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VOL. CXXXIV. No. 2.
Whole Number 3485.

FARM NOTES.
The Spring Seeding Problem.

The condition of the clover seed mar-
ket is not reassuring to the average
farmer who .has not yet purchased his
clover seed for spring sowing. Nearly
always when clover seed is high in price
there is a tendency on the part of some
farmers to reduce the area seeded, or else
to buy a. cheap grade of seed, because
prime seed is so costly. Neither course
is a proﬁtable one, and neither will be fol-
lowed by the business farmer. In fact,
when clover seed is scarce and high in
price, it is all the more necessary to be
careful in selecting the seed to be certain
that the quality is good, that it is free
from the seeds of noxious weeds, and that
a fair percentage of it will germinate, and
will produce strong and vigorous plants.
If one must economize in this direction
it is better to economize in sowing less
seed per acre than by sowing seed that
germinates poorly, and by being a little
more careful to sow it at just the right
time, when soil and weather conditions
are just right and in just the right man-
ner to insure the best possible stand upon
the kind and‘condition of soil upon which
it is sown.

But it will not pay to economize to this
extent in many cases.
should be sown to clover, provided the
seed can be secured at any reasonable
price, and the usual amount which will
insure a good stand of clover should be
sown. But it is far better to sow half
the quantity of good clean seed of good
vitality, which will germinate satisfac-
torily, than it is to economize in the qual-
ity of the seed sown. Where there is any
doubt about the quality of the seed, it is
best to make a. careful examination to
determine whether or not there are weed
seeds present, and if so, of what kind.
Where the purchaser is not suﬂiciently
familiar with the appearance of the
seeds of the more troublesome weeds
likely to be present in clover seed, it
would be a wise precaution to send a
small sample of the seed to the Agricul-
tural College for examination. This work
will;be done free of charge but the sam-
ples Should be forwarded as early as pos-
sible to avoid the bunching of such re-
quests ~when seeding time arrives. A
sample of a teaspoonful will be sufficient
for such an examination and the precau-
tion advised may save a.

The regular area _

DETROIT MICK" SATURDAY. JAN. 8, I910.

 
“Better Class” ._
with which the shiftless criticise l

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A FEW LEADING ARTICLES OF THE WEEK.

A Modern Concrete Block Slim—An illustrated description of a. double wall,
concrete block silo, with an arched, cement-covered roof 27

Keep More Sheep.—An argument favoring the keeping of more
Michigan farms which are adapted to this branch of live stock raising....29

Producing High Grade Cream.—A well—prepared article upon the requirements

for getting a high class of cream for the market .. ....... ...............32
Can the Average Farmer Succeed with Bees?—Minimum investment and how
the bees can be proﬁtably handled the ﬁrst season ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 34

An Important Nursery Decision.——Comment
which ought to secure for fruit growers better treatment from the hands
.......................... ...............38

District School at the Grocery.—A short story which brings out the readiness
Who Are the “Better Class?”——Dorothy Hudspith replies to criticism on former
articles by pointing out who those people are that are counted
............................. ............40
nodern educational methods ........... 44

of unscrupulous nurserymen ..... . .

sheep on

on a supreme court decision

in the

 
needed, since the supply of good seed is
known to be limited, and under these
conditions, the price is not likely to grow
cheaper as the season advances; but in
any event no farmer can afford to cut
down the area sown to clever and this
should be the last way in which any may
undertake to ecenomize in the matter of
spring seeding.
Fertilizer Questions.

I have four acres of sandy land that I
had a, fairly good crop of cucumbers on
this last year. I desire to plant the same
land to corn, potatoes and cucumbers this
coming spring. As have no manure
would it be advisable to sow commercial
fertilizer? If so, what kind, when should
it be applied and how much to the acre?

Shiawassee Co.

If the cucumber ground was well fer—
tilized with stable manure last year,
fairly good results might be expected from
a liberal application of commercial fer-
tilizer for the crops mentioned for the
coming year. It would be impossible to
advise intelligently just what fertilizer
should be used without knowing the na-
ture and condition of the soil. If an ap~
plication of say 200 lbs. per acre of a
standard fertilizer in the hill for the corn
and cucumbers, and two or three times
that quantity broadcast for the potatoes
is given, fairly good results should be
secured provided the land is in a fertile
condition, and was well fertilized last
year, otherwise heavier applications sown
broadcast should be made. A still better
plan would be to devote this cucumber
ground to some grain crop, such as oats
and barley, and seed it down to clover,
planting corn and potatoes on other land

as a. rotation of crops is always better
than any plan of farming which brings
the samecrop on the same ground in suc—
cessive seasons, especially if no stable
manure is available to maintain a supply
of humus and keep up the soil fertility.
Seeding Clover In Wheat.

I have a’iield of fall wheat which I
wish to seed to clever in the spring.
Would it be advisable to seed with disk
drill having grass seeder attaclhment,
with drill set shallow, or would it be best
to use a ﬁddle seeder and drag it with
spiketooth drag?

Otsego Co. '1‘. REAnpON.

The nature and condition of the soil is
an important factor in determining the
best method by which to sow clover seed
in wheat. On heavy soils which are fairly
well supplied with humus, it is Still the
general practice to sow the clover broad-
cast on the ﬁeld when the surface soil is
in a somewhat honey—combed condition,
due to the action of the spring freezing
and thawing. Where these conditions are
present, this is probably as good a way as
any, but if the soil is deﬁcient in humus
or sandy in character it will generally
prove more satisfactory to put the seed
into the ground by some method such as
suggested in this inquiry. The disk drill
should prove satisfactory for t‘ ' purpose.
'The writer has used both a sharp hoe
drill and a drill with a special attachment
for sowing clover seed for this purpose
with good results, and rather prefers it
to sowing the seed broadcast and har-
rowing it in. It is better to sow cross-
ways of the drill marks in which the
wheat is growing, as less damage will be
done to the wheat in this way. The

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ground should also be gone over with a
roller or weeder, according to its moisture
content, if a good rain does not come soon
after the drilling is done.

 
THE BUSINESS SIDE OF FARMING.

 
Farm Management by Renting.

Of all the business relations that are
complex, and the cause of genuine ill
feeling, perhaps none exceed that occa—
sioned by the landlord and tenant system
of farming.

Somehow this relationship seems to be
lacking in the glamor that surrounds the
fact and ﬁction of the business world.
The young man who started as a water
boy and became the president of the rail-
road, thru successive years of earnest ap-
plication, would not have succeeded as
a tenant farmer. In the beautiful pictures
of California days, as revealed by old set-
tlcrs and portrayed in Helen Hunt Jack-
son’s “Ramona,” when the ﬂocks were
tended by farm laborers and driven to be
shorn, then‘fattened on the barley stubble
ﬁelds, the ministrations of the padre and
the ringing of the Mission bells would
lose their happy colorings if the landlord
was 10 ’ing after his tenants. When any
Modern ﬁCtion writers are looking
for local coloring they will hardly go to
the Wadsworth estates in New York,
with the unpainted farm houses and iron-
clad contracts of leasehold. Alongside
the tracks of the Rock Island Railroad in
Iowa, stretch for miles, fertile cultivated
ﬁelds and the communal towns of the
Mennonites, North Amana, South Amana,
East Amana and West Amana. Individual
ownership does not exist; all is commu—
nal. Full bearded, earnest, sober-minded
men have sought to solve the problem by
all working in common and enjoying the
fruits of their labor under the direction
of the wiser members. No better blankets
are made anywhere than in Amana woolen
mills, made from Amana sheep’s wool
and tended by the communal shepherds
of the Amana towns. Fine cattle and
swine are produced and marketed. But
always and ever a longing for individual
existence drives the younger members to
seek their opportunities outside of per-
sonal dictation of the elders; and even the
earnest God—fearing Mennonites have not
solved the problem. There are wowen
around the old plantations of the south-
land some of the most beautiful tales of

devotion, chivalry and

 
good deal of disappoint-
ment in the result of the
seeding and a large
amount of work in eradi-
cating weeds pests in af-
ter years.

His possible to econ-
omize to a certain degree

ture of clover and grasses

stead of using June clover
alone, as many farmers
Dréfer. Alsike clover is
cheaper in price and, be-
ing a smaller seed, will
go much further than
June or mammoth clover,
for which reason it may
be' proﬁtably made a
large: factor in the mix-
ture than in ordinary
years, but the same care
should be exercised that
it is free from the seeds
of noxious weeds. In a
year like the present, it
is better not to delay the
matter of selecting and
purchasing clover and
grass seeds until they are

 
Farm Barn of A. G. Barrett, of Oakland 00. (For description see “A Modern Concrete Block Silo,” page 27),

noblcness that arose on
the dark background of
African slavery. The
completely equipped plan-
tation made a sort of so-
cial unit that brot out
the nobler graces of loy-
alty and ﬁedelity among
the colored population
that, in the younger gen-
eration of tenant farmers
since emancipation, is
lacking. All of the pre-
cedents in the United
States seem to be in
support of the proposition
that tenant farming is
unsatisfactory. The large
concerns of today, which
are the example and the
result of systematic op-
erations have gone deep
into the underlying phil~
OSODhy of business, anl
ﬁnd that the relation of
landlord and tenant are
undesirable, and that bet-
ter results are obtained
from the wage system,
when coupled with recog—

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uy. As a rule, the tenant is lacking in
capital, and the unwritten law of the soil
receiving one—third or,.if equal equipment
is provided, one-half, nearly always cur-
tails the farm income from lack of work-
ing capital, which the tenant cannot fur-
nish and the landlord 'will not. The time
of the tenant during periods when not
employed at actual farm work is not de-
voted to farm maintenance and in course
of time the farm depreciates and passes
to a poorer tenant. The same tenant as
a wage earner, would maintain the farm
in repair and would-insist on a certain
standard of equipment, which the owner
would supply as an employer, but not as
a landlord. The present economic condi-
tion of high prices for farm equipment,
live stock, etc., accentuates the demand
for more capital in farming. The return
to the farms of men from the shops and
factories, particularly those of some skill
as mechanics, is giving the landowner
an opportunity to employ for wages where
formerly he let to tenants.

It is to these newer conditions that the
landowner, as a business man, must ad-
.lust himself. Mr. J. J. Hill, perhaps the
most farsceing of railroad operators,
points “out that population is increasing
faster than production. Prof. Cyril Hop-
kins, of the Illinois Agricultural College,
like Jeremiah of old, is calling attention
to the soil depletion. And in the city
and village the farmer is looked upon as
the cause of high prices of food, a sort of
oppressor of the poor, :1 modern Dives,
riding in his automobile, clothed in pur—
pie, and faring sumptuously.

The New Economy
demands that the farmer emp10y
capital and more supervision.

The same man who, as foreman in a
shop, or who has been under an intelli-
gent foreman, will bring system and ap-
plication of mechanical skill to the farm.
The wages, when measured by cost of
living, are now equal to that paid in the
cities. The farmer must learn to operate
during regular hours; he must have ade-
quate horse power. tools and implements
suited for the work, and sufﬁcient sup-
plies to operate at the least cost. It is
neither economy nor good citizenship to
make an employe work at a disadvantage.
Machinery and implements with seats are.
positively a saving, as a tired employe is

more

not an efficient one.
”There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
like the widencss of the sea." and now

when the opportunity has come for the
farmer to secure trained men of me-
chanical pursuits. he must expect that
suitable wages, suitable hous'ng and treat-
must be accorded. A higher standard of
livirg among.r all wage earners is the
greatest blesing that can come to an ag-
ricultural nation. For years the flow of
population has been toward the city and
now. when those inert, trained for the
application of mechanical knowledge to
the farm, find equal or better wages in
the country, the farmer must rise to the
occasion to direct that labor; in better
tillage, drainage, etc., to meet the changed
farming conditions. The relation of cm-
ployer and employe will be nlorc per-
sonal than in the city shop, and unions
will have very little place among farm
people. For years the agricultural jour-
nals, the variaus experiment stations and
the Department of Agriculture have been
placing the physical farming conditions
before the American farmer, that he will
be ready to grasp the economic demands
that are now being made upon him by
the increased call for food and raiment.
and become the ideal employer of labor.
‘l‘here are always underlying causes of
movements in population, and the food
supply or that of precious metal discov-
«'1‘}' is generally the cause. It is much
hotter for the farmer who desires to re-
tire and still maintain his farm to operate
under the wage system, and not be too
niggardly about wages. Leaving the
farm to be operated by someone else is
tailed renting. Turning over a factory or
store to be operated in the same way
would be called—unbusinesslike. It would,
lve of great interest if the forthcoming
census would investigate the yields and

farm conditions under the wage system
and when operated by a tenant. Mod-
ern rural conditions, save two things.

schools, and social life. are now the equal
of the city or village. The kcenest minds
of the country are turned upon these
problems. Ex-President Roosevelt and
Gifford Pinchot, from the widest stand-
point of national life. are seeking for a
solution. James J. Hill, from the stand-
point of transportation. gives his time
and services in public addresses all over
the country. Dr. Hopkins. of the Illinois
College of Agriculture, issues addresses
and bulletins, protesting against soil rob-
bing. Graham Taylor, the. sociologist.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

shows how good men and women come
from good soil. The'Rev. A. B. Leonard,
'One of the lights of Michigan Methodism,
reads agricultural journals and attends
Farmers’ Clubs, for he sees and sympa-
thizes with the movement for maintaining
the equilibrium between the city and
country. The farmers themselves (are
aware of their problems and can be re-
lied upon to act wisely. If suggestions
or advices are in order, one might add to
change the system of tenant farming to
the wage system and assist the wage
earner to become a land owner. A few
depleted farms in a community are the
same business menace to the farmers
that a sale of bankrupt goods is to the
city merchant.
Shiawassee Co. JAs. N. MCBRIDE.

THE BUSINESS OF FARMING.

 
As the years roll round, farming is
being looked upon as more of a business
proposition than it was a number of
years ago. Men are beginning to learn
that it pays to apply busineSs principles
in this kind of occupation, as well as it
does the merchant or manufacturer.
Farming is like every other kind of busi-
ness, there is a right and wrong way for
doing everything. So it takes time as
well as much study to learn how. It is a
business that requires constant and close
attention, especially as the country grows
older. Because if improper methods are
pursued, the soil wrll become so exhausted
as to make crops unproﬁtable, which was
not so when the country was newer. A
man with a good home in the city or vil-
lage who, by his trade or profession is
earning a good living for himself and
family, will probably do as well or better
to stick to his trade or profession, as he
will to try farming, which he knows noth—

ing about. How to properly feed and
care for horses, cows, pigs. sheep or
fowl. cannot be learned in a few days,

as all of us farmers know too well.
Perhaps there is no business where it
is so easy to make mistakes. as in farm-

ing. The wrong rotation of crops, the
improper feeding of stock ctc., often re-

sult in loss, which might have been pre-
vented if a little more forethot had been
practiced. This has sometimes been the
experience of the writer, and no doubt

has been the experience of others. In
conducting a farm—whether it be large
or small—many things will occur that

are so puzzling as to require much think-
ing, if not some experimenting. in order

 
to know just what to do. Of course.
the farmer of today has the agricultural
press, and the experiment stations. etc..,
to aid him. but these will not always help
him just how to decide certain questions.
he must still depend on his own judg-
ment or business ability.

As Mr. McBride says in his article, it
has become a sort of habit to buy every-
thing almost, in small quantities, instead
of buying more in wholesale lots at a
considerable saving, which farmers might
do if they only once got in this habit.
The writer has found it proﬁtable to buy
some articles out of season; such, for
instance, as an overcoat, horse blankets,
fly nets, as well as some agricultural imp‘
lcments. Money can be safely invested
in this way, and a better rate of interest
will be made than almost any other way.

The frequent saving of small amounts
is the most common method of ﬁnancial
advancement of any class of people. This
being true, the general farmer (of which
there is a large class). must try to keep
himself well informed. and so be able to
better judge and take advantage of the
markets. In order to do so he must be
in :1 position so that he will not be
obliged to sell when the market is unsat-
isfactory or depressed. To do this he
must be free from any large debt, and
also have good credit.

Ottawa Co. JOHN JACKSON.

AMOUNT OF CORN FOR SILO.

 
I would like to inquire as to how many
aficresl of corn is required to ﬁll a 14x30
t. s o.

It would be practically impossible for
me to give very much of an idea of the.
number of acres of corn it would take to
ﬁll a silo 14 feet in diameter and 30 feet
high. A silo of these dimensions, if ﬁlled
full, would hold somewhere in the neigh—
borhood of 85 or 90 tons. Now, the corn
crop differs so widely in quantity that
one cannot tell or give much of an idea
how much it would take. If one has
good ensilage com, a good crop, six or
seven acres will ﬁll the silo. If you have

just a, fair crop, it will take ten acres to,

ﬁll it and if you have a poor crop no one.

knows ‘how many acres it will take to ﬁll

the silo, perhaps 20.

COLON C. LILLIE.

 
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em factory, equipped with automatic machinery. I sell
them direct to you for less money than some factories can
make them at actual shop cost. All you pay me for is
actual raw material. labor and one small pro

My engine is made so good in the factory that I will send
it out anywhere in the U. 5. without an expert to any inex-
perienced user. on 30 days' free trial, to test against any en-
gine made, of similar horsepower, that sells for twice as
much and let him be the judge.

Write today for my new SO-page Engine Book. full 0!
valuable information, showing how I make them and how
you can make more money with a Galloway on the
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separators, churns, feed grinders,
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A MODERN CONCRETE BLOCK SILO.
The. accompanying cut is from a photo-
graph of a. concrete block silo built the
past season by A, G. Barrett, of Oakland
county. This is a double wall silo with
a. 2-inch air space between the walls.
The walls are built of concrete blocks or
bricks, 4x6x15 inches in size. The out
side of the blocks was given a coat of
special paint before they were laid, mak-
ing them a. deep red color which corres—
ponds with the paint on the barn, by the
side of which the silo was built. The
blocks were laid up in white cement mor-
tar, which gives the silo an especially
pleasing appearance. The walls are firmly
tied together with metal ties, two ties
being used to each brick, and the walls
are reinforced with {Vs-inch wire cables
cvcry three feet, the cables being tight-
ened by means of a turn-buckle in the
door frame of the silo, it being of the
continuous door type. These cables are
of galvanized wirc. several strands being
twisted tog‘othcr into a.

A

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

cows and feeding cattle, the latter being
run loose in the stable in accordance with
the method now generally followed by
Michigan cattle feeders. Hogs are made
an important factor in the economy of the
feeding business done upon this farm.
and there are also pens for brood sows
with young pigs in the basement of this
roomy and convcnicnt burn.

VARIETIES OF OAK TIMBER.

 
I note the inquiry by “Subscriber," of
Jackson county, which I do not think
fully answered by J. Fred Baker, of the
Agricultural College.

The name, “Ycllow Oak,” is not 3. local
term but. is applied to a. distinct species
of oak.

The yellow oak
lighter soils and
and rarely grows
over at the base.

It is not easy
the red or black

always grows on our
usually near marshes,
larger than two feet

to distinguish it from
oak at this size, from

 
cable such as is ordi-
narily uscd us guys for
telephone pulcs,

A novel feature of
this silo is its roof,
which is an arch made
of concretc bricks and
plastered over with a.
rich cement mortar. A
4-foot opening was left
in the top of this arch
into which the blower
pipe of the ensllage
cutter is directed in
filling the silo. Mr.
Barrett ﬁrst: intended
to put. a cupola with
windows over this
opening, but hascon-
cludcd to leave it
open for at least-the
prescnt wintcr, as it
admits plcnty of light
and the storms do not
bent into it in an ob-
jcctionablc In a n n c r.
This Silo is- 16 feet in
outside diameter, and
I38 fcot from the foun-
gdalion to the top of
the silo proper, but the
shape of the roof is
such that several more
feet are of practically
the same diameter, the
total height of the silo
from the foundation to
the top of the roof be-
ing 46 fcct.

The silo extends below the surface.
level with or a little below the ﬂoor of
the basement. Between it and the barn,
Mr. Barrett constructed a feeding room.
Both the walls and roof of this little
building are of cement, the walls being
solid and the roof consisting of a thin
coating of cement laid over the roof
boards, which are closely nailed to the
rafters. This type of roof enabled the
making of a. tight job next the silo, which
would be difﬁcult with an ordinary roof.
There is a window in each side of this
little building, which gives plenty of light
in the sila'ge feed room.

Four thousand six hundred of these
cement bricks were used in building
the silo proper. About one barrel
of cement was used for each 100
bricks, and the labor of making the brick
cost about $60. About 800 bricks, 3x4x16
inches were used in making the arched
roof. Five barrels of cement and four of
stone lime were used in laying up and
plastering the roof. Eight barrels of ce-
fcnt and 12 barrels of lime were used in
laying up the blocks of silo proper, while
three barrels of cement and one of lime
were required to plaster the silo. Includ-
ing the foundation, which cost about $100
and the feed room between the silo and
ham, the silo as completed, including all
items of expense, the boarding of help,
etc., cost Mr. Barrett 3. sum close
to $500. The cost of making the brick
:as about $60 as above stated, the cost
of laying up about $65, the cost of the

 
roof about $100. No effort was made to
spare expense in the construction of this
silo, in any essential which would add
to its value or permanence, and the struc-
ture as completed is perhaps one of the
best of its type in the state.

The barn which is illustrated on the
ﬁrst page is 58x80 feet in size with a
basement under all. The posts of the
mainbarn are 18 feet high. An addition
was made to the barn and basement a
year ago, running along the south side
for the entire length of 80 feet, which is
used as storage for straw. The basement

 
is divided into stables for horses, dairy

 
but is easily

their external appearance,
distinguished by the color of the inside

bark, which in the yellow oak, is of a
bright yellow color.
I considcr the lumber of the yellow oak

Slipcl‘lor to that of the black oak, and

do not know why it should not be as val-I

uable as that of the red oak except that

the red oak grows so much larger, on
somc of our heavy soils,. attaining a.
diamctcr of four feet or more.
Cass Co. F. E. SMITH.
SAVE THE MANURE.
Did you over drop a. small coin when

you were paying for somcthiug that you
had purchased at the store? Picked it up,
didn’t you? You bet. Thcn why don’t
you save those scores of nicklcs and dimes
that are bcing washed nwuy from that
heap of manure down behind the stable?
Every ruin washes away a lurgc per cent
of the value of manure that is piled out
in the open.

Muuurc contains ccrlain fcrtilizing ele-
ments that should be rcturncd to the
ﬁelds from which they were taken.
course, you can rccruit the soil by pldw-
ing under a crop but that is very waste-
ful when compared with the plan of feed—
ing the crop to the stock and then haul-
ing the munurc out to the ﬁeld.

Use plcnty of bedding to absorb the liq-
uids as a large per cent of the total value
is therein. Don’t let the manure pilc
spread all around but keep it piled as
compact as possible and always huve the
pile in the shelter. By all means save
every bit of manure you can and apply
it to the fields where it 'will produce divi-
dends in the way of increased crops.

Ohio. S. C.

 
“I “.09th my sewing machine, and it
came all right. I have used it quite a.
good deal and like it; very much Am
well pleased with it so far.”——Mrs. Abner
Hays, Holly, Mich.

“We have given the machine a good
trial and are well pleased with the re-
sults. It runs easier. and does as good
work as a $40 machine we had here on
trial before purchasing your machine. I
see no reason why your machine should
not last as long as the higher priced one.’

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PLEASE MENTION THE MICHIGAN FARMER
when you are writing to advertisers.
IT PAYS TO PLANT RIGHT.

There is a right way and a. wrong way
to plant. Soil conditions vary, even in
adjoining ﬁelds, and no ironclad rule can
be made to ﬁt every condition. It is es—
sential to have the land in proper condi—
tion for seeding, and no one will deny it.
There is a time to sow and a. time to
reap, and the ruler of the universe has
never yet failed to provide a time for
both. However, sbme men get in such It
hurry to seed that they think they cannot,
possibly wait another hour, so they get
stampcdcd, mud in their crops and then
wonder why their more successful neigh—
bors get more bushels to the acre. Yes.
it pays to plant right. It pays to have o.‘
good reliable grain drill to do the work—
a drill that will not clog, choke or skip-—
a drill that will handle any size seed in
any quantity desired—a drill that will
sow all brands of commercial fcrtilizcrs,
no matter how difﬁcult to handle. That
Old, reliable grain drill, the Farmers’ Fav-
orite, manufactured by The American
Seeding-Machine Company. Incorporated,
Springﬁeld, Ohio, is a drill that can be
thoroughly relied upon to do the work ot'
any farmer in any part of the world.
Among: the many styles and sizes of
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runs no risk. Send for the Farmers’ Fay-
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dealer and insist on looking over the
la‘armcrs’ Favorite Drill.

 
You Ought to Know
—Before You Buy— '
how helpful it is to have A
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ENGINE

The beet way to keep an engine cool is
with water. but the tank that usually goes
with it ie a big nuisance. The Novo has an
even better wetercooling. and without a sep-
arate tank. Watereooled engines have al-
ways risked injury from slightest freezing.
It the water in the Nova froze solid. it
could' t hurt anything.

Moat stationery engines
very hard to move them. The working parts
of no engine are stronger than the Novo. but
by leaving out the useless iron in the

use, it is made less cumbersome and only

 
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FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.
A Ration For Fattening Steers.

I have silage, corn meal, beets. corn in
the stalk and hay for fattening steers.
Of the latter two, am short. How shall I
feed and what further supply do I need
for proﬁtable results'.’

Isabella C0. 1:. H.

While it would be possible to secure
fairly good results with fattening steers
by using the feeds above enumerated. yet
any combination of them would make too
wide a ration for best results and it
would pay better to purchase some cen~
ccntrate high in protein to combine with
these feeds than it would to use them
alone. Having plenty of succulent feed
in the ration, COthnSet-t‘l meal would per-
haps be the cheapest source of this need-
ed protein and, as the supply of shock
corn is limited, it would be better to use
this feed during the early part of the
feeding period than later. By feeding
one feed of cnsilage pcr day with the
cottonseed meal and a little hay, and one
feed of shock corn, a. fairly well balanced
ration would be secured and more econ-
omical results might be expected than
would be the case if corn meal were fed
in connection with the above feeds. Later
on in the feeding period. the shock corn
could be gradually displaced with corn
meal and cottonseed meal or oil meal
with hay for roughage. While ensilage
is a good feed for fattening steers in
limited quantities, it should not be used
as largely as for cows. One good feed of
ensilage per day is all that can be proﬁt-
ably used, especially during the latter
part of the feeding period, and if a small
amount of cottonseed meal is fed at first
with a. moderate feed of cnsilagc. and
gradually increased until the steers are
getting about four pounds per day. a
fairly well balanced ration will be sc-
cured, provided the hay is clover. If
not, a little oil meal could also be added
to your ration with good results as the
feeding period prt’ngresscs. The length
of the feeding period contemplated will
have much to do with whether the steers
should be gotten on to full feed quickly
or not. If they are to be fed for the late
spring market, it 'will be as Well to take
plenty of time to get them up to a maxi-
mum ration. ‘When they are on full feed,
the skillful feeder will regulate the
amount of the grain ration to the needs
and appetite of the steers to a nicety.
No ﬁxed rule can be laid down with re-
gard to the amount it will be proﬁtable
to feed, this being an individual problem
which must be worked out by the feeder.
During the later part of the feeding
period the quantity of silage may be
profitably decreased, and some roots sub-
stituted as a succulent factor in the ra-
tion. \Vith the. fceds at hand and the
concentrates suggested, very good gains
should be secured. and profitable results
secured from fattening the steers as there
is every indication that the market will
be a good one,

KEEP MORE SHEEP.

 
Michigan is fast becoming a great dairy
state. There is no good reason why it
ought not become a great sth-p state,
too. No other state in lili' union has bet-
ter climatic conditions. soil and market
for the economic production of both wool
and mutton. Nature has given to Mich-
igan and adjoining states the best she
has and holds forth an inviting induce-
ment to keep all the live stock on our
farms the land will proﬁtably sustain. I

wonder frechntly it” inc farmers of our
state are fully aware of the great oppor-
tunities that lie within Muir reach in the
prodtustion of all kin.l< of live stock.

Michigan is not :ilont Wonderfully wcll
.tdaptcd to dairying. but her geographic
location, her rich and varied soils and her
efficient shipping facilities both cast and
west into the very heart. of consumption
piaccs hcr naturally in the front rank as
a live stock state.

Then why should not Michigan and her
adjoining sister Slate‘s maintain inori- and
larger herds and flocks upon lit-r farms.
it is the consensus of opinion :mmng prac—
tical farmers and able authorities on ag-
ricultural subjects that the best and most
economic means of improving the produc-
tiveness of the soil is to feed out on the
land all the roughage and grain removed
from the soil and return most of its
manurial value back from whence it came
to restore plant food and to improve the
mechanical condition of the soil. if we

THE, MICHIGAN FARMER.

study carefully agricultural conditions in
older_countries where the soil has been

~under eultivatiOn for hundreds of years

we ﬁnd that the most highly valued and
productive lands are in parts where live
stock raising has been the prominent fea-
ture of soil tillage. If this be a fact, why
not we Americans proﬁt by the lessons
given us and endeavor to conserve our
natural resources by the adoption of the
best and most practical methods of hand-
ling the soil and conserving its productive
ability.

The. farms in this state and many oth-
ers are not today carrying near the live
stock they ought. Numerous instances
have come. under my observaion in the
past few years where the ﬁne herds and
ilocks have been handed down to son from
the father only to be sold off the farm
and totally eliminated from the plan of
soil management. I do not claim that the
productlyeness of the soil cannot be main-
tained and improved thru other means of
tillage, but i do want tobe understood
that instances are indeed scarce and far
between where such methods are being
success fully conducted. Live stock is one
of the best means to the end of main-
taining soil fertility and when eliminaed
from the farm grave conditions are almost
sure to follow. For best results the farm
must become a factory in the full term of
the expression. The raw material must
be converted into ﬁnished products and
in such a manner that the larger portion
of the roughage and grain removed from
the soil can be returned to undergo de-
composition and add fertility to the land.

Many farms in this state are not con-
veniently situated to make dairying and
beef production alone the most proﬁtable
live stock to raise. These farms are in
numerous instances suitable for keeping
sheep, and sheep can be made equally as
profitable, if not more so, everything con-
sidered, than almost any other line of live
stock growing. There are also a large
number of farms over this state that are
not carrying any more live stock than is
absolutely necessary to provide the essen.
tial horse power to till the land. The
method in vogue on some of these farms
is simply to turn the soil upside down
year after year, and sell the crops off the
land as fast as they can be grown. This
method of handling the soil has. in most
instances, and will in cases where in
vogue, lead to the ruination of the land
and make it unproﬁtable for cultivation.
Instances in my own community are be-
coming manifest every year where such
methods of soil management have resulted
in failure, and numerous more cases will

become a matter of record unless the‘
owners of the land give more thot and
attention to maintaining the fertility Of'

their soil.

There are hundreds upon hundreds of
farms in this state that could very proﬁt~
ably sustain paying flocks of sheep. The
fact that they demand much leSs attention
than some other lines of live stock recom~
mends them for the purpose of converting
farm grown 'roughage and grain into ﬁn—
ished products for the market. Instances
are indeed frequent in many localities

in this state where sheep husbandry. both‘

the keeping of breeding flocks and feeding
of lambs, has built up rich and produc-
tive farms and made land owners well-
tQ-dO farmers. The outlook is very en-
couraging for the production of high—grade
wool and mutton. The fact should not be
overlooked that both wool and mutton
should go hand in hand.
Shiawassec C0. LEO C, REYNOLDS.

THINKS BEET TOPS A SAFE FEED.

 
I have read Mr. Stockman’s articles on
feeding beet tops. with much interest. but
I do not fully agree with him in condemn-
ing the same. “'111-11 :1 person condemns
a good thing it gives the imprcsion that
there must be something wrong in the
way of ft.-etli11::.

In this vicinity beet tops have been fed
and valued to quite an extent. \i'e ha e
always fed ours with good results by
turning the cutth- into the field for an
hour or two a day or drawing them up
as wanted. I have known of cattle being
turned into the field to help themselves
for weeks at a time.

Of course. I believe. as Mr. Lillie says,
that too much of a thing is injurious. the
same as it‘ fed in a poor condition. I
think that if a person were to live on
saurkraut for any length of time he might
get kidney trouble or something worse.
Yet I have, my doubts whether even Mr.
Stoekman would condemn it as a food.

I wonder how many of the readers of
The. Farmer would use a silo without a
roof. putting in a load of beet tops, then
a load of beet pulp. and so on, ﬁlling the

JAN. 8, 1910.

  
Aren’t You Losing Sheep from
Stomach Worms?

Millions of dollars' worth of sheep die annually from curable or preventable
diseases. Haven't your own losses contributed to this amount? 'In a single
year in the Central States alone, three million lambs have been killed by stom—
ach worms. Some of your sheep are dying now. You may lose more.

If the animals move about with laggard steps. drooping ears and dull eyes,
if they have lost weight, if they have colic and later diarrhoea. they are 111‘

fected with stomach worms.
Will Save Them

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This remedy is a highly medicated salt. It is simply placed before your
stock and they doctor themselves. It absolutely destroys these parasites and
prevents spreading of the infection. By toning the weakened digestive oxgans,
it enables the animals to thrive better on less food and puts them in prime
condition for the market in least time.

Act 110w; stop your losses; increase your proﬁts by feeding Sal- -Vet. You
are losing many times its cost every day you do without it. It costs only
lone- twelfth of a cent a day pet head.

Sal Vet Recommended by the President of the American
Shropshire Reg. Association.

"Lost your one of my friends was about to give up his flock of sheep kept
on his golf grounds. which were sheeped to death. They were dying.

His ‘vet said land was infected and he would have to sell his sheep and
plow it up. I said “Nonsense. use ‘SAL VET'. He did. Result: he has his
sheep; they are healthy and he still uses them to trim his golf rounds.
I Im still keeping 'SAL VET' before my sheep all the time and t ey are

       
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and cattle. Prices, 100 lbs. $5: 200 lbs. :59; 300 lbs. 1513. $Q§§Q $0 ..

SEND NO MONEY " ' . ‘
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all Michigan horsemen by our u-Voterl-

large exhibit“ thoSlnto Fair. In!" “I“

In the previous iuue of the ceontotho

Michigan Farmer they gave the French

ltartling newt of our wonderful m.

means, not alone over our mthud

Iichignu exhibitorl, but over
all exhibitors of 1111; several 4
States that were represented in 1‘ ‘ +11% ' '
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11 am mare c uuel (em

except the 4th priz. In the 2-year ["1th ‘0 aduce don't, scar ““071? k uh 11.".
old stallion clan. All our hot“! :ffﬁﬁf est ".te Mr B 0.. I! 800
are now at our Burn! ready for a 11 men" for mhi d or “mam em

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silo, and feed this combination after it
was in a. condition so that all passers-by
commented on “the lovely smell;” or pile

up a lot of beet pulp and feed it in' a

frozen condition. Such things have been
done, but it seems as tho it might be poor
policy.

I think that feeders of beets and beet
tops need not be much alarmed if they
are careful in feeding'the same.

Eaton Co. L. T. OPPENLANDER.

 
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

 
There are not many sheepmen who
practice fall shearing of their ﬂocks of
sheep and lambs, as the plan looks un—
attractive to them, but feeders who have
done so recently have been reporting
proﬁts of from 25 to 35 per cent. The
ﬂocks that were shorn in the fall were
kept in covered sheds and thrived well,
some lambs nearly doubling their game
in‘weight after being clipped, while those
that were “ticky” made gains of about
one-third. _

Prominent live stock commission ﬁrms
located at Chicago have been overworked
on some recent Mondays on account of
the disproportionately liberal cattle
“runs" on that day. On a recent Monday
considerably more than half of the re-»
ceipts for the entire week came in on
Monday, and the market was in bad
Shape for three days,‘ great numbers of
cattle accumulating in the yards and
selling at greatly reduced prices. Var-
ious causes led to this rush of cattle to
market, but the principal reasons were
the dearness of corn and a desire to cut
feed bills, and higher prices in Chicago
than those paid at Missouri river markets.
Too many cattle have been marketed in
a number of recent weeks, the great bulk
comprising steers that had been fed but
a short time and were not fat, and es-
pecially bad results have followed havmg
the great bulk of the Chicago receipts on
Monday and Wednesday. Glutting the
market on Monday gives the buyer an
undue advantage, and John Clay, a prom—
inent commission merchant, says it would
be putting it mildly to say that havmg
46,294 cattle on 'the Chicago market .on
Monday, December 13. cost country ship-
pers $250,000. It is extremely unfortunate
that domestic buyers, as well as exporters
want the bulk of their cattle on two days
in the week. On the Monday referred to
there were over 132,000 animals in the
Chicago stock yards to handle, embracing,
in addition to the cattle, 37,709 sheep, 46,-
294 hogs and 2,398 calves.

The average quality of the hogs now
arriving at the Chicago stock yards is
good, but the offerings are unusually un—
even in weight. A trader remarked a few
days ago: “A short time ago buyers had
no diﬂiculty in making up droves of hogs
of even weight, but now the offerings run
all the way from 200 to 600 pounds, and
a uniform load of hogs is almost an
oddity."

Last spring’s pigs are fattening rapidly,
and almost invariably they are reported
as healthy. Few stock feeders fail to
recognize the importance of taking the
best care of their droves of hogs and
furnishing them with plenty of feed, and
it is generally believed that it will pay
well to feed corn at even higher prices
than those now current. Hogs may sell
on a lower basis than that now prevail-
ing, but no one expects to see low—priced
hogs for a long time ahead, and it is
figured that on the basis of recent prices
of hogs, corn fed to hogs should be ﬁg—
ured at 80c a bushel. It is manifestly
impossible to know the extent of the
spring pig “crop.” but the general belief.
based on reports from all sections, is that
it is smaller than usual. It is certain that
the requirements of the trade are ex—
tremely large, and this has been well
demonstrated recently by the way the
big receipts on some days were gobbled
up by the Chicago packers. It has also
been shown that stockmen are determined
to get their own prices for their hogs,
and the country has been holding hogs
ﬁrmly at $8 per 100 lbs. on the farm and
ceasing to sell freely on every consider—
able break in prices.

The condition of country roads exerts
a marked inﬂuence on the marketing of
hogs, and at frequent intervals for months
past the shipments from country points
were checked materially by the impossi-
bility of hauling the swine to loading sta-
tions. Cattle can be driven, regardless
of road conditions, but farmers have been
forced in numerous- instances to wait for
the roads to harden before they could
send in their fat hogs. A great many
April pigs are getting in marketable
shape, and with good winter weather,
larger supplies may be looked for.

The statement of the U. S, Department
of Agriculture that Chicago retail meat
dealers make an average proﬁt of 46 per
cent has been afﬁrmed by John H. Scho-
ﬁeld, secretary of the American Associa-
tion of Master Butchers. He has made a
careful investigation, following the recent
statement by Secretary James Wilson.
According to a. test he conducted, taking
the price submitted by former Chicago
Alderman George Duddleston, a large
butcher, as an average, Mr. Schoﬁeld
declares that from a single steer he would
receive $59, or a gross proﬁt of $19, which
is 47% per cent gross proﬁt. Mr. Scho-
ﬁeld says that when the retailers realize
a smaller proﬁt it is thru failing to ﬂgure
the disposal of the cattle properly_

The Chicago provision “pit” on the
Board of Trade of late has reminded the
old trader of the early “eighties," when
the whole world of commerce was inter-
ested in the daily ﬂuctuations of the Chi-
cago market. Many outsiders have made
large proﬁts by their foresight in buying
January and May provisions steadily ever
since the beginning of last October. Al-
tho hog receipts are increasing in vol-
ume, consumption is still up to produc-
tion, and cellars are as bare of hog
products as they were last November.
Most of the hog receipts are used to sat-
isfy the fresh meat trade, and increasing
the stocks of cured meats and lard is
slow work. - '

 
. . If You Have
Cattle, Hogs or
§_heep toLMarket

Or Are Thinking of
Buying Feeders—

Remcmber, that upon your choice of a commission ﬁrm may
largely depend your proﬁts. Any banker, and any live-stock
shipper for whom we have ever done business, will tell you that

gay, Robinson & Co.

 
Are “O. K? _

We invite your consignments, whetherlarge or small. Whether
you are a. feeder who ships only an occasional carload, or a
regular shipper, you may rest assured of first-class service and
highest market value. _

Our feedeITbuying service is unexcelled. Send us your
orders for anything you want in the line of feeding cattle or sheep,
and save money and worry.

.Reliable market information and advice cheerfully furnished.
Write us at whatever market you intend shipping to.

gay, Robinson & Co.

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DAIRY BBED. EHORTHORNS—Only one bull

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Mt. 8 months oldii rtco MEL “onmmcgood

' SHEEP.
PARSONS. OXFORDDMWIS
RomnYNn c. Pansods. Grncnd n’odeo. Mich.

Oxford - Down 8 been $3.212?“
cattle for sale. A. D. & J. A. DEGARMO, Muir. Mich.

OXFORD DOWNS ﬂeidurvzulg‘lgii‘

sale. H. J. De GARLIC. R. No.1. Clyde. Mich.

 
ready to

OXFORD DOWN EWES

bred to lmlportod rams for sale at farmers prices
MILLER. Flint. Michigan.

 
liocliemi Farm llclauses—gifg’oghg'fgef‘“1.1.52;
right. D E. TURNERaBONs. Mosherville, Mich.
FOR SALE—Registered Rambouillets. to
ewes and ram lambu.

THOS. FLETCHER do SON. Chelsea. Mich.

 
Savings from a Well-Fenced Farm Will Pay for Other Improvements

“ ‘The most profitable crop walks to
market or is carried in the cream can.’
The raising of swine can be made one
of the most proﬁtable industries. It
promises quicker and greater returns
for labor and capital expended. Chan-
ging swine from one pasture to anothc1 is
desirable, as they will do vastly better ()11
fresh pasture and keep much healthie: .”

W W. P. McCONNELL.

flows at Auction-27‘

p ilso :1 Quantity oi other Desirable Properly.

Having bought at forced sale. will sell at Public
Auction at the Colonial Stock Faun. Oak Grove.
Mich.. on FRIDAY. Jan. 14th. at lo'clock, p. m.
:7 head of grade Holstein females. fresh and to
freshen soon. Also 1.000 rods of wire fence. 500 rods
of barb wire. and 1.000 bundles of corn. together with
a quantity of new iarming tools. Oak Grove is situ-
ated on the Ann Arbor B. 3.. 27 miles north of Ann
Arbor. and 15 miles south oi Durand; trains arrive
as 10 o’clock. s. m. .and leave atﬁ :20 and 6:18. p.111.

J. B. TAZIMAN, Oak Grovo. Mich.

0r Money Refunded.
. NECVTON’S
“cove. Cough nil
Dieter-per Cure.
’Si .00 per can lldt fancier...
ears’
~ . > or wenpgaesg‘pamr bo’ioklet.
‘ ' Horse Troubles.
THE NEWTON RELIED DY CO. Toledo. Ohio.

JACKS AND MULES.

Boise mules and get rich.
300 fine. large Jacks. Jen-
nies and mules. 14 to 17
hands high. weigh from 700
to 1500 lbs. Good ones. I
pay a part of shipping.
Mules In teams or car-
ioad lots. Stock guaranteed.
Write for prices today.
KBEKLEB’S JACK FARM
West Elkton. Ohio.

KENTUCKY MAMMOTH JAGKS.

Registered Mammoth Jacks. [Saddle Horses.
’i‘rotting and pacing stallions. 260 head to
select from. Cntslorznes are now ready.

J. F. CilOK Ge Co... Lexington. Ky.

()N E good. young registered Percheron more
(in foot.) and one stallion coming one year old.
WBRAY Okemos. (Inghsm Co. ) Mich.

PElliillEiiilii SllLLillliS. 9d“°s‘.2':i‘u3'.'3idc‘iif'roiffél'
ao. reasonable prices. ’1‘. I. SonthworthirSon, 3.13, Alien, Mich.

—Horses. Cattl 8h . rs
For Sale or Poultry ngariyeailii 1.3%." 312%:

exchanged. Southwest Michigan Pedigreod Stock
AasoclntiomB . BE Jenninkl. Sec" Paw Paw. Mich.

FOR SALE-samemga

two wyeara old. fast. I“. L. RING. Charlotte. Mich.

HORSE Coins Blind. BARRY
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00.. IoWnCCity. Iowa.

 
Ellwood Pence is built on simple, cor-
rect p1iHCp1es. The cross (or niesh)
wires are ﬁrmly wound around heavy
cable horizontal or line wires, forming a
truss brace that eﬁectually prevents
side- -slipping. It really is a WIRE
BOARD, with meshes only 4 inches
across throughout the ﬁrst 18 inches of
all styles of hog fences.

Ellwood Fences combine great strength
with closeness of mesh. They hold the
grown hog and the suckling pig. All

styles furnished with barbed wire woven
at bottom if desired. With barbed-bot-
tom Ellwood Hog Fence you save the
cost of an extra strand of barbed wire
stretched under the fence, as is required
with plain bottom fence

F. BAACKES, Vice-President and General Sales Agent

AMERICAN STEEL a. wnus co.

Chicago New York Denver San Francisco
NOTE—Deniers Everywhere. See the one in your
to“ n and hm 0 him show you the different dcsi 11s and

gii 0 prices. Also get from him booklet entitlei “How
to Build a Cheap Concrete Fence Post." furnished troo
for the asking.

 
BliliElllilS’ DIRECTORY.
can“.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.

Herd headed by UNDULATA BLACKBIBD
83830. one oi the best sons of PRINCE ITO
:150006. and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit
and Grand Rapids Fairs oi 1901.1908 and 1909. Bord
consists oi Ericas. Blackbirds. Prices. etc
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionlu. Mich.

 
BEBDEEN-ANGUB and POLLED DURHAM

BULL Bargains. Choice regls'ered Show Bulls.
Blue-blooded pedigrees. No reasonable oifer refused.
The Clover Blossom Farm. Port Austin. Mich.

AYRSEIRES—A Dairy Breed of much merit.
Young stock for 5319— also Berk-
shire Pigs. nnd ten varieties highbred Cookerels.
Eggs in season. Mich. School for the Deni Flint.

' Breeders and Importers of high
I‘D” “Id" Farm ciaseGuernsoys. Write us your
wants. E. a .i. T. MILLER. Birmingham. Mich.

L4ONG BEACH FARM.

"2.9. HOLSTEIN ‘" M”

iorod.

4 Young Bulls-One 330: three at $45: one at 0100
ES RKENFIELD. Augusta. (Kalamazoo Co. ) Mich.

 
If you are interested in

Holstein Friesian Cattle

before you buy do not fall to write us in reference to
some male calves we have from carefully selected
and ofﬁcially tested dams some of which have made
over 3 lbs oi butter in a day and sired by the Grand
Champion Ohio. Michigan and West Michigan
State Fairs. 1909. Prices 020 to .85 each.

GREGORY dc BORDEN. D No. 2. Howell. Mich.

HOLSTEIN BULLCALF

a BARGAIN if
sold at once. 0. D. WOODBUBY. Lansing. Mich.

HOLSTE'Ns—Yooriing bulls from A
R. 0. stock .75. Bull calves
025 to 060 each. E. 3.00 km Howell. Mich.

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Holsteins §“3%':.';‘.'..‘.".’2t.fo.i%me.ch:
E. COLLIER. 8.1T. D. 5. Fowlorviilo. Mich.

TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS.

Top Notch registered young Holstein Bulls eons-
blning in themselves the blood of cows which now
hold and have in the past hold World's Records for

milk and butterJat at fair .
MoPBERSON FAR 00.. Howell. Mich.

yawn. bull“

 
Who .76
leach. I. M. SHOBMAN. Fowlorvlllo. Illch.

ilﬂiiiiiMiii iiooi Fiiiii, [Holstein Callie.

ACKSON.
ﬂue more hnportlod lIllolecoin-Frieda“ Cows
this on anyL farm IIIt the III ddloW est. Registered
BULLC VESo he moat fashionable breeding. 30
fine. registered. Dutroc Jersey sows due to furrow soon.

IIOLSTEII FlilESillS iii-$3.. hiyﬁ'iiii-i’.

B. Rock cockerels. W. B. JONES. Oak Grove. Mich.

Holstein Service Bulls.

Bull Calvrs. Yearling. two-ytar-old Heifers. bred.
and cows. due to freshen in spring for sale. 50 hold
in herd. L. E. CONNELL. Fayette. Ohio.

HEREFoRDS=-ats.s.“1r:;:izse

Chins hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mich.

Jersey Bulls, Bows and Heifers

Island and 8t. Lambert breeding. Also some
choice grade heifers.

DUROC JERSEY SOWS

Choice individuals and popular blood linos. Insp oc-
tton invited Full information cheerfuhy furnished.
If you cannot visit our farm at once write
BROOKWATER FARM, Ann Arbor, Mich.
A. W. MUMFORD, Manager.

Northern Grown Joroo s.
ROYCEOFT FARM. Sid-aw. Mic .

JERSEY BUL
BUTTER BRED FoBmLE,Ls

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Sliver Crook. Allocnn County. Michigan.

Pure Si. lamberi JESSEYS harness “:35,

CLARENCE BRISTOL. Fenton. Mich. R.F.D.No. 5.

LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS

We have some splendid young bulls for sale. Some
oi them are old enough for service. They are from
cows with records of 300 to 426 pounds of butter last
year. Write for doscrl on and prices

COLON C. LIL IE. Cooper-ville. Mich.

 
13 Reg. Ramboillet Ewes for sale. descended

from the best ﬂocks and bred to a pure;Van
Homeyer and a ram sired by a Gilbert ram and im-
ported dam. Allin perfect health. In lots to suit buy-
ers—none reserved. J. Q. A. Cook. Morrice. Mich.

Ki d h k. Mi h. if -
“OPE-K0" Hill, nu;l fiidi‘ivo-yeas-ol'dosfrrgpzieiiie
owes and bucks at prices you can afford to pay.

iOiReg.)RAMBOUILLE 233‘

1 rain cheap. A. A. WILSON. Grand Rapids. Mich.

SliliOPSlllRli YEARLING RAMS $16

(sixteen) each. Express paid to quick buyer
BOBT. GROVES. (Shepherd) R, D. 8. Pontiac. Mich-

SHROPSH I RES ‘Cfghcgvi‘ﬁsnis

810 to $16 each. C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Mich.

SHROPSHIHE HALL STOCK FARM.

Will make special prices for thirty days. on ewes

 
‘ from 1 toil years old. all bred to Imported Cooper.

and Monseil rams to lamb in March and April. also
an Very choice ewe lambs. thisls to make room for an
importation that Is going to arrive this spring.

‘ L. 8. DURHAM 0580118. Concord. Michigan.

 
HOGS.

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BERKSHIRE boiﬁfioi. f..'.?i..f‘gchouci°1ﬁu
pigs. '1‘. CKS. B. No. ll. Battle Creek, Mich.

 
rlAHiiE ENGLISH BEBKSHIBES.

Have a. fine lot of spring pigs. both sexes. Thetypo
ior proﬁtable pork production. Vigorous and strong

' and of best blood lines. Satisfaction guaranteed.

i-‘. A. BYWA’l‘i-Ili, Memphis. Mich.
BERKSHIRES $.31: "335‘. Tn“;

strains. C. S. BABTLETT. Pontiac, Mich.

Boars—Berkshire-—Boars

Two. weighing 400 lbs. each one350. good ones. too.
and Chcnp. Other smaller ones. They must go at
once. Guernsey bull calves. Pckln Ducks. end
Barred Rock cockcrels HUPP FARM. Bir-
mingham. Michigan G. C. HUPP. Manager.

iiﬂliTliElili GROWN BEHKSIIIIIES.
YFCROF’I‘ M. Sid-aw. Mich .
Two Boers, do for fall service. A few Gilts loft. Also a lino

lotci fall pigs ready for weaning. Either sex or pairs
no:kin. A. A. PATTULLO, Dockervills, Michigan,

 
ADAMS BROS. Improved Chester Whites, Litch-
ﬁeld. Mich. won 125 premiums in '09. Booking
orders for bred sows: boars ready for service. Bu! Book, W.
0rpiugton,W. Leghorn cock 'ls. Shorthorn bulls ready for service

IMPROVE CHESTER: €£°l2$€32ﬂ§25§l35$¥
open. Also choice Holstein Bull Calves. of the best of
breeding. W. 0. Wilson. Okomos. Mich. Both phones.

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Ponian Herd oi Chester Milne: I;.‘;f§;°‘ﬁ2.’{,',’g
sows and spring gills. bred for March and April
tarrowlng. WILL W. FISHER. Watervllot. Mich.

ounoc JERSEY SWINE. some 11°31; it

for 16. J. H. BANGHABT. Lansing, ion.

UROC-JERSEYS—SO bred and open sows. pleniy
of growth and quality. Boers ready for service.
Pﬂcos:right. Write‘J. C. Barney. Goldwater. Mich.

DUROC JERSEYS

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Haul-ll. Mich.

0.1. c. SWINE-(*rszrtio":

Chief. the World's Champion and Grand Champ-
ion 0. I. C Boar. heads my herd. he is also a
grandson of Tutesy. the World' s Champion sow. I
am sold out of spring and June iarrow of both sexes.
A. J. GORDEN. R. F. D. No. 2. Don. Mich.

O I. C. swine of spring iarrow. both sexes. Some
0 Aug. and Oct. pigs. All of right type and breed-
ing.‘Geo. P. Andrews. Dansvilie. Ingham Co.. Mich.

o I G's FOB. SALE—Spring pigs all sold
0 I Good fall igs to offer. Either sex.
not akin. OTTO B. SCH LZE. Nashville. Mich.

—s in no lin brodi
Faun” BHINIS stainingg .iarr'ygvf Thingze Hull:
and priced right. WM. WAFFLE. Coldwater.Mlch.

_ —Butier’s Famous W d —
Pal-"Sn Mill“ ”Gs Eept.fa1row. Blg.o:e:tlearn
type, big bone, long bodies, big litters. The farmers' hog. Pairs
it trios. They it make you smile. J. C. Butler, Portland, lick.

”MN”ﬁlms—5::iriarane on?

Also sows. E. D. BishOp. B. 38. Lake Odessa. Mich.

 
yPOLAND-CHINAS—Loug bodied. strong boned.

sows. bred to choice boars. Send ior snap-shot
and close prices. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich.

 
Register oi Merit Jerseys. ”£3.52?”
'1'. F. “ROTOR. Bay City. Micki-an.

IBSEY BULL CAL!“ born Mar. 13. '09. 2nd an

almost in“ e 11 tdiidnriukmlzi‘ar‘rr'
as -year . no n v

MunnAY-Warlnsnw Co" B. 6. Ann Arbor. Mich.

 
P c. sows Brodf ai'or' spring

WOOD «I: SONS. Baillie. Mich.

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P. c. BOARS whit? ﬁlia’iﬁ’éf‘é‘itﬂf

faction guaranteed. MILLS. Bali no. men,

—8c be -
USS! IMPROVED YORKSHIRES m..2§.°'.',‘.,.f...‘.§‘.’.

sex. 012.60 each. Satisfaction guaranteed. It you
want the most economics! feeders possible. breed
your sows to a Yorkshire boar. Yorkshires are sure
to be the most popular breed of the future.

COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersvilie. Mich.

 
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should state history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the ‘same ailments. If.this column is
watched carefully you will probably ﬁnd
the desired information.in a reply that
has been made to some one else.

 
Mange.—What can be done to cure
calves of mange? Mine have it. A. B.,
St. Johns, Mich.———Apply one part sulphur
and four parts lard once a. day, or coal-
tar disinfectant. .

Rheuinatism.—I have a cow that. is
troubled with rheumatism; her jelnts
swell; she is well fed and runs out for
exercise five or six hours a day. J. L. B.,
Albion, Mich.—-Give 1/2 oz. doses nitrate
potash three times a day and apply mus-
tard and water to swollen Jomts once
daily. V

Founder.—-Two months ago my 10-year-
old mare was foundered and as I didn t
know what ailed her she was not treated
properly, consequently She. Is very stiff
and sore. R. M., Areada, MlCll.-'—K€ep her
forefeet cool and moist and blister coro-
nets in front once a week, using cerate
of cantharides. Stand her‘in a tub of
warm water three hours daily.

Surfeit—Itchy Skin.—I haVe a Clyde
mare that has been troubled for some
time 'with a. roughness of the skin, causmg
her to rub and make the hide sore. She
has better than ordinary care, her heels
have been sore but are well now. A. L.,
Hetherton, Mich—Give 2 tablespoonfuls
of baking soda at a dose in feed three
times daily; groom her twice daily and
apply one part coal-tar disinfectant and
50 parts of water daily to itchy parts of
body.

Constipation—-Anemia.—My cow .has
poor bowel action; her appetite is irre-
gular; our Vet. has treated her for anemia
and constipation, but she does not gain
in ﬂesh and strength. Is all my other
stock in danger of becoming infected?
W. M., Mears, Micli.——It is possible that
your cow has tuberculosis, and I suggest
having her tested with tuberculin. Give
1 oz. ground gentian, 1 oz. ginger and 2
ozs. Glauber’s salts at a dose three times
a day for ﬁve days then give it twice
daily. Feed her whatever kind of food she
craves.

Bone Spavin—Cow Has Poor Appetite.
——I would like to know how to treat a
horse for spavin; also. what to give a
cow that has a poor appetite. R. W. C.,
Zeeland, Mich.——If the spavin does not
cause lameness leave it alone; if lame,
blister with cerate of cantharides or red
iodide mercury One part, and lard six
parts, or try any of the spavin remedies
that are regularly advertised in this
paper.

Lousy Cattle—My cattle are frequently
troubled with lice and I would like to
know what to keep on hand that will kill
them? C. B. R., Sparta, Mich.——Perhaps
the most effectual lice killer is a decoc-
tion or infusion of Stavesacre (seeds),
Put 1/1, lb. in a gallon of hot water, let it
simmer for an hour or longer then strain
and apply daily for two or three days,
then once a week. KerOSene and lard,
equal parts, kill lice, so does insect powder
and coal—tar disinfectants.

Canker.——My dog shakes his head al—
most constantly on account of having sore
ears; his eyes are also sore. Tell me how
to treat him. J, I. B., Hastings. Mich.—
Drop one part peroxide hydrogen and
three parts clean water into dog‘s ears
very slowly once a day, rub on some dry
sulphur where he itches and put some
boric acid into eyes once a day.

D. S H, Kibble, Mich. See treatment
for lice in this paper.

Wound on Leg—Bog Spavin.——Tell me
what to do for two-yezlr-old colt with
bog-spavin; also, how to heal the wound
on the shin and pastern of a colt. C. E.
L., Williamslon, Mich—Blister with
cerate of cantharldes or any of the blis-
ters that are advertised regularly in this
paper. Apply peroxide hydrogen twice a
day; ten minutes later apply equal parts
powdered alum. oxide zinc, calolnel and
iodoform. Don’t bandage the sore too
much; cover it lightly with oakum and a
cotton bandage. '

Nausea—Weak Stomach in Pup—My
four—months-old pup seems to have a
weak stomach; there is a rattling sort of
noise in his throat which is somewhat
relieved after he vomits. W'llat shall I
give him to overcome this ailment? E.
’. D., VVoodville, Mich—Give 10 grs.
chloretone in a teaspoonful of glycerine
twice a day, but if the pup is small and
not of 20 lbs. weight give 5 grs. at a dose.
He may be wormy; if so give 20 grs. pow-
dered areca nut in the morning twice a
week.

_Condition Powder for Horses—Please
give me a formula to take to drug store
and have made up in bulk, that will prove
to be a good condition powder for live
stock, and I shall be thankful for it.‘ s.
W., Fennville, Mich.——A good and not too
expensive condition powder for 'horses
and other live stock is made by mixing
equal parts by weight: Powdered su1_
phate iron, ground gentian, ground ginger,
bicarbonate soda, ground cinchona, char-
coal and salt. A tablespoonful or more
given at a dose in feed to either horses
or cattle will tone up their digestion and
they will thrive better than if not tak-
ing it.

Impaction—Lice.—VVe gave out eight-
months-old heifer calf nearly two gallons
of linseed oil, some castor oil, also epsom
salts before we succeeded in relieving
her of constipation; now her appetite is
110*- good and she bloats some. My calves
are troubled with large black lice. How
can I kill them? R. C., Montague, Mich.—
She has not yet recovered from the effects

(Continued on page 43),

 
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THE DAIR .'

 
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CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.

 
THE COMING FIGHT ON OLEO.
Representative Burleson, of Texas, has
introduced into the House of Representa-
tives a bill repealing the tax on oleomar-
garine and other dairy products ﬁxed by
the act of 1902. This, of course, means
that the oleo forces of the United States
are determined to repeal the Grout bill,
the present law governing the manufac-
ture and sale of oleomargarine. Everyone
will remember that the present law allows
the manufacture of uncolored oleomar-
garine by paying a tax of one—quarter of
a cent a pound, which tax was imposed
upon tlte product simply so the govern-
ment could keep track of the manufacture
of it. But colored oleomargarine, colored
to imitate yellow butter, is subject to a
revenue tax of ten cents a pound. It is.
this feature of the present bill, of course,
that the oleo forces strongly object to.
\l’hat they want is to be allowed to color
oleomargarine without restriction, to imi-
tate butter, and that is just what the
dairymen and what the consumer ought
to ﬁght against. This is the bone of con-
tention between the two forces.

The oleo manufacturer argues tltat as
long as the. dairyman has a right to color
butter artificially, he ought to have a
right to color fallow artificially to make
it look like butter, but there is no logic
tn this whatever. ‘ The farmer simply
colors winter butter so that it looks like
.lune butter. There is no fraud about it,
no attempt is made. to sell the product
for anything but butter. The sole ob-
ject in coloring winter butter is to have
butter unifornt in color thruout the year.
Nobody is defrauded. I‘JVOI‘NIKNLV under—
stands it. But whett tlte oleo manufac-
turer colors tilllOW, in imitation of yellow
butter he docs it solely for the purpose
of deceiving the purchaser. the customer,
and really the customer is more interest—
ed in the legislation govcrning this than
the dairyman. The dairyman and the
consumer as well can have no objection
to the packers manufacturing olcomar-
garine. It is clean and, in a large meas-
ure, wholesome. Is is very hard on di-
gestion and certainly invalitls and children
ought not to think of eating oleomar-
garine if they can get butter—fat. because.

butter-fat is the most easily digested of

all fats. But laying that aside. the dairy-
man and Consumer. 1 say. have no par.
ticular objection to the manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine if it is sold and
purchased for what it really is. The
troublc of it is, the olcontargarinc manu-
facturer wants to sell oleo for butter. He
wants to deceive the consumer so that he
can get an unwarranted price for his
product. Now, in this the consumer ought
to be as much interested as the dairy-
man. The principle really comes under
tltc same heading as the most of our pure
food laws. The pure food laws of today
are largely for the purpose of preventing
fraud and deception. and no manufac-
turers put ingredients into food products
that are detrimental to any apprr-cial-t»
cxtent; but they try every way possible
to cheapen the product. to make a ('l.‘:ap
product look like some other product i.
tltat they can sell it for that prwlvnzz am:
deceive the people. \‘Vhat the): an» Zl'jv'SIJ;
to do is to cheapen the cost of prod NJ! 0:.
so that they can undersell semi—2'». 33' :
and get the lion's share of t}... 1..» ,3...-
’l‘hat's just what the olcomztrgariin 1:,» .2—
ufacturer wants to do. “'hen the co..-
sumcr goes into the market and asks for
a pound of butter. it is an imposition upon
the people to sell him a pound of oleomar~
garinc. The consumer tas no way of
telling the difference. They are colored
:thkc. they are put up in the same puck—
au‘e, they look alike and you cannot de-
termine which you have until you cut the
product, and then you are not sure until
nevertheless
perpetratcs~
tileomargn r—

you make a test of it. but
the manufacturer and seller
:t fraud upon the consumer.

ittc is a cheap product. viewed from every
standpoint, compared with butter. and it
ought to be sold for much less, and It is
an imposition to charge the consumer as
much for it as he has to pay for good
If the city people will look upon
instance.

ltttttct'.
this question as they do. for .
upon the question of ltlnpln‘ syrup.- or vine-
gar, there wouldn’t be any question about
Congress changing lllt‘ prcscnt olcotnar-
7 Public sentiment would never

garinc law.
allow it.
citv has a wrong idea.
this wrong idea by the
.ufacturer of olet‘tmargartnc.

But Illt' :tvcralf-It‘ consumer in the
and hc is given
packer. the man-
Tltt‘y are led

THE . MICHIGAN, FARMER.

to believe that this is a farmer’s law.
that it is made for the beneﬁt of the
farmers when in reality it is made more
for the benefit of the consumer so that the
consumer will know exactly what he is
getting, than it is for the dairyman. The
dairyman can have no particular objec-
tion to the manufacture or sale of oleo
as such because the dairyman of today is
not producing enough butter to go around.
There are plenty of people who will buy
the dairyman's good butter at a good
price, and the oleomargarine law simply
protects the man who thinks he can afford
to pay 35@40c a pound for good butter
and prevents the dealer and the manu-
facturer from charging him butter prices
for oleomargarine. Oleomargarine should
be governed more by the price of beef
than the price of butter, because it is a
beef product.

The bill introduced by Representative
Burleson has one good feature, and that
is, if it should become a law, all oleo-
margarine must be manufactured in one
and two-pound packages or prints and
each print must be labeled oleomargarine.
by having the word oleomargarine pressed
into it, so that it cannot be erased, and
the law prescribes that it shall be sold
in the original package only. But people
do not comply with such laws. The trou—
ble is, that if we allow manufacturers to
color oleomargarine yellow, there will be
a way found so that this word oleomar-
garine will not appear, and it will be sold
largely as print creamery butter. Dairy-
men should insist that the oleo manufac-
turer be not allowed to color olcomar-
garine in imitation of yellow butter. It
is a fraud to do so. It is trying to make
one product that is inferior, look like
another.

 
PRODUCING HIGH GRADE CREAM.

In the production of cream that will
meet the demands of a fancy city trade
the care. of the milk and the sanitation of
the stable. barns and milk house are the
most exacting phases of the. business.
Many people [when handling milk seem to
forget that they are dealing with a food
product. If filth is allowed to get into
the milk at any point of its production,
no amount of care at other points can
make amends for the infection.

In selecting a breed of cattle for pro—
ducing a good article of cream. the dairy-
man finds it part of his economy to select
individuals from the breeds that possess
an inherited tendency to producc a large
amount of butter—fat at the lowest pos—
sible cost, and for this purpose the Jet'—
seys and (lttcrnscys stand at the head.

The next important factor is the sani-
tary surroundings for the herd and equip-
ment. To produce clean and wholesome
cream we must have clean and wholesome
milk to begin with and to do this it is
csscntial that we, have clean stables, clean
yards. clean dairy utensils, clean and
fresh water, clean and wholesome food
and that the cows be milked by clean
milkers.

Cows are to be kept comfortable at all
times. In order to have this it is neces-
sary to have a warm stable, with plenty
0f light. Pure air is just as essential to
the production of untaintcd milk or cream
as, is ’13.: feed the cow consumes. A num—

b!»' :1 .-' amp: Iliiirr' authorities have
Haiti co: ;»I)t:.'aw:r- :9;th how much air
space car n v ’."~'- ‘4 ml l;‘d\ e. but. 1 be—

.‘J‘:'\"' llial J7. J1: la” llHtl‘lv inJIN'l‘li'Jil that
“-1 provide xnc»az.:~ in: the» when,” change
of gr man to dry cerium. UlUU'tllll of air
space.

To l,_,r :t‘wct't and v't-:,:.'t it ir tit-straitlc

that lie cow stator bz- whim-washed at

192,51 [\ﬁ'jﬂtr a your This makes a cheap
and effective distill Plant and it l':|ll be
easily appliu’ with a spray pump. it

should be well mixed and fit-t; from lumps
before uppining. as lumps atc habit- to
clog the spray nozzle. (icincnt floors are
the best adapted of any floor for the row
stable, and are cash-r to keep clean and
frcc from dirt and foul odors than plank
floors. '\’\'ith ccmcnt floors and the libr-rttl
use of absorbents it is not a difﬁcult mat-
ter to kccp the stables in a sanitary con—
dition.

Many very good dairymen disagree as
to whether it is best to separate the
crcam while it is warm and fresh or
whether it is best to wait until it is
cooled and again brot to the proper tem-
perature before being separated and pas-
teurized. On 'most farms where fancy
cream is being produced a portion of
the milk is supplied by other dairymen
and for this one reason it is desirable that
the separating he done by one man and
at one place. thus insuring a more uni—
form quality of the cream.

Few dairymen realize the tremendous
signiﬁcance of the cream trade that has
been developed during the past few years. 3
Many car loads of cream are shipped
every day in the yeanfrom localities
ﬁve hundred or more miles distant to the
cities of Philadelphia, New York, Balti-
more and Washington, to say nothing of
the demands of the hundreds of smaller
cities that are supplied by the same
dairying sections. In fact, the competi-
tion of the city milk and cream trade is
practically putting the small creamery
operator and cheese factory owner out
of business thruout the dairying sections
of the eastern states.

When the cream is separated from milk
gathered from various farms it is essen-
tial that it is cooled down rapidly after-
it is drawn from the cows and the cans
set in a tank of cold water and allowed
to stay in the tanks until ready to start
to the place where it is separated. Bac-
teria that get into milk develop very rap>
idly as long as the milk remains warm.
but as soon as cooled to fifty degrees or
lower they will develop very slowly, and
if kept down as low as forty degrees their
action is almost entirely stoppcd. It is
very important to have a small milk house
entirely away from the other dairy build—
ings.

All dairy utensils should be washed as
soon as possible after being used. The
best method to keep the cans Clean con—
sists in washing them with cold water
ﬁrst in order to remove the milk, then
with hot water and soap or other wash-
ing preparation. Cans should also be
sterilized at least twice or three times .1
week. in order to kill all germs that may
have. secreted themselves in the scams
or rough places on the tin. Leave the
cans open so that the sun and air may
have an opportunity to act on the germs.
The bottles in which cream is delivered
need to be washed and sterilized to kill
all disease germs. In fact, the whole
Secret of producing a fancy grade of
cream is cleanliness from the time the
cows are milked until the cream goes onto
the table of the consumer.

Avoid sudden changes in feeding. A
sudden change. of let d Often deranges the
cow’s whole digestive system to an extent
that her milk will have a peculiar. dis-
agreeable odor and will be tl-c means of
spoiling the cream. \l'hen we i‘ccd tur-
nips. c:.tbl.>agc or other vegetables we run
more or less risk of spoiling the. quality
of the product, and when feeding corn
cusilage it is much safcr to feed after the
milk has been removed from the room
where the feeding is done.

Every dairy room or cream separating
room should ha??? good drains, cement
floors and be plttstcrcd and whitewashed
and the floor should have sufficient slope to
carry all water to the drain tiles. Sani—
tary and clean methods do not mean ex-
pensive methods, but that all of the.
buildings, equipment and help employed
must be neat and tidy and the milk kept
free. from all bacterial dirt. Some of the
best and most sanitary creamery rooms
are the least expensively equipped.

The next important step is the market—
ing of the product. Here the main point
is to put up on acceptable article, one
that the consumer has reason to believe
can always be depended upon to be uni-
form. "ltcrc will be no trouble in secur-
ing a ready market for such a product at
an advanced price. There is not a city
of thirty thousand inhabitants in the.

JAN. 8, 191’).

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JAN. 8, 1910.
ERAIN TO FEED WITH cos MEAL.

 
With cornstalks and hay, which is part
clover, for roughage, what grain or grains
would you put with corn—and—cob meal to
balance the ration? I have a hundred
bushels or so of mangels but, of course,
they won’t cut much ﬁgure with nine
cows. Will the cob meal dry up the cows?

Lapeer Co. J. W. THOMAS.

With corn-and-cob meal for grain and
mixed hay and cornstalks for roughage,
I do not believe you get a better grain
ration than the following mixture: 200
lbs. of corn-and-cob meal, 200 lbs. of
wheat bran, and 100 lbs. of oil meal,
mixed together to be fed twice each day
for the grain ration. I cannot tell you
exactly how much to feed each particular
cow in your herd. You will have to use
your own judgment largely, but I can
give you an idea if you have got good fair
dairy cows, that is, cows that will make
good use of their feed in the production
of milk. Feed a pound of this grain per
day for every four pounds of milk a cow
produces. For instance, if a cow produces
20 pounds of milk a day, then feed her
ﬁve pounds of this grain mixture. If
she produces 40 pounds of milk a day,
then I would feed her ten pounds per day
of this grain mixture. Of course, you will
have to take into consideration, however,
the fact that milk differs in its food value,
If your cow is producing ﬁve per cent
milk, it will take more grain for the
number of pounds of milk than it will if
the cows are only producing three per
cent milk, because the three per cent
milk does not contain food constituents
in proportion to its weight. Another rule
to follow is to give each cow (and I
think this is the better rule), as many
pounds per day of the grain mixture as
she produces pounds of butter-fat in a.
week. This takes into consideration the
quality of the milk as well as the quan-
tity. Corn-and-cob meal will not dry tip
cows. It is not a good feed to feed alone
because it does‘nt contain enough protein.
By mixing with bran and oil meal you
will increase the protein. I would feed a
few of the mangels every few days and
not feed them all at once. String them
along all thru the winter.

 
RYE VS. BRAN FOR COWS.

 
Will you please advise me which would
be to the best advantage for the dairy
cow: To grind up rye and feed it with
other ground feed, or to sell the rye and
buy bran? Bran costs $26.00 a ton and
rye at 700 a bushel costs $25.00 a ton.
Also, how would it be to mix a little rye
with oats and grind it for the horses?

Macomb Co. A READER.

Cows do not relish rye very well in any
form, and therefore it is not good feed
for them. A ton of rye is not worth as
much as a ton of bran because it does
not contain as much digestible protein.
Rye contains 9.9 per cent of protein and
wheat bran 12.9 per cent, or in other
words, a ton of wheat bran, in protein
content, is equal to one and one-third tons
of rye. You can get about $23.50 a ton for
your rye when you sell it, and you can
buy bran for $26.00 a ton, besides this it
would cost you 100 a hundred probably
to get this rye ground so that you could
feed it to the cows. You would have to
haul the rye to market, consequently you
would lose nothing by going to town after
the bran. In other words, it would cost
you nothing to haul the bran because you
would have to take the rye to town to
get it ground anyway. The bran would
be more palatable for the cows than the
rye. It would be much better to grind
some of the rye and mix it with oats.
I think you would make money by selling
the rye and mixing bran with the oats
for the horses. However, it will do very
well to mix oats for horses and it does
very well for a hog feed also if it is
ground up and mixed with water or with
milk.

DRIED BEET PULP FOR COWS.

 
_ I noticed in the last issue of the Mich.
igan Farmer that great claims are made
for dried beet pulp. Would you kindly
give me your opinion as regards this
claim and whether, in your estimation,
it is a proﬁtable feed, especially for dairy-
men?

Bay 00. SUBSCRIBER.

I consider dried beet pulp a valuable
feed for dairy cows and, in fact, for all
live stock on the farm, with the exception
of hogs. It is a splendid food for part
of the ration for horses and also for hens.
Dried beet pulp is especially valuable
where there is no succulent food in the
ration like corn silage, or beets, or man-
gels, or anything of that sort. A succu-
lent food in the ration tends to make all
of the ratiOn more appetizing and seems
to keep the digestive tract in good condi-
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or three hours before it is fed, will swell
up and become very much like the green
or raw beet pulp, and, to a certain ex-
tent, possesses the qualities and takes the
place of a succulent food in the ration.
Just what its value is from this stand-
point of course I do not know, but I am
convinced from quite an extensive ex—
perience in feeding it that it has some
value in this direction. Dried beet pulp,
according to chemical analysis, contains
just about as much protein as corn meal.
It is, so far as the chemical analysis is
concerned, very much of the nature of
corn meal, altho it is not quite as digest-
ible. For young growing stock, especially
young dairy stock, I think that dried
beet pulp is better even than its chemical
analysis would seem to indicate. It has
a splendid effect upon growing young cat-
tle, is very palatable and greedily eaten
by them. The price of beet pulp, of
course, has advanced the same as all
other feeds, and while we might think
that the price is exceedingly high at the
present time, yet when we take into con-
sideration the price of other feeding stuffs,
we realiZe that we can afford to pay more
for dried beet pulp now than we could a
few years ago when other feeding stuffs
were also much lower.

 
FLAX SEED, RYE AND OATS AS A
GRAIN RATION FOR.COWS.

 
Will you be so kind as to give me ad-
vice with regard to compounding a bal-
anced ration for my cows from oat, rye
and wheat straw, good clover, alsike,
some timothy hay, and corn stover with
the nubbins left in, for roughage, and

 
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to recognize

 
from ﬂaxseed (not ground) and ground
rye and oats for grain? The cows are
not giving much milk now, but will all
freshen in April and May. Will it pay
to grain them? They have mangolds,
about one peck each per day. I have
the above grains on hand but corn supply
is limited. I can buy bran at $25 per ton.

Alpcna Co. A. CHABOT.

Here we have a splendid variety of
foods for roughage. They are all good,
but of course we cannot expect cows
giving milk to eat very much rye 0!
wheat straw, in fact, not very much oat:
straw, tho that is better and more pal-
atable than either of the others. The
main ration for roughage should be the
clover and alsikc hay and corn stover.
and, of course, if this corn stovcr has
some nubhins of corn mixed with them,
all the better. The question is, whether
he shall feed the ground rye and oats,
or sell these feeds and lmy some sub-
stitute. At the present price of oats and
rye, I would certainly sell them and buy
some wheat bran and oil meal to mix with
these feeds. If you have corn and can
got the corn and cobs ground together, I
would feed that in connection with the oil
meal and wheat bran. If you have no
corn, then I would buy corn meal because
I do not think there is anything better
where you are feeding cornstalks, if you
do not have corn silage containing a good
percentage of ear corn. I would mix corn
meal, wheat bran and oil meal together
in equal parts and feed what you think
woulcl enable the cows to bring you the
greatest proﬁt.

As to feeding the cows 3 grain ration
this winter before they freshen next
spring, I think by all means it would be
advisable to give them a light grain ra-
tion, but I would not feed them rye.
Ground oats would be a very good feed
before they frehscn. You do not want to
allow the cows to rim down in ﬂesh.
\Vhile this roughage is all good, a little
grain enables the cow to keep in good
health, enables her to store up energy
for the production of milk after she be-
comes fresh. You could feed the grain I
have recommended to feed after they have
freshened, only do not feed too much.

 
WHERE TO GET MILK ANALYZED.

 
Please tell me thru Michigan Farmer
where to send samples of milk for analv-
sis, when we think there is somethingr
wrong with the cow.

Tuscola Co. SUBSC‘BJBER.

The State Dairy and Food Department
at Lansing will gladly analyze any sample
of milk which may be sent to them. The
milk, however, must be carefully sampled
and it must reach the laboratory at Lan-
sing before it sours, consequently must
be sent at once after milking and, if the
weather is at all warm, it ought to be
packed in ice, because if the milk sours
before it gets to the laboratory, nothing
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be carefully labeled so that the state
analyst will know who sent them. The
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First of all, he must invest a. little
money, for we never get something for
nothing in bee—keeping.

Second, in my opinion, the average

h‘urmer will make a better success with-

bccs by running them for extracted honey
rather than for comb.

What will the expense be? “Well, one
would hardly want to run for extracted
honey with less than ten colonies and, if
a beginner, it would not pay to invest
in more than that for a starter, so we’ll
ﬁgure on that basis. If heﬂkeeps his eyes
open he can probably pickup a few bees
in standard hives at not to exceed $4 per
colony. Then the investment would be as
, follows:
10 colonies at 84 each ........... 840.00

20 extra hives and frames. full sheet
foundation . 40.00

One novice extractOr ............... 10.00
One smoker. standard size .......... .85.
One uncapping knife ................ '.75
One hive tool .16
One bee veil ...................... . .75

Total ................ ..............$92.50
But. you say, what farmer is going to
to invest any such amount of money in
bees? “'0“, if you wanted a good thoro-
brcd cow or other animal for the farm

 
herd you wouldn't hesitate a. minute at,

$100, would you? Now, the farmer who
would make a success of this branch of
the business, for bee-keeping is a branch
of farming, must use the same foresight-
cdncss as he would in embarking in the
dairy busincss. ’

After you got the bees, set them on a

lcvcl stand slightly raised from the
ground. At the beginning of the honey

ﬂow give each hivc an upper story. If
this upper story is ﬁlled with foundation
rather than drawn combs you will have to
be careful not to put it on too early. A
gOOd plan is to watch for the ﬁrst whiten-
ing of the combs along the top bars and
then put on your hives of foundation. at
the same time pulling up a couplc of
frames of brood or honey from below
and replacing them with foundation from
above. This will help to draw the bccs
into the upper story.

chp close watch and do not 101 the
bees get Short of room. Thcn you will
have very little trouble with their swarm-
ing. If some of them should swarm. hivc
them on foundation, with one framc of
brood to hold them, and sci them on tho
old stand, moving the old colony a litllc
in 0110 sidc. After ﬁve days. cut tlu-
quccn cells from lhc pan-ht colony and
set them on top of the new hivc and you
will havc very little danger of any mm‘c
swarms that summer.

Bcgimlcrs should rcmcmbcr that lmncy
is lhc thing we arc uflcr. not incrcasc,
and one had bct’icl' hold them down to
the original icu (:olouics the ﬁrst season
at il‘LlSi. \\’lu~n thc hivcs bccomi- illlcd
and you havc no more foundation to put
on. you can begin extracting. drawing
out those frames which are illlcd 'dll-i
cupped over. Aflcr extracting. 1wplaw
them in the hive for a second ﬁlling.
As soon as the combs are all built the
worst of your troubles are ovcr; lwcs scl—
dom swarm if given plenty of drawn comb.

You will ﬁnd more or less brood in thc
upper slol‘ics which should be placed in
the lower hive when extracting and the
honcy extracted from those combs having
no brood.

There are n‘zlm \“1’4‘ il‘iup‘s to learn,
such as prcpar u}, '4‘. \“l‘ :v on)... ‘.« n
to winter, the carc of thc hum-y which
should never be placed in a cellar or re-
frigcrator as many do. It is bcst kcpt
in a warm, dry place. There nrc also
innumerable other things. but (lu- man
who expects to kccp bccs without study-
ing 01‘ rcuding up more 01' less as he gocs
along had bcttcr give it up bcforc hc in-
vests any money in it. A lililc reading
and a little common sense applied arc the
main requisites.

How much income should one receive
from the colonies of bees in a season?
That depends upon the man bchiud 112(-
bccs, upon the locality. the scason, clu.
and one can only make a gums, which
might be very wide of the mark. I will
say, howcvcx‘, that the least I have pvt-1'
received was 40 lbs. per colony. spring
count, for an average. while my usual
average is about 100 lbs. per colony in!
thosc run for extracted honey. Tho high—
est l‘CCUl‘d was 150 lbs. per colony. This
honey sclls rcudily at 10c per lb. You
may ﬁgure the proﬁts for yourself,

Remember. the ﬁrst invcsimcni is
practically all you have to make until you
wish to increase. One thing is impera—
tivc, that you put the same amount of
intclligcncc and study into it that you
would in duh'ying or any other farming
enterprise and I think it will bring just
as large returns.

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JAN. ' 8. 1910.

‘ The Ice House.   ’

Some people swell up on “emotion”
brewed from absolute untruth.

It’s an old trick of the leaders of the
Labor Trust to twist facts and make the
“sympathetic ones” “weep at the ice
house." (That’s part of the tale further
on).

Gompers et a1 sneer at, spit upon and
defy our courts, seeking sympathy by
falsely telling the people the courts
were trying to deprive them of free speech
and free press.

Men can speak freely and print opin-
ions freely in this country and no court
will object, but they cannot be allowed
to print matter as part of a criminal
conspiracy to injure and ruin other citi—
zens.

Gompers and his trust associates started
out to ruin the Bucks Stove (30., drive
its hundreds of workmen out of work
and destrOy the value of the plant with-
out regard to the fact that hard earned
money of men who worked, had been
invested there.

The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious “trust" meth—
ods, (efforts to break the ﬁrm that won’t
come under trust rule), but instead of
stopping they “dare” the courts to punish
them and demand new laws to protect
them in such destructive and tyrannous
acts as they may desire to do. ’5 * * ’i‘
The reason Gompers and his band per-
sisted in trying to ruin the Bucks Stove
Works was because the stove company
insisted on the right to keep some old
employees at work when “de union" or-
dered them discharged and some of “do
gang” put in.

Now let us reverse the conditions and
have a look.

Suppose the company had ordered the
union to dismiss certain men from their
union and, the demand being refused,
.should institute a boycott against that
union, publish its name in an “unfair
list,” instruct other manufacturers all
over the United States not to buy the
labor of that union, have committees call
at stores and threaten to boycott if the
merchants sold anything made by that
union. Picket the factories where mem-
bers work and slug them on the way
home, blow up their houses and wreck
the works, and even murder a few mem-
bers of the boycotted union to teach them
they must obey the odrers of “organized
Capital?”

It would certainly be fair for the com-
pany to do these things if lawful for the
Labor Trust to do them. -

In such a case, under our laws the boy-
cotted union 00u1d apply to our courts and
the courts Would order the company to
cease boycotting and trying to ruin these
union men. Suppose thereupon the com-
pany should sneer at the court and in
open deﬁance continue the unlawful acts
in a persistent, carefully laid out plan,
purposely intended to ruin the union and
force its members into poverty. What
a howl would go up from the union de-
manding that the courts protect them and
punish their law-breaking oppressors.
Then they would praise the courts and
go on earning a living protected from ruin
and happy in the knowledge that the
people’s courts could defend them.

How could any of us receive protection
from law-breakers unless the courts have
power to, and do punish such men.

The court is placed in position where
it must do one thing or the other—
punish men who persist in defying its
peace orders or go out of service, let
anarchy reign and the more powerful
destroy the weaker.

Peaceable citizens sustain the courts as
their defenders, whereas thieves, forgers,
burglars, crooks of all kinds and violent
members of labor unions, hate them and
threaten violence if their members are
punished for breaking the law. They
want the courts to let them go free and
at the same time demand punishment for
other men “outside de union” when they
break the law. * ' * Notice the above

. reference is to “violent” members of labor

unions. The great majority of the “un-
heard” union men are peaceable, upright
citizens. The noisy, violent ones get into

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THE "MICHIGAN" FARMER.‘

Do * ’t Weep At

ofﬁce and the leaders of the great Labor
Trust know how to mass this kind of
men, in labor conventions and thus carry
out the leaders’ schemes, frequently ab-
horrent to the rank and file: so it was at
the late Toronto convention.

The paid delegates would applaud and
“resolute” as Gompers wanted, but now
and then some of the real workingmen
insist on being heard, sometimes at the
risk of their lives.

Delegate Egan is reported to have said
at the Toronto convention:

“If the ofﬁcers of the federation would
only adhere to the law we would think
a lot more of them.”

The Grand Council of the Provincial
\Vorkingmen's Ass’n of Canada has de-
clared in favor of severing all connection
with unions in the U. S., saying “any
union having its seat of Gov't in America,
and pretending to be international in its
scope, must tight industrial battles ac-
cording to American methods. Said
methods have consequences which“ are
abhorrent to the law-abiding people of
Canada involving hunger, miscry, riot,
bloodshed and murder, all of which might
be termed a result of the practical war
now in progress in our fair province and
directed by foreign cmissarics of the
United Miners of America.”

That is an honest Canadian view of our
infamous "Labor Trust.”

A few days ago the daily papers printed
the following: V

(By the Associated Press)

\Vashington, D. C‘.., Nov. lO.—Charac-
terizing the attitude of Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the
American' Federation of Labor in the
contempt proceedings in the courts of the
District of Columbia, in connection with
the Bucks’ Stove and Range company, as
“a willful, premeditated violation of thc
law,” Simon Burns, general master work—
man of the general assembly, Knights of
Labor, has voiced a severe condemnation
of these three leaders. Mr. 'iurns ex-
pressed his conﬁdence in courts in gen-
eral and in those of the District of Colum-
bia in particular. ‘

Approved by Delegates.

This rebuke by Burns was in his annual
report to the general assembly of his or—
ganization. He received the hearty ap—
proval of the delegates who heard it read
at their annual meeting in this city.

“There is no trust or combination of
capital in the world,” said Mr. Burns,
“that violates laws oftener than do the
trust labor organizations, which resort
to more dishonest, unfair and dishonorable
methods towards their competitors than
any trust .or combinations in the country.”

Mr. Burns said the action of “these
so—called leaders” would be harmful for
years to come whenever attempts were
made to obtain labor legislation.

“The Labor Digest,” a reputable work-
ingman’s paper, says, as part of an arti-
clc entitled “The beginning of the end of
Gompersism, many organizations becoming
tired of the rule-or-ruin policies which
have been enforced by the president of
the A. F. of L.”

“That he has maintained his leadership
for so long a time in the face of his stub-
born clinging to policies which the more
thotful of the workingmcn have seen for
years must be abandoned, has been on
account partly of the sentimental feeling
on the part of the organizations that he
ought not to be deposed, and the unwil-
lingness of the men who were mentioned
for the place, to accept a nomination in
opposition to him. In addition to this,
there is no denying the shrewdness of the
leader of the A. F, of L., and his Dblitical
sagacity, which has enabled him to keep
a ﬁrm grip on the machinery of the or-
ganization, and to have his faithful hench-
men in the positions where they could
do him the most good whenever their ser-
vices might be needed.

"Further than this, he has never failed,
at the. last conventions, to have some
sensation to spring on the convention at
the psychological moment, which w0uid
place him in the light of a martyr to the
cause of unionism, and excite a. wave of

sympathetic enthusiasm for him, which
would carry the delegates off their feet,
and result in his re-election.

"‘That his long leadership, and this ap-
parent impossibility to fill his place has
gone to his head, and made him imagine
that he is much greater a man than he
really is, is undoubtedly the case, and
accounts for the tactics he has adopted
in dealing with questions before congress,
where he has unnecessarily antagonized
men to whom organized labor must look
for recognition of their demands, and
where labor measures are often opposed
on account of this very antagonism, which
would otherwise receive support.

"There is no doubt but what organized
labor in this ocuntry would be much
stronger with a leader who was more in
touch with conditions as they actually
exist, and who would bring to the front
the new policies which organized labor
must adopt if it expects to even maintain
its present standing. to say nothing of
making future progress."

“'0 quote portions of another article,
a reprint, from the same labor paper:

“Organized labor, through its leaders,
must recognize the mistakes of the past
if they cxpcci to pcrpcluzite ihci‘ organ-
izations or to develop the movcmcnt which
ihcy head. No movement. no organiza-
tion, no nation can develop beyond the
intcllccts which guide ihcsc organiza-
tions, and if the lcadcrs are dominated
by a seiiish moiivo the organization will
become tinged with a spirit. of selﬁshness
which has never appealed to mankind
in any walk of life at any time since his-
tory began.

“lit can be said in cxtcniiation of certain
leaders of organized labor that the pre-
carious position which thcy occupy as
leaders has had a tcndcncy to cause them
to lose sight of the object behind the.
organization. The natural instinct in man
for power and position is in no small
measure rcsponsiblc for the mistakes of
the leaders, not necessarily in labor un-
ions alone, but in cvery branch of society.
This desire for powcr and leadership and
personal aggrandizemcnt causes men who
havc been earnest and sincere in their
efforts in the start to deteriorate into
more politicians whose every act and ut-
terance is tinged with the desire to cater
to the baser passions of the working ma-
jority in the societies or organizations
and this is undoubtedly true when ap-
plied to the present lcadcrs of the Fed-
eration. \Vc mention the Federation of
Labor particularly in this article because
that organization is the only organization
of labor which has yet found itself in
direct opposition to the laws of the land.
Thcre are other organizations of labor
whose leaders have made mistakes, but
they have always kept themsclvcs and
their organizations within the bounds of
the law and respected the rights of every
other man in considering the rights of
themselves and ihcir constituency; where-
as, the motto of the Federation is just
the reverse, and unless the leaders con-
form ihcmscivcs and their organization
in accordance with the laws of the land,
the leaders and ihc organization itself
must be disinicgraicd and pass into his-
tory, for in America the common sense
in mankind is dcvelopcd to a greater ex-
tent than in any other nation on the
earth, and the peoplc, who are the. court
of last resort in this country, will never
allow any system to develop in this coun-
try which docs not meet with the ap-
proval of the majority of the citizens of
the country.

“This must have forced itself upon the
leaders of the Federation by this time.
If it has not, the leaders must be elimin-
ated. The organization which they head
has done many meritorious things in
times past and the, people are always
ready and willing to acknowledge the ben.
eﬁts which their efforts have brought to
their constituency as a whole, but at the
present time labor organizations in gen-
eral, and the Federation of Labor in par-
ti-cular, stand before the bar of public
opinion, having been convicted of selfish-
ness and a disposition to rule all the peo-
ple of the country in the interest of the

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few. The people are patient and await-
ing to see if the object lesson which they
have been forced to give to these leaders
is going to be recognized and if they are
going to conform themselves and their
future work and actions in accordance
thereto."

Let the people remember that comment,
“The Federation of Labor in particular
stands before the bar of public opinion
having been convicted of selﬁshness and
a disposition to rule'all the people of the
country in the interest of the few.”

The great 90 per cent of Americans do
not take kindly to the acts of tyranny
by these trust leaders openly demanding
that all people bow down to the rules of
the Labor Trust and we are treated to
the humiliating spectacle of our Congress
and even the Chief Executive entertain-
ing these convicted law-breakers and list-
cning with consideration to their insolent
demands that the very laws be changed
to allow them to safely carry on their
plan of gaining control over the affairs
of the people.

The sturdy workers of America have
come to know the truth about these
“martyrs sacriﬁcing themselves in the
noble cause of labor" but it’s only the
hysterical ones who swell up and cry over
the aforesaid “heroes.” reminding one
of the two romantic elderly maids who,
weeping copiously, were discovcrcd by the
old janitor at Mt. Vernon.

“\Vhat is it ails you ladies?”

Taking the handkerchief from one swol~
lcn rod cye. between sobs she said:

“\Vhy we have so long revered the
memory of George \Yashingion that we
feel it a privilege to come here and weep
at his tomb.”

“Yas’m, yas'm, yo’ shore has a desire
to express yo’ sympathy but yo‘ are over-
flowin' at do wrong spot, yo, is weepin’
at de ice house."

Don‘t get maudlin about law-breakers
who must be punished if the very exist-
l'llCC of our people is to be maintained.

if you have any surplus sympathy it
can be extended to the honest workers
who continue to earn food when threat-
ened and are frequently hurt and some-
times killed before the courts can inter-
venc to protect them.

Now the Labor Trust leaders demand
of Congress that the courts be stripped
of power to issue injunctions to prevent
them from assaulting or perhaps murder-
ing men who dare earn a. living when
ordered by the Labor Trust to quit work.

Don’t “weep at the Ice House” and
don’t permit any set of law—breakers to
bully our courts, if your voice and vote
can prevent. Be sure and write your
Representatives and Senators in Congress
asking them not to vote for any measure
to prevent ihc courts from protecting
homes, property and persons from attack
by paid agents of this great Labor Trust.

Let every reader write, and write now.

Don't sit silent and allow the organized
and paid men of this great trust to force
Congress to believe they represent the
great masses of the American people.
Say your say and let your representatives
in Congress know that you do not want
to be governed under new laws which
would empower the Labor Trust leaders
with legal right to tell you when to work,
Where! For whom! At what price!
“’hat to buy! What not to buy! Whom
to vote for! How much you shall pay per
month in fees to the Labor Trust! etc.,
etc” etc.

This power is now being demanded by
the passage of laws in Congress. Tell
your Senators and Representatives plainly
that you don’t want them to vote for
any measure that will allow any set of
men either representing Capital or Labor
to govern and dictate to the common
DCODle, who prefer to be free to go and
come, work or not, and vote for whom
they please.

Every man’s liberty will disappear when
the leaders of the great Labor Trust or
any other trust can ride rough shod over
DGOpIe and mass their forces to prevent
our courts from affording protection.

“There's a Reason." .

C. W. POST, Battle Creek, Mich,

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DETROIT. JAN. 8. [910.

 
CURRENT COMMENT.

The markcd in-
The Increased Cost crease in the cost
of Living. 01' living during rc-
cent years, has be—
come a. matter of such serious moment
as to attract the attention of not only
students of economics, but as well that
of high ofﬁcials of the nation. Everybody
agrees that this is one of the greatest
problems of the times. but scarcely anv
two who express an opinion agrcc as to
the cause, or the remedy which should
be applied. A recent dispatch from New
York states that when President Taft
was in that city just before the New
Year, upon being interrogated us to his
opinion upon this subject. said. “We are
living in the automobile age, and the
standard of living is too high. “'e all
insist upon having the choice. cuts of
beef." As to the remedy. it is said that
President Taft did not commit himself.
but that he pointed out that Secretary
\Vilson, of the Department of Agriculture,
had recently announced his purpose to
sct the entire machinery of his depart-
ment at work to ascertain the cause or
causes and‘ﬁnd a remedy for the condi-
tions if possible. A great public pmhlem
of this kind is important alikc to pro—
ducer and consumer. As a consumer it
is probably of less importance to the
farmer than to the resident of a city or
town. where the entire cost of living may
be reckoned in dollars and cents. but his
double interest in the problem as both
a producer and a consumer makes the,
problem no less important to him, and it
is not too early for the progressive farmers
of our country, both individually and col—
h-ctively, to do some earnest thinking
upon this problem.

Existing conditions seem to indicate.
that consumption has practically over-
taken production in our country and that
the days of cheap wheat, cheap corn.
cheap meat and dairy products. in fact.
cheap foodstuffs or clothing materials of
any kind have. gone forever. “'hile the
writ of high prices for farm products
promises a more attractive future for
agriculture, yet the increased cost of liv-
ing to the wage earner may cause pe-
riodical re-actjons in this direction. siucc
beyond a certain point the increased cost
of necessaries to wage earners may limit
their ability to purchase these nccessities
in normal quantities, a condition which

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

would be beneficial to neither the pro-
ducer nor the consumer, hence detri-
mental to the welfare of the country at
jarge. ,

The statement above attributed to
President Taft. is more significant than it
ﬁrst appears. Surely we are living in an
age which is Well described as the auto-
mobile age, and the present is a period
of general prosperity which conduces to
a generally liberal or extravagant plan of
living by the average mun. Prosperity
as generally spoken of, is a relative term.
which can be best applied to the country
at large rather than to the individual or
class of individuals. \Vhile we are all
willing to concede a general prosperity
and are ablc to distinguish in a general
way between periods of business pros-
perity and business depression. yet we
are prone at the same time to look upon
our own individual prosperity as a more
or less negativc quantity. But there is
no doubt that the inncreased cost of living
is due. in large measure, to our general
high standard of living which causes such
a demand for the choice cuts of beef and
the automobile as a means of transpor-
tation. Within reasonable limits. these
conditions prm-luim prosperity, yet they
are also generally believed to cause the
periods of depression which too often fol-
low pcriods of great prosperity, and the
greatest fear for the future which is ex-
pressed by the business men. who are
everywhere prophesying a period of un.
prcccdcnted brospcrity for 1910, is'that
there may be that lack of wise conser-
vatism wlu-h is ever the forerunner of
business disaster.

But. the reader may ask. what can the
producer do to remedy this condition.
Thcrc would appear to be a great ﬁeld
for ci‘firl along this line in the reduction
of the cost of distribution, which is an
important factor in the cost of a com-
modtiy to the consumer. This may best:
be done thru community production and
the organization of farmcrs along lines
of such community production which has
been rcpcatcdly urged in these columns.
The marked prosperity of the dairy in-~
dustry of our stutc at the present time is
the best possiblc example of this fact.
“'hat ihc co—ol'u-rativc creamcries have
done for producers in this line, similar
co-operative enterprises will do for the
producers in other lines of agriculture. as
they have done for the farmers of the
little country of Denmark, which is the
most advanced example of this kind of
agricultural organization and with which
the constant readers of the Michigan
Farmer have been made familiar thru
our columns.

Perhaps the best in—
Our Live Stock dex of our live stock
industry. industry is the recor]
of receipts at the De-
troit livc stoek market, since while not
all of the live stock fed in the stair:
comes to this market, it is probable that
an equal percentage of it comes here in
successive years and, as there has been
a considerable enlargement in the facil-
ities for handling live stock by local con-
cerns, both thru the enlargement of old
plants and the building of new ones, it is
fair to presume that an even larger per-
centage of Michigan live stock comes to
this market in succeeding years. The
record of total receipts for the year at
Detroit shows that there were 63,400 cat-
tle, received in 1009. as compared with
54.53."; in 1908; 42.642 calves in 1909 as
compared with 42,413 in 1908; 193,736
sheep and lambs in 1909. as compared
with 118.602: in 1908 and 272.510 hogs in
1909. as compared with 418,481 in 1908.
It is perhaps true that the quarantine
resulting from the outbreak of foot and
mouth disease in Michigan last year, re-
duced the receipts at Detroit somewhat.
yct it is but a fair presumption that the
increase in receipts from the causes
above mentioned would offset such reduc-
tion. Presuming that to be a fact, let
us analyzc these ﬁgures and see what. if
anything, they indicate with regard to
the status of live stock production upon
the farms of our state. L

The falling off of nearly 15 per cent in
the receipts of cattle would seem to in-
dicate beyond a question of doubt that
fewer cattle are produced and fed upon
Michigan farms than formerly, as such a
marked falling off in receipts could
scarcely be a co-incidence or due to any
other cause. The fact that the. number
of calves received was practically the
same as a year ago would indicate that
our dairy industry is more than holding
its own. since the large demand and high
price for dairy cows w0uld naturally
stimulate the. raising of a larger number
,of calves by the dlairymen of the state
'to' Supply this demand than ‘would be

raised under ordinary conditions, yet the
fact that as many found their way to
market may be construed as evidence
that more dairy cows are maintained in
Michigan this year than was the case
last year.

The remarkable falling off in the re.-
ceipts of sheep and lambs, amounting to
more than one-third. may be partially
accounted for by the fact that not as
many sheep and lambs were shipped into
Michigan for feeding purposes last year
as formerly. owing i'n part to the scarcity
of feeders and the high price of grains.
It is probable. also. that more stock of.
this class was diverted to other markets
because of the quarantine, than is true
of any other class of live stock. How-
ever, the ﬁgures are not reassuring with
regard to the condition of the sheep in-
dustry upon Michigan farms. It would
appear that the golden hoof which brot
prosperity to our farmers in early days
is being neglected more than it should bc
under present day conditions.

I But it is in the hog department of our
market that the greatest reductions in
receipts is noticed. “’hen the lighter
average weight of the hogs received is
considered it is probable that thc aggre—
gate would amount to little more than
half, of those of last year. and the. price
of pork and pork products is a clear in-
dication of the fact that the conditions
which obtain in Michigan are quite gen-
eral thruout the country. The relatively
small total of hog receipts at this market.
iogcthcr with the fact that a large num-
ber of pigs and “roughs” have been in-
cluded in the shipments is a certain in-
dication that next year's pig crop in our
state will be far bclow normal, at condi—
tion which also bids fair to be gene‘al
and which makes it practically certain
that thc high wage of values for pork
and pork products will continue for at
least another year.

Altogether. this report is not a reassur—
ing' one so far as it may be taken to in-
dicate the condition of our Michigan live
stock industry. The growing of live stock
upon our farms and the return to the
soil of the fertilizing elements in the
grains and forage crops produced upon
them, are essentials in the maintenance
of soil fertility. Conservation of natural
resources is the demand of the day.
There is grealer need of such conserva-
tion in no place than upon the farm. The
figures presented should be accepted as
a warning by the readers and should
cause a general movement on the part of
the farmers of Michigan toward a re-
habllitation of our declining live stock
induslry. for upon it depends in no smal.
degree the future prosperity of our agri-
culture.

 
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 
Foreign.

Ncws is constantly coming of the gen-
eral destruction of property» over the
western part of the. Atlantic ocean during
the recent storm which swept that part
of the world. The damage was especially
severe about the Bermuda Islands.

Prolonged earthquake shocks were felt
by the inhabitants of the islands of “'ight
and Jamaica, Sunday. The exact location
of the, disturbance has not been made
known.

Twelve persons were. drowned as the,
result of a colision between the. steamers
Aylrshire and Arcadian in the Irish Chan-
ne .

The attempt of the different factions of
thc revolutionary party of Nicaragua to
get together failed and at the, present
time there is much concern over the out—
come of the situation. The United States
has not given ofﬁcial recognition to tho
new administration.

In German colleges 298 Americans are
enrolled for the present school ycar.

The English agricultural society has n
large fund for the extermination of the
English sparrow.

()n Dcccmbcr I}, Maurice Farmun, who
holds tho Michelin cup for performance.
on the ﬂying machine, set a new record
with his biplane when he covered a dis-
tance of 431,43 miles across country in
just one hour, at Chalons, France.

The. Spanish army in Morocco is crip—
pled according to reports. Bad weather
and improper sanitation is held responsible
for the condition of the soldiers.

National.

During the past year 600 laboring men
were killed while at their work in the
city of Chicago.

Much inconvenience has resulted to
business intcrcsts from car shortage dur-
to the inability of railroads to move roll-
ing stock. In Toledo alone it is asserted
that 5.000-cars are lying on sido tracks.

Northern Michigan was caught by a
cold wave last Monday night. I'l‘hc mor-
cury in some localities reached to 14
below zero. The. international ferry at
the 800 has discontinued services on ac—
count of the extreme. cold.

An investigation into the white slave
trafﬁc is being made by the authorities
of New York City, and John D. Rocke-
feller, r., has been elected as foreman
of the Jury for that purpose.

Darious Ogden Mills, the father-in-law
of Ambassador Reid, died at Milbray,
Cal. Sunday.

Charles “I Morse. the ﬁnancier who
some time ago was found guilty of certain

JAN.“ 8; 1910.1

criminal offenses was placed in the United
States penitentiary, at Atlanta, Georgia,
the ﬁrst of the year. _ '

The U. 8. Government is'nbout to begin

action against the Burley tobacco society .'

which, it contends, is behind the night
rider” outrages of Teune, "s'see and Ken-
tucky. The ground for action is that the
society is interfering with competition.

Five American war vessels will take
part‘in the ﬁrst Centennial celebration of
Argentine, at Buenos Ayres, May 20.

Judge Horace H. Lurton, of Tennessee.
began his services as justice of the U. S.
Supreme Court, Monday noon.

Prof. W. H. Demotte, the leading in—
structor in the. deaf and dumb schools
of the United States, died in Indianapolis.
Mouday, at the age of 80 years.

Fire in the Milwaukee .branch of the
American Bridge Co., caused a loss of
$250,000 and four firemen were buried
underneath the falling walls.

‘he U. S. Supreme Court, in refusing
to consider the. case of Oklahoma against
the Prairie Oil & Gas Co., for improper
use of the" highways of that state, and
which was made famous over the country
because of the intervention of Governor
liaskell, practically sustains the conten-
tion of the. governor in the matter.

Another big water power project is un-
der way in Midland and Gladwin counties.
of Michigan, where the Tittabawassec
river will be traversed by seven dams.

Severe rain storms which ﬂooded the
surrounding territory isolated Los Angeles
from all communication with the outside
world for 48 hours. The ﬂoods extended
over southern Utah. Nevada, and a large
part of California.

A wreck, believed to have resulted from
the spreading of the rails on the Rock
Island Railroad near Trenton. Md, re-
sulted in the death of three persons and
“During 45 others.

VMrs. Russell Sage has donated to Yale
L‘nl‘vcrs1ty 30 acres of land for the benefit
of the institution.

After a continued lcst at sea where
operators were enabled to speak over
wireless telegraph a distance of 1.000
miles, plans are being made to experiment
With the instruments over a distance of
3.000 miles.

The. new primary law of California
which Went into effect Januarv 1. will
preclude women from running. for tho
ofﬁce 01 county superintendent of schools,
ii] that to become. a candidate one must
makc afﬁdavit that he is a registered
voter. There are. now 23 women super—
intendents in the. state.

The Cuban national lottery from which
that government expected to receive a
rt‘venuerof some $900,000 proved a failure
but 18,000 of thc 30.000 tickets being sold.

A large deposit of pitchblcnde has been
found in Colorado. It is believed the dc-
pos1t w1ll prove the largest in the world.

.1} dynamite explosion at Mineral Point.
“15., blew four men to atoms last Friday.
‘Reports are that the census bureau is
finding it difﬁcult to secure enough com—
petent lncn to act as Census enulnerators.

The, Detroit bar association inaugurated

an movatiou for the service of the poor
of the city in protecting them from the
hands of slurpcrs by offering the services
of a competent lawyer to those who can—
not al‘ford to pay for such services. The
scheme will be. tried for a period of six
months and if it proves successful will
be .made a permanent service of the as—
sociation.
‘ Because an ‘lndiau reservation is located
1.“ .a state does not take it out of thc
Jurisdiction of the United States courts.
as was decided in a case last week.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

 
Kalkaska Co., Dec. 27.—The latter part
of November and the ﬁrst few days of
December were exceptionally ﬁne for clos—
ing up fall work and getting things in
shape for winter, but still some corn was
left out. Commenced snowing December
5_ and has snowed some every ‘24 hours
Since; over two feet deep in the woods
now. W'hcat had fairly good top for win—
ter. Dealers hold potatoes down to 25¢).
per bu. Corn in ear is selling at 25@30(3
per basket. Hay is being shipped in to
supply camps and many farmers. Costs
consumers $15€1 17 per ton. Dressed pork
9c; dressed beef, 6((1‘7c; eggs, 280; butter"
280 per lb. ’

Branch 00., Dec. 28.—Sleighing at last.
The snow which began falling Christmas
eve has at last packed sufficientlv to
make pretty good sleighing. the fll‘st 0f
the winter. A light covering of snow
smcc December S has helped to protect
whcat, which has sustained but little in—
Jury as yet. altlio the late sown has but
little top. Much corn still unhusked and
much still out so badly damaged as to be
hardly worth husking. Hardly any corn
being sold as dealers are offering but 52(-
forrncw corn. while retailing old corn at
80((1‘90c per bu. Live hogs selling at 71/3613
80.. but mighty few left to sell. The high
price of hay, $10@l2 per ton, is inducing
many farmers to sell buy which they are
quite likely to need before June. Nearly
all. crops bringing good prices but even"-
tlung the farmer has to buy is “out ‘0'
s1ght.” Especially is this the case with
taié receitptcs3 this year.

mme 0., Dec. 30.—“’c di 1 ' i
plowing Dec. 4. Snow begun galiililild ltllfrt-
5th, on unfrozen ground. It has Dbeen
falling nearly every day since, and is now
about two feet (loop in the woods. It is
not blowing from the ﬁelds as badly as it.
did last winter. tho there are some bare
spots to. be seen on hillsides. Too much
loose, drifting snow in the roads for good
slotghmg, so that trafﬁc: is not going on
briskly. Market for seasoned wood. 82
per cord, 25c per cord lower than last
Winter. Business quiet.

‘Genesee Co., Jan. 1.—-W’heat covered
with snow for the, past two weeks. ‘W’as
in fair condition in me fall. Ample rain
fell before the. ground froze. Have en—
Joyed good sleighing since Christmas and
business is brisk. Farmers are marketing
their poultry and meats at excellent
prices. and prospects point to another
successful year. Not many farms chang—
ing hands, but values advancing; Recent
coal mining operations begun in Burton
township indicate valuable deposits over

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BY J. C. NUCKOLS

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them .well. But did you know there are
two kmds of chicken charcoal? One is once-
burnt: the other is re-carbonized—twi'ce-

 
burnt. Mr. Nuckols' booklet tells the facts
about both kinds. It also gives ideaifeed-
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success has n demonstrated by practi-
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WESTERN eIIIIAnA

Spawni- Daimler. ol' Iowab says:—
eetreuno am ante from the
to Canada vi 1 continue." “bed 8““
cantor Dollivar recently paid a visit to
Western Canada. and says: "There
is a land hunger in the hearts of
Englilh speaking people; this will
account for the removalof so many
Iowa farmers to Canada. Our peo-
ple Ire pleawd with it: govern-
ment and the excellent adminis-
tration of law. and they are com-
ing to you in tens of thousands.
and they are still coming."
— Iowa contributed largely to the
. 1 American farmers who made
cro ﬁﬂmlxmediurlng 1909. Flt-l:
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no ‘ are to be had In the very bent districts;
4». g“ 160 acre. praomption at $8.00 per
a! ‘ acre within certain areas. Schools nil
ell-4r- churches ln ever nettlenent. ollmte
all? nnexoellcd, eoll t o richest, wood.
~ g].- wnter and building lumber plentiful.
”a . For partaculnrsu to location. low settlera'
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pamphlet. Last Best West," and other infor-
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Fair-mount Telephone 00.. Leighton: Corners. N. H.

~ a considerable territory. Coal is of excel—

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER. as» 3

lent quality, 150 below surface of,ground.
Dairy products are high. Quotations as
follows: Butter, 28@33c; cheese, 20c; eggs,
280; chickens, 121,90 dressed; turkeys, 21c;
dressed hogs, 100; beef, $6.50@7 cwt; baled
hay, $8@12; wheat, $1.21; corn, 650; oats,
46c; beans, $2.20, hand picked.

Lapeer Co., Jan. 3.——The New Year
starts with good Sleiglling, two inches
more snow fell last evening, repairing the
bare spots on the turnpike. All live stock
doing well. Cows doing well where cared
for properly. Creamery man reports
cream supply increasing. Very little live
stock being offered for sale; prices high
on good kinds. Hogs, dressed, 101/},@11c;
lambs. 4@7l/2c; beans, $1.85; barley, $1.10;
butter, dairy, 300; creamery, 36c; corn,
80c; eggs, 300; hay, $9@11; oats, 430;
rye, 71c; wheat, $1.20; potatoes, very dull
at 250.

Livingston Co., Dec. 27.——We have been
having old time winter weather during
this month. Stock of all kinds doing well.
There are, a great many lambs on feed In
this section this winter and it looks as
tho feeders would realize a good proﬁt
on their lambs this year. Very few hogs
are left in the country to market. “to
are now enjoying our first sleighing tlllS
season and farmers are improving it by
hauling logs and grain. Market quotaa
tious are as follows: “'hout, $1.15; oats,
400; rye, 710; beans. $1.87»: hogs, live, $8;
butter, 28c; eggs, 28c; hay, timothy, $12
per ton, baled.

MICHIGAN FARMERS’ INSTITUTES.

Two-Day lVIectings:-—Alcoua Co., Har-
risvillc, Jan. 10-11; Clinton 00.. Ovid,
Jan. 11-12; Iosco Co., VVhittcmore, Jan.
12-13; Clare Co., Clare, Jan. 13—14; Arenac
Co., Standish, Jan. 14-15; Saginaw 00..

land, Jan. 17-18; Glrulwin Co., Gladwin,
Jan. 17-18; Isabella Co., Mt. Pleasant. Jan
18; Gl'uliot Co., Alma, Jun. 19—20; Eaton
Co., Charlotte. Jan. 19-20; Kalamazoo
Co., Schoolcruft, Jun. 19—20; Montcalm Co.,
McBrides, Jan. 20-21; Mason Co., Luding—
ton, Jan. 21-22; Kent Co., Grand Rapids,
Jan, 21-22; Charlcvoix Co., Charlcvoiv.
Jan. 24-25; Antl'im Co., Central Lake, Jun.
25-26: Ottawa Co., Holland. Jan. 23-26;
Tuscolu Co., Caro, Jan. 25-26; Kulkusku
Co., liulkaska, Jun. 26-27; Mccosla Co.,
Big Rapids, Jan. 2-1-23; Muskvgon Co.
Ravcnna. Jan, 26-27; Occuua Co., Hart,
Jan. 27—28; Munisloc Co., icar Lake, .lzm.
27—28—29; Suuilac Co., Marielle. Jun. 28—
29; Huron Co., Harbor Beach, Jun. 28~20,
Ncwayg'o Co., Fremont, Jun. 28-29; (lrand
Travcrso Co., 'l‘ruvcrst- City, Jan, 27-28-
29; Leclauau Co., Sutlou’s Bay, .1111). 2:1
and Feb. 1; Si. Clair Co., Smith Cree-k,
Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.

One—Day institutcsz—Kcul Co., (‘zile-
donia. Jan. 8; Paris, Jun. 10; Cal'lislc,
Jun. 11; Gl'ulluu, Jan, 1:; Sparta, Jan.
13; Kinney, Jan, 14; Alto, Jan. 15; Btu-rich
Co., Fair Plain, leu. 8; Riverside. Jun.
10; “'atervliet, Jan. 11; Iouia Co., South
Boston, Jun. 8; Saginaw Co., Che-sailing.
Jan. 8; Huron Co., Owcudulc, Jau_ ';
North Burns, Jan. 10; Bad Axe, Jan. 11;
U‘bley, Jan. 12; Saniluc Co., Shabbouu,
Jan. 8; Argyle, Jan. 11); Decker-ville. Jan.
11; Mindeu, Jun. 1:; Cursonville, Jan. 3.
Croswcll. Jan. 14; Lexington, Jan. 1.7;
Grand Traverse Co., Kingsley, Jun. 25-26;

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AN IMPORTANT NURSERY DECISION.

Fruit growers will be glad to know that
a supreme court has reversed the decision
of a lower court to the effect that a
grower who had ordered 3,500 trees and
received but 763: ofthe kinds ordered could
recover only the purchase price of the
trees. As I understand the case, it is now
thrown open to a jury to decide the
amount of damages to be awarded the
plaintiff. He has sued for $13,000 dam-
ages, while the circuit court had ruled
the case out with the statement that only
$236.38, the original cost of the trees.
could be recovered.

The contract under which the trees
were bot contained the following clause:
“Any stock which does not prove true to
name as labeled is to be replaced free of
purchase price refunded, and all stock to
be delivered in a thrifty and healthy con-
dition."

It is hoped that this decision may be a
start toward a crusade in requiring nur-
serymen to be more careful in sending
out stock true to label. We all know that
mistakes will sometimes occur, but this
is no argument against wholesale sub-
stitution.

The purchase of nursery stock is differ-
ent from most other purchases. With
most articles one can tell upon receipt
or with a short usage, whether they are
what they were represented to be, while
with trees it requires from four to ten

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Thus it will be seen that substitution
is a. comparatively safe practice for the
unprincipled nurseryman, especially when

selling to jobbers, or in small orders to

the general farmer thru agents .or even
direct. In fact, it is too safe to be of
advantage to the fruit grower, or the
nurseryman who'is honest and takes ev-
ery'precaution to be careful. Something
should be done to remedy this evil, and it
appears to ‘me that it should be done by
the nurserymen themselves. A few years
ago a few farm papers began guarantee-
ing protection to those who patronized
their advertisers. The cry was spread
that they would be ruined. Were they?
Nurserymen put up the same argument,
namely, that they cannot afford to back
up a guarantee that their stock is true
to name by an offer to give an adequate
compensation to growers who prove un-
questionably that this is the case after
the trees come into bearing. Of course,
there are arguments against such a prac-
tice. The nursery would have to ask a
little more for its stock, and exercise the
closest scrutiny to keep all stock sent out
true to label; but if a reputable nursery
should advertise to do this would not its
trade increase even if the price were
doubled?

A leading nurseryman of this state in-
forms me that his experts can detect
every tree not true to name, by its char-
acter of growth in the nursery row. Now,
if he has a proper faith in their ability
to do this and can rely on his help to
label them properly, would he not be safe
in adding a suitable recompense clause
to his contract? I believe this is a very
pressing question, and I should like to

 
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years to ﬁnd out whether we have been
cheated or not. Then, too, with most
other purchases their original purchase
price is all or more than they are worth
at any future time, their value decreasing
with their age, while with nursery stOCk
the opposite is true. The value increases
with their age in a geometrical ratio, and
if they are worthless the loss has in-
creased at the same rate. Thus it will be
readily seen that when the manufacturer
of a gasoline engine replaced an engine
that has proved defective after a fair
trial, the purchaser is getting a fair deal,
as the new engine is worth all the defec-
tive one cost; but if after growing a tree
for a number of years only to ﬁnd out
that it is a worthless variety, the new
tree which he may receive in its place,
or the amount paid therefor is but a
fraction of what the original tree has
cost him, or what it would be worth if
true to name. Then suppose he accepts
the replacement and sets another tree.
What guarantee has he that this will not
also prove worthless? After such an ex-
perience as the one named above the pre-
sumption is that it would. The result is
that the farmer who receives substituted
stock becomes disgusted with fruit grow-
ing and refuses to set more trees. Thus
the loss rebounds upon the nurseryman.
As a matter of fact, it is well known
that no plot is kept of the majority of
trees sold, so 'by the time they come into
bearing the owner can not say with cer-
tainty that they are untrue to name.
Taking all these facts into consideration
I doubt if one tree out of a hundred that
are untrue to name is ever replaced.

have it discussed by parties interested on
both sides.

Did you ever ask an agent or a ﬁrm to
replace varieties not true to name, or
trees that did not grow when the contract
called for the company to make a tree
live for a year? Did you notice how the
agent or the company jumped around to
c0mply with your request? We once kept
at an agent to replace some trees, two-
thirds of which did not grow, for two
years, and ﬁnally gave it up. I have not
the space to give the elusive reasons he
had for not doing so. He certainly ex-
hausted all that were at all plausible. I
now have a letter from a responsible nur-
sery in reply to a request to make good
the varieties bot for Dewey and St. John
peaches which turned out to be white
peaches of little value. Of course, the
nursery agrees to replace them, but with
a coolness that gives one a chill.

Another very inconvenient practice to
which we have been subjected by a nur-
sery is as follows: We give an order
during the winter, sending cash for same.
The order is entered, the nursery takes
the money and sends us a copy of the
order with the especial assurance that
they can furnish it complete. The follow-
ing spring we receive notice that a part
of the order has been shipped, and they
are returning check for the balance,
which they could not supply. The order
is for an orchard with apple, and peach
ﬁllers and, of course, it is too late to get
the balance ﬁlled, so the orchard must
be left incomplete for the season, with
the consequent loss of growth and use of
the land. Meanwhile the nursery has had

certain extent, or otherwise injured, hen-

the use of the money for Several months.

Thinking to prevent a. recurrence of
this inconvenience we last summer closed
a contract with a. nursery to supply stock
during the season of 1909-10 at speciﬁed
prices named in the contract. Last
month an order for 1,800 trees was placed,
and we were somewhat surprised to ﬁnd
that the prices were nearly double those
named in the contract. We asked for an
explanation and were told that the con-
tract didn’t go and were advised to re-
turn it.

These are a few of the inconveniences
the fruit grower has to run up against,
even when the agent is eliminated and he
is dealing with what are reputed to be
the best firms in the country. There
seems to be a special code of ethics to
apply to the nursery business, and need-
less to say, the code is framed by the
nurseryman himself. Suppose in the last
instance that nursery stock had dropped
instead of advancing, as it has. .Would
the nurseryman stand for a statement by
the grower that the contract wasn’t bind-
ing and he would pay but half price for
his trees? I do not see why “a square
deal” should not be as applicable to the
nursery business as to any other.

Calhoun Co. S. B. HARTMAN.

 
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eﬁcial results might have followed thru
concentrating the new root formation to
these parts of the old roots and stem
from which evidently new growth is more
vigorous. There are, however, obvious
limits to such injury if it is to be bene-
ﬁcial, for the removal of too much of the
old roots would leave too small a supply
of root-buds. For this reason, as well as
on account of the riSk of disease origi-
nating at the points of injury. I do not
think that root injury on planting should
be adopted in practice. It is otherwise,
however, with ramming, and, with the
mass of evidence already accumulated, I
should not hesitate to recommend its
adoption in the case of fruit trees;
whether it is equally applicable for bush
fruits I cannot yet determine. as I have
not tried it with them.

The transplanting of trees in a nhrsery
has a very interesting bearing on the
subject under discussion. The object of
this, I believe, is certainly not to place
the trees in a more friable medium, for
this might be accomplished much more
cheaply by merely working the soil around
the trees; the object is nothing but root
injury, the breaking off of the long,
straggly main roots which the tree has
formed, and the forcing into growth of
numerous new roots from dormant buds
nearer the stem, thus obtaining a more
compact and a more bushy root system
In evidence of this, it is only necessary
to point to the fact that, instead of ac-
tually transplanting the trees, the treat-
ment adopted often consists of merely
jamming a spade down thru the roots.
If root injury in the nursery produces such
good results, there is nothing surprising
that similar results should follow from
injury on planting.

Canada. W. R. GILBERT.

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We have a number of plum trees that
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fertilize unless the pollen of another var-
i(-ly is used. This can be overcome by
grafting limbs of other kinds into the
tops; or perhaps with more satisfaction,
since grafting is not so successful with
stone fruit trees as with pome fruits, by
lodging blossoming branches of other
varieties in the tops of the trees. The
more probable cause of the trouble, how-
ever, is that the stems of the little fruits
are attacked by a fungus. This difficulty
is overcome by thoroly spraying with cop-
per sulphate about the time growth starts
in the spring and with Bordeaux mixture
just before the blossoms open and again
immediately after the blossoms fall.

ESTABLISHING AN APPLE OR-
CHARD.

 
The following is the review of a paper
by L. J. Post, of Kent county, omitted
from the recent report of the horticul-
tural society proceedings:

In treating the topic Mr. Post laid cs-
pccial stress on top-working young apple
trees to get varieties of known reputa-
tion and true to name. For foundation
stock, select strong growing varieties
such as Ben Davis, Pewaukee, Tallman,
Northern Spy, and Transparent. Get
two—year-old stock with a good center and
a few branches, and graft the following
spring. Set one scion only, in the trunk,
a short distance above the lower branches
which are left until the scion is well

started, usually the following spring. The '

advantage of setting one scion is that it
forms a better crotch, the tree being
stronger at the graft where the head is
started. It also takes less time and if
the graft should fail to start another can
be set the following spring. One should
do the grafting and another follow up
closely and wax lthoroly. A good wax,
and one that will remain pliable for sev-
eral years, is made as follows: One lb.
tallow, two lbs. beeswax, four lbs. resin.
A little linseed oil may be used if de-
sired. The whip graft is used on all
small stocks. Mr. Post exhibited a tree
grafted with one scion. He also per—
formed the operation of grafting another.
A third was shown that had been grafted
with three scions. It was weak and start-
ing to split. \Veak crotehed trees are

 
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Is the Jealous Husband Alone to Blame?

their husbands’ jealousy? This is

the question that arises in my
mind when I hear of the great number
of women who are living unhappy lives,
thru the tyranny of their husband’s jeal-
ousy. I frequently receive letters from
miserable women who call out for help
and guidance from this burden which
grows heavier than they can bear.

What is the cause of this restless storm
upon the matrimonial sea? There is al-
ways a tiny spark that starts the largest
ﬁres. Do wives fan the ﬂames of jealousy
into a roaring blaze they cannot quench,
or are husbands alone responsible for this
great evil which causes so much woe in
life?

In the country where wives come in
contact very seldom with men not of her
own household, there is certainly little
chance for her husband to be jealous of
other men. I doubt if this so-called jeal-
ousy is that at all. Unless it is jealousy
for that which is lost, for the yearning
for an ideal state; for men love to have
their expectations realized.

“'ives, do you ever stop to think that
perhaps you have failed to come up to
the standard upon which he placed you,
as well as he has failed to prove the lov—
ing, kind and patient husband you thot
he would be, when you married him?
I do not say that this is always the case.
Many .a man has shattered a girl’s faith
and trust when she has always proven
herself the same woman she was on her
wedding day, but how vast are the num-

WHO ARE THE “BETTER CLASS?”

3 RE women themselves to blame for

 
I have been accused by two correspond-
ents of saying that farmers do not belong
to the “better class.” Like the lawyer
in the case of the famous kettle I shall
prove, ﬁrst, that I didn’t say it; second,
that tho I did say it, it isn't true, and
third, that it is true in part anyway.
What I did say was, that many farmers
do not observe the rules of politeness
which are respected by “the better class
the world over.” Now, is there anything
there which says that there are no 'farm-
ers in the "better class?” “The world
over” is surely broad enough to include
all classes of men, millionaires, business
men, professional men, artisans. day
laborers and farmers. But the trouble
lies in the use of the term “better class.”
There is something about that little ex-
pression which seems to arouse the ire
of many Americans because of our mis—
taken teaching of equality. \Ve have
heard so much of equality, and “I’m as
good as the next one,” that we have all
come ‘to believe ourselves to be the besr.
We are quick to say there are many our
inferiors, but none of us are willing to
acknowledge that we have superiors.
Hence, we resent the expression, “better
class.”

As a matter of fact, there is a -“better
class,” and its numbers are few when
compared to the great throng outside the
pale. But the term, when used correctly,
is never applied to the moneyed class nor
to the dwellers in cities, and I had neither
of these classes in mind when I said “bet
ter class.”

The better class is composed of those
men and women who stand for what is
highest and best; those who believe in
culture of soul, mind and body, and sac-
riﬁce all meaner things, such as the pur-
suit of wealth, pleasure and the lusts of
the flesh, to their beliefs. These men
and Women are rarely wealthy, because
they are ignorant of the tricks of chi-
canery and downright dishonesty neces—
sary to pile up a big fortune. Occasion—
ally, tho, in the legitimate pursuit of
business one does become a millionaire,
and then we have an expression of the
very highest type of the better class,
one who to honesty of soul and singleness
of purpose has been able to add all the
culture and polish which money enables
him to secure thru study, travel and in—
tercourse with big minds.

They are not always educated in the
collegiate sense of the term, for circum-
stances may have prohibited a course in
the schools. But in the better sense of
the term they are educated. They make
every experience thru which they pass
either of joy or of sorrow, a schoolmas-

bers of women who drop their mask after
the honeymoon. They cease to try mak-
ing themselves agreeable, they do not
curb their tongue and temper as they
did when he played the wooer. They be-
come careless and slovenly about their
personal appearance. They grow to be
perpetual naggers, (and do not realize it),
small offences are magniﬁed and dwelled
upon for hours, and sometimes days.
This, to a man, is very annoying, he soon
becomes disgusted, then loses his respect
and then his love. He resents it with
bad humor, and thinks he must always
be the victim of his Wife’s disagreeable
disposition. and his first impulse is to
strike back.

Do you not think, wives, that some-
times your husband's attitude is not as
bad as you have made it appear unto
yourself? As you are busy about your
housework you allow your mind to dwell
upon the little grievance and upon his
hasty words. You do not have the diver-
sion of thot as your city sister does, with
her varying mode of living, and aren’t
you a little inclined to think too much
about yourself? “What are your ideas
about it? Give this thot a little airing,
try and make yourself forget the unkind
words and the cruelty of your husband,
and see if his faults do not diminish a
little. Look to yourself and ascertain if
the trouble is not partially your own
fault. Are you the woman you wanted
him to believe you were when he was the
lover and you the maid?

ELISABETH.

ter. Everything has its lesson for them.
They learn a little from everyone they
meet, if that little be nothing but a better
knowledge of human nature. They are
omnivorous readers, of the best in litera-
ture, for they realize that there is no
better way to absorb the lessons humanity
has been learning thru the years than to
read the best thots of other men’s minds.
The light, trashy ﬁction of the day they
pass over, and hence the “better class”
are frequently dubbed simply “old fogies”
by the stratum beneath, who consider
themselves “as good as anybody.” They
have a profound respect: for family, a
characteristic which causes great irrita~
tion among the lower class, and leads to
applying the terms, “snobs” and “aristo—
crats” to the better class. But it is not.
snobbery which causes them to put such
a high valuation on family names. It is
because they know that long generations
of cultured ancestors tend to produce the
best type of man or woman, a theory
which the farmer recognizes when applied
to his live stock. John van Dyke, for ex-
ample, is the descendant of a long line of
clergymen and clcrgymen’s daughters. It
stands to reason that he will have better
stuff in him than John Doe, whose an-
cestors were unwashed, uncouth and un-
educated. But if the “better class” are
great respectors of family, they are also
strongly insistent that the members of
great families live up to the family tradi-
tions and honor. A name has been kept
unsullied thru many generations. Woe
to the desecndant who tarnishes it. He
has inherited a name which stands for
the best, he must pass it on down as
spotless as when he received it.

Belief in the Fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood of man is one of the
cardinal points in the philosophy of life
of the better class. Their charity is
broad enough to recognize even the low—
est as a. fallen brother, even tho they
may still see a distinction of class between
themlseves and the Parish. Their hand
is ever outstretched to help the needy,
because they know that only by assisting
the brother whom they see, do they show
their love for the Father whom they have
not seen. And. of course, they observe
strictly those little reﬁnements and cour-
tesies which make living with other peo-
ple pass off more smoothly. They do
them intuitively because they are nature’s
noblemen and noblewomen, not because
of some outside polish applied to hide a
rogue’s heart. They are reﬁned and cour-
teous out of kindness and consideration
for the feelings of others, and never let
a coarse word, a cruel joke, an impolite
act mar the happiness of those around
them.

With such ideals it will be readily seen
that the number in the better class is la»
mentably small. But the distinction of
class is large enough to allow people
from every walk in life to enter. I have
met many farmers in the better class,
and many who were a long way outside.
I have met some laborers who were of
this class, and a great many who 'could
never hope to enter. As to millionaires,
of the four whom I have had the awful
privilege of observing at close range, one
was the highest type of man I have ever
met, and the other three were insufferable
boors and cads. I am told by those who
have a wider acquaintance with this
species that the average millionaire has
been so busy making his million that 'he
has not even learned there is a better
class.

DOROTHY HUDSPITH.

 
WHEN EGGS ARE SCARCE.

 
BY PANSY VIOLA VINEB.

There are many excellent cakes and
puddings that can be made without the
use of eggs. Often the hens will refuse
to lay during the cold months of winter
so it is well for the housekeeper to know
how to get along nicely without them for
a time. Some recipes are:

Raisin Cake—Cream together one and
one—half cup of sugar, and one-half cup
of batter, then add one and one-half cups
of sour milk, in which has been dissolved
the soda. If the milk is real sour use a
heaping teaspoon of soda, otherwise use
a level teaspoon. Add one teaspoon each
of cloves and cinnamon, and one-half tea-
spoon of nutmeg. Flour one cup of seed—
ed raisins and add together with three
cups of flour. This cake should be baked
in a slow oven for about half an hour.

Soft Gingerbread.~Cream together one
cup of sugar and one-half cup of butter,
add one cup of New Orleans molasses,
one tablespoon of ginger. and one tea—
spoon of cinnamon. Dissolve two level
teaspoons of soda in one cup of boiling
water; stir in enough ﬂour to make a
moderately stiff batter. Bake in a deep
tin.

Apple Sauce Cake—Cream together one
cup of sugar and one scant half cup of
butter, add one teaspoon each of cloves
and cinnamon or, instead of the cloves,
addonc—half teaspoon of nutmeg, and
one-half teaspoon of salt. Have cooked
one cup of sour apple sauce and beat in

thoroly, also one—half cup of chopped
raisins. Lastly add two cups of ﬂour in

which has been sifted one teaspoon of
soda. Bake in a moderate oven for about
an hour.

Plain White Cake—Cream together one
cup of sugar and one-fourth cup of but-
ter, add one cup of good rich milk, and
two and one—fourth cups of flour in which
has been sifted two and one—half tea.-
spoons of baking powder. Flavor with
one tablespoon of vanilla. Bake in lay-
ers. This cake is nice made with a ﬁlling
of sliced bananas and whipped cream;
or a chocolate icing can be made for it
by boiling together one-half cup of milk,
one cup of sugar, and one or two squares
of chocolate. Boil this until it makes a
ﬁrm ball when dropped in cold water.
Then remove from stove, add one—half
teaspoon of vanilla. Beat up until stiff
enough to spread.

Boiled Icing without Eggs—Boil to-
gether one-half cup milk, one cup sugar,
and one teaspoon of butter. Boil until
thick enough to spread over the cake, ad-
ding one teaspoon of vanilla or any ﬂavor-i
ing preferred.

Rice Pudding.-Nice rice puddings can
be made without eggs. Wash one cup of
rice thru several waters. Put into a pud-
ding dish with one quart of good, rich
milk, add one cup of seeded raisins that
have been well—washed, one cup of sugar,
a half teaspoon of grated nutmeg and a
level teaspoon of salt. Bake in the oven
slowly for nearly two hours, for the rice
should be fully swollen. A little lemon
rind can be added if liked, or if a richer
pudding is desired add two tablespoons
of butter, this should be added especially
if the milk is not good and rich.

Bread Pudding—Perhaps you think it
impossible to make bread pudding without
eggs, but a very good bread pudding can
be made after the following manner:

Take a half of a small loaf, and soak in,

milk until quite soft. Then remove from
milk and add a little cream. Put in
three tablespoons of brown sugar, one-
half cup of seeded raisins, two table-
spoons of cinnamon. Bake in the oven
with a. slow fire until brown on top.

Serve with cream or a good butter sauce. ‘ TIE WORTHING & mm 00., llillsdalc, Mich

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JAN. 8, 1910.

The Way to Gino
All Skin Diseases

The Prescription is Simple; I‘liriiy the
Blood by Using Stuart’s Calcium
Waters-and the lost is Easy.

If people only realized the utter ab—
surdity of attempting to cure a pimply,
blotchy, unsightly complexion by means
of the many irrational and illogical meth.
ods employed in “beauty parlors,” and
also in the boudoir, thousands of dollars
which are wasted every year—literally
thrown away—would be saved, and the
complexion rendered clear and free from
blemishes ,through constitutional treat-
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of the cost of the “fancy" and exceed-
ingly expensive local “treatments.”

The idea of massaging the cheeks, and
attempting to rub in a. so-called “skin-
food,” is the height of nonsense. Nature
never intended the skin to be fed from
the outside, but from the inside exclu—
sively, and it is the blood‘which really
feeds the skin, builds it up, and supplies
it with nutriment absorbed from the di-
gestive system. There is really no such
thing as a “skin-food,” any more than
there is a “heart-food,” or “lung-food,”
or a “brain-food.”

The skin is a water-proof, air—proof
envelope over the muscular system, and
it has no power to absorb cold creams.
or any other medicaments when rubbed
over its surface. While, of course, steam-
ing the face, or massaging with electric.
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porarily to the surface and produce an
artiﬁcial glow, which may last half an
hour or so, but such treatment brings no
lasting beneﬁt, and will never cure wrin-
kles, pimples, pustules, blackheads, or
other facial blemishes.

Besides the frequent treatment of the
skin in the way which “beauty doctors"
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the very undesirable effect of increasing
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The only logical treatment in acquiring
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Mr. Editor:—-After reading Dorothy
\Hudspith’s and Ember’s opinions on the
average farmer, I would like to add a
few words. I think Dorothy is mistaken
in her idea of the farmer. Of course,
there are those Who are disgusted with
a great many new ideas, but so there are
in the cities and towns. But how many
times the farmer’s wife hears something
like this: “Well, wife, Mrs. So-and—So
drove out from the city this morning and
got into a mixup with her horse and I
went to her assistance. After I straight—
ened things out and helped her into her
buggy she drove off without as much as
a thank you, or a grateful look." Now,
right there is a chance for improvement
and not in the farmer's case, either.

How many times we hear farmers and
other men tell of giving up their seats
in street cars, trains or public buildings,
and the lady accepting the same without
as much as a grateful glance. Oh, yes!
we are a, grateful people.

As for Embers, I think it must have
[web a. bad case of indigestion when she
wrote her letter. It took her to put the
ﬁnishing touches on. W'ell, never mind,
the average farmer is too broad minded
to take offense at it and would no doubt
go to her assistance as willingly as he
would to another.

But why all this fault to be found with
the farmer? Isn't he a generous, open
hearted fellow, giving everyone a genuine
welcome, and ready to divide with the
less fortunate, free of charge? \Vhy not
look for his good qualities instead of the
bad? It isn't a mark of good breeding
I am sure, to be always looking for the
bad. But the most serious part is not
so much how the farmer gets the food
into his mouth, nor how many times he
raises his hat to ladies, but that he must
get food enough into his mouth," and
keep his hat on his head long enough
to enable him to raise food enough to
keep the millions of months of the nation
ﬁlled. It seems to be the nature of most
human beings to strike the one that pro-
vides for them.

Politeness is all right, providing it is
backed by enough stamina to get out and
hustle for wife and children. You will
have to admit that for genuine courag
and a do and die spirit. you will always
ﬁnd it in the rough and ready man and
it always excites admiration wherever
found. Remember, there never was but
one perfect man and they crucified him.

Dorothy Hudspith speaks of the city
bred man as being of the better class.
\Ycll, think of them as being of the bet-
ter class if you wish. and with Abraham
Lincoln we will think that "God must
have loved the common people for He
made so many of them."

Vermontville. ONE Faminn’s “’IFE.

 
THE WINTER BEDDING.

BY MRS. N. M. RL’SIIING.

For an under bed. corn husks are much
superior to straw, for they will not become
so compact after use and they will wear
much longer. This may not sound like
truth, to some readers. However. it is
true just the same. One important fea-
ture. however. is to secure the husks in
proper condition. As sum) as the husks
are taken from the corn. before any
mould or other harm comes to them. take
the fairest and best leaves. free from
all stalks, silks, etc., and spread them out
to dry in some airy room. stirring them

well until they are all perfectly dry As
they shrink somewhat. a good supply
should be secured of fresh husks. Don't

split the leaves: they do not l)t‘(‘0n}£‘ ﬂat
and solid, as many suppose. but rather
t-url up and make the mass light.

A husk mattress is suitable for both
Winter and summer use, and at all times

healthy. “Tool mattresses are liable to
become infested with moths. \Vhere
feather beds are used they may be put

above the husks in cold weather and bi».
low in hot weather. I usually let the
husk bed remain during the winter. how-
and my husband he likes it
better than the straw. or feather bed.
Husk beds seem to have something of
medical value. In many cases a hard
bed is vastly superior to feathers. and
as comparatively few farm women mve
real mattresses. a bed every way as good
as these may be made quickly by putting
the feather bed at the bottom. and the
husk bed above, and a comforter or other
thick quilt over it. Owing to their cheap—
ness. and being easily obtained. every
family should have at least one shuck bed,
and one is sure to bring several others.

over. so ys

THE , MICHIGAN FARMER.

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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.
January 5, 1909.
Grains and Seeds.

Wheat.-—There were slight reductions
in values at the close of the year owing
to the fact that shorts had covered before
the ﬁnal day, leaving holders having ex-
tra supplies with their surplus on hand,
the attempt to unload this surplus causing
the decline. But rallies were made at
the ﬁrst session of the New Year which
not only covered thi- recent declines, but
set new high prices. A movement of
wheat from the northwest has been large
the past few days, but nearly all is con—
signed to mills to be immediately manu—
factured into ilour which takes it from the
market and gives the trading much ﬁrmer
tone. Europe is beginning to look to
America to replenish her supply in as
much as countries upon which she usually
depends for her bread are not exporting
the customary amount of wheat, with per-
haps the single exception of Russia where
large exports are reported. The shortage
of Argentine is a bullish factor in the
world's market. One year ago the price
paid here for No. 2 red wheat. was 31.05%
per bushel. Quotations for the week are
as follows:

 
No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. May. July.
Thursday . . . .1249); 1.241}; 1.27% 1.0514
Friday ....... 1.24 1.24 1.27 1.04172
Saturday .........
Monday .......1 ' 1.25 1.2814 1.05%,

0,
Tuesday ..... 1.26%; 1.26%, 1.2914 1.06%'
Wednesday . .1.25% 1.25% 1.28% 1.06%,

Corn.-—Prices here advanced with the
improvement in wheat values. Snow
stormsextending thruout the corn belt
were a bullish factor, since it is feared
that supplies can not readily reach the
large centers of consumption from the
rural towns. In the local market this
cereal is in good demand and the trade is
ﬁrm. Since corn, altho high, is about_as
cheap a feed as can be had, it is being
taken by feeders quite liberally. One
year ago the price for No. 3 corn was
621/20 per bu. Quotations for the week
are as follows:

No.3

No.3 Yellow.

Thursday ................. 631/2 64%

Friday 6314 6414
Saturday .. ..
Monday . 63 64

Tuesday ..... ..... 633/4 64%

Wednesday ..... 64% 65%,

0ats.—Values in this market have been
governed largely by the changes in wheat
and corn dealing. There appears to be
very little room for speculation in out
circles since but a small amount of the
grain is coming from farmers and dealers
apparently feel that they have knowledge
of the available supply in the country,
hence it is not probable that ﬂuctuations
will occur other than those caused by
changes in the value for other important
grains. No. 3 white oats were selling a
year ago at 53c per bu. Quotations are
as follows:

Standard.
Thursday ......................... 471/4
Friday ...... ............... ....... 471/;
Saturday ....... ......... ..
Monday .......... ......... 471/;
Tuesday ....... ...... 48
\Vednesday ......... ....... 4914

Beans—Buyers are out after beans, but
those holding them are not of a disposi~
tion to sell. For this reason cash. beans
on this market were advanced 2c during
the past week, to correspond with the
January options. No sales have been re
ported and the following quotations are
only nominal:

Cash. Jan
Thursday ..................$2.05 $2.07
Friday ........ 2.05 2.07
Saturday ......
Monday 2.05 2.07
Tuesday ..... 2.07 2.07
Wednesday ...... 2.07 2.07

CIoverseed.—-Farmers are holding onto
their surplus seed very persistently and
now that the buying season will soon be
at an end, jobbers are anxious for what
surplus seed they can get and prices have
advanced accordingly. The improvement
is noted in both common clovers as well
as alsike. Quotations for the week are
r follows:
ls Prime Spot. Mar. Alsike.

$8.85 $9.05

Tlursda $7.85
Frliday .y........... 8.85 9.05 7.85
Sat rda
Morlldayy........... 8.85 9.00 7.85
Tuesday 9.10 9.20 7.90
Wednesday 9.05 9.15 7.8;)

Rye.—Improved demand and prices are
higher. No. 1 is quoted at 79c per bu.
Visible Supply of Gram.
This week. Last week
\Vheat ...............27,736,000 27,367,000

Corn ................. 8,465,000 7,387,000
Oats ............ ..... 11,180,000 11,106,000
Rye ........ 814,000 807,000
Barley . . ............ . 2,655,000 2,903,000

Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.
Flour.——Market steady, with prices on
last week’s basis. Quotations are as

follows:

Clear .. ......... ............ .589
Straight ................ 5.8.3
Patent Michigan ..................... 6.2:)
Ordinary Patent ..................... 5.95

Hay and Straw.—Market is unchanged
are: No, 1 timothy, new, $14.50@15; No.
2 timothy, $13.50@14; clover, mixed, $13.50
@14; rye straw, $7607.50; wheat and oat
straw, $650627 per ton.

Feed.—-Market steady at last week’s
and ﬁrm. Carlot prices on track
prices. Bran, $24 per ton; coarse mid—
dlings, $25.50; ﬁne middlings, $29.50:
cracked corn, $27: coarse corn meal, $27;
corn and oat chop. $23.50 per ton.

Potatoes—The supply of tubers is tak-
ing good care of the demand. Values are
on about the same bas1s as a week ago.
Michigan grown are selling in car lots
at 33@36c per bu. in bulk, and in sacks
t 30 400. _

a Progslons.—Famiiy pork, $24.75@25;
mess pork, $24; medium clear, $25@26;

. ' s

 
pure lard, 141/g@151;éc; bacon, wimp-17c;
shoulders, 12%c; smoked hams, 15c; picnic
hams, 12550.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Butter.——Creamery butter is quoted the
same as last week. In some of the east-
ern markets there was an easier feeling
in the trade but central and western
markets are ﬁrm. Consumption is suffer-
ing from the high prices, altho general
prosperity is enabling many more people
to enjoy high priced butter than was true
two years ago. Quotations are: Extra
creamery, 360 per lb; ﬁrst do., 35c; dairy,
24c; packing stock, 23c.

Eggs.—The hens have done nothing the
past week to relieve the scarcity of pro-
ducts in this market. Demand for fresh
stock is good. Trade ﬁrm. Price for
fresh eggs unchanged. Current offerings,
cases included, are quoted at 30c per doz.

Poultry.—The established values of a
week ago still prevail except for dressed
turkeys and geese, where advances
are noted. Quotations for the week
are: Live—Spring chickens, 13c; hens,
12c; ducks, 14@15c; geese, 13c; turkeys,
186020c. Dressed—Chickens, 14c; ducks,
17c; geese, 14@15c; turkeys, 22@24c per
pound.

Cheese.——Steady. Michigan full cream,
16%c; York state, 18c; Iimburger, 17c;
schweitzer, 21c; brick cream, 180 per lb.
8@9c per lb.

Calves—Choice to fancy, 10@11c; or-
dinary, 9(1‘10c per lb.-

Frults and Vegetables.

Cabbage.—~Steady. Home-grown, $1.75
@2 per bbl.

Onions—Domestic offerings 70@750 per
bu. Spanish, $1.35 per crate.

Apples—Snow, $5.50@6; Spy, $2.25@
$3.50; Baldwin, $3; common, $1.50@2.50
per bbl.

Cranberries.—Cape Cod berries selling
at $2693.50 per bu.

Nuts.——Buternuts, $1 per bu; walnuts,
75c; shell bark hickory, $1.75@2. \

Vegetables.—Beets, 60c per bu; carrots,
60c per bu; cauliﬂower, $1.75@2 per doz;
hothouse cucumbers, $1@1.50 per doz;
green onions, 12%c per doz; green pep-
pers. 60c per bu; mint, 25c per doz; pars—
ley. 20c per doz; lettuce, hothouse, 12@14c
per lb; turnips, 60c per bu; watercress,
35c per doz.

otﬁen MARKETS

Grand Rapids.

Dressed hogs continue high, bringing
1Mi‘111/2c this week. Farmers are being
paid the following prices for live poultry:
Young chickens, 12((‘0121/3c; hens and
i‘owls, 10%@11%c; young turkeys, 17@19c;
young ducks, 15617160: young geese, 11@
12c. The mills are paying $1.20 for wheat,
48c for cats and 600 for new corn. White
pea beans are worth $1.85, red kidneys
$2.65. Potatoes, are dull, with no move—
ment. Hay is higher, bringing $16@18
per ton.

Quotations follow:

Grain—Wheat, $1.20; oats, 480; corn,
60c; buckwheat, 55c per bu; rye, 680.

Beans—White machine screened, $1.85;
red kidneys, $2.65 basis.

Button—Buying prices, Dairy, No. 1.
26c; creamery in tubs or prints, 35c
per lb.

Eggs.——Case count, 27@28c.

Apples.—50@75c.

Vegetables—Potatoes, 35@40c; onions
60c per bu; cabbage, 30@400 doz;
parsnips, 500; beets, 50c per bu; carrots,
400; turnips, 25c; Hubbard squash, 1c lb;
celery, 1259c; parsley, 200 doz; cucumbers,
80c doz.

Hogs—Dressed, 11@11%c.

Live Poultry.——Fowls, 10%@11c; roos-
ters, 8@90; spring chickens, 11@12c;
Spring ducks, 12@13c; young geese, 9@
10c; young turkeys, 17@18c.

 
New York.

Butter.——Market easier and steady.
Western factory ﬁrsts, 24@25c; creamery
specials, 35c.

Eggs—Prices higher. Market strong.
Western ﬁrsts to extras, 331442361430; sec-
onds, 30@33c; fancy refrigerator stock,
23((0261/20.

Poultry. Dressed, easy. Western chick-
ens, broilers, 16@220; fowls, 12@170; tur-
keys, 21@24c.

 
Chicago.

\Vheat.——NO. 2 red, $1.24gi1.28; May,
331.14%; July, $10334.

Corn—No. 3, 62@621/,,c; May, 67%c;
July, 67%C.

Oats—No. 3 white, 451,4@46c; May,
461/2c.

Button—Market easier at last week’s
extreme ﬁgures. Creamerics, 26@34c;
dairies, 25@30c.

Eggs—Lower prices prevailed the past
week but the market is ﬁrm at the new
ﬁgures. Prime ﬁrsts, 34c; ﬁrsts, 33c; at
mark, cases included, 241/26028c per doz.

Hay and Straw.—-Hay ﬁrm and un—
changed. Straw steady. Quotations;
Timothy, choice $18@18.50; No. 1, $1761)
17.50; No, 2 and No, 1 mixed, $16@16.50;
No. 3 and No. 2 mixed, $13.50@15.50; rye
straw, $10@11; oat straw, $8@8.50; wheat
straw, $7@8.

Potatoes—Shipments of tubers to this
market were more liberal than for the
previous Week and trade is easier. Choice.
to fancy quoted at 45@47c per bu; fair
to good, 40@43c.

Beans—Steady. Red kidney beans are
lower. Choice hand—picked, $2.l3@2.15
per bu; fair to good, $2.05@2.10; red kid-
neys, $2.25@2.80.

 
Boston.

Wool—The wool trade is experiencing
its usual winter dullness. The local deal-
ing is conﬁned very largely to territory
wools. Supplies in all departments are
short. The coming season promises to be
an unusual one because of buyers getting
into the ﬁeld at a far earlier date than
is their custom. The following are the
leading quotations for domestic grades:
Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces—XX, 370:
X, 34@35c; No. I washed, 40((D4lc; No. 2
washed, 400; ﬁne unwashed, 27@280; ﬁne
unmerchantable, 310; 1,§-blood combing,
34@37c; 3/,';-blood, 34@37c; IA'blOOd comb—
ing, 34@35c; delaine washed, 39c. Mich-
igan, Wisconsin, New York ﬂeeces~Fine
unwashed, 25@26c; delaine unwashed, 31
@320; %-blood unwashed, 35@36c; 5%;-
blood unwashed, 35@36c; 111,-blood, 33@

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THE MICHIGAN “FARMER;

340. Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri—-
%—blood, 34c; iii-blood, 32@33c. Georgia,
31@32c.‘
, Elgin.‘

Butter.—Market ﬁrm at 360 per 1b.,
which is last week's prices. Sales for the
week aggregated 564,800 lbs., compared
with 589,400 lbs. last week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

 
January 3, 1910.
‘ Buffalo.
(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, N, Y.)

 
Receipts of sale stock here today as
follows: Cattle, 150 loads; hogs, 17,600;
sheep and lambs, 18,000; calves, 700.

Our cattle market today was rather slow
and the good cattle sold from 10@20c
lower than last week while the butcher
cattle were about steady. Stockers and
feeders were from 256040c lower and in
no demand. Everybody seems to be ﬁlled
up and we would advise keeping them
away from here for a while. The heavy
run in Chicago last week caused the de-
cline on good cattle here. All the big
buyers got pretty well ﬁlled up there
last Wednesday and Thursday. Fresh
cows and springers sold from $3@5 per
head lower than one week ago.

“'8 quote; Best export steers, $6.50@
6.75; best 1,200 to 1,300-lb. shipping steers,
$6.2561’76.50; best 1,100 to 1,200—lb. do., $5.50
@6; medium 1,050 to 1,150-lb. steers, $5.10
@540; light butcher steers, $4.75@5; best
fat cows, $4.50@5; fair to good do., $4.25@
4.50; trimmers, $2.25@2.60; best fat heif-
ers, $5@5.25; fair to good do., $4.25@4.50;
commOn do., $3.50@3.75; best feeding
steers, 950 to 1,000 lbs., $4.50@4.65; best
feeding steers, 800 to 900 lbs., $4.25@4.40;
700 to 750—lb. dehorned stockers, $3.75@4;
600 to 650-lb. do., $3.25@3.50; best bulls,
$4.50@5; bologna bulls, $3.65@3.85; stock
bulls, $3.25m350: best fresh cows and
springers, $456055; fair to good do., $30@
35; common do., $206925.

‘ The hog market opened strong 5c higher
than Saturday on the mixed and mediums
and 10c higher on pigs and yorkers.
Closed steady with a fair clearance.

\Ve quote: Mixed, medium and heavy,
$8.75GT‘8.80; best yorkers, $8.75@8.80; light
yorkers and pigs, $8.70@8.75; roughs, $8@
8.15; Stags, $7@7.25.

Our lamb market today was active at
the prices but the sheep were dull and
strong a quarter lower. Most of the best
ewes sold from $5@5.25 and wethers from
$5.50ﬁ‘5.75. We look for steady prices
the balance of the week unless we should
get an over supply. ‘

We quote: Best lambs, $8.60@8.65; fair
to good, $8@8.50; culls, $7@7.50; skin
culls, $4.50@6; yearlings, $6.75@7.50;
wethers, $5.50(n;5.75; ewes, $5@5.25; cull
sheep, $2@4; best calves, $9.50@10.50; fair
to good, $8@9; heavy, $4@4.50.

 
Chicago.

January 3, 1910.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Received today .....21,000 26,000 19,000
Same day last year ..39,403 51,993 27,189
Received last week ..60,533 102,591 52,491
Same week last year.51,310 175,577 68,416

Cattle and other deseriptions of live
stock were marketed sparingly early last
week compared with ordinary weeks, the
last week of the year always being 're-
garded as an unfavorable time for having
large supplies of stock to sell, owing to
the extensive substitution of poultry at
that time in place of beef, mutton and
pork everywhere. Cattle early last week
shot up 10@25c on small offerings and
good general buying, many lots selling
on Monday around 25c higher, but this
spurt was followed later in the week by
better receipts and general dullness, and
by the close it was largely lost. It should
be added that extremely cold weather
and big snow storms have acted injur-
iously to the live stOek markets, and
stock trains have in many instances been
unusually late in reaching their destina-
tions. In quality most of the cattle of-
fered_left much to be desired, the yards
containing far too many poorly fattened
steers shipped in to avoid winter feed
bills, and they sold accordingly, steers
going chieﬂy at $5.25@7. The few sales
at $7.50fdl8.50 cut very little ﬁgure, export
steers being salable at $6.25@7.25 and in-
ferior light—weight steers at $4,20@5,25,
It is generally believed that better mar—
kets will prevail this month, but market-
ing “warmed-up" cattle should he stop~
ped. Cows and heifers were fairly active
last week, moving up and then down, with
sales at $3616.25, While canners and cut-
ters went at $2@3 and bulls at $3@5. 5.
Calves were in the usual demand at $3@
9.25 per 100 lbs., closing lower, while milk~
ers and springers were in limited supply
and demand at $25@65 per head. Stockers
illitlr feeders were fairly active, closing
15(1250 lower, the best excepted. Stockers
went at $3704.65, and feeders at $4.5M!)
5.25. Another week opened today with
moderate receipts for Monday and a fairly
active demand. prices ruling largely a
dime higher. Prime beevcs sold at $7.50
@8, the great bulk of the offerings being
only partly fattencd,

Hogs were marketed last week in ex-
traordinarily meager numbers, and,’ for
the ﬁrst time on record, the closing week
of the year saw the. highest prices of the
whole twelve months. Eastern Shippers
bot an unusually large share of the hogs
.offered, securing the very choicest lots
mainly, and the Chicago packers were
not able to add any considerable stocks to
their greatly depleted supplies of lard
and cured meats. The best hogs sold up
to $8.75, and even the commoner kinds
sold very high, pigs bringing good ﬁg-
ures. The average offerings were good
in quality, but at times most of the hogs
ran in weight from 200 to 230 lbs., and
there was an insufﬁcient showing of lots
averaging 280 to 300 lbs. Stockmen ev-
erywhere are in an independent position,
and they have generally refused to sell
their hogs for less than $8 per 100 lbs. on
the farm. January starts off under ex-
tremely favorable auspices, and extremal
high rices may be expected, as in 8.1
probalgility there will be a large demand

JAN. 8, 1910.

for fresh pork and a large domestic con-
sumption of provisions. The moderate
Monday “run” today resulted in an ad-

vance of 10@15c over last Saturday’s

prices, there being an active demand at
$8.20@8.65. Prime light lots brot $8.55.

Sheep and lambs are not usually in very
large request during the last week of the
year, but last week there were such ex—
tremely small supplies that prices had
sharp advances all along the line, with
not enough prime fat lots to satisfy trade
requirements. Shippers purchased a. large
percentage of the choicer lots, and local
killers had thin pickings. Lambs sold at
$5.50@6.25 for culls up to $7.65@8.85 for
the better class, with feeder lambs in
good request at‘$6.90@7.25, altho federal
requirements that ﬂocks sent out of the
state must be dipped tended to lessen this
demand. Wethers found buyers at $5.25
@625, ewes at $3@6, bucks and Stags at
$3.50@4.50, and yearlings at $6.50@8.15.
fat shorn lambs sold at $7.75@8.20, a new
high range for the season, and a few
western yearlings sheep that weighed
from 85 to 95 lbs. went at $8.15, the high-
est point of the year for that class of
muttons. Many sheep and lambs shipped
in, strange to say, were not nearly fat
enough. Last week’s extraordinarily high
prices for sheep and lambs were main-
tained today.

Horses were in extremely small supply
last week, and, altho trade requirements
were very limited, fresh arrivals were so
light that commission ﬁrms-were enabled
to close out recent accumulations, so that
they began the new year afresh. Prices
did not generally show much change, and
sales were made of small southern chunks
and medium drivers at $75@150 per head,
while medium weight drafters had a fair
demand at $150@200, better animals of the
draft class being scarce and salable all
the way. up to $250@275. Desirable feed-
ers were wanted to ship to Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania and other states at $170@225.
Breeders have been buying stallions
around $800@1,000 and mares at $400@600.

 
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

 
Old-fashioned snow storms have pre-
vailed all over the west and central west
recently and seriously interfered with the
marketing of all kinds of live stock, coun-
try shippers who brot stock to the Chi--
cago market reporting that many country
roads were practically impassable and that
a great deal of stock was held back be-
cause owners were unable to get stock
to loading stations. Weather conditions
may be imagined when it is stated that
on the Monday following Christmas only
18,652 cattle, 12,335 hogs and 6,085 sheep
arrived at the Chicago stock yards.

Local speculators have operated in the
Chicago hog market recently more exten—
sively'than for a long time past, existing
conditions being more favorable for suc-
cessful operations in their line, as sup-
plies were extraordinarily small. The
local paekers tried hard to check the
sharp upward turns in prices, but they
found it hard work, and rather than sell
below the advanced ﬁgures, speculators
carried over large numbers of choice hogs
from one day to another.

It is something entirely new for hogs
to sell at the highest prices of the year
in the closing month, something seen in
the last week of December in the Chicago
market. .It was a case of extremely mea-
ger offerings that was brot about partly
by the snow blockades on the country
roads and railroads and in part by the
refusal of stockmen to part with their
hogs after prices had dropped to a level
where farmers could not obtain $8 per 100
lbs. on the farm any longer. There has
never been a time in the past when farm—
ers, as a class, were so independent as
now, and thgy evidently have a clear ap-
preciaion 0 tie scarcit '
their increased value. y Of hogs and

Poultry has about had its day, after
being nearly supreme during the Christ-
mas liolidays, and now the packers will
have a good opportunity to work off their
accumulations of beef in their coolers
bot at low prices. This will naturally
make more favorable conditions for cattle
sellers, espemally where the cattle are
fat. There is already a larger outlet for
beef, mutton and fresh pork products
and bacon, hams and other cured ho;
products are again in' normal demanda
causnig more than ordinary anxiety upon
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despite its dearness, for corn as a straight
ration at 60 cents per bushel, looks even
dearer. It has been discovered that it
pays to use conSiderable mill feed at the

to balance a corn ration, a

isuccessful ffeedﬁers are in thenltiiabtiftleotmgg-L
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reported to be getting rich this $in%£$
in various sections, and such farmers liv—
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picked up _rare bargains in feeder’cattle
in the Chicago cattle market in recent
weeks, sales at times being made from
50 cents to $1 per 100 lbs. below their
intrinSic value, due to a surfeit shipped
from sections. where farmers were not
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was 18 THE FIRST EDITION.

 
In the first edition the Detroit Live
Stock markets are reports of last week;
all‘other markets are right up to date.
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday’s Markets.

December 30, 1900.
Cattle.
Receipts, 552. Medium and common

grades 10@15c higher; good grades slow
at last week’s prices.

\Ve quote: Best steers and heifers,
8550611560; steers and heifers. 1,000 to
1,200, .550; steers and heifers, 800 to 1,000,
$4.75@5.25; steers and heifers that are fat,
500 to 700, 840114.50; choice fat cows, $4.50;
good fat cows, 83.50614; common cows.
82.50603; canners, $2612.50; choice heavy
bulls, $4.25@4.75; fair to good bolognas,
bulls, $4@4.25; stock bulls. $3.50(u.‘l.70;
choice, feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50;
fair feeding steers, 800 to 1.000, $4; choice
stockers, 500 to 700, $3.75; fair stockers,
.700 to 700, $3.50i1‘3.75; stock heifers, 8361“
3.35; milkers, large. young, medium age,
$406050; common milkers. $206135.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &
Co. 28 butchers av 747 at $4.60. 1 bull
weighing 960 at $4, 2 cows av 700 at $2,
10 butchers av 580 at $3.65; to Newton B.
(‘0. 1 cow weighing 930 at $3, 3 do av 000
at $2.75, 3 (10 av 1,066 at $3.65. 3 butchers
av 900 at $3.50, 4 do av 055 at $4.75. 6 do
av 671 at $3.60, 7 do av 1.006 at $3.35. 3
cows av 826 at $2.50. 1 do weighing 780 at
$2.75; to Mich. B. Co. 1 do weighing 02-10
at $3, ‘8 butchers av 80:: at 3.80; to Marx
30 do av 730 at $4.10; to Sullivan P. Co.
1 cow weighing 1,250 at $1), 3 canners av
777 at $2.50, 1 heifer weighing 820 at $7».
1 do weighing 660 at $3.50, 1 bull weighing
1.640 at $4.25, 3 steers av 1,066 at $5.60, 1
heifer weighing 510 at $3.75; to (loose 3
butchers av 340 at $3.35: to Prince 7 stock-
ers av BSD-at $3.75; to Bresnahan 3 heif—
ers av 6-13 at $3.60, 5 do av 525 at $31. 1
do weighing 690 at $3.60. 1 canncr weigh—
ing 930 at $2, 1 heifer weighing 800 at
$4.50, 7 do av 530 at $3.60.

Roe Com. Co. sold Regan 17 butchers
:i\' 512 at $3.40; to Mich. 13. Co. 27 do av
633 at $4; to Sullivan P. (‘0. 1 canner
weighing 830 at $2, 3 do av 866 at $2.50.

Kalaher sold Hammond, S. & Co. :: cows
av 960 at $3, 12 steers av 81‘.‘ at 35.

Chase sold Kamman 4 heifers av 711 at
$3.85, 1 do weighing 630 at, $3.60.

Downing sold Sullivan P. Co. 1 steer
weighing 1,150 at $6, 3 do av 803 at $5, 2
heifers av 790 at $3.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.
20 steers av 1,150 at $5.70, 12 do av 1,100
at $5.35.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 313. Market strong at V’Ved-
ncsday’s prices; 25613500 higher than last
week. Best, $9619.75; others, $5018.75;
Inilch cows and springers steady, ..

Bishop, B. & H. sold lilich. B. Co. 3
av 140 at $8.75, 1 weighing 120 at $6, 1
weighing 120 at $8.75; to Nagle P. CO. 8
av 140 at $9; to Breitenback Bros. 1
weighing 180 at $5. 12 av 120 at $8.25; to
Burnstine 3 av 140 at $0, 3 av 135 at $9;
to Hammond, S. & Co. 7 av 135 at $0, 14
av 140 at $9, 1 weighing 130 at $6: to
Newton B. Co. av 150 at $8.50; to
Parker, W. & Co. 4 av 155 at $9.50, 6 av
150 at $9.50, 8 av 140 at $0.

Roe Com. Co. sold Burnstine 7 av 150
at $8; to Nagle P. Co. 2 av 155 at $9,
1 weighing 110 at $8.

Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 1
weighing 180 at $9, 2 av 105 at $7, 1
weighing 150 at $9.

Youngs sold Breitenbaek Bros. 7 av

140 at $8.50.

Kendall sold McGuire 4 av
av 144 at $9.

Downing sold Fitzpatrick
110 at $8.50. ,
H$egncy sold Breitenback Bros. 8 av 135
ill 13.75.

Tubbs & S. sold Nag‘lc 1’. CO.. 3
1'15 at $8.

Youngs sold Mich. B. Co. 2 av 140 at $0.
Sharp sold same 15 av 150 at $9.
Sheep and Lambs.
2,916. Market steady

20@25c ' higher than

$8.25ﬂ832: fair to good
light to common lambs.

115 at $9, 11

Bros. 4 av

{1 V

with
last

Receipts,
Wednesday;
week.

Best
In mbs,

lambs,
$7.75@8;

$650697; yearlings, $6016.50; fair to good
sheep. $4.50@5; culls and common,

53.50114 1.

Youngs sold Nagle P. CO. 33 lambs av
78 at $8.25.

'Is‘blbbs & S. sold same 35 do av 68 at
$7. .

Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 1 sheep
weighing 70 at $3. 37 lambs av 60 at $7, 7
do av 65 at $7, 4 sheep av 130 at $4.50:
to Mich. B. Co. 2 do av 100 at $3.50. 1‘.)
lambs av 55 at $7.50.

Spicer &. R. sold Newton R. Co. 66 lambs
av 75 at $7.90; to Nugle P. (‘0, 9 sheep av
105 at $4.50, 1 buck weighing 160 at $4; to
Mich. B. CO. 4 sheep av 120 at $5. 7 lambs
av 75 at $7.75; to Newton R. Co. 10 do
:I\' 50 at $6.40, 2 Sheep av 130 at $3: to
Fitzpatrick Bros. 35 lambs av 90 at $8.30,
1 sheep weighing 100 at $4. -

Cheney & H. sold Fitzpatrick Bros. 42
sheep av 105 at $4.

Cheney & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 103 lambs
av 70 at $7.70.

Belheimer sold Newton P». Co. 3
av 100 at $3.50, 2 lambs av 80 at $8.

Kendall sold same 2 sheep av 140 at $5,
42 lambs av 78 at $8.

Roe Com. Co. sold Thompson Bros. 20
sheep av 85 at $4, 35 lambs av 50 at $6.50:
to ,Nagle P. 09, 14 do av 75 at $7.50, 23
do av 70 at $7.50, 2 sheep av 115 at $4. 4
do av 125 at $4.25; to Rattkowsky 25 do
at“ 9.5 at $4.50.

. Hogs.
yReeeipts, 2,693. Market steady with
3i ednesday; 300 higher than last Thurs,‘
ay.

sheep

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers. $8.50@8.60; pigs, $8.40; light yorkers.
$8.40@8.50; stags, liq off. .

Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
433 av 200 at $8.65, 237 av 190 at $8.60, 30
av 170 at $8.55.

Spicer & R. sold same 160 av 190 at
$8.60, 39 av 185 at $8.50, 78 av 170 at
$8.45, 16 av 150 at $8.40.

Haley & M. sold Sullivan P. Co 140 av

180 at $8.60, 47 av 160 at $8.50, 23 av 140
at $8.40.

Bishop, B. & H. sold same 90 pigs av
130 at $8.45, 86 do. av 105 at $8.40, 73 hogs
av 150 at $8.50.

Same sold Parker, XV. & Co. 526 av
at $8.60, 270 av 190 at $8.65, 328 av 150 at
$8.50, 384 av 160 at $8.55, 66 av 160 at

88.52%.

 
Friday’s Market.
December 31,,
Cattle.

The market opened at the Michigan
Central stock yards Friday morning with
a very light run of cattle, on sale and a
good active market at Thursday's prices
for all grades.

Best steers and heifers, $5.50; steers and
heifers. 1,000 to 1.200, $5615.50; steers and
heifers. 800 to 1.000, $4.75@i5.25; steers and
heifers that, are fat. 500 to 700. $4604.50,
choice fat cows. $4.50; good fat cows,
83.50014; common cows, 82.50113; canners.
$20,112.50; choice heavy bulls, $4.2561?»l.75;
fair to good bolognas, bulls, $461425;
stock bulls. $15001 3.75; choice feeding
steers, 800 to 1,000. $4.50; fair feeding
steers. 800 to 1.000. $4: choice stockers.
500 to 700, $3.75: fair stockers. 500 to 700,
$3.50Q1‘13.75; stock heifers. $3613.25; milk—
el‘s, large, young. medium age, $400150;
common milkers, 82061135.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond. S. &
Co. 1 cannerweighing 850 at $2.25, 2 cows
av 915 at $3. 5 steers av 1.030 at $5.25; to
Sullivan P. Co. 8 butchers av 766 at $4.50.
19 heifers av 553 at $21.50. 3 cow.»~ or 1,123
at $4.50. 1 do weighing 750 at $2.50. 1 do
weighing 800 at $3. :3 do av 1.205 at $4, 1
do weighing 1.000 :11 $4. 1 do Weighing ‘30

19051.

at $2.50. 3 do av 1.023 at $11.50.
toe t‘om. (Io. sold Raltkowsky l cow
weighing 050 at $3.50, 2‘. do :I\' 1,130 at 8!.

5 do av 920 at $3.15: to Sullivan 1’, (‘1). l‘.’
steers av.050 at $5.25. 2 do av 830 at $1.50.
1 bull weighing 920 at $3.50, 2 cows av 760

at $2.50. 11 butchers av 656 at $3.25. 1 steer
weighing .060 at $5.50.

Haley 6; M. sold Hammond, S. & (‘11.
7 butchers av 1.021 at $3.75. 7 cows av

871 at $2.50. 1 bull weighing 1.050 :11 $22.75.

Merritt sold Sullivan 1’. (‘o. 7 cows av
850 at $1, 2 steers av 000 at $7..

r Veal Calves.

l‘hc veal calf truth- was ilk'lth' and ill-st
grades Were 251- lIighci' than on Thursday

and others strong.
Best grades, 950.5001 '10; others. 84.506111.
Roc (.‘om. (Yo. sold Sullivan 1’. Co. 12:

av 140 at $8. 8 av 100 at $6.
Merritt sold some :1 :l\' 160 at $0.50.
Haley & M. sold Hammond. S. 6’: C0.

av 130 at $3.50. 2 av 1.2:. .11 $11.30 :' av
150 at $11.27.. ’ ’

Bishop. B, & I'l. sold Parker. \V. & C0.
5 av 180 at $10, 0 av 150 at $9.50.

Same sold Swift & Co, 6 av 175 at $10,.

Sheep and Lambs.

The sheep and lamb market was active
and best grades were 5c higher than on
Thursday and all other grades strong.

Best lambs, $8.35: fair to good lambs,
$7.75@8; light to common lambs, 86.50607;
year-hugs, $6@6.50; fair to good sheep,
84.50610; culls and common, $3.506“.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Strauss & A. 110

lambs av 78 at $8.35; to Hammond. S. &
(,0. 14 do av 65 at $7. 6 do av 60 at $7, 8
do av 60 at $7. 3 sheep av 140 at $3.50; to

Sullivan P. Co. 11 lambs av 88 at $7, 18
do av 65 at $7.2 : to Parker, 1W. & Co.
27 do av 90 at $8.35, 20 do av 75 at $8.15:
to Mich. B. Co. 11 (lo av 58 at $7, 31 do av
70 at $8.20, 1 sheep weighing 120 at $3.50.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 10
sheep av 69 at $2.50. 3 lambs av 55 at
$6.50. 20 do av 65 at $7.50. 8 sheep av
63 at $1.

Haley & M. sold Parker. \V. 8: (‘0. 6
sheep av 75lat $3. 25 lambs av 65 at
$1.25; to Breitenback Bros. 102 do av 70

at $7.75; to Mich. B. Co. 16 sheep av 105
111 $0.50.
Merritt sold

Sullivan P. (To. 18 shee
av 100 at $1.51,), D

2-1 lambs av 68 at $8.

Hogs.

In the hog“ department the market was
full steady with '1‘hursday. the best grades
bringing $8.65. All other markets were
lower and dealers predict lmver prices for
next week.

Range of prices: Light to good butt-1‘.-
ers. $8.55(118.65; pigs. $8.110ﬁ18.50; light
yorkers, 88.4061 8.50: slugs, if, off.

‘Haley & M. sold Hammond. S. & C0.
2:3»av 180 at $8.60, 135 av 175 at $8.60.

Sundry shippers sold same :50 av 180

Bishop, 1;. & H. sold Slllllt‘ 101 av 100
at $8.65. 1“ av 175 at $8.60.
at $8.60.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Jerry

. Sullivan 41'
pigs av 130 at $8.40, 60 do av ,

140 at $8.50.

 
Sundry shippers sold same 150 . Y 3.”
at $8.45. ) P“ ’
VETERINARY,

(Continued from page 20).
of the cathartic medicine. Give 1/2 oz.

ﬂuid extract gentian and the same quan-
tity of ginger at a dose three times a (lav.
See treatment for licc in this column. I
Roarer.~1 have a ﬁve—year-old mare
that had distemper last January and ap-
parently recovered with the exception of
enlarged glands. In the spring she began
to breathe hard when driven. so that I
could hear her while I was in the buggy
behind her and has continued to breathe

hard when driven. As soon as she is
stopped I cannot hear her breathe or

notice her puff any more than any other
horse. For the past two weeks she has
coughed like a heavy horse but does not
heave. The horse is naturally very slim
or gaunt. Have doctored with love] Vet.
by blistering glaids and giving medicine,
I feed clover and timothy hay mixed. and
the grain is corn, oats and bran. E. B.
M., Howell. Mich—You will obtain poor
results from drugs. no matter what you
give or apply. Secure the services of a
Vet. who has had experience in operating
on the throat for roaring. for a surgical
operation is the only remedy.

 
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BY NELSON A. JACKSON.

“How are your hens doing this winter,
Jake? Mine been just shelling out the
eggs for more ’an a month.” Reube Wat-
ton sat on a bag of meal in the general
store and postoffice of a little ﬁshing
hamlet on the coast of Maine. He took
his 'corncob out of his mouth and spat
deliberately into the old, plug tobacco
box, ﬁlled with sawdust.

“Oh, mine are doing just tolerable well.
I hain’t had no time to pound up any
oyster shells for them yet.” Jake sat on
the counter, contentedly chewing prunes
procured from the box just within reach.

Silence fell on the group, while a well
dressed young stranger entered and in-
quired for the mail. The door closed.

“Say, Eli,” they chorused, “now, who is
that young feller, an' where did he come
from?”

Eli came and leaned on the counter,
placing himself directly between Jake and
the prunes. “That young feller’s name
is Alexander Henry. He’s from Bates
college and he’s going to teach our school
this winter.”

“Well, that’s good; that Roser gal has
well nigh run the thing into the grount ,”
Nat Kennedy squeaked from his perch on
a cracker barrel.

“She’s done just about as she pleased
since the school board appinted her com-
missioner. Hal Dury don’t dare say noth-
ing to her, if he is chairman. He wants
to git her, if he can,‘ spoke up Uncle
Billy Setlgwick, as he meditatively stroked
his grizzled beard.

“You’r durn right, Uncle Billy, nor no-
body else in this section. Since she has
been up to Farmington to the Normal,
she is too blamed stuck up to see a fel~
ler.” It was Zeke Orson, a former as-
pirant for the hand of the person under
discussion, who thus delivered himself
so vehemently. A chorus of laughter fol-
lowed this speech.

“Ho, ho, kinda teched you up a bit
when she give you the mitten, hey, Zeke.
Never mind, maybe she will come around
yet; if not, there be lots more ﬁsh in the
sea better than those that have been
hooked.” Jake slid off the counter, gave
Zeke a. poke in the. ribs, sorted out a.
smoked herring and sat down on a nail
keg and munched this dainty.

“You'r durn right, Jake,” Zeke replied.

“Maybe ye can get the red-haired one,
Zeke. She ain’t been to no Normal. She
was waiter in a summer lrotel down to
Bar Harbor last year tho. ’an I don’t
know but what a summer hotel is ’bout as
had as a Normal.”

‘You‘r right, Reube. no waiters for me.
Any you fellers going over to the Island?
I’ve got to go an’ sec Nat Brown ’bout
some lobster traps.”

“Zeke's a pretty likely chap,” Eli re-
marked as the door closed, “either one
of the Roser gals couldn’t done no better
than to take Zeke.”

“That Roscr gal could teach school a
little bit before she went to the Normal
but now she can't learn them nothing.
\Vhy, she tried to make my little shaver
read before he know A from 7.,” Itcube
\Vatton puffed as he started a fresh pipe.

“She ain’t got no order. The big boys
do as they are a mind to. “'hy, Harry
ilicks got her all worked up one day last
term, an’ she grabbed up a ruler and let
it ﬂy at him. He jumped out of the win—
dow. She rushed out of the door, snatched
up one of the kid’s ﬁsh poles ’long side
the schoolhouse and took after Harry up
the road with it, be laughing at her all
the time. W'ouldn’t have had no sech
doings in my day,” Uncle Billy concluded.

“Nor mine neither,” they all assented
with grave shakes of the head.

“Tell you what,” Nat squeaked again,
as he slid off the cracker barrel onto a.
shoe box, “I’d like to teach this school
’bout a week; I’d show them a thing or
two. I used to teach over on the Island.
We didn’t have any fooling with X’s and
y’s and trying tomake out examples with
them. We had just plain ciphcring. I
tell you, them kids learned their letters.
They had to say them forwards, back-
wards and start in the middle and go both
ways or get a tanning. We didn’t have
no fooling, neither. I recollect one win-
ter I had seven big fellers, all older and
bigger than I. They just came for trouble
and they got it, too. The third day one
of them started to be funny. I told him
to come out front for a licking. He came

 
with his coat off. I see tight ahead and
made ready. That feller walked out to
me, took hold of my collar and started to
shake me. Now, I was a tolerably spry
feller in those days. I jest clinched both
hands in his hair and gave him a twist
and sent him kerplunk onto the ﬂoor, be-
fore he had any idea I was there. Then
the other six started. I grabbed up the
poker, which was considerable hot, as I
had just poked the ﬁre. I jumped for the
biggest one and rapped him over the
head; he fell like an ox. The other ﬁve
held back for a minute, but I went at
’em. I knowed then. was the time to
show them I was master. One of ’em
tried to get the poker but he let go with
a yell-rather too hot for him. The ﬁrst
teller was up by this time and let ﬂy
a stick of wood at; me. I slashed right
and left with the poker. When I got
thru, four of ’em were stretched out on
the ﬂoor and the other three were legging
it for home across lots. I didn’t have no
more trouble.”

"Schooling amounted to something in
those days. “'e got true learning then,”
Eli remarked as he moved the box of
herrings back of the counter.

““‘hy, John came home last fall many
a time and told how the Roser girl had
had them all out in the woods, and talked
to them about the trees, birds, posies and
stones. He‘said that she called it nature
study. Now I call it durn foolishness;
Better study spelling than to waste good
time that way.” Uncle Billy looked from
one to the other for approval. They all
assented to the wisdom of his remarks
by a nod.

“I told my youngsters,” Jake said, as
he moved over by the cracker barrel and
continued his lunch, “they could get
enough nature study tending the hens,
milking the cow, digging clams and look-
ing after the lobster traps.”

“That’s right, Jake,” Eli remarked, as
he changed his seat to the top of the
cracker barrel.

“\Vell, I hope the new chap from Bates
won't have his head full of these new
fangled notions. I hope he can learn
them something. He’s big enough, any-
way," Reube remarked, as he got up and

The Old Tailor Shop of Andrew
stretched preparatory to going home.

“Put me up a pound of tea and a cod-
ﬁsh, irlli.” Taking his packages he went
out into the darkness.

“They say lteube has got to lose his
place,” l‘nelc Billy remarked. “I was
down to Bath, a few days ago, an’ seen
a lawyer. lie knew about it. Reube ain’t
paid the interest on the mortgage for
three years.”

“Rcube’s pretty lazy; he don’t work no
more than he has to. He’s in pretty
heavy with you, Eli?” Nat asked.

“No, sir; I know him too well.”

“Give me a pound of crackers, a plug
of Arrow Head and a package of smokin’.
I‘ve got to be going. Goin’ my way,
Jake?”

“Not yet, Nat.”

“No danger of Nat’s ever losing his
place; he’s too darn stingy. I heard,”
Uncle, Billy continued, “them tell how he
only lets his folks have two meals a
day. He never buys nothing but crack-
ers and tobacco. I Wonder what they
have to eat."

‘Say, that yarn of Nat’s about his
school teaching is all a lie,” Jake broke
in; “I was one of those boys. It was this
way: He was afraid of us. so one day
for a joke, we tied him on a rail and
carried him out and left him between two
trees near the road. How he yelled, but
nobody came. After two hours, we let

 
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him down. The next week we‘ had a. new
teacher.” ’ _

‘Why didn’t you tell this to Nat?"
Uncle Billy asked, winking at Ell.

“Oh, he’s so peaky touchy about it that
I knowed he would want to ﬁght, if I told
the truth.”

“An’ you are kinda scared to ﬁght, hey,
Jake."

“\Vell, since I had rheumatism I ain’t
been very spry. Eli, we’re all out of
sugar. Will you give me ﬁve pounds to-
night and I’ll bring down some eggs for it
in the morning.”

“You bring down the eggs ﬁrst, Jake.
You ain’t paid for that last codfish yet,"
Eli answered.

“Ain’t 1?” Jake scratched his head, as
if he thot that would help him. “Guess
you are right, Eli. I’ll settle in the morn-
ing.”

“Jake’s the most shiftless cuss I ever
knowed. He’s a pretty good hand at 1y-
ing, too. You’re safe, Eli, when you don’t
trust him.”

“ ’Bout as near a. deadbeat as I know.
It costs me a lot, his everlasting picking
away at something when he’s in here."

“Well,” said Uncle Billy, after some
minutes of continued stroking of his
beard, “I guess I’d better be going;
Mandy will be expecting me. I’ll take
two pounds brown sugar and a half pound
of that thirty-cent tea. Guess you must
get awful tired of us fellers setting around
here. Goodnight, Eli; guess it’ll snow
before morning; big around the moon
and no stars in it.”

A. JOH NSON, TAILOR.

 
BY M. CHIPMAN BUIRRITT.

The possibilities peculiar to our country
are most forcibly illustrated within the
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At the foot of a sharp little hill stands
the one of lirst importance, because within
its walls were developed the characteris-

Johnson, at Greenville, Tennessee.

lies of the man for whom the other two
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the generous hospitality of the sunny-
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cracked; yet the old house stands erect
and substantial, telling more strongly
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the garments of the male population of
Greenville, serving them well in capacity
of tailor as he afterward did in the
presidential chair. The old press board
used in the tailor shop is on exhibition in
the window of a. small printing ofﬁce near
by, which is owned and operated by
Richard Self, whose father sewed at the
bench side by side with “A. Johnson,
Tailor.”

Up the hill again. and back to the main
street, to the left and down another hill
stands the later home of this great man.
It is a rambling brick structure of two
stories, presenting a rigid front to the
street, but upon the side are wide veran-
das and deep bay windows, culminating
in a broad basemented kitchen at the
back. The house is painted a deep red
with trimmings of white. while red blinds
shut out the gaze of the curious passer-
by. Along the front are huge poplars,
shading the house and the street alike.
The house is occupied by a grandson of
Mr. Johnson. The library is still as it
was when occupied by this great man, and
many of the rooms in the house are used
to store much of the original furniture.

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one of the cone-shaped hills that com-
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about a. half mile out toward the north-
west, and is reached by a spiral road
around the hill. It consists of a shaft
of marble rising about thirty feet from
a base twelve feet square, tapering at the
top, and is surmounted by an immense
eagle with wings raised as if he were
about to ﬂy.

Upon the foundation is
following:

inscribed the

“Andrew Johnson
Seventeenth President of the United
’ States.
Born Dec. 29, 1808.
Died July 31, 1875."
“His faith In the people never wavered.”
“Eliza Johnson.
Born Oct. 4, 1810.
Died Jan. 15, 1876."
“in Memory of our Father and Mother.”

THEZ ‘MICHLQIQN FARMER.

In front of the monument is a sar-
c0phagus upon which is inscribed, “Andrew
Johnson, Jr., Aged 26 years.” Upon either
side are graves of relatives.

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beautiful mountain view meets the eye.
At a. distance of twelve miles, yet seeming
but a span, there stretches the Unacas,
a part of the Appalachian range of moun-
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ponding indentations. A most distant line
looms up to meet the clouds that caress
them with ﬂeecy ﬁngers in passing, while
from the highest and mid-most peak a
second line gradually descends along the
front until lost in a fértile meadow at the
foot. The severity of the outline is soft-
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the clearest atmOSphere of the most bril-
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soldiers' cemetery. Mules and men with
plo ' and barrow are busily at work upon
the spiral road, waking the long sleeping
echoes of nature about the illustrious
dead. The mocking birds are startled and
driven from tree to tree by the whistles
and shouts of the men to the laboring
mules, while the chug-chug of the Stone
crusher at the base of the hill, and an
occasional boom of dynamite driving the
rock from its bed of centuries, tells of
progress and the doing away of primitive
conditions.

When all is done the soldiers will have
a last resting place beside their great
leader, where once was heard the war
cries of the Indians and later on the
booming of cannon and the screeching of
shells, and where the mocking birds will
sing a requiem in music which no human
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Chapter Vlll.—(Concluded).

John noted her excitement and said, as
quietly as possible: ”Tell me about it,
Carina. Then I will know how to help
you find your father."

“There is no time to talk; we must go
in search of him at once. Think of him
out in this storm!"

“It will save time to tell me just what
has happened. Be composed. Carina.
You know that we all stand ready to help
you in any possible way."

She caught her breath. For a moment
she grasped his hands, then relaxed her
hold, to say in her usual voice, “Father
has been up for several days. He has
seemed stronger bodily, but his mind has
been very bad. Today he lunched with
me, then went into his own room to lie
down. A short time ago I heard a noise
in his room and entered it. The case—
ment window was open. and it was the
swinging of the window that I had heard.
Father was gone.”

“You think he climbed thru
dow?”

“There is no other way whereby 'he
('Ollld have left the room. Then, too,
\Vana declared that She could see his
tracks plainly, but they led to the road
and disappeared there. John, we must
go in search of him." '

“I must. Sin Lc shall go to the Mar~
shalls where Guy is. lie and Sin Le will
come. If we do not find your father at
once, I will send to the village for more

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help. Carina, you go back home.”

“No.” Her tone was gentle but posi-
tive. “To wait there in inaction would
be the hardest thing I could do. I do

not mind the storm.”

“At least you will go home and don
clothing that will shield you from the
rain.”

She promised to do that. As she looked
out into the storm her face contracted
with pain. “Poor old father! John, I
fear this will prove his death.”

The rain was falling steadily. There
was no wind and the rainfall came
straight from the gray clouds to the wat-
er-soaked earth. It blurred distant out-
lines, and gave to all the landscape a
dull gray tint.

'John Martin compressed his lips.
must ﬁnd him, and that very soon.”
Sin Le was dispatched on horseback

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for the Marshall ranch. John had a hur-
ried consultation with VVana. Ere that
was ended, Carina joined them, arrayed
in a short skirt, leggins, rubbers, jacket,
and cap. .

Carina, searched the garden, the arbor.
and the outbuildings. VVana made. a
round 'of the near-by orchards and orange
grove. John saddled a. horse and rode
down the highway in a direction opposite
to the one, Sin Le had taken. It had been
agreed that when Sam and Guy arrived
the ranch bell should be rung summoning
the searchers to make further
When they
no trace of the senor had been found.

“It does not seem possible that he had

strength to get far away,” John said.
“We must look thru the orchards more
thoroly. Carina, will you not go home.

and leave the search to us?"

Tears ﬁlled her eyes. “I would if I
could. Do you think that I doubt your
doing all that can be done, doing far
more than I can do, but I cannot keep
still.”

“Better let her go,” Sam Marshall said.
“It’s easier to bear some things a moving
than at keeping still."

Sin Le was dispatched to the village to
notify the ()rtegas' friends. The searchers
departed on their quest. It was under—
stood that, when the senor was found,
the bell was to be rung. Otherwise they
were all to return to the ranch house at
half past ﬁve. ,

“It will be dark by that time,” John
admitted.

“Oh, but we'll ﬁnd him long before that
time,” Guy cried (-lieerily.

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ently. Ruth had returned, and she was
at the house where the Ortegas lived. as
it was thot, should the old man return,
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“What were you thinking of, Martin,
to let that girl go out in the storm?”
Doctor Encino asked sharply. -

Carina turned upon him. “Mr. Martin
is in no way to blame. I had to go; even
you could not have denied me. 0, Doc-
tor Encino! Where can he be?”

“Only the blessed saints know, dear
child. It seems useless to carry on the
search in the darkness, but we must do
it. Let Martin take you in to the ﬁre
now. As soon as our plans are made I
will come and tell you what we are
to do.”

“I am not sure but the ﬁres are all
out,” John said. “Come in, Carina. It
will take but a moment to start a blaze.”

He drew her inside. On the thresh-
hold of the living-room they stopped, both
too dazed to speak or move.

The great room was in shadow, save
for the light cast by a crackling wood
ﬁre. Before it in an easy chair sat Jose
Ortega. He turned his head, and just
then the ﬂames leaped higher, showing
him the two ﬁgures in the doorway.

“I am glad you have come, Carina,"
he said gently. “Somehow I feel as if I
had just reached home after a long ab-
scnce. IVhy, it has seemed so good just
to sit before the ﬁre, listening to the tap-
ping of the rain upon the windows, that
I have let the whole afternoon slip by.
Carina, I do not seem to remember how
I got my feet wet, but I’ve been sitting
here in my stocking feet. \Vho is that
with you?”

The young man advanced a step. “Don't

you know me? I am John, your good

friend.”

“Oh, yes! I am glad to see you, John.
Welcome to Ortega Ranch. Carina, dear,
will dinner be ready soon? And I wish
that VVana would give us a stuffed fowl.”

 
Chapter lX.-—The Treasure.
The weak voice ceased, and there was
a momentary silence. Carina. went for-

ward, to bend over her father, smoothing

his gray hair. It was John who spoke
first.

“I fear that dinner will be a little late.
Carina, would it not be well for you to
bring your father a glass of milk?”

She slipped from the room. John fol-
lowed her, and in the deserted dining»
room they stopped for a moment‘s discus-
sion of the strange ending of the search
for the lost man.

“He has been here all the time we have
been seeking him,” John said. “You see,
he entered without anyone seeing him,
and no one has been in the living-room
since. There was plenty of wood there,
so he has kept up the ﬁre. Carina. before
I go to explain to our friends who are
outside, you must make me one promise.”

“What is that? Oh, I am so glad that
we have found him, and that he is un-
hurt! But how am I to get him back
across the road? He thinks that he—he
is at home.”

”That is what I want to talk to you
about. Carina, do not try to undeceive
him. You and he must stay here tonight,
and perhaps in the morning the difﬁculty
will adjust itself.”

She began a remonstrance, but John
gently silenced her.

“Please trust my judgment in this mat-r
tcr. For one thing, you are too worn out
for any further exertion. Now go to the
kitchen and bid Sin Le beat up an egg
in a glass of milk for your father. Then
you must get into dry clothes. I will tell
the story to those waiting outside. and
then I will send Ruth to you."

Both Ruth and Guy declared that the
Ortegas must remain at the ranch house
all night. Doctor Encino also favored the
plan. A few of the senor’s old friends
went into the house, to take him by the
hand. To one and all he gave a hearty
invitation to remain for dinner. These
invitations were declined on various pre-
texts. In a little while all had departed
and only the Crosses and John were left
with Carina and her father.

John occupied the room that had been
Senor Ortega’s. Ile moved his personal
belongings and bade I‘Vana restore it as
nearly as possible to its olden order.
Carina wished her father to retire at
once. He seemed so surprised that such
an idea should exist that it was thot
best to allow him to go out to the dinner
table.

“I am so glad you and your husband are
here to take dinner with us. my dear,”
he said to Ruth as they were on their
way to the dining—room.

He walked straight to the head of the
table, then hesitated. “John, would you
mind taking my place just for once. I
am too tired to wait upon the table.
Really I am, beginning to feel my years.”

There was a moment’s wordless hush

THE MIéHIdAN FARMER

as they took their places. To all present
the old man’s resigning of the place he
thot was still his own brot sad thots.
The once proud Senor Ortega had passed
frOm not only his position as master of
Ortega Ranch, but also from the strength
and vigor of manhood. So complete was
this passing that the old man was happy,
knowing nothing of the change.

Carina turned her head, that her father
might not see the tears that ran down
her face. She could eat no dinner but
drank a cup of Sin Le’s strong coffee. As
soon as the meal was over she went With
her father to his old room.

The storm passed with the night and
the sun rose in an unclouded sky. Afar
on the mountains rested a veil of gauzy
mist. The air was fresh and invigorating.

Carina‘s pale face was very grave as
she came from her father's room. “He
is exceedingly weak this morning; I fear
it will be some time before he can rise.
And he is demanding to see you, John.
In some way he connects you with the
work of the ranch. and he wants to talk
with you about picking oranges and prun—
ing the vineyards."

“I will go in and see him at once. It
will not be difﬁcult to satisfy him.”

“Carina, I wish that you would consent
to stay here while your father is in his
present condition,” Ruth said, slipping one
hand into that of her friend. “Guy and I
talked it over last night. There is so
much room, and, with VVana to help, it
would be no trouble to us."

“That is my wish, too," John Martin
hastened to say. “This is your father‘s
home, Carina. None of us can ever feel
towards it as he does. IVhy should he
not be at home now?”

She tried to smile, altho her lips quiv-
cred piteously. “If you could only know
what such words mean to me! But it
cannot be. I thank you more than words

'can tell, but, as soon as he can go. I

must take my poor old father to the only
place to which he and I have a right."

Doctor Encino came while they were
still at ln‘eakfast. Ilc stopped in the
dining—room only for a cheery good morn-
ing, then went on to Senor Ortega’s
apartment. It was but a short time be-
fOre he re—eutercd the dining-room.”

“I have something to say to you all. As

you have ﬁnished breakfast, will you not'

come out on the veranda? On a morning
like this we should live out of doors.”

I’nder Ruth's rule the veranda had been
restored to something of its olden glory.
Vines wreathed it, and ﬂowers bloomed
in pots on shelves that had been put up
against the wall. Therewas a hammock
and wicker chairs, while the old carved
seat was cushioned. Carina sat down in
the hammock with Ruth and folded her
hands in her lap. She never looked out
over the place, with its gardens, orchards,
and vineyards, without her heart crying
out for what had once been her own.

“Yesterday tired Senor Ortega,” the
doctor began abruptly. “He must stay
in bed for a few days. Carina, I wish
that you and your father could stay on
here.” _

“You know that is impossible, Doctor
Encino. These good friends here have
urged it, but I am sure if each one of
you was in my place you would under-
stand why I must take my poor father
home as soon as he can be moved.”

“Home! Carina, child, this is home to
your father.”

“I know, I know! Do not make my life
harder for me than it is. My one comfort
is that he will not fully know, once, we
are hat-k at the other house. And our
presence here, my father's hold upon this
place, cannot but be an annoyance to you
people who have a perfect. right here and
are in no way to blame for the trouble
that has come to the Orv-gag,"

“But it is not an annoyance," Guy
Cross cried heartily. “I wish you would
stay, Carina, at least for a time. Your
father is happy here, and you will be
more comfortable. And there's room
enough in this house for a regiment.”

“There is one thing more to take into
consideration.” Doctor Encino spoke
gravely. “It will not be for long.
Carina.”

She started, the faint flush that the
sunlight and the breeze had brot to her
cheeks fading. “What do you mean. my
friend?”

“Child, for several weeks I have felt
it my duty to speak to you plainly about
your father’s condition. I hesitated be—
cause you were so alone and the immed-
iate future before you was so dark. Now
I am glad that I can speak in the pres-
ence of those whom I believe to be your
true friends. Carina, your father has Only
a. few weeks to live.”

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THE ORGANIZATION OF FARMERS.

Address of Hon. John Hamilton, Farm-
ors‘ Institute Specialist of the U. S. De-
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Association of Farmers’ Clubs.

(Continued from last week).

The PurpOses of Organization.

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(Continued next week).

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

Appeal to State Agricultural Society.—
Dr. and Mrs. Stewart entertained the
Hadley and Elba Farmers' Club, of La-
peer county, at their ﬁne home, “Wellow
Farm,” December 16. It was a busy
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president, C. A. Davenport; secretary,
Mrs. C. P. Johnson; treasurer, Carrie B;
Snook. After much discussion the fol-
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dressed tO the board of directors of the
Michigan State Fair: “Believing, as we
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saloon keepers to collect money for the
purpose;

“Therefore, We respectfully request you
to bar the sale of intoxicating liquors on
the state fair grounds."

The next meeting will be at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. C, A. Bullock, January 13,

1910, to make arrangements for the
County R0und—up.—Mrs. C. P. Johnson,
secretary.

Elect New Officers.—The Ingham County
Farmers’ Club held its election of ofﬁcers
December 11. with the following result.
President, Col. L. H. Ives; ~vice..pi‘es.idciit,

Mrs, H_ Horton; recording secretary,
Mrs. B. L. Green; corresponding secre-
tary. Mrs. J. E. Tanswell; treasurer,

E. C. Russell; directors, three years, W.
A. Melton, Mrs. Alfred Allen; two years.
J. H. Shapen, Mrs. E. P. Rowe; one
year, W. H. Taylor, Mrs. H. Wilson. This
Club will use the yearly program again.
There was not a failure during the past
yearn—Mrs. J. E. Tanswcll, Cor. Sec.

Hold Annual Meeting.—The eleventh
annual meeting of the EXCelsior Farmers’
Club, occurred on December 15. The
meeting was held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. M. Baldwin, at “Orchard Hill.”
Promptly at 12 o'clock the usual club
spread was served and after a social chat
we found an hour had swiftly flown. At
2 o’clock the meeting was called to order
and after the usual routine of business
was transacted, D. H. Stone was made
an honorary member of the Club. Mr.
Stone is our oldest member, being over
80 years of age. He has been an active
member of the Club since its second meet-
ing, and by his work and helpful sugges-
tions has won the honor conferred upon
him. Mrs. Stephen Sadler. our delegate
to the State Association, gave us a ﬁne
report of that meeting. This Club has
done, and is doing, much good in this
community. The members are progres-
sive, anxious to learn the better methods
of farming whereby better results may be
obtained. The ofﬁcers elected for the en-
suing year are: President, Stephen Sad-
ler; vice—president. Mrs. Robert Saunt-
man: recording secretary, Mrs. Emma E.
Baldwin: corresponding secretary. Mrs.
Frank Mostellnr; treasurer, Mrs. Sadler.
—Seeretary.

Hold Christmas Dinner.—The Sherman
Farmers’ Club was entertained at the
home. of Mr. and Mrs" G. \V. Coil, it beini'.‘
our Christmas meeting. also a farewell
meeting with them, as they are going to
move away, and will be missed very much
in our Club work. There were about 65
present, and a good neighborly visit was
enjoyed by all before dinner, after which
the president, W. E. Carter, called the
meeting to order. and a. Christmas pro-
gram was given. An interesting talk was
also given by the delegate, G. ‘V. Puff.
who attended the State Association. The
Club adjourned to meet the third Saturday
in January with Mr, and Mrs. Jake Kemp~
sultan—Blanch Carter, Cor. Sec.

 
GRANGE :1

L...

Our Motto—“The Farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should be
ﬁrst improved.”

 
THE STATE GRANGE MEETING.

 
(Continued from last week).

Agricultural Extension Work in the
. Grange.

At the conclusion of the State Lectur-
er's program,‘ Master Hull informed the
Grange that some of the Leeturer’s sug-
gestions touching agricultural extension
work, had already been given some con-
sideration by the State Grange executive
committee. In fact, a committee had
been appointed to formulate a workable
plan, and the report of this committee
was now called for. The committee con-
sisted of State Secretary Hutchins, Mr.
L, W. Oviatt and Mr. C. S. Bartlett. The
report was rendered by Mr. Bartlett and
the essential part of it, that presenting
the plan on which it is proposed that the
Grange and the Agricultural College shall
co—operate, is given in full below:

In the year 1910 not more than 24
Granges, in as many different counties,
shall be selected by a committee, appoint-
ed by the State Master. In Granges_so
selected any member in good standing
may take part in the work. A circular
will be issued mentioning some of the
lines of work available, as, for instance,
corn growing, potato growing, fruit grow—
ing, improvement of beef animals. of
dairy herds, of swine herds and other

,lines that may be suggested; but so far
as possible the Granges will be allowed
to select subjects. Unusual lines of work
are not expected or recommended. Blanks
for applications for both Grange and indi-
vidual workers will be supplied by the
secretary of the State Grange.

The chairman or some member of the
Agricultural Extension Committee shall,
during the month of February or March.
visit the Grangcs selected and arrange
details.

The Granges may have expert help from
the Agricultural College in the. way of
suggestions and advice before commencing
work. The secretary of the State Grange
Will secure bulletins bearing upon the
subjects in hand from the U. S. Depart—
ment of Agriculture and from the various
state experiment stations and distribute
them upon application.

During the growing season an Agricul-
tural College extension worker will spend
two or more days in each community.
making suggestions and advising each
individual as opportunity offers.

Toward the close. of the season the
State Grange will send a member of the
Agricultural Extension committee to in-
spect the work done by each worker. He
will pass on its merits and work on the
scale of 100 on blanks prepared for that
purpose. All blanks and circulars needed
shall be ordered printed by the secretary
of the State Grange.

Honorablc.mention shall be made. in
the published report of the Agricultural
Extension committee. of the. best work
done in the selected Granges along all
the different lines.

Opportunity shall be given at the suc«
cecding State Grange meeting for the
exhibition of the results secured by com-
peting Grange-S when u. suiiicient number
to make the exhibit a success shall apply
for space in the same.

Each Grange selected may hold a
Grange fair between September ‘1 and

December 1, and receive credit for some,
the Agricultural Extension committee to
be. represented at said fair by a State
Grange speaker the same. as for a Pomona
meeting. The reports of individual work-
ers are to be made. to the lecturer or
secretary of the subordinate Grange upon
blanks furnisned by the secretary of the
State Grange. The lecturer or Grunge
committee wnl compile these reports and
forward them to the secretary of the
State Grunge.

The Agricultural Extension committee
shall be appointed by the State Master
and shall consxst of three members. Said
committee snail make an itemized report
to the Master, at the close of the Grange
fiscal year, of all expenses incurred by the
committee. such expenses to be paid by
the State Grange on the basis of super—
v1sion work.

This report was referred to the commit,—
tee. on education Without discussion. That
committee reported it out without change
on the closing day of the meeting, when
it was promptly adopted.

Some important Resolutions and Reports.

Resolutions for immediate action was
the order at the opening of the “'eclnes-
day evening session, and Mr. Bramble. of
Lenuwee County, submitted the following:
“Resolved, that we endorse and approve
the policy of the State Government in
selling binder tu‘nc direct to consum-
ers." The resolution was adopted willi-
o.ut discussion and the State Secretary
instructed to send a copy of same to the
secretary of the Jackson prison board.

A resolution intended to pave the way
for direct Grange supervision and control
of the proposed Grange life insurance
company was then submitted by Tecum—
sch Grange, the resolution declaring that
the executive committee of State Grange
shall have general Supervision of all sub-
sidiary companies doing business under
the, name of the Orange. or doing business
exclusively with Grange members. The

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matter provoked considerable discussion
and the resolution was ﬁnally tabled. Later
in the session, however. Mr. Wilde, of
Ottawa county. introduced a resolution
which provides that the State Grange
shall restrain any private individual or
corporation from using the Grange name,
This, after some discussion. was adopted.
as it was believed sufﬁciently stringent
to prevent the organization of Grange in—
surance or similar subsidiary companies
without the full consent of the organi-
zation.

The resolution relative to the election
of U. S. Senators also came up at this
time and received favorable consideration.
The resolution, as adopted, read:

Resolved. by the Michigan State Grange,
that we renew our allegiance to the prin~
ciplc for which we have so long stood.
that U. S, senators should be. chosen by
the people of the whole state to serve
the people and all of the people rather
than to serve special interests and submit
to the domination of their representatives
as is sometimes the case: and

Resolved further, that we urge the
members of tl'iis.organization individually
to ‘exercise that discrimination when par-
ticipating in nominations of a candidate
for the U. S. Senate which will best dc-
monstrate their belief in, and loyalty to,
this principle; and

Resolved further. that we declare
against any effort to secure the votes of
the prospective members of the legisla-
ture in the. election of a senator without
regard to the vote of the people in pri-
mary, and hereby instruct the legislative
committee of this organization to corres-
pond, between this time and the date of
the primary, with all candidates for the.
legislature for the purpose. of ascertaining
and making public their attitude upon this
question, that is to say. whether or not,
it'_they are elected to the legislature. they
“'1” be bound by the vote for U. S. senator
as cast by the electors of the entire state
next September.

The report of the executive committee,

which had been prepared by Chairman
J. K. Campbell, was the first matter of im-
portance taken up at Thursday's morning
session. The report showed that the com-
mittee had been diligent in puttingr before
the legislature the Grange demands for
a state-wide primary law which should
also cover the election of U. S. Senators;
for free and uniform text books; for an
ad vnlorcm tax on telcgrutm and telephone
lines. and for a law which should make
compulsory the interchange of messages
by telephone and telegraph companies do-
ing busincSS in the state. The commit-
tee was also active in opposing the Orms-

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by bill which proposed the repeal of the
present county local option law. The
committee appointed during the year a

special sub—committee on Grange life in-
surance and one on agricultural clubs,
both to report at this session.

'The sub-committee on legislation, Rep-
resentative Baker, chairman. reported
that: a fairly satisfactory primary law had
been secured. That the committee had
also effected the introduction of bills pro—
viding for a tonnage tax on ores, for the
ad valorem taxation of telephone and tel-
egraph properties. and a bill providing
for the adoption of the Torrens system of
land transfers. Report showed that the
tonnage tax bill had been refcrrcd to a.
hostile committee, and that the other two
bills had been worked thru the house but
were pigeon—holed by a senate committee.

The election of members of the execu-
tive committee consumed the remainder
of this session. and the afternoon and
evening were given over to degree work.
The work of the afternoon suggested an
excellent solution to a problem by which
many Oranges appear to be confronted——
that of interesting the young people and
giving them something to do—since the
degree teams which exemplied the work
of the ﬁrst and third degrees at this ses-
Sliill

were composed entirely of young
Patrons. The team which gave the ﬁrst
degree came from Muncelona Grange,

while Helena Grange furnished the other
team. Both these Granges are located in
Antrim county, and the quality of the
work shown speaks well for the import-

ance attached to good degree work in
those Grange-s and for the interest and

application of their young men‘ibers. At
the evening session the fifth degree was
conferred upon a class of 84 and the sixth
degree upon a class of 163, the latter be-
ing the largest class received at State
Grange in a number of years. .
(Concluded next week).

 
COMING EVENTS.

Lecturers’ C(mference, (ﬁrst of series
authorized by State Grange). at Adrian
January 18. 10:30 a. in. All patrons wel:
come. but all lecturers especially urged to
atgcnldl.

2l(‘<lll(l Pomona, at Pontiac, Tuesday.
Jan. 11. R. D. Bailey, speaker; all school
officers of county specially invited.

VVashtenaw Pomona. with Ypsilanti
Grange, at Ypsilanti, Tuesday, Jan. 11.

 
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