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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





The step taken by the

Michighn Shorthorn

Breeders’ Association in

holding a summer show

and sale in a locality where it seemed

desirable to create increased interest

in the breed was a constructive action

which might well be emulated by other

breed organizations. Usually, as in this

case, some progressive member of

the organization must take the initia-

tive, do much of the work and help pay

the cost, but the results are certain to

be an adequate recompense.



Community interest in breeding is a.

great asset to the individual breeders

as well as to the community. Many ex-

amples could be cited to prove this

fact, the most notable of which is the

community interest in Holstein cattle

which has been developed in several

sections of our state. And this princi~

pie applies to the grading up of our

common stock on a community basis

as well as to the breeding of purebred

animals as evidenced by the establish-

ing of bull associations in many com-

munities, where pure—bred) sires of one

breed have been used on a community

basis for a number of years.



Community interest is an important

but greatly neglected factor in the

building of a permanently prosperous

agriculture. It is even more important

in live stock than in other lines, and

the man or men who successfully pro-

mote it are public benefactors.





Community

Interest.





The effort toward com-



Rural prehensive rural organi-

Organization. nation which is being

put forth by the States



Relations Service through the medium

of the county agents, in counties where

farm bureaus are maintained, is wor-

thy of ‘the support of every Michigan

farmer. Every farmer who ‘has given

serious thought to this proposition will

at once concede that better organiza-

tion is essential to substantial progress

and prosperity of American farmers.

This fact is most noticeable at the

preamt time when, under the stress of

wet conditions, the government has

fund it necessary to. regulate every

kind- of business to some degree to

safeguard the interest of the nation as





interests are mummy wen brews _..; I '





   





ed so that their welfare can he prop-

erly protected by the presentation of

dependable data1when government regs

ulation is under discussion.



The lack of a general organization

which can speak with authority for the

agricultural interests of the country is

a patent fact which is greatly to be re-

gretted under present conditions. In

this connection the articleby State

Market Director McBride, “Is a Na-

tional Board of Agriculture Possible?”

published in our June 1 issue, is wor~

thy of a careful re-reading by every

Michigan Farmer reader..





While there is no question-but that

great benefit would be derived by a

thorough community organization in

every rural community in Michi-

gan, the possible benefits of such an

organization are necessarily limited,

though well worth while, but such an

organization once established all over

the country could easily be made the

basis of a national agricultural organ-

ization through which the farmers

could express themselves most forcibly.

Such an organization built on the foun-

dation afforded by the work of the

States Relations Service, could be kept

free from politics or personal interests

of every kind and Would have at hand

the best of facilities for the study of

production costs on the farms of the

country, which is most essential as an

educational factor and absolutely nec-

essary should the policy of price fixing

be established all along the line as a

war necessity, or as an outcome of war

experience.



In these days when history is in the

making at such a rapid rate, it is not

only difficult bat quite impossible to

predict with any degree of accuracy

what may occur in the way of read

justinent during the next few years.

An efficient agricultural organization

of national scope would be prepared to

not only protect its own interests but

as well to do constructive work in the

period of reconstruction which will fol-

low the war. No better basis for an

effective organization is passible than

is afforded by the type of organization

which the county agents are seeking to

establish in the various agricultural

communities of this state and in the

country at large. These efforts should

not only receive the approval but the

active support of the farm leaders in

every agricultural community.





It is none too early

School Matters. to recall that in July



will occur the annual

meeting in the thousands of rural

school districts of the state. The im-

portance of the attendance of every

parent and taxpayer at their respec-

tive school meetings is patent. This,

however, does not discharge their full

obligation toward the institutions that

are and will continue to be‘the great-

est factor in the molding of the young

life of rural Michigan.



These men and women should care-

fully weigh beforehand every matter

that will have an influence on school

life. This is' none too early to review

the various items that ought at least

to come before the school meeting The

condition of the school grounds is a

matter that should be given careful

consideration. Are these grounds well

drained, properly graded, arranged and

planted to give the. boys and girls who

pass the major portion of their wake-

ful hours there the best chance to-de-

velop into big, bright, broad-minded

men and women? Is the school build-

ing “itself in good repair, and so an-

ranged that the teacher can render the

most efficient service to the scholars





and the community? 13 the school sup





plied with suitable equipment such as

a variety of seats and decks adapted

to the various ages of mill» 8 mt!-

lating system as good at least as the

best dairymen'of ‘our state provide for

their cattle, an adequate heating sys-

tern, shades, curtains, picture’s maps,

charts, reference books, a library, etc,





 





for 7e mien.





ed in the teachers selected? Do the

school oflicers give the attention they

should to their duties, and if they have

done so, have you made known to them

your appreciation?



We believe it would be a wise pro-

cedure for the various farm organiza-

tions of the community or possibly the

local church society ‘to hold a session

previous to the annual school meeting.

at which school subjects can be pub;

licly discussed, and one of the features

should be the presentation of matter

secured from the state superintendent

of public instruction’s otllce relating to

the ideal rural school and the best

equipment for these institutions. Fu-

ture generations will be called upon to

meet more complex prdblems than the

present generation has‘ been confront

ing, and it will be only through the

training of an adequate educational

system that they will be enabledJo

meet their full responsibility.





. The government re-

port on the condition

of the wheat crop is



most encouraging at this time,



wheat is such a vital factor in the win-

ning of the war in which we are en-

gaged and which must be won at any

sacrifice. The June 1 crop report indi-

cates that the country’s wheat crop is

likely to be the second largest in our

history. As compared with last year,

the present condition of winter wheat

is 132.7 per cent, while the condition

of spring wheat is 121.5 per cent, mak~





Crop Prospects.





ing- the present condition of all wheat.





28.2 per cent better than last year.



With an indicated yield of close to

a billion bushels of wheat, with oats

and barley considerably above normal,

and with weather conditions favorable

for other spring planted crops, there is

every. encouragement that the world

shortage of food stuffs will be kept

from becoming more serious through

the patriotic efforts of American farm-

ers. Unfortunately Michigan’s wheat

crop is considerably below normal, due

to severe winter-killing, but a large

acreage of cats and barley promise a

big yield which, if realized, will go far

to make up this deficiency.



This is a time when the ever present

fear of over-production should not be

a disturbing factor since the unprece-

dented world demand for food stuffs

and the increased capacity for ocean

shipment. will make for compensatory

prices. The important factor of in-

creased food production in winning the

war is everywhere appreciated, and

the farmers of the nation and state are

to be congratulated in the success of

their efforts in this direction under the

handicaps with which they have been

confronted.





Michigan farmers

should not permit

the handicaps with

which they are con

fronted this year to divert their atten-

tion from agricultural fairs of the state,

and their importance from an educa—

tional point of view. The educational

value of a high-class agricultural fair

is far greater than is generally appre~

ciated. The tithe and money expended

by any farmer in studying the agricul-

tural and industrial exhibits at any

good fair is a good investment. The

man who is in a position to addto the

educational value of these fairs, both

state and local, should well consider

his opportunity and duty in‘this regard

and, if he finds it at all possible, should

add to the interest of these events by

entering his best products for exhibit.



First to he considered in this con-

.neetiou should be the State Fair, be-

cause ofitsgreater importance as an

educational factor. It is not too early

to begin preparations for making an

exhibit at the State Fair, particularly

of livestock, of which there should be

a good representation of our Michigan





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The Agricultural

F airs.





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supply of pure water:

What qualifications are being demand~'





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rotary-W mm ofvthemoh» ,

1m state Fair", the federal railroad ‘

authorities have grantedia concession

for the free return shipment of live

stock exhibits, thus lightening the cost

of ’fair exhibitors in this department

The poultry exhibit at this year's

State Fair should be the greatest ever

shown in the state. The new $25, 000

poultry building now in process of com

struction will afford ample facilities

for putting on a poultry show, which

will be representative of the import-

ance of this great industry in Michi-

gan; But it is up to the poultrymen of

the state to make the show, as it is to

the farmers of the state to .make _a

”well balanced show in every depart-

ment. To this end adequate prepara-

tions should not be neglected.

..—_.__.__‘-_.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. .





Wednesday, June 5.



American and French troops stop the

German advance along the Marne. Ai-

lies make gains near Bethune and

Ypres. —-Ger1nan attack near Kemmel

is also repulsed—Total death list of

Victims of the U-boat raid off the At-

lantic coast numbers sixteen persons,

with forty-two others unaccounted for.

-—-Nearly one million men who have

become twenty—one years of age sinCe

June'5, 1917, register in this country.

-—Charles W. Fairbanks, ~former vice-

president of the United States, died

durllilg the night at his heme in Indian-

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Thursday, June 6.



It is unoflicially announced that one

of the German U-boats operating near

the American coast has been sunk..—

The Allied line between Soissons and

Rheims is becoming stronger each day,

and notwithstanding the great mass of

German troops that is endeavoring to

crush the defenders, no progress is be-

ing made by the enemy—The War In-

dustries Board of the United States is

considering the fixing of lumber prices

for both the government and the com-

mercial user. ~Creek Indians in Okla-

homa are opposing the draft and in

places riots have occurred



Friday, June 7.



United States Marines operating an

the newly—made German salient in the

Aisne province near the Marne force

back the enemy a distance of two

miles on a. twoando-half-mile front.—

Germans mass troops before Toul for

a new attack on American held lines.

—-It is reported that two German sub-

marines were sunk in an attack made

upon the United States transport Le-

viathan, formerly the German liner

Vaterland.——U-boats sinkflourteen Nor~

wegian ships during May, the tonnage

of which is, however, exceeded by the

amount of shipping constructed in the

shipyards of Norway during the same

period. -—Secretary McAdoo announces

tax plan to raise $8, 000,000, 000 during

the coming year.



Saturday, June 8.



American troops extend their suc-

cessful operations in Aisne province

and capture three additional villages.

Over 300 Germans are taken prisoners.

«New U-boat raids off the American

coast are announced by the United

States naval officers. ——The advance of

Bolsheviki troops accompanied by Ger-

mans and Austrians into Siberia may

precipitate the long )alked off military

invasion of Siberia by Allied forces,

particularly those of Japan and China.

-—-Five Americans and two Germans

are held in New York City on a. charge

of conspiracy in plotting to .aid Ger~

mans to land an armed expedition in

Ireland—General Crowder issues or-

der to local boards to reclassify draft

registrants, placing more men in the

advanced classification list. —.Jewels

belonging to the former Czar Nicholas

of Russia, are reported as having been

recently smuggled into New York City.



Sunday, June 9.



New German troops have been mov-

ed to stop the American drive along

the Marne. —Germans open a new drive

on a twenty-mile front between Noyon

and Montdidier. At the center they

advance over two miles. ——The United

States is now establishing naval con-

voys for all coastwise shipping. Brit-

ish technical authorities report Liberty

engines are giving excellent results

and will be placed in the first line of

high potter air engines—General Per-

shing reports total American casualty

toll to have reached 7, 315 to date. Thus

far disease and accident have killed

more of our men than have the en-

emy’s guns -——Strike of Detroit milk

drivers had little effect on the distribu-

tion of milk in the city today. ~~



Monday, June 10.

in the new drive between MontdWcr

(Continued on m 78%). ~ ‘3





I
URING the Civil War and imme-

diately after, buckwheat produc-

tion gained an importance which

has never since been attained. The

crop of 1866 was the largest ever

grown. The increased preduction of

buckwheat under conditions which pre-

vailed during that strenuous war pe-

riod indicates the particular fitness of

this crop to help meet- the inordinate.

demand for the utmost food produc-

tiOn which now faces the country.



The term “emergency crop” com-

.monly applied to buckwheat, isat pres-

ent particularly applicable. It is’ the

only grain crop adapted to human con-

sumption which can be seeded during

midsummer and mature a harvest be-

fore killing frosts occur in northern

states. Where corn or other cultivated

cropshave failed, or on land prepared

too late for spring or early summer

seeded crops, buckwheat may be plant-

ed with assurance of a successful grain

yield. _



Buckwheat is remarkably varied in

use and adaptability. Griddle cakes

made from buckwheat flour are dis‘

tinctly an American culinary product.

The unfortunate American who has not

experienced them has a rare joy await-

ing him. Buckwheat middlings and

bolted meal are valuable stock feeds.

As a chicken feed buckwheat is highly

esteemed. The cr0p furnishes a valu-





able bee pasture and buckwheat honey ,





meets with particular favor on certain

markets. The fact that its seeds will





sprout under comparatively dry condi-‘





. tions, and that the crop will reach ma-

turity in sixty or seventy days makes

buckwheat an excellent summer catch

crop. -As a green manure crop it is of





 





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value, since it will produce consider-

able growth on soils deficient in organ-

ic matter. Turning under a crop of

buckwheat on light soils increases

their content of organic matter and

ability to hold moisture. Buckwheat

has a mellowing effect when grown on

heavy soils. In southeastern Pennsyl-

vania it is an established custom for

farmers to grow buckwheat preceding

potatoes, it being notedthat the pota-

toes produced are smoother and more

uniform.





Buckwheat isadapted to a wide vari-.





.ety of soil conditions. It will give the

best results on well-drained, fertile

loams, but will do better than ordinary

grain crops’ under adverse soil condi-

tions. In Michigan it is widely grown

in regions where sandy lands prevail.

The fact that buckwheat is a member





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of the Dock family and closely related

to Sorrel and Sour Dock, accounts for

the extraordinary ability of this crop

to produce profitably‘on sour and poor—

ly drained soils. Though buckwheat

will withstand such conditions, the





'crop will nevertheless give quick re-





sponse to early plowing, thorough

preparation and fertilization, but is

then brought into competition with

more valuable crops, such as corn,

oats, wheat and barley.



The period of planting buckwheat

ranges from the middle of June to the

middle of July. From three to five

peeks per acre are drilled, or seeded

broadcast and harrowed in. Applica-

tions of about two hundred and fifty

pounds per acre 0f acid phosphate or

ammoniated phosphates will increase

yields and hasten maturity. The Jap-





 





 





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anese variety is the highest yielding

and the most widely grown, although

the Gray and Silverhull are quite com-

mon in buckwheat sections. In some

regions. it is the custom to mix the-

Japanese and Gray, the claim being

made that the larger growing Japanese

variety will shield the smaller plants

of the Gray and thus prevent blasting,





should hot dry weather occur during

blossom time.





The crop is harvested as a rule just ,





before heavy frosts occur or when the

largest proportion of the seed is ma-

ture. Blossoms are usually produced

until cut short by frost. Harvesting is

accomplished with a self-drop reaper

or with the cradle. Since the grain

shatters easily, it should be harvested

and handled early in the morning or

during damp weather. The straw cures





slowly and should not be bound into





sheaves. The usual custom is to set

up in bunches, bound loosely at the

top with twisted buckwheat straw, and

allowed to cure for several days. Av—

erage yields range from fifteen to

eighteen bushels per acre, though

yields of twenty-five to thirty bushels

are not infrequent. .



Owing to the, comparatively small

amount of labor needed in handling

this cr0p and its adaptability to late

planting, the area of land given over to

buckwheat should be considerably ex-

tended in order to help meet the urgent

demand for the greatest possible grain

production during the coming season.

The time of seeding corn, oats, barley

and spring wheat is now past, and

buckwheat remains the only grain crop

which can be settled with hope of a.

harvest this season.





F actorsin the Classification of Wool





By I. D. KNOUGI—I





ARMERS are giving more consid‘



eration to the wool crop this year



than they have in the past. The

chief reason for this is, no doubt, the

entrance of the government as a factor

in the distribution of wool. As a result

of federal control wool will sell entire-

ly upon its merits.



. The majority of farmers understand

the grading of wool only in a very gen-

eral way. They can separate fine wools

from coarse wools. Many, however,

are not fully informed regarding the

basis upon which the intrinsic value

of a fleece to the manufacturer of wool-

en products, is determined. Let us

talk over for a few minutes some items

regarding wool that every farmer may

or Should, have, a. working knowledge

of, especially if he owns sheep.



Density of the Fleece.



Density of the fleece has reference

to the closeness of the fibres upon the

skin of. the animal. This varies ac-

cording to the breed, and also accord-

ing to the individuality of the particu-

lar animal. Some of our pure-bred

,Me‘rino ‘sheep have as high as 48,000

fibres to the square inch.



This, of course, is important to the

breeder. A dense fleece protects the

sheep better than an open fleece. It





also keeps out the dirt and makes a',

. more valuable article to the merchant





_on,th_is' account. Where the fibres are

close together a larger lquantity of

what is kndwn asthef yolk is retained,

which keeps the wool 1 fibres lively and

in a healthy condition. 'LOose \wool is





raptmto‘ )have weak spots in the fibre, -

. due to celds, contracted by the animals .'

1 by not having a-proper’ covering. When





sheep Whamme 'Chilled or/ is ill,





raisin "deptrfictr result: ..

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that particular point. This greatly im-

pairs the value of the fleece. No mat-

ter how fine the Wool might be, if it

has these weak spots, it will not be

available for making high-grade mate-

rials, and consequently must be sold

at a greatly reduced price.



Length of Staple.



Wools are classed as long or short.

The short staples are used for carding,

while the long staples are used as

combing wools. Short staple wool has





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superior felting qualities because of

the large number of serations or spir-

als in the fibre. In carding this short

staple it is broken up into many small

pieces, which when spun run trans-

versely across the yarn, allowing many

little ends to project therefrom. When

such thread or yarn is woven into

cloth, it gives a felty appearance which

resembles. fur to some degree.



The long wools are combed, that is

the fibres are laid parallel to each oth-





 





 





‘ I”! Value’of'itheflesceis Greatly'lmpalred‘by IMproper'Tieinm' ‘





er and then spun into yarn, which

makes a firm, strong cord. Such yarn

when woven produced what we call

worsted cloth. The length of fibre,

therefore, gives us the names of cloth-

ing and combing wools, and should be

taken into consideration when the

farmer is endeavoring to classify the

fleeces he may have for sale.

The Fineness of the Fibre.



This quality of wool is generally

dependent upon the density of the

fleece. There is, however, consider-

able variation in fleeces of equal den~

sity. The health of the animal has

much to do with this. Where a sheep

has been sick the wool will have less

Crimp than in the healthy animals, and

this crimp is generally looked upon as

marking the fineness of the fibre. In

testing the strength of these fibres, it

will be observed that those from any

portion of a fleece will break in rela-

tively the same place; this is due to

a weakening of the fibre by some ad-

verse change in the health of the

animal.



Condition of the Fleece.





Besides the soundness of the fibre

to which we have already referred, the





condition of the fleece also takes into

account its purity and the quantity of

oil or yolk that it may contain. Some

wool has what is called “hemp” scat-

tered through it. This hemp is hairs

which are most readily detected about

the face and forearm of the animal,

but if seen they are certain to be dis.

cayered over the entire body. These

hairs will not take the dye the same

as wool fibres, and therefore injure the

fleece for the manufacture of- dress

goods and fine cloth. _



The lack of yolk in wool often‘re-

suits in what is ~ called “felty” Wm





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to: be due to the condition of the health

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,caused by improper feeding. Where

" the yolk is present in larger amounts

than would cause a “felty fleece,” but

Still less than the normal quantity,

'what is termed a “cloudy wool" may be

the result. Here the fibres stick to-

gether from the skin to the points but

. not to such an extent as to be termed

“ielty.” '

Shrinkage in Fleeces.



When wool is scoured, the oil and

’dirt that it contains is removed. Nat-

urally the more oil in the fleece, the

more weight will be taken from .it in

"the scouring process. This explains

"why the shrinkage is usually greater

in the fine wool fleeces. Data. gathered

by the Michigan Experiment Station

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to HANDLE THE KILLED HOGS

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Here is an idea that makes easy the

handling of hogs at butchering time,

especially if the hogs are heavy; it is

useful in handling light hogs also. It

consists of short lengths of chain with

a hook on the end of each piece. When

the hog is ready to be hung the gam-

brel is placed in the tendons of the

feet, lifted up with a pole and one of

the lengths of chain put in the center

of the gambrel and fastened over the





 





pole on which the hogs are to be hung;

this is much easier than trying to lift

the hog'and place the gambrel over

the pole.



When the hog is to be cut up one—

half of the hog may be cut down at a

time by taking another length of chain

and putting it around the end of the

gambrel as shown at A in the drawing.

One man can easily cut down a big hog

by himself by this simple arrangement

and there is no danger of dropping it

in the mud or dirt. The chains can be

made from old pieces of log chain or

from discarded trace chains—J. L. J.





BALING . HAY.





 





Except for local consumption in a

limited way, bay for market must be

baled. There is also an increasing num-

ber of farmers who bale it for their

own use. The saving of time and la-

bor in feeding baled hay on the farm

will more than pay the cost of baling.

The baling of hay has much to be

said in its favor. It saves a great deal

of the waste that occurs where the hay

stands in the stack for any length of

time. It saves two-thirds of the stor-

age space necessary‘for the same

amount of loose hay. Baled hay re-

tains from twenty to forty per cent

more of its food value than when loose.

It sells at a. higher price per ton than

loose hay.

The most economical time to bale

hay is just as soon as it is cured well

enough so it won’t spoil. If timothy

. hay is cut and cured at the prOper



time, it can be baled in the field. If

_ intending to bale in the field, the tim-

othy should not be out until nearly all

J c bloom has fallen and a small per



cent of the heads are beginning to turn

5 yguow If cut at this stage, and it is

has or My so from green weeds, it





 





 





The lack of yolk or oil is pretty likely '





centage of shrinkage is seventy "per from Mich g

cent or more of the original weight of have been divided by' the trade and





the fleece. In some of. the coarse wood





sheep the shrinkage, onthe other hand ernment, are as follows:





is less than thirty per cent. In pur-

chasing wool therefore, on a scoured





basis, it is impossible to determine be;





forehand how much scoured wool there

will be. It is like testing milk for but-

ter-fat. The only way to learn accu-

rately the quantity.» of fibre is to wait

until after the gcouring has been done.

This accounts fer the ruling by the fed-

eral government that growers who ship

wool to distributors on their own ac-

count shall be entitled to receive an

advance not exceeding seventy-five per

cent of the fair estimated market val-

ue of this wool. Then as soon as pos-

ble after the wool can be scoured, final

returns will be made.

Market Grades.

The usual grades in which wools





can be out one morning and baled the

following day, provided the weather is

good. If baled directly from the swath,

care must be taken that it 'is entirely

free from rain or dew. This should be

attempted only under the most favor-

able weather conditions, and it should

be tedded at least an hour before be-

ing taken up.——Harry L. Spoone'





MEASURING SPRAY SOLUTIONS.





 





A stick marked with notches makes

a good guide for drawing off a meas-

ured amount of lime-sulphur for spray-

ing. Instead of using a quart fruit jar,

or a. gallon measure, every time the

tank is to be filled, get a wooden lard

tub. Fill the tub with the required

amount of lime-sulphur, using your

liquid measures, and then place a stick

vertically into the tub, the tub being

set level. Make a notch in the stick to





‘show how high the liquid rises when





the end of the stick rests on the bot-

tom of the tub. If different strengths

of solution are used on some trees

than on others, several such notches

can be made, and the number of gal-





‘ lons marked on with a. pencil.-—E. H.





HOW TO PICK STRAWBERRIES.





 





Pickers should be taught. the proper

method of picking strawberries. Large

quantities of desirable berries may be

ruined by carelessness, indifference, or

inexperience in picking. Picking is‘

done best by the use of the thumb and

forefinger, as shown at the left in illus-

tration, each berry being pinched OE

With a stem about three—eighths to one-

half—inch long, and placed in the box





‘W





Fine delaine.



Fine clothing.



Half—blood staple.



Half-blood clothing.



Three-eights staple.



Three~elghths clothing.



Quarter-blood staple.



Quarter-blood‘clothing.



Low quarter-blood.



Common and braid,



The wool trade had established one

grade above fine, which was generally

known as “XX.” This grade would be

called a “full—blood.” Fine wool came

next as a “three-quarter blood,” then

came the half-blood, three—eighths

blood and quarter-blood. These grades

should not be interpreted to mean that

XX, for instance, is taken from pure-

bred sheep. It has absolutely no rela—





.ne next picking will contain overripe

fruit.—-—F. Bulletin.





TWO-HOW CULT|VATORS HELP TO

SOLVE LABOR PROBLEH.





 





Hundreds of farmers in Indiana are

adopting the two-row cultivator this

year along with other improved farm

machinery as the best sclution of the

farm labor problem. This is shown by

the large number of sales reported

from every section of that state, indi-

cating that the farmers are endeavor-

ing to solve their own problems in ev-

ery possible instance.



Last year in nine typical Indiana

counties, one implement concern sold

thirty two-row cultivators to dealers in

this territory. This year the same com<

pany sold one hundred and six two-

row cultivators to the same dealers in

the same period. Here is one striking

example. Last year the firm’s dealer

at one point bought and sold only five

two-row cultivators to his patrons. This

year this same man sold twenty—six.

These men had seen the value of the

tworow Cultivator demonstrated by

their neighbors.



Another example of how farmers are

taking up labor-saving machinery may

be seen in these same nine counties.

In 1917 only thirty-eight tractor plows

were sold to dealers in this section of

the state, while this year the number

sold was one hundred and forty-six.



Advantage of the two-row cultivator

over the old single-row plow which has

been in use for years, is shown by the

report of one farmer. To cultivate

eighty acres of corn with a single-row

plow, it took one man ten days. Figur-

ing his wages, board and lodging at $2





 





 





Proper Method of Picking Shown at Left. Other Two lnjure Fruit.





carefully, not thrown, tossed, or drop-

ped into the box. To gain speed, there

always is a tendency for the picker to





‘pull or snatch off the berries and toss





them into the boxes. Some pickers

crush, bruise, or squeeze much fruit

while picking, by holding too many ber~

ries in the hand at one time; others

pile up berries on full trays which

must later be taken oil and placed in

other boxes. Such practices result in

bruised berries as well as many with-

out the hull or cup. Damaged berries,

and berries without hulls do not carry

well to the market, and in proper pick-

ing are not allowed in the boxes. yUn~

less each‘ row is picked “hangar-all

berries that are ready at each picking.





a day this would make a total of $20,

and the use of two horses at $3 a day

would mean $30, a total of $50. Using

the double-row cultivatbr, it took one

man just five days to do the same

work. With his pay and keep figured

then at $10 and the useof three horses

for fire days at $22.50 the total cost

of cultivating the eight acres of corn

was only $32.60. against. 850 by the old-

metho’d. Three or four cultivations of

an eighty-acre tract is going to go a

long ways toward paying for the culti-

tutor, farm mechanic m: point

In-





 





the W mm: m in work

91ng a well u b. “Aisle-row;





and h .lfie’ece states ’ ‘





 





grades being based upon the quality

which are now recognized by the govo and condition of the staple. ‘





Dclaine

track: are those that have in addition

to a fine fibre, Sufficient length to make

them available for the manufacture of

fancy fabrics.





The grading of wool is a business by .





itself. Men become expert at it only

after long years of handling the pm-

duct. The farmer, however, should

know something of. the general princi-

ples upon which the fleeces are classi-

fied. He should also, be acquainted

with those conditions which render

wool more or less valuable to the man-

ufacturer, for in avoiding some of the





adverse conditions he may add conSidv





erable to the value of a product which

for years to come will be a very profits

able one to produce. If one is starting

a. flock he should have in mind the!

things that effect the value of wool.





.—._~‘.





Suggestions for Our Busy Farmers %





cultivator and that it is just as easy to

operate as the one-row outfit.





 





WAGON-CHAIN BRACE.





 





Here is one of the best devices I

ever saw for the use of chains on a

wagon instead of a neckyoke. I saw it

on the farm of a neighbor recently.

The pieces between the tongue anl

chains are eye-bars which any black?

smith can make for you. The inner

ends of the pieces are fastened to iI‘OH‘l

specially made for this purpose anal

the outer ends are fastened to links of





”Kg“





_‘2?

Chain BN1“ é





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the chains. When you start down a

hill or go back up, the pull of the horse

is straight back and not at an angle

sideways as it would be otherwise——

John K. Graham.





 





 





 





 





' HANDLE FOR BARREL SPRAY

PUMP. '





 





Some of the growers in our section

find the old-fashioned barrel outfit in

dispensable in spraying, especially on

small trees. To increase the efficiency

of the pump, these men are using an

extension on the handle. A short

length of well casing or two-inch pipe

is simply slipped over the pump handle

thus giving a longer leverage, and a.

better hand hold. If this plan is tried,

it will be found that the arms can be

worked long hours without the fatigue

resulting from the short handle, be-

cause all the muscles of the upper

body are used, while with a short high

handle, the arms are cramped more or

less—E. H. Brown.





SHARPEN GUARDS.





 





I‘he guards on the mower and binder ‘

would do better work if the “dubbed

over” points were filed off sharp. New

plates may be required also, and some

guards may be loose. »Make the ma‘

chinery one hundred per cent emcient,

ready for the field.





 





GET THEsE Too.





 





A farm work-shop with a place for

everything and everything in its place

will nay his intern?h on the investment.



It is time for e cow which does

not paf, to go to the block, but it is





poor economy to butcher profitable

'producers.





Every farming community this, your

sbould be formed into groups ottarm





size change work and (combatant: _ .





operations. . I





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T a meeting of the northern Mich-

igan ' bankers held in Alpena

some two years ago, Agricultur-



ist W. C.-Byers, of the Michigan Cen-

tral Railroad, explained to the bankers

the possibilities'ot the Calf Club work

as it had been carried on in Illinois for

some little time and urged them to

father the movement in their home

communities. At the same time, Mr.

Byers proised that for every carload

of pure-bred heifers shipped into a

community, the Michigan Central Rail-

road WOuld’ loan that community a reg-

istered Sire of the same breed.



So far as the writer knows, Banker

H. T. Glezen, of Cheboygan, was the

only'banker who had the vision togeth-

er with persuasive‘and persistent fac-

ulties sufficient to carry the project

successfully through. Mr. Glezen saw

the vast possibilities of the natural re-





 





 





This Is Glezen.





sources of Northern Michigan as soon

as they could be properly articulated





with pure-bred cattle. He began agi-

tating and early in December, 1916, un-

loaded andplaced among the boys and





European Live ‘ Stock Losses





HE comparative losses of live



stock by the warring and neutral



nations of Europe and the gen-

eral effect on their meat supply may

be judged from figures announced by

the United States Food Administra-

tion.



As regards meat, the Central Powers

were much better prepared for the war

than the Allies. Although the Allies

possessed a greater total number of

meat animals, the Central Powers had

forty-two per cent more per capita.

This advantage amounted to thirty-

three animals of all classes per; one

hundred population;



Due apparently to acquisition of ani-

mals-by conquest, Germany has not

slaughtered her home supply of live

stock as rapidly as. Otherwise would

have been necessary. There is now a

practical exhaustion of animals in Bel-

gium, Serbia and Rumania as a result

of invasion, according to information

from very reliable sources. In total

animals the Allies have decreased their

herds and flocks 45,787,000 head while

Germany has reduced hers about 18,-





‘000,000——only slightly more than a





third as many. The figures include

cattle, sheep and hogs. Neutral na-

tions show a total net reduction

amounting to 1,412,000 of these ani-

mals. The European lossthus exceeds





' 65;000.000 head (without taking into con-





sideration Austria, Turkey and Russia





which would, undoubtedly, bring the





; tetal to over 100,000,000.





 





A. somewhat clearer view of the Eu—





' I ~ repeal! meat situation at present is se-

‘ cured by, reducing the number of ani-

th





s1 amount of dressed

they ‘1'. yield Rating cattle as





 





.and worked out what was accounted





hat Glezen DlCl for HIS County.





By 1. J. McMURTRY





girls the first carload of Holstein heif-

ers ranging in ages from three to four

months to two years and in price from

$30 to $150. These heifers gave such

satisfaction that enough applications

were received within another month to

warrant the buying of a second car-

load of heifers. These were placed

very satisfactorily.





The impetus given to the dairy in-

dustry in the county was such that it

was little trouble for the county agent

to organize pure-bred sire associations.

Today something like over two years

after these two carloads of heifers

were brought in, there is a strong de-

mand, net simply ‘for high-class grade

Holstein, but registered animals are

wanted.





Mr. Glezen is now planning to take

applications for the third car of heifers

to be brought in this spring. These

will probably be exclusively first-class

registered stock.



Early in February of this year, Mr.





Glezen and the county agent planned





to be a very successful all-day cattle

breeders’ meeting. The leading speak-

ers of the meeting were Prof. A. C. An-

derson, head of the Dept. of Dairy

Husbandry, M. A. C., and Hon. D. D.

Aitkin, of Flint, president of the H01-

stein-Friesian Association of America.



The farmers of Cheboygan county





today are taking a forward look in the

live stock industry that would have

been entirely unthought of had not Mr.

Glezen and his board of directors a

year and a half ago received the vision

that they did, taken the forward look,

and placed the resources of their insti-

tution at the command of every farmer

for the betterment of the live stock

interests. They believed, as the farm-

ers are now coming to believe, that

Cheboygan county has the land, the

climate, the men, the money to make

it one of the greatest cattle counties,

not only in Michigan, but in America.





equivalent to 500 pounds of dressed

meat apiece; sheep forty pounds, and

hogs 150 pounds, it appears that the

various countries have suffered losses

in their total meat assets to the fol—

lowing extent:

Per Cent of Loss‘on Meat Basis.



Allies as a group................ 28.7





England ........ ............... 12.5

Belgium ....... ................. 82.0

France ..... 21.4

Italy ........ ODOOOIOIOOOO 0...... 1708

Germany ........ 36.3





European neutrals- . . . . . . . . . . . 0.9

Considering the poor condition of





the animals still alive and the reported

reduction in live weight, the possible

meat resources of Europe are obvious-

ly still further reduced.



The total number cf cattle, sheep

and hogs now in the United States is

about 187,000,000; according to best es-

timates, which makes a striking com-

parison with the European depletion

of 100,000,000 animals. Briefly, it ap-

pears that Europe has already lost con-

siderably over half as many meat ani-

mals as there are in the United States

today.





LADY MAKES coon AT FEEDING.





 





An unusual shipment of hogs was

that made a short time ago by Mrs. A.

A. Wiswell, of Warren county, Illinois,

who had forty-eight prime one4year-old

swine which averaged 401 pounds on

the Chicago market. They were well

finished, and such weight and finish

are seldom seen these times. They

brought $68 per head. Mrs. WisWell

also had a carioad of 938-lb. yearling

cattle on the market-,- and they sold for





   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





11} Almost every high American





record for fourteen years with any breed

was made with our Ajax Flakes as an impor-

"tant base of the grain ration.





‘JI Unicorn Dairy Ration is the

only feed that contains Ajax Flakes.





“'9; WAR. :3. I?» ‘.l- "





I] You can hardly find a pure





blood whose maternal ancestors were not

fed on Ajax or Unicorn.





(H Unicorn is recognized as a :

safe efficient and economical dairy feed. ' ’





Iii Unicorn during the past year





made more high records than any other

brand of feed.





{fl Unicorn really costs less per





pound of milk or fat produced than other”

feeds.





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$15. 25 per 199 pounds. "' . j





are writing to advertisers and you will do us a lav" r;
, HE use of cover crops cannot by

any stretch of the imagination

be classified as a new practice



in fruit growing. Orchardists, almost.



from time immemorial, have used them

to advantage, as successful» growers

are still doing—and as others. who

wish to successfully tide over the un-

certainties of war times, must do.



With fertilizers becoming harder to



find than a pro-German (not to men-



tion the matter of prices after they are



found), the man who would keep up



the fertility of his orchard soil is going



to find his problem becoming an in-



creasingly baffling one, unless he



awakens quickly to the value of cover

crops.



' ' This matter is dwelt upon at some



length in a press bulletin just issued



by, the Department of Horticulture of

the college.



,_“Of all the resources available to



the fruit grower at this time, none can



be used more effectively in overcoming

the fertilizer famine than cover crops,”



‘ Prof. C. P. Halligan declares. “Cover



crops, themselves, add neither potash

nor phosphoric acid to the soil, but

they have the power to make such of

these elements as are present in the

soil much more readily available to the

friuts. What is of equal importance,

they do this at a season of the year

when these elements are most needed.



“Recent experiments in fertilizing

commercial orchards have shown that

it is possible to derive great benefits





the soil. Some of the chief advantages

‘of leguminous cover crops lie in the

fact that they serve just this purpose.

and furnish an element which, if the

purchaser had to buy in the form of

commercial fertilizer, would be very

expensive. Clovers, vetches, beans and

peas, when used as cover crops, supply

nitrogen to the orchard soils. But cov-

er crops have their greatest value in

that they add humus to the soil. This

humus tends to maintain the physical

condition and increase the water-hold—

ing capacity of the orchard land. One

at the strongest arguments in favor of

cultivation in Michigan orchards is the

tact that this practice conserves the





capable of holding large quantities of





‘Wheat.——The average condition of

wheat is 56 in the state, 52 in the

southern counties, 46 in the central

counties, 65 in the northern counties

and 96 in the upper peninsula. The

condition on May 1 was 57 in the

state. 53 in the southern counties, 51 in

the central counties, 69 in the north-

ern counties and 98 in the upper pe-

ninsula. The estimated total number

'01 bushels of wheat marketed and con-

sumed by growers in the ten months

August-May is 11,500,000. Eighty-one

mills, elevators and grain dealers re-

port no wheat marketed in May.





Rye—The condition of rye in the

state is 72, southern counties 70, cen-

tral counties 66, northern counties 77

and upper peninsula 92. One year ago

the condition in the state was 83, in

the southern and central counties 81,

in the northern counties 87 and in the

upper peninsula 94. ~





Corn—The acreage of corn planted

at to be planted as compared with last

year is 97 in the state. 100 in the south-

..ern counties, 96 in the central coun-

ties, 91 in the northern counties and

100 in the upper peninsula. The con-

dition of corn as compared with an av-

erage‘is 94 in the state and central

counties, 95 .in the southern counties,

> ”B! in the northern counties and 99 in



the upper peninsula.





I Oats—The condition of cats as com-

‘ pared with, an average is 98 in the



.rstn'te, 100 in the southern counties, 99

inthe central counties, 96 in the north-





.eounties‘ and .94 in the upper pe~





 

 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





from fertilizers which add nitrogen to.





omc Grown-Fertili





water. The addition of humus makes

their capacity in' this respect greater.



“The selection of a plant for cover

crop purposes depends largely upon

the character of the soil and the time

at which it can be seeded. On sandy

soils, winter vetch is one of the most

desirable leguminous cover crops. It

must be seeded rather ‘early, that is,

same time in July or early August, and

it usually is combined with oats or rye,

as vetch makes but a slow growth in

the fall and early winter. It is able to

withstand very dry weather during late

summer and fall, as well as the tramp-

ing of pickers and Packers at harvest-

ing time. If used with oats and seeded

with a drill, fifteen pounds to the acre,

is sufficient with a bushel of cats; but

if spread broadcast, twenty to twenty.

five pounds should be used per acre.

0n the heavier clay loam soils, Mam-

moth Clover and June Clover are both

desirable leguminous cover crops.

These crops require a very well pre-

pared seed bed and if the weather con-

ditions are favorable in late summer

and fall, a good growth will be secured.

Crimson clover is also used sometimes





as a cover crop, but its lack of hardi-

ness, especially during seflare open

winters, makes it less desirable than

those first mentioned.



“On orchard lands that, have not

been previously used for cover crops,

where the soil is not in an ideal condi‘

tion, rye is a desirable crop to use. It

brings the soil to a mellow state, so

that other cover crops are grown. Rye

is also an excellent cover crop to sow

if the seeding has been delayed until

the fall. It makes a fair growth dur-

ing the fall, and springs up very early

in the spring, so that by the time the

orchard is plowed, there is a fairly

heavy crop of rye to turn under. _



"Of the other crops that may be used

cats are probably the most popular.

The seed is not expensive, and it is

much better than weeds in an orchard.

Oats can be sown late, and produce a

good cover in the fall. They are also

very popular in orchards that are who

disked in the spring, rather than plow~

ed, as there is less difficulty in work-

ing them into the soil. Oats also make

an excellent crop to sow with Winter

vetch or peas, but being non-Iegumina





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Successful vegetable growers realize the need of a steady supply of mois~

ture to insure a steady growth of their crops. Dry weather not only cuts the





moisture. Soils without humus are not crop yield but also decreases the quality of the vegetables.





The overhead





irrigation system is one of the best means of supplying mositure at needed





times.





was 86 in the state, 82 in the southern with last year is 82 in the state, 85 in

counties, 88 in the central counties, 91 the southern counties and upper penin-

m the northern counties and 97 in the sula, 80 in the central counties and 76





upper peninsula.

Barley—The acreage of barley sown





or that will be sown as compared with»





last year is 106 in the state, 113 in the

southern counties, 101 in the central





in the northern counties.

tion as compared with an average is

95 in the state, 97 in the southern

counties and upper peninsula, 94 in the

central counties and 91 in the northern





The condi-





counties, 93 in the northern counties counties.





and 103 in the upper peninsula. ,





Cabbage and! 'Celerya—The number





Meadows—The condition of mead- Of acres 01' cabbage planted 01‘ t0 {)8

dows as compared with an average is planted so far as reported is 8,505 In

91 in the state, southern and northern the state and the number 0f acres 0f

counties, 89 in the central counties and celery 3.115-





99 in the upper peninsula. The condi-

tion one year ago was 83 in the state,

82 in the southern counties, 81 in the





counties and 93 in the upper peninsula.





Potatoes.-——The acreage of potatoes

planted or to be planted as compared





Sugar Beets—The acreage of sugar





beets planted or to be plgnted 218.com-

c t - - v pared with last year is 10 in the 8 ate, P

en ral counties, 86 m the northern 106 in the southern counties, 91 in the

central counties, 121 in the northern

counties and 116 in the upper penin-

sula.





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Federal Estimate of U. S. Crops





‘ Yield



Total Production in



Millions of Bushels. Yield Per Acre. ..Acres' Busn' Bush-

. . 1917, 1912- 1917. 1912- per



Crop. 1918. Dec. 191 ‘ 1918. _ Dec. 1916 " . acre»



’ Est. 1v. . , Est. Au. Wheat 772,575 13,925,108 18.02

Winter wheat.. 587 418 552 16.1 15.2 16.1 Rye ..... .. 323,452 4.534.317 14.02

Sp’g wheat..... 244. 233 » 257 15.3 12.6 13.8 Oats ...... 1.240.352 44,814,252 36.13

All wheat ..... _ 931 651 809 15.8 14.2 15.4 Barley... 129.045 3.319.962 25.73

Oats. .......... 1.500 1,587 1,296 23.7 90.4 .328 Bck’wht 32,829 351,212 1.0.69

Barley ........ 235 209 - 202 25.8 23.7 27.0 Peas ...... 14.932 155.020 10.88

Rye .......... ,. 81.0 700.1 --44.5 14.9 14.7 10.5 Beans: r _ ,

Hay. tons 107 14.9» .99.; 1.54 . 1.36 1.40 White_... 426,303. 8,105,822 7.29

App es ....... 203 175 214} Red may 8.918 10,7001; 5224..





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one, they do not themselves add nitro-

gen to the soil. ‘ -



“The cpmparatively high price of

seed at the present time makes it im—

portant that the soil should be very

well prepared, and to obtain the maxi-

mum benefit from the amount of seed

used, it will often be desirable to drill

the seed, rather than to broadcast it.

Under the present abnormal conditions

fruit growers in Michigan cannot aflord

to neglect this practice of obtaining

he many benefits to be derived front.

cover crops.





TROUBLE DEPARTMENT.





 





Cutwormo.

What can I do for cutworms? They





are cutting off my pepper and toma-’





to plants. I wind them with paper but

they crawl up the paper and cut them

just the same.



Macomb Co. W. H.



Cutworms, which are often prevalent

at this time of the year, can be fairly

well controlled by making a poison

mash of twenty-five pounds of bran to

two pounds of Paris green. The bran

and Paris green should be thoroughly

mixed while dry and then slightly

moistened so that the Paris green will

adhere to- the bran. This should be

sprinkled around the plants toward

evening so that it will still be moist

when the cu-tworms come out to do

their damage. .



The winding of the plants with paper

is of little use, as the paper givesthe

worms as good a foothold as the plants.



For trees a band of cotton wrapped

in an umbrella shape is a barrier to

the cutworms in getting to the tops of

the trees.



The digging of the ground. around the

plants will often reveal the cutworms,

as they spend their daytimes just un-

der the ground near the plants that





they have damaged. They can be do?





stroyed by dipping in kerosene, or by

crushing them.





Watch the weather,. watch insect

and fungous diseases and watch the

fruit. If an additional spray is neces-

sary, put it on. Don’t allow past et~

forts to prove abortive on account of

the need of one more application.

Clean fruit will pay best.





State and Federal Crop Reports





Colts and Calves—The number of





colts as compared with last year is 81

in the state and southern counties, 76

in the central counties, 83 in the north

ern counties and 89 in the upper penin«

sula. The number of calves as compar-

ed with last year is 96 in the state, 94





in the southern and central counties,





97 in the northern counties and 109 in

the upper peninsula.





Fruit—The following table will

show the prospect at the present time

for a crop of the various kinds of fruit

in the state and the different sections:





So. Cen. Nor. Up. ,

State. Co’s. Co’s. Co’s. Pen.

Apples ...80 77 ' 81 85 98

ears ....64 63 68 62 ’ 8?

Peaches ..13 14 10 10 ..

Plums ...58 59 54 59 93

Cherries .66 59 79 70 93

Stw’brs ..87 83 97 89 95

Grain and seedthreshed in Michigan

up to and including June 1, 1918, as





per returns of threshermen is as fol-

lows: ,





 





   

 





 

 





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UTTER is highly perishable unless

it is handled under proper‘condi—

tions, yet the fact that many con-

sumers obtain their . supplies direct

from producers by parcel post, proved

by the quantity passing through many

post offices, indicates that parcel post

marketing of butter is feasible. It is

usually an economical'method, as the

cost of market distribution through the

regular wholesale and retail channels

of trade is relatively high in compari-

son with the cost of shipments by par-

cel post from the first and second and

sometimes more distant zones.

Experimental Parcel-post Shipments of

, Butter.



Shipments of butter, aggregating

more than 10,000 pounds have been

made by the Bureau of Markets, under

various conditions and in packages car-

rying fr0m. one to ten pounds, over

both long and short distances, in order





" to test various. kinds of shipping con-





3.





tainers, methods of packing, and the

possibilities of parcel-post shipping of

butter during the summer and other

seasons. These experimental ship-

ments consisted of (1) shipments of

fresh butter from four creameries to

this bureau, and (2) shipments of the

butter received from the creameries

by the bureau to experiment stations

and return shipments of the same.

Although many of’these shipments

were made during the heat of summer,

only fourteen of the 454 shipments, or

3.1 per cent, were received in an unsat-





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Km Task Not to Be Neglected





By .H. W. SWOPE





One of the most important things in

the operation ofa dairy is the cleaning

of the dairy utensils. They must be

cleaned and rinsed thoroughly immedi-

ately after being used; this will pre-

vent the water in the milk from evap-

orating and the solid matter sticking

fast to the utensil. If it is found im-

possible to wash the utenslis at once,





it will be a good plan to rinse them in





lukewarm . water so that the greater

part of the milk will be removed before

it has had a'chance to stick fast to the





‘pail or cow. Hot water should never





be used until the ,milky substances

have been removed with the lukewarm

water first, as the hot water will coag-

ulate the casein in the milk so that it

sticks to the pail and will therefore re-

quire a great amount of washing be«

fore it can all be removed from the

vessel. ' '



After thoroughly rinsing the uten-

sils in the lukewarm water, they

should} be thoroughly washed in hot

water, using/.mme goOd brand of alkali

washing powder. There are manygood





‘washing “powders --to be found on the





market that will answer,the purpose

and‘make this part of the dairy work

easier each day. Soaps or pewders

that contain grease as "a part of their





~ composition “it?“ make a satisfac-





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says: “Use Milk Wisely. Use all the





strive not to be the werst.





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factory results may be attributed to

the care exercised in‘the proper pack-

ing of the butter in suitable‘shipping

containers and the precooling or thor- ,

ough hardening of the butter at the

creameries before shipment.



The experimental shipments to the

state experiment stations were satis-

factory where the temperature and dis-

tance were not too great. Butter which

had softened much in transit from the

creamery to the bureau when later

shipped to the experiment stations did





in which the grain had not been previ-

ously injured. In general, the ship-

ments from Washington were success-

ful when forwarded as far north as

Maine and as far west as Michigan and

Indiana. Shipments into the south were

successful for shorter distances.



The results of these experimental

shipments indicate that well-made but-

ter, thoroughly chilled before shipping,

when packed in a suitable container,

may be marketed satisfactorily by par-

cel post when extreme high tempera-

tures are not encountered. Under ordi-

nary conditions, where the butter does

not melt and a firm or semi—firm condi-

tion is maintained, the shipping of but-

ter by parcel post generally may be

successful. Even though proper safe-

guards were taken, the shipments

made during extremely hot weather

frequently arrived in an oily and un-

satisfactory condition.





URGES USE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS.





 





utors of milk in certain parts of the





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public to decrease whole milk con-

sumption or attempt to substitute oth-

er foods for milk. On the other hand,

the 1918 Home Card, issued recently,





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using a fixed-feed separator ? The moment

a fixedvfeed separator is turned under speed it

begins to lose cream. This loss averages 10 lbs. i

per cow yearly. And tests have proved that i

only one person out of 20 keeps up a fixed Speed. Ehm- 1

inate this cream waste by installing a Z





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, Sharples skims clean at any speed! .11;

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yet is easy to turn. Containing only one

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will get on the inside of them. This

is just as important as the cleaning

process. Never put covers or lids on

the cans 0r pails, but give them free

access to air and sunlight at all times.

This keeps them bright, clean and

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.Moving machinery that is over-

WOrked is liable to trouble. A

mechanical part that can do the

same work without power or mo-

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accomplishes more clean separa-

tion than other machines can

get from end to end,





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NE time, I remember, when lwas



a youngster at school, the teach,-



er was telling the scholars about

the different kinds of animals there

were. It was a lesson in natural his-

tory, and she told about lions and tig-

ers and other wonderful and strange

creatures. After she had finished, she

asked all of the pupils individually

what animal seemed to them the most

wonderful. She received all sorts of

names; most of them were names of

strange and curious animals. There

was one little fellow who had done a





lot of listening, but had kept very still'





and had not talked about what he had

heard. She asked him:



“William, what animal do you think

is the most wonderful ‘3’”



“The cow,” he answered.



The way everyone laughed at this

unexpeted answer, made the poor boy

hang his head in shame.



But, today that same little boy, now

grown to be a man, has shown thathe

was not very wrong when he stated

that he thought the cow was the most





 





 





A Wonderful Animal.





wonderful of all animals. He has one

of the finest herds of pure-bred cattle,

and his farm is one of the most fertile

and while he has not the wealth of

Rockefeller or Morgan he has inde-

pendence and happiness which great

wealth cannot always buy. And, all of

this has been acquired through the

help of cows.



I have in mind two different persons

who started farming about ten years

ago. Each had about the same sort of

a farm to start with. And each'had

the same amount of capital to begin

with. In fact, they each started with

the same. One of them stated that he

was not going to be bothered with

cows; they “tied one down too much.”

He made the principal method of his

farming raising crops to sell. He plant-

ed large acreages to potatoes and used

commercial fertilizers. At first he made

more money than the other man. But,

by gradually taking out of the soil its

fertility in the form' of crops, and sell-

ing them, he is now unable to raise

much on his farm. He is at present

teaming for a living and agriculture is

only a sideline.



The other fellow began with a few

cows. Made dairying the foundation

of his farming. He gradually worked

up his mowings and fields with the

manure which his cows made. Little

by little he added new stock to his

herd and after getting a pure-bred bull

he has raised a nice herd of grade

cows. He has not sold off the fertility.

of hisfarm by selling grain or other

crops or hay. These take away the

fertility quickly. But by selling milk

or butter, there has been very little

taken away from the farm. And, today

this man has one of the best farms

around and he and his family have

some of the good things of life. He

let cows work for him and they have

“made good."



Cows are the foundation of progres-





 





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ture is the foundation of a powerful

and prosperous nation. In proportion





that the live stock is sold off from any

country, then poverty and failure takes





place. On the other hand, wherever

thevfarmers are successful, which is

principally through live stock farming,

there is found happiness and progress

for everyone.





When a farmer has a stable full of

nice cows, there he has beings work«

ing for him 'at all times. A cow is one

of the busiest of animals. Night and

day 'she is taking crude material in the

form of hay and grain and silage and

converting these into valuable food

products such as milk and butter. She

knows no holidays. At times she pre—

sents to her owner young which go to

make up the herd of the future cows,

etc. All of these are valuable.





Even when the cow gets too old for

dairy purposes, she is sold for beef, as

a final source of profit.





But, there is another thing which the

farmer gets which is worth much.

That is manure. That is made night

and day and that is the foundation of

the fertility of the farm. That is a

fertilizer which is truly valuable. Ma-

nure makes the light soil firmer, makes

the heavy soil more mellow. Puts hu-

mus into the soil and holds moisture

in dry seasons, and in the' early plant-

ing days retains the heat of the sun

which makes the soil keep warmer

for the early crops. And, unlike com-

mercial fertilizers, it stays in the soil

for a number of years.



When one sells from the farm hay,

corn, wheat, etc, there is taken from

the farm in fertilizing ingredients $7

to $10 worth for each ton sold. W'ith





dairy products there is only about $2.





or less for each ton. Where one ton of

milk is sold there are ten to twenty of

the other products for the same amount

of money received. If butter is sold

there is only fifty cents worth of fer-

tilizer taken from the farm for each

ton. With this and milk a large per

centage is taken from the air through

the feed consumed. So, with dairying

there is practically no loss when its





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By CHAS. E. RICHARDSQN .





 





 

 





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Dmry COW





carried his cows through these hard

times get his reward. Besides, his farm

will be up in fertility, where those that

have not the stock to‘ make the ma-

nure, will have gone backwards. The

cow is going to ‘save the farm. And,

the farm that is prosperous (through

its dairying, etc), will help to build





up agriculture and the prosperity of the

nation. With the help of the farmer,





the cow will do her part to win the

war and make everyone who has stood

beside her, and carried the, dairy

through, successful.



Truly, when we' realize the changes

that have been in' the cow,.from the

beginning, whenshe gave a few quarts

of milk each day, until now, through

the ages of time, she gives enormouo

quantities of milk and butter-fat; how

she has been the foster-mother of the

human race, and the foundation of our

fertility, and incidentally prosperity;

who will not’agree with the little boy

mentioned at the first of this article

who said that the cow is the most won~

derful of all animals.





THE FlCKLE SUMMER SHOWER.





 





To maintain a continuous efficient

earth mulch over the entire surface of

all our cultivated fields is a goal wor-

thy of our best endeavor. It is also an

object more diflicult of attainment than

the uninitiated have reason to believe.

Experience is required that one may

fully appreciate the situation. Even

under the most favorable conditions of

summer precipitation, with the most

efficient appliances to be had, one must

“go some" to keep ends up, without

the extra soil stirrings that fickle sum-

mer showers entail.





To provide weekly soil stirrings for

all our cultivated crops, with all the

other work that must be done, keeps

one so “on their nerve” that there is

no reserve patience to keep one sweet

When,an ill-timed shower closely fol-

lows a perfect job of earth mulch cre-

ation, and, worst of all, leaves a guess

as the whether there is another to fol-

low in its wake. It is at such times as





 





The Demonstration School





 





 





There are few schools more productive of definite practical results than the

agricultural demonstration schools that are rapidly becoming general in

Michigan and neighboring states. They are Usually held on the farm and





in the open.





With a familiar environment-the farmer more fully appre-





ciates the value of the lessons taught. The number of field demonstra-

tions to be put on by county agents and others this year will be increased.

The farmer’s time is not wasted but rather conserved, by attending these





schools.





 





products are sold, as the reverse is,

with grain or hay and other crops.

While the expenses are very great at

present in keeping live stock the value

of course, of cows, is fifty to seventy.

five per cent greater than it was a few

years back. There are many who are

getting discouraged and disposing of

their stock. - I feel that this course is

unwise. In a few years, after the war

is over there will. be a big demand for

dairy animals. especially of the better

grades. All of the countries that have

been in the path of the war will need

new stock. They all will look to Am-

erica. Then .will the farmer thy: has





   





these that one is at his wits end to

know whether to rc-stir immediately

or “wait a day or two,” realizing full

well that dire results will surely fol-

low neglect to re—create the perfect

mulch at the proper time.



One very annoying feature about the

fickle summer shower is its too often

insignificant quantity, mere Sprinkles

that spot the dust, adding nothing to

soil water supply. After a good “sod

socket” one can follow a cultivator tool

with some degree of pleasure and tran-

quility of mind: but neither are pres-

ent while trudging along behind all,“

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. , " , . farmers met at the Grange hall,

f 4 - Eaton Rapids, May, 21, and after





of the State Bureau of Markets, which

was well discussed, the Eaton Rapids

Cooperative Elevator Company was

formed, with $50,000 capital. The offl-

' cers elected are as follows: President,

James Houston; vice-president, R. E.

Strickling; secretary-treasurer, L. J.





Abel, Wm. Smith, J. Griffith, F. O.





Keeler. Thirty-five farmers signed up

for stock at $50 a share and a stock-

selling committee was named, so that

operations may begin this season.



Antrim County farmers met at Bel-

laire and at the initial gathering $3,800

was subscribed in a cooperative asso-

ciation, having for its main purpose

'the marketing of produce. Hale Ten-

nant, new field man in Michigan’s Bu-

reau of Markets, was invited to be

present at the next meeting to assist

in completing the organization.



Ionia county farmers met at Clarks-

, ville and formed the Clarksville Stock

~ Shipping Association, Inc., with officers

as follows: President, Fred Robbins;

vice-president, John Scott; treasurer,

Chas. Klahn; secretary and manager,

N. W. Stuart; directors, Fremont Wal—

ter, J. Lee Osborne, and Richard

Blough.



A farmers’ cooperative association

has been formed to conduct a general

mercantile business and grist mill at

Herman, in Baraga county.



“Co-op” shipping notes are being run

now in local newspapers where there

are associations, giving returns of last





 





shipments, with dates of coming ship-





ments. In connection with this pub-

licity at Nashville, Barry county, there

appears recently the letter of a Buf-

~ 18.10 commission firm advising as to

trimming of all bucks and the cutting

of tails of all lambs, showing that the

buyers want to c00perate with the

farmers. ALMOND GRIFFIN.





 





Marketing Poultry





HIS year it would seem patriotic

to grow the broilers to a large

size before marketing them, but

reach a weight of about two pounds.

The small broilers should bring a fair

price and when turned into cash they

will furnish available funds for prop-

erly feeding the pullets.

At the present price of grain it does

not seem that capons and roasting

'chickens can be very profitable this

year. The present indications seem to

predict that it will be safer to market

young broilers and raise high-class and

well-ted pullets to produce eggs next

fall and winter.

' _, . When there is time for marketing

small orders to private customers it

pays better than selling to the local

dealers or the commission 'men. How-

ever, every farmer has to figure out

most of his own marketing problems

for himself. Some find it takes too

much time to dress and market poultry

to private consumers 'and they make

more money by giving their time to

production problems.

means that the farmer hires the local

dealer to be his agent or poultry sales-

man, There is a lot to learn about

poultry marketing problems. Most

farmers know that they haVe not yet

found out the best method. A little

more instruction along that line from

the experiment stations will be appre-

ciated. R. G. KIRBY.





 





' ' Thus far this year the packing cen-

‘ters have, received decidedly smaller

numbers of breed sows than for the

corresponding time last year, and the

Department of Agriculture makes the

announcement, after a careful investi-

': gati v‘tha‘tgtheniimber remaining on

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Winn; directors, the officers and Frank :*





Pierce, T. A. Farrand and Benjamin «1





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OR some years you men who grow the wealth of our

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:2 You buy your plows, reapers, threshing machines, and



: your wagons to get money out of. them. You measure the

.3 money you get out of them by the bind of service, and the

3!: length of service they render you in the business of farming.

‘5: Measure the money you get out of tires the some way.

", Count the pleasure you get from them excess profit.



iii .Tires today lure the (”common factor in the business of

a. farming transportation. Let Goodrich Tires make money

:2; out of tires for you in your hauling problems.



:5 . They will, becauseGoodrich Tires are built to give the

:3 maximum of the kind of service which coins into money, as

.g real as the money you get out of your farm implements.



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a; high service. Goodrich has stood for what is best in rubber

‘5 for a half century. That half century of experience starts

:3, Goodrich Tires with tire bodies built right, and trends tough

:1 to stand the roughest going.



5: But Goodrich, to take the last risk out of its tires, sends

=': them forth with its Test Car Fleets, and batters them over

'. every kind of road in our country; perhaps over the roads that

:. pass your farm. Their strength and dependability are sure





because they are proved.





It makes no difference what kind of tires you need,

pneumatic tires large or small, truck tires, motor cycle

and bicycle tires, Goodrich has the tires which on the farm

coin themselves into money.



The big, generously sized pneumatic tires roll up

phenomenal mileage. The truck tires outwenr steel under

the heaviest loads. Get monev out of tires by making sure

you get Goodrich Tires.





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there are more than a thousand opportunities to

make a dollar buy more. That is what Montgomery

Ward & Co.’sSpecial Mid-Summer Sale by Mail

offers you. This is a price-smashing sale—a

remarkable collection of bargains.





. You probably have the IOO-page Book of Bar-

gains of this sale. If not, send us your name and

address for your free copy at once.





Study this book and you will» realize the money-saving

opportunities that this Mid-Summer Sale brings right to

your door. Look through it again—-today. Every offer on

every page saves you real money. Every offer is a bargain

-—a picked special. What on need to wear to eat or to use

(in the home—all depen able, guaranteed merchandise.





 

     





Chicago ansgs City

Please Write House Nearest You





 





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Pulverized lime rock for “soul".

soils. WE SELL YOU DIRECT. ~25"

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LAKE SHORE STONE COMPAN .

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:THE :MicchN FARMER, Detroit, Michigan





 





Young-Randolph &ed4Cm, 01,088., Kiel. ‘

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INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE





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THE FlCKLE SUMMER SHOW’ED





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dairy annuals, OspI-I-izilli‘ oi tiw bIIttIII~

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Inulvh at tho [Il‘OIlt‘l‘ timII.



annoy mg {Willll‘t‘ about the

tiIrkltI summer shuwei' is its too Oftf‘fl





insignificant quantity, more sprinkler:





UHI- \'t‘l‘)'





that spot tho dust, adding nothing to

soil water supply [UNIV 3 good “and

sonkor" on“ can follow :I cultivator mm





with SOlllt‘ degron of pioastn‘v and tum

(inility of mind: but noithur are pres

IIm whilII trudging alum: bIIlIind a ”dust

spotter." M. N. EDUER’I‘ONI.





 

 





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JUNE 15, 1918.





THE MICHLGAN FARMER





 





 





 





Among “Co-ops”





LARGE nunihor ot' Eaton county

A tarniors inot at. tho (:rango hall,

Eaton Rapids, May 21, and after

listening to a, talk by J. N. Molirido,

of tho State Bureau oi’ Markots, whioh

was well disoussod, tho Eaton Rapids

Cooperative ltlloyatoi' t‘oinpaiiy was

formed, with $5tt,tttiti capital. 'l‘ho oili-

(tt‘l'S olootod are as follows: President,

Jainoa llouston; vico-proaidont, ll. E.

Sti'ickling‘; soerotarytroasuror, L. J.

Winn; (lii‘ectoi‘H, tho oilioors and Frank

Abel, Win. Smith, J. tiritlith, 1“. t).

l’it‘l‘co, T. A. l‘lzti'i‘aiid and li-njainiil

Koch-r. 'l‘hii‘ty fiyo l‘arniors slant-d 11p

tor stock at, $50 a sharo and a stock-

Bolling ooininittoo was naint-d, so that

operations may begin this soason.

Antriin county l'arinora iiiot at Bol

lairo and at, tho initial gathoring $3,800

was subscribed in a oooporativo ariao-

ciation, having for its main )illl‘Iltwt‘

tho niai‘lioting' ot' produce. llalo ’l‘onr

nant, new iii-1d man in Michigan’r; liu

roan oi' Mai‘kots, was inyitod to l“-

present at the next. inooting to (Heist

in i-oiiiplotiiig tho organization.

lonia county i'arnii-rs lllt‘l, at, (‘larlxs

'villo and t‘orniod tho t‘larlo-‘willo Stock

Shipping Association, lllt'., \\ itli othi-ors

l’rt-riidoiit, l"ri3d litlliltlllfl;

ll't‘ufllll't'l‘,





as follows:

\‘it‘t' [tl‘t‘t-ltlt‘lll, John Scott,

(has. l\'lalin; Ht‘t'l't'litl') and manager,

N. \\'. Stuart; dirw'tors, l“lt'lll()llt \\'al

tor, .l. Loo t):~‘hoi'iio, and

lilough.



A l'arinors' ('()()]it‘1‘:ttl\t' (it'lbtlt‘lltlittll

has lH‘t‘ll torniod to ('tilltlllt'l, a contra]

inoroaiitilo huyinoma and grirt llllll at

lloriuaii, in liarapa county.



“t‘oop” shipping llt)|i‘:~‘. aro holng run

now in looal llt".\'.\'[ttt[tt‘tfi Mhoi‘o llii'l't‘

aro associations, giying returns 0i lard





 





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ltirliai‘d1





shipments, \yith ilaioa oi‘ t‘t)llltll;.’, ship-

lllt'lllr“. In ('ttllllt‘t‘lltlll with this pub«





“city at N;tr<li\illo, llai'ry county, thoi'o’





appoars rot-ontly tho lottor ol‘ it But“

t'alo t‘tllllllllbiSltfll lll'lll adyising as to

trimming oi’ all lHtt‘lx‘H and tho cutting

01’ tails of all lilllllJF, showing that. tho

l)ll§'t‘l‘.\‘ want to (‘tltilii'l'ttlt‘ with the





farmers. Ai \Iti\l) (titii'i‘ix.





lVIarketing;r Poultry





lllh‘ your it would wwizi patriotic.

to grow the l)l't)llt'l‘h‘ to a large





Sizo liol‘oro. iiiai'lti-ting; thoin, buL





 





roach a weight, 01." about. two poundsu





'l‘ho, Hlilttll hroilora should bring a lair

price and whon turned into cash thoy

will furnish availahlo funds for prop»

orly t'oodinar tho pullots.





At the prosont, prioo of grain it does“





not, St‘t‘lll that. capons and roasting

(ghiokonr; can ho yory protitablo this

yoar. The present. indications govt” to

prodiot. that, it will ho safer to lllitl‘lx‘t‘l





young broilers and raiso high-class and ‘





Wellied pnllots to produco eggs next

fall and wintor.



\\'hon thorc is time for inarltotinfi‘:

small ordors to private custoniors it

pays hotter than soiling to tho local

(loalors or tho commission inon. [low-

ovor, oyoi‘y t'arnior has to iiizuro out

moat. of his own inarliotiiig [ti'ttlilt‘lilS

for hinisoli'. Sonio iind it lttlx’t‘ri too.

Illllt‘ll lllllt' to drum and inarkot poultry

to pi‘iyzito L‘t,)llHlllllt'l'.\' and thoy inalio

inoro money by airing: their lllllt‘ to

production prohloinr‘. This practically

means that tho l'ai'inor hiros tho looal

doalor to ho his auont or poultry salo»

nian. 'l‘horo is a lot to loarn about

poultry inarkoting prohloins. Most;

ittl'tllt‘l'S know that thoy have not yt‘t

found out tho host lllt~tl10(l. A littlo

nioro instruction along that, lino from

tho oxporinioni Stations will bo appro—

ciated. R. G. KiiiiiY.





Thus far this yoai‘ tho packing con-

toi's have received doeidodly HIIIZIllt‘I'

numbers ol' brood sows than for the

oorrosponding time last year. and tho

Dopartinont ot' Acriculturo inakos tho

announooinont, al‘tor a (-ai'oi'ul invosti

gation, that tho nuinbor remaining on

farms has incroaaod, probably, by as

much as ten per cent. _





 

 

 

 

 





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0R some years you men who growthe wealth oi our





a country have been putting money in!” tirex. Isn't it t

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2? your wagons to get money out ol them. i on mom-um the g

4’. money you get out of them by the kind of Serving and the é

'2 length of service they render you in the [ms-{mist of farming. g

f: blensure the money you get out of tires the same way. g

i” Count the pleasure you get from them Proms pro/it. g

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"f; farming transportation. Let Uoodrich 'l'ires mu/ce money g



': out (If tires for you in your hauling problems. é





lhey will, because Goodrich Tires are built to giie tl.e

maximum of the kind of service which coins into money. as

real as the money you get out of your farm iinpleiiieiitn





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in The Goodrich brand on a tire——an(l you men ol tne farm C‘ “I"?l ‘3‘“? 5" 12:03:; 4,?

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i; know the. value ot a trustworthy brandw is a guarantee of I ”it” 4’1

:1: high service. Goodrich has Mood for what is but in rub/Mr ' 2

z; for a half century. liliat halt centurv ol ex iorieiice starta ¢

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20; (I()U(lrl(‘ll lirex With tire bodies built right, and trt‘tltik tough ”V4.

:53; to stand the roughest going. .31

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a? lint (yoodrii‘liy to take the last risk out of its tirek. Neiidk 2 '4%

:1 them forth With its 'l‘est (jar l‘lcets, and batters thoin oxer /: ,3?

I” every kind of road in our country; per/zaps ozwr t/u’ I‘m/1115 (/mt/1 ;;

3 pass your farm. 'lhoir strength and dependability are sure g 3)

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:4 because they are proved. é " Z}

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:[i lt makes no (iillerence what kind of tires you need. ZBUYJZTéfiEfiC;u}B:Jm if:

:33: pneumatic tires large or small, truck tires motor cycle Z 2'

:3 and bicycle tires, (ioodrich has the tires which on the farm g 34

if“ rain themsolrm into money. % g“ 2

E2 lhc big, generously Sized pneumatic tires roll up Z j» 54:

En phenomenal mileage. The truck tires outwear hlt‘t‘l under Zé S 1",?

,3 fl } ,- .7 l . (. . 7 . . ,~ . / a On Sale at all ,./",’

i“ ie ieayiest odds. :(t nionev out of tires by llldhllig sun. g H 4‘}

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In the Special Sale By Mail





there are more than a thousand opportunities to

make a dollar buy more. That is what Montgomery

Ward & Co.’s Special Mid-Summer Sale by Mail

offers you. This is a price-smashing sale—~a

remarkable collection of bargains.





You probably have the IOU-page Book of Bar-

gains of this sale. lf not, send us your name and

address for your free copy at once.





Study this book and you will realize the money-saving

opportunities that this Mid-Summer Sale brings right to

your door. Look through it again today. Every offer on

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3~a picked special. What you need to wear, to eat or to use

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IT WILL PAY YOU





To send for some of our special offer coupons to hand to your





neighbors. For full details address

THE MICHIGAN FARMER, Detroit, Michigan





 





eight prepaid on

new l‘JlH “RANGER" bicycle.

Write at once for our big cata-

log and specwzt ofi‘e-rs. Take your

} choice from it! St ‘iloa, colors. and Sizes

' in the famous “RANGER" line.

Marvelous Improvemento. Extra-

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" offers. You. comm! aljrird to (my

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' .5 make big: money taking orders

8 for hivyclos and supplies. Get

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,” trottiioe the now “RANGER".

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'4‘: everything in the bicycle line at half

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at once for {till information, at. ‘) about. the Shaw

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3225'" fig, FARM WAGONS





)1“. lligvliorlow wheels—

: ; ”V. '.. ' siotl or wood" wide

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rut: . , '

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Seed Buckwheat $5





For 100 pounds. Bags extra at 35c. ’

Young-Randolph Seed Co., OWOSSO, Mich.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Ranger

Electrlc

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For Sale "Molina Tractor

blodol tlli. oipiippoil with two ll—lllt‘ll liottoinsantl

carrying trait, (sod Hill\ :to liar» :illtl lll good con—-

(lition. Addro» \‘_ .\‘l'l"l‘.\. Mason, Mii'liigan.





 





Mentiothe Michigan Farmer When Writing Advertisers
tilizer Now?





Will you need fertilizer this summer

or tall? I! you do, orders should be

placed ,at your earliest convenience

since delay will increase the probabil-

ity of not getting your needs supplied;

Here’ is a statement from the United

States Railroad Administration heath

,ing directly on the proposition:



The Car Service section of the Unit-

ed States Railroad Administration de-

sires to call attention to the necessity

for still heavier loading of fertilizer

cars to be used for summer and fall





 





efforts n11; this direction already made

by fertilizer manufacturers and ship-

pers, and we are able to report that

the average earload of fertilizer this

‘ spring was from twenty to thirty per

cent heavier than in previous seasons.

This economy of space has saved the





equivalent of many thousands of

freight cars. In other words, large

numbers of cars have been released

for other urgent war-time needs—cer-

tainly a saving of great'unportance in

these days of service car shortage.



we feel, however, that even greater

saving must be effected. Practically

every car should go out loaded to ca—

pacity plus ten per cent. The demand

for cars to move war supplies to the

seaboard is increasing daily. Every

shipper must contribute his share to-

ward making up the extra car supply

required for government uses. There

is only one way in which to do this;

and that is to load caxs heavier and

thus ship the same amount of goods in

fewer cars.



We appreciate the fact that in order

to load every car to capacity, manufac-

turers must have their orders in hand

at a date sufficiently early to allow the

assembling and grouping of all less-

than-carload quantities. This, of course,

necessitates full and free cooperation

on the part of the farmer and dealer.



Ellie want to urge upon you to use

every means at your disposal to secure

such active cooperation from both the

dealer and consumer, that orders may

be on hand early enough this summer

to enable manufacturers to send out

every car loaded to capacity plus ten

per cent. We feel certain that when

the necessity for this,action is brought

forcibly to the attention of the farmer

—-npon whose response success de—

pends—the cooperation secured will

approach one hundred per cent.



“'e must get results, but results se-

cured through free cooperation 'are

much to be preferred to results secur-

ed by official regulation.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





WILL PAY FARE OF HANDS WHO

LEAVE TO WORK ON FARMS.





 





Money to pay the transportation of

workers to the farms of the state

‘where this is necessary, has been ap-

propriated by the war preparedness

board to the labor agencies conducted

by Michigan in many cities, according

to A. B. Cook, federal farm labor di-

rector.



The appropriation, which was small

but sufficient, will be used as a revolv-

ing fund—that is, men whose tickets

are bought for them will be required to

reimburse the board. The system is

one that has been adopted in several

states with practically no loss to any

of them, and from the agricultural

standpoint has added \greatly to the

efllciency of the employment agencies

maintained by the states.



“Conditions at present indicate that

film labor; ."s fairly plentiful, and. is.

going to be available in sufficient quan-

tity, at prices not unreasonable, all

things considered,” Director Cook de-

clares; “The farmer ' must stand

ready,” he adds, “to pay a reasonable

wage, though he need nut permit any-

wage, though he need not permit any-

one to hold him up.”





 

 

   





 





 

 





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Automatic Regulator

Makes Engine SCH-Starting





 





HE automatic regulator



device on Western Electric

Power and Light is found on

no other electrical plant. This

exclusive feature places this

outfit in a class by itself.





la: 1 - , II IIIIIIIII‘





 





 





 





 





 





Portable Utility M otor





Ready for Any Kind of Work





It removes the human

element and the chance of

overcharging the battery; thus

insuring longer life to this—the

most delicate part of every

lighting system.





 

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





 





 





a storage battery.





WESTERN ELECTRIC





INCORPORATED





 





This wonderful little device

simplifies the making of elec-

tricity and represents an en-

tirely new method of charging





And, best of all, this Western Elec~

tric plant will operate successfully with





Kirby .AveLand Dequindre SL. Detroit,lVlicl1.

500 South Cl'nton St, Chicago, Ill»





afing.





Uses Any Engine





couPAuv'





Name





It does away with the com-

plicated switchboard and

makes this plant unequalled in

simplicity of starting and oper-





any kind of an engine. If you already

have one you can use it with this outfit.





Let us tell you about this plant, and how easy you can get

electricity on your farm. Mail the coupon for Booklet.

l‘" ______________ +._ _ .1

WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, Inc.

Please send me your Povver and Light Booklet No. M.F.,6.





 





 





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War-ranted

to give satisfaction.





 





cemmuu’s

CAUSTIC 'BALSAM





A safe, speedy and

positive cure for





Curb Splint, Sweeny Capped Hock

Stunned Tendons, Fouddcr, ind Polls:





and all lameness from 8,pavin bone



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diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Hmphtheria .

gegpves all Bunches from Home or

a CI





As a. HUMAN REMEDY for Rheu-

matism. bs'rmslno.~ Doro Thu-oat, at... it

is invaluab 1.0



Every bottle of Can-tic Banal: sold is

Warranted to give satisfaction. Price 01. 50

per bottle. Sold by “rim? or sent by or

press, charges paid, with 1111 dlrectlona for its



Sand for descriptive och-cobra, m0-





nials, etc. Address

-THI LlWRINOl—WILLIAIS conm. Gigolo“: Ohio.





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Farms and farm Lands For 8an





100 Acres Stock & Tools $2000





Splendid New York dairy. general farm bargain, on

road, nearz fine lakes. depot. milk station high



school, clurohes. etc) acres fine tillage: spring

watered Wire-fenced posture for 20 cons, home- -use

wzood large quantity fruit. Good 6-r001n home 2

ha urns, other buildings. A d ouner. alone for ( uick

calcinel udespr. horoesmoio

cultivator,harrow. wagons. tools,hay.,etc all for



Dart ouh. ver before advertised will sell quick.

Details page 17 Strout's Cabal outlet.“3 Rb





other he aine includln are tools.

$.11 uh AW refiner.

Dept. 101 150 Nassau F..St New York N. Y





FARM FOR SALE





Long Beach Farm 2‘10 A. on shore of Gull Lake

lidamaaoo 00. 2 houses. lafie dair Ia and other build-

ings veryco mglete, 30 A al alto. 7 A. grain a grand

location for a :1 r1- farm. Small payment longtime.

F 8.” Augusta, Mich.





 





 





 





Farm at 160 acres 1 ’4 miles from Onaway, Mich on

main pike, level. no waste. 100 under cultivation.

rest pasture and wood Dark clay soil, woven wire fence.

good grain and stock farm, new 9 rm house furnace,



llet, bath. Large barn new granary, machine shed.

etc. F100 ton sllo.youngBorcbard near school. Telephone.

as was. Onaway, Mich.





olooi large estate near Pensacola.



on .nl‘r ‘Floril'zof. 81a subsoil. Railroad through



land, price-8 per acre, 80 acres or larger



tracts. Terms? easv. Agra ThomasM Campau 502



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for farm or cit pro rty.



To Ell-Ch“ e Country store an line mine.

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country, galcalmer Voliczcupant did $500. weekly busi new. .w

Mt. Pleasant, Mich. . .





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seed-‘Bucknhoal “$5





Per 100 pounds. Inn (in. at 35c.





‘ Young-Randolph Seed Co., m. Ila. I ,





 





 





 





Belgian Hares. Flemish Giana. White tab-





139%

vughlec $23 Maxim-2m oung stock spoolw 03°

elm.





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Ringbon'o Miro“, $2 a Bottle «2: I

Oneapplimtion usuallyenou h; nome- ’

mestwo required. Intende only for "

heme-nee of BoneSpay'in,

imbonc and Sldeboae, causing

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Barley, Oats & Wheat





Sand for Sample!

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Attention Farmers!





The Win. invention of a horse shoeto Mid

prevent broken down horses by taking l)tho bearin‘l



pod bone and placing it on thank 900%

t e 001' where it f“belong. Afi'reat boon to such

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smith or write to





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Coal!” forOld Felon Teeth
LITERATURE . * ~ A , > .7 , A ; I." mm FARM BOY

' POETRY - 3; ‘1 ;_ A. ~ I. ¢ - 2‘ ' ana GIRL

HISTORY an? ‘ - ~ A , ‘~ A ‘ N’ SCIENTIFIC an?

INFORMATION '- 1,, T a ,5 ‘ MECHANICAL

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f ‘ '~‘" . y - ‘ ' ~ CprrigiIt 'bvv Underwood & Undtryood. Ned York
(Continued from last week).





“Get down! Get down!”_



We all laid down right where we

were and waited. The working party

is protected by the patrol, and that

patrol had warned us. We waited until

we got another call that everything



"was clear and went to work again.

After that every time a maul hit a post

it sounded to me like a 12-inch gun.

Presently the Buns started to send up

star shells for the purpose of finding

out where the noise came from. By

that time we were down again, of

course. But the enemy took a chance

with their machine guns in the direc-

tion from which the noise had come.

The bullets went to one side of us,

however. The firing did not last long,

and then we resumed our labor; but

I heaved a sigh of relief when we were

through with the job, and we were

back in the second-line dugout with a.

kettle full of tea and some chuck.



Two days later I was called in by

the commanding officer and ordered

to return to my unit. His report of

me, he said, he would send in by tele

phone. I surrendered my equipment,

said goodbye to the boys I had met,

and started for Squadron Headquar-

ters. I had gone about two miles on

my way back when I passed something

that resembled a house. Part. or the

; chimney was shot off, and the Windows

were all broken. The ruin was similar

110 many others one could find around



-, that part of the country.



Of a sudden the front of the struc~

ture slid to one side and a roar like a

clap of thunder came out of it. Then

followed a burst of smoke and a.

glimpse of the long, great barrel of a

'heavy gun settling on the recoil, and

then the front of the house slid back—-

camouflage. For some minutes there

was an awful ringing in my ears, and

I had to hunt for my cap, which had

been blowu off my head. I found it

under the leafless branches of a tree

across the road, and near it were the

bodies of four small birds which had

been killed by the concussion.





 





CHAPTER VIII.

My First Flight.



PON my arrival at the squadron

headquarters I reported to the

commanding olficer, who called



in one of the flight commanders. The

two of them discussed for a while as

to what pilot was to take me up on a





trial trip, and when this serious bust-of the machine from





zness had been disposed of, I was sent

to the quartermaster of the aerodrome

to be fitted out with the requisites of

the flyer. These consist of a helmet,

leather coat, for gloves, and goggles.

The pilot with whom I was to fly told

me to take the front seat of the ma-

. chine and strap myself in. While I

was attending to that my nerves seem-

ed a little bit unruly. The moment for

which I had hoped so much was come

at last. but my sensations were not ex—

actly what I had imagined they would

be when the time came. '

As I fastened each strap around me

the risks of aviation became more real.

Though I had often dwelt on the fact

. that there are no landing places in the

air, the straps brought to me full real—

ization that whatever happened to the

g airplane would happen to me. There

was no getting away from the machine

'in case something went wrong. .

But there was no time for philoso-

' pinning.» The pilot took his seat be-

hind me, strapped himself in, tested

various levers and contriaances; in the

meantime somebody started the motor

of the plane running.





   

   

 

   

   

 





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ler should have gained the speed nec-

essary to give us a good start across

the field.



I do not remember whether the pilot

gave the signal that he was ready by

word or by a gesture. Anyway, of a

sudden the machine started to move,

began to “taxi” across the field, and

gained momentum with each instant.



It is hard to describe the sensation

I had when the kite was finally in mo-

tion. I remember that the pilot opened

the engine out and that the earth

seemed to roll from under us,.though

the bumping of the wheels on‘ the

ground reminded me that we were still

«tamngn



Of a sudden the bumping ceased and

we seemed suspended in mid-air. But

the wheels hit some other high places,

showing that as yet we were not all

the ground. Once more the machine

was being supported on its wings. I

hoped that the wheels would touch the

ground again, but hoped in vain.



The motor was speeding up now and

the peculiar swaying motion of the ma—

chine left no doubt in my mind that

we had left the ground for good.



I noticed that the’ airplane was fly-

ing steadily enough, but for all that I





“racist-armory to no, air preselthr he





began to point out the objects on the

ground, which was now far'below us.

We were then Some eight thousand

feet above the ground.



The pilot drew my attention to lines





. on the ground—~mere pencil marks-—





and he told me that these were the

trenches and communication ditches,

and I thoughthow much safer the boys

in the trenches were, evcn‘with the

mud and rats. The lines stretched

out as far as the eye could reach, and

were parallelvin the main, though here

and there they diverged a little to

come closer to one another at some

other place. over and near the lines

wide pads of smoke appeared. They

were caused by exploding shells. I

began to listenlor the detonations, but

the noise of the motor made it impos

sible for me to hear anything else.

- So long as the polls of smoke stayed

near the ground and the trenches, all

was well, I concluded. But I remem.

bored the Hun aviator’s fate at Ypres,

and wondered how long it would be be-

fore those beautiful little smoke puffs

would come nearer to us



While I was still wondering a flash

ahead of us rent the air. It was yel~

low and intense. The next moment a

round powder putt took its place, and

from this began to curl in all direc-

tions smoke ribbons which the frag.

ments of the exploding shell were

drawing after them. i



I looked around at the pilot. He

said nothing, but held up two warning

fingers, while over his face went on





 





 





 





Making Ready for the Flight.





felt the uneasiness which is erperi-

enced by the person who is at sea for

the first time. The slightest departure

its horizontal

course threatened to entirely upset my

stomach. ‘



But before long interest in the things

underneath me overcame that scnsa~

tion. The earth was receding in the

most peculiar manner. I told myself

that we were going up. but still the.

idea that remained uppermost in my

mind was that the earth was dropping

away from -us. .



We began to climb up and up. I was

beginning to enjoy this when of a sud-

den the engine stopped. My heart went

into my mouth. And I said to myself,

“Willie, you’re a dead one.” I expect-

ed to fall. But the machine continued

on an even keel, and from back of me

came two sharp raps. Then I was

sure I was gone.



I looked ' around and saw the pilot

smiling. He was saying something

which I had great difilculty in under-





' standing. But trom his lips I read the





question:



“How do you like it?”



I replied that I liked it well enough,

andjudgedfromthesearchinglookin

the eyes behind the goggles that the

pilot was very much interested in as-

certaininu the state of my nerves. The





result of his scrutiny must have been,





expression of disdain.



Four other shrapnel shells exploded

near us, and there was now no doubt

in my mind that “Archie” was very

busy with his anti-aircraft battery.



The Hun aircraft batteries, however,

did not seem to be as greatly interest-

ed in us as they might have been, and

after awhile their efforts to bring us

down ceased.



I was once more able to watch

things beneath us. . The earth looked

flat now. Hill and dale had disappear—

ed. We sailed over a forest and I

found that it looked like a lawn. Only

its darker green separated it from the

remainder of the landscape. The farm

houses were the size of a match box

and the fields around them seemed a

part of a checkerboard. Men could not

be seen at all. Two little towns over





which we flew looked about a foot.





square.



Il‘was enjoying this very much when

of a sudden the engine stopped once

more. Somehow I had learned to look

upon that motor as something human,

and I found myself unconsciously ap-

pealing to it to start again. I knew, of

course, that the machine could. vol-

plane—glidc—to earth, but I was not





so sure that this particular pill: de?

spite his great reputation, was really“





the man to bring me mm m to

earth. .





 





 





made another severe attack upbn my

nerves. I surmised that the pilot in

tended to glide. What I feared most,

however, was that he might attempt

to do some fancy tricks aviators.are

fond of, especially when they have

novices aboard. There might be som—

ersaults, just plain or corkscrew fash-

ion, and I was quite sure that any





thing of the sort would be too much,





for me.





Butthis3 did not seem to be the in-





tention of the ”pilot. I had hardly

,found comfort in that‘thought when I

noticed that the speed of the machine

was now so terrific that the wire stays

began to scream and whistle. The 'sen~

sation of great speed overwhelmed'me.

Everything began to revolve about'me,





and I had to keep my eyes off the .





earth in order, not 'to grow sick. It

was not the motion of the machine

alone: that caused this sensation, but

the great speed at which the earth

seemed to be coming up to meet us.

Minutes seemed hours long, and with

each second my prayers that this

would soon be over grew more fervent.

I was suffering all the tortures man

ever imagined. '

Of a sudden the machine lurched.

The increased pleasure . against the

plane could be felt by a tautness that

went over every part of it, my own

body and mind included. The next mo

ment I noticed that the wire stays

were no longer singing, and then, to

my great surprise, I notiwd that we

were directly above the aero'drome.

The realization that this trip would

soon be over was a great relief. But

another fear seized the. We were not

far from the ground now, but were still

going at such a speed that the ma

chine coming in contact with the

ground would certainly be smashed;

so, at least, I thought. ,

That was not the case, however,

though the bounce we got when the

wheels first touched showed me that





it was indeed well to be strapped into .





the seat. The strain of my body

against the leather was such that the

straps‘creaked, and I would have been

catapulted out of the machine had it

not been for the Safeguarding strap.



After the first bounce the machine

traveled another short distance on its

planes, hit the ground once more, rose

again, and then taxied up to the shed.



I unstrapped myself and then climb

ed out of the machine. I was glad to

be once more on solid ground even

though it did heave a bit.



(Continued on page 731).





VACATION DAYS;





 





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Oh, I’m. glad asa kid, as a very small





When‘ school lets out in June.

I could dance a jig if i ever did

I could almost sing a tune.

For its good to be sure of my boys





again

And my girls for the whole day

through;

There’s such a lot we can plan for

then

And so much that it’s good to do.





Oh, I’ifiglad as a kid, as a very small

1 ;

When the school .house door is

barred;

I’m glad to think that the key is hid

And I find it isn't hard

My boys, what a jolly bunch they are

And my girls, how worthy praise:

The hours that I. like the best by far

Are in these vacation days.





Oh, I’néiglad as a kid, as a very small





And you ought to feel that way,

For not};i is your chance‘to make your





For their love and their trust today.‘





And there’s nothing under the heavens





That can make the angels glad,

As a boy and a girl, while the years





Who are loving» “churns” with Dad.





 





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“It isn’t because the idea is new—but

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“Your father felt the same way about the harvesting machineuand the same

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as it is by day. We have electricity for light and power.





our work.





Electricity lessens all of





. _ It. is like another hand—it saves work doing the chores—and the current

is always available for light or power day or night.





Investigate, John, as I did.





‘I found out all about farm lighting plants and bought the Alamo Unit.





“Here are some of the reasons I chose the Alamo. First, for its simplicity. It

requires littleor no attention. It is practically automatic in operation. You simply

touch a button to start or stop it. If lubricating oil or cooling water runs low, it

automatically stops so the machine cannot injure itself.”





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The Alamo is built in one complete, compact

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free from vibration and noise.





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The generator runs practically without vibration,

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is 1,000 watts. This is ample power for furnishing

all lights required, charging the battery and plenty

of current for other purposes.





Easy To Install





Because of its simplicity the Alamo Unit is easy

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is installed, a woman or child can take care of it and

run it. All there is to do is to keep fuel and oil sup—

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By ELMER HICKS





P above the twinkling stars the



Recording Angel was beginning



his work for. the day, and, as was

the usual custom, with the great book

before him, started recording the do-

ings of the righteous first; even before

their day’s work was done, for the only

entry to be made was a ditto of the

days that had gone before.



As the Heavenly Recorder paused

with the pen held over page marked

“Parson Rawlins,” he hesitated, and

did not make the regular entry as had

been done for five years now.



Parson Rawlins’ day was about done

but where was the nightly “All is

Well" sent by his guardian angel from

that dim and distant earth below.



The Recording Angel turned his gaze

downward, searching San Francisco’s

dim outlines until be located the wick-

ed blotch of sin known as Barbary

Coast.



He saw Pars-on Rawlins leave the

little church, located right in the heart

of that vile nest of crime, and go forth

down a crooked, dirty street, past rows

of brightly lighted houses with their

windows and doors wide open, show-

ing their attractions to all who might

gaze within.



But neither to the right nor left look-

ed the Parson; he did not seem to see

painted, half-dressed women offering,

forcing, themselves on any who might

venture within reach of their luring

wiles.



Nor hear the mechanical pianos or

the maudlin, drunken songs, for he

was thinking of the souls that must be

saved among that mighty throng.



The Recording Angel saw, as Parson

Rawlins turned into a dark, ill—lighted

street, two husky, bullet—headed ruf—

fians step forward and block his path.

The parson was startled for a moment

at the interruption and the Recording

Angel almost held his breath.



“Are ye’ that slinkin’, cowardly

preacher ?” demanded the larger of the

brutes, “that’s trying to upset the bus—

iness of better men than you?”



“I am the servant of the Lord,” re-

plied the parson in the meekest kind

of voice, but his eyes held a most

steady gleam.



“Soak ’im first, Slim,” ordered the

big one, “the worse he’s beat the more

we get.”



Parson Rawlins backed off before

them. He was in a sea of doubt, for

he did not want to be pounded to a

pulp and truly this was no time to turn

the other cheek. As the two men

crowded him he prayed:



“Oh Lord, you are my Shepherd.

You led me here and this must be thy

will.” And he squared his broad shoul-

ders, placed his back to the wall and

waited their rush with a knowing

smile. The Lord’s work, this time,

thought the parson, should be well

done or he missed his guess by a mile.



The ruflians advanced with one foot

forward, using a well known shuffling

ring gait that kept them braced for

any shock that might come. There

was a swift exchange of blows, a thud

or two of bare fist on flesh and the

parson ducked between them to retreat

to safer ground.



“Prize-fighters,” he muttered and

manoeuvered so as to meet the smaller

one alone.



The rufl‘ian came on with a rush, but

cautious just the same, till he was just

the right distance. from his man to hit





.and save himself from harm. But there





the victim' took a hand.





“God be with you,” spoke the parson ,





and landed a well—aimed kick right in

the fellow’ s ribs



It was a trick learned by experience

while working as a rough lumber-jack

in, .the great North Woods, and down

went his opponent with a groans The

fight was all knocked out of him for

several weeks to come. ~ ~ ,



' and the his one ad-





 





vanced on each other with a cautious





tread. Each knew the other was no .





mean opponent and skill would win the

fight, instead of main strength.



Suddenly theymixed at a fast and

furious pace. Arms and fists were :‘fly-

ing as each man ducked and fought and

the thud of fist on flesh told of many

licks finding their mark. As suddenly

as they had gone together each man

backed off to catch his breath.



The parson was wearing a glorious

smile, though one eye was entirely

closed and his lips split and swellen

and the blood trickled from many cuts

on his face. It brought back the mem-

ory of former ring days before he had

accepted grace, and he remembered

that the clean liver always stood the

fastest pace.



“Devil take the hindermost,” prayed

the parson and waded in at a furious

gait. Striking with right, with left,

dodging and ducking, sometimes get-

ting a kick himself but all the time

putting such a beating on the other fel-

low as had never been administered in

the rogue’s life before.



.Finally the enthusiastic parson de-

sisted for the fellow seemed to have

enough. With both eyes closed, his

left jaw broken, and every front tooth

loose, the man hung to the fence to

keep from falling down.



The Recording Angel breathed a sigh

of satisfaction and unclenched his right

hand, releasing the broken pen staff

that he had crushed without knowing

when.



“That Parson deserves a military

medal,” he said, “but, alas, I am not

the judge.” '



Instead he wrote with the broken

pen, in the great book of daily records

of deeds both great and small,





' ‘ well performed! -"





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HOW “CHAMOIS” LEATHER IS

MADE.



Probably many people who, handle

wash leather in course, of business

would find it diflicult to explain‘how it

Wash leather, as it is often

called “ohamois” leather, is now al-

ways made from the flesh-split or ”lin-

ing" of sheep skins, the thin grain of

which constitutes. the “skiver.” The

splitting is done on pelts fresh from

the limes by a machine witha vibrat-

ing knife against which the skin is

drawn, and, to get sufficient plumpness

the liming must be through. The skins,

either at once, or after a slight drench-

ing, are thrown'into a fulling mill, or

“faller stocks” together with some saw-

dust, and are kneaded until they reach

a semi-dry and somewhat perous con-

dition, when they are sprinkled with

fish oil. The stocking is continued,

with occasional pauses to allow the

goods to cool, and sprinkling with oil

at intervale till the original limy smell

disappears, and is replaced by a some-

what pungent odor, and the skins are

thoroughly saturated with oil. They

are then packed in a box and covered

up, when they-rapidly heat by the exi-

dation of the oil (and might even take

fire, if not taken out in time and hung

up or spread on a floor to cool), while

at the same time a good deal of irritat-

ing acrolein vapour is evolved. This

packing is repeated two or three times

till the oxidation is complete, heating

no longer takes place, and the skin is

yellow throughout, and full leathered.

The remaining operations consist in

pressing out the surplus oil (degras, or

sod oil, which is valuable for currying),

washing with warm alkaline solutions

to remove'the residual oil, and finally

drying, and “fluffing” on an emery





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Baflleul the Beautiful





0 Bailleul was considered one of the most important strategic points on

the Western Front and was the first of the main German objectives in their-

April drive towards the channel ports.





The British had used it up to April





16, as the streng point from which they hurled back the waves of enemy at~





tackers on the Flanders front.





the church in the city, which the enemy now holds. When the photograph was

made it was far behind the lines and still unmarred by enemy bombardments.





Bailleul is a typical Flanders village, its quamt old buildings and winding " ‘

once the pride or a happy, peaceful ,

crumbling ruins. . ~~ , _ . _





streets lined with picturesque home's.

.people, now a mass of shell-torn.





 





 





 





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Colonel 7W. 0. Gercas, Surgeon-Gen?





eral of the army, tells this story about





a National Guard Encampment last





summer" .





“Jim Wheeler, 8. new volunteer who





 





had not quite learned his business was

on sentry duty one night when a friend

knowing his fondness for pie, brought

him one from the canteen.



“While he sat quietly on the grass-

devouring the pie, the major sauntered





up in undress uniform. Not recogniz-v





ing him, the sentry did not salute, so

the major stopped and asked, ‘What’s

that you have there?’



“ ‘Pie ” answered Jim, good-natured-

1y. ‘Squash pie. Have a bite?’



“The major frowned. ‘Do you know

who I am?’ he asked haughtily.



“ ‘No,’ the sentry answered, ‘unless

you’re the major’s groom.’



“The major shook his head.



“ ‘The barber from the village?’



“ ‘No!’ thundered the other.



“ ‘Maybe’—-—and the sentry laughed—-

‘maybe you’re the major himself-’



“‘I am the major!’ came the stern

reply.



“ ‘Good Heavens!’ exclaimed the sen-

try. ‘Hold the pie, will you, until I

present arms?’ ” '





 





FAULTLESS LOGIC.





“Ma,” remonstrated Bobby, “when I

was at grandma’s she let me have

fruit-tart twice.”



“Well, she‘ ought not to have done

so, Bobby,” said his mother. “I think

once is quite enough for little boys.

The older you grow, Bobby, the more

Wisdom you will gain.” ‘



Bobby was silent, but only for a

moment.



“Well,





ma,” he said, “grandma is a.





«good deal older than you are ”—Tit—





Bits.





OBSERVANT CHILD.





Teacher.——“What is water?”

Willie—“A colorless fluid that turns





. black when you wash your hands.”





 





HIS GENEROSITY.





A “Tommy,” lying in hospital, beside

him a watch of curious and foreign

design. The attending doctor was in-

terested.





“Where did your watch come from?”





he asked.

"A German give it. inc,” he answered.

A little piqued, the doCtor inquired





how the foe had Come to convey his





token of esteem and affection. .

“B ’ad to,” was the laconic reply.





AU NTY'S JOY.





P "*I told you last Sabbath, children,”





said the Sunday-school teacher, “that





_: you should all try to make someone

- happy during the week. How many of





, you have?”





This view shows the principal street andi-f;





.“I did, " answered a boy promptly.





' ' "That’s nice, Johnny. What did you





do ?” '





"I went to seo my a"





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(Continued 1er page .728).

Next morning I learned that the Hun

shrapnel had net been as innocuous as

L had imagined. There were several

holes in the planes of the machine

which must have been made by the

contents of the shell which exploded





behind us, and which I could not see





from my seat in front; But old

“Archie” had been a little off-color in

his shooting, as he generally is. p



The impression that my first flight

made upon me. as shown by a dream

I had that night. I dreamed that I was

upsin the air higher than anybody had

ever been before, and that the machine

suddenly broke up‘into small parts. I

was plunging down trying to catch

these parts and was just about to hit

the ground when I discovered that I

was on the floor near my bunk. ‘



I was-discussing our trip with the

pilot who had taken me up, Lieut. R.—,

when an orderly came out and told me

that l was to report at headquarters.

There I was told that I was to be sent

to a battery of sixty-pounders to learn

what I could about artillery.



The next stage in my training as an

aviator was accomplished in that bat-

tery.



much of my life, while attached to

the battery, “I spent in a dugout, which

was comfortable enough; besides, the

bugs had been trained to leave strang-

ers alone—so, at least, the Sergeant—

Mnjor said. But in that, as in other

things, he was mistaken. The insects

took a violent liking to me and inside

of three days I had the finest collection

of them the battery could boast of.





I made the acquaintance of a new

sport while with the battery. A saucer

serves for an arena. Into this‘one puts

a kootie and a flea. A vicious fight re-

sults and on the outcome of that the

boys bet. The combat generally ends

in favor of the flea.



During the third night of my stay

with the battery, about eleven o’clock,

I was awakened by a heavy explosion.

I started to my feet, but before I could

find myself another explosion came. I

made for the surface and just as I

reached there another bang close by

shook me off my feet. In my hurry to

get back into the dugout I missed the

first step and landéd unceremoniously

at the bottom, I flew through the

sacking which serves as a door and lit

on one of the gunners who slept in the

corner of the dugout.



The man was so used to night bom-

bardments that he did not mind the

noise of the shells. But he thought

differently of the disturbance I was

causing. His flow of language was

very sulphurous and included a per—

emptory command to shut the door. He

opined that it was a shame to send a

“mutt" like me down to a battery to

create trouble and attract gun fire to

a gang of peaceful gunners.



The battery was shelled for three

nights running and I was blamed for it.

Before my arrival the battery had " heal

living peacefully enough, they said,

and while they granted that -I had

made no deal with the Germans, they

still insisted that I was a Jonah.

Whereupon I returned to my little two

by twice corner and went to sleep.



I was put to work, however. I assist.

ed in loading one of the big guns and

as a special favor I was permitted to

yank the lanyard a couple of times.

Then they tried to explain sighting to

me. I heard lengthy expositions of er‘

rors in elevation and the like, and

somebody said a great deal in explana-

tiOn of-Ioading, relaying, fire and what

not before I-Vleft. '



I also learned that the fire was being

directed frees the ground from what

theabattery commander called the O.

P.. or observatibn post. He sent me

up to that post with one of the spot-





Vters. We reached it on our hands and





found. that its-site was an‘

' ... was it. seems





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‘ line had‘béeh laid From that emit the '

"observation man directed the fire‘ by»





means of a telephone. His work con-

sisted of telephoning to the battery,

commander whether the fire was short

or high, or fell to the side of the ob-

ject aimed at.





The language of the observation

post was Chinese to me at first. I. 3,





could not make out what they meant

by “No. 1 gun, two minutes, five de-

grees right.”



After that No; 2 gun would take a

whirl at it as the next correction indi-

cated. That correction might be: “No.

2 gun, one minute, eight degrees far.”



It was all Dutch to me, but it was in‘

teresting to watch it. I afterwards





found out that the fire spotter some- '.





times worked in connection With air~

planes when shrapnel was being used,

the duties of the ground observer in

that case being to determine the height

at which the shrapnel was exploding.

The aerial observer also had to report

on the effect of the fire. Nobody had

explained to me so far why I had been

attached to the battery and nobody

ever did, but I surmised they wanted

me to get up some acquaintance with

artillery practice. Some day no doubt,

if I lived long enough, I would have to

spot shrapnel while on the wing, and

my apprenticeship with artillery would

then have some value.





To observe artillery fire from above

was the very thing I wanted to do, and

I made up my mind that the correc-

tions I sent down should be as accu-

rate as possible. With that in mind I

absorbed as much of artillery tech-

nique as I could. I was anxious to get

back to the Flying Squadron in the

hope that I would get another flight

right aWay. On arriving at headquar-

ters I had the satisfaction of being

told by the commanding officer that I

was doing fine; but to this remark he

added that I was to keep it up and

then sometime or other I might be a

real birdman.





The next week I spent in learning a

great deal about the Lewis gun. I was

taken to a range and taught how to

use it, how to remedy its jams, change

broken cartridge guide springs, and ap-

ply the immediate action on an empty

drum.





The gun I was handling had all the

defects which‘I might have to over-

come in the air, and I will say that my

course on the range was very thor~

ough. Later, I learned how to fix the

“double feed jam,” change extractors,

regulate the action of the bolt and do

the many other things one has to know

in order to keep a machine gun run-

ning.



I put in a very busy week, especially

since in addition to my study of :he

Lewis gun I had to continue artillery

observation practice. I discovered

that spotting artillery fire while moV«

ing about on an ainplane was not so

simple as I had imagined. The things

I was supposed to learn were piling up

rapidly, moreover. By the end of the

week I had also been introduced to

wireless telegraphy. I worked four-

teen hours each day.





(Continued next week).





’SERVING THE' COLORS.





 





Secretary McAdoo has a deep appre-

ciation for the way in which women

are responding to the country’s needs.

In a recent speech he said: “The

wives of our soldiers, the mothers of

those sons who die,\the children who

are left" fatherless—they are all serv“

ing the colors, just as much as the

men who wear the uniform, and their-

suffering is, in' many respects, greater.

The time is coming when, if we .are

going to have complete democracy, all

must have equal rights. I am surprised

alter all the women have done since

the war, that there are still men who

think they don't deserve edual rights.”





Dollars

fit) 77" VI/ C211."





If you]

cows have plen-

ty of fresh running water

to drink while the eat and at all

other times, they will pro uce from ten

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: The Water System





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more profitably be spent on other work.





Leader Water Systems are built in many sizes and styles. They can be

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Write for details and prices. (





Electric L1" lit for

House an Barns





A wonderful convenience. a tremendous

economy ! Don‘t risk the constant danger

of fire in house and barns—throw out the

smoky. sooty. smelly kerosene lamps and

lanterns!



The Kerr Farm Lighting Outfit gives clean.

safe. bright electric light at the twitch of

a switch. Either direct connected or belt—

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Machinery & Supply Co.





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“At War

Boys and WoOdchucks





By G. W.





N the old New England farms

0 the boys waged constant war



upon the woodchucks. How cun-

ning the old fellows are—all eyes and

nose. They will spring a. boy's care-

fully set trap with their nose, leaving

a few* hairs as souvenirs of the occa-

siOn. Woodchucks have an insatiable

appetite for the good things of the gar-

den. They believe in meals at all

hours-that is. at all hours when the

garden is not watched. As a. boy grows

older and begins to use a. gun he soon

discovers that it takes a lot of careful

stalking to give a woodchuck a sur-

prise party. I remember two very pe-

culiar incidents that happened while I

was trying to get rid of some of the

troublesome woodchucks on the old

farm.





In one field an old mother woodchuck

and her partly grown family fed.

Straight and stiff upon a great stone

at the mouth of her burrow the mother

chuck would sit, standing guard for

her young while they ate.





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der must “have exploded for the heavy





bullet had penetrated her heart, al—-





though it did not have sufficient force

to pass entirely through‘her body. The

charge had undoubtelly become damp

and only a few grains of the powder

had ignited.



.Another very peculiar incident oc-

curred one day when I was using this

same borrowed rifle. I saw a wood-

chuck sitting at the mouth of her hole.

It was a. downhill shot and I probably

shot a trifle high on that account. Ali

the report the woodchuck dropped, ap-

parently stone dead. I walked leisurely

down to pick up my victim. When

about fifteen feet from her my stones

dead woodchuck suddenly rolled over,-

took one good look at me, and then

dove down into her hole. Presumably

she had been stunned by the bullet,

which must have grazed her head.



I am not certain that our good-heart-

ed neighbor really enjoyed lending me

his muzzle-loading rifle. I accidentally

loaded it with two charges of powder





‘ one day, and not getting another shot





One day I borrowed an old muzzle-

loading rifle from a neighbor. Creep-

ing along back of a stone wall I man-

aged to get Within range of her as she

sat on the stone. I took careful aim

and pulled the trigger. Apparently only

the cap snapped.





The Woodchuck disappeared, while a.

very much disappointed boy walked

over to the hole. What was my aston-

ishment to find the woodchuck lying

across the mouthvof her hole, as dead

as a coflin nail. A few grains, of pow-





at the time I returned it loaded. When

my neighbor afterward took a. shot at

a woodchuck both parties escaped

With their lives. After this strenuous

experience I cannot say that my neigh-

bor really ached to loan me that rifle

——that is, unless I returned it unloaded.

Strange, how little it takes to awaken

prejudice against a. boy on a farm, is

it not? Had he. lost ,some valuable

portion of his person—an arm or a leg,

for instance—his hesitancy would have

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tration No. 3, tie the ends tightly at

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Cut slits one inch deep on each side

two inches from the ends, fold and

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COLDWATER YOUTH IS BEST OF

MICHIGAN’S JUVENILE

GARDENERS.





 





Frederic Kibbee, of Goldwater, six-

teen years of age, has been singled out

by the Club Department of the Michi-

gan Agricultural College from among

30,000 other boys and girls as the best

boy gardener in the state. The award





is for work done by him in the season





of 1917, for owing to the diifiulty of se-

curing reports from the many thgus





 





Frederic Kibbe, Best Boy Gardener

in the State.





sands of youngsters in every part of

the state, choice of the winner was de

layed until all could be heard. from.

The Goldwater boy will hold his crown

until 1919.



Taking up gardening to aid in the

food campaign, Frederic tilled a. garden

three—quarters of an acre in extent, and

from this he harvested produce which

sold for $190. Of this amnur‘ .urd-

ing to his account, $113 was net profit.



“Peas and radishes were my big

crop,” he declares in his report. “I am

going to specialize more this year, and

for one thing, I am going to raise more

peas.”





MY STORY.





 





Our club was organized last year.

Mr. Markley came to our school to see

if we boys would like to have a. handi-

craft club to le‘arn to build things. He

asked our teacher if she would like to

have us learn and if she would let us





 





Carl Boyea, State Handicraft Olub

Champion.





have part of one afternoon off in 68.011

week to do manual training. After he





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boys and asked us if we'would like to , . ~ .





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-‘ After up had our material the .first

thing I made-was a-Ford jack. “A Ford

jack, should be made of hickory wo‘od.

Why- I chose the Ford jack is because

we have: a truck at home that I can

jack up and pump the tires full of air

easier. ’

The second thing I made was a trap

nest. A trap nest is to catch chickens

in to test which ones lay the most eggs.

The third thing I made was a broom '

holder. A broom holder is to hang the

broom in so that it isn’t always falling

down when 1 Open the door to get out.

The fourth thing I made is a milk

stool so that when l go to milk our

cow I can sit on a good strong stool





without breaking down,»or so I don’t





always have to hunt for a box.



The fifth thing I made is a fly trap

so that the flies are not always around

me and lighting on my face when I am

sleeping. ~



The things I would like to make next

year are a cultivator, self-feeder, and

tireless cooker. but I‘ don’t know wheth-

er I will or not.



We have a good place to work in, it

is in the basement of our school. The

floor is nicely cemented. There are

four windows in it and also a furnace.

My age is tWelve years—Andrew Fer-

iuga, Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





How .TO MAKE A FLY TRAP.





 





The trap is essentially a screen box

closely fitted to theirame of a window,

as shown in the accompanying draw-

ing. The thickness of the box at A

should be about twelve inches. Instead

of the screen running straight down

over the box on either side it is folded

inward nearly to the center of the

frame in V-shaped folds running across

the window. One, two, or even more

folds may be made in the screen on

either side. .-»The, upper side of the

fold B should extend toward the cen-

ter almost at right angles with the





 





sides of the trap, or parallel with the

top and. bottom; lower side C should

slantgdownward as shown in the draw-

ing. The sides of the frame may be

cut out at the proper angle and the

pieces D returned after the screen has

been tacked along the edges. Along

the apex (inner edge) of each fold is

punched a series of holes E about one-

half inch in diameter and one inch

apart. The pieces of the folds on eith-

er side of the window should not be

directly opposite. A narrow door F

Opening downward on hinges should be

made ou'one side of the trap at the

bottom for removal of the dead flies.

The entire trap is fastened to the win-

dow by hooks so that it may be readily

taken ofl. An additional trapping fea-

ture may be added by providing a tent

trap fitted in the bottom of the box. A

narrow slit is left along the base to

allow the flies to enter beneath the

tent. Bait may be placed under the

tent to attract flies.

E. W. GAGE.





BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ FARMING.





 





Farming is fully as much a boys’ and

girls’ problem as it, is a. problem of pro-

duction. 7If the 'boys and girls have

not been interested in the farm they

will likely“ leave. That" means the end

of that farm home" iii ten or twenty





’_ ymm a tenant will likely follow





them and the ones who should

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for Wages.





and girls on the farm recreation; a

social center is one solution. Give

them a good consolidated school with





or girl a chance to learn that the farm

produces things of value to them by

letting them have a pig or a calf or.





 





 





Kenneth Ousterhout, State Champion

Poultry Club Member in 1916.





acre to care for as their own and to

‘market as their own and then have

the proceeds to Spend as they choose.

This develops the ownership idea and

the spirit of independence. When the

boy or girl is given nothing to raise

and market as their owu, the hired

man or dependent attitude is too often

developed—W1 C. Palmer, N. Dak. Ag.

College.





THE GAME OF FORTS.





 





Where cards are not played the game

of forts is one coming into favor be-

cause of its timeliness. If the game is

played in a hall have small tables

(card tables) placed in two rows down

the room. If played at home, stands

and larger tables can be utilized or a

broad window ledge will hold a “fort.”

An easy way of making a fort is to

take a thin piece of cardboard, red,

white or blue is preferable, four by six

inches in size, and folding across the

middle crosswise; then thrust a tooth-

pick through the middle of the bottom

edges and your fort, log cabin shaped,

will stand up quite as well as though

more time had been given to its con-

struction. In the top of each “fort”

put a tiny American flag and to the

top of it attach a tiny strip of white

cardboard with the name of the fort

printed upon it. There must be a “fort"

for each player and names can be se-

lected from the following list; Wash-

ington, Ticonderoga, Sumter, Stanwix,

St. Louis, Pitt, Myer, Orange, Neces-

sity, Nassau, Moultrie, St. Marie, Mon-

roefi McHenry, Loyal, Lee, McAllister,





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utensils, "or for a safe laundry bleach.



It’s not a fly chaser, but flies and other insect pests cannot

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Your doctor will tell you that no other disinfectant is as good.





Health Boards order it used freely when “Foot and

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Insist on “Chieftain” because it is the only Chlorinated Lime

package that can be rescaled tightly, preventing spoiling from

contact with the air, and the gas-tight package guarantees

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ecmlly attractive. She wants farmers to make money and happyétprosperous

Rome: for themselves by helping her raise immense wheat crops to e the world.





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178 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.

-‘ Canadian Government Agent.





 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





 





Edward, Cumberland, Dubuque, Slo~

cum, Scott, Bird, Smith, Dodge, Wayne,

Tottem, William Henry, Ethan Allen,

Crown Point, Ellsworth, Oglethorpe,

Sill, McPherson, Nicholas, Tompkins,

Hamilton, Niagara, Riley, Pulaski, Re-

no, Sam Houston, Wright, Ontario,

George, Worth, Porter, Green, Charles.



Each player is given a sheet of paper

and a pencil and is allowed to select

his own fort. He is then given five

minutes in which to write as many

words as possible, using only the let-

ters used in the name of the fort. For

example, Fort Henry—hen“ her, rye,

are the only words that can be formed,

but Fort Tompkins will give Tom, Tim,

on, in, mop, skip, sin, simp, skin, sink,

stink, stomp, stop, skim, nip, and prob-

ably many others. After a half hour

or longer if interest does not lag a tiny

bell announces the game over and each

player keeps the “fort” at which he is

then stationed, as a souvenir. A .flag





may be given as a prize for the one .





having made the most words from the

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Oats--- 53% bu.





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iers who have made ood Barley .-- 37 bu. .

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HE Allies ask America for wheat,-



rye, corn, barley, and oats, and



we are sending them, in large

amounts. They ask us especially, how-

ever, for wheat. They ask it as the

necessary basis for their necessary

loaf. They must have bread ,and they

must have bread which will keep sweet

and palatable for several days.



Wheat is the basis for the durable

raised bread loaf.



Troops must have bread carried to

the front from bakeries behind the

lines; it must be a durable raised loaf.



Workers in the war factories must

have bread from commercial bakeries

The women in the factories can not be

bakers also. Their bread must be the

durable raised loaf.



All France depends on the bakeries

for its bread. The people do not know

how to bake in the home. They have

no ovens for baking, nor could they af-

ford fuel for them if they had.



Al the bread of France and England

and Italy today is war bread, It is

made of gray wheat flour, milled at a

high extraction rate; that is, a larger

proportion of the wheat grain is now

put into the flour than formerly was

the case. ' Their flour now contains

more of the outer parts of the wheat

grain, parts which formerly were sep-





 





 





 





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Why We Must Send-Wheat [Overseas





arated from the flour and used as feed

for animals.

with as large a percentage—usually

twenty-five per cent—of flour made

from other cereals as can be used and

still permit the making of the raised

loaf.



In England this war bread can not

be sold until it is twelve hours old, so

that the people won’t be tempted to

eat too much fresh bread. In France





and Italy-the bread is rationed accord-’





ing to the age and occupation of each

person. A child has less than an adult;

a light worker less than one who does

heavy labor.



France has always lived on bread.

Of the average Frenchman’s normal

diet fifty-two per cent is composed of

bread and but forty-eight per cent of

other foods. France has just put her

whole people on a rigorous bread ra-

tion which limits them to only two-

thirds of the amount they (have been

accustomed to. In all the Allied coun-

tires they are using as little wheat as

will give them bread at all and as little

of this bread as is possible to keep

them in health and strength.



The people of Belgium are living on

a relief ration. Over 1,000,000 of them

get their daily bread and soup by stand-

ing in line long hours before the relief





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kitchens. They have stood in these

long soup lines every day for three and

one-half years. But they do not com~

plain. They only. ask that the soup

and bread be there every day. They

depend upon America.



We are sending corn and cereals

other than Wheat, to England, France,

Italy and Belgium. These cereals

are shipped as fast as they can be

used. But the people can not live on

them alone. They do not know how.

They are unable to cook them proper-

ly. They must have wheat to mix with

them and ’With potatoes to make their

bread. We are now sending wheat to

the limit of our cargo space, and yet

we are’ only meeting the minimum re-

quirements of these people. In order

to continue doing this, our people must

share their present wheat supply.



We are dividing our wheat evenly

today between ourselves and the Allies.

We must not use before the next har-

vest more than one-half of the wheat

we have. Even with one-half of our

wheat the loaf of the Allies is small.

It can not be made smaller without

undermining their strength and mor-

ale. Is there any doubt what we shall

do in this emergency? We have just

one thing to do, and that is to save

wheat and send wheat.





Include Vegetables Inthc Child’s Diet





CHILDREN must have plenty to

eat. Adults can get along for

some time, if necessary, on no-



ticeably restricted diets without ,ser-

ious impairment of health, but chil-

dren can not draw on their reserves in

this way without detriment to their

growth and vigor. Children from two

to six years should have three good

meals a day, the heaviest one being in

the middle of the day. Their day’s food

should include plenty of milk, not less

than one and a half pints—skim-milk

may—be used if butter is given also——

plenty of cereals and green vegetables,

particularly leaf vegetables, such as

spinach. _ It is desirable also to have a

more varied diet and to include sugar,

fruits, eggs, and meats. with fish and

fowl, in the daily meals. Information

regarding these matters will be fur-

nished to mothers if they will write to

the Children’s Bureau, United States

Department of Labor, Weishington,

D. C.



Authorities on the subject state that

there is'practica'lly no substitute, eith-

er for milk or green vegetables in the





food of the growing child. Milk should

be given in many forms. Spinach is

one of the best of green vegetables. It

can be prepared in a number of ways

and should be used freely in the daily

diet. Fish and chicken are better for

children in many. cases than beef or

other meats, and where these foods

can be obtained one or the other may

be given to children.



In the face of the great need for con-

serving wheat the use of new cereals

has become a matter 'of necessity.

There seems to be no reason why such

food may not be as wholesome as

Wheat, if properly cooked. Mothers

may need to be warned that all cer-

eals, and particularly the coarser ones,

like oatmeal and corn, need very long

cooking to be suitable for children.

Therefore it stands to reason that the

“quick” breads and griddle cakes,

which have been exposed to cooking

heat perhaps only a few minutes, will

not be well digested and that all prep-

arations of cereals should be subjected

to long slow cooking if they, are to en-

ter into the diet of young children. '





At this moment, also, people are be-

ing urged to eat all the potatoes possi-

ble as another substitute for wheat.

The request is made that families shall

eat potatoes three times a day but this

is not intended to apply literally to the

youngest children, who would not get

a sufficient variety of food in the day’s

meals if given potatoes at each one.

The manner of cooking potatoes must

be constantly varied or the family will

tire of them. The methods will in-

clude frying and scalloping, delicious

to the adult palate, if well done, but

not suitable to young children. It is

wise, therefore, for mothers to remem-

ber that children under five withardly

be able to eat potatoes more than once

a day, and that for them this vegetable

is better when baked, mashed, or fresh-

ly boiled and served simply with the

addition of a little salt and milk or

cream. Thus prepared they are so

completely cooked and so finely divid-

ed that children do not swallow them

in chunks.

makes foods generally less suitable to

the digestion of children.





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EVERYWOMAN’S CANNING BOOK.





 





A valuable book for every home can-

ner is “Everywoman’s Canning Book,"

(Whitcomb & Barrows, Boston), by

Mary B. Hughes. Miss Hughes had

charge of a canning kitchen last year,

conducted by Mrs. Augustus Hemen-

way in Boston, to take care of the sur-

plus from war gardens. She gives

careful and comprehensive directions

for canning everything from the first

stalk of rhubarb in spring to the last

fall fruit, and includes, besides, meth-





= ads of canning meat and fish. Miscel-

laneous relishes and old family recipee’





contributed by Boston women who

Worked in the kitchen last summer are

given a chapter, and there is also a,





chapter on the drying of vegetables. .1”

' and fruit. , ” ‘ ,





MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.





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Any of the patterns illustrated may

be secured by sending order to Pattern

Department, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

enclosing the amount set opposite the

patterns wanted





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





th9y take up 110.





No. 2483-2381—Ladies’ Costume. The 9





blouse is.cut in seven sizes, 34, 36, 38,

40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure.

Size 36 requires 4%, yards of 44-inch

material. Skirt 2381 is cut in six

sizes, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inches

waist measure. It requires 2% yards

of 44-inch material for a 24-lnch size.

The skirt measures about 2% yards

at the foot Two separate patterns,

10 cents for each pattern.



No. 2461—Splendid Style for Sports

or Outing. Cut in three sizes, 16,18

and 20 years. Size 16 requires 6%,

yards of 44iiintclh matei'ilzl.

measures a t e over ards a the

foot. Price 100. y t ,





Fasten under the lower shelf of the





pantry the frame on which the extra

boards of the extension dining table

come and _sl_ide thebo‘ards _





Frying, on the other hand,





The skirt '





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





 





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’ ‘Wi
_ By J A

A gFWITI-I'tlie advance of 'the season,





a marked decrease in the num-.





ber of young chiéks being rais-

ed, compared with former years, has

become evident in the writer’s section.



Indeed, this situation exists over large

areas, and it‘seems very probable, over

most of Michigan. Conditions in the

section under immediate observation

are very similar to conditions in the

state at large, and hence we have a

fight to conclude that with slight vari-

. ations, results are the same.



» In an attempt, to account for the big

falling off in the number of chickens,

‘ one factor looms large and may be con-

sidered as foremost in producing the

situation. his has to do ,with the

scarcity 'of grain. To get at the root

of the matter, the partial failure of the

corn crop last year has had a direct

bearing on the decrease in the number

of this year’s chickens. Thousands of

farmers found themselves at the end

of winter without. a bushel of corn.

With-many the tendency was to cut

down the number of hens and to cur-

tail materially the number of young

chicks. The writer knows from per-

sonal observation, that this has actual-

ly been done by a large number of

farmers. A few of the wiser ones still

possess their flocks in undiminished

numbers, and are raising this season,

the usual number of chickens. These

few are looking into the future. They

know that the decrease in the number

of chickens must inevitably result in

even higher prices than at present.

They know, 'too, that growing crops

will in a few short weeks alleviate the

grain situation.



-But if the falling off in the number

of young chicks is noticeable on the

farms, it is even more noticeable in the

towns, where there have been, of late

years, many poultry raisers. For a

number of years prior to the entrance

of this country into the war, there was

a tendency for village and city dwell-

ers to embark in the poultry industry.

Some of them went into the business

on a large scale, and with fair success.





'This Year s Chicken Crop





 





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KAISER





Thousands of village and city residents

were owners of small flocks which

producedeggs and chickens for home

consumption, and often in addition

eggs and chickens for the market. But

this year the tendency among these

poultry raisers is very decidedly to cut

down the flock. In some instances the

poultry yard has been emptied entirely

of its feathered occupants.



In the case of these town residents,

too, the explanation is found largely in

the scarcity and high price of grain.

Eggs and poultry are high-priced, it is

true, but the advance has not been so

great as in the price of grains. Taken

as a whole, the output from these town

poultry yards is very considerable,

both in eggs and chickens. They help

solve the food problem, even in cases





where the flocks are. so small that they 8





can provide products only for home

consumption.



In the light of the foregoing facts it

at once becomes evident that this

year’s chicken crop will be very short.

When farmers and other poultry rais-

ers do not even put their incubators in

operation; when steps are taken to re-

duce the flock of hens already in pos-

session, and When, nearly everywhere,

there is an avowed purpose to raise

less chickens than formerly, there can

be but One result. This situation must

mean feWer chickens in the autumn,

and fewer eggs next year. That such

a program is not in harmony with the

regulations for food preparedness, is,

of course, evident. The falling off in

the chicken industry is a natural con-

sequence of prevailing conditions. In

the case of the farmers, at least, the

policy. of curtailing the flock may be,

and probably is, short-sighted. In these

days of food shortage the situation is

serious enough to 'be worthy of atten-

tion. After four years of war, condi-

tions are such that any time, with a

failure of certain crops, we must face

a world famine. Certainly it is not

wise, in the light of such a possibility,

to permit a decrease of production

along any line.





Change Hens’ Diet for Summer





The poultryman who aims to keep

his hens laying their best during the

months‘ of June, July and August,

should give careful consideration to

what he feeds his flock, avers Prof. C.

H. Burgess, of the Department of Poul-

try Husbandry of M. A. C.



“After a hen has laid heavily during

the winter and spring,” he says, “she

should be fed a food richer in protein,

for if she does not receive food con-

taining the elements from-Which eggs

are made, she must draw upon the tis-

sues of her own body to furnish egg-

making material. -



“To make the summer ration five per

cent of protein should be added to the

spring ration. A moist mash should

be fed once a day, the moisture being

rubbedinto the mash with the hands.

Do notstir the moisture in with a stick

or spoon. _



“Plenty of succulent feeds should

also be fed, such as lettuce and sprout-

ed oats. It is often worth while to

plant a good patch of Swiss chard for

summer feeding, for there is no green

food during July, August and Septem-

ber that can compare with this green

. for coloring the yolk and keeping hens

‘ healthy. ’Besides, if the tops of the





’_ chard are cut, it will produce second

‘ and third crops of leaves.





A grain nation for. June and July

can be made up of two parts of shrunk-

: n wheat (unmillalile) and one part of





 





 

 

 

 





by weight of gluten meal, one and one-

ilfths part by weight of meat scrap

and one part by weight of ground oats.



“Feed the ,mash dry, and once per

day feed it most. Remove the hens and

market them as soOn as they begin

to molt.”





CARE OF THE LATE HATCHES.





 





BY ELLA 1:. nocxwoon. -



A late hatch in the poultry yard is

not usually to be encouraged. How~

ever,vas such things will occur occa-

sionally it is better to take extra pains

to push the little things along as fast

as possible to a point where they can

take care of themselves for the winter,

rather than by neglect cause an un-

necessary loss, especially in years like

the present. Too often the late-hatch-

ed chicks are left to shift for them-

selves at a season when they can hard-

ly be expected to do so. Plenty of good

nourishing food, milk, either sweet or

sour, and a good warm coop at night,

will cause them to develop very rap-

idly and hatches even as late as Sep-

tember will pay for raising this year.

Since a turkey usually hatches two

and even three broods in a season if

allowed to do so, it will be found that

later on the mortality in the flock will

not be so great as during the more un-

favorable weather of Spring months.

Attention” must be vigorous as. regards





lice in the later hatches, as the hotter ‘.





the weather the more these pests seem

to thrive. There is nothing better





than the well -known insect powder for





this,“ it is harmless except to insects





 





IGANCFARMER





 





 





IQOB—Pcuceund

prosperity! Ameri-



. cu'e battleship fleet,

“Ready for I fight

or u frolic," an Ad-

miral “Bob" Evunu

remarked, gone on

in 45,000-milu,

uround-thc-world

cruise, pointing out .

to all nations the fact

that we had become

I power to be reck-

pned with. and u

cruisu which Euro-

peun experts Iald

could not be Completed. But

it was!





1918—Amcrica in the Great

War, throwing its every energy

into the combat to make the

world a decent place to live in.





In 1898, TRU MAN H.

NEWBERRY, one of the orgum

lure of the Michigan Naval

Reserves, Icrved through the

Spanish war as a lieutenant on

the “Yosemite," which was

manned by Michigun' 3 Reserves.





In 1908, TRUMAN H.

NEWBERRY prepared the

battleship fleet for its famous

ctulue und from ussiutunt





 





 





 





‘51:. Ezucutiu WCMiru-au





1898—1908—1918 ]

Three Signal Years in American History





1898—War with Spain!

brought by America to oppreuscd Cuba and Philippines,

the United States taking its firm place as a world power.





 





Tmmun H. Newborry





NEWBERRY





07‘





United States Senator

We. 'I'bch’onbnvr Gwm‘ Committee





Humanity and liberty





secretary became

Secretary of the

Navy in the Rooue-

volt cabinet.





lnl918.TRUMAN

H. NE‘VBERRY,

again I volunteer, u

Commander in the

Third Naval District,

including New York

City and Brooklyn

n‘uvy yurd, the 'most

important naval dl-

vision in the country.





A mun of national

distinction, of unflagging devo— L

tion to his country, of uble sor- l

vice in peace and war, of high

chuructcr, genial, approachable H

and sympathetic, TRUMAN H. r

NEWBERRY is u man on whom

not only all Republicans but all

the people of Michigan cun unite.





In thlI crisis, the office du-

munds the *ublest and mom

experienced mun available to

help conduct the nation's affairs.

TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY is

such u man. Every Michigan

voter cun Iupport his nomination

und election with confidence in

his recard. his ubllity and hlu

100 percent Americanium.





 





 





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POULTRY





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Hatched for





5 cents Each





Do you know that

the chicks hatched by

your hens cost you 22 cents each?



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HOMESTEAD FARMS





There is still time to rulse strong. hearty chickens.

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S.C .Auconu. Also eggs for bathing from these

breeds.



Will you please send for circular and price list. 5, ‘_





Pullets and Hens





We have a few S. C. White Leghorn and S. C. Black

Minor-one Ono é“ our old ptdletanowlayingmhnt w illgive

eggs thru this ummer and next tWinter and that 11lll

make line breedi 1113 stock for next Spring. Send for

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Cooker-ole to mate with the ens.

Elght- weeks old S. C. White Le horn’ Pallets and

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layers.





HOMESTEAD FARMS, Blooxnlngdulo, Mich.





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250000 for 1918





Strong chicks from pure bred farm stock. that um

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unlim. S. C. White and Broun Leghorns 810.60 and

£13 3.00 per 1110;311:1911 Books 818.!!! mund 815.1!) per 1111;

R. C. '1nd S. C. Reds. $13. 75 and 15. DJ per 100; Wl11teW1

aminttoufilldb and $3160: (I) nuns S .C .Anconas. 813 .(II

and $1.3 UOVBer 1L0;S .33 Ink Minorcas. S. C.B11ff

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BABY CHICKS





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—EGGS FROM STRAIN with

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y puree post. prepouo iron at roe.



FRED ASTLIN Constantino. Mich.

Baby Cluck: Parcel Foal. 933? 13.13;.3

312per1m. Barre Plymouth Rocks $l5poot aid. Hutch





every week. Order direct from this adv. unnybrook

Poultry Farml. 11111111112. Itch. c. 0. Burroughs. Prop





 





 





 





 





BUFF Leghorns—All stock Ind eggs at reduced price!

for the remainder of the war. Buy now for next.

year. Dr. illium A. Smith Peaepsburg Mich.

RED- To- Luv 8. 0. W. Leghorn: und Pun-ed Rooks.

Effie 81.‘5foll5.82fo1'26 5010

ALP S POULTRY FARM. 1L2. Grand BupidI. Mich





Chick; from our Brod- to—Lay White Leghornu. For

no and oYoung strainu $12 per 100: from our Barred





 





 





11190011 strain 318 per rm





Rocks

RUSSELLOP ULTRY RANCH, Peta-abuts, Mich.





' . June and July Brown or

Cho‘ce ChiCk59 White Leghorns at 140.

hem 188 at 160. Also Minorcas Ant-onus Ind Leg

horns at 161. Crescent Egg Compuny. Allegan. Mich.





 





 





hicks and eggs, standard b1 ed stock. Leghoms.llnm-

cu. ‘,punlsh Rocks. Reds. Orpingtonu. Wyundones. Cumpiuu

Houduns. Polish Scotch Greys. Tyrone Poultry Farm. Pantomlich





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A real heavy laying nrun.Mp1-1c:ted I

years records from 200 to 264 Go

our special summer prices on y 11¢ hem. .

udmg males. eggs for hatching. 8-week:

I old chicks. WE: ship C. O. D

, Inlog gives prices; describe: stock. '

Ill uhcuiour Ions-1 and mounds; results you an gel bvhrec

30¢ (in m . Suud for ypw copy now-11 II lrcc.



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IMPROVE YOUR POULTRY





My Bred- to-luy Young" Strain 8. 0. White on

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corona. husk 911 cud 1119'. Ohioku anti by

null. Arr-i Intisfuet on ”guaranteed Pro.”





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msursnsns' DIRECTORY.





flange of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication.





We Offer a Few Special Bargains

In S. C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

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CATTLE.





Wildwood Farms





Breeders of Best Strains of





Aberdeen Angus Cattle

and Duroc Jersey Hogs





Several young bull calves on hand. three of which

are of serviceable age, out of Black Monarch 111,

three times Grand Champion. Michigan State

Fair. Also several AI Brood sows. Will be glad

to correspond with you by letter regarding

stock. Write





SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.

Wildwood Farms, Orion, Michigan

W. E. SCRIPPS, Proprietor.





 





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TROJAN-ERIOAS & BLACKBIRDS (BLACKCAPS)

only. The most fashionable (sitraidns of “if breed.

' .' ' to matings an pc igrees. .ver an.

icmglitlffiglgl‘lgilTHE PURPLE. Breeder-sand eed-

era of many INTERNATIONAL WINNERS.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM Ionia, Mich.





Two Guernsey bull calves born re-

For sale-“speotiveiv MarthZ and April 7, 1918,

grandsons of “Spotswood aisy Pearl_‘, great- rand;

eons of “May Rose King" very strong in‘ Lia ose

blood on both sides, nicely marked. .dear. Lowe,

Michigan Trust Building. Grand Rapids, Michigan.





' Guernsey heifer born Oct. 1917.

RegIStered Her half sister has record ‘of 479

lbs. fat and neair‘lly 1000 lliisflemllégvlth first call. Al-



i! ll e to re s r. can.

2.xitliuve’aIGElgT, - g— - Watervliet, Mich.





G d alit bulls of serviceable

awed! A“g“: agzoan‘duyou y or. Inspectioninvit-

ed. Geo. Hathaway and n. Ovid. Mich.





Fsr Silo-Three lbsrdun Angus Bull: 52:43.53:

Lrioes reasonable. LANG BRO .. Davison. Michigan





GUERNSEYS m.............. we!"

a few choice females of

Glenworgd breedilnig taco bulls. all stock of A. R. breed-

r"."’ii‘firct§3.°m. n - . Battle Creek. Mich.





Registered Guernseys

”mw‘ifit‘ii‘i‘isa‘lft mi- .s-sbstssss



' O _ . a

.. 8' us. - in? re.‘ North 5.4m. moi:





' V~ Registered bull calm. Good breed n5:

MW *Jnx‘torqnick cal note Pcfgfidg-"GM. " ,





_;fllo%' mysrg.‘ _ 52V





8 45 Registered head, all tb. tested. Nora's

"mm” Ma i , son of Imp. May Rose Ki

heads our herd. 0111 I half sisters sold averaging

each. His bull calves are booked ahead at reasonable

prices. Avondale Stock ‘Farm. Wayne. Mich.





’ 1 Re stored floor so b ll 1-

For sale vesgiViay Bose breriadiyn 'u ca

JOHN EBELS. n.2, Holland. Mich.





' For sale. animals of

G u e rn SC ys-both sex from A.R.co'ws.





Prices reasonable. Geo. N. Crawford. Holton. Mich.





CLUNY STOCK FARM





100--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 I{our wants.

R. BRUCE MePHE SON, Howell, Mich.





 





 





 





I Always Have Holsteins

To Sell





It wanting Registered cattle write me your wants

before placing your order elsewhere.





L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio





OAK Leaf Farm. Herd sire Lenawoe Pontiac Oal-

amitfi King‘ ofler Registered Holstein bull calves

from A. . O. cows and the above sire whose dam holds

the milk and butter record in the state of Ind.



days mill: 796.3, butter 82.51—315 days milk 23782.3. but-





ter 926.775.

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





 





 





 





“Top-Notch”

HOLSTEINS





The young bulls we have for sale are

backed up by many generations of

large producers. Buy one of these





bulls, and give your herd a “push”.

Full descriptions, price‘s,etc. on request.





McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.-





 





’ Pedigree Stock Farm offers Re .30!-

Parham 8 stein cattle. Chester White wine.





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$50 Libel-fl Bond gets 1 mo. old grandson of Pon-

ai‘“ r stall h“ EMT???“ ”mid:



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fgmzlgsfe'Fm-ms. . L. ficLanlin. Redford.‘Mich.





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KIND READER??-





.your letters brief—short ones are





 





We would like a word from you regarding any 'of 'the important A: 7 ~ I

Issues that confront Michigan farmers. Whether you think as we do

or not, we would be glad to know your opinion.





in writing make

more interesting.‘ . .

Sincerely yours,



THE EDITORS.





 





KEEP TAXES DOWN NOW.





As the editor has kindly offered

space to subscribers for discussing

questions of interest to those engaged

in agriculture, and as excessive taxa-

tion is one of the paramount causes

for dissatisfaction to the rural dweller,

would it not be well to. get the attitude

and opinion of this class as regards

the proposed expenditure at this time

of a large appropriation that was made

by our last legislature for the purpose

of building additional office facilities

at Lansing to accommodate the state’s

business requirements. Eight hundred

thousand dollars was roughly estimat-

ed at that time to furnish the fund,

$200,000 to be raised. annually, but it is

now estimated that owing to increased

value of material and labor it will cost

perhaps $2,000,000 to complete and fur-

nish the proposed structure. Tworan-

nual levies have already been collected

and turned into the treasury and at a

recent meeting of those appointed to

look after the matter the consensus of

opinion seemed to be in favor of using

the money on hand for the purpose of

starting the work in the near future.

and depending on the next legislature

to make additional appropriations to

Complete the work regardless of cost.





It appears that the $400,000 that has

been collected could be turned in to the





general 'fund and’used for other pur-

poses. Now, the question is, do the

taxpayers propose to look on with in-

difference and allow themselves to' be

mulcted in this way. At a time when

farmers are compelled to let all im-

provements go for the purpose of get-

ting the mere necessities of life and

meeting expenses that cannot wait, it

would seem that this would be a good

time for our farm papers to get busy

and start something that would be

greatly appreciated by the already ov-

erburdened taxpayers of the state of

Michigan—J. B. '





FARMERS NEED RECREATION.





I was glad to notice that our Mich-

igan Farmer had given a page of its

paper to complaints and to the better-

ment of its farm friends. I read all the

articles with a great deal of interest

but was especially interested in the

article written by F. D., of Galien, for

the reason that this has been my own

experience in farming. In A. G.’s arti-

cle he says that many people think the

farmer is getting rich because he has

bought an automobile. Let me say

that here is one of the main drawbacks

in farming, and that is recreation. The

farmer labors faithfully combating the

elements, insects and drawbacks of ev-

ery description and has but very little

or no recreation, and so turns to the

automobile and pays a profit of from

two hundred to three hundred per cent

to get it. I have read that big manu-





to, risk their money unless they can

clear at. least twenty-five per cent, and

many at the present time are making

enormous profits 'pn huge war con-

tracts. I have often, wondered what

kind of a noise we would hear from

our. city consumer if the farmer was





cent on his investment. Of course, the

farm products are high at present,-and

the farmer is handling a lot of money,

but what good does it do him when





 





facturers do not think it worth while"





guaranteed a profit of twhnty-fi‘ve per'





buy have‘doubled and some gtrebled in.





price. - ,

I notice by the Michigan Farmer the

the farmers at Greenville are‘receiving

from fifty to sixty cents per hundred

for their potatoes, while at Detroit the

same potatoes are selling at from‘$1.10

to $1.16 per hundred. The Food Ad-

ministration seems to think this is Only

a just profit for the middleman and

the railroads, but what puzzles me’ is





if this is just, where does the man that

raises them get off at?' We pay our





groceryman eight cents per pound for

rolled cats, or $2.56 per bushel, and be-

sides, the manufacturer turns the oat





hulls into feed at a' still greater profit, »





and the highest price paid farmers for

oats at this point at any time this year

is niney cents. We keep a farm book

every year and try to keep in touch

with where we’re at, but, like F. D., we

find it’s enough to drive a. Jew peddler

to insanity to try and make both ends

come out even and keep our credit

with our banker and dealer good, and

we have not ventured to buy an auto-

mobile yet, taking our turn at milking

the cows night and morning and then

finishing up a. few odd jobs that have

been left over during the day, after a

hard day’s work, 'for our recreation.



Now, I hear someone say, “he is try?

ing to burn the ‘candle at both ends;

but with help searce and your credit

constantly in mind, what are you going

to do about it, especially when you

have no other help on the farm. How?

ever, the solution A S. offers sounds

good to me and I hope to read the opin-

ion of many others through the Michi-

gan Farmer.—E. J .. Stewart, 'Owosso,

Mich. -





EARLY PRAISE FOR THE FARMER.‘ -





In browsing around recently at the

state library in the Capitol at Lansing,

we came across a book entitled “Tran-

sactions of the Michigan State Agricul-

tural Society in 1849.” This society

was organized at Lansing on March 17

of that year, and its first president was

Governor Epaphroditus Ransom, of

Kalamazoo.



Joseph R. Williams gave an address

before the agricultural society of Kal‘

amazoo county on October 11, 1849, in

which we find the following paras

graph: “The prejudice against book

farming is still strong. If you study





the book in order to find how many are , , "

periments you can try, how many nov~~





elties you can run after, the book is

for you a bad guide. If you seek its

counsel to save you from error, and

aid your inquiries, it is invaluable. I

venture to say that few men have tak—

en an agricultural paper for a‘.‘ single

year and read it, without saving by its





suggestions from six to ten times its’ f i

A mere recipe from the Michi-





cost.

gain Farmer will often save your wife

five times the value of the paper in a.

year. A virulent disease attacks your

sheep or cattle or fruit trees and you

turn over the index of your Farmer:





“and find all the known remediesdefiig'im

ALMOljiP,-,Gmm . ': “





scribed.”





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day and save trips to the barn. .

Missed the. Paper. 7’

"I greatly appreciated your- :-

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SALE





’65" Head Holsteins, Orchard Lake;MiCh., June, 26, 1918





The entire herd of sixty—five will be’ sold including :-





Never before 111 the history of Holsteins has a herd

of the quality of Flanders Farms Herd been offered





for sale in the state of Michigan.





The breeding is





AAAl and there is not a poor individual in the sale.

The only cripple in the herd has been sold for beef.





Don’ t come to this sale





You won ’t find them at Flanders Farms.





looking for a lot of culls.

Mr. W.





E. Flanders, the owner, has long been known in the





automobile world as the builder of the best.





would have nothing to





cheap or of inferior quality.

regard to his herd of Holsteins.





‘He

do with anything that was

The same is true with

“Nothing but the





‘ Best” has been his motto in building up his herd and

“Nothing but the Best” 1s what you will have an op-

portunity to buy at this sale. '





‘1





Three thirty pound cows in calf to' King of the





Pontiacs Segis.





Six daughters of thirty pounds cows.





A twenty-nine





pound three—year-old together with her twin bulls and

yearling daughter sired by King of the Pontiacs Segis.

All but two that have freshened have A. R. O. re-





cords. Forty are from A.





daughters and a dozen sons of King of the Pontiacs





Segis.





R. O. dams. Twenty





Every one of breeding age in calf to King of the P011-





tiacs Segis.





The entire herd has been under Federal





Inspection and every animal over six months of age

will be GUARANTEED FREE FROM TUBER—

CULOSIS FOR SIXTY DAYS.





If You Want Good Holsteins Attend This Sale





F or Catalog Write to





Flanders Farms





01’





Orchard Lake, Mich.





Liverpool Sale &





Liverpool,





Pedigree Co.

N. Y.





 





CATTLE





8111111111131 Stock Fami





fiuafew line bulls for sale. Are oil'ering one this



week from a 21. 79 1b.J r. 4 and sired by Pet Johanna.



b‘irHartog whose daughters are just coming trash.

one at 2% years he. a ‘51bs.reco.1d



or is 3 mos. old iinely marked straight



dwet.he 115850 lbs. his full sister has just made



at 1 year 11 mos. 17.64 of butter, 4156.5 milk 1 day.





Bocheete r, M ich.





- Priced Chen





P. L BARNETT a SONS.





The Pontiac Herd





“Where the Champions come from”





flerBull Calves sired by sons of Pontiac Korndyke.

en err dDe De.Kol Pontiac Dutchiendtor Admiral

Piecertje.

Do you want a Pontiac in your herd?





Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac. Mich.





HOMESTEAD FARMS





“A Federation of Interests





Helm-0L herd of high class Holsteins; Young

Bulls. OIIVOI. Bred Heifers and cows.





Will you '11.“ to us for full description and photo-

graphs? '





 





 





HOMESTEAD FARMS, Bloomingdale, Mich.





The Traverse Herd





Great Values In Bulls





from AR. 0. Cows with records up to 30 lbs.



Let «limo w your wants. We will send extend-



ed pedigrees and prices.



TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL,

Traverse City, Michigan.





 





x)



Hohtein bull. nearly ready foreervice. large straight

“deepbodied. handsomely marked 55 white. His six



.records that aver butte





tdaine

.Reader. Howe l. Mich.





lldeye24. 13 milk 5311 lbs. W.

OLsrd TEINS of uality Bull calves from dams with

record eh hasihll lbs. in 7daye. Alsooollie pumice-



E. A. HA Roch ester.



cairee.2'1heifers.& 2 bullel5—16ths



Holstein 5 weeks old. beautifulh marke. “8%





eacchreted forshl ment anywhere. Buy only the best.

EDGEW 00D FAR Whitewater Wis.





HEREFORDS





bull calves for sale, Perfection

Fairfax and Prince Donald breeding.





ALLEN BROS.,

PAW PAW, MICH.





H e refo rd 5 £3.13. “11‘1”.”11i’ioéfzfi





.-1II ages either polled' or horn

McOARTY. See' y Mich B.'Aea 11. Bad Axe. Mich.





 





 





 





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Rea dy for Service





aired bv butter bled belle and

out of 1311 testing dune.

The Producing Kind

with Jersey type and capacity.

reasonable. Also a few

bred mail“ (Burma) and bears.

Brooks‘irater Farm.

Herbert W.Mumford. Glut,

.1 Bruce Henderson. Mgr.





 

   

   

   

   





 





Want Yearly Records?





Our: new sire has our sisters whose semi- 0801.111

records are 677, 742, t913 and 946 pounds of butter in

rs of age. Hie dam

on tor of Friend Eenéerveld De K01 Butter

Boy. four eta whose daughters have records over moo

pounds W? heis also a gran dda ter of Pontiac

rndyke. with six dang tore above 1000



pounds ot butter in one year.





Pencelencl Stock Farm, rim livers. IchI.

C. L. Brody. OWner





 





 

 





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Charles Peters. Herdsman ,





 





' reed torser‘vioe. Also heifers

7Ch01¢8 Bul“ 1111.59. Strong in the Blood

of Boyd, Maimy. 00m an see them or write for

particulars. THE WILDWOOD HERD



Aim. 11111111111. Oepae. 111011.. Phone 143.5.





Map 10 Lane 11.0! M. Jersey He rd. For saloon.





our-year-old cow also bull calves and heifer .





11111011 or 111. Pogis 110111 otnood

NFOX. 11.3, Allegan. Mich.





For Sale Jersey bull





Goldle' I Foxhell 80.161“. Dropped Merch22, 1917.

Solid color, black tongue .5 switch. A fine individual





11.-Titan 1.11u r noilii ‘11”.‘mn‘ww‘t

00

1111910‘3111‘1’11‘1“ 35,1 Tin-latte. 1111111.





For Sale logger“ Jersey Callie





of both sex. a Parker. BA. Howell Mich

EBSEY bull 1.1111 bid] calves for sale from R. of M.





calves sired by a re.

Farm. VNTn





severalb





 





- Meadowland Farm. .





Ready for seniie buIls

Jerseys for sale St.La1nber 11......

M11 '.eety breeding. “ArERMAN a WA ATER MAN



- Ann Arbor. Mich





Jersey Bull Ready for service. High

xear Old producing stock reg. stored :111dd1‘<





cred 340. Send for photograph

JAX NE HILL FARMS.





A fine, dark. solid color Jersey bull

For sale 16 mos. old. Double grandson of

Royal 1% '13:!





I? and out of R. of M. cow.

0. d O E. - - . .





Ypsilanti. Mich.



——Scotc11 and Scotch Topped 11111-



Shorthorns mals of both sex for sale. Prices

reasonable. GEO. D. DUSTER. Doster. Mich.





BIDWELL SHBHTHURNS





For Beef and Milk.





Registered bulls. cows and heifers- Good Scotch and

Scotch-Topped for sale. In prime condition Modern

sanitary equipment. Farm 10 minutes from N. .C.

depot. 1 hour from Toledo. Ohio. Automobile meets

all trains. Write





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,





Box 8, Tecumseh. Mich.





Richland Farms





Shorthorns





IMP Lorne In Service.

Bull of Mich. WCI‘OHBI for 11119 a choice C'OllGL tion of

oung bulls by some of the leading sires of the breed.

To“ (11111101: 11110111 not to own one of these bulls at the

prices we are asking for them. We invite correspond-



ence and inspection.

(1H. PRESCOTT a SONS.

l‘arme at Prescott, Hich. Office at 'lhavoas. City. Mich





Fentun. M ich.





 





 





 





Grand Champion Shorthorn





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns





We maintain one of Michigan s good herds of Scotch

and Scotch Topped cattle. T'hei are well bred prop-

erly handled and price reasonab e. Come and eee; we

like to show them.

1’. P. POPE.





Mt. Pleasant, Mich.





 





Three scotch bulls ready for

ShOl'thOl'nS. service. Price reasonable.

W. B. McQUILLAN. 11.7, Howell Mich.





Maxwalton Monarch 21111.38’7322 h1li’

Shorthorn.“ brother to 6 Grand Champions in 111 r

JOHN SCHMIDT. B. 5 Reed City. Mir..11





ON of Harthorth Welfare heads our herd of milk-

ing Shorthorns Comprisin Chiflev of Clay hicd

cows. young bulls ready for so a and sen i( e W1 1.»; 11s

Lidde Bros... 11.2. Clinton. Mich. Macon Phone.





 





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Founery desir bleheii‘erel? to?! th

“Willows old and 11111181110. All 10.11111. pric'ii‘iinoos

I. E. BOOTH - - -

Hired by agrendo {C

Shorthorns-- Clay. No stOck fdrldaTe yrus

COLLAR 3305. R. 2. Conklin, Mich.

of best Bates Strains, 011

”Inbi‘d Sigrlhilfls stock 0! both sexes for agile “g

Mason. Mich

—'l‘wo promising bull cal

M M 3110111101113 roena and of best 111111132

Barter d: Eastman Jenison Mich.





SHORTHORNS





Gown. helme’yo bulls [or sale at farmers ices:

hard catalog mailed or. Horrieton Farms..l1c11.





Mon-ice. Mich.





 





 





 





11.1111 it 11 of .

abfl'ius n°_n_,°'“" 32'1" “$11.1... 111.1

1m Parent ad mrsih 1h teed

Ina-“1b....“ e earth’s! $eoafl. m: a bid!

breeding 011111110.





 





“to. Cooper-ville. Iiiih:1





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mom: dboitScxiorSaic

.. m1! 5





Shorthorns of 011. 1lity Snitch an!

i FOr sale Scotch To pod desm ndi ntsiifArc hen

,Hope.A1on(lz1le.hiaxwaton Sulton 111d White [1111'





Stilton b1 the Oscoln C0.





Sh rthor Bi". 1 r. A; .

JOHN SC‘HMID'I. Sec. 0 11 191 e 8 .6





Reed City. Mich.





Grand Traverse Shorihorn 18:0. 333; “"0“ m

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





Cattle For Sale





2L°adi1 feeders and twobloads2 y.‘d“3n_8 aggro]?! tAlso

cans ow you any num er . an van 0 mn

600 to lean-11.11.1111; Shanstum. Fairdeld. Iowa. 841





Roan Bull Calf For Sale, 8 35’3”"





J. E. Tiinswell, Manon, lVIii'll.





2 Bulls Ready for Service





At 1'1-1r11111's'pr11‘e

I ong Beili 11 11‘,11111





 





 





 





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HOGS





FAIRMAN FARMS





PLYMOUTH, MICH.

B E R KSH I R E 5





SPRING PIGS





Gladstone—Majestic"-Dukes

Successor breeding





 





 





Only a Few Left For Sale

Big Growlby Berkshire Pigs. B“‘.’.‘.1.-‘?1"."°:1.J€‘1£"





.Ei'ery Mane ester. Mich





UROCS Orion Chief Perfection No 68945 an

Doings Pilot Wonder No. 73. ‘37 23. Two outstandin db'ifia

or big type and excellent qualit1. All selected large

type smoothsowm Thrifty. smoot ,large boned spring

311111 from these herd boars and choice sows at very

reasonable prices. The Jennings Farms. Bailey, Mich





50 Duroc Sows and Gilts





£01 full farmwing, bred to Orion' .1 Fancy Kin 838137

the biggest pit: of his age eier she 11 at fritter-

national. 1 mil e N. E. of town. Visitors 1ielcorno '7





uys in week Newton Barnhert. St. Johns. Mich.





Duroc Jerseys For Sale





Hird boar and spring 1 W t W l

and Sons R. 3. West ‘Oii1e.MTc1(i. els Perish





DUROG JERSEYS

l. D. KEYDENBEIK. - - - Wayland. Mich.

Duroc fall boars sired by Crimson Critic T. .Satisfac.





tion and Breakwater) Princi a1. ricedr t. Bred

sows all 301.11 “.0 YO“ 5) Nuts: Mich.





111111 Ilmc lam] Bill: For 8111..

CAREY 0 1101101103.- - . Hastings inch.





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SECOND EDITION.





The markets in this edition were re-

vised and corrected on Thursday after-

noon, June 13.





WHEAT.





The very small stocks of wheat are

being still further depleted by exporta-

tions and domestic consumption. Re-

lief is now in sight, however, in that

harvesting the 1918 crop has already

begun in the southwest. Over a com

siderable portion of the winter wheat

states the crop is good. The present

condition of the crop is three per cent

above the ten-year average condition

for June 1, according to the federal

crop estimates which places the pros-

pective winter wheat crop at 587,000,-

000 bushels. In the northern states

the damage from winter-killing was

much greater than in the central and

southwestern districts. A year ago

wheat was worth $2.95 for No. 2 red on

the Detroit market. Present quota-

tions here are:





 





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

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

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





CORN.





Prospects for an early resumption of

exporting grain to Europe has given

strength to the corn deal, and prices

shOWed improvement early this week.

The new crop is in excellent condition,

although growth has been somewhat

retarded by the recent cool weather.

The acreage, however, is large and the

stand is declared to be the best in

many years. All corn meal and corn

flour held in the east by jobbers has

been taken over by the government.

Farmers are too busy to deliver the

grain to country elevators, and stocks

are being reduced as a result. A year

ago No. 3 corn brought $1.74 on the

Detroit market. Latest quotations are:



No. 3 corn 145





-------------





No 3 yellow ......... 1:55



No. 4 yellow ........... . 1.45



No. 5 yellow ............ 1.30



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

OATS.





The holding back of oats by dealers

resulted in an up turn in values early

this week, notwithstanding the ideal

condition of the new crop. Eastern

dealers are also making inquiry for

the grain, "while local buying for do-

mestic consumption is gaining in _ac-

tivity. Export demand is also having

its effect upon this deal. The vis1ble

supply of oats diminished 2,280,000 bu.

during the past week. One year ago

standard oats were quoted on the local

market at 70c per bushel. The latest

quotations here are:





Standard .................. 791/2

N0. 3 white ............... 79

N0. 4 White ............. ,..78





RYE.





A slightly firmer tone has resulted

from inquiries for this grain; cash No.

2 now being quoted at $1.95 per bu.





BEANS.





Stocks of beans have been added to

this past week through the liberal sell-

ing by growers. The outlet remains in—

adequate to clear the trade and give

offerings a free movement. Prices are

unchanged. On the local market cash

beans are quoted steady at $10 per cwt.



At Chicago prices are ruling easy at

recent declines. Quotations there are:

Mich. pea beans, h. p. . . .$10.00@11.00

Red kidneys 9506171150





. Brown Swedish ............ . 8.50 9.00





HAY.





Offerings are increasing and market

is dull and weak owing to an indiffer-

ent demand. Present Detroit quota-





tions are:

No. 1 timothy ...$19.00@19.50

Standard 18.00@18.50

Light mixed 18.00@18.50

No. 2 timothy.... 17.00@f7.50

No. 1 clover 12.00@13.00





POTATOES.





Michigan potatoes have made ad-

vances in nearly all the leading mar-

kets. This state continues to be the

largest shipper of old potatoes. The

supplies do not appear to have been

as large as were figured a month or

more ago. The condition and prices

per cwt. for U. S. Grade No. 1 pre-

vailing at various important market





centers as reported by the local office





of the United States Bureau of Mar-

kets are as follows for sacked stock:





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Detroit (stronger) .....$1.50@1.67





Cleveland (stronger) .. 1.60@1.65

Buffalo (stronger) 1.75

Philadelphia (steady) .. 1.50@1.65

New York (fair) ...... 175621.90

Pittsburgh (variable) .. 1.80@1.90

Cincinnati (stronger) .. 1.75

Columbus (strong) .. . 1.50@1.60





Indianapolis. (stronger) 2.00@2.10

Chicago (stronger . . . . '1.90@2.00





BUTTER.





Not a great deal of change is noted

in the butter market since a week ago.

Last week’s receipts, however, were

larger at a majority of the terminals

than for the previous week, and slight-





ly in excess of the receipts for the cor- . .





responding period a year ago. Buying

for domestic consumption and for mili-

tary requirements is very liberal, and

the high values resulting from this. out-

let is keeping storage men from put-

ting away much of the product. The

Detroit market is firm,with the fresh

creamery extras quoted at 411/2c and

do firsts at 40%,0. Higher market pre-

vails in Chicago, with the creamery

range at 35@420. In New York the

trade is higher with creameries bring-

ing 42@450. At Philadelphia western

creamery stocks are up to 490.





CHEESE.





Cheese prices show some gain dur-

ing the past week. The liberal con-

sumption of this product is one big fac-

tor in maintaining a strong market at

a season when the production is nor-

mally large. Prices at primary cheese

markets range from 21((12221/2c for flats

and daisies, while Young Americas

bring 2214@25c. At Detroit flats are

selling to jobbers at 21@240 for new

offerings; Daisies bring 221/20, and

limburger 21@22c. New York reports

a firm trade, with whole milk flats at

231/2@23%c for fresh special, and do

average run at 23@231/,.c. The Phila—

delphia trade continues firm with full

creams at 22@25c for old and 22@24c





for new'.

EGGS.





While values are steady with those

of last week, the situation of this trade

is such that dealers are expecting the

prices to go higher. At Detroit cur-

rent receipts from the state are .job-

bing at 331/2c and firsts in new cases

340. In New York with a firm

market reported fresh gathered extras

bring 38@39c; do storage packed 36%

@371/2c, and firsts 34@36c. Phil-

adelphia trade holds firm, with western

extra firsts bringing $11.40 per case.

The Chicago market rules steady with

firsts at 30@32c; ordinary firsts at 28

@300; at mark, cases included 29@310.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





The offerings on the city markets

these days is made up almost entirely

of truck crops. 7 The markets, however,

are being liberally patronized. Rad-

ishes bring $1 per bu; potatoes 850;

ordinary lettuce 25@350; head lettuce

$1.20@1.25; strawberries $6.75@9 per

case; eggs 45c; hay $23@25 per ton.





GRAND RAPIDS





This week and next will be straw-

berry time for the home-grown and a

fair crop is promised, the yield de—

pending on weather conditions. Berry

prices on Monday’s market ranged

from $2.75@3.50 per crate, but will

very likely go lower with increased of-

ferings. First home-grown peas start-

ed at $4@4.50 per bushel. Pieplant

has held up remarkably well, due to

cold-pack canning’in the homes. The

few old potatoes offered sell at 60@700.

Hay is worth $20@21.





LIVE STOCK





DETROIT





Thursday, June 13, 1918.

Market steady. ‘

. Catt e.

Best heavy steers... . . .. .$15.50 17.00





Best hdy wt bu strs (grs) 13.25 13.75

Mixed strs and hfrs (grs) 10.50@11.75

Handy It butchers (grass) 9.50@10.00

Light butchers (grass).. . 8.5061) 9.00'

Best cows (dry-fed)...... 11.00 11.50

Butcher cows (grass)....~ 8.50 9.00

Cutters 7.50@18:00

Canne’rs ........ . 7 00@ 7 25





Best heavy bulls- .IZIIIII 1100011275 v

975





Bologna ’bulls . . . ........ 9.00@, .



Stock bulls e c c o e on o o lie 0 n, o 8:03 , 375

smokers ~.; ., . .1. ..., . . «7.5 "

Milkers and 'springersx. ‘ . $65





 





. :59- steady-

100‘ '





 





 





Veal Calves.

Market rules steady.

Best grades . . . . . . . . . . . .$16.00@16.50





 





Others . . ......... . . . . . . . 10.00@‘15.50 Best hands.r steers . . . . . . 15.00@16.007

Sheep and Lambs Fair to good kinds . 13.50@14.50 .



Market steady; quality common. Western heifers . . . . . . 14.00@15.00

Best lambs ..... . . . . . . . . 17.00 Handy strs and hfrs mixd 12.50@13.00,

Fair lambs . . . . . . ..... 15.00@16.00 Best fat cows . . . . .- . . . . . 12.00@13.00

Light to common . . ..... . 10.00@13.00 Butcher cows .......... . 9.50_@10.‘50

Fair to good sheep ....... 10.00@13.00 . Calves.



Culls and common ....... 7.00@ 8.25 Market rules strong at the following

' H098. - . prices:



Prices are lower than last week. Tops ...... . . . . ... . . . . . . .$ 17.25

Pigs ...... ..... 1.0 Fed calves ........ 7.00@ 8.50

Mixed . ......... . ....... 16.25@16.40 R Sheep and Lfimllaia t d



eceipts two cars. ar et 8 ea y...

CHICAGO- , Top lambs . . . . .1. . . . . . . . . . 18.7.5

'." :, ..Yearlings 15.00@16.00

Cattle. Wethers ..... . . . . . . . . . . . 14.50@15.00

Thursday' June 13’ 1918. LWeS - one no 00 .'|._..o.g.s....- 12n50@14-00

Cattle. Receipts 15 cars. Market has de-





Estimated receipts 13,000. Fedpcat-

tle steady to strong, butcher stock and

bulls steady to lower. Good choice

prime steers $16.50@17.90; cOmmon

medium butchers $12.75@16.60; heif-

ers $8.50@15.50; COWS $8.50@15; bo-

logna bulls $9@14; canners and cut-

ters $7.27@8.25.





Hogs.

Estimated receipts 34,000. Market

5@10c lower. Tops $16.65; bulk of





sales at $16.35@16.65; heavy $16.30@



16.40; mixed and lights $16.40@16.50;



packers’ hogs $15.80@16.15; medium



and mixed $16.15@16.25; light bacon



$16.45@16.55; pigs, good to choice at



$16.25@16.60; roughs $15.40@15.75.

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts 9,000. Market op—

ened strong and is becoming stronger.

Good spring lambs selling at $20.50;

others $17.60@18; common lambs at

$16@17.50. *



Wednesday, June 12, 1918.

Cattle.



This week sees a. higher cattle mar-

ket than was ever witnessed before in

the history of the trade, with steers

selling today largely at $15@17.50, the

estimated day’s receipts being only

7,000 head. The advance in prices for

the first half of the week is fully 25@

50c, with two cars of 1,450-lb. steers

from Nebraska selling yesterday to a

New York firm at $17.95, or five cents

higher than the previous high record

established last September. The same

firm bought some 1,002-lb. yearlings

at $17.60, the highest on record for the

weight. A single steer sold the .other

day at $18, and two head in different

loads sold today at $18.25. The com-

moner class of light steers sell at

$12.75@14.75, with a good class at

$16.75 and over and no. steers with

much weight going as low as $17. Fat

cows and heifers sell at $8.40@15.75,

canner and cutter cows at $7.25@8.35,

bulls at $9@13.50, stockers and feed-

ers at $9@13.85 and calves at $9@16.



. Hogs. ,



Hogs are being marketed sparingly,

only about 7,000 head arriving today,

comparing with 34,000 yesterday. For

'all that, prices are a little lower today.

hogs bringing $15.30@16.15 for heavy

packing lots to,$16.50@16.75 for the

best light butchers. Pigs are selling

mostly at $15.25@16.75, choice feeders

going at the highest, prices. Sharp

declines in hog prices east and west

have been largely responsible for the

recent breaks here. Receipts of hogs

in the eleven principal markets for this





 





year have passed the 15,000,000 mark '





and are the largest on record for that



period, being about 1,700,000 head larg-



er than for the same time last year

Spring and Clipped Lambs.



Only about 8,000 lambs and sheep

arrived here today and prices were

well maintained for desirable offerings,

with prices for prime lots " about nomi-

nal in the absence of offerings. Ewes





at $12.75@15; yearlings at $13@16;

lambs $12.50@18;" spring lambs $13.50

@2050, a sale being made of six cars

of California thin lambs at $14.25 for

feeding, purposes. j -





. *- BUFFALO. "

- Thursday, June 13, 1918.

Pigs sold here this morning -from

$17.40 1750; otherfgrades of‘hogsat

317,25 17.35;~.lam,bs broiight.:,$18; and

calves $18. Cattle are steady. f .





 





wednesday. 34:55.12, 1915 »

'. ' ~ ' g ‘-c,attle. ‘ . .,

..Receipts today etwo; cars- ~«Market





page navy steers. . é :317Q50taiaifs





 





Best shippingsteers 1650601730





Plain- and coarse, . . . . . . . . 14.00@15.00

Native yearlings . . . . . . . . 16006121650





clined since last week.

Yorkers . . . . ............. $17.25@17.35

Pigs . . 17.25@17.35





WOOL





A conference held in New York last

week between manufacturers of wool-





en goods and government officials re-,





sulted in an announcement indicating

that about 34 per cent reduction in the

consumption of woolen goods by civil-

ians would be necessary this coming

year. Fifty-four per cent of all the

wools will go to spinners of yarns fer

military cloth. As stated in these col-

umns in previous issues, the price to

be paid growers is the seaboard price

prevailing July 30, 1917.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.‘





 





(Continued from page' 718).‘ .

and Noyon the French wings are bold-

ing firm, although the enemy has ado

Vanced two and one-half miles at the

center.—Americans stop an assault on

the Marne front, while the Allies repel,

an attack at Rheims.—President Wil-

son is being urged to cooperate with

the other Allies in an effort to save

Siberia to the .entente cause—Ger-

many now has full control of the arm-

ies of Finland.—.-Aerial postal service

has been established between London

and Paris—A new star, the brightest

discovered in several Centuries, is de-

tected by Prof. Oliver, of the Univer-

sity of Virginia. ‘ '



Tuesday, June .,



The German attack between Noyon

and Montdidier appears to be break-

ing down before strongly fortified alc

lied lines—Casualties from British

hospitals bombed by German aviators

number 991,—The Soviet government

of Russia is reported as preparing a.

draft measure to raise troops for op-

posing the Germans.———Sentences of 25

years in prison have been imposed by

a court-martial upon forty-five con-

scientious objectors from Oklahoma

who had refused to wear army uni-

forms.





MID-SUMMER SHORTHORN SALE.





 





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ansigned by C. Carlson, Leroy,





1c ..

1,F’Dale’s Sultan, 654072, J. M. Heck,





$2g‘Sairview Sultan, 516338, Mr. Clark,





Lass’ Sultan, 654076, F. Perkins $245.

ngcohontas' Prince, 654078, B. Parks,





1 .

Consigned by M. P. Cook, of Flint,





Mich.: , ‘

- Dan Lee, Genesee County Farm $145.

$13301tter Boy, 555218, Horace Scott,





Consigned» by C. J. Deter, Webber- '





ville, Mich.:





consigned by R. C. spaulding, Fen-

torfi Mlich.: - . >



an e Grove Lad, 649130, .. .

Wright, $75. . ' G‘ -J

» Red Jacket, 609560,,3. Parks,v$135.~ '





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' $15. .

..$2(I)-I)arold, 618342, John Southworth,





The Mid- summer , Shorthorn Sale





held at Flint under th auspices of the

Michigan Shorthorn eeders’ Associa-

tion, as noted in the last issue, was

well attended and rthe offerings were

well distributed in the state, where

they will continue to benefit the Mich-

igan Shorthorn industry. The follow

ing is a list of the sales:

Females.

Consigned 'by M. P Cook, of Flint,

Mich.:

,Z na, L. P Otto, $245.

Pillmrose of Vienna, 40032, Geo1ge





t r, 140.

Doauéeen$ Mary, 40033, R. E. Potter,





Consigned by John A. Anderson, of

0151336151161 c110 Fifth, 490243, E. c.

“63313 2:10 Clio Ninth, 544386, 0. M.

joggar$5i§oC11m 544387,, Arthur Cross,



2





COnsigned- by W. F. Brickley & Son,





Ionia, Mich.:

Orange Beauty, 246058, A. L. Pant,

0.

$2 Consigned by C. Carlson, of Leroy,

Mich.:

Princess Sharon 2nd, Mr. Hanson,

180.

$ Rose Sharon, J. E. Burroughs, $240.

White Girl, Mr. Hanson, $130.

Consigned by C. J. Deter, Webber-

ville, Mich.:

Baroness Hudson A 3rd, 618376,_>R.

Johnson, $175





220851, B. Strong, $245. $100.

Roan Beauty Consigned by John A. Anderson, Clio,





Consigned by B. D. Kelley & Son,

Y silanti, Mic h.:



IBurr Oak VioIet, 583465, M. J. Shear,

$160.



Fancy Lady, 230049, F.

$18 80.

Con-signed by L. C. Kelley, Plymouth,

Mich

May Belle, 63977, L. C. Becker, $300.



Consigned by John Lessiter’s Sons,

Clarkston, Mic 11.:



Albina, 618346, J. F. chClausen, $295.



Sally Sultana 511913, W. J. Bell,

$505.

Consigned by Michigia/InCh Agricultural

College East Lansing, 1c



College Rosebud 3rd, 539642, A L.





J . Flower,





Pant, $230.



College Melody, 539641, George Dos-

ter, $155. '



Consigned by F. S. Postal Estate,

Evart, Mich.:





Buchan Fancy 24th, 498901, W. J.





Bell $430.



Mina May 3rd, 498927, W. J. Bell,

300.

$ Ury’s Queen, 498941, W. J. Bell,

00. _ .

Consigned by E. D. R1ce, Fllnt,





Mien .-

Donna Victoria, 610712, E. S. Bris‘

tol, $135.

Lena 2nd, 215063, S. J. Flower, $180.

Madeline 2nd, 215065, E. S. Bristol,

140.

$ Rebecca 5th, 223899, W. J. Bell, $220.

Virginia Girl, 544946, J. E. Burroughs





$17 7.5



Consigned by John Schmidt, Reed

City, Mich



Bell Réobin 5th, 466544, Albert John-

son, $260



Monarch’s Bell, 588503. F. J. Flower,

$150.





T. M. Southworth &

L. P. Otto,





Consigned by

Sons, Allen,M Mich.

' Alexandrina 8th, 69705,

$300.



Consigned by Michael Wagner, Fre-

mont, Ohio:



Eureka May, 542427





$2 50.

Julia s 236197, Mr. Strong, $500. ‘

Bess B, 44601, A L Pant, $410. .

Rooan Nonpareil, 571261, FEdwards,





$25

Qoueen, 208665, F. S. Postal, $240.

Bulls.

Consigned by O. A. Hoopingarner,

Bronson, Mich.:

$2S(i)lver Thread, 619696, W. J. Leese,

5

The Guard, 507461, Mr. Clark, $210.

Consigned by E. .& W. J. Hosley,

Howell, Mich.:

Red King, Mr. Stimson, $135.

Roan King 8th, W. W. Knapp, $90.

Consigned by J. G. Hughes, Howell,





Diamond Arche1, H. J. Mier & Son,





0.



Snowstorm, 435079, A. L. Pant, $240.



Consigned by John Lessiter’s Sons,

Clarksville, Mich.:



B ron Victor, 618340, W. ‘J. Bell





Consigned by Michigan Agricultural

College, Lansing, Mich.:



Choice Mysie, Wm. Claxton, $190.

w Led. l 3’ Bone,





- Nickles, of





Mn Summer ShorthornSale





   





Water Lily Monarch, 616990, Fred

Carter, $200.

1 Consigned by L. D. Otto, Charlotte,





Mich" ' '

Kilwinnin'g Star, 593275,, , Robert.



Parks, $185 " ‘

Missie ROyal, 620933, Mr. Parkhurst,





$305.

Consigned by F. S. Postal Estate,





Evart, Mic h.:

1Springhill Red, 622391, Wm. Kester,

12.5





Consigned by E. D. Rice, Flint, Mich.





F. Edwards, -





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Osceola Gloster,





610710, W. J. Bell,





$100.





Osceola King,





8011,





610711, G. A. John-

$95.





COnsigned by E. B Salisbu1y, Shep-

herd, Mich:





White Hope,

$135.

Consigned by





605168, Mr. Dexter,





John Schmidt, Reed





City, Mich.:



Lady Belle’s Monarch, 588495, W. J.

Bell $105.



Northern Monarch 3rd, 612573, Chas.

White, $115.



Consigned by Adams Bros, Litch-

field, Mich.:



Village Master 2nd, 603850, E. S.

Bristol, $130.



Consigned by W. S. Adams, Litch-

field, Mich.:



Village Master 2nd, 669482,. C. A.





Bassett, $95.

Consigned by Albee & Hawley, Dur-





and,





$90.





Mich.:

Famous Sultan, 670703, Mr. Stewart,

Harry’s Boy, 670704, Mr. Hanson,





Mich

Genesee Chief 2nd, 655210, S. & C.

Irwin, $105.

$ 3Prince of Clio 31d, 655211, J Ford,

1 0

Red Robin, 665213, J. Berlin, $105.

Consigned by W'. J. Baird, ,DeWitt,

Mich.:

4Beaufort, 665525, Alfred Lohrcock,

5.

$1((‘fflinton’s Best, 638909, E. B. Faust,

Consigned by W F. Brickley & Son,





Ionia, Mich.:





Snow B01,





595059, Mr. Spaulding,





$125.

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Thousands of milkers are

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0 Jersey' s—Fall boars of the large hem y boned.

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RBrecding and price so on re uest.

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Everfresh Egg Farm, lonia, Michigan





 





 





Mammoth Pekin Ducks from best stock in America.

Fags $1. 50 per 11. Rose Comb Brown Leghorns

from Madison Square and Mich. a: Ohio Fair 11 inner-s.

Eggs :1. 50 per 15 Mrs. Claudia Bette, Hillsdsle, Mich.





 





- White Orpingtons, hens and pullets 83. 00

Pm. ergo“ each, eggs special “gr-level 61518981115, OuUthliHy





$111311” oahsr 511156.110an 0:11, M1011.





FOR SALE





Smooth Jumbo a grandson of Peter Mouw‘ 8 old boar

Smooth Jumbo a 6001b. _\ curling A top notcher fit to

head any herd. so some nice b1ed gilts at $50.

If é'ou at one Ryou will have to hurry.



1171'an - Poru-na. Mlcfimon.





 





11blic sale this year; 50 sows and

c breed go at private treat.

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Large T ype P. C. no

gJilts all GMleSensW of t





Big I 0 PC Big boned follows from Iowa’ sgrentest

in herds ofiecisl prices on sprlng

ATHLWSO Burr Oak" Mich.





 





' for sale at present. 8

Nathlng are coming fine. prim; pigs

0.E.GABNANT, - Eaton Rapids. Mich.





Large Type P. C.





Brcdcllts and boars all sold nothi t K t

w. E. LIVINGSTON “8 05.33.“. ”"1331:





 





 





LEONARD' B Bred now. all sold, tall pins, ntdorsboolb

ed for agitAngD pigs at weaning tune SShipped C. 0. l).

E. R. LEO D, - - - - t.Louis. Mich.





P 6 81m Fur Sale. Bred for April





Prices reasonable

A. A. WOODIBON - - Saline. Mich





11m Ty P. 0.1311 tilts. sire 800111. on ll

Lbred to 101,011,“; Myenr old for July 16 Any. 2 S,?g,”£3

{all boars. J.,CLARKE R. 7, 116011. ich.





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“ll "PE figwfafi 15?; Pmlsgm-honsoid. n",

BYron, Mich,





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furrow,





all sold out, except the lar e l;

L. S' P' C' gilt raised lnstyear, bred for ngse

furrow. H. (l. BWA R‘Z’l Bhool lcrul‘t, Mich.





Hampshire Pigs only for sale now. a bargain





in boar pigs.

JOHN \V, SNYDER, R. 4, St. Johns, Mich





 





HODE ISLAND REDS and Plymouth Rocks Males

tolZ lbs. according to age 83 to 88:1). fl. hone

weight. 5 to U lbe.. eggs.° 15! or $1.50:100.$8: Mammoth





Bron-o Toa’l‘urkc 188.153 accordin to ago “to





 





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strain in Mlchl gen. Write for catalog.

INTERLAKES FARM. Box 39. Lawrence, Mich.





ILVER Spangled Hamburg eggs $7Iper hundred;

S $1. 75 per setting balance of season. Wh1te Hol-





land Turke per 12.

RIVERVI Wa ARM - - Vassar, Mich.





SILVER Golden a: White Wynngzottego Four Golden





cockerels $2.50 each. Eggs 85 b.yP Poet

prepaid. C. W. Browning,R R.2, Portland, Mich.





s c £132 “Lilgaorncimfionva





FLOYD ROBERTSON. R.1





layer-.1733.

airspaid by moi.

exington, Indians





 





Comb Black Minor-ca 6388 $1 50 er sett

Sing] e la: this month. two settings $2. 50p

- - Saline, Mich.





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INTERLAKEB FARM, Lawrence. Mich.





 





 





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HORSES

Minn», 931:1qu Angus, 3M0 shim, Duran

mln. ldfl‘nn.





Stallions and mares of reasonable

rices; inspection invite

Charlotte Mich.





J. M. Hicks & Son, ll. 2, Wllliamston, Mich.





Percheron

F. L. KING & SO





 





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sneer

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Goldwater. Kick.





Hampchim Jr. Shropshires.





It's a wise man who orders his run ”for August

delivery now. l





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June'





That’s' the day we sign up.





That’s the day we tell Uncle Sam just how hard we Want to win this.





war. That’s the day our government has officially set for us to purchase





War Savings Stamps.





On June 28th everyman, woman and child in the United States will be

called upon to pledge his or her full quota of War Savings Stamp purchases





for 1918.





You will be expected to pledge the filll amount that you can afford-'-

no more—but by the same token, no less. ‘ ~ ‘





In every state, county, city, town and vil

lage the War Savings Committees are prepar-

ing for this big patriotic rally of June 28th.

Unless you have already bought War Savings

Stamps to the $1,000 limit, get busy with

paper and pencil and figure out the utmost

you can do.





Remember this. You take no chances when

you go the limit on War Savings Stamps. They

are the best and safest investment in the world.





They pay you 4% interest compounded quar-

terly. They can’t go below par. You camget

back every dollar~you put into War Savings





Stamps any time you need it. You can turn_





them in at. the Post Office any time for their





, full value plus interest.





Uncle Sam is asking hundreds of thousands

of men to give their lives to their country. He

is asking you only to lend your m0ney.





What are you lending?





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