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The onlaneekly Agricultural, Horticultural, and .Live Stock Journal in the State.

 

 

VOL. CLI. No. 8
Whole Number 4007

DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918

381.00 A" Y E A R
$3.00 FOR 5 YEARS

Federal Plan of Mill Feed Control

Methods Used to Prevent :Profiteering and to Encourage Free Marketing
(Prepared by the U. S. Food Administration Especially for The Michigan Farmer)

1TH a large proportion of the
VD 1918 wheat crop now safely

harvested and threshed, the
food situation, so vital to the success
of the Allied cause, has improved over
that of a year ago. But along with the
apparent bounty visible during the har-
vest season, we must remember that
about 220,000,000 people—civilians and
fighting men at home and in Europe—
will sit down to a common table for
the duration of the war. Uncle Sam
is the chief steward and he asks for
your cooperation in apportioning the
food so that all may have fair portions,
none be left out to go hungry. "

Milling Interest Doubly Important.

The milling industry is one of the
most important pieces of equipment in
the international food kitchen. It sup-
plies food for human beings and feed
for live stock; it is an industry which
buys from farmers and also sells to
farmers. Readers of the Michigan
Farmer’who have patriotically grown
wheat this year and who depend on
milling by-products for a part of their
live stock rations will therefore be con-
cerned in knowing the means adopted
toi insure fair methods of marketing
and milling. "

General supervision of the nation’s
grain trade rests in the hands of the
Cereal :Division of the United States
Food Administration and the instru-

ment through which the financial tran-

sactions of the Food Ad-
ministration are carried
out is the United States
Grain Corporation. All of
the stock in the Grain Cor-
poration is owned by the
United States government‘
and’ it operates without
profit, charging such dif-
ferentials as will cover
risks, storage and insur-
ance. The chief duties of
the Food Administration
Cereal ‘Division and the
Grain Corporation include
the liCensing of millers and
of the wholesale trade gen-
erally, the promulgation of
regulations to prevent all
speculation and profiteer-
ing, purchasing wheat at
the guaranteed price, and
storing or selling it to the
Allieslor using it for de-
partments of the United
States government.
New Regulations Restore
Competitive Buying.
1113.00 the first of May

when; or its 1‘ ggmvaleirt in

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. g The Success of the Live stoc

flour. With the beginning of the new the eighteen terminal markets where profits and insuring fair prices for

milling year on July 1, certain changes
in control were put into effect; these
were made necessary by the size of
the new crop. The new regulations
are aimed to restore competitive buy-

basic prices for wheat have been fixed.

wheat mill feeds has as its basis a.

In brief the patriotic wheat producer schedule of fair flour and feed prices.

is assured that:
1. Profiteering is prohibited.
2. Any grain dealers guilty of prof-

Schedule of Fair Flour and Feed Prices
at Mills Adjacent to Michigan

VERY licensed mill in the United States has been furnished with a sched-
ule of fair flour and feed prices which it must display and which must

also be printed on each invoice.

Consequently it is easy for any representa-

tive of the Food Administration or for any buyer to know whether a mill

has overcharged,

Prices given below are for carload lots, bulk at mills.

Cost of freight

and packages, and charges for handling less than carload quantities should
be added to these prices to find delivered cost. '

s

Milling Point. Flour.
Chicago .................. $10.14
St. Louis ................ 10.09
Minneapolis ............. 10.01
Duluth ................... 10.05
Buffalo .................. 10.33

10.33

Cleveland . ; ..............

ing and permit millers to buy or sell in
any market.

The producer who is not satisfied
with prices paid by individual buyers
has for his protection the privilege of
shipping his wheat to the Food Admin-
istration Grain Corporation at any of

war
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Middlings,
Shorts,

Bran. Mixed Feed. Red Dog.
$25.26 $26.51 $27.26
24.46 25.71 26.46
23.36 24.61 25.36
23.36 24.61 25.36

28.16 29.41 30.16 .
27.76 29.01 29.76

iteering will have his license revoked.
3. Any dealer having his license re-
voked or refusing to operate his ele-
vator as directed may have his elevat-
or taken over and operated by the gov-
ernment.
The plan of controlling flour milling

 

 

k‘i‘lndustry in Michigan Depends in no Small Measure Upon
and Quality of By-product Grain Feeds.

It is expected, however, that competi—

.tion will bring about lower prices for
mill products than the “fair price”
schedule.

Persons purchasing feed should bear
in mind that the prices listed in the
accompanying schedule are on the has-
is of carload lots, bulk at the mill. Cost
of sacks, freight and reasonable hand-
ling charges should be taken into con-
sideration when purchasing feed in
small quantities, as from local feed
dealers.

When feed is sold by mills to whole-
sale and retail dealers, the permissible
margins range from $1.00 to $3.00 per
ton over the “fair price” basis. The
fairness of margins of sales of feed to
consumers may be determined, accord-
ing to the plan, by the Federal Food
Administrator of the state in which the
mill is located.

Permissible Charges for Custom
Grinding.

For grinding wheat on a custom bas-
is or for giving flour or feed in ex~
change for wheat, the miller who re-
ceives wheat from farmers’ wagons
may charge not to exceed thirty-five
cents per bushel for each sixty pounds
of clean wheat.

On page 154 of this issue is a sched-
ule Which shows the amounts of mill
products returnable from
various weights of wheat.

The establishment of
these regulations and of
the “fair price” schedule
is an excellent example of
what is known as “market
stabilization.” Flour and
feed prices bear a definite
relation to the price of
wheat from which they are
derived; and as the price
of wheat has been stabil-
ized, it is possible to sta—
bilize its principal pro-
ducts and by-products.

Consequently supplies of
mill feeds for the Winter
may advantageously be se-
cured early in the fall, as
soon as danger from spoil-
age is past. Delayed or-
ders will not insure a sav-
ing. The Food Adminis~
tration points out that un-
der the plan of control out-
lined the demand for mill
feeds may exc'eed the sup-
ply, especially during the‘
winter when the volume of
orders usually exceeds the
output of the mills. But by
securing mill feed early in
the fall farmers will be
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VOLUME CLI. '9 NUMBER EIGHT

DETROIT, AUGUST 24, 1918

 

 

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

 

Every Michigan farmer
should remember the
primary election which
will be held on Tuesday,
August 27, to nominate candidates for
Important offices to be voted for at the
coming general election in November.
These include nominees to be selected
as party candidates for the United
States Senate and members of Con-
gress, ‘as well as governor, lieutenant-
governor and county oflices.

It is not within the province of the
Michigan Farmer to advise its readers
with regard to the men whom they
should support as candidates for these
important offices. We cannot, however,
do_ less than to urge every' voter to
give the selection of candidates for ev-
ery office most careful and thoughtful
attention. At no time in the history
of the country has it been more im-
portant that good men, who are well
equipped to fill offices for which they
are nominated, be selected for every
place upon every ticket in the field.
Under the primary election system,
every voter is charged with a respon-
sibility in this regard which can be
discharged in no other way than by
going to the polls and casting his bal-
lot for nominees on his own party tick—
et whom he believes will measure up
to these requirements to the fullest
possible degree.

Fortunately, in the present case, the
candidates for national and state
offices, whose names will be found on
the primary election ballot, are well-
known citizens concerning whose qual-
ifications the average voter has had
opportunity to become somewhat fa-
miliar. The same should also be true
of candidates for county oiiices in the
various counties. In view of the pres-
ent crisis, and the increasing responsi-
bility that citizens as well as office
holders must assume if our country is
to attain and reap the full reward of
an early victory for human» liberty and
human rights, every voter should be
mindful of his obligation to attend the
primaries on Tuesday next and cast
his ballot for the candidates whom he

The Primary
Election.

believes to be 'best fitted to serve the

public interest has .
capacities for which candidates will-'bg

nonfinated. ‘

The bill drafted with
the approval of the
War Department. pro-
viding for extending
the draft age between the ages of
eighteen and forty-five years will un-
doubtedly be passed in practically its
present form at an early date. While
congressional debate may develop an
opposition to some phases of its minor
provisions, the present emergency is
too great to admit of doubt that the
bill will be passed in substantially the
form advocated by the War Depart-
ment.

Under the announced plans of the
War Department, this extension of the
draft age will enable the department
to raise, train and transport to France
an army of eighty divisions, or approx-
imately 3,200,000 men, and leave a
large reserve in training in this coun-
try, by June 1 next. Under the “work
or fight” regulation it will also give the
government control of the activities of
many millions of men of draft age, and
insure their employment in essential
industries.

Whatever our views may be with re-
gard to the means employed to the de-
sirable end of bringing about the early
and successful termination of the war,

The New Draft
Reguiations.

we can have but one opinion of the.

desirability of that end, and each and
everyone of us should remember that
the government officials who are
charged with the responsibility of di-
recting our war activities are in a far
better position to judge of the best
means to that end than are those of us
who are not in close daily touch with
the situation. There can be no ques-
tion but that it is wise economy, both
of human life and treasure, to prose-
cute the war so vigorously as to bring
about its early termination. Any oth-

ii

gard to deterred classification for ' In-
dustrial reasons. . , .

While the extension eras draft age
will give the government increased
control over the industrial activities of
all who are eligibl’e to military service,
this should not be taken as an indica-
tion of a general withdrawal of men

from the country districts to supply

the need for unskilled labor in war in-
dustries. As a matter of fact, the fed-
eral Department of Labor has an-
nounced its plans to help farmers in
securing needed labor so far as this
is possible. Agriculture is second to
no other one industry in its aimport-
ance as an essential to the successful
prosecution of the war, and there is
no doubt but that the details of the
new draft regulations will be so work-
ed out as to disturb this basicindustry
as little as possible, although a great
army such as is proposed cannot be
raised, trained, equipped, transported
and maintained in a foreign field with-
out serious disturbance to the entire
industrial machinery of the country.

In another column of

Potato Growers this issue will be
Organize. ' found a report of the
organization of “The

Michigan Potato GroWers’ Exchange”
at Traverse City on August 9-10. This
organization is the culmination of the
plan under which Federal Field Agent
in Marketing, Mr. Hale Tenant, has
been organizing local cooperative as-
sociations in potato grewing sections
of northern Michigan. The fact that
more than thirty local associations
were represented at the organization
of the central exchange at the Trav-
erse City meeting shows the remark-
able progress which has been made in
developing a marketing organization
for potato growers of Michigan. The
enthusiastic manner in which potato
growers and farmers of the'northern

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igan.

“CROP REPORT MAPS."

eral counties of the\state.

disastrous.

growing corn crop.

 

At Your Service Next ~We‘ek

“PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE OF ROSEN RYE."
iams, of Allegan County, discusses the rye proposition in. Mich-

"RURAL' SCHOOL NURSING IN KENT COUNTY."
Gowdy, of the town and country nursing service.

These maps, prepared by 'our Research

Department, will show the Condition of various crops in the sev~

“FORMALDEHYDE TREATMENT OF SEED WHEAT."
effective treatment must be done correctly or the results will be

Get the right methods in this article.

“EXPANDING THIS YEAR’S FEED SUPPLY."
tions on getting the maximum of digestible nutrients from the

Frank H. Will-

By Etta Lee

This ,

Practical sugges-

 

 

er course would be playing into the
hands of the enemy. Hence the exten-
sion of the draft age and all which
such an extension involves, must be
accepted as inevitable in the present
crisis. )
Naturally, the farmers of the coun-
try who have suffered serious hard-
ship from the withdrawal of young
men from'the Country under the pres-
ent draft regulations will view with in-
creased apprehension a change in the
regulations which will place so many
men, both younger and older, within
the draft age. While no one can proph-
esy what the exigencies of the situa-
tion may make necessary, it is improb-
able that boys of eighteen to nine-
teen will be called uponto do active
military duty at the front until other
available classes have been exhausted.
It is understood that plans are under
consideration for. the establishment of
students’ traflnng courses in the col-
leges and universities of the country,
in which students may be given mili-
tary training while completing their
education.

Local and district boards

counties have identified themselves
with this movement is shown by the
fact that in Antrim county alone more
than one thousand farmers have al-
ready enrolled as members of local co—
operative marketing associations or-
ganized under this plan.

This organizatiOn will provide the
means for the successful solution of
the potato grading controversy, inas-
much as these growers’ organizations
will not be subject to the Food Admin-
istration rulings on grading, but will
be able to adopt and carry out such
grading rules as they may deem to be
for the best interests of the potato
growers of the state.

In another column of this issue Pres-
ident Smith, of the Potato Growers’
Association, advocated a reasonable
grading as essential to the mainte-
nance of a high standing for Michigan
potatoes in the potato markets of the
country. He advocates the adoption
of a stable.grade with a flexible rule
to meet crop and market conditions.
President Smith reachesthe wise con-
clusion that there is just one way for

The personnel of officers and direc- 4

tom of the central organization or ex-

change elected at the Traverse City
meeting is a strong one and promises
much for the rapid growth and suc-
cess of the organization. This organi-
zation has been largely developed
through the cooperation of the county
agents and county farm bureaus in the
creation of interest in the several
counties. This is an evidence of the
peculiar value of the County :Farm Bu<
reau as a unit in the promotion of
general organization Work which

should appeal to the farmers of every ,

section of the state. United work of
this kind is the best basis for ,the solu-
tion of the farmer’s difficult business
problems. '

Again we would

All Aboard forthe urge every Michi-
State Fair. gan farmer, who

’ can possibly ' ar-
range to do so, ’to attend the Michigan
State Fair this year. The average
man is perhaps too prone to hesitate
about spending time or money for rec~
reation on- patriotic grounds. Farm~
ers particularly hesitate about spend-
ing time away from their business on
account of the serious labor shortage
throughout the state. The State Fair.
however, comes at a season when a
day or two can be spared from work
better than at any time during the
year, and when considered from the

patriotic standpoint alone, no farmer_

should hesitate to spend the time or
money required to visit his own State
Fair.

In addition to the fact that the State
Fair is a food training camp at which
every farmer can'acquire information
which will be of value to him in food
production along many lines during
the succeeding years, it offers the op-
portunity fer a degree of first-hand in-

I

formation with regard to the war it- '

self, which will be instructive and
helpful to every Michigan farmer. Di-
visions of the War and Navy Depart-
ments will make displays at the Micb
igan State Fair this year, as well as
the Food Administration and other
governmental departments, all new to
Michigan Fair patrons, and all of a
character to add to the knowledge of
the Fair patron with regard to the war
work which is being carried on by the
government at the present time.

It should not be necessary to dwell
upon the value of the agricultural and
industrial features of the Fair exhibits.
They are already familiar to every
farmer, but most of us could secure a
greater profit from such exhibits this
year than we have ever done before.
The wholesome entertainment features
of the Fair this year will also be ap-
preciated by over-worked farmers and
their families. Plan on attending the
Fair for one or more days this year.
Keep the dates, August 30‘to Septem-
ber 8, in mind. There will be special
programs for each day from the op-
pening and its patriotic pageant, right
up to the closing day. Children’s Day
will be celebrated on Saturday, August
31; Labor Day on Monday, September
2; Old Soldiers’ Day on Tuesday, Sep—
tember 3, when veterans of the Civil
and Spanish American wars will have
complete charge; Grange Day on Wed-
nesday, September 4, when members
of the Michigan State Grange will hold
their annual picnic on Fair grounds;
Gleaners’ Day, September 5; Michigan
Day on Friday, September 6, when
Governor Sleeper and Michigan sena-
tors and congressmen will hold reegp-
tions on the grounds; ‘
on September 7, when a special pro:
gram for the entertainment of Cana-
dian visitors will be prOvided. Avia-

tors' Day on September 8, in honor of '
United States a‘FIators at. Selfri'dge‘ If

Field, will close the program.

Canadian Day ~

      

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
   

i.

0, this is not Fractional District
No. 4 ' Township, but the
new modern rural school which

 

I has been constructed on the Michigan

State Fair grounds at Detroit.‘ The
building, somewhat different from the
old, one-roamed little red-schoolhouse,
is typical of the new one-room rural
schools of today.

The assembly room is twenty-four
feet wide, thirty-two feet long and has
a seating capacity of forty—five pupils.
Modern sanitary toilets are provided
at opposite ends of the room; also,
warm, inside cloak rodms. The base‘
mentof the school house is plastered

and fitted for a play room when the

.weather does not permit out-of—doors
play and games. A small farm-carpen-

. try work bench, a kit of tools, an oil

‘2‘? "

 

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, ket arrangements w e r e,

_ , . .city to handle ”the entire '
output of the creamery. '
“This reduced selling ex- .1 .

' ‘ Many Michigan Former. Are Finding it Profitable to convert the Aftermath of their Glover and

stove and a few cooking utensils make
it possible to use this room for simple
farm manual training work and for the
serving of hot school lunches during
the winter months. The assembly
room is large enough to accommodate
a considerable number of people such
as might be congregated at a farmers’

«club meeting, farmers’ institute or oth-

er community meeting, and the base-
ment with its equipment offers the op-
portunity of presenting to the women
of the community, demonstrations in

 

‘ea‘d‘s‘t 1e Way at OurState Fair

By c. A. SPAULDING

cold-pack canning, War food substitutes
and other types of work being empha-
sized at this time by the home demon-
stration agents. '

This school house, which has been.
constructed under the supervision of

the boys and girls of the state. The
demonstrations will be arranged on a
competitive basis and teams from var-
ious clubs of the state will be selected
to actually present different phases of
the work which they have been doing,

 

this phase of community work.

 

Michigan Boys’ and Girls’ Club Members at Fair

N increasingly large amount of work has been done throughout

the entire length of the state during the past few years in the
organization of boys and girls into clubs for food production and
conservation, but there are still some communities that are not fa-
miliar with this type of work. The Michigan State Fair Association
has decided to cooperate with the Junior Extension Department of
the Michigan Agricultural College on a larger scale than ever be-
fore, this year, and to that end demonstrations along the various
lines of club work have been arranged for.
will be carried on by regular members of Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs
from different parts of the state and interested parents,
and community leaders will be given an opportunity to learn about

These demonstrations

teachers

 

 

the Department of Education, will be
used at the State "Fair to present to
the people of Michigan, the different
types of work now being carried on by
the Junior Extension Department with

such as they might be called upon to
do at a farmers’ club program, grange
meeting or other rural program.
Demonstrations will be given along
the line of four different types of Club

 

Work or projects. The work of the
girls’ canning clubs which was pre-
sented last year at the State Fair will
again be emphasized and approximate-
1y twenty teams from different parts
of the state’ will show visitors how
fruits, vegetables, soups and meats
may be preserved by the one period
cold-pack method of canning. Each
team will consist of three girls, one of
whom will be selected to explain the
different steps and to answer any ques-
tion concerning the process, while the
other two demonstrators will actually
can by this method, the various food
products.

The' second demonstration which
will be carried on by members of girls'
clubs is the hot school lunch. During
the past two years much has been ac-
complished by clubs of girls organized
and trained for preparing and serving
simple forms of hot school lunches
daily, during the winter months. The
teams from these clubs will attempt to
show how this work has been carried
on in their local communities.

One of the types of work or projects
which has been receiving considerable
attention from the boys of the state
has been the handicraft or farm man-
ual training work. Clubs have been

(Continued on page 161).

 

 

Three Views of Model Rural School Building Erected at the Michigan State Fair Grounds Under the Direction of the Department of Public instruction.

Examples of Successful Cooperation

NE of the most successful cooper-
O ative creameries in the country
is operated by the Litchfield
Dairy Association, at Litchfield, Michi-
gan. The association is made up of
one hundred and twenty-five members
who hold five hundred shares of capi-
tal stock which sold at $10 per share.
No member is allowed to hold more
than ten shares and these shares can-
not be transferred without giving the
association an opportunity to buy them
in. The $5,000 capital stock
draws seven per cent an-
nual interest; all the other
earnings are returned to
patrons in prices paid for
butter-fat.
- Acting upon the belief
that successful marketing
of butter depends upon
producing a superior pro-
duct one of the first moves
of the association after its
organization six years ago
was to send an expert but-
ter-maker to one of the big
eastern cities to study the
demands of the market for
high-grade butter. After
this = careful investigation
of the demands of the mar-,

made with one firm. in that

\ .

the assomation to sell their butter at
prices that average six cents per pound
above Elgin quotations. The success
of this creamery is due to the fact that
it makes a high quality of butter and
pays , high prices for its supply of
cream.

The annual output of the Litchfield
creamery is‘ about one million pounds
of butter. The patrons are paid once
a month. A cooperative creamery can-
not pay twice a month as it has insuf-

ficient working capital. That is .why
some of the big private concerns fre-
quently cause trouble among the pa-
trons of cooperative creameries.

In 1917 the Litchfleld Dairy Associa-
tion sold the United States govern-
ment 100,000 pounds of butter. In dis-
cussing some of the difficulties of a co-
operative creamery handling govern-
ment business, Manager Bater said:
“The amount of red tape and the
length of time required to get returns

make our payments to patrons so SiOW
that it caused us no end of trouble. We
are satisfied that the other big cream-
ery companies have got the inside
track so far as government business is
concerned. It is difficult to make some
of our patrons understand some of
these things; besides we cannot afford
to lose our regular trade and accept
government contracts, even though we
may get slightly better prices for our
butter. These things should be given

careful consideration by

 

 

Timothy. Meadows into Valuable Wool and Mutton. .

the management of every
cooperative creamery be-
fore accepting contracts.”
The Hillsdale Coopera-
tive Association conducts
a general business of pur-
chasing supplies and mar-
keting live stock and pro-
duce at Hillsdale, Michi-
gan. It has two hundred
members who hold two
hundred shares of stock
valued at $10 per share;
thus giving it a working
capital of $2,000. Six per
cent interest is paid on the
$10 shares annually. Other
earnings are returned to
the members and patrons
according to the amount of
business done through the
association, members re—
ceiving twice the amount
in dividends that-the non-
. members do. , V
In discussing this phase


  

 

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do so by selling good clean graded pd

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of paying dividends according to the
amount of business this, association

does for patrons, Managers Beers
said: “Our business is that of pur-
chasing farm supplies and saving-the
dealer’s charges and marketing live
stock and produce so as -‘to get more
money for them. The basis of suc-
cessful purchasing and marketing is
not how much each man puts into the
undertaking, but how much he buys or
sells. It is right that profits be divid-
ed according to patronage. not invest-
ment. The member or patron who buys
the largest amount of supplies or ships
the most live stock and porduce ought
to get the largest share of the savings.
That is true cooperation and farmers
are just beginning to appreciate it.

“It is unfair for a member who ships
ten hogs and holds one share of stock

Urges Grading of Michigan Potatoes.

to get as much profit as the” member
who ships one hundred hogs and owns

'one share of stock. True, he contrib—

uted more money in proportion to the
stock shipped to start the business,
but if we worked along these lines
shrewd men might gain control of the
association without giving it any of
their business; then we would be work-
ing simply to make dividends for them.
It is notthe right basis to organize on.
It is better to get started in the right
way than to give outsiders opportunity
to participate in the earnings.

“All of the supplies are sold at mar-
ket prices when they are delivered to
patrons. This not only simplifies the
problem of unloading shipments, but
helps guard against members becom-
ing dissatisfied with prices and buying
elsewhere in case prices go 011 a few

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scents per unit of 'measufe when} snip-

ments are delayed off-the road. Then,
<too, thefact that earloads of supplies
must be unloaded promptly and put in
storage makes it impossible to deal out
feed and supplies to buyers on the bas-
is of cost price. We have tried unload-
ing carloads of feed and coal the day
they arrived, but it seldom so happens
that patrons are on hand to get their
supply. ,By puttting it in the store-
room and selling it promptly it saves
labor and less capital is tied up in
stock. In conducting a large business
with a small amount of capital it is
necessary that we turn our stock
quickly and keep our money working.

In discussing the problem of con-
ducting such a business on a working
capital of only $2,000, Manager Beers
said: "I find it quite a perplexing

such a small capital; At present prices
for feed and supplies we ought to harm
$10, 000 capital to buy to advantage

and keep our stock up. But few farm--

ers realize how much capital it re
quires to do business when prices are

so high. At times a few of us have to»

dig down into our jeans or sign» notes.»
at the bank to make our payments
promptly. Of course, this is not always

good business policy, but we have takqj
en an interest in building up the thing,’

and knew that the money will come

back or the notes be paid as soon as
the stock is converted into cash. Dur- '

ing the past year we have handled
more than one hundred and fifty car-
loads of farm supplies and haVe ship-
ped more than three hundred carloads
of live stock and produce.”

President Smith, of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Association, Tells Our Readers that Grading is Essential to Maintain
a High Standing in the Potato Markets of the Country.

N considering the matter of grading"

potatoes our opposition to last

year’s unfair grade must not be al-
lowed to carry us to the extreme posi-
tion taken by some, that there should
be no grading of potatoes.

Positively all Michigan potato grow-
ers should take a firm stand in favor
of grading all potatoes marketed.

Every car of upgraded Michigan po-
tatoes marketed this year will be a
detriment to the greatest industry of
the potato growing sections of the
state.

I would urge all cooperative associa-
tions and individual growers, as a rule,
to make their grade-as adopted by the
State Potato Growers’ Association, at
least one inch and three-quarters. In
most instances potatoes graded in this
way can be safely marked U. S. Grade
No. 1. The exception to this is where
potatoes run largely to small potatoes.

The concessions granted by the
Food Administration last April when I
visited Washington have been promul-
gated in part, at least, by the Food
Administration in a July issue of rules
in which is the rule prohibiting more
than five per cent of No. 1 potatoes in
the N0. 2's. Already the shippers have
ordered one and seven-eighth-inch
round mesh screens and will use them.
Everybody knows that one and seven-
eighth-inch round mesh will mean prac-
tically the same as one and three-quar-
ter-inch square mash as used almost
everywhere last year, except, as I said
before, in a few instances where pota-
toes run largely to No. 2’s. ‘

The other new rule allowing a toler-
ance of ten per cent of No. 2’s in No.
1’s I have not seen in print except
in a letter sent me and I have written
both the Bureau of Markets and the
Food Administration regarding it, but
have as yet received no reply. As soon
as one comes I will publish it.

Every member of the Potato Grow-
ers’ Association is unalterably in favor
of a good grade of potatoes and wisely
voted that way, fixing the grade, “O ne
grade over an inch and three- quarters
round mesh screen,” and too much
stress cannot be laid upon the import-
ance of such action. '

It absolutely commits the growers to.

the principle of grading and establish-
es what everybody considers a good

grade.
All growers who wish to establish

' such a grade can ship ,their potatoes

graded that way and label them “Grad-
ed over’ inch and three-quarters, as
approved by Michigan Potato Growers’
Association,” and I am of the opinion
that such a grade will command prices

' equal to U. _.s Grade No. 1

But if you want to stabilize and ad-
vance the potato industry in Michigan

   

t‘atoes of the very best quality so that
people will want more and be willing
to pay a premium for our good stuff.

I have no doubt but that when the
farmers take into their own hands the
marketing of their own potatoes, they
will, if they will stick to a good sensi-

ble system of grading, realize better
prices and more money, besides keep-
ingthe cull stuff at home for feed, than
they have ever before received for
their potatoes.

A prominent shipper told me a few
days ago that he owns ‘or controls

 

 

Nat1onal Crop Estimates for August
The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Crop Estimates,
makes the following estimates from reports of its correspondents
‘ and agents:
Total Production.
- 1917 Final 1912-1916
Crop. Aug. Forecast. Estimate. Average.

Winter wheat ....... 556,000,000 418,000,000 552,000,000
Spring wheat ....... 322,000,000 233,000,000 257,000,000
All wheat ........... 878,000,000 651,000,000 809,000,000
Corn ................ 2,989,000,000 3,159,000,000 2,761,000,000
Oats ................ 1,428,000,000 1,587,000,000 1,296,000,000
Barley .............. 232, 000, 000 209,000,000 202,000,000 ‘
Rye ................. ‘ 76,700, 000 60,100,000 44,500,000
Buckwheat .......... 20, 600,000 17,500,000 15,300,000
White potatoes . . . 391, 000, 000 443,000,000 362,000,000
Sweet potatoes ...... 84,500,000 87,100,000 63,500,000
Tobacco, lbs ......... 1,228,000,000 1,196,000,000 1,033,000,000
Flax ................. 6 14,800,000 8,500,000 17,600,000
Rice . . . . . .. 41,600,000 36,300,000 28,900,000
Hay, all, tons ........ 99,300,000 94,900,000 95,400,000
Sugar beets, tons. 6,360,000 5,980,000 5,970,000
Apples, total ........ 199,000,000 175,000,000 214,000,000
Apples, commercial. 24,400,000 22,400,000 ..........
Peaches ............. 40,900,000 45,100,000 49,600,000

 

 

Organize to Save Michigan’s

Potato Industr

N enthusiastic and representa-
A tive gathering of farmers met at
Traverse City, August 9-10, at
the request of Mr. Hale Tenant, of the
Bureau of Markets, for the purpose of
organizing a Central Cooperative Mar-
keting Association, the purpose of
which is to do the selling for the local
cooperative marketing associations
which have already been organized
and will be organized. There were rep-
resentatives present from thirty-three
organized associations, quite a number
from associations in process of organ-
ization and many county agricultural
agents. J

The new organization will do the
marketing or the farm produce to be
sold by the local associations and will
organize a strong selling force for the;
purpose.

Considerable good natured rivalry
for the location of the central office
'was manifested in the efforts'of those
‘whu wanted the. office located at Trav-
erse City and those who were for Cad-
illac;
was afterwards made unanimous.

The name chosen for the new organ-
ization was .“The Michigan Potato

 

Cadillac won by one vote, which .

  

By A. M. 3 MIT H
'""'Pres. Mich. Potato Growers‘ Assn.
Growers' Exchange,” the name “Pota-
to” being used to give prominence to
the principal cash crop of western
Michigan, although all kinds of farm
produce will be handled.

The directors elected were: E.H.
Wilce, Empire; D. D. Buell, Elmira;
C. A. Wood, Kingsley; A. B. Gage, Bel.
laire; H. Curtis, Jennings; E. J. Smith,
Cheboygan; H. A. Arnold, Boyne City.
This is considered a very strong board.

They organized as follows: D. D.
Buell, president; H. Curtis, vice-pres-
ident; A. P. Large, secretary—treasurer.
It is believed that a $2,000,000 business
will be done this year.

Antrim county is the banner county
for members of cooperative marketing
associations, having already one thou-
sand enrolled.

Potato growers who are members of

cooperative associations are not worry— .
ing about grading, as they will make‘

their own grade and sell what they be-
lieve is for their own best interests ac-
cording to market demand

There is just onegway for the farmer
to take care of himself and that is
through c00perative marketing associa-
tions managed by farmers. ’

   

about two hundred buying stations and
that this year there ,will be a brisk
demand for No. 2 potatoes as the flour
and starch factories "are preparing to
use them. If this is so it will help
some, but unless there should prove to
be a surplus of potatoes, which I very
much doubt, as I believe the crop is
short, there will be a market for a
good many of the No. 2 potatoes in the
N0. 1’s this year.

A strong market might permit what

the Food Administration has recently
done in allowing New Jersey to market
No. 1’s and No. 2’s together, labeled as
such. I told Mr. E. P. Miller, of the
Food Administration, last spring that
rules governing the marketing of pota-
toes should not be established to that
they could not be’changed, but that
they should be flexible and change ac-
cording to crop conditions and market
demands.

Evidently after many months my
ideas have made an impression on Mr.
Miller and he is learning what the
kaiser is learning, that “though all the
world is against him he will not
change," may do for talk, but it will
not go with free Americans.

There is no reason why No. 1’s and
No. 2’s should not be sold together if

‘ any grower can find, a market for such

a mixed grade properly labeled, and
when potatoes are a short crop they
ought to be sold together for the bulk
of the crop, for together they will
bring just as good a price as No. 1's
when the crop is short, whereas sep-
arated the No. 2’s will be discriminat~
ed against to the detriment of the
farmer.

So we get back to the main idea I
wish to impress in this paper~namely,
the importance of a good stable grade
for the potato as a rule, and a flexible
rule to meet crop and market condi<
tions. '

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The Michigan potato crop is suffer-
ing unusually severe‘damage this sea-
son from an insect known in scientific
circles as the aphis, or potato louse.
These insects live on the under side of
the leaves and suck out the juices.

“The pest can/be controlled by a.
spray of Black Leaf or nicotine sul-
phate,” says Prof. R. H. Pettit, of M.
A. C. “This should be used at the rate
of about One pint to one hundred gal«
lens of water, with about four pounds
of laundry soap. The best way to ap—
ply this spray so as to make the under

sidesof the plants is. to drive a tank.

fitted with a pump through the field,
with two men following, each with a

nozzle .set at right angles at the end
With this the"

of a short piece of pipe.
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. N the long fight which has. been
‘ waged between. the progressive
sheep breeders and the owners of

_ dogs there has been a question as to_

which would win. In some sections
there are very few sheep in “spite of
the fact that they are profitable and
the farmers often give their reason for
not investing money in sheep. They
fear. the sheep—killing dog and cannot
afford to risk money, in the. sheep bus-
iness. Which side will win? The hand
writing is on the wall. The sheep
breeders are going to win and they

will haVe to win because the country

needs wool and meat and dog owners
might as well realize that fact.
The writer owns two dogs. for the

purpose of protecting poultry from the‘

hawks, rats and thieves. The dogs are
locked up every night and care is tak-
en to keep them from neighbors’ land
but even at that there is a doubt in
my mind if I have a right to own any
dogs if they are a menace to sheep or
are considered a menace which would
keep a neighbor from owning sheep.
There is a lot of love and friendship in
a good dog and doubtless it has a place
on a farm but if-food stuffs are as
good as bullets in the present war, dog
owners will have to take better care
of their dogs or expect to see them
legislated against until they are too
much of a luxury for a farmer to own.

. The hand writing is on the wall and

dog'owners might as well realize that
fact. It may not be this year, nor next

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credit.‘ If the act occurs more than
Once he certainl‘;r has a right to shoot
,the dog and the owner of the said pup
should thank him for his kindnessin
doing his duty. At present dog own-
ers in general think so much of Bingo
and Fido that they cannot see how an-
other man fails to observe their won-
derful qualities. It is asking a good
deal to expect one man to love anoth-
er’s dog, especially if that dog is a

constant menace to his bank account:

The observer who has seen a flock of
sheep ruined by dogs is horrified and
disgusted at the entire tribe of dogs.
The owner of the sheep is seldom able
'to obtain what they are worth and is
forced to pocket his loss. Possibly he
goes out of the sheep business and he
suffers an annual loss because of that
fact and the world at large suffer be-
cause they must pay more for wool
and meat. The owner of sheep must
know something about the'sheep busi-
ness in order to make it a success. It
takes some .training and when a farm-
er has learned to handle sheep in a
profitable manner it is discouraging to
be ruled out of business by men who
own dogs that are untrained and un-
controlled. Unfortunately it requires
no brains to own a dog and less brains
to care for it in the manner in which
some dogs receive their care.

The dog owner who cares to keep a
good dog can use some precautions
which will prevent the molesting of
sheep. Dogs should never be allowed

year nor the year after that, but the their freedom at night. They may run

 

Oat Straw a Valuable Horse Feed

RIGHT oat straw is wholesome winter roughage for idle horse-s.
Many good feeders figure that every ton of good oat straw
which the horses will eat saves half a ton or more of valuable

hay. Spme of the very best pure-bred draft mares in the country
are fed good oat straw as their exclusive roughage during the win-
ter months. The only other feed they receive is about three or four
pounds of grain a day to each mare, as may seem necessary to keep
the digestive system working properly. ..

The face that straw is a heat-producing feed is of importance
because the best feed for producing warmth to idle horses is also
the cheapest. Idle ’work horses require only sufficient grain to
maintain them in good flesh condition; all the rest of their feed
may well consist of cheap roughage,_provided it is clean, bright and
free from injurious substances. By feeding more bright straw and
just enough grain to keep their digestive systems in good order the
work horses can be wintered so cheaply as to greatly reduce the
cost of maintenance, and this means considerable reduction in the
cost of Operating a large farm where several work teams are kept

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war between dog ow'ners and sheep
breeders can only end sanely in an
overwhelming victory for the owners
of the sheep and the longer that vic-
tory is delayed the more expensive it
will be for the country. For a long
time the agricultural press has been
filled with various solutions of the dog
problem. Most of the solutions center
on an increase in the tax but the tax
has not been high enough to keep down
the population of worthless dogs.

The sentiment of the people will
soon be worth more than the tax in
controlling the dog problem. When
public opinion is aroused to the grav-
ity of the situation the sheep breeders
will stand a better show for victory.
'At present neighbors who own sheep
hesitate to take stringent measures
when dogs trespass on their property
for reasons of friendship. When a
neighbor is kind'enough'to .inform an-
other neighbor‘ that his dog has been
near'the fleck of sheep the informa-
tion should be appreciated and the dog

owner should. take'every precaution to.

prevent it happening again. A neigh-
bor who has the'self-control to keep

V'fron'i shdoting-‘a'dog that drives’his
' sheep is. certainty going "the: limit in
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with other dogs and cause trouble.

They should be trained to remain on .

the home farm at all times during the
day and locked up or placed under re-
straint when they cannot be watched.
In England there is said to be little
trouble from dogs bothering sheep and
this is said to be due to the fact that
the dogs are generally of good breed-
ing and they are carefully trained.
The country demands sheep and can
get along very well without dogs. The

writer likes good dogs but realizes the ,

time is rapidly coming when the sheep
bUSiness must take a larger place in
this country. If owners in general do
not take better cars of their dogs the
writing on the wall seems to say that
they will have their pets legislated out
of business as the country needs wool
and ,mutton and the sheep-killing dog
is one of the most serious enemies to
the country at this time—R. G. K.

The enormous extent to which aid is
tendered to our Allies in supplying
meats and other food is indicated from

the official statement that beef exports , .
' , tissues? W? “m “925""
‘ n“. ending.

from the United States for June
amounted to 92,173,000 pounds, of
which 95 per cent went to the United
Kingdom, France, Italy and Belgium“
The monthly average of beef exports

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Help Save The Canadian Crops

When Our Own Harvest Requirements are Completed

United States Help Badly Needed
Harvest Hands Wanted

Military demands from a limited po ulation have made such a scarcity
of farm help in Canada that the appea of the Canadian Goverment to the
United States Goverment for

Help to Harvest the Canadian Grain Crop of 1918

Meets with a request for all available assistance to go forward as soon
as our own crop is-mcured.

The Allied Ari : . must be fed and therefore it is necessary to save
every bit of the c- p of the Continent—American and Canadian. Those
who respond to this will get a

Warm Welcome, Good Wages, Good Board
and Find Comfortable Homes

A card entitling the holder to a rate of one cent er mile from Canad-
ian Boundary Points to destination and return will be given to all Har-
vest Applicants. Every facilit will be afforded for admission into Can-
ada and return to the United tates. Information as to wages, railway
rates and routes, may be had from the

UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

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ing abundant .in your garden will be
needed next year when planting time
comes. Better save a supply while you
can. It is not hard to save seed and
quite frequently the home-grownsup—
ply is better than any that can” be
bought from the seed man. Home-
grown seeds are suited to local" envir-
onment and the vigor and productive-
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can not be destroyed by'insects, rats
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garden seed.t But Carefully saved seed
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varieties of seed, the date, including
month and year when harvested, and
the place where grown.
It’s Easy to Save Sweet Corn for Seéyd.
A single ear of sweet corn will fur-
nish enough seed for a small garden.
Think how easy it is to save the best
ear you produced this year for plant-
ing next spring when seed may be
hard-to obtain. All that is required is
to dry it thoroughly and store it where
it will not be injured. But saving seed
from the garden should not be limited
to sweet corn.- Seed from the best
beans, peas, tomatoes and other vege-
tables should be selected this fall
when they can be obtained easily and
the supply is abundant.

Fall Pruning of Berry Bushes

ASPBERRIES and blackberries
R are considered by the. majority of

Michigan people to be the best
small fruits we have for table use.
Even when they are selling for double
what they usually do, we see the poor
as well as the rich buying them by the
' In or-

der to keep all the raspberry and

blackberry plants in this state bearing

in good shape each year they must be
properly pruned. You will hear people
say, “What is the use of pruning, my
plants bear every year?” That is not
what we prune for; we prune to make
the plants hear more every year and
keep free from disease. It used to be
the custom to do all this pruning in
the spring, but there is a great rush of
work at that season of the year and
many times the pruning is only half
done or not done at all. Also it is very
hard to tell which canes are old and
which are new in the spring of the
year. The best and proper time to do
the raspberry and blackberry pruning
is during the latter part of August or
first of September after all the crop of
fruit has been harvested.
Removing the Old Canes.

Raspberries and blackberries are
fruits which grow wood the first year
and then the second year this wood
produces berries. So after the second

year’s growth of the cane is past, it is,

no good to the plant for fruit produc-
tion. It should be removed at this
time in order to give all the vitality of
the plant to the fruit-bearing canes.
When the canes are cut from the
plants they should be piled in heaps
and burned so as to destroy all insects
and diseases on them. By doing this
every fall you will keep your plot of
raspberries 01 b' ackberries in a very
healthy conditon

Thinning the New Canes.

At the same time that the old canes
are cut out the young canes and suck-
ers should be thinned. In doing this
thin out the weak canes and suckers,
leaving the strong healthy ones for the
next year's fruit crop. This gives the
canes left more sunlight and a better
chance to make a strong growth. To
get a good crop of very fancy berries
it would be best to thin the canes so
that they are about six to eight inches
apart.

Pruning for a Late Crop.

Some people who do not want only
enough raspberries for their own use
have asystem of pruning so as to ex-
tend the fruiting season from two to
four weeks. It works out quite well
on a small patch, but reduces the crop
too much to be a profitable proposition
for the commercial fruit grower. All
the canes are cut back to within about

J. one toot-from the ground'iiictho fall to

cause the late fruiting the folloviring
year. The Strength of the plant the
following spring goes to the lower
buds first and a leng shoot is made be-
fore the flowers appear on the canes.
By this late flowering process you can
make your patch of berries bear for a
long time during the summer. Prune
part of the patch for a late crop and
prune the rest as you would ordinar-
ily, and your season of fresh raspber-
ries will be several weeks longer than
it would be under normal conditions.
Newaygo Co. A. M. PORTER.

FEDERAL PLAN OF MILLJFEED
CONTROL.

 

(Continued from first page).
certain of their supply and will render
a. patriotic service by relieving the rail-
roads of the burden of hauling in win-
ter, when weather conditions and few-
er hours of daylight make their oper-
ation more difficult.

The foregoing remarks regarding
wheat'mill feeds do not apply to the
feeds derived from coarse grains——
hominy, rye, barley, etc. Prices of
these grains are, as in pre-war times,
subject to changing market values. '

The reader will observe that the sup-
ervision over wheat mill feeds and the

 

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57 lbs 43% lbs. 15% lbs. 14% lbs

56 lbs 42% lbs. 16% lbs. 15% lbs

55 lbs. 42 lbs. 17 lbs. 16 lbs.

54 lbs 41% lbs. 17% lbs 16% lbs

53 lbs 40% lbs. 18% lbs 17% lbs

52 lbs 39 %, lbs. 19% lbs 18% lbs

511bs: 39 lbs. 20 lbs. 19 lbs.
Note. —Nothing in this rule requires

.a miller to operate upon an exchange

basis. He may, if he so desires, pur-
chase the wheat and sell flour and feed
at the prescribed margins or less.

 

general regulations surrounding the
grain trade are aimed only at specu-
lation, profiteering and unfair prac-

tices which benefit only a few and aIe'

therefore not to be tolerated during
war time. Honest and patriotic citi-
zens have nothing to fear from the
Food Administration, which was estab-
lished by consent of the people and
endeavors to serve all impartially, bas-
ing its requests and regulations upon
military and economic necessity.

The man who chooses between a
good and indifferent tree, merely on ac-
count of the difference of a few cents
in price, certainly does not look very
far ahead. The saving here will be

wasted many times as crops come .011.

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By
January lst, 1919,

MR. AUTOVOWNER:

To be protected you should re-
pair, rebuild, and repaint your
car and keep it insured against
fire, theft, and liability.

When the committee calls on
you to purchase War Savings
Stamps or * Liberty Bonds or to
contribute to the Red Cross, you
should not make the excuse that
you have had your car burned or
stolen, or lost money througha
lawsuit against you on account
of an auto accident, when you
can keep protected against these
losses for a few dollars, and keep
prepared to do your bit. Do not
wait until you purchase a new
car, but insure today in a com-
pany with a membership of over
35.000, and a surplus of about
$70,000. also a fire-proof building
in which to keep your records,
with up-to-date equipment with
which to give you service.

This is no time to insure in a
small company without surplus.
Insure in a safe company that
was organized and developed be-
fore the war.

Cost is only $1. 00 for policy
and 25 cents per H. P.

' Citizens Mutual Auto lns.Co.
i - Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

into any Silo‘ Is the guarantee that goes
with every Pence—large or small. You,
doubtless, will not need to take advan-
tage of the full elevating power of the
Paper. but you have the satisfaction of. 7
knowing it's there—in reserve. .

There are four sizes of Pam A
gas engine. 3 or 4 H. P., will operate . \
the smallest size. Our 1918 catalogue

explains how a Pence “
will pay fer itself In one '. '
season. Write for your
copy today—it's tree.
PAPEC MACHINE CO.
won-nu Street ,

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EVERAL western New York farm-

ers are selling their milk at $5.00

per hundred. One hundred pounds
of milk, testing four per cent butter-
fatlwill realize $5.00 per hundred on
sale when made into Coulommier
cheese, which sell readily at twenty-
flve cents each. This is a whole, sweet
milk cheese, which is not at all diffi-
cult to make. The demand for small
cheese is increasing, and where farm-
ers are having hard times disposing of
their milk at a profitable figure, they
should investigate the possibilities of
adopting this method of marketing.

There should exist an excellent op-
portunity for a limited number of dairy
farmers of every community where
there is any number of consumers, to
supply this demand, which we have
heretofore depended upon foreign sup-
ply to furnish.

A clean room, with good ventilation
and light, with fairly even temperature
arrangement, is needed. This may be
either just off the kitchen or possibly
the cellar. The best temperature is
from sixty to sixty-five degrees. If the
room becomes too warm the cheese will
be apt to drain too quick, resulting in
a loss of fat and a hard, dry cheese;
. if the room be too cool, the cheese will
not drain properly and Will have poor

curd as would be the case where the
milk was dropping rapidly in tempera-
ture.

A good table is necessary for work-
ing purposes. The top should be cov-
ered with lead or galvanized zinc, the
top having a small ridge raised about
the edge, and the whole surface drain-
ing into one corner, where a hole is
provided for the whey to drip into a
pail underneath. Any ordinary kitch-
en table with hardwood top, tilted so
that it will drain off, may be used at
first for this purpose.

The cheese rings are circular rings
made in two sections, the one slipping
over the other. These are five and a
half, inches in diameter, the lower sec-
tion of which is two inches high, and
the upper section or collar is three
inches high. ' These can be made by a
good local tinsmith with an outside
‘cost of less than fifty cents each.

Drainage boards are required to lay
the cheese on after being placed in the
moulds. Some makers prefer straw
mats, but after considerable experi-
ence with their use it has been found
that a board fourteen inches in length,
eight inches wide, the surface beaded
every fourth inch, is better. This may
be kept clean, which cannot be said of
straw mats. A ladle is necessary in

New Guernsey Champion

 

 

Linden Girl of Harbor Hill 3rd 58625 has recently completed a record in

Class CC of 15032.9 pounds of milk and 785. 89 pounds of butterfat.

This

record not only places her at the head or her class, but it also entitles her to

become the champion cow of the breed in this new maternity class.

On

March 8 she had to her credit 15769.9 pounds of milk and 830.16 pounds of

butter-fat and had carried a calf 249 days.

placed her in Class C.

This production would have

 

grain and bad flavor. It is therefore
essential that the temperature be kept
at or between these two figures, both
for the “best appearance of the product
and insurance against the loss of
butter-fat. —' s

Sweet, clean, new milk makes the
best cheese. A skim-milk cheese some-
what similar to the Coulommier may
be made, but this is hard, dry and un-
palatable. Sour milk also makes a
hard, dry cheese. Rennet may be used
in either the extract or tablet form
The extract is best, as it is easier to
mix and cheaper. Best grade dairy
salt should be used.

The articles required to manufac-
ture this cheese are: Agate pails,
cheese rings,» draining boards, ther—
mometer, cheese parchment, ladles,
measuring glass and a supply of prop-
er paekages-in which towrap product.

Makers have found agate pails the
best, due to the fact that they are eas-
iest kept clean, are more durable and
cost little "more. Great care must be

5 . exercised in the use of any pails that
the temperature be maintained evenly

  
  
    
 
  
   

  

handling the curd. A.floating dairy
thermometer and a measuring glass for
handling the rennet, should be kept
handy.

One hundred pounds of four per cent
milk will make twenty Coulmmier
cheese. For ten gallons of milk use
from one hundred and fifty to two hun-
dred drops of rennet extract, to which
is added ten ounces of pure dairy salt.
The making is as follows: Strain the
milk into the agate pail; raise the milk

.‘ to a temperature of eighty degrees,
_when the'rennet is added and stirred

gently to the bottom for about four
minutes, thus insuring an even distri-
bution. The quantity of rennet used is
regulated by the rapidity with which
it is desired to form curd. If a slower
curd is desired, use about fifteen drops
per gallon of milk; if a rapid curd is
desired, use twenty drops of rennet.
The latter is best. But the extract
should be diluted with about ten times

its bulk of water in order to make unlv ‘

form mix-ing easier.
The pails should be covered as soon
as the rennet is mixed with the milk
Three or four-ply cheesecloth is best.
for this.f.1f the temperature .is..low,;

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER m

"iSelllng Mllk at 55 Per th.

.CORN CUTTER

  
  

   

11—155

Cut Your Ensilaqo
When The Corn Is Right

  

   

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§ 9 It ls good business to have your cutter right on the job
§ when your corn is ready for the silo. It pays to cut it at ust the r1ght
§ time. Even one week’s delay 1n cutting means a big loss 1n eeding value.
\ Don’ t wait till the last minute to order your cutter and don’ t depend
§ upon someone else to do your cutting, for every cutter in the country will
§ work overtime this year and those who wait will regret. Order a Kalamazoo
‘% Cutter now and be sure of gettmg your ensilage 1n the silo atjust the right time.
\

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ENSIMGE CUTTEDS

Men who study and investigate silo fillers“ carefully before buying, select
Kalamazoo cutters because of these

10 Big Features

l—Malleable, unbreakable knife wheel. 6——-Triple feed rollers insure steady feeding.
2—All working parts covered to prevent 7—Strong. sturdy, life-timeframe of chan-

accidents. nel steel. ' _
3-—Center1-shear cut gives even flow of 8—Reger31ble shear bar g1ves four cutting
ens1 age e ges. _ _
d—Absence of vibration lengthens life of 9—Hard oil cups prov1de ample lubnca-
machine. non for every part.

S—Less power required because of center- IO—Guard to prevent accident in case belt
shear and no vibration. slips.

The biggest of all these big Kalamazoo features is the center-shear cut. It means
smoother running. less power, less vibration
and longer life to the machine.

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Today for Catalog‘
showing three sizes of silo fillers and the world'l
best alfalfa cutter. Buy your cutter without delay
and avoid possible disappointment because of a last

minute rush Play safe—get your cutter nowl Get a Kalamazoo— "£30

" world‘ 5 standard.

If you need a silo, ask for the Kalamazoo Catalog of Tile and Wood Silos.

KALAMAZOO TANK J: SILO C0., Dept. 123 KALAMAZOO, MIC".

       
 
 

 

 

YAPE,'

ENSIL‘AGE CUTTER i
'IT THROWS
AND BLOWS f

There's just one way of being sure of a
full Silo of clean cut ensilage. That is to

fill with your own equipment. A 3 or 4
H. P. gasoline engine will operate a. small
PAPEC. If a saving of $75.00 to $150.00
yearly appeals to'you.write today for our
new 1918 catalogue—it’s free. ,

PAPEC MACHINE COMPANY
150 Main St” Short-ville. N. Y.

AKRON SULKY

 

 

 

The old way required considerable help

_ and takes a long time.

' The AKRON SULKY CORN
ECUTTER saves time, money and much
labor; it absolutely safe; mexpensive; efli
cient; light draft; only one horse required,
saves twine; cuts one or two rows at a

' time, adjustable for height of cut. .

. We wantdyou to know more about our Com
1 Cutter but 13 space is too small for that, so we
7 have published an illustrated booklet containing

full description and testimonials which we l
will mail free to all interested readers of this pa- ‘

per. Send us a postal card request at once, and l

‘ you will receive this booklet by return mail. We 1

I' .' will also tell you what dealer In your neighbor— ,‘

hood handles our Corn Cutter, so you can go

TIIE SELF-OILIIIG WlIDllILL

become so popular in its first three years that

thaousancls have been called for to replace, on their
old towers, other makes of mil ls, and to replace. at
small cost th egean o the earlier
Aermotors makingnfixem self—oil
ing.l ltaenclooedmotor
keeps in the oil and

cope out .
rain. The SplashOiling
Sy a t e m conctantl
floods everybean d8
venting Wear an enabl' mg the
mill to pum in the lightest breeze.
The oil supp y is renewed once a year.
ou le Gem are used, each carryi 1:; half the load.
We make Gasoline En ines, umps. . mks,
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so as to maintain eighty degrees, in
the milk. A room temperature of sixty
to sixty-five degrees is best. Do not
stir the milk after the rennet has been
mixed.

The drainage board, table and moulds
should then be prepared for the recep-
tion of the" curd. This is done by lay-
ing the beaded boards on the table,
where they can be left undisturbed af-
ter the moulds have been filled. Place
the moulds or rings on boards with the
two sections connected. Ladle the curd
into moulds in thin slices, as it will
drain more rapidly than when placed
in thick slices. After a nice, soft curd
has formed, which ought to take
place in from two to three hours, start
ladling in the moulds. If the moulds
do not hold all the curd to start with,
the remainder may be added as- soon
as the moulds have drained 3. short
time. The time the curd takes in
draining depends to a great degree on
the temperature of the room and the
manner in which the curd is ladled. As
stated, the optimum temperature of
the room is sixty degrees. If the tem-
perature falls below this point the
draining will take too long, with a bit-
ter—flavored cheese as a result.

The curd is turned onto the boards
in about eight hours, thus insuring a
good, smooth top cheese. In about
twenty-four hours the curd will have
sunk below the bottom ofthe upper
ring, when the upper section may be
detached, after which place a board
upside down on top of the lower ring
and turn the cheese. Care must be
taken in removing the first board as
the cheese may stick to it slightly.

The top of the curd should then be
sprinkled with about one-eighth ounce
of salt per cheese. The second lot of
cheese is then placed on the boards
and allowed to drain for twenty-four
hours. This is turned as was the first
lot, and sprinkle with salt. Also sprin-
kle the first day’s cheese after turning,
with same quantity of salt. In another
twenty-four hours the first cheese will
be ready for cutting if fresh cheese is
desired.” Most of the customers desire
a ripened cheese. Therefore, at the
second salting it is too young. and the
rings are removed, the cheese placed
on the boards, and permitted to stand
five or six days, when it is ready for
market.

Attractiveness is essential in mar-
keting this special product. Each
cheese should be wrapped in parch-
ment paper, packed in a carton or
cardboard box, before being offered for
sale. The maker’s name may be plac-
ed on these boxes, which can be pur-
chased for less than half a cent each
of most any dairy supply house. It
should be an easy matter for many
farmers with small dairies to work up
a nice trade in this product.

EARL W. GAGE.

 

KEEP THE BEST ANIMALS.

 

The most successful breeders of
pure-bred live stock are men who do
not sell the young animals that defi-
nately excel the parents. High prices
do not tempt, nor equal merit in other
herds or flocks concern such makers
of breed history. It is with their own
familiar animals that they produce the
best results, for no matter how excel-
lent the purchased animal may’ be, it
seldom produces as good results in
carrying forward the breeder’s ideals
of improvement.

Years ago when we read of cows
earning $100 each during the year peo-
ple would say, “It is book farming,”
but today we are discussing what the
limit of a good cow really is.

, The tree knows its fruit and drops
the unsound and SQuirrels take no

‘stock in unsound nuts and rats desert

a sinking ship. Yet a man with his
God-given faculties will keep cows that
produce less than 150 pounds of butter-
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See‘ Laney—Light
In Action at the Fair

Lalley-Light will be exhibited, and
in operation, at most of the coun-
ty and state fairs this fall.

We ask you to note particularly
the way it runs, and the character
of the electric light and power
it produces.

If you will do this, we count on
the plant itself to convince you of
the superiority it has proven in
eight years of every day farm use.

You probably will be impressed,
first, with its extremely smooth
running; and the fact that a low
hum is all you hear when it is
running.

You willsee that the electric lights
are strong, and steady all the
time—without even a suggestion
of a flicker.

You will observe, also, the same
steady flow of power to the elec-
trical machines which may be
exhibited.

The men in char e will ex lain
that Lalley-Light urnishes ight
and power from two sources—the
storage battery; and the genera-
tor, independently of the battery.

That means with Lalley-Light you

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are doubly sure of having light
and power.

Even if you are not of a mechan-
ical turn, you can’t help admiring
the unusual simplicity ofthe plant,
and its very_compact design.

We urge you to study Lalley-Light
because it points the way to a
great saving of farm labor and an
equaI increase of comforts and
conveniences on the farm.

Next year the farmer’s need for
Lalley-Light’s reliable. economi-
cal power and light will be even
greater than this year.

You should prepare now to meet
that need.

If Lalley-Light should not be dis-
played at your home «fair, write to
us for details and name of the
nearest Lalley-Light merchant.

Lalley Electra-Lighting corporation
783 Bellevue Ave. Detroit,Mich.

Distributor

Michigan [alloy-Light Corporation.
care of
Becker Auto Co.,

Grand Rapids, - - — Mich.

 
  

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Generating plant. is '27 inches long. 14
lllf‘heS wide. 21 inches high. Storage
battery is included in complete outfit.

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ny farm authority. They are unanimous

' to use Solvay Pulverized Limestone. Its extra fine-
ness and extra high percentage of carbonates greatly increases its value
and the resultant 'crop yield. “ . ‘ . ,
We have made big additions to our equipment and are now able to-
promptly take care of your Fall requirements. '
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line in France where four p , near Philadelphia in the presence of President and Mrs. Wilson. to leave for France, has returned on
years of war has made This yard, now capable of launching from three to five vessels per a government mission. He is here

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The machine was completely demol-

ished and we thought that the man

had surely been killed. The aerodrome
ambulance rushed off to the scene of
the accident as fast as it could, but the
man was found calmly sitting on the
Wreck of his machine smoking the in-
evitable cigarette. There was a smile
on his face as he pointed to the
rooster.

"I always did want to see that thing
at close range," he said, “but I did not
want to bring it home with me."

I knew several of the boys at this
school and found that they were learn-
ing to fly R. E. 8’s, a machine that has
the reputation of being very tricky. Its
main fault is that it is hard to keep
from spinning, much to the discomfort
of the budding pilot.

I noticed that though the weather
was bad and cloudy, it being a raw
spring day, there was no let-up in the
work of this aerodrome. Pilots were
then in great demand in France and
training had to go on in almost any
kind of weather.

Venabels, one of the chaps I knew,
had just been transferred from the
squadron I was attached to. He was
now flying an R. E. 8 and seemed quite
proud of his accomplishment.- He was
going to fly one of these machines to-
day, he said, for the special benefit of
the wing commander, and started to
do so.

He left the ground in pretty good
shape and then went straight up. At
about three hundred feet he tried to
turn and then the machine went for a
spinning nose dive. Before its pilot
could right it again it had hit the
ground and immediately burst into
flames. Before we could get to the
man he had been burned to death. Ac-
cidents will happen, of course, but it
made me sick to think about it, for he
was one of my best friends. And I
always hate to see them go that way.

Next morning I got into touch with
my commanding officer and he gave
me orders to go to another factory for
another machine. This time I had a
bus of greater power and made a suc-
cessful trip. After signing the ma-
chine over to the receiving squadron
I reported to my own squadron and
was sent back to the same factory to
deliver another machine. This time I
had a mechanic with me. In the after-
noon we landed at a squadron to fill
our tanks and get some food. After
that we resumed our journey. We had
flown about an hour and a half when
we were overtaken by a rain-storm. It
was getting late and for that reason I
decided to land and come down at Mel-
ton Mowbray, the worldvfamed home of
English pork pies and fox hunting. We
put the machine away for the night
and went to a large farmhouse where
we were received with open arms and
well entertained. The weather being
bad, the next day we went fox hunt-
ing. I put in a pleasant day on a pos-
tage-stamp saddle, and all that night I
was sore and slept hardly at all.

It was very windy next day but de—
spite that I decided to finish the trip.

As we started off I broke a king
post on an aileron, just as I was get-
ting off the ground. I spliced and

,splinted it and made a successful sec-

ond start, reaching my destination at
about three in the afternoon, after a

'very strenuous trip.

CHAPTER XVII.
Air Battles Over the Lines.
PON reporting to the park com-
mander, I found that seven of us,
myself included, had been detail-
ed for overseas duty, which meant

 

France, and that we were to take sev.

‘en machines with us.

I returned to the squadron and on
the following day the seven of us start-
ed. We took with us our mascot, a
fox terrier puppy about six weeks old.
’Pup was wrapped up in mufflers and
fur helmet and, thus equipped, was a
passenger in the wireless box in Ham's
bus.

Though the weather was bad, we
started out, but we had not gone very
far before we realized that we would
have to fly over the tops of the clouds
at an altitude of about 12,000 feet.

It was a splendid sight to see. the
seven machines, six with two men and
one with two men and a dog, dodging
around the big white peaks of the up-
per world.

As we sped along we came to a hole

in the clouds and peeping down I spied '

an aerodrome I knew very well. It
occurred to me that the gang would
like to be taken down there to feed
the pup and fill up with juice and oil.

I went down in a nose dive and the
others followed suit. ‘

We landed, one after the other, took
our supplies and stretched our cramp-
ed limbs, and, after feeding the dog
with milk, started up again. The hole
in the clouds had not closed up mean-
while so we went through it once
more.

We had gone about an hour or so
when I noticed that my pressure valve
was acting queerly. Next the engine
stopped.

I began to use the hand pump to
keep the motor running until I could

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nity to see him in action. He is seen
here reproducing a life-size picture of
the famous Marine Recruiting Poster,
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get to a place where I could see the
ground. But that seemed quite impos-
sible. The speed of the engine was
now so low that I was falling anyway,
so I stopped and dived downward
through thick clouds in a glorious
plunge at about 140 miles an hour.
Then I righted the machine, picked out
a field to land in, and began to pump
again like mad in order to keep »my
engine running until I landed. It had»
had been my intention to fix my motor
and then join the others. I was hard
at work when suddenly I heard above
me the whirr Vof propellers, and, look-
ing up, saw that the other six were
coming down also. The field was none
too large and I swallowed my heart
several times, as they came into land,
but they all got down safely.

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While my mechanician ‘was'btisy on.
the valves, I consulted my maps to
find where we were. I discovered that
we were about ten miles from an aero-
drome and told the boys that they had
better start for it. There was a tall
row of trees on the windward side of

- the field, which we had to “zoom” on

gettingvoff the field, and once more I
swallowed my heart, as they started
off, but no accidents happened. By the
time the last one was on his wings my
engine was running again and I start-
ed after them.

At the aerodrome we had something
to eat and then we started off again,
though it had begun to snow. The fall-
ing snow prevented our seeing very far
and before long only three of us were
together, the other four having disap-
peared. As we neared F— one of_
the boys ,had water trouble and, on
landing, he hit a tree and landed on
the ground in a crash, nearly killing
himself and his mechanician. The oth-
ers arrived safely).

Upon reporting at the “War House"
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Wednesday, August 14.
British troops have gained more
ground in Flanders, while in the sec-
tors between Avre and the Oise only

the artillery is active. The French
take prisoners in a raid in Champagne.

An oil ship is sunk by submarine off
New. York. Seven of the crew are
missmg.

Teuton chiefs meet in cenference at
German headquarters an a peace
drive is to be expected soon.

First United States army with Gen-
eral Pershing retaining command, is
formed to take over a line equal to
that of the French and British.

Thursday, August 15.

The German front between Albert
and Arras appears to be caving in;
the foe is in flight north of Albert.
Foch continues the attack on appar-
ently a sixty-five-mile line. Ribscourt
five and a quarter miles from Noyon
falls into the‘hands of the Allies.

An all-American smash attack is
soon to be expected at some point on
the line held by, the Yanks beyond
Verdun.

Allied and neutral shipping sunk by
U-boats during July amounted to 270,~
000 tons, as compared with 534,839
tons during the same month last year.

Six dead and a score hurt in elec-
trical storm in Pennsylvania. Hun-
dreds of houses in the Wyoming val-
ley were unroofed by the wind.

Friday, August 16.

The French resume the smash at
Noyon near Ribscourt and beat back
the foe line between Matz and Oise.
North of the Somme between Albert
and Arras the enemy continue to fall
back, closely followed by the British
Thus far the Germans have definitely
given up Beaumont-Hamel, Serre,
Bucqoy and Puisieux-au-Mont.

Moscow is now in a state of defense,
and is facing an anti-Teuton revolt,
the Allied troops are moving south
from Archangel and the Bolsheviki
are fleeing before them.

The new man-power bill will call for
about thirteen million men between
the ages of eighteen and forty-five. Of
this number it is expected that about
2,000,000 will be qualified for full mils
itary service. .

Seven hundred and fifty naval re-
cruits leave Detroit for the Great
Lakes Traing School this morning.

Saturday, August 17.

Allies push within one and a quarter
miles of Roye, which is the key to the
foe defense. The entire Picardy front
is menaced as the British cross the
Ancre. Although the Germans have
steadied the lines running through
Roye to Noyon with reinforcements
and innumerable guns, they have again
been forced to give ground and appar-
ently will have to resume their retreat
eastward. '

Germany has commanded Austria to
send ten to fifteen divisions to the
western front.

The new United States war program
calls for 6,050,000 Yankee fighters in
France by July 1. One" hundred new

transports are now being built which}.

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leave and then told to return: north as
ferry pilOts. The work or the ferry
pilot consists of delivering machines
from One part of the country to an-

other, such as .we had been doing for -

a short time.

That was a rude shock to us. We
had bid our friends in the north good-
bye under the impression that we
would immediately go to France, and
now we were to spend more time in
trundling machines from one part of
the country to another. Finally, our
commanding officer gave us a little
dinner to help us get over our disap-
pointment. To make sure that none of
us would grieve any longer from not
being able to go to France he also
took us to a show. The same night,
flatbroke, having enjoyed ourselves,
we caught a train for the northand
arrived at our aerodrome in the morn-
ing, much to the surprise of our
friends. .

Four days later we received orders
to again report at the “War House,"

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are expected to take over 250,000 sol—
diers monthly. ‘

The Traverse City, Leelanau & Man-
istique Railway discontinued opera-
tions due to lack of funds.

Sunday, August 18.

The French made further progress
today north and south of the Avre,
taking one thousand prisoners and nu-
merous machine guns. Further south
they captured Canny-sur-Matz. Twelve
enemy aeroplanes were brought down
yesterday.

Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, Jno.
Burroughs and Edwin N. Hurley are
going to take a vacation together. The
trip planned is a motor trip down the
Shenandoah valley.

One hundred leaders of the I. W. W.
were found guilty in Chicago of anti-
war plotting. Sentence stayed until
next week.

The Japanese army is now with the
Ally unit in Vladivostock.

Monday, August\19.

Gradually the famous Lys salient in
the region west of Armentieres is giv-
ing way under pressure of the British.
Likewise the Germans are being given
no rest by the French-British forces
north and south of the Somme, and
the French and AmeriCans along the
Vesle, and the Americans in Lorraine
are also harrassing them by artillery
fire and local attacks.

“Peace before Christmas” was dis‘
cussed at the Teuton kaiser’s confer:
ence at German headquarters in the
field, and it is expected that a peace
offensive will be launched soon in or—
der to steel the German people to the
horrors of another winter.

The United States Expedition are
rived in Vladivostock this afternoon.

Captive Yanks are being tortured in
German prisons, according to a Teuton
Deserter, who says. men are caged,
chained, bullied and goaded and some
are flogged for the slightest reason.

Detroit mob give Negro a bad beat-
ing to‘avenge stabbing of Private C.
Edward.

Troops fight food rioters in Japan
cities. Thirty thousand in Nagoya are
fired upon by soldiers. Other cities
are reported in disroder.

General Crowder gives ‘mtice that
exemptions from draft will not apply
to Spanish war men.

Tuesday, August 20.

The Germans have been compelled
to give up important positions on three
sectors of the western battle front.
The Allies are smashing ahead from
Ypres to Soissons. Between the Matz
and Oise rivers the French ‘have
fought their way to the' dominating po-
sitions of ‘Lasigny. In the Lys sector
east of Amiens, the enemy has re—
treated over a front. of nearly six
miles, leaving the town of Merville in
the hands of the British.

The board of control of Jackson
prison has named Harry L. Hulburt,
of Detroit, as the new prison‘warden.

The employment service of the Unit-
ed States draws one million ~men from

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which is located in the “Big Smoke."
On arriving there I met an old Yankee
friend of mine and he greeted me with
the remark:

“How do you like the .‘Big Smoke,’
anyway?”

Ever since then I have associated
this name with London.

The man’s name, by the‘way, was
Libby. He is a Texan, and, like my-
self, is fond of adventure. I had been
able once to do Libby a favor. Libby
had made up his mind to fight for the
French, or at least drive a motor truck
for them, but the mechanical examin-
ers were not going to take him. I went
to the commanding officer and told him
that Libby, though he might not know
much about a motor, was sure to learn
quickly, and that I would see to it that
he made himself a useful man.

The commanding officer thought it
over for a long time and finally let 'me
have “Lib." He proved that he was a
clever chap and before long was one
of the best drivers. When we went to
France Libby was one of the company.
We had not been over there long when
he fell ill with pneumonia. The weath-
er there did not seem to agree with us
and “Lib” was sent back to England.

When he recovered he was sent back
to France with a repair unit, and,
when next I met him he told me he
was trying for the Flying Corps. I
had just managed to get my own pa-
pers for the same corps and told Libby
how to go about it. He had action on
his petition very soon and became an
officer on probation in the Flying Corps
shortly after I did. He was sent to a
squadron, and during his period of ob-
servation he and his pilot shot down
ten Huns, for which they each received
the military cross. He was later sent
back to/ England to become a pilot,
went back to France and shot down
ten other Huns. Libby was some fight-
er, as the saying goes, and he was
soon made a captain; I felt proud to
have him for a pal.

At the “War Horse” I was informed
that I had been assigned to a scout
and fighting squadron doing service in
France. I would now have another
opportunity to fight the Huns.

Arriving in France I was given a
machine of the Spad type. I began
to fly the machine to discover its
moods and tricks, and then had it ad-
justed to suit my way of flying. My
first turn of service at the front as a
pilot consisted of patrol work for three
days running. It was an uneventful
start. On the fourth day I went up
again on patrol to 20,000 feet. I was
looking for Huns up there, but found
none. Since it was very cold I decided
to go doWn a way, and shut off my
power.

At the level of 18,000 feet, I found
myself sweeping along a very large
peak of Cloud. Intending to spoil its
pretty formation I dived into it, and,
coming out on the other side, found
myself alongside of a Hun plane of the
Albatross type. I had no intimation at
all that a Hun was present and I guess
he was in the same position. I suppose
he was as much surprised as I was
when he saw me emerging from the
cloud. That he was surprised was in-
dicated by his failure to open fire upon
me after coming alongside of him.
Neither of us could shoot at the other
for the reason that the guns of the ma;
chines we were flying were fixed to
the ,machine so that the machine itself
has to be pointed.

We were so close together that this
could not be done without our ram-
ming one another, which both of us
had to avoid if we, did not wish to
crash to the earth together.

The Hun waved at me and I wave
at him. . . ' '

(Continued next week).

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Caught Ill WOlf Trap---ByLADl)PLUMLEY

'HE Badger Patrol were camping
in Colorado, and Dillingame and
Everett were sent by the scout-

master to investigate Big Gulch Creek
for a new camping place. The trail
forked a couple of miles to the north,
both branches crossing the creek.
“We’ll toss a penny—heads, east; tails,
west! I’ll take heads,” said Everett,
when they arrived at the forks.

Thepenny was tossed and the west
trail fell to Everett.

“When we hit the creek,” said Dil-
lingame, “I’ll go down stream and you
come up. We’ll get a good idea of the
camping places. We ought to meet
late in the afternoon.”

Dillingame made good time, arriving
at the creek about noon, where he ate
his lunch and looked for a camping
place. But here the stream was con-
fined in a gorge and if a desirable
camping place were to be found it
must be sought elsewhere. A half—mile
down stream he found a brook which
was full of trout. There was no camp-
ing place near the main stream, and
he followed up the brook until he came
to a little meadow. Here was an ideal
camping place, plenty of toppings and
fallen timber for fuel and a brook full
of trout. He had just crossed the
further edge of the meadow, when, in
a little swale, where were toppings
left by l'umbermen, there came a great
snap and he was thrown to the ground.
At the same moment he 'felt'a pang of
agony, as the jaws of a wolf trap
closed on his left leg. For a moment
the pain brought a faintness which

Imade the scout hardly conscious of

What had happened. Then he pulled
himself to a sitting position and exam-
ined the injured leg and soon he real-
ized that he was a lucky young fellow.
For in snapping shut the jaws of the
trap had seized a stout spruce branch,
which had happened to be lifted by his
feet, and the branch had prevented the
bone from being crushed. But though
the jaws of the trap were propped par-
tially open, no effort of Dillingame’s
could loosen the grip of the teeth. It
was clear that without the aid of an-
other the leg could not be liberated.

The trap was secured by its chain'

to a stake and the stake was of hard
wood and driven deep into the ground.
At first Dillingame thought of hacking
away the top of the stake with his
knife, and he slashed desperately, until
he happened to break the blade, short
off at the handle.

“Get a grip on your think block!” he
growled. “Even if you hadn’t broken
your knife, you could never out
through three inches of hard maple.
You must dig up another way.”

For some time he sat upon the
ground, hardly knowing where he was.
To be caught in a steel trap and teth-
ered by a chain is enough to daze any-
body’s mind. At length he roused
himself.

“Huh!” he exclaimed. "Matches in
your pocket and you never thought of
And plenty of toppings Within
reach! Fire will make the chain red-
hot. Then I can pull a link open. ”

Quickly he heaped some of the top-
pings together, and after touching a

 

self away to the limit allowed by the
length of the chain. Soon a brisk fire
was burning and it was not long be-
fore the stake was charred almost in
two and the links nearest were redhot.
Seizing the chain Dillingame threw his
weight upon it, and a link opened and
the trap was free.

Big Gulch Creek is more than a
creek. It is a turbulent river, and at
many places ledges rise along the
banks, some of them fifty and more
feet in height. If a careless step were
made, a person might slip fromone of
these ledges into the churning water
below, and there would be every prob-

ability that he would be hurled against
a rock and that death would come
from injury or drowning. Dillingame
believed that his companions would
think that an accident of this kind had
happend, and they would have no
means of knowing he had ascended the
brook. It seemed wise, therefore, to
return to the main stream and there
await a rescue. This proved a difficult
journey, for the trap. was heavy and
little weight could be borne by the in-
jured leg. With a sapling for a staff,
at length the scout accomplished the
painful journey. By this time the sun
had set and the shadows of evening

 

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of the Daily Program in Many Rural Schools.

It is now Part
It is Here Being Demon-

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were falling over the peaceful valley.

“What’s that ?” he exclaimed, gazing
across the stream. His heart almost
stopped beating. Loping along the op-

posite side of the river slipped a shag- ,

gy animal and following their leader
skulked dim forms. They were timber
wolves, which had Scented the injured
boy. He looked wildly about him, hop-
ing‘he would see a pile of drift which
could be used for a fire, but here there
was no drift. He regretted he had left
the meadow, where fuel was plenty,
and almost frantic with terror decided
that he would return at once. But he
must take into account that if he left
the river, and his companions failed to
find him, he might die a lingering
death of starvation or be killed by the
wolves.

Again Dillingame proved his re-
sourcefulness, and without the loss of
a moment he pulled off his ”coat and
removed his flannel shirt. His initials
were on the garment, just below the
collar. He ripped the shirt into strips,
and choosing the portion with the ini-
tials, he tied it on a sapling, where it
would be seen by anyone who came
near. Then, seizing his staff, and with
the remainder of the flannel in his
grasp, he began as rapid retreat as
possible. But before he made a? hun-
dred yards, he tied on another sapling
another portion of the shirt, and at in-
tervals, as he painfully hobbled up the
brook, he tied other bits of the cloth to
saplings, thus leaving a trail back to
the meadow and the fire he had made
that afternoon, which had burned down
to smouldering embers. As soon as the
river was behind him, he heard the
wolves, the howls warning him that

' before long they would be on his trail.

Frantically he heaped toppings up-
on the coals of his fire until the flames
leaped high, then he gathered together
plenty of fuel, sufficient to last through
the night. By this time the injured
leg began to swell, and the pain he.
came so great that at intervals he re-
lapsed into an almost unconscious con—
dition, but he heard the howls of the
wolves, which came nearer and nearer.
There was nomoon and the night
proved black. Perhaps the actual sight
of the brutes, which were kdpt from
an attack only by fear of the flames,
would have been even less harrowing
than the terror, in his intervals of con-
sciousness, and when he heaped fuel
on his fire, that from the blackness
around the red glare a wolf might
make a rush. At length the scout re-
lapsed into complete insensibility, and
he did not come to himself until the
light of dawn. was stealing over the
meadow. The fire had burned low and
the howling (if the wolves had ce'ased.
With a groan of pain, he again relap-
sed into half-consciousness, to be

. brought fully to' his senses by “hearing

shouts and to see the scoutmaster, fol-
lowed by the scouts, racing toward
him.

It took but a few minutes for the
jaws of the trap to be pried apart.
Bandages were improvised, and a half-
hour later Dillingame was quite him-

self and eating a ration of bread and »

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that afternoon CWasTcomfogtable on a

cot. Before three days had passed he
was walking with but little difficulty
and the leg made a quick recovery.

It should be mentioned that it was
found that during the night the wolves
had approached to within a few yards
of the fire. There was a bit of mud
and wolf tracks crossed and recrossed
the mud in every direction.

The scouts have given a title to Dil-
lingame. “T. M. W. D.” is the title,
meaning “Trail Making Wolf Dillin-
game."

 

YOUTH LEADS THE WAY AT OUR
STATE FAIR.

 

(Continued from page 151).
organized and instructed in the use of
tools for the making of «simple farm
and home conveniences. These boys
have learned how to read simple blue
print plans and during the past year
they have constructed several thou-
sand of such useful articles as grain
sack holders, wagon jacks, Ford jacks,
self—feeders for farm animals, garden
cultivators and fireless cookers. The
garden cultivator or the “Michigan
Garden Boy,” as it is called, because
of its state-wide use, not only to the
country boys but to the city gardeners
as well, has been selected as the exer-
cise which teams of handicraft boys
will be called upon to construct in the
boys’ club demonstration work at the
State Fair. ’

These teams, together with their 10-

’ cal leaders, will receive their transpor-

tation to and from Detroit and will
compete for the following prizes:

First. Bronze cup with sterling trim-
mings, to the team. Three $5.00 War
Savings Stamps to each team member.

Second. Two $5.00 War Savings
Stamps to each team member.

Third. One $5.00 War Savings Stamp
to each team member.

Boys and girls from the poultry clubs
will show how to cull flocks of pullets,
as well as laying hens, how to con-
struct simple self-feeders and do other
types of work which boys and girls
must learn if they are to make a suc-
cess with poultry.

These teams will compete for a $50
Liberty Bond as well as for a number
of War Savings Stamps which have
been offered for this work. These War
Savings Stamps will be awarded on a
percentage basis to every boy and girl

cOmpeting. The boy or girl finishing-

with a perfect score will receive one
War Savings Stamp While those scor-
ing only seventy-five per cent will re-
ceive seventy-five per cent of the value
of a War Savings Stamp which will be
given in Thrift Stamps.

These demonstrations will be held
in- the new poultry building which has
just been constructed.

The boys' live stock judging contest
will also be held and teams from the
different calf, sheep and pig clubs of
the state are eligible to enter. This
judging work, however, is not strictly
club work, but will be open to teams of
high school boys or any other boys
who have not as yet received college
training in the judging of live stock.
These teams will not receive their
transportation since the number of
teams which may enter is unlimited.
They will, however, compete for the
following prizes:

Boys Between the Ages of Sixteen and
Eighteen Years.

First Place Team. Two $5.00 War
Savings Stamps to each member.

Second Place Team. One $5.00 War
Savings Stamp to each member.

Third Place Team. One $5.00 War
SavingsStamp to each member:

Boys Between thelAgee of Twelve and
, Fifteen Years.

First Place Team. Two $5.00 War
savings Stamps to each member.

* Second Place Team. A One $5.00 War

' Sayings Stamp, t9. each member.

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Savings Stamp to each member.

A bronze cup~will be awarded the .

boy having the highest individual
score in each class.

The three boys having the highest
individual scores in each class will
each receive one $5.00 War Savings
Stamp. ' ' » '

Should anyone desire further infor-
mation concerning entry in the above
contests, it may be obtained by com-
municating with Secretary-Manager G.
W. Dickinson, 502 Bowles Bldg, De-
troit, Michigan.

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ried.”

“Yassum,” said the former cook. “Ise
done got me a man now."

“Is he a good provider?"

“Yassum. He’s a mighty good per-
vider, but Ise powerful skeered he’s
gwine ter git kotched at it."

WHY BLAME THE PIG?

 

An old farmer and his wife were
standing before their pigsty looking at
their only pig, when the old lady said:
“Say, John, it be our silver wedding
tomorrow. Let's kill the pig?”

John replied with disgust: “What’s
the use of murdering the poor pig for
what happened twenty-five years ago ?"

HAD GOOD CIRCULATION.

 

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SOME SMELLER.

 

An old lady who thinks she knows
everything went to a church sociable.
She was warmly greeted by the young
women:

“Good evening, auntie; we are glad
you'came. We are going to have tab-
leaux this evening.”

“Yes, I know, I know,” was the re-
ply; “I smelt ’em when I first came in.”

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the gentle Red Cross nurses put a
thermometer in his mouth to take his
temperature. Presently when the doc-
tor made his rounds, he said:

“Well, George, how do you feel,"

“I feel right tol’ble, boss.”

Have you had any nourishment?"

“Yassir.”

“What did you have ?”

“A lady done gimme a piece {of glass
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him. ‘

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yesterday and you fought all night,"
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F 1reless Cookers Will Save Your Fuel Supply

By DEBORAH

EW of us were not sufferers from
F lack of fuel last winter, and we in

Michigan, at least, are likely to
have even greater troubles this winter.
It behooves us, then, to save fuel in
every way we can against the time
when we will need it to keep us warm
as well as for cooking. One of the
best ways to conserve is by using a
fireless cooker.

Of course, the ideal situation is
reached when you can afford to buy
one of the newest electric cookers,
with ventilating “system” so that all
odors of coo-king are removed. This is
the only sort of cooker, that is, the

tones with the ventilators, in which you

can cook vegetables satisfactorily, as
vegetables should always be cooked
with the cover loose enough to allow
odors to escape with the steam. The
tight cooker, whether home-made or
bought in the store, does not give good
results. Potatoes cooked in it are sog-
gy and black, and strong flavored vege-
tables, of course, are not appetizing.
But even the home-made fireless

Your 8011'

q T a time when food conservation

is assuming a large part in the

successful prosecution of the
present war it is essential that all sim-
ple measures to save food waste should
be thoroughly understood and should
be used wherever they adapt them-
selves. Not to do this is to show a dis-
tinct lack of patriotism.

One of the ways in which large quan-
tities of perishable products are ren-
dered unfit for human consumption is
through improper methods of home-
storing. Dairy products, meat, fruit,
and others of the more perishable
types of foods must be kept within a
certain range of temperature which
will insure that the molds, bacteria,
yeasts and other organisms which

cause fermentation and spoilage are-

not allowed to grow and multiply. For
it is through their multiplication and
growth that ordinary spoilage is thus
brought about.

This range of temperature is consid-
erably lower than the normal average
summer temperature of the ordinary
home. To bring about the cooling con-
dition necessary for these products to
keep, we are ,in the habit of using
some cooling substance, such as ice or
some form of ammonia system. In
some sections of the country Where
flowing wells and springs abound, a
convenient form of cold water refrig-
erator is arranged. it is not always
possible to have this, however. Neith-
er is‘ it always possible to have ice.

A simple form of iceless refrigerator
is now available to all and is being
used extensviely
where ice is not readily procured. This

"‘Iceless Refrigerator,” as it is called,

depends for its efficiency upon the old
well-known principle that water in

in some sections .

It is well- .

cooker and the older style ones, can
save you many times their cost if you
use them for cooking foods which re-
quire long slow cooking. Tough fowls,
soup meats and boiling pieces may all
be started on the stove and finished
slowly in the cooker with much better
results than a stove would get, for in
the cooker no steam escapes and the
water can not boil away and demand
refilling of the kettle. Oatmeal may
be started in the cooker and left to
cook all night. Most cookers will keep
it hot enough to serve in the morning,
but if they should not it takes only
five or ten minutes to reheat it, and
you know the cereal is cooked suffi-
ciently and without undue waste of‘
heat. Beans may be cooked for several
hours in the cooker, then allowed an
hour in the oven. Some housekeepers
even use a fireless cooker to cook jams
and conserves which they are afraid
of burning on the stove. If you have
one, numerous uses will suggest them-
selves to you. Anything which needs
to be cooked long and slowly, and

Can Make

temperature of the houseand grounds.
This is due, of course, to the fact that
the water, to be evaporated, requires
heat and the heat thus used must come
from the surrounding atmosphere and
objects.

A simple cupboard with four pup-
rights or corner posts, and containing

  

 

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which does not need to be ventilated
as it cooks, may be cooked in the cook-
er. If you are using a home-made
one, be sure that your food is boiling
hot before you put it in the cooker.
Ten minutes is none too long for meat
to boil, and five minutes for cereals.
If you have nothing better, a syrup
pail or. a honey pail with tight fitting
cover will do for a dish to cook in. Of
course, a granite or porcelain pail is
better, as you will need to be very
careful to dry the tin every time it is
used to keep it from rusting. But just
now when we are being asked to use
everything we have in place of buying
new, the syrup pails do nicely. The
idea of the fireless cooker is simply to
keep in the heat. Many women are
using a lard pail as'a fireless cooker.
The pail should be filled with hay or
excelsior, packed tightly, and with a
hole made in the middle just large
enough to hold the dish you use__to
cook the food in. Make a cushion to
fit the top of the can perfectly and
stuff it with hay or excelsior, start

your food cooking, put it in the “nest” D

in the lard pail container, cover snug-
ly with the cushion, put on the pail
cover, and let the food cook itself.

The length of time necessary to cook
the food will depend so largely en the
care you use in making the cooker and
in getting the food started, that it will
be necessary for you to experiment.
The tighter your pillows and covers
fit, the more heat you retain and the
less time will be needed for cooking.
All day is none too long to cook soup
bones, and five or six hours for tough
meat in the home-made cooker. If the
food gets cold it can be taken out, re-
heated and set to cooking again with-
out any harm.

Do not expect these cookers to per-
form miracles. They are a great con-
venience, and a great saver of fuel,
but they are not as satisfactory for
things which require quick, direct heat
as the stove. Neither can you cook
vegetables nicely in them, that is in
the home-made ones, and in the pat-
ented ones having no ventilators.

a Good Refrigerator

four or five shelves, can be construct-
ed of a size so that the ordinary drip-
ping pans available from all hardware
stores will set conveniently in the top
of the posts. The bottom of these
posts can be set into the next larger
size dripping pan. The sides of this
cupboard are then covered with canton

 

flannel, as is also the door. A flap or
wick of flannel is extended up into the
drip pan from the sides and door. “Wa-
ter is then poured into the top drip
pan and the iceless refrigerator is all
ready for use.

The flannel acts as a wick and the
sides of the refrigerator are soon cov—
ered with a film of .water. Should any
of the water drip off the bottom it is
caught by the lower pan. As the water
is evaporated‘into the surrounding at-
mosphere, heat is drawn from the in-
terior of the cupboard. This, of course,
renders the inside of the cupboard
much cooler, While the constant evap-
oration of the water keeps the temper-
ature at this lower level.

The range of cooling will depend :

largely upon the circulation of air
around the cupboard, since this is the
determining factor in the rate of evap-
oration.

This simple iceless cupboard can be.

made easily and costs but very little.

It has already been constructed by a,
large number of boys in Handicraft _

Clubs throughout the state and is giv-
ing successful results. There is no exe

cuse for allowing milk, meats and oth-.

er perishable food stuffs to spoil when
such a refrigerator will assist in keep-
ing them.

The United States Department of Ag-
riculture has proven the value of this
refrigerator in tests and has published
a bulletin /on the making and use of it.-

This bulletin may be obtained free on ‘
application to the Department of Agri-'

culture, Division of Publications, at
Washington, D. C.

SUGAR RATIONS.

 

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'1‘ takes a long. time for the beginner
' with poultry‘to find that it pays to
emphasize quality when purchasing
breeding stock. A pair er a trio of
birds from the best stock that can be
obtained will be a better investment
than twenty or thirty inferior breed-
ers. ‘ This is true whether buying bred-
to-lay or exhibition stock. In the hands
of a careful breeder the opportunity
for increasing a poultry flock is very
great. A trio of fine birds can be bred
carefully and the progeny saved and
thiscontinued for three or four years
and the breeder will have an excellent
flock without a large initial expense.

Of course, the chicks must be culled
frequently during their progress to ma—
turity and every effort must _be made
to develop them into vigorous breed-
ers.
have a flock better than he could hope
to buy without a large expenditure in
money and in addition a large number
of really first-class birds, difficult to
buy at any price.

The‘ beginner likes to see poultry,
and see a lot of them. If he didn't
feel that way about it he would never
work up enough enthusiasm to go into
the poultry business. However, if the
desire to have a quantity of birds can
be conquered and the money available
can be spent for a few of quality, it
Will be a great victory. At this time
when many farmers are urged to in-

crease poultry flocks it will not do to

have them load up with large flocks of
culls. it is quality that counts and the
farmer with good layers and good ex-
hibition birds will enjoy the poultry
business and keep on producing eggs
and poultry meat when others lose in-
terest in the business. If the bred-to-
lay breeders were a dream and quality
exhibition stock were of no increased
value then any old hen might be about
as good as the next. It is possible to
obtain layers of known producing val-
ue, and to produce exhibition birds
that interest buyers and stimulate
them to go into the poultry business.
Exhibition and bred-to-lay qualities are
being combined by careful breeders. A
fine looking hen need not be a slacker
in egg production. A fine producer of
eggs need not look like a scarecrow.
Quality counts in starting a flock of
poultry.
Answer'All Letters Promptly.

When you have a surplus of stock on
hand you can usually sell most of it
by advertising if the stock is pure-bred
and good enough to use as foundation
breeders. -Local advertising will usu—
ally bring buyers to the farm and there
is little correspondence but if a more
extensive advertising campaign is at-
tempted it will mean Writing letters,
and that is a piece of work that many
farmers d1 ead.

PromptneSs is essential to success.
When ‘a prospective buyer answers an
advertisement it means that he is in-
terested at least for the moment and
a prompt anSWer will stimulate that in-
terest. A neglected reply will mean
that the buyer will be apt to deal with
another man or lose all interest and
there will be no transaction.

The reply should contain all the in-
formation required to give the buyer
an accurate idea of the stock for sale.
It should be brief and yet ‘not leave
any doubt in the mind of the buyer.
A typewriter helps with correspond-
ence. It is easier for a farmer to an-
swer letters at night with a machine
than with the pen. At least it is eas-
ier on the eyes and it is much less ef-
fort to punch keys than to form letters
with pen and ink. The machine-made
letter is also easier for. the corres-
pondent to read and there will be no
doubt of the meaning.

When a buyer answers one adver-

'tisement tor poultry he may answer

several others at the same time. A
2;

Then the poultryman will soon‘

 

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Kirby 3 Poultry Notes

prompt reply stands a better chance of
bringing business than one that is tar-
dy. The farmer advertising poultry is
competing for trade with other poul-
trymen and nothing should be over-
looked to honestly obtain a fair share
of the'business. .

Teach Chicks to Roost.

One advantage of a. colony house is
the chance that it gives for the young
stock to roost without going into the
laying houses with old birds. Chicks
raised in brood coops often continue
to spend the night crowded on the floor
of the small coops long after they
should have been roosting.

A colony house can be moved near
the brood coops and the small coops
removed and it will be easy to teach
the chicks to use the larger house.
Portable roosts can be installed in the
colony house and in a short time the
young birds can be taught to use the
roosts. This will reduce the dangers

 

Oust This One

 

 

 

 

When you find a hen like this, that
measures only two fingers between the
pelvic bones and the extreme poste-
rior point of the breast bone, you can
be certain that she will not become a
profitable layer. Better sort out such
fowls and let them go to market as
soon as they will market fit for the
poultry butcher. This will save ex-
pensive feeds for the hens that do the
work.

 

from lice and mites and prevent over-
crowding and thus help to eliminate
colds from the flock.

It requires some patience to teach
certain birds to roost but they should
be handled gently and not frightened.
It is best not to try and catch the
chicks huddled in corners until after
dark, as then they can be carefully
picked up and placed side by side on
the roosts without undue disturbance.
When chicks have learned to roost
they are safe from many of the trou-
bles that cause losses among the young
stock. When stove brooders are used
it is easier to teach the chicks to
roost. Often when the brooders are
removed and roosts placed in the
house, a large part of the birds will in-
stinctively take to the roosts at night
without any teaching.

POULTRY NOTES.

 

The fowls and eggs from a pure-bred
flock of hens will Bring more money
on account of their uniformity.

One of our most conservative poul-
trymen says that if all farmers would
keep pure-bred poultry, the business
would be doubled in a few years and
that we would still be getting good
prices for our'products.

Many pe0ple are getting tired of eat-
ing pork and old dairy cows, and are
becoming eaters of chicken, mutton
and veal. thus increasing the possibil-
ities of the sheep-and-poultry business.

When poultry can eat and thrive onn
all kinds of food and produce good re-
sults. it is very good evidence that

they are constitutionally strong.

12’ MICHIGAN FARMER

    

Do YOU Want a Man of
BRAINS

 

 

ACTION
Do YOU Want-—

Do YOU Want—-
' A man with

Then Vote for

 

What Kind of a Man
Do You Want in the
._. United States Senate?

EXPERIENCE
GOODJUDGMENT

A man who will stand for the PROTECTION
of the American farmer—tho American work-
ingmnn—the American business man?

for PREPAREDNESS and who stands today
for the most unqualified ‘AMERICANISM?

a splendid record—who stood

 

TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY

 

At the Republican Primary Next Tuesday

 

 

Mllehcd b1! mun-y

fl. $31.” 70.2071. General Chairman
LLng. Executive Chairman

 

 

 

NEWBERRY for

UNITED STATES SENATE

Senator-ml Comma

 

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TRACTOR

FORSALE

Moline Universal, Model “C”. Almost
new. Used only on 40 acres this spring.

GEO. S. ' BIGELOW, ’
Breedsville, Michigan

FLEECE
.WOOL

Will buy wool outright or handle on
commission. We are authorized Gov-
ernments Wool Agents. If you have
any fleece wool write us, giving full
particulars. .

TRAUGOTT SCHMIDT & sens,

Tolopono Main 4880. [136-184 Monroe Av...
Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

 

POULTRY
Barron English 240 ling Slraln.fl

White Leghorns heavy winter layers. Large size and
very stron and hardy. Bred to shell out 92 and do
T. Beet aye laying in winter 500pullete e on
Jan. 24th Can common eghorn do as well.
and trapnested ten years. Order NOW breeding stock
at our special summer pric all!) choice pallets 81.50
each.1000 selected yearlinge bone at 81.26 each 9
cord in pullet year 01'200 and over and]
looted breeding ckls. frome mm on demo at Slse- 25
each order now your tk‘s. for Sept. delivery. Write
us your want NOWa nd send for cognate!

E8 LEGHURN FARMS it HeATOHERY
Box 222 A. Zeel.and Mich

MEREEDIWEG CGCK’EREES
Would ttight) aorderlng‘:3mii.lrly. morgrefignfi'fimnw us
your wants. Sunnybrm-k Poultry Farms. Elli-dale. ma.

LEGHORNB. 500th he «I to I»
B (0:1.60 each. this 3° 1:51:11“ 000

 

 

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HOMESTEAD FARMS

A Federation of Interest:
200 Yearling White Leghorn Hensfi

These are bone of good size and strong layer- T1:

are being sold in pans of 6.12 and 24. Also atew twg
yeuolde. If )ou want first class White Leghorn lay.
fighwe shall be pleased to quote you prices on these

40 Five Months White Leghorn Pullets

A fine lot ofy “

in October ’ou" P“ 0“ that should begin lay“.
Also a few miles-.1! 0. Bed Wh '
0,3 kNYLnorcas Ll 5' I ite Rocks; and '

Young Cockerels

A._-~ number of cockerela: Bull and White Rocks; 11.0.
look Minorcae: Anconaa; B. . and R. 0.

hits Leghornsfi .0. Brown Leghorns.
It will be profitable to buy our next year' a cock bird.
from this young stock. you want to buy now,

please write to us.

”LOOMINGDALE ASSpCIATION,‘ ,
bomingdale, Mich.

—IGGB FROM STRAIN l
finned Rocks records t0290 eggs o your: ”Wu:
end by lpnrcel poet. prepaid. Circular free.
- . onstentlne. Mich.

Dollv
"ED AVSTLING

 

 

  
 
 

  

A real heavy layin strain trapnestcd l
years. record: item to 264 c Get
our apecinl summer prices on yearling hem.
" breeding males eggs for hatching. 8-week-
old pallet. and dg old chicks. We ship C O. D. and
gun-woe results. dialog give. onceu describe; stock; tel
all about our lor- aod methods; results you can get by breed-
“ the cumin. Send '0! your copy now—n to tree.

GEORGE 3. mm M Union, Grand Rom“

   
    
 
 

  
   
   
   
    

 

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Fowlers Buff Rocks “£3155 $33
[023); $1.50t0c50; 8800ior100
..B POW EL! . Kenton. Mich.

 

' ~ White Orplngton lreateat e ro-
Plne creSt ducers—hens on‘d cum: silencing)
now for next winter. Mrs VMLLIS OUG .

Pine Crest. Royal Oak‘

Rhcoode Island? Reds

No stock for sale until December.

Both
INTERLmAKESI FARM. Box 39. Lawrence. Mich.

Br. Leghorn cockerels $1.00 each
Rose combf best lines in America.
White Pekin IDucks $1.310 each

rH.DOLAU men‘s,

S C Brown mLea§%m'on:flentnla2y5elg. kEggs l
RI efll'l
FLOYD enonnal’rso'n an‘l, endexing'togflgfieiéi

°SILVER. Golden and White Wyandottesgcod breed
in. stock n’tor Oct. let, fine lot of cockerels 83 to
O.W .lBrowning, R. 2. Portland. Mic.

Wthe Wyandotte e no for bombings also babyoohloh
out of RAchoice stoc :tsend or 31 Bio roul or.
RAY. 700 Yuilcntl. Ilehll-n.

 

Hillsdale. Mich.

 

 

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An Endorsement of Truman H. NeWberrv
tor Unlted States Senator from Men

Prominently ldehtltled with the Berli-
cultural Interests of Michigan

ELIEVING as We do that Michigan should elect this fall a United States Senator
who is, and has been, interested in and conversant with public ail'airs; a man
of sound judgment, and continuity of purpose it a man whose one hundred per

cent patriotism cannot be questioned; and a man w

0 has given suflicient study and

thought to the matter of national and international policies to enable him to determine
for himself where he stands and what he stands for: and believing that Truman H.
Nervberry, of Detroit, conforms to this standard, we endorse his candidacy and agree
to support him at the primaries and at the election. °

N. P. HULL, Ex-Master State Grange and
President, Grange Life Insurance Company.
Lansing.

JASON WOODMAN, Grange Lecturer; Mem-
ber State Board of Agriculture, Paw Paw.

JAMES N. McBRIDE, State Market Director,
Burton.

'1‘. F. MARSTON, Secretary North-Eastern
IMichigan Development Bureau, Bay City.

THOMAS READ, State Representative, Shelby.

CHARLES B. SCULLY, State Senator, Almont,
and President of State Farmers’ Clubs.

ALFRED ALLEN, Secretary State Fairs Com-
mission, Mason.

H. E. POWELL, General Field Lecturer, State
Grange, Ionia.

FRANK COWARD, Treasurer, State Grange,
Bronson.

C. H. BRANIBLE, Overseer, Michigan State
Grange, Tecumseh.

A. L. CHANDLER, Corunna.

ROBERT D. GRAHAM, Member State Board
of Agriculture, Grand Rapids.

THOMAS H. McNAUGHTON, Ex-State Sena-
tor, General Field LecturergMichigan State
Grange, Ada.

FRED L. DEAN, Sheridan.

C. F. HAINLINE, Vice-President, State Milk
Producers’ Association, Alma.

COMFORT A. TYLER, Goldwater.

HORATIO S. EARLE, Detroit, father of Good
Roads.

COLON P. CAMPBELL, Ex-Speaker, House of
Representatives, Grand Rapids.

C. HUNSBERGER, Director, Michigan Expedi-
tion Association, Grand Rapids.

C. S. BARTLETT, General Field Lecturer,
Michigan State Grange, Pontiac.

HON. ANDREW CAMPBELL, Ann Arbor.

CHARLES SALEWSKI, Member Board of Con-
trol, State Prison in the Upper Peninsula,
Ingalls.

DAVID WALKINSHAW, Marshall.

JACOB F. HARTSIG, Warren.

C. H. JOBSE, Mt. Clemens.

CHARLES H. WHITTUM, Eaton Rapids.

J. GILMAN, Eaton Rapids.

FRED H. KINGSTING, Monroe.

A. T. BORDINE, Dundee.

H. E. RISING, Hastings.

ARTHUR L. CRIDLER, Hastings.

GEORGE E. WALKER, Richland.

ROLAND MORRILL, Farmers’ Institute Lec-
turer, Benton Harbor.

ROBERT SHERWOOD, Benton Harbor.

SILAS MUNSELL, Howell.

HORACE W. NORTON, Howell.

JOHN RAUCHOLTZ, Former Chairman Board
of Supervisors, Saginaw.

JACOB DEGUSS, Manager, Prairie Farm and
Member Executive Committee, Michigan
Live Stock Association, Saginaw.

JOHN H. DODDS, President, Lapeer County
Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Lapeer.

GEORGE HARVEY, Lum, Lapeer County.

GRANT H. SMITH, Supervisor, Lexington.
ALVARADO HAYWOOD, Supervisor, Brown
City.
ARTHUR M. SMITH, President State Potato
3’ Association, Lake City.

JANIES ENGLISH, Former Superintendent-
Blodgett Farms, Lucas.

R. C. REED, President, Michigan Milk Pro-
ducers' Association, Howell.

JOHN R. WYLIE, Shelby.

CHAS. S. BINGHAM, Bresident, State Horti-
cultural Society, Franklyn.

ROBERT W. MALCOLM, President, Farmers'
Monitor Insurance Company, Commerce.

EDWARD ROGERS, Clay Banks, Oceana Co

ROBERT BARNEY, President, Grand Traverse
Region Fair Association, Traverse City.

GEORGE W. ARNOLD, Master Grange, Wil-
liamsburg, Grand Traverse County.

WILLIAM D. WRIGHT, Petoskey.

EDWIN ROBBINS, President, Hillsdalo County
Agricultural Society, Pittsford.

F. S. FOOTE, Member Executive Committee,
Saginaw Grange, and Editor Saginaw Valley
Farmer, Saginaw.

E. J. SMITH, Cheboygan.

FRANK FORD, Cheboygan.

FRANK B. KENNEDY, Quincy.

JUDSON W. BROWN, Coldwater.

CARL LOWERY, Berlin Township, Tonia 001"

F. H. VANDENBOOM, Marquette.

W. S. EWING, Representative, State Legisla-
ture, Marquette.

JOHN HUNT, Verona, Huron County.

FRANK KINCH, Port Austin.

WILLIAM STEIN, Windsor Township, Huron
County.

GUY w. SLACK, Director, Western Michigan
Development Bureau, Cadillac.

E. M. SHEERBURNE, Supervisor Antioch
Township, Wexford County.

WILLIAM H. KLINE, Supervisor, Fruitport,
Muskegon County.

MacDONALD RESIDE, Supervisor, Dalton
Township, Muskegon County.

WILLIAM HARRISON, Constantine.
JOHN H. F RISBIE Leonidas, St. Joseph Co.

ARLIE L. HOPKINS, State Representative,
Bear Lake, Manistee County.

JOHN BRADFORD, State Good Roads In-
structor, Arcadia, Manistee County.

CLAYTON J. THOMAS, Owosso.

AMOS PARMENTER, Durand.

ALBERT SEIBERT, St. Johns. -

JOHN WILEY, Blissfield, Lenawee County.

THOMAS KNIGHT, St. Johns.

JEDDE. BLAKE, Ex—Superintendent,1VIichigan
State Prison Farms, Jackson.

WILLIAM A. REED, President Jackson County
Agricultural Society, Hanover.

WILLIAM H. NASH, Manager Gladwin
Countsr Farmers’ Shipping Association.
FRANK LEONARD, Ex-County Treasurer

Gladwin Co.
JOHN T. RORICK, Seneca, Lenawee County.

 
 

 

 

 

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merchant of my acquaintance
remarked to me that he was

I ‘ glad he wasn’t a farmer. But as yet I
haven’t heard any farmer say that he" ‘
was sorry that he was a farmer. Farm- '

ers expect such things to happen, and

- they are used to it.

This merchant went on to explain
that while s‘ome farmers had met With
serious losses in certain localities, it
would not affect his business mate-
rially because it never had. If a farmer
loses a. crop by frosts, hail, flood or

something of that sort, it makes him-

"hard- -up” for a year or two, but he
works out of it. Sometimes he has to
run in debt to pay current expenses
until he gets a new crop. Merchants
are usually pretty good in carrying the
farmers because of these misfortunes
and so they trade just the same.

A loss like the frost of last
June really doesn’t atfect the supply
of food enough to make any mate-
rial difference ln the price. There al-
ways has been such a good reserve of
food in this, country that losses like
this were practically unnoticed by the
consumer. Thepublic simply draws
upon the reserve food supply when
necessary to take the place of the
farmers’ loss. Therefore, this man
would rather be a merchant than a.
farmer because a. farmer might be put
out of business id'a. night, practically,
and it wouldn’t affect the merchant
at all. _

I argued with him that this had al-
ways been the condition but that it
might not be that' now, and it was
quite apt not to be the situation in the

future. It is possible that we may be »

unable to accumulate a reserve of food
sufficient so that losses like this could
be tided _over without affecting, not
only the merchant and every other
business man but the consumer as
well. We have never had a shortage
of food in this country. We have al-
ways had a splendid reserve laid up to
draw upon in the time of need and we
have had really very little need of any
reserve because our usual annual pro-

duction has been more than sufficient

to supply the people with food. But
this great war is changing our food
conditions here in this country with
the condition of the old world. Our
food reserves are getting dangerously
low. For instance, take wheat, it is
so low‘at the present time that we can-
not get what wheat flour we need or
would like to have; it isn’t here;

there is no wheat in the country and'

this year’s crop is all spoken for. Our
food administrator has practically con-
tracted all of it and we have got to
scrimp on wheat flour for the coming
year. When a country gets into that
condition then a poor crop year brings
about a condition that does not place
the merchant in a class safer than the
farmer or the consumer. When the
reserve of any food is used up and
there is a shortage of that food, this
brings about a famine and a. famine
affects all concerned; it always affects
the farmer 1935 than anybody else be-
cause the farmer is bound to get

enough to eat whether anybody else'v

does or not. And so it may be that
this world war is bringing about con-
ditions so much different than we have
ever had before in this country, that
the merchant’s argument of being in a.
safe business is no longer true.

COLON C. LILLIE.

‘1

It’s a wise young man who, feeling
,that he needs culture makes plans to

attend an agricultural college.

 

The federal government is request-

- ing farmers who raise turkeys to hold

them until maturity, dealers have been

requested to refrain from purchasing

the immature birds, and hotel afi

restaurants haveb ' , I
Wills

FTER a recent local frost, a.

      
    
  
 

 

 

  


  

 

 

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CATTLE.

Wildwood Farms

Breeders of Best Strains of

Aberdeen Angus Cattle
and lluroc Jersey [logs

Several young bull calves on hand. three of which
are of serviceable age. out of Black Monarch III
three times Grand Champion. Michigan State
Fair. Also several AI Brood sows. Will be glad

to correspond with you by letter regarding ,

.stock. Write
' SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.
Wildwood Farms, Orion, Michigan‘
W. E. SCRIPPS, Proprietor.

WOOD COTE ANGUS

-ERI AS & BLACKBIRDS BLACKCAPS)
gnnng'Al‘Nhe mogt fashianable atrainsgof ti}; grog.
81995- V -

01:0“(3 givlin'T‘TimaPU P.8lll1E Breeders and 99d.
ers of man INTERNATIONAL WINN . _
woopcorii:I STOCK FARM IonIa. Mich.

Go d ualit bulls of serviceable
Slowly Angus agec’anu you 11,83!- Inspectioninvit-
Geo. Hathaway and Mich.

GUERNSEYS must redhce herd soofler

a few choice females of

Glenwood breedirg alsogiills, all stock of A B. breed-
t t

THVTthTIme-cu m :3! Battle Creek. Mieb.

Registered Guernseys

Two choice heifer calves. 8300 One bull calf with
aboveS'lf); this bull calfis no relation to heifer calves.
J. M. WILLI North Adams. Mich.

 

 

' 45 Re istered head. all tb. tested. Nora' s
.l.m3.y3M oing, son of Imp. May Rose King
headsour herd. his half sisters sold averagingt $1960

each. His bull calves are booked ah head at reasonable

 

prices Avondale Stock Farm. Wayne. Mich.
Registered Guernsey bull cal-

! or 86 '6 you May Rose breedin

JOHN EBELS. R. 2. Hollan. Mich.

 

GUERNSEYS‘ REGISTERED
BU LL CALVES
Co ntai anin blood of world champion;
HICKS‘ GUERN BY FARM. Saginaw. W.S .MIch

accepted in syment of finely bred reg-
‘ no“! Hill! istered Holgtein bull cal vee. uality

of the heist. and at prices within reach of all. rite.
GIO- D. CLARKE. - - Vassar, Mich.

 

I Always Have Holsteins
To Sell

If wanting Registered cattle write me your wants
before placing your order elsewhere.

L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio
Jack Bill

Winn--Wood Herd

Registered Holsteins
Sire in Service
Flint Maplecrest Boy

Who is bred for real (production his sire Maplecrest
Korndyke Hengervel Is one of the best bred long dis-
fence bulls in the world. He or his dam are brother
or sister to six cows with records above 1. 200lbs. of
butter infone year and ten more abovel. 000 lbs in a

ear. Flint Maplecrest Boys' Dam is Gluck Vassar Bell
g0. 57 lbs. of butter in 7 day. 121 lbs. in 30 da a. Butter
fatitest 5. 27 Isithere a reason why Flint aplecrest
Boy Is not one of Michigans greatest young sires.
None of his females are for sale until after we test
them. But weR have 10 of his bull calves from 2 to 9 months
old. with A.R dams which we nowllofl'er for sale
at prices any dairy farmer can afford to pay. Just tell
us the klnd of a bull you want.

JOHN H. WINN, lnc.
Lock Box 249. Roacommon, Mich.

HOMESTEAD FARMS

A Federation of interests
Helstcins: From a herd of 50 Holeteins headed by the
Bull King Zerma Alcartra Pontiac. son of King Seg-
is Pontiac Alcarta. the 850 000 Bull, we oiler a num-
ber of bred cows and heifers. younger heifers and_ cal-

vee. and Ioung bulls.
One particularly high class young bull now ready

for service.
If you want Holsteins of any class. will vou please
write to us for descriptions and photographs?

I i al guaranteed
nfgoan'lliichALE FARMS, Bloomingdale. men.

Big' In eeize--bi I nmilk and butter roductiSon,
.. 6LSTE’IN
Bred

are the best dual kpur'poae cattle to bSuy.
_ 5 Ask or details—records

--convincing proofs today.

 

The Holetein-Friesian Asso-
ciation of America, Box 164,
Brattleboro, Vt.

 

 

OAK Loaf Farm. Herd sire Lenawse Pontiac Cal-
amity King ofler dRegistered Holstein bull calves
LB. 0. cows and the above sire whose dam holds
the l”milk and butter record in the state of lnd.
days milk 796.3. butter 32. 51—315 days milk 23782.3. but-

ter M775.
E. H. GEARHART & 80151.3. 4. Marcellus, Mich.

CLUNY STOCK FARM

IwnREGISTERED ROWING-400
When you need a herd sire remember that we
have one of the best herds in Michigan. kept un-
der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual
over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin We
have size. quality. and roduction records beck-
edbythe‘ ebsststrains o breeding.

Write or wants.
'naaucs muufiilgon, Howell, Mich.

 

 

7%». -‘ :1 “\Puham' ‘ PedigreeStockFarm cler-

sumu ......

For

9 Granddaughters of Sprin

Gran dam ......................... .. ........

Registered ‘Holsteins

Farm King Pontiac 6th from A. R. O. Dams

up to 20 lbs. Bio 13 mont sold. ..... . ...... From $100 to $150
5 Extra good Granddaughters of King of the Pontiacs, from 9 to 14 months
old ................................................................... .. .............. .. $800 for all

1 Daughter of Spring Farm King Pontiac 6th. Four months old. ........$150

3 Two year-old Granddaughters of Spring Farm King Pontiac 6th
................... ...... . ............................ From $150 to $200

1 Extra Fine 3- -year- -old son of King of the Pontiacs; 27- lb. Dam; 29- lb.
................. $800

1 Son of Aristocrat Pontiac from a 22. 50 1b. 2- year- -old ..... . .................. $400

GEO. S. BIGELOW, BREEDSVILLE, MICHIGAN.

     

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“Top-Notch”

'HOLSTEIN S

The young bulls we have for sale are
backed up by many generations of
large producers. Buy one of these
bulls, and give your herd a “push”.
Full descriptions, prices, etc. on request.
McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.
$50 32:?“ 5303.11??? &?1931}53?§3.T?nn.?3§3 2‘6

randsire of 42 lb. 4 yr.L Herd free tuber. Apr. adv for
emales. Terms. M L.McLaulin. Redford. Mich.

TlIe Pontiac Herd

“Where the Champions come from”

Ofl'erBull Calves sired by sons of Pontiac Korndyke.
Hengerveld DeKol. Pontiac Dutchlanmor Admiral
Walker Pietertie.

Do you want a. Pontiac in your herd?

Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac. Mich.

The Traverse Herd

This is the chance you have been looking for.
will sell a few. goodA R.0 cons One with 27 18W in
7 and 110. 85 in 30 da: s. Three others above 24ibs. Come
and see them or write for descriptions and prices but
hurry for they will go Quli' kly. lso a few bull cul-
ves for sale. the kind you will be proud to own. Pedi-
rees and prices on up licszl_tri(AIn_.r Still-elm eP (ilesired
TRAVERSE crr TAL
Traverse City, Michigan.P

Want Yearly Records?

Our new sire has four sisters whose semi-official
records are 677. 742. 913 and 946 pounds of butter in
one year respectiIcly at 2 to 3 years of age. His dam
is a daughter of Friend Hengerveld De Kol Butter
Boy. four of whose daughters have records over 1000
pounds and she is also a granddaughter of Pontiac
AIIggie Korndyke. with six daughters above 1000
pounds of butter in one year.

Peaceland Stock Farm, Three Rivers, Mich.

C. L. Brody. Owner Port Huron.Mlch.
Charles Peters. Herdsman

Only 3 Cows Left

and two six months old bull calves. $50. 00 check. or
Liberty Bond ives you your choice of either calf.
MARTIN MOO - Brunswick Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

OLBTEINS of
records h Ygh as
A.H

uality Bullcslves from dams with
1 lbs. in 7 days. Also collie pu ies.
Rochester, ich.

' Ives ifiheifers. d2 bulls15-16ths ure
HOISteln gaweok ks old. beautiful]

y marks $25

each. crated for shifinent anywhere. Buy only the best.

EDGEWOODF Whitewater, Wle.

olsteius: Bull calf born Oct. 6. A nice individual

well grown in good condition. His seven nearest

dams average butter 7davs2’i36lhs. milk 5331bs. Dams

record 18 lbs at 2 56 yrs. W.B.Reader. Howell. Mich.
h ll if 6

$100 Bsgisimd Holsiein :23. in???» 303%?‘239233

ing. a] our ear old cow soon fresh.
RIVERVIEW AR - Vassar. Mich.

a la Lane R. of M. Jersey Herd. For sale one
our-year-old cow also bull calves and heifer
calves sired th‘V frandson of the Pogis 99th of Hood
Farm. R. 3. Allegan. Mich.

 

 

 

THE Wildwood Jersey Farm oil'ers for sale choice
bull calves for fall service from R of daughters
of Majesty' s Wonder by Majesty' 3 Oxford Fox Herd
tuberculine tested. When looking for a sire to head our
hard, get a Majesty. Alvin Baldwin. Capac. ich.

Callie

owell Mich

 

For Sale Registered Jersey

A: Parker. R 4

of both sex. Smlt

    

     

Sired bi butter bred bulls and
out of igh testing dams.

The Producing Kind

with Jersey type andl capacity.

 

 
    
    
 
   

Prices reasonable. Also a few
bred gilts (Durccs) and boars.
Brookwater Farm.

     
   

Herbert W.Mumford. Owner.
J Bruce Henderson. M .
Ann Arbor, Mich.

    

l-Hlllslde Farm Jerseys, ofler bilyearli bulls. backed
Roy a! M aiesty first Iii-Ho's“ uno bid-T‘imiifl'lg’fii‘og;
State Palaceod individuals. It 0.Dooxo.mruns.sl ch

 

The Belding Land It Improvement Co.
For sale oilers for sale a nice bunch of female Jer-

seys. thoroughbreds. Calves. yearlings and two year
olds also 1 6-mos. old young bull. dress
I’- Betherington. Agt. Belding. Mich.

 

ERSEY bull and bull calves for sale from R. of M,
cows. also heifers and cows of all ages.
0. B. WERNER. Allezan, Mich.

Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Several heifers bred
to freshen next fall. Also a few heifer and bull cal-
ves of choice breeding. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.

Ten Jersey Heifers 51“.,” .3215. PM" 5600‘“) f”

NOTTEN FARM, - - - (irass Lake. Mich.

Bob Fairfax 494027 at head
Herefo rds of h.erd 14 bul “EAOHITHC?

all ages either polled or horned.
McCARTY. 860' y Mich. B.'Ass n. Bad Axe. Mich.

Herefords Polled and Horned blood lines

embrace Fairfax. Pulled Per-
faction CnLd Pri me Lad 9th breeding. Prices reas nable.
GA RDNFR Hudson. Mich

 

 

 

 

 

HEREFORDS

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

ALLEN BROS.,
PAW PAW, MlCH.

—Scotch and Scotch Topped ani-
Shorthorns lblfllfl of both sex for sale. Pxices
reasonable. GEO. .DOST Eli Dostei. Mich.

BlDWELf snumnunns

For Beef and Milk.

Registered bulls cows and heifers-Good Scotch and
Scotth- Topped for sale In prime condition. Modern
sanitary equipment. Farm 10 minutes from N.
depot. l hour from Toledo. Ohio. Automobile meets
all trains. Write

BlDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box B. Tecumseh. Mich.

Richland Farms

Shorthorns

IMP. Lorne in Service. Grand Champion Shorthorn
Bull of Mich. Weoil'er for sale a choice collection of
young bulls by some of the leading sires of the breed.
You cannot afford not to own one of these bulls at the
prices we are asking for them. We invite correspond-
ence and inspection.
0. H. PRESCOTT a SONS.

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

 

 

 

 

Francisco Farm Shorthorns

We maintain one of Michigan's good herds of Scotch
and Scotch Topped cattle. The are well bred prop-
erly handled and price reasonab 0. Come and see; we

like to show them.
P. P. POPE, - - - - Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

lho lieni (in. Shorihsrn lrssdm lmciaiion

are offering. some choice animals at reasonable

prices. \‘V rite your wants.
LEONARD Sec. ., Caledonia, Mich.
of best Bates Strains. young

llall'vbml Shill'lllililfl stock of both sexes for sale.
B. HUMMEL - - Mason. Mich.

SHORTHORNS

Cows. heifersdryou pg bulls ior sale at farmers prices:
herd catalog mailed ee. Horrieton Farms. Hart. Mich.

Shorthom Cattle oi bollI Sex ior Sale
W. W. KN NAPP. Howell. Michigan.
Sh th f 1
For sale chtlch gllalpeTi d3£gni(lgnt§thA¥cg(zlg
Hope, Avondale. Maxwa ton Sulton and White Hall

Sulton bv the Oscola Co. Shorthoru Bread 1'
JOHN SCHMIDT. Sec. Reed City? idiAch.

herd bull. A roan b the t A dz
Shorthorn for sale. For partizzularsglfrnite von ”6'
H. B. PETERS. - - - Garland. IVlich.

 

 

 

 

 

Seven Scotch and Scot h T
Shorthom for sale. Price reasonable opped bulls
W. B. McQUILLAN, R. 7. Howell. Mich.

RCd Bull Calf heireޡsgo.2Ԥe_ also two

J. E. TANSWELL. - ason, Mich.

 

 

 

74-165
DUROG JERSEYS

3.0 .MYDENBE - - Wayland. Mich.

Choice Dunc lsmy Ellis “For Sale.
CAREY U. EDMONDS. - - Has ti.ngs Mich.

FOR Sale Reg. Duroo Jersey Swine Bows bred for
Aug. & Oct farrow. Service boars. and open gilts
Big bone high back long kind. come and see or write
Em. edi ree andflrLices. satisfaction guarante

 

U DERHI - Salem. Mich.

 

n ersey 's—-Fall boars of the large heavy boned
"703 type. Giltw bred to Junior Chain ion boar for

June furrow, also Spring pi pairs note in.
1"..J D'RODI‘. RT“ Monroe. Mich.
DUI’O Jerseys for sale Bred sows dz spring pigs both
C sex also Shorthorn bull calves. milk ng strain.
CHAS. BRAY, - - kemos, Mich.
° spring pigs either sex.
Chester Whltes! can furnish afew pairs or

tries not akin from strictly big type mature stock at
reasonable paII es. .Alexander. Vassar, Mich.

Crandell’s Big Type O. l. C’s

Champion herd eIerywhere shown in 1917. Herd
headed by five champion boars. Our sows won
Senior. Junior and (trand Champion prizes at
Illinois. Missouri. Ohio and Michigan 1917
Special prices on all spring pigs. Get our cata-

log it is free.
Crandell’e Prize Hogs, Case City, Mich.

 

 

 

AST fall gilts all sold. have a good lot g‘f last spring
Lpige from 3 sires good growthy stock. arm is mile
west of 0degotU CiLtizzens Phone]

OT Nashville. Mich.

 

Like This

the original big producers-

 

HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to

success. I can help you. I want to place one hog from

my great herd in every community where am not already rspy

resented h these fine early developers—ready for market tta afi-
ol Write orpmy lan— More Money from Hon.

9. 8.BBEN1AMINf 3,115 1110. Portland, Michigan

 

 

 

BRED GILTS and
SERVICEABLE BOARS
C- J. CARL szs'rr, an, Mich.

0. l. C. & Chester White Swine

Strictly Big Type with QUALITY. Have a few spring
pigs eitlIeI sex for sale. They are of the right stump.
good enough to be shiped O. .D.

NEWMAN S STOCK FARM. 3.1. Mariette. Mich.

0...’l08

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Big type serviceable boars. Spring fan
rowed Pb‘AaNl pigs. Bred gilts to furrow July

 

and Aug. Dl tEWS. Dansville. Mich.
Bred gilts and spring pigs of Mar. and
For sale April furrow. Isl) hip O

F.C. BURGESS R. 3. Mason. Mich.
a few choice Apr. and Mayfpigs

,
0' l‘ C' 8 either sex and4 reg. Holstein hei ere
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM Monroe. Mich.
all sold except some fall gllts.

o. I. c s 0....
your spring pigs 110W.
0. J. THOMPSON Rockford. Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND BHINAS

Bred Gilts and Spring Piqs. One extra
well bred Holstein Bull Calf.
HILLCREST FARM,

KALAMAZOO, MlCH.

A 500 lb. Gilt just one. We sold Smooth

Jumbo to head Model Farm
herd. Lansing. Mich. watch his smoke. This gilt
is bred to him for Aug. farrow “Liberty Bell" is
the best gilt in Michigan you can buy her for just

SIOO. Bell phone.
J C. BUT LICK. . - - Portland. Mich.
Large Type P. C.
Bred gilts and boars all sold nothing to char at present.
W. E. LIVINGSTON. Perms. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

all sold out. exIept the lar est
1-“ S' P’ C. gilt raised last year, bred for dine
furrow. 51.0.8 ARTZ. Shoolcraft. Mich.

 

Blig type P. C. Big boned follows fron Iowan greatest
herds special p l(‘ es nns ring boars and ( llOl(t‘ bred

gi m; ATHE SON. Burr Oak. MIch.

 

Spring pigs for sale.
From large litters. Prices
Byron. Mich

I ARGE Type P. 0. Just' 0 choice summer gilts bred
J for Jlll\ and August fairow. Come and see them
.HAGELSBAW. - - . Augusta. Mich.

Poland China Swine °f a“

f l “‘88
or as e.
R. W M1! L8 . ~ Saline. Mich.

Big type P. 0. spring pigs of the best producers In the
west pricedE for Ju Aat 325 to 835. Guaranteedto
please. C. A.NT Eaton Rapids. Mich.

Spring Boar-s for sale. a] H
Blg Type P' C' shire Rani lambs. .0 amp-
.WOOD & SON. - — - Saline, Mich.
urge typeP. C. fall gilts up to3651bs. re d to hi
Lbred for Aug. and Sept fax row Full szHeyNOva.
CLA ARKE. , Mason Mich.

0. Hours all ages the kind that
BlgR ”POP ood meet me at the fairs make

Big Type Poland Chinas.
Healthy and grouthy.
right. L. W. Barnes and Son

 

 

 

 

HOGS KLEO ARD. - - St Louis, Mich.

Yorkshire: For Sale Bred gilts and sows for

n. l8l3r0d Berkshire gilts and sows for fall farrow~ f ~ W'AT lat“ summer and fall

8 ing. 3 Fboars and spring pigs. either sex. Parrgwgig d ERNIAN 5‘ WATERMAN-

CHASE $10chan 11.1. Mariette, Mich. 3‘ “r 03 . ' ' Ann Arbor Mioh
good. sturdy. young, Berkshire Boar.

A Few for sale at areasonabie )rice. THEE HORSES

McNAMARA FARMS. St. gnace. Mich.

 

DUROC BOARS

Big lon. tall growthy boars. The kind that will add
size an growth to your herd. Biggest March furrow-
IIdi in country". Weigh 200 lbs. not fat.

N TON BARNHART. St. Johns. Mich.

 

Durocs. Choice spring pigs out of selected sows and
sired by our best herd boars. Thev are of the bi

type.strong boned. smooth and of excellent quality and
include some of the most popular blood lines such as
Orion Cherry King. Top Col. Defender.Brookwater etc.
Prices reasonable. The Jennings Farms. Bailey. lllch.

 

DUROC Jersey Spring boars for sale. Good breeding
and large bone. Prices and descriptionson re nest.
J.D. CRANE A SON - - ich.

ring boarstr sired by Orio 9
”line 1.33, Hg... Cal. trrite for pricesnanod‘es- "7
oription. W.C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.

lalnwell.

 

 

thsrons, Holstein: Ass 8, Sim him Dunes
.... ‘33-... MP! ..'.
Percheron Stallions and mares of reasonable
r. L. Kirzouzzsofimms infm—"ondilrzlolto Mich
One air ff Refllfitered Percheron

or mle. Priced righ
J M. HICKS & SONS. Williamston. Mich.

' My im ortedB l l
‘l I final Sacrificl Over alien. HisslTITssI-li‘aglgl:
al and other pix-lacs. Gentle. OK everyway.
UGH KEP A T. - - Evert. Mich

For Sale gfiglstered Percheron Stallion six years
price 3225 or liberty bonds acce ted.
E. J. ALDRICH. .. - Tekonsha. Lists.

' Addltlcnal Stock Ads. on Page 167T~

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SECOND EDITION.

 

The markets in this edition were re-
vised and corrected on Thursday after-
noon, August 22.

WHEAT.

Large quantities of wheat are" arriv-
ing at primary markets. Farmers are
showing their loyalty by getting the
new crop to the country elevators as
quickly as is possible consistent with
their limited supply of labor. The
United States visible supply shows an
increase of 9,295,000 bushels during
the past week as a result of. the gen-
eious malketing by growers. Piices
are holding slightly above the mini.
mum established by the government,
despite the large deliveries of the
grain. This strength is credited to
liberal purchases by exporters as well
as by domestic millers and dealers.
One year ago No. 2 red wheat sold on
the local market at $2.15 per bushel.
Present prices at Detroit are:

 

No. 2 red .............. $2.23

No. 2 mixed ............ 2.20

No. 2 white ...... . ..... 2.20
CORN.

A better survey of the damage done‘
by the 1ecent hot weather can be made
than was possible a week ago. This
damage has been Of consideIable ex-
tent in the southern and southwestern
pOItions of the co1n growing legion,
but north of the Ohio and Missouri
rivers the loss has not been gr,eat and
the yield from this section will be
large. The demand for the cereal,
however, is very healthy, which has
resulted in a small advance of prices
during the week despite the better
crop showing. Receipts are not very
large at present. Canada is buying
corn on this side and dealers antici-
pate heavier buying from the east and
for export purposes with the coming
of cooler days. The visible supply
shows a decrease of 1,878,000 bushels.
One year ago No. 3 corn sold on the
local market at $1.81 per bushel. Pres-
ent quotations here for cash corn are
as follows:

No. 3 corn .............. $1.77
No. 3 yellow ............ 1.87
No. 4 yellow............ 1.77
No. 5 yellow ...... . ..... 1.68
No. 6 yellow ...... . . . . . . 1.63

Cash corn showed some weakness at
Chicago on the opening days but fu-
tures are a fraction higher than at the
close of the previous week. Present

prices are:
No. 2 yellow ...... $1.88@1.91
No. 3 yellow ....... 1.78@1.81
No. 4 yellow . . . 1.70
September corn . . . 1.64
October 1.65%

OATS.

A very broad and active demand
prevails in oat circles and prices have
advanced, despite the generous crop
that is going into the farmers’ bins.
Dealers figure that a heavy foreign de-
mand will augment the situation here
in the near future. The damage to
corn has also encouraged higher pric-
es and firmer markets. The United
States visible supply shows an in-
crease of 3,555,000 bushels for the

- week. Standard oats sold on the local

market at 700 a year ago. Present 10-

cal prices are:
Standard .................. 72%
No. 3 white ............... 72
NO. 4 white ....... . ....... 71
RYE.

It is believed that the permit grant-
ed by the Food Administration allow-
ing the g1 inding of rye for feed under
certain conditions has stimulated this
market, since a decided increase in
activity is observable. Prices have
advanced. Cash No.2 is now bid at
$1.74 per bushel.

BARLEY.

While there is not much of this
grain moving on the local market,
there is a noticeable increase in the
attention being given the cereal, and
sales have been made by sample at
$1. 98@2.]0 per cwt. The feed situa-
tion promises to maintain prices for
this grain on a comparatively high

basis.
BEANS.

This trade has lost some of its

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T

ing on a lower basis and the trade is
sluggish. At New York business ‘con—
tinues to drag along in a dull, uncer-
tain manner, with choice pea beans
quoted there at $11.50@11.75 per cwt.,
The Detroit quotation is $10 for hand-
picked stock. At Chicago business is
moderately active, with choice to fancy
Michigan pea beans, hand-picked quot-
ed at $11@12; red kidneys $9.50@12;
California whites at $12.

FEEDS.

The Food Administration has pre-
pared a special article for this journal

on the mill feed situation which ap-
pears on the first page of this num-
ber. We believe every feeder will be
interested in what the Food Adminis-
tration has to say on this_ important
topic.‘ Local feed prices are unchang-
ed from last week. Quotations to job-
bers in 100-lb. sacks at the local mills
are as follows; Bran $34.66; mid-
dlings $36.66 ; cracked corn $75; coarse
corn meal $60; chopped $48@55.

SEEDS.

The situation in the seed trade is
firm to higher. At Detroit prime red

 

Live Stock Market Service

 

 

Reports for Thursday, August 22nd

BUFFALO.

Today’s market paid $20.50 for pigs
and $20.50@20.90 for other grades of
hogs. Lambs reached $18.25 and the
best calves sold at $18.90@19.

CHICAGO.

Cattle.

Receipts 10,000. Market strong and
10@150 higher.

Good to choice prime $16.75@18.85;
common and medium butchers $10.25
@1655; heifers $7.50@14.50; cows at
$7.75@14.25; bologna bulls' $8@13.75;
canners and cutters $6.55@7.75; stock-
ers and feeders good $10.50@12; stock-
ers and feeders, common and medium
$7.55@10.50.

Hogs.
Receipts 20,000 Few early sales at

steady prices; general maiket 10@15c,

lower. Tops $20; bulk of sales $19@
19.25; heavy $19.10@19.65; mixed and
light $19.50@19.85; packers’ hogs at
$17.85@18.40; medium and heavy $18
@19; light bacon hogs $19.15@20;
pigs, good to choice $18. 30@18. 50;
roughs $17.40@17. 85.
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 20,000. Market slow to 100
lower. Choice to prime lambs $17.65
@1850; medium and good -$16.25@
17.65; culls $105914; medium good and
choice feeders $16.50@17.65; choice
yearlings $15®1550; medium and good
yearlings $13.75fi1715; medium and
good wethers $12.50@14.

DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 2,171. Market active and
strong. All grades 25@7 5c higher than
last week.

Best heavy steers ....... $12.00@15.50
Best handy wt bu strs. . . 10.50@11.50
Mixed steers and heifers 9.00@10.00

Handy light butchers . . . . 8.00@ 8.50
Light butchers .......... 6.75@ 7.50
Best cows .............. 9.00@ 9.50
Butcher cows ........... 7.50@ 8.50
Cutters ................. 6.50@ 6.75
Canners ................ 6.00@, 6.50
Best heavy bulls ......... 9.00

Bologna bulls ...........
Stock bulls ..............

7.50@ 8.50
6.50@ 7.00

Feeders ................. 8.50@ 9.50
Stockers ................ 6.50@ 8.50
Milkers and sp1‘ingers.... $60@ 125

Veal Calves.

Receipts 831. Market strong.

Best ................... $ $18.00
Others 9.00@17.00
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2,288. Market dull.
Best lambs ............. $ 16.50
Fair lambs .............. 14.00@15.00
Light to common lambs. . 11.00@13.00
Yearlings ............. . . 12.00@13.00
Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 10.00@11.00
Guile and common ...... 5.00@ 8.00

Hogs.

Receipts 2,416. Market 10@150 low-
er; all grades $19.50@19.60; quality is
very common.

Reports for Wednsday, August let

BUFFALO.

Cattle.

Receipts ten cars; market rules
steady; prime heavy steers $17.25
6217.75; best shipping steers $16.25@
16.50; plain and coarse $13@14; best
yearlings, 950 to 1000 lbs, $15@16;
native yearlings, good quality $13.50@
14.50; best handy steers $12.50@13.50;
fair to good kinds $11@12; handy
steers and heifers, mixed $11@12;
western heifers $10@11.50; best fat
cows $11@11.50; butchering cows $8
@9; cutters $7@8; canners $5.50@
6.50; fancy bulls $10.50@11; butchering
bulls $9@10; common bulls $7.50@8;
best feeders 900 to 1000 lbs, $10@
10.50; medium feeders $8@8.50; stock-
ers $7@8; light common $6.50@7;
milkers and springers $65@150.

Hogs.

Receipts 10 cars; market is strong;
heavy $20. 50@20. 65, 5yorkers $20. 80@
20. 90; pigs $20@20.25

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts two cars;ma1ket steady;
top lambs at $18; yearlings $14@15;
wethers $13@14; ewes $12@13.

7 Calves.

Receipts 900; market strong; tops
$19; fair to good at $16@17.50; fed
calves $7@10.

CHICAGO.

Cattle.

Receipts today estimated at 11,000
head, .making 39, 700 for the first half
of the week, comparing with 41,500 for
the same part of last week. The mar-
ket is in much better shape“ than last
week, with a larger general demand.
some of the steers
higher than yesterday. A large share
of the steers, as well as butcher stOck,
canners and cutters, look about 25c
higher than at the close of last week.

5

selling 10@15¢ :

some steeis not being more than 150‘
higher while a few are selling more
than 25c better, it being a very un—
even maiket. The top steers still
biing $1885, but stee1s selling there
are not as prime as sales at that mice
a short time ago. A good class of
steers of light weight sell at $17 and
upward, with fat lots of heavier weight
bringing $18 and over, while choice
heavy steers sell at $18.50 and over,
the best yea1lings being salable at $18
@18. 50. Common steers sell at $10@
12. 50, a—nd canning steers are taken as
low as $7@9. Calves are up to the
highest price on record, $18, having
been paid. Butcher cows and heifers
bring $7. 35@15 or more, canners and
cutters $6. 40@7. 30 and stockers and
feeders $9@13, with few selling over
$12. Prime western range steers sold
today at $17.

Hogs.

Receipts today are estimated at 10,-
000 hogs, making a total of only 55,400
for three days, comparing with 73,000
for the same days last week. The
wants of buyers are large, but packers
refused to pay yesterday’s highest
p1 ices and the top tands a dime low-
e1, hogs blinging $7 .60@20, with not
much trading below $18.
pigs found buyers at $17@18. 60. Light
butcher hogs sold highest and rough,
heavy packers lowest.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts today are estimated at 19,-

000 head, making 65,700 reCeived dur-
ing half of the week, comparing With7

only 48, 00.0 for the same days last

~week. Larger supplies explain the re

cent sharp decline in prices, lambs
selling at $13@.18. 50; readings $10 75
@15. 50; wethers at $102fi@14; ewes

at $5@I8. The best native lambs bring

$17 .60

I

Most of the

1the Agri
:M‘ich; August 28.
good dinner and a. good time.

cordially invitedxte
In:-

clover is quoted at $18; October at
$147630; alsike $14. 75; timothy seed at

' POTATOES.

Federal crop reporters estimate that
Michigan’s 1918 potato crop will yield
32, 453,000 bushels, providing normal

weather obtains through the remaind-~

er of the season, as compared with 3.
finally estimated yield of 35,910,000
bushels a year ago and 30,140,000 bush-
els as the average for the years 1912-
1916 inclusive. While early potatoes
suffered extenSively from the hot dry
weather, the late crop in the majority
of commercially producing counties is
very promising. The markets. are

. mostly reported steady to strong with

prices generally satisfactory to the
seller. Shipments from Michigan in
carlots have not started as yet, al-
though Wisconsin and Minnesota are
moving fairly large amounts of the
tubers. At Chicago northern grown
stock is bringing from $2.35@2.65 per
cwt. Detroit continues to use south-

ern stock quite largely. Prices on the .

city markets for home-grown potatoes
range around $2 per bushel.

- HAY.

Hay is scarce, and the market rules
firm. Local prices are unchanged from
last week’s quotations as follows:

No. 1 timothy... .$24.50@25.00
No. 2 do ..... . . . 22.50@23.00
No. 1 mixed 21.00@22.00
No. 1 clover ..... 18.00@20.00

Pittsburgh.—Demand here cannot be
supplied, and prices are advancing rap-
idly. Present quotations are:

No. 1 timothy. . . . .$30.50@31.00

N0. 1 light mixed. . . . 28.50@29.50

No. 1 clover, mixed.. 27.00@28.00

No. 1 clover. . . . . . . . . 27.00@28.00

BUTTER.

, A liberal amount of business is be-
ing done, and with restricted produc-
tion prices are holding firm and in
many instances advancing. On the
Detroit market a fractional rise is not-
ed in the quotations of this week.
Fresh creamery extras are selling to
jobbers at 44%0, do firsts at 431/20.
The Chicago trade is steady at un-
'changed prices. Creameries range from
40@441/2c. ,At New York a firm trade
is reported, with a range in prices
from 44@47c. At Philadelphia the
best western creameries are selling

at 47c.
EGGS.

The demand exceeds the supply in
this market, and prices are tending to-

ward higher levels. At Detroit quo-
tations are steady with last week.
Michigan candled firsts, in new cases,
are quoted at 391,9@4Ic. The range of
prices for western stock in New York
City is from 38@680. Philadelphia.
prices are also higher, with fancy se-
lected packed stock bringing 51@53c
per dozen.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

The municipal markets are doing a
large volume of business these days.
Tomatoes are being offered freely, the
bulk of the sales from $1@1. 25 per
bu; apples $1. 25@2. 25; potatoes $1.80
@2. 25; large cucumbers $1.25; carrots
$1; crab apples $2@2. 75; cabbage 75@
85c; onions $2; peppers $3; eggs 550;
new hay $18@21 per ton; old $24.

YOUNG MEN SHOULD REGISTER
AUGUST 24.

 

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who have become twenty-one years of
age‘since June 5, or Who will reach
that age on or before August 24, to reg-
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The postponed meeting Of the Mich- 1‘
Cattle Club Will be held at _

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‘ NE of the largest, best and most
beautiful poultry buildings in
this country has been built by

the State Fair society on their grounds

in Detroit. Plans for this building
were suggested by Prof. C. H. Burgess,
the head of the pOultry department at
the Michigan Agricultural College. The
building is made of brick and stucco.
It is“. one hundred and sixty feet wide
and mm hundred and forty feet long,
two stories high. Adjoining the build-
ing and a part of it, is an auditorium
that will seat six hundred people. In
this auditorium lectures and demon-
strations in poultry will be given daily
and are free to all visitors at the fair.

The main floor will house the poul-
try proper. Entries are being received
from some of the best breeders in the
United States. On this floor the office
of 'the superintendent, the assistant
superintendent and other administra-
tive rooms; the unpacking room, rest
rooms and laboratories are to be found.

On the second floor will be found
rooms for pet stock, cats, dogs, rabbits,
cavies, canary birds and pigeons.

Entries in largest number are now
pouring in from the leading breeders
of the finest poultry in Michigan and
surrounding states. This is so also,
for other pet stock. The exhibition
will be open for all poultry, including
turkeys, ducks and geese.

The rabbit, pigeon, cavy, canary, cat
and dog show Will prove one of the
finest to be found anywhere. In con—
junction with the regular exhibit a
daily institute will be held in the audi-
torium, a part of the poultry building.
At this institute some of the best au-
thorities on poultry and pet stock will
speak and give demonstrations. Boys
and girls poultry clubs Will give dem-
onstrations daily. There is to be a
college students’ judging contest, a
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dents. In fact, there is something do-
ing every hour and every day. Watch
the daily papers for programs.

AUGUST POULTRY TIPS.

 

Overcrowding of the brood coops re-
sults in overheated chicks and this
causes early fall colds. Teach the
chicks to roost and then there will be
no crowding and heating and the
roosts can be protected from mites and
lice much easier than the floor of the
brood coop.

Culling and separation of the young
cockerels from the pullets will pay; it
will give the pullets a better chance to
develop. 'They should also be fed
where the old hens cannot disturb
them. Pullets are sensitive and a sure
way to reduce profits is to treat them
carelessly.

During hot weather mites breed very
rapidly and many a poultryman who
thought his houses free from mites has
found bright red clusters of these
pests hanging beneath the roosts. It

‘means that spraying has been neglect-

ed. Paint the roosts with kerosene oil
and the mite casualty lists will be
enormous.

The nests need fresh litter several
times during the summer. Frequently
the birds scratch out the loose mate-
rial and then lay eggs In nests that
are nearly bare. This results in brok-
en eggs and may teach some hen the
egg—eating habit.

Watch the quality of the feed and
avoid losses. The corn crop is not up
to the standard that poultrymen like to
use. It is necessary to keep the young
birds growing steadily to make them
profitable and the flock which con-
sumes spoiled feed receives a setback
which is diflicult to overcome.

lngham C0. G. K. RILEY.

Crop Conditions in Michigan

The following statement by V. H.
Church, supervisor in charge 'of the
federal crop reporters for Michigan,
gives the reader a general idea of cr0p
conditions in this state:

Notwithstanding the severe drought
in June and July, and the heavy frost
of June 23, nearly all crops are making
good growth and are exceeding expec-
tations so far as condition is concern-
ed. As the rainfall has been in the
form of local showers and not general,
\some sections are much drier than
others.

Corn, beans, potatoes, sugar beets
and truck crops, in general, have good
stands and a normal color. Corn is
somewhat backward in the northern
and east-central districts but is well
advanced in other sections. Beans are
very promising, especially in heavy~
producing counties. ' As they are now
podding and corn is earing, rain is
needed in the immediate future to in-
sure a satisfactory crop.

Early threshing returns indicate the
yield of wheat will be somewhat better
than expected “from the poor outlook
during the spring months. It will ap-
proximate three-fourths the yield of
eighteen bushels per acre obtained
last year, although the total produc-
tion will be only about one-half that
of last year, because of the large loss
of acreage through winter-killing. In
the southern counties, rye is yielding
about the same as wheat, and barley
is showing excellent returns. Oats are
being harvested in central and north-
ern districts with prospects of good
yields except in light or impoverished
soils and in a few other localities that
have suffered severely from drought.

There are about 35,000 acres of
spring wheat in the state this year,
and as the condition is excellent, Mich-
igan will contribute nearly or quite
threefourths *of a million bushels of

‘ this crop to its total wheat production.

The acreage of buckwheat is some-
what larger in the western and consid—
erably smaller in the eastern districts
than it: was last year. The stand is
good but the crop is now suffering
from lack of moisture.

‘ Pastures are short except in locali-

-. idea “where favored by recent showers.
. 'IKI'<« W I ' , I

Apples .will approximate sixty per
cent of a full crop. Duchess are plen—
tiful but winter apples vary much in
quantity in different localities and in
different orchards in the same locality.
The quality will be above the average
of the last two years.

'What 'Crop Reporters Say.

Alcona Co., Aug. 17.———On account of
early frost and drouth our crops are
short. Rye and Wheat are very badly
shrunken. Beans and potatoes only
half a crop. Apples and oats normal;
buckwheat and corn are about normal
crops.

Ottawa Co., Aug. 17.—Beans 85c; po-
tatoes 75C corn 800; apples 850; peach-
es 300; pastures all dried up. Wheat
is a fairly good cr0p; barley 80c; oats
900; rye 80c; milk $2.75 per one hun-
dred pounds now; eggs 350.

Osceola Co., Aug. 17.—Beans hurt by
the dry weather. Chances for a good
crop are poor. This locality planted
mostly eastern seed. Late potatoes
are all right yet. Apples good. Pas-
tures are very poor, farmers feeding
their milk cows. Wheat and rye half
a crop; oats and barley 85 per cent of
a crop; butter-fat 45c; eggs 35@37c.
Cattle from 41/2@6c; hogs 15@17c.
Farmers organizing more and more.

St. Clair Co.,‘Aug. 16.—We have a
promise of a fair crop of beans and
potatoes. Corn is also good, while ap-
ples will be only about fifty per cent
of a normal yield. Pastures are poor.
The little spring wheat that was sown
promises a fair yield. Winter wheat
will average .around .20 bushels per
acre; barley 40 bushels; rye 20 bush-
els. The following prices are being
paid by local dealers: Eggs 40@42c;
butter 400; wheat, red “$2.12; white
$2.10; oats 600; rye $1.50; cattle 8@
10c; hogs $17@18.

Cass Co., Aug. 16.——'—Late potatoes 1

promise a. fairly good yield. Beans are
poor, due to dry weather. Corn varies
considerably, but now promises a fair
crop. Pastures are poor. The wheat
yields range from 15 to 50, bushels
per aci'e. Rosen rye will yield around
18 bushels. Local dealers are paying

Me for butter-fat; 400 for dairy butter,

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Hampshires & Shropshires.

It's a. wise man who orders his raw (or August
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iPreserVIng Fertillty

N these days when there is such a
demand for food products, especial-
ly wheat and other cereals, the

farmer may get into a poor system of
farming by ignoring his rotation of
crops and raising wheat after wheat:

In 1914 when the war first broke out
I advocated such practice, since there
would be such a demand for wheat it
might be good policy to sow the wheat
after wheat, using fertilizer to help
out, and after the war to take extra
pains in plowing down vegetable mat4

ter and stable manure to replace the '

organic matter which wheat after
wheat farming had removed from the
soil.

The war has continued so long and
it may continue so that this argument
and policy will not fit the case. If we

. attempt to raise wheat after wheat it
will so exhaust our soils of vegetable
matter and plant food that we will get
them into an unproductive condition
and with the condition of agriculture
as it is today it seems to me that peo~
ple are going to need food products
from America for years after the war
just as badly as they do today, and so
it would seem that it behooves the
American farmer, while he should pro—
duce all of the food that he possibly
can, to practice a rational rotation and
take just as good care of his land as
he did before the war. The man who
abandons crop rotations to supply war
foods will in the end lose out and he
will not be doing as much good in the
world as he will if he takes pains to
maintain and increase fertility to keep
his farm productive; the world will
need the food for years to come.

COLON C. LILLIE.

PREPARE WINTER GREENS.
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It is necessary to have green food
I for feeding during the winter. It is a
stimulation to egg production but there
is one reason even greater. It helps
to keep the breeding stock in healthy
and vigorous conditions, which means
fertile eggs in the early spring. It is
only the healthy hen that lays eggs
and when the flock is maintained un-
der winter conditions it is necessary
to make every effort to keep them heal-
thy to save vitality for the Spring
breeding work.

In some cases it will not be too late
to provide mangels for winter feeding.
It usually pays to-plant them fairly

. early in order to obtain a large growth
; but if this has been neglected and the
1' season is good it is possible to start a
l few mangels in August to help out with
the winter ration. Turnips and cab-
'; bags will also help out in keeping the
! hens in good condition. During the
} past two years cabbage has been ex-
; pensive for poultry feed and many
I poultrymen find mangels much more
desirable.

Cut clover is used as a source of
green food by some poultrymen and it
is very satisfactory. It can also be fed

(profitably by wrapping it in small rolls
lkof poultry wire and suspending it in
the poultry house. The birds do not
waste the clover when it is protected
in that manner and always have some-
thing to pick at. :All kinds of small
vegetables may be boiled and fed dur-
ing the Winter. In storing winter vege-
tables it pays to sort out the culls and
‘place them where theyawilltbe'avail-
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5' farmers have tried feeding silage to
5 the hens in the winter and they find it
stimulates egg production and helps'to
[keep up the vigor of the flock.‘ A few
bushels of silage will help a great deal
in the poultry ration and many dairy-
lmen find that it is good to feed hens
. as well as cows. Now is the time to
‘begin thinking about the supply of win-
ter greens_.‘The birds cannot get along
without them and keep in the pink of
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mals vary from week to week but
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pay for feed, labor and other items from an economic law that 0P6!" ‘
during this period, together with ates in every bUSineSS- It is the
weather conditions, determine packer’s task to turn live StOCk

What it costs to produce thesteer. into dressed meat and by -prod- .
- , nets, and distribute them to the l

' consumer under control of this law. . I

O produce a steer 'for meat

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three years.

But the price the producer re-
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Market conditions and compe- 1
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cattle prices. '

If the supply of cattle coming on
the market at this time is greater
than the consumer demand for
dressed meat, the prices of meat
and live stock' go down.

The packer can’t pay out more ~ .
money for animals than he takes ' ' "I
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prices of meat and live stock to steady the prices of live stock ‘ .
go up. . ‘ and meat. ' .3

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