The 'Only _Wéek.ly Agricultural, Horticultural, and LiveAStock Journalmin the State.

L DETROIT,'MICH., SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1918





I voucn no. '10 ‘ ,

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“cstcrn Sheep onCut—ovcr Lands in Michigan.

' By M. E. DUCKLES *





."HEEP raising on the cut-over lands\





of northern Michigan has become -

By.





a. subject of intense interest.

the testimony of owners now engaged

in the industry there can hardly be

doubt that it is a profitable undertak-

ing. A notable demonstration is.now

being carried on by Gee & Mitchell, of

Grand Traverse county. ~ /



Early in May last year this firm un-

loaded from the cars at Mayfield four

hundred and twelve eyes from a ranch

in Montana. -The demonstration now

co'vering ten months, including the

summer and greater part of an unusu-

ally cold and stormy winter, goes to

”confirm the belief that the climate of

the lake region is as congenial to the

growth and develdpment of. western

sheep as that of their native heath.

Throughout the season they ranged the

plains of the upper Boardman, subsist-

ing on the grass and shrubbery of

these lands till'December 9, when the

first heavy snow fell; They were then

brought up to the yards-and put 'on a

ration of hay and oats which they have

had regularly ever since that date.

This feed was grown on a forty-acre

tract belonging to‘the firm and located

on the. Boardm-an river bottom. The





best of hay land is found along this

stream.



Mr. George Mitchell, under whose

personal care the sheep have thrived,

has hardly his equal as a sheep man

in the state. He has kept the flock

free from ticks and other pests, and

has not lost an animal on any account.

He has followed a daily practice of

feeding sulphur mixed with salt. This

was begun with very small amounts

and gradually increased until the sheep

were taking about one part of sulphur

to five parts of salt. The odor of the

sulphur from their hides was very no-

ticeable at times. The treatment prov~

ed effective in keeping them free from

ticks and it was thought actually im-

proved the health of the flock. Later

the practice of mixing tobacco with

their salt was followed, about one cup.

‘ful of tobacco dust being used to a

pail of salt, to prevent worms. In or-

der to combat grubs the troughs were

built narrow and the sides smeared

with tar during fly time so the sheep

would get it on their noses, the tar

being offensive to the grub flies.





 





 





Proper shelter has not been 0Ver-

looked. This is provided by a tightly

constructed, half-open shed. It is thir-

ty feet wide by one hundred and twen-

ty feet in length, built on a gentle

slope facing the south.



As to the dog menace, so often urg-

ed as a serious" obstacle in Michigan,

it is evidently not so important as

many have led us to believe. The pres-

ent law providing for a tax of two d01—

lars on male dogs and five dollars on

females, is full of holes, making it dif-

ficult to enforce, but it can be made

to serve the purpose where public sen-

timent is educated to frown on the

canine nuisance. In the instance here

demonstrated no trouble whatever has

been encountered and none is aticipat-

ed. It should be stated, however, that

the herder is watchful and careful,

staying by the flock and taking no fool-

ish risks.



In their desire to improve the flock

the Gee & Mitchell firm purchased a

dozen pure-bred Shropshire bucks.

These have been running with the

ewes, and a one hundred per cent in





 





crease is expected this spring. Still.

more sheep will be purchased if they

can be had, so confident is the firm

that the venture will prove to be a

practical success on a much larger

scale. They see no reason why our cut-

over lands should not become one of

the finest wool producing sections in

the United States. Western animals

are preferred because they herd to-

gether much better than those native

to the eastern part of the country.

Since homesteading has broken up

much of the best grazing land in the

west, the sheep men of that section

should feel safe in bringing their flocks

here.



Success lies in proper management,

in knowing the business, and in will—

ingness to devote time 'and thought to

it. With proper shelter for the winter

and a fair supply of good hay or other

light feed the chief elements of uncer-

tainty are removed, and we need have

no hesitancy in giving the industry en-

couragement.



Because of the eonditiOns favorable

to the sheep industry it is more than

probable that this state will again be—

come. one of the big sheep states of

the republic.





 





 





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DETROIT, MARCH 9, 1918





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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





Five years ago the

Direct Marketing. Michigan Farmer



started a campaign

for the betterment of direct marketing

facilities for Michigan farmers. At

that time our Farm Commerce depart~

ment was established and special at.

tention was given to the direct mar-

keting proposition through the medi-

um of the parcel post, as well as

through the facilities offered by ex-

press shipment. Lists of farmers who

desired to sell products direct to city

consumers were secured and turned

over to the Post Office Department.





W'hile the idea of direct marketing

was then new, a considerable volume

of trade was built up between Michi-

gan farmers-and city consumers which

has since been maintained and gradu-

ally increased. This pioneer work was

of sufficient importance to attract the

attention of the Post Office Depart-

ment, and as a natural result when in-

creased facilities were provided for

direct marketing. the plan was first

tried out in this city. A fleet of motor

trucks for city delivery has been pro-

vided, and the weight on parcel post

packages has been increased to sev«

enty' pounds, this increase in weight to





be effective on March 15. This weight





of'parccl post packages will be accept-

ed in the first three zones, outside of

which a fifty-pound limit will be main-

tained.



As a means of giving Michigan

Farmers readers early opportunity to

avail themselves of this extended ser-

vice, we published in a recent issue an

editorial notice requesting farmers who

desired to establish a direct business

with city consumers to send us their

names and a list of the products which

they had to offer. These names were

filed with the Parcel Post Division of

the Detroit Post Oflice, and have been

given wide publicity in the city

through the daily press and otherwise.



Other readers who desire to avail





_,them8eiveswof this service should ad-





vise us at once, statingwhat‘produets

tlfey have: to’oifer, in. what quantities

they will have them to sell. and any

other informatmn which will be of

vacuums-=1)





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quarters as much milk .as they have





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large proportion of" cases.



Thisenlargement .of the parcel post

service, together with the establish-

ment of motor truck express lines una

der the plan outlined in another col-

umn of this issue should greatly facili-

tate the shipment of farm and dairy





products directly to consumers in the





big centers of population of this state.

The Post Office. Department. has an-

nounced that if the plan works out

well here it will be made nation-wide,

thus greatly facilitating‘the marketing

of many classes of farm products in

comparatively small shipments direct

from the farm to city obnsumers.



'We trust that Michigan Farmer read-

ers will manifest their interest in this

proposition to an extent which will

make this newly iaugurated service a‘

success from. the start, thus materially

increasing the proportion of-the con-

sumer’s dollar received by the pro-

ducer, and eliminating the toll of the

middlemen to a very noticeable de-

gree. If you are interested in this

movement toward the extension of di-

rect marketing, send us your name and

address, together with information re-

garding the products you have to offer

at the earliest possible date;





Many Michigan Farmer



Spring Milk readers will be directly

Prices. interested in the milk

prices which will obtain



in the Detroit market milk area. for

the succeeding three months. Prices

for this period Were fixed by the De-

troit Milk Commission at its meeting

on March 4, the prices established and

the reasons thereof being set forth in

the official report of the meeting which





is appended hereto.



March prices to producers remain on

the February basis. The prices fixed

forrApril and May are approximately

$1.00 per hundred higher~ than those

which prevailed during the same pe-

riod last year. The lower price made

to consumers during the month of‘Ap-

ril was established to stimulate con-

sumption of whole milk and discourage

the family use. of evaporated milk

which is now-selling on a competitive

basis with whole milk at present retail

prices, due to the reduced cargo space

allotted to canned milk for export by

the British shipping board. The ofii-

cial report of the recent meeting of

the Commission follows:





Pursuant to a regular call filed by

the distributors and‘ producers, the

Detroit Milk Commission met in the

Board of Commerce rooms March 4,

and took testimony of consumers, dis-

tributors and producers of milk con~

tributing to the city of Detroit. A re

View of these facts ShOWS that the cost

of producing milk during the months

of March and April is approximately

the same as the cost of production dur-

ing the other winter months. The cost

of distribution as established last fall

is approximately the same today assit

was at that time. The Commission

therefore deemed the present retail

price of milk a consistent one, when

full remuneration for the labor and

cost of production, transportation,

handling and distribution are consid-

ered. The retail price of milk for the

month of March is accordingly left at

fourteen icen’ts per quart and eight

cents per pint.



Although the cost of production dur-

ing the month of April is no less than

during the other winter months of the

year, the producers of milk expressed

their willingness to accept a price less

than the cost of production, providing

the retail price of milk was lowered.

They did this in anticipation‘of an in-

crease in consumption of milk. Due

to the general need for economy and

in response‘to appeals for the conser-

vation offood, milk consumption dur-

ing the winter months has. been only

about seventy-five per cent of normal,

that is' to say that Detroit and the

other cities of M-ichiga-n- and, Q» fact,

the cities of the middle west ingen-

eral, have been consuming about three;





during the winter season in. previous





yem; >



”Accordingly, the Milk Commission

fixed :; the 'retaelltgpri‘ee for thmmonch'x on

i A at- thirteen-“cents per quarts ant-h

s ‘=’cch€s"~p‘cr-~‘plznt. Itr‘ls‘hOpodw’that ‘





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prbduceris and consumers“ _ in a very fl





   





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1111' Yenl’at'the“ prices ii; which? it:

hasbcen‘sellin‘g during the winter has,

been the cheapest source of "animal





   





‘fbod available, and 'with this further





reduction in the April price it stands

out pro—eminently as the cheapest

source of nutrition available for the

family. .



The Commission went still further

and established the price of milk for

the month of May. Inasmuch as dur-

ingthe month of May dairy cattle will

be grazing in‘pastures, the cost of pro-

duction will be less than during the

feeding months. In view of this fact,

the Commission fixed "the price at

twelve cents per quart and seven cents

per pint. The joint requests of the

producers and distributors as given

om‘cial-sta‘nding by the Milk Commis-

sion should meet the approval of every

Detroit ' housewife, and every consumer

of milk, and should lead to a more

liberal consumption ofthis very im-

portant nutritious "and valuable food.



Following— out the schedule of prices

at which milk is’ to be sold, and con—

forming in‘Fa reasonable degree to the'

cost of production, the price of milk

during the month of March at ship-

ping platform in the fifteen cent zone

was fixed at $3.35 per cwt. for 85

per cent of shipments, and $2.40 for fif-

teen per cent in every zone. Of this

price $3.34 and $2.39 for the respective

amounts is to be paid to the producers

and one cent per cwt. into the treas-

ury of the Michigan Milk Producers’

Association to be used for publicity

purposes as provided by the action of

producers at a recent delegate meet-

ing. The reason for this reduced

price for the fifteen per cent is

because the consumption of milk in

the city of Detroit is not up to the reg-

ular standard, and fifteen per cent of

the milk produced must go into vari-

ous lines of dairy manufacture.



During the month of April both pro-

ducer and distributor are to accept a

lesser compensation for their services,

the producer accepting $2.85 per cwt.

for so much of his milk as can be used

for the city trade. For the month of

May the similar price will be $2.45

per cwt. Of the above 'i'prices $2.84

and $2.44,~respectively, are-to be'paid

tonproducers, and one cent per cwt.

paid into the treasury of the Michigan

Milk Producers’ Association as for

March. , '



This spring price adjustment divides

the loss on April 'milk as between-pro-

ducers and distributors in a manner

which met the approval of the repre-

sentatives of both who were present at

the meeting and who approved this

course of gradual price reduction to

consumers as necessary under present

conditions. The Commission also took

steps at this meeting to have an audit

made showing the present distribution

costs of representative distributors as

an aid to equitable price determina»

tion for future months.



In view of the unsatisfactory“ efforts

toward equitable price adjustments for

market milk in othercenters of con-

sumption, producers of market milk in

the Detroit area are to be, congratulat-

ed on the success of the Detroit plan

adopted on the initiative of their or?

gani-zation, under which, just prices

have been insured to producers, and

an adequate future supply of milk in-





sured to - consumers.





A recent'report of the



Federal Farm Federal Farm Loan



Loans. Board shows that on



February 1 the total



amount of money paid out to farmers



since the establishment of'the federal



land banks was $50,782,432 covering



24,020 loans. The total number of



loans applied for up to February 1 was

112,146 for a total of $260,556,981.



The federal land bank at St. Paul

which serves the district in which

Michigan is located leads the list of

twelve land banks in the total amount

of loans closed,;. which aggregate

nearly $10,000,000. While Michigan

does’not stand anywhere near the top

ofvthe- list in‘ the aggregate amount of

103115 ‘closedpit is}; fair average ofzthe





states inwthis regard-i The total amount ‘





of'loavns’closcd in. this state on‘Februa

cry 1 was $184,300. Aniaddzltional $154,-

700 in loans have been, approved: on

the samcndite, while there were applici





cations on file" for: loans aggregating:-





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doubl’c‘ih sin ., , . '1

by» the; farmers attire-titre ,

states in the district. _ Mlchigaif1~,.anil





 





Wisconsin are nearly equal in- the]





amount ofV‘bus'incss done. Following

the St. Paul district ‘in the. order" of

loans made. come three Pacific coast

districts, then five central, western and

southern districts, then three eastern

districts. - . ~

These figures illustrate the pOpular-

ity of this form of loans with farmers

in sections of the country where inter-

est rates are comparatively high and

capital at a premium. They also show





the number of applications to be piling ‘





up in‘every district, indicating a rapid

future growth of the federal farm loan

system. Farmers in sectionsofWMich-

igan where high interest ratesprevail

should secure literature from the Fed-

eral Land Bank at St. Paul and plan

on the organization of a federal farm

loan association .in, their_ respective

communities as a‘ source of financial

relief. '





 





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. _





 





Fgreign.



The European 'War.—-—Last week the

American soldiers successfully repuls-

ed a German raid against their sector

in northeastern France. ‘A consider-

able number of the raiders were killed

and some prisoners were taken. The





Germans not only initiated” their raid .





with a tremendous shell fire, but also

used immense quantities of gas bombs.

Out 3f eighty Americans who were

gassed, only six died, whereas the us-

ual percentage of fatalities is about,

twenty per cent, which indicates the

unusual physical condition of Ameri-

can troops. Maps were found on the

Germans showing that every detail of

the American trenches and ever: fea-

ture of the surrounding country that»

could be of military importance, had

been carefully mapped out by the en-

emy to aid him in his attack. It is

now believed that German plans con-

templated much larger operations.

which were frustrated through the

successful fighting of the Yankees. At

least four rehearsals were held by the

Germans before the attack was under~

taken. Several German raids were

also undertaken along the remainder

of the western front. These were gen

erally unsuccessful, although in a few

instances the Germans, gained tempor-

ar'y foothold in the Allies’ trenches.

Southeast of Rheims they succeeded in

entering the French lines but were

quickly driven out. in a‘counter-attack.





—No further information of import- ,





ance has reached this country from

northern Italy, Macedonia, nor front

Palestine. In the latter place the Brit-

ish have succeeded in holding‘Jer-icho

and other territory recently occupied.

——Russia has finally signed Germany’s

peace terms. German troops were 'ad-

vancing upon. Petrograd and other im-

portant cities in horthern Russia to

compel the Bolsheviki officials to agree

to the dictation of the Teutons. It‘is

understood that as a result of Russia’s

delay in signing the peace terms, she

will be obliged to give oyer a. wider

territory to Germany. It is also ruc

mored that Turkey is to receive as her

share of the spoils, Trans-Caucasia.——

Japanese and Chinese forces are being

mobilized to protect , Allied military

stores at Vladvoostock, Russia—Am-

erican Ambassador Francis does not

expect to quit Russian soil at least for

some time, while British and French

ambassadors have already left Petro-

grad.

, National.



Porto Rico has become dry territory.

The. prohibition-measure went into ef-

fect on March 3.



Temporary suspension of the meat-

less meals and porkless Saturdays has

been announced: by the Federal Food

Administration. Increased meat pro-

duction and'the necessity for still

greater restriction in the consumption

of wheat are given as the reason for





the change in the food conservation. ‘





This order does not affect the meat-



less. Tuesdays, which the department



still asks the public to - recognize;

Combo] Roosevelt,,-who recently, .un-





derwcnt an operationi-has suficlentlyéz .





recovered: to: leave‘tlfe hospital" this

week; Be: has. suffered the loss 'of

hearing in his left: can; however. i ‘

The third: Liberty LOanxcampatgn

will “be. startedhon April, 6' the anniver-

sary of ure- :-decluratibb=" olivin- on '

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than; , .h:





other. ‘
townships. South Haven and

. Covert berdering updn the lake

}' ‘ have a warm light soil and as a result

‘ ' - many orchards of peach, pear, plum

' cherry and apples, while many acres

are set to berries. Probably twenty-

five per cent of this land is in fruit.

South and west are six townships

where the apple is most important. Oth-

er fruits' are, of course, grown and some

grapes and berries, but the apple takes

the lead. Fruit in this section is far,

however, from being an exclusive cro‘p

~ as not one farmer in ten grows it for

. ” . - the market. General stock, and grain

I farming is the rule and there are many

. , acres of sw'amp muck ground which

.. -. has been drained and produces wealth

in the form of peppermint oil. onions



and cabbage.



The grape industry of the county is

centered around Paw Paw, Lawton

and Mattawan, and nearly all of the

grapes are grown within a radius of

five miles. The shipping in a good

year has been as heavy as 2,400 cars,

and the grape juice, factories located

in these three villages use 7,000 tons

yearly. This area to a greater extent,

than any other part of the county, is a

one crop district, but not exclusively.

The grape is not a fruit which can be

grown profitably in small areas. The

number and size of the vineyards

make this community dependent upon

a large amount of help at harvest time.



In the vicinity of Decatur celery'is

a big crop, the shipping running about

600 cars, while much is trucked to

near-by towns. Celery is a big money

crop, but requires much labor, espe-



’ cially at trenching time. ,Many onions

are also grown in this section and

some potatoes. All of these crops re-

quire the maximum amount of labor at

the same time. Much peppermint oil

is also produced here but it is distilled

in late July or August, and requires

no attention during the fall harvest.



The northeastern part of the county

, is devoted to general farming with the

‘ emphasis placed on potatoes and beans.



More potatoes are shipped from Ken-

dall and Gobleville than from any oth-

‘er part of the county and it requires

extra help on every farm growing fif-



. teen or twenty acres of potatoes. The

.' ’ high land of this section drops ab-

l . , ruptly to the muck swamp on the east,



several thousand acres of which has

been drained to provide for the largest

.- mint farm in the world.



The rest. of the county Keeler, Ham-

ilton, Southern Porter, Waverly, Bloom-

ingdale, Almeria and parts of almost

every other township is devoted to gen-

eral farming. Good land this is. Fine

country homes; rolling fields of grain





HAT shall be our regard for the

oat crop this year? With seed

corn so scarce and With much



of it of poor germinating ability, there

is a great tendency to plant oats as a

substitute crop. Many are considering

the planting of oats on a much more

extensive scale than has ever obtain-

ed before. Only yesterday, I heard a

, .‘Vprom‘inent farmer say, “Last year I

a , had eighty acres of corn and twenty

. ' acres of cats, but this year I am figur-

7 . . ”(ing on eighty acres of cats and twenty

" acres of corn.” Since there has been

in some sections a tendency to regard

. 2 the man who changes thus from corn

. (ftp oats as a slacker, it seems fitting to

1; discuss this operation with a view to

"determining whether it is justified,

pm if so, is it at the same time pa-

triotic and .caleulated ~to increase the

odd supply 01' the nation.





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Play that Fits the Muscle,,Nerve and,Brain for Hard Work.





and alfalfa; herds of well-bred cattle;

large barns and innumerable silos

bespeak the lavish gifts of nature. A

beautiful country, too; every farm is

traversed by a clear spring brook and

the blue of heaven reflected in a hun-

dred lakes.



These general farmers, with the help

of a hired man or two, manage to care

for their crops, the harvest of which

is spread over'the entire growing sea-





 





son, but they are not in a position in

the fall when they want to sow their

wheat, take care of the corn and get a

strangle hold on spring work by doing

a bit of fall plowing to help out their

neighbor who dabbles in fruit.



This \brief description is given to

show that while Van Buren county as

a part of the great Michigan Fruit Belt

has a national reputation, fruit grow-

ing is only one of a number of highly





 





School was Dismissed when the Farmers Needed Help Most, and Not at the

Usual Vacation Season.





How Shall We Regard the Oat Crop?





During the Coming Season This Crop Promises to Become

a Factor of Unusual Economic Import in Michigan’s

Agricultural Program.





. By I. J.

when an acre is planted to cats, we

have every reason to believe that that

acre will bring forth its quota of food,

especially if the oats have been treat-

ed and are, planted early. I wish it

were possible to make the same state-

ment about corn. However, this will

not be the case. Despite the fact that

so much has been said about this im-

portant matter, not more than fifty per

cent of our farmers have actually test-

ed. their seed corn ear by ear. True,

some of them. say they have tested,

but if followed up one finds that the

test consisted in taking one hundred

grains hit or miss from the ears. These

were placed in a pan of soil behind the





stove and when the grains sprouted, "





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reckoned on the number that grew.

Such a test is absolutely worthless so

far as reducing labor losses this year

since it neither searches for nor “kicks

out” the dead ear.



The result can be nothing else than

that many fields will show up thirty,

forty and fifty per cent stands. It

would seem as though the conditions

of this year would cause even the

drowsiest farmers to test their seed

com 30 that such stands would not be

in evidence, but that. is entirely too

much to expect. Ilwould be willing to

wager that there will be a great many

fields that will show less than the

stand indicated above.



On the other hand, it will be quite





uncommon to see fields of cats con- filling of the grain, but the early oats, "





ndertakmg





AN BUREN 001111.” has eighteen How the Schools of Van Buren County Helped to Harvest

Last Season’s Crops.





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as early as possible.

the late oats are not as good as the





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

     





specialized agricultural projects which

are carried on, while in the total value

of the product first place would prob-

ably have to be given to general farm-

ing. All of these things have an im-

portant bearing upon the labor situa-

tion.



The help problem in the county had

always taken care of itself. In all sec-

tions other than the grape center,

enough local labor was always avail-

able to look after the harvest and in

this locality a large number of hobos

were always on hand to earn the easy

money paid to grape pickers and hold

a sort of national reunion. The grow-

ers have always liked this sort of help

for the reason that it was not neces-

sary to furnish accommodations. They

cooked their own meals and shifted

for themselves. Many large growers,

too, provided tents and families came

from some distance and camped out.

They really enjoyed the outing and ev-

erybody could work and earn good

wages. Help was thus secured and

there had never been a real labor

problem.



For the past few years, however, the

difficulty in securing general farm

help, while notvalarming, was begin-

ning to cause some uneasiness. There

were, of course, reasons for the short-

age of labor. A few years ago a man

could find employment during the win-

ter in cutting logs and wood but that

time is passed and from the day that

the fall harvest is out of the way until

spring opens there is practically noth-

ing for the laboring man to do. As a

usual thing the day laborer is not an

economist. He spends as he goes and

Winter without a job is a real hard

ship. Again the increase in the cost

of living has made it difficult indeed for

him to live twelve months on the wag-

es of eight, and he has been driven to

the city where he can obtain steady

work.



As before stated, this movement had

been going on for some time and was

becoming more noticeable each year.

And then came the war. In draft and

enlistment several hundred young men.

mostly the sons of farmers and the

laboring class, were called to the col-

ors. Others moved to the cities to"

take the places of those who had re-

sponded. The result was immediately

apparent. Labor was hard to find.

There was a shortage everywhere in

the county. The patriotic farmer, how-

ever, managed to plant the usual

acreage of crops and partly care for

them; and what a season; cold late

spring with hard frosts in some sec-

tions as late as the middle of June;

cold wet summer; killing frosts in half



(Continued on page 336).





taining stands that are so low as this,

more because the cat crop is generally

a higher germinator than corn and also

because most farmers err on the side

of sowing too many oats rather than

sowing too few, and thus the plants

grow to the space they have.-



Sow th'e Oats Early.



In oat seeding, there are three points

that are very important and the suc-

cess of the crop quite largely depends

upon how these three are administer-

ed. They are early seeding, treating

for smut, and variety. While there

are some rather limited regions of the

United States that: can use the Swed-

ish or late maturing oats, it is true

that cats matured early are much freer

from smut than those that maturela

week or so later. To this end, it is

very important to get the cats seeded

The reason why





early is not alone the matter of the
(due to weather mditions,



badly attacked by the mm: as are this

late ones and hence the increased.

' yield.- Some years this infection is so

marked that the very late'oats cannot

be harvested for their ‘grain And so

it behooves every oat grower to sow

early oats and sew them early.



’ Smut Treatment Pays Big.



On the farm that annually grows

from onesixth to one-fourth of its

acreage in oats, there is no one thing

that makes more difference in the prof-

its to be derived from that farm than

the treatment of the seed oats fer

smut. Last year I counted several

representative portions in smutted oat

fields concerning which the owner said:

“I have never been troubled with smut;

neither am I troubled with it this

year.” Perhaps the owner hadn’t been

troubled‘ but in many cases we feund

that it was because it took a very

large leak to trouble him. When oats

can be smutted to the extent of forty

seven per cent and the owner not be

troubled, there is something wrong,

either with his eyes, sanity, or sense

‘ of money values. Such a percentage

of smutted plants means that the pos-

sible yield is cut in two.



Of course, all were not quite as large

as this one, but nevertheless, the av-

erage count of a large number of fields

was fourteen per cent or, in other

words, the. average reduction of yield

was by one-seventh. Placing this

truth in another way, it means that

the owner grew on eight acres of oat

land the number of bushels that should

have been grown on seven acres, or

he grew on sixteen acres what he

might have grown on fourteen. Thirty-

five cents Worth of formaldehyde, sev-

enty-five cents invested in a hand-

sprayer, and an hour of time for each

of two men—or an expenditure of

about $1.60, would have rendered those

other two acres capable of producing

their maximum of oats. One dollar

and sixty cents, when it can be used

to secure from eighty to one hundred

bushels of cats, is a pretty safe invest-

ment.





 





   





How to Treat.

The treating of cats is such an old





story that it seems like a waste of





time to repeat it, but since a new and

earlier method has been brought to

light, it is well to repeat the conditions

for making the so-called “dry treat.”

Briefly, the method is this: Put a

pint -of formaldehyde into a quart

hand-sprayer, add a pint of water.

Now, while one man is shoveling over

the cats let the other one spray on

this mixture of one-half formaldehyde

and one-half water. Put some horse

blankets or sacks over the oats and

leave them tightly covered for four

hours after which they will be ready

to sow.



Where the sowing is to be done

with an end-gate seeder, while one

man scoops the oats into the wagon

box, the other may be spraying them.

This may be done the day before, the

oats are left covered for four hours

- and the work, of seeding is ready to

commence.



Under the labor shortage this spring,

a question has arisen as to whether it

pays to plow for oats or whether it'is

just as profitable to disk them in. In

candor, it may be said that the yield

is usually greater where oats are put

on plowed ground despite the fact that

the great bulk. of oats sown the last

ten or fifteen years have been sown on

corn ground and disked in. The in-

crease, however, of- oats placed on

plowed ground has never been very

large comparatively, and with the.

meager labor supply of this year, it is

doubtful if it will pay in many cases to

plow for oats.

ground, disked under lightly, and then

burrowed, usually make a good stand

and the yield is quite comparable with

those that have been put on plowed

‘ground. , ,



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Oats put on corn'





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should there com a heavy wlhd or it-

beating rain just at the usual time of





harvesting; many of these oats will be,





blown down'an‘d thus wasted. .It has

been proven quite conclusivo’l‘y that

better yields are secured where oats

are drilled rather than being‘ broad-

casted.



In' the next year or so oats will come

more and more to be a substitute for





 





 





mafia bath paid but very iittle‘ Wheat.

The hardiness and vigor of these

Scotch people certainly show that this

substitution has net- done any great

harm. 'Fd substitute oats in place, of

corn should 'be done only where such a

substitution seems absolutely neces-

sary, but he who does it is more of a

patriOt than he who plants untested

and untried corn. ‘





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More Alfalfa Needed





By W. G.





H-E importance of alfalfa culture



is grotving rapidly in the public



mind. The superiority of alfalfa

hay over almost every other kind of

roughage is being more widely under-

stood. But yesterday a man told me

of the individual cows in his herd. I

asked him how much grain he was

feeding, because the production of that

herd made a splendid story. When he

told me I was nearly taken off my feet

for a minute because the quantity was

so small; however, I got back easily

enough as he continued: “Well, I have

alfalfa hay and am feeding the cows

all they will eat in connection with

their ensilage.”



The Superiority of Alfalfa.



The value of alfalfa in the develop-

ing of animals is well understood by

all who have had experience with it.

Alfalfa is better than clover for young

animals. The food nutrients are more

available and its lime content being

g1 eatei makes it of much value in the

development of bone. Of all the rough.

age fed to hogs alfalfa is an easy win<

ner. The great tonnage resulting from

alfalfa fields where the stand is good

and the soil is sufficiently productive is

an item that adds much to the value

of this crop. In these days‘of high-

priced grain or little or no grain at all,

alfalfa takds on a new significance.

Every man who grows it is fortunate

and everyone who does not grow it,

and who keeps cows, should make an

effort to do so unless he is certain

that his soil is not adapted to its

culture.



Much has been said about the neces-

sary factors in successful alfalfa grow-

ing. It is now up to the average farm-

er to do as well as he knows how. It

is generally known that lime is most

often the limiting factor. Much has

been said about the different forms of

lime that may be applied, and yet

thousands of farmers who might be

growing alfalfa today have neither ap-

plied marl nor ground lime rock, nor

any other form of calcium to the soil,

not because of what they did» not know,

but simply because they have not got

a1 ound to it What is needed today is

not so much a campaign of education

as one of inspiration.



lnbculation.



Many people fail to inoculate either

the seed or the soil. Theie is a great

deal of useless argument over this

matter of inoculation. That it is pos-

sible to grow alfalfa on many soils

Without'inoculation no well informed

person will dispute. That it. is impos-

sible to do so successfully in a major-

ity of cases is a fact equally well es-

tablished. The cost of inoculation is

but trifling, and “Why will we contin-

ue to dispute about its merits, or fail

to do it, and run useless hazards when

chances are alwaysin our favor it'- we

make this simple little: investment?”



The matter of the seed«bed,is'an-

other point at which we, often fail. It

takes work to prepare a good seed bed

where we expect to grow the alfalfa.



The writer has had some personal

experience of- this kind and subs is





tions: We human beings are much





alike about most things, but good has

always come and always will result





casionhlly





taking his full share of these sugges-'





 





TAYLOR





The matter tot the" tune of soWing

alfalfa is not so well established; In-

deed, the proper time varies, in the

judgment of the, writer, accordnig' to

conditions—if the soil is very produc-

tive alfalfa may be soWn as early as

the oat‘crop, or even a little sooner,

with good prospects of success. If it

is sown with a- light seeding'of barley

a; fair crop of grain may be harvested

and the alfalfa will probably get a

satisfactory start. If it is sovVn alone

on such soil one Or two cuttings of

hay may be expected the first year.

Some people advocate tilling the

ground during the early part of the

summer in order to kill the weeds and

secure the right of way forthe alfalfa,

but you cannot kill the weeds on a

very fertile soil by cultivating it a lit-

tle while during the fore part of the

summer. If you do so and then seed

to alfalfa it is simply a'race between

the alfalfa and the weeds and two out

of three times the writer will bet on

the weeds.



But suppose the soil is not very fer-

tile. Suppose it has been limed to

correct acidity, and we are ready to

prepare the seed bed, what is the chief

thing we desire to do. Is it not to

provide a home for the alfalfa with as

few weeds as possible, and with plen-

ty of moisture? Neither the weeds nor

the alfalfa are going to growas fast on

this soil as on one that is more pro-

ductive, but with cultivation continued

until the middle of the summer, with

Weeds killed, moisture conserved, and

a fair proportion of plant food liberat-

ed the race will be won by the alfalfa

over the weeds in a large majority of

cases. We do not wish toconsume

sp ce in this article talking about the

other requisites of alfalfa culture.



The big thing right-now is to induce

people to 'put their soils in condition

and begingrowing alfalfa. We should

talk it in our Granges, in our Gleaner

Arbors, and our Farmers’ Clubs, and

then do the things that are necessary

to get results.



Alfalfa seed is worth only a little

over half as much as clover this

spring. The‘demand for grain is on

the increase every day, with little

prospect of- being satisfied until anoth-

er crop is grown What the next crop

will be no one can now say, but be-

yond any question grain will be very

high and very hard to get until after

the war. More food units can be pro-

duced- ina season from a good alfalfa

field than from any other like area

and it is possible to greatly increase

the acreage this spring. - There is no

danger of ovei production of alfalmfa

It is more important just now to in-

crease Michigan’s acreage of hay than

of beans or potatoes, Under present

labor conditions the hay crop offers

special advantages and of all the





plants grown for this purpose alfalfa





must be placed at the head.





 





DRYING wE'r BEANS.‘

l



I have been "asked to give my met-h

0d of drying beans. An old apple drier

makes an excellent place for his pur-

pose. We make a cover





 





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r-etl’ort necessary to themes the





.turn‘ed.‘

six-hours, depending of course, on the





quantity of beans being" ”dried—the .

heavier the mm the more frequently'





the turning should be done.



In firing care muSt be taken not to

overheat the beans. We find dead

wood to be much better than seasoned

green wood, as the former produces a

more steady heat. .



The beans shown in the photograph





_ which appeared-ma reCent issue of the





Michigan Farmer, Were so Wet that the

skins were wrinkled, yet they dried





out in the obeye" described device and ,





became as smooth as beans'Cared for

under ideal conditions.- This drying

put them in good marketable shape;~

and we believe they can be held for an

indefinite period.-





Ion-ia' Co. ELLIs BIGNELL.





 





 





THIS Mm SAYS “TRY."





 





American farnis are expected to pro-

duce more food this year than ever

before. Certainly the greatn‘ess'of the

need is apparent, and no doubt will be

met with a united effort to till all the

land and toconserve all the seed grain

and stock, which the labor condition

and the scarcity of seed will permit.



Much depends upon o‘u1 county

agents in theii efforts to make farm.

ing a better business for many, Who

need the instruction he is able to give.

One move in the right direction would

be to encourage each farmer, however

Slnall his acreage, to keep an accurate

accounting, where the lack of educa-

tion would prevent a system of book

keeping. '



POSSible blank forms would be the

next best plan.

faction of knowing the loss or gain of

business transacted, the record would

be, valuable and avoid a guessing con-

test, when the income tax will have to

be considered



Many do not fully appreciate the val~

ue of the county agent and in conse-





quence wait for him to come, rather‘





than send for him when a better ac-

quaintance would be‘ very? beneficial

to the farmers. This is the indifferent

class who hesitate to modernize the

business of farming, but still prefer to

wait upon the.“VVhims of Lun‘a.” We

have no criticisms to offer to the man

who farms by the~“Zodiac" except a

decided opinion and the fact that a lot

of valuable time is wasted that should

be accounted for and in these days of

saving, why not begin here.



The same measurement of time

should apply everywhere, then why is

it that in the country where “a man’s

time is his own,” no strict account of

the home is expected and often it

takes but a slight excuse for a trip

to town.



If this year is to show results of in-

crease above the normal, more hours’

work ‘is neceSsary, less waste and

more saving absolutely necessary.

This is a business that will pay liber-

ally for the most strict attention to

each detail’of the business. If by so

deing two of the young animals on

each farm might be saved and one

peck of grain from each acre more

than last year, such an immense sum

this Would represent that the desired

increase in the production Would be-

come a reality. '





Now, of course, talking without ac- '





tion will not get us anywhere, that is





the most of us; but if we each; who ‘

can, will determine how much Ewe can ’ '

do more than last year and are willing;





to save where possible and make ,





the beans are th‘broughly warmed,

through and start drying on the bot*-- . ..

tom of the kiln or. drier they should Ber '

'This sheaths be done‘ wevery'





Aside from the satis~ .





 





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What Share Shouidth‘e Renter Have?





" " ~ Can you or any of your readers in-’





form me as to what would be a fair

deal between land owner and tenant in

a farm under the following conditions:

I have a farm of 120 acres, all new

buildings last year, and all fenced with

good woven wire fencing, with water

and electric light in both house and

barn. ' I have a good team, and all the

tools and seed for this-season. Also

have ten cows and ten head of young

stock and forty chickens. I have bought

two cars of ground lime rock which I

will pay for personally—to be deliver-

ed at our station in April. This will

be a three-mile haul and I want to,have

the tenant stand the expense of draw-

ing and spreading on the land. A lime

‘spreader is among the tools I furnish.

I might also mentibn that -I have a

new cream separator and cream cans.

Now, I want to know what share each

of us should have of the products from

the cows and chickens, and the in-

crease in value of present young stock

and calves raised during the coming

year. Our main crops will be hay, oats,

potatoes and corn. What share should

each of us have of these crops? And

should my share be at the farm or

shipping station? I would rent from

one to three years. I have a good man

on the farm taking care of the stock

this winter, and am willing to give him

the best end of the deal to ‘keep him.

But neither of us knows‘what would

be customary under these conditions.

I might say that I would expect to

give possession of everything on April

1, and would expect the stock to be

delivered back to me at the Same date

at expiration of the lease. Who

should pay for any feed that may be





bought 0 the farm'to feed stock? I'





thought the information asked for

might be of interest to others of your

readers who, like myself, have loaned





~their boys to Uncle Sam and are un-





able to'do the work themselves.

Benzie Co. A. J. W.





I could not give any rule that will

apply in a general way in~a case like

this. I don’t believe anybody can. It

has got to be simply a bargain between

individuals. .No two farms are alike.

A man can afford to pay in many in-

stances twice as much rent for one

farm as he would for another in the

same neighborhood of equal size, be-

cause on one farm the land has been

kept in good crop producing power

and the other has been run down. On

a good farm the renter can afford to

work for a much smaller portion of

the crop and still make splendid wages

than he can on theother and so it all

narrows right down to local conditions

and a question to be settled by in-

dividuals. '



,In a general way, it has been the

rule that the land alone drew one-third

the crops. For instance, the renter

furnishes all live stock, all tools, his

own seed and does all the labor and

gets two-thirds of the crops. The own«

er of the land pays taxes and insur-





ance on his buildings and gets one. .





third. _ . .

It is quite a common practice where





the owner furnishes the cows as well -





as other kinds of live stock, the renter

furnishes his own work horses and

tools, each furnishes half of the seed,

the renter, of course, doing the labor,





 

 

   





to divide equally. In this case, if there

is any outside feed to be purchased

each buysphalf. '



Again, I know where farms have

been rented on precisely the same

basis as this one, proposed, where the

owner simply moved off, leaves all the

stock and tools and furnishes the work

horses, pays“ the taxes and insurance,

and the renter gets one-third and the

owner two-thirds of all the crops right

straight through. In this case, the

renter is practically a hired man and

yet he is much more than a. hired man

because he must assume responsibility.

He gets wages in proportion to the

effort which he puts into the farm. It

puts him on his own responsibility

largely. With the right kind of a man

it would be a good deal better to hire

him in this way than it would be to

pay him so much a month because he

would work better. That is human na-

ture. On the other hand, if you haven’t

got a man that can manage this farm

and do the work, make his own plans

and execute them, then you had better

hire a man by the month and do your

own managing.



With one hundred and twenty acres

of good, fertile land, fully equipped, a

good man ought to step in there and

make a good thing for himself. He

could do it. But a poor man would

make a fizzle of it. The majority of

men don’t like to assume responsibil-

ity. I might say that many of them.

are not capable of assuming responsi-

bility. If a man hires a man and pays

him so much cash and he doesn’t fill

the bill he can get rid of him, but if

he hires him in, this way with a por-

tion of the crop he is up against a ser-

ious proposition.



In this case, I should think that if

the food was to be purchased outside

of the farm for the cows and other

live stock that the same rule would

hold, that the owner purchase two-

thirds and the renter one-third. But,

as I say, there is so much difference in





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the productive capacities of farms that

this rule wouldn’t hold in every in-

stance. For myself, I would prefer to

pay the man good wages and run the

risk myself and do my own managing,

but personally, I like the idea of as-

suming responsibility rather than

shirking it.





Seedling to Alfalfa.





I have five acres which have been

sod land for twelve to fifteen years.

This field has been plowed. Two crops

of good corn have been grown, then

summer fallowed and sown to wheat.

The piece was top-dressed with ma-

nure, 200 pounds of phosphate put on

per acre with the wheat. A fine piece

of. wheat was harvested this past sum-

mer. I plowed the stubble in the fall.

Now I wish to seed this ground to al-

falfa; Will you direct me to the prop-

er manner of seeding? Also had I

best test the soil for acid condition?

Can I take the frozen lumps, by thaw-

ing them in the house, and get a satis-

factory test? In regard to the oats, I

am anticipating sowing the Worthy

brand of oats as they have been rec-

ommended to me. Would you recom-

mend them for my ground, which is

of the moderate clay loam soil, which

is very fertile. Also the proper place

to get them. I have a neighbor who

has the same, which yielded only 30

bushels per acre this past season.

Would it be wise to use his seed?



Lapeer Co. L. C





This field ought to be in splendid

condition to seed to alfalfa and you

can seed to alfalfa with oats or you

can seed to alfalfa alone. I would

seed with oats, say a bushel of oats to

the acre, and I believe you will get a

good stand of alfalfa and raise oats

enough to pay for seeding down. One

of the best stands I ever got was seed-

ing to oats in this way early in the

spring. It probably would pay you to

get ground limestone and apply one

ton ’to the acre because alfalfa always

does better on land that has been lim-

ed. You can’t get too much lime for

alfalfa. Then the alfalfa seed ought

to be inoculated with the proper bac-

teria. If there is an old field of alfalfa

in your neighborhood, get a little of





 





 





 





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the soil right close about the roots of

the plants that have ”the proper nod-

ules. Dry this soil carefully away~

from the sun's rays, make it very fine

by rubbing it with bricks or something

of that sort, then saturate your seed

with glue water, that is, dissolve glue '

in warm water, pour it over the seed,

stir it thoroughly and then mix with

this soil and stir until every seed con-

tains a portion of this fine dust. A

quart of finely ground earth will prob‘

ably inoculate a bushel of seed but

you can afford to be liberal and put on

all the dirt that will stick to the seed.



If you can’t get earth in this way

you can get enough of the bacteria cul~

ture for about $1.25 to inoculate a

bushel of seed. This is almost as cheap

as a man can go and get the earth

and prepare it.



In seeding this alfalfa I would seed

it with a grain drill at the same time

I sowed the oats. The grain drill, of

course, should have a grass seed at-

tachment and set to sow about six

quarts per acre and I would distribute

the seed in front of the holes of the

disc rather than to let it run into the

drill marks with the seed because this

will cover much of the seed too deeply.

It would be a splendid plan to roll the

ground with a roller after you have

sown the oats.



If the season is very dry it would

pay you probably to out these oats for

hay and’get them if you can before the

drought injures your seeding. If there

is a fair amount of moisture, however,

you can ripen the oats and cut a good

crop of cats and then get a seeding of

alfalfa.



If you prefer to seed the alfalfa

alone, then all there is to do is to

work this land from time to time, de-

stroying all weeds and preserving the

moisture along in June. The weeds in

this surface soil will all be destroyed,

then you can sow your alfalfa alone

either by hand or with your wheat

drill. Having no weeds to smother it,

it will make a rapid growth undoubt-

edly if the season is favorable. It

may have to be clipped later on. Prob-

ably it will make growth enough so

that you can get a small cutting of

hay. The inoculation of the seed ap-

plies just as much to this manner of

seeding as to the other.



In either method, I would advise a

good liberal use of commercial fertil-

izer as it helps not only to start the

oats but the alfalfa, and in my judg-

ment will well pay the expense.



A good way to test your frozen soil

is by taking it in a warm room and

leaving it until it is thawed out and

then applying your litmus paper test.

If you have to moisten soil—it will

probably be dry——be sure and moisten

it with rain water and not with well

water, as the well water might contain

lime which would interfere with your

test.



With regard to using a particular





 





   

 





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know the merits. of- different varieties“)





sufficiently to Warrant my' Saying that

one variety is better_ than another.‘ I

think it is much safer for you to look

about you in your own neighborhood

and .get seed from a variety that has

done well for a period of twoor three

years. I wouldn’t want to condemn

the variety you speak of just because

the man had a poor crop last. year;

the variety may not have been to

blame at all. The conditions of the

particular variety or the weather con-

ditions in that vicinity might prevent

the variety from making a normal

gzowth.

Buckwheat After Wheat.



Is it possible to sow buckwheat on

wheat ground after wheat is harvested,

and mature a crop?

wheat failed to mature, would it be a

paying proposition to plow the buck-

wheat under for a green manure crop?

If so, when should the plowing be

done, in the fall or following spring?

What would be the best variety of

buckwheat to sow? I have .planned to

seed five acres to alfalfa this spring,

using barley as a nurse crop, as al-

falfa has never been grown‘on this

field before. Would you consider it

safer practice to mix June clover with

the alfalfa seed to insure a hay crop

in case the. alfalfa failed? If so, how

many pounds of each should be used?



Washtenaw Co. H. S. F.



I would not consider it practical to

attempt to grow buckwheat after one

had harvested a crop of wheat. Some

seasons you might get a crop but all

conditions WOuld have to be exceed-

ingly favorable. The wheat would have

to be harvested early. There would

have to be plenty of moisture at that

time so that the ground could be prop-

erly fitted. You must dr0p everything

else and sow the buckwheat just as

soon as possible and you would have

to have an exceedingly late fall in or-

der to have the crop mature.



I have sown buckwheat after har-

vesting a crop of Alaska peas for the

canning factory but these peas were

harvested about the twentieth of June;

the land was in fine condition and all

we had to do was disc it and sow the

buckwheat. There was enough mois-

ture so that the peas came up at once

and the fall was favorable and .we got

a good crop. But last year I tried the

same thing; the pea crop was later

and the frosts earlier consequently

the buckwheat did not ripen.



As you suggest, it is not an entire

loss if the buckwheat fails to ripen

because it can 'be plowed under .and

you get some benefit from green ma-

nure. You have kept your land shad-

ed during the hot season, which is a

good thing for the land. Last year we

cut our immature buckwheat right af-

ter the frosts and put it into the silo

and the cows ate it. , I cannot say how

good ensilage it was or how much good

it did the cows, but I know they ate

it and it seemingly took the place of

other ensilage.



I think probably the Silver Hull

buckwheat is-as good a variety as one

can get. Some people speak highly of

the Japanese, and yet, under ordinary

conditions, the common buckwheat

seems to do as well as any.



Seeding Red Clover with Alfalfa.





My judgment is that it would be a

good plan for you to mix the clover

and alfalfa equal parts and seed rather

heavy, say fifteen pounds to the acre.

The first year I am satisfied you will

get more hay with this mixture than

you would if you sewed alfalfa alone

and if the alfalfa does well there will

be enough of that so the second year

you will. have a good crop of alfalfa.

I wouldn’t think of soWing this alfalfa

without proper inoculation. '





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Where Sawdust is used as bedding

in a stable one must use an exceeds

ingly heavy application of manure to:

even have any results noticeable. With

any ordinary application of manure:

the sawdust would have no perceptible

effect upon the land or the crops. I.

believe that if you would cover the

land over two or three inches deep

with sawdust'and plow it under, that

it would not be a good thing, not at

first, but eventually, after the sawdust

had time to rot, this would furnish or-'





 





 





 





, ganic matter even if of a poor quality





and would improve the physical condi-

tion of the soil, especially heavy land.

It would take some time, however, but

that it would not eventually prove in-

jurious is proven by the fact that trees

and limbs have rotted for ages in our

forests and when the timber lands are

cleared away they are very rich and

grow the best kind of crops and the

decay of this wood is not injurious to

the soil.

Seedlng.Clover with Peas and Oats.

Peas and cats are. not a good crop

to seed clover with. Both plants make

too rank a growth and are liable to

smother the young clover. Peas espe-

cially are quite apt to lodge and where

they lodge badly I have seen the Clo.

ver entirely destroyed. ‘One thing in





 





 





draught sets in, and if the clover has: "is

not been smothered up to that time





it has a good chance from then on

but there is so much danger that it,

will be smothered that it is risky bus-

iness to sow clover seed, especially

when it is as high-priced as it is now

with the peas and cats.-



I‘ Would much prefer to harvest

these peas and oats and then go to

work and disc the soil thoroughly, har-

row it and make a good seed bed and

seed to clover‘along about the first of;

August. 'You are practically sure of

a good catch of clover then, and there





will be little danger of wasting high--





priced. seed.



Sometimes one has good success in

seeding clover. with oats in the spring,

providing you did not sow over a bush-

el of oats to the acre. If the oats are





sown very thick they are liable to,





crowd the clover plants so that it don’t

make a good growth. My experience

is that it is " better to seed the clover

on wheat early in the season before

the frost is out of the ground. The

wheat plant doesn’t have 'such dense

foliage as oats andl have never yet

lost a seeding.



Beardless barley is a good deal bet-

ter crop to sow with clover than cats

or even wheat, because it doesn’t have

such dense foliage.



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By ALMOND GRIFFEN





ARM to table motOr truck express

service lines are being established





by the United States post office.

department, and they are “being cordié





ally received by the farmers along the

routes. Michigan’s first line as.n'ow

planned will operate between Grand

Rapids and Saginaw, serving. the rich

farming territory in between. ' Com-

petitive bids for operating fleets of

cars on this route, under stiff bonds of

$18, 000, have been opened and it was

expected the contract would soon be

awarded by the _.government



This line of trucks Will start ope1a-

tions in early spring, running on defi-

nite schedule of about ten. miles an

hour’and having? fixed stopping sta-

tions. Of the mail matter carried, spe-

cial attention will be given to parcel

post service and to the needs of both

producers and consumers of farm, or.

chard and garden products' By elim-

ination of middlemen it is eXpected

that the farmer will get a' little, more

for his stuff while the consumer will

pay a little less.



The motor truck plan was started by

Uncle Sam last suinmer, the first

routes being out of Philadelphia and

Baltimore. The cars were of a ton and

a half capacity, well built and snugly

enclosed, with the words “United

States Mail” on both sides. Great in-

terest was shown by the farmers along

routes and the truck driverswere plied

with questions. The post oflice de-

partment issued booklets giving names

of farmers along the routes and stuff

they had to sell.



In the matter of gardens, for exam-

ple, it is known that almost every

farmer raises more stuff than he can

consume and this new, quick and handy

express serVice by his door may make

it worth while for him to sell his sur-

plus in the city.



The railroads and the express coin-

panies operating over steam and elec-

tric lines have more than they. can do.

The government realizes this and gov-

ernment omcials are deeply intereéted

in this plan of utilizing the highways

in bringing producer in direct touch

with consumer. It is very plain that

there must be increased production and

what is more important still—*improv-

ed methods of mitigating and distrau-





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postmaster general, in charge of the

rural free delivery system, is at the

head of this new movement, and he

says: “In every producing section of

the country today there is bound to be

less. production,

about by the fact that so-many men

have been called into war service. So

it is necessary that we give the ‘pro-

ducer the best possible means of trans-

portatiOn. To this end we would in-

augurate a vast system of moto1 truck

lines over which manufactured articles

as well as farm preducts may. be t1 ans-

p01 ted cheaply and quickly. A-l'o'ng one

line of motor truck transportation now

in service we found that under the old

system it was necessary to handle 'a

case of eggs fourteen times betWeen

the producer and the consumer. Our

truck has delivers a case of- ‘eggs with

only three handlings at the most.



“Our system as laid out will include

two trunk lines and feeder, or short

line routes. The trunk lines will Oper-

ate between larger cities, in order that

a good market shall be available at

either end and the trucks may be lead-

ed both ways. Feeder lines will pro-

vide quick connection with interior

producing section's.”



Government routes have been estab—

lished out of Baltimore, Washington,

and a few other eastern cities and it

is expected ‘ that lines between Chicago

and Zanesville, Ohio, and Chicago and

Indianapolis, will soon be in operation.



So much for'government plans. In

addition private enterprise is putting

on these highway motor truck lines

almost everywhere. Perhaps the lead-

ing line of this kind is the Akron and

Boston express which has a fleet of

trucks of one and a quarter,' three and

five tons capacity and the schedule

calls for a round trip of 1,510 miles in

less than one week. These trucks. have

been able to run close to schedule.

They are fitted With special bodies to

provide sleeping accommodations for

the driver on duty, and the trucks are

driven day and night. Extra, large

tires relieve the strain of' rough roads.



A concern was recently incorporated

to operate a highway express line be-

tween Chicago, Gary and MIIWaukee.

The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce





 





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b:e: floors are far ,

more dinabbjand salutary than

dirt or plank floors. The com

crate floor, if constructed right, will

never have to be rebuilt A plank floor

may appear sound when. first laid but

the moisture and strength of the‘ma- ‘

nure will soon rot it. out. Not only

does the concrete floor conserve all

the manure that would leak out

through a board or dirt' floor but it

makes the cleaning of the stalls a

much lighter job._ The concrete floor.

is more s'anitaryr-from the fact that it

can be flushed outwith a hose or thor-

oughly disinfected with oil or other

substances without injury to the~con-

crete. The concrete floor has no cracks

in which lice, ticks and similar vermin

can breed, and it likewise is proof

against the attacks of rats and other

destructive animals. '





The foundation for a concrete: floor

should be prepared with some care. It

should always be‘ well drained and

firmed to a depth of from six to eight

inches below the concrete. It is 'usu-

ally'a‘dvisable to remove several inch-

es of the soil and fill in with gravel or

cinders. Tamp this material thorough.

1y. Blind’ diains or coarse gravel or

tile may be laid from the lowest points

in the excavation to carry off any wa-

ter that may accumulate.





For the construction of any ordinary

floor, which is not to carry any great

Weight, the following proportion is to

be recommended fo1 the concrete base:

One part cement, two parts clean" sand

and four parts of screened gravel or

broken stone. This should be finished

on the surface with a one or two to

one and one-half—inch layer of a. mix

ture .of one part cement with two parts

of sharp sand. The total thickness of





a condition brought,vithe floor must be from five to seven





inches, depending upon the load it has

to carry. .For floors or driveways over

which heavy loads pass, cement should

be added to the other materials in

slightly larger amounts than'indicated

above. -» ' 1,



In constructing a large. floor it is ad-

visable to placexthe concrete in sec-

tions of: five or s1; feet squale. This

may be done: by the use of planks. The

finishing coat should be spread on be-

fore the lower layer of concrete has

set. .The floor in the stalls should be

constructed with. slope enough to carry

all liquid to certain points from which-

it may be drained .



Smooth concrete floors with a trowel

for a smooth“ surface or with a wooden '

fioat for a rough surface. A rough fin-

ish in the stalls is necessary in order





.to provide. .goodfooting for the ani~

.mals and .to hold , the - bedding: material.





A steel-trowel finish is entirely too

smooth. The stalls proper is where

the surface should be :the roughest.

The passageway should not be so

rough that it will not clean out prop-

erly, yet it must be-rough enough to

prevent the animals- from slipping.



A bare concrete floor is pretty hardi‘

for stock to'stand and lie on, and'if

injuries are to be avoided and the

greatest satisfaction derived from the“

use of such a floor, it is "advisable to

provide a rem0vable 813.th -.wooden

platform for each stall, then place the

bedding material on these platforms.

If platforms are not employed, the -.

stalls must be 'rather heavily bedded.-

This bedding. is not wasted, however;





Aside from furnishing a cushion. for q





the stock to stand and lie upon, it acts

as an absorbent for the liquid manure. 4





Either of the above methods for pro- /~ "

‘t'ecting the animals from the hard can j





crete“. floor largely does away with the





injury that a bare concrete floor 111th





do to them, and all of the manure, both





solid. and liquid, is conserved by the .-. . ~

'use of such a floor, Whereas it is ‘ ‘ ' ~

.tically iinpcssible. to ”cm the





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Some Experience With A‘Evc

” By ANNA WADE GA‘LLIGHER





GREAT many people around here



had never even heard of such a



thing, tWo years ago, as fall-

bearing strawberries; while others

who had either heard or read about

them, were somewhat skeptical. .



One “Doubting Thomas.” said he did

not believe that there was or ever

would be a genuine fall-bearing straw-.

berry that would produce a profitable

crop. .At that time we were not grow-

' ing fall-bearers except in ah‘small way,

as an experiment. We did not like to

give up the good, reliable once-a-year

varieties until we could make sure

that these socalled eVerbearers would

really bear a crop of berries in the fall.



Eve‘rbearers in Demand.



While we do not expect to discard

such sorts as Wm. Belt, Senator Dun-

lap, Warfield or Chesapeake, which are

among the best grown, yet at the pres-

ent time we have more fall-bearers

than all of the others combined. And

further than this, we fully intend to

increase every season' until we have

the largest strawberry fields in» this

section. Nothing else will satisfy the

demand for these berries. Every per-

son who sees or tastes these berries is

a future customer, no matter what





 





 





rbfearcrs





in' this world are “from Missouri” and

have to be shown.



To return to the original subject:

We find both Superb and Progressive

very profitable varieties of everbear-

ers. However, it must not be under-

stood that these berries will bear all

through the season, from June to No-

vember, without a rest. Nothing of

the sort. During the first season after

plants are set, the Progressive, if per-

mitted to do so, would bear, almost

continuously,‘ after the first few weeks,

but all fruit buds must be picked off

until about July 15 or later. This rule

should be followed strictly, so as to

give the plants a good start. It applies

to all of the fall bearers. .



Sometimes fruit buds form on young

runners, before they have had time to

take root. These should all be remov-

ed. Also, the surplus runners.



Cultivate and'Fertilize.



We keep down all weeds, cultivate

the same as garden crops, and after

the plants are started a mulch or top-

dressing of well-rotted manure is ap-

plied and raked into the soil around

each plant with a garden rake. Some

other implement would probably do as

well, but the idea is to get the manure





 





 





It will Profit Every Farmer to Have a Cold Frame.





price is asked. Some people who do

not seem to‘care for strawberries, in

seasdn, simply cannot resist the temp-

tation when they are selling at thirty-

five to forty cents a quart.



Honesty the Best Policy.



Last fall, during September and Oc-

tober, we were greatly annoyed by

parties of city people coming into the

patch where the pickers were at work,

and trying to buy berries, which, as a

rule, were already engaged. Some-

times, however, we managed to spare

a. few quarts. At other times a prom-

ise to furnish berries on a certain day,

seemed to satisfy the prospective cus-

tomer. These promises were always

faithfully kept, for we have learned

that “honesty is the best policy” in

strawberry growing as well as in ev-

ery other pursuit.



Good Packing Essential.



Some growers are not careful

enough about the quality of berries

which go into the bottom of the has-

kets: perhaps never stopping to con-

‘sider that a satisfied customer is the

- best advertising agent One can have.

'Th‘is,_.0f course, applies to other lines

, as well-asflberries; but it seems as if

some ,peopleexpect to get “stung” ev_-

esy-time they buy a basket of straw-

berries. Sometimes they will examine





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thoroughly incorporated with the soil,

close around the plants. It is not nec-

essary, between the rows. If well-rot-

ted barnyard manure is not available,

then the next best thing is pulverized

In fact, for some rea-

sons, we prefer the latter. Dry leaves

are used on the floors and there are

no weed or grass seeds to contend

with. We always mix the manure with

the litter.



About the last of October, after the

bulk of the crop has been harvested,

we cover the strawberries with straw,

dry leaves, wild grass or something

similar. A good many berries get ripe

after being covered. The next crop

comes in June. If you plant Superb or

Progressive you will be delighted.

There are no better berries grown.





TROUBLE DEPARTMENT.





 





Grafting.



Would it be practical to graft Spies

and Greenings on Old Russet and Ben

Davis trees? If so, how many cions

would we put on a tree, how large

limbs to graft onto? How long before

those grafts will bear? Can we buy

the wax, or if not, what is the formula

to make the wax? ' C. S. C.





_ It would not be advisable to graft

Spies and Greenings to Russets and

Ben Davis, as Spies and Greeningsare

more vigorous growing vafri’etiesflgthan

those you wish to use*_asfst_ock. ;.Such

a- graft would in time produeeajop

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Alight, handy spray gun

‘ that shoots a penetrating

cloud of 9p ray—operates

with any power sprayer-

adjustable from 10 to 30 ft.





Hudio Spray Pump.





Put one on your sprayer.

Made in various sizes. A

simple, compact pugnp.

Bigcapacity. Smboth-

estworkinz. Uacdon.

Hardie Sprayers,

standard for over

13 years. Write



for catalog.





 





é'boards or planks.

_ carry a sash three by six feet, and can

- 2_ be lengthened by three feet additions





2 by six feet requires two sashes.

: ' good thing to have the frame on

. ground SIOping a little to the south, but





 





 





 





 





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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years to entirely work over a tree. The

best sized limbs to graft are those

about two inches in diameter, although





i very successful grafting has been done





on limbs which are four or five inches

in diameter.



I doubt whether you can purchase

grafting wax locally, and as it is ‘very

easily made, I would advise that as a

very economical way of procuring it.

The wax is made as follows: Rosin

fbur parts, beeswax two parts, fallow

one part, all by weight. Melt the in-

gredients together and pour out into a

par-12 to cool. Thoroughly grease the





, hands and when cook enough to handle





manipulate and- pul-l the wax as in

making molasses 2 candy.



The chief essential in. grafting is to

have the cambium layer or cion come

in contact with the cazm-bium layer of

stock. The‘ cambiumlayer is the green

living tissue which is below the bark.

The tips of the clons and the splits in

the stocks should’ be thoroughly cover-





the weather. The cions should be cut

when the trees are. dormant, preferably

in fall; however, they can be out early

in: the spring. The grafting should be

done after the 8111‘) has started to flow

freely, but before the buds have start-





‘ ed very much.





Strawberry Growing.



Would like some information in re-

gard to the care of strawberries. Does

one have to plant new plants every

year? H. S.



The customary method of setting out

strawberry plants is to take the newer

plants from an old bed for setting in a





Cold Frame '





T PIERE will be an unusually large

demand this year for started



plants, especially in villages and

suburban towns. Family gardens will

be made in greater numbers than ever

before, and the average amateur has

no facilities for raising his own plants





bages, cauliflower, celery, lettuce, Brus—

sels sprouts, and peppers. This cre-

ates a market for plants which should

be met by farmers, as well as by pro-

fessional market gardener and florists.



Cold frames are not hard to make or

to manage. In parts of the south they

are used much more largely than in

the north. Gardeners in Virginia have

acres of land under glass



A cold frame can be made of rough

A single bed will





A frame six

It’s a





so as to make it any size.





in any case the back wall should be





, three or four inches higher than the





front wall, so that the glass will slant

in such a way as to get the morning

sun. Twelve inches is about the right

height for the rear board. Banking up

around thcframe with manure or earth

will help to exclude the cold.



Many growers make their frames

without any divisions, the sashes but-

ting. They follow this plan because

preparation of the beds is made easier.

The sash can be‘ handled much more

readily, thoughf if it runs in grooves,

and the frame itself will: be stronger

when. supported by division boards.

Perhaps the most satisfactory plan is





rear boards and stay'ln p1aee“without





along the top.- will provide a groove for

the sash. With this plan in use the





leaving the bed without any





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ed with wax to keep out the effects of





, to cut strips the width of» the frame

‘9 " from front to. back, notching them so

is ' / " that they can be fitted to the front and

J





being nailed A narrower strip nailed 2‘

T'cl’oth late in the season, because it is» .-'

imam economical”; and has some «fixer



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thespripg after the ground has been

thoroughly Wed far the rims;

Before setting, the roots of the plants

should be clipped to about mm and a





half inches in length and an of the old 1 , "





leaves trimmed off In planting, the





rows are usually put about three feet ,





apart and the plants in therows from

eighteen inches to five feet, depending

upon the variety;

docers, such. as the Senator Dunlap,

would be best set two feet apart.



,During the first season the plants

should be thoroughly cultivated and all

of the blossoms picked off. When the

runners start the new plants should be

placed 10.1.1111- an the row, and after

that is accomplished to widen the row

to one foot in width.





After the ground is eren in the fall,

a mulch of straw or similar material

should be put on to protect the plants

from heaving in the spring. In spring

the removal of the mulch to the space

in between the rows is about all that

is necessary until after fruiting time.

Then the customary method is to take

off the mulch and narrow the rows to

the width of a single plant by plowing

from the rows on each ‘side. The old

plants that remain should be bowed out

and the new plants kept thoroughly

cultivated throughout the rest of the

season.



The usual custom- is to allow the

strawberry patch to bear two crops

and then turn it under, as the soil be-

comes depleted in fertility necessary





“for good straWberry production and





alsty becomes filled with the spores of

the more common straWberry diseases.





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on the Farm

important. All stones and lumps

should be removed, and 'the earth made





as fine as- possible, well rotted. and‘





thoroughly pulverized manure then be-

ing mixed with'it. ' A little bone meal

or balanced fertilizer can be added.



A cold frame cannot be used as early





of such vegetables as tomatoes, cab-0 in the season as a hot-bed, of course,





but many farmers find it possible to

start plants in the house in flats, in ans-

fering them to the cold frames late in

March. As a rule, though, seed sown

in a com frame in March will give the.

plants earlyenough for all practical

purposes.



Besides those men-tinned, the farmer

can start for his own use such vegeta-

bles as squashes, cucumbers, melons,

lima beans, and golden bantam corn.

These vegetables are not transplanted

so readily as the other kinds, and it is

best to start them either in paper pots,





lold strawberry baskets, or on inverted





sods. The sods do very well if pieces

about five inches square are used, the

surface being scarified and a little fine

sand scattered over the seeds.



There is a distinct advantage in

starting the tender plants in cold

frames if flea beetles and striped beet-

les are common. These pests seldom

invade the frames, and the plants get

such a good start before they are set

out that they can be protected from

these pests Without much trouble.





In some sections market gardeners

use heated-frames, starting them very

early. This doesn’t mean hot-beds

made with manure, but frames heated

by: steam; Pipes are run along" the

north side, or perhaps with the return

pipes on thersouth side. Enough heat-

can then be given to allow the beds‘to





be used in February, very early plants

being started in them '





Of late years there has been a. ton-





done-y to replace glass 31111111111111r With





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Thrifty plant pro:
‘Nebraska; where'has been established

'what is probably the first community





‘bles after being properly prepared are

placed in the drier; twenty-four hours





 

 





 

 





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“paring to profit by the experience

V of a. community at'North Lincoln,





S EVERAL neighborhoods are. pre-





drying plant in, the United States. It.

is known as he Lincoln Rotary Club

Community Drier,ysince the $150 re

quired, fer its conStrLllction 'was donat-





' ed. by that 'club, representing fifty-sev-

"en'farniiie‘s.





This unique experiment has'proved

extremely practical. In the first place





‘it is- easier, for {women to do their





work here, for everything is well ar-

ranged and the equipment is complete.

The families bring their fruits and veg-





etables to the plant, where machinery





helpsto do‘ theiwork ingmuch less time

than by hand methods. The vegeta-





later they are ready to be taken to

the homes; It is practical in the sec-





_ ond place-because it stimulates inter-





 

 

 





Th‘is Community Drying





est in drying fruits and vegetables and

calls for an interchange of ideas.



The electricity consumed by the big

electric fan costs one and a half cents

an hour, one hundred and twenty trays

being dried in the cabinet every twen-

ty-four hours. Instead of the air being

forced across the vegetables, as. is

done in some methods, the air is

drawn across them. The vegetables

are placed in trays, which are eighteen

by thirty-six inches. Such a tray holds

about the quantity of material of one

kind ordinarily brought by one family

for drying. These trays have wire-

screen! bottoms and wire screen at one

end, the other end being left open. The

screened end is to prevent light mate-

rial from being drawn through. Melt-

ed paralfine applied with a brush is used

to cover the wire so as to prevent the

fruits and vegetables from sticking.

The long cabinet that holds the trays

is built in six compartments, each

compartment containing twenty traps

arranged in tiers of ten.



" The fan should be easy to operate





and big enough to move plenty of air,





freely. The vegetables and fruits will

become sour or will mold if the air is

not moved rapidly enough. ,An electric

motor of from'two to five horsepower

will do, the Work, or a gasoline engine

of similar power.. One of these will





drive: the .Ian’ fast enough forvthe sue-e

*gtion :to hold a piece of cardboard one





foot square and Weighing half a pound





againsit‘theVWil-e screen at the intake



* -enaf thiakheing, a_.satistactdry test. .

~s',i~",;Aftificid heat tends to discolor the ;



" ‘ r the'liavor. filtis





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sass:





'raise “its temperature considerably,





'midity. J _ _

To defray the expenses forelectri- 4





building the Algoma-Plainfleld town





' 149.20.





atOr isplaced at the intake endot the»





drier. - The air in'b'eing- draWn through

between the coils is heated enough‘to





thus lowering the percentage ‘of hu-





city, heat and a caretaker, a fixed

charge canbe ‘made per tray.



The community drier might w'ell be

called “the successor of [the old-time

apple-paring bees that once were so

common‘throughout the country.





 





MICHIGAN GOOD ROADS.





 





Kentpcoupnty haslet‘the contract to

Terbeek &, Bronkhorst, of ”Holland, for





line road under 'Covert ,law, for $11,-

It will be two miles of gravel

road, ten feet wide, to be completed

by November 1. ‘



The Cass County Road Commission

has organized, with F. AL‘Hads'ell as





n





Plant Installed for $150.





chairman, and has engaged W. W. Rey-

nolds as road engineer at $6 per day

for time" actually employed. Bids will

be received up to March .30 for roads

to be built this season in Marcellus,

Porter and Jefferson townships and on

the town line running north from

Dowagiac. 1





Eaton county has adopted the patrol .





system for road maintenance.



State Commissioner Rogers does not

look for a large increase-in road build-

ing this year, due to the labor shortage

and to delay in the shipments of ma-

terial. He estimates that the new

work will not exceed that of last year,

which was about thirty per cent of the

previous year’s record.



KenDCo. ALMOND GRIFFIN.





BUTTERMILK A GOOb 'SPRING

TONIC.





 





Buttermilk is a dairy by-product the

food value of which is often under-es-

timated. Buttermilk produced by the

manufacture of good butter from a

goOd duality of well-ripened cream is

one of the most healthful foods obtain-

able. Its healthfulness is derived from

the lactic acid present. .This is form-

ed when', a certain type of bacteria,

called the" f‘b'acteriuni lactic acidl,"

converts “the ,milk sugar. into lactic

acid." These bacteriaarefalways ‘pres-

ent in normal "milk and ‘cream,j_an‘d

this process." of forminglactic acid": is





V'th’e’, natural “soaring" of ' milk, and . is _~ ,'





known as cream‘ripening. ' .

,. Buttermilk ,is .afigexdellsnf 110$. feed,

and probablymost“ of it is being used

purpose:





   





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GARDEN on the farm is a real necessity now.

. . You take pride in seeing it well kept—yet you

cannot afiord to devote much time to it.

‘ Gardening the Pull-Easy way takes only a few minutes

a day—1nakes the care of your garden a pleasure instead

' of an unpleasant task. The





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ADJUSTABLE





Garden Cultivator





is the ideal tool for the farm garden. Instantly adjustable

from 7 to 18 inches—middle tooth removable for cultivat—

ing two rows at once. Thoroughly stirs the soil, gets

- right up to the rows, and can be used either as a cul-

' tivator‘ or take. Sturdy, strong and well balanced.

Teeth unbreakable. A garden tool that answers

every purpose from seeding to harvesting time.





For sale by most dealers. If your dealer can’t supply

you, send us your dealer’s name with $1.50 and your

Pull-Easy will be sent at once by Parcel Post, pre-

paid. Literature on request.





The Pull-Easy Mfg. Company





341 Bmtow Street

WAUKESHA. WIS. J





 





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It will pay to;

“farm” every

available acre

this Spring as

demands for

farm products

are greater

than ever.





 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 





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it goes through Bog, Stubble

.and Stump land where a mold-

board would be useless. The

quickest, cheapest way to add

productive acres. (For 2 or 4 >

horses) ,.

Send for our book"The Soil and;

Its Tillage". It's free and with

it we will gladly send our com-

plete catalog and special litera-

ture about this implement.





 

 

 

 

 





 





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'E SUREithat your culverts





are full weight—full gauge.

Weigh them. Check thcm'up





with the diameter and weight cards

which your nearest “Armco” Iron Culvert

Manufacturer will gladly furnish. This card

tells what each size of corrugated pipe shOuld weigh per

foot—~standard weight. You are only doing yourself justiCe in

seeing that every pipe you buy conforms to these standards.





ARMCO" '“°" CULVERTS

CORRUGATED . ,9

will be found to be always full weight and full gauge, or a

little heavier, not merely on the end sections but all the

The standards they must meet are as





definite and as rigid as those governing the quality of their

“Armco” Iron Culverts are the 100% Culverts





in weight, diameter, quality, strength and longevity. They





are not affected by frosts or spring freshets.

Can be installed quickly and by un-





under heavy loads.

Skilled labor.





Stand up,





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Big est Bar 'n this season. Tested ..

ousl1ty.absoutoly Guaranteed. Sol d

subject Government test. Don't fail

towrite now for Free Grass Seed ’

samples. We want you to see our 9.

quahty as we can save you money

on our field seed. No risk buying

from an old established Seed ,

Company. Your money back if 3

on want it. Satisfaction on:

rat aim. Clover crop short.

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SEED CORN—2000 BUSHELS





BELL ALTO GOLDEN DE IT



A 110.11” corn. carefully bred and selected for twelve

TM Took fl . prize in 00.00111 Shows last tuo

3011". First prize at State College 00m Showlast fall.

Composite sam miles tested by State Col] 0 in each in~

stance prove} percent ermination, w ile hundreds

of samp as being tested 1: ere are overseeing about 65

percent germination 85pm- bushel in lots not less

than 5 bushels. Sacks 45 cents extra.





LE ALTO FARMS





MJI. MoOallum. Manoger,Wernersville, Berks Oo..Pa.





 





'up to March 1511. we will sell Waehtsnaw





County grown yellow dent





SEED CORN





Shelled $10.g 00 er bushel. Butted, tip-

ped and e,d 812.00 per bushel

State testedg 90% GerminatiOn.



D. WOODWARD & SON,





Clinton, Michigan





I We save you money.

.- Buoynow beforeadvance.



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hotbLe 8113. Sweet Glover and Alsike sold subjectto



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emples, special prices and big Pront- Slum





 





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mm Mel Seed 60.. M 131 Chicago. Illinois





FIELD SEEDS





Oar seeds are selected and cleaned to

beWnnanss and free from dead seal us.

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all beSaid seeds. Samples,





Races Wafiofit-sharlw Guide $093..“





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N MAMA SILO is a safe. sure lave et-

ment not an experiment. It is strongan nd

serviceable. It seasy to erect. easy. to fill,



gas y to feed from, easy to pay f.or

ixt xty thousand are now In use





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Go to snyIndlaua Silo owner and look at his

silo. Get inside of it. thejoints; no iron

to met. hairline than wood reeit is

from defeated! ow close fitting” it isw hen es:-

aminethesilawagalnst the w.:ll You wild

ltlsas nmo moldasinth e tor.

silage is made in the wood it is all .You



red man or neilghborsoan pu up an

ilo. skilled abor required.





Writs m“ forests and com-

pletedetsi ole-r ““1131, Buyese'

proposition. see nearest adios.

TIE lNDlANA 511.0 COMPANY

58211-1th . . . . . . Andersen. [nam-





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Coils sWonder, College Success, Aluandes-

orth are the me bred oat varieties

available. hese were veloped at the Michi-

gan Agricultural College and so are especially

adapted to Michigan conditions. Pure. clean

seed for sale by. the members of the Michigan

11111 vemeut Association Whose seed in

fiekl andwliin‘ met the Inspected seed require-a

aunts ol‘ the Association. If you its ipterested

in thus orit ywbuy leaves seed axxdsvouhii

like your crop Inspected}

meats when9 you writeu-

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- he said.





'9 noon to 'over 400 people.





 

 





HIS year there have been sev-

eral successful auctions in our

community which have brought





9. out large crowds oi; bidders and they

have been largely the result of adver-





tising. First the auction bill distribut-

ed in the neighborhood informs pros-

pective buyers of the list of goods for

sale. Second, the advertising in local

papers brings buyers from the city or

small towns.located in the vicinity.

Third, when the sale list has contained

a. number of pure-bred cattle, the farm

journals have been used to advantage

and farmers from other states have

appeared at the sale to bid on cows

which they considered valuable addi-

9tions to their'own herds. An auction

without abundant advertising is apt to

result in a loss as many buyers who

are willing to pay good prices for





. things they need, will never hear of .it.





The farmers who have received the

best prices for their stock and tools

,have made an effort to clean up every-

thing for sale so that it would appear

to the best advantage. At the begin-





' ning of the sale they have made every





effort to explain every question asked

as accurately as possible.

spires confidence and buyers do not

hesitate to place liberal bids on arti-

cles that appear to be worth the

money.



One dairy farmer frankly described

the third cow that came into the ring

as “no good” and gave the reasons for

the decision. The next cattle were all

right and the crowd believed *all that

If he had remained silent

when the third cow was sold some





: buyer might have taken a chance’on





her and paid more than she was worth.

The honest description of that animal

gave the crowd confidence and the av-

erage price for the cattle sold at that

sale was very good.



Implements have sold for good pric-





The Shiawassee County Dairyman’s





, Association met in Owosso and voted





to continue selling milk in Detroit un-

til the plant of the Milk Producers’ As-

sociation in Owosso is ready for busi-

ness. The officers elected are: Pres-

ident, J. W. Hurst, Owosso vice-presi-

dent, John Ackroyd, Owosso; secre-

tary-treasurer, Elmer Black, Owosso.

The Farmers’ Cooperative Creamery

Company, of Freeport, Barry county,

has increased its capital stock to

$6,000 and is installing a condensary.

The St. Clair Milk Producers’ Asso-

ciation met in Port Huron and voted to

ask Detroit prices for their product,

or $3.50 per hundred. At present they

are selling to distributors for $2.88,

the proposed increase will mean ap-

proximately thirty cents. The officers

elected are: President, M. 0. Hitch-

ins; vice-president, Edward O’Connor;

secretary-treasurer, Eugene Atkins.

The Alto Cooperative Creamery Com-

pany, of ‘Kent County, held a big meet-

ing at Alto, with free dinner served at

Prof. Hend-

ricks, of the M. A. C., was the princi-

pal speaker. Di1ectors elected were.





" N. W. Stuart, Charles Murphy, Earl





Colby, O. R. Smelker and Fred Patter-

son. Manager L. J. Strong reported

'total receipts of $150,249.82 for the

past year.



The South Haven Fruit Exchange

"has eighty- three members and the past

year’s 'bueineSs Was 'ap'prOXimately

$150, 000. It was voted to’charge off

$1, 000 to depreciation, pay $500 on the

mortgage and declare a dividend of

six per cent. The officers elected are:

President, Frank E. Warrior; vice-

president, J. Cecil Hunt: cemetery,





 





researches Nichol secretary-treasurer, G.-

:-;9.9"C‘ Em ’- .

‘Er' The Hartford Gleaners’ Cooperatvkv





 





by R. G.. KIRBY‘





This in- .





 





 





es this year when they have been in

flair condition. In one case the rise in

the price of tools enabled a farmer to

sell some finals for as much as he had

paid for them the previous year. Usu-

ally a farmer expects to lose consider-

able money on second-hand implements

but this year many farmers are glad

to buy them instead of paying more

for new ones.



Grain and hay have brought excel-

lent prices and the demand has been

good, both firom city buyers and farm-

ers in the community. who are short on

feed produced on. their own- farms.

Horses have not sold quite as well as

usual because of the high price of feed.

A farmer dislikes to buy horses to win-.

ter considering the present high price

and scarcity of hay and oats. Hogs

have not sold as well as a farmer

might expect although the poor quality

of the corn crop is undoubtedly suffi-

cient reason. Good breeding ewes have

brought fine prices and the demand has

been good



An auction is an education in agri-

culture. The farmer who has not been

following the markets closely can form

a very good idea of supply and demand

by watching the bidders and noting the

prices paid for various articles. The

visits withneighbors at an auction are

bound to bringout points of interest

which would surely have been OVer-

looked at almost any other kind of a

meeting. A11 auction gives a farmer

a chance to study live stock and note

how it compares with the breeding

stock on the home farm. Some of the -

large auctions of pure-bred stock in

this state are undoubtedly a great stim-

ulation to the farmer Who specialized

in live stock. The attendance at such

a sale is well worth the time and mon-

ey from a purely educational point of

view, even though no purchases are

made.





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COOperative Activities In Michigan





Elevator Company, Ltd., with $30,000

capital and eighty .stockholders, has

been formed in Van Buren county and

has bought the Finley elevator prop-

erty in Hartford, which is being ope'r~

ated under the management of R. W.

Conklin.



A farm for the study of been dis-

eases will be selected soon in Saginaw

county and experiments will be con-

tinued there by government experts

for a period of five years.



Owing to the scarcity of seed corn

reports from various counties of Mich-

igan indicate that large quantities of

barley will be grown this season ‘for

feed purposes, to take the place of

corn for feeding live stock.





A SKlM-MILK PAINT.





 





It is claimed that skim-milk maybe

used in the manufacture of a fire-re-

sisting covering for building purposes,

especially wooden roofs. A mixture

of cement and ordinary fine sand in a

paste is effective as a fire,retardant





preparation for wooden roots, but it





wears away quickly as the Wood ab-

sorbs the water and the dry sand and

cement blow away.



The casein in skim-milk is the me-

dillm used to hold intact the pigments

in cold water paint, so by using skim~

milk without Water the integrity of

the paste is assured. -



While this use of skim-milk in the

preparation of certain paints hasvlong

been known to'the paint trade, it is





now given out to the general public so.





that any farmer can cover. his build-





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" impossihlfe to'pickgup a paper and

, not see some appeal to the reader

to save food, fuel, Clothing or what

not, still here we are not over two hun-

dred miles from Detroit and one hun-

dred miles from Bay City in a country

*wherethere are few settlers, and a

large majority of those here having a

hard time to live, and why? Simply be-

cause we are not taking hold of the

problem in the right way. We are

every year wasting more, a great deal

more, than we are using, wasting more

than our wives could save in a bun-

dred years by pinching their supplies

of the kitchen, which are now and have

been, pinched for a long time. Every

year we are wasting more feed that

could readily be converted into beef,

. than the people eat in ten. We are

also wasting more fuel each year than

it would take to heat the public schools

of Detroit, which I notice by the daily

- papers of your city, have been forced

to shut down for lack of fuel.



“How this waste ?” you may ask. Is

it possible that there is a wideawake

citizen in the state of Michigan who

does not know? There may be and

probably is beyond doubt, but on the

other hand, there are a great many

that do know as much, or as well, as I

do. The waste I am referring to is in

the shape of fire which every year has

destroyed tons upon tons of good suc-

culent feed that could be eaten by the





   





sheep and cattle and make tons of .





wool, mutton and beefj Fires also de-

stroy acres and acres of growing tim-

ber, and it is a rare thing indeed up in

this country to find a good healthy

growth of timber. The Public Domain

Commission has tried in a way to stop





fires and have appointed deputy fire '





wardens who have a territory of a





county and a half. In addition every ‘

supervisor is a fire warden, and also a . ‘





local fire warden for every surveyed

town in his township outside of his

own is appointed, but in a great many

cases these local wardens have not the

interest in this matter that they should

have, and even if they had they could

not prevent the waste, for it is also an

impossible thing to stop the fire on a

hot dry summer day in a high wind.





I am going to recite my experiment

of last summer for answer of what to

do. I went dowu into Tuscola county

among the farmers and made them a

flat rate to graze their young cattle for

them at $6 per head for the season,

transporting them both ways, payment

for grazing to be made when cattle

were returned, with the result that we

grazed seventy-three head with satis-

factory results as far as I know at this

time, and the experiment will prob-

ably be repeated. As it happens, I can

give no exact data as to gain, but will

say it was approximately two hundred





 





 

 





 





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gan can be used in like manner. The

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need the grazing privilege as badly as

they need the manure which contains





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duction, and which cannot be got in

any other way than by feeding live

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foolish to me fer Michigan men to

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growth of timber. I have lived here

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obtaining further information, etc.

Where wood is plentiful this would

have" the effect of giving the” northern

farmer a job at home, which he, in a

great many cases, badly needs, and at

the same time of relieving the fuel sit-

uatien to some extent.



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'FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.





 





Will Barley Take the Place of Corn?





Will you please tell me the value of

barley as a horse, cattle, and hog food?

Will it take the place of corn with di-

gester tankage in a self-feeder for

hogs, and if so should it be fed whole

or ground? What is the relative value

of barley at $1.70 per bushel, and oats

at 88 cents, in a ration for horses? If

.it is a good horse food how ought it

to be fed, whole or ground, and in

what proportion with oats? Will bar-

ley and oats make a good ration for

cattle, ,both growing cattle and milch

cows, and if so in What pifl'op01tion?

Can one feed barley at $1 70 per bush

el and tankage at $4. 95 per cwt., f. o.

b. Chicago, to good pigs at the piesent

price of hogs and make any money?



Van Buren Co. A. E. C.



The chemical analysis shows that





the comparative value of nutriments

in barley is very nearly the same as

corn. Practical feeding results also

show that barley will practically take

the place of corn in feeding to all kinds

of animals, consequently, if you feed

digester tankage and barley to hogs

you would expect to get practically as

good results as if you fed corn, but the

barley should be ground. Hogs will

not properly masticate such fine grain

as barley so that there is not such

economical digestion and assimilation

as there is with 00m. Corn doesn’t

have to be ‘ground fine to get results.

If it is nicely cracked by mastication

the digestive fluids seem to have the

power to act on it. Where hogs eat

whole barley many of the grains are

not cracked and pass through the ani-

mal Whole, consequently very little of





' the food nutriments have been ab-





sorbed in the alimentary canal, but by

grinding it up fine this condition is

overcome.



: Oats at eighty-eight cents a bushel

of thirty-two pounds are a much cheap-

er food than barley at $1.70 for forty-

eight pounds. The oats would figure

-$.027 per pound, while barley would

figure $.037, practically $.01 a pound

At $1.70 for one bushel of bar-

ley is entirely too much, even at the

The

elevators are selling corn to farmers

for about $1.60 for fifty-six pounds.

That would be $028 per pound, which

you see, is much cheaper than barley

at $1.70.



With horses that have good teeth it

is not necessary to grind barley or

oats or corn. Some horses may eat

so, fast that they do not properly mas-

tiéate, but this can be overcome and

the horses taught to eat slower and

edproperly grind their food, and there-

fore it is not necessary to, grind it.



However, it can be ground if on

desires.



There, is no better food for cattle,

both growing cattle and milch co'ws,

than barley and oats, practically as

good as corn and oats, and they should

be mixed in the same proportion—

.equalparts by .weight.



As has been stated, fifty-six pounds

of barley would be worth practically

the same as fifty-six pounds of corn,

that is, the feeding value is about the

same and if one had to depend entire-

ly upon corn or barley at present pric-

es he couldn’t expect to make any mon-

ey in feeding hogs and selling‘them





at present prices, because careful ex-





periments show that it takes about

ten and a half. bushels pf corn on the

average, where corn is the only fQod

to produce 100 pounds live weight of





§_ hggs. However, if corn is worth $150

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it would be entirety out of the ques-

tion. Howeyer, neither barley nor

corn are a balanced ration for hogs ,

and by feeding“ digester tankage you

wouldn’t need to feed as much- barley

or corn tomake 100 pounds of pork





, and it would reduce the cost of pro-





duction perceptibly. But, remember,

you cannot a-fl'drd to pay $1.70 for for-

ty—eight pounds of barley because you

can buy corn cheaper, and with corn

at $1.60 and digester tankage at $4.95,



feed about one pound of tankage to

five or six pounds of corn. One would



stand a Show of getting out even and

perhaps a little better. If a cheaper

food could be substituted for part of

this high-priced food one mightmake

a little profit. For instance, if a man

had good alfalfa hay, these hogs would



eat quite a portion of that hay which,

would save some of the tankage and



very often the farmer has a portion of

the grain he produces that is not mar-

ketable and this can be mixed in with



added purchased grain and cheapen

the ration, but it is only in this way

that one can hope at the present price

of grain and the present price of hogs



to make any profit or come out even



on the deal. it should be remembered



that if the farmeis can hold their hogs



until .116: {t fall they aie p1actically



guaiauteed a p1 ofit by the gov e1 11ment.



The food administration has guaran-

teed to pay at. the rate of thirteen



bushels of corn for 100 pounds of live



weight, f. o. b. Chicago, and this gives

the farmer good profit, all he ought

to ask.



The prospect for pigs farrowed this

spring, in fact, all hogs to be marketed

next fall, is very bright indeed. At

least that is the way it seems to me,

because the farmer can use some

cheap food, pasture, waste grains in

connection with corn and tankage.

Most farmers have skim-milk that will

take the place of tankage so that all

the food will not have to be purchased

and then when he gets pay for thirteen

bushels of corn for 100 pounds of live’

weight he can afford to grow hogs.



COLON C. LILLIR.





PREPARATION OF SOW FOR FAR-‘

ROWING TIME.





 





Ten days previous to farrowing, the

sow should be removed from other

hogs and placed in her. farrowing quar‘

ters. This familiarizes the sow with

her new home, and prevents the dan~

ger of injury which might result in the

loss of her litter. The quarters should

not be too large, especially in cold

weather. A pen nine by six feet is

amply large for farrowing. A guard

rail around the edge of the pen is a

necessary precaution. The guardrail

is nothing more than a shelf extending

around the sides and ends of the pen.

This shelf should be about six inches

from the floor and should be from six

to eight inches in width. Such an ar-‘

rangement prevents heavy sows from

crushing then litters.



The bedding in the fanowing pen

should not be too abundant. With too

much bedding the sow makes a pit to

farrqw in, which brings about’ the

crushing of the pigs.



F01 three .01 tom days previous to

farrowing .the rations of the .sow

should be reduced in quantity and be

of a laxative nature. A ration, too

heavy or vriChmaY stimulate an album-

mal milk flow, and result in scours and

death among pigs.



The proper warmth and dryness of

the farrowing quarters are considera-

tions too evident for discussion





 





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The whole great problem of winning '

the war rests primarily on he thin,

the loyalty and sacrifice of t 'e Ame 1;

can people in the matter of food.“

ears selfish at even careless. we are



4. , . X ' ‘
rowing t1me. afford many advan-





tages which are not to be had in «





l' the .central house. ’They can be moved





, I about at pleasure and easily located

" next to an alfalfa field or other good





pasture Where the pigs can forage and

make 'the most rapid and economic

gains. When properly made, well ven-

tilated and bedded with plenty of straw

individual houses afford an attractive

and cemfortable home for one .sow and

her litter. '



For early March farrowing, the cen-

tral house offers some advantages in

protection from the cold and inclement

~weather and makes the work of feed-

ing considerably lighter. However,

after the pigs are old enuogh to be

moved and. the weather satisfactory,

they can be moved to separate pens

containing the individual houses. If

‘ properly constructed, the individual

houses can be made just as warm and

comfortable as the larger sheds and in

some cases much better for ventila-

‘ tion. The ideal system is to have both

‘- lltrhe central - and" individual houses” so





~that the benefits cf each, can be’ en- ‘





joyed.



The construction of individual hous-

es is very simple, as shown by the il-

lustration. These houses are each six





 





Individual Houses Are Simple in Con-

struction but Efficient and Durable.





by six feet at the base; six feet, high

and built on skids. Each house has a

solid board flooring. For gilts this,

size is excellent, but for the older and

heavier sows, a little larger house is

preferable. In that case, the base

should be eight feet each way

and the height seven feet. It is a good

plan to have some of each size. A

good coat of barn paint will make them

more attractive as well as add to their

period of usefulness. Renters will find

the individual houses especially valu-

able on account of being easily moved

from one place to another, so that if

insufficient shed room is available,

their hog raising need not be curtailed

for want of adequate shelter. I ven-

ture to say that if renters would take

to raising more hogs, their period of

renting would soon be over and they

could soon pay for a home of their own.





_ RATIONS FOR BROOD SOWS.





The following rations for brood sows

aresuggested by J. S. Coffey, of the

_ Ohio State University:





- 1. Corn," one part; skim-milk, six ,

parts.

2. Corn, two parts; shorts, three

parts. ’ -

3. Corn, one part; middlings, two

parts; oats, one, part. Add five per





‘ ' cent on meal to this mixture. ,



4 Barley, oats and shorts in equal



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" 145. Barley and oats in equal parts;



with three pounds of skim-milk

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’ S a result-cf organised effort'thi

9 . -, « farmers at Michigan are getting

g .. better prism for their milk than

time farmers of any other state in the

great milk producing regions, and all

‘of this has been accomplish-edwithout

milk strikes or court ' proceedings

against, any oflicers or members of. the

Michigan Milk Producers’ Association.

We are working in perfect harmony

with the buyers and distributors in our

territory. These facts are very gati-

fying when we consider the strenuous

lights that have taken place in Newr

York, Illinois and other localities in

. the great milk producing sections.

While these conditions appear grati~

: tying to! the oficers and members of

the Michigan Milk Producers’ Associa-

tion there still remains the big con-

.structive undertaking of regulating

“and stabilizing the supply of milk used

by the city trade and the various in-

dustries'so that there shall be no glut

4m the market at anyxparticular place

‘at any time of the year. in order to

bring about these conditions it is nec-

..essary to plan the sale of milk so that

l each'particular district shall find the

best market possible for its product

for the entire year and not use its sup«

ply at certain seasons to create a sun

plus in. the other districts, While the

present system of distribution may of-

; ten result in higher prices for milk 'in

a certain locality for a few weeks or

‘ months, in the end it is sure to prove

disastrous to prices in general. This

is a. problem of vital importance to the

milk producers of the state of Michi~

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Every successful selling organization

in the country,dealing in staple pro.

ducts has partially solved this problem

of efl‘icient distribution. Districts must

not be\p1ayed against each other by

the buyers. I want to say—and I can-

not say it too emphatically—that if the

‘milk producers of Michigan are to reap

the full reward of our efforts to secure

better prices for their product and not

out each other’s throats, when there

comes what is called a surplus on the

market, they must emulate some of the

successful marketing organizations

and come together in a complete un-

derstanding of this distribution prob-

lem. The fact that there is a surplus





I in some of our districts is the result





"of bad distribution, of a greater supply





' .in one place than there is demand, and‘





a corresponding scarcity at other

places. To stabilize these markets

throughout the year and keep the sup-

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There are; four sizes of

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the smallest size. Our

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how a Papec will pay for

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meet the requirements of the different

markets is one thing that we-must do

to keep prices at a uniform and profit-

; able level throughout the year.



Every effort possible must be made

' to protect the Detroit market for .the

dairy farmers of that area. It is unfair

for the dairy farmers who have invest-

ed thousands of dollars in first-class

buildings and equipment and made

plans to produce a uni-form quantity of

high-class milk throughout the year to

have to compete with the product of

dairy farmers who only keep a few

cows as a side 'line to their other

branches of farming. Our efforts to

stabilize the milk supply must be bas-

‘ed on some system of milk selling and

.distributing that will eliminate the

small milk producers from a distance,"





- rwho only keep a few cows, from sell-





ing their milk so that it will create a

surplus at certain times of the year

in the Detroit market. _



‘ Efforts are constantly being made to

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deavoring to save. the Detroit area 1m: '

the Detroit area producersri'llhiswmmt' -

be. done lfwe sucCQd in’st‘abillzing m‘ov ‘

duction’ and. prices. Next summer when:

the ufistateiarmers can raisexbeeislgw s

potato (s and. beans they will not talk -

cows, and the consumers in Detroit





will be without milk. _ When winter.

comes ' again these up—state farmers?





cows will again freshen and there will ' '





again be a milk surplus in_ Detroit.

This is the reason why the Detroit dis-





tributors have contracted to buy. milk '





only from the members of the Michi-

gan Milk Producers’ Association. so

that this supply can be kept uniform

during the year. _ -



Another reason why we must on-

courage the producers of milk in prox-





imity of our cities by protecting their





territory is- the fact that the surplus of

milk created at. certain times of the

year by these producers from a dis-

tance is of a quality that tends to dis-

courage the use of whole milk in city

homes. If we are to advertise our pro-

duct and maintain a reputation for.

Michigan milk it mustbe our policy to

gradually foster the dairy where milk

is the main product and try and mini-

mize or, if possible, gradually elimi-

nate,’ so far as supplying the city is

concerned, those with Whom milk pro-

duction is a side issue and where high

sanitation is not possible. This would

entail no hardship to the small dairy

farmer for generally his interest is

very small—an average of six to ten

cows, which are generally kept as a

side issue. With this class of produc-

ers the milk should go to the manu-

facturing industries, butter and cheese,

where the manipulation and processes

modify the contaminating possibilities.

While it is desired that all dairies be

uniform, those supplying the city milk

trade should be Specialized to a high

standard and be differentiated from

the lesser ones where procedure is

along different lines.



There is at present,rtherefore, no

greater problem or greater work than

to make our organization solid. To the

Detroit area producer who objects to

becoming a member of our Milk Pro-

ducers’ Association, we wish to say

that the rule that you object to is your

protection. Without that protection

there would have been the worst sur-

plus on the Detroit market this year

that there has ever been and the en-

tire industry in' Michigan would have

unstabilized. Let every local officer

get busy if you want to protect your

market from outside milk. .Detroit

buyers stand ready to live up to the

provisions of our contract with them.

But. if one goes to buying in car lots,

then the others will naturally seek self-

protection, and your market is destroy-

ed. Our agreements are well signed

up. Our ranks are becoming constant-

ly solidified and we do not want to ask

the buyers to cut you off. You better

get in While the getting is good.



' R. C. REED,

Field Sec’y and Selling Agent.





A GREATER CONSUMPTION 0F.

DAIRY PRODUCTS. ’





 





Increase in the consumption and in ‘





the production of milk are strongly

urged by the special committee of ex-

perts appointed by the Food Adminis-

tration to study the milk problem. Their

report, now completed, deals with pro-





duction, distribution and food value of,





market milk and" discusses frankly the





factors which contribute to the prelim-- -





tion or discouragement of this imports

ant industry. ‘ -





' In» advocating a greater consumption! . '

of milk the committee contends thetfn“





the cities, better- developmcnt some





physical . condition. of the, Emlation-i‘

would follow. Also Vthatrjkim’emiki‘ondév .

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Will you please tell me of a goéd

method of feeding milk to calves while

.. on pasture? Is the trough a successful

way? Of course, we usethe pail while

in the barn, but after they are turned

on pasture it is quite a chore to feed

twenty or more“ calves. Also, what has

been found to be good feed to help out

short pasture for cows? I do not have

success with green corn, it is too loose-

ening to the bowels.

Sanilac Co. F. L. H.





_ I don’t like the idea of pouring the

'milk. into a long trough and letting

' the ‘calves drink out of this trough, for

the very reason that the largest and

thriftiest calf will get more than his

share of the milk. Each calf ought to

have its portion and no system of feed-

ing is successful unless arranged so

that each one of the calves gets its

share.



Late years, we have bred our cows

80 that most of them freshened in the

' fall, hence by spring the calves are



old enough to go to pasture without

'any feed. Those that are too young,

we have kept in box stalls in the barn

the entire season and not turned them

out to pasture. Formerly, when the

cows freshened in the spring and we

had the former universal calf pasture

we~made a row of stanchions so that

we could have each calf in a stanchion

by himself, then a manger in front of

them that would hold the pails so that

the milk could not be wasted. By hav-

ing a pail for each calf it is but little

more work to.feed the calves in pails

than it would be to pour it into a

trough. Of course, there is some trou-

ble in keeping the calf pails clean as

they should be washed occasionally. In

this way, each calf gets his share.

Then the calves should be kept in the

stanchions after the pails are removed

and they should be fed a little dry

grain. This gets them out of the no-

tion of sucking each other if you can

leave them there until their mouths

get dry before they are released from

the stanchions.



Feed to Supplement Short Pastures.



There is nothing in the world better

to feed cows on short pasture in the

summer time than corn silage. One

should put up silage in the fall so that

he will have enough to feed the cows

next summer during the draught and

short pasture. Many dairymen now

have two silos, one for winter feeding

and one for summer feeding. If one

hasn’t a sufficient number of cows to

warrant this he can have one silo tall

enough so that it will hold enough to

last until the ensilage is harvested

next year; Early in' the season when

the pasture is abundant, possibly it

does not pay to feed ensilage but just

as soon as the pasture gets short the

cows should have a supplementary



. food. ' ’



If one hasn’t a summer silo' he can

feed soiling crops. Oats and peas

come in at just about the time when

the pastures get short. They can be

fed green if you have need of them.

The balance can be made into hay.

“Clover makes an excellent supplement

for the pasture, both when green and

after it,is made into hay it will pay

any man if the pasture is short, to feed

a good feed of clover hay every day.

Then, early sweet corn or early corn

of any variety after it is properly ma~

tuned comes in later in the season“ but

all of these soiling crops take so much

time‘and labor just at the time of the

year when the farmer has more work

than he. can do. The silage is handy

and-scan. be fed without interfering

with the other work. , .



Home hasn’t the soiling crops nor

. thptsummer: silage, you can get along

" ' f by ',«feeding;,, a liberal grain

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SOY BEANS FOR MISSAUKEE

COUNTY.





I would like a little information re-

garding soy beans. Can soys be grown

successfully up here in Missaukee

county? If so, how should they be

grewn? Also, what variety? I want

to grow these in corn for silage. Will

they hinder cutting the corn by hand?



Missaukee Co. . J. D. B.



I don’t think there is any danger but

what you could grow soy beans any-

where you can mature corn. Certainly

you can mature them sufficiently so

that they will make good ensilage.

Like corn, they do not want to be dead

ripe to make good ensilage. If the

beans are nicely formed in the pods

they are all right for ensilage. If you

would let them get too ripe the leaves

will drop off and the pods will shatter

and you will lose much of the seed.



Soy beans grown in ensilage corn

will, in my judgment, interfere very

,materially if you cut the corn by hand.

You will not get half of them because

they are not high enough so that a

man gathering the corn in his hand to

be cut will grasp the beans. Where

you cut them with a corn harvester it

is a different proposition. They can

nearly all of them be gathered and

tied in the bundle.



Any of the early varieties, the Early

Yellow or the Iota San or the Ebony

will do. In fact, for your Vicinity for

ensilage, I am inclined to think that

the medium variety would mature

more nearly with the corn than the

real early varieties.





CONTAGIOUS ABORTION.





Two heifers bred by the same sire

have aborted. I have another one bred

by the same sire which is soon to

freshen. This one is kept in a stable

with other cattle which heat now. If

this heifer should abort, is there any

danger of spreading this disease to the

other COWS when they freshen next

year? Is this disease spread by a sire

or among .cows in one stable?



Ottawa Co.





Contagious abortion may be spread

by the sire or by the cows themselves.

It is absolutely dangerous to keep a

cow that has aborted, in the'stable

with other cows. It is dangerous to

keep the cows in the same stable

where a cow has aborted unless great

pains have been taken to disinfect the

stable. Contagious abortion is easily

and rapidly spread.



The only remedy known for this dis-

ease is very carefully disinfecting in

every particular and looking after ev-

ery detail constantly. Someone has

stated that the only way to get rid of

contagious abortion in a herd is to

clean up, disinfect, and to keep clean.

In other words, this is a germ disease

and the only way to get rid of it is to

kill the germs. When a cow aborts, all

of the viscera should be destroyed, the

stall should be disinfected with a good

disinfectant—any coal tar dip will do.

The cow should be irrigated and also

the sire should be irrigated and all the

stalls and floor of the barn, the bull

pen and everything should be thor-

oughly sprayed with a good disinfec-

tant and germicide. .Cows .that have

aborted finally become immune and if

one is thorough in this process of

cleaning and keeping clean he can

hope to finally eliminate it from his

herd.

The Task Ahead.





' Germany’sgreatest ally is the false

belief in the United States that the





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“in half the time it

would hire a 'man

with. . ow"

We quote the following

from a letter written by

Ed. Grahl of Eden.Wis.:

‘ ey(Olivernnd Theodore

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when not ntten as school,

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from his older brother, printed above. _





Oliver Grahl and Theodore certainly keep things

neat.

with a wheelbarrow!”

times when labor is so scarce.

ment makes it possible. The boy and a wheel-

barrow couldn’t do it.

carrier make that extra man unnecessary so

cleaning job is concerned.

Equipment—the

in these days when help is hard to get-when machinery is needed





should be installed in your barn this year

even if you put in no other equipment—

even it you are not ready to build or re-

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HAT is what Oliver Grahl, 12 years old,

of Eden, Wis., does. Read the letter





And "in half the time it would take a man i;

Think of that—in these 15/

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This is just one sidelight on what JAMES

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It not only saves labor, but it increases the milk yield— ‘ i

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I am interested in

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“The lamesway" book will show you how tohave

a money-making. labor-savingbarn. Besides telling

all about JAMES Equipment-1.13115, stanchions.



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pens, drinking cups, ventilators carriers /ment‘olthe Dairy Barn .....





at least.





—-it gives helpful advice about barn plans,





yield—they will actually pa for them- location. drainage and lighting; about ‘

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tinuone doorway. Utfllluhioinudl’rieu. ~





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«THIS year—if you own- no spreader, you: are

not only losmg out on the b1 gger y1elds

and profits that should be yours, but you are con-

tributing to a- billion-dollar manure waste, and stop- '-

pirég your ears to the world-call for food. . .



e have facts and figures to show that in seoresowf cases

the use of an International Harvester spreader has added to

cm s more than: enough to pay for the spreader 1n one year.



he dealer will show you the new No. 8 LewC Corn King.

This is the latest International

Harvester spreader, the popular 2- horse, light-draft, narrow-

box machine with the remarkable news

For the small- -to-average farm this IS boun to be the spreader

Look it over from tongue to spiral, see

it at work, and you will agree wrth us.



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. ‘Salt is sometimes advocated.

. successful?





N the February 91831118 of the mob-

igan Farmer, J. E.- 6., at sanirac

county, asks it well developed ears



are necessary on ensilage com. I am





- il'n favor of Mr. Lillie’s replY. except





that I differ with him in this state-

ment: “If we plant the ensilage corn’

thicker, so that only a few small cars





, ;or. 1111151211113 Would- be developed, we

2 {would get more tons of ensilage per





acre, and it would be just as good en-

stlage, 1011 for ton, as though we" plant-

ed the corn» thin and allowed the hor-

mal develOpment 02' ears.”



Now, we all know that we would get

a larger yield in tons 0t ensil‘age—in

other words, we would get more bulk

from a given area.





teen years and I’ve used different va-

rieties of corn; corn that made alarge

growth (ten to twelve feet high) and

couldn’t mature in our short season;

and varieties that would make a small

growth (five ‘to six feet high), and

would come to maturity, or nearly so,

by the time we got our first frost.



I am positive that I got as much

feeding value per acre from the early

maturing varieties as from the late

maturing varieties that were only par-

tially matured and, contained a large

amount of water and bulk, which ne-

cessitated nearly twice the expense of

hauling and filling the silo.



If the late varieties could have been

left a few weeks longer it would have

been cared out and the plant would

have been filled with more nutrients,

(starch, sugar and protein). I don’t

think the corn should be ripe but it

should be well glazed to get the best

results. ,



I have also drilled in my corn for

ensilage, in order to have enough fod-

der to fill the silo, which was fifteen

feet in diameter by thirty-two feet

deep, holding one hundred and twenty-

five tons. Have filled this silo from

eight acres of drilled corn.



But from my experience, I believe

when I put in an early variety of corn

that would be well glazed by the time

we got our first frost, I got the best

results when I checkrowed it, so as to

cultivate it both ways, or drilled: it in

thin) so it would ear out the same as

corn that was planted especially for

the grain. Of course, it was! always

out as soon as we could get to it after





" the first frost and we were generally

1 ready to start filling the silo when the





first frost came. If we didn’t get an

early front we would start filling the

silo as soon as corn was well glazed... .._

Mr. Lillie says: "Theonly question

is, whether these plants that don't

contain ears, have as much digestible

food as plants containing ears.”

' Now, my theory i~s~awhen the corn

is too thick the plant does not contain

enough starch: and sugar, and protein

to develop: a normal ear. That where





'. considerably less seed is used- the plant

has a chance to develop a perfectly





normal root system and thereby gath-

er a greater amount of plant foodf‘rom

the soil, and store it in the ‘ears as

sugar, fats and protein. Also, the di-

gestibie nutrients are more concen-

trated and there isn’t so much bulk to

babel-1e. W. E. BARDO'W.

HOW TO PREVENT ENSIILAGE

FROM FREEZING. '





 





 





I have trouble with my ensilage

freezing. I would like to know if there

is any way to prevent or remedy this.

Is this

If so, how is it admin-

istered? F. M. D.



There is no practical way to" entirely





.' prevent silage from freezing more or





less in extremely cold weather. In or-

dinary winters the freezing of the sil-

age doesn’t bother very ,much. If the

temperature goes down below zero it

,usually only lasts for a day or so and





“then we have a warm spell and one





 





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the center or the $110.11 it doesn’t

thaw out there it can be thrown down





and left in" the warm stable until it. .





does thaw and then listed withbut" any -

loss ‘or danger to-thecattle'. Frozen

silage should not be fed in any con~

siderab‘le amount.



If one has a hinge door silo softball:

he can close the doors up» tight when

he comes out of the silo; this a-ffm-ds

protection, just as it would to shut the

door of a barn. If he had some way or

closing the opeings around the top

which are necessary for ventilation

when the silo Is filled and would close





the hinge door it would have to be f





pretty cold weather in order to freeze

the silage. ,



Again, if one will. take the silageout f.

next to the slaves or wall of the silo. 1

dbwn deeper than in the center, leav— .V

ing it reunding, there isn’t so much '

danger of freezing. At least, you leave ,_‘

the Surface of the ensilage in such con-' ‘

dition that one can get through a cold

snap with very little bother.



If one could close up the silo as I

have suggested, a little oil stove or

even a lantern hung in the silo on cold ‘

nigh-ts would assist very much and

would prevent the ensilage from freez~

ing on top any way. Some people

build silos inside the barn with the

idea that they will not freeze and, of .

course, this is a great preventive but I,

it is impractical to build a silo in the

barn, it takes up too much of the barn

space and. you need that for something

else.



A little salt scattered around the

outside of the silo will assist in thaw-

ing out the ensilage and in fact, in a

measure prevent the- freezing of the

ensilage‘close to the wall, but this ‘

must be scatteied every day. This .

wouldn’ t be wasted because the cattle

need salt anyway, but we never suc-

ceeded in [,preventing the silage from

freezing entirely by using salt.





CEMENT BOTTOM FOR SILO.





 





We put up a silo last summer over

it five-foot pit with cement bottom

Since then there has been quite a num-

ber of silos erected, but they are not

putting in cement bottoms any more— ‘

nothing but dirt floors, saying that the

ensi-lage keeps better. Our corn was

quite: g1 een when we filled our silo last

fall, as was our neighbm’ s corn. Our

silo did not leak any but our neiglr

bor’s did and they tell me I will find

my pit full of corn juice and it will not

be fit to feed. They tell me that this

juice ought to be 'let off. Would like

to know what your experience with it

is. Would you- advise me to take a

crow-bar and make a' hole in the bot-

tom .of the silo?



Monroe Co. F. T. 8.





There we silos in this state that we

built entirely below the ground. An

excavation is dug and then the dim

walls are covered with sand and ce-

ment to make what is known as a “pit

silo!” Silage keeps well in these pits.

The greatest objection that can be of-

fered against them is that it makes so ,

much work in getting the silage out of I

the pit when you want to feed it." '

Where the silo is entirely above the

ground one has machinery to elevate

the silage into the silo, but there isn’t

any practical machinery for getting the

silage out of the ground. Of. course,

you have a great big bucket and let it _

down into the silo and elevate it with H

a Windlass but thist rather slow work“

and has made this pit silo unpopular

but there is no question but what the

silage will keep. Many silos are put

in at a depth of five feet. If it is prop-

erly constructed and properly cement.

ed, the pressure of the corn in this pit ,

will keep any water frOm coming in

from the outside when it lawn of all ‘

age Not only that, but the pressure

01’ the silage will prevent me much ‘wa. _'

ter accumulating in the bottom. When

corn is put in at the proper stage the

isn’t a very great excess ot mousse.“

anyway. If there " presume Q

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Wy not give protein feeds in ex:

ease of. balances: requirements? They

‘re so much cheaper.» Cottonseedmeal ,

- per. cwt’; oil cake meal $3.59; corn»

" meal $4. Is not protein available for

the purpose of general nutrition? One

. cr‘mo‘re of my coWs has an. abnormal

in :ié‘ecretion in. the milk which appears

""_;’as a thick mucous-like substance"in

the separator. Is this true of most

cows? Do you know ~of any remedy?

It seems worse with liberal feeding.

‘.Kent 00. ' ., W. E. T.

. There is much better argument in

favor of feeding an excess of protein

.' in a ration than there is for feeding

V an excess of carbohydrates, providing

the price of the protein foods will

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purely starch and fatty foods would

die in a‘short time but they can live

on protein.

~ However, it is better in the long run

to feed a balanced ration, that-is, the

proper proportion as near as practical

between protein, and carbohydrates

than it is to feed an excess of protein.

For a short time it would do, but for

long periods of feeding you cannot

keep _the animal in proper health with

nothing but protein in the food. We

need the carbohydrates in order to

keep the animal in proper health and

even though the carbonaceous foods

are higher, pound for pound, than the

protein, I would hesitate about elimi-

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proposition. ‘ '

Abnormal Secretions in Milk.



This is a case that ought not to be



answered without proper diagnosis.



One is liable to make a bad mistake

in attempting toanswer a question of



‘ this sort without proper investigation.



i wouldn’t be surprised if it proved to

been, case of chronic garget. It may

be Confined to.one cow or it may be

that several cows are infected, but

they may not be continuously infected,

simply periodically. A cow may bruise

her udder or when she lies down the

udder may rest on the cold floor. These

may cause inflammation that might

have resulted in an attack of chronic

garget and therefore give off mucous

or slimy cischarges. ..If a cow catches

"cOld it is liable to produce inflamma-

tion in the iudder with cows so affect-

ed. Again, by very liberally feeding it

may bring on inflammation with cows

afiected by chronic, garget.



,In milking, one should try and find

the cow. or cows that are producing

this condition; they can be treated best

probably under the advice of the local

veterinarian. A few doses of saltpeter

will_usually remedy this condition for



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Salient Features of the Reo Six





so HORSE POWER, Six-cylin- '





der motor cast in threes.





V REO DESIGNED, Reo made—-





throughout.



126 INCH Wheel Base.

CANTILEVER rear springs -—

Semi-elliptic front springs.



FULL FLOATING rear axle.



TIMKEN BEARINGS through-

out.



NOISELESS spiral-bevel driv—

mg gears.



REO ONE-ROD centre control.





HYATT QUIET bearings in

transmission—at all points.



MULTIPLE Dry-disc clutch.



BOTH BRAKES operated by

foot levers and provided with

- ratchet locks. Extra large and

both operating on rear hubs.

No hand brake.





CLUTCH AND SERVICE

brake are interconnected.





TWO UNIVERSAL Joints in

drive shaft.



TORQUE SHAFT relieves

driving mechanism of road

stresses.



SUB FRAME carries motor and

transmission.



EXTRA LARGE—and round—-

spokes in wheels.



OVER- SIZE TIRES—34 in. x

4/ 1n.



PERFECT LUBRICATION

at every moving point.



REO RADIATOR—Reo design-

ed, Reo made.



REO- REMY Electric Starting,

Lighting and Ignition system.



REO STEERING GEAR—ex-

clusively Reo. No back- lash

~—self— adjusting for wear.

Positive.



50 PER CENT OVERSIZE in

all vital parts —— crank-shaft,

axles, driving shafts, gears,

frame, wheels, tires.





NET RESULT—Reo upkeep





equalled by no other 7-passen- .





ger car.





PRICE IS F. O. B. LANSING AND

SUBJECT TO INCREABI

WITHOUT NOTICE





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A Seven “Passenger Six

That You Can Afford





WE ARE NOT THINKING of the price:

—-—-fOr that isn’t the primary considera-.





tion in flmselection of a car.





YOU KNOW YOUR OWN NEEDS-





Whether a five passenger car is sufficient;





or if ya'fi really need, at times, room for





gmore. "5;;

AND“ YOU KNOW better than anyone





.‘ else can tell you, what‘your price limit is.;





AND'SURELY AT ITS PRICE this Reo





Six is the greatest value obtainable in a





» car of established reputation.

AND RED REPUTATION is second to





none.





WHEN WE SAY “Here is a seven-passen-

ger Six that you can afford,” we are

thinking of the same item that you, an

experienced motorist, are considering—





NAMELY~UPKEEP. That 1s the first

thing to consider in the selection of an

automobile.





CERTAINLY YOU CAN afford to own

a seven- passenger car—and you can

treat yourself to the' luxury of a sweet-

running, silent Six—if you can feel that

not only 1n first cost but also 1n cost of

upkeep it will be well within your means

and accord with your ideas.





ASK ANY REO SIX OWNER to tell you

of the upkeep cost of his Sir-and the

longer be has owned and the farther he

has driven his Reo, the .better will his

answer sound.





HE WILL TELL YOU that, having corn-

pared notes with friends who own and

drive other makes of cars—fours as well

as sixes—~of the same passenger capacity,





he has never found one that Compared





with his Reo Six in loW COst of upkeep.

AND HE’ LL TELL YOU, too, that he has





yet to find even a five- -passe11ger car— , 9

four or six—the Operation, repairs, res





placements and general upkeep cost of

which proved as low as his Rea Six—-

except one the five-passenger Reo.





NATURALLY a five passenger car ought i





to be cheaper to maintain than one of

s’even- passenger capacity—but most are

not, when you look up the figures.





REG DEALERS TELL Us that 111a:

‘, records for the‘ past three years show





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that Rec Six owners 'on the average have ._; ,





paidless than eight dollars per car per

year for replacement parts. "‘ ' s





,. JUST READ THAT AGAIN—with thOu-





sands of Reb Sixes running in all parts ’





Of the country,- over all kinds of roads

and handled by} all kinds of skilled and

unskilled drivers; most of them Owner





_driven and owner cared for (or new 1





looted)—



THE AVERAGE COST per car, per year,

for replacement parts was less than

eight dollars! ' -



FRANKLY WE DON ’T believe that

record can be equalled by any other

seven-passenger car on earth.





AND WE MAY ADD that the records on v





the five-passenger Reo shew less than

seven dollars per car.





THE SAME QUALITY—the same sound .





engineering; the same ripe experience;

the same attention to little details and

the some construction, inspectiOn and

testing of every car enter into the mak-

ing of all Reo models.





signing and when specifying materials.





And since the same desire 1s uppermost _





in the minds Of the most experienced

buyers—we meet on a common ground.





‘ WE ARE FRANK TO ADMIT that to a





large extent the phenOmenally low cost



- Of upkeep of Reos 1s due to the fact that

Reo buyers are, as a class, better in-

formed and more careful in their'selec-

tion than the average.





REOS DO NOT APPEAL to those who





' COST OF UPKEEP 1s always uppermost '

in the minds of Rco engineers, when de— ,





look only to superficialr—Rebs are built » .





for connoisseurs and Rec owners are





mostly men of ripe experience in motor- '





ing. They , therefore, combine prudence





with intelligence in their choosing of an ' ’





automobile.





IF YOU ARE ONE of that kmd, we say -





to you, here' 15 a magnificent, luxurious;

seven- passenger six that, both in first

cost and cost bf upkeep, yOu can well

afford to own.

REO EFFICIENCY sets the price lower

V ‘ -—Reo quality guarantees low upkeep.





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ly Kimball flicked his

' from his cuff and fluttered it across

his coat sleeve, where dust had fallen

“the guards back in the states are play

soldiers, you know; these chaps, here

'i—well, they are the real thing. They

'gdon’t dress up like picture-book sol-

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. the barracks stood, marched this day





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.business of warfare.





down on to the level grounds and mass-

ing, rank on rank, for inspection and

’ the trip—hammer pound-pound~pound of





bad if the girl? should have to put her

back against a; Wall; but she could be

spared; she was not essential. After

he had succeeded in getting word of

his danger to Woodhouse, Almer Would

censider saving Louisa from a; firing





rested again, talking that way here

where everybody can hear you. Re-

member what that hotel: man said last

night about careless remarks about

military things on the Rock? Be good,

father.”



“There, there!” Sheiman removed”

the monitory hand and patted it was

suringly‘. “I forgot. But when I get

aboard the Saxonia and well out to

sea, I’m going to just bust information

about what IIIthink of things in gen-

eral: over. here in this Europe place—

their Bottycelly pictures and their

broken-down churches and—_- Why,

bless my soul! The little store buyer

and that Iowa girl who’s married to

the governor here!” ‘



_ The patriot stopped short in his re-

view of the Continent’s delinquencies

to wave his hat at Lady Crandal-l and

Jane Gerson, who were trundling down

under the avenue of planes in a smart

dog-cart. Lady Crafidall answered his

bail with a flourish of her whip, turn-

ed her horse off the road, and brought

her conveyance to a stop by the group

of exiles. Hearty greetings passed

around. The governor’s wife showed

her unaffected pleasure at the meeting.



“I thought you wouldn’t miss the

parade,” she called down from her

high seat. “Only thing that moves on

the Rock—these daily revieWS. Brought

Miss Gerson down here so when she

gets back to New York she can say

she’s seen the defenders of Gibraltar,

if not in action, at least doing their

hard training, for it.”



“Well, I don’t mind telling you,”

Sherman began defiantly, "I think (the

national guard of Illynoy can run cir-

cles around these Englishmen when it





mer shook itself free from the incubus

_of dread and leaped to the exigency of

the moment. Calling his head waiter

to keep warm the chair behind the

desk, Almer retired to his room, and





an hour.



The hour of parade during war time

on Gibraltar was one o’clock. At that

time, six days a week, the half of the

garrison not actually in' fighting, posi-





ernse marched to the parade grounds

down by the race track and there went





“of a hair-trigger state of efficiency.

Down from'the rocky eminences where





'block after block of olive-drab fighting

units—~artillerymen for the most part,

equipped with the rifle and Pack of in-

,No blare of braSS music





men, in this time of reality paced two

by two, stretchers carried between

them. All the curl and snap of silken

banners that made the parade a mov-

ing spectacle in ordinary times was

absent; flags do not figure in the grim

Just those solid

,blocks of men trained to kill, sweeping





evolutions to follow. Silent integers





 





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with a critical eye.





way,” mother admitted. “Those floppy,

,Ibroad- brimmed hats our boys

make them look more—more roman-

tic, I’d say.”





fire in his eye, and the pearl buttOns

on his white linen waistcoat creaked

with the swelling of a patriot’s pride.

“You’ve been a long time from home,

Willy. Perhaps you’ve forgotten that

your own father was at Corinth. Guess

you’ve overlooked that soldiers’ mon-

ument in Courthouse SQuare back in

little old ,Kewa‘nee.

soldiers,’

ed away with your dad in sixty-one.

Gimme a regiment of those old boys '

min blue, and they could use this whole

:bunch of—--’-’



, “Father,” Kitty had flipped her hand





of power, flexing their muscles for the comes to puttin' up a show. Now, Kit-

ty, don’t you: try to drive a plug in

your dad’s sentiments again; Mrs.

Crandall’s all right—one of us.” A

shocked look from his daughter. “Oh,

there I go again, forgettin’. Lady

Crandall, I mean: Excuse me, ma’am.”



“Don’t you dare apologize,” the gov-

ernor’s Wife playfully threatened Mr.

Sherman with her whip. “I love the

sound of good, old-fashioned ‘Missis.’

Just imagine—married five’years, and

nobody has called me ‘Mrs.- Crandall’

until you did just now. ‘Wedded, But

Not a Missis’; wouldn’t that be a per

fectly gorgeous title for a. Laura Jean

novel? Miss Gerson, let’s hop out and

join these home folks; they’re my

kind.”



The burst of laughter that greeted

Lady Crandall’s sally was not over

before she had leaped nimbly from her

high perch, Henry J. gallantly assist-

ing her. Jane followed, and the coach-

man from his little bob seat in the

back drove the dog-cart over the road

to wait his mistress’ pleasure. The

scattered blocks of olive-gray on' the

field had coalesced into a solid ‘ regi-

ment now, and the long double rank

of men was sweeping forward like the

cutting arm of a giant mower.' The

party of Americans joined the sparse

crowd of spectators at the edge of the

field, the better to see. . Jane Gerson

found herself chatting with Willy Kim-

ball and'Kitty Sherman a little apart

from the others. A light touch fell on

her elbow. She turned to find Almer,

the hotel keeper, smiling deferentially.



“Pardon—a. thousand pardons for

the intrusion, lady. I am Almer, 10f

the Hotel Splendide.” . .



“You haven’t remembered something

more I owe you,”’~,Jane challenged

bruskly. ,A '.

“Qih, no, lady!" Almer spreal out. his

hands. ‘ “It happened to see you here

W the wider WI remembers“

ed a trivial duty I here which if i





might bring.



Mr. Henry J. Sherman stood with

his Wife, Kitty and Willy Kimball——

Kimball had developed a surprising in-

terest in one of these home folks, at

least—under the shade of the row of

plane trees fringing the parade ground.

They tried to persuade themselves that

they were seeing something worth

while. This pleasing fiction were thin

with Mr. Sherman before fifteen min-

utes had passed.



“Shucks, mother! The boys at the

national guard encampment down to

Galesburg fair last year‘made a better

showing than this.” He pursed out his

lips and regarded a passing battalion





“Looked more like soldiers, any-





wear





“But, my dear Mrs. Sherman”——Wil-

handkerchief





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finder nearest her a purious brown own

streak ,, . .





I ' ‘ -’ barge a duty—for you?” The.

girl did ot conceal her pu‘zzlement.

Almer’s h d fumbled in a pocket of





his flapping alpaca coat and produced’

a plain silver cigarette case, unmono- ‘





grammed. She looked at it wonder-

ingly.



’ "Captain Woodhouse—you met him

at my hotel last night, lady. He left

this lying on his dresser when he quit

his room to go to barracks today. For

me it is diflcult to send a messenger

with it to‘the barracks—war time, Iad‘y

—many restrictions inside the lines. I

came here hoping perhaps to see the

captain after, the parade. But you—”



“You Wish me to give this to'Cap-

tain Woodhouse?” Jane finished, a.

flicker of annoyance crossing her face.

“Why me ‘7”



“You are at Government House,

lady. Captain Wood‘house comes «to

tea—all newcomers to the garrison do

that. If you would be so good—”



Jane took the cigarette case from

Almer’s outstretched hand. Lady Cran-

dall had told her the captain would be

in for tea that afternoon. It was a

small. matter, this accommodation, as

long as Almer did- not insinuate-ens he

had not done—~any i-mpertinence; im-

ply any over eagerness on her part to

perform so minor a service for the offi-

cer.‘ Almer bowed his thanks and lost

himself in the" crowd. Jane turned

again to where Kitty and Kimball were

chatting.



“A dun for extra service the land-

lord forgot last night, I’ll wager,” the

youth greeted her.



“Oh, no, just a little present,” Jane

laughed back at him, holding up the

silver case. “With Almer’s compli-

ments to Captain Woodhouse, Who for-

got it when he gave up his room today.

I’ve promised’to turn it over to the

captain and save the hotel man a lot

of red

through to the captain’s quarters."



“By Jove!” Kimball’s tired eyes

lighted up with a quick flash of smok-

er’s yearning. “A life-saver! Came

away from my room without my pet

Egyptians—Mr. Sherman yelling at me

to hurry or we’d miss this slow Show

and all that. I’m going to play the pan-

handler and beg one of your captain

friend’s smokes. He must be a good

sort or you wouldn’t be doing little

favors for him, Miss Gerson. ,Come,

now; in your capacity as temporary

executrix will you invest one of the

captain’s cigarettes in a. demand of

real charity?” ,



Keen desire was scarcely veiled un-

der Kimball’s fiction of light patter.

Smilingly the girl extended the case





to him.





“Just to make, it businesslike, the ex~





ecutrix demands your note for—um—

sixty days, say.

ceived. I promise to pay—’ ”





‘For one cigarette re-





“Given!” He pulled a gold pencil





from his pocket and made a pretense

of writing the form on his cuff. Then

be lit his borrowed cigarette and in-

haled it gratefully.





“Your captain friend’s straight from





Egypt; I don’t have to be told that,”

Willy Kimball murmured, in polite ecs-

tasy. “At Shepard”s, in Cairo, you’ll





get such a cigarette as this, and no-

where else in a barren world.

’breath' of the ac‘anthus blossdm-I—ifs it‘

really has- a breath—mover heard?





The





“Back in Kewanee the Ladies’ Aid





Society will have you arrested,” Kitty

.putin mischievously.

bly' wrought up over cigarettes—for

minors.” .



Kimball cast her a glance of deep .

reproach. As he lifted the cigarette to,

his lips’for a second puff, :Jane’s eyes

mechanically followed the movement. '

Something caught and held them, won:

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‘Now what are they all doing out ,





there?” Kitty Sherman was asking.





“All those men running top speed with F

. their guns carried up so high.” _’

“Bayonet charge,” Kimball answer





ed. “Nothing: like the real thing, or





course.”

Jane Gerson was watching the twist-





' ing and writhing of that filament of .





brown against the white. An invisible

hand was writing in brown ink on the

side of the cigarette—writing back-

ward and away from the burning tip.

It lengthened by seconds—“and Louisa

to Crandall.” ‘

So the letters of silver nitrate form-‘

ed themselves under her eyes. Kim-l

ball took the cigarette from his lips}

and held it by his side for a minute.

Be and Kitty were busy with each





 





other’s company for the time, ignoring ‘





Jane. She burned with curiosity and

with excitement mounting like the fire

of wine to her brain. Would he neverl

put that cigarette td' his lips again, so

she could follow the invisible pen! So

fleeting, so ' evanescent that worm

track on the paper, wrought by fire

and by fire to be consumed. A mystery

vanishing even as it was aborning!

After ages, the unconscious Kimball

set the cigarette again in his lips.

“—nformer has denounced you and

Louisa-t-



»—p1ay your game and he will be slow

to—”



Again the cigarette came away in

Kimball’s hand. Acting on impulse she

did~ not step to question, Jane struck it

from the young man’s outstretched

hand and set her foot on it as it fell

in the dusty.



“Oh, I’m clumsy!” She fell lightly

against Kimball’s shoulder and caught

herself in well—simulated confusion.

“Standing tiptoe to see what that man

on a horse is going to do—Iost my bal- _

ance. And—and your precious cigar-

ette——gone ! ”



The anguish in Jane Gerson’s voice

was not play. It was real—terribly

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CHAPTER XIV.

The Captain Comes to Tea.



ANE GERSON, alone for the first

J time since the incident of the cig—



arette on the parade ground a few

hours back, sat before a narrow win-

dow in her room at Government House,

fighting a great bewilderment. The

window opened on a varied prospect of

blooming gardens and sail-flecked bay

beyond. But for her eyes the riot of

color and clash of contrast between

bald cliff and massed green had no ap-

peal. Her hands locked and unlocked

themselves on her lap. The girl’s mind

was struggling to coordinate scattered

circumstances into a comprehensible

whole, to grapple with the ethical prob-

lem of her own conduct.



What she knew, or thought she

knew—and what she should do—those

were the two saber ”points of the dil-

emma upon which she found herself

impaled. .



Could there now be any doubt of

what she felt to be the truth? First,

she had met Captain Woodhouse on





the Express du. Nerd—+3.11. oflicer in the





English. army, by his own statement,

returning from. Ieave in England to his~

post in Egypt Then, the encounter of

last night at the Hotel Splendide, Cap—

taih Woodhouse first denying his iden-,

tity, then admitting it under'the en-

forced pledge that she should not re-

veal the . former meeting.- Captain

Woodhouse, not in Egypt, but at Gib-

raltar, and, as she had soon learned,

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off” at dawn, that the infantry would

“go over” at daybreak. All prepara-





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thunder has driven reason from the

neighborhood its destruction made

Sodden the ground with the blood of

men. Pain carpets the sector and

agony rides on- the misty wind.



No drums keep these men in step.

They pass out of camp; they pass

base hespitals and canteen; airdrome

and supply depots. They bend low as

they march through the section of big

gun pits. They glance up expectantly

as the shells roar overhead,- and pause





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efforts at nerve-wrecked beings into

an invincible smash by men resolved

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as one goes wild tearing a: hole twenty

feet deep near them. By three'they

file into their third line of defense and

sig-zag their way, through communi-

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up to the border of No-man’s Land.

Here they rest, the last stop on the

road to Hell.



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mains to be done. Dawn is awaited,

every man facing death or worSe with

what fortitude he can summon. There

is no light by which to read pocket

testament. The last good-byes have

been written. All ,comforts sent by

loved ones at home, which have given

a home touch to life in billet, have

been left behind. Even the little trink.

et, locket, ring or watch, has lost its

fond sentiments. There is nothing but

misery—no evidence that anybody

cares. ,

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utes—the most trying man can endure

-—reaches the point where body and

mind can stand no more, comfort

comes. Distraeted souls, crying silent-

ly for' consolation, and breaking fer

lack of it, are soothed. When light be-

gins to gray the sky, these men, whose

love of right is greater than love of

life, who have left behind them all

that was dear on earth and who are

now facing their Maker, are given evi-

dence that not only somebody. does

cdre, but that all care and appreciate.

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, them. A hot drink and bit of choco-





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trench, the Weight of equipment and;

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Dugout Near the Front Line Trenches.





newly won positions, and making bear-

able the long hours of consolation and

holding of the captured territory be-

fore relief arrives.



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from sundown to sunup, has not si-

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wounded. The road from Hell—the

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the road in. . .



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: together in one recently.

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, would give your all to give.





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wounds that would kill most of us out-

right the Red Triangle men are with

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They are with him in camp here and

in foreign city, protecting and guiding

him that he may be a better man. They

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ship alike. Wherever he may be,

there they are also.





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By HILDA RICHMOND





RS. JORDON was Waiting in the

” little‘sitt'ingroom for Helen, to

come home from school.

late when the door opened and shut

quietly, and Helen, very sober, walked:

slowly into the room. After greeting

her mother, she sat upon the settee be-‘

fore the fire, and gazing sadly into

space, drew a long breath .

“What is it, daughter?” Mrs.’ Jordon

asked, after Waiting for Helen to speak.

“Oh, Mother“, I’m so discouraged,"





and again Helen lapsed into silence. ‘L





"Well, tell me about it, " urged Mrs.

Jordon quietly, after a few moments'

waiting. ' "



“You know, Mother,” Helen began;

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one as ambitious as you are, to have

another excel you, but you must realize

that you do not attend school merely

for the purpose of leading your class,

however-gratifying that may be. To

think of yourself as ever in competition

with others and of your success as de-

pendent wholly on What others achieve





‘ is to, waste and dissipate your powers.





Probably your very anxiety as to

whether you or Betty will come out

ahead is telling against you.”



' “But, Mother, you have always prais~

ed me for standing well in my studies.





"And, you will- agree, that it isn’t pleas-





ant to have someone came in and take

your place, after you have been first so





long,” and Helen had a most injured

air, indeed.





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thought that runs all through human

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all that can‘be expected, and I am. juSt

as well pleased and asproud of you as

if you were still leading your class.’



_ “Well, I hope I am doing my best, but

.I’ am afraid, sometimes I grew disco-ur-

aged, and can’t

thoughts as well when I. notice how

much quicker Betty is than I am. I"

shall try not to'think of myself as, ‘in

competition, with Betty,” as you say,

and probably I can do a little better.”



."That is the right idea,” Mrs. Jordon

continued. “Don’t let the thought of

getting ahead worry you. Just try to

do your best, in your own way. Friend-

ly rivalry in work, and play has, its-

place, but in looking. to life success our



supreme motive should beto keep’up a





astar as possible from our own start»

ing‘ point, to do all we can with our

own ability.~ .



“Remember Christ ofiered the rev

ward. to the faithful servant always—

tn the man of two talents, as well as

to the man 01? ten, but He‘ never men-

tioned such a thing as reward for out-

doing others. -



““Do your Work nobly, and it shall-

ennoble you,’ both for time and eter-

nity."



“That does sound more inspiring,

Mother," Helen agreed. “We should?

keep up a constant rivalry with our-r

selves, instead of trying to rival

others."



“To: impress the fact that, in the end,

the last is often first, I am going to tell

you a story of two girls whom I knew

when I was a school girl,” Mrs. Jordon

began. .



“Your stories are always interest-

ing," Helen answered.



“In a high school» of wide repute:

tion,” Mrs. Jondon continued, “were





through the lower grades of the same

school, and had aIWays been. not only

class-mates, but close friends as well.



“Margaret was exceptionally bright

and full of eager interest in her work.

When the teacher explained a new

principle in mathematics, it was often

a delight to see by her sparkling eyes

that Margaret had grasped the thought

before it was half explained. But she

became rather too self-confident and

occasionally missed some little point in

the explanation which was very neces-

sary for successful work later on in

the study.



“Edith, on the other hand, was con-

fessedly slow in mathematics, and had

done barely well enough in arithmetic

to secure promotion from the lower

grades. But she had one decided talent

——-that of intelligent perseverance. She

was seldom content with one explana-

tion, but would put question after ques~

tion to the patient teacher, until finally

there crept into her eyes a light of.

quiet satisfaction, and the joy of dis-

covery. _



“Steadily her growing mind develop-

ed under her persistent perseverance,

until it became evident that Edith was

slowly, but surely forging her way to

the head of her class.



“Finally the end of the last term of

high school was drawing to. a close.

The dreaded examinations were over,

and- the names of those who had pass-

ed successfully were announced. Both

Margaret and Edith's names were there

but Edith’s was among the honor grad-

uates, and she also had won- a scholar.-

ship, good for two years in one of the

best colleges in the country. The last

at the. begitnrnng~had~ come out first,

at the finish.”





As her mother talked, into Helen’s

, eyes had crept. the lighter mend:

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For perhaps an hour the stars were

undimmed, and Thor kept on like a

heathen without a soul, while Muskwa

limped on all four, feet. Then a low





rumbling gathered in the west. It





grew louder and louder, and approach-

ed swiftly—straight from the warm

Pacific. Thor grew uneasy, and sniffed

in the face of it. Livid streaks began

to cries-cross a huge pall of black that

was closing in on them like a vast cur-

tain. The stars began to go out. A

moaning wind came. And then the rain.



Thor had found a huge rock that

shelved inward, like a lean-to, and he

crept back under this with Muskwa

before the deluge descended. For many

minutes it was more like a flood than

a rain. It seemed as though a part of

the Pacific Ocean had been scooped

up and dropped on them, and in half

an hour the creek was a swollen tor-

rent of water.





The lightning and the crash of thun-

der terrified Muskwa. Now he could

see Thor in great blinding flashes of

fire, and the next instant it was as

black as pitch; the tops of the moun-

tains seemed falling down into the val-

ley; the earth trembled andshook—

and he snuggled closer and closer to

Thor until at last he lay between his

two forearms, half buried in the long

hair of the big grizzly’s chest. Thor

himself was not much concerned in

these noisy convulsions of nature, ex-

cept to keep himself dry. When he

took a bath he wanted the sun to be

shining and a nice warm rock close at

hand on which to stretch himself.



For a long time after its first fierce

outbreak the rain continued to fall in

a gentle shower. Muskwa liked this,

and under the sheltering rock, snug-

gled against Thor, he felt very com-

fortable and easily fell asleep. Through

long hours Thor kept his vigil alone,





‘ drowsing now and then, but kept from





sound slumber by the restlessness that

was in him.



It stopped raining soon after mid-

night, but it was very dark, the stream

was flooding over its bars, and Thor

remained under the rock. Muskwa had

a splendid sleep.



Day had come when Thor’sstirring

roused Muskwa. He followed the griz-

zly out into the open, feeling tremen—

dously better than last night, though

his feet were still sore and his body

was stiff.



Thor began to follow the creek

again Along this stream there were

low flats and many small bayous where

grew luxuriantly the tender grass and

roots, and especially the slim long-

stemmed lilies on which Thor was fond

of feeding. But for a thousand-pound

grizzly to fill up on such vegetarian

dainties as these consumed many

hours, if not one’s whole time, and

Thor considered that he had no time to

lose. Thor was a most ardent lover

when he loved at all, which was only

a few days out of the year; and during

these days he twisted his mode of liv-

ing around so that while the spirit pos-

sessed him he no longer existed for the

sole purpose of eating and growing fat.

For a short time he put aside his habit

of living to eat, and ate to.li.ve; and

poor Muskwa was almost famished be-

fore another dinner was forthcoming.



But at last, early in the afternoon,





Thor came to a. pool which he could





not pass. It was not a: dozen feetjn

width, and it was alive With trout. The

fish/had ‘not been able to reach the

lake above, and they had waited too

long after? the flood-season to descend





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At one end the water was two feet

deep; at the other end only a 'few inch-

es. After pondering over this fact for

a few moments, the grizzly waded op-

enly into the deepest part, and from

the bank above Muskwa saw the shim-

‘mering trout darting into the shallow-

er water. Thor advanced slowly, and

now, when he stood in less than eight

inches of water, the panic-stricken fish

one after another tried to escape back





into the deeper part of the pool.





Again and again Thor’s big right

paw swept up great showers of water.

The first innundation knocked Muskwa

off his feet. But with it came a two-

poung trout, which the cub quickly

dragged out of range and began eating.

So agitated became the pool because of

the mighty strokes of Thor’s paw that

the trout completely lost their heads,

and no sooner did they reach one end

than they turned about and darted for

the other. They kept this up until the

grizzly had thrown fully a dozen of

their number ashore.



So absorbed was Muskwa in his fish,

and Thor in his fishing, that neither

Shad noticed a visitor. Both saw him

at about the same time, and for fully

thirty seconds they stood and stared,

Thor in his pool and. the cub eyer his

fish, utter amazement robbing them of

the power of movement. The visitor

was another grizzly, and as cooly as

though he had done the fishing himself

he began eating the fish which Thor

had thrown out! ' A worse insult or a

deadlier challenge could not have been

known in the land of Beardom. Even

Muskwa sensed that fact. He looked

expectantly at Thor. There was going

to be another fight, and he licked'his

little chops in anticipation.



Thor came up out of the pool slowly.

On the bank he paused. The grizzlies

gazed at each other, the newcomer

crunching a fish as hefllooked. Neither

growled. Muskwa perceived no signs

of enmity, and then to his increased

astonishment Thor began eating a fish

within three feet of the interloper



Perhaps man is the finest of all of





God’s creations, but when it comes to‘





his respect for old age he is no better,

and sometimes net as good, as a griz-

zly bear; for Thor would not rob an

old hear, he would not fight an old

bear,'and he would not drive an old

hear from his own meat—which is

more than can be said of some humans.

And the visitor was an old bear,— and a.

sick bear as well. He stood ‘almost as

high as Thor, but he was so old that

he was only half as broad across the

chest, and his neck and head were

grotesquely thin.- The Indians have a

name for him. Kuyas Wapusk they

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This old hear was tarnished. His





claws were gone; his hair was thin,

and in some places his skin was naked,

and he had barely more than .red, hard

gums to chew with. If he lived until

autumn he would den up—for the last

time.

sooner than that. If so, Kuyas Wapusk

would know in time, and he would

crawl off into some hidden cave or

deep crevice in the rocks to breathe

his last. For in all the Rocky Moun-

tains, so far as Bruce or Langdon





knew, there was not a man who had .





found the bones or a body of a grizzly

that had died anatural death! '

An'd big, hunted Thor, torn by wound

and pursued by man, seemed to under-

stand that this would be the last real





feast on earth for Kuyas Wapusk—too





old to fish for himself, too old to hunt,

too old even to dig out the tender lily

roots; and so he let him eat until the

last fish was gone, and then went on,

with Muskwa tagging at his heels.





 





CHAPTER XII.



OR still another two hours Thor

led Muskwa on that tiresome jaunt

into the north. They had travelled



a good twenty miles since leaving the

Bighorn Highway, and to the little tan-

faced cub those twenty miles were like

a journey around the world. Ordinarily

he would not have gone that far away

from his birthplace until his second

year, and very possibly his third.



Not once in this bike down the val-





ley had Thor wasted time on the moun- .





tain slopes. He had picked out the

easiest trails along the’ creek. Three

or four miles below the pool where

they had left the old bear he suddenly

changed this procedure by swinging

due westward, and a little later they

Were once more climbing a mountain.

They went up a long green slide for a.

quarter of a mile, and luckily for Musk-

wa’s legs this brought them to the

smooth plainlike floor of a break which

took them without much more effort

out on the slopes of the other valley.

This was the valley in which Thor had

killed the black bear tWenty miles to

the southward.



From the moment Thor looked out

over the northern limits of his range

a change took possession of him. All

at once he lost his eagerness to hurry.

For fifteen minutes he stood looking

down'into the valley, sniffing the air.

He descended slowly, and when he

reached the green meadows and the

creek bottom he mooshed along

straight in the face of the wind, which

was coming from the south and west.

It did not bring him the scent he want-

ed—the smell of his mate. Yet an in-

stinct that was more infallible than

reason told him that she was near, or

should be near. He did not take acci-

dent or sickness or the possibility of

hunters having killed her into consid-

eration._ This was where he had al-

ways started in to hunt for her, and

sooner or later he had found her. He

knew hersmell. And he crossed and

recrossed the bottoms so that it could

not escape him.



When Thor was love-sick he was

more or less like a man: that is to say,

he was an idiot. The importance of

all other things dwindled into nothing:

ness. His habits, which were as fixed

as the Stars at other times, too]: a

complete vacation. He even forgot

hunger, and the whistlers and gophers

were quite'safe. He was tireless. ,He





. rambled during the night as .well as





the day in quest of his lady-love.

It was quite natural that in. these

exciting hours he should forget Musk-





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fibre the grimly returned.





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. suddenlyswung straight into the east,

and from the. western slopehalf a mile

away it brought a scent that'held Thor

motionless in his .tracks for perhaps

half a minute, and then set him off on

thatambling run. which is the ungain-

liest gait of all four-footed creatures.





Muskwa rolled after him like a ball,





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ground at every jump. In that. halt- - ,





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altogether. if the grizzly had not stop-

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to take fresh reckonings. When he





- started up the slope Muskwa couldxseo ‘





him,. and with a yelping cry. forzhim

to wait a. minute set after him again.





Two or three hundred yards up the

mountainside the slope shelved down-

ward into a hollow, or dip, and nosing

about in this dip, questing the air as

Thor had quested it, was the beautiful

she-grizzly from over the range. With

her was Zone of her last year’s cubs.

Thor was within fifty yards of her

when he came over the crest. He stop-





ped. He looked at her. And Iskwao,





“the female,” looked at him.





Then followed true bear'courtship.

All haste, all eagerness, all desire for

his mate seemed to have left Thor;

and if Iskwao had been eager and

yearning she was profoundly indiffer—

ent now. For two or three minutes Thor

stood looking casually. about, and this

gave Muskwa time to come up and

perch himself beside him, expecting

another fight.





As though Thor was a thousand.

miles or-so from her thoughts, Iskwao .





turned over a flat rock and began hunt-

ing for grubs and ants, and not to be

outdone in this stoic unconcern Thor

pulled up a bunch of grass and swal-

lowed it. Iskwao moved a step or two

and Thor moved a step or two, and as





if purely by accident their steps were .





toward each other.





Muskwa was puzzled. The older cub

was puzzled. They sat on their

haunches like two dogs, one three

times as big as the other, and wonder-

ed what was going to happen.





It took Thor and lskwao flve min-

utes to arrive within five feet of each

other, and then very decorously they

smelled noses.





The year-old cub joined the family

circle. He was.just the right age to

have an exceedingly long name, for the

Indians called him Pipoonaskoos—

“the yearling.” He came boldly up to

Thor and his mother. For a. moment

Thor did not seem to notice him.Then

his lung right arm shot out in a sud-

den swinging upper-cut that lifted

Pipoonaskoos clean on? the ground and

sent him spinning two-thirds of the dis-

tance up to Muskwa.



The mother paid no attention to this

elimination of her offspring, and still

lovingly smelled noses with Thor.

Muskwa, however, thought this was the

preliminary of another tremendous

fight, and with a yelp of defiance he

started down the slope and set upon

Pipoonaskoos with all his might.



Pipoonaskoos was “mother’s boy.”

That'is, he was one of those cubs who

persist in following their mothers





through a second season, instead of .





striking out for themselves. He had

nursed until he was five months old;





his parent had continued to hunt tid- ;





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soft; he was, in fact, a “Willie” of the ~





mountains.



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‘ dosed by the bi ,

paw, Pipoonaskoos gave a yelping c

to his mother for help at this Sudden

onslaught. He had never been in a

fight, and he rolled over on his back

and side, kicking and scratching and

yeiping as Muskwa’ s needle-like teeth

sa'nk again and again into his tender

hide.



Luckily Muskwa got him once by the

nose, and bit deep, and if there was

anysand at all in Willie Pipoonaskoos

this took it out of him, and while

Muskwa held on for dear life he let

out a steady stream of yelps. informing

his mother that he was being murder-

ed. To these cries Isawao paid no at-

tention at all, but continued to smell

noses with Thor. _ ‘ '

.Finally freeing his bleeding nose,

Pipoonaskoos shook Muskwa off by

sheer force of superior weight and took

to flight on a dead run. Muskwa peg.

ged valiantly after him. Twice they

made the circle of the basin, and in

spite of his shorter legs, Muskwa was

a close second in the race when Pip-

oonaskoos, turning an affrighted glance

sidewise for an instant, hit against a

rock and went sprawling. In another

moment Muskwa was at him again,

and he would have continued biting

and snarling until there was no more

strength left in him had he not hap-

pened to see Thor and Iskwao disap-

pearing slowly over the edge of the

slope toward the valley.



Almost immediately Muskwa forgot

fighting. He was amazed to find that

Thor, instead of tearing up the other

bear, was walking off with her. Pip-

oonaskoos also pulled himself together

and looked. Then Muskwa looked at

Pipoonaskoos, and Pipoonaskos looked

at Muskwa. The tan-faced cub licked

his chops just once, as if torn between

the prospective delight of mauling

Pipoonaskoos and the more imperative

duty of following Thor. The other

gave him no choice. With a whimper-

ing yelp he set off after his mother.



Exciting times followed for the two

cubs. All that night Thor and Iskwao

kept by themselves in the buffalo wil-

low thickets and the balsams of the

creek-bottom. Early in the evening

Pipoonaskoos sneaked up to his moth-

er again, and Thor lifted him'into the

middle of the creek. The second vis-

ual proof of Thor’s displeasure im-

pinged upon Muskwa the fact that the

older bears were not in a mood to tol-

erate the companionship of cubs, and

the result was a wary and suspicious

truce between him and Pipoonaskoos.



All the next day Thor and Iskwao

kept to themselves. Early in the morn-

ing Muskwa began adventuring about

a little in quest of food. He liked ten-

der grass, but it was not very filling.

Several times he saw Pipoonaskoos

digging in the soft bottom close to the

creek, and finally he drove the other

cub away from a partly digged hole

and investigated for himself. After a

little more excavating he pulled out 'a

white, bulbous, tender root that he

thought was the sweetest and nicest

thing he had ever eaten, not even ex-

cepting fish. It was the one bonne

bouche of all the good things he would

eventually learn to eat—the spring

beauty. One other thing alone was

at all comparable with it, and that

was the doog—tooth violet. Spring beau-

ties were growing about him abundant-

ly, and he, continued to dig until his

feet were'grievously tender. But he

had the satisfaction of being comfort-

ably fed.



Thor was again responsible for a

fight between Muskwa and Pipoonas—

koos. Late in the afternoou the older

bears were lying down side by side in a

thicket when, without any apparent

reason at all, Thor opened his huge

jaws and emitted a low, steady, growl-

ing roar that sounded very much like

the sound he had m'ade when tearing

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during this particular minute Muskwa,





who lay outside the thicket, thought,





that surely the glorious hour had come





when Thor was. beating up the parent.





of Pipoonaskoos. And instantly he

looked for Pipoonaskoos.



Unfortunately the Willie~bear came

sneaking around the edge of the brush

just then, and Muskwa gave him no

chance, to ask questions. He shot at

him in a black streak and Pipoonas-

koos bowled over like a fat baby. For

several minutes they bit and dug and

clawed, most of the biting and digging

and clawing being done by Muskwa,

while Pipoonaskoos devoted his time

and energy to yelping.



Finally the larger cub got away and

again took to flight. Muskwa pursued

him, into the brush and out. down to

the creek and back, halfway up the

slope and down again, until he was so

tired he had to drop on his belly for

a rest. _



At this; juncture Thor emerged from

the thicket. He was alone. For the

first time since last night he seemed

to notice Muskwa. Then he sniffed

the wind up the valley and down the

valley, and after that turned and walk-

ed straight toward the distant slopes

down which they had come the preced-

ing afternoon. Muskwa was both pleas-

ed and perplexed. He wanted to go

into the thicket and snarl and pull at

the hide of the dead bear that must be

in there, and he also wanted to finish

Pipoonaskoos. After a moment or two

of hesitation he ran after Thor and

again followed close at his heels.



After a little Iskwa came from the

thicket and nosed the wind as Thor

had felt it. Then she turned in the op-

posite direction, and with Pipoona-

skoose close behind her, went up the

slope and continued slowly and stead-

ily in the face of the setting sun.



So ended Thor’s love-making and

Muskwa’s first fighting; and together

they trailed eastward again, to face the

most terrible peril that had ever come

into the mountains for four-footed

beast—a peril that was merciless, a

peril from which there was no escape,

a peril that was fraught with death.



CHAPTER XIII.



' HE first night after leaving Isk-

wao and PipoonaSkoos the big

grizzly and the tan-faced cub



wandered without sleep under the bril-

liant stars. Thor did not hunt for meat.

He climbed a steep slope, then went

down the shale side of a dip, and in a

small basin hidden at the foot of a

mountain came to a soft green meadow

where the doog—tooth violet, with its

slender stem, its two lily-like leaves,

its single cluster Of five-petalled flow-

ers, and its luscious, bulbous root grew

in great profusion. And here all

through the night he dug and ate.



Muskwa, who had filled himself on

spring beauty roots, was not hungry,

and as the day had been a restful one

for him, outside of his fighting, he

found this night filled with brilliant

stars quite enjoyable. The moon came

up about ten o’clock, and it was the





biggest, and the reddest, and the most





beautiful moon Muskwa had seen in

his short life. It rolled up over‘the

peaks like a forest fire, and filled all

the Rocky Mountains with a wonderful

glow.’ The basin, in which there were

perhaps "ten acres- “of meadow, was

lighted up almost like day. The little

lake at the foot of the mountain glim-

mered sortly, and the tiny stream that

fed it from the melting snows a thou-

sand feet above shot down in glisten-

ing cascades that caught the moon-

light- like rivulets of dull polished

diamonds. “ ‘



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bushes, the dark shadows of the bfil— ‘

eams and spruce, and the edge of the ‘





lake. Here he found a plashet of soft

mud which was a great solace to his

sore feet. Twenty times during the

night he waded in the mud.





Even when the dawn came Thor}





seemed to be in no great haste to leave

the basin. Until the sun Was well up

he continued to wander about the

meadow and the edge of the lake, dig-

ging up Occasionall roots, and eating

tender grass. This did not displease

Muskwa, who made his breakfast of

the dog-tooth violet.= bulbs- The one





matter that puzzled him was why Thor “





did not go into the lake and throw out

trout, for he yet had to learn that all

water did not contain fish. At last he

went fishing for himself, and succeeded

.in getting a black hard-shelled water

beetle that nipped his noce with a pair

of needle-like pincers and brought a

yelp from him.



It was perhaps ten o’clock, and the

sun-filled basin was like awarm oven

to a thick-coated bear, ‘when Thor

searched up among the rocks near the

waterfall until he found a place that

was as cool as an old-fashioned cellar.

It was a miniature cavern. All about

it the slate and sandstone was of a

dark and clammy wet from a hundred

little trickles of snow water that ran

down from the peaks.



It was just the sort of a place Thor

loved on a July day, but to Muskwa it

was dark and gloomy and not a thou-

sandth part as pleasant as the sun. So

after an hour or two he left Thor in

his frigidarium and began to investi-

gate the treacherous ledgesu‘



' For a few minutes all went well——

then he stepped on a green-tinted

slope of slate over which a very shal-

low dribble of water was running. The

water had been .running over it in just

that way for some centuries, and the

shelving slate was worn as smooth as

the surface of a polished pearl, and it

was as slippery as a greased pole.

Muskwa’s feet went out from under

him so quickly that he hardly knew

what had happened. The next moment

he was on his way to the lake 3. hun-

dred feet below. He rolled over and

over. He splashed into shallow pools.

He bounced over miniature waterfalls

like a rubber ball. The wind was knock-

ed out of him. He was blinded and

dazed by water and shock, and he

gathered fresh speed with every yard

he made. He had succeeded in letting

out half a dozen terrified yelps at the

start, and these roused Thor. ‘



Where the water from the peaks fell

into the lake there was a precipitous

drop of ten feet, and over this Muskwa

shot with a momentum that carried

him twice as far out into the pond. He

hit with a big splash, and disappeared.

Down and down he' went, where ev-

erything was black and cold and suf:

focating; then the lifeipreserVer with

which nature had endowed him in the

form of his fat brought him to the sur-

face. He began to paddle with all four

feet. It was his first swim, and when

he finally dragged himself ashore he

was limp and exhausted. “ .



While he still lay panting and very

much frightened, Thor came down from

the rocks. Muskwa’s mother had giv-

en him a sound cutting when he got

the porcupine quill in his foot. She

had cuffed him for every accident he

had had, because she believed that

cutting was good medicine. Education

is largely cuffed into a bear cub, and





she would have given hima finegcuffr





ing now. But Thor only smelled of

him, saw that he was all rightand boo

sea to dig up a dew-tooth violet.



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A hotel keeper warns an officer in the





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adjures him. to “play your own game."

That was the single compelling fact.





Jane Gerson flushed—in anger, or





was it through guilt?—when she found

her lips framing the word “spy!"

Now she understood why General

Crandall had put her on the grill—why

he, informed, had leaped to the signifir

cance of the gift of roses and deduced

her previous acquaintance with their

donor. Her host was not, after all, the

possessor of magical powers of mind

reading. He was, instead, just the sob-

er, conscientious protector of the Rock

On whom rested responsibility for the





lives of its defenders and the mainte- '





nance of England’s'flag therg. His duty

was to catch——and shoot—spies.



Shoot spies! The girl‘s heart conw

tracted at the thought. No, no! She

would not—she could not reveal to the

governor the knowledge she had. That

would be to send death to a man as

surely as if hers was the finger at the

trigger. ,



Jane Gerson "was on her feet 'now,

pacing the room. Over and over again

she told herself that this man who had

come into her life, obliquely enough,

had no claim on her; had brought noth-

ing to her but distress. He had de-

ceived her even, and then, caught in

the deception, had wrested from her a

promise that she would help him con-

tinue further deception against others.

Against her will he had made her a

party to some deep and audacious plot,

whose purpose she Could not guess,

but which must be but a part of the

huge mystery of War.



And soon this Captain Woodhouse

was to come to his trial—the purpose

of his invitation to tea that afternoon

flashed clear as white light. Soon she

would be in the same room with him;

would be forced to witness the spin-

ning of the web set to trap him. 'He

would come unwarned, unsuspecting.

He might leave that room under guard

and with guns at his back—guns soon

to [be leveled at his heart. Yet she,’

Jane 'Gerson, possessed the power to

save him—as the warning of the cig-

arette surely would be saving, once a

clever man were put on his guard by it.



Would she speak—and betray Gen-

eral Crandall, her kindly host? Would

she lock her lips and see a man walk

blindfolded to his death?



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Major Bishop was announced at Gov-

ernment House and received by Gen-

eral Crandall in the library. Before

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visitor through the double doors from

the hall, could retire, his master stop~

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Bishop; glad you’ve-Come a bit early.

Come here, Jaimihr!” ,-



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HERE’S been a lot written re-



cently about how this war was



going to teach Americans the

beauty of thrift. I have felt for some

time that' when the period of thrift

through which we are passing had

been gotten through, we were all go-

ing to plunge into one mad orgy of

spending, and eating, just as a relief

from this extreme. Now that the food





to enforce its program by law, I am

sure we are. It seems that a whole

lot of us‘weren’t thrifty anyway, until

our Uncle Samuel just got up and





thing else.



I thought for quite a while that I

was a real patriot and Was Hooveriz-

ing from choice. I called it my bit to-

ward beating the Hun. But 'a recent

experience showed me that I'm not so

much of a patriot after all. I Hoover-

ized because I couldn’t afford to do

anything else.





For instance: We haven’t had pork

since the government asked us not to

eat it. Even in the face of those

tempting packing house picture adver-

tisements of rashers of bacon spring-

ing into place around two divinely

cooked eggs, mark you, not egg sub-

stitute, I have turned my back and

bought beef shanks and hamburger.

And I really thought it was from a

sense of duty. But last week a friend

innocently remarked,





“If I could have exactly what I want

for breakfast tomorrow I’d have ham

and eggs and toast, instead of this

eternal oat meal and corn muffins.”





Enter the serpent. Ham and eggs,

both for one meal! The more I

thought of it the more I decided I had

been enough of a patriot to have at

least ham. So I hied me forth and

consulted the butcher. Do you know

what that rapacious monster wanted

for what I considered enough smoked

ham to feed my family of five? Ex-

actly $1.50! One dollar and fifty cents,

for what I used to get for forty-five or

fifty cents! I decided without an in-

stant’s hesitation that the boys at the

front needed that ham. We’d take cod-

fish gravy.



So that's the extent of my boasted

patriotism. I like to think that I

wouldn’t order wheat cereals instead

of rolled oats ‘if I could get them for

six cents a pound instead 3f eighteen

or twenty cents for fourteen ounces.

But I’m afraid. I’m glad the govern-

ment sees fit to keep the price up if

it wants me to eat rolled oats.» And If

I didn’t find baking browu bread and

corn pones to my advantage, I’m afraid

I’d be tempted to buy white. Though,

now, thank goodness, I’m to be hedged

about from that temptation.





Enforced food regulation is right.

For, while with our minds we conceded

the rightness of the government’s wish

that we abstain from certain things,

with our hearts we still worshiped the

flesh pots of Egypt, and we could find

a million reasons why we ‘Should be

teexempt from the food draft. It. was a

fine thing—for the other fellow. But,

really, we couldn't digest graham, and

too much beef gave us thezgout; Now

that necessity is laid upon us, we’ll

Hooverize perforce.





‘ Slackers in diet, that wasn’t such a

bad name for a. plot of us. One little

club of women, who were, ardent Imit-





 





 





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Patriotism, Chosen or Enforced





administration has found it necessary





made it impossible for us to be any-





 





had a menu like this in November:

Virginia ‘baked ham, Parker House

rolls, Lady Baltimore cake, French

pastry, salad with.a' whipped cream

dressing, tea, 'coffee and chocolate

with whipped cream, and ice cream.

After the club had disbanded the host-

ess and a couple of ladies who remain-

ed to help “clear up” made freshcoffee

and had more baked ham and cake.

Five meals a day mixed in with hel-

mets and sweaters and wristletsdidn’t





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Tatted Butterfly--sy MRS. HELEN COMBES





N giving directions for tatting, the

use of certain set terms simplifies

the task. A tatted chain means



any number of stitches worked with





the shuttle on a second thread, the-





number of picots between the stitches

being specified. ,The second thread

may be on a shuttle, or a ball may be

used. A picot (pol is made by leav-

ing thread between stitches so loose

that when work is drawn up, it forms

a tiny loop. Picots are used for join-

ing the work, as well as for ornamen-

tation. A tatted stitch is in two parts,

one made with shuttle under and over.

and the second over and under, the

foundation thread.



The butterfly here shown is quite

new, and easy to do. A single butter-

fly makes a dainty ornament for a





seem the least little bit incongruous

to them. > ,



, I hope we won’t come to bread cards

and, sugar cards, along with our prom-

ised coal card's 'anothéryear. But if

the war lastsvthat long I can almost

see them. / ,



It isn’t lack of patriotism, either.





It’s just pure thoughtlessneSs, miXed '_

with a sublime confidence that we’re





going to win without any effort just

because Iwe' re Americans. But I’m

afraid we ’re going to be rudely awak-

ened, if we don’t rouse ourselves.

DEBORAH.





heeler, ch same as first, tie threads,

cut off.





Inside Large _Wings.——Single thread ,





fastened to 2nd pc in body, 9 small





loops made with 3 ch, pc, repeated‘





twice, 3 ch draw up, leave tiny bit of

thread between each loop, join loops

at lst and last pc. Join to 3rd pc on

body. Make similar nine loops for the

other side of body. With two threads,

ch, all around 9 loops as follows: Five

ch, pc, 5 times, 3 ch, join in top pc of 4th

loop, 3 ch, pc, 3 ch, join in 5th loop,

repeat and join in 6th loop. Three ch,

pc, 5 ch, pc, four times, finish with 5

ch, join to body.



Outside edge of large wings—Make

12 loops or holes as follows: Five st

and pc 3 times, 5 st, draw up and fast-

en. As the loops are made join them





 





 





The Tatted Butterfly Used on this Handkerchief Also Makes a Dainty Trim-





ming for Corset

chemise or night gown. It is worked

as follows:



Head—Single shuttle. Make 3 st,

pc; repeat 6 times, end with 3 st,

draw up.



Body—Made in twq halves, done

with shuttle on loose thread, the same

number of stitches on each half, as on

head.



Tail. ——Made after first half of body,

with shuttle alone, 3 st, pc, repeated 4’





times, 3 st, draw 1113.; Without break:





ing thread— make second half of body,

and join to head. . .‘



Heelers .——-Chain of 3 st, pc 4 times,

3 st





Join to 8174 pc in head, 3.011 ..

410111 t9 “‘1 P0- 3 911 m to 5th Pct“ a





Cover or Gown.





at the bottom to pc in chain row, be-

ginning with second pc, and also join.

loops together at. sides by 'pcs. This.

completes the large wing. The smaller

one is made the same way, excepting

that the center, instead of 9 small loops

is a ch of 3 st and pc, 12 times, end~~

ing with 3Ich,'and the second row has.

2 pc less than'the similar row in the

first wing, the outer edgevhaving‘but.

10 loops, with a backfirrd turning loop,

between the end of the second, and

the beginning of the first wings, this.





 





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Household Editor.—-Now that sugar

is so scarce, and in fact, unobtainable,





[can you not help us out with some





recipes for using corn syrup? Could

it be used in molasses cookies in place

of molasses? Any suggestions. from

yourself or The Farmer readers will

be greatly appreciated—Mrs. J. W. C.



The corn syrup manufacturers issue

their own' beck of recipes. Most of





them call for some sugar, however. It.





can be used in place of cooking molas-

ses with good results. It is not so

‘sweet as. sugar, however, and if you

use it to replace sugar you had better

use one and a quarter cups for every

cup of sugar. required. I have used it

in cake and hermits. The hermits

were satisfactory. It made a very

' moist c'ake, almost soggy, but might

not if you used it with eggs; I used

an egg substitute. I used the follow-

ing recipe, found in the corn syrup

book: > ‘ '



Five-Minute Cake—One cup. syrup,

one~quarter Cup of butter, two eggs,

one-half cup. of pastry flour, one cup

of corn starch and one cup of plain

flour, into which one teaspoon of bak-

ing powder has been sifted. Put syrup,

flour, butter into dish in order named.

Open eggs into cup and fill with milk,

adding vanilla to taste. Beat all to-

gether vigorously for five minutes and

bake in moderate oven.



Write the manufacturers for their

recipe book. You will find the address

on the can. Are .you buying it in ten-

pound pailsifl ,You will find this much

cheaper? , . .



Household Editors—'1 am a reader of

the Michigan Farmer and would. like

to know how to clean a white wool-en





collar and belt on a rose color sweat-

er. E. O. R. W. »





You might clean them so you could

use the sweater once or twice more

by sifting in "a little corn meal, letting

the garment lie for a few hours, and

then shaking the meal out. It would

be more satisfactory to. wash sweater

with a good soap, or soap flakes, fol-

lowing directions _o'n the wrapper. ’





 





 





some sueAnLEsS DESSERTS.





 





Hot rice or hasty pudding (corn

meal mush) served with a sweet sauce

makes a simple wholesome dessert.

ChOpped raisins or dates may be ad-

‘ded to either, but no sugar is needed.

Here are a few easily made sauces:



Honey SauceQ—One cup of honey,

one-fourth cup of water, one table-

spoon of butter substitute, one-fourth

teaspoon of salt, one-fourth teaspoon

of cinnamon, a ,dash of nutmeg, juice

of one lemon-or two tablespoons of

vinegar. Bail tOgether for fifteen min-

utes. The juice of one- orange and

grated peel may be used instead of

lemon and seasoning in this recipe.



Molasses Sauce—One cup molasses,

one tablespoon of corn starch stirred

smooth with, water, one tablespoon» of

butter substitute, one-fourth teaspoon

of cinnamon, a pinch of salt, lemon

juice or vinegar to taste. Boil all the

ingredients together for twenty min.»

utes. Hot molasses flavored? with





ground ginger, makes an excellent,





sauce. . ,

, Prune .Pone in War» Time—One cup,

of corn meal, one cup of rye flour, one

cup of- wheat' flour, one cup ofwashed

,chopped prunes, one-half cup molasses.

one cup ofxsour milk.’ qne teaspoon 0.!

ajsoda. ,Scaldgmeal. with enough boiling

.mterdp make aitvorywtiflfibatter; stir





 





' thread,qaafhs“‘tiséd' in'the, corners. of hot rice. , ,_





. of ribbon or of ribbon covered elastic.





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Recipes intended to show housewives

how they can save wheat flour .by us‘

ing such things as rye flour, rolled

oats, graham flour, mashed potatoes

and corn meal in its stead have been

issued by the Department of Home

Economics of the Michigan Agricul~

tural College to help women of the

state in their thrift campaign.



“It is not necessary for the house

wife to learn any new-tangled recipe

for making bread,” the department

says. “She can continue usihg her fav-

orite recipe and reduce the amount of

wheat flour. she has heretofore thought

necessary by simply substituting rye





flour, rolled oats, graham flour, mash. _ ,.





ed potatoes or scalded corn meal for

one-third or one-fourth of the wheat

flour. ’



“A corn pone or bannock can be

made bydnixing corn meal to a rather

thin paste with boiling water or scald

ed milk, adding salt, then spreading it





in a thin layer and baking it until _





crisp. This is most delicious to serve

with milk or soup as a substitute for

crackers. - ,



“Tasty pastry can be made by using

rye flour instead of the white, no other

change in the recipe being necessary.



“If you have not as yet tried these

new recipes—which are really in many

cases revivals of old ones that have

been more or less neglected of late—

you will find it a real pleasure to taste

these delicacies, and incidentally help

Uncle Sam by lessening the drain upon

his already meagre food stores.”





A KNITTING SET.





 





Now that everyone is knitting, a

knitting set will be found useful and





pretty. Purchase a yard and a half of

some delicate and fast-colored cre-

tonne. From part of this shape a





dainty .bag with cretonne handles.

Featherstitch a hem around the edge.

Do not make the mistake of making

the bag too small, as it is always bet-

ter to have room to spare than that

one’s work be crowded. From the rest





of the cretonne, shape a dainty little '





apron with a pocket across the entire

lower half of the front. Make a band





Fold the apron and put inside of’the

bag, then when the busy knitter works,

the apron will always be at hand to

slip on and to hold the ball of yarn

and anything else needed—Emma

Gary Wallace.





SHORT CUTS. TO HOUSEKEEPING.





 





Buy a soap cup, the kind that hangs

on“ the side of, the bucket, and place

your cake of soap in this. Each time

you need it you have it right at hand

and don’t have to look and dipyour

hand in scrub water. It also saves

marks on the floor from soap and





keeps your soap from melting away in .





the water.—-Mrs. J. J. O’C.

One of the surest ways to make a





small piece of meat go agoodways is .





to have it nicely cooked and to serve it

With a very sharp knife. A good-sized

roast will-snot gofar if out with a dull

carver, whereas if each slice is. trim-

med off just right, each person will be

satisfied with less, and what remains

will be in better shape for: another

meat—E. G. W. . —



Carrot Honey.———Take~one pint, of raw

carrot, two cups of white syrup and





two lemons. ,Mix ingredients ‘and- add .





the grated rind: of one lemon; l—Ieat

slowly and simmerrthe-mixture-until-r it

Turn into seamed





 

   

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 





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MIGH. REESE PATTERNS  





Any of the patterns illustrated may

be secured by sending order to Pattern

Department, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

.enClosing the amount set opposite the

patterns wanted.



No. 2368—Ladies’ Apron. Cut in

four sizes, small, 32—34; medium, 36~

38; large, 40—42; and extra large, 44-46

inches bust measure. Size medium re-

quires 614 yards of 36-inch material.

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No. 2374-—A Smart Dress for Home

Wear. Cut in seven sizes, 34, 36, 38,

40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure

Size 38 requires 61/2 yards of 36-inch

material. The skirt measures about





 





No; 2352—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four

sizes, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. SiZe eight

will require 31,4, yards of 36-inch mate-

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No. 2363—Boys' Suit. Cut in four

sizes, 3, 4, 5 and six years. Size four.'

will require 2% yards of 40-inch mate'-

rial. Price 10 cents.





No. 2184-2187~—A Charming. Three}-

piece Suit. Coat-waist 2184*cut iii-net‘s,

en sizes, 34, m, 38', 40, 42, 44 amt“

inches bust measure. It requires 22%~

yards of 36—inch material for the waist ‘

and 3% yards for the blouse, fo‘r'a‘ 36':

inch size. Skirt 2187 cut in- sevén sis“

es,.22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and'34 inch'eé-

waist measure, and requires 3% yards

of 36-inch material for a 24-inch size

The skirt measures about 2%yards'fa

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Small Children. Cut in three simfifl

18 and 20 years. Size 16 'reQ'ires'4

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gan State Fair grounds.





this trip.





The touring car especially designed

and built for long distance touring was

The

two boys and the two girls who won

this trip had seen the car and its

equipment in use on the road, which

the

time of their lives, and we believe they





Supplied with a camping outfit.





warranted them in anticipating





were not disappointed.

The successful contestants were:





Edison Coller, the winner in corn cul-

ture; Ralph Wyman, winner in potato

Lenna. Morgan not only

but

she also won the state championship,

and Margaret Raub, only thirteen years

old, won the county championship in





production;

won in garment making last year,





baking. -

These four prize winners,





made up a party of seven for the trip.





We. drove the car through to Detroit





alone two days previous, with the com-

plete equipment.



The young folks met at our home in

Battle Creek and we took a full day to

drive to Detroit. Each had a suit case

with necessary articles for use on the

road and in camp. Not one of the four

had ever taken an automobile trip

across the country and had never even

been to Jackson, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti

and Detroit. It was a great day for

them all the way of the 120 miles and





ESIDES the regular prizes offered

the winners in the Junior Agri-

cultural Clubs of Calhoun county,



the publications on which the writer is



employed promised to take four of the

successful contestants on a week’s

touring trip to Detroit and the Michi-



Our guests



were to be to no expense whatever for





with the

writer and his wife and little daughter,





By J. B.





 





Our Complete Camp Outfit

they noted and talked about what they





saw of farm houses, fine basement

barns, neat lawns, growing corn and

the variety of familiar field scenes as

compared with their experiences .at

home.



Arriving at a friend’s home in De

troit in the evening we waited until

the next morning to drive into the fair

grounds. A long time previous we had

made complete arrangements with

Secretary Dickinson regarding the

camp and he had presented [each boy

and girl with a season pass. Our loca-

tion was in the large and fine square

occupied by the Boys’ State Fair

School. Beth Secretary Dickinson and





BROWN





at the State Fair Grounds.





Superintendent T. M. Satler suggested

this location and our own boys and

girls fully appreciated it before the

week was over.



Edison, Ralph, Lenna and Margaret

helped us set up the camp and it was

complete, with‘all four double beds

made up, in less than an hour The

double or “twin bed” inside the car,

over the top of the seat backs, is usu-

ally occupied by the writer and his

wife on all trips. This bed is enclosed

by a khaki cutain that buttons close

on both sides and in front of the bed.

It has on each side and in front an

oval window with celluloid pocket

windows, wire screens and khaki draw-





‘ galow.





. double berths.





shades inside. This bed is very cool

and comfortable during the hottest

nights.



The double “lean»to” bed on the right

side of the car was used by Lenna and

Margaret. Mrs. Brown and little

daughter slept in the car, while Edison

and Ralph “stayed nights” with the

writer in the automobile touring bun-

This touring tent outfit is one

we designed and made just before the

trip. It has a collapsible frame occu—

pying one-half the tent space, with two

The right one-half is

used for dressing, reading, and also for





cooking and eating when it rains. Both





beds fold up to the side wall. The tent

space is eight feet wide and seven feet

long. ' Tent roof is seven’ feet high in.

the center and four‘feet at the sides.

Each bed is four feet six inches wide.



Two days and two nights it fairly

poured'dQWn rain water on the fair

ground, but not a drop penetrated our

car and khaki roofs.‘ One evening we

cooked our supper over the automobile

gas stove inside the tent and ate and

visited While a terrific thunder storm

passed overhead. We fried beef steak,

baked potatoes, made coffe and other

good things and they tasted far better

than if eaten in a restaurant.



The picture shows the entire camp.





Margaret, the expert baker, dressed in ‘





white, sits on the long settee with Edi-

eon. Lenna Morgan, the state cham-

pion in garment making, sits in front

of the car, with the luncheon kit in the

distance, paring potatoes. Ralph Wy-

man is sitting back of the gas stove

reading a book and making comments

to Edison. The enrtains are turned

back so that the tent double beds are,

visible.





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huts, etc. Material for these boards is

being furnished by the Grand Rapids

Bookcase and Chair Company, Has-

tings, Michigan.



Directions.——The board is squared up

to the dimensions of two and a quarter

by ten inches, with the try-square and

saw. It is then smoothed up on both

sides to a. thickness of from three-

‘eighths to five-eighths inches. Set the

‘ gauge at a quarter inch and gauge a

line, lightly, down each side. (If you

have no gauge make this line with a

ruler and pencil). Then set the gauge

at three-quarters of an inch and gauge

the second line three-quarters of an

inch from each side, the full length of

the board. This gives twolineson

‘ each side of the board half an inch

apart. Using the square or the one

1th rule, mark off a half inch at each

., endof the board as shown in the draw-

. fling. ' Divide the remaining nine inches

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inches wide. Using the back saw or

the small saw, saw these lines about

one-eighth inch deep. Lay the square

or ruler lengthwise of the board and

divide each one of these six sections

into quarter-inch widths. Using a try-

square mark a line across the board at

each one of these quarter-inch marks,

being careful to always use the try-

square from the same side of board.

The intersections of these cross lines

with the gauge marks, gives the loca-

tion of the holes. These holes are

made with a No. 6 nail, the nail being

driven about a quarter inch deep, and

then removed. Make two extra holes

at the end, as indicated, midway be—

tween the two rows of holes. 'Smooth'

up the top of the ,board very lightly

with the plane. ' Rub with fine Sand

paper, rubbing lengthwise of the grain

and finish «the board by rubbing 0111a

few drops of boiled linseed oil. Be

sure at all times to use the directions

and see that you are getting your





forms ‘ a square five





Material.—The material needed for

this board is to be furnished by the

boys and consists of: (1) Two pieces

of soft wood each six inches long and

three inches wide. (This material can

be obtained from dry goods boxes, soap

boxes, etc). (2) Sixteen black-headed

tacks, commonly known as furniture





inch on both sides. Draw the lines

connecting corners of each square.

These will intersect at the center of

the square and, will form the location

for the holes which will be bored. With

a small nail, make a hole about half

way through the center of each square.

Mark the square alternately with red

and black ink. With thebrace and





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or upholstering tacks. (3) Sixteen

brass headed tacks. (4)'

Two small brass hing- K





es and (5) one brass

fastener to fasten the

two sides of the board,

when it is folded up.





Directions. — Plane

the two pieces of stock

to the dimensions giv-

en. With the square

or rule, lay off 8. mar-

gin one-half inch in

Width on one side and

both ends of each

piece of stock. Place

the two sides which

have no margin ma’rk4

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They will and 6.16-inch bit bore holes in each;

each be five-eighths of an inch (Draw one of the red squares about one-third

the lines both ways, thus forming six- of the Way- through being careful this;

board laid out exactly like the drawing» ty-tour squares, each five-eighth of an the. bit does not. ex, . .





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HE writer well remembers when,

with the' first $33 he ever sav-

ed, he invested it in a colt. ,As

I now look back at it, I think the main

reason for making this particular selec-

tion was that it, could be bought for $33

and that was exactly the sum I had.





The owner Wanted $35 but When he.





learned that I had but $33 that sum at

once became the price.



I sought my father's permissidn to

buy the colt. , He advised against it,

' but I was unable to get' him to go and

see it at all. He simply said that if I

bought it that I must do so on my own

judgment and against his, but he did

not deny me the privilege of buying,

so after school I took all my savings

of a “lifetime” (‘?)——-my lifetime up to

then—and trudged two miles after it.





He was a rather stubborn little

whelp and it was well after dark when

I got home. I was desperately disap-

pointed because my father would not

go out to see him that night. Some

way I did not take quite as much satis-

faction in the possession as I had an-

ticipated, but still I was up betimes the

next morning and as I led the lousy

little scamp out for my father’s inspec-

tion I could not quite keep the rising

tide of a proud ownership—an animal

,of my own, from coming to the surface.

It was with some apprehension, how-

ever, that I waited my father’s deci—

sion given with what seemed to me to

be almost a malicious deliberation, but

finally said in a most discomforting

tone, “Well, son, he may grow to it,”

but he never did. In after years I

learned that my father knew all about

the colt all the time, knew it was not

worth the price, advised me so, and

then decided that it might be the

cheapest business schooling that I

would ever have, and I think it was.

Today I approve his methods, but I

wept many a bitter tear over it while

it lasted.



Now, so far, we. have discussed the

question of saving money and have said

very little about spending it. I want

our boys and girls to learn to be wise

spenders as well as good savers. Is is

one thing. to learn how to save, and

another to learn how to expend it wise:

ly, and one is as essential as the other.

Of course there are always some things

that are fundamental in expenditures.

For instance, a man’s affections will

dictate that he clothe his family, na-

ture demands bread, the law compels

him to wear, a shirt and his wife will

' insist that he pay the preacher, these

things with many others, are the nec-

essaries of life when one has become

grown and "has the responsibilities of

a family and must enter data a busi-

ness career.



With the larger part of our young

_ people the checking account or the





commercial account at the bank, will





not come until they have entered their

business career. The average farm

boy and girl does not have "bills to

pay” as those things are usually pro-

vided for from the “home fund,” hence

be has not found the need of school:-

' his account, but whenever the time

does come that you have regular bills

to pay, than is the time to Open that

checking account. Presnming you al-

ready have a Ioat little sum in your



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which have been bored will allow the

heads of the tacks to fit nicely and the

trim hoards Will shut tightly together.

Place the two boards in the vice

and put on the two hinges and fastener.





be given another signature card for the

commercial file. In the smaller bank

this will not be required." In, any event

it is simply your “identification.” Now





it never before, you should adopt a uni- .





form “signature” and always use it the

same, and now 'as never before you

start on your career of confidence. :’



When you place your money in the

banker’s keeping, youhave confidence

that he will honor your check pen the

account when it is presented. When

you write your check and hand it to

the man whom you owe and he accepts

it, he has confidence that you have the

money in the bank to provide for its

payment. This man perhaps, instead

of depositing it in his bank or present-

ing it at the desk of yours, endorses it

by writing his name across the back

and turns it over to some man whom

he arms, and that man has confidence

that the 'endorser is good if you are not





and that he would have recourse on’





him if the check was found not to be

good. ,

Suppose the amount were $100, when

you made your deposit in the bank the

banker loaned eighty per cent of that

$100 to someone who needed it to carry

on his business, as it has been proven

that this is a safe margin with the

combined deposits of many patrons,

you write your check for $100, pay one

debt with the chick, your creditor in

turn pays an equal amount—more con-

fidence, don’t you see, $200 of debts





are already paid and only $20 of capi-





tal idle.



This second man who gets it will

perhaps deposit it in his bank with his

own endorsement added, the bankers

has confidence that his customer’s en-

dorsement makes the check good if it

were not so in the first place, this

banker in turn sends it to his city re-





serve bank who accepts it because he .





has confidence in the banker who sent

it to him. He in turn sends it to the

clearing house, where it is “cleared”

by turning it back to the city corres-

pondent bank of the bank upon which

you originally drew the check. They

accept it because they have confidence

in previous endorsements and this re-

serve bank of your bank charges it to





the account of your bank, and when'

the statement goes back the cancelled _





paid check will at last come back to





your bank and when you get your

it;





monthly statement you will find

tucked away in its proper order with

so many endorsements that you begin

to wonder where it has been and what

it all means.



One thing always do, number your

checks, issue them in numerical order,

and keep the stub religiously, then file

your"‘cancelled checks as they come

back to you in numerical order and you

hate a more complete record of your

business than you could have in any





 





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POULTRY owes To HELP FEED,





11-13 WORLD.





The United States. government is:





asking boys and girls to raise poultry





in order to increase the supply at food .

Five boys or brushed In





for the coming season.

girls in a‘ community‘may start a club.





Now is the time to start. For informa— ,

tion write‘to the Junior Esteem: De- 4





pertinent East Lansing; Michigan.





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80 acres timber, 2.0 acres pasture and. near school.

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Date. Barley and Flex. Mixed ferm-

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lng. Good schools churches markets conven-

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the countyon- September.10; an Octo-

ber with~twenty-sixv_vralny days ending

in‘a‘snowstormrand freeze, will make

1917 long ‘.to be remembered. _



Now, Van. Buren county, like other

prdgrésfsiv'esections or the state, has

a. county agent of agriculture, ‘o‘ne‘ T.

A. Farrand, a. man of broad experience

and‘broeder vision. Junior Agricultural

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test betWeen the efforts of Mr. Farrand

and the Writer. In sizing up the “situ-

tidnfthey were sure "that'som’ething

would have to be done if the crops,

and' especially the grape crop, was

saved. The United States Department





lutibns ofour problem- and} early in‘

August Mr. Parcell, a representative of

the department, came into'the county

to investigate conditions and see what

could beZdOne. Myr.-‘-P—'arcell, in com-

pany with Mr. Farrand and the writer,

drove over the county and talked with

representative growers. - It was evi-

dent at. that time that 5 the growers

were -' not expecting a severe labor

shortage at harvest time and were de-

pending to a large eittent upon the

“Bo”? labOr that failed to show up.‘





For our fruit work Mr. Parcell

thought that the oganization of the





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the problem and the writer was ap-

pointed director. It‘soon became ap-

parent that the near—by cities were not

going to be organized along this line

well enough to be of material assist—

ance during the fall'and we turned to





: our own school children as the only





available help." Now, Van Buren coun-

ty has 150 school districts, .each a law

unto itself. There are 480 school offi-

cers in‘ the county. August 15 a cir-

cular letter was mailed to each school

officer requesting that the schools be

closed from October 1 to October 22 to

permit the pupils to assist in gathering

the crops and that the school work

afterwards be made up by continuing

school over the Christmas and Easter

holidays. A letter was also sent to

teachers asking them to support the

plan, articles written for the eleven

newspapers and the situation discuss-

ed at every opportunity. '





The response to the suggestion was

slow. The village of Mattawan with

a school enrollment of 165 and a good

live parent-teachers’ association, call-

ed a meeting, discussed the plan and

believing it to be a good thing adopted

it. A number of one-room rural schools

also took immediate action but in gen-

eral the result did not take fire. All

sorts of objections were urged against

it. Teachers under contract did, not

want . the regular vacation period

changed. Many considered that va-

cation following a month of school

would destroy the work of that month.

Some who did not want their children

to work opposed the plan. Some grow-

ers did not think that “kid” labor

would amount to anything. Some re-

garded Christmas vacation asabsolute—

ly eSsential and there were those who

opposed the plan simply because it was

different. ‘ As the season. advanced,

however, and the hobo came not, nor

the camper from ,Indiana, something

had to' be done, and the plan suggest—

ed was adopted in whole or in part in

ninety-eight'of the 150'school districts.



December 1 a. questionnaire was sent

to the schools asking for data in order

to know just "what had, been, accom-

plished. The renewing guestions were





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earned $3,862. HoweVer, the good that

came from the vacation was not con-

fined to any onefp‘art ot the county.

Decatur’s harvest of onions and pots-

toes, andthe trenching of the celery

took 200 boys and girls who worked

1,498 days and were paid a little more

than $3,000. The fields of beans and

potatoes in the northeastern part of

the county used seventy-six pupils

from Gobleville school who worked 707

days and received $1,299.43, and eight

from Bloomingdale who worked 780

days and were paid about $1,000. Ban-

gor furnished fifty-six boys for apple

piéking who put in 866 days and were

paid $1,994.' 'From Hartford for a total

of 591 days thirty-seven boys received

$1,182} Thirty-four boy's tram Law-

rence worked 348 days, earning $876.-

85. Covert furnished nineteen who

worked 320 days and received $560.

From Lawton high school thirty boys

were paid $705.71. In the vicinity of

South Haven there was not sufficient

work so that it was deemed necessary

to close, but twenty-two boys were

permitted to go to the grape belt for

two weeks to help out.



Of course, the village schools fur-

nished the most help but efforts of the

one-room country school in the aggre-

gate amounted to much. Pupils of Dis-

trict No. 5, South Haven, worked 1,014

days, earning $1,580. District No. 3,

Antwerp, is a. small School but the

Children were paid $540 for picking

grapes. The eighteen boys and girls

of District No. 1, Pine Grove, earned

$264.65 picking up potatoes, and twelve

children from No. 7 of the same town-

ship earned $215.50. District No. 5,

Pine Grove, has twelve small children

(average age nine years), but they

earned $65 during their “potato vaca-

tion.” Seventeen children from Dis-

trict No. 7, Keeler, earned $514.65.

Other examples might, of course, be

given but these are sufficient to show

that the plan was a benefit to the en-

tire county.



We learned some things from the

experience of the past fall. Most of

the schools had a Christmas vacation

as usual, although many out the‘time

to one week. There seems to be a de-

mand from both pupils and teachers

for this vacation and I would not again

suggest that it be eliminated. One

week, however, will answer. Whether

it be possible to do without the Easter

vacation remains to be seen. Now,

personally I would be very much op-

posed to shortening the school term

and if children are going to help out

during harvest We must still plan for

the usual length of the school year.

Two ideas suggest themselves. It is

possible to have a. six—day school week





and thus theoretically at least, doing '





the work of thirty~six weeks in thirty,

or if this be a. little too strenuous.

school on alternate Saturdays would

make it possible to cover the work of

thirty-six weeks in thirty-three. This

plan, however, does not seem to be

popular with teachers, an idea being

prevalent that the saturation point of

the child’s mind is reached in about

five days of consecutive effort and that

Saturday is necessary for the good of

both pupil and teacher. The other

plan would be to have school begin

about the second Week in August. This

is the time of the year that farm work

dues not crewd. , In view of the Coal

situation this might be worth consid-

ering from another viewpoint.



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NCE on a time a. deer-mouse fell'



.to upb’ra-iding the» moon and

stars. Time Was, said she, when



I wes not allOWed to work in the dark.

As soon as I began my task the stars

held their candles above me and the

moon lighted her lamp. Now I am

left to do the best I can, ‘and that, too,

when I am getting old and my strength

is failing. All my' seeds should have

been stowed» away in the old log ere

now, for soon fall will be here” and my ‘

nuts must be gathered. ‘

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the next night would bring the light '

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they could easily have brushed them

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est in me. Clearly, it is a case of out.- ; .

grown friendship and there is nothing ‘

to do but wait for something to

turn up. ‘



Just here a band of fire flies came .1 .

flashing along. Hearing the lament in

the thicket the leader exclaimed,

“Someone is in trouble and as we are

out for a good time we can’t do better '

than lend a helping hand.” -‘ ‘



“Oh! is that all?” they cried in chor- :

us after the deer-mouse had told her

difficulty. “Cheer up now, while we '

circle arOund you and you can finish ' .

your work by the light of the little ,

lanterns we carry.” Thus encouraged ‘

the— deermouse began to hunt about

diligently and soon had her store of

Seeds nearly completed.



“And now, good night,” said the

leader as they sailed away. We live ‘

on the swamp just over there, and be-

ing so near might have helped you any

time had we known of your trouble.”



At this juncture a voice came from

the corner of a fence nearby. It was '

that of a coon who had stopped for a

moment on his way to a corn field.



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BEE-KEEPERS MAY use SUGAR.





- Farmers are taking more care in the

selection of the males that head their

flocks, but still 'there is quitela ten-

dency to buy a bird. that looks nice

without looking intothe parentagebe-

hind the looks. Farmers are not often

fanciers, and egg laying records are

more important to them than show

winning. The best breeders have come

to recognize this and it is possible to

get cockerels Whose mothers and

grandmothers have been laying around

two hundred eggs and yet have them

from prize winners at poultry shows of

the best class. Very good cockerels of

this class can be had for ten dollars or

even less, and they are well worth the

money. If show points are wanted

more money will be required, but a

cockerel. without show points from a

flock that had produced birds of prize

winning quality will prove as good for

the farmer as the others would, pro-





   





' vided the main characteristics of the

I would not buy a





breed are present.

disqualified bird or one lacking in size

or form under any circumstances, but

I would not worry if the comb, wattles,

hack or markings were not exactly per-

fect. I would want to be sure that his

mother layed somewhat above the av-

erage, and the higher the better.

Keep a Breeding Pen.



Ten dollar birds cannot be afforded

to head a large flock, nor is it advis-

able to breed from a large flock. You

have a number of hens that are so





   





 

 





flock that you will be wise to make use

of this superiority. It does not take

much trouble or expense to pen a doz-

en of your best hens during the breed—

ingseason, and these when headed by

your selected cockerel will give you

cockerels to head your flock next year

that .Will be as good as you can buy.

Mark the ‘pullets from this pen also,

and when you have used the old cock-

erel two or three years at the head of

your pen you will have a. nice lot of

his daughters in your flock. Now you

can discard the old bird, select a pen

of the best of his daughters and head

it with a new cockerel of high grade,

and you are building a flock with rec-

ord blood on both sides. Your main

flock will have a little inbreeding in it,

but your cockerels are never inbred,

nor the hens that go to make up the

breeding pen, and these are constantly

getting better, and as they improve

they improve the main flock.

Only a Few Cocke-rel's Needed.



This plan is for flocks of pullets of

several hundred. If the main flock is

composed of both pullets and old hens,

and only a small number of pullets are

to be added each season to take the

place of hens sold because they are

getting old it will not be, necessary to

rear any stock from the main flock at

all but only to save the pullets from

the breeding pen hatches. The only

cockerel needed then will be the one

that heads the breeding pen. The lay-

ing flock will be without males and the

eggs will be infertile and will sell and

keep better. As pullets lay better than

hens and are more profitable because

of this and the fact that they add con-

siderable in weight the first year, the

business farmer will .sell off all the

hens’ after the laying season is over

each year and rear pullets enough to

take their place. It is in rearing these

pullets in large numbers that the main

flock headed by the specially bred ceck-

erels come in handy. Whatever plan

we follow it {should be one that will

steadily improve the fleck; and to do

this a good male at. the head of a se-





   





lect pen of bells is necessary





By L. H COBB





much better than the average of your





to the hip joint.





good one, as neither





 

 

 





.cided that even in the face of a world

sugar scarcity. bees are entitled to'

their share.



Bee-keepers throughout the country

have been reporting to the United

States Food Administration their ins-~-

bility to secure sugar with which .to

prevent starvation among their colon-

ies. Last season was a particularly

unfavorable one. Owing-to drouths and

failure of clover and other crops in

some sections, the bees were unable to

store sumcient food to carry them

through the winter. Under such con-

ditions a syrup made from white gran-

ulated sugar'is needed to feed them.

Any other kind of food, except when

bees are flying frequently, tends to pro-

duce a cendition of the bees known as

dysentery. But some dealers fearing

they might "violate rules or at least

the spirit of food administration, have

hesitated to deliver sugar to the bee-

keepers...



In handling this problem the food ad-

ministration has not only authorized

but encouraged the delivery to bee-

keepere of a sufficient quantity of sug-

ar to meet urgent bee-feeding require-

ments. Dr E. F. Phillips, apiculturist

of the U. S. Department of Agriculture,

estimates that every pound of sugar

now fed to starving bees will result in

the production of at least ten pounds of

honey next season. In many cases the

increase will exceed this.





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POULTRY QU ERY DEPARTM ENT.





 





How to Tell a Layer.





I have a. number of yearling hens

which I cooped up for sale, because

they have two bones very close togeth-

er right by the vent, but someone else

told me they would come apart after

they start laying again.



Huron Co. F. M. O.





The pelvic bones, which are close

to the vent, are, of course, closer to-

gether when the hen is not laying.

Probably in the fall quite a few of

your hens were in their melting period

and were, therefore, not in laying con-

dition.



If you wish to select the best layers

at this time, I would advise you to

take those that have some of their old

feathers and look somewhat rough and

pale, as the late molters are almost

without exception the best layers.





When a hen is a good layer, even

though the pelvic bones are close to-

gether during the molting season, you

will find them quite pliable. A good

laying hen also invariably has great

depth through the body, that is, the

breast bone usually sets quite close to

the ground. This large depth of body ,

indicates plenty of room for the vital f

organs and a. good digestive system,

which are necessaryin egg production.



Rheumatism.





Can you tell me what I can do for

my hens? They become lame, seem

real well in all other ways. They have

a. bunch the size of an egg under one

wing, the side they are lame on. We

have lost one, and have several others

that are lame now. We have been

feeding oats and rye, besides what

they pick up. The hen that died got

so she would not eat at all, and when

she died seemed to be in awful pain.



Livingston Co. J. J. C.



The one general cause of lameness

without outward symptoms is rheuma-

tism. Occasionally this disease shows

some swelling at the joints, but other-

wise the bird appears to be in perfect

health.



As you have not stated the charac

ter of the swelling under the Wing, it

is difiicult to tell what the cause of it

is. It may be the result of a tuniorous

grewth, or a. swelling used by injury





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and will: give»: good results, provided

skim-milk, or beef scraps are fed with

them. A:- common practice: is to feed

these grains whole, and also.» make a

dry mash of" bran, corn and ground

oats, to which is added about ten per

cent of beef scraps. The grain you are

now feeding'has a tendency to cause

internal inflammatory conditions, and

may be the result of the swelling you

speak of. .



If. the cause of the lameness is rheu~

matism, the only method of treatment.”

is to keep the hens in dry and well

ventilated places, feeding them a ra-

tion as suggested above, and in- addi-

tion, plenty of‘green food. If you wish

further information regarding this-

trouble, kindly state the character of

the swellingunder the wing, telling us

whether it is hard or soft, and Wheth-

ed full of pus or not.





 





u'sE OF AXE" ON PAW PAW HENS

MAKES THEM LAY MORE. secs".





 





Proof of the fact that the egg-laying

ability of a flock of hens can. be in-

creased by wise use of the ax has

been furnished~ to the Michigan Agri-

cultural College by the results of a

culling demonstration conducted on

the farm of E. A. Wang, near Paw Paw.



On October 25, Ernest Foreman, one

of the college’s field men in poultry,

sorted hens on the Paw Paw farm into

three lots, which he labeled A, B and

C. In Lot A were placed the best pro-

ducers, to Lot B were assigned hens

which would just about pay for their

keep, while in Lot C were “boarder

hens,” or birds which if kept would

bring a. loss to their owner. Fowls in

all three flocks were given the same

feed and kept under identical con-

ditions.



On January 28, when the first report

on the'results of the culling was given

out, it was foundthat the twenty~eight

hens in Lot A- had. laid 206-eggsbor an

average of more than seven eggs per

hen. The birds in Lot B laid anuaver-

age of only 169 (less than two) eggs

each during the two months, while

those in Lot 0 laid none at all-





 





A'NIMAL' Fcouron POULTRY.





 





An agricultural investigator after a

series of tests‘h’as come to the conclu-

sion) that meat-fed chicks make quick;

er and cheaper. gains than others, re-

gardless of size,- and that chicks start-

ed on a ration‘deflcien‘t in animal food

never regain their lost ground. In

some of his, own experiments he found

that hens without meat generally be-

gan laying‘ heifers meat-fed hens and

maintained their position for weeks

and- even months on such rations. He

concludes that; although the work done

by most investigators has usually

shown a decided. superiority for the

meat-fed layingfhens, there is sufficient

evidence the other way to warrant

further investigation. In the fattening

of fowls animal. food- has appeared to

be essential to- the best results, except

when milk has been used, but of the

various sources there seems to be lit-

tle preference aside from. convenience

or economy.



The substitutes for animal food in

common use are milk, milk albumen,

or dried milk,. vegetable sources “of





sources. Milk albumin has not gener-

ally given good results. Milk, sour or

otherwise, has given conflicting results.

Vegetable protein when used under

favorable conditions has often given as

good results aswhen protein from ani-





mal sources has: been used. Results - i.





of feeding bane ash or some carrier of

phosphorus indicate that some of the

adynntage. that: has been claimed for-

aghast-pessimism” possibly be} dine to

’ : matter «contained in . the



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Mating Time 3 Here

Now’s the time to put your hens and roosters in the

pink of condition With Poultry Pan-a-ce-a.



If you want‘ chicks that will live and develop rapidly—if

you want. early broilers—if you want pallets that“ will

develop into early winter layers, then feed the parent





   





 

   

 

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 





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EEE Remember, it’s the singing, scratching, industrious hen

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Here area few of the valuable ingredients in Pan-a-ce-a'

to meet the requirements of' your poultry which I have

% Juststated: Nux VOmica, a nerve tonic; Carbonate of Lime,

//E a‘ shell former; Hyposthzz‘elofSoda, an internal. antisep-

/ E be; Quassza, an appetizer; Iran, to enrich the blood, and-

other valuable ingredients, all. well known and recom—

mended by the highest medical: and'veterinary authorities.

/ There's a-dealer in your town that will supply you: with

/ E, Dr..Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a- andsit’s toitmake your poultry

healthy—ifs to make your hens lay—it’s to make your

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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication.





 





In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

bouillet rams, Hampshire pigs (either

sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance

for a small investment to reap the bene-

fit of a iarge expenditure of capital and

years of expert breeding.





Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.

CATTLE. I





WOODCOTE ANGUS





Trojan-Erica: and Blackbirds only Breeders of the

dam and former owners of the sire (our herd hull)

of the Grand Champion Bull at the International

Chicano for 1917.



WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.





 





 





 





Good uality bulls of serviceable

ClOVCI’ly Angus ageanii younger. Inspection invit-

ed. Geo. Hathaway and Son. Ovid, _Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





1,000 Lbs. Butter A Year

From Grade Guernsey

A grade Guernsey, owned by Mon-

tana Agricultural College, produced

in a year 16,286.1 lbs. milk and 844.8

lbs. butter fat—equivalent to 1,000

lbs. of butter. Over a 5 year period

she averaged 604 lbs. butter in per ennum. ‘

Use n Guernsey Bull

Don’t sell your scrub cows for beef. Their daughters.

if sired by aGucmsey bull. will yield 25% to

100% more than their dams. (8

American Guernsey Cattle Club

Box I Peterborc. N.





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Registered Guernsey bull cal-

For sale ves May Rose breedin .

JOHN EBELB, B. 2, Hollan , Mich.





 





Guernsey bull calves from advanced

For sale registered dams r in in age from 3

to 8 months. L. J. BYERS, 0] water. Mich.





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100--REGISTERED HOLSTEINSnlOO

When you need a herd sire remember that we

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

der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual

over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We

have size. quality. and production records back-

ed by the best strains of breeding.





Write us 'your wants.

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accepted in payment of finely bred -

‘ a00ll "Ill. istered Holstein bull calves. ualllgy

of the best and at prices within reach of all. rite.

GEO. D. O'LARKE. - - - . Vassar. Mich.





 





’ Pedigree Stock Farm ofl’ers Re .110]-

Parham 8 stein cattle. Chester White wine.

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



R. B. PARHAM, Bronson. ich.





A Few Fine Bulls For Sale





Bigclows Holstein Farms. Irssdsvills, Mich.





I Always Have Holsteins

To Sell





It wanting Registered cattle write me your wants

before placing your order elsewhere.





L. E. CONNELL‘, Fayette, Ohio





OR Sale On. re ietered Holstein bull calf. Sire'e

twenty nearest am: have 7. da. records av. $.58 lb.

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

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F s l R istered Holstein bulls ready for service

or I . aria: bull calves from 30 lb. sire and A. R. O;

dams with records up to 26 lbs.



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Manchester,





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THE LECTURER’S HOUR.





In this article it is far from our pur.

pose to simply write an essay upon

Grange Lecture Work. If possible, I

want to say a few practical things in

a practical way to the many lecturers

who' may read this department in the

hope that they may help somebody.



Of course, the lecturer is the largest

factor in a good Grange program. ' If

all the lecturers in Michigan could but





> get the vision of their work that some





have, there would be such a Grange

revival as we' have not yet seen. Real-

izing this, the State Grange has spent

a great dealof money at one time and

another to help'the- lecturers. We have

had conferences for the subordinate

lecturers, with the state lecturer-—

many of them—and shall doubtless

have many more. The‘ regular lectur-

er’s bulletin is always full of sugges-





.tions which appeal to the needs of a





large number of Granges, while now

and then it contains suggestions that

are of great value to every Grange.



I do not believe that the conferences

of the state lecturer with subordinate

and Pomona Grange lecturers should

be given up. On the contrary, I am

sure that they should receive more em-

phasis. Not that more of them should

be held, but those that are held should

be better advertised.





Again, the lecturer should have time

for her work. The coming of the state

lecturer upon the Pomona program

for a short time in the morning before

nearly all the people have arrived, and

at a time when no one expects much

of anything to happen anyway, is a

mistake, and a waste of time and

money. -



A lecturer’s conference as we see it,

is a job big enough for all day. It

should be so understood. Everybody

in the county should be invited, par-

ticularly Grange members. It should

be held under the auspices of the Po-

mona if the Pomona. is sufficiently

alive not to give it a chill, but the big

thing is to hold it as a conference 01'

Grange lecturers in the county and

then so to advertise it as to secure a

good attendance of all Grange people.‘





‘If we grangers arevslow anywhere,

and I think the assumption will not be

questioned, it is in advertising. My

heart aches again and again, when I

realize how very poorly the important

Grange events are advertised. Here is

the Grange column of the Michigan

Farmer ready to advertise Grange

events, and the Michigan Farmer goes

to almost as many farmers in the av-

erage county as the home paper. Why

do we not use it more? The Michigan

Farmer has made a special offer to

Granges to induce them to look after.

subscripiiOns in their respective neigh-

borhoods. How I wish they would do

it, and not stop here, but fill the Mich-

igan Farmer office so .full of live

Grange notices, that the space would

have to be multiplied over'and over. ..





Our local papers are always ready to

help out by way of advertising our

meetings. I doubt if many of us real-

ize how. very willing iii" are. If we

would avail ourselves \ ” eir valuable

help, we might double t‘.-e average at-

tendance at Pomona meetings and thus

largely increase our influence. Butpby

all means, when the lecturer 'of the

Michigan State Grange comes to our

county, we ought not only to’ give her

plenty of time for a conference with

the lecturers, but we ought to ”so wide-





[ly and, so efficiently advertise her con»,





L I.” which

.. Mpg





.. i Farmers





 





 

 





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Associatiohal Motto: ' ,

.“The ‘skilled hand with cultured

mind is the farmer’s most valuable





asset.”

CLUB Discussnons.

A Profitable Program—The very





cold and disagreeable Weather did not

prevent a goodly number from attend-

ing the February meeting of the China.

Farmers’ Club, at Gleaner Hall. When.

the noon hour arrived, it v was found

necessary to spread tables for forty

plates, and one of the most pleasant .

social hours in the history of the Club

was enjoyed by all while partaking of





the typical war dinner.’ A Red Cross

meeting constituted the early portion.

ofthe program, a number of things

pertaining to the work of the local

branch being taken up. Local chair--

man, Mrs. Frank Layle, presided and,

under her direction arrangements for

yarn and other supplies were worked

out in detail. She also offered the or-

ganization a room in her home on the-

Hart Road where the ladies of the-

neighborhood can, meet each week for

work. The interest and activity that

is being shown by the members of this

branch constitute sureproof that the-

peopleof China will rank second to

none in doing their share to alleviate

the suffering resulting from the war.

In the absence of President John Rey~

nolds, Edwin Rankin took charge and

called the meeting to order. Reading

of the minutes of the previous ,meeting

by Secretary Mrs. Carrie Hartlein,

was heard and approved. Mrs. Frank .

Allor gave a very instructive and able

talk on “The ”are and Management of

Poultry for, Winter Egg Production."

Among the important points emphav

sized were proper methods of housing,

feeding, watering, and the selection of

good layers. County Agent Brodyout-

lined the life history of the different

kinds of grain smuts, and described

methods of prevention and treatment.

The interest shown by the Club in this

project indicates that the farmers of

that community will almost without

exception use the formalin treatment

for the prevention of smut, and thus

insure their grain crops against ser-

ious losses ordinarily caused by this

common disease. The county agent

also discussed at considerable length

the relation of food to the war, and

emphasized the vital considerations in

connection with agricultural prodqu

tion necessary to bring the struggle

across the sea to a successful concluo

sion. Farm management records were

also taken up, and .matters pertaining

to the cow-testing association explain-

ed. ] A meeting of those interested in

keeping a record of the-farm business

was arranged for March lat Gleaner

Hall for the purpose of rendering as-

sistance in getting the inventories re-

corded and the books started. Cow-

testing association work was also of

particular interest to the people pres-

ent, and during the day the St. Clair

County Association was greatly

strengthened by the addition of the fair

lowing' progressive dairymen to the

membership list: Ernest Clark, Edv

win Rankin, Louis Schroeppel, Frank

Layle, Butlin Bros, Peter Distlerath,

and Theodore Ruff. After an informal

discussion of various questions of local

and county interest by different mem-

bers, and a few remarks by the chair-

man, the meeting was adjourned. The

March session will be held at the home

of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rankin.



War Topics Discussed—The Howell

Farmers” Club held its regular month-

ly meeting at the farm home of Mr.

and Mrs. B. Harford. The exercises

were opened with prayer by Rev.- L.

S. Brooke. At the conclusion of this

part of the program Mrs. Howard Reed

read a selection entitled, “An Apos-

trophe to the Flag.” The sentiment in‘ '

this reading was beautiful as It greatly

emphasized the rights of humanity.

Mrs. J. S. Brown appeared next read-

ing the paper that *was given .by the

Rev. Orla J. Price before the State

Association of Farmers’ Clubs recently

held at Lansing. The subject was

“The War.” He earnestly defended

the action of America in entering the

struggle and emphasized the great nec-

essity of crushing “Prussian Militar-

ism." In the discussion of this paper

Rev. Brooke explained the difference





between the two "contending! forces. v ‘





Aristo‘cracy and Democracy. , Our del-

egate; Miss Susy Barnes, then gavean»

excellent report of the state .meeting. ,



th en _ fl





After a short recess y

the-Club was: given to





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Ringworm. ' ‘.-—éI~ am anxioue to know

why can» is? Coming off my. cattle, but

only in patches; - I feed them Silage,

bran and‘ middlings, also give them

Salt once a." Week. R. S. R... Decatur,

Michi—A‘Youfr' cattle suffer from ring}

worth, Which is. a parasitic skin‘ ail"-

ment and one takes it from another.

Paint: a little more area than is sore

and bald, with tincture iodine three

times a week and giVe the cattle hall

a teaspoonful-l of: sulphur in feed/once

daily. Washing them once a Week

withv'one‘ part" coal-tar distinf'ectant‘ and

forty-nine parts water will do their

Skin‘ 300d.”





Shéep Stretches Too- Mucus—Can





you recommend-r some remedy for an”





sheep. two years, old, that keeps

stretching behind? I seldom notice

'her eatin but- she keeps in good order

and I mig t-‘say- she has been dumpish

for, thirty days. She is fed carrots

and hay. C. B., Richmond, Mich.—

Feed her some clover and“ wet it with

sweetenedi water. She needs some

bran and" ground oats, but see that her

bowels are kept open. Mix equal parts

of cooking soda, ginger and gentian

and give her half a teaspoonful in each

feed:





Stomach Worms—Will you please

tell mewhat to give some of my‘sheep,

those of them! which are troubled with

stomach worms? They are not dump-

ish, but low' in flesh. J. J. G., Palms,

Mich.——-Segregate all suspected cases

and keep them by themselves. Keep

all feed away from the ones to be

treated for 24 hours, but allow them

all the water they choose to drink.

Mix a half ounce of gasoline in same

quantity of raw linseed oi .put this in

a half pint of fresh milk and give each

sheep. or yearling lamb a dose once a

day for three days; however, you may

feed them four hours after each treat—

ment.



Sprained Hock—My four-year-old

mare slipped in stable and sprained

hock. The leg is badly swollen, espe-

cially the hock joint. L. G., Rhodes,

Mich—Apply one part alcohol and

two parts warm water three times a

day. Give her 1 dr. acetate potash at

a dose in feed or drinking water three

times daily.



Double Teat.-—Have .heifer due to

freshen in about two months that has

double teat. We are inclined to be-

lieve milk may come from both teats,

bothering us to milk her. Can, you

give me a simple remedy for this case.

E. 8.. Grant, Mich—Employ a-compe-

tent Vet. and have small teat removed,

or else leave it alone. .





Loss of Vision—I have good sound

17-year-old horse that seems to be go-

ing blind. He keeps both eyes closed,

they weep a whole lot and it must be

a painful ailment for he dislikes to

have the eye touched. I moved him

from' upstair stable to basement, but

it is dry and equally well lighted. Will

the odor of ammonia hurt his eyes?

C. C., Fenton, Mich—Give him 1/1. oz.

of Fowler’s solution at a dose in either

feed or drinking water three times a

day. Dissolve 40 grs. of boric acid

and 40 grs. of borate of soda in 1/3, pt.

of clean boiled water and apply to the

eyes twice daily. Be sure and let some

fresh air into stable, for foul air is

bad for sore eyes. I do not believe

that there is enough ammonia in stable

to have a very harmful effect on eyes.





ShysBreedersr—I have four good

healthy heifers, but they are slow to

come in- heat. Can you tell me What

will bring on heat? A. M. W., Burling-

ton, Mich—Very often unsatisfactory

results are obtained from giving drugs

imcthese kind of cases; hoWever, you

may give each heifer 40 drops of fluid

extract nux-~vomica and 1 dr. ground

capsicum in feed twice or three times

a day. "



Partial Leas of Poweri—LI bought two

pigs last octob‘er which were then ten

weeks. old.“ They were poor. I fed

them scolded. middlings three times a,

day, adding a few ears of corn to each

meal. About the first of December

they began 'to show weakness in hind

legs and» tori the past six' weeks have

not bden" able to' stand 'up while eat-



,1ng.'_ Have not fed them corn for the

past two'mcn’ths; they do not care for

11:: I'-ga.v:e~ them' worm remedy, also

Maggi“; but; they are no better.

They salami-to? ow fairly well. W. G..

Utieattlltiehrw-g“ Live-each pig five drape

ot‘throttireor’ aux vomica andj5 grs.



- ~ . _three___ ’times'~'a' day.

is. doubtful. Apply

gtmbatlr'twice' a





 

   





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lost ‘.





Fr'onk J. Boyle,





 





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5431‘ at?





‘on ‘account or poor'health. r wiu‘s'en m

Xmiles'x easrwnd onem‘llos‘outh of P1

south )4 mile'wmiofi Newport. ‘ .

. _ . _ division, stop being Livonia town line, on . . ‘

T. UESDA. , , MARCH. 1 2, 1. 9 1 s

' ‘~ At 11230061111”), Eoct‘om'Sto’ndm-d Time. .

Also onsrswmul‘esyssndfyrs; old: one pinyin}? engine; and: brood 4 sow due: in March;

TERMS: Nine months credit will be given on approvodbanknblo' notes, interest'at 6 per cent.





roan .* Brocbw

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. Auctioneer.





.. . Jerseys and Dome Jerseys





I. “out.“ in b' l - Joli. bull is to“ 1: one back“ n b

”I‘m”! W , '3 'rl :‘lé‘w cholgle bull'dolve‘seot'thlo kind. pou'l'

have?“ this your thou anyother.





Boar Pigs and Yourlingo‘ For'Solor





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" ‘ - . egis‘el‘dl'and' l’a’hyG’adie '1 Holst‘f’ln’s

WILL BE SOLD at AUCTION





y entire herd ‘of Holsteln’cattle on my farm situated two

mouth. or dye miles north 1% miles west ofWayne. or one mile





the D U.’ R. .on the Plymouth and Northville





Sole will Bo‘held'rain or ohine.





JOSEPH A. ZIELASKO, Prop.





 





annotations oi high

0rd of Dun-coo hos





 





 





 





must be bred‘ho .





roductlon a. is . .

in Colsntho eOok





“TOP lllll’flll” HlllfiXTEl’lfS

- .



u . . r h, billt ’.



llllk production Is an? 31':- .‘ €1,356 gulls l! ”on...” m





d l in is tobo made.

a ry g Extroot'll. 8: Dept. of Agric. Bulletin.





His iro‘s 3 nearest But r 7 doys 50.87

Dams average l “:9 7 days 579.68

E D ' n Mllllr" l 111”” 533333

is om s om'o' . _ sys .

Record } Butter 30 days l24.19

Milk 30 days .

(She heads one of the, ten only combinations of'throe

direct generations of thirty pound cowefld 23 33

His dam's record at 3 yrs. 6 $3?” 793;: 45,511“)

11... five nearest dams average l 1.31%?" eg:;: 54623





(Including 2-—3 an

Ideally marked, about half





McPherson Farms 00., Howell, Mich.





Good cows





Buy this young ball‘ond give your milk and butter _





dole. No. 1853?. Born Nov. 44915.





d 1—496 yr. old.)

and half. Price $250.





 





 





 





 





cows [N m





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and butterfat.

proven the most





 





ALL THE OTHER PUREBRED





They have'been definitely





for free information.

THE IOLSTBlN-FIIESIAN ASSOCIATION

OF AMERICA, Box "5'4. Brotlleboro, Vi.





There are more

owners of Purebred





HOLSTEINS





Than there are

owners of





E U. S. COMBINED





» The Purebred

? Holstein holds all

. records for pro

* duction of milk





profitable breed. Write





 





 





 





 





 





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The Right





Lots of breediniat a

bull of mediocre

whenyou can get a to

I oll'er registeredHolst

as follows: Dam is a 2





HAROLD H. B





from A. R. O. cows and





tor 926. 775.





reading at the





Pontiac Korndyke: Sire by the noted King of the



Block & White and out of a ".29 pOund l'our—yearyold.



The calf is a big growthy fellow of excellent lndl:



vlduallty and nicely marked. First check for 317'.)



dellvers him at your station; Write tor-further por-



ticulars and comglete pedigree to

A NUM;





AK Leaf Farm.‘ Herd sire Lenowse Pontiac Col.

amity King offer Registered Holstein bull calves





the milk and butter record in the state of Ind.

days milk 796.3, butter 3151—315 days milk 23782.3. but-





E. H. GEARHART & SON. R. 4. Marcellus, Mich.





Q 0

Combination.

reasonable firlce. Don't at a

cad of vour erd

p-notcher for so little inoney.

ein bull.bcrnJan. l9. l9 8 bred

9.3 pound daughter of Crown





\Voodland, Mich.





the above sire whose dam hold;





 





Holstein bull. nearly





nearest dams have A.“

7Idays 24.13 milk :34 lbs.





records high as ..

E. A. HARDY. -





deepbodied. handsomely marked “1 white. His six





OLSTEINS of (vitality. Bull calves from dams with

‘ rum. in 7days. Also collie pu )les.





read y for so rvice. large straight





.0. records that average butter

W. ll. Header, Howell," Mich.





Rochester. (ch.





 





Johanna Horn. D. K

M.‘ L. MoLAULIN.





a ' . your choice of heifers of a 30 lb

$225 takes bull due in Mo: to a 23 lb. son of





Term! I! wanted.

Redford, Michigan.





 





white, o fine individual

dam

better than 241a. re

it taken at once.



CHARLES I. COOK.





F OR 8 A’ L E Eaxlnfi..§“l5§§l“14l’“ll





has better than a?” lb. record. Sires dam has





lfrom a. Elwin-old heifer whose

cord at 4 years old. Price 835

Box 77, _Fuwlerville, Mich.





 





For Sale





4 yoiing Re lstererl Holstein cows, fresh,

good prod! oers. Herd under Gov. Test.

8226 each. Bull calves from A. R.



sire. JOHN H'UTCHINSON £8013. Millbrook, Mich,





0. Baths and 28 lb.





 





to $75





OLSTEIN bull calves.

without papers. 3‘5 at 10 days of age. registered. 856

-' Dewey C. Pierson.





eligible to registration





Hadley, Mich.





 





'— ’ ~Holst'el’n'bullcalf. born Sept‘.l917. dam



Remsm‘izdoughter of 251 lb. cow. write for pedi-

andfirl 6. F118.



E. E. ST B IS, R





your station.

- 3, St. Johns, Mich.





 





memoon FAR





Holstein galggt? he! fer-s. lit 2 bulls 15-16ths ure

es‘ch.cratod for shlfinéent anywhere. Buy only the best.





old,’ beautifully marke .





- Whitewater. Wis.





 





BOILFS.





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FOR SALE Eleven High Grade Holstein

slalom ‘ on th ”it“? fl.” ”more“ yam



m ago as o res ensoo .v

E. L. l R. 3. 3616. n





Pal-hide , cl tel bulls. 8 and 16 mo. Both sired b

. noted bog filmlfitlmmammcow‘s. Prlcodtosel .





mseagwssama' was





'Akron. M‘lch.





Charlotto, Mich".





Ho] 0' to tile f sol.

mitts. nérohxgusl’:

- - - Howell. Mich.





u. w. "on. ago 0 K WA‘ '1‘ ER F A" R M" °-..'2.l‘23::'.‘-'

, .‘ .s T impish", ml... R. 7. A“ ‘ '

. cancel .





; HEREFfllfS





.10 bull calves for sale, Perfection

Fairfax and Prince Donald breeding:

ALLEN BR 05.,

PAW PAW, MlCH'.



. F u 1

He refo rd 3 §€B..3.‘ ’"étéfiméfi 3:113

Both sexes either lled or ,horncd. EARB}. C.

MOCARTY. Soc’y I! ah. H. B. Ass'n. Bad Axe. icb.

Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. 3 bulls. ready for ser-





vice. out of R. of M. dams. 10 heifers bred to fresh-

Colon C. Lillie.





 





 





Coopersvllle, Mich.





‘ ' from high-producing domsmloh

1"”! I'll: hr 8". tostln Also. records, olso on

soml-oillclsl toot. C. B. We nor. 8. 6. Allogon. Mich





NE 11 mo. old solid colored

Jesty whosedam as a 3yr. pro uced 406.24 lbs. of but.

ter 1 yr. First check . gets him, registered,

transferred and delivered any point in Mich.

FRED BRENNAN Sec. ~ - - Capac, Mich.





‘ ready for servlco. Also heifers

Chance BUIIS for sale. Strong in the Blood

of Royal Majesty. Come and see them or write for

particulars. ‘HE WILDWUOD HERD



vln Balden. Phone I436.





MAPLE Lone R. of M. Jersey Herd has for sale E.

of M. cows, daughters of R. of M. cows, bull calves.

heifer calves and bulls. All from 500 d 6001

IRVIN FOX, - . -





on next fall.





 





 





1'. son of Royal Ma-





 





Copoo. Mich..





 





b. dams.

Allegon, Mich.





cIERSEYbul] ond bull calves for sale from R. of M.

0.





 





cows "also heifers and coyoof all ages.

a. WEENEI}. R. o, Allegan, Mich.





FOR” SALRE4





SMITH and PARKER.





Re istererlJeroey

bu l calves.

. Howell, Mich.





Shorlhorn Cattle to! both Sex for Sale

W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

' ' -—D ‘ . V

Shorlllorns agel‘llfial’fil 35.39.33.333.“ .i’v‘rf’dluaulf

Socy. Cont. Mich. Shorthom Brocdau' Aun.. McBride. Mich.





BlfiWELL summons





For Beef and Milk.

5 Bulls ready for service. 15





months to 2years. for

sale; alsongood Scotch-toppedocow; and heifers. Mod-

ern: son ry sq 1pmen. no our rom Toledo,

Ohio. N. Y. 0. Elly. Visitors Welcome. Write us.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM





Box 3. Tecumseh, ‘Mich igon.





Francisco Farm Shorthorns

We maintain one of Michi an's ood h f

and Scotch Topped cattle.g The gore wgllldgigd?gcl‘l$i

erly handled and price reasonable. Come and see; we





like to show them. .

P. P. P - Mt. Pleasant, Mich.





. .

v F air Lawns Sher-thorns

earllng bulls b ' C d ' b ’ : '. '

605778 and Imii). bNefi'fiznaFgfisgtfigil‘llas). Mlqme Augusto

. Charlotte. Mich.





LAURENCE 'l‘TO, - - -



box-thorns for sole. 5 bulls Scotch t 10 t 14

SS roan,~l white 1 red. rice 8150. to stlo l. 1110?: ofrlnioasx':

wolton Sultan. mos. . C. Carlson, Leroy. Mich.





, them-igloo! milk str '

SBliaotE: .Smlgprthm.n%ylls 8 mos. old for sglgylgfigg





M MEL. Mason. Mich.





Two bulls. 15 and 16 . B ‘

Shorthornsugrondson of Cyrus 01:32 3 a

COLLAB BROS. R. 2, Conklin, Mich.



HORTHORNS. Butterfly Sultan. half brother to

LInternotlonal Sr. Chan: ion. in service. For no“:

bulls.cows.and heifers. W.£.McQulllan.Howoll, ich-





Morwolton Monarch 2nd. 387322 b l

fifflhWH3 brother to 5 Grand Champions in 5215





JOHN SCHMIDT, R. 5, Reed City. Mich.





_Four fine youn bill ' .

3212:9323): s (irandsmilefit 11581:: Y: mgggfoilashrbl‘eli



w eav m n . ‘ .

rme Catalogue. £16113:th Filth/[$33.55. "€51:





l Cattle For Susie.





2Loods feeders and twoxloods yoorllns steers. Also" '





 





 





 





' she as o oumborl 2 and 3 yearstold tron

figm‘l'ult Isonoycfihsnsturh. Foirfleld. Iowa. no





“005.





; unoos 0118;101:192 Perfection No. 08945 mun.

.Dnlngs Pilot under No;73378. Two outstandlggbom





 





of big typo and excellent qua‘ityl. All select

ty smooth sows: Thrifty. sin . largo boned spring

gi ts from' these hard booms. . cholsrsows at very

reasonable prices. The Jennings Farms, Boiley.Mlch.





Now‘ollers for sale a few choice Holstoln' bull cum





from high testing dams, with good A. R. O. recon!“

at tarmers' prices. write us about them and our





I D'urocs & Berkshires-

u. n. llll-llllEll mg... am. an... m.





. ’ ! . I r lus stock all sold. N th-

DObson‘Q Dunc. llllgpdolugilll Spain... 0





OBI-.0 L. meson. - . . ulncy.Miolr.





Duroc Sows & Gilts





guoronteed safe in pig. Fall boars and gllts not rol-

at . gal: Yontxgorgds’izo an: geedlingt‘iquallttée’skboy

now. . v1 re mg on escr p 'on‘o sows.

NEWTON gAllllgHART. - - St. Johns. Mich.





Duroc J srsoysabcors of the largo heavy bonodiypa

Prize winning stock. prices reasonable, typeond

brooding considered, also gllts bred toJunlor Chom-

plon boat‘- (or influx-furrow. F.J. Drodt. R 1. Monroe. lid.





 





 





 





 





 





La 6 boned DurOcJersey September [gs olthv‘r

’8 sex readyI to ski . Breeding on rloes on

request. J. D. 0 ANE‘ SON, Plalnwe . Micki.





 





"ROB JERSEYS





I. D. HEYDENBERK', - - - Wayland. Mich.





choice Dunc germ Bill: For Salt.





CAREY U.’EDMOND , - Hostingo. Mich.





uroc full boars sl red by Crimson Critic T.. satisfac-

tion and Brookwator l’rinci al. priced rightygrid

. C .





sows all sold M. O. TAY 0R. Milan,



DIII’OC Con spare two or three bred daughters of

3 Joe Urion 2nd the 85000 boar.



A. FLEMING, - - Lake, Mich.





Why don't you order a pig and raise an

llul'oc Jerseys extra good boar or gllts for yourself.

E. E. CALKINS, - - - nn Arbor, Mich.





BRED GILTS





0 Wm. B. No. 47049. Longfellow No. 1857:“) air.

of lst grlze young herd at Iowa. State Fair.

. ‘ol‘l pigs and breeding boars.





J. CARL JEWE'I"I , Mason, Mich.

Gilts bred for March {arrow earl



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Big Type O. I. C’s.





Stock of all ages for sale. We showed at four state

fairs and won more championsland Grand Champion's

than all the other breeders together double. we were

Premier Breeder and Exhibtor at every fair we show.

ed. We Breed the best. We sell the best. We Guaran-

tee them to be the best. Write your wants. Get our

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all sold. two hours lit for service and ones. Also hm.

a few fall pigs left either sex. will ship 0. 0. D.

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.by First Premium boar Mich. State Fair 191'].





Clover Leaf Stock Farm. 8. 1. Monroe. Mich.





 





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.' . - row 111 Apr. and May. Aug. ond Sept. boar

pigs. G. P. ANDREWS. Dansvills, Michigan.





 





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. . Mich.





H. W. MANN. - - Dansvllle.

O I C ’8 all sold except some fall gllts. Order

' ' ' your spring pigs now.





0. J. THOMPSON, Rockford, Mich.





0, I. C. NOthin for sale but our tried





sow an fall pigs.

F. O. BURGESS, - - - - Moson. Mich.

O I. C. '9. Last spring gilts bred for next spring fab

. row also last fall pigs either sex and not skin.

Good growthy stock 54 mile west of Depot. Citizens

phone 124, Otto B. Schulze, Nashville. Mich.

ARGE Type P. 0. Lsrgostln Mich. 8 tin Bo

ready to ship. The kind that moire good? 00:10 “out:

see the real b g t {as kind. Expenses paid if notoo

represented. Free re from Psrmo‘.

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. GRAINS AND SEEDS





March 5, 1918.



WHEAT.—-—No changes are evident

in the movement of this crop. Ship-

ments from producing points have

‘ ’been restricted somewhat through the

use of cars for handling corn. Offer-

ings are gobbled up very quickly by

millers and shippers. Foreign needs

are still far from being satisfied, and

available supplies are such that furth-

er entrenchment in the use of the

grain in this country will probably be

necessary to provide the minimum





 





'. maintenance ration for our soldiers





and allies abroad. The recent advance

of bread prices and the temporary sus‘

pension of meatless meals and pork-

less Saturdays may have the effect of

reducing our home consumption of

wheat products. The situation is such

that every American should do his ut-

most to conserve this grain. One year

ago No. 2 red wheat sold at $2.01 per

bushel on the Detroit market. Present

quotations are: No. 2 red wheat $2.17;

No. 2 mixed $2.15; No. 2 White $2.15.



CORN.~——The movement of corn is

now in full swing and the receiptsthe

past'few. days have been tremendous.

Cars have been provided, and with the

disposition on the part of farmers to

'not only sell theri holdings at the pres-

ent range of prices, but also where

possible to tote to driers to prepare

the corn for export. The government

cannot make known the quantities of

corn that are being cleared from our

shores for European countries on ac‘

count of the submarine menace, but

the total moving in that direction is

estimated to be large. This with the

normal quantity required for feeding,

and the unusual demand to supply sub-

stitutes for wheat, promises to keep

the market buoyant during a period

of unusually heavy deliveries. Prices

are about steady with a week ago. On

Monday cash No. 3 was quoted locally

at $1.80; No. 3 yellow at $1.87; No. 4

do. at $1.78; No. 5 do at $1.65; No. 6

do at $1.55. At Chicago March corn

closed Monday at $1.27% and May corn

at $1.271/g. A year ago .No. 3 corn

sold on the local market at $1.101/2 per

bushel.



OATS.——-At the opening this week

the demand for oats was in excess of

supplies. There is an unusually large

outlet for the grain, owing to the ex-

tensive uses to which it is being put

in the way of feeding both humans

and live stock. Deliveries have been

slightly restricted of late, due to the

withdrawal of cars for the handling of

corn. Preparations are being made for

the seeding of a large acreage this

spring, and already more than the cus-

tomary quantities of selected oats are

being put in shape to supply the needs

of farmers for seed. A year ago stan-

dard oats sold in Detroit at 661/20 per

bushel. Monday’s price was 97c; No.

3 white 961/20; N0. 4 white 951/20. Chi-

cago’s quotations closed Monday at

90%0 f0r March oats, and 88c for the

May delivery.



RYE—~Millers cannot get enough of

this grain, and are bidding up prices,

quotations advancing 10c at Detroit on

Monday. Cash No. 2 grain is now

quoted at $2.70 at Detroit and $2.77 at

Chicago.



BEANS.—Further advances in bean

prices have been made this past week.

The demand was not quite as keen on

Monday morning as during some of the

sessions last week. However, the gen-

eral tone of the trade is good, with a

firm under current. At Detroit cash

beans are quoted at $13.25 per cwt.

At Greenville transactions were on a

$12.25 basis. Chicago houses are do-

ing a moderate business with the in-

terest centered in navy beans. This

variety from Michigan, hand-picked

and in sound dry condition is quoted at

$14 ,14.50 per cwt; red kidneys, fancy

$15. 0@16.50; do fair to choice $12@14.



SEEDS.—Steady. Prime red clover

$20; March $19; alsike $15.50; timo-

thy $3.80.





‘ FLOUR AND FEEDS





FLOUR—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

market per 196 pounds as follows:

Straight 'winter $11.30; spring patent

$11.50: rye flour $13 per bbl.



FEE DS.—-For the benefit of our read-

‘_ ers we are repeating this week the fol-

lowing important notice: The U. S.

2 Food Administration has fixed selling

. _ p’ri'ce per ton ”of wheat bran (in car-





 





load lots) by millers at 38 per cent of

; the pri '





“ paid by them“ for a,ton of

. . ,9" average $151193“ng .101.

M~Mss,the Dreaming month In





 





 

 





 





 





 





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cent.

actual cost of the bags. For middlingsc

they can add $9 per ton to the price of





\ bran. For “feed” (which is the entire





product of wheat after the flour is talk

en out) they can add $4 per ton to the

price of bran. 3



There is no change of importance in

the wool situation, the market fully



The following will serve as guides to

prices: If the average price paid for

wheat is $2.05,.the millers’ price for

bran in carload lots should be $25.96.

To dealers in less than carload lotsthe

price should be $26.46 per ton. When

sold to the retail trade the price per

hundred should be $1.46. If the aver-

age price paid for wheat is $2.10, the

milling price for bran in carload lots

should be $26.60 per ton. To dealers

in less than carload lots the price

should be $27.10 per ton. When sold

to the retail trade the price per hun-

dred should be $1.50. If any miller

sells bran at prices greater than those

fixed, please secure evidence of such

sales and report the matter to the Mar-

ket Department, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Mich., and it will be brought to

the attention of the proper authority.



Other Feeds—Cracked corn $75;

coarse corn meal $74; corn and oat

chop $60.



HAY. In carlots at Detroit:

timothy $26.50@27; standard timothy

$25.50@26; light mixed $25.50@26; No.

2 timothy $24.50@25; No. 1 clover,

$24.50@25 per ton.



Pittsburgh—No. 1 timothy $32.50@

33; No. 2 timothy $31-@31.50; No. I

light mixed $31.50@32; No. 1 clover

mixed $31.50@32.50; No. 1 clover at

$31.50@32.50.



STRAW.—In carlots on track at De

troit: Wheat and cat straw $11.50@

12; rye straw $12.50@13. ,





FRUITS—VEGETABLES ‘





(Quotations furnished by U. S. De-

partment of Agricultural Bureau of

Markets, Detroit Office).



POTATOES—There were fourteen

cars of potatoes on the Detroit tracks

Tuesday morning. The demand was

slow and market easy. Michigan round

whites U. S. grade No. 1, sacked, sold

at $1.66 per cwt. in jabbing lots. On

Monday the same grade sold in Cleve-

.land at $1.50, in Cincinnatti $1.75, in

Columbus at $2, in Washington at $2

((132.25 and a few at $2.50, in Indianap-

olis at $1.65@1.70. '



At Grand Rapids, Mich., the price f.

o. b. carload lots for the same grade

is $1.27@1.45. Farmers at the country

loading points in Michigan are receiv-

ing 70@900 per cwt. from wagons at

sidetrack. In Wisconsin the price is

around 80c, and in New .York state

the growers are receiving $1.25@1.30.

Country buyers are generally holding

off on account of the weak condition

of the market. It has been rumored

that the federal government through

the food administrators of several of

the states will undertake to purchase a

large block of the surplus stocks of po-

tatoes in Michigan and Wisconsin for

use where supplies are limited.



APPLES.-—The apple situation has

not changed a great deal. Most of the

markets show a moderate movement

of the fruit with prices holding about

steady. Michigan Spies sold in Chi-

cago last Saturday at $6.25@7.50 and

Baldwins at $5.50@6 per bbl. There

were fourteen cars on track at Detrmt

last Saturday, with only three from

the state.





DAIRY PRODUCTS





BUTTER—Market is dull and easy.

Fresh creamery firsts are quoted at

450; fresh creamery extras 47c.



Chicago—With improved trasporta-

tion facilities supplies are increasing

and prices lower. Creamery extras

451/2c; extra firsts 45c; packing stock

32@33c per pound. ,



CHEESE—Michigan flats 2517961),

26c; New York flats 261/§@27c; brick

281/2c; long horns 291/40; Michigan

daisies‘ 27c; Wisconsin daisies 2.71/2c;

domestic Swiss 35@42c.for prime to

fancy; limburger 3012;@32_c per lb.



DRESSED CALVEs.——Fancy 1861)

200; choice 17c; common 16c;



DRESSED HOGS.—Best 21¢ per lb.





PdULTRY PRODUCTS.





POU.,LTRY.—‘-(Live).—Detroit poul-

try market flrm and quiet. Food Ad-

ministration has ordered that poultry

dealers shall not purchase, ship, sell

or negotiate :the sale of any live or

freshly killed hens or pullets between

February 11 and April 300! this year.

The object is to save all egg-laying

chickens during the





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





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, Chicago—“(L was _ ». small

nd demand fairly active. owls 22 ,

23c peril); ducks 29 ‘ 0c; geese 24





 





25c; turkeys, good 2 c. (Dreamed).—

Weather- is unfavorable for the hand:

ling of dressed poultry and dealers ad‘-

vise shipping stock alive. . 'r' ‘ .

* EGGs.—~Although receipts are in-

creasing buyers are taking the goods

freely. Fresh firsts 34@350.

Chicago.——Buyers are anxious for

fresh stock and consumption 'is in

creasing. For fresh Michigan firsts

34c; ordinary firsts 32@33c; “miscel-

laneous lots, cases included ‘32@33c.





WOOL





Transactions are limited by the

meager supplies in practically all the

different lines of wool. The market

has a- firm tone. Production of wool in

this country will be,- i eased some-

what this year by the larger number of

sheep now owned. Many producers

will give more care to the scouring of

their wool 'crop to the end that better

prices may be realized. Seaboard pric-

es are unchanged, Michigan unwashed

combing ranging from 75@77c; do

clothing 58@66c; do deiaines 72@73c.





LIVE STOCK





BUFFALO. . .

March 4, 1918.

Cattle—Receipts 80 cars; market is

strong 15c higher; best shipping steers

$13@13.65; fair to good $12@12.50;

plain and coarse $11@11.50; native

yearlings’$11.50@12; best band steers

$11@11.50; fair to good $10@11; handy

eers and heifers, mixed $9.50@

0.25; light butcher steers $9.75@

10.75; western heifers $8.50@9.50; best

fat cows $9.50@10.50; butcher cows

$7.50@8.50; cutters $6.50@7; canners

$5@6; fancy bulls $10@10.75; butcher

bulls $8.50@9.50; common bulls $761),

£50; best feeding steers 9.00 to 1000

s, $9@10; medium feeders $7.50@8;

best milkers and springers $100@115;

mediums $75@100; common $50@60.

Hogs—Receipts 50 cars; market 25c

higher; heavy $18; yorkers and pigs

$18.15@18.25. ,

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 20 cars;

market 500 higher; top lambs $18.25@

18.40; yearlings $13@15.50; wethers

$13.50@14; ewes $12.50@13. .

Calves—Receipts 12 cars; market

steady. -





 





 





 





 





 





CHICAGO.





March 4, 1918.

» Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today...21,000 55,000 12,000

Same day 1517..14,525 43,695 11,275

Last week. . . . 70,037 229,671 46,297

Same wk 1917—45,659 166,196 59,928



Receipts of bags last week averaged

in weight 233 lbs. Hogs sold today. at

steady prices largely, the range being

$16@17. Cattle start off this week

with a slow demand, prices averaging

$10@15c lower, except for the choicer

lots, which are steady. Prime lambs

sold up to $17.50 on a short supply.

During the past week 40,649 hogs were

shipped from here, comparing with 35,-

417 a week earlier and 43,450 a-year

ago. ,



Cattle sold at decidedly higher pric-

es last week than a. week earlier, most

lots of steers showing advances of as

much as 25c at least, and cows, heifers

and bulls also sold higher, but declin-

ed during the last half of the week.

The receipts were of very good propor-

tions, although not usually excessive,

and the demand for all descriptions of

cattle. was good as a rule, with a fair

share of the offerings ,going to ship-

pers, including stockers and feeders,

as well as beef cattle. It was remark-

ed by different commission firms that

the demand for choice beeves was

much improved, and these shared in

the advance, unlike their previous lack

of animation or particular firmness.

Recent sales of the best heavy steers

had been at $13.75@13.85, with two

sales on the closing day of week be-

fore last‘at $14, but last week the best

cattle went readily at $14@14.25, with

the bulk of the steers selling at $11.75

@1325, while steers classed as good

sold for $13.25 and upwards, with any-

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mostly wanted. * . -

Hogs began last'Week at an advance





of 150 for the best offerings, despite





-' Monday receipts of 54,133 head, but

late sales on the same day were 256

below the best earlyones. Continued

extremely large receipts caused ahighe

ly Sensational downward course of

prices, and buyers had things pretty

much their own way, notwithstanding

a much better ,eastern shipping de-

mand than had been witnessed for

several weeks. Declines of .as much

as 50c occurred in a single day, the ar-

rivals exceeding expectations. At the

same time outside-rs paid advances in

a day of 25@500 pe'r 100 lbs. for pigs

suitable for fattening. At‘ the week’s

close hogs brought $16@17, light lots

going highest and heavy weights of

the best grade at $16.55, while pigs

went’at $13.50@16.60, feeding pigs go-

ing' highest. A Week earlier the. best

hogs brought $17.50. The ‘top price

for hogs last week was $17.65. '



Lambs were marketed during the

past week in such small numbers that

sellers Were in a position to demand

much better prices, especially for the

prime flocks, and substantial advances

took place, with an active general de-

mand. Light weight prime Colorado

Mexican lambs were prime favorites

and topped the market. Western and

Colorado lambs comprised the bulk of

the offerings, although a number of

large consignments of sham and un-

shorn western yearling wethers show—

ed up. Most fat lambs advanced 60@

85c last week, and sheep‘and year—

lings were 25@40c higher. Prices clos-

ed as follows: Lambs $14.25@17.45;

feedin lambs $15.75@16.55; yearlings

$12.50 16; wethers $11.75@13.85; ewes

$7.75@13.50; ewes breeding lambs at

$16.75@17.25; bucks and stage $9@

10.75; goats $7.50@9.25.



Horses were in very good supply and

in good demand last week. at generally

unchanged prices, with a demand for

cavalry horses and mules for the Unit—

ed States army, but the British inspec-

tors were not buying. Farmers were

looking for teams, and several eastern

buyers had good orders. Inferior ani-

mals sold around $60@90, with drivers

salable at $1006171200, drafters at $185

@265, desirable farm chunks at $100@

150 and good to prime expressers at.

$175@210.





DO YOU WISH A SPECIAL MARKET

SERVICE?





 





By special arrangement with the De—

troit Office of the Bureau of Markets

of the. U. S. Department of Agriculv

ture, we can secure for our subscrib-

ers daily market quotations and a

statement of the movement of pota-

toes, apples, peaches and allother





fruits , and vegetables in season, to- -





gether with a weekly review of the

general produce market and of the sit-

uation in the bean trade. Simply send

a card or letter requesting this special

market service, to the Michigan Farm-

er, Detroit, stating the crops in Which

you are particularly interested, and we

will arrange for your address being

placed upon the list of the local office.





LIVE STOCK, NEWS.





 





There is a widespread desire upon

the part of farmers in various parts

of the country to engage in feeding

cattle, and it is observed that desir-

able ofierings 'of stockers or feeders in

the Chicago market do not wait long

for country buyers. The 'principal

drawback all along this season has

been the common practice of the pack-

ers in entering the market and buying

up the attractive offerings of feeders

With any “kill” to them, outbidding

the country buyers. This practice has

discouraged many stockmen, prices be-

.ing raised to higher figures than they

cared to pay.



There is a large sale for all kinds of

beef cattle, and prices are far higher

than in former years, With the princi-

pal call centered on the cheaper and

medium-priced cattle. This preference





$13-75 and Upward. if heavy in weight‘ is based upon the extreme dearness of





Medium to good short-fed light weight

steers brought, $12.75 and over, and

sales took place of plain to fair light

steers at $10.25@12.70, , with; limited

sales of inferior little steers on the

stacker order as low as $7.60@8.75.

Good to prime yearlings were purchas-

ed at $12.75@13.75,gwithj a sale of ,14.

head of prime. yearling steel-s . which





averaged 1185 lbs. at '14. Butcher comparing with $750,203.25 one“ ‘ '

ago,; $6.25.@9.50. «two; years ' yogi ’





stock. has a; good sale at assent!)

for cows and$7.26@12 for heifers,with





canner‘ cum 5an)“ $3507.20, out:

i:





ters‘at; 7.25 5 wimp _

1,“: .69. and. sat





calf trade wee-“much





   

 

 





the choicer cuts of beef in the retail

meat. markets of the country, which

leads the packers and smaller butch—

ers to take the short-fed offerings. and

fat butcher stock rather. than them:-

tremely hiss-priced .cattle or .heavy’

welght.~ Regent'sales f steers offered

an th‘eChicaso market .aveheen made

at an extreme range. 01.181501159.





 





 





 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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DETROIT Live SchK MARKET.





 





Thursday’s Market.

March 7, 1918.

Cattle.

I Receipts 1930. Market generally 25c

lower than last week.



Best heavy steers $11.20@12; best

handy weight butcher steers $9.50@

10; mixed, steers and heifers $8.50@

9.25; handy light butchers $8(a,:8.25;

light butchers $7.50@7.75; best cows

$8.50@9.50; butcher cows $7.50@8;

cutters $6.75@7; canners $6@6.25;

best heavy bulls $8,50@9; bologna

bulls $8@8.50;, stock bulls $7.25@8.25;

milkers and springers $65@100.



Bishop, B“. & H. sold Hammond, S.

& Co. 5 steers av 1146 at $11.25, 12 do

av 808 at $9.50, 16 do av 1012 at $10.25,

28 do av 821 at $9.75, 1 do wgh 1000 at

$10.50, 23 do av 985 at $10.75; to

Parker, W. &. Co. 7 cows av 880 at

$6.75, 7 butchers av 771 at $8.25, 13 do





' av 677 at 8.50, 3 cows av 933 at $6.75,





6 do av 841 at $6.75, 6 do av 845 at

$6.75; to Lorenberg 22 butchers av

787 at $9; to Goodgold 6 do av 960 at

$9; to Sullivan P. Go. 7 cowsx av 1021

at $8, 1 bull wgh 1200 at‘$8.50, 8 cows

av 917 at'$-7, 5 butchers av 900 at

$9.50; to Newton P. Co. 7 canners av

860 at $6.75, 6 steers av 1108 at $10.60,

11 cows av 904' at $7.75, 8 canners av

900 at $6.75, 4 do av 907 at $6.75, 1

bull-wgh 1580' at $9.50; to Walk 1 do

wgh 1600 at $10; to Nagle P‘. Co. 13





' steers av 1064 at $11, 1 do wgh 850 at





$10, 1 do wgh 940 at $11, 6 do av 875

at $9.85, 4 do av 1130 at $10.75; to

Rattkowsky 11 butchers av 762 at

$8.75; to Mason B. Co. 2 steers av 1115

at $11, 2 bullSAav-1800 at $9; to Garber

7 cows av 953 at $8.25; to Breitcnbeck

15 butchers av 773 at $9.25; to Mich.

B. Co.. 4 steers av 925 at $9.50, 7 do

av 900 'at $9; 4 cows av 992 at $7.50;

to ‘Ratne‘r 11 steers av 995 at $10.50;

to Hammond, S. & Co. 18 do av 1002

at $10.75, 1 bull wgh 1200 at $9.10.

Sandel, S. B. & G. sold Mich. B. C0.

20 steers av 956 at $10.25, 14 do av 900

at $10.25; to Parker, W. & Co. 1 cow

wgh 1010 at $8, 5 do av 932 at $6.75,

1" do wgh 710‘ at $6.85, 2 canners av

700 at $6, 8 do av 875 at $6.85, 2 heif.

ers av 360- at $7, 1 bull wgh 1040 .at

$8.50, 1 cow wgh 1050' at $9, 14 butch-

ers ave 860 at $9.25, 2 do av 900‘ at

$7.25, 10 do av 749,- at $8.50, 1 steer

wgh 900 at $10, 24 do av ’871 at $9.50,

9 canners av 910 at $6.75, 11 butchers

av 770 at $8.75; to Breitenbeck 1 steer

wgh 970 at $9; to Golden 8 cows av

701‘at $8.25, 4 do av 837 at $9, 6 do av

565 at $7.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 do

av 1700 at $850, 3 do av 1053 at $8.25,

1 do wgh 1280 at $9, 8 steers av 961 at

$10.50, 21 do av 1012 at $10.75, 2 do

av 875 at $925; to Rattkowsky 1 steer

wgh 1390 at $13; to Hammond, S: &





Co." 21 do av 1105 at $12.25, 1 bull wgh





1250 at $9; 1 steer wgh 1180 at $11.25;

tolM’ason‘ B. Co. 1 cow wgh 1260 at

$9.75; to Black 18 feeders av 831 at

$10; to Sullivan P. Co. 6 butchers av

808 at $8.50; to- Nagle P. Co. 15 steers

av 924' at 10.15, 3 cows av 1073 at

$7.75; to B ay 10 canners av 900 at

$6450, 6' COWS av 1011 at $8, 3 canners

av 983 at $6.75. -

Veal Calves.





Receipts 818. Market 50@75c lower

gain last week. Best $15; others $8(d>

Erwin, S; & J. sold Fineman 4 av

135 at $13.50: to~Rattkowsky 3 av 150

at $15.50,? Seav' 145 at $14.50; to Dobi





rowsky 18 av 130at $13.50; to Sullivan





P. Co. 8 av 130 at $15, 1 wgh 240‘at

$17; to Garner 8 av 136’ at $15.50; to

Hoffend 14‘ av 160- at $15: to Dobrow-

sky 2 av 130‘ at: $11; to Barlage 9 av

150 at $15; to Dobrow‘sky 8‘av 150 at

$15.50, 5 av 104 at $12, 2 av 110 at

$13.50; to Burnstihe 2 av 130' at $11,

11 av 155 at $15.50,-6~ av 150 at $15.50.

Sheep and Lambs ‘



Receipts ”2333. Market 25@50c high-

er; lambs coming,too»heavy; the trade

wants them weighing from‘ 7 0@‘80" lbs.

Bestg‘lamli‘s‘ $1750; fair, lambs; $16“@

16.50: light to comm‘on- lambs $14.50@

15.50; fatrr’togood‘sheep $11@11.50;

culls=and‘comirronivr$7@9¥= , .



Bis , B. .& H. “BOIQV‘MlCh. B5» ca.

87 lambs av 65 at $16.50, 41 do av 85

at $16.50, 11 sheep av 80 at $9; to

Parker, W. & Co. 312 lambs av 75 at

$14.50; to Mich. B. Co. 24 do av 75 at

336515.635? 13.; $75 at $1167.25, 22 do av



..‘._. o‘av at 17.2.1

do.av.so awn-so. $ 5 5

: -.~ :, Hogs.

, Receipts .' 2787. -

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increased

said V. W. Waitman, who showed up

on the Chicago market recently with

a shipment of prime hogs which he

had been preparing for sixty days on

corn and tankage. He added that last

year he bred fifteen sows, while this

year he has increased their number to

forty. Other farmers thereabouts are

increasing the number of breeding

sows, and consequently they are hold-

ing on to their feed stuffs for using to

feed their increased. crops of spring

pigs. Roughages are scarce, but near-

ly every farmer is’the fortunate owner

of at least one silo, and these have

been highly appreciated this. season,

as it was the only means of using

their orn profitably. Dairying is car-

ried $1 extensively, and during Janu-

ary the farmers received sixty cents

for their butter-fat. Tractors are nu-

merous and tisfactory work. Mr

Waitman sai at if the labor situa-

tion does not get any better, many

more tractors will be purchased.





J. J. Totten, of Shelby county, Indi-

ana, purchased a fine bunch of medi-

um grade 800-pound feeding steers in

the Chicago stock yards a short time

ago for finishing on his big farm on

ensilage and cottonseed for the spring

market. He fed a string of the same

class of cattle a year ago, having

bought them in Chicago, and they

made him a good profit when market-

ed as fat beeves. Mr. Totten has

bought also a drove of good light cat-

tle for summer grazing.





James Meredith, of Kane county,

111., has purchased in the Chicago mar

ket during recent weeks eleven car-

loads of thin cattle of medium aver-

age weight, which he is going to fat-

ten on soft corn and oil meal for the

spring markets. He is the owner of

several hundred head of cattle in prep-

aration for marketing this spring. He

marketed a short time ago about 2000

sheep which he bought in the Chicago

market last autumn. He is an exten-

sive all around farmer and stockman,

and all of his grain is fed to stock on





his farms, the manure being all re- '





turned to enrich the soil.





Stockmen owning droves of hogs are

doing the sensible thing in retaining

possessionof their growing hogs up to

such a time as they become fat and

prime in quality. The weight of the

hogs received in the markets of the

country are much heavier than usual,

While in point of quality little is left

to be desired. Recent receipts of hogs





'in the Chicago market have averaged





232 pounds, which compares with 229

pounds one week earlier, 207 pounds

one month ago, 202 pounds one year

ago, 206 pounds two years ago, 223

pounds three years ago and 221 pounds

four years ago. The position' of the

hog industry is‘ a very strong one, with

the government determined to use its

efforts to make good prices for own-

ers, and the unprecedentedly heavy

demand for fresh and cured hog meats

and lard‘ on domestic and ’fOreign ac-

count is the most powerful of bullish

arguments. Within a short time there

has been a reversal in the prices paid

for the best heavy and the best rather

light hogs, and now the latter offer-

ings are outselling the others, because

so small a percentage of the hogs of-

fered are light in weight. After scor-

ing some‘sharp breaks in hog prices,a

reaction Set in which landed the best

offerings at $17.70 per 100'pounds, the

prices being the highest seen in a long

time.



It is inevitable that in this time of

extreme scarcity of sheep and lambs

in the United States there' should be

a widespread desire among the farm-

ers where the dog population will per-

mit to engage in breeding sheep, and.

the demand for good breeding ewes is

all the time growing in proportions.

Prices for good breeders are high on

account of the moderate numbers of—

fered on the market, but all offered are

readily taken, and many more could

be sold without any difficulty. Matured

breeding ewes have been. called for

.very extensively, and within a. short

time choice breeding ewe lambs have

been selling readily in the Chicago

market, the best selling at a premium

of about 250an per 100 pounds over





the best killing flocks of lambs. ,A'





short time ago it was reported that





abbot ten thousand head>of breeding-

ewe lambs were being. purchased in‘





Chicago for shipment, largely for farm-

ers in the state of New York. The

secretary of the National Sheep and

Wood Bureau says that instead of the

present number of less than forty mil-

lion sheep in this country, there

should be three times that number. A

short time ago a Massachusetts sena-

t'or introduced a bill in congress pro-

viding for a sufficient tax en- dogs. to.





becoming“ reestablished. . .





‘ Hog production will be h materially

in Kossuth county, Iowa,





   





 





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Grand Rapids,





   





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[We can ship promptly

carloads good





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Freight Paid





Telephone or Wire

our expense





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Michigan.





 





Production well started, general ual-





‘ ‘ ‘ ity, fine. For a few months it wil be

hard to get any premium. Will do best we

can although may have to stop puylng’



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remiums until loss off season set- in.

a?) chi merits coming:

AMERICAN B T'l‘E & CHEESE COMPANY,

Detroit, Mich.





H Y Shlp To TheOld Reliable Hone.



. " . Daniel‘McCeffrey’n Sons.



. . - . 9213.625. Web-i» Bids. Pin-burgh PI.

POULTRY





WHITE Wyandottes. I have a fine lot of April and

May hatchina cockerels for $8.00 and 85.00 each.

DAVID RAY, 709 Norris BL. Ypsilanti, Michigan.





hlte Wyandotte cockerels. good size, colo . $3.50:



8:12:03 firbflilufiii .Ewtlad‘icsh Sellect ()lats'firee frdm smut

. no u. i u. o 8 rec eanet an ba stree.



VAN U. FARM, R. 1, Box 124, Hartfgrd, Mich.





M ' ' Goose eggs 25 cents each. 11.0.

Whne China Br. Leghorn 6888 $1.50 per 15, Pekin

Duck $1.50 for 1]. Best of stock.



Mrs. CLAI’DIA BETTE. - Hillsdale, Mich.





WHITE Holland Turkeys a limited numberfornale.

Silver Spangled Hamburg cockerels Hamburgsare

the greatest layers on earth. get acquainted with this

wonderful breed. Rl'vervelw Farm, Vassar, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





M‘ B Turkeys. Toulouse Geese and 8. C. W.

. D I Leghorn cockerels. Also Berkshire, both

cox. Skmpsapprecmted. Chase Stock Farm, R l. Harlette.lich.





, AMMOTH White Holand Turkeys, Tom . B

36, Pair-9812‘, Trios $17. Stamped envelopgfsgr will}:

ALDEN w HI’l COMB Byron Center, Mich.





Very Fine W. I. Toms,





(or $8.00 tllllMar. 20. Harry Collins, Fosterin, Mich.

M

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Bigvl Poland Bhlnas: 8"“"b’ed ‘°' AW" 9‘“

L. zysngnuns a SON, .Mal my)" ‘iany‘iggllil’igfi'.





me "PE rum cage. Bootstrap f"





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e. w. HOLTON. n Kalamazoo. “ii/non





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Large Yorkshire Gilts

Bed Poll Cattle. E. 8. CARR. Homer, Mich.

" ' Bred for a ‘ f .

York‘llll’. m: is high in 33:31: Kyrggfivslfifie-Btgigg

bacon: buy Yorkshires. Waterman

at Waterman, Packard Road. ‘Ann Arbor, Mich.





Hampshire boars at a b:fgnin:bred gilt.





., , now ready to s .

JOHN w. SNYDER. a. 4, st). Johns, man.





1,. , Hogan's _

REGISTEREI‘)‘ PERCHERON





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L‘sf'n‘ei‘diww "‘°°‘n‘21'3l<l‘n"fl°m‘f“. h‘x‘fi.





53135121: BROS.





and Percheron Stallions for sale th

will pass the Michigan Stallion Inspectiohi

Have a few mares of‘both breeds. Shel-thorn Cab





 





‘ ,tlc. we ofler a.choic.e lot. {bull . dismal“.

wad-m'i't' or: the'r‘sheen snowing-vindustrr: w " ‘ " ‘ 0 s m ‘





 





 

 

 

   





 





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PERGHERON DISPEHSM.





The entire herd of the late A. A. Palmer

Will be closed out; 25 pure bred per-

cheron mares $200 to $400 except two;

also young stallions





PALMER BROS, Belding Mich.





for cattle, Re istered Hol-

For sale or Exchange. ma. mum‘s... m...

tered Percheron mares. Coming 4-6-7 years old, weighe

ing from 1600 ton-$00 lbs. In foal to Imported Percheron“

weighing 2160. J liese mares are good workers. kind and’





gentle. come look over.

.C.BUT . - Portland. Michfli‘n'.





F0 R SA L E Five Registered Percheron

_ imaresJour in formulae two



mare colts, eligible to register; in uire.



Mm. JAM us GRAHAM, n.3, Ada. Mich.





 





 





 





2 Gray Percheron Stallions for sale cheap: one'2240

lbs.ona 2000; sound and euro breeder-sucks toshow-

winners at Iowa State Fair and Ill. State fair; herd





 





headers. BEARD BROS, Mendon. ll ich.

Porch-runs, lithium, he's, Shroasllir ’, “Wei

Donn D. BUILL. mm. lam-n.





 





For 8". Three Percheron Stallione‘ and three Per-

cheron mares at farmers' prices.

E. J. ALDRICH. Tekonshn, Mich. Bell Phone.





Stallions and mares of ‘.

PerCherondn‘ioes-g inspection inx'iteifuonu ”a

F. L. KING d' SO . - - - Charlotte, Mich.

FOR SALE Registered Percheron Stallion



seven years old

OKLA JACOBS. - - - - Gregory, M ll‘h,

Notice Being in draft will sell or exchange for ont-





or shoe 3reg.Perc-h. mares.

"3.31.1110 arsenic. a. 2. Williamston. Mich.





 





 





 





 





F<JIIRYEAR 1d Lt dd

:tzilfizgilglfgalof‘pme gray

F' J' WEBB' 1". 5. Paw Paw. Mich





 





' registered Black Percheron St 1.

For sale lion. Price right address a

F. CHRISCIlNSKE, R. 3, Box 67, Imlay City. Mich.

Belgian Eatglluma. Priced to sell. State Licen-





. Send for photos.

CHAS. M. BEEL EY. - - Three Rivers; Miohs





 





 





FOR Sale Stallion. I have a Standard Bred'coach'.

Stallion; sure foal getter, weigh'llOll, all letters . n4 _





ewered. John Hair, Columbus Grove, 0h “0.





Two Large magnetism- and? .0...

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‘0‘ heunds, W. 13- LECKY. Holmelvgl‘lleo‘...‘ 233?)

For Sale lJack 14% hands or will exchange (or





ii ht Ford Truck or Del' ' .



G. 8. JACK N. B. Z}, -» "38551355... Ohio,

I ‘ ' :“or Exchange—~Reg. S anlsh‘J k d



For sale Jennetts for reg. only“. so can



G. PABDEE. - - - - - Gallon. Mich.





SHEEP

KOPE-KON FARMS.





Goldwater, Mich.





 





Hampshires & Shropshires. ‘





It’s I. wise man who orders his run for Luann:

_ delivery now, .





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Uncle Sam expects record crops from

you this year.





He needs quicker, better work on your

part—more planting done and a bigger

yield from every acre.





And this, in spite of the shortage of

labor and horses.





Make your car help. Now—more

than ever before—you can use it to'ad-

vantage.





It will save time and effort for you,

—shorten your trips to town,





—enable you to get over the farm with

greater speed,





—make it possible for you to deliver

your product quicker and at less cost.





Use your car to the limit.





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