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CURRENT COMMENT.





That the prob-





lems confront-

ing t h e United

States food ad-

ministration are not only many, but ex—

ceedingly complex and difficult of .solu-

tion is a fact appreciated by every per-

son who has given the subject more

than passing thought. That these

problems are being approached by

Food Administrator Hoover with a

view to their solution in such a man-

ner as will conserve the best interests

of the country is apparent to those

who have followed the progress of ad-

ministration work during the brief pe-

riod since the passage of the food con-

trol law.



The food administrator’s apprecia-

tion of the producers’ problem and'the

necessity of its proper recognition in

administrative work was clearly re-

vealed in his talk to farm paper edi-

tors and publishers at the conference

called in Chicago on August 25. If the

farmers of the country will but pos-

sess a like appreciation of the prob-

lems involving food administration for

the country in the present emergency,

and the necessity of conserving the in-

terests of the consuming public, unjust

criticism may be avoided in a most do-

sirable manner. Constructive criticism

is always welcome and we believe will

receive every consideration which it

may merit in food administrative





Food Administration

Problems.





' circles.





The absolute elimination of the spec-

ulator in the handling of wheat and its

products, and the practical elimination

of speculative operations in other im-

portant staples will unquestionably

prove of great advantage to the coun-

try in the present emergency. The ma-

chinery which has been created for

this purpose will undoubtedly prove ef-

fective in stabilizing the wheat market

at the price named by the representa-

tive price-fixing committee, the person-

'nel of which was given in the last is-

sue. 'The administrative aids in other

lines, while not so direct or pronounc-

ed as will be the case with the market-

ing and distribution of the Wheat crop,

will undoubtedly be most helpful in the

stabilizing of prices, equalization of dis-

ifibution and the stimulation of con-





   





   

 





economic benefit to consumers as well

as producers. I ’ .

All duestions of Michigan Farmer

readers relating to this new govern-

ment activity, will be gladly answered

either from information placed on file

at this oflice by the food administra-

tion, or by direct reference of such

questions to the food administration

office at Washington if this-course is

required. .

A large section of the

The Dairymen’s dairymen of Michi-

Problem. gan were represented

at the delegate meet-

ing called by the Michigan Milk Pro-

ducers’ Association at M. A. C. on

Tuesday, August 21. The main pur-

pose of this meeting was to consider

the problems surrounding the dairy in-

dustry, particularly in the condensary

districts of the state, where no milk

contracts are in force and prices are

made on a month to month basis.





This meeting was one of the largest

and most enthusiastic ever held in this

state.

Building in which the meeting was first

called was wholly inadequate, and the

meeting was adjourned to the College

armory to afford room for the many

hundreds of delegates present.





After a discussion of the problems

involved, a committee was appointed

to determine upon a price figure which

the delegate members would consider

reasonable and compensatory for their

milk under present conditions. After

careful consideration this committee

reported, that basing the cost of pro-

ducing milk in Michigan on the most

reliable data obtainable, the indicated

cost of production was $2.64 per cwt.

Adding to this ten per cent as a rea-

sonable profit, producers should get an

average price of $2.90 per cwt. Tak-

ing the present and near future into

consideration the committee said the

price should be $2.75 for September

milk and $3.00 for October milk, de-

livered at condensaries, and temper

cent more for city market milk.



By a coincidence, at the same time

this meeting was in progress, a hear-

ing was being held at the office of the

Food Administration in Washington

with regard to the status of the dairy

industry of the country. What action

may be finally taken by the Food Ad-

ministration is not apparent at this

time, but President Campbell of the

National Milk Producers’ Association,

wired Secretary Reed of the Michigan

Milk Producers’ Association to the ef-

fect that a compensatory price was

practically assured.



In the meantime the committee ap—

pointed at the suggestion of Secretary

Reed of the Michigan Milk Producers’

Association to make an investigation

of the conditions surrounding the dairy

industry of the state and report on the

same are contemplating a rather com-

plete survey and report on the status

of the dairy industry, in accordance

with the following resolution which

was adopted at their initial meeting

held on August 14:





“Whereas, We believe that the av-

erage prevailing price which the dairy

farmers of Michigan have received for

their product during the present sea-

son ,has been less than the cost of pro-

duction, whether sold as market milk

or for the manufacture of condensed

milk, butter or cheese, and



“Whereas, the general realization of

this fact by producers is causing a de-

plorable sacrifice of dairy cows which

are indispensable to the welfare of the

country in the present emergency, and



“Whereas, we believe that dairymen

are entitled to a price which Will equal

the cost of production, plus a reason-

able profit, therefore, '



“Resolved, that this commission im-

mediately undertake a comprehensive

survey of the dairy situation, with spe-

cial reference to the cost of production

on the dairy farms of this. state, as a

basis for a more equitable valuation of

dairy products by producers, distribu

tors and consumers.”





With these various agencies working

toward a solution of the problem of

saving the dairy- cows of Michigan for

future service in this period of emer-





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The room in the Agricultural'





gency, there is every-‘likelihood'that creamer? is 011810 suffer during these





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business to meet the needs of the situ-

ation in an. amicable 'ma‘nner.

dairy farmers of the state must haVe

a higher price for their product than

they have heretofore obtained, else

they will quit the business of milk pro-

duction in large numbers, a tendency

which must be avoided if possible. An

amicable solution of the problem is

greatly to be desired and will not

prove difficult if the problems involved

are approached in the spirit of fair-

ness by every interest involved.





Every farmer in

can on us at the Michigan who can

State Fair. ' possibly arrange to

do so will find it

to his advantage to attend the Michi-

gan State Fair some time between

August 31 and September 9. The edu-

cational‘ and entertainment features of

this year’s State Fair promise to be of

a most superior character. Every mem-

ber of the family will be benefited by

a trip to the State Fair.

While at the State Fair call at the

Michigan Farmer bfiilding or booth.

Our representative will welcome you.





On another page

of this issue ap-

pears an article

touching u p o n

the competition for milk by local

creameries and condensaries in which

the position is taken that the farmer

ought for the sake of perpetuating the

local institution, to patronize it in pref-

erence to the newly built condensary.



It is not our desire to question the

conclusion arrived at by the writer of

this article, although many producers

would likely take exception to it, but

merely to draw attention to the fact

that American producers owe some-

thing in the way of supplying food to

the men that are, and will be, fighting

in the trenches of Europe and on the

high seas for the principles of demo‘

cracy. Condensed milk seems to be a

necessary article in the commissary

department of the modern army organ-

ization. It is also a food in great need

by those unfortunate people who hap-

pened to live in lands that are 'now ov-

errun by armies or cut off from their

regular source of supplies by block-

ades and embargoes. To these people

and to the soldiers it is a matter of

rather extreme necessity to have this

article of food. Where is the supply

-coming from? Certainly the immediate

necessity will not warrant the waiting

for new or enlarged herds of dairy cat-





The Local

Creamery Problem.





tle to supply the raw milk out ,of'





which the condensed product is manu-

factured. The milk supply must come

from the already established dairy dis.

tricts of this and other countries. In

many of these places the condensaries

established may have only a. tempor-

ary use; but allowing this does not dis-

prove their present need nor answer

for our obligation to our soldiers.





It would seem that, under our pres-

ent method of selling milk from the

farm that the law of competition

should aid the farmer in deciding just

how he will dispose of his product. If

the condensary can give him more for

his milk than the creamery it would

seem to be clear that the world’s need

for condensary products is greater

than its need of butter. When milk

has been diverted to the manufactur-

ing of other dairy products for some

time then the price of butter will ad-

vance to a. point where the creamery

can successfully compete With other

lines for the raw material.

price-motive is added the duty we owe

our soldiers and the unfortunate peo-

ples in war-stricken Europe, our

course should be plain. To be sure,

it is discouraging to see the work of

years in building up a successful

creamery apparently go for naught, but

war is a business that disturbs every

phase of our industrial life—some in-

dustries are demoralized by it while

others are made prosperous and if the





large buyer's ' pi ‘dmilk' tin“ talus their: ‘ .





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upon the men who supply the Ameri- ' A;





can people with butter to rebuild the

business after peace has been declar-

ed. However, we are confident that

through competition these matters will

be adjusted so as to render the least

injury to all phases of a great dairy

industry and at the same time help

us to do “our bit”’for the boys who

go to the front to fight again for the

cause of liberty. .





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





Foreign.





The European Wan—The Italians

are continuing their drive on the Aus«

trian frontier. While the Austrians are

resisting stubbornly, they have been

obliged. to give way steadily before the

advancmg columns. Large bodies of

troops have been isolated from the

main d1v1sions through the destruction

of large storehouses by Italian airmen.

The total losses of Austrians from all

causes durmg this drive are reckoned

at around 100,000 men. The largeSt

losses have occurred in the Carso re-

glen—On the western front both the

French and English troops have made

important gains during the past week.

Particularly along the river Meuse

have the French pushed forward the





battle line and made for themselves





additional space for manoeuvering.

They have taken possession of Hill No.

304 and of Fosses and Beaumont

Woods, which brings them to the out-

slrirts of the village of Beaumont. The

British have taken strong positions

north of St. Quentin. Canadian troops

have also improved their lines about

Lens, which is being so stubbornly de-

fended by Germans.—Reporters from

Russia insist that the Teutons are

massing large bodies of troops and

great stores of ammunition for an ap-

parent drive upon Riga. According to

a Berlin report, German tr00ps have

already reached the river Aa. In Rou-

mania the Russian and Roumanian

troops have stiffened their battle line

to a degree which has prevented any

further gains by the enemy, attacks de-

livered at several points having been

checked and in some instances the in-

vaders have been compelled to make

retreats.



A Russian national conference is as-

sembled at Moscow this week to con-

sider the present political situation of

the country and to lay plans for a new

national government. In the address

of Premier Kerensky, he declared that

any attempt to take advantage of the

conference for‘an attack upon the pow-

er of the provisional government would

be violently repressed because of the

mortal danger that the nation is now

facing. '





It has been announced by the Dutch ‘





press that Germany now proposes

through the new government under

Chancellor Michaelis to transform Al—

sace Lorraine into an independent fed-

eral state. "



Count von Bernstori‘f, former Ger-

man ambassador to the United States,

has been selected as the German am-

bassador to Constantinople.





National.





Last Thursday it became necessary

to institute martial law at Houston

Texas, following the killing of seven-

teen persons during a raid on the city

by negro soldiers of the twenty-fourth

infantry. While quiet has been restor-

ed, and the order for martial law re-

scided, the residents of Houston have

appealed to Washington to keep negro

soldiers away from the local canton-

ment.



The movement of recruits has been

greatly simplified by a new war order

changing the method and the time for

sending selective army men to camps.

Instead of moving these troops in

large bodies, they are, under the new

order, to go forward in allotments of

600 men. This change will not only

aid the local military boards, but will

simplify the transportation problem

and also the making of preparations at

camps for receiving the new recruits.



Through the co-operation of shippers

in using available freight car space the

service of the country by the railroads

has been increased by 120,000 extra

carloads through the month of: July.





After a review of the reports of local





military boards, it has been estimated

by army officers that fully ninety per

cent of the men passed for service as

physically fit would be accepted for

examination at mobilization camps by

army surgeons. ‘ _

Food stocks held in retail stores of

cities and rural districts of’forty-three

counties in various parts of the coun-

try will be inventoried August .31 .by

the Bureau of ‘Markets *to furnish. a

basis for an estimate" (it the amount or

food products in the hands’of the retail





 

 





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* ' By I. J. MATHEWS.





ed by putting corn into the silo are



sufficient to feed eighty soldiers

for a month. This is reckoned on the

silo of ordinary size, say twelve feet

in diameter and twenty-eight feet high.

It, therefore follows that he who fills

a silo of the ordinary size is as great

as eighty swords on duty‘for a month,

for we are just commencing to realize

the truth of Napoleon’s historic state-

ment that “soldiers fight on their

bellies.” .



As soon as we commence to talk

about silos, there are Some who imme-

diately ask which silo is best, refer-

ring, of course, to the material of





IT is claimed that the nutrients sav-





. which the cylinder is constructed. This





question may be dismissed very brief-

ly by saying that the material of which

the silo is constructed has nothing

whatever to do with the quality of the

silage that may result. As a matter of

history, the old Romans secured a very

palatable silage by digging holes in

the earth and then filling these holes

with green grass, beet tops and other

similar vegetables. Then some of the

old war horses were put in on top of

this mass of green stuff and the slaves

kept them constantly going. In this

manner, 'these old silos were packed

and the silage was thus made airtight.



We have silos made of wood, bricks,

stones, cement, tile and even metal.

All of them give good satisfaction if

they are constructed correctly. Any

silo will be suflicient to secure a good

quality of feed if it is absolutely air-

tight. Some wooden silos are-a failure

because the owner does not tighten

the hoops regularly. Brick silos are

pronounced useless sometimes because

the mason did not mix his binding ma-

terial properly and close all interstices.

Cement silos occasionally give a poor

feeding silage because the cement,

sand and gravel was not mixed in the

right proportions. Whatever kind is

used a strenuous effort should be

made to have the construction such

that the building is airtight. As a

matter of fact, the silo is the cheapest

houser of'roughage that can be built.



A beef man recently said to me: “If

I needed a barn and a silo at the same

time, I would build the silo first.”

When queried as to the reason for

such a statement, he claimed that if

stock had enough nourishing food to

eat, they could get along with rather

poor shelter, but that no amount of

shelter could make up for a deficiency

of food. There is probably a great





. deal of truth in this statement.





Time to Cut Corn.



It seems to be quite generally con-

ceded among successful dairymen,

beefmen and sheepmen that the prop-

er time to cut corn intended for en-

siloing is at the same time it should be

out if it is allowed to remain in the

shock. In the early history of the silo





‘it was recommended to cut the corn





somewhat greener, or when it was in

the dough. This often resulted in a

green, succulent feed that contained

considerable acid and this had a laxa-

tive effect upon the animals. This very

fact made it undesirable, for just as

soon as an animal is physiced, the

food is rushed thrugh the digestive

tract so fast that the nutrients can-

not be taken from it and the feed is

therefore wasted.



The old idea seemed to be that the

corn should be cut at the right time so





' that it would contain sufficient mois-





ture to pack tightly and none other

would need to be added. We are cer-





tain now that by leaving the corn until

a little later, there is a great increase

. and transformation of the food nutri-

' ents and that in order to get the water.





in the silo; it is much better to have





_ .3} stream of water playing directly into

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, this cennec‘tion, there





‘ uestien as to whether:





the corn. should be allowed to wilt be-

tween the time it is cut and when it

is put into the silo. The theory is of-

ten advanced that some chemical de-

terioration is experienced through the

wilting. This does not seem to be

borne out by fact and there seems to

be no valid objection to the cornstalks

wilting somewhat. Of course, they are

a little more difficult to handle and

don’t feed quite as nicely into the cut-

ter when wilted but their food value is

just the same. The corn to be put

into the silo is preferably cut the day

before filling, or possibly the corn

binder is kept going while the filling

is in progress. If the corn is cut by

hand, scarcity of help may make it im-

perative that this job he done before-

hand. Those who find this true, need

not feel that they are losing any of the

nutrients contained in the corn.

Arrangements for Filling.



Boys in training camps being groom-

ed for service cannot be helping to

fill silos, as many of them have been

accustomed to do heretofore. It will

be necessary this year, more than ever

before, to so arrange things that the

greatest economy of human labor will

be possible.



The cutter should be gone over





 

 





' ‘ ing all the time and the load is'thrown





off easier for the same reason. The





bundles of corn ought to be loaded





with the‘ butts all one way since this

is the way they are fed into the

cutter. ‘



The person who feeds an ensilage

cutter should, by no means, be a boy.

This is a man’s size job. I believe it

is pretty generally conceded that the

bundles should go into the cutter butts

first. They are often a little difficult

to start this way but when once start-

ed, the leaves feed in without catching.

The man who is unloading should

watch the bundle as it goes into the

cutter and the butt of the bundle he

throws off should strike the bundle go-

ing into the cutter about a foot above

the band. With bundles cut in the

regular way, this spacing reduces the

amount of effort necessary to get the

bundle butts between the‘ rollers.



One word of caution should be ut—

tered to all who are unloading. Many

accidents are caused not by the feeder

but by the one who is unloading. ' Be

careful not to throw the bundles onto

the feeder. Give him as much freedom

as possible.



’ Closing the Silo.



If possible, the silo shouldbe com-

pletely filled atone setting for I have

noticed that where two or three days

elapse before the job is completed,

there is a great difference in the qual-

ity of the silage for two or three feet.





 





 





Utilizing the Farm Tractor in the

thoroughly every morning and noon to

see that there are no loose nuts. The

blades ought to be not less than nine-

ty-five per cent sharp any of the time

so that the corn can go through as

rapidly as possible and so that all the

power of the engine will be available

to cut corn and none of it used for

grinding corn.



The silo should, by all means, be

cleaned out and doors placed conven-

iently so that 'no hitch be necessary

while filling is in progress. A single

weak cog in the wheel of filling cuts

down the efficiency of all who are help-

ing. The number of teams ought to

be in nice balance to the length of

haul, and if both short and long hauls

are necessary the hauls should be defi-

nitely planned so that there is not a

superabundance of corn when the corn

is,coming from nearby and a great

dearth of it when all are hauling from

the farthest point in the field. It must

be remembered that the most efficient

use of the packers and the men inside

the silo is made when the machine is

running to its capacity all of the time.



Very often boys are worked in to

haul during silo filling. It is a wise

thing, many times, to give them in-

structions before they begin concern-

ing the way their loads should be put

on. I find it most convenient to load

my wagon from the front end rather

than trying to load the rack evenly.

This arrangement makes it somewhat

easier to land since there is solid foot-





   





 





 





 





Conservation of the Corn Crop.

While filling it is imperative that

there be enough men inside the struc-

ture so that the silage will be tramped

solidly. Silage is to the cow what

sauer kraut is to man, and the princi-

ple that makes for good succulence is

that all the air shall be excluded while

the fermentation process is going on.

An extra man in the silo would prove

more economical in the long run than

one less than there should be. One

man to handle the distributor and two

to constantly tramp will do the job in

a silo of ordinary size. Larger diam-

eters demand more tramping.



‘ The volume of silage contained in a

cylinder the size of the silo and only a

foot deep is enormous and for this rea-

son, anything that will make for less

spoilage is always in order. Probably

the old standard way is to run straw

through the cutter the last thing until

the straw is a foot or so deep over the

top of the silo. After this has been

wet down thoroughly, a bushel of oats

are sown about over the straw. The

heat of the’fermentation taking place

below causes the oats to set up a rapid

and luxuriant growth. and the roots

are thrown out so thick that the spoil-





age of corn is cut down to the min-





imum.



Salt is sometimes thrown on top of

the silage and is claimed to reduce

spoilage. My observation does not rec-

ommend the practice, howe.ver..Ilhave

known of several cases where tar has

been poured over the top of the silage.





 





This soon hardens and may be taken

out again and kept for the next year

and it surely does effectually exclude

the air.



Make a memorandum of the fact

that corn for the silo should be cut as

though it was to be shocked. Labor

must be made to go as far as posible

this year and some means should be

taken to preserve as much of the corn

as possible after it has been put in

the silo. The full silo means enough

food saved ‘to feed eighty soldiers a

month or one soldier for six years and

eight months.





MIDDLE WEST WHEAT CONFER-

ENCE.





 





On call of Secretary David F. Hous—

ton, there was a conference at the

Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana,

August 20, to consider in general the

Wheat situation and to arrive at some

method of increasing the crop next

year. There were present President

Raymond A. Pearson, of the Iowa

Agricultural College, (recently nomi-

nated assistant secretary of the United

States Department of Agriculture),

who presided; a number of other rep-

resentatives of the United States De-

partment of Agriculture, agricultural

college and experiment station men,

agricultural extension leaders, farm-

ers, state agricultural leaders and edi-

tors of representative farm papers.



Chairman Pearson called attention

to the fact that while our exports of

wheat were about one hundred million

bushels annually before the war, they

were three hundred and thirty million

bushels the first year of the war, two

hundred and forty million the second

year, one hundred‘and seventy-five mil-

lion the year just closed, and would

probably drop to seventy-five million

during the present fiscal year, unless

strict economy is practiced in this

country. Before the war France pro-

duced over three hundred million bush-

els annually, while in the year just

closed the product was but one hun-

dred andsixty-one million bushels. He

said that while congress evidently in-

tended to guarantee $2.00 for wheat,

the food act does not specifically pro-

vide for enforcement of the price, but

leaves the matter of differential be

tween spring and winter wheat, for

moisture, etc., to be determined later.

In fact, on the basis provided, No. 2

red winter wheat might range from

$1.80 to $2.40.



Dr. W. A. Taylor, of the United

States Department of Agriculture, said

that the conditions had brought the

wheat acreage about up to the advis-

able maximum. More acreage might

mean a waste of much good seed. The

bulk of the wheat must come from the

corn belt, the plains and the Pacific

Coast states. He advised not to be

stampeded to wheat growing from rye,

which is also a bread grain.



Mr. G. I. Christy, leader of extension

work in Indiana, said this year’s crop

had been decreased by fly and winter-

killing and that more land must be

turned'back into crop rotations. In

his judgment labor shortage would

make the increased demand impossible

to meet and he urged exemption of

farmers from military service in a.

large way. The average farmer has

been handicapped by high costs of fer-

tilizer and seed wheat, as well as the

transportation difficulties. He said that

some milling companies are furnishing

seed wheat to farmers on a share

basis.



State Leader Fred Mutchler, of Ken—

tucky, said that his state expected to

meet the thirteen per cent increase

demanded. Said that on account of

limestone being classed as road mate-

rial instead of fertilizer, it was. hard

to get prompt railway service. .



Extension Leader Clark S. Wheeler,

of Ohio, reported that his state felt

normal but doubted the ability of Ohio





farmers to meet the demand for sixty. V g

per cent increase in acreage. In ‘fact,,..'_, 3‘





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he thought this demand based on a

'misunderstanding. In his judgment,

increased yield and good price this

year, together with a good price prom-

ised next year, would help much to in-

crease production. He thought the

guaranteed price a most important fac-

tor. Seed seems plentiful but fertilizs

ers have had to be placed in a pre-

ferred class for prompt shipment.



Joseph Cox. of Michigan, said his

state was in position to increase the

crop greatly. The present acreage is

about two-fifths of what was raised a

Quarter of a century ago. The great

problem in his state is to clear up the

mixed varieties and establish varieties

of tested merits.



Prof. G. N. Coffey, of Illinois, report-

ed an acute labor situation. In the

leading corn sections increased wheat

acreage will help to solve it. A large

percentage of winter wheat was killed

last spring so corn acreage was larger

than usual. He urged spreading sur—

plus straw back to the land. This sea-

son such treatment showed better re-

turns than fertilizer.



Extension Leader K. L. Hatch, of

,Wisconsin, reported an increase of

thirty-three per cent, due to the cam-

paign for spring wheat, and expected

a similar response for winter wheat.

New lands will largely be utilized and

there will be much replacement. Said

that Wisconsin bankers had bought up

entire stocks of pedigreed seed wheat

at $1.00 above the market price, to be

sown this fall. He called attention tO

the demand of the government for ten

million acres more of cereals, with a

much smaller labor supply.



Eugene Davenport, Dean of the Illi-

nois College of Agriculture, reported

that wheat would be largely increased

as a labor saver. A minimum number

of men and women can harvest wheat,

but not corn. Said that all farm ma-

chinery would probably cost twice as

much as formerly, and labor would

be no lower. It would not be possible

for farmers to work harder than they

had this year. Claimed that farm boys

and men would not demand exemption

from army service unless the country

people were educated to the need of

their doing so.



Director Chas. E. Thorne said that

Ohio had probably exceeded three mil-

lion acres in the past, and could do so

again. Assessors’ returns show 2,900,-

000 acres one year—the actual acreage

probably being more. The tremendous

crop just harvested is probably the rec-

ord yield and with the good price will

encourage more planting. There is no

reason to fear serious insect injury.

Early seeding will overcome the joint-

worm. The serious problems are labor

-—which must be maintained—and fer-

tilizer. He said that the increased cost

of acid phosphate would cause an in-

crease in favor of raw phosphate rock,

but that it should be used in liberal

quantities.



Mr. B. F. Harris, “banker-farmer,”

said that the die was cast for Illinois,

but“that wheat might be seeded in

standing corn with a saving Of time,

and for better results with clover next

spring.



‘Agricultural Commissioner Adkins,

Of Illinois, said that supply and de'

mand would take care of the price

better than will the guaranteed mini-

mum. Said the matter of draft exemp-

tion was the most important phase of

the situation.



Mr. Frost, Of Indiana, said that farm-





ers had been led to expect exemption ’

for farm laborers who were essential





to maintain production and urged an

organized effort to secure it. During

the discussion it developed that draft

boards refused, in some cases, to meet

committees asking exemption in gen-

eral, but that they would accept speci-

fied lists of names with exemption

claims for careful consideration.



The very important matter of guar-

anteed price for next season’s crop

was scarcely touched upon and noth-

, ing definite was announced concerning





i





it. Reports from. the several statesm-

dicated that the great limiting factor

of next season’s wheat crop was labor

shortage and the drafting of farmers

into military service.





CEMENT BLOCK WATER TANKS.





 





Some time ago I saw that Mr. Lillie

was going to build some stock water-

ing tanks from cement blocks. What

was the result? I am about to make a

cement tank of some kind and was

thinking of making it of cement block.

What size would be best for a ninety-

acre farm?



Kent Co. E. F.





It is true that a few years ago I

built two cement block water tanks and

they have proved fairly satisfactory.

The only mistake I made was that I

didn’t reinforce them sufficiently and

we didn’t go down into the ground

deep enough. for the foundation of the

tank. The'bottom of one tank has

been injured by the frosts so that we

have had to repair it and another tank

had the wall sprung out a little be-

cause it wasn’t properly reinforced, but

if I were going to build a dozen water

tanks I would build them out of ce-

ment blocks because it is cheaper than

it is to build the forms and make a

solid concrete wall. If you will use a

couple of strands of galvanized wire

between each row of blocks when they

are laid up you will have no trouble

about the strength, or you can use any

kind of pieces of wire or iron that are

not too large, short pieces will do plac-

ed across the ends of the blocks, but

they should be reinforced and quite

thoroughly, and you should go down at

least two feet for the foundation of

your tank. It isn’t really necessary to

put concrete clear to the bottom, you

can fill it up with‘stones if you want

to, and sand, and have the last six

inches concrete, but.the solid founda-

tion ought to be down below frost so

that it won’t heave when it freezes

and thaws, and then by plastering the

tank on the inside with a rich coat of

cement mortar, two parts of fine sharp

sand and one part cement, you will

have just as good a tank as you can

make out of solid concrete and you

avoid the trouble Of making a tight

board form in which to pour the con-

crete, and the expense.



The larger you make your water

tank the better you will be satisfied.

If you have a large tank and anything

goes wrong with the windmill or the

pump, you have got a supply of water

to last until you can fix it; if you have

only got a small tank and anything

happens to the pump in dry weather

or in cold weather, you may run out

of. water. Our cement tanks, of‘which

we have three, will hold, all together,

500 or 600 barrels of water, and we

can stand quite a siege if anything

goes wrong with the pump or windmill

or the gasoline engine. I would make

a tank for a ninety-acre farm not less

than ten feet long and five feet wide

and three feet deep, and if you make

it larger than this you will never be

sorry. COLON C. LILLIE.





 





FARM NOTES.





 





Late'Cultivation of Beans.





I am told repeatedly that one should

not cultivate beans after they bloom.

They claim it is an old saying but can-

not give any good reasons. Will you

kindly advise me through your col—

umns if there is anything to this and

if so state why it should not be done.



Lake Co. F. W. G.





There is a great variety of opinion

among even successful bean growers

as to when,'how and how late beans

should be cultivated. There is a prac-

tical unanimity of opinion on the point

that the ground should be plowed early

and so thoroughly fitted that exces-

sive cultivation of the crop will net be

necessary. Some good growers advo-

cate no cultivation except when a

heavy crust is formed by a hard rain,

and then only a shallow cultivation.



A very large number of growers con-

tend that the crop should never be cul-





 





tivated When the plants are in bloom,

while other: and apparently successful

growers contend that this is a notion

in the same class with that of plant-

ing in certain phases of the moon. Ex-

periment stations are surprisingly sil-

ent on this question, and have advanc-

ed little or' no experimental data on

the point. There are, however, cer-

tain reasons for particular care in the

cultivation of beans which do not ap-

ply so forcefully to many other crops.

Cultivation when the vines are moist

as with dew, tends to facilitate the

spread of fungous diseases which are

a serious menace to the bean crop in

this state.



Cultivation when the beans are in

blossom would be detrimental to the

crop in case any considerable root

pruning should result from the opera-

tion, which would be the case if the

beans are cultivated at all deeply, or

if a considerable time had elapsed

since the last cultivation. There is the

further objection to cultivation at this

time that if the beans are planted in

narrow rows, the runners will have in-

termingled and the vines will be con-

siderably disturbed in this case, which

in the opinion Of many observers

makes them more susceptible to the

attack of fungous diseases.



If the soil has been properly pre-

pared and the early cultivation of the

crop has been sufficiently thorough,

there will be little occasion to culti-

vate the beans when in bloom, for the

reason that the vines should pretty

well shade the ground at this time.

When it is considered that a sufficient-

ly thorough job of cultivation cannot

be done at this time to kill the weeds

which have gotten a considerable start

without serious root pruning, it is

probable that any benefits which would

be gained from late cultivation will in

ordinary cases be more than offset by

the damage which would be done by

such cultivation. While there may be

cases in which such late cultivation

will be advisable, as a. general propo-

sition, the earlier cultivation should or-

dinarily be so thorOugh as to make

late cultivation unnecessary.



Exterminating Woodchucks.





We have much trouble with wood-

chucks. What can we do to get rid of

them?



Kent Co. READER.





Probably the easiest method of ex-

terminating woodchucks is to put a

quantity of cotton waste or other ab-

sorbent material in the burrow and

thoroughly saturate same with carbon

bisulphide and close up the exits for

several hours. The resulting gas will

asphyxiate occupants of the burrow.



Beans in the Crop Rotation.





I have this year planted beans on

heavy clover sod and have a fine crop

of beans. I have been told I could

plant another crop Of beans next year

without any added fertilizer on this

same soil. I would like your advice

on this subject. Another question I

would ask is, should I be compelled to

use commercial fertilizer? When is

the best time to use it, fall or spring?

Should I drill it in or spread it broad-

cast, and how much to the acre? This

is a light loam sand soil.



Ottawa Co. 'R. F. D.





Under no circumstances should a

cultivated crop like beans be planted

two years in succession on the same

land, particularly on a light soil such

as is described in this inquiry. There

are many reasons for this, one of the

most important of which is that such

crops exhaust the humus in the soil

very rapidly, and as humus is one of

the most limiting factors of production

on a light open soil, a short crop rota-

tion should be practiced in which clo-

ver occupies the land at least once in

three years.



Another reason why beans should

not be planted two years in succession

on the same soil is that the fungous

and insect diseases which attack the

bean will be more prevalent where the

crop is planted on the same ground

two years in succession. The best

way to, handle» this land would be to

sow it to wheat or rye and seed to





 

 





 





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clever weeping. , This soil'will’ be;





greatly benefited by an application of?

fertilizer such as acid phosphate or

one containing a small percentage of

nitrogen with phosphoric acid. Two

or three hundred pounds of acid phoe-

phate will materially increase the yield

of grain which can be secured from

this soil, and will contribute not a lit-

tle to its permanent fertility. It should

be preferably drilled in with the grain

at the time of sowing.





SOME ALFALFA PROBLEMS.





 





Clipping and Top-dressing Alfalfa.





I am trying alfalfa this year for the

first time without a nurse crop. I will

give you a brief outline of what I did

and ask your advice as to the next

move. Plowed seven acres this spring,

three acres bean ground last year,





four acres two-year meadow; worked ,





it until about June 25; sowed ground

limestone on it, using about ten tons

to the seven acres.

alfalfa seed and put it on about one

peck per acre and dragged it in at

once w1th pegtooth. The field is heavy

clay for the most part, with a few

sandy places. The field is rolling so

it is pretty well drained. The seed

came fine, 'a good stand. Today the

alfalfa stands six to eight inches high

and is commencing to blossom, but in

a good many places the leaves are

turning yellow or pale green. Also

quite a few Canadian thistles and rag—

weeds have come up along with it.

Now the ground was soawet last spring

that we could not draw out manure

and we have 200 spreader loads or bet-

ter, in our barnyard. I decided this

afternoon upon looking the field over,

to go overwith mower and clip it quite

high, then top—dress it quite heavy.

What would you advise?



Genesee CO. H. J.



I think your method of preparing

the land to seed to alfalfa and caring

for it is splendid. I wouldn’t know

how to advise you to do any better.

Perhaps the reason why the alfalfa has

turned pale in some places is because

the lime you put on has not had time

as yet to thoroughly neutralize the soil

but I would think that you used lime

enough so that it wouldn’t be neces-

sary to use any more and as your al-

falfa is commencing to blossom I be

lieve the best thing you could do

would be to clip it and I am positive

that you could do nothing better than

to top-dress it with good stable ma-

nure. I don’t believe that -you could

give it any better treatment than that

you have proposed.



Cutting Alfalfa for Seed.



As I have a field of alfalfa which I

think would yield larger returns as

seed, and knowing of you as being a

large grower, I take the liberty of writ-

ing you for information in regard to

the same. If you will kindly answer

the following questions I will appre-

ciate it very much as, if I cut it for

hay it is ready now. 1. Is the second

crop the one to cut for seed? 2. About

how many bushels per acre is an av-

erage yield? 3.’ Does it injurethe fu-

ture crops to cut it for seed? 4. 110

you think the past hot weather has in-

jured'the prospects for seed?



Livingston Co. J. B. A.



The second crop of alfalfa is the one

to save for seed. It is rarely ever sav-

ed for seed in this climate as it usu-

ally doesn’t fill sulficiently so that it

would pay. When weather conditions,

however, are just right sometimes it

fills well. The second crop comes

when we are liable to have numerous

rains and this interferes with the fill-

ing. In the northwest, especially where

irrigation is necessary, they grow al-

falfa seed to perfection. A crop of

twenty to thirty bushels per acre is

not unusual but I suspect if you get

two bushels or above per acre in Mich-

igan it would be all that you could

expect ‘





It undoubtedly will injure your al-.





falfa to let it go to seed, it injures the

stand of any plant to let it mature





seed, but it may not injure it enough .





so but what it will do fairly well after-'

wards. It isn’t so much hot weather

that destroys prospects for plant fill-

ing as it is rainy weather. ' Our com-

mon red clover doesn’t fill well When

we have frequent rains, continuous dry





weather always gives us the‘b'est filled





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clover heads.





 





Then I inoculated,
'OU Can measure in dollars and

cents the results which you ob-

tain from the use of fertilizers,



or from a college education, or from at-

tending Farmers’ Week at Michigan

Agricultural College—but you cannot

tell the whole story with figures. You

can compare the yields you have been

getting before and after using fertiliz-

ers,-add, subtract- and divide to get

the net profits and find plenty of proof

of the extra money to be had by the

proper feeding of your crops, but you

cannot sum up so easily everything

that fertilizers can mean to the Mich-

igan Farmer.



Fertilization a Basic Principle.



The use of fertilizers is basic in ev-

ery kind of farming. They are not now

being used on all farms, but a study of

soils and crops will show the economic

place they fill and that they are neded

on all farms. They return plant food

to the soils to take the place of the

food removed by the crops and to make

up for the natural deficiencies of the

soils. Without fertilizers the produc-

tiveness of land cannot be maintained;

farmers and farms grow poor, and the

community goes “down hill”—-until

someone comes along who understands

how to rebuild “run-down” farms. Then

the fields are restored to productive-

ness and value.



Dairy farming, where everything

raised on the farm is fed and where

some concentrates are purchased may

be said to be most nearly ideal, but

even in dairy farming additional plant

food, principally acid phosphate, must

be added if the fertility is to be main-

tained. Grain farming, truck farming,

and general farming remove more fer-

tility from the soil and require the

greater use of commercial fertilizers

to maintain the present fertility. With

higher prices for farm products, it

pays greater than ever before to in-

crease fertility and thereby increase

yields.



The Functions of Fert‘ilizer'lngredit-



ents.



Nitrogen, commonly called ammo-

nia, phosphoric acid and potash are

the three materials most needed by

plants and supplied by fertilizers. A

great many people in Michigan use the

word “phosphate” when referring to

fertilizers in general. Fertilizers are

sometimes referred to in other sections

as “commercial manures,” etc. Ammo-

nia is concerned principally with leaf

and stalk growth, phosphoric acid with





~ ripening the fruit and filling the ker—





nel and potash with strengthening

straw, laying down the starch and

plumping the grain. Together they

cause rapid plant and stalk growth,

form heavy plump kernels, hasten ma-

turity, increase yields, improve quality,

and produce maximum results when

they are selected to make up for the

needs of the crop and soil and used in

connection with the best cultural

methods of farming.



When soils are allowed to become

deficient in plant food, yields are auto-

matically cut down. When they are

built up by the addition of fertilizers,

their capacity for production is in-

creased. On many farms, the use of

fertilizers is already the factor that

determines whether crops are produc-

ed at a profit or at a loss. . On other

farms, the fertility has not yet been

so completely taken from the soil, but

the same condition is coming because

attention is not 'being given to restor-

ing plant food to the fields.



Fertilizers mean very much the

same to all farmers—increased yields,

better quality crops and maintaining

fertility for coming years—but some

farmers have been postponing the time

when they will “do their part.” With





present prices for farm products, with

rising land‘_values, and the, competition

"of farmers wholuse fertilizers, the ig-





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business,” as never before. The farm-

er who does not fertilize is losing out

in competition. He is gradually selling

off his farm.



Some Object Lessons.



At the Purdue University, under

conditions similar to those in Michi—

gan, the yields of wheat through thirty

years have been gradually increased

to an average of twenty-eight bushels

per acre through proper fertilization

and a better cropping system. The av-

erage yield in the United States is 14.8

bushels per acre. A score of farmers

in the five-acre corn contests secured

over 100 bushels per acre. Yields that

are more than double average yields

are being secured every year by many

farmers in Indiana who handle their

crops properly and fertilize them so

that they can make the best growth

and greatest net profits. Figured only

from the dollars and cents standpoint,

fertilizers justify their use times over.

From the broader standpoint of main-

taining and increasing soil fertility and

making maximum crops possible, their

use is necessary as well as profitable.



Study the Fertilizer Problem.



Study your soil problems. Investi-

gate the reasons why some farmers

are getting better yields than others in

the same community. ' See if you can-

not improve your next summer wheat

crop by top-dressing in early Spring

with fertilizers. Secure as much liter-

ature as you can upon soil fertility

and fertilizers, and be prepared for

the opening of the spring season and

to make next year your best year. Find

out the results of the use of fertilizers

in your neighborhood. Plan to improve

your present methods, whether that

means that you build up poor soils or

make fertile soils more fertile. Proper

fertilization of your soils. will do

much toward making your farming op-

erations more profitable and your farm

more productive. And with better

yields and greater profits from every

farm must come better roads and

schools, better farm homes and a hap-

pier and more prosperous farm life.

Fertilizers mark the coming of better

farming methods that will make Mich-

igan’s wheat crop of 1918 all that is

planned, that will make other crop

yields increase steadily and profitably.



Decide what you are going to do in

the using of fertilizers on your wheat

and winter rye this fall. Remember

that profits from fertilizers depend up-

on (1) costs of fertilizer; (2) resulting

increases in yields; (3) selling prices

of farm crops. Don’t these factors“

especially the third—indicate that this

season is the time for larger yields and

immediate crop returns?





MAKE CORN CRIBS AND GRANAR~

IES RAT PROOF.





 





One of the food conservation sugges-

tions made by the University of Mis-

souri 'College of Agriculture, is rat—

proofing corn cribs and granaries. A

‘few years ago it was estimated that

every rat on the farm cost the farmer

$1.82 a year. With the present high

prices of feed, seed and grain the cost

will amount to much more than that.

In most of the grain growing states a

fair estimate of the rat population of a

farm would be about twenty-five to

fifty.



Some idea of the loss can usually be

gained by examining the crib in spring

when the corn supply becomes low.

On some farms several bushels of corn

will have been shatteredby rats and

mice and the germs of the grain re-

moved. This represents merely the

grain which was partly eaten. It does

not represent that which was entirely

consumed by the rodents.



Concrete may be used to keep them

out of the basement. Concrete floors

may be built for new corn cribs and

granaries and smallmesh wire netting

can be placed in 'the walls. Old cribs

and granaries, chicken coops and poul-





; “THE Micai

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Mammoth War Spectacle





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Child Welfare Exhibit





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Fruit HarVe'sting Equipment





‘N gathering the fruit crop the com-

mercial orchardist saves money by

using satisfactory equipment. One



of the most important factors in the

efficient gathering of fruit will be





strong ladders of the right height. The





fruit ladders with three legs are

stronger and more satisfactory than

the ladder with four legs. When four





legs are used one of the front legs is

.quite apt to sink into the ground deep-





er than the other and this makes the

ladder shaky because of- the unbal-

anced strain which is placed on one

side. The picking of apples requires

high ladders which are strong and

light. The ladders which have rails

meeting at the top and extending up-

ward about two feet above the last

rung are easy to transfer from limb to

limb and it is possible to place them

securely against the crotch in a limb

with much less danger of slipping than

is the case when two rails are used

for the support.



Strong step ladders are necessary in

picking cherries, peaches, plums and

pears Without climbing into the trees.

The picker who finds it necessary to

climb among the limbs cannot work

rapidly and this wastes the profits of





 





Careful Packing Pays.





the grower. Climbing into the tree

may result in broken branches as well

as injury to the harvester due to acci-

dental falls. If it is necessary to climb

among the branches the picker should

wear a pair of old rubbers to reduce

the danger of scratching the limbs. It

pays to carefully examine the ladders

before they are taken to the orchard

for the season’s work. A few simple

repairs may increase the life of the

equipment and save accidents during

the height of the harvest.



Possibly the care in which the pick-

er places the fruit in the basket is

more important than the style of the

container but it is important to have a

sults. One seemed as effective as the

other in the control of insect pests,

good supply of buckets or baskets

suitable for gathering the fruit. Peach

pickers can work very efficiently with

half—bushel baskets strapped over the

shoulders. They usually work entirely

from step ladders and there is little

jostling of the fruit.



When picking apples it is best to

use a basket- or pail which can be

hooked to the ladder or a limb of the

tree. This assists in preventing bruis-

ing of the fruit and the picker has the

free use of both hands in gathering the

fruit. Baskets with a canvas bottom

are sometimes used in picking apples.

The bottom can be released when the

receptacle is full and the fruit is al-

lowed to slip slowly and carefully into

the baskets on the orchard wagon or

on the packing table. This is said to

be much better than pouring out the

fruit but in either case the picker must

use great care in emptying out the

fruit or little is gained in using any

special type of picking basket.



At various times mechanical pick-

ers have appeared on the market but

they are apt to handle the fruit rough-

ly and pull the stems. from apples.





 





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careful fruit growers who try to pro-

duce high quality fruit for the best

paying markets.

Orchard Wagon Pays.

The commercial orchardist finds that

a low orchard wagon is of value in

hauling the fruit from the orchard to

the packing house. Such a wagon

should be of such a. height that the

picker can carefully empty his basket

on the Wagon without undue exertion

and without bruising the fruit. It

should be equipped with springs which

will take up most of the shock in driv-

ing to the packing house and be strong

enough to avoid breakdowns when hur-

ried trips must be made with heavy

loads during the rush season.





Some growers grade their fruit by

hand and find it satisfactory. Others

use mechanical graders entirely and

find that it saves time and results in

a more uniform pack than is possible

with hand-grading. One type of peach

grader commonly used works like ”a

sewing machine. When the peaches

are dumped on the platform the oper-

ator throws out any specimens with

spoiled spots and the remainder are





‘worked down a track containing three





or four troughs which gradually in-

crease in size. The culls fall through

into the first basket, the seconds next

and the firsts in the last basket. When

some of the fruit is too large for the

first grade a basket is placed at the

end of the grader and these specimens

fall there and they are classed as

fancy stock.





Many fruit growers try to manage

their business with as little harvesting

equipment as possible but they are of—

ten forced to use unskilled labor in

picking the crop and the combination

is not a money maker. By using good

equipment the pickers are insured a

fair chance to perform careful work

and this is quite important at a time

when fruit should bring good prices

but labor charges are high.



Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.





SPRAY FORMULAS IN SMALL

QUANTITIES.





 





Below are a few formulas that may

prove to be very beneficial to the small

grower. They are the standard sprays

but reduced so that one wishing ‘a

small uqantity will get the correct

proportions.



Poison Bran Mash.



Bran, 1 qt; Paris green, or white ar-

senic, one teaspoonful; molasses, two

tablespoonfuls, orange, one-quarter.

Water to make good mash.



Take one quart of bran and mix

with it a teaspoonful of Paris green

or white arsenic. Mix thoroughly dry.

Take a half of a cup of water and add

to it two tablspoonfuls of molasses. A

quarter of an orange or lemon should

be ground up fine and added to the

bran. Pour the sweetened water on

the bran mixture, working it into a

good stiff mash. More water can be

added if needed. This is good to de-

stroy cut-worms, grasshoppers and

similar chewing insects.



Nicotine Spray.



Nicotine sulphate (40 per cent), one

teaspoonful; water, 3 qts.



Nicotine sulphate can be purchased

in yarious sized cans at any store that

carries spray material. Pour a tea-

spoonful of nicotine into three quarts

of water and shake well so as to get

a good mixture. It is now ready to

spray. If you purchase nicotine that

is only eight per cent it will be cheap—

er,‘ but it is only one-fifth as strong as

the above and will take five times as

much to get the same strnegth. -It is

very effective against plant lice and is

easy to prepare.



Kerosene Emulsion.



Kerosene (coal-oil), 1 pt; laundry

soap, 1 cubic inch; soft water, 1/2 pt;

dilute to required strength.



From a cake of laundry soap cut out

a cubic inch and shave it into a half-

pint of warm soft water until it is all

dissolved. Boiling will hasten the pro-

cedure. Then pour this soapy water

into the pint of kerosene. It is now

ready to be emulsified. This can be

accomplished either by the use of an

egg-beater, churning it violently for

four or five minutes. Use one part of

emulsion to three of water for dor-

mant spray, and one to ten for sum-

mer use. DON B. WBELAN.
w 4..





T the recent summer‘meeting‘ of

A the New York State Fruit Grow-



ers’ Association, held August 7-

11, the following things were noted

which will be of interest to Michigan

fruit growers:



At the Beckwith orchard near New

Haven we saw many acres of renovat-

ed apple orchards. The old trees had

been dehorned and so well pruned that

they presented the appearance of new

trees, and were very thrifty under

good cultivation and feeding. Although

the set of apples in New York is very

light the Greening trees in this or-

chard were bearing a fair crop with

every prospect of their being extra

large and perfect. In this orchard the

station has been conducting experi-

ments to control the Rosy Aphis.

These experiments show that a delay-

ed dormant application with lime-sul-

phur and nicotine solution (lime-sul-

phur diluted one to eight, and nicotine

soulution 40 per cent (three-fourths of

a pint to 100 gallons), as the most prac-

tical means of preventing injuries by

the rosy aphis. The experiment in the

Beckwith orchard is one that is being





A :Apihls Control ”and” Orchard irFerti





 





 





 





 





No difference could be seen in the re-

sults. One seemed as eflective as the

other, and the fruit was all in fine con-

dition. It seems to be a matter of la-

bor and cost as to the relative value

of the two methods.



Some valuable lessons in up—to-date

orchard management were learned on

Friday 'when visiting several farms be-

tween Kendall and Albion. It is enough

to say that cultural methods with all

these progressive orchardists are very

much alike—clean cultivation, gener-

ally with tractors, during early sum-

mer, then seeding to cover crops and

following out the full Spraying sched-

ule, and pruning and thinning to se-

cure color and size in the fruit. All

the surroundings show that the best

class of orchardists are prosperous,

and one man told me he would not even

consider dairy farming if he owned an

orchard. W. J. JENKINS.





 





ON THE CULTURE 0F BELLA-

DONNA.





 





For two years I had good results

raising belladonna and am sure the





 





Ladders for Picking Should be Light and Strong.





conducted to demonstrate to owners

of apple orchards the value of the de-

layed dormant treatment for the pre-

vention of important damage.



Aphis Controlled.



In this experiment the trees were

sprayed in May when the leaves of the

of the more advanced buds were pro-

jecting about half an inch with the

solution above mentioned. For checks

on this treatment, six large bearing

Greenings and two small trees were

left unsprayed. In examining the indi-

vidual trees of these two plats. It was

evident that the aphids had been al-

most entirely controlled by adding nic-

otine to lime-sulphur.



At the Cornwall orchard near Put-

neyville the Agricultural College, Cor-

nell University, is conducting some fer-

tilizer experiments on blocks of peach-

es; on so'me, acid phosphate alone, oth-

ers acid phosphate and nitrogen, and

others, acid phosphate, nitrogen and

potash. All these were in addition to

clover and other cover crops plowed

under in the orchard. Acid phosphate

alone did not much increase wood

growth but the fruit ripened earlier.

The addition of nitrogen increased

growth and made a dark green heal-

thy foliage. Little difference was no-

ticed from the application of potash.

Nitrogen caused the fruit to grow a

little larger, but it ripened later. So

far the conclusions are that the appli-

cation of chemical fertilizers to or-

chards under a good system of culti-

vation and cover crops do not return

any profit, except possibly to promote

the growth of individual weak trees.

This, it may be well to state, is in ac-

cordance with experiements made

with apples by the College and Experi-

ment Station in other orchards in the

,state. _



Inthe Cornwall orchards blocks of

, trees sprayed with lime-sulphur solu-



gtio ‘ and. those dusted with dry lime

.3341 at: at "were carefully examined.





 





plant raised here is as good as that

raised anywhere, it all depends upon

the amount of alkaloid it contains.

That grown in Michigan, so far as I

have been able to learn, has been

above the U .S. P. requirements.



This year my efforts have met with

complete failure, as I planted seed in

the field and they did not germinate,

whereas, when planted in protected

places or in a greenhouse germinated

all right. I have sold all the seed 1

could spare this year but will have

plenty another year.



Somehow the drug manufacturing

companies seem to want the growing

of this plant curtailed, or it seems that

way to me. W. H. RAND.





TROUBLE WITH PEONIES.





 





Our family being one of your many

subscribers, I saw your reply to Mrs.





J. G., and think you are mistaken as , '5





to the trouble. Buds do not turn in

that way when bothered with insects.



Peonies should always be dug in the

fall. All people offering same for sale





.dig them any time from the very last





of July to the first of October,

whether they are sold in the fall or

the spring. If held for spring delivery

they are left dormant in their cellars

or caves until spring.



The flowers of one summer are

formed the season before, just like

many of our fruit trees, and if these

are disturbed until after their natural

blooming time they blast; the green

covering will develop no perfect flow«

ers for several years. I would advise

Mrs. J. G'. to dig her roots, taking

them entirely out of the ground, shak-

ing off the loose dirt, let them remain

out for a day or two, then reset. Do

this the last ,of September and she

may expect some flowers the following

spring. and the plant'to thrive from

then on. » MRS. L. A. STEINEB.





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MICHIGAN





OCT. 3-4, , 1917

DETROIT,





great 42 -lb. heifer,





the herds must go.





Plan early.

attending.





Wood, Haeger and Kelly

handle the selling





AGAIN IN THE LIME-LIGHT 7





This event is the sensation of the fall. sale

season





NOTED YPSILAND HERD





including the wonderful champion,





PONTIAC DE NIJLANDER





and many of her near relatives. Her achieve-

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of the extra high Quality of thiséfamOus herd.

The PELLETIER HERD is famous for





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Champion, who brought the record price

for females, selling for $1 8,300.00, at auction.

The selection from this herd can furnish the

tops for many a high—class herd.





Mr. Cole’s farm is to be subdivided for city

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4th Annual Sale of REGISTERED HOESTEINS





ON THE FAIR GROUNDS AT HOWELL, MICH.





OCTOBER,

HOWELL SALES CO. OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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25th, 1917





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A SO-gallon barrel

of Scalecide free to

any any one who

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given below.





SCALECIDE” \





As proofofourconfidence and to strength-

en yours, we will make the following

promsition to any fruit grower of average

honesty and veracity: _

Divide your orchard in half ,po matter how large

or smal . Spray one-half With “SCALECIDE ’,

and the other with Lime-Sulfur for three years

everything elseheing ual. If at. the end of tha

time, three disinterest. fruxtEgr-owers'say that

the part. sprayed with “SCAL CIDE”_is not in

every way better than that sprayed wrth Lime-

Sulfur. we will return you the money you paid

us for the “SCALECIDE”.



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I Sunflowers for Silage.





 





‘I planted sunflowers with corn for,





silage but cold weather has hindered

the growth of the corn so the sunflow-

ers promise to outyield the corn. Is

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sunflowers in the silage? And does

~stock eat them readily?

Ogemaw Co. SUBSCRIBER.





In the absence of experimental data

on the use of sunflowers for silage, it

is difficult to advise intelligently. If

the sunflowers make a good crop,

there will be a very considerable yield

of seed.



In five tests with sunflowers in

North Carolina a yield of sixty-five

bushels of seed per acre was secured,

carrying about twenty-one per cent of

oil. In plot tests covering fifteen years

at the Ontario Agricultural College an

average yield of 728 bushels of sun-

flower seed was secured. Sunflower

seeds contain a valuable vegetable oil,

and in Russia the crop is grown on a

commercial scale for this purpose. The

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oil has been removed from the seed

has proven a valuable commercial feed

for all kinds of stock.





As to the feeding value of this grain

as compared with corn, it was deter-

mined in the trials above noted that

corn produced about as much digesti-

ble nutrients per acre in grain alone,

without considering the value of the

fodder. Without any doubt, the forage

value of corn put into the silo would

be very much greater than that of the

sunflowers, although the sunflower

stalks and leaves would have a con-

siderable feeding value when put into

the silo, since many kinds of weeds

and waste vegetation have been prov-

en to make a fair grade of silage. In

Austria, for instance, the making of

satisfactory silagefrom thistles has

been reported. As to the palatability

of silage in which the sunflowers pre-

dominate, one can only speculate, but

there is little doubt that almost any

succulent feed of this kind will be

welcomed by the cattle during the

winter season.



If any reader has had experience

along this line, the result of that ex-

perience should be passed along to

others who will be interested.



Proper Management of Herd Sire.



Will you please tell me how to man-





age a herd sire?

Van Buren Co. G. P. W.





We manage our herd sire different

from a great many breeders—we leave

him alone as much as possible. In

order to do this you must have certain

conditions that possibly wouldn’t ap-

ply to every breeder. In the summer

time our herd sire is in the pasture,

always with other bulls, some of them

are nothing but bull calves, but it is

company for the sire and he runs

quietly. It is rare, indeed, that we

ever have any trouble. He is turned

out with the rest of the bulls just as

soon as the pasture is good in the

spring. Of course, we have a good

woven wire fence around the pasture

with a barb wire on top and we take

a little pains to wire the fence to the

barb Wire so that he cannot get his

head between; otherwise they will

reach over and bend your woven wire

fence out of shape. '



We do but very little breeding dur-

ing the ‘summer time as most of our

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When necessary, of course, the breed-

ing is done in the pasture. In the fall





a when pasturing is;0ver with he is kept





in a yard close to .the barn in which

is located a small building used for no

other purpose except shelter for the

bulls. We never have less than two

herd sires and they run together. After

they get about two years old they are

always .dehorned, then there is no in-

jury ever caused from fighting. This

building is-about sixteen feet square,

and has a. manger running acrossrone

side with two or three stanchions, ex-

tra strong, so that if necessary we can





 





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is rarely ever done. They pass man ».

out of the building .at their pleasure





into this yard. In handling the sires

in this way we have very little diffi-

culty with them, they run contented,

don’t get vicious, and— are kept in the

highest'state of efficiency.



I have an idea that a great many

herd sires become vicious because they

are chained up by the nose in dark

stalls and are rarely if ever exercised.



COLON C. LILLIE. '





FUT CORN STOVER IN SILO.





 





The best and most economical meth-

od of handling corn stover is to put

it in the silo. If generally adopted,

this practice would end a waste

through wrong methods that now

amounts .to thirty-five per cent of all

the stover fed, says the United States

Department of Agriculture. It would

place at the disposal of the farmer an

enormous mass of roughage to cheap-

en the cost of producing meat and to

maintain soil fertility in the most eco-

nomical of all ways—by the produc‘

tion of manure.





That the value of stover as fed is

recognized to some extent is indicated

by the fact that 81.5 per cent of what

is produced is fed in some way. Fre—

quently, however, it is not the right

way. For instance, such practices as

“pulling the fodder,” or “topping” the

corn are most wasteful but approxi-

mately thirty per cent of matured corn

is handled in one of these two ways.

The stalks that are left standing in

the fields are pastured, plowed under,

or burned.



To burn stover is a. crime against

intelligent agriculture for which it is

difficult to find any explanation except

obstinate ignorance on the part of the

perpetrator. It offers a quick and

easy method of cleaning the ground

for plowing but that is a small offset

for the waste of good material. Plow-

ing under and pasturing are better but

they also involve some waste.



On the other hand ensiloing the sto-

ver means that its feeding value is util-

ized to the full. A quantity of rough-

age is provided which lessens the need

for expensive concentrates and makes

the production of meat more profitable

by lowering the cost of manufacture.

Obviously, this is a stimulus to the

keeping of live stock, which from ev-

ery point of view is most desirable.





In preparing stover for feeding, chop-

ping or shredding increases its pala-

tability and enables a greater quantity

to be stored in a given space. Both of

these methods, however, involve the

use of aditional labor and can only be

recommended when labor and power

are cheaper and abundant. Cutting and

shocking, on the other hand, involve

some waste but, in' general, this is

offset by the saving in labor.





No matter how it is prepared corn

stover with a little grain or' other con‘

centrate is an excellent roughage for

wintering cattle, especially mature

breeding cows. In some sections it is

the sole roughage used for this pur<

pose. In others, oat straw is added.





USE TESTED SIRES.





 





The value of the tested sire has been

illustrated by the University of Mis-

souri College of Agriculture. Sultana’s

,Virginia Lad was selected as the herd

_sire at the age of five years on ac~

count of. the excellent milking quali<

ties of his daughters, although none of

them had ever been tested for Register

of,Merit at the time he was purchased.

The first five daughters of this bull to

freshen in the University of' MisOuri

herd have an average production cf

9,000.03 pounds of milk and 511.03

pounds of fat as 'two-year-olds. This

is an average per cent increase of 76.6





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HE Department of Agriculture



and the Food Administration de-



sire to bring to the attention of

stock men and farmers the following

general position as to the American

and world situation in food animals

and the provisions which are broadly

necessary from a national point of

view.



One of the incidents of the European

war has been the slaughter of large

numbers of animals, and it is estimat-

ed that already the herds of Europe

have been diminished by 28, 000, 000

cattle, 54, 000, 000 sheep and 32,000,000

hogs. An accelerated increase in this

diminuition of meat animals must take

place in Europe f1 0111 month to month

as long as the war lasts



We have two problems in meat sup-

plies: The first is the task of supply-

ing our own soldieis and citizens and

helping feed the soldiers and citizens

of our allies during the war; and to

do this we must furnish larger .suppl1es

and must find these supplies for the

present largely by reduction in our

own consumption and waste.



The second problem is the one

which we desire to bring particularly

to the attention of the Ame1ican pro-

duce1, and that is: After the war,

Europe, with diminished animals, and

therefore diminished annual produc-

tion of animal food, will 1equi1e larger

imports of meats during the years of

recuperation, and will probably require

the actual import of breeding animals.

Therefore, in a b10ad way the outlook

to the American producer fiom now on

and after the wai will be, (a) a large

demand for animal pioducts; (b) a

continuing necessity for meat and

dairy animals to convert forage and

grains not needed for human con—

sumption into meats and dairy pro-

ducts.



The herds and flocks of the country

can only be increased over a period of

years, and the foundation f01 such an

increase should be laid at once. Such

increase is a national interest, and it

must be made to the interest of the

American. producer.



Owing to the large measure of fail-

ure in roughage available in western





[ he N athfl S Food-—-An1mal

d Over the Signatures of D. F. Houston, Secretary

(1 Herbert Hoover, Food Administrator.





An Official Statement Issue



of Agriculture an

ranges this year there must be either

a reduction in western animals or

their redistribution into the central

and southern states where there is a

larger amount of roughage and con-

centrates available than ever before

Therefore, if the roughage in the cen-

tral and southern states is saved in

an economical manner and if stocker

steers, young cows, heifers and ewe

lambs of good quality that will be mar-

keted during the next ninety days

from the western sections of the coun-

try are redistributed, these animals

will have been saved and the founda-

tion will have been laid for a material

inelease of our herds.



Some sections of our country are

stocked to capacity with mother ewes,

from which lambs are marketed at

from seventy to eighty pounds weight.

This is the most economic method of

producing mutton, just as “baby beef”

is the most economic method of pro-





‘ducing beef, and the quality of both





these meats is of the best.



What we need is moxe cows and

more ewes producing the 700 pound

calf and the seventy-pound lamb. We

wish to restore the confidence of the

farmer in his industry by convincing

him that he will get a fair share of a

fair price paid by the consumer and

extending to him credit on a reason-

able basis so he may be able to equip

his farm for handling sheep, hogs and

cattle successfully. Only by adopting

the foregoing methods and principles

can production be stimulated and the

consumer protected.



Many of these same cattle will be

required to re~stock the ranges from

which they are now being moved,when

normal range conditions return the

coming year. The nearer to these

ranges the cattle can be wintered, the

more freights will be saved, both com-

ing out and going back, and the less

tax upon the railroads. '





It is essential for the future welfare





of our nation that the supply of all

meat animals be increased. This, not

only from the standpoint of directly

increasing the food supply of the coun-





   





   





try, but more live stock on the farm

means more fertility in the farm;

more fertility means larger grain crops

produced at a less cost per bushel;

more cheaply produced grain should

mean cheaper bread to the consumer

as well as more net profit to.the farm-

er. Especially should the energies of

the farmer be directed to increasing

the sheep stock of the country. Cloth-

ing comes next to food as a necessity.

Not only does the sheep meet the de-

mand from a food and fertility stand-

point, but for its wool for clothing,

there is no substitute. Every interest

that can make itself felt should advo-

cate and encourage the establishing of

flocks of sheep in proportion to size of

farms in every section of the country.

Every farmer should carry to its year-

ling form every heifer calf of both

dairy and beef breeds and every \ewe

lamb that promises to have an eco-

nomic future.



Every effort should be made to bring

to maturity every heifer calf or ewe

lamb whose breeding will give some

assurance that it will convert its feed

into either profitable meat or profit-

able dairy products.



State authorities should take imme-

diateaction to control the dogs whose

depredations have made sheep raising

on the farm so difficult a task.



It. is equally desirable to increase

hog production in this country by ev-

ery means possible. The increase in

demand for pork products is no less

than for cattle and sheep products. In

this matter the expansion of existing

herds is essential, and a redistribution

of hogs from centers of less feed sup-

plies to those of greater resources is

necessary. Furthermore, the raising

of pigs by suburban populations and

the utilization of home- garbage and

perishables- not otherwise useful is of

double advantage to the nation.



The law that we are now operating

under as to food cOntrol is conceived

and administered in a desire to main-

tain remunerative and stimulative re-

turns to the producer and to enable

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with only a reasonable profit allowed

for services rendered. Therefore, it

is the object of theadministration to

eliminate unnecessary cost between

producer and consumer.



An intelligent use of, the Department

of Agriculture’s daily reports of the

meat situation and the Department's

report of the loading of stock at all

shipping points should enable the pr0~

ducer to distribute his shipments to

better advantage, thereby assisting in

lessening‘the wide fluctuations in mar-

ket prices for live stock.



In order that a definite and nation-

wide campaign to secure these results





may be at once undertaken, we have





asked the following gentlemen to serve

upon a general committee to be known

as the United States Live Stock Indus-

try Committee: (The list includes

ninety-three men who are influential

in live stock circles in all sections of

the country. Michigan members of

the committee are, C. K. Warren, of

Three Oaks; A. G. Wade, White Pig-

eon, and C. A. Tyler, Detroit).



We have appointed Mr. George M.

Rommel and Mr.‘ P. H. Rawl, of the

Department of Agriculture and Messrs.

Lasater and Pinchot of the Food Ad





'ministration, to serve on an executive





committee to be added to form the

general committee. The state agencies,

the Department of Agriculture, and

the Food Administration, and, we

trust, the state agricultural and food

institutions, together with state coun<

cils of defense, will also co-operate.

The county agents of the Department

of Agriculture will take orders for cat-

tle, ewes, or ’ewe lambs, among the

small farmers of communities in less

than carload lots, and we- have ar-

ranged with the live stock exchanges

to contribute to this mobilization of

the nation by buying this stock and

seeing to it that it is properly band-

led while in the yards, free of any

charge to the buyer.



This campaign should not be consid-

ered to have terminated successfully

until the great majority of our farms

have their flocks of sheep and a suffi-

cient stock of cattle to consume all

roughage now largely .wasted.





Animal Restraint--— First Aid to Live Stock

By DR. W. c. FAIR





OW helpless is the veterinarian



when called to render first aid



to live stock, unless he has with

him a few useful tools or instruments,

also some of the common drugs used

in every-day practice. If this be true,

then the farmer and live stock owner

must be at a far greater loss to render

first aid to sick and injured animals,

unless he is equipped with some tools

to work with, and has a few useful

stable remedies to give or apply.





Instruments of Restraint.





Now let us consider for a moment

what is required. First, every farmer

should know something about the re-

straint of domestic animals, in order

to protect himself against injury when

doing minor surgical operations and



' 'giving or applying medicine. Besides,

every farmer should have at hand a

well made, ordinary rope stick twitch.

It is made by simply boring a hole one

inch from the end of a piece of hard

wood, twenty inches or more in length,

another smaller hole near the other

end for a string. Tie a small rope loop

in one end, slip loop over upper lip,

tighten fairly snug to attract the ani-

mal’s attention while you work on him.

If you have no assistant, tie end of

twitch stick to throat latch and leave

.it tied until you are through with the



_ operation. You can make a dozen dif-

ferent kinds of twitches, all of which

{act on the same principle and'may be

applied to lowenlip or ear, but prefer-



‘_ ably to upper lip. Frequently, I find





it convenient to use a bridle bit, a

large iron ring, a triangle, a clevis or

a horseshoe, a short piece of wood,

iron, or iron pipe to twist and shorten

the loop; but, with this kind you need

a helper. '



The “War Bridle.”



Another simple means of. restraint

is a “war bridle,” which is convenient-

ly made by using a piece of small rope,

making a loop that will not slip on

neck, passing one end through mouth,

the other through the loop; or, use an

ordinary neck strap with D ring, at-

taching~a piece of rope to ring, passing

it through mouth and back through the

ring, then have the assistant tighten

rope—this will attract the attention

of the animal while you are working

on him. There are many different

kinds of ‘war bridles used by horse-

breakers, but I have mentioned the

most simple one. Another very useful

means of restraint of the horse is a

loop and rope gag which is applied by

making a small loop on end of rope,

pass rope through mouth, over poll,

then end of rope through loop, tighten

and tie with one-half hitch; or you

may use a rounded piece of leather

for mouth with billet on one end and

buckle on the other which can be

tightened and locked without the aid

of an. assistant. ‘



Another excellent means of restraint

is a piece of strong strap, one and a





 





half inches wide and eight inches long

with a ring on each end and straps at-

tached to each end with buckle and

billet. These straps should be long

enough to buckle around the hind leg

of a horse or cow above the hock

joint, or above the knees of a horse.

This simple appliance will often pre-

vent the horse from striking you while

working on head or fore part of body;

also, prevent either horse or cow from

kickingyou with sufficient force to do

any harm. It is often very convenient

to make a loop with a hame strap,

slipping it over 1100f, then hold up

foot and buckle strap to surcingle or

snugly around fore arm; this holds the

foot up and very often prevents horse

from striking or kicking. When fore

foot is held up by hand, be sure and

compel the horse to rest his full weight

on the three legs. Don’t hold up or

support the weight of body, or the

horse will then be able to kick you

with either hind foot. .



It is also very convenient to keep

on hand a set of breeding hopples,

which can be made at small cost.

Have your harness maker make two

straps, one and a quarter inches Wide

with D ring fastened three inches from

buckle, the billet should be “long

enough to go around the pastern, shin

or above hock of horse’s leg, Two





pieces of rope five feettlong can then'





be spliced to each ring, one‘into rings





of stiap, the other a ring with rope

fastened to it. Then pass the rope

around neck and fasten it to the ring,

which is four or five feet from the hop-

ple, and tie it so that it can be quick-

ly released. This simple appliance can

be quickly adjusted and will often pre-

vent a person from being kicked while

stitching wounds or applying medicine

to the hind quarters‘ of a horse, or

cleaning the sheath of a gelding.





Methods of Throwing.





Every farmer should know of a sim-

ple and safe method of throwing a

horse down. Gleason’ s method is very

simple and all that is required is a

halter and rein; also a knee strap to

tie up one fore foot, and a piece of

rope twelve or fifteen feet long. The

left fore foot is strapped up, the rope

is attached to right fore pastern, pass~

ed up over right shoulder and back.

Then you stand at left side, push the

horse from you, then he drops on both

knees. Let him remain in this position

for a few moments——gently pull head

to right side towards should-er, then

after a little time horse will lie down

on his left side, then keep head sus~

pended, both knees folded. Rarey’s'

one man method of casting a horse-.13

similar to that of Gieason’s, but knee

strap is applied to right fore leg, and

the foot’raised against the elbow: A

rope is then placed around near (left)

fore pastern and “Other around ngoar

(left) hind pastenn..'1‘heiegmpes.are



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OF THE REO MOTOR TRUCKS

the same is true. The %—Ton.

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T six o’clock we have first call.



We arise from our bunks, cots



or beds, whichever it may be,

dress and fall in ranks in front of the

barracks for reveille at .6315.



If I fail to be out at reveille I get

company punishment, entitled “Kitch-

en Police,” which is to work in the

kitchen from 6:15 in the morning to

7:45 at night. The duties are to serve

the meals, wash dishes, peel spuds, or

such work as needs to be done.



A soldier can commit many small

offenses which will make him a mem-

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throwing a match or a cigar or cigar-

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at attention, failing to have your

clothes clean, unshined shoes, face un-

shaved, hair uncut; and by all means

we must have our rifles clean.



The lieutenant lines us up every

Saturday morning. He starts in at the

right of Company No. 1 of front rank.

Each man has to bring his piece to

inspection arms, that is, to port arms,

then grasp the bolt handle, opening

the breech. The oflicer takes the piece

from you, first looking through the

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little detail. If he finds the rifle with

grease, oil, dust or rust he will ask

your name, and you are to answer him,

telling him your name with a “sir” at

the tail end of it. He will tell you to

report to the company commander.

You report and what you get is a plen-

ty. He gives you a. good lecture, end-

ing up with the sweet words, “Three

extra Kitchen Police.” Your cue then

is to smile and say “Yes, sir,” and .sa-

lute him and return to quarters.

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rooms and clean up. Every blanket

has to be folded precisely the same

way, 'fioor swept, cuspidors cleaned,

everything dusted off. If the corporal-

of the room says to scrub, why, scrub

it is, and he says it about three times

a week. '



When we get ”police up” or cleaned

up, the mess sergeant rings the bell

for breakfast, and we all make a grand

rush for the mess hall, as we have

everything good to eat, and it is sure

clean. After mess we are called out-

side to “police up.” We find every

little piece of paper, cigarette butts,

matches—well, everything that is loose

around the bar ‘acks, and throw it into-

the trash can.



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11a :0 drill call. We fall in before the

barracks for artillery drill first, then

infantry drill and physical exercises.

We execute our drill forty-five minutes

and rest fifteen minutes, except in ar-

tillery drill in which it lasts one hour

and a half.



'At 11:30 our day’s work is done un-

less we are on fatigue detail; if so, we

are excused from all drills. Fatigue

detail means to keep the grounds in

good shape while others do the haul-

ing of goods of all kinds, pushing a

lawn mower and raking the lawn.





' They start at 7:45 in the morning, stop





at 11:30, resume their work at one

o’clock and get off at four. We also

Every soldier has

his turn at it—nobody is slighted.

Guard mount is also at 11:30. We

all have to stand inspection before g0-

ing on guard. The adjutant gives us

the “once over,” then we march down

to the guard house where we are as-

signed to our posts. There are three

sentinels to each post. No. 1 goes on

at noon; No. 2 relieves No. 1 at two

o’clock, and No. 3 relieves No. 2 at

four o’clock, then for twenty-four

hours, two hours on post and four off.





,When we get off guard we are granted





a forty-eight-hour pass.



All soldiers have to stand retreat

which we have at 5:30. We all line up

for roll call, stand at attention while

the flag is lowered and the band plays

“Star-Spangled Banner.” The flag is

raised in the morning at reveille and

lowered at 5:30 in the evening.



After retreat we are dismissed and

have the privilege to go any place, so

we are back in quarters by eleven at

night. “Tatoo Call” is at nine o’clock.

All lights are out; and if you are late





coming in, you carry your shoes in-

stead of wearing them in quarters.

You had better be in bed by “taps

call’ at eleven unless you are on pass,

on guard, or have a special duty.





This is a brief outline of a soldier’s ,





daily tasks. Some days we drill and

others we are on fatigue. It is just one

thing after another.



There are many different characters

around the barracks. Some are jovial

good fellows who try to make the best

out of it. We. find Mr. Crab, who is

always beefing and crabbing about

something that amounts to nothing,

while some jokist gets a laugh on him

which makes him sore at himself. He

then “digs up,” sits around and pouts

the rest of the evening.



Our evenings are spent in different

ways. Some of the boys go to the

movies and that sets ’em back ten

cents for a ticket. Others delight in

eating sweet stuff, such as ice cream,

candies and fruit. They stick around

the canteen and fill up on sweets until

the canteen clerk yells “everybody

out." .



Some of the boys enjoy a little jaunt

in the moonlight. Sometimes we get

to see Marguerite Clark or Mary Pick-

ford on the screen. When such occurs

some of the fellows moan like they

were having a molar removed from its

base. A woman’s voice is as soothing

to us as paregoric .is to an eleven-

months—old kid. Their magnetic power

is wonderful.



Most of us have sweethearts we cor-

respond with, and it certainly bright-

ens a boy up to get a letter from his

“gal” back home. It sets him think-

ing of the times he has had, and he

starts humming, “When Johnny Comes

Marching Home.” '





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An Old-Time Coon Hunt





By GEORGE THOMAS





ID you ever go hunting with the

D Indian boys, grandpa?” asked

Johnnie. '



“Many a time,” replied grandpa.

“Clubfoot Billy came along one chilly

November day when I was gathering

corn and said: ‘Heap fun soon. In-

jun boys hunt coon. Maybe you go

’long ?’ ”



“How soon?” I asked.



“When moon come up. Take Yellow

Leg’s coon dog.”



“Take gun along, to shoot coon?” ’



“N0, heap dark. Gun spoil hide.

Club better. Meet by Cold spring.

Bring heap corn-bread, so no be hun-

gry.”



“All right,” I replied.

on time.”



So. about eight o’clock I loaded my

game bag with corn-bread, put in some

salt and matches, then started off.

Clubfoot was waiting with four other

boys and as soon as I got there we

went up the branch, Yellow Leg’s coon

dog leading the way. He soon took

up a scent, gave a little yelp, and away

he went. It proved to be a false alarm

that took us to a hollow tree. We

gathered round, while I lit a match to

examine the tree. “N0 coon,” said

“Rabbit.” So he took a little

limb and split it down the end about

an’inch, then pushed the stick up in

the hollow space and punched around

awhile. Pretty soon he twisted the

stick around. Then we heard a shrill

squeak. The stick was tangled in the

rabbit’s fur. When Billy pulled the

stick out of the hole, the rabbit came

with it, squeaking for dear life. Billy

gave it a tap on the back of its head

and passed it to one ,of the other boys,

who stowed it away under his blanket.



Further along the dog found another

scent which ended at a big elm tree.

We built a big fire that threw a light

all around. It did not take long to 10.

cate the coon, in a fork of the tree.

Lightfoot, a slim, Indian lad, went up





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. Indian kid knew how to climb, and it





was next to no time until he had the

coon away out on the end of a limb,

and shook it off. As quick as it struck

the ground the dogs jumped onto it,

but it fought them off, and I noticed

that one of the dogs has. an ear split

to ribbons. Then one of the boys ran

in and gave the animal a quick blow

with his club, that ended its troubles.

It was about the size of a large cat, of

a grayish-brown color, with rings of

dirty white around its bushy tail.



We left one boy at the fire and start-

ed on again. In a little while we had

caught three more fat coons and one

’possum, then we went back to the fire.



The Indian boy had skinned and

cleaned the coon and had some big

rocks in the fire, getting hot. Then

while one dug a hole in which to put

the hot stones, another one mixed

some clay with water and plastered it

thickly over the carcass.



Some of the hot stones were put in

the hole, the roast on top, then more

hot stones, all of which were covered

with a pile of hot coals. There was

nothing to do but wait for the feast.

Meanwhile the Indian boys began to

wrestle. It didn’t take long to find out

that Lightfoot was the best wrestler in

the lot, and just as I expected, Light-

foot said:



“White Charlie

show um how.”



I knew a few tricks about wrestling,

and in watching them I soon found out

that they knew only one hold, the back

hold, which consisted in rushing and

trying to get their arms around the

opponent’s body, under the arms, then

lift them off the feet and flop them

over sideways.



So I nodded my head and slipped off

my jacket, Lightfoot had laid his

blanket aside long before and had

nothing on but a breech-clout. He

came rushing at me, shouting loudly,

to confuse me. I kept my arms squeez-

ed closely to my sides, and when he

threw his arms around me, I had the





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The Intervention of Vera.

cCANN stood in the open pas-

sageway leading to the stew-

ard’s pantry, leSs than fifteen

feet distant, a satirical smile on his

lips, as he observed our familiar posi-

tion. How long he had been there, and

what portion of our conversation he

had overheard I had no means of

knowing, and for the instant I stood

speechless, my brain a blank. Not so

with Vera. With a laugh, ringing out

as naturally as though in full appre-

ciation of some sudden gleam of hu-

mor, she withdrew her hands from

mine, turned and faced him, executing

a mocking curtsey.



“Hardly fair, Mr. McCann,” she said,

“to steal upon us like that.”



“Perhaps not,” he answered grimly,

“but just now I am privileged to do as

I please on board this ship. Answer

my question—what is it you think you

can do?” '



_ The red blood flushed into the girl’s

cheeks, but I remained silent, unable

to think of any explanation which

would meet the requirements.



“Perhaps an answer will be embar-

rassing.”



“Stop the play acting,” he burst

forth, advancing about the stair rail.

“What were you talking about? I

want a direct answer."



The girl’s long lashes shaded her

eyes, but there was not the slightest

falter to her voice.



“Captain ’Ho'llis,”,she said softly, al-

most regretfully, “had asked me if——-if

I thought I could learn to—~—to like him,

and I said I——I thought I could. That

—that was all.”



McCann stared at the innocent,

downcast face as though he half be-

lieved the words her lips uttered were

deliberate lies; then he laughed mirth-

lessly. '



“I see,” he said with sarcasm. “No

misfortune along other lines is suffi—

cient to interrupt Mr. Hollis’ love-

making. My congratulations, Captain,

on even this measure of success.”



The hot blood flushed my face, not

so much at the words as the tone with

which they were uttered. They con—

veyed to me a deliberate insult, ting-

ling with a memory of the purpose he

charged me with during our last inter-

view. Then I could laugh at him, con-

scious that I held the hand of power,

but now the situation was reversed,

and, unfortunately, the girl, in her ef-

fort to hide our real plans, had chosen





' an explanation which left me helpless





to defend myself. I could not deny

her confession; I could say nothing





' which would relieve myself from the





impression now firmly implanted in his

mind that I was a mere adventurer,

planning to get my fingers on the Car-

rington wealth. I read the truth in-

stantly in McCann’s face; he had not

Quite understood me before, but now

he felt convinced that under all the

veneer I was his kind; and he instant-

ly felt that he knew how to deal with

my case.



“YOur congratulations are appreciat-

ed for what'they are worth,” I answer-

ed, unable to wholly restrain mySelf.

“But we will let the discussion end

here.”



“Oh, will we? Well, perhaps you

will recall that circumstances have

changed since our last talk. I Was the

prisoner then, and“when I ventured to

tell you the truth to your face, when

I charged you with the purpose of win-

ning the affections of this young wom-

‘an, hoping thus to reach her father’s

wealth, you locked me up. But you

are no longer captain of this ship4—I

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Her eyes flashed over my face, then

sought his.



“Do I understand,” she asked clear—

ly, “that I have been before a topic of

conversation between you? What was





the occasion ?”





McCann laughed, not in the least

embarrassed, and evidently convinced

that his position was sufliciently strong

to give him a clear advantage.



“Hollis’ natural modesty prevents

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plain. I realize, Miss Carrington, that

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was the main attraction.”



I stepped forward, unable longer to

restrain the action.



“You dog of a liar,” I said fiercely.

“I know you are armed, but—”



“Wait, Captain Hollis,” and her fin-

gers caught my arm. “This matter in-

volves me, and I wish to hear the

facts. ‘Go on, please.”



McCann grinned into my face, but

kept one~hand behind him, gripping

his revolver. '



“There is not much to tell,” he went

on, almost jauntily. “I saw exactly

how things were going before we left

the boat. I knew Hollis’ reputation

ashore, and determined to warn you

of his purpose, but had no opportunity.

Besides I felt you had so poor an opin—

ion of me that probably you would not

listen.”



“You were greatly mistaken, Mr.

McCann,” she said pleasantly. “I

would have gladly received your ad-

vice. You were my father‘s friend.”



I could read the man’s surprise in

his face. The graciousness of her

words was a shock, yet his egotism

made him instantly her victim.



“You mean you trusted me? That

you would have listened ?”



“Most assuredly. How could you

think otherwise? I knew you were not

yourself in the boat, and the treatment

to which you were subjected was bru-

tal. I owed my life to you equally with

Captain Hollis, and‘am very‘grateful.

I have never forgotten that you have

been a guest in our home, a business

associate of my father’s. Why should

I not have confidence in you?”



I looked at her in amazement, but

her eyes never met mine. What did

this mean? Was the girl acting a

part, was she endeavoring to deceive

him, or was she speaking now in dead-

ly earnest? Nothing in her manner,

or in the tone of her voice, gave me a

clue. She appeared earnest, frank,





sincere, and I held silent, realizing_





that whatever her secret purpose

might be, no words of mine would

change it. As for McCann, the very

expression of his face pictured his de-

light, his conviction of her sincerity.

It was almost too good to be true, yet

his was not a nature to doubt his own

attractiveness.



“I—-I——you surprise me,” he stam-

mered, absolutely forgetting my pres-

ence. “I—I assure you I was actuated

by the highest motives in all my ef-

forts. My—my duty was to you, and

your father. The interest between you

and Hollis has not gone so far as to

be beyond my power to remedy?”



She smiled.



“Oh, no; I assure you.” ‘



He turned, and faced me, the bully

in him surging to the surface.



“I will‘converse. with Miss Carring-

ton alone. ‘You were. ordered to‘ your

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throughout northern Indiana, and is used to the best in his that it is SCVBhtY'tWO degrees warm.

home. All winter th1s hall has been very





comfortable, and I tell you it means



M r ' I’lasterer something to a man to come in from

has permitted us the cold streets to a house that is

to tell 1115 0 W h warm all the way through. '





story .Of It he (£3110— “Right at the side of the entrance

TIC P1P e ess ' ur- hall is our parlor with three big win-

nace: dows. We have used it all winter



“My house has without closing the doors, and it has

nine rooms and a been just as warm as the entrance hall.

.bath. It was al- ,. “You can look through the doors

ways difficult to of the parlor into our living room,

heat it satisfactor- where the register is. Our friends

fly, We had a big told us that the living room would

baseburner in our be unbearably hot and the rest of the THAT BAY w‘tfit‘é’fi’fi‘tflt’d





 





 





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‘ other one upstairs, a range in our kitchen, grates and gas heat- a different story. RETURN WARM-A

‘ ers in our bathroom and the hall. Even then some of the rooms “A door from this living room com- NR .

’ wereitoo cold to be habitable during the winter months, and municates with the kitchen, and it has

.We shut up several of them. ‘ " another door from the dining room.





“One day I was visited by an agent for the Caloric Pipeless ‘ gritei'lf‘aiduthg 13:3: eii gag: 63:15:31;





Furnace. He told me he could heat my house. I didn’t believe comfortable. We haven’t had anything

him, but when he undertook to explain the p11nc1ples on which freeze, and the terror of freezing water

this furnace worked I became interested, and I later ordered pipes that used to be ours is now a

one. ‘ thing of the past.





“That was

one of the best

things I ever

did, because the

comfort we have

enjoyed every

year since then

has more than

c ou n ter bale

anced the low

first cost.





‘ ‘ B u t m y

neighbors didn’t

think I was do-

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thing. Several

called 0 n m e

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“You c a n s e e

from the picture of 1

the dining room 3 ' y ,’ W1 ______ 7 .

that it has a big bay * ' ‘ ‘ " '

window. Before we

put in the Caloric

this bay window

was always cold.

Mrs. Plasterer did

not dare put her

plants in it, and the

unlucky one of the

family that sat with

back to the bay

window at m e a l s



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more than house

clothes. Now it is

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register. One neighbor said her would make an a look at the upstairs. The room I show you

engagement With me for the first day the tem~ here is a large bed chamber with a big bay win-

perature was below zero and bring blankets with dow. It faces the northwest, and whenever the

him to keep our family warm. We invited him to Wind came from that direction in the winter time

dlnner that day and showed hlm ‘5er room in my wife and I' felt the necessity for more cover-

tidingzlésfiovtfiluliifilinthzrt $817131:th degrees, and the ing; in fact, sometimes we had to get up and go

, g u ast. into one of the other rooms. You know our In-



“If you will come with me through my home diana weather is cutting and our house» faces the -

I think I can convince you that the Caloric heats river, SO that when the wind swept up over the

the house very comfortably. Let us start in with ice it seemed to go right through the Window ._ , -

the reception hall. It has two big Windows, and panes. Now my wife’s taste for flowers can be The Original PM]





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gratified in any room in the house and “Besides, and this will be good news to the peOple who are

our bedroom always has some beauti- thinking of furnaces, I don’t burn as much coal by forty per

ful plants. ' cent. It is a very unusual Winter that would require me to use





“The hallway through the center of nine or ten tons of coal. In fact, since the furnace was in, I

the upstairs seems to act as a runway have never

for the heat. We leave the doors of reachedthat

the other bedrooms open and they are amount.

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ers, who prefer a cold room, close these “Then I

bedroom doors in the afternoon so that had another

their sleeping chambers will be cool. experience.

“At the far end of the hall is the In a burld—

bathroom. In the long winter nights, 131g opera-

tion I had





with the thermometer way down, this

is always comfortable, and we have to remove

: never had any possibilities of frozen {11013 0f P11-

water pipes. 1 refer to those frozen lngthat had

fifigfianflgficggw-NOW “’5 water pipes again because it was a been used

' pretty serious matter when we had two to make a

baseburners, a kitchen range and two platform.

WARM’A'R‘ “33%“ oil stoves trying to heat the house. the boys ,

' “Then, there 18 another feature that Were gomg our: BEDROo"'7:$EA%§CF%§°%30WEIISWINDOW [S no

Mrs. Plasterer says is worth as much to burn that

to her as anything else. We have a big up, but I had a saw and I had this cut into chunks and stored

attic over the WhOIC house, and on rainy in my cellar. Pretty nearly all of the winter I fired the fur-

days and in 001d weather this is where nace on this wood, that otherwise would have been wasted, -

we hang 0111' family washing. We .lUSt and the fire kept just as well as it did with the coal. In fact .

open the door leading to the attic stair- we burn all kinds of trash in this furnace.

way, and the furnace does the rest. It

is so clean that the clothes are never

dusty and never marred by

coal smoke as they used to

be when we had the stoves.





“Now that I have shown

you where we live, let’s go

down and look at the fur-

nace. I want you to see how

little room it takes, and how

we can use our cellar. The

furnace keeps the tempera-

ture just above freezing.

This enables me to lay in a

nice stock of vegetables and

fruits when prices are com-

paratively low, and to carry

t h e m through the winter





with the perfect assurance M _ , who .1” ll t .

that they will keep well. i ' W1 6 .370.“ S 0.1.165

equally as interestlng.





“AHOthel' thing I like about the furnace 'iS the You needn’t suffer the inconvenience of stove

. cleanliness. The ashes and dust 1n handllng the heating another winter. The Caloric can be

furnace are less than what I used to take from one of installed in any house, and the one register will

my baseburners. Nor have we my trouble “nth thls not cut. into your walls or make it necessary for

, furnace smoking. So the house IS easrly kept clean.





 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 





 





 





“Do you wonder, then, with my house comfortable at

less than two-thirds of

what it used to cost

me in money, and less

than one—third of what

it used to cost me in

labor, I am enthusias-

tic about the Caloric?

To. my mind it is the

one best buy in heating

devices, and I wouldn't

be without mine for

ten times its cost.”

Mr. Plasterer is not

alone in this opinion of

the Caloric Pipeless

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“You see I haven’t a big coal bin. When I had placing plaster and WOOdWOl‘k-

the two baseburners I used to buy for them and’the Perhaps there is a Caloric dealer in your town.

kitchen range fifteen to eighteen tons of coal, and See him. He will show you the furnace, explain

I‘ want to tell you that it was some job to carry to you why it is so successful and tell you about

. that coal upstairs. and to carry the ashes down. our strong guarantee.“ If you don’t know him,

“NowI reach from the furnace to the coal bin with write to us and we will send you our booklet,

- — my shovel and I put the ashes out of the window “Progress,” that explains why the Caloric is so

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(Continued on page 169).

“I did not so understand.

merely told to go below.”

“Well, you understand now. Open

the d00r; go in, and close it.”





To'resist would have been utter fool-

ishness. I could see the gleam of the

gun in his hand, and realized that he

only required an excuse to use it.

More, there was nothing in the ex-

pression of the girl’s face to inspire

me to resistance. ‘She did not even

glance toward me, or exhibit the slight-

est interest. Yet never did I hate, de-

spise the fellow more than at that in-

stant. Every nerve in me throbbed

with the desire to reach out and crush

him with my hands. Aye, and I would

have done it, risking his shot, staking

all on my strength and quickness, had

I not seen at that moment White ap-

pear at the head of the stairs, staring

down at us, his hand still gripping the

door of the companion. Even as he

hesitated, Dade emerged from the

steward’s pantry laden with dishes.

McCann saw them also, and his cour-

age flared up.





“Don’t forget, Hollis,” and his voice

had in it the old harshness, “that you

are no longer captain of the Indian

Chief. Return to your room.”





With hands clinched in impotent

rage, not even venturing a reply, I

stepped backward. As I crossed the

threshold McCann closed the door, and

I heard the key turn in the look. No

other sound reached my ears except

a smothered laugh, and the rattle of

dishes as Dade deposited his load on

the table. I waited a moment, bend-

ing close to the wood, in the hopes of

overbearing some scrap of conversa-

tion, but the intervening door was suf-

ficiently solid to shut out all semb-

lance of sound. Trembling still with

anger, and dazed by the strange action

of the girl, I sank back upon the stool,

realizing my utter helplessness. All

she had done, and said, appeared so

natural it never occurred to me at

once that shemight be acting a part,

seeking in this way to gain McCann’s

confidence, in order to win from him

the information we required. It was

only as I .sat there in silence, brooding

over every detail, that this possible

conception began to slowly dawn upon

my mind. That she could trust the

man in any way was practically im-

possible, for he had revealed to her





I was





_ his true character in so many ways the





memory could not be blotted out. No,

her graciousness must be assumed to

cloak a purpose; her quick womanly

wit had instantly grasped the only av-

enue of escape. Why, how swiftly that

wit had worked in her rapid explana-

tion of our overheard conversation. I

could think of nothing to say; could

call up, upon the spur of the moment,

m3 combination of circumstances that

would make the spoken words sound

intelligible. But she had; she had in-

stantly fitted the very phrase which

sounded the most suspicious into a re-

mark so extremely natural as to even

convince McCann she spoke truly.

Strange she should have thought of

that; that she should have hit upon the

very idea most apt to deceive him. I

could hear her voice, soft, hesitating,

repeating again the words: “Captain

Hollis had asked me if—if I thought I

could learn to like him; and I said

I thought I could. That—that was all.”

It was an explanation no man would

likely question; even in his suspicion

and anger it carried conviction to Mc-

Cann. And the words—embarrassing

words they must have been—were

spoken to save me; were uttered for

my sake.





As the full knowledge of this truth

grew apparent, I was able to view all

that had occurred later in a different

light. She had simply accepted her

one chance; had grasped with woman-

ly intuition the single weapon left at

her command. All at once, inspired by

sudden confidence, she had determined





- .sbe was in years,





' experienoe in

the world had been that of a. Woman,

and she instinctively realized her pow-

er—the power of wealth, of beauty,

and of youth. Possibly she was not

wholly unaware that MoCann exhibit-

ed already personal interest in her; if

not she certainly felt confident that

she could arouse such interest if she

made the endeavor. My questioning,





 





my doubt, turned to admiration. It had-





been beautifully done, deftly accom.

plished as to deceive even me. Aye!

and the method had succeeded with

McCann. I' recalled the expression of

surprise, of gratification, of awakened

pride on the man’s face. He had no

power of resistance left; he was al-

ready putting in her hands.





True, but would he remain so? The

game she played was a dangerous one;

if she ventured too far she would dis-

cover the brute lurking in him still.

And he had the power, the physical

power, to wreak vengeance once he

suspicioned deceit. His money, hised-

ucation, his force, made him supreme





on board! neither Liverpool or White





would venture to oppose any plan he

might promulgate, and, with their

backing, the mutinous crew would be

found obedient enough. Indeed, they

had gone so 'far already they must

stick together now for mutual safety.

And there was no one to help her if

she made a single false step—abso-

lutely no one; she was a lamb among

wolves. I paced the narrow space, for-

getful of all else except this peril

which imagination pictured, pausing to

listen at the door, and glancing out the

open port on the vista of sea and sky.

God! how weak, how helpless I was——

alone, a prisoner, with no weapon at

hand; no knowledge even of where

the others on whom I could depend

were confined. If I could plan; if I

could even hope to act; I was ready

enough to perform a man’s part; but

even this was denied'me. Those fel-

lows would never release me again,

not for a moment. I would be compell-

ed to take observations, to calculate

position, to trace our sailing course on

the chart, but not for an instant would

I be left again unguarded, either on

deck, or in the cabin. McCann would

see to that.





The afternoon passed, dragging its

weary hours. Nothing happened to re‘

lieve the monotony and dread of soli-

tude. No one approached the door of

the stateroom, not even to offer me

food, and my ears were able to distin-

guish no sound of movement in the

main cabin. Occasionally footsteps

passed along the deck overhead, and

once or twice I heard the voice of Liv-

erpool sing out some order to the men

forward. The sun sank, itsrays glint-

ing‘across the waters, and telling me





the ship held to its southwest course,





but the ocean, so far as I could see,

remained desolate, the horizon unbrok-

en by a gleam of sail, or smudge of

smoke. No echo of a cry reached me

from any lookout aloft. The vessel

proceeded quietly, no effort being made

apparently to achieve speed. I judged

our rate would not exceed eight knots,

and decided there was either a .scar-

city of men in the stoke'hole, or else

they were Conserving fuel to attain

greater speed during the hours of dark-

ness. The bright sunlight began to

fade into a purple dusk.





 





CHAPTER XXVI.

A French Man-of-War.



0 food was brought me during the

afternoon, nor had I , eaten all

day, yet my mental state was



such I had noconsciousness of hunger.

The rattle of dishes was about the only,





sound reaching me from the cabin,





making me aware of the passage of

time. [Thus I could determine when

Dade set and cleared the table. The

last meal of the day hung on until- long

after dark, and I had given up all





thought of being remembered. The 'sea‘

without was shrouded in blackness, ex- .





 

 





e’c ed along the crests o

lows. Within, I had discovered no

means of creating a light, although my

eyes were sufficiently accustomed to

the ~dimneISs to enable. me to move

about my narrow quarters

enough. From the sound of his voice,

which occasionally reached me through

the open port, I- was aware that Jim

White had charge of the deck above,

and the revolutions of the screw indi-

cated a marked increase in speed,

probably to twelve knots.





It must have been between eight





and nine o’clock when the key turned '





in the lock of my door, and Liverpool

looked in. The. light from the swing—

ing lamp in the main cabin flared into

my eyes, blinding me, yet I recognized

his face, and saw Dade close behind

him bearing a tray. Neither man spoke,

but Red having assured himself of any

presence, stood aside, and motioned

the steward to enter. The latter de-

posited the laden' tray on the desk,

and backed out silently, every move-

ment showing ,him thoroughly cowed

by his guardian. Realizing that any

word from me would only result in in-

sult, I remained silent, and the two

disappeared, closing and locking the

door behind them. I confess I ate the

food with relish, for it was well cooked,

and served with some daintiness. Af-

ter a second cup of coffee I felt much

more like myself, rummaging through

the captain’s chest until I found some

tobacco and a pipe, which I at once

appropriated to my own use. No one

returned for the emptied dishes, and I

sat for a long while at the open port

smoking, the blue spiral swept away

by the rush of air, and my eyes on

the starlit waters.





My mind was busy enough, far too

busy to permit of sleep, yet _ my

thoughts brought me nowhere. The

situation, from my point of view, was

absolutely hopeless. No doubt I could

break down the door, but this would

only create an alarm, and I would

emerge into the grip of a dozen men.

Even if free there was no possibility

of my winning back control of the ship

alone and unaided. Every weapon on

board was in possession of the muti-

neers, and they were taking no chanc-

es on having their plans overturned.

The leaders, at least, realized the des-

perate situation in which they had

placed themselves by lawless action,

and would permit no one to stand in

the path of their escape. The very grim

silence with which food had been giv-

en me intensified my feeling that'no

mercy was contemplated. They would

use me; would command my knowl-

edge of navigation; would compel me

to guide them to the exact spot chosen

-—and then! What? The answer was

a blank, a silent horror into whose

mystery I could not even look.





I had been sailor long enough to

accept the ordinary perils of the sea.

as part of the profession. Moreover,

my experience had been such as to





make me feel that any form of danger‘





might be encountered along the ocean

highway. Nothing was too strange to

be true at sea; and so it was not the

position in which I found myself; not

the possible fate of the Indian Chief,

or of her captured officers, which

weighed most upon my mind—it was

Vera Carrington. If those villains

scuttled the ship; if they took to the

boats to save themselves, leaving us

to drown like rats, what would they

do with the girl? Would McCann dare

to take her with him? Would he ven-

ture leaving her alive to bear witness

to his crime? There was but one an-

swer—not unless she was utterly in his

power. Either he must ruin her by

force, and thus crush her spirit to his

wil1, or else/compel her to marry him,

and so legally seal her lips. And the

man was perfectly capable of taking





either course—whichever seemed the '





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there-waiting for Fate to approach;

better far to .go forth and meet it in-





manly fashion. I had a good strong

knife in my pocket, and the. lock of

the door was a common one, the wood

surrounding it soft pine. There was

nothing in that obstacle to prevent my

escape, and if I was discovered at

large, my punishment would merely

be confinement elsewhere. I had

therefore nothing to lose, but every-

thing to gain by the experiment. There

was no key in the lock, for I could per-

ceive a gleam of light in the‘outer

cabin, although the opening was not

sufliciently large to enable me to ob-

Nor did my ear at

the slight orifice distinguish any sound

of occupancy. McCann would scarcely

leave the cabin without a guard under

the circumstances, but the hour was

late, the night had thus far been a

quiet one, and it was quite probable

the fellow, comfortably situated, was

drowsing at his task. Anyhow I would

make little noise, and the chancewas

worth taking.



The labor proved easier than I had

supposed. The soft pine yielded eas-

ily to the sharp blade, and a very few

moments sufficed to cut the lock clear,

enabling me to open the door silently

and take cautious survey of the main

cabin. The table had been hoisted,

leaving the entire central space clear,

and the swinging lamp was turned so

low as to leave all the corners in ob-

scurity. At first I doubted the pres-

ence of anyone, and had, indeed, ven-

tured forth before perceiving the form

of a man outstretched on the divan

surrounding the butt of the mizzen

mast. The fellow was asleep, yet rest-

less enough to be dangerous. His face

was in the shadow, and I thought it





best not to venture close enough to,





identify him, although the dim light

revealed a belt about his. waist, and

the bulging butt of a revolver. Con-





‘ vinced that my only hope of accom-'





plishment lay in the discovery and re-

lease of my fellow prisoners, I crept

across the deserted cabin, and entered

the passage leading forward. Some-

where amidships these were surely con-

fined. But I was not destined to dis-

cover where.



I had taken scarcely a step when the

companion door opened, and a man

started down the stairs. Crouched in

the darknes I saw the sleeping guard,

aroused by the noise, spring upright,

and as the light fell on his face, I rec-

ognized a seaman named Dubois. The

man on the stairs paused, gripping the

rail, staring down as though momen-

tarily blinded by the light.



“Is that you, Dubois?” he asked in

the harsh croak belonging to Jim

White.



“Yes, monsieur.”



“And you was asleep.”



“I lay back to rest, but I was not

asleep, monsieur—non, non.”



“Well, we won’t fight about that

now. You’re the only Frenchman on

board, and we want you on deck. Go

on up; I’ll stay here. Aye, man, yer

better leave the gun.”



“Vat iss it, Monsieur White?

they want me on deck?”



“What’s the difference, you frog-

eater? But I’ll tell yer anyhow. There

is a cruiser showing up off our port

quarter which has caught sight 0' us.

She looks Frenchy, and if there is a

hail it will be up to you to answer——

you are the only one aboard this hook-

er who talks the lingo like a native

——.see!”





Why





Dubois stood staring, his lips parted





in sudden terror. ,,



“A French warsheep; eet hail us?”



“Not yet; but they are bound to

question us, all right. There! did you

hear that? A shot across our bows,

politely asking us to heave to; aye!

and we are slowing down; come, hurry

up on deck with you Frenchy.”



“But—but, monsieur, what ees it I





”canzsay? I know not ze words, ze—ze





ion: (Continued next week).





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“Eyes Have They But They See Not”





HE United States is at war. We



have all know that fact in an



abstract sort of way ever since

last April. We read it in our paper

along with the news from the front,

what the suffragists are doing and the

advertising. Some of us even read it

before we did the birth notices and

marriage licenses, and yawned and

said, “What a shame for President

Wilson to go and drag us into it. What

difference does it make to us what a

lot of kings in Europe are doing? Why

couldn’t he keep us out of it?”



And then we went on, a lot of us,

about our daily business, wondering

what color was going to be worn this

summer, planning on our usual vaca—

tion, grumbling about the increasing

cost of living and keeping “business

as usual,” even if the war was on.



To be sure, a few realized right

away what war meant, and either for

the sake of their own sons or the oth-

er woman’s sons they began at once

the work of war relief, of eliminating

luxuries to give to the sufferers, of

rolling bandages, of buying Liberty

bonds, and of “buying babies” in far-

off Syria. Some began the work for

humanity’s sake, others because a son

or brother enlisted and opened their

eyes to grim facts.



Then came the draft and a great

many others awoke to the fact that

the war is really on. Of course, they

had known it in a sort of way, but

there was so much to do they hadn’t

really realized it until the sight of

khaki on their own flesh and blood

gave them a :sort of mental cold show-

er and woke them up. Then they, too,

joined the army at home and began to

take an interest in Red Cross work

and Hooverism, and knitting.



But we are far from being awakened

yet. There are hundreds of us who

can not be touched by the draft and

who refuse to be touched by the other

fellow’s troubles. Many are so wrap-

ped about in a cloak of selfishness that

the countless appeals to patriotism,

the prayers and entreaties for thrift

and service, never penetrate.



With all that the daily papers, farm

journals and magazines have said

about a shortage of food ,the necessity.

of feeding our allies and the almost

certainty that the coming winter would

see us face to face with “skimping,”

one would think that every person with

human intelligence would be enlisted

in the campaign for food saving. Yet

just the other day I met a man who

laughs at the idea that his family

should cut down on their table. He

insists on his bacon and eggs for

breakfast, his juicy roasts for dinner,

and still maintains that no well kept

family can get along without at least

three desserts for dinner. His answer

to your appeal for economy is that he

is able to pay for it and so long as he

is his family is going to get all there

is going. If you remind him that his

feasting takes food from someone who

needs it he just laughs and seems to

think the whole subject of war is a

joke.



There are not many like him, I hope,

but there are more than there should.

be. Even one who refuses to “come

to the help of the Lord against the

mighty” is one too many. But there

are enough of them to make the far-

seeing uncomfortable. Asa matter of

fact it looks as if between those who

are awake to the situation and those

who refuse to open their eyes the blind

have the majority vote.





 





 





How many people do you personally

know who are alive to the war? l-Iow

many make the war and our part in it

their chief topic of conversation, and

how many make the neighborhood gos-

sip their theme?



With the actual scene of action so

far away it is hard for us to realize

the situation. When we see nothing but.

peace about us we can hardly be ex-

pected to visualize war. But war is

here, and those who have not yet felt

it in one way or another are sure to

do so before the end comes. Whether

we believe in war or not, now that we

are in it it is up to us to do our part

whether it is in the kitchen, hospital

or camp.



Curbing one’s appetite will never get

one into the limelight, as would win-

ning a battle. But it is every bit as

important at this time. And standing

over a hot cook stove canning fruit

and vegetables isn’t half so picturesque

as wearing a nurse’s uniform and

“cooling fevered brows.” But soldiers

must eat, and it’s far pleasanter to

eat than to lie in bed and be nursed.

So the cooks seem to have the most

important role, after all. DEBORAH.





CAUSES FOR FAILURE WITH

COLD-PACK CANNING.





 





BY GLADYS SOULE.

Cold-packed products may spoil for

a good many reasons, but there are a

certain few things that cause ninety

per cent of failures when one is trying

to preserve vegetables and fruits.

What is direction enough for one wom-

an to can successfully, may not neces-

sarily be enough for another to do the

job so that the product keeps. Also,

vegetables packed in a hot, dry spell

do not keep as well, as a usual thing,

as those packed just after a rainy

spell.



Defective jars and rubbers are prob-

ably the most prolific causes of failure.

Before a batch of beans or peas are

to be put up in cans, the glass jars

should be thoroughly gone over and

tested to see that there are no out-

standing defécts. After the cover has





been taken off, place the two thumbs-





together and start each around the

can, but in opposite .directions. This

will detect any irregular pieces of

glass that may not have been removed

after the cans were molded. Such piec-

es of glass can be easily removed with

an ordinary case knife. One should

use the knife well down toward the

heel. . ‘



To test a can, fill it partly full of

water, then put the rubber on and

screw the lid down. In'vert the can of

water on the table and if the seal

seems to hold, it is probable th ti, the

jar would result in a nice can of pro-

duct. Glass tops may be adjusted so

that there is no knocking by slightly

tapping. Turn the cover until a tap

does not result in knocking. Then turn

the bail around until it is in proper

position‘to clamp the top down at the

right point. Zinc covers are often ruin-

ed when opening the can. A knife

point is inserted under the cover and

this bends the lower edge that is de-

pended upon to perfect the seal. There

is a device on the market for straight-

ening these bent edges. Unlessthe

bottoms of these Zinc tops are perfect,

the top should be discarded since noth-

ing but poor stuff will come from

its use. _ . .



Poor rubbers cause many losses.

Red rubbers are usually. best, and





 





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thickness is no sign of quality. Can

rubbers must stand considerable heat

and pressure. This is where the cheap

rubbers fall down, since the decay of

the rubber goes on all through the win-

ter. It is a very poor brand of econ-

omy to use rubbers a second time, for

while they may~prove successful some?

times, often they do not and'when a.

quart of beans-is'worth forty cents,

there is no occasion for taking a chance

of wasting forty cents to save one

cent.





The time of processing ‘should be

watched carefully and, made to corres-

pond with the time required in the

time tables that are being followed. A

trouble that often creeps in is that the

person doing the canning does not

know when the water is boiling. There

are four stages in heating water, viz.:

1. When the vapor passes off. 2.

When the bubbles let go of the bottom

and rise to the t0p. 3. When one can

see the currents'of water as they cir-

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When the water “jumps and tries to

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to 212 degrees F. in the laststage here

mentioned and time should be counted

from then on, not before.





More than ninety per cent of the

cases of spoiled canned goods may be

traced to defective jars, poor rubbers,

bent tops, or lack of sufficient sterili—

zation.





HOW TO CLEAN OLD PARAFFIN.





 





Paraffin that has become unclean

through usage in canning and preserv-

ing, may be cleaned and reused. Many

times it can be cleaned with a brush

in cold water. If this does not remove

all the dirt, says a specialist of the

United StatesDepartment of Agricul-

ture, heat the paraffin to boiling and

strain it through two or three thick-

nesses of cheesecloth placed over a

funnel. Or a thin layer of absorbent

cotton over one thickness of cheese-

cloth may be used as a strainer. One

straining should be sufficient ordinar~

ily, but if the paraffin still is unclean

heat and strain again. Any paraffin

lodging in the strainer may be recov-

ered by heating the cloth’and pouring

off the hot liquid through another

strainer.





HOME QUERIES.





 





If P. H. will put some sassafras oil

on some cotton batting and place it

where the ants are, I believe she will

soon be rid of them. I and my neigh-

bors have used it successfully—M.

M. B.



Household Editorz—Occasionally on

the ivy houseplant white, moldy spots

appear, both on the leaves and stem.

What is the cause and how should it

be treated? What will clean window

panes, which seem to have rust of

screening eaten into it? If screens

are not removed from windows, occa-

s10nally it gradually turns brownish

and streaked. Strong solutions, like

alcohol, gasoline, soda, borax, and

scouring is of no avail.-——-Mrs. G. D.





The houseplant is attacked by a.

mildew which can be controlled by the

use of some good fungicide. The damp

weather has been the cause of it. A

dusting of the plant with flowers of

sulphur will probably keep the disease

in check. ’If not, use some prepared

Bordeaux, which can be purchased at

seed supply houses. '



Iron rust is removed by an acid in-

stead of an alkali. Buy a little hyM‘

chloric acid and‘try this on the stains.

If it does_;not help write again"





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'mal demand.

_ more and more plants what will the

condition be when the great war

ceases? '





 





 





' * Local Creamery vs. Condensaryx:





By W. B. LIVERANCE





HE great war has created ab-



normal food conditions such as



have never been universally ex-

perienced before. It is true that dur-

ing our Civil War the economic condi-

tions as regards foods were somewhat

as today, but only in proportion to the

immensity of the two wars. This is a.

world war and very naturally every

country, state, province and township

‘that can, is expected to do its share

to feed those countries which can not

produce sufficient food stuffs for their

own maintenance.



Particularly is it true that there is

a. shortage of “animal feeds,” as dis-

tinguished from vegetable products. In

mest European countries, particularly

in those countries which are at war,

meat and dairy products are not pro-

duced in sufficient quantities to satisfy

the demand. This is a result of sev-

eral causes, but principally because of





V the scarcity of man labor which is nec-





essary to care for stock and to produce

the crops which are essential for its

maintenance. Great quantities of meats

and dairy products are being shipped

to Europe at the present time with the

-result that our own conditions as re-

gards production, handling and distri-

bution of those products, are very

abnormal.



Milk, the universal food, is greatly

in demand in all the belligerent coun-

tries. Not until there was a decreased

supply was its value fully appreciated.

When a child loses its vivacity and

becomes sallow and thin because one

food substance is missing, then does

the value of that one element become

apparent. But milk has been in de-

mand in Europe for the use of armies

and adults at home as well as for the

children and infants.



The easiest way to transport milk

is in condensed form and in tin and

cans. Because of that fact there has

been an enormous demand from across

the sea for condensed milk. Vast

stores of condensed milk which were

in warehouses before the war, have

been depleted through shipment abroad

and there has been a constant and

growing demand on condensaries to

ship more and more. This has result-

ed in the erection of a large number

of milk condensing plants throughout

Michigan and in fact throughout the

dairy sections of this country.



As a result of the boom in the milk

condensing business many of our

thriving local creameries are meeting

with strong and dangerous competi-

tion. In fact, if the war, the cause of

the demand for condensed milk, con-

tinues much longer,- many creameries

Will-be forced to cease operating. That

is indeed unfortunate as the patrons

of such creameries will learn in years





. to come.





Many will recall that at the begin-

ning of the war the milk condensing

business was at a low ebb. In Wis-

consin several plants were obliged to

close their doors. One large plant in

southern Wisconsin, operated by one

of the largest milk corporations in this

country, turned its factory temporarily

into a creamery. In other places large

quantities of milk were sent back to

the farmers, the majority of whom

were absolutely unprepared to utilize

it; As soon as the unnatural demand

for the milk began, however, that con-

dition ceased. The demand for con-

densed milk under normal conditions

is comparatively limited. Conditions

as they were before the war show





' plainly that there were then more than





enough condensaries to supply the nor-

With the erection of





Many farmers have been led to quit





patronizing the home creamery be-





”eause of the apparently higher price





g‘efiered by the condensary. The writer





 

 





knows from actual figures that during

the year 1916 condensaries netted the

farmers less for their milk than did

the well operated local creamery. Ev-

en today with condensaries paying

$2.35 per hundred for milk testing four

and a half per cent. butter-fat, well-op-

erated creameries are giving as good,

if not better, returns. For example,

we will consider a creamery which

paid forty-two cents per pound for but-

ter-fat on its last pay day, and com-

pare the returns from that creamery

with those of the condensary, taking

the price paid on the basis of a milk

testing four and a half per cent, or

one which contains four and a half

pounds of butter-fat per 100 pounds of

milk. That quantity of butter-fat at

forty-two cents per pound would be

worth $1.89. Each one hundred pounds

of milk will yield at least eighty

pounds of skim-milk. At the present

price of pork, skim-milk is worth eas-

ily sixty cents per hundred pounds,

hence, the value of the skim-milk per

hundred pounds of milk would be forty-

eight cents. The total amount receiv-

ed for 100 pounds of milk then, would

be $1.89 plus forty-eight cents, or $2.37

as compared with $2.35, the conden-

sary price.



Year in and year out the home





creamery Will , , >

better, returns ' than the condensary.

In fact, the returns are much‘ better

than will be obtained from the conden-

sary if it has no competition. As a

farm boy the writer remembers when

milk was refused at the condensary for

no other reason than that there was

an over-supply. When creamery com-

petition sprang up the condensary was

only too glad to get the milk. Even

during the past year our agricultural

journals have reported 'meeting after

meeting of milk producers who were

patronizing condensaries, but were

uniting because of unsatisfactory re-

turns from the condensary.



Your creamery is a local institution;

it is being operated in your interest

and for your protection. If your pa-

tronage and that- of your neighbors is

withdrawn, it will be much weakened

and eventually may be forced to close

its doors. With that competition gone,





'you will have no comeback in case





you do not receive just treatment from

the condensary. This is the general

prediction: Condensaries will operate

successfully while so many nations

are engaged in war, but as soon as

the war ceases the market for con-

densed milk will become poor. You

will need the home creamery then and

in order to have it alive and booming

it is necessary that the patrons sup-

port it loyally. (See Editorial Com-

ment).





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The Country’s Bean Crop





HE largest bean crop in the his.



tory of the country will be grown



this year. The high prices be-

ing paid for the product, and the pros-

pective demand on account of the war,

are responsible for the increased inter-

est taken in the crop by farmers.

Among the states in the Union, Mich«

igan shows the largest increase in the

number of acres, although several oth—

er states show larger percentage in-

creases.



Five states in the Union have more

than a hundred thousand acres each

devoted to this crop. These states

are in the order of their importance—-

Michigan, California, New York, Colo-

rado and New Mexico. Michigan has

639,000 acres this year, according to

the latest federal estimate; California

395,000 acres; New York 210,000 acres;

Colorado 170,000 acres, and New Mex-

ico 136,000 acres. The same authority

gives the number of acres in Tennes-

see as 67,000; 45,000 in Idaho; 35,000

in Wisconsin; 27,000 in Nebraska; 25,-

000 in Maine; 19,000 in Ohio; 17,000 in

Arizona, and 10,000 in Vermont.



The kinds of beans grown in these

different states is a matter of import—

ance, inasmuch as the great bean of

commerce is the white pea-bean. Only

six of these states grow fifty or more

per cent of this variety and of these

six only two are heavy producing

states——Michigan and New York. The

per cents of the crop of the white pea-

bean variety for the different import-

ant producing states named are, ac-

cording to the estimates: Michigan

91 per cent;.Wisconsin 90 per cent;

New York 79 per cent; Nebraska 65

per cent; Vermont 50 per cent, and

Idaho with a crop largely of this kind.

Sixty per cent of_Maine’s crop is of

the Red Kidney variety; 82 per cent

of Colorado’s crop, and 83 per cent of

New Mexico’s belong to the Pinto type;

the soy bean predominates in Ohio and

Tennessee, with the percentages at 64

and 60 respectively, while 34 per cent

of California’s crop is Lima, 22 per

cent pea-bean and 44 per cent is divid-

ed among many other kinds.



To give the reader a better idea of

the position of this state’, in the pro-

duction of the pea-bean, a comparison

with the total acreage is illuminating.

Figuring the percentages and acreages

as given, one arrives at a total 'area

devoted to the variety in this country

or 974,120 acres, of which 581,490 acres





'cover six and one-fourth





 





are in the one state of Michigan. In

other words, sixty per cent of the pea-

‘beans grown in the country are pro

duced here in our own state.





CLIMAX BASKET LAW.





 





Inquiry has been made as to the re-

quirements of the new state law re-

garding climax baskets. That the in-

quirer and our readers may have the

entire text before them we are printing

it here in full. Those having products

to be sold in these containers would

do well to read the sections carefully.

In some instances the provisions of

this measure may work a temporary

hardship; however, the law in con-

junction with other recently enacted

legislation is going to help put the mar4

keting of fruits and vegetables on a

much better business basis. Every

commercial grower should endeavor to

urge not only the standardization of

grades but likewise the standardiza-

tion of containers to the end that a

basket of a particular grade of fruit

will have a definite meaning in the

minds of both buyer and seller. Fol,

lowing is the text referred to:





Section 1. That standards of climax

baskets for grapes and other fruits and

Vegetables shall be the two-quart bas-

ket, four-quart basket, and twelve-

quart basket, respectively.



(a) The standard two-quart climax

basket shall be of the following dimen-

sions: length of bottom piece, nine and

one-half inches; width of bottom piece,

three and one—half inches; thickness of

bottom piece, three—eighths of an inch;

height of basket, three and seven-

eighths inches, outside measurement:

top of basket, length eleven inches

and width five inches, outside meas-

urement. Basket to have a cover five

by eleven inches, when a cover is

used; _



(b) The standard four—quart climax

basket shall be of thevfollowing dimen-

sions: length of bottom piece, twelve

inches; width of bottbm piece, four

and one-half inches; thickness of bot-

tom piece, three-eighths of an inch;

height of basket, four and eleven-six-

teenths inches, outside measurement;

top of basket, length fourteen inches,

width six and one-fourth inches, out-

side measurement. Basket to have

inches by

fourteen inches, when cover is used.-



(c) The standard twelve-quart cli-

max basket shall be of the following

dimensions: length of bottom piece,

sixteen 'inches; Width of bottom piece,

six and one-half inches; thickness of

bottom piece, seven-sixteenths of an

inch; height of basket, seven. and one—

sixteenth, inches, outside measure-

ment; top of basket, length nineteen“





 





 





 





 





 

   





 





measurement. “Basket. to have weaver .

nine inches by nineteen inches, when "

cover is used. '- - '



Section 2. That the standard basket,

or other container for small fruits, ber-

ries, and vegetables shall be of the'

following capacities: namely, dry one»

half pint, dry-pint. dry quart, or multi-

ples of the dry quart. ‘



. (a) The dry‘half pint shall contain

Sixteen and eight-tenths- cubic inches;



(b) The dry pint shall contain thir-

ty-three and six-tenth cubic inches;



(0) .The dry quart shall contain six—

ty-seven and two-tenths cubic inches.



Sectino 3. That it shall be unlawful

to manufacture for shipment, or to sell

within the state any climax baskets or

other containers for small fruits, ber-

ries, or vegetables, whether filled or

unfilled. which do not conform to the

prowsi'ons of this act; and any person

guilty of a wilful violation of any of

the provisions of this act shall be

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and

upon conviction thereof shall be fined

in any sum not exceeding twenty-five

dollars: Provided, That nothing here-

in contained'shall apply to the manu-

facture, sale, or shipment of climax

baskets, baskets, or other containers

for small fruits, berries, and vegeta-

bles when intended for export to for-

eign countries when such climax bas-

kets, baskets, or other containers for

small fruits, berries, and vegetables

accord with the specifications of the

foreign purchasers or comply with the

law of the country to which shipment

is made ‘or to be made.





Section 4. That the examination and

test of climax baskets, baskets, or oth-

er containers for small fruits, berries,

and vegetables, for the purpose of de~

determining whether such baskets or

other containers comply with the pro-

visions of this act, shall be made by

the Dairy and Food Department, and

the Dairy and Food Commisioner shall

establish and promulgate rules and

regulations allowing such reasOnable

tolerances and variations as may be

found necessary.





Section 5. That it shall be the duty

of each prosecuting attorney, to whom

satisfactory evidence of any violation

of the act is presented, to cause appro-

priate proceedings to be commenced

and prosecuted in the proper courts of

the state for the enforcement of the

penalties as in such case herein pro-

vided. _



Section 6. That no dealer shall be

prosecuted under the provisions of this

act when he can establish a guaranty

signed by the manufacturer, wholesal-

er, jobber, or other party residing with-

in the United States from whom such

climax baskets, baskets, or other cone

tainers, as defined in this act. were

purchased, to the effect that said cli-

max baskets, baskets, or other contain-

ers are correct within the meaning of

this act. Said guaranty, to afford pro-

tection, shall contain the name and ad-

dress of the party or parties making

the sale of climax baskets, baskets, or

other containers to such dealer, and

in such case said party or parties shall

be amenable to the prosecutions, fines,

and other penalties which would at-

tach in due course to the dealer under

the provisions of this act.



Section 7. That this act shall be in

force and effect from and after the

first day of November, nineteen hun-

dred seventeen.





 





CITY MARKET PROBLEMS.





 





One of the daily papers of Saginaw,

the News, ‘has been investigating the

city market there and finds that the

investment of about $60,000 in a place

where farm products may pass direct

from farm to table is in fact rich pick-

ing ground for the hucksters, while the

city consumers have no show. The

market is called the “Hucksters’ De-

light.” The hucksters come early,

watch the growers like hawks as they

come in, and then gobble up the good

bargains as quick as a wink. “If the

farmer is ‘easy’,” says the newspaper

man, “the peddlers will have him al-

most believing that he should pay

them for taking his goods away. Un-

less one wishes to buy in large quanti-

ties and is willing to get into the

scramble with the hucksters he might

better. stay at home and enjoy his

‘beauty’ sleep. Sometimes even quan-

tities are not available as hucksters

often Order a day in advance. Class

distinction is sharply draWn. The

hucksters are the aristocracy, the gro-

cers belong to the middle class and the»

city consumers are Common 'dugers

who take the leavmgs.” " ’" ‘



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.1912"





HIS year’s apple crop calls for in-

telligent handling. The latest

government reports indicate a

crop of about 190,000,000 bushels. That

is a. little below normal. Good prices

are assured for all honestly packed

first quality apples, and also for hon-





»estly packed selected second grades,





which government experts say can be

put into storage. When the crop is big

it does not pay to store second grades,

but this year, despite the fact. that we

cannot ship our usual 2,000,000 barrels

ofapples abroad, because shipping

space is precious, we should be able to

get fair prices for all good apples at

home.



Careless packing of poor quality

fruit has always been one of the chief

causes of market instability and unsat-

isfactory prices to the growers. This

year the whole apple industry is co-op-

erating to remove this market handi-

cap. There has never been an apple

year such as this one is going to be.

Growers have never been able to get

together and engage and finance a na-

tional educational campaign among

consumers to increase apple consump-

tion. This year the situation makes it

necessary for the United States gov-

ernment, through the food administra-

tion, to conduct a consumer’s cam-

paign of publicity on behalf of the ap-

ple. This campaign will begin while

the crop is being sent to market, and

will probably continue until the last

apple is eaten up late next spring. So

the grower has three great incentives

for grading, packing and storing this

crop with especial care.



First. It is a good cropand calls for

care.



Second. The government will en-

courage apple eating and apple storage

and will discourage apple speculation

that raises the price abnormally.



Third. We must eat up at home

more than two million barrels of ap-

ples which would ordinarily be ex-

ported.



To get the best of the crop to the

market in prime condition it must be

picked carefully at the time of matu-

rity and promptly cooled in temporary

storage, and then skillfully graded and

packed. Second grade fruit should not

go into barrels or boxes. If it cannot

be marketed in bulk in nearby consum-

ing centers, then it should be worked

up into by-products along with the

culls.



There has been a gratifying improve-

ment in apple marketing the past two

or three years. Western apples are

boxed to strictly honest standards by

the great co-operative growers’ organi-

zations in Washington, Oregon, Cali-

fornia, Idaho and Colorado. The east-

ern barrel apple has also been wonder-





. fully improved in New York and other





states. Because apples are honestly

packed and give the best possible val-

ue for the money there is an increase

in the consumer demand. Retail mer-

chants who were formerly almost

afraid to buy apples in barrels, because

they were not sure of getting market-

able values for their money, are now

buying freely and in confidence. This

good work makes it possible for the

government to go further and encour-

age the use of apples as a war time

food measure.





Because the bulk of the crop will be

picked by volunteer workers this year,

and put into common storage until the

grower can find time to grade and

pack, there will be an opportunity to

give closer personal attention to the

grading and packing than might be the

case if the crop were handled as in

peace times. For the grower who de-

sires instructions in apple packing the

Department of Agriculture at ‘Washing-

ton has information in bulletin form,

for pickers and packers that will be

furnished free. .

gWinterwepples may be kept in the





a .3 ,‘





“Applet-mp





storage room in the basement of the

house, in outdoor storage cellars, or in

banks or pits. Conditions suitable for

the keeping of potatoes answer fairly

well for apples. They demand cool

temperatures; in fact, they may be

kept near the freezing point, without

injury.





 





Corn Prices





HAT the unprecedentedly high



price of corn is not due to ab-



normal holding of supplies by

farmers is the belief of the U. S. De-

partment of Agriculture. Investiga-

tions disclosed that farmers are hold—

ing only enough corn to insure their,

seed supply for next spring and to pro-

tect their live stock feeding interests

until the production of a sufficient sup—

ply from the present crop is assured;

and that the stocks in their hands are

much lower than normally.





Among the conditions making for





’high corn prices, are shortage of the





1916 crop and the carry-over from

1915, increased exports, increase in the

general level of prices, and the in-

creased numbers of live stock on the

farms. The 1916 corn crop, it is point-





ed out, was 400,000,000 bushels short-





of the 1915 crop, and stocks on farms

on March 1, 1917, were 300,000,000

bushels short of the stocks on farms

on the same date the preceding year.

The exports of corn in the year ended





 

 





DENBY





MOTOR 'rnucKs





 





 





ARM work means hard work. Carrying

heavy loads over all kinds of roads takes

the sturdiest kind of construction. Nothing

less will do——as you know if you’ve tried it.



That’s why we want you to investigate

thoroughly the Denby truck, on exhibition

at the State Fair and at dozens of dealer’s

showrooms around the state.



Internal-g e a r d r i v e—inore pulling





 





June 30, 1917, were approximately sev-

enty per cent greater than in the pre-

ceding year and about seven times

greater than in the year ended June

30, 1914, the year preceding the war.

The general level of prices, it is point-

ed out, has increased greatly during

the last year, especially as regards

food stuffs. Live stock in the United

States has increased about three mil-

lion head in the past three years, sta-

tistics of the department show, and

so has helped to increase the demand

for corn for feeding purposes.





 





AN OLD-TIME COON HUNT.





 





(Continued from page 170).

under hold. He was taller than me so

he lifted me clear off the ground and

tried to throw me sideways, but Iland-

ed on my feet and stuck right to him.

Then he tried it again. As soon as I

struck on my feet the second time, I

wound my left leg around him, threw

my weight against him and over he

went on his back, with me on top of

him.



We were right up again and the

next time I purposely let him get the

under bold, but before he could lift

me up, I slipped my right hand on his

right shoulder and by pushing my arm

against his throat, shut off his wind,

and forced him over on his back. Then

he had enough.



The rest of the Indian boys refused

to wrestle with me after that, so I put

on my coat and got ready for the feast.



They raked the fire aside and lifted

the stones from the roast coon and

fished him out. The clay was peeled

off, leaving the roasted meat nice and

brown. It didn’t take long to pull it

to pieces and divide it around. Then

I divided the corn-bread and each one

took a piece. We salted the meat as

we ate it, and I tell you it tasted

mighty fine after our long tramp.



When we had finished eating we

laid down around the fire and went to

sleep. The next thing I knew it was

broad daylight and I lit out for home

carrying one of the coons on a stick

over my shoulder. '



“I just wish there were coons

around here now," said Johnnie. “I’d

.like to climb up a tree after one.”



“It’s a long time since I tasted coon

meat,’ ’replied grandpa. “But there’s

no chance for any more now.”





Capacmes power on less fuel. High road clearance.

l-ton Particularly efficient with trailers. Built

to throughout to stand the hardest service—

3-tons and doing it today on hundreds of farms.



Descriptive folder mailed free.





DENBYIMOTOR TRUCK co.





Dept. P- DETROIT, MICHIGAN





 





 





 





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Quality is her middle name. All along the line.

l from wheels to neck—yoke Quality Prevails. and

’5 for standing up to hard work The Guarantee

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





August 28, 1917.



Wheat—Transactions in the wheat

market the past week have been very

small, as the trade has been waiting

for the government to set the price on

this year’s crop. Buyers are merely

taking sufficient quantities to satisfy

their wants from day to day. The mills

are working full time to supply the

current demand, but are domg nothing

toward putting in stores of flour. Af-

ter the price has been fixed under the

authority of the food control measure,

it is expected that there Will be a large

movement of the grain. Reports on

yields would justify the recent esti-

mates. One year ago No. 2 red wheat

sold on the local market at $1.45% per





 





bushel. Last week’s Detroit quota-

tions were . No. 2 No. 1

Red. White.

Wednesday . . . . . . . . 2.15 2.10

Thursday . . . . . . . . . . 2.15 2.10

Friday ...... .. . . . . . 2.15 2.10

Saturday ..... . . . . . 2.15 2.10

Monday .......... . . 2.15 2.10

Tuesday ........... 2.15 2.10





Corn—The corn market is active.

Prices here have worked higher the

past week, while on Monday the Chi-

cago market suffered a decline which

was credited to the sale of a large

block of October shipment by a Ten-

nessee concern. The demand for the

cereal is active and fairly large quan-

tities are being sold. The new crop is

improving and it now seems that the

only danger is the likelihood of frosts

before the grainhas inatured._Sliould

these hold off, the American farmers

will be able to market a large crop.

One year ago No. 3 corn sold at De—

troit for 881/20 per bushel. Last week s

local quotations were:





No. 3 No. 3



Mixed. Yflétziw.

Wednesday ........ 1.81 .

Thursday .......... 1.84 1.85

Friday ............. 1.85 1.86

Saturday ........... 1.89 1.90

Monday ............ 1.94 1.95

Tuesday ........... 1 96 1.98





Chicago—December $1.08 per bu;

May $1.05%. .



Oats—The interest taken in this

grain by exporters has giventhe mar—

ket support and a firm tone With prices

holding strong. resulted. The cereal

is being marketed quite freely, al-

though in some sections farmers are

too busy to deliver the grain. The Vis-

ible supply decreased 951,000 bushels,

against an increase of 5,821,000 bushels

for the corresponding week of 1916.

A year ago standard oats were quoted

at 49c per bushel. Last week's DetrOit

quotations were:





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Standard. ngigte.

Wednesday ........... 56

Thursday ............. 56 55

Friday ................ 561/; 551/;

Saturday .............. 57 1/2 2631/2

Monday ...............

Tuesday .............. 57 1/2 561/2





Chicago—Sept. 531/gc; Dec. 53%0.



Rye—Exporters are in the market

for rye, which has stimulated trading

and maintained prices despite the har-

vesting of a good crop. Cash No. 2 is

quoted at Detroit at $1.75; Sept. $1.72.



Beans—This market is dull with the

price steady at the recent decline.

Cash beans are quoted at $7.25; Octo-

ber $6.50. A dull market prevails at

Chicago, where offerings are small.

Michigan pea beans, handpicked, are

quoted there at $7.50@7.75; red kld‘

neys $5.75@6.



Seeds—Prime red clover $12; Octo-

ber $13; alsike $11.50; timothy $3.90.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





Flour.——Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best

patent $12.50; seconds $12.20; straight

$12; spring patent $14.80; rye flour

$12 per bbl.



Feed—In 100—lb. sacks, jobbing lots

are: Bran $40; standard middlings

$45; fine middlings $52; cracked corn

$75; coarse corn meal $73; corn and

oat chop $60 per ton.



Hay.~ln carlots at Detroit: No. 1

timothy $16.50@17; standard timothy

$15.50@16; No. 2 timothy $14.50@16;

light mixed $14.50@16; No. 1 mixed

$14@14.50; No. 1 clover $13@13.50.



Pittsburg.—No. 1 timothy $19.25@





-_19.50 per ton; No. 2 timothy $17@18;





No. 1 light mixed $16.75@17.25; No. 1

clover mixed $15.50@16; No. 1 clover

$16@16.50. »'



Straw.-—-In carlots, on track Detroit,

rye. straw $10.50@11; wheat and oat





*“ straw $9.50@10.





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Fresh creamery firsts 39@39%c.





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Butter.-—Demand active and market-





firm at 41c for fresh creamery extras.

_ Elgin.—Market firmer. Price based

on sales 41c.



Chicago.~—There is a good trade in

all grades and market is kept cleaned

up quite closely. Demand is mainly to

supply current ‘wants. Creamery ex-

tras are quoted at 411/20; extra firsts

410; firsts 39@401Ac; packing stock

34@341/2c. ' '



Eggs—Offerings are falling short of

requirements. Fresh firsts were quot-

ed at 36@380.



Chicago—Market has advanced for



good stock. Fresh Michigan firsts in

new cases sell for 36@37c.

' Pou‘;try.—-Market is firm. Spring

chickens 27@28c; Leghorns 23@25c;

hens 24@26c; ducks 23@24c; geese 16

@170; spring geese 18c. '



Chicago.—The receipts are consider-

ably larger, but the market held up

well, considering the large supply.

Fowls sell from 21@220; spring chick-

ens 23c; ducks 210; geese 140; spring

geese 16c.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Fruits—Plums 750 per peck basket;

huckleberries $4.50@ 4.75 per bushel;





peaches $3@3.25 per bushel for El-'





bertas.



Chicago—Currants $1.50@1.75; blue-

berries $3@3.50 per 16-qt. case; pears,

Michigan Clapp’s Favorite $1.75@2 per

case of six baskets; peaches $1.25@2

per bushel for Elbertas; plums, Mich-

igans 75c@$1 per 16-qt. case.



Apples—At Detroit Harvest apples

are quoted at $5.75@6.50 per bbl. At

Chicago Michigan Duchess sell for 750

@1 per bushel, or $3.50@3.75 per bbl;

Astricans 75@90c per bushel.



Potatoes—Potatoes held steady and

there is not the expected volume of re-

ceipts. Michigan—grown $1.75 per bu.

At Chicago home-grown potatoes sell

for $1.15@1.20 per bushel.





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Trading has been a little quiet the

past week. Contracts with the govern-

ment have not been cnmnleted. Prices

rule firm, although the western produc-

ers have sold practically all of their

clip, the eastern farmers are still hold-

ing on to a portion of their stock. In

Boston fleeces sold last week at from

55@850 per pound with the trading on

a small scale.





 





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Local millers are waiting for defi-

nite information from the government

as to the price to be paid for wheat

under the Hoover food control meas-

ure. They understand that the price

will be $2.10. The price here this week





is $2. Oats are off a little, being quot-

ed at 70c. Corn is $1.90; rye and bar-

ley $1.50. Beans are on a $6.50 basis





to farmers. Eggs are up one cent and

are now quoted at 35c, and creamery

butter is one cent higher.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





The variety of stuff offered is small-

er than for this date in former years,

but the quantity islarge and buyers

showed up in such good numbers that

growers are able to sell at good pric-

es. Tomatoes are now selling around

$2.50 for good stock; potatoes $1.60;

beets $1.90; carrots $1.80; cabbage 40

@45c; good apples $2; cucumbers 75c

and up, depending on size—picklers

around 30c per hundred; string beans

$2.25; eggs 500.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





August 27, 1917.

Buffalo.



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 238 cars; hogs 30 d. d.; sheep 12

d. d.; calves 1500 head.



With 238 cars of cattle here today

the run consisted mostly of medium

and common grades. There were no

strictly corn-fed cattle here, the best

landing up to $13.25, but there were

very few cattle good enough to go to

New York and there were too many

of the medium cattle for the

trade. . The market opened very slow

and the bulk, of the medium steers

sold 25@50c lower, in some cases

more. What few strictly good cows

were here sold steady and the medium

cows and commoner grades were slow

and 10@25c lower. There was a good

demand for all feeders and stock heif-

ers and they sold fully steady to a

shade stronger. There was a good de-

mand for all grades of bulls and they

sold strong. We look for a fair run of

cattle here, next Monday and a good

trade on the best grades, but a slow

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day's best time, bulk of the sales at

$17.50@17.60, with a few selected

heavy weightS‘up to $17.85; pigs and

lights $16@16.50; roughs $16@16.2_5;

stags $13@14. Everything sold and the

outlook is strong for next few days.



With a light run of lambs today our

market opened up active and prices

steady with the close of last wek. All

sold and we look for steady prices the

balance of the week.



Lambs $15@16; yearlings $12.50@

14; cull to common $11@15; Wethers

$10@10.75; ewes $9.50@10.25; bucks

$7@8; best calves $16@16.25; common

and light $13.50@15.50; heavy $12@

15; grassers $6@8.50.





Chicago.

August 27, 1917.

.Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today..26,000 14,000 9,000

Same day 1916..12,868 36,277 17,722

Last week ...... 59,085 66,106 57,153

Same Wk 1916..65,152 132,307 101,658



Shipments from here last week em-

braced 12,643 cattle, 7,947 hogs and

15,017 sheep, comparing with 9,046

cattle, 15,915 hogs and 7,751 sheep a

week earlier. Hogs received averaged

230 pounds. .



Fat cattle were active today and av-

eraged around 25c higher, while prime

beeves sold 50@75c higher, with few

here. The best steers sold at $16@

16.30, among the sales being 18 head

of steers averaging around 1200 lbs.

at $16 and two loads of yearlings av-

eraging about 900 lbs. at $15.50. Hogs

sold as much as 25c higher on a meag-

er supply, the top being $17.65. The

best range feeding lambs brought

$16.90@17, the top being 250 higher.



Cattle made fresh high records for

the best class of fairly heavy corn-fed

lots and for prime little yearlings last

week, these forming too small a por-

tion of the offerings, while they were

in strong demand. Prior to last week

$15 was the top price, with few sell-

ing near that figure, but last Wednes-

day there was quite a long list of sales

at $15, while the best beeves with

much weight brought $15.25 and $15.50,

with a sale of 49 prime yearlings aver-

aging from 895 to 929 lbs. at $15.10.

Sixty-seven steers averaging 1364 lbs.

brought $15.50 and 68 head averaging

but 1288 lbs. brought $15.25. Cattle

coming under the head of choice sold

at $14.50 and upward, with a good

class purchased at $13.50@14.45, a me-

dium class at $12@13.45, fair to pretty

good light weight killers at $9.50 and

upward, and sales all the way down to

$7.25@8.50 for scattering lots of infer-

ior little steers. Choice yearlings were

higher than ever, selling at $14.50@

15.10, with sales down to $10@11 for

the commoner grades of these cattle.

The general cattle market started off

on Monday with receipts of 31,207

head and general reductions of 25@

50c, except for fat lots, the packers

refusing to buy except on their own

terms. By Wednesday, everything sold

far higher, advances ranging from 25

@750 above the low spot on Monday.

Steers selling at $13.50@15 were" 50c

higher; the $11.75@13.45 kinds were

60@75c higher, and the cheaper grades

were 25c higher. Western range cat-

tle were in moderate supply and in de-

mand at $7@13, going mostly around

$9@10.35, few going above $11. Na-

tive cows and heifers sold for the

butcher trade at $6.80@10.5O for the

former and at $6@12.50 for the latter,

with cutters at $5.70@6.75, canners at

$5.10@5.65 and bulls at $5.50@10.

Calves were boomed to $14.75@16 for

light vealers, heavies selling around

$6@11. Stockers sold fairly at $6.50@

8.75 and feeders at $7.75@9.75, declin-

ing and then advancing.



Highly spectacular hog markets

were experienced last week, with ad-

vances of as much as 5OC@$1 per 100

lbs. in a single day, accompanied with

lively buying, the receipts being inad-

equate, according to the statements of

buyers. Later on the demand flattened

out badly, and prices started to de-

cline as rapidly as they had advanced

before, it being understood that cer-

tain packing interests hao- disposed of

large holdings of provisions at higher

prices. Quality of the offerings was

nothing to brag about, and choice corn-

fed lots sold readily at a good premi-

um. Shippers took a fair share of the

hogs, although decidedly fewer than a

week earlier. After prime hogs had

advanced to $20, the highest price ever

paid, prices broke to $15.65@17.40, few

go'ng above $17.25, while pigs brought

$1 @1475. -



Lambs were urgently sought after

last week by feeders, who aid higher

prices than killers were wi ling .to, the

best feeders from the ranges going at

$16.75 per 100 lbs. Owing to the bi





feeder demand, there was a wide di -‘





ference in prices between natives and

range lambs. Lamb supplies were only

moderate, and supplies of yearlings





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strong to 25c, higher. and seine range-

yearlings advanced 50c, while prime

breeding ewes sold $1 higher. Prices

closed as follows: Lambs $11.25@

16.90; feeding lambs $16@16.75; year—

lings $10@13.25; wethers $9.50@

11.50; eWes $4.50@10; breeding ewes

$9@16; bucks $7@8.



Horses were in meager supply and,

in poor demand last week at mostly

unchanged prices, the principal activ-

ity being in horses for, the British

army. It was stated that the army in-

spectors were more rigid than hereto-

fore in making examinations. Inferior

to good farm chunks were salable at

$60@150 drafters at $185@265 and de-

sirable drivers at $125@2oo.





LIVE STOCK NEWS.



Owing to the enormous underproduc-

tion of sheep in the United States,

prices for lambs, yearlings, wethers

and ewes are far higher than in past

years, with offerings on the markets of

the country far too small to meet trade

requirements. As for feeding lambs

from the distant range country, they

are outselling the best killing lambs.

much of the time, country buyers of

these taking away many flocks that

the packers would be glad to get. Most

of the feeding lambs offered on the

Chicago market average in weight

around 60 pounds, while the demand is

mainly for feeders weighing not more

than 55 pounds. There is also a lively

demand for breeding ewes, and prime

yearlings of this class are high sellers,

most sheepmen refusing to part with

their ewe lambs. A year ,ago the best

lambs were selling for

years ago for $8.85, and six years ago

for $7. . ' -



A fine large barley crop in Tama.

county, Iowa, comes in handy this

year, as many farmers have sold their

corn and will utilize their new crop of

barley for feeding their hogs. Barley

is especially good for feeding to young.

shoats, when mixed with oats. The

barley crop of that region is running

from forty to eighty bushels to the

acre. and the oat crop runs from fifty

to one hundred bushels. A few cases

of hog cholera have caused farmers to

vaccinate their hogs.



Victor Scott, of Linn county, 111.,

widely known as a successful stock

feeder, was in the Chicago market re-

cently with a shipment of 106 head of

mixed Shorthorn steers which averags





ed 1360 pounds and brought $14.25 per ‘





100 pounds. They were fed corn on.

pasture. They were wintered on shock

corn and hay, with a littl ecorn up to

February, when they were put on one-

third of a feed of corn. After the first

of June the cattle were, while on grass,

fed corn in self-feeders. Mr. Scott has

300 hogs which are being fed, and he

plans to lay in more cattle, as he has

still 01,000 bushels of corn left in his

cribs. Live stock in that locality is

about all marketed. Corn is late, but

is coming along well, and a late frost

is all that seems needed to make a.

good crop.



A report made by the Cudahy Pack-

ing Company has been compiled for

the federal trade commision. It says

the beef requirements 0 fthe United

States annually are not less than four-

tenn million head, and adds: “If, in

addition to the present method and

supplies, each of the 6,000,000 farms

of the United States would produce

even a few head of finished live stock

of good grade annually, the entire

meat industry would be stabilized and

the future supply assured.”



The federal administration is regu-

lating the distribution of food and pric-

es, having started with wheat, and

later on the food commission will take

up other foods. Controller Hoover

warns the people that the world- faces

a meat famine as well as an inade-

quate food supply and he cites figures

showing that cattle, hog and sheep sup-

plies are dwindling rapidly under the

extraordinary requirements brought

about by war conditions and the en-

forc European curtailment of crops

and live stock, while live stock sup-

plies in the allied countries are likely

to be wiped out entirely. Mr. Hoover

makes the prediction that fabulously

high prices are going to prevail for all

descriptions of meats, both in the Uni-

ted States and Europe, during the re-

mainder of the war, as well as for

many years thereafter. He adds that

these high prices will take in import—

ant animal products, such as lard. but-

ter, cheese, fats, oils( wool and leath-

er, and he advocates government con-

trol of our meat exports. Meanwhile

strong efforts are being made to stim-

ulate the wheat area, as well as the

acreage of other grains and vegeta-

bles, and attempts are goin '

made ‘to grow a billion bus els of

wheat next year. Whether it is pos-

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tain "suflici'ent'fa m Workers, their p‘rie's-

ent scarcity an the high wages d‘e-

manded being serious obstacles. In

some parts of the United States exten-

sive drafting of. farmer boys for the

army promises to cut down much need-

ed farm .labor.

‘ The sensational boom in hog prices

has taken most people by surprise, but

the last crop of hogs was hurried on

the market so prematurely, because of

the scarcity and dearness of corn 1n

many farming districts, that compara-

tively few matured hogs are left. What

the future may bring forth is a matter

of speculation, but normal prices now

seem to be a long way off; That there

is a real shortage of hogs ready for

marketing is an indisputable fact, and

probably the only thing that can cause

any further considerable break in pric-

es is lessened consumption of fresh

and cured hog products. These‘ are

selling extremely high, havmg shared

in the advances in the raw material.

Hogs moving marketward are largely

ordinary in quality, being grassy, and

evidently most of them have not been

pampered with corn. This results in

an extremely wide spread 1n prices,

with a much larger demand for prime

medium weight and light hogs for Ship-

ment to. eastern packing points than a

few weeks ago, these offerings selling

at a liberal premium. Late .Chicago

receipts have averaged in weight 235

lbs., the same average as a year ago.

The average was 248 lbs. two years

ago, 243 lbs. three years ago and 235

lbs. four years ago. Stocks of pro-

visions held in western warehouses are

quite large. Unfortunately, many farm-

ers were tempted into marketing their

brood sows months ago by the high

prices prevailing, and nowthey Wish

they had them back, realizmg their

value at a time when it. is extremely

important to materially increase the

hog supply. .5



Because of the predominance of

grassy cattle in the markets of the

country, including such important pri-

mary markets as Chicago and Kansas

City, such offerings are quick to sell

off sharply on days of liberal receipts,

while the meager offerings of choice

corn-fed cattle, whether heavy steers

or fat little yearlings, are bringing

higher prices than were ever paid be-

fore in the history of the cattle indus-

try. On some days of late poorly fat-

tened steers, cows, heifers and bulls

have declined from 25 to 50 cents per

100 lbs., the packers holding off an

refusing to make. purchases except on

their owu terms. Nearly all of the

choice, well-bred cattle in feeding dis-

tricts have been n1arketed,,and there

is no telling where the advance in

prices for such stock will end. Of

course, it was the scarcity and dear-

ness of corn that caused their early

marketing. The demand for stockers

and feeders this summer has been poor

as a rule, although at times of late

there has been good buying. There

are many farmers who are disposed to

move slowly in loading up with cattle

for finishing preferring to wait and

see how the corn crop turns out; but

if it proves a big crop, it is certain that

owners of feeding cattle will be slow

in disposing of them, while much high-

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Unhealthy Skin—I have a sow that

had twelve pigs; since then a few of

them have died from what seems .to

be a diseased condition of their skin.

The first symptom is a darkened con-

dition of the skin about nose, neck

and shoulders and changed to a brown

color. There are a few black scabs

on head and the eyes are some sore.

Six of the pigs are in fairly good con-

dition, but two of them are diseased.

H. R., Howard, City, Mich—Apply one

part oxide of zinc and nine parts of

vaseline to sore parts of skin three

times a week, and they will get well.



Grubs in Skin—What is the cause

of grubs in. cattle and is there any way

to prevent this ailment, and do horses

and sheep have this same grub? Old

Subscriber., Owosso, Mich—This grub

is the larvae of a fly called Hypoderma

Lineata whose larva in the skin of

cattle are commonly known as war-

bles, and are occasionally found in lit-

itl’e- sacks beneath the. skin of horses.

_ Sheep as a rule are not'troubled with

them. In districts where they exist

the grub should be pressed out of the

skin during the winter and destroyed.

They develop from the egg of the ox

gad—fly. The eggs are deposited on

the legs, licked off and remain in the

mouth for a time, then make their way

into the'cellular tissue beneath the

skin of .the back and usually remain

there until spring. These grubs annoy

cattle and they damage the hide by

boring holes in it. Wiping'the legs

and parts of the-body where the flies

'casionallyf wui' pretty ‘much prevent



t 'f m‘havin's them,





' deposit; their eggs. With kerosone oc-,





-' THIS" IS‘ THE LAST eon-non.





The first edition is sent to those who

have not expressed a desire for the

latest markets. The late market edi-

ttintiln will be sent/ -on request at any



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Thursday’s Market.

August 29, 1917.

Cattle. -



Receipts 2860. Market closed 15@

25c lower than last week. There were

several good lots in the receipts.



Best heavy steers $10@11.25; best

handy weight butcher steers $8.50@

9.50; mixed steers and heifers $8@9;

handy light butchers $7@8; light

butchers $6.50@7.50; best cows $7.25@

8; butcher cows $6.50@7; common

cows $5.50@6; canners $4.50@5.25;

best heavy bulls $7.50@8; bologna

bulls $6.50@7; stock bulls $5.50@6;

feeders $7.50@8.50; stockers $6@7.50;

milkers and springers $40@95.



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

Co. 20 steers av 1033 at $11.25, 8 do

av 944 at $9; to Breitenbeck 20 do av

810 at $8; to Hammond, S. & Co. 30

do av 624 at $7.20; to Walk 20 butch-

ers av 522 at $6.35, 10. do av 547 at

$6.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 2 cows av

960 at $6.25, 3 steers av 1110 at $10.25,

2 do av 590 at $6, 9 butchers av 866

at $7.50, 10 do av 768 at $7.40, 2 cows

av 995 at $6; to Mich. B. Co. 3 bulls av

1050 at $7.50, 1 do wgh 1450 at $7.50,

2 steers av 900 at $8, 8 do av 915 at

$9, 25 do av 1000 at $9.50, 16 do av 850

at $8.85, 12 do av 776 at $8, 11 do av

980 at $9.50, 6 cows av 1640 at $7.75,

1 bull wgh 1120 at $7.50, 2 cows av

1060 at $7.50, 9 steers av 902 at $9;

to Burnfeldt 4 cows av 1167 at $8; to

Rainer 5 steers av 780 at $7.50, 4 do

av 732 at $7.40, 1 bull wgh 1170 at $8;

to Parker, W. & Co. 5 steers av 1020 at

$9, 27 do av 700 at $7.20, 8 do av 750

at $7.25, 6 do av 655 at $6.75; to Mich.

B. Co. 4 bulls av 955 at $6; to Sullivan

P. Co. 17 steers av 994 at $9, 10 do av

788 at $8.50, 3 do ax 783 at $7;'to

Fineman 9 butchers av 670 at $6.25.



Sandel, S., B. 82 G. sold Newton P.

Co. 2 bulls av 1225 at $7.50, 2 do av

1210 at $7.50, 1 do wgh 1150 at $8.25,

2 heifers av 685 at $7, 3 do av 813 at

$8; to Applebaum 13 do av 622 at

$6.35; to Kamman B. Co. 23 do av 980

at $9.10; to Benz 5 feeders av 748 at





d $7.25, 5 stockers av 530 at $6.75; to "





Thompson 5 steers av 826 at $7.75;

to Cohen 3 cows av 970 at $6.50; to

Goose 8 butchers av 763 at $6.90; to

Thompson 16 steers av 1062 at $9.25,

6 do av 870 at $8, 1 cow wgh 1100 at

$7; to Mindick Co. 2 do av 1235 at

$7.75, 1 do wgh 1230 at $6.50, 1 do wgh

1100 at $7.25; to Newton P. Co. 1 steer

wgh 990 at $9.50, 4 do av 892 at

$7.75, 2 cows av 725 at $6, 2 heifers av

675 at $5.35, 6 cows av 891 at $6.85;

to Sullivan P. Co. 5 butchers av 794 at

$7; to Hammond, S. & Co. 26 do av

840 at $8.75; to Thompson 31 steers

av 890 at $9, 8 do av 635 at $7.85, 12

do av 970 at $9.25; to Rattkowsky 8

do av 531 at $6.60; to Benz 7 stockers

av 680 at $7.50; to Mich. B. Co. 3 steers

av 810 at $9.25, 9 do av 951 at $7.50,

6 do av 611 at $6.50; to Mason B. Co.

9 do av 922 at $8.25.

Vea'l Calves.



Receipts 567. Market steady.

$15.50@16; others $7@14.



Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Sullivan P.

Co. 5 av 160 at $14.75; to Thompson

$2 av 185 at $12, 4 av 155 at $15.75, 1

wgh 180 at $15.75, 3 av 165 at $15.50,

2 av 230 at $11, 8 av 135 at $15.85; to

Nagle P. CO. 2 av 200 at $11, 4 av 155

at $15; to Sullivan P. Co. 8 av 150 at

$15.50, 5 av 160 at.$15.50; to Parker,

W. & C0. 4 av 145 at $11, 6 av 130 at

$14.75, 2 av,145 at $14.50.



McMullen, K. & J. sold Shapiro 6

av 190 at $15, 4 av 135 at $15, 1 wgh

190. at $15.75; to Ratner 1 wgh 160 at

$15, 2. av 180 at $15.50; to Mich. B.

Co. 9 av 160 at $15.75; to Parker, W.

& Co. 3 av 180 at $15.50, 3 av 155 at

$15, 25 av 170 at $15.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Thompson 2 av

175 at $16, 18 av 170 at $16, 4 av 185

at $15.25, 3 av 155 at $15.25; to Mich.

B. CO. 5 av 185 at $14; to Sullivan P.

Co. 5 av 140 at $15; to Thompson 4 av

185 at $16.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 3156. Market is steady at

Tuesday’s . close. Best- lambs $15.25@

15.50; fair lambs $13.50@14; light to

common lambs $12@13; fair to good

sheep $8.50@9; culls and common

$5.50@7. -



McMullen, K. & J. sold Swift & Co.

105 lambs av 80 at $ 5; to Pontiac P.

Co. 14 do av 70 at $15, 16 sheep av 120

at $8; to Coe 42 lambs av 55 at $13.25.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Sullivan P. Go.

45 lambs av 72 at $14.25, 5 do av 50 at

$12, 42 do av 73 at $15.50; to Coe 25

do av 52 at $13; to Hammond, S. & Co.

12 do av 75 at $15.25.





Hogs.

Receipts 1126.

25c higher.

$15@15.50.





Best





Hegs $17.25@18.25; pigs





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have cured a. sweenied horse with the Balsam.

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IS EXCELLENT.



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Agriculturist abouallsi yo ur Gombeult’s Caustic

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703 Chamber of Commerce





Bell Phone Cherry 3985





 





 





 

 





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Smut on oats, rye. barley, etc. ruins both

quality and quantity--kills profits.Prevent

smut by using Smutene. Does the work

every time. Saves you dollars. 56 pt. bottle,

enough for 20 bu. of seed, 60c. Pint bottle.

enough for 40bu. of seed, $1.00. Get. Smut-

ene from your dealer or direct from us.



‘Dr. Lane's Medicated Salt kills worms

in horses. cattle. hogs. sheep. Great condi -

uoner. Stock uts on more flesh with no

Rorefeed. 25 be. $1.50; 50 lbs., $2.60: 100



e.. . .



Dr. Lane's Poultry Tonic prevents dis-

“ lb. pkg. 250; 5





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





sense-increases laying. 1%



lb. 750: lOlb. pail 31.“).

.Dr. Lspe'sLice Killer prevents and kills ,



lice on bigor little chickens, 1 lb. can 25c.



Sore neck on horses relieved quickly

With Dr. Lape‘s Neverfale Healing Pow-

der. Price 50c.



Dr, Lspe's Fly and Insect Destroyer

drives est- awayn fr?!) cows. Contented

cows II vs more milk. gal. . .



Try Dr. Lane's Remedies and be con-

}rinced. All are guaranteed. Money back



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der direct from us if not. at your dealer's.





Dr. Lupe Veterinary Co., Inc.





Adrain, Mich.





   

   

 

 





Important





 





Announcement





 





See Page 185





Adv.





To obtain the highest price fol

your Hay and Straw consign soul.

. We specialize in Key and Straw-

Write us for information about our

market. eferences: 4th Street

National Bank and Robert Morris

Trust Company. .



E. H. RISHEL COMPANY, Inc.

429 Drexel Bldg., Philadelphia





We paid 40 to 60 above Detroit



imitations last week for New



aid Stock. If you have real



Fresh Eggs and went prem-

Xfihglfi‘g' BUTTE



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CHEESE CO. Dctrolt.Mlcll





H A Shlp To The Old Reliable Hone.

Daniel McCeffrey’e Sons.

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182—428

POULTRY.





Homestead Farms





We have a. special offer that will interest poultry

ple who want La ing Hensfor winter.



$306 we do not fee .



Pullets. we have decided to offer for immediate sale:





300 Laying Yearling White Leghorn Hens





These are from our choice colonies which as Pullets

began laying last September (see descriptive circu-

lar), and which are still laying. Favorable prices in

lots from 6 to 50 for immediate sale. Also other stock

as follows:





Yearling Hens





Brown Leghorns,

White Wynndottes.

Black Minorcas.





Yearling Cocks and Cockerels





Barred Plymouth Rocks. Rhode Island Reds. White

Wyundottes. Single Comb Black Minorcas, White and

B;own Leghorns. Anconus.





 





Barred Plymouth Rocks, (limited)'

Rhode Island Reds, Rose Comb





Geese and Ducks





60 fine Young White Pekin Ducks.

30 Young 'l'oulouse Geese.





All of these are pure breed ractical poultry which

daily proves it's practical vs no in the direct market

for poultry and its products which we have begun to

build up.





Everything we sell is guaranteed; every customer is

to be fully satisfied. Do you want some of these Year-

ing Hens or some of the Young Ducks or Geese? They

lare to be sold at once.



We are now making plans for a more extensive sale of

Day-Old Chicks next Spring. ~





HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.





2000 - Pullets - 2000





“200 Egg” Pedigree White Leghorns

"Bred-today" Strain. . .

These vigorous, May-hatched pullets will be laying

in a few weeks. These birds of quality are the (thou--

est ever offered for sale. Price in hundred lots. $1

each, for one week only. Our White Leghorns lay large,

white eggs. and plenty of them. They are bred right.

Book 'your order at once. Thousands of satisfied cus-

tomers. Catalogue. . ' _

MICHIGAN Pi) ILTRY FARM. Lansmg. Michigan

“Michigan's Largest Poultry Farm".





Yearling Hens For Breeders





S. C. white, liuff and Black LoghOrns ut SLOO each.

SUNNYBRUOK FARM. - - Hillsdaie. li’lich.





 





 





 





OHN’S big beautiful hen«iiatclied Barred Rocks,

O} God layers. Breeding gens (.3 birds) $10 to $20. Eggs

30.?150; 100, $7.01rculurs. hotoJolin Nortlion. Clfll'C.MiCli.



EGGS FROM STRAIN with





Barred ROCkS: records to 297 eggs 0. year, $2

per 15. Delivered by parcel post, prepaid. Circular

tree. Fred Astling. Constantine. Mich.





 





 





Great Layers. first class breed-

ers 10‘ for





Barred Rock Hens





w. c. COFFMAN, Benton Harbor, Mich.





 





x V Ferris White Leghorns



A real heavy laying strain, trapncstcd l7



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 day old chicks. We ship C. O. D. and



guarantee results. Catalog gives prices; describes stock; tells



all about cur farm and methods; results you can not by breed-

ing this strain. Sand lot your copy now—it is lrcc.



GEORGE D. FERRIS 984 Union. Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





Fowlers Buff Rocks. if??? {I}? 135353

$.75 for 15; $1.50 for 30; 82.00 for 50; $3.50 for 100.

R. B. FOWLER Hartford, MlCh.





 





uff Leghorns. August sale 25 hens one dollar each.

16 two dollar hens and cook bird for $20.00.

Dr. William A Smith. Petersburg, Mich.

Large, great layers. Pure





Llybill :- c. w- [-0 horn. white.Bargainsinchoice





breeding hens now. verfresh Egg Form. Ionia, Mich.





l ' ‘ '«1 1

Pine Crest S. c. Vlliils Orpingions, .3 “$23... “313

cocks and hens. also young cockerels. MRS. WILLIS

HOUGH. PINE CREST FARM, Royal Oak, Mich.





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early.





 





 





Bred W. Plymouth Rock Cockerels and Mam-

moth W. Pekin Ducks andlDrskes for sale. Buy

CHAS. KLETZLEN. Bath. Mich.





RHODB iSLAND REDS Ind PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Males 5 to 12 lbs. according to age$2 to 55: RR. hens

weight 5 to 10 lbs.. eggs 15 for $1.00; mo. 35: 120. $6.00.

Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 38 lbs. according

to age 36 to $25. 10 egg! S3. A. E. Cramton. Vassar. Mich.



Good breeding hens at $1.50

R. and Se Co “6118. each for short time. Also





Belgian Hares. 0. E. Hewley, Ludlngton, Mich.





 





 





I. Red Summer Sale. Rose Comb cocks and hang.

R. Sin )8 comb hens and pullets. All at bargain

prices. ockerels after September 15th.



INTERLAKES FARM, B0139. Lawrence, Mich.





 





Pekin





ii. C. Br. legliorii Cookereis, duck.





W. China Geese. Order early. the supply is limited.

MRS. CLAUDIA BITTS. Hillsdile, Michigan





Hamburg Eggs setting $1.50 Bal-

SllVel' Spangled ancc season. young Belgian

Hares pedigreed 86.00 pair. Pedigreed Persian Kittens reat

huntersle each. Send stamp. Riverview Farm. Vassar. ich.





 





 





C. W. Leghorn hens for breeding 81.50 each. Cock-

S'erels from trap nested stock we have them priced

$3 to $5 each. 0. S. Sturtevant & Sons, Ypsilanti. Mich





 





ILVE‘R Golden and White_ Wyandottes. Choice

Sbreeding stock of sale utter-Dot. 1st. a few bargains

0. w. Browning. R. 2. PortlandJitcii.





in yearling hens.



April Hatched. Standard Bred

8- c- w- leghomt Cockereis on free range at 82.00

each. White Line Poultry Farm. Hillsdale, Mich.





‘AIHITE Wyandottes. A.1 lagers.

81. S2. 83 forlb. 8'1 per 100. peciai matin

DAVID RAY. 709 Norris St.. Ypsilanti.





Eggs for hatchin

86 for I?)

ichlgan.





 





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’an Hounds ol all ages. ““hfiimlo 5.1m”. d°"

W. '- “GKY. "OIIIIOOVIIIC. Ohio





 





When writin g to advertisers

1please mention the Michi-

5-‘sgan Farmer» ‘





that we can dispose of any more .





 





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ANY failures in the poultry bus-

iness have been due to improp—i

er construction of houses; not



giving the proper attention to labor-

saving devices, fundamental princi-

pals of construction, and. cost per

bird, etc. ' '



As a poultryman, I have traveled

and worked on several large plants,

and had good opportunities to observe

difierent houses, and have designed a

house in which I have tried to use the

many points taught by experience and

observation. After one year’s use, we





 





A Practical TwoStory Chicken House -





we do not get the direct heat from the





roof. The birds like to go upstairs on

the runways. Principles of construc-

tion are: Sunlight can hit all parts of

the main floor at the same time during

the day. Can be ventilated and kept

cooler than the average house, as we

have sliding doors of the east and

west ends, and adjustable curtains in

the Cornell front on the south side.

House is Cool.



We do not get the direct heat from

the roof.’ During the 100 degree weath-

er of last summer it was very cool, and





 





A Convenient House for 100 Hens.





thought enough of it to build another

of the same type. '



I will. describe the building carefully

so that others may be able to remodel

their present house, basement barn,

or some outbuilding so as to have a

house of this type at little expense.



The house has a capacity of 1000

birds and cost $1,400 complete. It is

two stories high and 35x70 feet in

size, the first floor being used as a.

scratching pen, with a roosting room

18 feet wide on the second floor, and

remainder of loft for storage.



Economical to Build.



Cost of construction on most farms

is $2.00 per bird, and up, while with

this house it is only $1.40. We also

have a large storage room which does

away with the expense of a building

for feed and litter. Also have a water-

ing system of cistern with leader pipes

from roof, with practically no expense

for maintenance.



One man can easily take care of two

of these houses in winter, and three in

summer. Can feed, water and gather

eggs in half an hour, or two hours

daily for chores. Three hours per

week for cleaning droppings; litter

can be removed, spread on field, and

replaced with new in one day by two

men and a team.



Features which enable us to do this

are: House being wide, work is cen-

trally located, which saves steps, and

is done quicker than in a long narrow

house. Nests are along the north side,

and have springs on doors, making it

unnecessary for a. man to stop to

close door.



Water is handy in cistern. We lo-

cated it on the inside in new house so

as to help in filling in foundation.

Grain is kept on the second floor in

bins with chutes to main floor.



The Roasting Room.



We can drive through this building

with team, thus making it unnecessary

to handle litter twice. Also have trap

doors in floors of storage and roosting

room.



Roosting room is 18x70 feet, and is

seven feet high. Have three sets of

roosts, four perches wide, the entire

length of room, with two aisles be-

tween, to avoid crowding, and 'enable

us to handle the birds conveniently.

Have eight windows, and ventilator

entire length in rear.



We use sash with cleats as wind-

bafflers for windows to open against,

so as to admit light, and avoid .draft.



We have‘found the room to work

nicely, especially in zero weather,

when we keep the birds up there, feed-





ing them in the litter,’until themain ’-





floor’warms up. .

In hot weather the room is cooler





than the ordinary shed roof house, as





the birds laid twenty per cent more

than those in our Wood’s semi-moni-

tor type house.





We have two large dry mash hop-

pers holding half a ton each, and wet

mash troughs hinged between posts.



We use sand on the first floor and

shredded cornstalks for litter. We ma-





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





End View of House.

chine husk and shred the stalks blow-





 





ing them up in the left. We like the

stalks better than straw \as they do





not break up so quickly or mat, and.





are not so dusty. We feed the corn

on the cob, making the hens shell it.



The birds are happy, contented, and

lay well. We did not get them housed

before December and the averaged 120





. J .W. i“?-

:D‘ililiilhub '





co‘ a

from f lungs of eggs 'urchas‘ed" . . ,

spring, but eggs will (probably ibéhigha

er than usual neXt spring. Frequently

a pen 'of fine birds can be purchased

for the price ‘of afew sittings of eggs,

and the cost of keeping them’over win-

ter will be much less than their value

in the spring and the farmer will then





have the mature breeding stock 'as





well as the eggs they will produce

during the early spring breeding sea.-

son and afterward.



Many farm flocks suffer from care-

less inbreeding and the birds would be

much more profitable if a few vigorous

cockerels were added to the flock.

They must be purchased in the fall.

With the high prices prevailing for

feed, experienced breeders-will not

hold a surplus of cockerels over win-

ter unless they are fairly sure of re-

ceiving high prices for them in the

spring. Strong vigorous birds can be

purchased now at a. reasonable price

and they will be a profitable invest-

ment.



The large poultry farms cull Wisely

and extensively and usually offer many

birds for sale in the fall. A few of

their surplus birds can be purchased

to advantage for establishing a flock

but some judgment is necessary in

buying such birds. A large" flock of

culls will never be very profitable and

unless the buyer is a good estimator of

poultry values he should not attempt

to purchase large flocks of any breed—

er’s surplus. It pays better to buy a

few birds of quality and pay. a fair

price for them. The original flock can ‘

then be bred in the spring and increas-

ed to a large flock in a few years. It

is almost impossible for the farmer to

build up a fine flock of birds in one,

or even two years. Quality birds are

not sold at utility prices in flocks of

hundreds but they can be picked up in

small numbers and large flocks can be '

produced on the home farm.



Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.





A DROPSICAL TROUBLE.





What is the cause of the swelling of

the heads of hens? It shows first un-

der the bill, like a watery sack on

front of neck, enlarging until it swells

the ear lobes and around the eyes and

hen is unable to open her mouth to

pick up her food. Otherwise, the hens

seem bright-eyed and lively, the drop-

pings are normal. I feed sour milk in

the morning and wheat at night, while

through the day they run in clover.

Also, we find several very dark egg

yolks in fresh eggs, which I have never

seen the like of before. What WOuld

be the cause of it?



Emmet Co. Mrs. V. H.





The disease your hens have is ap-





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Ground Plan of~ Coop.





eggs to September. They have full

range in cultivated fields.

Ingham Co. FRANK DUBOIS.





PURCHASING BREEDING. STOCK.





In purchasing new blood for the

farm flock or establishing a. flock of

pure-bred birdslthe fall season is the

right time. This year feed is high and

breeders are selling many birds that

they might keep in other seasons. The

price of poultry is. very good and the

prospects for continued high prices

will not insure any saving to the poul-

try breeder rho limits . . t9 purchase

breeding. stock 1115,in of some now.





. cutes-





parently a new one and the poultry ex-

perts know little of it. ‘It is a disease

which has quite seriously attacked

ducks this year and from appearances

I judge that it is of a dropsical nature.





The dark, yolked eggs are the result

of a sudden change of feed to feed that

contains considerable sulphur. Prob—

ably you have given your hens access

to rape or some plant of the, cabbage

family. Another cause of such eggs is

ovarian trouble, but usually in such

caSes the you: is nearly black.’flf the

trouble is ovarian it rarely pays. to .

treat the hen, but; archange or feed will 1!! '

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Associational Motto: ‘

“The skillful hand with cultured





mind is the farmer’s most valuable





asset.”





 





IMPROVING THE CLUB’S BUSINESS

OPPORTUNITIES.





While there is no question but that

the Farmers’ Clubs of Michigan have

been most successful 'from the stand-

point of a social organization, they

have not improved the business oppor-

tunities which have laid right at hand

in very many instances. These busi-

ness opportunities are better at the

present time than ever before. With

agriculture more profitable than at any

previous time within the memory of

the present generation, and with the

difficulties encountered in the success-

ful conduct of the business correspond-

ingly great, the opportunity offered for

community business co-operation

through the medium of such an organi-

zation as the local Farmers’ Club is

correspondingly great.



The Farmers’ Club offers an excel-

lent unit for the formation of co-oper-

ative organizations, such as live stock

shippers’ associations which have been

very successful in various parts of the





«state, and which have been promoted





by one or two Clubs in the state among

the farmers of their localities. The

Farmers’ Club is also a suitable unit

for the securing and trying of pure-

bred seed by the members, and the

conducting of demonstrations which

will be of business value to the mem-

bers. In this connection the county

agent should be called upon for assist-

ance as may be needed.



There could be no better agency

than the Farmers’ Club for promotion

work in the organization of a Farm

Loan Association through which mem-

bers might secure the advantages of

federal rural credit. Important drain-

age operations could ‘also be promoted

through the same agency. In fact,

there are hundreds of ways in which

the local Farmers’ Club can become

one of great business value to its mem-

bers, and there should be a general

effort toward the development of these

local organizations along this line.



Oakland Co. A. R. FARMER.





 





CENTRAL MICHIGAN FARMERS’

CLUB RALLY.





The rally of the Farmers’ Clubs of

Central Michigan was held at the Agri-

cultural College on Wednesday, Aug-

ust 15. While there was a fairly good

attendance of Club members within

driving distance, the crowd was not

as large as at the first of these meet-

ings held last year, owing to conflict-

ing dates of other Club events.



The meeting was held on the College

picnic ground, and addresses were de-

livered in the afternoon by Hon. James

N. McBride, State Market Director and

Hon. Jason Woodman, long identified

with the work of farm organizations in

this state. Altogether the meeting was

voted a successful and beneficial event

by those who participated in it.





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Young People’s Day.-—The regular

August meeting of the Howell Farm-

ers’ Club was held August 2 at the

home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Reed.

This was Young People’s Day, and the

young people of the Club furnished the

major part of the program. The exer-

cises were opened by the Club singing

“The Star Spangled Banner,” after

which a number of literary and musi‘





_ cal numbers were rendered, the sub-





jects having a patriotic trend. The

question box was the main feature of

the program, eight questions being dis-

cussed, many of them pertaining to

phases of the war. Following the com-





. . pletion of , the program the Club ad-





 





 

 





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STATE GRANGE OFFICERS.





Master—John C. Ketcham, Hastings.



Overseer—C. H. Bramble, Tecumseh.

.Lecturer—Dora H. Stockman, Lan-

eing.



Secretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor.



Treasurer—Frank Coward. Bronson.



Executive Committee.-—Jas. Helme,

Adrian; Geo B. Horton, Fruit Ridge;

J. W. Hutchins, Hanover; W. F. Tay—

lor, Shelby; Wm. H. Welsh, Sault Ste

Marie; N. P. Hull, Dimondale; Burr

Lincoln, Harbor Beach.





FREDONIA GRANGE, No.1.





 





This Grange, organized by Mr. Kel-

ley and A. S. Moss, April 16, 1868, at

Fredonia, Chautauqua county, New

York, was the first in the world Whose

members paid initiation fees; it was

in fact, the real foundation of the Or-

der. There were fifteen charter mem-

bers: A. S. Moss, U. E. Dodge, D.

Fairbanks, H. Stiles, W. McKinstry

and son, Louis McKinstry, W. H.

Stephens, A. P. Bond, Wm. Risley, M.

S. Woodford, J. J. Parker, T. S. Hub.

bard, J. F. Wellman, N. G. Butts, and

Ira Porter. The original charter of

Fredonia Grange and the minutes of

the meetings from April 16, 1868, are

still in the possession of the Grange.



On December 16, 1868, the first class

of women (twenty-one members) was

instructed in the degree work. Thus

the Grange was probably the first or-

ganization to receive women into mem-

bership on equal terms with men, and

it has always stood for their equality.



Fredonia Grange has had its ups

and downs; at the time of its forma-

tion the country was sparsely settled,

the roads were poor, and it was diffi-

cult to maintain interest in Grange

work among the farmers. So it hap-

pened that many of its early members

were merchants and people of various

occupations. Grange development was

so wide-spread and rapid that it at-

tracted to its membership politicians

and business men who had axes to

grind. For this reason during its early

years Fredonia Grange barely held its

own, and at one time nearly surren-

dered its charter.



But in 1878, Ira Porter, J. J. Parker,

U. E. Dodge, and Louis McKinstry,

four of the charter members, made a

united effort to awaken the interest

of the farmers of the surrounding

country and gradually brought them

into closer touch with the people of

the village. By selecting officers of vim

our Grange has since grown to an ac-

tive membership of nearly 700.



A few years ago it was foreseen

that it would soon be impossible to

rent any place in Fredonia suitable for

the accommodation of our average at-

tendance, and a lot on Main street was

bought for $2,000. The Grange had

enough to pay for it in full, and raised

upwards of $1,600 more, mostly by the

help of the younger members in pro-

viding entertainments such as amateur

plays, literary programs and competi«

tive exhibits at the county fairs. Per-

sonal canvas of the members resulted

in $3,400 pledged in sums ranging from

$1 to $100. This gave a guarantee

fund of $5,400 cash with which to start

the building. The contract was let in

parts, thereby saving $600 under the

bids submitted for the job as a whole.

The total cost of the hall, including

the lot, was above $13,000. To make

up the amount lacking, the trustees

were authorized to place a non-interest

bearing mortgage of $6,500 on the

property as security, for an issue of

certificates of indebtedness, having a

face value ranging from $50 to $500

and bearing five per cent interest.

These certificates were oversubscribed

by the members and are payable at the

option of the Grange. The Grange

leases the building to outside orders

and for various social functions, thus

deriving revenue to help liquidate the

indebtedness. '



The hall is near the trolley station,

and is surrounded by valuable busi-

ness property. It has an overground

basement which, with one story, gives

it a very comfortable appearance. The

building is brick, forty feet wide and

ninety feet long, on a sixty—foot lot.

The basement contains dining—hall,

kitchen and men’s parlor. On' dedica-

tion day, January‘ 8, 1916, over 600 peo-

ple were fed quickly with minimum la-

bor. The upper floor contains the as-

sembly hall, ante-room, "cupboards for

regalia, and ladies’ parlor. The parlor

was furnished in a very tasteful and

comfortable manner by Mrs. R. W.

Wright in memory of. her father, U. E.

Dodge, the first master of- Fredonia

range. Hon. John Leo Sullivan, a. for-

mer member of the assembly, donated

100 volumes of agricultural books.





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THE COMBINED FIGHTERS IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS

AND THE COMBINED HARVESTERS IN AMERICA

WILL BRING THE ALLIED VICTORY NEARER





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the Department of the Interior of Canada and the Departments of Labor and Agriculture

of the United States, under which it is proposed to permit the harvesters that arc now.

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Nebraska. Minnesota and Wisconsin to move over into Canada. \\ ith the privilege of

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One cont aiiiile railway fare from the international Boundary line to dostinatioii and

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Canadian neighbor in harvesting his; in this way do your bit in helping "Win





For paiticulars as to routes, identification cards and place where employment may

be had. apply to Superintendent of immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to





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farmer says: Hillsdaie, Mich . NOV- 4. 1916-

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N a. dairy farm in western Penn-

sylvania which is operated by a

friend of mine, one of the most



difficult chores which had to' be per-



formed was the carrying of the milk

from the barn to the milk-house. The

dairy herd was quite large, and pro-

duced from seventy to eighty gallons

of milk a day. Moreover, there was

considerable slope to the path which

led from the barn to the milk-house,

and this was usually covered with ice

in the winter. This made the path

dangerous to walk over, ‘especially

when one was carrying a load of milk.



So the owner of the farm constructed



a truck, which ran on pulleys along a



cable stretched between the barn and



milk-house, to carry the milk between

these points.

0f Simple Construction.



The truck itself was simply con-

structed. It had for a bottom a piece

of hard wood board fifteen inches wide

and forty-fiveinches long. This was

fastened in two Stirrup-shaped iron





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ing between barn and milk-house. The .





cable was provided with a turnbuckle,

so that it might be tightened when

occasion demanded. On the farm on

which this truck is in operation there

is a slope of about three feet in a bun-

dred, so that the loaded truck runs

along the cable unaided. A quarter-

inch rope is attached to the truck

through the hole provided for it in one

of the'slings, and passes over a pulley

to an iron spool in the barn. This is

provided with a handle so that the

rope may be wound in, thus drawing

the truck back. It also has a.brake

so that the speed of the loaded truck

in its descent may be regulated. This

particular iron spool was obtained

from an old oil well. Probably some-

thing which would answer the purpose

equally well, such as a spool on which

fencing wire is wound, could be ob-

tained on any farm.



The truck was drawn up to a door

in the barn, and the cans were placed

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slings which were made by the black-

smith. These slings were each made

from strips of strap iron an inch wide

and eight and one-half feet long. Eight

inches from the middle of each piece

the iron was bent at right angles.

Twenty—one inches from these angles,

the strips were again bent inward at

an angle of‘about thirty degrees, so

that they met. The ends were then

welded together, the weld being about

five inches long. Through this weld

on each sling, a hole was drilled which

received a sister-hook attaching the

slings t0 pulleys. Just below this hole

a strip of iron was welded to both

slings, so that they were held forty-

one inches apart. Immediately below

the place where this piece was attach—

ed, another hole was drilled in one of

the slings. The purpose of this hole

Was to receive a rope, to which refer-

ence will be made later. In the hori-

zontal part of each sling, three holes

were drilled to receive the bolts hold-

ing the bottom in place. The heads

of these bolts were sunk into the

wood, so as not to puncture the bot-

toms of the cans placed on the truck.

Also, one foot above the right angles

in each sling, holes were drflled, and

pieces of inch board, two inches wide

by forty-five inches long, were bolted

between the slings. The purpose of

these boards was to give added

strength to the truck and hold cans

in place. A piece of wire fastened

across one end of the truck was all

that was needed to keep the cans

from falling from that end of the

truck. At the end at which cans are

placed on the truck and removed there-

from, a, rope was found to be more

convenient for holding the cans in

place. ' ’



The pulleys ran on a cable extend»





 





A Convenient Truck for Carrying Milk.

Barn to the Milk-house.





The Cable is Stretched from the





the other end it ran past the door of

the milk—house, where it was stopped

by means of the rope. Thus, it was

found most convenient to have two

persons help in the sending down of

the milk. One at the barn loaded the

cans on the truck, regulated the speed

in its passage to the milk—house, and

wound in the rope, thus bringing the

truck back. The other person was

stationed at the milk-house to remove

the cans from the truck. The truck

was designed to carry three five-gallon

cans, but it could be made larger if so

desired by merely increasing the

length of the bottom of the truck. The

slope given to the cable in this case

was more than was necessary. Con-

sequently, the truck could be used

even if the slope were considerably

less. If necessary, a spool could be

placed at each end of the cable, and

the truck drawn both ways.





This truck certainly proved a labor-

saver on this particular farm, and will

on any farm where similar conditions

are found. The entire cost of con-

struction and materials will not exceed

five dollars, and the truck will remain

serviceable for an indefinite length of

time.





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then passed through a ring attached to





a surcingle and carried over back. The

operator of course stands on the off

(right) side against the horse. The

head is drawn around to the opposite

side by means of a halter rein, then

the operator pulls the ropes and the

horse goes down quickly, then he can

be tied.‘ Wounds on hind quarters of

a horse can frequently be safely stitch-

ed by backing the animal against a

stall partition. .

Restraint of Cattle.



The ox, is extremely susceptible to

pain, hence the necessity of prompt

and efficient restraint in order to pro-

tect the operator against personal in-

juries as a result of kicking, as well as

goring. A very useful cattle tool is





‘the nose clamp with rope, or if an





assistant will place one hand on horn

and thum and finger in nostrils, an ox

can usually be controlled. The re-

straint of one'hind leg can sometimes

be accomplished by passing tail be-

tween hind legs and held by the as-

sistant around the leg which you aim to

control. A surcingle buckled tightly

around flank of cow, will very often

cause her to stand quietly and allow

you to handle her. A hock twitch is

also a very useful tool, so is the knee

strap. The breeding hopples can very

often be used to good advantage in re-





straining an ox. In order to cast an





ox, secure a piece of rope thirty-five

or forty feet long to the horns, pass it

along upper part of neck and half

hitch around base of neck; also around

chest and flank; place a nose clamp on

nose, then the assistant pulls on rope,

and the animal will soon lie down.

Holding a Hog.



In order to work on the hog with

safety, especially if the animal is aged

or large, they should be restrained and

there are many mechanical devices for

doing it. A novel method is to lay a

barrel on its side, place some feed in

the bottom, the hog walks in after the

feed, then the barrel can be set on

end and the hog caught in this way.

Or a loop can be placed on hind leg

conveniently. The Champion hog hold-

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metal and one man can hold a very

large hog. A young pig can be sus-

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tially by hand, and an older 'hog is

easily cast and. readily tied. A very

convenient method is to pass a rope

with loop on it, around body back of

fore legs, then suspend fore quarters

in the air. Another method is to pass

a loop around upper jaw, back of the

tusks and tie hog to post. A shy hog

can be snared by baiting one. part of

slip loop, when he hits the bait, pull

rope and loop tightens around the up-

per jaw hack of the tusks, then tie

him to post or tree.



Useful Veterinary Instruments.





It always pays a farmer to keep on

hand useful veterinary instruments

and a few stable remedies, in order

that he may intelligently render first

aid.to injured and sick live stock. A

suitable place should be made to keep





~ tlTese supplies in, then when needed





they can easily be found. In many 10

calities there is no veterinarian

available and if. so, it may be impos-

sible for him to respond promptly to

your call; hence, the necessity of be-

ing equipped to do emergency work

yourself. In the kit of supplies, you

should have needles of different sizes

for stitching wounds, also silk or linen

or other sewing material of different

weight. You should also have a sy-

ringe that holds not les than one

ounce that can be operated with one

hand; this instrument is suitable for

giving medicine and injecting wounds.

You should also own a fountain sy—

ringe which you will find to be ex~





' tremely useful in washing out vagina

: erre‘ctumyor irrigating wounds. Every





fl. ed on page 3187).





 

 





ANIMAL I RESTRAINT—eFInST Mb





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Prices of all cars





advance septem‘ber 15th





 





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The FOUR Touring Car 3; $

will be increased from to

The SIX Touring Car $ M $

will be increased from to





 





 





HE costs of materials and labor used





in the manufacture of automobiles

have been, and are, stead1ly increasmg.





Studebaker uses only the highest grade

materials throughout their car, includ-

ing chrome-nickel and vanadium steels,

genuine hand-buffed leather and other

materials of the highest quality.





A year ago Studebaker made huge pur-

chases and placed long-term contracts

for materials, making it possible to con-

tinue the present low prices while other

manufacturers of cars in the Studebaker

class have already advanced their. prices.





But the popular demand for Stude-

baker cars is rapidly exhausting the

materials purchased at old prices, and

therefore, prices of all models will have

to be increased on September 15th.





It is an invariable Studebaker policy

to subordinate price to quality—-quality

must always be maintained.





You will probably never have another

opportunity to buy, for so little money,

such a powerful, durable, accessible,

roomy and comfortable car.





Every Studebaker car is guaranteed

for a full year from date of purchase.





F our-Cylinder Models





Present Prices

Prices Sept. 15





Roadster - $ 985 $1025

Touring Car - '985 1050

Every-Weather Car 1185 1250





All prices f, o. 6. Detroit





- BUY NOW---SAVE MONEY





STUDEBAKER





Detroit, Mich. South Bend, lnd. Walkerville, Ont.





Address all correspondence to South Bend





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





Six-Cylinder Models



titles

Roadster - - $1250 $1335

Touring Car - 1250 1385

Touring Sedan 1700 1850

Coupe - - 1750 1850





Limousine - - 2000 2750





All prices f. 0. 1). Detroit





 





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You need that silo

now. Can that field

of corn in a Sagi-

naw Silo. Just se-

cured additional

material and can ship

your order promptly.

Write or Wire for

latest prices on Sagi-

naw Leader and Sagi-

- new Steel-built Silos.





Address Dept. 1 70.





The McClure Co.

Saginaw, Mich. Cairo. Ill.





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FOR SALE Red Rock 'Wheat and Boson Rye!

, “ready to ship order early.

PARDEE 15308., Gallon, Mich.





- ' ' . recleaned seed for sale,

Mich. Hum Barlo . 34.00 per cwt.

one. McMU EN. R. 5. Grand Ledge, Mich.





 





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication.





 





We Offer a Few Specral Bargains

1!: S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

bouillet rams, Hampshire pigs (either

sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance

for a small investment to reap the bene-

fit of a large expenditure of capital and

years of expert breeding.





Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.

CATTLE.





Aberdeen- Angus





Herd established in 1900. Trojan-Eric” and Black

birds only. ““3381“ service: Black Brendon $8932





Enos of Woodoo lso breeders of Percheron

$41 8623MB Horses.

00 OTE STOCK FARM. Ionio. Mich.





 





 





 





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ANGUS on: as grasses

one. eno. EAT WAY a ISBN. Ovid. linen.I





   

   





CHOICE Angus Bulls for sale. Have several well i

. bred. excellent t pe Angus Bulls at reasonable ;

prices. M. L. Smith. lonwood Fern,Addison. Mich. i





Registered Guernseys





Stock always for sale. May it )38 St ' —

culintested annually. Neier hzfduna li'Ieeai‘ctlonr‘fonl;

abortion. J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams. Mich.





Guernsey Buns ofofiervloe f and calves from

oice. -A . .

'r. v. mcxs, Route l. Betti: cfiklzfi'ih‘i‘

—REGIBTERED





GU E R N 8 BY nun. OALVEB





Oontainin blood f‘

ulcxs' (man smr nfidfil‘id‘fiif‘iiTéT: Mich





GUERNSEYS Buggelves for sale, from





GEO. N. CRAWFORD, amp and cows on test.





Bolton. Mich.



‘ and Grade Guernsey cows. b ll

R3813t9red yearlings, heifer calves; will “sell

20. Some thh records: choxce 01945; must reduce herd-

tuberculin tested. Avondnle Stock Farm. Wayne. lich:





FOR SALE Seven . Guernsey heifer! and





one reg. uernse. b 11. .

All nicely marked and fine specimensvof ‘tlhe b’i‘gedim

G. F. COLE, - Bancroft. Mich.





EG. HOLSTEINS: Herd he d db A



Buttengy No. 93134. Ram'sargdcor zat labile“. 13:23:

. . oar y rec r t



Wlbs. milk 18522 ba.W. a. nfinfin. flaminbi‘a‘ifd





 





can bred HolsteinBull born J l .

Pible to record, 15—16 white. 3 ogdydrsi'egggdggflgd.

deliveredknywherein state. Newton Hubert. St.Johns.Hloh.





Additional Stock Ads on Pogo m
.. ._.., . Sana“,





 





 





 





— ensues McPHERSON,Howell,Mich.

"Harm hnsF' ml'srli'ss'sl’oiilgnfliosi Faro





Gholce We“ Holstein‘cslves from A. R. 0. cows.

BA ,8. m. Bronson. Michigan. '





 

 





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MAIL TODAY ‘





Matthews Engineering Co.,

Sandusky, Ohio M. F.

Gentlement—Please send me particulars,





‘

catalog, etc., of the Matthews Electric ‘

Light and Power Plants.





Name





 





Address - ,

( ) If a dealer,mark (X) hcre.





HDLSTEIN BULLS





6to 10 months old.





From cows with A. R. O. records—Sired

by a Son of Spring Farm K1ng Ponti-

ac 6th.





The Great Young Holstein Bull





His first 14 tested daughters average

over 20 pounds butter in 7 days.



The past year there were 14 bulls sold

for $10,000 or more.



The half sisters of the sire of these

bulls, I have for sale, won as much prize

money, as all the daughters of those

sold for $10,000 combined. Priced from

$75 up.





Bigelow’s Holstein Farms,

Breedsville, Mich.





 





 





‘HOLSTEINS





Do you appreciate the value a Herd Sire would

be to your herd, if from tested Dams of over 20

lbs. butter 7 days and 16 to 20 thousand pounds

milk in 10 months.



We have two young bulls for sale old enough for

service October of this year, whose dams made

the above records .



These calves are offered at $75 each. Their dams

will be re-tested this winter and we certainly ex-

pect them to make 30 lbs. butter in 7 days. You ca.—

not lose on them. They'are the best of dairy type.



stock guaranteed as represented.





siiIsAnrnALE FARM





PETERSBURG, MICHIGAN





GLUNY STUBK FARM





100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100





For Sale :-17 mos. old bull whose 7 nearest dams

average 560.1 lb. milk and 25.679 lb. butter in 7

days. Sire is by the son of a 32.9 lb. cow and

from a. 31 lb. 4 yr. old cow. Dam is 3. 22,5 lb. Jr,

8 yr. old daughter of a 26.5 lb. Jr. 4 yr. old cow,

whose dam is a 27 lb. cow.



Ready for immediate heavy service. Priced to

sell immediately. Send for pedigree and price.





 





 

 





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Perfectly Automati

It furnishes an abundance of

for pumping water, operating Cream Separator,





vacuum cleaners, churns and all electrical household devices.

itself, and Stops itself by simply turning the cu





Aug. 31 = J‘ept. 9





   

 





 





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AUTOMATI





AND POWER PLANT





Here is the kind of an Electric Light and Power Plant you have been looking for ——one that is

c—that requires no attention except to occasionally supply'gas, water and oil.

bright white Light for the home, barn, and all farm buildings.

grindstone, milking machines, washing machines,

It is always ready for use. Starts

rrent on or off from any point about the premises.





 





Built in Several Sizes--All Guaranteed .





35, 50, 100, 250 Lights—Suitable for Any Farm





Note the sturdy and rugged construction of the Matthews Plant.

It is built to last and give daily service year-in and year~out.

plant you can put more dependence upon than you could on city





Standard Equipment





Matthews plants are standard thruout. Have Matthews Four-

Cycle Water—Cooled Engine direct connected (No Belts) to

General Electric Generator of a capacity in each size to

provide for ample overload. Schebler Car

Automatic Switch-board—-the heart of the plant.





See It at the Fair or Send Coupon Today





Exhibited at

Michigan J‘tate Fair,





Detroit





Matthews Engineering Co.





Sandusky, Ohio





Representatives Wanted in Every County.

plants and Matthews Sales Contract offer exceptional

business opportunities to dealers and special represent-



Write for particulars or ask about it at Our





atives.





State Fair Exhibit.





WINNWOOD H E R D





REGISTERED HOLSTEINS





Holton, Mich.

Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont. Mich.

Flint Maplecrest Boy sire in service



His sire is Maplecrest Kormlyke Hengerveld. his 3

Nearest Dams each over 30 lbs. of butter inlduys.

His dam and grand dam both nude over 1232] s. of

butter in lyear. It isthe yearly cow we are loo ing

for to deliver the goods. Flint Maplecrest Boy’sDam is

Gluck Vasser Bell. 30.57 lbs. of butter in 7 days and 120

lbs. in 30days. Her butter fat testis 5.27. This looks

about right to the man who‘goes to the Creamery.

We have Bull Calves from 2 weeks to 8 months old for

sale at dair farmers' prices all out of A. R. 0. Heifers.

Write a tel us the kind of a bull you want.





John H.Winn. (Inc.,) Holton, Mich.





OAK LEAF FARM

Herd Sire

Ypsiland Sir Pletertie De Kol

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

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

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





842 _Lbs. BUTT E R





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

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



reat grand-dam. Three choice young bulls from A.'R.

B. dams. Herd tuberculin tested annually. Holsteins

of course. Peaceland Stock Farm, Three Rivers. Mich.

Chss. Peters. Herdsman. C. L. Brody.0wner. Port Huron. Mich.





 





A Yearling Heller, ure bred Hol-

For sale stein,Sire.Colantha ohanna Cream-

elle Lad, Dam. Elizabeth Begis Lyons. It you want

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





I Always Have Holsteins

. To Sell





If wanting Registered cattle write me your wants

before placing your order elsewhere.





L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio





WOULD You wantabull from a 30 lb. dam and a

303i lb. sire for $100? Can’t be did, but

we have one for 3600, also one from a 27.58 lb. heifer

for 8260. and one from a daughter of Pontiac Aaggie

Korndyke for 8260. Good ones as low as $80. All from

World Record Sire.



LONG BEACH FARM,





 





 





Augusta, Michigan.

- N ' Friesian Heifers. 3 to 6

RegIStered Ho‘ste‘n mos. old. Some from 301h.

sires. Priced to sell. Fred J. Loose, Sebewaing. Mich.





Butter Fat Counts





Holstein Bull Calves from a 30 lb. 6.53 “Eire. Dam

are grand daughters of the Kinfl of the Pontiacs.

Theirdams grand daughters of Sadie Vols Concordia

the first. 80 lb. cow. Edwin S. Lewis. Marshall.Mich.





3 Holstein lleilers 3‘23 it‘s.‘b‘f’-..3.23‘zodi':.:

of 35 lb. cow. bred to 9‘ brothertow Ih.4 yr. old. Terms

if wanted. M. L. MoLAULIN. Redford. Michigan.





Registered COWS. tfififii‘m‘“ $3323.23

breeding and good individuals. B. 8. Benny. Akron. Itch.

on our Easy Payment Plan mf‘lfim‘a





Holstein Bull calf in our stables. Prices from 850119.

Ypsilsnd Farms. . . Ypsilanti. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





nmuui ntnn wit cams masts.

- JOHN A. W , _





prices. Warren. mos.





buretor and Wells

Willard





Storage Batteries used exclusively. giving





thews the advantage of Willard Service Stations established thruout

the world. And Stewart Vacuum System for raising gasoline.





Easy to Install--Low Up-keep





Anyone can install this plant in basement, garage or barn by

The initial

the cost for plant, the wiring of buildings is about the only outlay.

The cost of operatingis far less than city electric service.

expense bu» to keep the batteries chargedeich is done automatically.





simply following our directions.





 





You will never regret investigating the Matthews before

buying Electric Power for your farm. If you can't visit

our Exhibit, we will gladly send you our complete illus-

trated catalog describing it fully,snd tell you the name of

our nearest representative. The coupon with your name

and address brings all details or a postal will do.





 

 





 





without any attention whatever.





Matthews





For 8“. 2 Reg. Holstein cows? years old due to fresh-

en Sept. ’7 and 8. Well marked price right.

0. L. HULET’I & SON, Okemos, Mic .





a good one With A. It. 0. backing. Write for ed.





BEG. Holstein .Bull Calf. 'The last one until winter,

81‘ Elmer E. Smith, Redford, ich.





es and price.





 





Holstein Bull Gall 3.333.???‘s‘l.??$$‘ihi3‘é§$

A. R. GRAHAM. Flint, Mich.





FOR Bale One registered Holstein bull calf. Sire’s

twenty nearest dams have 7. da. records av. 25.58 lb.

butter. Dam to be tested. A finely marked. growthy

individul. Long Veiw Form, B. 8.80: 10A, Rochester. Mich.





HEREFORDS





Sires in service, Governor by Prince

Donald Militant Farmer by Farmer

(Imp), Bonnie Brae Jr. by Bonnie

Brae 24th. Inspection invited.



ALLEN BRO§., PAW PAW, MICE.





w i d Fifty head high grade Hereford heifers-

an e Calves or yearlinge. Kindly specify breeding

and price.W.E. MOSS. 710 Union Trust Bldg.,Detroit.





 





 





The All-Around

is the farmer’scow. She’s his

Jersey friend and pride—the beauti-

‘ iul,gentle,ever-paying milk machine that lifts

’ the mortgage, builds up the fertility of the

(arm, and puts the whole business on a sound,

paying, ermanent basis. She ada tsherself

to all c imates and all feeds an does not

need fancy care. She matures early and

lives long. And she’s so sleek, clean cut and

handsome, as to be the family pet and

pride. She produces well

and cells well. Learn

about her in our fine, free

book,“About Jersey Cat-

tle." Write for it now.





THE AMERICAN JERSEY

CATTLE CLUB

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Power





Shown Without Switch Board and Batteries.





 

 





owners of the Mat-





Besides





cost is low.





There is no





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from B

of M Cows, also heifer calves and several bred

Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville, Mich





Fl" s I Two registered Jerseys bull calves.8plen-

a 0 did lndivrduals. Good pedi rees. Priced to

sell. Long Veiw Farm, R. 3,801 10A,





R. of M. Jersey herd ofiers for sale

Maple lane tuberculin tested cows, bulls, bull

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

blood of the breed. lltVIN FOX. Allezan. Mich.





heifers for sale.





ochester. Mich.





 





8T. Clair County Jersey Cattle Club. We have forsale

Bulls old enough for service and ull calves, from

best stains of Jersey Cattle. MaJesty’s. Noble of Oak-

lands, Combination a Premier, etc. Write for Pedi.

grees,price and particulars. Fred A. Brennan, Sec .Cspsc,Mich





Shor‘lliorn Cattle oi both Sex ior Sale





. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.





 





 





. 0R Sale—Reg. Short Horn Bulls by Mastlton

Monarch 2nd. 8. son of Avondale, from 1 to 9 mos.

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





when Shorthorns





“For Best and Milk"





This heifer at 6 months has bone,

size and quality—Our own breeding.

The blood of Scotch bulls. Imp.

Shenstone Albino and Imp. Villag-



I Registered stock always for sale.





lllllVIELL SIOBK Fill",





Box 3, Tecumseh. Michigan.





 





   

 

   

 





 





 





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns

Big Type Poland Chinas





“The§re rugged—They pay the rent."

othing for sale Wait present.





P. P. POPE. R. R 3 t. Pleasant Mich.





 





Sh flh "I —Dsiryor beef bred. Breedin stock all

0 o 3 ages for sale at farmers prices. .W.Crum,

Secy. Cont. lick. Shorthorn Breeders' Assn. chrids. lieh.





Richland Shorthorns {‘3’ $53,131,223?

Tuberculin Testedb the state. IMP. Lorne one of

the Sires in service. ntire Hard of Reg. Anm cattle.

including the show cattle for sale at a bargain. Most-

iirrliflc'i‘s “doliiwii’icrils' “Herd s P a Mi 11

co awas , , . a resco , .



0. El PRESCOTT s sons. °





 





 





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Jersey Bulls tor Salt {statesman .‘1‘1'3' on

somi-ofloisl test. 0. B. We nor. R. 6. Alleuan. Mich





for sale. read for service. Out of

Jersey Buns good producinyg dams. Prices right.

B. B. FOWLER. Hartford. Mich.





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Stoc d cars sold.

3. s. Worthingtoi‘:_°§.' 5.1. 'tllmgm. menu...





"The women rare." .





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Shorthorns Bulls3mo. to 2 es ld

For sale from od milking cows. ’ re 0

KB. Clyde Station, . J. DeGarmo, 3., 6. Hilton}. lion.





SHORTHORNS ii‘fliliig . fighters;





sale. I. E. ‘l‘snswell. Meson. Micki an





 





horthoms for sale. 5 bulls Scotch to 10 to 14 mos..

3rosn. lwhite 1 red. $21009 8150. to .lsonofMax-

walton Sultan. 1i mos. .. 0. Carlson. Leroy. Mich.





. C ttle n‘d Ham 1 Sh .

Shorthorn Choice Haampshim flmmmeggr

sale. OOOdbreedins. Floyd J. Anderson. 3.! St. Johns. Itch.





Cattle For Sale _,





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reed {Li bred’M’estlt . . . , .'

sustaamwmsmmfissw,
(Continued from page 185). ,

dairyman should keep on hand a’few

milking tu‘bes, teat plugs and a teat

, expander. The farmer should also own

i 'a male and female catheter for horses,

and also an ecraseur, or an emascu-

lator for catsrating animals. Keep on

hand a clinch cutter and pinchers for

removing horse shoes; also a knife for

cutting hoofs, and a float for filing the

, teeth. Every dairyman should own a

milk fever outfit. in order to be ready

' to promptly apply the air treatment,

if necessary. He should also own a

cattle trocar and canula for punctur-

ing cattle for bad cases of bloat. Re-

member a much'smaller trocar and

canula should be used when punctur~

ing horses or sheep for bloat. ' A pro-

bang' is another instrument that cat-

tlemen should own, handy to use in



case of choke.



First Aid Operations.



Animals on the farm are continually

being wounded and the first step to

take in the care of a wound is to

promptly explore the parts with a View

of ascertaining if there is a foreign

body, then arrest the hemorrhage to

prevent waste of blood. This can very

often be done by twisting the blood

vessel or tying it, or by compression.

The wound should then be washed

with an antiseptic solution of some

kind; however, remember it is import-

ant that the wound have preper drain-

age. Therefore, it may be necessary

to do a little cutting before drainage

is obtained. A wound that pockets

seldom heals quickly. Small wounds

about the head and neck should first

be cleaned, peroxide of hydrogen ap—

plied (stitching material dipped in

same), then edges of wound brought

together with stitches as evenly as

possible, and paint the edges of

wound with tincture iodine, or apply

equal parts oxide of zinc and boric

acid, or any other reliable commercial

dusting powder. Never stitch a wound

unless you believe it necessary to hold

the tissues together.



The Medicine Chest.



Your medicine chest should contain

coal tar disinfectant, carbolic acid, aro-

matic spirits of ammonia, tincture of

iodine, rectified oil of turpentine, raw



‘ linseed oil, Glauber’s salts, epsom



fl salts, cooking soda, borax, boric acid,

salicylic acid, ginger, gentian, char-

coal, powdered copperas, sugar of

lead, tannic acid, castor oil, olive oil,

etc. In a future letter the writer will

tell hhw these different drugs can be

best given or applied as home rem-

edies.





 





LIVE STOCK NEWS.





Never in the long history of the live

stock trade of the United States did





‘0 cattle and hogs sell anywhere near so‘





high on the Chicago market as they

have sold of late, previous high rec-





ords being exceeded every week. In

short, it has been a thing of daily oc-

currence quite recently for hogs to

make further gains of 25 cents per

hundred pounds, with an advance of

from 75 cents to $1.15 in the course of

a week. A year ago, when hogs were

selling for $9.75@10.70, prices were

regarded as extremely high, while two

years ago sales were made at an ex-

treme range of $6@7.80. Cattle ad-

vances, too, have been sharp and live-

ly, although most of the time they

have hardly kept an even pace with

the remarkable boom in hogs. A year

l ago the top for cattle stood at $10.85,

which was regarded as extremely high,



while six years ago the best beeves



brought $8.10. In cattle, as well as in



hogs, much the greater advance has



taken place _in the better class of



i corn-fed offerings; but the rise in pric-

[ as for theordmary kinds. of swine has

l been far larger than the advance in

I common cattle. .Lamhs, ye'arlings,

, and sheep are selling at far higher

prices than in any former year, a1-



? though the lamb market is lower than

earlier in .the season, when the early

lambs were he hing to move to mar-

ket. A year go prime lambs were

selling for $11.50 and two years ago

for $9.50, while six years a o the best

alambs‘ were. purchased for 7.25. Cor-

‘ responding changes have taken place

in pricescfor yearlings and different

.0f sheep. , . . .





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CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. S.





 





Sore Neck—We have a horse trou-

bled with sore neck and for several

weeks we have been applying. home

remedies without producing satisfac-

tory results. H. S., Fenton, Mich.—

Paint sore occasionally with tincture

iodine and apply equal parts of oxide

of zinc and boric acid. Perhaps it is

needless for me to say that it is im-

possible to heal a sore shoulder‘or

neck if the horse is worked in a bad-

iitting collar.



Infected Navel.——I bought two young

Guernsey calves of a Wisconsin dealer

and put them in stall together; they

commenced to suck each other at once

and before I was aware, one had caus-

ed the navel of the other to open and

discharge. . The calf, from this cause

or some other, of which i am unaware,

is doing poorly, looks stunted, has poor

appetite, coat looks rough, but am

feeding plenty, of oil meal and skim--

milk. The navel on the other calf has

healed and it is thriving nicely; bot‘h

calves are in orchard on grass. E. J.

S., Owosso, Mich—Apply equal parts

oxide of zinc, powdered alum and boric

acid to sore navel twice a day. Give

calf a teaspoonful of tincture gentian,

and a teaspoonful of tincture cinchona

at a dose as a drench in either a pint

of water or with its skim-milk.



Barren Cow.—I had a valuable Jer-

‘sey cow that appeared to be partially

in heat most of last summer, but failed

to get with calf and I beefed her. A

daughter of hers, now nine years old,

has commenced to show exactly the

same symptoms. She appears to be

coming in heat, but refuses service;

although so far as I can tell she is in

good health. What can be done for a

case of this kind? E. L., Scotts,.Mich.

—You should have her examined by a

competent Vet. and ascertain if pos-

sible the cause of her not breeding.

The writer is inclined to believe that

she suffers from a cystic condition of

the ovaries, and if they can be suc-

cessfully crushed by your Vet. she

might perhaps come in heat normally

and get with calf. Giving her drugs

will have practically no good effect,

especially if she is in a healthy con-

dition.



Pica—«Licking Disease—I wish you

would tell me what to do for cows

that pick up sticks and bones when

running in the yard, as I am afraid

they will get a. sliver or wire nail in

their stomach. F. A. P., Avoca, Mich.

——The first work that you do should

be to clean up your cow yard and free

it from all such tempting morsels as

you mention.

medicine will not prevent her making

these little mistakes that are likely to

cause her death. Feeding an unbal-

anced ration is doubtless the most

common cause of this ailment. I ad—

vise you to turn your cattle out on

pasture and keep them out of your

yard until these foreign bodies are

gathered. Keeping your cattle in good

pasture that is high and dry, and pre-

venting their eating food which is

spoiled, will benefit them very much.

Give her a teaspoonful of air-slaked

lime, a teaspoonful of salt, 1 oz. of

ground gentian and 1 oz. of powdered

charcoal at a dose in feed twice a day.



Swollen Glands—Chronic Cough.—I

have a horse with a swelling in throat

which is about the size of a man’s

fist; besides, this horse has been trou-

bled with a chronic cough for a long

time. Whenever exposed to storms, he

seems to take cold, then commences

to cough and discharge white mucus

from nostrils. H. C. B., Cedar Springs,

Mich. Clip hair off bunch, paint with

tincture iodine two or three times a

week. Mix together one part of air-

slaked lime, four parts powdered lic-

orice, four parts ginger and give him

a tablespoonful in damp feed two or

three times a day. Perhaps if you

give your horse better care and a bet-

ter quality of food, he would be a

whole lot better. The care and feed-

ing will have more to do with his re-

covery, than giving him drugs.



Wart—What can be done for a mole

on- side of a horse’s head? This bunch

is about the size of a marble and is

easily irritated; the bridle chafes it.

A. Y., Chelsea, Mich—Cutit out, then

apply equal parts boric acid and tan-

nic acid twice a day.



Rheumatism.——I have a cow that is

troubled with rheumatism, affecting

one shoulder, but so far as I can tell

she is in a healthy condition. A. 0.,

Melvin, Mich—Give her 2 drs. of sodi-

um salicylate at a dose in feed two or

three times a day until she recovers.

Apply equal parts turpentine, aqua am-

monia and olive oil to shoulde“ three

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Brookwoter offer: to sell a few choice bull calves of this kind.





BR‘OOKWATER FARM

Ann Arbor. Mich., R. 7.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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Hoes.

Duroc: and Vietorias





Heavy bone, lengthy Spring Boers and Gilts from prize

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

fender & other noted strains. M. 'r. s'roav. Lowell, Mich.





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erkshires. Bred gilts and sows for fall farrowing.

Also Spring pigs, either sex. A few boars service-

uble age. reg. Chase Stock Form, B. 1, Marlon/e. Mich.

going fast $15.00 dc $20.00 each





BerkShlre P183 three months old. liegivter-





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Bears. serviceable age,

lines. Re istered.

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Sprln igs. either sex. not akin. Sired y Jennings

Pilot onder and Orion Chief Perfection. Write for





deigrees and rices. The Jennings Farms. Bailey.





ich. V. M. hoesmith General Manager.





Duroc Jerseys





Carey U. Edmondo.





si red by Orion Cherry

Duroc S l'lllg Roars King Col. and Brook

American 01. OneZyesr’ old sow by Cherry King’s

Rival due to farrow Nov. lst. farrowed 15 pigs last





May raising ".

NEWTON BARNHART. St.Johns, Mich.

Choice Duroc Spring Gilts





$35 each Reg. and delivered.

J. ILHICKS, St. Johns.





 





bred gilts for sale

priced to sell.

Hastings. Mich.





 





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One Yearling Cherry King





Duroc-Jerseys Boar. Gilts bred for fall far-

row. J. H. BANGHART. East Lansing. Mich.





 





Duroc Saws and gilts bred to Eureka Cherry King

and Crimson Critic son of Critic Model 1916

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





Fall Boers d: (‘ilts all sold.

Duroq Jfl‘seys- I ha ve some extira good heavy

boned 311118 pigs for sale pairs not akin.



F. J. RODT R Monroe. Michigan.





 





 





’ .Pigs at weanin time:

Dabson {5 DurOCS; an... s... a“... of

breeding. Collie Pups. Orlo L. Dobson. Quincy. Mich.

DU ROC S I few choice 'spring boars.



Writefor descri ption &prlce.





E. DJHEYDENBERK. Wayland. Mich.



Good S ring pigs by Defe d ‘

DUPOCS, Cherr "hing at reasonable :riggss

E. E. Calkins. R. D. 6. nu Arbor, Michigan.

Duroc: A few good males sued by Joe Orion 2nd





Dam by Orion Ch. Kin r.

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Bred Gilta all sold. Special prices on

CheSters March boars, alsononths Holstein

Bull. F. W. ALEXANDER, Vassar. Mich.





 





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S ecial prices on all boar pics for the next 30 days.

ill sell sows only when bond“.- in pairs. These

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not an equal in the country. School muster King of

the breed Crandells wonder & Callaway Edd both

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guaranteed. Get our catalogue.

Harry T. Orandell & Son. Cass City. Mich.





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‘lts bred or opt. furrow. Guaranteed safe with pi .

have the finest lot of early Spring pigs Iever raised.

airs not akin. recs



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fiod “Eh, mg. Form Kamila wool: 5.113.0th

toB.So ulz . - - - - Nashville. Mich.





B O A R 8

Big growthy fellows.

I middling) ”21% phefigpress

J. CARL JEWETI', Kauonnich.





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arch and April pl either , Ii 1 ,

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0 ’ Spring pi and her H l t ' h V

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LEAF STOCK FARM. R. linolllonsrgelafi MgROVER ‘

Big boned Apr. b . . -

Pg 00 SWINE bred for fall farrgilyfs 322?:

faction gurunteed. R. W. Mills. Salino.Mich.

O. I. C. ’SI Gilts bred for Aug. and Sept. .





' fan-ow. Also a few choic '

farrcwed boar pigs. Geo. P. Andrew‘s. Dansvillgfllllrihrlig.





BIG TYPE POLAND BHINAS





For Sale from the CHAMPION

P'ION‘a‘n‘d our other GREAT an??? 33:11:? 319%?

srum (,HY SOWS of very best breeding and individfi





utility,

HILLCREST FARM,

Kalamazoo,





‘6 '

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o is starvation. every one should d ' ‘

can raise more pork on less feed it you? 3331133133:

big type Poland Chinas. Sows bred for tall furrow





Bears read for servic . J.

land, Mic man. gel‘ Phong. BUTLER' Port-





Large Ty e P. C.





Fall pigs and bred gilts all so d. ‘

present. W. E. LIVINGSTON, Nol’lhllfidtfffillgfif





Big In}, Poland lihinas: fig?” and M“! Pisa» heal-





right. . W. BARNES a son, §§$nfifildfim PM”





 





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Mich. Lay’ My“





ARGE Strain P. C. everything sold except 1 husky





oarlin boarthutislonz t ll& - '

fall boar. 3H. 0. SWARTZ. $310015}??? llielxctlia (.honce





ARGE type P. C. Some ver cho' ' ‘

thzlrod'to furrow in Aulgust. “3;“! seallol’olllrglsyyglarliif;

er boars. W. . . Hagelshaw. Augusta. Mich.





 





‘ Poland Chin , f '

1135:; ge S’tll8d at farmers prices?“ filldPlpfiidi‘. 2‘s”.

3 . per 1.). Robert Neve. Pierson. Miofi‘.i





 





sold. still I:

and medium type?§?f?rx:1°-

R. 8, Grand RapidsJMioh.





OLAND Chinas b d ' .

Pchoioe fall pigs oglarfldtq all

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mg Ty”. Poland China: ggngarrowmithex-so all-

y Jumb W , '

hog. A. A. WOOD a SON. Bundle. mtm I

Blg Tm Poland china 22:”.1‘3” Liaffioi‘éesmp' b‘”

G. W. BOLTON. KALAMAZOO. MICHIGAN.

nAMPSHlRES Boar pigs only for sale 815 and up

JOHN W S as to age.

. NYDER, R. 4. St. Johns, Mich.

FOR SALE Yorkshire Sows and

. Gilts. bred f0 f ll

rowing. Also boar pigs f0 1"] ’ r a for.

Waterman, Meadowland [hairlnferxlifg‘Ax‘gin-nllfigf

_ i . . .

Fullblood Yorkshlro 31$.éf°1i~oéi15v§§§301afii§mw°d

afterward. price varies. G. P. Rasmussen. Truantefififif

SHEEP

Shropshire Ewes G00.“ 0““ 5 ‘9 6 ““5 0m ”0-00

lambs g)“ lllp. each. Yearling rams & ram

’ CKON FARMS. 0 ll '

Sheep at Lupton, ()ge(iii(a‘wat85u1d1tglyc.h.





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. Standard Delaine Rams -

Big fellow: with slpendid heads. Le a and He

0. R. PARSONS, Saline. Mm“.





' Bill, early , .

ShrOPShlres coming fallrsgudg?lslldgdnginfi.gr





Nook ram. Milo M. Gibson, 1t. 5. Lapeer Mich





or Lamb Rams a

write or oollngnmwes.

3, Fowlerville. Michigan.





For Shropshire Yearling:





ARMST RONG BROS..





Shorpshire llam lambs, gassed- W°°led in"

toes.

A. E. BACON & SON, Sheridan. Mich.





oAKoAin snout FARM. northern 0......





Sheep. Stock for sale. W. J. Lesaitor. Beldsilnlggsdtildhe





I . 1

Hickory Knoll Bamboulllois. “8...... m,

stock ram. A. E. Green. Orchard Lakeleallldigli.

WOIlCHl Ewerfileverall hundred good grade ewes. two





year 0 dsand ' ‘

ter-ed rams. Barnard Sheep Rahghfllagsfbllgfo? Moles;

Rambouillets and





R A M S: Hasncifighircsforsale.





A.A. WOOD& . saline. Mich. ,

HORSES ‘





For Sale Reg. Black Percheron

Stallion Colt





Weighing 1&1) pound: M24 mos old Sized by

Weighing 21"!) 11nd: well bred , a l on

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SHETLAND PON’lES





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. RICH. Om moi.





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