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little money left for-

.buying the right kind





'lieve that there is a





the farming policy in





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VOL. CL. No. II

Whole Number 3984





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business or expanding his

” farming operations along spe4

cial lines he is constantly forced :to

study financial problems and balance

his investments so that the cash avail-

able will cover all the needs of both

the home and the business end of the

farm. The skill in placing the invest-

ment in the right place often deter-

mines the success or failure of the

farming business.

There are two extremes which are





frequently seen 111‘ traveling through.





the country. The farmer with plenty

of‘skill as a producer may place most

of his capital in barns until he has

made enough money to build the kind

of a house that he desires. 0n the

other hand, the man who has made

his money in the city often attempts

farming with the idea of making the

farm a the home He sometimes uses

nearly all of his capi-





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DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1918





certain qualifications which make fruit

growing safer and more profitable.

There are many exceptions to this

rule, but in general it is considered

good judgment to study very seriously

the plans and experiences of the

neighbors in any locality before branch-

ing out with any fads and fancies that

look good on the surface. There is

certain to be reasons for what they do.



The financial problems of farming

are little understood by many men

who seek to benefit the farmer with

advice. It is only by owning a farm

and paying the bills that an educator

or college investigator can really come

down out of the clouds and sympathize

with the men who are producing food

and doing it, as many of them are, on

borrowed capital. Frequently shop





By. R. G.





KIRBY





men and clerks are blamed for not

going back to the farm when food is

high and farm labor is scarce.

men have families and are practically

forced to spend all of their earnings to

keep up their homes. By the nature

of the business there are few farmers





.equipped to hire an entire family and





the men desire to have their own

homes, which is as it should be. How-

ever, it follows that these men cannot

go back to the farm unless they have

the cash to buy equipment and the

credit, to buy more equipment, and

then the experience that will make the

investment safe.



Many city people have a mistaken

idea of what the farm loan board can

do for a farmer. They seem to think

that Uncle Sam is now prepared to





These .





$1.00 A Y EA R.

$3.00 FOR 5 YEARS





The Business Farmer Balances His InVestments





HEN a farmer is developing his .





present a perfectly nice farming bus-

iness to everyone desiring to go back

to the land. Many farmers are being

helped by these loans but just ask

practical old farmers about their finan-

cial problems and many of them will

say, “Where the loan comes from is

not as important as what it is to be

used for.” They have been through

the mill of financing a farming busi-

ness and know that all of the difiicul-

ties connected with profitable farming

are not over when they are able to ob-

tain a loan. They hold that the cash

must be used in- nicely balanced in-

vestments so that it will improve the

farm and the home life and earn a

profit and enable the borrower to pay

the interest and then pay back the

principal. A difference of one or two

per cent in the interest is not as im-

portant as how the entire one hundred

per cent of the loan is to be placed





 





tal 111 the buildmg of__a.

fine home :iéquipped

with modern conven-

iences and then has





very little left for use





barns. In other cases

elaborate barns a r e

constructed and they

Use up so much of the

capital that there is





ofstock for money--

making farming. .

1 Observation will

lead a farmer to be-





very goodreasbn for





any community. It has

usually been built up





cal experiments which

cost money but teach

real lessons of value.

In developing a farm—

ing business in any

community it is not

unwise to balance the

investments in about

the same manner as

the neighbors have

been doing for many

years.



The farmer who

goes into a dairy sec-

tion with the idea of





being a fruit grower ET father and son cooperate

L this year in‘ the production



of their corn crops.

er favorable features, now. The first step is the testing

of the seed, which should be 1001:-

ed after immediately if not al-

ready cared for.

“"a convenient method:

shallOvi Wooden trays may be number.

made and nearly filled with 'saw-



-. dust orlfine soil. They may be (if

any size desired; but a tray about

ttvo feet square is perhaps the,

most convenient one to handle. A“ dust or soil is spread on top and '

cat; 11 clot-h, the size of the tray is





may succeed, due" to

good markets and oth-





chance of success if ;





 





The following is





Do this





on top of the soil.

tested are laid out in sets of ten,

Begin each car being given the same

number as one of the squares on

the cloth. Taking a set‘ of cars,

remove six kernels from an ear

and place them» on the square in

Several the cloth, which bears the ear six days.





thoroughly wet with warm water.

isms»: warrant soil, am





Cooperation. on a Progressive Michigan Farm





 





The ears to be to cover the tester.





 

 





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This is some-

what cleaner and more convenient

than loose soil or sawdust. When

all the trays are filled, stack them tions

in a warm place and wet the top

(layer of soil in each . tray with

Warm water once a day for five or

At the end of this time

for all-the ears. remove the top cloth and examine

‘When'allthe squares 0n the cloth ' the kernels.

are filled, the kernels are covered

with a second cloth, a third cloth

is placed over this, an inch of saw-





If the kernels from

any ear do not show strong germi-

nation, that ear should not be used

for seed. By the use of the germi-

nation. test all ears unfit for seed

maybe found thrown out and fed.

doing the testing the bay and





into the farm for bet-

ter or worse.



A great many of the

problems of the farm

are financial and the

study of cash and

credit in relation to a

farming business is

just as important as

the problems of pro-

duction. In addition it

might be said that ob~

servation leads the

writer to believe that

most farmers are very

skillful along this line

and the average farm-

er balances his invest-

ment quite efficiently

between his available

capital and the needs

of his house and farm

because experience

has proven that such

management is essen-

tial to success.



It is a matter of

prudence, notwith-

standing this experi»

shoe, for every farmer

to carefully weigh.

each prospective in-

vestment in its rela-

tion, not only to the

whole farm as a unit.

for the making of

money, but to the

farm also as a place

in which to live. By

studying the invest—

ment with reference

to its various connec—

the farmer is

more certain to, put

the money to a use

that will be consistent.

With his other efforts





tion, and that, after all





1 real purpose of our

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urally bring to him a. .

maximum of satisfac- 3





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CURRENT COMMENT.





The potato growers

of Michigan improv-

ed their opportunity

to give direct and

forceful expression to their views re-

garding the potato grading rules on—

forced by the authority of the Food

Administration at the annual meeting

of the State Potato Growers’ Associa-

tion held at the Agricultural Collegee

last week. No emergency has ever be-

fore called out so large a representa—

tive body of Michigan farmers as at-

tended this meeting. Certainly a more

earnest bunch of farmers never met in

this state for the protection of their

own business interset. ,



At the first session of the conven-

tion they filled the large hall on the





Potato Growers“

M eeti no.





upper floor of the Agricultural Build-_





ing to overflowing. They came with a

knowledge born of costly experience

with which to combat such theories as

might be advanced by the representa

tive of the Food Administration regard-

ing the alleged benefits which would

accrue to them from the continued

application of the present grading

rules. The potato growers who were

their spokesman—as noted in the re-

port of the meeting published in an-

other column—presented facts and fig-

ures which could not be successfully

combated by the representative of the

Food Administration who defended the

grading rules as now enforced.





Notwithstanding the determination

expressed by the hundreds of growers

present to secure relief from the unsat-

isfactory grading rules now in force, it

is a noteworthy fact that there was lit-

tle if any opposition to the principle of

fair grading which Would afford the po-

tato trade and consumers a standard

grade of tubers of high quality such as

'would be secured by grading them for

size over a one and three-quarter-inch

round mesh screen with reasonably

rigid requirements as to soundness and

quality. '



The attitude which will be taken by

Food Administration officials follow-

ing the clear expression of organized

Michigan growers on the matter of





grading has not yet, been announced.





It is, however, scarcely conceivable

that after the organized representa-





vl «fleas M0 .by the growers at Lansing





lief that the compulsory adoption of





‘these grades would benefit both pro:





ducers and consumers, this is a case to

which the old maxim may well be ap-

plied, “The proof of the pudding is in

the eating.” In this case the farmers

furnished the proof that the enforce-

ment of the established grades "is

most. detrimental to them, and without

compensating advantages to consum-

ers. The result should be an early mod-

ificalion of the grading rules along the

entirely reasonable lines which the

growers’ representatives outlined as

satisfactory to producers.





While four thousand





Farmers to be Michigan men of Class





ers may safely exercise their judg-

ment in the m‘atter of, a division of

their available acreage between differ—





ern front the past week. These raids

were of some magnitude, a few extend-

ing ‘over fronts of a mile or more in

length. Particularly violent have been





ent time has been given. Thus DFOdUC" the operations against the British on





reasonable prospect that there will be

no marked government interference



with the marketing of’same.

Depending upon climatic conditions

and other vicissitudes to a consider-

able degree, crop production is at best

a sufficiently uncertain business. Gov-

ernment interference with normal mar-

keting may be a necessary expedient

in wartime, but it should not be in-

augurated along” any line after the

planting season unless patently neces-



sary to the nation’s welfare.

From the reports receiv~





the Ypres frent. In two of these raids

the Germans occupied some advanced

posts, but were later dislodged by Brit-

ish counter-attacks- and suffered heavy

losses. In one instance, near Houthoist

wood, the British not only re-occupied

their former line, but advanced 300

yards/into enemy territory. A number

of raids were also attempted against

the French without success, and along

the lines occupied by United'States

troops.

that the allied' front on the West is

fully prepared for the anticipated Ger~

man offensive, the launching of which

is expected at any moment.—-In north-

ern Italy another Teutonic drive is

now predicted. A large movement of





The ' outcome demonstrates '





 





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Exempt"d' 0an Mil be “Filed. in Government ed in response to our i'e- Austrian troops to that front is under "

‘ tie next drait, Drac- Feed Prices. quest that subscribers way and the transporting of large

tical assurance has been given that notify the Michigan quantities of supplies to that quarrel.

farm worker s will not be included in Farmer of excessive price; charged for has gginipsbselrryefiatéiégélrgigoufigggpgfxz

3219 (1,312: :Efiilficsqgnfxufif flinging? wheat bran and middlings, it would ape show a. renewal of activity but no '

. . . » change in front.—The British are con-





der recently issued by General Crowder

in which local boards are requested to

pass the order numbers of'men who

are completely engaged in the plant-

ing or cultivating of all crops, but who

are in Class One and within the new

quota, and defer their call for the pres-

ent. This order emphasizes the fact

that this step is taken solely in the

need of the nation and not for the ben—

efit of any individual, and that while

boards shall consider it a grave duty

to c: {ercise this power to conserve and

increase agricultural production, they

are also charged with a duty of 0b-

serving the conduct of those whose

call is so deferred, and that in all cas-

es where the person does not continue

to dexote his entire time to agricul-

tural cultivation, the board shall forth-

with call him to the colors.



This will be welcome news to the

farmers of Michigan and the country

who are already confronted with such

serious handicaps in maintaining the

desired program of production.





Since the announce-

ment b 3' President

Vi'ilson that the price

on the 1918 wheat

crop will be fixed at $2. 20 per bushel

based on Chicago delivery, 01' the same

as for the 1917 crop, there has been

much inquiry as to the intention of the

administration in the matter of price

fixing on other products. of the farm.

Food Administration and Department





Price Fixing on

Farm Products.





‘of Agriculture officials have disclaimed





any intention to make any further at-

tempts in the matter of price fixing 011

any farm product.





In this connection there are two

well defined schools of thought among

farmers as well as among economists.

Some believe that food should be pro-

duced under contract by the farmers of

the country much the same as muni-

tions are produced under contract by

manufacturers, in other words, that

prices should be established which

would "insure the cost of production

plus a reasonable profit for staple food

stuffs of all kinds. Others belieVe that

there should have been no government

interference with prices of food stuffs

of any kind.





In this Connection government offi-

cials have pointed out that in the‘ mat-

ter of wheat and sugar it became nec-





essary for the government to assume.





control of“ distribution, and in that way

of consumption, in “order to conserve

the supply for domestic consumption

and. furnish to our Allies their abso-

lutely essential requirements for the





- vious contract,





pear that feed jobber's in this state are

taking advantage of the provision in

the Food Administration order which

permits the sale of mill feeds purchas-

ed on previous contract at the con-

tract price plus a profit. In a good

many cases it would also appear that

millers have contracted the feeds man—

ufactured in their own mills to eastern

dealers, and are supplying their home

trade as jobbei's with mill feeds pur-

chased ‘and shipped in from other

states. In replies received there were

a few cases which were in direct vio-

lation of the order and which have

been turned over to the State Food

Administrator for immediate investi-

gaiion.



A direct appeal has been made to

Federal Food Administration officials

at \N'ashington for an immediate

change in rules governing feed distri-

bution, which will make effective the

feed prices fixed by the Food Adminis~

ti'aiion for the sale of bran and mid-

dlings. Notwithstanding the fact that

the price at which bran must be sold

by millers in carlots, is fixed at thirty-

eight per cent of the price paid for

wheat per ton, or $26.60 per ton where

the purchase price of the wheat is

$2.10 per bushel, and fifty cents addi-

tional per ton in less than carload lots,

many instances have been reported in

which bran 'has been sold at prices

ranging from $40 to $50 per ton by

feed dealers in this state. In the great

majority of cases reported the bran

sold at these high prices has been pur-

chased from outside the state on pre-

making these dealers

exempt from the present Food Admin-

istration ruling. This is a form of prof-

iteei'ing which should be immediately

checked. Feed dealers are a conven-

ience in many localities and farmers





who purchase feed from them in small,





lots, will be willing to pay a legitimate

advance on the feed price fixed by the

government to cover the cost of trans-

portation, actual handling charges and

reasonable profit, but there are many

cases in this. state where farmers are

being charged an exorbitant profit

above legitimate handling and trans-

portation charges. These cases have

been reported to l'ood Administration

Ofl‘iC' als in the ho 1e of securing an

early ruling which wilf make this form

Of profiteering impossible.



I In’the meantime, farmers of every

community in which feed must 'be pur-

chased in quantity, should pool their

orders and buy direct in cariots. Mich-





igan Farmer readers are ,fi‘equeste‘d to





continue reporting cases Where "errors





1

. . .. , , , ‘rutlfl‘

bitant charges for mill'feeds are made. G





stantly moving north from Jerusalem.

Last week they advanced their lines

over a front of eighteen miles—Rou-

mania has been obliged to consider

terms of settlement with the Central

Powers following the peace arrange-

ment between the Teutons and Ukrain-

ians. Finland has also agreed with

the Central Powers, but in Greater

Russia there appears to be inclination

to oppose the invaders.



Revol'utionists are active along the

upper Yangtse river in southern China.

A Japanese gunboat' which recently

proceeded up the river with officers

who desired to negotiate with the na-

tives, was fired upon and obliged to re-

turn without accomplishing its mis-

sion. ‘



Terms of agreement between Swe-

den and the Allies have‘evoked much

dissatisfaction in that country. The

chief criticism is that the arrangement

provides no food stuffs for the north-

ern country‘where the need is now

very great».



Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War.

with his staff arrived at a French sea~

port on an American armored cruiser

March 10. ,“Baker 5 visit is purely

a military one. He will visrt the dif‘

ferent war zones and gixe special at

tention to the sectors occupied and to

be occupied bv American forces. It is

predicted that his visit forecasts the

\igorous prosecution of the various

military undertakings of the American

government.



Admiral \on Diedeinichs who com-





manded the German squadron off Ma~'





nilla during the Spanish- -Ame1ican war,

and who at that time clashed with Ad

mii'al Dewey over the German officer’s

disinclination to observe blockade

rules, is dead at Baden, Germany



John Redmond who for many years

had. led in the fight for home rule for

Ireland in the British Parliament, died

March 6, following .1 severe operation.

The funeral was held in Dublin, and

the body was laid to rest in VVexford.

Fully 30,000 persons are said to have

attended the services.



National





Five persons are known to be dead,

several others ieported so, many in-

ju1ed, and homes and other property

destroyed to the extent of from $1, 000, -

000 to $5, 000, 000 as the result 013‘ a

tornado which traveled across north

western Ohio on Sunday night Most

of the loss occurred in small towns

and country districts. Much damage

was also done to wires in southern

Michigan.



At a meeting of. the Red Crosso offi—

cials at New York City it was decided

to undertake the raising of $002009, 000

in a single week for Red Cross work



It is reported that the federal gov-





ernment contemplates extending mili- . »





tary dictation over every interest in

all American cities tributary to canton-

ments which‘ affect in any way the mil-

itary activities in these camps.





The Ame ican "non- sinkable’i ship ,





Lucia, left ew York harbor recent-

ly for a trip through the Get-man

submarine zone without the protection

ch 1191 301111037.A T135 ting: en trip 1



e o 11; ca

in? diam 9 a.

ethane. " ,
- going over.





A USEFUL s‘rONEBOAT.”





 





, In order together stone off my fields



with the least amount of time and

labor last fall, while plowing for wheat,

_I' made a stOneboat eighteen inches by

tWenty-fOur inches, which I fastened

to the frame at the rear of my three-

section spring-tooth drag by means of

a short piece of chain While plowing,

if a medium- sized stone lifted my rid-

ing plow out of the ground, or if the

plow threw one out I would stop long

enough to place the stOne on top of

the ground where it would be readily

seen. ,



W'hen dragging I would stop when I

Came to one of these stones and load

'it onto the stoneboat and throw the

stones‘against the fence at the endrof

the row. This gave me a field free

from stone, and what time was used

in getting themvoff the field was neces-

sary for'my team to get their wind,

anyway. This scheme ”would not work

on an extremely stony piece of ground,

butydoes very well for the average

farm that has more or less stone being





* thrown out of the ground each year.





Eaton Co. J. E. HOUSTON.





 





HUSKING PLATFORM.





 





Here is a contrivance that has serv-

ed me well and is all right. A plat-

form is attached to the side of the

wagon box to hold corn shocks for

husking by hand. It is especially use

ful when the husking is disagreeable

on account of mud, or snow or cold.

One does not have to double up like a

jack-knife to get down on the ground,

perhapsin snow or mud, and extra

clothing that may be necessary does

not interfere‘so much. 'It is quickly

attached and removed from the wagon

and can be made in ten or fifteen

minutes. g



The material required is two pieces

of 2x4x8, five pieces of 1x4x5, two piec-

es of wire, two clevises without bolts.



The clevises are to hook over the

side of wagon box and the wires to

extend down and support the 2x4’s

which reach under the wagon box and

.extend out far enough to receive the

platform, which is made open to allow

snow to fall through. one needs the

ordinary bank board on the far side ‘of

box to Catch the ears and prevent





Jackson Co. L. B. BENTON.





 





LABOR-SAVING AT HAVING TIME.





 





One labor-saving method for haying

is to put a horse in the hay mow to

tread hay, and you can also put more

hay in the mow. A colt, if kind to

handle, will do nicely. If broke to

ride, the boy can get'some adventure

out of it riding the first aid. Those

having Shetland (ponies can utilize

them. .Leave an inclined place at one

side of mow for the faithful friend to





I :go up and down. This may be filled





at the finish.





Genes ee Co; E. HOLLENBECK.





4- CORN MARKER.





 





, ' I have a ,combination device: for .

marking corn and potato ground. ' It

3 marks four rows, three feet eight inch-

es apart, each time across the field.

‘It is made in three sections, with mid-





dle sections four feet long having run-





.nérs or markers underneath. The end





sections are each three feet eight inch-

es 10113 With runner or marker underv





_ . heath the outside end of each. The

' : sections are made of inch and a half "

gboards held,3 together with eight-inch





.. in driving across the field.





 





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If yOu have as good or better ideas than

any than appear in the following short and

suggestive articles, the editors would like

to haire you send them a'brief description

for publication, as these men have done.





Busy Farmers





forward or back on her knees getting

up or down, it will clear above her

shoulders, allowing her to get forward

onto a clean bed. By moving the

scantling forward or back you can ad-

just the cow so she will stand with

hind feet between the 2x4 and the gut-

ter. Should she back down into gut-

ter, touch up her heels lightly with a

whip a few times, and you will have

no further trouble.



The arrangement of the model stall





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





the middle and make straight rows by

driving to stakes, having one at each





end of field and one in middle of field.





By having it made in sections it will

make a mark even- where the ground

is not perfectly level. In going to and

from the field I lay' the end sections

up over the middle one. '



~To mark potato land with rows thir-

ty-two inches wide I placed another

set of runners on top of this marker as

it lay on the ground'ready for marking





Wisconsin, with some late improve-

ments, works to perfection so far as

keeping the cows clean is concerned.

In place of the stationary mangers

above and below, a movable box is

used, which should be about twelve

inches deep, twenty inches wide and

twenty-eight inches lOng. Attached to

each end is “a small rope which holds

the box forward so that it cannot get

back under the cow. It also allows the

box plenty of plav so the cow can nose





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corn. These runners or markers are





thirty-two inches apart and I have five

of them so I can mark five potato rows

I drive it

to the field as a corn marker, then

take out bolts at hitching attachment

and turn the thing over and attach the

spring wagon-pole again, and I have

my potato marker.



Calhoun Co. J. W. COVERT.





IMPROVED cow srALL.





 





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the box forward out of her way when

she wants to lie down.



The overhead manger that projected

back over the cow’s head made it very

inconvenient to hitch the cows. Where

the overhead manger is used, this diffi-

culty may be overcome by putting a

scantling, say 2x4," about six or eight

inches back of the bottom of the man-

ger. This stops the cow far enough

back to allow convenient hitching with

a cow chain. For a large cow, scant-

ling should be six feet from gutter and

three feet from floor. It shOuld be just

high enough so when the cow- rocks





the Quarters for file- Sheep on this Northern Michigan Pam

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with 2x4 set on edge each side of cow

is fine to make her lie just where she

belongs, and the 2x4 set on edge across

stall about six or eight inches from

gutter prevents her lying down in the

dirt.‘ These 2x4’s hold the straw, so

there is no excuse for her not having

a clean, comfortable bed.

Allegan Co. V. P. SMITH.





 





A FEW PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.





 





The demand for men in munition

plants and other factories and in all

industries will be so great that we

should study this problem of farm help

and adopt new methods, and plan to

substitute machinery and horse flesh

for human muscle in doing farm work.



First, I would say that the manure

spreader must not be depended upon

to spread the manure next spring, but

the manure had better be taken direct-

ly from stables ‘to fields in winter. If

snow is too deep to use spreader, it

can be drawn out by sleighs or boat.

This will enable us to have one of the

first steps to spring work completed.



In the field better work can be done

with a three or four-section spring-

tooth harrow than with the two-sec-

tion one. One man can drive four or

six horses as easily as two, with har-

row cart attached. With four good

horses and a three-section harrow one

man can harrow at least fifteen acres

per day. Where the ground is to be

rolled I have found that I can attach

the end of my roller tongue to an even-

er with a clevis and thus one man can

harrow and roll at the same time.



Most farmers seed down with some

spring crops, thus sowing grain and

seed with grain drill. In order that

the small grass seed is not sown too

deep it is best to sow seed behind the

hose or disks, then follow up with lev-

eling harrow to cover.



By bolting two pieces of 2x4 to the

tongue of drill, thus straddling spout

of eleven-hoe drill and attaching the

leveling harrow behind with four hors—

es On drill, one man will do drilling

and harrowing at one time, thus taking

tWO men’s place.



In cultivating, in order to do a good

job each row must be straddled with

shields so adjusted that loose dirt can

run in around roots of beans or corn

so as to smother small weeds.



If we have a large cultivated crop

this year it would pay to secure one of

the various large cultivators now on

the market which will cultivate three

rows of beans or two of corn at once.



If modern hay machinery is not own-

ed it would be well to make arrange-

ments with some neighbor to get ma-

chinery together and work together in

taking Off hay.



Now, these are just a few sugges-

tions which have helped me, so I am

passing them on and hope to receive

many others through the columns of





. the Michigan Farmer.





Huron 00. J. T. TODD.





 





POULTRY DRINKING CUPS.





 





Some time ago I saw an article in

the Michigan Farmer on home-made

Water fountains for chickens. It di-

rected to make a hole in a crock near,

the top to fill with water and place the

top end in a pan. I think if a small

hole was made in a jug near the. bot?
Science picked

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farmers thousands

of dollars on their shoes.

If you are not wearing

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lieve you are not getting as

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Price, $3.59. Send $3.59 for

a pair. We deliver free. If

you feel you are not saving

from 50c to a dollar on a pair

return the shoes and we will

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u to the plant witha Fowler. By removing

p owfoot you can cultivate utride the row.





The Light Draft Fowler lo a time saver and money maker.

It will pay for itself many times both in the sa'vlnz of labor

nd horses and again in increased crops. '



in wet weather the Fowler can be used very soon after I

. > rain on account of running close to the turface and it covers

.f, so much ground in one day that weeds end gran we kept

', ; under control. ,



Its the cultivator for corn. cugar beets and beans and

truck crops planted in rows.





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crock._ There is a. law of ‘ntt't‘ure’ in}

volved in about all chick water 'foun.

talus that I findquite a'large per cent.

of the human race do not know about,

and I did not until I was over sixty

years old. It'is shown by filling a

bottle with water and inserting the op-

en end in water, when the water will





_ not run out of the bottle. I make much





use of bottles for chick fountains, sim-

ply invert thc bottle so that the open





HE meeting of Michigan potato



I growers held at East Lansing,



March 7-8, was a leading feature

of Farmers’ Week at the college. It

was the fourth annual convention of

the Michigan State Potato Growers’

Association and prospects of a scrap

over, present grading rules excited in-

terest that filled to overflowing the

large convention hall, top floor of the

Agricultural Building. It was the _ex-

pected that happened this time and the

fight started early Thursday afternoon

and continued throughout the long op-

ening session until six o’clock. On the

one hand there were hundreds of Mich-

igan farmers mad clear through be.-

cause of the potato situation, and on

the other hand thcre was H. P. Miller,

of the United Slates Food Administra-

tion, charged with chief responsibility

in fixing the United States Potato

grades. it was a stormy time.



Dorr ,l). Buell, of Elmira, president,



called the meeting to order and intro-

duced as the first speaker, Professor

Taylor, of the W'isconsin Agricultural

College, the subject being, “Cost of

Production of Potatoes.” In part he

said: “What, we want is cost of pro-

duction, plus a fair profit. The manu-

facturers are studying costs—why not

the farmers? It is hard to fix on pric-

es because of the great spread in costs

of production. It is difficult for,the

man producing at low cost to agree

with the one producing at high cost.

Again, it is very difficult to figure cost

on a specific crop. Your farm is made

up of a series of crops and your oats

and clover and other crops in the rota-

tion interlock, so there are joint costs

to figure. No standard system of book-

keeping will answer the needs of farm-

ers. You keep a team and your own

labor must be figured, not for one crop

but for a series of crops. Really it is

not worth while to find the specific

cost of a crop, because you can’t make

use of it as a basis of price fixing.

Comparative costs for comparative

profits is what we are looking for, and

this is a rather simple matter. We can

use'relative profitableness as a price

basis.” .

, So Prof. Taylor went on, and while it

was interesting the big audience began

to exhibit anxiety to get at the main

subject at hand. Some of the late

comers evidently mistook Prof, Taylor

for Mr. Miller, and they plied him with

questions, such as, “How about the po-

tato screen?” He was the target of

many shafts intended for Mr. Miller,

but remained serene through it all.



Mr. Miller’s Presentation.



Mr. Miller was then introduced and

profiting by the experience of Prof.

Taylor he requested that questions be

withheld until he was through with

his‘ talk. It was not a set speech and

neither did it set well with a great

many of the farmers present. His re-

peated admonition at the outset that

“our country is at war” and therefore

we must be patriots, touched some sen-

sitive spots. “We know this as well as

you do,” was the reply. “Some of us

have sent our only sons, who are just

now landing in France.

down our very lives for our country.”



Mr. Miller had no elaborate defense

for the new grading rules. .He‘ did

speak of the great, waste that comes

from shipping potatoes that. are worth-





 





less at destination, of satisfaction with

the rules shown in otherfstates and of





 

 





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place in [many ways. so Simple" as.





We. will lay'





Oolumbus’s way of making an egg





stand on end by breaking and flatten- '





ing the shell. ,As this is getting a lit-

tle long I will not tell of all the ways

of holding the bottle in place. I write,

thinking it may do some good, or it

may cause someone to improve their

chicken ‘utensils.





Washtenaw Co. P. CRIPPEN.





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. Potato Grchrs’ Meeting





the advantages of fixed grades and a

trading- basis. He said that he did not

make the rules but suggested that they

be adopted. The rules were the result

of more than three years of investiga-

tion on the part of the United States

Bureau of Markets- They were ap‘

proved later by the United States Food

Administration, and jointly recom-

mended by the Department of Agricul-

ture and the FOod Administration. It

was stated that these rules are more

of a burden to the dealer than to the

grower. The advantages of standardi-

zation were shown in the ability to

quote carlots by wire and it Was stated

that Michigan has already reaped ad

vantages of the grading system. Mr.

Miller said he had data showing that

No. 2 grades are being sold and that

Michigan potatoes are holding their

own with other states in the outside

markets.



Then it became an experience meet-

ing and some of the testimony became

so warm that Secretary Gibson, of the

W’est Michigan Development Bureau,

seeking to pour oil on troubled waters,

called for peace and for united effort

in the one big job of smashing the

Huns.



‘The Growers’ Speak.



The secretary of the Manton Potato

Growers’ Association said the people

of his section depended almost entirely

on potatoes and the dairy industry. He

believes in grading and was convinced

that while the local market was down

to seventy-five cents per one hundred

pounds when he left, the tubers would

have been selling for forty cents with-

out grading rules. He favors one

grade, over an inch and three-quarter

screen. A. M. Smith, of Lake City,

said he put his potatoes over the

screen and one-third of them graded

as No. 2’s. He thought it strange that

the food administration can’t. under-

stand that farmers are opposed to the

present grading rules.



L. A. Siple, of Greenville, stated that

the grading system had defeated its

Own object by trying to market culls

as No. 2’s. It is forcing us to do the

thing for which we were condemned——

that of putting culls on the market.

Mr. Siple said that a Greenville paper

has reports from 299 farmers in that

territory who would raise.2,853 acres

of potatoes under narmal conditions

but will plant only 1,143 acres if no

relief is given in the grading rules. A

questionaire ‘in a Wexford county

school district shows prospects of only

fifty-two acres planted this year as

against 300 acres last year. “W's will

raise beans, sugar beets and other

stuff,” says Mr. Siple, “but unless you

give us relief we cannot raise pota-

toes.”



New Officers. ,



The potato association elected the

following officers at Friday’s session:

President, A. M. Smith, Lake City;

vice-president, Melville McPherson,

Lowell; secretary, L. A. Siple, Green-

ville; treasurer, Dorr D'.‘ Buell, Elmira;

executive committee, the officers and

the following representatives of potato

growing section's: C. R. Estes, Grand





Traverse county; Clarence Oatley, An-'





trim; J. D._Mulder, Missauk-ee; 'J. C.

Redpajzh,‘ Kalamazoo; Alva Wood, Os-

ceola; Jason Woodman, Van Buren; D.

HutFisher, Montcalm; Wm, Bishops,

sn, .Wexford; Roger Southwick, Oce-





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Daniels, more; ,D‘svid E. Burns, Renate,



AEM. Smith, president éle’ct, ofMfiis:

sauk'ee county, has a large farm hear

Lake City, and has a herd of registered

dairy cattle. He was a prominent

Presbyterian minister for twenty years,

but six years 'ago resigned his charge

at Mattoon, 111., on account of ill health





and invested in a Michigan farm. He‘ '





is well again and is president of the

Missaukee' Institute and Potato Grow-





. ers’ Association.





A committee on revision of by-laws

was appointed and it was the semi.

ment at the Lansing meeting that the

association should be confined strictly

in the future to growers. Resolutions

adopted were as follows:



Resolutions.





“Whereas, the United States is en-

gaged in a war that involves the free-

dom and democracy of the world, the

preservation of our nation and safety

of our homes, we fully realize that its

successful prosecution and the welfare

of our boys over seas depend upon the

united strength of the nation’s man

power and the coordination of its com-

mercial and agricultural interests.

Farmers have heeded the pleas of

President Wilson that they put forth

their utmost efforts to increase the

food products and supply the wants of

our soldiers and allies, and



“Whereas, in complying with the

pleas of the federal government the

farmers last spring planted the largest

acreage of potatoes in their history,

paid the highest prices in years for

seed, labor and fertilizers, tended the

crop through a most discouraging sea-

son and because of circumstances out-

side of their control secured ‘a most

disappointing yield, and '



“W’hereas, when farmers took pota-

toes to market expecting that they

would be graded and sold as in former

years they were required by the buy-

ers to conform to a grading system,

which in practical operation produced

a so-called No. 2 grade having little if

any market value, but containing twen-





ty-five to thirty—five per cent sound,‘





edible potatoes that in previous years

had found a ready market, and

“Whereas, grading rules so suddenl)~

promulgated were not extended to in-

clude all potato growing sections of the

country, neither‘were any established

rules or requirements demanded of re-





tail dealers or distributors, thus enforc-





ing grading rules 011 farmers without

following the product to consumers in

an effort to create a demand for such

grades, and ,



“Whereas, the result has been great

financial losses to. farmers, paralyzing

the movement of the crop during ‘the

normal marketing season, resulting in

overabundance at source of supply and

shortage at consuming markets, forc-

ing farmers to hold their crop of No.

1’s for much higher prices than would

have been necessary had they been

able to place on the market the usual

percentage of their crop, and



“Whereas, the lack of a market for

No. 2 stock has resulted in enormous

and criminal waste of precious food,

in direct opposition to the teachings of

the food administration, and



“Whereas, the President has said,

‘no law can last long which does not

recognize and accept the principle that

governments derive all their just pow-

ers from consent of the governed, and



“Whereas, the farmers have been ar—

bitrarily compelled by virtue of the

very nature of marketing machinery

controlled by organized shippers of the

state to have their potatoes graded in

a manner. contrary to their wishes and

detrimental to their interests, with no

voipe in the matter Whatsoever, there-

fore,



“Be it Resolved, that we, loyal citi-

zens and farmers of the state in con-

vention assembled do hereby pledge

our utmost'efforts in prosecution of the

war and in production of food stuffs,

and were the present method of grad-

ing potatoes in any measure calculated

to assist us in our work of prodUCing

feed for the nations, or were it of di-

rect benefit to those most vitlaly con-

cerned, the producer or the consumer,

we would gladly abide by its pro-

visions. ' '



“We further protest against the in-





discriminate waste of food resulting

from. the double grading of potatoes





and‘so. re uest the immediate abolish-

ment of a1 obnoxious rules. governing

the production of feed that will in any

way have a tendency to reduce such

production, and that the government





do all in its power to assist the farmer--





in his efforts. .,

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By R. D.



ELL Egan is half done.” Show



me the farmer who does not



dislike to be bothered with re—

pairs and.“puttering,” after field work

with the team has begun; and, too,

show me one for whom it is not too

expensive to do'odd jobs, though they

are necessary, while the team stands

idle. . .-

Yet, there is a multitude of things

that need to be done if the seasOn's

work is to progress smoothly. Many

farmers, through lack of planning, fore-

sight and timeliness, simply have to

take valuable time to .do it, in the

midst of the season’s work, what could

have been done during the time less

valuable.



During cold, raw days the farm shop

is especially valuable. Here, comfort-

able with a fire made of cobs, bits of

broken boards, trimmings from trees,

and other rubbish, the farmer can

sharpen his saws, planes, drawshaves,

bits, ‘augers, axes, hatchets, and mow-

ing machine knives, etc, so that they

are ready for effective work at an in‘

stant’s notice. '



This is a good time to sharpen the

butcher knives, paring knives, and

shears for his wife. Repair, black and

oil harness. Potato crates should now

be mended, and cup-boards and shelves

for the house," and other household

conveniences bu"t.in the shop.



With the home warmed with its

stoves, this is the best time of the

year to make household repairs and

interior alterations before the spring

housecleaning. _



Test seed corn. »It has been stated

at the Agricultural College that, by

testing his seed corn, a farmer can

make fifty dollars a day, for the time

consumed in testing, and thus put him-

self into the class with civil engineers,

physicians and lawyers, as an earner.

Where seed germination tests show a

low per cent of good seeds, better

seeds should be purchased, if possible,

to secure them; if not, then the

amount of seed sown or planted should

be increased to insure a better stand.



As the weather becomes warmer,

and the farmers can work bare—hand-

ed, the hay track, fork, andrope can

be inspected, and stalls and stable

floors repaired. There, will usually be

plank worn thin in floors; manger

fronts or partitions gnawed by horses;

feed and salt boxes coming to pieces,

or gnawed; partitions partially kicked

to pieces. That “a stitch in time, sayes

nine” can be attested by thousands of





' farmers who failed to take that stitch.





Take the hay rack and the wagon

box into the shop and repair and paint

them, or make new ones.



Restore missing handles to tools.



Put in window lights. Put a fender

in the pen where the sow is to farrow,

and save pigs. and dollars. Make some

gates in the shop if you do not buy

them. ,



Take drags to blacksmith shop'and





have teeth sharpened. Take the culti:





vator teeth, too, if it is cheaper to have

them sharpened than to buy new ones.

Have the grub hoe sharpened, and a

new point drawn on the crowbar.

Make a load for the blacksmith shop,





while you are at it, and throw in all





chains that need repairs. If it needs

repairs, hitch the grain drill behind

the same wagon.



Buzz up the pole wood. Split and

plleall wood, so it will dry out in these

It is a mark of an im-

provident man to have to cut driblets

cf wOod morning and night, after field





, work has begun, and the feelings of





the wife had better be imagined than

expressed

While fenCe posts are frozen in they





 





‘ can best be cut or: nefit and even. This

‘Vlimwproyes the appearance of the field





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BAILEY





Barbed wire and'woven wire can/ be

stretched while the ground is still

frozen. Established fences, on which

the wire has sagged, can be tightened.

After the frost is out of the ground,

but fields are too soft to he traveled,

post holes can be dug and new fences

.built.





Build one or more portable hog-cots

of the A-type. Build a stock-loading

chute. Make some chicken coops. Re-

pair the hen yard. Dig some shade

trees in the woods. Clean chimneys

and work soot in around rose bushes,

the shrubs and perennials of the hardy

border, and around the pieplant.





Bring home some brick to top out

old chimneys, and to build new ones

where a stove pipe has been used.

Hundreds of houses in this state have

been burned, and their owners reduced

to distress, through shiftlessly depend-

ing on a rusty stove pipe stuck

through a roof. Don’t go through an-

other winter on a stove-pipe basis.

“Do it now.”





Sell surplus horses, for the demand

is at its best at the approach of spring.

Buy early'if you have to buy.



Engage your hired man. ~.



Make a hot-bed.



Take an inventory.





STUCCO BARNS.





, I am planning on building a one-

story low barn 60x30 feet. I already

have my silo in place. Have any of

your readers had any experience with

a stucco or plastered barn, and ap-

proximately, what would it cost?

Kalamazoo Co. H. S.‘





Stucco has not come into general

use for barn construction. It is prob-

ably not as satisfactory for this type

of construction as it is for protecting

the house. In the first place the siding

of’a barn is subject to rougher use

than is that of the house. It is under

greater strain due to wind pressure,

due to the pressure of hay, and to jars

and striking with forks and other tools.





Its cost would probably be from one-

half more to twice as much as wood

construction.



,Where stucco is used it is usually

made in the proportion of one part of

cement to two parts of sand, which is

screened through quarter-inch screen.

To this is added about one-tenth part

of hydrated lime to make the stucco

work more smoothly under the trowel.





The most satisfactory stucco is that

placed on hollow block walls and which

gives permanent construction. Both

metal and wood lath are used to some

extent. Metal lath, unless well clinch-

ed and covered on the interior, are

likely to corrode and rust While wood

lath shrink and swell.





The high price of metal lath and the

high cost of cement would make this

type of construction quite prohibitive

at the present time.



Mich. Ag. Col. H. H. MUSSELMAN.





 





THAWING FROZEN WATER PlPES.





I have been thawing out some of my

water pipes very handily this winter

and thought the method might be new

to some of your readers, so here it is:

I- use a small pipe that will slip inside

the one to be thawed and fix a nozzle

on one end. Insert the other end in

frozen pipe against the ice and pour

in boiling water, advancing the small

pipe as ice melts. Ice will not last

long as far ‘as the small pipe can

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OU wonder why so much time

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out of the combustion chambers?_





As a matter of fact you were lucky

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knew his business. It took him several

hours to scrape out hard carbon which

was caked behind the piston rings.

Then he had to clean some more car—

bon out of the oil leads which carry

oil to the bearings. To reach those

parts he had to take down the engine.



What caused the trouble?



Largely incorrect lubrication. You

used an oil of incorrect body or low

quality. It supplied only a partial

piston-ring seal.



So the oil reached. the combustion

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burned up. That meant extra carbon

deposit.



Part of the carbon was forced down

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Some got in behind the rings and caked

there. And some went down into the

crank case and churned in with the oil.



Finally this carbon content choked

up the oil leads.



* * *-

CARBON T ROUBLES have been largely

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But carbon in bearings, oil leads and

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among motorists who buy oil carelessly

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Correct Automobile Lubrication





Explanation: The luur grade! of Gargoyle

Mobiloils, for engine lubrication. purified to remove

free carbon. are:





Gargoyle Mobiloil "A"

Gargoyle Mobiloil "B"

Gargoyle Mobiloil "E"

Gargoyle Mobiloil "Arctic"





In the Chart below. the letter opposite the car indi-

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used. For example. “A" means Gargoyle Mohiloil

“A." uArc” means Gargoyle Mobiloil”Arctic" etc.

The recommendations cover all models of both pleas-

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and probably he never will.

' ditions governing farming are so dif-





T is more than interesting or amus-

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who seem to know very little about



the American farmer, as to the part



he is to take in the production of ex-

tra. food under the conditions which

the farmer finds himself in today.

Some city people even who had war

gardens last year, are beginning to

realize that there is something to farm-

ing, that it is a sort of business, that

crops don’t grow unless you have‘fav-

orable seasons, that crops don’t grow

unless they are properly planted and





7 cared for and that they also must .be





harvested and that the farmers don’t

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imagine. In fact, they are beginning

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duce crops in a commercial way. and

supply the world with food.



The city consumer has been told

time and again that the-farmer had to

work harder for what he got out of

his business than almost any other

man but they did not seem to believe

If you-compare the farmer’s lot

with the laboring man’s lot in the city,

you will find that the laboring man has

more leisure, he only has to work ‘a

given number of hours a. day, he as-

sumes very little responsibility, he has

all of the conveniences and luxuries

and entertainment of the city. The

farmer must put in more hours besides

the day’s work in the field. He must

do all the chores in the morning be-

fore he goes to work. This isn‘t fig-

ured as a part of the day’s work but’it

must be done. The city business man

wouldn’t think of doing such things

before he goes to the office. But the

farmer must do this and then do his

day’s work besides._



This war, in spite of its horror, is

doing a lot of good in 'the world. It is

bringing us all closer together; we be-





, gin to think of the other fellow and





what he has to do and what he ought

to do. Men who never thought about

the farmer’s lot before are beginning

to realize that when the world de-

mands an increased production of food

and at the same time the country takes

many of the best laborers off the

farms, the farmer is up against a ser‘

ions proposition. Yet this extra fOpd

must be produced and this extra food

will be produced. '



Whether the farmer gets prices pro-

portionate with those received by the

manufacturer, or as good wages as the

laboring man does, you can depend

upon it that the farmer is not going

back on the country in this crisis. He

is going to produce all the food that

he possibly can. If it is necessary, he

is going to live as his forefathers did

who cleared up this country. They

were provided with none of the mod-

ern conveniences whatever. They

cleared up the forests, grubbed out the

stumps, ditched the land and lived on

a very meager bill of fare. in many

instances, the pioneer farmers in this

country didn’t have white wheat flour

for several months at a time, but lived

upon corn meal mush and johnny cake.

If it is necessary to do that again in

order to furnish food for the people

of America and for the Allies in Eu-

rope, our farmers will 'do it and they

will do it because they have traditions

that they are proud to live up to.



The American farmer is going to do

his part. The world needn’t worry

about that. -The American farmer nev-

er has made very much out of farming

The con-





ferent from those governing any other

business that he need not expect to

get wealthy, as that term is used-in

other lines of industry. The nature of

his business is such that he can’t turn

his money overquickly like the spec-

ulator does and make a. good percent-





 





age on it every time he turns it over;





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once a year and if he gets a good liv-

ing and s'ucceeds in accumulating a‘ _

sufficient amount to keep him out of

the poorhouse by a long, thrifty life, it

is about allJLhat he can expect.



But he is patriotic to the bone. When

you talk about love of country, there

isn’t any class of people in thisrland

that holds more sacred their loyalty to

country than does the farmers. They

have deeds to land and it makes them

think more of the country than many

citizens who do not own real estate

and who do not get their living out of

the soil. Now that they are beginning

to realize the big burden upon their

Shoulders, that this war is really as

much of a battle between the farmers

of middle‘Europe and the farmers of

this country as it is between the arm-

ies of middle Europe and the American

army and our Allies, you needn’t wor- .

ry but what the farmer is willing to

assume this-responsibility, and he is

going to produce the goods whether

there is anyprofit in it or not.



'It is no more than fair that he

should have as large a proportion of

profit as any citizen; but I am in no

way criticizing the price fixed by our

government. I think the majority of

them are fair and just. There are

some other products besides the farm-

er’s that ought to be controlled, how-

ever. I believe that justice will be

done as soon as it can be in this re-

spect. But laying all lose things aside,

I am confident that the world needn’t

worry about the farmer for he is not

going back on the responsibility that

rests on him in this great world crims.

He has never failed in the past and he

will not now. The farmer will “go

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SPRING WHEAT FOR SOUTHERN

MICHIGAN.





 





Is spring wheat grown in southern

Michigan with any degree of success?

Lenawee Co. L. T. S.



This question has been answered

several times in the Michigan Farmer.

In the early days spring wheat was

successfully grown in Michigan, but

gradually the winter variety was found

to be much more reliable and eventu~

ally took the place of spring wheat.

This shows without any chance for an

argument that the winter variety is

much more reliable for lower Michi-

gan. However, with a favorable sea

son one may hope to grow a fair crop

of spring wheat but he must take a

greater risk than he does with winter

wheat. If we should have an early

spring so that the wheat could- be got-

ten in early it would lessen the chance

for failure. COLON C. LILLIE.





 





UTAH BEET GROWERS GET $9 AN‘D

ADVANCE.





In Utah the beet sugar factories

and farmers have come to an agree-

ment on the price of sugar beets which

is considered fair by both sides. The

factories will pay $9.00 a ton and fifty

per cent of any advance in the price

of sugar over $7.45 (wholesale) per

hundred weight. The present price

(February 7), of refined sugar at New

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POTATO GROWERS’ M EETING.





 





(Continued from page 348).





of potatoes as now employed by ship-

pers and demand its immediate abol-

ishment in the interests of the com-

mon cause.”



The further resolution was adopted

that sound, merchantable potatoes pro-

duced in Michigan and screened over

a one and ’three-quarter-inch round

mesh screen be known as Michigan

Standard.Grade No. 1. . ‘ '



The efforts of C. W. Waid, extensiOn

specialist, and the retiring secretary,

were recognized along. lines of: more

and better, potatoes torMichigan. , “ ~



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_.- HE production of drug plants,

since the outbreak of the war,

has been a matter of consider-

able interest and will continue to be of

increasing importance. The .shortage

resulting from the rapid depletion of

the wild plants has been intensified

by the curtailment of foreign importa-

tions and the increased demand for

drug preparations.



The supply of drug plants in the

past has come primarily from the less

inhabitated portions of the country.

Very crude methods of gathering the

plants and preparing them for the mar-

ket has been the rule although the

therapeutical value is dependent upon

uniform methods of growing and hand-

ling the drug plants. Crude methods,

in the production of drug plants can-

not be corrected by assaying in the

laboratory. The result is that a de-

pendable drug can be produced only

from a uniform supply of drug. Much

interest in drug plant production is

therefore being shown by the large

drug houses.



Uniformity Needed-



But even the cultivated drug plant

is subject to wide variation in alkaloid

content and much study is still needed

along cultural lines to produce a crop

with a uniform appearanceand alka-





. It, Paysvto Give-the

loidal content. It is a line of business

that must not be entered into lightly.

But the man with experience in farm-

ing and gardening can find the pro-

duction of drug plants a very absorb-

ing part of his farming operations. Ab-

sorbing in capital will be thefirst de-

duction. but‘the grower of medicinal

plants will find'none more interesting

and few crops more profitable.



Some of the main drug plants adap-

ted to commercial production. are Dat-

ura stramonium, Atropa, belladonna,

Hyosoyamus niger, 'Digitalis purparea

and Cannabis indica.



A Weed of Drug Value.



Datura stramonium, or as morewcom-

monly known as Jimson weed, is a

fairly common plant in many sections

of the country. It is a poisonous an-

.nual belongingto the nightshade fam-

ily. All parts of the plant contain the

desirable alkaloid but only the flower-

ing tops and leaves are in demand on

the. market. The seeds should be sewn

early in the spring, three feet by one

and one-half feet, in rich, light soil.

The plants will make a very rank

growth and by fall the leaf crop should

be around 1000 pounds per acre and

_ the seed crop approximately, the same

amount. The price of the leaves has

gone up about 100 per cent, due to the

war and the present market value is

around twenty cents a pound. A large

amount of-the stramonium leaves are

still coming from wild sources and will

‘ continue to compete With the commer-

cially grewn- products.



’ much interest has been shown in

the past two years in the production

of, belladonna leaves, root and seeds.





_ The pro-war “price on belladdnna root ‘

‘ — . andleaves'was around fifteen cents a





poundThe present market valuequot-





 





ALPH w. PETERSON





 





prices are responsible for much of the

agitation about the huge fortunes that

await the grower of medicinal plants

or weeds, as some would call them.

Possibly they are weeds if we are will-

ing to accept the definition of a weed

as a plant out of place, for surely the

propagator'of medicinal plants will ofd

ten think that either the plant or he

himself is out of place.

prepared to meet reverses in the pro-

’pagation of belladonna for it logically

follows that such enormous prices

would never be paid for a crop within

the cultural means of anyone.

Belladonna Growing.

Belladonna has certain cultural traits

one must become familiar with. For

instance, field sown seed is an abso~

lute failure. Just why is a debated

question, but possibly because the very

small seeding is disturbed by the

winds and shifting soil before it has

taken root. In a few cases field sown

seed, well protected from wind and

weeds, has given a fair germination.

The only assurance of _success, how-

ever, is by growing the plants in a

house or under sash and transplanting

to the field in May. The seed is very

slow in germination but can be made

to germinate much more evenly by

soaking for about a day in a sixty per





 





Garden Good Care.





cent solution of commercial hydrogen

peroxide. The seedlings are hardened

off gradually and transplanted, three

feet by three feet,- in the field. Well

drained clay loam is well adapted to

the culture of belladonna. No partic-

ular disease ,will be met with but much

damage may result from the potato

and striped cucumber beetle. These

inSects can be held in check with Par—

is Green or lead arsenate, but such ar-

senical sprays may find their way into

the finished product, if not carefully

handled.

Harvesting the Crop.



The custom in northern states such

as Michigan, is to take two leaf crops

the first year. The first crop of leaves

and flowering tops .is cut at the time

of flowering and the second crop is

taken in the fall. At the same time

the roots are dug up and either mar-

keted or heeled in to be planted out

the following spring fora second year’s

growth. 'If protected by four or five

inches of_strawy mulch the roots will

survive moderately severe winters

standing in the field.



Some difficulty will be met in drying

the leaves for the market. Tobacco

drying methods are well adapted to

belladonna. The plants should be dried

in the shade or darkened room and

preferably by artificial heat. The roots

are carefully washed, split and dried.



The first year’s crop of leaves will





be from 300 to 1000 pounds per acre 1’





and the second year leaf crop slightly



larger. The second year’s root crop



will be around 1000 pounds.

Belladonna Market Conditions.



It must be recognized‘at the start

that while the commercial demand for

belladonna is very brisk right at pres-

ent, the high price now offered will in-

duce; extended planting with a sense





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leaves is fifteen to twenty cents nor-

mally but at present is $1.50 to $2.00

per'pound. . _



Henbane~ seed germinates. with diffi-

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subject to much injury from insects

and weather. Henbane is esteemed a

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beetle and extensive damage may be

done in a single day by this pest. The

plant winters so poorly it is advisable

to heel in the roots ove'r winter in

some sheltered location or in a pro-

tected cold frame.



Growing Henbane.



Henbane may be an annual or New

nial but it is impossible ‘to tell from

the seedsinto which category the seed-

ling will fall. The annual strain has

a more slender unbranche'd stem. The

seed is started in flats the last of Feb-

ruary and shifted to pots once or twice,

then hardened off and set in the field,

three feet by one foot, during late May.





ready for harvest in August or Septem-

ber. The same care must be used in

drying henbane as balladonna leaves.

Digitalis purpurea or foxglove has in-

creased 200 per cent above normal

price and is now selling for twenty-

five to thirty cents a pound. ,’ Most of

the digitalis on the market still comes

from the wild. The Pacific coast reg-

ions of Oregon and Washington have

a very prolific growth of wild foxglove

and will be a factor in determining the

price of digitalis for some years to

come. Experiments the past year or

two have proved that digitalis leaves

of the first year’s growth will meet the

official requirements. It has been the

custom in the past to grow the plant





GOOD rich soil will give best

A results for" garden purposes.



Many of us have garden plots

which we have been using for years

past, but this spring there will no

doubt be some who have not given

much attention to garden growing,

who will have to lay out new ground

for this purpose. When choosing new

garden ground it is best to locate at

least a part of it near the house and

close enough to the well so some irri-

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‘this, it is necessary to surround the





plot by some sort of chicken-tight

fence. Green peas and other fresh veg-

etables form very appetizing but cost-

ly feed for the fowls. Either woven

wire or tall paling fence is efficient

and looks neat and attractive and may

be covered with flowers and vines.

Hop vines were one of my mother’s

favorite decorations when I was a boy

at home then my mother used the

hops to make her own yeast. In these

later days many of us have forgotten

such little economies.‘





Two Garden Plots Best.



We find it better to have two gar-

den plots. One close to the house and

near the well for small early garden,

and a large place for sweet corn, pota.

toes, tomatoes, cabbage, etc., that can

be planted in long rows and cultivat-

ed with a one-horse plow. This plan

saves both time and labor and it can

all be cultivated sufficiently often to

provide a good dust mulch to hold the

.moisture and keep down the weeds.

‘VVe'cleaned our ground and plowed

it last fall so that-the soil could be put

in better tilth this spring. The garden

soil should be thoroughly worked .to a

_ The surface should be

thoroughly packed, pulverized and fri-

able. 1' Working when it is muddy will

produce hard clods that are difficult

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leaves is considered a fair crop." '.

Cannabis indica grows very well in

Michigan but the alkaloid content var-

ies widely and is always less than that

of the drug imported from India. Can-

nabis indica makes a very large

growth (six to ten feet) and should be

spaced accordingly. The desirable al-





kaloid is found in the resinous flower .,





tops of the female plants. The male

plants are worthless for alkaloid pro-

duction and should be eliminated as

soon as possible unless the plants are

grown for seéd production.

are harvested when the resin has ac-

cumulated and become very sticky.

This will be in the early fall. After

drying the tops are ground up and

stored in air-tight containers or put on

the market immediately. ‘



The yield in green tops will be

around one ton an acre, or when dried

about 500 pounds an acre. The market

price varies from twenty-five cents to

$1.50 a pound, according to quality and

alkaloidal content. ,



Drug Plant Growing Profitable.



It is evident that these drug plants

are extremely profitable when grown

under the right conditions and when

properly harvested and prepared for

the market. The industry is specialized

however, as the resultingproduct con-

tains the most delicate principle known

to science and its uniformity depends

upon the growing environment and

methods of handling. The two million

acres of war gardens will be a power-

ful factor in the solution of the food

problem but it is only the observing

grower, conversant with the reaction

of drug plants to the various growing

conditions who can hope for any great

degree of success in growing medicinal

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In our hurry to get the early vegeta~

bles growing we must not become im-

patient if the ground remains damp

for a time after spring seems to'be

here, because when it is that way, the

ground is still cold and the seed would

not germinate if we had it there. Of-

tentimes we are in too great a hurry

to get the seed in early. Seeds like

lettuce and radishes will stand consid-

erable cold, but many times the seed

salesman gets blamed for poor seed

when the fact of the matter is that it

has not grown simply because it Was

placed in cold damp soil where it lay

until all'vitality is lost before warm

spring days are really here. Usually

there are a few warm days before the

cold weather is really past, and on

these we feel a great temptation to

plant the garden. However, seed plant-

ed a. few days later when the ground

is moist and warm will germinate more

quickly and make a more~rapid growth

than plants from seed placed in the

ground too early.





Do Not Crowd Garden.



Last spring under the urging of the

farm papers and government, we in«

creased our garden planting consider-

able. However, We made the mistake

of crowding our I‘QWS too closely to

gether. We set out twice the usual

number of tomato plants, but used

nearly the same amount of space. The

tomatoes did not do as well as they

should. This year we will set the to-

mato rows four feet apart and plants

three to three and a half feet apart in

the rows. Then, too, we haye the

stakes ready so no time need be lost

either in preparing them when needed,

or their .use put off until too late be-





cause we are busy with other work. In ‘

the small garden next the house, the





plantings can be so, arranged as to

lieepthe ground busy. fiert‘ ‘

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The farm garden should be given

more'wattention than usual this year“

It will not only help ourselves individ-





ually by providing cheaper food for





our table use, but it. will help our coun-

try by increasing the food supply. We

should study our own needs so that in

making‘ out the plan for this year’s

garden we will be able to plant a prop-

er proportion _of each kind of vegetable

and procure the best arrangement pos-





sible, then when storage time comes,





we will have a good variety of vege-

tables to draw from for table use and

plenty of everything. If we have more

than we need it will help'to pass the

surplus on to someone less fortunate

in their efforts.





Nevada. 1?. H. EATON.





 





MORE SHADE TREES FOR MICHI-

GAN.





 





I have been attempting to get each

farmer in this locality to plant maple

and elm shade trees outside his'fence

line, along the public roads. It seems

hardly necessary to tell anyone in the

state the benefits derived from ave-

nues of shade trees, not only from a

standpoint of beauty, but from an eco-

nomical one: the enhanced value of

such property is sufficient argument

for the planting of shade trees along

its roadways. Nevertheless there are

thousands of farmers who will never

appreciate'the value of improving their

farms and the country in general in

this way, until the state wakes them

up and helps them.



In New York the supervisors are

authorized to pay $1.00 per tree, (to

quote the substance of the law), “to

each owner who shall set out or trans-

plant by the side of the highway ad-

joining his premises, and shade tree,

(desirable), maple, elm, etc. the sum

of $1.00 for each of these living trees,

etc. Trees must be set out during the

preceding year and living and well pro-

tected from animals at the time of the

allowance.”



Can we not have a similar law in

Michigan? The premium could be cut

to fifty cents, or even to twenty-five

cents, and we should find in a. year or

two a Wonderful increase in the plant-

ing of shade trees in Michigan.



. Benzie Co. J'OHN NEWHALL.





 





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Renovating a Fruit Farm.





I bought a fruit orchard in Grand

Traverse county. Nobody has cared

for the orchard for three years so you

see everything is growing wild. As I

do not understand orcharding I am

turning to you for information.



I have 3000 bushes of gooseberries,

2000 bushes of red raspberries, 1000

bushes of red currant. How soon

and how should they be pruned and

sprayed? The bushes are standing in

pretty fair shape, but, of course, are

growing wild.



Gd. Traverse Co. J. S.



The first thing I would do is to en-





deavor to get the orchard in a good

state of cultivation. This will keep in

check all of the weeds which have

been sapping the ground of. moisture

and fertility and give the trees new

stimulus for growth. As the orchard

has been neglected for some time, the

trees will undoubtedly need consider-

able pruning. The first step in prun-

ing a'neglected orchard isto cut out

all of the dead wood and then' such

limbs as cross or interfere with each‘

other. In cutting offseither dead or

healthy limbs, be sure to cut them

close, as leaving the stub of a limb

will encourage the starting of a rot in.

the Wood. The stubs will dry ‘out and





‘_ , the rotwwill‘in time make its way into

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Spraying‘is one of the chief essen-





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‘ g'hnd'occupy the~ space. With the proper

y'arrangement a. great deal can be groWn

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starts, I would spray thoroughly with

lime and sulphur at Winter strength,

which is one gallon to ‘,eight of water.

If the orchard is of bearing age, I

would follow this with lime and sul-

phur at one to forty gallons, and two

pounds of arsenate of lead immediately

If the





visable to follow this last application

with a similar one about two weeks

after, and another about the first 'of

August if trees are winter varieties.





rant bushes back to productive condi-

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the old Wood and leaving probably

about five of the best canes. When

cutting back the canes, be sure to ob-

serve whether the center of the cane

is in healthy condition. If the center

is black, it will .ndicate that a cane

borer is present, and then one should

continue cutting back until you elim-

inate the black center. I would also

cut out all the new growth that has

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HE Tenth Annual Horticultural



Show given by the Horticultural



Club of the Michigan Agricultur-

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usual success and a credit to the stu-

dents of the Department of Horticul-

ture. With many of their number in

the service the Horticultural Club

members came to the front with a

show even better than those of the

past and far surpassing all others as

a financial success, the exhibition net-

ting about fifty-five dollars. A distinc-

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Administration exhibit. Miss. Shier,

of the Lansing Food Conservation

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The Students’ Hort. Show





monplace Agricultural Hall Pavilion

was made a beauty spot of fruits and

flowers. The visitor entered through

an evergreen bower into a. wonderland

filled with subjects of horticultural in-

terest and made beautiful by the clev-

er work of the landscape gardener.

The tables holding the apple exhibits

occupied the central portion of the

pavilion. Occupying the entire east

end of the room was a raised platform

for the Food Administration exhibit.

A- fountain and screen of flowers at

the front of the platform further dem-

onstrated the ability of the landscape

students. Tables along the 'sides of

the room held exhibits of subjects of

general horticultural interest The pic

counter and store each had. good posi-

tions from which to sell their wares;

The apple exhibit was a very fine

one, considering the year. It was as

large and varied as any former one





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and various forms of. diseases which

Before any growm





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fruit this year.





A thorough spraying with the lime

and sulphur, -winter strength, will do

much to' clean the bushes from insects





and fungus diseases. However, if the

bushes have set to fruit, one or two

applications of Bordeaux mixture with

about two pounds of arsenat’e of lead

to fifty gallons should be made. This

Bordeaux is made of four pounds of

copper sulphate and five pounds of

lime to fifty gallons of water. Slake

the lime in a small quantity of water

and dissolve the copper sulphate, af«

ter both the lime and copper sulphate

have been diluted to about twenty “gal-

lons each. They should never be mix-

ed in concentrated form. After the

Bordeaux has been made, and the ar-

senate of lead. -



The raspberries should also be prun-

ed, taking out all of the old canes, and

an application of Bordeaux mixture

would also be beneficial.



Of course, all small fruits will be

benefited by a thorough cultivation,

which should start early in the spring

and continue to about midsummer.





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partment are very loyal to the annual

show along with letters from the men

wishing the affair every success.



The tables along the sides with their

exhibits of packing, shipping, disease

and insect control, plant breeding, and

bee-keeping methods, showed thought-

ful work on the part of the men in

charge of them. This was also true

of the displays of horticultural imple-

ments, regions and products. A large

number of charts and photographs

were made use of in bringing out the

various points of the work.



As usual, the pie contest was an im-

portant feature of the show. Prizes

are offered annually for the best ap-

ple pies made by co-eds. This year

about sixty young women took advan-

tage of the opportunity to demonstrate

the worth of the Department of Home

Economics. The five dollar gold piece

for the best pie went to Miss Esther





Attraction.





Hallet, a junior from Hillsdale, Michi-

gan. The second prize, a box of Sun-

kist oranges, went to Miss Jessie Illena

den of Adrian, and the third prize, a

box of apples, to Miss Grace Smiley,

an instructor in domestic art.



Ingham Co. R. S. SIMMONS.





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BUILDING PEACH TREES.





 





. In buildingup the development of a

peach tree it pays to prune annually.

The fruit is produced on the previous

year’s growth of wood so the supply

of young wood bears an important re-

lation to the size of the crop of fruit.



The low-headed tree is usually con-

sidered the best, as the fruit from such

a tree can be harvested at less.ex-

pense. Then there is less danger of

limbs breaking in the wind when over?

loaded With friut,.or weighed dOWn

with ice after a severe storm.” The

peach tree is apt to form manybrittle

crotches and these should be avoided





strongest. shoots. These should be kept

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is possible.

crotch is the weak point where large

limbs are apt to break down when load-

ed with fruit. _ This injures the appear-

ance and fruit bearing area of the tree

and such a tree is Very difficult to re-

store to its former producing ability.





An effort should be made to prune '





the young peach tree so that some of





'the main limbs will grow directly into '





the prevailing winds. This will pre-

vent the tree from becoming lop-sided

with most of its limbs leaning in one

direction. In trimming back the young

twigs the direction of the growth can

be controlled by leaving the bud on the

outside at the end of twig remaining.

If the end bud is one growing on the

inside of the twig, of course the ensu-

ing growthuwill start inward.



An open center is desirable so that

the sunshine can enter the dense fol-

iage and color up the fruit. This should

be considered in building the scaffold

or frame work on which is developed

the bearing surface of the tree.



In pruning the peach it pays to do as

much as possible of the work from the

ground or from the step-ladder. Climb-

ing in the tree 'will frequently cause

breaking of the brittle branches. If it

is necessary to climb into the tree it

pays to wear a pair of old rubbers to

avoid slipping and tearing the limbs.



Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.





ASPARAGUS GROWING PROFIT-

ABLE.





 





It is surprising how few farms have

an asparagus bed, and I believe, their

scarcity is very largely due to the elab-

orate and complicated adi’ice we often

read on the subject. Many'persons

have the idea that starting the plants

is a mysterious process but I didn’t

find it so. The only mystery about

mine is how they ever happened to

grow so well under such conditions.



One side of my garden had always

been so swampy that it produced noth-

ing but weeds and, of course, was hope-

lessly infested with weed seed. So I

figured that, as it must be tiled any-

way before it would be of any use,

and perhaps I could “kill two birds

with one stone,” by planting aspara-

gus over the tile and salting thorough-

ly to kill those weeds. I bought the

land in 1914 but too late to get tiling

done that year. The following spring,

however, I had a line of four-inch tile

run the entire length of the wet strip

about- eighty feet—and directly over

this I set my asparagus bed.



If the tiling could have been done

long enough before the plants were set

to dry out the land any, I should have





i expected good results, but the plants





came before the tile was fairly in and

the ground was still wet and in such





i big clods that 'I supposed the planta-





tion would be a failure, but there seem-

ed to be no help for it. We read about

setting asparagus very deep, whereas

I could hardly dig up enough loose soil

of any kind to cover the roots at all,

and later I actually found some of

them on top of the ground.



It was chiefly with a View to setting

strawberries on the same ground later,

that I had my asparagus bed well

mulched with stable manure in mid-

winter. To my surprise, I had nice

even rows of asparagus shoots in the

spring of 1916, '_so I cleaned out the

weeds, salted well, and cultivated some

but the soil was hard from continued

soaking, and I never got it very. clean

that year.



That winter another heavy coat of

manure was applied, and the weeds

were less luxurious this spring. I ,

cleaned them all out, cultivated with.

the wheel hoe, and was rewarded by

a splendid crop. I sold $3. 26 worth,

and five of us almost lived upon it for





.Weeks while flour and potatou were

,around $5.





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Finishing Steers on Corn.



I would like to ask your judgment

on feeding steers $1.75 corn. I have

nine steers which weigh about 1200

pounds apiece and I feed all of the en-

silage they will clean up with four

pounds of cottonseed meal per head a.

day, and all. the mixed timothy and

clover hay they can eat. I would like

to put these cattle on market April 15.

What .more can I feed and make a

profit?

if nothing goes wrong.



Livingston Co. F. L.





I think all who have had experience

in fattening steers will agree that

there is no prospect in making any

profit in

when the steers must be sold after

fattening for $11.50, and. with your ra-

tion of mixed hay, corn silage and cot-

tonseed meal, I don’t think that cOrn

is necessary. Cottonseed meal is cheap-

er and taking into consideration its

food value at the present price, with

corn at $1.75 per bushel, if I were go-

ing to add more grain I would increase

the amount of cottonseed meal, gradu-

ally adding more until you get the

steers to eat six or seven pounds of

cottOnseed meal a day. , This, with all

the corn silage they will eat and with

a ration of hay ought to give you as

much gain as you could get out of the

corn. Perhaps your steers will not

have quite as good a finish. The con-

sensus of opinion is that there is noth-

ing that will put the finish on a fatten-

ing animal quite equal to corn. How-

ever, I don’t believe it would make any

difference in the price. You are feed—

ing now a splendid growing, fattening

ration and I believe the cheapest one

that you could possibly get, taking the

price of all foods into consideration.





FITTING HORSES POI; MARKET.





 





It is often, desirable to give horses at

little extra attention before they are

offered for sale, either at a public sale

or otherwise. An animal in a nice fat

condition always brings a better price

than one which appears to be in a run-

down condition, and one will more

than be repaid for the expense of get-

ling the animals in good marketable

shape.



When it is the desire to make large

gains daily, heavy grain feeding will

have to be practiced and this means

the cutting down of the hay supply.

Twelve or fifteen pounds of hay daily

will be enough for the average horse,

and after that he ought to have just

about all the grain he will clean up

three times a day. If a horse won’t

fatten when fed corn, oats and clover

hay, then his digestive system must

be out of condition. Of course, there

are some horses that are naturally

slow to take on additional flesh and

they must be given individual atten-

tion. The first thing to do with one of

this kind is to have his teeth examin-

ed and put in shape if they are out of

We have in ‘mind one case

where a horse was “fattened” all win-

ter'and he never gained a. pound. In

the spring the advice of a veterinarian

was sought and it was found that the

horse had two long grinders and he

actually couldn’t bring his teeth to:

gether. But even when their teeth are

in perfect condition, there will some-

times be individuals in a. bunch that

will not do well on corn, oats and clo-

ver hay. They have to be 'petted, as it

were, and there are different ways of

doing this. If one can get a. horse of

this kind to eat a warm bran mash

two or three times a week this will





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pecially if you will give him a table‘

Spoonful of sulphur once a week. A





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animals are not otherwise doing well.

Many a good horse gets his digestive





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feeding steers $1.75 corn‘





;;reépond to the ordinary ration. I may ‘ ' '





also be added that one can gametlm'es

get greater gains by feeding Soaked

grain than can be madeby‘ feeding it

dry. Soaking may be done anywhere

from twenty-four .to thirty-six hours.

This applies especially to those cases

where a horse is inclined to have the

colic, under high pressure feeding.

Indiana. W. F. PURDUE.





 





THE SHEEP SHEARING MACHINE.





 





As I have purchased a sheep shear-

ing machine I would appreciate any

information on how to run it. How

close should the sheep be sheared and





how many times a year? Once or

twice?

Marquette 00. R. E. J.





The sheep shearingmachl‘ue is prac-

tical. I don’t think a man can shear

any more sheep in a day than he can

with a common pair of sheep shears if

he is an expert, but the sheep shear-

ing machine allows a novice to shear

sheep without cutting them all to piec-

es and, too, if he is careful he can get

along without cutling the fiber off

twice as is done in many instances

with a 'common pair of sheep shears.



It would be very difficult to tell a

man how to use a sheep shearing ma-

chine without being there and giving

personal instructions. If you can run

a horse clipping machine there is no

reason why you can’t run a sheep

shearing machine. There is more in

getting the knack of holding the sheep

in a proper position than there is in

operating the machine itself. Of

course, one’man must turn the crank

in operating this machine and the oth-

er man must hold the sheep. It works

very nicely if you know how to hold

the sheep. ‘



There is a great .knack in shearing

the sheep. It isn’t everybody that can

do it successfully. The principal thing

to do is to use the left hand back of

the shears in pulling. the skin of the

sheep smooth and tight, then operate

the machine with the right hand and

you will push it always on a smooth

surface. If you don’t pull the skin

smooth and tight, However, you will

always have wrinkles in front of the

knife which will prevent you from do-

ing a good job. There is no danger of

getting the sheep sheared too close

with a sheep shearing machine. What

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off that you can.



Sheep are sheared only once a. year.

The staple on'sheep is none too" long

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SUBJECT TO CHANGE.





 





Conservation of food must be adjust-

ed to meet necessities from time to

time, for neither production, nor allied

demands are constant factors, nor can

any of these factors be anticipated for

long periods in advance in the dis-

turbed conditions in which we at

present live.——U. S. Food Administra-

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Farmers throughout the middle west

are optimistic regarding . the future

market for beef cattle and are buying

as many desirable stockers and feed-

ers ascan be purchased for reasonable

prices on the Chicago market. Unfor-

tunately, they are hampered a great





deal by the practice of the packers in

outbidding them for the better class of

feeders carrying a moderate amOunt

of flesh. The demand for thin cattle

f01 finishing off comes from' such

states as Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Mich-

igan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Kentucky.





«and there is an especially good inquiry





for well bred Angus, Hereford and

Shortho-rn cattle.

feeders are offered on the market, Mr

is there any large ball for them, most

country buyers manifesting a marked





preference for well-bred cattle weigh~





,ln‘g around 800 to 900 pounds for the

spring and summer feeding, While for 7





grazing the demand centers on a good





class of light. Steers weighing around ‘

'450 to 700 pounds,





Not many heavy .
Farrowing timelisl the most critical

season for the swine herd. At no other

-. time will care and attention pay great-





er returns. Results of several months

of labor-and care may be lost by neg-

lect atthis period. Emphasis is justly

placed on prolificacy of ' brood sows,

but the number of pigs which they far-

row’ is not the most important consid-

eration. The number they raise deter-

mines ”whether the sow has been kept

at a profit or loss. The sow. which

farrows five pigs and raises all of them

is more profitable than the one which

farroWs fifteen and saves two or three.

The disposition of the mother has





much to do with the number of pigs





she will raise. The way she is hand-

led influences her disposition and, cen-

sequently, .the results-that maybe ex-

pected. L. A. Weaver, of the Univer-





'sity of' Missouri College of Agriculture,





offers the following suggestions on the

care of sows at farrowing time:

Strict account should be kept of the

breeding dates and a week or so be.

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box containing some warm bricks cov-

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twenty-four hours after farrowing. The

pigs are not able to take much milk,

and the milk flow should not be stim-

ulated for the first few days. The sow

will be more or less feverish and

should have all the water she will

drink but will not need feed for a day

or so. If the weather is cold, it is

well'to take the chill off the water be-

fore giving it to her. 'The first feed

should be the same kind that she re-

ceived before she farrowed and should

be fed in' small amounts as a thin slop.

The feed may be gradually increased





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the quarters where she is to farrow.

The feed just before farrowing should

be the same kind that will be fed while

the sow is suckling her pigs. This

feed should contain plenty of protein

and should also be laxative in, nature.

A ration of corn fifty per cent, shorts

twenty-five per cent, bran fifteen per

cent, linseed oil meal ten per cent,

should give good results; and while it.





is not recommended as the best ration





it can be taken as an example, and

similar rations may be used success-

fully. A few days before the sow far-





'rows the amount of the ration should





be reduced somewhat. If this is done,

and a. laxative feed is fed, the sow will

come up to farrowing time without

fever and will, for this reason, not be

apt to injure the pigs by her own rest-

lessness. '



The quarters should be warm

enough that excessive bedding will not

be required. If too much bedding is

provided the pigs may becomehidden

in it and smothered and crushed. A

bushel or more of wheat chaff or "cut

straw will be suflicient. After the sow





' farrows it may be‘necessary to change





the bedding, but the amount need not

be increased. Dry bedding is more





' important than the amount of bedding.





It should be changed often enough-to

maintain a dry bed.



Individual cots will be found valu-

able for keeping the sow's away from

other hogs at farrowing time. Usually





’ the less the sow, is disturbed when she

iis farrowing, the better.





ant that one be on hand, but unless





, she needs assistance, keep aWay‘ from.

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milk until the sow receives all she will

eat of a good, laxative, milk-producing

feed. Ordinarily about two weeks

should be taken to get her on full feed.

After the pigs are old enough to take

all the milk the sow can produce, she

should be fed liberally since there is

no better way of feeding pigs than

through the mother. '





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The boys of Caledonia have set a

good record for the boys of the re-

mainder of the state, in the starting of

their calf club. These boys, eleven in

number, have already started work

with eleven pure-bred Guernsey calves

purchased from Waukesha county,

Wisconsin. Their club is called the

"caledonia Junior Guernsey Breeders’

Association,” and they have plans .un-

der way for making their community a

second Waukesha county. At their last

meeting they voted to take in one new

member, making their total an even

dozen. Keep your eye on Caledonia.

They also voted to raise Early Wonder

beans this next year to help pay off

the notes given for the calves.



The results thus far seem to indi-

cate that good results are to be expect-

ed from' sheep this coming year. The

boys already at work with sheep clubs





are all doing nicely. ‘ Now is the time





to getstarted. Good‘ewes can still be





purchased and in almost every case





the banks are, willing. to finance the

purchase of sheep for these clubs. If

a. boy starts now with bred ewes, he

can start paying back his note with

the income from‘the 4wobl next spring

and he will have this increase in lambs

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A man with a weak heart would

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weights, levers or "Clock work. ” It does

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important one. Not all cows milk alike

and the Perfection recognizes this fact.



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cow ’3 teats, which 13 nature’s way, and

the poasibility of adjusting the machine

to suit different cows are two of the magi

points in which the Perfection excels

other milking machines. .





Newman Bros., Ell: Grove, Cal, write:

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would not be allowed to use any machine that would

injure a. cow '3 teats or udder or adversely efioct the

bacteria count. We have milked entirely by ma-

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to all concerned. including the cows. . One man with

ordinary intelligence is doing with the machine what

it required three men to do in the old way. we

would convict ourselves of being either philanthro-

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We are familiar with most makes 'of milking ma<

chines and have tried out several of them. The

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suction and squeeze can be changed instantly and ad-

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Perfection will milk more cows in a given length of

time. Third: The Perfection pulsator is more simple;

has fewer wearing parts and is easier to adjust.

Fourth: The teat cup rubbers last much lenger than

on one other machine which we tried. I cannot un-

dcrstand the dairyman. who modern in every respect,

will go on milking by hand when he could cut

expenses and make dairying more attractive. to say

nothing of sanitation. by using a Perfection Milking

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Every rat on your place, according to ex-‘l/

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during the coming year. It is no un-



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rats and great numbers of mice. The resulting loss amounts

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VERY dairyman that is up- to—da-te,

E knows all of the fine points about

judging cattle. That is, the large

twisted milk veins, large udder with

well placed teats, wedge shade body

and other markings which go to. Show

that a cow is a good animal for the

rpose which one wants her for. But,

Ware other things which are nec-

essary to know when one has to buy

a. cow. '



There is the risk one must take

when getting a strange animal—tuber-

culosis. There are not, to the ordinary

purchaser at least, any external signs

which would give him a clew to her

being tubercular. Of course, if she

was so bad that she was going to die

within a very short while, then there

might be some indications that all was

not all right. But a cow in that con-

dition would not be up for sale. It is

the cow that is apparently well, and

still has tuberculosis which 'will de-

velop, that the buyer makes the mis-

take when purchasing. There seems

to be only one way that one can pro-

tect himself when he is buying strange

cows; that is to know that the cow has

been tested recently. Unless one is

getting a cow very cheap it does not

pay to take a. chance getting an untest-

ed cow from strangers. And then, if a

cow is sold too cheaply, then is the

time to suspect that there must be

something wrong somewhere, or she

would not be sold cheap!



One thing that I always do 'when I

am looking a, cow over that is for sale,

is to feel her udder all over. I bought

a cow once that I neglected to do that

to, and after getting her home I found

there were lumps in her udder. While

I never have had any bother from

them, I do not think that it. is well to

buy a cow with such; they may de-

velop into something serious.



I do not remember of ever reading in

any book about trying a cow's teats,

to see if she milks easy. I have learn-

ed that to have a hard milker, is try-

ing on one’s patience. So I always try

each teat to see if they are easy to get

the milk out of.



Of course, there are supposed to be

ways to tell how old a cow is by look-

ing for the rings on her horns. The

first ring is supposed tomean three

years and each other one represents

another year. But there has to be

more or less judgment used with this

method, I have found. Especially if

the horns have been broken or worn a

lot. Then again, there are many cows

that are without horns. I always look

at the front teeth, which, if nice and

even, I would be more apt to feel that

she was not very old, as old cows some-

times have teeth that are well worn

off or brokeni But with all these ways

to tell, one must do a lot of “sizing

up” also, as one old farmer told me he

did when he bought cows. I ’do not

remember of ever finding a. bow over





F there is such an animal as a

I "grain substitute” for dairy cows

that can be grown on the farm, the

dictates of economy force us to get

acquainted with it: The purpose of any

so-called grain substitute 'is to furnish

more protein than is ordinarily found

in the silage and hay. For this pur~

pose, it is obvious that the legumes

in some form must be relied upon.

Viewed from almost any angle, soy

beans planted in corn come the near-

est to providing the grain substitute

than any other combinatiOn I know of.

The ‘very factthat the‘ only added ex-5

[lease of this procedure is the cost of

the seed and the eXtra time of plant-





 





ing makes them still more desirable,





By CHAS E RiCHARDSON





“fences like a deer.





ten or twelve years old that was for

sale. After'that age it seems [to be

easy for the, owner to forget. Unless

one has a particular reason, it is well

not to buy an old cow; if a young cow

is bought and does not suit it is much

easier to- get rid of her than an older

one. '



If one can buy a cow just before she

“comes in” there is a better chance

then to get some money back that has

been'invested; the calf is worth some-

thing. And then again, she can be

taken care of and one can get the full

benefits from her, where, if she was

bought later on. she may have dropped

off in her milk flow, enough so that to

get her to do her best, one would have

to wait until she freshens again.



If one buys a cow that is fresh or

about to freshen there is less chance

that she is an aborter. Purchasing a

cow that has had her calf for some

months, or one that has had her calf

just Sold (‘2) makes the risk of getting

a cow that has abortion greater; Once

abortion gets into a herd, it is hard to

get it out. There is no test for abor-

tion. It sometimes takes years to get

it out of a herd. Of course, if one can

buy from a reliable owner the chances

are lessened, but one cannot be too

careful.



When one buys a cow that is perfect

in every way, that is the time to “look

out.” She may be a “sucker,” or per-

haps she is “breechyff that is, jump

01‘ maybe she will

kick you off the stool when she has to

be milked



Really, the only right way to build

up a herd is to raise your own stock

from a pure-bred bull. Then you know

somewhere near what you are doing.

But to go out and buy a good cow,

now-a-days is a “game of chance,” ev-

en to the experienced.



A scheme that I have when I want

to buy a cow is as follows: I go into

the barn of the owner of a cow that is

for sale. I look her over carefully and

let him tell his story. I feel, though,

that he is selling the cow that he

thinks is the poorest in his herd. I

look over the other cows and ask about

them. Generally I can find one or two

that look pretty good to me. The

chances are that they are the ones

that he does not want to sell. Then I

feel that if he wants to keep them they

must be all right and I try to get him

to set a price; I try to buy one of

them. Even at a better price, they are

generally worth more. I reason that

the seller wants money. He picks

out the poorest cow to sell, as cheap

as he can. If I offer a good price for

a good cow and he needs the money, I

may get a good co‘ur rather than take

chances on the cheap one. I have suc-

ceeded mapy times in getting nice ani<

mals by trading this way. I would

rather pay more and be sure than take

chances and perhaps lose.





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Spring Dairy Problems





By I. J. MATHEWS





not to mention the better quality of

the resulting silage. Corn-soy bean

silage is much higher in protein than

ordinary corn silage and it is the ex-

perience of dairymen feeding“ it, that

much less grain is required for the

same milk production than when feed-

ing corn silage alone.



There are a few general points that

should be known before one starts in

to plant the soy beans with the. corn.

In the first place, while the beans can

be put in" through the fertilizer attach-

ment... theyar'e best sown through (a.

special soy bean attachment. ’We have





found that ”the correct amount is about > I

ten pounds of seed to the acre an it ..





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OW, more than at any other season of the year, the kind of ration





I \1 you feed your dairy cows is of the greatest importance. They have



. . been on dry feed for several monthsand apt to be. showmg a dropping off in their -»

mllk Production. They should have a ration of exceptlonal PALATABILITY and par- ; 3

ticular y one containing the WIDEST VARIETY of grain products which are high in quality of both carbo-

hydrate and protein content — a ration that will “whet” the appetites and induce maximum production " ‘

over long milking periods. .

In SCHUMACHER FEED and BIG “Q” DAIRY RATION you have a combination of milk producing 5

materials which are most ideal. Them furnish the five essentials of a successful dairy ration—PALABILITY—DIGEST— ;





ABILITY—VARIETY—NUTRITlO and BULK, so scientifically balanced that your cows will relish them day after day,

L year In and year out, and maintain their maximum flow and keep in vigorous, healthy condition.





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SCHUMACHER FEED has been the “stand-by” and standard of dairy feeds for years. It has to it’s credit more World’s

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combined. 0 27 World’s Champion Records to its credit — 20 were on YEARLY production -— and you know that

LONG DISTANCE PRODUCTION means Increased LONGER profits for you.



Fed in conjunction with BIG “Q“ DAIRY RATION—our new high protein feed—you have a mixture which can be made

suitable for any cow, in any lactation condition. The secret of the exce tional merit of SCHUMACHER is in the fact

that it supplies the ENERGY, STAMINA, “BACK- BONE” VIGOR “S AND-UP-ABILITY” so Vitally necessary for

long milking periods. ’

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Who are paying for Republic Trucks

whether they buy them or not





T the present prices of feed you cannot afford horses for the

little hauling work they can do in comparison with Republic

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are now paying the difference between horses and what you could

save. That difference would soon pay for a Republic Truck.





The Republic“eats”only while it works—does as much as several teams

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This Huge Concrete Tank Furnishes The “Mexoil,” First Steel Ship Launched in South. Other Similar Ships Senator Wadsvmrth Trying Out New

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lderstand, Jaimihr, what that might be

——you will bring to me at once.”



“It shall be done, General Sahib.”



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pect your errand. No one must see

you enter or leave that room.”



“No one,” the Indian repeated.



General Crandall went to a wall safe

set by the side of the double doors,

turned the combination, and opened it.

He took from a drawer therein a bunch

of keys, selected one, and passed it to

Jaimihr Khan.



“The utmost care, remember,”

warned again.



“Is it likely I should fail you this

time, General Sahib, when so many

times I have succeeded?”



“Make the search complete.” Gen-

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question. “‘But return as quickly as

you can. I shall keep Captain Wood-

house here until you do so. You must

report to me before he leaves this

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“When the moment arrives, your

servant shall fly, General Sahib,” the

Indian replied, and withdrew.



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deal of faith in your Indian,” Bishop

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Jane entered the library almost at the

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“This tea of George’s is preposter-

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was grumbling. “Said we must have

this man from Egypt here at once.”



“If you were English, no tea could be

preposterous,” Jane countered, with a

brave attempt at lightness. She felt

each passing moment a weight adding





to the suspense of the inevitable event. .





“Well, I am going to get it through

with just as soon as I can,” Lady Cran-

dall snapped. Then Jaimihr Khan

threw open the double doors and an-

nounced: “Cap-tain.Wood-house, my

lady.”



“Show him up!” she commanded;

then in complaint to Jane: “Now

where do you suppose that husband of

mine went? Just like him to suggest a

tea and forget to make an appear-

ance.”



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extended hand.



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flowers,” she murmured. The man

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sent them I thought you’d consider me

a bit—prompt.” .



“I am learning something every day

—about Englishmen,” Jane 'managed‘ to

answer, with a ghost of a smile.



“Always something good, I hope,”

Woodhouse was quick to retort, his eyes

eagerly trying to fathom the cause of

the girl’s restraint.



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ringing for Jaimihr Khan, excused her-

self on the necessity of looking after

the tea things. Jone experienced a

quick stab of dread at finding herself

alone with this man. Unexpected op-

portunity was urging a decision which

an hour of solitude in her room had

failed to bring. Yet she trembled, ap-

palled and afraid to speak, before the

very magnitude of the moment’s exig-

ency. “A spy—a spy!” whispered aus-

tere duty. “He will die!” her heart

cried in protest.



“Miss Gerson, it’s good to see you

again and know by your handclasp you

have forgiven me for—for what was

very necessary at the moment—last

night—our meeting in the Splendide.”

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down into hers. The girl caught a deep

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think of it on the boat going home. ”



“I say, I wish you weren ’t always in

that horrid state of mind—on your

way home mentally,” Captain Wood-

house challenged.



“I shall be so in reality day after

tomorrow, I hope,” she replied. "Away

from. all this berldering war and back

in comfortable little old New York.”

The man seemed genuinely grieved at

her announcement.





“New York must be worth while;

but I imagine you have nothing pictur-.

esque—nothing old there. I’ll wager

you haven’t a single converted monas-‘

tery like Government House in all

your city.” ,



“Not many things in New York have

been converted,” she answered, with a

smile, “Our greatest need is for a

municipal evangelist.”



False—all false, this banter. She

knew it to be, and so she believed he

must read it. And the man—his ease

of manner was either that of inno~

cence or of supreme nerve, the second

not less to be admired than the first.

Could it be that behind his serious

eyes, now frankly telling her what she

dared not let herself read in them, lay

duplicity and a spy’s cunning.



“I fancy you New Yorkers suffer

most from newness—~newness right out

of the shop,” she heard him saying.

"But the old things are the best. Just

imagine the monks of long-ago yester-

day toasting themselves before this

ancient fireplace.” He waved toward

the massive Gothic mantel bridging a

Cavernous fireplace. An old chime bell

green with weathering, hung on a low

frame beside the firedogs.



“You’re mistaken; that’s manufac-

tured antiquity,” Jane caught him up.

“Lady Crandall told me last night that

fireplace is just five years old. One of

the preceding governor’s hobbies, it





was.”





Woodhouse caught at her answer

with a quick- lifting of the brows. He

turned again to feast his eyes on the.

girl’s piquant face, even more alluring

now because of the fleeting color that

left her cheeks with a tea rose’s coldaa

ness. .



“Miss Gerson, somthing l have done

or said”-—the man was laboring after

words—~“you are not yourself, and may-

be I am respon—”



She turned from him with a slight

shudder. Her hand was extended in

mute appeal for silence. He waited

while his eyes followed the heaving of

her shoulders under the emotion that

was racking her. Suddenly she faced

him again, and words rushed from her

lips in an abandon of terror:.



“Captain Woodhouse, I know too

much—about you and why you are

here. Oh, more than I want to! Acci-

dent—bad luck, believe me, it is not

my seeking that I know you are a-

a__n ’



He had started forward at her out-

burst, and now he stood very close to

her his gray eyes cold and unchanging.



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On August 29, 1916, fifty tanks were

landed in France. Their arrival in. the

front line was destined to justify the

confidence that had been reposed in

them, and to mark a new period in the

progress of the offensive of the Somme.





INSIDE THE LINES





(Continued from page 362).



“Say it—say the word! I’m not

afraid to hear it,” he commanded

tensely. She drew back from him a

little wildly, her hands fluttering up

as if to fend him off.



“You—you are in great danger this

minute. You were brought here this

afternoon to be trapped—exposed and

made—”



“I was fully aware of that when I

came, Miss Gerson," he interrupted.

"The invitation, coming so suddenly—

so pressing—J think I read it aright.”



“But the promise you gave me last

night,!” Sudden resentment brushed

aside for the instant the girl’s first

flood of sympathy. “That has involved

me with you. Oh, that was unfair—to

make me promise I would not allude to

—-—to our first meeting!”



“Involved you?” He' closed one of

her hands in his as if to calm her and

force more rational speech. “Then you

have been—”



.“Questioned by General Crandall—

about you,” she broke in, struggling

slightly to free her hand. “Questioned

—-—and even bullied and threatened.”

“And you kept your promise?" The

question was put so low Jane could

hardly catch it. She slowly nodded.

“Miss Gerson, you will never have

cause to regret that you did.” Wood-

house pressed her hand with almost

fierce intenseness, then let it go. Her

face was flaming now under the stress

of excitement. She knew tears stood

in her eyes, and was angered at their





being there; he might mistake them.





Woodhouse continued, In the same sup

pressed tone:



“You were on the point of using a

word a minute ago, Miss 'Gerso'n, which

was hard for you to voice because you

thought it an ugly word. You seemed

sure it was the right word to fit me.

You only hesitated out of—ah—decen—

cy. Yet you kept faith with me before

General Crandal’l. May I hope that

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hoped you would not always believe

me as—”



“Not believe!”



the broad ribbon belt she were and

brought out the silver cigarette case.

This she passed to him with a swift

gesture.

“Almer, the Hotel Splendide man,

gave me this today at parade, urging

that I deliver it to you." She was

speaking hurriedly. “By a miracle—

the strangest circumstance in the

world—I learned the massage this cig-r

arette case was to carry to you. Oh,

no, innocently enough on my part—it

came by a chancel must not take the

time to explain.”





“A message from—Almer to me?”

Woodhouse could not conceal the start

her words gave him. He took a step

toward her eagerly.



“Yes, a message.

to protect yourself.

this:



“Informer has denounced you and

Louisa to—-—-”



Her voice died in her throat. Over

Captain Woodhouse’s shoulder she saw

a door open. General Crandall and a

short fat man in olficer’ s uniform en-

tered the library





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CHAPTER XV.

00D afternoon, Captain Wood-

house.” General Crandall came

forward and shook the captain’s

hand cordially. “Miss Gerson, Major

Bishop, of my staff."



Jane acknowledged the introduction.

Major Bishop advanced to the. meet-

ing with Woodhouse expectantly. With

an air of ill-assumed ease, the gover-

nor made them known to each other.



“Major Bishop, your new man in the

signal tower, Captain Woodhouse,

from Wady Haifa. Captain, do you

happen to remember the major? Was

a captain when you were here on the

Rock—Captain in the engineers.”



“I’m afraid we never met,” Wood-

house began easily. “I was here such

a.- short time. Expected to meet Major

Bishop when I reported at his office

this morning, but he was over at the

wireless station, his aid told me."



“Right, Captain!” Bishop chirped,

shaking his subordinate’s hand. "1——

ah—-—imagine this is the first time we’ve

met.” He put the least shade of em-

phasis on the verb. ,



Woodhouse met his eyes boldly.

Lady Crandall, bustling in at this min-‘

ute, directed a. maid where to wheel

the tea wagon, while Jane went to as-





 





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sell/es with Woodhouse sitting between

them Sir Gem-'33. affecting e mi!

geniality, launched: a question:



“Rock look familiar to you, Cap-

tain. 9”



“After a fashion, yes," Woodhouse

answered slowly. “rum three

months‘is so short a time for one to

get a lasting impression."



“Nonsense!” the general repraved





gustily. “Some places you use once

you never forget. This old Rock is

one of them; eh, Bishop?” ,





“I don’ t know, ” the chunky little om-

cer replied. “The powers back home

never give me a chance to get away

and. forget.” There was a pause as

the men sipped their tea. Woodhouse

broke the silence: _



“Man may be stationed In worse

places than Gibraltar.”



“If you mean Egypt, I agree with

you,” Crandall assented. “There six

years.” V



“Were you, General? What sta-

tion?” Woodhouse was cooly stirring

his tea, emphatically at his case. Jane,

her back to the men as she fussed over

the tea. wagon, filled her own cup with

hot water inadvertently. She tried to

laugh over the mistake, but her fingers

trembled as she poured the Water back

into the kettle. ,



“Not on the lazy old Nile, as you

were—lucky dog!” the general return-

ed. “Out on the yellow sands alt—-

Arkowan—a. place in the sun, never

fear!”



The women had their cups now, and

joined the men, sitting a little behind.

Jane caught a shrewd sidewise glance

from the general—a glance that sought

a quick and sure reading of her’ emo-

tions. She poised h'er cup as if ex-

pecting aquestion and the glance turn-

ed aside. But it had warned the girl

that she was not altogether a passive

factor in the situation. She set a, guard

over her features.





"Let me see, Captain Woodhouse”—

it was little Bishop who took up the

probe—"you must have been here in

the days when Craigen was governor

—-saw your papers have it that you

were here three months in nineteen

seven. ”



“Yes, Craigen was governor then,”

Woodhouse answered guardedly.



“You never saw him, General.” Bish-

op turned to Sir George. “Big, bluff,

blusterlng chap, with a voice like the

bull’ of Bashan. Woodhouse, here, he’ll

recognize my portrait.”



Woodhouse smiled—secret disdain

for the clumsy trap was in that smile.



“I’m afraid I do not,” he said. Crai-

gen was considered small, almost a

delicate, man.” He had recognized

the bungling emphasis laid by Bishop

on the Craigen characteristics; and his

answer was pretty safely drawn by

choosing the opposites. Bishop looked

flustered for an instant, then admitted

Woodhouse ivas right. He had con-

fused Sir David Craigen with his pre-

decessor, he said in excuse.



"I fancy I ought to remember the

man. I had tea. in this very room with

him several times,” Woodhouse ven-

tured. He let his eyes rove as if in

reminiscence. “Much the same here

—-as~except, General Crandall, I don't

recall that fireplace.” He indicated

the heavy Gothic ornament on the op-

posite side of the room.



Jane caught her breath under the.

surge of secret elation. The resource

of the man so to turn to advantage a

fact that she had carelessly given him

in their conversation of a few mo

ments back! The girl saw a flicker of

surprise cross General Crandall’s face.

Lady Crandall broke in:



"You have a good memory, after

an, Captain Woodhouse. That fire-

place is fuel: five years 0



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"Did'youlmppen to be present, Cap- '

tam, at the farewell. dinner we gave ‘





little Billy Barnes? I think -it must

have been in the spring you were

here." _



"There were many dinners, Major

Bishop." Woodhouse was carefully se-

lecting his words, and he broke his

sentences with a sip from his. cup.

"Seven years is along time, you know.

‘We had much else to think about in

Egypt than old dinners elsewhere.”



Bishop appeared struck by an inspir-

atiou. He clapped his cup into his sau-

cer with a sudden bang.



“Hang it, man, you must have been

here in the days of Lady Evelyn. Re

member her, don’t you ?” ,



Would I be likely to forget?” the

Captain parried. .Out of the tail of his

eye he had a flash of. Jane Gerson’s

white face, of her eyes seeking his

with a palpitant, hunted look. The

message of her eyes brought to him an

instant of grace in sore trial. ~



“Seven years of Egypt—or of a hot-

ter place—couldn’t make a man forget

her!” The major was rattling on for

the benefit of those who had not come

under the spell of the charmer. “Sir

David Craigen’s wife, and as lovely a

woman as ever came out from Eng-

land. Every man on the Rock lost his

heart that spring. Woodhouse, even in

the three months’ time you must have

fallen like the rest of us.”



“I’d rather not incriminate myself.”

.Woodhouse smiled sagely as he passed

his cup to Lady Crandall to be refilled.



“Don’t blame you," Bishop caught

him up. “A most outrageous flirt, and

there was the devil to pay. Broken

hearts were as thick on the Rock that

year as strawberries in May, including

poor Craigen’s. And after one young

subaltern tried to kill himself—you’ll

remember that, Woodhouse——Sir Davrd

packed the fair charmer off to 'Eng-

land. Then he simply ate his healt

out and—die



“What an affecting picture!” Jane

commented. “One lone woman captur-

ing the garrison of Gibraltar!”



General Crandall rose to set his cup

on the tea wagon. With the most cass





uaI air in the world, he addressed him- l





self to Woodhouse:



“When Sir David died, many of his

effects were left in this house to await

their proper owner’s disposition, and

.Lady Craigen has been—er-«delicate

about claiming them. Among them

was the portrait of Lady Craigen her-

self which still hangs in this room.

Have you recognized it, Captain?”



VVoodhou‘se, whose mind had been

leaping forward, vainly trying to divine

the object of the Lady Evelyn lead,

now knew, and the knowledge left him

beyond his resources. He recognized

the moment of his unmasking. But the

man’s nerve was steady, even in ex-

tremity. He rose and turned to face

the rear wall 01' the library, against

the tapestry of which hung tour oil

portraits in the deep old frames of

heavy gold. Three of these were of





women. A fourth, also the likeness of ‘

a woman, hung over the fireplace. The .





chances were four to one against blind

choice.

(Continued next week).





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suddenly he stopped. For a'half-min- down and went another way.

ute he stood like a. statue. Muskwa

jumped and shook himself.





the grizzly reared himself to his fulllup the green slide.

thrust forward, the senitive muscles of scent to him full and' strong.





nothing, but he heard!





a sound that was new to him, a sound smell!

that had never before been a part of

his life. It was the barking of dogs.



For two minutes Thor sat on his

haunches without moving a muscle of

his great body except those twitching

thews in his nose.



Deep down in this cup under the

mountain it was difiicult even for

sound to reach him. Quickly he swung

down on all fours and made for the

green slope to the southward, at the

top of which the band of sheep had

slept during the preceding night. Musk-

wa hurried after.



A hundred yards up the slope Thor

stopped and turned. Again he reared.

Now Muskwa also faced to the north.

A sudden downward drift of the wind

brought the barking of the dogs to

them clearly.



Less than half a mile away Lang-

don’s pack of trained Airedales were

hot on the scent. Their haying was

filled with fierce excitement which told

Bruce and Langdon, a quarter of a

mile behind them, that they were close

upon their prey.



And even more than it thrilled them



did the tongueing of the dogs thrill

Thor. Again it was instinct that told

hmi a new enemy had come into his

world. He was not afraid. But that

instinct urged him to retreat, and he

went higher until he came to a part

of the mountain that was rough and

broken, where once more he halted.

This time he waited. Whatever the

menace it was drawing nearer with the

swiftness of the wind. He could hear

it coming up the slope that sheltered

the basin from the valley.

The crest of that slope was just

about on a level with Thor’s eyes, and

as he looked the leader of the pack

came up over the edge of it and stood

for a moment outlined against the sky.

The others followed quickly, and for

perhaps thirty seconds they stood rigid

on the cap of the hill, looking down

into the basin at their feet and sniffing

the heavy scent with which it was

filled.





of the dogs seemed scarcely a





tain._ The big grizzly





ed suddenly back,

was behind him.





rock wall.





and reared himself up on his

quarters.





had set.





chosen for himself.





time.





among them. His great. right





slowly at low and terrible growl. Not dred feet below;

of the mountain, giving full tongue ute the remaining nine dogs

again, did he continue his retreat. But scattered.



it was not flight. He was not afraid.

He was going rim—because to go on ers.

was his business.





and the little lake under the mountain. ering.





of fighting. But he was ready to fight. Thor.





He continued to rumble ominously,





and sullen anger.





as big as houses.





low. Once,

from a ledge to a projecting seam of the kill..





 





 





By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOiD





 





He had not finished the violet when Muskwa could not climb it, he came





The haying of the dogs was now

Then be deep down in the basin. Then it began

listened. A sound came to both of to rise swiftly, as if on wings, and

them. In one slow, graceful movement Thor knew that the pack was coming

He stopped again,

He faced the north, his ears and this time the wind brought their

It was

his nostrils twitching. He could smell a scent that tightened every muscle

in his great body and set strange fires



Over the slopes' which they had burning in him like raging furnaces.

climbed the“ had come to him faintly With the dogs came also the man- his head. After that, seeing that Musk-





He traveled upward a little faster

now, and the fierce and joyous yelping





dred yards away when he entered a

small open space in the wild upheaval mad.

of rock. On the mountain-side was a mouths, their wiry crests stood up like

wall that rose perpendicularly. Twen- brushes, and their snarling fangs were

ty feet on the other side was a sheer bared to the” red gums.



fall of a hundred feet, and the way _ _ .

ahead was closed with the exception challengmg mm to stay, to ”Sh them,

of a trail scarcely wider than Thor’s to catch them if he could—and in their

body by a huge crag of rock that had excitement they put ten yards of open

fallen from the shoulder of the moun- space behind them.

led Muskwa. this space, as he had measured the dis-

close up to this crag and the break tance between him and the young bull





that opened through it, and then turn- caribou a few days before.

so that Muskwa without so much as a mark of warn-





In the face of the ing, he darted out upon his enemies

peril that was almost upon them a. with a suddenneSS that sent them fly-

mother—bear would have driven Musk- mg for the” lives.

wa into the safety of a crevice in the

Thor did not do this.





The pack was coming full tongue.

Fifty yards beyond the bulge the dogs rowed trail,

were running shoulder to shoulder, loose with fresh voices he continued to

and a moment later the first of them tear at his victim until the rock was

rushed into the arena which Thor had smeared with blood, hair and entrails.

The bulk of the Then he rose to his feet and looked

horde followed so closely that the first again for Muskwa.

dogs were flung under him as they ed 'up in a shivering ball two feet in

strove frantically to stop themselves in the crevice. It





It had all happened failed to do.

until the pack‘swept down into the cup in half a minute, and in that half-minh turned and pursued the pack headlong





Swift as lightning they circled about quarter.

and in him there was burning a slow the grizzly, spreading themselves on of the mountain more easily and quick-

He buried himself their forefeet, ready to spring aside or 1y by quartering the face of it on a

among the rocks; he followed a ledge backward to avoid sudden rushes, and back-trail, but this would have thrown

with Muskwa slinking close at his giving voice now to that quick, fierce the wind too far under him. As long

heels; he climbed over a huge scrap of yapping which tells hunters their Quar- as he held the wind he was safe, un-

rock, and twisted among boulders half ry is at bay. This was their business less the hunters made an effort to

But not once did he -—-to harass and torment, to retard checkmate his method of escape by de-

go where Muskwa could not easily fol- flight, to stop their: prey again and touring and cutting him off.



when he drew himself again until their masters came to finish

It was a 'quite fair and thrill- the tapmost ridge of rick, from which

standstone higher up, and found that in; sport tor the bear and the dogs.





. . «a; .

" Thor also had his.

. vain rushes, in which the Airedales

' eluded him .by their superior quick-

. ness, he‘backed slowly-toward the huge

wreck 1' fbesid'e Iwhich 'Mukua was

crouching, and as he retreated the

dogs hdvanced. '



Their increased barking and Thor’s

evident inability to drive them away

or tear them‘to pieces terrified Musk-

wa. more than ever. Suddenly he turn-

ed tail and darted into a crevice in the

ro'ck behind him. '



Thor continued to back until his

great hips. touched the stone. Then he

swung his head sideWise and looked

for the cub. Not a hair of Muskwa

was to be seen. Twice Thor turned





 





was was gone, he continued to retreat

until be blocked the narrow passage

that was his back door to safety.





The dogs were now barking like

They were drooling, at their





hun-





Nearer and nearer they came to him,

Thor measured





And then,





Thor did not stop. He kept on.





He Where the rock wall bulged out the

fronted the danger that was coming, trail narrowed to five feet, and he had '





hind measured this fact as well as the dis-

tance. He caught the last dog, and





Twenty feet away the trail he had drove it down under his paw. As it

followed swung sharply around a pro- was torn to pieces the Airedale emit-

jecting bulge in the perepndicular wall,

and with eyes that were now red and ed Bruce and Langdon as they hurried

terrible, Thor watched the trap he panting and wind- broken up the slide





ted piercing cries of agony that reach-





that led from the basin.





Thor dropped on his belly in the nar—

and as the pack broke





The cub was curl-





may be that Thor

thought he had gone on up the moun-





With a roar Thor launched himself tain, for he nost no time now in re-





arm treating from the scene of battle. He





swept out and inward, and it seemed had caught the wind again. Bruce and

to Muskwa that he had gathered a half Langdon were sweating,

of the pack under his huge body. With smell came to him strongly.

a single crunch of his jaws he broke

the back of the foremost hunter. From tion to the eight dogs yapping at his

a second he tore the head so that the heels, except to pause now and then

windpipe trailed out like a red rope.

He rolled himself forward, and be. tinued in his retreat the Airedales be-

fore the remaining dogs could recover came bolder, until finally one of them

During those thirty seconds Thor from their panic he had caught one a. sprang ahead of the rest and buried

watched his enemies without moving, blow that sent him flying over the edge his fangs in the grizzly’s leg.

while in his deep chest there gathered 0f the, precipice to the TOCkS a. hun-





and their





For ten minutes Thor paid no atten-





and swing his head about. As he con-





. This accomplished what barking had

With another roar Thor





had for fifty yards over the back-trail, and

five precious minutes were lost before





But Langdon’s Airedales were fight. he continued upward toward the shoul-

To the last dog they had came of der of the mountain.



He was not seek- fighting stock, and Bruce and Metoosin

ing trouble; he had not desire even to had trained them until they could be tion the pack would have triumphed.

defend his possession of the meadow hung up by their ears without Whimp- but each time that Langdon and Bruce

The tragic fate of three of gained ground the wind warned Thor

There were other meadows and other their number frightened them no more by bringing to him the warm odor of

lakes, and he was not naturally a lover than their own pursuit had frightened their bodies.





Had the wind been in another direc-





And the grizzly was care-

ful to keep 'that wind from the right

He could have gained the top





It took him half an hour to reach





point he would have to 'b





After three for four,
I and reveal himselt '92s he ' made mains:





two, or three hundred yards up the

shale side of the mountain to the back-

bone of the 'range.'



.When Thor made this break he put

on a sudden spurt of, speed that left

the‘dogs thirty or forty yards behind

him. For two or three minutes he was

clearly outlined on the face of the

mountain, and during the last minute

of those three he was splendidly pro-

filed against a carpet. of pure-white

snow, without a shrub or a rock to

conceal him from the eyes below.



Bruce and Langdon saw him at five

hundred yards, and began firing. Close

over his head Thor heard the curious

ripping wail of the first bullet, and an

instant later came the crack of the

rifle.



A second shot sent. up a spurt of

snow five yards ahead of him. He

swung sharply to the right. This put

him broadside to the mar‘ksmen. Thor

heard a third shot—~and that was all.



While the reports were still echoing

among the crags and peaks something

struck Thor a terrific blow on the flat

of his skull, five inches back of his

right ear. It was as if a club had

descended upon him from out of the

sky. He went down like a log.



Bchre he could rise from where he

had fallen the dogs were upon him,

tearing at his throat and neck and

body. With a roar Thor sprang to his

feet and shook them off. He struck

out savagely, and Langdon and Bruce

could hear his bellowing as they stood

with fingers on the triggers of their

rifles waiting for the dogs to draw

away far enough to give them the final

shots.



Yard by yard Thor worked his way

upward, snarling at the frantic pack,

defying the man-smell, the strange

thunder, the burning lightning—even

death itself, and five hundred yards be-

low Langdon cursed despairingly as

the dogs hung so close he could not

fire. >



Up to the very Sky-line the. blood-

thirsting pack shielded Thor. He dis-

appeared over the. summit. The dogs

followed. After that their having came

fainter and fainter as the big grizzly

led them swiftly away from the men-

ace of man in a long and thrilling race

from which more than one was dOOm-





ed not to return.





CHAPTER XIV.



N his hiding-place Muskwa heard



I the last sounds of the battle on



the ledge.’ The crevice was a V-

shaped crack in the rock. and he had

wedged himself as far back in this as

he could. He saw Thor pass the open-

ing of his refuge after he had killed

the fourth dog; he heard the click,

click, click of his claws as he retreated

up the trail; and at last he knew that

the grizzly was gone, and that the en-

emy had followed him.



Still 'he was afraid to come out.

These strange pursuers that had come

up out of the valley had filled him with

a deadly terror. Pipoonaskoos had

not made him afraid. Even the big

black bear that Thor killed had not

terrified him as these red-lipped, white-

fanged strangers had frightened him.

So he remained in his crevice, crowd-

ed as far back as he could get, like a

wad shoved in a gun-barrel.



He could still hear the tongueing of

the dogs when other andinearer sounds

alarmed him. - Langdon and Bruce

came rushing around the bulge in the

mountain wall, and at-sight ’of the dead

dogs they stopped. Langdon cried out

in horror.



He was not more than twenty feet

from MuskWa. Fer the first time the

cub heardhuman voices; for the first

time the sweaty odor of men filled his

nostrils, and he scarcely breathed in

his new fear. 'Then one of the hunt-

ers'stood directly in front of the crack



.. in? which he was hidden, and he saw





3 ; his first man. : A moment later the





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more and more distant until finally he

could not hear them at all. It was

about three o’clock—the siesta hour in

the mountains, and it was very quiet.



For a long time Muskwa did not

move. He listened; And he heard

nothing. Another fear was growing in

him—the fear of losing Thor. With

every breath he drew he was hoping

that Thor would return. For an hour

he remained wedged in the rock. Then

he heard a cheep, cheep, cheep, and a

tiny striped rock-rabbit came out on

the ledge where Muskwa could see him

and began cautiously investigating one

of the slain Airedales.



This gave Muskwa courage. He

pricked up his ears a bit. He whim-

pered softly, as if beseeching recogni-

tion and friendship of the one tiny

creature that was near to him in this

dreadful hour of loneliness and fear.



Inch by inch he crawled out of his

hiding-place. At last his little round,

furry head was out, and he looked

about him. The trail was clear, and

he advanced toward the rock-rabbit.

\Vith a shrill chatter the striped mite

darted for its own stronghold, and

Muskwa was alone again.



For a few moments he stood unde-

cided, sniffing the air that was heavy

with the scent of blood, of man, and

of Thor; then he turned up the moun-

tain.



He knew Thor had gone in that di-

rection, a d if little Muskwa possessed

a mind and a soul they were filled with

but one desire now—to overtake his

big friend and protector. Even fear of

dogs and men, unknown quantities in

his life until today, was now over-

shadowed by the fear that he had lost

Thor.



He did not need eyes to follow the

trail. It was warm under his nose, and

he started in the zigzag ascent of the

mountain as fast as he could go. There

were places where progress was diffi-

cult for his short legs, but he kept on

valiantly and hopefully, encotu'aged by





.Thor’s fresh scent.





It took him a good hour to reach the

beginning of the naked shale that

reached up to the belt of snow and the

sky—line, and it was four o’clock when

he started up those last three hundred

yards between him and the mountain-

top. Up there he believed he would

find Thor. But he was afraid, and he

continued to whimper softly to him-

self .as he dug his little claws bravely

into the shale.



Muskwa did not look up to the crest

of the peak again after he had started.

To have done that it would have been

necessary for him to stop and turn side-

wise, for the ascent was steep. And

so, when Muskwa was halfway to the

top, it happened that he did not see

Langdon and Bruce as they came over

the sky-line; and he could not smell

them, for the wind was blowing up in-

stead of down. Oblivious of their pres-

ence he came to the snow-bélt. Joy-

ously he smelled of Thor’s huge foot-

prints, and followed them. And above

him Bruce and Langdon quietly wait-

ed, crouched low, their guns on the

ground, and each with his thick flannel

shirt stripped off and held ready in his

hands. When Muskwa was less than

twenty yards away they came tearing

down upon him like an avalanche.



Not until Bruce was upon him did

Muskwa recover himself sufficiently to

move. He saw and realized danger in

the last fifth of a second, and as Bruce

flung himself forward, his shirt out-

spread like .a. net, Muskwa darted to

one side. Sprawling on his face, Bruce

gathered up a shirtful of snow and

clutched it to his breast, believing for

a moment that he had the cub, and. at

this same instant Langdon made a

drive that entangled him with his

friend’s long legs and sent him turning

somersaults down the snow-slide. '



(Continued next week).





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sticking to a rut because they are

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they with two or three sickly





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under the can and the, whole thing»





 





 





potatoes at four months, frosting from

cake, and in fact “tastes of every-

thing.” When you try to tell her the

baby should have nothing but milk,

she silences you with,



“That’s the way I’ve fed all my

children.” . .



You wonder why she can’t see by

looking at her anaemic little ones that

she has made a mistake in feeding and

should change her ways. But she

doesn’t seem to see it.





In every'walk of life you see misfits

and wonder why the dead failure

doesn’t try a new tack—~mighty good

cooks are trying to teach school, ruin-

ing tempers and spoiling lives other

than their own, when they might be

useful and happy baking bread. Good

dressmakers are fuming away in the

kitchen. First-class milliners are try-

ing to teach music, and good musi-

cians are measuring ribbon in depart-

ment stores. Many a man who would

make a fine college professor is try-

ing to run a business and all these

misfits keep on when it is perfectly

patent to everyone that they are mak-

ing a mistake. Why won’t they

change?

knowledge failure? A better pride

would teach them to acknowledge their

mistake in choosing a vocation, and

getting into the right sphere.



Situations arise in the home which

could be cleared up if someone would

make the effort. How often home be-

comes a hateful place, just because no

one takes the first step towards clear-

ing up misunderstandings. I can un-

derstand difficulties arising between

husband and wife, but I never could

understand letting them continue.

Drifting is a word I can’t tolerate—it’s

the cause of too many failures.



DEBORAH;





STARTING PLANTS IN THE WIN-

DOW.





 





BY 0‘. H. CHESLEY.



A considerable number of plants

may be started in the kitchen and liv-

ing-room windows if one does not care

to bother with a hot-bed. Here is a

plan that works well and fills the bill

for the ordinary home garden. The

shade is taken down from the window

and three shelves, to hold boxes eight-

een inches wide, are made. One of

these is on the sill, and two are at reg-

ular distances above. Early tomatoes,

eggplants, peppers, cabbages, cauli-

flower and celery are planted in March.

Of course, there are also several vari-

eties of flowers planted at about the

same time., Two windows, one for

vegetables and one for flowers, will

give an ample supply for the ordinary

home garden



For plants that do not transplant

readily, such as melons, lima beans

and cucumbers, the plan of using old

tin cans has been adopted. By melting

the solder over a hot fire, the top and

bottom of the can comes off readily.

The bottomless cans are then set close-

ly together in the box and filled with

soil. A few seeds are planted in each

can and then thinned down to one

when of sumcient size. When the

time comes to set the plants in the

ground, there is no disturbance of the

A thin bit of heard is slipped





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mato plants when the fruit is desired

very early. The plants may be grown

to a large size, then hardened off and

simply transferred» to the garden.

There is no delay in adjusting itself to

new conditions, as no roots have been

disturbed.





DIET FOR THE SECOND-YEAR?





 





In feeding young children no sud-

den changes should_be made in the

diet unless ordered by a physician.

New foods should be introduced one at

a time, and onlyga little fed for the

first few feedings so that the effect

may be watched. During the second

year the number of meals should be

reduced, if possible, from five to four

per day, the last to be given at six

o’clock and the baby then put to bed.

A healthy child will usually make this

change for himself. In the case of

delicate infants it is sometimes better

to give a small amount of food at more

frequent intervals, but the average

child does better with fewer ‘and larg-

er meals, giving the stomach time to

rest.



During the second year the follow-

ing foods may be safely introduced:

Broths, beef, mutton and chicken; the





milk from oyster stew or creamed veg— ,





etable soups with stale-bread, toast

or crackers; baked potatoes, bits of

well shredded meat if there are plenty

of teeth; creamed carrots, mashed

fine; baked apples, prune pulp, tapioca

pudding, the juice from roasts or steak

on bread or potato; chopped spinach,

and always eggs and plenty of milk.



Never give tea or coffee to any child

at any age. They do not need stimu-

lants, and the effect on the nervous

system is very bad. The proper drink

is milk, or water. A quart of milk a

day in addition to solid foods is not

too much.



Give plenty of well cooked cereals,

rice, oat meal and wheat cereals. The

wheat cereals should be cooked in the

double boiler at least one hour; the

cat meal two hours.





SHOULD MOTHERS STUDY?





 





BY JULIA R. DAVIS.



Even in this day of enlightenment

we meet people who ask such ques-

tions as, “Should mothers take time to

study?” or, “Do mothers need to study

to accomplish their daily duties in the

best way?”



Need to study? To be sure. _Most

urgently she needs to study, to think,

to read, to meet with other mothers——

to do everything possible to learn the

best methods of keeping her children,

well, happy and upright.



There is more and more good infor-

mative reading prepared, by experts,

for the mother’s help. And many

not all,

are taking advantage of such aids. .It

is a well known fact that it is the best

educated and the most intelligent

mothers who, feel the need of assist-

ance, and eagerly read everything that





"offers new and helpful suggestions.





Mothers’ meetings are doing much

to help by making possible the ex-

change of personalieXperlences. There





are scores or little things "plans for,





ing them of bad habits, methods of





teaching them valuable lessons in de-

portment, instilling love for God and

urity of life, which mothers could ex-

change with incalculable help to each

other. L

The character and mental ‘spiritual

life of the child is to be stimulated and





guided for many years almost solely’





by the mother. Surely, in her effort

to make the finest and best boys and

girls of her sons and daughters the

mother.needs every good help.



Then it is the imperative duty of

mothers to study the best methods of

keeping the family healthy and strong,

and of stimulating the mind of her

child, directing its taste, and training

its morals.



When we realize how easily the ig-

norant mother may cause a child to

suffer all its life physically, we can





 





 





For the warm days of summer the lit-

tle girl should feel. dressed for the

most important occasions in this

frock of embroidered batiste. Edg.

ing and bands of filet crochet might.

be used effectively, and the tiny

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form some estimate of how easily the

neglect of thoughtful training may

cause it to suffer morally.



The best mothers are taking time to

study, and by putting the home on a.

working basis they find that this time





can be taken without neglecting the‘





other duties. In truth, the mother

needs far more than the best training.

She needs that priceless sixth sense

that will enable‘her to apply, her learn-

ing to'the actual conditions of life.





 





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of the MichiganvAgricultural College,

can render double. service to the state

and nationjf they will use potatoes as

a partial substitute for wheat flour.

“We are confronted with the neces-

sity for conserving our wheat supply,

of which we haveitoo little, and of

making use of our potatoes, of which

we have a surplus; W'e can do both

by making less use of one and more of

the other. Bread we must have, and





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isfactorily used: -



“Potato Muffins.—‘-Four tablespoons

of shortening, four tablespoons of sug-

ar, one egg, two-thirds of a cup of

mashed potato, two cups flour, four tea-

spoons of. baking powder, half a tea-

spoon of salt and one cup of milk.

Cream the shortening and sugar, add

the well-beaten egg and then the pota-

toes. Mix thoroughly, add milk and

then the flour and baking powder,

which have been sifted together. Bake

in well-greased muffin pans for about

thirty minutes.



“Potato Biscuits.+0ne cup mashed

potato, one cup of flour, four fleaspoons

ofbaking powder, half teaspoon salt,

two tablespoons of shortening, and

milk to make a stiff dough. Min and

sift flour, baking powder and salt,

chop in the shortening or rub it in

with the tips of the fingers, add the

potato and milk, enough to make a

very stiff dough. Turn onto a floured

board, roll out to three-fourths of an

inch thickness, cut, place in shallow

pan and bake in quick oven.”





 





CHOP SUEY.





 





Household Editor.—Below is. giVen a

recipe for chop suey in answer to re-

quest given by Mrs. O. R. E. in issue

of February 23. ,



Chop Susy—One package of spa-

ghetti, one can of tomato soup, one

pound of hamburg steak, one large

onion. Boil spaghetti in salt water





and drain. Fry hamburg steak and-





chopped onion (not too well done),

season well with salt and pepper. Add

spaghetti and tomato soup and bake





.about thirty minutes—C. M.





One and a half pounds of fresh beef,

one cup of rice, one large bunch of cel-

ery, one quart of tomatoes. Boil rice

in salted water until done, grind beef

in food chopper and spread over the

bottom of pan. (1 use a four—quart

granite pan). Season with salt and

pepper; put a few bits of suet with

beef. Spread cooked rice over the raw

beef. Cutcelery in small pieces over

the rice then pour tomatoes over cel-

ery. Bake one and a half hours in the

oven—Mrs. R. H. W.





HOME QUERIES.





 





Please publish in your paper a recipe

for canning fresh beef, and oblige.—

Reader.



Canning Beet—Cut in pieces of

about three-quarters of a pound weight

.and roast or boil slowly for a half an

hour. Cut into small pieces, removing

gristle and bone, pack into hot jars,

boil down liquid in pan one-half and

fill jars. .



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“Cleaning Beds in March,” in your

February 16 issue, because -I came so

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too, by just such a performance that





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nips and vegetables if the cooked them

as my mother taught me. Parsnips.——





Wash and scrape, cut in thin circles;





boil in salted water until tender. Pour

off water, cover with milk, season with





salt, pepper and butter. Thicken with ,





two or three crackers, rolled fine. Boil

up and serve. Vegetable Oysters.—

Cook the same, only do not pour off

water they were cooked in. Add one

tablespoonful of shredded codfish to

them while boiling—M. M. C.



If Mrs. O. R. C. will boil the toma-

toes, butter, salt and pepper in a stew

pan, when they are thoroughly boiled

put in half a teaspoon of soda to one

quart of tomatoes; in a greased kettle

put as much milk as desired and let

come to ’a boil then add milk to the

tomatoes but do not let. it boil again,

and she will always have a nice soup.

—-Mrs. F. n. ' ' -



If the party Who has trouble with

lime gathering inside of her teakettle

will simply boil soft water in it for a





few hours Occasionally the trouble.





will vanish.-E. A. S:





NEW CLOTHES FROM OLD.





 





The College of Agriculture, Univer-

sity of Vi’isc‘onsin, Madison, Wiscon-

sin, has issued a helpful circular, “New

Clothes at Small Cost.” It gives sug-





gestions, with illustrations, for cutting ‘





over old garments. Among them are

directions for making children’s union

suits from larger ones, pattern for re-

footing stockings, baby overalls from

black stockings, three uses for partly

worn shirts, and numerous hints as to

making over your 1917 suits and

frocks. Write for Circular 91.





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Any of the patterns illustrated may

be secured by sending order to Pattern

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three sizes, small, medium and large.

It requires for a medium size 55/8 yards

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No. 2321-2319—Ladies’ Costume. The

waist, 2321, cut in seven sizes, 34, 36,

38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust meas-

ure. Skirt 2319 cut in seven sizes, 22,

24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 inches, waist

measure. It will require nine yards of

44-inch material for the entire dress

for a 36-inch size. The skirt measures

about 2% yards at the foot. Two sep—

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sizes, 12, 14 and 16 years. It requires

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year size. Price 10 cents.



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High school boys in Chicago and

other large citics arc preparing in

dead carncst for the great back-to-thc-

farm drive this spring. 111 the Lane

Technical High School, for instance,

the school program has been specially

roarrangcd to speed up the work of

the. boys who have volunteered for ac-

tive service in the United States Boys’

Working Reserve. The toachcrs‘ are

seeing to it that the husky young fol-

lows sixteen years old and ovcr who

haw. signed up for tho special farm

courses got some. idea of what is ex-

pcctcd of thorn whcn they roach the

farms to which thcy are assigned.



At the Lunc school the boys arc tak-

ing practical lessons from skillcd in-





tor to use for this demonstration work.

The boys are all called upon to take

their turns in starting and operating

the tractor, and arc givcn o. grudc ac,-

cording to the skill that thcy display.

Besides working with tho tractor they

rcccive practical instruction in operat-

ing and caring for a sccdcr, a culti-

vator, a mower, a. bindcr and other

farm implcmcnts.



The school has obtained from the

city of Chicago six horses that [on

mcrly did scrvicc in the police dcpart»





Hal had been bragging a little about

how he meant to go west some day

and fight Indians. He thought that he

was very brave and noble until grand

ma said gently, “Isn't it a bigger thing

than fighting Indians to teach them to

trust you and be your friends? That

is what my Grandfather Plastron did.”



“Tell us about him, grandma," said

Hal; and the others came crowding‘up

to listen. . H



“Your great-great—grandfather Plas-

tron was my grandfather, you know,”

said grandma. “He lived with us from

the time when I was a baby, and we

loved each other very much. Grandpa

was tall and thin, with white hair and

the kindest face I ever saw. His room

[was upstairs at the front of the house,

‘and I liked nothing better than to be

sent to call him to supper or dinner.



“I was pretty sure to find him read-

ing in the arm chair by the window or

2else sitting on the high stool in front

'of his old desk, writing away with a

quill pen. Mother saved whole box-

fuls of goose feathers for grandfather

to Whittle into quill pens. It is from

ithat old-fashioned way of making pens

that we get our word penknife. You

would think it a troublesome thing to

iwhittle all your pens out of goose

'quills!” she laughed.



“Grandpa would read or write to‘ a

good stopping place, then he would

say, ‘Let’s be going.’ He would bend

down so that I could clamber on his

back and downstairs we would go, vis-

iting away as if we hadn’t seen each

other for a Week. I cried when mother

told me that I had grown so big and

grandpa was getting so old that I must

take his hand and walk downstairs int

stead of riding.”



-“But what about the Indians, grand-

ma?” asked Hal. - .

“Oh, yes. ,We lived two miles from





 





 





the Tuscarora reservation, and the In-





 





structors who have a 10-20 'l‘itnn trac-





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City High School Boys are Training for Farm Work





By GEORGE F. PAUL





ment. Each day different boys are

given as their assignment the work of

currying, harnessing, hitching, driv-

ing, feeding and bedding these horses.

This means that when the boys actu-

ally reach the farm they will have

some real knowledge as to how to so





 





 





about their new Work.



More than three hundred boys went

from this school in the spring of 1917

to do farm and garden work. The 1918

delegation will be far better trained in

farm duties, while their numbers ought

to reach the five hundred mark.





 





‘ Taking Turns in Starting and Operating the Tractor.

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The Council Pipe





By MARY s. STOVER





dians went past our house every day

on their way to the village. Even

when I was a child they were more

civilized than the Indians of the west,

but the older ones still were suspicious

of white people. Father once took me

to church on the reservation, and I re-

member that all the old women wore

fine black broadcloth shawls or blank-





..ets, though it was summer.”





“The reservation was governed by

chiefs, one at the head of each tribe,

who met together something as the

aldcrmen do in a city council. Their

meetings were called councils, too.

Sometimes these meetings were held

in the council house, which was near

the center of the reservation, some-

times they were out in our front yard."



“In your front yard?”



“Yes. Everybody that knew him

trusted my grandfather, and the Indi-

ans often came to him for advice.

Sometimes one or two would come,





 





again there would be all the leaders.

Then it was that they held their coun-

cil in our yard. They would sit in a

’circle on the ground, just as you have

seen in Indian pictures, and grand-

father was always one of the circle.

Wait a moment and I will show you

the council pipe." Grandma brought

from her room an old long stemmed

pipe at which the. children stared in

awe. ‘



“You have read how the Indians

passed the pipe from one to another

while they sat in the council circle. I

have often watched them through the

lilac bushes at the corner of the house.

Grandfather kept the pipe beside a tin

box that contained tobacco and a mix-

ture of powdered wild herbs,'I believe.

Their place was on a ledge in our cel-

larway, and I was afraid of the very

sight of them, because it made me

think of seeing him among those fierce





looking men.





“Some of the Indians usually had

guns or knives with them, and it Was

alarming to see them get angry. Some-

times they showed very plainly how

much they disliked what grandfather





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





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' would “go away frowning and mutter-

ing among themselves. But they knew

thatgiandfather was their true friend,

and they always came back to shake

his hand and solemnly thank him for

his good advice.”



“When grandfather died many men

and women that none of us knew came

to tell us of their sorrow and sympa-

thy, and one chief asked my mother to

keep this pipe in memory of their

friendship. It is one of my greatest

treasures."



“I. should think it would be!" ex—

claimed Hal. "Great-great-grandtather

did a thousand times better than to

shoot Indians or to get their land to

make into forms. I'm no end proud of

him. And I mean to be such a brave

friend to people that he wouldn't be

ashamed of me!"





SOMETHING FOR RAINY DAYS.



Figures 1, 2 and 3 show some. simple

designs of small boomerangs which

must be traced, in the exact propor-





tio is shown in the diagrams, 011 bristol

board, and to insure success, cut out





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must see that the edges are perfectly





smooth, the ends carefully rounded

whirling around and around, until it

circles back to the feet of the thrower.



To throw, hold before one on a book

with one end of arm thrust out over

the edge. A sharp tap with a pencil

no the projecting end sends it flying,

and that. the material has body enough

to remain flat, yet. not tOo heavy else

the boomerang will fly for but fail to

circle back. 011i post cards of good

quality are excellent material it’ you

cut them as large as the cord allows.



FLOWERS OR LEAVES IN 80AP



BUBBLES.





 





Do you know that you can take a leaf

or a flower front off a plant and blow

it. inside a soap bubble? Perhaps you

don’t, and if you have never done it

you have missed something very pret-

ty. It is done this way; the bottom of

a plate should be cow-red with a soapy

solution, at least a halt’ inch thick. In

the center of this place a green leaf or

a carnation or l'Oa‘t-i,

pact flowers—~11, spray will not work so

well-—and over this place a tin tunnel,

and while slowly lifting it continue to

blow steadily until a large film has

been made. The funnel is then taken

off, turning it at right angle 11nd doing

it. carefully and slowly, and you have

a flower shining through a big bubble.



it.‘ you use castile soap mixcd with

glycerinc and ammonia and, of course,

water, for your soap bubbles, you will

find that they are more successful and

last much longer before bursting. It

is well to let this mixture stand for

three days before using, removing the

scum before putting the pipe in.





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A Boy’s Experience Raising Stock





HE following letter by Merle H.

l Green will be of interest to our



boys and girls who are interest-

ed in raising pets and animals:



I cannot tell when the desire for



farming or animal raising first took its

hold upon we, possibly it was born

with me. My first live stock was rub-

bits, later Pekin ducks were added to

these. I' was always wanting a cow,

which my father offered to buy as soon

as I was old enough to milk. The op-

_ portunity came when I was eight years

old, a neighbor offering one for sale.

80 one evening about milking time we

went to look‘ her over and to let me

try my hand at milking. As she was

a'very easy milker, I found that I

could milk her. Since that time we

have not been without a cow, and I am

now milking two.



My father sold me a heifer two years

.ago, making an agreement with me to

furnish feed for her until she. would

give milk, and if she was not a profit-

able cow to keep I was to sell her, but

If she was a good one, the family

was to have the milk to repay for the

feed. This is one of the cows I am

now milking. I also have her last off-

spring’s‘cait‘, a heifer, and two other

heifers due to freshen early in the

summer, which I bought when calves,

for my father to feed on the same

conditions.



Two years ago I wentinto the poul-

try business. I bought a 150-egg size

incubator and hatdhed about'125 Pekin

ducks and 100 Barred Rock chickens.

My father is a lumber dealer, and our

farm, of forty acres is only one-half

mile frOm the yard. We erected on

the farm two years ago a modern house

which is our Imme, and from which I

can carry on my farming and stock

raising to good advantage. For the

last few years I have had an allowance

‘11! $100 1119!: week..and from this in

1111 bought my olethc's (what





 





 

 

 





father didn‘t buy) 11nd have got the

start I now have. ’



When i conunenced the duck raising,



my father furnished me. with the lum—

her at cost for 21 building 12x16 fleet,

but. later I decided to sell out, so he

took the building and incubator at; a

price at which he could handle them.

The poultry was sold except ten ducks,

the pick of the flock, which we now

have in partnership.

’ This year we tried out hogs. We

bought a litter of seven for $42 in the

latter part of August, and at thresh-

ing time bought. a ton of barley at

$2.25 per hundred, ground, that is, we

had it ground as we needed it, with

oats half and half, on which our pigs

did fine. Later we bought 500 pounds

of shelled corn. We butchered two

that dressed 230 pounds, sold three

which weighed 380 pounds and brought

$55.10. I am buying the two best sows

for $70. This bunch were Duroc Jer-

seys, and netted us approximately $50

after paying for all the feed at market

prices.



The arrangement I have made with

my father is this: He is to furnish

me suitable buildings, fence one acre

oi? land and cross fence same for which

each fall I am to give him two hogs.

So you see I have enough to do to

keep me busy for the next two years

that. I will be going through high school

after which I plan on taking a course

in the Michigan Agricultural College

to better fit me for my life work.





 





Every boy should realize that, hav-

ing received untold benefits from the

freest and best ”government on earth,

he holds his servises in trust for the

preservation of Democracy on which

that government rests. Although he

may have to endure aching limbs and

sore muscles in field and factory, he

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q011th Baldwin County, Alabama. offers the best

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articles of much interest to me from

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you could give me some advice with

regard to feeding calves on a dairy

farm where all the whole milk is sold.

What other ration can I give along

with two quarts of whole milk so as

to balance a ration complete to fill the

place of skim-milk and calf meal?



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quart of milk and feed it to the,calves

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silo only a little more than half. This

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it north and it will grow much larger

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I am a much interested reader of the

Michigan Farmer, and I believe it un-

“ excelled in its class. Having read many





You can get along very nicely, even

with young calves, if you will give

them two quarts of.whole milk a day

—one quart night and morning, by





WIND PUI‘zFS, withtull directionstoritsuse. making a gruel out of a combination

THRUSH, The Ace ted Standa



DIPHTHERIA VETERIfiguY RELIED"; With this Whole milk- -

mggfiiésm Way: Reliable. Experience has proved that no one





grain seems t6 be sufficient. This was

demonstrated by very careful experi-

ments at the Minnesota Experiment

Station. A combination of grains

‘ seems to produce'good, thrifty, heal-

thy calves. The idea seems to be that

by a combination of various grains

and feeding stuffs the calf gets more

nearly the desired amount of food in-





Not only this but it makes the food

more appetizing, and all animals, es-

pecially calves, do much better on an

petizing foods even though other foods

furnish the necessary food ingredients.



Mix oil meal, gluten feed, wheat

bran, wheat middlings, ground barley,

corn meal, ground oats together and





quart of grain to six quarts of water





and let it come to a boil, then mix a

sufficient amount of this with the one





First season four acres half filled the,





 

 

 

 





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”ing; it will go a good Ways; the cattle





have to eat it if they can’t get any-

thing else, but when you get right

down to prime 'ensilage you want to

cut the corn before the ears get ripe,

after the earlier ears are nicely glazed

and some are dented—that would make

the kernel in the dough stage, it is in

good shape for the silo. You Will find

many of the ears then that are just at

the boiling stage. They are very pala-

table and they are very nutritious.

When the canning factory puts up

sweet corn for humans they must not

let it get dented, for it isn’t palatable.

It must just be glazed. Now, we like

corn at that stage of maturity and we





. of grains and feeding it in connection eat it because it is palatable. It is the





same way with cattle. If the corn has

matured sufficiently so that it is nicely

glazed you have got nearly, if not quite





as much food nutriments per ton as





you have in corn further along and

with this southern corn you could raise

from one-half to one-third more tons

to the acre. I will repeat that in my

judgment the best ensilage corn fl'l‘

any section is that variety that will

grow the largest and still mature to

the glazing stage.





Of course, if a man wants to put his .





ensilage ground into wheat, why this

late Variety of corn wouldn’t do be-

cause you have got to give it the whole

season and if he plans a rotation of

crops so that he can sow wheat after

ensilage corn then he has got to raise

a northern-grown variety and get it off

the land the first of September so that

he can seed.the land to wheat, but if

he wants feed for cows he had better

plant corn that will grow until the first





of October or until there is danger of ’





avfrost, because he will get more food

to the acre and cheaper.





Corn Bran for Hogs.





Our local mill is advertising corn

bran at $1.85 per cwt. What is the

feeding value of this product? Is it

good hog feed? And how does corn

bran compare with wheat bran or mid-

dlings in feeding value? I think that

bran is worth about $2 and middlings

$2. 35 per cwt.



Calhoun Co. C. J. B.





The digestible nutrients of corn

bran contain 7.4 per cent of protein,

59.8 per cent of carbohydrates, 4.6 per

cent of fat. Whole corn contains 7.9

per cent protein, 66.7 per cent carbo-

hydrates, 4.3 per cent fat. This would

indicate that this product is not nearly

as good as corn for fattening purposes

because it contains a much smaller

amount of starch and sugar. Corn

bran, in fact, contains nearly all of the

crude fiber in the corn grain which is

not very digestible and therefore it is

safe to say that it is not a first-class

hog food.



Wheat bran contains in digestbile

nutrients 12.2 per cent protein, 39.2

per cent carbohydrates, and 2.7 per

cent fat. Wheat middlings contain 12.8

per cent protein, 53 per cent carbohy-

drates and 3.75 per cent fat.



Neither corn bran nor Wheat bran

are good hog feeds; they contain too

much fiber, they are too chaffy, and

the hogs don’t like them. Wheat mid-

dlings, however, are a very good hog

food and they furnish the food nutri—

ents in about the right proportion

for growing and fattening pigs. I

would prefer to pay $2.35 per cwt. for

wheat middlings rather than 51:85 for

corn bran for feeding young, growing

pigs.





More than half a million-acres of

land in eastern Chimes county, New

Mexico, including a portion of the Ros~

well land district, have been designat-





ed fOr entry on the eleventh day of '





March under the stock-raising home-

stead plan, is announced by Secretary

Lane. Approximately » 250,000 acres

are vacant public lands, while the re-





mainder are already covered by appli-





cations which haire preference by right ‘

of entry. These lands have been class-

ed as chiefly valuable for

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best way to raise calves is to let

them suck the mother, or at

lease feed them on whole milk. But,





»as whole milk is valuable to most

’farmers, other ways must be taken.





The past year or so, I have had very

good success with my calves and have

used the mother’s milk for other pm“

poses. We raise a few calves each

year for ourselves, but I am particu-

larly interested in feeding calves for

veal purposes. We make butterand

there is quite a lot of skim-milk that

can be used, and by putting it into the

calves we get a good profit from this

byproduct which would possibly oth-

erwise be wasted. ‘



There is a difference 110w and then



in calves, but with a good sturdy calf

I take it away from its mother within

a day or so. It gets the first milk from

the udder, which it needs, by waiting

that way. I begin by feeding the calf

by hand, by giving it about two pounds

of warm whole milk, three times a day

for the first week. I am very careful

not to over-feed; that is a mistakethat

many make and it is apt to bring 011

the “scours.” After the first week I

gradually displace the whole milk with

skim-milk. ‘Within another week or so

it is getting only skim—milk. But, by

then it gets about three pounds of milk

at‘each feeding, three times a day. Of

course, if one is raising the calf to get

an extra large one, whole milk is net

e1, but where we wish to» get all the

profit we can out of mostly skim-milk,

we gradually get the calf to feed solely

on that. Each week we put in a little

more milk until the calf gets twelve to

fifteen pounds a day, after a month or

over of hand feeding. Close watch

must be given, and at the first signs of

bowel trouble I reduce the amount.

Perhaps after a couple of weeks i let

the calf have a little clover hay to

nibble on. I have found that by let-

ting the calf run loose in a pen or box

stall, that it seemed to gain better

than when tied. By raising my calves

as outlined above, I have made good

profit and used the skim-milk that

would have been thrown away.



If one wants a larger calf and can

feel that the cost of grain given will

pay for it, at the age of four weeks or

so, a little grain can be given. Do not

put it in with the milk. Place it in a





box dry, where ‘the calf can eat all it'





wants. Mixed feed, shorts or ground

corn are good. The calf will eat hay

within a couple of weeks and it is also

a good plan to have water where it

can get it, not too cold, though.

Careless feeding is probably the

cause-of stunted calves more than any

other one thing. They can be success-

fully reared by hand, but care must be

taken to have the milk neither cold

nor hot by spells. If it can be at all

times near the temperature 01‘ new-

drawn milk, that is the best. A good

many times the calves are fed “any

old thing’"in the way of milk, 011 many

farms; To have sour milk one day

and sweet the next, and so 011, will not

bring success. CleanlineSS is a very

important item when raising calves.

The feed pails should be washed and

scalded and the milk put into clean

feeding receptacles. Unclean milk or

pails produce germs that make bowel

trouble and digestive troubles. The

bedding in the pen ought to be chang-

ed as often as it gets dirty, too In hot

summer, with its flies, extra care must

be taken and the calf should be plaCed

in a dark or shaded pen .

After three or four months, the

skim-milk can be dropped on calves

that are to be. raised fo1 cows. 1 have





found that when they are given milk”

too long they have a tendency to be-





come “suekef’ cows and have to be



watched carefully.



,5 :1 have found that ghed care, clean-



liness, proper. temperatures of the milk

- am he the essentials in





bus feeding





The success or failure 1vhen develop-

ing a herd, depends upon the sturdi-

ness of the calves that are raised.





’ When one is raising a calf to build up





his herd, no pains or care should be





'spared to make the conditions so that





the animal may grow as fast and as

large as it can. It has been shown

that large cows are more profitable

producers of milk than smaller cows.

The proportion of feed needed to get

larger results from the large cow is

less than would be necessary to get the

same amount of milk from two others.

To get the large cow, it takes gener—

and care of the calf.

Calves that are well fed not only seem

to glow bigge1 and mature quicker,

but seem to have more vigor and a

greater capacity to change feeds into

milk when they become cows. Good

feeds given to the calves the first

twelve months or so, does more good

to grow them into better producing

and bigger cows, than any amount of

extra feed given to them later on.

Grain given to a growing calf makes a

perceptible difference noticed in a well

grown yearling and a half-grown ani-

mal that will never amount to any-

thing.



After the calf is over a couple of

months and has the capacity to eat

grain, a nice ration is as follows: Fifty

pounds of bran, fifty pounds of corn

meal, fifty pounds of ground'oats, and

twenty-five pounds of linseed Oil meal,

mixed. Start with one-half pound a

day and gradually increase until two

pounds are given, according to age and

size. ‘Calves should not be turned out

to poor pasturage and even on fair

feeding, grain should be given if grow-

ing is desired. To develop the diges-

tive organs it is important that the

calf gets an abundance of bulky and

succulent food. If plenty of feed that

supplies nutrients for bone, muscle and

blood is given, there need be no fear

that the calf may get over fat.



It takes as much study and care to

bring up calves successfully as it does

possibly, to breed and feed cows cor-.

rectly. But what is the use to breed

to get good calves if one does not take

care of them after they are born?





 





THE GOVERNMENT FORMULA FOR

WHlTEWASH.





 





I have been told that by mixing glue

with whitewash it would stick. better

and that by putting carbolic acid in it,

it could be used as a disinfectant. I

would like more information on. mix-

ing and applying whitewash.



Ionia Co. E. G.



A formula for whitewash put out by

the United States government a few

years ago included glu as a part of the

combination. The object of the glue.

of course. is to make a more substan—

tial whitewash, even approaching the

durability of paint. While the govern-

ment did not recommend the use of

disinfectants, yet there is no question

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I have clover hay and ensilage. Can

get oil meal at $65 per ton; cottonseed

meal at $60 per ton; middlings at $56

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Gratiot Co. SUBSCRIBER.



Taking into consideration the fact

that protein foods are relatively cheap-

er than carbonaceous foods, I don’t be-

lieve you can get a better and more

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pounds of cottonseed meal and two

pounds of oil meal per cow in connec-

tion with your corn silage and clover

hay. *



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meal at night, feeding them in the

same manner you have been feeding

oil meal—by sprinkling the feed on

the corn silage. This will give you a

very concentrated grain ration and it

will furnish you a little more protein

than necessary but inasmuch as you

can buy these highly protein foods for

almost the same price that you can

wheat middlings, they are the most

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At the present price of feed and the

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middlings are a splendid food for hogs

but at the close of the fattening pe-

riod nothing seems to be quite as ef-

fective in putting the finishing on as

corn and I would recommend that you

make a good thick slop out of wheat

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need of to help win this great war.





A Grain Ration for Young Calves.

Please give me a balanced ration for

calves from two weeks old and up. I

have ground wheat and oats, mixed

corn meal, bran, and oil meal. I want

to give about one and a half quarts of

separated milk to a feed, the rest of

khe liquid, water. .If these feeds do not

alan‘ce tell me what to substitute.

Lenawee Co. G. D. W.

Careful experiments at Wisconsin

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clusively that the greater combination

of grains you can have mixed'together

the better for young calves. These ex-

periments were performed to find if a

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the place of skim-milk for calves. The

demand for city market milk and for

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sections the people wish to sell all

their whole milk and try to raise their

calves with a milk substitute. You are

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these calf'meals. When 'they. mixed '2;

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er, made it into a thin gruel and fed

it as a substitute for milk, they got

fairly good results and so this combi-

nation of ground wheat and oats and

corn meal and cottonseed meal and oil

meal is a move in the right direction.





It ought all to be ground as fine as

possible and for the best results with,





calves two weeks old it ought to be- .





cooked into a thin gruel and mixed

with milk. Now, the more feeding

stuffs you can get into this combina-

tion the better, only don’t put in cot-

tonseed meal. As the calves get older

you can work them on to a dry grain

ration, but until they are two or three

months old I should prefer to make

this into a. thin gruel and feed it in

this way. At the same time they are

eating this gruel, you can give them

dry grain in their mangers and get.

them used to eating dry grain so that

when the time comes the change will

not be so sudden. All the while you

want to encourage the young calves to

eat good clover hay, in fact, any vari-

ety of forage.

The Best Ensilage Corn.



Which of these two varieties of en-

silage corn are the best for this lati-

tude, “Pride of the North,” or Red Cob

Ensilage, and will they mix with a good

eighty days’ white corn if sown in the

next field? I have a geod early corn

and I don’t want to take and chances-

on mixing, if any. ,



Clinton Co. L. W.



Pride of the North is a medium va-

riety of dent corn so far as maturing

is concerned. In good corn years this

will properly mature. Red Cob en--

silage is a southern variety of corn

which will not mature here, but if it is.

planted in good'season it will mature

sufficiently to make good ensilage and

it grows much larger than Pride of the

North, consequently you can get more





tons of ensilage per acre and more





tons of cow fodder ‘per acre.



Your early variety of corn is the

kind .to plant where you want to ma-

ture the corn crop and save-the ears,

but it will not yield as many tons of

corn silage per acre as the Red Cob»

ensilage.



Some people have grown Red Cob,

ensliage and didn’t plant it until June

and it' didn't get matured enough to

make first-class silage. It ought to be-

planted as early as you plant any corn

and in most seasons it willgo beyond

the roasting stage which will do all.

right for silage.





 





SUNFLOWERS FOR SILAGE.





 





I note in a. recent issue of the Mich-

igan Farmer where inquiry was made-

by an Otsego county farmer concern—

ing the desirability of raising sunflow-

ers for silage, that soy beans were rec-

ommended instead. I presume farm-~

ers in this part of the state are obliged,

generally to raise their silage material.

among stumps where the tractor,

check-rower and corn binder are not

always in place. They are obliged to

contend with frost and weather condi-

tions under which corn does not al.

ways thrive. Neither are they familiar

with the growing of soy beans.



The writer has lived near the Straits





for twenty-eight years, and never saw;





a crop of soy beans growing in this

section. On the other hand, he has

seen splendid stands of sunflowers

grown every year. For the past four

years, he has grown them for silage

and is entirely satisfied with" his ex-

perience. , '



The silage has been first-class when

the corn and sunflowers are mixed in

proper proportions. When there is not.





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.hand planters, “one plants sunflowers

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to put from. one to three sunflower

seeds in a hill. The one row of sun-

flowers turns out about the same ton-

' nage of fodder as do the two rows of

corn. ”In the fall we cut and put them

on the wagons together and feed them

through the silo cutter, thus thorough-

ly mixing the stalks. We cut off the

best developed sunflower heads at the

silo filler and secure a lot of seed and

some splendid feed for the chickens.

Frost that kills corn does not affect

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Cheboygan Co. H. F. BAKER.





 





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Is it advisable to cross Holstein cows

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best cross, Holsteins with Jerseys, or

Jersey cows to Holstein bull?



Muskego‘n Co.



It is an absolutely wrong principle of

cross breeding to cross two distinct

breeds of cattle or any other animals.

If a man has Jerseys and they don’t

prove satisfactory, he should get rid of

them and purchase Holsteins, or if he

has Holsteins and they are not satis-

factory, he should do likewise, but

when he croSSes breeds, like Jerseys

with Holsteins, he is simply going into

the great unknown in the breeding

world. '



He is actually breaking up and dis-

organizing what breeders have spent

their whole lives in trying to develop,

fix and perpetuate inthe two respec-

tive breeds. The Jersey cow has been

bred pure for more than two hundred

years. For more than one hundred

years no animal has been allowed to

be shipped to the Isle of Jersey except

for immediate slaughter, consequently

there has been no foreign blood intro-

duced and the Jerseys and Guernseys

are examples in this respect. They

breed true to type and true to their

breed characteristics, simply because

there has been no crossing. They have

been developed as special dairy ani-

mals with certain fixed characteristics.



The same thing can be said of the



7Holstein. Great care has been taken

by the people of Holland in not allow-





—ing foreign blood 'to be. mixed with-





this breed. They have been developed

with different ideals than the Jersey or

Guernsey and their environments have

been different and we have here also

a special breed of dairy cattle with

fixed characteristics:



Now, when you undertake to cross

these two‘ breeds'which are the ex-

tremes among dairy breeds, you are

simply breaking up and disorganizing,

tearingdown what skilled men have

taken pains to build up and establish

through generations. Of course, in

time, by crossing Holstein anvaersey

and by careful selection, a man could

build up a new breed of cattle with

fixed characteristics but it would take

years and years. This principle of fix-

ing the type of animals is one that

takes time. A man cannot do it, even

in a lifetime. His ideas must be hand-

ed down to his sons and the same

painstaking care must be given for

more than one generation in order to

carefully fixes the types and character-

istics that we find in Jerseys and H01-

steins.



The only safe and sane manner of

breeding is to select the breed one

likes best and the one that fulfills the

conditions and purposes for which they

are being used and then stick to that

breed. If one‘has Holstein grad-es he

should invariably breed them to a pure-



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charactristics and not select animals

of the given breed which show breed

charactristics less distinctly because

in that kind of breeding he is getting

away .from the idea of the developers

of the breed and he is launching out

into the great unknown and the prob-

ability is that he will get so thorough-

ly lost that he will never find himself.

So my advice would be not to attempt

to cross breeds.





SPRING DAIRY PROBLEMS.

(Continued from page 358).

is somewhat preferable to put the

beans in the hills'of corn. In this man-

ner, cross cultivation is not interfered

with.



Likewise, the soy beans will make

twice the growth if they are inoculated.

This may be done with either a pure

culture or with soil obtained from a

field where soy beans have been

grown. Dissolve a half pound of furni-

ture glue in a gallon of water. Lay a

peck of this soil on a smooth granary

floor and pour the beans on top of the

pile of dirt. Now, while one man shov-

els over the mass of dirt and beans,

the other will sprinkle on the glue

solution with an old broom. The beans

may be planted as soon as they have

dried sufficiently to run through the

planter.

that this glue methbd will insure inoc-

ulation, especially if care is taken to

get the soil from close around the

roots of the soy bean plants.





A Word to the Beginner.



Spring is the heyday of hope and

good thoughts and resolutions crop out

spontaneously with the coming of this

delightful season. Many young men

who feel dairywise inclined hesitate to

purchase their foundation stock in the

fall since they have been told that

pure-bred cows require more care

through the winter than scrubs and

dunghills. Moreover, with the coming

of pastures it may be found that the

stuff on the place will not be able to

consume the feed at hand. The next

thing is to buy something to make eco-

nomical use of the surplus feed.



I wish I might emphasize the import-

ance of the beginner starting with his

foundation stock at once. Admittedly,

the dairy stocks of the old world are

rapidly being depleted. Moreover, due

to the fact that the people over there

are more occupied with the profession

of self-'defense than they are in the art

of breeding animals, there is no for-

eign demand at present for dairy ani-

mals. The sum total of these condi-

tions is that dairy stock in this coun-.

try is now selling at a little above par,

thought not much. As sure as day fol-

lows night, however, when we have

vanquished the Kaiser and placed him

on the famous Isle that a hundred

years ago was trodden by Napoleon,

the old world peoples will resume the

peaceful art and science of dairying.

Then, the countries that have hereto-

fore sent choice animals to our shores

will ask for the return of animals as

good as they sent. In the face of this,

it seems highly probable that a gol-

den horizon lies ahead of the breeder

of good dairy cattle.



It is true that cattle usually sell

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fever and the money or backing at the}

same time. Usually, though, these two'

conditions are most likely to obtain in

the spring.



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3. Vermont farmer to the Unit-

ed States Food Administration, “to

govern my actions in complying with;

your recent order prohibiting the sale

and slaughter of hens after February

twenty-third.



“I am operating a. farm of 206

acres,” he' Continues, “lying in the

Champlain Valley, Vermont, and have

a flock of 1100 White Leghorn hens

of which about 700 are last year’s pul-

lets. My pullets produce about 160

eggs apiece a year. It is my practice

to hatch between 600 and 700 pullets

each spring, the first hatch coming off

about April 1. As the capacity of my

plant is about 1000 birds and is now

overstocked, I will have to cut out the

hatching until such time as you may

permit the sale of my stock to make





room for the new. ”





This man understands the purpose

of the regulation notifying licensees

not to buy live or fresh-killed hens and

pullets until after April 30, for be con-





Inconvenience 1s only thirty days dur-





[ing April, Temporary ‘qu‘arters for the





surplus hens during that time should

prove no seriOus problem on a. farm of

206 acres. After April 30, the surplus

hens'may be sold for slaughter, in the

absence of a better market. .



3. Another choice is a few weeks'

delay in the hatching season so that

chicks will be hatched about. May 1

after the surplus hens are sold.



Any one of these options or a com-'

bination of them seems to impose no

very serious hardship. The Food Ad-

ministration points out that the aver-

age yield of spring eggs according to

past experience is about eighty per

cent of the meat value of the hens in

the country. And in this particular

flock, the production per bird is unus-



ually high. I



The problem seems in its final anal-

ysis to be one of profit on one- hand

and the amount of food produced on

the other, considering the future as

well as the present. Under the regula-

tion notifying poultry buyers not to ac-





 





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tinues, “Of course, such a line of ac-

tion would throw onto the market

about 200 dozen eggs that I would oth-

erwise use in incubators, but there

would be the loss of about 700 broilers

and my flock will not lay as many eggs

this year without the new stock.



“There is a difference in the effect

of your order when applied to ‘a man

running a poultry plant of a fixed ca-

pacity as compared with a man who

has a few hens running at large about

his barns. At this time ,I have a flock

of cocks at an expense of about forty

cents per month per bird that should

go to market at once if they are not to

be used as breeders; the feed they are

eating should be saved. Will you kind-

ly tell me what should be done?"



Three Choices to Select from or

Combine.



Here is a case where a general or-

der, necessary as a war measure, and

of benefit to the industry as a whole,

causes a. specialized poultryman anx-

iety and inconvenience. Under the

spirit of the, regulation, several alter-

natives are permissible. (Male birds

are not affected by the regulation and

may be sold at any time for any pur-

pose).



1. Surplus hens and pullets may be

sold as breeding stock. With the im-

petus which meatless meals and days

have given the poultry industry and

the nation-wide effort toward larger

flocks, there should be an outlet in

every locality for well-bred fowls—es-

pecially birds which average 160 eggs

apiece annually. The Food Adminis-

tration’s order aims only to prevent

the slaughter of hens

There is no restrictibn on the distribu-

tion of high- class breeding stock; this,

on the other hand, is encouraged.



2. The edict extends only through





April 30; and as the poultryman’s first .

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Coops Idle, Urges the Government.





cept live or fresh-killed hens or pullets

IIII”I after April 30, 1918, it is confi-

dently hoped that the food supply of

the country will be increased. But the

letter of the regulation applies neither

to farmers nor to consumers. Nor does

the Food Administration seek toldic-

fate to poultrymen how-they shall con-

duct their business. '

More Money or More Food.



It seeks rather to safeguard the na-

tion’s food supply and to most effec‘

tively share our food savings and sur-

plus with the Allies to win the war.

Perhaps this farmer honestly believes

that the marketing of his surplus hens

for direct consumption would be in

harmony with the spirit of the new

regulation. Considering present hous-

ing facilities, hatching plans, future

broilers and winter eggs, he may feel

justified in believing he can best serve

his sons or his neighbors’ sons “over

there” by marketing his hens—fowls

that he admits are excellent layers—

to a. private trade.



But if he has looked at the matter

chiefly from a. financial rather than

from a food point of view, seeking to

profit by the meatless days and by the

demand for fowls during Jewish holi-

days, and has calculated how he can

make the most money rather than pro-

duce the most food, the sale of his

surplus stock for use as meat is ad-

verse to the spirit of the new~poultry

regulation.



Thus there are plenty of choices. He

is immune from legal penalty and is

subject only to his conscience. This

man is no doubt one of many who this

spring must decide between patriotism

and profit.





 





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readiness so that there will be no de-V

lay in placing them under c0ndit10ns. >~





conducive to rapid growth Coirér the

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of Sand and then sprinkle clover chaff

or straw over the sand. This will

make a. fine scratching floor and will

reduce the danger of toe-picking. The

chicks-that remain in the shipping» box

after reaching the farm soon becbme

restless and then they may form the

toe-picking habit. If they are busy

scratching in the litter they soon for-

get each other’s feet in the desire to

hunt for bits of food. '



Sanitation in the ~brooder house is

of first importance ’in starting the

chicks. If the floor becomes wet and

dirty the chicks are soon unclean and

this rapidly leads to a diseased condi-

tion. As soon as possible allow the

chicks to go out on the ground and

scratch. It is a sure prevention for

leg weakness. If the weather is too

cold for outdoor ranging, a few clods of

earth thrown on the brooder floor will

furnish exercise for the chicks.



Sour milk is valuable in the ration

to assist in preventing bowel trouble

but it must be fed in clean dishes. We

find that the small sanitary fountains

are almost necessary to keep the

chicks from wallowing in the milk.

This not only contaminates the milk

and makes it an unhealthful food, but

the chicks become smeared with dirt

and milk. It is better according to our

experience, to leave milk out of the

ration rather than feed it carelessly.



Ingham Co. A R. G. KIRBY.





CAUSE OFHEAVY LOSS OF BEES

THIS WINTER. .





The very heavy loss of colonies of

bees this winter has been due almost

entirely to insufiicient food and insufli-

cient protection. It is the effect of too

little or no packing that I want to dis-

cuss in this article. Every bee-keeper

is feeling his loss keenly at this time

and so I now want to make the state-

ment that most of the losses which

were sustained up to the first of March

were a direct result of insufficient pro-

tection. There is no doubt about hav-

But it

is also true that some bee-keepers

have wintered their bees outdoors with

very little loss while others in similar

situations have lost from twenty-five

to one hundred per cent of their colon-

ies. This fact is very significant. The

bee-keeper who packed thoroughly is

the one who has not sustained unusual

losses. Bees generate heat through

the consumption of food and by muscu-

lar activity. If bees are not given ad-

equate protection, then they must con-

sume immense quantities ofyhoney in

order to keep up the high temperature.

For that reason many colonies have

starved to death. Colonies that had

enough honey to carry them through,

if prOperly protected, have starved be-

cause they were not protected and

therefore had to consume honey that

they ought not to have been compelled

to use until late in the spring. The

heating of an unprotected beehive in

winter works out about like trying to

heat a house with all the doors and

windows open. Bee-keepers must real-

ize that bees to be normal in winter

must never cool to less than fifty-seven

degrees in temperature.‘ If their tem-

perature falls to forty-five degrees they

become numb and unless they warm

up very soon they die. If the bees are

to maintain a temperature of not less

than fifty-seven degrees in zero weath-

er, it stands to reason that something

more than an inch board must sep-

arate them from the cold outside. 1.1!

the bee-keepers will learn the lesson

that they ought to learn from their





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keepers, are to blame.



When the first nice warm day comes,

the bees that are still living will be in-

vestigating the hives of the dead col-

onies. There are thousands of dead

diseased colonies in Michigan now. If

the bees are allowed to rob out the

diseased colonies, then the disease will

be scattered thruoghout the neighbor-

hood. The state law requires that all

dead d‘i‘seased colonies shall be tightly

and securely closed so that no robbing

can take place. It is still better to

close them up and then take them in-

side of a tight building. And it is

cheaper than to pay a fine of $25. Don’t

take a chance, supposing that yours

are not diseased. If anyone knows of

a neighbor who is not closing up the

dead colonies, it might be doing that

neighbor a very great service in tell-

ing him of the law. It should be re-

membered that, ignorance of the law

is no excuse in court. But anyway,-

dead colonies should be cared for as

an insurance of the vicinity against an

outbreak of bee diseases.



Mich. Ag. Col. B. F. KINDIG.





 





POU LTRY QUERY DEPARTMENT.





Trouble with Chicks.





I would like to know why so many

of my chickens were ruptured when

ready to be taken out of the incubator.

They would live from three’ to five

days then die. I never ran an incu-

bator before until last spring and about

50 out of 80 would be ruptured.



Eaton Co. Mrs. I. W.



During the nineteenth day of incuba-

tion the young chick absorbs of the

yolk to itself the abdominal cavity. If

eggs are taken from fowls that are low

in vitality. the young chick is weak

and does not absorb the yolk properly.

Overheating of the incubator after the

eighteenth day would cause wrong de-

velopment. This would account for

the lack of proper absorption of yolk.



Egg Eating Habit.



I have about ninety Rhode Island

Reds that I have kept shut up all win-

ter. They get good feed every day.

buckwheat, corn, wheat screenings,

beef scraps, oyster shells, plastering,

and chopped alfalfa. But they eat

their eggs as fast as they lay them.

that can I do for it? If right there

I will get from ten to twelve eggs, oth-

erwise I don’t get any. I have been

told by filing their bill a little it would

help. Would you advise it?



Van Buren Co. R. C.





It is very difficult to break hens of

the egg eating habit. Various meth-

ods, such as filling an egg shell with

red pepper, placing a china egg in the

nest, etc., have been tried, but with

very little success. This habit is start-

ed because of the lack of animal food,

or accidentally a hen breaksan egg

in getting out of the nest and thereby

establishes the habit. Hoyvever, if the

hens get plenty of beef scraps or sour

milk and are kept busy during the day,

they are not as likely to begin such a

habit. ' .



Very often there is only a hen or

two in the flock which do this de-

structive work and by carefully watch-

ing one can pick them out and get rid

of them. I can suggest no other meth-

od than this, except that you try the

stuffing of an eggshell with pepper.



I, do not believe that the filing of the

hen’s bill will help any.





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Ancona'a—llgss for hatching. But; winter layers.

Biggie com in $1.50 per 15. Rose comb $2 per 15. a

“5. E. EST d: SON., R. 1. ‘ Ealt, Lansing. Mich.





—-EGGB FROM STRAIN with



Barred Rucks records to 290 a? a your: 32 per

15. Dellvered by parcel Dost. propel . Circular tree.

FRED ASTLING. - - Comtmtlne, Mich.

210 e 3 strain VVhlto



Damn E" "sh Leghgms, heavy win-

tor layers Inga also irde.. Hatching eggs 96 91-100.

Chicks 8133 per 100. Guarantee ontiafaot on. evrles

' horn arms and tab Box A. Zeelsnd Mich.

Plymouth look for hatobi from

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A Federation of Interests

DAY-OLD CHICKS





We are now booking orders for Day-Old Chicks and

eggs for hatching from our Pure Breed Practical

Poultry. Advance orders will be filled exactly at. time

wanted. It will be better for you to order as early as

{3&ossible to be sure of delivery.



'0 can furnish Chicks from the following breeds:

Barred and Butt Plymouth Rocks; ll. (7. Rhoda Island

Ileds; White W'yandottes; Black ()rplngtons; S. O.

and R. C. Black Minorcas; S. O. and B. 0..Whlto Leg-

horns; S. C. Anconas.





EGGS FOR HATCHING





Eggs for Hatchin . settings or in quantities for

incubators, from t e foregoing brec a.

lease write for circular and Homestead Farms'

plan of a federation of interests.





LAYING HENS AND PULLETS





White LethotnSu S. 0. White Leghorn hens and

pullets in prime condition for laying, in. lots from 8 to

00. Satisfaction guaranteed on these pure bred fowls.

Rhode Island Rods" 0:10 pen of 15 S. C. Pullets. now

laying.and one Cocherol. These are from a heavy laying

colony: 100 Hens gave over 40 dozen eggs a week thru

the winter. Full description by letter. 1%. O. Pullets,

five only. no cockerel. One only B. C. Black Minor-

cas Cookorel.





HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.





Barred and Partridge Rock

Eggs for hatching.wonderful layers..best Strains. $2 per

staining of 15. Mrs. M. E. Wright. Ypsilanti. Mich.





Baby





ulogue free.





Bull leghorn Cockcrels,





Dr. WILLIA A. SMITH.



Bu“ 0rpingtone~8¢vonteen years. Best exhibition

egg producinfetrain. Egg-or Baby Chicks. Cir-

cular free. WI L BOHADT. Goshen. Indiana.

" We ship thousands. booking orders now



CthkS, for a riu delivery. free booklet.

FREEPORT HAT H Y. Box 12. Freeport. Mich.

wields-4' Ih Chic Coliseum winninsotock. 3

Col; nlr“Rlntf:s"l But och». both comb- Bede. Span-

h‘OrplnflmmWydndm. TnonePoulFry Farm. Ffuton.ligh





Chicks Young’s Strain 8. 0. White Leghorna

free range stock. safe arrival guarantee. cat-





nnd a few

pens.

Petereburg. Mich.





   





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‘ April and May heavy breeds

Choice C h I c k S and Leghorns 52 for $9. Eggs

peg setting $1.50; per 108 87.50.



Cm went Egg Company. - - ~ Allegan. Mich.





 





E S forll’atching from pure bred White Plymouth

gg lion-ks and White Mammoth Pokin ducks.

CHAS. KLlfl'l‘ZLEN, - - - - Buth, Mich.





DAY-OLD CHICKS-





of quality guaranteed to 1,500 miles. Eggs for

Hatvhing at low prices. Bar. Rocks. S. C. W'. Leg-

horns, S. (Y. and R. C. Reds, \V. Wyandottes,

Duff and W. Orplngtons. (Ihicklet catalogiifree.





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DAY . OLD CHICKS





250,000 for 1918. $10 per 100 and up. Purebred. Hatch-

ed right. Strong guarantee. 10 leading varieties.

Hatching eggs. Big brooder oiler. Western Branch,

Augusta. Kansas.

Hubel‘s Reliabe Hatchery, 333 W. Fremont Bf... calorie. 0.



Large. Igreat layers. Pure





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breeding hens now. Everfresh EBB Farm. IonlIJIl .





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A real heavy laying strain, trnpncsted l

years, records from 200 to 264 eggs. Get

our special summer prices on year mg hens.

breeding males. eggs for hatching. 8-week-

old pullets and dav old chicks. We ship C. 0 D. and

avelog gives prices; describes stack; tells '

all about our farm and methods; results you can get by brezd- '

ing this strain. Send for your copy now—it is has.





GEORGE B. FERRIS 984 Union. Grand Rnplde. Hick.





Chicks lhal [in 815 per 00 My' 313an





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FARM, R. 1. Grand Rapids. 'Mich.





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Sclllng Butter.





By L. H. COBB





UTTER is one of the farm pro-

B ducts that can be sold by parcel



post to good advantage whenever

the Weather is comparatively cool, and

it is one of the products that I have

found the store price and the city con-

sumer’s price more than an average

distance apart. This is another case

of the producers of poor butter getting

pay for the merchant’s loss from the

profit he makes from the really good

butter he gets. The merchant can

hardly be blamed, for there is no sub-

ject on which the average farmer’s

wife is more touchy than her butter

making. I visited one time where'the

woman was always bragging on her

butter and saying that herfamily could

never like butter she bought. They

had become so used to the rank fla-

vor 01’ the butter she produced that

good butter lacked flavor for them, I

suppose, for I could hardly eat hers at

all. That is thecase with much coun-

try butter. The maker imagines it is

especially good because her family

brag on it and cannot find any other

to suit them. Such butter when taken

to the store has to be dumped into the

shipping tub to go to the rcnovrlors,

but; the merchant cannot afford to tell

the producer so, 01' he will lose her

custom, so he must pay full price and

balance it up.



The home customer living in the

small town is the most convenient pu-

tron for the good butter produced, and

usually the demand is sufficient, as so

many sell cream to the shipping sta-

tions. Here is where the parcel post





‘ comes in extra handy, and where it is





used the least. Just step to the phone





11nd call up 21. few of your good pros-

;pects and arrange to ship them their





butter by parcel post, have two 01'

three agree to go to some handy place

to get it, then put it up and send in by

the rural delivery man when he makes

the route. The receiving party will

get it the same evening and the others

can call for it, and the transaction is

completed without your having to go

to town. All can leave the money with

the one, and you can get it when you

12.0 to town, 01‘ you can collect from

cach at stated intervals—any way to

suit all parties.





The most convenient package for

shipping butter is made up of small

oblong cartons that hold one pound

wrapped in waxed paper, and a box of

two thicknesses of corrugated board

large enough to hold as many of these

cartons as you can arrange to ship at

once. Four is a good size. It is not

difficult to get some of the corrugated

packing boxes at the stores and make

the boxes for yourself. By marking it

out you can run the edge of an iron

along the line where you want to bend,

pressing hard enough to depress the

board, and bend the board wherever

you please. You can buy a roll of the

pasted paper tape for the purpose and

bind the corners, or you can make a

flour paste that will answer as well,

though more trouble. By having this

material on hand it takes only a few

minutes to make a box to suit the ship—

ment, and you can arrange to get the

boxes back so long as they will bear

shipping and save making more.





Customers can be secured in the





large cities but it is not quite so con-..





venient to handle this business. You

will have to require cash with order to

be safe, and then the cost of the pack-

age will be greater unless you make

them yourself. I would make a rule to

ship in not less than, four-pound con-

signments, and give preference to six-

pound lots, and larger if it.could be

arranged. If one is so lucky as to have



few friends in the city, quite often

they will be Willing to form a club of





* their neighbors and let- them come to

their house on certain day to get the ;





 





butter and pay for it on receipt, they

sending the money and receiving all

shipments. I have shipped eggs by

this plan quitesuccessfully.





EFFECTS OF LOW PRICES.





 





On prices paid producers for milk

depend the extent to which calves are

raised for maintaining the future milk

supply, and also the movement of labor

from dairy farms to cities. Of the

many results folloWing low milk pric-

es, the committee gives prominence to

these:



. “If the price of milk is too low, too

few heifer calves are raised and cows

may be slaughtered. The immediate

effect may not be noticed on the milk

supply because the reduction in pro-

duction may be offset by the smaller

amount consumed by calves. A reduc-

tion in calves tends to increase the

amount of milk available for two years.

* Tile shortage or excess of

milk does not come immediately fol-

lowing t.oo low or too high prices, but

usually comes two or four years later.



“If prices of dairy products are too

low and if too few cows are raised in

the entire country, or if too many cows

are slaughtered, there is no way to

correct the error in less than about

three or four years.



Heifer Ratio Necessary to Maintain



Industry.



“Consideration of all the facts sub-

mitted indicates that if one dairy heif—

er is saved for each four or five cows

kept, the industry probably will be

maintained, but one heifer for each six

cows seems to be too few. * * ‘1‘ *

The slaughter of dairy cows was above

normal during the later winter_and

early spring months of 1917.





“The best way to stimulate immedi-'





ate production and the raising of heif-

ers is to encourage the largest possible

consumption of milk and other dairy

products, and encourage the largest

possible export of condensed milk, but-

ter and cheese to the Allies.





“We are looking ahead at year at a

time for our wheat supply; we need to

look at least three years ahead for our

dairy supplies.”



From its study of distribution prob-

lems, the committee reports that the

average life of milk bottles could be

greatly increased by conscientious ef-

f01t on the part of milk consumers.

M01e than fifty per cent of the entire

loss of bottles is due to the negligence

on the part of the cousumers in re-

turning them. This is a considerable

waste which adds to the cost of dis-

tributing milk. Repeal of superfluous

laws regulating the sale of milk is





recommended and the committee urges.





every locality to make new regulations





simple, thus reducing all unnecessary.





costs of milk production and distribu-

tion. The report concludes with these

recommendations:



1. That increased production of lnilk

be encouraged; (a) as measure of na-

tional safety for the present; (1)) as a

measure of national vitality for the

future, the future being bound up in

the welfare of children.



2. That consumption of milk should

be increased because: .



(a) A greater consumption of it in

cities will result in a better develop-

ment of the physical condition of the

city population, where consumption is

112 quarts per capita, as compared

with 288 on the farm.



(b) Increased consumption will en-

courage production.





((1) “If the country is to be protected-





against nutritive disaster, every pos-

sible step must be token to educate

the people to e. realizetion that though

they may do without meat they shouldp

still hove milk. ”—Eese and Brewer.





by P3 rcel ' POSt that the milk supply Should be net only“, '

maintained at its present status but





that more milk should be made avail-’2





 





is. It is 01 fundamental immune '





able for children. i





MUST PREPARE TO RAISE OWN

seeps





 





Gardeners, who soon will be break-

ing ground for their 1918 'crops, should

prepare this season, in the opinion of

the Department of Horticulture of M.

A. C., to raise their own seed.



“The present supply of vegetable





seed is the‘lowest in the history of the ‘





country,” the department declares.

“Never before has the carryover re-





serve of the seed companies been so '.





small, or the supply on hand so limit-

ed. Also, a report has come within

the last few days from the Pacific

Coast country, the main vegetable 'seed

section of the United States, telling of

‘a shortage in 1918 crops of radish,

spinach, onions, beets, carrots, cab-

bage, turnips and other garden crops,

which have already been cut in half

by adverse weather conditions. The

season promises to be the worst in the

vegetable seed industry, one‘ of Cali-

fornia’s leading seed firms informs us.



“The seed, shortage as a whole, how-

ever, is the 1‘esult of a number of in-

fluences among which are an increased

demand and decreased importations.

Many cargoes of seed now lie on the

bottom of the ocean.



“This means that the present supply

must be wisely planted and cultivated.

The gardener should make sure of his

next year’s seed supply by the produc-

tion in his own garden of such seed

crops as radishcs, lettuce, spinach, on-

ions, melons and evcn’the root crops.

Present prices have increased as much

as 350 per cent over last year in some

cases. Everything possible must be

done to forestall the impending vege-

table seed shortage for 1919 or many

standard varieties will not be obtain-

able a year hence at any price.”





MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.





 





Wheat—In answer to the question,

“Has wheat during February suffered

from any cause?” 219 correspondents

in the state answer “Yes” and 197

“No;” in the southern counties 147

answer “Yes” and 64 “No;” in the

central counties 64 answer “Yes” and

38 “No;” in the northern counties 8

answer “Yes” and 78 “No,” and in the

upper peninsula 17 answer “No.’,’



Snow protected wheat in the state

and central counties 18 days, in the

southern counties 14, in the northern

counties 26 and in the upper peninsula.

28 days.



The average depth of snow on Feb-

ruary 15 in the state was 9.50 inches;

in the southern counties 4.23, in the

central counties 10.31, in the northern

counties 18.37 and in the upper penin-

sula. 22.44 inches. On the 28th of Feb-

ruary the average depth of snow in the

state was. 4.34 inches, in the southern

counties 1.01, in the central counties

2.37, in the northern counties 11.16 and

in the upper peninsula, 19.29 inches.~



The total number of bushels of

wheat marketed by farmers in Febru-

ary at 80 flouring mills is 67,700 and

at 70 elevators and to grain dealers

52,490 or a total-of 120,190 bushels. ‘



Of this amount 82,225 bushels were

marketed in the southern four tiers of

counties, 28,750 in the central coun-

ties and 9, 215 in the northern counties

and upper peninsula.



The estimated total number of bush-





els of wheat marketed in the seven ‘





months, August- February is 6, 500, 000.

Eighty-five mills, elevators and grain

dealers report no wheat purchased

from farmers in February.

The average condition of live stock





in the state is reported as follows.





comparison being made with stock in

good, healthy and thrifty condition:

Horses and sheep 93; cattle, swine 92.

Grain and seed threshed in Michi-

gan up to and including February 23,

1918, as per returns of threshermen is



as follows: . .

Yield





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Wheat...” 772,490 13 923, 926 18.02

Rye 323,394 4.533.317 14.02

Oats ”1240, 159 44,808, 061 36-13»

Barley 3.13970 3 73





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ation shows our Rouge-Rex shoe No. 442. Chocolate Wolverine Kip Outing, 13-inch cuff, full bellows tongue

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because we know that the more you wear Rouge-Rex shoes, the greater will be your

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All leather used in Rouge-Rex shoes is treated and tanned in our own tannery. Not a

single pair is allowed' to leave the factory unless they are absolutely as good as work shoes





can be made.

A Variety of Styles to Select From





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POULTRY ‘





‘ IMPROVE YOUR NULTRY





Hy Young's strain bred-today 8. 0. White Leghorn

are great money makers. 100.000 baby chicks for 1918

deliver at 813 and up per 100. Satisfaction guaran-

teed. rite for tree catalogue. - .



W. VAN APPLEDORN. R. 7. Holland. Mich.





White Orpingtons, hens and puliets $3.00

Pill. ch e h g‘gg ' 1 'co ’ erl?) utility

‘0 ' 9 ”mid. .lm DIS fiction,





”21"" mo.

PI E GBEBT FARM. Royal Oak. Mich.





HODE ISLAND REDS and plyxnonth Rocks Males

6 £01211». accordin tongs 2 to 35: P. B. hens

weight Stowlbs. eggs 15 orfl:100.$5: inthiammoth

Bronze Torn Tur eye 8 to 38 lbs. accordiv to age ”to

I35. 19 can”. J. Morris & J. Bar-can. assar. Mich.





both combs. Chicks &

R. I. RED , eggs. Most popular

strain in Michigan. Write for catalog. ‘

INTEBLAKES FARM. Box 39. Lawrence. Mich.





R I lode and'R. I. Whites. Both combs. Eggs for

f ' sale. also a few ood cockereln. Good stock.

prices reasonable. 0. E. swley. KB, Ludington. Mich.





[we Island Reds. R. 0. Famous for quality eggs

sf&r)hntching, prices reasonable.

BURT SI N. - . ‘ . - Iniluy City. Mich.





S c Brown Leghorn. Heavy layers. Eggs 1541.35.

0 . 0 .50. 4583.50. 100-". prepaid by mail.

FLOYD ROBERTSON, B. 1. Lexington. Indiana. '





ILVEB Golden and White “'ynnilottes. A few good

Golden And White cookerels. to s mm at“. Elms 15,

32.50. 33.86.“). 0. 1N. Browning, R. -, Portland. Mich.





Sin ‘0 Comb Black Minorca cockerols. sired by

8 non) cock bird. A few more P.C. faiMigs.

B. W. KILLS - ‘~ — - ‘ - Saline. icii.





Ferrisstr in)goo free rangestock rices

reasonable. orbert smmond. Wil-iiamston. 'ich.





WRITIW andottcs. I have a fine lot of April and

May ho hing cookers]! for $3.00 and $6.00 each.

DAVID MY. “Norris 83.. Ypsilanti. Michigan.





S C I White Leghorn liens, guilets. day old chicks.

o 0 Om





White Waandotte cor-kerels. good size. color. $8.50;

3tor $1 . Re Swedish Select Oats free from smut

$1.60 per bu. in bu. lots recleaned and bags free.



VAN O. FARM. R. 1. Box 124. Hartford, Mich.





White Girls: Sfiigitfifégi‘iig‘o giiiiamtikiii '





Duck 81.50101- 1]. Best of stock.

Mrs. CLAUDIA BETTS. - - Hilisdale. Mich.





WHITE Holland Turkeys s'limlt-cd number forsale.

Silver 8 angled Hamburg cockerelsflamburgsare

the greatosf layers'on earth get acquainted with this

wonderful breed. Riverveiw Farm, Vassar. Mich.





M B Turkeys; Toulouse Geese and 8.0

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Leghorn cockcrols. Also Berkshire. both

Dex. Stamps appreciated. Chum Stock Farm. R1. lsrlettojicli.





HOGS





GREY TOWER FARM





Now oilen for sale a few choice Holstein bull calves.

from high testing dams. with good A. B. 0. records.

at. tanner! prices. write us about them and our .





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tion in we “$1023. fri'igiyfékpr ce 2 re cheron mares $200 to 8400 except two;





DUI'OCS Can spare _two or threebbred daughters of Bone for Apriiaminy ruruw. H.0.Swnrtz. Scliuolcmit. blltli . . .

A. rLiexMIiiii: Gui-".1"? “3° 35900 9“"Laim. Mich. PALMER BROS" Balding M1011.





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B R E D G | L T S lingsows at bargain prices. C.E.G-rimm.i:stou lilpids.Mi('li gelcliilgugiglfllgfiook over:





   

 





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”Emu“... _ . . w............. 0.1.c. messiahgangster.ass. PERCHERDN DlSPERS

old. H. ,W. hiANN, Dausville, Alich. Al





sows all sold. .





O. ro Wm. B. No. 41049. Longfellow No. 18675 me ~ ”RI-ad. moms-n.

of let rize young herd at Iowa State Fair. Large Type P C ‘



I. all pigs and breeding boars. 0 0 2 (tray Percheron Stalll()[|-l for gale i-lieap- 01102240



“39- 0110 '3‘ “0: Sound and sure breederswolts to show;





0 J. CARL JEWETT. Mason, Mich. Bred silage? hiaifii‘f‘fili‘fi’éliif’gm ggggag'nrgfigg: winners at Iowa State Fnli' and Ill. State rim; herd





om Bum: Jemy Bill: For Salo. men”? 0 ”ammo ialeth. n

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L ‘ EDMONDS' Hastings. Miflh' ‘lggliltfiglawugms fivtho breed go at priui ate {Sr-(diigylm‘ The entire herd Of the late A. A. Palmer

. . . .1» HA ; ~ - - Augustin Mwh- Will be closed out; 25 pure bred per-





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Milan. Mich. zirge Strain. 1’. C. Gilts bred to Smooth Jumbo larg- .

estZ yr. old in state. Mn grandson of (iutslmlls Smooth iiig 3150 young Stallions





 





 





Big I". {.OaBig bonecll follows from llowlfl'figi‘efltast



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era 3 em, good be... 0, m... to, youmm E. .1. MAiHstoiI. - - - Burr Oak. Mich. For “ii or Exchango. 5.215.filtéiériliegisiiigsdnéfiil'

_ _ _ 'Ann Arbor. Mich. ' . gored Percheron mares. Coming 4-6-7 rears old woiivs:



1. Type 1’. O. bred for March it April furrow sired ing from 1600 (0150) lbs. In foal to Imported Percheron I



by Peter sJumbo it Grand bnperha and “.‘or 3 year- weighing 2160. Those mares are good workers. kindand





 





 





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Chester Gilts bred for March furrow early eonards’ Big honed Poland China some and gilts





 





G. 8. 3381mm, _ , _ Pofllmd. Mich! an . »

R. F D_10. g Red P0“ Cattle. 33- 8- CARR. Homer, Mich. Belgian Stéillions. Priced to sell. State Licen. 7

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DORR D. BUILL. Elm In. lchmn.

P ll Sow: For Salt. 3’?“ “”‘ “’3' “WW.

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. . . A. A. WOOD a son. - - . - Saline. Mich. in; 331'?) 1%.???“ m2... f§}'}.,n‘}.ll§.“grfil;§.””9" P9“

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of blood. L. o. CLAIl’P. R. 1. Adrian, Mich Percheron Stall‘m‘“ ““d “1“" "" rfuomble





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bred to .2 year old for July in Aug. 2 extra good '

i’sll boars. Vi M. J. CLARKE. R37, Mason. Mich. FOR SALE Registered Percheron Stallion

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Bigfll'm Puland climax: figffgmwfggfigfilpggf

L- -BARNES&SON. - - . Byron. Micii'. ' Beingin draft will sell , -h' r .

Nouce tie or “11990 3 1'98. Perchfwni-ifi‘es‘fnge or a“





BIG IYPE Polknn .mfl‘s Booking orders for J. M. HICKS &SUNS. R. 2. “'illiamston. Mich.

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Kalamazoo. Mich. registered Black P r'h -

For sale lion. Price ri ht addriwssomn Stgl





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Large 'Yorkshire Gilts - monarscmsxn, n.3, nox .. Imlay Citygmch.





 





 





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

fairs and won more champioudand Grand Champions & Herman. Packard R"W1. Ann Arbor. Midi. F03 3818 Stallion- I hme a Standard Bred coach





gum ii“ like o‘ther [yea]; ttogether dofb'le' we hm” A i I d Hum hire boar one year old very

rem er rec or an . i ) or at every air we a ow-

ed. X’e Breelr’i this breastit stsell the best. Ye (guzzran- re“ s ere $80.

Ratifgteihe°shfi 0:“... ml"? ’°“' “8“ " ° °“' W ”Ml-"rmnths "Id “Owen fine- Pure BIavkLans-



C shangs $2.0 each: in flock 21 for 840.00 fox hounds. w_ E. LECKY, Holmeovillo, 6m





 

 

 

 

 

 





- ’ Yorkshim El": fitted for spring farrowing. Bacon CHAS. M-SEELEY, ‘ _ Three Rivers Mich 17'},

. ill . . . . ..

Big Type 0. I. C S. haw": buy Yorkshire: in Price. Yorkshwgzeggkg ,1





 





Stallion; sure foal getter. weigh 1400. al otters an- -

swered. John Bair. Columbus Grove, Ohio.





 





 





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8 . 1' mon O 8&0 . r8818 are or ar e oung Jennetq cheap a“! some

g hotland Ponies and Eavel'al





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first? essentials...“marriages: .0... W- am... R- 4? sh... wen. ~

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Is big't pk one sagging sirw nuggi to :ober

n " “n 3" “gifi ”21;. 0" Belgian and Percheron Stallions for sale that About July 1 0W“! 939' f" 53’? 0m. '





it?“ P. REWS Dcnsvx 0 Mi . will th M' hi Stall I 8

pass e In gun ion ns ti . ropahire sins. .

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Chance of Copy or Cancellations 3m“! “‘01! “8 lOO--REGISTERED HOLSTEINS--100

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for a small investment to reap the bene- t di f fl 1 a

fit'of a large expenditure of capital and A! Good "of. (E3311:Hagtiigneg‘fl?fiaegeglilbii‘émg

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





Pedizree Stock Farm offer- Re .110]-

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extra bargino in calvee and fall Rigs. Bulls halt rice.

R. B. PARHA . Bronson, ich.

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dam and former owners of the are (our herd bull

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FOR Sale Ono re isterod Holstein bull calt. Siro'l

twenty nearest ame have '7. da record! av. 26.58 lb.





0 ey s butter Dam to ha bi! R 3 BOX 0 A [1(wllflt9' u on

Reglstel ed . Guerns individul. L0H! Eel" : . 'i ll ' . . i ‘

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J- M. WILLIAM . - - North Adams M

For Sale, four oun.

Guernseys-mmma .0... uh... .

' A. R. 0. herd, tuberculin tested annually. A row

’ Crawford, Bolton. M10!” choice bull calves for sale.





oullne tested. Goo.

‘ . . DY, 0 . Port Euro Mich.

' 45 30%“de head all tb- ‘93‘39‘1- Nora's Chas. Paton. Herdsmh‘i: Three River: Mich.

ll.l'fl3.y3 iii“ fill)“ {glut o'fg’mp. {gay Rose K‘in > _

”as , ins are so aver inc _

Each. El: $311 calges :re booked ahead at gaacnablo 3~HOLSTEIN BULLS-.3 _

Prim. Avondth 5‘0“ INT“ Wayne. M ° ' no.4, forservioe at Long Beach Farm, Augusta.Miob.,

. ' ' -REGIBTEEED ed 11 lstei n u re a r no ice

our. ms sxsnmnm r» 8,-3- 2:. “gees.

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‘ Registered Guernsey bull 031- AK Le f l‘ . Herd sire Lenawee Pontiac Cal-

For sale veeMay Rose bro in - emit! %ingndill.cr Regimen-ed Holstein bull calves

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Our Motto:——“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should

be first improved.”





THE LECTURER’S HOUR.





 





(Continued from last week).



But while the lecturer is waiting

for a conference so planned and so ad-

vertised, permit us to offer a few sug-

gestions. First, study the State Lec-

turer’s Bulletin. Read everything she

says about your work. You may not

be able to use all the matter suggested

by her; indeed, she,does not expect

you to do so unless you are able, but





. you will get new ideas, and new and





more definite plans for your own work

will come because of your reading her

thopghts so well expressed.



Now, after you have read and en-

deavored to grasp and use, the whole

matter is going to turn out like this.

It is you and your Grange for it, Wor-

thy Lecturer- You will be worth much

more to your Grange because of what

you have read and thought and plan—

ned. Indeed, if you did not read and

think and plan, you would not be worth

much to any Grange as a lecturer. Yes,

I know that many who hold this office

do not read nor think much about their

work, and because they do not, they

have few plans, but they are not worth

much. You would not enjoy their pro-

grams if you were present.



Worthy Lecturer, there are condi-

tions in your community that are not

quite like those in any other. No

State Lecturer can make a program

that will fully meet the conditions or

needs in every neighborhood. Make

no mistake. We should read all she

has to say, for it is good, often very

good.



But the all-important question is,

“What part of this program will best

serve our Grange?” We must answer

this question and if some other subject

will better suffice, then we should

choose that. By all means, we should

be sure that we have a program pre-

pared for each meeting unless some-

thing unusual prevents its use, and we

should be quite as sure that that pro-

gram meets the needs of our commu-

nity.



One reason for the indifference re-

garding Grange programs is that the

Grange gets.into a rut. We cannot

keep up the interest by trying to use

the same old stuff that we were talk-

ing about twenty years ago. Some of

it will never wear out, but I am sure

I can prove by more than one-who

reads this, that a part of it has worn

threadbare. What we most need is

the introduction of live questions full

of current interest.



Perhaps I should have said that we

need some questions of current import,

for I realize as well as anyone, that

there are great general subjects old

and still ever new, that w ought to

study. But the study of thee will be

far more enjoyable if the programs are

varied by introduction of live matter

absolutely up to date.



(To be continued).





The cost of--the present struggle, in

treasure and in blood, represents the

most frightful price humanity has ever

paid to secure an ideal. Thus in the

midst of the'dargest hour in human-

ity’s history; we catch a glimpse of the

dawning of a new day,.even the tri—

umph of the very peace towards which

Grange energies and Grange hopes

have unceasingly been directed, and

to whose complete attainment by the

only possible means new availablepwe

here and now highly resolve to reded-

icate all that we have and all that we

are. Thus shall real and - lasting.

world’s‘peace be attained, and the op-

portunities of'fifreedqm and liberty be

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CLUB Discussionsfi





Hold Interesting manner—“vine Con- ‘ .





way and Handy Union Farmers’ Club

held a, very enjoyable meeting at the

home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward House,

February 22. The‘meeting was called

to order by the president and was op—

ened by singing “Beautiful .Flag of

Liberty.” Prayer was offered by the

Chaplain Adams. ‘The topic, “What

are the most important problems be-

fore the farmers at the present time ?"

was presented by Mr. James Wilkin-

son. He believes that the' greatest

problem is the scarcity and the de-

mand for food. He read a very ap-

propriate poem, showing. our duty as

citizens to the many soldiers in the

trenches in the matter of food. The

lack of help and good seed are great.

problems. ‘As .a result of a poor sea-

son, and consequently poor feed, we

have a great lack in motive power also.

The topic was discussed by Mr. -A. B.

Grant and he said in former years

farmers thought of winter as their

holiday, but on account of the fuel sit-

uation and the demand upon farmers

for wood, this spring will find the farm-

er physically fit through exercise. If

the farmer had awakened a few years

ago to the problem of keeping the boys

and girls on the'farms, the problem of

farm help would have solved itself. No

amusement or recreation on the farm

is the main cause of boys leaving the

farm. Weekly amusement should be

provided, affording the boy something

to look forward to besides going to

town on Saturday night and long hours

of work. The towu is lacking as welt

as country, in the matter of proper

wholesome amusement. The topic was

discussed by George Stowe, George

Newman, 0. E. Carr and others, some

expressing their belief that the farm.

is the best place in the world. A vocal

solo entitled, “Hats Off to the Flag."

was rendered by~Mrs. M. Wilkinson.

The next topic, “Should we have a to-

baccoless day, and what would be

gained by it?” was opened by Mrs. J.

Snyder, who read a. paper prepared by

Mrs. Clay Gordon. ‘She believes that.

free distribution of tobacco in any

form among our soldiers is shameful

and unnecessary. Let those who have

been in the habit of using tobacco have

it, as it is a poor time to deprive them

of it, but why attempt to force the

habit upon those who have never felt

the need of its use or had any desire

for the stuff? We are asked for money

for Red Cross work, for Y. M. C. A.

work, for relief work among the home-

less and helpless. We are asked

through the columns of Our daily paper

for money to help swell a tobacco fund

for our boys in the camps—more,espe-

cially for the boys in France. Our gov-

ernment pays each man a certain sum

each month for his own personal use.

Let him buy his own tobacco out of his

own fund. There will not be a. tobac-

coless day as long as the men use to-

bacco to a larger extent than the wom-

en—if the women used it they would

be asked to conserve by substitution.

Men, as a rule, do not care to deny

themselves. The topic was discussed

by Mr. O. E. Carr, and he said if he

could have his way he would have

nothing but tobaccoless days. He stat-

ed some statistics concerning its use.

The money spent in one year for to—

bacco would build four Panama Canals-

More money is spent in one year for

tobacco than is spent for education, 'or

for the government or the army in time

of peace. We should have a tobacco—

less day to show young men that a

person can get along one day a week

without tobacco. We should not en-

courage the use of anything which is

contrary to the teachi *bf parents

and teachers. Mr. Frank Curtis said

he had no use for it. We should break

off the use of tobacco among the boys-

If the money spent on tobacco could

be spent for the soldier boys we should

have all tobaccoless days. Mrs. George

Stowe then favored the Club with a

recitation. The Club then enjoyed two

vocal- solos by Rev. F. C. Watters. The

March meeting will be an open meet-

ing held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Nichols for pot-luck dinner. A

charge of twenty-five cents will, be

made for the benefit of the Red Cross





society.- A motion \was made and sec- ,





onded that the rules or the Club should

be. printed 'and handed to‘ each, new

member, or the Club. er. andngs.





   

 





Fred Snell were voted in as members ‘ “

'of the Club to an vacancy. Thafcls .

lowing members not as a committee -\





for the April program: . Airs. :and

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Veterinary. ,

W «h, ammo!w'lliwu WHW'IN Mus-Hmv'tl‘l'

CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. S.

Chronic Cough—Following an at-

tack of scours. one of my cows com-

menced to cough last fall and is grad-

ually growing worse. Had my herd

tested for tuberculosis but none of

them reacted. Have been treatled by

local Vet., also given commercxa rem—

edies without result. E. D. Y., Linden,

Mich—Give her 1 oz. doses of Glyco-

Heroin (Smith) three times a day

Sore Eyes—Catarrh of Bowels.—-—

My lambs are troubled with sore eyes,

discharge *water and mucus from them,

they also purge until they die. I lost

three last week. J.

Mich—Are you sure that the lambs

have had sufficient shelter and enough

nourishing food during the cold 'weath-

er? Keep them dry and feed them

plenty of ground oats and clover; this

will do them more good than drugs.

Give each lamb 10 drops of tincture or

cinchona and 15 drops tincture gentian

three timesa day. Dissolve 40 grs. of

boric acid in 1/4 pt. or clean boiled wa-

ter and put a few drops into the eye

twice a day. If they are weak, give

them hot black coffee three times a

da .

indigestion—About two months ago

I bought a six-year-old horse. He was.

and .is now, in fairly good flesh, is fed

three quarts of oats twice daily, also

has plenty of clover hay. When I got

him he had some pimples on upper

,part of body, but those have nearly

all disappeared. He frequently sweats

in stable; he is not working. M. A. G.,

Miliingtcn, Mich—He should be exer-

cised daily, his stable kept clean and

be well supplied with fresh air. Give

him 1,4,, drn fluid extract nux vomica, 1

oz. tincture gentian and 1 oz. tincture

cinchona at a dose in either feed or

drinking water three times a day.

Heart Disease—Thin Cow—We re-

cently lost a calf, which started into

winter quarters rather thin, but was

seemingly healthy. It steadily lost in

flesh, bowels became costive; I gave

it warm water, milk and calf meal. I

also gave .it two tablespoonfuls of

Glauber’s salt, which brought on the

scours, and as calf got so weak I kill-

ed it. Found heart sack filled with a

large quantity of fluid. Have Jersey

cow due to freshen in a month, which

is very thin and weak. I believe she

needs a good tonic. G. W. G., Rapid

City, Mich—Your calf died of dropsy

of the heart and could not. have been

saved. Give your other cow 179 dr. of

sulphate iron, 1 oz. ground gentian,

1 oz. baking soda in feed twice a day.

Increase her grain ration. .

Cow Didn't Clean Properly.——-One of

my cows calved one week ago, but did

not clean properly, now she has an of-

fensive smelling discharge from vagi-

na. She frequently strains as thou h

in pain. A. F., Glennie, Mich.——Gi e

her a teaspoonful of boric acid in feed

or drinking water three. times a day.

Dissolve 1 dr. of permanganate potash

in, one gallon of clean water which

has previously been boiled, and wash

out vagina daily. You will find a

fountain syringe the most suitable in-

strument to apply this solution, or else

use half-inch rubber tubing and tin

funnel. She should not be bred while

this vaginal discharge is going on.

Forage Poisoning—J have eleven

yearling calves being wintered in box

stall in basement of barn and as fast

as one dies another 'is taken sick, and

it dies. I have lost three, and three

more are nowsick and they will doubt-

less die. Our local Vet. has been treat-

ing them. They eat and drink fairly

well, are weak, requiring someone to

steady them when walking. They have

had no outdoor air and exercise all

winter. What causes this ailment and

how can they be cured? P. R., Lowell,

Mich.——-Y0u do not give sufficient symp-





 





 





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diagnosis; however, I believe either

their food or water is the cause. True,

it may be for want of fresh air and

exercise. Your Vet. should look into

this matter closely, if so he can surely

ascertain whatcanses their death.





Rheumatism.——I have 12 pigs which

Were tarrowed last September. They

had the run of a large orchard. When

cold weather set in I placed them on





“the ground floor in warm pen, but





they soon began to cripple and six of

them died- I forgot to say another

litter one month younger is now fast

gel the same way. I feed beans,

mi lings and some soft corn. R. B.,

Marine City, Mich—Make a co plete

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are rofitsble. Dairymen throughout

doing 8 whole U. S. are getting rid of

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bred Holsteins. .

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proven the most profitable breed.





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Box 164, Braiucboro, Vi.

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The young bulls we have for sale are

backed u by many generations of

large pro ucers. Bu one of these

bulls, and give your erd a “push”.

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wonimoro prizes at the State Fairs this year than any other.

‘ Boar Pigs and Yearling. For 3.1.,





BROOKWATER FARM

Ann Arbor. Mich. R. 7.





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The Pontiac Herd:





“Where the Champions come from” ,





A. .. W“ . .. . ...

OilerBull Calves sired by sons of Pontiac Korndyke i

Heugorveld DeKoi,Pontisc Dutchlond.or Admiral ‘

Walker Piotertie. I

Do you want a Pontiac in your herd? ‘





Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac. Mich. :





 





Holstein bull. nearly ready for service. large straight

‘ 'doopbodied. handsomely marked is white. His six

nearest (Isms. have. AJLO. records that avers o butter ‘

7:daysi.’~‘i.l3 milk 53-! lbs. W. B. Header, Howe l, Mich.





II OLSTEINB of quality. Bull calves from dams with

E recordhhiig.‘ as 31 lbs. in '5' days. Also collie pu J iies.





A. llAl - - - Rochester, ich.





all (1 e M .' t ' l .

Johanna Korn. D. K. Teli'mdlif We‘rritettl).d 23 b son 0:

M. L. MOLAULIN. - - Redford. Michigan.





OLSTEIN bull calves. eligible to registration,

Without papers. 823 at days of age registered.

to 875. Dewey C. Pierson. Hadley. Mich.





' Holstein bull calf. torn so t.191", d

Refilfleri?“ dotghter of 24 lb. C(iw. wrilih for, poll?

fires andgaoe. F. .8. your station.



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' calves.25 heifers. d: 2 bulls 15-]6tlls ure

HOISteln 5 weeks old); beautifully marks . 82$

enchanted for shipment anywhere. Buy only the best.

EDGEWOOD FARMS. - - Whitewater. Wis.





 





nrkslde Holstein bulls. 8 and 16 mo. Both sired b

noted bull. 37 relatives or. 301b.cows. Priced to sell}:

.1. E. TIRBILL dz BUN. - - Charlotto. Mich.





A FEW Reassessmen-

8. M. YEBKEB. - J - - Howell. Mich

Bob Fair! 494027 at h

Herefords of herd. geek for .31..

loth sues either all or horned. EA .

KcOLBTY. Soo‘y ich. . B. Ass'n. Bad Axe. Mich.





 





 





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10 bull calves for sale, Perfection

Fairfax and Prince Donald breeding.





ALLEN BROS.,

PAW PAW, MICH.





Limo l'srmstesd J ersoy Csttlo. 3 bulls, ready for scr- .

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

Ollext fall. Colon C. Lillie,





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NE 11 mo. old solid colored r, son of Royal Ma-

Ojesty whose dam as a 3yr. p ncod 406.24 lbs. of but-

ter 1 yr. First. check 390.00 gets him, registered.

transferred and delivered any point in Mich.

FRED BRENNAN Son, - . - - Capac. hitch.





' road forscrvioo. Alsohoifers

‘ChOICO 811118 for silo. Strong in the Blood

of Royal Inject]. Come and see them or write for



THE WILDWOOD HERD

Alvin Balden. Capos, Mich., Phonei





MAPLE Lano’ B. of M. Jersey Herd has for sale 3..

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

heifer on... and bulls. All from sooadoo lb. dams.

IBVIN FOX. - - - - - Allsgsn, Mich. ‘





ERSEY bull Ind bull calves for nlo from R. of M.

cows also heifers and cows of all ages.

0. B. WERNER. R. s. Allegan. Mich.





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SMITH and PARKER. . Howell, Mich.





Shorihorn Callie oi both Sex for Sale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Mlchlul.





—Dsiryor beef bred. Broodin sto all

Shodhu1“ ages tonal. othrmers prioos. C.W..$nm

logy. Cont. lion. slim-thorn Broodori' Aunt. lchrido. ‘ich.





BIDWELL summons





For Boo! and Milk.





5Bulll ready for service. 15 months to Zyean. for

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

ern. sanitary oquipment. One hour from Toledo.

Ohio. N. Y. C. B’y. Visitors Welcome. Writs us.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM





Box B, Tecumseh, Mich igln.





Richland Farm





Shorthorns.





IP. Lorne in Service. Grand Chain ion Bull of

lab. Special ofi'er 0 14 head of Short orns. Cows

with calves at foot.hei ers two years old and heifers

one your old. Also a number of bull calves. W0

invite correspondence and inspection.

0. H. PRESCOTT a SONS.

Farms at Prescott. Mich. Office at Tawas, City, Mich.





 





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Francisco Farm Shorthorns

W's maintain one of Michigan‘s good herds of Scotch

and Scotch Topped cattle. Thei' or. well bred, prop-

erly handled and price rensonab 6. Come and see; wo





like to show them.

P. P. I’ ‘ Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





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Yearling bulls by Canada's best sires: Missie Augusto

605778 and Imp). Newton Friar 528120.

LAURENCE . OTTO, - - - Charlotte, Mich.





Shorthorns for sale. 5 hulls Scotch to it) to 14 mos.





3roan, 1 white 1 red, rice 8150. to 82 .lson of Ms, -

Walton Sultan, Id mos. . 0. Carlson, Leroy, Mich,





the original milk strain youn

Bales ShOI’tl‘lOI’nS bulls Smos. old for-sale. Pris:

815° to 8200. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason, Mich.





 





 





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Two bulls. in and 16 mo. By a

‘ Shorthorns.'grafiids"on of Cyrus Clay.





COLLAR BROS, Conklin. Mich.





SHORTHORNS. Butterfly Sultan. half brother to

International Sr. Chum ion. in service. For oo'd

bulls.oows.and heifers. W.S.McQuillan.Howoll. ioh-





Maanlton Monarch 2nd. 387322 half

Shorthorns brother to 6 Grand Champions in se' ~

vico. JOHN sonnnrr, n.5, Rood City. mail.





 





 





 





Four fine young bulls ready for service.

shorlhornb"Grnndsnns= of Imp. Villager. Also bred

heifer & cows lionvy milking Strain. Farmers prices.





1 Free Catalogue. HORliIiC'l'UN FARMS. Hart. hlich.





 





ON of Harthurth Welfare heads our herd of milk-

ing Shorthorns Comprising Chiflei' of Clay bred

cows. oung bulls ready for sale and service. write us

Liddol 131-08., R. 2, Clinton, Mich. Macon Phone.





 





Grand lraverss Shnrlhorn Issn. 3.1:; “m" ’°'





M. E. DUCKLES, Sec., Traverse City, Mich.





 





M'Iki Shorthorns and Polled Durhams. Zflhead com»

' "8 heifers and youn bulls. Sultans Duchess and





Sittyton Duchess included. . B.Hnllsted, R. 1, Orion, lich.





1867-1918 Maple Ridge Herd of Bhorthorns

Yearling heifers and bull calves for

. E. ’l'ANSVVELL. Mason. Mich.





registered, Shorthorns



T h r e e B r e d three yr. old heifers for



sale. Also two bull calves.



W. E. MORRISH, R. 5, Flint, Mich.

Foul" very desirable heifers l' to 21 months



Shorthorns old, and bull 8 um. All ruans’. Price 31000.



8. E. BOO H. - - - - - Morrice. Mich.





Shorthorn— bull‘cal "s o e t i

fiurebred months, price $50 to Shh. n o ' I

W. F. BARR, - - - - - Aloha. Mick





Scotch Shorthorns £51,: “£5 ,2" :3}

John Lessitor's Sons, Orion, Mich., B. F. D,





Foiled Durham Cattle





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9 yearling bulls for

sale. »

- - Muir, Mich.





Cattle For Sale





2Loads feeders and two loads yearling steers. Also

can show you any number 1. 2 and 3 yearslold tron

600 to 1200ib8. Issac Shnnstum. Fairfleld. Iowa. 3.8





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011008 Orion Chief Perfection No. 6894;” a dJ -

Dnings PilotWonder No.73373. Two outstandi: 150::-





of big type and excellent quality. All selects largo

“in smooth sows. Thrifty, smooth. large boned spring

gi ts from these hard hours and choice sows at very

reasonable prices. The Jennings Farms, Bail'ey,Mich.





’ surplus stock oilfield. N thw

BM” 3 DIII'OCB ing doing till spring. 0

ORLO L. DUBSON. ' - - - ~ Quincy. Mich,





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_ for service A to sow b for June lure i v

T d. b .. -a..-‘ NEWTON nAnanAa'r, m - ~ 15¢.th .fi

neutrons .53::a‘.,£§ '2 assassins; i W "“ *3"





sting ancestry. E.'J.Tnylor. Fremont. Mich.





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GRAINS AND SEEDS





February 12,1918.



WHEAT. -Stocks of wheat are be—

‘ ing rapidly manufactured into flour

~ the supply of which is already becom

ing threateningly small as compared

with the quantities consumed by the

American peOple under normal condi-

tions. Careful use of wheat products

and the generous substitution of other

cereals will undoubtedly enable us to

bridge over the remaining months till

harvest and at the same time keep our

Allies from extreme hunger. Thus far

the growing crop has been carried

along under favorable weather condi-

tions since going under snow last fall.

Practically the whole winter wheat sec-

tion reports the situation as being

good. Conditions in foreign countries

are also encouraging and Argentine is

said to be offering the grain more free

ly now. The visible supply shows a

decrease of 790,000 bushels. A year

ago the local price for No. 2 red wheat

was $1.951/z per bushel. Present prices





 





 





 





are: No.2 1ed wheat $2.17; No. 3

white $2.15; No.3 mixed $2.15 .

CORN——Much effort is being put





forth to move the corn crop from pro-

ducing districts. The volume of busi-

ness in Chicago on Monday was large

with brokers of the Allied govern-

ments taking generous quantities of

those grades fitted for ocean transpor-

tation. The poorer grades did not

meet so urgent a demand and the quo-

tations 011 these inferior descriptions

declined while the kiln dried offerings

held firm The American visible sup-

ply increased nearly two and a half

million bushels A year ago the local

price for N0. 3 c0111 was $1.12 per

bushel. Present quotations are: No.

3 cash corn $1.80; No. 3 yellow $1.87;

No.4 do $1.75; No. 5 do $1.60; No. 6

do $1. '.50 In Chit 1go March corn clos-

ed 3101111111 at $1 28 and May at $12714

per bushel.



OATS.'—\ alues in this department

reached new high levels last week but

on Monday there was a little easier

feeling in the trade. A ban was placed

on the shipment of oats to eastern

points, and although the scarcity of

cars restricted the movement from

country places, the embargo was prob-

ably responsible largely i‘or bringing

about the easier tone. Farmers are

marketing freely, being attracted by

present prices. With better transpor-

tation the many holes in consuming

districts would quickly absorb gener—

ous quantities of the grain now resting

in country elevators. A year ago the

price paid on the local market for

standard oats was 651/10 per bushel.

Present prices here are: Standard

oats $1.001/2; No. 3 white $1; No. 4 do

99c per bushel.



RYE—Trade is firm and movement

small with the advances of last week

holding Cash No.2 is now quoted at

$2. 87. In Chicago the same grade is

quoted at $2 90(11 2. 91.



BARLEV—At Chicago price ranges

from $1. 80@2. 43 and malting grades in

Milwaukee are held at $2. 27@2. 40.



BEANS—Demand has slow ed up

and a little easier feeling prevails, with

local prices at $13 per cwt. for imme-

diate and prompt; shipment. About the

same conditions prevail in Chicago,

with Michigan pea beans, hand—picked,

in sound dry condition quoted at $13.75

@14 and red kidneys, fancy $145001}

15 per cwt. The basis of operations

at Greenville is $12 per cwt.



SEEDS—Firm. Prime red clover

$20.15; March $19.15; alsike $15.65;

timothy seed $3.85.





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. 520; rye flour $14@14. 50 per bbl



EDS ——For the benefit of our read-

ers we are repeating this week the fol—

lowing important notice: The U. S.

Food Administration has fixed selling

price per ton of wheat bran (in car-

load lots) by millers at 38 per cent of

the price paid by them for a ton of

wheat—the average price paid for

wheat during the preceding month. In

freshly killed hens or pullets between

February 11 and April 30 of this year.

The object is to save all egg-laying

chickens during the egg season for

laying purposes. Old roosters 22@24c



. selling to dealers in less than carload

lots they can add fifty cents per ton.



In retailing to consumers they can add



to this price a retail profit of ten per



cent. If sold in bags they can add the



gtual cost of the bags“ For middlings.



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price of bran.



The following will saw 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 lots the

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 forbran 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 $1.5



Other Feeds. —Cracked corn $76. 50;

coarse corn meal $74; corn and oat

chop $60.



HAY. —In carlots at Detroit: No. 1

timothy $26. 50@27; standard timothoy

$25. 50@26; light mixed $25. 50@26;



2 timothy $24. 50@25; No. 1 clover,

$24. 50@25 per ton.



Pittsburgh—No. 1 timothy $32.50@

33; No. 2 timothy $30@31; No. 1 light

mixed $31@32; No. 1 clover, mixed

$315.30@32.50; No. 1 clover at $31.50@



, STRAW.—In carlots on track at De-

troit: Wheat and oat straw $11.50@

12; rye straw $12.50@13. .





DAIRY PRODUCTS





BUTTER—Market is easy and pric-

es lower. Fresh creamery firsts are

quoted at 431/oc; fresh creamery ex-

tras 45((1451/20.



Chicago. —Supplies ale ample and

prices unchanged. Creamery extras

451/zc;ext1a firsts 45c; packing stock

31((1320 pe1 pound.



CH E.ESE ——Michigan flats 251/251?

26c; New York flats 261/2@27c; brick

281/20; long horns 291/20; Michigan

daisies 270; Wisconsin daisies 2715c;

domestic Swiss 35((1‘42C for prime to

fancy; limburger 30%@32c per lb.



DRESSED CALVES.——Fancy 19@

200; choice 17c; common 160.



DRESSED HOGS.——Best 21c per lb.





POULTRY PRODUCTS





POULTRY.-—(Live).——Market is dull

and firm with small receipts. 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 30 of this year.

The object is to save all egg-laying

chickens during the egg season for

laying purposes. Old roosters 22@24c

per 1b; ducks 30@32c; fat geese 30@

320; turkeys 30@320.



Chicago—(Live).—Offerings small

and market is very dull. Fowls 22@

28c per 1b; ducks 2917,1300; geese 24@

25c; turkeys, good 250.



EGGS—Although eggs are coming in

more freely, buyers are getting large

supplies for the Easter trade. Fresh

firsts 35(1 360.



Chicago. ——,Demand fairly .good and

supplies increasing Fresh Michigan

firsts 34c; ordinary firsts 33c; miscel-

laneous lots, cases included 33%,0.





WOOL





Trade remains firm notwithstanding

the uncertainty caused by unsettled

questions pertaining to the options on

wool supplies recently exercised by

the government. Both foreign and do-

mestic prices are strong. Shearing

has begun in some sections of this

country, but no prices for the new ’clip

have been reported. Fleece prices at

seabioard ranged from 55@85c last

wee .





FRUITS—VEGETABLES





(Quotations furnished by U S. De-

partment of Agricultural Bureau of



Markets Detroit Office)



POTATOES—The markets over the

country seem to be adequately supplied

with tubers and values show a general

decline from last week. The week

opened with Michigan round white

stock of good quality, sacked, U. 8.

Grade No. 1 selling in Detroit at $1.50

@1.60 per bushel in jobbing lots. Sat-

urday’s prices for the same grade at

Cleveland were $1.25@1.50; at Buffalo

$1.50; at Pittsburgzh $1.60@1.65; at

Washington $1. 8761 at Cincinnati

$1. 60@1. 65; at Columbus $1. 75@2.



At country points in Michigan prices

to farmers fer round whites, U. S.

grade No.1 are 75@900 per cwt; in





 





 





 





 





New York state $1; No.2 do 65@70¢;'





Maine growers are inclined to hold off

selling.



APPLES—There is a little easier

feeling in this trade, with prices about

steady. Baldwins sold in Detroit on

Monday for $5.50 for “A” 2%, 111.ch

Michgian Bal





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~ Margin 1:1, 1918. t

Cattle. —Receipts 90 cars; market is 71ng is; 1.2581111: ground 317 40 s ..

steady; best shipping steers $13®14 sheep and lamb market ruled firm?

fair to good $12@12 50 plain and With pChOice 131th at $18 ‘

coarse $11@11. 50; Canadian steers, Ho wérb‘ t 1 Ii 1 d '

heavy, $12@12. 50; Canadian steers, mandgs f in tex 1.91129 y thve y t 9-

fat, coarse $11@12; Canadian steers h most? 01 asbwee, Wi ens em

and heifers $9@10; native yearlings S 1ppers a ast uy ng activey and

$12@12. 50; best handy steers $11@ figuring their full share of the offer-

12.25; fair to good $10.10 11; handy S

steers and heifers migd’ $9 50@, lambs, yearlings and sheep made

1050 light butcher steers $10@1& 50. ex remely high price records last week,

western heife1 s 59' 50@10 50. state with greatly inadequate oflerings and

heifers $8. 50 9.50; Canadian heavy a vigorous general demand for any-

cows $9.50@150 best fat cows $106.? thing in the least desirable in quality.

11 butcher cows 35750017850 cutters Horses were marketed only moder— .,

$6 ’50@7 canners $5 50@6 fancy bulls ately last week, but supplies were suf-

$10@10 50 butcher bulls $8 50@9' 5O ficient to meet demands, and prices

common mm so best151:.sass"....11;'::{8:d..':18s

$9@10 medium 11111111308183: flat-{52$ plriceis, bgtlmost kinds 0% horsessggg

.s ow y. a es were on a 8.815 0

8' 50 be“ milkers and springers $100 150 for inferior to a good class of farm





@150; mediums $75@100.

chunks, $185@265 for drafters and $100

Hogs. —Receipts, 40 cars, strong: @200 for most drivers.





heavy $18. 50@18 90; yorkers’ $18. 90@ , "— .‘ ,





 

 





 

 

 

 





   

   

   

   

   

   

   





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





   

   





 





19; pigs and lights $18. 50@19.

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 20 cars;

steady; top lambs $18. 60@18 75; york-





   





 





   

   





 





   





ers $18..90@1910; pigs and lights

$18.50@19.

Calves $7@17.70.

V ccheo. Jersey Breeders ,,





March 11,1918.



Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today... 11,000 60, 000 26,000

Same day 1917. .13,213 53, 602



Last week.... 76, 854 204, 430 6,

Same wk 1917. .38, 665 146, 406 63,168

Shipments from here last week in-

cluded 24,368 cattle, 61,447 hogs and





   





15 head of registered Jerseys (14 fe-

males and lthree yr. old herd bull) /

will be sold at auction on farm (recent— '



ly owned by me) situated 8 miles south ~



from Lansmg and 5 miles east from



Dimondale on New York Central Rail-



road, Tuesday March 19th commencing





   

   

   

   

   

   

   





   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





16,538 sheep, comparing with 12,276



cattle, 34,439 hogs and 7,534 sheep for at 12 30 sharp



the samehtimg ahyear ago. The aver— B. S. HARRIS, Owner



age weig t o t e hogs received last , .



weéekt was increased to 2391 ORR STANTON’ Mgr.



a t e open this week with a good SEED BEANS



demand and Strong prices. Hogs Start' Dry handgickedéhn nav “beans free from disease at 811 .



pu- bu. F 111100, Harley, Osceola Oo. ,Mioh.





 





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The Citizens’ Mutual Auto-

mobile Insurance Company





of Howell Michigan





.The Largest and Most Successful Mutual -

Automobile Insurance Company





in the World

Organized on the 30th of August. 1915





The Following Shows the Number of Members and the

Cash on Hand December 3lst the Past Three Years:





- Cash on Hand

Dec. Blst, 1915' $ 4,083.34

Dec. 318i, 1916 15,337 7,740.87

Dec. 31891917 27,431





27.175.45

Summary of Claims Paid for 1917:





75 Claims for Fire - $12 601. 70

142 ”Claims for Theft 4 - 22 822.99

257 Claims for Liability - - 23,514. 22





Total $58, 938. 91





This Company Has Never Borrowed One Dollar, and '-

Every Claim Has Been Promptly Paid

as Soon as Established. . , 1





Members





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If some person is injured by your auto, causing serious ' . I

injury or death, and suit is started against you, you '

will want the protection of an established company -

with experienced officers to handle you matter.





Protects You Against Fire. Theft and Liability. I l . . 1

‘ Cost Only $1 for Policy and 25c per H. P. V 8 I





W. E. R0331 Secretary, : __

HOWell Michlgm,





   

   

   

   

 

 





 





 





   





 





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your horses, cattle, sheep and

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Thursday’s Market.

March 13, 1018.

Cattle.



Receipts 1412. Market is very ac-

tive; canners 250 higher than last

week; other grades strong 10@150

higher.



Best heavy steers $11.50(u,12.50; best

handy weight butcher steers $1050.31,

11; mixed steers and heifers $95011?

10; handy light butchers $8.50@9.25;

light butchers $8@8.50; best cows $9@

10; butcher cows $7.50@8; cutters w

@725; canners $6.50@6.75; best heavy

bulls $8.50@9.25; bologna bulls $8@

825‘; stock bulls $701,750; milkers and

springers $85((g100.



"McMullen, K. & J. sold Parker, W.

& Co. 1 bull wgh 13.30 at 18.25, 5 steers

av 925 at $10.50, 2 do av 700 at $9, 1

cow wgh 1200 at $7, 1 bull wgh 1370 at

$8.50, 1 cow wgh 1120 at $7.25; to Na—

gle P. Co. 6 butchers av 925 at $9, 2

cows av 1100 at $9; to H;I.‘.11‘:iond, :5.

& Co. 3 canners av 880 at $6.25; to

Goodgold 3 butchers av 856 at $7.50; to

Burnt‘eldt 1 bull wgh 1080 at $9.25, 3

do av 1125 at $9; to Nagle P. Co. 23

steers av 1050 at $11.75, 2 heifers av





9 do av 950 at $7.25, 2 do av 970 at

$8.25, 8 steers av 1050 at $11.40, 6

butchers av 900 at $9.25, 2 do av 560 at

$7.25; to Bray 3 cutters av 875 at $7,

2 cows av 1050 at $9, 1 canner wgh 770

at $6.50; to Mich. B. Co. 2 bulls av

750 at $8, 1 do wgh 1030 at $8.50, 2

COWS av 850 at $7.50, 9 butchers av 700

at $8.23; :0 Bray 2 cows av 850 at

$8.50, 3 do av 750 at $8.50, 3 do av 850

at $7, 1 do wgh 1060 at $7.50.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Nagle P. Co. 1

bull wgh 1320 at $9.50, 3 do av 970 at

$8.50, 3 steers av 943 at $10.75; to

Bresnahan & K. 3 canners av 950 at

$6.60, 3 do av 950 at $6.60; to Sullivan

1". Co. 2 cows av 920 at $7.50, 11 steers

av 1034 at $11, 3 do av 1050 at $10, 13

do av 770 at $9.35, 2 heifers av 535 at

$6.75, 3 cows av 1090 at $8.50, 2 steers

av 915 at $11, 2 do av 750 at $8.50; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 17 do av 1013 at

$10.75, 7 do av 900 at $11; to Mich. B.

Co. 1 cow Wgh 1110 at $8; to Bray 4

do av 1000 at $7, 2 do av 1205 at $7.25,

1 do wgh 910 at $6; to Thompson 3

steers av 713 at $8.50, 8 do av 860 at

$10; to Nagle P. Co. 12 do av 1003 at

$11.25; to Kamman B, CO. 1 do wgh

950 at $11, 1 do wgh 1020 at $10.75,

3 do av 933 at $11, 3 do av 943 at

$10.75; to Mich. B. Co. 14 butchers av

744 at $9.65, 6 cows av 1065 at $8.75,

4 do“ av 1020 at $8.25, 9 butchers av

717 at $9.65, 1 bull wgh 1260 at $9; to

Bray 4 cows av 850 at $7, 3 canners av

777 at $5.50, 4 stockers av 437 at $7,

14 steers av 666 at $9.



Veal Calves.



Receipts 775. Market strong at last

week’s prices prices. Best $15.50@16;

others $8@11.



Sandel, S. B. & G. sold Fineman 7

av 170 at $15, 6 av 150 at $12, 8 av 130

at $10, 7 av 135 at $12, 9 av 165 at $15;

to Dabrowsky 2 av 140 at $14; to Ratt-

kowsky 20 av 135 at $15; to Mich. B.

Co. 15 av 150 at-$15.50; to Golden 3 av

170 at. $15.50, 4 av 115 at $12.50, 4 av

145 at $12, 2 av 150 at $10, 4 av 145 at

$15; to Thompson 2 av 330 at $8, 9 av

145 at $15, 4 av 135 at $13, 8 av 145 at

$15.50; to Mich. B. Co. 10 av 134 at $15.





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 4193. Market, quality con-





Be'St lambs $17.75; fair do $17@17.25;

light to common lambs. $16@16.50;

yearlings $16; fair to good sheep $10

@1250; culls and common $5@7.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 40

lambs av 92 at $17, 22 do av 80 at $17,

63 do, av 105 at $17, 119 do av 90 at

$17, 230 do av 85 at $16.25; to Parker,

W'. & Co. 49 do av 70 at $17.75, 60

yearlings av 80 at $16, 13 lambs av 65

at $16; to Swift & Co. 962 do av 91 at

$17.75, 219 do av 88 at $17.65, 207 do

av 85 at $17.65, 148 do av 87 at $17.65,

75 do av 75 at $17.75, 204 do av 85 at

$17.75, 195 do av 78 at $17.75.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Nagle P. Co. 12

sheep av 95 at $11.25, 42 lambs av 95

at $17, 10 do av 98 at $17, 28 do av





av 70 “at $17, 24 do av 70 at $17.50, 9





do av 90 at $16.75, 5 sheep av 85'at.





$10; to ‘Wilson & 'Co. 64 lambs av 85

at $17.75, 79 do av 80 at $17.75, 219 do

av 88 at $17.75, 73 do av‘ 88 at $17.75,

395 do av 93 at $17.50.





,15'lambs av 75 at $17, 9 'dolav'

$5, 6 do av 60 at $15.





 





 





rglast, wee‘k. Pigs $17.50 ;’





smittedfgrades 175W17-‘35-





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750 at $9.50, 2 cows av 920 at $7.25, .





sidered, strong at last week’s prices. .





65 at $15.50, 15 do av 75 at 17.50, 24 do, ,





Sande], .S. B. & G. sold Thom 0301; ‘_

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098. '

- Repeipts 4024,. Market strong and»

50c higher the,





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‘Ne arc in a. .position to

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If you have not yet had an





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King,





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' —— spiral wide-spread, light-draft -— to the

Low Corn King, Cloverleaf and 20th Century lines.





'tures of the No. 8, the Spreader for every average farm, the

‘ lightest-draft spreader made, write us and we will put you in

No. 8 has the famous International

spiral wide-spread that has thoroughly

cess as a wide spreader for all-around use.

Low Corn King, Cloverleaf and 20th Century lines provide i

you with your choice of larger capacity Spreaders, with the '-

regular disk wide-spread (well known wherever Spreaders are

sold) or with the spiral spread on special order.



The New No. 8 Spiral Wide Spreader and other Low Corn

Cloverleaf and 20th Century Spreaders will go onto

many thousands of farms this year.

low-loading, easy-handling, built of steel—and satisfactory.





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DPIII’S SEEDS





. FIRST AID TO

. - GOOD CROPS





And Prices Reasonable.

OVER 400%





Increase in sales in two



ears, is proof that our



' ALUES ARE APPRE-

, CIATED.



A post card will bring our



. 1918 SEED BOOK.



. Don’t bu SEED CORN,

OATS,BAR EY,BEANS or



PEAS, CLOVER, GRASS or



other FARM and GAR-



. DEN SEEDS, 'till you



have seenit.





THE C. E. DePUY,C0.;

”Pontiac, Mich-





 





 





Inspected



Pedigreed



Oats and

Barley





Colle e' Wonder, College Success, Al“‘."“."

and orthy are the pure bred out varieties

available. These were developed at the Michi-

Iznn Agricultural College and 50 are espemally

adapted to Michigan conditions. Pure, Clo-an

seed for sale by the members of the Michigen

Crop Improvement Association whose seed In

field and bin met tholnspe‘t‘tt‘d 509‘! “Nimro—

merits of the Association. It you are interested

in these or if you buy Inspected seed and would

like your crop Inspected, ask for these remnre~

merits. when you write for list of growers of Pad-

igreed grain. For this list or any other literature

of the Assdciation write the Secretary.





J. W. NICOLSON, East Lansing, Michigan.

PLANT FINN’S





'r R E E 5 FOR PROFIT





Mr. Planter if you are going to plant out

an orchard this spring be on the safe side

by planting my Guaranteed Trees. True to

name, free from disease and packed so as

d to reach you in perfect condition.





 





 





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. Each 10 100

See Zgr. 6 to 7 ft. xxxApples, ’

‘ inns; Pears . 82.50 818.00

2 ’Mbdlum‘ size 5 to 6 ft. .25 2.00 15.00

Sweet k sour cherries 6 to 7 it. .35 8.00. 24.00.

lnoed xxx}. toys ft. ' .80 2.50 22.50

Medium size 3 to 4 ft. ’. , 21X) ’

Peaches 1 yr. 5 to 6 ft. .29 1. 1 ’

“ 4 to 5 ft 1 35 9





Send for Free Price List of onrllgediné varieties":-





 





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at wholesale prices. direct from Nursery to plant-

er. Healthy acclimated. high grade. true to name

fruit treesberrics ornmncntals. The nation needs





more fruit. lie who plants this spring serves his

country. A postal today will bring prices and





descriptions.

Box 18, Kalama—





Celery City Nurseries m, Mich.





 





 

   





 

 





All hardy stock—twice trans- :

planted—root pruned. Pro-

tect buildings, stock, crops.

- ' ' ' . Hill's Evergreen Book, illustra-

;'~ . ted in colors, Free. Write today.



‘\ " - (I. III" Nursery 80., ~ In!

' ‘ ‘ DundelJll. Evergreen Specialists





Have You Any Beans?



VII ARE IUVERQ. for cash, of red kidney, brown



or Swedish and Boston yellow eye beans, fancy



bright, clean stock. Also “ax and green-padded



cordon beans. Send samples for bid.



NORTHRUP. ch a. co.. Seed-men.

Minneapolis, Mlnn.





SEED CORN—2000 BUSHELS





BELL ALTO GOLDEN DENT



A nil-day corn. carefully bred and selected for twelve

years. Took first prize in Co. Corn Shows last two

years. First prize at State College Corn Show last fall.

Composite samples tested by State Colle e in each in-

stance, wielflhxercent termination, while hundreds

of sump as being testh t ere are nvernqeing about 65

percent germination. 85 per bushel in lots not less

than 5 bushels. Sacks 45 cents extra





ALTO FARMS





M.H. McDallum, Mnnager.Wernersville,Berks 00.,93.





BEANS





lPROLIFlC) Seed, State Tested.

BIG YIELDERS





Yield 60% more than Pee or Navy on any soil.





and price on remit-st.

A. A. Lambertson, Cedar Springs, Mirh.





Selected Early Pink





POTATOES





large vigorous growing.drouth and blight resiltant var-

iety 82.60 per bu. Milo M. Gibson, Rf), Lapeer, Mich.





“Early-Tune" tom ato. earlier, lor-

Wonderful or, smoother, better flavor the:

shy other early sort. Bears all summer too. O or

Fpur plants today: 150 (107... 700 per 100 ' rep id. ”

. L. WARD, . - - . domino. Mich-

Proo! cabbage plants. Early Jersey Wakefield,

Charleston Wakefield, Succession and Flat mlcll





ct $1.50 per M, h 2e: ress collect: 35c or 100 b creel l:

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—and Choose Now!





As a business farmer, you, must have a truck. Don’t post- _ .

pone decision longer. Buy now while yOu still can get one. . ..

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Be just as coldblooded as a traffic expert is in selecting 6. Standardized, Time-Tested Maxwell One-Ton Worm-Drive V

the right truck. Base your choice on the same oconsidera. . Truck. Low first cost. Low operating cost. Complete truck 3,





designed wholly as a truck. Made of high—grade automobile





tlons as he does and you WI“ be fight. steels. An engine which has proved its reliability in years of





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

   





 





This is the way the traffic expert would look on your use on hundreds of thousands of cars under/ail possible con- . l .

trucking problem: . ditionsa Worm drive of the same type as on trucks Costing ‘

' $5000. completely enclosed drive safe against derange-

l. Horse Service—Always unreliable, limiting your scope and ment by the worst roads or worst weather. .

delaying you unexpectedly. Under present conditions grow~ , g.

ing more Costly than ever. Get the" facts. Write us a letter. The more col&iooded ’

2. Miniature Truck—%-ton; too small for practical conditions, your judgment m Choosing your true!" the better we Win be





pleased,





or for your ever-increasing traffic. Costs just as much to run





as 8‘ g°°d One'ton ”“Ck' The new and coming conditions are changing the whole





 





 





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ment made by a firm that did not make the car. Sure to breed 2 most economical “1 operating COB“ as we“ as in first C08t§ ‘

trouble. Hard to keep in condition. Hard to find and cure

trouble. Divided responsibility. . 1 V If you decide in time, you can still get one of these trucks . ' in~

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highest grade steel. Over- heavy. Uncertain as to service. s “new lflfomhfin that VWVe: Wfim- to 38nd you dilut- Send us ‘

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One-Ton Chassis $1085; Chassis with Cab and Windshield $1125 combination Box

Body. $1135 Combination Box Stake Body with Cab and Windshield.

$1 1 75; Stake Gate Body with Cab and Windshield. $1180: ‘

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