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The Only Weekly Agricultural,





VOL. CXLIX. No. 10

Whole Number 3957





Horticultural, and Live Stock Journal in the State.

DETROIT, MICH., $ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917





$1.00 A ‘1 EA R

$3.00 FOR 5 YEARS





Conserving and * Increasing the Food Supply

By W. MILTON KELLY





A L T H 0 U G H unharvested, the‘





year’s production of food crops

is limi-ted by conditions that

mark the passing of August. Noth-

ing can be done to add to the 1917

crop yields; . that was possible in part

last spring and the years before when

seeds were selected and careful atten-

tion given to fertilizing and preparing

the land, together with cultivating and

caring for the crops. Growing large

crops is not a matter of one year’s un-

dertaking. It is not too late, however,

for the farmer to add materially in

conserving and increasing our supply

of food so as to minimize hardship

from an apparent shortage of. a few

staples. The things that are immedi-

ately necessary to augment the food

supply are saving the season’s crops.

preserving them in proper condition

for food, and feeding live stock so that

they shall produce every pound of food

stuffs possibleior the sustenance and

comfort of our people. It is no time

to experiment with new and untried

methods and theories, but it is import-

ant that the ‘farmer shall devote his

efforts to saving his crops and the em-

ployment of such methods as are well

established in his community and like-

ly to yield the maximum of food and

clothing material.

Finish the Live Stbck Before Selling.

It will pay every farmer to stop and

figure before selling live stock half-fat-





tened because grain feeds are bringing , ,





high prices. It is true that every kind

of grain feed is high and the demand

is likely to put prices to a level that

under ordinary circumstances would

make its use prohibitive, but meat

prices are sure to advance in propor-

tion, so that the farmer who has the

nerve to feed out his stock is sure to

come opt better at the end of the sea

son than those who sacrifice stock in

a half-fitted condition. It is always

good business policy t feed out good

stock rather than market it at light

weights. Marketing animals before





they are well-conditioned robs the.





farmer of possible profits and the con-

sumer of a just expectation of meat at

a living price.



The 1917 crop of live stock marketed

at light weights would furnish less

than two-thirds as much sustenance to

meat consumers as would result if it





was properly conditioned. The per-





centage of waste is always greater in

light, peorly fitted animals. We need

every pound of good meat that can be

added to our 1917' crop of live stock

during the Coming months, and the

danger of prices breaking through any

surplus of grain that might exist in





the country will be lessened by the





beneficient increase of meat which is

needed for our normal consumption. In





the face of present conditions it is no,

.mark of intelligence nor patriotism for





the farmer to send his stock to the



market in a half- finished condition.



Condition All Animals Before Winter.

Every effort possible should be made





into maintain the duality and efficiency





 





breeding herds and develop young

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growing animal’s hide in the fall is

worth bushels of feed later on as a

protection against winter’s cold. Fat

can be put on now, but the calf or pig

that drifts into the winter in poor flesh

condition must be well sheltered and

fed a great amount of concentrated

feed to warm it up and keep it grow-

ing. With most young animals it is

largely a matter of feeding them liber-

ally from now until winter sets in.

This is easily done and young animals

started into the winter in thrifty con-

dition defy cold and grow when others

fall away. The cost of feeding is great-

ly reduced on breeding stock of all

ages that carry fall-made fat; growth

the first winter can scarcely be made

without its aid. A blanket of fat made





less plans are made to preserve the

dairy cow and the dairy heifer our

food supply will soon find itself in

distress. ' .



In the struggle to economize of





'grain feeds the dairy farmer must not





lose sight of the importance of having

a large supply of roughage, because

that means enormous quantities of

grain can be used directly in human

consumption while the dry cows,

young stock, and work teams can be

maintained more largely on the sec-

ondary products of the farm. No one

can tell just how great the shortage of

grain will be this year until the crops

are secure or what hardship this short-

age may involve, but it is every dairy

farmer’s duty to employ every means





 





 





Plowing Stubble Ground for Wheat 3 hould be Done as Early as Possible.





during the mildly cool fall days when



the system readily-makes fat out of



feed if it has the opportunity will



prove a mighty aid in cutting down



the amount of feed needed as the win-



ter advances. «

Save the Dairy Cows.



Dairy farmers can perform valuable

service by increasing their output of

products during the‘coming months.

In preparing'to meet the impending

food shortage, it is just as important

to make provision'for an adequate sup-

ply of milk, butter and cheese as for

breadstufls. .The dairy herds of the

country ‘must be preserved. Our ear-

nest prayer is that dairy cattle shall

not be slaughtered promiscuously for

beef, for there is no other animal that





can convert the roughage from farms .

7 into such nourishing and necessary

‘ “foods and do it so economically.- Un-





 





 





possible to economize on grain feeds.

The silo lends itself admirably to any

scheme that involves the conservation

of the roughage supply. More silos

should be erected and every ton of

good roughage preseived in condition

fit for dairy cows to convert into hu-

man food.

“Second Line Defenses." ’



The feeding of by-products will not

only pay immediate profit, but it will

help to increase the total food supply.

In these days of food shortage it may

pay to economize somewhat in feeding

some of the less profitable cows, but

the best cows must be fed some grain





to. keep up profitable milkeyields. The





cows that fail to respond to good care

and liberal feeding should be put in

condition for market. Every promis-

ing'heifer calf should be raised to help

maintain the supply of milk and its





products that are sure to be needed if

present conditions continue for two or

three years. Every healthy bull calf

should be made to contribute some-

thing more than its hide to the welfare

of the country. If every dairy farmer

would plan to raise and fatten one or

more steers it would help out wonder-

fully toward maintaining an adequate

supply of beef, and entail no hardship

to the farmer. Even the manure from

the dairy herd is needed to help to

make good the deficiency of fertilizer

needed to grow crops until it is pos-

sible to get chemicals from the war-

ring nations. The dairyman should

mobilize his feeds, cows and young

stock to build up a strong second line

of defence in conserving and increas-

ing the food supply of the country.



Never were conditions more favor-

able for selling scrub bulls and boars.

Such animals command higher prices

for beef and pork than they ever have

before. There should be a heavy

movement of old, low-caste, decrepit

males toward the stock yards now that

prices for that sort of stock are at a.

high level. And in their places should

be taken a Well-selected lot of pedi-

greed young males from the herds in

the country that are bred in blood

which has proved its value where it

has been properly handled. The ac-

cepted time to cash in on scrub males

is right now when they will sell for

more than enough to pay for better

young males to put in their places.

Such a move on the part of the farm'-

ers of the corn belt would not only de-

plete the region of inferior males, but

it would increase the supply of meat

foods and mean the saving of the good

blood so necessary to put the meat

making and dairy business on a higher

plane of efficiency.



More sheep are needed on our farms.

There is world shortage of wool, and

conditions are sure to become more

acute as more clothing is needed for

the army and navy. A few sheep on

dairy and stock farms would help out

more than any material increase in

the number of big sheep farms. Sheep

are adapted to conditions where con—

servation of grain and waste feeds are

practiced. If the millions of acres of

waste land throughout the eastern and

southern states were properly fenced

and the sheep protected by drastic dog

laws there would be no shortage in

the meat supply of today.



Even the little farm hen must con-

tribute to the country’s fOOd supply.

Feed the young pullets and melting-

hens enough grain to keep them thrifty

until winter comes. Give the flock

plenty of grain feed and good care

from now until winter sets in so that

they will begin the winter in condition

to pay a profit. Large poultry farms

have sold their laying stock down so

close that the bulk of eggs and fowls

must come from the farm flocks. Prac-

tice rigid culling, keep every hen that

is worth feeding another Winter. Fat-

ten old hens, inferior pullets and sur-‘

plus males so that they will go on the

market in good condition to bring sat~

(Continued on page 194).
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CURRENT COMMENT. _





 





The committee ap-



Marketing the 1917 pointed by Presi-



Wheat Crop. dent Wilson to fix



a fair price for the



1917 Wheat crop, the personnel of



which was given in a recent issue, has



named a price of $2.20 per bushel at



Chicago for No. 1 northern wheat. The



price differentials worked out by the



food administration on this basic price

are as follows:



No. 1 dark hard winter, $2.24; hard

winter basic, $2.20; red winter basic,

$2.20; yellow hard winter, $2.16; soft

red winter, $2.18; dark northern spring

$2.24; red spring, $2.18; humpback,

$2.10; amber durum, $2.24; durum ba-

sic, $2.20; red durum, $2.13; red walla,

$2.13; hard white basic, $2.20; soft

white, $2.18; white club, $2.16.



No. 2 of each grade is three cents

less; No. 3, six cents less; No. 4, ten

cents less.



Relative market basis: Chicago,

Galveston, New Orleans, basic; Kan-

sas City and Omaha, five cents less

. than basic; Duluth and Minneapolis,

f " three cents less; St. Louis, two cents;

' New York, ten cents more than basic;



Baltimore and Philadelphia, nine cents



more; Buffalo, five cents more.



The basic grades are No. 1 hard Win-

ter, red winter and northern spring.

The naming of this price was the re-

sult of a compromise among the com-

mittee membership after taking into

' consideration every phase of the situa-

tion from the standpoint of the best

interests of the country at large. While

this price is undoubtedly lower than

was desired and expected by the farm-

ers of some of the great wheat growing

states, yet it will undoubtedly enable

most wheat growers to make a reason-

able profit above the cost of produc-

tion, and through the administrative

; plans which have been made for the

elimination of speculation and the hold-

ing of all handlers of wheat and wheat

' “products down to a legitimate profit

;‘basis, it will also reduce the cost of

5 the prime necessity, bread, to the pea-

. ,ple of the whole country. -

' The organization completed by the

Jbod Administration for the control of

Mwheat market, as explained by-Ad-

‘ strutor Homer to the farm paper

‘ ' at Chicago last week, is de-





 

 

 





 

 





   

   

 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

   





 





signed toégiire the-animate ~ "



the cheapest possible bread at the

sic grain price fixed by the committee

upon which all interests and all sec-

tions of the country had a fair repre-

sentation. Briefly this plan is as fol-

lows:

which the government owns all the

. stock, has been formed for the purpose

of purchasing wheat for government

use and for export. Elevators will be

licensed and required to move all pri-

vately owned wheat within thirty days

of its purchase.

with the Food Administration will be

allowed a profit of twenty-five cents

per barrel on flour and fifty cents per

ton profit on feed manufactured from

the wheat milled. This profit will be

figured after deducting the actual cost

of milling; not including interest charg-

’ es or depreciation.





   





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A $50,000,000 corporation, of





Millers in agreement





Growers will not be required to sell





their wheat unless they so desire, but





the probability that the government

corporation will purchase all wheat

and distribute same to millers on a

basis of their previous .output'will

make it certain that the price estab-

lished by the committee will be main-

tained through the entire year. Thus,

every farmer in the country will be

able to figure accurately on what his

wheat crop will bring and will be able

to market it at the most convenient

season. There will be no incentive to

hold the grain for speculative purposes,

since there is no doubt that the admin-

istrative plan of level price mainten-

nance will be sustained through the





organization which has been perfected.





for the purpose.



It was estimated by the price fixing

committee that a fourteen—ounce loaf

of bread could be retailed at five cents

with wheat at the price named. All

things considered, the a'ction of the

price fixing committee should be re-

ceived with satisfaction by the farmers

of the country as eminently fair to

both producers and consumers. This

action should be accepted as an aus‘

picious beginning of food administra-

tion in the United States.





In his discussion of

More Live Stock the nation’s f o o d

Needed. problem at the meet-

ing of farm paper ed-

itors recently held in Chicago, Food

Administrator Hoover emphasized the

fact that in their own interest and in

the interest of the nation, producers

must turn the face of our agriculture

toward increased production of animal

foods and ultimately decrease our ex-

ports of bread and fodder grain.



The plans adopted by the Food Ad-

ministration as published in our last

issue for the mobilization of the live

stock of the country merit the careful

consideration of every farmer. It is





exceedingly poor policy for any farmer





to sacrifice his breeding animals, even

at the extraordinarily high price now





prevailing, with the idea of turning per-

manent attention toward the growing





of wheat and other cash crops because

these crops give the temporary prom-

ise of yielding a greater profit than

their live stock has done, even at the

enhanced values for live stock and live

stock products which have prevailed

during recent months.



While the rehabilitatiou of the agri-

culture of European belligerents must





of necessity be gradual, it will natur-

ally be directed toward the production

of grain food crops immediately after

This will be true not ‘alone

because of the fact that more human





the war.





food can be produced by this means





from a given area in the form of grains

than, is possible in the form of animal

foods, but as well because of the great

depletion and in some sections near

annihilation of the breeding herds and

flocks of those countries, which it will





take years of time to overcome. ,





While the're will undoubtedly be a

continued active demand for food stuffs

of all kinds following the close of the

war, this demand will be most been in

the line of animal food 2 including all





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weds . .,

products. Thugs-cat

mal} food products for which there will

be Such a world‘demand after the war

must be produced upon American

farms, hence the wistm of preparing

to meet and profit by this unprecedent-

ed condition. ' ‘





 





is being greatly stimulated

country,

foods is being discouraged because of

the exceedingly high cost of grain

feeds and other factors well appreciat-

ed by every reader.

ery farmer to pause for most careful

thought. upon this

further reducing his supply of breed-

ing animals of whatever description.

Dairymen‘who have become discour-

aged at the prospect, and who sacri-

ficed their dairy herds because of this

temporary

making a mistake which is not easy

of reparation.

able breeding animals should be prac-

ticed upon every farm, and in every.

case’where this course can be follow-

ed, the number of such animals should





'Foo'd Administrator Hoover called a





 





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, Foreign; . - . >,

_ The’liluropean. War.—-—0n Tuesdayof '



last week President WilsOn addressed "



Pope Benedict in afisWer o the la’cter’s~



proposed peace plan. . e position of



the President is that the Allies cannot



take the word of the present rulers of



Germany as a guarantee"'of anythingl



that can endure. He reiterated his



former statement that the present rul-



ers of Germany muSt go and that peace



will be made with the German people.



England has taken the same stand by



endorsing the reply of the President.



Reports would show that the influence ‘ ,



of the answer on public sentiment in ~



Russia has worked great changes in



the attitude of the people there toward



the Central Powers and now it appears



that there is >more hope for the suc-



cessful reorganization of the Rusdian



troops into an efiicient fighting force



that promises to hold out until the en‘



emy has been defeated. Russian in-



ternal conditions have further improv-



ed through the efiect of the conference



of provincial and party representatives ‘



at Moscow last; week which, while it



did no tarrive at any definite program,



made known to the world the desires.



and views of the delegates and showed



that the different states and provinces



were supporting the present provision-



al government—On the eastern front



the Austro—German troops have made



further advances in eastern Roumania



and appear to be massing their forces



for a drive on Riga as mentioned last



week. The resistance of the Russians,



however, has prevented the infantry



from making any headway and has



obliged the navy to attempt an atack'



on Riga from the gulf. Unusual activ'



ity of enemy aeroplanes over the sea,



and a large number of bombs dropped .



on ships, is taken as proof of the en- ' -



emy’s intention in this quartet—The



Italians have won a victOry over the



Austrians. Strongly fortified positions



on the plateau northeast of Gorizia and



to °the south along the Carso lines



have been wrested from the defenders



and compelled the retirement of the



Austrians on the whole front. The cats . l



ualties have been heavy and the num- ’



ber of prisoners taken by the Italians



very large—On the western front con-



tinuous rains have obliged the Allies



to take a recess in their recent success.



ful efforts at Verdun, Campaigns, St.



Quentin, Flanders and on the Belgian



frontier.—.The British forces in Pales-



tine attacked the enemy southwest of , ‘



valuable asset to the nation. Gaza and advanced their lines—Dm- ~ 1

Not until this great war had been in mg the month the total 01 British 038' ' ~ x,



progress for nearly three years was 3:11:98 have amounted to 59’811 per- . l ,-



there general appreciation of the vital By promising to pay an indemnity to f ,



Argentine for ships lost in the sub {





While the production of grain foods

in this

the production of animal





It is time for ev-





question before





 





discouragement will be





Conservation of valu-





be increased to the practical limit.

Through the administration’s plan

published in the last issue, the needs

of farmers who cannot secure the.de-

sired additions to their breeding stock

from local sources can get sMe from

distant markets at the bare cost of pur‘

chase and transportation and without

profit to intermediate dealers in hand-

ling them. If there is an opportunity

to economically increase the live stock

maintained upon his farm, the reader

should at once get in touch with the

county agent in his county and place

an order for such animals as he may

need, to be supplied through the chan-

nels enlisted in this service by the Na-

tional Food Administration. There is

room for more cattle and more sheep

upon thousands of Michigan farms.

Their possession will unquestionably

add to the future prosperity of the

owners of these farms, and prove a





 





 





role of animal foods in the human diet. .



But with their importance so thor— firine cgmlvalgtn euggucltled btly 19%“ ’-

ny,an asoom01y er ocae ,



oughly demonstrated, the farmers of of enemy coasts in favor of the South 1





American country’s shipping, Germany .

has again satisfied the officials ’of the I

southern country and the strained re-

lations are relieved once more.



The Uraguaia‘n commission revising , l

the constitution. of that country have

introduced a clause. providing for the

separation of the church and the state.





Michigan and the country should 'be

prepared to aid in satisfying the unpre-

cedented demand for animal foods

which will unquestionably prevail, not

alone during the war, but for a long

period following the cessation of hos-





tilities.

' A late report indicates that consid-

' The necessity for na- erable numbers of German cripples are

F0041 ‘tional food adminis- being recalled to arms. The matter





was up for discussion in the German

Reichstag recently.



A Belgian commission is now in this

country attending to matters of im~

portance to their government and

people.



The Greek armies will be in the

trenches by December 1.



As the result of an explosion, three

factories were burned in Petrograd, in

which 120 persons were killed or in-

jured, and large property losses were

entailed. i





tration, the objects

sought by those in

charge of food administration and the

methods by which an efiort will be

made to secure those results, have a

very important relation to the agricul-

ture of the country, and are thus of the

greatest’interest to the farmers of the

country.



Because of the need of a more cor-

rect and full understanding of these

points by the great army of producers

of food stuffs in the United States,





Administration.





 





 





National. 1 i





The People’s Council, a pacifist or~

ganization, is having much trouble in

finding a. town or city in which they

will be allowed to hold their sessions,

having been obliged to give up meeting

at ’several different places in the cen-





meeting of the editors and publishers

of agricultural papers in Chicago on





August 25 for the purpose of address- t l (1 ft hi k

ing them upon these related subjects. ra west, an a or searc ng a. wee



. being unable to find a municipality

The .tGXt 0f ms; address has .been re- that would receive and protect them.

leased for.pub11cation, and Will be re- The treasur department has an-

produced In full in our issue of next nounced tentat1vely thatthe .next 1n»

week. erty loan bonds for three billion dol-





will be followed by the National Food mfgrggdaggaggflfig gesgfiffi’dnlfafi

Administration in relation to the mar- ‘





. it is reported that one conflagration

keting and distribution,“ the wheat was sweeping forward along a front

crop are given in another column of extending forty miles.

this issue. This phase of food admin- It is estimated that fully 2’00” mis-

istration was more fully discussed in





sionaries and 700,000 converts have



been interned in Africa, India and Ja- .

Mr. Hoover’s talk, and will be of great ‘

interest to Michigan Farmer'readers,





pan as an indirect result of, the present

as will also his observations and opin-





 





 





 

 

 

 





Negotations are under way for the

transfer to the United States of sev-

prodbction' as well as food administran.“ £00611”!!! mg. earn

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world War.

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United States is bemg directed

. g toward the wheat “crop of 1918.





g The united States government has





asked the farmers of this country to

produces. billion bushels of wheat next





' ' year, and before the wheat of the pres-





ent season’s crop was harvested and

threshed, plans were being laid for a

bumper wheat crop in 1918. The in-

tense interest on the part of the farm-

ers in next year’s wheat crop comes

from several causes; the possibilities

of the profits on the crop, a desire to

learn all that is within their reach in

regard to wheat production, as knowl-

edge of that kind can be utilized dur-

ing their whole lifetime, and a true

spirit of patriotism—a love for their





country and a desire to- aid in this‘





world conflict and aid in securing for

humanity throughout the civilized

world the blessings of liberty.



It has been the custom in the past

when an increase in production is de-

sired to increase the area, using the

old-time methods in preparing the seed

bed and selecting the seed. At the

present time those who study for best

methods in preparing the soil, seek to

meet the needs of the crop under their

conditions in supplying the necessary

fertilizers, and secure the best yield-

ing varieties of wheat for seed and

put that seed in the best possible con-

dition, sow it at the proper time, in

the proper manner, are working by the





\ surest and best plan to aid the govern-





ment in meeting the needs of the peo-





‘ple in our own country and aiding the





allies in Europe. 1.



Tofollow the plans mapped out this

year may be an impossibility at this

late date, but some hints made at this

time may be carried in mind and be of

value in coming years. There will be

an active demand for. food for the

years that are to come in the near

future.



Preparing the Seed Bed.





We have learned that the wheat

plant in order- to thrive, get a good

foothold and be ready for winter and

in the coming spring develop in a man-

ner which will enable it to reproduce

abundantly, must have the plant food

at hand for its immediate use at the

time when the seed is sown. There is

a period of from six to eight weeks

from, seeding time to winter. In order

‘to meet the needs of the young plants

the plant food needed just at that time

must be in an available form for im-

mediate. use. The plant food in the

soil which comes from the decaying

vegetable matter in the soil, can be

made available by plowing early and

working frequently. It requires time

for the vegetable matter in the soil to

decay, but working the soil frequently

helps to hasten the rotting process,

and at the same time releases the min-

eral elements in the soil, and makes

the rapid growth of the young plants

possible. Here will be seen the advan-

tage of the summer fallow.





Another method of supplying the

needs of the young plants is by the use

of commercial fertilizers. If commer-

cial fertilizers are to be used, the thor-

ough preparation of the seed bed ought

not to be neglected.” The commercial

fertilizers should be used to supply

What is supposed to be lacking in the

soil. What the young plants need at

first is nitrogen to stimulate the

growth, and if.]egumes have been re-

Cently grown on the ground there will

be an abundance of nitrogen at hand.

If we must depend on commercial ni-

trate of soda, we are confronted with

the fact that the prices have advanced





from $50 to $100 per ton, which is cer-

- taimy an expensive way of securing





HE attentiOn of the people of the





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avenues open before us; buying com-

mercialf fertilizers, or by the use of

legumes manufacture the necessary

plant foods in the soil. Germany has

doubled her average yield of wheat by

the expensive method; she has used

six times as much commercial fertiliz-

ers- as has the United States, and it

has taken fifty years to accomplish the

results. By the extravagant use of

commercial fertilizers she has brought

her average yield per acre to about

thirty-one bushels, while little Den-

mark, with les's flourish of trumpets,





has secured the remarkable average





yield of forty-four bushels per acre.





With our present knowledge of what

can be accomplished by the use of leg-

umes, we have the material in hand

with which we can secure great re-

sults. Weknow that if we will keep

the land sweet by the liberal use of

lime, we can grow the alfalfa and the

clovers, and while we are using the

forage from those cropsas feed for

the various kinds of live stock, and

returning the manure to the land, we

have the means which will enable us

to secure a rank growth of grain crops.



The element which may be lacking

in some cases to secure the plump ker-

nels of wheat, is phosphoric acid. The

phosphoric acid should be present at





   





 





CLAPP ' .





If we follow the plan of raising leg-

umes and applying barnyard .manures

alone, similar conditions may prevail

in our wheat fields—a rank growth of

straw on which is produced shrunken

grain. The remedy lies in the use of

such material as will supply the need-

ed phosphoric acid.



. Acid phosphate or treated ground

phosphate rock is one of the main

sources from which we have been se-

curing phosphoric acid. At the pres-

ent time conditions are such as make

it difficult to secure a sufificient supply

of treated rock. Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins,

of Illinois University, says that if fine-

ly ground raw phosphate rock is ap-

plied on land where legumes are grow-

ing or to manure spread upon the soil

and the crop, and manure is plowed

under, the nitric acid, generated during

the process of fermentation and decay

of the vegetable matter, will act upon

the raw rock and make the phosphoric

acid available for the growing crops.



If the amount of acid phosphate and

ground bone meal is not sufi‘icient to

meet the demands of grain growers,





ground raw rock can be used as we ,





have suggested. If eight or ten tons

of stable manure is applied to each

acre, forty or fifty pounds of the raw

rock mixed with each load of the ma-





 





 





 





The Home-made Planker will Help to Reduce Refractory Soils.





all stages of growth. The plants take

it'up while growing, and it is stored in

the leaves and stalks; but when the

process of reproduction or formation

of seeds begins, the phosphoric acid is

drawn upon, and the seeds are formed.

I have in mind a case which will illus.

trate this point.





A Practical Illustration.





During the summer and fall of 1916

a near neighbor had hens in coops in

the yard and garden. vThe hens were

fed wheat screenings. A stool of wheat

came up in the fall and during the

present summer made a very rank

growth. It was watched with much in-

terest as it sent up many stalks, At

harvest time thirty-nine heads of wheat

were gathered and shelled. The aggre-

gate number of kernels was 1,262.

There were ninety-five imperfect ker-

nels, leaving 1,167 kernels as the pro—

duct from one kernel. Many of the

kernels, are shrunken, showing that

there was a sufficient amount of nitro-

gen to stimulate the growth, and pot-





ash enough to stiffen the stalks and

enable them to stand ,up, but there was

mnot enough phosphoric acid in the





ground within reach of the roots at the





time the plant was groWing to enable

it to produce 11le kernels. .





nure will balance up the supply of

plant foods. The amount of manure

suggested may seem like a light appli-

cation, but it contains more nitrogen

and potash than three tons of what we

call a modern, complete fertilizer. And

what should be considered farther, is

the fact that there will remain in the

ground a sufficient amount of plant

food'to make the influence of the ap-

plication of the manure readily seen

for two or more years; especially will

it be seen if clovers follow the wheat

crop.

Seed Selection.





The kind of wheat sown has much

to do with the yield per acre. The va-

riety which has the characteristics of

hardiness, standing up well though the

growth be rank, tillers out or sends up

many stalks from each stool, should

be given the preference, for many well

filled heads means much wheat. The

characteristic of productiveness is in-

herent—it goes along with the breed.

Too much stress has been laid in the

past on large kernels, with but little

regard to the capability of productive-

ness. The kernel feeds the young

Wheat plant while it is small,gand if

the kernel is large, it may.“ give it a.

vigorous growth while yet young, but





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the moderate sized kernel if it carries-

within it the ancestral characteristic,

of prolificacy, will leave within'. the

stool the spreading habit, and several

stalks will be sent up, and consequent- ,

1y several heads of wheat will be pro-' "

duced from one kernel.





The real value of well—bred seed is

rarely appreciated, and yet there is

as much difference between a well-bred -

variety of wheat that has within it the

right characteristics, and the common

sorts, as there is between a well-bred

calf of the Shorthorn, «Hereford and

Angus breeds and a common, neglected

scrub. The scrub may be given good

food and be surrounded with ideal con-

ditions and will only make a well-fed

scrub, while the pure-bred calf under

the same conditions will consume the

food and develop into a noble animal,

making good returns for the feed con»

sumed. The common wheat sown in

rich soil will only give moderate re-

turns, while the seed of the pure-bred

varieties has within it the vital energy

which enables it to reach down deep

into the soil and utilize the plant foods

within reach, make a rank growth and

yield heavily of grain at harvest

time.





The Amount of Seed to Sow.





The amount of seed usually sown to

the acre, is generally in excess of what

is needed. The man who sows two

bushels of wheat to the acre 1 think

makes a mistake. An excessive amount

of seed means crowding too many

stalks in a given space, which means

short heads and a diminishing of the

yield. Give the wheat plant a chance

to spread itself, I think is good advice.

I was once asked by a farmer who bei

lieved in clover wheat and sheep, to

assist in measuring a field from which

he had just threshed 784 bushels of

wheat. We found that there was four-

teen acres in the field, which gave an

average of fifty—six bushels per acre.

The field had been summer fallowed.

and five pecks of seed were sown to .

the acre.





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





As a rule, less seed is required to se- '

cure a good stand early in the seeding

season than should be sown later. If

five peeks of seed is used at the begin-

ning of the seeding season, six or sev-

en peeks of seed may be used near the

end of the season.





Future Possibilities Predicted.





During the last thirty-five years pric-

es for wheat have been too low to

awaken much interest in wheat rais-

ing except on an extensive scale. Farm-

ers have used Wheat as a crop in the

rotation, as a ready cash crOp, and as

a producer of straw with which to bed

live stock. As a rule the wheat crop

has been greatly neglected until the

general average yield has drifted to a.

low figure. The average yield of wheat

per acre for the whole United States is

around sixteen bushels.





With prices raised and guaranteed

at a point where wheat growing can

be made a profitable business, it is safe

to predict that farmers can be instruct-

ed in the art of preparing the ground

by enriching and working and packing

it well, selecting the best varieties of

seed, sowing the right amount at the

propertime and in the proper manner,

and the average yield for the whole

country raised during the next five

years to considerably above twenty

bushels per acre. If the concentrated

effort on the crop should be continued

for another five years it is reasonable.

to expect that the general average will ‘ ,

be raised to thirty bushels per acre, '. W

and if at that time the government »

were to say to the farmers of the coun-

try, “sow 50,000,000 acres to wheat ”f

we might look for 1, 500, 000, 000 bushels,

a sumcien‘t amount to permit us to 1‘61

tain 750, 000 bushels for home consump-,

tion and have the same amount to sell

for export.
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,1 C?NSERVING AND INCREASING





“,isfactory prices.

3 of good poultry meat and there is al-

ways a loss in marketing immature,

"'lpooz'lyc

vducks, geese and turkeys should do

their part in maintaining the poultry.





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"~" THE FOOD SUPPLY.





 





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The country is short





conditioned fowls. Breeders of





industry on a war-footing.



Every farmer should make a special

effort to gather and store all the fruit

and vegetable crops his farm produces.

The waste of food crops at this time

of need is nothing short of criminal.





. Early fruits that do not find a. ready

sale may be put up in cans, glasses





and jars and late fruits put into stor-

age. Thin-skinned vegetables, like po-





‘tatoes, keep best when stored in a





more, the“; is nothing more 1 up

to the entire family’s sense of thr1ft the farm, not: merely for a few months :





and independence than to furnish a but for the entire year. I.

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Stinking Smut of Wheat





By PROF. G.





HEAT Day at the College was

a notable event. Hundreds of





farmers who were sincerely

interested in growing the best possible'

wheat crop in 1918 were at hand list-

ening interestedly to the facts that the





,various experts had to give.





Nearly every speaker told of the nec-

essity of seed treatment to insure a

clean crop. Mr. H. H. Goeman, intro-

duced as one of the great grain buyers

who handled a large per cent of Mich-





 





Shoveling the Wheat as it is Sprayed with Formaldehyde.





dark, cool cellar. Apples, grapes and

winter pears keep best when put in

boxes or barrels after being well sort-

ed and wrapped in fine paper. Squash-

es and pumpkins keep best stored in

a dry place where there is no danger

of freezing. Carrots, beets and turnips

may be packed in boxes and covered

with a layer of sand. They will pro-

vide a highly palatable variety in the

winter when you bring them fresh

from the boxes in the cellar. If the

temperature of the cellar is kept at

about forty degrees fruit and vegeta-

ble crops will keep well. All crops put

into storage should be carefully hand-

led, as bruised specimens do not keep

well. '



All of the arguments for having a

vegetable garden to cut. down the high

cost of living and contribute to the

country’s welfare may be advanced

with even greater force and reason in

favor of carrying the supply right on

through the winter until it is time to

start the garden for another year. Of

course, the canning factories put up

many sorts of vegetables in excellent

ways, but they cannot control the time

of gathering and canning——two'factors

that are very essential in having vege-

tables in the winter that compare fav-

orably with the fresh supply during

the summer.



Farm women will find abundant op-

portunity to render valuable and time-

ly service by helping conserve the food

crops for winter use. Canning houses

throughout the country have notified

wholesalers that their deliveries will

be far below normal. Tin plate has

doubled in price, which means that

empty cans cost more. Glass, too, has

gone up in price. So that now when

every day counts the prudent house-

wife should be putting up everything

she has room for in cans, glasses, jars

She will have no trouble

iii finding good markets for all the

surplus she may have. Even young

children, with bottled- -up energies, can





,help in gathering fruits and vegetables





for mothers and big sisters to put up

fer the winter. Such work will not

only give them better ideas of thrift





men and women of them. Further-





   

 

 





igan’s crop, stated emphatically that

Michigan must plan a systematic treat

ment of wheat. “Michigan wheat is

notorious because of the stinking smut

it contains. It is hard to get hold of

a clean carload.”



The effect of this is evident. Much

of our grain is “bran wheat" instead of

bread wheat. Buyers distrust even our

best grades. The expense of cleaning

the wheat is naturally taken from the

price paid the farmer.



Losses from Smut.



Conservative estimate places the loss

in yield from stinking smut of wheat

at five per cent of the total Michigan

crop. l have been in a great many

fields where by actual count the loss

was ten per cent or greater, and in

most cases the owner did not know of

it. I was in one forty-acre field where

out of thirtytwo heads only eleven

were sound, all the rest were smutted.

The stand of wheat in- that field was

such as to warrant a thirty bushel

yield. The loss to that farmer was

from $1,200 to $1.500. Great as these

losses have been in the past, the farm-

er is going to have the stinking smut

loss brought home to him even more

strongly.



Under the new grain standardiza-





tion law all wheat is inspected by li-‘





censed inspectors who are required to

dock wheat for the bulk occupied by

the stinking smut kernels, and to add

a fixed dockage for the expenses of

cleaning smutty wheat. H. H. Goeman

is authority for the estimate that this

dockage will amount to at least fifteen

cents a bushel on wheat showing smut.

Coupling this statement with the one

that Michigan wheat is almost uni-

formly smutty, it is seen that we stand

to lose enormously. Our wheat is to

be discriminated against in the market.



In the good old days the elevator

man could put the smutty wheat in

with the fairly clean grain and the

whole thing passed as an ordinary

Michigan product: But now smutty

wheat in a carload will bring about

dockage of the whole load. The grain

inspectors are licensed officials who

stand liable to lose their positions for

faulty grading. Our grain will get no

favors. only what it merits.





H. COONS





The cause of all this loss is a para;

sitic plant—an enemy of the wheat.

The smut plant is too small to be seen

except with a microscope and it lives

within the wheat plant, sending its in-

visible threads throughout the wheat.

The stinking brown-black powder pro-

duced in the kernel is the reproductive

form of this parasite. The powder con-

sists of microscopic balls called spores,

which 'are the “seeds" of the smut.



At threshing time—either from the

farmer’s own grain or from his neigh-

bor's—for the threshing machine car-

ries smut just as it carries weeds—-

smut spores are dusted upon the wheat.

Here they cling and when the wheat is

planted the sumt spores sprout with

the sprouting grain and infect it.



Once the smut is within the grain it

grows with the wheat keeping pace

with its progress.



There is more smut during some

years than others. When the weather

is such that the wheat does not start

quickly and make a vigorous growth,

more wheat is infected than in seasons

when the wheat comes up quickly and

makes a strong sturdy growth.



Since the grain carries the infectious

spores on the outside and since where

rotation is practiced soil infestation is

not a factor, the disease is readily con-

trolled by a simple seed disinfection.



Every farmer is familiar with the

treatment of wheat with formaldehyde.

Under this treatment he cleaned his

grain, and then sprinkled it thoroughly

with water to which formaldehyde had

been added, (one pint to forty gallons

of water). The grain was shoveled

during the sprinkling to insure thor-

ough wetting. It was then put into a

heap and covered from two to four

hours, then spread out to dry. Since

the grain comes from the treatment

slightly swollen, some allowance must

be made for this in setting the drill.



This treatment works perfectly. It

is cheap, simple and easy. Coming at

a busy time, many farmers have dis-

liked'to wait for the grain to dry and

the swollen grain sometimes drills

meanly.



Fortunately in this emergency an im-





81‘

Mile instead of sprinkling with dilute -





formaldehyde. one pint. is used for

fifty bushels of grain. For smaller

amounts corresponding quantities bf

formaldehyde are taken. The grain is

spread in a long pile and the formal‘

Idehyde sprayed on the grain as it is

shoveled over and over. The grain is

turned over and over just as concrete

is mixed. it is then covered with a

canvas for four hours—no longer—and

is then spread for a thorough airing.

With wheat this is very essential.



This same treatment is excellent for

rye and oats. It has been pushed ex-

tensively with pats ‘by the county men

and it has taken well with the farmers.

Its cheapness, simplicity and avoid-

ance of delays makes it extremely

popular.



There would seem now no excuse for

failure to treat grain.

maldehyde which will cost about forty

to forty-five cents, will treat fifty bush-

els. Two men can treat fifty bushels

in about half an hour.





HARVESTING ONIONS;





 





Onions must be properly matured,

harvested and cured before they are

ready for successful whiter storage.

August and September are the harvest-

ing months and crops grown from

early sowings should now show signs

of maturity. These become apparent

in a weakening and shriveling of the

neck above the bulb, and a yellow col-

or of the tops. Bulbs to be stored

should become fully ripe before pull-

ing. The tops should be dead and the

outer skin of: the bulbs dry.



There are usually some scullions, or

those with thick necks, which still re-

main green. These do not make suit-

able bulbs for storing. If they can be

matured, it will be by pulling and giv.

ing the necks an opportunity to dry

down. .



As a rule it pays to pull the entire

crop when the larger portion of the

tops have become dead. Delay in har-

vesting sometimes results in a second

growth which injures the bulbs for

storage purposes. The bulbs, after pull-

ing, may be entirely dried or cured in

the garden or field. If the weather is

moist, however, the bulbs when par—

tially cured, may be removed to awell

ventilated house or shed, where they

should be kept for several weeks. They

should not be put into winter storage





 





After Spraying with Formaldehyde, Co ver the Grain Four Hours—No Longer.





provement of the old method has been

discovered Which makes the treatment

of seed wheat so simple that there is

now no excuse for any farmer omit-

ting the treatment. ‘

This improvement was discovered by

R. J. Haskell, of Cornell University,

and has been tested for three years in

New York. Last year County Agent

H. G. Smith, having learned of the

treatment from the Cornell Extension

Department advised its use for the

farmers in his county and it was tried

there by many with excellent success.





until perfectly dry. The tops should

rattle and crackle when handling.



Do not attempt to store soft and

immature bulbs, and bulbs with thick

necks. Use these or sell them at once

because they do not keep well. Before

storing, 'it is, customary ‘to remove a

part of the top. When topping, leave

at least an inch of the stem above the

bulb. Bulbs which have been tepped

too close will sprout and become a loss.

Handle carefully to avoid bruising and





place. R E. Loam:





One pint of for-.





store, in a cool, dry, well ventilated





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any section. . , ,1





> R conditions confront the ap-

. éple growers, for there is a

‘ scarcity of pickers, and careful

preparations must now be made to see





" that this crop is all safely harvested





and put into storage. Now is the time

to begin organizing picking crews in

every apple-growing section. A survey

of the situation shows that the farmer

will need cooperation from business

men in the towns and cities round

about at which he trades and which

have just as great an interest in this

crop as the farmer himself. This is

emergency organization work to be

taken up immediately by chambers of





.commerce, boards of trade, state and





county councils of defense, and busi-

ness men generally. People who have

never regarded themselves as apple

pickers may this year be asked to go





.to the orchards and help get in the





crop for patriotic reasons.

Pickers from New Sources.



The .organization work should take

the form of an immediate survey of la-

bor resources to see,where a picking

force is to be recruited. Stores and

factories can often release clerks and

workmen for this service if notified in

time. Families who would like a week

or two of vacation in the country, with

light, healthy outdoor work at satisfac-

tory wages, may also be induced to

join the picking army. It has been

suggested that the schools might be

opened later this year so that boys and

girls can be sent to the orchards, but

this will not be necessary in all cases.

One very good source of pickers can

be found among the women’s organiza-

tions of this country, which are all

keenly interested in helping in any

practical patriotic work.



Much is heard about the scarcity of

labor, but there is not as great a scare-

ity as most people imagine. Workers

upon whom the farmer depends in or-

dinary times have simply been shifted

into other occupations, and war condi-

tions demand that business men step





in, locate other classes of workers who:





can be shifted to the orchards for this

emergé’ncy and see‘that the farmer has

plenty of help. '



‘ ,Some Instruction Necessary.



The principles of careful fruit pick-

ing are very simple, and easily under-

stood. If the farmer can start with

two or three experienced pickers and

spend a little time explaining good

“picking methods to his volunteers he

should get excellent results, for these

volunteers, while new to the work, will

also be ~people of good average intelli-

gence, and the war emergency will‘ap-

peal to their interest so that they will

be more than ready to help harvest the

crop skillfully.



Apple growers are advised to get in





touch with the busineSs organizations,





in their neariast town, ask that help be

given in securing pickers and report

the number-of pickers needed by them-

selves. One of the greatest difficulties

in organizing harvest hands for any

crop is that of gathering accurate in-

formation as to how many helpers are

needed on each farm and in each town-

ship. For lack of such information it

very often happens that one township

will be handicapped because it is with-

out suflicient helpers and a township

twenty—five or thirty miles away will

have. a, surplus of workers. By ascer-

taining in advance just how many

workers will be needed in each local-





‘ ity; business organizations will be able





to recruit a suflicient force and there

will be neither scarcity nor surplus in





Care of Crop After Picking. ,

1 This year’ s apple. crop calls for spe-

cial methods, of'thandlin'g." The size of

.the crop makesit necessary ‘to 'send





_, onlythe first-class fruit to market and





eetfiiitt’i all seconds and culls are

around home or worked





picking, but are carefully cooled. The





" after they are in the jar.

A tend to shrivel and leak their juice, .





scarcity of pickers will probably make

it necessary to pick and house the crop

first and grade and pack it afterwards.

‘Full directions for handling the fruit

will be published later



The great big task immediately





ahead is that of securing a picking'

force and in this work the business





man and the farmer are cooperating

to an extent never known before. This

is a war crop. It will be harvested

with a war organization.





 





SPECIMEN FRUITS AND VEGETA-





BLES.





 





For the real estate office, the bank

lobby, the restaurant window, it is of-

ten desirable to have on hand in per-

manent form an exhibit of fruits or

vegetables in’glass jars. In this case

one will wish to preserve the natural

form and color, and will not hesitate

to use preservatives which would make

the food unfit for eating, if he can

thereby prevent decay and loss in ap-

pearance. The following suggestions,

based on considerable 'work of this

kind by the writer, may be of use to

thOSe wishing to process some speci-

mens for display purposes.



The most attractive fruits and veg-

etables to use, as a rule, are those of

a yellow or white color because they

show up well, while in spite of all we

can do, reds and darker shades leak

their juices into the preserving solu-

tion, and so make an undistinguishable

mass of the contents of the jar. The

most reliable preservative for yellow

or white products, such as sweet corn,

string beans, Bartlett pears, Yellow

Egg plums, celery, etc., is sulphurous

acid. This is a bleaching agent, and a

preservative as well. Use one part of

the acid to nine parts of water. Place

the specimens in the jar, and cover

with this solution. Before placing the

cover on, add enough kerosene oil on

top to cover the Surface about an

eighth of an inch. This last will pre-

vent the formation of molds, which

sometimes gather on the surface. ,



Besides preserving from decay, and

holding the color, one must prevent

cracking of the skin of the fruit, which

will take place in the case of plums,

pears, etc., unless the water is thick-

ened. Glycerine is commonly used to

give density to the solution. Half a

pint is about the right quantity for a

six-quart'jar, but some experimenting

will be necessary to determine this

point, the object being to bring the

density of the preservative to the same

point as that of the fruit juice. If too

much glycerine is added, the fruit will

shrivel up.



While yellow and white products are

safe in the sulphurous acid, there are

other combinations which are uniform-

ly certain in their results. Green peas,

cucumbers, gooseberries, may be pre-

served in formaldehyde with a pinch

of blue vitriol dissolved in addition to

deepen the color, if'desired. Use a

four per cent solution of formaldehyde,

or one part of commercial formalin to

ten of water. Formaldehyde, without

the adition of blue vitriol as in the

case of green products, will also hold

the purple in plums and grapes. Care

should be taken not to rub off the wax-

en bloom on these two fruits, as the

skin has a more natural appearance

with it on.



Red raspberries keep well in boric

acid. Make as strong a solution as

possible, and pour it over the berries

They will





however, and will not last as long as

the products with a heavier body.



A more pleasing effect can usually

be obtained with fruits on‘the branch

than in the bulk. Most of the leaves

should be trimmed off. The specimens





should be underripe, so as to hold their

‘- shape, and remain in place on the





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duction of milk and cream, and

prices of butter in the market

tell very plainly of a limited supply of





- that product





The writer has more or less shad

owy memories of the period following

the war of the rebellion, and he can





recall that in those days butter





brought forty cents a pound. How-

ever, that price did not represent gold,

but rather it was paid in greenbacks

which sustained a varying relation to

gold depending upon a number of caus~

es which may not be discussed here.



The month of June gave us the best

of pastures, very liberal yields of milk,

and at our creamery butter-fat from

cream grading No. 1 brought 45.8 cents

per pound. I do not recall a single

year in our history in which butter has

brought as high a price as in the last

few months.



“The end is not yet.” Most feeds are

much higher in price relatively speak-

ing, than butter. Who has ever seen

corn and oats, ground, selling at $4.50

per hundred? With such prevailing

high prices for nearly all kinds of feed,

the production of milk or butter at any-

think like a reasonable profit is a big

problem. '



Feeds will Remain High. .



Feeds are not going to be much

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tumn will perhaps see a falling off in

prices of some feeds, but this will not

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they were last spring.



Consumers will need our butter and

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do now. Production is going to fall off

because only now and then a man has

the courage to purchase feed when the

price is so very high and the Cows are

not going to do any better than usual

on short rations.



The question is, “What can we do

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warranted by the prices at which we

must dispose of our products?



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somewhat under present conditIOns,

but cows will need something besides

hay next winter if they are able to

help much in lessening the food short-

age. Let us settle the matter by say-

ing that we will feed all the hay the

cows Wilheat. We will not give them

a pound of hay to waste for‘this does

no good, but we will feed them all they





will eat up clean because it is good.





for them and because it is cheap.





Keep Cows Well Fed.



If we are careful with our horses, we

can save a part of the grain that some

of us have been in the habit of feed-

ing them and give it to the cows. Our

horses do not work much during the

winter, but our cows do a large amount





of work and so we may feed the horses ,





less and the cows more than we have

perhaps been in the habit of doing.



No man with eight or more cows

that will give milk next winter should

try to get along without a silo. Of all

the years within 'the memory of the

writer, this one most strongly empha-

sizes the importance of the silo. ,Pres-

ent indications point to large amounts

of immature corn. The silo is the only

place where this form may be stored

without much loss. The man who plans

to husk his corn and feed the dry

stalks to the cows this time Will be un-

fortunate for he will find it hard to

buy the needed grain: and those dry

stalks will be very unsatisfactory feed

without plenty of grain.



At the present price of corn, we pre-

dict that large amounts of ears will

break off before the corn is cut and

the stalks will be put in the silo. These

stalks when ensiloed will be much bet-

ter than as though they were dry, but

grain must be fed.





The Use of By-products.



I believe it is our duty to give the

subject of by-products much attention.

We may not obtain cheap feed, but we

can lessen the cost of feed often by

purchasing by-products instead of the

ordinary grains grown on the average

farm.



At this writing it is too early to





prophesy concerning the sugar beet‘m





crop, but it is safe to assume that it

will be larger than last season. In

dried beet pulp we, have a very valu‘

able by-product. Beet pulp is not rich

in protein, but it is quite abundant in

carbohydrates and besides it is a good

conditioner. That is,- it seems to act

upon the digestive organs in a way to





__’enable the cow to get more out of it





than we might expect when consider—

ing its analysis only. It has empha-

sized the fact that we must go farther

than the chemical analysis when

measuring the value of feed stuffs. The

real test of any dairy feed is made

when the old cow eats it and makes

her return in milk. Dried beet pulp

has been widely tested, in .this way, to

the entire satisfaction of those who

have used it.





Michigan has an unusually large

acreage of beans this season, and we

may confidently look for at least a

normal aggregate. However, the crop

in many cases was planted late, a fact

which points to the probability of late

ripening. If weather conditions should

be unfavorable there will be a large

amount of culls. Cull beans, either

ground or cooked, make good feed for

dairy cows. The writer has fed many

tons of cooked beans and can say that

when fed in connection with other

grains they are highly satisfactory,

provided the price is not too high.



There will probably be the usual sup-

ply of cottonseed meal, and on account

of the great demand for all feeds it

should be the purpose of every man





to get in touch with'the large dealers

in cottonseed meal at the earlies—t pos-

sible moment. 1.1m not believe that

anything Will be. made this year by

waiting for lower prices.



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of gluten recently through the cream "

ery. It was distributed among the paw.





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who keeps cows and is in need. of feed.





trons at a price much lower than can

be purchased new.

Supply Not Equal to Demand:

The supply of dairy products is not

now equal to the demand, and the de-

mand must grow faster than the sup-





ply within the next few months. But,





high as prices of milk and butter may

seem to the consumer in the city, they

are not high in proportion, to the cost

of feed stuffs. We can cut down the

cost of production by more businesslike

methods of buying the feed we must

have.





Dealers must have a larger profit'

than usual ’upon feed because they_





have to invest more money in their

stocks.

who buy feeds and store them, selling

in small quantities, are having a profit

of from two to six, or even eight, dol-

lars a ton: In most cases the margin

is probably around three dollars. Now

if feed is taken from the car by the





consumer, and if cash is paid on deliv-.





ery, it can be handled for fifty cents

a ton.



Now, my dear friend, don’t shake

your head, for I have handled thou~

sands of dollars worth of it at piac—

tically that margin this summer, and

am in the best of spirits. , »



Dairy Farmers Should Co-operarte.



Dairymen, talk this matter of co-op«

eration over among yourselves and see

if you cannot buy at least some of your

feeds together. Secure prices early up—

on beet-pulp, cottonseed meal, gluten

meal and any other feeds you may

wish to buy, and then work up the or-

ders in the community. Don’t be afraid

of your dealers. They may be hand-

ling feed, too, and may not sell enough

so that they can order by carioad lots.

In this case, they will be glad to join

with you.



These cows of ours are machines for

the manufacturing of dairy products,

the feed they consume is raw material,





and we are simply not masters of the

situation until we learn to buy this

raw material in- the most favorable

market, and deliver it at our farm'fac-

tories at the least possible cost.



It is right that we should do this.

Moreover, it is our duty to do it. It

is to the interest of all concerned that

we should do it. I would not argue

the question with any dealer for a min-

ute, unless I had nothing else to do,

and were in need of mental recreation.

Do not misunderstand me, I am not

opposing the dealer. Dealers buy feed





of me every time I bring in a car, but“





the point I am trying to make is this,

the dairy business is our first concern.

The feed business, the creamery busil-

ness belongs of right to us. If we are

producing milk for the city market.

then the price of that milk to the con.

sumer is our business. We are inter

ested in the product until it reaches

the consumer,



Should Know Cost of Production.



We know, or should know, what it

costs us to produce it, and while we

have not moral right to extort an un—

warranted price from the dealer or the

consumer for it, We do owe it to our-

selves, to our families and to those of

our calling generally, to unite and to

demand and secure what it is worth to

produce it.



By buying our own feeds, by giving

attention constantly to market condi-

tions, and by 00- operating in the effort

to find out just what feeds will serve

our individual community best, we

shall inciease our profits and the out-

put of our dairy factories.



Lastly, we are not going to make

anything by scrimping in rations or

our cows because feeds are high. Thou-

sands of cows are now dry. They are

to freshen in October and November

and the tendency is to let them get

along 111th any way.



It will not pay to neglect these cows.

If pastures are good they will require

no other feed while this condition

lasts, but if as short as most Of them

are the ration Of these dry cows should

be supplemented.



No feed pays us half as well as that

we give the now when she is dry. Of





course, we may overdo this matter, but -





in general we much underdo it. It is

simply impossible for very many cows’

to do i$111011 Work largely on ascount of

their

time.





 





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By a “Herdsman’ ’





HE farmer who contemplates

building a silo in a district

where few silos are being used,





“hears much opposition and criticism,





from rural kill joys that have never

been inside of a silo or fed a fork full

of silage. Such a bunch of knockers

usually bring up such stories, that sil-

age rots a cow’s teeth, taints the milk,

and that many silos are standing idle

in the great dairy district of northern

Illinois and throughout Wisconsin.



Because of these remarks which are

doing harm and misleading some farm-

ers of good intentions, I wish to take

up the question of the true merits of

the silo.



During the past twelve years I have

traveled over a considerable area of

this country and have worked among

farmers and dairymen in the different

states and have fed some of the prize





‘cows of the country. During the past

year I traveled through some of the





northwest, but put in the greater part

of the time in Wisconsin, the Badger

State being the leading dairy state.

My greatest pleasure was in attending

the state fair there. It was at the fair

where the anti-silo farmer could learn

a valuable lesson. In the cattle depart-

ment every type of cattle could be

seen, from the little Kerry cattle up to

the milk strain of Shorthorns in the

dairy class. The strains of beef cattle

were well represented, from the low

Herefords to the great big Shorthorn.

Many farmers stood and looked upon

the fine strains of cattle in amazement

and many times were the men in

charge of the cattle asked the ques-

tion, “What are these cattle fed ?" and

always did they hear that silage was

the important factor of their daily ra-

tions.



In order to give the readers an idea

what the dairy cow means to Wiscon-

sin, some state figures are necessary.

In the dairy building I got these fig-

ures of the output in 1909: In that

year the dairy cows of Wisconsin pro-

duced 206,000,000 pounds of cheese;

130,000,000 pounds of butter, and 150,-

000,000 pounds of condensed milk.

While no actual figures could be had

of the amount of milk sold direct to

the consumer in the cities, during that

year the dairy business in that state

amounted to over $10,000,000. The silo

must be given credit for playing an

important part in the great industry.

When we taken into consideration that

there are over 60,000 silos in the state

and they are scattered all over the

state; many may be seen near the

shores of Lake Superior.



Silos Outside the Corn Belt.



While traveling through the north-

ern part of the state, I was greatly

surprised at the way the settlers were

interested in cows and silos. The cli-

mate in that region is no more suitable

for corn growing than it would be for

the growing of southern fruits Be-

cause of the many silos to be seen

there In a count1y not adapted to corn,

I decided to do some investigating. At

the farm of a Dane I saw a number of

crops used for silage. That northern

country is often called “Cloverland,”

and surely lives up to its name. And

the Danish farmer made use of many





‘ acres of clover and timothy hay. He





wanted succulent feed for his cows

during the long winter months, so each

year he has a large acreage of this hay

and also plants considerable oats and

peas. While I was there he was busy

filling his silo with the second crop of

clover, and oats and peas. During our

conversation he told me he has used





.such crops as buckwheat and millet

f» for silage, and always got good results.

'The clover silage, after thorough fer-

: menting, has a very fine odor, and is





greedily eaten up by‘the cattle.

In parts of Wisconsin there are





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root crops and alfalfa hay. The dairy-

men who keep cattle under that sys-

tem of farming claim they can keep

more per acre that way. I found one

dairyman that kept 150 head on a

135-acre farm, and I must say his stock

looked good.

Silos Popular in the West.



To illustrate what a revelation the

silo is to farming conditions of this

country, some ten years ago I traveled

all the western country. At that time

few silos were to be seen. Last season

I covered considerable of the same ter-

ritory and in every state any amount

of silos were in use and many more in

the course of construction. In the cold

Dakotas, and Montana, the silo is be-

coming very popular. In eastern North

Dakota there is a Swiss farmer Who is





teaching an object lesson to owners of





run-down farms as to what silos and

cattle can do. This man was a born

dairyman, and worked at the trade of

cheese making for a number of years.

Desiring to take to farming for himself

he was persuaded by a countryman to

try wheat growing on the Dakota farm,

which was a disappointment after the

first season, the land had been farmed

for years and was badly run down be-

cause of the continuous wheat crop-

ping. That year his Wheat averaged

eight bushels per acre and sold for

sixty-five cents per bushel. If there

was any profit to be made at such

yields and prices, this man failed to

see it, and the second year he started

in with a different system. That year

he built a silo, bought ten cows of milk

breeds, and a Brown Swiss bull of

good breeding. From the cows he sold

butter and found a ready market. The

first summer every one of his neigh-

bors said his butter business would

come to a close when the cold weather

set in, and laughed at his silo and

low, dirt-banked cow sheds. The read-

ers of this article, who have never

been in the Dakotas, must understand

that the climate there is not suited to

raising dent corn. Only the hardiest

flint corn will grow there to any ad-

vantage. But the Swiss had things

figured out long before the silo was

built.

Silage from Sunflowers.



Over in Europe a plant that has been

grown for years as a food for human

beings, and stock, is the sunflower. Ov-

er there the seed is served as a dainty,

and the oil is commonly used for cook-

ing purposes. The seed, after being

pressed for the oil, is used as a stock

food, and contains as much crude pro-

tein as linseed meal. With these facts

in mind the Swiss farmer decided to

use sunflowers as a silage crop. The

sunflower has the advantage over oth-

er plants of being a sure cropper, and

a fast grower. The sunflowers grown

on the North Dakota farms were plant-

ed very thick in the row, and the rews

were twenty-eight inches apart, It was

explained to me that planting that way

the stalks did not grow coarse and

woody and made as high as fifteen

tons of silage per acre. By the mixing

of the sunflowers and cornstalks at

filling time, a good silage was made.

Other crops were put into the silo,

such as green rye, wheat, oats, peas

and sweet clover. By filling his silo

with these crops, he had plenty of suc-

culent feed, and kept up a good flow of

milk all winter. Several others soon

got the idea, and a number of silos

were built in that district the follow-

ing year, and the little town was soon

flooded, with butter, and the prices

went down. But the Swiss farmer was

not discouraged in the least. He ad-

ded more cows to his herd, including

pure-breds, and built a small factory

for cheese and butter making. He

bought all the milk obtainable and

started in business. Hisvcheese sold

readily, and in a short time he could



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“The Moncos of Mesa Verde





tion was well advanced at the

close of last season’s work, opens

up a new phase in the history of the

famous prehistoric people of our south-

western arid regions. “We are on the

threshold of a great research,” writes

Dr. Fewkes. . g i

To understand the importance of the

historical vista opened by the discov-

ery of Far View House, it must be re-

called that, previous to the discovery

of Sun Temple in the summer of 1915,

the Mesa Verde ruins apparently were

confined to cliff dwellings. .

Sun Temple, however, had been

found under a mound on’ the top of

the mesa and indicated phases of Man-





FAR VIEW HOUSE, whose excava-





cos civilization hitherto unknown.

That it represented a later develop-

ment than Cliff Palace, Spruce Tree

House and the other celebrated cliff

dwellings was suggested by its more

advanced ideas in the arts of building

and wall decoration. That it probably

represented the highest and latest

phases of Mancos civilization seemed

to be showu by the fact that this su-

preme building, the temple to the sun,

God of the Mancos, remained unfinish-

ed, even unroofed.



That was the situation when Dr.

Fewkes began last summer the excava-





tion of mounds found in the so-called

Mummy Lake section of the Mesa

Verde. These mounds also lie on the

surface. They are upon Chapin Mesa,

four or five miles north of the splendid

groups of cliff dwellings which nestle

in the cliffs overlooking Spruce and

Cliff Canyons. The government road

from Mancos to Spruce' Tree House

passes it.



What is known as Mummy Lake was

never properly a lake, but a reservoir

for prehistoric irrigation. The sur-

rounding region was doubtless well

farmed. The remains of the ancient





ditches indicate a considerable activ-

ity. It was one of the pueblos in this

farming neighborhood which Dr.

Fewkes has uncovered and named Far

View House because of the extensive

view it affords of the neighboring coun»

try. ‘ It was not the only farm country

of the Mesa Verde. Four or more areas

similarly cleared of prehistoric cedar

forests and possessing mounds exist in

the national park. It will be seen that

the civilization that led up to and pos-

sibly ended in Sun Temple is much

more extensive than was at one time

supposed.



The Mummy Lake clearing, now dot-

ted with sage brush, is extremely fer-

tile; under irrigation it doubtless yield-





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Far View “House, as it gradually

emerged from the sandy maund that

thickly covered it, proved to be a large

pueblo containing forty secular rooms

and four circular ceremonial kivas. It

is a two-storied building. The rafters

of the first story still exist. There are

indications of a third story; the pueblo

may have contained fifty rooms.



The central kiva is of unusually

large size, indicating that the building

may have housed more than one clan.





.Its position, like that of Sun Temple,





seems to have been carefully determin-

ed by astronomical observation. Its

south wall is in line with the rising

sun at the autumnal equinox. The

main north wall is one hundred and

thirty feet long.



There are many indications in addi-

tion to propinquity that this pueblo,

and probably the man which remain

unearthed, were built by the peoples

that built the great cliff dwellings of

the Mesa Verde and, later on, the Sun





HAT progressive spirit which

has marked the history of

agriculture in Michigan since

the pioneers began farming In the old-

er settled counties of the state, is still

alive as may be shown by the prompt-

ness with which the farmers in those

sections of the state where money is

needed to aid in the development of

the land, have proceeded to meet the

conditions necessary to secure funds

from the government under the Farm

Loan Act. '

One of the first societies to be form-





 





ed after the requirements of the fed-

eral government had been published,

was up in Lake county. The writer

had noted in the columns of the Mich-

igan Farmer just What was necessary

to securethese loans and after receiv-

ing the necessary data from Washing-

ton went about the task.



The method may be of interest to

others. I got out some notices read-

ing “Government Money at five per

cent interest with from five to forty

years to pay same in.” I then drove

around to several country stores and

obtained permission to post these no-

tices, giving my address that those in-

terested might write me. I soon began

receiving inquiries in which the part-

ies stated the amount of money they

needed. After getting a. sufficient num-

ber of these prospective loans to ag-

gregate the amount demanded by the

government to form an association I

called a meeting.



When we met it was at once observ-

ed that there were many iarmers pres

ent who desired loans that had not

written me, so as a result we started

the organization with a larger prospec-

tive loan asked for than, was noses:

sary instead of barely enough as we

had anticipated before our arrival at

the place of meeting. We had a n04





 





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tary present who filled out the applies»;





 





 





ner we ls of Sun Temple, and \may rep:

resent a considerably earlier era. The

serpent spiral there used isvalso found

in Spruce Tree House. The complicat-

ed form of several incised figures sug-

gest something more than mere embel-

lishment, but Dr. FeWkes fears that it

is too much to hope that they may

have value as inscriptions.



One of the doorways into the large

central kiva recalls a Maya arch and

is unique in Mesa Verde construction.

It consists of a flat stone forming the

top and resting on side piles of other

stones, each set a little back from the

one above it. There are no true arches





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Far View House, so’far as excavated,

throws no new light on the age of the

Mesa Verde civilization, or on the

mystery of this” people’s disappear-

ance. But it constitutes a valuable ad-

dition to the knowledge of their

strange civilization, and it may point

the way, through further excavation,

to valuable, even important revela-

tions.





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Leaning Government Money

By ALBERT SPENCER





tions with his typewriter and after the

work was completed we found that the

initial number of members was thirty-

six. This was very encouraging.



At the session I was asked many

questions. These I answered as best

I could with the help of the literature

gathered from my farm paper and

pamphlets furnished by the govern—

ment at Washington. The Federal

Land Bank had forwarded us addition-

al matter and copies of this and of the

federal act were distributed to each

person present. Before the meeting





 





The Spencer National Farm Loan Association of Lake County, was Among

the First to be Organized in Michigan Under the Federal Farm Loan Act.





had closed all were satisfied that the

plan was a most excellent one.



The majority of the men present

wanted money to clear their lands.

This is the difficult thing for pioneers

who have paid all their available cap-

ital to secure the raw land. They

could clear the cut-over land slowly, a





few acres each year, but that method .





requires a long time before the farms

are producing anywhere near their ca-

pacity. With these easily available

government loans the clearing can be

done at once. '



Much of the work will be done on

contract. A local bank will be made

the agent of the farmers and the con-

tractor. We have a few men who have

little or no capital that will be glad to

enter into this kind of work as a pro‘

fession. The bank will finance them

in the'purchase of the necessary equip-

ment for doing the clearing in the

most efficient manner. In this way the

farmers will~get the benefit of the use





-of modern clearing machinery which





will further reduce the cost of getting

their land ready for crops.

Applications for between $40,000 and

_$50,000 have already been made and

more prospects are in sight. The bor-





rowers will pay five per cent interest.

and expect to pay the per cent of the ‘.





loan each year. /-
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“You speak French, don’t you?”’



‘I‘Oui, monsieur, oui, but—but I know

notwhat to speak.”



“Well, don’t let that worry you. Mc-

Cann will tell you—but may the good

Lord pity you, Dubois, if you fail to

repeat it. Up with you now, and be

lively about it!” ’



The Frenchman I disappeared, and

White, opening one not the larboard

stateroom doors, passed in out of sight.

Evidently he perceived nothing -to

alarm him within the cabin, and was

eager to view the approaching vessel

through an open port. All thought of

my former purpose vanished from my

mind as I realized this new chance of





“rescue” At any risk I must. attain





quickly to the open deck, where I could

create 'an alarm sufiicient to awaken

suspicion on board the approaching

Frenchman. .If they could be made to

send a boat to investigate the chances

were the nature of the Indian Chief’s

cargo, and the unnaturalness of our

being in these northern seas, would

result in the ship being made a prize

of war. McCann’s only hope of escape

lay in some satisfactory explanation,

which would lull the suspicions of the

French commander—some lie smooth

enough to prevent boarding and search.

Nor did I doubt the fellow had the wit

to play such a trick; quite probable,

indeed, his story had already been

worked out carefully in anticipation of

just such an event as this—a plausible

tale, convincing in its details.



Aesured that White was beyond ob-





; servation of any of my movements, I





crept cautiously around the stair rail,

and noiselessly mounted the steps. The

light behind me in the cabin burned

so dimly, I ran little danger of being

seen as I slid back the door of the

companion, and squeezed my body

through the narrow space. Indeed, if

noticed by any eye, the chances were

I would be mistaken for one of the

crew. But I found the after-part of the

main deck deserted, although forward

of‘ the main mast I could perceive dark

blotches along the port rail where

members of the watching party were

observing the approach of the French

cruiser. Crouched against the cabin

front, I could perceive nothing of the

other vessel except a trail of _ black

smoke visible against the stars, but

the Indian Chief was already nearly

stationary, merely retaining steerage-

way, and rising and falling lazily on

the swell. I could hear men walking

on the poop deck almost directly over

me, and occasionally the sound of a

voice, but was. unable to distinguish

the words spoken. With heart beating

like a triphammer, I made my way

along the front of the cabin, until I

ventured to peer over the port rail,

secure that my presence on deck was

screened by the deep shadows in

which I.lurked.



The gleam of the stars alone reveal-

ed the glittering surface of the sea, but

the night was clear of fog, and the

black outline of the French warship

was plainly visible, approaching us at

half-speed, and silently closing up the

narrowing gap of water between the

two vessels. - Not a glow of light il-

lumined the gloOmy decks, yet I could

dimly perceive moving figures on the

bridge, and glimpses of white in the

fighting tops where the gun crews mus-

tered in readiness for action. The ship

was no larger, than our own, indeed





scarcely attained our height above the





water, yet there was something grimly

sinister about ,the' monster’s - appear-

ance—its silent,v.ca_utious approach; its





grim inartlculate threat or destruction.

' I‘felt the .heartucome up into my throat

’ as «I gazed spellbound, e‘very nerve in





 





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as I stared at the grim spectacle, the

slim figure of a man appeared at the

end of the bridge, and a voice hailed

us in French.



“Ahoy there! what ship is that?”



There was a shuffling of feet above

me; then McCann spoke in English.



“The American freighter Indian

Chief, bound for Liverpool.”



“Is there anyone aboard who speaks

French?” '



I heard them hustle Dubois forward

to the rail, and caught a word or two

of McCann’s swift threat hissed into

his ear; then the frightened French-

man stammered out an answer:



“Oui, monsieur, je parle Francais.”



“Then talk up, what ship is-that?”



I could hear'McCann prompting, and

Dubois echoing the words put in his

mouth.



“The Indian Chief, of Boston, Mc-

Cann, master, from St. John’s to Liver—

pool, two days out.”



“With what cargo ?”



“Miscellaneous; mostly farm ma-

chinery.”



A searchlight suddenly swept us fore

and aft, but finally settled on the little

group. of men clustered together at the

poop rail.



“You’re north of your course.”



There was an instant of hesitation;

then Dubois’ explanation:



“We ran before the storm last night,

monsieur, having been struck by the

lightning.”



“Ah, I see; that accounts for your

stump ofxa foremast and the tempor—

ary wheel aft. No other damage done?”



“No, monsieur, the ship is entirely

seaworthy.”



The figure of another man joined

the officer at the end of the bridge,

and the two talked a moment; then

the same voice called:



“Ahoy there! what shape are your

boats in?”



“Three of them left, monsieur.”



“Send the captain, with the French-

man, over with the ship’s papers. Be

lively about it.”



“Oui, monsieur; what is the name of

the warship?”



“The French cruiser Des Cartes, on

patrol. Get your boat over.”



What would McCann do? Was he

ready for such an emergency as this?

Had he taken the precaution to alter

the ship’s manifest, or even forged a

new one? I hesitated to cry out a

warning, hoping that the papers sub-





‘mitted would arouse the Frenchmen





to send a prize crew aboard, and

crouched down in my corner, so as to

avoid discovery in the glare of the

searchlight. There was a moment of

excited talk on the deck above me;

then McCann descended the starboard

ladder, and disappeared through the

companion, evidently after the ship’s

papers. Liverpool’s voice ordering the

watch to lower number five boat, and

stand by, sung out from the poop rail.

Still uncertain what action to take, I

remained crouched within the narrow

space between the rail and cabin,

avoiding the glare of the searchlight,

which constantly swept the decks to

give the officers on the bridge of the

Des Cartes view of what was occur-

ring on board. McCann emerged. from

the companion, called up to Liverpool,

waving his hand with a laugh full of

confidence, and went forward. A mo-

ment later he was joined by Dubois,

and the two men clambered over the

rail and dropped into the lowered boat.

His actions, his easy manner, startled

me; those must be carefully forged ‘pa—

pers in his pocket to enable him to

proceed with such confidence. Slowly

I lifted myself until I could peer over





the side at the'dark expanse of water '





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between thevessels.

of the warship rested ln~a glare of

white on the small boat bobbing up

and down, revealing the men at the

oars, and McCann and Dubois in the

stern sheets. Neither glanced back,





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McCann was smiling as though at an

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CHAPTER XXVII.

The Cruiser Leaves Us.



WAS still clinging to the rail, and



staring down at the light; I heard



nothing, felt no premonition of

alarm, when suddenly a hand gripped

my throat, the great fingers stifling

every effort to cry out. Before I could

resist, or even brace myself, another

hand was clapped over my mouth and

I was fairly hurled back below the

shelter of the rail, dragged across the

black deck, and thrown through the

opened door of the companoin. This

was accomplished so quickly, and with

so little evidence of struggle, as to

attract no notice from the Frenchman,

from whose deck no doubt every eye

was fastened upon the approaching

boat. Half hurled, half. dragged, I

plunged into the dimly lit cabin, and

it was not until I struck the lower

deck that I even realized clearly what

had occurred, or who were my assail-

ants. I fell sprawling on one shoulder,

but was as instantly on my feet, bruis-

ed, but otherwise uninjured, maddened

by a rage beyond all control. White,

emerging from the stateroom, through

the port of which he had been viewing

the scene alongside, startled by the

sudden uproar, a revolver gripped in

his hand, was the first face I saw.





“What the blazes—” he exclaimed

in bewilderment, but before he could

say more my fist jammed into his jaw,

and the fellow went over full length

on the deck, the gun flying from his

opening fingers. I had possessionof it

before he could stop me, and was

backed against the door of a stateroom

opposite, murder in my heart as I con-

fronted the two who had flung me from

the t0p of the steps. I recognized

them now for the first time—Liverpool

Red and Tom Dugan. But one thought

seethed in my brain—to kill.





“No,” I cried, covering them as they

shrank back, “we’ll end this thing

right here.”



Red gripped Dugan, holding the

Irishman in front of him as a shield.

My revolver covered them both, my

fingers nervous on the trigger. ‘Sud-

denly the door behind me yielded and

I staggered back, unable to regain my

balance until fairly within the state-

room. With a crash the door closed,

instantly shutting out the surprised

faces of the tWo men in the cabin; a

key creaked in the lock, and Vera Car-

rington fronted me, her back against

the wood.



“Were—were they trying to kill

you?” she panted.



“They certainly did their best,” I an-

swered, “but it was my turn when you

dropped me in here.”



“You—you méan that I made a mis-

take—that you were in no danger?”



“I had the upper hand. I tookthis

revolver away from White, and do not

believe either of the others were arm«





ed. In another second I should have-





fired. Our only hope of rescue lies in

creating an alarm; there is a. French

cruiser lying just off our port quarter.”



“A French cruiser!

captured?” <



“No; merely halted and questioned.

The Frenchman does not even suspect

anything wrong. I was endeavoring to

sound an alarm when those fellows

seized me, and threw me downthe

stairs into. the cabin.” , ’



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er make'way, or get hurt.”



She stepped aside,'and with no other

thought but the necessity for swift ac-

tion, I turned the key in the lock and

flung the door open. The main deck

was deserted; to my surprise, all three

of the men had disappeared. With re-

volver gripped in one hand, I stepped

forward, searching with suspicious

eyes every dark corner, dimly con-





scious that the girl followed. Her fin-





gers touched my sleeve, yet the strain





of the moment was too great to per- .





mit of my even glancing about into her

face. I had attained to the foot of the

stairs; even advanced a. step upward

before my progress was arrested. Sud-

denly the companion door was flung

open and a mob of men confronted us,

surging in through the narrow space

from the deck. I drew back instantly,

stunned by sight of McCann in their

lead, realizing instantly that our effort

to attain the open was already too

late. "



“There he is!” he cried eagerly.

“Get him, you men. Lively now;

There is no danger;'if he lifts that

gun, he’s a. dead man.”



I was staring straight into the black

muzzle leveled at my head, but before

I could move, or even determine what

was best to be done, Vera stood be-

tween me and the mob on the stairs.



“Go back! get into my stateroom;

he’ll never shoot me. Please, please

go back.”



I was hot-headed enough to have

fought them all, but to attempt resist-

ance then would have endangered her

life. I retained sense sufficient to know

this, and that only force would cast

her aside. Iheard McCann mutter an

oath, and Red roar out some order,

punctured with profanity, yet did not

truly- comprehend what efforts were

being made to block our retreat. Be—

fore a hand could grasp either of us

we were within the shelter of the

stateroom, and .the girl had closed and

locked the door. Fists pounded on the

wood in impotent rage, and I heard

voices urging others to bring imple-

ments with which to batter their way

in. My mind seemed to return to me

with a flash, and I pressed the girl

aside, facing the frail barrier creaking

beneath the assault.



“McCann,” I shouted, “call off your

men! I have six bullets here, and

there’ll be six of you dead if you break

in this door.”



There was silence; then a mutter of

voices—one angry with threat; others

seemingly urging compromise. My

ears caught but a word here and there,

something about the need of a navi-

gator, together with another sugges-

tion that perhaps the Frenchman might

not yet be beyond sound of a pistol

shot. Whatever the argument, the ad-

vocates of peace seemed in the major-

ity, for out of the hubbub McCann

spoke loud enough to be plainly heard.



“There is no use of your threats,

Hollis,” he said, rapping on the door,

“we. have weapons as well as you, and

you cannot fight alone against the

whole ship’s crew. The best thing for

you to do now, is to listen to reason.“



“What has become of the French

cruiser?” ‘ ‘ f -



He laughed, and I could hear Liver-

pool join in rather noisily.



“Five miles, to leeward, and going

strong. fl She’ll. be out of sight in two

hours. There’s no hope for you there,

my man.” , ‘ . »



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“The telltale

compass shows you are three points

off your course now. I’ll talk with you

McCann, but if I continue to navigate

this ship it will be at my own terms,

and you’ll either give me what I ask,

or I’ll fight it out here and now. I don’t

care which course you choose; only

there will be some dead mutineers if

I unlock this door.”



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I took time to think, determined to

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assured that I held the winning hand.



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but-it is my belief you fools will have

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one long ago. Stow the gaff, an’ tell

us what yer want.”



“I will,” I snapped back. “The free-

dom of the ship for both myself and

Carrington. No interference,

mind you, and our pledge accepted

that we will not attempt to communi-





board. Our meals are to be served

privately, and the lady is not to be ad-

dressed by any one of you.”



“My goodness!” exclaimed a muffled

voice, “you don’t want much! Who

are you, the Czar of Russia?”



“I am the rightful captain of this

ship,” I returned stiffly, “and the only

man on board capable of navigating

her. You can accept my terms, or

leave them; and those are not all. Mc-

Cann, I am talking to you, not that

sea scum.”



“All right; go ahead. What else?”



“I am to retain this revolver for pro‘

tection, and the key to my stateroom;

Miss Carrington is also to retain her

key. When you men desert the ship,

which I know you plan to do, the Indi—

an Chief is to be left in seaworthy con-

dition. That’s all.” ’



“Enough, I should think. You must

consider your services indispensable.

However, I accept the terms, provid-

ing you agree to do what we ask in

return.”



“The same as before?”



“Yes.”



“That I navigate the ship to within

fifty miles of St. John’s notify you

when we reach that point, and give you





‘ correct sailing directions.”





“That is what we want.”



“Nothing more?”



“Nothing I know of now."



“Good, I accept. Take your men out

of the cabin.”



I stood motionless, still gripping the

revolver in one hand, listening to catch

every sound the other side of the clos-

ed door. There was a muttered discus-

sion, the words mostly inaudible, al-

though I heard enough to convince me

that McCann was urging acceptance of

my conditions on' the ground that it

would be impossible for‘me, alone, and

under surveillance, to add to their dan-

ger. Some words were added in so

low a tone as to fail to reach my ear,

but whatever they were ,they evoked

a laugh, and seemed to restore the dis-

satisfied to better humor. Liverpool

took sides with McCann in the dispute,

and the tWo united must have prevail-

ed, for the men finally dispersed, and

we could hear their heavy sea boots

tramping up the stairs. The cabin be-





‘ came quiet as though deserted, al-





though "I had little doubt but that a

guard had been left behind.





- . The fellow sWal

lowed my yarn as though it was sugar

candy. And the best of it is, that is





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You've been reading a lot in your

farm papers about the value of ground

feeds and "balanced rations"-





Why don't you put that informa-

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The most economical ground feed

is the feed you grind, yourself, in a

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you raise on your own farm.





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The one man feature of the Bates Steel Mule makes this the most economical of all three- low ”

It eliminates the need for a second man. An the Your Silage





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lmitators Dare Not Copy the “Mule’s Tail”





Builders of other tractors recognizing the superiority of the Steel Mule' a one man feature have

tried to imitate it. But its principles are fully covered by patents. Others DARE not copy them

oruse it without making their customers subject to the patent infringement law. No other three

or four wheel—and no other‘ crawler " type tractor can imitate the' ”Mule s tail" without' in-

fringing on our patents. This big feature is one of several which reduces the Steel Mule’ 9

operating cost to its extremely low figure.





“Crawler” Delivers Most Power





The "crawler" is motherbigfactor in the Steel

Mule’s remarkable popularity. This delivers





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Boomer Beecher-t mill complete. Capacity 75 bushel

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an estimate as to cost.





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Bridal Trips Via the

Water Way





Bridal trips aboard D & C. Steamers are become-

ing increasingly popular. Among the favorite

honeymoon tours are the lake trips between Det-

roit, Cleveland, Buffalo and Niagara Falls._ The

Two Giant Steamers of the Great Lakes -— City of

Detroit III and City of Cleveland III—make daily

trips beween Detroit and Buffalo, leaving Detroit

atb :00 p.m.. Central Time, and Buffalo at 6:00 pm.

m.Eatern Time. Daily service also between Detroit

, and Cleveland. Four trips weekly between Det-

roit Mackinac Island and Lake Huron way ports.

Stonovers arranged as desired. Rail in kets are

gonored for transportation on all D. & C. teamers



dv. .





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mention The Michigan Farmer.





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A recent institute speaker in our

community said: “Don’t can anything





i that can be kept without canning, and





don’t dry anything that can be kept

without drying.” In other words, don’t

can up onions when they keep will in

a dry cellar, and don’t dry potatoes and

turnips when they keep so well in root

cellars. The same speaker gave it as

her opinion that drying should be re-

sorted to in comparatively few cases

and with special products. A few cher-

ries should be dried for use instead of

raisins (the pits should be left in);

apples and peaches should be dried,

because they have such a good effect

upon the health of the individual; corn

and peas should be dried, because they

may be more easily saved through dry-

ing than through canning. .



I have tried drying various things

and find that it fails largely for four

reasons. Either the heat is applied too

quickly, the pieces are too thick, the

materials are not prepared thoroughly

ort he stuff is allowed to become con-

taminated by flies and millers.



The sun is the safest drier of them

all, for Old Sol never scorches the pro-

duct. But sun drying is very slow, es-

pecially if a few dark days follow in

succession. Where much is kept in

this way, stove drying is often follow-

ed instead. The usual inclination is

to put the product into the oven or in

a commercial drier and get the heat

to going. Experience has taught that

the heat should be kept as low as pos-

sible and the material should be fre-

quently turned. If the heat is applied

too rapidly, the result is that the outer

part of the pieces becomes seared over

and the moisture of the interior is “hot-

tled” in. The stuff seems to be dry

but in a few days it smells a little

sour or becomes moldy. Examination

shows that the interior is still soft and

moist while the exterior is flinty and

dry. After the bulk of the moisture

has been driven off, the product should

be tempered; that is, it should be pour-

ed into another vessel each day for

four or five days.



Stuff that is to be dried should be

sliced, the slices being from one-fourth

to one—eighth of an inch thick. The

pieces can be too thin but they usu‘

ally are not. An ordinary vegetable

slicer iS‘ very convenient to prepare

materials ready for the drying trays.

It is not satisfactory to have the vege-

tables to be dried more than one layer

thick on the drying tray.

es, the molding that appears is caused

from too great a depth of the product.



The root crops of which the carrot,

beet, parsnip and turnip are examples

must have special care in the prepara-

tion in order to make an edible dried

product. These crops will retain the

earthy flavor unless carefully washed,





. scrubbed and peeled (not scraped), and





a single piece of contaminated carrot

will spoil a whole container full of

the dried carrot chips. It is desirable

to blanchinmst of the vegetables and,

some of the fruits, such as apples. The

blanching sets the milk in corn and

makes it less pasty and soft to work

with. It keeps the kernels entire and

for this reason, hastens the drying and

gives a better looking dried corn. The

corn should be blanched on the cob for

five criten'ininutes, then cold-dipped

and immediately cut from the cob.

After the products have dried until

they are tough and leathery, the next





 





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Causes for Failure in Drying

‘ By GLADYS SOULE





is resorted to, the drying pans or





trays should be brought in about four _





o’clock and covered up until the next

day. Most of the contaminating i-n-

sects and moths fly in the evening.

Place the dried stuff in wide-mouthed

bottles, pasteboard boxes, paper sacks

and in fact, anything that happens to

be tight. -.Paper sacks can be made to

exclude insect insect enemies by roll-

ing them about in a pan of paraffin.

Storing in small quantities will, elimi-

nate many losses. Good stuff in the

Winter should not be expected from

scorched material or that which has

been poorly prepared.





APPLE. BUTTER FROM WIND.

FALLS





 





Do you remember the apple butter

“Aunt Mary” used to make? Nobody

makes it any more, but why not try it

this fall with your windfalls? To make,

measure the apples, wash and cut in

small pieces. For every bushel of ap-

ples add four gallons of water and boil

until the fruit is soft. Rub through a

screen or sieve, and to the pulp from

one bushel add two gallons of boiled

cider. Bring this to a boil, add twelve

pounds of sugar and cook to the proper

thickness. Then add spices to taste,

and pour at once into hot fruit jars or

crocks which have been boiled fifteen

minutes.



Here is a good corn and tomato mix-

ture, too: Mix thoroughly two parts





of tomatoes to one part of corn, pack-





in hot, sterilized glass jars and add a.

level teaspoon of salt and a little sug-

ar to every quart. Adjust rubbers and

tops and submerge jars in boiler, cov-

ering tops at least two inches. Let

water boil two hours, counting from

time it begins to jump. Then remove

jars, make air-tight, invert to discover

leaks. If any are found put on a new

rubber and boil again ten minutes.



As woman plans the meals, it is

woman who must plan to save the

meat and wheat which are just now so

much needed. This does not mean

starving your family. They must be

well fed, but do it differently. Instead

of so much meat, give more milk dish-

es and legumes, beans, peas, cowpeas,

soy beans, lentils, etc. For the Wheat

substitute corn meal and barley. Ev-

eryone likes hot “Johnny—cake}? Try

the government way of making bread

with part mashed potatoes instead of

all flour. Think ahead and save,





QUESTIONS EVERY MOTHER

SHOULD ASK HERSELF.





 





Did each child take about a quart

of milk in one form or another?



Have I taken pains to see that the

milk that comes to my house has been

handled in a clean way? ‘



If I was obliged to serve skim-milk

for the sake of cleanness or economy,

did I supply a little extra fat in some

other way? '



Were the fats which I gave the child

of the wholesome kind found in. milk,





cream, butter,,and salad oils, or of the"





unwholesome kind found in doughnuts

and other. fried foods? . »





'Did I make good use of all‘ skimg





milk by using it in the. preparatiOn of





cereal ‘mushes, puddings, or other-





wise? .





Were all cereal foods thoroughly-





cooked? .

Was the br





Elsewhere -. "





make athick paste. Bind: ' ~





and soggy? If "so, was-it ,





because the loaves were too large, or

because they, were ”not cooked long

enough? ,



Did I take pains to get a variety of

foods from the cereal group 'by serv-

ing a cereal mush once during the day?



Did I keep in mind that while cer-

eals are good foods in themselves,

they do not take the place of meat,

milk, eggs, fruit, and vegetables?



Did I keep in mind that children

who do not have plenty of fruit and

vegetables need whole wheat bread

and whole grains served in other

ways? . -



Did each child have an egg or an --

equivalent amount of meat, fish, or

poultry?



Did any child have more than this

of flesh foods or eggs? If so, might

the money not have been better spent

for fruits or vegetables? ,



If I was unable to get milk, meat,





fish, poultry, or eggs, did I serve dried





beans, or other legumes thoroughly

cooked and carefully seasoned?



Were vegetables and fruits both on

the child’s bill of fare once during the

day? If not, was it because we have

not taken pains to raise them in our

home garden? .



Did either the fruit or the vegetable

disagree with the child? If so, ought

I to have cooked it more thoroughly,

chopped it more finely, or have re-

moved the skins or seeds?



'Was the child given sweets between

meals, or anything that tempted him

to eat when he was not hungry?



Was he allowed to eat sweets when

he should have been drinking milk or

eating cereals, meat, eggs, fruit or

vegetables?



Were the sweets given to the child

simple, i. e., unmixed with much fat

or with hard substances difficult to

chew, and not highly flavored?



Was the food served in a neat and

orderly way and did the child take

time to chew his food properly?





HEALTH CREED FOR MICHIGAN

BOYS AND GIRLS.





 





My body is the temple of ’my soul,

therefore:



I will keep my body clean within and

without;



I will breathe pure air and I will live

in the sunlight. ' ~ .



I will do no act that might endanger

the health of others; ~



I will try to learn and practice the

rules of healthy living;



I will work and rest and play at the

right time and in the right'way, so that

my mind will be strong and my body

healthy, and so that I will lead a use

ful life and be an honor to my parents,

to my friends and to my country.—

Public Health.





SHORT CUTS TO. HOUSEKEEPING.





 





Bubbles sometimes appear in the

can. Careful inspection will reveal

whether this is~due to a leak or not.

If a leak, the can should be opened.

If not, the bubbles will cause no trou-

ble. They usually occur in material

canned in syrup and maybe caused by

circulation in syrup during cooking.



Grass stains can be removed from

any kind of goods by first rubbing the

stain with molasses and afterward

washing thoroughly in the regular:

way—J. J. O’C. ‘ .





_For a, bad burn take equal parts of





flour and Cooking soda, and“ waterto

I ,Lshm

quickly and it will y, re, ‘ " ‘
are 15





compared with a normal acreage.





_ ;“ , -, the 19 . _

correspondents’in the” various ectmtie‘s of the state on the yields of

“ “wheat, oats” and rye,’the condition of corn, beans, buckwheat, potatoes,

Sugar beets and" apples, and the améunt of fall wheat expected to be sown as

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Alcona ......... 23 35 14 60 80 80 95 40 . . 95

Allegan ........ 19 38 16 66 79 97 91 . 31 108

Alpena . .. 20 35 15 50 100 100 100 .. 25 75

Antrim ........ 18 34 16 68 88 85 82 15 100

Arenac . . . . . .. 35 15 40 . 50 100 100 ..

Baraga 20 40 16 80 .. 130 .. ..

Barry .......... 16 43 14 . 87 90 . . 90 . . .50 120

Bay ............ 18 52 18', 55 72 89 75 89 40 103

Benzie 15 20 15 25 120 80 100 . . . . 110

Berrien ........ 16 45 15 75 60 90 80 100 40 104

Branch ........ 21 40 19 25 60 85 110 . . 55 110

Calhoun ....... 18 44 16 7, 6 . 75 81 86 30 108

02135 .......... 17 40 15 78 91 94‘ 97 . . 35, 109

Charlevoix ..... 17 30 15 71 87 94 99 96 25 115

Cheboygan 20 31 17 71 99 101 101 94 30 121

Chippewa ...... 18 33 15 . . . . . . 99 . . . . 131

Clare .......... 18 40 15 84 98 89 104 100 35 80

Clinton ........ 25 40 . . 60 90 . . 100 100 50 100

Crawford ...... 10 15 10 70 50 100 100 . . 20 100

Dickinson ..... . 20 40 . . 75 .. . . . . . . . . 200

EatOn ......... 20 46 22 84 68 65 102 63 48 105

Emmet ........ 16 28 15 64 89 98 98 . . 23 98

Genesee ....... 21 48 22 62 58 100 93 85 25 98

Gladwm ....... 3O 50 22 50 50 95 95 80 30 100

Gogebic ........ .. 38 .. .. .. .. 114 .. .. . .

Gd. Traverse .. . 12 28 12 67 83 100 108 24 115

Gratiot ........ 24 46 16 60 75 90 100 94 47 112

Hillsdale 20 40 19 83 82 75 97 .. 50 87

Houghton . . . 35 60 25 67 75 95 95 . 75 80 105

Huron . . . . . . ' 13 38 16 ‘ 54 61 91 92 97 34 90

Ingham . 15 37 18 50 60 90 100 30 90

Ionia. ........... 23 53 17 73 78 98 80 35 95

Iosco ........... 18 33 14 42 50 75 54 50 25 103

Iron ........... 25 60 50 90 80 110 80 75 125

Isabella . . . . 16 42 14 70 86 90 100 100 44 105

Jackson ....... 20 41 20 75 76 100 86 . . 41 107

Kalalazoo ...... 20 45 16 74 86 90 . 99 75 70 110

Kalkaska ...... 16 23 14 76 83 85 102 80 24 81

Kent 19 43 15 72 99 80 100 .. 54 109

Lake .......... 21 43 15 57 94 101 116 . . 28 103

Lapeer ........ 20 44 18 58 61 88 94 80 18 107

Leelanan ...... 17 35 12 75 125 98 125 . . 15 117

Lenawee . . . . 23 48 17 78 82 100 98 22 109

Livingston ..... 19 49 17 76 70 87 102 77 '45 111

Luce . . . . . 18 25 25 90 100 80 90 70 100

Mackinac ...... 25 30 . . 100 105 100 100 105 100

Marquette ..... 25 25 15 . . . . 100 105 70 . .

Manistee . . . . 14 28 15 83 95 97 91 32 110

Mason . . . . . . 20 45 20 50 60 100 100 40 105

\Mecosta ....... 22 47 18 70 92 105 117 . . 47 107

Menominee . . . . 25 40 .25 . . 120 100 100 140 33 . .

Midland . .. 20 38 18 50 48 105 88 100 25 125

Missaukee ..... 18 38 15 57 95 95 107 . . 18 122

hdonroe .u..... 21 45 20 73 79 85 73 95 29 106

Montcalm ...... 17 35 13 57 83 100 90 . . 45 105

110 100 125 40 110





Montmorency . . 15 40 12 75

Muskegon 2 -

Newaygo ....... 17 35 13 66





Oakland ....... 16 39 17 ’13

Oceana ........ 6 31 12 71

Ogemaw .... .. . 23 41 18 75

Ontonagon ..... 20 35 . . . .

Osceola .. . . . 16 35 15 90

Oseoda 20 32 13 85

Otsego 25 30 20 80

Ottawa ..... -. . . 24 39 19 54

Presqne Isle. . . . 24 39 19 54

Roscommon . . . . 10 35 _ 15 65

St. Clair........ 20 35 15 42

St. Joseph ..... 18 37 17 83

Saginaw ....... 20 50 17 55

Sanilac ........ 18 40 15 65

Schoolcraft . . . . 20 40 20 ..

Shiawassee . . . . 18 45 15 70

Tuscola 18 47 17 60

Van Buren ..... 18 35 14 80

Washtenaw ..... 20 44 15 82

Wayne . . 20 40 15 90

Wexford ....... 16 28 14 62





72 85 88 15 110

93 98 115 41 113

80 92 95 42 103

70 150 50 75





93 112 113 169 25 133





80 .. 96 89 30 110

75 85 95 .. 35 60

76 76 68 43 22 ‘103





60 87 95 72 25 108

45 75 85 82 20 110





66 75 98 82 40 110

70 80 97 77 15 115

70 82 100 .. 35 110

85 90 100 95 45 100

70 9o ' 80 .. .. 100





 





COLD STORAGE HOLDINGS OF

EGGS, BUTTER AND CHEESE.





 





Reports from 358 cold storages show

that their rooms contain 6,425,810 cas-

es of eggs, while on July 1, 418 stor-

age: reported 6,276,403 cases. The 312

storages that reported holdings on

August 1, of this year and last show

a present stock of 6,102,252 cases. as





\compared with 6,060,129 cases last

- year, an increase of 42,123 cases, or





0.7 per cent. The reports show that

during July, the July 1 holdings in-





creased 2‘6 per cent, while our last re~ pounds. . The 218 storages that report- :

port showed that during June the June'ed holdings on August 1 of this yearl’ .





1 holdings increased, 35.4 per cent.

Last. year-the increase during July was

5.3 per cent, and during June the in-

crease was 21.3 per cent.



Reports from 310 cold storages show

that their rooms contain 85,846,514

pounds of creamery butter, while on

July-1.. 323 oranges reported 47,846,:

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75.4 per cent, while our last report

showed that during June the June

holdings increased 426.7 per cent. Last '

year the increase during July was 85.8

per cent and in June the increase was

675.2 per cent. ‘



Reports from 340 cold storages show

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pounds of American cheese, While on

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053,676 pounds as compared with 31,-&

569,401 pounds last year, anincreasel





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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





September 4, 1917.





Wheat—Traders are generally wait-

ing for the beginning of government

operations in this department of the

grain market which has been announc-

ed to open on September 4. The opin-

ion prevails that the government price

of $2.20 for No. 1 northern whlch was

established under the authority of the

food control law last week, Will make

the price of wheat this year. Specu-

lation has vanished in wheat Circles

and attention of the operators has

turned to the other grains. Millers are

taking grain quite freely at some

points with a few sales reported at fig-

ures above those set by the govern-

ment. The government will start sell-

ing wheat to millers on September 10.

A year ago the local price for No. 2

red wheat was $1.48 per bushel. Last





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Red. W211i1t2e.

Wednesday 2.17 .

Thursday 2.18 2.13

Friday 2.18 2.13

Satugday ........... 2.18 2.13

Mon ay

Tuesday 2.19 2.16





Germ—With the exception of north-

western districts where the farmers

have suffered slightly' from frosts, the

big corn crop has had another excel-

lent week for development whlch. has

augured much toward making it a

prospective record breaker. The de-

mand for cash corn continues good, the

only bearish factor in the dealing being

the promise of a big. crop. Very little

corn is coming from the farms, produc-

ers having well cleaned up the1r_sur-

plus. High prices for meat is stimu-

lating consumption of this grain. A

year ago the price for No. 3 corn was

881/20 per bushel. Local quotations for

the past week are:





No. 3 No. 3



Mixed. Yizlégw.

Wednesday ........ 1.96 .

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

Friday ............. 2.03 2.05

Saturday ........... 2.03 2.05

Monday

Tuesday . . ......... 2.08 2.10





Chicago—December $1.11% per bu;

May $1.07%.



Oats—A slight increase in the de-

livery of oats at country elevators has

been apparent during the past week,

but the quantity marketed is far from

what dealers expected it would be by

this date. Besides being busy produc-

ers had fed unusually short of all con-

centrates and for summer feeding oats

at present prices is an. economical

grain to use. Threshing is becoming

general throughout the oat-producing

states and the yields reported are

quite satisfactory. A year ago the

price for standard oats on the local

market was 48c per bushel. Last

'week’s Detroit prices were: N 3



0.





Standard. White.

Wednesday . .......... 57 56





Thursday ............. 59 58

Friday ................ 58 57

Saturday .............. 59 58

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

Tuesday .............. 5 8 1A; 57 1/z





Chicago—September 560 per bu;

December 55%0; May 58140.



Rye—This deal is slow with cash

rye quoted at $1.80 and September at

$1.78 per bushel.



Beans.—-—It has been rumored that

the government has taken quite a

block of Michigan beans for govern-

ment uses but no price was named.

Transactions in cash beans are small

with the nominal price steady at $7.25.

October remains at $6.50. The Chicago

trade is easy at $7.25 for hand-picked

Michigan white; red kidneys $6@6.25.



Seeds.———-Prime spot clover $12.75;

October $13.75; prime timothy $3.90.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





Noun—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 $37; standard middlings

$42;fine middlings $47; cracked corn

$78; coarse corn meal

_ oat chop $60 per ton. .



Hay.--In carlots at Detroit: No. 1

timothy $16.50@17; standard timothy

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

light mixed $14.50@16; No. 1' mixed

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



Pittsburgé—No. 1 timothy ,$20.25@

20.50 per ton; No. 2 timothy $18@19;

. No. 1 light mixed $17.75@18.25; No. 1





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Butter.——Demand active and market

firm at 410 for fresh creamery extras.

Fresh creamery firsts 39@3917éc.



Elgin.—Receipts are holding up well

and demand continues good. Bid prices

are 411/20. .‘



Chicago.——Market continues steady

although conditions favor the buyers.

Prices are slightly higher than last





week. Creamery extras are quoted at





4134c; extra firsts 41@41%c; firsts

39%@40%c; packing stock 341/é@35c.

Eggs.——The supply is fairly good and

demand firm. Prices are unchanged.

Fresh firsts were quoted at 36@38c per

dozen. ~ > '

Chicago—Feeling continues steady

with only fractional changes in prices.

Fresh Michigan firsts sell for 36@

36%c; ordinary firsts 34@34%c; mis-

cellaneous lots, cases included 33@36c.

Poultry.——Poultry is in fair supply

and market easier. Leghorns 23@25c;

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

@170; spring geese 18c.

Chicago—The market continues

steady with supply light. Prices are

higher. Fowls sell from 21@221,éc;

spring chickens 231/20; ducks 220;

geese 15@16c.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Fruits.—Plums‘75c 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@3.25 per 16-qt. case; pears,

Clapp’s Favorite $5 per bbl; Howell

$1.50@1.75 per bu; peaches, Michigan

Carmen’s $1@1.50 per six-basket case;

plums, Michigans 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 75c

@1 per bushel, or $3.25@3.75 per bbl;

Astricans and Transparents $3.50@4

per bbl. ,



Potatoes—Potatoes held steady with

prices at $1.50@1.60 'per bushel. At

Chicago potatoes sell for 90c@$1.25 a

bushel.





WOOL.





 





During the past week the market

has been very quiet, government pur-

chases being the chief items of inter-

est. The relationship of wool to the

government national necessity meas-

ures are still undefined. Mills are hold-

ing off on liberal purchases and the

amount of wool that they have on

hand is surprisingly small. Growers

and dealers have come to have more

confidence in the present market val-

ues. Everybody seems to be awaiting

developments. Fleeces sold on the Bos-

ton market at 55@850.

for $1.15@1.20 per bushel.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.‘





September 3, 1917.

. Buffalo.



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 192 cars; hogs 20 d. d.; sheep 15

d. d.; calves 900 head.



With 192 cars of cattle here today

the best grades of cattle sold about

steady, but the medium and cemmon

kinds were very slow and in some cas-

es lower. There was a strong demand

for cows and all grades sold steady.

There were not many good feeders

here, and there was a strong demand,

as there were several outside buyers

here for them; also for the good stock

bulls. We look for a fair run of cattle

next Monday and about steady prices.



Receipts of hogs were scant, demand

quite good and the general market but

very little changed from the close of

last week. A few loads of choice hogs

sold at $19.35@19.40, but proved out of

line, bulk selling from $19@19.25; pigs

and lights $17.50@18; roughs $17.25@

17.75; stags $14@15.50. Close was

steady and about all were sold.



With a light run of lambs today our

market opened up active and prices

250 higher than the close of last week.

All sold and ‘we look for steady prices

balance of the week.





 





Lambs $16. 50@16.65; yearlings

$12.50@14; cull to common $11@15;

wethers $10.75@11.25; ewes $10@





10.50; bucks $7@8; best calves $16.25

@1650; common and light $13.50@

15.50; heavy $12@15; .grassers $6@





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Chicago.

september 3, 1917.

Cattle. 'Hogs. Sheep.

3,000 20,000 18,000





Receipts today. . 2

6,083





Same day 1916. . 6,222 13,875





 





Same wk 1916. .67.771 167,543 107,928

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Hogs received averag’ed'233 lbs.~ ' ,,



Today, Labor , Day, the' killing de-

partments of the Chicago packing





plants are shut down, and the general





demand for stock is slack. Prime cat-

tle are higher than ever, with an early

sale of nine carloads of Iowa steers at

$16.50 and two sales later of fancy

steers at $16.75. Fat cattle were

steady, but others were slew of sale,

and buyers were bidding 15c or. more-

lower. The early hog market Was

steady, with an $18.75 top, but later

trade was dullat declines of 15@250

per 100 lbs. Sheep were steady, but

lambs were off about 250, with the best

killers and feeders offered taken at

$17.50. “



Cattle made a _ brilliant record in

high prices last week, with an. extra-

ordinary boom in the few strictly prime

beeves offered. ‘ The previous week’s

highest price was $15.50, but last week

saw opening sales at $16, three sales

being made at that figure, while later

in the day a sale was made of 17 fancy

1515-11). steers at $16.30. On Wednes-

day‘there were sales of 27 head aver-

aging 1465 lbs. at $16.40, while three

sales were made at $16.50, aggregating

73 head averaging 1357 to 1463 lbs. On

that day there were sales of 23 prime

1093-lb. yearlings at $16.25 and of 21

yearling steers and heifers mixed av-

eraging 837 lbs. at $16.15. Steers sold

during the week largely at $10.50

@1525, with a very fair representation

of $15.50@16.50 steers on Wednesday,

the high day of the week. Cattle sell-

ing at $15.50 and upward came under

the choice to extra class, with steers

classed as good going at $14 and over,

while a medium grade of steers sold at

$12.50 and over. Ordinary to fair kill-

ing steers of light weight found buyers

at $10 and over, with scattering sales

down to $6.50@9.50 for inferior little

steers on the grassy order. Yearlings

of the choicer class went at $15.50@

16.25, with good yearlings selling at

$14 and over and sales down to $11@

12 for the commoner yearlings. Butch-

er cattle were in demand at $6.65@

10.50 for cows and $6@13 for heifers,

with cutters purchased at $5.60@6.60,

canners at $5@5.55 and bulls at $5.75@

10.50. By Thursday weakness set in





- for the less attractive cattle, and the





prices were largely lower for grass-

fed light weight steers and for the

cheaper grades of cows and heifers.

There was a good demand for calves at

a high scale of prices, with the light

weight vealers going at $14.50@16.25

and sales of common to choice heavy

calves at $6.50@13.50. There was fair

animation in the stocker and feeder

trade, stockers selling at $6.25@8.75

and feeders at $7.75@10. Western

range cattle were marketed very much

more freely and ruled higher at $6.75

@14 for steers. Advances in cattle

were usually restricted to desirable

corn-fed offerings, which sold 50c@$1

higher. Cattle receipts were liberal.



Hogs seem likely to go higher than

\ever, and $20 per 100 lbs. may look low

later, unless the receipts become larg-

er. The offerings last week were re-

markably meager, and other markets

also received extremely light supplies.

The demand was greatly in excess of

the supply, and sharp advances in pric-

es were of daily occurrence, all kinds

of swine moving up rapidly. Provis-

ions have participated in the upward

movement, and everything in the line

of cured hog meats or fresh pork is

selling in the retail butcher shops at

such high prices that consumption

promises to be seriously checked in

the near future. As shippers purchas-

ed a large percentage of the hogs of-

fered, there were only about, enough

left for the local fresh pork trade. At

the week’s close hogs brought $16.85@

18.85 and pigs $12@16.50, according to

weight. A week earlier hogs sold at

$15.40@17.35. _



Lambs, yearlings, wethers and ewes

cannot be kept down in price, with

such meager offerings and a good gen-

eral demand, and recent sharp advanc—

es have taken place all along the line.

There is an especially large call for

feeding lambs from the range country,

and most of the time these have sold

higher than the best lambs purchased

by the packers and smaller butchers.

Receipts last week were not half as

large as a year ago, and prices advanc-

ed 50c for most sheep and yearlings

and 'most native lambs, while range

lambs were 75c@$1 higher the rise

taking in both killers and feeders.

Prices closed as follows: . Lambs $11@

17.75, with best natives $17; feeding

lambs $17 @1765 ; range yearlings at

$10.25@13; wethers,$10@12; ewes, at

$4.50@11; breeding ewes $9@17;,

bucks $8@9. ‘ ’ - '





Horses were in meager supply and

in small demand first week at about

former prices, but a much better trade

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The sheepindui '

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ts, to the' comparative] ‘

few stockm‘en whohave not abandoned:

it, and, of course, there is a widespread.

'des1re. among farmers to engage in it.

Breeding ewes are much sought after,

as are range feeding lambs, and both

are, in greatly inadequate supply and.

selling at far higher prices than were

ever lpald in past years. The best

breeding ewes have been selling as

high as $16.50@17 per 100 pounds,





while the best range feeding lambs‘





have sold up to $17 per 100 pounds,

With buyers outbidding the packers.

Southern stockmen are especially de~

sirous of breeding sheep, and large

numbers of breeding ewes have been

distributed throughout the south. The

range conditions have not been en~

couraging and lambs are largely of the

feeder. class. The agricultural bureau

is urglng farmers to grow more sheep

for wool and mutton, as there is an

espec1al need of wool at this time. In

many places sheep are being used as

lawn mowers for parks and private

grounds.



Karl E. Magnuson, of Henry county,

Illin01s, marketed recently a. consign-

ment of short-fed cattle in Chicago,

haying partly substituted molasses.

feed for corn, with satisfactory results.

He fed five pounds of this feed daily,

and, instead of having to feed one

quarter to one-half a bushel of corn

per head per day, the cattle showed

good gains on one-tenth of a bushel. of

corn daily. '



A short time ago George 0. Strong.

of Calhoun county, Michigan,purchased

a carload of feeding cattle on the Chi-

cage market for $8.25 per 100 pounds,

his intention being to feed fodder and.

grass up to the time that winter sets

1n, when he will feed silage until the

time arrives for putting them on grass

in the spring. He said silage is a

prime feed for cattle, and he thinks

they will thrive on it during the wins

ter period. Not very much live stock

is left in his part of Michigan.





P. J. Carolan, of Winneshiek county,

Iowa, owns a herd of twenty head of'

grade Hereford and Shorthorn cows,

from which he has two sources of. in~

come, calves and cream. He winters.

the herd on hay and silage and pas-

tures them during the summer'season.

He is a firm believer in the farmer-

raising his own calves and says that

at weaning time he has calves of even

size and grade and as good as any he-

could pick up on the market. He says.

that when a farmer milks the cow and.

sells the cream he can raise good

calves on the skim-milk and a small

quantity of grain. Mr. Carolan has

been in the habit of crossing pure-bred

Hereford bulls on his cows, thereby

producing calves showing good beef‘

breeding. The calves show a predom-

inaince of Hereford blood and make

good gains on grass, silage and hay.

He has had in his pastures this sum-~

mer 95 head of steers and heifers on

120 acres, and a short time ago be-

marketed 45 head of Steers and heifers

raised from his cows, being grass-fed

and two years old. Owing to the low

maintenance cost, he has found it prof-~

itable to hold cattle that long.



Extremely sensational hog markets

have been witnessed in Chicago in re-

cent weeks, enormous booms in prices

being followed by. as startling declines.

The remarkable boom culminated with

prime hogs selling up to $20 per 100

pounds, being a far higher price than





was ever attained in any former year. .





Turning backwards two years, it is

found that the best swine were selling

at that time for $8, While at the same





‘time in 1904 hogs Sold for $4.45@5.80.





Pork has traveled the same road as

the raw material, with sales as high

as $43.45 a barrel, comparing with

$27.05 a year ago, at about the same

time hogs were making their high rec—

ord. This was the highest price ever

paid for pork, and lard and other lines.

of provisions made similar high rec--

ords. Later hogs climbed off their

high perch, and 'pork slid down at a

lively pace, after leading packing in-





terests had sold .large quantities, ac— ‘





cording to general reports. Later on

meager receipts of hogs caused new

sharp advances, .but the previous fluc-»

tuations of as much as $1 per 100

pounds in a single day were not repeat-

ed. ~ Whether begs go higher than ever

or lower, it may be taken for granted

that extremely high prices are going

to remain indefinitely, and owners can

not take too good care of their swine





that are doing well 011.com. 'Late' rrev.





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Thursday’s Market.

September 6, 1917.

Cattle.



Receipts 3788. Canners and .bulls

steady; all others 25c lower; Wlll go

lower before week is over.

,. We quote: Best heavy steers $10@





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' bulls $5.50@ 6;





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mixed steers and heifers

$7.50 andy light butchers $7@

7.75; light butchers $6.50@7.25; best

cows $7.50@8.50; butcher cows $6.50@

7; common cows $5.50@6; canners

$4.50@5.25; besltmlhieavgzs Sibuélg $7.503)i

. ; boIo na 5 . ; s o



775 g feeders $7.50@8.25;

stockers $6@7.25; milkers and springs

ers 50 95. ' _



Sa$ndgcpl, S. B. & G. sold Breitenbeck

24 steers av 783 at $7.25, 26 do av 836

at $8.25; to Newton P. Co. 22 do av

800 at $7.35, 19 do av 900 at $7.35, 3

bulls av 923 at $7.25, 3 cows av 950 at

$6.50, 7 steers av 720 at $7.65; to Sul-

livan P. Co. 5 do av 868 at $7.75, 28

do av 930 at $8.25, 2 do av 735 at $7,

1 ox wgh 1500 at $8.50, 1 do Wgh

1320 at' $7, 3 cows av 1100 at $6, 23

butchers av 774 at $7.75, 10 do av 832

at $8.25; to Mich. B. Co. 3 cows av

1100 at $7.25, 2 bulls av 1285 at $7.50,

2 do av 1000 at $7.25; to Culver 6 heif-

ers av 583 at $7.25; to Walk 11 butch-

ers av 604 at $6.50, 5 do av 506 at

$6.35; to Applebaum 10 do av 613 at

$6.40; .to Graves 9 do av 483 at $6.50,

5 do av 734 at $7.65; to Thompson 4

do av 715 at $7.50; to Goodgold 13 do

av 380 at $5.50; to Bray 2 cows av 1000

at $6; to Masch B. .Co. 21 steers av

965 at $9.25, 20 do av 772 at $7.70, 12

cows av 912 at $6.50, 3 do av 833 at $5;

to White Bros. 24 do av 820 at $5.75;

to Costello 8 butchers av 704 at $6.75.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Thompson 1

steer wgh 970 at $9.50, 1 bull wgh 980

at $7; to Graves 14 steers av 785 at $8,

4 do av 690 at'$7.75, 5 do av 736 at

$7.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 2 cows av

1060 at $7, 4 butchers av 1112 at $7;

to Applebaum 4 ddav 552 at $6.60; to

Bray 2 cows av 1050 at $7, 4 do av

865 at $5.50; to Kamman B. Co. 7

steers av 837 at $8; to Smith 4 feed-

ers av 790 at $7; to Thompson 10

steers av 913 at $9.50; to Sullivan P.

Co. 13 do av 923 at $9.50, 2 do av 880

at $8.50, 2 cows av 985 at $8; to

Bishop 19 Vstockers av 583 at $6.70, 5

do av 790 at $7; to Mich. B. Co. 9

steers av 864 at $8.25, 5 do av 770 at

$7, 16 do av 722 at $8, 30 butchers av

660 at $6.70, 6 cows av 945 at $7, 2

bulls av 760 at $6.75, 2 steers av 800

at $8.



Veal Calves. ‘



Receipts 697. Market steady. Few

choice $16.50.; bulk of good $15.50@

16; others $7@14.



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

6 av 155 at $16, 2 av 135 at $15.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Parker, W. &

Co. 6 av 120 at $13.50; to Thompson

3 av 210 at $12, 7 av 180 at $16, 2 av

125 at $15.



McMillen, K. & J. sold Parker, W.

& Co. 10 av 162 at $14.50, 6 av 375 at

$9, 7 av 180 at $15; to Mich. B. Co.

7 av 150 at $15.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 4571. Market steady. Best

lambs $15.50@16; fair lambs $13@15;

light to common lambs $11@12.50;

fair to good sheep $8.50@'9; culls and

common $5@7.50. -



Bishop, B. & H. sold Swift & Co. 20

lambs av 85 at $15.50, 198 do av 80 at

$16: to Newton P. Co. 23 do av 65 at

$14, 26 do av 60 at $14.50; to Sullivan

P. Co. 15 sheep av 105 at $8.50; to

Newton P. Co. 7 lambs av 62 at $14;

to Sullivan P. Co. 31 do av 65 at $14;

to Nagle P. Co. 2 sheep av 100 at $9.50,

36 lambs av 70 at $15.50, 13 sheep av

95 at $8.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 134

lambs av 83 at $16, 14 sheep av 110 at

$8, 26 lambs av 95 at $14; to Parker,

W. &. Co. 78 do av 70 at $16, 37 do av

70 at $16, 2 yearlings av 110 at $13,

13 lambs av 80 at $16; to Swift & Co.





. 61 lambs av 75 at $15.75, 114 do av,





77 at $16; to Rhinehart 98 do av 60 at

$14, 46 do av 55 at $14, 11 do av 45

at $13.50; to Swift & Co. 141 do av

70 at $15.75, 104 do av 75 at $16; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 18 do av 65 at $14.

Sande], S., B. & G. sold Thompson

20 lambs av 55 at $13.25; to Sullivan

P. 00.49 do av 65 at $14.8 sheep av

115 at $7.50, 60 lambs av 75 at $15.25.

‘~ McMnllen, K. & J. sold Mich. B. Co.

28 lambs av 60 at $14.25, 130 do av 78

. at $15.50 40 do av 60 at $14, 42 do av

so at $16.75, 10 sheep a‘v 132 at $9.50,

6' %% a'v. 125 at $8.50, 9 do av 115p‘at

$7. , 28 lambs av 85 at $15.60, 31 do





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On a late Menday sales were made





cattle, including. small yearlings, long

yearlings and weighty long-fed steers,"

at from $16@16.30 per 100 pounds. Cat-

tle averaging only 900 pounds brought

$16. As the previous high-water mark

stood at $15.50, the best steers showed

an advance Of 80 cents per 100 pounds.

Surely this is going it some and it is

a good illustration of the eagerness on

the part of the packers and smaller

butchers to get hold of prime beef cat.-

tle. Transactions of this character cer-





tainly show that experienced stockmen .





who practice making prime beeves are

reaping liberal profits, and farmers

who own plenty of land are finding it

pays well to have big t acts devoted to

pasturage. For instar ,e, there is H. R.

Boyden, of Ringgold county, Iowa,

widely known as a farmer who be-

lieves in owning plenty of pastureland

and always using it. He has several

hundred acres devoted to permanent

pasturage, and this land has been so

used for fifteen to twenty years. He

intends to leave all this large tract of

land in grass, although it would yield

from sixty to seventy bushels of corn

to the acre if plowed up. He says

bluegrass sod is too hard to get, and

he has other traCts he can till. Mr.

Boyden recently marketed cattle that

had been on his farm for two years,

having been calves when he bought

them. He has plenty of roughage and

always keeps cattle for utilizing it.



A short time ago W. P. Carpenter,

of Atchison county, Missouri, market-

ed in Chicago fifty head of strictly

choice branded Hereford cattle which

averaged in weight 1363 pounds at

$15.50 per 100 pounds, having bought

them as feeders last January in the,

Denver stock show. On the same day

Ollie Arthur, of Edgar county, Illinois,

marketed in Chicago a carload of

prime fate cattle which averaged in

weight 1387 pounds at the same price.

The Arthur cattle were fed shock corn

and clover hay up to the first of March,

and after that were put on a full feed

of corn on grass. They were on feed





for 18 months, were in good flesh and





were coming three-year-olds. They

were of mixed weights, some of them

being quite heavy.



Some of the dairymen of Kane coun-

ty, Illinois, are talking of going out of

the industry and engaging in feeding

cattle for the market, and one of them

says he has already made the change.

They claim that milk does not sell high

enough in View of the cost of feed, 1a-

bor and cows to make the industry a

profitable one. _



Some. of the Minnesota stockmen are

feeding rations of half corn and half

soaked barley to their hogs with high-

ly satisfactory results. The Minnesota

pig crop is reported as only about two-

thirds of a normal one, and stockmen

are exerting themselves to make their

hogs as valuable as possible.



The Union Stock Yards & Transit

Co., of Chicago, is selling corn to be

fed to stock in the yards $2.50 per

bushel, and timothy and 010 er hay at

$30 per ton.



The Chicago Live Stock Exchange

has adopted the following amendment

to its rules: “No live stock shall be

fed after.the sale has been made ex-





 





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cept as agreed between buyer and sell-'





er, provided that in the event that live

stock is not weighed the same day of

sale, that the salesman shall have the

privilege of feeding and watering such

live stock a reasonable amount until





same is weighed.”

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ready to ship. The kind that make good. 00 e and

see the real b g t pe kind. Expenses paid it notes

represented. Free ivery from Purina.



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LAltGEt pe P. 0. Some ve$ choice summer ilts

bred to arrow in Au ust. ill sell 1 of my year ing

herd boars. W. . Hagelshaw. Augusta. Mich.





 





' Poland Chin fall and s rin l .

Large Shled at farmers prai'ces. B. P.pRoc :3".

$1.50 per 15. Robert Neva. Pierson, Mic .





 





POLAND China: bred gilts all sold. still have some

choice fall pigs of large andniedium type. at am-

P. D. LONG, R. 8. Grand Rapids, ich.





 





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Biz Tm Poland China: Espty‘t’igttelltttm'li:

hog. A. A. WOOD O ION. Saline. Michigan





 





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HAMPSHIRES Boar pigs only t1501- sale 815 and up

JOHN w. SNYDER, R. is etc.) Jigfim. Mich.

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F O R SA L E Gill. “3.53 :3???" if:





rowing. Also boar pigs for fall sex-v co. to a

Waterman. Meadowland Farm. Ann Arbbrffifibh.





S H E E P

Shropshire Ewes





lambs $35 up. ,

KUPE KON FARMS Goldwater Mich.

Sheep at Lupton. Ogemaw County.





 





Good ones 5 «la 6 years old $80.00

each. Yearling runs :9 ram





 





Standard Delaine Rams

Big fellow- with slpendid heads. Le s and fleeces.

O. R. PARSONS, aline. Mich, .





- ' Big, earl re . raml b

Shropshires comingflfiill tgade, sirgdnbys‘infig‘.‘

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





 





Yearling or Lamb Rain

P. 0. Ho 3, write or’oellaiirld





ARMSTRONG 81108., 1L3, owlerville. Mich.

registered. Wooled from





Sharpshin Ham lambs, m... .

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Homestead F arms





We have a special offer which will interest poultry

ople who want Laying Hens for Winter.



Since we do not fee that we can dispose of any more



Pullets. lwe 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

Brow Le horns. Barred Plymouth Rocks (limited)

White nWyagndottes Rhode Island Reds, Rose Comb

Black Minoroas.





Yearling Cocks and Cockereis



B (1 Pl 1th Rocks. Rhode Island Reds White

Wayfreidottebiimgingle Comb Black Minorcas, White and

Brown Leghorns. Anconas.





Geese and Ducks





50 Fine Young White Pekin Ducks.

30 Young Gray Toulouse Geese.





All of these are pure breed practical paultry which

daily prove theirpractica] value in the direct market

for poultry and its products whith we have begun to





build up.





Everything we sell is guaranteed; each Customer is

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

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

are to be sold at once



We are lanning for a more extensive saleof Day- Old

Chicks r‘iext Spring, so that all orders may be filled





HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.





Pullets '- 2000





“200 Egg” -Pedigree White Leghorns

“Bred- to-lay” Strain.

These vigorous, May- hatched pullets will be laying

in a few weeks. '1‘ hose birds of quality are the choit-

est ever ofit red for sale. Price in hundred lots. 5]

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-

o.mers Cats.

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“Michigan 5 Largest Poultry Farm"





Yearling Hens For Breeders





C. White, Buff antMi Black L( ghorns at $1. 00 ea a.ch

BUNNYBROOK FAR — Hill sdale, Mich:





 





 





 





OHN' Sbig beautiful hen- hatched Barred Rocks,

Jgood layers. Breeding gens (Sbirds) )$10 to $20 Eggs

30. $2.50 ;,100 $7. Ci1cula15. hoto. John Northon,Cla1-,c Mich.





. EGGS FROM STRAIN with

Barred ROCkS ' 1ecords to 297 eggs a year $2

per 15. Delivered by iarcel post, prepaid. Circu or

tree. Fred Astling. ‘011Itaut'1ne. Mich





Great Layers first class breed-

llamd Ilnclt Hon: .1. 1111... 125110.

W. C..COFFMAN. It. 3 Benton Harbor, Mich.





 





 





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A real heavy laying strain trapnested I7

years, records from 200 to 264 eggs Get

our special summer prices on yearling hens

breeding males, eggs {or hatching 8- week-

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

guarantee results. otalog gives prices; describes sloc‘lt tells

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

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Fowlers Buff Rocks. {11gb °“e 3:13:33

8.7-) forlfi; $1.50for30; 32.;00f01‘50 33.50f0‘r100.

R. B. FOWLER. Hartford, Mich.





 





uff Leghorns August sale 25 hens one dollar each.

16 two dollar hens and cook bird tor$2 0. 00

Dr. William A Smith. Petersburg, Mich.





laybill 8. c. ll. Le horn: iffiif§.’§§1‘i-Zi1lfii‘1’$ 15353





breeding hens now. verfresh Egg Farm. Ionia, Mich





Pins Ilml 8.8.Vll1ilo Orplnglons, M: 6:333. 83%.?





cocks and hens. also young cockerels. MRS LLIS

ROUGH. PINE CREST FARM Royal Oak. IMich.





 





 





 





P Bred W. Plymouth Rock Cockerels and Mam-

I". moth W. Pekin Ducks andlDrakes for sale. Buy

early. CHAS. KLETZLEN, Bath, Mich.





“0013 ISLAND REDS and PLYMOUTH ROCKS

Males 5 to 12 lbs. according to age” to 85: P R. hens

weight 5 to 10 lbs.. eggs 15 for $1.00; 100, 35; 2036 00

Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys, 8 to 38Ibs. according

to age 86 to $25.10 eggs 53. A. E. Crnmwn. Vassar Mich.





Good breeding hens at $1. 50

ll. ands. C. RedEs. oadi for short time. Also

Belgian Hares. .Hawley, Ludlngton Mich.





 





 





 





I. Red Summer Sale Rose Comb cocks and hens.

.Sin le comb hens and pullets. Allat baigain

prices. ockerels after September





 





I. C. Br. Leghorn Cockerels, 3321‘:

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

MRS. CLAUDIA BITTS. Hillsdaie. Michigan





dHamburg Eggs setting 81 50 Bal-

Silver Spanqged nnce season. young Belgian

Bares pedigreed 00 pair. Pedigreed Persian Kittens rent

hunters 810 each Send stamp. Riverview Farm, Vassar, Illich.





 





 





C. W. Leghorn hens for breeding $1. 50 each. Cook-

S'ei‘GIS from trap nested stock we have them priced

a to Sfie'sch. O. S. Sturtevantdz Sons. Ypsilanti, Mich





 





ILVER Golden and White Wy.andottes Choice

Sbreeding stock of sale atteriOct 1st , a few bargains





In yearling hens. 0.w wBrowning, R. 2. Portland Mich.





‘ c w l ll April Hatched Standard Bred

0g 0m:- Cookerels on free rangeat 82.00

each. White Line Poultry Farm. Hillsdale. Mich.





 





WHITE‘3 Wyapdottes. A. 1 lagers. Eggs for hatchin

81. 8283!.or1537 per 100. ciai mating} $5 for





1);va but. 709 Norris 31.. Ypsilanti. ichigan.





 





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Pedigree furnished. Paul Povenz, R. 8, Holly. Mich.





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Ducks Have Digestive Troubles.





Am writing you in regard to my lit-

tle ducks. They began to get sick

when about two weeks old. At first

I thought the sun was too warm for

them and so I moved them where they

would be in the shade more. Some of

them get weak in legs, as if their legs

were broken, and others get so weak

they can hardly walk. They have

spells that they fall over backward

and squawk as if they were having a

fit, and run around the pen as if they

were crazy. Their eyes stick shut

(not swollen), and When I wet and 0p

en them there is a white flake like

corn meal that comes out. If they live

very long they get blind. They sit

around and won’t eat much, and finally

die. I had over 60 and over half of

them are dead. Several of my neigh-

bors are losing theirs and they have

the same symptoms as mine,as near

as I can find out. I feed corn meal

and bran and proportioned it different

and thought it would make a change.

They have gravel and plenty of water

(with the chill off), and a warm place

to sleep.



Hillsdale Co. W. M.



The trouble with your ducks is a

digestive one which probably results

from their eating food which had been

left over from one meal to another and

has become contaminated; this, and





the hot sun are the chief causes of





of a 1168. just below the vent.





in, otherwise the bird may pick it and

get poisoned. Of course, good lice pow-

ders are also effective if thoroughly

applied.



Thoroughness and eternal vigilance

are necessary in the control of these

external parasites of poultry. However

where proper methods are used there

should be no trouble in controlling

them.





 





A PRACTICAL CHICKEN SILO.





Eleven eggs from a pen of twelve

pullets three times in six weeks in

December and January is the record





achieved by Mr. E. W. Doak, of Esca-'





naba, Michigan. Mr. Doak was enabled

to secure these results by having an

abundance of green feed.



The green feed question has been a

stumbling block to many poultry keep:

ers who wish to secure a maximum of

winter eggs. Many welcomed the ad-

vent of the cat sprouter as a remedy,

but many, like Mr. Doak, found the

work of sprouting oats for a big flock

to be very irksome. None, however,





 





 





 





 





 





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A Chicken Silo Solves the Winter Green Food Problem.





‘trouble with ducklings.~ One of the es-

sentials in feeding ducklings, which

you probably know, is the keeping of

plenty of water near by at feeding

time, so that the ducklings canrwash

the dry feed down. Some successful

duck feeders feed everything in water

or whey, and after the ducks are done

eating everything is thrown away.





Lice and Mites.



I would like your opinion about get-

ting rid of mites Have been spraying

with kerosene but in a few days they

are as bad as ever and do not even

leave the chickens in the daytime.

What can I use to get rid of the pests

on the roosts and chickens. Have

them roosting outdoors but are as bad

outside as in.



Monroe Co. ‘ T. T. S.



Your hens are probably troubled

with lice as well as mites and it will

be necessary to dust' them or apply

mercurial ointment as well as to spray

the coops.





The most effective way to contr—voi





the mites is to spray the coop thor-





oughly with a mixture of three parts

of kerosene and. one part crude- car-

bolic 'acid. The advertised coal tar

disinfectants used as sprays are also

effective, but to make any spray appli-

cation effective in a coop where the

mites are very bad the spray should

be repeated every few weeks.



Carbolineum used as a paint op the

roasts, nests and droppings boards is

also very effective. The chickens

should be kept out of the coop for at

least a day when the carbolineum is

used.



Thoroughness is very essential in

the control of the mite, and therefore

before spraying the coop should '1 be





cleaned of all droppings and other





litter.



For lice the best treatment is blue

ointment, which can be purchased of

druggists. Ask for blue ointment U.





s. P. and apply a piece about the site .





 

 





jfiock of turkeys it is essential“ that





found the solution of the problem as

Mr. Doak did.



While reading an article in a farm

paper on ensilage for cattle, he was

suddenly struck by the thought that

perhaps ensilage would be good for

poultry also. His thoughts soon took

definite form and he built a silo on

purpose for his chickensp which is

thought to be the first silo ever built

for that express purpose.





The silo is three and a half feet in

diameter and eight feet high, three and

a half feet of which are underground.

The bottom is of cement. The frame-

work is made of two-by—two’s set verti-

cally one foot apart. To these laths

are nailed diagonally, inside and out.

A coat of hair plaster is applied on

each side and over this a coat of ce-

ment. The roof is made of thin boards

covered with tar paper roofing' and is

removable. A hole is left in the roof

till after the silo is filled, then this is

covered with roofing. A small door

near the top affords a way to take out

the ensilage. This hole is lathed and

plastered on the inside before filling

the silo. This enables it to be filled





clear to the top; When ready to take,





out, the ensila’ge has settled enough so

the lath may be knocked off.



_ Almost any kind of green feed can

be used for the ensilage, but Mr. Doak

prefers golden bantam sweet corn with

as many cars as possible, mixed about

half and? half with lawn clippings. He

uses an ordinary hand cutting box for

cutting the corn, but on alarger scale

the power outfits should be used.



Wayne Co. H. SPOONEB.





 





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sized and weak. ' 1





During the late summer and early

autumn is an important stage in the

life'of the you/ng turkeys.- At this time

they are so apt to wander far and. for:

get to come home at night. Drive them





home every night for a Week,"neverf‘





allow them to stay out and they learn

the trick of coming home.

on the range they will go a. long ways

to find water. Keeping plenty of fresh

drinking water handy makes home

more attractive. An impure water sup-

ply is a frequent source of diseasewith

turkeys. The stagnant water such as

they get when streams are low, or

around stables in a warm, dry time, is

bad for them. ”





Turkeys grow fast and are voracious





eaters and they get too. much food and

not. enough exercise when they hang‘

around waiting to eat with the chick-

ens. We never allow them to form

this habit. Keep them going out on

the range as long as possible. Picking

up a grain here and there is the nat-

ural way for a. turkey to eat and there

is no danger of the digestive mill be-

coming clogged. The digestive organs

must have a chance to develop as the

turkey grows, then they are better

able to do their work when liberal

feeding is required later on. '





Turkeys grow fast when they get‘

old enough to eat whole corn and a. lit-

tle corn helps to bring them home at

night, but we are careful not to feed

too much till the weather getseooler

and fattening time approaches.





Size must be maintained with tur-

keys, but we need not worry about the

size or the weight at maturity if we

can secure thrift and large frames now.

The rangy big-boned birds look slender

now, but if they have plenty of range

they are sure to develop into large

birds that will meet all market re-

quirements.





Indiana. ‘ FRANCES W001).





FRESHNAIR AND SUNSHINE FOR

POULTRY.





The “fresh air and sunshine” rule,

now so liberally applied to the building

of homes for humans, can be applied

with just as much benefit to houses for

hens, in the opinion of the poultry hus-





bandry department of the Michigan _





Agricultural College.





The question, “How much open front

.should be allowed, and how much glass

used?” is one frequently asked by

builders of poultry’ houses, the depart-

ment says. A house 20x20 feet, or one





having a floor area of 400 square feet,





should havefifty square feet of wire

screen, one-fourth inch mesh, and tWen-

ty—five square feet of glass. An open-

ing twenty feet long and two and one-

half feet wide, placed ten inches from

the floor, is about right. Cover this

opening with one-fourth inch mesh gal-

vanized wire—the kind of screen used

by masons for sifting sand. We use





this mesh because it prevents snow.





from drifting through and keeps the

rain from beating in. Four window

sashes with nine lights, each eight by

ten inches, will serve for windows.

Place the windows either above the

screen or in the west end of the house.





Use a good gravel floor, one that Can

and will be renewed every year, or use

boards or cement. If gravel is employ-

ed, cover the floor with one-inch mesh

poultry wire and then fill in above it





, with eight to ten inches of gravel. This

. wire will prevent rats from gaining





admittance to the house from belo/w.

If board floor is used, put the house up

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The Grange should represent agri-

culture, indeed this is its most import-

ant function. It should be the organ

through which the man and his fam-

ily on the farm, acquire information

and disseminate it to others. It should

be the medium through which farmers

as a class, or in individual groups,

make known their wishes, their needs,

and their demands. It should be a





I great school in which many important





things pertaining to the welfare of peo-

ple in the country are taught. It should

be, at all times, a splendid forum in

which agricultural questions, questions

of rural betterment, and questions re-

lating to the welfare of the state and

nation, be freely discussed.



In times of stress, in seasons of na-

tional anxiety, the farmers should be

able to use the Grange, and the nation

at large should look to it as competent

and trustworthy in voicing the needs

and the sentiments of agriculture.

Never before in our history did farm-

ers occupy so important a position in

the nation. The world needs food to-

day more than ever before in the mem-

ory of the writer. Hungry nations are

looking to the farmer for relief. To

grow the products of the farm requires

labor, labor is scarce and hard to find.

The question of what to grow is also

important and must be considered

from the standpoint of labor involved

as well as from the requirements of

the public. Most of our farmers are

overworked, those who perform the la-

bor of the household, in many cases,

are more weary than they who toil in

the fields. .



Last spring, we were promised large

numbers of factory hands, who would

leave their jobs in town to assist the

farmer, in seasons when'the work was

very pressing but I could never think

of these plans without wondering how

the extra work inside the house was

going to get done. I have been pretty

nearly all over Michigan among the

people of the country, and I can shut

my eyes at any time and see thou-

sands of tired men and women past

middle life, their sons and daughters

gone to the city, and they toiling day

by day at their individual tasks, in

many cases because they must, and in

others, because they believe that farm-

ing is their work in the world and

they are determined to do it the best

they can.



In this season of food shortage the

condition of the average farmer is a

matter of national importance, not es-





, pecially upon his account, but because





of his relation to those who need and

must have the product of his labor.

For this reason, both the state and

the nation are coming to his aid to a.

degree never before experienced.



The United States Department of

Agriculture and State Agricultural Col-

leges, seem to be working overtime

to furnish him with information and

practical suggestions. The great news-

papers are devoting much space to

matter pertaining to agriculture and, in

short, everybody seems anxious to help

in this time of the nation’s need. But

to use Brother Horton’s expression,

“The farmer must be in at the hear-

ing.” The farmers of Michigan should

find the Grange an instrument through

which their needs may be made known

and their power to measure up to their

demands made upon them increased.

The question of farm labor should be

discussed thoroughly in every Grange,





'ifimportant conclusiohs are reached





they should be published for the infor-

mation of the public. ,



'Doubtless more wheat will be sown

in Michigan this fall than ever before

in the history of the state, the prep-

aration of the seed bed for this crop

is of vast importance. Many other-V





 





 





   





 





   





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Address all communications relative



to the organization of new Clubs to



Mrs. J. S. Brown, Howell, Mich. '





 





Associational Motto: .

“The skillful hand with cultured

mind is the farmer’s most valuable





asset." \





 





Associational Sentiment:

“The Farmer: He garners from the

soil the primal wealth of nations."

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FARMERS’ CLUB FAIRS.





 





Of the special features which have

been adopted by localFarmers’ Clubs

by way of varying the trend of their

meetings probably none have been

more universally popular than has the

Farmers’ Club Fair. It is a noticeable

fact gathered from the reports of del-

egates to the annual meetings of the

State Association of Farmers’ Clubs

that the Club fair in a great majority

of cases, becomes an annual event in

the Club that once tries out the fair as

a special feature meeting. It is also

noticeable that this feature is always

spoken of with pride and satisfaction

at the annual Club conferences by the

delegates from Clubs which make a

practice of holding a fair meeting.



”The experience of others is always

the best guide, next to actual personal

experience, in matters of this kind as

well as along business lines. If the

members of other Farmers’ Clubs and

the organizations with which they are

affiliated have gotten so much benefit

from these fair meetings, is it not a

good indication that they would be a

valuable addition to the yearly pro‘

gram of your own Club? It will require

some work on the part of the member-





ship as well as the committees having





the matter in charge to stage a good

Club fair, but everything worth While

requires effort. If your Club has not

yet tried outthis special feature why

not try it this year? It has been dem-

onstrated beyond any question of rea-

sonable doubt that special feature

meetings add to the interest in Club

work and help the organization. Why

not try it out in your own Club by in-

augurating this feature which has

proven universally popular in other

similar organizations?



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ers. They do not know the need of

properly preparing the soil. Then

there is the matter of the variety of

seed to be sown. An effort is being

made all over the state to push red

rock wheat. This is a splendid variety

of winter wheat, practically as good as

the Northwestern spring wheat for

milling purposes. It has been thorough-

ly tested in Michigan and yields abun-

dantly.



Questions of fertilizers, questions of

crops to be grown, of methods of culti-

vation and harvesting, and plans for

selling should all be discussed in the

Grange.



As 1 write I am wondering how many

Michigan Granges are really measur-

ing up to their privilege in this regard.



The question of farm labor, the sub-

ject of co—operative marketing, and the

matter of live stock improvement

should come in for their share of at-

tention in the lecturer’s hour in every

live Grange. Thus will the Grange rep-

resent agriculture, but if these things

are to be, farmers, generally, must ally

themselves with the Order.



One reason why many Granges do

not efficiently represent agriculture is

because there are so few representa-

tive farmers that belong. I often won-

der if farmers outside the Order read

the Grange page. If they do I want to

ask them for their own sakes, and for

the sake of the community where they

live, to join the Grange. We need

young men and women in the Grange,

We need boys and girls or} the pro—

gram in the lecturer’s hour, we need

entertainment—reeltations, dramas, es-

says and music and all that—but may

we never forget how. much we need

progressive, broad-minded, intelligent

farmers. The Grange will never ade-

quately represent agriculture until we

have more of them inside its gates.



, W. F. TAYLOR.





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Stock always for sale. Ms Rose Strain—Herd Tuber-

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' and Grade Guernsey cows, bulls

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great grnifil-damAThree choice young bulls from A. R.



. dams. erd tuberculin tested annually. Holsteins

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V A Yearling Heifer, b i-

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His first 14 tested daughters average

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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

mone , as all the daughters of those

is}? or $10,000 combined. Priced from



up.





Bigelow’s Holstein Farms,

Breedsville, Mich. ‘





GLUNY STOCK 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 a 22.5 lb. Jr,

3 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.





R. BRUCE McPHERSON, Howell,Mich.





(8ng You}: Balls Flair" farham's Pedigree Stock Farm

. t .

“Riki?fiffinn‘l‘l‘a‘?‘“dfllfigirc’i‘i‘idigtg: °°"“‘





WINNWOOD H E R D





REGISTERED HOLSTEINS





Holton, Mich.

Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont. Mich.

. Flint Ma scrsst Bo sire in service



1119 sire is Map ecrest Kern .vke Hengerveid. his 8

Nearest Dams each overdo lbs. of butter in7 days-

His dam and grand dam both made over 1232 lbs. of

butter in lyear. It lathe early cow we iii-clocking

for to deliver the goods. Fl nt Maplecrest Boy'sDam is

Gluck Vassar Bell. 3057 lbs. of butter in '7 days and 120

lbs. in80days. Her butter rat testis 5.27. This looks

about right to the man who goes to the creamery.

avg]: 11::th £3111le (3:1; vestrttiim 2 maeksctOIBAmfingisHold for



rv a. are cos c o . . . .

Write «it tell us the iriiiid of a bull you want. alters





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





 





 





 





 





1 Always Have HolSteins

To Sell '



If wanting Registered‘cattle write me your wants



before placingyour order elsewhere. '





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5.1. (continuEd from page 196)...”





as fine a business as anyOne Would

care to wish for. The most remark:

able part of his success lies in his

teaching the system of crop rotation





and maintaining of live stock on the '





grain. farm. On thirty acres of land

that produced such a small yield of

wheat the first year, wheat was plant-

ed 1ast year and produced an average

of thirty-five bushels per acre. The in-

crease was due to rotation of crops and

liberal use of manure.

What the Silo Saves in Feed.



Because of the silo more live stock

can be kept on a farm. Without a silo

there is a great waste. Agr’iculturists

claim that in a ripe corn plant sixty

per cent of its feed value is contained

in the kernels, and forty per cent in

the leaves and stalks. At least ninety

per cent of the fodder’s value is lost

under the old system of handling the

corn crop. Such a waste has brought

failure to many farmers throughout

this country. Take, for instance, the

year of 1915, when the early frost kill-

ed the corn crop before it was matured.





That year many settlers started in for "





their first year through the cheap land

districts of Michigan. Many of them

started in with a fair-sized herd of cat-

tle, and had they not been caught by

the frost would have gotten a good

start. Being without feed for the win-

ter these people were compelled to sell

their stock and leave their farms. If

these same people had had a silo to

utilize the frosted corn, and a fair

amount of straw, they could have pull-

ed their herds through the winter and

had an income from their cows to

meet some of the farm expenses. Un-

der the system of feeding cows in win:

ter on dry feeds, a large amount of

grain must be fed to maintain a flow

of milk. With the rapid increase in





the price of all grains, it is almost im-,





possible to realize a profit wintering

cows on the dry feed, while during the

hard winter I have seen any number

of herds of dairy cows wintered on

just silage and mixed hay. One place

I visited in Green county, Wisconsin,

the owners had a herd of eighteen

milch cows. They were fed the abo‘ve

mentioned roughage, and no grain. His

milk check averaged close to $200

per month, and I challenge any farmer

to show a greater profit from the same





number. of cows .by , the dry-feeding.





method.



To clearly demonstrate the economy

of the silo one dairyman of my ac-

quaintance had his silo empty early in

winter. While feeding silage he fed

very little grain. When the silo was

empty he fed clover and alfalfa hay

and doubled the grain ration. Even

with the increased amount of grain the

cows decreased in their milk flow.

With the cheapest cow feed, bran, sell-

ing at $40 per ton, and other grains

much higher, the dairymancould eas-

ily feed grain to his cows so they

would be fed at a loss. '



Silage for High Production.



Another stand I wish to take in be-

half of the'silo is on feeding test

cows. Quite often the remarks are

made, that all the great cows make

their records mostly on grain rations.

Anyone familiar with handling test

cows knows such ideas are unfounded

and to give an idea as to the amount

of feed consumed by test cows, I will

describe my feeding methods in hand-

ling the two world's champion Guern-

sey cows, which at the present time

are under my personal care. They

are Murne Cowan, with a record, for

one year of 24,008 pounds, containing

1098.18 pounds of butterfat,"and Jev

hanna Chene who, as a three-yearpld,

produced 16,186.? pounds of milk cen-

taining 863.36 pounds of-butterfat. \On





the twentygfourth of June_"Murne Cow.





an complét'ed ‘a one-year teat-as an

old cow and made the record of 795





. pounds of hutterfat. ,. This, oow‘carne: at





not supply the demand: , Today he has;





 

 





.‘spring at liberate of a bushel to seven





 

   





the gree and





 





 





delegate- {tori

world’s ‘record‘she Sonsumed 38 pounds





of silage daily with other feeds men‘-

tioned. " ‘





Jehanna Chene,'probably‘the great- . ‘ ‘





est Guernsey cow in the world, through





the misfortune of losing onequarter of





her udder, which handicaps their from

making any more great records, is a

great feeder. Through an experiment

with her While off test, she clearly

demonstrated the value of the silo

feeds. She had been milking for six

months when she came under my care,

her former handler, or herdsman, was

feeding her 16 pounds of grain per





day. That amount I consider too much ‘





for a cow when not on test for rec-

ords. So I cut her down to 12 pounds

of grain, and increased her silage 10

pounds more per day. And after feed—

ing this ration for several months I

haven’t had the slightest decrease in

her,milk flow, and she has kept up

well in'flesh, which shows she did not

take the fat from her body to provide

this steady flow of milk.



These cows have been. eating silo

feeds all their lives. They are valued

at not less than $25,000 apiece. Now

if ensilage rots a cow’s teeth why has

it not affected these cows. And if

there was any truth in the story, would

the owner of these great cows take

any chances?



And right here I might ask, why is

it that during the past ten years all

world’s records made on milk and but-

terfat, were made in this country? Be-

cause we have the great crop, King

”Corn, and we have learned to utilize

it to the best advantage. The silo

has come to stay, and will increase in

popularity in all parts of the world.



Ohio. LOUIS BIEMLER.





FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.





 





Feeding Rye to Young Pi‘gs.

Kindly let me know how to feed rye

to young pigs. We will not have any.

corn this year and we have never fed

rye, so a little information along this

line will do us a lot of good.

Kent Co. C. J. W.





The very best way to feed rye to the

young pigs would be in combination

with skim-milk, feeding one to three

pounds of skim-milk to one pound of

the grain for most economic results,

the same as if corn were being fed.



Rye does not differ greatly in feed-

ing value or analysis from corn, but it

is not as palatable a feed for hogs, and

is even less well suited as an exclusive

ration than is corn. If skim-milk is

not available with which to feed it to

the very young' pigs, it should be com-

bined with nitrogenous feeds, using

some middlings and a little tankage in

the mixture.



Rye should always be ground and

fed in a rather thick slop to young

pigs. For fattening hogs on pasture,

rye meal may be fed dry in a self-feed-





. er if desired.





Hogs arriving on the Chicago mar-

ket are averaging in weight 232 lbs,

comparing with 231 lbs. one year ago,

247 lbs. two years ago, 244 lbs. three

years ago and 235 lbs. four years ago.

Hogs are selling at an extremely wide

spread in prices, the average grading

being unsatisfactory. Corn has been

fed sparingly as a general rule, and

grassy offerings predominate and sell

at a big discount from prices paid for

prime lots. Provisions and fresh ’pork

products are having a large sale in





spite of their extreme dearness, hav- ’





ing advancedalong with hogs.





Farmers of Graham county, Wiscon-

sin,- have been using the land along





the highways? for raising crops of





sweet cld‘ver. The dairy farmers have

used this forage extensively, and speak

wefllfcf it. . The seed is sown- in the





acres.- The





:cr‘op is mainly.- Deemed.





but in Visoin'”piace iw “ , ed far'fl

hey it, is‘ out. ‘befg'fe‘ j " ‘r.

:woody. M, ~_~grass-féd





ducedjn Gra am connt

ya; »





under my. carbons month’pe‘l‘mlem .





 





._ . '0 eat. 31.1514. 1101111113.: '17.

of‘gr‘ain. .The' year she ,made her 1





 





 





 





p. 4‘

‘1"
‘ unmiimmmmummmm





' notice wound





Icolt which has always





I 'y 0

CONDUCTED BY W. o. rant, v. s.





Tetanus—Will you olease tell me

what is wrong with our dog and cats?

They are dumpiSh. refuse to eat, STOW

poor' .but are thirsty, slime runs from

mouth and finally take 10611185" and

die. J. T., Ypsilanti, Mich.——Lockjaw

in dogs and cats is an incurable a11-

ment, but it occuz's to me thahgeg‘lligg:

onl a rtion 0 your amm

from this? ailment. as it isu‘siially the

result of a wound becoming infected

with lockjaw germs. As soon as you

' on either your cat or

dog, paint it with tincture iodine and

bandage it in absorbent cotton.



Obstructed Gullah—I have a year-old

discharged wa-

ter and a portion of the food through

nostrils ever since it was two days

old. Do you believe this case curable?

B. B. B., Trenton, Mich—I am inclined

to believe that the throat and gullet of

Colt is in such a condition that it will

never get well. Apply to, throat one

part tincture iodine and two parts of

camphorated oil three times a week.



Eczema—I have a brood mare that

is troubled with chronic skin ailment;

last fall she had an itchy condition of

skin, quite a lot of pimples form and

break open, but soon heal. When the

skin is itchy she bites herself, making

angry appearing sores. I forgot to say

that she had a colt on June 25, and

her colt is in much the same condi-

tion. L. Y., Leer, Mich—Give her a

tablespoonful of cooking soda and a

teaspocnful of Glauber’s salt at a dose

in drinking Water twice a day. Wet

sores with one part coal tar disinfect-

ant and forty parts water twice a day.



Barren Cow.——-I have a valuable

grade Guernsey cow five years old that

fails to get with calf. Last year she

was bred nine different times to two

different young bulls, also had Vet.

open her once. Since turning her out

to pasture she has run with fine

young vigorous hull, comes in heat

regular, but fails to get withxcalf. She

appears to be in good health and milk-

ing well. C. F. 0., Alma, Mich—I am

somewhat inclined to believe that your

cow may not breed; however, you

might try flushing vagina with a soda

solution soon after she comes in heat.

Dissolve three ounces of bicarbonate

of soda in three pints of clean boiled

water and wash out vagina, using a

fountain syringe three or four hours

before she is mated.



Shy Erection—I have a 15 months

old high-grade Jersey heifer that

comes in heat every three weeks

has been bred to three different sires,

but fails to get with calf. She seems

to be in fine condition. A. F. D.,

Stephenson, Mich—Dissolve 3 cos. of

cooking soda in 3 pts of clean boiled

water and wash out vagina three or

four hours before she is mated.



Warts on Toots—«l have a young

cow whose tests are badly covered

with warts. A. D. P._, Kalamazoo,

Mich.~——All the warts that have long





slender necks should be clipped om .





with a pair of sharp scissors, then ap~

ply boric acid to sores twice daily.

omits the warts thoroughly with eith—





er castor oil or olive oil after each.





milking will very often remove them;

or apply one part salicylic acid and 15

parts olive oil (lain.



Chronic Cough—l have a cow that

is occasionally troubled with a cough,

but so far as I can tell it does not at-

fect her health in the slightest; be-

sides, she is giving a nice mess of

milk. Mrs. 0. .E. E, Hillman, Rich.—

Doubtless your cow suffers from a

slight irritation of throat and will be

benefited by rubbing on camphorated

oil once a day. It is not necessary to

give her drug's;



Ringworm.—-—Bly cattle, especially

the young stock. have been troubled

for several months with a rough crust-

like skin disease which causes consid-

erable itchiness and I am inclined to

behave the trouble ls catching. I for-

got to say that last winter





' these cattle were troubled with chick-





enliceaa my cow stable adjoined the

chicken house. .. I applied one part ker~

osene 0 parts sheep dip lightly to

them. This mixture perhaps caused

some of theskin newness. J. A. 1)..

Otisville, Mich—Apply one part iodine

andlfiputswoolratmsomathree

times a week. Spraying your cattle

with one part coal tar disinfectant and

49 partst will have a good effect.



gfiefiaggmégl {wouzldTgke tot know

w ,, chem, ey go lame

first in one leg then lathe other. They





 

 

 





 





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eludes the famous champion,





many granddaughters.





Detroit Guarantee Sale .

Every animal over six months of age will have been tuberculin





tested and guaranteed against tuberculosis for a period of 60 days,

according to the usual conditions laid down in such cases. _





.Dispersion Famous Holstein Herd





YPSILAND HERD, not only one of the best in the state but one





of the leading herds in America, goes at your price.

Pontiac De Nijlander (35 1b.), her





daughter (the‘State Champion two-year-old, 26 1b.), her son and





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





This herd in—





 





This herd is being sold for no fault but because the farm is to.





be subdivided into city lots.





LAKEVIEW FARM CO. are selling their entire young herd.

Thus every one in this offering has her best days still ahead.





E. LEROY PELLETIER Will sell ten.

(You remember he did that at Wor-





ity what he lacks in quantity.





He’ll maké up in qual-





cester, selling the highest price female ever offered at auction).





Several Other of





Michigan’s Leading Herds

Will Be Represented





PERSONALLY INSPECTED. A committee has been selected

to inspect every animal. None will be accepted for sale whose last

calf was not born alive and fully mature. Nor will any be accept-

ed that are not a credit to the sale or the herd from which they





At The Michigan State Fair Grounds, Detroit, Mich.

Sale Cntnloged and Managed by





Liverpool Sale & Pedigree Co., Inc., Liverpool, N. Y.

Haeger, Wood and Kelley on the Job.





come.





 





The Barry Co. Swine Breeders’ Association





1 Yearling Boar r .



13 gpring Gig" ; I‘homas Frye, Doctor. Mich.

pring GI S . ' .



3 Sp | 8 Boa gStanley Warner. Doster. Mich





Offers Pure-bred Duroos rot Saie. Uniform [logs at Attractive Prices.





Get Our Prices on Fall Pigs. Address

Stanley Warner, Pres., or Ernest Hall, Secy-Treas., Doster, Mich.





1 Spring Boar

2 Spring Gilts E E. J. Burchett. Doctor. Mich.





1 December Boar—Dewey. Doctor, Mich.





 





 





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OAK LEAF FARM

. Herd Sire

Ypsiland Sir Pieter-tie De _Kol

Registered Holstein cows & bull calves fme IDdIVldu-

ls cows safe in calf satisfaction guaranteed.





all}. 11. Gearhart ch Son. Marcellus. Mich. B. No. 4.





Y wantabullfron aSO lb. dam and a

WOULD 301;) lb. sire for sum engigeblebdid, but





, f 3600, alsoone from a . heifer

$311333 :33 (Sire from a daughter of Pontiac Aaggie

Korndyke for 8‘50. Good ones as low as $81). All from





cold 8 to. .

Ydiid IB‘EAUH ‘FAR’M, Augusta, Michigan.





Butter Fat Counts

' l f - m a 30 lb. 6.53‘Sire. Dam

m igmfg‘gieigggitig .‘S‘s:..:'r:.:c‘;at.':::.~

‘ rs .

“18 mam)?“ ' dwin s. Lewis. Marshall.le





the first 80 . cow.

. ° ”.21 lbs. sire. Their dam'o



3 “DIS‘ein Rugs .1? A. $12.4d5tgldt% dam

' .. .bedto boot erto .yr. . erm-

ittgliiiei?" if. r... lcuULl‘N. Redford. Michigan.





' b ' l v .



Registered Cows, sits't'aettssm



breeding aadcoodindividuala. s. n. Envoy. lmn. Mich.

ill chi .



On Our Easy Payment Plan 3:,“ rSgia'iel‘é‘i





Holstein Bull calf in our stables. Priced from up.

Ypsilanti Farms. Ypsilanti. Michigan.





 





“MU“ IERB I'll GIN! would.

prices. JOHN A. RI‘NKE. Warren. Mich.





 





“f 8 I 2 Reg, Holstein cows7 years old dueto fresh-

3 8 on So wunusbweu marked ' mt.





~ WOO.

QL. HULET t SON, homes. ch.





REG. Holstein Bull Calf. The last one until winter

a good one with A. R. 0. backing. Red'ftedhr d‘

or ,





 





{we and price. Elmer E. Smith. ich.



' ’ two months old. Dam sixty pounds



“hum M GI" milk A. R 0.51m from an lb.cow,

- A. R. GRAHAM. Flint, Midi.





 





FOR Sale Ono registered Holstein bull calf. Six-0’s

twenty nearest dams have 7. da. records av. 25.53 lb.

fitter. Dam to be A finely marked. growthy

individul. Long Voiw hem. I. 8.30: 10 A. 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 “0.5.. ‘ PI" PAW. MICE.





it"l'hfi'ifiw 3-335





 





—————Jerseys and Duroc Jerseys





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





Brookwater offers to cell a few choice bull calm of this kind.





BROOKWATER FARM

._.- -, gun Arbor. Mich, R. 7.





 





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Billie" Shannon:

“For Beef and Milk”





(This heifer std months has bone.

size and quality-Our own breeding.

The blood of Scotch bullsfilmp.

’chenstone Albino and Imp. illag-

:er Registered nook always for sale.





BlflVlEll 810“ Fill.





Box B. 'I‘ocumool, Michigan.

stock all





Whorns«Daiwor beef bred. Breedi

age: for-ale at farmers prices. .W.Orulna

Soey. Dent. Itch” Shorthorn Breeder-3' Lam. IcBrldo. lich.





Richland Shorthorns Lgr mm, mm





Tuberculin Tested b the state. IM Lorne one of



the Sires in service. tire Herd of Reg. Anna cattle,



:ncludmg the show cattle for sale at a bargain. Moots



icyflkncas and Blackbirds.



I too Tawas 0331' Mich. Herd at Prescott. Mich.

O. PRESCOTT & SONS.





 

 

 

 

 





 





   

 





 





 





 





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For Sale gm?“ homflfilgsDZEtow I.150 2 years old

RR. Clyde Station, J. DoGarmo. 1.6. Milford. Ilich.

M l Rid H , .

SHORTHORNS “5:23 1357‘? Nfi’itoEltté’.





sale. I. E. Ton-well. Manon, Michigan.





 





 





horthorns for sale. 5 bulls Scotch to {0 to “tailors"

858. oono ax-





 





ma lwhite. 1 red. rice 8150. to

walton ultan. 19 mos. £350. 0. Carlson. Leroy. Mich.

Cattle and Ham 'ro Shoe .

Shorthorn Choice Hampohlre arln Lambs f3:-





sale. Goodbreodlng. Floyd J. Anderson, R.l St. Johns. Mich.





Cattle For Sale





Loads feeders and two loads yearling steers. Also

can show you any number I. 2 and 3 years old from

Isaac Shanstum. Falrfield. Iowa. 11-8.





 





 





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Duroc: and Victorian

Heavy bone. lengthy firing Bears and Gil“ from prize

Winners sired by one the belt Sons of the Great Do-

fender & other noted strains. l. '1'. STORY. Lowell. Mich.





BERKSHIRES





We Are Not Going to Show This

Year and Therefore Offer:





A few choice boars and sows from our Champion

and first prize Sows atState Fair 1916. These pigs

one mostly April furrow. They cannot be beat for

type. You do not often have the opporumtiy of

purchasing this class of spring pigs,



They will be large enough for breeeding and

service by December. We can furnish a trio un-





 





 





All stock guaranteed as represented





SWIGARTDALE FARM





PETERSBURG, MICH.





 





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Get Rid of the





“Boarders ”





Do you keep cows or do they



keep you? Do you know



which are caning a pmficand



which are merely paying their ‘



board? One community increased the average



net profit per cow I 29% in a few years by testing.



we fiom ularly tested herds sell for more



mneyandao otharofi‘spu‘ng. Knowingbeau



guessingindairy work. Get our free booklet



“What is Acc ishedby Testing Cows" on

ur herd from animals of



n. very farmer should read



It’s free. Senda postal today.





learn how to build up

known '





this booklet.





The American JerseyCattleClub

346West 23d St. New York City





 





 





from high-producing dame. with

whim {or 3“. tmi deco. records. also on

uni-05cm) test. 0. B. We nor. R. ‘. Allmn. Mich





for sale. ready for service. Out of

Jersey Bulls good producing dams. Prices right.

R. B. FOWLER. Hartford. Mich.





- For sale ten , th

Hmflde Firm Jeneys- old bull backed In“: blot;

sides by R. of M. dams with his!) 0501' records.



0. & O. DEAKE, — - - Ypsilanti.M’ichigan





Limo Parmntead Janey Cattle. Bull calm from R

. of M. Cowl. .lao heifer calves and several bred

heifers for sale. Oolon (J. Lillie. Geoponvillo. lioh





Two registered Jerseys bull calmsplen-



F" “I. did individuals. Good pedi recs. Priced to

sell. Long Veiw Farm. R. 3,801 10A. :hester. Mich.

R. of II. Jersey herd offers for: le



”8* lane tuberculin ma cows. balls. bin





«log: and hoihr calves. carryia the boot 3. of M.

bl of the breed. IRVIN F0 Anecnn. Mich.





lash Hill hm mm but] Ml!





Surplus stock all acid.

J. R. Worthington. R. No. 7. Lansing. chhlgan





J Registered Jersey bull 4 mos. solid color.

one": choice breedinfifls. Also heifer: and Bronze

turkeys. PETEBE.D0 IA. 3.2. Holland. Mi .





QT. GldrMJer-oy OattleOlub. We havofor sale

L, Bulls old enough for service and Bull calves. from

bestotninsol'Jc o. Majesty's. Noble of 0nk~

lands. Combination s ier. etc. Write for Pedi-

groceJn'ice and particulars. Fred A. Brennan. Sec .Capac.Mich





Shel-then Me ol boil: Sex for Sale

W. W. “APP. Iowan. Mich“...

Short on: “all: by Maxwalton





FOR fining. . 1-!

‘ a of Avondale. from 1 to 9 mos.

“PW "need City. II. No. 5. Michigan.





‘ Francisco Farm Shortborns

Big Typo Poland





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B ' Boats. serviceable use, best blood

etksmms’ STOCK A1515? ' Almont. Mich.





 





‘ Berkshires. Brod gilt: and sows for fall fax-rowing.





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





able age. reg. Chase Stock Farm. it. 1. Marlene. lick.





' ‘ goingfastmm & will)

BerkSh‘re Plgs three months old. Bengt??-

od & transferred, richly brad. River-view Fun, Vacanlich.





DUROCS BOARS





Havethe biggest. longest. growthlest and bred bunch

of going boars in the state. Blast fall boots by Pan-





ama Special

St. Johns. Mich.





 





 





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Duroc Jerseys

Jigs, either sex. not akin. Sized y Jennings

Pilot. under and Orion Chief Perfection. Write for

Kidigrees and prices. The Jennin

ich. V. M. Shoesmith General





Sprln





Farms. Bailey .





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2 yr' 5 $35 each. seven very





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