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The Tenth International Live Stock
Exposition has gone down into history as
the greatest live stock show yet 'held in
America, if not in the world. This show
is well named. Its international charac-
ter, which is represented by the grouping
of the flags of the nations in decorative
effect at- the top of the great amphithe-
atre, is realized in the show itself. Typi-
cally American in many respects, yet the
entries at this great show represent not

only the best that are producedin Arn-
erica, but many of the best individuals
from the best herds, flocks and stables
of Europe. No other show in the world is
so truly representative of the best" that
the world produces in every department.
The great Smit'hfleld Shdw is essentially
English, while the great shows of conti-
nental Europe are also strictly of a sec-
tional nature. There is but one Interna-
tional Live Stock Show in fact as well
as in name. '

'Th'e patrons of the International have
become so accustomed to the uniform ex-
cellence of the exhibits which they see
there from year to year that they are oft-
times heard to question the superiority
of a present event over those (Which have
preceded it. However, after they had

taken in this show in its entirely, there‘

were few if any of its patrons 'who were
not ready to concede that, taken as a
whole. this Tenth International was su-
perior to any or all of. its predecessors.

.In the individual fat ’cla’sses, there were
more “unfavorable comparisons than in
any’ other department, and yet this was
an exceptionally strong show,
superior, as a whole, to those which have
preceded it.

The Grand Champion Steer.

The grand champion fat Steer of the
show was again an Angus, King Ells-
worth 102185, exhibited by the Kansas
State Agricultural College. This steer
is a magnificent pure fired two- wear-did
Angus weighing 1,750 lbs. He was pur-
chased last year by the Kansas College,
after the international, where he had
won1s’econd prize as a yearling, and has
since been fed principally on corn and-

‘grade steer owned by Mart McCoy.

probably ,

 

The Grand Champion Carlot of Steers at The

{alfalfa the great meat producing combi-'

nation of Kansas, with a little bran by
way of variety. Great interest was cen-
tered about the judging of the two-year-
old class in which King Ellsworth won
the champion-ship with a two-year-o'ld
of
Ohio, a'clcse second. In the final race,
King Ellsworth competed wit-h the cham-
pion-s in the younger classes, the champion

 

 

 

DETROIT MICH.’. SATURDAY, DEC. ll. l909.

Symboleer will be found on page 493 of

this issue.
The Grand Champion Carlot.

While each of the three leading beef
breeds of cattle have heretofore had their
inning for championship honors in the
single fat steer class, the Shorthorn
breed this year scored a victory for the
first time in the carlot class. The grand
champion carlot this year was a load of

 

 

Kin; EllsviIorth, the Grand Champion Fat Steer at The international.

yearling being Symboleer, also an Angus
owned by the—Kansas College, 'while the
champion in the calf class was Deserter,

‘a'g'rade Hereford Shown by the Univer-

sity of Missouri. Of these three in the
final contest for the high honors of the
show, King Ellsworth rwas declared the
grand champion, and Symboleer the re-

serve champion, a grand victory for the

Kansas College and a triumph for scien-
tific" feeding. The first page illustration
shows King Ellsworth, while a cut of

International.

These Shorthorn

choice Shorthorn yearlings, exhibited by
Keays & Og‘lesby, of Illinois. This load
of cattle Were of excellent type and al-
most ideal finish. The accompanying cut
is from a photograph of the grand cham-
pion load, which were universally admired
by the visiting thousands at the Interna-
tional. This load of cattle won a total of
$1,925 in prize money, including the $1,000
special premium offered by the American
Shorthorn Breeders’ Association to the
winner of the grand championship of the

Yearlings are the First of this

.show by a load of Shorthorns.

75 CENTS A YEAR
31.50 THREE YEARS

They also
won a $500 prize in the Shorthorn specials
for champions-hip by ages. These prizes
have been offered for several years past
as an incentive to Shorthorn breeders and
feeders to capture the International cham-
pionship and thus put this breed in the
same winning class with the Angus and
Herefords, which have heretofore had a
monopoly on this coveted prize.

It will 'be a matter of interest to the
reader to know how these cattle were
bred and ‘fed. They were bred by the
exhibitors, being grade Shorthorns, of
about the same age, or around 18 months
old, and averaging nearly 1,300 pounds in
weight. They were fed sliced corn, oats,
alfalfa and clover and timothy hay and
during the past three months, were given
about one pound each of oil cake per
day, and for the last three weeks of the
feeding period they were given one pound
each of brown sugar per day. Cottonseed
meal was also a factor in the ration dur—
ing the last three months of the feeding
period. Naturally the Shorthorn breeders
as a class were elated over this victory.
Many times the breed has come close to
getting this high honor, but each time
until the present year has fallen 21 little
short of the mark. The other competitors
for grand championship honors were the
two~year-old champion Angus steers ex-
hibited by Escher and Ryan, and the
three-year-old Herefords shown by Fow-
ler and Tod.

The Shorthorn honors did not stop here
this year. The grand championship in the
feeder class was won by a load of Short-
horn calves exhibited by A. A. Neil, of
Colorado. The breed was represented by
many fine exhibits. The load exhibited
by Col. Waters, which were second in the
Shorthorn yearling class, being judged
by Col. Waters, which was second in the
quality to the grand championship load,
while in the short-fed classes, this breed
also won high honors.

In this department of the show, many
old exhibitors and prize winners were well
up to the top with exhibits which were
a credit to their feeders, and which made
the competition most keen.

(Continued on page 492).

      

 

Popular Breed to Win the Honor.


 

 

 

490 12).

FARM NOTES. " apples as a,_feed when fed at
of about 15 lbs. per day and,
of tests covering a period of.
it proved equal in value to
corn silage. No care was required in
ensiloing the material, its fineness and
weight making the exclusion of the air
easy. This would seem to be sufficient
evidence of~its value to make it profitable
to utilize it for this purpose the same
as beet tops are now commonly utilized
where sugar beets are grown, since its
fertilizing value would probably be greater
were it utilized as a stock feed in con-
nection with other foods, than where ap~
plied to the land in the raw state.

superior to
at_the rate
in a. series
four years,

 

A Summer Crop for the Wheat Field.

I 'have a field of ten acres. where I had
potatoes this year, that I would like to
sow to wheat next year. Will it help the
wheat any to sow rye in the spring and
turn it under when it is 10 inches high?
Please tell me where I can get good
alfalfa seed for next spring.

Wexford Co. C. O. JOHNSON.

Some other crop might better be sub-
stituted for rye in this case. Rye sown
in the spring will not make a very vigor-
ous growth, and will not add anywhere
near the vegetable matter to the soil that
some other crops would, besides. it will
add nothing in the .way of plant food to
the soil which it does not already contain,
and it would yield no revenue to pay for
the labor involved in growing it. It
would be a much better plan to sow this
field to common Canadian peas early in
the spring. As these peas begin to fill.
the hogs could be turned into them. and
could get valuable feed from them for
some weeks or, if preferred, the crop
could ‘be harvested for hay, in which case
it would be better to sow oats with the
peas. This latter plan, however, would
not add as much humus to the soil. as
tho the crop were turned down when well
toward maturity, but even then the crop
would probably be of greater benefit to
the land than the rye if sown as suggest-
ed in this inquiry, for the reason that
peas are leguminous plants having the
power of adding nitrogen to the soil thru
bacteria, which work in their roots much
the same as is the case with clover. Then
by adding the mineral elements of fer-
tility in the form of the moderate appli—
cations of commercial fertilizer, a good
crop 'of wheat should be secured with a
good chance of getting a successful clover
seeding rwithout.

Good alfalfa seed can be secured from
the seedsmen advertising in the Michigan
Farmer. Only northern grown seed should
be used, and care should be taken that
it is pure and free from the seeds of nox-
ious weeds, especially of doddcr.

Seeding to CIOver Without a Nurse Crop.

 

SOME SEED POTATO EXPERIMENTS.

 

This year I have carried on some ex-
periments to determine the best method
of cutting potatoes for seed. ‘

If one were to ask a dozen potato
growers what the best method of cutting
potatoes for seed is, without a doubt one
would get a dozen different answers.

In the past I have been told to cut
potato seed to one eye, to two eyes, to
three eyes, to cut the seed ends off and
not use for seed. to pay more attention
to the size of the piece of seed than
to the number of eyes, and so on, almost
every man talked with having a different
method and a theory to support the same.

Never until this year have I tried to
discover for myself the best way in which
to cut the seed potatoes. This year I
had an experimental plot on one end of
my potato field. Aside from being plant-
ed by hand this plot was handled the.
same as the rest of the field which was
planted with a horse planter. There
were in this plat 12 rows of 30 hills each.
The first nine rows were divided into
three sections of ten hills each.

The first row was planted to whole
sccil selected from productive hills the
year before: the first section to large
seed, the second section to medium sized
whole seed and the third section to small
whole seed.

The second row was planted to whole

I 'wish to turn under some rye next ,
spring and seed with clover. I’Vhen is seed from unproductive hills of the year
the best time to sow to clover? VVOuld before. in the same order as row No. 1.

you give it a nurse crop and if so. what
kind? Or would you sow in ryc. drag or
barrow it in, and leave the rye as nurse
crop?

Oceana Co. Svasomnnn.

Vthre success in getting a seeding of
clover is more to be desired than the im-
mediate revenuc from the land. it is un-
dou'btcdly the better ‘plan to seed it on
well fitted ground without a nurse crop.

The third row was planted to whole seed
saved from the medium hills of the year
before in the same order as No. 1. The
next three rows were planted just the
some as the first three rows only the
seed was all cut to one eye.

The next three rows were planted the
same as the first and second three rows
only the seed was cut to two eyes.

In the case cited in this illflUiI‘I'. the The next two rows were devoted to
chance for success 'with the seeding would tcsting 11],. good cnd theory. The first
Probably b9 130““? if the We WOW plowed hill was from the seed end. then four
under. a good seed bed prepared. film the bills from the main part of the same

clover sown alone in the spring. How-
ever, if the land is in fair condition. the
seed may be profitably harrowcd in. as
early in the spring as the ground becomes
well settled, and the rye pastured for a
few weeks, then clipped back with a
mower, so as to give the seeding a good
chance to develop and prevent the rye
from taking from it the moisture that it
needs, and which is often the cause of the
loss of a seeding in a small grain crop.
The latter plan would involve much less
labor and the rye would afford consider-
able good pasture without injuring the
‘ seeding to any extent. but should be cut
back as soon as It begins to send up seed
stalks for the good of the seeding. The
writer has seen many good stands of
clover secured in this way on land that
had become so deficient in humus and
depleted in fertility that it was difficult
to get a good stand of clover whcn seeded
in the usual 'way. If the rye were plowed
down as first suggested. some humus
would be added to the soil. but it would
be necessary to work it considerably to
prepare a good seed bed on this fresh
plowed ground, as it Should be thoroly
packed down and made fine on the sur-
face.

tuber and so on thru the rows.

The last row was devoted to testing the
value of pieces with one eye as compared
to pieces with two eyes. The first three
hills on the row were from seed cut to
one eye; the next three hills were from
seed from the same tuber as the first
three hills but cut to two eyes.

It will be readily seen that there were
several experiments all in one. But as it
would be tiresome to the average person
to go into details regarding just how
each lot behaved, I will set down a few
notes that were drawn as conclusions
from the experiments.

In every case the whole see-d seemed to
produce earlier potatoes. more in number

the potatoes but the more small ones.

One eye sced produced the largest and
latest potatoes but less in number.

As a whole, a large piece with two eyes
gave the best results, that is. large tubers
cut to two eyes. In every case seed ends
gave just as good results as pieces from
the other parts of the same potato.

There is no doubt in my mind but that
the season has a lot to do with what sys~
tem of cutting see-d does best. If it is
dry at planting. other things being equal,
the large piece of seed is more apt to
start than the small one.

If it is dry after the vines have set
tubers the hill grown from the small piece
of seed has a chance of doing better than
the large whole potato. as not having set
so many tubers it is apt to produce more
fair sized ones.

Thus in this it is as in many other
things, it is best to “keep in the middle
of the road" by cutting to two eyes on a
good large piece.

From the results of this year’s experi-
ments it looks as tho we need to pay
more attention to the selection of our seed
potatoes than to the. system of cutting
them. Small potatoes from productive
hills gave much better results than large
tubers from unproductive hills. Thus.
just selecting out nice large potatoes for
seed is not to be relied upon as one is

Apple Pomace as a Fertilizer.
Is apple pomace of any value as a fer—
ti'lizer for sandy soil?
Muskegon C0. Sunscnmrm,

W'hen apple pomace has fermented it
docs not seem to give good results as a
'i'crtilizer, probably because it develops so
much acid that it makes conditions un-
favorable for the action of soil bacteria.
which are so essential to the fertility of
the land. Possibly if lime were used in
connection with it. or applied to the soil
separately, this difficulty might be over-
come. The writer has seen- it applied
heavily to ‘land without apparent good
results, 'but has never seen it tried in
conjunction with lime.

If apple pomaee is available directly
from the Icider-mill, it can probably be
utilized to better advantage if stored in
a silo and used as a feed for cattle. At
”the Vermont station. it was found to be

 

_THE MICHIGAN FARMER-

but smaller; the larger the seed the earlier.

 

just as apt to get a large tuber from an
unproductive,-hili as from a productive
hill.» Therefore, to get the best results
we must select seed from the most pro-
ductive, healthy and vigorous ‘hills. In
order to do this it is necessary that each
hill be dug by itself.

Altho this will make a little extra work‘
I believe it will pay to dig enough for
seed this way.

Eaton Co. W. C. E.

 

FERTILIZER AND SEED 'SELECTION
DIDN'T PAY.

I wish to give the readers of the Mich-
igan Farmer some of my potato expe-
rience the past season which they may
take for What it is worth.

I planted 1% acres of sandy upland,
.Iune 10. On a half acre of this I spread
334 lbs. of 1:824 fertilizer, or at the rate
of 668 lbs. per acre. This was well harl
rowed in before planting. The half acre
fertilized yielded 761/2 bu., or at the rate
of 153 bu. per acre. The 974 acres un-
fertilized yielded 1291/2 bu., or at the rate
of 173 bu. per acre. I have no reason to
believe the unfertilized portion was na-
turally any better than the portion fer-
tilized. “'here does the pay for the fer-
tilizer come in?

Our agricultural writers tell us to save
the best hills for seed. This is not a difii-
cult thing to do when one digs by hand.
Last year I saved a number of the best
hills. those having 10 or 12 medium sized
potatoes, I put these in a sack and
kept them down cellar until planting
time when they were apparently all right.
I planted four rows with this selected
seed.

As soon as the plants were well up I
could easily distinguish those four rows.
not from the superior size and vigor of
the plants, but from the large number
of vacant htlls and small spindling plants.
At digging time the result was as fol.
lows: Four rows from selected seed. 7%
bu.; four rows next north, 9 bu.; four
rows next sout‘h, 91,4 bu.

I did not select any seed this fall.

Livingston Co. H. M. WELLS.

(This experience is certainly not in
line with that of many successful grow-
ers in this state, either as to the use of
fertilizers or the selection of seed. It is
never safe to rely on the results of a
single experiment as conclusive. since
there may be conditions contributary to
the results secured which are not noted

by the experimenter andehich, if noted,
are not accorded the importance which
they merit. We believe that Mr. “'clls
should continue his experiments along

this line, and would be glad to have the
experience of other growers on the sumo
plume of potato growing—Ed.)
FREE BOOK ABOUT CANCER.

The Leach Sanatorium, of Indianapolis.
Ind.. has published a book on cancer which
gives interesting facts about the cause of
cancer; tells what to do in case of pain,
bleeding, odor, etc.. instructs in the care
of the patient, and is, in fact, a valuable
guide in the management of any case.
The book is sent free to those interested
who write for it, mentioning this paper.

 

New Rays of Light.

One of the most wonderful electrical
appliances is the X-ray which may be
used both in the treatment of various dis-
eases and in the diagnosis of many ob-
scure conditions. With its aid the inte-
rior of the human body is no longer the
sealed book it “has been heretofore. Ab-
normal states of the bones, gall stones,
stone in the bladder or in the kidneys
are shown plainly by what are known as
X-ray photographs. Internal tumors, and
the enlargement of the deep-seated or-
gans, are also discovered by this means
and in the diagnosis of tuberculosis of
the lungs this agent has proven a most
valuaible aid. When applied to some of
the less fatal chronic ailments of germ
origin it has proven very effective as a
curative agent. Another interesting pro-
ceeding is the violet—ray treatment pro-
duced by concentrating the violet or
chemical rays from an are light with a
specially prepared carbon upon any por-
tion of the body that may be the seat of
pain. Sufferers from neuralgia, sciatica.
rheumatism. strains. sprains, also from
those obscure exhausting pains (the ori—

gin of which cannot at times be accu—
rately determined) frequently find im-

mediate relief from a single treatment
and usually with a little persistence in
the use of this aid. comfortable health or
perfect recovery is obtained. The incan—
descem light bath, consisting of a cabi-
net in which the patient is bathed in the
combined rays of many electric light
globes. has produced really wonderful re-
sults in diabetes. sciatica, rheumatism.
obesity. anaemia, and some forms of kid-
ney and heart trouble. It has also proven
valuable in chronic bronchitis, bronchial
asthama and various skin diseases. As
a general hygienic measure its efficiency

can scarcely 'be over-estimated. Those
who rhave been patients at Dr. Pierce’s
Invalids‘ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.. highly

commend this wonderfully equipped Sani-
tarium. where the above mentioned elec—
tric machines, high-frequency current

  
 
  

DEC. 11,, 1909.

and other most modern and up-to—date
apparatus are used for the cure of
chronic diseases. The treatment of the
chronic diseases that are peculiar to
women have for many years been a large
factor in the cures affected at the In-
valids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute. In
erecting the Invadlls' Hotel, Dr. R. V.
Pierce's idea was to make it a genuine
home, not a hospital. Such cases as rup-
ture, hydrocele and varicocele are usu-l
ally cured in ten days, and the patient
is able to return home. The terms are
moderate and the rates at the Invalids’
Hotel comparatively low. In the exami-
nation and treatment of patients the
practice ls divided into specialties. Each
member of the Faculty, altho educated
to practice in all departments of medicine
and surgery, is here assigned to a special
department only, to which he devotes
his entire time. study and attention. Not
only is superior skill thus attained, but
also rapidity and accuracy in the diagno-
sis of disease. Specialists connected with
this Institute at Buffalo, are enabled to
accurately determine the nature of many
chronic diseases without seeing and per-
sonally examining their patients. This
method of treating patients at a distance,
by mail, has been so successful that there
is scarcely a city or a village in the Uni-
ted States that is not represented by one
or more cases upon the records of prac-
tice at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute. Such rare cases as cannot be
treated in this way, which require surgi-
cal operations or careful after-treatment,
or electrical therapeutics, receive the ser—
vices of the most skillful specialists at
the Institution. In medicine there has
been rapid progress during recent years,
Dr. Pierce has kept up with the times by
continually improving his laboratory by
skilled chemists. and exercising care that
the ingredients entering into his well-
known medicines, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription as well as the “Golden Medi-
cal Discovery,” are extracted from the
best variety of native medicinal roots.
These are gathered with great care'and
at the proper season of the year, so that
their medicinal properties may be most
reliable. These extracts are then made
soluble in pure triple refined glycerine
and bottled in a hygienic and scientific
manner. Thus the World's Dispensary
as established by Dr, Pierce is supplied
with every known apparatus and means
of cure. for its aim is to avoid surgical
operations whenever possible. Great care
is exercised not to over encourage those
who consult the specialists of this institu-
tion that no false hopes may be raised.
Many thousands are annually treated both
thru correspondence and at this Insti-
tute. Every one consulting by letter or
in person receives the most careful and
considerate attention. All communica-
tions are treated as strictly confidential.
No charge whatever is made for consul-
tation. Vt'rite the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Dr. R. V. Pierce, Pres-
ident, at Buffalo. N. Y.

 

M usic and Christmas.

would Christmas be without
music? How much added joy and glad—
ncss and good cheer it brings! How
much happier we are for it!. We can all
of us give voice to our happiness and
gladneSs at Christmas time. If we can-
not sing or play, we can express our feel-
ings by bright face and joyous conversa-
tion. But better yet, we can have our
carol or hymn or chant or chime ex-
pressed for us thru that marvelous al-
ways-joyous instrument which reproduces
all the best in every form of music—the
talking machine. This wonderful musical
instrument (especially t-hru its highest
typewthe Victor) brings before us mighty
church choirs pouring forth their hosan—
nus; cathedral chimes pealing out their
silvery tones; carol—singers who render
the beautiful Christmas hymns with fer—
vor and joyousness; noted soloists who
sing the good old Christmas songs in all
their beauty. Our homes may be full of
music and good cheer this Christmas Day
if we let the Victor in. And our hearts
will swell withpraise and gratitude to
our Creator for the great blessings He
bestows upon us, and for His constant
care over us—His children.

‘Vhat

 

Abolishlng Worm Worries.

Medical men who have made a study
of the causes of the much-dreaded intes-
tinal diseases have reached the conclu-
sion that the majority of cases are caused
by intestinal worms. Mr. Sidney R. Feil,
has been devoting his time and money to
the study of worms upon domestic ani-
mals. especially among sheep, hogs, horses
and cattle. He has found that the severe
losses sustained by the sheep breeders are
in a great measure due to worms. This
also is true of hogs and other animals.
He claims that the dreaded disease which
since 1884 has reduced the total number
of sheep by 42,000,000, is due to stomach
and intestinal worms. In his claim Mr.
Feil is backed by some of the greatest
authorities on breeding. and stock—raising
in the United States and Canada. Mr.
S. R. Fell, has discovered a remedy. This
remedy he has very aptly named “Sal—
Vet.” and having unbounded faith in his
remedy. he offers to feed any or all of
your stock for sixty days. and if “Sal—
Vct” doesn’t do all that he claims for it,
he doesn't ask you to pay one single cent.
Mr. Feil‘s well-known integrity and knowl—
edge of animals should in itself be sufficient
guarantee for any stock-raiser. A very/
interesting book from the pen of Mr.
Fcil, which is entitled, “Let Your Animals
Doctor Themselves,” will be sent to our
readers free, and we advise them to write
a letter to the S. R. Fell Company, of
Cleveland. Ohio, asking for a copy of this
book.

LOOK AT YOUR NAME TAG.

If it reads Jan. or 1Jan.0, or ls without
date, It means your tlme Is up with the
last issue In December. In order-”to In-
sure no breaks, subscribers should renew
two weeks before time is up. = '

  

 

 

 


  

 

DEC. 11, 1909.

THE FARM MEAT BARREL.

 

It is no better business than it used to
be to sell the hogs, receive market price,
less the freight and a shipper's profit, to
be killed at some packing center and
shipped back to be sold to the producer
with all the expenses, freight, and deal-
er’s profits added. Many of the families
in Michigan buy all their pork when they
might Just as Well buy very little and
cure the pork themselves and have an
abundance of pork that is better than the
packing-house product. Good grades of
breakfast bacon, hams, shoulders, and all
parts of the pig are selling at enormous
prices at present and there is (no reason
why the farmer should pay these ad-
vanced prices. No matter how high the
price of corn and the price of hogs, it’s
cheaper to fatten and kill a few pigs for
home consumption. The price or meat
will very likely be higher 'next spring
than it is now, so those who cure the
meat at present will not be in need then.

With the present cost of an outfit for
butchering on the farm, the elimination
of the greatest excuse for the work is
accomplished. A short time ago I was in
Oklahoma where there is a law which
makes every farmer have his animals in-
spected before they are slaughtered and
pay a fee of twenty-five cents for each
animal, but that did not hinder the farm-
ers from joining together and slaughter-
ing hogs for home consumption. Where
the families were close enough together
they would take turns in killing a pig,
half or portions of the animal going to
each family. The weather in many in-
stances was the cause of this as the
winter is likely to ‘be open and the meat
would not keep long, but here there is
not much need for such divison.

Ingham Co. E. B. REID.

 

STONE OR CEMENT WALL FOR A
HOUSE.

 

I would like to know which would be
the cheaper, hauling stone 1175 miles or
building a cement 'wall for a house. I
want a'basement 20x24 ft. How much
cement would it take?

Schooleraft Co. G. H. DAVIS.

I think it would be cheaper and better
to build a cement wall than a stone wall.
The material would cost no more for the
cement wall than for the stone wall, and it
could be laid much cheaper. To build a
stone wall you would have to have a
stone mason, and pay him stone mastm
wages, while a cement wall you can build
yourself 'with common labor. All you
have to do is to make the form out of
rough boards and then fill this with the
cement, or concrete. You could use a
great many small stone in this concrete
wall, mixed with the gravel and cement.
Put in a layer of this and then put in
a layer of small stone which will sink
down into the concrete. Then cover
again with concrete, putting the small
stone all t‘hru. This makes a very strong
and durable wall. Now, in bull-ding a
concrete wall for a. basement you need
not have it richer than One part cement
to eight parts of gravel, and consequently
if you know the dimensions of the wall
that you intend to build you can easily
figure about how much Cement it will
take. It would 'be a hard matter for me
to tell you, because you do not give me
the dimensions of the wall. You might
get a load of cement and start your
wall; by that time you can tell very
closely how much you will need. I would
advise by all means a cement or concrete
wall, because it is much stronger. If I
built a stone wall, I should lay the stone
in cement. This will take a little longer
because the cement mortar is harder to
work, and stone masons don’t like to use
it, but you will 'have a wall that will
stand for all time, while a stone wall laid
in common mortar will finally crumble.

COLON C. LILLm.
POISONING GOPHERS.

In reply to J. A. T., of Kalamazoo Co.,
about killing gophers, allow me to offer
my method.

Prepare a small amount of poisoned
corn. Carry the corn in a large-mouthed
bottle or a small tin box, with you in the
spring while working in the corn field.
Whenever you see a gopher hole put three
or four kernels of the corn in the hole
and then close the hole. While plowing,
if you see a hole in the bottom of the
furrow don’t neglect it ‘but drop in a hill
of your poisoned corn and plow the next
furrow over it.

No birds will be harmed if all the holes
are closed as soon as the corn is placed
in them, and the gophers will surely find
it. They will then die in their holes and
not be found and eaten by the barn cat.

Allegan Co. D. C. D. WHITCOMB.

       
 
   
 

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LIVE srogg

(Continued from first page).

Crabb, of Illinois, won the championship
with a load of AngUS yearlings, also win-
ners of the first prize in the yearling
class. In the judging of this class quality
counted for 60 points, while gain in weight
at least cost, counted 40 points. L
What the Winners Brot. ‘

No little interest centered about the
sale of the prize winning cattle in the
auction ring and, while speculation was
rife as to the price which should be
reached, the opinion was general that the
average would be above all previous rec-
ords scored by show cattle in the auction
ring. King Ellsworth, the magnificent
Angus steer, grand champion of the show,
sold for $18 per hundred weight. The
grand champion carload promoted spirited
bidding and with a. starting bid of $10.00
were soon run up to $15.00 per c'wt., which
was the price at which they sold. The
next highest price was $14.95, at which
the Krambeck Angus yearlings, that were
close contenders for the championship,
were sold.

High prices were the rule and an av-
erage of $11.44 was made for 52 loads
sold. Not a bad price for a lot of nearly
800, and anything but a discouragement
for the men who are in the business of
breeding and feeding high-class beef
cattle. This average was $2.32 higher
than that made last year for 49 head of
long fed show stars, and $4.97 higher than
the average made in 1907.

The Fat Sheep and Swine.

The showing in the fat sheep classes
was good, but as usual at greater interest
was shown in the carlot exhibits than ill
the individual fat sheep. The sweepstakes
prize for the: best carioad of lambs was
again won Wan Black, of Ohio, with a
load of grade Oxford native lambs of ex-
ccllcnt quality. Practically all of the
other prizes in this department were 'won
'by different individuals than last year.
The show was very good, both in lambs
and yearlings, the quality of the exhibits
being more uniform than has been the
case at recent shows.

 

.In the fat barrow classes, the competi-
tion was unusually keen, the fight for
championship honors being between the
Poland ClllllaS, Berkshires and Durocs,
the champion Poland China. being exhibit-
ed by John Francis & Sons, of Illinois,
while the championship winners in both
the other brccds mentioned were shown
by the Iowa State Collage. '

After careful delibcl'zltion the judge
awarded the grand championship to the
Polnndi‘hina. This was not a serious
disappointment to the Berkshire breeders.
however, for the reason that the grand
championship for pen of barrows was
awarded to the magnificent animals en-
tered by the Iowa College. The Berk-
shire breed scored another Victory in the
award of the grand championship in the
carloi class, which 'was won by Reeves &
Keown, of Illinois. on u magnificent load
of Berkshires averaging 395 lbs. in weight,
The carlot exhibits of swine were of very
uniform quality and in the judgment of
the writer were superior in quality to
those seen at the International in previous
years, altho more entries have been shown
at some of the prcvious events. The 15
carlot exhibits made an average of $8.60.
The Durocs, Chester “'hiies and Hamp-
shires being the three other breeds rep-
resented. The grand champion carlot of
Berkshires sold at an own 359 per owt.

The Breeding Classes.

While this department of the Interna-
tional has been strong in previous years,
it .was, taken as a whole, conceded to be
better this year than ever before. The
exhibits in every class in this dcpartmcnt
were both numerous and of exceedingly
good quality. Row after row of magnifi-
cent Shorthorns, Hercfords and Angus or

the c‘hoiceSi quality. from which the picln.

ing of winners was no small task, Were
paraded before the judges and delighted
the spectators, while the showing of Polled
Durhams and Red Polls was larger than
usual. It would be impossible to describe
in dctail the features of this show. It
should be seen to be appreciated. nor can
we find space for all of the awards in
these different classes any more than in
the fat classes. A summary of the cham-
pionships will, however, be given in this
report. _

The show of breeding sheep was said
by many competent judges to be the best
ever seen in this country. The breeds

 

In the short-fed cattle class, J. W.

were well represented with choice animals
in the pink of condition, and the oppotu-
nity to study them was improved by very
many patrons and admirers of the several
breeds. Only the championship awards
will be noted, as above.

The reinstatement of the classes for
breeding szne made a. great addition to
the show, and the department was a pop-
ular section of the exhibits. The cham-
pionships in this department of the show
will be noted with the others mentioned,
in our next issue, the awards not all be-
ing available at this writing.

The Horse Show.

The show of draft horses. at the In-
icrnatioual was large, with a total of
nearly 700 entries. The showing in the
aged classes was fully up to the high
standard set at the previous big shows of
this country while the clcsses for young
animals were said by competent judges
to be filled with the best entries ever
seen at any show in America. Particu~
larly in the Percheron two—year-old class
was this true, the showing of Percherons
of this age, including the cream of the
1909 importations, selected from among
the best to be found in France, many of
them having demonstrated their quality
as prize winners in European‘shows.

The popularity of this feature of the
International was attested by the fact
that the portion of the amphitheatre ad-
jacent to the horse judging ring was gen-
erally well filled during the entire judg-
mg proram. The stables were also
thronged with visitors who admired the
long rows of superb draft animals in this
section of the exhibit.

The Evening Program.

As usual, the evening program was a
most popular feature of the International
each day, and the great amphitheatre
was filled to its capacity, not only the
seats being filled. but many hundreds
standing about the ring who were not
fortunate enough to secure seats. These
programs consisted in parades of differ-
ent breeds of cattle and horses, the judg-
ing of three and six horse teams of draft
horses in harness and a spectacular ex-
hibition representing a tournament of
mounted knights. who charged around
the ring with their steeds at a. fast gal-
lop, catching small rings upon their
spears from pedestals conveniently placed.
But of the two hours of high-class enter-
tainment afforded by these evening pro-
grams, none could be more inspiring to
the lover of good stock than the parades
of prize winning animals, including half
a hundred or more of each breed, and all
of such uniform cxccllence that it was
easy for the spectator to see that the
judges had no Simple task in picking the
winners in the different breeds. It is
impossible in a general description to do
justice to a show of this kind. Only
those who attended it can appreciate
the lessons which it holds for the live
stock breeders cr feeders, some few of
which, however, we hope to impress upon
the readers from the studies and com-
parisons afforded by this event, some of
which will be drawn upon in future
issues. ‘

 

“'e presume that every reader of this
paper who is interested in trapping and
hunting or has hides. furs, wool, etc., to
market, has seen and is familiar with the
advertisement of Messrs. Berman Bros.,
Minneapolis, Minn, pioneer dealers in
hides, furs. pelts and wool in that city.
Barman Bros. aim by their fair and sat-
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many new customers this season. Thev
are particularly anxious to have t'hose
who have furs and pelts to sell to write
tin-m for quotations, information in regard
to shipping. ctc.

Moving Pictures Free to Stock Owners.

Those who did not observe the liberal
offer announced in the last issue by Mr.
M. TV. Savage, owner of International
Stock Food Farm, to send free a mile
of thrilling race pictures, should refer
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These great race pictures, include 2.400
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The Pig’s Ration. .

I have ’19 igs six weeks old. What
proportion ofp corn, oats and middlings
should be fed to keep them growing. or
is there a better ration for growing pigs?
How much should be fed the 19? ‘How
old- sho ld pigs be before weaning? Any
infer-ma ion'regarding the above will be
greatly appreciated. The article in the
issue of the 6th inst. on “Supplemental
Feeds In Pork Production" is a mighty
good piece of business. Let us have some

more along that line.‘
Hillsdale Co. E. D. Moons.
There is no better feed for small pigs,

six weeks of°age, than middlings. For the
reason that middlings is almosta per-
fectly balanced ration and ls also a pal-
atable and healthful feed, consequently
the grain ration fed to the young pigs of
this age may be largely composed of
middlings to good advantage. A little
ground oats with the hulls sifted out will
also make a valuable addition to the feed
for the young pigs.

Where skimmed milk is available it
should, of course, form a part of the ra-
tion and with it a little corn meal can
be used to good advantage. Experiment
has shown that these two feeds give the
best results when combined at the rate
of one to three pounds of skimmed milk to
one pound of corn meal, the available
supply of skimmed milk being largely a
determining factor as to the quantity or
proportion used. If these young pigs have
learned to eat from the trof with their
darn, it is an excellent plan to provide
a trof in a separate pen or enclosure with
a creep which will permit them to pass
thru, but keep the sow out. Then they
may be fed a. quantity suitable to their
needs in this enclosure, which will cause

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germ of the kernel, in its relation to the
starchy matter surrounding it, it has
been possible to increase the protein con-
tent,of the grain to some degree. and
thus increase its value for feeding pur-
poses.

In the days when corn meal was used
more extensively as a foodstuff than it is
at the present time, white corn was con-
sidered superior to yellow corn, as it was
deemed to make a better meal for house-
hold u-se. The general prejudice in favor
of yellow corn, which exists at the pres-
ent time, is no doubt due to its richer
appearance and possibly, also, to the fact
that more good varieties of yellow corn
have been developed in our section, and
that the product for this reason averages
sounder and of better market quality, but
the chemist does not bear out this as-
sumption in his analyses. It is true that
analyses differ with different samples of
corn, but the difference is due to other
conditions rather than to color.

Silage vs. Shock Corn.

Please tell me which is the most profit-
able for steers, hogs and sheep, corn put
in‘ silo and fed to them, or corn drawn
from the field unhusked, and fed?

Monroe Co. , ”MOSSBACK."

While silage is unquestionably a-profit-
able feed for feeding steers, as well as
for fattening lambs and breeding ewes,
yet it is not so necessary for good results
as with dairy cows, principally for the
reason that dairy cows need a succulent
ration to maintain a large flow of milk.

While fattening animals cannot be fed
a ration too succulent in character with
good results, during the early part of the
feeding period. corn silage may profitably
be made a large factor in the ration for
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after weaning. No'more should be fed
at one time than they will eat up clean,
‘but if they have plenty of exercise there
is little danger of overfeeding them on
a proper ration, fed only at regular feed-
ing times.

The age at which the pigs should be
weaned depends somewhat on circum-
stances, but they should not suffer any
serious setback if weaned at eight weeks
of age where they have been handled in
this way, altho in many cases they may
be left with the sow with advantage for
ten or twelve weeks.

Of course, it is possible to wean them
much younger, and to grow them success-
fully with the careful feeding advised, but
with pigs as with other young stock, it
is important to keep them growing rap-
idly from the start in order to reach the
best possible development at an early
age, and thus make their owner a maxi-
mum profit.

Yellow vs. White Corn.

Can you inform me thru the columns of
your paper as to the relative food values
of white and yellow dent corn? There
seems to be an opinion thru this section
that white dent does not possess as much
nourishment as the yellow kind, and an
article from you clearing up the question
would ‘be appreciated by a great many
of your readers.

Clinton Co. H. M. F.

The opinion that yellow corn possesses

a greater food value than white corn,
because of its color, is not 'based upon
f-act. Other conditions being equal, the
color of the kernel makes no difference
in the nutrients contained in corn. This
point depends upon the market condition
of the corn in a general way, and also
depends very largely upon the size of the
germ in relation to the starchy matter
surrounding it. In several experiments
where the object sought has been to in-
crease the protein content, it has been
found- that by increasing the size of the

tiiy of silage used should be reduced
and more dry feed substituted, as the ani-
mals are placed on full feed.

For breeding ewes, silage is nearly or
quite as valuable as for dairy cows, unless
some kind of roots are available to add
succulency to the ration. For hogs, silage
is not a practical feed on account of its
bulk, but for these uses for which it is
adapted, and in the proper quantity, it is
undoubtedly more profitable than any
other form in which corn may be fed,
since the entire plant is consumed, and
the added succulency of the ration brings
about a better digestion and more com-
plete assimilation of the nutrients con-
tained in the other feeds than would oth-
erwise occur, thus a comparison between
corn silage, and shock corn for fattening
animals is more difficult than for dairy
cows. Both may be used to good purpose
during the feeding period, but as above
noted, to the extent to which it can be
used properly for feeding animals, silage
is the most economical form in which
to feed corn to them, as well as to dairy
cows.

R
Absorbine Does Great WOrk.

Barney Ogan, Somerset I
date of June 23, 1909,. reporrtg"tounfi$r
Young as follows: “I have this to say
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494 (a).
LIVE STOCK NOTES..

Thepackers express displeasure because
there is such an almost unanimous move-
ment among the farmers of the corn-
growing states to hurry their partly fat-
tened. short-fed cattle to market on the
appearance of the fall storms, and they
assert that they can see nothing but high
prices for cattle all winter. This expec-
tation is based upon the promise of a
real scarcity of fat beeves, for even now
there is a remarkable lack of the choicer
class of heavy steers. which are conse-
quently commanding almost unheard of
prices in the Chicagdmarket. While in-
ferior grassy light-weight steers have
been selling at $461)?) per 100 lbs.. prime
heaVy steers have moved off briskly when
offered at $8.50@9.25. with not half enough
to meet the pressing demand. Many
farmers are disposed to stay out of feed-
ing cattle at the present time. and from
all around come reports of reduced feed-
ing operations. A recent report from
Seward county. Nebraska. states that
there are not many cattle on feed yet.
but all the big feeders have been waiting
until they could buy them cheaper. This

 

is true of many other parts of the country ‘

where beef is produced more or less ex-
tensively for the market, and this is due
in a measure to the common practice of
the packers in competing in the Chicago
and other western markets with stockmen
for the class of cattle of the heavy
feeder type. It happens constantly that
progressive stockmen make strong efforts

to secure supplies of well-bred cattle of.
strong weights for feeder purposes. only;
to be defeated in their plans by packers. -

who outbid them in the market. t‘hereby
doing much to prevent future good sup-
plies of prime heavy beef cattle. It can-
not be truthfully said that buying interest
in the feeding cattle business has been
slow of late, for a broad demand from
castern buyers has been seen. and the
territory near Chicago has afforded a
large outlet. Pennsylvania. buyers have
purchased a good many light-weight
stocker cattle, and good numbers of c'heap
stockers have been shipped to the Vir-

ginias. but most of the. strong-weight~

feeder cattle went to Illinois. lndiana and
Ohio buyers, the offerings of these being
greatly inadequate. owing to the fact that
the killers secured the greater part of
such offerings. Doubtless there will al-
ways be enough ordinary stockers offered
to insure enough beef cattle of the med-
ium class.

Hundreds of farmers who some months
ago disposed of their hogs and even sold
their brood sows wish they had the sows
back. and many regret t'hat they market-
cd immature hogs in order to avoid feed
bills and have their corn to sell at the
ruling high prices. Corn still brings high
prices. altno lchr than at: the best time
of the last crop year. but even at the
time when feed was dearest it would have
been a good business proposition for farm-
ers to feed their corn to healthy. growing
pigs. In the corn states farmers are sell-
ing their new corn to local elevators for
50 cents a bushel and upward. but corn
fed to hogs returns at least $1 a bushel.
Everywhere there is a big demand for
stock hogs, and also for brood sows, but
extremely few of either are for sale, and
when a farmer can be induced to part
with any of his holdings he is certain to
ask and get extremely high prices. as he
realizes their true value. The scarcity
of hogs sccms to extend everywhere, and
it is going to take a long time to catt‘h
up with the expanding requirements of
the country, to say nothing of the export
moVemcnt in provisions. which ‘has been
grtutly curtailed by the almost impur—
allclled high prices current for lard,
pork. bacon, hams. etc.

'l‘uking a widc survey of the present

conditions ctmtrolling the American swine
industry. a good authority points out
that whcn gent-ral conditions are normal,
a crop of hogs this year on_ly equal to
a crop which last year sumilie'd the de-
mand would bc illadcquatc. as the natural
increase in the- consumption of hog pro-
ducts. with the undisturbed industrial
conditions. l‘cqtlll‘cs at least 10 to 15 per
cent greater manufacture. Now the fact

is. that the prcscnt supply of hogs in the
country is not more than 6:? to 75 per
cent of an average for reccnt years. It
would be wcll for fnrmcrs to carefully
consider all thcsc facts and to act ac-
cordingly. Seldom in the past have prices
for hoes lit-cu so high as they are today,
and the usual big slump in values on the
opcningr of the winter packing season has

l';tilcd to put in HM appenruncc, slaught-
«'l't‘l‘b‘ c'.’c1‘_\'\yhcl‘c making a scramble to
get thcir share of the offerings. The re-

cent spread in prices in the ("hit-ago mur-
kct for hogs 'hus bccn narrow. scurccly

so cents ])(-1' 11m lbs. and thc bulk of the
hogs otTcrcd hun- sold within :1 range of
I?» ccnts. but weight is strongly favored.
and packers draw the linc against con-

sigmncnts of hogs averaging 'lesg than
100 lbs. The spring shotcs now comingr
to market. show. as a general rule. good
carc and feeding. and it looks as tho
tarmcrs hayc rcachcd the conclusion that
corn given to hogs selling in the Chicago
market at tax per 100 lbs. is profitable
business. as indccd it is.

After many efforts to export chilled
beef from Australia and New Zealand to
London in good condition. this has at last
been :tccomplis'hcd. and the consignment
sold in the London market at good prices,
This is an important cycnt. as it TflrP<
shadows cutting into the cattle and bccf
exports from the l'nitcd States and Ar—
gentina.

A raid was made on provision prices in
the Chicago market recently that resulted
in sensational declines. that in pork be-
ing much the largest. as pork was regard-
ed as much out of line with the rest of
the market. being about $1 a barrel above
a parity with ribs. In a single day it
was estimated that about 25.000 barrels
of pork were sold. Still, cheap hog pro-
ducts look a long way off. as stocks of
all lines of provisions are phenomenally
small everywhere, while domestic con-
sumption continues on an extensive scale,
despite the ruling extremely high prices.

 
    
    
  
 
   
  
   
   
  
  
 
 
    
   
 
    
  
    
   
     
   
  
  
 
  
   
 
   
   
 
   
  
  
  
    
      
 
  
    
      
     
      
  
   
  
 
  
   
  
  
  
   
   
   
     
 
 
  
  
   
   
  
    
  
   
   
 
   
     
 
  
    
  
 
   
  
   
     
  
 
  
     
 
 
  
    
  
  
   
 
  
   
         

 

 

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F. B. KENFIELD. Augusta. (Kai-memo Co.) Mich. ‘

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: . thorfigfifié’fa SHGRTHORN BUM-133313.

H 0| STE I N s S. J. BELCHER. ROLLIN. Lenawee 00.. Mich.

Buttcrboy Elle Dc [to] No. 49509 i: for gala. P SHEER
Also three extra good bull calves, 5 year as he era. ‘
8 good young cows. Must be sold before winter. . A R s o u s x u

L. |-:. CORNELL, Fayette, Ohio. ' n i... guufgfiknmnow s

—on i B u c 1 nd

HOLSTEINS yefl‘l‘lgg illull It“ :5? mam an n d
«on. I. M. SHORMAN. Fowlervlllo. Mich. . Oxford .. Down Sheep “dumb?
I cattle for sale. A. D. &J. A. DEGARMO. Muir, Mich.

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Pun Si. Lambert JERSEYS 332:3”:Sx’fe‘gfi? ”£532.

Also a few belie“. 800d notes as good as cnah- ‘

DEE-"3.1.1900:

up to.“ lbs" um: to sow... large

also. well covered. B._K£onfdeuLM tubule. (Ohio.
“GB-[Elm van Eomuor Rimbonulzi Bum
at Farmer’s P110”. Thou.

Wyckolr. Bamboulllet. U.S.A.. Orchard Lake, Mich.

20 RAMBOUILLET .RAMS

("3.) left at a bargain. J. 0,. A: Cook. Mon-ice. Mich.

Kl a h k Mich. t! é
KORE-ROI HRH. tin: :‘dgevo-yur-oldosfgpm
urea and bucks-t prices you can afford to par.

—Good one! from In men-
Shropshire Rams... 0......“ ....._"°....
eight owel. Wim- s. Meme. 3. No. I. Holly. Inch-

SHROPSHIRE YEARLING RAMS $16-

(slxteen) each. Expreu paid to quick bu at
ROBT. GROVES. (Shepherd) 8.. D. 8. Pond-c. Mlych.

SHROPSHIRES ”artw'

no to on each. c. J. 'rnomrsou, Rockford. mc'n.

SHROPSIIIRE HALL STOGK HRH.

Will make special prices for thirty don. on ewe-
from 1 to 8 your: old. all bred to Imported Cooper.
and Manaell runs to lamb in Much and April. also
on very choice owe lambs. thief: to make room for ID
impomtmn that in going to arrive this “film.

L. 8. DURHAM dc SONS. Concord. Iohllu.

HOGS.

Un celled l breed! . Sci oted
”Elissmkis boner: sows :nd glltlFCholc: full
plga. T. V. HICKS. R. No. 11. Bottle Croek.Mlch.

LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRES.

Have I an. lot of spring play. both new. The type
for profitable pork production. Vigorous and strong
and of but blood lines. Sutufactlon guaranteed.

r. A. BYWA'I'ER. Memphis. Mich.
Boars—Berkshire——Boars

Two, weighing 400 lbs. ench. one 350. good ones. too.
and Cheap. Other smaller ones. They must go at
once. Guernsey bull calves. Pokln Ducks.- end
Barred Rock cockerels. EUPP FARM. Bir-
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BERKS"! RES F... pinif’5mne‘éflf'i. $3.33....‘012‘!
M. D. a G. B. Johnson. B. No. 8. Plymouth. Mlch.

BERKSHWE sows bred for spring furrow. Premier
Longfellow a Masterpiece “millet Ex-
tn choice individuals dz the beat breeding on earth.
Alla 2 very fine young boon. C. D. Woodbury, Lancing, Mich.

BERKSHIRES 3.33.: ":3“; ‘33;

“rum. C. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac, K1011.

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M. Blduw. MI 1:.

Two Boon. do for full service. A few Gilt: left. Also a fine
into! toll pig- mdy for min. litter u! or pain
A. A. PATIUIJD, Dockorvfllo, lichinn.‘

DAMS 3808. Improved Chester Whites. thch-
field. Inch" won 126 premiums In '09. Booking
Old." to! broil lows;wa randy for lei-vino. But! Rock, W.
Ol‘plm". Leghor- oock'll. Morn bull- rudy for unico.

.IIPRRVER CHESTER “HES. fig‘ffiiififigflffi

rowed In Much and April. Prlee 316. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Colon c. Lillie. Ooopenville. Mich.

Clio!
mmvsn CHESTERS. .0. 3.5.2:?“ 3.... m...

Bows bred or
open. Alla choice Holstein Bull Calves. of the best of
breeding. W. 0. Wilson, Okemnu. Mich. Both phones.

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nunoc JERSEY SWINE. ass: Dag, 1:.
for 15. J. H. BANGHABT. Lansing. Mich.

DUBOC—JlBSEYS—so bred and open sows. plenly
of_g_rowth and quality. Boar: ready for serv1ce.
Prices.nght. Write J. 0. Barney, Coldwnter. Mich.

DUROC JERSEYS

CAREY U. EDLVIONDS. Hustlnil. llllch.

O. I. C. SWINE—Grgndson of

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Chief. the World’s Chumplon and Grand Chung;
Ion 0. I. C Boar. heads my hard. be Is also I
grandson of Tutesy. the World's Champion now. I
am sold out of spring and June furrow of both semi
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0. Aug. and Oct. pigs. All of right type and breed?
lng.'Geo. P. Andrews. Dansvllle. Ingham 00.. Mich.

9 —60 READ of File 1-]
00 I. C 5 Pics for Sale. either sex. “2:
strong stock. OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.

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FOR SALE—O. 1. 013—2 extn good boars. Some
choice pigs. Bose Comb Brown Leghorna. April
hatch. standard bred. at prices that will move them.
Satisfaction guaranteed. J. R. Inskeep. Holly. Mich.

l’lllJllll-BHI“8‘69““g “1“ ”Meg sows bred for

spring furroW. The air
and priced right. WM. WAFFLE. Coltiwybtei".a Mllgllf

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row. L. r. CONRA D a SON. a. No. 4. unsll’flhifil;

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China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Minis; OXFORD DOWNS A few “00“

field rams for
l sale. H. J. De GARMO. R. No.1. Clyde. Mich.

Jersey Bulls, Bows and Heifersi oxroan DOWN ewes

I la a in! St. L mbert breedin . Also some bred tolmported rams for sale at fut-mere prices.
3 n ‘ chef“ grade mm”? B. F. MILLER. mm. Michigan.

DUROC JERSEY SOWS Rocldand Farm llelaine:~A ““hmmmfi f"

. the 1909 trade. Prices
Chalet Individuals nndpopulnr blood ”“95- 1'13”“ right. D. E. Tununaasorzs. Moshervllle. Mich.

tlou invited. Funlnformation cheerfully furnished.
If you 0111!!“ 71!" our “"11 “'5 once w e FOR SALE—Bezlstered Ramboullletu. 80
ewes and 42 um lambs.
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POUND-SHIN“ Long boa'e‘L ”"0138 boned. spring

- plgs. both sex. at low noes. Send
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P. c. BOARS of great quality and of

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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR,
CLEVELAND, OHIO.

Advice thru this department is free to
our subscribers. Each communication
should state history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the same ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will probably find
the desired information in a reply that
has been made to some one else.

_ Nasal Catarrh in Sheen—I would like
to have you tell me what to do for my
lambs and sheep that have distemper.
E. J. E, River Rouge, Mica—Give each
sheep half a teaspoonful of the following
compound powder at a dose in feed twice
a day: Gentian, ginger, bicarbonate of
soda and powdered charcoal. Protect
them from cold storms. .

.Ohronic Looseness of Bowels.—-—A colt
six inonthsold has been troubled with
scours more or less all summer; since it
was weaned the colt is not much better.
W. T., Charlevoix, Mich—Give your colt

teaspoonful of bicarbonate soda and a
tablespoonful of ground, gentlan and a
tablespoonful of powdered charcoal at a
dose in feed three times a day, but before
doing so give the colt six ounces raw lin-
seed oil. .

Mrs. H. D. B., East Leroy, Mich.—I am
unable to make a correct diagnosis of the
cause of your chickens’ death. Their
shifting lameness would indicate rheuma-
tism and from the fact that their legs or
joints do not swell I am inclined to be-
lieve that Uhey die from rheumatism of
the heart, or from the effects of a toxic
poison which they perhaps pick up in
their run or thru other food supply.

Ridgling.-——I have a colt 18 months old
that is a ridgling. Two bunches have
appeared in loin and none in scrotum.
Can a case of this kind be operated'on
with fairly good success? J. B., Grand
Haven, Mich.——This is a good time ofthe
year to operate on such cases; therefore
I advise you to call a veterinary who has
had experience in operating on such cases
and your colt will more than likely make
a satisfactory recovery.

Ringbone.—Will you advise me whether
or not I can kill or cure a ringbone? Have
{had experience with them before, but
never cured or saw one cured. I do not
care for anything but an absolute cure
for the lameness. F. L- D., Simon, Colo.
—There is no absolute cure for ringbone.
I take it that you request a yes or no
answer. Therefore, no necessity of my
going into the pathology and treatment of
ringbone.

Weakness of Ligaments of Stifle Joint.
—I have a filly two years old which dis-
located her stlfle joint last spring. She
appeared to recover from it all right and
remained well until a week ago when
she met with the same mishap. What
treatment is required? W. M., Shelby,
Mich.—-You had better clip hair off stifle
joint and apply cerate of cantharides, or
you can safely use any of the blisters that
are regularly advertised in this paper.
Repeated blisters applied every week or
ten days will be required or the ligaments
will not remain strong.

Horse Has Lice.——-I have a horse that
continually bites his sides and rubs him-
self. I am sure that he is lousy and have
treated him for them, but fail to kill
them. A. H. D., Marshall, Mi-ch.—First
of all I advise you to clip the horse, satu—
rate your curry comb and brush in a three
per cent solution of carbollc acid and ap-
ply the same solution to the horse once
a day or use a ten per cent solution of
coal tar disinfectant daily. A small sup-
ply of mercurial ointment rubbed into
mane and root of tail is also good

ractice. .

p Navicular Lamenesa—My 8-year-old
horse goes lame on one fore leg. After a
drive of several miles the lameness seems
to leave, but returns right away after he
stands still. He points the foot but I am
unable to find any sore spots. J. K., Car-
sonville, Mich.—In the treatment of coflin
joint lameness no one can tell whether a.
recovery will take place or not. Apply
equal parts tincture iodine and camphor—
ated oil to joint three times a week. The
foot should be kept moist and cool.
. Surfeit Buds.—I have a horse that is
out of condition; there are many small
pimples and dry scabs on him. His hide
became rough nearly two years ago and
every year he appears to grow a little
worse. C. R. S., Pinconning, Mich—Feed
your horse some vegetables during the
winter, clip him and he should be washed
every two weeks with soap suds. borax
added. Dissolve 1/, lb. baking soda in a
gallon of water and wet itchy parts of
body twice a day; give 2 dI‘S, Donevan’s
solution at a dose in feed two or three
times a day.

In-digestion.-—One of my cows has been
out of condition ever since last spring.
I am inclined to believe that she does not
digest food properly. She has also had
trouble in quarter of udder whjch has
never come right. Will this quarter of
her bag be all right when She freshens?
W. D. K., Shelby, Mich.—I have very lit-
tle confidence in the restoration of a
diseased udder, especially when the all.
ment is of a chronic character. Give her
one dram iodide potassium at a dose in
feed night and morning for 20 days and
apply iodine ointment to udder every two
days. Give 1 oz. bicarbonate soda and
1 oz. powdered charcoal at a dose twice
a day.

Actinomycosis—(Lump Jaw).—I have
been a reader of the Michigan Farmer for
some time and have received much benefit
from reading it, especially the veterinary
column. My six-year-old cow has a large
lump on left jaw which I believe is lump
jaw. 13 this disease contagious and is
it curable? Will it affect her far beef?
She lso‘scours quite badly. ,J. E, B..
Gran Ledge, Mich—Lump jaw in many
cases is_curealb1e; however, it is well to

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keep in mind that'it-is a. contagious dis-‘
, ease; therefore all hings considered you
To correct the,

hadib‘étter fatten. er.
bowel trouble give 1,5 oz. powdered sulfate
iron, 1 oz. powdered catechu, 1 oz. pre-
pared chalk and 1 oz. ginger at a dose in
feed three times a day.

Mange—My cattle have been troubled
more or less all summer with a breaking
out on different parts of body and I am
somewhat inclined to believe the trouble
is contagious. Some of my neighbors tell
me it is a skin disease, others say it is
blood trouble. A. K., Belding, Mich—You
had better apply one part coal tar disin-
fectant and five parts vasellne to sore
parts of body two or three times a week.

Distemper (Strangles).-—My horse is
suffering from a bad attack of distemper;
the swelling appears to be mostly in up~
per Jaw. I have opened several abscesses
which allowed considerable pus to escape.
Our local Vet. says the horse now has
influenza; he prescribed dram doses of
iodide potassium. F. E. A., Imlay City,
Mich—Apply equal parts turpentine, aqua
ammonia and camphorated oil to swelling
once _a day. Inject 1 part peroxide of hy-
drogen and 3 parts water into abscess
slowly after it opens. Give 20 gs. quinine.
and 3 oz. whiskey in a pint of cold water
twice a day. . ,

Weak Stlfle Joint—My 4-year-old cow
seems to be affected with a peculiar stiff-
ness which comes on after standing in the
stable. The whole trouble appears to be
in her hind legs. When she succeeds in
lifting her feet the joint snaps, but after
moving a few steps she walks off as well
as ever. I am at a loss to know what is
wrong. H. C. T., Walkerville, Mich.—
The whole trouble is in her stifle joint.
Clip the hair off both stifle joints and ap-
ply a good quality of mustard paste once
a day and she will get all right. Her
hind feet should be kept three or four
inches higher than fore.

Periodic Ophthalmia.—I have a mare
that has been troubled with sore eyes for
the past six months. Her eyes are quite
cloudy at times and after treating them
a few days they brighten up and look as
tho they wye all right. This brood mare
fell at tim. of service and shortly after
that her eyes showed soreness; our vet-
terinary thot perhaps she was injured.
This same mare stocks considerable and
her heels are inclined to get sore. W. G.
D., Jeddo, Mich.—-—I am inclined to believe
that her fall had nothing to do with her
eyes becoming sore periodically. Apply a
saturated solution of borac acid to eyes
three times a day when sore. Keep her
from facing a bright light. Feed her no
grain, when she has an attack, but well
salted bran mashes and vegetables. Also
give 1 dr. Donovan’s solution of arsenic
at a dose in feed two or three times a
day when her eyes are affected. Apply
one part oxide of zinc and three parts
vase-line to sore heels once a day.

Ventral Hernia—I have a mare with a
rupture in flank 2%x5 inches. This is
her only unsoundness. What do you ad-
vise? Have had trouble with my shoats
standing on their feet. They are now
about six months old, have been feeding
them stock food. What had I better do?
R. S., Evart, Mich.—A surgical operation
performed by a skillful person might ef-
fect a cure. However, it is quite doubtful.
The break in abdominal wall being in
flank makes the case much more easily
remedied than if in lower part of abdo-
men. You had better be guided by your
veterinarian. You are not feeding the
shoats a balanced ration, perhaps too
much corn and not enough oats, oil meal,
vegetables and skimmed milk; besides,
they may be kept in too damp a place.

Medical Question—I have purchased a
young stallion which I wish to protect
from disease as far as I can. How will
I look for and discover the contagious
diseases and how will I best protect the
horse when I am not certain. Is there
usually danger where the mare has abort-
ed. etc.? E. D. P., Pontiac, Mich—As a
rule, horses do not suffer from a great
variety of venereal diseases, therefore
you need not worry over the matter.
However, it is well to keep in mind that
it is useless to allow a horse to serve
mares that have chronic gleet for they
will not get with foal. Now, regarding
the making of a diagnosis where the
marc suffers from abortive germs you
would not be able to do that without con-
siderable training in microscopical work;
however, the mucus surfaces of vagina
are usually in an inflamed condition.
Therefore, it is well enough to make a
little inspection before mating her. HOW-
ever, a great many mares will get with
foal even if they suffer from the causes
of infectious abortion.

Partial Dislocation of Patella.—I have
a colt 18 months old that has been trou-
bled with a partial slipping out of stifle
bone for the past twelve months. The
colt‘ seems to have trouble every few
steps. the cap appears to slip out. The
colt does not limp but becomes stiff and
drags his leg. This is the only case of
the kind that I ‘have ever seen; the joint
is easily displaced by hand. This is a
growthy colt and a fairly good one: there-
fore I would like to have him cured. J.
B. T., Grant, Mich—First of all. the stifle
joint when in place is held best in posi-
tion when the foot of the animal is
slightly in advance of the opposite one
and rarely ever slips out unless the foot
is well back. Now. in my practice and at
my hospital I usually place the animal in
a narrow stall or in a sling with the hind
feet four inches higher than fore and very
often buckle a strap around pastern of
weak leg and tie the foot forward to a
collar. This keeps the foot from slip-
ping far back; consequently it assists in
keeping the stifle in its normal position.
In your case the groove in ends of bone
where the stifle glides is perhaps partially
filled. This filling should be absorbed;
when once accomplished it gives a deeper
resting place for the cap. Apply one
part powdered cantharides, one part red
iodide mercury and eight parts lard as
often as necessary to blister. Now, in
making these applications he sure to sur—
round the entire joint, especially the

position.

three ligaments which hold the cap in
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ller Inuit like heel Blowing Clover.

So much for poetry. But STUART’S
CHARCOAL L'OZENGES ARE prose as
well. They are practical and for every-
day use and they will make any one's
breath just as sweet and wholesome as
the Girl’s breath in the song.

_And what is nicer than a sweet. clean
breath and what more offensive than a
Every one tries to get rid
of it themselves and tolerate it in their
friends, but——it is awfully trying and puts
friendship and sentiment to a severe test.

A bad breath is a sort of unspoken im-
putation on cleanliness; you can’t get
away from it and can‘t explain. You can
take foolish little remedies to disguise it
for an hour or so; but this is suggestive;
your breath is unnatural and your friends.
wonder why.

Bad breath comes once in a while from
decayed teeth, but there is a quick and
effectual remedy for this—the dentist. It
comes as a. rule 99 times out of 100 from
a bad stomach. Foods gone wrong: diges-
tion impaired; assimilation imperfect:
nutrition misdirected and a consequent
misunderstanding all around.

And meanwhile a bad condition of
things in inaugurated. There is flatu-
lence, sour stomach. and with these two
past masters of evil Pandora’s box is
opened and a tribe of troubles let loose.
any one of which might appall.

“'ith all manner of chemical changes
taking place in the stomach by fermenta—
tion—which should notwis it any wonder
that some startling and disagreeable re—
sults are evolved? Bad Breath is con-
spicuous among them, because always in
evidence. No use to doctor this or dis-
guise it. It is an innocent sufferer.

GO STRAIGHT TO THE CAT'SE -—The
STOMACH. Put that in order and the
Breath will take care of itself. Charcoal
has been a remedy for disordered stom—
achs for centuries. It is one “cure" that
is almost as “old as the hills.”

Summing up, charcoal in its pulverized

state is a stomach ionic and absorbent.

Stuart's Lozenges supply a want; a rem-
edy that is simple, handy and efficient.
’i‘hey embody a plain. practical proposi—
tion.

Stuart’s Charcoal Lozenges are for sale
everywhere, 25 cents a box. guaranteed
to contain nothing but young willow wood
charcoal and pure honey; sample sent free
upon request. Address F. A. Stuart C0..
200}Stuart“B1dg.,&arshall, Mich.

 

THE memoirs FARMER ‘

 

 

POULTRYm BEES:

THE ORPI NGTONS.

 

Altho a comparatively new breed in
this country, the Orpington is steadily

gaining in favor and has taken a place'

among the leaders at poultry exhibitions.
At this year's Michigan State Fair this
breed ranked third among the breeds of
practical farm poultry, its representatives
slightly outnumbering those of the ever-
popular VVyandotte, and being surpassed
only by the Leghorn and the Plymouth
Rock. The breed was originated in Eng-
land, taking its name from a town in the
county of Kent near which the breeder
lived. The single-combed ‘black variety
was the one first brot out, and it was
produced by crossing a large Minorca
cock on black sports of Plymouth Rock
blood. The pullets from this union were
then mated with clean-legged Langshan
cockerels. Then by breeding for deep
body and shorter legs a very satisfac-
tory general-purpose fowl was evolved,

[one having the plumage of the Langshan

without the feathered feet and legs, but
possessing meat and egg producing qual-
ities which compared favorably with those
of the Rock and Vl'yandotte.

The buff variety was the first recog-
nized and given a place in the American
Standard of Perfection. where the breed
is classed with the general-purpose
breeds comprising the American class.
The origin of this variety has been in
dispute for some years but the best ob-
tainable evidence would indicate that it
resulted from an admixture of the blood
of Golden Spangled Hamburgs. the darker
colored Dorkings and Buff Cochins.

The white variety. which is now be-
coming rather common, and which, it
must be conceded. possesses many desir-
able qualities, has been built up by com—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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mute—for old-timers Ind beginners. For you.

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EGGS lc. A DOZEN.

It costs 10 a dozen to reserve egg! from one to two
yours by using the Yueili Chemical Co's. Egg prel-
ervatlve. Cannot distinguish them from newly
la‘d eggs. Fond for Circulars.
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The Best in Barred Rocks

White. Silvana Golden Wyandottu. 8. (Land 8. C’.
White. known and 3115‘ Igloo

 

Bronze. Duff and White Turkeys. all varieties of
Geese and Ducks, largest and best collection at But.
Fill in 10!”. E. J. HABKINB. Plttlford. Inch.

Brown leglwrn Bockorsl: M. 3223033 22223:
ers' prices. FEED CALLER. So. Lyon. Mich.

BARGAINS,T‘ILL JANUARYl.—Bu8 and White Orpingtcns.
B. MW. C. 3. Polish, Hand-ml. S. C. Black & ILC.
Whib linorou naturals, 11.50 such, low left. Saticfootion
xmonoy hack. II. II. KING. Willb. Michigan.

 

 

 

ARGAINS in B. C. Brown Leghorns. 100 year-

ling none 8! each. best flock In Mich. First come: 2

gets the pick. Order from this ad. Satisfaction.
FRED MOTT. Lansing. Michigan.

MI AMMOTH White Holland Turkeys. Fine stock
for sale. prices reasonable. Write your wants.
Mrs. Mae Whitbeck. “Two Pines.” Montague. Mich.

 

 

SILVER Laced Golden and White Wyandottel. A ‘

line into! youngstook all bred from prize winners
0. W. BROWNING. Portland. Mich.

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS FOR SALE.

Toms $3; hens 01:75. MARY MITCHELL. Hart. Mich.

While Wyamlolies. marshes:

A. Franklin Smith. 1!. F. D. No.9. Ann Arbor. Mich 2

DOGS.

; RAIIED FOX HOIINDSland Hound Pup.
for hunting fox and cocoa. Also Collies. Incloae
z-cent stamp. W. E. LECKY. Holmeaville. Ohio

PERRETS. ‘1
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5.800 Ferrel: é‘flflke strong! and

better cllmoted. Price list and clr. free.
DeKlelne Bros. Box 41. J amentowndlflch.

. ——T tl no nd
a 4'000 FERRET: allianhgdc; {ml 1.30:
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mailed 1m. . A. KNAPP. Bochecter. Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First 8. C. White Orpington Cock at the
Michigan State Fair of 1909.

pounding the blood of the ‘White Leghorn.
the VVh‘ite Barking and the Black Ham—
lburg. There are some who do not concede
this but hold that this variety is merely
a sport from the Black Orpington. but,

am 8” ‘ whatever its origin, it has become 3 fav—
mmm. wmte our-cu u enchin mm can. ,

orite with those who admire every quality
and feature of the original Orpington ex-
cept his black plumage.

 

IN ANSWER TO INQUIRIES.

 

Those Old Hens.

I would like your opinion of Mr. Drake‘s
advice in last week’s Farmer regarding
the purchasing of old hens for the pro-
duction of early winter eggs. Also, is it
true, as somc assert. that old hens av-
erage up better than puliets in the pro-
duction of call-S?

Livingston Co. SUBSCRIBER.

Luck of space last week crowded out
a comment on the article l‘wfw‘l‘wi to in
which it was admitted that under certain
conditions Mr. Drake's plan would be
feasible. Those conditions are that the
purchaser of old hens for the purpose
named must, if he would be safe. ascor-
tain what the hens have been doing thru-
out the summer. if they did the bulk of
their year’s work during the preceding
winter and spring. stopped laying in mid-
summer, moulted early and received
proper attention while going thru the
moult, they should be in condition to pro—
duce late fall and early winter eggs in
abundance if properly fed. On the other
hand, if they continued laying thruout
the summer and moulted late they could

 

hardly be expected to prove a profitable

.1‘

investment it hot for eai-ly wintervlayers.

As a general proposition, early hatched
“pallets may best be relied upon for early
eggs.
than those hens which have borne the
brunt of furnishing the summer egg sup-
ply. and they will. produce a larger num-
ber of eggs. In regard to this part or
Subscriber’s question it may be said that
in practically all tests of which we have
any record, well developed puilets have
produced more eggs than yearling hens,
and yearling hens have invariably pro-
duced more eggs than two-year-oid hens.
This is not saying that yearling and two-‘
year-old hens will not yield a profit on
the food they consume, for in many cases
they pay handsomely, but it is a difficult
matter to get a profit from a hen that is
more than two years old. '

The Big Breeds of Ducks.

Please tell me the name of the largest
and best kind of ducks for a farmer boy
to raise; also, where can I get them?

Allegan Co. L. A. GERMAIN.

Vl'hile the Pekin has been a general
favorite on many farms for years, there
are several breeds which surpass it
slightly in the matter of size—the Mus-
covy, Rouen and Aylesbury. Any one of
the four named should meet the require-
ments of the raiser who desires to pro-
duce the greatest possible weight of mar-
ketalble poultry. As to where breeding
stock or eggs may be obtained 'we can
only refer you to our advertising coi-
umns. -

 

 

A PRACTICAL BEE MAN’S EXPLANA-
TION OF THOSE “OBSTACLES."

 

I wish to take exception to some state-
ments in the article on “Obstacles to Pro-
gress in Beekeeping," appearing in a re-
cent Farmer, in which the 'writer says:
"The business continued prosperous and
profitable for a dozen years. and the
numbcr of swarms increased until the
pasturage was overstocked and the bees
had to fly farther and farther from their
hivcs; to find flowers that had not been
culled. Finally, in their desperation they
commenced plundering each other‘s stores,
the stronger colonies robbing the weaker.”

Now, it is just possible the pasturage
\was overstocked, and just as probable
that the trouble was due to poor seasons
or to mismanagement. Certain it is that
the “plundcring” was due to the latter
causc. in a large measure at least. and he
would have had the same trouble had he
kept only two colonies, ‘Wltll no others
Within miles, if he had allowed one of
them to become weak or qucenless at a.
time of ycar when there was a dearth of
nectar and had taken no means to pre-
vent the intrusion of the stronger colony
upon the wcaker. And had he taken these
same precautions with the larger apiary

the trouble would have been avoided
there.
There are many cauSes of robbing

among bees, chief among which are the
following:

The leaving of bits of honey in an ex-
posed condition during a dearth of nectar:
wide entrances to weak colonies; cracks
and crevices in the hives other than the
regular entrances; queeniess colonies. etc.

Once the fever has started it takes a
lot to quict them. All quecnless or weak
colonies should be given a very narrow
entrance at that time of year, with just

(Continued on page 497).
RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS WANTED.

Spring Examinations everywhere. Thou-
sands of vacancies. Commencement salary
$800. Candidates are being prepared free by
Franklin institute, Dept. N., 49 Rochester,
N. Y. If interested write them immediately.

 

Oklahoma begins the sale of its state
school lands in December, giving the
homeseekcr a chance to buy at his own
price an improved, fertile farm with forty
years to pay for it. The first of the
series of sales to be held in thirty-four
counties will open in Chandler at the
county courthouse December 15. and con~
tinue daily until January 7, within which
time 361 tracts of 160 acres each will be
sold. The State land Commissioner and
his deputies will conduct the sales. Sales
at Shawnee. Oklahoma City, Chickas’ha
and other points will follow the sale at
Chandler in rapid succession. For these
sales the Rock Island—Frisco lines have
planned to conduct low-rate excursions.
Ali-curly many people have. reached dig~
fcrcnt citics where sales will be conduct-
ed. inspecting the lands with a view of
buying thcm. 'I‘lhe, lands to be auctioned
off at those first sales is what is known
as indemnity school land. They were
given to the state by the federal govern~
ment to indemnify the state for the loss
of certain other lands allotted to the
lirdians. Following the disposal of the
indemnity lands, the state will sell what
are known as the college lands. The
school land area of Oklahoma is very
great, extremely fertile and the legisla-
trne has passed very liberal laws for its
sale in order to secure a high class of
agricultural citizens.

They are apt to be ready earlier»

 
 

HOW to Make 13
Syrup ThanYou Can Buy

A full pint of cough syrup-4
enough to last a family a ioug‘time
—can be made by the recipe given
below in five minutes, for "only
54 cents. Simple as it is. there is .
nothing better at any price. It
usually stops a deep-seated cough
in'rtwenty-four hours, and is a
splendid household remedy for
whooping COugh, colds, hoarseness,
bronchitis. etc. _

Take a pint of granulated sugar,
add lé Pint warm water and stir
about 2 minutes. Put 2% oz. Pinex
in a. pint bottle and fill up with
syrup. Take a teaspoonful every
one, two or three hours. It keeps
perfectly and the taste is pleasing.

The chemical elements of pine
which are very healing to mem-
branes, are obtained in high pro-
portion in Pinex, the most valuable
concentrated compound of Norway
“’hite Pine Extracts None of the
weaker pine preparations will work
with this recipe. Your druggist
has Pinex or can easily get it for
You.

Strained honey can be used in-
stead of the syrup and makes a
very fine honey and pine tar cough
syrup.

 

 

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' TllOUSANDShAVE KIDNEY
TROUBLE AND DON’T KNOW IT

room for one or two bees to pass at a.
time, and no other crack or crevice al-
lowed. ‘ ,

Better still, double them up so as not
to have any weak colonies in the yard.
A good 'way to do this is to remove the
cover and cloth from one of the colonies
to be united and put in their place a.
single sheet of newspaper, setting the
other hive on top. The bees will gnaw
thru the paper and gradually unite with-
out quarreling, as they 'would if united
without this precaution. After a few
days shake all the bees into the one hive
body, sorting out the poorer frames and
leaving only the best ones, or those near-
est filled wit-h honey, with the bees.

If robbing should get started, thru neg-
ligence or otherwise, as soon as discov-
ered throw a. lot of wet grass Iover the
entrance to the robbed colony. Keep this
wet down and bees from outside will not
go thru it, while those already in will
gradually work out. If the craze cannot
be stopped by this means remove the
weak colonies to the cellar for a, few days,
'when all will become quiet.

Buckwheat of Questionable Value to

Michigan Bee Men.

What the writer referred to says about
buck-wheat pasturage is doubtless true
in regard to his locality, as it is In many
parts of his state, and New York as we'll.
E. W. Alexander, that noted beekeeper
of the latter state, kept 700 colonies in one
yard for several years, depending entirely
upon buckwheat for their support, and he
has taken as high as 70,000 lbs. of honey
from that apiary, or an average of 100
lbs. per colony, in a single season. Mich-
igan beekecpers, however, should not de-
pend upon it too much, for in this state,
especially in the northern part, buck-
wheat can not 'be relied upon for any sur—
plus to speak of, our main honey flows
coming from the white and alsike clovers,
raspberry, basswood 0r linden, willow
herb and mllkwced, all of which produce
abundantly in their locality, and for which
we need early strong colonies.

Sn0w Not a Menace to Colonies Wintered
Out of Doors.

Had the gentleman looked a little
deeper into the conditions surrounding
that snow-covered hive he would probably
have found some other cause for the
death of his bees. I never before heard
of bees smothering to death in snow. Why
here in Michigan those Who are most
successful in out-of-door wintering put
up 'windbrcaks or place the bees in a
naturally slu-ltcrcd position and allow the
snow to drift in upon them and cover
them all over, in this manner keeping
in the warmth so essential to their well-
being.

My own yard is enclosed by a. high
board fence on three sides and the snow,
drifting over this, often covers the first
row of hives almost entirely and these
nearly always winter perfectly. Those
colonics more exposed I make a practice
of covering at the entrances with snow
by the use of the shovel and have had
good success.

Floyd Palmer, of Mecosta. county, con-
sidered one of the most successful out-0f-
door 'winterers in Michigan, makes this
a. common practice and has almost uni—
form success. In the rare cases when he
has lost an occasional colony it has nearly
always been attributable to lack of stores
or queenlessncss. E. D. Townsend, of the
same county, probably the most extensive
beekeepcr in the state, has made a big
success of wintering bees in pits or
trenches covered with earth and strrvw,
with no ventilation except such as filters
thru the earth, the only air chamber be-
ing a. small space below the bees made
by placing the hives in tiers upon rails or
poles.

Mecosta 00. L. C. WHEELER.

 

MICHIGAN POULTRY SHOWS.

 

The annual s‘how season is on, a num-
ber of good shows having been held the
past two weeks. Dates of shows yet to
occur are as follows:

Mason, Ingham 00., Dec. 7—11.

Grand Ledge, Eaton 00., Dec. 14-18.

South Haven, Van Buren 00., Dec. 14—18

Coldwuter, Branch 00., Dec. 15-18. '

Harbor Beach, Huron 00., Dec. 15-18.

Dowagiac, Cass 00., Dec. 21-25.

Lansing, Ingham 00.. Dec. 27-31.

Holland, Ottawa 00., Dec. 28-Jan. 1.

Croswell, Sanilac 00., Jan. 4—7.

Hastings, Barry 00., Jan. 3-8.

Allegan, Allegan 00., Jan. 5-8.

Jackson, Jackson 00., Jan. 4-11.

Saginaw, Saginaw 00., Jan. 10.

Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo 00., Jan. 10-15

Detroit, State Poultry Assn. Jan. 12-18.'

Clare, Clare 00., Jan. 11-14.

Grand Rapids, Kent 00.. Jan. 17-21.
17Sghzu'lt Ste. Marie, Chippewa 00., Jan.
Tgree Rivers, St.
Howell, Livingston 00.. Jan. 19-23.
Port Huron, St. Clair 00., Jan.'21-24.
Houghton, Houghton 00., Jan. 27-30.
Vicksburg, Kalamazoo 00., Feb. 17-20.

Joseph 00., Jan.

 

 

(9) 497

 

Weak and unhealthy kidneys are prob-
ably responslble for more sickness and
suffering than any other disease, there-
fore, when through neglect or other causes,
kidney trouble Is permltted to continue,
serlous results are sure to follow.

  

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mmJBJfAU‘EI‘LO.

Your other organs may need attention
--but your kidneys most, because they do
most and should have attention first.

if you feel that your kldneys are the
cause of your sickness or run down condi-
tion begin taking Dr, Kllmer's Swamp-
Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder
remedy, because as soon as your kidneys
begin to get better they will help all the
other organs to health.

Prevalency of Kidney Disease.

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SEASONABLE WORK IN THE GARDEN
AND ORCHARD.

 

Haul manure and scatter between the
raspberry, blackberry, currant and grape
rows then it will not be neglected when
spring comes with its rush of work.

Trim grape vines any time when it is
a pleasant, warm day, leaving about forty
good buds to a hill in the garden where
the grape hill is well established. say
after the third to fifth year, depending on
the vigor of the vine.

Some people will leave all the largest
wood on the grape vine and cut out the
smallest growth. At Lawton. Mich., you
will find that most of the growers cut out
the large wood and leave about four arms
of the smaller new growth with about 10
buds on each arm, there 'being two wires
stretched on the posts and one arm tied
to the right and one to the left on each
wire but the tying is often left until later
in the spring for the reason that the arms
that are left to fruit are in better condi-
tion if the ends drop on the ground dur-
ing the coldest weather in February and
March.

Of course, I need not say, “mulch your
strawberries,” as you have probably
tended to that already, but if you have
not mulched them yet, now is the best
time you can get to haul out some of the
coarse manure and scatter in a ridge be-
tween the rows, say a big fork full to
every two ‘feet of the space and then
follow up with some of that old straw
stack and scatter an inch thick over the
row of plants to be raked off on to the
ridge of manure in the space when the
ground is opened up in the spring. There
is a reason for this trouble being taken
now—it pays.

It will pay you well to save a. part of
your wood ashes to scatter between the
currant and goosebcrry rows as they
need this kind of fertilizer, it improves
the quality and size of the fruit as well
as making vigorous healthy wood growth.

If you order cherry trees for spring
setting order two-year—old trees. unless
you intend to set out a large orchard of
cherry, then I would order one year from
the bud whips. that is, those which ltave
made a straight. vigorous shoot about
three to three and one-half feet high
without any branches, but good plump
buds on them. The one and two year
trees have about all the fibrous fccding

roots, While a three or four-year—old
tree has a large part of the feeding roots
cut Off.

If you have a few healthy, strong
growing seedling apple trees which are
bearing poor fruit why not have them top--
worked with some variety which you have
a preference for. very often these trees
turn out to «be some of the best fruiters
and last many years. The Oakland County
Seek-no-Further is an excellent variety
to top—work, but you can not, as a rule,
get the young tree from any nursery as
they grow too crooked a body in the
nursery row to be salable, and bring no
profit to the nurseryman. I tried them
in a nursery block of apple and only about
four per cent of them were salable, so I
found out the reason why nurserymen
did not have the Oakland County Seek-
no-further in sttwk but would often sub-
stitute the \Vcsttield Seek—no-Further
for them,

Kalamazoo Co. CHAS. NASH.

 

FERTILIZING FRUITS.

Now that the rush of fall work is over
we can turn our attention to the task of
preparing for next season‘s crop. One of
the first and most profitable operations
we can perform for the future crop is to
fertilize it we‘ll. if- fertilizer is what it
needs. Chemical fertilizers have their
place. but it is not of them that I wish
to write; it is thc natural fertilizer found
on all farms, for the most part barnyard
manure.

Unless the land is hilly, fall and early
winter is an ideal time to apply this ma—
nutre. to the land, for it will have time
to become incorporated with the soil by
the time it is needed. and the coarser
parts will act as a mulch during the win-
ter. \V’here there is a growing crop it
is safe to haul manure upon almost any
soil during the winter unless it is cm a
steep side 'hill, hence the strawberry
crop may be profitably fertilized at this
time if one has fine clean manure, other-
wise it is better to rely on a thoro fer-
tilizing before the plants are set, or to use
commercial fertilizers. as__t.,he seeds of
weeds and grains introduced into the
bearing beds in manures' will prove a

The MlCfilGAN EARMBRQ-

great pest: We have a. number‘of loads of

'fine manuré‘tafcen from beneath the floor

of a hog pen, which should be ‘quite free
from seeds, unless it may be a little corn
which would not be difficult .to pull.
However, we Shall not. put it on the bed
set last spring which we expect to renew,
but on the old one which will be plowed
up after bearing. We are also fertilizing
the land intended for ‘strawberries next
spring. It is not necessary to be so care-
ful with this as the season’s cultivation
will subdue most of the weeds that may
start from the manure. This ground is
in wheat, as it is a part of an oat field
sowed to wheat last fall. We that the
growing crop on the land to protect it and
assist in taking up and holding the fer-
tilizer, during the winter and spring
would be worth more than the seed and
labor of fitting and sowing.

Cane fruits, such as raspberries, black-
berries, currants. and gooseberries, if
small, can be fertilized by driving over the
rows with a wagon or spreader, but where
they are large this will break down many
of the canes. and the only practical way
where the rows are too narrow to accom-
modate a wheeled vehicle is to haul the
manure with a boat and horse. This can
be done most conveniently when there
is a little snow on the ground, as in the
early winter. At this time the ground is
firmer than in spring and there is less
danger of injuring the ground by driving
over it.

Perhaps a caution should be given as
to overfertillizing cane fruits on rich
ground with nitrogeneous fertilizers. This
is possible as some of these fruits do bet-
ter when the soil is not too rich in nitro-

 

 

A New Sweet Corn. (See next page).
geneous food. Ashes are good to balance
up stable manures, or some commercial
potash and phosphorus may be used.

Turee fruits can be fertilizer at any time
that it can be done conveniently. \Vhere
they are on cultivated ground rather tine
manure that will work into the ground
easily is best, but where trees are in sod
coarse manure. straw or anything that
will make humus can he used. It is well
to use plenty of wood ashes when thcy can
be obtained, or some lime can be used to
correct any cxccss acidity duc to thc cou-
tinucd rotting of mulch materials. 'l‘rccs
need food as well as other crops, and it
is doubtful if any crop will respond to its
use more profitably.

Calhoun Co. S. B. HARTMAN.

 

TO CONTROL MILDEW.

 

It is very ‘well worth while to have
some bushes of the big English goosebcr-
rics. They are enormous fruiters. the
berries almost as hig‘ as plums and of fine
flavor: but as stated they are subject to
mildew. For years this was considered
a fatal defect, now it is recognized that
all that is necessary is to give the bushes
a spraying early in the spring and at in-
tervals later until bearing time. The
spraying solution which has given the
best results during several years of com-
parative trial by the New York Experi-
ment Station is: One ounce of potassium
sulphide to two or three gallons of water.
This has proven superior to the Bordeaux-

‘enlarge and turn brown.

soda mixture or, coppercarbonate solu-

tion.) The mildew ,denerally makes; its
appearance during May or early June and
it is first noticed in glistening frosty spots
on the young fruit and on the lower shad~
ed parts of the bush. Later the spots
If the attack is
bad, it will affect the young twigs and
may even destroy the bushes in a single
year. As with all fungus diseases, the
attack is always worse in a wet year than
during a dry season.

is always mainly preventive. and that

treatment must commence early in the

season. before the disease shows itself.
Washington, D. C. G. E. M.

 

AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD.

 

Can the old apple orchards in this state
be made profitable? This year I have
pruned, cultivated and sprayed an old
apple orchard ‘with very gratifying re-
sults. from the standpoint of pleasure as
well as of finance. For laying aside the
question of finance, 'what gives more
pleasure than a sense of having made
useful and beautiful a thing which has
not only been of no use but an eye-sore
and a nuisance.

And such. at the present date, are most

of the old apple orchards in this state.
for unless a fruit tree is bearing paying
crops of fruit. it had better be used for
fuel and the land for other purposes.

I cut and used for fuel and saw handle
timber all unpromising trees in this old
orchard. such as trees bearing natural
fruit. trees that 'were apparently beyond
redemption because of decay and disease.
and trees that were crowding more prom-
ising trees, thus lessening the number
of trees to be pruned and sprayed.

Next the remaining trees were pruned.
all dcad wood cut out and, where the
live branches were too-thick, a few were
cut but for the most part, the pruning
tonsisted in removing dead wood and
training water sprouts that the trees
might in time have new heads.

\thn it was time these trees were

sprayed in a thoro and up—to-date manu

ncr. The first time just before the fruit
had opcncd. with Bordeaux mixture. of
the 3:623!) strength, (3 lbs. copper sul-
phate, 6 lbs. of lime to 50 gallons of

* water), applied in the form of a tine mist.

with a high prcssure. pump and vcrmor—
rcd nozzle; the second time just aftcr the
petals had fallen. 'with :3 lbs, arsenate of
lead to 50 gallons of 3:62:70 Bordeaux. and
the third and last time about the last
of .luly with 2 lbs. arsenatc of lead to My
gallons of 2:4:50 Bordeaux, for late scab
and codlin moth.
The Results.

After cutting all undesirable trees I
had left 34 trees and some of these were
pretty poor. 'l‘hcsc trccs arc on a place
which my father rents. are perhaps 50 OI
GI) years old and are of thc following
varieties: Snow. Spy. 'l‘olman Sweet.
Russet. Bellefoutainc. Baldwin and Maid-
en Blush. \\'c have had this place for
four years before this and I had watched
the trees for three or four years previous
to our occupation. For the last three
years the trees have blossomed some
every year, but they have not produced as
much as one singlc pantull of good fruit.
while in the three or four years preceding
these the fruit has been too poor to be
considered worth harvesting.

This year I had from this orchard 62
bbls_ of No. 1 and No. 2 winter apples.
six bbls. summer fruit. and 2.975 lbs. of
cider :ipplcs. Vi'c received $2.77: pcl‘ bbl.
for No. 1 and L’ 'winter apples, $1112 per
bbl. (with-out barrclsl. for stunmcr apples

and We per hundred for cidcr apples, 8..

total of $192.13 for thc prom-cds from the
fit trccs and at this only it of the trees
produced a good crop of apples. It cost
$23.50 for spraying materials and labor
to apply same. $1.50 for intcrcst‘ and wear
on spray outfit. (the spray outfit wae used
to spray potatoes and small fruits so that
only a part of the interest on the money
invested is chargcd here), $21.70 for bar—
rcls, $3105 for picking and packing. a
total of $75.73 as the cost of producing
and putting in packages the $192.12 worth
of fruit. or a clear profit of $116.37 from
3-1 old apples trees.

It might be well to say here that the
wood sccurcd by cutting the unproducing
trccs more than paid for the pruning. and
the land had to be plowed and cultivated
anyway as the trees were scatterd around
a field in which a crop of beans were
grown. ‘

From the above I should say that it
pays to care for the old apple trees. and
I know that still better results are to be
had where the trees are younger and
more vigorous. ‘

Eaton C0.

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New use m THE OLD ORCHARD.

 

A Pennsylvania farmer who in 1906 had
fully decided upon cutting down his apple
orchard that was badly affected with San
Jose scale but who upon the solicitation
of a friend proceeded to spray instead, has
this year harvested 9. $5.000 ,crop from
these trees. Last year there was a fair
crop but the first season following the
application of the spray he harvested 600
bushels of the finest apples.

How many orchards of this kind are
in Michigan can not be told, but the ac-
reage is large, especially in the southern
and central counties of the state. Equally
as striking results have been obtained
from almost every county, where proper
care has been given, as was obtained by
the Pennsylvania man, but those who
have tried to do something with these old
trees are but a mere fraction of those
owning orchards that could be trans-
formed into the most profitable part of
the farm.

A man must get a vision of the possi-
bilities that lie in these old trees, and
inform himself on the methods of spray-
ing, pruning, cultivating and fertilizing
that will be necessary to give the trees
a new claim on life. So much experience
has now ‘been collected along these lines
and the' general principles involved are
so clear that the man who has judgment
and skill sufficient to feed live stock or
properly plant a field to beans will be
able to carry to a. successful issue the
work necessary to rejuvenate one of these
old orchards. In fact, the matter is
largely one of getting the owner or ten-
ant awakened and interested in the job.

Wayne Co. A. H.

 

CONTROLLING PEACH TREE BORERS.

 

When is the best time, and which is
the best method to control peach tree

borers?

Oceana Co. W. D. Konn.

The secret of controlling this pest is
persistence. Just recently a successful
grower stated that during the past few
years he has been going over his trees
in the spring and fall of each year search-
ing for borers and that now there are
far fewer than when he began this prac-
tice. His method is, and it is the stand-
ard way of fighting the borer, whether
in peach or apple or other fruit trees, is
to dig them out with a sharp knife after
thgy have been discovered or to insert a
wire into the burrow made by the pest
and kill 'him in his home. The latter
method does not injure the bark and
growing tissue of the tree as much as
cutting with a knife, but the cutting is
far less harmful than the work of the
live iborer. Another method noticed in
these columns in one of the July issues
was to make about the base of the tree
a ‘basis of earth and in this pour some
real warm water. The high temperature
will bring the impostor from his burrow
and will not harm the tree. A similar
result is obtained by using, instead of
warm water, one part of naphthcleum to
150 parts of water. The writer has not
tried the last two methods but knows no
reason why they will not accomplish the
desired end. The mechanical method first
mentioned above is an old and well-tried
one and can be relied upon. We would
again bring the attention of readers to
the fact that system and persistence in
keeping after the borers is necessary
where one desires to receive the minimum
of injury from them. Regular inspections
should be made at least 'once each season,
and constant vigil kept at all other times.

A GOOD SWEET CORN.

 

For several years I have been on the
'hunt for a genuine sweet corn that would
meet the requirements of hardineSs, extra
earliness and flavor. I think I have found
it, and whether a sport or the result of
breeding I do not know. for its history
is not known to me. Be this as it may,
it has made good on all the above points
and that, under the most trying condi-
tions of all my experience in corn grow-
ing. Under the poorest of soil conditions
and drouth that cut my other varieties
nearly one—half, this corn stood up with-
out flinching and matured ears ready for
use in 63 days from planting. It is a true
sweet corn superior in flavor to any of
the first eairly sorts that I have found
and showed no traces of smut so destruc-
tive to nearly all extra early varieties.

The illustration show-s the ear much
reduced. The original of the photograph
was over seven inches in length, which
was a fair average, and its behavior un-
der the very trying conditions of this
year leads me to think that it will be a
desirable sort.

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DETROIT. DEC. n. 1909.

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

An interesting fea-
ture of Secretary “'11-
son‘s annual rcport is
a discussion of meat
priccs. The data for this discussion was
sccurcd by inquiries made in 50 cities of
the United States—largo. medium and
small—Aim all parts of thc country by cm-
ployccs 0f the Bureau of Animal Indus-
lry. A schcdulc was prcparcd to record
thc actual cxpericnvccs of rctailers in buy-
ing and selling, usually a half carcass be-
ing taken as the unity. The pricc at
which the same was purchased was re»
cordcd; thcn followed tho wcight and
rctail pricc of cvcry cut for 'which a uni—
form pricc 'was charged by the retail deal-
t'l‘S. "bus it became possible not only to
compurc high and low priced cuts, but
also to computc accurately the total rctail
pricc per pound. and consumcrs’ cost of
thc bccf piece for which the wholesale
price per pound and cost of the entire
piece had been reported. From these
invcstigations thc Secrctary‘s ru-port
shows that for the 50 cities invcstigated.
the total retail price clmrgwl customcrs,
abovc tho wholcsaic cost paid by rctuil-
crH, is I15 per cent. This pcrccntagc var—
ics from 20 per ccnt or under in five cit-
ics, to 50 pcr ccnt or ovcr in 11 cities.
The pcrcentagc for Detroit. which city
was included in the investigation, is
ll.) pci‘ ccnt, or. in oihcr words. thc De-

Meat Prices and
the Farmer.

troit consumer of becf pays thc retailer
40 pcr ccnt abovc the wholesale cost of
the sumo Incul.

An intcrcsting pbasc of riw invc=-tiga-
"tlon is the statcmcnt that tho lower the
grade of bccf, thc grcatcr thc pcrr-cntagc
of profit. In other 'words. illc report says
that perhaps it is a safc inicrvnw that
the poor people pay ncarly twice as much
profit as the wull-to do pcoplc.

In tho opinion of Sccrctary \\'ilson, a
contributary cause of this condition is
the multiplicity of small shops and the
expcnse incident to thcir‘ conduct and the
delivery of their sales. which t-xpcnsc
might be materially rcduccd if there were
feWer retail shops and those doing a lar-
ger business.

But apart frOm the fact brot out by this
phase of the inquiry, the question of
greatest interest to the farmer is whether
the price received by the farmer for beef
cattle and other meat animals has in-

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creased luv-the same. degree composites»
to the confismer. ‘ For the purpose of
making comparisons which would illus-
trate this point the mean ”price level of
1896—1900, a period of comparatively low
prices, was adopted as a basis and rep-
resented by 100. Figuring upon this basis
it 'was ascertained that the farmer has
failed to receive a share of the higher
beef prices in the feeding animals. In
relation to the basis above stated. the
price of two-year—old feeding steers at
the farm rose to 135.9 in 1900. declined
to 85.5 in 1905, and rose to 100.8 in 1909,
these figures being for January 1 of each
year before corn feeding had begun.

But, on the other hand, the price 0f corn
on the farm in 1909 is represented by 218.6
compared with 100 as the mean price
level for the period from 1896—1900, While
the price of the best native steer at the
Chicago stock yards in the same year
was found to be 139.9, which is much
above the ”index number." or the price
of the animals at the farm. and much
below the price of corn at the farm. He-
garding this phase of the investigation
the report says: “The inference is that
the farmer gets some rcturn for the high-
priccd corn that he feeds to his steers,
but not a return equal to 60 cents a
‘bushel for his corn, which is the price
for the last two years. As for the unfed
stccr. it does not participate in the up-
ward movement of prices in its farm
value.” The report further says that the
wholesale prices of fresh beef carcasses
have increased in about the same de-
gree that the price of stccrs have at'thc
stock yards and thc retail prices of fresh
becl‘ have kept pace with the wholesale
priccs, thus a conclusion reached in this
report is that the increasing prices of fat

 

' animals at the stock yards is rcsponsiblc

fOr the advance in thc retail prices of
fresh meats, and that these incrcasing
prices are explained by the circumstances
aticnding thc production of beef animals
during recent years. The breaking up of
the great cattle ranches of the west has
unit an increased number of range cattle
to the farms of the country for finishing,
largely upon corn, which extra demand
on thc corn crop is rcflectcd on the ab-
normally high prices. The brcakimr up
of the great ranges has also begun to
tcll in thc dccrcascd supply of cattle from
that source, [which was apparent in 1008
and has continucd in 1009.

Investigations of thc sumc sort were
carried on with regard to hogs, and the
report statcs that while ihc farmer's sit-
uation With regard to hogs is more fair
to him than is thc cattle situation, it is
still apparont that for the last three
ycars tht- pricc of corn has been too high
in comparison with the price of hugs.
Tho rclativc price of hogs on the farm
January 1, 1909, was rcprcsentcd by 147.3
as comparcd with '10" for thc pcriml of
1800—1000. Othcr ilgurcs SHOT“ that the
uvcruge cost of hogs slaughtered at the
principal markets during the prcvious
your. and thc murkct price of carcasscs
at Ncw York and Chicago 'wcrc repro-
scntcd by approxinmlcly the some figures.
lt is thus shown that in the casc of hogs
the farmer has fully participated in the
rising price, Iwhereas in the case of his
cattlc hc has not.

in conclusion, howcvcr, this report
makcs it plain that tho high priccs of
curcd mcats arc not found in the cost of
the animals. 'l‘licSc cum-d meats, includ—
ing bacon, lard and picklcd bcct‘ and pork
products. havc incrcuscd in pricc to a
much :rrcatcr dcgrcc than thc priccs of
Otlicr nun-its havc int-roused. thus it wvoultl
appear that it is in this dcpartmcnt of
tbc truth- that llu- picking boom-s have
rcapcd lllc largcst profits from thc con-
sume-r. and that in this incrcase-d cost to
tho consumcr thc product-r of raw mate—
rial has found littlc gain.

The, Department of

Beware of This Stutc at \Vasbington
Swindle. has rcccivcd a rcport
from the Amcricuu (lon—

sul Ccneral at Barcelona, Spain. in rcgard
lo a band of swiudlcrs who makc a prac—
liu of writing to pcrsons in thc l'uitcd
Flair; i‘cgarding the imprisonment of an
:illcccd rclaiivc, and thc guardianship of
a child. ’l‘hc schcme is to work a swindle,
which we brictly outline as follows: A
pcrson who rcprcscnts himself as a rich
political prisoncr who is at tho point of
dcath and has but one fricnd—t‘hc prison
pricsl thru w‘hosc good offices he is
onublcd to smuyglc an occasional letter
out of the prison in which be is confined.
His fortune is rcprescntcd to be in cash
on deposit in ihc United States. but the
certificate of deposit is represented to be
concealed in a secret receptacle of his
valise, which is in the possesson of the
court that tried and condemned him. and

 
   

which muse zh‘eld . _ .
his representative has paid the cost of his
(trial. The prisoner has an only daughter

outlying" Wm ,

who, in his desperate situation, is the
subject of his sole thot. In this emer-
gency, his thots turn to a'distant relative
in this country, whom he has never seen
and whom he knows only thru his family
tree. He applies to this distant relative
to assume the guardianship of his daugh-
ter. and her fortune of about $30,000, in

return for which he promises a material

reward of one-fourth of his entire for—
tune. The good priest has volunteered
to take his daughter to the United States.
the one condition imposed being, that the
distant relative send enough cash to lib-
erate the valise containing the above men-
tioned certificate of deposit, as the pris-
oner's ready money has been exhausted.
This money is to b 'sent to the good
priest at an address indicated and, having
received it. he is to start at once for
America\with the daughter.

This is the first letter of a. series which
follows with other pleas along the same
line. but the deseription will be sufficient
to put the reader on his guard should he
at any time receive such a letter. The
editor has such a letter in his possession,
which was received and turned over to
him by a friend within a few months. It
is very cleverly written and the fact that
this swindle has received the attention of
the American consul in Spain, and has
been made the subject of a circular of
warning by the Department of State at
“’ashington, is evidence that it is being
successfully worked in many cases. The
necessity of absolute secrecy on the part
of the recipient of the letter is so cleverly
emphasized. that without question a great
many are deceived by it. There is every
evidence that this swindle is being worked
by a. well organized gang with representa-
tives at both ends of the line. with the
rcsult, of course, that nothing is heard
from it in cases where the remittance is
forwarded as requested. It is explained
in the above mentioned circular recently
issued by the Department of State. that
the laws of Spain are such that successful
prosecution is impossiblc' unless it can
be proven that fraud has been actually
committed, which makes the suppression
of this gang of clover swindlcrs a difficult
proposition. It is said that the operations
of this gang are not confined to the cities,
but are as well directed toward Well-to-do
farmers. hence this word of caution to
our readers.

OUR NOTIFICATION LETTER.

 

All subscribers whose time expires with
the last issue of this month as indicated
on their date tab, which will read “Jam".
“lJan.0." or is without date, will rcccivo
very soon a letter containing booklet il-
lustrating our full list of free prcmiums
offcrcd with one. two, three and five year
subscriptions. Soliciting agents are al—
lo-wctl to offer the same premiums as are
oi’t‘crcd in thc booklet. Should no agont
call on you. get up a club among your
neighbors. Each subscriber is allowcd
their choice of premiums just the same
whethcr sent thru a club raiser or to this
office direct.

“'c ask as a favor that renewals be
scul its as curly as possible. "I’lcasc Sign
namc as it roads on the name tab. Should
thc uamc on tho tab not bc correct Incu-
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the type.

\Ve bopc every prcscnt subscriber twill
renew and send an order for some friend
or ncighlmr. This refers to subscribers
who have taken The Farmer on trial for
a few months.

A summary of thc frcc premiums are
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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

Severe storms have greatly crippled
.Iapancsc coast-shipping interests and ‘2?)
persons known to have been killed as a
rcsult of the same. ‘

Bishop '1‘. A. chdrick of the diocese
of Ccrbu. Philippine Islands, died Novem—
ber 30. 0

The scason's fisheries Off the banks of
Nova Scotia havc bccn very unsatisfac-
tory. Many of thc boats will be with-
hold from fishing operations anot-hcr sca-
son on account of the poor showing.

An agrccmcnt has been rcachcd bc-
twecn Britain. Germany and Bolgium rc-
garding boundary questions pending as to
thcir respective intercsts in Africa.

Important topics in the addrcss 0f
Kaiser \Villiam at the opening of the
Reiclistag of ('iermany, v'vcrc thc cxtensiou
of the sick bcncfit of insurance to work-
ins,r classcs not hitherto protected. and
the appropriation bill for 1910 and g‘cu—
oral attention to colonies in Africa and
the South Seas.

The rulc of judicial procedure in France
which assumes that parties charged with
crime are guilty until they have proven
themselves innocent. has been changed
by the Minister of Justice, and a commit-

teeaspomtea to. any court. procedure

with a. view and power to modify'flhev’

same. . ‘

An attempt was made upon the life of
General Brun, Minister of War of France,
last week. The attempt was by an Al-
gerian who mistook his man and shot
another by mistake.

.The Belgium cabinet hag protested
against the defamatory attacks made
upon the administration in Congo Free
State, Africa, by the press of the world.
The protest-declares that the attacks are
unmerited.

The Italian cabinet resigned last week.
Baron Sidney Sonnino, former premier.
has been semi—officially entrusted with
the duty of forming a. new cabinet.

The opposition to the budget passed by
the House of Commons in England was
defeated in the House of Lords by a vote
of 350 to 75. The two bodies are now
awaiting the address of the King.

' National.

The strike situation on the railroads of
the north west is still unsettled, altho the
managers of the different lines state that
the trouble is about over, while labor
organizations remark that it has just be-
gun. Already small towns in the section
affected by the strike have felt the influ—
once 01' ticing up traffic. Freight con-
gestion is increasing in all the large
centers. . '

The warehouses of Freeman, Del-3.—
mater & Co., of Detroit, were damaged
by fire to the extent of $100,000 last
Friday

Mortimer Levering, secretary and treas-
urer of the international live stock expo-
sition, secretary of the Shropshire Sheep
breeders’ association and the American
Shetland pony club, died December 1, at
the home of his son at Cincinnati, of a
stroke of apoplexy.

Many lumbermen and lumber firms in
Minnesota, will be made defendants in a
suit‘with the United States government.
A scandal involving the timber lands on
the V‘Vhlte Earth Indian reservation in
that state, estimated to be worth $5,000,-
000 .is suspected and the action of the
government will be to ascertain the rela-
tion of the lumbering concerns with the
affair and restrain them from taking the
advantage gained thru the supposed ille-
gal transactions.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook. discoverer of the
North Pole, has submitted his data to the
authorities of the University of C0pen~
hagen, Denmark.

The battleship Michigan has been or—
dered to be put into commission, together
with several other warships. The pur-
pose of this order is not known, but sup—
posed to have connection with affairs in
Nicaragua.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

Kent 00., Nov. 23.—There its little show
for comment on the average farm in
western Michigan except to note the
unprecedented scarcity and high priccs
at which meat and butcher stock is held
in local markets. .It would seem that
scarcity of feed with which to carry stool:
over winter lies back of it all. One month
ago fall pigs were thot to be fully equal
to the demand; today a shortage is plainly
felt everywhere in that crop. This in-
evitably means a slim crop of market-
able hogs next year and a correspond-
ingly high figure for a. year to come at
least. Cattle of all kinds and grades are
sold down to the very bed ruck. This
must result in a rush for milch COWS
toward spring. Fall grain is now well
protected with snow and is entering win-
tcr under favorable conditions and in a
vigorous state.

Genesee 60., Dec. 5. Fine weather has
marked the autumn up to this date.
Farm work about all concluded. Some
sugar beets have been out quite late but
no harm done. Crops have as a rule been
good and at the prcsent high prices
farmers are feeling quite stisfied. Fall
pasturage has been short and extensive
inroads upon winter stores have been
made in some cascs, as stock had to be
fed. Potatoes have been marketed freely,
induced by good figures. but are falling
off a little now. Dairy butter scarce and
high; applcs the same. Considcra'ble fall
plowing is lbcing done as farmers believe
it a grcat hclp toward gctting in their
spring crops.

Shiawa-ssee (20., Dec. 2.—The weather
for the last week has been fine, beautiful
days accompanied by moonlight evenings.
Roads in cxccllcut condition for this time
of the year. Farmers in general are tak-
ing more interest in road construction
than in formcr ycars. A number of farm-
crs .irc planning to set out a fruit or—
chard in the spring, both for home and
commcrciai purpoacs. “’intcr crops going'
into tho winter in cxccllcnt condition.
the late rains having put the soil in good
shape. Sugar beet harvest about ovcr.
Hauling manure is the work of most
farmcrs at present. A few farms ex-
changing hands at from $60 to $100 per
acre. Lambs are constantly being ship—
ped in for feeding. No cattle have as
yct arrived.

 

MICHIGAN FARMERS' INSTITUTES.
County Inflilutcw~licnzic Co., Benzonia.
Dec. 10—11; Crawford Co., Grayling, Dec.
10-11; Montmorcncy (‘o.. Atlanta, Dec. 13.
(.‘hcboygan (‘0., Wolverine, Dec. 16—17:
Emmet Co, Pt-toskey, Dec, 17-18; ()tsego
(.‘o., Elmira. Doc. 20—21; \Vexford (70.,
Manlon, DOc. 21—22.

Ono~lMy Institutes—Ogemaw C0,, Epsi-
lon. Dcc. ll; Iosco (70., Grant, Dec. 11;
Mccosla (30.. (Thipcwa Lake, Dec. 11; Bar-
i-yton, Doc. 18; Isabella Co., Blanchard,
Dec. 13—14; \Vcidman, Dec. 15; Beal City,
Doc. 16; Dclwin, Dec. 17; Kalamazoo Co.,
Portage, Dec. 13; Vicksburg, Dec. 14; Pa-
villion, Dec. 15: Scotts, Dec, 16; Fulton,
Dec. 17; Cooper. Dec. 18; Oscoda Co..
Fairvic-w, Dec. 13; Mio, Dec. 14; Luzerne,
Dec. 15; Van Buren Co., Laiwton, Dec. 13-
14; So. Haven, Dec. 15-16; Muskegon 00..
Lake Harbor, Dec. 14; Dalton, Dec. 15;
Montague, Dec, 16; Twin Lake, Dec. 17;
Casnovia, Dec. 20: Trent, Dec. 27; Mont-.
morency Co., Lewiston, Dec. 14

 

    
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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VVhlle

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No. 101, Double Purse.——Leather lined,
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By mail.

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metal case with spring winding device.
By mall.

N0. 112—Sharp-Shave Safety Razor.—
A thoroly tested and guaranteed razor.
By mail.

N0. 113—Magnlfying or Seed Glass—Use
it to examine seeds, insects, or fungous
pests. By mail.

No. 114—Double Swing Razor Strop.«
Canvas for sharpening and leather for
finishing. B mail.

No. 116— ta-Fast
Ebenoid black handle with
curely clamped. By mail.

No. 117—Brass Case Compass.—:Pocket
size, one inch in diameter. By mail.

N0. 118—Ropp’s Commercial Calculator.
—Valuab1e information for farmers. Ile-
vised pocket edition. By mail.

No. 119—Antl—Rattle.—Has spring and
safety bolts. Safe and no noise. By
mail.

N0. 120—Dominoes.—Double six set,
black with white spots. By mail.

No. 121'—Game of Authors—A pocket
edition of this ever popular game. By
mail.

No. 124—One Silver-Plated Milk-Tube.
—For sore teats. Three lengths, 21/2. 3
or 31/2 inches. Mention Size. By mail.

No. 125——Teat Plug for hard milking
cows or leaky teats. By mail.

No. 126—Star Darning Machine, for
mending anything from socks to lace
curtains. By mail. .

No. 127—Farmer’s Calculator.~Vcter1-
nary advice alone makes this valuable
Book of farm record. By mail,

No. 128—A Stamping and Printing Set.
~—'l‘ype is 1,43 inch high, in outline. Eight
colors of paints and brush. By mail.

No. 132—Composltlon Whetstone.~Fast
cutting for all kinds of knives, scythes,
etc. By mail.

No. 133—Family Record of births,
deaths and marriages, with ovals for ten
portraits. By mail.

No, 134—Household Needle Case-Con-

Shavlng Brush.~—-
bristles se-

tains 25 imported assorted needles, 20
special needles, bodkins, darners, etc.
By mail.

No. 137—Fountain Fem—Hard rubber,
fancy chased barrel with two gold plated
points. By mail.

N0. 138—F0untain Lead Pencil—Metal
case with Screw feed so lead is protected
when not in use, with six leads. iy
mail.

No. 140 Hohner Marine Band Harmo-
nica.—llighest grade; 10 single holcs, 30
reeds, two brass plates. By mail.

No. 141—Rubber Stamp Printing Outfit.
—Five alphabets, figures, holder, twezcrs
and ink pad. By mail.

No. 144—Magic Ruffler.——For any sew-
ing machine. Slips on the foot in a min—
ute’s time. Gathers, shirrs or puff-s all
kinds of goods. By mail.

N0. 145—Darner for Sewing Machines.
7#Fits any sewing machine. barns stock-
ings, towels, underwear, making a smooth
cven darn. By mail.

No. 146—P0st Card Album.—Holds lilo
cards. It is 81,; inches wide by 91/; inches
high. By mail. ‘

No. 148—Gape Worm Extractor.fl‘or
removing gape worms from young chicks.
Bv mail.

'No_ 152—Carpenter’s 3-ft. Folding Rule.
—VVlth metal bound. spring joints, hold-
ing it rigidly in position. By mail.

No. 155—Roger’s Nickle Silver Tea-
spoons.—~Genuinc silvcr nickle teaspoons.
Solid metal. No plating to wear Off.

 

Heavy weight. Ry mail.

No: 157—Perfection Cherry Seeder.~
Stems and seeds at the same time. Docs
the work quickly and bcttcr than by

hand. By mail.

No. 158—Silvcr Plated Napkin Ring.~«
Satin finish with fancy engraving. By
mail.

No. 159—Patent Tension Shears—Eight
inches long, with patent adustxable spring
bolt. Prevents the blades from spread-
ing. By mail.

No. 160—Watch Fob.~—Oxidizcrl silver
finish on hard white metal base. Black
strap with a nickle buckle. By lnuil.

No. Nil—Tobacco Pouch.~All leather
with drawn strings and button fasteners.
“'1“ hold a good supply of tobacco. By
mail. .

,No. 162—Salt and Pepper Shakers.—
'l‘hesc are silver plated on a pickle silver
base, and will give good service. By mail.

No. 163—Duplex Poultry Market—For
marking poultry by perforating the webb

the foot. By mai.
0fNo. 164—Cut Up Puzzle Map of North
America.——Map is cut into irregular size
and Shape pieces “Elliich pligzzles ilhe chil-

‘ et it togc ier. y ma .
dlfilb.t266g—New Reference Wall Chart——
Including world map and map 05 MlChl-
gen and many other attractive features.

By mail.

No. 167—Rough and Ready Knife.——Two
razor steel blades. ebony handle, strong
and substantial. By mail.

No. 184—50 Beautiful Post Cards of
landscapes, flowers with mottoes, pretty
girls. By mail.

No. 185-50 Christmas and New Year
Post Cards. By mail.

No. 186—50 Tour of the World on Post
Cards. By mail.

No. 190—50 Post Cards, “How Cook and
Peary Discovered the North Pole.”———By
mail.

No. 192—“The Conquest of the North."
——An authentic account of the finding of
the North Pole by Peary and Cook. Bio-
graphies of each and short history of
Arctic discovery. By mail.

No. 193—Art Calendar.—A beautiful
lithographic reproduction in eleven colors
and gold, after the original oil painting by
a celebrated domestic animal painter, E.
Johnson King, of New York. By mail.

No. 197—Farmer's Universal Account
Book.—So simple and practical that every
farmer can keep a complete record of his
business. By mail.

No. 198—A Handsome Lace Scarf.—
Nearly an exact reproduction of the gen-
uine lace. Can be used as a cover or a.
small curtain for twindow. By mail.

No. 199—An Illustrated Story Book.—
Something that will amuse and entertain
the young folks. By mail.

Class B.
No. 103—Ladies’ Hand Bag—Black seal
grain welted, moreen lined. Contains

small coin purse. By mull.

No. 104—Extra Deep Coin Purse.—Black
kid leather, 3-inch. :l—ball nickle frame.
One pocket is the Size of an ordinary coin
purse. By mail.

No. 105—Squaw Bag—Colored ooze
leather with fringed end. Double strap
hulltllc. By mail. .

No. 107—Ladies’ Pocketbook—Coin
pocket, two extra pockets and card case
pocket with a leather lining. By mail.

No. 116—Seven House Plants—«Ferns.
ole. Would cost about $1.00, if sold by
florists or nurseries. By mail.

No. 122—Safety Hitching Strap.—Heavy
cotton webbing, stronger than leather.
By mail.

No. 123—L0ck Stitch Sewing ij.—
With straight and curved needles. For
harness, sack, canvas or any heavy sew-
ing. By mail.

No. 130—Sugar Shell and Butter Knife.
——Rogers. Solid nickle silver, no plating
to wear off. By mail.

No. 131—Sanitary Dripless Strainer.—
Made of polished copper. Ouadruple sil—
ver plated in satin finish. By mail.

No. 134—Roman Gold Locket—Holds
one picture. Good quality. Guaranteed
for five years. By mail.

N0. 136—Stylo Ink Pencil.——Uses ink
like a fountain pen but writes with a
round point like a. pencil. By mall.

No. 139—Rubber Holder Fountain Lead
Pencil.——Extra leads are contained in the
upper end of the barrel, which has a
S(‘i'9W‘ cap. By mail.

No. 142—U. S. Cotton Bunting FIag.~—l
Bowed stripes. Fast color. Very Sel'\'l\'c—.
able. Size 2%x4 foot. [iy mail.

No. 143—Magic Tucker.—l“ils any sew—
ing machine. Is easily adjusted. By
mail.

No. 149—French Poultry Killing Knife.
“Of best instrument steel. Finely tem—

pcrcd and ground. By mail.
No. 150—Child’s Silver Plated Cup.»«
Good weight to give good service and

strong handle to Stand the thumps which
such cups gci. By mail.

No. 151—Rolled Gold Cross.—-\\‘ilh
stonc rolling for lzulics' neck chain. By
mull.

N0. 153—Ladies’ Gold Shell Ring.—»\Vill
Wcar and look like solid gold. Made of‘
H kt. solid gold, drawn over composition
baSc. By mail. i

No. 154—Gold Shell Band Ring.~~ForI
ladies or gentlemen. same quality as the
ladies’ ring. 15}: mail.

No. 156—Nut Cracker and Six Picks.—
A good, scrviccuhlc, well—mode and fin-
ishcd set. lly mail.

No. 168—Gentlemen’s Strap Wallet.—
Mudc of gcnuinc sheep skin leather. one
.h-np pocket for bills, and three card
pockets. liy mail.

No. 177—Bon-Bon Dish of Silver Plate.

 

”Quadruplcd silver plate. Full gold
lint-d, crimpcd sidcs. lly llliill.
No. 180—Cook BOOKWA \‘cry conven-

ient size with whilc oil cloth covl-r which

 

can be washed clczln whcn soiled. By
mail.

No. 147—Rolled Gold Link Cuff But-
tons—Roman gold finish. By mail.

No. 196-—Michigan Farmer Handy At-
las—Contains maps of cvcry state in the
union and all the countries of the world.
By mail.

SPECIAL PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS.

No. 170—Outfit to Cure Milk Fever.—
The outfit will protect you against loss.
Save Veterinarian fees. and if used once
will be worth the price of a ’valu-able cow.
Sent for nine subscriptions. By express.

No. 171—Silver Bread Tray.—Best qual—
ity quadruple silver plate. Guaranteed
for 10 years. Heavy diwork design. Sent
for seven subscriptions. By express. If
nine subscriptions are sent, we will pre-
pay charges.

No. 172—Farmers’

 

Knife—Three razor

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steel blades, special castratlng blade. stag
handle, brass lined, German Silver tips
and shield. ‘Sent for five subscriptions.
By mail. '

N0. 173—Wall Hat Rack.—-The frame
is made of pressed steel. Ormola gold
finish baked on. errOr in center, with
six removable hooks. Sent for seven sub-
scriptions. By express. If 11 subscrip-
tions are sent we will prepay charges.

No. 174—Imported German Razor.—Best

quality English razor steel. Ground by
German grinders and imported by ‘us.
Sent for five subscriptions. By mail.

No. 175—BOy’s Watch.—This is a good
dependable watch and will last a long
time, if not abused. Sent for only six
subscriptions. By mail.

No. 176—Sllver Berry Set.-—These three
pieces are quadruple silver plate, full gold
lined and crimped sides. Sent for seven

subscriptions. By express. If nine sub-
scriptions are sent we will prepay
charges.

No. 178—Kltchen Outfit—A utensil for
every purpose. and everything in its
place. W'ith good quality utensils. Sent
for six subscriptions. By express. If nine
subscriptions are sent we 'will prepay
charges.

No. 179—Movlng Picture and Magic
Lantern—Machine stands 101/2 inches
high on a base 7x31,é inches. The body is
made of polished blue steel, fitted with
oil lamp and glass chimney. Sent for
seven subscriptions. By express.

No. 181—Toilet Clippers.—Best quality,
{Kg-inch cut, concealed spring. Sent for
five subscriptions. By mail.

No. 182—Fancy Gilt Clock—Reliable
one—day movement. with alarm attach-
ment. Givcn for eight subscriptions. BY
express. If 11 subscriptions are sent we
will prepay charges.

No. 183—P05t Card' Album, 300 Cards.
—Handsomc black alligator grain paper
cover. Title embossed in gold, reinforced
binding. Stitched and stu'bbed to prevent
bulging. Sent for five subscriptions. By
express. If six subscriptions are sent,
we prepay charges.

No. 194—Slx Wildwood Teaspoons.—
Reliance plate is made by the Oneida
Community and every piece is guaranteed
for ten years. It is for sale by all lead-
ing jewelers. Sent for $2.18 with the
Michigan Farmer for five years. By mail.

No. 195—Berry Spoon.——-The same de
sign and quality as the VVild-wood tea-
spoons. Scnt for $2.18 with the Michigan
Farmer for five years. By mail.

No. ZOO—Gasoline Blow Torch—For
any purpose where cheap, clean and in-
tense heat is desired, either in hand
work or bench. Free with four subscrip-

tions to the Michigan Farmer. By mail.
No. 201—Combination TOOL—Can be
used for ten different things. Very con-

venient, light and strong. Contains set
of ten oil tempered, well finished, forged
steel tools. Sent free for a club of three
subscriptions. By mail.

For added premiums watch closely our
paper each week.

PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS.

For each club of two subscriptions we
will send you any one Class A premium.

For each club of three subscriptions
we will send you any one Class B or any
two Class A premiums.

. (13) 501
"Will“! FARMS‘E‘ESA'B'E'MA‘MB?

s lendld cum water road- uld lohooll, Write
alum No.4. d. a. sham. wuss. men.

31 2 Acre Water Front, Farm

0n the Eastern Shore.

A hustler can make this place worth 010.000 In a
few years and put several thousand dollan In the
bank while doing so; out: 100 to 120 who hay. fields
level and easily cultivated: 5 acres well stocked
oyster bottom: cheep water transportation to
Baltimore: two residences. 7 and 14 room nopectlve-
ly. ample outbuildings, arteolan well; owner
retiring: price for Immediate sale only .000.part
cash. See page 165 “Strout’u Farm Buyers Guide
No. 28." copy free. E. A.8TROUT 00.. Book. 101.
Union Bank 3103.. Plttsburg. Pa.

Fertile Farms In Tennessee
'-—$5 to $10 per acre—l

Fortunes are being made on fertile Tennes-
see farms. They raise big crops of Canta-
loupes. Cabbage. Tomatoes. String Beans.
Green tn etc.. also Horses,oattie.shee . Swine.
Poultry and W

E . rite me at once or Free
Literature. fill tell you how to get one of these

splendid terms for $5 to $10 per acre. Act. quickly!
H. F, Smith. Tnf. M315, no.5: SLLBy.,DepL0. Nashville, Tenn.

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in Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, write to
WILBUR MCCOY,
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5-5:». Virgin] _
(L'l'haexichfm an nowbcbouzhleuhe
lowptioc or $10.00 to 35.00 9:; non.
two and three crops 3 you.
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Railway Fine clinic—Mace of timber and
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For each club of four subscriptIOns we
will send you one Class A and one Class
B premium.

For each club of five subscriptions we
will send you any two Class B or any
three ClaSS A premiums.

The suliscribers will also get their
choice of premiums with their subscrip-
tions as given above,

Your own subscription may be included
in the club in which case you get pre-
mium with the subscription and also for
the club.

Always mention Premium Number.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

BUUKKEEPIN ..

TA U G H T
if you wilh to earn $2000 340 per week, write “I. We teach

you bookkeeping at home in a few week! of your spare time, and
give diploma. Our new system in so simple anyone can learn.
Fro. Employment Bureau open to all our pupils. One tree
scholarship in every town. Write for particulars.

Lincoln Commercial School, 944 Ohio Bldg, Toledo. Ohio.

WANTED—tocorrcspond with one who underlhndl the
’ .r'nmhg and marketing of celery and who ‘
would like a [mention in the spring. J. W. Iii-JENEY, Erie, Mich.

WANTED-M9“ to learn barber trade. Bar.

. bers wanted daily. Tuition and
tools 0'25- Catalog lree. MICHIGAN BARBER
COLLEGE. 37 East Congress Street. Detroit, Mich

CEDAR POSTS “$3.91:- Write

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Posts, etc. We furnish sample plans and Instruc-
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FARMS AND FARM lANlJS
FOR SALE llll EXBHANEE

FOR SALE—$9.000 farm for 356000. South
Central Michigan. Must sell.
Address W. A. WHITEHEAD, Ionia. Michigan

I BELL FARMS IN OCEANA. The best county
In the United States; fruit. grain and stock.
Write for list. J. D. S. HANSON. Hart. Mich.

' Farm. 100 acres on stone
Truck and ”a", pike, 3 miles from Toledo
with 200,000 peOple. 32 railroads. etc. etc.. for Isle

on reasonable terms. A sure money maker.
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TOOK 0R DAIRY FARM of 240 acres. about
2 miles from village and electric road. between
Detroit and Saginaw. Land roillng. soil productive.
40 acres. thrifty timber. 8-room house. 3 large barnl.
silo. apple orchard and other fruit. lake frontage.
Bola reasonable. Box 09. RJ‘. D. 2. Ortonvlue. Mich. I.

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WESTERN MIMI)!

Senator Doliiver. of Iowa says 2 ""

“The stream of emi also from the 511in States
to Canada w' I continue."
cantor Dolliver recently paid a visit to
Western Canada. and says: “There
in a land hunger in the hearts of
English speaking people: this will
account for the removal of so many
Iowa farmers to Canada. Our pe0v
ple are plealed with its govern-
ment and the excellent adminis-
tration of law. and they are com-
ing to you in tons of thousoudl,
. hold they are still coming."

owa contributed lat el to

70.00‘ Amerlcnn farmers vghyo Instill);
Canada their home during 190 9. Field
crop returns alone during year added
to the wealth of the country close to

$170,000,000.0o

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SANITARY BARNYARDS.

 

A barnyard that muds up, or “punches"
up with the tramping of cows in wet
weather, is not a sanitary yard. It is
almost impossible to keep cows clean
and produce clean milk where the cows
have to wallow thru the mud every time
they are let out of the stable. When
they come into the stable their legs are
covered with mud and sometimes their
udders. When they lie down the udder
comes in contact with the hind legs
and is smeared over with this mud from
the barnyard. It is absolutely impossible
to keep it off the udder unless one takes
pains to wipe off the hind legs of the
cows and care for them in much the same
way as you would for horses. or course,
where a man has a. gravelly, or sandy
yard and surroundings, and only keeps
a few cows, it may be possible to have
a sanitary barnyard without making any
special preparation for it; but for the
dairyman who keeps a herd of ten cows
and up, on ordinary soil, it is practically
impossible to keep a clean barnyard un-
less some special effort is made.

People have advocated everything.
They scrape up the mud occasionally and
draw in fresh gravel, some 'have drawn
in cinders.and some have paved the
yard with stone. A stone pavement prop-
erly laid, does very well, yet it is very

THE M CHIGAN .- F ; RM

they must have exercise outside of the
pen, and when they are turned into yards

it is almost impOssible to keep these.

yards in anything like proper condition
unless they are paved with cement. The
same thing will apply to the dairymen's
barnyard. He must have an exercise
yard for his cows and in order to have
this sanitary it must be in such shape
that the cows can be kept out of the mud
and the yard can be cleaned occasionally.
I do not think it necessary to have this
yard with so much slope that the rain
will wash it off clean. This would be in
many instances quite a waste of manure.
But if it is level and the droppings have
to be scraped up with a shovel and drawn
into the field, it can ‘be kept clean. It
can be kept in such a condition that very
little of the droppings on the cement floor
will adhere to the feet and legs of the
cow, no more so than the stable floor, so
that when the cows come back to the
barn and lie down their udders do not
come in contact with the filthy mud of
the barnyard which has adhered to their
legs. And the yard will not only be much
more sanitary and the milk produced
from it much more clean than from a
muddy and unsanitary yard, but there
will be a great deal of satisfaction to the
dairyman. Hauling in gravel only stops
the difficulty for a short time and the
droppings from the cows mixes in with
the gravel and the first thing you know
you have a nasty, filthy mess for the
cows to walk thru again. With cement
however, this would not occur and it
could be easily cleaned say, once a week,
and hauled out into the field and thereby

washer.

An icehouse in which was a good sized
cold storage room seemed to 'play a very
important part in making this dairy farm}
a fine place to live.

The illustration shows the south side of
the barn and shows its design, and the.|
location of the concrete silo. I cannot
recall distinctly just how many cows
the barn will stable but it is around 70‘
head. They are in swing stanchions and
the stable that extends to the east has
cement floors and mangers. These man-
gers are high, and wide enough at the
top to keep the cows from dropping their
feed over in the alley. There are partl-
tions in the mangers to keep the cows
from eating one another’s grain. There
are no partitions bet-ween their bodies.
The drop is 8 in. high and the gutter 16
in. wide. 'The other part of the stable
is made of wood.

The horse stable is in the northwest
corner of the building and has a fine ce-
ment floor and running water and is gen-
erally well equipped. The silo is of con-
crete and has hollow walls, cement roof
and chute, 16x30 ft. in size, and will hold
from 140 to 150 tons. - The silo seems to
be very satisfactory and successful. I
spent six weeks on this farm last year
and learned that they had only discov-
ered that they could grow corn success-
fully about five or six years ago, and I
believe the owner of this dairy farm,
Mr. F. H. Vanderboom, told me that the
first crop of corn grown in that section
was grown on his place four years before.
He says that the heavy snow would come

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H, Farm Buildings and Herd of Mr. Vanderboom’s Well-Equipped Dairy Farm, of Marquette County, Upper Peninsula.

difficult to clean. I am of the opinion
ilhat in the future a barnyard will not
be considered sanitary unless it is made
of grout—a cement barnyard. Of course,
in the past it was a question of consid-
erable expense to have a cement barn-
yard, but at the present price of good
Portland cement and with our general
knowledge of laying the material it is
not so very expensive. Cement can be
bot in car load lot-s from $1.25 to $1.35
a barrel. Mixed five to one will make
a grout barnyard that will stand all con-
ditions of weather. It need not be over
four inches thick if the ground is well
prepared and well tamped under it. For
the farmer who has a gravel pit upon his
own farm, the expense is comparatively
light. For those who have to buy the
gravel of course, and haul it any consid-
erable distance, will make the expense
greater.

The demand is for more sanitary yards.
The man who sells milk in the future will
be required, if he puts his milk upon the
market, to have his yard in such condi-
tion that the cows will not have to go
thru the mud in going in and out of the
stable. So I believe it will only be a
short time before every milkman will
deem it advisable to put in a grout floor
in his barnyard. As a'mattcr of fact,
grout will be used, and is used now ex-
tensively on farms. No one thinks now
of putting in a stable floor, or a h0g pen
floor, or a hen'house floor of any other
material than cement. Cement ih-og trofs
are superior to all other kinds and ce-
ment hog yards have come and are bound
to stay. Where a man keeps a large
number of hogs in the winter time,

save a large amount of manure which is
now tramped and mixed up with the
earth and absolutely lost to the farmer.
A cement barnyard will in my opinion
be a necessity in the near future.

THE MARQUETTE CITY DAIRY.

 

A Northern Peninsula dairy farm that
has many attractive features besides be-
ing a very practical and modern milk and
money producing proposition is this dairy
farm.

Among the good features is the farm
home. The picture ShOWS its south side,
but it has more than one sunny side.
It is a very good example of the best
modern farm homes of the present day.
It has good plumbing thruout, bath and
toilet, hot and cold water, and about
all else one could really use in a good
home.

The water plant is about the best I
have ever met with on a farm. The sup-
ply comes from a fine spring trout stream
that flows thru the place and across the
stable yard. The water is piped by grav-
ity from a concrete dam, a short distance
up stream, direct into the barn where it
flows constantly thru the watering basins,
and I found they were a highly valued
part of the 'barn equipment, same as I
have always «found them to be in stables
rwhere they were properly installed and
used.

The house supply is forced up there by
a ram which pumps direct into a pneu-
matic tank in the cellar which, in turn,
furnishes pressure enough to put the
water wherever wanted about the house
or yard and thru the milk cooler and

before it was possible to get the crop
secure and that it was a very trying
proposition to dig the shock out of the
snow to feed, but that they did so for
several years and then he made up his
mind to have a silo, and try it out, and
this concrete one was the result. Last
winter after he had used it several months
he said that it would pay for itself the
first year. .Last year he did not begin
to get the corn from 18 acres of ground
into this 16x36 ft. silo and this year ‘he
says it took about 15 acres of dent corn
to fill it. One can readily see that in a
land where they grow mostly timothy hay
that there is some advantage in growing
corn and using a silo.

The picture shows up the dairy herd in
good shape and they were as good as they
look. They are breeding Guernseys and
had a few very good full bloods and a

good many grades and some promising,
The rest of the herd is made up'

heifers.
of native stock in which is a. good deal
of Holstein blood.

He fed malt and other grain but (lid
not stick to any one kind. He pastures
some rough land that gives very good
feed.

This farm has always had to pay its‘

own way and its products have paid for
its present good equqipment and he is
planning to put it in better shape so as
to produce a greater amount at a smaller
cost.

Many would be surprised to know that
crops and vegetables in general grow
much quicker up in this locality than they
do much further south, also they are finer
in quality and flavor and more tender.

In fact, I was surprised to find that our

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Sharples D Tubular Cream Sep-
Y‘ratots are unlike all others.

mon separators have heavy, com-
piicated side-ti ping bowls that are hard
to ban le, hard to wash, sure to
lose their balance, sure to get
shak. Then they waste cream,
run ard, wear out. That is
because common separators are
built Swrong.

Sharples Dairy i’l‘ubular
bowls are light, simple, sani-
tary, easy to clean, self-balan-
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are guaranteed for-1
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up a. Star Litter Car-
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beyond our compre-
hension Don’t care
it you have but
cows, a horse and 3. Billy Goat. They can appreciate
a clean place to stay over night Just as well as a
man. Milk inspectors don’t care much about Billy
Goats and horses, but one will be around some day
to call on you and if you haven’t a sanitary born or
means for making it sanitary, there will be trouble.

The Star Litter Carrier

QUIGKLY PAYS FOR ITSELF

The sooner you put one in the sooner you will be-
gin saving money Write for our catalog No. 37
which tells all about our Star Litter, Feed and Milk.
Con Carriers.

SEND US A ROUGH SKETUH

tyour barn and we will draw it to a scale and will
tel on what style of outfit you require and Just
who. it will cost.

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Mfrs. of Barn Equipments for 25 years,
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The Mill That Lasts.

You Ipend more for repairs on 9 "cheap"
mill than for the mill itself. Our Bnhr Stone
Mill is not expensive, and lutsn lifetime without
repairs or breakdowns. Genuine old fashioned
mill stones, not iron grinders. Easily keptgood
I: new. Grinds smooth noun-hing stock feed,
also the belt cornmeal and table flours.
Requires little power and no experi-
ence. Profitable trade from neighborl.
” ‘__, Fully guaranteed.
~ 531‘ Write for “Book on Kills.”

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great north halt" was. such‘ a iiveable

place. It is generally looked upon as a
place of-iron and copper, way off up in.
the cold. But I assure you that with its
many cold, 'sparkling: streams and lakes,
beautiful woodland scenes in which w'hite
birch and hard maple play an interesting
part, the many picturesque and richly
colored rock's along the shores of great
blue Superior, whose cold, clear waters
riVal any in the world, its wonderful mines
of- iron and Copper, these attractions along
with which are mixed so many big-heart-

ed loyal Michiganders, makes it a part of“

our state well worth a visit and a study.
Branch Co. R. C. ANGEVINE.‘

SEPARATOR 'MILk 'FOR CALVES:
RINGWORM 0N CALVES.

 

I have been feeding my calves on milk
from the cream separator, as soon after
running thru, as ’I can. During the last
year they have not done well; have
They have also many white»
patches on their faces and eyelids like
a run-around. What is the trouble and
how can I remedy it? Whether these
two troubles are connected or not I am

not advised.
Oceana Co. SUBSCRIBER.

Usually when calves have scours it in-
dicates indigestion, and indigestion always
indicates overfeeding to the careful feeder
The probability is, therefore, that you
have been feeding your calves too much
skim milk. Skim milk is an unbalanced
ration because the fat in the milk has
been removed, and trying to raise thrifty
calves by increasing the ration of milk
is not a. good policy. It cannot be done.
The .skim milk you feed beyond a certain
amount is worse than thrown away. The
calf will not thrive upon it. I would sug-
gest that you cut down the mess of skim
milk and add to take the place of the
butter-fat removed in separating a small
amount of flaxseed jelly. By this I do not
mean the common oil meal on the market
after the oil has been removed, but ground
fiaxseed boiled and made into a jelly.
Put a. small amount of this into the calf‘s
milk as soon as you begin to feed it skim
milk, and don’t feed it too much skim
milk. Four or five pounds at a feed is
all the skim milk a calf ought to have.
If you will do this I doubt if you have
any more trouble from indigestion and
scours. There is, however, another thing
to “be noted in feeding skim milk to calves
dire-ct from the separator. As the milk
comes from the separator and runs down
into the receptacle, it gets very frothy.
There is a large amount of air incorpo—
rated into the milk. Now, if you take
this milk at once and feed it to the calf.
he gets too much air into his stomach and
does not do well. The froth is sometimes
four or five inches thick upon the pail.
This frot‘h ought to be removed. or the
milk ought to stand until it properly set-
tles. The best way is to take this froth
off. Then the calf does not get‘ too much
air into his stomach and you will have
much better results.

The other difficulty which you speak
of is undoubt-dely the old—fashioned ring-
worm which is quite apt to occur at any
time with anybody’s calves. This is a
skin disease caused by microbes. It is
contagious, that is, can be communicated
from one calf to another. The best way,
of course, is to separate the calves. This
is not always done and is not always
necessary from the fact that the ring—
worm usually yie’l-ds Without any difficulty
to treatment. If you will wash the in-
fected parts with soap and watcr to care-
fully soak up and remove the scab already
formed, and then apply once a day ascetic
acid, 1or sulphur ointment or nitrate of
mercury ointment, (you can gct any one
of these three at the drug store at com-
paratively little expense), and carefully
apply this after the ringworm has been
washed with soap and water I think you
will have no trouble in having the ring-
worm yield to the treatment in a short
time.

 

VALUE OF CORN SLIAGE COMPARED
WITH CLOVER HAY.

 

Will you please tell me how many tons
of silage it; takes to be equal in food
value and in commercial value to a ton
of good clover hay?

Montcalm "Co. R. B. F.

The chemical analysis of Clover is 6.8
per cent digestible protein, 35.8 per cent
digestible carbohydrates and 1.7 per cent
digestible fat. The chemical analysis
corn silage is .9 per cent digestible pro-
tein, 11.3 per cent digestible carbohy-
drates and .7 per cent digestible fat.
Comparing these we find that so far as
protein, the most valuable part of the
ration is concerned, one ton of clover hay
would be equal to over seven tons of corn
silage. When we look at the carbohy-
drates we find that one ton of clover hay

_time worth $12.50,

would be equal to over three tons of corn
silage. When we investigate the fat, we
find that one ton of clever hay would be
worth a little over two tons of corn sil—
age. While the protein is the most valu-
able food for the average farmer, yet
the carbohydrates must be taken into
consideration and the probability is that
one ton of clover hay is about equal in
feeding value to five tons of corn silage.
In our cow testing association work in
this state we figure corn silage worth
$2.50 a ton, and if we take this estimate
and say that one ton of clover hay is
worth five tons of corn silage, that would
make a ton of clover hay at the present
which is somewhere
near its market value. The succulency
of corn silage is worth something and we
do not usually take that into considera-
tion when we figure its value. In fact,
no one knows how much it is worth, but
it is certain that it is worth more than its
food value would indicate.

 

POTATOES FOR COWS.

Will you please answer in your columns,
how many potatoes you find profitable to
feed to milch cows'.’ I have one that
comes fresh in April, the other in May.
Will too many potatoes cause them to
drop their calves? .0

Emmet Co, ' B. ABMOCK.

Potatoes make a fairly good succulent
feed for cows, providing, of course. they
are cheap enough so that one can afford
to 'feed them. They probably are not

 

 

quite so good as mangcl wurzels or beets
or carrots, because the cows do not
relish them quite so well, but they form
a good variety of succulent food. If one
has nothing of that sort, no roots, corn
silage or any succulent food, I believe it
will pay, certainly at the present price of
potatoes, to feed a small amount each
day. “'hat is wanted is a little succulent
food to keep the digestive system in good
condition and help the animal to assimi—
late and digest the balance of the mration.
Indeed, if they were fed in excess they
would probably do harm. I would advise
you to start in gradually and increase the
amount of potatoes. You could safely
feed a peek of potatoes to the cow night,
and morning; that would make one-halt
a bushel a day. But I would not feed in
excess of this. I do not believe it would
pay to feed a heavier ration of potatoes
than this to cows. Their food value is
not very great. their suecu'lcncy being
the greatest reason for feeding them at
all. I am convinced that should you 'feed
them in excessive quantities and not keep
up the rest of the ration. the hay and the
grain, that the cows would be injured. I
am not positive that it would cause them
to abort or lose their calvcs, but I would
not give a cow all the potatoes she could
possibly eat, and withhold the rest of the
ration.

 

Waterproof Roofing.

Most people think that a material which
is called a roofing is, of course, water-
proof. As a matter of‘fact. ordinary
ready rootings are only waterproof for a
little while, and do not really become
root's at all until they are painted. Most
ready roofings when new have a coat of
paint which has been applied at the fac-
tory, and when the paint wears out it
must be promptly renewed or the manu-
facturers’ guarantee Will not hold. An
up—to—date rooting like Amatitc, has a
‘urfacc of pitch and mineral matter which
s absolutely proof against water. The
pitch in Amatite Roofing is in two good
thick layers. On account of the oily na-
ture of pitch. watcr has no effect upon
it, and accordingly Amatite Roofing needs
ll“ paint whatever and can be left out in
rain and snow and sun year after year
without any attention or care. Despite
this peculiar surface, Amatite is just as
easy to lay as any other roofing and does
not cost any more. A. sample of Amatite
can be obtained free on request to near-

est office of the Barrett leg. C0.. New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St.
Louis. Cleveland. Pittsburg, Cincinnati,

Kansas City, Minneapolis, New Orleans.

 

How to Remove Stumps.

’l‘hc Du Pont Company |has just re-
cently issued a little booklet entitled,
“\Yhat a Massachusctis Farmer Did to
Boulders, and a, Minnesota Farmer to
Stumps with Dynamite." The booklet is
further described as “Practical Talks by
Farmcrs to Farmers," or “How to Clear
Land of Boulders and Stumps." In other
words, the booklet contains what might
be described as a. recital of the experiences
of two practical farmers who cleared their
land respectively of boulders and stumps,
to their great financial benefit. This
booklet will be sent upon receipt of re—
quest for same, to anybody who writes
to Dept. 29, TC. I, Du Pont De Nemours
Powder Company, “’ilmington, Delaware.

Hygeno A

“The Farmer’s Friend." is the title of a
booklet published by the Hygeno Disin-
fectant Company, of Cleveland. Ohio.
This is a neatly illustrated book giving
specific directions for the use of Hygeno
as a dip and disinfectant for the many
purposes for which it is suited, in and
about the stables and for all kinds'of live
stock. It will be sent to readers of this
paper who write the above company ask-
ing for it.

 

 

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THE MicHiGAN FARMER.

  

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'How Would You Build a Separator?

is yet to come—the bowl must be
balanced so as to run smooth and
quiet Without the slightest jar or

“You’ve got an anvil and a drill
press in your repair shed, haven‘t
you?" asked our foreman. .

“Yes," replied the farmer Visiting
our factory.

“Well, there’s a lot of people think
they can build separators with about
that equipment,” continued our
foreman, “and to show you the dif-
ference let me tell you how we do it
at our factory.

“First we get high—carbon steel——

vibration. \Ve employ the most
expert men and pay them big wages
for this delicate work."

“Yes,” interrupted the farmer,
“but how can you sell the machine
for Such a low price ?”

“Because we are making more
than 50,000 this year,” smiled our
foreman. “We divide our overhead

 

 

that costs more, but with
it we can secure exact-
ness down to a fourth-of- ,:
a-thousandth of an inch. ’

“Then every casting is
put into a revolving
shaker which removes the
sand and cleans the cast-
ing so any imperfection
may be seen and the
casting rejected.

“When it comes to the
bowl we draw each one
from discs of the toughest
steel cut to exact size so
there will be no waste.
Every stamp of the big
press draws the bowl 3
little deeper until finally
it comes out a perfect
shell without seams.

 

The Economy Chief

$28.80 to

expense among this tre-
mendous number so it
amounts to a very little on
each machine. Then we
sell it direct to the farmer
and avoid the travelin
salesman’s expenses an
the profit for the local
dealer and county agents.
“The big 600- ound
machine we sell for 43.65
would cost if sold through
dealers about $125.00.
“Perhaps you would
like to see the factory]:
suggested our foreman.
“Just step over this way
into the first room where

   

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43 65 contained in our new booklet called
. "Facts About Our Factory." Sent
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lions gather dust and disease germs.
should never come within a sume's throw of your milk pail.

Keep ll: Off The Cows

her feed and her milk yield falls below normal, look to your stable.
as clean as you can make it; but that may not be clean enough.

Theloudenway

than profitl will not fall off. The cow that. is best treated gives the most
milk—the best. milk-the richest. milk. She has a lieup of cow sense. She
appreciates light and air. and she will see that you get your money back
for making her home modern. If you will put 11 London thtcr
Onrrlor to work behind her, your boys or your man will clean the
barn: in less time and with less labor. We have been fitting up harm
for 50 years. We will be glad to give you the benefitof this experience by
Buzzeating what you need for yours, without any expense to you. Semi for
Catalog, toll number of cows you have and submit rough sketch of stable.
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Write for the book and full partiCulars now to
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No matter how hard you try you can't make an old stable with dirt floors
and wood partitions unitary—you can't keep it clean and sweet.
Dirt floors with their trumpeddn filth

Wood parti-

Wlien a cow gets off
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UNICORN DAIRY RATION

a test and find it to be a superior feed for making milk. Send for booklet and
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

 

OF INTEREST @—

have taken exceptions to the article

published in this department re-
cently, written by Dorothy Hudspith on
“The Country’s Attitude Toward Life’s
Refinements." They said it was unjust
and untrue, as the farmer was not the
unmanner’ly creature that the writer pic-
tured. _

We used this article because it con-
tained facts sufficient to warrant it. It
was severe when aimed at the farmer as
a whole, but this was not the intention.
Country life is no different than any other
phase of human existence. You will find
the good and the bad, the thrifty and the
eleven, the progressive man and the slug-
gard in any pathway you choose to walk.
The preaCher must talk to his flock as
if to a single person, but his sermon is
sometimes written to reach just one man
in his congregation, whom he may have
in mind.

There are isolated cases of the tillers
of the soil who need just such a repri-
mand to startle them from the careless
and ill-mannered customs which they
have allowed themselves to settle in. And
a few such [words of warning to others,

THERE are some of our readers who

-'I© TO WOMEN

Was the Criticism on the Farmer Just?

who unthinkingly neglect the little nice—
ties of life, which make it worth living,
are often found valuable to them, to
arouse them from the heedlessness into
which they have fallen and to freshen
their memories on the little things which
their busy lives often threaten to crowd
out.

There was a time when the farmer lived
in a world of his own. There were no
daily mails, no telephones and few trains
to keep him in touch with the city world.
Papers and magazines were rarely re-
ceived and the pioneer was too busy
wresting a living from the prairies and
forests to read them, if they possessed
them. Then it was that he fell far behind
in the pace of civilization but that
belonged to the past centuries. The av-
erage farmer today is the most in-depend.
ent man in the world. He gets his daily
mail the same as his city brother. He
reads scientifically prepared magazines
written especially for his use, and he
has but to live and learn and he can hold
his own with any people, feeling proud
that he is one of nature’s noblemen—an
American farmer.

EDITOR WOMAN’S DEPT.

 

THE FOOD PROBLEM FOR THE
“OTHER HALF."

 

The prodigality of the American farm-
er’s wife in the matter of setting her
table has long been a subject for won-
derment, not to say envy, to the women
of her class in other countries. Foreign-
ers coming here to settle and writing back
home tales of the good things to eat and
drink in this land of the free (7) and home
of the trust, are not believed by their
friends in the old world. ' The imagination
of the peasants t'here absolutely fails to
grasp anything quite so bounteous and
delicious, as the American farmer’s daily
fare.

Nowhere else in the world can one find
such meals as are to be found in our
country homes. Vegetables and fruits
of every description, jellies, preserves,
relishes, rich custards and puddings, not
to mention American pies, cookies and
cakes; chicken and meat, with fish and
game in those sections where streams
flow and the forests have not been entirely
sacrificed to man’s greed; real cream and
real butter and eggs, these our farmer‘s
wife accepts as a matter of course for her
everyday fare. She never realizes that
many of the things of which she thinks
slightingly are luxuries for a very large
per cent of the world's population. They
are at hand for the taking, and she uses
them freely. She knows how to cook all
sorts of tempting dishes and she iSn’t a.
bit afraid of the labor of cooking, so her
table is spread bountifully. And it is only
right that she is so Well provided for. It
is one of these compensations arranged
‘by Providence for the life of toil, often
of loneliness, she is obliged to “we, No
one of us would deprive her of one of her

blessings, much as we may envy her
their possession. But how we all wish
that she, in the midst of her plwnteous-

ness, would think of us city dwellers who,
because of flattened purses and piractical
prices, are forced to go without many of
the things she enjoys. Not that we want
her charity. Far from it. We simply
want her co-poeration.

One of the chief reasons put forth for
the present high price of foodstuffs is that
the supply is not equal to the demand.
The population has increased so rapidly
that the farmers have not been able to
keep up with the demand, say statis—
ticians. All this sounds very well, but,
somehow I have never been able to be—
lieve it fully. Why? Because I have
seen so much waste in the country. This
year we were told was a very poor apple
year. Prices in the city were prohibitive
to the poorer classes, and even those of
larger income grumbled when they paid
for a peck of inferior apples as much as
a bushel of good ones would have cost ten
years ago. And yet, not so very far from
Detroit I saw trotting on the ground
Northern Spy apples which would have
sold for 45 cents a peck. The farmer

would not pick them up because there
were better ones still hanging for their
use and they couldn’t understand that
anyone would actually pay money for the
windfalls at which they scoffed.

Snow apples sold in the city for 60
cents a peck, and they were very poor
apples at that. Yet another farmer 1
know let bushels of fine ones go to waste
when he could easily have barrelled and
shipped them and realized a pretty penny
for himself.

“We have taken care of all we want
for ourselves,” said he, “what is the use
of bothering with the rest.” But had he.
and others like him, have taken a bit of
trouble it might have made a difference
in the supply and, according to theorists,
would have lowered the price to the con-
sumer. I suppose no one would think of
accusing the farmer of being careless or
wasteful in the matter of eggs. The
“butter and egg money” has been sacred
for generations, and every penny carefully
accounted for. Yet I am told by experts
that even here there is waste caused by
lack of proper care. Experts claim that
poultry properly handled may be kept in
such a condition that a part of the flock
will be laying eggs when the other part
is not, and thus we may *have eggs the
year round. Yet, just now eggs are as
scarce as the proverbial hen’s teeth, and
the Thanksgiving pumpkin pies were only
base imitations, being thickened with
flour or corn starch instead of the usual
four or five eggs.

These are only a few instances of the
many ways in which the producers might
make it easier for the censumers. Every
fall things are allowed to lie on the
ground and decay because it is too much
trouble to take care of them, or the price
to the farmer is low, a reason which I
know would have a most deterrent effect
on anyone.

But the true reason for these conditions
is thotlessness and lack of real knowledge
of the problem of living as it appears to
the other half. The farmer has plenty to
eat himself, he always has had, and he
doesn’t really understand the condition
of the man who hasn’t enough. Hence
good food is allowed to spoil when it is
actually needed by others. I venture to
say that enough is wasted every year on
every farm in Michigan to provide for two
families in the city.

Dono'rnv HUDSPITH.

 

GIFTS AND GIVERS.

 

BY AUNT MARY.

As the happy Christmas season draws
near, the thots of all turn to the gifts.
Some think of those they expect to re-
ceive, while others, and I think by far the
the largest number, think of to whom they
shall send remembrance and what to give.
Dear friends, do not be deterred from
giving because you cannot give expensive
gifts. I have known a simple Christmas
card, costing less than a penny, to bring
smiles of gladnerss and pleasant thots to
the wealthy friend who received it, long
after many costly presents had faded
from memory. Bear in mind that ’tls the
loving thot that prompts the gift; that
makes its value and let us all beware of
the gift that is only pretty, without being
really useful, especially when the gift is
for some busy housewife wiho very likely

will receive the pretty trifle with due ad-
miration of its beauty. and a sigh for
the extra article which must be dusted
and cared for.

How much more welcome a pretty dish,
plate, bowl or set 01' cups and saucers,
salt and pepper or sugar shaker. Any of

' these may be purchased at prices to suit

all purses. I know one clear little hbme
keeper who received many years ago a
pickle teapot, and who still uses it in
preference to one much finer when she
is entertaining friends.

For the husbands, sons and brothers,
there are slippers and books and many
there are who rejoice in some article
to use, a new hammer, saw, a. level, a set
of bits, or anything they can use. At
least we can wish one and all a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.

 

MR. FIG'RAISIN AS A CHHISTMAS
GREETING.

 

BY EMILY L. RUSSEL.

This. sweet little fellow, toothsome,
altho toothless, is lbetter than he looks.
He gets his plump body from the Fig
family; his shapely
limbs, intellectual
head (and cap) from
the Raisins, while
his delicate bones are
like cousin Cinnamon
Sticks. His bright
eyes, also the buttons
on his coat and the
cap tassel are heir-
looms from his an-
cestorsmthe Cloves.

His diminutive
‘nose, like a slit in
the skin and well~
pinched, tilts saucily above the smiling
lips that have been kissing Miss Cran-
berry. Lest he forget, his card of greet—
ing is attached to his back—a sort of
coat of “mail.”
will please the children and the grown-
ups as well.

 

THE FARMER AND REFINEMENT.

 

BY E. E. R.

In the Michigan Farmer of November
27, Dorothy Hudspith, in an article on
“The Country Attitude Toward Life’s Re-
finements,” shows up what she calls the
average farmer in a light which I believe
to be not only unrepresentative but unjust
to the men of the farm of the present day.

The writer of the article tosses a sop
to the type of men whom she depicts by
saying that they are in many respects
leaving behind the old-time agriculturist
as portrayed in caricature and have de-
veloped a new type who shave at least
on Sunday, and patronize the barber for
a hair cut, the wide-awake, shrewd busi-
ness farmer in touch with the worldtlrru
his telephone and the daily mail. Further
along in the article come the charges to
which I, as one who has known the entire
farming community of more than one
locality personally and well, take excep-
tion. “Do you know a farmer who raises
his hat to a woman?” asks the writer.
To this I reply, yes, scores of them. And
as for the ones who do not, in my opinion
it is not for the reason that they consider
such a courtesy as beneath their man.
hood, but because they did not acquire the
habit while young and simply do not think
of it. Those things come from education,
contact with the world, or by observing
other people. Mothers are to blame for
not properly training their sons, to begin
with. As for table manners, I find in
recalling the many farm homes where I
have been a guest, in almost every county
in the state of Michigan, by the way,
the farmers and their sons are not behind
others in this respect. In fact, I cannot
now recall a single instance where either
the farmer, his son or the hired man
poured his tea into his saucer or ate with
his knife. Forty or fifty years ago both
these were common practices in other
than farmers' families. As for the man
of the house not serving the food but
compelling the different members of the
family to help themselves, I do not think
the custom finds many followers at the
present time. In all the farmers’ families
where I am acquainted, the father serves,
not alone when guests are present, but at
every meal. For a fact, I do not know
that I ever even 'heard of a man who did
not consider this a part of his duty, and
more than three-fourths of my life has
been spent on a farm where certain-1y
some idea of country customs and prac-
tices ought to be obtained, if anywhere.

The assertion that the sight of a
starched collar or blackened boots would
mark one for criticism actually makes
me smile, and I cannot help wondering

' was causing the trouble and yet I could

 

He is easily made and;

 

DEC. 11, 1909s

A Hahn's ' Chain . r ['2 The.
Certain Habits Unconciously Formed ~ , '
and Hard to Break

 

 

An ingenious philosopher estimates'that
the amount of ’wili power necessary
to break a life-long habit would, if it
could be transformed, lift a weight of
many tons. '

It sometimes requires a higher degree
of heroism to break the chains of a
pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn
hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes
from an Indiana town?

“From my earliest childhood I was a
lover of coffee. Before I-was out of my
teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suffer-
ing terribly at times with my stomach.

"I was convinced that it was coffee that

I

not deny myself a cup’for breakfast. At
the age of 36 I was in very poor health
indeed. My sister told me I was in dan-
ger of becoming a coffee drunkard.

“But I never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast although it kept me
constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I
learned to make it properly according to
directions, and now we can hardly do
without Postum for breakfast, and care
nothing at all for coffee.

"I am no longer troubled with dyspep-
sia, do not have spells of suffering with
my stomach that used to trouble me so
when I drank coffee.” —

Look in pkgs. for the little book, "The
Road to Wellville.” “There’s a Reason.”

Ever road the above letter? A
new one appears from time to
time. They are genuine. true.
and full of human interest.

LET US TAN ,-
YOUR IIIIIE,

Whether Cow, Steer, Bull, or Home
Hide, Calf. Dog. Deer, or any kind of
hide or skin, soft, light. odorless and
moth- -proof for robe .rug,coat or gloves.
and make them up when so ordered.

But first get our illustrated catalog
with prichs. shipping“ tags and instruoo ,
tions. We are the st custom for
farmers of large wil and domestic
animal skins in the world. ,

Distance makes no difference what-
ever. Ship three or more cow or horse
hides together from anywhere, and
Crosby pays the freight both ways. We ‘
sell fur coats and gloves, do taxidermy
md head mounting.

The Crosby Frisian Fur Company.
Rochester. N. Y.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

'” HARTSHORN .
SHADE ROLLERS A

Bear the script name of I
Stewart liartshom on label.
Get “ Improved," no tacks required.

Wood Rollers Tin Rollers

mutants: FREE .

ofler to lump users made to introduce the
Wonder momoisoILur too-cum
POWER Kerosene OilL amp in every 10.
. calit . Man timeslklcutifl. HIAPIR
-' and AFERt an Gasoline, Electricity or {

 

ordinarylampsforlightin homes ,oflices,
s stores, hallsandchurches. easkthatyou
< show it to your neighbors. if you acce I)
\ the proposlt ion we will send you, we w ll
give you a lamp PRIZE. Send your name \
and name of your nearest express office. ,‘

FACTORIES SALES 00..
Lo mpflo oluoo I.nAmorloo

1018 FAGIIJIY BLDG" KAISAS CITY. III.

Malt Coffee 3'

Maited from cholcest Montana

Barley. shipped in strongum nir- 6c per lb.

tight drums, at.
Samples and Circulars Free

MILWAUKEE IMPORTING CO.

506 37th Street Milwaukee, Wis. ' T '

HIDES TAN N ED

FOR ROBES and COATS.

Send us your Cattle or Horse Hides or any skins
that you have and we will tun these skins for you
as they ought to be done. We have one of the
plant. In the country for doing this work and can
also make those hides into robes. costs or fur rugs.
no wanted. Our 1Prices are right and we guarantee
our work. Low ight rates. Send for circular.

HUCH WALLACE COMPANY
Custom Dept. - Dalton Mich.

Gash Paid for hg’iixfit’ifil‘affl

ecan and do pay high-

est corn prices for hides
Skunka. Minkl. ‘
Coons. Muskrntl. 0p-
ossums, Foxol. Badgers.
wolves. Beavers. Otters, and all tilt-gearing animals.
e pnv express charges. [J'Wr te or
price list. We also pay best prices for BIISEIG

BELT. BUTLER C0. 144 Greene so. New York.

FUR COATS and ROBES

Sena ate! for prices on TANNING HIDE and
MAl'ImFAC'l‘URING COATS and nouns. ..
MOTH PROOF TANNING 00.. unplug. Web. *“

:ENTION THE MICHIGAN FARHIR when
writing to odvoflloon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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. one 11, 1909.

Where Dorothy found such conditions as
the ones described. Why, there are very
few farmers who do not polish their
shoes, that is, their best ones, and as for
collars and neckties the number who have
not a personal acquaintance with them.
is sadly in the minority in this neck of
the woods. Come with me any Satur-
day afternoon upon the streets of our
town and I will show you farmers whose
appearance would do credit to any bus1-
ness man, in fact, these are business men
who own and operate the land, taking
j-ust pride in their occupation and in their
OWn personality, as well.

a A visit to almost any grange or club
will reveal this type of agriculturist and
were you to go to his home you will find
that he and his sons possess a whole-
some respect for the etiquette of the
table in manners which would not call for
much criticism anywhere. I can assuredly
not agree with the writer that the farm-
er’s attitude is one of scorn for the nice-
ties and refinements of life.

LINES TO ACCOMPANY GIFTS.

 

 

From various writers the following ap—
propriate quotations to accompany Christ—
mas gifts are chosen:

To be sent with books:

"This little paper traveler goes forth
to vour door, charged with tendcr gree -
lugs. Pray, you. take lhim In. He came
from a house where you are well beloi ed.
—Stevenson. . .
“I thot to myself I would offer tlus book

to you 1 together"
' ove .

Thls’ and my ——Tennysoi..

With a picture: H
“ leasure that can never pa . .

AA? serene moment, deftly caught and

ke t, ‘
To mgke immortal summer on your
wall."——Lowell.
For the home-made gift; .
“For the joy in their making
Take them. 0 fond and truc.
And for his sake w'ho madc them‘
'——ch:ey.

Let them 'be dear to you.‘
“Alone I did it."~—Shakcspcztrc.
For various gifts:
“W'ea-r this for mesoue out o
fortune. .
That would give more. but that lu-l»
hand lacks mcztus."—-Sll:ll{csp0:1ic.
“Consider not _the ..
the love of the giver. .
“Good wishcs go with this. ..
'- ~1ckcd in a nss. ’
And love, DC ~—lialdwm.
trust

f suits with

gift of the lnvcl'. but
——Thomas a‘lx'cmpls

—“I bring in Friendships fearless

m ‘ offering. ,.

How 11inch it lacks I feel, and thou \\llt
vsce."-—VVhittier.

“The heart of the givcr makcs t

dear and precious.“—«Lutlier. M M

be gift

A GIRL’S LOST CHANCE.

 

 

I was much interested in reading Dor~
othy Hudspith‘s wise (7) article in a re-
cent num'ber'of the Michigan Farmer, on
womcn who have never had a chance. It
sounds to me like one who is trying to tell
of something she knows nothing of from
experience. I believe there are plenty of
women making poor housekeepers today
who would be capable of' making their
mark in the world if circumstances had
favored them While younger. One girl
years ago longed for an education. Her
parents were poor and there was a large
family to care for, so because her clothes
were not always as nice as those worn
by her friends her mother kept her from
school. Finally after much hard work
she mastered the three “R.”

A friend then offered 'her a year in a
good graded school. Here again her
mother's foolish pride interfered, her
clothes were not good enough and so that
chance went by. A few years later op-
portunity once more came her way, this
time to be grasped with a will. She
seemed on the way to success when she
was called home to care for a sick mother,
altho there was a younger sister. But
her education must not be interfered
with. When the load was once more
lifted and she was free to try again, she
found hchelf so far behind the times she
had no chance whatcvcr to compete with
tliOsc younger and better educated. To-
day she is dragging out the time doing
work she detests and dreaming of what
might have been had she been allowed to
make the best of her life. Now, perhaps
Dorothy Hudspith can tell us wherein
this woman failed. Who knows? Per—
haps her wisdom may pave the way for
another chance—43. Harris, Vernon.

 

In making cookies. stir up the dough
with a spoon the day before, and set
away in a cool place. It will be stiff
enough in the morning to roll out. This
is the secret of good cookies, to have as
little flour as possible, and it is such a
help in the busy morning hours to have

the dough all ready.

 

~¢

Horne Queries Exchange
Column Conducted By
Elisabeth.

WWW

Every day there are questions arising
in the home that perplexes the Wife.
mother and daughter, and they wish for
some one to advise them. We receive
many such queries and for the benefit of
our readers we are going to conduct this
Exchange Column. Write us what puz-
zles you and we will do our best to help
you. We are going to publish the ques-
tions and ask our readers 'to answer
them. No doubt there will be several of
you who know just what to do in each
case and can give the desired informa-
tion. In return we will print your ques-
tions. Any little points of etiquette, dress
or general information, we will answer as
soon as possible. Address all communica-
tions to Editor Home Queries Exchange
Dept., The Michigan Farmer, Detroit,
Michigan.

 

Mrs. G. S.:——Dip your mlldewed cloth
in soft soap to which has been added a
handful of salt, then spread in the sun to
bleach. It may take several days to
bleach, if stains are bad. but it will re-
move it. I have used a strong solution
of boraxine washing powder and salt, in
place of soap, with good success—Mrs.
C. H. S. '

Lemon juice mixed with salt, powdered
starch and a little soft soap will remove
mildew. Rub in spots and placc in the
sun—Mrs. C. B. S.

Soak the article in buttermilk to re-
move mildew. I took the stains out of
a beautiful lace dolly by placing on a
white plate and setting in the oven for
a short time. Don‘t have oven hot enough
to scorch it. The mildew disappeared
like magic—M. E. H. C.

Dcar Elisabclll:-—\Vheu mic is :1 guest
at a house is it pmpcr to rcfoltl your
napkin after a meal? 1 have licurd it is
Ill)[.—-X.

If you arc only outing our meal at a
home. then you do not fold your napkin
after you arc thru. but plucc it at the
sidc of the plate. [)0 not have it spread
out tho, in an untidy fashion. if you
(-X]i(*("l to stay for another meal, told your
uzlpkin and piucc it besidc the plate.

Dcar Elisabctllz~Sllolllll u lady go
ulicad of a gcntlcman or lwhind him in
going,- up and down stuirs'.’—\Vill S.

It is Pl'UDl-l“ for a gcntlcman to pl'cccdc
a lady in going upstairs and to follow her
in coming down.

llcur Editorz——i\'ill someonc please tell
me- how to take ink stains out of wash—
ablc cloth. ui‘tcr the garmcnt has been
washed scvcrul timcs‘?VMiss b’, R.

 

Tic-ar Etlitol':—l would likc lo know how
to -clcan light quilts that lluvc become
soilcil at thc ends and cdgcs.——.\lrs. Smith.

Dear Editorz—I huvc a ht'llOtl'OpQ plant
but it docs not sccni to do very well in
the house. if any of your rcadci‘s have
had succcss with this plant indoors I wish
they would tell inc how to handle it.—<
Jenny R., Cros“ cll.

Predict Cut in Insurance Rates.

One of the factors which has had much
to do with the prediction of lower rates
of insurance is the announcement of an
iron-clad $10,000 guarantee by The Ed~
wards Manufacturing Company, Cincin-
nati, Ohio, manufacturers of the famous
“Reo” Steel Shingles, which are fire in-
surance in itself, so insurance companies
arc relieved of their risk as far as roofing
is concerned and consequently reduce in—
surance cast where steel shingles are
used. The company back its lightning
proof shingles with at 310000 guaranty
bond. Expansion and contraction of the
roofing are provided for and this is a very
important consideration. These farmers
are given what practically amounts to
complete fire insurance at a low cost as
“Rec,” freight prepaid. is to 'be had at
extremely low prices and is easily put
up, simply hammer and nails being re-
quired. Many readers now have the Ed-
wards Manufacturing Company's catalog,
which is given away free for the asking
and is a money-saving booklet of great
value to cvery farmer who is anxious to
thoroly protect his home and buildings.

 

A Handsome Calendar for 1910.

A most pleasing mlcndar for 1910 is the
one sent out by our friends. the Vermont
Farm Machine Company. It, is in scvcral
colors and shows a pretty dairy maid in
full rcgalia in the foreground. with a set-
ting of trees. a running brook and a herd
of dairy cows. And in the corner, mod-

‘ THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

“ WEAR LIKE IRON ” "j

They wear best where the wear ‘ ’
is hardest. Made of selected
leather specially tanned to resist
exactly the kind of wear a healthy
boy or girl will give them.
Two layers of leather are sewed in at
the tip instead of one, to prevent the
toes kicking out. The soles are '
of extreme toughness.

Mayer Special Merit School Shoes
are made to fit a child’s foot in a comfortable, natural way
that will prevent foot trouble in later years, yet they are

stylish and good looking. Only the genuine have the

Mayer Trade Mark stamped on the sole.

FREE-If you will send us the name ofa dealer who does not
handle Special Merit School Shoes, we will send you,froo. post-
poid, a handsome picture, size 15x20, of George Washington.

5-; We also make Honorbilt Shoes for men,

‘ Leading Lady Shoes, Martha Washington
Comfort Shoes, Yerma Cushion Shoes and
Work Shoes.

F. MAYER BOOT & SHOE CO.
MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN

 
 
 
 
  
 
 

  
  
 
 
  
    
    
 

  
    
   
 
    
   
   
   
      
    
    
  
   
 

  
 
  
 

 
  
  

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Watches for Christmas

“'e made this selection from more than 100 different varietiesoand believe we
have the most popular of the lot, and arc offering them at prices a very large pur-
chase enables us to. The prices are at least one-quarter less than the same thing
can be purchased for at retail.

About the Knickerbocker watch. we can say we have sold watches manufac-
tured by this concern for years and always found them a very satisfactory
concern to deal with bccause'wc very seldom have any complaint about their
watches, and never any regarding thcir manner of ”making satisfactory.” All
their watches are reasonably guaranteed, they always make good any defects.

KNlfllERBOCKER
. warm co_
\ NEW mu

Front.

No. 94—This popular watch is built to stand rough usage. Heavy mi-concave
crystal. Screw case is practically dust and moisture proof. Nickel damaskeened
movement. jeweled balance, tool steel pinions. carefully adjusted duplex escape~
ment. Countersunk pinion holes. A beautiful raised gold stag on ‘back case. A
thoroly good. accurate timepiece. Our price. $3.30.

No. 300—This watch is similar in design No. 1102, is a 16-size new thin model,
open face. in a gold filled, screw back and bezel case. Case is warranted to wear
for .20 years. It is fitted with a fine seven—jeweled nickel damaskeened lever move-
ment, has quick train. cut expansion balance and exposed pallets. Fine porcelain
dial. sunk second hand, stcm wind and sct- A splendid time-keeper. fully war-
ranted and an ideal tixnmiicce for :1 gcnllcmnn. (72139 may be either plain DOl'
ished or engine turned. Price only $7.30. A genuine bargain.

 

 

cstly symbolizing the support that it is to
all dairy maids who use one. is a United;
Stalcs (“roam Separator. It is fitting that I
it should be there, because these famous-
inucllincs make life a pleasure to thous-l
.iulls of dairy maids and dairy \vomcnl
thruout thc world. The original painting“
is tilc cfforls ‘of one of New York's bcst
artists and is a credit to the painter.
lithographcr and company issuing it. The
Vermont Machine ('10., Bellows Falls, Vt. .
mfrom us that they will mail to thosc
readers of thc Michigan Farmer intercstcd
in improve-d dairying methods. this bcau- I
tiful ton-colored lithographcd calcndar.‘
who mention our paper. Bctter write at‘
once before thc calendars are all gone. as ‘
we understand their quantity is limited. * l

 

not to change in color.
1s\ct, antique bow and crown.
.A n cxccllcnt vv'xtch for ladies and girls and most attractive W' . ‘

... _ ~ . ,. .. . . 1 . .itth i=0“ .
jlwirmshcd m I the price
‘Di‘lC‘E‘ only $2.40.

  

 

A LAD ’ R G RL’ W . _ V ’
[ES 0 I S ATCH No. 1102—MXII‘2L thin. lz—size watch.

. No. 45.8»A G—siae Nickel Silver watch scini—bussinc dcsign, antique bow in solid
With genuine Amcrncan watch movement. nickel sil-vcr case. fitted with damas-
Case warranted to wear pcl‘rnzllienily and keencd genuine American watch move—
Stom wind and ‘ment, ‘jc-welcd cscapemcnl. also white
Enamcl dial. porcelain dial, Arabic ligm-cS. The best
sulin lincd boxcs. ()ur ever offered. Choicc for young men or
a dress-up 'watch. Price only $2.40. I
Wp can furnish higher priccd watchcs. but the selection oi‘fcrcd answer: the
general demand. Order Early. Call at our office and see them when Dossihk: but
orders by mail will receive careful attention and will be as satisfactory ,
All watches sent postage paid by rcgislciwl mull. Address order to
THE MICHIGAN FARMER, Detroit, Michigan

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’ MARKETS -'
WWW —
DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.
— December 8, 1909.

Grains and Seeds. ‘ 5
Wheat.—The week opened with an ad-
vance, based mainly upon rather inde-
finite reports of frost injury to the Ar-
gentine crop now being harvested. Cash
wheat advanced a whole cent on the
strength of this crop scare, but Tuesday
brot an almost complete reversal of senti-
ment, altho 10ca1 conditions were seem-
ingly favorable to continued strength in
this market as local receipts were not
large and the millin demand was fairly
active. However, th s was offset by the
fact that the government crop report,
which became public before the close of
the day, showed an increase of 3% mil-
lion acres of winter wheat over the ac-
reage of a year ago, and also that the
condition of the crop now entering win-
ter is about 10 points better than _the
condition at this date last year. Prices
almost immediately declined a cent from
the high point of the day, and while the
final quotations were only fractionally
lower than on Monday, the market closed
dull. The price paid for No. 2 red wheat
in this market one year ago was $1.051,§.
Quotations for the week are as follows:
No. 2 No. 1
Red. White; iiizaéy. 110123,.
Thursda ....1.19% 1.19 4 . .
Friday Y......1.201,4 1.20% 1.23% 1.02
Saturday ....1.20 1.20 1.23 1.01%
Monday ......1.21 1.21 1.24 1.02%
Tuesday .....1.20% 1.20% 1.23%, 1.02%
Wednesday ”1.21% 1.2111,, 1.24% 1.02%
Corn.—The corn market is showing in-
creased firmness with the advent of cold
weather. This market has 'been rather
dull ever since the movement of the new
crop began, but a more active business
from now on is expected. Prices declined
during the latter part of last week, but
are again on the up grade and the pres-
ent feeling is that nothing but a car
shortage can interfere with an increased
activity in this grain. One year ago No.
3 corn was selling in this market at 61%c
per bu. Quotations for the week are as
follows:
No. 3
No. 3 Yellow.
Thursday 60 61

Friday 60 61’
Saturday 591/2 601/2
Monday 58% 59%
Tuesday 59 60

Wednesday 59 60%;

Oats—Offerings of this grain continue
small and the demand at present is
rather ahead of the supply. In conse-
quence of these conditions, the market .‘5
firmer and the price on standard gram
advanced 1,50 early in the week. One year
ago the price for No. 3 white oats was
501/2c per bu. Quotations for the week

are as follows:
Standard.

Thursday ........................ 43
Friday ........................... 43
Saturday ......................... 43
Monday .......................... 43
Tuesday . 43%
Wednesday 43%

Beans.-——T‘here is little demand for
beans at present and the market is dull
with prices nominal and unchanged dur-
ing the past week. January beans 'are
quoted 2c above cash stock. Quotations
for the week are as follows:

. ................. 2.05 $2.07
gildlz‘ggai . . ................. $2.05 2.07
Saturday . . ............... . . 2.05 2.07
Monday . . ........... . ...... 2.05 2.07
Tuesday ................... 2.05 2.07
Wednesday ................. 2.05 2.07

Cloverseed.—Receipts are not very lib-
eral and the steady demand has brot
some price changes in the past week.
The feeling in this market is that the
crop is not an especially heavy one, and
to that fact the present firmness is no
doubt due. Prime spot seed has ad-
vanced 35c per bu. in the past 'week,
while March seed and alsikc are also
higher. Quotations for the week are:

Prime Spot. Mar. Alsike.
........ $ .

sda 3 80 $9.05 $7.75
3210; Y .......... 8.75 8.95 7.75
Saturday ......... 9.05 9.30 7.80
Monday .......... 9.15 9.35 7.89
Tues-day .......... 9.15 9.35 7.3.3
Wednesday ....... 5.90 9.15 7.85

Rye.-——Markct easier with prices nom-
inallv the some as ruled previous to the
advance noted last week. Cash No. 1 is

uoted at 761/2c per lm.

q Visible Supply of Grain.
This week. Last week

..........3l.086,000 29,418,000
KEEN. . I I I: ........... 4.200.000 3,288,000
oats 3,590,000 13,686,000
1m; ..................... 912.000 919.000
Zai'ley ............... 4,053,000 3,282,000

Flour, Feed, Provisions. Etc.
[flown—Market slowly, with prices on
last week’s basis. Quotations are as

follows: 5 80
Clear ................................ $58:-
Sti‘aig‘ht ............................. (3.2g
Patent Michigan ..................... 5.9.5

' Patent ......................
()rigli:;rgnd Straw.——Market is unchanged

. Carlot prices on track
2:13: Nfigml timothy, new, $14.50@15; N9.
2 timothy, 313506014; clover, mixed, $13.00
@14; rye straw, $7@7.50; wheat and oat
. 50607 er ton.
QtYi‘Taevt‘e’o'd.es—(fMarketp unchanged and steady.
Bran, $24.50 per ton; coarse mid:
dlings, $25.50; fine middlings, $29.50,
cracked corn, $27; coarse corn meal, $27,
corn and oat chop, $23.50 per ton.
Potatoes.—Market quiet and easy.
Practically no change in values altho
there is a disposition to shade quotation-s
in some instances. Quality of offerings
continues very variable. Michigan grown
are selling in car lots at 35c per bu. in
bulk, and in sacks at 38@40c.

ProvloloiiIE-ef’amily , pork, U ' $26fl20.5.0-:

mess pork, $25.50; medium, clear, $26.50;
pure lard, 14%0: baco 16%@17c; shoul-
ers, 1215c; smoked ams, 15c; picnic
hams, 13150. ' . ‘
Dairy and Poultry Products.

Button—The big advances of the past
two weeks have not only been well main-
tained but another $50 gain was made
on Tuesday, following a similar wdvance
at Elgin. Market steady at the advance.
Quotations are: Extra creamery, 33¢ per
lb; first do., 320; dairy, 24c; packing
stock, 2234c.

Eggs.——D'espite the facts that current
receipts of eggs are gradually improving
in both quantity and quality, and that
holders of storage goods are anxious to
unload them before the advent of the new
year, fresh stock has advanced 1c since
this time last week. Market steady to
firm on fresh stoc. Current offerings
cases included, are quoted at 28%c per
dozen. '

Poultry.-——The tone of the market shows
the effect of better weather conditions
and the continuance of cold will un—
doubtedly bring the keen demand and
general activity which has been wanting
for many weeks.
tically unchanged. Quotations for-the
week are: Live—Springs chickens, 1335c
hens, 12c; ducks, 14@15c; geese, 12c; tur-
keys, 16@17c. Dressed—Chickens, 13@
14c;_ duck-s, “@150; geese, 12@13c; tur—
keys, 17@18c per lb.

Cheese.—Higher. Michigan full cream,
161/20; York state, 18c; limburger, 17c;
schweitzer, 210; brick cream, 18c per lb.
8@9c per lb.

Calves.—Choice to fancy, $10@11; ordi-
nary, 8@9c per lb.

Fruits and Vegetables.
Cabbage.—Steady. Home-grown, $1.25
er bbl.

D

Onions.—Domestic offerings 66@700 per
bu. Spanish, $1.40 per crate.

Apples.—Snow, $5.50@6; Spy, $2.25@
$3.50; common, $1.50@2.50 per bbl.

Cranberries.—Cape Cod berries selling
at $2.25@2.50 per bu.

Vegetables.——Beets, 45c per bu; carrots,
45c per bu; cauliflower, $1.25 per doz;
hothouse cucumbers, 75c@1.25 per doz;
green onions, 121,50 per doz; green pep-
pers, 75c per bu; mint, 25c per doz; pars-
ley, 25@40c per doz; spinach, 600 per
hamper; turnips, 30@35c per bu; water-
cress, 25@30c per doz.

OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.

With the exception of corn, grains are
unchanged this week. The mills are pay-
ing 580 for the new crop of corn, which
is quite a decline from quotations on the
old crop. Dressed hogs, however, con-
tinue firm and are readily bringing 10c,
while in some cases 1095c is reported.
Creamery butter has advanced 1,410 this
week. The egg market is steady. Hay
continues firm at $15. Potatoes and other
produce remain unchanged.

Quotations follow:

Grain—VVheat, $1.16; oats, 42c; corn,
58c; buckwheat, 60c per bu; rye, 680.

Beans—Machine screened, $1.80.

Butter.—Buying prices, Dairy, No. 1.
250; creamery in tubs or prints, 32c
per lb.

Eggs.——Case count, 270.

Apples.——-l5@65c.

Vegetables—Potatoes, 35@40c; onions,
50@6OC per bu; cabbage, 30@40c doz;
cauliflower, $1.50@1.60 per doz; beets, 500
per bu; carrots, 40c; turnips, 35c; Hub-
bard squash, lc lb; celery, 121,50; parsley,
20c doz; cucumbers, 800 doz.

Hogs—Dressed, 100.

Live Poultry.—Fow1s, 10yé@llc; roos-
ters, 8((990; spring chickens, 11@120;
spring ducks, 10@120; young geese, 9@
10c; young turkeys, 17@180.

 

Chicago.

Wheat.—No. 2 red, $1.21@1.22; May,
31.07%; July, 981;“.

Corn—No. 3, 57c; May, 6159c; July,
6194c.

Oats.—-No 3 white, 441/40: May, 43%c.

Butter.—Best creamery is 10 higher.
High-grade dairy has made a like gain,
with the market showing considerable
strength at the higher range. Creameries.
26@32c; dairies, 24@29c.

Eggs.——Prices unchanged and market
steady. Prime firsts, 30%0; firsts, 2816c;
at mark, cases included, 201,5@251;éc per
dozen.

Hay and Straiw.~—Market strong at
steady prices. Quotations: Timothy,
choice, $16@16.50; N0. 1, $15@15.50: N0. 2
and No. 1 mixed, $13.50@14.50; No, 3 and
No. 2 mixed, $11@13; rye straw, $8.50@
9; oat straw, $6.50@7; wheat straw,
35.50616.

Potatoes—Market weak and lower.
Poorer grades neglected. Choice to fancy
quoted at 4360450 per bu; fair to good.
32flI3Rc.

Beans—Choice hand-picked, $2.10@2.12
per bu; fair to good, $2.05@2.10; red kid-
neys, $2.35@2.70.

 

St. Louis.

Grain.—--Wheat, No, 2 red, $1.22@1.25;
corn, No. 3 white, new, 56%«057c; No.
3 yellow, 57@57%c; oats, No. 2, 41350:
rye, No. 2. 77¢.

Hay—Timothy and timothy and clover
mixed are steady under a moderate de-
mand and lighter receipts. High-grade
clover and alfalfa continue scarce and
strong. Timothy .No. 1 is selling at $15.50
@17 per ton; No. 2, $13@15; No. 3, $10@
11; clover, No. 1, $15@17: No, 2, $13;
clover mixed, 31461716; alfalfa quotable at
$17.50f018 for No. l and $15@17 for N032

Potatoes—Market fairly steady With
Michigan and Minesota stock leading the
market. Michigan Rurals of prime qual-
ity quoted at 45@50c per bu.. Fancy,
well-matured stock, in car lots on track,
quoted at 48@50c per bu; good to choice,
43@45c; common to fair, 30@35c.

 

New York.
Button—Market quiet with dealers
showing an inclination to shade last
week’s extreme figures. Western factory
firsts, 23%@25c: creamery specials, 34c.
Eggs.—Market steady with receipts

 
  

Prices remain prac-‘

 

   
    

showing whore even, duality and the gap
between extras and the medium graded
has narrowed somewhat. Western . first:
‘to extras, 31®3sc; seconds, 28@30¢; fancy
refrigerator stock, 20@24c. ..

Poultry.-’-—Dressed, irregular. Western
chickens, broilers, 16@220; fowls, 12%‘@
171,40; turkeys, 19@23c. Lima—Chickens.
120; fowls, 14c; turkeys, 12@17c.

Potatoes—Market firm for choice
stock. State and Michigan potatoes in
bulk now selling at $1.40@1.75 per 180 lbs.

Hay and Straw—Timothy steady with
outside prices a little in advance of last
week. Straw quiet and unchanged. Hay,
timothy, prime, large, bales, per 100 1b.,
97%c@$1; No. 3 a 1, 85@95c; shipping,
800; packing, 50@55c; clover and
clover mi‘Xed, 80@95c; straw, long rye,
80@90c; short and tangled rye, 60c; eat
and wheat, 550.

 

' ‘ . » Boston.

~Wool.—As noted for several weeks
past, the market is a waitingone, with
holdings small and dealers giving consid-
eraible attention to the securing of con-
tracts for new wool. Growers seem in-
clined to hold out for higher prices and
the demand from the’ mills has braced
up ‘ considerably- during the past week,
bringing abouta revival of interest which
augurs well for the future of the market.
Former values are being well maintained,
and active bidding for the new clip has
been resumed in the west. The leading
domestic quotations range as follows:
Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces—XX, 37c;
X, 34@35c; No. 1 washed, 40@4lc; No. 2
washed, 40c; fine unwashed, 27@28c; half
blood combing,. 36@37c; three-eighths
blood combing, 36@37c; quarter blood
combing, 34@35c; delaine washed, 39@
40c. Michigan, Wisconsin and New York
fleeces—Fine washed, 35@36c; delaine un-
washed, 31@32c; half blood unwashed, 35
@36c; three-eighths blood unwashed, 35@
36c; quarter blood, 33@34c.

Elgln.

Butter.—Market firm at 33c per 1b.,
which is %c above last week’s price.
Sales for the week aggregated 637,300
lbs., compared with 641,600 lbs. last week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.
December 6, 1909.
(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards.
East Buffalo, N, Y.)

Receipts of sale stock here today as
follows: Cattle, 190 loads; hogs, 20,800
head; sheep and lambs, 17,600; calves,
1,200 head.

We had a good active trade today in
the cattle department and prices ruled
strong to 10c higher on all grades except
the best feedin steers, which sold at
steady prices. e think that cattle will
sell better from now on as the range
cattle are about all in. Think we will
have a better trade next week on the
extra good cattle. They will all want a
few for Christmas. We didn’t have any-
thing good enough on the market today
to bring over 70. The best fresh cows
sold from $2@3 per head higher, while
the springers were slow sale. and lower.

Best export steers, $6.50@7; best 1,200
to 1,300-lb. shipping steers, $6.25@6.50;
best 1,100 to 1,200-lb. do., $5.60@6.10;
medium "(1,050 to 1,150-lb. steers, $5.25@
5.40; light butcher steers, $4.85@5.10; best
fat cows, (some extra little higher), $4.50
@5; fair to good do., $3.50@4; trimmers,
$2.50@2.75; best fat heifers, (some fancy
60), $5@5.25; fair to good, $4.25@4.50,
common, $3.50@3.75; best feeding steers,
950 t001,000 lbs., $4.75@'5; best, feeding
steers, 800 to 900 lbs., $4.50@4.75; 700 to
750-lb, dehorned stockers, $4004.25; 600
to 650-lb. do., 33.75604; little common
stockers, $3.25@3.50; best 'bulls, $4.50@5;
bologna bulls, $3.50@3.75; stiock bulls,
$3@3.25; best fresh COWS, $506060; fair to
good do., $35@45; common do., $20@25.

With only 80 cars of hogs on the mar-
ket at the opening this morning and a
good demand the trade opened strong 10c
higher than Saturday and closed strong
to Sc higher than the opening. Every-
thing is sold and the prospects look fair
for the near future.

Choice heavy, $8.70@8.75; mixed and
medium, $8.55@8.60; best yorkers, $8.50@
8.55; light yorkers and pigs, $8.40@8.45;
roughs. $7.75@7.85; stags, $6.75@7.25..

The lamb market this morning opened
higher, with the best lambs selling at 80.
We look for firm prices Wednesday but
think they may sell some lower the last
of the week.

We quote: Best lambs, $790608; fair
to good, $7.50@7.85; culls, $6.25@7; skin
cu’lls, $4.50@5.50; yearlings, $6606.50;
wethers, .$5@5.25; ewes, $4.75@5; cull
sheep, $2@3.50: best calves, $9.50@10;
fair to good, $8609; heavy do., $4@4.50;
grass do., $3@3.25.

 

 

 

Chicago.
December 6, 1909.

Cattle. Hogs. Shee .

Received today ...... 25,000 23,000 21,0 0
Same dav last year..36.379 67,871 44,937
Receivedlast week ..32,724 153,655 106,093
Same week last year.59,357 198,506 128,155
Cattle arrived last week in unusually
large numbers. the offerings embracing
many that were shipped in for the In—
ternational Live Stock Exposition. and
not a few of such lots were not accepted
by the show committee and were sold
on the open market. There was an ex-
tremely large demand, especially for
choice beeves adapted to the Christmas
holiday trade, and these sold at strong
prices, despite the larger offerings. The
cattle from the Show sold surprisingly
well, 52 loads being auctioned off at
prices which averaged $11.45 per 100 lbs.,
compared with an average price of $9 for
53 loads a year ago. The championship
load was hot by Armour & Co.. at $15 per
100 lbs., or $4 more than was paid for the
champions last year. The champion steer
of the show weighed 1,750 lbs. and brot
$18 per 100 lbs., Schlwarzchiid & Sulz—
berger being the buyers. the animal
bringin $315. Last year the champion
brot $ 6.50 per 100 lbs. 0n the open

 

‘weights unto ”@125

, as follows:

   

market '~ trade wusoggi ,
any the bulk of the on showed .duo»

tions, of 15@25 _ estexce ted... tears
$4.82 ,for alter-id light

sold at $3.85 , , r ,
, for the better
class, with. a sale of a load of prime
1,673-lb. grade Herefords» to Morris &,
Co., at $9.50, thé highest price since 1867.
when sales at $10 were numerous. Steers
went chiefly last week at $5.25@7.40, while
cows and heifers sold. at $2@6, bulls at
$2.75@5, calves at $3@9, and milch COWS
at $25@65 each. Stockers sold at $2.75@

4.50 and 'feeders at $4@5.20, with a good

call. for the "better class.

A new week opens in the cattle market
today, with a moderate “run'.’ for Monday
and an active general demand, prices rul-
ing largely a dime higher for the bulk
of the *offerings.‘ - - - » . ,

Hogs were offered last week more
freely than ordinarily, as numerOus stock
show visitors brot in some with them, but
the presing general demand made a good
outlet, and there was a strong undertone,
with new high records for prime lots.
Tops went at $8.45, with prime heavy
stage bringing $8.60, and stags soldall the
way down to $8.25, sales of stags being
subject to 80 lbs. dockagé per head, while
boars sold at $4.50@5.25-and governments
at $2.75@5. The Chicago NOVember hog
receipts were. only 563,000 head, or 252,403
less than arrived in the same month last
year. Shipments from here for November
were 74,836 hogs, or 32,240 less than a
year ago. The not supply for Chicago
packers was 214,163 hogs. less than a year
ago. The spread in prices was much
smaller than a year ago, and the bulk
of the hogs sold within a range of' 26c.
Today saw a boom of 15@200 in hogs un-
der light Monday offerings, trade being
lively at $7.90@8.65. The hogs marketed
last week averaged. 218 lbs., compared
with 224 lbs. 8. week earlier and 215 lbs.
a year ago.

Prime lots of sheep and lambs sold ex-
tremely well last week, as there was an.
active demand for the Christmas holidav
trade. Schwarzchild & Sulzberger paid
$11 per 100 lbs. for the championship load
of lambs at the International, and Ham-
mond & Co. paid $7.85 for the second
prize winners, while Morris & Co. paid
$7.75 for the prize western yearlings. The
demand for feeders in the open market
exceeded the offerings, buyers paying $7
@7.15 for the few lambs offered and $4.50
@4.75 for wethers. Mutton lambs sold
at $5@7.85, wethers at $4.85@5.50, ewes
at $2.50@5.25 and yearlings at $6@7. The
less attractive sheep and lambs were
lower towards the close, and even choice
lots weakened. The. market today was
active and higher, with sheep selling at
last week’s best figures, prime yearlings
at $7.15 and prime native lambs at F3315.

LIVEWs.

Speaking of feeding cattle this season,
a representative Chicago live stock com-
mission firm advises its country patrons
“A large number of cattle
have been fed nearly ninety days on new
corn, and we have already sold several
droves that were big money-makers.
This turning over process made nearly
everybody plenty of money last winter
and enabled cattle feeders to immediately
replace the cattle they sold with other
heavy feeders at a material reduction,
giving the feeder the opportunity of dup~
licating the performance after another
sixty to ninety days. We believe that
this winter will be another one when
plenty of money will be made by following
the same course of action. Prime, beef
cattle are bound to continue very high in
price, and the trade will continue to de~
mand a cheaper grade of beef, which will
cause a strong demand for short—fed cat;
tle all winter. We cansee nothing but
the bright side in feeding cattle, for
corn will be reasonable in price and
more‘money can be made in feeding it to
cattle and hogs than by selling it on the
market. We sold recently 1,250-lb, short-
fed steers at $6.50 that we hot as feeders
October 1 at $5.10, a good illustration of
short feeding that paid.” -

“Seventy-five per cent of my December
reports, just in, show that December hog
receipts will be in line with the disap-
pointing runs of October and November,"
says E, W. Wagner, of Chicago. “My
Illinois estimates of the December hog
run and current hog production mainly
range from 70 to 85 per cent of normal.
Iowa reports run 80 to 90 per cent of nor-
.mal. . Many reports claim 50 to 60 per
cent of normal.”

Arthur Meeker and a number of other
prominent Chicago capitalists who are
incidentally farmers, have started a.
movement for, the organization of the
Farmers' Club of Chicago.” It is to be
formed along the lines of the. New York
Farmers’ Club, which is composed 0f the
Vanderbilts and a number of other weal-
thy men. The, idea is to encourage the
breeding of fancy grades of cattle on the
fine country places that suround Chicago.
It is the intention to have monthly din-
ners at, which papers will be read by
well—known authorities on subjects of
vital interest to the members, and the
members will compare their experiences
and be ready to act on suggestions for
improvement.

A recent live stock report states that.
packers are regarding damage to corn
complacently, as it means more .beef.
Many sections of the 'west have been vis-
ited with so much snow and moist, humid‘,
weather that conditions have beencreat-
ed rendering cattle feeding imperative.
It is in part this which has put neW'
vigor into the demand for stocker and
feeder cattle, despite the fact that cattle-
feeders will have a narrow margin to
work on this winter, as thin steers are
selling much 'higher than a year ago. In.
Nebraska snow has buried un-huske'd corn.
in many of the big corn producing sec«
tions of the state, heating it to the-
ground, and growers Iwhohad not con-

.templated beefmakin have been sent”!!!
imperative orders to/ )maha and Kansas"

City for feeders, while a similar condition.
exists in many parts of Iowa. '

'bu‘tfsy Wednes— ' "

     
   
    
     
   
        
  
   
    
  
    
  
    
  
   
  
   
    
  
   
     
    
   
   
  
    
 
    
   
     
  
 
    
 
  
    
   
    
    
   
  
    
   
   
    
  
     
  
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
    
  
  
      
   
  
  
   
  
     
    
  
  
  
    
  
   
   
   
 
 
 
  
   
   
   
  
    
   
 
 
 
  
   
 
 
    
 
   
    
   
 
   
    
  
  
  
   
   
   
    
   
 
   
    
 
 
 
 
  
  

 

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w DEC. 11,11909‘,‘..
THls IS THE .LAsT EDITION. .

In ,the first edition the Detroit Live
Stock markets are reports .of last week;
to date.
Thursday's Detroit Live Stock markets
are given in the last edition. The first
edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday's Market.
December 9, 1909.
Cattle.
Receipts, 747. Market active and 250
bigger than last week on all grades.

e quote: Extra dry-fed steers and
heifers, $6; steers and heifers, 1,000 to
1,200, $5@5.60; steers and heifers, 800 to
1,000, $4.75@5.25; grass steers and heifers
that are fat, 500 to 700, $3.50@4; choice
fat cows, $4.50; good fat cows, $3.75@
4.25; common cows, $3@3.50; canners,
$2.50; choice heavy bulls, $4.50; fair to
good bolognas, bulls, $3.50@4£5; stock
bulls, $3@3.50; choice feeding steers, 800
to 1,000, $4.25@4.50; choice stockers, 500

to 700, $3.75@4; i‘air stockers, 500 to 700,
milk<

$3.25@3.50; stock heifers, $3@3.50;
ers, large, young, medium age, $40@55;
common milkers, $20@35.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 2

cow-s av 1,085 at $3.75, 1 bull weighing
1.050 at $3.25, 21 steers av 990 at $5.35,
32 butchers av 569 at $3.85; to Hammond,
S, & Co. 3 cow‘s av 943 at $2.50; to Breit-
enba-ck Bros. 4 do av 912 at $3, 6 butchers
11v 643 at $3.80, 1 bull weighing 820 at
$3.50; to Bresnalian 6 heifers av 591 at
$3.50, 1 bull 'weighing 630 at $3, 17 stock—
ers av 606 at $3.40; to Goose 2 cows av
1,175 at $3.50, 2 do av 1,040 at $2.50, 2
do a'v 900 at $260, 20 butchers av 652 at
$3.10; to Kamman B. Co. 8 cows av 1,057
at $3.35; to Markowitz 1 bull weighing
1,700 at $3.85; to Hammond, S. & Co, 17
steers a-v 1,117 at $6, 2 cows av 900 at $5;
to Newton B. Co. 3 steers av 1,033 at
$4.35; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 6 heifers av
520 at $3.60.

Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 2 steers
av 1,045 at $5, 7 cows av 900 at $3.50, 1
do weighing 1,150 at $2.50, 1 steer weigh-
ing 740 at $4.50, 7 cows av 940 at $3.75,
1 do weighing 950 at $3.25; to Bresnahan
5 canners av 730 at $3.50; to Hammond.
S. & Co. 4 cows av 950 at $3, 1 bull
weighing 1,480 at $4, 2 cows av 1,190 at
$4, 24 butchers av 822 at $4, 2 cows av
1.200 at $2.25, 1 steer weighing 1,080 at
$5.25, 3 heifers av 740 at $4.25; to Sullivan
P. Co. 1 bull weighing 1,210 at $3.75; to
Regan 13 heifers av 500 at $3.25; to Ratt—
kowsky 4 cows av 875 at $3; to Mich. B.
Co. 2 steers av 1,135 at $5, 11 do av 680
at $4; to Sullivan P. CO. 1 bull Weighing
1,200 at $3.75.

Haley &. M. sold Regan 3 heifers av 57
at $3.60; to Kamman 5 butchers av 750
at $3.85, 3 cows av 933 at $3.25, 2 do av
885 at $3, 2 bulls av 800 at $3.50, -1 do
weighing 880 at $3.75.

Roe Com. Co, sold Breitenback Bros.
1 cow weighing 860 at $3, 5 Ibutchers av
830 at $3.75, 4 do av 800 at $4; to Newton
15. Co. 9 steers av 733 at $4.50, 1 cow
weighing 900 at $2.50, 13 steers av 882 at
$5, 6 do av 825 at $4.25, 5 cows av 820 at

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$3.25; to Cooke 1 bull Weighing 1.340 at
$4.50; to Mich. B. CO. 5 butchers av 760
at $3.75, 11 do av 75.4 :11 $4.50; to Goose

2 cows a‘v 1,050 at $3; to Hammond, S, &
(‘0. 2 bulls av 800 at $3.50, 4 do av 1,600
at $4.25; to Ratlkowsky 5 butchers av
576 at $3.25, 2 do av 465 at $3.
Weeks sold Lovvensteili 20 stockers av
646 at $3.80.
Veal Calves.

Receipts, 287. Market active at last
week’s opening. Best $8.50@9; others,
$3.75Q7.50; milch cows and springers

steady.

Bishop, B. & II. sold Mich. B. Co. 6 av
125 at $8.85, 1 Weighng 190 at $5. 7 av
150 at $8.85, 2 av 350 at $6, 1 weighing 160
at $9, 2 av 130 at $8.75; to Parker, \‘i'. &
CO. 1 weighing 110 at $8, 3 av H5 at
$8.75; to Nagle P. Co. 2 av 310 at $4.25,
7 av 150 at $9; to Parker, 'W. 8'; Co. 3
av 125 at $7.

Haley & M. sold M’icli. B. CO. 3 cows
av 130 at $8.25; to Naglc P. Co. 1 weigh-
ing 160 at $8.50, 2 av 105 at $7.

Roe Com. Co. sold Thompson Bros. 4
av 110 at $7.50.

Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 5 av
130 at $8.75; to Niiglt‘ P. Co, 3 av 130 at
327.50; to Burnstine 2 av 115 at $7, 18 av
150 at $8.50; to Newton B. Co. 5 av 125
at $8.50. 3 av liili at $8.75, 2 av 155 at
$5.50, 1 weighing 100 at $8.50.

Leach sold Buiilline 7 av 140 at $9.

Lovcwcll sold some 10 av 142 at $9.

Bergen & W. sold Sullivan P. Co. 7 av
l'_‘.'» at $8.35.

Johnson sold Hammond, S. & CO. 2 aV
lso at $5.25.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 4.134. Market active and 25617
500 higher than last week. Best lamibs,
$7.50rw7.75; fair to good lambs, $6.75@7;
light to common lambs, $6@6.50; fair to
good sheep, $4@4.75; culls and common,
$3@3.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 4
sheep av 105 at $4, 6 do :iv 85 at $3, 38
do av 115 at $3.90, 17 lambs av 80 at $7.
18 do av 60 at $6, 84 (10 av 85 at $7.50, 1
learling weighing 100 :it $5.50. 104 lambs
av 75 at $7.50. 13 do av 80 at $7.65, 7
sheep av 120 at $4; to Mich. B. Co. 20
lambs av 60 at $6. 12 sheep av 100 at
$4, 22 lambs av 60 at $6, 10 do av 46 at
$6; to Nagle P. (lo. 9 sheep av 95 at $4;
to Mich. B. Co. 15 do av 100 at $3.25; to
Thompson Bros 31 lambs av 55 at $6.50;
to Fitzpatrick Bras. 8 sheep av 95 at
$3.25, do av 80 at $3.50; to Parker. W.
& Co, 6 lambs av 70 at $7.50, 2 sheep av

Spicer & R. sold Newton R. Co. 65
lambs av 73 at $7.15. 8 sheep av 88 at $2,
77 do av 125 at $3.85: to Nagle P. 00. 6
do av 88 at $4, 65 lambs av 70 at $7.;5.
110 (16.1w so at $7.60. 30 do av 55 at $6.50,
14 sheep av 105 at $3.25, 12 do av 90 at

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$3.50; to Mich. 3,00; .18 do av 100 at‘
$3,50Lto Sullivan P. Co. 5 lambs av .30
at $7, 6 do av 60 at $6.50. 30 do av 73 at
$7.50, 4 sheep av 90 at $3.50; to Fitzpatr
rick Bros. 54 lambs av 68 at $7.35. 27-
sheep av 90 at $4; to Newton P. Ci. 11
lambs av 50 at $6.

Roe Com. Co. sold Stocker 14 lambs av
80 at $6; to Nagle P. Co. 32 do av 60 at $7.

Johnson "old Young 8 sheep av 85 at
$3.50, 22 lambs av 75 at $6.75.

Haley & M. .sold Nagle P. Co. 55 sheep
av 90 at $4.50, 93 do' av 76 at $7.75; to
Nagle P. Co. 4 do av 80 at $7.50, 7 sheep
av 120 at $4.50, 21 do av 105 at $3.50, 12
lambs av 85 at $7, 11 do av 77 at $7.50.

Merritt sold Newton B. Co. 27 lambs
av 75 at $7.25.

Kimmell sold Mich. B. Co. 30 lambs av
67 at $6.65, 78 sheep av 110 at $3.75.

Wagner sold Sullivan P. Co. 37 lambs
av 77 at $7.10.

Lovewell sold Nagle P. Co.
av 70 at $7.50.

Hegs.

Receipts, 3,927. Market 15@200 higher
than last week.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers, $8.30@8.50; pigs, $8; light yorkers,
$8.20(n>8.30; stags, $4,; off.

Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co. 233
av 200 at $8.50, 358 av 190 at $8.45, 237 av

65 lambs

170 at $8.40.

Spicer & R. sold same 307 av 200 at
$8.50, 276 av 185 at $8.45, 315 av 165
at $8.40.

Sundry shippers sold same 380 av 195
at $8.50.

Haley & M. sold Sullivan P. Co. 49 av
190 at $8.40, 29 av 185 at $8.35.

8b;%icer & R. sold same 209 av 180 at

Roe Com. Co. sold same 69 av 205 at
$3.68, 254 av 180 at $8.40, 42 av 150 at
.5 .

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Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &
Co. 820 av 200 at $8.50, 496 av 180 at
$8.40, 210 av 170 at $8.45, 65 av 160 at
.$8.35,

Sundry shippers sold‘ same 310 av 185
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Friday's Market.

December 3, 1909.
Cattle.

Receipts, 1.840. Good grades steady;
common grades dull and diraggy. Dry-
fed steers, $5.25@5.50; steers and heifers.
1.000 to 1.200, $4.75fl5; steers and heifers.
800 to 1.000, $4684.50: steers and heifers
that are fat. 500 to 700, $3.506F3.75; choice
fat cows, $4@4.50; good fat cows, $35060
375; common cows, $250613: canners. $1.50
((02.25; choice heavy bulls, $4.25fl450; fair
to good bolognas. bulls. $3.75v7'1‘4: stock
bulls, $3603.50; choice feeding steers. 800
to 1.000, $4634.25; fair feeding steers. 800
to 1,000. $3.75fiz‘4; choice stockers, 500 to

700. $375614; fair slockers, 500 to 700,
$3.50fi‘375; stock heifers, $2.50fi3.25:

milkers, large. young. medium age, $4060
55; common mi'lkcrs. $256135.

Spicer & R. sold David 12 stockers av
450 at $3.15.

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. CO. 12 steers
av 781 at $4.25.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Sullivan P. CO.
6 cows av 716 at $2.40. 4 heifers 21v 737 at
$3.50, 3 cows av 980 at $3. 1 bull weighing
1,070 at $3.60, 2 do av 1.335 at $4.25, 3
steers av 800 at $4. 4 stockers av 580 at
$3, 4 cows a'v 995 at $3.50, 4 do av 812 at
$3.50. 2 do av 965 at $3.50.

Spicer & R. sold Bresna'han 1 steer
figfihing 780 at $3.50, 5 cows av 875 at

H)

Bishop, B, & H. sold same 5 (10 av 714:

at $3.30.

Gainer sold Hammond,
steers av 1,230 at $6.25.

lia‘lcv &. M. sold same 1.
1,800 at $4.25.

Clarke sold Weeks 6 butc‘hcrs av 733
at $3.

Haley & M. sold Marx 2 steers av 890
at $4.75, 3 do av 800 at $3.80.

Same sold Rattkowsky 1 bull weighing
920 at $3.60, 2 cows av 1,070 at $3,

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 851. Market

Thursday's prices.

S. & (‘0. l3

bull weighing

steady at

ers, $467.50; milch cows and springers,
steady. ‘ ‘
Clark & M. sold Hammond. S. & Co.

6 av 130 at $8.

Bishop. B. 8: H. sold same 4 av 150 at
$8.50, 13 av 130 at $8.25, 15 av 140 at $7.75.

Luckc sold same 7 av 150 at $8.40.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Nugle P, Co. 4 av
100 at $5, 21 av 150 at $8.75, 6 av 150 :it
$8.25.

Owen & S. sold same 12 av 150 at $8.
Hu‘ley & M. sold $111110 3 11v 170 at $8.25.
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 7,834. Market strong, 25c
lower than on Thursday. Best lambs.
$6.80fi‘i7; fair to good lambs, $6.5MTGJH:
‘ltight 0:10 icon’imgéif‘lambs. 35.77.426.25: fair
0 go s we , r1425; . ..
$2,75@3,50, p culls and common.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. (1o, 05
lambs av 70 at $6.75. 40 do :i\' 60 at $6 25.
60 shecp av 00 at $3. 70 mixed av 7.7. :it
$5.50, 39 lambs av 75 at $6.80, 14 do av
90 at $7, 13 do 111' 60 at $5, 14 sheep nv
110 at $3.75, 1‘29 lambs av 70 at $6.70, 143
do av 60 at $6.15, 20 do av 60 at $6.75, 62
do av 55 at $5.50. 17 sheep av 80 at $2.
60 lambs av 65 at $6.25; to Hammond. S.
& Co. 16 do av 80 at $7. 27 sheep av 85
at $2, 14 do av 80 at $2.50, 31 do av .93
at $4.50. 14 do av 110 at $3.50; to Sullivan
P. Co. 20 do av 75 at $2.50.

Haley & M. sold Nagle P. (‘30. 40 lambs
av 68 at $6.75. 27 sheep av 85 at $3.25.

Roe Com. (‘0. sold some 34 lambs av
70 at $6.50, 14 sheep av 80 at $4.

Spicer & R. sold same 11 lambs av 13

at $6.25, 1 do weighing 30 at $5.25,

093.
Receipts, 11,400. Market steadv to 50‘

higher than on 'l‘hursdav. Li ht 't 0”
butchers, $8.15fl825; pigs, 47.073555117132117
splatters. $8fiT8_10: stags 15. off. I
arkct closed verv bad-o . »
5mg! 1:”va , n cattle, sheep
s op, B.'& H. sold Hammn -l S .
Co. 216 av 170 at $2.20. 630 av mangé 3911??
366 av 200 at $8.25, 345 av 150 at $8.10. '
Sundry shippers sold same 270 av 170

at $8.20. .

Spiccr & R. sold Parker. W. & Co. 86.

av 180 at $8.20, 71 av 160 . .
Halev4& M. at $8.15.
$8.20. 80 av 160 at $8.15.

THEMICHIG’AN ‘FKRM‘ER.

Best. $8.50018.75; oth-'

sold same 175 av 180 at.

   

ADDITIONAL VETERINARY.

Nasal Gleet.——I have a valuable horse
that is apparently all right except there
is a thick white discharge coming from
both nostrils. I have thot this discharge
varied some on account of weather con-
ditions. What had I better do for him?

8., Imlay City, Mich—\Vash out nos-
trils with one part peroxide-hydrogen
and four parts water and give 1 dr. pow~
dered sulphate copper, 2 drs. powdered
cinchona and 1/2 oz. bicarbonate soda at
a dose in feed three times a day.

Barb W'ire Cut.—My colt got cut on
barb wire, making 'wound under fet-
lock; the fetlock joint is swollen and the
wound is healed. Can the leg be made
smooth and normal? E. T., Eaton Rap-
ids, Mich.——Appl_v equal parts extract of
witch hazel, spirits of camphor, alcohol

and tincture iodine to swollen fetlock
every two days.
Sprained Tendons.-—My 23—year-old

mare walks stiff in one hind leg, caused
perhaps by a sprain of the cords. The
leg is swollen; her appetite is not always
good. J. “T., Shepherd, Mich—Dissolve
1/1 lb. sugar of lead in a gallon of water,
adding 8 ozs. tincture arnica and apply
to swollen leg two or three times a day.
Give 1/2 oz. ground gentian, 1/2 dr, ground
nux vomica and 2 tablespoonfuls ground
ginger at a dose in feed three times a

a).

Acidity of Stomach—I have an eight-
months-old calf that is in an unthrifty
condition; he is inclined to chew rags
and other trash; lately he has lost flesh
and I am undecided whether it will pay
to keep him or not. I also have a cow
that has garget and gives lumpy milk.
M. F. M., Springvale. Mich.-You can best
decide whether it will pay to keep your
calf or not; give a tablespoonful of hi-
carbonate soda and a desserlspoonful
hvpc—sulphite of soda at a dose in feed
twice a day.

Indigestion.—-—M,v 6-year-old cow has had
several sick spells during the past six
weeks; part of the time she showed indi-
cations of having colic; her appetite is
very irregular; bowels costive part- of the
time and loose other times. She grunts
when expelling the air from lungs; I have
given her aconitc. calomel and stock food
but it failed to help her. F. 13., Manton,
Mich—Your cow suffers from a digestive
ailment. Give 1 oz. bi-carbonalc of soda,
1 oz. powdered charcoal, 1 oz. ground gin-
ger and 1 dr. salicylic acid :it u dosc in
feed two or three times a duv. if she will
not take the medicine in feed. drcncli her.

Indigestion in Shoutsfll have some
shouts that have been fed corn on car",
some of them appear to choke when eat-
ing and when running out do considerable
rooting as tho they were anxious to find
a remedy for their ailment. C. C.. Gilles-
burg. Mich—Give your shoals :1 tea-
spoonful of the following compound pow-
der: Gentiun, cinchmia, fciiugreck. bi-
carbonate soda and salt. This medicine
Should be fed to them in feed twice :1

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SONG OF SUPPER.

BY FRANK H. SWEET.

Sing a song of supper, '

Cried little Tommy Tupper;

I’m dreadful, dreadful hungry
And awful, awful cross.

Then Anna Josephine

Took up her concertina,

And sang this lovely ditty
Without a moment’s loss:

The clock had struck ten,
And down in the glen
It was dark as a den
Or a pocket;
But over the hill
Shone the moon white and still,
And bright as a new
Silver locket.

Mr. Solomon Owl
Was out for a prowl,
And his wife, Honey Owl,
Was beside him.
He was hungry, and so,
As perhaps you may know,
It felt very empty
Inside him.

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In my bosom feels queer;

’Tis my heart. Love, I fear
I am dying.

If I am, don’t forget

How I’ve loved you, my pet.

You smile? Why, you ought
To be crying."

Said gay Mrs. Owl,

'Twixt a laugh and a scovvi,

“You dear, hungry fowl,
In the thicket

We’ll find something nice,

Either young birds or mice;

When you’ve supped you’ll be smart
As a cricket.”

Her words all proved true;

And home'ward they flew,

In the darkness and dew,
Very jolly,

'A—singing like mad,

“Who, who would be sad!!

Away with all dull
IMclancholyl”

_________'._———————-

THE BABY WITH FIFTY MOTHERS.

 

BY SHIRLEY BURNS.

Greta oeuld hardly wait to get home
from school in the usual way. Wings
would not have carried her there quick
enough. She had heard of something that
afternoon that she must tell mamma
quick, and so her black—stockinged legs
twinkled along the snow—white road, for
it was winter time, and her cheeks were
rosy red and her ‘breath came fast from
running, the while her busy brain raced
on faster than her feet could fly.

Bursting mm the sitting room where
her mother sat placidly sewing she threw
books one way and cap another as she
excitedly began her story. “Oh. mamma,
there is a poor little crippled baby down
to Grandma Ellis’ and Grandma has kept
him all summer and now she is too poor
to keep him any longer because it takes
so much money to buy wood this winter
and she can‘t earn much and take care
of him, so the officer man says he has
got to go to the orphan ’sylum. Grandma
feels dreadfully. She says nobody loves
him like she does and she wants to keep
him so. Ain’t it too bad?”

“Pick up your things, dear,” said
mother, “and then come tell me who told
you about this crippled baby.”

Greta obeyed and then came and leaned
lovingly against her mother’s shoulder
with one arm around her neck.

“Blanche Brown told us at noon re-
cess,” she said. “Blanche lives right
close to the house where Grandma lives
you know. I saw him once when I was
playing with Blanche. He has such a
cunning little face with great big eyes
that look just as if he was asking you
to love him, but he is all crooked and
his hands look like Goldie’s feet almost,
they are so long and thin. His clothes
looked funny, Mamma, made of calico and
all faded, lbut they was just as clean, as
Grandma said he never could
said his papa hired her to take
he was a teeny weeny
ng, but he never paid
had been gone away
this long time and she didn’t know
where he. had gone. His mamma died,
she says. and there ain’t anybody to take

him."
careviiy don't Grandma send him to the
asylum? Isn't that the best place for

' 9" ,rie Mamma.
111310.11, 271:): (13“ know Grandma. She is
little, and bent way over, and her hair
is white, and she wears old patched
dresses, but there is just the dearest
twinkle in her eyes, and the dogs run to
her for a pat on the head, and she always

things to us children when
says such nice . t see
we meet her, and she asks us in o .
her cat and kittens, and if she has any
she gives us cookies—such good ones

clean!
walk. She
care of him when
mite, way last spri
her, and now he

 
  

way grows in herFIittle garden; I've seen
it growing: She ain’t had any cookies for
us lately. The baby has to have all there
is to spare and Grandma’s cheek-s are
awful hollow. I don’t believe she eats
hardly a. mite herself. She couldn’t let
Bennie go to the ’sylum where there
Wouldn’t be anybody to love him; besides
he aches awfully sometimes and Grandma
rubs him and rubs him and does him all
up in pieces of soft old flannel. She’s
afraid there won't anybody like him well
enough to do that for him cause there
will be so many others. ’Sides that he
loves Grandma and couldn’t bear to go.”

“How does Grandma earn enough to
buy food?”

“Oh, she washes and irons and mends
for folks ‘but she is getting so old and
Bennie is so much work to take care of
that she can’t earn much. She works all
she can.” -

“What can we do about it, little daugh-
ter?” asked. mamma.

“There’s a whole lot of us girls in
schol that know Grandma and Bennie.
Couldn’t we pay Grandma to keep him?”

‘How much money will it take, do you
think?"

“Grandma says if she could have Just
a little help, just a dollar or two a week,
that she could get along fine. Don’t you
think we could do it, mamma?”

“Perhaps so, dear,” kissing the wist-
ful face. “How many girls are there
who would help?”

“Blanche and I counted them and there
are fifty in the whole school who want
to help. Couldn’t we pay five cents apiece
a week and have Grandma keep Bennie?”

“I think you could dear.‘ Now I think
you should form a club and adopt Ben-
nie. You will enjoy that and you will
learn how to conduct such an organiza-
tion. Ask your teacher to help you get
started, and make her your president if
she will accept it.”

“Oh, goody, goody,” cried Greta. “That
will be just fun. Oh, I know she will
help. She is just as good, as good!”

Greta could talk of little else all that
evening and she thot she lay awake most
all night thinking about it, but time in
the night seems long to a little girl, and
mamma found her fast asleep when she
went to bed herself at half past nine.

 
  

The-point day at cohooivthoro was 11inch

important censultation "among groups of 5

girls from'the different grades, and much
with Miss Maxwell, Greta's teacher. She
entered e‘heartily into the project and
called a; meeting in her schoolroom di-
rectly after 4 o’clock. All were, enthu-
siastic and then and there was or-
ganized the Little Mother‘s Club with
fifty members. Miss Maxwell was chosen
president, with other officers and an ex-
ecutive committee on which Greta was
appointed to serve. Meetings were to be
held in the schoolroom each week during
school sessions, and at the homes of the
members during vacation. Each member
was to pay flve cents at each meeting,
absentees to pay up at the next meeting
at which they were present.

Saturday afternoon Greta, with Blanche
and another little schoolmate, proudly
carried Grandma Ellis $2.50 and stayed
awhile to play with Bennie and to tell
Grandma. about the club, altho her bless-
ings on them, poured forth with the
twinkly eyes all dim with tears, made
them feel uncomfortable even while it
made them glad.-

Cookies enough to go around were found
in the jar, for Grandma said she could
make some more now.

A new committee carried the money
each week, that all might in turn share
in the joy of the giving. The mammas
became interested and warm garments
and useful things for the home found
their way to the little cottage. Some of
the papas lived on farms and these oc-
casional-1y brot vegeta‘bles, or meat, or a
load of wood so that the Little Mothers
not only adopted Bennie but really Grand-
ma as well. So many things being fur-
nished, Grandma could afford strengthen—
ing food and medicine for the crippled
child and he throve exceedingly albeit he
could never walk. The club is now dis-
cussing the advisability of raising money
to pay a note-d specialist to come and see
Bennie and find out if his crooked limbs
can ever be made straight enough to
carry his body. “It will take a lot of
m'Oney,” said Greta, "but we’ll get it I
know. We will get up some entertain-
ments. Folks will come, I know, when
they know what we want of the money,
and I’ll work just as hard as can be and
so will all the rest.”

 

 

 

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tega Ranch, an expansive and one-time
prosperous estate, among the foothills of
California, is forced upon the real estate
market because of neglect and lack of
management on the part of the aged
Senor Ortega. Full of resentment, the
old Spaniard and his daughter Carina, are
obliged to take up their abode in an adobe
hut on a five-acre plot not covered by the
mortgage. A tradition to the effect that
an early ancestor had sold a portion of
the ranch and hidden the resulting gold
about the place is held responsible for the
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gressiveness. The ranch passes to two
young men from the east, Guy Cross and
John Martin, cousins. Both are anxious
'to make of it a paying property and a
comfortable home. The belligerent senor
refuses to welcome them as neighbors,
and his daughter, altho recognizing the
injustice of her father’s views, humors
him by maintaining a like attitude. How-
ever, an accident to one of the cousms
shortly after their arrival causes Miss
Ortega and her faithful Indian servant,
Wana, to offer their services, the former
mounting her pony and riding for a doc-
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the injured man.

 

Chapter lll.——Carlna.

It cost John Martin a great effort to
retain his self-control. The tie between
the cousins was a close one; they loved
each other as brothers. Then they were
in a strange land, thousands of miles
from their kin or even their friends.

“I am afraid that he is badly hurt,"
John said as they laid the unconscious
man on his own bed. “Wana, you heard
what the Senorita Ortega said. What
can you do for my cousin?”

“Wana will do for the intruder, because
the blessed senorita bade her,” the Indian
woman sad slowly. “Bring cold water
and ‘bat'he his head. Wana must go to
the house across the way for the yerba
buena to bind on the wound.”

In a few minutes she returned with a
handful of dried herbs which she ordered
John to moisten with cold water. While
he did it, VVana mixed a powder in a glass
of water and forced a few drops of it be-
tween Guy’s lips. Soon the injured man
began to show signs of returning con-
sciousness. By the time the sound of
horses' hoofs were heard outside, Wana
had succeeded in getting Guy to swallow

the contents of the entire glass. He
opened his eyes and stared vacantly round
the room. John bent over the bed, but,
before he could speak, old Wana pushed
him aside.

“Wait! Thot has not yet come back
to your brother. Here is the doctor.”

An old man entered, walking at Carina’s
side. He had a high-bred Spanish face,
and the long hair that was thrown
straight back from his forehead was
snow white. It was Carina who spoke in
a soft, allluring key that made John think

of the far-away notes of a silver-voiced

flute.

“It is Doctor Encino. And these are
the gentlemen who have come here to
live.”

“Thank you, Senorita Ortega,” John
said with a low bow. “My name is John
Martin, and my cousin who is injured
is Guy Cross. I hope, Doctor Encino,
that you can tell me that he is not ser-
l'ously hurt.”

As the physician stooped over his pa-
tient, old Wana approached Carina. The
Indian woman’s voice was low, but John
heard her say: “The senor, your father,
says you are to go to the house across
the way at once. He is angry because
you came to your home while they—the
intruders—are here.”

The girl sighed. “I feared that he would
be angry, but, when life is at stake, one
does not remember property quarrels.
Wana, you remain here while you are
needed.”

Then Carina turned to John. “I must
return to my father. ‘If anything we have
will be of service to you, let Wana come
for it. She will remain while you need
her.”

John walked at her side out thru the
living-room to the veranda. “Thank
you, Senorita Ortega. I do not know
what I should have done in this trouble
had it not been for your help. I wish we
could be fronds.”

Carina raised startled eyes to his face,
but his grave, earnest look reassured her.
It was a moment before she said, “That
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you., I ginger”. It, is hard to. see one’s
old home pass into the hands of’stqn-
get '.but ‘ygu argin no way to blame for
our troubles.” ’

“Thank you for saying that. I can “11-.
derstand how you must 'have loved this
did home.” .

The girl looked round the veranda, and
sudden tears filled her eyes. “I am not
sure you know; I did not until I had had
the experience. Good-by, and I hope that
Mr, Cross’s injury will not prove a serIOus
one."

She_walked away. John stared after
her for a moment, then returned to Guy's
room. Doctor Encino smiled benignly
over at him.

“Your friend will be all right on the
morrow. VVana gave Ihim just what he
needed. Yes, you may talk with him for
a,'moment; then darken the room and I
think he will Sleep. Nature is the best
restorer.” 7 .. *

‘V‘And the wound on'his head?"

.f'A ‘mere scratch. It was the force of
the'blow, not the wound, that stunned
lhim. I will leave some medicine, should
there be any symptoms of fever.”

Doctor Encino remained at the ranch
for an how. He was much interested in
the young man’s plans for improvement.

“The good old days are gone,” he said
with a sigh. “I regret it. perhaps as
much as does Jose Ortega, but I see
the uselessness of waging war against
the present. It is to you and the men
like you that we must look for the de-
velopment of this great state.”

“Thank you, Doctor Encino, I cannot
tell you how much I regret the attitude
of Senor Ortega towards us. I am sin-
cerely sorry for him and his daughter. It
must be hard for them to stay where they
are, ever facing the old home which has
passed from their hands."

“Do not pity the Senorita Carina; she
is heaven's favored child. Just now the
brightness of ‘her life is eclipsed, but the
darkness will pass. As for Jose—~well, I
think the loss of his wife broke his heart.
He had given uprlhis church and his faith
for her. She was a beautiful woman. but
she was of a different race and day from
her husband. Carina is like “her. Jose
has suffered all his life because of his
belief in the hidden gold and the freedom
from all care that its finding was to bring
l'llm."

_“I have“ heard---='th’at story.
any truthhin it?”

“It is true that the gold was hidden:
that story is a part of our church’s his«
tory. I do not think it has ever been
found and stolen by a thief. That is one
reason Why Jose hates you. lie declares
that when the gold is found it will be
you, not the Ortegas, who will profit by
the finding.”

John Martin smiled. “I am not a rob—
ber. If I find the Ortega gold I will be
glad to turn it over to its rightful owner.”

Doctor Encino was right; on the follow-
ing day Guy Cross was up and about. He
appeared to be none the worse for the
accident.

One result of the affair was the estab-
lishment of friendly relations between
Doctor Encino and the owners of Ortega
Ranch. The old physician lived alone in
the village, not far from the ruins of the
mission church. He was a scholar and
was greatly beloved by all the dwellers
in the valley.

The accident

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also brot about a better
understanding between \Vana and the
young men. The Indian woman still
looked upon them as intruders, but Car-
ina had said there was to be no ill will,
so Wana no longer openly upbraided John
and Guy for their presence at Ortega
Ranch. Their gifts of fruit, cream, and
eggs were accepted by ‘her. alt’ho she
frankly told them that the senor and his
daughter must suppose the things were
purchased by her or were the gifts of
other neighbors who were old friends.
Occasionally John met Senor Ortega
on the highway. The young man’s polite
greeting was returned by an icy stare,
until John came. on such occasions, only
to touch his hat and quickly look away
Time ‘went by. The rains awoke. the
encircling hills to new beauty. They were
spread 'with a. mantle of wonderously
blended shades of emerald, and the wild
flowers had begun to blossom. At first
they were but few, a promise of the
wealth of beauty that was to come later.
Christmas passed quiet-1y at Ortega
Ranch. Both young men were lonely.
Guy declared that, before the next Christ-

mas the ranchhouse should have a mis-

tress.

“Ruth will
teaching. Then
Our: success is enough
can urge her coming.”

Two weeks after the holiday season

have to finish ’her year
she shall come out here.
assure‘d so that I

     

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

John .was returning 'from. a. long ride
among the foothills. He dismounted, to
examine a strange shrub that was grow-
ing near the winding, rocky highway. In—
stead of remounting he walked on, his
bridle over 'his arm. Rounding a curve
in the road he came upon Carina Ortega.

She was sitting upon a rock, her hands
folded idly in her lap. Just behind the
girl a, dwarf live-oak made an effective
background for her delicately-colored face
and gray-clad figure. She 'had removed
her hat, and it day upon the ground at
her side.

“Miss—I beg your pardon, Senorita Or-
tega!" John exclaimed, raising his cap.
“I hope I did not startle you."

“No, I heard your horse‘s approach.
Mr. Martin, I wish you would call me
Miss Ortega, as you started to do."

He stared. “I thot—"

“You thot that I clung to all the 91d
Spanish traditions with my poor father’s
mistaken zeal,” and the smile that looked
from her eyes was sad rather than merry.
“No, I am at heart an American, as was
my mother. Then I 'llad two years at
boarding school, and there I came to long
for a life like that of other American
girls. See!” pointing off down the canon.
“Is not the view a beautiful one?”

John felt that she wished to change the
subject. He looked in the direction in
which she pointed. The space between
the Chaparral-covered hills widened, then

 

narrowed, and the projecting crags made
on the green walls a sharp contrast of
sunlight and dark shadows. Somewhere
out of sight a tiny brook slipped along
amid the brush, and its voice came dis-
tinctly to their ears, babbling gayly as if
f01‘ j'Oy. The sky was a pale blue, touched
here and there with white clouds. To
the west those clouds congregated, and in
that direction the landscape was veiled
with the fiimsiest of mists.

“Indeed it is a fair land.” John said
softly, as if in some strange way he had
entered into the girl's thots. “I do not
wonder that you love it. At times I feel
its magical spell.”

“That feeling will grow. I love the
mountains and ”these shadowy canons.
Somehow I feel so secure. ‘here. as if I
was shut round by my own. And the
breath of the salt air upon my check is
like the kisg of one I love. The sea has
a mood for every hour of a man's life.
With the poet I cry,

“Let us go down to the sea, ere the noisy
day be over,

Let us go down to the sea, and strip

us of care and of toll!
There are graves in the heart of
that only the sea can cover,

There are deeds in the life of man to

be sown as the deep sea spoil.
And the grief which 'licth behind us give
to the grave of forgetting.

And the faith that is dimmed

shrive with the keen,
the sea.

And the fruitless doubt let us fling beyond
the bond of regretting,

Where only the wave and the sky and!

the soul of man may be.”

For a half hour the two talked. From
the mountains and the sea they turned to
books. John learned that Carina had
read much. ,

“The Ortega library was a large but

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an old one,” she said. "The uncle who
sent me to school gave me many books.
Then Doctor Enclna and the Marshalls
are always ready to share their new books
with me.”

“If I could only bring over to you my
new magazines and——”

“Thank you. Let us forth for this
afternoon that you cannot. Mr. Martin,
I have always felt that I ought to apolo-
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our old furniture at the rancirhousc. Our
present abode is so small. Various friends
stored things for us, but father would not
consent to a singlc article being Sold or
destroyed.”

“No apology is necessary; we occupy
‘but a few rooms. Next fall Guy hopes to
bring home a bride. then things must be
different, but even then there will be
many unused rooms, and you arc welcome
to leave anything in them that you wish.”

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I wish I could ride home \vith you."

“It would make my father very angry,"
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deepening to crimson. “You must ride,‘
on. and soon I will follow, for the day is?

almost done.”
There was nothing for John to do but
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first seen her, her hands folded in her
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ish woman of twenty-five. Upon entering
the parlor the two young“ men were sur-
prised to see Carina Ortega and another
young lady seated there. .

“My cousin, Miss Cornell,” Floy Mar-

shall said. “I am sure that you gentle-
men need no introduction to Miss
Ortega."

“I was first introduced to her when I
was in an unconscious condition," Guy
cried gaily. “I'm most grateful, Miss
Ortega, for your coming so promptly to
my assistance.” .

“You see, Mr. Cross. that it does not
do to tilt against windmills, Don Quixote
notwithstanding," was Carina’s quick
reply.

To both the young men the evening
was a genuine- treat. In their eastern
homes they had been accustomed to so-
ciety, and they had never realized how
keenly they felt the deprivation of their
present position until that evening con-
trasted so sharply with their usual soli-
tary ones. Guy devoted Ihimself to Car-
ina and before the evening was over he
had told her all about “the little girl,"
as he called his betrothed, Ruth Saunders.

“I shall go after her next fall. I «say.
Miss Ortega, I’d give a good deal if you
could be a friend to the little girl, for it
will be dreadfully lonesome for her here.”

A shadow swept over Carina's mobile
face. “If I only could! Please let us
talk of something else.”

“That's a remarkable girl,” Sam Mar.
shall said later in the evening as he and
John found themselves a little retired
from the other occupants of the room.

“You mean Miss Cornell?” John asked
politely.

“Madge? Bless you, no! Madge is a.
dear, but she is just an average American
girl who has been petted and spoiled, or
would have been that last if she had
not had good sense. Her people live on
a. ranch twenty miles away, and it was
at boarding-school that the two girls
met. It is Carina that I call a remark-
able girl.”

“She is very pretty.”

“But that‘s not remarkable; so are
hundreds 'of other girls. Carina is as
loyal as death to that conceited old prig,
her father. She loves the old life, but
she sees it for what it is, a picturesque
background for the present which may
retain much of the best of that past. But
she longs for freedom and the opportu-
nity to make the most of 'her gifts.”

 

“What of the uncle who educated 'her?
Can he do no more for her?”

“He is a New Yorker, a rich childless
man. With all his heart he longs for
Carina. He had asked her to come and
live with him, but she had refused. I
think the school was a bait. Mir, Allen
felt sure that his niece would not re-
nounce the life she had once come to
enjoy. When her schooldays were over,
Mr. Allen offered to make Carina his heir
if she would leave her father forever and
g0 east with him. The girl very properly
refused.”

“Her life is a hard one.”

“It is made much harder by her fath-
er's stubborn pride. When Carina found
that her father would not move to Los An-
geles, so that she could accept the position
ill a private school that was offered 'her,
she agreed to teach the Capistrano school.
How the old man raved! A woman of
the Ortega family earn money! The poor
girl had to give it up, and the drawn—work
that brings the old man bread is done
without his knowing that it is for sale.”

Just then Madge Cornell called John
to the piano, asking him to join in some
songs. During an interval in the singing
Guy said to Carina: “If you had any
idea, Miss Ortega, how good your piano
and your voice sound to two lonely men
you would sing long and loud in the eve-
ning.”

The girl laughed, altho her face colored.
“It is such a tinkll'ng old piano! Still, I
am glad that you enjoy it.”

 

 

After that evening it was not easy for
John to pass Carina with only a formal
bow on the rare occasions when they
met. He did it, for he knew that for him
to do otherwise would make life hard for
the girl.

The rainy season was nearly over.
Flowers lined the canon walls, the yellow

bloom of the wild mustard spread over

the hillsides like a wave of gold, and in
the valley there were many spots made
bright by the vivid orange flame of the
California poppies.

All things at Ortega Ranch went well.
Returns from the sale of the cream were
satisfactory. The work of clearing up the
grounds was still going 0n, and the flow-
ers rescued from amidst the tangle of
weeds made the old garden a spot of rare
beauty.

One morning the sun rose in ‘an un-

 

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clouded sky. Ere noon 3. blight fog drifts

ed in from the sea. It ascended and so
tempered the rays of the 'sun that they
fell with the gentleness of a. tender caress
over the valley. The air was perfectly
still, and it was not until the middle of
the afternoon that the fog thickened.
Then all at once it came rolling in, dense,
impenetrable.

Guy had ridden into the village. John
was at work in one of the outbuildings,
packing a box of oranges. The fruit
raised on the ranch was not of first-class
quality, because of the neglect from which
the trees had suffered, but the cousins
were disposing of it as best they ebulrl.
John was whistling cheerily when a low,
monotonous voice asked: “Will you aid
the Senorita Carina?”

It was old Wana who spoke. She had
approached so quietly that JUhn had not
heard her footsteps.‘

“What do you mean, Wana. I shall
be glad to do anything for the senorita."’

“Just after lunch she saddled Nacha
and went for a ride. It was to the sea
that she went. Nacha has just come
home, riderless and covered with lather.
Wana cannot go, because she promised
not to leave the senor. Something has
happened to the blessed senorita.”

John straightened his stalwart should-
ers. “I fear something has happened. I
will saddle Dick and go in search of Miss
Ortega.” ‘

“G0 at once. It is to Point Cypress
that she rides, to gaze out over the sea.”

A few minutes later John Martin rode
down the highway. He could see but a.
few feet in advance of his horse’s head;
on all sides the dense fog shut down round
him, like a heavy gray curtain.

(Continued next week).

 

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Everybody wants to give a present for
Christmas that will be appreciated and is
at the same time useful. Here's a gift
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wisdom of the giver in presenting it. As
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minder of the giver to the recipient—
and it never wears out. It’s a choice of
three things, and every choice a good
one, tooz—Stevens’ Rifles, Shotguns and
pistols. There’s the Favorite No. 17 rifle
that’s a favorite with everyone. Then
there’s the No. 520 repeating shotgun
(Browning’s patent), the fastest, easiest
working gun made. Then there’s the No.

70 visible loading repeating rifle, the
Stevens’ new demi—bloc double barrel
hammer and hammerless shotguns. If you

would really like to know more about the
Stevens guns write to the makers, the J.
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Falls, Mass, and they’ll send you their
catalogues and descriptive matter on all
the varieties. Simply send six cents in
stamps to cover postage. Or if you know
what kind you want now, you can get it
of any pregressive dealer. But if you
can’t obtain it the Stevens people will
ship it direct, express prepaid, on receipt
of the catalogue price. If you want the
catalogue for any Christmas purposes, you
had better send early.

Square Dealing Builds Business.

Tile manufacturers of rubber and wool-
en foot-wear has made tremendous strides
in late years. Their great economy, com-
fort and serviceability have made them a.
necessity. An excellent illustration of
what one company has done in this field
is that of the Misllawaka Woolen Mfg.
Co., of Misllawaka, Ind., (not in the
trust). From their small beginning in
1868 they have grown so fast, that today
they are the largest manufacturers of
rubber and woolen foot-wear in the
world. Their plant covers 40 acres of
floor space. They have always been
noted for the quality of material and
workmanship they put into their foot-
wear and any one buying rubber or wool-
en foot-wear will do well to look for tie
idnetification mark they put on each arti-
cle. Tile trade-mark of the Mishawaka
Woolen Mfg. Co., is a red ball. Their
trade name is “Ball Band” which is
printed over the upper side of the ball.
On their arctics or woolen boots, the
trade—mark is easily seen on the right
side of the boot near the top. On their
rubber boots it is shown at the top of the
front Side. The red ball is always notice-
able. Whenevcr you buy arctics, wool or
rubber boots 100k for this mark. It al-
ways stands for quality and longest wear.
The Mishawaka Woolen Mfg. Co., have
sacrificed a million dollars in profit to
give good, old-fashioned, honest-made
goods—the kind they are proud to mark
with their name and brand. It always
pays to buy the best for they last longer,
give greater satisfaction, and are the most
economical in the long run. Ask your
dealer for “Ball-Band.”

 

A Great Aid to the Farmer.
Steel Wheels increase the life of
any wagon and make the work much

easier for the horses. No wood to
warp, crack, or shrink. Being built
low down about one-half the lifting

is necessary as with the. common farm
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beat. Any farmer makes one, of the saf-
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wheels on his wagon. It will pay any of
you to look further into this matter. The
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Quincy, 111., are the pioneer manufacturers
of steel wheels and the handy farm
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The sliding cord in the back (not found in any other sus-
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THE C. A. EDGARTON MFG. 60.,
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THE DECEMBER PROGRAMS.

 

.- , Chgqutlono for Second Meeting,

. The earth has grown old with its bur-
den of care, but at Christmas it always

' is young.—-Philllps Brooks.

"Darts of Michigan.

; successful
“ Grange in new territory will here be seen

.. ning song.
opel‘li'teen minutes of Christmas poetry,
in charge of Pomona and Flora.
, Fruit Growing—III. Planting and Care
of Fruit Grounds. »
A Christmas story (read, recited, or
told from experience or observation).
Cookery—III. Bread.
A Christmas wish, voiced by the chap-
lain.

STATE GRANGE NEXT WEEK.

 

 

This year’s State Grange meeting offers
unusual attractions to Patrons in all
Besides being held
in a section which is new to many Pat-
rons, the body of delegates is almost cer-
tain to be the largest ever assembled as
a State Grange in this state. The en-
thusiasm awakened by a year of earnest
endeavor in planting the

at its height. With excursion rates in
force on the railroads, and the hotels of

V. Traverse City granting special rates for

' each excursion fare end in 0 or 5.

the meeting, the prediction that the at
tendance of visitors Will also surpass that
of all former meetings would seem a safe
one.

The Michigan Passenger Association
has authorized an excursion rate/of one
and one—half regular one way fare for
the round trip to Traverse City from
points in the Lower Peninsula: minimum
rate $1.00 with sufficient added to make
Dates
for the sale of excursion tickets are Dec.
13, 14, 15 and 16, with return limit Dec.

1 18. 1909.

rate will also apply from points
inT'EIiZ Upper Peninsula on the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic Ry., Minneapolis,
St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry., and Cop~
per Range R. R. Dates tor sale of tick-
ets Dec. 13, 14 and 15, with return limit
Dighezorates made by the hotels for the
benefit of Patrons range from $1.25@2.ob
per day. There are six hotels and ac:
commodations are also iavailable in many

‘ t homes of the c y.
pr’llylfbefirst session will open at 10 a, m..
Tuesday, Dec. 14, and it will be late Fri-
day night when the last session adjourns.
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BIG PRAIRIE GRANGE FAIR.

 

members of Big Prairie Grange, of
Nng/ltfygo Co., are proud of the Grange
fair 'which they held in October. They
had a fine showing of fruit, both fresh
and canned, and a creditable exhibit of
grains and garden stuff. .'lhe table of
apples was especially admired. much of
the fruit being remarkable 111 Size and
beauty, and it was made the subject of
the photograph which Is reproduced upon
this page. A showing of Similar products,
made by the pupils of the local schooL
was a feature of much interest for the
reason that the teacher of the school has
made some little effort to introduce prac-
tical agriculture. The pupils brot apples,
corn. potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets,
grapes, melons. squash, pumpkins. black
walnuts, beans, cabbage, lettuce and pop-
to the fair and surprised them-

corn
' and others by taking home some
:glvfise prizes. Bro. Chas. P. Dunham,

t in
meter of the Grange and prominen
Elbe photo, was active in making a success
of this innovation.

_________.——.—

THREE NEW ONES FOR MANISTEE.

 

i Gran e.—-State Deputy John
“adieadoiganizedg a Grange in Arcadia
township, Manistec C0., \l ednesday eye-
ning, December 1, with the following
officers: Master, Geo. W. Hull; overseer,
P. Chamberland; lecturer, Joseph Youd‘n,
steward, Myron Hysell; asst SICOVHlld,
\Vm. St. Pierre; lady ass’t steward, Mary
St. Pierre; chaplain, Kitty E. Hull; treas-
ui‘el‘, Geo. St. Pierre; secretary. Arthur
Cham‘berland: gate keeper, Arthur Youdu,
Ceres, Delphine Chamberland; Pomona,
Maud Tondu; Flora. Minerva St. Pierre.

Maniatee Grange.—A Grange “as or—
ganizcd at Arendal, Manistee Co., Tues-
dav evening, November 23, by Deputy
XVilde. The following Officers were elect-
ed: Master, Chris. Sorenson; overseer,
Fred Sunbeck; lecturer. Louisa Kinseley,
steward, Gerald POmeroy’; asst steward,
Victor Pomeroy; lady ass t steward, Mar-
tha Zeller; chaplain, J. O. Pomeroy, treas-
urer. John Olson; secretary. Frank Swi-
talska: gate keeper, Joseph Pomeroy;
Ceres, Selma Olson: Pomona, Agnes
Switalska; Flora. Minnie Olsen.

Tanner Grange.——Deputy Wilde organ-
ized a Grange at Tanner. Manistee C.0--
XVcdnesday evening, November 24,. With
the following ofl'lcers:_ Master, .Lev1 Hil-
liard; overseer, LudWIg Larsen, lecturer,

Gus Gustalfson;

. ’ .eward, Edward Gustafson; lady
232’: iteward, Clara Larsen: chaplain,
treasurer. Wm. Love-

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Harriet LOW” 3 Richard Eckman: gate

my; ' s Hilli a-
keep 6; Ceres, carah ar ,
v'PonigaFMfigla Larsen: Flora. Chris~

tlana E-ckman.

steward; Reed LOT/9103’: V,

'AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.

 

The Money Crop.—Deer Lake Grange,

'of Charlevoix Co., at its regular meeting

on November 25, discussed the question
“What is the.money crop of the members
of this vicinity?” T. S. Barber said his
banner crop was rye, averaging 25 bu.
per acre. H. Barber’s banner crop
was corn, averaging 75 'bu. per acre.
Wilburt McGeorge’s banner
wheat, averaging 26 bu. per acre. H. J.
Korthase's heaviest crop was potatoes.
averaging 150 bu. per acre. The sisters
named butter and eggs as their principal
money crops.

Lenawee Pomona Officers for the com-
ing two years were elected, at a meeting
in Adrian on December 2, as follows:
Master, C. H.’ Bramble; overseer, E. .
Beamer: lecturer, A. B. Graham; steward.
J. W. Sell; ass't steward, A. C. Green;
chaplain, Mrs. G. B. Horton: treasurer,

T. Cole; secretary, A. H. Osborn;
gate keeper, E, R. Illenden; Ceres, Mrs. E
'A. Beamer; Pomona. Mrs. A. H. Osborn;
Flora, Mrs. E. R. Illenden; L. A. 8., Mrs.
A. E. Green; member of executive com-
mittee for three years, W. G. Shepherd.

Discussed Fire Insurance and the Sea-
son’s Crops.——Elk Lake Grange, of Grand
Traverse Co., at its last meeting, passed
a resolution asking for a change in the
articles of association of the Patrons'
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. This
Grange desires that the board of arbitra-
tion which can be called into existence
for the the settlement of fire losses. shall
be so constituted that the persons sus-
taining the loss Shall have representation
upon the same. Among other matters
of interest was the presentation of crop
reports. Each member present made a
report on the crop that had proved best
with him the past year. One Patron
reported 1,000 bushels of potatoes from
five acres. Another told of a big hay
yield, another had a bean crop that he
'was proud of; several had done well with
apples, and one had made a success of
raising sugar beets. T'wo farmers were
especially proud of their corn crops. The
purpose of the several reports was to
create an interest in the element of qual-
ity, that the Elk Lake region and the
Grand Traverse region shall become fam-
ous because of the quality of the products
offered for sale.

Kent Pomona.

The meeting of Kent County Pomona

held at Cedar Springs, November 26 and

 

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

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OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-
TION OF FARMERS CLUBS.
President—A. L. Chandler, Owosso.
Vice-Pres’ldent—Mrs. Clara L. French.

Pompeii.
Secretary—Mrs. W. L. Cheney, Mason.
Treasurer—D. K. Hanna, Caro.
Corresponding Secretary—Clayton Cook,
Owosso.
Directors—D. M. Beckwith, Howell; D.
M. Garner, Davisburg; T. B. Halladay,

Norvell; E. C. Hallock, Almont; B. A.
Holden, Wixom; Wm. H. Marks, Fair
Haven.

Addressall correspondence relative to
the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. W.
L. Cheney, Mason, .Mich,

Associations! Motto.
The skillful hand, with cultured mind,
is the farmer's most valuable asset.

 

Associations! Sentlment.—
The farmer; he garners from the soil
the primal wealth of nations.

 

THE ANNUAL MEETING.

 

As we go to press the delegates are
gathering at Lansing, for the annual
meeting of the State Association of Farm-
ers' Clubs. All indications point toward
a. successful meeting. In our next issue
will appear a general report of the meet-
ing, and important details of the. work
done by the delegates assembled will fol-
low as space permits.

This report should be carefully read
by every Club member in the state, and
the report of the delegates to the State
Association which will be presented at
succeeding meetings of the local clubs,
should be carefully considered and dis~
cussed, to the end that the local clubs

and their membership may derive a .full
measure of benefit from this meetmg.
which holds much of encouragement and

 

 

The Fruit Exhibit at Fair Held by Big Prairie Grange, No, 935.

27, 'was one of the most successful ever
held by that organization. -The secre-
tary’s report brot out the fact that Kent
Co. now has nearly 200 fifth degree mem-
bers in good standing. The feature of the
lecture‘r's program was an able talk by
Colon C. Lillie on “Maintenance of Soil
Fertility.” which 'was sppplemcnted by
the experience of various" members and a
lively discussion of the several phases of
the fertility problem.

The Grange passed a resolution con-
curring in the report of the sub-com-
mittee of the State Grange, recommend-
ing the extension of the work of the farm
visiting inspectors of the Agricultural
College. Also one asking the State
Grange to establish a system of reliable
market and crop reporting thru paid re—
ports from the subordinate Granges to the
National Grange publications. Also one
declaring “That we as an order. approve
the effort now being made to submit the
question of local option to the voters of
Kent county."

On December 1 the members of Kent
Pomona met in Grand Rapids and elected
officers, delegates to State Grange and
a committee to oversee the publication
of their annual Pomona year book. The
following were elected: Master, T. H.
McNaughton; overseer, Eli W. Allen; lec-
turer. Mary S. Curtiss; steward, Charles
Keech; ass't steward. Leslie H, Burch;
chaplain, Juno Thomas; treasurer, W. H.
Smith; secretary. Frank D. Saunders;
gate keeper, \Vinfield Scott; Ceres, Edith
\Vhitney; Pomona. Lena Johnston; Flora,
Alice Smith; delegates to State Grange
at Traverse City, Mr, and Mrs. A, _
Dean, of Whitneyville: year book com-
mittee, Mrs. D. Saunders, Elmer F.
Dean and Mary L. Curtiss.

COMING EVENTS.

 

' Pomona Meetings.
Ionia 00., with Banner Grange, Thurs-
day, Dec. .
Emmet Co., in Maccabee hall, Petos-
key. Friday. Dec. 10.
Osceola Co., with Richmond Grange.
Tuesday, Dec. 21.

value for each of them if they will only
apply the lesson. Let us all strive to
make this annual meeting of the Michigan
State Association of Farmers‘ Clubs the
most profitable to us of any in' the history
of our identification with the Farmers‘
Club movement as the executive cornmit-
tee of the State Association has striven.
and we believe successfully. to make this
annual meeting the best in the history
of the organization.

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CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

 

A Thanksgiving Meeting.—The Indian-
ficld's Farmers Club held its November
meeting on the 18th at the pleasant home
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold, About
fifty were present at the noon hour when
tllc :mnual 'l‘llanksgiving dinner was
served under the direction of Mrs. J. L.
Fournier. After a pleasant social hour
the club was called to order by the presi-
dent, J. M. Miller. A committee was ap-
pointed to frame resolutions in memory
of our honored member. William A.
Heartt, whose death occurred October 28.
B. H. Smith was chosen dclcgulc to the
State Associational meeting to be held
at Lansing. Chas Pierce was elected :11-
ternatc. An intcresting program was
given, Pleasing rcciiations were, givcn
by Mrs. Ella Andrews and Miss Gladys
Miller. “’I‘hanksgiving Day, lmw ob—
served in thc past and the present."
was the subject of a well prepared paper
of timely interest. by Mrs. Margaret Ar-
nold. The subject for general discussion,
"Waste on the Farm." was ably led by
VV, L. Eldridge. A vocal solo was finely
rendered by Miss Rownna Arnold. The.
Ladies' Quariclie sang “Kentucky Rube.”
This was immensely enjoyed by all for
they appcm‘cd us colored mummics with a
rag plcanny. They received a round of
applause and responded to an encore.
TlIc club will meet in December at The
home of M. Angcr.~——1Viartl1a R. Purdy,
Secretary.

Discuss Common Schools—Tho Salem
Farmers’ Club held its November mcct-
ing at the pleasant home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Tyler. The day was pleasant

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and a large number gathered. The pro-
gram hour ~was largely devoted to
discussion of our schools. It is said less
than one-half the applicants for teachers’
certificates are able to pass examination.
many of them failing in 'what would be
lower grade work. It was believed by
the members of the Club that better
work must be demanded of pupils in the
lower grades. Too many scholars, also
teachers and parents, are anxious to push
the pupils. that they may reach the
eighth grade graduation, forgetting that
the first principles are most important.
Most pupils, after graduating from the

eighth grade, could very profitably go
over the eighth and even the seventh
grades again. Several teachers were

present and took part in the discussion.

Failures of the Year.—The Club also
discussed the question of the failures of
the past year. Herbert Smith said he
made a mistake in planting all western
corn for silage, could have done better
with our common corn. President Ross
planted his oats too deep, and the cold
wave coming on in the spring'they never
came up. Others had failures of different
kinds, but all agreed that their succeSS
had outnumbered their failures, and it
had been a year to be greatly thankful
for. Gilbert Thompson was named as del-
egate to Lansing. The next meeting will
be annual meeting, held at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. H. Calahan. The Worden
choir furnished excellent music.

Elect Delegates to State Meeting.~—-The
Hadley and Elba Farmers’ Club, of La—
peer C0.. met with Mr. and Mrs. John
Simons, November 18. Alfalfa for Mich-
igan was especially interesting and in-
structive, as given by Mr. J. W. Tower,
who spoke from experience. Many ques-
tions were asked. and answered satisfac-
torily. The emergency program was en-
tertaining and worth continuing, as val—
uable hints are thrown out in such a dis-
cussion. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pierson
were elected delegates to the State Asso—
tion December 7—8. and Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Selby alternates. The next meeting
will be at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Stewart. December 16, when the report
of delegates to the state meeting, and
election of officers will be features of thc
program. A cordial invitation is extend-
ed to all to attend the last meeting of
1909, and help plan for those of 1910.--—
Jennie E, Johnson, Soc.

Beneflted by Big Picnic Meeting.—Tho
Ellington—Almer Farmers' Club have not
made their apcparance in print for sev-
eral months. ‘but we are still alive and
working harder than ever since our picnic
in August. where we had the great pleas—
ure of entertaining our 'vvort‘hy president.
Hon. A. L. Chandler. and many other
noted speakers. The picnic was attended
by some 800 to 900 persons from the city

and surrounding villages. who. by their
presence gzu'c evidence of more or less
intercst 1n the Club work. The Club

was assisted by Miss l'la Kitchen and

Mrs. Edward Purdy. Both presided at
the piano. while Miss Blanche Hawley.
(,‘uro's famous clocutionist. was morc
llmn DINlSlllL’.‘ in her readings. Hickory
(‘lub also bestowed her contribution to—

ward i’hc entertainment by presenting a
unique (‘aIISIIli‘llIC movement with dumb
bclls, by eight young ladies. and Mrs.
(.lcorgia E. Clarke exemplified the Errata
system of Indian club swinging. Alto—
gether the picnic was a profitable propo-
sition from many viewpoints. It was

good for us to have our president with
us and much regret was cxpressed that
he could not be induced l0 remain. at

least one night in Caro. .\ vote of thanks
was kindly icntlcrcd in President (‘lumd-
lca by the Club. also to all who assisted
1n the entcrtuinmcnt.——l\irs. C. L. \Yright
Cor. Sec. '
‘ Members Tell of Experiences—The,
Summit Farmers’ Club met at the home.
or Mr, and M13. Purdy 0n the third
l‘hursday in Novcmbcl'. The forenoon
session was called to order by the presi—
dent. After the opening exercises and
the business meeting the (‘lub adjourned
to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner. The
afternoon session was opened by reading

of the by-Iavvs by H. C. Eddy, followed
by some good readings. The members
of the Club told where they had been

and what they had sccn during the past

summer. The time limit was two minutes.
lat-sccms that our (‘lub mcn have been
(icing a large amount of traveling. An

elderly couple spent the anniversary of
their honcymoon at Niagara Falls: A
young man of thc neighborhood who
spent the spring and summer in Idaho
told of fishing in the mountain streams:
Others have been to Lansing; and visited
the Agricultural Collcgc and ot‘hcr points
of interest.—Mrs. J. (lray, Cor. Sec.

 

FARM ERS’

 

 

CLUB FAIRS.

Groveland Farmers’ Club.
The Gro-vcland Farmcrs‘ Club, of Oak‘

land county, met at the home of Mr. and
Mrs: Philip (‘ovl-nll‘y, October 30. Eight
iamllics won- 1c1)1'("scntcd. Dinner was
St’l‘Vi‘tI. It. bcing the (‘lub Fair duv no
program was :ll'l'ungwl. A‘ftcr the usual
bumncss of the mccting, the time “"lS
pusscrl 11) looking over the exhibits. The

firsl‘prlzc for licld corn was won by “'m
Rclill'<'\v. Allan Bl‘osius .

‘ . won ilrst prize
iur such corn and popcorn. Frank
l‘lowncy won in the apple exhibit. Philip
(ovcnlry was the grain and seed winner
Potatoes, vr-gclublc and garden sci-d wmi
by" Mr». Jumcs Aulcn. Puslrv and table
(lumllcs. ('It‘., won by Mrs. .lu-mcs Auten

'l‘llci'c \\'(’l‘(‘ no sccmul
taking llrsi took all in
nlh‘ccrs for tho
:lL Illc
follows.

prizes. so “1080
. cnch exhibit. The
‘ ensuing your ’wcrc t‘IL‘Ct(‘lI
September meeting. and are as
‘ l’rcsulcnt. Fl‘zlllk Dmvucv‘ \‘icc—
pl'csldcnt, Lewis Croup; seer-clam" Mrs
.Tessm VRf'llfl'ClV; corrcspomling sci-rotary.
Mrs. Jamcs Aulcn; treasurer Afbcl'l.
Ixn‘lfl (‘IlOl‘ISlt‘l‘, Mrs. chlcn (‘uvchtrv' 01‘;
gaunsl. Alicc ’l“l‘.u,\'cr. Qursllon ftll‘,tIIS-
cusmon at next lll(‘ciil‘l;.’,‘, ‘ll'ould it not
be more beneficial to us as farmers to
use the. raw material of our farms in
manufactured articles?”—-Mrs J' ..
Autcn, Cor. Sec. ' amcs

 


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conSin Farmers said mfi‘eefé a3: ages-“:nfim 312933: awful. in this country today
T o Galloway At His “Igge's Galloway's Invitation to the readers of Orange Judd
F lories October 29
ac —Cel My Big. Free Spreader Book.

what is happening almost every day in the year at Galloway's factories. direct from my lactories to the railway stations of any (armor in this

to visit his factories. lie is glad to have any and all farmer delegates I am making 60.000 Gal oway Manure Spreaders this and my
visit Waterloo. price 18 based on that capacity—based on the actual cost of e enormous

.all ofttgiefi‘faé in‘s‘id: lactsdabouglhis malnufactluring dilemmas—his mater the rice ,
als— e n o a or an mac nery eemp oys-t e kin of factories ‘
he has—and to let every visiting farmer go over his office records and Gzfigwaalloway machine is made or the 11181195?» QUEHW- —I 11 I reat
see. county by count and state by state. theinslde facts of the satisfac- from .25 t a Spreaders have to“? features, “009- which are worth
tion that tens of t ousands of farmers all over America are having, 8 sad 0 93““ 101‘ the work and 50"!” that you get in Galloway
everywhere, with Galloway machines. pr 91'3— 0“
He shows you their letters, maps. sales records—freight receipts— 1. Is Detachable Force Feed. 2. la Roller Feed. 3. Llshlesl
every day s orders—costs—pay-roll expenses—and every etaii of this Draft Cproeder ".‘h 4. ldlusteblllty ‘. any kind of WIIOH ... I

great business of his manufacturing and sellin direct to the farmer at
the cost of raw materials bought in great quan ities—cost of labor—and
with only one small profit ad

in till: grevav manufacturing business of his. t d Ihls up. or more. It necessary to prolool them.

ese isconsin farmers after they had spen all ay and all evenin
going over Gallows 's factories. omce methods and plans, said to hung, mega: 7733,55! ?‘P°Y' Manure Spreader—made “‘1‘5 “I”, “'21” 50‘
when they were bi dinghimgood bye thatnight- u e no u ing a complete steeltruc spreader any

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-—ule supposed you had some klnd of e factory—bus we had no Idea In Money back at6% interest .i’téfia‘io‘igyfiiny Galloway
the world that we would find anylhlnp so splendid. so blu. and so well Spreader does not prove a paying proposition to you.
conducted In the Interests of farmers as we have found today. We feel Any GEHOWSY Machine sent rightaway,prompt delivery
as If we had leund a ll. Brother—and we tell you right here that II from m ““0““ substations “1 0‘70?! leading "“10

the farmers ol Amerles could only have the experienoe that we have had will sell in . G ll f 1 w t ,
today In eeelng what you have gel and what you offer. you would no! If ouysgand th:fl?o::zshofrre%ncgu=)2n igtgggogzrwé The William 68110an
orders from a million of Ihern tomorrow and there would not he Inolorlel this and want to buy and pay frei ht from Waterloo, Company 0' Americ- ,' f

enough In tho male of Iowa or the oentrsl west to take care of your 1“. 1 V”! 90“ you my Galloway MB‘BOX Spreader ' , - l ,
business." ' I / _ A
absolutely need them on any spreader). /- - -

In thanking these FARMERS. William Gallows said: “There is
nothing i enjoy so much as to have the farmers come ere, as you have
today, and see what we’ve got and what we are doing. You have foun

that our manutacturing methods are right—our selling methods are ‘ A - w
ht—that we are the trustees of the tanner in this business—that! 1

simply here working for you—selling direct to you on this big .‘,
cooperation plan of ours— ou keep ai dealers'—-supply houses'— v -

catalog houses'—brokers’—-an5 otherunncessary profits of the outsider .1

in your own pocket

“Wh i li ' G ll 8 coder and save ouISOor maroon ' 'It i ‘ ‘
mopncé'imfis v’vfigc'iéuf’xgonpfimg no'minamr’iess Gel 85.00 Cash oil the price at once. Freight Prepaid (east oi Rockies or north of Tenn.)

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3:325...“ “:J'xli'm" 3.2.: 1:33.: ”°"'" direct from iaclory on 90 Daya’ Free Trial. Money back at 6 per cent interest niler m days.

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No salegman or joblber in the m; smiles gotta. .ny 01:32.33!“ ”EMT.” ll my spreader does not prove a paying proposition to you. Quick. Prompt Delivery Now

'10 “‘1 my 9““ a“ 03 0“” 0" e“ 9' 8° "1’ ° °“ “3" That is m selli lan Nobod can heat it. Nobod can touch it. it we 8 readeroutiit frel lit id. Or. I will send on the Spreader loathe

‘ - “W” tanything against the dale" “mien“nd' 3° ‘5 " “00“ has them all 3h thong: All my pryicee are in right prop’ortlon to the size For‘e sod and mud’iugsfand’zou Fpay the freight— romWaterloo—l’or «as
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(allow. Be is not to blame. I have lots of good friendeemon the
dealers myself. But I do not see any reason why some brokersl ting °t "“3 ”we" thati m‘k°'

 

(Photograph taken October 29th of a delegation of 41 Wisconsin farmers who came to visit William Galloway and inspect his Biz. Factories and Investi to ‘
his methods of Co-operatlnz with farmers. at Galloway Station. Waterloo. Iowa. Galloway stands in the center of the front line above crossing-it.) ,

ou in practical products, delivering direct to your farm from my

   
 
  
  
   
  
 
 
    
   
    
 

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Write Me Today

—Gel lhle $5.00 Cash Money Sevlng on My Prloe DIreol-lo-Yol.
BEBE 4] practical Wisconsin farmers came to Waterloo on William -1’he Lowest Ever was. on [First-else: Manure Spreader-

Galloway’s invitation and at the expense of the William Gallowa 1
Company of America, to inspect Galloway‘s manufacturing mllelore Prosecutor! for Damages lo the Fullesl Islenl of the Law.
methods and selling methodsfor themselves October 29th. Thatis I am the Manure Spreader man. I sell Galloway Manure Spreaders

"Send Me n i
Youer

He has (or five years extended the invitation to farmers, everywhere, country at a 03311 saving to 011 Of from ‘25 t0 ‘50 011 price.

Be is glad to do this. so as to give farmers everywhere in America $3333.13 ggg’tfirg‘lg ggg—ggethe colslst of his” shmngyogy regeglg

be had on no other make of spreaders. Do not overlook those 4 points.
,by selling this way direct to the user. Besides. also. Galloway's 11 patents. which he proposes to 9'0““
Gallows has always considered himself the “Trustee of the Farmer" against all lnlrlngors for damages. A quarter el n million dollce been)

Square”.

machine you want rel ht prepaid (east of Rockies) on 90 days‘ free

“We're glad we same. We knew there was such a men as Galloway giti‘lifififtfiflgfiil: “2:10;“, 80' and be the judgeand keepmy

center rom New England to California. Here's how I

 
  

  
 

 

without mud lugs or force feed for only “2.3) (but you

The Farmers' Wet *

- and the 06.00 Cash Coupon. rce Feed is the greatest invention in
Do not get fooled or misled bye the other fellow‘s prices They haven‘t mire spreader history-the only endless-apron force feed in the orid;

“1h“ igrleather chair, ”me'here in the city. wearing " (“““mnd got theerclusive. practical. n'ted leatures found on all Gallow‘ay'ma- worth Q 00 alone in labor saved. Nobody else has it'or can'g t it lyrics.

  
 
   

   
 

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OI biz M I MCI“)?! 1““ in his shirt “'0'“: 51‘0““ 3“ "‘5' °‘ chines. They haven' otm once feed. and the can‘t et it brother t- -Nobody can best these prices—unadeto show you'thatwe can Knoc the
,0“! “103°!- D° 7°“. cuts of mine. The c rgeyyou extras in lrei’ghi'" Wagch out and .ee’fim Dollar spotsofl Competition from Everybody and all of then? confines
gum {hill yell} are oiéigu elm-et yowu . ‘Ilhhavte 0013 on juni‘bovfem FOR YOU and-you get all the savings. , ‘ " . -‘ ~
, oww se ona aowa,or > w oumu u ororce _ > ‘ ' "1‘
you pay the:frzlght from Wagarloo. ""But’ if you want tgs buy my, whole , RFflW—Nl' obnonion‘Wfl" For nook. , 4
4' outfit complete. which Bells'l'eglllal‘ly {or 059.60. including freight prepaid Just send our name form big, free,colpr_»illnstrated Gallowayaian-
east of the Rockies (average estimate of so 60 for frei ht); force feed are Spreader oh and this ofiyer llilyyvritingmm and then decide on or
[6.00. mu lugs 01.60 then send me the $5.00 Cash ‘oupon in ,the goodjudgment he: uiclrly you wi let me send youmromptly, ‘_ ;._ _1-
corner 0 this ad and 051.60 and 1 will send you the complete Gallo- eryguarantoed ig tprepaid east of the Rockies or north'oi Tenn.
e Proposal Wm. Galloway. Presn The William Gonowayygoagl America. 649 Galloway steawuaioo' la.
, ‘0‘ Authorized Capital, 3,5oo_.opo.os. _, > f - ' *' _ 5 ' ’2 _g /_ , _ J
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Here's my name. Write me 0 In ~—-—
personaiiy—send your big, tree

Galloway Manure Spreader Catalog Cash
and'latest $5.00 cash reduction on price. —:
direct to my Farm on your 30,000-capac

ity proposition on 90 Days' Free Trial 0
instead of 30 days. it you say so. No obli-

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