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Closing Session of Potato Growers’ ‘ Meeting
By ALMOND GRIFFIN

N the closing day of the potato

'meeting at Lansing there was

less excitement than on the pre-
vious day, but the program was full of
profit and interest.‘ ‘0. W. Waid, ex-
tension specialist at the college, and
retiring secretary of the” State Potato
Association, made an interesting re-
port. Mr. Waid has been secretary of
the society since it was organized five
years ago, and his work has not cost
the society anything, even the steno~
graphic work, the stationery and other
items have been free.

The organization has not had over
one hundred and twenty-five members
Mr. Waid urged the great
need of a stronger and more represen-
tative membership in the state, point-
ing out that this lack of a strong or-
ganization among farmers is the rea-
son why they were not represented on
the United States Food Administra-
tion. “I am not defending double grad-
ing,” said Mr. Waid, “and am not re-
sponsible for this system.. I favored
one grade, but when the Bureau of
Marketsadopted the present system I
did say that I believed that it would
eventually work out to, the growers’
benefit. I am satisfied that the major-
ity of growers favor some grading sys-
tem, but. some readjustment of the
present rules is imperative. Every re-
tailer should be obliged to sell accord-
ing to grades. The relative prices of
first and second grades and the size of
screens are important
matters and there are
differences of opinion
among well posted
men." Mr. Waid refer-
red in closing to potato
flour and to the dehy-
drating process that is
being tried out.

Dr. Bessey, treasurer,
reported a balance on
hand of $39. Many of
the growers paid their
31 fees during the ses-
sions. The by-laws were
amended so that-the ex-
ecutive committee shall
include the some, also
a representative hem.
each. pets to growing"
county, the latter to be
chosenffir the local as—
sociation oi! growers. ‘ A

Of the ’coh'Stitution was
also named by the pres-
idont, one of the main
pu‘rpases in view, ac-
cordirig to sentiment ex- _ .
presoed, being to limit '
membership to growers.

talk on the work in that state. Organ-
ized work is being carried on in twen-
ty-six counties and the field man in ex-
tension work at the state university is
also secretary of the growers’ associa-
tion.” The work is broad and embraces
every line of state development of the
potato industry, including machinry,
insecticides, the dealers and growers.
The legislature appropriates $3,000 an-
nually, every cent of which must go to-
wards development and no salaries are
paid out of it. No other organization

receives a direct appropriation from

the Wisconsin legislature. Community
potato development is an important
feature. The state has various dis-
tinct potato belts and the Green Moun—
tain types are confined as much as
possible to cool, deep, fertile soils, the
Rurals to clay loam, and so on. Much
attention is paid to seed improvement
and certification, which is a voluntary
agreement between grower and field
agent and during last year one hun-
dred and eighty-one growers made ap-
plication for government inspection
and 96,000 bushels of seed potatoes
were certified. In order to bring con-
sumers and growers closer together an-
nual expositions are held the week be-
fore Thanksgiving in Milwaukee, with
standard varieties displayed represent-
ing table and seed stock, also machin-

There are practical
sorting, cooking

cry and supplies.
demonstrations. in
classes for women, etc. We are also
studying disease control. There has
been great development in potato ma-
chinery and we are throwing out the
inefi'icient Sprayers and other costly
tools.”

As regards potato grading, Mr. Wil-
ward states that there is much com-
plaint as to the two United States
grades and the legislature has appoint-
ed a committee/of five who are getting
the testimony of growers. A careful
investigation is also being made of the
No. 2 stock as delivered by growers at
warehouses. Where the crop was good
the proportion of No. 2’s in warehouses
was reported at ten to twelve per cent.
“While our state association passed a
resolution favoring the United States
grades, it is not a closed story by any
means. Personally, I have always fav-
ored one grade. We should work out
a grade adapted for the average Amer-
ican family. There will be a public
hearing and I don’t know what will
be done.”

Dr. Wm. Stuart, of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing-
ton, and secretary of the Potato Asso-
ciation of America, was the next speak-
er and he told of what the department
is doing for potato growers along var-

     
  
  
  
  
 
   
  
  
 
  
    
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  

  
 

  
   
  

ious lines. Dr. Stuart was present
when the Michigan association was or-
ganized in Grand Rapids. He stated
that 108,000,000 bushels of seed pota-
toes were registered in eight states
last year. The United States Bureau
of Chemistry will install a potato
starch making plant at Jackson prison
in this state, which will utilize about
a carload of potatoes daily. Potato en-
silage is being tried out in Wisconsin
and with good success. A tight cement
tank is made use of and potatoes are
sliced and mixed with two per cent
corn meal, which causes a lactic acid
ferment. In reply to questions, Prof.
Stuart was of the opinion that the heat
in the silo would not be sufficient to
kill scab or other potato diseases. Ex-
periments conducted at Norfolk, Va.,
and Presque Isle, Me., have shown that
the three-ounce seed piece, either the
three-ounce whole or the six-ounce po-
tato cut in half, give best results as to
yield.

John B. Harrison, secretary of the
Wexford—Missaukee Potato Growers’
Association, spoke of the work of this
organization which was formed three
years ago for general uplift work in
the way of pure seed, fewer varieties
and better cultural and marketing
methods. “We started seed treatment
the first year,” he said, “the rule being
that each member should treat one
acre. Black scurf is our worst dis-
ease. We have some early blight but
no late blight. A year
ago last spring we sold
lots of seed. While the
situation is discourag-
ing now, I believe that
the farmer will hit it if
he plants potatoes this
year. I believe in the
small local association
first and then the coun-
ty organization, or large
unit. Our association
and the Kingsley asso—
ciation are the first in
Michigan to get an or-
der from the state war
board for stock for the
dehydrators. Let the
local association adopt
a good letter head, as
other business men do,
then give customers full
weight and honest treat- .
ment, grading and put
ting up fancy stock, and
Michigan will have no'
trouble competing with
any other state or coun-
try on earth. ”

“We must have stanvi , '
dardization and grad».
ing,” said John I. Gib; “‘3
son, secretary of 'theg
West Michigan Deve "
opment Bureau, in th
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CURRENT COMMENT.

That our

financial and

Rural Credit. banking system has fail-
Facilities. ed to provide adequate
credit facilities for the

development of our agriculture is a

patent fact to every person who has
given the subject any thought. The
establishment of the Federal Land
Banks through which long term credit
can be secured by farmers who organ-
ize themselves into federal farm loan
associations is government recognition
of this fact. Long term loans are be-
ing secured by the farmers of many
sections of Michigan and other states
through this channel.

Whilethis is helpful and will be.
come a larger factor in rural develop
ment as the business of land banks is
expanded in this direction, the growth
of the system is necessarily slow, and
will not for a long time supply all the
capital needed for farm development
in this or any other state. There re-
mains in most communities no other
source save the local bank or such pri-
vate capital as may be seeking a short
time investment, which is not a. very
considerable factor under present con-
ditions.

Inquiry among the farmers of almost
any community in northern Michigan
will show that short-time credit facili-
ties which are extended by the local
banks are wholly inadequate to meet
the needs of the farmers of those com-
munities, and when such accommoda-
tions can be secured at all, they are
available only at an interest charge
which is practically prohibitive. In
very many sections of the state bank-
ers charge a. bonus on all short-time
loans in addition to the legal interest
rate, which often brings the total cost
of such loans to twelve or fifteen per
cent or even more. In many cases the
‘ charges for short-time loans are so ex-

cessive as to leave little room for
,dOubt that the farmers of a commu-

,nity are being exploited in a most un-

fair manner.

The whole difficulty is not, however,
“ chargeable to the avarice of the bank-
, "era, but is in part at least due to the
'1 'idsdequacy of the present banking sys—

‘ L in the matter of furnishingiade-
, rural credit. ‘ Very mafia, banks

chiefly iu,.,the newly developed

  

seedling for the state— ,

érfi are small. «institution's ‘ Jinn

  

  
     

ital and patronagd,‘ in Which ithel'over-
head expenses of operation "are neces-
sarily exceedingly high as compared
with larger banks in older and more
thickly pepulated‘ sections. This over-
head charge, in which is represented
the salary of the banker or bank man-
ager and the incidental expenses of
operating the bank is, of course, very
much higher where both the capital
and volume of business done is small.

An enterprising banker who would
from some central point establish bank-
ing relations with farmers over a ter-
ritory embracing a county or mere

could do business at a much smaller

overhead cost and could provide short-
time credit to farmers of such a terri-
tory at a reasonable interest charge.
Adequate credit facilities at reason-
able cost are an essential factor in the
rapid upbuilding of successful agricul-
tural communities. This is a factor of
especial importance at the present
time when the demand for and need of
food stuffs is vital to the nation and
even to the world.

Our State Bankers" Association has
of late taken a good deal of interest in
agricultural matters, mostly along the
line of promoting better agricultural
methods on Michigan farms. Little
has, however, been done toward the
end of providing adequate short-time
credit facilities for the farmers of the
state at large and particularly on farms
in the northern portion of the state
where agriculture is in the process of
development.

While the problem is perhaps not
easy of solution, it is worthy of the
attention of bankers who are interest-
ed not only in the promotion of agri-
culture, but as well in the welfare of
business in general. It is acknOwledg-
ed today as never before that there is
an intimate relation between agricul-
tural prosperity and general business
prosperity. No manufacturing or other
commercial enterprise could succeed
under the handicap of difiicult credit
conditions such as confront the farm-
ers of Michigan today. No other busi-
ness man could successfully develop
his business under the handicap of nec-
essary financial assistance in time of
need or the excessive interest rates
which farmers of many sections are
obliged to pay on short-time loans
when they can be secured at all. The
farmers of newly developed sections
particularly cannot do their best in
the needed campaign of food produc-
tion unless these conditions are speed
ily remedied. '

The farm tractor
manufacturers of
the United States
are organizing for
the purpose 6f increasing their output
and facilitating its distribution as a
means of increasing food production on
the farms of the country. At a meet-
ing recently held in Chicago a com-
mittee was appointed with a view to
the securing of needed government co—
operation to this end. This committee
has already conferred with officials of
the Department of Agriculture and
other government bureaus at VVashing-
ton, and will shortly present to the
newly formed VVarCredits Department
a comprehensive plan under which the
aid of this department will be sought
to increase the output of tractor manu-
facturers through financial assistance
where necessary, and also to aid in
financing the purchase of tractors by
farmers where such financial aid is
needed. ‘
.These steps are being taken by the
tractor men on the theory that the
present output of farm tractors is not
adequate to the needs of the country
under the difficult labor conditions
which now obtain, and which are cer-
tain to become - more pronounced as
more m'en are withdrawn from produc-
lug industries mo thesarmy and the
industrial it not the :miiitarymrafton
availablé farm labor thus increaSed. ,

Tractors for Food
Production.

§ Govern-mt “tents: regimes"

me‘“ . .w -. 1 l. “I , “awn-V. .
and diétribution oftracmrs, _, but other

     

contrary to all the, practice pr

emit alone them
labor-saving farm equipment as well.
The addition of such equipment is the
only available means of overcoming
the labor handicap to any considerable
degree, and the greatly increased cost

of such’ eduipment under present man-

ufacturing conditions makes the financ--

ing of increased food productiOn by
this means a difficult problem for very
many farmers. who could use more
and better farm equipment to their
own and the country’s advantage.

The State War Pre-
paredness Board is mak-
ing good use of the
funds placed at its dis-
posal by the legislature and the powers
delegated to it for emergency work re-
lating to the war. Through this medi-
um and cooperation with the Michigan
Agricultural College and the United
States Department of Agriculture,
thousands of bushels of seed corn has
been purchased and is now being ship~
ped into the state for distribution to
farmers at reasonable prices. A score
or more of carloads of this corn is of
varieties adapted to Michigan, includ-
ing hardy corns from Dakota and Flint
corn from New York. Other thou-
sands of bushels of corn of good germi-
nation and adapted to planting for en-
silage purposes have been purchased
for similar distribution in the dairy
and live stock section of the state.
This is a work of special value to the
farmers of Michigan under present
conditions.

Another activity of the War Prepar-
edness Board is the purchase of sheep

State Aid for
Farmers.

in quantity from sections in the west.

where they are available for sale to
farmers of the state in small flocks as
they may be desired. A representa-
tive of the Board is now in the west
making these purchases. Both seed
corn and sheep will be sold to farmers
for cash, thus reimbursing the, state
for its original investment.

The service rendered is, however, of
peculiar value in a year like the pres-
ent, when good seed corn and sheep
are very scarce and difficult to secure,
so much so, in fact, that the small pur-
chaser would find it practically impos-
sible to supply his needs in either of
these lines in the ordinary channels of
trade. -

Another activity of great importance
is the purchase of a large number of
tractors by the war board for resale to
Michigan farmers under condition that
they be kept employed to the limit of
their capacity. In this connection ar-
rangements will be made for the com-

munity use of these tractors in the,

communities where they are placed un-
der some plan which will provide for
their use in plowing on as many farms
as possible for spring crops.

These activities of the State War
Preparedness Board in extending need-
ed aid to farmers along lines in which
their needs can best'be supplied by
wholesale purchase, is a matter for. sin-
cere congratulations to the state, and
will prove of particular value in speed-
ing up production for 1918.

The following paragraph
“Kultur.” will give our readersapic-
ture of the horrors of war:
“Every village they have passed

through has been the victim of what
is only organized pillage. Every city
has been practically sacked, ransacked
on system; its citizens plundered. Its
civil officials terrorized, imprisoned,
outraged, or killed. The civil popula-
tions have been, contrary to the usage
of modern warfare, forced to serve
the invading armies, brutally put to
death, reduced to wholesale starvation,
and desolation. Vast tracts of the
richest and most industrious districts
of Europe have been deliberately

stripped and plunged into famine,

solely in order that the invaders might
make war cheaply, ' Irregulii‘f‘troops.
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regular system of ingenious terror sun

has been directed against civilians;y'as-' '. U ' —

horrible as anything in‘the history of
civic or religious wars. Large and
populous cities have been, not once,
but twenty, thirty, forty times, bom-
barded and burnt, and the women and
children in them wantonly slaughtered,

with the sole object of inflicting suf-

fering. All this has been done not ,in
license or passion, but by the calculab
ing ferocity of scientific soldiers.”

But the above sentences were not
written last week nor last year. They
were not put down after the world had
been horrified by the suffering and
bleeding of innocent Belgium. But
these sentences appeared in the Eng-
lish Fortnightly Review of February.
1871, shortly before the surrender of
Paris. Then, too, in the Commentaries:
of Julius Caesar he narrates events
which show that even before the dawn
of the Christian era German military
leaders were in pessession of the rudi-
ments of their modern “Kultur.” t is
no new thing and our boys will have
died in vain in this great war if this
thing is not absolutely andutterly ex-
terminated.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

The European War.———Many raids
were made last week on both sides for
the purpose apparently of securing
prisoners to gain military information.
In conjunction, heavy artillery fire was
also participated in along the entire
battle line, not excepting the sectors
occupied by the American troops. Last
week the Americans and French took
over first. line German trenches on a
front extending well over a mile. This:
has been held despite the use of heav-
iest artillery by the Germans. Berlin.
reports that a French attack before
Verdun failed to record any advance.
——No important news has been receiv-
ed from northern ltaly.~—In Macedonia
heavy guns have been pounding away.
more or less forthe past week—De-
spite the acceptance of peace terms by
the Russian Soviet congress, the Ger-
mans are continuing to advance
against the Russians, especially in the
south. Early last week they occupied
Odessa, the big grain port on the
Black Sea, and on Sunday, Nikolayev,
Russia’s big naval base in the south
was taken over. In normal times large.
stores of grain were held here, but re-
ports indicate that these stores are
very meagre at the present time. The
Red Gaurds are fighting the Germans
in Finland, and it appears that addi-
tional troops are urgently needed to
command the situation? An official
Austrian report states that the Uk-
raines have “invited” German officers
to organize an army in that province.
~—During February the Allies made
twenty-three air attacks on Rhinecit-
ies. Reports coming through Switzer-
land declare that residents are moving
from these cities to central Germany.
and that in some instances panics
were started by the attacks. In a fight
between an American tank steamer
and a U-boat- the latter was sunk.—
Labor troubles are in progress in Aus.
tria and Hungary, according to German
newspapers. Vienna and'neighboring
industrial centers are seriously affect-
ed by strikes on railways and in rail~
way shops. Under threat of military
intervention, many of the men have re-
turned butare not working. .

In the Nationalist Quarter of Belfast
severe rioting occurred on Sunday'be-
tween Sinn Feiners and the Belfast po-
lice. Troops were called out to take
charge of the district.

The third Liberty Loan campaign be-
gins April 6. Secretary McAdoo will
aid in the drive in Michigan.

The campaign to enlist boys in the
Boys’ Working Reserve for employ-
ment on the farms of the country this
season starts this week. It is expected
that fully 25,000 boys will be enrolled
to assist the farmers of Michigan.

An order has been issued by the
federal food administrator permitting
millers in Michigan to grind up to
ninety per cent of their average..for
the three years preceding the war. Re-
cently the millers were limited to sev-
enty per cent of their pre-war output.

The United States Fuel Administra?
tion has compelled forty-two persons
in the coal trade to refund. $34,000
which was improperly collected in the
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A‘ tnry farmer he would study well the
many little labor and time saving
- . ideas of his fellow farmer, to the end
7 ' that he might adopt them to his per-
" I sonal needs. We are merely. imitating
this prudence in gathering for our
, _ readers practical suggestions. To make
7 such a service most helpful requires

‘ " , . the thoughtful cooperation of all who
, , may have useful ideas to offer. May
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HOME-MADE BAG HOLDER.

Please find enclosed pencil sketch of,
a bag-holder which has proved to be a.
labor-saving device for me, and is so
simple and cheap that any farmer can
make one for himself. I attack my bag
holder to the weight holders on my
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makes it convenient to know just how
much grain I am putting up for seed
or for market.

The bag holder consists of four piec-
es of wood, three bolts and four small
nails. One piece of board 1x4x18, (a,
Fig. 1); two pieces (f), (c) 1x2x16
inches; one piece (Fig 3), 1x2x6 in.

Pieces (f) and (c) should be bolted
to piece (a) about twelve inches apart,
the four nails should be about six
inches apart, as illustrated. To oper-
ate catch the hem of the bag over the
heads of the nails and spread sticks
so as to hold the top of the bag tight.
A pail or hand-scoop is the most con-

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venient implement to use 'for filling
the bag. ‘
-Idnia 00. J. M. SAILEB.

A COMBINATION ~CLOD CRUSHER
AND SLED.

I am enclosing drawing showing a
contrivance which I find is quite a
3 help, as it does not cost much to make,
and I use it for several jobs. This one
is a clod crusher. Take two planks
eight feet long, two or three inches
thick, and eight, ten or twelve inches
wide. These are for the runners and

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nine'inc‘hes wide, and spiked in notch-
es on each runner, with ends of cross-
pieces even with the outside of the
runners. A staple with a ring in it is
driven from the inside of each runner
near the front, and the chain by which
it is drawn is run through the rings
with the runners up. This makes a
'No. 1 clod crusher, land leveler and
pulverizer. Reverse it and make a box
ten or twelve feet long and put on top
and you have a sled you can use for
several odd jobs. When you put on top
box put two staples on each runner to
receive box stakes so box will stay on.
Genesee Co. L. D. YERKEB.

 

SAVING TIME AND STEPS.

 

When a farmer begins using hay
from the mow, if he will cut down
about one-third or one-fourth of the
mow and use it clear to the floor, it
will give him a very convenient place
to use for one of many things, espe-
cially if he feeds considerable shock
corn or corn fodder, or husking in the
barn, as most of us are doing this win-
ter, it will be very handy to unload
several loads, or if the barn floor and
the mow are on the same level and no
breast girt between, it can be used for
tools, etc. The time cutting it down
as used is estimated at about two hours
extra work, and the space should be
available in November or December.

In feeding the brood sows where on-
ly two or three are kept, and the
amount of corn fed is small, if we have
located near a box or barrel that can
be securely covered, and place therein
a full basket or crate of corn at a.
time, it will save many trips to the
corn crib when feeding. The same
method worked out to good advantage

in regard to feeding small calves a

handful of shelled corn or cats when
giving them their milk. Shell the corn
with a sheller and fill an old pail and
hang it in a convenient place in the
stable near the calves.

If we have a hammer and a few nails
in each of the barns or buildings it
will save many trips to the shop or the
place where they are kept. Many
times if we could pick up a hammer
without taking the extra time and

 

.Our Plan Enabled us to Build a Good
Usually Required.

steps to get it and return it, we would
tack on many loose boards or drive
many protruding nails in the stables
that would otherwise be left to injure
stock. It is unnecessary to have a.
new hammer for every place, as an old
one answers the purpose very well. (I
have an old piece of a monkey wrench
in the hog house and use it many
times). They can bebought at sales
for five 0r ten cents many times, or we
used to get a fair hammer on the ten
cent counter

Many times a box of assorted stove to

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heads, pays for themselves by ,being
used in the place of rivets in farm ma-
chinery where it is almost impossible
to get the affected parts solid enough
to put in a rivet, as for instance, repair—
ing an apron to a manure spreader.
The hardware dealer can usually be
induced to fix up a box for about twen-
ty-five cents.
St. Joseph Co. Tnos. HIMEBAUGH.

HELPFUL HINT.

 

While a load of hay is in the barn,
instead of separating the horses to get

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them out, a person may back one horse
out and at the same time lead the
other so that their heads are together,
and they need not be separated.

Ionia Co. LESTER WRIGHT.

A HANDY WAY TO STACK HAY.

A large maple tree stood by the fence
in our hay field. We fastened a pulley
to a projecting branch about forty feet
from the ground, bracing it by fasten‘
ing a chain to the trunk from the
branch. Then we fastened a pulley at
the bottom of the tree. The hay rope
was run through the pulleys and the
double harpoon fork was attached to
the end which went through the top
pulley. The horse was hitched at the
other end of the rope. It needs a boy
to drive the horse, and a'man on the
load to set and trip the hay fork. They
will keep two men busy on the stack.
When the stack gets high enough for
the fork to gouge out the stack we set
rails and boards about four feet higher
than the stack alongside the wagon
and raised them as the stack grew
taller. The photo was taken as the
stack was finished, and shows kind of

 

Stack with Far Less Labor than is l

stack it made. The hay keeps good
stacked in this way.

Lapeer Co. L. S. LAKE.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

Make your home service reach the
firing line.

From now until the next harvest
watch your grocery list or there will
be no groceries to list

The man who grows more food adds
to the wealth of the world; the man
who grows dollars may be adding only
his own- Wealth.

A single front, a single army, a sin-

   
  
   
  
   

 

\‘MoreVegetables‘ I

0U can have a‘bet—

ter garden—withless
work—by using a Pull-
Easy. It’s the handiest,

     
   
 

     
   
   

little garden tool made.

FULL'EAHI

ADJUSTABLE

Garden Cultivator

thoroughly stirs the soil and
can be used either as a culti—
vator or rake. Instantly ad-
justable from 7 to 18 inches.
Middle tooth quickly re-
moved for cultivating two
rows at once.

Strong, well balanced, prac-
tically indestructible—the
only tool necessary from
seeding to harvesting.

Sold by most dealers. If your
dealer can’t supply you, send
dealer’s name with $1.50 and your
Pull-Easy will be forwarded
promptly by Parcel
Post, prepaid. A
Literature on
request. 7.

    
 

 

  
  
  

      
    
 
        
    
   
       
       
 

 
    
     
 
   
 
        
         
       
     
 
        
 
    
 
   
    
 
      

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Information therein is 1

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The E. W. Ross Co.
Box 314 Springfield, Ohio ‘
Special Proposition to Agents

Every buyer of a Silo
should get prices on Rose
Silos and GUARANTEE
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You need a. Disston Hand -Saw

A good farmer has to be a good carpenter. A
good carpenter must have good tools. You need a
good hand-saw as much as you need a good plow.
You will make no mistake if you .buy a Disston
hand-saw. It is the choice of more than 75 per
cent of all carpenters. We have been making
Disston hand-saws for 78 years, and have guar-
anteed every one of them perfect in material and
workmanship.
Unless you are familiar with the smooth-cutting
action of the well-tempered Disston blade, we
urge you to go to any progressive hardware
dealer in your vicinity, and saw through a board
with a Disston.
Notice how the Disston saw “shang '" How per-
fectly its seasoned handle fits your hand. How its
correctly set and filed teeth cut through the wood.
Until you have sawed with a Disston hand-saw,
you will never understand what real satisfaction
there can be in driving a saw.

Send for the Free Book “Disston Saws and Tools for the Form”
and learn how to select and care for Disston saws and tools. They
are sold by all progressive hardware dealers the world over.

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SEED CORN—4000 BUSHELS'

BELL ALTO GOLDEN DENT

A “0-day corn. carefully bred and selected for tw el 15
years. Took first prize in Co Corn Shows last tun
years. First prize at State College Corn Showinst fall.
Composite samples tested by State Coils e. inench in
stance. prmelll) percent ermination, w ilehundreds
of samp as being tested t ere are averacring about 65
percent germination. 8.1 per bushel in lets not less
than 5 bushels. Sac ks 45 ( ents exna

ALTO FARMS

M.H.~McOallum. Manager.Wernersville Berks ( 0. .Pa.

FORSAUE.

'.Until the present supply' is sold.
Michigan Wonder bleed Oats 81.” -5 per bushel
Canadian Field Peas Number 1 $4 .50 per bushel
hiixed poultry scratch feed w ith no grit $3. 60 hund1ed
Kiln Dried mixed cor n $1.150 hundred
Sacks are free with the scratch food send sacks for the
other 3111111 that you want. Will send samples of any
of the grain
R.E.Smith, LeRoy, Mich.,Dealer' it: everything

BEANS

(PROLI F lC) Seed, State Tested.
BIG YIELDERS

Yield 60% more than Pea or Navy on any soil. Sample
and price on request.
A. A. Lambertson,

ours ecialty, all kinds of to “filled
onion seed freshpseed (is. “e ssllby weight
and ay vourlpostage. Catalog tree.
ALL lNS SE D HOUSE. Geneva. Ohio

 

 

Use a Hardie 0r-
chard Gun. Makes
spraying easier. Saves
time, enables you to
cover the orchard
quicker—sprays a
penetrating cloud of
spray.

Hardie Orchard

Gun $12.00

From the Hardie shops.
Hardie high quality is
found all the way
through their big line of
Hand and Power Spray-
ers. Madein 30 sizes, sell-
ing from $4. 00 to $400.00.
Send for catalogue.

THE HARDIE MFG. CO.

Hudson, Mich.
Also Portland, Ore.

 

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Dry hand icked nmy be1n~ free from disease at 511 THE SELF-gluuafint wthlunflllL
”r bu.F F‘..8 B. John Vance. Hersey. OsceolaOo" Milli has become so popular in itafirct three years that

thouaan ave been called for to re lace. on em
old towers, other makes of mil to replace. at
small cost. the geari o c ear ier

Aermoto making em eelf’o .

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F t Proof cabbage plants. Early Jersey \l'akafidd
r08 Charleston Wain-field. Sucmsslon and Flat Dutch
at 81.50pm ill. Texpres: rollect: 35¢ per 1011 by parcel post
prepaid. 0.J .110 Whaley. Martin s Point. I‘. 0.. S. C.

F Sal CHOICE SEED CORN. 500 bushel 100
or 9 day Yellow Dent, 400 bushel White 0111)
Yellow. Order arly.

Woodflelds oFarms. WyOOmbe. 31101500.. Pa.

 
  
 

to pum in the lightest reue.
The oil sup is renewed once a year.

owleC-imcm accused. En eachcarryuiguhalf thi‘load

n
SEED OATS: $2333, 3122.. flounder Wat; 'gupglqu “ e enf‘atdmeel Frame Saws.
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iron eats-0m 32;“

B Ml BARLEY— Pure. cleaned for seed 82. 50 be!
3.1 .33 Ebushel. new grain bags include.
Palmyra, Mich.

 

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By F. H. SANFORD

N order to answer numerous inquir- other containers for the syrup During
I ies covering best methods to be the present year this has been a very
used in the manufacture of maple serious matter. Many local dealers
sap syrup, we will endeavor to touch have been unable to supply cans at all

upon some of the essentials as the and others only at very high prices. A

need has presented itself from ques- few producers are using glass jars.
tions asked. The first being:
Necessary Equipment. Association is seriously considering

We will assume that the average the adoption of two or three kinds of
sugar bush in southern Michigan is containers, notably the oblong tin
two hundred trees and the equipment can, the glass jar and paraffin paper
and accessories necessary for opera-V container. The popular sized contain-
tion are based on this assumption. IfI er seems to be the one-half gallon with
possible provide one of the modern a. steadily growing demand for the
evaporatOrs which should be about ten quart size. This, we believe to be 21.
feet long for this sized bush, and three true step toward conservation since it
hundred buckets and the same number is well known that syrup placed in,
of spiles. The best satisfaction will be large containers is more quickly and

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given and the highest grade of syrup lavishly used in the averagéamily,
made when heavy tin is used in the than when smaller cans are opened.
manufacture of buckets, spiles and Operations of the Bush.
evaporators. There are usually several First. Tapping. This operation may
accessories which accompany the evap. be done at the first sign of sap flow
orator, such as syrup skimmers,hydro- and consists in the use of a three
meter, thermometer and one or two eight bit for the purpose. The here is
felt strainers or filters. given an upward slant to provide more
The operator should provide some rapid drainage through the spile. A
convenient device for gathering sap. second boring or cleaning is made
The gathering tank is very convenient in midseason by the use of- a 7-16 bit
and is provided with an adjustment for with a circular cutting edge or lip. This
cheesecloth strainer and siphon or gal- type of bit gives much better service
vanized outlet pipe which does away'kand satisfaction than the common
with the necessity of emptying the sap square lipped bit. If necessary to bore
by hand. However, in the small opera- a third time, a half-inch bit is used. It
tion perfectly sterile sweet wooden is very essential to keep the tap-hole
barrels mounted on stone—boats“ are clean and free from soured sap, since
commonly used. These barrels may one of the most common sources of
be mounted either vertically or hori- souring occurs through the accumula-
zontally and the intake hole cut out of tion of dead, sour sap in the spile and
the side or head, depending upon the hole back of the spile. The hole should
position of the mount. When the bar- never be bored over two inches in
rels are used, a provision should be depth, since the only use in boring is
made for straining through the sap to get into the zone of sap-wood and
cheesecloth to prevent the leaves and to furnish a hold for the spile. Deeper
dirt from getting into the barrels. boring simply injures the tree. The
The further item of equipment is buckets should be made of heavy tin
the storage tank. This should be sufli- and provided with a painted covering,
ciently large to enable the accumula- either wood or iron. A scheme which
tion of from thirty to fifty barrels of has been in successful operation by
sap. This tank is usually placed just many growers for years is the paint-

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fuel
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Ground Floor Plan.

outside the sugar house or in the stor- ing of one side of the cover in bright
age room of the house and at a lower red and the other in white. This ena-
level than the sap haul appioach In bles the collector to see at a. glance
larger operations, a second storage where he has been on his rounds in
tank is used, which is also placed on collecting the sap, since one color is
the inside of the sugar house and at always turned up as fast as the buck-
the same level as the first. These stor— ets are emptied. The cover also pre-
age tanks are usually placed in a posi- vents rapid drying out of the spile
tion so that the bottom of the tank is hole or tap, keeps the dirt out of the

on a. level with the top oflthe evapor- buckets and has a tendency to keep.

ator pan. . the sap much cooler than if exposed
The item of fuel should really be to the sun and wind. Growers who
considered asrpart of the equipment, have never used the cover will find it
since it should be prepared a year in a distinctive advantage as well as 3
advance and seasoned under cover. labor-saver.
Quick-burning fuel is very essential to Syrup House.
rapid boiling and enough should be The syrup house should have an ap-
stored under the fuel shed to carry the preach .for the horses and gathering
operator through the season’ s run. tank. ‘ This should- be elevated to a
Cans or Glass Containers. height of six to eight feet so that all
Provision should be made far enough of the emptying of sap may be done by
in advance of the opening 'of the sea- gravity.

son for a supply of necessary rcans or (Continued on page 396)

The Michigan Maple Syrup Makers’.

 

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By C. E THORNE, Ohio Exp. Sta.

.. ~ _ FEW years before the outbreak sorghum plant is weak at first, and too
A of the Civil War two varieties deep covering may completely discour-

of sweet sorghum had been in- age it. Drop six to eight seeds to the
troduced into this country, one coming hill to make sure of a stand; five or
from China about 1853 under the name six stalks to the hill are none too many
of Chinese sugar cane, and the other for the permanent stand of Early Am-
in 1857 from Natal, South Africa, under her, or one or two less for the larger

    

 

  
  
  
   

 

the name of Imphee. The seeds of

these sorghums were widely distribut-‘

ed. in small quantities by members of
Congress and in other ways, and when
the war broke out, cutting off the sup-
. ply of Louisiana sugar and syrup, the
northern farmer found himself in pos-
session of a good substitute for the
syrup at least. The culture of sorghum
extended rapidly over, the country, un-
til before the war closed nearly every
farm, in Ohio

Orange. .
Cultivation.

Sorghum grows very slowly at first,
as compared with corn. Hence it is
important that the land he as clean of
weeds as possible. The general culti-
vation is the sameas for corn.

Harvesting.

Frost is ruinous to sorghum, and
hence it should be harvested as soon
as frost threatens. The tops should be

removed by cut-

 

and Indiana, es-
pecially, produced
annually 3 small
patch of this
cane, which was
worked into sy-
rup in the small
mills of the neigh-
borhood.

While a good
syrup was made
from sorghum,
'the production of
sorghum sugar
was never made
commercially suc-
cessful, although
the U. S. Depart-
.ment of Agricul— '
t u r e expended
large sums of

Good corn soil
crop.

ideal start.
feet apart.
hill.

Fair yield is 100
per acre.

Provide against
' next year.

 

SORGHUM FOR 1918.

Clover sod turned down makes
Plant in rows three and one-half
Drop six to eight seeds in each
Cultivate same .as corn.

Harvest before frost.

Manufacturing plant is inexpen-
sive and processes simple.

ting a foot or
more below the
head, as the up-

is best for this per twelve to

eighteen inches
of stalk has. lit-
tle juice in it.

The blades are
then quite easily
struck off by
strippers made of
wood and the size
and shape of a
straight sword.
One is used in
each hand. They
should be made
as light as possi-
ble consistently
with strength. Af-
ter stripping, the

gallons of syrup

sugar shortage

 

 

money in the at-
tempt; the difliculty being that sugar
' can be produced far more cheaply from
the southern cane and from the sugar
beet, under conditions of climate, soil
and labor supply suited to these plants,
than from sorghum. The consequence
has been that the cane sugar industry
has difted toward Cuba, Hawaii and
the Philippines, while the production
of beet sugar has been developed by
Germany and Austria Hungary under
conditions of suitable soil and climate,
low wages for labor and an export
bounty on sugar, until those countries
Were producing half or more than half
Of the world's supply of sugar. The
cutting off of this source of supply by
the European war leaves America in
much the same situation that the
northern states found themselves in
during the Civil War, and the present
scarcity of sugar suggests a return to
sorghum as a source of part of our
supply of sweets. Fortunately, another
use has been developed for sorghum
than the production of syrup, it having
been found to be a valuable forage
crop. Consequently there need be no
serious difliculty in procuring seed,
which is kept by all the principal
seedsmen.
Variety.

The best variety for general culture
in the north is the Early Amber, a va-
riety originated in Minnesota and thor-
oughly tested over a wide extent of
country.

Soil and Preparation.

While sorghum may be grown wher-
ever. corn will” succeed, it is well to
avoid for sorghum the thinner clay
soils on~the one hand and the black
soils verging on muck on the other.
Drainage is indispensable, and a warm,
chocolate-colored, gravelly loam on
which a clover sod has Just been turn-
ed under is an ideal site. The further
preparation is ,the same as for corn;
the land should be harrowed and rolled
' until, the surface is , thoroughly pul—
veriz‘ed.. .
_ . Planting. .

Plent Kay 20 to June 1. Sorghum,

‘ been. needs a little more
‘ - lent about.

 

cane is cut as
close to the ground as possible, piled
horizontally and covered with the
blades and tops or with straw to pro-
tect it both from frost and from sun-
shine until ready to take to the mill.
It should not be stood on end, as is
done in shocking corn, not only be-
cause of the dirt that will adhere to
the butts, but more especially because
it will dry out too rapidly if thus stor-
ed. The sugar, of course, is not car-
ried off in drying, but it is converted
into an unavailable form.

A fair yield of sorghum is one hun-
gallons of syrup per acre, although
much larger yields are sometimes ob-
tained.

Manufacturing.

The juice is extracted from the cane
by passing it between iron rollers,
mills for which purpose may be pur-
chased of any capacity, from that driv-
en by one horse up to steampower
mills of large size. A very fair farm
mill, for two horses or light steam or
gasoline power, may be bought'for $50
to $75. The juice is evaporated in
shallow pans similar to those now used
in making maple syrup. The whole op-
eration of grinding and boiling to sy-
rup is simple and the art of making a
good article of syrup may be acquired
easily.

The best equipment for manufactur-
ing is one in which'both the grinding
and the evaporating are done by steam.
With such an equipment a grade of
sorghum syrup can be made which
rivals honey in color and is of delight-
ful taste.

POTATO PRICES AND HANDLING
CHARGES.

 

For the week ending February 2,
the average retail price of potatoes. in
the‘ United States was $3.20. The
price varied from $1.93 for one hun-
dred pounds in Denver to $4.80 in New
York, largely a result of inability to
move the crop freely. The difference
between retailers’ and' jobbers’ prices
averaged seventy-eight centsper hun-

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your hay determines the price. There is often a ' ;_

difference of from $6. 00 to $10. 00 per ton between choice
hay and hay that grades No. 3. Make better hay—in-
crease your hay land profits by adopting the

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Hay made by the Dain system cures better and holds its
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adept the Dain system of making hay.

RakeYour HayWith aDain System Rake

the outside, insuring thorough ;
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justing the angle of the teeth, the '
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By following the mower closely
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places the bulk of the leaves on
the inside (where they cannot
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It’s An Easy Rake To Operate

You put the machine in and out
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The Dain System Rake has un-
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Don’t confuse these terms. They
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What' is a good newspaper worth
to you?

THE BREEDER’S GAZETTE may
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(Continued from first page).
Traverse City is ready to run and will
take care of many carloads.”

Dr. E. B. Mumford, state leader of
county agents, was the last speaker
and his earnest, impassioned plea for
cooperation and standardization made
a deep impression. He asserted that
because of favorable climate, soil and
markets Michigan is in- the potato bus-
iness to stay.

Other‘ Features of Farmers’ Week.

Dr. Shaler Mathews, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, gave the opening lec-
ture Monday night on “Why we Went
to War.” Among other notable speak-
ers at the M. A. C. during the week
were Mrs. Calvin, of the Bureau of
Education, Washington, Ex-Governor
Fort, of New Jersey, on “Wheat in the
World Crisis,” D. D. Aitken, of Flint,
president of the American Holstein-
Friesian Association, 011 “The Dairy-
man’s Opportunity During the War,”
D1. Alonzo Taylor, of the United States
Food Administration, E, H. ,Frothing—
ham, of the United States Forest Ser-
vice, Prof. Taylor, of the University of
Wisconsin, and Dr. Jordan, of the.Gen-
ova, N. Y., Experiment Station.

Mr. Frothingham spoke to the maple
syrup producers on the need this sea-
son of making all the syrup and sugar
that the trees will yield. Dr. Fort as-
serted that if we cannot supply our
Allies with at least 75,000,000 bushels
of wheat this year we are beaten. He
said that more food in the form of
wheat can be packed into a given
Space than is possible with any other
food product, hence the ban on meat
has been partially lifted so that the
people will eat more meat and less
wheat. Mrs. Calvin, of Washington,
made an urgent plea to use less wheat
cereals and wheat bread. She said
that every family should use more,
milk, of which Michigan has a surplus.

Dr. Coons, plant pathologist of the
College, said that the annual preventa-
ble loss from smut alone in oats now
amounts to about $5.00 an acrehor $7,-
000,000 each year in Michigan. Prof.
J. 11‘. Cox, of the farm crops depart-
ment of the college who has been
looking after the seed corn needs of
Michigan farmers, stated that a mil-
lion bushels had been purchased, which
was to be sold at cost to farmers. Some
of it has arrived and the rest is on
the way.

Dr. Jordan, of New York, advised
free use of dairy products in this food
crisis and said to the housewives: “If
your husband doesn't like corn meal
or out meal, tell him to enlist.” He
said that agriculture has been treated
pretty well under the call to arms, the
farmers in the army composing only
.0148 of one per cent of the total num-
ber of men under arms. '

In introducing Prof. Musselman of
the college for his talk on “Care of
Farm Machinery,” Prof. Baldwin stat-
ed that one hundred and fifty men
were enrolled for the week’s school in
care and uSe of farm tractors. Prof.
Musselman estimated that $12,000,000
is Spent annually in the repair of farm
10015, so that a reduction of even one
per cent would mean saving $12,000, or
quite an item in war times. It was fig-
ured that a day’s labor in June and
July is worth ten times as much as in
March or April, hence the value of pre-
paredness, the inspection and repair of
farm tools early. The high price of
machinery has made this doubly neces—
sary. Farmers in many cases are try-
ing to get along with their old tools
and more repairs are needed. Then
the implement dealers are not carry-
ing large'stocks, because they cannot
afford the investment, and so the farm-
er should look to his needs as to plow
points, etc, early. He should go over

the mower and see that themdsnne:

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ed over and lists made of parts miss:

  

ing. as you go along Instruction bpoigs
coming with new machines should be

taken care of and not left on the ma- _

chine. In ordering parts, give the deal-
er accurate descriptions. A wire brush,
gasoline, kerosene and soap and water
were suggested for cleaning the ma-
chinery.

A representative of Henry Ford &
Son, makers of farm tractors at Dear-
born, Mich, gave the story of this ma-
chine from the early days, going back
to the childhood of Henry Ford when
he began to dream dreams. A long
time ago he was an engineer at the
Edison plant and began the study of
tractors operated by steam. Then the
gasoline motor car came out and he
worked nights in getting models of en-
gines of this kind. The tractor is a
harder proposition than the motor car,
since its engine carries a peak load
continually, having a load besides its
own weight, and there is no coasting.

The speaker stated that. the tractor
fills almost every place of the horse,
except that you can’t breed them. They
will turn over six acres in an eight-
hour day, will disc fifteen acres, drag
thirty acres, thresh eight hundred
bushels of wheat, haul five tons any-
where and saw wood faster than you
can get wood to the buzz saw. They
will cover nine miles per hour easily
on the road.

“How to plow with the tractor,”
was next discussed in a paper prepar-
ed by H. Heylman of the Oliver Plow
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SEEDING FLAX WITH OATS.

 

What results might I expect from
mixing flax with my oat seed when
sowing it in the spring? Can I put the
flax seed in the d1ill with the oats or
will it have to be sowed broadcast af-
ter the cats has been drilled? Also,
will it mature with the cats or not?
Any advise concerning the benefit of
sowing this seed will be gratefully re

ceived.

Kent Co. W. J. McC.

My experience has been that this is
a very uncertain crop. I have sown
flaxseed with oats now three different
times and once out of the three Ihave
”got enough flax seed to pay for the
trouble; the other tvo times the flax
seed crop amounted to nothing. If the
season is just right some of the flax
seed will ripen with the oat crop. Un-
less you can sow the oats real early
you had better not sow at all. I do not
believe there is any use in sowing the
flax seed with late sown oats, for the
flax seed is blasted by the hot weather
and amounts to nothing. On'good land
where the oats can be gotten in early
you may expect some flax seed. It. is
claimed that barley is a better crop to
sow flax seed with in this way than
oats, but, I never tried it with barley.

We sow the flax seed at. the same
time we do the cats, puttingthe seed
in the grass seeder attachment of the
drill and dropping the seed on top of
the grain in front of the seeds. I don’t
want to discourage the growing 0g flax
with outs. I would like to see it tried
out thoroughly because if you can only
raise a small amount it helps out be—
cause flax seed is valuable, especially
for young growing calves and pigs.

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The Washtenaw Cooperative Ship-
ping Association, organized here early
this year with ninety-three members,
is winning condence of the farmers and
adding new members daily through
the excellent financial returns on live
stock Shipped out. Eight cars of stock

have already been forwarded. The fol-
lowing are the officers: President,
Gary Lavender; vice- president, George

C. McColla; secretary-treasurer, Chas. A
McColla; manager, Charles P. Knight.

The officers named and Charles Sea-
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constitute the board of directors.

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By RALPH W. PETERSON

Michigan Has Better Natural Conditions for Cranberry Growing Than Many of
the Great Cranberry Producing States.

This Profitable Industry Should

be Give Serious Consideration by Michigan Farmers.

N ideal cranberry bog location
0 involves six- essentials. (1) a de-
pendable water supply; (2) a
Slipply of clean, sharp sand close at
hand; (3) good drainage ample enough
to allow the water table to be kept at
least two feet below the surface of the
bog; (4) a peaty soil of such a nature
that the water will percolate through it
freely; (5) a warm climate with a
growing season from May 1 to October
1; (6) a convenient shipping point.
Once an ideal location is found, suc-
cess is assured if the bog is properly
developed and cared for.
Drainage Necessary.

The first step in the development of
a wild bog is drainage. The system
should be laid out for both drainage
and distribution of the flood water.
Rapidity of fiowage is necessary in
case of frost and the ditches should be
laid out accordingly. This means thor-
ough knowledge of ground levels and
sound judgment in fixing the location
and size of the main ditch and side
laterals. A marginal ditch two feet
deep is first dug to take care of the
drainage from surrounding land. The
main ditch, with the principal laterals
are then dug, and an outlet ditch be-
low secured for a quick run of the
water. Before continuing with the bal-
ance of the drainage system, the clear-
ing is done

Clearing consists of removing the
trees, stumps and brush. A bog may
have a peat bottom, mud bottom or no
bottom at all, but the peat bottom is
the best and all wooded swamps have
a peat bottom and any wooded swamp
will make a good bog. Maple, cedar,
huckleberry, laurel, brown bush pine,
etc., are all indications of a good bog
soil. The brown bush swamps can be
cleared at an expense of $5.00 to $10
an acre, while a stump swamp may
cost ten times this figure. The bush
and stumps are pulled and after a few
weeks’ drying are burned.

The Arrangement of the Bog.

Before continuing with the grading,
the balance of the drainage system
must be dug. Extensive levels'over
the entire bdg are taken and the topo-
graphy of the land accurately deter-
mined. A flat bog can be divided into
a few large fields, but a sloping bog
must be dviided into as many fields as
necessary for economical grading, for
each field must be made level to as-
sure even flooding. The determination
of the level of each area must be done
accurately to balance up the cut and
fill. This necessitates a detailed map
of the bog, showing the various fields,
made. as a rule, not over five acres in
area. Each field is drained by small
laterals ”about one and one-half to two
feet deep, running into the main dis-
tributing ditch or into the larger ditch-
es dug before the bog was stumped.
These small laterals are run parallel
and about fifty feet, apart and as far
as possible at right angles to the main
canal through the center of the bog.
Such an arrangement assures quick
flowage and drainage. These laterals
are dug with a sharp, round pointed
shovel. The sides of the ditches may
be nearly vertical if the peat has de-
composed very little. The cost of these
lateral ditches is about fifty cents a
rod. ' . '

Turfing the Bog.

The construction, of the lateral sys-
tem gives good drainage. The next
step is turflng and grading In turfing,
the top six inches of sod is removed by
plowing or by cutting it with a scalp-
ring- plow. or with a. tilrf’axe. The usual

   

are present, the turf is sometimes turn-
ed over where it lays, but one of the
biggest problems in the maintenance
of a bog the first three years is weed-
ing and nothing should be done to en-
courage the growth of weeds and grass.
Peat turf makes good material for dike
construction. Along each side of the
dike a layer or two of turf blocks are
laid, lapping and closely fitting. The
middle of the dike is built of sand us-
ually. The size of the (like will, of
course, depend upon the amount of
water held back by it. The main dikes
are used for roadways and should be
built very strong. A top width of ten
feet and over is not too much as it is
better to make them over-strong than
to underestimate the force of the water
combined with the burrowing of goph-
ers and muskrats. Seepage under the
dike is cut off with a sand or clay core
extending a foot or two beneath the
bog surface. Provision is made for the
flumes at the time of building the dike.
The F lumes.

More real trouble is experienced
with flumes than with any other part
of the bog construction. The flumes
are necessary to let the water from
one field into another, or from the res-
ervoir into the bog proper or from the
bog through to the outlet ditch. The
two latter flunles must be very much
greater and more substantial because
of the head of water they must hold
back at certain times of the year. The
small flumes necessary for the field
dikes can be constructed of wood, but
in the end concrete would be better.
Flumes, above everything else, must
not allow water seepage with its usual
undermining effect. The flume, wheth—
er of concrete or wood, should have a
floor and run-off to prevent washing
and under-cutting and a resulting cave-
in. Concrete flumes must have a firm
foundation and be well built through-
out. Side wings are required to cut off
seepage between the wall and the dam.

Build Dikes Well.

Certain times of the year, particu-
larly in the summer, the reservoir will
contain a big head of water and some
washing of the bank would occur un-
less stones, timbers or tree trunks are
used as a protection and reinforcement.
The burrowing of muskrats may cause
an opening in the dam that would be
disastrods were some reinforcement
not in place on the inside face of the
dam to help stiffen the dam,lwhile
sandbags are used to repair the leak.
It is profitable in the 10ng run to ex-
pend considerable money and effort in
building up the best kind of dikes and
dams and in using concrete for the
flumes.

The Settling of the Bog.

At the same time, the dikes are be-
ing constructed, the grading opera-
tions are going on, leveling up each
field to its respective grade. Some wa-
ter can be let into the lateral ditches
to use as a guide in setting the ground
surface grades. The grading must be
done by wheelbarrows largely. Low
places in the bog can be filled by the
turf blocks. No particular difficulty
need attend the grading operation but
in some cases we see fields that flood
very poorly. Some parts of the field
may be under a foot of water while
other parts are exposed to frost injury.
Deep holes in the field will continue to
settle for a couple of years after being
filled and provision should be made for
this. The entire bog can be expected
to settle some if previous to develop-
ment it was very wet. The amount of
grading needed will be based upon the
topography of the ground and the effi-

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around $50 an acre and may go three

times this figure if the land is full of
stump holes and very uneven.
Sanding the Bog.

Accurate grading will be a. great

help in sanding. This is one of the

expensive operations in bog construe--

tion. The cost will be of from $100 to
$200 an acre, according to the length
of haul of the sand. Where teams can
be secured in the winter cheaply, it is
better to get the bog in shape and
graded up the preceding fall, set long
stakes to mark out the ditches and
then spread the sand on the ice during
the winter. The only alternative is to
wheel the sand on the bog from the
banks at the edge of the bog. This
method demands the services of too
many men to be very economical. In
either case, only [a coarse, sharp grade
of sand is used. A difference of opin-
ion exists as to the best amount of
sand to apply the first year. Some
growers apply four to six inches, oth-
ers only two to four inches. Those
sanding lightly the first year find that
the vines make a better start and come
into bearing quicker. Any means of
encouraging a rapid vine growth to

cover the surface of the bog and choke

out any foreign growth of grass, weeds
and especially of wood moss and horse-
tail, should be welcomed for the first
two years of vine growth go a long
ways in deciding the success of a hog.
The smaller amount of sand applied
the first year can be supplemented by
resanding one-half inch the following
three or four years. A deep root sys-
tem is formed by this method of sand-
ing and the root system extends some
distance into the peat, while with a
heavy sanding the first year too many
of the roots are found in the sand.
Sanding is Valuable.

No one should minimize the neces-
sity of sanding. Very distinct benefits
accrue from sanding than can be ob-
tained in no other way. The vines are
found to do best by using sand as a
cutting bed. The bog surface is kept
warm, but dry, and discourages foreign
seed germination. The heat generated
by the sand is often sufl‘icient to elimi-
nate the use of water during frosty
nights when the temperature gets
down to freezing on unsanded bogs.
Sand permits the necessary surface
drainage, but also at the same time the
necessary capillary action in the oppo-
site direction for the need of the vines.

Cuttings Used for Planting.

The bog is established by planting
cuttings about six inches to eight inch-
es long. Seed is only used for secur-
ing new varieties, Only high-grade va-
rieties should be planted. Herein en-
ters another big item in the expense of
bog development as a ton of vines is
planted per acre and the cost will be
around $200 a ton in Michigan. This
amount of vines permits a rather close
planting of about ten inches by ten
inches and the bog vines over rapidly
and before the weed problem becomes
very serious. A few Wisconsin bogs
have been planted sixteen inches by
eighteen inches, but the fight to hold
the weeds in Check was found very dis-
couraging. The vines are secured from
old bogs pruned in the spring before
growth commences and are shipped in
bales. The bog should be prepared
and ready to plant early in May. If
the planting is delayed until along in
June, hot weather may be encountered
and some damage may result to the
vines in shipment. A marker is run
over the surface of the hog and the
vines planted at the intersections. If
the bog is ready to plant upon receipt
of the vines, the bales of vines are
kept immersed in the water in the
ditches where they are convenient to
the planters. These vine cuttings are
six to twelve inches long and are plant-
ed three to ve in a place. by means of
an iron dibble. Only a few inches of
the vine projects above the surface of
the sand. Water is raised/in the ditch-

es for a few days until the. vines begin

to take root. .
the balance of the summer is kept as"

 

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dry as possible. The vines will estab-

lish‘a good root system the first year ,

and produce a few berries the second
and third years, and a full crop the
fourth year, and will continue bearing
for a dozen or more years without re-
planting. Each field should be planted
to but one variety, to facilitate cultural
treatment, control of diseases, etc. The
best varieties for Michigan conditions
would be hard to say.
The'Best Varieties.

The one or two semi-scientifically
planted bogs in this state have indi-
cated that varieties adapted to Wiscon-
sing conditions would be all right in
Michigan. The Jumbo varieties have
given good success around Cranmoor
and Grand Rapids, the cranberry sec-
tion of Wisconsin. The McFarland,
Bell and Bugle are other good varie-
ties. The Early-Black, Late Howe,
Bugle and McFarland are the principal
varieties grown in the east, in New
Jersey and the Cape Cod section of
Massachusetts. The Early Black rip-
ens early in September, is a good yield-
er and requires little attention but has
only fair quality. The Late Howe is
the favorite late variety as it is a good
yielder and keeps well, but/is of poor
quality. Cranberry varieties show a
great variation in shape, size, quality
and color. The latter character is sub-
ject to the most variation. The Early
Black, as its name signifies, is deep
red when ripe, while some of the late
varieties are a very light shade of pink
at harvest time but take on color in
storage. (To be continued).

TROUBLE DEPARTMENT.

 

Girdled Trees,

Is there anything that can be done
to save the trees that the rabbits have
girdled? We have a nice young or-
chard which has been planted three
years, and the rabbits have ruined the
trees, about fifty in number, and if
nothing can be done it is a total loss.

Gladwin Co. SUBSCRIBER.

If the outer bark has just been chew-
ed off, thorough painting over of the
trees generally will suffice, but if the
chewing has been through to the solid
wood so that the cambium layer is in-
jured, bridge grafting will then have
to be resorted to. This is done by tak-
ing lastpseason’s shoots and cutting
them long enough so that they can
bridge over the wound and by each of

the points and inserting them in holes ,

on each side of the wound, which have
been previously made, and then thor-
oughly covering the holes and wound
with grafting wax. In this way you
can get very good results.

The shoots should be a little longer
than the distance between the two
holes in which the two ends are to be
inserted, so that they will be sprung
a little in order to get them in place.

The chief object in caring for girdle
wounds is to protect them from drying
effects of the sun, and the use of graft-
ing wax or paint made of pure white
lead and raw oil is also necessary.
Then cover the wounds with earth by‘
banking up around them; this will
greatly facilitate the healing over of
wounds where grafting is not nec-
essary.

PROVIDE SEED FOR REPLANTING.

 

Seed stocks of all kinds are reported
scarce. The farmer who has a good
supply of seed for coming crops is, in-
deed, fortunate. Farmers who have
no seed are obtaining supplies earlier
this year. The University of Missouri
College of Agriculture suggests that,
in View of the necessity for replanting
in Some seasons, farmers obtain or re‘
serve sufficient seed for replanting. In
many states last year, corn and wheat
on low lands Were destroyed. by,ov‘er~
flows. _ The water went down early
enough that the land could be planted
to early maturing corn,- but few in!!!
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WHICH PAYS BEST?

ore Potatoes And .‘
Better Ones

It was discovered long ago that potatoes
produce more .heav11y when sprayed With a
su1table fung1c1de.

The New York Experiment Station says—
“It does not pay to spray for bugs alone.”
Their ten years’ experiments with fungicides
show an average yearly gain of 971/2 bushels
of potatoes per acre. A nineteen-year test at
the Vermont Station shows an average yearly
gain Of 109 bushels per acre.

Spray to prevent blight —— it pays.

Spray with I

Pyrox is a smooth, creamy paste, all ready to use by mixing with
- cold water. Just measure it out, it mixes easily and saves time
and labor at the busiest time of the year. In a letter to a friend,
the Editor of “The Fruit Belt” says: “I have made up many
thousands of barrels of spray. mixtures on the farm, and I can say
to you I have mixed my last barrel. I now use Pyrox.”

BOWKE

“IRON AGE” MANUFACTURER USES
PYROX

Mr. Fred H. Bateman, who is at the head of the
company manufacturing the well-known “Iron Age”
tools, is a real farmer. October 25, 1916, he wrote:

"I investigated the merits of your Pyrox, and this
season have used four tons or more. [mused it on
potatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, cantaloupe, grapes
and water-melons, with very satisfactory success.”

Avoid Blight and Bugs!

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BIG YIELD DUE TO PYROX

J. C. Carver 8’ Co., Marumseo, Md., write:

“We used Pyrox on our potato crop and got a big
crop—110 barrels to the acre.
the time, although we had a long drouth. We at-
tribute our large yield to brew.”

USE THE COUPON! It

Bugs are bad, but blight is worse although
the spores that cause it can be seen only un-
der a powerful mlcroscope.

When you spray only with poison you are
not gettlng the return you should for your
work. You need a fung1c1de also.

PYROX is both a poison and a fungicide.
It kills the bugs and flea beetles, prevents
blight, invigorates the vines, imparts a rich
green color to the leaves, and gives the little
potatoes a chance to become big ones.

REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

0 x It Pays

TRADE MARK REGISTERED

Pyrox is as good for apples, tomatoes and other fruits and vege-
tables as it is for potatoes.

Most good agricultural supply dealers sell Pyrox. Last year the
demand for Pyrox exhausted the dealers’ supplies. Why not see
your dealer at once about your supply? If he does not handle
Pyrox be sure to fill in his name when mailing the coupon below.

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It has been proven that labor on fertilized
land returns 50 to 125% more than on unferti—
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from a given amount of labor. The hired man
is costing you more than he did. Make his
labor roduce more by using A. A. C. Fertilizers.

KEEP MORE STOCK

The old fashioned way was to keep. stock to
make manure for the land. It was a good way
too; but fertilizers, by increasing the grass and
grain and forage, make it possible’to carry more
stock. Grow your grain with A. A. C.
Fertilizers.

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The Company maintains an Agricultural Service Bureau
conducted by Dr. H. J. Wheeler, for many years Director
of the llhode Island State Experiment Station, whose
Crop Bulletins, services and advice are free to all farmers.

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space in a permanent hog house

it is practically impossible to
get along and produce satisfactory re-
sults in feeding hogs out of doors with-
out a cement feeding floor. Although
we selected about the driest, sandiest
place in our permanent hog pasture
for our feeding and fixed permanent
troughs on one side, so that the hogs
could not only be fed corn, but Slop
there also, we found that during peri-
ods of heavy rains this muddled up so
that it was impossible to feed the hogs
where we intended. In fact, it got so
muddy that the hogs could scarcely
get to the troughs to eat their slop,
and so it was necessary to build 3. cc-
ment feeding floor. In our case, we
built a. feeding floor seventy—five feet
long and sixteen feet wide, with a. ce-
ment trough running along one side
and we have swing doors so that the

”pigs can be shut out of the troughs

while the slop is fed from the outside.
The size and shape, hoyvever, of the
cement floor will depend entirely upon
where it is to be located and the num~
ber of hogs to be fed. Each person
will regulate the size according to his
necessity.
How to Build.

It is better to make a good, perma-
nent job while one is at it, and a
trench should be dug which will mark
the outside of the feeding floor and
this trench should be about two feet
deep. This should be filled with stones
laid in cement, or else with pure con-
crete. If I hadn’t had experience I
would be incined to think that this
wouldn’t be ncctssary but our hogs
rooted under our feeding floor so that
it was necessary to build this wall af-
terwards, consequently the best way
is to build it at first.

The feeding floor should be entirely
above the ground so that when it is
finished the surface of the feeding floor
ought to be three or four inches above
the surrounding ground. This prevents
water running on to the feeding floor
in times of heavy rains. The floor
should be planned also so that it will
gently slope to one corner so that the
water will drain off after heavy rains
or the floor will be very sloppy. Again,
there should be a ridge or edge of ce-
ment around the outside of the feeding
floor two to four inches high,~ other-
wise in feeding corn, much of the corn
will be rooted off from the platform on
to the ground. This raised cement
edge prevents this.

When the trench is built it should
just come above the edge of the ground
so that the cement floor can be laid en.
tirely over the wall. Most land would
contain so much moisture at certain
times of the year that a tile drain
ought to be placed around and perhaps
through the middle of the feeding floor
if it is a large one, otherwise, in freez-
ing in the’winter time the fl00r may
be forced out of shape. The tile should
be placed under the stone wall or in
the bottom of the trench clear around,
and one perhaps through the center.
This will drain this land so that there
will be no trouble caused from freezing
in the winter time.

The best way to build a. foundation
for the feeding floor is to pave ground
with cobble stones. 1 would put the
cobble stones right on top of ground
and fill in between them with cement
mortar or concrete mixed quite wet so
that it will be evenly distributed all
around these stones. This should come
up flush with the top of the stones
then the platform proper can be laid
on top of the stones which should be
just level with the face of your trench
wall. Now put on a layer of cement
two inches thick. This can be made
out of gravel, pit run, no matter if it
does contain some pretty .good-sized
pebbles. It ought to be fairly rich, say

, one-part of cement to ,féur‘wt‘Egravel,

 

and this should be mixed rather wet

Concrete "F-éé'dmg F106?“

~UNLESS one has plenty of feeding

also and poured on and leveled of:
with a. straight-edge and it should be
troweled down with a wooden trowel
so that it will have a rough surface
rather than a smooth one so that the
hogs will not slip. An opening can be
made at the lowest corner so that
there will be good drainage for the
surface of the platform.

It is usu'ally advisable to feed some
kind of slop with the corn to feeding-
hogs, and therefore it is very handy
when building this platform to have a
cement trough on one edge of it.
This trough should be four inches high
and a foot wide, then it can be easily
cleaned out with a common barn shov-
el. Even if it fills full of rain water
when heavy rains come, it takes but a.
moment to scoop it out with a common
shovel if the trough is large enough so
that the shovel can be used.

If one will place this feeding floor
just outside of a yard and have swing
doors that will swing back over the
feeding trough, the slop can be fed and
the pigs cannot interfere. I have seen
farmers with large bunches of hogs
have a trough in an open field yard
and the slop had to be'carried with the
hogs all clamoring for it. Many times
the slop is spilled and it is poured over
the hogs and much of it is wasted.
This can all be prevented by the per-
mamanent trough with the swing door,
as I have suggested.

Conox C. LILLUC.

FEEDERS' PROBLEMS.

Dried Beet Pulp for Horses.

I noticed an. article in your paper
that dried beet pulp took the place of
corn for cows. Would it be good for
the horses to feed in place of corn, on
account of the high price of corn?

Kent Co. J. H. V. L.

Dried beet pulp is nowhere near as
good a food for horses as it is for the
cattle. A horse wants a concentrated
grain ration, like cats or corn or bar-
ley, to feed in connection with hay.
Beet pulp is not a. concentrated food;
it is in a class more like corn silage, a
succulent, bulky food. Of course, when
dried down to eight or nine per cent
moisture, as it. is in the dried product,
it doesn’t seem so bulky but just as
soon as it absorbs moisture it swells
and becomes bulky. It‘is a nice thing
to feed a little moistened beet pulp t)
horses, especially once in a while, as a
corrective. It is like feeding roots. It
tends to keep them in good condition,
but as a. basic food, beet pulp will not
take the place of corn for horses—~it
is too bulky. Dried beet pulp should
never be fed to horses in its dry state.
It must be moistened or horses are lia-
ble to choke.

Fattening Pigs on Bran and Middlings.

Can I raise and fatten pigs on bran,
and middlings with no other feeds? If
not, what would I need to feed with it
and how should I mix it?

St. Clair Co. R. W. B.

Brand is not a. good hog food. It is
not at all desirable for feeding young
pigs. It is too coarse and chaffy and
they don’t like it. However, middlings
is a. most excellent food for growing
pigs and you can grow them and fat-
ten them on middlings. I did this once
myself and I don’t think I ever had a
bunch of pigs do any better than when
they got all the middlings they would
eat up clean three times a day. We
had a very small amount of skim-milk
but it was mostly mlddlings made into
a thick, heavy mush by mixing with
water. A small amount of salt was
added and the pigs did well and fat-
tened readily. »

Farmers in out parts of the United
States where he dogs do not rule su-
preme are extremely desirous of en-
gaging in the sheep breeding industry,
and buying orders for :‘good to fancy
ewe breeding lambs are being placed
with sellers at a. far, more rapid rs.”
than can be 'fllled,‘ln spite of th, 1133
prices paid. ,.

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t-Farr Wing ‘ .
K HE Department of Agriculture
and the public press in general
have been urging farmers to re-
. tain all of the females among their
hogs, breed them for spring litters, in
order to'increase the number of swine
available in the country for the produc-
tion of pork which they claim will be
needed to supply meat for home con-
sumption and feed the armies of the
Allies which are fighting for liberty in
the European war. The efforts'to in-
crease the numbers of hogs will not
bring about the desired results unless
’proper means are taken to safeguard
both the sows and. the pigs against dis-
aster at the critical time of the arrival
of the pigs.
Preparing Beforehand. ’
Every farmer and breeder should
keep a record of the date on which
each sow was bred to boar and make
a correct calculation that sixteen
weeks from the day a litter of pigs
may be expected. At least a week or
ten days before the day when the pigs
are expected the sow should be sup-
plid with a pen by herself that is not
very large, but is warm and free from
cold draughts of air. The reason we
say beforehand is because it will take
at least a week for the sow to become
wonted to her new quarters and feel
at home, a matter of considerable im-
portance, as the home-like feeling will
prevent restlessness, which is a dan-
gerous difficulty at this critical time.
Be sure and attend to giving the sow
the proper feed to put her system in
the right condition. Do not feed her
heavily, but give just what may be
termed a moderate amount of feed
made up of a variety of food materials.
The feed should not be entirely of
heavy feed, like corn, but should con-

. tain some light feed like wheat bran

and middlings, which will put the bow-
els in a laxative condition. A small
amount of vegetables like mangel
beets or small potatoes, say two or
three pounds each day, will be of great
benefit in several ways. It will cool
the system and encourage the secre-
tion of milk at the right time.

The bedding should not be too plen-
tiful or coarse, as little pigs soon after
they arrive are liable to get entangled
with coarse litter and get discouraged
about getting tothe udder. If the bed-
ding is abundant the pigs often work
under it and get laid on.

At Farrowing Time.

It is best to make all preparations
beforehand and at the time the pigs
are to arrive keep away and leave the
sow to herself as a little disturbance at
this time will often prove detrimental.
If the weather happens to be very cold
enclose the sow in a small compass by
false partitions and false covers to
keep the cold air from coming in at
the sides anddown from above. Let-
ting in cold air is sure to prove disas-
trous. .
Feeding the Sow.

While the sow should have a moder-
ate amount of feed before farrowing,
all feeds should be kept away from her
at this time. Remember that she is
sick and her system is not in condition
to digest food. Do not feed her any
heavy feeds'at this time and do not
feed lightly for at least twelve hours

after farrowing. After her sickness
has disappeared a little sloppy' drink
‘ can be given. When she gets up and
manifests a desire for food begin by
giving a small quantity of light feed,
largely sloppy feed, and increase grad-
‘ually as she seems to desire Do not
attempt to get her on to full feed under
a week’s time. Bad results are sure to
follow if heavy feeds are given soon
after the arrival of the pigs. If the
sow is not seemingly injured by heavy
, feeds at this time the pigs will be. I
have known cases where sows were
. fed a full meal of heavy feeds, of their
4. dying inside of twelve hours. It is
. 11130 to‘ produce a revered condition if
in them, and the igs par-

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Roadster . . . . 1050
Roadster Coupe . g 1210
Sedan . . 3 1250

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car construction were vis-
ible in the new models
displayed at the recent
metropolitan automobile
shows.

Briefly, these three tenden-
cies were concerned with
more efficient power,
lighter car weight, and
greater economy of Opera-
tion.

Every one of these quali-
ties has been a pronounced
characteristic of Oakland
Sensible Six models during
the past three years.

The high-Speed overhead-
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horsepower at 2600 r.p.m., _

or one full horsepower to
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weight.

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ESSENTIALS OF SYRUP MAKING.

 

(Continued from page 388).
sugar house on the slope of a hill so
that most of the work is to be done in
necessary approach. The sap storage
is placed at a lower level than the
level of the road approach. The dia-
gram and ground plan of a sugar house
shown in Figure 1 will illustrate this
point. _

The Evaporator Room.

This part of the outfit is deserving
of considerable thought since it is here
that most to the work is to be done in
the making of the product. The evap-
Orator should be placed in the center
of the room so that an alley of at least
four 'feet between either side of the
house and the evaporator will provide
the necessary working room for the
operator. Most evaporators provide‘for
the taking off of the syrup from either
side of the pan and the alley should
be of sufficient width to allow for the
stock cans, skimmers and small test-
ing table with hydrometer, etc., within
handy reach.

Boiling the Sap.

Before starting the fires under the
pan, the operator should be sure that
his automatic regulators are working
properly since it is very important that
only a. certain depth of sap will be
maintained throughout the boiling. It
is a well-known fact that the shalloWer
the sap in the pan the more rapid will
be the boiling off. If the corrugated
patent pan is used, it is considered that
a depth of one-half inch of sap above
corrugations is best for rapid boiling.

The fires should be kept burning
briskly so that the operation will pro-
vide the rapid boiling down of: the
syrup since this gives very light col-
ored product which is so highly de-
sired. If the syrup is allowed to stay
in the pans overnight and is brought
to a second boiling, it is invariably
made darker in color. The use. of sour-
ed sap will produce dark colored syrup
and great care should be taken to avoid
this souring, which is indicated by the
change in color of the. sap. If the sap
shows buddy, foamy or milk. either in
the buckets or in pans, Illt‘st) should
be emptied and thoroughly scalded and
brightened up if the highest grade of
syrup is to be turned out.

The Testers.

The common Baume hydrometer is
used in connection with a cylindrical
Cup. This is known under the com-
mon name of syrup tester. A Baume
hydrometer reading at 35.6 degrees or
on the red line, will produce a standard
Michigan syrup which weighs eleven

pounds to the gallon, provided the tem- __

perature of the syrup at time of test is
sixty degrees Fahrenheit. if the syrup
is very hot it should be allowed to cool
before. testing with the hydrometer. In
connection with the hydrometer there
is usually provided in every outfit, a
Fahrenheit thermometer which is used
as a check on the barometer and quite
necessary to the inexperienced maker.
Syrup which shows a temperature of
219 degrees by the Fahrenheit ther-
mometer will weigh eleven pounds to
the gallon. To the, beginner it is rec-
ommended that both of these “testers”
be kept close at hand. It is further
recommended that the practice of pro-
ducing syrup weighing more than elev-
en pounds net to the gallon is unfair,
both to the producer and to the con-
sumer. It is unfair to the producer
since he is giving more than the law
requires and it is unfair to the con-

-_ sumer since syrup weighing over elev—
en pounds to the gallon will almost al«

ways “candy,” which simply means
that a considerable quantity will crys-
tallize in the bottom of the can in such
form that it is almost impossible to be
used,:and therefore becomes wasted. It
isa’common practice in Michigan for

.many syrup makers to produce what

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"candy” in the bottom of the can. HOW-
ever ,the sooner this fault is remedied
the quicker will be the stoppage of
waste and a more equitable system of
making and marketing will be estab-
lished. ‘

Storage.

Syrup which is made to conform to
the rule of eleven pounds net to the
gallon should not “candy” and it should
not mold during the year. “Moldy” sy-
rup is due to excess of water which is
rather more or less a light syrup and
weighs less than eleven pounds to the
gallon.

_ Sugaring Off.

Owing to the strong demand for ma-
ple syrup the makers of maple sugar
over the state are comparatively few.
Sugaring off used to be a popular
phase of maple syrup work, but has
almost gone out of use in many sec
tions because it does not pay.

Cleansing Maple Syrup.

If the maker has employed clean
methods from start to finish in the sy-
rup operation there is very little need
for “cleansing.” If he has kept the
dirt and bark and rain water and sour
sap out of the tanks and has strained
the sap when it went into the gather-
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the storage tank, there will be no dirt,

and foreign matter in the pans.

When the sap is boiled down until it‘

registers atemperature of 216 degrees
to 219 degrees the “lime" or “sugar
sand” or “malate,” as it is called, is
precipitated or rendered insoluble. The
presence of this “malate,” or “sugar
sand,” in the syrup gives it a disagree-
able or strong taste.

‘ In order to remove this, the syrup
must be filtered through heavy cotton

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Car .
Comfort!

add to the comfort.

the Elcar is quality built.

You secure this comfort for moderate upkeep cost.
averaged to the gallon of gasoline. 1000 miles to a gallon of oil is the
rule rather than the exception. Tires give exceptionally long service
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Ride all day and you won’t be cramped.

Long, flexible springs and deep upholstery

18 to 24 miles are

Every part is 150% strong.

You will be proud to own an Elcar. The
lines are long and graceful; the body work
high grade; the finish beautiful and durable.
The motor is speedy, with abundant power
for the hard pulls. It is a car that will serve
you economically, dependably and long.

Investigate the Elcar at our nearest dealer’s. We’ll
gladly write you his name. if you don’t know him.

Catalog on Request

Write for catalog illustrating and describing the
1938 file: Models. We gladly mail it to anyone
m eres e .

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As Woodhouse slowly lifted his eyes
to the line of portraits, he noticed that
Jane had moved to place the broad
tent shade of a floor lamp on its tall
standard of mahogany between herself
and the other two men so that her face
was momentarily screened from them.
She looked quickly at the portrait over
the mantel and away again. Wood-
house, knowing himself the object of
two pairs of hostile eyes, made his sur-
vey deliberately, with purpose increas-
ing the tension of the moment. His
eyes ranged the line of portraits on the
rear wall, then turned ,to that one over
the fireplace.

“Ah, yes, a rather good likeness, eh,
Major?” He drawled his identification
with a disinterested air.

Crandall’s manner underwent instant
change. His former slightly strained
punctiliousness gave way to natural-
ness and easy spirits. One would have
said he was advocate fer a man 011
trial, for whom the jury had just pro-
nounced, “Not proven.” Scotch ver-
dict, yes, but one acceptable enough to
the governor of Gibraltar. The desk
telephone sounded just then, and Gen-
eral Crandall answered. After listen~
ing briefly, he gave the orders, “Dress
flags!” and hung up the receiver.

“‘Fleet’s just entering the harbor,’
signal tOWer reports,” he explained to
the others. “Miss Gerson, if you care
to step here to the window you’ll see
something quite worth while.”

Jane, lighthearted almost to the
point of mild hysteria at the noticeable
relaxation of strain denoting danger
passed, bounded to a double French
window giving on a balcony and com-
manding a view of all the bay to the
Spanish shore. She exclaimed in awe:

“Ships-ships! Hundreds of them!
Why, General, what—”

“The Mediterranean fleet, young
woman, bound home to protect the
Channel against the German high-seas
fleet.” Deep pride was in the gover-
nor’s voice. His eyes kindled as they
fell on the distant pillars of smoke——
scores of them mountaing straight up
to support the blue on their blended
arches. Captain \Voodhouse could
scarcely conceal the start General
Crandall’s announcement gave him. He
followed the others to the window
more slowly.

“Wirelessed they’d be in ten hours

ago,” the governor explained to his
wife. “Rear-admiral won‘t make his
official call until morning, however. In
these times he sticks by his flagship
after five o’clock.”
“Wonderful —- wonderful ! ” Bishop
turned in unfeigned enthusiasm to
“There is the
power—and the pride—~01? England.
Sort of thrills a chap, eh ?”

“Rather!” Woodhouse replied.

“Well, must get down to the quay to
receive any despatches that may come
ashore,” the major exclaimed. “Gad,
but it gives me a little homesick tug at
the heart to see those grim old dogs of
war. They represent that tight little
island that rules the waves.”

“Ah, LondonuLondon—the big, old
town where they pull the strings that
make us dance!” General Crandall,
leaning against the window frame, his
eyes on the incoming fleet, voiced the
chronic nostalgia of the man in the
service.

“The town for me!” Woodhouse ex-
claimed with fervor. “I’m sick for the
sight of her—~the smells of her: the
orange peel and the asphalt and the
gas coming in over Vauxhall Bridge.”
Bishop turned on him admiringly.
"By George, that 'does‘hit it off, old
man—no mistake!”

 

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with field glasses she had picked up
from the governor’s desk. She called
back through the curtains, summoning
Woodhouse to come out and pick out
for her the flagship. When he had
joined her, Bishop stepped quickly to
his superior’s side.

“What do you think, General? By
George, it seems to me it would need
an Englishman to give one that sniff
of London this chap just got off.”

“Exactly,” the general caught him
up crisply. "‘And an Englishman’s
done it—Rudyard Kipling. Any Ger-
man who can read English can read
Kipling.”

“But what do you think, General?
Chap strikes me as genuine~that port-
rait of Lady Evelyn clinched things, 1
take it.”

“Confound it! We haven’t absolute-
ly proved anything, pro or con," Gen-
eral Crandall grumbled, in perplexity.
“Thing’ll have to be decided by the
Indian—what, he finds, or doesn’t find
—-—in Woodhouse’s room. Let you kndw
soon as I hear.”

Bishop hurried to make his adieux
to Lady Crandall and her guest, and

 

 

 

 

Jalmihr Khan Held the Tip to His
Master’s Cigarette.

was starting for the doors when Vl'ood-
house, stepping in from the balcony,
offered to join him. The governor
stopped him.
' “By the way, Captain, if you’ll wait
for me a minute I should like your
company down the Rock.”

Bishop had gone, and the general,

taking \Voodhouse’s agreement for
granted, also left the room.
\Voodhouse, suddenly thrown back

on his guard, could find nothing to do
but assent. But when Laderrandall
excused herself on the score of having
to dress for dinner, he welcomed com-
pensation in being alone with the girl
who had gone with him steadfastly,
unflinchingly,through moments of trial.

She stood before the curtains screen-A
ing the balcony, hesitant, apparently
meditating flight. To her \Voodhouse
went, in his eyes anappeal for a mo-
ment alone which would not be denied.

“You were—very kind to me,” he
began, his voice very low and broken.
“If it had not been—for your help, I
would have—”

“I could not see you—see you grope
blindlywand fail.” She turned her
head to look back through the opened
glass doors to the swiftly moving dots
in the distance that represented the in‘
coming battle fleet. ,

“But was there no other reason ex-
cept just humanity to prompt you?”
He had possessed himself of one of
her hands now, and his eyes compelled
her to turn her own to meet their gaze.
“Once when they—were trying to trip
me, I caught a look from your eyes,
and—41nd it was more than—pity.”

“You are presuming too‘much, ” the
girl ’p’arriéd faintly; but Woodhouse
would not be rebuffed; :‘ s.

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lmpetuodslyg ”This is a. strange time
for me to say this, but you say you are
going—going away soon.
have another opportunity——hear me! I
am terribly in earnest when I tell you
I love you—love you beyond all be-
lieving. No, no! Not for what you
have done fer me, but for what you
are to me—~beloved.”

She quickly pulled her hand free
from his grasp and tried to move 'to
the door. He blocked her way.

“I can not have you go without a
word from you,” he pleaded. “Just a
word to tell me I may—”

‘How can you expect—that—I—J
knowing what I d0-—” She was stumb-
ling blindly, but persisted: “You, who
have deceived others, are deceiving
them now—how can I knOW» you are
not deceiving me, too?”

“I can not explain.” He dropped his
head hopelessly, and his voice, seemed
lifeless. “It is a time of war. You
must accept my word that I am honest
-—-with you.”

She slowly shook her head and start-
ed again for the double doors. “Peru
haps—when you prove that to me-——.”
He took an eager step toward her.
“But, no you can not. I will be sailing
so soon, and—and you must forget.”

"You ask the impossible!” Wood-
house quickly seized her hand and rais-
ed it to his lips. As he did so, the
double doors opened noiselessly and
Jaimihr Khan stood between them,
Sphinx-like. '

Jane, startled, withdrew her hand,
and without a farewell glance, ran
across the library and through the
door to Lady Crandall’s room. Jaimihr
Khan, with a cold glance at VVood-
house, moved silently to the door of
General Crandall’s room and knocked.

“It is I—Jaiin-ihr Khan,” he answer-
ed to the. muffled hail from within.
“Yes, General Sahib, I will wait.”

He turned and looked toward ‘Wood-
house. The latter had taken a cigar-
ette from the case Almer had sent him
through Jane, and was turning it over
In his hand curiously. The Indian.
treading like a hunting cat, began
lighting candles. His tour of the room
brought him to the captain’s side, and
there he stood, motionless, until W'ood-
house, with a start, observed him.

“Cap-lain \Voodhouse has been most
in-discreet,” he Said, in his curious me-
chanical way of speech.

Vt’oodhouse turned on him angrily.

“What do you mean?” be snapped.

“Is it that they have ceased to teach
discretion—at the “'ilhelmslrasse?”
The Indian‘s face was like a mask.

“I know nothing about the Vl’ilhelm-
strasse,” the white man answered, 1
a voice suddenly strained.

“Then it is veree, veree foolish for
the captain to leave inkliis room these
plans.” Jaimihr Khan took from his
girdle a thin roll of blue prints—the
plans of the signal tower and Room D
which Almer had given Woodhouse the
night before. He held them gingerly
between slender thumb and forefinger

\‘K'oodhouse recoiled.

“The general sahib has sent me to
search the cap-tain’s room,” the even
voice of Jaimihr Khan ran on. “Be-
hold the results of my journey!”

Woodhouse sent a lightning glance
at the door leading to the governor’s
room, then stepped lightly away from
the Indian and regarded him with hard
calculating eyes.

“What do you propose to do—with
those plans?”

“What should I do?” The white
shoulders of the Indian went up in a'
shrug. “They will stand you before a
wall, Cap-tain Woodhouse. And fire.
It is the price of in-discretion at a:
time like this.”

VVoodhouse’s right hand whipped
back to his holster, which hung from
his sword belt, and came forward again
with a thick, short- barreled weapon
in it ~
‘ “GiVe me those plans, . you yel
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A new w00d, apparently little known,
and called balsa wood, is exceedingly
light and promises to have an extend-
ed field of usefulness in connection
with cold storage structures when heat
insulation is important. It is a tropical
Wood growing principally in the states

 

The wood is remarkable, first, as to
its lightness second, as to its micro-
scopical structure third, for its ab-
sence of "woody fiber, fourth, for its
elasticity and fifth, for its heat-insulat-
ing qualities. So far as investigation
has disclosed, it is the lightest com- l
mercial wood known. It has also con-l
siderabie structural strength which
makes it suitable for many cases. Inl
general appearance balsa wood resem-l
bles basswood. Until recently, Missouri
cork wood, weighing eighteen pounds
per cubic foot, was believed to be the
lightest, but recent investigations in-
dicate that balsa wood is much lighter,
having a net weight of. 7.3 pounds per
cubic foot. The ordinary commercial
balsa wood is seldom perfectly dry,
and, because of the moisture content,
its weight has been found to be be.-
tween eight and thirteen pounds per
cubic foot.

The extreme lightness of this wood
suggests its application as a buoyancy
material in life— preservers and life-
boats. When, however, it was attempt—
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was found to be of little value, because
it absorbed water in great quantities
and also because it soon rotted and
also warped and checked when work-
ed. After testing nearly every method
that had been suggested Colonel Marr’s
method of treating woods which had
been recently patented was finally suc-
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treated in a bath, of which the princi-
pal ingredient is paraffin, by a process
which coats the interior cells without
clogging up the porous system. The
paraffin remains as a coating or var-
nish over the interior cell walls, pre-
venting the absorption of moisture and
the ill-effects as to change of volume
and decay which would otherwise take
place; it also prevents the bad effects
of dry rot‘ which follow the application
of any surface treatment for preserv-
ing wood of the same type. The Marr
process tends to drive out all water
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Punctuality is important, because it
subserves the peace and good temper
of a family; the want of it not only in-
fringes on necessary duty, but some-
times excludes this duty. Punctuality
is important as it gains time; a good
packer will get in half as much more
as a bad one. The calmness of mind
which it produces is another advantage

ways in a hurry, he has no time to
speak With you, because he is going
elsewhere; and when he gets there,
he is too late for his business, or he
must hurry away to another before he
can finish it. It was a wise maxim of
the Duke of Newcastle: “I do one
thing at a time.” Punctuality gives
weight to character. “Such a man has
made an appointment; then I know he
will keep it.” And this generates punc-
tuality in you; for, like other virtues.
it propagates itself. Servants and chil-
leader is so. ‘ Appointments, indeed,
if I have made an appointment with
you, and have no right to throw away
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“Shoot!” Jaimihr Khan smiled.
“Add one in-discretion to another.
“Shoot, my youthful fool!”

The door to General Crandall’s room
opened, and the general, in uniform
evening dress, stepped into the library.
Woodhouse swiftly slipped his revolver
behind his back, though, keeping it
ready for instant use.

“All ready, Captain. Smoke.” The
general extended his cigarette case to-
ward Woodhouse.

The latter smilingly declined,‘his
eyes all the while on the Indian, who
stood by the corner of the general’s
desk. Between the sleek brown hands
a. tiny blue roll of paper was twisting
into a narrower‘wisp under the care-
less manipulation of thin fingers.

“Well, Jaimihr,” Crandall briskly ad-
dressed the servant,
pleted the errand I sent you on?"

“Yes, General Sahib.” he brown
fingers still caressed the plans of the
signal tower.

“Have you anything to report?” The
general had his cigarette in his mouth
and was pawing his desk for a match.
Jaimihr Khan slowly lifted the tip of
the paper wisp in his fingers to the
flame of a candle on the end of: the
desk, then held the burning tip to his
master’s cigarette.

“Nothing, General Sahib.”

“Very good. Come, VVoodhouse; sor-
ry to have kept you waiting.” The
general started for the double doors.
Woodhouse followed. He passed very
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CHAPTER XVI.
The Pendulum of Fate.

HE next day, Thursday, was one

I of hectic excitement for Gibral~
tar. Focus of the concentrated
attention of town and Rock was the
battle fleet, clogging all the inner har-
bor with its great gray hulks. Super-
dreadnaughts, like the standing walls
of a submerged Atlantis, lay close to
the quays, barges lashed alongside the
folded booms of their torpedo nets.
Behind them, battle cruisers and scouts
formed a protecting cordon. Far out
across the entrance to the harbor, the
darting black shapes of destroyers on
constant guard were shuttles trailing
their threads of smoke through the
blue web of sea and sky. Between
fleet and shore snorting cockleshells
of launches established lanes of com-
munication; khaki of the Rock’s de—
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met, passed, and repassed. In ward-
room and lounge glasses were touched
in pledges to the united service. The
high commander of the Mediterranean
fleet paid his official visit to the gov-
ernor of Gibraltar, and the gOVernor,
in turn, was received with honors upon
the quarterdeck of the flagship. But
under the superficial courtesies of fan-
fare and present arms the stern busi-
ness of coaling fleet progressed at high
tension. It was necessary that all of
the fighting machines have their bunk-
ers filled by noon of the following day.
Every minute that the Channel up un-
der the murky North Sea fogs lay with-
out full strength of her fleet protection
was added danger for England.

That morning, Captain VJoodhouse
went on duty in‘the signal tower. Ma-
jor Bishop, his superior, had summon-
ed him to his office immediately after
breakfast and assigned him to his
tasks there. Sufficient proof, Wood-
house assured himself, with elation,
that he had come through the fire in
General Crandall’s library, tested and
found genuine. Through this pretext
and that, he had been kept off duty the
day before, denied access to the slen-
der stone tower high up on the Rock’s
crest .which was the motor center of

“have you. com-'

The smelled/ice in which woodhouse " '
. was installed was situated at the very

top of the tower—a room glassed on
four sides like the lantern room of a
lighthouse, and provided with tele-
scope, a telephone switchboard, range
finders, and all the complicated ma-
chinery of gunfire control. On one side
were trestle boards supporting charts
of the ranges—figured areas represent-
ing every square yard of water from
the nearest harbor below out to the
farthest reaching distance'of the mon-
ster disappearing guns. A second
graphic sheet showed the harbor and
anchorages and the entrance to the
straits; this map was thickly spotted
with little, red, numbered dots—the
mines. Sown like a turnip field with
these deadly capsules of destruction
Were all the waters thereabouts; their
delicate tendrils led under water and
through conduits in the Rock' up to
this slender spire called the signal tow-
er. As he climbed the winding stair~
way to his newly assigned post, Wood-
house had seen painted on a small
wooden door just below the room he
was to occupy the single white let-
ter "‘D.”

Room D—where the switches were,
where a single sweep of the hand
could loose all the hidden death out
thexe in the eiowded harbor—it lay
directly below his feet.

Captain Woodhouse’ s duties were
not arduous. He had as single com-
panion a sergeant of the signal ser-
vice, whose post was at the window
overlooking the harbor. The sergeant
read the semaphore message frOm the
slender signal arm on the flagship’s
bridge—directions for the coal barges’
movements, businesslike orders to be
transmitted to the quartermaster in
charge of the naval stores ashore, and
such humdrum of routine. These
Woodhouse recorded and forwarded to
their various destinations over the tel-
ephone.

He had much time for thought—and
much to think about. ,

Yesterday’s scene in the library of
Government House——his grilling by the
suspicious men, when a. false answer
on his part would have been the first
step toward a firing squad. Yes, and
what 'had followed between himself
and the little American—the girl who
had protected and aided him—ah, the
pain of that trial was hardly less poig-
nant than had been the terror of the
one preceding it. She had asked him
to prove to her that he was not what
she thought him. Before another day
was past she would be out of his life
and would depart, believing—yes, con-
vinced—that the task he had set him-
self to do was a dishonorable one. She
could not know that the soldiers of the
Hidden Army have claim to heroism
no less than they who join battle un-
der the sun. But he was to see Jane
Gerson once more; Woodhouse caught
at this circumstance as something pre-
cious. Tonight at Government House
Lady Crandall’s dinner to the refugee
Americans on the eve of their depar—
ture would offer a last opportunity.
How could he turn it to the desire of
his heart? '

One more moment of a crowded yes-
terday gave W'oodhouse a crust for
rumination—the unmasking of Jaimihr
Khan, the Indian, had elected for him-

» F!
in his power to betray the stranger in

the garrison. The captain reviewed the,
incident with great satisfaction—howl

of a sudden the wily Indian had chang-
ed frofn an enemy holding a man’s life
in his hand to that “friend in Govern-
ment House,” of whose existence the
cautious Almer had hinted but whose
identity he had kept concealed. Almer
had said that this “friend” could lay
his hand on the combination tovRoom
D in the signal tower when the proper
moment arrived. Now that he knew
Jaimihr Khan in his true stripe, Wood-
houSe made no doubt of his ability to
fulfill Almer’s prophecy.

And the proper moment would be
this night! Tonight, on the eve of the
great fleet’s Sailing, what Woodhouse
had come to Gibraltar to do must be
accomplished or not at all.

The man’s nerves were taut, and he
rose to step to the bayward window.
there to look down on the embattled
splendor of England’s defense. Steel
forts ranged all in rows, awaiting but
the opportunity to loose their light
nings of obliteration against the ships
of an enemy. Cardboard ships! Shad-
ows of dreams! In Room D, just below
his feet, a hand on the switches—a.
downward push, and then——

Lady Crandall’s dinner in Govern-
ment House was in full tide of hilarity.
Under the heavy grained ceiling the
spread table with its napery and silver
was the one spot of light in the long
shadowed dining-room. Round it sat.
the réfugees—folks who had eaten
black bread and sausage and called
that a meal; who had dodged and
twisted under the careless scourge of
.a war beyond their understanding and
sympathies, ridden in springless carts,
been bullied and hectored by military
martinets and beggared by panicky
banks. Now, with the first glimpse of
freedom already in sight and under the.
warming influence of an American.
hostess’ real‘American meal, they were
swept off their feet by high spirits al-
most childlike. Henry J. Sherman,
Kewanee’s vagrant son returning from
painful pilgrimage, sat at the right of
Lady Crandall; his pink face was glow-
ing with humor. To Consul Reynolds,
who swore he would have to pay for
thus neglecting his consulate for so
much as two hours, had fallen the hon—
or of escorting Mrs. Sherman to table.
Willy Kimball, polished as to shirt
bosom and sleek hair, had eyes and
ears for none but the blithe Kitty.
Next to General Crandall sat Jane Ger-
son, radiant in a. dinner gown of tricky
gauze overlaid on silk. At her right
was Captain Woodhouse, in proper uni‘
form dinner coat faced with red and.
gold. Of the whole company, VVood-
house alone appeared constrained. The
girl by his side had been cool in her
greeting that evening; to his conver~
sational sallies she had answered with
indifference, and now at table she di—
vided her favors between General
Crandall and the perky little consul
across the table. It seemed to Wood—
house that she purposely added a lash
of cruelty to her joy at the approach-
ing departure on the morrow.

“Oh, you must all listen to this!”
Kitty Sherman commanded the atten-
tion of the table, with a clapping of
hands. “Go ahead, Vl'ill; he had the

 

 
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
   
   
  
  
    
  
 

  
 
 

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' “Young Kimball looked conscious
and began to stammer.

“You’re getting us all excited, Wil-
ly,” Henry J. boomed from the oppo-
site side of the table. “What hap-
pened?”

“Why—ah———really quite ridiculous,
you know. Hardly a matter to—ah—
talk about.” Willy fumbled the rose
in the lapel of his jacket and searched
for words. “You see, this morning I
was thinking very hard about what I
would do when I got back to Kewanee
—oh, quite enthusiastic I am about the
little town, now—and I~—well, I mean
to say, I got into my bath with my
wrist watch on.”

Shouts of laughter added to the

youth’s confusion. Sherman leanedl

far across the table and advised him
in a hoarse whisper:

‘.‘Buy a dollar Ingersoll, Willy. It'.

floats!”

“Well, you might give him, one of
yours, father,” Kitty put in, in quick
defense. “Anybody who’d carry two
watches around—”

“Two watches ?” Lady Crandall was;

interested.

Henry J. beamed expansively, pulled
away his napkin, and proudly lifted
'from each waistcoat pocket a ponder-
ous watch, linked by the thick chain
passing through a buttonhole.

“This one”—he raised the right—
hand time-piece——“tells the time of the
place I happen to be in——changed it so
often I guess the works’ll never be the
same again. But this one is my pet.
Here’s Kewanee time—not touched
since we pulled out of the C., B. & Q.
station on the twentieth of last May.”
He turned the face around for the oth-
ers to read. “Just three in the after-
noon now. Old Ed Porter’s got the
Daily Enterprise out on the street, and
he’s tilted back in his office chair,
readin’ the Chicago Tribune that’s just
got in on the two-five train. The boys
at the bank are goin’ out to the coun-
try club for golf—~y0ung Pete Andrews
wearin’ the knickerbockers his wife cut
down from his old overcoat; sort of a
horse blanket pattern, you might say.
The town’s just dozin’ in the afternoon
sun and—and not givin’ a hang wheth-
er Henry J. Sherman and family gets
back or not.” '

“You’re an old dear!” Lady Crandall
bubbled. “Some day Kewanee will
erect a statue to you.”

The talk turned to art, and the man
from Kewanee even had the stolid
general wiping the tears from his eyes
by his description and criticism of
some of the masters his Wife had trot-
ted him around to adrriire.

“Willy, you’ll be interested to know
we got a painter in Kewanee now,”
Henry J. cried. “ ’Member young Frank
Coales—old Henry Coales' son? Well,
he turned out to be an artist. Too bad,
too; his folks was fine people. But
Frank was awfully headstrong about
art. Painted a war picture about as
big as, that wall there. Couldn’t find a
buyer right away, so he turned it over
to Tim Burns, who keeps the saloon
on Main Street. Been busy ever since,

sorta taking it out intrade, you might '

say.”

Table talk was running at a gay rate
when Mrs. Sherman, who had sent fre-
quent searching glances at Captain
Woodhouse over the nodding buds of
the flower piece in the center cf the
board, suddenly. broke out:

“Ah, Captain Woodhouse, now I re-
member where I’Ve seen you before! I
thought your face was familiar the
minute I set my eyes on you this
evening.”

Jaimihr Khan, who stood behind the
general’s chair, arms folded and mo-
tionless, swiftly lifted one hand to his
lips, but immediately mastered him-
self again. General Crandall looked up
with a sharp crinkle of interest be-
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Muskwa bolted down the mountain
as fast as his short legs could carry
him. In another second Bruce was af-
ter him, and Langdon joined in ten
feet behind.

Suddenly Muskwa made a sharp turn
and the momentum with which Bruce
was coming carried him thirty or forty
feet below him, where the lanky moun-
taineer stopped himself only by doub-
ling up like a jack-knife and digging
toes, hands, elbows, and even his
shoulders in the soft shale.

Langdon had switched, and was hot
after Muskwa. He flung himself face
downward, shirt outspread, just as the
cub made another turn, and when he
rose to his feet his fape was scratched
and he spat out a. handful of dirt and
shale out of his mouth.

Unfortunately for Muskwa his sec-
ond turn brought him straight down to
Bruce, and before he could turn again
he was enveloped in sudden darkness
and suffocation, and over him there
rang out a fiendish and triumphant
yell.

“I got ’im,” shouted Bruce.

Inside the shirt Muskwa scratched
and bit and snarled, and Bruce was
having his hands full when Langdon
ran down with the second shirt. Very
shortly Muskwa was trussed up like a.
papoose. His legs and his body were
swathed so tightly that he could not
move them. His head was not covered.
It was the only part of him that he
could move, and it looked so round and
frightened and funny that for a minute
or two Langdon and Bruce forgot their
disappointments and losses of the day
and laughed.

Then Langdon sat down on one side
of Muskwa, and Bruce on the other,
and they filled and lighted their pipes.
Muskwa could not even kick an ob-
jection. .

“A couple of husky hunters we are,”
said Langdon then. “Come out for a.
grizzly and end up with that!”

He looked at the cub. Muskwa was
eying him so earnestly that Langdon
sat in mute wonder for a moment, and
then slowly took his pipe from his
mouth and stretched out a hand.

“Cubby, cubby, nice cubby,” he ca-
joled softly.

Muskwa’s tiny ears were perked for-
ward. His bright eyes were like glass.
Bruce, unobserved by Langdon, was
grinning expectantly.

“Cubby won’t bite—no-——no—-nice lit-
tle cubby—we won’t hurt cubby—"

The next instant a wild yell startled
the mountain-tops as Muskwa’s needle
like teeth sank into one of Langdon’s
fingers. Bruce’s howls of joy Would
have frightened game a mile away.

”You little devil!” gasped Langdon,
and then, as he sucked his wounded
finger, he laughed with Bruce. “He’s
a sport—«a dead game sport,” he added.
“We’ll call him Spitfire, Bruce. By
George, I’ve wanted a cub like that
ever since I first came into the moun-
tains. I’m going to take him home
with me! Ain’t he a. funny looking lit-
tle cuss ‘3” “

Muskwa shifted his head, the only
part of him that was not as stiffly im-
movable as a mummy, and scrutinized
Bruce. Langdon rose to his feet and
looked back to the sky-line. His face
was set and hard.

“Four dogs!” he said, as if speaking
to himself. “Three down below—and
one up there!” He was silent‘for a
moment, and then said: “I can't un-
derstand it, Bruce. They’ve cornered
fifty bears for us, and until today we’ve
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the cub as he would have conveyed a.
pail of water or a slab of bacon. He
stood up, and Muskwa dangled at the
end of his string.

“We’ve run up against a killer,” he
said. “An’ a meat—killin’ grizzly is the
worst animal on the face of the earth
when it comes to a fight or a hunt. The
dogs’ll never hold ’im, Jimmy, an’ if
it don’t get dark pretty soon there
won’t be none of the bunch come back.
They’ll quite at dark—if there’s any
left. The old fellow’s got our wind,
an’ you can bet he knows what knock-
ed him down up there on the snow.
He’s hikin’—an’ hikin’ fast. When we
see ’im ag’in it’ll be twenty miles from
here.”

Langdon went up for the guns.
When he returned Bruce led the way
down the mountain, carrying Muskwa
by the buCkskin thong. For a few mo:
ments they paused on the blood—stain-
ed ledge of rock where Thor had
wreaked his vengeance upon his tor-
mentors.‘ Langdon bent over the dog
the grizzly had decapitated.

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ard of the bunch. The other two are
Jane and Tober; old Fritz is up on the
summit. Three of the best dogs we
had, Bruce!"

Bruce was looking over the ledge.
He pointed downward.

“There’s another—pitched clean off
the face 0’ the mount’in!” he gasped.
“Jimmy, that’s five!”

Langdon’s fists were clenched tightly
as he stared over the edge of the
precipice. A choking sound came from
his throat. Bruce understood its mean-
ing. From where they stood they
could see a black patch on the upturn-
ed breast of the dog a hundred feet un-
der them. Only one of the pack was
marked like that. It was Langdon’s
favorite. He had made her a camp pet.

“It’s Dixie,” he said. For the first
time he felt a surge of anger sweep
through him, and his face was white as
he turned back to the trail. “I’ve got
more than one reason for getting that
grizzly now, Bruce,” he added. “Wild
horses cein’t tear me away from these
mountains until I kill him. I’ll stick
until winter if I have to. I swear I’m
going to kill him—if he doesn’t run
away I: ,, . U...

“He won’t do that,” said Bruce terse-
ly, as he once more swung down the
trail with MuskWa.

   

Until now Muskwa. had been stnnned:

 

1y as Rameses had ever been. But
now, however, it slowly dawned upon
him that as he dang‘led back and forth
his face frequently brushed his en-
emy’s leg, and he still had the use of
his teeth. He watched his opportunity,
and this came when Bruce took a long
step down from a. rock, thus allowing
Muskwa’s body to rest for the fraction
of a second on the surface of the stone
from which he was descending.

Quicker than a. wink Muskwa took
a bite. It was a good deep bite, and if
Langdon’s howl had stirred the silences
a mile away the yell which now came
from Bruce beat him by at least a half.
It was the wildest, most blood-curdling
sound Muskwa had ever heard, even
more terrible than the barking of the
dogs, and it frightened him so that he
released his hold at once.

Then, again, he was amazed. These
queer bipeds made no effort to retal-
late. The one he had bitten hopped
up and down on one foot in a most un-
accountable manner for a minute or so,
while the other sat down on a boulder
and rocked back and forth, with his
hands on his stomach, and made a.
queer, uproarious noise with his mouth
wide open. Then the other stopped
his hopping and also made that queer
noise.

It was anything but laughter to
Muskwa. But it impinged upon him
the truth of one of two things; either
these grotesque looking monsters did
not dare to fight him, or they were
very peaceful and had no intention of
harming him. But they were more
cautious thereafter, and as soon as
they reached the valley they carried
him between them, strung on a rifle-
barrel.

It was almost dark when they ap-
proached a clump of balsams red with
the glow of a fire. It was Muskwa’s
first fire. Also he saw his first horses,
terriffic looking monsters even larger
than Thor.

A third man—Metoosin, the Indian
—came out to meet the hunters, and
into this creature’s hands Muskwa
found himself transferred. He was
laid on his side with the glare of the
fire in his eyes, and while one of his
captors held him by both ears, and so
tightly that it hurt, another fastened
a bobble-strap around his neck for a.
collar. A heavy halter rope was then
tied to the ring on this stray, and the
end of the rope was fastened to a tree.

During these operations Muskwa.

' snarled and snapped as much as be
In another half—minute he was ‘

could.
free of the shirts, and as he staggered
on four wobbly legs, from which all
power of flight had temporarily gone,
he bared his tiny fangs and snarled as
fiercely as he could. .

To his further amazement this had
no effect upon his strange company at
all, except that the three of them—-
even the Indian—opened their mouths
and joined in that loud and incompre-
hensible din, to which one of them
had given voice when he sank his teeth
into his captor’s leg on the mountain-
side. It was all tremendously puzzling
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CHAPTER XV.

REATLY to Muskwa’s reliefthe
three men soon turned away
from him and began to busy

themselves about the fire. This gave
him a chance to escape, and he pulled
and tugged at the end of the rope until
be nearly choked himself to death.
Finally hegave, up in despair, and
crumpling himself up~against the foot
of the balsam he began .to watch the
camp.

He was not more than thirty feet
from the fire. Bruce was washing his

hands in a canvas basin, Langdon was .

  

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had ever come Muskwa’s way. The
air all about him was heavy with the
aroma of good things.

When Langdon had finished drying
his face he opened a can of something.
It was sweetened condensed milk. He
poured the white fluid into a basin,
and came with it toward Muskwa. The
cub had unsuccessfully attempted
flight on the ground until his neck
was sore; now he climbed the tree. He
went up so quickly that Langdon was
astonished, and he snarled and spat at
the man as the basin of milk was plac-
ed where he would almost fall into it
when he came down.

Muskwa remained at the end of his
rope up the tree, and for a long time
the hunters paid no more attention to
him. He could see them eating and he
could hear them talking as they plan-
ned a new campaign against Thor.

“We‘ve got to trick him after what
happened today,” declared Bruce. “No
more tracking ’im after this, Jimmy.
We can track until doomsday an’ he’ll
always know where we are.” He paus-
ed for a moment and listened. “Funny
the dogs don’t come.” he said. “I
wonder—~”

He looked at Langdon.

“Impossible!” exclaimed the latter,
as he read the significance of his com-
panion’s look. “Bruce, you don’t mean
10 say that bear might kill them all!”

“I’ve hunted a good many grizzlies,”
replied the mountaineer quietly, “but
I ain’t never hunted a trickier one
than this. Jimmy, he trapped them
dogs on the ledge, and he tricked the
dog he killed up on the peak. He’s
liable to get ’em all into a corner, an’
it“ that happens—”

He shrugged his shoulders sugges-
tively.

gain Langdon listened.

“If there were any alive at dark they
should be here pretty soon,” he said.
I’m sorry, now—sorry we didn’t leave
the dogs at home.”

Bruce laughed a little grimly.

“Fortunes 0’ war, Jimmy,” he said.
“You don’t go hunting grizzlies with a
pack of lapdogs, an’ you’ve got to ex-
pect to lose some of them sooner or
later. VVe’ve tackled the wrong bear,
that’s all. He’s beat us.”

“Beat us ?”

“I mean he’s beat us in a square
game, an’ we dealt a raw hand at that
in using dogs at all. Do you want that
bear bad enough to go after him my
way?”

Langdon nodded.

“What’s your scheme?”

“You’ve got to drop pretty ideas
when you go grizzly hunting,” began
Bruce. “And especially when you run
up against a ‘killer.’ There won’t be
any hour between now an’ denning-up
time that this grizzly doesn’t get the
wind from all directions. How? He’ll
make detours. I’ll bet if there was
snow on the ground you’d find him
back-tracking two miles out of every
six, so he can get the wind of anything
that’s following him. An’ he'll travel
mostly nights, layin’ high up in the
rocks an’ shale during the day. If you
want any more shootin’, there’s just
two things to do, an’ the best of them
two things is to move on and find other
bears.”

“Which I won’t do, Bruce. What’s
your scheme for getting this one?”

Bruce was silent for several mo-
ments before he replied.

“We’ve got his range mapped out to
a mile,” he said then. “It begins up at
the first break we crossed, an’ it ends
down here where we came into this
valley. It’s about twenty-five miles up
an’ down. He don’t touch the moun—
t’ins west of this valley nor the moun-
t’ins eastiof the other valley, an’ he’s
dead certain to keep on makin’ circles
so long as we’re after him. He’s hik’

and about the pleasantest smell that

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The School

That Fits You for Earning
a Worthwhile Salary

Thirty four years have made
the Ferris Institute the poor boy’s
salvation. The scarcit of teach-
ers, chemists, clerica workers,
. bookkeepers, bankers, stenogra-
phers, typists, telegraphers, civ11
service candidates is appalling.
The World War has brought about
this condition. Who will answer
theIcall? Putting off until tomor-
row will not save the country.
American women must respond.
. Woman’s position in the world
has been revolutionized.

You can get ready at the Fer-
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Begins March 25. The First Sum-
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Boys’ and ‘Girls’
Club Notes

Conducted by E. C. Lindemann

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For the first time in the history of
Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work in Michi-
gan the regulation Four H Achieve-
ment Buttons are to be awarded to all
members of regularly organized clubs
who have completed all requirements
——that is, to all who have finished all
the work and filed their report and
story with the State Leader of Club
Work.

These pins are made of gold with a
background of white enamel on which
is inserted a green four~leaf clover.
The clover is emblematic of good luck
in agriculture and the four H’s, one in
each leaf, stand for the four types of
education furnished the boy and girl
through club work:

The Head—to think, plan and reason.
The Hands—to be useful, helpful and
skillful. -
The Heart—to be kind, true and
sympathetic.

The Health—to resist disease, to en-
joy life and to insure usefulness.

In the center of the clover leaf is a
golden lamp representing the lamp of
learning and at the stem of the clover
is the Open Book of Knowledge. Around
the outside border of the pin the
words State, Home, School Achieve—

pin rewards is on that typifies the
united effort of the Home, the School
and the State.

These pins will be awarded at the
regular Achievement Day in the well-
organized counties of the state, while
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save destruction of crops caused by
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to the club members directly from the
college. -

The cost of producing 456 pigs raised
by boys in pig clubs of the Ohio State
University last season varied from six-
and a half to more than twenty-nine
cents a pound. The rate of gain varied
from one-third pound a day to two and
a quarter pounds. The average daliy
gain was 1.47 pounds and the average
cost per pound of gain was 11.4 cents.
A careful study of the results in view
of the varied conditions under which
the pigs were raised has led the sum-
marizers of the records to conclude:

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my life.
and so we put in a big crop. We plant-
ed six acres of buckwheat, one acre of
potatoes, which did not grow, ten acres
of beans, which did not come up good,
and nine acres of oats.
of garden.

ment show that the achievement the .

2. Pigs of good quality and breeding

generally made cheaper gains and
made a better finished product than in-
ferior pigs. .

3. Some good pasture, either alfalfa,

clover, or bluegrass, proved efficient in
producing gains.

4. It paid to take extra care of» the

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RAISING A'GARDEN. .

Our boys and girls who are planning

a garden this year will like to read
some gardening experiences of G. Ar-
thur Lincoln, of Harbor Beach, Mich.

Last year-was the busiest year of
Our house burned in April

We put in lots

A quarter of an acre of Hubbard

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squash, was caught by early frost,
but we had ten barrels of’good ones
and two or three small ones for the
pigs. We had one-quarter of an acre
of early potatoes which kept us sup-
plied through the summer and winter.
We had all the sweet corn, beans, peas,
turnips, radishes and cabbage we could
eat, and almost enough of cucumbers,
onions and tomatoes.

My garden was made up of cucum-
bers, early cabbage, sweet corn (which
did not. grow well), carrots, beans and
tomatoes. I traded cabbages for pump-
kins with our neighbor, who did not
have any.‘ I sold some beans and cab-
bages but we ate most of them up as
there are eight persons in our family.
I learned to build a load of hay, drive
the horses on the hay fork and hay
take, and do some other things. I in-
tend to learn how to cultivate and bar-
row this year.

I almost forgot to say that we had
four acres of turnips which I helped
put in, thin, pull and top. We had
about one thousand bushels.

Just now I am studying the seed cat-
alogs and planning to put in as big a
war garden as a ten-year-old boy can
manage.

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desirability of always numbering
checks drawn on a commercial or

checking account. I [wish to empha-
size this just a little more for it really
is fundamental in keeping an exact
record of your banking business.

The writer, in his business car r
has received checks large and small
from every state in the Union, all the
way from Maine to California, and
from Lake Superior to the Gulf coast.
Many of these are not numbered. It
has always been a query to me just
how it was possible for the/people
who write their checks in this manner,
to know just what they are doing and
how they are able to "reconcile” their
bank accounts when their pass book is
returned to them and the monthly
statements come. .

I have an account with one bank,
that has been continuous for more than
thirty years. When living on my farm

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as I did for many years I was eight
miles from a bank. This meant that
my banking must be done by mail.
Just at first this may seem to you to be
an inconvenient way, and yet it is not
so difficult when one gets used to it.

When I first left the farm I was still
further from this bank. When I came
to Detroit I was half way across the
state from it, and yet I have never
closed the account. Why? Well, this
was my first bank and the only one
with which I established banking rela-
tions for many years. I am conse-
quently better known to that institu-
tion than any other on earth. I could
probably secure more accommodation
from them than from any other in the
world.

It is always best to stay by the bank
that knows you. You will'usually re-
ceive just as good treatment at any
bapk as you are entitled to, and some-
times better. By holding to one bank
you are better able to establish a busi-
ness confidence that is the mast valu-
able asset you will ever acquire.

Bankers are no more infalible than
other people. They are less likely to
make mistakes in banking than'are
you, for they are entirely familiar with
the work theyare doing, while you are
not so familiar perhaps with money
. changing; but remember that bank em-
ployes are only .just 'folks, made out of
the same kind of mud as the rest of us
are. They have all the annoyances
and fatigue and heartaches that any-
one else has and they do make mis-
takes. .

» ' Now, if you make a. record of every .

piece of paper or‘ amount and kind of

. ‘ money that you .send to _ your bank.

  

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just any error, be it on your part or the
bank’s, without much trouble. if you
do not do this, it will only be a matter
of a short time until you will be almost
sure the bank has made-an error——
when most likely they have not.

Of course, if you always take your
deposits to the bank, together with
your pass book, and attend to it that
the entry is properly made, this will
obviate the need of keeping tab to a
certain degree. But even then I think
it always wise to make a duplicate de-
posit ticket, listing exactly what your
deposits were and of what they con-
sisted, and filing this for your own rec-
ords. There may come a time when
you will be very glad you did so. 'Be
this as it may, always number your
checks and keep the stub.

In my last article I mentioned that
your check issued in payment of debt
might go through many channels be-
fore being returned to you, among the
rest that of coming to the city corres‘
pendent and going through the clearing
house. A friend had called my atten-
tion to the fact that this is not always
done which, of course, is a fact, but
there are so many ways that checks
are handled after leaving your hands,
that. to enumerate all of them would
require “pages” to tell and would not
be of great interest to you. The most
interesting and valuable part of the
whole banking business to the average
farm boy or girl, is the fact that they
have established a credit “depot” when
they have built a confidence account
With the local or any other banker.

Again, if the man who does business
on correct business principles is doing
business with you and received a neat—
ly written check with your name and
business or address printed in one cor-
ner and the number in the other, (and
your banker will furnish you with such
a check book if your account is suffi-
ciently valuable to warrant it, he will
at once have confidence in your busi-
ness ability. I think it very advisable
to have your name and business card
because it has a decidedly business—like
on your check, or your address, first,
appearance, and second, a more potent
reason, many of us have not yet learn-
ed to Sign our name so that the aver-
age person can read it. This is one
very important reason for the writer
using such a check. '

In eighteen years as secretary of the
American Hampshire Sheep Associa-
tion, the writer has always received
and given face credit for every check
that has been mailed him from every
quarter of the globe, and if memory
serves me correctly, only two have
been returned to us with that, disheart-
ening little check mark against the no-
tation, “insufficient funds,” and right
here and now, boys and girls, let me
say, don’t ever let this happen with
your account.

Never overdraw. Never write a
check for a larger amount than you
have in the bank. Your banker, if he
knows you well and favorably may,
probably will, pay it. But he breaks
the banking law when he does so, and
every time you do that you check a
demerit against your credit. Don’t do
it. Don’t say, “Oh, my banker knows
me and will pay it.” Probably he does
and will, but don’t ask him to become
a law breaker, as you do when you do
this. It is not fair to either he or you.
He is entitled to a fair balance from
you for doing your business for you.
You are entitled to contribute to good
business in keeping a creditable bank
balance.

AS WE SEE IT.

Save food or go on short rations.

It doesn’t matter who started this
war, Uncle Sam will finish it. ,

We must meet sacrifices .at the front
with sacrifices at home. ‘

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for accidents before they happen—not after. It’s wisdom to
equip all four tires of your car with

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dependability and uniform quality means
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able once more to lefer to the
Bible, I want to emphasize the
fact, recorded there for the first time,
I believe, that “a. man’s life consisteth
not in the abundance of things which
he possesseth.” Conversations with
two women recently have once more
impressed it upon me.

One is the most discontented woman
I know, with, apparently, everything
she wants in life. A husband, three
superbly healthy children, cook, gover-
ness, seamstress, chauffeur, two cars,
beautiful furniture, opportunity to
travel, leisure to do whatever she de-
sires. But she never seems to have
time to do anything'but complain.
“Life is just one thing after anoth-
er,” she sputtered. “You just get one
thing done and something else bobs up
-—-I did think I’d learn to knit this win-
ter, but with planning Betty’s clothes,
and getting son off to preparatory
school, and seeing that the nurse
doesn’t forget Babe’s nails and teeth,
and giving orders to the cook, my time
is completely filled. I’ve had six cooks,
too, since we’ve tried to Hooverize.
Servants simply won’t endure it to live

cheaply. If things keep on we’ll have
to close the house and go to a hotel. I
never could do my own cooking. I

don’t see why we had to go and mix
up in Europe anyway. Now every-
thing is upset and if you don’t ‘do your
bit’ someone talks, about you—”

Hooverizing Keeps

. Dear Deborah—Your article “Fight-
ing the Enemy at Home” was a good
one and really ought to encourage
some who cannot spend the time and
strength to work at the Red Cross
work. I want to tell of my experience.
I wanted to help in some way. My
father was in the War- of the Rebellion.
and my brother was in the Spanish-
American war, but we have no boys to
send now. I have a family of four to
do for, and also work six hours a day
six days a week in an office. So you
can readily see that, I have not very
much time to give. I tried the knitting,
I always loved to knit, but the heavy
yarn and needles that they use now
tired my hands so I could not run a.
type-writer fast at all, so I had to give
that up. I at last decided that the
only way that I could help besides giv-
ing to the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A.
and buying Liberty Bonds, was to save
in the kitchen. We have always been
great hands for bread, and even if we
had meat we wanted a crust of some
kind with it. I tried rye bread and my
family liked it very much, so since the
first of December I have baked only
two messes of wheat bread, and not
one has complained. We use Johnny
cake and rye biscuit for warm bread
and gems. I have also found that I
can make a pretty good substitute for
Graham by grinding oat flake through
the meat grinder and adding an equal
amount of white flour to it. So we
have our Graham bread just the same.
In the sweet stuffs we have made oat

meal cookies and molasses cookies,
making the latter out of the sweet mo-
flames and not using any sugar. 'We
have also found that we like corn sy-
rup on our cereals, oat meal, rice, etc.
By the way, rice is a. good substitute
to use with cheese instead of macaroni.

We have always got our butter from
our daughter who lives on our farm.

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Life Is More Than Pessessions

(NOW that it has become fashion-

There was a lot more in the same
strain, all complaints at her own hard-
ships, but never a thought for the
mother who has given her boy and, is
now taking in washing to earn her
living.

The other woman with whom I talk-
ed, took the bad taste away . If anyone
has a legitimate cause to complain
she has, for shells that most pitiable
creature, the Old maid aunt whom no
one wants unless they are in trouble
and need a cook or nurse.

Just now she is with a cousin whose
five children came down with measles
at Christmas and followed it up with
chicken-pox and whooping cough. The
only ray of sunshine is the old maid
cousin, who knows by experience that
her cousin will begin to hint for her to
move on as soon as the children are
well.

“Life is so interesting,” she puts it.
“Just 110w I’m here, and who knows
where I’ll be in a month? It gives me
something to look forward to, and such
a fine chance to adapt myself to con-
ditions. After all, life is just a series
of altering yourself to suit situations,
isn’t it? And that’s what makes char-
acter.”

And so I say, life does not consist of
an abundance of possessions, but of a
variety of experiences. And only those
who accept the experiences as a means
of growth have learned the secret of
living. DEBORAH.

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This F 3111in Well

of ways to use the substitutes and help
in our little bit. When we think what
the people are living on over there we
ought to be thankful that we can have
the substitutes to use.

We have never been as well a winter
in our lives as we have been this win-
ter. We generally all of us have colds
and bilious spells, etc, but nothing of
the kind this year. My husband said
the other day thathe thought it was
marvelous the way we had got through
the winter so far and not been sick at
all. And we have had the usual coal
trouble, too, part of the time running
a furnace and heating three rooms and
part of the time running a stove and
living in one room. But one can stand
lots of inconveniences, etc, if they
only meet them with the right spirit.
And I believe that is one good thing
which will come out of this war, the
good feeling, the interest for each oth-
er, and the forgetting of ourselves.—
Mrs. G. E. Y.

 

DO NOT SAVE ON MILK.

 

A quart of whole milk gives as much
nourishment as one pound of lean
meat. Being a liquid, milk is some-
times classed with water, tea. and cof—
fee, simply as a beverage. This is a.
great mistake. If all the water were
to be driven off from a quart of tea or
coffee, almost nothing would be left,
and the little that remained .would
have little or no value as food. If, on
the other hand, the water were driven
off from a quart of whole milk, there
would be left about hair a cupful of the
very best substances, including butter-
fat, a kind of sugar net so sweet as
granulated sugar, and known as milk
sugar, and also materials which are
needed to make muscles, bone, teeth
and other parts of the body. All these

valuable substances are ordinarii sigh; .. i , I‘

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BY JULIA B. DAVIS.

There are few games more exciting
or enjoyable to the little folks than
hunting for theprettily colored eggs,
hidden in various nooks and corners
out of doors at Easter-tide for the chil-
dren to find. However scarce or high-
priced eggs may be, most mothers lay
aside some for this time-honored cus-
tom.

Harmless vegetable dyes for Easter
eggs may be bought, but in these days
11 hen we are u1ged to conserve in the
smallest outlay it is well to use the
many colors that may be produced at
home without'expense. For example,
eggs may be dyed a rich brown by
boiling them in water with onion skins.
If before they are put in onion water
they are sewed in small bags with ivy
or parsley leaves, their shells will be
variously tinted. A few violets in the
bag 5 will color the eggs b1own and
lilac. If the eggs are wrapped in col;
cred silks, or even in bright colored
paper or calico print, variegated pat-
terns will appear upon the shells. The
eggs should be placed in lukewarm
water, which is gradually brought to
the boiling point. After boiling some
time the water should be allowed to
cool before the eggs are removed.
They may be colored a. bright green by
being boiled in water with spinach or
fresh grass. Logwood colors them a
violet; a little vinegar added to the wa-
ter changes the color to delicate lilac;
cochineal colors any shade of red from
pink to scarlet, according to the
amount added to the water, and indigo
dyes them deep blue.

Colored eggs may be ornamented by
drawing patterns on the shells with tal-
lo11' before boiling. As the dye will not
affect the parts covered with grease
the designs/ will appear in white upon
a colored background. I

Egg shells may be engrave ed by
thawing the design with melted wax,
or varnish, and then dipping the shells
in strong vinegar. The vinegar eats
away the shell, and leaves the pattern
in relief. If the rest of the shell is to
be colored, the wax, or varnish, should
be left on during the dyeing and re-
moved later by scraping or with the
aid of alcohol. '

Appropriate Easter mottoes or coup-
lets written on the egg shells add to
the surprise and delight of the egg-
hunter. These may be written with a
quill pen dipped in a weak solution of
muriatic acid.

 

CONTRIBUTED RECIPES.

Household Editor.-——I have some eco-
nomical recipes which are tried, de-
licious and also cheap, so I am sending
them to you to publish, to help house-
wives in food conservation and to less-
en the high cost of living. These reci-
pes I made myself and have tried
them. They should be used with scant
shortening, especially the bran.
Bran Muffins—Three tablespoons of
sugar, one cup of buttermilk, one-quar-
ter teaspoon of soda, one-quarter tea-
spoon of salt, one teaspoon of baking
powder one heaping teaspoon of com-
pound bran to make stiff batter, one-
quarter cup of flour.
Bran Porridge—Take the amount of
bran you need for breakfast, pinch of
salt, and boiling water to cover. Cook
for fifteen minutes. You will have a
delicious breakfast porridge, served
with sugar and milk.
Bran Cookies—One and one-half
cups of sugar, half cup of cream, or
two tablespoons of compound, one cup
of buttermilk or sour milk, one and a
half teaspoons of soda, one quart of
bran, one cup of flour, one teaspoon of.
baking powder, one pinch of 'salt.
V ”Graham Brown Bread.—One-fourth

cup of sugar, half cup of molasses, half
' tablespoon of compound, one and one-
‘ cups of buttennflk, on'e- fourth tea-

   

powder, mixed in enough graham flouri

to make a stiff batter.
spoon—Reader.

I have noticed several recipes for
molasses fried cakes, but all take both
sugar and eggs, so am sending one I”
have used for many years and find it
very nice. Also cake and cookies
which call for very little sugar, all of
which may be omitted if found more
convenient to do so.

Molasses Fried Cakes—One cup of
cooking molasses, one cup of sour
milk, one tablespoon of melted short-
ening, half teaspoon each of salt and
cinnamon, two teaspoons of soda. Mix
about as for cookies and fry as any
fried cakes. Roll in sugar if you like.

Molasses Cookies—Two cups of mo-
lasses, half cup of sugar, one cup of
shortening, one egg, two teaspoons of
soda, seasoning.

Fort Atkinson Ginger Bread—One
cup of cooking molasses, one cup of
boiling water, two cups of flour, half
cup of shortening, one egg, one tea-
spoon of soda, one teaspoon of ginger,
two tablespoons of sugar. Put togeth-
er as follo1 '8 Stir sugar and short—
ening together, add flour antistir. Add
molasses and yolk of egg and beat to-
gether. Add boiling water and soda
and then the white of the egg, well
beaten. Have omitted sugar. You
may think batter pretty thin, but never
mind. Do not bake too fast, and it is
sure to be all right—~Mrs. J. C.

Drop from a

HOARDlNG FOOD.

Anyone buying and holding a larger
supply of food now than in peace time,
exept foods canned, dried or preserved
in the home, is helping to defeat the
Food Administration in its attempt to
secure a just distribution of food and
the establishment of fair prices.

The food hoarder is working against
the common good and even against the
very safety of the country.

Hoarding food in households is both
selfish and unnecessary. The govern-
ment is protecting the food supply of
its peop'ler—U. S. Food Administration
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HOME QUERIES.

Some time ago I found :1 recipe for
canning or putting up elderberries for
pie. I tried it and we had the finest el—
derberry pie we ever ate. I have lost
the recipe and forgotten how I pre-
pared the fruit. Could some housewife
inform me ?—Mrs. G. G. C.

Household Editor.-—I dislike very
much the taste, also the odor of soda
in tomato soup. Perhaps Mrs. O. R. E.
does, too. If she will ha1o both the
tomatoes and the milk boiling, when
the two are combined, the milk will
not curdle—Mrs. R. T.

Scotch Orange Marmalade.—-—To two
pints of ground oranges, (pulp, rind
and juice), add two pounds of honey,
and cook to a thick marmalade.

Corn Meal Dumplings—Greens, corn
meal dumplings, and jowl, food experts
will tell you is a perfect combination
of food values. The dumplings are
made as follows Pour a cup of boil-
ing water over two cups of corn meal
and one teaspoon of salt, add a little
more water if it swells too dry. Mold
into dumplings, while hot, dipping the
hands in cold water every minute to
prevent burning. Drop dumplings in the
liquor in which greens were cooked,
and cook fifteen minutes closely cover-
ed. Lift from pot with skimmer and
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rust out of linen. Soak the garment
in cold water and wring out lightly.
”Then squeeze lemon juice on the spot
and sprinkle with salt. Next put in a
double ,b‘oller and steam for twenty-
minutes, Take 011 the fire, rinse in

' JOHN S. WEIDMAN.

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farms and Farm Lands For Sale

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ZGOOD FARMERS

South Baldwin (‘ountv \l.ahan1a offers the best
opportunity for developing good farms from low
priced raw lands. with good 111arkets.plentiful rain
fell, climate uni-xv elled -a 1 isit here will c0111 incc
you this is the. place. you me looking fo1. Some
partially imprchd farms large or smalltructa for
either farming or stock raising. One especial bar-
gain in 1, 800 ones for stm k farm. Fruit . early
truck, poultry and stock are all revenue pro-
ducers here

W. A. STODDARD

Roberlsdale, Baldwin County, Ala
F O R S A L E

An eighty core form “1'. lo of the N. E110! sec. ‘24.
Sherman Townshigvlsabella county. Michigan. One-
half mile south of eidman, all cleared but the cores.
Good farm home, small ham. 5 ucresof By 6 on ground.
Price 82100. 00, 8500. 00 (low 11, balance long time, inter-
est
Also an eighth acre farm 8. X of the N. E. ,11 of 890.12,
Broomfleld 'l‘ownchi Isabella County, lilichigan.
About 40 acres clears. good orchard, no buildings to
3 out 011.com. Rye on ground. Pr1oe

th farms one-h f mile from first class schools.
Come to Mt. Pleasant and we will .toke you over to Ice

those lands and others
Mt. Pleasant. Mich

 

100 acres of the best hm land and buildings” in Huron
County, situated on tho stone road one ml] 0 South
and one mile West of Pigeon. Huron Count1,Michl on.
Tenant to furnish all ~11ka and implements. prorgmbe
let ofn 3 $316 yeaxirgontrcot. Tall: is a. at (111901-111th
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make it the most profitable farm section of America.
It is the place forthe lowest cost meat production“
dairy farming. It grows the largest. variety of f

. 1‘1va. Good lands. in good loc nlities, no

82:3 on core. Let. no 811011 yo 11 locationcthnt jlllglm
the Lhighest profits. DEVELOPMENT BEBéU GE,
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Farms Wanted

I! 1011 11 out to sell your farm. write us today We cu
11.1113. We 111116 hundreds of enquiries from all over
the country and 1 an be of'senico to 1011.
R088 LAND 00.,
Michigan‘ 11 Greatest Farm Axon
61 Fort St. W est, Opposite Postotfinco., Detroit.

A RARE BARGAIN

Mustlcell. Eighty Acre Farm- good buildin

soil.‘ 28 cores lll‘h’t class apple orchard. nice Vineyard.
fifty acres, 1]earod,bnlancc pasture, easily cleared.
nicely 101- Hated Immediate possession. Easy terms.
Fine c-hume for a nice home undo. money maker.
Address Grand Rapids Trust 00.. Liquidatin- Taunt-
1169.01 the A. E. Cartier Sons 00. .. Ludin‘ton, Mich.

IDEAL STOCK FARM

2-10 acres stock farm 4}-_’-n1ile1-1 south west of Glad-
win, 1ich.\\atered by flowing well and 3 ring
atrelm. F1119 ric h soil for grain and hay, Ibun anus

of pasture. If interested in securing one o
ropoaitions, write me at once for full dlsori tlon.
.R] YNOLI)S. lob. -

Farm F or Sale

160 acres of good farming land. Good location 6 mil
from town on good 1ond. Good 801] mostly.

do“ 11, (road house, burns old but lots of ham room,
30 acres timboi, 20 ac res posture land. near Idloo ,
Price Wfiver or re, must he sold to settle an estate. .A‘.
dress I" AVE E. BIDW ELL. Brighton. Mich

Farm of 10') cores 1?»: miles from Oncway. 111011.611
11111111 pike, lc1el, no waste, 100 under cultivation.
rest pasture and wood. Dark clay soil, woven wire fence,
good grain and stack farm, new 9 rm. house. furnace,
toilet. hath. Large barn. new granarx, machineshod:
CM 100 tons1loxount§ort hard near school. lTelop 116.
B. F D NISER nawny. oh.

We Have For Sale

A fine form of 530 acres, 2 miles from town.1mp¥ouo-
menta in 91 or) way up to date. Basementnbcrns? silos.
at one house, orchards and sugar-b ush.

McCLURl‘ STEVENS LAND 00.. Gladwln, Mlph.

FARMS WANTED;

Have prospective buyers u t050 act-cc. within; A
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By W. MI
HE question as to which breed
will prove the most profitable
from a. breeding standpoint in—
volves several important questions, be-
sides that of the relative efficiency in
the production of milk and its products.
Apart from the importance of adapta-
tion of type to local conditions there
is a great advantage in community
breeding. If the dairy farmers of an
entire community are interested in pro-
ducing pure-bred cattle and grades of
a single breed that is well adapted to
the conditions, 'the region becomes
known as a place where such cattle
can be purchased both for breeding
and commercial purposes. Hence all
of the surplus stock can be sold at
higher prices and with less expense
for advertising than if only a few of
the dairy farmers were breeding the
one breed. The demand for carload
lots of grade cows for eastern milk
dairies is sure to be an important fac-
tor in the years to come. Success in
breeding registered dairy cattle is
much easier when one is located in a
community where a number of progres-
sive dairy farmers are working with
one breed.

Few Good Females Desirable.

In buying foundation females for a
herd, individual records as well as ap-
proved blood lines should be given as
much attention as age or price. As a
rule, other factors being equal, it is
better to buy females of breeding age,
either with calves at foot, or safe in
calf to sires that are bred right to
nick well with them. When one gets
a good young cow with a credible milk
record he is getting something for his
money. One eliminates risk, deprecia-
tion and uncertainty; and makes a fair
start toward making the business pay.
Many a breeder has made a good be-
ginning from the purchase of a few old
cows. It is the old cows that many ex-
perienced breeders prize so highly. A
close study of the prominent dairy per-
formers, looking up the age of their
dams. would be enlightening as well as
nteresting to many breeders who think
it good management to sell their best
cows before they grow old in their
herds. To secure a few head of desir-
able females means a lot of hard study
and close investigation, but unless a
man will go about the problem intelli-
gently he had better keep his money
in the bank and devote his energies to
some other line of farming.

A Tried Sire is Preferable.

The greatest improvement in breed-
ing must come largely through the
bull. As a rule, the tried sire, one that
has served his time in some establish-
ed herd and is being sold to make
room for one of lesser age, is a safer
investment than a younger animal. By
studying the form and character of
some of his offspring, one can form an
accurate idea of his value as a sire,
and there is less risk to run than when
a perfectly untried sire is purchased.
When an old sire is selected, the be-
ginner will be assured 'of a certain de-
gree of success until he has got his
bearings and become sufficiently fa-
miliar with the type and character of
the animals of the breed with which
he is working to select'the sorts that
find favor among the most liberal buy-
ers. From any point of view, the use
of a tried sire is preferable. He will
prove an anchor in time of trouble.

An Old Breeder’s Care.

One of‘the country’s most famous
breeders owes his success to the use
of one exceptionally good aged bull.
He has been searching for several
years for another bull that will prove
equally valuable as afsire. It is the
well defined conviction of the owner
that he must secure a sire whose

 

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standard. This breeder, who won fame
and fortune through some of the heavy
milking daughters of his famous sire,
has more of a problem than merely re-
placing the bull that-has done so well
as a sire. He must find a bull whose
characteristics ' and traits nick well
with the females of the first great sire.
This makes the situation more perplex-
ing, but the owner is seeking diligent-
ly, studying good bulls and consulting
milk records and experimenting with
a number of young bulls in a moderate
way to find out what kind'of daughters
they will produce. No doubt before
the old sire shall have outlived his
days of usefulness a worthy young sire
will have been discovered. The real
value of a tried sire in rounding the
corners, so to speak, of a herd of cows
,from various breeders and placing the
new breeder in possession of a herd of
females that present much uniformity
of type and quality can hardly be
measured in dollars and cents. It is
only thus that a beginner may succeed
in developing his herd to a standard of
high excellence unless he should have
the singular good fortune to obtain a
young bull that proves to be one of the
really great sires of the breed.
The Test of Efficiency.

The breeder. must make a constant
study of the essential merits of breed
ing animals and familiarize himself
with the general type and minor char-
acteristics of his animals in order to
render them suitable for the persons
into whose ownership they ultimately
come to perform their service. The
cow that shows a profit at the end of
the year gives more real satisfaction

than a phenomenal producer who does?)

her work at a loss. The dairyman‘s'
ideal of perfection is sure to be the
cow that gives‘him the best returns,
consequently she must not only be a
large producer but an economical pro-
ducer. In judging pure-bred dairy cat-
tle for what they will produce, ances-
try must be weighed to an extent of at
least fifty per cent of the whole. To
the man who keeps a. sire or dam for
producing young, 3. knowledge of pedi-
gree is of as much importance as the
make-up of the animal itself. Estimat-
ing the value of pedigree will always
be a determining factor in breeding
pure-bred cattle, and the greatest suc-
cess will be achieved by those who
master and utilize this knowledge and
who do not lose sight of the pedigree’s
best proof, the make-up of the animal
itself.
How to Study Pedigrees.

The new breeder frequently places
too much importance to the pedigree,
and it blinds him to the necessity of
going behind it to study the merits of
the individual. Pedigrees merely trace
the line of ancestry. It is up to the
buyer to trace out the real merit of
the ancestry as best he can. With all
pedigrees there ought to be a record
of performanne. We now have What
is known as advanced registry that
gives the production records of the
registered animal. This advanced reg—
istry record is an important factor in
selecting a herd. Like the pedigree, it
can not guarantee that the animal will
inherit the power to produce as well
as its ancestry, yet it is a guarantee
that the animal stands a better chance
of being a profitable producer than the
one about whose ancestry nothing is,
known. The man who buys advanced
registry sfockis on safer ground than
one who takes chances otdiscovering
an equally good one. He may secure
a prize, but the chances. are vastly
greater that he will just buy an ordi-
nary producer, no better than thou-
sands of grade animals that could be
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The :cazrr born from» the Holstein-Frie-
sian cow that made a world’s récord
for one year’s milk production, was
sold at a nominal figure before the
record was made. As soon as the cow’s
owner realized what she was doing he
bought the calf back, and sold her at-
terwards for $8,000. Was this official
milk record of any value to the seller?
The Jersey cow that held the world’s
record for three consecutive years was
bought for less than $200 before it was
known what she could do. A few
months after it is claimed that $10,000
was refused for her. Was her record
of any real value? The famous Guern-
sey cow that established a record for
a cow of her age was at one time own-
ed by an eastern breeder, and it, is safe
to say that her calves never brought
what might be called high prices. Lat-
er, neither this cow nor her calf could
have been bought at any reasonable
price; an offer of $10,000 was refused
by her owner. These facts and figures
show that advanced registry records
have more or less value as a guide in
selecting dairy cattle.

When one begins to touch upon
show ring records he is sure to have a
come-back from many breeders of dairy
cattle. Fortunately for, the breeding
industry, there are many breeders who
believe that it is possible to combine
usefulness with beauty, and these men
are finding a ready sale for every ani-
mal they can produce. There is no
reason why breeders should sacrifice
beauty and uniformity to produce
heavy producing animals. Just as soon
as a breeder ignores breed standards
and pins his faith entirely on advanced
registry records, just so soon will he
invite failure, because of the two cows
having an equal capacity for produc-
tion, one being true to type and the
other coarse and rough, the prospec-
tive buyer will take the one which
pleases his eye. The ideal dairy cow
combines beauty with utility.

Careful selection of the sires and
damsinfluences the heredity tendency
to produce larger milk and butter
yields and good breeding stock. A lib-
eral system of feeding and suitable en-
vironment develops these inherited
tendencies. Heredity is a peculiar
force. We can use it to do some things,
we can head it off and prevent it doing
other things we do not want it to do,
and it frequently does things that no
one can account for. Much that appeals
to the eye or goes to make advanced
registry record is caused by what goes
into the mouth. Good breeders who
have made a success have been gener—
ous feeders. Feed is not all, for there
are many cows that can not return a
profit under any system of feeding. It
is the breeder’s duty to weed out all of
the unprofitable cows by the process
of elimination. Good breeding must
be reinforced by generous feeding to
bring out the best that is in animals.

A BREEDER’S PROBLEM.

There are many who do not be‘
lieve very strongly in a careful,
scientific breeding. There are many
scrub cows that are enormous produc-

ers, both in quality and quantity, of ‘

milk. Then there are many pure—brad
cows that are poor producers. A case
has come to our notice of a pure—bred
cow which produ'ced about twelve thou—
sand pounds of milk in a year, mated
with a sire whose dam produced ele-
ven thousand pounds in a year, and
the result was a daughter which was
capable of producing less than six
thousand poundsvof milk in a year. :t
is because of occurrences like this
that some dairy farmers look with
some suspicion on scientific breeding
of dairy cows.

.The principle of atavism, which is
breeding back to some primitive type,
is well shown in such cases. This
principle isjfrequently shown, not only

mthp breeding of cattle, but.in the

get-411..

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eases the sire and dam that bred back
should never again mate. It may be
that the fault was not exclusively in
either, but in the combination of blood.
The intelligent breeder will see to it
that such offspring is sent to the
shambles.

The experienced breeder can usually
see before the calf is two weeks old
whether it will be suited to dairy pur-
poses. The dairy animal will have a
thin neck. There is a peculiar soft-
ness in the skin of a good dairy animal
that all experienced animal breeders
will quickly notice.

It is a fact that a great deal depends
on the way calves are brought up. The
best heifer calf may easily be spoiled
by being fed fattening food, or by
semi-starvation before it is a year old.
Both of such procedures are injurious
'to the calf‘s digestion. If this is ruined
in calfhood, the cow will be a poor
eater, and therefore a. poor producer,
no matter what the sire and dam may
have been.

It would also seem to go without
saying that a great deal also depends
on the way the mature animal is fed.
Fine blooded animals require the best
of care and treatment, if they are to do
their best. If the owner is not able or
prepared to give his cows the required
treatment, or is too negligent to do so,
his fine-blooded cows are certain to
sink to a level with, if not below, that
of the scrub cows. And so it often oc-
curs that the best bred animals are
often branded as cheats, only because
their owner did not properly treat and

sustain them.
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SILO FOR TEN HEAD OF CATTLE.

I have an eighty-acre farm. I keep
ten head of cattle in the winter time,
five or six are cows, about fifteen ewes.
Would want, to feed cows a part of the
summer. Now, how big a silo do I
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A silo eight feet in diameter is bet-
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buy a sufficient number of cows to eat
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As commonly used the term “visible
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It is an approximate measure of sup-
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include the amount which has not yet
left the farms or the areas in which
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Poultry as a Source of Food Supply.

ByI. J. MATHEWS

AM not here to urge the keeping of
more poultry.” This sentence as-
tonished the hearers of Professor
Rice, of Cornell University, who is ad-

, mittedly the foremost poultrymen in

America. Professor Rice went on, how-
ever, to enunciate a law of economy
that will hold in the production of any
class of live stock in these critical
times.

Law of Economy.

In all this discussion, we shall as-
sume that if the individhal loses, the
nation loses. If the poultry kept and
fed do net make good use of their food,
some of it is wasted, the owner is im-
poverished and it would be much bet-
ter to feed it to the hogs.

Poultry can be made to pay if band-
led properly, but only the best should
be fed. Hens are now scarce and high
in price, and they bid fair to continue
high for a long time to come. Three
reasons can be stated for this state-
ment. . _

In the first place, the conditions
which have prevailed for the last year
or two where the fowls bring a good

 

 

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price and where the chicken feed is
high, the birds are sure to be sacri-
ficed. High-priced feed and high-priced
chickens will always decrease the sup-
ply of birds because people do not
know whether the feed will pay or not
and so they unload both the hens and
the feed.

Then again, the price of eggs for
hatching purposes last spring was so
high that a minimum of eggs were in-
cubated. The eggs that were never in-
cubated can not go to supply the de-
mands for market fowls. Last spring
a great many incubators were not
started and there was a great falling
off in the normal supply of chicks,
hence the hens that were on hand
commanded a still higher price, thus
widening the chasm between the pres-
ent and the usual supply.

Also, while the birds were command-
ing a top notch price, dumping was
practiced with the result that markets
were glutted, which in turn caused the
sacrifice of good birds. All these fac-
tors have operated to cause a decrease
in our poultry supply equal to thirty-
five per cent of the normal number.

Luring Times Ahead.

Unquestionably, the next few years
will be money-makers for the poultry-
man. In the first place, eggs will con-
tinue to be high because the price of
cereals will fluctuate with the abund-
ance of the crops, while this will in no
wise influence the number of fowls.
They will remain few in number of
necessity, thus limiting the number of
eggs that will be available.

Poultry meat will be in demand and
the scarcity of fowls will cause a wide
divergence between the price of meat
and the price of feed. These things,
Mtaken together with the fact that poul-

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factors influence egg production, name'-
ly, breeding, feeding and housing. 013
these breeding is, by all odds, the most
important. Some hens do not lay be-
cause they are not bred to lay. Others
may have the best of rations and all
the other supplies that enter into the
formation of the egg, and still they do
not lay. Then again, there are hens
that lay on the feed that but little
more than maintains other fowls. Lay-
ing is an inherent quality just as is
work in a family. You have noticed
families all of whose members were
workers. In the same way, some fam-
ilies become known for the ways in
which they evade work. Hen families
are the same as men families in this
respect. “We have two hens at Cor—
nell University that are the same age
and have had the same chance. One
hen has laid nearly a thousand eggs,
while the other has laid thirty—eight.”
With this statement, the professor
closed his remarks on the breeding
phase of the subject.

In taking up a discussion of proper
feeding for eggs, he called attention to

 

Must Depend on the Farm Flock.

the fact that of the total amount of
feed for a. laying hen, eighty-five per
cent of it is used for maintenance,
while the fifteen per cent above this is
what causes the hen to lay. He called
attention to the idea that some men
feed poultry the eighty-five per cent of
the food, but they do not lay; another
poultrymen feeds ninety per cent and
the best hens lay, and then again, the
poultryman who feeds the full one
hundred per cent of feed gets the max-
imum egg production, provided the
birds have been selected on an egg,-
laying basis.
How to Tell the Layers.

To quote Professor Rice, “Efficiency
is the watchword of the hour.”- The
efficient poultrymen must quit feeding
good feed to unprofitable fowls. He
must select the layers and discard
those that are liars. It is a shame for
poultrymen to keep unprofitable birds
around—there is no use of it, for now
we have learned how to tell with un-
erring accuracy the hen that is laying,
the hen that will soon lay and the hen
that refuses to lay. It is easy now to
tell the layer from the liar.

To tell a good layer, watch the molt-
ing. Late molters are always the lay-
ers. They are in such good physical
condition that they do not have to molt
early and they keep right on laying.
In the white birds that have yellow
shanks and beaks, the layer will have

'pale shanks and beak. The reason for

this is because the pigment from the
body is taken to make up the coloring
matter of the egg and as this is taken
out, the color fades from the legs and
beaks.
Indications of a Good Layer.

The Comb is another indication of a.

layer. The ‘hen that is laying has a.

   

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white breeds become White; not yelIow. . '
The body of the layer is an oval, her , 7 .,

feathers seem to be white and with all
the attributes named, together with
the great width between the pelvic
bones will enable anyone to distinguish
the layers.

By examining the abdomen of the:
hen, another sign of laying can be der
tected. For three weeks before laying,
the oviduct increases from five and six.
inches to one and a half feet in length.

The body is full and changing in shape. ‘

The Non-Layer.

The typical non-layer has yellow
shanks, yellow feathers, yellow beak.
a shriveled comb, molts early, has a.
narrow pelvis and a body that is up:
right.

In the yellow legged breeds, such as
Wyandotte, Rock and Red, whether or
not the hen has been laying can be
told by the pigment of the red ring
around the eye. If the hen has been
laying, the red color fades out and if
the ring is a rosy red, the hen is prob-1
ably a non-layer, especially if this at-
tribute is coupled with that of a shriv-
Leled comb.

The thing to do is to cull out board:
ers, and then feed the layers one huh--
dred per cent of feed so that they may
be able to produce eggs. The hen that
lays the least eggs adds insult to in--
jury by laying them when eggs are the
cheapest and resting at periods when
eggs are righ in price.

Distribution of Egg Costs.
“Yearling hens produce eggs at less
cost than do older hens.” To back up
this statement, Professor Rice illus-
trated by the folloWing table:
Average Cost of Feed Per Dozen Eggs.

Rochester feed quotations (mixed),
carload lots f. o. b.

Age
of Hen. 1914-16. 1916-17. Increase.
1 year 0.115 0.154 0.039 '
2 year 0.125 1.17 0.045
3 year 0.13 0.178 0.045

This, table shows conclusively that
the hens lay less eggs as they get old-
er. This also brings out the fact that
the cost of production of these eggs
did not increase as fast as did the re-
tail selling price.

The Future of Farm Poultry.

“I-regard the future of farm poultry
as very bright and promising," said
Professor Rice. They are very bene—
ficial in that they destroy many injuri-
ous insects and they eat forage that
would otherwise go to waste. Added
to this, they are a source of meat that
is always on foot, at hand, and can be
easily made ready when the minister
comes. Added to this, they are the
most valuable source of food, with one
exception~that of milk. Egg is a most
nourishing and easily digestible food
that contains vitamines—a lifegiving
substance that is found in but few oth-
er foods with the exception of butter-
fat, in which this substance abbunds.

Good Layers Have Been Sold.

Eggs and poultry products are a hu-
man necessity and not a luxury.

The one shame that rests on poultry-
men now is that they have let the
wrong hens get away from them. When
the buyer has shown up for the pur-
pose of buying the‘ culls, the owners
have gone into the flocks and picked
out the frazzled and frayed birds, in
other words, the late molters or layers.
These have gone to the packing houses
while the non-layers have been in a.
great many cases, retained because of
the fact that they had completed their
moults early.

In summing up, Professor ,Rice em-
phasized the fact that poultry must
pay for the feed they consume, else it
had best be disposed. of in the raw

state. The most valuable points in his

whole talk were , those which enable '
one to go into a flock and cast out the
drones. This he made so clear that
even the novice can still 9
with certainty and."
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.0 insure eggs being produced

next winter the pullets must be

hatched early this spring. One
difficulty often times experienced in
hatching early chicks is to get eggs
that are fertile. However, if vigorous
males are with healthy females and
not too many females with one male,
little trouble from this source may be
encountered. '

The eggs to be placed in incubation
must have careful handling. The eggs
ought to be gathered ,daily and then
not subjected to extreme or sudden
changes of temperature. After the
eggs are gathered they should be plac-
ed in a location not subject to varia-
tions of temperature and for this rea-
son a dry cellar is possibly the best
place to store the eggs until they are
ready to be placed in incubation. It is
important to hunt the eggs several
times per day if they are to be placed
in incubation because if they are not
the different hens using the same nest
will sit on these egg and in the
course of a. day the eggs are brought
up to incubating heat several times a
day and this is detrimental to the germ
of the egg.

Use Care in Handling Eggs.

This year while we are trying to con-
serve on every hand and trying to pro-
duce. the largest amount of foods ever
produced it is important that we use
every means possible to gain this end
and consequently we can not exercise
too much'care in handling the eggs.

The hands should be clean in hand-
ling the hatching eggs.
wash the hands before gathering the
egs. Any oily substances on the hands
may be rotten on the egg and thus
close up the minute pores in the shell
through which the unborn chick
breathes, Some also assert that dis-
eases of various kinds may be trans-
mitted to the egg through dirty hands.

There has also been more or less
trouble encountered with deformed
and crippled incubator chicks. In fact,
we don’t believe we have ever taken
off a hatch from the incubator but
what there were several deformed
chicks, while on the other hand, we
don’t think we ever removed a clutch
of chicks from a hen and found a sin-
gle deformed chick among the lot and
this is the case after thirty years’ ex-
perience with chickens. Much experi-
menting has been carried on with the
hope of finding the cause of this trou-
ble, but nothing has been found that
will absolutely overcome the difficulty.

The subject of white diarrhoea of
young chicks has been given scientific
study but as yet no absolute cure or
preventative has been discovered and
about the only thing to do is to use
precautionary measures as the proper
handling of the hatching eggs.

Keeping the Eggs.

Eggs that are intended for hatching
should be gathered several times per
day and taken to some location where
the temperature will not vary to any
great extent. For this reason the dry
cellar is probably the best place. Al-
though should the cellar be quite damp
the eggs held therein may not hatch
well because the film- of moisture that
will collect on them will affect their
hatchability materially.

The small end of the egg should be
placed down, to protect the air space
in the large end of the egg, and then
eggs should be gently turned daily.
Eggs intended for hatching should not
be held over two weeks or ten days,
although we have held them for three
weeks and had‘ excellent hatches, but
to hold eggs for such long periods is
not to be encouraged.

. Rough handling of eggs,may break

orgloosen. theegg germ .from its loca-
tion. Allie egg gem is the little white
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hatching eggs from a distance the ship-
per usually advises the receiver to al-
low the eggs to sit for twenty-four
hours before placing them in incuba-
tion, this is done to allow the germ in
the egg to right itself. Also to allow
the egg to settle and the air space to
become normal.

It sometimes happens that the eggs
in the nest that are wanted for incu-
bation become badly soiled and if they
are not cleaned the hatch may be in-
terfered with. Soiled eggs should be
washed in lukewarm water to clean
them of the dirt. Although experi-
ments have been shown that a hatch
of 52.5 per cent has been secured of
unwashed eggs and forty per cent of
washed eggs. However, the statement
is not clear whethcr lie eggs vxcrc
washed with a solution of alcohol or
creolin to overcome white diarrheoa
or merely in clear water to clean them
of dirt and filth. The trouble from
dirty eggs may be overcome if the
fowls are not permitted to forage in
dirty and filthy quarters and if clean
litter and plenty of nesting material is
supplied.

In the above some suggestions have
been made upon the care of the hatch
ing eggs seem small within themselves
but will do much toward insuring suc-
cess and are applicable whether the
eggs are to be placed under hens or
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ESSENTIALS OF SYRUP MAKING.

(Continued from page 396).
or wool filters. These filters are made
of heavy cotton felt or wool felt. The
most popular ones in operation are
made of wool. Vl'lien the syrup is tak-
en from the evaporator pan it is run
into one of these filters which is held
in place in the mouth of a large stor-
age can, usually a common milk can.
After tWO to three gallons of syrup
have passed through one of these filt-
ers it is necessary that the felt be
washed out or cleaned, since all for—
eign matter and “malate” is taken out
of the syrup in this process. This ac-
cumulation is easily removed from the
felt by washing in a tub of water, the
filters being run through an ordinary
wringer and then placed back in the

first compartment of the evaporator

where the hot boiling sap runs in.
These filters may be used over and
over again if kept perfectly washed
and produce the finest grade of clari-
fied syrup.

Use of Labels.

Every maker is rcquircl by law to
label his product if he expects to put
it on the market. This label must con-
tain: The name of producer, the net
weightand the measure, and it should
give the name of the distributor. Ev-
ery maker should take steps to secure
these labels early in the season. Much
difficulty has been experienced in pro-
viding a paste which will make the la-
bels stick to the tin cans. The follow-
ing paste is recommended. Boil flour
paste for several minutes during which
time the paste should be constantly
stirred until somewhat c001. A tea-
spoon of good vinegar may be added
to each quart to remove the grease or
finish on the can, otherwise the paste
will “snap” from the ca'n when dry. A
paste recommended by a very promi-
nent sugar maker in Ohio consists of
nothing more or less than the wall pa-
per paste which he claims to have used
for fifty years with absolute success.

 

In tests of brooders kept at different
temperatures, a high temperature for
several days and also wide variations
of temperature caused a heavy mortal-

ity. The most desirable temperature .

is stated to be for the first week 100
degrees F.: second week, ninety-six
degrees: third week, ninety-two de-

grees, and fourth week eighty-eight de-

areas

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Farming in Man Power Necessary to Win the Battle lor Liberty

The Food Controllers of United States and Canada are asking for greater
Scarcely 100,000,000 bushels of Wheat can be sent to the

food production.

allies overseas before the crop harvest.
States and Canada rest the burden of supply.

Every Available Tillablo Acro must Contrlbuto;
Farmer and Farm Hand muol Assisi.

Western Canada has an enormous acreage to be seeded but man power is
, short and an appeal to the United States allies isformore menforseeding

operations.

Canada’s Whoa! Production last Year was 225,000,000 Bushels;
the demand lrom Canada alone, lor19l8,is 400,000,000 Buohols.
To secure this she must have assistance.
men. The Governmentof the United States wants every man who can effec-

tively help to do farm Work this year.
States developed first of course; but it also wants to help Canada. 'When-
ever we find a man we can spare to Canada’s fields a’ter ours are sup-

plied, we want to direct him there.

and we will tell where you can best serve the combined interests.

Western Canada’s help will be required not later than April 51h.
Wages to competent help, $50 a month and up, board and lodging.

Those who respond to this appeal will get a warm welcome, good wages,
good board, and find comfortable homes. _ _
cent a mile from Canadian boundary points to destination and return.

For particular. no to routes and places where employment may be had, apply to

U. 5. Employment Service,

Dept. of Labor.
Sault Ste. Marie and Port Huron, Mich.

Detroit, Grand Rapids,

 
  

  

Win the War By Preparing the Land
Sowing the Seed and Producing
. Bigger Crops

   

Upon the efforts of the United

Every Availa blo

She has the land but needs the
It wants the land in the United

Apply to our Employment Service,

They will get a rate of one

 

ii ”i s n b or If
Firman L. Cal-swell, a. big oultry raiser,6l2 '
Gateway Station, Kansas City, 0., is giving free
a valuable book which tells howio save, feed and
care for Baby Chicks. Every oultry raiser should
write now for a copy of Mr. arswell's free book
which contains important_ facts, about White

Diarrhoea and how to treat it. Advertise went.
a n (1 equipment.

POULIRY SUPPLIES 19.9mm... you

. " need from legbnnds to buildings. 40 page free cata-
' log quotes lowest prices on hundreds of nrticlcs.
GEORGE B. FERRIS, 634 Shirley Street, Grand Rapids. Mlcli.

POULTRY

HOMESTEAD FARMS

A Federation of Interests
DAY-OLD CHICKS

If you are to order Day-Old Chloko thls season. we
can furnish you from the following Pure Breed
Practical Poultry:

Barred,Whito, and Buff Plymouth Rocks: R. (l. Rhode
Island Reds; 8.0. Black inorcas; 8.0. and l{.C.
White and S. 0. Brown Leghorns.

Please write for full description of this stock.

EGGS FOR HATCHING

For scttingu or in quantities for incubators. from
any of the foregoing breeds.

LAYING PULLETS

Ono Pens l7 8. O. liliode Island Roda with cockerel.
or pulleto can be divided; it. C. Reds, 5 only,

HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.

0 from Standard
Baby Chicks 1...... s_ a, “7......
and Brown eghorns. Good laying stock. 813 per 100.
Safe arrival guaranteed. Catalogu8 free. Book your
order now for spring delivery.
Wolverine Hatchery. 301202. Zeeland. Mich.

—EGGS FROM STRAIN 'ith
Barred ROCKS records to 290 eggs 8. year; $2“per
15. Delivered by parcel post. prepaid. Circular free.
FRED ASTLING, - - - Constantine. Mich.

240 egg strain “'hilo
Barron English Lem"... 1......
tor layers. large size biz-(13,. Hatching eggs $6 per 100.
“hicks $13 per 100. Guarantee satisfaction. Dcvrics
Leghorn Farms and Hatchery, Box A, Zeeland, Mich.

 

 

 

 

B d Plvmouth Rock eggs for hatching from
arre full blood stock prize-Winning strain $1.50
per 13. A. BARNUM. Union City. Mich.

BARRON Strain S. O.’Whlte Leghorns Bred to Lay
long bodied vigorous stock. Eggs and (‘hickspriccs
right. Bruce VV'. Brown. R. 3, Mayville, Mich.

{ Oil SALE—Barred Rock Cockerels 83 each. Egg-
ti-om choice Barred ltock mating $2.50 per 15.
Mrs. RAY G. BUNNELL. Lawrence. Mich.

Bab Chicks Young's Strain S. 0. White Loghorns
y free range stock, safe arrival uarantee. cat-
alogue free. Knolls Hatchery. R. 3, olland. Mich.

ABY Chicks. Brod-today 8.0. White Leghorns
at last Sear's price. $12 per 100. No catalog or cir-
cular. Or erdirect from thlsadv. Cash lnfull with or-
der. Hatchevory Tuesday, beginning April2. Sunny-brook
Poultry Farms. C. G. Burroughs. Prom. Hillsdolc. Mich.

Bull legliorn Cockerels, $32.?‘e"
Dr. WILLIAM A. SMITH. Petersburg. Mich.

Bm‘ Orplngtons—chenteen years; Best exhibition
egg producing strain. Eggsor Baby Chicks. Cir-

WILL SOHADT, Goshen. Indiana.

cular free.
‘ We sh! thousands, booking orders now

Cthks, for s rllig delivery. free booklet.

FREEPORT HAT HERY, Box 12. Freeport. Mich.

ockorels~From Ghlcago Coliseum winning stock. $3
it up "Ringlet"&Bufr Rocks. both combs Reds. pnn'
llll Orplngtons.Wyandottcs. Tyrone Poultry Form. Fenton.Mich

April and May heavy breed
Choice C h i c k S and Leghornst for ‘9. Egg:
or setting $1.50: per 108 $7.50.
grosoent Egg Company. - -- - Allegun. Mich

 

 

chicks andeggn. standard bred stock.Leghoms.Mlnoi--
qu,$panish. Rocks. Roda. Orpingtnns, Wyandottca. Campinas.
liaiidom.Poliah.Scotch Greys. Tyrone Poultry Fax-m. FcntonJflch

DAY-OLD CHICKS

of quality guaranteed to 1,500 miles. Eggs for
Hatching "at low prices. Bar. Rocks, 8. C; W. Leg-
horns. . . and R. C. Rods. W. .Wyandottea.
But! and ‘W.

 

  
 

  
    

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DAY-OLKD-CHICS

Young's Heavy Laying Strain B. C. White Leghorn-
”tom-1'50, $15.00u hundred. Safe delivery guaranteed.
Immediate shipments. Order now or write.

ROY l... DRUKKER, 711 Delaware St... Grand Rapids.

DAY OLD CHICK$

250,000 for 1913. $10 per 100 and up. Purebred. Hatch-
ed rlght. Strong guarantee. 10 leading varieties.
Hatching eggs. llig broodcr oll'or. Vl'estern Branch,
Augusta, Kansas. Free catalog. Stamps appreciated.
Huhers Reliabe Hatchery, 333 W. FremOnt St. . Postorla. 0.

Laybill S. c. VI. Leghorn: tiliéfifi‘i‘éllfili’fafilég
breeding hens now. hiverfresh Egg Farm. Ionin. Mich.

4: V Ferris White Leghorns,
A real heavy laying strain, trapncsted l

years. records from 200 to 264 eggs. Get
our specsal summer prices on yearling hens.
‘7 breeding males, eggs for hatching. 8sweck-
old pullers and da old chicks. \Vc ship C. O. D. In-
guarantee results. amlog gives prices; describes SlOCk; tells
all about our farm and methods; results you can go! by breed-
ing this strain. Send for your copy now—u is free.
GEORGE E. FERRIS 9“ Union. Grand Rapids, Ml -

     
   
    
 
 

    
  
 
   
 
  

 
 

 

chicks lhal Lin 315 new i. 9 listless“:

Bend for catalog. 5 8 'FLAKE POULIRY
FARM, ll. 1 Grand Rapids. Mich.

Fowlers Buff Rocks “(Effigngwggdig
$4 for 30; $5.50 for EU; $8.00 for mu. ' '
ii.n.roWLEa. . . . . Hantord, Mich.

Inhn’s Big beautiful hen hatched Barred Rocks good
2 layers males (A: females S! to each. Breeding pens
812. Sold on approval circulars photos. John Northon.Clore.MiclI

IMPROVE YOUR room?

My Young‘s strain brod-to-lay 8. O. Vl'hlte Leghorns
nregreat money makers. 100.000 baby chicks for 1918
delivery at $13 and up per 100. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. VS rite for free catalogue.

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

 

Pin. cresi White ()Y‘Dinmmis, hens and pallets 83.00

each, cggs special price £5 erls. utllit
$12 or 100. MRS. WILBIS ROUGH?
PI Ii. CREST FARM. Royal Oak. Mich.
HODE ISLAND REDS and Plymouth Rocks Male:
.5 to 1‘.’ lbs. according to age $3 to 38: R. hens
weight 5 to 10 lbs. , eggs If) for $1.50; 100. $10; Mammoth
Bronze Tom Turkeys 8 to 38 lbs. according to use 86 to
82:), 10 eggs :4. J. Morris dc J. Bari-tan. ‘Vassar. Mich.

both combs. Chicks &
R. I. RED 9 eggs. Most popular
strain in Michigan. Vi rite for catalog.
INTERLAKES FARM, Box 39. Lawrence. Mich.

R 1 Beds and R I. Whites. Both combs. Eggs for
f 0 sale, also a few good cockorels. Good‘stock.
prices reasonable. 0. ll}. .llawley. R.8. Ludington. Mich.

 

 

Brown Leghorns. Heavy layers. E gs 1541.35.
5- O 30-3150, 43783.5(), 100-37. prepaid bygmall.
FLOYD ROBERTSON. R. 1. Lexington. Indiana

ILVER Golden and White Wyandottes. A to
Sfiolden and White cockerols. to spare at. $3. 13:5ng
$2.00, 30.30.00. 0. W. Browning. R. 2, Portland. Mich.

' Comb Black Minor-ca co k 1
Single alolb, cock bird. A few mgi'eel-SOH.’ fhille‘lgbsl
R. W. MILLS. - - - - - Saline, 1y ich.

‘RIHITE Wyandottes. I have a. fine lot of ll
May hatching cockerels for 83.00 and fills enac‘lg
DAVID RAY. 709 Norris 8L. Ypsilanti. Michigan.

bite Wyandotte cockerels. good size. 0010 . .60'

W 3 for 810._Reg. Swedish Select Oats free frdm 23mm;
31.60 per bu. in 10 bu. lots recleaned and bags free.

VAN 0. FARM. R. 1. Box 124, Hartford. Mich.

Wh". “yandOll'S Emir-ks and 6 RS from a winter
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While China Brass: mats 332%.. 133.1“.

Duck $1.50 for 1]. Best of sto k. .
airs. CLAUDIA BETTE. ? . Hillsdala. Mich.

WHITE Holland Turkeys a'llmlted numborforsale.
Silver Spangled Hamburg cockerels Hamburgsaro
the reatest layers on earth get acquainted with this
won orful breed. Rivervelw Farm. Vassar. Mich.

M B Turkeys. Toulouse Geese and 8. 0. W.‘
I I Leghorn cockerels. Also Berkshire, both
sex. Stamps appreciated. Chase Stock Farm. R l. Marlettellch.

AMMOTH White Roland Turkeys. Tom: 88. Benn.

86 Pair-8312, TrioaSll. St (1 ’
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DANGER WHATEVER TO THE PATIENT.
is NO EXPERIMENT but is the MOST SUC—

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Our Mottoz—"The farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should
be first improved.”

 

THE LECTURER’S HOUR.

. (Concluded from last week). .

Take, for example, the question of
the relation of the farmer to military
service. All summer, in spite of our
great need of farm labor, we have kept
still. This fall, when thousands upon
thousands of acres of‘beans and pota-
toes were ready to harvest there was
not the labor to accomplish it between
showers. Many of our boys were gone,
are in cantonments training for ser-
vice in the new army when they ought
to be in the fields helping to increase
the supply of food. America will win
this war, or will help to win it, there is
no doubt about that, if the nations with
which she is allied can be fed. But
when we think how the common peo-
' ple in France live now, and look far
away to the dawn of peace, we begin
to realize how valiantly fights the man
out in the field, where are harvested
those products which do not destroy
but which mean life to our people and
our allies in this war, “To make the
world safe for Democracy.”

Then there are other matters per-
taining to food production which we
may very profitably discuss—questions
of the feeding of our dairies, and the
live stock on the average farm in our
community. Are we going .to keep our
small pigs and get them ready for the
spring market? Shall we veal our
calves that we do not wish to keep, or
shall we grow them for beef and take

 

BREEDERS’ DIRECT (DRY.

Change of Com or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Days before date of publication.

We Offer a Few Specnal Bargains
In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-
bouillot rams, Hampshire pigs (either
sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance
for a small investment to reap the bene-
fit of a large expenditure of capital and
years of expert breeding.

Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Michfl

 

CATTLE.

JOHN EBELS. 3.2. Holland, Mich.

chances on loss? How may we best

Registered Guernsey bull cal- .
[For Sale vea MayRose breeding. feed and dispose of our young cattle

and hogs in a way to increase the sup-

 

to 8 months. L. J. BYERS. 01 water. Mich.

For Sale ggsggsggggglgg;;es,gregaggggggfg ply of meat and at the same time make

a profit? ,

 

When you need a herd sire remember that we

der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual
over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We

ed by the best strains of breeding.
Write us our wants.
R. BRUCE MePHE SON, Howell, Mich.

have one of the best herds in Michigan. kept on and woman.

What is our Grange doing about the

CLUNY STOCK FARM Y. M. c. A. and the Red Cross?

10°"REG'STERED HOLSTEIN5"1°° These agencies appeal to every man

The Y. M. C. A. is going
to look after our boys thousands of

have size. quality. and production records back- miles from the sound of mother’s voice.

We cannot do too much for this
agency. What is our Grange doing?

 

WOODCOTE ANGUS

Trojan-Erica: and Blackbirds only Broaden of the
dam and former owners of the sire (our herd hull)
of the Grand Champion Bull at the International
Ohio for 1917. . _

WOO COTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.

 

Good uality bulls of serviceable
Clove’ly Angus age and younger. Inspectioninvit-
0d. Geo. Hathaway and Son. Ovid, Mich.

 

 

i 1|1IIIJTH‘IIIIILHIJII
Guernsey Grades Won

In Wisconsin Test
At the Wisconsin Dairy Cow
Competition held at the Experi-
ment Station, 23 grade Guern-
seys averaged 10,073 lbs. milk
and 475 lbs. butter fat for the
year. The 4 leading cows were
Gucmsey grades. One produced
15,744 lbs. of milk and 729 lbs.
of butter fat, and calved again _
during the year. She yielded a
profit of $130. 35 above the cost
of feed. (9)
Write for our valuable book—

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I L » , 320w choice bull calves at prices you can aflord to pay.
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Quernseys-fizisi‘sioézif 3.2::
offline tested. Geo. N. Crawford. Bolton. Mich.

k 45 Re stored head. all tb. tested. Nina's
: , "‘9’: May9 i . son of Imp. May Rose Kixagb
Mom-herd. 0111 I halt sisters sold averaging 81
' am; hull calves are bookfid ahead at reasonable

col. ‘ Avonda'lc Stock arm. Wayne. Mich.

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accepted in payment of finely bred re -
‘ Goad "Ola istered Holstein hull calves. ' ualigy
of the best. and at prices within reach of all. rite.
GEO. D. CLARKE. - - - - Vassar. Mich.

Have a program devoted to Y. M. C. A.
work and your Grange will get busy.
I know one township that is most

 

B. PARHA. I. Bronson.

9 Pedigree Stock Farm offers Re .Hol- a 'V ' .‘ I '.
Parham's stein cattle. Chester White Sawine. Ci] 6 111 Red Cross “ OI‘h
extrabargma in Cfilvelandfall igs. Bulls half Effiicg. have you a boy at the front?

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Reader,
If not,

your neighbor has. We have only to

 

Bigclows Holstein Farms.

A Few Fine Bulls For Sale 22:22:: :3'9:.:°.:::.fh:.§::.itars:

ariedsiiiii, Mich. CTOSS-

I am sorry anybody must fight, but

 

To Sell

before placing your order elsewhere.

lAlwaysHaveHolsteins we are in this war, not for pastime,

not to sell the commodities that have
risen so much in price, but to fight be-

If wanting Registeredcattle write me your wants, cause We can see no other way_ A lot
L E CONNELL, Fayette Ohio of us are too old to fight, but we can
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Holsiiin-Friesian caiile

choice bull calves for sale.
Y. Owner. Port Huron, Mich.
Chas. Peters. Herdsman. Three Rivers. Mich.

A. R. O. herd. tuberculin tested annually. A row

help.

of war, we may find our task. What is
our Grange doing? Is it measuring up
to its responsibility?

 

3—HOLSTEIN BULLS--3

In a large way, the average subordi-

Ready for-service at Long Beach Farm.Augusta.l\iich. nate Grange lecturer may answer by

 

“Top-Notch”

large producers.

Full descriptions, prices,etc. on request.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.

The young bulls we have for sale are
backed up by many generations of
Buy one of these the best recitations, to plan for live
bulls, and give your herda. “push”. discussions of up-to—date questions, and

her work in the lecturer's hour.

Now,. in closing, may we‘ not ask
'that each lecturer shall take new cour-
age, shall build a higher and broader
ideal of Grange lecture work, and thus
building, shall leave no means unused

V that will increase the' interest of the
, community in the programs of' the

Grange in which she serves? - .

May we not ask her to. go out after
better material, to use the best songs,

thus planning her programs, then to
“tell it out '3” ' 5 .
'Never before has the-Grange had

 

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unity in oflor .
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0rd aigdLefinoeipon‘hilm on. such an opportunity to serve. ‘May it
rim ”$3.15 ‘1? i3: not“‘be found wanting” is the earnest

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tend to lessen the awful consequences"

“ .ii 1'” 11H .41."i
CLUB DISCUSSIONS,

The Farmer's Outlook—The March
meeting'of the Salem Farmers’ Club
was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Mason. There was a good at-
tendance, there being about fifty pres-
ent to enjoy the social hour, the dinner
and the program. At two o’clock the
president called the meeting to order
and the Club sang America. Then fol-
lowed the secretary’s report and the
roll call, which was responded to by
patriotic thoughts and quotations. Dale
Farley then gave a little recitation on
what Herbert Hoover tells us to do to
conserve. A paper, “Is the Farmer’s
Outlook as Rosy as it is Painted ?” was
read by Bruce Rorabacher. Mrs. Rora»
bacher thought the outlook for the
farmer depended entirely on who was
painting the picture. To the city man
who knew nothing of farming it might
look very rosy indeed, but to the expe-
rienced .farmer, with the uncertainty
of help, an over-production of any crop
need not be worried about. A lively
discussion followed. A recitation by
Rev. Dean, and a reading by DeForest
Thompson were then given, and Mr.
Thompson gave a short talk on the or-
ganization of the different farmers’ or—
ganizations of Washtenaw county for
more efficient work during the war.
Program closed by singing “The Star
Spangled Banner.”—Mrs. I. R. John-
son, Cor. Sec.

The Twenty-first Anniversary.——On
Thursday, March 7, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Tracy Crandall occurred the
twenty-first annual meeting of the
Howell ‘Farmers’ Club. There were
about 125 present. After a social hour
in whicha pot-luck dinner was served,
President Wells called the meeting to
order and by request read a short se-
lection upon the different vEuropean
war fronts, after which he introduced
Mr. S. M. Yerkes as toastmaster. Mrs.
C. H. White was the first speaker of
the afternoon to respond to a toast,
“Our Boys.” This was a well written
description of the cantonments which
areahe temporary homes of our sol-
dier boys while in training for over-
seas duty. Mr. Herbert Beebe respond-
ed to the toast, “Our Girls.” He was
of the opinion that they should be well
trained in the art of housekeeping and
held the mothers largely accountable
for much of the inefficiency of their
daughters in this line. Deplored the
fact that so many girls preferred em-
ployment in towns and remarked that
if they persisted in this choice we must
expect our boys to be discontented
with rural life and also seek occupa-
tions amidst urban surroundings. Mrs.
Bruce Bucknell responded to the toast,
“The Man Behind the Plow.” She con-

 

tended that much depends upon the

man behind the plow, not only in an
agricultural sense but that all business
in order to be successful must not only
have an intelligent and thorough man
at the helm but a moral one as well.
Roy Lannen appeared next, respond-
ing to the toast, “The Woman Behind
the Man.” Mr. Lannen possesses the
rare ability of swaying his audience
from mirthful to serious moods at will.
He said that when everything went
well “Dad” was a fine pal, but when
trials and sickness assail us we in-
evitably turn to mother. Mrs. Roy Lat-
son recited “Just Say Hello,” and re-
sponded to an encore by rendering a

selection entitled, “A Touching Inci-'

dent.” Mrs. Edward Houghtaling im-
personated a child on its first visit to
a barber shop accompanied by its fath-
er, was encored and responded by giv-
ing a similar one in regard to the many
questions a child can ask that parents
are unable to answer. During the af—
ternoon Miss ,Kieff rendered several
selections on the violin, Mrs. Glenn
Satterla playing the "accompaniment.
Miss Mabel Risch sang a solo with
Mrs. George Heeg presiding at the
piano. W. H. Peavey gave the con-
cluding speech in response to the
toast, “Twenty-one Years.” The fol-
lowing ofiicers were elected for the en-

suing year: President, Mrs. J. S.’
Brown; first vice-president, S. M.
Yerkes; second vice-president, C- D.

Austin; recording secretary, Mrs. Roy
Latson; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
R. R. Smith treasurer, Britten Gilkes;
directors, Howard Reed, Jay Tooley;
organist, Mrs. Fred Bucknell. A com-
mittee was appointed to draft resolu-
tions of sympathy for Mrs. C. P. John-

‘son,.' of Lapeer county, a former asso-
ciational secretary." whose son was one ‘

of, the victims otthe ill-fated Tuscania.
Recording secretary's annual rcport
showed eleven meetings held during
the year and sisathat" h

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—-—The hair comes off around the eyes,
face, neck, but skin is left smooth. No
evidence of lice. Am feeding clover
hay. How can I tell whether or not
my sow is with pig? She was served
two months ago, or we suspect she
was. This sow ran with her own sons
and they have not served her. Sheep
have had a cough for a long time,
mucus discharge from both nostrils.
They are fed bean pods, clover and
cull beans. A. B. F., Ramona, Mich.—

You fail to mention whether the stock

are calves or grown cattle. However,
you had better apply iodine ointment
twice a week. Your sow will. soon
change shape and show.she is preg-
nant. If not, she will not change shape
and will come in heat. Your sheep
need a change of feed, also shelter
them during storms.

Mangy Dog—I would like to know
what can be done for my dog. He has
some kind of skin ailment, large flakes
of dandruff appear on skin and on side
of hind leg the skin is rough. When
he scratches the skin becomes sore.
He is a fine Collie; he has a very poor
appetite. E. J. H., Kenadire, Mich.—
Apply one part coal tar disinfectant
and 49 parts water three times a week.
Give him 20 drops of tincture gentian
and 10 drops of Fowler’s solution at a
dose three times a day.

Loss of Vision—I have a horse that
is ten years old who seems to be blind
in one eye, the eye is perfectly clear,
both alike, but he is blind in one.
have owned him for three months, but
only recently discovered his blindness.
His former owner had never discover-
ed any eye trouble. What had I better
do for him? C. Y., Harrisville, Mich.
—Perhaps he suffered from a slight
brain hemorrhage and if blood clot or
effusion absorbs soon, vision will pos-
sibly be restored.

Hock Lameness—Scours.-—Last fall
my seven-year-old mare suddenly went
lame in hind leg; I located the trouble
in hock, thinking it bone spavin. I
rested her for a few weeks and she re.
covered. She has occasionally limped
and I forgot to say her hock is slightly
enlarged on inside. I also have a ten-
month old calf that has periodical at-
tacks of scours. *Part of the time she
has fairly good appetite. G. J. B., Dur—
and, Mich.—-If your mare suffered from
bone spavin she would start lame, then
perhaps gradually warm out of it, until
she was again rested. Clip hair off
hock and apply one part powdered can—
tharides and six parts fresh lard twice
a month. ri‘he heifer’s feed should be
changed; also give her 30 grs. of pow-
dered sulphate of iron and a teaspoon-
t'ul of ginger in each feed until she
is well.

Indigestion.—~—Heifer calf five months
old is not thriving; is fed skim-milk
and calf meal mixed in ground corn
and oats, but she spends too much time
licking side of pen. C. 1“,, Owosso,
Mich—Give her 20 grs. of air-slaked
lime in milk or drinking water three
times a day, also give her a dessert-
spoonful of ground gentian at a dose in
feed two or three times a day.

Constipation.—— Indigestion. —— Every
twenty or thirty days my young Jersey
cow becomes constipated; during these
spells her appetite is gone and it re-
quires several days for her to pick up
and get back to normal. She is fed
with care, had no trouble calving, and
always cleaned nicely. R. M., Otsego,
Mich—The feeder should closely watch
her dung; when it becomes waxy, dry
and hard, then give her either epsom
salts or raw linseed oil. A change of
feed at the proper time and walkin
exercise will help; wash out rectum
with soap suds. It is bad practice to
give a cow of this kind drugs daily.

Heifer Fails to Come in Heat.——I
have a nice healthy heifer two years
old that has not yet been in, heat. What
had I better give her? J. H. E., Mc-
Bain, Mich—Give her 1/2, dr. of ground
nux vomica, 2 drs, ginger, 1 dr. ground
capsicum at a dose in ground feed two
or three times a day. She is perhaps
barren, or if she is a twin calf and has
a male brother she will never breed.

Infected Udder—Dropsy.-—Have cow
that has had three calves, after each
calving her udder has caked; besides,
she is swollen under belly. Will it be
safe to breed her again? A. C., Pon-
tiac, Mich—Yes, breed her again, but
milk her carefully by hand when she
freshens. If such an udder was gently
hand-rubbed and if her stall was thor-
oughly. cleaned,,,disinfected and kept
clean at- time of calving she would
hav less bag trouble. .

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A noN SAL

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DUROC OJERSEY

AT HASTINGS, MICH.

MARCH

26, 1918

32 Head, mostly bred gilts of
the best blood lines. '

Carey" U. Edmonds, Prop.

 

 

producers. Brookwater offers to sell a

H. W. MUMFORD.‘
OWNER

 

Ann Arbor,

 

CATTLE

AUCTION SALE

Of Horses, Mules, Farm Tools

and Pure Bred Holstein Cattle

To be Held at My Farm, 15 Miles East
of Belleviile Station on

TUESDAY, MARCH 26th, 1918

Sale to Commence at 10 A.M. Lunch at Noon

Pure Bred Cattle

 

Rockwood Johanna Belle No. 244905
Nutag Pontiac Palmyra No. 145l39
Imperial Beets Pieterjo No. 269081
Aggie Vale Palmyra No. 2722944
()rmsby Rose A No. 112015
Saiina Mercedes Butter Boy No. 210670

Miss Yetive Tryutje No. 247478

Lida Winona Woodcrest Vale DeKoI No. 257741
Cliora Beauty No. 84288

Johanna Perfection DeKol 2nd No. 172407
Livingston Si rid Hengerveid No. 17 582
Snlina Merce es 'l‘exnl 0. 120464

N0.‘204477

Miss Winona Mercedes Butter Boy
Heifer gDam Queen Mercedes Tritomia Piebe 333389

Biro Ashmoor King Pontiac Pride No. 176323
Heifer gDam Livin ston Sigrid Hengerx eld No. 17(5582

Sire King egis Fayne Hengcrvcld No. 110355
The cows are bred to such bulls an Huron Hill Paul
Pontiac 140857 and King Pontiac Jewel Korndyke 9186i.

F. W. SAVAGE, Prop.
C. F. Thompson, Auct.
Aberdeen Angus for sale. small herd consisting of

5 fine registered ‘2 yr. ohl heifers.
ROBERT SMITH, Caledonia, Mir-in, it. I“. D.

 

 

 

 

 

$ $ . $ $
MAKE MORE MONEY

in dairying. You can when you find out.
as thousands or others have, that

Purebred HOLSTEIN S
are the MOST PROFITABLE
Cows ON EARTH
They yield the largest quantities of milk and
butterfat at the lowest cost
\ WRITE F08 FREE lllfOBfllTlOli
’ In obligation—we have nothing
we uni in all you.

'l'llE HOLSTEIN - Hill-ISIAH
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

Jerseys and Duroc Jerseys

The moot important thing in buying a Jersey bull is to get one backed up by generationl of high
ow chmce bull calves of this kind. Our herd of Duroce hu
wonlmore prizes at the State Fairs this year then any other.

Boer Pigs and Yearling: For Sale.
BROOKWATER FARM

 

O. F. FOSTIR.
MANAGER

Mléh.. R. 7.

"Auction Sale

44-head of thorougbred Holstein Cattle. 8 work
horses and farm tools.
March 29-1918 at 9 :o’clock sharp.
Catalogues of Cattle on request.
Boyle 8: Robinson, Auctioneers

GEO. W. BURT, Prop. Redford, Mich.

The Pontiac Herd

“Where the Champions come from”

W
Offer Bull Calves sired by sons of Pontiac Korndyke,
Hengerveld DeKol.Pontlac Dutchlandmr Admiral
Ianker Pietertje.
Do you went a Pontiac in your herd?

Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac, Mich.
I] ()LSTEINS ofcauality: Bullcalves from dams with
E '.

record-high as 1 lbs. in 7days. Alsocoliie 11 ice.
A. HARDY, - - - Rochester]: p ich.

 

 

 

 

your choice of heifers of a 30 lb
$225 takes bull due in May to a23lb. son of
Johanna Korn. D. K. Terms if wanted.

M. L. McLAULIN. - . Redford. Michigan.

OLSTEIN bull calves, eligible to registration.
Without papers, 825 nt 10 dnys of age registered. 350
to 875. Dewey C. Pierson. hadiey. Mich.

 

‘ Holstein bull calf, bor S t.191 .
Reg‘SteTQd daughter of 24 lb. cow,nwr?€e for7 pied?
gree and price. F.O.B. your-(station.

E. E. STURGIS, R. .i. St. Johns, Mich.

 

' calves,‘.."’) heifers, & 2 buils15-16th.
3131:3311? 5hwecks {)ldfibgautifilizlly mark: .urg‘.
n 1,. 8( 01'“ ipmen anyw ere. ' i' C .
EDGEVVOOD FARMS. - - “iii-Viaixwhigl: Wig.

 

 

 

 

 

 

30.: 164, Brailleboro, VI. '

HOLSTEINS
At Auction

Two miles N.W.of Angola Ind. at noon Tues. Mar. 26,
will sell a high class of grade cows, 12 Holsteins and 4
Jerseys. Closi out a home-grown herd of choice
oowsZ to 6 yrs.ol .dau hters of our best cows,picked to
produce market milk or Angola distributors, fresh-
eniing all through the year. five of them in March
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pril.
Registered Holstein Bull Sir Pontiac Segis
Boone 3rd, 16 months old whose dam has official
record of 20.56 lbs. butter in 7 days and his siro's
dam 31 lbs.

Team black Pcrchercns (mare and horse) com-
ing 4 yrs. old, weight 2900.
W. A. SNIFF,

The Traverse Herd

Great Values In Bulls

from A;R. 0. Cows with records up to 30 lbs.

Let us know your wants. We will send extend-

ed pedigrees and prices.

TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL.
Traverse City, Michigan.

Angola. Ind.

 

 

oletein bull. nearly ready for service. large straight
deepbodied, handsomely marked 9‘ white. His six
nearest dams have A. 3.0. records that ever butter
May-24.13 milk 534112.. W. B. Reader. Howe l. llich.

 

nrkside Holstein bulls. R and 16 mo. Both i .d b
- Pnoted bull. 37 relatives are 30 lb cows. Priced {risen}:
J. L. 'IIRRILL d: SON. - - Charlotte, Mich.

Bob Fairfax 49402' th d
Herefords of herd. Stock foal" chaise.
Both sexes either polled or horned. EARL C.
McCARlY. Soc'y Mich. H, B. Ass’n. Bad Axe. Mich.

HEREFORDS

10 .bull calves for sale, Perfection
Fairfax and Prince Donald breeding.

ALLEN BROS.,
PAW PAW, MICH.

T l' l ‘. . I ........... .
HE REFORM veiggéli‘.’ $251? “To? 585L253..T°S'..‘221{.?3.

ning ancestry. E. J. Taylor, Fremont. Mich.

Jars” Bu”: for Sal, from high~producing dammwith

. _ testing Auo. rec rd ,
semi-official test. 0. B. Wehner. R. 6. A’licl'gcr‘ifafdigii

ONE 11 mo. old solid colored gr, son of Royal .Ma-
yesty whose dam as a 3yr. produced 406.24 lbs. of but-
ter 1 yr. First check $90.00 gets him. registered
transferred and delivered any point in Mich. I
B RED BRENNAN 860., - - - Capac. Mich.

' ready forservice. Al. h.'f
Ch°lce BUIIS for sale. Strong in Eli’s Tiiloeord

girgg‘ylagml-(njeety. Come and see them or write for
Alvin Balden. Cap-.0. Mich.. Phone its—5

APLE Lane R. of M. Jersev Herd h f l
Mof M. cows. daughters of R. of M. cowl: hiilri 25:113ch
heifer when and bulls. All from 500 A 600 lb

IRVlN FOX, _ , _ _ - dams.

Allegan. Mich.
EitSEY bull and bull calves for sale from R of M.

v cows, also heifers and cows of all ages.
C. B. WERNER, R. 6, Allegan, Mich.

FOR SALE

SMITH and PARKER. It. 4,

Re isteredJersey
bu l calves.
Howell. Mich.

illie Farmstead Jersey'Csttle. Se '
Lto freshen next fall. Also a few hd’filelil 531%?“ng
vee of choice breeding. Colon C.Liilie, Coopersville.llich.

‘ A fine. dark. solid col J
For sale 16 mos. old. DoubleOlgx-aTITETa’ogudi

80in) Mice]? and out of R. of M. cow.
. O.D A E. - - - - Ypsilanti, Mich.

 

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BIDWELI. ....... a...

Registered bulls. cows and heifers-Good Scotch and
Scotch-Topped for sale. In prime condition. Modern
sanitary equipment. Farm laminates from N. Y. 0.
depot, 1 hour from Toledo, Ohio. Automobile mm
elltrains. Write

BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box B, Tecumseh, Mich.

Sh rill —Dairyor beef bred. Breedin stock all
0 or": ages for sale at farmers prices. ,W.Cmm.
Secy. Cent. Mich, Slim-thorn Brecden' Aun.,lc8ridl. lick.

Richland Farm

Shorihorns.
TMP. Lorne in Service. Grand Cham ion Bull of
Niich. Special oiler on 14 head of Short orns. Cows
with calves at foot.heifers two years old and heifer!
one year old. Also a number of bull calves. W0
invite correspondence and inspection.
0. H. PRESCOTT d; SONS.
Farms at Prescott, Mich. Office at Tawae, City. Mich.

Francrsco Farm Shorthorns .
We maintain one of Michigan's good herds of Scotch
and Scotch'TOpped cnttlo. They are well bred, prop.
erly handled and price reaconnb 9. Come and see; we
like to show them.
P. P. P Mt. Pleasant. Mich,

’ . . . .

Fair Lawns Shorthorns

Yearling bulls by Canada's best sires: Mlssio Auguit.
605778 and Im . Newton Frier 528120.
LAURENCE ’. OTTO, - - - Charlotte. Mid).

horthorns for sale. 5 bulls Scotch to 10 to 14 mom.
3 roan, 1 white, 1 red, rice $150. to . Icon of Max-
wnlton Sultan, 19 mos. . O. Carlson, Leroy. Mich.

Bates Shorthorns {,hfi’f”§“‘“" egtsfirfigyggg
‘ ll 8 mos. 0 0 8 .
3150 to 8200. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason, Mich.

T ( b ills. 15' and 16 mo. By a
Shorthorns--gx¥ihdahn of Cyrus Clay.
COLLAR BROS. R. 2, Conklln, Mich.

VHORTHORNS. Butterfly Sultan, half brother to
blnternationai Sr. Chem ion. in service. Forged!
bulls,cows,and heifers. W'. .McQulllan.Howell. ich-

Maxwalton Monarch 2nd. 387322 half
Shorthorns brother to 5 Grand Champions in ser-
vice. JOHN SCHMIDT, R. 5, Reed City. Mich.

Four fine young bulls ready for service.
Shodhornsnflrrnndsons of Imp. Villager. Also br
heifer & cows heavy milking Strain. Farmers prices.
Free Catalogue. HORRI E'l‘UN FARMS. Hart, Mich.

ON of Horthorth Welfare heads our herd of milk-
ing Shorthorns Comprising Ohii'ley of Clay bred
cows, young bulls ready for sale and service. write on
Liddel Bros.. R. 2, Clinton. Mich, Macon Phone.

Grand Traverse Stadium 1330. 33%; 8"“ ’°'
M. E. DUCKLES, Sec., Traverse City. Mich.

M i,R'd Hdofflhothme
1867-1918 Yeh‘i‘li‘ng lligfiiomBan bull calvegfor
sale. J. E. TANSW'ELL,

registered. Shel-thorn-
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.

Four very desirable heifers 17 to 21 months
Shorflmrns old, and build mo. All roans. Price 31000.

Mason, Mich.

 

8. E. BOOTH. - - - - - Morrlce. Mich.
Shorthorn bull calves one to six

Purebred months, price $50 to $85.

W. F. BARR, - - - - - Aloha. Mich

 

Beg. Shorthorn b 11 6 mos. old
For sale Red, Rich bred onc.u3"00

J. M. HICksasorIs. a. 2. wnua'miton, Mich.

HOIITHORN: 1 bull 6 months old, 1 heifer 14 mos.
old Registered in buyer's name, 310') if taken soon.
H. W. MANN. - - - - Dansville, Mich.

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Scotch Shorthorns .333,” “23;: 5.53.331.”
John Lensiter'a Sons. Orion. Mic-11., R. I“. D.

Polled Durham Cattle fafgaflin“ ”“11“ ‘0’
J. A. DeGARMO. - - - - - Muir. Mich.

Cattle For Sale

Loads feeders and two loads yearling steers. Also
can show you any number 1. 2 and 3 yeerdold tron
600 to 1200]“. Isaac Shanstum, Fairfleld. Iowa, 11-8

H008.

GREY TOWER FARM

Now oil'era for sale a few choice Holstein bull calvel,
from high testing dams, with good A. R. 0. records.
at farmers' prices. write us about them and our

Durocs & Berkshires

M. I]. KITCHEN Mgr., Eras; lake. Mich.

U‘ROCS. Orion Chief Perfection No. 68945. and Jen-
nings Pilot Wonder No.73373.Tw0 outstandin bout!
of big type and excellent qualit . All selected largo
type smooth sows. Thrifty, smooth large boned spring
gr ts from these herd bears and choice sows at very
reasonable prices. The Jennings Farms, Bailey.Mich.

’ Iurplus stock ilaold. N th-
DObson 3 Duroc: lng doing ‘1“ Bu 0

pring.
ORLO L. DOBSON. - - Quincy, Mich.

DURocs

You want more size,fooding qualities. Fall boarsreedy
for service. A few sows br d for June furrowing.
NEWTON BABNHABT, - - St. Johns, Mich,

Duroc Jerseys-boars of the large heavy boned typ
Prize Winning stock, prices reasonable. typo
breeding considered, also gilts bred to Junior Cham-
pion hour for spring furrow. F.J. Drodt. R. 1. Monroe. lick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

boned Duroc Jersey Se tembe ‘
Large sex ready to ship. Bregding edd’h‘lzgghg:
J. D. CRANE & SON, Plainwell. Mich.

DUROO JERSEYS

1:. n. HEYDENBERK. - . - Wayland. Mich.

Choice Duroc Jerso Gill F
CAREY U. EDMONDS. y - : Elgifgaulclflich.

u_roc fall boars Hired by Crimson Criti T S ti
Dtion and Brookwater Principal, priced right. 5114.31
sows all sold. M. C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.

Can spare two th
Durocs Joe 0...... Zn 3.2 I £56,393? daughters of
A. FLEMING, . . . . . Lake, Mich.

Buroc i r e Why don't you orders pig and raisean
E. E. 0 A81; Ivlgsfut". sood boar or gilts for yourself.

request.

 

DU ROCS service boars bred sows.
J. n. BANGHART. . f?" Pigs'n. 11.1213: iciii'

 

 

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GRAINS AND SEEDS

March 19, 1918.

  

 

w H EAT.——Visible
in America decreased last week 1,199,-
000 bushels. The grain is not moving
to the markets in. liberal quantities
and millers continue to have trouble
in securing supplies for their current
needs. Flour is in urgent demand de-
spite the liberal use of substitutes.
One year ago the local market quoted
No. 2 red wheat at $2.01 per bushel.
Present prices here are: Cash No. 2
red $2.17; No. 2 mixed $2.15; No. 2
white $2.15. ,

CORN—Despite the extremely heavy
receipts of corn at primary markets,
trading in this cereal has been con-
ducted on a fairly steady basis, prices
having suffered only a moderate de-
cline during the week. As soon as the
grain began accumulating. orders were
uncovered that readily absorbed the
offerings. Plenty of cars are now
available, but despite the large move-
ment, the visible supply shows an in-
crease of only 1,489,000 bushels. With
the continued favorable weather con-
ditions over the corn belt, it is prophe-
sied that the replenishing of supplies
from country points will be materially
interfered with shortly by farm opera-
tions. Good corn is firm and scarce.
A year ago the local price for No. 3
corn was $1.121/2 per bushel. Present
prices are: Cash No. 3 corn $1.65;
'No. 3 yellow $1.75; No. 4 yellow $1.55
@160; No. 5 yellow $1.25@1.30; No.
6 yellow $1.20. At Chicago the mar-
ket closed Monday with March corn at
$1.27%; May corn at $1.25.

0ATS.——0ats exhibited strength at
the opening this week, due in part to
an unexpected demand from foreign
brokers. Receipts have been moder—
ately large, and the visible supply
shows an increase of 1,904,000 bushels.
A year ago standard oats were quoted
locally at 651/20 per bushel. Present
prices for oats are: Standard 92c; No.
2 white 92c; No. 3 white 911/20; No. 4
White 901/2c. Chicago’s closing prices
on Monday were: March 87340; May
84%c; cash standard 87%@900.

RYE—Receipts are small, with the
market slightly below last week, cash
now being quoted at $2.75 per bushel.
At Chicago the same grade is quoted

at $2.80.
BEANS—The demand for these le-
gumes shows a renewed interest,

and buying was free and brisk at the
opening this week. Prices, however,
were maintained on a steady basis,
with immediate and prompt shipment
quoted at $12.50 per cwt. At Chicago
the demand is, moderate and offerings
seem fairly plentiful, with Michigan
pea beans, hand—picked, quoted at $13
@1325 per cwt; red kidney, fancy at
‘$14.50(¢D15; fair to choice do $12 ’13.

SEEDS—Prime red clover at 20;
March $19.60; alsike $15.50; timothy
at $3.80.

FLOUR AND FEEDS

FLOUR—Jobbing lots in one-eighth
paper sacks are selling on the Detroit
market per 196 pounds as follows:
Straight winter $11.30; spring patent
$11.50; rye flour $14@14.50 per bbl.

FEEDS—The United States Food
Administration has fixed the 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
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
actual cost of the bags. For middlings
they can add $9 per ton to the price of
bran. For “feed” (which is the entire
product of wheat after the flour is tak-
en out) they can add $4 per ton to the
price of bran.

The following will serve as guides to
prices: If the average price paid for
wheat is $2.05, the millers’ price for
bran in carload lots should be $25.96.
To dealers in less than carload lots the
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1' ' ' sold to the retail trade the price per

hundred should be $1.46. If the aver-
age price paid for wheat is $2.10, the
milling price for bran in carload lots
should be $26.60 per ton. To dealers
in less than carload lots the price
should be $27.10 per ton. When sold
to the retail trade the price per hun-
dred should be $1.50.

-_0ther Feeds—Cracked corn $76.50;

, coarse corn meal $74; corn and oat
.chop $60.
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In carlots at Detroit: No. 1
26.50@27; standard timothy
4 :light mixfidwfifiogizfi; No.

  

 

‘2 ‘momy $2 ,- .
$24.50@25~ pert to y , - 1
Pittsburgh—No. 1 timothy at $32@ ‘ ~ 7 . 7$
1 butcher bulls $9 ‘9. 5

supply of wheat '

.310 per pound.

   
 
 
 
 
  
  

32.50; No. 2 timothy $30@31; No.
light mixed $30.50@31.50-, No. 1 clover
mixed $31.50@32.50; No. 1 clover at
$31.50@32.50.

STRAW.—-In carlots on track at De-
troit: Wheat and oat straw $11.50@
12; rye straw $12.50@13.

DAIRY PRODUCTS

BUTTER—Stocks are heavy and
buyers few. Fresh creameryfirsts are
quoted at 41@411/2c; fresh creamery
extras 43c.

Chicago—Market is rather quiet and
prices lower. Creamery extras at 430;
extra firsts 421/20; packing stock 30@

 

CH EESE.———Michigan flats. 24@24l/zc;
New York flats 25c; brick 28c; long
horns 281/20; Michigan daisies 260;
Wisconsin daisies 26%c; domestic

Swiss 35@43c for prime to fancy; lim- ‘

burger 30’@32c per lb.
DRESSED CALVES.—Fancy 20@
210; choice 18c; common 17c.
DRESSED HOGS.—-Best 21c per lb.

POULTRY PRODUCTS

PO U LTRY.-— (Live) .—-—Demand slow
and not much poultry offered. 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 lb; ducks 30@320; fat geese 30@
32C; turkeys 30@320.

Chicago.——(Live).-——There was a good
sale for the light offerings on hand.
Fowls 22@3lc; ducks 30@3lc; geese
24@25c; turkeys, good 250.

EGGS.~—Receipts were quite heavy,
but buyers took everything offered, at
higher prices. Fresh firsts 37@371/zc.

Chicago.———Demand good and prices
higher. Fresh Michigan firsts 36%@
361/2c; ordinary firsts 3561335140; mis-
cellaneous lots, cases included 331A@
341/2c per dozen.

F RUNS—VEGETABLES

(Quotations furnished by U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, Bureau of
Markets, Detroit Office).

POTATOES—The potato market
opened in Detroti this week with de-
mand and movement good. There Were
nine cars on track Tuesday morning.
The closing prices to jobbers for U. S.
Grade No. 1 round whites, sacked, on
Monday, were $1.55@1.60. The same
grade of Michigan stock sold in Cleve-
land on the same day at $1.60; in Cin-
cinnati at $1.60; No. 2 at $1.20; in C01-
umbus at $1.65; in Indianapolis at $1.50
@160, No. 2 $1.10; in Pittsburgh at
$1.50@1.60; in Washington, D. C., at
$1.85@2.

At Michigan country loading points
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the above No. 1 grade 75@85c; in Wis- @

consin 85c for No. 1 and 400 for No. 2;
New York farmers are paid $1.25@
1.35. '

APPLES—There were sixteen cars
of apples on the Detroit tracks on
Monday morning. Best Baldwins sold
at $5.50; Winesaps at $6.25@6.50 per
bbl. The majority of the large mar-
kets of the country show a steady tone
with a moderate movement and a fair
demand.

GRAND RAPIDS

Egg receipts are increasing and buy-
ing for storage will begin in a few
days. Eggs for storage were bought
last year at around 33c and will prob-
ably be a little higher this season.
Just now they are worth 350. The po-
tato market shows someimprovement
with prices around 900 per cwt. at the
buying points. Cars are scarce and
growers are reported holding for high-
er prices. Grain prices as reported at
mills are as follows: Wheat $2.09;
rye $2.50; barley $1.50; corn $1.80;
oats 980; beans $12 per cwt. Hay is
worth $20@24.

‘uvs STOCK

B U FFALO.
March 18, 1918.

Cattle.——~Receipts 80 cars; market is
250 higher; prime steers $13@14; fair
to good $12.50@13; plain $1I.l.'0@12;
coarse and common $10.50@10.75;
choice heavy butcher steers $12@
12.50; fair to good $11.50@11.75: best
handy steers $11.25@11.75; fair to
good $10.25@11; light and common $9
@975; yearlings $12@13.50; for best
heavy heifers $11@11.50; good butch-
er heifers $10.50@10.75; fair butcher
heifers $9.25@10: common $7@8_;~best
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feeding steers $9.50@10; common to

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6.50; milkers and springers $65@120.

Hogs.——Receipts 60 cars; market 25c
lower; heavy $18.25g@18.50; yorkers at
$18.60@18.75; pigs 18.50.

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 20
cars; market steady; top lambs $19;
yearlings $14.50@16.50; wethers $14@
14.50; ewes $13@13.50.

Calves.——Receipts 15 cars; steady a
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CHICAGO.
March 18, 1918.

. Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Recelpts today...21,000 66,000 15,000
Same day 1917.. 2,596 6,729 8,578
Last week ....... 64,935 243,801 73,240
Same wk 1917...46,020 172,995 80,653

‘Shipments from here last week

amounted to 19,301 cattle, 70,600 hogs
and 17,456 sheep. Hog shipments from
here a week earlier were 61,447 head
and a year ago 17,169 head. Hogs re-
ceived last week averaged 240 lbs.,
showing big gains over previous weeks.

Early this morning today’s Chicago
hog receipts were estimated at 82,000
head, but later it was reported that
there was a wreck on the Rock Island
Railroad 150 miles from here and that
from 400 to 450 cars of live stock des-
tines for this market were delayed and
were not expected to get in today. Ac-
cordingly, the hog receipts were cut
down as likely to not exceed 66,000
head. Prices were largely about 25c
lower, with sales on a basis of $16.10
@1785 for rough heavy packers to
prime light hogs. Cattle sold at about
steady prices, with some early sales
up to $14.25, but thesewere not fancy.
Late on Saturday a new high record
for the week was made by the sale of
18 head of fancy steers which averaged
1712 lbs. at $14.75.

Cattle prices experienced such a de-
cline during the preceding weeks of
too liberal receipts that OWners
throughout the territory tributary to
Chicago acted more conservatively
last week, and much smaller receipts
made buyers more eager to take hold.
Prices firmed up for all kinds of beef
cattle, the best lots excepted, and the
steers averaged 50@75c higher, with
the greater part of the steers selling
at $11.50@13.25, and a fair representa-
tion of the better class at $13.30@
14.25. The poorer class of little steers
went at $9.50@10.90, while sales Were
made of a better class of light weight
steers at $11@12.45, with a medium
grade selling at $12.50@12.95, while
good steers brought $13@13.45 and
choice heavy beeves $13.5 and up-
ward. Sales were made of good to
choice yearlings at $12.25@13.50, and
sales ranged all the way down to $10
@11 for the commoner lots of year-
ling steers.
the upward course of prices, with cows
selling at $7.65@12.65 and heifers at

$7.25@12.25, while cutters sold at $7.50 .

7.60, canners at $6.75@7.15 and bulls
at $7.50@11.25. Calves were in more
animated demand at stiff advances in
prices, with light vealers selling at $16
@1685 per 100 lbs. and heavy calves
salable at $8@12.50. There was agood
general demand for stockers and feed-
ers, with prices much higher than a
few weeks ago, buyers paying $8.75@
12 for inferior calves to prime rather
heavy feeders, and only plain kinds
went below $9.50@10, while there was

no extensive trading above the $11.50'

market. There is an increasing dispo-
sition among farmers to engage in
feeding cattle on a larger scale than in
the past, and it is generallv realized
that early purchases will cost less
than those made later on. '
Hogs were marketed with greatest
liberality during the past week, and
numerous declines took place in prices
for the heavy lots, but most of the
time buyers took the desirable offer-
ings of light weights at firm values,
the top price paid being the highest of
the year. As few light hogs are head-
ed marketward, they may be expected
to continue the highest sellers until
they become much plentier. Fewer
hogs have reached western packing
points so far this year than a year ago,
but the greatly increased weights of
the hogs marketed largely offset the
falling off in numbers. At the week’s
close hogs brought $16.45@18, few go-
ing below $17, and pigs selling at $13@
17, with stock pigs taken at $16.75@
17.25. Stags closed at $17@18, sub-
ject to dockage. Prime light hogs
topped the market, and hogs Were the
highest since last November, with
prime heavy hogs selling at $17.50.
Lambs of the better class had a
large demand last week and scored
further good advances, with nowhere
near enough to go around, but heavy-
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$8.50@14.50 and bucks at $11@12.
Sheep and yearlings advanced during
the week 500@$1, and at the high time '
prime lambs sold 50c higher. -
Horses were in moderate supply and,
demand last week at mostly unchang-
ed prices, with fair buying by eastern
and southern shippers. Inferiorto good
farm chunks were salable at $60@140,
drafters at $185@265, feeders at $150
@240 and the better class of express-
ers at $175@210. ,

The quantity of poor corn on farms
of the country has resulted in a greater
increase in the production of live stock
for meat purposes than would have
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Thu'rsda ’5 Market.
y March 21, 1918.
Cattle.

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Receipts 1886. All grades of cat
brought last week’s prices and trade

was active. ~

Best heavy steers $11.50@12.50; best

halld' weight butcher steers $10.50@
11; iiiixed steers and heilers $9.50@

and 11 ht butchers $8.50@9.25;
h y g$8@8.50; best cows $9@
10; butcher cows $7.50@8.25;_ cutters
$7017.25; canners $6.50(a,‘6.75; best
heavy bulls $8.50ag950; bologna bulls
$8@3.25; stock bulls $7@7.50; milk-
ers and springers $85@100.

:Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S.
& Co. 6 canncrs av 895 at $6.72), 5
steers av 964 at $10.75, 14 do av_1148
at $12.50, 27 d0 av» 705 at_$11.3o‘; to
Garber 2 bulls av 1190 at $9.50, 7 butch-
ers av 800 at $8.50; to Bray 7 cows av
1016 at $8.50, 2 canners av 830 at
$6.75; to Kamman B. Co. 13 butchers
av 683 at $8; to Mason B. Co. 2 do
av 1200 at $10, 13 steers av 920 at
$10.25; to Bresnahan 8; 1x. 4 cows av
882 at $7, 3 do av 1017 at $8, 2 can-
ners av 900 at $6.50, 21 cutters av 960
at $7.65; to Sullivan 1’. Co. 13 steers
av 850 at $10, 19 do av 922 at $10.85,
10 COWS av 960 at $8; to Dual 30 teed-
ers av 754 at $10; to Ratnor 10 butch-
ers av 923 at $9.85; to Gerber 5 do av
780 at $9; to Sutton 15 stockers av 415
at $7.75; to Nagle 1’. Co. 14 stegrs av
954 at $10, .3 do av 750 at $8.50; to

10 ;
light butchers

Newton P. Co. 7 cutters av 811 at $7, ,

7 do av 724 at $7; to Grant 6 butchers
av 795 at $7.75; to Hammond. S. & L0.
8 steers av 1007 at $10.50, 10 do av
936 at $10.50; to Newton P. Co. 12
cows av 880 at $7, 4 do av 962 at $8.50;
to Fineman 1 bull wgh 1400 at $10; to
Nagle 1’. Co. 2 steers av 1045 at $11;
12 do av 1330 at $12.25; 10 Sullivan
P. Co. 12 cows av 988 at $8.75, 1 steer
wgh 1130 at $10.50, 10 cows av 1027 at
$8.75; to Mich. B. Co. 7 steers av 1004
at $11, 13 do av 740 at $9, 4 do av
975 at 9.50.

Erwiri, S. & J. sold Nagle 1’: Co. 3
cutters av 1000 at $7.50; to Sullivan P.
Co. 2 cows av 935 at $8, 2 do av 1060
at $9, 1 do wgh 930 at $7, 27 butchers
av '743 at $9; to Hammond, S. & (‘0.
15 cows av 931 at $9.50; to Newton
P. Co. 12 do av 1022 at $9.50, 2 dofiav
970 at $7, 1 do wgh 960 at $8; to bul-
livan P. Co. 7, steers av 730 at $10.50.
1 bull wgh 1500 at $9; to Bray 8 steers
av 966 at $11.90, 5 do av 710 at $9.60,
3 cows av 1107 at $8.25, 8 do av 920 at
$7.50; to Nagle P. Co. 14 steers av 1050
at $11.65; to Kamman B, Co. 10'do av
960 at $11.50, 5 do av 846 at $10; to
Newton P. Co. 1 bull wgh 1870 at $9;
to Cole 30 heifers av 764 at $10; to
Thompson 1 bull wgh 1950 at $9, 1 do
wgh 1590 at $8.75; to Bernfeldt 9
butchers av 988 at $9.25.

Veal Calves.

Receipts 964. Market 507; 75c.high-
er than last week. Best $17; others
$86315.

Erwin, S. & J. sold Hammond, S. &
Co. 3 av 155 at $17, 8 av 115 at $16.50;
to Thompson 11 av 150 at $17; to Sul-
livan P. Co. 7 av 130 at $15, 11 av 14]
at $17; to Thompson 5 av 1657at $1.7,
1 wgh 110 at$ 14; to Parker, VV. & Co.
12 av 145 at $16.75.

McMullen, K. & J. sold Hammond,
S. & Co. 3 av 115 at $13. 8 av 145 at
$17; to Bernfeldt 2 av 150 at $17, 2 av
140 at $17.50, 2 av 145 at $17.50; to
Parker, W. & Co. 8 av 160 at $17; to
Hammond, S. & Co. 7 av 150 at $17.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1419. Good lambs 250 high-
er than last week. Best lambs$18@
18.25; fair lambs $17@17.75; light to
common lambs $11@16.—50; yearlings
$16; fair to good sheep $10@12.50;
culls and common $56117.

Bishop, B. & H sold Nagle P. Co.
229 lambs av 95 at $17.50, 36 do av 70
at $17.50; to Parker, W. & Co. 54 do av
60 at $17, 84 do av 63 at $17; to Mich.
B. Co. 27 do av 75 at $17.85. 23 do av
70 at $17.65, 12 do av 85 at $17.75, 101
do av 76 at $17.65, 128 do av 85 at $18;
to Sullivan P. Co. 101 do av 83 at $18;
to Parker, W. & Co. 103 do av 65 at
$17.25. ,

Erwin, S. & J. sold Parker, W. &
son 15 do av 90 at $17.50: to Parker,
Co. 15 lambs av 60 at $17; to Thomp‘
W. & Co. 12 do av 75 at $16.50, 6 do
av 95 at $17.50; to Wilson & Co. 223
do av 85 at $18.25. __

McMullen, K. & J. sold Thompson
at $17.50.

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.{rou‘ and ‘J llll'(' boar. read} for service at farmer-4
prices. H. (l. SVVA ll l‘Z, Shook-raft, h’licit.

Large Yorkshire Gilts
Red Poll Cattle. E. S. (YAllIl, Homer, Mich,
Yorkshire Ellis £533,130,; ‘33.".5‘, "“"'°‘"“‘”'

bacon: buy Yorksliires.
i! “uterman, Packard Road.

Bacon
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LOESER BROS.

Belgian and Percheron Stallions for sale that
Will pass the Michigan Stallion Inspection.
“are a Il-wmnres of both breeds. Shorthorn Cat-
tle,,we alter a choice lot of bulls and females.
Write us.

LIGONIER INDIANA.
REGISTERED PERC HERON

Marco and Stallion! priced to cell. In! octl '
L. C. HUNT, EATON RKI’IDOSIT ifd'liglg.

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The entire herd of the late A. A. Palmer
Will be closed out; 25 pure bred per-
cheron mares $200 to $400 except two;
also young stallions

PALMER BROS, Balding Mich.

for cattle, Registered Hol-

For sale or Exchange. a... prefored, three Regis-
tered I eroheron mares. Coming 1-6-7 years old, weigh-
ing from 1000 tonHllll lbs. In foal to Imported Percheron-
waighlng 2160. ’1 hose mares are good workers. kind and

gentle, come look over.
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'I'lireo Percheron Stallions d t -
For salfl ohm-on mares at farmors' prialcnes. hree Per
h. J. ALDRICH, Tekflllillfl, Mich. Bell Phone.

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F. L. KING d- 501 , - jp ( on m‘ ted

- Charlotte, Mich.
FOR SALE Registered Ppé-cheron Stallion

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OKLA. JACOBS, - - - Gregory, Mich.
Perolierona. ’l‘u'o Registered

PERFECT Percheron Stallions, 3 a; 4 yearn

old, for sale or trade. Photos sent 0 . .
HENsoN & KiNo, R. 3, Ans ri‘filifeiiich.

Registered Pei-Charo 1 St (1 ' '
For sale old. cheapitsold‘ntlyiicy. eighties"
ALBERT SOHAFER, Wyandotte, Mich.

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Belgian sod Send for photos:9

onas.M.SEnLnr. - . Three Rivers. Mich.

State Licen-

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Produce More Honey. This Year

We su ply bee hives, section boxes,
comb oundation, bee smokers, etc.
Semi for catalo . We are general a-
ents in Michigan or A.I.Root Co. goods.

any Baskets and 16 0t. crates
Prices quoted on application. State
guantity wanted. Can make immediate
eliyei'y. Order early this year.

 

  
 
 

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Big Type O. I. C's.

Stock of all ages for sale. We showed at four “ate
fair-I and won more championaiand Grand Champlons
than all the other broaden together double. we were
Premier Breeder and Exhibtor at every fair we show-
ed. We Breed the best. We sell the best. We Guaran-
too then to be the best. Write your wantc. Got our
Catalogue. We shifion approval.

GRAND LL and SON. Ou- Olty. Mich.

0.l.c. & cheater While Swim.

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KOPE-KON FARMS.

Goldwater, Mich.

It's n wise man who orders his mm for Luau-t
delivery now.

About July 1

ABMST RONG BROS,

we will odor for sale 0110!
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