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VOL. CL. No. 15

Whole Number 3988 —





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1918





CQOpcration Adopted by a Community





T the county seat of Washington

' A county, Minnesota, 3. new type

"of. cooperative organization is

now in successful operation. The idea

provided in this organization is an

agency for handling the entire farm

output of a whole community. In prac-

tical operation it not only accomplish-

es this end, but eliminates much waste

and provides a cooperative service to

’the local retail dealers in purchasing

goods.

In the organization of this associa-

tion something less than $10,000 of cap-

ital was required. This amount was





divided about equally between the re





tail grocery trade of the village of

Stillwater and the farmers of the sur-

rounding country.



After organizing, the association se-

cured a warehouse conveniently locat-

ed and on the railroad where adequate

shipping facilities were provided. A





’ manager was hired. This in a general





,way constitutes the machinery of an

organization established to serve the

needs ofa community. In carrying

out the program, the manager, for in-

stance, designates certain days for the

receipt of live stock shipments from

farmers. On those particular days the

‘local 'slaughterers or butchers are pres-

ent to make their selections of such

stock as they may need in their local

trade. The surplus is





 





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Here Is a marketing plan designed to serve the entire community.

It provides the farmers with an agency for marketing their crops and

an institution through which they can purchase their supplies in quan-

lt» keeps local retailers supplied with home-grown stuff and

gives the consumers the advantage of lower prices and better goods.





 





 





'it they are not necessarily obliged to





overstock, as the cooperative associa-

tion can take care of the surplus pro-

ducts. There is no retail business

from the warehouse, except in ship-

ments of special commodities sold to

the farmers, like seed, fertilizers, etc.



With this plan or system of local

marketing there is definite gain to the

retail grocer who is a member of the

association. He has within his reach

a warehouse well supplied with farm

produce that has been properly stored

with the minimum of wastage and ex-

pense. The friction of dickering with

customers who have produce to offer in





exchange for goods is avoided. All,





goods are bought upon their merits.

Competing stores divide carloads of

perishable products such as peaches,





strawberries, etc., instead of overload-

ing the market.



The system also works to the advan-

tage of consumers. The volume of bus-

iness is increased and waste is elim-

inated. Canned fruits and vegetables,

for instance, are purchased in carload

lots and disposed of on specified days,

which permits the saving of much ex

pense that would otherwise be incur-

red. One case is recorded in Stillwa—

ter where apples were bought from out-

side producers and sold to farmers and

other consumes at about what inde-

pendent dealers paid in Wholesale lots,

and yet gave the retailers who handled

these apples a fair profit.



The local manager is the expert

salesman and buyer for the community

and his services are beneficial to all





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then ‘shipped to whatever

market offers the best

price. It can be seen at

once that this» arrange-

ment does away with the

heavy expense of stock

buyers traveling over the'

community to collect the

stock, and also gives the

local butchers a chance

to buy at the minimum of

expense.



Other products are

handled according to the

conditions obtaining. For

instance, hay, straw and

similar bulky products

are either shipped on con-

signment or bought , by

the organization. Such

products as butter, eggs,

fruits and vegetables are

usually brought _to the

community market where

a price is made by the

community 9m an a g e r .

This price is based upon

the quotations ruling in

outside markets. Such an

"arrangement overcomes

the loss resulting from





 





prices which so frequent-

Iyocgurs. in small market

places during times of;





their merit and paid for

cash wees handled on





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mpr‘Gppot-tunlty of Demonstrating that their

Products are Built Along Sound Mechanical Lines for Farm Power. Work will be Abundant





concerned. He ships the surplus pro?

ducts as conditions warrant, oftentimes

in carloads, when heretofore accumu-

lations beyond local needs were wast-

ed or shipped to disadvantage. A pro-

ducer having special crops in either

large or small quantities telephones

the manager giving the quantity for

sale, when a trained salesman is at

once put to work to secure for him the

best price, instead of endeavoring to

make the most profit for the handling

concern. The salesman or market

manager pays on the delivery of goods,

the current market price, or if pre-

ferred, handles the goods on consign—

ment. At the end of the year a divi-

dend is declared on the basis of busi-

ness done, all expenses of operation

being deducted from the gross receipts.

An attempt is already being made to

establish one of these c0mmunity mar-

keting associations in this state, on

which we are planning to give a de-

tailed report in an early issue of this

journal. Any community desiring to

investigate the briefly outlined plan of

cooperation should correspond with the

State Market Director at East Lansing.

Why, in this trying hour, should we

mention matters of this character? For

a century and more, different peoples,

led by America, have been working,

teaching and fighting to establish the

principles of democracy

in the governments of the

world. Today, it seems,

we are making the su-

preme test of these prin-

ciples, for democracy is

fighting to prove itself

stronger and more effi—

cient than a highly or-

ganized and thoroughly

developed autocratic sys-

tem of government.

Cooperation bears prac-

tically the same relation

to business that democ-

racy does to government.

And inasmuch as cooper-

ation means efficiency it

would seem a propitious

time to adopt or extend

the principle of coopera-

tion as we rally our forc-

es in defense of democ-

racy. Each will succeed

best in the presence of

the. other. Can we not

make. democracy strong

and safe by doing busi—

ness on just principles?

In the adoption of a plan '

patterned after the one

above described, a com-

munity not only brings

into a closer bond the in-

dividuals of each indus-

try, but the plan is also

designed to bring togeth-

er producers, distributors

and consumers. Certainly

any movement that influ-

ences people to do their

work in harmony cannot p;

but help strengthen de—HL

moc1acy. - p» ’





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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





War, in a good cause, is

not the greatest evil which

a nation can suffer. War

is an ugly thing, but not

the ugliest of things; the decayed and

degraded state of moral and patriotic

- feeling which thinks nothing worth a

war is worse. When a people are used

as more human instruments for firing

cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the

service for the selfish purposes of a

. master, such war degrades a people.

“A war to protect other human beings-

against tyrannical injustice, a war to

give victory to their own ideas of right

_and good, and which is their own war,

carried on for an honest purpose by

their free choice is often the means of

their regeneration. A man who has

nothing which he is Willing to fight for,

nothing which he cares more about

than he does about his personal safety

is a miserable creature, who has no

chance of being free, unless made. and

kept so by the exertions of better men

_than_himself. As long as justice and

injustice have not terminated their

° ever—renewing fight for ascendency in

the affairs of mankind, human beings

must be willing when need is, to do

battle for the one against. the other.”

The idea of fighting for humanity

was expressed in the above words by

that great student and humanitarian,

John Stuart Mill, over a half century

:ago. He was a leader of world wide

' reputation and the truth, as expressed

by him, is the same today, tomorrow

«and will be so till the end of time.





War for

Humanity.





From early reports of

subscriptions to the

third Liberty Loan, it

would appear that when

the returns are all in, those who have

‘ heretofore charged that the farmers of

'Michigan and the country have not

'purcased Liberty Bonds as freely as

' they ought, may find it necessary to

apologize for such statements. Returns

obtainable after the first day of the

third Liberty Loan campaign indicated

that at least two central Michigan

counties in which agriculture is the

predominating industry had over- -sub—

. scribed their quota of the loan on the

11m day of the campaign. '





The Third

Liberty Loan.





When this issue reaches 'the reader.”





:1 one week '01 the campaign will have





 





tural counties ‘01? the state will have

equaled or exceeded their allotted sub-

scription to this loan. ‘We ”are confl-

dent that before the third Liberty Loan





is closed, every agricultural county in





the state will have discharged its obli-

gation in a similar manner.

In this connection the importance of





5- small subscriptions by people who are

not in a position to take a large block





of these Liberty Bonds should not be

overlooked. The aggregate purchasing

power of people who could purchase a

single bond of small denomination





probably exceeds the total purchasing





power of those in a position to buy in

large denominations of $1,000 or more.

The patriotic support of the small pur-

chaser of Liberty Bonds is just as im-

portant to the government in the pres-

ent crisis as is the liberal suppOrt of

those who are in a financial position to

make larger purchases.



Indeed, if the war is to be won—as

it must be won if the cause of liberty

is to be perpetuated in America as well

as in the world—it is essential that ev-

ery citizen give such financial support

to the government as he is capable

of rendering. Every person Who can

purchase even a small Liberty Bond

should do so at this time, and those

who feel themselves unable to sub-

scribe to the Liberty- Loan should aid

the government and themselves by the

purchase of thrift stamps. It should

be remembered by all that. there is no

safer investment than the obligations

of the United States government, and

that in helping the government in the

present emergency. they are at the

same time adding to their future pros-

perityby such an investment of their

savings.





First hand reports from

The Silver men who have spent con~

Lining. siderable time in the bel





ligerent countries of Eu-

rope all agree regarding the lessened





production of food stuffs of all kinds ‘





under war conditions and the deple-

tion of the live stock on the farms in

the waning countries All agree that

the rehabilitation of European agricul-

ture will be a matter of years rather

than of weeks or months aftei the war

is over. All agree that there will be a

great demand for food stuffs of all

kinds and for live stock to build up

the depleted flocks and herds as well

as for live stock products to feed

the people of those countries after

peace has been declared. All agree

that the same conditions which make

it necessary for the United States to

furnish food stuffs for the peOple as

well as the armies of our European

Allies at the present time will make it

equally necessary for this country to

provide the requirements of these coun-

tries after the war.



Ships available for transportation of

such supplies can make the round trip

to the United States in about one-half

the time required from the Argentine,

the nearest other available source of

supply. The chaotic condition now pre-

vailing in Russia will eliminate that

great country from supplying the needs

of any of the'warrin gnations, except-

ing perhaps the central powers to a

limited degree. The prospects fora

future foreign demand for the products

of our farms is the proverbial silver

lining to the present war cloud from

the purely business point of View, as

the establishment of a lasting univer-

sal peace on the just basis of human

liberty is its silver lining from the

broader humanitarian viewpoint.



While the latter consideration is the

one for which we are willing to expend

Our blood and treasure, the purely bus-

iness prospect is one which should

stimulate every farmer while doing his

utmost to increasie food production in

the present emergency to lay the foun-

dation for; permanently. increased pro-





'du'ctibn by maintaining the mom: err-W





his soil and improving his live stock.





 





Figures. .‘ Comm





figures which should'be Of interest to

every. Michigan Farmer reader. This

bulletin gives eig‘ht'y‘two as the index

figure «for prices of food stuffs in 1910

when the American public Was first in-

troduced to the high cost gf living.' In

July, 1914, just before the outbreak of

the European war, this index figure

had advanced to 102, or about twenty-

7five per cent. Last December the same

index figure had risen to 157, or almost

double the figure for 1907.



The same bulletin gives index fig—'

ures for the wholesale price of all the

leading commodities in this country. In

1907 this index figure was ninety-one.

In 1917 it was'181. These figures show

that all prices have practically doubled

since 1907 when-the commodities of

commerce are taken as a whole and a

total average price is taken. This be-

ing true, the general situation has

changed chiefly in the relation of the

prevailing price of different commodi-

ties, hencc the relative advance of dif-

ferent classes of commodities becomes

of special interest.



In the advance of general index

prices this bulletin places drugs and

chemicals at the top. Cloth and cloth-

ing come next, with farm products

pushing them hard for second place.

On the other hand, lumber and build-

ing materials advanced the least of any

commodity during this period, while

fuel was next 10 thebottom. The fact

that prices for farm products stands

well toward the topin the general list,

and that from'the nature of their busi-

ness farmers sell more than they pur-

chase is a matter for congratulation.

It is another evidence of the fact that

agriculture is steadily coming into its

own. lnfortunately, it does not make

up for 01 op losses suffered through un-

favorable weather conditions, but it

should pxove an inspiration for future

efforts:





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





Wednesday, April 3.





The German offensive on the west-

ern front is practically, brought to a

standstill, with the French and British

maintaining a continuous front. It is

now apparent that the Germans have

Amiens as their objective. One of the

long range guns bombarding Paris

bursts and kills five members of the

crew—Secretary Baker, of the United

States army, now in Europe, makes

Pershing chief of censors on all infor-

mation concerning American forces in

France—Government annouces that

only 14,000,000 bushels of America’s

1917 corn crop have been exported to

date.-—In the Wisconsin senatorial con-

test Irvine L Lenroot, republican can—

didate, wins over both Davies, demo-

cratic contestant, and Berger, the so-

cialist representative who scored a

poor third position. Berger’s possible

strength made the contest one of na-

tional importance. —-Congress passes

the war finance bill which provides

for the issuing of $3,000,000,000 .of

bonds.



Thursday, April 4.



Allies are able to stiffen their lines



to meet new offensives by the enemy,





the belief being that the supreme strug'





gle has only just begun. Estimates

place losses during the first stage of

the great battle at 125, 000 for the A1-

lies and between 350, 000 and 450, 000

for the Teutons. —C_ount Czernin, of

Austria, delivers an address which is

predicted as a peace move on the part

of the central powers. -—Sta‘te gover-

nors are asked by Director- General Mc-

Adoo, of the United sates railways,

to see that the tax burdens on rail-

roads are made as light as possible

consistent with the necessities of the

states. —Forty- six of the sixty-two men

arrested in the anti-draft riots of Que-

bec are released. ~Nebraska House of

Representatives passes a bill to pre-

vent sedition.

Fridsy, April 5. .

Germans renew attack on wide front

against the French to the north of

Grivesnes, but are thrust back with-

out making any material gain. The

American forces are reported to be cc-

cupying a sector on the Mouse heights

south pf Verdun. .Thloya: Eermah; Am-

er inane nno nee e r 1n en'ti o co-

begin ‘ssiistiiig”tlf “"f'Or at

democracy in the German empire. —-





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eh

tist‘ics mom a tum»

mary of the index price





at any of thesetes post Cameos _





each month, which will provide as no.-

tional army of 1,350 .000 by Bomber

31.—-Fire destroys wholesale district

of Kansas City, entailing a property

loss estimated at over $7,000,000. '





Saturday, .April 6. :





Germans are forced back by French.





and obliged to take the defensive near

Moreuil. General Haig also repulses

bitter attacks further to the north. The

enemy drive for the Amiens-Paris rail-

way fails. Berlin reports that 90,000

prisoners and 1,300 guns have been

.captured since the offensive opened on

March 21._———Japa.nese naval forces land

at Vladivostock to protect property and

life and prevent disorders—Announce-

ment is made that the baking of white

bread and rolls will be discontinued

throughout the United States after Ap-

ril 13.—The administration at Wash-

ington asks for legislation which will

empower the Federal government to

deal severely with all forms of disloy-

alty—Mass meetings are held in large

cities to start third Liberty bond cam-

paign. ‘Chief among these is the meet~

ing in Baltimore where President Wil-

son declares that the sword will be

necessary 'to bring peace. '





Sunday, April 4.





Between the Oise and Somme rivers

heavy fighting takes place in which

powerful German attacks were com-

pletely repulsed by the French on the

left bank of the Oise, where the French

were forced to withdraw to previously

preparedpositions. Artillery on both

sides are continuing heavy firing in the

Argonne about St. Mihiel and in the

region of Ban de 'Sapt.——Military com~

mittee announces its intention of sub-

.mitting a bill providing for universal

military service in this country.——Ger-

mans are reported to be overruning

Finland.-—British troops land at Vladi-





avostock apparently to cooperate with





the Japanese who are already there.~—-



One hundred and fifty towns report



their full quota of Liberty Bonds sold



on the first day of the Campaign;

Monday. April 8.





Constantinople reports that Russians

have been cleared from all of Ottoman

Armenia. —~—Counter_-attack by the Brit-

ish regains their old line on the Ancre

river. —Germans continue to make at-

tacks along the Discs and claim the

capture of tyre towns. The French

drive'the Germans from positions in

the region of Chauny and Barisis, also

on the Oise front.—-The former impe-

rial family of Russia is to be removed

by the Bolsheviki government to a.

town in the Ural mountains. -—An-

nouncement is made of plans for aerial

mail service between Washington, Phil-

adelphia and New York. ———Nearly 1000

men were taken into custody during

raids by the home guardsmen and dep-

uty sheriffs in Minneapolis for failing

to have registration or classification

cards. Thirty of these were held as

slackers.





Tuecday, April 9.





Germans extend fighting along 132

mile front from Armentieres on the

north to Chauny on the south. Allied

line gives way slightly before Coucy.

At Ancre the British push their line

forward a short distance. Present op-

erations—which exceed in the number

of men engaged and the armaments

used, that of any battle in history—-

was evidently begun to turn the flanks

of the allied forces to enable the Ger-

mans to reach Amiens, their objective.

.—Spain is wavex ing in her position of

neutrality by reason of threats from

Germany to sink Spanish ships unless

a proposed treaty with the United

States, ag1 eed to on March 7, fails of

ratification by the government of Ma-

drid .—Government commandeers five





great lake steamers. —Congress is ask- '





ed by War Industries Board for $150,-

000,000 to provide housing accommoda-

tions in order that munition work may

be rushed.





CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.





 





The Civil Service Commission ana

nounces examinations to be held April

24-25, 1918, for “Scientific Assistant in

Marketing.” Applicants must have

graduated from a four-year course at

a college or university of recognized

standing or be a senior in such an in-

stitution and furnish proof of actual



graduati-on within six months from

date of this examination. Examinations

will be heldat ‘the' folloWing points

throughout the state of Michigan: Ann

Arbor, Cheboygan, Detroit, Escanaba,

Grand Rapids, Ironwood. Kalamazoel.

Lansing, Manistee, Marquette, Sagi-

naw,Sau1t Ste. Marie and Traverse

City. Application blanks may be 1)-





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OR= best results the soil must be

F placed in good tilth and the seed



bed well prepared before planting

begins. Fall plowing that has been

left rough during the winter to gather

air and moisture will pulverize and

work up nicely under the disk and

harrow. Fields- plowed in the spring

should be worked and firmed down so

capillary connection with the solid

earth underneath will be thoroughly

established. Soil left loose and cloddy

will lose moisture rapidly while the

little air pockets are disastrous to the

tender roots of the young plants. Soil

worked when too wet will come out

chunky and hard so that it is difficult

to work down, sometimes requiring the





beneficial effects of the hard spring.





rains to dissolve the lumps.



Plowing and stirring helps to get the

air into the stores of potassium, phos-

phorous and lime resulting in the chem-

ical process of oxidation of these ele-

ments which are usually abundant in





 





e seed Bed

EATON





red. Compact clay soils give the most

trouble, since they puddle when too

wet and bake and turn cloddy when

too dry. Soils in which there is consid-

erable sand give the least difficulty of

all. Increase in the avaliable supply of

humus in the soil will improve the

tillability of the soil and assist mate-

rially in increasing the crop yield. It

will pay to put in extra time and effort

in the preparation of a first-class seed

bed this spring before putting the seed

into the ground.





Grub Control





. By DON B. WHELAN

NUMEROUS complaints of the rav-





 





ages of cutworms, especially in



their relation to corn, are heard

every year. When their presence is

first noticed in the spring prompt ac-

tion is necessary. The cutworm injury

is generally worst in the spring about

the time that corn is coming through





 





 





The Disc is Indispensable on Many Soils.





soils of ordinary fertility, thus releas-

ing much valuable plant food for the

coming crops. In the limited time we

have and the necessity of giving a part

of our attention to other farm work,

it is scarcely possible to perform too

much labor on the seed bed. Our great

trouble is always in getting time

enough to do all we should like to do.



It is a good plan to follow each day’s

plowing with the harrow and if the

weather is especially drying, then ev-

ery half day’s plowing should be har-

rowed. With the tractor, not only cap-

able of pulling the plows, but the har-

row as well, this problem is largely

solved. The sooner the harrow can

follow the plow, the better will be the

condition of the soil and the higher the

moisture content. Fields that plow up

with large chunks should be given a

good double disking before resorting

to the harrow. A little extra time

spent with the disk and harrow may

res t in adding a good many bushels

to t e yield at harvest time.



Judicious use of the roller in spring

tillage will assist materially toward

the compaction of the soil, depending

largely upon the nature of the soil.

Soil inclined to be sandy is apt to

blow and drift, following the use of

the roller if it crushes it up very fine;

while other soils rolled when too moist

will form a crust more injurious than

the rolling will be beneficial. The use

of the roller in breaking up crusts, pul-

verizing clods and smoothing down un-

even ground so as to form a desirable

dust mulch has much to commend it in

the preparation of a good seed bed.



The depth at which plowing should

be done will vary with different soils.

Generally, it is better to do the deep

plowing in~ the fall and medium depth





in the spring. Moisture conditions and '





g the nature of the soil must necessarily

." vern the time to begin plowing. The

‘ “' Md {seem friable when stir .





 





 





 





, vegetation. This accounts for the fact





the ground when they cut the plant off

at just below the surface of the ground.

This injury may continue until late

June or July, by which time the worms

are full grown. During the day the

worms hide under refuse or just below

the surface of the soil but come out at

night when feeding takes place. If

some plants have been found out off,

the} culprit can generally be found

within a few inches of the place hiding

just beneath the surface of the soil.

Life History.



There are many species of cutworms

but inasmuch as their histories are sim-

ilar, as well as their habits and gen-

eral appearances, they are all consid-

ered under the general name of cut—

worms. The adults of the cutworms

are grayish or brownish moths or

“millers,” which are often seen flying

around lights on a summer’s evening.

Each moth lays from two hundred to

five hundred eggs on the lower leaves

of grass in fields covered with dense





that cutworms are often abundant in

fields which have been in grass or

weeds the preceding fall. The eggs

hatch in the early fall, a few weeks

after they are laid, and the young cut-

worms, after feeding on grass and oth-

er vegetation until cold weather, pass

the winter as partly grown caterpillars.

If such fields are undisturbed the cut-

worms will feed on the grass, weeds,





etc., and little damage will result, but .





if it is broken up and corn or some

other cultivated crop is planted the

worms find themselves deprived of

much of their ‘food so the newly plant-

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from some solid log and bore a hole





in the center. Slip the wheel on the





strap and fasten with nut and washer.

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THE GATEWAY THAT DOESN’T

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enough more water to make a good

stiff mash. This bait should be dis-

tributed over the infested field in small

lumps, taking care to sprinkle it spar.





ingly around each plant. Inasmuch as .





the cutworms do most of their feeding

at night it is best to apply this poison

in the evening so that the worms will

find it before it dries out. The time

of year to apply this bait is about when

the corn comes through the ground,

this will catch the worms early before

they can do any damage and will allow

for a replanting of injured hills.





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2); and insert a stick and twist it up

(No. 3). When the gate-posts are set

up in this manner, the whole length

of fence can be stretched, stapled fast

and the gateways cut out; your gate-

posts cannot “give” an inch, and the

fence remains just as tight as when

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any amount of freezing and heaving of

the ground loosen it, as in the case of

braces.



There are many ways of bracing the

corner posts, the surest of which is to

use an anchor; but the anchor cable is

usually in the way and is therefore im-

practical. The method depicted in il-

lustration No. 4 is especially desirable

in light soil Where it is difficult to hold

a corner rigid.





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A ONE MAN HAY LOADER.





 





Haying time is always to be found

the one busy season of the year.

At this time there is always a big de-

mand for extra labor and all labor-sav-

ing devices must be called into service.

The following described device when

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make it possible for one man to do .8

creditable job of loading the hay while

driving the team at the same time.



It is a. fact that most farmers know

that the ordinary hay loader will load.

one-half of the wagon in very good

shape with very little attention. The

one-man hay loader takes' advantage

of this by having the loader load two

separate halves of the wagon one after

the other. It. is accomplished by mak-

ing' use of a sled that is fastened be-

tween slats nailed to the sides of s

solidzbottomod hay. wagerinwhich re

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it is filled by the hay-loader it is pulled

forward and the rest of the load put

on. Last summer this device was used

to good advantage by a number of

farmers in this section and it helped

them a great deal in getting the hay in

ahead of. the summer rains.

Indiana. W. E. WIECKING.





A HOME-MADE DIBBLE.





‘In setting strawberry and cabbage

plants, I have found a home-made

wooden dibble to be better than either

a metal dibble or a spade.



I take a piece of straight grained

board about two feet long and an inch

thick. With a draw-shave I make it

the shape shown here. The bottom is

shaved to an edge. In order to use this

tool to advantage, the ground must be

mellow.



The hole made by the metal dibble

or spade is only a slit in the ground.





This does not give sufiicient room to

spread the roots of the plants. The

hole is also too deep, and unless care

is used, there will be a vacant space

left under the roots which will allow

them to dry out. i ..



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‘ the right depth and shape. It also” has

another advantage in that the earth

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,3 if! HEN the haying rush comes on

215255.» this season, a good deal of hay



. fist-fl money is going to be lost on many

farms—and saved on many other farms—in

the short space of a few weeks. A very few

days’ delay, a rainy day or two, poor curing

facilities. and hay Values vanish like magic. Everything

depends on haying machine preparedness. Will you be

ready for haying? '



Good hay is made in fast time with little help, year

after year, on farms equipped with mowers, rakes,

tedders, side delivery rakes, loaders, etc... sold by lnter-

national Harvester dealers.



Champion, .Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee and

Osborne Mowers, Dump Rakes and Tedders have

been too long and favorably known on forty million

acres of hayfield to need description.



Every hay grower should become familiar with the

construction of the new International, Keystone and

Osborne Combined Side Delivery Rake and Tedder.

This popular. economical machine has two duties in





   





   





one— it can be instantly adjusted for rake or for tedder.

lt rakes clean, teda thoroughly, and handles hay gently.

It is a left-hand-delivery rake, which means it can

follow the mower closely and strike the heads first (not

the stems). It does clean work, piling two swaths at

once on the clean stubble (not on an unralced swath),

which means proper curing. Quickly adjustable to any

condition of hay and ground.



International, Keystone and Osborne Windrow

Loaders are built to last. Pulled easily by two horses,





- they load uniformly, leave the field clean, lift hay over





l0 feet, do not thresh off blossoms and leaves. Sold

with or without forecarriage and are released easily

from top of load.



Hay values are high. These tools, which put hay

under cover in prime condition four or five hours after

cutting, return their price, and more, to your pocket.

The International Harvester dealer can furnish you with

proper sizes and types and special equipment. (The

lines include also sweep rakes. stackers, and combined

sweep rakes and stackers.) WARNING: This is a

year of big demand for machines, scant supply and

handicapped shipping. Act early and be certain. See

the dealer—write to the address below {or folders.





 

 

 

   

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 

 





   

 





 

 

 

   





 

 

   

   

 

 





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Century Silos are built for dur-





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Plowing Hills, Hummocks and Corners





, The “hard-to-plow” places offer no difficulties to the Parrett

Tractor. The front axle, mounted on aspecial pivot, swings freely

up and down enabling the Parrett to go easily over hills and hum-

mocks and to adapt itself to rough, uneven ground. The unusually

short turning radius allows it to get right up into the corners.





For five years, in all kinds of soils and climates, the Parrett has

proved its ability. Pulls three 14 inch plows; operates a 20 to 26

inch seperator or does any other kind of belt work; burns kero—

sene; does not require a special hitch; is self steering in the furrow;

special ball governor maintains an economical use of fuel at all

times; and it can be operated easily by a boy. Write for the

Parrett Catalog.





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ICHIGAN is famous as an oat

M state. -The soil and climate

are well adapted to the produc-

tion of this crop. We can do out part

best in this war by increasing the

acreage and yield per acre of the crops

we can grow best. A bumper oat crop

means another bump for the Kaiser.





Getting the Most Out of Oats.

When asked how to get the most out

of the oat crop, successful oat growers

almost invariably agree in their state-

ments. ' “Plant a good variety fairly

early in the season on well prepared

loam or clay loam; treat seed with for-





acid phosphate to get better yields and

more rapid growth.”



Though oats do best on well drained

loam and clay loams, well supplied

with organic matter, successful yields

are often secured on sandy loams, well

fertilized with manure and phosphate.

On heavy clay and muck soils oats fre-

quently lodge,, but this tendency can

be largely overcome





By J. F. cox -

Farm Crops Specialist, M. A. C.





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shoveled over thoroughly to insure a

thorough application. After treatment

the grain should be shoveled into a.

heap, covered tightly with a tarpaulin

or sacks for four hours. Then the

heap should be opened and aired. The

oats are then ready for seeding imme-

diately. '





Sowing and Fertilizing.



As a general rule, oats should be

sown as early as the soil warms up

and can be put in properrcondition.‘

Oats are usually planted in Michigan '

in late April or early May. The ear-

lier planting gives opportunity ‘for

development before the hot .

spells of summer occur. , .



In applying fertilizer for oats, acid

phosphate or commercial fertilizer

high in phosphate, is usually sown

through fertilizer attachment on drill.

From two hundred to three hundred

pounds of acid phosphate, or fertilizer,

high in phosphorus, should be applied





 





by planting a stiff

strawed variety, such

as the Worthy, and by

using acid phosphate

or other

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Oats do best on a





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from such treatment.

Experiments of Dr. M.

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Agricultural College,





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plowed land can be

put in excellent shape

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well fitted by the use





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of Air Curing Hay"





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This System consists of following the

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to pack the lower part

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firmly and to fit the

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Sow early to allow crop

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weather arrives.





of the disc. Weedy or rieties like “Worthy” oats grown in Michi-

intractable soils need for clay soils and “Al- gan and a still larger

plowing, but spring exander” for lighter number which do not

plowing for oats soils. ‘ yield as well and

should be shallow. The N. thereby cause a loss

turned soils should be Treat for smut with in comparison, to the

immediately followed formaldehyde. farmers who grow

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for Planting.

It'means several bushels in yield

and less weeds on the land if seed cats

are fanned thoroughly with a good fan-

ning mill. Light oats, pin oats, chaff,

weed seeds and dirt can all be effec-

tively removed. In case of oats, more

than with other grains, large plump

seed gives an increase in production.

The formaldehyde treatment is an

important factor in insuring big yields.

It has been demonstrated that this

treatment almost completely controls

loose smut of cats. The method com-

monly used for many years consists of

sprinkling seed oats thoroughly pre-

vious to seeding with a solution of the

proportion of one pound of forty per

cent formaldehyde to forty gallons of

water. . Oats are spread out on the

floor or in tight wagon box, sprinkled

with solution, being shoveled over until

thoroughly moistened. About one gal-

lon of solution is needed for one bushel

of oats. The cats are then piled up

and covered with wet sacks for from

three to six hours. They are then

spread out to dry.

The new concentrated formaldehyde

treatment advised by the Department

of Botany of the Michigan Agricultural

College, is much more convenient and

equally effective. In this treatment

the oats are sprayed with the concen-

trated formalin, using small hand-

sprayer such as is commonly employed

in spraying potatoes. One pint. of forty

per cent formaldehyde will treat fifty

bushels. of oats. For convenience a

pigt or more of .ggter may bandied.

Sprayer should he held close to. the





 





(surface of. the: beta the. cats. betas





pcndability. The Wor-

thy are available in large quantities,

and are best adapted to heavier loams

and clay loams. The Alexander,’though

not greatly different, havev given ex-

cellent results on lighter soils as well.



College Success and Wolverine, new-

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small quantities, are high-yielding va-

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that have given success are Swedish

Select, Big Four, Great Dane, and New

Victor. In choosing your variety care '

should be taken to find the strain that

has given good results under similar

conditions and in the same locality

where it is to be grown. Judge the

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Would it be





Are seed beans grown

’ Cityp affected by blight?

- .advisable' to send there for seed to

plant in Lapeer county? How much

Cottonseed meal can one safely feed to

a dairy cow? How much to a fatten-

ing steer? What is the best crop to

sow on clay land to furnish protein to

put with ensilage corn? Where can

the seed be obtained?

Lapeer Co. READER.





Beans grown in the northern part of

the state are not as apt to be infected

with blight and anthraCnOSe as those

grown farther south largely because

the disease has not become prevalent

there as yet, but the mere fact that

they were grown in the northern part

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whether these beans were infected by

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Amount of Cottonseed Meal to Feed.

No one recommends feeding dairy

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seed meal per day but for short pe-

riods more than this can be fed with-

out any appreciable danger. Therefore

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tening steers a large amount as they

are only fed for a short time and then

slaughtered. The trouble comes in

feeding’dairy cows too much cotton-

seed meal over long periods of time.

I should say that if one would care

fully keep increasing the amount of

cottonseed meal for steers that as

much as five; six or perhaps eight

-pounds could be fed to a steer daily.

Best Crop to Furnish Protein with

Corn Silage.

There are several crops that can be





protein than corn silage, and they can

be mixed with the corn silage at the

time of filling the silo and this increas-

es the per cent of protein in the sil-

age. Undoubtedly, soy beans is one of

the best crops that can be grown for

this purpose. These beans can be

grown on separate land then mixed

at the time the silo is filled. A number

of farmers have made quite a success

in growing the beans right with the

'corn, planting them at the same time.

Then the beans can be harvested at

the same time and they are well mix-

' ed with the silage and it is all done at

little cost for labor. You can buy

your beans of any reliable seedsman.

Dwarf Essex rape is another crop

much richer in protein than corn sil-

age and this can be readily groivn any-

where in Michigan and mixed with the

silage when the silo is filled. Some

people raise sunflowers, the seeds of

which are very rich in protein and

these are [mixed with the ensilage as

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‘ ARDEN warfare is nine parts

G strategy and one part force.

Strategy refers to the “know

how” while force refers to the “doing,”

which will ultimately be the undoing of

the garden pests. .

General Washington said: "If you

are going to fight Indians, you will have

to fight as they do.” In other words,

the success of Indian warfare depend‘

ed upon how well the opposition knew

the habits and modes of Indian life.

and the peculiarities of Indian warfar'e.

So it is in the garden. Insect fighting

is successful only when the gardener

knows the habits of the insects he

fights. 4

Use the Right Dope.



For instance, there is the humble

plant louse that So often tantalizes and

provokes the housewife who would like

to keep a few plants. Many a goodly

pound of arsenate of lead has been

used up spraying these creatures. Still,

they thrive on it. and their avoirdupois

grows greater every day. The good

wife comes into her plant room two or





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those that kill merely upon coming In

must be killed by contact sprays or

contact with the louse’s body. It will

be readily seen that any stomach poi-

son, such as Paris green or arsenate

of lead cannot be ingested by an insect

with sucking mouth parts and cannot,

therefore, be'used against any of the

countless forms of plant lice, stink

bug's, squash bugs, plum curculio and

others of their ilk.





Traps for Bugs.



One dark evening last spring an

enamored couple picked their way

along the side of a country road in a.

sure, though not ,too rapid route to.

wards home. Passing a farmer’s gar-

den, they saw several lanterns here

and there through the garden. This

being a rather uncommon sight to the

belated ones, the fuzzylhaired girl

made this lackadaisical query to avoid

another burning question whose asker

was still in the dark. “I wonder if





this old farmer is trying to light up all

outdoors or is he trying to get rid of

his coal oil?





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three days after such a spraying and

disgustedly finds the opulent, louse

tethered to the same spot. “Dear me,”

she wrathfully ejaculates, "I wonder

why they don’t eat the arsenate of lead

I gave them?”



As a killing matter, the housewife

has forgotten that the plant louse is

not a potato beetle. Because the po-

tato beetle sips the luscious arsenate

of lead and forthwith watts his toes

and thoughts Skyward, she thinks the

louse should follow suit and do like-

wise. Perhaps she doesn’t know it,

but a long while ago the plant lice

decided to be in a class by themselves.

So they lost their teeth, if they ever

had any, and grew sucking mouthparts

Now when a plant louse de-

sires dinner, he does not clumsily gnaw

away at the outer rind of a leaf. In-





‘ stead”, he scouts out and stealthily ap-





proaches a tender spot in the leaf’s

surface. Deftly and with one thrust

he pushes his hollow sword-like bill

through the tough outer surface and

into.the tender juices and pulp be-

neath. He curls his legs up under him

and prepares for the feast. When the

irate housewife tries to drown him

with the unholy arsenate spray, his

face assumes rotundity, a chuckle is-

sues forth and the feast proceeds un-

molested.





To Control Plant Lice.

However, should the housewife be





seen coming in with a spray gun load-





ed with nicotine, sulphate, or kerosene

emulsion, the louse immediately. site

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light so that the bugs. can work at

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Cutworm Control.



Probably the cutworm is the most

troublesome form of insect that is in.

our gardens, one year with another.

The mother of the cutworm is a night-

flying moth and the farmer who had

the lanterns resting in the pans of

kerosene oil told me he thought this

practice saved him a great many vege-

tables each year because it destroyed

so many of the parent moths.



As he pointed to a plant that had

been gnawed off, the top lying wilted

on the ground, he said: “Do you see

that plant over there?" I nodded as-

sent, whereupon he continued, “I have

an idea that the cutworm who did the

cutting now lies cuddled there just un-

der the soil by the stump of that plant.

Those cutworms certainly are wise old

boys. They don’t like anything else

but wilted food and they have found

that cutting by day is a rather risky

bit of hewing, so they just crawl out at

night and cut the plant off, burrow

down close beside the stump and wait

until the next night. By this'time the

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do or the plants themselves that it is

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at night by attracting them with the

lantern.



It is also possible to poison a good





many cutworms by using a poisoned-





bran bait which is sprinkled in thin

patches about over the garden and is

eaten by them when out on their noc-

turnal scouting raids. In the morning

there a few cutworms at least that

have cut their last.



Arsenical Poisoning.





0n the other hand, there are a good

many troublesome insects bold enough

to gnaw by day and any insect that

does this causes the gardener no trou-

ble except the application of the stom-

ach poison. Arsenate of 'lead is one of

the most suitable of stomach poisons

that is now in use for insects that have

chewing mouth and parts and chew the

outer portions of whatever part of the

plant they attack. The Colorado po-

tato beetle, the black flea beetles that

occur on the tomato plants early in the

spring, and the tomato worm are com-

mon examples of this class, as is also

the coddl'ing moth larvae which is so

familiar to the orchardists. It is pretty

hard to kill an old potato bug, but the

reason is because she eats so little

rather than because the arsenate of

lead will not do it. Mos‘t~ adult beetles

have attained maturity and therefore

require but little nourishment; this

makes them very hard to combat.





The Tomato Worm.





Did you ever go into the tomato

patch in the middle of the day and

hear continuous noises like the sounds

of many small fire crackers? Some-

times there will be many of these com-

ing from different parts of the patch,

A large tomato worm busy gathering

up enough food for its growth will

make such a noise that may be dis-

tinctly heard several feet. While to-

mato worms can be easily killed with

arsenate of lead spray, it is customary

to pick them by hand since there are

usually such a relatively small number

of them.



What to do with a troublesome in-

sect depends upon knowing his habits

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that the intruder can be reached with

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4 OTWITHSTANDING the fact

N that in the past the hog was

despised by a considerable per-

centage of the civilized population of

the globe, and in the more recent

years has been berated with vigorous

terms, he stands today the most laud-

ed and highly honored of our domestic

animals. With all that has been said

in praise of Our domestic swine, the

linguistic experts of today can very

properly increase the number of words

that can be brought intoruse in extoll-

ing the merits of the American hog, for

all of his desirable characteristics do

not seem to be seen and fully appre-

ciated.



The various transformations through

which the hog has passed from the

dawn of the early days of capture and

imprisonment are well worth consider-

ing. From a wild, ferocious beast,

dangerous to approach, he has been

transplanted to a quiet, peaceful, trac-

table animal, that is easily controlled

and handily modified and changed in

many ways. From a slow—growing,

late maturing animal which once re-

quired several years to

bring him to a desired

weight for marketing

purposes, he has been

changed to a rapidly

growing animal, which

attains to desirable

marketing weights, of-

ten in six or eight

months, and rarely is

fed beyond a whole

year’s time. From an

animal which brought

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course sometimes, if farrowed earlier

,in the spring and later' in the fall, they

can be saved and reared successfully,

but there are conditions which are

likely to be met which makes the ven-

ture risky. If pigs have to be confined

too closely to the nest while small, the

foul odors and disagreeable tempera-

ture invites diseases which destroy a

considerable percentage of the pigs

and the outcome is discouraging. The

almost invariably fatal disease known

as the “thumps” is met with, under

such conditions. Then there is damp

conditions which invites catching cold,

followed by pneumonia and a general

unthrifty condition which requires

careful nursing and generous feeding

with warm, nourishing feeds to over-

come.



The balmy, sweet, fragrant air of

spring, which is usually ‘met with in

April seems to invite the pigs to come

out of the nest and remain in the sun-

shine which is health-giv‘ing and the

volunteer exercise strengthens and in-

vigorates the young pigs and starts

them frolicking and nipping the fresh





 





have the distinctively

prolific animals which

increase in a “tenfold

ratio,” (bringing ten. or more pigs at

a litter), and farrowing two lit-

ters per year. It is this latter charac-

teristic that ought to be considered at

its full worth at the present time.

Winning the War.



Our national food administrator has

said that it is ‘to be the American hog

that will win the war. If such is the

case better judgment should be used

than is usually displayed in breeding,

feeding and rearing the pigs. There

are losses and wastes sufficient 'to turn

the scale in the wrong direction in not

only large businesses, but in a gigantic

war. It will be well to learn to avoid

the wastes if we are to win in this

great conflict. The fact is too well

known to require repeating at the pres-

ent time, that the pork meats more

fully meet the requirements of the

laboring men in our great industries,

and in the army camps, than any other

class of meats. It is worth the while to

learn to follow the methods which Will

not only increase the number of hogs

raised, but will materially increase the

quantity of pork meats which will be

available for use.



Insuring the Numbers.



In pig breeding, as well as in many

other kinds of business there is too

much gambling with the odds, against

success. Too many take chances in

bringing pigs into the world 'when the

sows have not been properly fed and

handled, and when weather conditions

are likely to be against their meeting

with success.



There are two seasons of the year

when weather conditions are likely to

be favorable for saving newly farrowed'

pigs, and raising them. It is during

the first continuous warm weather in

the spring and the first comfortably

cool weather in the fall. For raising

pigs in the northern states the weather,





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Win the War with More Hogs.





herbage which contains the mineral.





substances which are needed to give

strength to the bones and elasticity to

the, muscles.





The abundance of and great variety

of feeds which are generally in reach

of the little pigs in October are just

what is needed to start the pigs to

growing rapidly and prepare them for

a continuous growth through the win-

ter. October pigs, well started, are not

feeble little pigs to winter, but are of

good size ready to rough it and con-

sume a great variety of feeds during

the winter, which will insure a rapid

growth. ,It is an old saying that “a fall

pig well started is half wintered.” Some

of the best show pigs, developed

among the different breeds, have been

fall pigs farrowed and started under

favorable conditions met with during

the fall months.





The number of pigs in the United

States at the present time is about

eight million less than what is consid-

ered the normal number. If we wish

to increase and maintain the number

of pigs up to the desired point, the saf-

est and surest way to attain to that

condition will be to select sows from

prolific families of hogs and make it

a rule to have each and every sow far-

row two litters of pigs per year in

April or early May and the other some

time between the middle of September

and the tenth of November. At such

dates a very large percentage of the

pigs can be saved and started well on

the way to market weights.



The Kinds of Feed to Use.



For many years people have enter-

tained erroneous ideas as to what

should constitute the feed for growing

pigs. The ration selected has been al-

most ifivariably a narrow one of which

corn has constituted the major part, if





not the entire ration. The pigs raised





under that plan have been reduced in

size, rarely, if ever, keeping up to the

size and weights of their ancestors.





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‘ Now that the prices for grain feeds

are abnOrmally high, it is a good time

to’ inaugurate a better plan for devel-

oping the pigs. Raise the feeds on the

farm. As early as the ground can be

plowed and fitted for sowing spring

crops, sow some field peas, and some

barley, and then some oats. Or oats

and peas and oats and barley can be

sown together, the crop harvested and

threshed, the grain ground and fed to

the pigs. Either mixture‘soaked in

water twelve hours before feeding will

make excellent feed for developing the

pigs. They will relish it and will grow

much faster on it than they will if fed

corn, or corn meal. One advantage in

using this ration is that it is not neces-

sary, to use corn to fit the pigs for

market; they will grow and the meat

harden enough for butcher bacon, a

popular and palatable brand, on the

mixture if as much of the oats are used

as the peas. For large hogs it may be

well to corn-harden them before kill-

ing or shipping to market.





increasing the Weights.



For reasons, not necessary to men-

tion, the average weights of the hogs

sent to market this year have been

considerably less than in former years.

Sixty pounds shortage on each and

every hog sold means a vast shortage

in pork meats available for the con-

sumers. The difference in the amount

of meat available, if at. hand, would

supply a large army of laborers or

soldiers.



It will be worth the while to use

more Of the mill feeds while the pigs

are small, and more of the peas, barley





‘ and oats while they are growing, fat.





tening for market with corn, when nec-

essary, to increase the amount of pork

to more nearly meet the requirements

of our consumers in our home country

as well as in our armies in Europe.

If the American hogs are to win the

war, indirectly, let us strive to give

them a boost that will help them to

increase in numbers and size until the

demand for pork meats will be fully

met.





BEEF ANIMALS.





 





The decline in the number- of cattle

on farms and ranges in the United

States from the high point of seventy-

two millions in 1907, reached its lowest

point in 1914, with an estimated total

of fifty-six millions. Since that date a

steady increase has been maintained,

the supply on Janhary 1, 1916, being

about sixty—two millions and on Janu-

ary 1, 1918, more than 66.8 millions, or

nearly five millions more than in 1910.



The exports of dressed beef and beef

products have increased 177 per cent

during the last three years. The short-

age of beef abroad, like the shortage of

other meat products, doubtless will be

accentuated as the war progresses.



Beef production can be increased in

the settled farm areas of the nation.

It can be increased everywhere by pre-

venting the loss of flesh by calves dur-

ing their first winter .nd keeping the

calves growing during this period so

that beef animals may be marketed at

earlier ages, thereby requiring the

maintenance of fewer stocker cattle

and making possible the maintenance

of larger breeding herds; by using a

larger proportion of bulls on the range

to insure larger calf crops; by using

good bulls only; by reducing the tick-

infested areas as rapidly as possible;

by eliminating as far as possible the

losses from disease and predatory ani-

mals; by transferring animals from

regions of scarcity of feed to those

where there is an abundance of feed;

by providing a more ample supply of

Winter feed and .better:.s_heiter,.-and by

utilizing all roughage‘iiroduced, either

as fodder,- ~hay,' or silage, and supple-

menting these feeds With more. nitro-

genous concentrates and less grain;
' The Final Factor in the World War





To t/ze American Farmer: 7 know how to make. Their wives should

can and dry the greatest possible quan-

tity of fruits and vegetables, so that

their own tables may be supplied, so far

,_ as practicable, by their own efforts. By

Armies Upon the far fields of France are so doing they will “eat less freight’ ’ , as

as chaff before the wind except as they well as fewer food prodUCts that can

are supported by other armies as large, be transported to the armies over seas.





as determined and as her01c 1n the fur— We must increase our production of

rows at home.





hogs from fifteen to fifty per cent.,

Last year we increased the planting of and our PTOdUCtiOH 0f poultry, 203$

six food crops4—corn, oats, rye, rice, and other meat and dairy animals, just

buckwhe’atandpotatoes—by‘22,000,000 as much as good farm practice will

aeres, and we increased the production, permit. ' .



Of those CTOPS by 900,000,000 [711811613 We must practice frugality, so that

over the five-year average. nothing will be needlessly consumed,

But What we did last yearis not enough. and we 111,11“ practice thrift, 80 that no

It is merely an earnest of what we money Will be needlessly spent. All

must do this year. Up to this time the money and all the food that the





America is not in the war twenty—fire nation can save will be needed to win





per cent. If we are going to win the the war.





W313 We must get in one hundred per We must keep stout and loyal hearts;

cent. . . we must neither falter nor doubt.





The winning of the world war, the

war of Civilization against Savagery,

rests, in the last analysis, with you.





We are going to win the war, but rc- The full duty of a'faithful soldier of

cent events in Russia and Rumania the furrows lies in these things.

indicate that if we are to win it in the

near future, we shall have to put every

ounce of our power into the fight.





I know—and the world knows—that

you are made of soldierly stuff. You

_ proved it last planting time. You will

We farmers must do our honest best to PTOVC it again—and finally—when the

produce the greatest quantity and the broad fields of this good land are again

best quality of food crops that we have white for the harvest.





ever grown. C) 2





City dwellers, as well as farmers, should

make the best kitchen gardens they .4557}?sz Secretary of flgrz'cu/ture.





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The Hercules Powder Company wel— and hopes, by so doing, to render

comes the opportunity to publish this some service to the Nation and to the

important statement by Mr. Vrooman, American Farmer.





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Here in thisvalley into which he

gazed was the same soft droning and

the warm sunshine that had filled all





the other valleys; and yet here, also,

was a different life. Other bears rang-

ed the slopes that he could see dimly

with his naked eyes far to the west

and north. It was a new domain, filled

' with other promise and other mystery,

and- he forgot time and hunger as he

sat lost in the enchantment of it.



It seemed to Langdon that these hun-

dreds or thousands of valleys would

never grow old for him; that he could

wander on for all time, passing from

one into another, and that each would

possess its own charm, its own secrets

to be solved, its own life to be learned.

To him they were largely inscrutable;

they were cryptis, as enigmatical as

life itself, hiding their treasures as

they droned through the centuries, giv-

ing birth to multitudes of the living,

demanding in return other multitudes

of the dead. As he looked off through

the sunlit space he wondered what the

story of this valley would be, and how

many volumes it would fill, if the val-

ley itself could tell it.



First of all, he knew, it would Whis-

per of the creation of a world; it would

tell of oceans torn and twisted and

thrown aside—~of those first strange

aeons of time when there was no night,

but all was day; when weird and tre-

mendous monsters stalked where he

now saw the caribou drinking at the

creek, and when huge winged creatures

half bird and half beast swept the sky

where he now saw an eagle soaring.



And then it would tell of The Change

——-of that terrific hour when the earth

tilted on its axis, and night came, and

a tropical world was turned into a.

frigid one, and new kinds of life were

born to fill it.



It must have been long after that,

thought‘Langdon, that the first hear

came to replace the mammoth, the

mastodon, and the monstrous beasts

that had been their company. And

that first hear was the forefather of

the grizzly he and Bruce were setting

forth to kill the next day!



So engrossed was Langdon in his

thoughts that he did not hear a sound

behind him. And then something rous-

ed him.



It was as if one of the monsters he

had been picturing in his imagination

had let out a great breath close to him.

He turned slowly, and the next mo-

ment his heart seemed to st0p its heat-

ing; his blood seemed to grow cold

and lifeless in his veins.



Barring the ledge not more than fif-

.teen feet from him, his great jaws

agape, his head moving slowly from

side to side as he regarded his trapped

enemy, stood Thor, the King of the





Mountains!



A stifled sound that was scarcely

a cry—was all that came from



Langdon’s lips as he saw the mom



strous grizzly looking at him. In the



ten seconds that followed he lived



hours.



His first thought was that he was

powerless. He could not even run, for

the rock wall was behind him, he could

not fling himself valleyward, for there

was a sheer fall of a hundred feet on

that side. He was face to face with

death, a death as terrible as that

which had overtaken the dogs.



And yet in these last moments Lang-

dOn did not lose himself in terror. He

' noted even the redness in the aveng-

,ig grizzly’s eyes. He saw the naked

scar along his back where one of his

'ilets had plowed; he‘saw the bare





 





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spot where another of his bullets had

torn its way through Thor’s fore-shoul-

der. And he believed, as he observed

these things, that Thor had deliberate-

ly trailed him, that the bear had fol-

lowed him along the ledge and had cor-

nered him here that he might repay in

full measure what had been inflicted

upon him.



Thor advanced—just one step; and

then in that slow, graceful movement,

reared himself to full height. Langdon

even then, thought that he was mag-

nificent. On his part, the man did not

move; he‘looked steadily up at Thor,

and ‘he had made up his mind what to

do when the great beast lunged for-

ward. He would fling’ himself over the

edge. Down below there was one

chance in a' thousand for life. There

might be a ledge or a projecting spur

to catch him.



And Thor!



Suddenly and unexpectedly he had

come upon man!

ture that had hunted him, this was-the

creature that had hurt him—and it_was

so near that he could reach out with

his paw and crush it! And how weak,

and white, and shrinking it looked

now! Where was‘its strange thunder?

Where was its burning lightning? Why

did it make no sound?



Even a dog would have done more

than this creature, fer the dog would

have shown its fangs; it would have

snarled, it would have fought. But

this thing that was man did nothing.

And a great, slow doubt swept through

Thor’s massive head. Was it really

this shrinking, harmless, terrified thing

that had hurt him? He smelled the

man-smell. It was thick. And yet

this time there came with it no hurt.



And then, slowly again, Thor came

down to all fours. Steadily he looked

at the man.



Had Langdon moved then he would

have died. But Thor was not, like





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sign of menace Neither came, and he

His nose swept. the

ground, and Langdon ‘saw the dust rise

where the grizzly’ s hot breath had stir-

red it. And after that, for another

long and terrible thirty seconds, the

bear'and the man looked at each other.





Then very slowly—and doubtfully—F '





Thor half turned. He growled. His

lips drew partly back. Yet he saw no

reason to fight,





rock made no movement to offer him

battle.

on, for the ledge was blocked by the

mountain wall. Had there been a trail

the story might have been different

for Langdon. As it was, Thor disap-

peared slowly in the direction from





which he had come, his great head.





hung low, his long claws click, click,

clicking like ivory castanets as he

went.



Not until then did it seem to Lang-

don that he breathed again, and that

his heart resumed its beating. He gave

a great sobbing gasp. He rose to his

feet, and his legs seemed weak. He

waited one minute, two three; and

then he stole cautiously to the twist in

the ledge around which Thor had gone.





The rocks were clear, and he began

to retract_his own steps toward the

meadowy break, watching and listen-

ing, and still clutching the broken

parts of his rifle. When he came to

the edge of the plain he dropped ‘down

behind a huge boulder.



Three hundred yards away Thor

was ambling slowly over the crest of

the dip toward the eastward valley.

Not until the bear reappeared on the

farther ridge of the hollow, and. then

vanished againydid Langdon follow.





When he reached the slope on which

he had hobbled his horse Thor was no

longer in sight. The horse was where

he had left it. Not until he was in the

saddle did Langdon feel that he was

completely safe. Then he laughed, a

nervous, broken, joyous sort of laugh,

and as he scanned the valley be filled

his pipe with fresh tobacco.



“You great big god or a bear!” he

whispered, and every fibre in him was





 





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“You—you menster with a heart big-I

ger than man!” And then he added,



under his breath, as if not conscious

that he was speaking: ' “If I’d cornered

you like that I'd have killed you! And

you]! You cornered me, and let me

live!”





He rode toward camp, and as he

went he knew that this day had given





the, final touch to the big change that





had been working in him. He had met

the King .of the Mountains; he had

stood face to face with death, and in

the last moment the four-footed thing

he had hunted and maimed had been

merciful. He believed that "Bruce

would not understand; that Bruce

could not understand; but unto him-

self the day and the hour had brought

:its meaning in a way that he would

not forget so long as he lived, and he

knew that hereafter and for all time

he would not again hunt the life of

Thor, or the lives of any of his kind.





Langdon reached'the camp and pre«

pared himself sowinner, and as he

ate this, with Muskwa for company, he

made new plans for the days ' and

weeks that were to follow. He would

send Bruce back to overtake Metoosin

the next day, and they would no longer

hunt the big grizzly. They would go

on to the Skeena and, possibly even up

to the edge of the Yukoni, and then

swing eastward into the caribou coun-

try some time early in September, hit-

ting back toward civilization on the

prairie side of the Rockies. He would

take Muskwa with them. Back in the

land of men and cities they would be

great friends. It did not occur to him

just them what this would mean for

Muskwa.



It was twovo’clock, and he was still

dreaming of new and unknown trails

into the north when a sound came to

rouse and disturb him. 'For a few min-

utes he paid no attention to it, for it

seemed to be only a part'of the dron.

ing murmur of the valley. But slowly

and steadily it rose above this, and at

last he got up from where he was lying

with his back to a tree and walked out

from the timber, where he could hear

more plainly.





Muskwa followed him, and when

ngdon stopped the tan- faced cub also

stopped. His little ears shot out in-

quisitively. He turned his head to the

north. From that direction the sound

was coming.





In another moment Langdon had rec-

ognized it, and yet even then he told

himself that his ears must be playing

him false. It could not be the barking

of dogs! By this time Bruce and Me

toosin were far to the south with the

pack; at least Metoosin should be, and

Bruce was on his return to the camp!

Quickly the sound grew more distinct,

and at last he knew that he could not

be mistaken. The dogs were coming

up the valley. Something had turned.

Bruce and Metoosin northward instead

of into the south. And the pack was

giving tongue—that fierce, heated bay-

ing which told him they were again on

the fresh spoor of game. A sudden thrill

shot through him. There could be but

one living thing in the length and

breadth of the valley that Bruce would

set the dogs after, and that was the

big grizzly!



For a few moments longer Langdon

stood and listened. Then he hurried

back to camp, tied Muskwa to his tree,

armed himself with another rifle, and

resaddled his horse. Five minutes lat-

er he was riding swiftly in the direc-

tion of the range where a short time

before Thor had given him his life.





 





CHAPTER XVIII.

HOR heard the dogs when they

were a mile away. There were

two reasons why he was even

less in a mood to run from them new ‘

than a few days before. Of the dogs

alone he had no more fear than itthey

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had been" so many badgers, or so many

whistlers piping at him from the rocks.

He had found them all mouth and lit-

tle fang, and easy to kill. ‘ It was what

followed close after them that disturb-





'ed him. But today he had stood face





to face with the thing that had brought

the strange scent into his valleys, and





' it had not offered to hurt him, and he





had refused to kill it. Besides, he was

she-bear,

and man is not the only animal that





will risk his life for love.



After killing his last dog at dusk of

that fatal day when they had pursued

him over the mountain Thor had done





- just what Bruce thought that he would

.do, and instead of continuing south-

,ward had made a wider detour toward





the north, and the third night after

the fight and the loss of Muskwa he

found Iskwao again. In the twilight of

that same‘ evening Pipoonaskoos had

died, and Thor had heard the sharp

cracking of Bruce’s automatic. All that

night and the next day and the night





that followed he spent with Iskwao, '





and then he left her once more. A

third ~time he was seeking her when he

found Langdon in the trap on the ledge,

and he had not yet got wind of her

when he first heard the haying of the

dogs on his trail.



He was traveling southward, which

brought him nearer the hunters’ camp.

He was keeping to the high slopes

Where there were little dips and mead-

ows, broken by patches of shale, deep

coulees, and occasionally wild upheav-

als of rock. He was keeping the wind

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fail to catch the smell of Iskwao when

he came near her, and with the baying

of the dogs he caught no scent of the

pursuing beasts, or of the two men

who were riding behind them.



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sire to find lids mate. The dogs Were

less than half q, mile away when he

stopped wddenlyfimpifled the air for a

moment, and then weapon swiftly un—

til he was halted by a narrow ravine.

Up that ravine Iskwao was coming

from a dip lower down the mountain,

and she was running. The yelpin’g of

the pack was fierce and close when





Thor scrambled down in time to meet





her as she rushed upward. Iskwao

paused fur a single moment, smelled

noses with Thor, and then went on, her

ears laid flat back and sullen and her

throat filled with growling menace. ,



Thor followed her, and he also growl—

ed. He knew that his mate was fleeing

the first bullet threw up a cloud of dust

from the dogs, and again that deadly

and slowly increasing wrath swept

through him as.he climbed after her

higher up the mountain.



In such an hour as this Thor was at

his worst. He was a. fighter when purJ





sued as the dogs had pursued him a,

week before—but he was a. demon, ter-,





rible and without mercy, when danger

threatened his mate.



He fell farther and farther behind

Iskwao, and twice he turned, his fangs

gleaming under drawn lips, and his de-

fiance rolling back upon his enemies

in low thunder.



When he came up out of the coulee

he was in the shadow of the peak, and

Iskwao had already disappeared in her

Skyward scramble. Where she had

gone was a wild chaos of rock-slide and

the piled-up debris of fallen and shat-

tered masses of sandstone-crag. The

sky—line was not more than three hun~





‘dred yards above him. He looked up.





Iskwao was among the rocks, and here

was the place to fight. The dogs were

close upon him now. They were com-

ing up the last stretch of the coulee,

haying loudly. Thor tu1 ned about, and

waited for them.



Half a mile to the south, looknig

through his glasses, Langdon saw Thor

and at almost the same instant the

dogs appeared over the edge of the

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well-beaten sheep t‘rall at about the

suns altitude ss Thor. From where

he stood the valley lay under his glass—

es for miles. He did not have far to

look to discover Bruce and the Indian.

They were dismounting at the foot of

the coulee. and as he gazed they ran

quickly into it and disappeared.



Again Langdon swung back to Thor.

The dogs were holding him now, and

he~ knew there was no chance of the

grizzly killing them in that open space.

Then he saw movement among the

rocks higher up, and a low cry of un-

derstanding brok'e from his lipe as he

made out Iskwao climbing steadily to-

ward the ragged peak. ' He knew that

this second hear was a. female. The

big grizzly—her mate——had stopped to

fight. And there was no hope for him

if the dogs succeeded in holding him

for a matter of ten or fifteen minutes.

Bruce and Met'oosin would appear in

that time over the rim of the coulee at

a. range of less than a hundred yards-

‘ Langdon thrust his binoculars into

their case andstamed at a run along

the sheep trail. For two hundred yards

his progress was easy, and then the

patch broke into a thousand individual

tracks on a slope of soft and slippery

shale, and it took him five minutes to

make the next fifty 'yards.



The trail hardened again. He ran

on pantingly, and for another five min-

utes the shoulder of a ridge hid Thor

and the dogs from him, When he came

over that ridge and ran fifty yards,

down the farther side of it, he stopped

short. Further progress was barred

by a steep ravine. He was five hun-

dred yards from where Thor stood with

his back to the rocks and his huge

head to the pack.



Even as he looked, struggling to get

breath enough’to shout, Langdon ex-

pected to see Bruce and Metoosin ap-

pear out of the coulee. It flashed upon

him then that fieven if he could make

them hear it would be impossible for

them to understand him. Bruce would

not guess that he wanted to spare the

beast they had been hunting for almost

two weeksi



Thor had rushed the dogs a full

twenty yards toward the coulee when

Langdon dropped quickly behind a

rock. There was only One way of sav-

ing him now, if he was not too late.

The pack had retreated a few yards

down the slope, and be aimed at the

pack. One thought only filled his brain

——he’ must sacrifice his dogs or let

Thor die. Andvthat day Thor had giv-

en him his life!



There was no hesitation as he press-

ed the trigger It was a long shot, and

fifty feet short of the Airedales. He

fired again, and missed. The third

time his. rifle cracked there answered

it a sharp yelp of pain which Langdon

himself did not hear. One of the dogs

rolled over and over down the slope.



The reports of the shots alone had

not stirred Thor, but now when he saw

one of his enemies crumple up and go

rolling down the mountain he turned

slowly toward the safety of the rocks.

A fourth and then a fifth shot followed,

and at the fifth the yelping dogs drop-

ped back toward the coulee, one «of

them limping with a shattered fore-

foot.



Langdon sprang upon the boulder

over which he had rested his gun, and

his eyes caught the sky-line. Iskwao

had just reached the top. She paused

for a moment and looked down. ,Then

she disappeared.



Thor was now hidden among the

boulders and broken masses of sand-

stone, following her trail. Within two

minutes after the grizzly disappeared

Bruce and Metoosin Scrambled up over

the edge of the coulee. From where

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the people’s institution. In it all the





children of the community receive-





their training. In it and through it

they also receive many impressions

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If the school is such that it commands

their respect they 'will respect educa-

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is neat and clean, they will be likely to

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The Old.





Most children live up to the standard

which their elders set for them through

the school.



The accompanying photographs il-

lustrate what one community thinks of

its school and its children. The pa-

trons of the VVeadock School, Of Mon-

roe township, Chcboygan county, were

not satisfied with the school showri at

the top. They knew that this was not

the kind of a school that would draw

the best out of their children. They

set about to give their Children a

school which they could respect and

honor. The lower picture shows the

result of this determination. The new





 





The New.





school is built of hollow tile.‘ It has a

furnace, adjustable seats, proper light-

ing and ventilating facilitises, in fact,

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school should have. It cost the com-

munity, complete with all equipment,

approximately twenty-five hundred dol-

lars. Are the children worth it? If

you are a parent, you will know your

Own answer.



Perhaps it is not the time for a new

school in your community, but it may

be the time for improvements. During





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' CHAPTER JVIII.

. The Trap is Sprung.

ANE 'GERSON, tossing'on her pil-

J lows, heard the mellow bell of a

, clock somewhere in the dark and

silent house strike three. This was

the fifth time She had counted the

measured strokes of that bell as she

lay, wide-eyed, in the guest chamber’ 3

canopied bed. An eternity had passed

since the dinner guests’ departure.’I-Ier

mind was racing like some engine gone

wild, and sleep was impossible. Over

and over again she had conned the





events of the evening, always to come»





at the end against the impasse of Gen:

eral Crandall’s blunt denial: “You

shan’ t sail in the morning. ” In her ex-





treanity she had even considered flight,





by. stealth—the scaling of walls per-

haps, and a groping through the dark

streets to the wharf, there to smuggle

herself somehow on a te'ndei

gain the Saxonia. But her precious

goWns. They still reposed in their-

bulky hampers here in Government

House; to escape and leave them be-

hind would be worse ’__than futile".

governor’s fiat seemed absolute.



Urged by the impulse of sheer neces-

sity to be .doing something—~the bed

had become a. rack—the'girl rose, lit a





taper, and began to dress herself, mov—_





ing noiselessly. She even packed her

traveling bag. to the last inch and

locked it. Then she-"sat on the‘edge or

the bed, hands helplessly folded in her

lap. What todo neXt? Was; she any

better off dressed than thrashing in the





bed? Her yearning called up a picture

of the Saxonia, which must ere this

be at her anchorage, since the consul

said she was due at two. In three

short hours tenders would puff along-

side; a happy procession of refugees

climb the gangway—among them the

Shermans and Willy Kimball, bound

for their Kewanee; the captain on the

bridge would give an order; winches

would puff, the anchor heave from the

mud, the big boat’s prow slowly turn

westward—oceanward——-toward New

York! And she, a prisoner caught by

the mischance of war’s great mystery,

would have to watch that diminishing

column of smoke fade against the

morning’s blue—disappear.



,Inspiration seized her. It would be

something just to see the Saxonla, now

lying amid the grim monsters .of the

war fleet. From the balcony of the

library, just outside the door of her

room, she could search the darkness of

the harbor for the prickly rows or

lights marking the merchant ship, from

her darker neighbors. The‘ genersl's

marine‘glasses lay on his dent; she re-

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fesfand at last hit on the ship of de—





liverance—for all but her; v‘to'do this

would be better than counting the

hours alone. She softly opened the





'door of her room. Beyond lay the dim





distances of the library, Suddenly be-

come vast as an amphitreater; in the

thin light filtering through the curtains

screening the balcony appeared the

lumpy masses of furniture and vague

Outlinesof walls and doors.yShe closed

the door behind her, and stood tremb-

ling; this was somehow like burglary,

She felt—at least it had the thrill of

burglary.



The girl tiptOed around a high-back—

ed their, groped her Way to the gener-





:al’s desk, and fumbled there. Her hand





fell upon the double tubes of the binoc-

.ulars. She picked them up, parted the

curtains, and stepped through the open—

ed glass doors to the balcony. Not a

sound anywhere but the faint cluck and

oackle of cargo hoists down in the hai-

bor.’ Jane put the glasses to her eyes,

and began to sweep the light- pointed

vista. below the cliff. Scores of pin-

priCk beams of radiance marked the

fleet where it choked the roadstead—

red and white beetles’ eyes in the dark.

She swung 'the glasses nearer shore.

Ah, there lay the Saxonia,‘ with her

three rows of glowing portholes near

the water; the binoculars even picked

out the double column of smoke from

her stacks. Three brief hours and that

mass of shadow would be moving—-

moving—



A noise, very slight, came from the ,





 





Covering General Crandal1,Jaimlhr Khan Picked up the Telephone.





library behind the opened doors. The

marine glasses remained poised in the

girl’s hands while she listened. Again

the nois<+-a faintnietallic click.



She hardly breathed. Turning ever

so slowly, she put one hand between

the curtains and parted them so that

she could look through into the cavern-

ous gloom behind her.



A light moved there—a clear round

eye of light. Behind it was the faintest

suggestion of a figure at the double

doors—~just a blur of white, it was;

but it moved stealthil swiftly. She

heard a key turmjiiablock. Then

swiftly the eye of light traveled across

the library to the door leading to Gen-

eral Crandall’s room. There it paused

to cut the handle of the door and key-

hole beneath out of darkness. A brown

band slipped into the clear shaft of

whiteness, put a key into the keyhole,

and softly turned it. The same'was

done for the locks of Lady Crandall’s

door, on the opposite side of the lib-’

rary, and for the one Jane had just

closed behind her—her own door. Then.

the circle of light, seeming tofhav'e an _

intelligence all its .own, approached
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. hand ‘ _

the drawer was carefully opened, and: ‘





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a steel-blue revolver reflected bright

sparks from its barrel as itv‘was' with-

drawn.



Jane, hardly daring to breathe, and

with the heavy curtains gathered close

so that only a space for her eyes was

left open, watched the orb of light, fas-

cinated. It groped under the. desk,

found a nest of slender wires. There

was a “snick:—snick!” and the severed

ends of'the wires dropped to the floor.

The burnished dial of the wall safe, set

near the double doors, was the next

object to come under the restless

searching eye. While light poured

steadily upon the circular bit (if steel,

delicate fingers played'with it, twist-

ing and turning this way and that.

Then they were laid upon the handle

of the safe door, and it swung noise-

lessly back. A tapering brown hand,

white-sleeved, fumbled in a small

drawer, withdrew a packet of papers

and selected one.



Jane stepped boldly into the room.



“Sahibah!” 'The White club of the

lectric flash smote her full in the face.



“What are you doing at that safe?

Jaimihr Khan?” ,Jane spoke as stead-

ily as she could, though excitement

had its fingers at her throat, and all

her nerves were twittering. She heard

some. sharply whistled foreign word,

which might have bee‘n'a curse.



“Something that concerns you not at

all, Sahibah,” the Indian answered, his

voice smooth as oil. He kept the light

fair on her face.



“I intend that it shall concern me,”

she answered, taking a step forward.



“Veree, veree foolish, Sahibah!”

Jaimihr whispered, and with catlike

stride he advanced to meet her. “Veree

foolish to come here at this time."



Jane, frozen with horror at the

man’s approach, dodged and ran swift-

ly to the fireplace, where hung the an-

cient vesper bell. The flash light fol-

lowed ,her' every move—picked out her

hand as it. swooped down to seize a

heavy poker standing in its rack be-

side the bell.



“Sahibah! Do not strike that bell!”

The warning came sharp and cold as

frost. Her hand was poised over the

bell, the heavy stub of the poker a very

few inches away from the bell’s flare.



“To strike that bell might involve in

great trouble one who is veree dear

to you, Sahibah. Let us talk this over

most calmly. Surely you would not

desire that a friend—a veree dear,

friend—”



“Who do you mean?” she asked:

sharply.



“Ah—that I leave you to guess!"

Jaimihr Khan’s voice was silken. “But

certainly you know, Sahibah. A friend

the most important—”



Then she suddenly understood. The

Indian was referring to Captain Wood-

house thus glibly. Anger blazed in,

her.



“It isn’t true!”



“Sahibah, I am sorry to oondradict.”

Jaimihr Khan had begun slowly to.

creep toward her, his body crouching

Slightly as a stalking cat’s.



“I’ll prove it isn’t true!” she cried,

and brought the poker down on the

bell with a sharp blow. Like a tocsin

came its answering alarm. .



“A thousand devils!” The Indian:

leaped for the girl, but she evaded him

and ran to put the desk between her-

self and him. He had. snapped off the





torch at the clang of the bell, and now: ,





he was a pale ghost in the gloom——



fearsome. Hissing Indian curses, he'



started to circle the desk to seize her.

(Continued next week).





 





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N this article fifteen I may possibly

I repeat some of the things I have

said before, but if so it will be be-

cause of the fact that I think them

worth repeating and wish especially to

impress you with their importance.





Now, supposing you do not bank by

mail, that is, that you always make

your deposits in person or by some

member of your family it is always best

to take your pass book with you and

have the entry made in the book at

that time. Should you forget it, how-

ever, then when you make your de-

posit slip, make two instead, that is,





one you leave with your receiving tell-

er, have the teller stamp and sign this

duplicate deposit ticket, and take it

home with you. Now, laddies, don’t

just stick it in your pocket or behind

the clock or in some place that is so

“safe” that you can never find it again,

but make it your first business to put

it in your pass book until such time as

you may go to, the bank again, when

the teller will enter it in the book in

its proper order. Do this just as re-

ligiously as you would do any other er-

rand. If your folks have sent for a

box of matches, you put them in the

match safe. If they have asked you to

bring some coffee you put that in the

cannister; in fact, any other thing you

are likely to put in its proper place,

but the deposit slip, the most import-

ant part of your business, is often, oh,

so often, simply dropped or “tucked”

somewhere (?) the good Lord only

knows where, and you say, oh. well,

the banker keeps the account anyway,

his book is right, so Why should I wor-

ry—well, perhaps. Probably he does,

but sometimes he makes an error, and

some other times, many more, in fact,

if you do not keep your accOunts for

yourself you will think he has made an

error when he has not, and it has been

your own careless methods that are at

fault instead.





Now, I want to save you this embar-

rassment and your banker the annoy-

ance of all this for it is embarrassing

to you to feel that your banker has

made a mistake, if you don’t tell him

about it, and it is much more so if

you do tell him, and then find out that

it is not he but you have erred. The

chances are that it will be you, but not

always. Now, if you think there is an

error, don’t keep thinking he has made

a mistake and not tell him of it. He

would a thousand times rather go over

it with you time and time again, and

find out just who is at fault, even

though it be not he, as it probably

will not be, than to have you go on

thinking that he is at fault in his book-

keeping, so first, always keep books;

next, if you don’t keep books then rec-

oncile your bank account at least once

a month.



For a checking account that is not

so very extensive it is not a diflicult

thing at all to keep your balance all

the time on the stub of your check

book. All standard checks as now

printed, unless it be bank “counter

checks,” have a little “balance sheet”

all their own. That is, before writing

your first check, there is a line where





 





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make out a duplicate as well as the





bank balance. When you write a} check,

another line is provided wherein you

may enter the amount of this check,

subtract that amount from the amount

of your balance, carry this new balance

thus obtained, over to your next check

stub and continue the process as the

checks are written from time to time.

This would be tedious where a large





business is transacted, but where but.





few checks are written it is a very

good plan to do this, ,in which case you

always have right before you the exact

amount of your .balance- and will thus

avoid the very undesirable experience

of receiving a notice that 'your ac-

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checks is refused, with the disheart—

ening little comment, “insumcient

funds.”



I think I have mentioned it before,

but will repeat, and repeat again, that

there is nothing that will do more to

demoralize your credit standing than

the continued practice of overdrawing.

Why, boys and girls, it really isn’t hon-

est with your banker to do so. He is

doing a vast amount of business, not

only for nothing, but is paying you a.

subsidy for the privilege. Is this fair

or quite honest, do you think?».«I put it

thus strongly for I want you to avoid

the practice for all time.





Another courtesy you owe your bank-

er—if a check should become lost after

being signed by you, even though it is

not payable to bearer and some speci-

fic payee is named, you still owe it to

your banker to notify him at once and

stop payment on that particular check.

Of course, you may say, oh, well, if

he pays‘iit to any other than the payee

named, or under his endorsement, it is

his funeral and not mine so why should

I worry about it. ‘.echnically speak-

ing, this is true, but you know there

are some very clever rascals in this

world of ours— 1; so many as some

people would have you believe, but a.

plenty to make lots of trouble some-

times, and should one such get hold of

this check he may find a way to dupli-

cate this endorsement so cleverly that

it might in some rush hour get by the

banker, and if so, even though the

check was good and the signature gen-

uine, the banker would be liable for the

amount of the check. You owe it to

your banker, to protect him from this

risk. Probably it will not “get by”

anyway, but it might, and it is so sim-

ple and easy for you to call him up or

drop him a line saying that check No.

108 drawn for $27.50 in favor of John

Doe, has been lost, so please stop pay—

ment on same. It will not cost you

more than a moment or so of time and

I assure you that he will appreciate

the courtesy.



Courtesy always pays, pays big divi-

dends, is the best investment any boy

or girl ever made and is a commodity

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Conducted by E. C. Lindemann





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Training schools for preparing gar-

den club leaders will be conducted by

the Extension Division of the Michigan

Agricultural College in Detroit, Grand

Rapids, Jackson, Saginaw, Kalamazoo

and Lansing.



There were 105 volunteer club lead-

ers in Michigan last year. Every club

should have a resident leader.



Evelyn Pepper, of Osceola county,

won the StateCann’ing Club Champion-

ship for the second year in. succession.

She canned 516 quarts of vegetables

and fruits last summer and her net

profit was $118.72.



The championship on for First Year

Club Members goes to Helen Miller of

SchOolcraft county. She canned 263

quarts of fruits and vegetables at a

profit of $67.19. _



State, district and county club lead-

ers met for a two-day conference at

Kalamazoo Normal College last week.

There Were thirty-two in attendance.



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month. The next one will probably be

held at Saginaw.



Following are some new club leaders

appointed in Mlchigan:‘ C. J. Barnum,

Gladwin county; R. A. Turner, Hills-

dale county; F. C. Brown, Barry coun-l

ty; W. J. Atchison, Muskegon county;

Grace M. Watson, Garden Club Leader

for Grand Rapids.



George D. Gilbert, formerly District

Club Leader for Northeastern~Mich1o

gan, is now located at Columbus, Ohio.

He has enlisted in the ordnance corps.



C. E. Ackley, formerly District Club

Leader for Southe‘rn Michigan, has re-

signed the district secretaryship of the





County Y. M. C. A. for western Mich» '





igan. _

Bertha; Coller, of Calhoun county,

has been declared Grand Champion of





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Harold Coflman, of Clinton county.

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More bird houses should be con-

structed on the farms to help in rear-

ing birds that are beneficial. Chicka-

does, wrens, martins, and many others





’ - get almost their entire living from in-





jurious insects. A few birds attracted

by means of a bird house or by serv-

ing suet or nut‘ meals in the winter

time will attract more birds. Interest

yourself in birds —-they are some of

the best friends the farmer has.



Material—One piece of basswood or

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mensions given in the bill of stock.





Set T-bevel on the square at an angle _f

of 11/2, to 4% inches instead of 5 to 5 ‘





inches as shown in illustration Fig. 12.

Use this same angle for cutting front,





sides, and roof. Plane down the front.





piece to ten inches plus the angle on

the Tabevel.

ment for marking the point on the side

pieces. From these side pieces extend

the lines at angle of T—berel.

plane to this line, giving slant for roof.

Cut back end of roof at same angle

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Finished Stock—One piece of 1/2x5x

13% inches for back; one piece 1/2x7~x

5% inches for top; 2 pieces lyéx‘ixlll/z

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of the front eight inches up from the

lower end. Assemble: Nail the front

piece to sides. Nail back piece, then

floor and roof.



Directions will not be needed for the

wren house. 'After the Chickadee

house has been constructed





The Ambitious Turkey





By AUNT QUILLA





Many years ago when our state was

almost an unbroken wilderness a flock

of wild turkeys were seeking a. night’s

lodging.



All were enjoying the quiet hour and

communion of spirit—all save Pomp,

a selfish fellow who held himself aloof,

revolving in mind how he could .best

secure the highest perch when a suit-

able tree were found.



The highest perch is absolutely es-

sential for my purposes thought he.

Although the nights are now .0001, yet

too. close quarters are never desirable

when it comes to the matter of roost-

ing. Strut and Swell are bound to

get on either side of me, and my feath-

ers are becoming rumpled and lustre-

less from constant crowding, to say

nothing of thin flesh and blue wattles

caused by loss of sleep.



Now my one object in life is to be-

come “cock of the walk,” so to speak,

or in other words, to rule this neck of

the woods. This cannot be done with-

out a commanding presence. Even in





the man-world this would be conceded. .





I must be the largest, sleekest, most

imposing personality that roams this

forest. To accomplish this I must re-

move myself from restless wings, irri-

tating claws and everything that gets

onto my nerves, for whoever heard of





, a. neuresthenic achieving success? Be-





sides that, I must he the first to catch

the earliest glimmorof-dawn'and make

der'khe marsh over there. This can’t

he” done without an elevated position.





Long before the rest are awake I must

be off for those choice feeding-grounds





where I can re'st-ore my lost atroirdur

and gracious;





pois, elegant plumage,

bearing. Yes, mine must be the high-





'est perch.





At last the company came to a tall





tree which all agreed upon as an ideal

Getting just-

the right purchase on his legs, Pomp‘





spot in which to camp.





at once hoisted his wings and made for





the highest branch. 'This proved to be.





a miserable little .tw-ig but in some way





he managed to get a grip on it and,





soon was off to the world of dreams.





But, alas! in the small hours of the;

night a mighty wind arose and great.





was the slump of live-weight in that





part of the forest. However, all, save.

quickly recovered from the.

shock and were on their roosts once ‘





Pomp,





more.

Soon an observing old hen noted his





absence and gave the alarm, where- ,

upon the whole company began an anx— ;





ious search for their missing comrade.



At the height of the excitement a

mysterious voice was heard from the

shadows «of a great white oak. An owl





just returned from a poultry yardhad .





witnessed the whole tragic event.

“Friends,” said he, “poor Pomp, who





selfishly sought the highestplace, now ,-





lies dead at the roots of the tree. Lest





any of you should be tempted to fol-y

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‘The higher i





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the perch the harder the .fall.’ ”





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E have been frequently told

during the past year that Am-

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meaning of the war. Officials have

complained; public writers have charg-

ed, and speakers have shouted it at

us—we are not alive to the situation.

We do not realize the seriousness of

the situation, we are not alive to the

real meaning of the conflict. So we

have been told—are still being told.





Until recently I rather resented the

accusation. With everyone buying Lib~

erty Bonds, donating to the Red Cross

and army Y. M. C. A.; With every ham-

let supporting a Red Cross unit where

already overworked women went day

in and day out to sew and roll ban-

dages; with knitting littering every ta-

ble, and Belgian baby layettes being

turned out by countless women and

girls, and with our American homes

giving up their most cherished posses-

sions—their sons——it seemed to me we

knew pretty well that we were at war

—and why.



But lately I’ve wondered, too, if we



really do understand deep in the hearts

of us just what it’s all about. And the

thing that made me wonder was very

simple. I found myself the other day,

when the evening paper came, turning

first, not to the war news which might

give me a clue to the fate of democ-

racy, but to the advertisements to look

for bargains in boys’ union suits. Just

then it seemed more vital‘to me to

know if I’d have to pay double for the

four suits I have to buy, than to know

if the U.boat peril was decreasing and

if the allies were getting sufficient

wheat.

Even after the great drive began I

found that I could turn from the fact

that more than 100,000 human beings

were being slaughtered daily to see if

Georgette waists were in the limits of

a. pocket-book depleted by Liberty

Bonds and war prices.





These little mental digressions have

made me wonder if I, if Americans

really are awake to the gravity of the

situation. Do we really feel that the

our fight? That if the British and

our fight? That is the British and

French line breaks it is a triumph for

the hosts of darkness? Or do we still

think it is merely a struggle between

European nations and we are simply

“paying our debt to Lafayette and

France.”



Is our calm way of going about do-

ing “business as usual” born of a faith

that “right is might, since God is God,

and right the day must win.” Is it the

supreme confidence that we are going

to win ultimately, whatever our tempor-

ary reverses, because truth and justice

must prevail? Or is it a. happy-go-

lucky trust in the (logged determina-

tion of our British and French defend-

ers, plus a cocky feeling that Uncle

Sam can “lick the world?”



Whatever it may be, that keeps us

smug and contented, isn’t it time we

woke up? With men dying by the hun-

dreds of thousands to keep us safe

isn’t it time we quite complaining be-

cause we have to eat “brown bread

and common doin’s” when we prefer

“white bread and chicken fixin's?”





we can’t get veal for the chop suey





ing turnips, and gave our minds to





 





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Personalvs. PatriotiCInterests





If things pertaining only to that course.

we win the war with no more than the Never pile dishes on one another. One

trifling discomforts of the past year we may be removed in each hand or small

shall have had nothing of which to p1eces may be set beslde one another





have suffered no privations as yet.





 





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A certain housewife once I knew

Praised loudly for her neatness;

The township you might travel thru,

And stop at every house in view,

And find not one as spic- and-span

As was the house of Mary Ann



In its supposed completeness.





Her range shone brightly ever more,

Polished three times daily,



The ebon gloss it always wore

Seemed just in from village store

0f hardware merchant Bailey

Oh, yes, the range of Mary Ann

Looked as neat, as spic- -and- span

As for some function ga-;1a



But, ah; her dishcloth I must say,

(I fear I am too telly),



Always had a curious way



Of being rather smelly.





Another fad had Mary Ann



And followed it with rigor;



Daily with her broom and pan



At it she rushed with vigor.



Up and down the rooms she went,



To thoro job her back she bent,

Cutting lively figure;



The dust flew high, the dust flew low,

It fell where' er it listed,



And when it knew not where to go

On nearest object rested.



It might be on a loaf of bread



0n table quite uncovered, ,



It might be on the baby’s head



O’er which it lightly hovered,



It might be on a. dairy pan



With foamy bubbles heaping,



It mattered not to Mary Ann



Ahead she went with sweeping;

Later with her feather fan



She made another clearance:



The dust again took to the wing,

Settling on most anything,



But still the rooms of Mary Ann

Somehow made neat appearance.



Her sense of neatness was so great

(Or was it just mere order?)



That long before the clock struck eight

Great joy it did afford her



To tear the covers from each bed——

Not for the sake of airing—



But to replace at once instead,

Wrinkles smoothed from ev ’ry spread,

Her cleanliness declaring.



I might sing on of her career,



But think I’ll change the record here:





And now another type of dame:

(Cut out Ann and call her Mary),

Appearance only not her aim.



Some disorder no great shame,

But+—she was sanitary.



With lusty strokes she never strove

To make a mirror of her stove—

Indeed ’twas sometimes tarnished;

And only once a week ’twas true,

Broom and dustpan came to view,

And rooms were swept and garnished.

Yet puzzling odors never trailed

Behind the dishcloth she assailed,

(N o microbes there were hiding);

And cupboards all you might explore

And find no mold, no germs galore

In corners dark abiding.





One more disgraceful thing I write:

Beds were aired sometimes till night,

And neighbors said behind the door

A real neat look her rooms ne' er wore, asking for United States Bureau of Ed-

And she was slack—oh, very! .

But now between yourself and me

Which were better she should be

“Neat” or “sanitary?"





 





DIRECTIONS FOR SERV.ING





Be sure that hot dishes are served

Isn’t it time we quit groaning because hot and cold dishes cold.



Dishes from which portions are to be

and are forced to the indignity of eat- taken should be passed to the left.



' containing only individual .

praying for the success of our armies portions are placed at the right with

instead of fretting over our privatiOns. the right hand.



When a course is removed, take first





 





all large dishes containing food, then

all soiled china, glass, and silver, then

clean glass, silver and china, and all





on a tray. Take the plates and other

dishes from the right side.



Crumbs are removed before the des-

sert course and between other courses

if necessary. A clean napkin..and plate

are satisfactory for this purpose.



Glasses should be kept filled, butter,

bread, and rolls always supplied with-

out being asked for, and other things

at hand as needed.



Remove every soiled dish from the

table as soon as the purpose which it

has served is over. Move noiselessly

and avoid all clatter of dishes.



In serving, begin with hostess or

guest of honor, and pass to the other





guests in order.—Department of Home ‘





Economics, Ohio State University.





 





SOMETHING TO READ RIGHT NOW.





 





BY LULU o. PARKER.

The Woman’s Defense Committee is





urging women to make use of the bul-

letins which are issued by the United

States Department of Agriculture, with

special reference to those relating to

food substitution, conservation, diet,

etc. The list which is put out by the

woman’s committee, is a. good one,

but. there are a number of other bul-

letins and books which should be in

every farm home library at this time.

Besides these mentioned the woman





with a hobby will usually find some-'





thing among Uncle Sam’s bulletins of

special interest to her, no matter

whether her hobby be poultry, bees,

babies, or what not. And what woman

does not have a hobby nowadays.



One busy_farm woman has a small

book-case full of these bulletins which

she has been collecting for years. They

are sewed into books by subjects, and

during the winter at least, there is

scarcely a day that she or some member

of her family does not get help from

this bulletin library. Some of her most

used bulletins, aside from those upon

her especial hobby, are:



The Medical Handbook, price fifty

cents. Send the money to the Super-

intendent of Documents, Government

Printing Oflice, W ashington, D. C. This

is a brief, simply written doctor book

for use of people living remote from a.

physician.



Home Care of the Child. (Prenatal

and Infant Care). Two bulletins sup-

plied by the Children's Bureau of the

United States Depa1tment of Labor.

These discuss the care of the child

through the second year. A post-card

request to the Children’s Bureau at



Washington will get these.



Daily Meals of School Children,

price ten cents. Describes inexpensive

lunches, gives relative food values,

methods of using foods, etc. Send

money to Superintendent of Documents





ucatlon Bulletin No. 3,1909.

The woman’ s committee list follows:

These are all bulletins of the United

States Department of Agriculture and

will be sent free on request by that

Department, Washington, D. C. -

808 How to Select Food, part 1,

what the body needs.





817 How to Select Foods, part 2, cer-

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469 Fats and their noon

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298 Food” Value of Corn and Corn

Products. '7 g



565 Corn Meal and Ways of Using it.



712 School Lunches.



717 Food for Young Children.



.. 653 Honey and its Use in the Home.



413 Care of Milk and its Use in the

Home.



861 Removal of Stains from Cloth-

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CHILDREN FIRST.





 





“The results of underfeeding or in»





discriminate food substitution in child-

hood are startlingly shown abroad as

a result of the war, and are beginning

to be evident in our own great cities.

Milk has no substitute in the diet of

the child.” These and other unquali~

fied statements of the importance of

guarding the milk supply to prevent

the physical'deterioration of American

children during the war are scattered

through the latest report issued by the

Children’s Bureau of the United States

Department of Labor and entitled,

“Milk, the Indispensable Food for Chil-

dren.”



This report has special interest in



connection with the campaign to save

100,000 lives of babies and little chil-

dren during the second year of the

war. It' says in part: “The nourish-

ment of, our children is the first duty

'of the nation. Since milk and milk

products are a vital necessity for chil-

dren, for nursing mothers, and for the

sick and wounded, the public should be

made to realize , that the children’s

, need for dairy products should be

. assured.”



England and Italy have regulated the

sale of cream and curtailed the use of

butter, in order that their child popu-

lation might receive the more adequate

and economical nourishment offered by

whole milk. Germany, early in the

war, provided that the adult civilian

populationvmight have milk only after

the needs of children, mothers, invalids

and the army were met.



“Never before in the history of civil-





; ization has it been so urgent a matter





that every child should have breast

milk for as long a time as possible, in

order that every child that survives

birth may have the best chance for

life and health. .



“For children under two other than

those breast fed, and for older children,

cows’ milk is an absolute necessity if

disease and death are to be kept with-

in bounds and if the coming generation

is to survive and to sustain the na-

tional standards. ‘Children first’ should





, be part of the national food slogan.”





 





BUCKWHEAT MUFFINS.





 





Dear Deborah—In these war days

when we are all asked to substitute,

most, if not all of us women are glad

to get hold of recipes that do not de-

mand any of the products we are ask-

ed to save. I have kept at a certain

muffin recipe until I think it truly is

reduced to its lowest terms, as it is

wheatless, eggless, sugarless, and

shorteningless. I can hear you laugh

and say, “Well, surely there is some-

thing made from nothing.” But it isn’t

quite that bad. The muffins are made

Of buckwheat, and are really very nice.

We all like them in our home, and use

them a great deal on wheatless days.

I am rather surprised that I don’t find

buckwheat used in our war-time recipe

books, but 1 don’t. My most simple

recipe is as follows:



Buckwheat Mullins—Two cups buck-

wheat one teaspoon of salt, two tea-

spbons of ”baking powder, one and a

helium» of milk. Sift dry ingredients





'3 and add milk. This makes eight large





mumps,

” One my me any or all of the in-

gredients I have left out, but it is not





 





 





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I 00, that buckwheat can be

used. very nicely in making ginger-

bread. The recipe I have calls for two

cups of flour. I use one each of flour

and buckwheat, and cannot see any

difference. No doubt it could be used





in any spice cake—Mrs. M. L. J.





REGISTRATION OF WOMEN BE-

GINS APRIL 27.





 





Registration of: Michigan women for

war service will begin Saturday, April

27. This date has beenset aside for

the registration in a proclamation is-

sued by Governor Sleeper. He has

called upon “all loyal women of the

state of ‘sixteen years of age and over,

to go to the places designated in their

several communities and there regis-

ter for the services they are able to

tender their country, or for special

training to meet the needs of war.”



In ,his proclamation the governor

says: “The, women of our state and

nation have their part to play in the

winning of the war and right nobly

have they responded to all the calls

that have been made upon them.



“Taking a lesson from the experi-

ence of our Allies in war, the govern-

ment and the Michigan war prepared-

ness board do hereby design and set

aside Saturday, April 27, as the date

on which this registration shall begin.”



Facts About Registration.



Here are a few facts as issued by

the Women’s Committee of the Nation-

al Council of Defense, Michigan Div-

ision:



Registration is voluntary; women

will not be drafted into government

service.



Women will not be taken from their

homes for government service unless

they definitely offer themselves for

such service. . '



Women should register for what they

are doing now and ,what they have

been trained to do, whether or not

they can give any extra service at the

moment. '



Registration along industrial lines is

not intended to remove women from

their present positions, nor to permit

them’to be exploited by unauthorized

appeals for “war service.”



If a. woman registers for service at

this time, and when called later finds

herself unable'by changed conditions

to respond to the call, no punishment

or criticism will fall upon her, nor will

she be compelled to serve.



Registration is intended for women

loyal to America, whether or not they

are naturalized citizens, and should not

be forced on unwilling or disloyal

women. -



Why Register?



Because this is a government census.



Because the United States—Which

already has taken a million men out of

industrial, professional and civic life

and with succeeding drafts will take

millions more—will have emergencies

to meet, and when they come will need

to have a record of women willing to

do the work required, either as paid or

volunteer workers.



Because our boys are fighting for us





in the trenches, we should fight for"





them at home.





SHORT CUTS TO HOUSEKEEPING.





 





In preparing mush for frying, I al-

ways putin a tablespoonful of sugar

while it is boiling; when sliced it will

brown much more quickly and I think

the taste is much improved—M. A. P.



When children come home with

shoes thoroughly soaked, remove at

Once, 1111 with sawdust or bran and set

in a moderately warm place but not

on stove, or over register. After sev-

eral hours the bran will have absorbed

the moisture and the shoe will retain

its shape. Rubin any good oil,~ wipe

off with a heavy cloth and polish. The





bran sho'u‘ld be left in until the Shoe is





Grin-14. M. T.





 





Generating Plant is 27 inches

10113.14 inches wide.2l inches

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In the past year Laney-Light has won distinct pre-

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This success has been registered in practical, every-

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Lalley-Light stands high because it is scientifically

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the entire dress will require 8% yards

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Size 16 requires 4% yards of 44-inch

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measure. Size 38 will require 3% yards

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lard by means of which 'a. farm-

er can quickly determine the maximum

amount it is wise to pay for skim-milk.



0n beginning this work, Mr. Norton

first ascertained the amount of food in

skim-milk compared with the amount

in such grains as corn, rye, wheat,

oats and barley. Thus, by summariz-

ing the results of feeding experiments

with skim-milk conducted by many ex-

periment stations, he learned that

where pigs are fed a ration of cereal

grains alone (such as corn, rye, wheat

and barley), each pig consumes an av-

erage of about 486.5 pounds of grain





 





_ for every one hundred pounds of gain





in weight.



Going further, and summarizing the

results of other experiments, he ascer-

tained that where pigs are fed cereal

grains, with skim-milk as a supple-

ment, each pig consumes 266.9 pounds

of grain and 785.1 pounds of skim-milk,

on the average for every one hundred

pounds he gains in weight. In other

words, while a pig requires 486.5

pounds of grain for every one hundred

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Worth ”twenty-live cents‘fif’ ta. '

worth $2.50, skim-milk is Worth'.'tWen- _

ty-eight cents; .if tankage is worth

$2.75, skim-milk is worth thirty-one

cents; if tankage is Worth $3.00, skim-

milk is worth thirty-three cents; if

tankage is worth $3.25, skim-milk is

worth thirty-six cents; if tankage is

worth,$3.50, skim-milk is worth thirty-

nine cents; if tankage is worth $3.75,

skim-milk is worth forty-two cents; if

tankage is worth $4.25, skim-milk is

worth forty-seven cents; if. tankage is

worth $4.50, skim-milk is worth fifty

cents.



In like manner, if 100 pounds of mid-

dlings is worth $1.00, skim-milk is

worth twenty-seven cents; if middlings

cost $1.25, skim-milk is werth thirty-

three cents; if middlings cost $1.50,

skim-milk is worth forty cents; if mid-

dlings cost $1.75, skim~milk is worth

forty-seven cents; if middlings cost

$2.00 skim-milk is worth fifty—four

cents; if middlings cost $2.25, skim-

milk is worth sixty-one cents; if mid~

dlings cost $2.50, skim-milk is worth

sixty-seven cents; if middlings cost

$2.75, skim-milk is worth seventy-four

cents; and if mid-





 





 





 





 





 





grain is his only feed dlings cost $3, skim—

he needs only 266.9 milk is worth eighty-

pounds of grain when GRAIN vs, SKlM-MILK. one cents.

skim-milk is fed with When 100 Then 100 Similarly, .if 100

this grain as a sup- Lbs. of Lbs. of pounds of 011 meal

p1ement,from which Grain Skim milk cost $1.50, skim-milk

it is seen that the COStS is Worth is worth sixteen

785.1 pounds of skim- $1-00 . ~ ~ - - - . - - -$0-23 cents; if oil meal

milk m entio n e d 1-25 ------------- 0-35 costs $1.75 skim-milk

above replace 219.6 1-50 ------------- 0'42 is worth nineteen

pounds of grain in 1-75 ------------- 0-49 cents; if oil meal

this ration, making 2-00 ------------- 0-55 costs $2.00, skim—

one hundred pounds 2-25 ------------- 0.63 milk is worth twen-

of skim-milk, when 2-50 ------------- 0-70 ty-one cents; if oil

used in this way, 2-75 ------------- 0-77 meal costs $2.25,

equal to twenty-eight 3-00 ------------- 0-34 ' skim-milk is worth

pounds of grain. 3-25 -- -’ ---------- 0-91 twenty-four cents; if

Knowing the-grain 3-50 ------------- 0-93 oil meal costs $2.50,

value of skim-milk 3-75 ------------- 1-05; skim-milk is worth

the determination of 4-00 ------------- 1-12 twenty-seven cents;

its 111 o n e y value ‘ 4-25 ------------- 1-19 if oil meal costs $2.75

when it is to be fed skim-milk is worth

as a supplement to twenty-nine cents; if ‘





 





 





corn or other cereals.



in the ration, is relatively simple. The

accompanying table gives comparative

prices for grain and skim-milk.



The list shows that when the prices

of cereal grains range from $50 to $80

per ton, as has been true during the

winter of 1917-1918, skim-milk is worth

from seventy cents to $1.20 per bun.

dred weight in value as a supplemen-

tary feed.



At the same time, Mr. Norton fig-

ured out the value of. skim-milk in

terms of tankage, oil meal, middlings

and soy bean meal—which are com-

monly used in the ration, like skim-

milk, to combine with the cereal

grains. In this, as in the foregoing, he

first determined the food value of these

products in terms of grains, and from

this common basis he next ascertained

their value in terms of skim-milk.



A summary of the results follow:

When fed as supplements, 39.6

pounds of tankage, on the average, re-

placed 100 pounds of grain; ninety-five

pounds of middlings replaced _100

pounds of grain; 38.2 pounds of oil

meal replaced 100 pounds of grain;

33.3 pounds of soy bean meal replaced

100 pounds of grain, and 357.5 pounds

of skim-milk replaced 100 pounds of

grain. ' .

Comparing these values with the re-

placement value of skim-milk when

used as a supplement to corn and oth-

er cereal grains, it was found that one

pound of tankage is equivalent to nine

pounds of skim-milk; one pound of

middlings is equivalent to 3.7 pounds

of skim-milk, and one pound of oil

meal is equivalent to 9.3 pounds of

skim-milk.



In other words, if 100 pounds of tank-

'age is worth $2.00, 100 pounds of skim-'

milk is worth twenty-two ‘cents; if





 





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tankage is worth $2.25, skim-milk is





 





oil meal costs $3.00,

skim-milk is worth "thirty-two cents; if

oil meal costs $3.25, skim-milk is worth

thirty-four cents; and if oil meal costs

$3.50, skim-milk is worth thirty-seven

cents.



Finally, if 100 pounds of soy bean

meal costs $2.00, skim-milk is worth

nineteen cents; if soy bean meal costs

$2.25, skim-milk is' worth twenty-one

cents; if soy bean meal costs $2.50,

skim-milk is worth twenty-three cents;

if soy bean meal costs $2.75, skim-milk

is worth twenty-six cents; if soy bean

meal costs $3.00, skim-milk is worth

twenty—eight cents; if soy bean meal

is worth $3.25, skim-milk is worth thir-

ty cents; if soy bean meal costs $3.50,

skim-milk is worth thirty-two cents; if

soy bean meal costs $3.75, skim-milk

is worth thirty-five cents; if soy bean

meal costs $4.00, skim-milk is worth

thirty-seven cents; if soy bean meal

costs $4.25, skim-milk is worth thirty-

nine cents; if soy bean meal costs

$4.50, skim-milk is worth forty-one

cents; and if soy bean meal costs

$4.75, skim-milk is worth forty-three

cents; and if soy bean meal "costs $5.00,

skim-milk is worth forty—six cents.



Reference to this table, which shows

the relative values of the different.

nitrogenous supplements commonly

used with farm-grown rations, should '

enable the feeder to decide which of

these feeds it will be most profitable to

employ as a supplement at prices pre-

vailing at any time.-



Skim-milk, tankage and middlings

are-commonly used and are very pale;

table to the pigs in combination with

grain‘feeds. Oil meal, however, while it.

shows a very high value in comparison

with the others, is less desirabls'slnce‘

it is not palatable and‘will not- be eat-

en so readily. , ' 7 1 ,

Copies of the b
‘3 this summaryis taken can be procured 'stroy virtually all’ot the sugar mills

East Lansing. , l. French in maintaining their sugar,

—--.--—-—--—— .. stocks. That first wave of Teuton ill-g



SOY BEANS WITH ENSILAGE vasion was stopped in France after the;

CORN. Germans had established a battle line:



that cut off 203 of the 213 sugar mills,g

You have had considerable experi- as well as much land that had produc-

ence raising SOY beans With corn for ed sugar beets. In some of the Ger-





sila e. Will on please give me ex— . .

plicig-t directioxl’s as to the variety and man retreats the mills were left 111

amount to plant? Should the seed be such shape as to permit their opera-

mixed with the corn and planted at the tion.

‘same time? Should the bean seed be





inoculate ? Do both plants come up

about thegsame time? How much bean CAN HE BUY A LlBERTY BOND?





seed to the acre? I plant my silage

corn three feet in checks. DO you Am enclosing a price card issued by

plant less corn to the acre where you a local concern covering eggs and but-

use soy beans With the corn? ter-tat and quoting prices on various

Montcalm 00. L. A. SIPLE. feeds. Will you advise me what food

It is better to plant the soy beans stuffs I can select from this list to feed





. - , my hens and dairy cows, with hay at

at the same tune you do the ens11age $28 per ton, so as to be able to market





corn if you do.so satisfactorily. Some the eggs and butter-fat, at the prices

manufacturers of corn planters now- quotteéi,b:1v)irtl; iigg‘h; Italhzhtdrwilklzréaglje

days have seed plates that fit into the me . . -

fertilizer attachment of the corn plant- gifiégtghealpglfis 233533.122 “a: $1131;

er so that a man can use the fertilizer prices fixed by the United States gov-

attachmentio plant beans at the same ernmen . .



time that he plants corn. With this Wexford CEO- . ‘N. A. T..

arrangement you can plant the beans The question 0f making a profit m

and the com in hills just as well as in da‘rymg depends on. the man, the cost

drills. I am of the opinion, however, 0f feed and on the kfnd 0f COWS he has

that you will have better success it got. ' If a man has high'CIaSS COWS, 800-

you plant in drills because the seeds nomical producers, and knows how to

will not be bunched as much. feed them he probably can make a



The trouble in mixing the soy beans profit even at the price for food given

and the seed corn together is that the 1n the card enclosed With the letter.

beans are small and quite smooth and Many people have kept CQWS when

they gradually ‘work to the bottom of feeds were the lowest priced in history

the hopper and run out first so that and they CPUld “Qt make a profit. A.

You get an uneven distribution of the d‘dll'y WW IS 1n a sense él machine for

beans and the corn. If only a small consuming th? feed Wthh. a farmer

amount of seed is put into the hopper produces on 1115 farm 01‘ Wthh he pur--

at a time, say a quart, and then re- chases 1n the open market for convert-

plenished when necessary, this separa- mg that feed into milk and butter. If

tion of the beans from the corn is

largely overcome.



If one chooses to plant corn with a

grain drill, planting two rows at a

time, he can arrange the feed hopper

by putting in partitions so that he can

plant the corn and beans in the drills

at the same time quite successfully.



Plant the same amount of seed corn





 





 





and doesn’t convert the feed econom-

ically, a profit cannot be made; but if

you have a good machine it will take

high-priced feeds and convert them

into butter—fat at a profit. The price of

butter-fat is given at 47 cents. I can

remember when we used to get not

‘over 15 or 18 cents for butter-fat, then





by writing. to the'Eirperiment Station, that would otherwise have assisted the,





she is a poor machine, lacking capacity »





 





 





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possibly we could buy wheat bran for

.50 and 75 cents per 100 pounds, and

middlings about the same, and corn

meal for not to exceed $20 per ton. The

prices given here, of course, are very»

much higher but not so much higher

in proportion to the price of butter-fat

as one would at first think.





with the beans that you would without.

The bean being a plant of entirely dif-

. ferent nature than corn, will under fav-

orable conditions, grow quite success

fully. Six or eight quarts of beans per

acre would be about right. There isn’t

much danger of getting the beans too

thick. .

Soy beans should always be inocu- The same holds true With regard to

lated because in our Michigan soils hens- Some peODIe have hens that

they have never been grown to any produce 200 eggs in a year each. Hens

extent, and consequently the soil ought to DI‘OduCe about 100 eggs or,

doesn’t contain the nitrogen-gathering more in a year, say 10 dozen in a year.

bacteria which live on the soy bean At 32 cents per dozen that would be

plant. One object in growing soy beans $3.20, proceeds from one hen in a year,

with corn is to get the soy beans to and while feed is exceedingly high,

gather nitrogen from the atmosphere you can’t gCt a hen to eat any more

to be used by the corn plant. The than that amount 0f feed-1n a year

theory is that one will not only get some when bought at present prices. How-

beans which are richer in protein than 9V”: there are the .other expenses to

corn to make better silage, but that 00mm”, all, Of Whlcll are certain to

the soy beans will actually furnish take practically all Of the income, and

some nitrogen for the corn plantitself, 1’91'113135 more.

enabling it. to provide us With more I should think that the prices quoted

protein than corn would when grown on wheat bran and wheat middlings

without the beans. are too high according to government

A medium or late variety is more regulation of these products. Of course

adapted for planting with ensilage corn the government hasn’t undertaken the

than a real early variety. The early control of any other feed prices, only



, variety is apt to get so ripe that the products from wheat because they fix-



3 seeds or beans will become hard, the ed the price of wheat. As I understand



{ pods shatter and many of the beans are it, the miller is not allowed to charge



lost. The late variety does not get so for wheat bran over 38 per cent of



ripe. If you Could select a variety that what he pays for wheat. If the price

juSt has the pods nicely formed when of wheat is $2.20 per bushel that would

the corn is ready to harvest, you would be equivalent to $3.66‘7’ég per 100 pounds



realize most from your crop. Last or $73.32 per ton for the wheat, and 38



year, we used Late Yellow soy beans per cent would be $27.28 per ton, but,



plantedwith Evergreen sweet corn and of course, the miller sells it to a deal-

they matured sufficiently to make very er, perhaps a jobber, the jobber sells it

choice ensilage. ’ - to a retailer, the retailer sells it to the



COLON C. LILLIE. farmer and everyone of them makes a



' profit and many of them get big prof-



. _ GERMANS DESTROY FRENCH its, too. There is no question but What

l ' SUGAR MILLS. it costs too much.



‘ I _ I am of the opinion that a man will

h'Sugar production in France has fall- have to have cows above the average

611 to less than twenty-five per cent of and hens ,above- the average in order



«_ lbs-Planar Output. . When German to makeany profit under such circum-





 





 





 





 





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We :hi





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breeds

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Allegan. Mich





C5013? 2 g i c k s t:§“:.:i‘§.‘.itii‘£:..

rgssgent gg Cdn‘iginyoéflw - I.





hicks and eggs. standard bred stock. Leghorns. Minor-

cas.“ '.panish.Rocks Reds. Orpingtons. Wynn lattes. Campinas,

Houdnns. Polish. Scotch Greys. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton.lich’





DAY-OLD CHICKS





of quality guaranteed to 1,500 miles. Eggs for

Hatching at low prices. Bar. Rocks. S. C. W. Leg-

horns. S. C. and R. . Reds. W. Wyandottes.

Buff and W. Orpingtcns. Chicklet catalogafree.





GOSllEN POULTRY FARMS. 11-“ Goshen. Indiana





DAY OLD CHICKS





250.1110 for 19l8. 810 per 100 and up. Purebred. Hatch-

ed right. St tron guarantee. 10 leading varieties.

HatchingK eggs. 1 brooder oil'er. Western Branch

An guKstI. Free catalog Stamps appreciated.

Huber: Beliibe Hatchery, 333w. remont at. Poster“. 0.





£6 for hatchi from free range farm flock of



d tt brie?!” broil) uston's Strflin «White Wyan-

0 es re rs. er un



vmo rang? in .Box 50151. Hartford. Mich.





‘Ferris White Leghorns





A real helv lsyin strain, Irlpnested I

years, recor s from 00 I0 264 eggs. Get

our special summer prices on yesrlmg hem,

. breeding males, eggs for hatching. 8-week-

old pullen and do old chicks. We ship C. 0. D. and

guarantee results. «clog gives prices; describes flock; tells

all show our term and methods; results you can gel by breed-

ing llm strain. Send [or your copy now—it I8 free.



GEORGE 5.7211118 m Union. Grand liapids. Mich.





chick: ihai [in 813 NH 10008 pm :spnxé’fi‘flii‘“

1’0 UTL TRY





Send for catalog.

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Fowlers Buff Rocks n?..°§‘.““§.,§‘.d°1§§

“form: 85“. 50 10:50:88.0010r100.





 





1B. FOWLER. . . Hartford. Mich.

:FORm0 Sale thoro hbred Barred Rock esrlzgs for hatch-

In trap nested stock.





sfira )OW

H. B. gl’RDC’l eggo - - Grand Haven. Mich.





F 0 R S A L E is: more“ 122:”:





Mrs. BAY G. BUNNELL. Lawrence, Mich.





n ‘chin Eggs—Plymouth Rocks (all varieties) All-

a n9 comm. Peki n and Bouen Ducks,

IberldIn cultry Yards - Sheridan. Mich.





from our BarredS Plvmouth Rocks 81 50



"Elem": lllJL‘glg'settin $8 per 100.5 .C White Leghorns

k or setting $5 00. Custom hatching 30 per egg.

IRS SELL POU TRY RANCH Petersburg, Milk.





IMPROVE YOUR POULTRY





My Bred- to-lay Young' I Strain S. C. White Le horn

and AncOna chicks are {teat money-makers. 00.000

strong. husky chicks @ 8 1 up per 109. Chicks sent by

mail. Arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. Prompt

svvhiprnent. Get my catalogue at once. '

.VAN APPLEDOBN. 7. Holland. Mich.





ohn' s Big beautiful hen hatched Barred Rocks good.

layers 30 e gs ('0 88. hatch guaranteed. Pre-

paid by mail. hotos circulars. JoiInNorIlIou. Clare, Mich.





AYBILT S C. W. Leghorns large. great layers. pure

white, Selected Hatching Eggs. Strong Day-(lid

hicks. Everfresh Egg Farm. Ionia, Mich





 





 





lght Brahama eggs for hatching. Stock pure bred,

Lprize winning. up to the standard. $1.50 r,15

87 perl 100. Mrs ..E B. Willets,R .Rcading, Mich





White Orpingtons. hens and pullets 83. 00

Pin. .chSi e‘ch eggs special price wItLilpler l5 utilit

$112 r1.00 Ms 3 iiouc.

E l:(lRJL‘ST FARM. wRoyal Oak. Mich.





HODE ISLAND REDS and Plymouth lioPcks Males

R 5 to 12 lbs, according to a e 83 to 88; R. hens

weight 5 to 10 lbs. eggs 15 for 1. 50: 100 810: Mammoth

Bronze Tom Turkeyils to 38 lbs. according to age “to





 





I25, 10 eggs 84 J. Morris l J Barsan. Vassar. Mich.

both combs. Chicks J:

R. I. RED 9 eggs. Most popular





str in in Michigan. Write for catalog.

ERLAKES FARM. Box 39. Lawrence. Mich.





it I Reds and ii I. Whites. Both combs. Eggs for

0 sale. also afew ood cockerels. -Good stock.

prices reasonable (1.1". awley. 11.3. Ludington, Mich.





ILVER Spangled Hamburg eggs for hatchin nf88per

Sixnndred The greatest layers on earth as we] as the

handsomest and most-economical to raise.

RIVERVIEW FARM. - - Vassar. Mirh.





S Brown Leghorns. Heavy layers. Eggs 15-81. 35.

0 30-82 50. 45-8130, 100-87 prepaid by ma il

FLOYD ROBERTSON, R.





ILVER Golden and White Wyandottee. A few good

SGolaoden and White cockerels. to s are at83. s 15,

82.5_0. 30$ (X). 0. W. Browning}! 1 Portland. ich.

Comb Black Minorca cockerels. sired by



Single I101b cock bird. Ai‘ew more?” 0. fall Npigs

B W. MILLS. - - aline, ich.





White Leghorn hens, gullets. day old chicks.

Se Ce eggs(Ferris strain)goo free range stock rices

reasonable. Herbert Hammond. Williamston. ich.





Ohirks and e gs from a winter

Willi. "1811110110: laying strain. rite for circular.

INTEBLAKESF ~ Lawrence. Mich.

Goose eggs 25 cents each 11.0

Whitewcfhilllf BBr. L‘E'S‘iiorll: eggs 81.50 per 15 Pekin

D k 1.. or . esto cc

Mi: CLAUDIA BETTS. . . Hillsdale. Mich.





hlte Wyandotte eggs for hatching also baby-chick

Wont of choice stock; send for a 1918 circular

DAY! YID BAY'109 Norris St. .. Ypsilanti. Michigan.





Lexington, Indiana





M B Turkeys. Toulouse Geese and 3. CW

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A Federatnon of Interests





A Word to the Farmer Poultryrrien'

' ’ and women of Michigan. ,





In almost ever-Lissue of the Farmer ou willfin‘d ,

thing new int is space. and we as you. theref re,

gleam to glfince each week at what we have tosay.

omestea arms is working out a practical federa-

tion of the business and social interests of the poul-

try farmers ofB Bloomingdale and vicinity. which

is to be a benefit also to the farmers of the state.





Pure Breed Practical Poultry





In Pure Breed Practical Poultrfi we have; Barred.

Whiteand Buffl’lymouth Rocks- C. ands. 0. limit-

edRhode Island Reds; White “Wandottee; S. C.

Black Minorcas. 5.0. and R. C. bite Leghorns;

S. C. Brown and Butt Leghorns; S. C. Anconu.





Day-Old Chicks





Day-01d Chicks from any of these breeds provid-

ing three weeks’ timei s given for hatching. We

can furnish almost an un imi number of Bar-

red Rocks. Rhode Island Beds. and White Leghorns.

Do you want vigorous naturally healthy free

farm-range poultry stocki We invite correspondence

with poultry farmers who unlocking for stock that

will give 5B9 plentifully next winter.





Eggs for Hatching





Eggs from our Pure Breed Practical Poultry for set-

ting. or in quantities for incubators. with iortilit

arante teed. an furnish any number of Barre



oak. Rhode Island Bed. and White Leghorn eggs.





White Pokin Dnok eggs.





Eggs for Broilers





Plymouth Rock eggs in any quantity for Broiler

chicks. Special price and guarantee.





Grown F owls





We have yet for sale: 3h Barred] Plymouth Rock

erels; 15 Single Comb dBed Pullets with

cookers; ll. 0.1% beds Islan out 0.

White Leghorn Cockerels; 1 White Pekin Drake;1 Gray

Toulouse Gander.



If you are a poultry-farmer that wants practical

farm oultry stock. will you please write to us for our

circa ar which briefly descr has the poultry we offer

you.



We have alreadya fine correspondence with the



onltry farmers of Mic igan. but we want to hear



rom Egon; we want to p see some of our Pure Breed

Pract al Poultry on your term.





HOMESTEAD FARMS. Bloomingdale, Mich.





 





‘ ' 1 cm St d rd

Baby: Chicks finds ofvnvu‘n.

and Brown ghorns. Good laying stock. 813 per 100.





Safe arrival guaranteed. Catalogue 2190.800! your

order now for spring delivery

Wolverine Hatchery. Bo or 202 Zeelard. Mich.





’ —EGGS FROM STRAIN with

Barred ROCKS records to 290 eg 12: I year: 82 per

15. Delivered b6 parcel post. hprepai Circular free.

FRED ASTLIN . ~ - Constantine. Mich.





 





240 egg strain White

Barron Eng"8h Legh 0mg, heavy win.

ter layers. large size irds.. Hatching 0885 36 or 100.

Chicks 813 per100. Guarantee satisfaction. evries

Leghorn Farms and Hatchery. Box A, Zeeland. Mich.





Ply mouth Rock 0 gs for hatching from

Barred fulJl blood Bstocklprhf'z ze-winning strain ‘1. 50

per 13. AB. Union City. Mich.





BARRON Strain S. 0. White Leghorns Bred to Lay

long bodied vigorous stock. Eggs and Chicks.prices

right. W. Brown. 11.3. Mayville. Mich.





B b Chicks Young' 8 Strain 8.0 . White Leghorns

a y free range stock. safe arrival arantee. cat-

alogue tree. Knolls Hatchery. ll. 3. olland, Mich.





ABY Chicks. Bred- to lay S. C. White Leghorns

at last 5851."! price. 812 per 1.00 No catalog or cir-

cular. Or erdirect tromthisadv. Cashintull wither-

der. Hatchevery Tuesday, beginningAprilfl. Sunny-brook

Poultry Farms. C. (i. Burroughs. Prop“ Hillsdalc. “ch.





Leghorns. oockerels, and eggs. also a choice

Bu“ pen— of Rhode hIsland Reds and eggs.



Dr. W1 liaIn A. Smith - . Petersburg. Mich.



Bane Orpingtons—Seventeen years. Best exhibition



egg producvgfigstrain. Eggsor Baby Chicks. Cir-



cular free. SCHA1)T Goshen. Indiana.





FLEMINGS





EGG PRESERVER





No cold storage. No solutions. Indorsed by over one



thousand eg gpg roduce rs and commercial institutions



throughout t e United States in the past four years.



Send today for absolute lproof s to



BEARD & HOUSE State Distributors for Mich.



616 It 617 Chamber 0 Commerce Bldg. .IDetroit. Mich.

O'ounty Agents Want ted .





PROFITS IN HONEY





Sugar is scarce. Honey is in

greatdemand. Highprices ”fre-

vail. Make your bees p uce

more an ever before. Send

for our eatalo for prices on

Bee Hives. Sect ton Bore-.00 mb

Foundation. Smokers. etc. Be-



lnner' s complete outfit

shed with or without bees.





 





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Beeswax wanted.





BERRY BASKETS





There is a scarcity of berry

baskets and we adv cc prompt

action. Let us know our ex-

act requirements an we will

quote you rices on standard

quart bas

crates.



at present.





M. H. HUNT & SON,

Box 525, Lansing, Mich.





 





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Every Orchard and Garden should have bees.

smokers. a co to line of en es for bee keepers





my." "iii” G. wodiiMAN co., 1)





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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We can start you. Sections. Foundations. Bee Veils





ready foMr immediate shi ment. 40-13 catalog tree.

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i Something for the Boys and Girls





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Its fun to boost for the Michigan Farmer, besides we will pay you well

Earn some Spending Money taking MichiEIanF armer subscrip-

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to do it.

tions.





“ THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





It’s something any boy or irl can do and enjoy.

Write us and we will tell you :1 out our subscrip tion plan.





 





 





in a. room where the tempera-

ture will show no serious varia-





 





g'tions. day or night. A dry Cellar is





probably ,the‘ best location on the farm

but, an' incubator used in a cellar

should be as nearly fireproof as possi-

ble. A sheet of metal on the ceiling

over the incubator will be further pro-

tection against fire. Then two or three

buckets of water in the cellar will be

a. practical form of insurance. - It pays

to look over the insurance policy or

consult the agent and find out whether

permission can be obtained to run an

incubator in the house without making

the insurance void. An incubator can be

run in the house for many years With-





HE incubator should be «placed .at a... Start is worth—considerable if:





 





 

 

   





the encouragement and; enthuSlasm

which li’rgives to the operator. "



It' is best to follow the directions :

furnished with the machine as each

manufacturer seems to know the best

methods of obtaining chicks from the

eggs placed in his machine... He has

undoubtedly paid for the experiment-

ing, which is right and proper. The’

farmer cannot afford to pay for experi-

ments unless they are absolutely nec-

essary. ‘



Buy a good grade of, oil for the ma.-

chiné and there will be less trouble in

regulating the temperature. There will

be less smoke and odor and we have

not found that the use of the more ex-





Prcperly Managed Incubator Produces Healthy Chickens.





out a. fire and most of the machines

are. quite well protected against this

risk but it pays to take no chances.



If the machine is to be used in a.





room, it should be placed as far‘ from.





the stove as possible and also away

from draughts. Air.~ currents passing

through a room will interfere with the

regulation of the incubator and cause

much worry and trouble in bringing

out a. successful hatch.



After assembling an incubator it

should be leveled with a spirit level.

A dish of water will assist the poultry-

man in placing the machine level but

the-spirit level is better. A machine

on a slant will seldom do efficient

work, as one end of the egg chamber

will be warmer than the others.



Test the machine before placing the

eggs on the trays and look for leaks in

the hot water pipes. Note that the

thermostat is in proper working order

and find out if you can hold the tem-

perature at 103 degrees for at least

one day before placing the eggs in the

machine. It is much better to know

that the machine is right before risk-

ing the eggs. A successful hatch right





EW American meals are complete



without some sweet. I doubt if



any of us can remember when we

have been limited to the- purchase of

two pounds of sugar as now. Honey is

a natural sweet which can be had in

abundance by many who have two or

three stands of bees. It would indeed

be interesting to know how many thou-

sands of pounds of it could be collect-

ed by bees from the great multitude of

Wild flowers and fruit blossoms.



A single hive in a good season will

yield nearly enough honey for the av-

erage- -sized family, and in the course of

two years this can be increased to

three or four stands with no additional

expense except the cost of the hives

and foundation material on which the

bees build their comb. Along with our

other farm work we have kept from

four to twelve stands of bees and have

always had plenty for table use and

some to sell. The bees help to fertilize

the blossoms of the fruit trees and

berry bushes.



Some have the impression that bees

require the attention of an expert

splat-let. Sufllcient knowledge for a





beginning can be obtained from a good by early autumn.





 





Dab-cit, Mich. .





pensive grade of oil greatly increases

the expense of hatching.



We found that it paid to study the

directions when our first incubator ar-

rived and make a small chart telling

us just what to do from the first to

.the last day Of the hatch. This chart

was pinned on top of the incubator.

After the first batch we did not need

to refer to the chart as the time for

turning the eggs, amount of cooling

necessary and regulation of the ma;

chine Were fully instilled in our mind.

The first hatch was a good one and we

found that it paid to follow directions.



We only did one thing not included

in our directions. The air in the room

where we were running the machine

was a little dry. On the morning of

the nineteenth day we soaked a woolen

cloth in boiling hot water and after

wringing it out, placed it over the eggs

and closed the machine. When the

cloth was dry we removed it and left

the machine closed until the finish of

the hatching. The moisture supplied

by the cloth seems to help the chicks

to come out of their shells rapidly.



Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY. '





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Bees on the Farm





community who has honey bees to sell.



The cost of bees, is not large. A

good stand may be purchased for from

$1.50 to $2.50, or with the hive from

$4.00 to $7.00. A talk with the man

from whom they are purchased will

divulge'some of the secrets of hand-

ling them lf he has studied the work a.

little. If one wishes only comb honey

all the additional equipment needed

will be a bee veil, a pair of gloves and

a smoker, whichcost about $2.00. We

extract most of our honey, finding it to

be more profitable, but this requires

the use of a honey extractor which one

with only one or two hives might not

find as profitable unless they expected

to make an increase in the number of

stands. A greater yield of honey can

be secured when it is extracted. Per—

sonally, l prefer it to the comb honey:

it can be canned in glass or tin Jars

and kept for years. If it sugars it can

be heated slowly by setting the jars in

warm water for a few hours.



A stand can be secured at any time,

but if it is gotten in May or June the

bees will store up sufficient for their

brood and make some surplus honey

Given two coats .
I“.





 





 





 





 

 

 

 





P , Pl e the hives under a washbasins





day, scratch feed may be fed five times





' fed from a selfefeeder, if chicks have





‘ ' of baby chicks, keep .them dry and pro-





m. tn!!! what is to be done in





 





 





and away from the house and ' road





where they will not be disturbed. Stock j .





sometimes knock them over.





If -a thrifty stand of bees is purchas- ‘





ed early in the spring or early summer

months it will be well to be prepared





to take care. of new swarms during

One or two extra~

.If anyone about '

the farm is handy with tools he can -





June and July.

hives will be needed.





make the hives, patterning them after





a standard made hive, but they can f





.be bought about as cheaply from a

manufacturer and will be perfect in all

details.



The life and habits of a .bee are an

interesting and fascinating study, well

worth anyone’s time if they enjoy the

wonders of nature and wish to spend a

few pleasurable nights with a good

book on the subject. They really re-

quire very little attention when one

has but a. few stands and they keep the





pantry shelf stocked with jars of a

makes deli- '

cious candies and cakes and can be '

to be incubated during the hatching f





delicious sweet. Honey





sea-son.





Indiana. J. L. JUSTICE.





HENS VS. INC‘UBATOR.





 





At present prices of feed it costs .





about five cents a week to feed a hen.

It requires about twelve weeks for a

hen to hatch and rear her brood to the

age of “weaning?





hen’s time in hatching and raising, to





say nothing of the profit she might ’





have made had she been left in the

laying flock.





It requires ten hens to hatch one .





hundred and fifty eggs, which at sixty

cents for each hen means $6 for a “one-

hundred-fifty egg hatch.” It requires

about fourteen gallons of oil at a cost

of $1.70 to “incubator hatch”





hundred and fifty eggs. This leaves

34% as interest on the investment for

an incubator and broader, even if the





incubator were set but once during the -

season, and it can be set three or four





times.



A hen can be set only when the hen

is ready; an incubator, when the eggs

are ready. This fact alone means early'

and profitable chicks. It would seem‘





that an incubator and broader would' '





be a profitable investment wherever

one hundred and fifty or more eggs are

used in cooking and other methods of

food preparation.





 





CARE AND FEEDING IMPORTANT

FOR BABY CHICKS.





 





On the first day baby chicks should





receive no feed, and the mother hen

should receive only corn and water.

Sour milk may be given the chicks

the second day, but no grain and grit

or sand Should be placed where they

can find it. From the third to seventh





daily, giving each time all they will

clean up in thirty minutes. Sour milk

also may be fed abundantly in this pe-

riod and green feeds also may be used.

After the seventh" day, grain food

should be continued with dry mash,





composed of two pounds of bran, two:’





pounds of shorts and two and a half

pounds "of sifted meat scraps. Feed

the mash in atrough twice a day for a

few days, gradually increasing until it

is before them at all times. After the

chicks are on full mash feed, reduce

the grain ration to three times a day,

continue milk. and make the chicks

scratch for grain. After the second

month, both grain and mash may be





plenty of range.

Prevent crowding, prevent chilling





“defiantly of exercise. This in a.





This means a cost .

of sixty cents per fifteen eggs for the ‘





. and ‘

“broader rear” the chicks from one ‘





 

 

 

 

   

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

   

   





Raise your chicks

the Pan-a-ce-a Way

and help them to





a ,

avmd



Capes, Indigestion, Leg Weakness



and‘Their Little Bowel Troubles.





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‘ POULTRY

pANAgE-A





Makes Chicks Healthy. The Best Safeguard

Against Lillie Chick Ailments





Your great problem is not how to hatch chicks, but to raise them after

they are hatched. You would like to avoid the distressing losses of the first

few weeks. Here’s the best advice lcan give you: Feed chicks Pan-asce-a

to keep their general health good. Remember that disease takes the weak,

:notthe strongand vigorous. Begin feeding Pan-a-ce-a right away to start

them to digesting right. '



_ LISTEN TO THIS: There’s a dealer in your town that will supply you

williDr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a, sufficient for your flock—it’s to keep

. yourchicks healthy-it’s to prevent gapes and cure the gapey ones—it’s

to prevent and cure leg weakness—it’s to prevent and cure indigestion—

:t’s to regulate the bowel troubles.





If it does not do these things, your dealer is authorized to refund every cent you

have paid him. If tyou want early broilers and pullets that will develop into early

Winter layers, then , eed Pan-a-ce-a. Packages, 25c, 60c and $1.25. 25-119. pail, 32.50;

mm drum, 89.00. Except in the far West and Canada.





_ BR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio

I DR. HESS STOCK TONIC





 





 





 

   

 

   

   

   

 

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





   





   

 

 

 





 





   





Keeps Plus Healthy and Thrflty Drives 0|“ the Worms





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





r. Hess Instant Loose Killer, Kills Lice.





 





 





 





Buys 140sEgg

95 Champion





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mm, mm “5% Community u s

Double Fibre Board Case, Caper ”o'er- ; - i

hw’vig‘é?” 9%” Btfwtgbcthzgnly $12.31.

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ed on ex mm.

My och! 0 ran ovide to

in nérder $5? or





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' . " mu.” -It~t‘.§lls 51.. El: Mm'f‘ig'é'.

_ Belle City Icubator (10.. Box 14 ., Racine, Wis.





     





Form a Michigan Farmer Community Club in your neighborhood. It

means a saving for you and your neighbors on Michigan Farmer subscrip-

tions. These clubs are ‘easy to form because there are a lot of people in your‘

neighborhood who are interested in the Michigan Farmer and want to take it.

Those who are now subscribers will also want to take advantage of these club

rates when renewing their subscriptions. '





 

   

 

 

 





 





. ”f“ ..I MAKE YOUR BIKE

m A MOTERCYCLE





 





Community Club Rates.





)9 :3&%%umguéfis%§ 2 yearly subscriptions ...... $1.50 5 yearly subscriptions ....... 3.00

Writfi' l... -, 3”” mo 3 yearly subscriptions ....... 2.00 8 yearly subscriptions ....... 4.25

333.1%? gain Biiyucle Motor at: 10 yearly subscriptions. .. . ... . .5.00





‘ gsmégihm' Sn "" All Communit cu b d at b td' t

. - u or 8P8 mu . sen I _ '

mfuw‘chmn 99. y e rec to the Commumty Club.

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The Michigan Farmer





JDetroit, Michigan ‘





 

 





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POULTRY





Whit Holand Turkey Hens. mated to large vig-

8 crew; Toms 1 guaranteed to plea-e you-or

money cheerfully refunded, :6 each 3101117. Eggs

flat sale; attained envelope for Nagy.

ALDEN WH 1300MB, yron Center, Mich.

I.Jor hatch. :'Ten eggs from pure Toulouse



8 .50 postage prepaid.





   





 





   

 

 





 





 

 





 





   





When Writing to advertisers please state that





 





 





 





 





W for ’

Mrs. AM SOUTHWORTH. Allen. Mich; J





, you saw their ad. in The Michigan Former.





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u 1'... ' ,.. 1,, .-\

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The Largest Institution In the World for the

Treatment of Piles, Fistula and all Other

Diseases of the Rectum (Except Cancer)





WE CURE PILES. FISTULA and all other DISEASES of the RECTUM (except

cancer) by all original PAINLESS DISSOLVENT METHOD of our own WITHOUT

CHLOROF‘ORM 0R KNIFE and with NO DANGER WHATEVER TO' THE PATIENT.

Our treatment has been so successful that we have built up the LARGEST PRACTICE IN

THE WORLD in this line. Our treatment is NO EXPERIMENT but is the'MOST SUC-

CESSFUL METHOD EVER DISCOVERED FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE

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VE GUARANTEE A CURE IN EVERY CASE WE ACCEPT





0R MAKE NO CHARGE FOR OUR SERVICES. We have cured thousands and thousands

from all parts of the United States and Canada. We are receiving letters every day from ,

the grateful people whom we have cured telling us how thankful they are for the wonder-

ful relief. We have printed a book explaining our treatment and containing several hun-

dred of thése letters to show what those who have been cured by us think of our treat-

ment. We would like to have you write us for this book as we know it will interest you

and may be the means of RELIEVING YOUR AFFLICTION also. You may find the names





of many of your friends in this book.





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the thousandsywllom we have cured for our advertising. You may never" see our ad

again so you better write for our book today before you lose our address. ,





., Drs. Burleson & Burleson





804 The Burleson Bldg.





Grand Rapids, Michigan





 





The Farmers of Michigan Lose Annually





More Than $2,500,000.00 Worth of Live Stock





Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs





FROM ACCIDENT AND DISEASE





The animals are destroyed and their cash value lost not only to the farmer but to the commun.

ity. the State. This amazing sum of money can be saved to the farmers and the State if thev (the





farmers) will but avail themselves of





The Michigan Live Stock Insurance Company





organized expressly for the purpose of indemnifying owners of live stock against death from any

cause. We want agents to carry this great message to every farmer.

Colon C. Lillie, Pres. and Sup. of Agts.,

319 WiddicOmb Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich.





Harmon J. Wells, Sec. and Gen. Mgr.





. BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication.





We Ofier a Few Speual Bargains

In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

bouillet rams, Hampshire plgs (either

sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance

for a small investment to reap the bene-

fit of a large expenditure of capital and

years of expert breeding.



Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.





 





CATTLE.





ABERDEEN

ANGUS





For:Sa1e——Three high-class bulls of the

"Blackbird Families” ages 17 to 23

months. All sons of Black Monarch 3rd

three times Grand Champion Bull at





Michigan State Fair. Write

SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.





w. E. SCRIPPS, Prop.

Wildwood Farms, Orion, Mich.





WOODCOTE ANGUS





Trojan-Eric“ and Blackbirds only Breeders of the

dam and former owners of the a re (our herd bull)

o! the Grand Champion Bull at the International





cm 2 1917.

wo‘c’i’fi‘éo‘fi sroox man. Ionia. Mich.





Good uality bulls of serviceable

Clover Iy ADS!“ ageang youn er. Inspection invit-

0d.





 

 





 





Geo. Hathaway and n. Ovid.’ Mich.





Registered Guernseys





Q. B. your





, Allie gyoar-cld heifer and her heifer calf—right in





\





Graebner Bldg., Saginaw, W. 5., Mich.





GUERNSEYS must reduce herd. so offer

. a few choice females of

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

mfilhe rd tuberculin tested.



T. . HICKS. - - - - Battle Creek. Mich.





 





a "I ‘ 3 45Re istered head all tb. tested. Nora's

"0 8 Y Ma in', son of I’mp. May Rose King

heads our herd, 90! his half sisters sold averaging $1950

each. His bull calves are boolied ahe at reasonable

prices. Avondale Stock Farm, Wayne. Mich.





 





 

 





 





- - m31"»‘iionilm1am Mich.





G U E R N 8 BY Sbhi‘iliflir’i‘i





Containin blood of world chain ions.





 





HICKS' 0U! IY FARM. Saginaw. . 8.. Mich



F Registered Guernsey bull col-

or sale you May Rose breedin .



JOHN EBELB. R. 2. Hollan . Mich.





 





bulls of the beat blood

For Guernsey 1...... “7....

WALLACE BROS.. - - - Bay Shore, Mich.





CLUNY STOCK FARM





lOO--REGISTERED HOLSTEINS--100

When you need a herd sire remember that we

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

der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual

over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We

have size. quality, and production records back-

ed by the best strains of breeding.



Write us 'your wants.



R. BRUCE McPHE SON, Howell, Mich.





accepted in payment of finely bred r -

A Bond "OI. istered Holstein bull calves. ual‘lgy

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

GEO. D. CLARKE. . - - - Vassar. Mich.





 





 





7 Pedigree Stock Farm oflere Re .1101-

Parham S stein cattle. Chester White wine,

extra bargina in calvel and fall pigs. Bulls half rice.



R. B. PARHAM. Bronson. Mich.





A Few Fine Bulls For Sale





Big-lows Holshin Firms. lmdsvilln. Mich.





 





 





I Always Have Holsteins

To Sell '-





If wanting Registered cattle write me your wants

before placing your order elsewhere.





L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio

_3-HOLSTEIN BULLS—3 .





 





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'STATE GRANGE OFFICERS.

Master—John C.Ketcham, H' '. ' . '

Overseer—C. H. Bramble, ”20:53:18 . Hdld interesting Medina—Pleasant

.Lecturer—Dora H. Stockman, Lan- .weather and the beginning of spring

sin . '

Sgecretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor. small attendance at the Kimball-Wales



Treasurer—Frank Coward. Bronson. Farmers’ Club March meeting. A most



Executive Committee—Jae. Helme, bountiful dinner was served at noon at

Adrian; Geo B. Horton, Fruit Ridge; the home of Mr. Charles Stevenson,

ii. W. Hutchins, Hanover; W. F. Tay- after which the company adjourned to

or. ~





INCREASING GRANGE MEMBER-

' SHIP.





x w flilllllllllllillllllllllilllllmlI '5 2 9* " J" '

CLUB‘ DISCUSSIONS.





 





noon. The program was carried out as

announced, with the exception of the

talk concerning farm implements by

Mr. Istéeiter. As Mr. Isbester wias nfll:

presen is topicwas postpone up i_

(Continued from last week). _ _ the next meeting. The musical pro—

.Our local organization must 30m gram by Mrs. Ryan, Ruth White and

with a county unit. Our county or— several little people under the training

ganization must be linked with the 0f Mrs. Abbey was 95990131.”. 300d and

state and our state unit must be a much enJoyed. Mr. LeWis" talk on

’ “SOil Fertility and Drainage, brought

part of a strong national body before out a number of valuable points- and

we can truly represent the agriculture was discussed by Several 0f the mem-





- - bers. “Farm Work for Women through

of America. The Grange accomplishes the Establishment of 3. Girls’ C am p,’,’





all of this exactly in proportion to the was presented by Miss Waldron, coun-

extent to which the average man and ty home demonstration agent, and





woman on the farm get into it and do caused some ‘amusing as well as seri-

ous discussmn. There is a DOSSlbllltY





their individual parts. There is not a that such a camp of high school girls

smgle actmty in agriculture. from the may be established on the 'StevenSon

management of silos to the buying and Farm, though no definite plans are





- - made as yet. An interchange of war

selling of the neceSSities of life, from time recipes ‘by the ladies then devel-





the practice of domestic science in our oped many important and instructive

homes, to the school, where our boys items in regard to cooking under new

'and girls learn how to fill their places conditions. The QUGSUOD 0f buying lap





- . ‘ boards and paper plates for the greater

in the world, or from the management conveniencehgf.‘ . "ving the Club din-





Of‘ a farmers’ bank to matters 0f legis- ners was then discussed, and the mat-

lative importance that touch the lives ter referred to a committee with power





of the people in the country that may to act. A rousing talk on the “Third



. . . Liberty Loan” by A. E. Stevenson, in

not be discussed m Grange, 8‘an It may which he urged the people to be ready

as truly be Bald that not 3. 5111818 re. with their subscriptions when the com-

form has been brought about within mittee visit”. them, closed a most In—

the last forty years in which the teresting meeting.





- Wells-Dayton Farmers' Club held

Safftnge has not played a’ prominent its regular monthly meeting at the





, home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Janks.



With these things in view it is up to After the bounteous dinner was served

every local organization to plan to in- Ismgglcei‘ihzngirscéhzrialofhogil'lefthlgrgeg.

crease its membership. If the real inpg was, called to order by, the presi—

tI‘Uth about the Grange COUld hilt get dent. The Club sang “Michigan, My

into the minds of the individual meme Michigan.” Mr. Stokes gave a reading

bers the result would be easy. We $1111“Theh113ackyarddFaMrmer1,)”whichwas

ought to make this matter of increas- onoEElhémgmtngghhditiorifs,” Egoiyniegag‘elg

ing membership an important part Of some current problems and was fol-

our next program. It can be done. glwed Mahdi 8%}? 93’ tfttle Clllllb.h‘"11}3

- - ross an e a,’a erwic r.

There is no question about that. It is Janks put the meigbers in touch with

Simply for us to “We how to do it the world by his well-selected items in

and then go at it. In some Granges “Review of Events.” The “Essential

the work will proceed quietly and Points that go to Make Farming a. Suc-





 





 





steadily and growth will come ab?“ thoughtful preparation and provoked

naturally Without any particular n01se discussion, The question box brought

or excitement. In others the contest ulp mgnyitgpics of intleiresltg. The plot:

i 11 -‘ - c ose wt singing ‘ 'y onnie,’ an

dea wi prevail The increase will be will meet with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur

larger and the problem of holding and Harmon in April.—-Della' Hunt, Cor.

interesting the new members will be Secretary.



much like that of conserving a. church The Brockway Farmers’ Club met at

after the crusade band has gone to the the Brockway Town Hall. Thursday.

next field, but it can be done. It is Mamh ?8- Aft?” abou‘ fifty members

. . and their families had partaken of the

being done. A membership contest is, usual Club dinner, the. meeting was

on the whole, a. good thing, and I can called to order by President Wallace





think of nothing that would do. more to Adams. After several talks by local

people on subJects of interest'to farm-





Master 50 earnestly desires. Club. Among the things of importance

In our opinion every Grange should that he discussed, Mr. Cavanaugh ex-

discuss this matter of a membership Egyélegntélegggatfgfeiglfgnlgaglgg] .0“;

contest and. should adopt the idea un- Many of our best Club workers and

less there 18 some good local reason prominent people in other organiza-

for not doing so. We ought to make tions are handicapped by the inability

this matterlof increased membership to impress others “flth the importance

fi t b 1 Th of the things in which they are partic-

our ’5 us ness. ere was never a. ularly interested. County Agricultural

time when the farmersneededto keep agent C. L. Brody, met with the Club

so close togetheras now. In the Ed IIVJtI‘esentiid {Setters ofimrhegiate

- ' p0 ance o e armers suc as



Grange the county agent Will find a seed corn, spring' wheat,’ etc; Mr.

medium thI‘ngh thh he can accom-)Br0dy also talked at considerable

pliSh most if "that Grange is large length upon the greatfneedkciixf1 ctofii-

enough to truly represent the commu- servmg wheat, and also 01‘ ma. 3' 9

. . . most of what bids fair at present to be

nity. Where community interest is a poor wheat crop. The subject of

broken either by conflicting organiza- price fixing was most earnestly dis:

tions or by- the lack of any society that cussed by W. B. Darling. Henry John-





adequately represents community life,

agriculture suffers and the forces that 3336112211133} afigletfigmgfi‘iflgffidmfi





try are powerless to do their best.





The Grange is here. It is establish— farmers would do all in their WW”?





not only in matters concerning w- , ,

communities. It should be everywhere further the interests of our army]

but even then it will not have really our 811198 in the great a



which we are engaged.a~Cl





come into its own until practically ev- .ed to meet in April at ,.a ma” to-"

ery good farmer shall have joined in announced later. ' y

this movement to make the bountry a ' — , " "





better place in which to 'Iiv'é..





 





W. F. TAYLOR. '





- x





work was responsible for a relatively .





Mr. A. E. Stevenson’s 'for the after»





cess,” by Walter kelley, showed much ,





bring about the result that the State ers, Mr. Wm. Cavanaugh addressed the.





.son, Thos. Rapley, Mrs. Thos. Carlene, -





make for better conditions in the coun- appear on the surface at least to be

exactly fair to the farmer, BrockWay-





ed in some sort of way in most rural but in any and all ways that. ecul

and





. -ewe ma





’kficolusrw’fl ., ..





v‘ u was.“ .
" i C'V'cterinary. é





 





. and four parts ”fresh lard to stifle twice





'tm'pentine, aqua ammonia and raw lin.





 





‘hmf months and when she came fresh





stalksond





W“ WIWMWHWIWWHWMME

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





 





ervousness.——I have a three-year-

oltlfl cow that freshened January 2t};

since then she had been seemingly in

good health and gradually increased in

milk yield, but has developed a..disa-

greea‘ble habit. Almost immediately

when I commence to milk she seems

to be inclined to urinate and I would

like to know if she can becorrected

of this habit. W. A., White Cloud,

Mich—Feeding her wh11e_ you milk

and treating her kindly_ Wlll perhaps

have the euect of correcting this habit,

which is doubtless due to nervousness.

I would suggest that you place a piece

of chain or :a light weight over the

loin when you first approach her and

leave it on until after she has been

milked” 1d 11k i k ' what

. Man e.-—I wou ‘ e 0 now _,

can begdone for my sheep whose skim

in places, especially on the .s1des, is

covered with scabs and the sheep are

inclined to rub themselves, but upon

examination I find no ticks, and I

might add that they appear to be heal-

thy and in good order. C. J._A., Owos-

so, Mich—Apply one part liquor ore-l

solis .c'ompositus “U. S. P.” and twenty-

four parts vaseline to sore parts of

skin two or three times a week. You

will find it difficult to affect a cure

until your sheep are sheared.



Partial Paralysis—I have two pigs

which‘will weigh 125 pounds each that

seem to have lost the use of their hind

quarters. ,They ha. . ct. ; ted milk,

middlings, soft corn and some culled

oats. I might add that these pigs .have

had practically no exercise all Winter.

Would you advise me to butcher them

in their present condition? V. H. R.,

Kibbie, Mich—Yes, you had better

slaughter them a? the fle: is. now fit

for food. -I might add that their recov-

ery would be doubtful.



Partial Loss of Power.——‘I have four,

year-old Collie dog that seems to have

only partial use of his ‘hind quartersfl

When walking he wabbles and I am,

inclined to believe that he is weak in

back, but he has a splendid appetite;

and does not appear to ”be sick. J. F

B.. Flat Rock, Mich—Doubtl-ess your;

dog suffers from functional disease :of

the spinal cord and may perhaps be

benefited .by giving him four grains of

potassium iodide, 10 drops .of fluid ex-

tract nux vomica and 10 drops of Fowl-;

er’s solution of arsenic at a dose two:

or three times a day. He should be

kept warm and well fed. .



Cat Has Sore Ears.-I have an An—

gora. cat that has sores in her ears. I‘

have employed several Vets. who have

treated her for mange; have also ap-

plied Glover’s mange cure with poor

results. However, the disease does not

seem to spread. Mrs. J. D. W., Lan-

sing, Mich—Your cat will perhaps

never fully recover. However, you

might apply iodine ointment occasion-

a’lfly—this you can obtain at any drug

store.



Dislocation of Stifle—Wind-pufis,_

I have a three-year-old colt that slip-

ped and dislocated stifle joint; when

put back to place it will not stay in its

normal position. What can be done

for this colt? I also have another

horse that has chronic wind-galls which

I would like to have removed. A. B.

Hillmmx. Mich-Clip hair off stifle and

amply :one part powdered cantharides





amont‘h’. Repeat-ed blisters will doubt-

less help your .col-t. Chronic windpui‘fs

ace seldom curable. Try any of the

commercial remedies that are guaran-

teed to cure this ailment, but remem-

ber the writer has never known of .a

remedy for hard, solidified .bursagl

bunches. I have thought best in most

cases .to leave the bunches alone, un-

less they cause lameness.



lFoot Soneness.—~I- recently bought a

nine~year~01d mare; she rested for five

days then work-ed four days; is now

lame and sure in fore feet. Had her

shod but this failed to help; took

shoes off, but she is no better. I am

told she may be foundered. M. B.. Cen-

turia, Wis—Stand her in wet clay for

three hours daily, apply equal parts of

seed all to conducts. on store legs three

times a week.



,='Mtionless Wilden—My three-year-

ofl heifer carried her calf nine and a





ha- bag was hard, but contained no 5

walk. not at all feverish and nearly all ‘





the m m udder and thighs dropped : ,





cl. Her food supply has been ‘corn- '

some ground feed. H. ‘H. S.,

Michrwflor- udder is func-

ignlons, therefore she is worthless for





 





to freshen in June. Among

King Segis Pontiac Johanna Hengerv

erveld DeKol. T





B. V. Kelly & 5.1-1. Wood,

in the 1box.





CATTLE





them are eg





hree are Granddaughterslof Pontiac de Nijlander. _

arm one mile west of Hendries corners, on Pontiac car line and two miles west

of Royal Oak. Write for catalog. Wlll meet cars.





 





HOMESTEAD FARMS





A Federation of Interests

Holstein:





Aherd of 50 Holsteins headed by the bull King

rma Eloartro Pontiac, son of King Segis Pontiac



Alcartra'tlie 850,&l0-Holstein .Bull andafull brother to

Mable Segis Korndyke, 40.32 lbs. of “butter in ‘7 days

at four years old.



This herd is of the ver highest class of Holsteins

and are the kind that t to practical former should

have who wants stock that is sure to pay out.



The 'following'fami .\' is offered an a foundation for

a high class practice herd: Dam.me Il‘cpsey Dawn.

4 yrs. old bred to King Zorxna .Alcarba Pnnlluc and

now due to freshenflst daughter Pauline Sadie Dawn.

2 yrs. old, br-od Novfl, 1911, to‘bullzwlth‘29 lb. dam; 2nd

.dnu‘hterl yr. old audfull sistercf 1st daughter. Let

you hotograpbs and full us send description of

"this amily.



Heifer calvel. bred heifers and cows. Please tell

what you want and let us describe and send photo-

graph of the individual such as we think you

would like.



Young Bull,olred by King «Zerma Aloartra Pontiac:

Grundsiro King Segis Pontiac Alcartra, the $50,000

bull. Dam is Genessee Wonder, direct descendent on

both sides of her ancestry from De Kol 2nd, Butter

Boy 3rd.



This young bull was born Jan. 30, 1918: is 95 per cent

white, ash-night upright animal. a will send you

description and photograph. Other young and older

bulls of high class.



A fine Holstein herd; animals of all‘ages to select

from. Please let us hear from you.





HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.





 





8111 Annual Sale 81h





a admin-”Frieda Battle 89

loll. llnld

April 25, 1918, at Howell, Mich.





by

The Howell consign-

ment sale ’00.





These Cattle are a high class of stock

nearly all are from one to four years

old, bred in the most noted families in-

dividually fine, and bred to bulls of the

30 lb. kind. Catalogue ready.

Mark B. Curdy, .Sec’y.





Col. Perry, Auctioneer.





“Top , etch”

HOLSTEINS





The young bulls we have for sale are

backed up by many generations of

large produoers. Buy one of these

bulls, and give your herd a “push”.

Full descriptions, prices,etc. on request.





McPherson Farms "Co., Howell, Mich.





 





 





 





 





BUILD UP YOUR EBANK ACCOUNT





You can do it. Others are turning losses into

profits by grading up. ‘





53% Hetsrsm sun.





is the short cut to greater profits





GRADE UP YOUR cows 1'





In a recent test daughters m a purebred ‘

Holstein bull Increased milk yield 94:per cent.: , .

anddaughters 45 per cent over scrub .

8. Let us tell you about-it. 1





Write for free information

No obligation—we have noth‘ ‘

lug :we want to sell you. : i





The Illlstcln-leuian Associallon

at Amman. Box I“. lulfluhmm.





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omit! King R [stand Holstein bulloalvee

cm A. 1R. 0. cows and t eabcve sire whose dam holdo’

the milk and ‘ utter record :in'tho meteor 1nd. '1',

gynmllk M3, utter.a‘z.51—3]5.dayo milk $782.8. but“





OAK Leaf Fora {nourish-o Lemme Pontiac Cal-

” . o :-





 





”pages and _ should be fattod: ;





 





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rm. .

ll. 'I‘LGMWS-‘zk SON. B. 4. Wm. Mich;





 

 





 

 

 

 





of REGISTERED HOLST-ElNS





60 head will be sold to the highest bidder, including 25 cows and 10 heifers bred

randdau hters of King of the Pontiacs,

d Lad, ' ontiac Appalo and Judge ‘Hen-





Sale at





J. H. McClure, Prop.,

Royal Oak, Mich.





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.





Slenyhu'rst Stack Farm





Bull born April 10th 1917. Dani 313 lb. Junior 2y.r,

dam of Mn loci-est Korndyke Hengerveld whose dam

and grand um both have yearly records of over1230 lbs.

butter, Sire is King Ona whose dam has yearly record

of 1345 lbs. and her dam a yearly record at l] years of

over 1100 lbs. Bull is 76 white and as straight as a

string. Priced cheap for immediate sale. Other

good ones from $75 up.



F. A. BARNETT ALSONS. Rochester, Mich.





 





 





Holstein bull, nearly ready for service, largeotraight

deepbodied, handsomely marked $1 white. His six

nearest dams have A.lt.‘(). records that average butter

7.‘duy824.13 milk 534“». W. B. Reader. Howell, Mich.





The Pontiac Herd





“Where the Champions come from”





Offer Bull Calves sired by sons of Pontiac Korndyke.

Hen erveld ’DeKolJ’ontlac Dutcnlundmr Admiral

‘Wal er Blemrnje.



Do you want a Pontiac in your herd?





Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac, Mich.





 





 





 





H ()LS'l‘EINBofcguality. Bull calves from dams with

records’high as 1 1 lbs. in 7 days. Also collie pu lea.

E. A, HARDY, - - - Ellen.





’ , , _ he your choice of heifers of a 30 :lb

$225 ta 8 bull due in May to a23lb. son of

Johanna Korn. D. K. Terms if wanted.



dd. 1.. MoLAULIN. - .





- Rochester,





 





Redford. Michigan.





 





ULSTEIN bull calves. eligible to registration,

without papers. 825 at '10 days of age registered, 350

to 87;). Dewey C. Pierson. Hadley, Mich.





 





' Holstein bull calf, born Sept.l917. darn

Registered daughter of 24 lb. cow. w-i-itevfor pedi-

fi‘rofi and Iprice. F.O.B. your. station.





. ST RG18, R. 5, St. Johns, Mich.





 





Holstein gulvecEZS blelifegs. drEfbullllvaS-dfitkhs wigs.



owoe s c , eaui y . .5

each,crated for sh ment anywhere. Tiny ofifigtlfe best.)

EDGEWOOD‘FA Mfi. - - Whitewater, Wis.





 





Parkside Holstein bulls. 8 and 16,mo. Bothstred by

noted bull. 87 relatives are 30 lb. cows. Priced to sell.

J. :E. TIRRILL & SON. - Charlotte, Mich.





HEREFflRDS





10 bull calves for sale, Perfection

Fairfax and Prince Donald breeding.

ALLEN BROS”

PAW PAW, MlCl-l.



H e re f0 rd '3 Erqfielif"iféil‘1’37rii b.7512





.all .3206 .oithor polled or horned. EARL C.

McCARTY. 890': Mich. H. B. Ass'n. Bad Axe, Mich.





 





 





 





NE 11 mo. old oolid-colored-gr, son of Royal Ma-

..Jeaty whose dam asa Byr. produced406.2~l lbs. of but-

ter 1 yr. First check gets him. registered,

transferred and deliveredvnnytpointdn Mich.

FRED BRENNAN 866.. - - - «'Capac, Mich.





 





‘ ready for service. Also heifers

Chalce Bulls for-sale. Strong in the Blood

of :80an fluency. Come and seethem or write for

particulars. THE WILDWOOD HERD

Alvin Balden. Capac, Mich.. Phone 143.5.





 





 





 





Ready for Service





Blred by better bred bulls and

out of high testing dams.





   

 

 

 





   





with Jersey type and capacity.

Prices reasonable. Also a few

red gilts (Durocs) and boars.





Breakwater Farm,





   

   





   





 





 





sale a oarload of eowo & h l .

free from Abortion dz Tuberculosis. e tel-s Herd

H. C. Fenton, Mich.





dz A. H. DONALDSON.

ERSEY bull and bull calves for sale from R of M

2 . we. also heifers and cows of all ages. . ‘

o. g. WERNER. as, Allegan, Mich._

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F-OR SALE





a.

mumraam. n. 4. ‘ lmll."lfioh.1





 





 





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-l l Meteor! Jone Cattle. Several hoiforom

LIT)! freshen next fall. Ilao a few heifer and bull col.





vol of choice breeding. Colon 0. Lillie. Coopersville.Mioha





' . d . l'd color Jersey bull



For sale ‘mggs.‘%g.m§%ible grandson of

‘ . . . cow. ,



g?i%-¥)flt E.“ .out-o . '2 Ypsilanti. Mich.





Shorgvhom Callie cl both Sex iotSale





. W. “All. Howell. niobium).





BlllWEll. SHfl-RTHQMS





For Beef and Milk.





Registered bulls. cows and heifers-Good Scotch and

Scotch-Topped for 58.1 . In prime condition. Hinges:

sanitary equipment. arm miminutes from N. . .

depot, zl hour from Toledo,»0hlo. Automobile moot.

all trains. Write





B! DWELL STOCK FARM,





Box B. Tecumseh. Mich.





—Dll.ryor beef bred. Breedin stock all

:hfl’lllfl’ll: ages for-sale attormm prices. C.W.Crurn.

low. Cont. Mich. Shortbom Breeders' Ann. chrido. Itch.





Ri‘Chla-nd Farm





Shorthorns.

IMP. Lorne in Service. Grand Chain ion Bull 0!

Mich. Special offer on 14 head of Short orns. Cows

with calves at footJieifei-s two years old and hot

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

invite correspondence and inspection.

0. H. PRESCOTT o. SONS.

Farms at Prescott. Miclk (mice at Towns. City, Mich.





Francisco Farm Shorthorns

We aintuin one of Michigan's good herdsof Scotch

and catch Topped cattle. The are well bred, prop-

lerlyhunt?ledhfind price remnab 8. Come and see: ‘0



Us t em.

P. 6I”. 3’8 ow Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





Fair Lawns Shorthorns





Icarling bulls by Canada’s best sires: Missie Augum

605778 and Im . Newton Frier 528120.

LAURENCE T’. OTTO, - - - Charlotte. Mich.





Registered heifers & cows heavy

Shorthorns‘ in calf to Master Sultan; few young.

milking strain.





9 f aloe: farmers irioes;

r em lVlS, Hart, Mich.





HORRIETON FAR - -

. , r b He, 1r and 16 me. By a

Shorthorny-grgsidsgn of Cyrus Clay. .



COLLAR BROS, R. 2, Conklin, Mich.





HOBTHORNS. Butterfly Sultan, half brother to

International Sr. Chamgion. in service. For goo‘d

bullsmowsmnd heifers. W. .McQulllan.Howoll.Mich-





Maxwaltcn Monarch 2nd. 387322 half

Shorthorm brother to 5'Grand Champions in ser-

vice. JOHN SCHMIDT, B. 5. Reed City, Mich.





 





N 0N of Hartborth Welfare heads our herd of milk-

bing Shorthorns Comprising Chifley of Clay bred

cows. oung bulls ready for sale and service, wrlto‘u.

ledel Bros. R. 2. Clinton, Mich, Macon Phone.





brand Imam Shorlhorn lm. 3.23%; 9““ ‘°'

'M. E. DUCKLES, 890., Traverse City. Mich.





. M l R" d f 8h thorns

1867-1918 YeTSIE‘ng lTilglofegegmd vbull calves for





sale. .7. E.’IANSWELL, Mason, Mich.





 





8h “m Four very desirable heifers 17 1:021 months

or ”'3 old,a.nd buns mo. All roans. Price sum.

8. E. BOOTH. - - . . .





Re . .Shorthorn bull 6 mos. old

For .Sale Res. ‘Bich bred onc.{200.

J. M. HICKS it SONS, R. 2. Williamston. Mich.

qHOR THORN; 1 bull 6 months old, 1 heifer .14 mos.

k. old Registered in buyer's name. Sl00 if taken soon.

H. W. MANN, - - Dunsville, Mich.





Morrioe. Mich.





 





 





VHORTHORNSH‘ZO hulls 2 to 18 11108., mostly from

. ‘Dorthy's Sultan 463015, a grandson of Whitehall

Sultan, also a. few cows. 0. Carlson, LeRcy. Mich.





- .I of best Bates Strain . cling

”alrvlll'ill‘lrSllOfllmnS stock of both sexes in? 5310.

J. B.HU MEL, - - - -, _, Mason. Mich.





 





 





Scotch Shorthorns ,{ilfd “33,? 82,333'

John Lossiter‘a Sons. Orion. M 10 .. R. F. D.

1 . One yearlin bull. Ale 1: ll

Red P0115 calves by incoln Lad0 21rd.

For prices and description, write



Wells Parish & Sons, R. 3. West Olive, Mich.





'l’o‘lled Durham Cattle fgfiflmn' bulls for





J. A. DeGARMO, - - - ‘Mulr. Mich.





Red Polled Cattle





best of breeding. Yorkshire pigs. 12.8.03”. Homer, Itch.





Cattle For Sale





Longfmfoedoro and wobbo‘f.2,“§"3ng steer-am Also

can w you any Ium r an , rule

600 to 1200 lbs. Isaac Shanstum. Fairflellli',’ IOWB.‘i{0n





H005.





UBOOS Orion Chief Perfection No. 689%) and Jon-

Drfings Pllot‘Wonder‘No. 73373. Two outstnn ing boars

of big type and excellent qualit . All selected largo

tyre smooth sows. Thrifty,.smoct . large boned spring

31 ts from these hard boars and choice flows at very

reasonable prices. The Jennings Farms, Bailey,Mlch.





GREY TOWER FARM





Now offers for sale a few choice Holstein bull calm,

from high testing dams, with good A. R. 0. records,

at farmers' prices.~wrlte us about them and our





Dames & Berkshires





M. D. KITCHEN Ugh. Gm: lake. Mich.





)

Dubs". 8 DUTOCS zurpéus Itock all sold. Noth-

l

ORLO L. ponson. - "8- ° ‘38 “ll ”335;”. Mich.





-DUROCS





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





: You want moreolzeJeeding qualities. Fall boarsready





for service. A ow sows b d f

NEWTON nannnmr, 7° .°r ignsofitgfng:





. Duroc Jerseys-mm," of theiargo heavy boned type

To reduce he'd 0‘ registered Jerseys we offer for-





.Pnlze winning stock, prices reasonable 1: 0 ml

handing considered, also ailts bred to J un'lorygzhgm-

plon boot-loi- spring furrow. F.J. Drodt. B. 1. Monroe. Mich.





91131:? rIERSEVS '





I. DEEYDENBE . - - Wayland. Mich.





not. limo lomy an. aim.

- - Ina-nu. Mich.





, CARE! u. mom.





 





Additional Stock M. on In". an ' '
Humanist ‘





 





Markets.





amunIIImummnmunmummlmmuuummmummumumuum

GRAINS AND SEEDS





April-9, 1918.



WHEAT.—The federal crop corres-

pondents estimated the prospective

yield of winter wheat at 560,000,000

bushels, which is 140,000,000 bushels

more than the 1917 crop, and about

20,000,000 bushels greater than the av-

erage for 1911-1915. Cash wheat is

very scarce, and the majority of mills

are anxious about supplies. Farmers

are now interested in field work'and

have little time for grain marketing.

One year ago No. 2 red Wheat was

quoted locally at $2.23 per bushel. The

present prices are:





 





No. 2 red ................ $2.17

No. 2 mixed ............ 2.15

No. 2 white ............. 2.15





CORN—Our latest reports from the

various grain markets show a general

stiffening of corn prices. Values have

generally been holding steady to high-

er, compared with last week. Receipts

at elevators in the corn belt are not

increasing, and from now on will prob-

ably decrease, while the demand is ac-

tive and without doubt will continue

so. Canada is anxious for corn both

for seed purposes and for consumption.

Our files show that corn was sold on

the local market at $1.41 per bushel a

year ago. The latest Detroit quotations

for cash corn are.



No. 3 corn...............$1.70

No. 3 yellow 1.75

No. 4 yellow 1.60

No. 5 yellow 1.35

No. 6 yellow ........ 1.20 .



The Chicago market is strong With



latest prices as follows:





No. 2 yellow . . . . $1.90@1.93

No. 3 yellow ...... 1.65((u1.73

No. 4 yellow ...... 1.60@1.65





OATS—Recent news from primary

markets show that large quantities of

oats have accumulated during the past

week. There is also a feeling among

dealers that farmers are holding a con-

siderable quantity of this grain. Not-

withstanding these opinions, prices

have advanced about one cent during

the week. Consumption of oats has

never been as large as at present. The

new crop is getting a good start. One

year ago we quoted oats at 761/50 for





standard. The latest Detroit cash

prices are:

Standard ...... ............95





No. 3 white................94%

No.4 white.... ...........93%

On the Chicago Exchange oats sold

as follows:

No. 3 white..........921/2@93

Standard .........‘...92%@931,é





RYE—The federal crop report indi-

cates 86,000,000 bushels for 1918, com—

pared with 60,000,000 for last year, and

41,000,000 as an average for 1911-1915.

The present market is a little easrer,

with prices for cash No. 2 as follows:



Detroit ........... 2.78

Chicago .......... $2.80@ 2.90



BEANS—Bean prices continue to be

rather disappointing as our market re-

ports show no improvement in prices

during the past week. There is, how-

ever, a firmer feeling in the trade, ow;

ing to the limited stocks in dealers

hands. Immediate and prompt Ship-

ment are quoted at $11.50 per cwt. at

Detroit. Chicago prices per cwt. are:



Hand-picked fancy. . $13@13.25

Red Kidney, fancy.. 14.00



SEEDS—Market is active and the.



stocks are small.





Prime red clover ...... $20.00

Alsike ................ . 15.25

Timothy .......... . . . . . 3.80





 





FLOUR AND FEEDS





FLOUR—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroxt

market per 196 pounds as follows:



Straight winter ........ $11.00

Spring patent .......... 11.30

Rye flour .............. 14.00



F EEDS.—-100-lb. sacks Jobbing lots:

Cracked corn ...... . . . .$70.00

Coarse corn meal. . . . 70.00

Chopped Feed ......... 56.00



HAY.—-Market is easy and quiet.

Prices in carlots at Detroit are:





 





No. 1 timothy ...... $24.50@25

Standard.timothy .. 23.50@24

Light mixed ....... 23.50@24

No. 2 timothy ...... 22.50@23





No. 1 clover. . . .. 21.50@22

Pittsburgh—Our correspondent ad-

vises us that receipts are heavy; mar-

ket stocked with poor hay, which de-

presses the value of good hay. All pur-

chasers are awaiting lower prices.

No. 1 timothy. . .$28.50@29.00

No. 2 timothy.... 24.00@25.00

,No. 1 light mixed 245062550

No. 1 clover mxd. 27.00@28.00 '

No. 1 clover..... 26.00@27.00





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DAIRY ROW .

BUTTER—Butter is steady and sup-

plies ample.



Fresh cream’y firsts. .39@39%

Fresh cream'y extras40@401,§

Chicago—Market lower but the de-

mand for fresh is improving. .

Creamery extras ...... 40

Extra firsts ........... 39@391/é

, Packing stock 30@31

CHEESE—Michigan flats 21%@.22;

brick 250; Michigan daisies 22c; do-

miestic Swiss 35@40c; limburger 28%

@291/éc per pound.

DRESSED CALVES.——Fancy at 21@

22c; choice 200; common 19c.

DRESSED HOGS.—Best 21@22c per

pound.





POULTRY PRODUCTS





POULTRY.——(Live).——Poultry is in

demand and market is firm.





 





Spring chickens ....... 34@35

Old roosters ...... . . . . 24

Ducks . .. ........ - ...... 3 4@35

Fat geese ............. 30

Turkeys .............. 34@ 35





Chicago.—(Live).——The demand for

young stock is good; others are not





wanted. .

Fowls ..... .....23@31

Ducks 31

Geese 28





EGGS—Receipts are heavy and the

prices lower. Dealers expect buying

for storage will soon begin. Fresh

firsts 32@33c.



Chicago—While demand is good,

there is a surplus and prices are





lower.

Fresh Mich. firsts... . 31

Ordinary firsts. . . . 30 31

Misc, (cases inc.) . . . 30 31





VEGETABLES





(Quotations furnished by the U. S.

Department of Agriculture, Bureau of

Markets, Detroit, Office).





POTATOES—Wires from all the im-

portant potato markets east of the

Rocky Mountains show that another

week has passed without any general

improvement in the potato situation.

Except in a few instances, the markets

are ruling from. steady to weak. Gen-

erally speaking, prices rule abOut 10c

below those of last week. There were

26 cars on the Detroitmarket Tuesday

morning. Below is given the condition

of trade and the jobbing prices paid

per cwt, for round whites U. S. Grade

No. 1 at the markets mentioned:



~ Detroit (steady)...$1.10@1.20



Cleveland (steady) 1.25 1.35

Bufialo (slow)...... 1.50 1.55

New York (mod) . . 1.80@2.00

Wash. (stronger)... 1.756183

Pittsburgh (fair)... 1.35 1.40

Cincinnati (weak).. 1.20 1.25

Indianapolis (weak) 1.30



Chicago (stronger) 1.05@1.10



Farmers are receiving from their

wagons at sidetrack at country points

in Michigan from 60@90c per cwt. In

Wisconsin prices to producers are 60

@700; and for bulk, ungraded to starch

factories 45@50c; in New York state

$1.10@1.25; no sales are reported from

Maine. The area planted in Florida to

Irish potatoes this year is estimated at

32,730 acres compared with 19,34

acres in 1917. .





WOOL





Seaboard agents tell us that the

Wool trade is growing stronger and

stronger even in the face of the regu-

lar shearing season of the country.

Fleeces are practically sold out. Buy-

ers are not going to the producing

states, we understand, as in former

years, since they do not know what

attitude the government will take re-

garding the distribution of the new

crop of wool. Producers, however, must

look well to their own interests and ac-

cept with caution advices from un-

scrupulous buyers who intimate lower

prices through alleged government

regulations. The year should bring to

the wool growers record prices to cov-

er the season’s record cost of produc-

tion.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Our representative found a larger

market than he did last Week, with

potatoes selling at 60@75c‘ per bushel;

parsnips $1; cabbage $1.25@1.50; tur-

nips 75c@$1; carrots 600; apples of

inferior quality, mostly Ben Davis, sold

at 75c@$1.25; lettuce $1; rhubarb $1

per dozen; eggs 40c.





GRAND RAPIDS





The potato market continues weak

and the movement slow, thuogh carlot

shipments from- the state,.are now

about equal to-‘the movement. from-





 





 





 





 





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. . , . . 0th:

toes, No. 1, selling at" 60 ' 80c, ‘thegtop

figure being quoted on t 9“ Greenville

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

president of the State Potato Growers'

Association, has gone to Washington

to see what can be done about a better

supply of cars and about a bigger bus-

iness with the army cantonments. The

egg market continues at 33@34c. Ap-

ples range from $1.50@2.25; onions 50

@75c per cwt; cabbage $3@4 per cwt;

hothouse lettuce 10c per pound. ,





LIVE STOCK





BUFFALO.

» April 8, 1918.

Cattle.



Receipts 125 cars; market 25@40c

higher; best shipping steers $I4@

14.65; fair to good $13@13.50; year-

lings $13@13.50; best handy steers $12

@1250; fair to good $10.75@11.50;

handy steers and heifers mixed $11.25

@1175; light butcher steers $10.75@

11.25; western heifers $11.25@12.50;

best fat cows $11@12; butchers’ cows

$9@10; canners $5.25@6.25; cutters~

$6.75@7.25; grazing cows $6.50@7.50;

fancy bulls $10.75@11.25; butchering

bulls $8.75@9.75; common bulls $8.25@

8.75; feeding steers $8@10; stockers

$8@9; milkers mil-Id springs $75@150.



ogs. .



Receipts 70 cars; market 25c lower;

heavy .$18.25@18.40; yorkers $18.50;

pigs and lights $18@18.25.



Sheep and’ Lambs.



Receipts 25 cars; market strong;

Wool lambs $20@20.75; clipped lambs

$17@18; yearlings $17@18.75; wethers

$16.50@17; ewes $15@I5.50.



Calves.



Receipts 3,500; market 15c lower;



tops $17; fed calves $7@7.50.

CHICAGO.

April 8, 1918.



Our special representative at the

Chicago Stock Yards reports:





 





 





Cattle.

Receipts.

Monday, this week ..... 25,000

Total, last week ....... 58,891





Total, preceding week..67,288

Total, week year ago... .39,446

Cattle averaged 75c higher last

week because of greatly reduced re-

ceipts, and the best sold at a further

advance of 15c today. The bulk of the

steers sold last week at $13@15, with

the late extreme range at $10.50@

15.50, while there were several sales

today at $15.55@15.65. A new high

mark was reached the other day when

a load of Angus feeders averaging

1,050 lbs. brought $13.90, with stockers

and feeders selling mostly at $9@

11.50. Prime veal Calves advanced to

$17, but sold off to $16 today. The

best beeves are selling at the highest

prices ever known in April, and no

good steers are sold below $14.25. Can-

ner and cutter cows sell at $7@7.95

and butchering cows and heifers at $8

@1350, and no weighty steers go be

low $14.50. A year ago steers brought

$8.65@13.15, and three years ago they

sold at $5.60@8.90.

Hogs.

Receipts.

Monday, this week. . .

Total, last week ....... 16

Total, previous week. . .228,702

Total, week year ago. ..120,741

Last week’s market was higher be-

cause of the great falling off in re-

ceipts, with good buying orders,.and on

Saturday sales were at $16.45@17.95,

aside from small lots of rough packers

at lower figures, while pigs brought, $13

@1675, feeding pigs going as high as

$17. A week earlier the best hogs

brought $17.50. Today’s liberal sup-

ply caused an average break of about

20c, the top being $17.75. Hogs re-

ceived last week averaged 241 pounds.

Light hogs top e market, with prime

heavy lots at a discount of about 40c

from top figures.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts.

Monday, this week ...... 13,000

Total, last week ....... .43,170

Total, preceding‘week. .57,204

Total week, year ago. . .75,063

Lambs advanced mostly $1 per 100

pounds last week, with top figures the

highest on record, and today there was

a small further advance in wooled

lambs and a. sharp rise in prime clip-

ped lots, the best wooled killers bring-

ing $20.65 and the best clipped $17.85,

while prime ewe breeding lambs





brought $21 “and prime shearing lambs ‘





$20.25. Wyoming wooled ewes are





bringing "$16.65, breaking the record, .





as 'do shorn Michigan yearlings at

$16.50. ' ~ '





 

 





MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.





- Wheat.-——.—The condition of wheat on

April 1 in the state was . 70, in the





southern counties 64, ‘ in the central 5





counties 11, in the northern] , «counties g

79am in the upper 96m 95‘. The '





 

 





central ‘ceunties '81,,‘in the no 'e

Counties ‘92"

sula98. . .



Rye—The average condition of rye

in the state is 77, in the southern coun-

ties 73, in the ,central counties 78, in

the northern counties 83 and in the up-

per peninsula 96. One year ago the-

condition in the state and central coun'

tiss was 86, in the southern counties

81, in the northern counties 95 and in

the upper peninsula 99.



Fruit—The following table shows

the prospect for an average crop of the

various kinds of fruit in the state and

the different sections. ,



Sou. Cen. Nor. Up.



State. Co’s Co’s Co’s Pen.

Apples .......77 75 82 76 98

Pears ...'.....74 73 77 72 82

Peaches ......21 18 30 16 ..

Plums .......71 70 78 66 85

Cherries ..... 82 82 83 81 99.

Small fruit....79 78 82 79 . 95





 

 





 





 





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made directly from animal tis-

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for Pure Breds.





Nelther the Flltra‘te nor the Ag-

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Buckle: in even the most sus-

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are germ tree.



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wherever used.





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that smaller doses. whether con-



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tection.



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germ free vaccines are and

wherein “cultural product” A:-

greulnu dmer from Cutter’n

Assn-cum made from animal

tissues.



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stockraiser, we see no reason

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by stockraisers who have had-

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Thursday's Market.

April 11, 1918.

Cattle.





Receipts 1881. Market strong at

last week’s prices on all grades.



Best heavy steers $12.50@14; best

handy weight butcher steers $11@12;

mixed steers and heifers $10@11;

handy light butchers $9.50@10.50; light

butchers $8.50@9; best cows $9(a)10;

butcher cows $8@8.50; cutters $7.25?

7.50;canners $6.50@7; best heavy bul s

$9.50@10; bologna bulls $8.25@8\.75;

stock bulls $7.50@8; feeders $9@10;'

stockers $7@9; milkers and springers



60 100. -



$ Bciééhop, B. & H. sold Newton P. Co.

3-steers av 1340 at $13.10, 2 cows av

1000 at $8.50, 2 do av 785 at $7, 2 steers

av 950 at $10.25, do wgh 680 at $8.25;

to Converse i=0 cutters av 769 at $7.25,

6 do av 793 at $7.25, 5 do av 800 at'

$7.25, 3 do av 1040 at $7.25; to Hyman

2 steers av 560 at $9, 1 cow wgh 1100

at $8; to Sullivan P. Co. 6 do av 896

at $8.25, 4 do av 840 at $8, 3 do av 1170

at $8.50, 2 bulls av 1335 at $8.65; to

Parker, W. & Co. 19 steers av 974 at

$11.50, 19 do av 947 at $11.75, 10 do

av 1047 at $11, 20 do av 822 at $10;

to Hammond, S. & Co. 15 steers av 960

at $11.25, 22 do av 924 at $11, 15 do av

828 at $10.75; to Walk 2 do av 950 at

$10.50, 6 do av 903 at $10, 1 bull wgh

1880‘at $9; to Kamman B. Co. 10 steers

av 1012 at $12; to Ratner 1 bull wgh

1460 at $10; to Thompson 1 do wgh

1280 at $8,; to Rattkowsky 4 cows av

875 at $8.25; to Converse 4 cutters av

922 at $7, 7 do av 671 at $7, 7 do av 817

at $7; to Bresnahan & K. 27 butchers

av 602 at $8; to Ratner 14 steers av

930 at $11, 1 do wgh 950 at $10.50; to

Newton P. Co. 22 do av 1080 at $12.75,

3 cows av .943 at $8.25, .9 do av 825 at

$7, 1 bull wgh 1060 at. $8.25, 2 do av

1090, at $9, 3 cows av 757 at $7.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Hammond, S. &

Co. 17 steers av 1143 at $12.35; to

Bray 11 canners av 950 at $7, 1 do wgh

1250 at $6.85, 5 cows av 1114 at $9.25,

4 do av932 at $8; to Thompson 1 ball

wgh, 920 at $8.50, 13 steers av 1119 at

$11.75, 15 do av 957 at $11.25, 1 bull

wgh. 17 70 at $11.25; to Newton P. Go.

1 do‘ wgh 1040 at $8.50, 1 do wgh 850

at $10; to Rattkowsky 1 heifer wgh

550 at $8.50; to Newton P. Co. 4 steers

av 935 at $12, 1 do wgh 970 at $10, 8 do





av 906 at $10,, -6 (do av 1163 at $12.25, .





2 do av 7‘75 at $8; to Thompson 1 do

wgh 590 at $10, 3 do av 953 at $11.35,-

3 do av 717 at $10, 1 bull wgh 680 at

$8; to Bray 17 steers av 745 at $10.50,

3 cows av 900 at $8.50, 4 do av 950 at

$7.25, 20 do av 977 at $11.50, 7 do av

720 at.-$9.50, 1 bull wgh 1580 at $9; to

Newton P. Clo. 5 steers av 1064 at

$11.25, 8 do av 1056 at $12.30, 1 hull

wgh 900 at $10, 7 steers av 1010 at

$12.75, 14 do av 781 at $10; to Hirsch-

leman 18 do av 844 at $11.75; to Mason

B. Co. 8 do av 744 at $10.85; to Thom-p-

son 2 do av 985 at $11.35; to Newton

P. Co. 1 bull wgh 1250 at $8.75; to

Kamman B. 0.0. 2 cows av 1170 at

$9.75.

' Veal Calves.





Receipts 956. Market 50c@$1 lower‘

than last week. Best $15.50@16; culls '





$11@13; heavy $8@10.



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

35 av 125 at $16; to Fineman 7 av 170.

at $17, 14 av 130 at $13.50; to Ratt-_

kowsky 13 av 130 at $16.50, 2 av 245

at,$9, 2 av 160 at $17, 1 wgh 115 at

$13; to Rattkowsky 3 av 107 at $13.50,

2 av 135 at $10, 4 av 140 at $15; to

Dobrowsky 5 av 120 at $13, 10 av 145

at $16; to Garber 4 av 150 at $17; to

Rattkowsky 2 av 235 at $10, 4 av 140

at $15, 1 wgh 180 at $13; to Thompson

3 av 175 at $17; to Fineman 14 av 140

at $15.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 14 av 135

at $15.50, 18 av 145 at $16; to Ratt-

kowsky 3 av 160 at $16, 3 av 140 at

$16; to Dowbrowsky 5 av 155 at $16.



-Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 1091. Market strong; quo-,

tations are for clipped stock. Best

lambs $16.50@16.60; fair lambs $15@





‘ 15.50; light to common lambs $11@13;

-'fair to good sheep $10@12; culls and

. common :$7@9.





“Erwin, S. -& J. sold Sullivan P. Co.

21 lambs .av ,65, at $15.50, 161 do av

75 at $16.25, 12 do :av 82 at $16.50, 4

wool lambs .av 108 at $19, 17 do av 80





.i .at $19,129 sheep av 90 at $13; to Ham-





mond, S. &- Co. 63 lambs av 75 at





$16.60; to Name r. Co. 5.9 do av. .70





at $1625.13 3‘19.an 52 at $11. ,

. Hogs.

Receipts 4064. Market 10@15c high-





 





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seed corn of good germination and suitable for

planting in Western hiichigan.



We are handling this corn for the state Without

net profit to ourselves and (are authorized, to sell

it at five dollars per bushel.





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Orders Will be Filled in the Order in Which they are Received.

- NO CHARGE FOR CARTAGE.





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Distributors, Grand Rapids, Mich.





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' ‘ GEE hpare Wm or three bred daughters of all sol





Strictly Biz Type with qualit . Bred sows a ilts are

or a. few 1.11in ”iii “23%.“ °'° “I” Cdifin.lil Ad°dm°

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I HAVE star-ted thousands of breeders on the road to

success. I can help you. llwant toplace one h from

m! III-t herd in every «Insanity where am not Ali-cc rep-

ma “$393.33? 511313553. ‘3..ng 3.5:“



0. S. “Kim, B, I, D, 10_ Portland. Items-an





 





 





. BRED GILTS and

1- SERVICEABLE BOARS

C— J. CARL JEWETT, Macon, Mich.





 





 





O I. C.'s 2 choice Muy boars a Sept. & Oct. pigs sired

.by First Premium boar Maicii. State Fair 1917.





Glover Lent Stock Farm. Monroe. Mich.





 





o l c is big 1: p0, one yearling sow and gilts to far

I 0 - row 11 Apr. and May. Aug. and Sept. boar

plus. G. P. ANDREWS, Dansville, Michigan.





 





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

’ ' ' your spring pigs now.

0. J. THOMPSON, Rockford. Mich.





 





.0 I. O. 'a. Last spring gilts bred for next spring far-

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

Good growthy stock )4 mile west of Depot. Citizens

phone 124, Otto B. Schulze Nashville. Mich.





O I C For sale fall silts and a few gilt-

' ° " bred for June furrow.

I". C. BURGESS. Mason, Mich. R. I". 1).





FOR SALE





Smooth Jumbo a grandson of Peter Mouw's old boar

Smooth Jumbo 8. 600 1b. yearling. A top notcher lit to

head any herd. Also some nice bred gilts at $50.

It you gone you will have to hurry.



J. C. B LBR. - - - Portland. Mlchllln.





 





 





 





urge Type P. 0. no tiltiblic sale. this year: m sows'and

ilts all ( uet-ns of a breed go at private treat .

W, J. HAG .LSHAW. - - Augusta, ioh.





 





a' T P.O. Bi boned fellows from Iowa'sgroatest

lg "n herdl. Kocial prices on spring boars.

E. J. MATHEVVSO . - ~ liurr 011k. Mloh.





 





i. Type P. O. bred for‘MzIrch & April (arrow sired

. by Peter's Jumbo & Grand :- uperba and 2or 3 year-

ling sows at blrfllln prices. (EE. (lament. Eaton Rnpidleich





Large Type P. C.





Bred gilts and hours all sold not hing to offer at present.

Vt . E. LIVINGSTON, Parma. Mich.





EONARD' S lined sows all sold. fall pigmorders book-





Jed tor Spqulu! pigs at weaning time. Shipped 0.0. D.

E. R. LI‘XL AltD. - - - '- St. Louis. Mich.





B d '

P. c. Saws For Sale. p;?,,.£2;.ofi£.€il, “m“

A. A. “’OOD & SON. - - - - Saline. Mich.





 





 





 





 





Large ’l‘_\' e P. 0. tall gilts. sire 800 lb. yearllng tobe

bred to 1 DO lb. 2 yearold for July A: Aug. 2 extrargood

fall boars. WM. J. CLARKE, B.7, Macon. Mich.





BIG TYPE POUND cmms. B°"'§if‘r‘fn§ 33.2? f"





G. W. HOLTON, R. 11. Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





Large Strain, ‘P.O. A few gilts left bred for'June for

row and 2 nice boars ready for service at farmers





prices. H. 0. SWARTZ, Shoolcraft, Mich.





 





BIG TYPE Poland Chinas: llrood sows allsold. Have

a few fall pigs. Price. right.

L. W'. BARNES 8: SUN. - - - Byron. Mich.





 





' ' Bred for spring tarrowin . B

lorkShlle Ellis is high in price. Yorkshigres 133i:





 





bacon; buy Yorkshires. \A atom 11

sh Waterman. Packard Road, Ann Arbor. Mich.

Book.





° at b l .

HamPShlre Bears lngaordaeliginfriir 8 ring





"pigs. JOHN W. SNYDER, R. 4. St, Johns, loll.





 





HORSES

REGISTERED PERC HERON





Mares and Stallion: priced to sell. his tl '

L. C. UNT. EATON lXPlDoin. W.





PEllGHERUN DlSPERSAL





The entire herd of the late A. A. Palmer





 





cheron mares 8200 to 8400 except two;

also young stallions





PALMER BROS, Balding Mich.





F Black Rog. Percheron St 111



01' Sale wel a on 4 yrs.

ght 1900. So



a bargain if taken soon. und and a show horse,



BIRD & MUNSON. - - - St. John, Mich.





Porchmns, Hullslci‘ns. lngus, Slim shim, Burns:

0038 D. BLILL. Elmira. Man.

for Sal. Three Percheron Stallions and three Per-





cheron mares at farmers’ r'oo .

E. J. ALDRICH, Tekonsha, Mio‘h.I aBell Phone.





Percheron Stallions and mares of reasonable





noes; impaction invited.

I". L. KING & SON? - - - Charlotte. Mich.





1 reglstorcd 4 year old Clydesdale m .

For 33" a 3 yr. old Reg.Clydesdale Stallion. ”9 3180

D. T. KNIGHT, R. 1. Mariette, Mich.





Registered Percheron mare four

523083“ heavy in inal.LColor-dark gray. We .tzelifibgttii





ALFRED AL EN Mason.Mlch.



young Jennets che , ‘

TWO Large Shetland Ponies anapusnglaome

fox hounds. W. E. LEOKY. Holmelvll o. (xiii:





' Stallio P ' ‘

Belgian w, 83;, “2:630:33“. sm- Lloon.

CHAS. M' BEELEY- - - Three Rivers, Mich.





SHEEP

KOPE-KON FARMS.





Goldwater, Mich.





Hampshires 8r. Shropshires.





It’s a wise man who orders his r f uguu

delivery now, am or A





ill \ '

About July 1 {grgpshffeeftaigz sale choloo





 





ARMST RON G 8308., R. 8.





will be closed out;25 pure bred per-.





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