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vol. oxxxni. No. 23.

Wholeflfiu‘mbcg. 3480: ,





FARM_ NOTES.





 





Crops for Green Manure.





I .‘. ave a sandyfarm, and this being

my; rst year here I have to learn how to

h file flhis far'm. I have an old-field

th Eis’Tbadly run. I planted corn on part

of, it and beans on the other part this

year. Neither crop amounted to much

and'_not. having any manure to put on this

field. _I wish to green manure it. Where

I need advice is as to what I can plant

on this field to plow down as a fertilizer?

It».will have to be some persistent grower.

Fr‘orn‘i’what I have read in The Farmer

I agg‘of the Opinion that sweet clover would

be good because it is a persistent grower

and-f?“ is said to properly inoculate the

soilzgfor alfalfa, but if there is anything

better I would like to know what it is.

H'ow,‘-woul-d crimson clever or rape do?

I have another field of new land. This

was plowed last spring for the first time

and.was planted to corn and beans. Both

cm 8 did fairly well considering the dry

we ther. Now I wish to sow this field

to either alsike or mammoth red clover.

I would like to know which of tihese two

would be likely to do best on this kind

of land, when it should be sewn and

whether or not the seed should be har-

rowed in. Both fields are sowed to rye

now.





Newaygo Co. J. F. LAURENT.



It _is a. difficult proposition to improve

worn, sandy soil by the methods ordi-

narily used. It needs humus or vegetable

matter and this plan of sowing some crop

to‘be plowed down for this purpose is

a goodone. This should, of course, be

a leguminous crop for best results, as

actual plant food as well as humus, will

then be added to the soil.





and might solve this prob-

lem... But sweet clover is

inclined to become a weed,

and is not thot well of by

most farmers, Personally,

the writer is of the opinion

that‘the possible agricul—

tural value of this plant is

g r e a t 1 y underestimated.

Unquestionably it would

prove a good soil improver,

and if it is found growing

along the roadside in this

locality, it is probable that

the bacteria peculiar to it

willAbe present in the soil.

This bacteria is said to be

the same as that essential

to alfalfa, and there would

be the advantage in its use

which the inquirer notes, in

that the soil would become

inoculated with this bacte-

ria for later sowing to al-

falfa. But while sweet

clover grows luxuriantly in

waste places, it is not cer-

tain that it will grow as

thriftily under every field

condition, unless the bac-

teria is present in the soil,

hence it might be a wise

precaution to inoculate the

seed if it is sown the same





'Ilh'iThe‘ Only.,Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural and Live Stock Journal in the State.





DETROIT. MICH.. SATURDAY, one. 4, 1909.





successfully as crops for green manure

upon worn soils, and are not open to the

objections above mentioned. Clover may

also be successfully grown on such soils

by properly fitting the land and seeding

to it alone. The rye that is already sown

could be plowed down in preparing for

the crop selected from this list and will

aid some in soil improvement, but what-

ever crop is used, a year’s time must be

devoted to the process as the crop should

be allowed to mature or go back on the

land, and the land be plowed the follow-

ing spring for best results, when it may

be put to some crop in the regular rota-

tion. ~



On sandy land, mammoth clover or

June clover is better adapted than alrsike,

and better results are generally secured

when the seed is harrowed in in the

spring than when sown as the frost is

going out, as is generally practiced on

heavier soils.





Concrete vs. Stone Wall for Cement.



Kin’dly advise‘me with regard to build—

ing a ro'ot cellar under a granary which

is 12 ft. wide and 16 ft. long: the cellar

will be 8 ft. high. I was thinking of mak-

ing grout wall but have plenty of stone.

Which would you prefer, a grout wall

and work stone in between, or a solid

stone mass? It will be about 4 ft. in

ground; the soil is ‘heavy clay. Also give

me an estimate of how many yards of

sand and how many barrels of cement it

will require, including floor. How much

cement Would you use to 100 shovels or

sand and what would the cost be? The





mixture is properly made and the con-

crete properly placed.

construction, one part of good Portland

cement should be used to two and one-

half parts of sharp sand, and five parts

of gravel. When mixed in these propor-

tions,- the sand will just nicely fill the

interstices between the gravel stones and

the cement will fill the spaces between

the grains of sand, thus making an ideal

mixture Which will harden into a solid

wall. With a wall of this size, 12 bags of

cement, 29 cubic feet of sand and 58 cubic

feet of gravel will be needed for every 10

feet in length of the wall. Where bank

gravel is used, some should be screened

to determine whether the proportion of

sand and gravel is about that given above.

The material should be thoroly and care-

fully mixed and tamped into the forms

at a proper consistency for best results.



At the bottom of the wall the foundation

should be somewhat wider below the sur-

face of the cellar bottom; this is called a

“footing” and is good insurance against

the settling and cracking of the wall.

Some small stones may be worked into a

wall of this kind at a slight saving of

cement. The 9-foot wall under the house

should be a little heavier, say 14 inches

at the bottom and 10 at the top, and will

require nearly double the material given

for the lighter and lower wall for the

root cellar. In building a root cellar under

a granary as suggested, it would be ad-





 





 





as is sometimes done

with alfalfa. There are in-

stances in which sweet





clover has been utilized to

advantage as a forage crop. If cut be-

fore it develops too much woody fiber,

it is said to make a good stock feed, after

the stock learns to like it. If this Should

prove‘itrue on trial, we do not believe

one should be very fearful of it as a.

weed. However, it should be used only in

an experimental way until its usefulness

is well established. '



Another leguminous plant which is un-

doubtedly of great value as a soil im-

prover, is sand veteh. This plant is open

to the same objection from the standpoint

of becoming a weed, and the seed is also

somewhat expensive, but it will grow on

a, comparatively thin soil, better than the

clever. ,



Cowpeas and soy beans are also used





callar under the house is 25x26 ft. and 9

ft .high. How thick should the walls be

for hte root cellar and under the house?

Give me estimate and cost separate. Ce—

ment 350 sack, gravel 200 per yard, or





load.

Van Buren Co. W. R. KAHL.





The relative merit of a concrete or





stone wall for this purpose will depend

not a little upon local conditions. Both

are good, but an expert mason must be

employed to build the stone wall, and the

concrete wall can easily be built with the

home labor. ,



For an R-foot basement wall where the

foundation is six feet below the ground

level, a wall 10 inches thick at the bot-

tom and eight inches at the top will

prove of sufficient strength, provided the





The Cider Mill and Evaporator are Important Economical Factors in Apple Growing Communities.





Visablc to have the cellar deeper in the

ground than above suggested, as it will

make it much safer from frost. Such a

cellar should go at least six feet into the

ground instead of four, as suggested.



Where a concrete wall is built, the

earth should not be filled in behind it un-

til it is well seasoned, say for three weeks

after it is completed, unless the inside

forms and braces are left in, as the pres-

sure is considerable and may crowd it in

before it is thoroly set.



Cement has a wide field of usefulness

as a farm building material. Its adapta-

bility and the fact that almost no skilled

labor is required for very satisfactory

construction work makes it deservedly

popular in farm construction.





For this kind of





below the bottom of the gutter.





a two—inch





75 CENTS A YEAR

“.50 THREE YEARS





LAYING CONCRETE FLOORS.





 





We have been improving some of the

Imild fall weather to put concrete fl00rs

in our stables, shed and hog pen. We

find that these floors are cheaper than

plank, and can be laid with little more

labor where gravel is convenient. As we

have our own gravel within forty rods

of the barn the materials are easy to get.



The most particular and difficult part

of the work is to get the grades and set

the forms for the cement. When this is

ready putting down the floors will go

quite fast if there is plenty of help for

mixing. We put in the cement floor four

to five inches thick, including a number

of grades and two gutters, using 13 bar-

rels of cement, in one and one-half days.

The crew consisted of one to make the

forms, one to lay the floor, three mixers,

and one to «haul the sand and gravel. '



The barn in which the floor was laid

was originally 34x48 with a quarter-pitch

roof. At one side of the driveway was a.

small cow stable and a granary, on the

other the mow went to the floor, or a

little below it, there being no floor in this

part. Last summer we lengthened the

barn 16 feet and put a gambrel roof over

the whole. This more than doubled the

mow space tho a basement was arranged

above the ground under the entire barn.

The part at the left of the driveway,

which is 34 feet square, is being convert—

ed into stables. A feed al-

ley leads from the drive-

way floor thru the center

of this space to the oppo-

site end where there is a.

chute for hay. At the left

of this alloy are six stalls

for horses, and on‘ihc right

Seven stanchions for cows

and a box stall. As we

have a box stall in a shed

adjoining the horse stable,





and a partially covered

barnyard this will accom-

modate all the stock we

expect to keep.



1n laying the floor we

first set the forms and laid

the fi‘t‘ll alloy, laying this

on a level and lrowcling

it smooth. The ('ow stable

was then laid off, making

an inch slant from the





mangcrs to gutter and

from the wall back of cows





to gutter. Cutler is six-

teen inches wide by six

feet deep and runs slightly

diagonally, making the

Shortest stall four feet Six

inches long and lthc longest

one five feet three inches

[0 IllfCOlllllltltllllt‘ (‘t)\\'ti Of

different lengths. '\\'o have

planned on three fl‘i‘l as





width of cow stunchions.

Wood swing stanchions, or

at least wood—lined, will

be used. Half-inch bolts

were put in the cement

whore partitions are to come and allowed

to reach two and one-half inches above

the floor. Two-by—I‘ours can be bolted

to these to receive the, partitions. The

only timber below the cement is a line

of two-by—fours under the horscs’ man-

gers to which planks can be nailed if we

wish to plank the stalls.



A box form was made for the gutter,

the grout about the sides being deep

enough to extend three inches or more

After

this had become firm the form was re-

moved and the bottom of the gutter laid.



The horse stalls were next laid, making

slant in nine and one—half

feet from front of mangers to gutter.





 





Bolts were set in the cement to hold the
466 (2)





partitions. The stalls were five feet in

width. The gutter is about one inch in

depth and fourteen inches wide, rounded

on each edge, being just deep enough to

insure a trap for any urine escaping'thru

the bedding and prevent it‘ from reaching

the alleyway behind the horses. This

gutter was made by imbedding an inch

board of proper width in the cement. The

alleyway behind this gutter is about five

feet wide and has three-fourths inch fall

from wall to gutter. There is no length-

wise fall to this gutter and very little

to the one behind the cows, and no pro-

vision is made for draining them, making

it necessary to absorb all liquids with

bedding. Stalls are made slightly lower

in center to turn liquids from stall par-

titions, and floor is raised a little about

Sills to insure their being kept dry.



This floor is laid from four to five

inches thick over a. foot of gravel, well

compacted, and is made in one coat

mixed five to one. Some use a foundation

coat about seven to one, and a top coat

of two or three to one, but we have

known of cases where the top coat has

cracked and peeled off, it is likely to be

more slippery, and is more expensive and

difficult to lay. Six of gravel to one of

cement is generally used in one coat

floors, but we wanted to be sure of a firm

floor, and went one better. Floors were

not grooved in or behind stalls, but were

given a rough finish.



Perhaps some will be interested in the

cost of this floor. An itemized statement

follows:





Thirteen barrels cement at $1.60....$29.§0

Hauling gravel for filling and iloor.. 4.00





 





Labor in making forms, grading, _

mixing and laying ............... 0.20

Lumber Used in forms ............. .10

")l 3""

Total cost “min





This is less than half of what a good

plank iloor could be built for, as it ‘would

require over 2,000 fcct of planking. which

would cost $10 per thousand for oak and

$23 for hemlock. making a cost of from

$30 to $80 for the planking alone, to say

nothing of the sleepers or labor.



\Vc also cemented a shed to be used as

a box stall. This was 10x18 ft. A iloor

three inches thick over this required one

and a quarter barrels of cement, and. was

filled and laid in about two hours.



Two pens in the hog hOuse, each about

12 feet square, were cleaned out and cc-

iucntcd. This was quite a job to get

rcady and fill, as the old plank floor was

about two feet above the original ground,

and the space below it was filled up com-

plctcly with material that had sifted

thru the cracks. Nine loads of gravel

were required to fill up this space. but

the fertilizer secured by clcaning out the

pens will repay all labor, as it is rich and

line. and should be good dressinu‘ for

strawberries. About two and one-fourth

barrels of cement were used in laying

these iloors, live to one, and thrcc inches

thick.



“'0 also made cement approaches to

two barn doors. These are only about, 1.9

inches high but it ‘had bothered in keep—

ing the soil from washing away. A

three-quarter inch board was put against

the closed sliding door on the ‘outside,

the top being slightly below the floor in-

side, and the grout put against it. \Vings

angled from this to hold the dirt at the

sides.



The Barnyard Drain.



The drain which we wrote about dig-

ging some wecks ago to drain a sag at

the edge of our barnyard is now com—

pleted and working nicely. “'e used six

inch tile and gave it quite a fall, at least

an inch to the rod. so the water shoots

thru rapidly, and the yard is dry in an

hour after a hard rain. A small cement

abutment was made at the yard end in

which were set No. 8 galvanized wires.

vertically and about the width of the

wires apart. This keeps all large articles

out of the drain and at the same time

allows straws and such substances to

drop to the bottom of the grate and leave

the top open.



At first much of the, water soaked into

the sill bctwccn the tile, but this is gum—

ming up so it will soon be nearly imper-

vious to water, and tllc fertilizer t‘hercin

will be delivered to the field where the

drain empties wit'hout toll for transpor—

tation.





Calhoun Co. S. B. H.





PAINTING ROUGH LUMBER.





 





I think if Mr. Packard, who inquired

about painting rough lumber, in a recent

issue, will use whiting and glue on his

old siding. before painting with lead and

oil, he will be very much better satisfied

with his job than he would to put lead

and oil on the old rough surface. One

coat of this mixture will save one-half





   





of the paint and will make just as good





a coating. Take 1 1b.- of glue to 10 lbs.

o_f£ whiting. Melt the glue with warm

water, then add the whiting and stir





thoroly, using enough water to make it

thin enough to apply easily. This fills up

all cracks and makes an easy surface to

paint on. And you need have no fears

as to the paint staying on. It will stick

better on this surface than on the bare

wood, and even better than on new work,

unless the first coat is put on very thin.

Shiawassee Co. B. S. FOSKET.





MAKES FARMING PAY.





Seeing the mournful story of A. G. H.,

of Allegan county, who says that farming

does not pay. I will give you the figures

on one field of 15 acres on which I had

a. variety of crops so will have to treat

it as a whole. I will say that I am an

old man of nearly 75 years of age, and

have to hire all my work done. I



Cost Charged Against Crops.





Rent of 15 acres at $10 per acre..$150.00

Plowing, harrowing and drawing of

stone, 151/: days ............. ,.. 46.50

Marking and planting corn and po-

tatoes ...........................

Cultivating corn and potatoes

Paris green and spraying potatoes. 1.50

Cutting and shocking corn at $1.00 '

per acre ......................... 14.00

Digging one acre of potatoes 5.75

Husking and cribbing corn ........ 52.06





Total ........................ $318.81

This is quite an array of figures to

overcome with the proceeds of one crop

and leave a balance for living. taxes, etc.

Proceeds From Crops.

1,3§5 bu. of ear corn at 27>c per l)u..$3 3.75



2,316 bundles of cornstalks at 20



each

One acre of fodder corn, estima‘ted



at 50 bu .......................... 12.50





 





 





13:2 bu. of potatoes at 23c, per bu.. 33.00

Four large wagon loads of pump-



kins at 50c ...................... 2.00



Total $1377



Less Expclls‘cs .................... 318.81



Profit $10096





Thus, dcducting rent of land and all

other expcnscs. l have this sum for taxes

and profit on the 15 acres of land.



Oceana Co. A. C. GOW’DY.



DOES FARMING PAY?



The above caption is the title of an

article in your issue of November 0. writ-

ten by A. ll, it. He seems to think

farming don't pay, My experience reaches

back to tilc ('los‘c of the (‘ivil \\'ar. Dur-

ing that timc cvcry part of our country

has had its bad yczll's and its good ones.

All have had the same conditions to con-

tcn-d with. Some have failed, others

have succccdcd. Looking back o'ver my

somewhat cxtcudcd acquaintance, I find

many of our bcst farms and fincst homes

are owncd today by men that began

farming on rented farms. Surely they

havc made it pay. .\.~; 1 ride thru the

county surrounding my home. and in

olhcr counties. I sec many substantial

farm buildings being crccted. old ones be—

ing: paintcd. miles and miles of the best

wilc fences being put up and many other





innirovcmcnt‘s going on. which shows

plainly that the farmers are making

money.



But money is not the only way in which

the farm pays. A. I). ll. says we are





losing our boys, bccause we send them

to college. llut they are not lost. It pays

to let some of them go to fill the places

where. good and great men are needed.

They nearly all have to come from the

country. llon't' that pay? iiut I call to

mind a good many collcgc educated boys

that rcturn to the farm and almost uni-

Vcrsally honor their profession.



The farmer that puts his mind as well

as his musclcs into his work. as men of

cthcr callings do. if they are successful,

is bound to win. and the number that are

doing it is rapidly incrcasing and they

will tcll you farming pays.



s1, .loscph Co. ll. Q. (loonmcn.





NATIVE VARIETIES OF OAK TIMBER.





 





“'0 have in this section a crmsidcrallle

quantity of young timber called yellow.

black and red oak. Now. I can casilv

distinguish the red from the other oaks,

but lllc difference between the yellow

and black oak is not so discernablc to

me. “'ould be pleased to know the dis—

tinguishing mark; between them. llavc

thcy. or arc thcy likely to have. any com-

ccrcial value for lumber?



Jackson Co. Ft‘nscmnnn.



The oaks are all included in the genus

Qucrcus the most important genus of the

hardwood trees found in the Northern

Hemisphere. There are about 273 species:

52 that occur in the United States and

five do not attain the size of trees.



Approximately 50 per cent of the total

hardwood lumber cut in the country in

the past twenty years has been oak. The





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





 





genus is very clearly marked and dis-

tinct and can be 'easily recognized by the

fruit. 01’ the forty-seven American spec-

ies which reach the size of trees two





.groups may be made—white oak and black





oak, the distinctive characteristics ‘by

which you can always separate the two

is in the fructification—the length of time

for the fruit to mature. The white oaks

embrace all species in which the fruit

matures at the end of the first season,

with one minor exception.



The black oak group fruit matures at

the end of the second season, with the

single exception of Quercus agrifolia,

which occurs in CalifOrnla and whose

fruit matures at the end of the second

season. The leaves of the black oak al-

ways have points and those of the White

oak are lobed or rounded,



The term “Yellow Oak,” as used by

your subscriber, is doubtless a local name.

If he will kindly supply me with a speci-

men of the tree which he mentions, 1

shall be glad to identify the same.



Agl. College. J. FRED BAKER.

FREE BOOK ABOUT CANCER.

The Leach Sanatorium, of Indianapolis,

In-d.. has published a book on cancer,

which gives interesting facts about the

cause of cancer; tells what to do in case

of pain, bleeding, odor, etc., instructs in

the care of the patient, and is in fact a

valuable guide in the management of any

case. The book is sent free to those in-

terested who write for it, mentioning this



paper.

“a

Free Pail of Stock Tonics.



The effect of the pure food laws and

regulations put into force during the past

few years has been to the benefit, not

only of the buyer

and consumer, for

.whom they were

primarily intended,

but to the advantage

of chry reputable

m an n f a cturer as





The “'ilbur Stock

Company has

been for twenty-five

years the most per—

.. _ sistent advocate of

publ1c1ty of ingredients and the plain

statement of facts as to the effects of

their Ionics and the correct proportions

to use. They not only recommend the

use of the smallest amount of tonic re-

qulred, but they offer to demonstrate at

their own risk the beneficial results they

claun, by giving away a 25-pound pail to

feeders and owners of stock in everv

locality where. they have no agent. They

consnlcr this an inexpensive method of

introducing their tonic. since they know.

from past experience, that the tonic will

satisfy and therefore secure repeat or-

ders. Any live stock owner who will

simply send his name and address, to-

gether with a statement of the number

of live stock of various kinds that he

owns, to the “'ilbur Stock Food Com-

pany, 663 Huron St., Milwaukee. \‘i'is.,

will be sent a free trial pail. This is an

opportunity of Which enterprising stock

owners will take advantage. Simply fill

out coupon in their advertisement or

write them a letter and get your pail free.





 





Good Shees for Mother, Father and the

Children.





There is nothing that adds more com-

fort to mother, father, or the children.

than well made shoes that are really com-

fortable. Poorly made. ill fitting shoes

are always unsatisfactory because they

soon go to pieces and are not comfortable

even while they do last—the first cost

may be a little less, but always more ex—

pensive in the end. On the other hand.

shoes that are well made and fit well

always give satisfaction from the moment

they are first put on. until completely

worn out, and it pays both city man and

farmer when buying shoes to buy good

shoes. The M. D. \Vells Company of

Chicago, enjoy a national reputation for

quality, comfort, fit and style. This

firm takes especial pride in the quality of

the Maiden Brand of rubber boots, arc-

tics and rubbers which they manufacture.

’l‘hcir advertisement appears for the first

time in this week's issuc——we trust that

a good many of our readers will look it

over and make inquiry for YVells Shoes

and Maiden Rubbers next time they buv

foot wear, TheM. D. Wells Company of

Chicago. has published a. booklet entitled.

“Mother. Father and the Children.” which

fully covers the shoe question for the

entire family. A copy will be mailed

gratis to any of our readers asking for it.





 





 





Keep Feet Warm and Dry.



At this season of the year you no doubt

commence to think of the cold. slushy.

snowy weather that is approaching and

the necessity for keeping the feet warm

and dry. The Gold Cross brand of Iowa

Art-tics and Iowa Moscows is the best

grade. not only for actual comfort but

also for good wear. They wear longer

and look better because of the high quah

ity of the material used. and the excep-

tional care taken in every part of their

construction. Their manufacture is not

controlled by any combination or trustl

They all have the famous Samson cx’ren-c

sion heel and the Armor plated toe cap.

If you cannot find then at your dca‘crs.

we suggest you write the Beacon Falls

Rubber Shoe Co., 236 Monroe St, Chicago.

for information regarding the Gold Cross

brands. They will write you immediately





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Read the new serial story started

in this issue. It is wholesome and

entertaining.





 





 





Put your own grade on f you wish. Four

or under send by mail. Beatles-on and highest

price for all furs.





l M-éifliflik, East Liberty, Ohio.





 





   





. p p Disc. 4, 01909.

all? ‘ can!" And the





corn





NEW





Just wfltenpuhl

with your name and

address no we can .



ut you on the .

'Doero" I'm mama LI“. Then



ou'll keep tutor-m on all the

steel lmpmolnonu and value.

in farm implements.



Right here to the Now our.

No. 0 Id 0 Drop com Planter.

You ough to know all about it.

It's the most famous double-row

combination shoot-row plan» or

drlll of today.



Moat Progressive Farmers and

Planters won'l have any other.

Best informed dealers refuse to

consider handling any other.

Invnllgnle the timoeaving and

prontuble reasons why.



* 0 corn or



Bum In Rom Bath



. qn—Dr



Dun nonulno 0d uloollon of

corn gives highs: accuracy of

drop attainable and It husbeen ro- '

peatedly proven that accuracy at





rectly by traction wheels instead

of by check-row like mu

others. That does sway with a. 1

side draft and besides saves wire

and machine. Change trom hill

to drill made instantly without

leaving sent.



00m“ Oomph“



Ready to Plan! With



We make plates for all klndn of

corn and furnish any Ilvo sets

wanted without extra. charga

Eighty rods annealed stool check

wire with automatic reel. An

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.I should like to know what you con-

sider the best corn for a silo. Is Stowell’s

Evergreen 3. good variety? I should also

like to know what you consider the best

cream separator. What would you use

to replace the fat of skim-milk for feed-

in calves?



ghiawassee Co. FARMER.



The best corn for the silo is the largest

variety of good dent corn, which will fully

mature in your neighborhood. You do

not want to grow a small variety of corn

for the silo, because you cannot get ton-

nage enough. ,On the other hand, you do

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* than you would if you wanted to husk it,





perhaps twice as thick. If you use four

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for husking purposes, then you would

want to use eight or ten quarts to the

acre for ensilage.



I confess I do not know which is the

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ber of these machines on the market that

give excellent satisfaction. You might

just as Well ask me which is the best kind

of a grain binder. I don’t know. I never

used all of them. I have used several

kinds and every one of them were good

machines. One binder might excel an—

other in some minor point, but lack in

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way with separators. They must all be

good or they could not hold their position

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The best grain I have ever used to re-

place the butter—fat in milk is flaxseed

meal. Not linseed meal after the oil has

been taken out for commercial purposes,

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This contains 30 per cent of fat and this

is just the element that you want to put

into the milk to take the place of the

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The best way to feed it is to cook it into

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spoonful of this jelly to the calf in his

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until gradually you do away with the

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milk.





GUERNSEY CATTLE.





 





Please give us a portrait of a Guernsey

COW. I am thinking some of going out

of the sheep business and going into the

dairy business. I think I would like Guern-

sey cows. One of my neighbors has a

herd of Jersey cows and they are nice.

Another neighbor has a herd of all Dur-

ham and they, too, are nice. Another

neighbor has a herd of Holsteins of which

he is proud. Just to have something dif—

ferent from all the rest of my neighbor-

hood think I would like some Guernsey

cows. Will you please tell us something

about the Guernseys? Are they real good

milkcrs and good butter makers? Would

you call them good dairy cows?



Mecosta Co. J. D. BRADLEY.





Guernsey cattle have been bred pure

0n the isle of Guernsey for many years.

No other kind of cattle have been allowed

to be imported into this island for breed—

ing purposes, consequently they have kept

the breed pure. The Guernsey’s colors

are red and white, while Jerseys are fawn

and white. Guernseys are, as a general

thing, larger than Jerseys but smaller

than Holsteins. Speaking generally, they

give a little larger flow of milk than the

Jerseys, but not so much milk as the

Holsteins; while their milk on the average

is not as rich as the Jerseys’ and consid-

erably richer than Holsteins’.



Now, as to the propriety of Mr. B. get-

ting Guernsey cattle because he wants

something different from his neighbors, I

think his idea is radically wrong. What

we want to encourage is community

breeding, have the farmers in a given

neighborhood breed the same kind of

cattlo.‘ Breeders’ should co-operate and

work together to produce definite results.

In several communities in this country





THE ”MicnickN‘FARMEi—e ’ ' . is);





and this state people have co-operated





'and bred the same kind of cattle, and





those communities have become noted

for this. They can sell their cattle to

better advantage than a. community where

many breeds are kept. The reason is

obvious, The whole community breeds

Guernsey cattle or Jersey cattle or some

other dairy breed. When buyers want to

buy a carload of stock, they can go to

this community and get ‘their whole car-

load with very little effort, because every-

body has surplus stock to sell. On the

other hand, if only one or two farmers

raise cattle of a certain breed, the buyer

can only get a few in each neighborhood

and it would cost him considerably more

in time and money to get together a car-

load of cattle.



Furthermore, if all the farmers of a

community bred the same breed of cattle

they could and would have breeding clubs

thru which they would get better ideas

about breeding. They could exchange

bulls. An extraordinary good bull could

be used on more than one 'herd and his

descendants could be used on other herds

just as they do in the Island of Guernsey

and the Island of Jersey. There you

have community breding on a large scale.

Any one who has read the history of these

islands knows the phenomenal results

‘which have been produced by this co-op-

eration in breeding. If I were Mr. B.

and going into registered dairy cattle, I

would make myself like some one of the

breeds already being bred in that neigh-

borhood. Then I would co-opcrate with

that man and breed the same kind of

cattle. I would use my influence to form

an organization and would try to get the

other fellows to think likewise and have

them get rid of other breeds and stock

up with the favored kind. In that way

you can have better results in breeding,

make more money. You can rest assured

that one breed of dairy cattle is just as

good as another. No'one breed has a

cinch on anything, for there are others.





 





NOT THE CONVENTIONAL PLAN OF'

STABLING COWS.





 





While I am not a dairyman only so far

as keeping sufficient cows to supply our

table, I think if I were to make dairying

a specialty, I would handle the cows in

the same manner.



I use stanchions for my cows, and other

cattle when I have any, and confine them

only while eating their grain and While

milking. The cows are then released and

have the freedom of the stable, are de-

horned and do each other no damage.

By this method I think the cows can be

kept cleaner and more comfortable than

by any method of fastening I have ever

seen.



The cows should be kept well bedded

and the manure allowed to accumulate

until a convenient time for cleaning out

when it should be hauled direct to the

field. I sometimes leave mine until a

foot or more in depth. In order to do

this the mangers should be placed quite

high so the cows can eat easily when the

manure becomes deep.



I have kept my cows in this way for a

number of years, as well as my horses

and all other stock, and never move a

forkful of manure until it goes to the

field, and I know of men who are making

dairying a specialty who ‘handle their

cows in this way, who say they never

knew before how to keep cows clean.



Over bedding of horses or sheep handled

in this way sometimes causes the manure

to heat but cows can be kept bedded a

foot deep and it will not heat, and the

cows will be clean and the stable-s free

from odor.





Cass Co. F. E. SMITH.





 





REMARKABLE GUERNSEY COW.





Official report of the remaikmblc record

of the Guernsey cow, Dolly Dimple, has

recently ‘been made public. She gave

during the twelve months from October

14, 1908, to October 14, 1909, the total of

18,458.80 lbs. of milk Which showed an

average test of 4.91 per cent, producing

906.89 lbs. of butter-fat for the year.

Dolly Dimple was dropped January 21,

1905, making her three years and nine

months old at the beginning of the rec-

ord. This is the best official record of

any Guernsey cow and excels that for any

cow of any breed at the age. She also

is credited with the following records:

One day, 68.4 lbs. of milk; 3.625 lbs. but-

ter—fat. One month, (30 days), 1960.4 lbs.

milk; 89.99 lbs. butter-fat. Three months,

5614.6 lbs. milk; 265.62 lbs. butter-fat.

Six months, (182 days), 10390.2 lbs, milk;

805.13 lbs. butter-fat. The tests were

conducted under the supervision of the

Massachusetts Agricultural Society.





 





 





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FEEDERS’





 





Wlll the Available Feed Carry the Stock?



I have 4 head of Ihorses and a colt, 40

head of sheep, 4 cows, 3 yearlin‘g heifers,

and 4 spring calves. I have the straw

from 16 acres of wheat that yielded bet-

ter than 20 bu. to the acre, and the straw

from 12 acres of cats. together with .18

acres of corn fodder which is pretty fair.

My grain is corn, oats and spring rye

grOWn together, and about 100 bu. of c_ull

potatoes. Now as I am a farmer With

but a limited experience. and I wish to

know whether I have feed enough to carry

all my stock thru the winter without be-

ing put to the necessity of buying more

roughage. My hay I wish to use in domg

my spring work. I have plenty. of early

pasture for cattle. Any suggestions tom

the columns of the Michigan Farmer will

be thankfully received.



Cass Co. E. C. DAVIS.



In the writer‘s opinion the supply of

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of the animals fed this kind of roughage.

A simple mathematical calculation is.

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on a straw potatoes will be

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jC‘lllcni food. If more were available it

iwould be lvr-zter. il""'.;‘-.I.~"" some could be

used to ad‘.'an!_:g'~ fur 20.1 of the stock

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ar ‘ - "a t r i be easy to figure

til, . v~:u;l,nr of average

hours-"s >~. " F' " the purpose of get—

ting a' ~ ~ ' ‘ Ict us estimate that

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18 acres r-f '

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is a fair crop thore should

bundle; of corn fodder,

each which Would make a fair

few] of roughage for an animal; by a

.simplc computation we find this amount,

so fed, would just about last thru an

estimated feeding pcriod of 160 days,

which would carry the cattle to the time

whcn the early pasture would be avail-

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in the meantime, all be worked into inu-

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But if the stock is to be carried thru





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a factor in the ration. this would not be

Iso essential, but it will prove good econ—

,omy to balance up the grain feed in this

,way where this kind of roughage is to be

fed. Of course. other concentrates can

be used with good results, but oil meal

was mentioned for the reason that it will

and at





 





the same time will have a desirable lax-

ative effect upon the animals, which is

essential wher’e straw is a factor in the

roughage, and where plenty of succulent

feeds, such as roots, is not available.

Some wheat bran would also be desirable

in the grain ration for this purpose, as,

it will increase its palatability, but It is

a more costly source of protein than many

other feeds, and for this reason should

be used sparingly.



This inquirer is ‘doing just what it

would pay a great many other farmers

to do at this season of the year. It pays

to figure closely on the available supply

of feed in relation to the stock main-

tained and it pays even better to figure

closely on the compounding of grain ra-

tions for economical results in connec-

tion with the roughage used. As a. logical

conclusion, it will also pay to feed liber-

ally after these problems are figured out.

It never pays to feed a maintenance ra-

tion which just takes care of the bodily

waste. The profit is all derived from that

portion of the ration fed over and above

that required for the maintenance of the

aniaml machinery, and the more liberal

the feeding, providing there is no waste

and keeping in mind the relation between

the condition of the animal and the pur-

pose for which it is kept, the greater will

be the profit from its maintenance upon

the farm.



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SLOBBERING HORSES.





 





th-ree-yea‘r-old mare

weeks ago and she slobbers





I purchased a.

about six





terribly when she eats. especially her

oats. There is quite an amount of water





in her oat box when she is thru eating.

\Vhat can I do for her?



Alger- Co. D. BECKER.



Frequently I receive letters from read-

ers of this paper stating't'hat their three-

year-old filly or their four—ycar-old horse,

or even their old horse slobbers; some of

them doing so much of it that it weakens;

the animal or is quite unpleasant to drive

them during windy days on account of

the discharge from the mouth blowing in

the driver's face or on his clothing.

Now, in order that our readers may ob-

tain a better understanding of the causes

of this ailment, let it be understood that

some kinds of food cause an unnatural

flow of saliva, causing slavoring or froth-

ing at the mouth. Irregular teeth very

often cause more or less extra secretion

of saliva, eating fresh second crop clover

or eating fresh crimson clover hay. a

foreign substance lodged in the mouth

always causes slobbering; an inflamma—

tion of the mouth or tongue caused by

the administration of strong, irritating

drugs always produces an excessive flow

of saliva. Besides, colts between two and

five years old. while teething or when

becoming accustomcd t0 the bit in their

mouth, are apt to slobber.



Treatment.



Now, in order to correct an ailment of

this kind, it is well to ascertain the cause

and if brot on by eating clover, change

the feed at once; then the animal recov-

ers without the assistance of drugs or, if

necessary. use astringent washes, such

as are made by dissolving 1 oz. of pow-

dered alum or borax in a quart of water,

wash out mouth four or five times a day.

If caused by giving irritating drugs. lime

water or sweet oil or linseed oil are

proper applications to make to mouth.

Somethncs it is necessary to give 6 drama

of Bill‘batht‘S aloes, 1 dram bicarbonate

of soda, 1 dram ground ginger or 1,; dram

powdered capsicum at a dose in the form

of a ball or as a drcnch in a pint of warm

Water. In some cases it is necessary to

limit the supply of water for a day or

two and stimulate the kidneys into ac-

tion by giving citrate of potash or buchu

in one ounce doses as often as necessary.

Many cases of slobbering are corrected

quickly by filing off the sharp edges of

outside of upper grinders and inside of





 





lower.

W. C. FAIR, V. S.

New Gasoline Engine.

A high grade gasoline engine of one





horse power at a moderate price has at

last been placed within the reach of every

farmer. There are a thousand and one

things for which a one horse power en-





gine can be used to great advantage.

Fairbanks. Morse & Co. have placed on





the market the “Jack Junior” engine





(little brother of “Jack of all Trades”)

It is a one horse power horizontal evap-

orator tank cnginc entirely self contained.

It is a. 4—(‘yclc cnginc practically frost

proof. All parts are accessible. This en-





gine is large enough to do very effective

work pumping. running cream separators.

churns. and other small machines. it is

durable and will give excellent service.

Fairbanks. Morse & Co, are probably the

largest manufacturers of gasoline engines

in the world. They will be glad to send

the book describing fully the New Jack

Junior one horse power engine to all

lntQI‘PS'led parties. See advertisement in

this issue.





 





 





   





 





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Trinidad Lake _Aephalt

gives Genasco the life that





or and last for years.





Genasco

Ready Roofing

doesn’t crack, rot, rust or

break. How long do you





suppose roofing lasts that’s

made of—who can tell?





Get Genasco—‘the roofing you know about.

Guaranteed in writing by a thirty-two-million-

dollar organization. Mineral and smooth sur-

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Fourth lnrfie importation within

the year arrives November 23rd"

which, added to our present

stock, offers intending pur-

chasers the finest collection in

America. If you want the best

horses,horses with bone,quai-

ity,size,action,andbest breed-

ing, stallions or mares: if you

want fair and liberal treat-

ment; it you want lowest prices consistent

with good 'merchandise, visit Oaklawn.

Catalog shows the filace and the horses.





W. 8., l. B. 8. B. unham, Wayne, Ill.

Prairie Stock Farm





The Leldlng Hone Importer-

In the slate OI Mlohlgnn.

We have opened the eyes of



all Michigan horsemen by our



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In the previous inn. 0! the



Michigan Farmer they gave the



startling news of our wonderful



Iucceu, not alone over our



Michigan exhibitors, but over



all exhibitors of the several



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competition. We won every prize



In the Itnlllon and mere clause



except the 4th prize in the 2-year-



bld stallion clan. All our horses

are now at our Berna ready for

eel. for loan money than a good

horse can be bought elsewhere

with I guarantee that has etood

the tell for the put 83 you".



Come and be convinced. Terml



to suit purchaser.



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Niles. Mich.





Symploms of Worms





Your horse has worms

If he has any of these

symptoms: Nervoueneu,

Itching. rubbing ta! .

roulh coat. hide-boun .

dandruif. unthrlfty con.

dltlon. bloatlnl. dusty

rectum and paselng

worms.





DH. FAIR’S NEW WORM REMEDY





ls given in feed—it kills worm! in two

ways: by suffocation or absorptlon. but

never hurts the horse or brood mare.





60 Horse Doses ”fil‘li’lfi“ $1.00





DR. FAIR VETERINARY REMEDY 00..

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shout to.

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makes it resist the weath- A

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one. 4, 1909.





CONVENIENT HOG HOUSE AND

WORK SHOP.





 





Having, after some study and much

work, secured a convenient hog house and

work shop combined, I send you photo

and plans of same, hoping it may .prove

of interest to those among your readers

as are in need of such a building.



As will be noticed by the half-tone cut,

the building stands on a side sill, the

ground sloping to the east and south.

This giVes room for a 7%—foot basement

while the ground in front slopes away

from the upper floor only enough to turn

water readily, there being also plenty of

slope on lower side to let water run away

from the basement. .



The building stands in an old apple

orchard of two acres, the land being di-





 





vided into three yards of nearly equal

size, one of which opens into each of the

pens in the basement.



The partitions between the pens and

feed alley are all hung on hinges and can

be 'swung back into the pen and up as

high as desired to permit driving hogs

from any of the pens into the feed alley

and thence into other pens or to chute

placed at door at end of alley for loading.

Altho these partitions swing back and





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





up, they strike on edge of trof next to

feed alley when let down, so that they

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cannot 'be forced out into alley by the

hogs. A lever in center of each partition

enables the feeder to instantly throw

the partition to back side of trofs, thus

keeping hogs away from trof while the

feed is being put in.



The entire basement floor and walls are

of cement, the cement walls on south end

and east side being but half walls, or

four feet high, thus giving plenty of room

for windows above.



The four windows in basement slide

back and forth so that any or,all of them

may be opened or closed instantly.



Scantlings are imbedded in the cement

floor to which the nests are hinged, the

nests being made of 2-in. plank with a

2x4-inch ledge to hold bedding in‘ nestS.

They may be swung up against the walls

out‘of the way while cleaning the pens.



The cement floor in the pens all slope

to east and south so that all water spilled

upon the floor of pens runs out the doors,

The small doorways in the walls thru

which the hogs pass in and out are all

fitted with doors which slide up and down

in grooves and are raised or lowered in-

stantly from the alley by means of ropes

and pulleys. It is thus easy to shut the

old sows out until the pigs have eaten

what feed they wish, when a pull of the

ropes permits the old sow to enter and

clean the trof. It is also the work of an





 





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER. '





, instant to shut up the pigs ,whenever it





is desired to catch one or more of them.



At the head of the stairs leading from

basement to first floor is a trap door op-

erated by weight and pulleys, so it needs

but a touch to open or close the door and

it is kept closed to make the basement

warmer in winter, also to prevent poultry

getting to the first floor from basement.



Water is piped from tank at windmill



thru wall at north end of alley so that

water for hogs may be had at all times

by merely opening a valve or faucet.

‘ The first floor of building is divided

into corn crip, 6x20x8 feet high, and car-

penter shop, feed bins, etc., as will be

seen by plan.



An attic above also furnishes a large

room for storage or for use as an oat bin,

as may be desired.



The outer door to first floor and to attic

are at north end and not shown in the

picture.



The outside dimensions of building are

16x30 ft., with 12-ft. posts. All the lum-

ber, including black ash siding,_battens

and shingles, were sawed from the farm.

The total cost of building, including car-

penter work, hardware, mill work, saw

bills, cement and cement work, not in--

eluding hauling stone, cement, lumber,

etc., or common labor in mixing mortar,

was about $175.



So satisfactory has this proven that

were I to build another hog house it

would be on the same general lines, but

perhaps larger.



Branch Co. 0. L. DOBSON.





LIVE STOCK NOTES. .





 





In some quarters farmers are fattening

heifer calves for the market, and those

who have experimented in this'way have

usually made it pay well. Fat heifers

are usually good sellers in western and

eastern markets nonadays, and it does

not take long to fatten them, which is an

important consideration. It seems a little

surprising that more farmers do not pro-

duce this kind of “baby beef.”



Everything at the present time looks

extremely encouraging for sheep and

lamb feeders who understand how to

carry on the industry, the great thing

necessary after the feeders are purchased

being to feed them well, shed shelter be-

ing an important item in northern clim-

ates as a matter of course. The ship-

ments of feeder stOck to sheep sections





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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this season have not been in the least

excesswe, and most sections report fewer

shipped in than usual. The main trouble

in other years has been the failure of

many sheepmen to make their flocks fat

enough, and there are still many who

hasten on the first appearance of stormy

weather to sell off half-fat natives and

westerns, regardless of the fact that by

domg so they sacrifice the good profits

that would be derived by holding on until

the stock could put on plenty of fat.

\V_ell fatted offerings have sold at high

prices recently and are almost sure to all

tire winter, for there is no probability of

large supplies. It may be stated posi—

tively'thatbtltiere will be a wide spread

in prices a ween choice an



muttons on the hoof. a common





A word to farmers who are feeding cat-

tle that they are in doubt whether to feed

longer or not. The best authorities be-

lieve that it will pay to feed cattle in

partly fatted condition for thirty to fifty

days longer, but it is a good plan to top

off the good fat kinds from time to time

and thus divide any risks. A larger corn

crop was raised than last year: while

corn reserves on the farms are much

greater than a year ago, and everything

indicates that putting corn into cattle,

with hogs to follow them, will pay out

better than selling off the corn. It does

not appear probable that buyers will be

able to lower prices for well finished cat—

tle this winter to a level where longer

feeding of partly fattened lots will fail





to show a reasonable profit, there being,





far too many farmers whb are making

short feeds. It is best not to follow the

crowd, and short feeding is too popular





(5) .469 ‘





‘In ’49 men crossed the

plains on speculation,

lzopz'ng to find success

-—Willing to suffer hard-

ship and discomfort for

the sake of possibility.





The Great Southwest





offers certainty to the settler. He’ll





reach it comfortably and find comfort

after he arrives. Profits are sure. to the worker.

Opportunities are amounted. Rich land, equal

to the finest soils of any state in the Umon, can be bought

in Oklahoma, Texas, Southern Missouri, Arkansas, New

Mexico and Louisiana for less than worn-out farms 1n the

thin-soiled sections. The climate never stops workzng.

Crops can be harvested at all periods of the year.



Write today and tell me what section you are interested in and I will send you





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you in the Southwest.





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FRESH IMPORTATIDN ARRIVED SEPT 8, 1909.





/ BLACK PERCHERONS

ALB ENGLISH HACKNEYS





These Horses are all Prize-Winners





from the leading shows in Europe; ages from two to four years old; terms to

suit the purchaser. Byron is located on the Toledo dz Ann Arbor R. R., 44

miles north of Ann Arbor and seven miles south of Durand, immediate

connections off the Grand Trunk R. R.





Every horse guaranteed, and all at low prices.





CALKINS 8: AUGSBURY Props., BYRON, MICH.





Does the (lows

,l $3,,ng Heap of Good





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Cow comfort and cow sanitation result in more

cow profits, and that alone should induce any

farmer or (lairyman to seek these conditions.

London Sanitary Steel Stallsznul Stanch-

ions double the light and air in a barn and insure

eri‘oct. ventilation. perfect sanitation—a result

nnpossiblo with any wooden equipment. Yet





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are actually cheaper. London stalls of heavy

tubular steel. with malleable llllings, have no

flat surfaces for dust to act-1mmlute—easy to keep

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London stanchions give cows more comfort

than other makes, yet keep them perfectly lined

up. Throat chains prevent cows from lying

down when milking. Simple and very durable,

Latch easily opened or closed with gloved hand.

but can’t he. opened by animal. Send today

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barn equipment.





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BAFFLE all competition combined to equal my new 1910 Proposition. I will crack the whip to O

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Get it today.





     





DEC. 4. 1909'





Galloway ’s New Clincher ,a

Proposition ior 19l 0,1”





Manon-Spreader Prices Now Based on 30, 000 a Year capacity ’ r





and Make





they know it. I have 11 patents on the Galloway and will protect them. Nobody can get around them. . _ ”fry. ,5.”

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sell 30,000." I said. “That is the idea.





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Galloway is a whole race-track ahead of allcompetition in spreader proposition and price.

I pay freight. When I added to my factories the Kemp Manure Spreader Factory, conceded to be tile

largest in the world. formerly owned by the International Harvester Company. now owned and o

equipped by me with the very latest automatic machinery throughout. I did this:

my factory superintendent and I said to him-“How many Galloway Manure Spreaders can we





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CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





H rd headed by UNDULA'I‘A BLACKBIRD

l'lso 83836. one of the best sons of PRINCE [TO

50006. and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit

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consists of Erlcas. Blackbirds. Prides. etc.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla. Mich.





BERDEEN-ANGUS and POLLED DURHAM

A BULL Bargains. Choice registered Show Bulls.

Blue—blooded pedigrees. No reasonable offer refused.

The Clover Blossom Farm. Port Austin. Mich.





YRSHIRES_A Dairy Breed of much merit.

A Young stock for sale—also Berk-

shire Pigs. and ten varieties highbred Cockerels.

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. Breeders and Importers of high

Millie Bldg. Farm class Guernseys. Write us your

wants. E. a J. T. MILLER. Birmingham. Mich.





LONG BEACH FARM.





40 HOLSTEIN All Regis-





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All hi hi bred. One 830: three at $45: one at 6100.

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HOLSTEINS





Builerboy Ella lie liol No. 49509 is for Sale.

Also three extra good bull calves. 5 yearling heifers.

8 good young cows. Must be sold before winter.



L. E. CONNELL, Fayette. Ohio.





— 3 b s two fine registered heifers.

uolSTEle d’ugolnuDec. Write for discrlption

etc. I. M. SHORMAN. Fowlerville. Mich.





 





 





 





 





HEREFORDS=‘2.‘:‘2.i§.”li;’.°.22.:53'.





Chins hon. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mich.





Hockland Farm Ilela:nos‘{‘.,.‘°f§0§“.°,':§ef‘n;'..£2;

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





 





Northern Grown Jerse s.

ROYCROFT FARM. Sidnaw. Mic .





JERSEY BULLS

BUTTER BRED FOR-SALE,





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





Jersey Bulls, Bows and Heifers





Island and St. Lambert breeding. Also some

choice grade heifers.





DUROC JERSEY SOWS





Choice individuals and popular blood lines. Inspec-

tion invited. Full information cheerfully furnished.

If you cannot visit our farm at once write

BROOKWATER FARM. Ann Arbor. Mich.

A. W. MUMFORD, Manager.





 





 





 





 





 





I’m a. Lambsri JERSEYS gagsmtxi'lli‘t‘iifiz

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





 





LlLLlE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS





We have some splendid young bulls for sale. Some

of them are old enough for service. They are from

cows with records of 300 to 425 pounds of butter last

year. Write for description and prices.



COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Mich.





EBSEY BULL CALF born Mar. 13. ’09. 2nd ca:f



of a heifer that gave 8224 lbs. of milk in 1 year;

. first calf as 2-year—old. line individual. THE

} MI'EBAY—WATERMAN Co.. B. 6. Ann Arbor. Mich.





 





AIRYBRED Shortborn Bull Calves For Sale-

Also a few heifers. good notes as good as cash-

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





TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS.





Top Notch registered young Holstein Bulls com-

bining in themselves the blood of cows which now

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

milk and butter-fat at fair prices.



McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich.



headed by Canary





"OI-STEIN FBIES'A“ Mercedes Royal King.





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





BOARDMAN illicit FARM, I



JACKSON. mm Holstein Cattle.

Has more imported Holstein-Frioslnn Cows

than any form in the Middle West. Registered

BULL CALVES of the most fashionable breeding. 30

fine. registered. Duroc Jersey sows due to furrow soon.





 





 





 





XTRA





. thoroughgl??:d SHORTHORN BULL 3.3133?





is. J. BELCHER. ROLLIN. Lenswee 00.. Mich.

SHEEP.





msgns oxgggkopowus





ornlese deialn ps.

'ROMEYN C. PARSONS. Grand Ledge. Mich.





l

Oxford - Down 8 been “333.123“

cattle for sale. A. D. d: J. A. DEGARMO. Muir. Mich.





OXFORD DOWNS fieii‘iimg‘i‘é‘i





sale. H. J. De GABMO. R. No. l. Clyde. Mich.





 





 





 





 





FOR SALE—Registered Rambouillets. so

ewes and 42 ram lambs.

THOS. FLETCHER dz SON. Chelsea. Mich.





HIGH-GUS





size. well covered.





 





Merinos do Delaines: ewes shear

up to 24 lbs.. rams to 301bs.. large

B. H. Sanders. Ashtabula. Ohio.





V H R b ill t B

REGISTEREB ..°F"..‘:::“:.a'p:.:“.;i“ ° as.

Wyckofl’. Bambouillet. U.S.A.. Orchard Lake. Mich.

20 RAMBOUILLET RAMS

(reg.) left at a bargain. J. Q. A. Cook. Morrlce. Mich.



KidhkMih..iI '-

KOPE'Kou FARM: ling1 :ridggvo'-yea:-old osfgpgleiirre

ewes and bucks at prices you can afford to pay.

Shropshire Ramsrflmzl.Sfisiéréi‘oitmlis

eight ewes. Willis S. Meade. R. No. 3. Holly. Mich.





SHROPSHIRE YEARLING RAMS $16





(sixteen) each. Express paid to quick buyer,

ROBT. GROVES. (Shepherd) It, D. 3. Pontiac. Mich,

:CHOICE RAMS





SHROPSHIRE Am) EWEs,





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





SHBOPSHIBE HALL STOCK FARM.





Will make special prices for thirty days. on ewes

from 1 to 3 years old. all bred to Imported Cooper.

and Mansell rams to lamb in March and April. also

on very choice ewe lambs. thlsis to make room for an

importation that is going to arrive this spring.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





L. S. DURHAM drSONS. Concord. Mlchllnu. I





 





 





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U lldlb di.Sltd

BEEKSEIBQ . bolerxsfgoas sundrgfltsflgChoicicfSll

pigs. T. V. HICKS. R. No.11. Battle Creek.Mich.





[AHBE ENGLISH BEHKSHIHES.





Have a line lot of spring pigs. both sexes. The type

for profitable pork production. Vigorous and strong

and of best blood lines. Satisfaction guaranteed.





F. A. BYWA'I'ER. Memphis. Mich.





 





 





 





Boars—Berkshire-~Boa rs





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

and Cheap. Other smaller ones. They must go at

once. Guernsey bull calves. Pekin Ducks. and

Barred Rock cockerels. HUPP FARM. Bir-

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





 





Yon stock fom h i Stt

BERKSHIRE: Fai‘: pgize-winneli's. at r‘hgcixeliggenpricz;

M. D. 6: G. B. Johnson. B. No.3. Plymouth. Mich.





BERKSHIRE sows bred for spring furrow. Premier

Longfellow a Masterpiece families Ex-

tra choice individuals &the best breeding on earth.

Also 2 very fine young boars. C. I). Woodbury, Lansing. Mich.





BERKSHIRES #3231: T53. ‘1'5‘5





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





"flaw!“ GROWN BEBKSHIBES.





CROFT FARM. Sidnnw. Mich.





 





 





wo Bears. do for (all service. A few Gilt: left. Also a line

lotof (all pigs ready for weaning. Either sex or pairs

nofiin. A. A. PA'I‘TULID, Deckerville, Iichigsn.





 





OXFORD DOWN EWES





bred toimported rams for sale at farmers prices.

B. F. MILLER. Flint. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





ADAMS BROS. Improved Chester Whites. Litcb-





 





i faction guaranteed.





A il i 1 f i

IMPROVED CHESIEH WHIIES. puffing’wfn'gfigg

rowed in March and April. Price 015. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.





Ch 1 B d

IMPROVED CHESTERS. “3.21332?“ 3033.533 .3





 





i open. Also choice Holstein Bull Calves. of the best of





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





PUHIHN HEHD 0F UHESTER WHITES'gfifiobffi.‘





all sold. Bows and gilts bred for April farrowing

for sale. WILL W. FISHER. Watervilet. Mich.





nunoc JERSEY SWINE. was: ‘12:: i.





for 15. J. H. BANGHART. Lansing. Mich.





 





 





 





UROC-JERSEYS—so bred and open sows. plenly

of growth and quality. Boars ready for service.

Prices:right. Write J. C. Barney. Goldwater, Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Nllcll.





UROC BOARS for sale—Also 1 Reg. Percheron

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

EBAY. Okemos. (Ingham Co.) Mich. Indpt. Phone.





0. l. C. SWINE‘G’}2%S§ZO°§





Chief. the World’s Champion and Grand Champ-

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

grandson of Tutesy. the World's Champion sow. I

am sold out of spring and June furrow of both sexes.

A. J. GORDEN. R. F. I). No. 2. Dorr. Mich.





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

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

ing.‘Geo. P. Andrews. Dansville. Ingham Co., Mich.





O l C ’5—50 HEAD of Fine Spring

0 ° Pigs for Sale. either sex. Large.

strong stock. OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.





O. I. C. SWINE‘Ei‘EEL‘ifieJ? 55.31%:





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





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





0R. SALE—O. I. C's—2 extra good boars. Some

choice pigs. Bose Comb Brown Leghorns. April

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

Satisfaction guaranteed. J. B. Inskeep. Holly. Mich.





I will ' .

Nov- 13 sell at Pilblic sale amid: Chitin:

Spell and Mesphs. the Grand Champs. at State

Fair. Write for catolog. Have a few boars left at

farmers’ prices. WM. WAFFLE. Goldwater. Mich.





_ —Bi . t t

POLAND CHINA MARS mg €035.55: b03325;

big litters. $10 up. Shropshire Bucks. lunbs $10:

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





 





 





P. c. Bans-an»;- can can:

\VOOD dc SONS. Saline. lVIlch.





- —Perf cti t i . Ch i

PolAND CHINAS YOUDZ bgarsarlezgy for as?

Also sows. E. D. Bishop. R. 38. Lake Odessa. Mich.





_ Long bodied. t bo d. l

POLAND Gum‘s- pigs. both “2:311:37 pagesrxgegg

for snap-shot photo. Robert Neve. Pierson. Mich.





' -—-A few choice young

P°|and'Chlnas boars ready for use.

L. F. CONRAD d SON. R. No. l. Lansing. Mich.





P. c- BOARS of great quality and of





the best breeding. Satis-

B. W. MILLS. Saline. Mich.





l

llflGE iMPBUVED YORKSHIBES‘YW’“ m"





ready for ser-

vice. il8. Young sows bred to farrow next spring





025. Fall pigs either sex 310. Satisfaction guaranteed.





If you want the most economical feeders possible.





field. Mich.. won 126 premiums in ’09. Booking breed your sows to a Yorkshire boar. Yorkshire's





orders for bred sows; boars ready for service. Bui! Rook, W.

Orpingion,w. Leghorn cock'ls. Shorthorn bulls ready for service.





are sure to be the most po ular breed of the future

COLON C. LIL IE. Coopersville. Mich.





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DEC. 4, 1909.





 





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AN ECONOMICAL POULTRY HOUSE.





All summer we had planned on a good

new pOultry house, to be built as soon as

the rush of summer 'ork was over. How-

ever, the old saying about man’s propos-

.ing in this case proved true. First, the

early frost shortened the money crop;

next the serious illness of the head of

the ‘family finished up the rest of the

spare cash, and still the poor hens were

roosting in two old, leaky, drafty coops.



For a. time it seemed that nothing could

be done to help matters but on looking

around I discovered enough 2x6 and 2x8

material to make a frame 10x16 ft. Going

still farther it was decided that by using

the best of what could be saved out of

the old coops we could make a tight

roof and have enough material to double

board the sides, thus making it fairly

warm. Here is where the housewife had

an idea. I had been wishing for some

building paper to put between the layers

of siding, as it w0uld make the house so

much warmer. Asking me to wait a.

moment she hurried into the house and

soon returned with an armful of old

Michigan Farmers, magazines, etc., that

had_ done their full duty, having been

read and reread, but still they were good.

Taking a box of tacks she soon showed

me how those papers could still be made

useful. By lapping the edges liberally

a thick heavy covering of paper was soon

on which the wind will not find it easy

to get thru.



Next we wanted to leave a large open-

ing in the south wall and not having any

new netting ready, 3. discarded woven-

wire bedspring was brot out and made

use of. It makes a strong and durable

screen, covering an opening about 5x6 ft.

in size. Then a. curtain, made of some

canvas that had passed its first useful-

ness, was attached at upper edge of the

screen, to be rolled down and fastened in

stormy weather. A sash window in the

east gives added light and also helps out

on the‘days that are too stormy to have

the south curtain raised. The door was

placed in the east side.



The sides of this house are 5 ft. to the

eaves. Then a double pitch roof, running

rather steep, gives plenty of breathing

space and the 50 hens now occupying it

seem as happy as if they were living in

the more substantial and larger coop we

had at first thot necessary. NOW, while

I would not advise anyone to build such

a. poultry house if the means for building

a better one are available, there are some

perhaps in need of more room for their

fowls this winter who- may be helped by

this article. The time spent in building

was very short, two young boys doing

most of the work, the hens being in their

new home at the end of three short days.

The actual money outlay was only the

cost of a few pounds of nails. Perhaps

the editor will smile at learning to what

use the good old Michigan Farmer is

sometimes put, but no matter; it is al-

ways good and helpful to A FARMER,





 





 





OLD HENS FOR EARLY WINTER

EGGS.





 





The other day I passed a place where

a man was feeding a large flock of Brown

Leghorn hens. Upon my remarking that

he had a large number of hens, he said

that there were too many and he was

going to sort out and dispose of many of

them. Knowing the size of his poultry

house, I was sure there were too many

hens for good winter laying. but with

another building for them they could be

made profitable all winter.



This suggests the fact that ill this and

many similar cases it would probably pay

someone to buy the discarded hens from

such flocks and make egg producers of

them this winter. Their age will not

stand ill the way of getting eggs, if they

have not passed too many winters. Most

persons who want to buy hens for laying!

are heard inquiring for Dullcts Which am”

always hard to find. Altho having to be

fed several months longer than old hens

before laying, they might Day as well in

the long run, but my point is that for

early winter eggs on a small investment

for layers and feed, old hens are the

thing. CLARKE M. DRAKE.





 





He Is Selling Poultry.





H. H. King, Willis. Mich., the popular

breeder of Orpingtons, in writing to have

his advertisement changed, ads the fol-

lowing: “1 am getting good results from

my ad. So far I am more than pleased.”





 





 





Road the now oorlol story started In this

Issue. It In wholesome and entertaining.





 





 

 

 





W. ,

YOU can’t shut a laying hen in} a closed





'coop; limit your responsibility to a few

handfuls of grain a day, and continue (for long) to

collect eggs. You can’t leave growing chicks to dew,

and. wet and sour feed and count them all next winter. [5; ,,



But you can—by practicing “The Dr. Hess Idea” %'_;4

of poultry feeding—keep the hen laying and the chick grow- 7713/





 

 

 





 





 





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A llll. HESS Poultry PAN- .0





v fed once a day in soft feed to hens and chickens, works wonders or both. Poultry Pamn-ce—a is a tonic;

it aids digestion and arrimilation, so that the hen gets the greatest _ben t from her feed. It goes far toward

restoring natural conditions to the shut-up fowl and. thus—:teellng natural and being well nourished—-

she lays abundance of eggs. In the same way, by aldmg digestion, it helps the chlck_and all .other

{owls receiving it. It also cures Gapes, Cholera, Roup, etc. Poultry Pan-a-ce-a gives Vitality

to resist disease and, where consistently given, adds immensely to the profits m the poultry

business. A penny's worth feeds 30 fowls one day. Sold on a wrltten guarantee.

1% lbs. 25c: mall or express 40c; 5 lbs. 60c; 12 lbs. $1.25 ; 25 lb. pail 82.50.

Except in Canada and extreme West and South.

DR. HESS 8| CLARK, Ashland, Ohio.

Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess ll8-page Poultry Book, free.





   

   

   

 





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 





   

 





m F Stock raisers often face a. serious problem. Cows shrink in milk and

DB HESS. “feeders" are slow about fatting. Usually the trouble is over-taxed

digestive organs. When cow or steer seems to be “off feed" and doing poorly, give a small portion, twice a day, of

Dr. Hess Stock Food. That will restore appetite and give tone to every organ. Then if the same simple practice

is followed out consistently, the profits at both pail and scale will be more satisfactory. Sold on a written guarantee.

100 lbs. $5.00. 25 lb. pull 81.60. Except in Canada and extreme West and South.



Smaller quantities at a slight advance.

Send 2c for Dr. Hess Stock Book, Free.





 

 

   

 

 





 

   





 





Destroys Worms—Increases Your Profits





It’s at marketing time that you reap the full benefit of feeding Sal-Vet. It ride your stock of worms

and all worm troubles—prevents loss of lambs by parasitic infection—enables you to raise healthier lambs, finer

sheep with more wool and better mutton. Especially efl’ective against stomach worms in sheep.





We Prove it Before You Pay -— Semi No Money





PRICES—100 lbs... $5.00: 2001bs.. $9.00: 300 lbs.. $13.00.





 





   

   

 





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h9g5. It makes bigger steers and puts cows in condition to 4.2" or Qt

give more and richer milk. It will keep the digestive Testimonial from A. T. camber. the well-known broodorof American as“ e90 °

organs of all your stock in perfect condition. so that what and Delaino Marinas. $53 09% -‘

they eat goes to make profit for you. "Your Sal-Vet is all you claim for it. I am pleased to state that °$‘$.9

Animals cannot fatten and thrive when they have as a preventive of worms it does the business; as a conditioner to 39$. .' ..-

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nourish tlltie animal. Get $1: of the wom3:&l-V¢3kkills (Slrned) A. T. GAMBER. Wakeman. Ohio. 9& side“? '

worms. w put your e in prime con i ion an ee . 4‘ .° .-

them immune from parasitic infection. - ”0Y3 "glyflus fflflfl‘l‘osfitwfifz' sixty days “5° 96‘vgoe’e’xyoo 0‘“. _ ' '

Sal-Vet is a highly medicated salt that is easily fed— 1.... fill in we coupon and m,“ f,“ ‘”° °"'"" MR“ 0" ' 5‘ -' .c

the animals take it so readily that with it they doctor them- 0 “3' 0&4 x 5’9 . ' -" g

selves. Every cent you spend for Sal-Vet will be returned 7". 8- R- F0” GOMPMJ, si'o‘p "

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Now is just the time-start. this easy work at home in your spare time—you’ll ‘soon be wanting to run your loom all



» the time—for the very easy profits. I will tell you how you can make your time most

Eroi‘ltable—how you can engage in udeliglltful and fascinating occupation ill your own

01118, that will not interfere with your other duties and assure you big prolits for as

much or as little t.me as you may be able to devote to it. I promise that you'll be

lnloroolod. I say, and I know that every word I say is true, that you can make more

money and make II more easily by weaVing on a Newcomb Automatic Loom than at

any other klnd of homo omploymenl. My 20 years’ experience with others and their

letters proves what you can do.





THE NEWGOMB AUTOMATIC LOOM





is made especially for home workers. Unlike any other loom, it practically

works itself. A simple movement of the hand is all it requires of the opera-

tor. No treading—no stoopi ng—no shuttle throwing. Just the easy work that

thousands of old and young are making big money at today—at home.



No experience In nocoosnry. You will bedellghted with the case with which

#3 you can make the finest and most durable carpets, rugs, mats. draperies of

every kind, and even beautiful portieres, chenille curtains and halllnloclts.

Bear in mind also. that no cash outlay lor oupplles is required. ()ld carpets, no EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

_ _> Backs, cast—oil? clothing and rags all furnish material for the loom. And the Let me send you some samples of

" ’ "" W results you get: with such lnaterlal are simply Wonderful. You can be sure the work you can do on a Newcomb

READ WHAT THIS WOMAN DOES when you owna Newcomb, that you will have more than enough work to Loonl. The more you need the money



“Made over 11,000 yards of carpet. on my loom in keep you busy, Many of our customers make from $25 to 830 a week weaving the more I can and will help you to

11. {eglmfiflévg mist tllz‘egfi’girs ’i writes Mrs. Sadie with the Newcomb, and you can do llkowiso. get started to making it.

' 3' gar nu omn, ° never Weaveaday Do nol neglect this oppoflunlly erlo mo lodoy lor my free cal-log, “Wonvln WI "

, . . ‘ . g odom which tells all

that I don lmake “:0 yards and I do my own house- about our looms and tho extremely roloonnhlo forms on whlch you can obllln one 0' them. '





work. I weigh only 115 pounds~don’t tire of weav-

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372333333H33h§£ L90%—Hatches





W. B. STARK

who will help you start a

money-making business.





     





 





 





 





' been breeding them elm?

i White Wyandones! tinuousiy since 1895.

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



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at 01105. . Quiet 81288 horn the Cyphon—in every country and cll- /”i J ,_

priced very low. - mote—for old-timers and beginners. For you. '3 F‘lR SALE—Magnificent blBCk and white 3 months

CYPHERS INCUBATORS " * , collie pups. Best working stocx. Prices very reason-





 





Idaals always hatch

m 0 st a n d

strongestchicks. Metal

covered; Illa. Deliver-

ed free east of Missouri

River, north of Term.

Write for delivered

grim: beyond—Big Free

ooh; best guide to

Success and economy.

J. W. MILLER 00.

Box 300 Froopon. Ill.





able. Beauties. H. M. F., 226 Mt. Elliott Ave. Detroit.





3 ' RAINED FOX BOUNDS and Hound Pups

3 for hunting fox and coons. Also Collies dicFerrets.

‘ Inclose 2c stamp. W. E. Lecky, Holmesvlile. Ohio.





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and Broaden are non-moisture; self-reru-

hllnguolf-veutilotlng. Write for lfiupage '

Catalog. Address Nearest City.





 





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Buflnlo, N.Y.; New York City; Chicago, Ill.; nmflg‘i‘ficfi'}, _

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PERRETS.





 





BAngRgg, £VILLCJ§3NUARYL—Bufl and White Orpingtons.

. . . . Polish, Houdnnl S. 0.131an & R,C. .

White lizard“ oockorels, 81.50 each, fdw loft. Satisfaction ; 5,000 Farrel: $:::§Be;:¥enggfgggzggga

°" mm" “3‘- H' II. KING! Willis, Micm'“n' ‘ hotter climated. Price list and clr. free.





_ BARGAINS in s. L:. Brown Leghorns. 100 year- DeKlelne Bros. Box 41.Jamestown.Mlch.

WE WANT YOUR “Aw F" t "313‘ “lair" gran. blfast flockiln Michel‘gsft cox'nes ‘ Th h tl t no

sea epc. rer romthssd. usacton. — ey “BOY-ll

SMALL cncu or Rs FRED mo'r'r. Lanslnc. mom“... 3‘ 4-000 FEM“: rabbits. Prices and book

N mailed free. N. A. KNAPP. Rochester. Ohio.

A D cu STOM TANNING. SILVER Laced Golden and White Wysndottes.





A

fine lot of young stock all bred from prize winners writing to advertisers not so. “Saw

W. W. WEAVER, C39“)!!! Tmfil‘s Reading. M101! 0. W. BROWNING. Portland. Mich; iwaEN your ad. in the Mlchigdn Farmer."
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CURRENT COMMENT.

The annual report

Secretary Wilson’s of the Secretary of

Report. Agriculture for 1909,

was’madc public on

December 1. In it are figures and com-

parisons with regard to agricultural pro-

duction which show an apparent increase

in the remarkable prosperity which has

attended this industry during the last

decade. From this report it appcars that

the total value of the agricultural produc-

tion of the country for 1909 approximates

$8.760,000,000, a gain of $N13l1.t101l.00i) over

1908. It also shows that the value of the

agricultural production of the United

States has nearly doubled in 10 years; the

total production 11 years ago being $4,-

417,000,000, but little more than half of

that for the current year. the total pro-

duction for the 11 years aggregating the

almost incomprehensible sum of $70,000,-

000,000.



The production for 1900 expresscd in the

relative value of principal crops shows

that corn leads in importance. as usual.

with a total farm value of $1.T‘_'H.000.000.

This crop exceeds in value tlu- average

of the corn crops for the live preceding

years, by 36 per cent. Cotton ranks sci;—

ond in value of the country‘s crops. hav-

ing a farm value of $8.10.0tm,000_ “'th

is third in value, the crop being worth

$723,000,000 on the farms of the country.

which exceeds all Dl‘eViOLh‘ crop values

for this cereal. altho the crop is third

in point of size with a total of 723.000_000

bushels. the average November farm

pricc being an even dollar a bushel. Next

in value comes the hay crop worth $663,-

000,000. next the, oat crop. valued at $400.-

000.000; thcn potatoes. worth 15211000000;

and tobacco with nearly $100,000.000. The

sugar production of the country. im-Iudim.r

beet and cane sugar and molasses. ag-

gregates about $93,000,000. T‘llc barley

crop is estimated at about $89.000.000. flax

seed $36.000.000 and rice $2.1,fu’m.umi_



Taken in groups. the production of all

cereals combined is estimated at $4.711.-

000.000 bushels. an ammmt considerably

greater than for any other year except

.1906. and exceeding the average of the

preceding five years by six and one-half

per cent. The valuc of all cereals for all

current years, has never been equaled in

any previous year. being almost exactly

93.000.000.000. or 34 per cent above the

five year average. The report also shows





     





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that this ,’is the year of highest production

for potatoes. tobacco. beet sugar, and rice

and next to the highest production for

dbrn, oats and all cereals.





Secretary 'Wilson concludes his review

of the production of 1909' as follows: .“The

agricultural production of 1909 must add

much to the prosperity of farmers. The

record is unexampled in wealth produc-

tion and tells of abundance in quantity.

Year by year the farmer is better and

better prepared to provide the capital and

make the expenditures needed to improve

his agriculture and to educate his chil-

dren for farm life and work.”





Several subscrib-

The Sparrow'Bounty ers have recently





Law. asked if there is a.

bounty on sparrows

this year. For their information we will





state that the legislature for 1907 enacted

a law which provides that every person,

an inhabitant of this state. who shall

kill an English sparrow in any recognized

township. village. or city in this state,

during the months of December. January,

and February of each year, shall be en-

titled to receive a bounty of two cents

for each sparrow thus killed. Briefly

stated. the method of the payment of

such bounty as follows:



Every person applying for such bounty

shall take such sparrows in lots of not

less than ten to the clerk of the township,

village or city. within which such spa-r-

row shall have been killed. in a state of

good preservation. If satisfied with the

correctness of the claim. said clerk issues

a certificate stating the amount of bounty

to which the applicant is entitled. and

destroys the sparrows. These certificates

may be presented to the county clerk by

the claimant'or his agent. and said clerk

will then draw a warrant for the amount

which will be paid by the county treas-

urcr. upon presentation. from the general

or contingent fund of the county. A

penalty is provided for any attempt to

collect bounty on other birds or in any

other manner than above specified.





The opinion is expressed by some of the

persons who have inquired with regard

to this law that the sparrows do more

good than harm and by others that the

payment of a bounty is unwise. since. it

can hardly result in the. extermination of

the birds. Probably the first view is er—

roneous so far as the common English

sparrow is concerned. as he seems to be

an undesirable. bird from the standpoint

of the damage which he docs to other

birds as well as to crops; but the last

opinion conforms with that of our best

authorities on the subject. whose opinions

have bccn published in this paper. How-

ever. it is [the law. and as such must stand

until repealed.



This is a subject of importance to every

reader as a tax payer as well as a

farmer. and is worthy of his careful con-

sideration previous to and during the

next legislative session.





As heretofore noted in

these columns. the federal

census is to be taken next

year. but while the date for

which the value of farms and farm equip-

ment will be taken is April 1.1. 1909, the

questions which will be asked relating to

farm productitm will be for the calendar

year of 1909.



For this reason, if the census is to be

an accurate onc. it will be necessary for

cvcry farmcr to keep some kind of a rec-

ord or lncmoranrlum of his farm opera-

tions for the present year which will

cnabh: him to give accurate answers I!)

the questions which he will be asked. In

order that every farmer may havc that

«lat at hand. Census Dirct'tor Durand





The Federal

Census.





 

   





1 Total value of 1...... with an build-

ings and,.improvements. ' '. .

3.





Value of buildings. ’ ,





Value of all improvements and ma- .





chinery, including tools, wagons, car-

riages, harnesses, etc., and all appliances

and apparatus used in farming operations.

4. Number and value of domestic ani-

mals, classified as follows: -

Cattle:—(a) Born before January 1.

1909; Cows and heifers kept for milk;

cows and heifers not kept for milk; steers

and bulls kept for work; steers and bulls

not kept for work. (b) Born in 1909:

Heifers; steers and bulls. (c) Calves

born in 1910. '

Horses-All horses born before January

1, 1909; colts born after January 1, 1909;

colts born after January 1. 1910.

Mules——Ail mules born before January

1, 1909; mule colts born after January 1,

1323; mule colts born after January 1,





Asses and burros—(ail ages),



Swine—Hogs born before January 1,

1910; pigs born after January 1, 1910.



Sheep—Ewes born before January 1.

1910; rams and wethers born before Janu-

£11910 1, 1910; lambs born after January 1,



Goats and Kids—(all ages).



5. Number and value of poultry over

three months old:



Chickens ducks. geese. turkeys, guinea

fowls, pigeons.



6. Number and value of swarms of

bees.



The census will not ask the value of

household goods, nor that of hay. grain.

or other farm crops on hand on\ April 15.

These items should be included. however,

by all desiring a complete inventory of

their farm property.



The value given to the farm should be.

as nearly as can be judged. the amount

that could be obtained for it if offered

for sale under normal conditions. Current

market prices should be carefully consid-

ered in estimating the value of live stock.



Altho the census merely requires a

statement of total value of all implements

and machinery. it is believed that a class-

ification of these items under the follow-

ing four heads will be found valuable:



1. Vehicles. This class comprises auto-

mobiles. wagons. carriages and sleighs.

and equipment used in connection with

them. as harnesses. blankets, whips, etc.



2. Heavy farm implements, comprising

all implements and machinery operated

by any power other than hand power. as

plows, barrows, rollers. reapers, mowers,

hay-loaders, feed grinders, etc, etc.



3. Hand machinery and tools, including

carpenters‘ tools. hoes, shovels, scythes,





- forks, grindstones, fanning—mills. etc.





4. Miscellaneous articles, including all

such minor equipment as kettles. pails,

barrels, baskets, ladders. ropes. chains.

eta, not included in the first three classes.



Many farmers greatly underestimate

the total value of their possessions of this

character when considering them in the

aggregate, and it is only by 1)l'i.'1)al‘ili§.." an

itemized list as suggested above that an

accurate estimate of their worth can be

made. The value assigned this class

of property in the inventory should be

the estimated amount it would bring at

public auction under favorable conditions.



No special blanks or forms are neces-

sary for preparing an inventory. An ordi-

nary notebook answcrs all purposes. but

it should be large enough to admit of

carrying the figures for at least five years

in parallel columns. This facilitates com-

parison of the figures for different years.

Some may find it more convenient or de—

sirable to take stOt-k on January 1, than

on April 15. It will be a simple matter

to bring such an inventory up to date

when the census enumerator calls. as it

will only be necessary to take into ac-

count the changes that have taken place

during the brief intervening period.



As in the case of the farm inventory.

no special blanks are required for the

record of farm products of 1909. An ordi-

nary notebook with leaves at least six

inches wide will be found convenient. The

following information will be called for:



1. Farm expenses in 1000. (a) Amount

spent in cash for farm labor (exclusive

of house work). (b) Estimated value of

house rent and board furnished farm lab-

orers in addition to cash wages paid. (c)

Amount spent. for hay, grain, and other

produce, (not raised on the farm), for

feed of domestic animals and poultry. (d)

Amount spent for manure and other fer-

tilizers.



No inquiry is made regarding household

or personal expenses or expenditures for

rcpairs or improvements. Each of the

four questions asked is of fundamental

importance in its bearing on agriculture

as an industry.



2. Live stock. (a) Number of young

animals of each kind horn on the farm in

1909. (b) Number of animals of each





has had ln'cnarrorl a list of (.Utvsllons which°kihd purchased in 1009 and the amount





will be asked by the cans»: uy.n.«-r<;t.o1'-t

and an outlint- of a slop» rm-tiovi of

making a written record of Your. opt-y».—

tions and equipment. whirl. '.'.'l. :3 afl-wt

upon. cnablc cvcry farrnr-r to may.” now

qucstions with a tlcsirablc «ll-gu-c n? 52'—

curacy. The following is the list of 09.!”-

tions and the comments thcrcon. with".

will give cvcry reader advance information

with regard to this census:





The advantages of always having on

hand for ready ri‘fPl‘PrH'P a detailed writ-

tcn statement of onc's farm property are

readily understood by everyone and will

bo most keenly appreciated when the

census cnumcraior calls with his list of

questions next April. The valm- of the

C("llSlls figures of farm wealth depends

upon their accuracy. and accuracy can

only be secured t'hru the co-opcration of

the farmers themselves. in no way can

the farmer extend morn practical assist-

ance to the census bureau, and in no way

can he render himself a grcatt-r service

than by getting out his pencil and not.»

’book on the evening of April 14 next and

making up a statement 'of his farm prop—

erty. The questions to be asked concern-

ing farm property are as follows:





paid; r;:1rnl;t-r sold and amount rcccivcd;

and rennin-r and value of those slaught—

‘-’wi 0:. tin: farm.



‘ imir'.‘ minim-la. (a) Quantities and

"2:. .< '..‘ no.2. butt-r and i'ili‘m-U- produced

”.t- lam, in 1900. (b) Quantities of

Mi‘lr awn-r r-r’bam. butter-fat and chm-so

an": :r- .1101: and mnmmia rcct-lvml.



’- i“..,:.~y;.» :mrl x-ggw. (at Value of

'r’l';".'i’ of a; kin/ls: 1alw'd in 1009, whether

:21. I: 't’:/.:‘IYII“’I. or on bond. (bl Amount

IHI-Iirt-rl horn poultry sold in 1909. (c)

Quintin-x and valm- of eggs produced in

1909. (ti) Quantity and value of eggs sold

in 1909.



:1. “Mai and mohair. Number and

total weight of fleeces shorn in 1909 and

amcunt received from sales.



6. Crops. For each crop harvested on

the farm in 1909, give the number of

acres, the quantity produced. and the

value of the products. The number of

acres of each crop to be planted for har-

vest in 1910. will also be called for by the

cnumerator. This cannot be determined

much before the date of the enumeration.

instead of giving the number of acres

in orchards and vineyards. give as nearly

as possible the number of trees and vines

of bearing age. The quantity of certain

fruit products: as cider. vinegar. Wine,

and dried fruits produced in 1909 will 'be

required, as will also the quantity and





   





DEC. 4, 1909.





value of sugar, ‘syrup' and molasses pro-





duced from cane, sorghum, sugar beets

and maple trees. 1



7. Sales of specified products in 1909.

A considerable part of‘ the annual pro-

duction of corn. oats, barley. kafir corn.

milo maize, hay. flax-fiber and straw.

other straw, cornstalks and cottonseed is

usually consumed on the farm. Owing to

this fact. a report will be asked concern-

ing the quantity of each of these products

sold in 1909 and the amounts realized

therefrom.



8. Forest products. The value of all

forest products out or produced in 1909 for

farm consumption will be asked, as will

also the value of similar products out or

produced for sale, including receipts from

the sale of standing timber.



9. Irrigation. Farmers who irrigate

their land will be asked to report the

source from which water is obtained. the

number of acres of pasture land irrigated,

and the total irrigated acreage.



This outline covers every important

question that will be asked concerning

the farm products of 1909. American ag-

riculture is so diversfled and so highly

specialized in many of its branches, that

any schedule designed to secure a fairly

complete exhibit of its resources and op-

erations must necessarily contain a large

number of inquiries. The average farm

operator will not be called upon to answer

one-seventh of the printed question-s,

hence the somewhat formidable appear-

ance of the schedule should occasion no

alarm.



More than four months remain in which

to review the results of the year 1909 and

prepare for the visit of the enumerator.

But preparation of a written record

should be commenced at once. No one

should attempt to complete it in one eve-

ning but the work should be divided as

indicated in the above outline. one evening

being given up to farm expenses, a second

to live stock, a third to dairy products

and so on thru the list. In this. way. each

topic can be given the consideration it

deserves. and the resulting figures are

certain to be more accurate than if com-

piled hastily.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





Foreign.





The recent activity of the volcanoes

near Santa Cruz. Tcncriffc, one of the

Canary Islands, is. at least. temporarily

suspended so far as the lava flow is con-

ccrned.



The cotton crop of Egypt for the year

has been estimated by the best authorities

at 6.000.000 cantars, compared with 7.—

500.000 cantars for 1900. A cantar is

about equal to the English hundred

weight.



King Manuel of Portugal, is in Paris.



The heavy demand for lumber from

concerns in the United States caused an

advance in quotations for rough lumber

thruout ‘Vestcrn Canada.



Plans are under consideration for bold-

ing a celebration at The. Hague, in honor

of the opening of the Palace of Peace.



The Spanish government will not pur-

sue further the campaign in Morocco.

Already the troops have conquered such

territory as will tax the capacity of the,

government to regulate which. with the

demand upon the. federal machinery from

the home country. has convinced the au-

thorities of the foolishness and danger of

further effort to lay siege to new ter-

ritorv.



As the term of Lord Minto, Viceroy of

lndia, draws to a close the British gov-

ernment is becoming anxious about who

will be selected as his successor. in that

much opposition to English rule is at

present shown in India.





It. is reported that James Bryce is to





be withdrawn as English Ambassador at

“'ashington. Sir Morris 1). Bunsen is

mentioncd as his successor.



The French Parliamentary Commission

is revising the rules of procedure in the

French courts.



It is evident that the contest between

the Houses of Lords and Commons of

England will demand an clcction early in

the coming year. It seems imminent

from the stand takcn by the former body.

that the clcctoratc will be called upon

to settle the mattcr.



The Trans-Andine Railway which will

connect Lapaz, Bolivia. with the Pacific

()ccan. has the. tunncl complete-d thru the

backbone of the Andes Mountains. This

tunnel is five miles Ion}.r and is the high-

est in the world. 'l‘hc road is 300 miles

long and will cost $15,000,000 to complete.

American capital is doing,r the. work which

was begun shortly after the Chilian gov-

ernment gave permission in 1903.



A resolution has been introduced into

the. Italian Parliament for a speedy rc-

construction of Messina. The large mun-

bt-r of refugees that are without shelter

demand quick action on the part of the

govcrnment.



lit-port comes from Japan that a sugar

fraud has been discovcl‘cd there and that

prominent govcrnmcnt officials are impli-

cattd.



A recent review of the agricultural pos-

sibilities of Panama shows that the Cen—

tral American republic is likely to become

a mcnacing competitor to Jamaica, espe-

cially now that the attention of so many

pmplc and different countries are being

attracted to it.



Two bandits who arc said to be re—

vsponsiblc for some 3-4 murders were hunt—

ed down by peasants in Scrvia after a

chase cxtendil‘ig ncarly across that

country.



A farewell banquet was given ‘by Presi-

dent and Mrs. Diaz. of Mexico, to Ameri-

can Ambassador 'l‘hompsom last Tuesday.



Ncws comes from the Russian govern-

ment that the anmmncemcnt to the effect

that an American syndicate will devcloll

the Trans—Siberian Railway is erroneous.



The German rcichstag reconvened on

Tuesday of this week. It is likely that.

the. present session will have much to do

with American relations growing out of

our new tariff law.



An order has been issued by the Mexi-



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THE ORTEGA GOLD





up a California foothill. As they



reached the summit, the eldest of

the trio drew rein and said: “There it is,

boys. There is your new home, Ortega

Ranch.”



His companions likewise stopped their

horses. The three men sat still, looking

at the valley below them, which sloped

from the mountains to the sea. On the

opposite side could be seen the little vil-

lage of Capistrano. It looked out to the

sea. from between two spurs of broken and

uneven hills, with mesas and canyons in

the background. Not far from the village

stood the ruins of a grand old mission

church, the broken cloister walls of the

quadrangle gleaming yellow-white, like

an opal, in the sunlight.



But it was at the foreground of the

scene that the two young men gazed in-

tently. There stretched rolling fields

which were beginning to take on a. tinge

of velvety green, for the first autumnal

rains had come a fortnight before. A

great adobe'house, with outbuildings at

the back, was surrounded by trees and

vines that were apparently uncared for.



John Martin, the taller of the two young

men, nodded his head. “It looks exactly

as you said, Mr. Smith. All the way out

here I’ve been saying to myself that a

man—even two men—were fools to buy so

big a tract of land without seeing it.”



The real-estate agent smiled reassur-

ingly. “But this was an excellent case.

you and your cousin were desirous of buy-

ing a tract of land large enough to per-

mit you to work out your theories, while

at the same time you felt that you could

not get away from railroad facilities that

would enable you to place the productions

of your ranch upon the city market. And

the forced. sale of Ortega Ranch had to

be closed in a. single day.”



By that time they were riding down the

hill. Guy Cross, the shorter but heavrer

of the cousins, asked:

been a. cattle ranch?"



Mr. Smith shrugged his shoulders. “For

a hundred and fifty years. The primitive

methods of ranching that were employed

at the beginning of that time were all

that the present Senor Ortega seemed

capable of comprehending. And that was

his ruin, altho the estate was heavily en-

cumbered when it came to him.”



“But is not the land adapted to stock

raising?”



“The soil is unsurpassed; with plenty

of water it will raise anything. Years ago

the Ortegas made money from their im-

mense herds, but times have changed, and

so have methods of handling stock. The

old senor could not adapt himself to the

change. You will not find him a pleasant

neighbor, I fear.” .



“1 can’t say I blame him for feeling

resentful,” John said with a whimsmal

smile. “Imagine giving up a home that

had been in your family for a hundred

and fifty years and going to live at what

in the east we would call the tenant house

of the farm!”



“How did it come about that Ortega had

this house and the five acres of land ex-

empt from the mortgage?" Guy asked.



“It seems that Years ago his father——or

was it his grandfather?—deeded that bit

out ofthe ranch to a faithful servant who

had saved his master’s life. At the ser-

vant’s death it came back to the Ortega

family. A separate deed was made, and

the mortgage did not cover it. It’s a

slhame, for it spoils your lines, taking a

piece out of your ‘land. Besides that

dilapidated old ’dobe house stands directly

in front of the ranchhouse, with only the

road between them.”



“I should think Ortega would be glad

to sell the place. It must be humiliating

for him to live on there.”



“It is, but he swears he’ll never leave

the spot. The old man is unreasonable,

adding something of the long—ago resent-

ment of the Spaniard to the American to

the feebleness of age. Then he is very

poor. I hardly know how he and his

daughter live. The girl is pretty and well





THREE horsemen were riding slowly





“Has this always





BY HOPE





educated. You see, her mother was an

American. Ortega broke with his church

to marry her, and- she broke with her

family to marry him. It is said that they

were rapturously happy, altho he was

twenty years her senior. They were mar-

ried ten years before the Senorita Carina

was born, and her mother died when the

girl was twelve. The American relatives

sent her to a Los Angeles boarding school

for two years, but She came back to the

ranch a year ago. There! Now you can

get a good View of the ,old'ranch house."



It was only a short time before the

horsemen turned from the highway to the

drive that, led up to the house of Ortega

Ranch. The building was of adobe, large

and low, with a wide veranda across the

front. This was shaded by a row of

stately magnolias and palm trees and by

matted and unpruned vines. On one side

of the house lay what had once been a

fine flower garden, but trees, shrubs, vines

and flowering plants grew in a tangle, and

the empty basin of the fountain was over-

grown with grape vincsl The house was

built round three sides of a court, and

the fourth side was planted with trees

which screened the outbuildings.



As the horsemen were dismounting, the

front door opened, and a Chinaman, whom

the cousins had sent out that morning,

came down the steps.



“Hello, Sin Le!” John Martin called.

“Take our horses. How’s everything g0-

ing? You’ll have dinner for us in an

hour?”



“Everything all lite. Dinner is being

made,” and Sin Le led the horses around

the house, leaving the new masters of the

place to enter unattended.



Within the big rooms looked bare, for

John and Guy had sent out only such fur-

niture as they must have. However, they

remained in the house but a few minutes,

going out to inspect the barns and corrals

until Sin Le called them in to an excel-

lent dinner. The meal was served in the

large dining-room which opened both upon

the inner court and the front veranda.



The meal over, the three men went out

on the veranda. Smith smoked, but the

two easterners contented themselves with

the plate of oranges which Sin Le had

placed upon a curiously carved bench that

sat back against the wall.



For a little time no one spoke. Off to

the west, from whence came the fresh

salt air of the sea, the sunset’s afterglow

painted the sky -With golden and rosy

splendor. John Martin turned his eyes

from that radiance to the east where the

purple-gray shadows of night were begin—

ning to shroud the mountains and their

skirting foothills. Then the young mun

looked thru the branches of the trees

that shaded the veranda to Where, on the

opposite side of the road stood a small

adobe house. It had been recently re~

roofed, and it was apparent that a feeble

and ineffectual effort had been made to

put the grounds surrounding it in order.

At the rear there was a rude stable, and

back of that a garden, some trees, and

a pasture.



“Pretty dreary home for a boarding-

school miss,” said John to himself. “Eh!

What was that, Smith?"



“I asked if either of you gentlemen had

ever had any practical experience in

ranching—farming I suppose you call it

in the east.” _



John laughed. “You wonder if we are

genuine tenderfeet. Now, I’m not sure

but we are. I graduated from the agri-

cultural college of the state Where I have

always lived, five years ago. Since then

I have taught in the college, but it has

been the dream of my life to test some

of my theories. Here I know I’ll have the

handicaps of a new climate and soil, but

we’ll win, if it does take time.”



“I hope so,” the real-estate agent said





DARING.





in a politely incredulous voice. “Perhaps

Cross knows more of the work.”



“Guy? Why, he grew up on a farm,

as all great and good men do, but he has

been a bank employe ever since he grad-

uated from the high school.”



Smith laughed. “Well, you’ll find Cali-

fornia. all right. Sin Le is a good cook,

but you will find this house lonesome, with

no woman. I believe you said that neither

of you were married.”



“No, but Guy has expectations.”



“More than expectations—rea1lties,”

Cross said good-humoredly. “We’ve got

to win out, Smith, for I am making a

home for the bonniest little girl in all the

land. You’ll see.”



“I hope so. Did you not tell me that

you were going to put on cows, start a

dairy farm?”



“\Ve have bot twenty—five cows which

are to be delivered tomorrow. They all

give milk, and we have made arrange-

ments to Ship our cream to Los Angeles.

Our separator is among some of those

boxes pilcd in the court, for we bot that

in the east. But we are going to put out

fruit trees, some this very year."



“You will have to make some arrange-

ment about irrigation. The well here is

a good one, but you know I told you that

the old mindmill was out of order. Be-

sides, the watcr supply was never ade-

quate to the needs of the ranch.”



““7e are going to replace that anti-

quated old mill by a gasoline engine. Yes-

terday I talked with an agent of the Hill-

land Dam Company. They will put in

their cement border ditches for us at any

time, if we’ll agree to take a certain

amount of water for five years. It will

put us in debt :1 little, but we’ll have to

do it."



“It‘s the only way you’ll get big returns

from your ranch,” Mr. Smith said gravely.

“Of course, you fellon's will make mis-

takes, but I believe you’ve got the right

idea. There’s lots of money to be made

here. Ortega might have paid his debts

if he would have wakcd up and stopped

dreaming about the hidden gold that has

been the family’s curse." .



Guy Cross sat up, staring thru the

gloom into Smith’s face. “Eh! that’s

that about hidden gold? -If there is that

romantic feature about the place it may

tempt the little girl at home to come west

at once.”



Smith chuckled. “I believe you‘re get-

ting a wee bit homesick for ‘the little girl

at homc.’ \Vcll, there's a romantic story

all right, and Senor Ortega declares that

there is gold hidden somewhere about the

place. Perhaps that is the reason the old

man refuses to leave.”



“Tell us the story,” John said, stretch-

ing himself leisurely on the bench. “I’m

0f the opinion that we'll win the gold of

our yellow cream and oranges by hard

work. but it is well to know the possibili-

ties of our new possession."



“If the traditions of the country are

true, there is some foundation for the

story, for a great sum of gold myste-

riously disappeared. Ortega Ranch once

comprised three times as much land as

now, and was rich in flocks and herds.

Then the Ortegas were stanch supporters

of the church and the secularization of

the missions, which was accomplished in

1843, after years of threatening, was a

blow to the family. It was thirteen years

later that California came under the Uni—

ted States government. The hcad of the

Ortega family—the grandfather of the

present senor—foresaw trying times for

the Spanish-Mexican settlers. On one

point he was safe; his title to his land

was unimpeachable. He sold a great tract

of land and many of his cattle. Instead

of investing the money or even paying

his debts, he hoarded the gold. No one

knew where it was hidden, so when a





horse threw the senor, killing him in-

stantly, the secret of Uhe gold’s hiding

place was lost.”



“But do you mean that it was never

found? Surely a thoro search would be

made for it.”



“I presume that the Ortegas searched

for it, but they are so confoundedly proud

that they never talked of the matter.

Others have searched the grounds, and

even broken into the house, to look in

vain for the hidden treasure. It’s been

a curse to the family, for the present

senor and his father were contented to

sit still and see their fortunes go to ruin,

expecting that by some miracle the gold

would be returned to them."



“How much was there of it?”



“No one knows,” Smith said with a.

laugh. “Some versions or the tale put it

at a round million, but I’ve an idea that

thirty thousand dollars would be a con—

servative estimate.”



Guy whistled. “I say it’s hard luck for

the old senor and his daughter. When

I have time I’ll do a little exploring. It

seems to me there are plenty of hiding

places in the old house. Now I’m for bed;

my ride made me sleepy.”



John rose early the next morning. He

found that Sin Le had fed the horses and

was at work getting breakfast.



“More to cook for bimeby maybe?” the

Chinaman asked.



“Not for a time; we expect to care for

Our own cows and milk. \Ve will have

to have help, tho, to fit the ground and

put in more fruit trees, and we may have

to board the men.”



“All lite,” was Sin Le’s cheery re-

sponsc.



John left the house by way of the court.

He crossed over to the arbor, deciding

that the grape vines must be pruned and

cut 'back.



“It should have been done before,” he

murmured impatiently. "I believe these

leisurely Spanish people never did any-

thing until they had to do it. Now I

know nothing about these fruit trees. If

Ortega would only prove neighborly I'd

be glad to make the information he could

give me well worth while to him.”



After a stroll thru the orchard John en-

tered the highway which was shaded by

a row of tall eucalyptus trees. He scanned

them with keen intercst. Not until he

heard :1. bell, which he. knew signified

that breakfast was ready. did he start

to retrace his steps. As he approached

the house where the Dru-gas hilt] taken





refuge. the front door opt-nod and a girl

stepped out. She \Vllikt‘ti down the path,

not sccing John until she was within a.





few feet of him. He had stopped, invol~

unlarily removing his hut.





Carina ()ricgu was of medium height,

slender. and willowy. llcr complexion

was olive but much lighter than many of

her compatriots, and her features were

delicately chisclml. She had large lumi—

nous brown eyes, and the heavy hair that

was piled high on her uncovercd head was

jt‘l‘illllt‘k and reflected the gleam of the

sunlight. The rose—pink of perfect health

flushed hcr rounded checks. She wore a





simple frock of pink gingham, and, altho

John had a due share of masculine ignor-

ance regarding feminine attire, he was

vaguely aware that the dress was made

in the mode of the present day and fitted

perfectly.



For an instant the eycs of the two met.

A dull red flush colored the girl‘s face and

neck. John concluded that it was the

flush of resentment rather than that of

embarrassment. Feeling sure she knewr

who he was, John bowed politely, saying:

“Good morning.”



Carina gave no response, save a stately

inclination of the head. Turning around

she walked back to the house which she

had just left. ,





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Chapter ll.—Getting Under Way.



As John walked on to the ranch house

he found his own face flushing. “She is

angry at our coming here,” he thot. “Now

that is like a child. Well, it will be easy
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enough to let them alone. I wish the old

man would sell that piece of land; it would

be better all around for them to move

away.”



He found Smith and Guy waiting for

him. They talked of various matters

over Sin Le's fine breakfast, for both the

easterners were eager to learn all they

could of the region where they had come

to make their home. The meal over.

Smith mounted his horse and started for

Los Angeles.



That was a busy day for the owners

of Ortega Ranch. They started out to

tramp thoroly over the place. Two hours

later they saw their herd of cattle com-

ing, and hastened to meet the drivers

and make arrangements for the disposi-

tion of the cows. The run-down condition

of the ranch was brot anew to their no-

tice by the discovery that, unless some

repairs were made at once on the corrals

and the few fences, the cows would have

the range of the entire ranch.



"One of us must ride over to the village

and see if we can get a man to help with

the work,” Guy said. “You go, John, for

you are a better judge of men than I am.

I will work at the corral while you are

gone and, at the same time, play cow-

boy.” .



John saddled Dick, his spirited black,

and started for Capistrano. The ride was

a. delightful one, for the sky arched over

the valley, a dome of pale, clear blue. and

the sunlight swept in masses of golden,

unbroken light, from the sparkling sea to

the distant hazy mountaintops. .



The village was picturesque but squalid,

many of the adobe houses being in ruins.

John’s keen eyes saw that a few modern

buildings were being erected, all grouped

near the station. He was interested in

the town; its growth and prosperity would

add to the ranch’s value.



First, John rode to the station where

he completed the arrangements for ship-

ping the cream that had been commenced

cver the telephone. Then he asked the

agent if he knew of a man who could be

hired, to commence work at once.



“I know of a dozen Mexicans who need

work right bad, but I am not sure how

much they can be depended on. Pedro is

as good as any of the lot. That‘s him

coming down the street. I’ll call him

over here.”



In response to the call of the station

agent the Mexican leisurely approached.

“'hcn he learned who John was, Pedro's

face. brightened.



“The new senor from Ortega Ranch,”

he repeated. “It is hard for Senor Jose

Ortega. It is hard to be poor and viejo.”





“It is hard for any of us to be poor,

and we will all be old some day." the

agent said a little flippantly. “What

Mr. Martin wants is a man that he can

depend on.”



Pedro asked many questions. not only

about the work and the price to be paid

for it, but also about John‘s plans for the

ranch. At last the Mexican promised to

start for Ortega Ranch as soon as he had

eaten his lunch. John offered to furnish

him with his meals, but Pedro shook his

head.



“I will each day bring my lunch in a.

basket. The Chinamanwliah! It would

be rice and rats, while a Mexican can





work only when he has frijol es and

Chilli.” ,,

John laughed good-naturedly. I am





.willing that you should feast on beans

and pepper. Yes, I know a little Span-

ish, altho I am not sure but mine is the





stiltcd language of the library, rather

than the conversational medium of the

marketplace.”





“\Yhat does Senor Ortega say because

he is driven from his home?” Pedro asked

suddenly.



“\Vhat? Now see here, Pedro. , VVe—

my cousin and I—bot the ranch all fair

and square. Senor Ortega has no right

to feel aggrieved, and it’s no other per-

son's business.”



“Si. senor. But it has been the home

of the Ortegas, always. When they find

the hidden gold they will buy it back. Or

it may be that you will find it.”



“Perhaps you will find it yourself,

Pedro, if you dig postholes enough this

afternoon," John said as he turned away,



The day was all too short for the many

tasks which the two young men tried to

crowd into it. One of the, things they did

was to unpack the cream separator and

set it up in one. of the various rooms that

adjoined the kitchen. W'hen the milking

was done and John began to separate the

milk, Pedro’s astonishment was un-

bounded.



“It is magic, senor,” and the Mexican

slyly crossed himself. When John had





given a somewhat lengt'hy explanation.

Pedro asked, “But why does not the senor





fasten the wonder machine to the cow?





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THE ‘ ‘MICHIGAOISOI PARME‘R.





Then I am surethere would be no need

to milk the waste milk."



JOhn’s ringing laugh caused even the

stolid Sin Le to glance in at the open

door.



“Mr. John be velly glad. That all lite,”

he muttered. going back to like cooking.



Again the next morning John was the

first one up and dressed. He started for

the corral where the cows had been kept

all night, a. milk pail on each arm. Ashe

walked along he saw a figure moving

around among the trees west of the

house. John skirted the arbor and en-

tered the orange grove, to find a tall,

spare Indian woman standing on a box,

deliberately selecting the ripest oranges

from the low-growing limbs of a tree. A

basket stood at the woman's feet, and in

it were a half dozen grapefruits, evidently

picked from the only tree on the ranch,

and a quantity of lemons. Beside the

basket lay a bouquet of the best of the

flowers tlhat grew among the weeds in the

garden.



“Now what’s the meaning of this?"

John cried testily.



The Indian woman waited to pick one

particularly fine orange before she de—

scended to the ground. Then she faced

John. It was impossible for him to ar—

rive at any conclusion regarding her age;

her face was wrinkled and worn, but she

carried herself proudly erect, and the

eyes that met John's gaze were clear and

steady.



“What do you want?” she asked in a

slow, monotonous voice.



'Bhe question was so incongruous with

John’s state of mind that, notwithstand-

ing his vexation, he smiled. "I want to

know what you mean by helping yourself

to my fruit and flowers. I am one of the

new owners of Ortega Ranch and, while

I would be willing to give you some fruit,

I do not care to have you helping yourself

in this manner.”



“But it is for the Senor and Senorita

Ortega. VVana would not touch it for

herself. but surely the Ortegas—“Thy, all

is theirs.”



“Now there is where you are mistak-

en,” John said in a. firm voice. “Do you

live there?” and he pointed to the old

adobe house on the other side of the road.



The Indian woman threw out her hands

with a sweeping gesture. “\Vhere else

can “’ana, live? Have you not drove the

Ortegas—even the blessed Senorita Car-

ina—to dwell in that hovel?”



“No, I‘ve not. We hot the ranch, pay-

ing a fair price for it. And now that we

have hot it, it is ours.”



“But do you expect the Senorita Carina

to go without the fruit that she loves and

the flowers, too? ‘Vhy should you care?

The Ortegas always gave to whomever

needed.”



“That may account for their present

poverty. Take home what you have

there. but, when you want more, come

and ask for it.”



John turned on his lapel and strode off.

At breakfast be related the incident to

Guy. “'hen tlhey left the table, Pedro

was in the court. waiting for directions.

Jolm asked him about the Indian g'onian.



Y“She was born here, and her mother

was a mission Indian that the Ortegas

took in when the church was taken from

the padres. Old “'anu would die for the

Ortegas. “'hy, senor, I do not see how

they could live without her. She cares

for the cow that feeds in the single little

pasture and for the senorita‘s pony. She

cooks and scrubs."





“What does the senorita do?” Guy

asked.

“Ah, the poor senorita! All day she





toils at the drawnwork, such as the

women of her race have made for ages.

“'hen it is done she sells it at the stores

of the city, so that her father may have

bread. And he is an Ortega. one whose

family has lived here in plenty, always.”



"There is no use talking, John, we are

interlopers," Guy said. as the two young

men walked on to the corral. after giv-

ing Pedro orders for the day. “I wish

the Ortegas were a thousand miles

away.”



Just then John caught his r-ompanion‘s

arm. “There he is——the old senor. It is

the first time that I have seen him.”



The old man was walking along the

highway. He was tall and stooping. His

wide-rimmed hat gave the on-lookers only

a glimpse of a pale, smoothly-shaven face

and long gray hair.



“I say it’s hard lines for him,” John

murmured. “Let VVana take the fruit."



“And we might send them over some

cream. Oh, they have a cow of their

own. Well, we’ll try to make friends.”



That proved impossible: it was evident

that both the senor and his daughter

avoided meeting tlheir new neighbors.

John accosted IVana when She was milk-





ing the cow and bade her come for the

fruit when she pleased.



“Of course I shall come," was the old

Indian woman's cool reply. “Why should

I not? It is for the Ortegas.”



Two weeks went by. In that time there

were several rainy days that interfered

with the work that John and Guy were

carrying on with so much energy. They

built fences enough so that the cows

could be kept in the fields selected as

pastures. Already they had commenced

the pruning of the trees and the clearing

up of the ground surrounding the house.

Realizing their own ignorance on many

points, the young men called upon Sam

Marshall, 3. native-born Californian who

had lived upon a ranch in the valley for

many years, to ask his advice.



Mr. Marshall was most cordial. “I’ll be

glad to tell you anything about fruit-

raising that I know, and I’ve got a mighty

fine young orange grove coming On. I

want you to know that every ranch-

owner within a radius of twenty miles

rejoices to see Ortega Ranch in new

hands. Why, flhat’s the best piece of land

in the valley, if it was properly irrigated





and fertilized.”





"We are happy to learn that,” Guy said

cheerlly. “You see we‘ve got to make a.

success of the ranch, for every dollar

that we are worth is going into it and

our stock. It’s hard luck for that old

man, tho.”



"Ortega is to blame himself. You see,

friends, tlhe world does move; if a man

can't keep up with the procession he had

better get out of the way. Ortega would

do neither, and he was run over. He has

always made us fellows that take off our

coats and work feel that he that we were

dirt. It’s hard for the girl, tho; slhe‘s





good stuff. Now about those trees.”





When the two ranchers went home they

carried a list of the trees that Marshall

had advised them to put out. Their

enthusiasm had been quickened by the

interview. Already each saw, as in a

vision, the fine home that he hoped to

make for himself in the golden west.



They worked hard, but the beauty of

the valley, with its encircling hills, often

tempted them to mount their horses and

go for a long ride. Twice they went

down to the sea, going for a plunge into

the salt water. Both were enthusiastic

fishermen, and they began to look for a

row—boat that they could purchase.



The gasoline engine, to replace the

windmill, had been ordered and arrived in

due time. One night the cousins went to

bed, expecting to remove the old windmill

the next morning.



They woke to find the mountains ob-

scured by mist. While they were at the

breakfast table, rain began to fall.



“No out-door work today,” Guy said,

rising and sauntering to the window. “See

how the dark, tumbled cloud-masses seem

to drop lower and lower!”

‘They busied themselves with

tasks during the forenoon. At noon the

rain had ceased. Soon the clouds parted,

and the sunlight kindled into life. myriads

of brilliants in the drops that were pen-

dant from twig and leaf.



Guy left the house, while John sat

down at his desk to complete a letter he

had begun. He was Signing his name

when he was startled by a loud crash.





various





“‘Vhat‘s that?" .lohn cried, springing

up. “That was not far away.”

“It was windmill. Mr, Guy pushed it





over on him," Sin Le said in a. matter-

of—fact voice.



John ran from the. house. The wind-

mill had fallen, and Guy was not to be

seen.



“Guy! Guy! IV'here are you?" John

called, even as he ran forward.



’l‘lhcre was no reply. Ere John could

reach the spot where the ruined mill lay,

Carina Ortega. came running down the

path. She had been about to mount her

pony just as the old mill fell, and had

seen it strike Guy to the earth.



“He is under there. We must get 'him

out. Have the Chinaman come, and I

will call “'ana, for she is as strong as a

man,” the girl said in a calm voice.



Her calmness steadied John. He saw

that he could not lift the timbers that

pinned Guy to the earth without assist-

ance. There was no need to call; both

\Vana and Sin Le came running to the

spot. Ry their united efforts the timbers

were lifted away, 'but Guy Cross was un-

conscious, the blood trickling down from

a wound upon his head.



“I fear he is seriously hurt.” John said.

unable to keep his voice steady. “We

must get him to the house and have a

doctor.”



“I will ride to the village for Doctor

Encino.” Catrina said, laying one hand

upon John’s arm. to attract his attention.

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died. and I will be glad to go. ‘Let Wana"





go to the house with you and minister

to the injured man. She is skilled in the

use of restoratives.”



Without waiting for either thanks or

refusal she ran away. As John, Wana,

and Sin Le carried the unconscious man

to the house they heard the sound of the

pony’s galloping hoofs. Carina had start—

ed after the doctor. -



(To be continued).





IN SCHOOLDAYS.





BY APPRECIATIVE TEACHER.





 





 





 





"A little nonsense now and then

Is relished by the best of men,”





and by women, too.

wasted of all days is that on which we

have not laughed,” said George Eliot.

Some of my days have been “thoroly

wasted" if measured by that standard,

and I doubt not you could count an equal

number—days when the body was too

utterly weary for laughter and days when

the heart was too heavy for mirth; days

when we added some tears to the portion

of the earth’s surface which we learned

at school was composed of salt water.



I haVe often been asked to tell some of

the funny things which have happened

in my schoolrooms. Children certainly do

and say laughable things. I once heard

a lecturer say that a thing which a child

said was often amusing when if a grown

person had said it, it would not have

provoked a smile.



Some of the things which sound com-

ical to us grown-ups were very real to

the little folks. For instance, there was

the little fellow who didn’t see why

teacher had to put a new word on the

boa-rd every day, and the case of the

small boy who came early one morning

and talked to me while the other pupils

were sliding on a near-by pond. This was

part of the conversation: “Teacher, I

ain’t doin’ down on the pond adin’.”

“Why not?” I questioned. “’Cause I

promised ma I wouldn’t.” “Then you

shouldn’t go, of course,” I replied. There

was a pause, and then, since there was

something more, he asked, “Do you know

why?" “No.” “I got a yickln’ last

night!”



One afternoon a wee mite stopped in

the middle of a sentence on the black-

board and pointing solemnly to my

glasses inquired, “Teacher, can you take

them things off?” I assured him that

it was possible; illustrated it to his satis-

faction, and the reading continued."



One 'morning in early fall a primary

number class was reciting. “There is a.

wagon out there." I said; “how many

wheels has it?” “Four.” “If one should

be broken how many would be left?” At

this juncture in the proceedings two little

hands were waved violently, and their

small owner cried out excitedly, “That

ain't a wagon, it's a threshing machine!"

One had passed on the opposite side from

where the wagon stood in the next yard,

and of course the busy eyes had spied it.



A mouse tormented us one term. He

was evidently an educated mouse and

had not been to school for naught. He

shunned stryohnine and rough-on-rats,

but devoured with relish the backs of any

books that had been mended with paste,

and ate bait from traps with impunity.

One day in desperation the children

chased him into a hole, stopped securely

every opening into the room and then——

waited breathlessly with brooms, shingles

and erasers for him to come out.



The word “wait” occurred in a first

grade reading lesson, and no one could

tell it. “What do you say to a man going

past when you want to ride with him?”

“Hey!” cried a shrill voice triumphantly.



One boy in describing “an old field

school,” of “’zishington’s time, said, “The

schoolhouse was built on a field that

wouldn't raise crops of anything else."



A boy in the third grade began Longfel—

low’s poem, “The Children,” in a char—

acteristic way: “Come to me, 0 ye chil-

dren, and whistle in my ear.” It was also

a. third grader who rendered the sentence

about a baby watching the mean. “He

wanted to play with it as one of his

toys.” in this wise: “He wanted to play

with it as one of his toes.”



Hearty indeed was the laugh which fol-

lowed the reading of a story about seek-

ing gold at the end of the rainbow. A

boy with a deep, strong voice read the

sentence, “I lost all my treasures,” but

as be rendered it, it became, “I lost all

my trousers!"



One Friday afternoon we had a list of

trees to guess. One was "iihe school-

master’s tree.” The correct answer was

“the birch,” but teachers in Michigan

counties where a certain commissioner

is known will appreciate the‘anrswer of





   





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a fourth grader: _ ~



One day several ,boysand girls Were

They'had poor lessons, of

course. That seems to be them!) of

play school, and the folly of real school,

and the teacher said, “If you don’t have

better lessons tomorrow I’ll bring a. raw-

hide." “I hain’t afraid of that,” declared

one. "Then I’ll bring a cooked hide."



Before I taught school I thot that the

compositions of School children published

in papers were made by someone Who

was paid by the line, but I’ve changed

my mind a good deal. Here is a sample

that I received when I asked a third

grader to write about some bug:



A Stinking-Bug.



A stinking-bug stinks very bad and is

about the size of a bean. They have four

legs and a three-cornered body, and they

stink just awful bad. They stay down

south in the winter.



A boy said, on History examination,

that “\Vebster and Ashburton signed the

boundary line between Maine and New

Brunswick.” The Physiology class has

furnished many funny remarks. I have

heard the joints in the head called both

“dove-winged" and “duck—tailed,” the

mineral foods “iron and steel, salt and

pepper,” and learned that color-blind per—

sons can’t tell black from white.



Here are tw0 particularly witty an—

swers: “Why can we bite harder with

our back teeth than with our front ones?”

“Because they’re double.” “Why does a

cigar make a man’s mouth smart?” “Be-

cause smarties smoke ’em."



The children used to love to watch me

draw, and have me make outline pictures

for them to color, often doing some work

for me in order that I might ‘have time.

Once as I was so engaged a little tot

asked what kind of flowers I was draw-

ing. I replied, “Harebells.” A little

later, as I drew some more on another

paper, she cried, “There’s some more

cowbellsl”



I hope the uninitiated will not imagine

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agements, and remember these little

amusing episodes, and the big red apples

on our desks, (I had eighteen, all too

hard for any mortal to consume, on the

cellar shelf one winter). We remember

these things that stirred the surface of

the school life, even as the ripples are

visible on the water long after the pebble

that set them in motion lies quietly on

the bottom.





“Memory stands sidewise,

with flowers,

And reveals every rose but secretes the

horn.”

“I wrote down my troubles every day

And after a few short years

\Vlhcn I turn to the heartaches passed

away

I read them with smiles, not tears.”

“I remember the children who loved me

In the beautiful village of Yule.”





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





STILL AHEAD.





 





BY MAY ELIZABETH WHITE.





Professor Pratt was young'and shy,

When first he taught in Manks,~

And teasing pupils used to try

His patience with their pranks.





They liked to hear his harrassed “hem,"

And see his blushes red;



But when he tried to punish them,

They somehow got ahead.





Lucile, Gracie Gale and Nellie Wright,

The leaders of the set, "



He kept till five o’clock one night,

With problems hard to get.





At their quotation hour next morn

The room became so still



The restless rustle of the corn

Was heard upon the hill.





The silence seemed to grow until



Lucile looked in his face:

“With all thy faults I love thee still;"

“ 'Tis sweet to love,” said Grace.





Professor gave an anxious start,

As Nell looked in his eye:



“The hours I spend with thee, dear heart,”

She gave a gentle sigh,





“Are as a string of pearls to me.”

A chuckle came from Ned,



The room was full of muflled glee,

The girls were still ahead.





THE PINNATED GROUSE OR PRAIRIE

CHICKEN,





 





BY HATTIE WASHBURN.





With the exception of that disagreeable

little foreigner, the English sparrow, the

Pinnated grouse is the only bird which,

having braved the long, cold winter on

the frozen, windeswept prairies, remains

to enjoy our temperate summers. Strictly

a bird of the prairies, it is still seen in

most of the prairie states at all seasons,

and its melodious booming is one of the

most pleasant harbingers of spring.



During the winter these birds live in

flocks, some consisting of a hundred mem—

bers or more. When the mating season

arrives a flock may be heard on some

booming place morning after morning, the

males booming forth their love songs with

a harmony that sounds not unlike the

low notes of a great organ which can be

heard in the still morning air for a dis-

tance of two miles or more. Some valo-

rous male, erecting his long pinnates or

neck feathers, inflating the orange-colored

sacs upon the sides of his neck and

uttering a loud booming sound, rushes

upon a rival. If the bird thus challenged

lacks the courage to meet the onset, he

passes underneath his assailant as the

latter bounds into the air. This gives

their contest the appearance of play, and

by some it is thot to be such; but, the

these sham battles may be repeated many

times, they often become battles in ear-

nest. Two rival males will fight long and

desperately, until the heads and necks of

both are dripping with blood, while the

innocent cause of this strife looks on

and adds her excited cackling to that of

other females.



The same booming places are used year

after year. One is known to the writer

which has been trodden smooth each sea-

son for more than twenty years, tho the

low hill on which it is situated has been

cultivated during a part of that time.



At nesting time the female chooses a.





site and makes the nest—a slight de-

pression in the earth, lined with leaves

and grasses and sometimes a few feathers

from her 'own breast. It may be con-

cealed by a low brush or thick clump of

prairie grass, but often it might be plainly

seen did not the plumage of the sitter

so closely resemble the dry grass about

her. Unaided she carries on incubation

and cares for her chicks—sturdy little

fellows resembling beautiful balls of

brown and yellow down,



Few of the feathered kindred of the

wild have more sturdy young. The

prairie chicks leave the nest in a few

hours after hatching. At that tender

age, when most birds are able only to

raise their heads on frail, unsteady necks

and open their mouths in a silent appeal

for food, those beautiful little balls of

fluffy brown and yellow are eager to be-

gin the journey of life, under the guid-

ance and protection of the prairie hen.



For many years the writer has been a





(11) 475





domestic hen. While wild ducks and

geese are quite frequently raised in cap-

tivity, prairie chicks, so far as I have

known, under the same treatment will

pine away and die, unless they escape and

wander away to meet their fate.



‘From a prairie chicken’s nest which

was accidentally destroyed by the plow,

the farmer rescued seven eggs. They

were about to hatch, and incubation was

completed by a domestic hen. Three

chicks came as her reward but the poor

foster mother found little comfort with

her adopted children, tho she lavished

upon them all the fussy attention instinct

prompted her to devote to her progeny.

They refused to eat and remained with

her only because close captivity com-

pelled them to do so. Human agency at-

tempted to aid the bewildered hen, but

despite all efforts the cute little pets

pined away and died.



Ere their early deccase the prairie

chicks were photographed on an old bison





 





Prairie Chicks Inspecting one of the Bison Skulls which Strew the Western Prairies.





close observer of bird life on the prairies,

and tho I have seen countless prairie

chickens and found many nests, in one

instance only have I seen the chicks

within the nest. That was not by

chance, but the result of many trips to

the spot after having flushed the hen

from her new-laid eggs. The beautiful

sight of the fluffy prairie chicks struggling

among the newly rejected shells was

ample reward for all my painstaking.

Even then, when some of their number

were scarcely dry, they frequently dashed

from the nest and began peeking at the

leaves as tho gathering insects. But for

my restraining hands they would have

wandered forth into the long grass, and

perhaps have strayed beyond recall be.—

fore the startled mother returned to claim

her own.

The Chicks in Captivity.



The restless spirit of the prairie chicken

shows in a marked degree in captivity,

even tho the chicks are hatched under a





 





Nest of Prairie Hen with its Brood of Fluffy Brown Chicks.





The Chicks remain in Nest Only a Few Hours.





skull, an old time-worn relic of a. race

that once in vast numbers roamed the

prairies that shall know them no more.

All uncomprehcnding the grim signifi—

cance of the skull, the restless chicks,

offspring of a race that may know the

same fate unless the hunter stays his

hand, glided away and attempted to es-

cape.



A prairie chick was once captured in a

poultry yard. Fold, hungry and alone at

the approach of night. captivity for such

a waif would seem a blessing, but he died,

as have all other captive prairie chicks I

have ever known. The cause of that

Chick’s misfortune was never known.

Perhaps he was 1.1. survivor of a brood

attacked by a bird of prcy or prowlcr of

the plain. Perhaps he strayed too far

from the prairie hcn, who, unaided by the

cock, rcars hcr numerous family amid all

the dungcrs which bcsct them and, unable

to hear and answer her cull of maternal

concern, wundcrcd on and on in exhaus-

tion to meet captivity and (loath. That

tiny waif was :i stray paragraph.from one

of the closed chapters in the great book.

of nature.



The prairie hen is a dcvotcd mother

and will allow an enemy to approach very

closely as, apparently limping painfully

and dragging a. broken wing, sho entices

him from her young. T'pon hearing her





cucklc of maternal concern. hcr offspring

conceal themselves so quickly and effect-

ually, evcn whci'c thci‘c sccms to be small

chance for ('oncculnlcllt, as to cause the

inli'udcr to wondci‘.



The food of the prairie chicken consists

Of gmsshomwrs :lnd oihcr insects. with

gross and the buds and lcuvcs of plants,

until ihc grain has ripcncd in the fields,





at which time they make slight inroads

in the crops. in winter they gather rose

fruit, wccd seeds and the scattered grain

in the ilclds. \Vhon the snow lies deep

on the prairie the grouse are oftcn seen

about the stocks in the farm yards.



Their flight is swift, considering the

size of the body. and consists of a rapid

beating of the. wings succeeded by a long,

graceful soil. They are quite often killed

or wounded by flying against wires. I

once saw one that had flown against a

telegraph wire with such force as to meet

instant death and entirely sever one wing

from the body.



A great many eggs are destroyed each

season by skunks, badgers and other

four-footed robbers, by fires and by the

plowshare. The young, also, meet with

many disasters, since they must pass the

first week of their lives upon the ground,
476- on

protected only by the similarity of their,

plumge to their surroundings. their in-_

stinct of concealment and the cunning

and devotion of their mothers. But de-

spite these hardships the prairie chickens

would undoubtedly increase steadily were,

it not for the hunters who pursue them

with such relentless slaughter that their-

extermination is but a question of time.



The open season for these birds varies

in the different states. In some, threat-

ened extermination has been stayed by

IaWs prohibiting their term of slaughter

for a term of years. In some instances

the number of birds which a sportsman

may kill is limited, but despite such pre-

cautionary measures these birds are dis-

appearing at a rate which is truly appal-

ling to the bird lover, and these interest-

ing creatures which are quite conflding

during the nesting season soon become

so wild as to arise in swift flight the

moment a human being is sighted.



Picturesque in their native haunts and

ever in keeping with their surroundings,

the passing of the Pinnated grouse will

lose to the prairie another of its charms.

Another interesting page will have been

torn from the books of nature by a heed-

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to the bank to make her deposit. The

short. brisk walk was grateful after the

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but I couldn’t get away. See you to-

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calendar with black.



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had left the office at the usual time and

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of Jimmy, and she fell into the row of

depositors who shortly before three o’clock

lined up in front of thé receiving teller's

window. -



There was only one man at the window

of the paying teller, a very ordinary man

Corinthia thot him, tho in sheer justice

it should be stated that in Corinthia’s

estimation men were divided into two

classes—Jimmy and the rest. And when

she was vainly looking for Jimmy, Apollo

himself would have assumed disappoint-

ing proportions.



But those restless eyes of Corinthia’s,

intent upon anything but the business of

the hour, suddenly perceived something

that was not ordinary. For as the paying

teller turned his head a moment she saw

a flash of green, as tho one of the piles

of bank notes upon the counter had sud—

denly been endued with life and darted

thru the opening of the cage. Then the

teller turned, and the ordinary man

leaned forward to hear What he had to

say. It had happened so quickly that

for a moment She suspected herself of

being the victim of hallucination. Then

that doubt passed, and she realized the

need of instant action.



Jimmy was at her side as she stepped

out of the line. “Sorry, girlie, but the

old man held me up. I~—-— What?"



Corinthia's lips were close to his ear.

“Get a policeman,” she breathed. “I'll

keep the man till you come." How she

was to do it she did not know. The plan

took shape as she crossed the floor.



There were several in line at. the pay-





'l‘he man on

had fixed her eye was

\\'ith a little

spring she overtook him, catching him

by the sleeve. and he turned. white.

and startled. to meet a smile and a pair

of eyes archly uplifted.





window now.





ing teller‘s

whom Corinthia

striding toward the door.





“I really believe you were going to go

without speaking to me," laughed Cor-

inthia. “Now I call that mean of you."

She held out her hand with such per-

sistence that the man had no choice but

to take. it. He was in a desperate hurry.

but he fully realized the necessity of

seeming at his case.



“I rather guess you‘ve got hold of the

wrong man," he said. with a glance in-

tended to be expressive of gallantry.

“My name‘s l'luckins.”



“Even if I'd forgotten your name I

should remember you." (“orinthia laughed.

and I'm real mad if you've forgotten

me.” She put her head a little to one

side as she regarded him. her bright eyes

brimming over with mischief. “Then of

(nurse you can't remember the, fun We

had at the restaurant that night. 0. I

see by your looks you've forgotten that,

14m,”



“You‘ve got me." said the man with an

uneasy laugh. He wa< honestly puzzled.

“'hcther the girl had really been a sharer

in one of the more innocent adventures

of his crowded life, or whether she had

mistaken him for someone else, he did

not know. But he realized with a sense

of irritation that she was delaying him

unwarrantahly.



“See here. I’m in a hurry. I ought

to see a man at three. But I’ll look you

up some day and we‘ll talk it over.”





“I’ll give you a card with my address

then.” Corinthia opened her bag and

began to hunt. A young fellow, one of

the bank clerks, and a friend of Jimmy’s.

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lacked as ifhe wanted to get away.

“And it wouldn’t do any good to give

Jim a, tip;" thot the bank clerk with a

sigh. “He’s too far gone for that, poor

old chap."



Corint'hia's protracted search. had as

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two.” .



“You want to make me think you've

got an awfully good memory. don't you?"

Corinthia’s arm slipped thru his arm, and

he realized that there would 'be something

suspicious in his pulling away from the

detaining clasp of so pretty 3. girl. “You

know if I told you my address you'd

forget it before you turned the corner,

just as you’ve forgotten my name. Lend

me your pencil and I'll write it down."





The pencil came out with a jerk.

“'Quick then," said the perturbed Mr.

Huckins. At any minute the alarm might





be given, tho he thot it unlikely that the

discovery of the loss would be made

until after three o'clock. And once he

was safe outside, 'the fact that he had

lingered chatting with a girl would help

to turn aside suspicion from his

direction.



Corinthia rested the piece of paper

against his arm and wrote a name and

address. the first that occurred to her,

in a slow and painstaking fashion. “Say,

are you making out a directory?” growled

the man, annoyance getting the better

of his assumed politeness,



“Almost done,” Corinthia assured him.

Thru the revolving door she had caught

a glimpse of a familiar figure. She gave

the slip of paper into Mr. Huckins’ hands,

and he thrust it into his pocket without

stopping to read it. He took a step for-

ward and faced a big policeman.



“That's the man.” Corinthia cried.

Then she, put her fingers in her cars and

ran into a corner, where she could neither

see nor hear the rcsl.



A very brief examination revealed in

the pocket of Mr. Iiuckins' overcoat a

package of bank notcs which had no busi-

ness there. In the explanations that en-

sued Corinthia was brot out of her cor-

ner and thanked and congratulated by

all. with the solitary exception of Mr.

Huckins. whose vcngcful glance haunted

her dreams for many a night. It proved

that he was wanted by the police in

several cities and it did not need Cor-

inthia's testimony to secure him accom-

modations at an cstublislmn-m whose

boarders are noted for their permanency.





It was a year bcforc Jimmy and Cor-

ini’hia went to houseke’wping. A long timc

they that it, but it was not long cnough

for the girl’s plucky :md timcly action to

be forgoiicn. A certain chock. conspicu-

ous among Corinlhiu‘s gifts.

spokc eloquently of and

gratitude.





wedding

remembrance





TWO POINTS OF VIEW.





BY EUGENE C. DOLSON.





 





The school-course done. he oftcn turned

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This is a restless age we‘re living in,

and its restlessness is nowhere more

seen than in the realm of dress. In our

own boyhood, fashion changed slowly.

Men were content to go on, year in, year

out, with little variation in the style of

the clothes they wore. In these days

they almost seem to vie with the fair sex

in their eagerness for variety in coloring,

and in change of fashion, and the ques-

tion, as a man comes to buy a. new suit

or overcoat, is, what is being worn now?



You have probably observed that where

a really decided change does take place in

style, certain young men seem bent on

going to the extreme limit of that style.

This is particularly true immediately af-

ter its introduction. Presently. however,

the more conservative forces assert them-

selves and the new mode. which at first

took Von so extreme a form, is adopted on

modified lines 'by the majority of men.

It is :here that we would caution our

readers in the selection of their clothes.

Never choose the decided-1y extreme, for,

while it may please you temporarily. be-

fore t'he month is out the chances are that

you will regret your selection, as the more

conservative dreSS will then be considered

better form.



Now, we want to take up a question,

more as a matter of instruction than any—

thing else. for the time has come when

the young man of the farming community

is about as well posted on good form as

his city brother.



Firstly. the materials. Tailors, wher-

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who would risk their trade on anything

else. Then. they rave about the supcrior

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:1 matter of fact, the finest canvas, hair

cloth. linings. etc. are today consumed

principally by the big clothing manufac-

turcrs. and this is the only logical ouilct

for them, as is plainly to be soon, wlu-n

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clothing archiiccturc and building. It is

quite absurd for any tailor to claim that.

at the prices the great majority are will-

ing to pay. they can furnish bcitcr work-

manship than is offered by the high grade

1‘ca(l,\'-t'o-\vcar garments of today. for

every part in the construction of clothcs

”by those great manufacturcrs is thc work

of a high suluricd SDOCliill’St.



Now. as to (he price. for this is a con-

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goods in small cuts and from n jobber

who is about i‘hrcc or four timcs rcmovcd

from the sourcc of material.

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It is only in the last ten yours that





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Why Not Teach Girls How to Raise Babies ?





 





Why is it that a lot of time and not a

little money are spent on teaching girls

things which it does not matter much

whether they know or not; while things

of vital importance to their future hap-

piness and well being are carefully omit-

ted from their curriculum, under tihe mis-

taken impression t'hat they do not need

to know such things, or that it would be

immodest to teach them.



Take the subject of the care and bring-

ing up of babies. No more important or

vital subject could be thot of for girls

to understand, and yet not one young

woman who marries has a bit of informa-

tion along that line unless she has been a

trained nurse.



For some reason babies are never

counted on the list of tihings girls must

know about, and I suppose I shall be t'hot

horribly indellcate for mentioning them in

this column. It is all right for a girl to

know'how to raise Angora. cats and lap

dogs, but to expect her to know how to

bathe and dress a. baby and the proper

sort of diet for a growing child, is asking

altogetlher too much. The subject of

childraising is never mentioned between

mother and daughter, no matter 110w

much they may discuss other.subjects.

They talk of dress and cookery, dances

and sleighing parties, beaux and hus-

bands, but never of babies. Indeed, the

feeling seems to be that the daughter is

never to have any babies. Of course, She

will marry. Heaven forbid that any girl

should live and die in single blessedness.

But the mother seems to think that in

some way the laws of nature will be

changed for her daughter, that her child

will be spared the trials and sorrows

which come to mothers, and thus be

(heated out of the crowning glory of

womanhood. Of course, all this talk of

mine is very shocking. But it is high time

that American mothers and daughters

were shocked in a. righteous cause. And

if I can succeed in arousing even one

woman to a sense of her duty, I shall

feel that I ‘have not lived in vain. Babies

are bound to come to homes so long as

homes exist. 'I‘hen Why not be sensible

about the matter and teach the girls who

are to be the mothers of the next genera-

tion, the best way to take care of them?





No criminal about to be executed, or

soldier walking into Uhe jaws of death is

so much to be pitied as the young mother

left alone for the first time with her own

child. Nurse and mother gone, she has

no one now to look to for advice, and

nothing but her own immature judgment

and pitiful ignorance to guide her. What

wonder tlhat infant mortality is so great!

The only wonder is that so few babies

die. Every time the infant cries, it is

either overfed or dosed with some drug

or concoction of herbs recommended by

an over—officious, tho well meaning, neigh—

bor. Happy is the young mother who

fceds her infant in the natural way. She

escapes a tremendous lot of worry. The

baby who is fed artificially may thrive

all right, but he is quite likely not to,

and before the mother learns how to feed





 





BUTTERMILK WITH BAKING

POWDER.





 





BY E. E. R.



Something which every housewife may

not know is that baking powder biscuit

are much more delicious when buttermilk

is used, instead of sweet milk, for wetting

up the dough. Baking powder biscuits

are a bugbear to the inexperienced cook

whose success is often a matter of luck.

Too much flour makes them hard. They

must be made as soft as it is possible to

handle them. Insufficient baking powder

for the amount of flour makes them soggy

and heavy, while too much shortening

renders them greasy. The exact and cor-

rect proportions of each of the ingredients

secures a product which delights all by

their delicacy and is satisfying to the

cook.



Here are some suggestions for those

whose attempts have not been entirely

successful.



First. secure good baking powder. Do

not try to work with a cheap article

which is sure to be disappointing. The

best brands cost more but are altogether

better in their results. Have pastry flour,

not bread flour, unless you «have a brand





him properly, he is all too often so near

death that it is a surprise to everyone

when he really begins to mend. As the

child grows older, the mother having

never been properly taught, is mort apt

not to pave the way for future indigestion

and its attendant ills. The good old way

was to bring the child to the table at

about six months of age and give it a

“taste of everything.” And the “good old

way” is still practiced by many young

mothers.



Mashed potatoes, vegetables that a. child

of ten years should not eat, frosting from

cake and even bits of pie are offered these

poor helpless babies, wiho, of course, eat

everything which is put into their mouths.

The greatest amount of sinning is done

in the feeding of sugar. Mothers who

would never think of offering their babies

a bit of scraped apple or a spoonful of

orange juice, will give them as much su-

gar in a day as an adult should eat. And

yet, the fruit would be beneficial to them,

while too much sugar ‘is as baneful in its

results as a mild poison. At the age of

two or three years, instead of being fed

largely on eggs, toast, crackers, bread,

potatoes, with beef and mutton as the

principal meats and, of course, fowl, the

children are eating cake, cookies, pie and

other rich and indigestible foods and

drinking tea and coffee. And the mother

excuses herself by the explanation that

Johnny or Susie doesn't like milk and

eggs and simply will not eat them. Well,

if Johnnie and Susie will not eat what is

good for them, dear mother, it is your

own fault. If you had started them in

on’ wholesome foods instead of on past-

ries, they would not know anything about

liking or disliking simple foods. Had

they been brot up to milk, eggs and bread

they would cry for bread now as insist—

ently as tlhey demand cake. Indeed, chil-

dren who have been brot up simply will

lay down a cooky any time for a slice of

good bread and butter.



Mothers make their great mistake in

asking children what they want to eat.

A child knows no more about what is

good for him to eat than he knows what

is good for him to play with. You would

not give him your scissors or the carving

knife to play with simply because he said

he wanted them and did not want a rub-

bcr ball.



Young mothers, begin right in dieting

your baby. And you mothers who have

started wrong, turn over a new leaf. You

say your child will not eat plain foods.

Try the experiment of letting him go

hungry for a day. It will not hurt him

in the least, and it will give him a good

keen relish for the sort of food that makes

robust men.



DOROTHY HUDSPITH.



(Mrs. Hudspith, who is a mother and

has been trained by one of the leading

child specialists, will be glad to answer

any query regarding the feeding or proper

care of children which mothers may care

to ask. In fact, any question of interest

to women will be gladly received and an-

swered in the women’s department of

the Michigan Farmer).





 





 





which is good in both capacities. V’Vinier

wheat makes pastry flour, while bread

flo'ur, specially prepared and sold as such,

is a blend of different varieties, largely

made up of spring wheat.



Measure into a siftcr two cups of the





flour, using a. measuring—cup which holds

half a pint, and four rounding teaspoon-

fuls of baking powder. Add one-fourth





teaspoon of salt and sift into a bowl.

Take a rounding tablespoon of lard and

with a silver fork work it into the flour

until the whole is blended. A fork is far

better than the fingers. Now have ready

:1 half cup of buttermilk and into it put

baking soda the size of a bean, or a little

more, fill the cup with cold water and

pour slowly into the oth‘er ingredients,

stirring steadily with the fork. It may

not require all of the cupful of wetting

and it may take a little more, depending

on the flour, but the dough should be just

soft enough so it can ’be turned out on

the molding board with only flour enough

to prevent sticking. Work quickly into

shape with the hands. without the addi—

tion of more flour, if possible, roll half

an inch tihick, cut in rounds with a half

pound baking powder can, place, not too

close together, in a 'baking pan and put





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They will begin to





rise at once and at the end of 10 to 15‘,“





minutes should be nicely brovmed, top

and bottom. This amount makes about

16 biscuits.



By following these instructions even the

novice should succeed. Bear in mind that

no more flour must be used than the re-

cipe calls for, unless to prevent the dough

sticking to the board, and do not attempt

to scrimp in the amount of baking pow-

der as the success of the whole operation





_ depends upon that.





WHAT THE SHOPS ARE SHOWING.





 





Fads and Reliable Models, what'to Buy

and What Not.





Everything is long coats in wraps for

this winter and they are wearing them to

the ankles instead of three-quarter

lengths, as heretofore. 'I‘he fad for the

season is the coat modeled after the

Moyen 'age, with a pleated skirt effect

from the knees down, on either side, or

clear around. Some have wide bands just

above the pleats running from the front

panel to the back. While these coats are

very stylish they are undoubtedly just

for the season, and if one is contemplat-'

ing purchasing a heavy coat 'to last them

several winters, it would be well to

choose a plain semi-fitting one, with little

or no trimming, and common-sized but-

tons, as these coats are always in style

and if one picks a good material in the

darker colors, it can be worn two or three

seasons and never look out of date, where

the extreme styles look like a back num-

ber the second year.



It is always good to remember this

when buying suits also, especially if the

wearer intends them to last more than

one season. The plain, tailor-made coats,

semi—fitting, are what the shops are

showing in the winter styles, with the

skirts pleated, either all the way from

band to hem, or from the knee to hem.

In fact, this style skirt is about all that

is selling in separate skirts, or with suits.



Black is the leading color and is now

prevailing in New York and other eastern

fashion headquarters. Dark blue and

grey are also good. Very little brown is

seen. Red is worn considerably and most

of the dresses are heavily trimmed in

braid and buttons.



The one—piece dress is still holding its

own and all the new models are cut that

way. They look well on almost any one,

and have considerable style. Another

thing- in their favor is that the wearer

doe-s not have to bother with belts or col-

lars, or making the waist and skirt stay

together in the back.



Long military capes are new and are

sh0wn plain and trimmed with buttons.

Sleeves are long except on evening dres-

ses. Now is an excellent time to'buy

silks as most stores are having their

annual silk sales. Dark colors and heavy

weight silks are preferable for waists

and dresses, except for evening use, when

light colors are in demand.





 





CH RISTMAS BARGAINS.





 





This term has no reference whatever

to the throngs crowding the store count-

ers, but to the commercial value of so-

called “presents” between friends—a

sorry misnomer for the debts that force

us to empty ou-r purses to keep our credit

good. Some mercenary souls, who expect

full return, or a little more, for value

received, have been known to sit down

and count the cost of their gifts ('2) and

sigh at how little they got in return, or,

on the other hand, to exult over the profit

on their side. And this in memory of the

birth of that Christ who drove the sordid

money changers out of the temple.



Of course, the “gentle reader” does

not do this—knowingly. But are you not

often more influenced by the price of the

gift you usually get from so-and-so, than

by your love for the giver, and what you

can afford, when choosing your present?



There are many well-to-do people who





distribute real Christmas gifts among

their less fortunate friends and are inex-

pressibly hurt to have their generosity





paid in full by the recipients, who were

obliged to make a sacrifice to do so, thus

(lcstroying all the pleasure on both sides.

More than one has said. “Oh, if they

would not try to pay me back, it would

be such a pleasure to remember them at

Christmas-time, when one could give so

gracefully some needed articleuor a lux-

ury.” It is like a slap in the face to such

people to have their gifts counted only

in dollars and cents, and flung back—as

much as to say, “Thank you, we are able

to buy such things ourselves.”



How much sweeter some little token,





made by our own hands, if possible, or‘





 





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It is the ghost in the home, haunting

every room and hitting at every fireplace,

making otherwise merry people shudder

and fear. If there is one disease more

than another that should be promptly at-

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It is the very genius of unhappiness. un-

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the best man almost into a demon of,





temper and make a good Woman some-

thing to be dreaded and avoided.



It is estimated that half of Ones trou-

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gone wrong—of Dyspepsia, in short.

Foods taken into the stomach and not

properly cared for; converted into sub-

stances that the System has no use for

and hasn't any notion what to do with.

It is irritated and vexed, pained and an-

noyed, and in a little While this state of

things becomes general and directly

there is “something bad to pay.” The

whole system is in a state of rebellion

and yearns to do something rash and dis-

agreeable and a fine case of Dyspepsia is

established and opens up for business.



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today. One writer says of it:



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ters, give to the blood a great wealth of

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stomach is the center.”



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just a.‘ "cheery letter—a heart-felt. greet-

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But .do not carry the home-made gifts

to'extremes. Don’t sit .up nights wasting

precious eyesight over too much orna-

mented~ uselessness, that nobody needs,

or particularly cares for. Don’t say you

have to give this, that or the other one

something. Don’t be “held up” by any-

body’s opinion. The writer broke away

from that tyranny years ago, and has

had a happier Christmas ever since.



The true spirit of the day is to give

most freely to those from whom we ex-

pect not to receive. Those of whom He,

‘whose birthday it is, says, “Inasmuch, as

ye have \done it unto one of the least of

these, ye have done it unto me."—E.

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GERMAN CHRISTMAS CAKES.





 





BY CHARLOTTE BIRD.





’ Even more than the American, the Ger-

man loves the Christmas festival and

with . him the celebration lasts a full

week. It is the season when the scattered

members of the family are again united

under the parental roof-tree. For a long

time beforehand all have been secretly

busy making and rbuying Christmas pres-

ents, for everybody must have something.

But all presents are made in the true

Christmas spirit and in money value may

be so slig‘ht as lightly to tax even a very

meager purse.- . ,



The repast which accompanies the tree

‘is not the real Christmas feast. It is only

a simple supper whose principle dish is

boiled fish with melted butter. But it does

seem as if a little more pains than usual

is taken to make it good.



The real feast comes on Christmas day

or some convenient day within the week.

instead of a turkey a roast goose is

likely to be served. As prepared by a

skillful German cook. Ibis is not too

greasy, but is rich and delicious and loses

little, if anything, when compared with

the turkey of other homes.



In Germany, candy like ours. is almost

unknown. There are, however, three

sweets essential to a German Christmas:

Marc‘hpane, or marzipan, as the Germans

call it, springerle and lebkuchen, or Ger-

man ginger cakes.



In America marchpane is

unknown,





practically

probably because almonds. its

principal ingredient, are comparatively

source. It is so delicious, tho, that one

always regrets not being able to eat

more. But its richness limits the quantity

to a very small allowance.



Here is the recipe from a German cook

book: To thirty ounces of blanched sweet

almonds add one ounce of bitter ones.

Pound fine in a mortar. Then add

twenty ounces of pulverized sugar. Place

over a slow fire and stir the mass till no

more adheres to the spoon. Then scatter

pulverized sugar over a moulding board.

place the marchpane on it and knead like

bread. Roll thin and mould into any

form desired. Place upon paper and bake

in a slow oven to a yellowish red. The

Germans

loaf cake and, after it is baked, ornament

the top with jelly. or with fruit of the

same material. It is often packed into

tiny baskets and so makes very acceptable

Christmas presents. Sometimes the

marchpane is made to take the form of

tiny animals. The favorite of these is the

gluckschwein or luck pig. To insure his

good fortune the owner should keep his

gluckshwcin till the following Christmas.

In the Christmas season the shop windows

are, well supplied with every form of

marchpane.



'I‘he springerle have now been imported

into America and have bccomc so com—

mon that they can be bot in many bake-

shops. Nevertheless, there is no reason

why they should not be made at home

after this method:



With the Dover egg-beater, beat to-

gether twelve eggs one hour. Add butter

the size of a walnut, four pounds of pul-

verized sugar, one teaspoon of baking

powder, mixed with the flour. and enough

flour to make a dough which will not

stick to the fingers. Then place in the

ice chest for one hour. Then roll out

to one—half inch thick, cut into sheets

and press them upon the lightly floured

moulds. These moulds can now be bot

in this country. Remove the moulds

carefully, cut the pictures apart with a

sharp knife and set on a table to dry and

rise over night. The next morning bake

in slightly buttered tins in a very slow

oven. Packed and put away in a dry,

cool cellar. these cakes will keep a long

time and improve with age.



A substitute for the lebkuchen, espe-

cially in communities largely German,

can now be bot in almost any American





mould it into a form like our,





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Home Queries Exchange

Column Conducted By

Elisabeth.





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Every day there are questions arising

in the home that perplexes the Wife,

mother and daughter, and they wish for

some one to advise them. We receive

many such queries and for the benefit of

our readers we are going to conduct this

Exchange Column. Write us what puz-

zles you and we will do our best to help

you. We are going to publish the ques-

tions and ask our readers to answer

them. No doubt there will be several of

you who know just what to do in each

case and can give the desired informa-

tion. In return we will print your ques-

tions. Any little points of etiquette, dress

or general information, we will answer as

soon as possible. Address all communica-

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Dept., The Michigan Farmer, Detrolt,

'Michigan. .

Mrs. G. S.:——To remove mildew from





white cloth, dampen it, then cover with

powdered French chalk and lay it in the

sun, when the chalk dries repeat the op-

eration until the spots are removed.



Mrs. Kate R.:—‘Dye your faded table

cover over a dark red or a brown, but

red will give the best results as that was

the original cover. Be sure and have it

perfectly clean and free from grease or

the dye .will not take well.





 





 





J. E. N.:——-Chickens crave a certain

amount of meat food and if your hens

are penned up that is the probable reason

for them eating the eggs. as they do not

get enough of it. Feed them meat scraps

occasionally. A safety nest will insure the

eggs. Make it with a chute to let the

eggs roll down into a lower box.





 





Miss Cora:-If pics are not thoroly

cooked they will become damp on the

bottom ‘when they stand. or if placed on

a cold plate immediately after being

taken from the oven they will sweat on

the bottom. Let them cool gradually then

place on plate. You might lay a clean,

white cloth under the pie which would

absorb the dampness.





Dear Editorz—Is it proper for the

bride’s two sisters and the groom's two

brothers to stand up with them at the

wed-ding?-——Reader.





 





Certainly, why not?





 





Dear Editor:—Plcase tell me the proper

pronunciation of the word “Collie.”—L. F.





The word is pronounced as spelled, with

the sound of “o” as in Mollie.





 





Dear Editor:—~I would like to have some

reader tell mc how to take iron scorch

out of cloth—Kittie M.





 





Dear Editor:

to make an

Housewife.





Will someone tell me how

English plum pudding.—





 





bakery. But in comparison with the na-

tive product any German housewife worth

her salt would scoff at these. In quality

they are too cheap for her. In fact, not

many Germans themselves are acquainted

with the real original lebkuchen. These

are produced in Nuremberg- alone and.

packed in boxes, are sent from there out

into the world. But a very acceptable

substitute is made in every German

household and without it no Christmas

would be complete. The genuine lcbku-

chen, as made in German families. is al—

ways cut into oblong squares of a certain

size and decorated on top with a design

formed of whole blanched almond korncls.

There is also no painful economy of ma—

terials. Here is the recipe for a generous

quantity: One half gallon New Orleans

i'nolasses. onc pound of brown sugar. one

quart sour cream, four tablespoons soda.

one-half pound each of chopped almonds,

citron and orungc pccl. one—fourth pound

chopped lemon peel, one quart nutmeais

broken, one pound of raisins, one table—

spoon each of cloves and cinnamon. two

tablespoosn each of nutmeg and anise

seed. Heat the sugar and molasses to a

boil, put raisins and nuts into an iron

spider and brown, add one cup sugar from

the supply already measured out and last,

add the soda to the flour. Mix as stiff as

possible, with a spoon and then let stand

all night. In the morning roll out to a

little more than half an inch thick, cut

into oblong squares about three and a.

half inches by five and a half. Then

ornament the tops with the blanched

almond kernels. Packed in a crock and

kept in a dry. cool place, these cakes will

also keep a long time and improve all the

While.





 





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BY EVA RYMAN-GAILLARD.





Vines and heavy branching plants need

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makes a fine gift for

a plant-loving friend,

The accompanying il-’

lustration shows a

trellis in which the

lower piece of base

is 15x10 inches; the

middle one 13x8

inches, and the top

one 11x6 inches, each

inches thick. The

piece being two

uprights are an inch

and a half wide by

three-fourths of an

inch thick, and three

feet high. May be

higher if wanted



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NOVEL PIN CUSHION.

BY CANDACE STOW.





Take two pieces of cardboard, each five

inches long and four inches wide. Place

together and cover with velvet. Take a

small doll that will cost a nickle, and

make it a silk waist and three silk skirts

and a little pointed hood. Glue the (1011

to velvel covered cardboard. Place on

the outside skirt a. row of black headed

pins, on the next a row of white-headed

pins, and on the third skirt a row of

blue-headed pins. You can place a penny

doll, neatly dressed, on both sides of the

larger doll if you care to.





 





CURTAIN HOLDBACKS.





An easily made, acceptable gift is a

pair of curtain hold-backs of the color

prevailing in the recipient’s room. \Vhere

white is to be introduced, as in a blue

and white set, ivory rings may be uti-

lized. If unusual colors are needed but-

tonhole or crochet around small brass

rings. using floss of the required color.

The ribbon with which to run the rings

may be of blue if used with the white,

or of such color as is desired in the

other. Two lengths are used, and they

maybe of different colors. Place one

on top of the other and fasten one end

into a ring. Thread one length into six

other rings, bringing the ribbon t1hru each





pair in turn to form. links. Thread the

same number with the other ribbon, and

then thread both ribbons thru one and

the same ribbon. Proceed again with

single ribbons, and continue thus until

the required lengths are made, ending

with a single ring, adding a how if liked.

The rings are thus made to form a pat-

tern of ovals thru the entire length.—

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WHAT THE CI-IILD CAN MAKE.





Children like to make Christmas pres-

ents but they must usually look for some-

thing that is inexpensive and it is of these

little tih-ings I want to tell. Procure some

water-color paper, cut out a large flower

such as a pansy, poinsetta, an autumn

leaf or anytihing of that character, and

color it prettily. Then cut two or-three

pieces of blotting paper the same shape

and tie them together with a baby rib-

bon and you have a pretty blotter. By

using a small piece of white velvet and

being careful in the tinting, then adding

leaves of white, or dainty colored flannel

you have a pretty needle book.



Pretty calendars are made by taking a

piece of heavy brown mounting board,

painting a tiny scene on water-color pa.-

per and mounting it on the board, then

add a calendar and a cord to hang it"“by.



For another use a piece of mounting

board with a penny tablet fastened to it

and a tiny pencil. At the top letter, “I’ll

remember what you want in town, if you

will only write it down.” Its use is very

plain. Whenever the housewife thot of

something shewanted she wrote it down

and when she went to town she tore the

leaf off. IRMA B. MATTHEWS.



DAlNTY HAND-BAG.



A pretty and simple hand-bag for car-

rying fancy-work is made with a piece

of silk the size of a gentleman‘s handker-

chief, or a silk handkerchief makes a nice

one. Run a drawstring of ribbon around

it and put a. small gilt tassel, or orna-

ment, on each corner and it is done. It

can also be used for soiled handkerchiefs,

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You ask—“Do I know Mrs. 13.?”

Very friendly at least are we.

Ive been her guest at lunch and tea;

“7e have met at many a ball,

In theatre and lectu1e hall,

And at our cluh~—but still with all,

I must dcela’1e— tween you and me,

That I do not know Mrs. B.





Together we have been at dinners,

And at the races Cheech the winners,

In same church conicsscd as sinners;

‘Ve often meet and sweetly smils

Discuss the news and latest style,

With friendly chat the time beguile.

Yet I must say——"t\uen yin and me

That I do not know Mrs. B.





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Meat

and

Food





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make cheaper Food Choppers. but rec-



ommend the above for the reasons



given. Illustrated catalog free. Sold at

/ Hardware and General Stores. etc.





ocean: the labor at. butchering time. No. 23-4 and

does its work quickly and surely. Cyl-

inder is bored true and plate fits accur- 1," ‘3..."

stutter ately. Pressure cannot cause meat to rise Iran?“

above the plate. The Patented Corru-

and gated spout. prevents air from entering

Lard





casing, ensuring perfect; filling and pro-

Press





servntion of sausage.



Machine can be changed into a. Lard

Press in a minute‘s time. Can also be

used as 3 Fruit Press.



“Your dealer will be able to oupgly you





th the “Enterprise" Sausage Btu er and

, Inrdl’ recs.





The “Enterprise” Bone, Shell and Corn Mill in

a good all-round mill for farmers, poultrymen. etc.

One, and for compactness. strength and durability in

unexccllcd. Handy for grinding poultry food and

- making bone meal fertilizer. Mill shown in cutss. 50.

Shell weightoo lbs. grindslfi bu. corn per hour. Look for

the name “Enterprise” on the machine you buy.

- Grind up dry bones, oyster and other shells. corn. .

a "d . etc, for y our hens and watch results.

S Other famous “ Enterprise” household special-

ties are: Coil‘eo Mills , Raisin Seeders; 1' ruit. Wine

Corn and Jelly Presses , Cherry Stoners . Cold Handle

Sad Irons, Etc... Etc

Sold at. Hardware and General Stores. etc.

M I ll Write [or' 'The Enter inking Housekee er," a book

I ofzoo choice recipe: an kitchen helps. Int/or 4c. in stamps. Ion». Itc-

THE ENTERPRISE MFG co. of PA., Dept. 42 Phlladolphla, Pa.)





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





   





   





Don't be fooled by padded price lists. It‘ s the return. which

. really count. For 20 years we have been making the biggest re-



’, turns in the raw fur market. and we have hundreds of letters to

prove it.



We settle promptly for all shipments and protect all of our reg-

ular shippers by notifying them in each case of a. market decline

and allowing them the old prices on immediate shipment. We pay freight or expreu

charges on all shipments over $10. We pay charges both ways and return your ship-

ment if you are not satisfied with your returns. Ask your banker about us.





SEND FOR OUR BOOKLET ON FUR GRADING



Get our booklet,“Sloman's Encyclopedia to our shippers, and 25 cents to others.

of Fur Facts," and learn to grade your own N o matter whether you do considerable trap-

furs. It tells you how to protect yourself plug or just alittle, wewant to hear from you.

against the tricks of buyers and gives you Send for booklet today and let us have a trial

many valuable tips for lncre a sing your shipment as soon as possible. Then let your

catch and your returns. a 3 well a s infor- returns determine who gets all your furs here-

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“Ball-Band" Arctics

Cap the Climax in Quality





It costs us an extra $1,000,000 21 year to make





“Ball-Band"





Rubber Footwear supreme in quality.





15in. 4,1909. ‘





 





This extra high quality adds not a whit to the looks of the

goods, but how it does count in the wear!



We could easily save this enormous expense this year, and

not one of our 45, 000 dealers or the 8,000,000 wearers of “Ball-

Band” Footwear would know the difference until after the Arc-

tics and Rubber Boots themselves “let the cat out of the bag.”



The making of honest, dependable rubber footwear means

more than mere form and appearance.



It requires the proper kinds of crude rubber, fresh from the

rubber plantations, carefully selected by experts, blended,

compounded and handled with consummate skill, through a.

multitude of intricate processes.



It requires a knowledge of rubber that can only be gained by

years of practical experience. It calls for immense factory

facilities, and a well- trained army of workers.



All this, behind “Ball- Band” Arctics, has pushed them far to

, the front. Such is the secret of ‘ ‘Ball-Band’ ’ success—a business

approaching $10,000,000 ayear, built on the bed-rock of Quality.





Get Them of Your Dealer





“ The House that Pays Million: for Quality”





 





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Our product is uniform and as perfect as skill and brains?

and machinery can make it. We could not make it better if

we got double its present price. Yet your dealer asks about

the same as for ordinary footwear.



Some dealers also handle other lines, possibly bought at a special



discount, and sell them at the regular "Ball- Band" price. AS the

profit is greater on inferior brands, you should be careful to look

for the little Red Ball which we place on every pair of our Rub-

bers and Arctics. It' 5 there for your protection.

An absolute Guarantee of Qualo

ity. [mist on seeing the "Ball-

Band" Trade- Mark and you’re

sure of your money' 5 worth.



This same Trade- Mark identi.

fies our famous All- Knit Wool.

Boots and Lumbermen's

Socks—the most durable

woolen foot‘

wear in the

world.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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This Home-Made Cough Syrup

Stops Coughs Quickly.





   





 

 





Make a. plain syrup by taking one pint?

of Granulated Sugar, add one-half pint

of warm water and stir for two minutes.

Put two and one-half ounces ‘of pure

Pincx in a pint bottle and fiill it up with

the Granulated Sugar Syrup. Take a tea-.

spoonful every one, two or three hours“

Keep well corked and it will never spollm



The effectiveness of this simple home-

made article is surprising. It usually

stops 3. deep-seated cough in twenty-four

hours. It is also excellent for colds,

whooping coughs, pains in the chest,

bronchial troubles and similar ailments.



Use the real Pinex in making it, how-

ever. It is the most valuable concen-

trated compound of Norway YVhite Pine

Extract, and it is far superior to the nu-

merous pine oil and pine tar preparations.

If your druggist does not have it, he can

get it for you Without trouble.





 





(Continued from page 472).





can government commanding the Pullman



Car Company to replace American con-



ductors and porters by Mexicans.

Natlonal.



It is almost certain that Judge Lurton

will be nominated as Federal Supreme

Court Judge. Luke E. Wright, former

governor of the Philippines, will be named

to succeed Judge Lurton, as judge of the

sixth United States Circuit. These nom-

inations will be sent for the confirmation

of the Senate next week.



The early reports indicate that the

electors of Alabama failed to make the

proposed amendment to the constitution

for prohibiting the manufacturing and





'sale of intoxicating liquors, a part of





their fundamental law. The statue enact-

ed recently by the legislature of that

state was not repealed by this election,

and the state will therefore continue to

prohibit the sale and manufacture of in-

toxicants, but such prohibiting will not

be a part of the fundamental law of the

state.



Material is being collected to present to

Congress for the purpose of impressing

the ecessity of an investigation being

madeginto the recently discovered sugar

fraud in the custom 'house of New York.

The recently dismissed officials and

clerks are now before the criminal branch

of the l'nited States Circuit Court of New

York City, answering to charges against

them.





 





The proportion above suggested makes

a full pint of the best cold and cough

remedy. The taste is so pleasant that

children take it willingly. The total cost

is about 54 cents.



Strained honey can be used instead of

the syrup, and makes a very fine honey

and pine tar cough syrup.





 





 





pm,





Plenty of Rain:





in Arkansas and Eastern Texas. There is

no “d season” —— no arid land to irri-

gate. ou don’t have to learn a new meth-

od of farming. Rainfall is always 30 to 40

inches and a serious drouth is unknown.

You can grow the same crops, in the same

way you do now, but—here’s the advantage—

you can raise far bigger crops on much

theaper land. Land that will yield $35 per

acre in corn, $25 in wheat and as high as

$75 in alfalfa can be bought new





In Arkansas and East Texas





at $5 to $25_ per acre. Farmers there live

In a mild climate. They work outdoors

every month and often raise several crops 3

season. They.have no expensive barns to

bUIld for there is very little Winter and stock

'can graze all year. With bigger crops,

cheaper lands, good markets and noWinters

to eat up their profits, it is eas to see why

farmers there become indepen ent in a few

short years.



You will never know how big

the opportunities really are

until you investigate. Send for

free copies of our books about

Arkansas and Eastern Texas.

Post. yourself on conditions.

Take advantage of the low

fares offered twice each month

bytheCotton Belt RouteMake

a trip down there to look a-

round. It will be a start on the road to prosperity.



rite today— tomorrow you may forget.





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‘umon THE MICHIGAN FARM!!! when

wrllhu to odvorlloen.





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The Attorney General of Missouri has

asked its supreme court to investigate

the character of the recent telephone

merger in that state. The application

charges that three different concerns are

endeavoring to gain full control of the

telephone business and to thereby destroy

competition.



The United States Circuit Court has

:been asked to restrain Oklahoma from

:collecting a one-half per cent tax on the

*gross revenues of the different railroad

companies.



A recent decision of the federal courts

show the government to have power to

bring criminal proceedings against any

person conspiring to assist alien laborers

to come to this country contrary to the

immigration laws.



A loss of $100,000 was caused by a re-

cent llood on the Nooksack river. of

\Vashington. where two slcel railroad

bridges and thl'ce wagon bridges were

carried away.



Contracts for tho new $7,500,000,

story municipal building of New York

City, are about ready, and bids will soon

be asked. for constructing the building.



A panel of Roll men has bcen ordered at

Union City, ’l‘cnn.. from which to select

a jury for trying the "night riders."

charged with the murder of Captain

Rankin.



A triple investigation is being conducted

at Cherry. 111., this week. by the state

investigating committee. the state mine

inspectors, and the coroner of that place,

in inquiring into the cause of the recent

disastrous fire in the mines.



Becousc tllc c'hurtcl‘ of u railroad com-

pany vio‘lulcd :1 section of the state con-

stitution of South (.‘arolina the courts of

the commonwealth rcfused to permit the

railroad company to extend its lines with-

in the boundary thcl'col'.



The recent test of guns built for on-

posing attacks by balloons during war,

have failed to make a good showing at

tho cvpcrimcnts conducted recently at

Sandy Hook. An anchored balloon was

fired at 20 Iimcs "without a singlc shot

taking cf'fcct.



An ordcr has been issued by tho secre-

tary of the inlcl'ior. permitting resident-s

along the Rio (ll-undo River. to construct

Clams providing :1 water supply to irri—

gate from forty to fifty thousand acres

of land.



A lo‘ss ol‘ $13oboo was sustuim'd by the

Boston (lcul' “Ru-ks at Quincy. Mass...

last wcck whcn thcir plant was consumed

by fire.



The I'nilcd Slates Governmcnt is ne-

gotiating with Mcxico to form a joint

commission whose purpose will be, to in-

vestigute ('Hlllllllllll‘:<'lll the Central Am-

erican republics.





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CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





Emmet 00., Nov. 2fl.~\\'ualher for the

month has bccn quitc favorable for farm

operations, making it possible for farm-

(31‘s to finish potato and boot harvest. The

yicld of potatoes was bcttcr than untici-

poled. Full-sown grain is looking line

and a lal‘gcr £L('l‘(‘1l§il‘ sown than usual.

Snow during 'l‘ll:llll(.\',‘.fi\'ing‘ week (about

3 or 4 in). and u d-rop in temperature

made it possible to use slcighs for two or

three days including ’l‘hunksgiving (luv.

lluy, $15M“); straw, $\‘ per ton; fowll's,

‘drcsscd, lilc: spl'inR‘S. 140 llt‘l' lb: eggs. soc

pcr doz: [cod stuffs, $l.4;’.ml,(;o pcr cwt.

Snow now gone, making it possible to

resume l'ull plowing.



Osceola Co., Nov, 29.~—Idc:il weather

“my; a hlqlvy sn‘ow storm Nov. 22 brot

several inchc,~ of snow and cold weather

for u. millplc of days. which put a stop

to plowing. Snow all gone now but the

ground is l’rozcu. Farmers are having it

a little onslcia llcpoiriug fences and

buildings. gclting l‘c-‘Uli' for winter and





 





'doing c‘h'm‘cs compris'c their present :10-





livitics. Fall grain looking well; very lit-

tle whcut sown. Potato market easy

with not many moving. Most everyone“

who is not compelled to sell is holding:

for a little high-or pricc. Farm produce‘

sclling at the local market as follows:

Rouns. $1.65 per in]: i'yo. 600; oatg_ 400;

potatoos. ‘Zz'ic bu: cultlc, 21/261‘31/3c per l‘l);

vonl, til/gfill71/gc: hogs. drcHScd. 9c: sheep,

live Sc: chickens. livc, Re; butter, 22@

23c; butler-fut. 301/ch eggs, 240 per (102.





 





 





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Gui: or bear out this coupon—or write a postal or letter—and send

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engine—yon be the judge and jury. 1’ dpromptly quote you prices

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book and special proposition. Address I





Wllllam Galloway company. of America

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This small advertisement will make you big; money If you send

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of America know that what I say I will do—I DO.





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You—





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Save all dealers, jobbers and supply—house profits. We turn them out in

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you any Galloway engine. direct, at less money than merchants. dealers, jobbers,

etc, can buy interior or similar engines for. in car—load lots for spot cash.

Buying from us you get the material at actual cost, labor at just what we pay

on pay-roll and one very small profit. based on our tremendous output.



You do not think anything of buying a. horse. Be practical, then,

and join the Galloway crowd of practical farmers (over 40.000 strong)

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Do not make the mistake of buying too small an



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my 541.

engine. Never buy a cheap-built engine.

sands of testimonials. Here is one:



A. C. Anderson Spencer. In... wrote me Aug. 15—

”My Galloway 6—H’. P. will do any farmer‘s work-

would rather have it than other makes that cost

8250 for same power, as it is so simple, not so

many trinkets to get outof order, like others.





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First mailing will begin in January. New catalog is the most

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vehicle or harness buyers cvcr published. Full il-

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buggies, runabouts. delivery wagons. surries, plmclons,

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consumcr prices. Mailed free, if requested.



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Because it is a man‘s watchnnnd keeps good

lunc. It looks like silver and always

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postage p::id.



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any class .\ prcmium I'l'cc, for only $1.13; with the

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FARMER.

Damon. MICH.





   





Farmer. (-ilhci' one ycul', llll‘m' ycurs or livc ycars;

at 77» cculs for onc ycal‘, $l..’.ll for lhl'cc ycurs. or

fivc yours for $2.4m. All subscribcrs got :1 free

prcmium. Anyone can act a club of three sub-





scriptions in an hour. \\'utchcs soul by registered

molly 10 cgnts extra. Address all orders to the

Michigan banner, Detroit, Michigan.





~ 777 __.’ A I” ‘— A“

to < Prof. Shaw. VVell-Known Agriculturlat. Says:

Lo BLks "I would sooner raise cattle in Western Canada.

S than in the corn belt of the United States.

DON'T“ SNEEZE

l





Food is cheaper and climate better

for the purpose. Your market will

improve faster than your farmers

will produce the supplies. Wheat



The darkest night comes be- .



fore you buy a Frisco—after l



that any night will be light .



enough to work by. l





can be grown up to the 60th parallel

[800 miles north of the International

boundary]. Your vacant land will

be taken at a rate beyond present

conception. We have enough people

Write for our Book

“ Lighting the Farm ”



It will tell you everything about lanterns-—



why the Prison in so much better than



others. How to get the best light and how I





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





in the United States alone who want

homes to take up thin land. ’ ’ Nearly





if 70,000 Americans





& ' will enter and make their homes

_. in \Vestern (‘unudu this car.



.. 1909 produccd unotlicrlurge cro

"l ‘ of wheat. outs and barley, In add -

tion to which the cattle exports

was an linuicnse item.



(‘nttle raising, doirying. mixed farming and

“-T ‘Q w grain growing: in the provinces of Maui-

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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.





December 1,

Grains and Seeds.





Wheat—The past Week has seen an

’ easy wheat market with a slight tendency

downwards. The feature -of the week’s

trade have been heavy primary receipts

in the northwest, liquidation of December

holdings in the. chief wheat centers,

and a falling off in the demand for flour.

News from abroad was also beariSh—Ar—

gentine has been favored with fair weath-

er, Liverpool had an eaSy trade, but the

general Visible supply of European coun—

tries showed a slight decrease. In the

United States there was an Increase of

1,788,000 bushels. The price paid for No.

2 red wheat one year ago, was $1.06 per





 





1909.





bushel. Quotations for the week are as

follows:



No. 2 No. 1



Red. White. Dec. May.

Thursda .. .

Friday y. . . . . .1.21 1.21 1.21 1.23%

Saturday . . . . .1.20 1.20 1.20 1.22%

Monday . .. . . .1.20 1.20 1.20 1 22%





Tuesda .....1.20 1.20 “1.20 1.23

Wednesyday ..1.19% 1.19% 1.19% 1.225%,

(Dorm—Activity in this deal is centered

around the new corn offerings whic’hIare

increasing steadily. Prices are a little

easier than aweek ago, being influenced by

the easier w-heat trade. Liquidation of de—

cember holdings has also been a weaken-

ing feature in this market. The in-

creased receipts are not making a mate-

rial change in the visible supply, indicat-

ing that consumers are taking the grain

in rather liberal amounts. One year ago,

we were paying 63c per bushel for N0. 3

Quotations for the week are as





corn.

follows. No. 2

No 2 Yellow.

Thursda .........

Friday y. . . . . .............. 61% 62%

Saturday .. ............. 61% 62%

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

Tuesday . . ................ 60 61

Wednesday ............... 60 61





0ats.—The range of oat prices has been

narrow, but in spite of the weakness in-

dicated above in corn and wheat, there

has been an advance in oats due to sup-

ply and demand. The local market has

not been real active altho a healthy de-

mand is everywhere evident. One year

ago the price for No. 3 white oats was

52%c per bushel. Quotations for the

week are:





Standard.

Thursday . . ....................... . . . .

Friday ............................ 42%

Saturday ......................... 42 /2

Monday .......................... 42%

Tuesday .......................... 43

Wednesday ....................... 43





Beans.—A glance at the quotations

given below will show the change in bean

quotations the past week. It appears

that there were some offerings at the

changed values, but no buyers were ready

to accept the legumes. The market is

lifeless and the figures given are but





' tivons. The are:



nominal quota y Cash. Dec.

Thursda .......................

Friday y .................... $2.10 $2.08

Saturday ................... 2.10 2.06

Monday .................... 2.10 2.06

Tuesday .................... 2.05 2.05

\Vednesday ................. 2.05 2.05



Clover Seed.——A new basis has been





established for values in this department

of the market. The advance is due to

the fact that farme-rs’ offerings are de-

creasing since t‘he hul‘ling season is prac-

tically over and the size of the crop is





pretty well known to local buyers. Quo—

tations for the week are as follows:

Prime Spot. Mar. Alsike.

. cda ..............

gili‘dlaav y ........... $8.50 $8.75 $7.75

Saturday ......... 8.60 8.85 7.75

Monday .......... 8.75 9.00 7.75

Tuesday .......... 8.75 8.95 7.75

Wednesday ....... 8.75 8.95 7.75





Rye—A half cent advance was made

the past week. Demand is good and trade

firm. Cash No. 1 is quoted at 770 per bu.



Visible Supply of Grain.

This \\'i'(“k. Last week.





. ............. 20.418.000 27,630,000

E21331“. . I . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3,288,000 2,031,000

Oats . . . . ............. 13.13.86.000 11i.‘.'llt'l,titl0

Rye . . . . .............. 01.x,000 832,000

Barley . . . . ........... 3.282.000 3,353,000





Flou—r,‘ Feed, Provisions, Etc,





Fiour.—Market steady. with prices on

last week’s basis. Quotations are as

follows: 7

Clear ................................ $5.80

Straight ........................... LS?

Patent Michigan ..................... 6.2;)

Ordinary Patent ..................... 5.9.)





Hay and Straw.—Market is unchanged





and firm. Carlot prices on track

are: No, 1 timothy, new, $14.50fl15; No.





2 timothy, 313500114; clover. mixed. $13.50

@14; rye straw, $7677.50; wheat and oat

straw, $6.50@7 per ton.





Feed—Market unchanged and steady.

Bran, $24.50 per ton; coarse m1d—

dlings, $25.50; fine middlings, $29.50;





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

corn and oat chop, $23.50 per ton. _



Potatoes.-——Tlie recent heavy deliveries

of potatoes are quite well cared for now

and the market tone has considerably im-

proved atltho dealers have not made any

change in their quotations. Michigan

grown are selling in car lots at 350 per

ibu. in bulk, and in sacks at 38@400.



Provisions—Family pork, $26; mess

pork, $26.50; medium clear, $26.50; pure

lard, 1494c; bacon, 16%@17c; shoulders,

12%c; smoked hams, 15c; picnic hams,

12%c.



Dairy and Poultry Products.





Button—Following the advance of 1%0

a week ago for creamery butter, the past

period has witnessed another rise of Ic.





 





 





The product is, firm at the new high price,

and evidences are that the present figure

will be -maintaine‘d for some time. Quo-

tations a‘re: Extra. creamery, 32%0 per

lb; first do., 31%c; dairy, 24c;‘packing

stock, 22%c. ,



Eggs.———The trade in fresh eggs is firm

at last week’s price. While storage eggs

are being called out, on account of the

limited supply of fresh eggs from the

farm, the amount is not large and the

prices rule about 4c below those for fresh

receipts. Cutrren't offerings, cases in-

cluded, are quoted at 27%c per dozen.



Poultry.——There has not been much life

in the poultry trade since the holiday, but

quotations are little reduced and the trade

may be considered firm at the figures

given below. Quotations for the week

are: Live—«Spring chickens, 13c; hens,

120; ducks, 14c; geese, 12c; turkeys, 16@

17c. Dressed—Chickens, 13@14c; ducks,

14@15c; geese, 12@13c; turkeys, 17@18c

per lb. ,



Cheese.—Higher. Michigan full cream,

16%c; York state, 18c; limburger, 17c;

vsch-weitzer, 21c; brick cream, 18c per lb.



Calves.—~Choice to fancy, 120; ordinary,

8@9c_ per lb.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Cabbage.—Higher. , Home-grown, $1.25

per bbl.



Guiana—Domestic offerings 65@70c per

bu. Spanish, $1.40 per crate. ‘



Apples.—Snow, $5.50@6; Spy, $2.25@

3.50; common, $1.50@2.50.



Cranberries.—Cape Cod berries selling

at $2.25@2.50 per .bu.’



Vegetables.—Beets, 450 per bu; carrots,

450 per bu; cauliflower, $1.25 per doz;

hothouse cucumbers, 75c@1.25 per doz;

green onions, 12%c per doz; green pep-

pers, 75¢ per bu; mint, 25c per doz; pars-

ley, 25@40c per doz; spinach, 60c per

hamper; turnips, 30@35c per bu; water-

cress, 25@30c per doz.





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.



Wheat is 10 lower this week, the mills

paying $1.16 for the best grade. Other

grains are unchanged. In dairy products

creamery butter advances 10. The egg

market is steady, dealers paying the coun-

try trade 27c for fresh stock. The poultry

market continues firm since Thanksgiv-

ing and is likely to do so, at least, until

after New Yea-rs. The commission houses

report a very dull cabbage market, prices

ranging around $5 per ton, as compared

‘with $22@25 a year ago. The potato

market is also quiet, prices at loading

stations being about 250.



Quotations follow:



Grain—Wheat, $1.16; oats, 42c; corn,

66c; buckwheat, 600 per bu; rye, 680.



Beans—’Machine screened, $1.80.





 





Butter.—Buying prices, Dairy, No. 1.

250; creamery in vtubs or print's, 311/20

per 33.



Eggs—Case count, 270.



Apples.——45@65c.



Vegetables—Potatoes, 35@400; onions,

50@60c per bu; cabbage, 30@400 doz;





cauliflower, $1.50@1.60 per doz; beets, 50¢

per bu; carrots, 40c; turnips, 350; Hub-

bard squash, lc 1b; celery, 12%c; parsley,

200 doz; cucumbers, 800 doz.



Hogs—Dressed, 9%@10c.



Live Poultry.——Fowls, 10%@11c; roos-

ters, 8@90; spring chickens, 11@120;

spring ducks, 10@120; young geese. 9@

10c; young turkeys, 17@180.





 





Chicago.

.VVheat.~——No. 2 red, $1.20; December,

$1.06%; May, 31.06%.

Corn—No. 2, 620; December, 5854c;

May, 61%c. '





Oats—No. 3 white,

ber, 39140; May, 42c.



Butter.—Best creamery is 10 higher

with trade of sufficient volume to give

steadiness to the market. Dairy goods

show wider range. Creameries, 26@32c,

dairies, 24@28c.



Eggs.~—Prices unchanged and market

steady. Prime firsts, 30%c; firsts, 28%c;

at mark, cases included, 20%@25%c per

dozen.



Hay and Straw—Timothy higher. Straw

steady. Quotations: 'l‘imothy, choice,

$16fd*16.50; No. 1, $15@15.50; No. 2 and

No. 1 mixed, $13.50@14.50; No- 3 and No.

2 mixed, $116012; rye straw, $8.50@9; oat

straw, $6.50@7; wheat straw, $5.50@6.



Potatoes—There is a fair volume of

business with prices unchanged and the

trade steady. C‘hoice to fancy quoted

at 457148c: per bu; fair to good, 35@40c.



Beans.~—Choicc hand—picked, $2.15@2.17

per bu; fair to good, $2.05@2.10; red kid-

neys, 323562270.





40@40%c; Decem-





New York.





Butter.—Market firm with all

sharing in the general advance.





grades

Western





factory firsts, . 24%@251/20; creamery

spccizils, 34c.

Eggs—Firm for best grad-es. Western





firsts to extras, 33@350: seconds, 26@280;

l'ant'y refrigerator stock, 2100250 per doz.



Poultry—Dressed, firm. Western chick-

ens, broilers, 16617220; fowls, 13((1316c; tur—





keys, 226124c per lb. Live—Dull. Fowls,

15%c; western chickens, 14%0; turkeys,

146l‘]8c.





Potatoes—Market showing dullness un-

der liberal supplies. State and Michigan

potatoes in bulk now selling at $1.50@1.75

per 180 lbs.



Hay and Straw—Market in good con-

d-ition with timothy especially strong. De-

mand sufficiently active to clean up all

receipts at steady prices. Hay, timothy,

prime, large, bales, per 100 1b., 97%0: No.

3 a 1, 8562950; shipping, 80@82%c: pack—

ing, 50@55c; clover and clover mixed, 80

(3921/20: straw. long rye, 80(dl90c; short and

tangled rye, 60c; oat and wheat, 50@55c.





St. Louis.



Grain—‘Vheat, No. 2 red. $1.24@1.25%;

corn, No. 3 white, new, 58c; No, 3 yellow.

58%0; oats, No. 2, 40%c; ry-e, No. 2, 75%c.



Hay—Timothy and clover mixed con-





 





«tinue stmng: under light offerings prices





on timothy have advanced. High-grade

clover and alfalfa also in good demand at

'dtranced figures. Timothy No. 1 is sell-

7"; at $15.50@17 per ton; No. 2, $13@15;

No. 3, $9@10; clover, No. 1, $15@17; No.





 





2, "$13; clover mixed, "$14 14.60;. alfalfa

quotable1.at:$17;50@18 for F041 and $15@





'17 forN'o. 2





Potatoes—While quotations, show prac-

tically no changefrom‘ last Week, liberal

receipts have taken the edge off thermar-

ket. Fancy, well-matured stock, in car

lots on'track, quoted at 48@50c per bu;

good to choice, 43@45c; common to fair,

30@350. . , . .





Boston.

WOOL—Nothing has transpired the last





 





‘ week to awaken interest in this trade.





The local holdings are so small that little

basis is furnished for any considerable

activity. The interest is divided between

watching these small holdings and giving

attention to contracts for new wool, now

on the sheep’s back, in the wool growing

districts. High prices are still maintained

and few contracts are being made be-

cause wool growers are well informed on

the value of the ra‘w material. The lead-

ing quotations are as follows; Ohio and

Pennsylvania fieeces~—XX, 37c; X, 34@

35c; No. 1 washed, 40@41c; fine unwashed,

27@28c; fine unmerchantable, 310; half—

blood combing, 36@37c; three-eighths

blood combing, 36@37c; on‘e-quarter-blood

combing, 34@35c; deiaine washed, 39@40c;

deiaine unwashed, 3Z@33c. Michigan,

Wisconsin 'and New York fleeces—Fine





unwaShed, 25@26%c; deiaine unwashed,

31@32c; 'half-blood unwashed, 34@35c:

t‘hree-eighths blood unwashed, 34@35c;





one-quarter blood, 33@34c.





Elgin.





Butter.-—Market firm at 32%c per 1b.,

which is 1c above last week’s price.

Sales for the week aggregated 641,600 lbs.,

compared with 649,600 lbs. last week.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.





November 29, 1909.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N, Y.)



Receipts of sale stock here today as

follows: Cattle, 230 loads; hogs, 20,000

head; sheep and lambs, 22,000; calves,

1,250 head.



We had a good strong cattlé market

here today on all grades. There were

two loads on the market; today good

enough to bring 70. That was the ex-

treme top for the day. We are getting

but few good cattle on this market now.

‘Nhat we’get are mostly the half fat

kinds. We look for a good steady trade

right along now. Stockers and feeders

sold strong, some good ones a shade

higher. Fresh cows and springers sold

from $3@5 per head lower than last week.

~We quote: Best export steers, $6.50@

7; best 1.200 to 1,300-lb. shipping steers,

$6.25@6.50; best 1,100 to 1,200-lb. do., $5.50

@6; medium 1,050 to 1,150-1b. steers,

$5@5.25; light butcher steers, $4.75@5;

best fat cows, $4.50@5; fair to good do.,

$3.50@3.75; trimmers, $2.50@2.75; best fat

heifers. (some fancy as high as $6), $5@





 





5.25; fair to good, $3.75@4.25; common,

$3.25@3.50; best feeding steers, 950 to

1,000 lbs.. $4.75@5; best feeding steers,





800 to 900 lbs., $4.50@4.75; 700 to 750-l'b.

dehorned stockers, $3.75@4; 600 to 6.50—lb.

do., $3.60@3.75; little common stockers,

$3.25@3.50; best bulls, $4.25@4.75; bologna

bulls, $3.50@3.75; stock bulls, 336173.25;

best fresh cows and springers, $45@55;

fair to good do., $30@40; common do.,

$20@25.



The hog market opened 5@10c higher

than Saturday and closed steady with a

good clearance. Prospects look fair for

the near future.



We quote: Choice heavy, $8.35@8.40;

mixed and medium, $8.30 to $8.35; best

yorkers, $8.25@8.30; light y-orkers and

pigs, $8.10@8.20; roughs, 7.50@7.60; stags,

$6.50@7.





The lamb market this morning opened

higher with the best lambs selling at

$7.75. Around noon the price was raised

and the same kind of lambs sold at $7.85.

We look for firm prices the balance of





the week.



We quote: Best lambs, $7.75fl7.85; fair

to good, $7.50@7.70; culls, $6.25@7; skin

culls, $4.50fi5.50; yearlings. $6@6.25;

wethers, $5605.25; ewes, $4.75@5; cull

sheep,$2@3.50; best calves, 2595002975;





fair to good do., $8@9; ‘heavy do., $4@4.50;

graSs do., $3@3.25.





 





Chicago.

November 29, 1909.





Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today .......31,000 31.000 30,000

Same day last year..22.169 41,126 33,582

Received last week ..76,940 140,556 93,404

Same week last year.7l.669 206,017 92,996





Cattle made a very bad start last week,

with Monday receipts of 41,268 head and

Sales largely 15@250 lower. prime lots

excepted. There was a 1063150 rally on

Wednesday under moderate“ offerings,

while Thursday, Thanksgiving. was a

holiday. The week was a marked one

in respect to the, quality of the offerings.

with steer receipts largely of the $525613

6.50 class, and a greatly decreased per

centage went above $7. The Monday top

was $8.65, with two cars of 1,140 to 1,164-

lh. yearlings bringing $8.40, but on “'ed-

nesday nearly a dozen loads of heavy

prime heeves, most of them weighing

from 1,600 to 1,725 lbs, brot $8.75@9.20.

Inferior light steers 'have been selling at

$3.85@4.85, but even these comparatively

low prices are higher than those paid in

most former years at this season. This

is the time of year when farmers are

disposing of such cattle as they do not

care to winter. and it will be several

weeks before much stock is all shipped

in. As usual. the choicest heeves were

reserved for the International Live Stock

Exposition. Butcher stock was lurgelv

1560250, lower under large offerings. with

a moderate demand at $3.15@6.25. while

canners and cutters went at $2023.10 and

bulls at $275,025 as a rule. Stags brot

$450626. and calves had a better outlet

at $3628.75 for inferior heavy to prime

light vealers. There was a fair demand

for stockers and feeders, with the better

class firm under moderate offerings and

others largely lower. Stockers sol-d for





swam.“ "and" “feeders/“ii: taisoomo.

’Mllkers and --sprinsers< hedge Amcder'a-te:

sale at $25@65 perheadfo’r eastern. ship-u





merit.





Another week opens today, and there-5.

around 31,000 head. The"





ceipts are

choicer lots are firm and active, with a.

few sales at $9.25, but less attractive lots.

are plentiful, slow and largely 10c lower.

, Hogs came to market with a. rush at:

the beginning of last 'Week, 41,800 head

being received on Monday, and 5,347 be~

ing purchased by shippers, prices averag-

ing a dime lower. On other days receipts

were within more moderate bounds, and.

there was the usual strong demand,

prices having good rallies. The eastern

shipping demand this fall is an important

strengthening influence and promises to

continue so, as there is known to be

fewer matured hogs in eastern feeding

sections than in recent years. Hogs re-

main very much higher than ‘ln other

years, with a, narrow range of values and

fluctuations within small limits. There

is a smaller discount for the better class

of light weights than earlier in the sea-

son, and even good weighty pigs sell

comparatively high, while the best heavy

stags still fetch a big premium over bars

rows, sales being made subject to 80 lbs.

dockage per head. 'Hogs were a. dime

higher today, with active trading at $7.80

@840. Receipts are averaging 224 lbs. in

weight. - .



Sheep and lambs'underwent some sharp

advances in prices at times last week

under smaller receipts, sheepmen having

kept back stock in numerous instances,

as they feared a bad market around

Thanksgivmg. Prime mutton lambs sold

extremely well, and there were nowhere

near enough western feeder lambs of the

prime $7@7.10 class to satisfy the big

eastern demand, .Michigan and Ohio

sheepmen being especially clamorous to

buy. ‘Such offerings were mainly made

up of warmed-up” westerns. The sheep

exhibits at the International, both breed-

ers and fat flock-s, beat all past records.

Trade was active today at generally un-

changed prices, altho there were weak

spots. Lam‘bs went at $5@7.65, the top

being 20c lower than last week. Wethers

were salable at $4@5.25, ewes at $2@5

and yearlings at $5@6.75. Breeding ewes

were wanted at $4@5.10.



. Fortunately, country shippers shipped

in very few horses for Thanksgiving

week, and sellers were able'to avert bad

breaks in prices, with a very fair early

eastern and southern demand. Southern

chunks had a good outlet at $70@150 per

head, while drivers were mostly slow of

sale at $150@300. Common and blemished

horses went at $60@100, while sales were

made of ‘heavy drafters at $170@277.50.

Feeders sold for shipment to Ohio and

Pennsylvania at $175@225. There is no

horse market during the stock show. F.





LimS.





 





Twenty thousand lambs were sold on

a recent day by New Mexico breeders to

Rocky Ford, Colorado, feeders, ruling

prices being 50 cents to $1 higher than

a year ago, with sales at $5@5.50. This

was the beginning of the annual move-

ment of feeding lambs from New Mexico,

and it is estimated that by the middle

of December such shipments will reach

about 450,000 head. Owing to the drought

of the spring and early summer, there

was a light lamb “crop,” and it is re-

ported that not over half the usual volume

of sales will be made.



A few feeder lambs and- sheep have been

received at the Chicago stock yards re-

cently, where ready purchasers from

feeding sections were found, and ex-

1tvrfcemely high prices were paid for good

0 s.

couragement for sheep feeders, providing

they make their holdings good and fat

and take pains not to glut the market

with stock. They should watch the mar-

ket reports and also get the opinion of

first class commission firms as to a good

time for marketing their stock. Advices

from most feeding districts state that

much less feeding is being carried on

than usual, and of late Michigan and

Ohio stockmen have been eager buyers of

feeder sheep and lambs, in many cases

failing to obtain as many as they de-

sired. Leading sellers in the Chicago

stock yards report that the recent demand

for breeding ewes has been much better

than it was a month ago, contrary to the

experience of other years, and the coun-

try is evidently awakening to the fact

that good breeding ewes are the cheapest

investments a farmer canmake. A Mis-

souri farmer says that when his cattle

are matured for the marketfhe will re-

place them with ewes, and he will want

200 western ewes for one of his farms.



Montana and Wyoming cattlemen are,

according to late reports, going to feed

'more cattle on buy this winter than in

past years, the industry being a steadily

growing one, since it has been found to

be extremely profitable. Many of these

cattle when finished will be shipped, it is

understood, to the Pacific coast, where

there is an increasing outlet for good cat-

tle. Many of these northern stockmen

have extremely choice cattle, having taken

the greatest pains to secure prime bulls

and one of the prominent Montana cattle—

men has at last gotten the cows on his

ranch up to where they are one-half to

two-thirds Herefords. He regards it as

money well spent where the ranchman

heads off his herds of cattle with the best

hulls, to he had, as it means a bigger calf

crop and a. better class of beef cattle.

“In addition to this the ranc'hman who

wishes to stay in the lbusiness must feed

and care for his calves during the most

inclement weather of the winter and see

that the cattle are given good attention,”

says this successful nort‘hern range stock-

man. And all this applies equally to

farmer-stockmen thrtrout the country.

There always will be enough scrub cattle,

but it will _be many years before there are

enough pr_1me bee-yes. in all probability.

A better time for improving the beef cat-

tle of the country could not be imagined.

and some of the more successful stockmen

:rgwbuying high-grade steers with this:





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DEC. 44 19091.7

TREES THE LAST EDITION. ,





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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday": Market.

December 2, 1909.4

Cattle.



Receipts, 1,296. Good steers and handy

butcher grades steady, all others 10@15c

lower and dull.



We quote: Dry-fed steers, $5.25@6;

Steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $4.75@

5.25; steers and heifers, 800 to 1.000, $4@

4.50; steers and heifers that are fat, 500

to 700, $3.506r3.75; choice fat cows, $4621)

4.50; good fat cows, 350603.75; common

cows, $2.506p3; canners. $1.50@2.25; choice

heavy bulls, $4.25@4.50; fair to good bo—





lognas, .bulls, $3.75@4; stock bulls, $360

3.50; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1,000.





$46,134.25; fair feeding steers, 800 to 1,000,

$375614; choice stockers, 500 to 700, $3.75

604; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $3.506r3.75;

stock heifers, $2.50@3.25; milkers. large.

young, medium age, $4061.55; common

milkers. $256035.



Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

13 butchers av 950 at $4.25. 9 cmvs av

066 at $3, 1 do weighing 1,110 at $3.75, 1

do weighing 720 at $3. 10 butchers av 779

at $4, 3 do av 803 at $4.25; to Mich. B. CO.

3 bulls av 1.143 at $3.75, 2 do av 900 at

$4.75; to Goose 3 cows av 986 at $3; to

Rattkowsky 6 heifers av 550 at $3.25. 4

butchers av 570 at $3.40; to Mich. B. Co.

21 do av 757 at $3.60; to Newton B. Co.

23 do av 770 at $3.90, 4 do av 925 at $4.25

1 cow weighing 1,000 at $3; to Goose 3

butchers av 400 at $3, 2 do av 675 at $3.25;

to Bresnahan 4 cows av 970 at $2.50; to

Hammond, S. & C0. 1 bull weighing 1,350

at $4.25; to Lachalt 5 butchers av 760 at

$3150, 1 bull weighing 620 at $3; to Bres-

nahan 4 canners av 970 at; $2.50; to Mich.

B. Co. 9 butchers av 655 at $3.25; to Ratt-

kowsky 6 do av 691 at $3.60; to Thompson

Bros. 13 do av 650 at $3.25.



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

Co. 9 cows av 916 at $2.75, 28 butchers

21v 888 at $4.50, 7 do av 863 at $4.25. 5 do

av 700 at $3.50, 1 bull weighing 1,280 at

$4; to Kamman B. Co. 4 steers av 930

at $4.50, 8 butchers av 800 at $3.50; to

Hopp 17 do av 672 at $3.45; to Goose 6

cows av 925 at $3.15, 6 do av 990 at $3;

to Newton B. CO. 2 bulls av 650 at $3.85,

0 butchers av.555 at $3.60, 2 steers av

1,135 at $5, 6 do av 961 at $4, 5 butchers

aiv 842 at $3.25; to Bresnahan 3 cows av

300 at $2.25; to Rattkowsky 4 heifers av

630 at $3.60; to Regan 4 do av 600 at

$3.25; to Markowitz 3 butchers av 860 at

$3.25: to Sullivan P. Co. 6 cows av 883

at $2.40; to Mich. B. CO. 3 steers av 933

at $4.75, 4 COWS av 1.037 at $3; to Kuchta

2 steers av 1,200 at $6.



Spicer & R. sold Bingham 16 stockcrs

av 582 at $3.60; to Case 1.0 do av 733 at

$3.75, 2 do 21v 650 at $3.60; to Hammond,

S. & Co. 1 bull weighing 680 at $3.50, 2

cows av 900 at $2.75, 31 butchers av 800

at $4, 3 cows av 800 at $3.25. 3 heifers av

7.46 at $4 to Mich. B. (‘0. 29 butchers av

$62 at $4.15; to Brcsnahan 2 canners av

890 at $2; to Hammond. S. & Co. 5 cows

a'v 814 at $2.50, 3 do av 010 at $2.50, 1

bull weighing 830 at $3.50; to (“loose 4

heifcrs av 420 at $3.25: to Brcsnzrhan 2

cows av 1.210 at $4.50, 3 bulls av 516 at

$3; to Rattkowsky 2 coins av 1.050 at

$3.25; to Regan 4 heifers av 490 at $3.25,

2 steers av 725 at $3.50: to McBride 16

stockers av 618 at $3.75; to Brcsnahan

1 steer weighing 1,020 at $5, 4 cows av

862 at $2.60, 10 do av 1.028 at $2.90,, 3 do

av 850 at $3, 6. Gunners av 941 at $2.10; to

Regan 5 heifers uv 534 at $3.25, 2 do av

490 at $3.25; to Kull 0 butchers av 653 at.

$5.85. 3 do av 813 at $4, 2 cows av 1.125





. 8: M. sold Goos‘c 4 heifers av

400 at $3.25; to Regan 1 do weighing 530

at $3.50, 5 (10 av 433 at $3.35; to 7Mich. B.

(To. 10 butchcrs av 957 at $4; to Ham-

mond. S. & (‘0. 3 covvs av 1,003 at $2.60,

1 do weighing 920 at $3.25, 1 do wcighing

1.050 at $3, 14 heifers av 734 at $4, 3 cows

av 1,166 at $2.80: to Regan 8 butchers av

532 at $3.50; to Newton B. Co. 38 do av

0'42 3.11 $3.85: to Ratikowsky 1 cow weigh-

ing 1.200 at $11.25; to Fronn 0 butchers :iv

75:: at $3.00, .3 heifers av 554 at $3.10; to

Mich. B, (‘o. 2 cow and heifcr av 070 at

$4, 231 slccrs 21v 020 at $5: to Schlischer 13:

cows and bulls av 713 at $3.25; to Schu-

man 1 stccr weighing 850 at $4.50; to

Rattkowsky 2 bul'ls av 500 at $3.40; to

Sullivan P. (‘o. 4 cows av 880 at $2.50;

to Vermandcr 10 stockers av 64.\’ at: $3.60;

to Lingeman 17 butchers av 835 at $3.10;

to Thompson Bros. 2 cows av 1,050 at

$22.25. 4 do av 000 at $3.60.

AllPll sold Newton 1:. (‘0, .‘I SU‘OI‘S av

1,016 at $4.75, 4 do av 812 at $4,

Johnson sold some 1 0x

1.560 L11 $4.65.



Tubbs & Son sold Lingeman 5 cows av

076 at $3.50. 2 heifers av 725 at $4.



Kalahm- sold Hammond, S. & Co. 6

cows av 700 at $3.50.



Johnson sold Mich. B. Co. 18 steers av

$17 at $4.



Same sold Daronic 17 stockers av 600

at $3.75.



Young sold McBride 4 stockers av 73?.





weighing





at $4.

Same sold Hull 4 steers av 892 at $4.75,

Veal Calves.





Reccipts, 400. Market steady at last





week’s prices. Best, $350609; others, $4

@750: milch cows and springers steady.





Roe Com. Co, sold Nnele P. Co. 5 av

125 at $8.25, 4 av 115 at $7: to Thompson

8 av 150 at $8.50.



‘Vi'ickman sold Newton B. Co.





135 at $8.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 1

2 av 130 at $8: to





Weighing 170 at $9.

Newton B. Co. 4 av 100 at $5.50, 8 av 130

at $0; to Parker, W. & Co. 6 av 150 at





14 av





   





38-75, 6 av 145 at $8, 7 av 145 at $8.50;

to Sullivan P. ’00. 3 av 140 at 38.25:! to

Hammond, S. & Co. 11 av 145 at $8.50;

to Bfeitenbavck Bros. 6 av 150 at $7.50.



Spicer & R. sold Newton B. Co. 3 av

150 .at $6, 7 av 135 at $8; to Breitenback

Bros. 8 av 140 at $7.25, 3 av 100 at $6.50:

to Sullivan P. Co. 4 av 120 at $8.50; to

Fitzpatrick Bros, 11 av 125 at $7.50, 3 av

av 170 zit-$3.50, 8 av 140 at $7.75.



Haley & M. sold Nagle P. Co. 8 av

140 at $7.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 7 av 145

at $8.50, 2 av 180 at $5, 4 av 115 at $7: to

Smith 1 weighing 180 at $5, 1 weighing

150 at $8. - ’ .



Wagner sold Thompson Bros. 3 av 150





at $8.50.

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 4,424. Market 25c higher than

last week on good stuff or steady with

Wednesday. Common grades dull and no

higher.



Best lambs, $7.25; fair to good lambs.

$7; light to common lambs, $6@6.50; year-

lings, $5.25; fair to good sheep. $4@4.50;

culls and common, 32.756.173.25.



Bishop, B, & H. sold Sullivan P. Co. 58

lambs av 75,at $7, 22 sheep av 100 at

$3.15, 34 lambs av 65 at $5.50, 40 sheep

av 120 at $4.40, 10 do av 118 at $4.25, 9

do av 80 at $4.50, 12 lambs av 05 at $7;

to Stoker 23 do av 65 at $6.50; to Thomp—

son Bros. 16 sheep av 85 at $3; to Nagle

P. CO. 5 do av 100 at $4.25, 13 do av 125

at $3.50, 63 lambs av 70 at $7, 13 do av

80 at $6.50, 38 do av 85 at $6.75, 76 do av

70 at $6.25, 17 sheep av 70 at $4, 26 do av

105 at $3; to Eschrich 17 lambs av 50 at

$5.75; to Newton B, On. 173 do av 70 at

$6.90, 82 do av 75 at $7.25, 10 do av 74

at $5.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 10 sheep av

112 at $4.25; to Ba'rlage 37 lambs av 65

at $6.50: to Haise 61 do av 75 at $7.25,

21 do av 60 at $6.50: to Breitenback Bros.

23 do av 60 at $6.50: to Nagle P. Co. 31

do av 67 at $7, 38 do av 83 at $7.25, 105

do av 67 at $6.80: to Fitzpatrick Bros 53

do av 75 at $7.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 44

do av 70 at $7; to Thompson 31 do av

65 at $6.50, 5 sheep av 110 at $3.50.



Spicer & R. sold Mich. E. Co. 8 sheep

av 100 at $2.50, 30 lambs av 73 at $6.90;

to Nagle P. Co. 62 do av 75 at $7.15, 15

do av 55 at $6, 18 do av 67 at $6.75. 10

sheep av 113 at $4, 3 do av 105 at $4. 5

do av 80 at $2.50, 5 do av 95 at $2.75

23 lambs av 57 at $6. 63 do av 77 at $7.10

28 do av 83 at $6.60. 6 sheep av 100 :1

$3.50; to Bement 5 sheep av 108 at $4, 40

lambs av 57 at $6, 67 do av 75 at $7.25.



Haley & M. sold Nagle P. Co. 1 buck

weighing 160 at $3.50, 3 Sheep av 30 at

$4, 6 do av 100 at $3.50. 4 lambs av 70

at $7.15. 8 do av 70 at $6.50; to Sullivan

P. Co. 38 do av 75 at $7.25. 24 Sheep av

90 at $4, 4 lambs av 70 at $6. 14 do av

80 at $7.25. 98 mixed av 90 at $4.50, 2

sheep av 115‘at $3, 17 do av 110 at $3.75;

to Thompson 14 do av 70 at $3: to Smith

5 do av 90 at $3.25, 9 mixed av 60 at $5.50;

to Sullivan P. Co. 26 lambs av 80 at $7,

33 do av 70 at $6.75, 10 sheep av 91 at

$3.50; to Smith 67 lambs av 80 at $6.25.



Roe Com. (‘0. sold Newton E. Co. 12

lambs av 60 at $5.50, 74 do av 75 at $7; to

Sullivan P. Co. 11 sheep av 115 at $4.20,

14 do av 100 at $3; to Thompson Bros. 35

do av 90 at $3.25; to Erwin 53 lambs av

80 at $7.25; to Breitenback Bros. 50 do

av 50 at $5.75, 9 lambs av 105 at $3.50:

to Nagle P. Co. 87 lambs av 72 at $6.75;

to Escln-ich 53 do av 70 at $6.75, 6 sheep

av 105 at $3.50.



Johnson sold Nagle P. Co. 15 sheep av

11.0 at $3.50, 48 lambs av 75 at $6.75.

$ McLaughlin sold same 30 do av 85 at



7.25. '



VVivckmann sold same 83 do av 70 at

$7. 17 sheep av 90 at $3.25.



Wagner sold- Thompson Bros. 9 sheep

av 110 at $3.75, 21 lambs av 70 at $6.75.



Robb sold Fitzpatrick Bros. 3 sheep av

1.00 at $4, 20 lambs av 65 at $7.121/3.



Carmody sold same 17 do av 77 at $7.25.





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095.



Receipts, 5,500. Market steady at last

week's Closing prices.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

crs, $8.106!8.20; pigs. $7.856F7.90; light

yorkers, $8678.10; stags 1.5.. off.



Bishop, B. & H, sold Parker, XV. & (‘0.

355 av 150 at $8.05, 744 av 170 at $8.15, 568

av 200 at $8.20, 1.034 av 160 at $8.10, 32

av 160 at: $8.



Same so'ld Sullivan P. (‘0. 175 av 200 at

$2.20, 257 av 160 at $8.10, 63 av 170 at

. . .15.



8351;)?“ shippers sold samc 640 av 170

at 5. .



Haley & hi. sold Hammond. S. & (‘13.

87 av 200 at $8.20. 300 av 180 at $3.15, 480

av 170 at $8.10, 280 av 160 at $8.



Spicer & R. sold some 360 av 1.\‘0 at

$3.15. 220 av 200 at $8.20.



Roe Pom. Co. sold same 150 av 130 at

$8.15. 250 av 170 at $8.10.



Sundry shippers sold same 680 av 130

at $8.15.





Friday’s Market.

November 26. 1909.

Cattle.





The run of cattle at the Detroit stock

yards Friday was light and the markct





on all grades steady with the close on

Thursday. l\‘lilch cows and springcrs

were also steady.



Dry-fed slccrs and heifers, 225675.50;





steers and heifers ,1,000 to 1,200, $4 50025;

steers and heifers, 300 to 1,000. $4674.50;

steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to 700.

$3.506?3.75: choice fat cows. $4674.25; good

fat cows, $3.50fi‘3.75: common cow's, $2.25

$3; canners, $2672.25; choice heavy bulls.

$4.25; fair to good bolognas. ‘bulls,’ 3.506?

3.75; stock bullls, $3,603.50: Choice fecding

steers, 800 to 1.000, memo; fair amine

steers, .900 to 1.000, “(754.25; choice stock:

ers, 500 to 700. $375674; fair stockers. 500

to 700, $3.25@3.75; stock heifers. $2.506?

3.15: milkers, large, young, medium at’e

$406055; common milkers. $20@35. ° '

Sheep and Lambs.



There was a large number of

lambs on sale that. arrived too 1232951315512?

day to be sold and had to go Friday The

quality was hardly as good as Thursdav

and while steady prices were paid» the

close was dull and draggy.



Best lambs. $7; fair to good lambs $6 50

6106.75: light to common lambs, $6606.25:





fair to good sh .

common, $250603? $3.50@4' culls and





 





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Advice thru this department is free to

our subscribers. Each communication

should state history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and address of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

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Pigs Unable to Use Hind Quarters—I

have some young pigs that are unable to

use their hind quarters and I would like

to know how to treat them. C. M, J.,

Provemont. Mich—You have been feeding

your pigs an unbalanced ration. Instead

of giving them so much corn, feed some

oats, oil meal, some skim-milk, adding a

little air-slacekd lime to their food every

meal.



Lump Jaw.—~Is there any cure for lump

jaw in cattle and would it affect the meat

of a cow that had it? \V‘ould she be fit

for food? W. 1?}. V.. Sandusky, Mich.—

The government and local meat inspectors

do not condemn carcases unless the dis-

ease is generalized or in a suppurative

condition. A bunch such as your cow

has should not make her unfit for food

purposes. Incipient cases of lump jaw

are curable.



indigestion—I have two horses that are

in an unthrifty condition and have been

so ever since last spring; they are rough

coated and low in flesh. W'hat had I bet-

ter give them? W. L. C.. Fruitp-ort, Mich.

“First of all, your horses should be well

groomed, fed all the food they will eat;

they should also have a few vegetables

every day. Give a tablespooniul or two

of the following condition powder: Mix

powdered sulphate .iron, gcntian. fenu-

greek and resin in feed two or three

times a day to each horse.



Torpid Kidneys.~——My 4-year-old gelding

has weak kidneys; his sheath and hind

legs are swollen. I applied a solution

made from wood ashes but it was too

strong. I also applied air-slacked lime to

heal the sores and later applied iodine.

\Vhat had I better apply to reduce the

swelling? E. \V. 8., Orion, Mich.—You

have. n‘ntnaged the case badly and made

him worse instead of better. Give 1 (1r.

iodide of potassium and 2 d'rs. hyposul-

phate of soda at a doSc in feed twice a

day and upplyone part tincture iodine

and three parts glycerine to bunch once

a day.





Toxic Poison.—-I would like to know

the cause of my young pigs’ death. W'hen

about two weeks old, one died: a few





days later another died; and so pn until

i had only five left. Then I took them

away from the sow, thinking that her

milk might be the cause. Two more of

them soon died. What can be done in

a case like this? Do you think it advis-

able to breed her again this fall? So far.

as I can tell they show no symptoms of

sickness. B. J. '1‘., Holland, Mich—L

would not advise you to breed her again.‘

Her food ‘supply or the condition of herl

blood no doubt caused the death of her

pigs. Drugs will not help you out in a‘

case of this kind.



Hogs Have. VVorms.—I would like to

know what to give hogs that are troubled'

with worms. A. B., Gaylord, Mick—Give

1,43 oz. doses of fluid extract of spigclia and

senna every four hours until purgingf

commences; then discontinue treatmcm.‘

This is a dose for a hog weighing between

100 and 200 lbs. A younger hog should

be treated according to their weight: Of

course, there are other very good rome-

dies and not knowing the kind of worms





 





your hogs are troubled with. I suggest

that you treat them for large round

worms.





Infcctious Abortion in Cattle—J bot av

Holstein heifer of a cattle buyer who told’

me that she dropped her calf last April

and is due to be fresh again next May;

l am told that she aborted, and if so, will‘

she not be likely to infect the balance of

my herd? E. H. B.. Romeo, Mich.—

l')ou'b1lcss you have noticed in this column

prescriptions and suggestions regarding

this ailment. tlwrcft‘n‘e, i shall briefly re-

peat some of the most important things

for you to do. (live your cow 1%; dr. cur-

bolic acid in 2 MS. of water mixed in feed

three times :1 week for four weeks. If:

she has a vaginal discharge, dissolve 2

drs. permanganatc potash in 3 (its. of

lcpid water and wash out vagina once a

day three times a wcck. You should, of

course. use disinfectants in stablc and it

would be good judgnnuit to separate her}

from your other cattle.



lndigestion—-(‘.arget.—Have prolited by

advice thru veterinary column; now come

to you for additional advice. Have 3.

Durham heifer that will be four years old

in March. 1010. Bot her 17 months a o

with a calf a week old by her sidc. She

freshcned again last June: the first, six,

months we had her she would chew;

bones; had one attack of acute indigcs-.

lion. 1 had a prescription filled which [i

look from Michigan Farmer that .sccmedi

to help her. Six weeks ago hcr bugl

caked and gave bloody milk from one'

quarter. small obstruction came in one

teat which appears to remain: besides,

the cow is quite thin and out of condi-

tion. F. M. 1... Charlotte. Mich—Apply

iodine. ointment to bunch once :1. day and

give 1 dr. iodide of potassium at a dose

in feed nivht and morning; also givc 1





 





 





 





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such time as the symptoms begin to dis—

appear and the animal indicates improve-

ment; then give'iess medicine at a dose

but as often, gradually tapering-on the

treatment until recover takes place.

Some cases are mild, oth rs more severe.

some acute, others chronic; therefore, I

cannot safely lay down any definite or

fixed rule for reader to follow. However.

it is generally a good plan to keep up

the treatment until the desired results are

obtained.



COW Constantly Bellows—Please advise

me what to do for a cow that constantly

stands bellowing no. matter what I feed

her or how much or where I keep her:

it’s all the same. R. R., Grand Rapids.

Mich.—If she is without company, sup—

ply her with it. for she may be lonesome;

if this does not satisfy her, give 1 oz.

doses chloral hydrate as a drench in a

quart of water two or three times a. day.





Indigestion—I have a. horse that is

rbothered with indigestion and has a weak

stomach; he is young and a very hearty

eater but has had these spells all sum-

mer. Recently he had a 'bad attack of

acute indigestion and at one time I thot

I should lose him; his hair looks bad.

During the sick spell I gave him two qts.

raw linseed oil and one pound of epsom

salts, also enemas of soap and water. I

also gave him some exercise before get—

ting any action of the bowels. As he is

subject to such attacks I wish you would

tell me what to keep on hand in order

that I may be able to treat him success-

fully. O. J. H.. Millington. Mich.—-'V‘Vhere

there is much flatulence give 2 (MS. sali—

cylic acid and 1 oz. aromatic spirits am-

monia in one pint of warm water as a

drench and repeat the dose every thirty

or forty minutes until relief comes.



Chronic Indigestion—I have a. cow

seven years old that seems to be in fairly

goodcondition during the summer when

on grass, but as soon as she is stabled

and fed dry feed acts as the she felt

badly, and appears to lose flesh. W. H.

(3., Shelby, Mich—Your cow no doubt suf-

fers from chronic indigestion and as she

does fairly well on grass you should feed

her plenty of vegetables and well cured

clover and corn fodder. Mix with each

feed a tablespoonful of baking soda, a.

tablespoon of ground ginger, 3. tablespoon-

ful of gentian and two tablespoonfuls of

powdered wood charcoal. She should also

be furnished with a little salt every day.



Garget——Warts.-—I have a 2%-year-old

heifer milking, Whose udder is at times

quite swollen and tender. Her teats

are also covered with small warts. I

would like to know what treatment you

would advise me to administer. G. R. 8..

Tower, Mich.———App1y equal parts witch

hazcl, alcohol and warm water to udder

when it is inflamed, three or four times

a day. Are you sure that she does not

bruise her udder? live your cow 1 oz.

doses of fluid extract of phytolacca two

or three times a day while she. is suffer—

ing from an inflammation of udder. For

the warts apply one part salicylic acid

and two parts vaseline daily or apply

acetic acid daily.





 





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It’s an excellent milk producing feed: I. flesh

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it’s cheaper than bran. Coatl 010.00 to $15.00 ton

loss than 011 meal.



E. A. Stevenson. of Port Huron, who fed one car

load of Cuddomeel last year and has bought two car

loads so far this season. says “excellent results are

obtained from feeding Cuddomenl both to milk cows

and to growing steers.”



A. E Pierce. of Tecumseh, Mlch., a sheep feeder

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oz. ground ginger, l/g oz. powdered cin-

chona and 1 oz. powdered charcoal at a

dOse. in feed three times a day.



Acidity of Stomach—In your paper of

November 6, you advise treatment for

acidity of stomach but do not say how

long to give the remedy and as I have

two cows which show the same symp-

toms, I would like to know how long to

feed your remedy. W. N. S., (‘roswelL

Mich—In prescribing treatment thru this

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SOIL CULTURE IN THE ORCHARD.





 





 





 





 





 





There are numerous methods of taking

care of the orchard soil, and still more

numerous methods of no care at all. As

we all know that orchard culture needs

attention, we will not consider the differ-

ent kinds of neglect.



The two principle methods that stand

out prominently are the cultivation and

cover crop method, and the sod mulch

method. All of the other methods are

varieties of these two. There has been

considerable discussion, pro and con, re-

specting the value of each, especially

within the last few years. This is due

to the fact that clean cultivation with

cover crop was, until the last few years,

the only authorized proper way to‘ take

care of the orchard soil, and that now

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peaceful sway that the cultivation method

had over the minds of the authorities.



The fact that sod mulch has so claimed

our attention and that its advocates and

users are making a financial success are

proof that it has value.



The soil care of the orchard that is a

success must conserve the soil moisture,

add humus and plant food to the soil and

make it available to the tree. The dollar

and cents return from properly cared for

sod mulch orchards is proof enough that

it fills the above qualifications.



This article is not an endorsement of

sod mulch or any other method irrespec-

tive of conditions. The writer believes

that each method has its good points and

that there are certain conditions where

one would be better than the other.



It would be folly to try the sod mulch

method in old neglected orchards or any-

where where the humus has been depleted

by neglect or by cultivation without suffi-

cient turning under of cover crops. When

it is tried in such places it takes the soil

years to get back its normal amount of





 





 





of humus in the shape of cover crops or

manure and then cultivated to make it

quickly available is the quickest way to

get the soil in good shape. In fact, the

cultivation and cover crop method is the

quickest to bring any soil in shape. Na-

ture’s methodlof bringing things back to

the normal is slow and unstimulating.

Sod mulch very closely resembles Na-

ture's method. Cultivation and cover

crop is man’s method and is stimulating.

It may be likened somewhat to stimulat-

ing drugs. They bring quick relief but if

not used with discretion produce bad

after effects. One of the great faults of

those practicing cultivation is that they

do not turn under enough material to

keep up the normal amount of humus.

The result is that the soil is in time

“dead” or “burned out.” This is the

most common among the small fruit

growers and especially so with the grape

growers. I



In conclusion, either method is good.

provided they are properly carried out.

Half-way practice in either case does

not work. Cultivation and cover crop

method has the advantage in that it can

be used under more conditions than sod

mulch. Where sod mulch can be used it

is the cheapest and most labor saving, the

ground is in better shape to get on early

in spring, and the fruit grown in sod

mulch is conceded to be of better color.



F. A. WILKEN,

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MICHIGAN AS AN -APPLE STATE.





 





 





It has been my privilege to travel over

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people in regard to the crops best adapted

to, and most profitable in their particular

localities. Strange as it may seem, the

majority of people who live in the state,

do not know that there is grown here a

better quality of some of the popular

varieties of apples, when the orchards

have the proper care, than can be pro-

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world. The peculiar soils and the cli—

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be found elsewhere.



While on a protracted visit in New

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year, fruits of various kinds from nearly

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ture of flesh that makes the fruit satis-

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the credit for fine, desirable quality was

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humus and in all that time the trees

suffer. Humus can be put into the soil

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matter.



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towns who are willing to pay a high

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With a few exceptions the best fruit

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THE "MICHIGAN FARMER.





of the state selling the whole of their crop

of one kind of red apples this year for

two dollars per bushel. Another grower

sold his entire crop' of No. 1 Steel Red

apples at $1.50 per bushel delivered at his

nearest station in crates.

In setting trees there is a tendency

toward setting too many varieties, and

too large a, proportion} of the plainer

kinds that have to be sold at a. moderate

price. 0n the east side of the state, as

an early fall apple the Duchess of Olden-

burg sells well. It looks well and people

seem to take to it. On the west side of

the state they do not giVe satisfaction as

they do not stand up well to ship. As a.

fall and early winter apple, there is never

enough to meet the demand of good Can-

ada Snows, anywhere in the state.

As an early winter market apple the

Wolf River is a fine apple to look at and

sells well on its appearance.- The trees

are good annual bearers, and perhaps as

porfitable to raise as any variety yet

developed. There is never enough of the

real good Northern Spy apples to meet

the demand. The Steel Red is the popu-

lar market apple on the eastern side of

the state. The trees are good bearers

every other year and the supply is always

too limited. They are good keepers.

Methods of Marketing Faulty.

The methods of marketing apples is

faulty and does not bring to the growers

of the fruit the just recompense for

their labors bestowed. It is Quite gen-

erally the custom for speculators from

some of the distant large markets, to ap-

pear as soon as the prospects can be

judged, and begin to barter in an effort

to buy all the fruit in certain orchards

at a. stated sum. If several buyers appear





 





 





 





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in the same locality they get together and

agrce on the bids they will make, and

thereby establish the buyers’ prices. The

early ones only buy from the best and

most desirable orchards, and thereby se-

cure the cream of the crop before the

farmers fully realize what the real good

apples are worth.



As a result of the operations of the





, speculators farmers do not, in most cases,





get the full value for their fruit. They

own the ground, set the trees, raise the

orchards, prune and spray, and the deal-

ers come around and name the price at

which the apples are to be sold, and walk

away with the lion’s share of the profits.

In many cases the speculators double on

the money invested. In other words, the

farmers raise their own crop of apples

on shares—the speculator getting half for

marketing the crop.

Wayne 00. N. A. CLAPP.

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THE SCIENCE OF Hoaricuuuns.





 





Horticulture occupies a position only

second to agriculture. For centuries the

art and skill of gardeners have been

steadily worked in all parts of the world

where horticulture is practised. There

has been a ready interchange of ideas and

knowledge by means of the press. the lit-

erature of the garden being now very

considerable, whilst there are dozens of

publications devoted exclusively to gar-

dening matters. Among the more ardent

votaries of the calling there are mutual

improvement societies and classes, chiefly

for the younger professional gardeners

mutual improvement in this case being

solely in the art and practice of garden-

ing.



It is customary to link horticulture with

botany to the disadvantage of the former.

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for this, as they show their readiness to

call their higher, or scientific work, bot-

anical rather than horticultural.



The late Dr, Lindley who, altho a. bot-

anist by profession was also the editor

of the “English Gardeners Chronicle” for

many years, showed in his “Theory of

Horticulture,” a work of quite more than

ordinary interest, how largely science en-

tered into the. work of the gardener. I

do not mean botanical science, but the

science of cultivation; in other words,

certain knowledge arranged under general

truths and principles, which enables those

who possess it to control the growth and

behavior of cultivated plants. The in-

fluence of plants upon temperatures, light,

soils, and manures, water, air, drainage.

the why and wherefore of the manifold

operations in the market garden and nur-.

sery, such as grafting, budding, seed sow—

ing, layering, cuttage and other means of

reproduction; plant breeding; pruning,

transplanting, forcing, retarding, storing.

the diseases and pest of plants; the for-

mation of gardens, commercial as well as

decorative—these surely are matters of

importance sufficient to entitle horticul-

ture to rank as a science quite as much

as agriculture or forestry.



In England they have a State Board of

Agriculture, and when the horticulturists

asked for recognition they were officially

informed that agriculture included horti-

culture. It would be just about as accu-

rate to say that cows included horses be-

cause they both eat in the same field.

There is a very wide difference between

the methods of agriculture and those of

horticulture and whilst it could be urged

that the farmer might, with advantage,

copy the gardener in some of his ways

the two are as yet quite distinct. The

fact is, that horticulture has for some

reason been treated as—van outside or sub-

sidiary calling, and it has been said that

gardeners have deserved no better be-

cause they have never shown any deter-

mination to push forward and take their

proper place. There can be no doubt that

commercially, horticulture is a really big

thing. I do not attach much importance

to the gardening'of the amateur, which

is .as a rule, mere embellishment and not

always even that. It would be difficult

to show that horticulture has suffcred

more from the interference and lowering

influence of the amateur than any other

calling. It is when one turns to thc great

nurseries, fruit-growing establishments,

and market gardens that the importance

of horticulture is perceived. It is the

science of horticulture that calls for the

fostering care of the national ccntcrs of

W. R. GILBERT.





 





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SPRAY MATERIALS.





 





For a number of years considcrable

trouble has been experienced with Paris

grccn and other insecticides from what

has been attributed to their adultemlion,

\Yilh the idea of controlling this, the lust

legislature passed two laws, one which

related only to Paris green and the other

to all materials used as insecticidcs or

fungicides for the spraying or fumigating

of fruit trees.



This law requires all manufacturers in

the state and dealers who handle goods

made without the state to file with the

director of the State Experiment Station

at the Agricultural College a stutcmcnt

showing the names of the brands handled,

the name of the manufacLux-cr and his

address, as well as the weight of (“.1011

package and the percentages of its essen-

tial ingredients, together with the. chem-

ical combinations in which they occur.

This is to be a guarantee to the pur-

chaser of the weight and purity of the

contents of each package.



Whenever a manufacturer has filed the

above statement, dealers who handle the

goods are relieved from all responsibility.



Every original package of insecticide

or fungicide sold in the state must have

upon it a label showing the above facts.



The director of the experiment station

is also required to have samples of the

different brands analyzed and report the

rcsults.



The violation of any of the provisions

of the act and the selling of spraying

substances that have not been labeled is

made a misdemeanor for which a fine of

fifty to one hundred dollars, together with

ll‘ . cost of the action, may be imposed.



I find that very few dealers'or manu-

fact-urers are aware of this law and de-

sire in this way to bring it to their atten-

tion as at the present time any one who

sells insecticides or fungicides in Mich-

igan render themselves liable to prose-

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Agl. College, Mich. L. R. TAFT.



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There is no better time of the year to."





plan an orchard than during the four

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can hardly know too well the require-

ments of a business before he launches





upon it. And to get the best idea of

these requirements demands time for

consideration. "





It is the limit of foolishness to go

into a. business without kiowing what

those before have done. 1') man can

expect to accumulate knowledge by expe-

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fraction of the great supply of informa-

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decades past on the growing of fruit trees

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management of an orchard.



But the past is only the foundation

upon Which one is to establish a business

that is to meet the conditions of today.

As the attorney fits himself by studying

much law that is obsolete because it fur-

nishes a. historical reason for many things

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the past in order that he might deal in—

telligently with the present. Hence it is

an opportunity to get acquainted with

practical growers and learn directly from

them. It is fortunate for the beginner

that fruit growers are magnanimous and

ready with information. They know that

the busineSS will be prospered should

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that should exist in every business. Learn

the man and seek to find the secret of

his success, if he has made a success, and

the key tO-his failure if he has had dis-

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Current literature should also be pro-

vided. as thru it one keeps in touch with

the business in general. He here has the

experience of men who are working under

present day conditions but out of reach,

possibly, of personal association thus giv-

ing a wider range to the information that

is brot to use in the orchard.



All of these things can be started or

provided for now. Some of the problems

that one desires to solve could not be at-

tempted if he were to devote but a few

days to them. Beginning in December he

ran undertake their solution. Then, too,

when he has determined upon a plan he

yet has time to go into the market for

needed supplies. The most important

mater in this regard is the purchase of

nursery stock. if one unwittingly puts

into the ground poor trees, or canes, 0r

vines, he cannot expect to get the, maxi-

mum of results with whatever diligence

he exercises in lilting the ground and in

caring for the crop after the plants have

been established. The very best stock is

none too good. It‘s extra cost should not

interfere with its purchase. One can well

afford to pay high interest on the extra

money needed to get the best stock,

rather than spend his time bothering with

second class material. A reliable firm

should be dealt with. One that is not

responsible might give varieties not true

to name. You would not discover this

till the trees are bearing, and conse-

quently a large loss would accrue if the

substitute varieties are inferior to the

ones wanted. The warranty that the

trots are true to name and a guaranty to

replace any that should prove otherwise.

will not cover the loss, for one is then

compelled to wait till grafts can be de-

veloped and brot into bearing after he has

waited for the tree, before he can get

the fruit his efforts were directed to

produce.



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in the course of his work and that to get

at these problems and inform himself as

well as he can is no more wisdom than

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Address all correspondence relative to

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L. Cheney, Mason, Mich.





A LAST WORD FROM THE ASSOCIA-

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In Behalf of Annual Meeting of 1909.



Prospects are perfect for the program

to be carried out as printed in the issue

of November 13. Club workers, did you

study the program carefully? Did you

notice that the firstsession is to be called

on December ’i at 10:30 a. m., and did

you read that the last session was the

evening of December 8‘? The last speaker





comes from Washington, D. C., and no

one interested in Farmers’ Institutes

We are still





should fail to hear him.

hoping to see every club represented. If

there are any new clubs that have not

ted to the associational secretary,





repor

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come to the annual meeting an

make yourselves knowu.



The president and secretary will be at

their desks early on Tuesday morning to

receive all delegates.



Yours for a successful meeting.



Mas. W. L. CHENEY, Sec.





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HAS THE FARMER ANY PUBLIC

DUTIES?





 





Paper read at the November meeting of

the Essex Farmers’ Club. by .l. T. Dan-

iell's, and published by request.



The program committee of this Club

has asked that I present some thots on

the above subject. “’ould that I had the

ability to elucidate this subject in such

manner as its great importance demands.



If the farmer has no public duties de—

volving upon him, then most surely has

no one any public duties. “\Yhat is the

greatest need of this nation?” was asked

an earnest patriot of a government offi-

cial, who had been a close student of

conditions. “A stricter honesty and a

high sense of public duty,” was the re—

ply. “'ith this nation going “money-

mad"—with those two interdependent,

giant' forces~capital and labor—antago-

nizing, more and more, each the othcr‘s





well-being——wit-h greed and graft con-

trolling, to so large an extent, the mo-





tives and acts of public officials; can it

be possible, with such conditions existing,

that the farmer has no public duties dc—

manding his considerate thot and wise,

fearless action? \Yit‘hout question. a na-

tion‘s welfare is dependent. in large de-

gree. upon the intelligence and patriotism

of its rural population.



It has been stated by competent au—

thority that the cities. if left to them-

selves, would perish ere long, victims of

their own corruption. The infusion of

new 'blood and the promulgation of more





pure principles, from the rural districts,

alone saves our cities from becoming

like “The Cities of the Plain." of lloly





Writ; and whose sad fate should be as a

“beacon light,” warning the dwellers

within the cities of this 20th century,

against a like terrible fate.



Most emphatically then. has the farmer

many and important public duties to per-

form, and he has no moral right to shirk

these duties. for it is within the home—

lhc christian home, and these largely in

the rural districisflthat the real source

of a nation’s strength and safety is found.



Would that it might be impressed in-

delibly upon the conSciousncss of every

citizen, his obligation to help make and

maintain a worthy public sentiment.

\Vhile, unfortunately. the cannon is “the

dernicr resort of Kings;" intelligent. co.._

secratcd citizcnship is eve: thc safety

of a republic. And you and I are a part

of this republic and a part of the rc-

sponsibility for its welfare devolves

upon us.



The farmer, near to naturc.

investigating her laws and recognizing

their beneficience, ought. thereby, to be

among those best qualified of 4,111 to Day.

form 1 \Full part in the support of that

public 53 i‘imcnt which shall protect and

advance thc causc of right and righteous-

npss in mo world. lt is most unfortunate

that so many are entirely willing to be

but, “passcngcrs.” and oftcn "drowsy"—

il‘ not entirely asleep—during “life‘s voy~

aac.” ,I.et me recall to your remem-

brance, those wise words of Ex-President





living





'l‘heodorc Roosevelt—“It is righteousness

and not peace, which should bind the





conscience. A man, as a nation, is dis-

graced if the obligation to defend the

right is shirked.”



Oh! what a lot of “shirks” there are

in this world of ours, and when the roll

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that class? Shame on him who parts

company with his manhood and banishes

his individuality in exchange for a little.

brief time of “ease” and semi-nonentity.

If I may be permitted to refer to a. matter

of a somewhat local nature, I would say

that in the near future the people of this

county are to be called upon to determine

a very important question—that question,

being no less than the determining

whether this beautiful county of Clinton.

after having been freed for, two years

from the blightening influences of the

saloon, shall again be brot under its de-

structive power. Farmers of Clinton

county, in this matter you have a duty

to do, and for the manner and faithful-

nesg in which you and I discharge this

duty we shall be required to give ac-

count on that day when every act and

every motive will be known as it truly

is. Fellow—members of the Essex Farm-

ers' Club, we may and we must exert our

atom of helpful influence which shall

make for better citizenship, and thereby

for a purer national life, if we would en-

joy the happiness of a clear conscience

and the approval“of Him, who holds each

individual accountable for the right and

full discharge of his individual duties, no

less than He holds accountable the na~





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Our Motto—"The Farmer is of more

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THE DECEMBER PROGRAMS.





 





State Lecturer’s Suggestions for First

Meeting.





Often do the spirits

Of greatevents stride before the events

And in today already walks tomorrow.

——-Coleridge.



10:00 a. m.——Call to Order in fourth de-

gree.



10:30 a. m.—Election of officers.



Noon recess—Dinner served by

people.



Toasts—(Members of guests remaining

at table). .



2:00 p. m.—Adjourn to hall.

vice.



Address, “The Grange's Declaration of

Purposes,“ by the best speaker available.



General discussion on “Good of the

Ordcr."





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AN “ALL MICHIGAN" STATE

GRANGE.





The coming meeting of the State

Grange, which opens at Traverse City

on December 1i and continues four days,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





The General Exhibit at the Wixom Grange and Farmers' Club Fair.





tion’s of earth for the discharge of na-

tional obligations.



and grant that we may be true and

faithful, not only in our private obliga-

tions, but also in our public duties.





GRANGE AND FARMERS’ CLUB FAIR.





As is well known, there is generally a

livcly interest manilcstcd in thc “'ixom





li‘armcrs’ Club. During the last year

lhcrc was a Grange organized at that





place. and the idea was put into practice

of holding a union fair late in the fall.

Prizes were offered for Children to enter

a corn—growing contcst. Seed corn of

the white cap dent: variety was furnished.

’l‘hc number entering the contest was

not largc, but it: is a starter, with hopes

that more will be induced to take up the

work next ycal‘.



At thc fair, which occurrcd October 30,

the farmers their wives and children.

came out in great numbers all laden with

cxhibits. 0f grains, fruits and vegetablcs

there were about scvcnty exhibits. The

little folks had their exhibits by them—

sclvcs, and the older oncs iillcd the space

](,\ff with products of cxccllcnt (111:11i1;\'.



In the hall there were exhibits from

seven different schools. A great varictv

of exhibits of needlework ctc.. were shown

by the ladies of both Grange and Farm-

crs‘ Club.



After the prizes were awarded. a pro-





gram was carried out. consisting of

music, instrumental and vocal. readings





and rccitations. 'l‘hc carrying out of the

program was interrupted by a house in

the village being set on fire by a passingr

locomotive.



The result of this, the first fair. was

so gratifying that the managers will take.

steps soon to hold another one next year,

to surpass, if possible, the one just held.





will be a notablc OllOAbcginning. as it

were, a new epoch in Michigan Granar-

history. For the first time in the history

of the organization every county in the

state is entitled to rcprcscntation upon

the floor, and if the Patrons in cach

of Michigan‘s Si countics pcrl‘orm thcir

duty in the matter of sending dclcgatcs,

this mccting‘ will go down in history as

the first “all Michigan" Statc tlrangc.

\thn thc dclcgalcs at Saginaw last

Dccembcr, voted to hold the next meeting

of the State Grange “up :‘orth" they did





not realize that bcl‘orc. the date of that

meeting should arrive the point which

they had chos<*n—’l‘ra.vc1‘sc Cilyawas





destined to become the approximate

Grange ~ccntcr of the state, as it was al-

ready the approximatc geographical ccn-

th'. One year ago (lranll 'l‘ravcrsc county

truly was “up north" in chc minds of

most Michigan Patrons: today it is vcry

close to thc ccntcr of thc Michigan

('lrangc map, ’l‘hc wondcrl’ul growth of

thc organization in thc I’ppcr I’cninsula

during lhc past rcsponsiblc for

this change. and while the coming trip to

Traverse City will be a new and intcr-

csting experience for many Patrons, none

can escape thc rcnlization that the

(lrangc in this slatc is not an institution

of any particular district or scction: all

of Michigan is now lrangc territory and

the helpful inilucncc of the Grange is felt

and appreciated in even the most remote

sections.





year is





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Grand Traverse Patrons are preparing

to give their guests a royal welcome. Sur-

rounding counties have lent a. hand in

furnishing interesting exhibits of the pro-

ducts of that region, which will constitute

an educational feature of value. The ses-

sions will be held in the Grand Traverse

opera house and the city is making prep—

arations to care for what will undoubt-

edly be the largest assemblage of Patrons

ever seen at a State Grange in Mich-

igan.





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NATIONAL GRANGE} NOTES.





Next year's National Grange goes to

Atlantic City, N.



The Grange voted' to put its greatest

energies behind its demand for an effi-

cient parcels post, and Congress was

urged to enact a postal savings bank law

with a provision for the investment of the

funds in county or territory in which de-

posits are made.



In respect to denatured alcohol distill-

eries the Grange expressed its belief that

the most practical way to establish com-

mercial distilleries is at selected agircul-

tural experiment stations in different

parts of the country, and by a resolution

urged Congress to make special ap-

propriation for this purpose.



The officers elected at Dos Moincs for

the ensuing two years are: Master, N.

J. Bachelder, Concord, N. If; overseer,

T C. Atkeson, Morgantown, \V. Va.; lec-

turer, Oliver W'ilson. Magnolia, Ill.; stew-

ard. C. D. Richardson. “'cst Brookfield,

Mass; assistant steward, L. H. Henley,

So. W'oodstOck. Conn; chaplain, C. F.

Smith, Ml‘irrisville, Vt.; treasurer, Mrs.

E. S. McDowoll. \Vellcsley, Mass; secre—

tary, C. M. Frccman. Tippecanoe City, 0.;

gatekeeper, D. C. Mullen, Nampa, Idaho;

Ceres. Mrs. Elisabeth H. Patterson, Col—

lege, Park, l\ld.; Pomona, Mrs. Grace ll}.

Hull, Dimondale, Mich.; Flora, Mrs. Ida

Judson, Balfour. Iowa: lady assistant:

steward, Mrs. Mary A. Smith, Morrisvillc,

\‘t.; executive committccman to serve

three years, 5. H. Mcssick, Bridgcville,

Dt‘l.



A committee consisting of

Raine, of Missouri, “lack. of Kansas,

L‘rcasy, of Pennsylvania. “'ilson, of Illi-

nois. Jones, of Indiana, Pcttit, of Califor-

nia, and Stetson, of Maine, was nnmcd

and chargcd with the heavy responsibility

of prcs‘cnlinu‘. at the ncxt mcclina~ of the

National Grange, a plan for national co-

operation which shall be fair and equitable

to both producer and consumer.



Anticipating an attempt this winter by

congress to rcpcal thc Grout bill. which

plnccs a tax of 10 ccnts a pound on oleo—

margarinc colored in imitation of butter.

the, National (lrange instructcd its legis-

lative committcc to use every effort to

prevent. such action. and, furthcrmorc.

to keep each suln’n'diuatc (lrangc in thc

Iimtcd Slates acquainted with the pro-

gress of the campaign and to secure its

co—opcration and inllucncc.



The commitlcc on public highways took

the position that thc markct roads should

l'Iavc first atIcntion latcr the trunk Iincs

may be conm-clcd up. In othcr words,

givc first attcntion to thosc highways

used every day of thc ycar by the grcat

produccrs of thc country, instcatl of giv-

ing first considcralion to lilcils‘lll‘t’ scckcrs.

lhc (,lrangc has always conlcndcd that

the improvcmcnt of thc mnrkct or local

roads was of morc importancc than that

of the trunk lincs of highways. and that

the highways of lhc country arc of vastly

inorc importancc than it.- \vatcrwavs,

which arc rccciving so much allcnlion.‘



’I‘hc Grangc did not soc lit to rccommcnd

the ncw tariff law, and in lhc rcport of

the committcc on agriculturc thc (lrangc

was cl‘iiiciscd for not acting as an organ-

ization to Iil‘ulct'l farm iutcrcsu when

the. tariff was bcing‘ rcviscd. ’l‘hc com—

initlcc bclicvcd thc Hrangc should stand

by the i‘ollwoing‘ principlcs: First. equal

protcction for pcrsons of all classcs, labor

Of all kinds, capital of all amounts, and

products in all forms and volumcs. Sec—

ond, No prolcclion for monopolies and

those who scll in l'orcign nlnrkcis‘ for 185:8

than is lli‘lllillltli‘tl in our own for the

sanic article. ’l‘hird, llcnvicst duties on

imports most use-(l by lllosc bcst able to

bcnr thc burdcn of laxation. Fourth, A

dil’l'crcnlial rntc which may be used to

opcn lhc markcls of thc world to all our

products on cuuul tcrms,





Messrs.





Vi'llcn thc ccnll‘alizml bank proposition

came up Mr. (‘rcasyz of l’cnnsylvania. of-

fcrcd thc following rcsolulion which was

placed upon immcdiatc pass; go and unan-

imously adoptcd:



\\'hcrcas. From its very start and all

thru the vcars of its cxistcncc the (.lrangc

has unsucrvingly (lDDUSt'tl all class legis—

lation and thc granting of spccial privi-

lcgcs to any individuals or interests and

.\\ll('l‘l':l.\‘, A pl‘ojccl is now llcin‘; at...

tivcly promotcd to establish a great” 00”.

trahzcd banking institution. and bclicvinc‘

this to bc a rcvival of a dangcrou: propoi‘

sition, which oncc beforc in 'Hlu' country‘s,

history raiscd its lhrcalcnina‘ hcad but

which dangcr was avcrtcd bv‘thc vclo act

of a braVc I’rcsidcnt. lhcrcfore be it 1



Resolved. By the National Grancc in

forty—third annual session assembled and

rcprcscntlng one million conscrvativc

nlu-rly—loving pcoplc. I'hat we arc uni

nllcrably opposcd to any legislation bv

(‘ongrcss looking to thc cstablislnncnl of

a grcal ccnll'alixcd bank. I





COMING EVENTS.





Michigan State Grange, ’l‘hirly-scvcnth





Annual Session at Travr .. "



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Gentlemen :—l have been feeding Wil- In regard to Wilbur‘s Stock Tonic. l rfesmem





 

 





bur's Stock Tonic for some time With can sav I think it Is all right I have





best results I feed it daily to horses had two or three horsesdie and several i . .



cows and hogs. and find it does everv- sick ones butstnce l commenced ustng WILBUB 8100K F on so 6 r "st Mllwaukoo W's

thing you claim for it I have fed other your Stock Tonic I haven‘t lost a horse ., u I, ’ I

kinds but they are nowhereto compare or had one to he strk that I know of I ‘





with yours I never expect to be I have been usmp it for the past two

without Wilbur 5 Stock Tonic years Yours truly.

F. P. WILBUR, Pres.,

Wilbur Stock Food Co., ‘ 1+.

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Dear Sir — Your Stock Tonic is the best lever usedto bring up run down

horses I could not get my horses to Improve until I commenced to feed

your tonic 'I hey are fattening up and I feed onlv half the grainxl did be—

fore and my cattle are dome well in tact everything I teed it to Would not

be Without it again, Yours truly I O McNUTT Warrens. WIS.





Yourstruly. ‘ (Signed) G W BEAVERIS

663 Huron St., Milwaukee,Wis.





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\Vilbtir Stock Food Co Milwaukee. Wis.

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