00 m. 3.00» 38

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990 at $8.35, 2 steers av 865 at $9; to

Parker, W. 42 Co. 9 cows av 1018 at

$8.75, 2 steers av 1075 at $10.25, 8 cows

av 1000 at $8.25; to Hammond, S. &

Co. 12 steers av 833 at $10, 1 M wgh

12503t$9,3cowsav113331$8.¢¢o

av 850 at $7. 4 do av-1150 at $0.25, 3

do an 1010 at $7.50, 1 do wgh 1070 at

$8.25, 2 buns. av 1240 at $9.25: to Bres-

nahan 10 cows av 800 at $7: to Thomp-

son 20 steers av 1116 at $1085; to

Prentiss 23 do av 1122 at $10.65; to

Mich. B. Co. 15 cows av 1138 at $850,

17 butchers av 579 at $8.35: to Soni-

van P. Go. 2 steers av 865 at . 2 do

av 1250 at $11, 1 bull wgh 1220'at $9.50.

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do av 920 at $7.25; to Newton P. Go.

25 steers av 1040 at $10.35, 1 do wgh

700 at $8.25, 1 cow wgh 1070 at $7.50,

3 steers av 1463 at $12.10, 10 do av 825

at $10. 9 do av 711 at $8.75, 2 do av

550 at $8; to Kamman B. Co. 3 do av

993 at $10; to Prentiss 3 do av 1077'

at $11.50, 2 cows av 1195 at $8.75, 7

steers av 1044 at $10.50. 4 do av 1259

at $11.25, 15 do av 955 at $10.30: to

Mich. B. 00. 1 do wgh 1070 at $11, 7

do av 714 at $9, 6 cows av 1075 at

$7.58, 3 do av 970 at $8; to Newton B.

Co. 1 do wgh' 86031 $8, 1 do wgh 1060

at $7.40, 1 bull wgh 1060 at $8.50. 15

steers av 850 at $10.15. 18 do av 715

amidonv 75 at $9, 8 do av 861

at. $10.35; to Km B. Co. 19 do av

958 at $10.50; to Mich. B. Co. 3 do av

733 at $9.50, S cows av 763 at $8.35; to

Btny'l 31464 at $8,2cows av

760 ct "A 4 smokers av 555 at $7.35;

to mm- 8.4%. Co. 1 cow wgh 1100

at $7.40. z buns av 98% at 38.65; to

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5 butchers av 888 ct $1.50.

V421 Olives.



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now. T. Z. RICHEY. ANNELTON, INDIANA





; ' Baby Chicks





, From Standard Bred S. C. White and Brown Leg.

horns. $10.00 per 100; $90.00 per 1.000. Bred to lay

large white eggs. Safe arrival guaranteed. Cats.-

1 ' e free. WOLVERINE HATCHERY, Box



1, Zeeland, Mich. -





a Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs





From Bred-to-Lay Barred Rocks. 8.0.White Leghorns

“(18.0. But! Orpingtons. All highclass stool: at very

reasonable rices. Send for our Chick Folder at once.

RUSSELL OULTRY RANCH. Petersburg. Mich.





 





 





 





a b ch' k B. C. White Leghorns.‘ 5,000 for May.at

I Y In 8i $12.00 per 100.8afe delivery guaranteed.

All breeders are farm raised and bred for high egg

reduction. Order direct from this advertisement.

UNNYBROOK FARM, - - Hillsdaie, Mich.





Bab Chi k Cheaper than hatching eggs. We

y c sspeciaiizein Leghorns Rocks and

Reds. Send for catalogue. Twentieth Century

Hatchery Company. Box 162. New Washington. Ohio.





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Rocks Redmogn



Wynn otters. me.

Best laying six-sins. Ship

ovmhero. Prices right

Dept. 16. 'Ilffll. Olin.





IOHN’S big beautiful hen-hatched Barred Rocks,

0 d 18. em. Breeding gens (5 birds) $10 to 3‘20. Eggs

312%); 180, $7.0irculars. hoto.John N orthon. Clare.Mich.





EGGS FROM STRAIN with

Barred ROCkS: records to 297 e ear, $2





gs a

per 15. Delivered by sarcel post. prepaid. Circular

tree. Fred Astling. onstsntine. Mich.



ck Egg: from full blood stock





”all“! PlymoulllJll $1.50 per 13. Prize





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“Ferris White Leghorns





A real heavy laying strain, trapnested 1

years, records from 200 to 264 eggs. Get

our special summer prices on yearling hens.

breeding males, eggs for hatching. 8-week-

old pullets and da old chicks. We ship C. O. D. and

guarantee results. atslog gives prices; describes stock; tells

all about our farm and methods; results you can get by breed-

ing this strain. Send for your copy now—it is free.





GEORGE B. FERRIS 934 Union. Grand Rapids. Mich.





   





   

   

   

   





 





CHICKS are booking orders now for spring de-

9 livery. different varieties. free booklet.

Frosport Hatchery, Box 12. Fresport, Michigan





' pure bred Youngs b. C. W. Leghorns

all)! chicks and P. B. Rocks. 8 cents and up. Cata-

logue free. M. Knolls Hatchery. Holland. Mich.. R. 3





' S. C. White Leghorn Ferris 200

Baby ChICks to 2300gg strain. $12.00 per 100.

HERBERT HAMMOND, - Williamston. Mich.





“NO-Egg”PedigreeWhiteLtghorns





Baby Chicks. Eggs for Hatchin

“Bred-to-lay" strain. vigorous, healthy stock. all sired

b Missouri Experiment Station males with pedigrees

of 200 to 2'14 eggs in one year. Chicks, $25 for 100, $100



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

satisfied customers. Book your order at .once for

eggs for hatching and baby chicks of qualityé We

sell Magic Brooders. best brooders made, 816.. each,

capacity 300 to 500 chicks. Catalogue. Michigan

Poultry Farm. Lansing. Mich. “Michigan‘s

Largest Poultry Farm."





LAYBILT 8. (l. W. LEGHUHNS





large, Great layers, Pure White





Proved e g type from like ancestry. Not the “Best in

the Wor d." but None Better for beauty and laying

ability. Laybilt Leghorns mean either better quality

at the same price or the same qualit at a less price.

Selected hatching eggs.81.50 per 15. arcel Postpaid:

$5 per 100; 90% fertility guaranteed. Strong Day-Old

Chicks, now 810 per 100. Hatch every week. Guaran-

teed delivery alive and lively. Evcrfresh Eng Farm.

lonls. Mich.





S. 6. White leghorns





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

for sale. These males are from 200 egg strain and

are offering them for $3 each. Also about 200

fine April hatched pullets at a great bargain.

Eggs for hatching March and April $5 per 100.

We will glady give references on all our sales.





KllENlEI. “08.. lloxli24, Easllansing.Mioh.

F o R SA '- E ngckblfggs Vi’flsil‘tehatyfiirou‘th

CHAS. ILETZLEH, BATH. MI n.

BUFF LEGHORNS P‘llli‘ls39?§.;'£§.’3.‘i;1§.gg“'





Dr. William A. Smith. Peter-burg. Mich.





 





 





Bred to lay S. C. W. Leghorn hens at $2

For sale each. bred from m to 260 egg stock: also

eggs for hatching. Leon C. Wheeler. Barryton. Mich.





l I But! Eocksl am now booking orders fore

F0" If 3 at 31.50 for 15. so for 3o. :4 fer 50. 87’for 1 .

Pen No. l. 84 for 15. Also one 2 yr. old White Hol-

land Tom. B. B.Fowlsr.Harttord. Mich.





G G s for setting from R. C. Brown Leg



E horfisfilelgdgiggtrakins in America

.hi Gesesn .onucs.



iiiiosivcgnbiai: BITI‘S. Hillsdaie. Michigan





Eggada Whilo VI andollos. 35%??? 30‘ 313.3%?

EGGA A, BA CE. Marshall. Mich.





My Young’sStrain S. C.White



lmprovo Your Poullry. mm... a... 8...... m0...



, alters. Strong.vigorous. bred-tc-laybtock. Baby chicks

g to 81] per 100. Satisfaction gu arsnteed. Large Orders filled.

Free catalogue. W. Van Appledorn. Holland. lich., R.7. Box 141.





OBSE'B White Leghorns. State Cup winners.Bred

for e for years. Now selling eggs. chi_x and stock.

Free ca og. Rufus Morse. Belding, Mich.





INE Cre t S. 0. White Orpingtons. cockerels. ul-



lets. eggs885 and $3 per 15. utility $881)" 100. E gs alf

rice after May 15th. MRS. WILLI HOUG .. Pine

rest Farm. Royal Oak. Michigan.





RHODB ISLAND REDS and PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Males 5 to 12 lbs. according to agetZ to :65 RR. hens

weight 6 to 10 lbs.. eggs 15 for $1.00; 100. So: 120. $6.00.

Immoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 88 lbs. according.

“.m N to $26. 10 038' S3. A. I. Crsmton, Vassar. Rich.





II. I. ,llotl chicks and E go. fdt’légi‘i‘é’féyliyfifi

refinements,“ sorta? austere. :





RlNGLETS’ ’ erred nooks The famous showfiaud

' ' » , 1’ la lug sitrai‘iii Eggs 82.09,l forv 15. 93:;

' lhorsd. 1 0st romsescts mat ngs. nin iew.



‘ ' ruin digits»... it... w. swim. sr.. Romeo. Mich.





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Dr. Hess





instant Louse Killer





means easy and sure lice riddance.

Dust into hens’ feathers, about

masts and houses. Put it into the

dust bath, both hens and chicks

will work it all through the feath-

ers, bringing the Louse Killer right

home to the lice. You can do

Bour poultry no better service.



on’t neglect them.



Also destroys bugs on cucumber, squash





and melon vines. cabbage worms, Slugs

on rose bushes. Sold in Sitting-top cans.





Price. 1 lb. 25c: 3 lbs. 600 (except In Canada).

DR. BESS a. CLARKAghInnd. Ohio





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Supp I” WHEN iou llEEll Plillillll SUPPLIES





Everything we sell is guaranteed.

You can return any goods you

uy rom us and get your money back. We ship

C. O. D. if desired, quote very lowest prices

and carry the most complete line in the country.

Here 1513 partial list:





 

   

     

   

 

 





 

   

 





 





Egg Cases Ship ing Coops Trap Nests

“diets and Flats Chic Boxes ire Nests



Egg Scales Feed Troughs Nest Eggs



Leg Bands Clover Cutters Egg Testers

ncubators Root Cutters E g Records

Brooders Bone Cutters hick Markers

Dortable Houses Grinding Mills Caponizing Sets

Roofing Oat Sprouters Poult'gy Books

Poultry Fence Water Fountains Lice ow-ler

Grit Automatic Feeders Lice Paint

Oyster Shell Beet Scrap isinlectants



C arcosl Chick Feed Poultry Remedies

Alfalfa Scratch Feed Spray Pumps





Egg Preservative Exhibition Coops Futiening Crates

Egg Daring Stamps Egg Trays Fowl Catchers

Folding Egg Crates Egg Cabinets Moisture Gages





if you don't find what you want in the above list write us

anyway. We have everything a poultryman needs. A ost

card will bring the 40 page catalog by return mail. (Ne

Will gladly send it free, whether you buy or not.





llEflllilE B. F ERRIS 6333953333; Silos.





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chicks yin g



A new scientific discovery that positively cures

and prevents White Diarrhoea or Chick Cholera.

Black-head. and other bowel discuss of poultry.

Leading oulu'y breeders everywhere use and cn~

dorss Av col. Easily used. in the drinking water.

Bond-Guaranteed to do the work or

money promptly refunded. Your

poultry remedy dealer can supply

you. ll not. we will send you Avi-

col by mail prepaid. Price 25c and

50c. Don't accept a substitute.

Barren-Miller. Indianapolis. ind.

113lloosier Block





 





 





 





 





 

   

   

 





 





Four ullets layed 950

Barred ROCk Eggs, egggin one year.

W. O. OOFFMAN. R. 3 Benton Harbor. Mich.





Homestead Farms





On account of abundant orders. we cannot promise

Day -Old Chicks until into June. We can still supply

Q





~ Eggs for Hatching

Rocks, Reds. Wyandottes. Black Minorcas and Leg-

horns; Geese. Ducks and White Holland Turkeys.

Cockerels and pullets of our several breeds can besup.

plied from Jul on thru the autumn months and we

nvite in uiry rom any. who want any of these fowls.





HOMES EAD FARMS. Bloomingdale, Mich.





Eggs and Chicks. Pure bred

R- and 8- Co Reds. stock. Also good Scotch Col-

lie Pups. 0. E. flawley, Ludlngton, Mich.





 





 





 





RHODE I.Whites win in the egg layln contest. Best

egg and market fowl. Eggs $2 or 15. per 45. Baby





chicks. . Jump, Jackson, ichigan.





 





Br d_h.la S. C. W. Leghorns and Barred Rocks.

0 Eg s, 51 for 15, $1.50 for 26. $2.50 for50.

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





 





s c w Leghorn eggs from a 240 egg strain. $2 or 15.

- - - Utility eggs $5 per 1(1). HILL - C EST

POULTRY FARM. Ypsilanti, Michigan.





Sindgle Comb Black Minorcas 352?.221‘5

sire byaltl lb.cock bird. R. W. Mills, Saline. Mich.

8.0.llhilt logorns fifffifiléfii‘fifif“fl§lfitfii

eggs 50 each. C. W Gordon. Fowlerville. nicliigsn.





 





 





 





C. White Leghorns. Size shaiée. vigor, egg produc-

S. tion. Hatching eggs :5. Baby hicks on per 100. 15

years in the hen business. A.O.Howard. T80“m8€h.Mlch.





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Plymouth lloolt Mulching E o. 3.1... pzk’iiagg’l‘é‘ll.

verandWhite.Shoridnn o tersrds.Sheridnn.Mich

ILVER. Golden and WhiteWyandottes. Eg from





some rand matings. 81.50 per 15. $2.50 per , large

vigorous irds. , C. w. Browning. ll. 2 Portland. Itch.





Additional Poultry Ads. on Page 649,





 

 

   





 





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

   





 





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HERE are many things which in-



fluence the production of a flock



of poultry and it is because of

these things that poultry raising is

complex, and therefore so difficult to

make a success of. One may breed

and feed right and still by leaving

other things undone he will be doom-

ed to failure because he has neglected

some essentials.





Lice and mites are natural enemies

of poultry and are found on all fowls

where special attention has not been

given to eradicate them. Where the

fowls are allowed to dust themselves

frequently and where the roosting

quarters are kept clean these pests are

kept to a minimum. But the means of

almost absolute eradication of these

pests are so simple that every farmer

should practice them. In these days

of high-priced feeds and shortage of

poultry products no one can afford to

feed such pests.





Controlling Lice.





Lice powders are very efficient in

the control of body lice, and can be

used to advantage in the dust box and

in other ways as occasion requires.

One of the easiest methods of lice con-

trol is by the use of blue ointment.

This ointment is made by mixing two

parts of mercurial ointment to one

part of vaseline or petroleum jelly.

Lard may be used instead of vaseline.

The mercurial ointment can be pur-

chased of any druggist and should be

thoroughly mixed with the vaseline on

a pane of glass or similar surface. with

a case knife. One ounce of the mer-

curial ointment is enough for treating

seventy-five hens. "





For application an amount of the

blue ointment the size of a pea should

be thoroughly rubbed into the skin,

just below the vent. One must make

sure that’it is thoroughly rubbed in,

otherwise the bird may, in picking at

herself, get some of the ointment in

her mouth and death would result from

mercurial poisoning. The treatment

will last several months and is a sure

cure for body lice, but; will not control

the mites which dig into the skin and

cause scabies and scaly leg.





Mites Easily Controlled.





For the control of mites there is

nothing better than carbolineum, which

is a combination of a coal tar product

and carbolic acid. It was primarily

made for wood preservative purposes

but is very efficient in keeping any-

thing to which it is applied free from

mites. It should be painted on the

roosts, nests and dropping boards, and

care must be used in applying it as it

Splashes easily and has quite an irri-

tating effect if it touches the skin. If

possible keep the hens from the roosts

for several days until the carbolineum

gets thoroughly dried, but if one does

not care if the feathers get stained a

little he can do the painting early in

the morning on a hot, dry day and

keep the hens away from the roost

during the day until roosting time. This

carbolineum penetrates the wood and

remains effective in mite control for a

year or more. The writer has had one

application remain effective for two

years.



By the use of the blue ointment on

the hens and the carbolineum on the

roost and nests, one can be assured

control of the lice and mites with a

minimum of effort and a maximum of

efliciency. As these methods are so

simple and effective it behooves the

farmer to use them and thus get rid

of one of the greatest leaks in his

flock and one of the greatest hind-

rances to success in poultry raising.





Another way in which ‘the farmer

can greatly inerease his poultry pro-

duction is by the selection of the fowls

he keeps for laying purposes. It is a.

common practice if ”chickens are sold

for broiler purposes to use the early





IncreasingFarmPoult‘r‘y'ProduCtio‘n





and well developed pullets for that

purpose because they are the largest

and will bring the highest prices. HOW-

ever, these early pullets will make the

best early winter layers because they

are .fully developed before cold weath-

er sets in, and are in good shape to

lay when eggs are highest. For broiler

purposes the culls and later, chicks

should be used. At least those which

give promise of making the best lay-

ers should not be sacrificed for the ad-

ded few cents the sale of them as

broilers will bring.





Egg Laying Conformation.



As good dairy production is'indicat-

ed in the triple triangle shape of the

cow, certain body conformations show

the tendency toward high production

in the hen. One of the chief indica-

tions of good laying qualities is the

pliability of and a good distance be-

tween the pelvic bones. If the bones

are pliable and far apart it would indi-

cate that the hen has passed a lot of

eggs or has inherited that conforma-

tion from parents who have been pro-

ductive. In the mature hen one should

be able to place three fingers between

the pelvic bones of a good layer. In

a pullet there should be a relative dis-

tance between the pelvic bones accord-

ing to the age and size of the pullet.





Another good indication of laying

capacity is a good distance between

the pelvic bones and the end of the

breast bone. This indicates plenty of

capacity for the digestive and egg-mak—

ing organs. Also the birds should have

a good stock frame, good color of head

and feathers closely laid to the body.



In culling the flock it is well to ex-

amine the birds according to these

qualifications and keep the pullets

which must nearly fill them for laying,

and the hens for breeding. Cockerels

to be kept for breeding purposes

should also be examined for these in-

dications of productivity for cockerels

having these qualifications undoubted-

ly inherited them from productive

mothers.





Of Value to the Farmer.



This egg-laying conformation is no

more of an indication of high produc—

tion than the dairy conformation in

cows. Both have their value in the

selection of high producers but to de

termine accurately the Babcock test

will have to be used in one case and

the trap nest in the other. However,

the practice of trap nesting is usually

confined to poultry specialists. There-

fore, the selection of possible high

producers by selecting those which

have the egg-laying conformation

would undoubtedly bring about greater

egg production in the farm flock.



To keep poultry surroundings sani-

tary they should be kept free fro-m

filth and dampness, as filth and damp-

ness are sure to start disease in poul-

try which live constantly in such con-

ditions. The coop and feeding uten-

sils should be cleaned frequently and

no food should be given which shows

the slightest indication of decay. Fre

quently perishable food which is left

from one feeding to another is the

cause of. considerable trouble. The

droppings should be cleaned out fre-

quently and the litter should be chang-

ed when it gets soiled and damp. The

use of a goOd disinfectant after the

coop has been. cleaned is to be recom-

mended.



It is the doing of these simple things,

which every farmer can do, that makes

for greater production f and ‘often the

difference between success and failure.

In these times of scarcity and high

prices it is everyone’s duty to stop all

leaks and to use all means of getting

increased production. "These things

prove profitable in normal times but

with»~ the high prices' for poultry pro-

ducts assured for some timegto come,

any endeavors along this line will be

highly rewarded by increased profits.
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011‘rllotto:-"The farmer is of more

consequence than the term, and should

be first improved.”





STATE ounces osricsnc:





luster—John C. Ketcham. Hosting

Overseer—C. H. Bramble. Tecumse





WWDora H. Stockmn, In-

.%m4mh Boon. Ann Arbor.

Treasurerwn‘rank Coward. Bronson.





 





 





THE IMPORTANCE OF GRANGE

MEETINGS.

(Continued from last week).



The Grange is a school in business.

More and more is the man out on the

land coming to realize the advantage

of a practical business education such

as he may get from contact with suc-

cessful business men on the farm.



The farmer is becoming a better bus-

iness man each year. Cooperation is

becoming a larger and still larger word

as the days go by. (Jo-operative stores

and grain elevators, cooperative live





- stock shipping associations, co-opera-





tive fruit selling associations are mul-

tiplying all around us. What can the

Grange do in this mighty effort toward

better conditions for the people who





till the ground?



Then, too, Grange is a place where



we mould public opinion. Public opin-

ion is mighty. it is stronger than law,

for without it law is dead.

_ 1n the Grange we may plan for vari-

ous lines of improvement in the commu-

nity. Here we may discuss the school

problem and perhaps after a while we

may provide a system of education

which will enable us to gtve them

these advantages without sending them

from our homes for days and some-

times weeks, while yet they are all too

young for such an experience.



The writer has almost unbounded

confidence in the judgment of the aver-

age man after he has engaged in thor-

ough discussion of any problem. Apart

from such investigation and discussmn

he is always subject to demgns, pas-

sions, and prejudices of those whose

advice he follows:



In other words, if we are to make

the country the best possible place in

which to live, we must get together

and talk it over from all angles and

plan out the work. If we would ad-

vance the cause of agriculture so as to

assist those people on the land who

are in the greatest need, we must meet

and get a common vision of the thing

to be done, and must make our plans

for its accomplishment.



But the Grange is something more

than a school, it is more than a busi-

ness organization; it is a fraternity

through which neighborliness should





, increase, the bonds of friendship grow





stronger in the community, and the

long list of good things that grow out

of a community life full of peace and

good will, should be realized. But how

shall these things be if we do not

meet? And how can they be if we do

meet, and still do not realize the great-

er objects of our coming together?



Lastly, the Granges themselves will

grow cold and die if they do not meet.

It is true that the Grange that does

not meet can still be of some service

to the neighborhood. it can buy

through trade contracts, it can give its

influence in a small way to cetrain leg-

islative reforms, and its members may

insure their houses and barns in some

one of the Grangecompanies, but all

these do not really make a Grange af-

ter all. Indeed. they come so far from

it, that the rule is that after a time

members buy in some other way, they

insure their property in some other

company, they leave legislative mat-

ters generally to the men elected to do

the legislating, and the Grange itself

passes into history.



I wont to make an appeal in closing.

tor better attendance at Grange meet-

ings. We ought to feel the force of

public obligation. If we would do our

duty to the community we must meet

as a community and plan and work for

the general good. Our own prosperity

as individual farmers, our children’s

prospects in life, the importance of the

school in which they are to be educat-

ed, all demand we should be there

and cry- to make our Glam worth



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Assoclaflml Motto: '

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Accociational Sentiment:

"The Farmer: He garners frantic.

soil the primal wealth of nations.”





 





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The First Halfaday Meeting of the

Washington Center Farmers’ Club was

very pleasantly spent at Elmdale Stock

Form, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank!

Heinlen. The meeting was called to!

order by President F. L. Cook. After

reading of the minutes roll call was‘

responded to by naming a Club im-

provement. Music by Mrs. Henlein

and Mrs. Dellworth, Mrs. Gilman pre-

siding at the organ. 4 “Deep Plowing

and Sub-soiling," was led by C. N. Cu-

nen. “Resolved, that feed can be pro.

duced more economically by growmg

corn than oats,” was led by F. M.

Brown. Messrs. Brown, Henlein and

Campbell took the stand for corn, and

Messrs. English, Cunen and Cook fav-

ored the cats. Each one stood firm

in their belief and at the close of the

discussion each was of “the same opin-

ion stfll." Birdie Cunen then gave a

recitation and Mrs. Gilman and Mr.

Dell sang a duet. Mrs. Crowel read a

paper on “South America." After sev-

eral questions were answered in the

question box, the hostess served a

very nice luncheon of codes, sandwich-

es and cake. Adjourned to meet at

Fair Acres, the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Eugene Wagner, the second Thursday

in June—«Cor. Sec.



Food Preparednese.——Union Farm-

ers Club, of St. Clair county, met in.

May at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Al-

bert Bade, northwest of Capac. Al-

though it was a very busy time, sixty-

eight of the leading farmers and their

families were present, and one of the

most successful meetings of the sea-

son was held. President Albert Tosch

presided, and Mrs. Maude Kemp acted

as secretary. The program Was open-

ed by singing “Anmrica,” followed by

prayer led by Elder McCue of the M.

P. church of Capac. This Club has en-

joyed a steady growth, and at this

meeting a number of new members

were admitted. With a view to improv-

ing the sessions, a motion was adopted

providing for the making out of a year-

ly program in advance. A. E. Steven-

son addressed the meeting regarding

war matters, laying special emphasis

on food preparedness. Among other

things, he said that in general people

had not begun to realize how critical

and serious the conditions, resulting

from our entrance into the. war, were,

and that it was his sincere belief that

we. had at least from three to five years

of fighting ahead of us. He stated that

We Were experiencing a food shortage

now when we are just beginning to

prepare for war, and that when it is

considered that in a few months we

will be carrying on war operations on

a gigantic scale, the alarming situation

confronting us becomes evident. His

address was discussed by a number of

those present, including Messrs, Mc-

Cue, Petz, Tosch, Cook, Bauers and

others. The county agent then follow-

ed with a short tall: describing how

the organizations, such as Farmers’

Clubs, could help conditions confront-

ing the farmer, and urged every mem-

ber to keep their cammunity in close

touch with his office. The meeting was

especially fortunate in having Mrs.

Judge present, who delighted the peo-

ple with several high-class vocal selec-

tions. This being the first meeting

held at the Bade home, the Club nam-

ed the place Pleasant View Farm, in

accordance with their usual custom.

When discussing Mr. Stevenson’s re

marks, a number stated that they had

not realized

fronting our country had become so

serious, and they felt that his message

was one which everyone in that part

of the county should hear. Accordingly

they favored the calling of a big patri-

otic meeting at Capac on the evening

of May 30, and a motion to this effect

introduced by John Cook was unani-

mously carried. The women present

also felt that they should get a. clearer

idea. of how they could help, and re-

quested that a lady speaker be obtnim

ed for this meeting. The speaker of





the day was heard to remark that be u





had never seen a more patriotic and

loyal crowd. The June meeting of the

Clubwillbeheldatthehomeofllr.





   

 





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Clothes $12 to 325





SERGE SPECIALS

‘ 5130" Blue. "6.50

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IN YOUR TOWN





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gray suit thatwill look,



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uncommonly little?

Scientific tailoring

makes a daily Mariners

of finding ways to

better the product and

lessen its cost.





“6130" Gray Serge.

Special at $16.50 is a

Klondid example of



c fact that Cloth—

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utmost in fit, looks

and wear that can be

given men and young

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insure increased profits {ram your herd. They

make cows comfortablciric casilynndccanom-

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they will give liffilongsatisfacfion and service; .

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' Wyandottes. winter dz summer layen. I!"

W hlte 85.50 per mo hwy cm; 312 per 100. Sntidnctio.

guaranteed. Hmlocl Poultry d: Stock Farm. Prelcott.





ITBY come Silt-or Spangled Hamburg for batch-

ing. The Dutch or urinating layers its Holland

Turkey eggs. Fine Edgin- le0 Doc- bred to hlrh chasm

Pedigmd. Stump for circulars. River-view form, anr. Mich.





‘ Fro ‘ . . I i 8.0.

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‘OR SALE 8.0. Bull Orpington e gs from oodctock.

O. K. In 'em. 15, 81.50; 30 3" 50; 1&3 7.00.; rices some





 





 





 





 





 





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BEST FOR TH E READER

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Breeder's Gazette. 90,000 60

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Wind“ farm papers 0 their indlvld

fields. For further information address ual





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BREEIIERS’ lilRliC’l‘ilRY.

Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication.





We Offer a Few Spec1al Bargains

In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

‘bouillet rams, Hampshire pigs (either

sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance

for a small investment to reap the bene-

fit of a large expenditure of capital and

years of expert breeding; ’





Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS





Bulls b LACK UALITY ITO. sire, First prize,

Breedeizs Iand Calf erds Mich. State Fair 1916. We

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

Jr. Champion Female and Grand Champion Cow. Also

breeders of Percheron, Hackney and Saddle Horses.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. IONIA. MICH.





FOR SALE Good Angus bulls, bred cows. and

heifers. Prices reasonable.



Geo. Hathaway & Son. Owd. Mich.



Two year old Hei-





I I

lilo choice Registered Guernsey: .9... win 1...}...

in the next 60 aye. fine individuals, and well bred.

8300 each, don't wait a month if you want these. they

will go, to the first man sees them. .

J. M. WILLIAMS. - - North Adams, Mich.





Choice Reg. Guernsey Bulls

Promising, well-mark d, good individuls from good

reducers. Ages ranging from 4 mos. to 1 yr. old. ready

or service. Visit the farm and get yours soon at the

right.price. Meadow-Gold Guernsey Farm. St. Johns.’_Micli.





 





 





f service e and calves from

Guernsey Bulls ° an... it... re... breeding.

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





G U E R N 3 BY —REGIBTERED





l d f ld hBULL CALVES

t i i boo o wor 0 am ons.

HICKSqoallEllln SEY FARM. Saginaw, 818.. Mich

GUERNSEYS Bull calves for sale, from

A. R. dams and cows on test.





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





HOLSTEINS





AND





BERKSHIBES





All stock guaranteed as

represented





3 choice Bull Calves for fall use, with

large yearly record backing. Can-

not be beat as individuals. Berkshire

gilts bred to farrow in August, good

backs,large bone and from large lit-

ters. There is no better investment

in sight.





SWIEARTDALE FARM





PETERSBURG, MICH.





“TOP NOTCH” HOLSTEINS





Man ears of carefuli management and systematic

han liyng of our three large herds find us the breeders

and owners of a cow that heads one of the only eight

combinations of three direct generations of thirty

ound cows in the United States. We have young bulls

or sale sired by a son of this great cow. The blood of

this cow in them, gombinefii w‘iith thatlgfcther grea:

animals of the bree In our ier s. wou insure mos

leasing results in almost any herd. McPHERSON

FARMS 00.. Howell, Michigan.





 





Bigelow’s Holstein Farms,

BREEDSVlLLE, MlCH.

Have Some Fine Registered Stock For Sale





producers.





H. W. MUMFORD,

OWNER





 





 





- Jerseys and Duroc Jerseys

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

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





The are selling—get yours soon. Also Duroc Jersey Fall Boars ready for spring service.

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





BROOKWATER FARM

Ann Arbor. Mich, R. 7.





 





Full





0. F. FOSTER.

MANAGER





 





 





 





 





Purebred Registered





HOLSTEIN

CATTLE





All records for butter-fat production in

365 (lays. not onl Holstein~Friesian but those

of all other bree s, were broken in 1915 by the

registered purebred Holstein cow, Duchess

Skylark Ormsby 124.514, when she produced 27,761

pounds of milk containing 1,205.09 pounds of but-

terfat. The test was made under the supervision

of the Minnesota Agricultural College, thirteen

different supervisors being employed. This won-

derful cow freshened at the a e of 3 years ands

days. Holstein cows as a rule mi k longer and pro-

duce much larger quantities of milk than any

breed, a fact that has made them the choice other

of progressive dairymen everywhere.





Sand for FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets

'l'he Holstein-Frieslan Association oi America

F.-L. Houghton, Sec'y.. Box I“. Brailleboro. Vi.





 





 





 





 





 





 





Holstein Bulls





1to 9 months old. Dam's A. R. 0. Our herd sire is

Johanna McKinley Segis 3d. 7 nearest Dams aver-

ag627.% BLISSVELDT FARMS, Jenlson, Mich.



' ' Very fine Young bull five

lloglslel'ell "MSlOInL months of age A. R. O. lirecdiiig





Satisfaction guaranteed.W.B.J0ncs dz J. I“.Liitz. Cohoctali, Mich.





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

H5 weeks old, beautifully marked,820.00 each, crated

for shipment anywhere. Edgewood Farm.Whitswster.VVis.

EG. HOLSTEINS: Herd headed by Albina Bonte

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

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

302 lbs. milk 186221bs.W. B. READER, Howell. Mich





Cluny Sto ck Farm

100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100

THE MILK AND BUTTER KIND

Those Bull Calves will be yearlings next fall and

winter—they will cost youlmorc price and express

then. Those remaining are individually right and bred

right. Entire herd above six months old just tuberculin

tested. Not a reaction in the 63 head. Select your herd

sire from a herd you know is free from tuberculosis.

Prices and pedigrees sent on request.



R. BRUCE McPHERSON, HOWELL, MlCH.





OAK LEAP FARM

Herd Sire

Ypsiland Sir Pletertie De Kol

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

individuals 4 and 5 months old. E. H. Gearhart&

Son, Marcellus, Micli., R. No. 4.





 





 





EG. Holsteins. Place your order now fora bull calf.

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

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





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

half-brotherof World’s Champion cow. Send card

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





842 Lbs. BUTT E R





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

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

at grand-dam. Three choice young bulls from A. R.

(gldams. Herd tuberculin tested annually. Holsteins

of course. Pea‘celand Stock Farm. Three Rivers, Mich.

M. Peters. Herdsman. C. I. andyflwnrr. Port Huron. Mil-h.





BEG. Holstein Bull Calf horn Nov. 13, 1916. Dam A.





g. . 31.51. v rv choice animal, .00 reg. and del.

~~< 0 mar H (his, - - St. Johns. Mich.





 





 





Offers reg. A.R.0.

Holstein Cows,

for service no akin to

HAM. Bronson, Mich.





Psrham’s Pedigree flock Farm

h B d

an: tiles are“ R? Bin





Need Reg. Holsteins??





You can't find better bred bulls than we are offering,

ready for service. You don't need cash. We tru~t you.

Get our description booklet. LONG BEACH FARMS,

Augusta, (Kalamazoo Co)., Michigan





WINNWOOD H E R D





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

Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont, Illicit.





Have for sale 6 Maplccrest Korndyke Hengerveld

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

months, all out of O. dams. One made 191bs.

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

7 days as :1 Jr. 3ycar old. Also have five others, same

bread from 2toli months. Must sell at once. need the

room. Our prices will surprise you. John H. Winn,

Holton, Michigan.





1200-Ib. Bred Young Bull





Ready for service. The sire Mafia-rest De Kol Hen -

erveld own brother to a. worl ‘s champion jiinio

year old, 1203 pounds of butter in a year. Brother in

blood, to the eXfllhilnl ion cow, record 1322.93 lbs.

butter in a year. Write or pedigree and price.

HILLCREST FARM, F. 8. Lay, Mgr.

Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





 





 





lsn Good Young llolslein Cows For Sale



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

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

Champion' a son of a worlds Record milk cow and his

sire is a son of a worlds record butter cow. We will

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

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

calves and a few bulls ready for serVice.



L E. CONNELL. ~ - - - Fayette, Ohio





 





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Holsloin and Guernsey lllllfll' and Bull calves

Choiceselected promising dairy calves,practicall pure

Holstein and pure Guernsey, but not registerei , nice

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

MEADOW GLEN Whitewater. Wis.





Butter Fat Counts





Holstein Bull Calves from a 30 lb. 6,53 l Sire. Dam

are grand daughters of the King of the Pontiacs.

'l'heirdams grand daughters of Sadie Vale Concordia

the first 30 lb. cow. Edwin S. Lewis, Marshall.Mich.



A Yearling Heifer, are bred Hol-





For sale stein, Sire,Colantha olianiiaCrcam—

elle Lad, Dam. Elizabeth Segis Lyons. If you want

something good, write. Geo. D. Clarke, Vassar, Mich.



Some good grade cows, Holsteins and

clms For gala Jews. Making room for youngstock.

producing from 8, to 12.000 pounds yearly on two

milkings daily, sound and healthy. can furnish

records and photo raphs. Also good grade calves

and yearlings. C ARLES STAFF, 1199 Woodward

Avenue, Detroit, Mich.





 





 





 





 





OR Sale registered Holstein Cow, 6 years old.finely

marked and good iype.She has 3 daughters.2 A.R.()

C. L. HULETT & SON. - - ()keinos. Mich.





High Grade Holstein Heifers





Fres or soon to freshen. Also rade Holstein Bull

Prices reasonable. THE ENNINGS FARMS.

V.M.SHOI‘ISMITH, General Manager, Bailey, Mich





2 Holstein neilers b.\' a 24 lb. bull in calf





to 30 lb. bull. Bull calf

22.92 lb. dam. 30.21 lb. sire. Terms if wanted





M. L. McLAULIN, Redford, Michigan.





' ' Friesian Heifers. 3 to 6

RegIStered HOISteln mos. old. Some from 30 lb.

sires. Priced to sell. Fred J. Lange. Sebewning, Mich.





 





 





 





Reg. Holstein Frieiian 2%? “83 E‘éil‘a’ii'e’i‘igig

nine months old, 3100; Bulls $40 up. with papers.

FRANK STAFFEN, R. 3. Howard City. Mich,





BULL CALF‘ for sale. Pontiac Korndyke Breeding.

Dam gives 601bs. milk per day at 2 years. Farmers





Prices. JOHN A. RlNKE. Warren. Mich.





"FOR SALE





I





The improvement of your held

depends chiefly on the selection

of the right sire. Get the best.

Read the ads of Jersey breeders

in this and other papers. rite

them at once for prices, pedi-

grees, etc. Buy a Jersey bull call this spring

B k and plan to grade up your herd. _

0° bulls are strongly prepoieni and you

won grade Jerseys surprisingly profitable.

Send for our free book. "The Story of the

Jersey " and learn the truth concerning

great breed.

The American Jersey Cattle Club





346 West 23rd Street, New York City





 





For Sale Jersey Bull Calf





Dropped Nov. 3rd 1916. The sire and dam are

both from R. M. cows. This calf is an extra good

individual. and will be sold cheap. Address:

Newman‘s Stock Farm, R. 1. Marlette, Mich.





 





for sale, ready for service. Out of

Jersey Buns good producing dams. Prices right.

R. B. FOWLER. Hartford. Mich.



Young bulls





JERSEYS FOR SALE“...y f...





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

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





 





 





Yearling Jersey bull from regis-

ter of merit stock. HILLSDALE

FARM JERSEYS. Great producers.

C. & 0. DEAKE, Ypsilanti, Michigan





 





Maple Hill Farm llegislmd .lomy Ballla

S ock under 2% years all sold.





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





 





Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from R

of M. Cows, also heifer calves and several bred

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





The Wildwood Farm

Breeder of Line bred Majestv strain of Jersey Cattle.

Herd on R. of M. test.’1‘uberculin tested.Biill calves for

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





R. of M. Jersey herd offers for sale

maple lane tuberculin tested cows, bulls. bull

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

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





Sho’rtliorn Callie oi boiii Sex ior Sale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.





Bidwell Shorthorns





“For Beef and Milk”





This heifer at 6 months has bone,

size and quality—Our own breeding.

The blood of Scotch bulls, Imp.

Shenstone Albino and Imp. Villag-

er Registered stock always for sale.





IllllllIEll STOCK FAIIM,





Box B, Tecumseh, Michigan.





RICHLAND SHORTHORNS -





Sires in service. Village Archer and Albion Crest 1st.

Erize‘zyear old and Junior Champion at the Mich.



tat Fair in 1916. We oiler a number of young bulls and

females for sale. Also some Aberdeen-Angus bulls of

serviceable age reasonable prices. Write your wants.





 





 





 





 





 





Tawas City.Mich.C. H. Prescott & Sons. Prescott. Mich. .





 





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns

Big Type Poland Chinas





“They‘re rugged—They pay the rent."

Nothing for sale at present.

. P. P. POPE, R. R. 3. Mt. Pleasant, Mich.





 





 





OR Sale—Reg. Short Horn Bulls by Maxwalton

F Monarch 2nd, seen of Avondale, from 1to9mos.

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





Shorthorns For Sale Young bun- may for





serVice, also cows and

heifers. W. B. McQuillan. Howell, Michigan.

Young bulls 8100. B d . .

Shorllllll'lls For sak- and heifers $150 for di’ckg‘ii‘lvg.

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

Bales Shorthorns.





J. B. Hummel. -





SHORTHORNS





for sale. J. E. Tanswell.





Michigan.





 





 





 





The original milk strain.

N0 stock for sale at present

- - Mason, Michigan





 





Maple Ridge Herd, Estab-

lished 1867. Young bulls

Mason, Michigan.





8h ill -—Dairy or beef bred. Breeding stock all

or or": ages forsale at farmers prices. 0. .Crum,

Secy. Cent. llich.. Shorthorn Breeders‘ Assn., chi-ide. Mich.





 





Registered Holslein Bulls,r;’5‘1¥.§3‘;§%§¥§°§y{33:333.

Priced to sell. B. B. HEAVY, Akron, Mich.





3 Red Bull Calves, 6 months old.

Shorthorns 1 Roan Bull. 2 years old, for sale.





W. C. OSIUS. - - Hillsdale, Mich.





 





we will ship you

any registered



Prices from $50 up.

Ypsilanti. Michigan.





(in Our Easy Payment Plan





Holstein Bull calf in our stables.

Ypsiland Farms,





HEREFORDS





10 Bull Calves from 4 to 12





months old.





ALLEN BRO§., PAW PAW. MlCll.

Wanted Herefords





fers. open, dark color. give rice and description in

first letter. E. E. OLE, Hudson, Mich.





F O R SA L E Twenty-five Jersey cows,

two to ei ht years old.



Eight registered, balance high grades. xcellent pro-

duce rs. guaranteed right. Also some bred yearlin heif-

ers. registered and high grades. Also some fall eifer

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

Hsdlcy. P. 0- Metamors, Mich. R. l. C . E. Hodgson. L. H‘. Riley.

from hi h- rodueln dam with



June) Bull: tor 8an m... “1.5.. "out. at. ..

semiofloiai test. 0. B. W nor. 3. 8. Allegen. Mich





 





 





Five registered (is

horned yearling hei—





 





 





D k .

Shorhorn Bull all. fie:$y(i1iilkgh?dsliyg1§;l.





DAVIDSON & HALL. Tecumseh. Michigan





A f ' t d Sh -

Shorthorns For Sale 1,0,3“ his 339’?“ 3ng

Price very resonable. A. L.Wilson, Scottville. Mich.





H005.

Durocs and Viciorias





Heavy bone. lengthy Spring Bears and Gilts from prize

winners sired by one of the best Sons of the Great De-

fender & other noted strains. M. '1‘. STORY. Lowell. Mich.





isms.





Duroc Jerseys

Carey U. Edmonds.





 





 





 





 





 





Boar's. serviceable age, best blood

lines. Re istered. ST

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bred gilts for sale

priced to sell.

Hastings. Mich.





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the two

Duroc Boats in Mich. A postal will

bring escr tion. breeding and price. Last fall boar

pigs 825 to

lliiroc Jerseys.





Newton Bamhart, St. Johns, Mich.

Bmding Boar: snil Sept. Ellis

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THE’CALF CROP.g





(Continued from page 638). ‘

_consumer. Let us be_prudent and rea-

sonable, seeking and selecting to raise

only those that will repay the cost of

feed and labor bestowed on them.





Early Development Desirable.





After the selections of the right

kinds of calves are made, then it

should be the aim and desire of those

who are feeding them to encourage a

rapid and constant growth. The con—

ditions surrounding the calves should

be such as will insure the health of the

animals. In fact, the promotion of the

growth can only be secured under such

conditions as will insure health and

’vigor.



It should be the aim to do as loyal

service in the farm yard and field as

though they were on a field of battle,

working to win the plaudits of the na-

tion. With such aims in mind a. pa-

triotic spirit, ‘equal to that of ’76 can

be engendered, and those on the farms

can know and realize that they are a

part of the great masses of mankind

who are struggling for human liberty.

When we have broken the yoke of

world tyranny, and the dove of' peace

shall again perch upon our banner, the

boys and girls on the farms who have

aided in tilling the soil and raising the

stock that has helped to furnish the

food for the soldiers on the field of bat-

tle, the laborers in work shops and the

masses who make up our great popu-

lation, should be accorded their share

of the honors and given the plaudits

of the nation.





DON’T SELL BREEDING ANIMALS.





They Are the Seed for the Nation’s

Live Stock Industry.



- “Don’t sell your breeding animals

unless you can replace them immedi-

ately with better ones," is the message

the United States Department of Agri‘

culture is sending to farmers and

stockmen. everywhere. "Don’t let the

temptation of high prices now being

offered for live stock, or undue fear of

the prices asked for many popular

feeds mislead you into selling a cow or

sow that will drop the golden calf or

litters. Such near-sighted profit-taking

or lack of courage, if widespread,

would strike at the foundation of the

country’s live stock industry and crip-

ple it for years to come. As there is

a shortage of meat animals throughout

the world, we can not hope to import

new breeding stock to replace those we

foolishly have killed off. Our own

breeding animals, therefore must be

regarded as the seed essential to the

domestic meat supply of the nation.





Feed Live Stock as Little Human

Food as Possible.



“Feeds not available or needed for

human consumption should be used as

largely as possible in feeding the live

stock. By feeding straw or corn stov-

er, especially for wintering mature

stockers and breeding animals, farm-

ers will make the best possible use of

these roughages. In this way a large

proportion of the straw and stover or-

dinarily burned or wasted can be man-

ufactured into meat and milk. Grain

sorghums, wherever they are available

should be fed to release corn for hu<

man uses. Grain, where fed, should be

used as economically as possible.



“Every animal should be a factory

for turning into food material inedible

for human beings. This will necessi-

tate changes in many feeding formulas

and stockmen are urged to apply at

once to the United States Department

of Agriculture or their state agricul~

tural colleges for information as to the

most effective and economical methods

of feeding live stock under existing

emergency conditions.”





Feed the calves well during the sum.

mer and fatten them as yearlings. It

will pay better than keeping them

poorly and feedingthem another year. .‘





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In the hue and cry which have been

raised through the state and nation to

spur farmers On to producing bigger

crops, Dean Robert S. Shaw, head of

the Department of Agriculture in the

Michigan Agricultural College, sees

poSsibilities of danger to' the live stock

and live

stock ,men, he. declares, carefully con-

serve and save their breeding stock,

the state will in a short time be hard

pressed to meet the nation’s demands

for meat, and blood for new herds.



“Unprecedented efforts," said Dean

Shaw, “are being put forth by a great

variety of organizations to stimulate

increased crop production throughout

the United States, for the purpose of

meeting an impending food crisis, not

only in America but in all parts of the

world as well. Farmers are being urg-

ed to produce maximum crops of sta-

ples such as wheat, .rye, corn, oats,

barley, potatoes and beans. Boys’ and

girls’ clubs are being organized to in-

crease vegetable production, and city,

town and village gardening is being

stimulated and fostered as never be-

fore. The easily perishable vegetable,

by partial replacement of the staple,

may effect some saving in the latter,

but. the real relief at home and abroad

is dependent upon the production of

meats, milk, wool, work, cereals, edi-

ble legumes, and tubers.



“In the nation-wide propaganda. to

increase crop production, the animal

industry has not, up to date, been giv-

en due attention. Publicity has been

limited largely to the banker and to

boys’ and girls' pig and calf clubs. Any

stimulus applied solely to cash crop

production is certain to result in dimin-

ished animal production. On January

1, 1917, there were in the United

States, 21,126,000 horses, 4,639,000

mules, 63,617,000 cattle, 48,483,000

sheep, and 67,453,000 hogs. During the

previous year there was a slight de-

crease in horses,» sheep and swine,

with some increase in cattle and mules.

Since 1910 the number of sheep has de-

creased. The increase in mules, horses,

cattle and swine has been slight and

not in keeping with our increased pop-

ulation and the combined home and

foreign demands.



“Estimates indicate. that fully fifty

per cent of the breeding stocks of Eu-

rope have been already destroyed,

which means that should the war cease

soon, they will have to rely on other

sources for some of their meat, milk

and wool supplies for two or three

years to come. Prices offered on our

American markets for meat animals

are so dangerously high at present,

that sacrifices of breeding stocks are

apt to occur. The next three years

would seem to present an unequaled

opportunity for the American stock-

man to increase his product, pursuing

in part, methods of production closely

associated with the maintenance of

soil fertility. Every agency in the.

whole country engaged in stimulating

agricultural production, should ever

keep in mind the importance of main-

taining a proper balance which will

stimulate the production of animals as

well as crops.”





 





AS the year advances the Chicago

market is receiving a falling off in sup-

plies of fat cattle, both heavy steers

and fat little yearlings, and this results

in these cattle selling at advancing

prices at times when the rank and file

of the offerings are selling at declining

prices. Many little yearlings have been

showing up in the market, and it is

plain that this policy is making serious

inroads in the future beef supply of

the country. High feed bills are re-

sponsible for most of this sacrifice of

immature cattle, and great numbers

of short-ted cattle are being shipped to

market which. in ordinary times would

be marketed along in June, July and

August. It is a fact much commented

upon that many of the steers marketed

of late have come into direct competi-

tion with beef. cows and heifers, and

_thelarger share of. the steers. offered

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CONDUCTED BY w. 0. rant. v. s.





 





Shy Breeder—Tuberculosis.-—Would

like to know what is the matter with

my four-year-old Holstein cow. She

freshened last October and has come

in heat regularly every .six weeks, been

bred four different times, but fails to

get with calf. How can I tell if my

cows have tuberculosis? J. B. Y., Sag-

inaw Co., Mich—Your cow has per-

haps cystic ovarian trouble. A compe-

tent Vet. can perhaps crush these

cysts by manipulation, through rectum

and vagina which, when done, she may

breed. The tuberculin test, which is

not expensive, is a pretty certain diag-

nostic agent in ascertaining. whether

your cattle are free from tuberculosis

or not. If you have no local Vet. who

is available, write your state veterinar-

ian and he will doubtless arrange to

have your herd tested with tuberculin.



Hole in Side of Teat.——What can I

do for a heifer that just came fresh

which has a hole about the size of a

small darning needle in the side of one

teat? F. P., Boyne Falls, Mich—You

had better employ a competent Vet.

to scarify the edges of hole. Stitch or

clamp edges together, then they will

unite. In some cases a recovery fol-

lows placing a pin through the tissues

and tying a string back of it, this sets

up considerable inflammation and a

union of the walls of opening may oc-

cur, but before the opening is closed,

the wall should either be scarified or

burned with a red hot needle or probe.



Collar Gall~—Food Infection—We

have a horse weighing about 1600 lbs.

that has a bunch on point of shoulder

about the size of a saucer, with an

opensore in center. The horse is not

lame, but favors his shoulder in pull-

ing. We also have some pigs that are

seven weeks old which we have been

feeding oats and corn. The one that

died refused to eat, shook and trem-

bled all the time it. was sick. Some of

the others scour. C. D. H., Milbrook,

Mich—Dissolve 1,; lb. acetate of lead,

3 ozs. of sulphate of zinc and 3 ozs. oi

tannic acid in a gallon of clean cold

water and apply to sore shoulders

three times a day. A portion of the

padding removed from collar or sweat

pad would relieve him' when at work.

The food supply of your pigs should

be changed. Give each one that scours

a dessertspoonful of castor oil, then

give 5 grs. ol‘ subnitrate of bismuth at

a dose three times a day. Are you

sure that their water supply is of good

quality?



A. H., Saginaw, W. S., Mich—After

reading your letter carefully the writer

is unable to state positively what.

should cause the discolored spots on

your hogs; however, he would advise

you to consult a meat inspector or a

competent Vet. to make an examina-

tion. Perhaps the buyers who rejected

the pork you sold stated to you what

ailcd them.



lndigest.i0n--Weakness.——0ne, of our

ewes is down and unable to get up;

she first appeared dull, refused food

and finally seemed to lose the use of

hind quarters. She now eats some

grain, drinks fairly well, kidneys move

free, but her bowels are costive. We

have another ewe showing similar

symptoms, but is yet on foot. R. P.

R. & Son, Cam, Mich.—~You had better

give your sheep one or two ounces of

castor oil and keep the bowels open by

giving a tablespoonful or two of olive

oil daily or as often as it is necessary.

Give her five drops of fluid extract of

nux vomica, .5 grs. of salol at a dose

three times a day.



Plnworms.—I would like to have you

give me a remedy for pinworms in

horses. C. J. 1)., Manistee, Mich—Af-

ter washing out the bowels with a con-

siderable quantity of tepid water, then

wash out with one part. coal tar disin-

fectant and forty parts tepid water

three times a week.



Apoplexy.———Can you tell me what is

the matter with my calves? They will

he apparently in good health, when all

at once will drop to the ground help-

less and when held up are perfectly

limber. Some of them after falling lie

perfectly quiet until dead, While others

will jerk their legs and bellow as if in

pain. J. 0. G., Harbor Springs, Mich.

—~Doubtless your calves die from hem-

orrhage in the brain and its mem-

branes, and is doubtless the result of

an acute infectious disease, but its

cause cannot be determined by corres-

pondence. You should secure the ser-

vices of a competent Vet. who should

be able to determine the nature and

cause of this fatal disease. Your local

Vet. should be first notified, then he

can enlist the services of your state

Vet. if necessary.





 





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notfakin. Farm K mile m3? $93? either -

OttoB. Schulle. - - . - Nashville.MlclI.





   





 





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G. P. Alumnus. Dansvil'le. Michigan

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. W. MANN. Dunsville, Michigan.





“War is 4”





80 is starvation. every one should do their bit. You

can raise more pork on less feed it you breed Butler'-

b‘i‘gstfiipo Phflfuld Chums.i We hm? EEIJIHB%andy fall pin

a can Ground. on e. . . TL -

land. Michigan, Bell Phone ER. Port





Large l‘yFe P. C. $323.23

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

for June fax-row. Also some goodsfall igs either I01.

w. r; LIVINGSTON. PXRMA, Mica.





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





L B.P.0. 'enrly Gilta for August furrow. Atew long

. bodi heavy boned boars ready for service. 2 nice

(all boars by Smooth Jumbo. ll. 0.5wartz.SchoolennJIich





ARGE tvpe P. 0. Some verv choice summer Its

bred to furrow in A at. ’ill sell 1 of my year ing





 





herd boars. . . . Hagolshaw. Augusta. Mi .



' Poland China. fall and ti I .

urge Shled at farmers prices. 3. £93011, 8'

81.60 per 15. Robert Nave. Pierson, Ml .





 





CA'I'I‘LE





A Guaranteed Quality Sale

of Registered Holstein Cattle





At the West Michigan State Fair Ground: in

Grand Rapids, Mich.





on Tuesday June 19th, [917





Eighty-nine head of high class cattle that are

carefully Tuberculin tested and are guaranteed

to be breeders if of breeding age.



25 chon Heifer Calves out of high class sires.



A handsomely marked bull calf from a30.27

lb, Junior three year old dam. and outoi a high

class bsirle. If >



u ca from a26.651bs. junior thre. ..

old dam and sired by a son of King chis “3.212%:



A bull (-a-lfs1red by 3.30 lb. son of Friend Hen-

gerveld De Kol Butter Boy and out of a high rc-

cord dam.



Daughters of the 4011:. bull Johanna McKinlev

chis and of the 34 lb. bull Traverse Dutch Weg.



Daughters of other 30 lb. sires that space docs

notiernilt\\1i to mention. I



oung J . t. ). cows with 7 da butter records

from 20m 28 pounds. Choice A. t. O. cows and

heifers bred to bulls out of dams with A. It. 0.

records from 30 pounds to 38 pounds of Butter.



All cattle in sale have been carefullv inspected

by the Sale Committee, and all undesirable ani—

ninls have been rejected.



An unusual opportunity to buy high class

foundation stock from herds that'are carefullv

tuberculin tested. A majority of the herd: from

which these cattle are consigned are under the

supervision of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and

tested regularly by Government Veterinarians-



If interested. write for a Sale Catalog.

COL. KELLY. W. R. HARPER.

Auctioneer, Sale Manager

MIDDLEVILLE, MICHIGAN





 





 





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Durocs For Sale





Bi heavy boned fellows. S rin Pl rd ' '

$51 a good lot. of Fall Boar”: an‘fi (n ts.m§l.‘\AEOIlall‘A





TATE, - Okemos. (Ingham 00..) Mich.





Flows and gi its bred to Eureka Che Ki

Duroc and Crimson Critic son of Critic. Mtgdel 1511?;

Milan, Mich.





champion Iowa Fair. . C. Taylor,





 





UROC Jersey fall Boars, ready for .' ‘ "



ulsofiilts bred for Aug, and Sept. EB:£§§;S‘N

Rigs, pairs not akin. All stock shipped on approx-5‘5.

r. J. DRODT Monroe, Hickman





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INEHUIIST DUROOS. Choice tall bo .

P great yearling boar. Choice Yellow Dent 882:6 02::





for sale. Orlo L. Doboon. Quincy. Michigan.





 





DUROC Bows bred for Aug. and Sept. furrow

. . also'spnnc pics either 561. Write for

description and prices, E. l). Buydenbork. Wayland. Mich.





Raise Chester‘Whites .

Like This





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success. I can help you. I want to place one hog from

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10 Oct. and Nov. boar. sired by our undefeated Grand

Champion ool later. The boar that has also and

uallty combined. All sold any age. Write and at our

ntaloguelts free and describes our champions. Wedo

not any our hogs are the best but. we Win the champ-

i318: "grout“. MWe haseAlm sfowa bred to gliflhmgl“.

m or at. an or. arrow. Y .



ELL d: SON, Cass City. Mich.





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PghLANI; (I): in” btnld gilts nil solid, still have some

owe a p :30 urge an me ‘um t . at! -

on prices. r. 1). L0 6. R. s. Grdnd amide, dig.





' ' Bept.farrow,eithorlo sit-

II; In. Poland China: 9.1 b, Jumbo Wood, 11..

hog. A. A. WOOD & 80H. Saline. Michigan.



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Hampshire Sum. " gala?” assigning." “d

FLOYD MYERS. B. No. 9. mm. Ind



' ' fall boars. Am booki 0rd r

8" UP. Paland chma for ofiring igs, Bfltfiwtlool:

guaranteed. G. W. Bolton. . 11. alomazoo. Mich.



' Big boned spring l . not -

spol'lfld Pflllnd Chinas Iated. Bred sows a: :{iltfl at

Aug. furrow. L. O. CLAPl', II. R. 1 Adrian, Mich





HAMPSHIRE SWINE $332,932.;





lines. of man .v or the most noted champions of the

reed My herd boar. Claytons Lad, 18'733 is a brother of

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

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

be shipped about May lat. Write me for prices.

George E. Starr. - - - Green Lake, Mich.





HORSES





lPerchemn Stallions

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Clydesdale Stal—

lions. Spring Sale

Prices are now on





Palmer Bros,





P. 0. Holding, Ionia (20.. Beldinngicll.

REGISTERED PERC HERON





Moms and Stallions priced to sell. Ins e .tl '

L. C. HUNT. EATON R P3631. lillidvl“.d,





 





 





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He rd established 1891. an Head

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1 stallion coming 1 year. Mares and Fill‘ , . '

sell. “'11). J. Blake, Dutton, Mich. 1” Fun





‘OR Sale Chestnut Hamiltonian St: 11‘ b k

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$4.50. June 84.00. Chase Stock Farm, IL], Mariette. Itch





 





PEROHERON Stallions. one coming five, one oom-

l two. one coming one. uroc sows.

E. J. ldrich, R. l. Tekonshn. Mich. Bell Phone





 





SHEEP





Joint Sheep Sale





Of registered ShrOpshire, Hampshire,

Rambouillet and Lincoln sheep, also a

few hlgh class unregistered ewes-hat





Public Auction





at State Fair Grounds. Columbus, Ohio

. AUGUST 7—8 1917

This sale is held under the auspicesof





 





named. A bona-fide sale to the highest

bldder of the best the world has to offer.

For information or entr blanks, write

Jomt Sheep Sale. 36 oodland Ave.,

Detroit, Mich. , ,





Shropeshire Ewes

Mostly yarns.- with hubs by aide. cam and





ones. come at one: i you want ,

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for sale. I. l'. Gus-Icy. Lennon. Mich. .





 





 





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