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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





As we stand at the

threshold of a new

year, perhaps the

most fateful of any single year in the

world’s. history, the ordinary hack-

neyed salutations and New Year wish-

es seem out of place. Truly, we wish

for every member of the Michigan

Farmer family a Happy and Prosper

ous New Year, but beyond and above

the wish for personal happiness and

individual prosperity is the wish for a

national unity and singleness of pur-

pose on the part of our people to cheer-

fully endure any sacrifice and suffer any

privation which may be necessary to

conserve the resources of the nation

for the early winning of the war in

which we are engaged and the estab-

lishment of a just and lasting peace.

Such action on the part of every citi-

zen of the United States will reflect

the highest type of New Year spirit,

since it will hasten the day when all

people of all nations may again know

the happiness of universal peace, when

general national prosperity shall re-

place the-destructive waste of war.

There is profitable food for thought

for each of us, to the end that we may

formulate New Year resolutions'along

these lines. Our participation in the

war has already brought personal hard-

ships to many, hardships which are in-

sig itica-nt as compared with those

whit; must follow with the long con-

ti1m.~tion of theconflict. Because of

our individualistic habits- of thought

and action, mam of us have complain-

ed bitterly because of the hardships





The New Year.





and difilCult'conditions which we have.

been obliged to face because if 0111

participation in the world Aer. The





selfish view is wholly natural in such

cases, and many of us have tienua‘ntly

indulged it But when our to s shall

have met their baptism of filt'. on the

western front; when their blood shall

have “alum with that of t neir allies

in the defense of the principle of uni-

versal liberty, we shall awaken. Then

. no sacrific. shall be counted great, no

" _ 1 s a ship unbearable in the, furtherance

of that (31111.4 -.

May we imbibe tint spirit now with

the g of a New Year, to the and

‘ that team-work in our g1 eat democracy

m V, .. w mtg‘m wither





   

 

 





 

 





 





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demo'cracy.“ \land that "Egovémm‘edt of

the people and by the peeple shall not

perish from the earth.” Such unity of





action on the part of American citizens





will indeed make the coming year both

a happy and a prosperous one, not only

for the people of America but of all the





E. world. May we live up to our oppor-





tunities in this regard.





The changes made

in the new income

tax law will make

its provisions apply to a great many

more farmers than has heretofore

been the case. Under the present in-

come tax law any unmarried person

having a net income of $1,000 or more,

and every married person having a

net income of $2,000 or more must, be

fore March L 1918, report to the col-

lector of internal revenue for the dis-

trict in which he measles. It is thus

obligatory upon every person to first

determine what his net income for the

calendar year just closing has been.

The law defines net income as profit,

gain, wages, salary, commissions, mon-

ey or its equivalent from professions,

vocations, business, commerce, trade,

rents, sales or dealings in property,

real or personal, and interest from in-

vestments except interest from govern-

ment bonds or any state, municipal,

township or county bonds. Income from

services as guardian, trustee or ex-

ecutor, from dividends, compensations,

royalties or patents, or oil and gas

Wells, coal land, etc., and income from

all sources is taxable under the law if





The Income Tax.





‘ the net income from all sources comes





up to the sums above named.

In figuring exemptions, a single per-





. son who is. supporting dependent chil-





dren, dependent parents or, crippled

relatives who cannot help support

themelsves is considered the head of a

family and entitled to $2,000 exemption

the same as a married person. Where

husband and wife both have incomes,

they can report together and claim one

exemption or report separately and di-

vide the exemption between them. In

case they are divorced or living apart,

the. one caring for the children can

claim full exemption and the other on-

ly $1,000. There is also an exemption

to the extent of $200 for each depend-

ent child under eighteen years of age.



Exemptions may be claimed for de-

preciation of physical property amount-

ing to five per cent on frame buildings,

two and a half per cent on brick or

stone buildings and ten per cent on the

cost of farm machinery and imple-

ments. Losses by fire, theft or storms

not covered by insurance may be de-

ducted, based on a fair market value of

the property. Gifts to religious or char-

itable institutions may be included in

the exemptions up to fifteen per cent

of taxable income. Salaries or com~

pensation paid by the state or its min

or municipalities are exempt.



In arriving at net income, living ex-

penses cannot be deducted, nor can any

deduction be made for the services of

any member of the family in the case

of a farm business, Deductions may

be made for cash paid hired help and

for .111 necessary expenses actually

paid within the calendar year in car-

rying on the business. Here the farm-

er must differentiate between personal,

home and family expenses and expens-

es incident to the conduct of his farm.

in order to make it as easy as possible

1'01 every man to make a correct in-

come tax statement the government

will send a representative to every

county in the United States at some

time between January 2 and March 1





to help every citizen desiring his aid .in,





making out his income tax statement

without charge.



Severe penalties are provided for

failure to file an inocmo tax report be-

fore March 1. This includes a fine. of

'not'lose than 320 nor more thanhil‘boo,

and in addition fifty per cent of the

amount of the tax due. The impres-

sion has prevailed in some sections

,tbat because of the difficulty of cot-lechthe

m a income





ed (arm population..that..no serious. .9112, ,

fort would be made to determine” 11a4 *





bility for same on the part of farmers;

this, however, is a serious mistake

which those who indulge it will be

required to' pay as indicated. The

government’s need of funds for the

prosecution of the war was the reason

for the passage not-the present income

tax law. It falls alike tipon‘ipeople of

all classes, and farmers as well as oth-

er business or professional men will

cheerfully live up to their obligations

in this regard. The farmers of the

country have never been tax dodgers,

and they will not be the chief offend-

ers in attempts to evade the present

moome tax law.





A recent statement is-

Federa1 Farm sued by the Federal

Loans. Farm Loan Board

" shows that up to De

cember 1, 1917, $29,824,655 had been

actually paid out to farmers of the

United States 'on five per cent long-

time loans. This report also shows

that the total of loans approved by the

federal land banks, including those

closed for the amount ab0ve noted and

those awaiting verification of title and

other formalities equals $105,136,529.

This is a little less than one-half of the

total applications made to the twelve

federal land banks which aggregate an'

amount of $219,760,740.

, The interest rate under. the federal

farm loan system has been increased

from five per cent to five and a half

per cent, and the increased rate will

also apply to all applications which

have not yet been approved and accept-

ed by federal land banks. Loans which

have been approved and notification of

approval sent to borrowers are expect-

ed to be closed at the old five per cent

rate.



As many times noted, through these'

columns, borrowing under the federal

farm loan system is accomplished

through cooperative farm loan .associa-

tions organized by ten or more farmer‘s

desiring to borrow $20,000 or more. Up

to Decembei 1 the federal farm loan

board had chartered 1,839 of these

farm loan associations. Of this num-

ber thirty-one have been organized in

Michigan, through ‘which applications

have been made for $4,743,980 of loans.

Of these applications $2,784,800 have

been approved and loans for $886,700

actually 010sed. While the bulk of the

loans closed have been made in the

western and southwestern states, the

smallest district has fifty-five farm loan

associations as compared with 344 in

the largest. Apparently local financial

and credit conditions are a consider-

able factor in the making of federal

farm loans.



A. glance at many

of the protographs

taken in the war

zone will reveal the cause of the great

shortage of burlap saCks in commercial

channels. The sacks ordinarily used

for fertilizers, potato socks, etc.,,a-re

filled with dirt and used in trench con-

struction at the front. ‘On this account

it will be necessary to conserve this

material in every manner possible. In

cases where it can be done, goods for-

merly handled in sacks will be shipped

in bulk. In other cases, as with fertil-

izers, larger sacks may be used to ad-

vantage, thus making them more avail-

able for other uses on the farm. The

inconvenience to the purchaser will be

cheerfully borne once the reason is

generally understood.

We hope that you

Your Michigan have used the Michi~

Farmer. gan Farmer to the

greatest advantage to

yourself and your family in your work,

entertainment and instruction. We

know that Ryan have you will be in

accord with the thousands of others in

then. enthusiasm for Michiganfs reli-

able farm weekly.



We have made «moments of



some imprevements which will} .make





The Bag Problem.





that in these days there is need for

greater. service and it is our purpose to

fill that need.



We need the united cooperation of





the farmers of Michigan to make the





Michigan ”Farmer 13. still more valuable

medium of exchange for the best in

rural thought in Michigan. Help us do

it—use the Michigan Farmer in every





, way possible.





This is the time for the renewal of a

great many subscriptions-+11; is also a

busy time in our ofi‘ice. For mutual

benefit do not forget to renew your

subscription immediately. By so doing

you will not miss any issues and we

will be greatly helped in‘our work.





HAPPENINGS. OF THE WEEK.





 





The European 'War.‘—By capturing

Mt. Asolone on the Itadian front east

of' the Brenta river, the Austro-Germam

forces greatly improved their positions

and by mounting heavy guns on this

height are able to command Italian

lines of communication with the plains

of northern. Italy. On Friday, however,

a considerable portion of the ground

gained in the region of Mt. Asoione

was retaken, according to advices

from Rome—0n the western front ar-

tillery fighting has been active at fre-

quent intervals throughout the battle

line from Switzerland to the North Sea.

On Friday there was heavy firing on

the Verdun front, and in Lorraine. No

infantry attacks of importance have

been reported of late. The opinion

prevails that the Germans are concen-





trating forces on the-western front for.





a final effort against the allied troops

before America’s strength can reduce

the chances for Teutonic success.





The Russian situation—Reports

state that Germany has turned down

the peace proposals of the Bolsheviki

government of Russia. Prisoners of

Germany and Austria who have been

freed in Russia are now said to be or-

ganized and armed and are marching

under their own officers against Petro-

grad. Former Premier Kerensky is

also reported to be at the head of a

considerable force in the vicinity of

Moscow. Grand Duke Nicholas is also

organizing an army in the Caucasus

regions. The Cossacks under General

Kaledines have been fighting Bolshev-

lki troops in southern Russia. General

Kaledines is now being supported by

the onion-1.1 government of the Ukraine.

This essentially means that the Odessa

region remains in hands friendly to

the allies. Notwithstanding these

counter revolutionary moves, the Bed-

sheviki government. appears to be the

strongest organization in Russia and

because of this has been generally rec-

ognized by the allied nations. ‘



The foreign minister of the Bolshev-

iki government of Russia mead docu~





merits before the revolutionary organ.-





izat-ions assembled in congress at Pet-

rograd, purporting to SW that Amer-

ican agents were helping General Kale-

dines, leader of the Don Cossacks.



The publication of the telegrams

sent by Count Von Luxburg, former

German minister to The Argentine,

has intensified the spirit of hatred to-

ward Germany, and demands are' again

being made upon the South American





government to end diplomatic relations.





with the European country.



At a meeting of the cabinet council

at Ottawa it has been agreed to pro-

hibit the inpoitation of liquor into

Canada.



National.



-Albert Carl Kaltsch-midt and four

codefendants were found guilty of

conspiracy against the United States

in the United States District Court at

Detroit last Friday. Besides their acts

in bombing the Peabody Manufactur-

ing Company, at Walkervilie, the trial

showed the parties to have attempted

.to destroy a Detroit manufacturing con-

cern and to wreck the arm-cries in

Windsor, and the Port Huron tunnel.



The Federal Fuel Administration

has issued a request that every Michi-

gan plant engaged in the manufactur-

ing of commercial products discontinue

operation from December 22 to De-

cember 29 in order to save fuel that

may be needed later for household use.





Exportation of butter except to those ' .

nations associated with the United . 1





States in the War against Germany,





has been mohibited by theIWar Trade ‘ ', '





Bound. ,.

The Red Cross membership cam- '



11811111 is believed by leaders to have



already netted £m.00'0 new members i

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DEC. 29,1917.





Training





HE present labor shortage makes

it necessary to employ every de-

vice or method of training that

will add to the efiiCiency of the labor

already at hand in order to keep up

the production of our farms, feed the

army and thus avert the peril of Prus-

sianism. One way to cope with the





7 present labor situation is to make more





use of the iron man, or farm tractor.

Nevertheless, the way that will accom-

plish the most for both the individual

farmer and the nation at large is to

train the human man so that he will

be more efficient and able to accom-

plish more in a certain length of time.





The factories are setting some stan-_





dards now that the farm must sooner

or later cope with. One of these is the

Shorter day and the only way the op-

erator of a farm can hope to secure

labor in competition with the factories

where the hands work less hours is to

do the same thing the factories do. In

other words, he must plan the farm

work to secure the maximum results.

Much Lost Motion Evident.



- The hired man may be the son of a

neighbor who has not enough work at

home to keep all hands busy or he may

be a Swede, Norwegian or other for-

eiger who is trying to learn the rudi-

ments of farming as it is carried on in

this country. No matter who may be

referred to as the “hired man,” the

fact still remains that there is only

about one man out of every hundred

who knows how, without specific direc-

tions from the owner, to do a day’s

work without much lost motion or back

tracking. Many an hour has been lost

by putting the water jug in an incon-

spicuous fence corner, many another

hour has been lost by the misplace-

ment of wrenches and other equip-

ment for the tools that are being used.

And so on, we might enumerate the

various little leaks that cause the wast-

ing of many an hour on most farms

during a single season.



On account of the fact that the farm

laborers do much of their work in the

fields where they are not under the

direct supervision of the owner, a dif-

ferent type of man must be secured

than that found in many factories.

There are many men who can do intel-

ligent work, provided they have suffi-

cient supervision, but the man who will

do worthwhile work with a minimum

of supervision must be one who has a

good brain of his own and is willing to

use it to the advantage of his employer.

' To this end, in some counties and in

some states, schools for hired men are

being established and theresults thus

far obtained seem to show that this is

a most important move. On one large

farm that I know of, the owner is this

winter calling the hired men together

twice a week and giving them either a

talk or a demonstration along some

particular line. He is teaching them

how to tie the various knots because

this rope work enters so largely into

the daily tasks of the farm and he feels

sure it will save much annoyance and

time the coming season. He is also





.rHE- WICHIGAN FARMER





arm Help for Efficiency 1





By 1. J. MATHEWS





giving them demonstrations in the



mending and oiling of harnesses and is



teaching them how to do plain jobs at



forging likewise how to do some of the



rough yet essential things of carpenter

work.



One of the first ideas to impress up-

on the farm hand is responsibility. .In

this connection, every room that is oc-

cupied by a hired man should have

this motto posted conspicuously on the

wall: “The man who never does more

than he gets paid for will never be

paid for more than he does.” Each

man should know that he must earn

his hire for his employer, and a little

bit more, else it is not profitable to re

tain him. The hired man who gets just





as much as he earns is a losing propo-

sition on account of the other attend-

ant risks that go along with his em-

ployment. It ought to be brought home

to the farm employe that he is just as

accountable, whether he is in sight of

the owner or two miles away and that

no man can long Succeed who does not

diligently apply himself to his work in

an effort to return value received.

“Knocking” is a form of‘ criticism

that no hired man is entitled to in-

dulge in as long as he is on the pay-

roll of the man he knocks. While a

hired man is still working on the farm,

he is a part of the business enterprise

and to criticize his employer is equiv-

alent to underestimating the thing of





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A Ditch-Blasting Experiment





 





 





 





HE accompanying cut shows the result of an experiment in ditch blast-

ing conducted at the G. R. & I. Ry demonstration farm at Howard City

in connection with the land clearing demonstration previously reported





in these columns.





With regard to this experiment Mr. W. P. Hartman, Agri-





cultural and Industrial Agent, under whose supervision it was conducted,





writes as follows:





“In blasting the ditch at the demonstration farm we obtained satisfactory

results by the use of the connecting system, putting down holes about eight-

een inches apart with a crowbar, making the holes about two and a half feet





deep. Into these holes was placed a





pound) of sixty per cent straight dynamite.

with electric blasting cap with two wires.





charge of one stick or cartridge (half

Of course, each stick was fitted

In this way connection was made





from one charge to the next and the wires from the two end charges con-





nected to lead wire from the battery.

charges, or five and a half pounds of





As you will see, this figures eleven

dynamite to the rod. It is doubtful if





a less charge under most any average conditions could be used advantage-

ously and further under most conditions probably a larger charge would be

required. The character of soil in which we worked at the demonstration

farm might be classified as a mixture of near-muck and sand with traces of





clay underlying at about three and a





half feet. From my experience with





dynamite and observations/of its use with others, I am of the opinion that it

will play a very important part in the agricultural development of Northern





Michigan.





Especially, perhaps, with relation to much of the low~lying, poorly





drained, Waste areas of the present. There is a considerable area of cut-over

land, rich in natural fertility, that needs only clearing up, removing stumps,

slashings and underbrush and plowing to provide the absolutely essential soil

aeration with, in many places, limited ditching to bring the land into the high-





est possible state of productivity. ”





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which he is a part. The. only time a.

man has a right to criticize adversely

the operations of the farm is after he

has been discharged or has quit. '

System Highly Desirable.

Economy of time and effort is an





idea that the average farm hand knows . 7

On many farms, he~





but little about.

has a certain number of horses to care

for and I have noticed that in many

cases the hand does a great deal of

running back and forth. in the simple

operation of currying and harnessing

these horses.



The most efficient man I ever saw

do this job had a system about it. If

he started in to prepare a single horse,

he went to the harness room and fetch-

ed the curry comb and the collar, pro-

ceeding at once to the horse’s stall.

The collar was placed on the manger

and the currying was done from the

head back. After one side was curried,

the other side was also cleaned. He

then went back to the harness room,

put down the curry comb, took up the

harness and put it on the horse. He

then put on the collar and buckled it,

adjusted the hames and buckled them,

buckled the bellyband, snapped the

quarter straps, pulled the tail from un-

der the breeching and put on the crup-

per. This man had the operation so

systematized that he did the whole

thing while others we1e getting their

horses curr1ed.A man should be taught

to adapt himself to the conditions and

arrangements in the particular barn in

which he is to work and he should be

forced to take on habits of speed and

efficiency.





The number of hours. wasted last





year by losing nuts and bolts, having

to run to the barn for wrenches, delays

for parts that were broken, would total

a sum that could scarcely be pronounc-

ed. To the end that this shall not hap-

pen again, many of our farmers are fit-

ting up a tool box for each hired man.

This tool box is equipped with straps

so that it can be securely fastened to

any implement. It contains wrenches

of various sizes, wire pliers, hay wire,

and assorted bolts and nuts. This tool





box can be readily transferred from .





one machine to another and there is no

question but that it. will greatly in-

crease the work that can be turned off

by the hired men.



It may take a little time to train the

hired man so that he will use his time

to the best advantage, but if the ex-

penditure of an hour in giving instruc-

tions will accomplish an increase of

ten per cent of work each day, no one

would question the advisability of so

doing. Reports from a number of farm-

ers to me are that this training given

to their hired men paid larger than ten

per cent in efficiency last year. Would

it not be well to give this matter some

thought and try it out? Some owners

have even gone so far as to send their

hired men to the short course at the

state agricultural college. They have

done this before and found that it

paid; this year they believe it will pay

better than ever before.





 





Demonstrations Prove Need of Lime





OR years Michigan farmers, wheth-



er they have tilled Lake Superi-



or’s picturesque shores, Kalama-

zoo’s bountiful muck, or Western Mich-

igan’s famed fruit lands. have heard

lime praised as a soil renovator and

ever ready help for crops. “Use lime,”

the saying has been, until not a few

farmers have begun to suspect that

many individuals have been making

this recommendation because, parrot-

like, they have heard someone else





tea





on that :.~ 1





pendable information such as might af-

ford concrete evidence of the state’s

lime requirements, and it has been

with this object in view that the soils

department 1 has for ’ the past three





. years been Conducting a series of dem-





onstration plots and making, analyses

of soil samples. This work is still un-

der way and will continue until prac-





:tioclly all of the state has been gone‘





oyer, but enough has. been accomplish-



ed thus far to give some indication of



Michigan’ s lime wants.



"Mt outstanding has been the dis-

val!





ity of farmers to obtain catches and

profitable yields of clover and alfalfa,

two of our most desirable leguminous

crops. The total' acreage of these

crops is as a result very low in many

of the older settled counties as well as

in new agricultural districts on light

soils. By proper use of lime in these

localities it has been proved that these



conditions can be greatly improved.

The lime requirement of large num-

bers of samples tcken from representa-

tive MichM' 1‘03! show that the do-

of in them is common.





   





amounts of lime actually present in the





material from which the soils Were dc»





rived may have been insumcient in the: 57’





first place, or the lime may have been

removed by drainage water Or by the

crops grown on the land. In order to

obtain» satisfactory

earning/these soils, field tests have:

been cOnducted by the soils department.

of the college in cooperation with sev-





eral ecunty agents and leading farmers





and still other tests are under way.

Remarkable increases in ylelds

oats were obtained thi





information con-g ‘
' the first instance carbonate of lime'ln-

" creased the yield forty-five per cent.





‘ '.;The lime was applied one year previ-





ouslyland further addition of course,

~: will not be necessary until the close of

the four-year .rotation or later.

». The soils department in cooperative

experiments with S. A. Foster, in Ing-

. ham county, appreciably increased the

yieldtof oats and obtained a. perfect

stand and a luxuriant growth of clover

by the use'of marl and'phosphate

where clover had repeatedly failed on

light sandy soil.



Other cooperative field experiments

in western Michigan have shown that

liming the soil for the production of

suitable yields of alfalfa and vetch is

, essential. Another important consider-

ation in the use of lime is that where

needed, it increases the efficiency of

fertilizers, phosphates and stable ma-

nure.



Lime may be applied to the soil at

any time, but it is desirable and advis-

able that it be well mixed with the up-





per layers of soil before the planting or

Seeding of crops. Where land has been

plowed and is not too rolling to result

in the removal of limestone or marl by

washing, either of these may be’applied

in the winter and mixed with the soil

when the seed bed is being prepared in

the spring. '



The proper amount of lime to apply

varies greatly with different soil forma~

tions as well as with the management

the soil has received. Moreover, the

form in which the lime is utilized is

important. The application of finely

ground limestone varies from one to

two tons per acre, the amount of the

coarser material uSed runs from One

and a half to three tons, marl is used

at the rate of two or more cubic yards

to the acre, and agricultural hydrate

ranges in amounts from about 1,000 to

2,000 pounds. As a general rule those

who are using lime find it advisable to

repeat the application at the end of

four or five-year periods—Department

of Soils, Michigan Agricultural College.





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' Patriotism was unstopped at the

Tuesday night program at the Colise-

um, with motion pictures of the sol-

dier boys at Camp McArthur, Texas,

and stirring music and an address,

“Making a Nation Out of a People,”

by Editor Johnson of the Grand Rap-

ids News.



The M. A. C. students’ contest was

held Wednesday morning and was fol-

lowed by the business meeting. In the

afternoon T. A. Farrand, of Eaton Rap-

ids, had charge of the question box,

also at other intervals during the ses-

sions, with profitable results as usual.

One point brought out was that the

high school boy makes good as a farm

worker, but that you have to be with

them and use patience. Female work-

ers were foundto be superior to male

in the grape districts.



A Must Have Federal Grading Law.



H. C. Hetzel, of the Bureau of Mar-

kets, Washington, was not present to

:alk on grading and standardizing of

fruit and his place was filled by C. H.

Fulton, of 'West Virginia. This state

has adopted an apple grading law, fol-

iovving New York, which has helped to

put West Virginia on the map. He

says that a national law is bound to

come. Many peaches are raised in his

Section and he thinks they might be

graded also. Too many different sort

of packages are used and these may be

made uniform through cooperation.

Mr. Fulton is a member of a successful

association of growers along the Poto-

Emac river living in four states.



H. B. Bemis, of Honor. discussed the

problems and costs of developing young

orchards of apples, cherries and peach-

es. He has three tracts in Benzie

county, two eighties and a small or-

chard, including 5,700 apple, 2,500 cher-

ry and 10,000 peach trees. Soil is light

sand and rolling. Rye is sown as a

cover crop, and is turned under then

clean culture. Horses are used. He

believes in the tractors but hasn’t yet





V _ found one that will do his work in the





K‘ sand. Grasshoppers are a pest and

stripped the leaves twice from twenty

acres of cherry orchard. Drifting snow

and brush fires are also among his

troubles, but if he didn’t have these he

would probably have San Jose scale or

something else, so he is happy. His

labor cost figures $2.16 per day, team

cost $1.85; and total cost per acre $9.32.

' Appeals for Food Saving.

, Mrs. Ralph Ballard, of Niles, gave a

stirring talk on food conservation that

was aimed directly at the men and

they all kept awake and gave her gen-

1 erous applause at the close. The worm

on of America are intensely patriotic

and want to follow Hoover to the let-

ter, but what can they do when great

numbers of men state openly that they

"fit!!! av 11 t they want, and when

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Fruit Growers’ Problems Discussed





(Continued from last week).





on four kinds of food—meats, fat, flour

and sugar, and if you are able to buy

all the mills in Minneapolis you have

no right to eat more than the share the

government has allotted you of white

flour per week. The same is true of

sugar. In Ireland today sugar is un-

known-not a spoonful at any price.

France and England have made tre-

mendous cuts in consumption. Now

these countries are our allies, they

stand between us and the Huns, and





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Stewart, of. the Pennsylvania State

College. - '

An “Apple Eat."



One of. the novel and successful fea-

tures was the “apple eat” Wednesday

evening, taking the place of the usual

formal banquet. Secretary ‘Smythe

presided and it was a delightfully in-

formal affair, with music, talks and

stories and concluding with a feast of

apples, supplied by growers exhibiting

at the convention, on the serve-self

plan.

Rapids, led off with one of his happy

talks, making a plea for the amateur,

the old-time pomologist who worship-

ped the fruit instead of the money it

represented—even the homely “moth-

er” apple that will not sell. John I.

Gibson, secretary of the Western Mich-

igan Development Bureau, gave a two~

minute talk that was afire with patriot-

ism. “To smash the Potsdam gang-—

that’s what we are living for now,” he

exclaimed. E. H. House, of saugatuck,

furnished humorous recitations. F. H.

McDermid, of. Battle Creek, and Fred

Hobbs, of Benton Harbor, sang songs

and Professor Stewart and others told

stories.



Last Day’s; Program.



C. 13. Cook, of Owosso, furnished

many vital points to the orchardist in

his talk on building and keeping up or-

chard lands. _ He emphasized the value

of brains and business ability. Our

great duty now is the growing of large

crops. Have a system and give your

trees a balanced ration. The great

need is humus and nitrogen. Cover

crops are essential. Most of the mate-

rial we take out of our orchard soil is





 





 





Although the 1910 census shows the production of nuts in this country

to be 55.7 per cent greater, and the value 128.1 per cent greater than in 1890,

there has since been developed a considerable acreage of cultivated nut or-

chards. The federal government has experts devoting full time to this in-

dustry. The above illustration showsa portion of the walnut orchards-on

Pomeroy Walnut Farms, New York, where a hardy strain of the English wal‘

nut has been‘producing, big crops for many years.





the soldiers who need the energy must

have the sugar. Who would grudge

the loaf of bread or the pound of sugar

to men who stand between us and the

German peril? Eat potatoes instead

of bread, and save, save all the time. I

can my meat and I cook up the bones

and can the soup. Use cheese, even if

it costs more, and let the things alone

that other people are starving for.

When it comes butchering time, save

every bit of skin and fat and make

your own soap. But you say, “why

should I save when my . neighbor

throws away?” What a question to

ask. Do right, regardless of what your

neighbor does. This is a moral ques-

tion. This work of denial from day to

day is not spectacular, but it counts.

We must have patience and faith in

seeing this thing through. Can any





covered by a doughnut or piece of pie?

Resultsin the use of commercial fer-

tiltae wresth’es‘a »





     

 





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water, not the mineral elements. Stock

keeping is a valuable auxiliary to fruit

growing. He said that alfalfa and

sweet clover are in a class by them-

selves as nitrogen trappers and he

i’ecommended growing soy beans in

place of cowpeas. Charts were shown

that revealed striking losses in humus,

of wheat straw, cornstalks, corn

(grain), clover hay, ban, 'etc., by being

burned out in passing/through the di-

gestive tracts of animals. In wheat

straw only fifty-seven per cent is re-





turned to the soil, in corn nine per





cent, in clover hay and bran thirty-

nine per cent each.



Recent observ tions in the apple and

cherry aphis wa the topic discussed

by Prof. F. L. Si anten, ofthe Bureau

of Entomolo Washington, and Was

of special inte st because of the great





man’s patriotism be so small that it is» damage done. by the v‘plant lice'_this .





season. The rosy aphis isthe‘gprincipal





use ,





Charles W. Garfield, of Grand





‘most effective spray is applied three





or four days after the young stem





.mothers begin to hatch. Experiments





show that hatching of the three princi~

pal varieties of aphis at Benton Har-

bor, and dates of maturity as as fol-





lows:' Oats aphis hatch April 10 and. '





mature April 25; green aphis hatch on

April 19 and mature May 1; relay aphis

hatch April 20 and mature May '2.

These dates may be figured three days

later for Grand Rapids territory and

five days later for Traverse City. No

material has been found that can be

depended on to destroy the eggs. The

stem mothers remain on the buds quite

a time and. it is best to destroy them

there. Little benefit comes from spray-

ing for aphis after the little apples

have been injured. A single aphis will

produce two quadrillion of his kind in

a season.



Prof. Pettit, of the college, spoke on"

“Insects of 1917,” and answered many

questions. As the closing number R.

H. Ellsworth, of East Lansing, field

agent in marketing, spoke on “Adver-

tising Michigan Fruits,” and by refer—

ring to what the growers of California,

Washington, Florida and other states

are doing to advertise their products,

he pointed the way to what Michigan

might do. He said that a start might

easily be made with our grapes and

cherries, then spreading to include oth-

er superior orchard and farm products

of Michigan. ALMOND GRIFFIN.





PLYMOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASS’N .





BUYS TOMATO FACTORY.





 





At a well attended special meeting of .





the Plymouth Agricultural Association,

of Plymouth, Mich, held recently, the

secretary, Mr. G. C. Raviler, gave a

preliminary report of the financial con-

dition of this organization which cre-

ated considerable surprise among the

members. ‘



Among other things the report shows

that the growers of this vicinity will

receive from two to three times as

much money for their factory tomatoes

this past season as they would have

received had the association not open;

ated the tomato factory. This'means

a great deal to the local tomato grow-

er, considering the large amount-of to«

matoes produced, by them each year

for factory purposes. And if such a.

favorable showing can be secured in

a season when weather conditions re-

duced the supply of tomatoes by eyer

one-half, what will the results be with

a normal production?



The tomato factory will inventory at

from $12,000 to $15,000, including real

estate, buildings and equipment. On

all of this property the board of direc~

tors of this association took an option

some nine months ago 'and, at this

meeting the members voted to author-

ize the board to exercise the option,

gave full authority and power to pur-

chase this factory at the option price

and to attend to the approval of the

deeds and bills of sale necessary in

the transaction. -This property com-

prises about two acres of land located

on the Pere Marquette Railroad, with

side tracks full length of the property.

The building is of wood construction,

50x250 feet, one story. The equipment.

consists of-two one hundred horsepow-

er boilers, eight 450-gallon steam jack-

eted copper kettles, tomato washers,

cyclones, and other equipment required

for a good tomato pulp factory. The

capacity of this plant is from 1,000 to

1,500 bushels of tomatoes per day.



This property is also used as a ware-

house and storage for dairy feeds, fer-

tilizers, baskets, empty cans and vari-

ous other commodities when not other-

wise employed. All conimodities or.

farm supplies purchased by the asso-'

ciation are resold to the" members at

the actual- cost to the aesociation, also

the manufacturing end of therb'usiness

is operated for-the benefit of the [farm-





 





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Feeders . Problems _

‘ A Ration for Fattening Steers.

' I have ten head of Hereford steers

. that I intend to fatten until the first

of April,- and I would like a little ad-

vice on feeding. I have no ensilage, I

have cornstalks with corn on, but soft,

mixed hay and straw for roughage. I

also have 500 bushels Of oats. What

grain would you buy fOr best results,

and how much to a 900-lb. steer?

. Ottawa- Co. - G.





~ Your. steers Would do very nicely on



thissoft corn in the stalk if you could



. only keep the' corn from freezing, but

an ear of soft corn that, is full of mois-

ture freezes so that it is in just about

the shape of a chunk of ice and you

cannot expect to get as good results as



‘ you could if this corn was ripe and dry

so that it wouldn’t become .ice in-cold

weather.



It. you feed the steers in the barn,I

am inclined to believe that it would

pay you to run this corn through a cut-

ting box, cut it up, then place it in a

big, tight _.box with a cover on and

pain boiling water over it and leave it

there until it is thawed out before you

feed it. But, of course, if you don’t

'feed them in the barn this would be

impracticable and you will have to do

thebest you can by feeding the corn

just as it is, but in this case I wouldn’t

try to feed too heavily because so

much soft, frozen corn is liable to pro-

duce bad results.



The ground cats will be fine. There

is nothing better in the form of grain.

Yet they are not quite so fattening as

corn meal, but it makes a splendid ra-

tion to feed in connection with corn.

As your mixed hay will not furnish as

much protein as alfalfa or clover hay,

I think you ought to have some other

grain in the ration that is rich in pro-

tein—brewers’ grains or gluten feed,

would make a- splendid ration. Cotton-

seed meal mixed With your ground

oats would also furnish the necessary

protein. Probably you could get noth-

ing that would furnish you protein any

cheaper than cottonseed meal, and for

steers you could mix it quite liberally

because you are only going to feed

them for a short time. You could mix

100 pounds of cottonseed meal to 300





or 400 pounds of ground oats and mix,





this thoroughly and feed this in con-

nection with the hay and the soft corn.

This, I believe, would make a ration

that would be hard to beat. I would

have great faith init if this corn was





not frozen, but I 'am afraid of frozen,





corn. You don’t get the results that

you ought to 'get. The soft corn isall

right if you can keep it from freezing.





In fattening steers, it isn’t so very' »





necessary to figure on the number of

pounds for each head. If you want to





get them in good condition by the first





of April, you have got to feed them all

the grain that they will eat up clean.

. That is the only rule that needs to be

followed. I would give them all the

hay that they would eat up clean, a

fairly liberal feed of shock 'corn, and

then a very liberal feed of ground oats

and cottonseed meal 0r ground oats

and gluten feed.



‘ Corn meal contains 7.9 per cent of

digestible protein,~66.7‘ per cent of di-

gestible carbohydrates, and 4. 3 per

cent of digestible fat This, you Under-

stand, is not the analysis of corn meal

but it is the per cent of those ingredi-

ents that are actually digested.



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As a follow- -up of the recent Grand.

Rapids meeting, at Which the subject.

of extensive use of Michigan’ s cut- over





and idle lands for sheep and other

live Stock was discussed, a meeting

was held in Lansing on December 12,





attended by land owners, railroad men, ,





bankers and others. A committee was

named to represent Michigan at the

'. National Sheep and Wool Growers’

convention, to be held in Salt Lake





~ ; . ' city, Utah, January” 17-19, and a book-

let will be uhhshed f r distribution, . _





‘ associations just starting.





., sibilities of a state auditor for cooper-





fee. pot. .

and coffee pots cleans. them thorough- ,

'ly. —-Grandn1a





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





setting forth the advantages of Mich- ‘

igan lands for grazing purposes.-





of the Western Michigan Development





Bureau, '1‘. F. Marston, of Bay City, ;

secretary of the Northeastern Michir





gan Development Bureau, Clay H. Hol-

lister, president of a. Grand Rapids





bank, Prof. R. J. Baldwin, of the _M. A.- ‘





C, E. W. Abbott, W. C. Byers and J.

D. Harmon, railroad officials



Extended inquiry will be made of

the land oWners in' the state, to see

what they will do in this matter. While

principal emphasis will be placed on

sheep husbandry, the gospel of more

cattle and hogs throughout Michigan

will" also be preached. Prof. Baldwi

will have Charge of a series of livg

stock meetings and the county agricul-

tural agents will cooperate in the

work.”



Sheep have paid good profits during

the 'past year. A report comes fr

Dowagiac that a single Shropshire ewe

owned by George Heist on the Mills

Stock Farm on the, Pokagon pike

brought him returns of $27.60 for the

lamb and wool, and this without any

special preparation or feeding. The

ewe, a yearling last spring, sheared

14% pounds of wool, which sold for

sixty cents a pound, while her lamb

weighed 126 pounds and sold for fif-

teen cents a pound.



W. E. Palmer and L. J. Krull of the

Palmer farm, near Williamsville, Cass

county, recently sold twenty-eight

spring lambs for $510. They had a

flock of thirty ewes and besides. these

lambs have sold $220 worth of Wool

and have thirteen ewe lambs left. One

of their spring lambs weighed 150

pounds. They think there is a good

profit in the sheep business.



Kent Co. ALMOND GRIFFIN.





MEETING OF LIVE STOCK SHIP-

PERS.





The winter meeting of the Michigan

Cooperative Live Stock Federation was

recently held at the Court House, J ack-

son. Twenty¢seven associations scat-

tered over the southern part of the

state were represented by one or more





This -

‘committee‘is composed of A. C. Car- ‘

' ton, head of Michigan’ s public domain ,

commission, John I. Gibson, secretary:





 





officers or, members.



The meeting was in charge of the



vice-president, L. C. Kelley, of Char-

lotte. C. Lee Harrison, of Constantine,

acted as secretary. A program pre-

pared by R H. Elsworth, Field Agent

in Marketing for Michigan, was car-

ried out.

The problems confronting the coop-

erative live stock shippers were con-

sidered under six principal headings,

namely: 1, organization; 2, account-

ing; 3, transportation; 4, shipping; 5,

cooperative buying; 6, shrink.



There was aninformal discussion of

each topic by. those present who were

best qualified to speak. Many ques-

tions were asked and answered. The

exchange of ideas proved highly prof-

itable, especially to those representing





C. A. Waldron, president of the Te-

cumseh Cooperative Association made

an earnest plea for a federation which

should embrace all the cooperative as-

sociations inthe state.



Hon. James N. McBride, Michigan

Director of Markets, discussed the pos-





ative associations. .



Hon. Jason Woodman, and E. C.

Fowler, county agricultural agents for

Kalamazoo and Jackson cOunties re-

spectively, assured all present that the

county agents in all parts of the state

are ready to assist with the organiza-

tion of ecoperative buying and selling

associations.





Boil a few pctatoes in the teakettle. .

This softens the lime so it can be eas- '





 





il'y cleaned. Then Wash as tea or cof-

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to move in respectable ecbnomic



society until Mr. Hoover gave it.

entre in the United States. It has had

h0wever, a’very prosperous career in

Denmark, and the English people were

very receptive during the” second year

of the war.



Historical allusions in‘ regard -' to

price fixing by governments in ancient

and medieval times are adverse. The

facts are, however, of interest, as they

throw much light 011 the subject. Ag-

riculture was the only industry in

those times. The aristocracy and mil-

itary caste applied maximum prices to

get more and cheaper food {stuff-s. The

whole movement was parasitic and in-

tended to intrench parasitism, when it

was opposed by us and its food

supply threatened. Parasitism will al-

ways fall by its own weight, and the

ancient agriculturist had time on his

side and all he had to do was wait and

hunger did the work for him against

his oppressors.



The whole basis of a protective tariff

is a matter of general economic well-

being. A tariff may well be called a

minimum price fixing statute. All the

service that may have ever been ren—

dered by tariff hearings-and tariff ex-

perts, was ostensibly to establish this

minimum line below which competition

could not prevail. Minimum prices are

made for the benefit primarily, of the

producer.



-The so-called law of supply and de

mand has belief, and support no longer

in the industrial world, as an equitable

measure of price determination. The

belief found in economic writings of

an age gone by was held as immutable

as the laws of the Modes and Persians.

The absurdity of state and national

laws against price fixing. when the op‘

eration of economic laws were. said to

be sufficient, was rendered even more

absurd by the support and advocacy

of these statutes by those who declar-

ed the sufficiency of economic law. A

compulsory gravitation law would be

an example of similar confusedness.

The United States is quite closely ap-

proximating the Danish plan of price

making. Sections 13 and 14 of the

Danish act of 1912 reads as follows





Section 13.—-—In retail trade, the so-

called “good measure’ is forbidden,

p1ovided that it does not exist in ac-

cordance with custom and usage, and

that it consists of mere trifles which

have no intention of attracting other

merchants’ customers.



Violations are punished by fines of

not more than one hundred kroner.



It is also forbidden to sell or offer

for sale goods in original wrappers

from pr'oducers 01 jobbe1s, upon which

their fixed prices for the retail trade

have been indicated, at a lower price,

unless the sale is of the kind mention-

ed in Section 6, or unless the permis-





PRICE fixing had never been able





sion of the producer or jobber, or other

sanction equal thereto. has been

granted.





Violations may, according to circum-

stances, be punished by fines of not

more than 2,000 kroner.



Section 14.-——The Minister of Com-

merce and Navigation is authorizedto

stipulate, in conjunction with the ch1et

organizations of Danish commerce, in

dustry and trade, that certain articles

in the retail sale may be sold or offer-

ed for sale only in prescribed un1t1es

in number, measure and weight, or

with an indication, placed upon the

articles or its wrapper, of_number,

measure and weight, and with a state-

ment as to the place of the article’s

production.



The United States lacks the organi-

zations of industry corresponding to

those in Denmark described as the

Chief Organizations of Danish Industry

in the statute. The» National Food Ad-

ministration has sought such here and

has found‘some rudimentary organiza-

tions of agriculture with whom they

can consult. These organizations are,

however, rather provincial and not

planned for the purpose but rather for

defensive Operations and quite as

much against other organizations as





for any other purposes.





Price Fixing Vs. Supply and Demand

By JAMES N. MCBRIDE





There has been little or no training





for national service by Way of cooper

ating with related or correlated groups.

In Denmark such organizations are not

only recognized by law but almost com-

pelled by law to exist and in a meas—





ure serve unorganized industry of its





class. In the United States such 0r~

ganizations are viewed with suspicion

and their acts closely scrutinized 'with

a constant fear of being charged with

criminal intent. The logic of the Danes

is that the producer must have open

highway to the consumer and that the

distributor must serve him and also

the consumer. The viewpoint in this

country is that the .distributor is the

superior and that he fixes the price‘

that is paid to the producer and charg-

ed the consumer.



The fruit of this procedure has been

to estrange the consumer in the cen~

ters of population and charge the pro-

ducer with extortionate price fixing.

The placing of a memorandum of the

price that the producer received for a

barrel of apples, and asking the con:

sumer to advise what the cost to him

is, is a familiar example of the desire

to know the cost between.

would, under the law, in conjunction

with the cooperative body, have had

the retail price marked on and known

what the cost was instead of using a

surreptitious practice to ascertain and

also compelled the distributor to have

rendered his service for a fixed cost

just as the railroads are now compell-

ed to do. The Danish laws establish

responsibility in the producer Where

the cost can be traced if exorbitant.



The Danish law compels volume of

business, and the sale of food in es-

tablished unities. The consumer does

not have the benefit of the law in case

of broken packages. The Danes had

in view the reduction of the number of

distributors, since these are establish-

ed by the producers only in numbers

to economically distribute. In the

United States the continued and in-

creasing numbers of distributors com«

pel an increasing cost in retail estab-

lishments. In Denmark the number of

producers increased While the distrib-

utors decreased. The need in the Unit—

ed States is now more of products and

producers.



The Danes solved this problem by

making it difficult for the distributor to

exploit both producer and consumer.

The price fixing power was the bond

of cooperation that united the cooper-

ators as cooperation has not been able

to do in the United States. The plac—

ing of Section 13, which is the price

making section, before that of Section

14, which is the standardizing section,

is logical in Denmark but not held so

in the United States. Here we have

said, “Standardize and then secure the

price for the goods.” In Denmark

they say that the price will secure and

compel the standard. The Danes say:

“If you will give me the price I will

give you the goods that the price calls

for ” The Dane has outstripped us in

increasing the output and decreasing

the cost to the consumer. The small-

ness of Denmark has been wholly in

her favor as compared to the size of

the United States.



If one cares to think in a territory

the size of Michigan, the specific oper—

ation of the Danish plan might be il-

lustrated in the example of the State

Brand of Butter Creameries. These

would determine the cost and would

mark the retail price of their product

on the prints or packages. The dis-

tributor would have an allowance for

selling. Prices would be uniform to

the cqnsumer. Just as soon as any

creamerywas entitled to use the brand

it must come into the organization.



The Danish plan demands that the

producer shall interpret supply and de—

mand. This interpretation has increas-

ed the products of that country while

the reverse has been true in the United

States. It has made business men of

the Danes because the adjustments

that were essential to the maintenance

of business were made by those who

were in the business, and desired to

continue in it. This is not ancient his-





tory ‘nor is it found in the text books





of political economy, but it is written

in the statutes and concretely found

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Ensflage frOm Sunflowers

By LOUIS BIEMLER '



VALUABLE crop for the north- of two weeks, when the_corn silage

A ern counties, where corn is un- was fed out, each cow had gained from



certain owing to the short grow- four to seven pounds of milk per day.

ing season, and cool nights, is the sun- .When the sunflower silage was plac-

flower. While farming in the western ed before the cows they took to it

part Of Michigan on sandy land I al- readily. After feeding for one week

ways raised a PatCh 0f sunflowers, there was no decrease in milk what-

mostly for chicken feed. During 001d, ever. After feeding the mixed silage

backward seasons, $11011 as the year Of for some time, no difference could be

191.5, when 001111 was very backward seen between the feeding of any of the

and cutworms bad, and the frost killed different kinds of silage.

the crops during the. month Of August, My belief is that the most successful

I took particular notlce of my sunflow- way to ensilo clover would be to use

ers. The 0001 weather does not stop the second crop in connection with sun-

flowers, by running it in in layers. I

believe that one should not let the

plants get too ripe, or they will get too





Woody. Better use the plant too green

than too ripe.





I am well pleased with what I have

seen of sunflower silage, and in the

future will raise a fair acreage each

year on my own farm. Particularly to

the farmers in the northern counties

does the sunflower offer another crop

that may be used to supply feed for

live stock, particularly for dairy cattle.





very little by cutworms and were full

grown and fully headed out before the

August frost destroyed the immatured

corn crop.





I was much impressed with the plant

and wondered if it had any feed value

for stock, and, as the old saying goes,

“he who never tries, never succeeds.”

I decided to try them green. Gather-

ing a large handful of the leaves, I laid

them before a Jersey cow. She wasted

no time in eating them, and looking for

more, and so I feed her sunflower

leaves every day and she never tired

of them.





I took particular notice of the cow’s

manure after she had eaten sunflower As Iknow nothing whatever about

leaves several days. It had a veryoily dried beet pulp, I would like to ask Mr.





. ' - Lillie some questions concerning it



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appflaralnce SO theuilmust be“? e Odl How does it come, in bulk or sacked?

in. e eaves as we as. in e see How many pounds should I feed pel

Thls incllned me to believe that the day to ordinary cows that are giving





plant would make a good silage. milk, same to be weighed before or af-

1 . h'l t l' ter soaking? Ho wlong should I soak

The f? low1ng year W 1 e rave mg it? Can it be kept a long time without





through the west, 1 met a number 0f spoiling? Will it be all right stored

dairymen that use the plant for this Where it piloufid fretezef? g htave t11110 dsil-



- - - _ age so w1 ave o ee 1 wi ry

purpose-I v1s1ted one place where sun feed mixed hay, cornstalks etc

flower Sllage was fed. The owner of





th f h d h d f b (1 Wayne Co. T. O. M.

- e arm a a er 0 pure— re ,

Brown Swiss cows.‘ 'This breed of cat- The mat beet pulp from the factory,





tie is large and very good feeders and after the sugar has been dissolved 01“

they eat up everything put before by water and separated by centrifugal

them I was in doubt if other breeds force is passed through a drier, heated

of cattle less ru ed would take to toavery intense heat which rapidly're-

’ ‘ gg .’ . - duces the moisture content to about

the same feed as readlly, ow1ng to the . ‘.

coarse ’grthh of the plant and the twelve per cent 1n dued beet pulp. Con-

way the sunflowers were ensiloed by sequently, this product W111 keep any-





this one man But during the past few where if stored in a dry place for any





weeks I have had all doubts about the Eng“; 0f trimet' 1111: 1173151 1185: 11:32:23.6

quality of sunflower silage removed. an ry W ea a 111 {e p p y





A farmer on a run-down farm un- indefinitely. It is sacked in one hun-

derlaid with sandstone down in Ohio, dred pound sacks and never deliver ed





had one of his fields of silage corn de- in bulk. One reason Whi’ the price 0f

stroyed by the wet weather and quack beet pulp has advanced 1s on account ‘

grass. Knowing he would be short of of the unheard of advance in burlap

silage corn, and through my sugges- sacks. They cost thce as much now

tion, he planted two acres of sunflow- as they formerly dld'

ers. He plowed up the quack grass, Dried beet pulp is not a succulent

got the ground in good Shape, then fOOd llke ensilage. I think the best

drilled in the sunflower seed with a way to feed dried beet Pulp is to soak

grain drill. The planting was done it from one feeding to another. For

about the first of July and the field instance, what you intend to feed in

was cultivated once, and no more at- the morning should be sprinkled With

tention was paid tothe crop until the water the night before. JUSt the

first part of September, when silo fill- amount 0f water to be used 3’0“ will

ing began. determine by a little experience, but it



The two acres of sunflowers made will usually take up four or five times

about twenty-five tons of silage, and on its OWH weight in water and the dry

this rundown land the corn made particles will absorb this moisture and

three tons per acre. It is very plain will swell up to almost their original

that sunflowers will. make a large size and form as they were sliced in

growth on the poorest of land. the factory. I



When the silo was filled, I made it One must have a place to wet this

my business to be on the job. First of pulp where it doesn’t freeze so it will

all the cutting machine was arranged necessarily be in one corner of a warm

to out everything Very fine. The corn stable or some other building. After

and sunflowers were cut so that a rota- the water is sprinkled on it ought to

tion was made. using one load of corn be shoveled over so that the water will

then a load of sunflowers. When the be evenly distributed through the pulp

job was getting near the end, a number and after g1 few times you will know

of loads of sunflowers were run in just how much water to put with a one

alone, then enough corn was put on hundred pound sack of beet pulp and

top to make about two weeks’ feeding. have it all absorbed and not have the



After allowing about ten days’ time beet pulp too 'sloppy. The evening feed

for the silage to ferment, feeding was of beet pulp can be moistened in the

begun. The cows had been on pas- morning and will be ready for feeding

ture,'and owing to a dry spell the grass in the evening. Of course, if the beet





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losing right along. The owner of the in a pile for a considerable length of

herd made a home-made milk sheet time or it would heat and ferment and

and kept records of each cow’s milk. get mouldy or sour and become unfit



The second day after feeding silage, for feeding The dry pulp Will keep

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The analysis of dried beet pulp

comes the nearest to corn of almost

any food that I can. compare it with.

' Of course, it isn’t as rich in fat or it

isn’t as rich in protein but it is rich in

starch. It won’t take the place of cot-

tonseed meal or gluten feed or wheat

bran or anything of that sort, because.

it is a carbohydrate. It will takelthe

place more nearly of corn meal than

anything else. At the Michigan Ex—.

periment Station, Professor Shaw fed

steers. substituting beet pulp for corn

meal, and he got very nearly as good

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remember correctly, in this bulletin

that beet pulp made a fairly good subfi

stitute for corn meal, although we can-

not expect to get equal results.

Of.course, in compounding your ra~

tion you must consider the beet pulp in

its dry condition rather than after you

have moistened it. For instance, if you





must be five pounds of the beet pulp in

its dry state.





food. You needn’t be afraid of ever

feeding it or anything of that sort. Cat-

tle will eat almost as much as you care

to give them.

able food value in itself, but it is an

appetizer. Cattle that are fed dried

beet pulp, especially after it has been

moistened, will eat more other dry food

and not only that, will assimilate a

larger per cent of it than they will if

there is no beet pulp ted. In other

words, dried beet. pulp carefully fed





of corn silage, but of course the beet

pulp is a much more expensive ration

than corn silage. However, if we

haven’t got the corn silage, then dried

beet pulp moistened before it is fed,

has a greater value than its food analy-

sis would indicate, because succulency

in a dairy ration especially counts.

COLON C. LILLIE.





 





MEETING OF LIVE STOCK SHIP-

PERS.





 





(Continued from page 617).



Two committee reports were adop-

ted. One requested that the govern-

ment “either suspend the twenty-eight

hour for the duration of the. war or ex-

tend the limitation to forty—two hours

instead of thirty-six, upon the written

request of the shippers."



The secon report demanded that

the Detroit ive Stock Association

change their rules as to stag and rough

dockage and that they be urged to pub-

lish a market sheet daily which will

record actual sales and give full mar-

ket advices.



It was voted by those attending the

Federation meeting to ask each live

stock shipping association in the state

to'contribute $5 toward a fund for in-

creasing the usefulness of the Federa-

tion.



It was also voted to hold a meeting

of the Federation at East Lansing 011

Thursday, January 17, provided there

were enough live stock shippers in at-



' tendance at the. annual meeting of the

3' ' Michigan Improved Live Stock and





rying out of the proposed program.





 





O. l. Gregg, county agent of Wayne

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the Plymouth Agricultural Association,

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Michigan Agricultural College, for a

competent man to be placed in charge

of the work. The duties of' this man

will be to call at each farmer’s place

one day each month to work out for

him the proper ration for each cow in

, the herd, and to test the milk from

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URING the last four weeks con-

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mor, no doubt sent out through Ger-

man propaganda. This started during

the week of the food conservation

pledge campaign. The writer was a

member of the Calhoun county execu-

tive committee and was asked to inves-

tigate the matter and take photographs

to show the exact conditions around

the barracks.



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that allows us to enter the camp at

any time and take pictures anywhere.

We drove our car around on a certain

day when we were not expected, so

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facts regarding the garbage cans and

their contents just as they averaged

all through the big camp. After an in-

spection of scores of the barracks we

drove in front of one garbage stand at

the rear of a certain barrack kitchen

and took the accompanying picture.



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racks are eating or mess rooms on

one-half or more of the lower floor.

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en, which extends out from the main

building ,and is but one story high, as

shown at the left and rear of the auto-

mobile in the picture. The remainder

of the main lower floor and the second

story are used for sleeping'quarters

for the 150 to 175 men assigned to

each barrack.



In each one of these barracks there

are a number of young men who left

their farm homes last September or

late November. They and‘the many

hundreds of farmers and their wives

in Michigan know just about how much

kitchen garbage would naturally be

collected from the tables where 150 or

more men eat three times a day. Real-

ly, in times past, the four garbage cans

shown in the picture would not hold

one day’s leavings, and the old«fashion~

ed “prodigal son” would have had a

feast after all.



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that the so-cailed waste of food was so





By J. H. BROWN





small that it was hard to find it with

the naked eye. In fact, at each bar—

rack, it would not even fill the second

can, after standing twenty-four hours.

We were really surprised and at first

could hardly understand how the kitch-

en police (the soldiers who cook, wait

on table and wash dishes) managed to

save nearly all the table leavings. Lat-

er on we found there were no leavings

of any food value to the soldiers. Each





tains garbage that is used to? feed. the

swine. And this is the finest and most

aristocratic stuff that any piggie é/ver

took into his system. Eventhe Prodi—

gal son had his grub mixed with husks

and everything else. The "second can.

at each one of the barracks is collected

and hauled to a farm about four miles

south and fed to pigs.





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one is required to take no more than

he wishes to eat up clean. No meat,

potatoes, bread, etc., are left on the

plates.



The accompanying picture is one of

several that we-took to illustrate the

actual conditions of the so-called waste

and they are being used officially in

subject matter pertaining to army

camp mess rooms. All the garbage at

Camp Custer is selected and classified

at the kitchen door of each barrack.

There are five garbage cans and a

Sign for each one. The first, at the left,

is used for ashes and coffee grounds.

The kitchen ranges furnish the ashes.

Each barrack is heated bysteam from

a central heating plant.



The second garbage can alone con-





bottles and tin cans. The fifth can was

gone when we took the picture, so the

chef brought out a wash boiler to ofii-

cially act as substitute for the occa-

iosn. That can contains the soapy wa-

ter to be used first for dishes. The

chef and his assistant are seen stand-

ing with empty pails. Both came from

Michigan farms. The garbage is all

collected by one Chicago firm who

have leased a large farm and keep pigs

to eat the selected garbage. The re-

mainder is handled so there is very

little waste. The bottles and tin cans

are saved and the residue goes into a.

big incinerator.



Later on we will write about the pig

farm and include pictures of some of

the aristocratic swill absorbers.





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What Happened In the Previous Chapters Will Be FOund on Page 624





“Um! When is the first boat out for

Gibraltar?” Woodhouse asked.



“Well, sir, the Princess Mary is due

to sail at dawn day after tomorrow,”

the Greek answered judiciously. “She

is reported at Port. Said today, but, of

course, the war—” ’Woodhouse turned

away. ,



“But you wish a room, sir—a nice

room, with bath, overlooking—”



“No.”



“You expected to find a friend?”





“Not here,” Woodhouse returned

bruskly, and passed out into the blind-

ing square.





He strode swiftly around the statue

of Mehemet Ali and plunged into the

bedlam crowd filling a side street. With

sure sense of direction, he threaded the

narrow alleyways-and by-streets until

he had come to the higher part of the

mongrel city, near the Rosetta Gate.

There he turned into a little French

hotel, situated far from the disordered

pulse of the city’s heart; a sort of pen-

sion, it was, known only to the occa-

sional discriminating tourist. Maitre

Mouquere was proud of the annon‘y-

mity his house preserved, and abhor-

red poor, driven Cook’s slaves as he





would a plague. In his Cap dc Liberte

one was lost to all the world of Alex-

andria.



Thither the captain’s baggage had





been sent direct from the‘steamer. Af-





ter a glass with Maitre Mouquere and





a half hour’s discussion of the day’s

great news, VVoodhouse pleaded a t ch





of the sun, and went to his 1' om.





There he remained, until the gold f

sunset had faded from the Mosque of

Omar’s great dome and all the city

from Pharos and its harbor hedge of

masts to E1 Meks winked with lights.

Then he took carriage to the railroad

station and entrained for Ramleh.

What South Kensington is to London

and the Oranges are to New York,

Ramleh is to Alexandria—the suburb

There pretty villas lie in‘

the lap of the delta’s greenery, skirted

by canals, cooled by the winds of Abou-

kir Bay and shaded by great palms—

the one beauty spot in all the hybrid

product of East and West that is the





of homes.





present city of Alexandria.





Remembering directions he had re-





ceived in Berlin, Woodhouse threaded





one of the pillars a small brass plate

was inset. By the light of a nearby

arc, Woodhouse read the inscription

on it:

EMIL KOCH, M. D.,

32 Queen’s Terrace.



He threw back his shoulders with a.

sudden gesture, which might have been

taken for that of a man about to make

a plunge, and rang the bell. The heavy

wooden gate, filling all the space of the

arch, was opened by a tall Numidian

in house livery of white. He nodded

an affirmative to Woodlfiuse’s question

and led the way through an avenue of

flaming hibiscus to a house, set far

back under heavy shadow of acacias.

On every hand were gardens, rank fol-

iage shutting off: this walled yard from.

the street and neighboring dwellings.

The heavy gate closed behind the vis-

itor with a sharp snap. One might

have said that Doctor Koch lived in

pretty secure isolation.



WOodhouse was shown into a small

room off the main hell, by its furnish—

ings and position. evidently a waiting-

room for the doctor’s patients. The

Numidian bowed, and disappeared.

Alone, Woodhouse rose and strolled

aimlessly about the room, flipped the

covers of magazines on the table, piclb

ed up and hefted the bronze Buddha.

on the onyx mantel, noted, with a care-





less glance, the. position of the two_

windows in relation to the “entrance , '





door and the folding doors, now shut,

which doubtless gave on the censulta~

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stood between them.‘ He looked at

Woodhouse through thick-lensed glass-





‘es, which gave to his stare a curiously





intent bent. ,



“My office hours are from two to

four, afternoons,” Doctor Koch said.

He _spOke in English, but his speech

was burred by a slight heavineSs on

the aspirants, reminiscent of_ his meth-

er tongue The doctor did not ask

WoOdhouse to enter the consultation

room, but continued standing between

the felding doors, staring fixedly

through his thick lenses.





_ “I know ethatpDoctor,” Woodhouse

began apologetically, following the phy-

sician’s lead and turning his tongue to

English. f‘But. you see, in a case like

mine I have to intrude”—it was “hat”

and “indrude”. as Woodhouse gave

these words—_“because I could not be

here during your office hours. You will

pardon?”



Doctor Koch’s eyes widened just per—

ceptibly at the hint of a Germanic

strain .in his visitor’s speech—just a

hint quickly glossed over. But still he

remained standing in his former atti-

tude of annoyance.



“Was the sun, then, too hot to her-

mit you to come to my house during

regular office hours? At nights I see

no batients—bositively none.”



“The sun—perhaps,” Woodhouse re-

plied guardedly. “But as I happened

just to arrive today fr0m Marseilles,

and your name was strongly recom-

mended to me as one to consult in a

case such as mine——-”





“Where was my name recommended

to you, and by whom?” Doctor Koch

interrupted in sudden interest.



Woodhouse looked at him steadily.

“In Berlin—and by a friend of yours,”

he answered.



“Indeed?” The doctor stepped back

from the doors, and motioned his vis-

itor into the consultation room.



Woodhouse stepped into a large

room lighted by a single green-shaded

lamp, which threw a white circle of

light straight down upon a litter of

thin-bladed scalpels in a glass dish of

disinfectant on a table. The shadowy

outlines of an operating chair, of high-

shouldered bookcases, and the dull

glint of instruments in a long glass

case were almost imperceptible be-

cause of the centering of all light upon

the glass dish ofknives. Doctor Koch

dragged a chair out from the shadows,

and, carelessly enough, placed it in the

area of radiance; he motioned Wood-

house to sit. The physician “leaned

carelessly against an arm of the oper-

ating chair; his face was in the shad-

ow save where reflected light shone

from his glasses, giving them the as-

pect 0f detached eyes.





“So, a friend—a friend in Berlin told

you to consult me, eh? Berlin is a long

way from Ramleh—especially in these

times. Greater physicians than I live

in Berlin. WhY—”





“My friend in Berlin told ,me you

were the only physician who could

help me in my peculiar trouble.” Im-

perceptibly the accenting of the aspir-

ants in Woodhouse’s speech grew more

marked; his voice took on a throaty

character. “By some specialists my

life even has been set to end in a cer-

tain year, so sure is fate for those af-

flicted like myself.”.



“So? What year is it, then, you die ?”

Doctor Koch’s strangely. detached eyes

:——.those eyes ofglass glowing dimly in

the shadow—seemed to flicker‘palely

.with. a light all their own. Captain

.Woodho'use; sitting. under the white

sprayof thepshaded incandescent, look-

ed up carelesslyto meet the stare.



. “Why, they give me plenty of time

to enjoy~myself,” 'he answered, with a

light laugh- “They sayin 1932-.—”



1 “Nineteen thirty-two!” Doctor Koch

stepped lightly to the closed folding

doors, trundled them back an inch to





assure himself nobody was in the wait- at





jug-room, then closed and locked them.

He did similarly by a hidden door on





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£156 gray hair and black brush of beard

weedhouse had not seen. After that

he pulled a chair close‘ to his visitOr

find sat down, his knees almost touch-



He spoke very low, in





“If your trouble is so serious that

"you will die—in 1932, I must, of course,





_ examine you for—symptoms.”





For half a minute the two men look-

ed fixedly at each other. Woodhouse’s

right hand went 'slowly to the big





" green scarab stuck in his cravat. He





pulled the pin out, turned it over in his

fingers, and by pressure caused the

scarab -to pop out of the gold-backed

setting holding it. The bit of green

stone lay in the palm of his left hand,

its back exposed. In the hollowed

back of the beetle was a small square

of paper, folded minutely. This Wood-

house removed, unfolded and passed to

the physician. The latter seized it avid-

ly, holding it close to his spectacled

eyes, and then spreading it against the

light as if to read a secret water mark.

A smile struggled through the jungle

of his beard. He found Woodhouse‘s

hand and grasped it warmly.



. “Your symptom tallies with my diag-

nosis, Nineteen Thirty-two." he began

rapidly. “Five days ago we heard from

——-the Wilhelmstrasse—that you would

come. W’e have expected you each

day, now. Already we have got word

through to our friends at Gibraltar of

the plan; they are waiting for you.



“Good!” Woodhouse commented. He

was busy refolding the thin slip of pa-

per that had been his talisman, and fit-

ting it. into the back of the scarab.

“W'oodhouse—he is already at the Ho-

tel Khedive; saw his name on the reg—

ister when I landed from the Castle

this morning.” Now the captain was

talking in familiar German.



“Quite so," Doctor Koch put in.

“Woodhouse came down from Wady

Halfa yesterday. Our man up there

had advised of the time of his arrival

in Alexandria to the minute. The cap-

tain has his ticket for the Princess

Mary, which sails for Gibraltar day af-

ter tomorrow at dawn."



Number Nineteen Thirty-two listen-

ed to Doctor Koch’s outlining of the

plot with set features; only his eyes

showed that he was acutely alive to

every detail. Said he: *





“But Woodhouse this British cap-

tain who’s being transferred from the

Nile country to the Rock; has he ever

served there before? If he has, why,

when I get there—when I am Captain

.W'oodhouse, of the signal services-I

will be embarrassed if I do not know

the ropes.”



“Seven years ago Woodhouse was

there for a very short time," Doctor

Koch explained. “New governor since

then—changes all around in the. per-

sonnel of the staff, I don‘t doubt. You’ll.

have no trouble."



Silence between them for a minute,

broken by the captain:



“Our friends at (lib—who are they,

and how will I know them?"



The doctor bent a sudden glance of

suspicion upon the lean face before

him. His thick lips clapped together

stubbornly.



“Aha, my dear friend; you are ask-

ing questions. In my time at, Berlin

the Wilhelmstrasse taught that all or-

ders and information came from above

—-and from there only. Why——"



“I suppose in default of other infor-

mation I may ask the governor to point

out the Wilhelmstrasse men,” Wood—

house answered, with a shrug. “I was

told at Berlin I would learn all that

was necessary to me as I went along,





 





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"Come—come!” Doctor Koch patted





‘ , the other’s shoulder, with a heavy jov-





i'ality. "‘So you will. When you ar-

‘five at Gib, put up at the Hotel Splen-

Tdide, and you will not be long learning

who your friends are. .I, for instance,





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and or undoubtedtloyalty.” He finished

with a booming laugh.



“But Woodhouse; you have arranged

a way to. have him drop out of sight

before the Princess Mary sails? There

will be no confusion—no slip-up ?""'





“Do not fear,” the physician reas-

sureds “Everything‘will be arranged.

His baggage will leave the Hotel Khe:

dive for the dock tomorrow night; but

it will not reach the dock. Yours—3’



“Will be awaiting thetransfer of

tags at the Cap, de Liberte—Mou-

quere’s little place.” the captain finish-

ed. “But the man himself—you’re not

thinking of mur—” ’



“My dear Nineteen Thirty-two,” Doc-

tor Koch interrupted, lifting protesting

hands; “we do not use such crude

methods; they are dangerous. The real

Captain Woodhouse will not leave A1-

exandria—by sea, let us say—for many

months. Although I have no doubt he

will not be found in Alexandria the

hour the Princess Mary sails. The pa-

pers he carries—the papers of identity

and of transfer from Wady Halfa to

Gibraltar—will be in your hands in

plenty of time. You—”



The doctor stopped abruptly. A hid-

den electric‘ buzzer somewnere in the

shadowed room was clucking an alarm.

Koch pressed 3. button at the side of

the operating chair. There was a sound

beyond closed doors of someone pass

ing through a hallway; the front door

opehed and closed.



‘Some one at the gate,” Doctor Koch

explained. “Caesar, my playful little

Numidianwand an artist with the Bed-

ouin dagger is Caesar—he goes to an-

swer.” 5



Their talk was desultory during the

next minutes. The 'doctor seemed rest-

less under the suspense of a pending

announcement as to the late visitor.

Finally came a soft tapping on the hid-

den door behind Woodhouse. The lat-

ter heard the doctor exchange whis-

pers with the Numidian in the hall-

way. Finally, “Show him into the wait-

ing—room,” Koch ordered. 'He came

back to where the captain was sitting,

a- puzzled frown between his eyes.



“An Englishman, Caesar says—an

Englishman, who insists on seeing me

——very important." Koch bit the end

of one stubby thumb in hurried

thought. He suddenly whipped open

the door of one of the instrument cas-

es, pulled out a stethoscope, and hook-

ed the two little black receivers into

his ears. Then he turned to Wood-

house. ' ’ '



“Quick! Off with your coat and open

your shirt. You are a patient; I am

just examining you when interrupted.

This may be one of these clumsy Eng-

lish secret-service men, and I might

need your alibi.” The sound of an op-

ening door beyond the folding doors

and of footfalls in the adjoining room.



“You say you are sleepless at

night?” Doctor Koch was talking Eng-

lish. _“And you have a temperature on

arising? Hm’m! _ This under your

tongue, if you please”—he thrust a

clinical thermometer between VVood-

house’s lips; the latter already had his

coat off, and was unbuttoning-his shirt.

Koch gave him a meaning glance, and

disappeared between the folding doors,

closing them behind him.



The captain, feeling much like a fool

with the tiny glass tube sprouting

from his lips, yet with all his faculties

strained to alertness, awaited develop-

ments. If Doctor Koch’s hazard should

prove correct and this was an English

secret-service man come to arrest him,

wouldn’t suspicion also fall on whom-

ever was found a visitor in the German

spy’s house? Arrest and search; ex-

mination of his scarab pin—that

would not be pleasant.



He tried, to hear what, was being said

beyond the folding doors, but could

catch nothing save, the deep rumble of

the doctor’s occasional bass and a

higher, querulous .voice raised inwf’hfit

might be argument. -. Had he dared:





 

 





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that he could hear what was passing;





him made his ears yearn to dissest

this murmur into sense. But if Doctor

Koch should catch him eavesdropping,

embarrassment fatal to his

might follow; besides, he had a feeling





that eyes he could not see—perhaps '





the unwinking eyes of the Numidian,

avid for an excuse to put into practice

his dexterity with the Beduoin dagger

—were on him. .



Minutes slipped by. The captain still

nursed the clinical thermometer. The.

mumble and muttering continued to

sound through the closed doors. 'Sud-

denly the high whine' of the unseen

visitor was raised in excitement. Came

clearly through to Woodhouse’s ears

his passionate declaration:



“Must I tell you you’ve got to recog

nize me. My number's Nineteen Thir-

ty-tw-o.

the head of my cane somewhere be-

tween Paris and Alexandria. But I got

it all right—got it from the Wilhelm-

strasse direct, with orders to report to

Doctor Emil Koch, in Alexandria!"



Capper! Capper who was to be be-

trayed to the firing squad in Malta, af-'

ter his W'ilhelmstrasse ticket had pass-

ed from his possession. Capper on the

job!



Woodhouse hurled every foot pound

of his will to hear into his ears. He

caught Koch‘s gruff answer:



“Young man, you’re talking madness.

You’re talking to a loyal British sub-

ject. I know nothing about your Wil-

hemstrasse or your number. If I did

not think you were drunk I’d have you

held here, to be turned over to the

military as a spy.

change my mind."



Again the querulous protestation of

Capper, met by the doctor’s peremp-

tory order. The captain heard the front

door close. A long wait, and Doctor

Koch’s black heard, with the surmount—

ing eyes of thick glaSs, appeared at a

parting of the folding doors. Wood-

house, the tiny thermometer still stick-

ing absurdly from his mouth, met the

basilisk stare of those two ovals of





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as if that were part of playing a game;

Still the ghastly stare from the glass

eyes over the bristling beard, search-

ing—searching. ‘



(Continued next week).





 





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\ Synopsis of Precedlng Chapters.





Jane G-‘erson,ra virile‘, Viv-idly alive“





American girl, is enroute to Paris in

July, 1914, as buyer- for a New Yerk

department store. At Calais she acci-

dentally meets a Captain Woodhouse,

who tells her he is in the British sig~

nal service and on his way to Sgypt.

Woodhouse, fearing international trou-

ble, warns Jane of probable embarrass-

ment should she remain too long in

France. They part in Paris, but in

stead of proceeding to Egypt, Wood<

house entrains for Berlin. ‘At the Ger





man capitol “Louisa,” an agent of the'





Wilhelmstrasse, a German spy organi-

zation, agrees to accept the services of

“Billy Capper,” a former spy, now re-

duced to want through drink. She af-

terwards keeps an appointment with

Woodhouse at the Winter Garden. He





confirms the selection of Capper, who .





is to be “the target.” Capper is already

under suspicion by the British author-

ities, therefore the Wilhelmstrasse

send him to Alexandria by way of Mar-

seilles and Malta, where it is expected

he will be taken by the British. It is

Woodhouse’s mission to secure Cap-

per’s number and proceed to Alexan-

dria where there are three Wilhelm-





strasse men to aid him to make way.





with the real Captain Woodhouse

whom the British have ordered to Gib~

raltar and who is a member of the sig-

nal service, will have access to the sig-

nal tower on the Rock. Woodhouse, of

the \Vilhelmstrasse, is to impersonate

the real CaptainWoodhouse and take

the important position at Gibraltar. At

Marseilles Capper becomes intoxicated

and Woodhouse easily secures the Wll~

helmstrasse number and places Capper

aboard boat for Malta. In the‘mean-

time announcement is made that Rus-

sian forces are being mobilized on the

Prussian and Galician frontier, and as

the boat on which Woodhouse proceeds

to Alexandria is entering the harbOr.

a wireless announces that Germany (19-.

clares war on Russia and that German

troops are moving through Luxemburg

on Belgium. At the principal hotel in

Alexandria he notes the following en-

try in the register, “C. G. Woodhouse,

Capt. Sig. Service, Wady Halfa.”





 





 





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“You think he may clear cub—leave

the country?" ‘

Bruce emitted a grunt of disgust.



“Clear out? Run away? Mebbe he

would it" he was a black. But he‘s a

grizzly, and the boss of this country.

He may fight shy of this valley for a

while, but you can bet he ain’t goin’

to emigrate. The harder you hit a

grizzly the madder he gets, an’ if you

keeplon hittin’ ’im he keeps on gettin’

madder, until he drops dead. If you

want that bear bad enough we can

surely get him.” 5



“I do,” Langdon reiterated with em-

phasis. “He’ll smash record measure-

ments or I miss my guess. I want him,

and lwant him bad, Bruce. Do you

think we’ll be able to trail him in the





- morning ?”





Bruce shook his, head. _



“It won’t be a matter of trailing,” he

said. “It’s just simply hunt. After a

grizzly has been hit he keeps movin’.

He won’t go out_of his range, an’ neith-

er is he going to show himself on the

open slopes like that up there. Me-

toosin ought to be along with the dogs

inside of three or four days, an’ when

we get that bunch-of Airedales in ac-

tion, there'll be some fun.” '



Langdon sighted at the fire through

the polished barrel of his rifle and said

doubtfully: ' .



"I’ve been having my doubts about

Metoosin for a week back. 'vWe’ve

come through some mighty 7 rough

country." _ ., '





 

   

   





“That old Indian could follow our

trail if we travelled on rock,” declared

Bruce confidently. “He’ll be here in-

side 0’ three days barring the dogs

don’t run their fool heads into too

many porcupines. An’ when they do

come”—~he rose and stretched his

gaunt frame—“we’ll have the biggest

time. we ever had in our lives. I’m

just guessin’ these mount’ins are so

full 0’ bear that them ten dogs will all

be massacreed within a week. Want

to bet ?”



Langdon closed his rifle with a snap.



“I only want one hear,” he said, ig—

noring the challenge, “and I have an

idea we’ll get him tomorrow. You’re

the bear specialist of the outfit, Bruce,

but I think he was too hard hit to

travel far.” .



' They had made two beds of soft bal~

sam boughs near the fire, and Langdon

now followed his companion’s example,

and began spreading his blankets. It

had been a hard day, and within five





minutes after stretching himself out'





he was asleep.



He was still asleep when Bruce roll-

ed out from under his blanket at dawn.

Without reusing Langdon the young

packer slipped on his boots and waded

back a-quar‘ter 'of' a mile through the

heavy dew to round up the horses.





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and» their saddlehorses with"him._ "By :5

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S introduction to events and



measures to which Master Ketch-



am wished to direct the‘consider-

ation of delegates, he drew a graphic

picture of the world situation of today

as related to Michigan farmers. He

recalled the largely increased acreage

planted last spring under spur of war.

followed by adverse crop conditions of

flood, drought and frost, stated that

fully forty per cent of Michigan farm

1abor.has been drafted by other indus-

tries and the army, and to these have

been added uncertain prices for farm

products raised by ardent zeal to help

the nation in her time of peril. On this

he said:



“Increased acreage, long hours, hard-

er toil, heavier seed cost, impossible

labor conditions and a sincere desire.

to cooperate in great food production

have not been adequately rewarded,

and the bumper crops of which we

have heard so much have not mate-

rialized in Michigan. Never have we

met so many Patrons who neededan

individual word of cheer, and never do





we believe has there been so great a;

.mission before a State Grange as an





inspirer to discouraged hearts as there

is before us now.”



In spite of these handicaps, the, inas-

ter asserted ,the year has been one of

some of the most striking records in,

the history of the Michigan Grange and

cited the sugar beet victory as out-

standing proof. “In the pocket of ev-

ery beet grower of the state there will

jingle one more dollar per ton for his

sugar beets because of the leadership

of the' State Grange. In terms of the

average beet crop of Michigan this will





V total one and a quarter million dollars.





This accomplishment of a definite

financial benefit, deserves to rank as

one of the big things of our 'State

Grange history. It has been the means

of arousing unusual Grange interest in

the beet growing sections of our state

and has been the subject of much fav-

orable comment in Grange circles of

the whole country, and through our

initiative a like organization of beet

growers may be expected in every

Grange beet-growing state.”



This sugar beet campaign hammered

home, in the master's estimation, the

fact that farmers are determining as

never before, not to raise crops for less

than cost prices, which means they

are learning to know cost of produc-

tion as never before. In sugar beet

fields alone this year, by the united

stand the growers’ profit has been rais-

ed from $5.66 to $13.80. At the same

time, however, the master showed that

the factory’s profit on the same acre is

something like $31.66. In this connec-

tion he referred to assistance which

the Grange has rendered other groups

of organized farm industries—milk pro-

ducers, bean growers and live stock

shippers, and estimated the direct

financial benefits of these several cam-

paigns have brought Michigan farmers

for the year 1917 the impressive total,





conservatively stated at $10,000,000.





Extension work, said the master,

started out well, especially in the sugar

beet district, but “the war put a sharp

crimp in the plans by centering the

minds of our people at once on the

great problem of food production and

drawing to the plow handles the ma-

jority of our workers.”



The war has turned the sympathies

and extra outside efforts of our people.

especially to the Red Cross, the Y. M.

C. A., Liberty Loan and to food conseru

vation. ‘ The State Grange has recog-

nited the high chime of these lines of

governmental assistance and its mem-.





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The banquet on Tuesday evening,

held in the Fist Baptist Church, was

attended by all delegates. A fine ban-

quet supper was served by the ladies.

The music for the evening, furnished

by the :Girls’ Glee Club of the M. A. C.,

was greatly enjoyed, as was the solo

sung by Melvin Hart, and readings giv-

en by Mrs. Claude A. Burkhart.



Mr. Alfred Allen, “of Mason, acted as

toastmaster of the evening.



President Hon. C. B. Scully's ad-

dress was very ably given and met

with great applause.



Dr. J. L. Snyder, President Emeritus,

M. A. C., then gave a talk on “Twenty—

five Years of Progress in Michigan Ag-

riculture.” He spoke of the 300 per

cent increase in value of our northern

peninsula, the increase in value of our

dairy products and progress of the

Michigan Agricultural College.



President F. S. Kedzie’s subject was,

“What Twenty-five Years of Effort Has

Brought to M. A. C.” It has brought

a course of home economics, forestry,

veterinary engineering and many short

courses.



The last speaker of the evening was

Secretary Ralph Duff, of the executive

office, who spoke on “Preparedness.”

He divided preparedness into three

classes—military, agricultural and spir-

itual. His remarks were greatly ap-

preciated by all present.



Wednesday A. M.



The morning session was opened

with the Club Conference, conducted

by C. I“. Hainline, of Alma, vice-presi-

dent of the association. Nearly all

Clubs reported working in some direc-

tion. Fairs, picnics, temperance meet-

ings and institutes were held by many,

and yearly programs were used by the

greater number. The work done by

the different C‘lu‘bs consisted of Red

Cross work, aiding cyclone sufferers,

organizing shippers’ associations, coop-

erative elevators, potato clubs, and

handling dairy products. All seemed

very much interested in the present

situation of our country. The confer-

ence, on the whole, was very interest-

ing, helpful and instructive to all those

present.



Mrs. Alice Craft Storrs, of Grass

Lake, furnished the music for the day

in a very pleasing manner.



Dr. Wilber at this session again ad-

dressed the association. He considered

President Wilson’s statement, “This

German power without honor or con—

science, must be crushed,” the greatest

statement ever made. “There is no

other way to settle this difficulty but

by force. We must conquer or lose

our precedence in the world, and every

one not American should be returned

to Germany. The thoughts of the Am-

erican people for the next three years

at least, must be on the largest amount

of food that can be raised and not the

amount of money that can be made.”



Dr. Wilber was followed by Rev. Dr.



Price, of Lansing, his subject being

“The War.” He was ready to speak at

any time and at any place on this sub-

ject, and gave some fine thoughts in

regard to the German way of educating

their boys, not for freedom,‘ but for

strength. In conclusion he said, “We

are fighting that freedom for the peo-

ple and by the pe0ple shall never per-

ish from the earth.”

The report of the committee on na-

tional affairs introduced the following

resolution, which was adopted and wir-

ed to President Wilson:



“That we, the Farmers’ Clubs of



Michigan offer ourselves to our coun~

try, that we pledge ourselves to put

forth every efiort to feed our troops

and our allies.”

The Clubs also pledged themselves

to cooperate with the food administra-

tion in the matter of food conserva-

tion, and to help the Red Cross and Y

M. C. A. “That we do our part, not

grudgingly, but with a free hand. ”





elected for the ensuing year: Hon. C.

B. Scully, of Almont, was reelected as

.president,.with Edgar Burk, ‘St. Johns,

vice-president; Mrs. J. S. Brown, How-

, secmtaryatreasurer; Mrs. I. R.;

Johnson, Salem, corresponding secre‘,

tary; E. A Bullock. Elba. and Mrs.‘

W'illiam‘ Schiif, of Alma, directors, to

succeed W. K. Crafts, of Grass Lake!

and Edgar Burk, of St. Johns.





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When writing to advertilen plane;

mention The Michigan Farther. ”
AVE you ever reflected on what

a powerful factor fear is in our

world? Just now with “schrech-

lichkeit” playing such a powerful part





in the great world war, all minds are.





filled with it. But even aside from the





war, fear enters into most lives. There.





is a verse in Hebrews which speaks of

those who “through fear of death were

all their lifetime subject to' bondage.”

But it is not death alone which keeps

us in the bondage of fear. There are

other baser fears which make cowards

of us. Fear of the unknown, is what

makes us dread death, and that is

somehow ingrained in most of us. We

can face any danger we see; it is the

thing we can’t see that takes the heart

out of us.



Silly fears direct the current of

many lives. Even in babyhood our

mothers start them. A timid mother is

afraid the baby will fall and get a

bump, and so will not let it climb,

when the thing it needs most to do is

to climb and develop its muscles. She

retards its physical development for

fear of a bump that wouldn’t hurt two

minutes. Worse still she begins right

there to make a coward of the child.





A little older, the boy mustn’t learn

to swim for fear he’ll get drowned; or

to climb trees for fear he’ll fall and

break a limb. And the girl mustn’t go

out unless she is dressed exactly like

the rest of the crowd, or perhaps a lit-

tle. better, for fear she’ll be laughed at.

There is a certain conventional stan-

dard towards which both boys and

girls must be trimmed. Every attempt

at individuality must be crushed or

the child may be “different” from the

crowd. And being “different” is one of

the seven deadly sins with this type of

mother. .





And the woman, too, must conform-





to the standard. In fact, her fear of

not doing so is greater even than her

fear of death, if you are to believe her.

For she tells youshe would rather die

than go out dressed in clothes that are

not in every way modish. Not so very

long ago a Detroit man committed sui-

cide. At the time his wife was at a

ball, the most richly dressed woman

present. Investigation proved that he

was hopelessly in debt; that he not

only owed for the clothes his wife was

then wearing, but for practically all

she owned. She had insisted on keep-

ing up appearances for fear of what

folks might say. She found out to her

sorrow what they would say when her

inner history came out. Vampire was

the mildest name they called her.





But the bondage of fear extends into

other affairs. It wrecks many a busi-

ness and many a professional career.

Fear to make an uncertain venture as

often causes busineSs failure as plung-

~'ing ahead into a thing that turns out

wrong. How often you hear a man

say, “I might have been as big a suc-

cess as Jones if I hadn’t been afraid

to go ahead. ”



When you look at it thoughtfully,

doesn’t the fear of living spoil more

lives than the fear of death? We are

‘ afraid to do the thing we know we

should beCause we love ease or pleas-

ure. We are afraid to face Work and

sacrifice, and thereby lose out on the

real essentials of life. Shakespeare





 





th it, “Conscience doth make cowards





 





 





of us all.” But it isn’t conscience, it’s

sloth and appetite.



Why should we fear death, if we

haven’t feared life? It is simply a voy-

age into the ‘realm of the unknown,

and, if we’ve played the game square

here, why should we be afraid to. face

it? There is just one thing which any

of us should fear, and that is to do

wrong. If we have the consciousness

of being right the temporary troubles

that come to us as we go along,

can’t really harm us. DEBORAH.





CONSERVATION DAY SUGGES-

TIONS.





 





Meatless Day.—Breakfast, egg sauce

on toast; dinner, turnip puree; supper,

kidney bean salad. ‘



Wheatless Day.——Breakfast,

corn bread; dinner, soft corn bread,

without wheat; supper, sour milk corn

bread, without wheat.



Egg Sauce—Allow two hard boiled

eggs, chopped rather coarsely, for ev-

ery pint of white sauce. The amount

used must be governed by the size of

the family. One pint does for four

slices of toast.



Turnip Puree—Peel six small white

turnips, or two large ones. Slice, put

over to cook in cold water, bring to a

boil, pour off this water and return to

fire in boiling water. Cook until ten-

der enough to force through a sieve, or

a. potato ricer. Melt two tablespoons

of butter, stir into it two heaping ta-

blespoons of flour, add one quart of hot





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milk, b‘oil'and stir until flour is cooked.

Then add turnip and bring to a boil.

Serve piping hot with crackers or crou-

tons, small cubes of toasted bread.



Kidney Bean Salad—One pint of

cooked kidney beans, three sweet pick-

les chopped fine, and three hard boiled

eggs chopped fine. Season with salt

and pepper and mix with boiled salad

dressing, or with mayonnaise. Lima

beans, or. even navy beans, may be sub-

stituted for the kidney beans.



Spider Corn Bread—United States

Government—Mix One and a half cups

of corn meal, one teaspoon of soda and

one teaspoon of salt. Add two well

beaten eggs and two’cups of sour milk.

Melt two tablespoons of butter in a

frying pan, heat the pan, pour in the

batter, and bake in oven twenty min-

utes. This serves six people.



Soft Corn Bread, without Wheat.—

Put two-thirds cup of rice, one-half cup

of white corn meal, one teaspoon of

salt and three cups of milk, or milk

and water mixed, in the double boiler

and cook until rice is nearly soft. Then

add two tablespoons of butter and two

wellbeaten eggs and pour into greased

granite baking pan. 'Bake in moderate

oven one hour and serve from dish in

which it is baked.



Sour Milk Corn Bread, without

Wheat—Mix two cups of corn meal,

two tablespoons of sugar, white or

brown, one and a half teaspoons of salt

and one teaspoon of soda. Then add

two cups of sour milk, two well beaten

eggs and two tablespoons of melted

butter. Grease'a shallow or iron or

granite pan, pour in the batter and

bake for twenty minutes.





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The War Work Council of the Young

Women’s Christian Association—the

most gigantic effort of women for wom-

en that the world has ever known—is

in the field for four million dollars.

This amount is being raised for a sin-

gle year’s budget, and already it is evi-

dent that it will fall short of the needs.

What is it all about?



Camps where thousands of men are

pouring in are springing up in many

parts of the country, and are being vis-

ited by multitudes of wives, mothers

and friends of the soldiers. The gov-

ernment made provision for the men.

It has not included these thousands of

women visitors in its plans. The solu-

tion has been put up to the Y. W. C. A.



The War Work-Council already with-

in five months of its beginning, has

thirteen hostess houses to care for the

women who visit the soldiers at the

camps, and twenty-nine others are au-

thorized or under construction All of

these houses have been requested by

the commandants ’of the ca’ntonments

and the reduests have..been seconded

by the Fosdick- Commission on Train-

ing Camp Activities cf the War De-

partment '



The size and complexity of training

camps is little understood by -v‘isitors

to them, and without .SOme help" at

hand the effort of finding soldier

friends is most difficult. ."I‘lie~ hostess

house acts as a go-lietween for women

visitors and the soldiers The visitors





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reception 199111 with an" open‘rfire and





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1 cantile establishments find that the

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War Work





writing tables, in which they may visit

and a cafeteria where they may eat to-

gether; a rest room and lavatories for

refreshment, and even nurseries where

children may be cared for. The house

and its cafetria (with “home cooking”)

is open to the soldiers, and the cheer

and welcome are always there for the

home-sick boys and menlon leave



A million girls and women have been

called together to do work never be-

fore given them to do and with we

ceeding drafts this number will be

multiplied many fold. Thousands are

working as telegraph and telephone

operators, stenographers, laundresses,

etc., in the cantonments. In many plac-

es, not a thought has been given to

their housing or living conditions.

When, as often happens, the camps are

located miles from a town with inade-

quate accommodation, or as in some

cases in the'very wildernessitself, the

problem is“ a- knotty one.~ No"one or-

ganization—not a dozen of them——

could meet the housing needs of these

girls who are taking men's places in

government and mercantile establish-

ments. The War Work Council is con-

ducting clubs and social work among

the girls 'and is assuming as. its part

the building of several boarding hous-

es rather as a demonstration of what

can be' ,done than as a solution to the

great‘ pro‘b‘iem. 111-311. of: these‘ «houses

there will be parlors" in which girls

can- entertain men friends. When 19er-





that the houses themselves are prov-

ing successful financially, itisbeliev-





 





ed that they will provide similar ac-

commodations.





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To keep my ciochet Cotton and silk





balls £10m working themselves into a‘





hopeless tangle, I have solved the

problem by snapping a rubber band

around each ball as soon as ,I am

through with it. This is a great sav-

ing of time, patience and thread.—}M.

A. P. ,



When chopping citronj ,dates figs or

raisins for cake or other pastry, mix

in with the ingredients a portion of

flour which is to be used in the baking.

This prevents the fruit from sticking

to the chopper and also prevents the

fruit from settling to the bottom of the

cake as it often does when makmg

fruit cake. —M. A. P.





When creaming butter for wedding,

Christmas or fruit cakes I press the-

butter through an ordinary potato ric-

er. Much time and labor can be saved

in this way.——M. A. P.





To sweep painted or stained floors,

make several covers for your broom

out of outing flannel, either light} or‘

dark, with a drawstring at the top.

You will find that you can get into the

corners in this way and your floor will

be clean by just going ever it once..- 1A

clean bag should be used each-week.

-—A. W.





In order to always have brown grav-

ies without browned meat or the trou-

ble to brown flour each time, it is well

to have a quantity of flour browned at

one time. This can be done by putting

the flour in a small iron kettle and stir-

ring carefully for a few minutes. —

A. W.



(Will A. W. please send full name

and address?——Ed.)



Time the preparation of pancakes so

you can catch some milk from the sep-

arator to thin them with and see how

light they will be.





because the milk as it comes out is full

of air, just as we plan to get the batter

by beating, and partly, doubtless, be--

cause the milk is warm.+H. H., Man--

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SIMPLE HEALTH MEASURES;-





 





As winter approaches, we pass from

the season of greatest prevalence of

disease due to contaminated food or'





water to the time when the commonest ’

infectious diseases will be those spread '





by personal contact. Winter usually

brings an increase in diphtheria, scar-

let fever, pneumonia and common

colds. To diminish these diseases,

children should be taught to keep their

fingers clean, to use their handker-

chiefs when sneezing, and also to avoid

the use of the common cup and 0f





toys that are placed in the mOuth. Par- ‘v

ents should keep their children heme, '





away from other children," Whenever





they show Signs of a beginning cold Or ‘





fever. Schools should improve and

strengthen their system of schools in.





spection so that the health of the 1111- '





pils will. not be jeopardized by the

carelessness or lack of observation of

some parent. The so-called -“w-inter





:diseases” are. nearly all spread in one





way; and can be diminished by the

same protective measures. -—The» State

Board of Health. . -





This plan works:

well with jems, cake, etc, too, partly.
of flowers and dew,





. wild life.





' tion in the measurements.





FHE GRIZZLY KING.





(Continued from page 624).



ungdon frequently reminded him-

self that such mornings as this had

made him disappoint the doctors and

rob the grave. Just eight years ago

this June he had come into the North

for the first time, thin-chested and

with a bad lung. “You can go if you

insist, young man,” one of the doctors

had told him, “but you’re going to your

own funeral.” And now he had a five-

inch expansion and was as tough as a

knot. The first rose-tints of the sun

were creeping over the mountain tops;

the air was filled with the sweetness

and growing

‘things, and his lungs drew in deep

breaths of oxygen laden with the tonic

and perfume of balsam.



He was more demonstrative than his

companion in the joyousness of this

It made him want to shout,

and sing, and whistle. He restrained

himself this morning. The thrill of the

hunt was in his blood.



”While Otto saddled the horses Lang-



don made the bannock. He had be-

come an expert at. what he called

“wild—bread“ baking,_and his method

possessed the double efficiency of sav-

ing both waste and time.



He opened one of the heavy canvas

flour sacks, made a hollow in the flour

with his two doubled fists, partly filled

this hollow with a pint of water and

half a cupful of caribou grease, added

a tablespoonful of baking powder and

a three-finger pinch of salt and began

to mix. Inside of five minutes he had

the bannock loaves in the big tin re-

flector, and half an hour later the

sheep steaks were fried, the potatoes

done, and the bannock baked to a gol-

den brown.



The sun was just showing its face in

the east when they trailed out of camp.

They rode across the valley, but walk—

ed up the slope, the horses following

obediently in their footsteps.



It was not difficult to pick up Thor’s

trail. Where he had paused to snarl

back defiance at his, enemies there

was a big red spatter on the ground;

fronrthis point to the summit they

followed a crimson thread of blood.

Three times in descending into the

other valley they found where Thor

had stopped, and each time they saw

where a pool of blood had soaked into

the earth or run .over the rock.



They passed through the timber and

came to the creek, and here, in a strip

of firm black sand, Thor’s footprints

brought them .to a pause. Bruce star-

ed. An exclamation of amazement

cdme from Langdon, and without a

word having passed between them he

drew out his pocket-tape and knelt be-

side one of the tracks.



' “Fifteen and a quarter inches!” he

gasped.



“Measure another,” said Bruce.



“Fifteen and—a half!"



Bruce looked up the gorge.



“The biggest I ever see was fourteen

an’ a half,” he said, and there was a

touch of awe in his voice. “He was

shot up the Athabasca an’ he’s stood

as the biggest grizzly ever killed in

British Columbia. Jimmy, this one

beats ’iml”



They went on, and measured the

tracks again at the edge of the first

pool where Thor had bathed his

wounds. There was almost no varia-

Only occa-

sionally after this did they find spots

of blood. It was ten o'clock when they

came to the clay wallow and saw where

Thor had made his bed in it.



“Hewas pretty sick,” said Bruce in

a low voice. “He was here most all





 





’ night.’_’





Moved by the same impulse and the

same thought. they looked ahead of

them. Half a mile farther on ~ the

mountains closed in until the gorge be-

tween them was dark and aimless.

".“He was, pretty sick.” repeated

,mgatiu looking ahead. “Hebbe we

i L atmrsflo' the human’ go on





alone. .It’s,possible—he’s in there.”

They tied the horses to scrub ced-

ars, and relieved Dishpan of her peak.

Then, with their rifles in readiness,

and eyes and ears alert, they went on

cautiously into the silence and gloom

of the gorge.





 





CHAPTER V.



HOR had gone 1111\the gorgelat



daybreak. He was s ' he



rose from the clay wallow, but a

good deal ,of the burning and pain had

gone from his wound. It still hurt him,

but not as it had hurt him the preced-

ing evening. His discomfort was not

all in his shoulder, and it was not in

any one place in particular. He was,

sick, and had he been human he would

have been in bed with a thermometer

under his tongue and a doctor holding,

his pulse. He.-,walked up the gorge

slowly and laggingly. An indefatigable

seeker of food, he no longer thought of

food. He was not hungry, and he did

not want to eat.



With his hot tongue he lapped fre-

quently at the cool water of the creek,

and even more frequently he turned

half about and sniffed the wind. He

knew that the man-smell and the

strange thunder and the still more in-

explicable lightning lay behind him. All

night he had been on guard, and he

was cautious now.



For a particular hurt Thor knew of

no particular remedy. He was not a

botanist in the finer sense of the word, ,

but in creating him the Spirit of the

Wild had ordained that he should be

his (pvn physician. As a cat seeks cat-

nip, so Thor sought certain things

when he was not feeling well. All bit-

terness is not quinine, but certainly

bitter things were Thor's remedies, and,

as he made his way up the gorge his

nose hung close to the ground, and be

suited in the low copses and thick.

bush-tangles he passed.





He came to a small green spot cov-





ered with kinnikinic, a ground plant .





two inches high which bore red berries

as big as a small pea. They were not





red now, but green; bitter as gall, and '

contained an astringent tonic called .





uvaursi. Thor -ate them.



After that he found soap berries

growing on bushes that looked very

much like currant bushes. The fruit

was already larger than currants, and

turning pink. Indians ate these ber-

ries when they had fever, and Thor

gathered half a pint before he went on'.

They, too, were bitter.



He nosed the trees, and found at last

what he wanted. It was a jackpine,

and at several places within his reach

the fresh pitch was oozing. A bear sel-

dom passes a bleeding jackpine. It is

his chief tonic, and, Thor licked the

fresh pitch with his tongue.

way he absorbed not only turpentine,

but also, in a roundabout sort of way,

a whole pharmacopoeia of medicines

from this particular ailment.





By the time he arrived at the end of I





the gorge Thor’s stomach was a fairly





well-stocked drug emporium. Among"





other things he had eaten perhaps half

a quart of spruce and balsam needles.

When a dog is sick he eats grass;

when a bear is sick he eats pine or bal-

sam needles if he can get them. Also

he pads his stomach and intestines‘

with them in the last hour before den-

ning himself away for the winter.



The sun was not yet up when Thor

came to the end of the gorge, and stood

for a few moments at the mouth of a

low cave that reached back into the;

wall of the mountain. How far his

memory went back it would be impos-





sible to say; but in the whole world, asl,





he knew it, this cave was his home. It

was not more than four feet high, and,

twice as wide, but it was many times

as deep and was carpeted with a soft

white floor of sand.

a little stream had trickled out of this,

cavern, and the far end of it made a-

oomfortable bedroom for a sleeping

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. molly yattractivc. She wants farmers to make money and

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wonderful crops of Otto. Barley and Flex. Mix“? ormin‘ B Agni-3'

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Y a strange coincidence, indeed al-

most at the very time I was dic-

tating the last article preceding



this one, in which I landed our mone-

tary system (properly) and was saying

to our boys and girls that with this

system they might feel safe in taking

almost any sort or kind of money that

was offered them with the assurance



. that it would “pass muster” anywhere,

the daily papers recorded in blazing

headlines that the federal secret ser-

vice men had unearthed a nest of coun-

terfeiters and that a half million or so

of spurious bills had been destroyed.

Of course, in my previous letter, I did

not take into consideration the coun-

terfeit. The amount of it is so small

in comparison with the whole volume

of currency, and the imitation oft-

times so perfect that the ordinary per-

son who has never made a study of it,

will hardly be able to discover it. This

is true in every avenue of business and

of life. The large majority of money,

business, and people ring true, but

there is here and there a counterfeit

that for a time may be able to pass

by as the genuine, but it never lasts

long. A man may have a “counterfeit

business” and make people for a time

think it is real, but in a short time

some expert detects the fallacy and he

is done for all time. A man may sue-

ceed in making the world think—for a

time—that he is what he is not, but

sooner or later, usually sooner, they

are as certain to find the spurious, as

the robins are to nest in the spring

time, and his counterfeit career is end-

ed and he will find it much harder to

get into the correct way of living, be-

ing and thinking than would he, had

he never started on the false.





The writer well remembers having

heard a man with some reputation

making a public address and he fol—

lowed him closely and thought him

really quite a wonderful fellow until

coming to a‘ certain part of his lecture.

He described the beauty of the “great

fig orchards of Smyrna spreading out

for miles ahead, all in the wealth of

their beautiful bloom”-—all of which

was delivered with such perfect ges-

ture and voice that one was quite car-

ried away——until he happened to recall

that the fig tree does not blossom~

and the spurious was detected.





Just so with money, our medium of

exchange, a spurious piece may circu-

late for a short time, but the world’s

business today is done on confidence,

and confidence is always on the look-

out to prevent that trust being betray-

ed. Money passes through the chan-

nels of the banking system so fre-

quently, and bank tellers become ex-

pert in detecting the false that it is

very soon doomed, usually is traced to

its source, and those responsible are

made to suffer the consequences of

their wrong doing. The difference be-

tween the false and the genuine in

life and in business is quite aptly il-

lustrated by the difference in the false

and genuine money. The genuine is

backed by the United States’govern-

ment—has something tangible and real

back of it to maintain its parity'and

' purity, to meet the obligations which it

‘incurs, the united organization of the

Whole people with all of their tangible

assets, while the spurious is backed

~0nly by the Crooked. maker who cannot

be traced and who has nothing with-

which to make good if,he would. Just





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are in a position to make competent.

estimates, that less than three per cent.

of the world’s “cash business" is done

with actual money. That sounds im-

possible, doeSn’t it? All right, let us

see about it. How may we do one dol-

lar’s worth of cash business on three





 





 





Counterfeit Money





so in life, the genuine is backed by

real character, by real ability, by real

desire to be useful to the world at

large and to give Something worth

while for the privilege of living and

being a part of a great democracy.

The false may offer you nothing that

is useful, nothing that will tend to

make the world better or more charm-





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Boys and Girls Raise More Live Stock





By E. 'C. LINDEMANN





.ing, nothing worth while. I repeat that





cents worth of cash. Easy enough;

it’s the most striking example of the

correctness of my statement that the

large majority of people were honest

and true, that one might ofler. The-

other ninety-seven cents was pure con-

fidence. Just confidence, nothing else,

and when one thinks of the great vol-

ume of business that is transacted

each day on “confidence,” and then

considers the almost infinitesimal loss-

es occasioned thereby, he is almost as-

tonished to find what a really wonder-

ful world this is. Our entire business

system is founded on integrity, is up

erated on integrity, succeeds on integ-

rity, and if the integrity were to be de-





there is so much more of the good than

of the bad, that we do not allow our-

selves to become. pessimistic and think

ill of all the world, albeit, we must al-

ways be on our guard to' detect the

counterfeit and remove it in so far as

is possible from “circulation.”



It has been estimated by those who





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Kenneth Ousterhout,lof Hillsdale County, Won the State PoultryeClub

Championship Last Year.





More live stock is the cry of the world!

live stock on all of the farms of the country.

the state are organizing calf clubs, sheep clubs, pig clubs and poultry clubs.

In many cases the local bankers purchase the stock for the boys and the

The farm boys near Caledonia have just or-

ganized a calf club. There are twelve members.





boys give their note in return.





Guernsey calf.

feed the world?





How about you?





Can you raise some live stock to help





stroyed and confidence lost the chan-

nels of trade would cease to flow, the»

money of the land would be so inade-

quate as to be almost useless and gov-

ernmental decay would follow.





CANDY MAKERS, ATTENTION!





 





Dear Boys and Girls: _



Who has made any of the Liberty

Sweets that Were told about in the

December 15 number of the Michigan

Farmer? I would like to know all

about your experiences, whether you

had good luck the first time or had to

try again. Then, too, I would like oth-

er recipes for patriotic candy. I am

sure Uncle Sam does not want his

nephews and nieces to do without can-

dy entirely, but it is very little to ask

that we should make our sweets from

other things than white sugar. You





There is a great shortage of

Boys in various sections of





Each boy is to raise a





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These cost money.

with money.





ward the war.





part.

War Savings Stamps.





quarterly.

The method is simple.





Organize a thrift club.





touch with him.





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A New Way to Help Win the War!





BBB is an opportunity for every man, woman and child in

H America to render a big service for the Nation.

win this great war we will need men, munitions and food.



In the end it means that the war will be won





We have all been asked to buy Liberty Bonds and to give to-

Here is a plan which will permit everyone to take

The United States Government has authorized the issue of

That’s what the W. S. S. stands for.

stamps cost from $4.12 to $4.23, depending upon the time they are

purchased. For every stamp the Government will pay in 1923 the

~ sum of $5.00. They draw interest at four





If you do not care to buy a $5.00 War

Savings Stamp you can use your small savings to earn one.

Government has also issued Thrift Stamps which sell at Twenty-

five cents each. When you have sixteen Thrift Stamps

thrift card, you may exchange it for a $5.00 War Savings Stamp by

paying from twelve to twenty-three cents.





Buy Thrift Stamps at any Postoflice or Bank.

Save your pennies and nickles for Thrift Stamps.





There is a county director in your county, -' get in





The‘Government wants to raise Two Billion Dol-

. plane through War Savings Stamps. . ,

F. w. Hubbard, 724 Book Building, Detroit, is the ,

Michigan State Director. - '





periences on the farm and I am asking





you to write me about your experi-

_._____ ences in the kitchen.‘ If you have-

. O O 0 time to write me quite a long letter I





wish you would tell me about some of

the good things you have had to eat

on meatless and wheatless days and

how much you think you have saved

for our soldiers. Write plainly for the

best letter will be sent to Washington

or put up in libraries where other boys

and girls may read them, and address

them to me as follows: Theresa J.

Shier, Library Publicity Director, Lan-

sing, Mich.





In order to





 





These KEEP THEWHOME FIRES BURNING.





 





They were summoned from the hill-

Side,

They were called in from the glen,

And the Country found them ready

At the stirring call for men.

Let no tears add to their hardship,

As the Soldiers pass along,

And although your heart is breaking,

Make it sing this cheery song.





per cent compounded ‘|





The





in your





cnonus.

Keep the Home fires burning,

While your hearts are yearning,

Though your lads are far away



They dream of Home;



,There’s a silver lining ' *

Through the dark cloudshining,



Turn the dark cloud inside out,



Till the boys come Home.



, This is the song thatis being sung

all over America these ‘ days. Have

you learned it? Are you singing it in

your school or club? It contains a

sentiment which will be of great value

to all of us “during the wi'bt‘er.‘ ‘, '
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i, Bumper the White . Rabbit

By: GEORGE ETH ELB ERT WALSH





. Copyright. 1917. by Geo. E. Walsh





 





 





Bumper Escapes On a Raft





UMPER took a long time to rest

B and get-back some of his breath

before he ventured to the very

mouth of the open sewer. As soon as

he was sure that the bats had aban-

doned the chase, he threw himself

down and closed his eyes from sheer

weariness and exhaustion. Then, with

returningstrength and hope, he raised

himself on his two hind legs, and look-

ed around him; i \

There waswater at the mouth of the

sewer, and he hopped toward it eager:

ly. After lapping enough to satisfy his

thirst, he began bathing himself. He

had. never been so dirty before in all

his life. He was thankful the red-

haired girl wasn’t there to see him.

She would perhaps disown him.



This thought soothed his feelings a

little, and he splashed around in the

water until most of the dust and dirt

was washed off. Then finding a sunny

spot near the entrance, he hopped to

it, and sprawled himself out to dry.



Meanwhile, he began examining his

surroundings very carefully, and a lit-

tle anxiously. The sewer dipped down

into the river” and disappeared from

View, and on either side of it, and

rabbit could climb them. The only

above it, were very steep walls. No

Other possible Way out of the sewer

was by swimming. ‘



Now Bumper had never learned to

swim. Perhaps he could do it without

learning, but he felt afraid. None of

his family had been swimmers, and the

river was certainly deep. From his

place in the sun he could not see

bottom.



Once more the thought of returning





- to the garden by the way he had come





occurred to him; but memory of the

fierce bats and the Sewer Rat immedi-

ately banished all ideas of this kind

from his 'mind. “I'd never go back

through that dark sewer again for any-

thing,” he said, shuddering. “I must

go on until I find another way back to

the little girl.”



Bumper’s one desire was to return

to Edith. He was sorry now that he

had ever jumped out of his pen. If he

had been contented and stayed where

the red-haired girl had put him, he

would be eating delicious grass and

vegetables now instead of lying there

alone, hungry and afraid to go on or

go back. is



His hunger came back to him, and

gave him a sharp pain in the stomach.

“I must have something to eat,” he

said. “I’m nearly famished.”



But there was really nothing in sight

that he could eat—not a spear of grass

nor a leaf. Then, just as if to prove

to him that manna sometimes falls

from heaven to feed even poor, desti-

tute rabbits, a big leaf came floating

down on the wind and fell almost at

his feet. Bumper grabbed it, and be-

gan chewing it greedily.



“Oh, you mean, horrid thing!” chirp-

ed a voice. “That leaf belonged to me.

It Was for my nest, and the wind blew





' it out of my bill.”





Bumper looked up, and saw a small

sparrow perched on the top of the em-

bankment over his head.





“I didn’t know it was yours, Mrs. ‘





Sparrow,” Bumper replied. “I thought

the wind just blew it to me.”

Bumper held the leaf in his mouth,

with half of it already chewed up. It

tasted so good that the thought of





»- abandoning it was more than he could

' stand. '





“If you need, it more than I do, Mrs.





_,Sparr0w,”,he said, “I’ll give it to You.

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“And I need it to keep me from‘

starving.”



Mrs. Sparrow cocked her head side-

ways and looked queerly at him. “You

don’t look as if you were starving,”

she observed. “You’re as plump and

sleek as any rabbit I ever saw.”



“Maybe. But I haven’t had any

breakfast, and I’m not used to it. This

leaf tastes so good I wish I had a hun-

dred more of them.”



“Then why don’t you go and get

them? There are plenty in the park

and woods.”



“But how am I going to get them?”

asked Bumper. “Don’t you see I’m

caught here in the mouth of the sewer.

I can’t get out without swimming.”



Mrs. Sparrow 'looked surprised at

this information, and flew from her

perch on the embankment to a stone

below. She cocked her head sideways,

and looked all around her.



“What puzzles me,” she said finally,

“is how you ever got in there without

swimming. You can’t fly.”



Bumper smiled, and shook his head.

“No, but I wish I could. I wouldn’t

stay here arguing with you about this

leaf but fly away and get a good break-

fast of a lot of them.”



“Are you really so hungry, Mr. White

Rabbit?” . .



“Indeed, I am nearly famished.”



And then he told Mrs. Sparrow of

his adventures in the drain-pipe of the

garden and the big abandoned sewer.

Mrs. Sparrow was evidently affected

by his recital for she immediately flew

away and soon returned with another

green leaf. _



“Now eat that, and I’ll get you an‘

other,” she said. “I know what it is to

go without breakfast and dinner. I’ve

had to do it many times. Now eat

your fill.”



Bumper devoured the leaf so quickly

that it seemed as if he must have swal-

lowed it Without chewing it. “You

see, Mrs. Sparrow,” he remarked, “you

couldn’t feed me enough. I have a

very big appetite. Why, I could eat

leaves much faster than you could

bring them to me.” -





“So it seems," murmured the spar.

row in a little surprised voice. “I new

er realized how much some animals

can eat at once. I don’t think I can do

more than just take the edge of your

appetite off.”



“That’s very kind of you. And I

shall be grateful to you! If you’ll

bring me just a few more leaves, I will

then ask you to direct me back to the

little girl’s garden.”





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A Song for the Club Meeting





~—B‘ancroft.





 





THE FARMER IN THE DELL.





The farmer in the dell,

The farmer in the dell,



Heigh-o, the merry-o,

The farmer in the dell.





 





The farmer takes a wife,

The farmer takes a wife,

Heigh-o, the merry—o,

The farmer takes a wife,





The; children join hands and circle around one in center who is the farm-

er. The farmer chooses somebody to come to center. they in turn choose,

etc. At words “cheese stands alone,” each goes back to circle, leaving cheese

The cheese may now turn to the farmer and start all over again if

children desire, or they may dissolve the circle with a yell. -



The above is an old song which accompanies a game.

game for winter evenings, and even the grown-ups will enjoy it.





alone.





 

 





haired girl in





 





I m-sure I’d like to; but there are so "

many gardens around, and they all

look alike.” .



“But there’s only one with a red-

it,” replied Bumper.

"Can’t you fly away, and find her ‘2”



“I’ll try," said Mrs. Sparrow. -



So, after feeding Bumper a few more

green leaves, she flew away to find the

garden. She was gone so long that

Bumper got very restless and discour-

aged. The few leaves hadn't satisfied

his hunger; theyhad merely stimulat-

ed his desire for more. It was past

noon when Mrs. Sparrow finally reap-

peared at the entrance to the sewer.





“What news?” asked Bumper.



“Nothing that‘s good, Mr. White Rab-

bit. I flew into garden after garden—

and all of them pretty, and full of

fruits and vegetables—but there was

no read-headed girl in any of them. I

saw dogs, too—many of them—but I

cauldn’t tell whether any of them an-

swered to the name of Carlo.”



“Then it looks to me,” remarked

Bumper, “that I'm in for a long swim.

Where does this river go to ‘3”



“Way out into the country through

beautiful fields and woods,





 





 

 





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Grand Ra ids, Mich.

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“Could I reach' them, I wonder! I





might drown before I could get

ashore.”

“Wait!” exclaimed Mrs. Sparrow.





“Why not escape on a raft? Here

comes a big board down the river. You

could hop on it, and not even get wet.

Yes, you could do it. It’s floating in

close to the shore."





“Where is it?” exclaimed Bumper,

eagerly.



“Right here! Nowget ready for a .

long jump.”





Bumper was not only ready, but very

anxious, and when the floating board

appeared a yard or more from the

mouth of the sewer he crouched for a

spring. ‘ It was a long jump, and Bump-

er had some doubts about making it;

but he put all his strength in it, and

hopped high in the air, and landed

safely on the raft.



“Hi! How was that for a jump!” he

exclaimed, when he stood upright on





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RAW FURS





SKUNK

No. 1 No. 2 No. 3

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Large Medium Small

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the board.



“Fine!” said Mrs. Sparrow. “I wish

you a good voyage! Good-bye!”



Bumper wagged his ears in reply,

and shouted back a hearty farewell.

Then he turned to look down the river.

He had escaped from the sewer, but

evidently he had adventures still ahead

for the river was broad and long, and

very swift in places.





LET





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sale dy





A CONSERVATION FAMILY.





 





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Jack Spratley Sweet always ate meat

Three times a day, or four:



His Wife liked it as well as Jack,





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They’re glad to “do their hit,"

They live on wheatless, meatless





YOUR HIDE.





Horse orCow hide. Calf or other skins ~

with hair or fur on, and make them ‘

into coats ( for men and women). robes, '





Cur good. wlll cost you loco than to buy

them and be worth more.



Our Illustrated catalog gives a. lot of

information. It tells how to take ofl?

and care for hides: how and when we





a prooooo on cow and horse

hide. calf and other skins' about the





on we have recently got out an-

other we call our Fashion hook, wholly

devoted to fashion plates of muffs,

neckwcur and other fine fur garments,





doc! and repaired.





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every shipment individual consideration

regardless of how unall or large. On .

account of our unusual outlet for

furs, we can actually pay you

more morey. Write for price list.





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208 West 27th Scoot

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ens 23@24c; hens 21@220; ducks 26@

: 27c; geese 25@26c; turkeys 30@3lc.



Chicago.———(Live).—Offerings are lib-

eral and everything finds ready sale.

The Chicago Poultry Board has ruled

that multry must not be fed at least

12 hours before placing on the market

for sale. Fowls 180; spring chick-

ens 191/ac; ducks 23c; geese 20@21c;

turkeys, good 26c. (Dressed).——Fow1s

19@20c; ducks, fancy 25c; geese 220;

turkeys 33c.



EGGS.—In fresh eggs business is

slow owing to the very high price.

Fresh firsts 500.



Chicago—Receipts are increasing

and prices lower. Fresh Michigan

firsts sell for 47c; ordinary firsts 42(5)

45c; miscellaneous lots, cases includ-

ed 40@46c.





F RUI'I'S—VEGETABLES





POTATOES.—_Supplies of potatoes

are moderate. The local market has

been steady with Michigan offerings in

good condition selling to jobbers at

$2@2.10 per cwt, for round Whites,

sacked. At Cleveland the same grade

of Michigan potatoes is bringing $2.25;

at New York $2.37@2.50; at Pittsburg

$2.20@2.25; at Columbus $2.25@2.35;

at Cincinnati $2.10@2.15. Chicago mar-

ket is firm with round whites quoted at

$1.80@1.90 for stock slightly frosted.





 





g GRAINS AND SEEDS





» December 24, 1917.

WHEAT.-——-No changes have been

noted in the wheat situation. Buyers

are as anxious as ever for supplies and

are quickly absorbing all offerings._The

flour trade is active. A year ago No.

2 red wheat sold on the local market

at $1.73 per bushel. The present prices

are; No. 2 red $2.17; No. 2 mixed

$2.15; No. 2 white $2.15.

. CORN—Business has been small the

past week. The most talked of influ-

ence in the trade this past week was

the embargoes placed upon shipments

to the east. The actual effect upon

prices, however, was small. Modified

weather conditions are unfavorable for

the curing of corn; they are, however,

aiding in the movement of the grain.

Shippers of corn are holding back'in

that they have little faith in the ability

of the roads to move the grain. Scarce-

ly any of the corn is graded and prac-

tically all of the business 18 by sample.

A year ago the price for No. 3 corn

was 99 1/_)c per bushel. Last week’s De-

troit quotations were:





 





 





 





 





No.3 No.3 At Grand Rapids the trade is paying



Mixed. Yellow. $2.08 for round .whites$.125VVis§Ionsin



........ 2.05 2.07 armers are receiving . ; inne-



fii‘l‘éfii‘la? .......... 2.05 2.07 sota farmers $1.50 and Maine growers



Friday ............. 2.05 2.07 $1.82@1.97 for offerings from wagons

Saturday ........... 2.05 2.07 at Side track. .



Monday ............ 2_00 2,05 CABBAGE—Local trade is slow. At





Cleveland Danish stock is selling to

jobbers at $50; at New York $45@50;

at Cincinnati $50; at Pittsburg $50@52

per tonin bulk.



' _ ONIONS.—There are liberal supplies

of onions on the Detroitharket, with

the local trade paying $2.60 per 100-lb.

sacks for yellows. Cleveland trade is

paying $2.25 052.50 for the same kind;

New,York $ .25@2.75; Pittsburg $2.50





OATS.—-Buyers kept away from the

market Saturday, stating it to be their

belief that prices will be down when

the promised cars for the movement

of grain are available. Others believe

that enough cars to move the grain in

sufficient quantities to force values

dewnward, cannot be brought together

without unduly disturbing other lines





' n shi in . Local values . . . . . ,

. 3:1 Slalagdaaytadvaggedga fraction. Stan- 332,5 wglglocliin-aEIO-lsgfiggfiéw’ Chicago

dard oats 80” on thls market a year AP LES.—Detroit market continue





ago at 56%c per bushel. Last week’s





Detroit quotations are as follows: steady With demand and movement





comparatively slow. Jonathans bring





No.3 _



- $6@6.15 for firsts. At Cleveland, Cin-



Stangilf/d' ngllte' cinnati, Pittsburg and Chicago the



Wednesday """""" 821/2 82 trade is reported as steady in price

Thursday '- """""" 82 2 811/2 with the movement slow and demand

Friday ‘ 82 31% easy. The proximity of the holiday

Saturday ------------ 811/ 81 season has undoubtedly had some bear-

Monday """""""" 2 ing on the trade, although the car sit-





RYE.——No material changes here,

- with Cash No. 2 quoted at $1.83 per



sheL .

buBEANS.——This market has been

quiet this past week, with the local

quotation nominally quoted. at $12.25

per cwt. Prices arealso off in Chicago

where the trading has been slow. The

Michigan pea beans, hand-picked, are

now quoted at $13.25 per cwt; red kid-

ney $17 for fancy. . _ _



PEAS.—g’1‘rade at Chicago is quiet,

with field peas quoted at $6.50@7 per





nation is limiting the general move-

ment of the fruit.





CHICAGO.

December 24, 1917.



Cattle were in as large demand last

week as could be expected shortly be-

fore Christmas, with a particularly

good call for butcher stock and other

cattle that could be purchased at not

too high prices. There was a remark-

ably poor showing of choice to extra

cattle, with the bulk of the beef steers

crossing the scales at $10@12.50, and

the choicer heavy steers selling at $13

@13.75. Two or three lots of fancy

steers went at high prices, including

a sale of 40 head of 1,519-lb. steers at





cwt.

SEEDS.——Prime red clover $16.15;

March $16; alsike $14.20; timothy at





$3.65.



FLOUR AND FEEDS $14.50 and 16 prime 1,095-lb. yearlings

. at $14.25. $C2attle grading1 as 1yery good

R.— obbin lots in one-eight went for 1 and upwar . W i e a me-

pail-3:19 Sacks {ire selgling on the Detroit dium grade_found_purchasers at $10.75

market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best and over, Wlth plain to fair light weight

patent $11.10; seconds $10.80; straight steers taken at $9.50 and upward, and

$10.50; spring patent $11.20@11.30; rye sales all_ the way down to $6.75@7.75

flour $10.50@10.70 per bbl. for inferior little steers. Nearly all of

FEED.——In 100-lb. sacks jobbing lots the yearlings sold at a range of $8.25@

are: Bran $44; standard middlings 13.50, while butcher stock had a good

$47; fine middlings $50; cracked corn demand, cows gomg at $‘6.50(a,‘11.25 and

$84- coarse corn meal $77; corn and heifers at $6@12, while cutters sold at

oat’chop $60 per ton. $6@6.45, canners at $5.50@5.95 and

HAY.—‘In carlots at Detroit: No. 1 bulls at $0.50@11.75. .Therewas anoth-'

timothy $24.50@25; standard timothy er boom in calves, With desn'able veal-

$23.50@24; N072 timothy $22.50@23; ers of light weight selling at.$16@16.50

light mixed $23.50@24; No. 1 clover per 100 lbs., and sales ranging all the

$19@20 per ton. way down-to $6.50@8.50 for the ordi-

Pittsburgh.——No. 1 timothy |$29@ nary to fair calves_of heaVier weight.

29.50; No. 2 timothy $27m2750; No. 1 The volume of busmess transacted in

light mixed $28@29; No. 1 clover, mix- stockers a.nd,feeders was fairly large,

ed $29((P30; No. 1 clover $29@30 a ton. With ’plenty of bargains available, as

' ___________.__ prices were the lowest seen in months.

DAIRY PRODUCTS These cattle sold anywhere from $6.75



BUTTER—Butter is firm and is in





@1040, with not many selling as high

as $9.50. The worst feature of the cat-

good demand. Fresh creamery firsts

471/20; fresh .creamery extras 49c.





tle market recently has been the too



generous offerings at a time when poul-

Chicago.—Trading somewhat slower,

with some increase in the receipts.





try temporarily supplants beef, pork



and mutton. Country shippers should



watch the market reports carefully and

Creamery extras 481/2@49c; extra

firsts 48c; packing stock 321/265331/20.

CHEESE—Michigan flats 231/2c per





obtain the advice of some live stock

commission firm as to the best time to

lb; New York flats 25c; brick 2714c;

long horns 2754c; Michigan daisies





market stock. Cattle were largely 25c

24%0; Wisconsin daisies 251/20; Wis-





higher than a week earlier, with some

butchering cattle as much as 50c high-

consin double daisies 25140; domestic

Swiss 35@40c for prime to fancy; lim-





 





 





 





   





purchased soon. at... “the i... tune

paratively narrow limits, however, and





the market was materially strengthen-

ed by the marked improvement in the





eastern shipping outlet, many more .





cars being available. Prime heavy bar-

rows sold highest, with prime light

hogs selling about 150 below top quo-

tations. The week’s receipts of hogs

were far smaller in number than a

week earlier or a year ago, and prices

advanced sharply, closing sales being

at $15.40@16.85, comparing with $15.25

@1640 a week earlier, while pigs went

mostly at $13.50@14.50, feeding pigs

selling at $14@14.50. ,



Sheep, yearlings and lambs had a

good demand last week, with prime fat

lambs of medium weight selling at the

high time for $17, but-they sold off lat-

er on smaller buying orders. The re-

ceipts were comprised mainly of fed

western lambs,'with some large ship-

ments of fed western ewes, wethers

and yearlings. Late prices were:

Lambs $13@16.35; yearlings $12@

14.15; wethers $11.40@13; ewes $6(a)

11.90; bucks $7.50@9.50; goats $5@8’.





'The choicer lambs sold down as much





as 50@75c, while yearlings were weak

to 250 lower, but aged sheep were

mainly 250 higher. The week’s receipts

were greatly increased over those of

the preceding week. The range of

lamb pricess has narrowed, and the de-

cline in heavy lots was barely 250.



Horses were marketed less freely

last week than a year ago, but there

were enough for all requirements, with

no urgency in the demand except for

army horses, which sold at unchanged

prices. The best general demand was

during the early part of the week.

Army horses sold satisfactorily, while

farm chunks of ordinary to good grad-

ing werequotable at $60 ,150, drafters

at $185@265, loggers at _150@225 and

drivers at $100@200.





LIVE STOCK NEWS.





According to E. B. Hill, of Bureau

county, 111., who showed up in the Chi-

cago live stock market recently with a





 





shipment of cattle he had'fed for a'





period of 75 days on corn and fodder,

nearly all of the farmers in that coun-

ty are feeding cattle and hogs. He

said there is a poor corn. crop, but

farmers. generally are cribbing and

salting it, while feeding their poorest

corn to cattle and hogs. Mr. Hill said

there is a good supply of feed for win-

ter feeding, but there is a poor outlook

for spring and summer feeding.

Farmers have been advised by the

food administration to hold back their

hogs, the reason given being that the

Chicago market is glutted with more

pork than the packers can handle,





largely because of the poor transporta-





tion facilities. The hog market has

been greatly over-supplied with hogs,

and packers have smashed prices so





much that many stockmen have rushed

in their holdings from fear that furth-

er declines would take place; Recent

receipts of hogs have '

weight 207 pounds, comparing with 211

pounds one‘ week earlier, 193 pounds

one year ago, 191 pounds two years

ago, 227 pounds three years ago- and

215 pounds four years ago.

days hog prices have dropped fully 50

cents per 100 pounds. *





averaged in





On some





Eleven (11) Head of Registered





Percherons For Sale.

Stallions, brood mares, colts and fillies.

A fine lot, big boned, clean limbed, strait



aited, drafty show-horse type.

I will sell cheap for cash or will give

time to reliable arties





Dr. C.L. Bar er, Lansing, Mich.





LOESER BROS.





Belgian and Percheron Stallions for sale that

will pass the Michigan Stallion Inspection.

Have a. few mares of both breeds. Shorthorn Cat.

do. we offer a choice lot of bulls and females.





 





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PERGHERUN DISPEBSAL





Theentire herd of the late A. A. Palmer

will be closed out; 25 pure bred Per-

wo;





cheron mares $200 to 8400 except



also young stallions



PALMER BROS., Belding Mich.

F0 R SAL



E. J. ALDRICH.





Porchorons, Holstein“ gut, Slim shim, Durm

DORR D. BUILL. I“. lchl‘on.





 





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two.ohea{p it sold at once.

- ekonshn. Mich.





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er. The late market for feeders aver-

burger 28@29c.





aged 15@25c higher.

4. POULTRY PRODUCTS





unevenness of the supplies caused pric-

es to move up and down. On Wednes-

day the receipts were limited to 12,619

hogs, and prices ruled largely 250 high-





SHETLAND PONIES





m0head to Ieleotfr'om. Special prices” colts for Au ' '

not and September. Write Dept. . Tho SHADYBID

Farms, North Benton. Ohio.





 





Hogs were marketed last week alter-

~. 'POULTRY—(Live).—-Poultry is ac»





nately freely and sparingly, and the

.. , er than Tuesday’s average, while some

«time and everything desirable meets

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CHOICE BRED EWES





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ALMOND B. CHAPMAN. Bo. Rookwood, Mich.





FOR SALE





100 Good Breeding Ewes





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lbs. Will sell in small flocks if desired;





Hillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Eamon" LIVE crook MARKET.

. Thursday’s Market





CONDUCTED BY-W. C. FAIR.'V. 'S.





 





- Acute Indigestion—We. have a cow

December 26, 1917. that broke loose some three weeks ago



' , . Cattle. .. and ate a large quantity of pears, and

Receipts 718. Market strong at last since then she has given ,very llttle

Week’s prices on all grades. milk. This cow will not freshen until

' Best heavy steers $11@12; best next April. -I have given her commer-

handy weight butcher steers $9@10; cial remedies that are recommended

mixed steers and heifers $850609; for an ailment of this kind, but she is

handy light butchers $7.50@7.75; light no better. D. A. s., Fennville, Mlch.—-‘—

butchers $6-5U@7; best COWS $8@8-25; Mix together equal parts bicarbonate

butcher «cows $7@7.50; cutters $3; of soda, salt, ginger, gentian and pow-

canners $5.25@5.75; best heavy bulls dered charcoal, give her two ta-

$8@8.50; bolognabulls $7@7-50; stock blespoonfuls at a dose in feed three

bulls $6@6.50; feeders $7.50@8; stock- times a day. She should be fed a good





ers $6.50@7.50; milkers and springers quality of nutritious but easily digest- '





365.31100. ed food aild her stable should be well

Erwin,’ S. & J. sold‘ Bresnahan 5 supplied with fresh air.

emf-8.33; 1%)}91‘1‘t. £6'205026d11imh190r20 :3 Local Swelling on Udder.-—For the

5"5’ 0 1c ' 'v ‘ ‘ ‘ . past four years one of my cows has

813 at $7.75, 3 doav 907 at $8, 3 do av 11' d b h of some size that runs

733 at $6, 3 steers av 1017 at $9; to 15* t; .Emct. b . t have the teats

Nagle P..Co. 20 do av 1097 at $10.60; “lg “53,0 , ag' Jus a . 1

t Thompson 10 do av 950 at $9 to but, SO W (is I can tell: it has “91"?“

§ewton P Co 10 do av 877 at $3 70 interfered With her milk yield or .milk-

2 ws av'1055 at $7 50 ' ’ ing, The bunch seems to be shifting

(133913110 B & H sold Sullivan 1’ Co po'sition and extending forward on the

7 steerspav '943" at $8 75 4 COWS av 825 udder. I suspect that she perhaps had

at $6 25 1 bull wgh ’1300 at $8, 7 udder trouble before _I purchased her.

butchers, av 764211. $8.50, 6 do av 816 at J' B L" “f” BECK $105—4ham “1351;:

$8.50 9 do av 683 at $7.35, 8 steers av ed to bellere t at ,t e um on u

881 at $9 35. to Heyman 19 butchers is the result of bruise. Apply one part

av 720 at.$7" to Nagle 'P Co. 8 do av iodine and nine parts petrolatum once

941 ‘at $6' tdBresnahan 6 cows av 916 {1 day. . G1.“ her 30. grs. “fi- Potassmm

at $5.75 i7 do av 900~ at $6, 8 do av 790 lodide in feed or drinking water tw1ce

at $5.76,~1 bull wgh 1200 at $7.50, 3 a day-

cows av 890 at $5.75, 2 do av 1125 at Stiff Knee—Four months ago my 12-

$5.75; to Thompson 10 steers av 1100 year-old mare commenced to snow a

at $10, 1 do wgh'940 at $8.50, 16 do av stiffness 1n knee. mint; Since then the

970 at $9.50, 1 do wgh 850 at $8.75, 1 knee has gradually enlarged and I

do wgh 1150 at $8.40, 22 do av 800 at would like to know What to do for her.

. - ‘0 Na 1e 1). M., Sr., Clarkston, Mich.—,—Your

$8.40, 1 do wgh 1000 at $9.50, t g . . '

P. Co. 4 do av 1215 at $10.50; to Ham- mare ShOUId be given rest. _Cl1D half

mond, S. & Co. 21 do av 90.0 at $9, 14 off knee and apply one part lodln‘e and

do av 780 at $8.25, 11 cows av 890 at seven parts fresh lard. two or three

$5.75, 2 bulls av 1625 at $7.75, 29 butch- times a week.

ers av 602 at $725. 2 COWS 3V 1075 at Pimples.-—l have two colts that are

$6.25; to Newton P. Co. 27 steers av covered with large pimples, but the

860 at $935, 3 COWS 3V 1000 at 35-75. back and hip are troubled the most.

2 do av 1225 at $6.75, 6 (10 3V 925 at Both of these colts have been running

$5.75, 15 butggers av 929477att$gé7§3 :2 out all sulfimar gndVVfall uéltil 8A telw

Illich. B. CO. COWS av a. . 5, days ago, , , .. ayne 0,—— pp y

heifers av 770 at 157-50. 1 steer Wgh one part salicylic acid and 30 parts of

1170 at $9: to Ratr‘ler lime” W881i1t37ho olive oil toastliften sifabs andfbunghes

8’6 $9; to Hammon . S. 0- u C - on back an lips, t en in a ew ays

ers av 775 at $8; to Bemfeldt 17 butch- wash them with soap and water, then

ers av 650 at $6.60; to Sullivan P. CO. occasionally apply one part carbolic

$353051; 882 35188,t1$%5%o SW 880 it: afield {intd 30 parts olive l(€11, bult tdon’t

. , 0 av a . , .. cows orge o groom your on s we che

1020 at $735; tO Rattkowsky 14 bUtCh- a day and feed them plenty of nutri-

. ers av 665 at $6.50; to Ratner 6 dOWaV tious food. Give each colt a teaspoon-

860 at $8.50. & G l N P L ful of sulphate of soda once or twice

Sande , S. B. . so . ewton . ‘o. a day,

5 butchers av 525 at $ . 0, 20 do av 755 COW Unable to Get Up.——VVe have a

at 57-50- 27 do 3" 71 at 57-35! 1 steer seven-year—old Holstein cow due to

wgh 630 at $6.25.13ddo all 975% :tt $39§ 5100 reshen ill three weeks that is down

31010311; fiohall%% t $233 “11% 0 92,; t and unable to get up. Our local Vet.

g a . , COWS 3" 0 d examined her, thought she had paraly-

3550: 5 (10 av 1080 at $6.50, 1 d0 wgh sis of the sciatic nerve and advised me

740 at $5.50, 7 do av 930 at $6, 2 d0 3" to let her lay until she freshened. J.

1150 at $8. 3 canners av 983 at $5175; 9 v. a, Belleville, Mich—If it is possi-

COWS av 1050 at $635» 5 butchels dY ble with a little assistance to help your

680 at $7.50; to Sullivan P. CO. 1 bull 00‘” up twice a day, even if She re-

W311 1330 at $850, 1 d9 wgh 1060 at mains up but for a short time, it will

$7.75, 1 steer wgh 1270 at $11. 1 do help her. It is possible for you to ar-

wgh 930 at $10: 5 d0 3" 744 at 38-50, range a temporary sling and with a

4 cows av 960 at $7.50, 4 do av 982 ‘at block and pulley help her up with very

$3, 3 Steers 3” 717. at $750, 15-d0 4" little trouble. She should be well fed,

954 at $9.25; to Fineman 16 butchers her bowels kept open. her back and

av 553 at $6.40; to Newton P. 00- 4 hind quarters hand-rubbed two or

lggwfiadfolgilrz 8:1": 231% 5% ‘13 g; 3319,2713 three times a dzily. ZIle her bowels are

. - r not open, give er ozs. of epsom

at 38-25: 2 d0 av 700 at 31%}? 78%??? salts in .a quart of tepid water once a

3" 974 at 59-50» 3 d0 3V 7 10§0$ ~ 850 day until they‘ loosen. Give her 30

do av 942 at $9, 1 do wgh at $ . 7 drops of potassrum iodide and 1 oz. of

9 canners 3" '733 at $6.50, 10 ‘10 av 846 tincture cinchona at a dose three times

at $5.75, 4 cows av 1250 at $8.50, 4 do a day. In my practice I have had 91

av 990 at $6.75: great many similar cases and by giv-

. Veal Calves. ing the cow good care, she may remain

- Receipts 253- Market steady. Best down for tWo or three weeks before

415506315; others ”@143 calving and not get up until a week

3151109. B & H- 501d MIOh. 13- CO- 3 after calving and make a nice recov-

av 120 at $15, 4 av 155 at $15.75. 2 3V ery; however, she should have extra

205 at $14, 5 av 125 at $14. 7 av 145 at good care and plenty, of clean straw to

38158575106 7270135 alt5315&5gi5t02}1am§ggngt, lie on. - _

. 0. av a . av - - .

$10 19 av 150 at $15.50, 4 av 135 at Aetl’l‘myCOS’s-—‘I 93‘? a Y‘Pung.¥19re‘

, ford With bunch on Jan and if this IS a

$15.75, 2 av 190 at $10. 24 SW 140 at ease of lum —'aw I would like to know

$15.25; to Newton P. CO. 4 3V 140 at What to dOprOl' her T S Y '1 t-

815 6 av 125 at $15.50, 12 av 130 at $14. ' ' .' " p31 an .1’

' Sheep and Lambs lvlllichiE—gf the bunch lS movable, 1t

, ‘ ' s ou e cut out, i adhering to bone.

. Receipts 826. Malket steady. Best clip off hair and apply one part red

lambs $16.25@16.50, fair lambs $15.50 - -

@16' light to common lambs $1461) iOdéde Amercurvy 2nd sfglur parts fresh

5 . . . , ar . so, gi e er grs. o potassi-

14375, fair to $5001; sheep $9@11, culls um iodide at a dose in feed or drinking

anBfiIommgn 3 g - I 14 water three times a day. If this bunch

13 0D. - & - 30 ‘1 Nagle P- CO- is in a suppurative state, she should be

, . lambs av 70 at $16, 15 do av 80 at $16, kept by herself

29 do av 70 at $16, 43 do av 85 at $16, L t' '

'54 do av 75 at $16.25, 51 do av 75- at “3‘ 1°“ 0‘ Style—I have 5% 00".“?

, _16, 136160 av 75 at $16.50, 10 do av months old that is. troubled With stifle

The bone clicks





2 at $16.50, :7 sheep av 95 at $8.50, 10 flipelfinffgtteggfi‘gigi-des joint is 8m]-





len.k E‘lllgl‘ shinceh tdhis glolt was two

_ l, .- . » wee so it as a sti etrouble.,W.

308139-2338. Ev 380 fithlafi‘gg 123351?) Evcfs' £13915; 3:“1311111 MiCh.~d—Clig off 131% land

.‘ .'I‘" , . . e pa pow ere can e

2’5 :g 69!". 85 at 316' 22 do av and eight parts of fresh lard two 0:



- giree times a nhonth, and you will ob-



. 11 some ‘resu s, or you may a. l

at . Muted equal parts of tincture iodine and 5311?:



15.50. - its of camphor daily. . » .





 





 

 





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





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always have Red Tips. n





THE NEVERSLIP WORKS,





CONSERVATION. Conserve time,





money and your horse's strength by using





They will enable your horse to travel on slip-

pery. icy roads and streets in absolute safety.

They can be adjusted in a few minutes and

make you ready for the road any time—day

or night-eliminating danger and delay.





NEVERSLIP CALKS FEVERSLIP SHOES

Iways have Red Heels.





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horseshoer now.





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CATTLE A !





Shorthom calves sired by Diamond King





“O'isur'd 2nd. 410475. both sexes 8150. Twenty cows





WM. J. BELL. Rose City. Mich.





For sale BhortbomsBullsSmo. to ‘1 years old





from d milking cows.





8.8. Olzdostatlon. .J. DeGarmn. R n. MiWw' um.





 





both sexes. herd cuta-





Shorthorns logue mai led free.





CHARLES R. HORRTE. Hart, Mich.





HURTHURNS. Butterfly Sultan. half brother to

International Sr. Champion. in service. For 39013

bulls.cows.and heifers. W.B.McQuillan.Howell.Mlch-





e: Reg. Sllorthorns. Two Roan bulls, one 15

. one 9 mos. and one Red heifer 13 mos.

J. A. BATOHE LER. - - . .





HOMESTEAD FARMS





We have for immediate delivery the following thorn.





o .

Howell. Mich.





 





 





bred registered stock: _

Shorthorn Durhama. Milking strain Scotch topped.

one roan cow. Mary Bell. 131419, seven yrs. old, Wltll

calf by anlewood Martin, 517094. '

Voalf. Apr. 19. 1917. Bates milking strain. Advance

orders for spring calves. both sexes. '



l olstelns and Jerseyr-Advnnce .orders for spring

es. Blood lines on application. _ '

Hampshire and Duroc Jersey HogsnA limited mim-

bcr of boar and sow pigs. Write for full description

of an y stock.

HOMESTEAD FARMS.





Also one heifer





Bloomlngdnle. Mich.





eg. Shorthorn bull calf, good one. 7 weeks old. Red

with very little white. From good milking stock.

First 865 takes him. Irvin Doan. Croswell, Mich.





Cattle For Sale





Loads feeders and two leads yearling steers. Also

can show you any lumber l. and 3 years old fron

600 to 1200!". Isaac Shanstum. Falrfield. Iowa. R-B





H005.





DUROC sows AND





GILTS





bred to Oricns Fancy King 83857 the biggest pig

of his age ever shown at the International weighed

650 lbs. at 14 months. 2‘25 lbs. 26 months. Lata-

logue giving breeding and description of 30 sows

and gilts, ready for mailing.





Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Mich.





 





E. E. charms. n. 6.





unoos Orion Chief Perfection No. 68945. and Jen-

nings Pilot Wonder No.73373 Two outstanding boar:

of big type and excellent qua lt)‘. All selected large

. is smooth sows. Thrifty, smooth. large boned spring

ts from these herd boars and choice sows at very

ble prices. The Jennings Farms.Bailey,Mi(-h.





D U R O C S :23?ng 253.1421“... 5‘?“





J. H. BANGKART, .





Lansing, Mich.





offers; Registered Spring Boers, tried





Pth'rslbrood sown. One Great Herd Boar. Write

your wants.





Du roc J erse y thii“%.:i“iot‘:$





Orlo L. Dobson. Quincy. Mich.





E. D. HEYDENBERK. Wayland. Mich.





03008 for sale. 1 fall boar. 7.Sprlng boars. good





breedlng. “'rlte for description and prices





J D. CRANEASON. Plalnwell, Mich





ggggylgngmggggud spnngflplgs for salt.





”tings. Mich.





uroc Jerseys--hoarn of the large heavy boned type,

Prize winning stock. prices reasonable. type and

breeding consldered, also gilts bred to Junior Cham—

pion hour for spring furrow. FJ. Drodt, R l. Moumc. Mich.





Sole Duroc Jerseys Boats and gilts: aleo. dandy





fall pigs. Prices right. JOHN McNICOLL,

Station A. Route 4, Bay City. Mich.





DUROC JERSEY





Bred to one of the best young boars ln Mich. for Mar.

USE BROS,





SOWS





R Romeo, Mlcb.





A FEW Dnroc Jersey bred Rlltl for sale. Some

extra good fall boars.



W. O. TAYLOR. - - . . .



"1'00 Elite bred for April farrow :35 to $40: fall year-





linus bred for April furrow $45 to850 wght 175 lb. to

250 lb. Priced for 10 days. KG. chsler. Canopa is. Mich.





Milan. Mich.





0 R. I. Red cocks 83.00, eggs in season.

Ann Arbor. Mich.





D2290 Jerseys. Orders booked now for early spring

p





 





 





Ironic:



ed. We Brood the best. We sell the

too then to be the best.

Catalogue. We ship on approv l.





B O A R 8

Big growthy fellows.

The kind that pleases.

I ship C. 0. D. and payexpress.





J. CARL JEWETT, MammMich.





Big Type O. I. C’s.





Stock of all apes for sale. We showed at four litato





more chunplomhnd Grand mp on.





won

than all the other breeder- togeth‘er double. we were





or and Exhlbtor at. every fair we show-

but We Guaran-

erto your wantl. Got on!





I

OBANDELL and SON, 038! City. Mich.





 





 





 





wlul shot. All nook mu Mod.

1 g! .

gauged pi! and" §Mnegflypo grit. for photo and





a ' c Choice spring boars and silt: out of prln

. ' E I“





it

run LI . “loll.





 





 

   





Raise Chester Whites

Like This





the original big producers





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HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to



success. I can help you. I want to place one ho from

In: great herd in every community where am not. alrea y rep»

resented these fine early developers—ready for market It six

months 0] ‘ Write for my plun~“ More Money from Hogs.’





O. I. BENJAMIN, ILF, D, 10‘ Portland, Michigan





Gilt: bred for Mar-ll furrow early

CheSter fall igs both sexes LfI'ODl best blood

lines. F. W. ALE ANDER, Vassar, Mich.





0.1. C. & CIESTFI WHITE SWINE.





Strictly big type with quality. Have a choice lot of

boars fit for early fall service. These boars will he

sold worth the money. Also have some fine gills. I

will ship 0. 0. l).



NEWMA’NS STOCK FARM. R. 1. Marlette, Mich.





0 I C’s Registeredserviceabloboars. Bredgilts.

f ' 'Alig.,Sept..()vt..pigs. Registered Slim -

shire ewe lambs, G. I’. Andrews, Dansv’lllc. Mic l.





O I C’ . A few p'rizo winning gilts at Michigan

‘ ‘. ' State Flu rzalsc Aug. Supt. pigs of the best.

blood llnel. Clover Leaf Stock szl‘nl. Munroe, Mich.





O I C Am offering some good boars of M A)’ far

0 ' ' row and fall pigs either sex.

0. J. THOMPSON, Rockford, Mich.





Ii T ' Poland China. Apr. boars, sire and dams

E ’P froms lfm-lb. stock; can be returned if not.

ntllfactory. B. W. MILLS. Saline, Mich.





BOARS--SOWS





Big type bi bone. _For the next '0 days we will sell

Big ty 6 P0 and China. at bargain prices. April boar

weighing 300 lb. Open gills. Summer and full pigs

everythifig‘ goes. Gel busy.



1. C. B LER. Portland. Mlchlfianiell Phom.





 





 





ready to ship. The kind that make good. Crme and

see the real blg t pa kind. Expenses paid if not M



represented. Free lvery from Par-ma.

W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma, Mich.





 





ig I P. '“and chin... I'll a y im' hfal-

th - d E . . ,

right, L. W. BARNES A éONf deli'onfruolgh‘.y' Prue-





 





ABGE Type P. Q. Some growthy spring Boom and

Gllts ready to ship come and see them. Free liv-

cry from Augusta. W. J. Hagolnhaw. Augusta. Mich.





I ‘ I . . '

ll: Tm Poland Blunt22:1.“u‘ll‘aré‘iln‘i2fl‘9' h“’

0. W, BOLTON, RALAMAZOU. MICHIGAN. ‘





 





 





ARGE Ty 'e P. 0. Some 2 0d spring boars up to

J 270 lbs. 111 also price gilt-i. open or bred

Full pigs ready to Bhlp. Wm. J . Clarke, 11.7, Mason,l\’li('h.





' Poland China- boars ‘hi pod C.0.D.

Big Boned caller write for phntxo. “glklllfi.r‘9d-

lame and price. IR. Leonard, H,8. St. Louis, Mich.





 





 





Alley big tho P (l. boars that re rec t h

'Illlllll best. breeding of Iowa at 3»; thei‘r) value tfog

the next 10 dark. (Two that are extrim





A. D. GREGORY, - - - lonia. Mich





LARGE :Tnflu P. c. RENE: for sale until after





H. O. SWABTZ. Schoolcraft, Mich.





 





 





lg type P. C. Boar‘s and Gilts of Peter Mouw breed-

Blng. He sold 104 ‘head Sept. 21 for 332,135 aver o

3308 per head. C. h. Garnant, Eaton Raplds. Milli].





 





' V RC. Bi boned follows from I ‘ ’ ' ‘

Blg T’m‘henlg. ggecial prices on .prlfgiiol‘iffle ‘

E. J. MA 1 RE“ SO , - - - Burr Oak, Mich.





 





' Big Type Poland 011‘ 2 :81

Registered bred sows at roduceltlI piicezlm and

LONE CEDAR FARM. - - - Pontiac, Mlcll.





spring boars and gilt:





legislmd llamp

b( .

JOHN W. SNYD IR. R?l:.y§‘tl.rJ?l?;;.li?lvc.h.





 





 





 





 





SHEEP

,. . - . n ms ronT—‘Pllxg rm sum or ‘

- y l . PARSONS 37'5ng?

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chi "who and NI.

; . charm. Wnph for club 3e! and yrlcx:list.

5 ,I Oxfuda. Shropshire. Ind'Polled— nines.

PABSONS.GrandLedge.Mich. 3.9





 





 





 





 





Shorpsl‘lire glam Lamb» and one three year

flock heads 1 .

ARMSTRONG BBO'S. a. a, igofl’omile. Mich.





SHROPSHIRE AND HAMP-

SHIRE RAM LAMBS





lucky one. with qunllt . price I35. Shipped-0. 0. D.

ope on Farms,





Ihooput anton addres- Ooldwnter. Mich.

hon. m srocx nile'ifii 1339133. uldfi





 





 





 





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ARGE Type P. C. Largest in Mich. Spring Boar- '
The ExtraEggsj





will soon pay for one of these

, -Automaflo _





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





Poulh’y

Fountains

and Heaters





water at eh:





less thnn team 1 $51 I

. . a“ f

gaggle MIT! gfamtcfiau In condemn”

«1an sompl or NO or write for Circular?

is “who" Ilsh '3' III”. ad.“ for Iflsr.





B. A. 8. fill! nmc II II

150 EGG lNCUBATOR

CHICK BROODER

Calif. gegfiogf

Incubator





 





 

 

 





 





   

 

 

 





 

 

 





 





" 64 BREEDSM Valuable New Poultry

' Fin purebred chick dck—lmmesd

=. e - ens u s. geese an

turkeys. Choice, ’ Northern raised.

Fowls spam and incubatorsm at low rices.

Amer-fez“. greategtflpoult year

09de for Free Boos.





I. r. nausea? co.w 8011817. mm

HOMESTEAD FARMS





POULTRY SALE

We have the following birds for immediate delivery.

Pallets—full rown and about ready to lay: lte

Pl mouth Rec 5'. so Barred Pi mouth Rocyks; 108 O.

R ode Island Reds;10 White eghorns; alsoZOLeg-

horns two- thirds grown: 12 Black ()rpingtons.

Yearling Hens Rh—moultinfi finished 61) S. 0. White Leg-

horns: 30 8. CR hode Islnn Reds; 12 Black Orplngtons.

Cockerels—Rose and Single Comb White Leghorns:

Barred Plymouth Rock s; Rhode Island Reds; Black

Mlnorcas. These are season (losing sales

HOMESTEAD FARMS Bloomingdale. Mich





IMPROVE YOUR POULTRY





My Young' s Strain White Leghorns are great money

makers. Strong. vigorous. bred- to-lay stock. Largest

:Itghewr iIn westeirn Michigan. Satisfaction guaran-

so to for roe ca 11 o .



VV.VAN APPLEDORN. Ti 7 Holland. Mich.





BREEDING COOKERELS

Trapnested. bred- to-lasy stock. 8. 0. White Le horns,

ac.h Bar red Roe and R. 0. Red

UNNYBROOK POULTaRY FARM. H’illsdaie, Mich.

John' 5 big beautiful! hen- hatched Barred Rocks.

good layers, Pens (6 birds) ‘12 to 820. 83 to 810 each.





lold on anemval. Circulars. photos. .John Northnn. Clare. Mich





Cockerels for

Barred Roe ks ..1. 1.0... mm

with records to 290 oz s a year. 82 to 85 each. Circu-

lar free. FRED %TL LNG. Constantine. Mich.





Ismd flock Cockezsl: "mm” 5...... “W"





few hens yet.

W, O. COFFMAN, Benton Harbor. Mi__c_h.





BarredF Plymouth Rock cockerels 83.00eaoh.





from prize- -winnlng heavy

lsyig strain. FJ. Ab. Barnum, Unio_n City, Mich.





' Cockerels from good is ing strain

Barred Racks 83. 00 each two for 85. 00y

A. A. WOOD & SON. -





Saline. Mi_c_h.

Fol. Sale Barred Rock cocks and cockerels

Dr. J. W. AOKERSO





from prize winnefi. Price 82. 50 to 85.

nnchester. Mich.

We shlen thousands. booking orders now

ChiCkS, for s delivery. free booklet.

FBEEPORT HAT Hn Y. Box 12 Free art Mich.





 





H s d Cooke l re b d

Breeding Stocks °6 vv.m.1....i§3.25““ 25“.”

White Line Poultry ’8‘th Hillsdale. loh.





 





A real hes lsyin strsIn. irspnested l

years. recor s from 00 to 264 e s. Get

our specIsl summer prices on year mg hens.





breeding males, eggs for hstching. 8-week-





old pullers and do old chicks. We shipC O. D. snd

guarantee results. sislog gives prices; describes stock. tells

Isll about our farm and methods; resulIs you can gel by breed-

ing Ihu strain. Send ior your copy now—it II iree





 





s eoial sale





rinicmi mm. ominous. .1.





cocks and hens also can oockerels. MR8. WILLIS

ROUGH. PI TE 0R ST ARM, Royal Oak, Mich.





lEyblll :- c1 '- l. horn. Large. reatlayers. Pure





white. argamsin choice



breeding hensnow. vertresh Egg Farm. Ionia. Mich.

B pens of four hens and cockerel for 810. More hens

extra. Dr. William A. Smith. Petersburs. Mich.

Fowlers Buff Rocks Sgkggggagr‘lzfg





from two dolLlars up according to quality.

LB FOW ER. Ra rtrnrri Mioh.





HODE ISLAND REDS and plymouth Rocks Males

t012 lbs. aoco'rdiu to age .. to $5; R. hens



weight 6to lOlbs. .eggs 15 or”: 100, $5: 120. Sli. Mammoth

Bronle Tom Turkeys 8 to 38 lbs. accordin to age “to

825.10 eggss3. J. Morris A: J. Barsan. assar. Mich.





T110111; ISLAND REDS,





Both Combs. Cocks. Hens. Cookerels and Pullets a rea-

sonable prices. Interlakes Farm. 80x39 Lawrence Inch.





n 6 Br. le horn Cookerels. Leadingstming





in America. bre‘d from win-

n.ers 82 eacha ter Dec.1.A square deal. orders





promptly filled. E. Himebaulh, Goldwater, Mich.





UFF Leghorns. breeding cockerels also a few fine





Rose Comb Rhode Island Red Cock-

BI’Cd'lo‘lxay erels. write for prices.

A. E. SHIER, Wolverine. Oheboygan Co. , Mich.





 





Br Le ghorn cockerels $1. 50 and 82. A few nice

{11‘1”fo al Pekin Ducks 82 each. Drakes all]





5d." Wm. Ni ickert. Carson City;

so 0..W Leghorn-r hens two 00{ears old. and late hatch-

dfnllets $1 each. erels. utility and trap-

nesteeds 50t085. Hillcrest Poulterarm Y ilsnti Mich

ILVER Golden and- White Wyandottes. Choice





breeding stock of sale after Oct let. a few bargains

in yearling hens. 0. w Browning. 11.2. Portland Inch.





WHITE Wyandottes. I have a line lot of April and





May hatch i coc kerels for $8.00 and 00 h.

pan Norrl rl'l.llt ilantl. Micki”.





White W yandoiles ”’f‘izifit‘i‘ftititil‘ifn'i





ELI-nice satinyfactlon Mlltonl. Stewart. R. 3 Augusta. Iich.





 





 





w March orA ril Pallets f

. antedim chorus .Writgstatinx price copra or

."f‘ .l‘. J. B ETT R. 6, Mi.lford Mich.





 





 





llIlIIiIe Chinese (leaders {frind‘iil‘i‘gfi





111111 .... m...» .. m...

‘ ‘ Invert from the Giant strain





elimination of weaklings





 





AM in receipt of a communication



from one of the larger poultry



packing houses of the middle west

informing me that prices for live poul-

try have no doubt reached their low-

est ebb at this time, (December 10),

and that a. gradual rise is looked for.

In view of the fact that the local

price is but sixteen cents pe‘r_ pound

for live poultry, farmers and others

who raise poultry will have no difficul-

ty in finding some place for the extra

money any rise in prices may bring.

In fact, the price of poultry is not suf-

ficient to make feeding worth while at

present grain prices and much of the

poultry that is and has been going on

the market is sold to cut down feed

bills and to throw such feed into chan-

nels where at least a small margin of

profit may be realized. The price of

poultry and pork is too far apart. This

brings us to certain pointed questions.



Poultry vs. Other Meats.



First, why should there be any wide

difference between the price of poultry

as food, and other meats? Next, can

we produce poultry at a. less cost per

pound than we can steers or pigs. In

the first place, it is anybody’s guess.





ard methods of accounting and little

or no judgment in grading. for size and

type have as much to do with this as

anything else can possibly have and

instead of receiving meat prices most

of us receive the price set for the

worst of our product. Hogs are sold

at the stock yards as lights, mediums,

heavies and so on, but: chickens go

simply as chickens in most communi-

ties We make no special effort to feed

them out as we do our porkers, and

are paid accordingly. Furthermore,»

notwithstanding the fact that .pure-

breds have. made rapid gains, we pay

little attention to type and uniformity.

The chicken meat has not been ex-

ploited in the manner that other meats

have been. Chicken has in the past

been regarded more or less as a lux-

ury on too many tables and even on

farms Where the poultry flock holds an

important place, the hen has had place

mainly as the mainstay of the Sunday

dinner. Chicken meat has been re-

garded as too expensive for common

use but now that is not true.



Will Present Economic Conditions



Even up Prices?



As for production, but little compar-

ison can be made between the hen

and the hog when it comes to figuring

the cost per pound. The hen as an egg

producer usually comes first on the

great majority of farms and the meat

side of the poultry proposition figured

mostly as a by-product. However, the

number of farms which have failed in

attempting to produce poultry for meat

alone are not encouraging. On our

own farm we figure that' the market

price of any of the general-purpose

breeds will just about pay the cost of

bringing them to maturity. Certainly

not an inviting venture when regarded

as a meat proposition is it? But as

the war continues the need of poultry

meat is bound to become more and

more apparent. The back lotters, like

the war gardens, must do their part or

do without meat, even if a little is lost





Appearances Count.

By a careful selection of breeders,

and using

our inventive minds to procure cheaper

feeds we can do Our part and figure a

small profit. We mu‘st give some study





to the production of poultry as meat





for the production of a roaster is as





’much of a scientific problem as is the

production of a pig’ that will top the

Imarket.’

breeds of pdultr‘y', only 0119,1111? Light

Brahma, fie extensively used by mar-

ket breeders and in Ithg -hands% of the





Of all our so-called meat





 





Pearl,

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unskilled this one proves unwcildy and





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T H s " M1 (2111 oA'i‘N: r. A3111 Mm





‘Mcat frOm Hens

By W. C SMITH





Poor marketing arrangements, haphaz-r





in the process, but prices are bound'

to become more equalized.‘





mash,- usingit in eIIqIII‘al parts with brIaI'n:





 





slow to mature. There has always

been a. market for- poultry, culls. and





all and for this reason and because of





the fact that our attention has been

put to the high egg phaée of poultry

keeping we have leftIIthe meat side

take care of itself. We must still have

eggs, we must not neglect the egg-lay-

Iing qualities of our flocks, but we must

pay more attention to genelal appear-

a‘nc'e‘ in the poultry Which we market

for meat. One of the best judges of

market poultry we have ever known

places a fifty per cent valuation on ap»

pearances. “Appearances sells the

bird,” he says. Appearances in this

case include a proper distribution of

meat, a high percentage of meat and

meat that has been killed at the’i‘ight

time. This means full, deep breasts,

extra feeding for rounding out, and

careful attention in selecting breeders

that will produce chicks of strong vi-

tality and heavy bodies.





POULTRY QUERY DEPARTMENT.





 





Cross-breeding Poultry.



I would like your advise in regards

to crossing poultry breeds. Now,

have thorough-bred White Leghorns,

and also Black Minorcas, all young

stock of good vitality, which I intend

to cross. Which way shall I make the

cross, by putting the black cockerel

with the white hens, or vice versa?

You see I am aiming to build up a

foWl which has good size of body, also

good laying qualities.



Sanilac Co. . C. C. I..



If one wishes to breed poultry for

either egg production or general mar-

ket purposes, it is not advisable to

cross breeds. In crossed breeding one

is not sure just what they are going to

get, and Very often the results are the





,poor qualities of both breeds are trans-





mitted to the young. .



.If you wish to breed a strain of fowls

which carry a good size of body and

also good laying qualities, I would sug-

gest that you breed only the larger

specimens of either Leghorns or Min-

orcas. By careful selection of these

you can increase the size to a great ex~

tent and also retain the laying quail.

ties, provided you breed from the high-

est producers.



Crossed breeds in some cases have

proved satisfactory, but it usually takes

years to develop a fowl with the quali-

ties desired.



Which One is the Gander?





I have a fewyoung geese and would

like information as to how to tell the

difference between a gander and a

goose. When is the best time to pick

the feathers?



Kalkaska Co. 0. D. P.





It is difficult to tell theflgoose from

the gander when young. Usually the

head- of the female is slightly smaller

than that of the male, and the neck of

the male is larger and has coarse

feathers. '



The chief point of distinction is the

voice, that of the goose being louder

and more harsh than that of the

gander. ‘



The proper time for picking goose

feathers is when they do not draw

blood. This is usually just before molt-

ingtime. Some make a practice of

picking g'eese twice a year, but this is

not advisable, as it depletes the vital-

ity of the geese. .



Oats for Peuitry.





Are oats considered a Mhealthful or a

profitable food for hens? If not, why

not?

feed?

‘ Van Bur-en CO. F. E. S.





Oats are- considered good grain to

feed hens, if it is fed in combination

With- wheat and corn. ,



One of the beet‘j scratch feeds is.

equal parts of wheat, corn and oats.

Oats can also 'be made p9rt of the,

and corn. ”-



Sprouted oats make one of the very





:best foods for chickens in. the winter,





as it makes a very fine green food, he-





‘ grain. They we considered very good





I f01 e, demand that the temperature be





What is best for their principal ,





" frames for the ends and middle, costs





-ters.

'- longevity of the coop a's fiber shi





 





pigeon. 111111.i ’





 





sides having the nutritive qualities of





to stimulate _Iegg: production __ .



In making. your mash as suggested

above, do not forget to include at least ~

ten per cent of beef scraps. They are

especially- neceSSary to prov1de enough-A

protein for egg productlon, and at pres-

ent prices, grains are considered "eco-

nomical for feedmg purposes.





 

   

   

   

   

   

 





 





 

 





BEES NOT “ASLEEP” IN WINTER





 

 





 





   

 





The common belief held by persons

not familiar with the habits of bees

that they “sleep” an through the win-

ter has been upset by B. F. Kindig,

state inspector of apiaries. Individuals

with colonies in their possession; the

inspector declares, should accordingly

make sure thhdheir honey-gatherers

are amply protected from the cold and

supplied with sufllcient food to main-

tain them Iin good health. _ “



Proper Housing Saves Feed.



“Bees do not hibernate or lie: dor-

mant all winter as so many people be-

lieve,” the inspectdr declares in a

press bulletin just issued. “This’is a

statement which can easily be verified

by anyone who will open a beehive

during the cold part bf winter. The

health and life of the colony, there-





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





kept up at all times at least as high as

fifty- -seven deg1 ees Fahrenheit. -



“In order to maintain this warmth

the bees consume honey, which ’is a.

source of heat and energy, and ordi- '1“

narily the colder the weather, the more

feed the bees consume and the more

active they become inside the cluster.



“These facts show the necessity for

conserving the heat of the colony and

protecting it from outside cold. When

thus properly protected, the colonies

require far less stores for wintering

and more bees live through until spring

than is the case when colonies are not 5,.

adequately cared for. . - 12' .,



“Frequently the consumption of large

quantities of honey during cold weath-

er causes the intestines to become

clogged with indigestible material.7re-

sulting in dysentery. Severe cases of

dysentery are fatal. -



Prevent the Spread ofIFoul Brood.»



“When colonies are thus weakened

by this or other diseases and an attempt

is made to winter them out—of-doors

many of them die. As' 'soon as a warm

day comes the bees of the vicinity rob

out the dead colonies—in which‘fash- :y ,

ion most of the foul brood is spread.

Anyone having such weak or diseased

colonies should by all means Winter . .

them in a. cellar. Then if they die , ' ‘ a

they will not be a menace to other bees ‘ ‘V

in the neighborhood.



“Bees which do not have sufficient

stores of honey to carry them through

until spring should be fed. The best

feed is one made from two and a

fourth pounds of granulatédfiugar to

one pound of water. 'For each twenty

pounds of sugar uséd a teaspoon heap-

ing full of tartaric acid should be ad-

ded. The tartaric acid helps to keep

the sugar from candying in the combs. -

This mixture should then be boiled for 5., ,

a few minutes and fed to the bees " '

while warm. Do not feed honey. It is

more expensive than sugar and may be _

the source of foul b1 ood ” .31....





 





 





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If the poultry .raiser does. his.:oWn

shipping he realizes an added profit

that usually goes to the poultry buyer. ,,

For this shipping ecops are necessary i

but they are easily made and inexpen-

sive. The standard size is thirty inch-

es wide, forty- -eight inches-2 long and

twelve inches high A good .one made

of lath, with the exceptionemf the





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about fifty cents. The ends are paint-

ed bright’ ‘red with the name and ad-

dress of the shipper in lafge‘blabk let- '

This adds a, great deal». “to the





are not likely to mist o it for an

own and the expréSB‘Eé any us pretty, , ' ‘

sure to reb'tr‘ursvit to its propen destinav-I, '





   

   





 





 





 

 





 





   

   

   





   





 





 





tion ———0
« [Wily “(193‘

China of Copy ‘or Cancellations must reach us

Isl-Days o liceti





'We Oder s Few We. ' l Burguns'

In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

houiilet’ rams, Hampshire pigs (either

sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance

for a‘ small inVestment to reap the bene-

fit of a large expenditure of capital and

years of expert breeding.

Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.





CATTLE.





wooocors ANGUS





and Blackbirds oni Breeders of the

r owners of the s re (our herd bull

.hampiou Bill at the lnternstlo





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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1’. ' mileage for 17.

. WOODOO STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.

We have for sale‘u. choice lot of young stock from

., A. It. dams. afiew mature cows. Write

,. m, ...L- particulars. -





W. L. HOFFMAN, Steward,





School for tthoof, Flint, Michigan





 





 





 





   





Do you know that you can buy

Friesi‘an Blood at the January

Breeders at .





JANUARY





who desire to hold the same.





breeders. No culls or





Watch this space next week for

if interested to





 





The most important thing in buyi

producers. Brookwater offers to sell a





 





Guernsey Grades For Profit





In the only test where all breeds were

represented the Guernseys won the first

prize for the highest average score on

butter—also for color and for flavor.

But, most important of all, they won

the prize for net profit on butter and

butter fat production—they gave the

greatest retum per collar invested in feed.



. These characteristics are marked in Guernsey grades.





They have won in test after test. Write for the book

tha tells the story—“rho Grade Guernsey."





American Guernsey Cattle Club

(3) ns: I Bourbon. N. H. ,





“iii‘ltllll'fj‘hll





     





 





 





 





 





 





 





, . f

g. Q ' , Registered Guernseys

. Stock always for sale. In Rose Strum—Herd Tuber-





cnlin tested ann ally. ever had a reactor—no

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





' F l . f

Guernseys-Jfidificofiif €333

euliuetested. Goo. . Crawford. Bolton. Mich.

must reduceherd. sooifer





5b fl- GIJERNSEYS o few choice females of





Glenwood breeding also bulls. all stock of A. R. breed-

infiherd tuberculin tested.

'1'. . HICKS Battle Creek. Mich.





' . g c. o





. GU E R N 8 BY S‘snu'fiiilafi'ig

Containin blood of world ohsmgéons.

RIGKS' 0U! SIY 'ARM. Bulnnw. . 8.. Mich





,' ' i for 15 head of fresh cowl

I II“ ll “12 mark“ or coming in soon. Must

- be good grade of Guernsey. Holstein or Durham at a





fair rice. Address

:rnd’nssnoownnr. - . Washington. Mich.

Wayne. Michigan have on-





‘ ’; . _ ' - Aloud.“ :lock' Farm: bored 10 head of Registered

‘: Guernsey Cattle in the Michi an Holida Guernsey

l ' Sale at Jackson, Michigan. Dec. 27. 1911.





have entered 10 head Reg. Guernsey Cattle in the

Mich Guernsey sale at Jackson Dec 21.1917.

JOHN EBELS. . 9. Holland. Mich.





{ UERNSEYS:Puro bred cows. heifers. heifer and



Gbur‘il eels/es, oif fihoice v‘ib‘l Rang li‘drcedi ifng a; fairm.

er’s cos or u c so 8. 81 our e )e are u .

Meeldow-Golquuernsey Farm. R. 8. St. Johns. Bligh:





E6. HOLSTEINS: Herd heededb

Butter Boy No. @124. De m's race at 6 yrs. butter

lbs.milk‘619.4. Yearly record at 2% yrs butter

miss. milk 13622 lbs.W. n. nnmrn. Howell. Mich





Albina Bonte





YIIllIIUl’JTTJIII‘II]





 





H s MICHIGAN F ARM E‘s“





Mr. Milk





fresh cows of the best strain of Holstein

Sale of the Central Mich. Holstein





Michigan Agricultural College, East} Lansing” Mich.





At 9:30 A. M.

These cows and heifers are consigned by breeders of good reputation

All will be tuberculin tested and guaranteed

blemished stock. The terms of sale are cash un-





less other arrangements are made with owner before sale. -

consignors are able to extend credit so bring your bank reference With you.





Chas. A. Daniels, Secretary, Okemos, Michigan.

Jerseys and Duroc Jerseys





a Jersey bull is to get one backed up by generations of high

ew choice bull calves of this kind.





won more prizes at the State Fairs this year than any other.





Boar Pigs and Yearlings For Sale.

BROOKWATER FARM





   





Producer





18th, 1918





Many of the





further details and send for catalog





 





Our herd of Durocs has





0. P. POSTII.





 





OAK LEAF ' FARM





Herd sire meee Pontiac Calamity King oifer Reg-

istered Holstein bull calves fromths above sire whose

dam holds the milk and butter (325‘) record for 7 days





in the state of Ind.

E. II. GBAREART it SON, R. 4, Marcellus, Mich.





I born Sept.20.‘14. A. R. 0. record

"088“ “Win“. 17.121bs.,butter,4461bs. milk at

2yr. old. Granddaughter of Traverse illsc Lad.

Bred to our 32 lb. grandson of King Fayne Be 3. Other

good ones with and Without A. R. 0. rocor s. Bull

calves at ricas to move them.



E. M. PI JROE d SON. - - Manchester. Mich.





Registered bull calf from Bob Roy 2nd. I. roan 7 mo.

0 d and Chester White pigs both sexes, -3 months

old. out of Schoolmaster 22nd. Reasonable prices.



XAVIER BARNHART. R. 4. St. Johns. Mich.





' Bull Calves Pontalc Iornd ke

Reg ' HOISte‘n andHen erveld DeKol Breyed-





in. at Farmers Prices. John A. inke. Warren. Mic

Re stored Holstein bulls ready for service

FM sa'. an bull calves; from 3011). sire and A.R.O.





dams with records up to 2:) l 9.

Wm. GRIFFIN. - ll. 5. Howell. Mich.





F3--HOLSTEIN BULLS--3





Ready for service at Long Beach Farm. Augusta. Mich





HEREFORDS





ALLEN BROS.





PAW PAW, MlCl-l.





Bob Fairfax 494m at heed

H e refO rds of held. Stock Efga sale-





Both sexes either polled or horned. L C.

McOABTY. Sec'y Mich. H. B. Ass'n. Bad Axe. Mich.





FOI' R H EAD H EREFORD BULL OALVES ready for

HER'I‘LER .





 





 





 





 





 





Considered From

Every Angle,





PURE BRED

HOLSTEINS





Are the Most Profitable

Breed .





They produce more milk and butterfat

for less iced cost and less labor cost than

any other breed. These facts are proven

by comparison of statistics available on all

purebred breeds. Write for information.

It is free.





The Holstein - Frissian Association

OfAmerica, Box 164, Brattlcboto, Vt.





CLUNY STOCK FARM





100--REGISTERED HOLSTEINSulOO

When you need a herd sire remember that we

have one of the best herds in Michigan. kept un-

der strict sanitary conditions. Every indn'idual

over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We

have size. quality. and production records back-

ed by the beat; strips .of breeditng.

r1 . us our wan s.

R. BRUCE McPHEliSON, Howell, Mich.





acce ted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ and "Cl. 'istergd Holstein bull calves. Quality

of the bee and at prices within reach of all. Write.

GEO. D. C ARKE. - - - - V





essar, Mich.



’ Pedigree Stock Farm offers Reg.Hol-

Parham 8 stein cattle. Chester White Swine.

extra bargins in calves and fall pigs. Bulls half rice.

R. B. PARHAM. . Bronson. fich.





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son of!” lb. bull dam is rand-

daughter of De KO 211 ut-

lb. 2 yr. 01

- Red





$50 Gets





t B 3rd. Herdam 18.96 d.

1;? IfldoLAULIN. - ford. Michigan.





“TOP-NUTGH” HflLSTEINS





“Milk production is an inherited ability. Good cows

must. be bred to good pine-bred bulls if progress in





deirying is to he made _ '

Extract U. 8. Dept. of Agric. Bulletin.





 





Here is a great ”Milk" Bull having the ability to

transmit large milk and butter production.

Born Sept. 20. .16





His Sire’s 3 nearest -

Dams average $233! £6321!” 30.8? ms.



. 4 ~ .318 a.



m" D‘” “ “°°°’d'l Butter 365 days 942 lbs_

Price 3200,





‘ Handsomely marked. about 36 white.





McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.





 





' Reg. Holstein





To Sell





It wanting Registered cattle write me your wants

before placing your order elsewhere.





L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio





REG. Holstein Bull Calf. The last one until winter.

agood one with A. R. O. backing. rite for ed-

Elmer E. Smith, Redford. ich.





 





igree and price.





A Few Fine Bulls For Sale





ligslow: Holslsis Farms. lrssdsvills, Mich.





WlNWOOD HERD





REGISTERED HOLSTEINS





Holton, Mich.

Reference: Old State Bank. Fremont, illicit.

Flint Marlecrest Boy sire in service



His sire is Map eel-est Komdyke Hengerveld, his 8

Nearest Dams each oven-30 lbs. of butter inl days-

His dam and grand dam both made over l232 lbs. of

butter in lyear. It is the yearl row we are looking

for to deliver the goods. Flint aplecrest Boy‘s Dam is

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

lbs. in 30days. Her butter fat test is 5.27. This looks

about right. to the man who goes to the creamery.

“’9 have Bull Calves from 2 weeks to 8 month-gold for

sale at dairy farmers' prices all out of A. R. U. Heifers.

Vl'rite a tell us the kind of a bull you want.





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





 





FOR Sale One registered Holstein bull calf. Sire's

twenty nearest dams have 7. do. records nv. 23.53 ib.

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

lndividul. Long Veiw Farm. R. 3.Box [0 A. Rochester. Mich.





9 CHOICE Holstein bulls nearly old enough for

- service. No. lborn Jonlmry‘zl. 1917. sire‘s dam.

grand-dam and great grand-dam's semi-official records

average 84211713. butter Dam of calf 18 lbs. butter 7 days

as senior‘zyr.-old. average per cent fat 4.3. No. 2 Sired

by 23 lb. bull and out of s, 14 lb. 'unlor 2-yr.-old.

. L. BRODY. Owner. ort Huron. Mich.

Chas. l‘eters. Herdsman. Three Rivers, Mich.





Butter Fat Counts





Holstein Bull Calves from a 30 lb. 6,53 ifiire. Dam

are grand daughters of the King of the Pontlncs.

Theirdams grand den 11 tors of Sadie Vsls Concordia

the first so lb. cow. dwin S. Lewis. Marshallfilich.





‘ Bull Calf born Mar. 7. fine individual

HOISteln a prize winner from 29.62 lb. Sire and

23.90 lb. 4 yr. old dam. Price low.





A.F. LOOMIS. - - - Owosso. Mich'





 





bull and heifer calves for sale

, Extra heavy milking dams.

C. L. HULETT s SON. - - - kemos.Mich.





Bull calves sired by a double g-son of Friend Hanger-

veld De Kol Butter Boy from dams of the great-

est yesrly reco breeding. Write for photos and prices





 





 





. H' w'ohé‘l’qlg‘EORD' MANAGII serricg. ll‘lligilille t}? regisifir. _ C L' BROS .



‘ 3.1111. All ’ Mlih., R. 7. a me. 1c .. on ectric or me.

L . hm! lullsior 8: ’33.“"l..."’f".‘:2‘.“.‘52":‘i3"::

1 Always Have Holstelns semi-oficisl test. 0. B. W or. I. 6. Allan. Mich





Jersey Bulls For Sale”





Ready for service. Raleigh -- St. Lambert breeding,

Waterman it Waterman. Packard Rd. Ann Arbor. nich.





 





illie Farmstead Jerse Cattle. 3 bulls. ready forser-

V108. out of R. of M. ams. 10_heifersbred to fresh-

en next fall. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.

F s I Two registered Jerseys bull calves.Splen-

I" I. didindlviduais. Good edi rees. Priced to

sell. Long Veiw Farm. R. 3.130: 1 A. oohester. Mich.





FOR Sale 3 rows. 3 yrs. old with records. 1 heifer 2

yrs. old. 2 heifers 1 yr. old. Zheifer calves. 1 bull 6

mo. nld out of an imported daughter Noble of Oak-

land. For thrice and pedigrees write

FRED A. B ENNAN. Sec Cepsc. Mich.





FOR Sale-vMaple Lane R. ofM. Jersey Herd R.of M.

cows and their daughters all records 500 and 600 lbs.

[or sale bulls and bull calves out of these new





IBVlN FOX, Allegan.



' ready for service. Also heifers

Chorce Bulls for sale. Strong in the Blood

of Royal MaJesty. Come and see them or write for

particulars. THE WILDWOOD HERD. '



Alvin Balden. Phone 143-5.

Registered Jersey bulls.





F O R SA L E ready for service.





SMITH and PARKER. R. 4. Howell. Mich.





Shorthorn Callie oi both Sex ior Sale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

—Dairyor beef bred. Breedin stock all

Shorlhorn: ages forsale at farmers prices. . .Crum.

Sscy. Cent. Iich.. Shorthorn Breeders' Assn. McBride. Iich.

1 Maple Ridge Herd. Estab-

SHORTHORNS lished 1867 0 stock for





sale. 1. E. Tsnsvvell. Meson, Michigan.





BIDWELL sunnmunus





For Beef and Milk.

5 Bulls ready for service. 15 months to 2years. for

sale; also good Scotch-topped cows and heifers. Mod-

eru. sanitary equipment. One hour from Toledo.

Ohio. N. Y.C. B'y. Visitors Welcome. Write us.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM





Box B, Tecumseh, Michigan.





s. -

Mich.





Capac. Mich..





 





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

3 man. 1 white 1 red. rice 3150. to 8 . Icon of Max-

12 mos. r>0. O. Carlson. Leroy, MichI





walton Sultan,

the original milk strain young





Bates Shorthorns bulls 8 mos. old for sale. Price





 





8150 to 8200. J. B. Hl.MMEL. Mason. Mich.

Bulls 9 mos. to 1 mos. old from

ShOl’thOl‘nso good 5. Prices ran





7 milking co

osnnble. COLLAR BROS.. R. 2. Conklin Mich.





ilking Shorthorns; ~Bull calf 5 mos.. by a Grand-

son cf General Clay. dam by a son of General Clay.

8150. A few females. 8 E. BOOTH. Morrice. Mich.





 





 





&;etc. Ontonugon Valley Holstein Farm, Bruce's Crossing.hiich.





Additional Cattle Ads. on Page 631





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





A}, :‘5 --J-fl»——m _.

Marketing problems ..... 262 food production act. . . .238

' . the 1917 wheat crop. . . .190 future pork supply ...... 486

fl». ' Meatless days and wheat— International .......... 486

.. " a. less days ............ 286 local creamei'y problem.158

, Michigan crop c0nditi0ns..350 market milk problem. .534

.~ 3 Michigan’s crop prospects.214 milk producers’ meeting.374

l . Milk prices .............. 318 problem ............... 70

' x ‘ More and better live siock.510 new dog law .......... 90

- ‘- - live stock needed ...... 190 ssetd grain supply ...... 110

. . National food control.....110 s a e fair ’ .............. 214

, FOR VOL. CXLIX Our “Bit” ......... p. . ..486 :hl'esheris’tlicense l151w. .. 90

boys and girls ...... 534, 592 ranspor a ion DI‘O em..462

. . From July I, 1917 to January I, 19' Production costs ........ 262 Wheat congress ------- .. 90

‘ . Reduce the fire waste. . . .286 W198?“ CFOD ............ 38

- Robert Gibbons .......... 486 Utlhzmg boy labor ....... 54

Secretary Houston’s report War savings Stamps ...... 592

. . . . . . . ................ 56 Winter farm management.510

,u . _ x Editorial. Christmas, 1917 .......‘..592 control 38 Sell wheat to the govern- Farm.

Act now for a county Coal production and prices 2 Gather the scrap metal. . .350 ment ................ 286 Advises saving of all frost-

‘ ’ v" agent . . ., . . . . . , , . , , , Conservation of materials .560 Growing better gram crops Simplified spelling ....... 462 ed beans ............ 433

A.historicalrelebration... 38 Censerve the live stock. ..238‘ . . . . . . .214 Solving the milk market Alfalfa after beans. , , , _ , ;433

Army bean prices. ,,,,_,,,393 Cooperation of consumers 2 Help the boys and the problem ....... . .. Another method of Saving

A'Stabilized wheat market County agricultural agents boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . .534 Standardized market grades beans ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 464

I E---A_--‘.-..s...I........,., ...................,.... Liberty bonds ..........-286 ......... .. ......... ... A patriotic county fam

undermine s to fair. . . .1..134 Crop conditions and pros: . 14"? Stock. movements. - --350 Stimulating consumption contest . . . . . . . . . . ..313

' the. wheat congress. . . .. 54‘ ' pects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 opportunities - - - - . - - - - -374 of potatoes . . . . . . . .238 Average production costs..487

Bean DIICfi:-’*will'not be fixed Doing their hit. . . . . . . . . 18 Local war records. . . . . . . .510 The bean situation. . . . . . .462 Bean crop, the ...... . . . 3 ,,

3 “ ' ' V Federal farm loans. . . .70, 110 Maintainlng gravel roads . 90 dairymen’s problem . . .158, Bean growers’ meetings...320,

,Better seeds and earlier





   





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Food administration. . . . . ..190





onom- . .. .....,._.,,...,.374_ .. , . now

glowed. 33:11,... . . ,‘158' '~ Mani. the potato -ma.rket.214

9" ,.~ -. . . ‘2‘. iv ‘1 '~_ .‘ f ‘ “ ‘ f .- _._ _; "





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Make federal farm leans





farmer and the war





....





Detroit milk meeting. . ..430





- farm labor problem. . 262





134, 560 maturity





Bordeaux for potatoes. ._; 71'
634-4272"





‘ ‘Buy seed corn now, dry it

yourself - ..488

Car door observations. . . ..215

Cass county board finds

agent valuable asset. . 431

Cement block water tank

. ....... ' ........... 160, 375

Clearing land with a trac-

. tor .................. 55

Conserve the corn crop. . .159

Conserving and increasing

the food supply ...... 189

Cost commission findings.588

of growing wheat ...... 401

County agent work, the

growth of ........... 512

Cover crops ............. 287

for farm and orchard. . . 53

Cribbing the soft corn. . . .431

Cut-over lands, utilizing. ..263

Destroying woodchucks, an

effective method of. . .215





Drainage and the food sup-

p y ................. 39

.yEffect of maturity on ger’

mination of com ....289

Eliminate-the wastes ..... 536

England will sacrifice live

stock for grain crops..216





Eradicating quack grass. . 92

Farm labor and farm pow-

289





er ...................

Farmers can help relieve

fuel lack ............ 400

Farm machinery should be

conserved ............ 593

Farm Notes—Seeding thin

sandy land to clover,

eradicating Can. thistles,

20; top-dressing wheat

with marl 39; subsoiling

wet land, putting second

crop clover into the silo,

seeding alfalfa after

wheat, orchard grass,

speltz or emmer, 72; a

platform for farm wag-

on, sowing rye and vetch

for green manure, 112;

will a cover crop injure

the corn, 136; late culti-

vation of beans, extermi-

nating the woodchuck,

beans in the crop rota-

tion, 160; sowing lime

on wheat land, 215;

when to sow sweet clo-

ver, 240; size of drain

tile for laterals, cement

tile, exterminating nox-

ious weeds, 264; pastur-

ing alfalfa, 376; leaves

and leaf-mold as fertiliz-

er, sawdust for clay

soils, planting beans in

' hills vs. drills .......... 402

Fall plowing ............. 512

Fertilizers are cheaper now

than ever 5

Fertilizer situation, the. .-.263

“First-aid” farm emergency

methods 2

Forty. million bushels of

wheat for 1918 ....... 89

Fresh manure, wealth in. . 3

Get bean maggot now, is

warning ............. 287

Growing wheat, the cost of351

Hill vs. drill planting of

beans ................ 463

Hogging barley and wheat432

Home comforts an aid to

‘ farm work ........... 373

How to produce more food.401

Immature seed 'corn will

grow if given proper

care 239

Iowa movable sunlit hog

house 375

Labor-saving plans ....... 353

Land clearing demonstra-

tion lessons ......... 461

Late cultivated aids pota-

to crop ...... . ........

potatoes, cultivation of. 40

Lime should be ordered

now ................. 536

Make corn cribs and gran-

aries rat proof ........ 161

Manure conservation . . . .489

Maximum wheat yields. . ..135

Michigan milk news ...... 288

potatoes to be graded. ..400

Middle west wheat confer-

erence ............... 159

Moisture supply, make sure

of the

Never burn humus-making

material ............ 511

Onions, harvesting ....... 192

Permanent soil fertility. . .263

Pit 'for silo ............... 92

Potato association of Am-

erica ................ 488

blight, “no-top” potatoes 37

Preparenfor efficiency in

the hay' gleld .........

Profitable or p production431





winter work on the farm

Pulling 'éth'filifis' {w'i'til’i 't'rk'é- '

. tor . . 112

, Quack grass, ' eradicating

" nit? 'fiu'i' ' Z iéé,”£iié ', case

1.9.!“ 537





: “ against . . . . ...... ..

Red 11001! heat, the rec-





. Relation of phosphorus to





sell fer lity .........133

Road building in Michigan ’

111, 216, 377, 432, ,512.

Rosen, the spectacular‘rye 71

“Running out” of seed». . . 3

Rye as a farm crop ....... 264

Save all the seed corn. . ..511

farm seed for next year’s

crop .





............... 1

' Saving labor ............ 464





Save your seed corn, warn-

ing to Michigan farm-

ers ..431



Secretary of agriculture on

farm labor problems. .537



Seed corn ............... 464



the .............. . . . . .



selection .............. 239

selecting and curing. . . .261

shortage possible ...... 215



Seed selection and crop im-

provement . . . . . ...... 111



selecting and curing seed

corn pays . .. .......... 402



seed potatoes .......... 321



Select more seed corn. . .‘.319



Some alfalfa problems. .160



Sorting potatoes for seed..263



Soy bean culture ........ 535



Spraying potaotes . . . . . . . 17



Spring vs. winter rye. . . . .536



Stinking smut of wheat. . .192



Storage of potatoes, the. .375



Straw as a fertilizer. . . . . . 287



Study the fertility prob-

lem ................ .



Success vs. failure with clo-

ver .......... . ....... 349



Sweet clover ............ 433



System in the growing of

potatoes ....... . ..... 591



The farmer and the war..136



problem of increased pro-

duction ........ . . . . ..



sparrow and food con‘

servation . . . . . ....... 319





1917 sugar beet crop in31





Michigan . . . .

Three methods of increas-

ing your income . . . ..319

Thresher’s liCense law, the

new ................. 112

Thresh your beans twice. .512

Timothy sod for Wheat. . ..111

Trailers, farmers’ experi-

ence with

Use home-grown seed... ..

Weight standards for pine

stump wood ......... 487

What is the farm manure

worth 4

Wheat crop, take care of 19

experiments of two dec-

ades ................ 109

production, the possibil-

ities of .............. 191

Winter building operations535

storage of farm machin-

. . . ..402





. Horticulture.

Annual gathering of fruit



growers 562

Apple crop, harvesting the.193

Apples, when to harvest. .266

Berry fields, summer care1



o ...................

Cabbage after early garden 21

Cider vinegar, how to



make ....... 515

Clean up the garden... ..516

Cold storage house, a new



type of ........... . ..

Cull pile, profit from the. .241

Curculio ............. . . .. 93

Farm berry patch, the. . . .465

Fertility for onions and



cabbage .............. 562

Fertilizing onions ........ 538

Fire blight not prevalent



this fall ............. 516



of apples and pears ..... 40,

Food preparedness and the



1917 garden ......... 72

Fruit growers’ problems



discussed ............594

Fruit harvest help prob-



lem, the 137

Ginseng growing ........ 4

Growing the plum ........ 538

Having vegetables nice and



fresh all Winter ..... 434

Hops, the culture of ...... 266

Hot-bed provides winter



vegetables . . . . . ...... 465

Leaf curl ......... . ...... 4

Lice on peonies . . . . ......



turnips ................ 113

Meeting of American pom-



ologists 490

“Michigan Garden Boy,”



the ................. 56

Mulching the strawberry



bed ................. 490

Opportunities in fruit grow-



ing322

Orchard and garden asset,



a valuable ._ .......... 434

Order garden seeds now. .515

Posts of theberry ‘patch. .266

Pits for farm ,s'torage ...... 354





Preparing fruit for exhibit.217—‘

Prune to make orcha d '





. profitable .'.'. ....... ‘..404

Renovate the orchard. . ..538

Rhubarb, growing in win-



-' ter ‘ 290





’ Save your o'wix'fié'gbiiiaié

91 ~‘ - se ‘ -





accuse-cont: p: 4,"





Setting fruit trees. . . . . . ..266

Shortage of vegetable seed538

Six-basket crate, the . .217

Specimen fruits and vege-

tables ..... ..........193

Spraying greatest orchard

essential ............

Standard size fruit contain-

ers necessary .. 2

Storing vegetables ..241, 291





Strawberries, fall setting

of ...... - ......... ' . . . .290

Striped cucumber beetle





and the wilt ......... 21





'Thinning the fruit crop.. 4





Tomato and raspberry dis-

eases ....... .......11

Trimming shade trees... .217





- Turnips and rutabagas. . .. 21





Urge saving of all apple _

crop . . . . ............. 322

Vegetable growers discuss

problems ............ 378

growing, some phases of43





A dairy 00w ration ........ 595

A dairy ration with soft

corn ................ 492

Annual picnic of Holstein

breeders .............24

A ration with cornstalks. .568

Balanced ration, a. . . . . . . .567

Beet top silage ..... .......392

Breeding registered dairy

cattle 317, 429

Breechy cattle ...... . . . . .114

Breeders’ association, a. . .218

Butter cheesy and strong .567

fat in cheese making. . .369

keeping . 5

Cheese making for north-

ern Michigan ........ 439

Clean dairy utensils neces-

sary for clean milk... 23

Community cooperation in

dairying .......... . ..265

Cooperative breeding asso—

ciations 292





40

silage and the silo ...... 440

silage as summer ration 23

Cows fail to breed ........ 491

Cow-testing work in Ber-

rien county ..........

Cured alfalfa hay for cows 41

Dairy cows’ summer ration 75

industry on a secure

basis ............... .481

Detroit market milk find-

ing, the .............. 533

Does the silo roof pay. . . .406

Dollars and cents cow feed-

ing . . .242

Feeding frosted corn ...... 491

Filling the prosperity tanks1





Fill up the cracks ......... 438

For winter production in

the dairy ............ 194

Great milk meeting at the

Board of Commerce,

Detroit 406

High-testing cream, advan-

tages of 59

Hints on feeding the dairy

* cows ....... . ........ 392

Increasing dairy produc-

tion

herd efficiency ......... 41

Lessons from Columbus. .438

Light vs. heavy cream.... 75

Milk substitutes in calf

rearing .............. 43

cooler, an inexpensiVe.. 58

Milking three times a day.114

prices must be advanced406





National Dairy Show ..... 393

Proper care of the bull..218

management of the herd



sire - 1

Put corn stover in silo. . . .

Ration for dairy cows.

Regarding the price of



milk ................ 218

Ropey milk ............. 115

Shock corn silage is not



ready 293

Silage as a grain substi-



tute

spoils at foundation. . . ..115

Silo for six cows .......... 75

Silos more necessary than



ever this season ...... 41

Silo, the value of ........ 528

Suggestions on care and



feeding of dairy cattle

.........- ............. 138

Sunflowers for silage. . . ..164

The great dairy show ..... 405

young breeder’s



le'ms ..... .. . '. . .368, 393

To prevent the cows from ,_



sucking . . . . . . ....... 553

Use tested sires .......... 164

Value of milk and butter



figuring the ......... 114

What will the bull turn



outto be ....... .....48

Why mlik' tests vary ...... 407

” ' ‘ Live Stock. .

Animal restraint, first aid

to, live stock. . . . ... . . ..166

Barley as a hog feed. . . ...356.

Barn ventilation in the upw

.. . per peninsula ‘ -..294'





Breeding ewes need good

care IOCOIOIIOIIIOOOO 3

ewes, the ..............539

Brood sow .must be care-

fully fed‘ in winter. . . .466

Buy the herd boar early. ..399

Care of bull, hints on. . . ..152

Caring fer the work horse

in summer ..........

Cholera, the control of. . . .257

Clip pastures to keep live

[stock grazing to min-

imum ........ 22

Cold fall rains injurious to

’ colts .............. . ..130

Cooperate in shipping of _

stock ................ 2

Corn silage cuts beef costs





substitutes for hogs. . .....326.





Country’s live stock prob-

lem, the ............ 237





Ewes for new farm flocks.130.





Fall-sown crops for the hog

pasture ..... . ....... 3

Farm butchering saves

pork costs ........... 540

Feeding barley to hogs. . .425

frosted corn from the

shock .......356

rye to young pigs. . . . . .210

the fall pigs ........... 504

Feeding value of skim-

milk ................425

Fly nuisance, the ......... 233

repellant, a ............ 233

Future hog prices ........ 466

Handling frosted corn. . . . .514

Hog breeding crate. . . . .436

increase is necessary. . . 436

production, extending .. 42

situation, the .. ........ 513

Hogging down corn, results

from ................ 32

Horse show at Columbus..436

Housing farm animals. . . .294

How to tell the age of a

horse . . ........... . . 153

Increase your lamb crop. .504

Increasing hog products.. 6

the breeding stock ...... 243

the meat supply . . . .57, 281

Keeping scrub stock ...... 233

Keep the pigs growing. . . .152

Live stock advertising, im-

portant phases of ..... 116

figures for France ...... 257

situation and outlook, the397

Make pork with the food

wastes ..... . . . . . . . ..130

Managing a “gold mine”. . 6

Michigan, wants western

sheep ...... . ....... .514

More live stock for two

states 380

More sheep for Michigan..596

New flocks need pure-bred

rams ................ 233

Basturing sweet clover. . . .

Reducing losses from hog

cholera .............. 513

Results with sheep in the

upper peninsula ..... 399

Save the sows ............ 327

Selecting the ram ........ 256

Sheep growers to be en-

couraged . . . . ...... 424

Sheep raising, factors in. .

Silage for sheep. . . . . . . . . . 326

Silo, value of the. . . . ...... 1

Southern Michigan Short-

horn sale ............ 466

Starting with ewe lambs. .232

Tankage as a hog feed. . .424

The kind of corn to grow. .324

live stock to feed ...... 424

nation’s food-animal prob-

lem ................. 166

new dog law ........... 94

silo and food conserva-

. tion ................. 69

1917 International ...... 559

Three points to be consid-

ered in silo building. .152

Two methods of curing

pork ........ . .‘ ...... 425

Utilize the straw. . . ...... 380

Weaning lambs . . . . ..... 57

the colt ........... 295, 355

Weight of calves .......... 324

Will it pay to increase the

live stock 51

Wool as a war crop ....... 436





Veterinary.





Abscess .......... . . ..... 532

Actinimycosis ..... . . .15, 479

Acute indigestion ..... 15, 235

Barren Cow, 187, 211, 423, 507

Black mare pants ......... 131

Bone spavin ............. 155

Breeding question. . . . 107,

Bruised foot





Bursal swelling . . . . . .. . . .

Choke ................... 235

Chorea ........... . . . . .' . .507

Chronic cough ....... 155, 211

grease heel ....... . . . ..532

. indigestion .......... . . 507

scours .............5

suppurative lymphangitis

Cold abscess 6

Collar gall ...... . .‘p. .131

Dow eats gl'eather. . ., 371

pox Ir. 0 o o". a I)"





'v- .3' DEC. 29, 1917.





Congestion .m...-.......131

Constipation . . ....... . . .390

Contagious abortion. .107, 131

Cough ........... ..‘32

Cow coughs ............ .611



gives blood . .87



passes bloody milk. . . . ..107

Cows do not come in heat



._ ........ ' ............ 35, 67

Dairy question ......... . .371

Deep milker ....... ‘ ..... ' .107

Deformed limb .. 35

Dehorning pregnant c‘ows.555

Diarrhea ............ 235, 315

Diseased stifle joints ...... 371

Drying a milch cow ...... 479





Q





2 . Dysentery ............... 532





Eczema ......... 211, 390, 423

Feeding a young colt ..... 67

questions .............. 51

Fistula . .' ................ 479

Foot soreness ........ 87, 423

Garget ............... 35, 67

Heifer fails to come in heat

................... . . . . .555

Hernia ......... 107, 131, 155

Hip joint lameness. ..... ,. 15

Hog cholera .............. 423

Horse sneezes ....... 255, 315

Incipient heaves ......... 611

Indigestion, 51, 87, 107, 131,

315, 371, 507, 555.

Infected milk ............ 107

‘ naval .................. 187

Inflamed ears ............ 67

Injured back ............ 555

tendons .......... 235, 315

Irritation of the skin ...... 107

Lacerated teat ........... 611

Leucorrhea .............. 15

Lice ................. 67, 279

Licking disease ......... 7

Loss of appetite ......... 315

Lumpjaw ......... ' ....... 479

Lumpy milk ............. 315

Malignant sore ........... 131

Mechanical pneumonia . . .452

Muscular soreness ....... 532

Nasal catarrh ........ 35, 107

Naval abscess ........... 371

ill .................... 255

infection .............. 155

Obstructed gullet ......... 211

teat ..... » ......... 279, 390

Open teat ................ 423

Paralysis ................ 107

Partial loss of power ..... 423

paralysis .............. 131

Pica ................. 67, 187

Pigs have piles .......... 155

Poisoned lambs ..... ‘ ..... 255

Pneumonia .............. 555

Ptomaine poisoning . . . .‘..279

Ravenous eater ...... _. . . .452

Rheumatism, 35, 87, 187, 211,

235, 611. ' ' " "

Ringworm ............... 211

Rough milking .......... 315

Scours .................. 35

Scrotal abscess .......... 35

hernia ................ 131

Serous abscess ........... 15

Short-winded ............ 131

Shoulder boils ........... 315

Shy breeder ........ 211, 279'

Sitfast .......... 87, 131, 255

Small boils ............. 371

sitfast ................ 479

Sore eyelid .............. 452

neck

.................. 279





Sores on teats...‘ ........ 87

Sow fails to come in heat..532

Stifle weakness ......... 131

Stocking ........ ‘ ......... 5 32

Stomach worms in lambs.235

Strangles ................ 131

Stringhalt ............... 479

Stunted pig ............. 507

Sweeney .................. 51

Swollen glands .......... 187

k





................. 211



Thin horses ......... 279, 452

Tuberculosis ........ 279, 611 >

of the liver ........... . 51

Tumor in mouth ......... 107

Umbilical herian . ....... 131

Vaginitis ............ . . . . 15

Vertigo .................. 15

Warts ........... 67, 187, 611

on teats ............... 211

Weakness ...............371

Windpuffs ....... . ....... 87

Worm colic . . . . .......... 107

Worms ......... 279, 371, 611

Wounded hock .......... 107-3

Yearling heifer sucks cows255





A dropsical trouble ...... 182

Alfalfa as a green food..394

August poultry reminderi..106



Caponize late-hatched cock-

erels . ......... 154

Care of fowls during molt 65

Catarrh ............... . . 49

Chicken silo, a‘practical. .208

Chicks have digestive trou- .

.bles , - ..128

Choice cockerels valuable . .422



Cholera .....



Clean-up season for poule

try is here. .5. .‘.‘..234

Cost not egg-producinglfeed‘s ~ ,

e .,. ‘.'. Vo'eooo





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The most important announcement

we have ever made to dairymen and farmers





Ms CCLURE MILKER





Here 8 big news that will create a nation-wide Interest wherever cows are milked. The McClure





Company—makers of Saginaw Silos—.will place on the market a milking machine of the most '





improved type. ln these times, when the need for man power is so great, we have deemed it

our patriotic duty and privilege to serve our country by summoning all our resources and experi-

ence to the development of a practical, low priced milking machine.





The McClure Milker is really a new de-

vice with an old name—a name that is

familiar to dairymen and farmers the

country over. F or the last twelve years

the name McClure, as manufacturers of

the Saginaw Silo, has stood for progressive-

ness in silo construction and manufacturing.

Saginaw Silos lead in sales, quality and

satisfactory servicewthousands of them

are in use.





McClure Milker Meets Dairying

Conditions





The development of the McClure Milker is in line

with our policy of greater service to dairymen—the

kind of service that has made the Saginaw Silo and

the McClure Company famous. With this idea as

our guide, we have been devoting our time to the

solution of the milking problems of the dairyman.





The McClure Milker. however, 1s not the result of

hurried or careless effort. lt 1s the result of careful,

painstaking research and investigatiOn over a long

period of time. We have familiarized ourselves

with practically every machine on the market, in-

cluding those made 1n foreign countries. We have

seriously taken upon ourselves the obligation of

meeting dairying conditions. We have learned

how to make a milker that will do your work

efficiently and at low cost.





 





 





 





 





 





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Hundreds are placing their Saginaw Silo orders now——

taking advantage of the present favorable prices.





Soft corn, of this past harvest—thousands of acres of

it—has cause

LUTE NECESSlTY. There is an unprecedented de-

mand for silos and this demand will far exceed the

supply 1n our opinion.





Large government contracts are consuming silo mate-

rial, and the available material for use in silos is very

limited. Then, again, congested shipping conditions and

l higher freight rates warrant your acting immediately.





THE M CLURE COMPANY .





Save Labor and Keep the Herd





This announcement comes at an opportune time—a

time when we all must conserve our man power and

rescurces. We know that satisfactory dairy help is

hard to get and keep, and only through labor saving

machinery can you save money: and labor in order

to meet the increased cost of operating your dairy

and farm. Every business is facing this problem.





Dairy cows are a vital necessity to our country.

particularly at this time. Since the war started our

exports on condensed milk alone have increased

from about two million dollars to over twenty

millions. Every patriotic farmer will make the

greatest possible effort-to maintain his herd.





Don't sell the producing dairy cow to the butcher.

The proper installation of a McClure Milker will

save one, two 61' three men's time and labor. ac-

cording to the size of your herd. lt is the best kind

of a hired man because it never quits. lt keeps

your help better satisfied because it takes the

drudgery out of milking.





McClure Milker the Natural Way





The McClure Milker imitates almost perfectly the

calf method. The action of the McClure Milker is

the same day in and day out—there is no uncertain

human element to contend with—no lost temper or

abusive language that disturbs the cow's content-

ment and peace of mind. This is vital to the well-

being of your herd. '





When we designed the McClure Milker we used as





few parts as possible. and each part is easy to keep '





sweet and clean. This simplicity reduces trouble

to minimum and saves time in the operation of the

machine. Other McClure features combine to

make the McClure Milker as near perfect as

human skill can devise. We have found ways

and means of eliminating milking troubles.





the silo to be recognized as an ABSO-





Saginaw, Mich.





 





. us immediately.





Now ls the 'Time to Buy Your Saginaw Silo





lncreased prices will follow.

your Saginaw Silo now.

For l9l8 the Saginaw Silo line will be complete—a





silo for every need

choice—the famous Saginaw Steel— built Silo, the Sagi-

naw Leader Silo or the McClure Tile Silo.





Don t wait and lose money that you can now save, and

take chances on securing the type of silo which you

prefer.



Send for complete information about the latest type of

silo construction.





The Entire McClure Organization Is

at Your Service





We have mobilized the entire McClure organization

of over L500 representatives to serve you. These

men are with us heart and soul in this great task

that we have assumed. You will find every _

McClure salesman imbued with the McClure idea

of service, and ready to assist you in the successful

operation of the McClure Milker.





Price Not Yet Decided





Owing to the pressing need for a milking machine

of the right kind, we are making this announcement

earlier than we had intended. The present con-

dition of the market and the difficulty in getting

materials makes it impossible for us to tell exactly

what the price will be. We know what the price

would be if we made them in small quantities, but

McClure Milkers will be built on the basis of large

production and the price will be as low as is con-

sistent‘ with the McClure high quality standard. You

will get the advantages that come. from big manufac-

turing. facilities and organization. We will make it

possible for you to own a perfected type of milking

machine at the lowest- possible cost.





Write for Advance lnfOrmation—Now





Thousands of dairymen will take advantage of this

new McClure service. For they realize the need

and know they can depend on the McClure Milker

because it is made and backed by the McClure

Company. We suggest that you get in touch- with

Orders will be filled 1n the order





in which they are received.





McClure Milkers in larger quantities will be ready

to meet the increased demand in the very near

future. We will be pleased to give you advance in-

formation immediately. Ask for McClure Milker ‘

Booklet No. 270





Protect yourself ——~ buy





and pocketbook. You have your





Ask for Silo Booklet No. 370





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