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Independence Day

LD “Independence Hall,” Phila-
O delphia, where the Declaration
of Independence was adopted
and signed, is the “official” birth—place
of America as an independent nation.
Fanuel Hall, Boston, often called the
“Cradle of Liberty,” and in other plac-
es also the thought of independence
was given expression with more or less
clearness before its formal and author-
itative announcement by the Second
Colonial Congress sitting in Philadel-
phia.

Every great movement in human
progress is marked or emphasized eith-
er in the place of a great occurrence
or series of events or by the geat in:
fluence of some unusual pesonality or
group of earnest heroic souls. While
the beginnings of independent America
cover many years, reach far in many
directions and include many men and
women of heroic mold, yet the place
and time from which we date the Am-
erican Republic will for aye be Inde-
pendence Hall, Philadelphia, July
Fourth, seventeen seventy-six. In this
building also the National flag was for-
mally adopted in the following year,
June fourteenth, seventeen seventy‘
seven, .and here during the long war——
from Lexington to Yorktown~—the Con-
tinental Congress met, except while the
city was occupied by the enemy.

Quite naturally in the great exigen-
cies that have come in the life of the
nation, the thoughts of the people have
reached back to the place of the Re
public’s birth. Many great meetings
have taken place within and in the
open space in front of the old hall, and
many fervent words spoken from the
steps to the fine old Colonial portals,
have fired the American heart.

Of all of them, none was probably
more picturesque than that February
day in eighteen sixty-one when upon
his journey to inauguration as presi-
dent, Abraham Lincoln from those his-
toric steps raised the flag to the staff
on the top of the old tower and then in
a few sentences of crystal clearness
made plain the issues of that tense pe-
riod to the throng that heard him glad-

' ~ ly and realized the sincerety of pur-

pose in a great scul.

' 1?, A mighty purpose of liberty and

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‘ and some
ly prenouncedjn the old hall, and later
so admirably organized in a written
constitution, is now given a world-wide
significance greater than ever before
and under the lead of the flag that
from the same staff first greeted the
morning sun.

Note.——-Our illustration of Independ-
ence Hall and the Flag, is a pen draw-
ing in which the sketch of the Hall is
from an old wood cut of 1794 made
long before modern changes, and shows
it as it probably appeared in 1776.

  

CURRENT COMMENT.

 

The celebration of
our national birth-
day has this year
a deeper signifi-
cance than ever before. Following the
same high purpose which fired the pa-
triots of ’76, the nation is again pre-
paring to pour out its blood and its
treasure in the cause of liberty.
seed which was planted in old Inde-
pendence Hall on_July 4, 1776, has
grown into a great tree which has
borne fruit of prosperity and content-
ment for the numerous people of the
world’s greatest democracy. And the
seed of this fruit has been planted in
the minds and hearts of the peoples of
war ridden Europe where the greatest
war of all ages is being waged in the
defense of liberty in its broadest sense.

Well may we give to the celebration
of our great national holiday a more
significant character than has marked
similar celebrations in recent years.
Well may we consecrate ourselves
anew to the principle of liberty, not
alone for the people of our own coun-
try, but for the people of the whole
world in whose behalf, as well as the
defense of our own national honor, we
have entered the lists in this great
tournament between democracy and
autocracy. May the celebration of our
own national independence be in keep-
ing with the momentous significance
of the task to which we have set our
hand, as well as of the achievements
for which the day is‘an annual com-
memoration.

The Great National
Holiday.

. Herbert Hoover, recent-
ly appointed food com
servator, has designat'
ed Sunday, July 1, as

“Food Saving Day.” Ministers will be
urged to address their congregations
upon the subject of food conservation,
and the press will co-operate, as will
civic, fraternal, patriotic and other or-
ganizations, in the effort to make the
movement started on this date effec-
tive in conserving the food supply of
the people of the United States and
our Allies. It is hoped that it may be
made the purpose and motto of every
household in America to “Save the
waste and win the war.”

While there is no more thrifty class
in the country than our American
farmers, and while they lead a simpler
and more natural and 'wholesome life
than any other great class of our citi-
zens, which implies less waste, yet
wherever opportunity exists to elimi-
nate waste of any kind, it is our patri-
otic duty to improve such opportunity.
The cause is worthy the effort, and
every Michigan Farmer reader should
co-operate to make the food conserva-
tion campaign a successful one in his
own home and his own community.

Food
Conservation.

July 1-7 has been desig-
Wheat Week. nated as "Wheat Weak”

by authorities of the
Michigan Agricultural College. This
institution has called upon the farm
forces of the state to focus public at-
tention upon the wheat crop for the
seven days from July 1-7. The county
agents, crop specialists and other ag-
ricultural forces of the state will be
mobilized to attack the problems of
the wheat harvest and the equally

pressing questionpfhow, ,to increase;

wheat produCtion for. the ensuing crop
year. 4 ' ,
A definite plan of procedure is rec-

 

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plans for the honest; the making of
arrangements for labor and threshers,

the'forming of “threshing rings,” the

holding of meetings in the best wheat
fields, permitting observation of meth-
ods and fertilizers most effective, and
what varieties yield best in the com-
munity. Since the campaign will cover
the succeeding as well as the present
wheat crop, the early making of plans
for the next crop, including the early
ordering of fertilizers and lime which
may be needed, the making of plans
for the preparation of the seed bed.
the securing of high-yielding strains of
seed, etc. .

The people of the state in genera
are urged to aid in the harvesting of
the wheat crop wherever possible, mill-
ers and elevator men are urged to con-
serve the best varieties for seed, while
manufacturers and business men are
asked to help .in organizing and provid-
ing labor and financing the harvest.
May the influence of “wheat week” be
a potent force in augmenting next

year’s harvest as well as In securing.

this year’s crop.

On another page of
this issue appears an
article from the State
Farm Help Specialist, who outlines
therein the plan being followed in
providing extra help for the haying
and harvest season where same may
be needed upon Michigan farms. It is
probable that this source of assitasnce
in the solving of this problem may be
more generally utilized by farmers liv-
ing in counties in which county farm
bureaus are in operation than in coun-
ties where emergency agents have
been recently appointed and the farm-
ers are not accustomed to utilizing and
working them.

Every farmer, however, who needs
additional help for the haying and har-
vesting season, and who is unable to
secure same in his own community,
should immediately get into communi‘
cation with the county agent in his
county, to the end that the machinery
already provided for the distribution of
labor during the haying and harvesting
season may be utilized to its fullest
capacity. This work is sufficiently well
organized to afford the farmers of
the state much valuable aid in this di<
rection, but farmers who may be in
need of help for the haying season
should realize that they must act in ad.
vance of their actual needs in order to
best utilize this source of aid.

Harvest Labor.

In a recent issue
comment was made
on the plan for es-
tablishing minimum prices by contract,
which was advanced by State Market
Director McBride. In a recent com-
munication the Director of Markets
calls attention to the fact that in plac-
ing orders for the initial contract of
50,000 bushels offered by W. K. Prud-
den, of the State Food Preparedness
Committee, he found additional grow-
ers who desired to contract their crops.
Further contracts haVe been made pos-
sible through the patriotic offer of the
Federal State Bank of Detroit, to be-
come the financial and distributing
agent for the consummation of con-
tracts made for Detroit delivery. This
arrangement forms the needed con-
necting link between the grower who
desires to sell his potatoes on con-
tract at one dollar per bushel, f. 0. b.
Detroit, and the consumer who would
insure his winter’s supply of the tu-
bers at an advance of ten cents per
bushel'to cover cost of delivery over
this price. .. ’
Obviously, the volume of business
done on this basis will depend upon
the desire of growers and consumers to
avail themselves of this opportunity.
Under the arrangement contracts with

Contract Potatoes.

growers ,will be signed in triplicate,__
one Cary. goings the» talisman. 9149 i9.

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era by the State Office of Estimate,
through the medium of the county
agents. Growers desirous of contract-
ing on this basis shouldoadvise the
county agent in his county or the State
Director of Markets; East Lansing,
Mich.

The success which attends this plan
of distribution will depend largely up?
on the attitude of the growers, who
should scrupulously and in good faith

 

carry out all contracts into which they: '

enter. This experiment in direct mar-
keting may prove along step in the
ultimate solution of the vexed prob-
lem of marketing. It will at least serve
a considerable number of producers
and consumers in the present emer-
gency, and will afford a valuable ob-
ject lesson to a legiOn of others.

 

HAPPENINGS OF- THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

The European Wan—Probably the
most important item of news concern-
ing. the war is the apparently changed
attitude of the Russians who, it would
appear, are once more committed to
cooperate with the entente allies
against the central powers. United
States agents have been instrumental
in ending the mutiny among the sailors
on the Black Sea fleet. The command-‘
ers have been reinstated, and the sol-
diers and workers vote to support the
government. Already some activity
has been noted on both the European
and Asiatic-Russian fronts—The allied
troops operating from Salonika have
been concentrated probably for a drive
into Serbia—On the Italian frontier
renewed artillery fire is reported ’and
further progress has been made in the
region of Trentino. An Austian attack
in the Cordevole Valley has also been
driven off.——On the western front the
Germans were obliged to vacate addi-
tional grounds near the Belgian border.
Late last week they forced the French
to abandon trenches in the Champagne
region, which however, was largely re-
gained in counter-attacks.——The de«
struction of vessels by submarines in-
creased considerablxlast week, in fact,
approaching closely the high records
made in April.——The United States pro-
gram provides for the landing of 150,-
000 American soldiers in France this
fall, and 750,000 by next spring. The
first contingents will be taken from the
regular army and the national guard.

Considerable damage resulted from
the explosion of Fort Cabanas opposite
Havana, Cuba. Much mystery covers
the incident, and a commission has
been named to make a thorough inves-
tigation into the cause of the expoL
axon.

According to information via Am<
sterdam, the German federal council
has decreed that during the coming
harvest season all bread grains, barley,
oats, peas, beans, buckwheat and mil-
let will be requisitioned in their on-
tirety for control and distribution by
the Imperial Grain Bureau.

Seven ammunition shops at Marlen-
hall, Germany, were destroyed by ex
plosions and fire on June 18. Ammuni
tion factories at Nuremberg and the
hand grenade arsenal at Spandau have
also been destroyed. This information
comes through Zurich, Switzerland.

The Austrian cabinet resigned last
week and the premier has failed in his
attempt to reconstruct the ministry.
The court has asked the Emperor to
invite someone else to form a cabinet.
The fall of the government was due
largely to the revolt of the Poles in
the Austrian parliament who aspired
to a virtually independent kingdom.
To force their claims they decided to
vote against the war budget which. was
being prepared by the ministry.

C mines in the Fronie district of
Calgary are to be opened by the gov-
ernment.

, National.

The final tabulation of the Liberty
Loan subscription shows that a total
of 8,035,226,850 was subscribed, or
52 per cent more than the bond issue
called for. More than 4,000,000 per-
sons subscribed for these bonds. Only
twentyvone subscribers applied for al-
lotments of $5,000,000 or more.

The legal fight before the New York
Court of Appeals in which the issue
was raised as "to the right of various
automobile, wheel manufacturers to
make demountable rims without per-
mission from the Perlman Company,
who claimed. to hold patent rights on
this type of wheels, has beendecided,
infavor of the Irim‘m‘anufacturers and
against the""Perlhia'n oompany’. The“
Firestone Tire & Rubber. Company um
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BIBBINS

State Farm Help Specialists

N a few days Michigan will be in
I the midst of her hay harvest. This

is of vital importance to the state.
We are not likely to consider the im-
portance of this crop, because of its
indirect use to us; however, it has a
marked effect upon our daily supply of
meat and milk, and any loss of it
means a general shortage of two of the
most important foods that man has.

Especially Important this Year.

Usually we are well supplied with
hay, but at present this condition does
not exist, as is shown by the present
market prices of $17 for timothy and
$13 for clover. This is ready proof of
our shortage. Not only have we our
own shortage to consider but we must
remember that the horses of our army
and perhaps those of our allies will de-
pend upon a portion of the Michigan
hay crop to provide the necessary en-
ergy with which to carry on the war.

Conditions at Present.

The extension specialists, having
been through the state and being quite
well acquainted with the general farm
conditions, report that our present
stand is only about fifty to sixty per
cent normal. Usually Michigan har-
vests about 2,715,000 acres of hay, with
an annual yield of approximately 3,-
632,000 tons. Under our normal condi-
tions this is more than sufficient to
care for our farm animals, but with
only sixty per cent of a stand it will
not allow much of a margin. Due to
poor conditions during the year we
have already lost about 1,700,000 tons
of hay. This is more than we can af-
ford to lose but we are unable to pre-
vent that which is done; however, we
can take precautions to guard against
further loss.

Labor is Needed.

All that is left for man to do is to
harvest the crop. This necessitates
the use of horses, machinery, and men
in large numbers. The first two fac-
tors are usually obtainable in sufficient
quantity, but this is not so in the case

' of the third. The farmers must have

men in order to harvest that portion
of their crop which remains.
Amount of Men Needed.

It appears to be almost an impossi-
bility to make an estimate in regard to
this. Each farmer should calculate his
own needs. To aid in solving this prob-
lem the following table is offered.

What one man can do in ten hours
in the hay field:

Mowing ......... ...........9.0acres
Tedding ........... . . . . . .14. 5 acres
Raking ..................... 16. 5 acres
Cocking .................... 6.0 acres

Hauling and stacking (two
men and two horses).
By hand ................... 4. 5 acres

Using sling ................ 6.3 acres
Naturally these figures will vary

'with the yield of hay, size and shape

of field, distance 'of haul, etc. The
above is a general average of our
farms in the state, however. The farm-
er should ascertain his own needs and
endeavor to obtain help rather than
to try to harvest the crop short-hand-
ed and run the risk of loss due to
weathering, etc.

How May the Farmer Get Help?

This is a question that immediately
arises and one that is very serious.
The United States Department of Ag-
riculture is endeavoring to solve this
problem for the farmer by placing in
each state farm help specialists who
co-operate with the Governor’s War
Board and the county agents. Much
success is being met with in other
states, and if the farmers of Michigan
will make known their labor wants ev-
ery. effort will be made to obtain the
needed labor. Notify your county agent
or his community leader in your local-
ity of your labor wants, and through
the federal organization your requests
will'be taken up at once.
The-above co-operation will failun-

less. the men of the city (especially
those who' have had farm experience)
are willing to lend their aid. The sur-
vey of the state which is now being
made shows that thousands of experi-
enced farmers are working in the city.
Many of these have already signed up
to aid for a few days during the har~
vest period. More are needed.
How the City Man May Enlist.

Any county agent or Y. M. C. A. sec~
retary, or the Food Preparedness Com-
mittee at Lansing will gladly accept
the offer of your services. Many fac-
tors are granting their employes leave
of absence to enable them to go to the
country for a few days to help with the
work. The farmer is paying good wag-
es and supplying excellent board. This
is the time to guard against the wolves
of hunger and to supply the nation
with the most effective bullets of the
war.

Efficiency

N connection with the present food
I scarcity, it is well to understand

that there is no scarcity of land to
raise the food on. There are thousands
of acres of productive land in central
and northern Michigan alone, that are
not farmed, some of it partly improved,
and some in a wild state. This condi-
tion is true, to a certain degree, of
every state in the Union.

Scarcity of farm help is the great
trouble, and is hard to remedy. Great-
er efficiency is the answer to the prob-
lem. There are scores of ways of ap-
plying it. The man unit has got to do
more work; not necessarily work hard
er, but he must accomplish more, raise
more bushels and pounds of farm pro-
ducts: How is he going to do this?

On clean land, under ordinary condi-
tions, it is a foolish waste of time, for
one man to follow one plow bottom
day after day, to the tune of one-and-
one-half acres per day, and there are
hundreds of thousands of farms in this
country where this is the rule. Just
think of it: One man spending a whole
week to plow ten acres of land when
he can by modern methods, with horse
power, and two bottoms, plow the
same in three days, or better still with
the tractor, plow the whole ten acres
in one day, by using a night shift. The
trouble is we are so used to the old
methods, we think we must continue
to follow them, and we need a jolt to
wake us up. The jolt is here!

Poor crops are often the result of
improper, or insufficient tillage, this is
impossible where so much time is kill-
ed by not working to advantage, if we
are so long plowing a field that the
planting season is right on our heels,
we do not roll and harrow thorough
enough to obtain a prOper seed bed,
and we grow a poor crop, and lessen
the production of the farm to just that
degree. But the interest on the land
continues on just the same, and taxes
are none the less; it is a dead loss.
And this condition is an unalterable
one; that it takes every bushel or
pound of a crop up to a certain yield,
to pay expenses, and there is absolute-
ly no profit until that limit is passed,
and every bushel or pound raised
above that limit is all velvet, or nearly
so, less the cost of harvesting and
marketing at least.

This is a fact that is too seldom tak-
en into consideration by the average
farmer. We are too apt to associate
efliciency with getting up early in the
morning, and going to it until dark,
day in and day out. You have all
heard about the boy who hao often
heard his father say that it was “Half
in Calculating,” who was sent out with
the team to work in the morning, and
when about noon the father wentrout
to the field to see how the work was

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progressing, found the team hitched to
the/fence and the boy perched on the
fence, and when asked for an explana-
tion repeated his father’s proverb, and
reported he was half done, having
spent the entire forenoon calculating.
I sometimes think the boy had the
principle all right, maybe he applied it
too literally; we do not figure enough.
Yes, each man unit has got to ac-
complish more results and it is up to
every farmer to devise ways and
means for accomplishing this result.
Isabella Co. W. J. COOPER.

HOW TO CUT SWEET CLOVER FOR
HAY.

 

Examination of hundreds of acres of
sweet clover in different sections of
the United States during 1915 and 1916
showed that the stand on at least fifty
per cent of the fields was partly or
entirely killed by cutting the first crop
of the second season too close to the
ground. That is the report of a spe‘
cialist in forage crop investigations of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, included in Farmers’ Bulletin
820, “Sweet clover: Utilization.” To
prevent the loss of stands, the specila-
ist says, farmers should examine the
fields carefully before mowing to deter-
mine the height at which the plants
should be cut. At least one healthy
bud or young branch should be left on
each stub. In fact, the plants should
be out several inches above the young
shoots or buds, as the stubble may die
back from one to three Inches if they
are cut during damp or rainy weather.

Because of the difference in growth
that sweet clover makes on different
types of soil and because of the dif-
ference in thickness of stands in dif-
ferent fields, it is impossible, the spe-
'cialist says, to state definitely the
the proper height to cut the first crop
the second season when a second crop
is to be expected. When the field con-
tains a good stand and when the plants
have made no more than a thirty-inch
growth, a five to six-inch stubble usu-
ally will be sufficient to insure a sec-
ond crop. When fields contain very
heavy stands—fifteen to twenty-five
plants to the square foot—it may be
necessary to leave an eight-inch stub
ble. When the plants have been per-
mitted to make a thirty-six to forty-

.inch growth, a stubble ten to twelve

inches high should be left. In semi-
arid regions where the plants do not
make as rapid growth as in humid sec-
tions, they may, as a rule, be cut some-
what closer to the ground without
injury.

The proper time to cut the first crop
the second season will vary in different
localities, depending upon the rainfall,
the temperature, and the fertility of
the soil. In no event should the plants
be allowed to show flower buds or be-
come woody before mowing. On fertile
well-limed soils in many sections, a
very rapid growth is made in spring,
and often the plants will not show
flower buds until about five feet high.
On such soils it is essential that the
first crop be cut when the plants are
no more than thirty to thirty-two inch-
es high, if hay is desired which is not
stemmy, and if a second growth is to
be expected. In cutting the first crop
of the second season it is a good plan
to use extension shoe soles on the
mower so that a high stubble may be
left.

It is not necessary to leave more
than an ordinary stubble when cutting
the sweet clover hay crop in the fall
of the year of seeding. A stubble four
or five inches high, however, will serve
to hold drifting snow and undoubtedly
will be of some help in protecting the
plants from winter injury.

In some sections of the country it is
difficult to cure sweet clover hay be-
cause the stand is ready to cut at a
time of the year when weather condi-
tions are likely "to be unfavorable for
hay making. Succulent plants like
sweet-clover can not be cured into hay

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of good quality unless excellent ‘weath? .
er conditions prevail during the haying ‘
period. One of the most successful
methods for handling sweet clover hay ..
is to allow the plants to remain in the
swath until they are well wilted or
just before the leaves begin to cure.
The hay should then be raked into
windrows and cooked at once. The
cocks should be made as high and as '
narrow as possible, as this will permit
better ventilation. In curing, the cocks
will shrink from one~third to one-half
their original size. It may take ten
days to two weeks to cure sweet clover
by this method, but when well cured
all the leaves will be intact and the
hay will have an excellent color and
aroma. When sweet clover is cooked
at the proper time, the leaves will cure
flat and in such a manner that the
cocks will readily shed water during
heavy rains.

In' stacking sweet clover, a cover
should be provided either in the form
of a roof, a canvas, or long, green
grass. A foundation of rails, posts, or
boards, is desirable, as this will permit
the circulation of air under the stack.
No instances of spontaneous combus-
tion in sweet clover hay have been not-
ed, says the writer of the bulletin, but
this may be due to the fact that com-
paratively little sweet clover hay is
stored in barns. The same precautions
in this regard should be taken with
sweet clover hay as with red clover or
alfalfa.

FARM NOTES.

 

Plowing Under Buckwheat for Green
Manure.

If I should plow under a patch of
buckwheat to kill quack grass, What
damage, if any, would it do to the
ground if plowed when the buckwheat
is in full bloom?

Isabella Co. C. M. B.

The most favorable condition for
plowing under a green manure crop
as buckwheat would be classed when
in bloom are plenty of moisture in the
soil and a green and sappy condition
of the plants plowed down, which will
aid in promoting their rapid decompo-
sition. The slow decomposition of
vegetable matter in the soil. as when a
large amount of green matter is plow-
ed under in warm dry weather is some-
times productive of injurious results.

‘When a green manure crop is plowed
down too late in the fall when weath-
er is cool, slow decomposition may al-
so take place, with a resulting produc-
tion of soil acidity. Where a crop is
to follow the' crop plowed down, it is
preferable to plow the green manure .
crop under three or four weeks before
the land is planted to the succeeding
crop. Under normal conditions, the
plowing down of buckwheat when in
full bloom should be beneficial rather
than otherwise, particularly on a soil
which is deficient in vegetable matter.
Sowing Acid Phosphate with a Grain

Drill.

Can I sow acid phosphate with an
Empire force feed grain drill? It has
no fertilizer attachment but I thought
possibly it might work.

L. R.

Arenac Co.

Don’t try this. The acid phosphate,
in fact, any kind of fertilizer, is liable
to gum up and clog the feed of your
grain drill so that you will have to
clean it all out. The feed for the grain
is not the right shape for fertilizer. In
my estimation, there is only one really
reliable fertilizer feed and that is
known as the “Bob Wizard” feed. Most
all drill manufacturers have finally rec-
ognized it, and, as far as I know, they
all use this feed, and this doesn’t gum
up and clog and will work well in all
kinds of fertilizer.

If the fertilizer was made real dry
you could probably sow it with a grain
drill with no bad results, but I know of
instances where it has been tried and
it clogged up the grain feed so that it
was a bad job to get it cleaned out
again. I would rather sow the fertile ,
izer by hand than to attempt/to use a.‘ ‘~
grain drill for this purpose. - , ‘-

  


 

 

   

    
   
    
    

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The Farmer Will Not Fail

President Wilson haseelledthel’armersoiAmefieaWSeeonl
Line 0! Dense." and said: “Upon the farmers of this country,
therefore, in large measure rem the fate of the war and the fate of
the nation”.

Hehasealledonyou“toomit no star that will increase the pro-
Mction of your in

The one thing that may keep the farmers of America from produc-
ing the billion bushel crop of wheat that must be bad if the World’s
liberty is to be preserved is the labor shortage; and the one thing that
can practically double the efficiency of your labor is FERTILIZER.

WhitfieMtls'oolenonghm. 'l'herecords
of the leading Experiment Stafions show that the use of fertilizer has
practically doubled the wheat yield and has cut the labor necessary to
produce a bushel of wheat one—third.

The appeal of all the world to America '3 “Give us your best” and
the answer to this appeal from the American Farmer is “The All Plant
Food Fertilizer."

  
    
   

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150 Bushels of Com Will Pay for an

INDIANA SILO

. Suppose you are growing only 15 acres of corn, averaging 50
,, bushels per acre. The yield of three acres at present prices will
- pay for an Indiana Silo at present prices.

Put the corn from the second three acres into this Indiana Silo.
It will feed ten head of cattle next winter instead of live. This will
double your production of beef and dairy produce at no addi-
tional feeding cost and it will leave You the yield of the remain-
ing nine acres to sell at record prices. And your silo completely
paid for and clear!

The larger sized Indiana Silo you buy, the smaller will be the relative cost

‘3‘ " < Never before has the corn-cost of a silo been so small as today.
Never has the need for Indiana Silos been so great or the supply no uncertain. Order-today while
ween-sine)“: «delivery. Addroo- nearest ofl‘ice.

THE INDIANA SILO COMPANY

582 Indiana Building, Des Moines, Iowa

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A R on Food, Labor or Industry

_Will you think or pay?, The Nation creates all land value:—
ustlce demands their use for National Defend—not for private
gain. Tax on la nd values alone with no other taxes winter‘s-will provide entire annul national
budget—even five billion dollars. Will force idle land into use. Increase crops. Stimulateindustry.
Reduce farm for 95% of the people. Will not raise primorreduce production.
Booklet free. NATIONAL SINGLE TAX LEAGUE, Cincinnati. Dept. D

Fruit Packages

Our 1917 Catalogue -
sent free for the
asking. Manufac-
turers of Berry Bus.
kcts. Boxes and
Crates. Bu sh e 1,
Peace, Grape Bas-
kets and Vegetable
Crates.

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Quart Berry Baskets sent Inywhere within first
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Mentalosafl and Poultry Feed rice list u u re-
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HERE is never any loss without
some gain. Although the intense
cold weather we had last winter
dkldamagetothepeachcrop,sndthe
cold and rainy spring has been any-
thing but ideal for the setting of fruit
and the general carrying of orchard
work, we have the winter’s severe cold
to thank for its help in insect control
this season and the coldness accom«
panying the wetness this spring as a
check‘ to the development of fungus
diseases.
last winter has had telling effect on

'the San Jose scale and has undoubted-

ly had considerable effect on other in-
sects which pass through the winter in
various forms. This spring has been
an ideal one for the development of
aphis, but the writer’s observations
thin far have revealed but little evi-
dence of early work by this insect.
Very Little Scab.

Thus far the apples and pears are
very free from scab. Even unsprayed
trees show no signs of it. on the foliage.
If we had normal seasonal tempera-
ture with the rains we have been hav-
ing, undoubtedly considerable scab
would be developed new and plenty of
evidence of it would be seen on the
foliage.

Fungus diseases, however, develop
when weather conditions are right.
Moisture and a certain degree of
warmth are essential for the develop-
ment of all fungus troubles, and when
these conditions are right the fungus
disease develops regardless of season.
Therefore, while the fruit may be en-
tirely clean now, scab may develop
later in the season, or it may develop
as sooty blotch even in fall.

Spraying, especially for fungus dis-
eases, is a. preventive, and therefore
regardless of conditions one must spray
as usual, unless the season is very
bad, then there should be more spray-
ing than usual.

Timeliness Important.

Timeliness is one of the chief fac-
tors in the successful spraying of fun-
gus diseases, especially. Many per—
sons will make the usual applications
and then complain of poor results and
even a matter of a few days will make
the difference between clean and scab-
by fruit. The writer has often seen
where spraying was interrupted by the
weather and the part of the orchard
which was sprayed after work was re-

sumed became scabby. The reason for-

this is that the weather, which tempor-
arily stopped spraying, was scab-pro-
ducing weather and when once scab is
started it is hard to check.

An illustration of the matter of time-
liness is the control of the curl leaf on
the peach this spring, or any other
season when curl leaf is bad. Invari-
ably when curl leaf is prevalent one
hears complaints regarding the inabil-
ity of spraying to control it. Already
this season many have made such com-
plaints. The trouble where curl leaf
is not satisfactorily controlled by

spraying is either lack of thoroughness '-

in spraying or spraying too late. If it
is lack of thoroughness the curl leaf
will show itself in spots on the tree
which the spray failed to cover. If the
spraying is too late the curl leaf will
be quite general over the tree. This
disease starts at quite lowtemperature
and if there is a warm spell in early
March which will cause the buds to
swell, the curl leaf‘will start and after
started it is impossible to check it. The
usual directions for spraying for curl
leaf is to spray before the middle of
March. Usually if this is done and the
spraying is thorough, one can keep the
trees entirely free from this disease.
Occasionally, however, there is a. warm
spell early in March which starts buds
before the spray is applied, then re«
sults are bound to be poor.

Two years ago when we had a rainy
season such as these has started out

Orchard Obsemtwfis

to be, many did not cultivate their or-
chards and got better results than

those who did, especially in the setting .

of buds for thenext year’s crop and

the maturing of the wood. The writer .

knows one peach grower who left his

orchard uncultivated that year and it '

had a very good crop the next year.

while his neighbors had very little,

Naturally he and his neighbors con-
cluded that non-cultivation was what.

caused this productiveness and that .

they would get better results if they
did not cultivate, so last year they left
the orchards in sod and the drought
had telling effect on the orchards and
did not. bring about the expected re-
sults. It matters had just been re-
versed and the orchards been left un-
cultivated two years ago and kept well
cultivated last year, they would have
received the treatment which would
have kept them in the best condition.

Thorough cultivation and wet weath-

er, such as we have been having, tend '

to produce excessive growth, which
does not usually set to fruit buds very
well and is likely to be rather imma-
ture to go into the winter. If the se-
vere weather we had last winter would
have followed the wet growing season
of the year before, there would prob-
ably have occurred some serious kill-
ing back of the previous season’s
growth.
Stop Cultivation Early.

In view of the weather we have been
having it is advisable to cease cultiva-
tion somewhat early this year in order
that the trees will stop their growth at
the normal time and, burden up the
wood The fore part of July is not
too early

In some cases if the orchard is not
cultivated at all it will do no harm, ear
pecially apple orchards, provided the
grass is cut and let lay where cut, or
put under the trees. This, of course,
depends greatly upon the character of
the soil. The writer has noticed that
where the ground grows a good tough
sod the trees do better without cultiva-
tion than where the grass is somewhat
thin. I know of one apple orchard
which is never cultivated and which
grew very fine fruit during such a dry
season as last year, but it has sod in
it/that is so thrifty and tough that it
is difficult to turn under.

Porsonous BURMA BEANS BEING
IMPORTED.

 

Who are eating of the six earloads
or poisonous Burma beans which are
said to have been foisted upon the peo-
ple of the middle west as a. cheap sub-

 

Mlchigan White Beans at Top, Poison-
ous Burma Beans at Bottom.

stitute for navy beans?~ This question
is asked by Dr. N. E. Hansen, hotricul-
tural expert at the South Dakota State
College, who discovered a week ago
that imported beans which are danger-
ously high in cyanogen content—or
prussic acids—were being sold for mac
by innocent merchants. On June 15-16
(Continued on page 738).

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Selling Butter-fat vs. Milk.

’ 01 would like to know which would
pay the best, to sell cream at 47 .cents
a pound for butter—fat, or sell milk at
$1.85 per hundred for a three-and a
half per cent test? Our milk tests 3.5.
This is something a good many of us
would like to know, but do not know
just how to figure it out. M. S.

If your milk tests three and a half
per cent butter-fat, 100 pounds of milk
Would contain three and a. half pounds
of butter-fat, and you could get forty-
seven cents a pound for your butter-fat,
then 100 pounds of fat would bring you
$1.65. Now, you could sell it as such
for $1.85, but skim-milk, if properly
fed, is worth considerable. At ordinary
prices of feed, that is, when cornmeal
and ground oats are worth $1.00 per
hundred, experiments have been made
showing that skim-milk intelligently
fed is worth twenty—five cents per hun-
dred, but at the present price of these
feeds, it would be worth practically
double that, and even more. To be
conservative, say this is worth thirty-
five cents per pound. That would bring
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Dairy l’roblems '

Soy beans or cowpeas sown thickly
will furnish considerable pasture. This
makes a most excellent soiling pasture
and are better plants for cow food than
rape, and some years they furnish an
excellent amount of food, but here too
many plants are injured by the tramp-
ing of the cattle. Sweet clover if it
was sown early is liable to go on and
make a very good pasture during the
latterlpart of the season.

My judgment is that what we want
is pasture for the early part of the sea-
son and need simply something to sup-
plement this pasture in the latter part
of the season, that it is safer to de—
pend on soiling crops'for this purpose
than on any extra pasture which may
be produced the same season. Peas
and oats sown early come to maturity
sufficiently so that they can be used as
a soiling crop in July. Early sown
sweet corn planted early can be used
as a soiling crop and works very nice-
ly in supplementing pasture. Different
varieties of corn may be planted, that
is, early and late varieties, so that they

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twin Jersey Cows, Darling Lassie and Lassie’s Darling, Sold for $4,700 at

the Edward Butter Sale in New York.

L. V. Walkley, Conn., was Purchaser.

 

by selling the butter-fat at forty-seven
cents per pound. Of course, you have
the expense of separating the milk but
on the other hand, the cost of keeping
the cream and delivering the cream is
much less than caring for the milk
and delivering the milk sweet.

Late Summer Pasture.

What can I sow that will furnish
cow pasture for the late summer and
fall? 1 have lost my seeding this sea-
son and will be short of pasture after
about July 30. I have sixe acres of
sandy loam, in a fair state of cultiva-
tion that grew a big crop of clover last
year, but was pastured off very close
last fall that I was thinking of sowing
to oats and rape. Will the oats keep
growing it they are pastured off or clip-
ped? Can you suggest anything bet-
ter? Would I stand any show of getting
a catch of clover if I seeded in this
pasture crop? H. S. S.

It is not an easy~job to produce a
late summer pasturg from plants sown
during the spring. Rape makes one of
the best pasture plants; it isn’t an ex-
tra goocl"'56w food, however. By seed-
ing rape with other plants, like spring
rye and oats and clover, it helps out in
this respect. The oats and rye'will
keep growing fairly well if they are
keptpastured down so that they don’t
joint, or if they are clipped occasion-
ally, but none of these emergency pas-
tures will compare with a good perma-
nent pasture in efficiency. There is
no sod and the animals tramping over
the field destroy many of the plants.
In a rather loose soil many of the
plants are pulled out when the animals
attempt to bite them off and so much
depends upon the season that one can-
not bank surely on any emergency
crop for a pasture.

can be fed in succession and I am of
the Opinion that if this six acres of
land was planted to early and late corn
and the crop cut green and used as a
soiling crop to supplement the pasture
that you would get much more food
from the field than you will be attempt-
ing to make a pasture out of it.

The very best food to supplement a
pasture in summer time is summer sil-
age. A man grows the corn crop the
year before, it has time to properly ma-
ture and it is placed in the silo where
it doesn’t deteriorate in food value and
then the next summer when the pas-
ture begins to fail, the ensilage can be
fed. This does away with very much
labor and worry about carrying the
cows through a summer drought.

COLON C. LILLIE.

Last winter was an unusually severe
one in the far western cattle districts,
and losses of cattle were abnormally
large as a result, hay having given out
early as a general rule. Through the
region extending from Cheyenne, Wy-
oming, westward, little feed is to be
found, and a man traveling recently
from that city to Baker, Oregon, failed
to discover a stack of hay.

Very few western spring lambs have
arrived on the Chicago market so far,
and word comes from Kentucky and
Tennessee that there is a short crop
in both of these important states. Dry
weather has been experienced down
there, and the lambs are dried up and
in poor condition. All the indications
are that there is going to be a marked
scarcity of lambs in all the markets
of the country up to July 1 at least,
and high record prices are fully ex-
pected. Because of the dearness of
wool the packers have sought wooled
flocks eagerly and paid liberal premi-
ums _over prices paid for the clipped
offerings. .

Twenty Million Miles Of Telephone Wire

The telephone wire in use in
the Bell System is long enough
to run from the earth to the
moon and back again forty

times.

The Bell System has about
twice as much telephone wire

as all EurOpe.

More than 500,000 new tele—
phones are being added to the
Bell System yearly—almost as
many as the total number of
telephones in England.

In twelve months the Bell
System adds enough tele-
phones to duplicate the entire

 

One Policy

One System

telephone systems of France,
ltaly and Switzerland com-

bined.

in proportion to population
the extension of the Bell System
in the United States is equal
in two years to the total tele-
phoneprogress of Europe since
the telephone was invented-—
a period of about forty years.

The Bell System fills the
telephone needs of the Ameri-
can people with a thoroughness
and a spirit of public service
which are without parallel the

world over.

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMP/Qty
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Universal Service

 

. “It is of the most imperative importance that everything pos-
szble be done and done zmmediate/y to make sure of large harvests.”

Conserve and Increase Your Forage Crops

Turn under part of your pasture and plant it to saleable crops. .
Feed your stock this Winter cheaper, easier and more profitably with i
a féw acres. of corn cutinto cnsilagc with a. Kalamazoo Ensilage Cutter
and stored in a Kalamazoo Silo. Stop wasting land that should be used
for money crops. This year, you have a. chance to make big profits. N.“

Kalamafoo .
LIFE-TlME-SILOS ‘

are built to meet the exacting farmer's needs. Best in design. material N. %: a
d “ Have every desirable feature a. silo should have 7 ‘
ran embody the know how acquired through more than twenty

and workmanship.

years experience in silo building.

Wood Stave Silos—Your choice of four of the best time-defying woods. Kalama- - qr
goo Silos are manufactured complete ready to set up. Quickly and easily erected by
inexperienced home labor. All Kalamazoo silos are made with Galvanized Steel Door
Frames and continuous doors, forming a safe ladder entire height of silo. ”Ml

Write today for our free descriptive booklet. If interested in an EnsilageCuttefi
ask for Kalamazoo Cutter catalog. Easy payment:. if you wish.

Dept. 213

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Scientifically correct.
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sent on request.Write today.

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Study Veterinary Medicine
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'l‘ the present time farmers may
be expected to do business with
one, two or three objects iu'view.

First, they are supposed to make an

effort to advance their own private in-

terests by working for profits for them-
selves ; second, seek to be public bone
factors, and third, work with patriotic
reasons in mind. During the present
year we have reasons to believe that
the general farmer can raise hogs, for
pork and gratify his ambition in all
three directions. There are possibili-
ties for large profits on raising pigs
the present summer, and by doing so
one becomes a public benefactor, be-
cause the general public needs more
pork, and, at the same time one is
serving his country—is a real patriot.

The inducements and rewards ought

to be suficient to stimulate and en-

courage farmers to make extraordi-
nary efforts in the pork—making busi-
ness the present season.

We will say in the first place, that
there has been a general misconcep-
tion in regard to the needs of hogs in
order to make them grow and produce
pork cheaply. People have acquired
the habit of considering a. hog as a dis-
tinctly grain eating animal, while by
careful consideration we can see that
he is an omnivorous animal and can
and will thrive better, making better
gains in size and weight if allowed a
great variety of feeds, a part of which
are grasses and other green feeds. To
confine hogs to a grain diet alone is to
make pork at great expense and re-
duce the possible profits.

Although the prices for grains are
very high at present, the man who has
a large number of spring pigs on hand
and an opportunity to utilise pasture
grasses and clovers, has before him
great opportunities for making large
profits from his pigs. Intelligent ac-
tions and businesslike methods are
what are needed to enable him to
succeed.

It has been shown, many times, in
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and the flavor is
delicious.

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run at pasture, and especially if the
pasture feeds are clovers, will make as
rapid gains on a half ration of grain
feeds and pasture, as they will on a
full feed of grains. And farther, the
pigs are healthier while running in the
fields and make a better quality of
meat than when confined to the pens
or yards.

Another point I will mention: the
pigs make their gains cheaper when
young than later in life. Therefore, I
will urge the importance of crowding
the pigs along early in life. It may
require a. little greater effort on the
part of the feeder than if the pigs are
allowed to drift along at a half grow-
ing rate until late in the season, and
then. put them on full grain feeds to
fit them for market. ‘

If one is feeding corn, unless they
are a long distance from a grinding
mill, it pays to grind the corn. If they
desire to do still better by the pigs
by giving a variety of feeds they can
with a greater show for profits, add
cats to the ration and grind oats and
corn together, and then add half, or an
equal amount of wheat middlings, and
they have an excellent combination of
feeds which will encourage a rapid
growth.

In my own practice I have found that
it paid to scald the grain feeds, and
feed while about blood warm. Regu-
larity in feeding should be strictly ob
served. The pigs are good time keep-
ers and know when feeding time has
come. Promptness at such times saves
uneasiness and prevents the squealing
habit. '

It is also worth the while to make
the pigs comfortable by furnishing a
dry place in which to sleep and shelter
them from the burning midday sun and
drenching storms. A love for the bus-
iness of pig raising and feeding will in-
sure kind treatment and consequently
generous profits.

PREVENTION BEST REMEDY FOR
CALF SCOURS.

 

The most common trouble in raising
calves by hand on skim—milk is scours.
There are two entirely distinct trou-
bles, both of which have the symp-
toms of scours. One is from'navel in-
fection at time of birth and the other
is from indigestion. If a. calf becomes
sick within a few days after birth and
(lies within a day or two the case is
probably navel infection. This trouble
is often called white scours because
the passages from the animals are gen-
erally white.

Indigestion is the cause of common
scours. This generally occurs when
the calf is from two weeks to a month
old. Prevention is the best remedy.
The common causes of indigestion are
overfeeding; feeding milk cold or sour;
feeding sweet milk one meal and sour
the next; dirty pails, troughs or stalls.

Each call should be watched care-
fully. At the first sign of foul-smelling
dung, its source should be determined
as this is one of the first indications
of indigestion. The amount of milk
fed should be cut to one-half the usual
amount and a dose of one ounce of cas-
tor oil in milk, followed by the forma-
lin treatment, is advisable. The form-
alin treatment consists in giving one
tablespoonful of formalin solution,
made by adding one-half ounce of form-
alin to 15% ounces of water, in each
pint of milk fed. The amount of milk
fed may be gradually brought back to

_ normal after a day or two.

Many feeders have obtained good re-
sults from the use of blood meal as a
means of correcting a condition of
Where the case is mild a tea-
spoonful of the dried blood is added to
the milk at each meal.

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recommended by L. W. Wing, of the

g,
I feeding; conditions of the milk at feed-

ing time; andcleanliness of the pails,
pens and. stalls. In other words, keep
the conditions right at all times.

CORN SILAGE REDUCES THE COST
OF BEEF PRODUCTION.

 

A steer feeding test recently com-
pleted at the University of Missouri
College of Agriculture illustrates the
possibility of reducing the cost of beef
production by the extensive use of
corn silage. Sixteen head of twoyear—
old steers fed for 130 days made an
average gain in live weight of 322
pounds per head They were fed 3.16
tons of corn silage, 750 pounds of al-
falfa. hay, and 503 pounds of ' cotton—
seed meal and old process linseed oil
meal per steer. They received no
corn other than that contained in the
silage. By this method of feeding a;
fairly satisfactory grade of beef can be
produced, and it is possible to fatten
three steers on an acre of good corn
instead of one, which was usual under
former methods of feeding.

POISONOUS BURMA BEANS BEING
lMPORTED.

 

(Continued from page 736).

the statement was made to Professor
Hansen that six oarloads, or about a
half million pounds, recently have been
received from the Orient by way of
Japan and Vancouver, B. C., and have
been widely sold through many states,
and that larger importations are plau-
ned for in the near future.

These poisonous beans are so dan-
gerous that the military authorities of
France, Germany and other European
countries forbid their importation, es-
pecially this year, according to a state-
ment received by Professor Hansen
from Professor G. if. Shoemaker, of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
at Washington. In fact, each shipment
into France and Germany must be ac-
companied by a sworn statement as to
the amount of cyanogen content. Some
years the use of these beans causes
wholesale poisoning in India.

Dr. Hanson is out with a vigorous
protest against allowing the American
people to be cheated in this manner,
and against the possibility of injury to
the staple food of the army and navy.
He asks for rigid prohibition against
importation to protect against the crip-
pling and possible ruin of the legiti-
mate bean industry of the nation which

amounts to many millions of dollars ._

annually. These beans are sold at
wholesale much cheaper than the navy
beans.

These Burma beans, although about
the size of a good-sized navy, have a
faint yellowish tinge with many fine
lines or rays out from the eye, like
spokes on a wheel. There are some
colored ones of light brown, dark
brown, mottled and speckled, various
shades of brown and red brown. These
beans are also a form of small limo.
from Burma. but flatter and have the
same characteristic rays out from the
eye. They are equally poisonous, but
at least cannot masquerade for the
navy bean. We should guard against
these two beans and also other danger-
ous beans from the East Indies, such
as the Java. which is even more deadly.

The poisonous principle, according
to Mr. Viehoever, of the U. 8. Bureau
of Chemistry, is called phaseolunatin,
a. glucoside, that in the presence of
certain enzymes in the intestinal tract
may release the cyanogen or prosaic
acid as one of the products. There is
the danger of having sufficient cyano-
gen released after eating the beans to
cause illness, if not death.

 

' Farmers should not let the prevail-
ing attractive prices for live stock in-
fluence them to sacrifice breeding ani-
mals upon which future profits depend.

 
 
     
     
    
   
      
           
     
     
       
     
       

 

 

 


   
 
  

   
  

 
 

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This Magazine Section forms apart of our paper every week.

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the importation of drugs into

this country was stopped and the
imported supply of drugs was soon ex-
hausted. This led to experimental
work along the line of drug growing in
this country.

One of the most important of the
drug plants to be tried out was bellav
donna. Nearly all of the drug houses
have experimented on this plant with
profitable results and have sent out
information regarding its cultivation.
However, experience is the best teach-
er, and the individual who has the
moral courage to investigate a thing
for himself, is the one who gets the
real, practical knowledge. Doctor

0 N account of the European war,

Warren H. Rand, of Eaton county, be-
longs to this class, and what he knows
about the growing and harvesting of
belladonna would make any wholesale
drug dealer green with envy.

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WORLD EVENTS lN PICTURES

War Aids Culture of Drug Plants

Bv MARY

The first year Doctor Rand put out
one-fourth of an acre of belladonna,
and this yielded 180 pounds of the dried
leaves and 100 pounds of roots. Last
year (1916) he put one about five acres
from which he harvested 1,800 pounds
of leaves, 725 pounds of stems and
525 pounds of roots. The market price
this year is quoted at $1.50 for leaves,
$5.00 for roots. Stems are not quoted,
but will average about forty cents per
pound. The expense incurred in last
year’s crop is $2,200. However, Doctor
Band has found, through experimental
work that the greater part of the ex-
pense in germinating seed and getting
the plants ready for field setting may
be eliminated.

The yield of this plant depends upon

L. DANN

the soil, which should be rich and well
drained, and the culture should be
carefully looked after. Weeds should
be kept under control at all times and
the soil stirred frequently, especially
after each hard rain. As the plants
are set about three feet apart, each
way, it is easy to cultivate the soil.

The foliage of the belladonna plant
is greedily attacked by the potato
beetle. Dusting with lime while the
dew is on is sometimes effective, but
usually the bugs have to be picked off,
as poisonous insecticides cannot be
used.

The harvesting of this plant. comes
late in the season, after most of the
farm work is done.
in full bloom, the. tops are cut off and

After the plant is‘

dried in a dark place. The roots are
dug, washed and cut into about four-
inch lengths. The larger pieces are
split lengthwise to aid in the drying-
It is essential that the roots be well
dried, otherwise they will mould when
stored. After the tops are well dried,
the small twigs and leaves are taken
off, and also the ripe seed. The roots,
twigs, leaves and coarse stems are
baled separately, an ordinary paper
baler being used for the purpose. Each
bale is covered with paper, then with
burlap, and then tagged, when it is
ready for the market.

Doctor Rand believes the commer-
cial possibilities of this plant are very
promising, although the cultural de-
mands are such as to encourage the
wise procedure of starting in a small
way and gradually increasing the area
grown as one gains knowledge and ex-
perience.

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Farms and Farm land: For Sale

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Owner has accepted position with lax-.9 comp“ m
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N O W
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ill b muc ' er— so or or now.
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A prominent New York Banker aayg:
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and filled before the grown: season is
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the war but to make living cheaper after
the war."

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817 Fletcher Ave“ Indiananol a. Ind

 

for it presently.” -

V :i‘ili‘:’ ii ‘f:i“..i:” .V w. ._ in. I ,'

“Your name is Leayordf”
“Aye, aye, sir.”
“This is your first voyage on the In-

dian Chief ?”

“No, sir; my third.”

“Very good, Mr. Leayord; from now
on you will mess aft, and rank as first
mate, serving watch and watch with
me. Is there a man forward capable
of filling the second mate’s berth?”

He ran his eyes over the group be-
low rather doubtfully.

“Olson might, sir,” he answered fin-
ally. “He is sober, and a good sea-

_man."

“Step forward, Olson."

The mass of men parted, and the
man was pushed to the front. He pos-
sessed a strongly marked Swedish
face, smooth shaven, almost boyish

“How old are you, Olson 1'"

“Twenty-eight, sir.”

“You know the sea?"

“Twelve years in the fo’castle, sir.”

“All right: I’m going to give you a.
chance to make good as second emcer,
Mr. Olson. Now, lads, that’s all for the
present. I take it you are sailormen
and know what that sky means. The
chances are ten to one we’ll have a
storm before midnight, and we’ll meet
it better with clear decks. Get forward,
all hands, and clear away that riffle—
lively now.”

They were a bit slow about it, and
grumbled among themselves. Olson
spoke once or twice, although I could

,not hear exactly what was said, and

the power of sea discipline finally con-
quered. They began shuffling forward,
but in no good humor. Leayord linger-
ed a moment to ask me a. question;
then joined the others on the main
deck, roaring out orders in a full voice,
which seemed to put some life into
the men. I remained at the rail watch-
ing rather pleased with the way my
newly appointed mates took hold, and
confident the men would be kept at it.
They were indeed a hard lot, yet pos-
sibly no worse than the average, and
once they were sobered up, and set-
tled to the voyage, would not probably
give me any very serious trouble.
Within ten minutes they were working
cheerfully enough, and Leayord had
ceased his gruff ordering, and stood
silent beside the lee rail. It pleased
me to observe that Olson took hold
along with the others, and did his full
share of the work. I leaned further
over to gain view of the cabin en-
trance, but Bascom had disappeared.
The girl, however, held her place, and
glanced up, her eyes meeting mine.

“Could I come up there, Mr. Hollis?”

“Certainly as a passenger this deck
is free for your use. Take the star-
board ladder.”

I gave her my hand, and helped her
to grasp the rail. The sea was not
heavy, but there was a nasty roll nev.
ertheless, making it safer tooling to
some stable object. She glanced into
the mist.

“How gray and somber it is,” she
said. “The fog is almost like a hand
clutching at you.”

“The glass is falling rapidly," I an-
swered, “and I suspect a storm is
brooding behind that curtain; that is
why I am so anxious to make all clear.
What do you think of the crew 2'"

She glanced aside toward the mo-
tionless negro at the wheel, and then
at the men shuffling about their work.

“1—1 hardlyvknow: they—they look
awfully rough—and disreputable. Some
of them were drunk, weren’t they?"

“No doubt, yes. But that is nothing
unusual at this stage of a voyage. The
shipisnotlongoutof portyouknow,
and some liquor was undoubtedly _
smuggled aboard. We’ll have a search

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-, “Contraband’i’  

“You do not think them a bad crew?”

“About the average, I should judge;
all sorts and conditions of men, of the
kind who go down to sea in ships. The
trouble is that you are accustomed only
to the passenger service—uniforms
and scrubbed faces. We do not often
pick that sort of seamen for the rough
work.”

‘ She .didn’t speak for a moment.

watching the moving figures curiously.

“They were very much dissatisfied
with your decision to go on. They did,
not see us in the companion, and spoke
rather freely about it."

f‘You mean the continuing of the
voyage?” ~

‘ers; they believed the vessel would
certainly put back to the nearest Am-
erican part.”

“You heard no inkling of their plans,
I presume 1”

“Only profane threats.”

I laughed. “Well, don’t worry, Miss
Vera. Those things are frequent
enough on shipboard. We will have
these lads thoroughly tamed within an-
other twenty-four hours. There is nev-
er a mutiny without some leader and a
better cause. Those fellows shipped
for Hamburg, and to Hamburg they go,
unless some cruiser stops us. I am
working under your orders, you know.”

She glanced up quickly into my face.

“Under my orders? No, not that,
Mr. Hollis. You told me it would be
your choice; I merely granted permis-
sion.”

“Your permission was equivalent to
an order.. I so accepted it.”

“But that is hardly fair. Not that I
regret the choice, for I could never
have forgiven myself if my selfishness
had ruined Philip Baseom. He is real~
ly an old friend.”

“So I supposed; a very interesting
man in spite of his misfortune."

“He was indeed, before that bullet
wrecked him. It is sad; and to think

that the one who shot him is actually -

on board—his guest.”

“Not altogether a pleasant thought
to me,” I said soberly. “For Mchn
is the kind to breed more trouble if ,he
can find an excuse. I doubt if he sus-

pects as yet who owns this ship, but

the two are bound to meet. His tongue
has wagged already about the war.”

“Yes; that accounts largely for their
objections to continue the voyage, al-
though they were ripe enough for re-
volt before. I shall have to caution
McC‘ann, and he does not take kindly
to such things.”

“You do not consider the man dan-
gerous ?”

“Not in the sense you mean. He will
never attack openly, or permit himself
to be known in any conspiracy. But
he will have to be watched, neverthe-
less. He is the sort to harbor revenge,
and as he feels hatred and distrust to-
ward both Bascom and myself, we can
not be too careful. I shall have to tell
Leayord the whole story.”

“Leayord3f’

“The man I named first odioer; he
is standing abaft the foremast yonder."

“The second oillcer is a Swede.”

“Yes; rather young, but I like his
face, and he seems to have the respect
of the men.” I turned, and gazed into
the face of the compass.

“What is your name?” I asked of the'
black at the wheel.

“Watson, sah; Charles Watson.”

“Well, Watson, let her head fall oil

a couple of points—that's it.'my man. '
IsthIstheslgnalcordtotheengine

room?" ‘
He nodded. the whites of his eyes

shoflngoddly.andlranx” forming“
cmseofspeed. Watsonbrauingthep’

wheel with-one knee, wipedhia lip: on

,his' sleeve. (Continued next week). _

    

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M. M
om and Her Needy

At Home and Elsewhere

    

R. CAROLINE B. CRANE, in one
of her lectures explaining the
work of the Woman's Committee
of the Council for National Defense,
advanced an idea in food conservation
which is worth passing on. It is one
everybody could observe with profit.
not only to the nation but to them-
selves—“don’t eat so much.” For it is
no doubt true that everyone, with the
exception of the very poor, and the
small boy who could never by any pos-
slbility eat too much, is guilty of the
intemperanoe of over-eating. If we
don’t do it every day, we do on Sun-
days and holidays, and excuse our-

' selves with the plea that it’s a celebra-

tion day.

But as a matter of fact, nearly ev-
eryone could eat less every day and
feel better for it. At some one meal
we are pretty sure to be guilty of tak-
ing so much food we feel uncomfort-
able, we are hungry when we sit down,
and instead of taking time to chew our
food thoroughly, we swallow it in
chunks, washed down with water, tea
or coffee, The result is that we take
more than we should, to satisfy us at
the time, and end the meal with a feel-
ing which suggests the condition of an
anaconda just after he has swallowed
a lamb. Our stomachs are filled with
a mass of food which is not masticated
and mixed with sufllcient saliva to be
properly digested. Instead of getting
all the nourishment possible out of the
.food, much of it is wasted. Worse than
that, poisonous gases are started which
lead to many of the ills we pay a doc-
tor to cure.
~ Even those of us who are not guilty
of eating too fast often eat too much.
Something looks so good, we are tempt-
ed to take a little more, when we have

' already had all the body needs. “Just

another spoonful" is more apt than not
to be one spoonful too much. The body
gets more fuel than it needs, and the
organs are overworked in their effort
to eliminate this wasted food.

For health’s sake, if not for war time
thrift,- an “eat less” movement would
be a mighty good thing for the Ameri-
can people. We try to feed our babies
and small children, not to mention our
live stock, wisely, but when it comes
to ourselves we do not show the same
discretion.

There is another point, too, which
women at least should not overlook,
and that is the effect on the complex-
ion. Most of the blotchy, pimpled,
sallow skins which are covered up with
powder and rouge, are due to faulty
eating and drinking. Too much sweet

, and starch, eating between meals, eat-

ing at irregular hours, and overstrong
tea and coffee are sure to spoil the fin-
est complexion. Then milady hies her
to a beauty parlor, if she can afford it,
and if not buys cosmetics to cover up
defects she could cure by right meth-
ods of eating. Think what a saving in

' toilet articles, not to mention foods, if

we all made “eat less and chew more,”
our slogan.

As a matter of right and wrong, tem~
perance in. eating is as much of a com-
mand as temperance in drinking. It is
as much a sin against yourself to eat
too much as it is to indulge too freely
in the cup that inebrlates, and doesn’t
cheer. 1 was interested in reading the
list, of questions asked the would-be

' ministers in a certainchurch. The as-

piring young candidates are required

 

 

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“Safety First” Measure

 

 

 

 

‘x’.~

“Do you feel drowsy after meals, and
inclined to take a nap ?”

“Do you eat until you are uncomfort-
able and your clothes are too tight!"

The book does rot go on to say what
will happen to the unlucky wight who
answers “yes" to the queries, but I
mistrust that he is either refused ordi-
nation, or required to sign a pledge
agreeing to abstain from gluttouy.

Ill-health and old _ age are often
thwarted by so simple a thing as tem-
perance in eating. One of our sena-
tors tells how he fought back from a
complete breakdown after he was past
sixty, by simply regulating his diet.
Experience told him what foods he

Canning Currants, Cherries and Berries

 

HE latter part of June and the

first of July are busy weeks with

the canning expert. Strawber-
ries, raspberries, currants and cherries
are following fast on one another, and
blackberries and huckleberries are not
far behind.

Raspberries come under the head of
sweet, or soft berries, and are canned
much the same as strawberries. The
syrup should be in the proportion of a
half pound of sugar to one quart of wa-
ter. A half pound, a half pint and one
measuring cup of sugar, all are the
same amount, so if you have no scales
and no graduated measuring cup, re-
member that one pint of sugar equals
one pound. Boil the syrup until it is
medium thin, that is, sticky when it
cools on the spoon. Then fill the cans
with berries, pour over them the boiling
hot syrup, adjust rubbers and tops and
boil for sixteen minutes. Remember
to cover the boiler as soon as the cans
are placed in the water and keep the
water boiling the full time. Blackber-
ries and huckleberries are canned the
same way, and currants may be, too, or
a heavier syrup used if they are very
sour, using one cup, or half-pound of
sugar to three cups of water. Red
raspberries keep their color better if
this thicker syrup is used with them.
This syrup is also used for gooseber-
ries, or they may be canned uncooked,
as rhubarb.

Currants may be canned uncooked,
or bottled, which will save cans, by the
method given for canning strawberries
cold, in these columns last year. Stem
and wash the fruit, and crush each ber-
ry. Add sugar pound for pound, and
stir until all the sugar is dissolved.
Then bottle and seal. Bottles and corks
must be sterilized, and after corking,
dip the tops in melted paraflln.

Unless the price of sugar frightens
you, be sure to make raspberry jam.
Use three-quarters of a cup of sugar to
each cup of berries and cook to the
desired consistency, watching closely
to prevent burning. Do not add water
to the jam.

Perhaps no jelly is so universally
liked as currant pelly. This is better
made with uncooked fruit, though
many cook the fruit in order to extract
the juice. Wash the currents thor-
oughly and pick off all bad berries and
leaves. Crush with a potato masher,
taking care to break each berry. Strain
through a jelly bag, flannel makes the
best bags, boil the juiCe from ten to
twenty minutes, skimming carefully,
then add the sugar, which has been
heated in the Oven, and boil until the
product jellies when tried in a cold
dish. Usually from three to five min-

 

could safely eat, and these he clung to,
giving up absolutely everything which
distressed him. He'masticated every
mouthful perfectly, held himself to reg-
ular hours and a limited supply of food,
and drank freely of hot water, sipping
it slowly a pint at a time. It tok
months to put him back on his feet,
but he won the fight and came back to
health and strength.

Every person of forty and over who
wants to preserve youthful health, vig-
or and complexion needs to sign a
pledge to eat less, chew more and
drink more water, especially hot wa-
ter. As a matter of personal comfort
and health it is the best “Safety First"
measure to adopt, and incidentally the
cheapest.

DEBORAH.

 

utes is long enough to boil after the
sugar is added. Use equal amounts of
sugar and juice. Jelly is pour out when
a double row of drops form on the
spoon, according to the government
experts.

No fruit juice will jelly unless it has
a sufficient amount of pectin. To test
the juice to see if it will jelly, add two
teaspoons of alcohol to two teaspoons
of unboiled, unsweetened juice. Stir
and let settle. If a jelly—like substance
forms at the bottom the juice will
make jelly. If it will not, bottle and
keep to mix with some fruit which will
jelly. By using apples the juice of
strawberries and other fruits which we
do not now use for jelly may be util—
ized. To bottle the juice, boil up thor-
oughly, skim and pour into sterilized
bottles, cork, seal, lay the bottles on
their sides in the boiler and boil for
thirty minutes. Pineapple juice and
cherry juice combined with apples
have made satisfactory jellies, accord-
ing to the Department of Agriculture
experts.

A government suggestion for the use
of the cores and inner peeling of pme-
apples is to put through the food chop-
per and use for pie-filling. Instead put
through the food chopper, cook for one
hour, add three-quarters of a cup of
sugar for every cup of fruit and boil
until it thickens. This gives a pre-
serve which looks and tastes like the
familiar pineapple mixture poured over
our “sundaes.” It utilizes a great quan-
tity of pineapple which we. have here—
tofore thrown away.

If you are short of cans, dry part of
your berries. This may be done as
your grandmothers did, by boiling the
fruit up as for preserves, spreading on
platters and drying in the sun. The
modern way, however, is 'to select only
perfect berries, and spread uncooked
on a clean piece of muslin in the sun,
the muslin held in place by weights.
The fruit must be looked over each
day. When dried out store in paper
bags.

 

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and wheat flour, she will have excel-
lent filler for cracks in floors. To be
used after first coat of paint and be-
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can be used for puttying window
panes.——Mrs. R. F.

Household Editor. —I am troubled

with big black ants in my pantry, and
wish someone would tell me their rem-
edy for getting rid of them. —P. H.

The best remedy I know is to fill a
saucer with sweetened water, add one
teaspoon of tartar emetic and set it
where the ants come.

 

 

 

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

June 26, 1917.

Wheat—Trading in wheat is being
conducted on a lower basis than has
obtained in some time and the spirit
of the dealing is somewhat mild at the
new figures. Traders are waiting upon
congress for they do not want to be
caught with the grain in their hands.
Statistically conditions have changed
but little. Winter wheat is now devel-
oping normally but the damage done to
the crop early cannot be overcome only
in part. The lateness of the season
should be a support to the market. For-
eigners are not taking grain as liber-
ally as they have been, and while
there is slight improvement in the
flour trade it has not gotten back to
normal volume since the recent heavy
retail buying. One year ago the price
for No. 2 red wheat was $1.061/2 per
bushel. Last week’s Detroit quotations

 

were:
No. 2 No. 1
Red. White. July

Wednesday . . . . .2.50 2.45 2.05
Thursday . . . .2.45 2.40 2.07
Friday ......... 2.45 2.40 2.11
Saturday ....... 2.45 2.40 2.12
Monday . . . . . . ..2.45 2.40 2.08
Tuesday . . 2 50 2.45 2.08

Chicago.——July wheat $2.09 per bu;
Sept. $1.84.

Corn.——The demand for corn is bet-
ter than that for wheat and prices are
firm. The outlook for the new crop IS
being clouded somewhat by the late-
ness of planting which ‘is now so pro-
nounced that the best of weather must
obtain to enable many fields to ripen
into merchantable grades. A year ago
the local trade paid 761/2c for No. 3
Last week’s Detroit quotations

corn.
were:
No. 3 No. 3

Mixed. Yellow.
Wednesday . . . . . . 1.69 1.71
Thursday .. . 1.69 1.71
Friday 1.70 1.72
Saturday . . . . . . . . 1.70% 1.72%
Monday . . . . . ..... 1.70%; 1.721/2
Tuesday ........... 1 701/2 1.721/2

Chicago.——July corn $1.55 per bu;
Sept. $1.457/g; Dec. $1.07%. .

0ats.——Oats are in active domestic
and foreign demand and values are
holding firm. The new crop is promis-
ing. One year ago standard oats were
sold locally at 430 per bushel. Last
week’s quotations were:

. No.3

Standard. White.

Wednesday 71 701/2
Thursday 701/2 70

Fl‘ida/y OOOOOOOIOOIIOI‘O 71 701/2
Saturday 71%, 71

Monday 72 711/),

Tuesday 72 711A;

Chicago.—July oats 627/sc a bu; Sept.
52%0; Dec. 5415c.

Rye.—-—Prices here suffered a decline
of five cents with cash No. 2 now quot-
ed at $2.25 per bushel.

Beans—Buyers of beans are not in
evidence and local quotations are down
a quarter, being $8.25 for cash and
$6.75 for October. The Chicago price
for hand—picked Michigan pea beans is
$9.50@10 and $8 for red kidneys, while
farmers are offered $8 for pea beans at
Greenville.

Peas.——Chicago market is steady at
$3.75@4 for field kinds, sacks included.

Seeds.—Prime red clover $10.80; al-
sike $11.40; timothy $3.60.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 

Flank—Jobbing lots in one—eighth
paper sacks are selling on the Detroit
market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best
patent $14; seconds $13.50; straight
$13.30; spring patent $14.75; rye flour
$13.50 per bbl.

Feed.—-In 100-1b. sacks, jobbing lots
are: Bran $34; standard middlings
$41; fine middlings $44; cracked corn
$68; coarse corn\meal $66; corn and
cat chop 55 per ton.

Hay.——ln 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
$14.50@15; No. 1 clover $13.50@14.

Pittsburg.—No. 1 timothy $18@
18.50; No. 2 timothy $16@16.50; No. 1
light mixed $16.50@17; No. 1 clover,
mixed $16.25@16.75; No. 1 clover
$16.25@16.75.

Straw.——-ln carlots, on track Detroit,
rye straw $10.50@11; wheat and cat
straw $9.50@10. ’

- DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

 

Batten—The market is quiet at last
week’s prices. . Creamery extras of-
fered at 37c, bid 351/4c; creamery firsts
offered at 36950, bid 3514c.

Elgin..——.There is not ‘much change

   

  
  

in conditions. Prices are a fraction
higher. Price, based on sales, is 370.

Chicago.—The market has a steady
undertone with prices slightly advanc-
ed. The demand is good and the mar-
ket is kept well cleaned up. Extra
creameries 37c; extra firsts 361/20 per
lb; packing stock 300.

Eggs.—Market is steady with prices
1/zc higher than last week. at this time.
Fresh firsts were offered at 32%0, bid
311/20 per dozen.

Chicago.—The feeling is steady and
prices are slightly higher. The demand
is for the best lots. Fresh firsts 291A;
@301/20; ordinary firsts 271/2@281/20;
miscellaneous lots, cases included 261/2
@301/20.

Poultry.—Market steady with the
demand taking care of receipts. No. 1
hens 23@24c; small and medium do 21
@220; broilers 36@37c; No. 2 broilers
32@33c; ducks 22@23c; geeée 15@
16c; turkeys 22c.

Chicago.—The market is steady at
prices slightly lower than last week.
Fowls 191/z@200; roosters 141/20; broil-
ers 11A»@2 lbs., 28@3OC per lb; ducks
1'2@18c; geese 12@14c; turkeys 12@
180 per lb.

Dressed Calves.——Market at Detroit
is steady. Fancy 210; No. 2, 17@18c
per lb.

Chicago.——The market is firm and
higher; 50@60 lbs. weight 17%@18c;
60@80-lb. weight 181/2@19c; 90@100
lbs. 191/2@201/zc.

Dressed Hogs.—Best quality quoted
at Detroit at 18@19c per 1b.

Chicago.—Market is steady with the
prices lower. Heavy hogs in demand.
Quotations: 20@40 lbs, 180; 40@60 lbs
17@18c; 60@100 lbs, 17@18c; 100@
250 lbs, $17@18.50.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

 

Strawberries—Are in fair supply.
Lower prices expected. Michigan’s are
quoted at $2@2.25 per 16-qt. case. At

' Chicago strawberries are in plentiful

supply. Common $2@2.25; fancy $2.40
@250.

Potatoes—No old potatoes quoted in
Detroit. At Chicago no Michigan stock
was reported. Market is firm, the de-
mand being good. Prices range from
$2.85@3.00 per bushel. At Greenville
potatoes are selling at $2.60@2.70 per
bushel. They are about all cleaned up.

 

WOOL.

 

This market remains firm and strong
with prices pushing upward. Enormous
demands are being and will be made
upon supplies, not only for regular de-
mands and needed clothing for our
own soldiers but also to aid in supply-
ing our allies. . This buying pressure
and the short supplies even with the
new clip considered, gives everyone
who has wool to sell confidence that
still higher prices will prevail. At Bos-
ton Michigan unwashed delaines are
now quoted at 600; do combing 59@
65c; do clothing 54@56c.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

June 25, 1917.
Chicago.
June 2, 1917.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

 

Receipts today. .17,000 45,000 20,000
Same day 1916..14,841 32,573 16,324
Last week ...... 50,358 126,926 54,415

Same wk 1916...48,052 156,166 67,180

The week starts off today with only
a moderate supply of cattle and an ac-
tive demand at firm prices, while desir-
able fat cattle are from 10@15c high-
er. A sale was made of some prime
steers at $13.85, a new high record,
while two or three sales were made at
$13.90 a little later. Hogs were irre-
gularly lower, with a few choice hogs
selling only 50 lower and a $16 top,
but undesirable hogs and pigs broke
10@15c or even more, common pack—
ers and the poorer light lots and pigs
being bad sellers. Most of the pigs
sold at $12.50@14. Hogs marketed last
week averaged 229 lbs., or six pounds
heavier than a week earlier. Most of
the lambs marketed today were con-
signed direct to the packers from the
south, there being approximately 14,-
000 of these southern springs, leaving
only about 6,000 lambs and sheep to
be offered on the market. Prices broke
from 25@50c, howeve , with some
prime spring lambs bringing $18.25,
while some fat clipped lambs sold early
at $16.15 and some prime ewes at
$10.25.

Cattle were marketed freely last
week, and while the choicer class sold
well at high prices, other descriptions
had to go at far lower prices than
those paid a short time ago. A sensa-
tional fall in prices has taken place
recently in canners and cutters, and
grassy steers are going much lower
under the increasing offerings. Plain
canners on the grassy order are the
hardestvto sell, but cutters with some
weight and kill are selling fairly well.
The bulk of the steers marketedwent

 

at a range of '$11@13.25, with choice to
fancy lots taken at $13@13.80, the top
figure being a fresh high record in the
history of the market. Steers classed
as good sold at $12.25@12.95, while a
medium grade brought $11.50@12.20
and ordinary to fair light weight kill-
ers sold at $10@11.45, with scattering
sales of inferior little steers as low as
$8@9.50. Yearlings that were .fat were
great favorites, selling at $11.50@13.50,
and sales were made down to $9.50@
10.50 for the commoner kinds. Butcher
cattle were in good demand at uneven
prices, depending on the quality of the
offerings, cows going at $7.30@11.90
and heifers at $7.15@12.25. Seventeen
prime cows which averaged 1335 lbs.
brought $11.90. Canners were down
to $,5.50@6.55 and cutters sold at $6.60
@725, while bulls brought $6.25@11.
Calves were higher than ever, with
light vealers selling at $15@15.85 and
heavy calves at $6@13. It was a bad
market for stockers and feeders, trade
being slow, and prices were much low-
er, with stockers going at $6.75@9.75,
and feeders at $9@10.25. Butcher cat-
tle, canners, cutters, stockers and feed-
ers declined during the week 25@750.

Hogs were marketed freely most of
last week, although much less so than
a year ago. Prices fluctuated up and
down considerably, but the decreasing
proportion of prime heavy barrows
showed a good deal of firmness on the
whole, a few carloads holding their
ground at times when all other hogs
were declining sharply. Common lots
were discriminated against severely,
and part of the time many of the big
traders refused to buy rather than take
inferior stock. .The spread in prices
is increasing. With larger receipts
for the week thanaweek earlier, hogs
sold at the close at $14.60@15.45 for
light bacon lots; $14.85@15.60 for the
heavy packers; $15.50@15.75 for light
shippers and $15.65@16.05 for heavy
shippers, while pigs brought $11@
14.30. Hogs closed at about the same
prices as a week earlier.

Native spring lambs and clipped
western and native lambs were mar-
keted in moderate numbers last week,
and there were limited offerings of
clipped native ewes, with a few breed-
ing ewes; but wethers and yearlings
were hardly marketed at all. There
was an active general demand and the
prices were advanced sharply because
of the greatly insufiicient Offerings. Al-
though the week’s receipts were larger
than a week earlier, there were still
too few, and most lambs advanced 75c
and most sheep 250. Spring lambs clos-
ed at $12@19, and clipped lots sold as
follows: Lambs $8.50@16.75; year-
lings $10@15.25; wethers $8.50@11.75;
ewes $4@10.75; breeding ewes, includ-
ing ewe yearlings, $10.75@17.50;
bucks $7.50@8.25.

Horses were in lmiited supply last
week, and there was a scarcity of good
heavy drafters, while not enough war
horses were received. Prices were
strong for desirable horses, but ani-
mals selling at $60@100 were slow sell-
ers. Horses for the Swiss cavalry sold
at $150@170, and the British inspec-
tors took all the horses adapted to

army wants they could get hold of at '

$150@205.

 

Buffalo.

Receipts here today as follows: Cat-
tle 150 cars; hogs 60 d. d.; sheep 6 d.
d.; calves 1600 head.

With 150 cars of cattle here today
there was a good strong demand for
all good shipping cattle, and all the
dry grade butcher cattle, the bulk of
them selling 250 higher, and in some
cases the medium cattle looked 500
higher, but the medium and common
grassy grades were very slow and no
higher than the bad break we had last
week. The demand for bulls and stock
steers was very slow and no more than
steady. We look for a fair run‘ of cat-
tle here next Monday and a good trade
on all good dry-fed cattle, but a slow
trade on the grassers and common
grades.

Receipts of hogs were fairly liberal
today, demand very light and prices
generally 10@200 lower than Satur-
day’s best time, bulk selling around
$15.85, a few selected up to $16 and
some ordinary grades of yorkers as
low as $15.25. Pigs and lights gener-
ally $14.50; roughs $13.75@14; stags
$12@13. A fair clearance was made
and we look for quite an active trade
at present prices for balance of week.

With a light run of lambs today our
market opened up active and prices
steady with the close of last week. All
sold and we look for steady prices the
balance of the week, depending chiefly
on receipts. ~

We quote: Spring lambs $17@19.25;
yearlings $15@16.50; icullsto common
$10@14; wethers $11@11.50; ewes
$10.50@10.75; bucks $8@9; best calves
$15.25@15.50; common and light $10@
$45.30; heavy $8.50@11’; grassers $6@

THIS IS THVE'LAST EDITION.‘

 

The first edition is sent to those who
have not expressed a desire for the
latest markets. The late market edi~
tion will be "sent on request at any
time.

 

DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKET.

 

Thursday’s Market.

June 27, 1917.

There will be no market Wednesday,
July 4. Anything arriving will be car-
ed for, but the scales will not be open.

Cattle.

Receipts 2034. Dry-fed steady; bulls
and all grassers dull and 50@750 lower
than last week, with many still unsold.

Best heavy steers, dry-fed $11@12;
best handy weight butcher steers $10.25
@1070; mixed steers and heifers $10@
1050; handy light butchers $8.50@'
9.50; light butchers $7.50@8; best
cows $7.50@8.50; butcher cows $6.50@
7.50; common cows $6@6.50; canners-
$5@6; best heavy bulls $7.75@8; bo--
logna bulls $7@7.50; stock bulls $6.50
@7; feeders $8@9; stockers $7@8.50;.
milkers and springers $50@85. _

Bishop, B. & H. sold Walk 19 butch-i
ers av 650 at $7.50, 3 do av 750 at $7;
to Bresnahan & C. 25 stockers av 600‘
at $6.75, 22 do av 600 at $6.75, 2 cows
av 1035 at $8, 5 do av 900 at $6, 3 heif--
ers av 700 at $6.50, 4 bulls av 1070 at
$7.85, 1 do wgh 1590 at $8, 2 do av 935-
at $7.25, 2 cows av 700 at $6.50, 5 can-
ners av 775 at $5.50; to Breitenbeck
24 butchers av 875 at $8.25; to Bresna-
han & C. 6 canners av 750 at $6; to
Nagle P. Co. 17 steers av 980 at $10.90,
2 butchers av 850 at $8.50, 5 do av
1150 at $8.25; to Goose 18 do av 700 at
$7.35; to Fineman 2 do av 760 at $6.75;
to Newton P. Co. 2 steers av 940 at.
$10, 26 do av 980 at $10.85, 7 do av 800
at $9, 2 do av 950 at $11.50; to Bresna-
han & C. 2 COWS av 900 at $6, 16 butch-
ers av 1000 at $7.35, 3 canners av 850'
at $6; to Gobles 5 stockers av 800 at.
$8.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 2 cows
av 1050 at $6; to Mason B. Co. 14
steers av 950 at $10.50; to Thompson
1 bull wgh 1300 at $8.25; to Sullivan P.
Co. 2 cows av 920 at $6.10, 2 do av 850'
at $6.50, 4 do av ,1000 at $7.50; to
Schlaack 29 feeders av 840 at $9.50; to
Thompson 10 steers av 1125 at $11, 12.
do av 770 at $9; to Breitenbeck 25 do
av 944 at $9.85; to Kazner 13 butchers
av 846 at $8.50; to Schuaderer 13-
steers av 904 at $10.25.

Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Mason B. 00..

7 steers av 850 at $9.15, 4 bulls av“
1300 at $8.10; to Bray 1 cow wgh 940
at $6; to Applebaum 3 steers av 750
at $9, 3 butchers av 675 at $7.25, 3 do
av 550 at $7.35; to Sullivan P. Co. 2
cows av 1040 at $7, 2 do av 940 at $6;
to Thompson 10 steers av 1086 at
$10.75, 1 do wgh 1260 at $8.60, 2 do av
1010 at $9.50; to Prentiss 3 do av 787
at $9.25, 4 do av 800 at $8.50, 3 cows
av 990 at $7.75; to Hammond, S. & Co.
2 bulls av 1035 at $8; to Sutton 30
stockers av 699 at $7.85; to Thompson
3 steers av 1213 at $9.75; to Weller
32 stockers av 440 at $6.75.

McMullen, K. & J. sold Applebaum
4 butchers av 650 at $7 to Sullivan P.
Co. 14 do av 850 at $8.75 to Kamman
B. Co. 3 do av 900 at $9.50, 15 steers
av 950 at $9.25; to Greene 7 butchers
av 690 at $7.35; to Right Bros. 6
stockers av 585 at $6.75, 3 cows av
950 at $6; to McMullen 8 do av 700
at $6.75; to Bray 1 do wgh 520 at $5,

.1 do wgh 1130 at $8, 4 do av 875 at $6,

3 do av 910 at $6, 3 do av 963 at
$7.75; to Brown 6 stockers av 471 at
$8; to McGuire 8 do av 712 at $8.50;
to Kazmer 7 cows av 723 at $6.75.

Veal Calves.

Receipts 971. Market stron . Best
$15.50@16; others $10@15. g

Erwin, S. & J. sold Parker, W. & Co.
27 av 185 at. $15.75, 2 av 130 at $12.50,
1 wgh 300 at $15, 2 av 120 at $14.50, 8
av 180 at $15.75; to Mich. B. Co. 13
av 175 at $15.50, 4 av 190 at $15.75; to
Nagle P. Co. 1 wgh 230 at $16; to Shi-
piro 3 av 140 at $15.50, 4 av 155 at
$15.50; to Thompson 5 av 1.40 at $15.50,
17 av 150 at $15.50, 5 av 145 at $12.50.

McMullen, K. & J. sold Nagle P. Co.
2 av 150 at $15.75, 8 av 155 at $15.75,
27 av 160 at $15.75. '

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 512. Market steady. Best
spring lambs $17; fair lambs $15.50@
16; light to common lambs $12@13:
yearlings $13@14; fair to good sheep
$7.50@9; culls and common $6@6.50.

Erwin, S. & J. sold Parker, W. & Co.
3 ‘lambs av 85 at $17.

McMullen, K. & J. sold Nagle P. Co."
24 sheep av 100 at $8.50, 16 lambs av
80 at $13.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. &
Co. 2 sheep av 85 at $7, 10 lambs av
73 at $12.50. '

- Hogs. '
_Pigs steady; others
Pigs $14@14.25; mixed

Receipts 2952.
15 @ 250 lower.
$15@15.25.

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0 give our readers additional in-

formation on the acreage and
‘ condition of the various craps
grown in Our state we have inaugurat-
ed a. comprehensive crop reporting sys‘
tem including over 400 correspondents
who cover closely the important agri-

Acreage Compared with 1916 Crop.

 

 

 

cultural counties of both peninsulas.

The correspondents made reports on
conditions of eight important crops as
they appeared on June 18, and these
reports have been arranged in the fol-
lowing table. The reports on acreage

compare the area planted or sown this.

. on &Acreage of Important Michigan Crops

year with that of last, while the pub
centages on condition are based on a
normal crop. As the season is fully
two weeks later than usual the reports
on condition should not be given the
weight they would ordinarily been—

titled to when made on that date.

Condition Compared with Normal Crop.

 

 

Manager 0. S. Baldwin, of the Union
(Co-operative Live Stock Shippers' As-
sociation of Bennington and Laings~
burg, Shiawassee county, reports an
increase to 120 members. Two cars
were shipped May 27 and net prices
to the farmers were as follows: Butch-

- er steers $9.69; butcher heifers $9.59;

canners $6.34; top veals $14.55; see-
onds‘814.05; thirds $11.55; fat ewes

811.02; yorkers $14.85; pigs $13.27;

roughs $13-60;

The Farmers’ Elevator Company, of
Freeport ,Barry county, has increased
its capital stock to $10,000 and will in-
stall a new engine and recleaner.

The Southern Barry Cooperative

. Shippers’ Association has been formed
' at Creasey. in- Barry county, and will”

ship live stock and buy. teed. etc” for
its members. Farmers about Dalton

 

have now formed their own shipping
organization.

A. L. Robbins has been engaged as
manager of the Bangor Fruit Growers’
Exchange in Van Buren county.

Kent Co. ALMOND GBIFFEN.

”Hill“ WINE“ 8“! "IE 610'“ SEED

Inoned on “nee it saves ito cost. Write for cot-loo

how to harvest clov er.oeed
AMERICAN"! B CHER 00., Indianapolis, Indiana

We want Fresh White Leghorn Eggs. We pay
a pruniumover the highest market quotation
and remit immediately upon arri

Fox River Butter Co.. Detroit. Michigan.

HAY”»&“&£.‘2$§‘§$T:
FRUIT “MW

We want new 71{laklm' and
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Alcona . . . . .96 101 120 91 105 179 188 60 74 80 91 80 90 89 92 . . .
Allegan . . . .105 108 105 100 110 112 148 57 81 87 88 74 94 89 100 77
Alpena . . . . . . 94 105 112 84 107 114 122 100 85 73 95 103 90 100 95 80
Antrim . . ...... 96 92 103 96 70 104 135 . . . 88 74 88 95 90 78 85 . . .
Arenac . . . . . . . . 92 100 112 110 120 75 67 87 95 92 . . 90 98 100
Barry . . . . 93 106 100 101 110 122 113 . . . 65 90 86 120 100 103 100 .
Baragu ........ 115 85 120 100 . . . 150 . . . . . . 100 90 100 100 . . . 115 . . . . . .
Bay . . . . . ' . . . . . 76 102 106 85 102 79 145 86 69 76 103 83 102 80 96 99
Bennie . . .. . 00 125 110 100 . . . 125 225 . . . 100 50 90 100 . . . 100 100 . . .
Berrien ........ 101 115 107 89 100 138 143 100 90 82 98 97 100 101 100 100
Branch ........ 104 100 97 96 114 120 107 . . . 74 80 95 94 97 100 96 . . .
Calhoun ....... 99 107 102 99 80 121 129 . . . 71 81 85 96 91 97 100
........... 95 103 101 85 75 102 102 . . . 72 78 84 90 90 96 100
Charlev'oix ..... 100 106 105 83 100 135 193 . . . 92 86 98 89 100 98 100 . . .
Cheboygan ..... 105 110 100 93 100 140 94 300 88 65 90 98 98 92 90 110
Claire ......... 72 104 103 99 100 98 140 95 74 83 90 93 100 94 88 90
Chippewa ...... 112 108 .. 105 100 83 92 98 85 . . .
Clinton ........ 90 108 103 100 110 100 110 113 65 83 75 85 100 95 100 100
Crawford ...... 90 115 100 100 . . . 125 200 . . . 40 75 100 80 . . . . . . . . . .
Delta .......... 105 75 115 50 75 400 100 50 70 80 75 100 70 80
Dickinson ...... 200 100 100 100 200 . . . . . . 100 100 100 100 100 . .
Eaton .......... 101 109 98 90 127 101 111 70 73 80 84 86 89 86 91 89
Emmett 98 106 106 191 100 126 166 . . . 73 57 90 95 91 100 100
Genesee 96 105 101 100 95 112 132 86 72 79 89 85 91 95 85 74
Gladwin .. . . 95 98 110 90 101 94 139 111 97 82 105 98 98 93 100 85
Gogebic . . . . .100 100 110 100 110 132 . . . . . . 90 80 100 100 90 95 . .
Gd. Traverse . . . 88 110 105 100 113 136 . . . _ 83 73 100 98 100 100 100
Gratiot . . . . . . 84 102 97 100 108 106 121 98 56 65 101 105 97 94 100 103
Hillsdale ....... 98 110 107 99 102 94 115 100 76 92 96 91 100 96 100 100
Houghton . ..... 100 100 113 100 90 138 . . . . . . 95 95 . 100 . . .
Huron ......... 93 90 114 85 102 103 125 94 58 79 92 73 84 93 81 71
lngham . . . ..... 63 90 97 93 97 100 107 100 68 53 73 79 65 50 . . . 80
Iowa ...... . . . . 95 103 101 98 10.0 105 114 110 69 85 91 93 . . . 85 95 90
10600 ..... . . . . . 88 107 105 92 93 95 175 102 87 77 ,. 92 68 98 83 100
Isabella . . . . .113 106 104 111 112 116 139 93 64 , 96 93 81 94 110 125 90
Jackson ....... 101 106 99 103 75 110 ‘ 135 . . . 70 81 94 99 88 98 100
Kalamazoo ..... 100 104 102 96 106 95 111 . . . 73 71 83 90 92 73 100
Kalkaska. ...... 97 109 96 121 85 103 149 . . . 78 76 76 90 100 85 88
Kent ........... 98 94 97 92 98 104 191 . . . 70 71 88 84 . . . 96 100
Lake .......... 100 108 107 99 . . . 108 127 . . . 89 84 100 101 . . . 96 107
Lapeer ........ 96 101 106 88 96 100 109 90 63 90 97 77 95 86 - 86 88
Leelanau 90 113 105 100 . . . 108 140 . . . 79 66 92 90 . . . 90 80 . . .
Lenawee ....... 97 113 111 . . 97 105 86 100 64 84 98 95 98 108 . . . 100
Livingston ..... 65 104 101 89 100 105 121 . . . 73 79 84 87 100 92 . . . 80
Luce .......... 105 110 110 125 110 125 . . . 98 100 97 100 95 100 . . . . . .
Mackinac ...... 105 103 103 105 100 122 115 . . . 93 100 100 100 80 100 100 . . .
Macomb ....... 110 105 100 100 100 133 123 100 85 100 105 105 100 105 100 100
Mamstee ...... 101 108 100 95 . . . 103 154 . . . 85 86 96 89 . . . 87 150 . . .
Marquette ..... 103 110 114 105 105 121 105 100 97 110 105 105 105 110
Mason . . .109 98 111 100 100 110 134 . . . 84 76 95 100 100 95 95 . . .
Menominee . 115 120 105 75 60 160 105 100 100 100 100 105 100 100 100 100
Midland ...... . 103 118 92 112 122 120 118 53 77 87 65 92 90 97 100
Hissaukee ..... 95 113 109 85 100 116 145 . . . 73 76 93 85 100 93 97 . . .
Monroe . . . 91 100 106 100 93 76 95 90 85 94 100 91 97 85 87 80
Montcalm ...... 97 103 104 100 94 121 100 61 85 95 83 100 80 100 100
Montmorency . . . 83 107 105 92 105 142 138 . . . 90 65 , . ,
Muskegon . . . ...100 108 98 95 . . . 110 115 . . . 85 95
Newaygo . . . . 98 107 107 98 100 110 134 90 77 70
- Oakland ....... 80 108 105 102 96 93 194 . . . 73 77
Oceans ........ 98 104 99 76 100 125 157 . . . 77 76
Ogemaw ....... 200 120 130 150 150 125 150 75 125 85
Ontonagon ..... 101 . . . 114 125 109 204 133 . . . 81 . .
Osceola . . . . . 87 110 99 87 97 98 150 77 82
Oscoda . . . . . . : . 98 109 119 109 100 154 177 88 87
Otsego ..‘.......100 85 100 90 133 200 100 90
Ottawa ........ 95 97 79 91 73 102 113 74 81 67
Presque Isle... .113 83 206 118 100 176 143 . . . 75 91
Roscommon ....... 100 75 118 115 125 113 . . . . . . 100
St. Clair ....... 96 111 115 98 99 107 170 116 80 82
St Joseph .104 106 106 102 . . . 96 134 . . . 80 86
Saginaw ...... . 71 100 106 94 93 - 97 112 97 63 84
Sanilac ...... . . 86 103 109 99 97 102 135 102 71 87
Shiawassee . . . . 92 105 106 96 96 93 117 88 64 81
Tuscola . . . . . . . . 90 94 111 88 114 102 123 94 74 76
Van Buren ..... 107 109 100 96 . . . 124 141 . . . 84 86
Washtenaw . . . 98 111 104 96 102 102 129 120 79 84
Wayne . . . . . .100 120 100 90 100 75 100 . . . 110 90
Wexford ....... 97 100 91 98 112 131 . . . 72 72
N Ews OF MICHIGAN CO-OPER- have also become dissatisfied with the
ATORS. old method of selling live stock and

 

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LOOK! DUCKLINGS

Woodford strain of White 1623 Pekin Ducklinas.

Flock average about
All white. no argon or cmWofig 87‘wa %: ear
£7in IiATCEE‘BIIS. GAMBIER. omo

   

Wasted Grain

and Time Could

Have Fold Your
Thrash Bill

ave utgr ain from theatraw
S stag: mHire glue $11 with;

Red vet e or

onr"Junior” Redp R1ve§Sp3§al
and thrash your own gr al‘n.
know that this separator saved
soon 1: grain to pa our thrash
bills, says W. 3.8 and 13
other farmers of Cox-dc l, Okla-
homa, after threshing with a

Red River
special

It Seven the Forloer'o
Three]: am

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Here’s the thresher that’s difier-
eat. It beats out the grain. Built
for fast work too. Saves the
farmer’s and thresherman' s time
-—crowds more bushels into the
day’s work and more job.
into the season ’8 run.
Our “Junior” Red River S
is the ideal thmher for me
threshing g. It’sayounger brother
to the Red River Special. Small
enough to make home threshing
y—big enough to make money
in custom work.
Has eve needed feature of. the
edrgther Special—tomes
E"ifianed Behind the Gun”—shako
ers, large sieves, etc. Hook it
to your tractor.

Nlchols & Shepard“. Co.

Eda IV of Red mm mm
Warm“ 05'9”” c... m
Battle Creek Michigan

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I'DOYD MYERS. 3“N 0?.” mm. .m

impair: lanolin: Purl: ”imbm‘ PM“
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YORKSHIROE8 BOAR PIGS

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SHEEP

The JOINT SHEEP SALE

Will Sell at

Public Auction

at the State Fair Grounds. Colulnbuo,0hio
AUGUST 7 and 8 1917

 

Approximatel
zoo Hampshire one and. Iampshlre ram
100 Shropshire ewes 100 Shropshire ram
100Linooln owes Lincoln rune
mo Rombonillet ewes 60 .Rombonlllet ram
5000towoldowes 100m.“ drone

25 Oxford ewe lambs an ce erode eweo.
Those eheep are consigned from the coolehrated Bloch
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Shropeshire Ewes
Mostly yearling: with lambs by side. extra and

onu.oomeatonceifyouwam

Kopo Ken Farm, Klodcrhoohllol.
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LOOK! cliffs $9 a 100 up

Odds and Ends

hite Orpingtons, 818 a 0am-
ines. Black Orpingtons, Speckled Sussex, Buttercu s,
320 a 100. 10 da old S. C. White Leghorns, $10 or

,» 50. ‘90 for 500. 885. $7 a. 100 up. Catalogue Free.
Stamps ap reciated.
NABOB ATCHERIES

GAMBIER. OHIO.

aby' 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. Cata-
logue free. OLVERINE HATCHERY, Box
2221, Zeeland, Mich.

Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs
From Bred-to-Lay Barred Rocks. S.C.White Leghorns
andB.C.BuilOrpingtons. All high class stock at very
reasonable rices. Send for our Chile): Folder at once.
RUSSELL OULTBY RANCH, etersburg. Mich.

Yearling liens For Breeders

I. C. White Buff and Black Leghorns at $1.00 each.
SUNNYBRCOK FARM, - . Hillsdale, Mich.

Cheaper than hatching eggs. We
Baby Ch‘CKS specialize in Leghorns, Rocks and
Beds. Send for catalogue. Twentieth Century
Hatchery Company, Box 162, New Washington, Ohio.

Ro lr Red . lngtou.
Wfaddottez. _ g 0mg.
Best laying strains. JSlll’
evenwhero. Prices right

arm "qu" run: I. ”Elli". Dept. 16, rims. outs.

OHN'S big beautiful hen-hatched Barred Rocks,
J od layers. Breeding pens (5 birds) $10 to $20. Eggs
30. 50; 100, $7.0lrculars. hoto.Jclin Northon, Clare,Micli.

EGGS FROM STRAIN with
Barred ROCkS : records to 297 eggs in year, 32
per 15. Delivered by some} post. prepaid. Circular
tree. Fred Astling. onstsntine. Mich.

: ‘ Ferris White Leghorns

A real heavy laying strain, trapnested 17
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. atalog 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—qt ts lrec.

GEORGE B. FERRlS 934 Union, Grand Rapids, Mich.

LAYBILT S. 0. W. LEGHUBNS

Large, Great Layers, Pure White

Proved egg type from like ancestry. Not the “BeSt in
the Wor d,” but None Better for beauty and laying
ability. Laybllt Leghorns mean either betterquality
at the same price or the same quali t at a less price.
Selected hatching eggs.81.50 poi-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. Everi‘resh Egg Farm,
lonia, Mich.

BUFF LEGHORNS “81%;.{8lgflff 3218;

Dr. William A. Smith. Peter-burg, Mlc

   
     
    
  
    
   
     

  
  

  

 

 

 

FUWIUI’S Buff Rocksl am now booking orders for eggs

at $1.50 for 15. $3 for 30, $4 for 50. S7 for 100.
Pen No. 1. 84 for 15. Also one 2 yr. old White Hol-
land Tom. B. B.Fowler.Harttord, Mich.

E G G S for setting from ll. 0. Brown Leg
horns. leadtng strains in America

Also W. China Geese and M. Pokin ducks.

MRS. CLAUDIA BITTS, Hillsdale, Michigan

 

89 85.100. Leghorns, $10 a100. Barred '
Rocks, White hooks, White Wyandottes. Anconas.
Black Minorcas Li‘glht Brahmas. Buff Orpinogtons, R.
I. Reds, 512 a 106. 1 .

 

Eggaday While Wyandolles, ng“,§}‘f}§gg lifftfif’
EGGADAY RANCH, Marshall, Mich.

 

My Young’sStr ain S. O‘Nhite
lmlll'llle Your Pullllrl- Leghorns are great money
makers. 20,000 baby chicks for June at $9 per 100. Or-
der direct or at my catalo ue. Satisfaction guarzm
teed. W. VA APPLEDO N. R. 7, Holland, Mich.

I I I 'v
Ptno Gresl 8. c. lllulc Orptnglons. $831.32, “3113
cocks and hens. also young cockerels. M lt‘l. WILLIS
ROUGH. PINE CREST FARM, Royal Oak. Mich.

 

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS and PLYMOUTH ROCKS
Males 5 to 12 lbs. according to ago 32 to 55: RR. hens
weight 5 to 10 lbs.. eggs 15 for $1.00; 100. $5; 120. $6.00.
Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 38 lbs. according
to age I6 to $25. 10 eggs 53. A. E. Cramwn. anlnr. Mich.

' Both Combs. Dark lied.
ll. '- led Cluck: and E EL Winter Layers. Bred by
more Michigan farmers t an an other strain Catalog.
tree. Interlakes Farm, Box , Lawrence, Mich.

RINGLETS’ Barred Rocks The famous show aud

laying strain Eggs $2.00 for 15. De-
livered by Parcel Post from selected mattiugs. Plain View Smck
Farm J.W.Saliard. Prop. Res. W. St Claire St, Romeo, Mich

Four llet lt_ 1950
Barred Rock Eggs earl. 33:.
W. C. COFFMAN, R. 3 Benton Harbor, Mich.

.
Pullols and Bockorcls, Yearling Han: and Bock:
Homestead‘ll‘nrms invites correspondence with the
poultry farmers of Michigan with reference to all
Pur‘ Bred kinds of Pure Bred Practical Poultrv.
Practical Barred. Bufl and White Rocks; Rhode
Poultr lsland Reds; Wyandottes; Mlnorcns:
y White. Brown and Buff Leghorns;
Anconas; Turkeys: Geese; Ducks. loung Cockercls
and Pullets; Yearling liens and Cocks from this year‘s breeders.
Write for description of poultry and prices. Are you interested
in the Homestead Farms‘ federation of interests and the cou-
ggquent commercial adVantage and profit? Write to
HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.

Good breeding hens at $1.50
ll. and S. C. llCilS. each for short time. Also
Belgian Hares. O. E. Hawley, Ludlngton. Mich.

 

 

 

 

s c w Leghorns at asacrifice buy them now. 'l‘wo—
- I - ear-old hens $1 each; "Roosters $1 and $1.25.
HILL . chasm POULTRY FARM. Ypsilanti, Mich.

$6 and $7 per 100

lilm Spangled Hamburg Egg: WM... Haiku“.

Turkey a s $5 or settin . Circulars sent for stamp.
filVElfVIEW FfiRM, Vassar, Michigan.

 

Single Comb Black Minorcas Slfi‘fel’éifi

liredby a1!) lb.cock bird. R. W. Mills. Saline, Mich.

S C. White Leghorns. Size. slings. vigor. egg produc-
a tlon. Hatching eggs 35, Baby hicks 811 per 100. 15
years in the hen business. A.O.Howard. TecumsehJiich.

ILVER, Golden and White Wyandottes. Eg from
Ssome grand matings. 81.50 per 15. 82.50 per , large

vigorous birds. 0. W. Browning. R. 2 Portland, Mich.

WHITE Wyandottes. A. 1 lagers. Eggs for hatching;
. '1. 82

83 ton-15. 87 per 100. pecial matin s :5 for
DAVID luv, 709110111th., Ypsilanti. lacuna.

 

55%”: l . . l'
50pm?! WHEN totmrrn POULTRY surrurs
Everything we sell is guaranteed.

film
0‘ 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 is a partial list:

Egg Cases Shipping C00 9 Tra Nests

fillers and Flat: Chick Boxes p Wit: Nests

Egg Scales Feed Troughs Nest Eggs

Leg Bands . Clover Cutters Egg Testers

.ncubators Root Cutters Egg Records

Breeders [lone Cutters Chick Markers
Cspontzmg Sets

 

Portable Houses Grinding Mills
oofing Oat Sprouters Poultry Books
Poultry Fence Water Fountains Lice Powder
rit Automatic Feeders Lice Pmnt
Oyster Shell

Beef Scrap DIsrnlcctants
Charcoal Chick Feed Poultry Remedies
Altsllu Scratch Feed " Spruy Pumps

Egg Prescrvstive Exhibition Coops Fattemng Crates
Egg Dating Stamps Egg Trays Fowl Cntchcrs
Folding Egg Crates Egg Cabinets Mousturc 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. QNe
Will gladly send it free, whether you buy or not.

GEORGE B. FERRIS cfféo‘il‘llhié’, file...

Marsh’s -
chicks dying

A new scientific discovery that positively cures
and prevents While Diarrhoea or Chick Cholera.
Black-bead. and other bowel diseases of poultry.
Leading oultry breeders everywhere use and en-
dorse 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. If not. we will-end you Avi-
col by mail prepaid. Price 25c and
500. Don't accept asubsiitute.
Darrell-Miller. Indianapolis. Ind.
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White Wyandottes, winter & summer layers. Eggs
$5.50 per 100 Baby Chix 5M2 per 100. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Hemlock Poultry & Stock Farm. Prescott. Mich.

 

' From prize winning SC.
HatChlng Eggs W. Leghorns $1.50 per 15.
White Line Poultry Farm, Hillsdale. Mich.

BREEDERS’ DIRECTollY.

Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Days before date of publication.

We Offer a Few Specral 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAT-TLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

Bulls by BLACK UALITY ITO, sire, First prize,
Breeders and 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.

Registered Guernseys

Stock always for sale. Mayltose Strain—Herd Tuber-
culin tested annually. Never had a reactor — no
abortion. J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams, Mich.

Guernsey Bull Calves £me 3323::
bred dams of high producing ancestry. Cash or bank-
able note. Or would exchange for bred gilt or yearling
boarlarge type Duroc swine. (LA. Wigcnt. \\'atci-vliel.Micli

in future by using now, apure—
Bel "orb Bull'r'la bred Guernsey bull. We have
several young bulls for sale. Registration certificate
also pedigree furnished with each animal.
NORDLAND GUERNSEY FARM, Long Lake, Mich.

 

 

 

of service age and calves from
Guernsey BUllS choice. Adv. reg. breeding,
T. V. HICKS, Route 1. Battle Ceeek. Mich.
GU ERNSEYs—“EGISTERED
BULL CALVES
Containin blood of world cham ions.
HICKS' OUER SEY FARM. Saginaw. . 8.. Mich

GUERNSEYS lull.sasszssuai‘sn'tss

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

 

 

Registered Holsteins. lafthl’sfalg’lf‘t.$112.33.:

Satisfaction guaranteed.W.B.Jones 8c J. F.Lutz. Cohoctah.Mich.

“TOP NOTCH” ll0LS'l‘ElNS

Many years of carefull management and systematic
handling 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.,VVe have young bulls
or sale sired by a son of this great cow. The blood of
this cow in them, combined with that of other great
animals of the breed in our herds, would insure most
pleasing results in almost any herd. McPHERSON
ARM 00., Howell, Michigan.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

REG. HOLSTEINS: Herd headed b Albina Bonte
Butter Boy No. 93124. Dam's recor at 6 yrs. butter
28.531bs.milk619.4. Yearly record at 2% yrs. butter
802 lbs. milk 1&5221bs.W. B. READER. Howell, Mich

FOR SALE A fine Holstein bull calf son of

Flint Maple CrestWayne with eight
Worlds Records in his pedigree, and a grandson of
Maple Crest Korndyke Hengerveld the best bull in the
tate. $50 takes this well bred calf. Write for particu-
lars. W. C. Hendee & Son. Ptnckney. Mich.

OAK LEAF FARM
Herd Sire
Ypsiland Sir Pietertie De Kol
Service bulls all sold. Bu a calf and raise it. Fine
individuals 4 and 5 mont s old. E. H. Gearhartit
Son, Marcellus, M ioh., . No. 4.

Buy Your lull: From Parham': Pedigm Slack Farm

Choice Registered Holstein calves from A. R. 0. cows.
RA » B. PARH , Bronson, Michigan.

 

 

 

Feeding Chicks.

I have been losing my incubator
chickens. They have the diarrhoea
when they are about four days old, and
are all sick about the same time, and
drop, as many as 11 and 12 a day. I
feed them bread crumbs with pepper
in after the first 24 hours, but they do
not eat good on the start. I would like
to know the cause of it. I keep my
brooder cleaned out and fresh straw
in it all the ‘time.

Lapeer Co. D. A.

I do not think that the bread crumbs
and pepper you are feeding the chick-
ens contains the essentials for develop-
ing vigorous chicks: It is not advisa-
ble to feed stimulants such as pepper
to young chicks, and the bread crumbs
are practically only starchy material,
and lacks in the protein and bone-mak-
ing material so essential for‘the de-
velopment of chicks.

Instead of this it would be advisable
to feed following mixture: One hand-
ful of rolled oats, three handfuls of
bran and one raw egg. Break the egg
into a small amount of the bran and
mix it thoroughly, after which thor-
oughly mix the egg-coated bran with
the rest of the mixture, so that each
particle has a little of the egg on it.

This mixture should be fed five
times a. day, starting about thirty—six
hours after hatching. This should al-
ways be fed in proportions so that
there will be one egg at each feeding
for every one hundred chicks. After
a few days you can gradually substi.
tute the commercial chick feeds for
this mixture.

A very good first feed is a dry mix-
ture of bran and grit. This furnishes
the chicks with the grit essential to
grind the feed, and also starts diges-
tive operations.

It would also be advisable to feed the
chicks sour skim—milk or buttermilk
from the very start. Your chicks are
undoubtedly affected with what is call-
ed white diarrhea, and the feeding of
this milk will do much to prevent it.

Harvest Mite.

Would like to have you give me a
good ration for raising incubator chick-
ens. I have fairly good success in the
hatching, but do not seem to be able to
raise them. I feed them mostly rolled
oats the first week or two, then use
the chick feed. They also have all the
sand and gravel they want. I have an
outdoor brooder. Most of the ones I
lost seemed to have a spasm, would
stiffen out like dead, then after a time
would get up and walk around, but
were weak. After a few days they

would die.
Missaukee Co. G. M.

Your method of feeding your chicks
is not at fault, and would not cause the
trouble you are having.

However, if you wish to improve
your method of feeding, I would sug-
gest that you read the article in the
Michigan Farmer of June 9, entitled,
“A Simple Method of Chick Feeding.”

The cause of your chicks’ death is
probably the harvest bug. This is a
minute brick-red mite which is preval-
ent on berry and current bushes and
often causes considerable mortality
among late-hatched chicks. The mite
fastens its claws into the chick and
produces intense irritation and brings
about spasms such as you mention.
Dusting the chicks with flowers of sul.
phur is an efficient means of eradicat-
ing this mite. ‘

Liver Trouble.

Can you tell us what causes our
hens to die? We moved on a place
where they had been losing poultry
through what they called cholera. But
we used a good disinfectant and clean-
ed everything good. We keep the coop
well cleaned and sprayed and still they
die. We doctored them for cholera. I
do not think it is that. We killed one
and found white spots on the liver,
with some enlargement. They dump
around a few days and finally die. I
never lost any poultry before and am
very anxious to check it as it means
something to lose them just at this
time every year.

Jackson Co. C. T.

The prominent symptoms of fowl
cholera is the yellow color of the

lower, would they not?

prates, the part of the excrement sec,

creted by the kidneys. This is usually
white when the fowl is healthy. "

Undoubtedly your hens have~ liver
trouble, which is frequently caused by
the feeding of too much nitrogenous
food, and by the lack of exercise. The
treatment consists of cutting down the
amount of beef scraps and other nitro-
genous foods and the feeding of more
green food. The amount of corn
should also be cut down, and the birds
should be compelled to exercise for
their food.

When a flock has become badly af-
fected with some form of liver trouble,
the change in feeding will not remedy
the trouble at once. The causes of
this trouble have been working for a
long time, and therefore it cannot be
expected that the disease can be rap-
idly eliminated.

Some poultry authorities claim that
the most satisfactory way, if the flock
is quite seriously affected, is to get rid
of the entire flock and start a new one.
Medical treatment is of little value in
this trouble, but the substitution of
green feeds for some of the heaVy Iii-
trogenous feeds, and plenty of exer-
cise, is of great importance.

Bee Queries.

I remember seeing an article regard-
ing the making of home made bee
hives in an issue of the Michigan
Farmer last fall, but now I cannot find
it so am going to ask a little informa~
tion on this subject. Recently I pur-
chased a home-made hive body and
super, the body measuring 131/2x131/3
inches by 10% inches deep inside
measurements, and the super is 5%.
inches deep. There were a few frames
in the lower chamber, and I made
some more similar one’s, so that it now
holds nine frames. Is it really neces.
sary to buy fittings or wax foundations
for the frames? If .so,'what would be
necessary? I suppose the frames for
the super would be made the same as
for the brood chamber, except shal-
The honey
would be used at home, of course. I
intend to buy a complete hive or hives
for future swarms, but would like to
make this hive do for my first swarm
of bees. All that I know about bees at
present has been gleaned from papers,
and as I do not know much about their
habits or methods of filling the hive,
please be quite plain in your reply.

Van Buren Co. P. H. R.

We would advise you to use medium
brood foundation in the frames of the
hive proper. For the supers would rec-
ommend the use of light brood foun-
dation.

This foundation can-be purchased of
any bee supply house, and is from
three-quarters to one inch wide, and is
very useful, because it gives the bees
a foundation upon which to start their
combs.

In placing the hives, one must use
special care in having them level.
Bees always make their comb perpen-
dicular, and if the frames are tipped,
the comb of one frame may cross into
the next frame, which would make it
very difficult to get the frames out.

If you are just starting a. swarm of
bees in your hives, it would be best
not to put any supers on for at least
three days, so as to give the bees time
to make their brood comb in the brood
chamber. If the supers are put on be-
fore this time, or if no queen excluder
is used between the super and the
brood chamber, much of the brood
comb will be started in the super.

For the new hives which you intend
to purchase, I would recommend the
ten-frame Lungstroth hive. This hive
is the most popular among'bee experts
and can be purchased from any bee
supply house.

 

If producing extracted honey, raise
the brood chamber up and place a. full
extracting body below to give more
room for the queen.

"Clip one of the wings of all queens,-

to prevent the swarms from leaving,
if they issue.

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  
 
   
   

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coupes-rim BY w. 0. ram. v. s.

‘Tuberculosia—Heifer fresh eight
weeks ago has light discharge of mu-
cus from nostrils. Is quite thin. coughs
considerable, breathes rather short and
much faster than normal. She has
lost flesh rapidly and I hate stopped
milking her. What do you admire me
to do for her or with her? 0. K. 'l‘.,
McBain, Mich—Perhaps she suffers
from tuberculosis and it so she should
be destroyed. Have her tested with
tuberculin and a physical examination
made or her by your local Vet. Her
recovery is decidedly doubtful.

How to Prevent Navel Infection.—
Kindly describe how colt should be
treated at time of birth, so as to avoid
navel infection. L. T. 3., Rapid City,
Mich—In order to be doubly sure of
preventing navel infection, first pre-
pare a clean place for mare to foal,
the box stall should be thoroughly
cleaned, disinfected and whitewashed
with fresh lime wash, clean bedding
supplied, the udder oi mare washed
clean. When colt is born sponge all
lower part of abdomen With one part
bichloride mercury and 1000 parts. or
tepid water, then paint cord with tinc-
ture iodine; also paint corn daily With
one part tincture iodine and three parts
glycerine until cord shrivels and the
wound heals. Now this is only one
method of treating the navel of new-
born animals, there are many other
home healing remedies which possess
more or less merit. Colts born out in
the pasture field are not likely to suf-
fer from navel infection.

Loss of Vision—Infected Udder.———I
have a horse with white spot on one
eye, causing blindness, other eye now
inflamed and seemingly going the same
way. What can be done for him? I
also have a cow that had badly diseas-
ed bag when dried last season; now
she has come fresh and our local Vet.
tells me she will not get well. What
do you say? W. C., Pittsford, MlCh.——-
Doubtless your horse suffered from
chronic periodic ophthalmia, which is
now resulting in cataract and loss or
vision. Dry and fatten the cow, she is
incurable.

Stomach Worms—Our eight-year-
old mare is troubled with stomach
worms; have given her some medicine
but it fails to help her. Have two colts
which occasionally pass few worms;
what shall I give them? E. K., Holly,
Mich—Give her 1 oz. of rectified oil
of turpentine and one pint of raw lin-
seed oil once a week for three weeks.
or turn horse and colts on grass and
they will purge enough to get rid of
their worm and bots.

Foreign Body in Stomach—About a
week ago our cow was taken sick;
called local Vet., who treated her for
chronic indigestion. She seems to have
lost appetite, fails to chew her quid
and breathes as if in pain: A. G.,
Gaines, Mich.———l am inclined to believe
she has swallowed a nail, piece of wire
or some other foreign body which may
produce fatal results. Ask your Vet.
to keep watch of the case. Grass is
the best feed and raw linseed oil a
safe remedy to keep the bowels open;
however, it may not be needed.

-Barren Heifer—Have a 16-months
old heifer that has not yet been in
heat; would like to know what can be
done with her. G. N. W., Lawrence,
Mich—You had better wait until July
1 and if she fails to come in heat be
fore that date, sell her for beef. Give
her 20 drops of fluid extract of mix
vomica and 30 drops of fluid extract
capsicum at a dose in feed twice a day.

Horse Slavers-Serous Abscess—I
have a iour-year—old horse that slavers
badly when driven; our local Vet.
claims that there is nothing wrong
with teeth or mouth. He is as bad in
winter as in summer. I also have some
pigs two weeks old that are seemina
well, but some of them have bunches
on them which are filled with yellow
fluid. Have opened sack, but it soon
fills again. A. C. B., Caro, Mich—-
When your horse is five years old and
has a full set of permanent teeth he
will perhaps cease to slaver. In many
cases it is the result of neglect in hit-
ting colt properly before driving in
harness. A change of bit or working
him in halter might overcome this
trouble. Open sacks freely and dust
on boric acid twice daily, this will
soon. heal wounds.

Rheumatism.—We have a litter of
pigs 31! WfWh-‘g Old. some of them seem
to cl’iI’ple 1n hind quarters, one of them
died. Have been feeding bran, mid-
dlings, sour milk, oats and meal; C.
M._F., 3014011. Kiel—Your pigs should
be kept in dry Clean place and expose
them to sun and light. Add some cook-
ins soda "to their milk and feed less
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. . .. . Jerseys and Dome J erseys—

‘ The most important thin. hlbwylu cJoncy bull is to not one backed up by generation-o! blah
Brookwatcr oficrs to sell a few choice bull calves of this kind.

Sale of Duroc Jersey Bred Sous, Spring Pigs and F an Boats, August 2.

BROOKWATER FARM
3.1m Arbor. Mich., R. 7.

H. W. MMORD.
owns:

GUI" STOBK FAB.
100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS IN

0601': For Sale the 3—year-old Shot
83018 OOLANTHA MOONLIGHT KING. No.
mm. about three-fifths white and an ex-
cellent individual. use
: a. andaon ol Kins Se!!! Pen
Hlsofiinoli; Fringe“ of Oakdale (90 lbs); head of
one of the nine only families of three gen-
erations of all-lb. cows. J h
HIS : ddauchteroi Colombo a once
Leannaz'nf‘rnccord of $5 9 lbs. milk and 2732
butter as v. syn-old giving promise of crouch
better record with age. Her darn a. Iii-lb. 2
yr.-old daughter of a 335m. cow who made
I afield rocordoi 838.4 lbs.butter and
leash lbs. of milk. _
Pedigree. and Price. Sent on Application.

ll. BRUCE McPHERSON. amen. MIC".

EG. Eel-lei us. Place yourordor now (crab-ll calf.
d to t echo- nooll. bud totboboet
wx‘.2ili.°£"nl‘;.. El.- smieh. Redford. Michigan

2 Lbs-gal—odhoinl rds r 11%
of the race 0 our e
313:331732 yrs. ). his grand-dam (at 3 l and his
agent 1 41am. Threechnice nouns bulls from A. R.
. dams. erd tuberculin F “away". 1:333:31?
cant”. ' cued-Id Stock can. '1 hree '.
gins. Pmmyflcrdsmnn. C. L. lrcdy.0ncr. Port Huron. Mich.

Need Reg. Holsteins'r.’

You can‘t find better bred bulls than we are casting.
' d h. W tru t .
ready for service. You don t nee (EnglA a Pam,

desert imbookl LON
figgta. (132531111100 6:)“ Michigan

WINNWOOD H E R D

John H.Winn. Inc, Holton, Mich.
Reference: Old State Bank. Mont. Mich.
Km for “mile.- 0 K v!

Holstei-

ll out of A. I. O.
mgfinel days no a Jr. 2 year old. Another 21 lbs. in
7 days as 3 Jr. Spear old. Also have Ive others. some
breed from Zeoliinonthc. Must sell at once. Ineedhthe
room. {flees will surprise you. John H. W inn,
Holton. Mic inn.

In loud lung llolrlun Gov: For Sal).UNG
soon as possible. TEN GOOD Y

got-no.1” $33105»... are bred to “TbcyMilk & Butter

Champion‘ a con of c worlds Record milk cow and his

clrc II a son or! a world: recordbutter cow. We will

have more cows than we can milk this Spring. 80 this

hand). to a low good ones. Also
£33.35an a few band‘s ready for service.
. CORNELL. - ¢ -

Butter Fat Counts

fro 330 lb. 8.53$8iro. Dam
mnwidfigleefgrm “king 0! the Pontiuco.
Thefir‘dams rand dau liters of Sadie leoConcordlo
first I) b. cow. win 8. Lewis, Marshalljlioh.

'1' li Heller, re bred Hol-

For sale sAtolifiaglthrnefsgolaniha olinonaCream;
Eli she iris yons. you won

333%?“ . write. Geo. D Clarke, Vassar. Mich.
LE B . Holstein heifers, 8 months old.
Fofiagéx fine?“ marked and thrifty. Price mo.
orabedat do t. 6.1.. HULETT & SON Okemos Mich.

High Grade Holstein Heifers

Fresh soontofreshen. Also grade Holstein Bull
Pricesmreasonable. THE JENNINGS PAR _ 8
VIM. .OBBHITH General Mans er. Belle Mich

° ’ 1" Honoraatnfi
Repwed H0!“ mic-31:833. Some from so lb.
sires. Priced to sell. Fred J. Lange, Sebewaing. Mich.

”:21 lb . sire. Their dam's
3 WI! Idlers dam gag), 1%‘4'm’la‘9r cum
lb. .bredtofibrotherto . yr.o . erms
gasnnteg' M. L. McMULIN. Redford. Michigan.
I C . an 't m a
RepHolstsm Fneilgn $383 “$53,";
in oaths 01 no); nlls $40 up. papers.
nFR‘IfiK S'I‘AFfiEN, R. 3, Howard Gm. Mich,
BULL CAL? for sale Pontiac Komdyke Breeding.

Dam veswlbc. milk 1- day at 2 yccrs. Farmers
Prices. .1 JOHN ERINKE. Warren. Mich.

Registered Cows. Eliximl‘mm
breeding and good individuals. n. B. anvcy. Akron. licli.
on Our Easy Payment Plan gy'gygtam

Holstein Bull on]! in our stables. Prices in Wop.
Ira-fluid Farms. Bile-nu Mich n.
‘ 4 to 10 weeks old extra in.
"Okteln Bulls dividunls. from heav mm.
ingdams. beet breeding. Big Mar. roc- one".
botheex. All am eligible to reg. Price- low. not
about then. B. F. RIB. Billedale. Mich.
of high grade Holstein Heifers sired by
20 Head Hemneld the 3rd. some of them due

to freshen for sale at Huron Valley Farm.
1'. s. PETERS. Flat Rock. Michigan.

HEREFORDS

Sires in service, Governor by Prince
Donald Militant Farmer by Farmer
(Imp), Bonnie Brae Jr. by Bonnie
Brae 24th. Inspection invited.

ALLEN “05., PA“ PAW, “Kl.

hm} labia 8dr “““l‘JE‘MMW‘S‘;
semi-anoint! too!» O B. We nor. B. C. Allmn- Mich

For Sale Jersey Bull Calf

Dr Nov.3rd 1916. The sire and dam are
both fromlt. M. cows. This calf is m extra good
individual. and will be sold cheap. Address:
Newman’s Stock Form. B. l. Mariette. Mich.
fox-sale ready for service. Out of
Jelse‘x)nnnsgoodpmcu‘ ci chm r‘ a lit.
3. 3. mu. “3 Hawaii.
’ 1' lo ten months
Made F“ Jerseys. 01%rb3llbnotedonboth
idea by R. of If. done with high oiliclal records.
0. l O. DRAKE - - . Ypsilanti. licbim

w- e! i... V'lmd lam] can.
.. . w££$hi%f“ an". a.
The Wildwood Farm

Breeder of Line bred ll? drain of Jersey Cattle.
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sale. Type a Production is our motto. Alvin Balden. CspIchlcb.

 

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0! M. Cowl. also be for calves and several bred
both" for solo. Colon O. Lillie. Coopotcvfllc. Mich

I. of l. Jen-soy herd cler- tor-ole
maple lane tuberculin tented cows. bulls. bull
calves and holler onlvee. carrying the boot I. of I.
blood of the breed. IBYIN FOX. Alleges. Mich.

 

 

’1‘. ClairCounty Jersoy CattlcClub. We have for rule
Bulls old enough for service and Bull calves.
beet stain of J enoy Cattle. Majesty‘s. Noble 0! Oak-
land's. Combination 3 Premier. etc. Write for Pedi-
grccs,prleonndpcrtieulnn. Fred A. Brennan. Sec .Oapcc.Mich
Notten Farm Jerseys 33°53; 33;
for sale. NOTTEN FARM, Grass Lake. Mich.

ShortbcmCaltlc olbotbSexlorSsie

W. W. “APP. Howell. ”MI.

 

 

 

 

RICHLAND SHORTHORNS
Sires in service. Village Archer and Albion Crect let.
grizoZ year old and Junior Champion at the Mich

tat Pair in me. We oler a number of young bulls and

females for sale. Ali-lo someAberdeen-Angus bulls of ‘

serviceable 6 reasonable prices. Write your wants.
anas City, lchfl H.Prencott & “one. Prescott. Mich.

FOB Bale—Reg. Short Horn Belle by Maanlton
Monarch 2nd. coon of Avenue. from I tollmoe.
old. John Schmidt. Reed City. R. No. 5. Michigan.

 

 

Francisco Farm Shorthorns
Big Type Poland Chinas

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

«:22 Bidwell Shunhoms

v.4 “for Beef and Milk”
. This heifer at 8 months has bone,
size and quality—Our own breeding.
'l he blood of Scotch bulls. Imp.
Shenstone Albino and Imp. Villag-
; er Registered stock always for solo.

BIBIELI. “Ml “Ill.

Box I. Tecumseh, Michigan.
(1' fl llk’ '
brands" ol licnoral Elly ‘ “3ha2‘2i3 .ié‘iycf‘“

worlds Fair winner) four years old: surebreeder: also
2-year old son or above bull (dam 3. Rates Cow.) AIRam-
bouillet Bani of good size a ty . rioee reasonable--
exchange entertained of Bates horthorn heifers or For-
cheron mares. TlttobnwsssecStock Penn. West Branch. Mich.

Shortborns For Sale 3.25.9.1. bill; 21"! £35
heifers. W. B. McQuillan Howel ichi on.
Young bulls cm Bred cows.
Shwun‘ F" s".- and heifers 8150 for nick sale.
Write W. J. BELL. ROSE CITY. MICE GAN.
smlu-Dairyor boot bred. Breeding stock all

ageoforsalo ntfamerspricee. C.W.Crum.
My. Cont. Kiel. Slim-thorn Brecdrrc' Ann. IcBrldo. Kick.

3 Red Bull Calves. 6 ontbs ld.
Shorthorns l Roan Bull. 2yeon Jill, [or oils.
W. C. 081178. - - ~ - Killsdslg3 Mich.

For Sale One Roan Shonhom Bull calf

limos. old, a well built calf of milking strain. The
first no) takes him, zllno a few boilers and a black,
blocky Percheron Stallion. 2 yrs. old in Au ., weight.
L'mlbs. LLA. Bray Estate. Okcmos.(1ngham .vo.) Mich.

SHORTHORNS increases;
sole. 1. E. Tnncwell. Mason. Michigan.

Shortliorns for sale. 5 bulls Scotch to 10 to 14 mos.
3mm 1 will 1 red. rice $150. to 3‘ . I son of M or-
wslton Sultan mos. £150. 0. Car m i -

Cattle For‘SaIe

loads feeder: and two loads yearning steers. Alec
can show you any number 1. 2 and 3 years old from
Wine. Isaac Shanetum. Fairfield. Iowa. "-8.

POLLEDwm-bam Heifers. Bulls read for use and

you er. Shorthorn blood except the one.
RANK BARTLETT. Dryden. Michigan.

Clearly Sleek Ranch lggn! El‘zro‘ffllgf‘“ W“

cm. nirmwn a so Ovid. Michigan
H005.

  

 

Du race and Victoria:

Heavy bone, lengthy Spring Bocrsand Gills from prize
winners sired by one of. the best Sons of the Great De-
tender A other noted strains. ll. 1'. STORY. Lowell. Mich.

BEBKSHIBES

We have 10 selected gilts bred tofar-
row in August and September. All
long bodied, growthy type. Are bred
to our Junior Champion boar, Detroit
1916. They will go fast at 855 each.
All stock guaranteed as represented.

Summon: rm

PE’I‘ERSBURG, MICH.

 

{Perksmnsl lfib'cg‘ fi‘khfll . ' Almout. Mich.
erlrshirec. Brad 3“ and cows fox-tall knowing.
Alec boon-cut

.B... was“? swabs-rate ......... n2:

 

Igflgln 1ynll'l‘lisl:maili- bad vafiud‘Au
or W. arc ready I . .
F. W. ALEXA}? on. Vassar. “$32.:

Home Jerse s ”M '"" ’°' ""
Carey U. Edmonds. ‘ y mil-3'. -

 

DUR O C S :lr'arr '32:“;
by on. Ohio Chief m bred i» am is. eoi. m
due to tarrow June m. A very dependable sow,
raised! $11!.“ litter. Price 375.

ON BARNHART. St. Johns. Mlohlm

 

lime hmys. Binding Bean and Sept“:
J. H. Benched. - - - East Lancing. Mich.
Dumc m and glltsbrcdbolnrokn Chem

Kl
Crimson Critic son of Critic Model 23:3
champion Iowa Fair. W. C. Taylor. Milan. Mich.

 

UROC Jersey fall Boar's. ready for ri service
Dulce Giles bred for Aug. and Sept. Briggjpriia

pain not ki All stock eh' ~

39“. .1. nnom‘.‘ 'L 3.1. 3%“me-
, . . _

Dobson s Durocs; I} hf: 23:“! “m2;

breeding: Collie Pups. Orlo L. Dobwn, Qul'ncy, Mich.

DU R O C S will; diliefirlglio'gcfig.’

E. DJIIIYDENBEBI. Wayland. Hick.

55:19 Duroc Sprlng Doors 3‘:
. B.

I
an: Lambs ready to chip. Exp. Psi} line Stock.
KICKS. 86. ohns. Mich.

 

 

Good 8 ' i b D tender."
Du roc s, “.mltlsdm“ lad. .m'
R I. Calkins. B. D. 6. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

uroco Bi. boned March boars sired by fl
D Volunteer. One July yearly Gilt brown“
fan-ow. Price $60. BUSH 8308.. Romeo. Mich.

Raise Chester'Wbitec .

p Like This
the odl'inll biz pr

fl

I HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to
sum. 1 can help you. learnt to lace one he from
my great herd in every community where am not nlren re
rcccnbedb ee- 0 early developm—rea y for market at a;
mood:- cd ’ Writo tor my phn— ‘um Money from Hogs.

a. s. BEXJAMIII’, R. p, D. 10. Portland, nichigan

 

 

% lo» II. l. 0’: l Chasm Wit: % In

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

Champion School Master. The boar that has size and

$uality combined. All sold any age. Write and get our
atalogue its free and describes our champions. Vl'edo

not. say our hogs are the best but we win the champ-

ions to prove it. We have 100 cows bred to our chain-
ion boars for Mar. and Apr. furrow. REY T
. ANDELL 4! SUN, Cass City. Mich.

 

0 I C An extra line lot of last spring
0 s 0 pigs, either sex and not akin, from
aodgrowthy stock. Farm )6 mile west of depot.

to .Schulw. - - - - Nashville. Mich.

CHOICE SPRING PIGS

. Ready to ship. The big smooth. growthy
type. sired by noted boars. Registered
and shipped C. O. D. -

J. CARL JEWETT, Mason,Mich.

0 I. 0. Bears and Giltc all sold.I am bookln orders
.for March and April at 3 either sex, line a. or in
pairs not akin. A. J. BA ER. Belmont. MEIER.

O I C Thorough bred 0. I. O. Swine all
g - . so d out escort fall pin.
0. D. Somervill. Gru- Lcke. M ch. R. D 4.
0 i C! All cold. Booklnl orders to: the
0 - ' best 0

tour winter ands ti
o. J. THOMPSON. . - R00 9 1“

 

lrford. Mlobfi‘o:

6 f. C’s Spring pi and lies. Holstein heifers
0 '_ ‘ from 5 to months old. CL OVER
LEAF STOCK FARM, R. 1, Monroe, Mich.

 

 

O I C bred sows and 'lts all cold. A few long
- ° ° bodied heavy oned tall boars to odor.
G. P. ANDREWS, Daneville, Michigan

0- '- (a; SWINE. Nelsen"

. W. MANN, Dansvlllc, Michigan.

BIG TYPE POLAND BHINAS

Boar Pigs from the CHAMPION and GRAND 0HAM~
PION and our other GREAT HERD BOARS and big
STRETCHY SOWS of very been breeding and individ-
uality 820.!!! each if ordered now.

HILLCRES; FARM, 15’. B. Loy, Mgr.

elem-zoo, Ich.
‘6 '
W a r I s ._..___.”
80 is starvation, every one should dotholr bit. You
crux mice more orlcon lees feed it you brood Butler'-
lfiig type 9101me (mines. Bogs bci'edBfor fall furrow.
flare teary or service. . . "TI—Ill -
land. Michigan. Bol‘ Phone ’ Po"

Large Type P. C.

Fall pics and bred lts a old. N thl
present. W. E. L INGBTON, OPAR f'fibfif

 

 

 

 

" ' ' Ap l] a M ' from
II; Type Poland China: “03.. with‘llofifif “.13“:
Stock guaranteed as represented. eec .

L. W Barnes & Son. Byron. (Shlawnese ). Mich.

 

B.P.O. vesrly Giles for August furrow. A to lon
L. bodied heavy boned boars ready for norm. '2 n10:

 

ARGE type P. 0. Some ver ch )lce
IJbred to furrow in August. lgill 32.11 I .335?“- l3
herd boars. W. J. Hagelshnw. An Mi 1:

‘ Poland Chine. f 11. d l
Large Stlled It farmers price: “Bu {‘3me
$1.50 per 15. Robert Nave, Pierson. Mich.
PQLAND China bred gilta all sold. still have some

holes fall plu of large and medium t. attun-
r. 1). LONG. R. 8. Grand RimlMicb.

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Esta. yawn; WOOD a d b' 233.37%“:

 

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ll; Tm Poland this: a“... .19.? “$7.33“ W
. W. HOLTON. KALAMA . MICHIGAN.

 

 

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The Woinan’s Committee (Michigan
Division), Council of National Defense,
has fifteen departments of work, and
none is more important than that of
the Committee on Food Production and
Marketing, with its two divisions of
farming and gardening. Mrs. Dora H.
State Lecturer of the
Grange, is chief of the department, and
Mrs. Cornelia Steketee Hulst, of Grand
Rapids, chairman of the Garden Com-
mittee of the Michigan State Teach-
ers’ Association, is chairman of the
sub-section on gardens. Other members
bf the general committee are: Mrs. J.
C. Brown, of Howell, State Secretary
of Farmers’ Clubs; Miss Jennie Buell,
of Ann Arbor, Secretary of the State
Grange; Mrs. Emily Warner Green, of
Dowagiac, head of the Home Econom-
ics Department of the Grange; Mrs.
Francis King, of Alma, President of
the Woman’s National Farm and Gar-
den Association; Miss Mary Grosven-
or, Supervisor of School Gardens, De-
troit; Mrs. Cora Anderson, of L’Anse;
Mrs. Lena Mantner, of Saginaw; and
ex-officio, Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane
of Kalamazoo, General Chairman of the
Woman’s Committee for Michigan.

A recent meeting of this committee

    

work'was outlined. The first principle
laid down is that every woman who
pessibly can do so should provide for
the needs of her own family by raising
a sufi‘icient supply of the kinds of foods
that can be preserved, canned, dried,
or stored in the natural state for use
throughout the coming year.

1. Because the government is now
commandeering canned goods for our
soldiers and for the allies, and the pros
pect is for a continued heavy exporta-
tion; hence it is unlikely that we will
be able to purchase canned goods this
next winter.

2. Because, in any event, if we pro-
vide for the needs of our own families,
that takes us out of the market, and
we thus voluntarily increase the food
supply that helps to win the war.

The committee asks the co-operation
of all city women in being ready to
buy fruits and vegetables of the farm-
ers in quantity in their season, to can,
dry, preserve and store; thus saving
waste and cost of storage to both pro-
ducer and consumer. This it is be-
lieved, will save nearly a twenty-five
per cent waste of products.

The farm production section suggest
that women’s organizations in the
country (a) encourage boys’ and girls’
club work; (b) adopt the slogan of
“double the poultry production of Mich-

  

   

 

igan this ye , , , ) encourage the bee
industry, and the saving of all breed-
ing stock on the farm.

The gardening section recommend
that groups of women in the cities vis-
it children’s gardens and encourage
them to take the best possible care of
them; also that women assist the chil-
dren in marketing surplus products.

And to help the boys and girls and
all amateur gardeners to persevere, the
garden section of the department pro-
poses to have some natty little buttons
in the flag colors, with the motto, “See
it through.”

Red—~White—B1ue,
“See it through!”

These little buttons are calculated to
stimulate courage against the on-
slaught of potato bugs and weeds and
“the weather ;” and it is expected that
all who wear them will “show their col-
ors,” both as gardeners and patriots,
right up to the end of the harvesting
and canning season.

The actual canning and drying of
foods is to be under another depart-
ment that of Household Thrift and
Food Conservation, of which Miss Pau-
lina E. Raven, of the Extension Divis-
ion, Michigan Agricultural College, is
chief. Mrs. Stockman and Miss Raven
will work in closest co-operation
throughout the state. JENNIE BUELL.

    

CLUB niéc’ussion .

 

I Price Fixing. -—The more cloudy the
day the more sunny should be the
smile,’ was the very fitting sentiment
for the Washington Center Farmers’
Club, which met at Fair Acres, the
home 01‘ Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wagner,
Thursday afternoon, June 14. The
house was called to order by President
F. L. Cook. Miss Lena Wagner open-
ed the program by furnishing piano
music. Roll call was responded to by
naming a household pest. Miss Etta
Wagner rendered a selection of piano
music. The subject, “Mothers and
Their Daughters,” was led by Mrs. F.
L. Cook. Daughters do not always un-
derstand why or appreciate the advice
given until in after years the can see
where mother was right. “Patent med-
icines and Drugs,” was led by Mrs.
Tobey. Persons using patent medicine
would be very much better off by us-
ing less medicine and live closer to
the rules of hygiene. Patent medicines
are very much better for the manu-
facturer’s pocket-book than for the
stomach. A select reading, “Worth
While” by Mrs. Clarence Henson, was
very much appreciated. Music by Mrs.
Gilman, followed by an interesting talk
on Belgium by Mrs. Henry English.
Mr. Cook read some well—made rules
for automobilists, which if enforced
would make traveling less dangerous
for those using horses. The question,
“Should the government put a mini.
mum price on food stuffs and a maxi-
mum price on manufactured articles?”
was discussed in favor of the affirma-
tive.

  

 

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INDEX

FOR VOL. CXLVIII.
From January I, 19l7 to July I, l9l7

 

Editorial Comment.

After the war ........... 122
Agricultural patriotism. .474
preparedness .......... 442

A “local option” dog law. 90
A source of farm profit.. .58
Boys’ and girls club work. 274
Conscription 582

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Conserve the flocks and
herds ............... 714
Constitutional amendments418
County tan work: ...... 27 4
agricultural work ...... 90

Cow-testing associations. .242
Crop conditions and pros-694

pec cst ................
values for 1916 ........ 90
Electricity on the farm. .162
Eliminating wastes ...... 474
Farm bureau results ...... 2
loan interest iates ..... 418
preparedness .......... 630
Federal aided roads ....... 346
aid in road building” ..306
Feeding the world ........ 674
Financing the crop ....... 418
Gas plants on farms ...... 630

Government food control. 630
price fixing, 274, 562, 606,
654.

Grow sugar beets ........ 442

High school tuition ...... 346
How soldiers will be draft-

ed .................. 654

to get seed beans ...... 582

Importations of beans. .242
Live stock sanitary work. 162
8

Market milk prices ...... 53
Michigan in the lead ...... 538
Minimum prices by con-
tract ................ 630
Mobilization schemes .. .652
Mothers’ Day ............ 582

Our break with Germany. .162
Paternalism
Perseverance wins
Peisonal service ......... 582
Preparedness in Michigan. 506
President Wilson’s appeal. 506
Promoting farmers’ organi-
zations
Reduce the fire waste. . . .
Register for military ser-
vice 6
Seed bean regulations”
Selective service and the6

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farmer ...... . 94
Standardization .......... 694
Studying changing condi-

tions ........

farm costs ........... .122
The American farmer’s op- '
portunity ............ 562
arrival of Russia ...... 386

assurance of good prices
' 582

not... ooooooooooooooooo

business outlook ....... 26
county fair ............ 202
county farm bureau. .202
dog problem ........... 306
farmer and the tariff. .202
farm tractor ........... 58
good roads problem. . . .386
legislature ............. 58
liberty loan ...... 654, 714

live stock census
market milk controversy 2
milk producers’ opportu-
nity
need for increased pro-
duction .............. 538
oleomargarine situation. 90
outlook for horse breed-
ing ................. 162
patriotic phase of dairy-
ing ................. 674
season’s plans ..... 346, 386
state budget system. . . . 2
St. Louis conference. ..506
sugar beet controversy

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.................... 26 418
sugar situation ........ 274
Torrens system ........ 58
world crop .of cereals. .606

Tiue vs. false economy. .606
Use the county agent ..... 538
War and busines ......... 220

Farm.
Acetylene gas plants, data
631

on ..................
Activities of Michigan farm-

ers .............. 28, 476

Alfalfa experience ....... 243
the great preparedness
crop 6
Alsike seed, growing, in

Michigan .......... 348
Applying the rural credit

act

Ashes, fe1t111z1ng value of. 715

Automobile, data on. . . . . .675
Bank co-operates with the

farmers ............. 243
Barley as a Michigan feed
crop .................

an emergency crop ..... 245

for northern Michigan. . 3

Barnyard manure, the eco-
nomic importance of. .441
Bean maggot, the ........ 696
Beet growers organize. 27
Boy champion potato grow:1 43

Can a man make a living
on forty acres ........ 244

Clearing and draining land
in southern Michigan. 123

Concrete granary floor, ex-
perience with ........ 389
how to build 3001.00.00.276

Disking before plowing. .
Don’t use diseased 0r frost-

manure

Crop and fertilizer ques-

tions—Acid
for oats, growing emmer
in Michigan,
with corn, seeding alfalfa
in corn, soy beans better
than peas, best way to

Cost of handling the farm
203

floor, 166; fertilizer for
beans, beans on the sod
ground, 206; fitting poor
field for alfalfa, eradicat-
ing Canada thistles, sub-
stitute for sawdust in
packing ice, fertilizei for
oats, 244; fertilizer for
corn and beans 275;
seeding alfalfa, beans on
sod ground, 276; grow-
ing barley on muck soil,
seeding sweet clover on
thin land, mixing ashes
with fertilizer, prepar-
ing the soil for alfalfa,
sowing sweet clover on
fall or spring-sown grain,
309; seeding clover in
wheat on sandy land,
growing beans on thin

phosphate land, hog pasture preced-
ing alfalfa, seeding
soy beans sandy soil to alfalfa,
349; when to apply

lime, seeding clover and
timothy without a nurse

apply fertilizer, 387; crop, treating seed peta-
planting beans after toes fOI‘ scab, seeding
beans, plowing sandy sweet clover. 389; apply-
loams, does fertilizer mg hen manure to pota-

lose its value by being
st01ed, fertilizer for
beans and potatoes, 509,

soy beans f01 hay, capa-
city of drain tile, 539, in-
oculating sweet clover
seed, using fertilizer as a
top-dressing for wheat,
beans in hill vs. drills,
seeding the winter- -killed
spots in wheat field to
other grains, corn after
beets, 540' acid phosp-
phate for beans, planting
soy beans, 584; buck-
wheat for muck land,
632; fertilizer for ensi-
lage corn, inoculating al-

falfa seed, applying acid .

phosphate, 633; time to
plant white beans, seed-
ing red clay land, sowing
cover crop in corn, the
Grimm variety of alfalfa,
676;
early

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Device for controlling the

cultivate the corn,
69

windmill ............. 173

beans, concrete granary

.507

toes, sweet clover as a
green manure crop, inoc‘
ulation and fertilizer for
soy beans, 420; seeding
sweet clover in wheat,
seeding alfalfa in winter
wheat, eradicating sand
burs, growing oats after
oats, 444; sweet clover
for poor sandy land,
treating seed oats for
smut, preparing for the
cloverseed crop, seeding
clover in rye used for
pasture, 476; poisonous
effects of sorghum, val-
ue of coal ashes as a fer-
tilizer, 477; corn or pota-
toes on thin land, vary-
ing the crop rotation,
508; planting beans on
thin land, methods of
sowing fertilizer, 563;
applying fertilizer broad-
cast or in the hill for
corn, seeding clover in
buckwheat, 583; seeding
alfalfa in corn, 608; po-
tato planting methods,
wireworms ............ 656

ed seed beans ........ 632 Fertilizer for corn and po- \
Economy in labor ........ 561 tztges """""""" 33%
Electric plants, data on. .163 Feligilizifis béé'n """""" 655
Emergency crops 7.15 Field stoges S """"" 388
Essentials to successful Fire protection """""" 125
bean culture ........ 417 Gas tractors, number of,
Exterminating weeds ....713 in commission on
Farm accounts fundamen- 91 farms 477
tal to farm efficiency. """""""""
Farmers’ institutes, the ob- Good 4720?;(18 in Michigan, 126
JGCt 0f -_ --------- ,- 1 - '310 Grain for the calf ......... 696
Farm machinery, Winter Granary weevil, eradicat-
care of .............. 23 ................... 275
Farm Notes —Concrete Grow buckwheat ......... 632
floors for granaries, poi- Growing maximum potato
soning the sparrows, 60; crops ............... 3
growing sweet clover for How much milk should an
seed, preparing for 3.1- acre of land yield” 57
falfa, a home- mixed fer- to manage a forty-acre
tilizer, preparing the soil farm ................ 350
for alfalfa, sawdust as a to properly tap maple
fert1lizer, .92; fertilizing trees ................ 241

, Hysteria and agriculture.. 609/

Immature potato not suit-
able for planting ....633

Improving grain crops. . ..475

Increased crop production
for 1917 .............

Kent county round-up of
boys and girls ........

Lillie Farmstead Notes—4, 60,
124, 276, 348, 444, 564, 584:
608, 656, 695, 716.

Lime, the need of ........ 308
Marquette county potato
club work . .......... 273

Mending leaky water pipe.44'4
Michigan bean jobbers’
meeting .............
.co-ops are active ...... 608
Michigan’s corn champion
....................... 5
junior bean growers. . ..307
Minimum and maximum
prices ...... 632
price, the .............. 608
Motor trucks, data on. . . .607
Oat crop, the ............ 387
Oats, the best kind of. . . .419
Plank frame barn, the mod-
6

ern .......
Plant corn ......... .632
Potato beetle destroyer. .475

pointers for the general
farmer .581
scab ............ .653
Practical farm book- -keep—
ing ....... . ....... . .385
Preparedness . . . ........ 507
'Prevent stock from eating
dead bodies. of clover-

leaf beetle ........... 716
Profitable forage crops for
hogs ................. 473
Proper fertilizers for grain
crops ...............
Protect the farmers’ friend
....................... 204
Remove the poor seed
handicap ............ 561
Road building, a pertinent
suggestion on ....... 507

in691\é[ichigan, 28, 308, 609,
Rural credits act, applying
the 28

“Safety first” with the lan-
tern ................. 164
Seed beans .............. 716
Seeding without plowing. .475
Should the boy leave the

farm ................ 245
Soil tillage, the effects of..347
Soy bean experience ...... 475

and ensilage- corn ...... 603
Spring grass seeding, the..419

wheat in Michigan ...... 203
Successful farm manage-

ment with clover ..... 305
Sugar sand .............. 310
Sweet corn for drying. . . ..676
Taking in a partner with-

out capital ...... ..389

The use of cement with old

pipe ........... . ..... 388
Tractors, data on. . ....... 59
on small farms. . . . . . .164
Tramp nuisance, the ...... 609
Unglazed land tile ........ 164
Use lime ................ 656
War measures on Michigan
farms ..‘ ........... . .
Water supply, the ........

What is- the matter with
(1)2312 country fairs, 123,

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Whimetrees that work as
an evener .......... 508

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 
 

   

  
   
  
 

   

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

  
   
  
 
  
 
 

    
     
 
 

 

 

 

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farm wagons ........445
wood-lot, conserving the 350
products, the marketing201
the, 51511113853215
managem ement
Horticulture.
A new insecticide for con-

trol of codlin moth” ”2%
‘Asparagus _c ture .......
Bean weevil 11Fll ............ 479
Belladonna, growing ..... 353
Blossoms on young trees. .677
Bridge grafting .......... 479
Buckwheat strawberry
mulch ............... 717
Cabbage maggot ......... 129
worms, controlling, 677, 717
Cauliflowers, the growing
of ' ................... 169
Cheaper insecticides ..... 717
Commercial gooseberry
culture ............ 29
Companion cropping ..... 313
Cucumbers do not cross
with melons ......... 546 '
Cutworms ............... 510
Early cabbage ........... 246
crops of turnips ........ 246
cucumbers ............. 210
Everbearing strawberries. 478
strawberry, the ........ 610
Fertilizing tomatoes ..... 634
For cabbage lice .......... 677
cutworms' and grubs. . . .717
Fruit growers’ problems
discussed ............
Garden queries ........ 353
reduces living expenses 391
Good care pays .......... 313
Grafting wax ............ 446

Guard the seed supply. . . . 94

Hay from sprayed orchard 717

Helping fruit growers and

, shippers ............. 169

Hen manure for garden
purposes

Hints from the Hort. meet— 30

..................

Hot-bed, the ............. 130
using the ............. 211
How to plant our trees. . . .391

Is San Jose scale disap-
pearing 2
Lime-sulphur freezing. . . . 421
Limiting factors in fruit

.............

production .......... 128
Liquid grafting wax ...... 546
M. A. C. Hort.’show, the. .247
Manure for onions ....... 479
Melon patch .............
Michigan State Vegetable

Growers' Assn .......
Modern thought in Horti-

culture ............ 170
New developments in

spraying ............ 588
Onion‘ maggot ........... 510
Orchard notes ............ 179

observations ........... 5
Overcoming off years in the

orchard ............. 510
Parsnips and oyster plant...168
Peach leaf curl, the ...... 353

pointers ............... 446
Planting apple seeds ...... 130
Protecting orchards from -

frost ................. 421
. young fruit trees ...... 130
Pruning brambles ........ 63

gooseberies and currents

‘ only remedy for the fire
bligh

t ............... 677
young trees, new meth-
od for ............... 246
Psylla, controlling ....... 312
Quality fruit from quality
trees ................
Raspberry cane blight and
acnose .........
curl or yellows ......... 30
Rose bugs, controlling. . .. 63
Scab on pears ............ 677
Sideworm, the ........... 697
Spraying currants ........ 697
equipment, the ........ 390
Souash bug. the .......... 677
State Hort. meeting ...... 139
vegetable growers’ c011-
vention ............. 62
Summer pruning ......... 717
Sweet corn ............. .478
The farmer’s garden. .....'345
fergiillity of the orchard1
garden acre ........... 136
small fruit garden ...... 564
spray nozzle .......... 447

Tree protector,a augo'od 39
Value of bud selection to

‘ fruit growers ........
Vegetablegr garden, the 541, 657
War and the fruit grower..634

= Winter meeting of state

fruit growers

. . .. .282, 314
Dairy. ‘

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cm for silage ....

06,34, 1-
the cowICUIO‘IWOIOO277
..566
silage, value 01......” 68

Cows and alfalfa ......... 423
Cow-testing assn’ s, objec-
tions to ............. 7
Dairy calf, the care of. .. .540
developing the ........ 320
calves, two plans offer-
ed for raising ........ 137
cattle improvement,
problems in ......... 612
feeds, how to buy ...... 452
Dairying on a business has-679
Dairlyman’s ideal, the. ..374

Dairymen prepare ....... 544
Dairy Problems—A good
ration now, a ration with
variety of feeds, most
economical way to feed
the corn crop, 8; what
grain to feed, how many
acres per cow, dairying
and hogs, 66; how large
a silo, corn meal and
Wheat bran, mouldy sil-
age, 97; what breed to
start with, what will
take the place of corn
and oats, bean pods for
cows, not sufficient pro-
tein, 136; injury to end
of cow’s teat, warm wa-
ter and frozen silage for
cows, can the percent-
age of butter-fat be
changed, 177; mustard
in the silo, a ration with—
out silage, how to feed
dried beet pulp, nothing
better than corn and
oats, delivering market
milk twice daily, 11 ra-
tion with barley and
eats, the proper ratio of
protein and carbohy-
drates, 217; a substitute
for milk for the young
calves, how much grain
to feed, a good ration,
250; bitter butter, ground
oats and wheat bran,
borrowing money to buy
cows, 278; buckwheat
for silage, soy beans and
corn for silage, the art
of milking, 321; will it
pay to buy feed, value of
corn silage, corn, oats
and dried brewers’ grain,
soiling crops, 375; how
to test milk for butter-
fat, butter won’t come,
best cottonseed meal,
price of milk for cheese-
making, how prevent a
heifer from jumping 395;
heavily cared silage
corn, lath and plastered
silo, how to determine
contents of silo in tons,
423; alfalfa meal, this
summer’s cow pasture,
451; plastering a tile silo
485; best ensilage corn,
peas vs. corn for feed,
peas and oats for soiling
crop, 515; planting soy
beans with ensilage corn,
sweet cornstalk silage,
cottage cheese too dry,
586; sweet clover for
hay, storing butter for
winter, a balanced ra-
tion for a cow, 635; peas
and oats, feeding cows
straw, a grain ration on
pasture, 660; the under-
ground silo, butter-fat vs

butter

Dairy utensils, care of. . . .

Every farmer should raise 86
5

a calf ...............
Feeding dairy cows for vi-
tality ............... 250
the cow ............... 136
Figuring on the cow ...... 68
Good care increases pro-
duction .............. 35
Heifer, the, and her first
calf ................. 374
Holstein breeders in ses-
sion ................. 514
meet .................. 278
Increase quality of milk
products ............. 361
Jersey men, meeting of. .176
Keeping butter .......... 689

Kicking cow can be cured.451
Looking to the dairy sire..514
Making improvement in
dairy stock ......... 422
Meeting of upper peninsu-
la dairymen ....... ..217’
Michigan dairymen meet. .256
dairy show, the ......... 27 78

‘ Milking machines, data on-
726

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Picking a good dairy cow. 585
Poor cows, culling out the. 394

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Stopping dairy losses ..... 135
The dairy cow and the
war . . . . ............. 698
man behind the cow. . . . 97
under the cow .......... 215
Things you should know
about cows .......... 71
To prevent cows from
jumping ............. 485
Value of home testing in
the dairy ............ 48
Warmth, the economy of. .375
Where the leak in the
dairy was found ...... 659
Winter dairying profitable175
Live Stock.
American Berkshire con—
gress ................ 318
Army horse requirements. 658
A true sheep story ....... 718
Azoturia ................ 448
Breeding ewes, ensilage for62
Brood mares, the ......... 567
sow situation, the ...... 658
the, in winter .......... 212
Brookwater Duroc sale. .359
Calf crop, the ............ 637
Calves, how to fed ........ 658
Colt’ 5 feet, care of the. .280
Community improvement
of live stock ......... 248
Contagious diseases, con-
trolling . . . . . .172, 213
Corn as a stock food ..... 285
Dog nuisance, the, how to
abate ................
Don’t sell breeding animals650
Draft horse production. .356
stallion, selecting the. .356

Elimination of waste in
hog feeding ......... 512
Fall pigs, at good profit
from 440
Farm horses, the ......... 424
Feeders’ Problems—A ra-
tion for growing pigs,
Palmo mids, 65; a ration
for fattening steers, ra-
tion for fattening hogs,
management of heifers
for beef, 171; a short
feed for lambs, fresh wa-
ter is best, 172; summer
pasture crops, ration for
growing colt, grains to
use with corn in feeding
steers, a grazing propo
sition, a catch crop with
rye, 249; ration for grow—
ing pigs, rape with oats
0r ba11,ey 281; feeding
pigs on pasture, soy
beans for hog pasture,
grain with skim— milk for
pigs, 310; summer feed-
ing of cattle, the feeding
value of millet seed,
359; spring pasture for
hogs, cottonseed meal
for hogs, 558; cottonseed
meal for pigs and horses,
crops for hog pasture, a
model hog pasture ...... 708
Fitting horse collars, care
of neck and shoulders. 69%

.................

Gentling the colt ......... 44
Give the brood sows good
care ................ 248
Hay, the price of ......... 392
Heavy or light horses. .513
Hidden live stock profits. .587

Horse buying, pointers 011.613

Horses for the army ..... 543
Live stock meeting, the, 6, 98,
134.
slighted in national cry
for bigger crops ...... 651
' prospects .............. 449
Michigan, colt show ....... 134

Hampshire swine breed—
ers organize ......... 214
More sheep for Michigan.718
Pertinent live stock hints.587

Pig feeding profitable on
high-priced grain . 64

Profitable pork production 16

Rape pasture for hogs. ..729

makinga ............... 318

Self- fed pigs are better. .513

Self-feeder, the. ........ 67 8

for pigs ............... 392
Sheep as a factor in farm

building ............. 424

' for upper Michigan” ..131

Shelter the brood sow. . . . 65

Shorthorn breeders’ sale,

the . .. .‘ ............. 134
Silage increased profit on

cattle ............... 543
Some lambs .............. 567
Supplemental feeds. ..393

The call for more sheep
and wool 673
Training the fractions colt 64

............

Tuberculosis of hogs ...... 214
Warm or cold water ...... 33
Western wool growers ask-

ing big hp ....... 357
Why draft horses should
be bred ..............

Young foals, diseases of. .480

Veteran

Abnormal appetite ”I .m 575
bortion 559

  

Atrophied foot . . . ........
Barren cow ......... 158, 238
mare ...... . ...... 471, 503
................... 57 5
Blind staggers ........... 118
Blocked quarter ......... 534
Bog spavin ..... 199, 238, 534
Bone spavin ........ 158,271
Breeding question... .667, 707
Brittle hoofs ............ 414
Bruised knee and foreleg. 54
Bunch on jaw ............ 238
Calf lacks appetite ........ 158
Canine distemper ....... 534
Capped hock ............ 199
Caprgigizous appetite, 54, 199,
. Choking ............ 118,271
Chronic collar gall ........ 1118
cough. .,118

198,238,415
grease heel ........... 75
indigestion 118, 343, 627, 707

lymphangitis ..........

navicular disease ...... 198

stocking ............... 343
Clinging afterbirth ...... 503
Clipping horses .......... 54
Collar gall .............. 651
Congestion of brain ....... 383
Constipation ............. 534

Contagious abortion. .383, 470
Cow coughs, also fails to

come in heat ..... 414, 415
failed to Clean properly.535 ,
fails to come in heat. . ..118
gives bloody milk. . . .535

Cows crave wood ......... 159-
Cracked heels ........... 383
Crooked knees ........... 198
Cystic ovarian trouble. . ..414
Dehorned cow ........... 559
Depraved appetite ...... 687
Diseased frog ........ 343, 438
Distemper ............... 687
Driving horse scours ..... 118
Dropsy .................. 159
Eczema ............ 238,667
Elbow tumor ........ 535,603
Enlarged gland .......... 238
knee .................. 575
shin ................... 414
Feeding and medical ques-
tion ......... -. ....... 502
Feline distemper . . . . .470
Fistula .............. 86,383
Food infection ........... 651
Foot soreness ........... 627
Founder ................. 470
Frozen teat . .,415 438, 534
Fungus growth on jaw. .470
Garget .......... 34 3, 535 687
Goitre ................... 55 9
Good dairy cow .......... 271
Grease heel .............. 302
Hard bunch on knee ..... 503
hoofs .................. 471
milking ~c0w ........... 159
Healthy horse perspires
freely ............... 271
Heaves ............. 535, 6133
Heavy coat .............
Heifers fail to come in
heat ................ 43
Hens eat eggs ............ 270
Herpes .................. 383
Hogs have worms ........ 471
Hole in side of teat. .,86 651

Horse perspires too freely 158
Imperfect udder ......... 502
Impure blood ............ 343
Incipient heaves ........ 118
Indigestion, 54, 86,118,199,
238, 271, 383, 414, 470, 471,
593,535,627, 651,687.

Infected udder. .,86 383,503
Inflamed joints .......... 159
1113111 ed back ............ 502
eye .................... 86
stifle .................. 158
Itch ................ 238, 603
Itchy ears ............... 158
Knee—sprung ............. 383
Knuckling .......... 158, 667
Leucorrhea ......... 392, 667
Lice on cattle ............ 54
Looseness of bowels ...... 414
Loss of appetite .......... 687
of vision .............. 199
Lumpjaw ................ 383
Mange .......... 118, 159, 199
Mare fails to come in heat.415
Mule-foot hogs ........... 535
Muscular cramp ......... 342
Nasal catarrh.. .,118 392, 470
Navicular disease ....... 118
Nervous heifer .......... 559
Nervousness ............. 302
Obstructed teat ...... 271, 342

Opacity of cornea, 118, 270,
342.
Open joint. .343, 415, 438, (2587

Out of condition ......... 38
Paralysis ................ 471
of tail ............... .3107
Parasitic mange ....... ,L .592
Partial dislocation of stifle5 5
................... , 7
loss of power ...... 158, 270
paralysis .............. 603
Partially paralyzed by

lightning ............ 342
Periodic ophthalmia, 343, 667

Pica. ..271, 362, 563, 535, 559
Pigs cough .......... 342, 415

have worms ........... 383
Piles .................... 86
Pinworms .:‘.' ............ 651
Polly hooks ............. 637

 

Remedy for grease heel.

Articularv rheumatism . . 72%

"'Ridgling colt .279

Rheumatism, 342, 414, 502.

534,707.
Ringworm ....... ........199
Rope burn ........... .383

Rough warty skin on low-
er part of udder and343

teats ................
Scirrhus com ............ 707
Scours in cattle .......... 415 -
Scratches ............... 383
Serous abscess ....... 470, 471
Shoulder lameness. . .198, 503
Shy breeder ........ 651, 667
Sidebone ............ 198, 199
Sitfast .................. 627
Sore eye ............ 302, 667
head .................. 118
month and throat ....... 198
neck .................. 414
tail ................... 502
throat ................. 535
Sound sleeper ........... 198
Sprained fetlock ......... 383
fetlock joints ......... 158
leg .................... 198
tendon ............ 502,559
Spring tonic ............ 415
- Stifle lameness .......... 667
trouble ................ 270
Stomach worms ......... 414
Stone in bladder ......... 503
Swollen shin ..... . ...... 302
Thoroughpin . . .......... 438
Thrush ........... . ..... 43-8
Tuberculosis .......... . .651
Tumor on eyelid. ........414
Unthiifty horse .......... 707
mare .................. 199
Uric acid calculi .......... 438
Vertigo .................. 383
Warbles ........ 503,559 667
Wart on car .............. 99
on teat ................ 470
Weak calf ............... 534
Weakness, 271, 302, 342, 438,
471.
Weak young pigs ........ 687
Windpuffs .......... 503, 535
Worms .......... 86, 158, 271
Wounded coronet ......... 199

Young pigs have thumps.627
Poultry and Bees.

Alfalfa valuable in the
poultry ration ....... 190
A method for determining
laying hens .......... 531
A schoolboy’s experience
with chickens ....... 2
A simple method of chick
feeding ........ 90
A ventilated coop........498
A wasted farm crop ...... 51
Beef scrap and ground
bone ............ . 1.15
Blue ointment ........... 22

Broiler chickens, raising. .335
Brooder, the 467
Careful wintering reduces
bee losses
Chicken hawk, the ........ 730
Clean water for chicks. . .530
Cold floor in cement coop.335
Comfortable living through

............

geese raising ........ 190
Conveniences for the poul-

try keeper .......... 605
Difficulty in hatching ..... 670
Disease preventive .......

Disinfecting schedule, 21.189

Do not kill the hen that
lays the golden egg. .530

Drinking fountain, a home-

made ................ 377
Ducks, spring care of ..... 334
the care of ............. 670
Early chicks ............. 121
season poultry work. . . .228
Economical egg produc-
tion ................. 266
Egg eating habit, the ..... 190
production, record of. .189
the cost of ............
Eggs for hatching ......... 267
Eight egg points ......... 411
Farm poultry house, a prac-
tical ................ 1
Feeding coal to the laying
hens ................ 149
goslings ............... 710
Feed milk in winter ...... 188
For hatching trouble ..... 710
Fowl cholera ............ 115

Frosted combs and vigor..467
5O

gathering in coop .......
'Geese, hatching ......... 467
raising ................ 114
Getting duck eggs in the
winter .............. 50
Good hatching, some essen—
tials of .............. 229
Goslings, care of ......... 730
how to raise .......... 498
Guineas, hatching and
rearing ............. 556
Handling the bees ........ 6901*
Hens losing feathers ..... 531
too fat ................ 624
Hints on raising chicks..499

Hopper feeding the young
chicks ............... 578
Increase honey production.730
poultry production . . . ..661

Increasing egg production

the winter egg produc-
tion
Keeping geese for profit. .2381
Keep poultry records ..... 148

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Let the boys keep bees. .531

Lice and mite trouble” .411
Limber-neck. .......... 151
Liver trouble ............ 51
Lossof feathers .......... 710 ‘-
March in the poultry yard334
Mating chickens . . . .' ..... 333
the farm flocks ........ 189
Mature pullets early ...... 530
Moving the small poultry
houses .............. 50

Overcoming the nuisance
of a dust bath
P00r housing conditions,

.......

the result of ......... 300
Poultry farm labor ........ 333
hints .................. 466
in small flocks ...... 51
house building hints... 578
items ................. 115
on the farm ............ 150
Practical feed hopper. . . . 266
Produce infertile eggs. . . . 556
Protecting chicks from
rats and weasels.. ..670
Ptomaine poisoning ...... 710
Raising chicks to maturity410
the chicks ............. 298
Rations for laying hens. . .149
Roup, the control of ...... 228
Solving the poultry feeding
problem ............. 499

Some essentials in success—
ful incubator manage-
ment ................ 121

Some turkey tips ......... 530

Sour milk for poultry, the

medicinal value of... .150
Spring bee notes ......... 377
care of bees ........... 578
management of chicks. .466
Sprouted oats, feeding. . ..151
Sprouting. oats .......... 114

Stimulate early brood rear-

ing .................. 411
Suggestions from poultry
experts .............. 436
Tuberculosis ............. 300
Turkeys have cough. . . . ..335
Wheat for poultry ........ 22
White diarrhea .......... 114
controlling ............ 230
Wyandotte, the ......... 624
Winter egg production,
feeding for ..........
Worms in fowls .......... 556
Young chicks, care of. . . .334
turkeys, the care of. . . .376
Farm Commerce.
Activities of Michigan
farmers ............. 705

A farmers’ co-operative
milk distributing asso-
ciation

A. help to the business
farmer

A new plan of marketing..192

standard barrel law. . . . 668

Benton Harbor’s market. .253

Cabbage growers combine . 360

Cold storage holdings of
apples April 1 516

..............

........

Consumers buy at this
market .............. 232

Co—operative activities in
Michigan ............ 542
canning ............... 483

live stock shipping asso-
ciation, a successful . .668

Cranberries and co-opera-
tion ................. 432

Developing the co-opera—
tive service ......... 52
Extending co-operation . ..453

Farm scales, about the. ...336
sign board, the ........ 152

Government marketing . . .636

Grimm alfalfa seed produc-

e1s’ co- operate ....... 336
Holdings of apples, Jan. 1,

19 917 ................. 9
How to buy dairy feed. 452
Influence of the severe win-

ter upon world crops.398
Live stock shipping asso-

ciations multiplying. .337
Margin in marketing but-

ter .................. 482
Marketing broilers for prof-
it ................... 516
cost reduced .......... 611
dairy products ......... 79
eggs ............. 433, 728
of cucumbeis .......... 17
Michigan association of

creameries .......... 295
farmers co-operate, 337,398
Michigan’s apple standards

....................... 688
bean crop ............. 16
Milk producers’ association
grows ............... 482
unite .................. 337
Notice to shippers of shell-
ed corn .............
Observations on market-
fruit ................ 336
Organization, the import
ance of .............. .52
Parcel post service, improv—
ing the .............. 5
Patriotic advantages in or—
ganization ........... 542
Placeoorders for food con-
tainers at once ....... 728

Proposed “Co-op” law. . . ..294
[Ruling as to standard con-

 

Leg weakness . . . 1333, 624 ':

value cf ............. 705
Seed corn needed ........ 111
Selling butter by brand. . .576
Ship perishables carefully. 728
Single standard fruit pack-

ing law asked for. . . ..360
Slips between producer

and consumer ....... 396
Stock of potatoes Jan. 1. ..153

Some municipal marketing
problems ............ 110
Studying express rates. . .252
Successful wool associa-
tions 688
Sugar beetsituation, the. . 433
Suggests variation in par-

cel post ............. 78
The dairymen’s debt ...... 78
To get a square deal ..... 336
Value of Michigan crops

for 1916 ............. 16

War;3 Speace and food pric-
Wheat standards ..........
With the Michigan co-op-

erators .............. 193
Your neighbors as custom-
ers .................. 153
Magazine Section.
A courageous cannoneer. .701
A fair for boys and girls. .219

A great power is~liberated.102

Agriculture prominent in
list of Alaska’s great
resources 4

An added chapter to the
history of the United

States ............... 492 1
A novel parachute ........ 400
A pioneer circuit rider. . ..285

A well-balanced personal-

ity ................... 363
Beside the culvert arch. . .639
Better bird protection. . . .429

Boys’ and girls home gar-
den clubs 66
Contraband, 488, 520, 548, 570,

...........

592, 616, 641, 662, 682, 702,
722.
Determining the power of
streams ............. 65
Energy intelligently direct—
ed ........... ' ....... 323
European co—operative agri-
culture in Ireland. . .. 9
applying to America. . . . 59
Evolution of the motor car

....................... 260
Gramp’s Decoration Day. .615
Homes for our feathered

friends .............. ‘99
How the trapper outwits
the cautious mink... .101
Influence of pets on chil—
dren ................ 324
In memorium ........... 640
Keeping ants from the-
home ................ 681

LandOO’ Nod Stories, 38, 73,

Little farm fables ........ 364
Making farmers out of
miners ..............255

“Mister 44”—11, 38, 71, 103,
140, 180, 220, 256, 287, 324,

366, 426, 458.
Our early spring arrivals. .364
Putting backbone into
Asaph ............... 569
Rosa Bonheur, the animal
painter .............. 547

Rural community uplift.. 69
Social regeneration vs.
farm help ............ 455
The Adventures of Azota
Bacter . . .139, 184,
meadowlark
pacification of. Mr. Tate.721
passing of Toad Hollow.456
soldiers’ memory day. . .
wings of Icarus ........ 425

Wintergreen man ...... 400
Trails in Michigan. . . . . . 179
Trapping Mr. Reynard. . . 364

the skunk ............. 324
Who wins ............... 400
Why we keep Mothers.

Day ................. 591
Winter birds on the farm. 37
Working for life, some

ways of doing it,

The teacher’s way ...... 106

lawyer’s way .......... 144

doctor’s way ........... 184

minister’s way .1 ........ 222

mechanic’s way ........ 260

farmer’s way .......... 290

POETRY.
A gift in time of i11ness..570
An Easter fable .......... 456
A question of right ....... 364
A tribute to mothers ...... 595
A valentine ............. 183
Dandelions on the hill. . . .364
Easter day .............. 456

morning ............... 426
Jack dog ................ 70
Let’s play fair ............ 70
Make-believe land ....... 286
Plowing time ............ 487
Revelation .............. 683
Saint Valentine’s Day. . . .183
Snaps ................... 364
The band ................ 38

bells ................. 548

brave little malt} ,. ...... 38

chick-a-dees ........... 426

Easter gift ............ 460

., tainers 728
—Scales on the farm, the '

   

farmer’ s .. response to
President Wilson’s call
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To the living flag ........ >519 ’
Winter light ............ 107
Household.
A deleted word. .......... 724

Advance fashion notes. . . .370
A mistaken sense of humor

......... ..............430
Baby week .............. 225
Bacon, curing and smoking

....................... 185
Bacteria, our unseen

friends and foes ...620
Banana, the popular ...... 461

Boys and domestic science.406
Burn it .................. 330
Butchering day, the left-494

overs of .............
Canning berries .......... 724

greens, rhubarb and pine-
apple ................ 84
various methods of ...... 644
Cellar, cleaning the ...... 462
Cleaning- aluminum , ...... 108

Club work in Mecosta 00.226
Complexion, the, caring for621
Coh'céihifié' 'g'o'o'a' 111511115134329
Conveniences for the farm

home ............... 146
Cooking the spoils of the

hunt ................ 76
Corn meal bread .......... 553

Couch cover, a substantial.187
Crochet edge for center-3

piece ................ 28
Curing sulkineSS ........ 704
Doing our bit ............ 596
Domestic science in rural

schools ........... , 44
Do you think?.._ ......... 370

Edible ornamental plant-
ing 573
Eggs, preserving, by water-
glass or limestone. . . .597
the place of, in the diet.462
Embroidered guest towel. .262
Fashions—15, 45, 147, 187, 227,
263, 293, 373, 407, 495, 525,
663, 702.
Feeding the growing child
during the second year
....................... 597
Floor coverings, the care
of ................... 146
Fried br,ead digestible” .524
Getting ready for Monday.224
Home economics and the
rural teacher
Home Queries—~14, 147, 185,
225, 293, 372, 406, 495, 553,

..................

572.
Hot lunches in the rural
school ............... 462
Household hints ......... 330
rubber goods, care of. . .373

How Michigan women will
organize 6

Ideal farm house kitchen..372

Infantile paralysis, precau-

tions against ........ 645
Is the modern woman an

improvement ........ 524
Javelle water ............ 147
Keeping corn meal ....... 331
Kitchen sink, the ......... 292
Lace and insertion ....... 621
Laying the table ......... 186
Letter4box—371, 430, 621,655,

70

Let the children be happy. 494
Making time

............

Marrying a farmer ....... 462
Nursing as a profession. .664
On the folly of envy ...... 108
Plan for success .......... 261
Poison ivy, simple anti-,
dotes for ............ 52
Pond lily lace ............ 108
Post—Christmas reflections 75
Potato days ............. 684
Potatoeless meals ....... 526
Preparedness for spring
sewing ..............
Preserving meat ......... 291

Recipes—Grape wine, gra-
ham bread, 14; banana
Shortcake, creamed
chicken, pumpkin pan-
cakes, graham griddle
cakes, maple sugar
fudge, 75; apple sauce
cake, white cake with-
out eggs, eggless cake,
doughnuts without eggs,
146; dough cakes, 147;
canning meat, curing and
smoking bacon, 185; egg-

less cakes, 225; baked
hominy, honey cake,
227; preserving meat,

372; tomato catsup like
we buy, canning beef,
495; banana croquettes..525
Refrigerator, an iceless. . .596
Rhubarb tops, poisoning
from
Rickrack and crochet edg-
ing ................. 572
Salt as a germicide ...... 406
Sandwich fillings for the
school dinner pail. . . .430
School social club ........ 45
Shortcuts to Housekeeping
109,293, 526,597.
Shun profane and vain
babblings ............ 629

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Some chicken dinners. . .

Soy beans ............... 57 73
Stains, to remove ........ 462-
Shocess or service. .572

Syrup for table use from
beets made at home. .703
The A. B. C.’s cf the school
lunch ‘ 7
dinner proper .......... 330
Friday night committee . 108
new corset is decidedly6

...............

low .................
new range is a labor-sav-

er ................ '. . .331
only unpaid wage earner “
....................... 145
opening courses ....... 224
real farm partnership. . . 261

silver-fish or bristle-tail . 371

truth at all times ....... 328

“ ’Twas him”
Unique centerpiece in loop

stitch embroidery . . . .553
Using surplus stored vege-

etables .............. 431
Wall paper; repairing. . . .495
Washing lace curtains. .371

Weakr nerves or bad temp-4
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empty 145

“Wherep are the nine?”. . .185
Where pride is desirable. .461
Where silence is impera-
tive ................. 2
Wild greens and salads. ..645

Window shades, the care
406

Grange.
A model Grange report. . .340
Among the live Granges—
301, 340, 380, 437, 468, 532,

600, 669, 685.
Annual two-day meeting of
Hillsdale Grange . . . .156
A successful “home—com-
ing” ................ 709
Big meeting at Hart ...... 380
Building the home by co-
operation ....... 557, 577
Crops listed in the Grange
roster ............... 301

Early history of Grange. . .412
Golden jubilee of national

‘ Grange ..............
Granges organized and re—
organized ........ 53, 532
Kent Pomona has fine
meeting ............. 500
Make “Y” contributions
and buy Liberty Bonds 25
....................... 7

Meeting of State Grange. . 21
Newaygo Pomona meeting
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Result of Grange influence
380

.......................

Some essentials of Grange

growth ...... 156, 191, 237
The annual Hesperia meet-

ing .................. 268
Grange and public opin-

ion .................. 11

the market problem. . . .5132
importance of Grange

meetings. . .625, 649

New Year and our Grang~
es ..................
Work of the National
Grange . . .— ...........
Farmers’ Clubs.
Be a true patriot ........ 533
Benefits of the state asso-
ciation. .269, 301, 341, 413
Club Discussions—~21, 117, 157,
237, 269, 341, 381, 413, 437,
469, 500, 533, 557, 577,600,
625,649, 669, 685, 709,725.
County agent work. .,196 236
Farmers’ Club projects. .413
Ladies organize for food

preparedness . . . ..685
Mother’s love ............ 669
Motto—cards for the school-

room ................
Naming the farm ......... 381

Serving at Farmers’ Clubs 52
Short-time loans and the

Torrens system .,5. . . .381
The Farmers’ Club can
help ................. 557

What the local Clubs are
doing ..... 52, 84,117, 157

Yearly programs ......... 81
ll‘iustrations.
Alaska scenes ........... 460
Alfalfa hay on farm of O.
. Gunn ............. 165
plant, a thrifty ......... 693
Apple orchard ........... 129
Asparagus bed ........... 610
Auto used as truck ....... 110
Barn plans .............. 655
Barns of J. D. Leland ..... 581
of O. H. Lloyd ......... 475
Bidwell Stock Farm. 2.13
Barnyard scenes .. . . . .441
Basement barn of O. M.
York ................ 349
Bean field ............... 417
Bird houses ............. 404
Black Dorking male ...... 670
Bond, C. E. cup winner. .243
Boys in bathing .......... 332
Bridge grafting .......... 479
Burdock, large .......... 203
Cemente block poultry

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Chicken-hawk :traps.'.

Chickens feeding ..... 121, 235

Chicken yards .......
Chicks on free range. . .410
Colony house on skids. . . 50
Co-operative elevator at

Chesaning . ~. . . . . . . . ..‘688
(Jo-operative milk distribut-
ing plant receiving
platform ‘. : ...........
Crochet design for center'-
piece ................ 328
Cultivation by team and '
tractor ............... 505
Cut- -0ver brush land. .713

Delivering fruit at factory. 19 '

Dorothy Pawloski ........ 30
Dutch- belted cattle . . .135
Egg candler ............. 294
Elaborate coops not neces-
sary ................ 1
Electric iron in farm home. 644
washing machine ...... 364
Farm map 91
scenes ................. 385
of A. B. Cook .......... 67 3

Feed hopper for fifty hens. 267
Fertilizer, showing advan-

tage of ............... 537
FIOyd W. Bergey ...... '..507
Forest reserve scenes. .332
Four chicks ............. 298
Gardens, boys’ club ....... 662
Garden scenes ........... 345
Girl feeding chicks. . . . . .. .150
Gooseberries as filler in or-

chards ............... 29

Gooseberry bush before

and after pruning. .446'
Harvesting winter barley
at M. A. C ...........
Hogs on pasture ......... 473
Holstein calf sold for $53, -
200 ................. 719
cattle, well- bred ........ 35
Horses owned by Edward

Davis ............... 5
suitable for cavalry use. .543
Hot- bed, cross section of. .211

Iceless refrigerator ...... 597
Ireland farm scene ....... 10
Irish co- operative creamery
plant ................ 29
Jersey bull ........... . . .320
a tame ................ 277
cow ................... 215 '

parade at Columbus. . . . 67
Kitchen sink ............ 292
Lace and insertion ....... .621
Land clearing scenes. . . ..123
Lansing municipal market. 232
Leghorn chickens in laying

house ............... 333
Litter of pigs, H. V. Sober 33
Local fair scene ......... 70
M. A. C. Hort. show ...... 247
Mecosta county fair, ex-

hibit at ............. 226

Milk delivery in Ireland. . . 46
Northern Michigan potato
club 4
scenes
Oat crop, of J. N. McBride. 387
Orchard scene 93

..........

Overhead irrigation sys-
tem ................. 63
Outing suit ............. 524
Peach orchard .......... 634
tree ................... 168
Pear buds .............. 312
Pond-lily lace design ..... 108
Potato, a scabby ......... 653
beetle destroyer ..' ..... 475
club workers, Marquette
county .............. 73
Potatoes grown by school
boy ................. 256
Poultry- house, some con-
veniences ....... 605, 624
interior of a practical“ 1

show at Madison Square 82
Practical poultry house...188
Prize winners in Huron

county bean contest. .307
Pruning young trees, meth-

ods of .............. 246
Pushball ................ .1051
Quincy live stock associa-

tion/ views ........... 668
Rabbit hunters .......... 144
Raspberry and blackberry. 564
Reforestation scenes ..... 305
Rickrack edging ........ 572
Santiago scenes .......... 492
Seed germinator ........ 562
Self-feeder .............. 678i
Sheep on farm of A. K.

Barnes .............. 132
Spraying orchard ........ 208
Summer-cut hardwood . . .203,

dress .................. 462’
school classes ......... 186-
suit ................... 664
Syrup buckets in maple
. sugar bush ...... 241, 243'
Towel with crocheted ends
....................... 262'
Turkey hen ......... ' . . . .530
Twin Holstein calves and

mother .............. 48
Walter Cracker, 1916 gar-

den champion ....... 662.
Weedy field ............. 713-
Winter birds ............

carnival ................ 140
Wixom fair, exhibits at... .57'
Woodlot scenes ...... 25, 201

unpastured ............
World’s champion cow. . . .137'
junior £0ur-year-old.. . . .718-

   
 

    
    
  

  
  
  

   
       
   
  

       
  
  
  

    
 

 

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