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VOL. CXLIX. No.17
Whole Number 3961'

HAT there is certain to be a la-

bor shortage on Michigan farms

next year, and every year until
theolose. of the war, is a fact so gener-
ally appreciated as to require no argu-
ment. This being true, it is the part of
Wisdom for every farmer to make such
preparation as he may to make his
own labor and that of his available
helpersgo as far as possible in keep-
ing production at the necessary high
point, and to reduce the hardship of

’ increased effort in this direction to the

minimum. The average reader will say
to this that he is already doing all that
it is humanly possible for him to do,
yet when the necessity arises he is
certain to live and work still more
strenuously, if by any means he is
able to further increase his power of
endurance to meet the emergency. It
is the purpose of this article to point
out how this may, in a measure, be ac-
complished, without an unwise sacri-
fice of health or otherwise “taking all
the joy out of life.”

That there is a very direct relation
between ‘creature comforts and effi-
cient work is well known to every man.
Every good farmer applies the princi-
ple in the care given his work horses
and his dairy cows, yet too many, be-
cause of; long habit forced on them
and their ancestors by stress of cir-
Cumstan‘ces, do not apply the same
principle in the equipment of their
homes. to the extent which they should
and profitably might do. Of this fact,
the average farm housewife has a bet-
ter appreciation than has the farmer
himself, because she spends nearly all
of her‘time in the home and because
her work is largely done there, too of-
ten, with few, if any, of the modern
labor-saving helps which the farmer
has found indispensable in his work.
With the increased scarcity of. farm
help the farm women will volunteer
to assume more outdoor duties to help
out in the emergency, for which reason
their need of labor-saving helps in do-
ing the housework will be still greater.
But let 511s for the moment defer the

consideration of this phase of the prob- ’

lem _ to consider some of the little
things which will prove a saving, a
help and an enjoyment to every mem-
ber-of the farm family.

\ The Water Supply.

One of the most absolutely essential
thingslused in both house and barn is
water. ‘On the average farm some sort
of convenient facilities for supplying
water at the barn haye‘already been
inétalled, although in some cases the
water for the stock still has to be
pumped by hand and is supplied inter-
mittently, as it ever must be under
these conditions. In' all such 'cases
early provision should be made for an
automatic water supply at, the barn,
either through the use of a windmill or
a small gas engine. The regular sup-

; ply of Water Which will thus be insured

to the steel: ‘will make the investment
3'. rofitabl'e one, to ' nothing of its

 

  

The Only Weekly Agricultural,
DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1917

 

_Lhieh are even

 

Horticultural, and Live Stock Jburnal in the State.

Creature Comforts are an Important Factor
in the Present Emergency

is too valuable to be used in the pump-
ing of water for live stock, and where
mechanical power is used for this pur-
pose, it should also be made to pump
the water, to the house.

The simplest method is to purchase
a thirty-gallon crock, mount it on a
level with the kitchen sink—or better

er himself after the fall work is com-
pleted. The saving in labor for every
member of the family, and particularly
the housewife, will be very great, and
out of all proportion to the cost of in-
stalling this simple equipment.
Where still more efficient, conven-
ient equipment for the provision of an

 

 

 

The Screened Porch is a Much-Appreciated Summer Comfort Wherever Used.

yet, in the garret above the kitchen—
and pipe the water so that it is pump-
ed directly into this receptacle, flowing
from there by gravity to the stock wa-
ter tank, with a service faucet suitably
arranged at the kitchensink. The ma-
terial required will not be expensive,

and the work‘ can be done by the farm-'

automatic, permanent water supply in
the home is desired, this can be sup-
plied thrqugh the installation of'a mod-
ern pressure system, of which there
are several types on the market at
reasonable cost. Any kind of mechan-
ical water supply is a great improve-
ment over the back door pump, and

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T wasn’t much of a race between these two insofar as labor saved was
I concerned—the solid-colored bigger pig on the left fed himself on corn and
, meat product, separate feeders on bluegrass, but the other was ha_nd- fed
all he would eat twiCe a day. The bigger pig reached 225 pounds in 212 days

but -.the smaller one took two weeks longer, or 225 days.
.way- to full-feed corn is to self-feed it, keeping it before the hogs always, day
and njtbt Let the pigs do most of the work in these days of high- priced, -

The most emcient

 

 

   

 

 

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$3.00 FOR 5 YEARS.

Home Comfortsan Aid to Farm Work

where the best kind seems unattaina-
ble, even a temporary or less conven—V
ient arrangement will be found a much'
appreciated improvement.

Where the owner’s circumstances at
all warrantit, provision should also be
made for a permanent supply of hot
water, and for convenient bathing and
sanitary facilities. Even the humble
homes of city workingmen are now al—
most universally provided with these
facilities which are rightly considered
one of the essential home comforts,
and every farmer who is financially
able should lose no time in putting a.
well equipped bathroom in his home.
If this is impractical at the present
time, provision should be made for
some simple form of permanent or_
portable shower bath, the equipment
for which can be easily improvised by
almost anyone. These are among the
most essential of home comforts which
will compensate in a measure for the
excessive labor which must often be
performed upon the farm, and a prime
requisite for the preservation of the
health of every member of the farm
family, particularly when all are oblig-
ed to do more than their ordinary
tasks in meeting the present emer»
gency.

A Rest Spot.

Another important home comfort
which is a matter of rather modern de-
velopment so far as its general use is
concerned, yet simply provided and
within the reach of practically every
farm family, is a screened porch where
the. housewife can rest temporarily
from her strenuous labors, and the tir—
ed men folks spend a comfortable noon
hour or cool evening during the heated
period. The cost of screening a good—
sized porch is very little, and this work
can also be done during the winter
season, all ready for use with the com-
ing of hot weather next year, if sec-
tional screens are built which can sim-
ply be hooked in place when needed.
The protection afforded from flies and
mosquitoes will make the porch the
most appreciated room in the house
next summer.

A few inexpensive easy chairs, a,
hammock and perhaps a sanitary cot
will complete the equipment for the ad-
ded day comfort which the screened
porch will afford next summer. Spe—
cial attention regarding the comfort of
the bed occupied by the hired man, as
well as every member of the farm fam-
ily will also pay. Good springs and
mattresses do much.t0 restore tired
bodies and increase their capacity for
effective work in the field or elsewhere.

Another comfort which, while per-
haps not next in importance, merits
early attention, is the providing of ice
for next summer’s use in the home. A
cheaply and roughly constructed ice
house, or perhaps the utilization of
some building already on the farm, and
the putting up of an ample supply of
ice during the coming winter will be
neither costly or difficult for the aver—
age Michigan farmer, since Miehifin
is blessed with an abundant supply of V

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DETROIT, OCTOBER 27, 1917‘

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

 

At th 6 annual
meeting of the
Michigan M i 1 k
Producers’ Asso-
ciation held at the Agricultural Col-
lege on October 19, steps were taken
looking toward a better solution of
some of the factors entering into the
market milk problem.

Field Secretary Reed in his annual
address recommended among other
things the establishment of cheese fac-
tories in the area contributing market
milk to Detroit and other large centers
of population so as to obviate the diffi-
culty arising from the surplus of mar-
ket milk at certain seasons of the year,

The Milk Producers'
Meeting.

which plan was favored by the organ--

ization. Without doubt, if some meth-
od could be adopted whereby the sup
ply of market milk could be stabiliz-
ed, one Of the'chief difficulties in the
problem of distribution would be over-
come, and ,much better contracts could
be secured from distributors.

On the other hand, at present mar-
ket values for cheese, surplus milk di-
verted for use in cheese-making would
not bring producers anything like the
price which they would receive for
market milk delivered for city distribu-
tion. While the plan would be an ex-
cellent one if feasible, the practical
difficulties are such that it could only
be worked out through a comprehen-
sive organization embracing all, or
practically all, of the dairymen contrib-
uting to the supply.

The value of an organization like the
Michigan Milk Producers’ Association
is perhaps more evident when applied
to the solution of vexed problems like
this than even in the making of equita-
ble contracts for the product of its
members. The study of problems of
this kind and the other recommenda—
tions of the organization, such as the
broadening of the extent of its field
work and the increasing of the mem-
bership fee. to meet the expense, to
gether with the recommendation of a
still more comprehensive plan for
financing the activities of the organi~
zation speak volumes for its future
usefulness to the milk producers of

the _ state.

 
  

,. years contracts were made at the

No tentative price figures for next

meeting. owing to. theinvestigation

inflow of prodn'cflonm Sunder-

taken by the Food Administration and
the desire of the members to loyally
cooperate with the Food Administra—
tion. As expressive of this desire, the
following resolution was adopted and
addressed to Food Administrator Hoov-
er by the omcers of the organization:

The Milk Producers of .Michigan,
through their five hundred representa-
tives from local organizations, in an-
nual convention assembled this day at

.Lansing, do hereby respectfully pledge

to you'and to the government of the
United States their unswerving loyalty
and support.’ ,
We realize the burdens carried by
yourself in the stress of a great war,
and desire to place ourselves voluntar-
ily under the rules which you have laid
down, and ‘ which the government
adopts in fixing and regulating prices
of the great necessities of the people
and of the government, the actual cost
of production plus such reasonable
profit, as the government deems just.
We therefore pray that you urge the
committee of eminent persons selected
and appointed by you, having under in-
vestigation the cost of milk production,
to make known to us and to the milk
producers of the country at the earliest
possible day, their report of findings,
that we may have the same for guid-
ance in making our future contracts.
We invite the most searching investi-
gation into any and all the conditions
and factors entering into our great bus-
iness, a business requiring the grind-
ing toil and the unremitting care of six
millions of people.
The Association is living up to its

slogan of “Education, Legislation, Co-
operation,” in a most commendable
manner. In the campaign of legisla-
tion Secretary Reed noted the law
passed by the present legislature in-
creasing the compensation of owners
for cattle condemned for the purpose
of eradicating disease. The educational
value of the field work accomplished
through the Association is undoubtedly
great, while the spirit of cooperation
is clearly shown by the above resolu-
tion as well as by cooperative effort
toward the establishment of compensa-
tory prices.

The economic bene-
Food Administra- fits of food adminis-
tion Economy. -- tration are so obvi-
. ous that it seems
probable that there will be a general
demand for a continuation of govern-
ment control of the distribution of food
products or at least a measure of gov-
ernment restriction with regard to
their handling after the present emer-
gency has passed.
- Efficient food administration requires
a degree of cooperation between all
the agencies involved which is not eas-
ily secured under ordinary trade con-
ditions. Apparently food administra-
tion as it is being worked out in this
country is designed to effect that desir-
able degree of cooperation with a min-
imum of disturbance of established
trade machinery or normal natural
movements of food products. While a
good many producers, particularly the
wheat growers, feel that the rigid con-
trol of this great bread stuff and its
distribution at a fixed price is unjust
to them, and while a. great many con-
sumers feel that food administration is
not having the immediate edect of
making food stuffs cheaper to the ulti-
mate consumer, yet all will agree that
theclimination of speculation is bene-
ficial to both producers and consum-
ers. Likewise, all will readily agree
that a. scheme of distribution which re-
duces handling and transportation to
the minimum, directing the products of
each'section to its nearest logical mar-
ket is an economic move of benefit to
both producers and consumers. In fact,
any degree of regulation which tends
to eliminate speculation or unneces-
sary expense in handling with a mini-
mum of disturbance to the ordinary
channels of trade cannot help but
serve the interests of both producers
and consumers. .

The value of this sort of food con-
trol as demonstrated in the present
emergency will undoubtedly be demon-
strated in a manner Which Will bring
about, a better understanding between
not only the producer and. the consum-

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er, but we distributors ,

In traveling through al-
most any section of
Michigan, one cannot
but be impressed with
the meager supply of live stock seen
upon the farms of the state. Even
where dairying is followed, the number
of cows kept is generally far below the
capacity of the farm, and little if any
young stock is raised. On a great many
farms two or three ordinary cows and
their progeny will be found. In very
few yards are there to be seen any
‘quantity of young cattle being prepar-
ed for later marketing. Flocks of
sheep are so rare as to cause remark
when even a small flock is observed
grazing in the field. If the casual ob-
servations of, a traveler are to be re-
lied upon, the number of hogs upon the
average farm is far below normal.

There are so many reasons for this
condition that they need not be reiter-
ated here. The high. price which live
stock of all kinds has brought in the
open market, and the high cost of feed
for growing or finishing young animals
are both contributing factors of the
first importance. With a good average
hay crop, a bumper oat crop and an
increased acreage of corn planted this
”year, it has been hoped by those who
have carefully studied the future possi-
bilities of live stock on Michigan farms
that there would be an early trend in
the opposite direction, and a general
inclination on the part of farmers to
increase their live stock holdings. Un-
fortunately, the early frost which in-
jured the corn over a wide area of the
state has had the effect of causing
even closer marketing of young ani-
mals, and present indications are that
less stock will be fed and less produced
upon the farms of this state next year
than at any time in the past decade.

This is the more regrettable because
of the undoubted business opportunity
which is being neglected along this
line. High-priced feeds may prevail
for some time, but feeds Will become
cheap long before live stock again be-
comes plentiful upon our farms, and
the man who has a good supply of live
stock on hand or a good foundation for
producing same when this inevitable
result of the reestablishment of nor-
mal conditions is realized will be in a
position to reap a profitable reward

‘ for his foresight,~and in the meantime
the live stock will prove a good invest-
ment, not alone because of the market
afforded for the coarse feeds produced
upon the farm, but because of the de-
sirability of conserving the fertility of
the soil by this means.

The heavy marketings of live stock
which are the weekly rule at the pres-
ent time because of this general incli-
nation of farmers to get rid of every
animal possible in order to save feed
affords a good opportunity to stock up
for winter feeding or with store ani-
mals to be utilized for grazing purpos-
es next season. The diflicult labor sit-
uation with which the farmers of Mich-
igan are now confronted is an added
reason for increasing the live stock on
their farms. From every standpoint
an increase in our live stock produc-
tion is good business.

Live Stock
Opportunities.

 

HAPPENINGS 0? THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

The European Wan—Interest was p

transferred to the eastern war theatre
last week when the German naval and
army forces opened their successful
campaign against the large islands at
the entrance of the Gulf of Finland.
They succeeded first in capturing Oesel
island, then " Dago and Schildau is-
lands. During the naval operation the
Russian fleet was bottled in Moon
Sound, which lies between the first
two islands named and the Russian
mainland. Later the fleet steamed out
of the Sound, either to meet the supe-
rior German ships or to seekv'cover.

but with what results, we are not in-.

formed. It is generally believed, h0w-

~ ever, that the battleships will proceed

toReval for the,,protection_-of the Bus:

 
 

roadsor. other'carriers‘as.wéfll." ,- ‘,

  

 
 

sian fortress situated there. , In .minor MiT‘WWEr page;

.. casein aw «mamas
the eastern fluent—0n the West, Brits"
ish yess‘els have heavily. bombarded
the port of Defend; Belgium,.which, is
being used by the Germans as a sub-
marine base. The Germans delivered
heavy infantry attacks’against the
French near Champagne, but were re-
pulsed. In German East Africa there
has been a renewal of intensive fight-
ing between British and German troops
in which the latter were defeated.—

Emperor William has just made an ex.

tended trip to Sofia and Constantinople
where conf rences were held with Gerr
many’s alli 5. Reports coming through

Switzerland are to the effect that peace .

proposals will in all probability follow
the return of the Kaiser to Berlin.—

‘The German campaign against north-

ern Russian ports and naval bases has
caused the Russian government to
transfer the capitol from Petrograd to
Moscow. This move had been contem-
plated aside from the military neces—
sity, because the new government be-
liexes that it can command a more
united front from the old capitol town
than from the spy—infested seaport of
the north—The German casualty list
is now figured to total 8,250,000 per-.
sons who have been killed, wounded,
made prisoners, or are missing.

The allies have at last decided upon
a reprisal campaign against Germany
for the latter's persistent air Craft op-
erations against unprotected cities and

towns and non-combatant inhabitants -

of England and northern France. Al-
ready German towns have been bom-
barded but no report on the results has
been made.

Canadian. letter carriers threaten to
go on strike unless relief in the way of
better salaries is allowed by the Dom-
inion government.

The Brazilian government is taking
over all German vessels interned in
the ports of that country when the
European war opened.

National. _

The American army transport An-
tilles was torpedoed and sunk by a
German submarine in the war zone
last Wednesday. About seventy men
are missing and probably lost.

There is reason to believe that the
threatened strike of coal miners in the
Mississippi valley may be averted- It
is reported that the government will
provide for an increased wage of ten
cents per ton by authorizing an ad-
vance in the price recently established
by the fuel administrator.

In an automobile accident at Wash--
ington, N. J ., six persons out of’a fam-
ily of eight were killed. The accident
occurred when the driver lost control
of the car.

One person was killed and four in-
jured last Sunday when an automobile
skidded and overturned on the road
three miles east of Lapeer. ‘

On Tuesday of the present week
Camp Custer at Battle Creek will be
dedicated. A comprehensive program

for the celebration has been arranged.- ,.

A dearth of one Cent coins is said‘ to
be threatening Chicago and many oth-
er central western cities; The drain is
partly attributed to the charging of
odd cents for different units of goods
and service to cover war taxes.

United States Senator Husting, of
Wisconsin, was accidentally shot and
killed while hunting with his brother
near Oshkosh, Wis.

 

LIVE STOCK SPECIAL.

 

A “Live Stock Special” institute

train, run by Michigan Central Rail- ,

road in cooperation with the Michigan
Agricultural College and the North-
eastern Michigan Development Bureau,
made stops on the Mackinac division
last week. The same train with the
same corps of speakers will also be
run over the D. & M. line. The sched-
ule of the train for the ensuing dates
is as follows:

Grayling, Oct. 27, 9:00 a. m. to 12:00
noon. ,

Lewiston, Oct. 27, 2:30 p. m. to
5:30 p. m. '

Frederick, Oct. 29,-8:00 a. m. to.3:00

p. m.
Gaylord, Oct. 29, 12:00 noon to 3:00
Vanderbilt, Oct. 29, 3:30. p. m. to

6:00 p. m.

Wolverine, Oct. 30, 9:00 a. m. to
12:00 noon. *

Cheboygan, Oct. 30, 2:00 p. m. to
5:00 p. m ,

On the D.- & M. line the schedule of
dates is as follows: . '~

Onaway, Mlllersburg and Rogers,
Oct. 31.

Posen, Hillman, LaChene, and Alps
na, Nov. 1. ‘

Alpena, Harrisville and East Tawas,
Nov. 2 ‘ ‘ ‘

» East Tawas, ,Makedo,‘ Lincoln and
Towns City, Nov.-3. , . ' ,
Hale, Rose City, Prescott and East . ~

Towns, Nov. ,5. . ,,

 
 

 

 

 

  

  

 
   


 

_ e Vitora’ge "of “Potatoes "
* By LOU D. SWEET "

 

Head of PotatoDivision, U. S. Food Administration

T is of great importance that all the

pctatoes raised this year should be

, stored under proper conditions. Ev-

en when every precaution is taken the
wastage of potatoes during the winter
is considerable; under bad conditions
of storage it is very great indeed.
1 In order that the best methods may
be adopted by the small growers those
who have not had the experience in
the storage of potatoes, should know
the chief causes of the wastage. These
causes are: ,

1. Sweating, heating and consequent
rot, often due to insufficient ventila-
tion.

2. Rotting, due to potatoes getting
wet at the time of putting them in
storage.

3. Injury from frost.

4. Decay, owing to disease in the
tubers at the time of storage.

’ 5. Sprouting of tubers in the spring.

It is not possible to prevent atogeth-
er losses from these causes, but by us-
ing the best methods of storage, it is

eases of the potato which destroy the

tuber, and if diseased tubers are mixed
with the sound ones, the disease will
spread'very rapidly; therefore, it is
necessary ,to sort the potatoes care-
fully, eliminating all of the disease,

.the cuts, culls, and dirt before placing

them into permanent storage for the
winter.
en and diseased tubers should be fed
to the poultry and live stock, but
should be steamed or boiled before be-
ing fed, as in this way you increase
the food value, and also destroy the
germs of the disease, so that it will not
get into the manure and thence into
the land.

5. By proper ventilation of the cel-
lar or storage room, and by holding the
temperature as near 35 degrees F. as
possible, you can keep the potatoes
from sprouting.

Selection of Seed. Seed for next
year’s planting should be selected from
hills that produce all nice, true to type
potatoes. These should be selected at

 

The Iowa Movable.

Sunlit Hog House

 

 

 

HE little fellows are happy in this snugly built, warm, movable hog

house, and so is their mother;

This house is splendid, providing

warmth, dryness, abundant direct and indirect sunlight, shade in sum—

mer by lifting the far side and one end,

and closing roof doors, ventilation

All of the cuts, culls, misshap- '

through the peak ends, sanitation through easily cleaned solid wooden floors
and plenty of space to work inside, safety, comfort, convenience, serviceabil-
ity, durability, as some of these houses built at Iowa station in 1907 look like
they will stand ten and maybe fifteen years more service, structure of reas- ’
onably low first cost; low cost of maintenance, and pleasing appearance. It
is good for the brood sow, the little pig, the suckling sow, the fattening shote,
the heavy fat hogs, and the herd boar—all are contented within its walls.
‘And it costs not more than one-half the present value of a 250-pound hog.

 

 

Build one and enjoy it with the swine—J. M. Evvard, Iowa Ex, Sta.

 

possible to reduce them very mate-
rially.
' This may be done by taking care to
guard against losses from each of these
causes:

1. Sweating and heating occur if the
freshly dug potatoes are piled in too
large piles, so that the air cannot cir-
culate between the tubers. The risk

of loss from thiscause is greatest in-

the fall; immediately after‘the tubers
have been dug, and it is, therefore, im-
portant that potatoes when dug «should
not be put in unnecessarily large piles,
nor kept in an ill-ventilated room. ‘
2. Rotting from getting the potatoes
wet._ If the potatoes at the time of dig-
"ging are allowedto get‘ wet' and to go
into storage in that condition, rotting
is sure to occur. Be careful to have
your potatoes dry before , storing.
3. Injury from frost. '
easily damaged by frost If they be-
, . en, their market value is de

 

Potatoes are 1

digging time, and stored separately in
crates or boxes, and by storing them
in a well-lighted room where the tem-
perature can be held at from 34 to 40
degrees, with a little ventilation and
this seed planted next spring, the grow-
er will make a start toward improving
the quality of his potatoes, instead of
as in the past, simply planting the culls
.or runouts.

CEMENT BLOCK WATER TANK.

 

I- read Mr. Lillie’s recent article con-
cerning a cement block water tank. I
am planning to make one this fall 'of
silo blocks, ten feet in diameter It
should be 7 reinforced as Mr. Lillie
says, with two strands of N o. 9 wire and
should have a silo hoop around the
top course of blocks.

Hoops Should be put in place as soon
as blacks area in place, before plaster-
ing is done.

.Round tanks do not collapse from _
L-Ithe outSi‘de pressure, nor expand from

freezing, as bad as sduare ones.
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you are busy with other things or when you feel like
saving your paint money—that’ s the time when decay gets
in its work and your farm property begins to run down.
Delay invites decay and decay means costly repairs.

But you cannot fool the weather with poor paint any-
more than you can fool nature with poor seed.

The Sherwin— Williams Company has been making
quality paints and varnishes for over fifty years. That’ s
time enough to prove quality. Get

SHERW/Né WlllMMS
HOUSE HUNT

for your house. This is a heavy- bodied, weather- resisting
paint, made of pure lead, pure zinc and pure linseed oil.
It 18 mixed, ready to apply and when properly applied
will not crack, peel or fade. Measured by its remarkable
covering and spreading power and by the years of service
it gives, you will find it the most inexpensive paint you
can buy.

You can get every kind of paint and varnish that your
farm requires from the Sherwin— Williams dealer near you.
S—W Barn Red for your barns, fences, corn—cribs, etc.,
8— W Wagon and Implement Paint for yoin‘ farm equip-
ment, 8— W Auto Enamels for your car—each a special
product made to best serve its purpose.

Our booklet ”The 143C of Home Painting" tell; you from; 1‘0
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Exactly the same construction as the old reliable
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ssraovme QUAcKI‘ snAss.

Eradicating Quack “Grass.
My‘ own experience of eradicating

. quack grass cofirms Mr. Henry Kahn’s

as given in the last issue of the Mich-
igan Farmer, that is, by plowing shal-

. low late in the fall, and deep again in

the spring. We had an eight-acre field
on the farm, almost completely set
with quack, it having been an orchard
for many years. The grass roots were
perhaps in the tree roots when plant-
ed. I plowed this field very deep in
the spring of 1914, double-disced it Sev-
eral times up to the first of July when
it was planted to potatoes. Being a
very wet year the quack was soon as
thick as ever. With four men I hand-
hoed the field three times thoroughly,
but in the fall when the potatoes were
dug there was still plenty of quack, so
_I decided to drill rye on the field to
turn down the next year for potatoes

' and thus give the grass another riffle.
, The vines were heavy and I found it a

big job to remove them so I could drill
the rye. So, to get them out of the
way I plowed the field just deep enough
to turn them under (about three inch-
es), drilled the rye, which made a very
heavy growth, the next spring, where
the quack had always been thickest.
This rye was turned under (about ten
inches deep), and again put to pota-
toes. I, of course, expected to have a
lot of discing and hoeing to do again,
but to my surprise not a spear of quack
appeared in the potatoes, nor’ has
there been any since. There are farm-
ers who will say that it is absolutely
impossible to eradicate this weed, but
I can furnish ample proof of the above
statements by my neighbors, who wit-
nessed my operations.

Macomb Co. ~ D. N.

There isn’t any question but what
thorough tillage will destroy quack
grass or any other obnoxious plant
that infests our fields. A farmer need
not be afraid and feel like giving up
because his land is infested with any
and all kinds of weeds. It is only just
a question of thorough tillage. No
plant can live if it isn’t allowed to
grow above the ground. Even Canada
thistles and quack grass with their un-
derground root stalks containing a suf-
ficient amount of life to live for a con-
siderable length of time, can be killed
simply by thoroughly cultivating the
surface and destroying the plants. A
plant must have air to live and it
breathes through its leaves. If these
are kept cut off all one summer, that
is the end of the plant, I don’t care
what it is. My experience is that there
is no worse plant in the world than
the common mallow that infests our
garden or horse radish or any of
those persistent growers, and yet, if
you will hoe your garden every week
during one season and cut off every
leaf below the surface, they will be
exterminated. It is absolutely impos-
sible for them to live.

Your system of plowing shallow in
the fall, allowing the winter frost to
have its effect and then by plowing
deep in the spring, there was not. life
enough left in the plant to force itself
through the surface even though it
was not all killed by the frost. Un-
doubtedly, the most of it was killed by
the frosts. I think your plan a most
excellent one for killing obnoxious
weeds or grasses. Comx C. LILLIE

 

FARM NOTE‘S.

 

Pasturing Alfalfa.

I would like to hear from your pa-
per in regard to pasturing my alfalfa
this fall. I have out two crops for hay
and could cut another one this fall, but
am afraid it would not cure, as the
season is getting late for curing hay.
I have seven acres and would like to
know if the cattle would injure it by
pasturing it this fall? Please let me
hear from you.

Barry Co. F. M. D.

.V ' «Late fall pasturing of alfalfa is very

injurious to the stand. If cattle are
turned into amalfalfa field on a frosty
morning, their line of travel can be
followed day-s afterward in the injured.
appearance of ,the plants. A good
growth of alfalfa can be lightly, pas-
tured without serious results," provided
weather and soil conditionsare- favor-
able. The tramping of‘the' field when»
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of the stand, itis the writer’s experi-
ence and observation that it does not
pay to pasture a. good stand of alfalfa
at this season of the year. It is also
pretty late to cut it for hay, although
we have several times out alfalfa dur-
ing the first part of October without
apparent serious results, yet some
growth to protect the crowns over win-
ter is desirable.

 

HOME COMFORTS AN AID TO
FARM LABOR.
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(Continued from first page).
inland water within easy reach of al-
most every locality. The possession of
such a supply next summer will con-
stitute a. home comfort which is not
fully appreciated by any family who
have not been accustomed to it.

Heat and Light.

Good heating and lighting facilities
are also home comforts of the first im-
portance. They also have a very direct
influence on the health and well being
of the occupants of the home. The
small; well-heated house is becoming
increasingly popular everywhere. The
method of heating must, of course, be
determined by the circumstances in
each individual case. There is no ques-
tion about the superiority of furnace
heat where it can be provided, but in
any event all the living-rooms should
be sufficiently well heated to make
them comfortable, with adequate ven-
tilation to insure the health and com-
fort of the occupants.

Good light is another advantage
which is enjoyed in too few homes, al-
though lighting conditions have vastly
improved in recent years with the de-
velopment of various types of lighting
facilities at a cost within the reach of
all. The farm unit electric lighting
plant, with the added advantage of
power available for use in house and
barn, or the acetylene gas plant which
will afford the most efficient and con-
venient possible fuel for the kitchen
range are the most desirable types of
equipment. But where these are con-
sidered too costly for present installa-
tion, there are many types of lighting
equipment which can be purchased at
small cost, and will add greatly to the
comfort and attractiveness of the
home.

Mechanical Helps.

Mechanical helps in the accomplish-
ment of the housework which are too
numerous to permit of enumeration
are also entitled to consideration in
the matter of home comfort, particu-
larly in its relation to the present and
impending labor crisis. Every device
which can be successfully introduced
to lighten the labor in the home is of
just as great economic importance un-
der present conditions as are similar
devices for lightening outdoor tasks.

The future financial outlook for the
farmers of Michigan and the country
was never so good as at the present
time. The only handicap which is
most likely to hamper them from in-
creasingly profitable incomes is the
difficult labor situation. No course can
be taken which will reduce the effect
of this handicap to a greater extent
than will the provision of the home
with every creature comfort within the
ability of the reader to procure.

The wise farmer will readily concede
this point, and take steps to reduce
the handicap so far as possible by this
means. The wise housewife will take
earlyvthought regarding the home com-
forts most needed in every household.
The wise family will at the earliest

possible date, begin to enjoy that great-1

er degree of home comfort which will
go far to lighten the more strenuous
tasks of the coming year’s campaign,
and reduce the risk of impairing the
healthof- anyof. its members through
memory-real danger of over-work, by

providing the. fullest share: of these

creature comforts which will in a.
large measure compensate for the ne-
cessitymf strfinfimfiamr ~.

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crete road finished and? twelve addi-

. tional miles under (construction. The

consent of property owners living just
east of Grand Rapids on Fulton street
has been secured to build six and five-

e‘ighths more miles of concrete road ‘“

and this work will start in the spring.

.Berrien county commissioners have
recommended road construction work
to cost about $75,000, also a two mill
tax to pay for same.

The attorney-general rules that Sag-
inaw county Can secure no state or fed-
eral money for good roads work under
any local road act. This applies both
to the road law under which the coun-
ty system has operated and to the new
act passed by the legislature, which
has not yet been submitted to the peo-
ple for ratification. In other words,
any county must be organized under
the general state road law in order to
draw state or national good roads’
money ‘or even state auto tax money.

Bay county has decided on a portion
of its new road work for 1918. The Sag-
inaw road Will be surfaced to the coun-
ty line, two miles of stone will be ad-
ded to the Fisherville road and a mile
and a quarter to the Auburn road, and
the Linwood and Finney roads will be
improved for distances of two and one
mile respectively.

An enthusiastic good roads meeting
Was held at Boyne Falls and it was
voted to ask the supervisors of Charle-
voix county to submit a bond issue of

$350,000 to the people at a special elec- ,
’ tion, the ,money to be distributed as

follows: $100,000 each in the territory
around Charlevoix, East Jordan and
Boyne City, and $50,000 to be used in
the east end of the county. The coun-
ty road commissioner was also asked
to give aid in improving the roads of
the Beaver islands.

The Ottawa county road commission
will recommend to the supervisors
that $92,000 be voted for good roads
the coming year, largely for concrete
work. The members feel that money
is largely wasted in building gravel or
macadam roads today. Ottawa has
eleven miles of concrete roads and‘is
building this type of road for $10,000
to $12,000 a mile.

Ellsworth township, Lake county,
has voted a bond issue of $8,000 to
build a trunk line road from the east
county line west to the gravel road.

A complete stretch of‘ good concrete
road is now open from Detroit city
limits to Po’ntiac.’ '

Contracts have been let to Johnson
& Flodin for $67,900 to build eleven
and one-half miles of trunk line road
through Hillsdale, Cambria and Wood-
bridge townships in Hillsdale county,
the work to be finished next year.

Bay county is adding another half‘
mile of concrete on the Kawkawlin
road.‘ It is Bay’s first concrete road
and carries the county’s heaviest traf-
fic. The first mile of this road was
built in 1914 and cost $9,573.72. The
next year half a mile was added at a
cost of $5,063.53 and in 1916 another
half mile cost $5,202.40. This year’s
half mile costs $7,299.06, or about forty
per cent increase over a year ago.

State Highway Commissioner Rog-
ers says: “Michigan now sees the ur-
gent need of good roads as a war meas-
We have already helped Uncle
Sam to build concrete roads at Camp
Custer and the aviation field at Mt.
Clemens and we will assist in complet-
ing the road that is being built from
Monroe to Detroit. Materials used iii
making munitions of war will be sent
from Ohio cities to Detroit over this
road. A firm in Akron, Ohio, is now
sending a fleet of four-ton trucks load-.
ed- with’automobile tires to‘Boston and
bringing back' cotton fabric for usegin
its plant. ,Each truck hauls'a trailer
lgadedwith fourptoflns, of tires and the

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One Mitchell Six sells for $1250 at
factory. Yet it has a 120—inch wheelbase
and a 40-horsepower motor. Compare that

‘ All This for $1250
Despite All the Advancing Costs

You will find all the attractions our
experts found in 257 new models—all in

a single car.

price with present prices on other like-

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How We Give So Much

Yet Mitchells are built to the standard

of 100 per cent over-strength. That is
twice the usual margin of safety.

They contain much costly steel. They
have oversize parts. They have shock-
absorbing rear springs which have never

yet been broken.

Every vital part must stand radical
tests. We employ 150 men just for tests
and inspections. Two Mitchell cars that
we know of have already been run over
200,000 miles each. And that means a

lifetime car.

Unusual Features

You will find in Mitchells 31 features
which nearly all cars omit. All of them

are things you’ll want.

You will find luxuries and beauties
beyond other cars in this class.

These extra

.making cost is

beauty.

That is

because we build our own bodies, and all

of this saving goes into extra finish, finer

upholstery, etc.

ards cost us millions of dollars per year.
But we. save that—and more—by won—
derful factory efficiency.

John \V. Bate, the efficiency expert,
built and equipped this plant. It
built and equipped to produce this one
type economically, in enormous quanti-
ties, at minimum labor cost.

The entire car—chassis and body—is
built under these Bate methods.

That saving pays for this extra strength,
these extra features and this added

Our latest models will amaze you by
the values which they offer. Go see them.
If you do not know our nearest dealer,
ask us for his name.

MITCHELL MOTORS COMPANY, lnc.
Racine, Wis., U. S. A.

    

  

  

 

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of the American diet is made up
of vegetables, and only ten per
cent of fruits? Perhaps you did not
know that the vegetable growers of
this,country had such an “edge” on the
fruit growers. Quoting President Sel-
by, “the ordinary horticultural society
meeting finds the fruit men occupying
the main auditorium and the vegetable
growers stuck off in an ante-Mom.”

to organization rather than to actual
proportions of the two industries. And
if the Vegetable Growers' Association
of America succeeds in developing
present plans it will soon take the po-
sition in organization that‘it now oc-
cupies in actual production.

The Vegetable Growers Association
is a “live wire" bunch, although limited

Vegetable ' Growers DISC u ss PI‘Oblems

0 you know that fifteen per cent First, need of more local organiza- ,

The proportions thus indicated are .due‘

tions and a stronger national associa-
tion. When the federal department
undertook the development of its mar-
ket news service, it asked where ser‘
vice should be rendered. . The logical

answer was in those sections having

strong local organizations to co-operate
with and make effective the service of-
fered. Local communities must organ-
ize if they expect to participate in out-
side seryice. And that is as true of
other branches of farming as of mar-
ket gardening. -
Second, the most progressive garden-
ing sections are those that have asso-
ciated with and felt the influence of
the national body. There is need of
a stronger membership campaign by
the National Association. ¢
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in members. Its meeting at Spring-
field, Mass., October 10—13 was the
tenth in its history and was as marked
in its progressive plans for the future
as in advance over past years.
President’s Address.

Upon the outbreak of the war Mr.
Selby became associated with the Bu-
reau of Markets of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture. In this work he
traveled over a greater part of the
country and visited every active vege-
table growers’ association east ‘of the
Rocky Mountains. Many timely and
practical suggestions were drawn from
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IntensiVe Vegetable Growing is Profitable.

sociation to employ a paid secretary to
give his entire time to association
work. Such a man might properly
spend a part of his time visiting local
associations and developing member-
ship; a part to development of mar-
ket and supply reports to be put at
service of local organizations and a
part to advertising and propaganda
work developing the uses of staple veg-
etables. He could also act as advance
convention agent and prepare for‘con-
vention meetings now held in new 10-
cations each year.

Fourth, government statistics show
that the American diet is made up of
about thirty-nine per cent meats, thir-
ty-one per cent cereals, fifteen per cent
vegetables, ten per cent fruits and five
per cent sugars and condiments. Meat
and cereal manufacturers have won
their high position through judicious
advertising. The same methods could
increase vegetables to thirty per cent

g of the diet and save money to the con-

sumers.

Fifth, home gardening has been a
disturbing factor in certain sections
this year, but they will prove the best

piece of advertising for vegetable grow-

ers in the end. There will likely be
less home gardening another year, but
the amateur growers know what it
costs in money and labor to grow veg-
etables and they have developed a wid-
er demand for fresh vegetables.

Six, in summary every prospect de-
mands more and better organization.
Growing Vegetables Without Manures.

The discussion on “Can Vegetables
be Grown Commercially Without Ani~
mal Manures?” conducted by Sidney
B. Haskell, of the Soil Improvement
Committee, touched a. question of gen-
eral interest. Mr. Haskell pointed out
that cities were producing just about
the same quantity of manure available
to market gardeners now as twenty
years ago. But (and this is a most
significant “but”), the production of:

 

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» - drafthorse to everythirty-seven poo-V

ple. Prices of manure are'advdncing
until in Some sections "of New Jersey
the gardeners are paying $400 per ton.
This makes the question of means of
curtailment most important. '

Soil Fertility with Manure.

Mr. Haskell quoted examples of
methods used in various sections of
the country where manure has not
been used for periods as long as twen-
ty years. Typical cases cited were
those of George H. Roberts and Horace
Roberts, of New Jersey, and Abram
Hosteter, of Pennsylvania. George
Roberts has brought up poor land by
use of vetch and rye as cover crops,
turning such a crop down at least once
every two years, and continues to pro-
duce splendid crops of vegetables with—
out manures. Mr. Horace Roberts
bought a run-down farm twenty-eight
years ago. He sold off practically all
of his stock and has never bought 111a-
nure. He now operates 2,600 acres.
His method has been to bring the soil
up with cov‘vpeas grown with commer-
clal fertilizer and turned dowu. Then
he continues to turn under green cover
crops as often as possible in his regu-
lar cropping plan. He uses lime and
fertilizers for cover crops as well as
Mr. Hosteter
has a regular cropping system without
manure. He grows a crop of ti uck and
sows Wheat in the fall. He seeds gl‘aSs '
and clover in the wheat and turns the
clover under and plants truck again.

Humus Result of Good Farming.

In summary, Mr. Haskell presented
these conclusions: Humus is the result
and not the cause of good farming. If
manure is short, fertility can be main-
tained by cover crops. Second, when,
manure is short, light‘applications of
manure have a wonderful effect in in-
creasing growth of cover crops. Third,
the profits of any business system
must govern the system. Prices of
manure-s and prices of the crop are the
governing factors. Fourth, answering
the question of possibility of commer-
cial growing without manure, for the
man growing vegetables for the can-
nery, yes; for the trucker, yes; for the
intensive market gardener, yes, if he
has plenty of water available.

In discussion of these conclusions it
appeared to be unanimous that the in~
tensive grower cannot succeed without
manure. He can not afford to grow
cover crops on $1,000 per acre ‘land.
When manure gets too short, he had
better take more land or cheaper land
and garden less intensively.

Nation’s Food Supply.

Dr. T. N. Carver, of Harvard Uni-

versity, discussed “The Nation’s Food
Supply and the Market Gardener,"
from a. standpoint of all producers and
consumers. He predicted what the
present war should mean to all of us,
and is likely to mean in the near fu-
ture, when “we begin to feel the war
in a way that will hurt.” It is and will
be a war of food, and food and land and
labor and household economy are all
associated. To supply 111911 for the.
army and for necessary industries we.
must draw them from unnecessary i11-
dustries, and to destroy unnecessary i11-
dustries we must change habits of con-
sumption. As examples of unnecessary
industry, figures given in the Govern-
ment Crop Report for May, 1917, show
that foods used in the manufacture of
alcoholic drinks per year amount to
$33,000,000 pounds. 'It is estimated
that about one-sixth of this may be
necessary in manufacture of denatured
or commercial alcohol. Physiologists
have determined that the remaining
five-sixths would furnish rations for
6,000,000 men for a year. Is this worth
while?

Another saving resulting from the
change in habits of consumption is in
substitution of unusual foods for those
in the regular diet. Reducing the foods
to calories, it has been determined that
the product of one acre of pennies in.
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foods properly balanced in the ration,
the product of one acre of sweet pota-'
toes is equal to the product of 4.8 acres

"of wheat; beets, carrots and turnips,

one acre to three of wheat; cabbage,
one acre to one and a half of wheat;
parsnips, one acre to three and a half
of wheat. These are all bulky products.
and not 'readily shipped; hence we
can all help in the food problem by
keepingthese at home and leaving the
concentrates to be shipped to our al-

lies and our armies. Mr. Carver sug— _

gested that campaigns of education be
conducted by defense boards, state and

district food administrators and news: '

papers to instruct housewives in food
equivalents of different commodities.
Saving Half a Billion Dollars.
President Howard W. Selby under-
took to show how we could save half
a billion dollars annually in the na-
tion’s food bill. He succeeded and had
$160,000,000 to allow for inaccuracies.
Three years ago, in southern California
a grocer inaugurated ‘what he called
the “three-way’ ’system of selling. It
should be called the “four-square” sys-

‘ tern. To patrons paying cash and car-

rying purchases home, he sold at cost
plus a regular margin of profit. To
patrons paying cash but asking deliv-
ery he charges ten cents for delivery,
whether it is a pair of shoe laces or
five bushels of potatoes. If a patron
asks credit, he charges one per cent
extra for credit. Applying customary
charges to the various items in modern
business methods, Mr. Selby made the
following computations: .

The total farm value of all farm
crops produced in the United States in
1916 was placed by the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture at $9,400,000,000.
But one-third of this was used at ,home,
leaving $6,266,666,000 worth to be sold.
Jobbing, wholesaling and retailing
costs made the final‘ retail price on
these commodities amount to $13,000,-
000,000. The Harvard School of Busi-
ness Administration has determined
that deliveries cost about three per
cent of the retail price. Charging
three per cent on the $13,000,000,000
worth delivered would amount to $390,-
The carrying of charge ac—
counts makes necessary a staff of beck—
keepers costing one per cent of retail
cost. _One per cent on the $13,000,000,-
000 is $130,000,000. It is claimed that
losses due to bad bills mean a further
loss of 0.5 per cent. One-half of one
per cent on the $13,000,000,000 means
$65,000,000. Here is a total of $585,-
000,000 loss due to delivery and credit
service.

Further, statistics show that there
are $5,000,000,000 worth of grocery
products sold in this country every
year. On a strictly cash basis, every
grocer can discount his bills two per
cent for cash. Two per cent discount
on the full value would be $100,000,000.
Butgranting that only three-fourths of
the grocers availed themselves of the
opportunity to discount bills, there
would' still be $75,000,000 saved. This

added to the savings enumerated in‘

the above paragraphs would make a

grand total of $660,000,000 lost by" de-

liveries, bad bills, extra office labor and

failure to discount. ‘

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A sixty representative men of

Michigan’s upper peninsula and
northern Wisconsin, was held October
10 at Menominee, under the auspices
of the Upper Peninsula DevelOpment
Bureau and the Wisconsin Advance-
ment Association. The keynote of the
gathering was sounded by Frank J.
Hagenbarth, of Salt Lake City, presi-
dent of the National Wool Growers’
Association, who said in part: “You
have 16,000,000 acres suitable for grazi
ing. Nature designed this upper coun-
try for live stock. If at the start you
put in one and a half sheep to the acre
on only half of your available land,
with cattle in the low-lying tamarack
swamps which are ideal for this pur-
pose, you can easily take care of 8,000,-
000 sheep and 1,000,000 head of cattle.
This would create for you an asset
worth at least $150,000,000 where there
is nothing today. It would return an
annual gross earning of $25,000,000 of
wool, $40,000,000 of lamb and mutton,
$20,000,000 worth of baby beef and the
fertilizer value wouldadd $15,000,000
to this estimate. Figure out what this
means per capita to your 350,000 in
habitants.

“Live stock is the salvation of agri-
cultural countries. It has built up the
British Isles. It has made Germany
powerful. One of the lessons of the
war is to teach us our duty and oppor-
tunity to make America so great that
no nation or set of nations will ever
again attempt to attack us. You men
of upper Michigan and Wisconsin have
it in your power to clinch the future of
your section and to erect an everlast<
ing memorial to your patriotism by
taking advantage of the present. hour.
The time is ripe now.

“Texas has been ruined by drougth
and thousands of cattle and sheep have
been taken from that. state. The trou-
ble with the cattle and sheep countries
of the great west is not that the home-
stead law has brought in settlers to
drive away the cattle men, but it has
permitted valuable holdings to come
under control of land sharks and spec-
ulators who are driving the cattlemen
to seek new fields. This fact has de-
creased the stock raising thirty-five per
cent and has made for you the greatest
opportunity that has ever come to any
section of the United States.

“The vital question is ways and
means. You need an effective organi-
zation in your cut-over areas. Do not
talk, but do. Go to it as you did in
the flying football wedge of school
days. Get right 11p close to the United
States Department of Agriculture, you
men of Michigan and Wisconsin, after
you have formed a solid and harmon-
ious organization. You can quickly put
in 10,000,000 sheep with the aid of the
government departments, for our coun-
try has awakened to the tremendous
importance of the live stock industry.-
Form an organization that. will do bus-
iness. Raise fifty or, sixty thousand
dollars a year for five years. The wool
manufacturers will help, the packers
will help, the lumber and land com-
panies will help and so will the rail-
roads, the bankers and everybody. Pro-
ceed on stricty business lines, and for
Heaven’s sake, cut out all jealousies
among land companies, communities
and states. Now men, get together for
the common good of your favored
north. Let it be all for one and one
for all. '

“I suggest the creation of :1 develop-
ment committee. Send two or three
competent men into the west with pow-
er to do business. Often the breeders
and ranchmen free use of your land
for three years, charge them only the
taxes for the next two years and after
that let them begin to pay you the

1. principal and interest on their pur-
‘ .ohnse. The inducements that. you offer .'

MOre Live Stock for Two States"
By ALMOND GRIFFEN '

this combination made a‘go‘od feed, a

    

newcomers must be on the square, and
every successful pioneer will bring in
a score of others. The new settler is
doing more for you than he is for him-
self. He is making all the rest of the
land more valuable. Organize live
stock loan companies and advance the
honest settler money for cattle and
sheep,_taking a chattel mortgage for
your protection. The federal loan
banks are handling-an ever-increasing
amount of this sort of business and
live stock paper is now being redis-
counted the same as other commercial
paper by the banks of this country.
Create a live stock committee to se-
cure options on and to guarantee the
settler a sufficient supply of winter hay
at a fair price. This committee should
also take pioneers personally in charge
on arrival and assist them in finding
locations, in securing fair freight rates,
banking connections, etc. Sheep rais-
ing, 1 repeat, is a safe investment and
a stable industry. Every acre must
produce annually 2,250 pounds of for-
age. Eight million sheep on sixteen
million acres would be a fine begin-
ning. You have the greatest sheep and
live stock country in the United States
if not in the world. Figuring on a basis
your cost per head per year at $7 and
your income at a minimum of $8.80,
you have an investment which speaks
eloquently for itself. to say nothing of

the side values to every foot of your

country. The opportunity is yours.
What are you going to do about it
today?"

The address was received with great
enthusiasm and the talks that followed
by other growers, by bankers, railroad
men and others were in favor of speedy
action along the lines suggested. Pres-
ident Harmon, of the Michigan Asso-
ciation, appointed a committee com-
posed of Messrs. Bissell, Killen and
Skidmore of Wisconsin, and Messrs.
Longyear, Townsend and Howell, of
Michigan, and the report of these men
as unanimously adopted wasin brief
as follows:

That the next meeting of live stock
interests of the two states be held at
the Pfeister Hotel, Milwaukee, Novem-
ber 22. That two representatives be
sent to Washington to secure govern-
ment cooperation in the live stock in-
dustry of this section. That bankers
and land men he organized so that
proper inducement may be held out to
sheep and cattle men to locate in this
territory.

UTILIZE THE STRAW.

 

We are going through a period of
enforced economy in foods, so far as
humans are concerned. Owing to the
large yield of grain crops and hay.
stockmen may be tempted to let down
the bars of caution in utilizing the var-
ious home grown food stuffs. The Eng-
lish farme1 makes very satisfactory re-
turns from chafling his straw, mixing
it with pulped roots and feeding it to
his steers 1and sheep. In this country
much of it will be wasted simply be
cause the owner says he does not need
it. What about utilizing it to make the
corn crop go farther. Ensilage and cut
straw mixed together and allowed to
stand for a few days makes a very
palatable roughage for cattle. The
late T. B.‘ Terry, of Ohio, used to have
an ingenious method to make. his stock
eat wheat straw. He figured that what
feeding value it had was of a carbon-
aceous nature. That bran and oil cake
went to the other extreme and were
valuable nitrogenous materials. ‘He
started in to feed his animals on the
latter until they craved the straw to
balance up the 'diet. As the result,

good fertilizer, and the animals did
well on it.
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17115 Book

It contains a rare story of
winter discomfort succeeded
by real comfort; of big fuel
expenditures cut down from

35% to 50% ; of unusual conveniences made possible in old or
new houses. churches, halls and business blocks.

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The Present Food Situation In France

ARTICLE I.

By FRED B. PITNEY

HAVE kept house in Paris during
I the war. I can speak from experi‘

ence on the food situation in
France as it affects the individual. One
learns a great deal when keeping
house, of which one gets no inkling,
when living in a hotel and eating in
restaurants. One can always go to a.
restaurant and order a meal and get it.
I have heard many visiting Americans,
who lived in France in that way, pooh-
pooh the idea that there was a food
shortage in the country. If those same
persons had had to search the markets

idea of the food situation in France.

Sugar offers an excellent concrete
example. In a restaurant one is fairly
certain of sugar for one’s coffee. Three
lumps to a person is the rule. Former-
ly, the sugar was put on the table in
a bowl and one helped himself. Now,
the ration is served to each person sep-
arately. Still, one is fairly sure of
being able to get sugar in a restaurant.

permitting him to buy a stipulated
amount of sugar in a month. The al-
lowance is one and one-half pounds
of sugar a month, if three meals a day
are taken at home, one pound if two
meals are taken at home, and half a.
pound if only one" meal is taken at
home. This means for the person who
takes three meals a day at home, eight-
een pounds of sugar a year. The an-

One would not be likely to find this
out, if .one were living in restaurants
in France, but one finds it out very

soon, if one is keeping house.

It is soon learned, also, that the
“sugar card” does not mean that one
can demand a pound and a half of sug—
ar a month, but only that one is per—-
mitted to buy that much, provided a
dealer can be found who has it to sell.
A dealer who has sugar will not sell it
to anyone who comes in. He sells only
to his own regular customers.

We paid last winter in Paris eleven
cents apiece for eggs and $2 a pound

before they had their meals, they But if one is keeping house, he finds nual sugar consumption per pers0n in
would have gained a very different that he must have a “sugar card,” America is eighty-five pounds. for butter, and there was frequently
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reclaim- butter nor eggs nor milk to be
had. Private families were allowed to
buy one-eighth of a. pound of flour at a”
time. The grocers‘could not sell flour,
only the bakers. The flour mills could
not choose their own customers, nor
could the bakers and restaurants
choose the mills they would buy from.

’ Lists were made out, telling each mill-

er to whom he could sell. This was in
order that one section should not be
able to eat up the stock of flour be-

. longing to another section, or one bak.

er deprive the customers of another.
when all were short.
Wheat Situation in France.

Let me give you the official figures
on the wheat situation in France, so
that there can be no question. It is
estimated that there will be a deficit
of approximately 5,000,000 tons of
wheat in France over- the period from
September‘l, 1917, to September 1,
1918.

The normal annual consumption of
wheat in France is from 9,200,000 tons
to 9,400,000 tons. France has always
been an importer of wheat, her aver-
age production for several years be-
for the war being 9,000,000 tens, or
slightly less than the consumption.
Since the beginning of the war her
production has fallen off rapidly. In
1914 it was 7,700,000 tons, in 1915 6,-
065,000 tons, and in 1916, 5,840,000 tons
while for this year the crop is estimat-
ed at 4,000,000 tons, with a possibility
of rising to 4,500,000 tons, leaving for
the period from September, 1917, to
September, 1918, a deficit of nearly
5,000,000 tons, which must be made up
by imports.

Wheat Must. Come From America.

Where can those imports come from
except from America? Italy, by rea-
son of her position in the Mediterranv
ean takes the first toll from the wheat
of the far east, while England, of whom
the far eastern wheat producing coun-
tries are colonies, takes the remainder.
France can get a little from South Af-
rica. Argentina has stopped the ex-
portation of wheat. This country is
the only resource left to France.

I have spoken of the scarcity of
flour, resulting from the shortage in
wheat. Let us try to see what this
means to France. In the first place, it
must be realized that there bread is
the staple article of food. It is the
base of all meals, especially among the
working population. Breakfast con-
sists of coffee or chocolate and bread.
Luncheon is bread, soup, coffee, and
often, though not always, some meat
or fish and a vegetable. The big dish
is bread. Bread is again the base of
dinner or supper, however the meal
may be called. Bread and cheese will
make an entire meal for a French
peasant, withva glass of wine to wash
it down. -
Bread Allowance and “Bread pards.”

The French soldier’s allowance of
bread was a trifle over a pound and a
half a day. On account of the short-
age of wheat it has been necessary to
cut this ration to a pound and a third
2. day. And it is not necessary to say
that only dire necessity will counte-

um {the cutting of the" soldier’s
ration. . .'

Another thing that has happened is
"bread cards” in some localities. There
is no national “bread cards” in France
as there is a"‘sugar card,” but in some
parts of the country it has been neces-
sary to restrict the use of bread by lo-
cal regulations. I have in mind sev-
.eral letters from my friends among
the peasants, of Brittany, telling of the
privations they were enduring because
their bread was cut down so much.
Remember that bread is the chief artlo
sic of diet among these people.

France Suffers in Silence.

Do not think they complained. There
is no finer souled, strong or greater
people in the world than the French
peasants. They are heroes among a.
nation of heroes. No trial that justice
and right could demand could wring a.
complaint from Josephine Herve, onset
the grandest women among a grann
race.’ That simple peasant woman can
neither read nor write, but without a.
word of bitterness she gave her hus-
band to her country, and she is school-
ing her five sons and raising them for
her country. The oldest goes to the
army with the next class that is called
out. When little Chariot, next to the
youngest of her boys, writes for her
and tells what they are enduring, there
is no complaint, no bitterness. It is a
simple statement of facts in plain and
homely language, the story of a peas—
ant cottage told to the child she nursed
and loved. And one cannot help her.
One can send her money, but it is not
money she needs, but bread.

(This is the first of a series of three
articles by Fred B. Pitney, a noted for-
eign correspondent, on the food situa-
tion in France. The second story will
tell how the French people are econo-
mizing in the use of their food sup-
plies. Watch for it next week);

HALLOWE'EN.

 

BY RUTH RAYMOND.

She was a little girl at play
And he a noisy boy,

They kept the Hallowe’en most gay
Its charms their present joy.

They scattered rice from door to door
Bold phantoms in the night

And scurried for their homes once

more _

Like laughing elves in flight.

He was a lad and she a lass,
And both were wondrous shy,

Alone ere midnight hour should pass
He sought again to try

The Winsome charms of Hallowe’en
Beside the crystal mere

And hoped within its silver sheen
To see her face grown dear.

A lone owl called. she stood afraid
He did not look above,

For there he found the timid maid
And told her all his love.

Their troth was plighted and they

went

The homeward way, I ween

In all the joys of life content,
This happy Hallowe’en.

TH E, TELESCOPE.

 

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' A Day in the Boat.
TURNED, my‘ fingers gripping the

I time to think, to appreciate the full
- s terror of our situation, to realize the
"r” horror of the spectacle. In that last
i ' instant this burst upon me in all its
‘vivid horror. Between the two hatches
the deck was a sheet of flame; already
the canvas of the lower yards had
caught, and was blazing fiercely. The
red writhing serpents, fanned by the
wind, were sweeping aft in billows,
tipped with black smoke dense and
suflOcating. All about us the glare of
dancing fire, the sWirl of shadowy
smoke clouds; the air was her, almost
blistering. I saw nothing of McCann.

“He isn’t in the boat?”

“No, sir.”

“Well, we can’t wait—lower away——
yes, I’m coming.

They must have unhooked the falls
at my first word, for the boat sank
just as I swung to the rail. This, and
a sight suddenly revealed against the
front ’of the cabin, held me there,
clinging to a stay, struck motionless
with horror. I heard Vera cry out
from below: '

“Robert ! ——Robert!
jump!”

But the words seemed to have no
meaning, no power to impress me; for
an instant the sight I beheld paralyzed
my brain. The lashed Wheel still held
the ship to the wind, and the clouds of
smoke belched aft, becoming so dense
I could not see across the deck to the
port rail. I know not where they came
from, nor how they had met in that
last death grapple.’ All I know is, that
suddenly, both bodies wrapped in flame,
and half shrouded in wreaths of smoke,
the glare of fire on their faces, every
muscle straining in the intensity of
struggle—McCann fighting desperately
to escape; Bascom exercising all the
mad strength of insanity to retain
hold of his victim. If either uttered a
sound, I heard it not. It was like a
hbrrid picture projected from out the
smoke cloud, and as instantly fading.
I saw the men’s faces, exultant hatred
in one, unspeakable terror in the oth-
er; I witnessed the strain of muscle,
the awful effort to rend apart arms
and limbs. It was a vision of hell, yet
almost before I could thus visiOn it.
the two figures were engulfed in. a sea
of flame; where they went—into the
seething caldron, or over the rail into
the depths of ocean—I can never tell.
They were there, struggling like fiends,
a horror unspeakable in a frame of
smoke and fire; then that curtain of
death and fire dropped—and they were
no more.

I -may have jiJmped; I may have re-
. leased my hold upon the backstay,
" and fallen. The deck planks were hot
l ‘ to my feet, and serpents of flame crept
along the seams as though reaching
for me with tongues of fire. I stag-
gered back with hands held before my
eyes, half blinded with the glare, still
seeing, in crazed memory that awful
spectacle of death and horror. From
far below a cry reached my ears—a
woman’s agonized cry shrieking up-
ward through the crackle and roar of
flames until it even penetrated my
brain, and brought me life again: _

“Robert! Robert! Oh, Robert—come
to me!” , *

. I turned, and. gripped the rail. With
. - one swing I was over it, my body hurt-
ling through the air, down into the
black sea. ‘As I came back to the sur-
face, every numbed faculty restored by
i -,the plunge, the icy-grip of the water,
» the, glow of the flames above me re-
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the ship burst into a thousand frag-
ments, rending apart with the report
of a mighty gun, and shooting upward
in a volcano of flame. I went .down—
down—down, and knew no more.

If one could be in an instant trans-
ferred from the most fantastic depths
of an inferno to the heavenly delights
of paradise, his experience would not
seem stranger, or more impossible
than mine. I had sunk to death, about
me every horror of noise and sight;
the black night, the glare of flame, the

roar of explosion, the icy clutch of wa- ‘

ter; what followed that plunge into the
depths was unconsciousness. I awoke
with Vera’s eyes smiling into mine, her
face bent above me, the golden sun-
light of a new dawn resting on her
hair. I could but stare up at her, un-
able to comprehend, half believing it
all a vision to as quickly dissolve into
mist. Yet I was rational, my brain
swiftly clearing to the truth. The hand
which held mine was of flesh and
blood; those were no dream eyes smil-
ing their welcome, and I was lying in
a boat, bobbing up and down on the
surface of the sea. Words came to my
lips, a whispered question:

“You—~you picked me up, we are still
at sea?”

“Yes, dearj oh, I am so glad! Lie
still, you are not strong enough to sit
up yet.”

“Oh, yes I am, see, I‘ will lean on
your shoulder. Why, it is actually
morning; the sun is an hour high.”

My eyes left her face to survey the
others, and the cockleshell in which
we floated. I could hardly realize that
we were actually all there. I counted
them like a boy at school, reciting in
class, even speaking each name aloud.
The little boat bore up bravely under
its load, although White and Olson
were both bailing, and my eyes took
note of several charred spots along the
gunwale showing the touch of fire.
Leayord was at the tiller, and seemed
to comprehend all that I was most
eager to learn.

“Yes, we’re still afloat, sir,” he said,
with a sailor’s hopefulness. “But it’s
God’s mercy. By every token we should
have been blown out of the water
when the Indian Chief exploded, but
somehow the gust of it didn’t hit us.
We was showered with fire, an’ hit by.
a lot of flyin’ stuff, but nuthin’ to
wreck the boat. White had his arm
broke by a piece 0’ timber, and an oar
went overboard. But how we ever kept
right side up in this little dinky boat
when that big iron pot sunk is more
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The memory of that spectacle of hor—
ror witnessed on the blazing deck
came suddenly back to me, and I hid
‘my eyes, every muscle of my weaken-
‘ed body trembling. I felt Vera’s arms
hold me tight.

“What is it, Robert?
pain?"

You are in

physical. I—I saw McCann’s death;
that was what held me on board so
'long. Bascom got him; they—they
went down together, fighting in each
other’s arms, in a sheet of flame. No
words can picture the hoxror of it.
Let’s not talk of that any longer. I—I
must keep my mind. ”

“Yes, dea1, we will not talk of it,”
tenderly: “Our own situation is surely
bad enough; you must tell the men
what to do.”

I lifted myself, strengthened by the
appeal, eager to be diverted.

“The boat is taking in water?”

“Not a great deal, sir; she is so deep
loaded some splashes over the gun-
wale. We’re all right so long as the
sea keeps like it is now.”

“Are you steering by compass?”

“No, sir, by sun. I just naturally
headed west; that’s the nearest coast,
I reckon ?”

“Yes; it‘s a matter of guess work.
As a rough reckoning I should think
we might be seventy miles at sea.

a fisheunan’s deiy has made a worse
voyage in these waters.’

“Ale these fishing seas, sir?”

“The best in the world. I’ve often
read of dory crews being lost in the
winter fog, and yet making land in
spite of the storm and cold. If they
can do it in such weather, there is no
call for us to give up while the boat
floats. The first job should be to rig
a sail; there is one car left?"

“A‘ye, sir, and a paddle.”

“Good enough. Red, cut a hole in
that forward thwart with your sheath
not too large 110w. Any canvas
aboard.”

“Only these strips.”

“They‘ll do for stays, and to make
secure. The sail will have to be a
shirt—Olson, how about yours?”

He peeled it off without a word, and
helped me fasten it to the oar blade.
It was a rough bit of work, yet served
the purpose, and when we had stepped
the improvised mast, bracing it as best
we could with the paddle, and the out-
spread garment bellied out in the fairly
fresh wind, the sight put new heart
into all of us. I could but note the
fellows staring at it, and then at the
rushing green water alongside, as
though calculating our progress. No
doubt it was small enough, yet the
very knowledge that we were moving
at all tended to bolster our courage,
and arouse hope.

“Isn’t there enough left of that paint-
er rope to reach from the top of the
oar blade to the how?” I asked. “Sure-
ly there is; run her through the ring
bolt. Now who will donate another
shirt for a jib?” ,

Red was the quickest, and in ten
minutes the. dinghy was fairly lying
down to it, the two shirts—one gray,
the other mottled blue—bellying out

‘ bravely, their empty sleeves flapping

like signals of distress, as the laden
craft plunged and leaped through the
trembling water.

“Ease her a little, Leayord,” I said.
“Better to ship a bit of water than
strain her seams ;that’s more like it.
Why, we must be doing five knots, and
that’s famous ?”

There was nothing more to be done;
the boat rode fairly steady, and one
man could easily keep her clear of wa-
ter. The others disposed themselves
as best they might, occasionally ex-
changing a word or two, but mostly
staring about at the expanse of sea.
Leayord hung on to the tiller, while I
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"thank McCann for that, the poor devil.” .

“No; the suffering was mental, not,

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“It is wonderful,” I whispered, “how
you stand all this hardship; your eyes
are tired, but it has not [otherwiSe
marked your face ”

“I am glad. It is because you are
with me. I cannot tell you howl suf-
fered while you remained on board the
ship. I cried out for you; I could not
help it.”

“And it was your voice which saved
me,” I answered soberly. “The sound
of it brought me to myself. I never
had so strange an experience. The
horror of that sight suddenly revealed
in smoke and flame; my inability to
aid McCann seemed to completely par-
alyze every'faculty. I had the feeling
of a dead man; I could not move hand
or foot. Perhaps a bird feels that way
in the snare of a snake. It was your
cry—your word ‘Robert’—Which re-
stored me to life, and sent me hurtling
over the rail. You saved my life as
much as though you had reached out
and grasped me.”

“Oh, I am so glad; all the love of
my heart was in that cry.”

“What a mistake we made when we
chose this voyage,” I said regretfully.
“It has brought only hardship and
peril.” ‘

“I do not regret,” and her eyes gaz-
ed frankly into mine. “Truly I do not.
There was no other way for us to
know and love. Robert, if this was the
end, I should be glad of my choice. I
would rather go down here in these
waters clasped in your arms, than to
be compelled to live on in the world
without you”

“My sweetheart; but I will not imag<
ine such a fate. We have st1 uggled on
through too much to have the end
Come in this desolate ocean. We must
win-—the Newfoundland coast is net so
far away, and these are sailms with
us. You trust, and love me?”

"With all my heart.”

“Together we will have faith in
God.”

I do not know how long we talked
in such sweet intimacy as we had nev-
er known before. I must have been
weak, I think, from the wound I had
received, and the loss of blood; for, in
spite of every effort, I felt an uncon-
querable drowsiness, my head drooping
forward. She was quick to notice this,
urging me to rest against her shoulder,
but I refused.

“Then I will make you sleep,” she
said quietly. “Oh, yes I will, for the
safety of us all may depend on your
wakefulness tonight. Lie down here
with your head in my lap. Robert, I
insist you must. Please do; oh, thank
you. Now don't try to talk—just sleep.”

Her hand softlystroked my temples,
her shoulders shielding me. from the
sun; her sweet face bending over me;
her eyes smiling confidently into mine
my own grew misty, and I finally lost
consciousness even of her presence.

She told me later that I lay there
motionless for two hoprs, so still, so
softly breathing, as to almost frighten
her. Twice she leaned close to assure
herself that I did actually breathe, and
her fingers felt for the 'beat of pulse at
my wrist. It was the coma of sheer
exhaustion. The bull-like roar of a
startled voice forward awoke me. I
caught no word, only the sound, but
there was a note to it like the violence
of a blow. I sat up, staring about, the
entire scene within the range of vision
photographing itself upon my brain.
The ocean heaved in long green bil-
lows, crested with foam, the boat ris-
ing and falling as steadily as a rocking
chair; the sun no longer beat down up-
on us from a cloudy sky, but appeared
as a fiery disk through a cloud ‘of va-
por, which swept along the surface of
the water obscuring the circle of hori-
zon. Liverpool stood erect in the boat’s
bow, holding himself firm by gripping
the inverted oar, his free hand hollow—
ed to make a trumpet of his voice. Ev
ery other face was turned forward, yet
for an instant, the flaw”: flirts, im-

 

_- provised for sails, prevented my seeing F

the cause of excitement Then Lea-
yard, with an oath, jammed down his
helm, and the dinghy swept to port,
mounting a wave crest like a bird in
flight, and there burst out directly
ahead the sharp prow of a two;mast_ed
schooner, bearing straight down to
ward us, sailing before the wind.

“Ahoy there! Ahoy!“ yelled Red
and Olson, almost in one voice. “Port
your helm; port your helm!"

It was almost like a vision, that ves-
sel—a grim, menacing spectre, leaping
straight on toward us out of the mist,
the white foam'circling from her sharp
cutwater, her spars and ropes silhouet-
ted against the gray fog, her main
sheets reefed, but with topsails belly-
ing to the sharp breeze, yet with not
a sign of human life visible.

“Put your helm down, Leayord!
Hard down, man,” I sobbed. “My God!
she'll be on us in a-minute! Ay! that’s
better; stand by, forward. If there is
any chance lay hold.”

 

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

A Death Ship.

T was a matter of seconds if we

cleared. With drawn-in breath,

our hands gripped, eyes staring in
a fixed horror, we faced that sharp,
murderous stem, as it drove through
the green surges straight toward us.
Leayord, his full weight on the tiller
bar, his lips Open with an oath unut-
tered, was motionless as stone, and the
boat shot to one side, a cascade of wa-
ter pouring, over its lowered gunwale,
as it sped like. a frightened deer for
safety. The deadly copper sheathing
missed us by barely ten feet, the swift
rush of the flying schooner fairly whirl-
ing us about, scraping along the side
so closely that the paddle which Olson.
Used as a fender was actually torn
f10n1 his hands, and a great gash made
in the dinghy’ s rail.

It was God’s miracle that we lived
and kept afloat; that we were not
sucked under, or crushed into drift-
wood. To this day I know not what
occurred, or how we held upright.
There was a crash, a crunching sound,
a mad plunging of the tortured boat
under us. My hands gripped vainly at
the steel sides slipping past—then sud<
denly the wild race ended with a jerk,
with a leap of the boat through a surge
of water drenching us to the skin, and
we struck the schooner’s side a blow
Which, it seemed to me must crush ev-
ery plank into atoms. I held Vera to
me ready for the end, but Leayord.
yelled wildly:

“That’s it, Red! make fast there,
make fast! Lively now, before we go
down. The mizzen chains, Olson! Up
you go, my lad—up you go!”

I was on my feet now, understanding
it all, realizing the value of each sec-
ond, knowing that the shattered boat
must be sinking under us. I also got
grip on the chains, and the three of
us held on desperately, Red hauling
the single rope end taut, and looping it
about the thwart.

“Here, Olson; reach your arms down
and take the girl flrsh—there’s no time
to wait for help. Now Vera—quick,
girl; the boat is sinking under us.”

She stepped onto my shoulders and
grasped the chains to steady herself;
then gripped Olson’s hand, sprang up-
ward, and was drawn safely in- I turn-
ed to the others.

“Make fast. .Red. There is nothing
more to be done, but get out. One at
a time now; here'White, you’re crip-
pled, go first-——hoist him ,up, Masters;
now ease in there, Olson—good. You’re
next Masters.” ~

(Concluded next week).

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BAY CITY——

‘ Fowley’s Drug Store
Kahn's Music & Jewelry

Store

I. W. Kopec

BIG RAPIDS—W. A. Stillwell

‘ BOYNE CITY—Watson Drug

o. .

BUCHANAN -— Emerson 81
Hamilton

CALUMET -— McLorgan &
Pearce '

Casio—C. E. Madge

‘ ‘ CnaaoYGAN-t—W. W. Kathan

CLARE—Floyd Kirkpatrick

Cnvsran—Rinne & Mottes

Damon —— Bayley M usic
House

FLINT —-- Brownson- Myers,
Inc.

GRAND RAPIDS -— Wegner
Bros.

HILLSDALE -—- Goodrich &
Hallock

HOLLAND—Cook Bros.
HOPKINS—Wolfinger & Gil-
ligan
HUBBELL—MCDonald Bros.
IoNrA—Krainbrink 81 Fuller
IRONWOOD—Wm. D. Trip-

plet
ITHACA—J. L. Barden

JACKSON—Desnoyel‘ & Pen-
dieton

KALAimzoo—Monroe Music
House

LANSINGHBT. J. & B. M.
Buck

LAPEER—J. N. Gardiner

LUDINGTON — Joseph Sahl-
mark

MANISTEE—-Martin Ander-
son

MONROE—Joseph Bros.

NASHVILLE—H D Wotring

ON'I‘ONAGON-H. Levine

PERRY—n]. C Cottrell

PLYMOUTH —- Beyer Pharm-
3133’

PONTIAC -— Thomas Furni-
ture Co.

PORTLAND—Crane Drug C0

SAGINAw—J. E. Anderson
0.

SruaGts—E. J. Namey ,

SUNHELD—E E. VanAnt-
werp

TRAVERSE CITY -—' John P.
Scott

WEST BRANCH —- Peoples
Drug Store

WOODLANod—John Bulling
YPSILANTI—GCO. D. Switzer

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Conservation Day, Suggestions

NE meatless day a week and one
wheatless day is the request of
the food administration, and the

American housewife is pledged to com-
ply. , That is, large numbers are
through the medium of the pledge
cards circulated last summer, and all
are bound to fall into line. Meatless
day is not so much of a problem, hun-
dreds, yes, thOusands, are already ob—
serving not one, but many meatless
days each week. But how to get
through an entire day without resort-
ing to the use of wheat in some form
is indeed difficult. Practically every
recipe which calls for corn meal, rye,
barley, or the other cereals, calls also
for at least one cup of wheat flour,
since no other cereal has the glutinous
property found in wheat, which binds
the bread or muffins together. Johnny
cake and muffins, made entirely of
corn meal, always falls apart, and the
recipes for barley scones and rye
bread demand white flour. However,
there are some things we can “make,
and if we really wan-; to help we can
spread the wheatless day over the sev-
en, going without white bread every
day and using a little white flour each
day in some of the war breads.

For your next ‘meatless Tuesday try

. the following, filling out the menu with
vegetables and fruit to suit your
family:

Breakfast—Corn flakes with whole
milk or half and half; creamed pota-
toes, toast and cocoa made with skim-
milk.

Dinner.—Soy bean loaf, baked pota-
toes, milk gravy, pie without crust.

Supper.—--—Creamed codfish, potatoes
boiled in jackets, canned fruit, Canadi-
an war cake.

For your wheatless day substitute
for bread in the morning buckwheat
cakes with bacon or sausage meat.
Dinner, Old Virginia batter bread; sup-
per, southern spoon bread.

The meatless day breakfast is one
every housewife can prepare, and prob-
ably serves often. The soy bean loaf
is made as follows: Soak one pint of
soy beans at least twelve hours, eigh-
teen would be better. Boil up in cold
water, add a half teaspoon of soda,
boil five minutes and rinse thoroughly
in warm water. Then put on to cook
in boiling water and cook slowly until
soft enough to force through a strain-
er. Force the beans through a rather
coarse meshed sieve, and mix with two
eggs beaten, four crackers rolled, one

" cup of tomato prepared as for soup, a
tablespoon of lemon juice, one tea-

' spoon of salt and a dash of pepper.
Pour into a mold and bake a half hour.
Place on a platter and pour over it a
cup of the tomato soup mixture,
heated.

Pie Without Crust—Line a deep pie
tin with any fruit, lay over it very thin
slices of buttered bread, sprinkle with
brown sugar and place in the oven
until the sugar has melted and candied
and the bread is toasted a nice brown.

Canadian War Cake—Two cups of
brown sugar, two cups of hot water,
four tablespoons of lard, one teaspoon

‘ of salt, one teaspoon of ground cinna-
mon, one teaspoon ground cloves, one
clip of raisins. Boil all five minute's after
they begin bubbling. When cold add
three- cups of flour and two teaspoons
”.Of 8048 dissolved in one teaspoon of hot

 

water. Bake in. two loaves in a slow
oven for one and a quarter hours.

Buckwheat Cakes—Two cups buck-
wheat, one-half cup corn meal, one tea-
spoon of salt, one-fourth cup molasses,
one~half yeast cake, one-fourth cup of
lukewarm water, two'cups of warm wa-
ter, one teaspoon of soda. Mix dry in-
gredients, add yeastcake'dissolved in
the quarter cup of water, molasses and
a pint of water. Beat well, let rise
over night, stir in the soda and beat
well.

01d Virginia Batter Bread—One- pint
of corn meal, one teaspoon of salt, one
egg, one quart of scalded milk, one tea-

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spoon of sugar. Stir corn meal into
scalded milk, stir and cook. to mush.
Allow to cool, add salt and sugar, beat-
en yolk of egg, and lastly fold in the
beaten white. Melt two tablespoons of
shortening in a baking pan, pour in the
mixture and bake forty-five minutes:

Southern Spoon Bread—Pour one
cup of boilinngater over one-half cup
of corn meal. Let cook briskly for five
minutes,.add one tablespoon of butter,
one-half teaspoon of salt, and stir as it
cooks. Take from fire, add one-half
cup of sweetened milk, one well-beat-
en egg and one teaspoon of baking
powder. Pour into well buttered, shal-
low dish and bake twenty minutes, let-
ting it brown before removing. Serve
from dish in which it is baked.

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Of First Importance

Y neighbor has been having
M trouble with his small son for

some time back. For some rea-
son he has lost his hold on the boy,
who is just in that betwixt and be-
tween age, when he is too old to be
led to the woodshed and too young to
understand much reason or sarcasm.
He is unruly, apt, at certain times to
disobey the most reasonable demands,
mischievous, sometimes sulky, and
sometimes saucy. He regards his fath-
er as a cross between an enemy who
is to be fought on every occasion and
an inferior to be treated with super-
cilious contempt. The father is of the
old school of parents who expected im-
plicit obedience and scorns to answer
“Why?”

Last week there was a play. at the
school. The history class was going
to depict La Salle in his trip down the
Mississippi and the boy was chosen by
his class to play La Salle. The young-
sters were to dress up, pastime dear
to all hearts, whether young or old.
And of course, La Salle, being the cen-
tral figure, wanted to make a great im-
pression. Toy pistols and home—made
bows and arrows furnished accoutre-
ments of war. Mother loaned an old
pony coat, grandfather hunted up a
peace pipe and the outfit was almost
complete. Almost, but not quite. Fath-
er owned a hunting cap, a wonderful
thing of red corduroy with earlaps that
could‘ be turned up and tied on top, or
brought down. and tied under the chin.
The wearing of that cap would make
the costume complete. But would fath-
er lend it? Father is extremely care-
ful of his things; not at all inclined to
lend anything to anyone, especially to
boys. After much discussion of the
problem with mother, who thought that
perhaps for this very particular occa-
sion he might be generous, the boy
made his request in fear and trembling.

He met a cold, quick, curt refusal.
The glory of being chosen La Salle out
of a room full of boys died right then
and there. The lad went on and took
the part, but without interest. At the
supper table that night cOuld not be
induced to talk about theflai’rair. His
father asked countless questions about
how things went, but .got no enlighten-
ment. Later he complained bitterly
about the boy’s sulkiness. Yet he can’t
see to this day that he was to blame.

Too many parents have the same
habit. The. hunting. can cost seventy-
.five cents when it was anew.’ It was
five years old and had been worn once.

 

It probably will not be worn more than
once again in the next five years.
There was absolutely nothing about it
the boy could hurt, and even if some

'other lad snatched it off his head and

used it for a foot ball, the damage
done to the cap would have been in'
finitesimal compared to the damage
done to the boy’s feelings. The father
had a chance to get a hold on the boy,
whom he feels is slipping away from
him. He lost it for an old cap.

The putting of things above our chil-
dren is a common fault. A scratch on
the furniture, a muddy foot print on a
clean floor, a broken dish, a spotted
tablecloth, they are maddening, I’ll
grant you. But they are of no relative
importance when compared to the
child’s happiness or a sense of compan-
ionship with him. Better to lose a
hundred caps and have all- one’s furni-
ture marred than to drive a boy away
from one by continued scolding and sel-
fish clinging to possessions.

It seems queer that when so many
mothers and fathers are sending their
boys of twenty and twenty-one away,
perhaps forever, that we parents of
the boys of ten don’t wake 'up. Yet we
still cling to material things, putting
them, as always, above the things of
the spirit. DEBORAH.

HOME ousmss.

 

Mrs. J. W. N., Holly—I do not have
a recipe for laying down tomatoes
with horseradish. The following meth-
od of putting them down in salt has
been published before in this column:
Salted Ripe Tomatoes.——Ripe and per-
fectly sound tomatoes may be kept for
winter use by simply packing'them
carefully in jars and pouring over
them a strong brine. Cover tightly to
keep out air. When wanted for use
take out the required number Soak

for twenty- fOur hours in clear water,“

peel and slice and they will taste as
though they just came from the vines.
Authorities differ as to what causes
the crystals in grape jelly. One says
over-ripe grapes, a. second, too much
sugar, and a third too long boiling.-
may be a combination of all three, as
over-ripe fruit would give more sugar,
and crystals do not form in wine until
late in the process of wme-making

Mrs. C W. K. Pontiac ——See answer

to Mrs J. W. N., Holly, regarding for-d

mation of crystals in grape jelly ,
Mrs. B. H Mt. buses. 11111111121.

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not stick unless the’walls are first giv—
en a thin coat of glue.
Corn-Meal-and-Wheat Breads—0 n e
and one-half cups of milk, Water, or a
mixture of the. two, half a. cake com~
pressed yeast, (or one and one-fourth '
cups milk, water or mixture of the
mo, one- -fourth cup liquid yeast), one
and one- -half teaspoons of salt, one ta-

.blespoon of sugar, butter (if used), one

tablespoon, one cup of corn meal, two
cups of wheat flour. Pour One and one-
fourth cupfuls of the water over the
corn meal, salt-sugar, and fat, if used,
heat the mixture gradually to the boil-
ing point, or nearly to it, and cook for
twenty minutes. This cooking can best
be done in a double boiler. The water
is sufficient only to soften the meal a.
little. Allow the meal towel to about
the temperature of thejroom and add
the yeast, mixed with the rest of the
water, (one-fourth cupful), or the one-
fourth cupful of liquid yeast. Mold
thoroughly, let rise until. it doubles its
bulk, make into a loaf, place in a pan
of standard size, allow to rise until it
nearly fills the pan, and bake for forty-
five or fifty minutes. '

THANKSGIVING HINTS.

 

When making your Thanksgiving
doughnuts, remember that a few whole
cloves in the kettle of fat give the
doughnuts a fine flavor.

To remove down from your Thanks-
giving geese and ducks, after killing
the fowl, draw the skin up over the
neck bone and tie to keep the blood off
the feathers. Hang it up somewhere
and pick off all the feathers while still
warm. Then sprinkle with powdered
rosin, all over the down. Scald quickly
with boiling water, after which the
rosin adheres to the down and can be
rubbed, off ‘very easily, leaving a
smooth, clear skin. This is the best
method -I have ever found for this dif—
ficult task—M. A. P.

When making your Thanksgiving-
mincemeat, after chopping thesuet for
the mincemeat, cock the suetrand rais-
ins with a small quantity of water to-
gether about half an hour before ad-
ding to the mincemeat. In this way
you will avoid the small lumps of suet

sometimes found in mince pies. -——M.. A
P. Kansas.

FOOD VALUE or CHEESE.

 

With the meat problem so acute,
cheese of various sorts is assuming
valuable proportions in the eyes of pro- ‘
ducers and. consumers. The United
States Department of Agriculture esti-
mates that one pound of Cottage cheese
suppliesas much protein as 1.27 lbs.
of sirloin steak, 1. 09 lbs. round steak,
1.37 lbs. of chuck rib. beef, 1. 52 lbs. of
fowl, 1 46 lbs. of fresh hamrl. 44 lbs. of
smoked ham, 1. 58 lbs loin pork chop,

‘131 lbs. of hind leg lamb 1.37 lbs. of
breast of veal.

The Iowa Agneultural ‘Experiment
Station, Ames, Iowa, has Abulletixi en
“Soft Cheesemaking,” which should be
It gives in-v
structions on the making of Heufchat'eli
cheese, pimento cheese, olive cream
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wOur-Motto:-.——"The farmer is of more
consequence than the term, and should
be first improved.“ ‘ -

THE GRANGE AND THE FARMER.

 

'Thisis a queer title. Of course, the
Grange is for the farmer. It is made
up of farmers, it refuses to admit any
except those engaged in agriculture,
and closes its gates to all who have
any interest contrary to the interest of
the tillers of the soil. Why, then, this
title? Well, because it seems to me
that by far too few of our Granges
realize how important it is that every
Grange should keep close to the needs
of the average man on the farm.

Of course, the Grange resembles oth-
er societies of ' a fraternal nature in
that it has a ritual, some secret work,
an initiatory ceremony whose import-
ance must not be overlooked. Then,
too, every subordinate Grange offers
excellent social advantages it it lives
up to its privilege. Perhaps in the
whole field of Grange possibility, there
is nothing that is of such value as the
educational advantages of the lectur-
er’s hour. All of these things have a
very direct relationship to country life,
and so they are vitally associated with
the farm, and the family on the farm.

‘But in this connection I wish to talk
about some things pertaining to the
business side of farm life. We are
just beginning to get interested in the
subject of cooperative selling. Our pro-
gress is bound to be slow because this
is'a new field. We must expect to
make mistakes for we are blazing the
way. The subject of cooperative mar-
keting must be studied, notwithstand-
ing our mistakes, and we must keep at
it, until we have developed a system
whereby any member of the Order
may market his products in coopera-
tion with his neighbors in a way that
will prove to his advantage, and to the
advantage. of the purchaser as well.

Then, too, the Grange is not living
up to its privilege in the matter of co-
operative buying. Together we buy a
little Paris green, some binding twine,
and perhaps a quantity of fertilizer. In
the aggregate it looks like a large sum,
but when shown by the side of the
amounts of these. products actually
used every year by our membership,
it does not make much of a showing.

There is no reason why we should
not buy all of these products needed
by our members in this way, and save
the profits to ourselves.

Think of the quantities of spraying
materials used by the farmers and
fruit growers of western Michigan an-
nually! And yet, how few barrels of
lime-sulphur mixture are bought
through Grange contract. Prices of
these goods ought to be in the hands
of every Grange in the state by Decem-
ber 1. A special effort should be made
at the State Grange meeting to advise
all, of the terms of such a contract,
and the contracting company should be
represented ' at this meeting, and
.should be prepared to answer any
proper question relating to his busi-
ness with the" membership. Carloads
and carloads of these goods might be
bought to the. advantage of the pur-
chasers where now we buy but ~a few
barrels. ' >

Consider for a moment the subject
of 2feed stuffs. Here, too, we are doing
next to nothing, and Yet, here lies one
of the greatest possibilities in the way

of cooperative buying—4V.- F. . Taylor.

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BY MARY M. ALLEN.

From the time when our forefathers »

inserted the clause, “schools and
means of education shall be forever
encouraged,” in the ordinance of 1787,
inhabitants of Michigan were assured
of special school privileges. Especially
was this true of the rural people. The
oldest and best equipped agricultural
school in our splendid country sprang
up in our state. No one whose life has
been associated with such men as Bob-
ert Clark Kedzie, or Dr. W. J. Beal, and
other pioneers of our Agricultural Col-
lege can help but feel the strength and
inspiration for service this association
gave them.

Country people were slow to realize
the benefits and value of an agricul-
tural education. Less than twenty
years ago the writer recalls many
scathing remarks and much ridicule
were hurled at the young man and the
young woman who attended the Michi-
gan Agricultural College. Yet there
were many who braved the ridicule be-
cause they had a vision of the fact
that an agriculturist needed a knowl-
edge of the sciences as well as the
physician or dentist.

There were, tee, young women who
believed that a knowledge ‘of domestic
science would transform housework
from drudgery to skilled labor and
change the kitchen from a sweat shop
to a laboratory. They knew a knowl-
edge of the sciences would make them
better mothers.

Thus we have scattered over our
broad state'many trained agriculturists
and scientific housewives. Quietly per-
forming the everyday tasks, these peo-
ple forgot the ridicule they were sub-
jected to when they came back from
the college and went about their work
in the way the vision told them was
right. _

But, 10! The world’s at war! Hun-
ger knocks at the doors! Now the men
and women who had the vision come
into their own! The country calls on
the skilled agriculturist to give his at-
tention to the increase of the world’s
food; the country calls on the domestic
scientist to give her attention to the
economical conservation of the world’s
food. .

Scattered over this broad state are
some 7,000 rural school houses. Each
school house stands for a unit of gov-
ernment, a community about which
and in which individuals have a com-
mon interest. Yet we are told that,
for various reasons, this community in-
terest no longer exists.
persons are interested in the school.
District school meetings call out only
three or four individuals. The rural
school isno longer the center of social
life as it was in the days of the spell-
ing school and the lyceum. Many of
these communities contain a trained
agriculturist; but no community organ-
ization exists. Right at this time, the
agricultural graduate can repay his
state for the splendid school advan-
tages it gave him, by’ organizing in his
community a live Farmers’ Club.
While much service is given the farm-
ers by state workers, a trained man
with the intimate knowledge of his
particular community can give far bet-
ter service.
weather conditions,
tions far better than any state worker
can. He can not only render to his
community a distinct service but can
give valuable assistance in solving the
world’s problem of food. Statistics
show that children reared and schooled
in the country are much less healthy
than those of the city. The reason for
this is found in the unsanitary country
school houses. Next to the problems
brought to us by the war, the conser-
vation of public health stands first.

When your boy and mine, or your
brother and mine meet over in the
trenches they will be so happy over
seeing a familiar face, they will be,-
come as chummy as military rules will
allow. They will forget their grand-

fathers qnarreled over a line fence, or

had a lawsuit over a rambling flock of
turkeys, ‘or beat each other in a horse
trade. May we no be as forgiving?
May we not throug a united effort of
our community “do our bit” towards
solving these world problems? If the

agricultural. college man or woman
twantsv'to render-his or her country or

community a distinct service it can be
done in no better way than by organiz
ing a Farmers’ Club this winter. '
, Livingston Co. MARY ,M. ALLEN.

Only a few-

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makes farm work easier

It’s the pesky little chores that
waste your time and energy. But
somebody has got to do them, and
reliable help of every kind is
scarce. What’s the answer?

ELECTRICITY

An electric motor will turn your
grindstone, feed cutter, fanning mill,
churn and your separator; and will
furnish your barn and your house with
a supply of running water. An electric
motor will clean the house, wash the
clothes and keep the home cool during
hot spells.

Electricity will do all this in addition
to lighting your place with the safest,
cleanest, brightest light that’s made.

Intelligent farmers are buying
Western Electric plants because they
are backed by 40 years of electrical
experience.

Make your whole outfit a Western
Electric—the plant itself, the lamps,
motors, pump, cream separator, washing
machine, vacuum cleaner, electric iron
—in fact, everything electrical for the
farm and the home.

 

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Don’t be a slave to the tub. The /
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HE man or business that is not

sufficiently patriotic in these

days to accept for gain a reason-
able profit added to actual cost, is little
better than the enemy in front.

The one great factor yet to be given
to thepublic in this milk problem is
' the cost of production. For long years
milk has been produced in this coun-
try far below its cost, and for the rea-
sons outlined. The farmer could not
know the cost of producing his own
milk. A single farm with but one herd
is too small a unit for investigation,
and the farmer too busy to weigh and
measure the items entering into the
cost for a year or more.

It was only when his feeding crops
failed, when corn and oats and mixed
feeds had doubled in price, that he be-
gan to call for an increased price for
the milk, which before had been an
unknown loss to him. There is one
underlying trade base that every fair
mind in the world must accept, and
that is, that every commodity is worth
at least what it judiciously costs to
produce it, plus a reasonable profit.

Less than a year ago, when an army
was to be raised to protect our shores,
our families and property from the
brutes across the sea, it was announc-
ed that the farm boys would be ex-
empted as a food necessity.

This seemed to be economically de-
manded, but it established an inequal-
ity that would have been unfair and
un-American. The farm boys have gone
to the camps in greater number and in
greater proportion than from any’oth-
er class of people.

More of them have been found rug-
ged and healthy, fit for service, be-
cause of their life in the open air. The
public cannot fail to note the effect
upon farms. The wage increase and
lack of help must show itself in a high-
er cost of milk.

We are here to recognize the laws of
state and nation and to uphold them,
whether good or bad, so long as they
are over us. We may question their

interpretation at times and ask for

judicial analysis and for the verdict of
enlightened public opinion. That we
do now.

We ask why farmers, under the cir-
cumstances, should be selected as the
sole offenders against anti-trust laws
of this country, just because they have
sought by cooperation to escape the op-
pression of the monopolies above them.
Why have the men in overalls been
selected and not the ones in gentle-
men’s attire?

This great government at this very
hour is buying the farmer’s milk for
our soldiers, not from the farmers, but
from the Milk Canners’ Association of
the United States. No one complains.
No one should, for it is a necessity and
patriotism excuses. The public has not
even asked what profit this great com-
bination is making between the farmer
and the government.

But why, if the canners who buy the
milk of the farmers can unite in sell-
ing, if they may agree upon a price,
why not the farmers meet and talk
over a price for their milk, if such a
price be not unreasonable? '

These farmers, isolated and away
from their markets, have watched the
great industries of the nation grow
from shops by the road side, to the
partnership, on through the corpora-
tion, and then by‘ amalgamation into
the great dominating factors of trade.

The entire process has been one of
cooperation. But the six millions of
’ milk producers, whose fields 'are sep-
arated, cannot thus join their forces
and strength.

They read of the great steel factor-
ies cutting the price 0f their product in
two, and yet leaving them a profit.
j'They find their clothing, groceries,
“tools and machinery mounting up-
Ward _~.th91_1‘ feed for cows more than
' its former price, and they well

  

Dairymen‘ Organize;WhY not”; “

 
   

and justly inquire, why they alone‘are
singled out for public execration, when
their milk is going from the farm at
much less than it costs them to pro-
duce it.

Why is it that the milk producer is
expeCted to be the one world altruist?

In August of this year Mr. Hoover,
the Food Administrator, at the behest
of public sentiment began an inquiry
into the cost of milk production. Data
was gathered from over the United
States. It was gathered from wide,
unprejudiced and dependable sources.
An eminent committee of specialists,
persons known and of high reputation
in the nation, were made members.

Soon, and that committee will make
its report. We do not know what it

will contain .
sure, that When made, the milk pro-
ducers of the nation will show to the
country their patriotism by furnishing
their surplus product at such cost as
shall be found, plus a reasonable profit.

If that price cannot be given them,
their fields must be turned into other
uses; for ’there is no farm product that
so enslaves the producer with grind-
ing, incessant labor and care as the
production of milk.

We are here today, as we have been
before, asking that the X-ray of inves-
tigation be applied to our business,
and we appeal for like open-faced pa-
triotism on the part of every other in-
dustry in this country.

(Portion of address by President
Campbell, of the National Milk Produc-

ers’ Association, before the delegates
gathered at Washington, D. C.)

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AGenuine Farmers’ Retail Market

 

 

Where City Buyers Secure Farm

RAND RAPIDS has recently es-
tablished a new market which is
in keeping with the direct to

consumer idea. This is the new retail
market at the foot of the cement
bridge across Grand River.

Here farmers come with their pro-
duce on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-
urdays to sell the products in retail
lots to the city people. The marketing
hours are from five to eight‘a. m., and
judging from the number of wagons
and city peOple who. visit the market
with baskets, it is a decided success.
The cinderized area beside the sea
wall is entirely too small to accommo-
date the patrons and consequently the
approach of the bridge is also being
used to care for the overflow.

There is no charge to either the
farmer or consumer for the privilege
of doing business here. A market sup-
erintendent sees that things are in or-
der and keeps nOtes on prices. How-
ever, he has nothing to say about the
prices charged.

Most all of the wagons are in place
before five-thirty a. m., and the great-
est amount of. business is done between
five and six o’clock. The city people
appeared to consider the visit to the
market as an outing, as they seemed
to enjoy the early morning trip and
the market experience.

To the farmers the market offers op-
portunity to get rid of perishable pro-
ducts at a price slightly higher than
what they receive on. the Wholesale
markets. As there is no regulation of:

prices it is up to each farmer to ask " '

what the trade will stand. On that
account prices vary considerably. For
example, one morning good potatoes

sold early in the morning for forty '

cents per peck while later poor ones
sold for fifty cents. There was a var-

iation of five cents in the price per 7' "

quart of beans and the lower-priced
beans were the best; that farmer sold
out quickly. One fellow could not sell
his beans in large quantities so he put
them in quart boxes and charged a

much larger proportiopat’e price and ;
sold a fair ”snare bf them; ' ‘ ' "

 

Products Direct from the Grower.

Among the farmers present were
many prosperous and successful ones
who were provided with large motor
trucks, a knowledge of markets, and
good selling ability. They had found
the market anattractive place to dis-
pose of their wares.

This early morning shopping activ-
ity was over by seven-thirty and the
market entirely vacated by eight, the
regular closing hour. .The market
would be more attractive to the city
people if prices and grades could be
regulated or standardized. When buy-
ers learn that they can get better and
fresher products for a little less money
than at the grocers, even the husbands
willrob themselves of sleep in the
morning to carry home farm produce
bought direct from the producer.

ONE- HUNDRED- POUND UNIT FOR
POTATOES.

 

No standard measure for the hand-
ling of potatoes is uniformly accepted
in the United States. In certain states
various units of measurements have
been established through usage. For

” sung we are,

 

 

pound barrel,
New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and
others, the bushel; and Colorado, Ida.-
ho and Oregon, 100 pounds as the has-
is. The 'confusion caused by the wide
difference of units of measurement has
led to the demand for a uniform stan-
dard to be adopted for the entire Unit-
ed States. '

A joint committee representing the
growers and the shippers and distribu-
tors held a conference'in Washington
recently. This committee went on rec-
ord as recommending that the Bureau
of Standardsbe urged to take the nec-
essary steps‘ as soon as possible to-
ward the establishment of 100- pounds
as the unit upon which price quota-
tions and the buying and selling of po-
tatoes shall be based throughout the
United States.

Lou D. Sweet and E. P. Miller, pota-
to experts with the United States Food
Administration, heartily endorse this
action. Such a unit will facilitate hand-
ling and will be fairer to producer and
consumer alike.

'How TO PURCHASE FARM sup-
‘PLIES.

 

It has been suggested by transporta-
tion experts who are with the Food
Administration that, after harvests are
laid by, the farmer make an estimate
of the fertilizer, seed, machinery and
the like that he will need for the com-
ing season, and then place his order.
This will eliminate the failure to re-
ceive supplies which resulted last
spring on account of car congestion
and priority shipment.

Between March 1 and July 15 of this
year the railroads operating in the
east and middle west made a saving of
28,000,000 passenger miles by cutting
down on the number of passenger
trains. Not counting the saving in la-
bor, this reduction continued through-
out the year will mean the saving of
500,000 tons of Coal per annum.

From the farmer’s standpoint a like
saving may be effected in the coming
months. All orders for supplies should
be placed early. It is also advisable
for several farmers in a community to
club together in ordering so that each
car may be loaded to its maximum ca-
pacity, and in this manner eliminate
transportation waste. By acting on
these suggestions supplies will arrive
in season so that time, which is so
precious during the spring rush, may
be saved; and at the same time the
crops will have the advantage of those
things necessary to their successful
planting, tending and harvesting. Cars
should be loaded and unloaded prompt-
ly when placed on the siding. No
stumbling blocks should be left in our
path of preparation for a bumper crop
in 1918.
every person or association, who ships
or receives goods by carlots, will go far
toward relieving a critical transporta-
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Fruit and Vegetable ‘
Markets

N the following comment, jobbing
prices and shipments am given for
the United States for the period of

October 9 16 inclusive.
Apple Prices Firmer.

Prices are firmer, Jonathans ’are job-
bing at $4. 50 to $7 pe1 barrel, as com-
pared with $4. 50@6. 50 a week ago.
Western box apples have also advanc-
ed and Jonathans are now jobbing at
$2 to $3.50 per box.

Peach Prices Declined Slightly.

New York, Elbertas are jobbing at
900 to $1.15 per bushel, as .compared
with $1 to $2 a Week ago. Shipments
have decreased about one-half from
those of a week ago, but prices have
declined as a result of much stock ar-
riving on the markets in poor condi—
tion. New York is supplying most of
the demand and the shipments from
that state have decreased about one-
half from those of a week ago. To
date New York has shipped 6,922 cars,
which, is over 1,100 more than was
shipped last year up to the correspond-
ing time. The peach movement from
all sections is now rapidly decreasing.

Michigan and New York Grape Crop
Moving Heavy.

Due to the fact that Michigan and
New York sections are now at the
height of their seasons, the total ship-
ments of grapes this past week were
nearly 350 cars heavier than a week
ago. New York has shipped to date
only 944 cars, as compared with 1,742
up to the corresponding time last year.
Michigan, however, is shipping heavier
than a year ago. Prices for Michigan
stock have weakened slightly. Four-
quart baskets are jobbing at twenty to

thirty cents, which is about two cents

less than last week.

White Potato Prices Firmer Despite
Heavier Movement.

F. O. B. prices of potatoes have ad-
vanced steadily during the past week.
Colorado stock is selling f. o. b. Greel-
ey, per hundred pounds, $1.40 to $1.50
and f. o. b. Monte Vista, $1.55. These
prices are an advance of about fifteen
cents from those of a week ago. Job-
bing prices are also higher. Minnesota
.stock is jobbing at $1.10 to $1.55‘ per
bushel, or about thirty cents more than
last week. Michigan and Wisconsin

potatoes have also advanced. The to-

tal shipments this past week were
nearly 800 cars heavier than a week
ago. This increase was due to slightly
heavier shipments from all important
sections rather than a heavy increase
from any one point. The car shortage
has necessitated storing stock in many
sections and has resulted in lighter
shipments than would otherwise have
been made.
Other Fruits and Vegetables.

The movement of cabbage from New -
York and Wisconsin was a little heav— '

ier this past week, but the heavy move-

ment from these states has not yet be— -

gun. The New York crop is estimated
at 349, 680 tons, as compared with 96,-

120 tons in 1916, and the Wisconsin ,

crop at 121,900 tons as compared with
57,960 tons in 1916. New York stock
is jobbing at $25 to $32 per ton, which
is about $3 or $4 more than the price
a week ago. Onion prices have ad-
vanced. Ohio stock is jobbing at $3 to
$3.75 per hundred pounds, as compared
with $2.60 to $3.50 a week ago. Cali-
fornia stock is also higher. The de—
mand continues weak. A total of 143
cars of celery were shipped this past
week. The New York and Colorado
movement was a little heavier, while
Michigan shipped about .the same as
previously. The pear shipments this
week were about the same. New York,
with 158. cars, was the heaviest ship-
per. Shipments from other districts
are diclining. New York has shipped
to date, 789 cars, which is about 400

The Saving inthe Price
of Fuel Pays for This
Engine 111 Six Months

If we could but set this engine up at your farm—let you run it—
examine its simplicity and skill of construction—watch its smooth,
pliant action—and then have you see for yourself how little kerosene
or fuel oil it used for a full ten hour day, we know you would readily
appreciate its value for your farm power.

The new Evinrude Oil Engine will do your work at a clean saving
of four-fifths on the cost of fuel. Every complicated, trouble-making
device has been eliminated. It 13 the engine without worry.

The Evinrude Oil Engine

_ (unconditionally guaranteed)
im ' ' __ has neither carburetor, mixing tube or any electrical equip-
S pllc1ty ment. The fuel 15 introduced directly mto the cylinder and
N ignited by the extreme heat of high compression. Twice the
0 temperature necessary for ignition is attained. The engine

 

starts as easily at 10 degrees below zero as at 90 above.
ga¥buretor’ Ye believe that yolu will be intercited' 1n 11 P213111 eggme which sogidesllyl‘“
t 1 1w. eners
mixing valve, fifiténfidefififime 30".“133331’... 3373:? allbw u? $131.1 a catalog.
' Now Being Manufactured 111 Several Sizes.
battemes, DEALERS. Responsible dealers are invited to write for full infor-
magneto’ mation as to exclusive territory.
' ' ' E d M C mm“
c0113, erlng, vinru e otor 0., MILWAUKEE, W18.
0 81‘ make Also Mfrs. of tho‘ Evin-ode Bendable Rowboet and Canoe Motor
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FUEL OIL or ANY OIL THAT FLOWS

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l BREEDERS' nmrcrokr.

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

 

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We Ofler a Few Special Bargains
In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-
bouillet rams, Hampshire pigs (either
sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance
for a small investment to reap the bene-
fit of a large expenditure of capital and
years of expert breeding. 11f '
Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.

CATTLE.

 

 

Aberdeen- Angus

Held established in 1900. lrojan~ Eric“ and Black
birds only. Bullsin Ben'ive: Black Brandon 2113932.
Enosot Woodcotee 191382. Also breeders of Percheron
and Saddle H0

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM

.ANGU CLOYERLY STOCK RANCH.
B,ulls Cows and Heifers for
[sale .GEO. HATHAWAY 61 SUN. Ovid.Mlcl1. ~

iABERDEEN-ANGUS ?:;°;‘.bg“""’m

T. E. CRY CHSBANK. R. 2 Evert. Mich.

 

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3M. 8. I]. AYRSHlllES

We hax e for sale a1hoice lot of \ 01mg stor k from
| A.R.1lam.~'. Also a few maturi- CM“ Write for
particulars.

W. L. HOFFMAN, Steward,

School for the Deaf, Flint, Michigan

 

I Registered Guernseys

Stock always for sale. Ma Rose Strain-Herd Tuber.
culin tested annualli. eev 1‘ bar‘. a reactor~no
abortion. J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams Mich

 

e "1 ‘Léfich- .

C U [1 RNSEYS, must reduce herd. soollerafew choice
'1 females of Glennood breeding also bulls. all stock
of A. R. breeding herd tuben ulin le sted. Do not write
about females but. come at. om e as the) are priced to

 

sell. .V. HICKS. Battle Creek Michigan. ‘33
GUERNSEY sienna

ulniifikblood of world ohamgvons.
HICKSO' OOUER IY FARM. Saginaw. Mich

 

_For Sale, four youn
G u e rn se y 5 registered cows. Tube:

ouline tested. Geo. N. Crawford, Bolton. Mich.

 

Registered and Grade cows. bulls
Guernseys yearlings, hem r (ahes; “ill sell
20. Someonth records; (hoiceof45;1nIIst reduce herd;
tuberculin tested. Avondale Stock Farm, Wny1u-.Micli.

 

EG.(‘1111-1‘nsey bull- 9 years old, prize winner, a few
cows. also bull ( alv-cs. IMay Rose breeding.
0H N 1“ BE] S, Holland Michigan.

Gluny Stock Farm—

100 Registered Holsteins 100

For Sale-Nicely marked 7 mos. old bull. Sire-
Dutchland (Iolantha Winana Lad No.114067,(irand
Champion Bull at Michigan State Fair 1917. Dam

 

 

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lEAKROOF

Theim ndia ruby mica Insulation of the
SPLlTDpaRF Plutheislmshi wound lengthwise around the

core and thedinto uslung in such a manner that
every explosion tightens It anew—mafia: It absolutely
and permanently gas and oil .

Make Your Engine
Easy to Start

The SUMTER Pluyoscillator on medium and lame
size stafionory and marine engine: or the SUMTER
Starter- Coupling on trucks, tractors. marine and

henvydutycnginamllmak curling sure and euy.
Your manufacturer will give you the equipment
if you lNSlST.

" spurnorr. ELECTRICAL co.
NEWARK, N. J.

moon:

SPAR PLUGS

 

‘ more than, last year up to the cox-res.
. t . .

a 19.2 lb. Sr. 231‘. old. She produced in first four
milking perim s 50,634.11 lb. milk (private record).
average 37.811). a (lay. Dani's dam, a 20.8 lb. cow.
produced in first eight milking periods 0’. 417 lb.
milk. if you are looking for producing qualities.
send for pedigree and price on this one'

.11. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Mid..-

EG. HOLSTEINS: Hebrd headedb Albina Bonk
Butter Boy No. 9312 D'am a meet at 6 yrl. butter
$.53 lbs. milk 619 4, Yébrly record at 236.7 buttor
“lb-.1111“: 152?. lbs. READER. Howell. Mich

      
   
     
   
     
     
      
       
     
     
     
     
      
      
   
     
   
     
   
     
   
        
       
      
       
    
    
    
       
         
        
   
       
     
     
   
   
   
     
   
 
   
 
  
  
   

 

 

 

A Yearling Heifer. ure bred B I-
For sale stein, Sire Colnntba ohannaCrougi-
ello Lad. Dam. Elizabeth Segis Lyons. If you want
something good. write. Geo. . DClarke. Vassar, MlCh.

 

riesian Heifers. 3 to 6
RegiStered HOIGtCin mos. old. Some from I‘Dlh.
sires. Priced to sell. Fred J Lungs. Sebeuaing.Mich.

I Always Have Holsteins
To Sell

I f wanting Registeredcattle write me your wants
before placing your order elsewhere.

L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio
Buy Your Bulls From Parham' s Podigreo Stock FarIII

Choice “twister“ Holstein calves from A.R .O. cows.
RA Y.H PAR HAM . Bronson. Michigan.

 

 

 

Fill .1 ll 1 {lb
3 “OlSlgin “ei‘ers (lam Amlt .568 Histefilodatx:
of 35 1h. co“. l1re1Ll to % brother to 30 lb 4 3".) old. Terms
if wanted. M. .MoLAUl. lN. Redford. Mir hlgan.

“TllP-NlllllH” HDLSTEINS

"Miékhprpduation is 1151 inherite‘iii abilih. Good cowu

mus o )I'f‘ to goo um lire i ll

duining is to be made' 'P m S if progress i“
hxtrart U 8. Dept. of Agric. Bulletin.

 

Here is s 011113 hull with inherited abllitv, anl
individuulrmeritJI He was born Dec. 2 . 1915. ( tom

   
  
 
 

[Butter ’7 Dani 3am
His Site's Dam’s4 Butieg‘wDEa’“ 2,1323%
vs 2 .

Record [Butter 1 Yea“ £38.41
Milk 1 Y ear 11-675 bl) ,-.
His Sire’ s Sire’ 8 three nearest Dams merage Butter ' 1.
7 Days 30.87. (Intluding a junior three and senior 3.“
four yr. old .) ,.’
His Dam' 1; Record l Butter 7 Days 21.1'4 ' 5
DB ill-11.64 Days Milk 7 Days 452.8 ~ "v

ams' 11m .
Almost 30 lbs. l Butter 7 D3” 29"")

 
 
 

About 91’ white. Price low for this quality.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.
11111311111 out 1111. G3;:€..‘13£.;d;.a .i‘a‘.

farmers prices. lint. Mich.

   

 

 
  
  
 
  

0]] 0]"- Easy Payment ”an“ we will 11th you

Holstein Bull cal! in our stables Prlco-f Ip.
Ypsiland arms. Ypsilanti. Mic an.

Additional Stock Ads. on Page 323

  

 

 

 


   

 

  
 

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Markets.

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GRAINS AND SEEDS

.October 23, 1917.

WHEAT.—With an active flour mar-
ket and limited deliveries by farm-
ers, millers continue as anxious as
ever to secure every available car of
wheat. One year ago No.2 red wheat
sold on the local market at $1.73 34 per
bushel.- The present local prices are:
No. 2 red wheat $2.17; No. 2 mixed
$2.15; No. 2 white $2.15.

CORN—Values rule higher than they
did a week ago. The opinion now pre-
vails among dealers that the new crop
,will be slow in coming to market, ow-
ing to the crowded conditions of rail-
way lines and the farm labor situation,
consequently those in need of the grain
are out to purchase all the cash offer-
ings they can secure. On the other
hand, there are afew who believe‘the
government will force the roads to
move corn in preference to other goods
and thus prevent any crisis in the
trading. A year ago corn was quoted
locally at $1.01 per bushel. Last week’s
Detroit quotations were:

  

 

No. 3 No. 3

Mixed. Yellow.
Wednesday ........ 1.98 2.00
Thursday .......... 1.98 2.00
Friday ............. 2.02 2.04
Saturday ........... 2.02 2.04
Monday ............ 2.03 2.05
Tuesday ........... 2.03 2 05

Chicago—Dec. $1.15%; Jan. $1.1m;

, May $11014.

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.markets and easy in Detroit.

OATS—The local and general de-
mand for oats has been active and ex-
porters are constantly taking the grain
from the country. With farmers de—
livering in small quantities, the tone
of the market is naturally very firm,
with prices slightly above those of
last week. A year ago standard cats
were quoted here at 530 per bushel.
Last week’s Detroit quotations were:

No. 3

Standard. White.
Wednesday ........... 61%. _ 61 11,,
Thursday ............. 62 61 1/2
Friday ................ 62 61 1/2
Saturday ............. 62 61 1/2
Monday ............... 621A, 61 ‘34
Tuesday .............. 611/2 62

Chicago—December oats 581/2c per
bu; May 60c.,

RYE—This grain is coming to mar-
ket slowly, while exporters are taking
it in moderate quantities. No. 2 rye lS
steady with last week at $1.80 per
bushel.

BEANS.—An apparent effort is being
made by the trade to work bean prices
to a lower level. The local market
suffered a decline of 25c on Monday,
putting the present quotation at $8.75
for immediate and prompt shipment.
At Greenville the quotation is on an $8
basis. The Chicago trade quoted Mich-
igan pea beans, hand-picked, new, at
$9.25 per bushel; red kidneys. at $8.
Owing to the lateness of the season
and the inclement weather many acres
of beans are deteriorating or spelling
in the fields.

SEEDS.—The demand for seeds is
somewhat easier than a few days ago,
although prices are higher than last
week. Prime red clover $14.90; alsike
$13; timothy $3.80.

FLOUR AND FEEDS

FLOUR—Jobbing lots in one-eighth
paper sacks are selling on the DetrOit
market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best
patent $11.50; seconds $11.40;, straight
$11.10; spring patent $12.10; rye flour
$11.20 per bbl.

FEED.—In 100-lb. sacks jobbing lots
are: Bran $36; standard middlings
$39; fine middlings $42; cracked corn
$80.50; coarse corn meal $75; corn and
oat chop $60 per ton.

HAY.—In carlots at Detroit: No. 1
timothy $22.50@23; standard timothy

 

‘$21.50@p3; No. 2 timothy $20.50@21;

light mixed $21.50@22; No. 1 clover
$16.50@17.

Pittsburg.—No. 1 timothy $255003
26 a ton; No. 2 timothy $23.50@24.50;
No. 1 lgiht mixed'$24 (1,2450; No. 1 clo-
ver, mixed, $24@24.5 ; N0. 1 clover
$24.50@25. -

STRAW.—~In carlots on the track at
Detroit: Rye straw $9.50@10; wheat
and oat straw $8.50@9.

DAIRY PRODUCTS

BUTTER—Butter is lower in some

Fresh

creamery firsts at 41@411,éc; fresh
,éc.

 

» creamery extras 42@42

Elan—Lower prices prevail, and
,business is poor, trading being mostly
‘ ll lots for current requirements.

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Bids got 425 were ma e,butno sales

resulted. . s 3 a

Chicago.—The feeling is easy. and
buying is limited to‘ current. needs.
Creamery quoted at 38@42c; packing
stock 35 $60.

POULTRY PRODUCTS

POU LT RY.—‘—(Live) .——The poultry
deal is easy and liberally supplied.
Best spring chickens 20@21c; hens 18
@21c; ducks 24@25c; geese 18@200;
turkeys 24@25c. _

Chicago—Poultry is in fair supply
with prices on all offerings lower.
Fowls sell at 15@151/2c; spring chick-
ens at 171/20; ducks 15@17c; geese'14
@17c; turkeys, good 230.

EGGS—The egg market is firm and
fresh firsts were quoted at 39(cD40c2

Chicago—Market easy. Fresh Mich-
igan firsts sell for 36613370; ordinary
firsts 351/2@360; miscellaneous lots,
cases included 36@37c.

FRUITELVEGETABLi-is

POTATOES.——Prices at shipping
points: At Greenville potatoes are a
little easier at $1.25@1.30 to farmers.
Grand Rapids market is steady with
round whites carloads f. o. b at $1.45
@1.48; do. bulk $1.35@1.39; small im-
mature $1.30 per bushel. At Goldwater
the crop was about half dug October
20. Demand active and market strong
with round whites f. o. b. carload lots
$1.35@1.40 per bushel. Digging prac-
tically completed in Wisconsm with
round whites from wagons at Side
track quoted in bulk at $1.90 per cwt.
In Minnesota growers are getting $1.28
for Red River Ohios sacked. Colorado
dealers are paying farmers $1.60@
1.65 per cwt. for round whites and $1.70
for Russets from wagons at side track.
Maine market is weaker with Green
Mountains selling from wagons at Side
track at $4@4.25 for eleven pecks. .

Shipments.—-—The average daily ship-
ments for the past week from the po-
tato producing states have run be-
tween 900 and 1000 cars. A total. of
1184 cars had been shipped from Mich-
igan producing points up till Sunday of
this week. The majority of Michigan
stock is moving to Detroit, Pittsburg
and New York City. «

Markets—(Oct. 22).——There were 80
cars of potatoes on the tracks at De-
troit Monday morning. The demand
was moderate and market fair, with
round whites sacked, selling at $1.44@
1.46 in jobbing lots. Boston market is
slightly weaker with Green Mountains
at $3.50@3.75 per two bushel sacks;
bulk $1.75 per bushel. New York mar-
ket is easier with demand moderate.
Rurals .$4.75@5.25 per 180 lbs; Green
mountains $6. Pittsburg trade is steady
with Michigan round whites quoted at
$4@4.15 per 10-pk. sacks; bulk $1.65
per bushel. Chicago: Trade is strong-
er, with’ Wisconsin round whites quot-
ed at $2.15; $2.25 per cwt. bulk. .Cin-
cinnati: Trade is firm with Michigan
round whites in bulk quoted at $150 per
bushel. The Cleveland trade is slight-
ly weaker and Michigan round whites
are quoted at $4@4.15 per 10-pk. sacks.

APPLES.——Carlot shipments of ap-
ples for Saturday totaled 994 cars, of
which eight cars were consigned to
Detroit. The Pacific states are now
the heaviest shippers of this fruit. At
Detroit fancy Jonathans were quoted
Monday at $6.50 per bbl. The New
York market is strong with Baldwms
$4.50@5 per bbl., fancy Greenings at
$5.50@6, Wealthys $5@6. Pittsburg
market is fair, with Wealthys at $5.50
@6, Yorks $5, Grimes $5.50@6. The
market is steady in Chicago where
Jonathans fancy bring $6@6.25, and
Grimes $5615.50.

-GRAPES.——At Benton Harbor the
demand continues good, with the mar-
ket steady. Carloads f. o. b in 4-_qt.
baskets 171/2c; Concords per ton, With
baskets $55; do. from wagon loads at
side track 16@16%c, mostly 161/2c. At
Westfield, N. Y., the heaviest move-
ment will occur this week, weather
permitting. Market is very strong with
Concords in 2-qt. baskets, carloads f. o.
b. 12c; do 4-qt. baskets 21c; Concords
per ton $55@58. ‘The Detroit market
is steady with Michigan Concords in
4-qt. baskets quoted at 21c; in 20-lb.
baskets 65@70c. The Chicago market
is unsettled with Michigan Concords
4-qt. baskets unlabeled mostly at 19@
200; do. labeled, mostly 20@22c. There
is a good movement and demand in
New York City.

ONIONS.——Demand is limited at the
shipping' points in Ohio where car
shortage prevents loading. At Walker-
ton, Ind., sales are few at $1.25@1.35
f. o. b. track In Massachusetts the de-
mand is good and market firm, the
farmers getting $3.25@3.40 iii 100-lb.
sacks for Yellow Globe. At Detroit
the market is strong and prices are ad-
vancing with yellow varieties quoted
at $3.65 per 1.00 pounds.

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demand, active.

. Potaté‘esbrought around $1.40 on the

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city market Monday, and the price paid
atoutside loading stations is around
$1.10. Apples now lead in the fruit
line and the price .paid here ranges
from $1.25@2. Pears sell from 800@
$1. In the vegetable line, cabbage
ranges from 65@75c; rutabagas. 90c@'
$1; onions $1.25@1.50; beets $1.25; .

DETROTT CITY MARKET

Despite the rain Tuesday morning,
farmers secured good prices for their
offerings. Potatoes are now coming
quite freely with the; bulk selling at
$1.60 perbu; cabbage is higher at 75
@90c; apples $1.25@2.25; cauliflOWer
$2.25@2.50; onions $1.75@2; pearsat
$1.40@1.60; carrots 60@65c; celery 210
@30c per bunch; no eggs, butter nor
hay in sight.

LIVE STOCK

BUFFALO.

_ October 23, 1917.
,Receipts here today as follows: Cat-
.tle 7,800 (312 cars); hogs 15,200 (95
d. d.); sheep 7,000 (35 d. d.); calves
1,500 head.

With 312 cars of cattle here today
the trade was very slow and unevenly
lower, the bulk of all classes selling a
big quarter lower, in some cases a half
dollar a hundred lower, except bulls,
which sold about steady. We look for
a liberal run of cattle next week and
no more than a steady market.

We had a liberal run of hogs today,
95 double decks, or a total of 15,200
head, considerable more than were
looked for, and with light demand the
market was extremely dull and lower,
a good many sales showing a strong
50c loss from Saturday and on the com-
mon light hogs some as much as $1 per
cwt. lower. A few loads of selected
heavy weights sold at $16.75, with
scattering sales from $16.25@16.50 and
the bulk around $16; pigs and lights
$14@14.75; roughs generally $15; stags
$12@14. Late trade was very bad and
quite a number went over unsold.

With a moderate run of lambs today
our market opened up active and the
prices were 100 higher than the close
of last week. About three loads un-
sold and we look for steady prices the
balance of the week.

We quote: Lambs $17@17.10; cull
to common $12@16; yearlings $12.50@
14.50; wethers $11.50@11.75; ewes
$10.75@11; bucks $7@9; best calves
$15.25@15.50; common and light $13.50
$14.50; heavy $10@14; grassers $6

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CHICAGO.
October 22, 1917.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts today. .24,000 26,000 35,000
Same day 1916. .29,.761 51,020 39,311

Last week......102,593 119,594 96,985
Same wk 1916...77,355 167,672 128,724

Last week’s collapse in prices result-
ed in a great falling off in cattle re-
ceipts today, with only about 4000
northern rangers and no choice beeves,
most of the offerings being inferior in
quality. Range cattle were called
largely 25c higher, and natives were
quoted from 10@I5c higher, with pros-
pects that some might show a greater
advance. Lambs were largely 25@500
lower, choice native killers selling at
$16.85 and prime feeders at $18. Hogs
averaged a dime lower, the best going
at $16.65. Hogs marketed last week
averaged only 212 pounds.

Cattle were in overwhelmingly sup-
ply last week, enormous shipments be-
ing made from the northern ranges and
from western and southwestern pas-
tures, with the usual slim showing of
choice corn-fed cattle, both long-fed
heavy steers and fat little yearlings.
The result was just what might have
been predicted safely, the best fat
beeves selling at well maintained pric-
es, while other kinds sold off sharply.

The spread in prices was extremely

wide, with the bulk of the native steers

selling at $8.75@13.75, while choice to '

fancy weighty steers went'at $16@
17.50, with a. good class bringing $13
and upwards. Medium grade steers
found buyers at $11 and over, while
poor to plain steers of light weight
brought $8 and upward, with sales of
inferior little steers on the canner or—
der down to $6 and over.
the best class brought $16@17, good
lots of these cattle being taken at $14
and over, and sales Were made down
to'$10.25@11.50 ‘ for the commoner
kinds of yearlings steers. Butcher and
canner and cutter cattle sold off sharp-
ly under theliberal offerings, butcher-
ing cows selling“ at $6.10@8.90 and heif-
ers at $5.50@1 . Cutters brought $5.50
@6, canners $4;90@h5.45 and bulls at
$5.60@10. Calves ad a further ad-

   

  

   
   
  

 

 

   
  
 

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.—.—Market is strongerand; ’ Eaten ; -. ,tszzts

lightxealers be! at £1,561)
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Yearlings of '

had: better‘ give t
,essary to keep the; ,.

as 1» - iii-‘6“? 0*
, . _ P 3.8711, .0 .er gat.

es, with galesjbf ififéfigf' light weight
canners to prime heavy steers 'at a

spread"of1$5.25@13.50. .'There 'was a'

large traffic in stockers and 5 feeders.
plenty of these beingonthe market at
reasonable prices.Stockers had a good
sale at $5.75@9.40, yearlings being the
highest sellers, while feeders sold at
$8.25@1~2. Fleshy feeders were sala-

ble up to $13, but only a few sold-

aroiind there. Cattle prices closed
from 50c@$1.50 lower than a Week
earlier. Prime beeves closed at $16
@17.10. ‘

Hogs were forced to materially low-
er. prices last week, sensational de-
clines taking place, with the packing
firms raiding the market for all de~
scriptions. What the future will bring
forth is a matter of conjecture, but
further reductions in prices are gener-
ally looked for. That “hogs will. fall to
a_ 133,818 which would not make them
highly profitable to farmers is not re-
garded asAlikely, however, and values
could go much lower and still leave
hogs far higher than in normal times.
There» is an extremelywide spread in
prices, ,with the best lots commanding
a liberal premium. Receipts of hogs
in western markets have been increas—
ing -materially in numbers recently,
while still on a smaller scale than a.
year ago. Inferior hogs form too large
a share of the receipts and sell unsat-
isfactorily. Increased receipts of light
hogs are. expected as a result of the
collapse in prices. At the alese of the
week hogs were selling at $14.80@
16.75, comparing with $16.50@18.75 a
week earlier, while pigs brought $10@
14. Hogs sold about $3 lower than at
the month’s highest time. Many unv
derweights are coming here.

There was a great call for range
feeding lambs last week, and at times
at least twice as many as were offered
could have been disposed of readily.
The best feeders brought much higher
prices than the best killers, and breed-
ing ewes sold away up. Montana and
Washington have contributed a large
share of the feeding lambs, with some
big shipments coming from Idaho. Fat
lambs closed last week largely 25c low-
er than a week earlier, while feeders
declined mostly- 25»@50c. Sheep and
yearlings were steady to 25c lower.
Prices closed as follows: Lambs $12.50
@1760; feeding lambs $17@18; year-
lings $11.50@14.25; wethers $11@13;
ewes $6@11.60; breeding ewes $12@
19.50;‘bucks $8@9.

Horses were offered moderately last
week and sold about as heretofore,
with loggers wanted at $150@225 and
little southern chunks going mainly at
$65@100 for animals weighing around
1200 pounds. ‘ Drivers went at $100@
200 and drafters at $185@265.

FROSTED palms.

 

Where there is a considerable-

,amount of frost damage to beans it

will still pay to save them and cure
out well before threshing. It is hoped
to establish a special grade of frosted
stock that will avoid expense of pick-
ing and realize their food value. There
is a demand for all food stuffs, and it
seems very probable that an outlet for
this grade will be found abroad. Small
samples may be sent to this office to
secure estimates of grade and values.
JAB. N. MCBRIDE,
State Market Director,
East Lansing, Mich.

VETERINARY.

 

Obstructed .Teat.——I have a good cow
that has one bad teat—there seems to
be a hard lump in upper part of teat
which obstructs milk flow. In order to
milk her she has to be stripped. . W.
D., Copemish, Mich—Very little can
be done to relieve an ailment of this
kind, other than a surgical operation
which should be performed by a com-
petent Vet. You might apply one part
iodine and ten parts fresh lard once a
day. However, it is very doubtful about
it absorbing a bunch of this kind.
Eczema—Last year some of my
calves were troubled with a crusty
hard scab forming on their faces and
heads. This, spring they are suffering
from a similar skin ailment. _ E. W. T.,
Pinconning, Mich—Apply one part of
tincture iodine andnine parts glycer—
ine or olive oil to dry portions of the
skin once a day. ‘ .

Constipation—What can I give pigs.

five weeks old that-are-inclined to be -

constipated and clogged in large intes-
tines which seem to produce their
death? ‘These pigs are very fleshy, fed
boned potatoes, middlings, rye, oats
and alfalfa; My. hogs. had a similar
trouble last year, but $6.31th to‘ get
over it. 110., Maple Ci humus—van
hem equal. part

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Thursday’s Market.
. ctober 25, 1917.
Cattle.

Receipts 2593. Market _steady_ at
la-t week’s prices; closed fairly active.

Best heavy steers $9.50@10.50; best
handy weight butcher steers $8.50@9;
mixed steers and heifers $7@8; handy
light butchers $6.50@7; light butchers
$5.50@.6.25; best cows $7.50@8; butch-
er cows $6@6.50; common cows $5.50
(ct/‘6; canners $4.50@5.25; best heavy
bulls $7@7.50; bologna bulls $66137;
stock bulls $5.50@6; feeders $7.50@
8.50; stockers $6.50@7.50; milkers and
springers $50@l,00.‘ ‘

Bishop, B. &‘H. sold Converse & B.
24 cows av 955 at $5.50; to Parker, W.
& Co. 22 do av’ 850 at $5.25, 19 do av
806 at $5.35, 7 do av 700 at $5.25; to
Hammond, S. & Co. 13 butchers av 540
at $6.25, 26 do av 640 at $6.25, 9 do av
724 at $5.25, 8 do av 790 at $6.50; to
Mason B. Co. 2 bulls av 1475 at $7.50;
to Hyman 6 butchers av 741 at $6.35;
to Sullivan P Co. 3 bulls av 1210 at $7;
to Breitenbeck 15 steers av 884 at
$7.50; to Ratner 28 butchers av 400 at
$6.55; to Garber 29 do av 583 at $6; to
Sullivan P. Co. 7 do av 773 at $6.25, 22
do av 830 at $6.50, 25 steers av 904 at
$8.40, 3 do av 910 at $7, 6 do av 1000
at $6.75; to Goodgold 1 steer Wgh 1400
at $9.50; to Newton'P. Co. 30 butchers
av 755 at $6.50, 18 do av 842 at $7, 1
bull wgh 1060 at $7, 6 butchers av 940
at $9, 4 cows av 1040 at $6.50; to Nagle
P. Co. 4 butchers av 1150 at $6.75, 5 do
av 988 at $8.50, 6 do av 1000 at $7.85;
to Parker, W. & Co. 5 steers av 980 at
$9, 5 cows av 858 at. $6.25, 21 butchers
av 700 at $6.25, 5 do av 798 at $6.25;
Goodgold 20 do av 711 at $6.25; to
Hammond, S. & CO. 25 steers av 1028
at $9.70,“ 15 do av 1073 at $9.70; to
Converse & B. 7 canners av 886 at
$5.35, 4 do av 945 at $5.50, 4 do av 907
at $5.25, 7 do av 993 at $5.25; to Ratner
9 butchers av 660 at $6.50.

Erwin, S. & J. sold Newton P. Co.
4 cows av 1080 at $5.50, 10 butchers av
755 at $6.50, 2 cows av 900 at $51 do
wgh 900 at $4, 15 steers av 927 at
$8.90, 5 do av 634 at $6, 10 do av 843
at $7, 1 ox wgh 1860 at $7.25; to Sul-
livan P. Co. 5 cows av 1010 at $5, 5 (10
av 1060 at $6, 21 butchers av 733 at
$6.35, 10 canners av 941 at $4.85; to
White 7 cows av 800 at $5; to Newton
P. Co. 2 bulls av. 825 at $6.35, 2 cows
av 1025 at $6.35, 17 butchers av 700
at $6.35, 41 do av 666 at $6.35, 3 steers
av 970 at $7,10 butchers av 687 at $6,
2 cows av 1100 at $6, 1 do wgh 1200 at
$5.50, 5 do av 720 at $5; to Breiten-
beck 11 butchers av 762 at $7.25; to
Thompson 2 bulls av 1060 at $6.50, 6
steers av 900 at $8.50, 1 bull wgh 1120
at $6.90; to Gilbert 11 feeders av 873
at $7.25; to Hammond, S. & Co. 2 can-
ners av 1100pat $4.85; to Sullivan P.
Co. 3 cows av 917 at $5.25, 3 do av
1033 at $7, 2 do av 1275 at $7, 1 do
wgh 1030 at $5.50, 22 steers av 1043 at
$9; to Nagle P. Co. 2 do av 1170 at
$8.50, 10 do av 926 at $8.40, 1 cow wgh
1100 at $6.70, 3' do av 1000 at $7.50, 1
bull wgh 1200 at $6.75; to Newton P.
Co. 1 do wgh 1120, at $6.50, 3 cows av
900 at $5; to Leach 28 stockers av 609
at $7; to Newton P. Co. 2 cows av 920
at $5, 9 butchers av 786 at $7.25, 3
cows av 800 at $5.50, 7 do av 854 at
$5; to Barlage 6 butchers av 680 at
$6.25; to Thompson 4 steers av' 1175

at $10.50.
’Veal Calves. _.

Receipts 666. Market dull. Best
$14.50; others $7@12.

Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Thompson
14 av 150 at $14.50, 2 av 115 at $12, 4
av 140 at $14, 4 av 320 at $10.50; to
Rattkowsky 2 av 210 at $10; to Nagle
P. Go. 7 av 150 at $14.50, 7 av 125 at
$13.50, 6 av 105 at $12, 8 av 145 at
$14.50, 1 wgh 240 at $10.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 4725. Sheep strong; lambs
Best
lambs $16@16.25; fair lambs $15@
15.75; light to common lambs $12@
14.75; fair to good sheep $,8.50@10.50;
culls and common $5@7.50.

McMullen, K. & J. sold Thompson
70 lambs av 70 at $15.75, 38 do'av 70
at $15.75; to Radius 24 do av 75 at

$16; to Sullivan P..C‘o. 11 yearlings av .
100 at $14.50, 2 sheep. av 120 at $8, 5.

do av 88 at $7. 3 do av 125 at $8, .13
lambs av 58 at $13.50, 8 do av 55 at
$12.50 18 do av 55 at $12.50; to Chap-
man 0 do av 75 at $15, 13 sheep av
125 at $10.50; to Nagle P. co. 2!? lambs
av 85 at $15.50, 31 do av 85 at $15.50,
107 do av 85 at $15.50. .

 

 
 

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HAMPSHIRES Boar pigs null; 53:12:) 815 and up
' JOHN W. SNYDER, R. 4, St. Johns. Mich.

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Husky ones with quality, price 835. Shipped C. O. D.
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R A M S. Rambouillets and
e Hampshires for sale. ' '
A. A. W001”: SON, Saline. Mich.

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lingislered Spanish MIrIno 512?“: 3.? zfitfiiiif“
RALPH N. HAYNICR. Webberi'ille. Mich.
MERINOS‘dL Delaines, having (ll-ality, size, oily

fleeces, long stir le. heavy shea rers. Rama for sale.
delivered, 8. . Sanders. R. 2, Ashtabula. Ohio.

  
   
     
      

 

 

 

 

 

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old. 10 ewes. DAN noonnn. R. 4.’ Evert. pg
Meadow Brook llerfeords

‘ TwoZyr. old bulls. 3 yearlin s and 15 '21 e. f ,
EARL o. McCAItTY, ' g Billivlgefii‘i‘ciri.

Rgglstered 0XIONI Down [Xigiiinebz :or 5310.
0L STED and J. SPAA NS, Muir, Mich,

 

 

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ReQIStere lambs. Also Berkshire

hogs. CHASE STOCK FARM. 11.1. Marlette. Mich.

 

hundred Western ewes. health (1 in
several gold flesh. Pure bred rams of dyifzildrent
breeds. BARNABD SHEEP RANCH. B.5.0lare.uich.

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notations last week for New
aid Stock. If you have real

Fresh Eggs and want prem-

iums. write us

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CHEESE C0. Domlt.Mch

POTATOE8--APPLES--0NIONS

WANTED

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WANTED 331138331“) sale. or milk

Roy’s Creamery. 1018 Wabash Ave. Detroit. Mich.

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ALFALFA $58932:tarrraai-ba‘saxahrg

FOR SAL Oxford Burns a In...

re istered w 't '
wants. GEO. T.ABBOTT. .g - almls.allii((,-‘llil.‘

Oxford Down Shee .
O. M. YORK, Millington, ich.
BEG. SHROPSHIBE thh‘iiiiilh’iflmi'mlf‘hlLt
ewes. - W. B. McQUILLAN. Howell, Mich.

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also rum

 

 

lambs. EPH KNIGHT SONS. Gagetown, Mich.
E w 15 registered Ramboulllet
ewes for sale.

WILL J. RENO. Manchester, Michigan

 

I odor for remainder of season a limited number of
tong vigorous

llo island Shropshire Ram Lambs “3:33:21" 7335
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HOGS

0 I C Bonn. long bodied. with quality, for fall
0 U ' service. A few registered, extra fine.
Shmpsblreowe lambs. G. P. Andrews. Dansville. Mich

0 l C9 . A few prize winning ailts at Michigan
- - 8. State Fair; also Au . Sept. lgs of the best
blood linen. Clover Leaf Stock arm. onroe. Mich.

“POLAND CHINAS”

2 Spring boars—4 Gilts~3 YearllnusOwa.
Sir-ed by BlfiKnox Jr., a 900“). hour at 22month|
old. hissir» Knox weight 1060 lb. at Iowa state
r'alr 1912. The .arn. Allnnl Mine Orphan, ahig grow-
thy prize winning sow sired by Hadley Over, lot at
International Chicago in “31‘." Vi e have a nli‘f‘ lot of
July and Ana. pi from such sires as Big Knox Jr.
Bk Defender r. and In: Ijlndley. We can pick
you out pairs and tries of these pigs “:25 each, here in.
chance to buy the best of the breed at a moderate price

ALLEN 15805.. Paw Paw. lien.

hen you Fl ure
if all up .3—

you may and some of your cowl are
a. liability instead of an asset. Why?

every cow can be a profitable
producer it her system is working
properly and she is free from
disease.

Kow-Kure. the crest cow medi-
cine. in Jud what the average over-
torced much cow needs. It works
on the digestive and genital organs
and puts the system in condition to __f
prevent so and produce prop— - ‘. Poland China. Apr. boars, sire and dams
erly. Also I sure remedy for Abor- Ilfi In! home 1000-lb. stock; can be returned if not
tlon, Bureaus“. Retained After— 9. MILLS. Saline.Mich.
birth. Scouting, Appetite,
Bunches and other common diseases. -

Try Kow-Kuro’nn your Door milk-
.euy-you'll and tt makes good even
claim: in man! dale:
louse-into profits. 1

Knit 1

olfactory. R. W.

BIB TYPE POUND CHINAS

‘ the CHAMPION and GRAND CHAM-
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STRETOHY 80W of vo best brooding and indivi .

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BOAR8--SOWS

813 type bl bone. For the next ‘3 dan "will sell
Bi t '90 and China at bar-cram prices. A rll boar
u'efisfimg 300 lb. Open gilts. Summer and all pigs

9 ' 'thi nee. et buly.
£83. nt'i’i'fim Portland. Mlchl‘nn.leli no”.

 

 

LARGE Type ‘1’. 0. Large» in Mich. Spring Boar-

, ready to ship. The kind that make good. Come and
31 b g t pe kind. Expenses paid if not Is

from Par-ma.

GSTON. Per-Ina, Inch.

23‘" PM “in”: fifll:3d&¥&‘?p§3;
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Eleven (11) Head of Registered

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Stallions, brood mares, colts and fillies.
A fine lot, big boned, clean limbed, strait

aited, drafty show-horse type.
will sell cheap for cash or will give
time to reliable parties
Dr. C.L. Barber, Lansing, Mich.

LOESER BROS.

Belgian and Percheron Stallions for sale that
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Have a few mares of both breeds. Shorthorn Cat-
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Write us.

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The entire herd of the late A. A. Palmer
will be closed out; 25 pure bred er-
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also young stallions.

PALMER BROS, Belding Mich.
SHETLAND PONIES

when!“ select from. Special prices on colts to: Aug
not and ptember. Write Dept. E. The SHADYSID
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HE prospects 'for better milk and
butter-fat prices are good. Dairy-

men will feed grain this winter,

although perhaps not as liberally as
usual. It will pay to feed cows of
good dairy ability 8. grain ration, even

. under present price conditions.

Care should be used in Selecting the
most economical rations. Cows should
be fed individually according to .their
milk production. Under normal mar-
ket conditions a recent investigation
revealed the fact that dairy feeds are
from ten to twenty-five per cent cheap-
er during the summer and early fall
than during the following winter.

This year, however, is abnormal, the
unprecedented high prices prevailing
all summer with practically no de-
cline; the uncertain effect of the, re-
cent embargo on food stuffs, and’rthe
passage of the food control bill make
an uncertain condition that makes it
dangerous to predict future prices and
impossible to give specific advice‘as to
the best time to purchase the Winter
supply of feed. In all probability, how-
ever, feeds will be somewhat cheaper
in early fall than in the winter and
early spring.

How to Select Most Economical
Rations.

The following facts are given with
the hope that they may aid the dairy-
man in determining the proper concen-
trates to balance his home-grown feeds.

Market price per ton is not a true
guide to value of feed. Price per pound
of digestible nutrients should be the
basis of determining this value.

A nutrient is'any part of food of the
same general composition that may aid
in the support of animal life. The term
“digestible nutrient" covers that por-
tion of each nutrient which is digested
and taken into the body, as determined
by actual digestion trials.

The nutrients we are concerned with
are protein, which produces milk and
growth, and the carbohydrates and fat
which produce heat, fat and the power
to do work.

Protein, the milk-forming nutrient, is
furnished the cheapest at the present
time in cottonseed meal, alfalfa hay,
oil meal and clover hay. The total
nutrients, the work, heat and fat-pro-
ducing~ nutrients, are furnished cheap-
est in corn stover, oat straw, corn sil-
age, clover hay, alfalfa hay, barley,
oats, gluten feed and corn.

In the case of the ready mixed
dairy feeds it will be noted that pro-
tein and the total nutrients are with-
out exception cheaper in the feeds pos-
sessing a higher content of protein and

total nutrients although these feeds

may cost more per ton.

Alfalfa hay, clever hay and silage
are cheap sources of the nutrients and
besides a ration with these as the bas-
ic is palatable, succulent and healthful,
very important requirements in an effi-
cient ration.

Cows in good condition producing
less than twenty-five pounds (twelve

quarts) of milk per day. testing ap-
pr0ximately 3. 5 per cent, or twenty
pounds (ten quartS) o-f milk testing 4. 5
per cent or above, will receive sufli-
cient nutr‘iment if they are fed liber-
ally on alfalfa hay- and corn silage,

' with perhaps mixed hay or corn fodder

in addition, to furnish variety and
keep up the appetite. CbWs producing

more than these amounts shbuld be'

supplied with a grain ration varied ac-
cording to the amount of milk produc-
ed and the condition of the cow.

The rules for feeding grain are:

1. One pound of grain per day for
each two and a half to four pounds of
milk produced per day, depending on
the quality of milk. '

2. One pound of grain per dayfor
each pound of butter-fat produced per
week.

It may be practical this year to re-
duce the proportion of grain slightly.
In selecting feeds to form a dairy ra-
tion the dairyman must take into con-
sideration several things, some of
which follow:

1. The kind of rough and concen-
trated feeds on hand.

2. The ability of his cows to pro-
duce. .

3. The condition of his cows.

4. The stage in the lactation periods
of his cows. '

5. The price received for his pro-
duct

6. He also should remember that a
ration for the dairy cow, to be most
efficient must, besides having the prop-
er proportions of nutrients, be palata-
ble, possess bulk and some variety, be
succulent and be made up of a com~
bination of feeds that do not have a
detrimental effect on the cow. To il-
lustrate, a ration for the dairy cow as
far as the proper balance of nutrients
is concerned, could be made from tim-
othy hay and cottonseed meal. It
comes far short of an ideal ration and
in fact, continued feeding of it would
be detrimental. It is not palatable,
lacks variety and succulence and is
constipating. The dairyman will strive
to approach the ideal ration as near as
may be practical under his conditions.

BEET TOP SILAGE.

With feed prices three times what
they were ten years ago, more care
should be taken of beet tops. An acre
of beets. will produce from four to
eight tons of tops. In a test made at
the‘ Colorado Experiment Station some
years ago, beet tops made into. silage
without the addition of straw, showed
a. value for feeding dairy cows almost
equal to corn silage, which is usually
considered worth $6 to $7 a,ton. The
beet top silage has a dark, coffee color
and was not eaten as readily’as" the
corn silage, but seemed to give as good
returns for feed consumed. A number
of feeders made beet top silage last

.year and obtained excellent results

from feeding the silage to steers.
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' and steady purpose to do them.

_ ifwe‘ care for it properly. I.
. 7'11““th 331% 55m m ' hé'anl'itra, portion.‘of the: workrnow. done may
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' By W. F. TAYLOR -

(Concluded from last week). ‘ and will not get all the fat out of the
‘ 111 all know these things in a milk.
’ ' ‘ general way, for we are often Lastly, the successful dairyman will
told of them, but our success- study to economize his time in every
fill, young dairyman must know them way. He will not neglect the comfort
in a way that will result in a strong of his animals. He will not overlook
. anything that needs to be done, but he
And he rmust not .be "easily turned will study to' make every move count,
aside from this purpose. If he is 'and he will from time to time, as he is
worth anything his determination is able to do, add to his equipment those
going to be put to the test. The Great conveniences that make for comfort
Teacher has told us that “Everything and save labor. If he is a good dairy-
must be tried as by fire.” man he will love his work, but he will
The best dairyman I ever knew had 100k upon it as a means to the ends
worked up to a point where his suc- which are best worth while. Anxious
cess was in plain sight, when contagi- for still greater results in his work,
ous‘ abortion got into his herd, and with ‘a mind always open to practical
caused the loss of practically all his suggestions, giving to his chosen Call-
calyes that year. In that herd was one his the very best that is in him, he Will
of‘the'vvery best heifers in the United still find time to discharge his obliga-
States; .She waé‘ilin test for Register tions as a citizen. and a neighbor.
of Merit, and made a wonderful rec-
ord. Didthat yOung man give up? No,
he went to the Michigan Agricultural
College for help. He went after that
trouble with a firm determination to
win, and he did win. Today he is a
much stronger man than he could have
been without that experience. Another
friend of mine had ten fine cows on
33:: gxdstgfiulfttgethxlyghf 11;; wait. A trumpeter in khaki sounded
before the end of the year, tubercu- theassembly, the band struck up the
losis appeared and six of those good national air, the people, stoodhuncov-
cows reacted. I do not think I was ered, and the National Dairy Show of
ever more sorry for a man in my life 191? was~on.
on account of a mere loss of property. Flr'St came the parade 0f cattle, un-
Did he give up? Well, I guess not. der the effluent ring leadership of
Today he has an even better herd than Thomas Bell. Then the representa-
ever before. . tives of the great draft horses entered
The man who is in the dairy busi- and were .pUt through their-paces m
- . _ , , , true American fashion, for this was al-
ness is liable to all these lim1tations. most altogether an American horse
We “118,1“ as well understand that at show, the imported individuals being
the beginning, but they may be mild? decidedly in the minority. The re-
to minister to his ultimate success If mainder of the evening was devoted to
he has theright stuff 11:1 him. the regular horse show program, which
How I Wish I might discuss the prob- was high-class throughout and a por-
lem of equipment, but this article is tion of which was more remarkable.
already too long. Just permit me to Perhaps the outstanding feature of the
533" though, that I W011” have the best evening was the twelve-horse team
possible equipment. BY this, I mean that was sent by an eastern exhibitor.
the best I felt able to OWH- I would Never before have we seen twelve such
rather thiilre a g‘olfd herd dof COWS in a horses, and certainly we have never
poor 5 a e, Wi OUt mo ern conven- seen such perfect team work and such
gencets 0: :lny _S°1‘t that; to ghflfess the evidence of thorough training. They
1198 S a e 1111381113 e, 1 every- handled like a pair, and after being
thing in the way 01' conveniences, and put through various paces from a walk
Still have to 910d along mm a poor to a run were brought from a run to a
bunch 0’3 COWS- decided stop in half the length of the
swung man, if you age going to b: arena. This exhibit in itself was worth
a airyman, ma e your an warm an makin a lon tri to see.
comfortable. Use bedding enough to Thegdairy 2:110“? proper was a won-
:‘Sep tfhe .COWS (glean atnd (11‘s; tPtllzlce derful collection of products, machin-
em ar enoug apar so a ey cry and supplies. When one contem-
will not step on each other’s udders, plates that ,all of this great aggrega-
and put partitions between them just tion represents the scope of an indus-
t1: soonv-Vaisl you can to gettgrwprotfct try that is based on the product of the
em. en you can a or 1 l go a dairy cow- it is to be impressed more
litter carrier. It .will save time and than ever with the importance of the
in. 51:: 13.: seriesztviisr mmvmm rv
. chan es feed and fora 9 into the er—
and the COWS will be certain 0f plenty fect food which comprigses a large gro-
Of water to drink at all times. Get portion of the food of the human race.

 

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

On the evening of October 18 the
great coliseum which Ohio has erected
on the state fair grounds at Columbus
was thrown open to an admiring multi-
tude of dairymen and friends in at-
tendance at the National Dairy Show.

these, I say, when you can, for they This show is more than a mere collec-

are good things to have: but by a“ tion of exhibits. It is a study in hu-
means, get some good COWS firSt- man progress—a college course in the

If you have much of a dairy, get a most highly developed agricultural in-
good separator. One can get along for dustry—an inspiration for better farm-

[a time With a small machine, and a ing. Every farmer who can possibly

cheap Che. if.it Will skim clean, but if arrange to spare the time should spend
much milk is to be skimmed it does at least one day at the show. It will
not pay to spend the time with a small last until October 27. It is the most
machine. I W0111d buy the very best logically arranged and withal the most
one I COUId get, and then I would care attractive agricultural exposition that
for it in a proper way. We can not it has been our privilege to visit. It is
afford toghave a separator we do not a distinct compliment to Ohio to have
like.- We use it too often. Twice each this show there and the people of the
day we are going to work that ma- central states are showing by their

- 91111981- lWfi Want itvtorwork‘reverytim‘fi' liberal attendance that they recognize:
, withouta hitch. .It'will do so in nearly, and. appreciate real merit.

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The dairyman who contemplates re-
ducing his dairy. held to- save labor

every caste if itiis a good machine and

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I 3' *M®vlmit:l;wlmtl9nwr- would dowell to, consider first whether

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do * {I all not 8 clean. We and labor-saving equipment, for dairy

  

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The great audience had not long to.

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above 21 lbs. butter in 7 days, and all
will average by their 6 to 7 nearest test-
ed dams over 22 lbs. butter in 7 days.
Grand daughters of King of the Pontiac
and King egis.

Extraordinary fine breeding at less
than auction prices.
All bred to calve before March.

BIGELBWS HULSTEIN FARMS,

BREEDSVILLE, MICH.

OAK LEAF FARM
Herd Sire
Ypsiland Sir Pietertle De Kol
Registered Holstein cows a bull calves fine individu-
.als cows safe in calf satisfaction guaranteed.
E. H. Gearhart l Son, Marcellus. Mich., B. No. 4.

WINWOOD HERD

REGISTERED HOLSTEINS

. Holton, Mich.
Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont, Mich.
Flint Mariners“: Bog site in service

His sire is Map ecrest Kern yke Hen rveld. his 8
Nearest Dams each ovcra) lbs. of bu tor in? days.
His dam and grand dam both made over 1232 lbs. of
butter in lyear. It is the yearly cow we are looking
for to deliver the goods. Flint Miiplecrest Boy's Dam is
Gluck Vasaer Bell. 30.57 lbs. of butter in '1 days and 120
lbs. in an days. Her butter fat test is 5.27. This looks
about right to the man who goes to the creamer-y.
We have Bull Calves from 2 weeks to 8 month- old for
sale at dair farmers’ prices all out of A. R. 0. Heifers.
Write «I: tel no the kind of a bull you want.

John H.Winn. (Inca) Holton. Mich.

DON’T GUESS ABOUT COWS

Learn About the Profitable Pure Bred

HOLSTEINS

You'll learn how to get the most
milk. cream and butter-fat at the lowest coat, the
information is free. Write to

THE HOLSTEIN—FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION
OF AMERICA, Box 164, Brnttleboro, Vt.

 

 

 

REG. Holstein Bull Calf. The last one until winter.
a good one with . R. O. backing. Write for ped-
igree and price. Elmer E. Smith, Redford. Mich.

FOR Sale Ono registered Holstein bull calf. Sire‘o
twenty nearest dams have 7. do. records av. 25.53 lb.
butter. Dam to be touted. A finely marked, growthy
individul. Long Veiw Farm. R. 3,llox 10A. Rochester. Mich.

' Bull Calves Pontaic Korndyko
Reg’ Holstein andHengei-veld DeKol Breed-
ing at Farmers Prices. John A. Rinke. Warren. Mich

FOR Sale. Reg. Holstein bull (vulf born Sept. 15.
Half white. in show form, (‘tilleg(~Sli‘9. A.R.0. dam
prlcolow. (LL HULET'l‘dz SON. Okemos. Mich.

 

t) CHOICE Holstein bulls nearly old enough for
.4 service. No. lborn January ‘34. 1917.sire's dam.
grand-dam and great grand-duui's semi-official records
average 842 lbs. butter Dam of calf 18 lbs. butter ’7 days
asseniorZyr.-old. average poi-cent fat 4.3. No. ‘3 Six-ed
by 23 lb. bull and out of a 14 lb. 'unior 2-yr.-old.
C. L. BR DY. Owner. ort Huron, Mich.
Chas. Peters. Herdsman. Three Rivers, Mich.

Butter Fat Counts

Holstein Bull Calves from a 30 lb. 6.53 iSire. Dam
are rand daughters of the King of the Pontiaco.
Tholr dams grand daughters of Sodle ValeConcordln
the first allb. cow. Edwin S. Lewis. Ma‘rshull.Mlch.

' ‘ old enough for service. From A. R.
zlloklfln Bu": 0. dams and sired by hull with.
three generations of twelve hundred pound yearly
racerd. LEWIS I). STARK. Dryden, Mich.

 

Slim-thorns Bull: time. to 2 years old
For sale from cod milkiiig cowu.
KR. Clyde Station. . J. DeGarmo. R.. 6. Milford. Mich.

from hlah~produclng dam-mitt:

Jase! Bu": It" sale tenth: . records. also on
aeanmnial toot. 0 R. We nor. B. 6. Alleunn. M10]:
P ' winning Jersey bull calves of the choicest breed-
l'lZC mg, from high producersand prize winners. Prices
very moderate. C. S. Bossett. Drexcl PL. Kalamazoo. Mich.

' ‘ - . For sale ten months
"mac Fm Jerseys old bull backodon both
sides by R. of M. dams with high official records.

0. t O. DEAKE. -~ - - Ypsilanti, Michigan

 

 

llllo Pol-maul Joruv Cattle. Bull calves from R
Cows. oho heifer calves and several b

of M.
' boilers for solo. Colon O. Lillie. Cooper-"lilo. Mich

 

F 'a'. Two registered Jerseys bull calves.8plen-
it did individuals. Good pedigrees. Priced to
sell. Lou Voiwhm. I. 3.116: ml. www.meh

'1! “lb. butterin one nu. sire nesty’n Wonders
fin‘of M. at? with. daunhter'a in the R. nfM“
BE A. B ENNKN s

 

‘ to keep it W' for °the" animals are, certain to be valuable in

water ec.. Bis. Clair-Go.
Jo Oct e not: H o .
V3.0! Jrao heal flat-b ado.
m unrefinefi‘uslegl novaf $1.111;le
fit. 0 . 00d I“.
g , 9': t - . worn. rich.

    

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FOBsalo.2n.oldbullout.ofa&.o!ll.damncod-i . '0 3m
Dam—Jerseysv gmiardt'fiam .n n":- . '

“BULLY” BARGAINS at Long Beach Farm, Augusta, Mich.

Choice Holstein bulls. $80 up. 4 to 14 inc. old. from A. K. 0. daughters from noted families; Our
Senior Herd Sire Lon Beach DeKol horndyke has 5 30 lb. Sisters. is a son of Friend Hengerveld
DeKol Butter Boy. on 1200 lb. daughter of Pontaic Aaggie Korndyke. she has 13 30 lb. sisters. Our
Junior Herd Sire is as good. Our illustrated booklet tells all.

  
      

’ no You
Want a Cow j;
like Gucci).

Grace is a ten year old
Jersey. the boot-paying
m in the Connemara.
(hither-abut Cow TMInZ‘
damnation. d. All dairy w
broods no represented in ‘ . '—
thiu A-ociatlon. yet Grace produced more but.
too than any of the others. She yielded 12.7503
Ibo. milk and 768.4 lbs. buttlr. Her feed cost on
.11; her butter cold for “7.15 leaviu o m
tom of $218.01. You can have money-mutu-
tke Grace. Our Book. “Th Jot-0y Cow in Am:-
lca". points cutting way. t‘s troo. Bond today. .9

. The American Janey Cattle Club"
3“ Wut 23rd Sh. I Now.York City
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Tl‘ie Wildwood Jersey Farm

offers for solo choice young bulls from B. of M. dams.
good enough to head any herd. We invite inspection.
ALVIN BALDEN, Capw, Nick.

40 --SHORTHORNS “40
5-Perchoron Mares—5
1—Yearling Belgian Stallion-J

Will be sold at auction at the farm near
EISie, Mich., Monday, Nov. 19, at 10 a. m.

Thirteen Cows, some with calves, six
two year old bred heifers, 12 0 en heif-
ers, 8goun bulls. Never be ore in a
Mich. ale ing has there been an o -
portunity to secure such pure Scotc -
b‘red cattle. The catalog tells the tale
and should be in every good breeder's
hands. Jones, Bixby, Miller, .
Rowell 8c Convis, Auctioneers.

H. B. Peters, Prop., Carland, Mich.

R. R. Station Ellie.

Shortliom Cattle 01 both Sex lor Sale
W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.
FOR Sulechg. Short Horn Bulls by Maanltu

Monarch 2nd. a son of Avondale, from 1 to 12 moi.
old. John Solilildt. Reed City. B. No. 6. 992!”

WWW. snomuunis

For Beef and Milk.
i3 Bulls ready for service' 15 month. to Zyean. for
sale; also good Scotch-topped cows and heifers. Mod-
eorhri. sfini‘taril equipment. One hour from Toledo.

io. . . '

BtiEi’L STOCK FARM

Box B, Tecumseh, Michigan.

Shorlhorn:-D iyo beef bred. Breedi stock all
ages fox-sale at farmers prices. .W.Crum,
Secy. Cont. Mich. Shortliorn Brudorl' Assn. NcBrida. llcli

SHORTHORNS erllmvrsr 1...... ll»
llshed 1867. No stock to!
sole. 1. E. Tnuunll.‘ Mason. Mickie-n-

Shonhorns for sale, 5 bulls Scotch to 10 to 14 11108,,

3 roan, 1 white. 1 rod. I‘l('(‘ $150. to 82' .lson of Max-
wnlton Sultan, 19 mus. .50. 0. Carlson. Leroy, Michl'

the original milk strain or
Bates ShOl‘Il‘IOfl’I‘ bulls 8 mm. old for anle.yPri!(]-g
3150 to 8200. J. ll. HUMMEL, Mason. Mich.

Bulls 9 mos. to 12 mos. old from
ShorthornS' good milking cows. Prices tea
csiiablo. COLLAR BROS... R. 2. Conklin Mich.

Registered Shorthorn Bulls ‘2 .3)". £322?“

Shropshire sheep. W. J. Lessiter. Balding. Mich.

 

 

 

1"] liking thrthorns:~—Ilull calf 5 11108.. by a Grand-
1 son or General Clay, dam by a son of General Clo ,
$150. A few females. 8. 1S. BOOTH. Mon-ire. Mic .

 

Shorilmrns: 5 females from 2 cars t06
For saler years old. two bulls from 6 lllMYtOQIDOS.
old. FRANK ROHRABACHER, Laingsburg. Mich.

 

' Shorthorn calves si red by D' '
"BEISlfled 2nd. 410475. both sexes 3156. $3232? E53:
5% each. WM. J. BELL. Rose City. Mich.

Cattle For Sale

210M111 (feeders and twoblooaalszyoazlisng steers].d also
cans w you any num r . an area
600 to 1200133. Isaac Shanstum. Falrfleyld, Iowa, 395‘.

Brown Swiss bull calf four months
For Sale from ood stock. old
BATES & JENKIN , R. 2, Camden, Mich.

1100‘.

 

 

Durocs and Victorian
Heavy bone. lengthy Spring Boats and Gilts from rile
.wumers cl by one of the beat Sons of the Glen Do-
fender & other noted strains. I. 1‘. STORY. Lowell. Itch.

n... sierra rm 5.5.1....

 

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80 d ltsbredt Eutakb -
Duroc andnozllmsginOrlgc 031101 rl§%_ . .

Mpion Iowa Fair. W. T110!

 

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These Tires actually
blem-
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OF 4

Guarani-so
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$77.70 8.60 2.30
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9.95 11.10 2.85
10.55 11.60 2.00
11.50 12.96 3.00
12.15 13.35 8.65
14.75 16.60 3.70
15.05 16.85 3.8)
15.75 17.20 3.90
16.10 17.55 4.00
17.00 18.60 4.50
17.20 8.65 4.30
21.65 28.65 4.90
22.70 24.70 5.094
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24.90 27.25 6.05
27.10 29.60 6.65
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Cash With Order service—why not you?
We ship 0. O. D. subject to lnsBectlon. When

gruerigg state if Clincher, Q. . or B. S. are
esire .

Philadelphia Motor Tire Co.,

240 N. Broad Street. PHILADELPHIA. PA.

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for Roup and Cholera:

Positively cures and prevents roup. cholera and all
bowel diseases of poultry. Used and endorsed by
leadinfl poultry breeders. Easily given in the drink-
ing water. Bond-guaranteed to do the work or money
refunded. 9At dealers or b mail prepaid. 25c and 500
Burroli—Dugger Co. . 113 olumbin Bldg. Indianapolis. Ind.

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POULTRY.

150 Laying Yearling White Leghorn/Hens

In lots from 6 to 50 1"?)1- immediate sale. Also
Yearling Hens Brown Leghorns, Barred Plymouth
Rocks. White Wyaudottes, Bhode Island Reds, Rose
001111) B] ack Minorr'as.

Yearling Cock- and Cookerels Barred Plymouth
Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, White Wyan'dottes, Single
Comb Black Minorcas. White and Brown Leghorns.
Everything we sell is guaranteed; each customer is to
be fully satisfied. .

We are planning for a more extensive sale of Day-Old
Chicks next Spring. so that all orders me. be filled.
HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingda e, Mich.

BREEDING COGKERELS

Trapnested. bred-to-lay stock. 8. C. White Le home.
32 each. Barre Rocks and B. . Reds. $388.0 .
SUNNYBROOK POULTRY FARM, Hillsdale. Mich.

 

 

OHN'S big beautiful hen-hatched Barred Rocks,
(I ood la ers. Breeding gene (5 birds) 510 to $20. Eggs
30. .50; 160. S'LOirculars. hoto..lohn Northon. Clare.Mich.

EGGS FROM STRAIN with
Barred Rooks : records to 297 eggs a year 82
per 15. Delivered by arcel post, prepai . Circular
tree. l‘red Astlinc. Son-tantine. Mich.

bred from Great Layers
few hens yet.
Benton Harbor, Mich.

lamd lock Bockmls
W. O. COFFMAN, it. 3

‘Ferris White Leghorns

A real heavy laying strain, irspnested I
years, records from 200 to 264 eggs. Get
our special summer prices on yearling hens,
"breeding males, eggs for hatching. 8-week-
old pullers and da old chicks. We ship C. O D. and
guarantee results. nelog gives prices ; describes stock; tells
all about our farm and methods; results you can get by breed-
ing this strain. Send for yOur copy now—it is free.

GEORGE D. FERRIS 034 Union. Grand Rapids. Mich.

   

     
  
      
 

  
    
     
   

 

Fowlers Buff Rocks. fizegfiegglggm

8.75 for 15: 81.50 for 30; 82.00 for 50: 83.50 for 100.
B. I. FOWLER. Hartford, Mich.

 

100 cockerels and 100

BUFF LEGHQRNS gullets atSl eachlif
taken at once. Dr. William A.Smit , PetersburmMich.
lrybili 8. t. W. is horns £2l5§.'§£§2llfil?£bf2l£8

breeding hens now. verfresh Egg Farm. Ionia. Mich.
s ecial sale

Pins cml 8. 0. While Orpinglons, ., m, 0...
cocks and hens. also young cockerels. MRS. WILLIS
ROUGH. PINE CREST FARM, Royal Oak, Mich.

RHODB lSLAND REDS and PLYMOUTH ROCKS
Males 5 to 12 lbs. aooordin to age” to 85: P.R. hens
weight 5 to 10 lbs.. eggs 15 or $1.00; 100. 35: 120. $6.00.
Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 881m. according
to no ”to 825, 10 cu: . . Morris & J. Barsan.
Vassar. Mich.. Successors to A. E. Cramton.

 

 

 

 

R I. Red Summer Sale. Rose Comb cocks and liens.
0 Sin 1e comb hens and pullets. All at bargain
prices. ookerels after September 15th.

INTERLAKES FARM. Box 39, Lawrence, Mich.

R C Br. Leghorn Cockereis and one cock $1.50.
. ' and Imperial Pekin Drakes 82.00 each, order
now. Mrs. Wm. Nickert. Carson City, Mich.

C. W. Leghorn hens for breeding 81.50 each. Cock-
'erels from trap nested stock we have them priced
S3 to 85e-oh. 0. S. Sturtevant& Sons, Ypsilanti, Mich
Pekin

ll. C. llr. Le horn Cockerels, and...
W. China Geese; Or or early, the supply is limited.
MR8. CLAUDIA an'rrs. ' Hillsdele. Michigan

ILVER Golden and White_ Wyandottes. Choice
breeding stock of salearterflct. let. a few bargains
in yearling hens. C. W. Browning, R. 2, Portlandlich.

 

 

 

 

 

s. 0. VI. LIE'IWIISE April Hatched. Standard Bred

Cookerols on free re

t 2.
each. White Line Poultry Farm. HillsdlhselefMlelg
WHITE Wyandottes. I have a fine lot of April and

May hatchin cockerels for 83.00 and . .
fl Norris 8L. Ypsilanti. “313:2:

, arrogant?“ Turkeys la in boned ones. EB
v.-~-N’rhom son Strain hi‘nmt erred Rock . ’ '
9'3“le peg right.Mrs.W1n‘. B. Nowell. Onstzd. 311:?

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HE coming ,_ winter is going to
' present an especially difficult

problem for those who are feed
ing large flocks of poultry. Grain feeds
and special poultry mixtures are so
high that skillful feeding and the best
of care will be necessary to obtain sat-
isfactory profits from the flock. To
feed grain feedslat present prices with-
out full knowledge of what one is try-
ing to do is pretty sum to result in
loss. When grain feeds were cheap
one could feed with a careless hand
and give the flock indifferent care, but
now the expense of feeding requires
that the hens produce reasonably well
to meet the Cost of foodstuffs.

Fattencd Poultry Profitable.

Live poultry is commanding high
prices, but it is very doubtful if many
farmers are making anything in fat-
tening poultry for market. The prices
seem high to the consumer, but when
the farmer makes a careful estimate
of the grain he has fed in raisiné a
flock of fowls for the market he finds
that it about equals the price of the
fowls. -Of course, farmers who go to
the corn cribs and grain bins and feed
grain without figuring its cost may ac-
tually think that they are making mon-
ey from feeding poultry, but by figur-
ing costs accurately one will find that
it is necessary to produce eggs during
periods of high prices or sell breeding
stock at advanced prices in order to
make the flock pay any profit.

If it pays to feed poultry at all it
pays to feed them well. It means cer-
tain loss to feed scant rations. Better
sell half of the hens and feed the oth-
er half well than to have a flock about
the farm that is always underfed.

Cull Flock Carefully.

The first step toward getting the
flock in condition to pay good returns
for the feed necessary to carry them
through the winter is to cull it with ex-
acting care. Send everything to mar-
ket that fails to show promise of re-
turning a profit. Old hens, surplus
males and poorly-developed pullets and
hens that are poor layers, had better
be culled out and put in pens by them-
selves and fattened for market. By
rigid culling of the flock the number
may be reduced so that they can be
handled and fed so that they will pro-
duce eggs during the winter and be in
good condition in the spring.

One can make an excellent grain ra-
tion for laying hens with 00m, buck-
wheat and oats. This gives variety,
and at the same time it is fairly well
adapted to their requirements. When
clover and scraps of meat are added it
makes a. very efficient ration. If a dry
mash made up of bran, middlings, glu-
ten and oil meal is fed in hoppers
along with the grains, clover and meat
scraps, it will afford a change and un-
doubtedly increase egg production.

Essential Egg-making Foods.

Animal protein is an essential part
of the ration for winter egg produc-
tion. Green cut bone is preferable, of
course, but it is very difficult to get
and its preparation involves too much
time when a man has other profitable
work to do. Meat scraps are the cheap-
est and most practicable source of ani-
mal protein for the busy farmer who
would find it rather bothersome to
keep his flock supplied with green cut
bone.

Another thing Which will keep down
the cost of grain feeds and encourage
maximum egg production during the
winter is some kind of food to take the
place of the grass that the hens gather
itithe summer. Alfalfa and clover hay
out fine and steamed for an hour
makes an ideal substitute for grass,
and the hens will eat nearly all of it.
These feeds although rather bulky are
rich in protein and are valuable for

egg production. it the ,flock is rigidly _,

culled, well-housed, ‘-‘free ‘frondjycrmiri
and fedalong the lines‘suggested ope

v .

Getting" PoultryR

  

  

should get enough eggs 'to pay for feed-
ing and caring for the flock during the
winter months. _
‘New York. . W. MILTON KELLY.
FLOORS FOR POULTRY HOUSE.

It is no longer a matterof economy
in poultry breeding to keep the hens in
cheap, unsanitary houses.
may not be expensive, but they must

eady for Wm...-

The houses

 
 

.' est. Se .lwhofkeep {law 3 i:

ration as can be secured. Its price in
ground or cut bags is usually about
$1.50 per hundred, and a sack will feed
a large flock of fowls for a long time.

4 No matter what the green food prob- ,
lem may be, alfalfa will solve it cheap-1

er and better than anything else. A1-
falfa-fed breeding stock will produce
eggs for hatching of high fertility even
very early in the season; Alfalfa meal
furnishes elements needed for the pro-

be comfortable, and one of the firSt’duction of the highest grade of eggs

requisites is a good fioor. Formerly
the dirt floor was considered best, but
few up—to-the-minute pOultrymen now
house their hens in such .shanties. Oc~
casionaily a location may be found
where the dirt floor is permissible, but
generally there is too much water in
the soil at certain/seasons. Nothing
hinders the production of the birds
more than a wet muddy floor. In the
spring, when the frost is coming out of
the ground, the dirt floor is almost
sure to be a quagmire unless the
house is on some pinnacle Where the
ground slopes away in all directions.

Colony coops that are used only dur-
ing the summer may be without floors,
but it is best, even for this purpose, to
have floors, which must of necessity
be of boards. Rats, skunks and other
predatory animals easily burrow their
way into houses without floors.

For the permanent house, there is
nothing so good as concrete. Start the
foundation a foot below the surface
and fill up the form some six inches
above the surrounding earth with small
stones or tightly packed Cinders. The
cement mixture should be made in the
proportion of one part cement to five
or six parts,of clean coarse sand.
Spread this with a trowel. Gravel is
sometimes used in place of the finer
sand. Before this mixture has fully
hardened, spread a layer of concrete
made at the rate of one part cement
to three parts of sand. This layer
should be a half-inch or more in thick-
ness and should be carefully spread
with a. plasterer’s trowel. A” founda-
tion of this kind is permanent and, as
it is built up above the ground ,the
sills of the building last much longer.

When the hen house is built in a
moist place or over heavy soil it is
well to arrange for drainage. Drain
tiles will do the trick and if put- in
when the building is built may save
considerable later trouble and expense.

The brooder houses for early chicks
are frequently built without floors. A
good type of house for this purpose
has a. wooden floor covering half of the
space, and the other half without floor
but with fine mesh wire supk six inch
es below the surface of the ground to
keep the rats from burrowing under.
Even for winter brooding a concrete
foundation with six inches of soil on
top is better than the bare earth for
the covered runs. We believe the little
chicks need a part of the house, at
least, with a wood floor during the cold
weather. Concrete and earth floors
are rather cold forthe tiny feet.

New Hampshire. C. H. CHESLEY.

ALFALFA AS A GREEN FOOD.

My experience with alfalfa as a
green food has been quite satisfactory.
Alfalfa meal is an ideal winter green
food and will supply during the cold,
stormy weather one of the great essen-
tials to large and profitable egg produc-
tion. The fragrance of new-mown hay

fields can be had on any cold winter .

day by adding boiling water to half a
pail of alfalfa meal. The hot water
will bring out all the bright green color
and the freshness of the original plant.

The appetizing odor will make you
yourself wish you might eat it. Place
some before thefhens daily and notice

their combs grow redder ' each day.‘
”it-in the cellar

ded‘y will make ‘good returns, and " ye
1...tbinlts,..j.in-“§99¢..Far$ 6i”!
will have a-iflavor than; k

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safes? 4 4.

for table use or for hatching. 4

’, The manner of feeding meal is sim-
ple. ’ It can bemade one of the ingred-
ients of your wet or dry masnes with
perfect success. Feeding separately in
hoppers is a. very good way. This per-

mits the 'birds to .eat what they want -

when they wish it. For young stock
mixing in hoppers is best. Adding boil-
ing water to the meal alone produces
a rich, green food second to only green
growing grass. Try alfalfa for greater
profits. Many flocks are not laying be-
cause they lack what alfalfa will give
them.
New York. E. W. GAGE.

ONE HEN COSTS $2

RATION FOR
‘ A YEAR.

 

The question before all poultry rais-
ers is how to feed their chickens more
economically and'yet get satisfactory
results. In making changes in rations,
one must remember'that any quick or
marked changes Will have a bad effect
on the hen. Changes should be made
gradually.
to respond to a new method of feeding
and if this new method can be adopted
gradually no ill effects. are likely to
follow. Frequently a new ration is
criticised, when the fault is not with
the ratidn but with the feeder in mak-
ing the sudden change. The Univer-
sity of Missouri College of Agriculture
recommends corn two parts and wheat
one part for scratch food. This consti—
tutes two-thirds of the ration. A mash
consisting of equal parts by weight of
bran, shorts, corn meal and beef scrap
is recommended for the rest of the da-
tion. At present prices for corn and
wheat, the scratch food mentioned will
cost $4 a. hundred. At. present prices
for mash constituents—bran at $1.60,
shorts $2.60, corn meal $4, and beef
scrap $4—the mash, would cost $3 a
hundred.

If a hen requires seventy pounds of
feed per year, fifty pounds of scratch
food and twenty pounds of mash, the
cost for grain and mash would be $2
and $0.60 respectively. Thus the total
food cost per hen per year'would be
$2.60.

By introducing oats into the ration,
the cost can be reduced. With cats at
two cents a pound, a scratch food of
one-half cats can be made which will
cost three cents a pound. This will re-
duce the cost of the scratch food fifty
cents a year for each hen. The mash
can also be reduced in cost by substi-
tuting middlings for the corn- meal. It
is doubtful whether wheat should be
used for poultry feeding. The by-pro-

ducts, such as bran, and shorts, are.

still available at comparaitvely reason-
able prices. By eareful figuring, the
cost of feed per hen need not be over
$2 'a. year. If a hen lays ten dozen eggs
the feed cost of a dozen eggs need not
be'more than twenty cents.

Sprouted cats have proven an excel-
lent feed for chickens during winter
months. The oats may be sprouted in
a regular sprouter, in trays by the
kitchen stove, in the cellar, on dirt or
on burlap. The trick is to soak the
cats ‘With water, spread them-out in
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The first of October should find, ev-

ery farm flock properly housed" for the
winter; but, although there has been
progress among farmers in the poultry
line as well as in others, there are
still too many who seem to think that
chickens‘are not of sufficient import-
ance to receive the care that is given

other stock, and these give little at- ‘

tention to the housing problem. The
old notion that any place will do for
the hens to roost still lives, and so it
is that we find chickens roosting in
tumble—down or draughty sheds, or in
the trees where prowling animals may
help themselves, while cold and dis-
ease further decimate the flock.

Poor Houses Expensive.

The number of hens lost from these
causes can scarcely be estimated with
accuracy, but no doubt it runs far up
into the tens of thousands. But there
is a still greater loss. These hens that
are poorly housed will not lay during
the winter, even though they are well
fed, and the expense of carrying them
from October to the first of March
about eat up the year’s profits. On the
other hand, hens properly housed and
cared for will yield a profit through
the winter, even with the present high
price of feed.

Sometimes there is little severe
weather before December,,but there
are apt to be many raw, windy days in
October and November that are likely
to cause colds or some more serious
trouble among hens that are poorly
housed. For this and other reasons
the poultry houses should be put in
shape for winter just as early as pos-
sible. If it is necessary to build new
houses they should be planned for
utility and convenience, not for show.
Efficiency is just as necessary as in
any other department of farming if a
fair profit is to be made. Houses with
fancy cupolas and other ornamentation
may suit the fancy of the wealthy man
who has a few fowls for pleasure, but
the man who is in the business for
profit needs plain, well built houses.

I Essentials of a Good House.

The type of house to be used mat-
ters little as long as there is freedom
from drafts, plenty of fresh air and a
reasonable amount of light. In the
poultry press there is much discussion
of this and that type untilthe average
reader becomes hopelessly confused.
But a close examination of the several
types will show that in all essential
particulars they are quite similar. In
any event the small poultry raiser will
continue to use the buildings already
on hand. It is pretty well established
that some form of open-front house
meets the requirements most fully ev-
en in a cold climate. With three sides
closed tightly and" the fourth partly
open there is a free circulation of air
in the house, but. no drafts. For se-
vere weather a muslin curtain dropped
over the opening keeps out consider-
able cold but still admits fresh air. An
additional curtain in front of the roosts
will keep the fowls sufficiently warm
even in zero weather.

Let Hens Have Freedom.

We have found it best not to confine
the hens too closely to the houses in
winter. They like to get out on the
sunny side of a building and scratch or
sun themselves. For stormy days or
when there is much snow on the
ground we have a large open shed with
the ground covered a foot deep with
straw. Here the hens can scratch or
wallow in the dust baths provided for
them. Only in the most severe weath-
er do we find it necessary to keep them
in the houses all day.

The sooner the farmer abandons hap-
hazard methods of raising poultry and
puts it on the same basis as his other

' live stock the bigger profit he will'

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_ ’ _ ow choice boll calves of this kind. p y generations 0' high
won more prizes at the State Fairs this your than any other.

Boar Pigs and Yearling: For Sale.

'BROOKWATER FARM
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SWIGARTDALE

BERKSHIBES

We are offering afew very desirable
gilts and boar (pigs. All will be of cod
size for bree ingland service by ec-
ember lst. Thong we have not pushed
them they have made about 1 lb. per
day for their age.

We do not claim to have the cheapest
in rice but we do claim to have the
hes in quality and type.

SWIGABTBALE FARM

PETERSBURG, MICHIGAN

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Duroc Jersey Swme
of the heavy honed tpye Spring Boar-c and Gilts also a

good young Percheron tallion for sale.
M. A. BRAY ESTATE. - - kemoa. Mich.

llllllilC BOARS AND SilWS

‘Ihe biggest. longest. rowthlest Ind best bred of
Bfiéng boars. 8 astral] boars by Panama Spec a)

This 131 's boats :20. air. not akin S40
NEWTOltl BABNHAB‘l‘.

St. Johns: Mich.
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nings Pilot Wonder No.73373. Two outstandi‘ndliiiglrls
of big type and excellent quality. All selectgg large
tyre smooth sows. Thrifty, smooth. largo boned spring
gt ts from those herd hours and choice sows at very
reasonable prices. The Jennings Farms.Bailey,Micli.

 

U890 Roars. First. Second and Third Prize Boar‘s
at, btate Fair 1917 get in your order for a herd boat

at once. Plum Creek Stock Farm.
1“. J. DRODT. Prop. ILL Monroe. Mlchlknn
Spring Gilts and fall boar i not th fi -
DUroc est breeding. r pP‘..g(‘/ALKQIN§
Longacres. R. 6. Ann Arbor. Mich. '

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Dam by Orion Oh. King Jr. rion Dd
IING. Lake. Mich.

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FOR SALE

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Registered by Edward I“. No. 7619303111.:
W. E. SCRIPPS.

Orion, Mich.

 

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sex. I. D. HEYDENBER . Wayland. Mich.

 

DUROOS of good: quality and breeding; yearling and '
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sale. 11. d’. EES ER. CassoEoliSMifliP 0mm”:

 

HESTER Whites and O. I. O. for sale. Bl t
8 ring Bonn and gilts from prize winninggstiig:
for ('1 teen years. Also some fall igs.

A. B. Combs it, Son. 11-3. Allen. Michigan.

 

Chesters {Azagsllts all sold. Special prices on
boars. cl 6 th
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‘ wthy stoc term 5‘ mile west of do ct.
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Raise Chester Whites
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Big Type 0. I. (’8, & Chester Whites

Special prices on all boar pigs for the next 30 days.
Will selhsows only when bought in pairs. hose
pigs are sired by our three Champion boars that have
not an equal in the country. School master Kine of
the breed Crandolls wonder & Callawny Edd both
chammonmAll stock shipped on approval. satisfaction
guaranteed. Get our catalogue

Harry '1‘. Crandell it Son. Cass City. Mich.
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BOARS
0.1. c. & cnrsm Wlll‘ll SWINE.

Big growthy fellows.
The kind that pleases.
hip C. 0. D. and pay express.
Strictly biz type with quality. H ve a choice lot of
boars fit for early full service. '1‘ ese boars will
sold worth the money. Also have some fine slits. I

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. . - winning stock. All stack guaranteed. o ,4
long bodied and BifiBoned type. Write for hot but! ,
low prices. A. . HATT. Grass La 0. lcli_ '

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in economy of operation. Thousands of
Maxwell owners run their cars at a cost

of $6 to $8 a month.
This year we have lengthened the

wheelbase six inches and have put in

6-inch instead of 3-inch steel frames.
But we have not added one pound to

the lightweight Maxwell.
And, having perfected the Maxwell

mechanically, we are now enhancing and

perfecting its beauty.
This year the windshield is sloped, the

body lines more graceful, and the body

roomier.

The Maxwell has the same style today
as the up-to-date models of the highest

priced car‘s.

        

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Visit your nearest dealer.
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proof. The mighty axles laugh at strains

transmission is
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All You Can Ask in a Car

Now—let’s sit down and talk about
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You are exacting in your ideas about"
motor cars. You demand mechanical”

efliciency, economy, and a smart appear-

ance.

Mechanical efficiency! We are pleased
and proud to discuss Maxwell efficiency

with you.
Four years of concentration by one

The Maxwell builders have only one
chassis model, which is never fundamen-
of the largest organizations in the motor

The lamps shine cheerily.

and serene in the home.
The engine is without a
peer. The smooth clutch

' That is why we affirm that the Max-
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