Théfonly,Week!y Agricultural, Horticultural, and Live' Stock Journal in the State.





 





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F it be 1true-‘-:—as ungraciOus individ-

uals have been knewn to assert—

,that an unduly: large proportion of

the sons of-the very rich show a lean-

ing toWard the cultivation of wild ‘oats

as an » agricultural pastime, then per-

haps it would be equally to the“ point

to say that a favorite diversion of their

elders is the raising Of cabbage. No-

where has the back-to-tlie-l'and idea

found more devoted follOWers than

among men who have achieved their

pile in merchandising, banking, spec-

ulation or Other worldly channels. So

long, however, as wealth must have its

hobbies, such Can assume no more in-

nocent forms than those which hark

back to the soil. And whether the out-

come of individual idiosyncrasies re-

sults in cabbage or cucumbers, rare

fruits, flowers or blooded stock, what

boots it, so long as the man of mil-

lions derives his anticipated enjoy-

ment from it and cheats no other man

out of a living? At any rate, these are

better than wild oats—and in this, as

in other things, maturity shows _. its

larger wisdom over youth,

To the man who has been farm born





and farm raised the efforts of these





city bred agriculturists becomes a mat-

ter both of merriment and en-

vy. He enjoys the mistakes

and the errdrs-into which they

naturally fall, yet at the same

time he cannot deny that he

would give a good deal to be

able' to provide buildings, equip-

ment and such‘ things with the

same lavish hand as the man

who makes his money in Wall

street stocks and parts with it

for stock of the four-footed va-

riety. For all this, however,

the millionaire farmer cares

not a hoot. He is in the game

.for two reasons; first, because

many of his associates are in-

dulging in some hobby closely

akin to his own, and second,

because he finds a real satisfac-

tion in Compelling Mother

Earth to surrender to him cer-

tain of her bounties. That he

may lose money in the course

of the transaction is the least

of his worries; that his neigh-

bors laugh at his ' mistakes 1 .1 ;

causes. him to lose no sleep.

Financially speaking, proba- ~ ,—

bly few of these agricultural "

hobbiespary even a modest per .

cent when the magnitude. of . .. .

the investment, is» considered. .

Some of them+themore scien-

tifically managed—may return

’ something above the cost of a

operatIOn. Many must fall far‘

short 'of this. One of the most

prominent bankers “of. the mid-

dle west had just, finished show-

V ingghis 91:11am: 'over his

country piacev’vher‘e almost'evr' . 7

‘erythingi-Vfrqm fancy dairxing . _.

. to’ fancy stock breeding is- car;

heir-9n: dreams man they .





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_§ DETROIT; MICH.; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1918





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? Cabbagcs That Count





07' W124! I: a Model Farm? -

By ORIN CROOKER





 





_The Man Who Gets a Living from Farming Gives First Thought to Cabbages.





 





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asked, with quite a sense of pride,

f‘Well father, what do you think of it?”



“I think, my boy,” the old man an-

swered shrewdly, “this must be a

mighty good place for the ‘sinking

fund’ of your bank!”



That the rich man does not. raise

cabbage or anything else merely for

the money that it may bring him is

evidenced by the lack of interest which

he sometimes shows when it comes to

the marketing end of his agricultural

operations. A trust promoter, recently

deceased, possessed a stable, said to

have cost close to $100,000 and which

was filled with expensive horse flesh.

Nearby Was a palatial dairy barn

which housed nearly a hundred regis-

tered cows. About the only thing sold

from the place was the milk—and this

was disposed of as much for conven-

ience sake as anything. This man

owned horses that would have captur-

ed blue ribbons at any exhibition in

the country, cows that held butter-fat

records which were the envy of prac-

tical dairymen, but he never sent his

animals to participate in exhibitions

of any kind nor did he sell any of

them, save to keep his stock within

reasonable number. The joy of pos—



session seemed the sole reason

for his indulgence in these par-

ticular hobbies.



Because few of these intensi-

fied rich farm for profit, prodi-

gality rules in matters of up-

keep and improvement. The

average farmer never knows

what it feels like to be able to

indulge his every whim and de-

sire for better animals, high-

priced equipment or elaborate

buildings—and with no thought

of the expense that is neces«

sarily involved. Not so in the

case of the millionaire city

farmer who is seeking an outlet

for his loose coin. If it pleases

him to install all kinds of fancy

trimmings—to carpet his sta-

bles with velvet Brussels or to

use silver-plated milking ma-

chines—there is nothing to

reckon with save a hole in his

bank account which cannot pos-

sibly last long under the con-

stant inflow of dividends re-

ceived from operations in

which he is an expert instead

of a dabbler. '



A man whose name is famil-



_ iar the world around owns a

farm which is bisected by a.

railroad carrying heavy passen-

ger traffic at this particular

point. The thouSands of faces

peering from the passing cars

came in time to jar uncomfort-



, ably upon the owner’s sense of

privacy. His wasn’t the soli-

tude, he reasoned, that by

rights belonged to rural life.

If he went out in his overalls"





i: '- ' . . _ ‘ , , to feed the hogs, he wished .to‘

Whebthfa Lad, Becomes a Man WlIILEarrgilQQ be to Him a Hobby or; Business?





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VOLUME CLI. NUMBER SEVENTEEN





DETROIT, OCTOBER 26, 1918





 





 





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





HE wireless ver-

sion of Germany’s





9

‘GE :3 8 reply to

Note





armistice would be considered is, like





to various interpretations.





territory and the principle that the





safeguarding and guaranteeing this

standard.” This statement is followed





by a suggestion to the President that called state seed corn to mature! a

opportunity should be brought about good grain 0‘09 cannot be considered

the details ”131,313? the» ex. as an unmixed evil. Much of it has





for fixing





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“will approve of no demand--which

would be irreconcilable with the honor

'o'fthe' German people and. with. open-

alga way tc‘a peace with justice?



' * The note is peculiarly characteristic





qu 399133913 in." that it. protests ..stock maintenanceethis-zyeorrthrough:





against the 'charge of inhumanity and

'frightfulness on land and sea, and pro-

poses that these charges be cleared

up. by neutral commissions. In this

connection the‘ note declares that in

order to avoid hampering the work of





‘ peace, orders have been despatched to





submarine commanders precluding the

torpedoing of passenger ships, but no





"guarantee is offered that these orders 9

fwill reach every submarine before its under favorable conditions in many





return.



As to the German government’s re-

Sponsibility to. the people the note ad-

mits that “Hitherto the representation

of the people in the German empire





» .. er ~ with the wishes of the repre"





mutation pf the people? it statesthat"

‘ #r constitutional amendment has .





been





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by reservations as to 'giveiti the ap-

pearance of‘ another. attemptat'bara

gaining'for a “German" péace,‘ an in-

terpretation which is strengthened by

the defense of war policies which were

in'strumental-in'forcing us into the cen-

flict. Yet the tone thus given the note

has made it valueless from the 'stand-

point of a “peace offensive,” and it

may be a hesitatlng “goose-step” to-

ward complete surrenderl‘by the Ge

man war lords: ~

That the note has not struck a re-

sponsive chord in American public

opinion seems to be demonstrated by

current press comments, while the Am-





~mw$ erican people expressed thelr unam-





mous approval of our war aims by recs

ord subscriptions to the Fourth Lib-

erty Loan.



But the determination of what am

swer, ‘if any, the President should





make to the German note, in behalf of





the United States and her allies, may





safely be left to the determination of





the executive councils of the nations,

with full assurance that those aims

will be realized through German'defeat

or German surrender.





GREAT many





Seed Corn Michigan farmers

are disappointed in



for“ the failure of corn.

Michigan which w a s g r o w n





to the state for planting last spring, to





mature sound grain. This, however,





from seed shipped in. by specific appropriation,





‘ the flaw." are .to' .mak‘a inquiriesfas” to

the expenditures of thefvsilous state:

institutions rduring the past two years,

and thapurposes for Which the "expend

ditures were? made, andgto secure Westi3

mates'of the needs of the sever-aims»

stitutions‘ for the next two years and

report same to the next legislature.

The idea ‘back of this a’ction was that

the legislatfire might act more intelli-

gentiy in the making ‘of appropria:

tions 3for instithtibnalw purposes if their

several needs couldbe considered as a

whole in a single budget, instead of

'separately' and individually, as has

been the usual practice in this state. .

In pursuance of its work this budget

commission of inquiry prepared sched-

ules of expenditures and estimates

which were sent to the various insti-

tutions. These schedules did not cen-

form to the classifications of expendi-

tures adoptedin common by'the land

grant colleges of the central west. A

reclassification of items to conform to

the schedules submitted involved a

large amount of clerical work which

seemed unnecessary to the college

board, since a complete and detailed

report of expenditures from. both the

state and national funds is published

annually. In view of the fact that the

state’s contribution to the support of

the college is accomplished through

the levying of a mill tax, rather than

and the

further fact that the constitution del-

egates to the board the exclusive con-





is a result which was unavoidable, and trol of . the expenditure of these funds,-





might have been eXpeeted from the





planting of unacclimated seed.





But the result .is not less disappoint-

President ing because of- this fact.

Wilson's note setting however, cause us to avoid a repeti—

forth the conditions tion of the disappointment next year.

with which Germany While good seed corn has not been

must comply before proposals for an produced on many Michigan farms this

for the reason above noted,

those which have preceded it, subject there are crops of well—matured corn

Ostensibly in practically every community from

it is an acceptance of the conditions which seed corn can be secured for

imposed for the evacuation of occupied next season's planting, if the matter is

attended to now, and the seed is well

procedure of this evacuation and the dried and properly stored for winter.

conditions of an armistice should be Farmers who have well-matured corn

" left to the judgment of the military Will also find it to their advantage to

advisers, but with the reservation that save and Properly care for a liberal

“the standard of power on both sides supply 0f 889d. WhiCh their 1988 DI‘OVi-

in the field has to form the basis for dent neighbors will want at good pric-





year,





es next spring.





the State Board of Agriculture, at its

August meeting, voted not to make the

return requested basthe commissiong'on





It should the ground that the legislation was not





applicable to the institution under its

charge.



This action was made the basis of

severe criticisms by several publica-

tions, with an apparent misunderstand-

ing of the State Board’s position in





HE following ofllcial list of fair





- “imam the: rosuit lef‘agitat'lon for“





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sion‘ 6! inquiry; this decision was

reached .intbe belief that ltw'as not.





the intent‘otthe legislature to include





the Michigan, agricultural ,“Colloge‘

wtthintlre‘provlslons the act crest; ‘

_ ' 1' helvfundsfor‘the

support of theuoc‘l go some from the





federal government ‘»as+well..r‘as ., from -

thentatepa'nd ._the.:oolleg‘e.1s._.engaged--v . »





in certain classes or work. such usag-

riculturnl extension, "experiment sta-

tion and military training, requiring





large expenditures and, conducted un-.





der the order and supervision of the

federal“ government..,with which the,

state can have no financial interest.



. .“The'eXpenditui‘es of the~institution

are by the constitutiongof the state

placed within the exclusive'coptrol Of

this board. The annual printed rec-

ords of the. college, .which are public

and to which the commission has ac-

cess, contain in the fullest and meet

complete detail the nature and extent

of the expenditures. .



' “For these and other reasons, the

board does not now believe that the

legislature intended to include the ins

stitution in the act. Nevertheless, not

wishing to have even the appearance

of opposing the""legi~slature or'other;

state officers, and wishing to avoid

misconstruction 6f its purposes by the

public, the action taken at said August

meeting is hereby- rescinded and the

secretary is instructed to forthwith

make such report as may be required

by the commission and to submit to

said commission fully and freely all of

its books, papers and vouchers, and to

render all possible information which

it may have and to otherwise assist

the commission in its inquiry and in-

vestigation.” '



This action should serve to give the

public that full knowledge of the inci-

dent which will serve to counteract

the effect of hasty criticism. The work

of the‘ college is too important tothe

agriculture of the estate to“ permit any ‘





nI'isunderStanding ofthe action of its "





gEVernin'g board or any squabble be-

tween that board and theibud’ge’t com-6

mission, to affect its future usefulness...

Whether Or not it should come under

the budget system, in case the legisla¥

ture decides to adopt that system, may

well be left'to the legislature to tie

cide, after it has considered all the

facts in the case.





FAIR. FOOD PRICES





food prices is furnis d- by Federal .





Food Administrator Prescott, The articles listed are classed as es-





sentials and the retail prices quoted are the maximum prices that





should be charged by any grOcery. Any store charging more than the price





quoted will be asked to show its reason for so doing, and unless able to





justify such action, punitive measures





will follow. A similar official list will





be published each week for the benefit of Michigan Farmer readers.





But the failure of much of the so-





"pressionofjtlre hope that the President ,gone'. into. silos which would not other-

' ' ' ' " ’ . wise'hav'e been erected





this, year,

which will make the crop a profitable

one

large. amount of forage- has beenv'ad-





dad to ~ Michigan’s resources: forivlive





the bringing in of outside seed corn by'

the War Preparedness Board. The

state purchases of seed corn amounted

to more than $400,000. This immens‘e

amount of seed planted thousands of

acres which could not otherwise have

grown corn, and the forage value of

the product would run into millions of

dollars, to say nothing of the seed of

earlier varieties which matured grain





localities. '



All things considered, the state seed

corn purchases were profitable to the

state’s agriculture, notwithstanding the

apparent loss as compared with it nor-





.“ “has not been endowed with an influ- mal production from home-grown seed.

’ » once on the formation of the govern- But except in an emergency the plant-

‘ “ Evmsnt”but asserts that “a new govem- ing of seed corn grown outside the

' moist has been formed in complete. an- stato should not be practiced. _ Only





timely action will insure that such an





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- Retailer Consumer



Commodity. Pays Should Pay



‘ ' Low. High. Low. High.

Wheat flour, per 1-16 bbl.. bag 1, 12% lbs. ....... .71 .75 .81 ‘ .85

Wheat fldur, bulk, per lb ............ . ....... .... 95%» 06 06% 07

Barley flour, per 1-16 bbl.. bag 112%.1bs.‘ ....... .72. ’ .75 .82 .85





Barley flour, bulk, per. lb. ,. ...........





........... .05 .06: .06 '07





Rye flour, per 1-16 bbl. bag 1, 1214 lbs.:........... .75 .75 ' .85 .85





Rye flour, bulk, per lb ............. , .............. .05 .06 .06 .07

. Corn noun-bulk, per:1b.....~ ............... ....... .06 .07. .07. .08

Rico flour,-’bulk, per lb ............... . . ‘. . . . . . . . . . .11— .12 .13 .15

-,Cmvma};:bul’k‘,nper HI. ..... . . .' ..... . . . . .‘ ..... -. .‘ .05 106 ' .05 07

, ,Cornmeat; package; 5, 1135.01! le ,perlb: . . . . ...». . .06- ‘ .07‘ :07 ~ .08.

Victory bread, price per loaf, 16 oz. . ... . ......... .0834, 08% 10 ‘10

Victory bread, price per loaf, 32 oz. . .. ........... .. .16 .18 .19

Oatmeal or rolled oats, bulk, 5% lb. . .. . . . . . . . . .. . 5.35 . .. .07 .08

Oatmeal or rolled oats, package, per lb. ......... .08 . .09 .10 .13

Rice, unbroken, standard quality, per lb. . ........ .11 .12 121,5” 15

Heminy or hominy grits, per lb. ................. .06 .07 .08 .09

Sugar, granulated, bulk, per-lb ....... . ....... 08% 9.76 091,; 11

Beans, white, navy or pea, not lima, per lb ..... .10 .11» .13 .15





Beans, colored, pinto or any other colored variety '33 .10 .10 .13





..Potatoes, white or Irish, per ~pk ...... .. .......... .





Onions, per lb ........................ . ........... .04 105 $05 :07





~Raisins, seeded, 10-02. pkg





............





, .11 . . ,

Canned tomatoes, standard grade, 20 oz. No. 2... .13 .14 ' .15 .13





Canned corn, standard grade, 20 oz. No. 2 ...... .1215 .1293 .14 .15

Canned peas, standard grade, 20 oz. No. 2 ...... .1255 .14 .14 ‘ ' .16

Canned salmoh, tall pink Alaska; 16 oz. No. 1 . . . .18 . .18 .22 .25

Canned salmon, tallxred Alaska, 16 oz. No. \1





Evaporated milk, unsweetened, 6-0:. can . .. .. . .

Evaporated milk, unsweetened, Iii-oz. can ........ .11 _ .





Milk, bottled. per quart ........ . . . .. . . .

Butter, ere cry, print, per lb ......

Oleomarga n‘e, per-rib. . . . . . .'

Eggs, fresh, per. ddzen. . . .





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“Lard. pure leaf. bulk, per lb... . . . . I. ..

Lard substitute, bulk; per lb. ...... '. .





Cheese. Americanfull cream, dot, p‘er lb. 9’ . . . .‘. . s33





......25 .25 .28 30-"

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RAPID development of coopera-

tive marketing activities among

’ 'the farmers of the United States

has taken place during recent years.

The popular faith in cooperation as a

means of improving marketing meth-

ods has been very strong and has

brought abOut the formation of a large

number of assOciations. Indeed, the

term cooperation has been employed-

in such a way that many people have

come to believe that a cooperative or-

ganization offers a solution for almost

all difficulties encountered in the mar-

keting of farm products. While a great

deal may be accomplished through or-

ganized effort when it is properly ap-

plied and correctly employed, too

much emphasis can not be placed on

the fact that cooperation is not auto-

matic and is not a panacea for all the

ills of mankind. Faith in the possibil-

ities of cooperation is essential to its

success, but this faith must be ex-

pressed in deeds as well as in words.

Conditions Necessary for Success.

Under certain conditions, a farmers’

cooperative marketing organization

may be the means of improving the

business conditions of its members.

Cooperation may be considered a rem-

edy which, when properly applied at

.the proper time to the proper patient,

may be expected to giVe relief. When

the farmers of a district undertake co-





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operative activities, they must have

faith in the remedy. Each must be

willing to lay aside his individual de—

sires and take the whole remedy, the

bitter portions as well as the sweet.

This means that each must be willing

to surrender a portion of his freedom

of action; must abide by the will of

the majority; must be willing to bind

himself to a definite contract and then

live up to that agreement, even though

there may come a time when to do so

would result in a temporary loss.

Each member must realize that the

management of the business must be

entrusted to one or more persons se-

lected because of superior skill and

experience, and that the management

can not be expected to accomplish sat-

isfactory results if it is hampered by

the interference of those whom it at-

tempts to serve. If the members of a

cooperative organization do not feel

that the men to whom they have en-

trusted the management are much

better qualified to know what to do

and when and how to do it than they

themselves, why have such men been

employed? When we consider how

seldom the management of a farmers’

cooperative association has any real





control of the business, the wonder is

that the success of such organizations

has been as great as it has.



' Not only must the personal attitude

of the members be favorable to a bus-

iness plan of organization, but local

conditions must be such as to make

organized marketing advisable. Too

many cooperative organizations are

formed when conditions are not ripe

for the undertaking of such an enter-

prise. Many organizations fail because

they are not founded on necessity. Ev-

ery cooperative organization should 1e-

sult from a widespread demand based

on a well- felt need.



Ordinarily, a community which spe-

cializes on one or a few products of-

fers a more promising field for a coop-

erative marketing organization than

one which produces small amounts of

a"large number of different products.

A farmer naturally will devote more



attention to an organization which

markets his principal products than

one which handles products which are

raised by him as side lines.



If the service rendered by existing

marketing agencies is unsatisfactory,

a cooperative marketing organization

is likely to receive heartier support





"for”





P..."- By c. E. BASSETT





Cooperators Who Met at Springfield.





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than if the farmers are satisfied with

the existing system. This factor should

be given careful consideration when a.-

cooperative organization is proposed.

An association should be formed only

when it can perform profitably some

definite service, for an organization

without a definite purpose is not like-

ly to accomplish very much. Preju-

dice and misconception make a very

insecure foundation for cooperative

effort.



Organization Should Grow from Below



Upward.



There are a number of precautions

to be observed in the organization of

cooperative associations. One of these

is that the demand for organized ef—

fort should come from those who unite

to form the organization. Another im-

portant point to be observed is that

the organization should grow from be-

low upward. The mistake frequently

is made of attempting to form a large

central organization before organized

effort in a small way has been tried

out successfully and the details of the

plan carefully worked out. A number

of cooperative organizations fail be-

cause of lack of support, and on that

account every possible precaution

should be taken to hold the members

together. "Ordinarily a cooperative as-

sociation should cover only a limited



(Continued on page 395).





Our Potato Industry Faces Rum.





Oficza/s of t/ze Mzcfizgran Potato Growers Exe/znge

Fear This, Unless Mzc/zzgan s Crop 2s Moréeted

072 t/ze Baszs of U. S. Standard Grades.





‘ HE Michigan Potato Growers’

Exchange has decided to put ev-

ery car of potatoes it handles



on the market graded according to the

United States standards. This means

that the shipments must comply with

the requirements of size and quality

indicated herewith.



There need be no feeling of alarm

over probable losses on account of

careful grading. There are a great

many men, sincere in their desire to

advance the interests of the potato in-

dustry in Michigan, who have been

self-deceived as to the grading situa-

tion. Too much stress cannot be laid

upon the importance of strictly en-

forcing grading rules. It will prove

disastrous to producers and distribu-

tors of Michigan potatoes if this point

.is not safeguarded in such a way as to

prevent a. ' repetition of last years

fiasco.



Sales Manager Prater, of the Mich-





.igan Potato Growers Exchange, has,





won his files more than twenty tele-

Wgroms from prominent dealers protest-

ing against buying Michigan potatoes





the indistry of the state received 6111.

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because of the unfavorable publicity?





19 17-18 With such,





 





of the state, a part of which has not

always been fair in its treatment of

the grading problem, can render a

truly constructive service if”it will en-

deavor to bring the producer and the

distributor on one hand and the con-

sumer on the other, into closer har-

mony. Agitation, distrust and misun-

derstanding can’t produce the results

we must have if we succeed in mar-

keting Michigan’s 1918 potato crop to

advantage to the growers of the state.



The strongest arguments in favor

of carefulgrading are more apparent

on the declining market. On such a

market the best grades and packs are

moving slow enough, while the poorer

ones resolutely refuse ”to move at all,

and in the meantime prices are stead-

ily going down. To the receivers and





purchasers who are standing the lossv





es, defects and blemishes are magni-

fied a thousand times: Cars. a little

carelessly graded which ordinarily get

by easily" on a good marketmow catch

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potatoes on hand, or rolling, quite a

severe headache. Requests for gov-

ernment inspections on potatoes in

the last few days have been ten times

more numerous than for any other

Similar period during the preceding

two months. As the stock is quite

sound at this time of year, practically





every receiver’s kick is on grade. And





here is the strange Dart of it all. Gov-

ernment inspectors report that in nine-

tenths of the cases the receivers ‘do

have a legitimate kick and many cars

inspected which were packed and sold

for U. S. Grade No.1, were found to

be below the, requirements and in

many cases only by a small margin.

The tolerance for undersized stock

in U. S. Grade No. 1 is five per cent

by weight but eight to fifteen per cent

undersized stock by weight'was com-

monly found. An inspector’s only

course is to class such cars as U. S.

Grade No.’ 2 beéause the rules are clear

and definite.‘ The telerance for all





,other defects and blemishes; such as





scab, garb-eaten, bad second growths,

1116,19 a total of three per cent by





36' weight: xtill many cars showed from

‘ six t6 on so cent by weight of blem-





w.“'tocit or Just enough in excess





 





of the tolerance to place the whole lot

below U. S. Grade No. 1. Some lots

are below the requirements on size; .

some lots are below the requirements

for defects and blemishes, and some

lots are below both requirements. The

point is this: These lots have not

been flagrantly off but have been just

enough off so as to leave no doubt

about classing them as No. 2's instead

of No. 1’s. In the past three or four

days car after car has been found in

this predicament. The sad part of it

is that just on account of the lack of

a little care in sorting out small and

blemished potatoes which in most cas-

es would not amount to more than ten

or twelve bushels, shippers and grow-

ers stand to lose from $200 to $300 on

each car.





Sometimes it isn’t even lack of care.

It is deliberately done by some ship--

pers and growers to increase the total

volume by a few paltry bushels. But

by being so avaracious with only these

few bushels they lose many times the

value of .these on the price received

for the’car as a whole. It is univer-

sally accepted as a business axiom

that the only important secret of suc-

cess for any producing enterprise is

to put out a product of high-grade‘and

good quality, so standardized and so 1

uniform that it can be depended on u- - '





der all conditions, day in and day. out, J: t *

to be of- the same h'igh quality The‘ ‘





 

 

 

 





110110111113 of this principle notm‘aly; L
goes a long way in stabilizing any has- . I





mess. , The one great need in the bus-

, ' 'iness of producing, distributing and

3f -selling'potatoes is stability.- The one



’ factor that will aid most in'stabilizing





the potato business is careful, honest.





grading, so careful that on a weak

market or a strong market, shipments

labeled as U. S. Grade No.1 can abso-

lutely be depended upon to come up to

the requirements of that grade, and

the good part about all of this is that

the producers are the ones who reap





the benefits to the tuneof about $200 1





. 6r $300 per car.



The real difficulty in securing care-

ful grading in Michigan is due largely

to the fact that but few growers real-

ize. the slight difference in size and

quality which frequently determines

the decision of the inspector. In many



instances five or ten small or inferior

potatoes, worth at a high estimate,

three or four cents, may be sufficient

to warrant an inspector to grade the

bushel No. 2, and the grower being

compelled to accept from thirty to

forty cents per bushel less for his en-

tire load or shipment. As a plain mat—

ter of fact statement, Michigan potato

growers have for years been meeting

every requirement of U. S. Grade No.

1. In fact, ninety per cent of our po-





 





 





 





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may be under the prescribed





and one—half (11,5) inches.





Reqwrements for U. 8 Grade No. 1. »





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THIS grade shall cdnsiist of sound potatoes of similar f

. varietal characteristics which are practically free

from dirt or other foreign matter. frest‘ injury, , sunburn,” ‘ .

second growth, cuts, scab, blight, dry rot, and damage

caused by disease, insects, or mechanical means.

imum diameter of potatoes of the reund varieties shall be ‘

one and seven-eighths (1%) inches, and of potatoes of the

long varieties one and threefou‘rths (1%) inches.

der to allow for varietations incident to commercial grad-

ing and handling, five per centum by weight of any lot





percentum by weight of any such lot may be below the

remaining requirements of this grade.





Requirements for U. 5. Grade No.2.





THIS grade shall consist of potatoes of" similar varietal

characteristics which are practically free from frost in-

Jury and decay. and which are free from serious damage

caused by dirt or some other matter, sunburn. second

growth cuts, scab, blight, dry rot, or other disease, insects,

or mechanical means. The minimum diameter shall be one

In order to allow forWariations

similar to commercial grading and handling, five per cent-

um by weight of any lot may be under the prescribed size

and in addition, five percentum by weight of any such lot

may be below the remaining requirements of this grade.





 





The min-





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size, and, in, addition, three





 





 





 





 





 





 





ll ma

eighty ave per cent of their crop at the -





No: lzprice, Whereas if they insist on . ..





selling their crop field-run they must,

except in a few rare instances, weeps

the N0. 2 prices for their entire crop





and besides have no suitable seed for .. '





planting next year. Thiselack of 1111-:

demmnding as to exactly what census

tutes the No.1 grade and No.2 grade.

of- potatoes has caused a lot of un-





pleasantness and been the means of ; ’





giving the outside world a mighty poor

opinion of the skill, intelligence and

honesty of Michigan farmers and po-





tato growers.

A point of vital interest to growers





who use machines for grading is to

gauge the Speed of the grader so that

it does efficient work. Manager Prater





says. 1 “The fact that the potatoes .





pass over the screens is not. absolute

proof that they will meet the grade

requirements, unless special care is

taken to regulate the speed of the ma- .

chine and some hand- picking is done





to eliminate imperfect specimens. The .





grading machines do very good work

when properly regulated, but in‘some

instances considerable hand-work is

necessary to insure a strictly No. “1

grade of potatoes.”





NeWs of. the Agricultural World





GOVERN‘MENT TO SUPPORT THE

BUTTER MARKET.





 





IT was the unanimous opinion of

some fifty leading representatives

of the dairy interests of the country in

conference with Food Administrator

Hoover recently, that there is a tem-

porary shortage of dairy products in

the market, especially butter. It was

also agreed that the present prices of

butter will tend to diminish consump—

tion and to permanently stimulate the

increased consumption of margarine,

which is about onehalf the price.

These conditions will sooner or later

produce a collapse in butter prices to

a point possibly below the cost of pro

duction. It was considered essential,

for stable condition of the industry,

that when such a fall did occur the

government purchases should be used

to support the market at a reasonable

level.



A committee, consisting of Professor

Clyde L. King, of Pennsylvania; Chas.

Brand, Urbana, Ohio; I. Ingersoll, Ely-

ria, Ohio; Ex-Governor Warner, of

Michigan; G. R. Rice, Wisconsin;

Frank Kingsley, Iowa; W. F. Schilling,

of Minnesota; Robert Scoville, Connec-

ticut, was appointed by the meeting

and approved by Mr. Hoover, to coop-

erate with the other advisory commit-

tees of the administration and to furth-

er consider the situation and to advise

with the Food Administration as to

what action should be taken to stabil-

ize the situation.





 





STORES FINED FOR OVERCHARG-

ING.





 





ECAUSE they were charged by the

Monroe County Food Administra-

tion with selling butter at more than

the maximum proflt allowed under the

rules of the Federal Food Administra-

’ tion, two of the big Rochester. N. Y.,

stores have been fined $75, payable

into the war chest there. It was charg-

ed that theundue profit amounted to

between eight and nine cents a pound.





 





FEWER STYLES IN FARM IMPLE-

MENTS





 





. MATTER of much interest to

J . - formers is the intent of the gov-

{.mnt to standardize thd leading

term implements. in order to save iron

j "and steel. Investigation shows that in

the line of plows, more than three

hundred types. shapes and forms are

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number to sixty-five after December

31 of the present year. Corn planters

and corn drills will be cut down from

three hundred kinds to only ten and

harrows from one hundred and seven

to forty-four. The details are not

available to show how this selection

of the beet or fittest is to be made,

but it would seem to be» a big job to

do it. Six prominent truckersv-more

than ordinarily intelligent and pro-

gressive—had an incidental meeting

the other day and no two agreed as

regards the best plow, harrow, drill or

tractor in use. Each man had his

favorite.





URGES USE OF BETTER EGG FILL-

ERS.





sian Association of America, and will

be located at the secretary’s office at

Brattleboro, Vermont. At the time of

his appointment,~he was Professor of

Animal Husbandry and Dairying at

Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.,

and has served in that capacity since

1915. In selecting a man to head the

extension work for the association, and

also in determining upon a program of

work, it was necessary not only to

consider carefully what. had been done

but also to determine upon a definite

policy and proceed to. carry it out con-

sistently with a view to expansion.





The problem was a difficult one to sea





lect a man well qualified in the activ-

ities involvedL and the association is

fortunate in having been able to se-





‘ cure the services of Professor Rider.





HE Food Administration has sent



out a notice to the trade that more

substantial. fillers should be used in

standard egg cases. They have asked

the cooperation of the trade in the

use of better fillers. Manufacturers

will be asked to make only the heavy

grade of fillers and not. to make any

lighter grades hereafter. One of the

heavy causes of loss is that light fill-

ers break down easily.



The use of second-hand fillers is not

deemed advisable for shipment, and

wherever possible new fillers should

be used.





COLLEGE TO_ DIRECT FARMERS’

INSTITUTES.





 





ARMERS’ Institutes in New York



state will hereafter be directed

from the State College of Agriculture of

this city. Heretofore they were man-

aged by the' State Department of Agri-

culture at Albany under the direct sup—

ervision of the late'Edward Van Al-

styne. The Department at Albany has

given over the extension work to the

State College of Agriculture working

through the? Farm Bureau organiza-

tions.





This change will not alter the value,





of the work as heretofore givgn, only

the methods of presenting it Will be

a little different. The institutes will





now be more closely allied than ever‘





with the Farm Bureaus.





 





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HOISTEIN breeders everywhere In





will be pleased to hear that Prbf.

William M. Rider has recently accept-

ed the appointment of Director of EX-.





 





tenoi‘on Service of The Holotein‘ll‘rie. . -





 





Professor Rider is thoroughly posted,

well qualified and competent in the

field covered by the association.





MILK PRICES FOR SEPTEMBER

AND OCTOBER.





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.EADERS will be interested in



learning the prices paid for milk



during September and October, by

the various condensaries and milk

powder plants of the state. Here is

the list as gathered by the Minhigan

Director of Markets:



Dry Milk Company, Charlotte: Sep-

tember $2. 80, October $3 30 for 3.5 per

cent milk; one per cent additional for

each 1-10 of one per cent butter-fat.



Detroit Creamery Company, Owosso:

September and October $3. 00 for 3.5

per cent milk; three cents per point

above or below; thirty cents deducted

for hauling.



Detroit Creamery Company, Brigh-

ton: September and October $3. 26 for

3.5 per cent milk.



Grand Ledge Milk Company, Has-

tings: September $2.60, and October

$3. 00 for 3. 5 per cent milk.



Grand Ledge Milk Compan, Fen-

ton: September $3 10, and ctober

$3. 30 for 3. 5 per cent milk.





Borden’s Condensed Milk Company, .





Mt. Pleasant: September $2.70 for

3. 5 per cent milk, with three" cents per

point over and under from three to

4. 2 per cent milk October $380 for

3. 5 per cent milk with four cents per

point over and under from three per

cent to 4. 2 per cent milk. '

Western RoserVe Condo ed Milk

Company. Goldwater and Medals:

September $2.90 per cwt; October not

less than $3. co per cm. .

Hfielvetia gills: Condensing Company.

tember $3. 00. and Octo-

ber $3. 35 for .5 per cent milk: three.

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ber $2. 75, and October 3. 20 for 3. 5 per

cent milk; four cents added for each

1-10 of one per cent above 3. 5 per cent.



Libby, McNeil & Libby, Perrinton:

September $2. 90 for 3. 5 per cent milk;

October $3. 20 for 3. 5 per cent milk.



Lake Odessa Milk Company, Lake

Odessa: September $2.60 and 0ct0-,

ber $3. 00 for 3. 5 per cent milk.



Borden’s Milk Company, Sandusky:

September $2. 75, and October $3. 20 for

3. 5 per cent milk.



Borden’ s Milk Company, Howell:

September $2. 80. and October $3.35 for

3.5 per cent milk.



The Eckenberg Company, Elsie:-

September $2.90, and October. $3.00 for

3.5 per cent milk. .





WESTERN FARMERS BEGIN MOVE- .





MENT FOR NATIONAL CHAM-

BER OF AGRICULTURE.





 





_ ESOLUTIONS were recently offer-

ed by A.VA. Elmore, President of

Washington ‘Farmers’ Union, for the





erection and endowment of an Agri»

"cultural Temple in the city of Wash-





ington by the organized farmers of

America as follows.



1. Whereas, agriculture is the first,

the, most important, and the most

fundamental of all occupations, and



2. Whereas, there is in the city of

Washington no place where the farm-

ers of America can bring together their

interests and their needs, and



3. Whereas, labor, commerce, and

other great interests have established

general headQuarters thrOugh which

their demands «and desires can be

promptly formulated and effectively

transmitted to congress and the ex-

ecutive departments, and



4. Whereas, the farmers of America

have never had such headquarters, and

have suffered greatly from the lack

thereof, and



5. Whereas, at this time, the need

for united action among American

farmers is greater than ever before in

the history of our country, and



3. Whereas, the service which a 118.7

tional headquarters for the organized

farmers of America can render is

fgreater than ever before, now there-

ore

Be it Resolved, that the National

Board of Farm Organizations hereby

approve the erection, tendovvment and

maintenance of a Temple of Agricul-

ture in the city of Washington to

serve as a general headquarters for the

organized farmers of America. and



Be it further Resolved. that a com?

mittee of. seven be appointed by the

chairman with power to prepare mint.

and when such plans shall have beei





 





 





 

   





National Board of Farm Organised

to raise this necessary funds and th

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WARM summer like our past‘





one is seldom thought of when

i it comes time to pick apples for





winter storage. A summer of this scrt.





' ' ' causes the fruit to be over-mature at

‘ picking time and“ for this reason it will

. not keep- well unless it is picked and

. stored very promptly. The over-grown

‘ ‘fruit usually lacks firmness and does

' not keep as well as medium-sized, flrm

textured apples. To have the apples

keep well they should be fully grown

and well—colored, but still firm; then

they‘are in the hard ripe stage which

is ideal for storage. The seeds are

brown and the fruit tends to separate

easily from the fruit spurs in picking.

When the orchard is made up of varie-

ties of a different season it is custom-

ary to pick them in the order of their

maturity.~ If the late winter apples are

wanted for storage it is often neces-

sary to change the order. of picking so

as to harvest them at the proper stage

to keep well. Nearly always the ear-

'lier 'sorts are picked and sold for im-

mediate use, but the later ones must

, be handled carefully for storing. By

' all means do not make the mistake of

‘ ' picking immature, partly colored fruit

which is poor in quality, because it

will wilt and scald in storage, and of-

fers but little resistance to the many

forms of bacteria which cause sterage



decay.



Nearly all the decay of the apples in

storage is due to injuries received‘ in

the preliminary handling at picking

time. Skin punctures are probably the

most serious because they are the best

place for the disease bacteria to start

their destructive work in the fruit af-

ter it has been put in the storage

house. Bruises are nowhere near as

bad as the'punctures because they dry

and harden over in the storage house.-



In the picking process great care

shOuld be taken because a large per-

centage of all the poor apples which

come out of storage are due to this One

thing. Pick the apples when they are

“hard ripe,” full grown, well colored,

but still very firm. Never pick imma-

ture nor over-ripe apples for winter

sterage. After a summer like our past

one these points should be carefully





ULCHING strawberry plants in

M the fall is necessary in the

northern states, especially dur-



ing cold winters like the winter of

1917- 18. The prices at which straw-

berries have been selling for the past

few years have shown the grower that

'he can well afford to do everything

possible to his plants to increase their

bearing. The mulching in the fall‘is

one of these points to increase the

bearing power of the plants, because it

protects them during the cold winter

'months and keeps the berries from

coming in contact with the ground and

thus decaying. The four main objects

for mulching the strawberry plants-as





stations in the United States are: (1)



._ . prevents winter injury to the plants

‘ by freezing and thaWing‘;

tains a low soil temperature and thus





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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considered more than ever before.

Great care should be taken during the

picking that one does not pinch the

apples sufficiently to leave indented

finger marks, as every skin puncture





is the best place for disease to start





' work. Never remove the fruit from the



tree by a straight pull as this tends to

pull out the stem or breakoff the fruit

spurs. Breaking off the- stem leaves a

puncture in the skin for disease to en-

ter and breaking off the fruit spurs

nearl3r always takes a part of the next

year’s crop from the tree. Each fruit

spur has a fruit bud on most trees just

in back of the attachment of the ap-

ple to the spur, and by pulling the ap-

ples off one pulls off two years’ crops

at one picking. In picking for storage

break the apple from the spur with

the thumb. Handle carefully while

picking and do not let them get bruis-

ed during the process. Always keep

them in the shade and get them in tem-

porary storage as soon as possible af-

ter picking. Bright sunlight on the

newly-picked apple causes them to de-

teriorate very rapidly.



In grading, all specimens with brok-

en skins and pulled out stems or those

with disease infections, should be dis-

carded or stored in separate packages.

One or two unsohnd apples many

times is the cause of the loss of the

entire package in storage. Great care

should be taken in all the handling so

that none of the apples are injured by

careless treatment.



Storage scald is often times due to

improper handling of the fruit before

it is put in storage, It injures the ap-

pearance of the fruit but has no effect

on the quality. Some varieties differ

as to the susceptibility to storage

scald, the green or yellow fruit being

the first ones usually affected. Imma-

ture, poorly colored and over-ripe fruit

is especially subject to scald, and of-

ten times delayed storage in the warm

weather or allowing the apples to re-

main in the bright sunlight at picking

or grading time promotes scalding. To

reduce the scald to a minimum, and

develop highly colored fruit, keep it out

of the hot sunlight and store promptly

at a low even temperature.





MulChing “Strawberry Plants





application of any one of several ma-

terials if free from weed seeds and of

such a nature as not to pack firmly.

Wheat straw probably is the best, but

any kind of grain straw will be sufli-

cient. In some sections marsh hay has

been used and it is very satisfactory

as a winter mulch. Three or four tons

of straw per acre should be used and

it should be spread over the strawber~

rice to a depth of about two inches

when packed. -



"This mulch Should be applied in the

fall as soOn as the ground is frozen

so a cart or wagon is easily held up.

Some growers put the mulch on be-





fore the ground is~'well frozen, but it





will- be more successful to put the

mulch on after the ground is well froz-

en The!) in the spring about the time

growth of the plant starts, all the

mulch should be raked off between the

rows except a very little which is left

under the plants to keep the berries

off from the ground By all means

mulch - our strawberry plant's this felt?





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Alf You Can’t Get Coal-

Bum Wood





Coal will be scarce this winter—and hard to

get. Thousands will turn to wood for fuel. If

you’ re a fore- handed man, invest now in a

Disston Cross Cut Saw and a Disston Buck

Saw for tree- felling and cutting into stove

lengths. Disston Saws can’t be beaten for

quality. They’ re made right—from saw

steel of our own manufacture. There’ 3

nothing‘ just like it." Disston Cross Cut

and Buck Saws eat up the trees and the

wood pile. Look for the Disston Trade

Mark on the saw you buy. It means

long life and workmanship at its best.

Disston hand-saws are used by three out of

every four carpenters in the United States.





. Disston Saws and Tools are sold by pro-

gressive hardware dealers the world over.





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Saws and Tools for tho Form”





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PHILADELPHIA. U. S. A.

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T was the ambition of my boyhood curse of the sheep industry. Safety





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quently my first- earnings Were in-

vested in land. As my first investment





in stock I purchased forty-five hba‘d- of





sheep for forty dollars, and I have

kept sheep. on the farm, except during

one or two short intervals, from that

day until this. I never go by my sheep

or around them without noticing them.

I go out into their yard the first thing

in the morning and count the old sheep

and count the 111.111.115.11; is much eas-

ier to count the lambs while the flock





'1’ i'sl'ying doWn. as they are not so likely





to be hidden behind the old sheep.

encourage my sheep to lie in the yard

ovér night as I censider them much

0

Sheep should? be tame enough so

that they will lie still and let the per-

son who tends them walk around!

among them. I intend to keep water

and salt in the yard all the‘ time,





' and I think I can safely say that they





have had all the water they wanted to

drink every day for years. The salt





'blo’ck sometimes gets cleaned out» be-





fore I am aware of it. During‘the hot

weather they come up for water every—

I' realize that‘ dogs are the great





that I have for encouraging them to

stay in the yard over night.

has not been disturbed by (legs for

years. I keep bells,on them, hoping

that they will be some protection to





them. When a stray cur comes across '





the lot the sheep will-r1111 and the

bells Will jingle.





. One of the greatest dimculties I .

have had“ In keeping sheep is to induce _





a mother sheep to own a lamb- after

She has once discarded it. I have tried

111 the remedies I have ever heard of

without marked success. In fast, last





spring was the only time I ever had -





any success with a discarded lamb.

The mother sheep had a very nice pair





of twin ewe lambs, and I was very .

anxious to raise both. of. them. I caught .'

the old sheep every day and let the ‘





lambs feed, still she was determined to

have nothingvto do with- one of them.





I kept up this practice until the lamb

was three oriour. weeks old. By that ‘

time the lamb was large and strong ‘





and she fought for. her dinner until

she, tired her mother out,,then I had.

no farther difficulty with them.



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Feeding thc'J-Rabbits-





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"HE rabbit breeder who can feed

two or three times each day can

use a variety of cheap green



feed while the breeder Who is busy at

other work and feeds once each day at

night must use oats or barley or pos-

sibly bread ' and milk. Rabbits that

are fed twice each day can be given

plenty of green feed that costs little

money and on occasion the ration can

be varied with g1ound oats, boiled po-

tato peelings or cull vegetables from

the garden.



Many weeds that are pests in the

garden are greatly relished by rabbits.

Keep a basket and a spud handy when

about to gather rabbit feed and collect

dandelions, dock, plantain, and mal<

lows. They are all eagerly eaten by

the rabbits and the dandelions and

dock have a valuable tonic effect. They

seem to like dandelion better than the

dock. It is interesting to throw sev-

eral handfuls of diflerent kinds of

weeds and grass into the hutches and

note which will be eaten first. Accord-

ing to our observation dandelions come

first. Plantains and mallows are about

equal in their attraction If fresh clo-

ver is thrown in with weeds the rab-

bits will usually eat the clover first.



The winter feeding of rabbits need

not be much more expensive than the

summer ration. When grading vegeta-

bles many culls may be found which

are fine for rabbit feeding. The carrot

is the vegetable that they like best.

The rations for the rabbits need cause

no worry it plenty of carrots, oats and

hay are available. Some rabbit breed-

ers gather up all of the clover chair

that falls in the barn when the cattle

are fed. This is occasionally swept up

and stored in sacks near the rabbit

hutches. Salt is necessary in the rah.

bit’s ration and some breeders sprink-

le salt on the vegetables or the ground



oats and others keep a piece of rock

salt in each hutch. '



Rabbits are more apt tovbe over-fed





d than under-fed, especially when the





breeder first begins the business and

is thinking about the stock often. It

is best to keep them well fed and yet

just on the edge of hunger so that they

will always have a willing appetite at

mealtime. The cost of feeding a large





number of rabbits is not‘great and'the





value of the feed is probably not as

great as the value of the time required





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ing season and they will pay very well





for the cost-of their care. There isno .

animal that can produce more good .





meat out of a small amount of cheap

feed than the Belgian hare. the New

Zealand Red or the Flemish Giant

Rabbit.





CABBAGE MARKETS ARE WEAK.





 





RICES declined further in various



eastern markets. New York do-

mestic cabbage ranged at $13@15 per

ton in bulk f. o. *b. Rochester, and

ranged at $15@30 per ton in consum-

ing markets. Colorado shipping points

quoted steady at $1 per cwt. track

side. Wisconsin stock ranged at $40@

46 in eastern and middlewestern mar-

kets. Colorado stOck ranged at $2. 75@

3.75 per cwt. fo1 sales in small lots

in southern markets.





 





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The farm machinery and implements

should be carefully looked over before

it is put into winter storage quarters

and a list of needed repairs made out.

These repairs should be ordered at

once through the local dealers hand-

ling the several types of equipment,

so as to avoidany possibility of dis-

appointment when the equipment is

needed next year. Under prevailing





war conditions, only the farmer who -





anticipates his needs will avoid such

disappointment, while the farmer who





does not take this precaution will be /





lucky if he is not disappointed.





THE HEIFERS NEED. A CHANCE

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The dairy heifer should not be bred. ,





for her, first calf until she has attained

a. fair development. Nothing is to be

gained if one attempts to rush nature

by breeding young and immature heif-

ers. The man who feeds liberally and

gives ‘his heifers time to build up

large and vigorous bodies is on safer

ground than the man who is unwilling

to wait for this maturity. Successful

breeders understand that they must

not delay breeding: too long if they in-

tensity the milking habit, but they also

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, , ing through, digging by halid, and say:

451138 seed from .only- those hills that“,





tion of seed selection of all the

farm crops which we produce,





 





this is most particularly true of pota- '





toes and corn; but in the interest of

better farming it is well to keep the

pot boiling. Michigan being a great





,potato sectiop. a few lines on Seed se-

“lection will 'still be of interest to

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After a five-year test of seed selec-

tion If am convinced that no man who

raises potatoes for market can afford

to follow any other plan. Breeding





, '. holds good with crops just as it does ‘





with live stock and can he carried on

with ‘a tradition of. the expense. ,



A small potato from a hill of large

ones will be pretty sure to produce

fair sized tubers, while a fair sized

one from a hill of “bullets” is apt to

produce bullets. Renee; if we .plant

small potatoes we are planting a dozen:

representatives of scrubby hills to

each representative of good hills. On

the other hand, when we go to the bin



and select the largest potatoes for seed

we are devitalizing our

readers will have often noticed hills

containing but two or three potatoes

and they are usually very large be-

cause the whole strength of the plant





went to feeding these two or three tu- '





bers as against six to eight in the av-

erage hill; this means that when the

largest potatoes are taken for seed

each of these above mentioned hills

will be represented by its total number

while a largeper cent? of the average

hills will not have tubers largeenough'

to, be selected. After a few years of

planting the largest we are raising

large potatoes but they run very few

to the hill; our stock has become de-

.vitalized until we aren’t much better

(it! than the fellow who has been plant-

ing haphazard.



. By the process of elimination we

have arrived at the only successful so-

lution, viz., hill selection. The time

for hill selection is now, when the po-

tatoes are being dug; a part of the

patch should be dug by hand and the

perfect hills selected for seed until

"enough has been secured. In this man-

ner the farmer is enabled to breed

just the type of potato he wants, he is

net in danger of running down the vi—

tality of his stock and he is also too.

very large extent breeding aWayi from

various diseases—H. F. De La Mater.





 





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A MODEL Bordeaux mixing and fill-

ing station, with the raised plat-

forms and barrels made in miniature

form, was one of the most attractive

features of the interesting fair exhibit.

The model showed clearly how Boré

deaux mixture should be made, and

other parts of the exhibit testified to

the success of the use of this mixture

in spraying potatoes for'blight. Good

results are'reported from the potato-

spraying demonstrations which have

been‘ held in various parts of 'Maine,

and ‘many prominent ‘grOWers who

have carefully followed directions in





mixing and applying their Bordeaux ‘





are now very enthusiastic over the re-

ssults they have obtained. County

in the Maine potato- growing

districts are assisting in selecting

home— grown seed potatoes. All dis-





: eased and Weak hills have been pulled ,

from the seed plot during the/growing ' '

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HERE are more than twenty-



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United States, the visitor at the

National Dairy Show, held at Cdlum-

bus, Ohio, last week was informed as

he walked through the exhibits of the

United States Department of Agricul-

ture. Butter production aggregates

nearly two billion pounds a year, most

of it being produced on farms. Nearly

four hundred million pounds of cheese

and two billion pounds of condensed

milk are made each yea-r. Both these

,industries are developing rapidly.



Bull associations and cow-testing as-

sociations constituted the displays

from the federal dairy division. There

are now forty-four bull associations in

eighteen states, and all are showing

that dairy production can be put on a

much higher, more profitable plane by

this method of breeding. Cow-testing

associations number three hundred and

fifty- -,three Wisconsin leading with one

hundred and twelve.



The value of the bull in the herd im-

provement was shown by an exhibit of

eleven daughters of King of the Pon-

tiac’s Son, seven of which just old

enough to freshen are producing above

sixty pounds of butter monthly. Six

daughters of one bull in a Maryland

bull association each produced ninety-

three pounds at the same age. The

South Dakota State College told the

same lesson. ’



How futile it is to try to pick a cow

on appearance alone was illustrated in

an exhibit of ten cows. “Pick the

Best Five Cows,” challenged the pla-

card. You were not safe in passing

judgment there, for likely “the first

would be last and the last first.”



How milk should be cared for in the

home was well illustrated by photo-

graphs in the exhibit of the Bureau of

Animal Industry, showing that this

food must also be kept in a cool, clean

place. Here we a1€o found that the

lowly cigarette'has a lien on milk for

it contains casein. Artificial ivory, im-

itation celluloid combs and buttons,

airplane propellers, oilcloth, water

paints, and even shoe blackening con-

tain some ingredients obtained from

milk. ’



Pasteurization was shown a safe

means to prevent the spread of dis-

eases transmitted through milk. Ster-

ilization of utensils has been found the

chief factor in reducing the bacterial

count in milk. Milk from a separator

and milk can, not sterilized, had three

hundred and twenty million bacteria

per cubic centimenter within twenty-

four hours, but other milk handled in

sterilized utensils had only one million

five hundred thousand after the same

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’Cooling milk is another important

factor in keeping milk sweet. The fed-

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run through a concrete tank where!

milk cans are cooled, and how the milk

should first be cooled in a surface

cooler. It also set forth the high val~

ue of ice, which can be obtained- on

many dairy farms and stored in‘a

cheap building. Not to mention its

value in sickness, in preserving foods

and in ice cream making, the invest-

ment is well repaid on any dairy farm

where milk must be kept very long. One

creamery had to send back to the

farms $2, 600 worth of milk and cream

because it was sour and tainted, while

$23 Worth of ice would have prevented

such loss;



“Eradicate tuberculosis before it

eradicates your cattle and s‘wine.” 'cau-

tion the federal officials. Tuberculosis

eradication is progressing rapidly and

the tuberculin test is proving a sure

method of detecting the disease. Less

than one per cent of the cattle reacted

in 1918. in the District of Columbia,

Where the test has had a thorough

workout, while in 1910 nearly nineteen

per cent showed the presence of tu-

berculosis.



For the Children’s Sake.



The advantages of milk in human

feeding, the use of milk and its pro-

ducts in the kitchen, and the proper

handling of milk were displayed by the

United States Department of Agricul-

ture and the Food Administration. The

children’s bureau of the Federal De-

partment of Labor and the Ohio Bu-

reau of Juvenile Research by charts

and pictures set forth many lessons

in children’s welfare and heredity. Dis-

ease prevention and care 'of babies

were also featured. How homeless

children are cared for in Ohio’s state

institutions was told by charts and

photographs.



Michigan Exhibit a Feature.



The great dairy question of the hour

was touched upon by a display from

our sister state to the north. The

Michigan Agricultural- College had- fig-





ured the cost of one hundred pounds ‘





of milk for next winter at $3.83, from

the total of which should be subtract-

ed $23 for manure. Data from one

hundred and twenty-one herds in that

state show that the cow in one year

eats 560 pounds of farm grains; 1,014

pounds of commercial cozfcentrates;

2,338 pounds of hay; 1,019 pounds of

other dry roughage; 7,056 pounds sil-

age; 340 pounds of other succulence;

and pasture worth $7.63. Bedding

amounts to 823 pounds; man labor 141

hours; horse labor seven hours. For

hauling milk $16.77 must be added;

taxes, insurance, etc., on cattle and

buildings‘ $27.03. Other incidental

charges, like veterinary services, death

losses, etc., make the total $227.75. The

credits are placed at $14.86 for 7.43

tons of manure, the value of the calf

(Continued on page 387).





It’s the Cabbages that Count





(Continued from first page).





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nessing a moving picture of him in the

very act of spilling the slop over his

patent leathers. Where there’s awill

there’s a way, and where there’s a

pocketbook of liberal proportions the

way is easier yet. Accordingly the so-

lution of this particular “farm p1ob-

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tram the car windows. It cost—so the

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'T: has happened. at‘ last. 'I have





been under fire and I did not run!





. To tell the truth, it was only be-.

cause there Were so many of my‘bunk-

ies looking ”that I was ashamed to!

It is funny stuff, this war game. When





.I first went into the trenches I was





scared to death for fear Fritzie was

coming over the top toward my sector.

Then, after three hours’ waiting for

him I began to fear that he wouldn’t.

Then they commenced throwing two





',million pounds of steel Shells a Second

"into us and I got scaréd- again and then





they did come over at us. At first I

was scared and then they shot-one of

my boys and I felt'just like I did at

school one 'time when a big fellow

slapped my little brother. I just want-

ed to climb out and meet them, and

the next. thing I knew I forgot they

were coming, because I noticed the

boy who leads prayer in the Y. M. C.

A. hut was right beside me, cussing

like a pirate. From that time on the

whole thing was very funny to me. I

laughed throughoutit all and spent

most of my time pulling my boys by

the coat tails to keep them from go-

ing over the top to meet the former

residents of Berlin, and chasing them

back to their trenches. '

Some of the felIQWS laughed like me,

some whimpered like school boys fight-

ing, some were pale as death, but ev-

eryoneofthem was fighting likesin,

and when the grey backs faltered, stop-

ped and then scurried back, in spite

of an“; could do the boys climbed out

on top of the trench and shot them

like rabbits. Not many of us were in-





. jured and if fighting the Hun is going





to be like this Iam a. happy boy!

Sammy, ‘mymside kick, has been cited

for bravery in action because one fool

doughboy went out as far as our wire,

shooting at the retreating Huns, and

they got him through the chest and





Sammy hopped over the top and

brought him in.



, Whoops, but we are pleased with

ourselves and nobbdy can convince us

that,— man for man, there is a nation

on earth "who can lick the soldiers

from the good old U. S. ‘ A.



But there is so much to this war

that I cannot hope to write it all to

you, and when I come home we will

get off in 'a corner and I will talk you

to death about it.



The big things in this war are being

done on high—aviation. If you hear

any man say a word against the ‘Lib-

erty Motor and our aeroplanes, give

him a swift punch in the snoot for me.

Lufbery, the greatest aviator ever pro-

duced in America, lost his life in one

of‘those speedy scout planes which

the Critics at home say we ought to

be building. He tackled a Hun edi-

tion of .the liberty plane with heavy

lifting power, two observers with swiv-

el mounted machine guns covering ev-

ery angle. I‘he little scout can only

shoot straight ahead and is easily shot

down while maneuvering for position.

The big plane like ours is also adapted

to bomb dropping and machine gun

'work against large masses of troops.

Don’t let anyone discourage you about

any branch of our army. We are do-

ing things over here you never hear

about.‘ I would give one of my ears

to tell you about it, but I can’t.





-We picked up a lot of Huns in the

scrimmage the other day and you

would have croaked to see their appe-

tites. ”They were so eager to eat that

they‘were almost willing to tell all the

Kaiser’s pet secrets for a good old





’Virginia smoked ham sandwich. And





these are the men who are goingto

hold (?) the Hindenburg line, says

Bill. Not on an empty pouch. Bill

himself could not fight without food,

but he keeps kidding the people of Ber-





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lin that his men will lick us corn- -.feds





‘Never!





Thank heaven some good is sure to

come out of this war. There is going

to be an end of this imported junk

from Germany, while the superior food

the folks back home have been send-

ing over will create a big demand for

grown-imAmerica crops. The day of

low-priced farm crops has gone. Never

again will you see 1892 prices quoted

for potatoes, corn, wheat, etc. No

more imports, man-power reduced here

and back home, and crops will never

go- down again; so seed to the limit for

1919, folks, for you can marry profit

and patriotism that way.



And horses and cows! - The farmers

of the good old U. S. A. want to breed





a big surplus to re-stock Europe.





Horses are buried by the hundreds,

although the big hospitals especially

for these faithful animals, are crowd-

ed with those they are trying to bring

back into usefulness. The Germans

swiped all the cows of northern France

and no other country except America

can supply these. Others have been

slaughtered to provide meat. Breed,

breed, breed! That's the way to do it.



One of our boys was out on patrol

last night and he came on a Hun who

was at a listening post. Shoving a

knife in the fellow’s midriff he said,

“Surrender ! ”



“Surrender?” replied the Fritzie in

perfectly good U. S., “I should say I

would! I have been looking for this

chance for nine months! I will'not

only surrender but I will work for you

till the end of the war if you will take

me back to that old New York farm

with you and get me my job. back. I

thought I was a Dutchman, but to hell

with the Fatherland. I want to get

back home!” More than half Of them

are sick of it now, folks. They cap-

tured one old Hun major who was





nasty and said, “Thank Heaven, my

son is killing twenty of you swine a

day.” Then, when they got him be-





hind the lines, a cheery voice greeted





him, “Hello, Pop! Did they get you,

too?”



I can just see you harvesting the

pumpkins, squash and potatoes, and

threshing the wheat, oats, barley and

buckwheat, and I seem to hear again

the whirl of the old blower fan on the

silage cutter. Gee, I wish I had a pan

of those apples that grow on the tree

nearest the house! That would be

heaven to me.



Tell Mary to forget that Red Cross

nurse sutff unless she means business

and is really fit for the job. The uni-

form looks mighty nice on the War

Savings Stamp poster, but after two

hours in an operating room she will

not look so pretty. They don’t put in

much time holding the hand of a hand-

some soldier boy over here. They

spend most of it scraping the mud off

him so the surgeon can find where he

begins.



It’s a great life, folks, if you don’t

weaken, and the only boys I have seen

over here who would go home if they

could, or who are homesick, are the

boys who have never got a lookin at

the first line of trenches or boys who

get no letters. Folks, tell everyone you

see and know who has a friend over

here to write them plenty of letters

and let the letters he cheerful. No

matter what sort of troubles there are

at home, keep them at home and do

not write the boys about them. We

manufacture enough blues here with-

out importing any. And if anyone of-

fers you any wooden money before you

hear from me again, don’t takeit.



(The boy the kaiser fears).





Cousin Bill Says:—He doesn’t care a

hang when the alarm clock goes off,

and he hopes it never comes back.





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within less than a. mile, of the

Courtrai-Thourout railroad, having al-

ready captured Menin, but seven miles





Ostend. Northeast of Verdun Ameri-

cans widen the breach in the Krim-

helde line in the vicinity of‘Landres.

was accomplished

against withering machine gun fire

Ital-

ians take Durazzo, a stronghold of the

Austrians, on the Adriatic Sea.——The

loss of life in the sinking of the Otran-

to is placed at 527, of Whom 327 were

Americans.—-—Official tests of the first

eagle submarine chaser manufactured

in Detroit, are, announced as being far

beyond expectations.——-Germany pro-

poses to France and other entente al-

lies that they refrain from bombard-

ing large towns until people are able

to leave—Minnesota forest fires con-

tinue to burn over a front of twenty-

five miles. Home guards are being

rushed to assist in fighting the flames.

——French doctors at the Pasteur Insti-





‘ tute report having isolated the germ





causing Spanish influenza.~The Dixie

highway between Detroit and Toledo

is officially opened for traffic.





Thursday, October 17.





Belgium.





and taken 4,600 guns—French cavalry

is being used to keep up with the flee-

ing Germans—Americans operating

along the Meuse to the north of Ver-

dun capture Grand Pre, an important

position in the German lines along the

Aire river.—Genera1 Allenby, who di—

rects the entente forces in Palestine,

has driven the Turks from Tripoli.—

The British government recognizes the

Polish national army.——State Board of

Health reports 1,821 new cases of

Spanish influenza and forty-one deaths

for the preceding twenty—four hours——

Food Administration announces an in-

creased demand upon this country for

food by reason of the several million

people being added to our list of de-

pendents through recent and anticipat-

ed recapture of territory in western

Europe.





Friday, October 18.





THE Germans are abandoning the

Belgian coast and seek cover be-

hind the outer defenses of Antwerp.

Allied troops enter Bruges and take

Lille and Douai.——British troops are in

the outskirts of Tourcoing, one of the

most important rail centers in the

northern battle area.-—The American

troops capture Cote Chatillon, the last

of three keys to the enemy’s lines to

the northwest of Verdun—In Serbia

entente troops are thirty miles past

Nish and twelve miles from the Bul-

garian front. Ipek in Montenegro has

been taken by the French—The Ger‘

man army command orders its armies

to cease devastating ‘places, unless ab-

solutely compelled to by military nec-

essity.~—The lower peninsula of Michi-

gan goes over the. top in the fourth

Liberty Loan campaign—Hungary,

Bohemia, and the Croatians declare

their independence of the Austrian

government—Fires in northern Minne-

sota have been checked—By reason of





in the state, Governor Sleeper orders

all churches, theaters, moving picture

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THE Allied troops in Flanders are until'further proclamation.





Saturday, October 1‘9.



BELGIAN coast now reported freed



of German troops. The enemy’s

Allied

armies are within eight miles of the

city of Ghent.-'—Tourcoing and "Roi-

hair are captured—American troops

supported by the British, make further

gains in the Argonne region west of

.the Mouse river. The gain at this

point is over a forty-mile front—The

Czechs-Slovak national council re-

nounces allegiance to the Hapsburg

dynasty of Austria, and’ announces the

principles for the foundation "of a new

republic—The food administration an-

nounces that sugar allotments for

household use will be strictly at two

pounds per person during November

and December.—Without a single dis-

senting vote the lower house of con-

gress passes the $6,000,000,000 defi-

ciency bill.



Sunday, October 20.





LLIED forces have nearly circled

Ghent, taking Ertvelde eight miles

north, Sleyding less than five miles to

the northwest, and Alost fourteen





miles southeast of Ghent and midway Y





between Ghent and Brussels. Hun-

dreds of Germans are fleeing across





GERMANS retreat from western the Dutch border where they are be

. In three months the Al- ing interned—American and British

hes have captured 250,000 prisoners troops advance three miles on the





front between Le Cateau and Bohain

to the east of Cambrai.~—Announce-

ment is made that the Fourth Liberty

Loan of $6,000,000,000 has been over.

subscribed.-——President Wilson tells

Austria that she has waited too long

- in her appeal for peace with the hope

of sharing victory with Germany, and

that acceptance of terms of peace laid

down last January is no longer the

basis of peace negotiations—Losses

from U-boat sinkings show a big de-

cline, the total for the summer being

‘around 260,000 tons, or about fifty tons

less than the monthly losses at the

opening of the year, and 100,000 tons

less than the losses .in March—The

National Wheat Growers’ Association

at a conference in Washington urges

President Wilson to fix the minimum

price of Wheat at $2.46 for No. 1 north-

ern delivered at Chicago.





Monday, October 21.





I T is stated that Germany’s reply to

President Wilson has been handed

to the wiss ministry. Unofficial verc

sions o the note declare that Germany

questions right of powers to meddle

in her internal affairs, offers to quit

Belgium, but says evacuation will take

months, and denies responsibility .for

crimes ,of U-boats.-—The British forces

cross the Selle river and sweep within

a mile of Tournai, which lies fifteen

miles east of Lille. General Foch

strikes at the enemy south of Valen-

ciennes and gains positions which are

likely to upset the German plan of

making a stand along the Scheldt riv-

er.-—-Mangin’s ~French forces ., crush the

enemy line north of Leon—Applicants

for army commissions by civilians will

be made hereafter through recruiting

subsections of the personnel branch

of the general stAff, agencies of which

are to be established in various cities

of the country. '





Tuesday, October 22.





ERMANY’S reply ’to President



Wilson’s recent» message evades

the principal issues, stating that the

conditions of an armistice should be

left to the judgment of military advis-

ers; i-t protests against accusations of

illegal and inhuman acts, denying that

the German navy in sinkingships has

ever purposely destroyed life boats

with passengers. It endeavors to cre-





' ate the impression thatGermany has





recently undergone a change in its

form of government, and' that in the

future a more representative body will

have a voice in affairs—It is reported

that King Albert of Belgium has at;-

rived at ‘BrugesH—eBritish troops cap-

ture the village of, Amcrral and are.

,within‘ two miles 'of .Valepciennes.——



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BY LOUIE wanna.

Don’t keep cows by the “dozen,"

Make each show where she stands,

If she’s ‘workin' fer Kaiser Bill,

01‘ for ur Uncle Sam.

If you wil test them regularly

And then keep weedin' out

You’ll have a herd of dairy cows

That’ll pay, there is no doubt.





You must deaL with ’em same’s the





grocer,

Right down to the cent.

Make ’em return agoodproflt

On every dollar spent.

A cow t’wont ‘payjfor the feed she

eats, -

J at take the hunch and moov’er,

Jus save' her feed {for e. better one

And cooperate with Hoover.





Before you sell your eggs ~

You count ’em once or twice;

Then take them to the place

Which pays the highest price.

You take the money he gives you,

And you count it o’er and o’er,

To make sure he figured right

Before you leave the. store.





But with your cows you’re diff’rent,

You don’t deal half so tight,

ou guess at what you give ’em,

And guess they pay you right.

You deal with your grocer ’bout twice

a. week,



With your cows it’s twice a day,

Therefore it’s mighty essential



To make each old cow pay.





Maybe “Lill” and “Rose” are winners

A workin’ night and day, '

But theiy’re boardln’ “Jane” and Liz-



2 e,» .

So cannot make it pay.

Why not sort out the ”boarders,”

And “put ’em on the shelf,”

Quit givin’ them the profit

And "get-a-de-mon" yourself.





You may think yours are all good,

Butit’s “dollars to dimes” they’re





no ,

You’ll find you have some "slackers"

Who’ll never go “over the top."_

Now the testing association

Sure has the “thing down pat,”

They are dairydom’s “Dun &. Brad-

street, .

They’ll show you “where you’re at.”





It sorts out all “four flushers,”

And makes ’em “show their hand;”

They can’t hide behind the good ones,

But each alone must stand.

After the annual summary’s finished,

There’s no way for the cows to

dodge, .

It’ll show if she’s a “real cow,"

Or just a camouflage. '





Our dear nation .is in battle,

Andv“with food we’ll win,” they say,



Be a patriot, do not waste it “

On the cows which cannot pay.



Your good wife is in the Red Cross,

But, of course, you cannot knit,



so come on, don’t be pro-German,

Test 'em out and “do your bit.”





 





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, Climax.





HIS picture was taken several

years ago on “Cloverdale Farm,”

the, writer's farm home, and

where rural free deliveryoriginated in

Michigan- The writer‘s two boys and

his father are posed in the act of mak:

ing, instructing and ' watching the

transformation of a “punkin” into a

jack ’0 lantern.

But there is a sad side to this‘ scene

for the writer. Father is buried in





33 By J. H. Brown . .-





.sibly never to return in this life.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





these full days, while the frost is on

the pumpkin and the fodders' in the

.shockJ’ As -we work we may often

stop to think of loved ones gone, pos-

It

is hard to go out into the cornfield and

work all day making big shocks, like

the one pictured herewith, and to

think that the son or brother who help-

ed cut corn last September is now in

the thickest of the fight over there,





 





The Idea Passes from Generation to Generation.





the family lot near the old farm at

Paul, the older boy, who

wanted to go to France and fight for

his country, was stricken by disease

and died a few weeks ago and was bur-

ied near Pittsburgh. Philip, who is





.shown trying to cut out the jack ’0





lantern under. his big brother’s ex;

plicit instructions, is now ‘ nineteen

years old and has been on the French

battlefield ever since last February.

His last letter was cheerful and he

was “dead certain" that brute might is

not right, and that right and justice

to all the 'WOrld will prevail.



And so, fathers and mothers, broth-

ers and sisters, of the Michigan Farm-

er family, let us make things hustle





working hard to help cut down the

brutish Hun so close to the ground

that he will never even sprout again.



The boys in France are doing a good

and thorough job and they must stay

until the whole dirty ‘mess of Huns

are cleaned out of existence. And we

here at home on the farm will spit on

our hands and cut the corn and harvest

the pumpkins, somehow, even if we

don’t‘have help enough.



And if, later on, Uncle Sam needs us

older fellers over there to help finish

up the job, We’ll go, without even stop-

ping to husk the shocks of corn. And

we’ll spit on our hands several times

on the way over so as to be ready

when we get there.





Epidemic Keeps People from Big Show





(Continued from page 384).





and the average production of milk.

Figures from Other States.



A dairy cow requires 1,997 pounds of

grain; 3,318 pounds of dry roughage:

7,248 pounds of silage; 720 pounds of

bedding; thirty-six pounds of salt, and

pasture worth $10.36 a year, Purdue

Universiay has. figured out for north-

ern Indiana. Overhead costs. total

$26.98. Credits, besides the average

production of 6,915 pounds of milk, in-

clude a calf and 6.3 tons 0f manure.

The dairy department of the. Univer-

sity of Illinois gave this form la for

the'annual herd cost of produci 100

pounds of milk, based .on therecords

of 1,000 cows-in the Chicago district:





, Twenty pounds or home-grown grains;





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«599.7 per. cent of the total.

{the Pearson mpthml. is $2 .85,

‘ ran? 0“?! $2.84. while Hoover figures.

' fit $2.79 per cwt.- ‘





24 pounds of purchased grain; 50

pounds of hay; 188 pounds of silage;

39 pounds of roughage, and 2.42 hours

‘of labor. (This is the Pearson form-

ula). The Warren formula," based on

New York investigations, is as follows:

33.8 pounds of grain; 43.3 pounds .of

hay; 10.8 pounds of dry roughage; 92.2

pounds of silage; 8.3:poundsofwsuccu-





‘lent feed, and three hours of labor for





100 pounds of milk; this feed cost is





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while entries of: cattle were so. :

large in number leech. exceptional.





 





the different classes of dairy cattle for

high places, and because of the supe-

rior standing of the animals entered,

the judging was fraught with much

difficulty. We lack space for a detail-

ed classification of the winnings. One

of the outstanding features, however,

concerns one of our progressive Mich-

igan breeders. In the Brown Swiss

class out'of a possible forty positions,

L. S. Marshall & Sons, of Leslie, Mich.,

were given nineteen places. Consider-

ing the fact that other high-class herds

were competing this 'is an unusual





showing, and one of which this state





can well be proud.





BARLEY AND BREWING SITUA-

TION. "





 





1TH the closing of breweries in



the United States after Decem-

ber 1. any temporary dislocation in the

barley market should cause producers

little concern. Barley is an excellent

live stock and poultry feed, and alsoit.

will “be used to a larger extent than

heretofore in making flour. New meth-_

ads of milling this grain yield an exz





cellent flour for which there is active ,





demand.

The country will easily absorb the,





‘ lentine barley .crop, according. to Food.





Administration calculations, and the

battles; formerly used for brzewing will,





, it is hoped result in increasedramounts “

, _ _ :of milk. meats. flour, poultry products

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rain, through gas and

shrapnel, our boys are push—

ing on to Victory. It's a task

that tries the souls of strong

men. They must have rest

and recreation.



At the canteens, they buy

the little comforts of life at

cost. In the war-service

huts, they find everything

necdful to write the letters

you receive. They attend a

show, see a “movie" or hear

good music—all free. Al.

ways, they find in the hut

secretary a friend. They for—

get for a little while the grim

scenes of war and return to

duty refreshed. These are

some of the things that keep

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A Non-Essential Industry





HAVE never been overly fond of

I poetry and crocheting, two things



which poetic and artistic readers

of this department have frequently

noted and taken me to task for. I do

not know that I ever owned up to it

before, but I’ll admit it now, and con-

fess it’s a blemish in an otherwise

perfect character. Not that I’ve any-

thing against either poetry or lace, in

their place. I have a sneaking‘fond-

ness, in fact, for “Danny Deever,”

when some robust baritone growls it

out. But when friend Browning smug-

ly tells me, “God’s in His Heaven,

all’s well, with the world,” I don’t

like poetry, because it doesn’t look

that way to me.



Lace, too, is all well enough in its

place. I like lace on clothes and hand-

kerchiefs and window curtains and in

nice smoothly-rolled bolts in stores.

But I don’t like to make it. In fact, I

think it is perfectly senseless to make

it if you are a busy woma‘n, already

worked beyond the limit. A’ndgper-

sonally, I should scream and tear my

hair if I had to sit down and count

stitches and make the right number

of holes in the right places in a “scal-

lop” after having done a hard day’s

work. That sort of thing would wear

my nerves to a frazzle. But we’re not

all made alike and maybe it soothes

the nerves of the lace maker. Per-

haps that isn’t so hard on them as rat-

tling the keys of a clicking typewriter

Every man to his trade,





I let the lace makers alone so long as

they return the compliment.



Lace is all well enough in its place,

as I said before. But there has come

a time when its place is not on any

American woman’s work table nor in

her knitting bag. There is only one

bit of pick-up hand-work which has

any business there now. That is knit-





ting. It marvels me much how any





’v’mman can square it with her con-





science when she spends hours and

hours crocheting lace for herself, while.

soldier boys are in need of socks, mit-

tens, helmets, sweaters and other knit-

ted comforts.



The plea is, 1. .0w, that the knitted

things are so heavy they tire ones

arms and hands, while the lace is light

and easy to handle. But surely a. pair

of wristlets or of mittens are not so

heavy as a crocheted breadspread.

And I've known at least one woman

to complain of the weight of the yarn

while she calmly crocheted a stip for

her spread, using heavy cotton and a

large hook. And there is the plea. that

they simply can’t learn how to turn

the heel and make the thumb. Yet the

most intricate pattern in lace making

never phases these confessedly dense

women.



I have no quarrel with the women

who do not knit; I know there are

hundreds of women in America. who

haven’t time to knit—they are too

busy darning small socks and making

over father’s pants for Benny. "But

there are dozens of women in every

township who, while they talk beauti-

fully about the hardships our boys

must endure, and babble charmingly

about what they would like to do, nev-

er come across and back their words

with their deeds. If they knit at all,

it is to make a sweater for themselves,

thereby hurting the cause in two ways

——by using wool which is needed else-

where, and taking time which they

might better put into war work. Their

spare time is spent in making yards

of useless lace.



Lace making is of all things at pres-

ent a non-essential industry. The gov-

ernment should put it in the class

with pleasure cars.



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Delicious Carrot Cookery,





ELECTABLE dishes are made

D from the “despised” and humble



carrot. It is health-giving food,

blood purifying and is truly delicious

when the taste for carrot cooking has

been acquired.



, Carrot Butter.



Sift one pint each of~ stewed carrots

and stewed dried apricots, add one

pint of White sugar and one-half tea-

spoon each of ground cinnamon and

nutmeg, mix well and cook slowly un-

til thick like apple butter. Seal in

tumblers. This is good all the year

round.



Baked Carrots. '



Scrape as many carrots as desired,

cut in halves lengthwise. Arrange in

buttered baker on a bed of cracker

crumbs, grate over them one large on-

ion. Cover with beef stock, season

with salt and pepper and one teaspoon

of minced parsley. Bake one hour, or

less if carrots are small and tender.



Carrot Salad.

Dice four cold boiled carrots, two





' cold boiled potatoes and chop four





hard-boiled eggs and two stalks of cel-

ery. ‘Arrange‘ on bed of shredded let-

tuce and dress with mayonnaise or

French salad- dressing.

Carrot and Celery Soup.

Parboil until tender four. medium-





leed carrots that have been scraped





and sliced and one head of well

blanched celery that has been cut in

half-inch pieces. Drain and add one





[cup of milk, one cup of cream, and





one pint of boiling water Season

with butter, salt, pepper and‘ celery





 





salt to taste. Let simmer for fifteen

minutes.

ped parsley on top.



Carrot and June Pea Salad.



'Dice four cold boiled carrots in tiny

dice, 'add to them one cup of cold boil-

ed June peas and one cup of chopped

walnut .me'ats. Mix with mayonnaise

and serve on crisp lettuce leaf or in

tomato cups if a lovely color combina-

tion is desired.



Carrot and Salmon Loaf.



Shred one can of red salmon, chop

three or four cold boiled carrots, add

two well-beaten eggs and one cup of

bread crumbs, Salt and pepper to taste.

Mix well and add one tablespOonful of

minced parsley. Form in loaf and bake

until nicely browned. Garnish with

curled lettuce leavesor parsley.



Carrot Cream.



Mash two cups of boiled carrots, add

one pint of sweet milk, four well beat-

en eggs, one cup of sweet cream, one

package of jelly powder, one-half cup

of shredded cocoanut or chopped al—

monds, two cups of- sugar, vanilla flav-

oring. Heat to boiling point, adding

vanilla after removing from fire. Let

get cold, then freeze. Serve with a

bit of whipped cream and a candied

cherry on top.



Carrot and Beet Pickles.





Boil and peel twelve carrots and 'L





twelve smell beets until tender. Pdck





Lin jars with several, tiny White onions





and small green cucumbers in etch "jar.





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enough fine cracker crumbs to mix

well. Form and fry 5. delicate brown

in deep fat. .

Carrot and Lamb en Casserole.

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sauce. ', ' 1

Carrot and Raspberry Jam.



Clean six carrots and run through

the food chopper, add one quart of

fresh or canned raspberries and equal

.weight in sugar. Cook until quite

This is de-

licious. Fresh berries are best. Rhu-

barb with carrots also makes a de-

licious jam.



. , Carrots with Canned Corn.



Chop three boiled carrots and add

to them one half can sweet corn. Fresh

may be used and is better. Season

with salt and pepper, add one cup 01'

milk one tablespoonful of butter and

one cup of bread crumbs. Bake one-

half hour.



Carrot Chopped Pickle.



Six raw carrots cleaned and chop-

ped, one cucumber grated, two onions

grated, one tables'poonful fresh grated

horseradish, two cups of green temato

chopped and two cups of cabbage chop-

ped fine. Cover with vinegar twocups

of sugar, salt and spices to taste. Heat

and seal while scalding hot. I usually

add whole white mustard seed, whole

black peppers, cloves, cinnamon, cel-

ery seed and a half dozen pimentos or

'one red'pepper shredded. This makes

a delicious sauce for meats.



Carrot Candy.



Run three cooked carrots through

potato ricer while hot, add one- -half

Cup of sugar, one cup of chopped nut

meats, one package of lemon jello,

one~half pint of boiling water. (Dis-

solve the jello in the boiling water).

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Part of President Wilson’s address

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en in this war; shall we admit them

only to a partnership of suffering and

sacrifice and toil, and not to a partner-

ship of prifilege and right? The ex-

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in my hands instruments, spiritual in-

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Surgeon-General Gorgas of the United

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ervice have been enrolling through

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* entered the war at the rate of about





one thousand a month.' With the in-

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overseas, there must be a proportion-

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where. Besides getting more money for your cream, there is

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ROM the earliest historical times

cotton and cotton fabrics have

been well known. The' ancients

were well, aware of these, as related by





bears testimony to‘the fact. But it is

needless to refer to foreign historians

when there is ample» evidence in the

indigenous literature of the country of

the cultivation of the cotton plant——

“the white wool growing tree” of Her-

odotus—and also of the fabrics made

therefrom. Cotton thread and cotton

cloth have been known-in India from

the remotest antiquity“ It is related

of the Hindu gods and goddesses of the

Vedic period how they wore woven

garments. The Aryans who invaded

the country later found the industry of

cotton spinning and weaving well es—

tablished. In the Indian epics of the

“Mahabharata” and the “Ramayana”

mention is made of~ c0tton- goods of

divers designs. There is no doubt that

the fine muslins of Eastern Bengal,

such as “The Evening Dew,” or,“Run-

ning Water,” were made anterior to

In his ex-

cellent book on the “Cotton Plant,”

Mr. R. B. Handy, of the United States

Agricultural Department, mentions

that cotton thread and cloth were re-

ferred to in the laws of the Great

Hindu “law-giver, Manu (800 B. C.)

Professor Sayce, in his Hibbert Lec-





things with five dollars, a lot of

wonderful things that never have

been done before in this world, partic-

ularly by a boy. With that much mon-

ey a. Victory ~B0y, under a pledge to

earn and give five dollars, can pro-

vide his fighter for five weeks with

daily, hourly service of care and help-

fulness that will lessen the hardships

of camp and campaign, and make life

easierland' happier for the soldier and

sailor in various ways. Think this ov-

er. With five dollars you can send

comfort, cheer and entertainment to

one American fighter for five feeks.

-Any sensible person knows that this

could not be done for so little money

if 'only one five dollar bill were con-

tributed. It is a good deal like the

clothing store man who was asked

how he could afford to sell fall suits

below cost as he advertised. “Oh!” he

replied, “it is because I sell so many

at them.” '



There are boys on~ the farms in ev-

ery part of America in nearly every

one of the 3,028 counties, who can earn

and giVe five dollars to the United

War Work Campaign. This campaign

is made up of, the Young Men’s Chris-

tian Aesociation,‘ Young 'Women’s

Christian Association, National Catho-

lic War Council, (Knights of Colum-

bus), ‘ Jewish . Welfare ' Board, . War

Camp ‘ Comrimnity Service; 7. American

[Library Associatibnja'nd ‘ thielsalvatio’n

Army. Il‘h’ese organizations need at





A. V BOY can do a lot of mighty good





least $170,500,000; to continue their

- work for another yedr in this country

and in the countries swhere' ourjm‘e‘n ~-

are. fighting. . . Throiigh them“ a3Vic‘tory .





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were exported to the head of the For:

sfan Gulf ‘intthe fourth millenium Bi





C. ,Again,-itgis related by the Greek-





historian that the Indian contingent

who accompanied the army of Xerxes





in his invasion of Greece (.480 B. C.)' '





/were seen'in white cloth,,which could

not,be aught else but cotton. Asoka

is said to have sent missionairies to

Pratisthana of the Sankrit books, in

the Godavery district, and inscriptions

of the second century before Christ in

the Petalkhara caves refer; to the

kings and merchants of Prastisthanai





Further evidence is to be found of,

the growth of. cotton in the first cen-’

tury of the Christian era in Surash-v

thra, the ancient Syrestrene, which is

described as a. fertile country, yielding

wheat and rice, sesamumc oil andhgheé,

cotton, cotton cloths and silks of ‘a'

variety of designs. Pratisthana was.





‘an entrepot of the cotton industry.





The Sanskrit word for cotton is Kar-

pasa,.which is the same genericiword





as Kapas, commonly used all over 1113





dia. The Hebrews had a similarword

“Carpas,” the' Greeks “Ka.rposa_,ff and





the Arabs who called it “Kutan,’.",





whence the English Word cotton. Both

Pliny and Pollux state that cotton was

grown in the island of Tylos, in the

Persian Gulf, and, according to Theo-

phrastus, in Arabia also.





,A Victory Boy and $5.00.





lands and unaccustomed dangers; for

one or another of these organizations

sends its workers with the soldiers to

the training camps and over every

step of the'long and wearisome jour-

ney up to the front line trenches; the

good work of the five dollars need not

end there. It may follow the man to

the hospital, or into the prison camp.



And when we‘ speak of Victory Boys,

we do not mean to exclude Victory

Girls. There are plenty of things that

farm girls can do to earn five 'dollars

or more. There‘ are poultry clubs, can-

ning clubs, tomato clubs—all sorts of

organizations that city people know

nothing about in which the farm girls

of America earn money by good hard

work. Anyone familiar with the farm

life of America knows that every one

of these girls is just as patriotically

inclined, just as generous as the boys

or men; indeed, in many cases they

are very much more liberal. , . .



There is a Victory Boys’ and Girls’

campaign in your neighborhood; the

teachers will know aboutit. You can

pledge yourself to earn five’ dollars,

and pay the amount in installments,

~just as the men andwomen pay theirs

in the largercampaigns. But even if

you are not a Victory Boy or Girl, you

can help along the United War.Work

Campaign just the same, and these are

times when everyone should be an Am-

erican citizen. To be a ci—tizenmea‘ns

to support the army and the navy in

every way so;that victory may be, as;

tinted-"860119;" and more completely.





 





Getinto the war work. Y ou’ro needed. -‘
Pay .

The beginner“ in the poultry business

hears much ‘ act-fries concerning the-rm

lluction (at-winter eggs. ‘ He {nay-have



" _ hvflne‘fltick' of birds. and give them the

, . best at irationsjscombined 'w'lth: good

bare". “At the end of the month he» will



‘ ' study thefaccounts and determine the



profit or' lees; If the profit is very

small he will remember the extra work

for caring for the birds in the right

manner and he mayfigure that feed-

ing for winter eggs is not profitable.

Considered as a dollar and cents.

proposition it is often difficult. to show

a large profit from a flock of hens in

the winter." There are other important L

" . pointsjto conSider. A-flocksot hens-in

- order to live through the winter must

~ have some feed and to keep 'them in

the. best physical condition requires ‘ a

little -;more.~ If eggs are expected it

takes some more feed and a little more

care. The feed ‘will cost money, even

it the birds are only half-fed, but by

feeding enough for. egg production it

is usually possible to obtain enough

eggs_to pay for that feed, and. possibly

more. If the hens are only given

enough to keep them‘ alive, they will

lay no eggs andwill not pay. a cent

‘ , for the feed that they do receive.



“The largest profits from a flock of

hens will usually come during the

spring midsummer and the .‘healthy

flock which has come through the win-

ter! in strong vigorous condition is the

flock suited for breeding purposes. . It

takes good winter care to keep the

‘flock in the condition which later in-

creases spring and summer profits.

This does net mean that the hens to

be used as breeders should be forced





 





 





 





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In Winter





for winter eggs. Pullets’ may be forc-

ed for egg production. It pays to feed

- the breeders well to keep them strong

and vigorous, but they should not be

forced. ,



Considered from every angle we can-‘

not subtract the receipts from winter

eggs from the cost of production and

state that winter feeding for eggs is

not profitable because there is not a

cash profit visible on every winter day.



It is the healthy hen that makes the

annual profit and keeping t‘:e hens in



' . laying condition by good feeding meth-

' ods is necessary, even in the winter



when the egg records may be only me-



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’ ‘ HEN barley is to be fed to live

stock, the grain should be criish-



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' ’ . ley kernels. farm animals do not oth-

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ment from it. The single exception is



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‘ ~ Sick Farms Made Well .

By Dr. W. J. Splilman



As former head of the Government Bureau of Farm

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home on the subject ofsicl: farms. He has diagnosed

many desperate cases and brought them back to health. Dr.

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they will help you growmore crops and make more money.





Shall We Sell and Move to Town!





Before you make a decision, read this article. It gives new ideas

tram both sides of the question.





Getting Rid of , Boarder Cows





Boarder cows don't pay for lodging and food. Read how organized

breeding spots these profit-eaters.





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Handy Home Butchering The Family Honey

17w Right Way to Weigh Winter Quarten for the Tractor

First Aid for Winter Birds .





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What Will We Do

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CATTLE.





Wildwood Farms





Breeders of Best Strains of





Aberdeen Angus Cattle

and Duroc Jersey tings





Several young bull calves on hand, three of which

are of serviceable age. out of Black Monarch 111.

three times Grand Champion, Michigan State

Fair. Also several AI Brood sows. Will be glad

to correspond with you by letter regarding

stock. Write





SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.

Wildwood Farms, Orion, Michigan

W. E. SCRIPPS, Proprietor.





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TROJAN- ERICAB & BLACKBIRDS (BLACKCAPS)

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Good uality bulls of serviceable

gloverly Angus age and youn er. Inspection invit.

Geo. Hathaway and on, Ovid. Mich.





GET GUERNSEYS





If you want to increase your dairy profits you

need to know about the cows whose average pro-

duction. under tests supervised by State Agricul-

tural Colleges. is three times as great as the aver—

age of all dairy cows in the United States Ask

for' ‘The Story of the Guernsey.“





THE AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB,

Box I. - - Petersboro, N. H





GUERNSEY BULLS





Eighteen months old and younger. Grandsons of Gold-



on Noble 11; free from disease. Guaranteed in every

articular and at tarmers’ prices.



3.L L. BNY ER. ,. - - East Lansing, Mich.





 





 





 





Farm Guernseys. 40 head. May Bose and

Ballard other popular lines of breeding. State

tuberlin tested, free from disease Herd bull, son of

Don Diavolo of Linda Vista greatest bull of breed. A. R.

Cows, bred heifers, heifer 1 alves and bulls from A. It.

dam A nritc on each individual take your choice.

BALLARD BROS, it 4, Niles. Mich.





GUERNSEYS mufst reduce herd so offer

a few choice females of

Glenwood breeding also bulls. all stock of A. It. breed-

1 herd tuberculin tested.



155%. HICKS, Battle Creek, Mich.





 





a 45 Re istered head. all tb. tested. Nora's

IICI'MOYSM ing, son of I.mp May Rose King

headsourherdfL 90f hishalfsisters sold averagingS $1956

each. His bull calves are booked ahead at reasonable

prim. Avondale Stock Farm, Wayne. Mich.





G U E R N S E Y Sgd‘fglgl‘iflg

Go nat aiming blood of world champions.

HICKS'GHUBRNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Micly





Guernseys— that last heifer was

Registered sold in first issue. went to Ohio.

Another just as $011, will freshen this fall—4300

will buy her—s e is worth more. 4 years old.





Right in every way

J. . WILLIAMS. No. Adams, Mich.





 





 





Guernsevs: 15 high grade cows



Far sale and heifers. Re . May Rose bull

old and re cows. tubercu in tested.



GILMORE BRO. Camden, Mich.





Entire herd of Registered Guernse

For sale cattle 30 head May Bone Breedingy.

JOHN EBELS. 11.2. Holland. Mich.





accepted in payment of finely bredre -

‘ 600d "Old istered Holstein bull calves. ualigy

of the best. and at prices within reach of a 1.1 rite



GEO.D . DOLARKE. - - - Vassar. Mich.





 





 





 





l Alw aye Have Holsteins





To Sell





If wanting Registered cattle write me your wants

before placing your order elsewhere.





L.-E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio





OAK arm. Herd sire Lenawee Pontiac 011l-

amity LeKlng oflsr d"Registered Holstein bull olives

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I WinnuWood 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-

tance bulls' 1n the world. He or his dam are brother

or sister to six cows with records above 1. 2001b s. of

butter in one year and ten more abovel. 000 lbs. in a

$811.12 Flint Maplecrest Boys’ Dam 1s Gluck Vassar Bell

57 lbs. of butter in 7 day, 121 lbs. in 30 do a. Butter

fat test 5. 2‘7. 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

t.hem But we have 10 of his hull calves from 2 to 9 months

old with A. 11.0. dams which we now ofler for sale

at prices any dairy farmer can afford to pay. Just tell

us the kind of a bull you want.





JOHN H. WlNN, Inc.

Lock Box 249. Roacommon, Mich.





“Top-Notch”

HOLSTEINS





The young bulls we have for sale are

backed up by many generations of

large producers. Buy one of these

bulls, and give your herda‘ ‘push”.

Full descriptions, pr1ces, etc. on request.





McPherson Farms 01., Howell, Mich.





The Traverse Herd





This is the chance you have been looking for. We

will sell a few. good A. R. O. cows. One with 27.18 in

7 and 110. 85 in 30 days. Three others above 24 lbs. Come

and see them or write for descriptions and prices but

hurry for they will go quickly. Also a few bull ca-

ves for sale, the kind you will be proud to own. Pedi-



rees and risces oCnla {ligationE State age desired.

‘l'RAv 1-: T TE HOSPITAL



Trasvercse City, Michigan.





 





 





 





The Pontiac Herd-





“Where the Champions come from”





 





Oder Bull Calves sired by"sons of Pontllc Korndyke

Hengerveld DeKoI. Pontiac Dutchland. or Admiral

Walker Pietertje.



Do you want a Pontiac in your herd?





Pontiac State Hospital, Pontiac. Mich.





HOMESTEAD FARMS





A Federation of Interests

Holstelne: From a herd of 50 Holsteins headed by the

Bull King Zerma Alcartra Pontiac. son of King Seg-

is Pontiac Alcarta. the 850. 000 Bull we offer a num-

ber of bred cows and heifers, younger heifers and cal-

ves. and young bulls.



One particularly high class young bull now ready

for service.



If you want Holsteins of any class. will u please

write to us for descriptions and photographs?



Every animal





BLOOMING ALIE-te FARMS,





 





Bloomingdale, Itch.





CLUNY STOCK FARM





100--REGISTERED HOLSTEINS--100

When you need a herd sire remember that we

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

der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual

over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We

have size. quality. and production records back-

ed by the best strains of breeding.





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Fall Dairy Notes

FALL DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.





HE small-top milk pails have



been found by experiment to



keep from forty to seventy per

cent of the dirt out of the milk. It is

a. little more difficult to sun such a

milk pail but it can be done. The prac-

tical dairyman knoWs that it is impos-

sible to keep every microscopic bit of

dust and dirt out of the milk at milk-

ing time, even if the cows are perfect-

ly clean and the air is as pure as

good ventilation can make it. These

small-top milk pails are of assistance

in producing cleaner milk on the farm

and they shOuld be in more gen-

eral use. \



The barrel churn operated by power

is a practical investment for the farm-

er who makes Sbutter often. It saves

time and cuts out one more of the reg—

ular farm duties which tire the mus-

cles. Many farmers who have chang-

ed from the old dash churn to the bar-

rel churn are wondering how they ever

endured the dash churn so long and

when they adopt the power operated

churn the smile grows broader and

butter—making becomes a rather enjoy-

able and profitable sort of business.



It will pay to study the milking ma-

chines at the next fair. or dairy show

show Where they are exhibited. Many

farmers believe that the milking ma-

chine is a complicated and expensive

outfit that is only useful on a ”rich

man’s farm” where style is sometimes

more important than profits. This is

not true and many farmers who are

using milking machines find them a

labor saver and an economical invest-

ment. They are not too complicated

and the expense of such a machine is

no greater in proportion to its usefill-

ness than many other kinds of equip-

ment considered necessary on the

farm.





GOOD THINGS TO TRY.





BY E. L. VINCENT.





UT a pulley on the line shaft of

Pthe milking machine and gear it



to the grindstone, so that any

tools that need grinding may be sharp-

ened up while the milking is being

done. ..



In getting a washing machine for

the good wife, pick out one that has a

power Wringer attachment. Wringing

out clothes is the hardest part of the

washing. ‘



Rats came up our cellar drain and

raised hob with things in the Cellar

last winter. The other day we got a

good piece of fine—meshed Wire, gal-

vanized, such as is used in making sift-

ers for sand, and Cemented it right ov-

er the opening in the cellar. We don’t

expect to see any rats in the cellar this

winter.



Our boy came down from the hill

pasture with the cows the other night,

bringing across his shoulder the brush

hook that had been~used in cutting- the

brush. We gave him a good long

credit mark, for many times such tools

stay out all winter. That hurts them





     





' more than all the wear we give them.





cutting brush.

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Keep your hogs’ skins healthy

, and free from? lice and you’ll get

mere pounds oi high pricedlgork.

Sprinkle Dr. Hess Dip and isin-

tectant freely about pens, feed

‘ troughs and yards. Use it the.

year round to kill lice—to de-

stroy disease germs—to purify

the air--to ward 10f! contagious

.. diseases. Disinfect the barns

and poultry houses. Also use it

about the house, in the sick ream,

in sinks and ce‘sspools to estab- ,

lish better health conditions.





Dr. HESS & CLARK

Ashland Ohio





DR.HESS DIP





 

 

 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 





 

 





 

 





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Cost $2 .50 so far





One month old. 150 lbs. 50 lbs. whenborn.





“Blatchford's





Sellyout rmilk. Raise your calves on Blatch-

fords Calf Meal at $4 the price of milk. The

other 34 stays in your pocket as clear profit.

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We Want More Fresh

Hennery





EGGS





Write Us For Prices





F. J. Schaffer & Co.





Eastern Market. Detroit,Mich.





BHIGKEIS SIBK. 131210223121:

Limberneck, Sorehead.e the best remedy is

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POULTRY





B 11' Book Cookerels. hens:5 and nlletl

FOWlers 33:11]).Whitse HollandankeysSE 685m

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Foil s 111 B unsweetened

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P “[1 [-11:18 #11122 horna.thll°teWyanm otter.

WALTER PEIPPS FA_ 901nm Btu Detroit.





Rhode' Island Reds





Bothcom k 1- sale until De‘oem bar.

masuamfi'aw ° Lawrence, Mich.





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Autos meet all trains

About 60 head mostly A. R 0. Pontiac

-Korndyke breedin. bred to King

Korndyke Artis V'a e (2 nearest dams





aver e 37. 6-1; 7 nearest ever 31. 56)

son 1?me Korndyke Sadie ale. the

41 lb. sire; and Ra afi Apple Se Kernd-

yke,a 38lb. son of ag Ap 1e orndyke.

out of a granddaughter 0 King Segis. ,.





A few choice younger ones 01' both

sexes. »

Liberty Bonds at par acceptable.

All animals old enough are tuberculin

tested. ,

For catalog or other information, address





William B. Hatch, Secretary,





Ypsilanti, Michigan





Want Yearly Records?





Our new sire has four sisters whose semi-omclsl

records are 6'17. 742. 913 and 946 pounds of butter in

one year respectively 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 In!)



nude and she is also a granddau tor of Pontiac





eKorndyk s. with six dang tors above

pounds of butter in one year.





Peaceland Stock Farm, Illru IIIIII’S. Ilch.

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Port Huron,Mich.

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Five Cows





Yielded 11.58 lbs.





Buttorfat'jia 2! hours and 25.65 lbs. of solids.





These were the Holstein-FrIesians that won

the Sweeglt’; takes Prize of the Ohio A icultnral

Some henesrcst competitor n e 10. lbs be.

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lbs. solids not at.

e Holstbins always lead in production.





If interested in





HOLSTEI N CATTLE





Sendf our booklets—they contain much

valuabler information.





HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF

AMERICA, Box 164, Brsttlshcro, Vt.





 





 





 





 





 





Registered Holstein cow comin 3 ears

For sale old 9i white £100“me and tests sassy mi’lker.

kindandfgntle. sired . gran nKina a no Begin;

cow. Bred to 30 lb. bull. fro en soon

llcalves av. ’6 white. 6 tanionths old. sired

5{habove 1"!me Hmorveld Palmy rs Payne 1111'.





Price nd “malfectlvesly with all

no“: 111111111 sTocx

wis J. Benjamin A Son. SOHO, Mich.





'HOLSTEINS





5 yearlinona“. bulls from _.A 11.0, daughters of Johan





 





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R111 15m syn. freshen“ deep badge ed 11".. " “Pf“;

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Sired b litter bred bulls and

15mm“ d.ams





OHS of . a

The Producin Kind

with Jersey t an cam“!-





bred “cl ts (Dunes) Arind boars.

Brookyater Farm.





Jnnlcc Henderson.

Alan Arbor, Mich.





 





 





Howell, Mich.,





Bull calves from 25 and 32- lb.

3. 31-lb. cow.-





East Lansing,





1‘5 head Reg. Pereherons





For Sale list write





"I October





100--Choice Registered Holsteins--100





Quality Sale”





October 30th





A quality sale of carefully selected individuals including——





granddaughter of Duchess Aaggie DeKol Bery Wayne.

show cow, dam of 8 heifer calves in 7 years.





Heng. Count DeKol.

dams and a Yearling Bull from





A 27-lb. cow bred to a 35-Ib. sire.



A 25—1b. Jr. 4 yr. old daughter of a 33-lb. cow.

A M-lb. daughter of Sir Korndyke Monoe DeKol.

A 25—Ib.



A 21-1b.



A 24- lb. granddaughter of Piet.





All animals backed by strictest guarantees and sold sub-

ject to sixty day retest for tuberculosis.





55 cows, 40 yearling and two-year-old heifers,

2 heifer calves and 3 bulls.





Michigan Breeders’ Consignment Sale C0.

H. w. NORTON 'Jr., Mgr.





Michigan





AUCTION SALE

Tuesday, Oct. 29th 1918





At The Farm 7 .Miles East of M. A. C.





9 head Reg. Scotch & Scotch Topped Shorthorns

16 head of grade cows and heifers



25 head Reg. Duroc Jersey Hogs



100 head of high grade breeding ewes





J. M. HICKS & SONS





I. WILLIAMSTON,





R. 2, MICHIGAN





 





illio Farmstead Jersey Cattle. everal heifers breld

Lto freshen next fall. Also a few ifsr and bull cal -

ves of choice breeding. Colon O. Lillie. Coopsrsville. Mich.





M aple Lane B. of M .Jersey Herd. Bulls. bull calves

and heifer calves sired by one of the best gran -

Farm and out of . of M.





sonsof Pogis

Allegan. Mich.





99¢

dams. IB VIN FOX.





 





illside Farm Jerseys. ofler 3yearli bulls. backed



b tested dams. and sired by a doub e grandson of

Boys Majesty. first prize A: junior champion at Mich.

State Fair,good individuals. 0. 1110. Deake.YpsllsntI. llch





 





Me eridale Interested Owl No.111311 heads in herd

bull calves fronétlfiis Great sire and out of of M.





dates for sale. NEE. Allegsn. Mich.





For Sale Registered Jerse sly Callie





of both sex. Smi a Parker, R. 4. well Mich





HEREFIIIIIIS





8 Extra nice yearling heifers. 3 extra nice heifer cal-

ves old enough to weanA extra nice bulls from8 to 12mos

old not related to heifers. Prince Donald. Farmer

and Perfection Fairfax breeding. If interested





come and see them.

Paw Paw, Mich.





ALLEN 131195.,





f 1 nd PrimeLad Dthbreed

”t 0“c 5 «011111111111





BIDWELL 1110111110113"





For Beef and Mills.



Registered bulls. cows and heifers-Good Scotch and



Scotch— 'I‘oppcdm‘ll for sale? In mprime condition. Modern



sanitary!” equipmcn min utes from N. Y O.



depo hour from tToledo. “Chime. Automobile meets

all” trains. Wri





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,





BoxB. Tecumseh. Mich.





Richland Farm





, Shorthorns .





Biresin in:Service Fair Acres Goodsa 11m



Lorne-Michigan; Grand Champion Bull.n Attend



the Sher-thorn Sale at Oct 9th



vite Magoo to inspect the cows and heifers we have

in this ssl e.





. . OTT & SON,

nerds at Prescott. Mich. Oloc at Tawas City. Mich.





1w rices reash nablc.

udson.





 





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns





:rfi,mt§inonc of 11111111.?” find "I 1“;an prop-





?“ tanglpilice nascndpe. sic andseezwe

r..I> "“3. he " - . in. Pleasant. mos.





liolsolfl WWWMIIM

We 'zmm





“0:11de Itch.





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Polled and Horned blood lines

Herefords embrace FairfPar. Pulled Per ,





' Duroc Jerwy3 winneqat State and





SHORTHORNS





Cows. hellsrsay bulls for sale at farmers prices:

herd catalog mailed es. Horrieton Farms. Halt.licli





 





‘ Like This





‘ithe original big producc'rai ‘1





HAVE started thousands of breeders on the0 road to

success. I can "help you. I want htopleceone

MmmunIty notal

pers— —readr fo rinark

More Money from





C. I. mum, “R F, D 10 Matilda“)





 





 





 





BRED GILTS and

SERVICEABLE BOARS

.I. CARL JEWETT, Mason, Mich.





0. I. C. & Chester While Swine





Strictly Big Type with QUALITY. Have a fewsprin ‘

pigs either sex for 11111 e. Thev are of the right stamp

codW ones 11 to be shiped C. ..D

S STOCK FARM R.1.Mallatto. Mich





 





 





9 a few choice Apr. and May 183

0' I. C 8 either sex 1”Minding Holsteinheifgrs.‘





CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe, Mich.





 





o I c! I will ship C. O. D.. record free of charge

3 and pay t e express of men serilce boar

sold in Novomber.1F.(l.Burgess. 11.3. Mason, Mich





Choice 0 I C0166 Bears fosr “1:313.“ gsight

ELMER MILLER l. Oinrksville. Mich.





BIG TYPE POIAND CHINAS





Spring bear and gilts. Also fall pigs.

Hillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.





FOR 25 YEARS





This establishment has been head quarters for Big Type

Poland Chlnas. We have :1 nice lot 01 bears and sows

of strictly big type breeding at. very low prIce. Let

me knew what you want. Bell phone.



JNO.C .BUTL - - Portland. MIcli.





 





 





 





C. Mar. and April boars ready



Large type? to ship. the big bone, big litter.



biggest kind, that go out and make good. inspec-

tion invitczvd. Free ”veg from Parma.



LIVIN STON. Patina. Mich.





 





The Old Fashion itiiie‘in‘iflité’fié’t‘;

Sex for sale 325 each. line ones.





HM IWILLIAMS, No. Adams, Mich





 





Big type P. C. Big boned fellows fron Iow as greatest

herds. special prices nus rin bears and choice bred

E..J MATHE SO Burr Oak. Mich.





 





B15 Type Poland Chinas. 8 ring pigs for sale.

ealthy and growuthy From argeIIttei-s. Prices

right. L.W. Barnes and Byron. Mich.





Biz Type P C. 311211238131): “WWW

A.WOOD a SON. Saline, Mich.





 





 





Big type P. O. Boarcne yearling. Large and fine every

way 2 fall yearling 10 Apr. boars. VI rite for prices,

Satisfaction guaranteed. R. W. Mills Saline. Mich





 





LARGE Type P. 0. Spring bears and elite now ready -





to ship. None better In Michigan. Come and see

..J HAGELSHAW Augusta. Mich.





 





Shorthorns of Quality Scotch and

For sale Scotch To ped descendente ofArchel's

Hope. Avondalo. Msxw ion Salton and White Hall

Sulton b the Oscola Co. Shorthorn Breeders Ass.

JOHN S HMIDT, Soc. Reed City. Mich.





 





Seven Scotch and Scotch Topped bulls

ShOI’Il‘lom for sale. Price reasonable.





 





W. B. McQUILLAN. R. 7. Howell. Mich.

Bulls ready 101' service or the chole-



Shorthorn 1.. ma .1 w. Items meyou wa



A. A. PATTULLO. R. 4. Deckorvllle. Mich.





 





Dual Purpose Shorthorns all ages. a ton [loan 3 yr.

old herd bull. also Duroc Hog;k all ages.

CHAS. BRAY. - kemos. Mich.





 





 





HOGS





urocs Choice spring pigs out of selected sows and

Deli-ed by our best herd boars. Thev are of the bi

type. strong boned smooth and of excellent quality an

include some of the most popular blood lines such as

Orion Cherry King.Top Col. Defender Brookwater etc.

Prices reasonable. The Jennings Farms. Bailey. lich.





DUROC BOARS





Big 1011 .1111". growthy boars. The kind that will add



size an growth to your herd. Biggest March furrow-

s in county. Wei T3,}! 200 lbs. not fat.



31 TON BAR 11.1 St. Johns. Mich.





 





Bo.ars Big well develo ed March farrowed



Dpio s. The first check for 850 ta es the choice of the

A1 1110 o n or bred min at the same price.



3. C. HAG NBUOH. Three Rivers. Mich.





DU ROC S April and Mauigs of both

sexes sired by a Defender



For prices etc... write

WELLS aPARISH 1t SONS Allendale. Mich.





ring boars sired by Orion Cherr

“III” 1.189! Ki iwngc OaI Write for prices and desy-

oription. TAY 3.. Milan. Ich.





DUROG JERSEYS.





I. D. HEYDENBERK. - - - Wayland. Mich.





Illicit: Bum Jersey GIII: For Sale.





CAREYU. EDMONDS. - - Bastflings Mich.





Blg heavy boned springbosrs

F111J Pl (1 arl ounty

in. see or er s



DR yR. Monroe. Mich.





F.J CDT. I.





Ci-andell’s Big Type O. I. C’s





Champion herd everywhere shown in 1917. Herd

headed by five champion boars. Our sows won

Senior. Junior and Grand Champ Ion prizes at

lilllinois. Missouri. Ohio and Michigan 1917.

.Special prices on all spring piss Get our cats-

log it is free.





 





Crandell’s Prize Hogs, CascCIty. Mich.

Cheaters” not maul hgtmg‘fingaig‘n or





f 31's W‘fl “m ”mu“? v1.1.1. M11111.





 





wummmsue





 





AS’I“I fall swag?” adding” mod lot farm last sprin'g





Nashville. Mich.





Yorkshire Gilts





v5? igs that are Pigs)“,

For fall or inter Breeding.

OAK KOR ROFT. R.





' Hampshire sprin boars now read

Reg lStered at a bargain. Bragg gilts in Dec. y

JOHN W. SNYDER. R. itJohns. Mich.



type Polanu China s and fall igs either

Big elf” Bing p





sex. rthorn B bull calves Price

htROBEBT NEVE. Pierson. Mich.





Pontiac. Mich





 





 





to sell.





 





A FEW choice. large typeP. C. Sprig. bears

and gilts. also summer pig

CLYDE FISHER. R. 3, St. Louis. Mich.





L : P 0 Get a bear. pig sired by Smooth Jumbo the





I - largest bonedb boar in the state. also by Big

Defender. H. O. Swartz. Schoolcraft. Mich.





SHEEP





Hampshire





Shropshire acnd Oxfords. either sex. send for cir-





cular and pri

x0 PE 1:011c FARMS, KinderhookJ_Mich.





am oifering for sale 10 yearli

HamPShires Rams also 5 rain lambs n.

F. A. SIMMONS. - - Rockford. Mich.





 





 





 





' and Delaines havIn size co er . oil

Mer‘no fleeces. quality. rangi- worth vthiengpricey,

write wants. 8. H. Sander. R. 2. Ashtabuls. O.





“STRAIGHT BROOK STOCK FARM”





Hsmsp ires I have 22 yearling/s and 20 mm lambs Ici-

sale Besto! breeding. J. B. Wel ch. R. 1. 1011111. Mich





 





 





' Sh shi II (I I

Registered mi? ”1...? Si‘trfie‘a?“ ‘21'21 “3’3?

Prices 840 to 860 also a. few.bred ewes at 8 .

H. F. MOUSER. R. 6. Ithaca. Mich.



' 8 Ham hits

8 Shropshire Ewe Lambs $200 Ewe mm





8320 8 Ham hire Ewes (bred) 5400.

J. M. WILLI MS Box G No. Adams. Mich.





 





 





Sale—Eight Registered Yearling Shro hi

him each. one thee yr. old at 3&1. Si redpSy C8 rams

(81%)) that. was chain ion at Detroit.





O.V A.0Y thacs. Mich" Union Phone





 





S Am oflerin 8 yearlln rams Al 12

SIIIWShl" vosuufi eweszfor Decemzber 111.1133" so

0. J. THOMP . . Recife ‘3: Mich





R l h f 111 . i d l .

Shropshires If?!“ am “gufrrgme s to brain m

.McQUIL AN. - - - Howell. Mich.

' vearlinss and rain lambs. one Rope

W K .cldram. _Alleool- ttcnt

a. r. ANDREWan "- mulls. 111311.

“Uglflfl'fld Shropshire yearling ewes and Registered

Shropshire yearling rains. Represeii





tires ofthis flock have given satisfaction in many

since1890.Prloed to sell. 0. Lemon. Dexter. Mich





 





 





 





Brookside ram” otters “Shropshires of quality.- -lo~





ewes!)

DAN BOOHER. . .B. ,4, Evert. Mich.





 





 





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Additional Stock'Adacn hammers»,





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SECOND EDITION.





 





The markets in this edition were re-





.vised and corrected on Thursday after-





noon, October 24.





WHEAT.





Wheat remains firm and the demand

good. A large amount is now wanted

for export and the price advanced 1&0

over yesterday’s market. Price a year

ago in Detroit market was $2.17 for

No. 2 red wheat. Present prices are as





 





follows:

No. 2 red ............... $2,231A2

No. 2 mixed ............ 2.21%,

No. 2 white ............ 2.211/2





CORN.





The war and peace news had a de-

cided effect on the corn and oat mar-

ket yesterday, the price advancing un-





der the influence of President Wilson’s





reply that Germany must surrender be

fore peace terms are considered. There

was not much corn for sale in the Chi-

cago market and this caused a general

rise in price. In the Detroit market no

improvement was noted in the demand

for corn. Local demand was quiet and

the market was easy most of the day.

One year ago No. 2 corn was quoted in





the Detroit market at $2.08. Today’s

prices are:

No. 3 corn ......... . . . . .$1.40

No. 3 yellow ........ . . . . 1.45

No. 4 yellow. . . . . ....... 1.35

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

No. 3 white.... ......... 1.45

OATS. ‘

Oats followed corn on yesterday’s

market. The local demand is not

heavy. Buying by local mills has been





slow for several days and the market

remained quite easy throughout the

day, closing with a drop of 1c. A year

ago standard oats sold at 621/20. The

present prices are:





Standard ...... ..72



No. 3 white.. .............. 711/),



No. 4 white................701/2

RYE.





Rye is firm with a one cent advance





~ over last week, cash No. 1 now being





quoted at $1.631/2.





BARLEY.





There is no change in the barley

trade; the market is inactive and quo-

tations nominal; sales, by sample, at

$1.95@2.05 per cwt.





BEANS.





The bean trade is not active; the

market is quoted easy and lower.

At Detroit hand-picked navies are now

quoted at $8.85. At Chicago improved

demand is noted for the fancy, sound

stock Other grades are hard to move.

Michigan hand-picked pea beans, new

choice to fancy bring $8.25@9.90. At

eastern points the new crop is not

on the market yet, and the trade is not

as brisk as usual for the time of year.

The range of prices there for hand-

picked pea beans is $10@11.25, accord‘

ing to quality.





EEDS.





Seeds are in good demand at un-

changed prices as follows: Prime red

clover $22.50; alsike $17.75; timothy

$5 per bushel.





POTATOES.





As compared with last week the mar-

kets are stronger but on Thursday

there had developed a little weakness

in some of the markets from the pre-

vious day. The movement continues

to be large, although 'not so volum-

inous as three weeks ago. Michigan’s

shipments are rapidly increasing, the

number of cars started on Wednesday

of this week being 74, seven of which

were headed for Detroit. At Cadillac

whites, bulk, U. S. Grade No. 1, were

bringing $1.75@1.80 per cwt., and sack-

ed $2@2.05 on Wednesday the twenty-

third, with the demand good and the

shipments light. In Wisconsin farm.-

ers are getting from wagons at side-





track for the same grade in bulk $1.25

'.@1’.40 with a few stations' paying as

high as $1.50. Thepricein Minnesota

goes as high as $1.60. At Cleveland





Round Whites from Michigan, sacked,





'are bringing $2.25@2_.35 from jobbers:





at Buffalo $2.30 2.35; at New York

$3.25@3.75 per 1 0-lb sack; at~Pitts-

burgh $2.25 per cwt; at Cincinnati

$2.25; at -Detroit $1.75@1.90. These





“prices are for Thursday’s markets.





"paid





I! “Tittle" Change- ‘in‘ prices.





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Blush $5@5.50; common sorts $2@

2.50 per bbl. At New York apples are,

in liberal supply, with Jonathans quot-

ed at $5@8; Baldwins $3.75@4.75;

Wealthy $4.50@7. At Chicago supplies

are abundant and the market is dull.





- BUTTER.





There is an easier tone to the but-

ter market, with prices a fraction low-

er than last week. .Fresh creamery

firsts bring,541,§c; fresh creamery ex-

tras 55c. At Chicago the range for

creameries is 51@55c. In New York

creamery extras bring 571/1,@571/éc. In

Philadelphia the best creameries now





bring 580. '

CHEESE.





The cheese market is firm, and this

product is in rather light supply. At

Detroit Michigan flats bring 340; the





 

   





"brick 37c. ' In New Yorkstate {teen





, .





specials bring 33@331,§c; do average

run 32@33c. In Chicago high prices

have curtailed consumption. On that

market daisies are quoted at 35% @860.

At Philadelphia, New York and Wis-

consin full milk brings 32@33%,c.





EGGS.





Eggs are scarce and there is a good

demand for fresh receipts. At Detroit

candled current. receipts bring 49c;

do firsts in new cases 51c.

York western stock is quoted at‘88@

90c for fancy; mixed colors 50@600.

At_Chicago firsts bring 50@50%c; or-

dinary firsts 47@48c. '





POULTRY.





Poultryis firm and in better demand





than supply, with.prices for live as.





 





 





Live, Stock Market Service





 





 





'. Reports for Thursday, October 24th





BUFFALO.





On our market here today pigs sold





yearlings $11.25@12.50; wethers, medi-

um and good $10.25@11.50.





at $15.50 and other classes of hogs at DETROIT

$17@17.2g; lamb prices nian$g1e8d frrolfn Cattle



16@16.2 ; calves reache . e - ' - _

gattle tradetrules steady with "ester- dagece‘pts 3'043' Market 15 Steady F0

ay’s marke ' ' Best heavy steers ....... $12.00@14.50

CHICAGO. '_ Best handy wt bu steers.. 9.50@10.0,0

Cattle. Mixed steers and heifers 8.25@ 8.75

Receipts 16,000. Natives and west- Handy light butchers ----- 7.25@ 7-75

ern steers and good butcher cattle nght butchers .......... 6.00@ 7.00

strong to higher; others steady. Best cows . . . . . . . . ...... 8.50@ 8.75

Good to prime choice steers $15_25@ Butcher cows ........... 6.75@ 7.25

19,60; common and medium butchers Cutters .................... 6.00@ 6.25

$9,50@15.25; heifers $7,25@13,75; Canners ............... 5.50@ 5.75

cows $6.75@12.50; bologna bulls $7.25 Best heavy bulls ........ 8.25@ 8.50

@850; canners' and cutters $5-85@ Bologna bulls ............ 6.50@ 7.75

6.75; stockers and feeders, good $10,255 Stock bulls ............. 6.00@ 6.25

@1215; do, medium $7,50@10_25; veal Stock bulls .... ......... .00@ 6.25

calves strong to 25¢ highen Feeders ......... . ....... 9.00@10.00

H Stockers ................ 6.25@ 8.00





ogs.



Receipts 38,000. Market steady to 250

lower.



Tops $17.60; heavy $17@17.50;

mixed and light $16.50@17.60; pack-

ers’ hogs $14@14.75; medium and

heavy $14.50@15.75; light bacon hogs

$16@17,25; pigs, good to choice $13@

14.25; roughs $13.50@14.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 22,000. Market quiet but

steady.



Choice to prime lambs $15.75@

16.25; medium and good lambs $14@

15.75; culls $8.50@13; medium, good

and'choice feeders $13@14.50; choice

yearlings $12.50@13; medium and good





Milkers and springers $65@ 130

Veal Calves.





Receipts 998. Market steady.





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

Others .................. 7.00@12.50

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 7,526. Market steady.

Best lambs 1





Fair lambs ........ - ..... 13.50@14.00

Light to common lambs. . 10.00@12.75

Fair to good sheep ....... 8.75@ 9.00

Culls and common ...... 5.00@ 7.00

- _ ‘Hogs.



Receipts 6,785. Market 15@25c lower.

Pigs........... 15

Mixed hog





Reports for Wednesday, October 23rd





CHICAGO.

Cattle.





Wednesday’s receipts were about

13,000 head, including about 5,000

western rangers, bringing receipts for

the first half of the week up to 61,400

head, comparing with 64,818 for the

same part of last week. Smaller sup-

plies and good buying are putting the

prices up for all kinds of cattle, and a

further rise today places steers from

25@50c higher than at the close of last

week. Two loads of fancy 1,400-lb.

steers brought $19.60 today, being 200

higher than any recent sale, and three

cars of. choice western range steers

sold at $16.75, the grading of westerns

at present being much better than us-

ual. Stockers and feeders are largely

250 higher this week, with increased

sales of the $11@11 50-class and lim-

ited sales above these figures. The

best calves bring $16.25. Butchering

cows and heifers are mostly 25c high-

er this week, and canners and cutters

are steady. Fat cows and heifers are

bringing $6.85%14.35 and canners and

cutters $6@6.8 . . '





Hogs. . .

About 19,000 hogs were receivedto-

day, bringing the receipts for three

days up to 88,100 head, comparing





with 82,811 for the some portion of.





last week. " There was the usual digs]?

sharp decline in prices today, the _

being irregular, with t e. worst part off

it ”in heavy

@1765 for t, e’ poo .

with sales of'pigs at '$Il~@_15.2fi. ,

128:5 week's close hogs .mld at. $15@

' Q. '.. saving”. ' ‘

u ' ‘08” '8, O. ,. ',:a"srea,

Vgab‘ . ._ . . w A ‘ >





 





$1,,





ackersf‘f' has sold at $14 ,1

, ,ttothe best 1035; .





 

 





911 for the same time last week. The

lambs maintain their advanced prices

of Monday and Tuesday, with sales at

$11@16.25 and natives of, the best

class selling at $16, these being better

in quality than a short time ago. The

best feeding lambs are purchased at

$14@14.50, and many cOmmoner lots

go at $11.50 and over, while some ewe

breeders are going at $15.75. Yearlings

are salable at r$10.50@12.50, wethers

at $9.50@11, ewes at $4@10 and bucks





at $7@8.

BUFFALO.





' Cattle.



Receipts 30 cars; Good grades are

strong; others steady. Prime strs $15@

16.50; best shipping steers $13@14;

medium shipping steers $11@12; best





yearling steers $9.50@1.0; light year-





lings, good quality $12@13; best handy

steers $10.50@11.50; fair to good kinds

$9@10; handy steers and heifers mix-





‘ed $9@10.25; western heifers $9.50@





10.50; best fat cows $9.25@10.75;

butcher cows $7@8.50: cutters $5.50@

6; canners $4@5.50; fancy bulls $9@

10.75: butcher rb‘ulis $8@‘9; common

$6@7 ; “best feeding steers $9.50@10.75:

medium“ feeders $’8'.50@9-; sto'ckers at

$7.50@8.50...:~ light common $6.50@7;

milkersandsprin‘gers $65@150. . . '



‘ es ‘ can; '- ,‘ ..'



Receipts,” cars. ‘ Mar at is was

Heavy and. yorkcrs -$1'(.25%1C.50;'pigs





$15.75.. ‘ _. . ,

,ee ,an‘dLar‘n

as "7 ~‘ I" '.





Ye census ,





In New '





00 is $1 per‘ cwt.





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. ‘ .m‘oontemsmte

fintcrnatiggalia





 





fello‘Ws: No. 1_, springs '30@320; small

springs 27_@28‘c; hens :30@31c; roos-

ters 19@20c; geese 24@25c; ducks 29

@30c; turkeys I8;@35c per 11)..





Hay is quoted. easy, offerings are

increasing, and demand is active at the.

following .prioes: _. . ,7



No. 1 timothy. . .‘$29.50@30.00



' Sandard timothy 28.50@29.00 »





No- 1 mixed 24.50'@2.5,00

No. 1 clover . . . . 23.50@24.00 , .-





Pittsburgh.——Receipts’, while heavier

this week have been absorbediibytthe

demand‘and prices remain unchanged

as follows: . , ,, ,



No. 1 timothy. . , .534.50@35.00_



No. 1 light mixed 32.00@3,3.‘00‘

No. 1 clover 81.00@32.00





FEEDS.





Feed prices are steady with last

week. In 1004b. sacks to jobbers:

Bran $35@35.50; standard middlings

$37@37.50; coarse corn meal $59;

cracked corn $60; chop feed $45@ 8. y





DETROIT CITY MAR T





Farm produce continues to arrive in _

large quantities on the city markets,

the prices generally remain firmrand

the demand is good. Today potatoes

are selling at $1.30 per bushel; carrots

at 60@700; beets 600; cabbage 60c;

turnips 50c; parsnips $1.25; onions at

$1.75; Hubbard squash 75c; apples ac-

cording to variety and grade are firm

at $1.25@2; pears $1.75; eggs bringing

70c per dozen. ' '





GRAND RAPIDS





The feature of the market the past

week was the drop in the price of po-

tatoes on the city market to $1 per

bushel, but fully ripe fancy brought

$1.25. The decline was due to in-

creased receipts and the large amount

of green stock. Growers within a rad-

ius of forty miles marketed heavily

during the week. Indications are for

lower prices. The onion crop in’ west-

ern Michigan has been harvested; the

crop is large and the quality fine, the

price is 60c per bushel.



The apple crop is larger than esti-

mated early in the season. Shipments

by local jobbers the past week totaled

16 cars. The quality of winter varie-

ties is fine. Average price to growers

The winter cabbage.

crop is fair; growers receive 75c per

bushel. The crop of rutabagaas is only

an average one, and growers Sell at

750 per .bushel. Carrots and beets

bring 50c per bushel.-



Jobbersin beans pay growers $8.25





00. per cwt. for white and $8.50 for red





kidneys. Threshing . of new. white

beans in western Michigan is progress-

ing. Milling firms’ prices togrowers

forgrain are: No. 2 yellow corn at

$1.50; oats 70c; rye $1.40; barley $1;

buckwheat $1.25. .





LIVE STOCK NEws.





 





Chicago packers are discriminating

against heavy sows, and prices for '

hogs show the widest spread of the

year, with sales fully $2.50 per cwt.

apart. There. is. an especially good

call for barrows weighing 160 "to 220

pounds. _Hogs marketed in Chicago

average in weight ,236- pounds, com-

paring with 214 pounds a year ago.

Very few pigs are marketed. .

_Chicago cattle prices have shown

big declines recently on account of

greatly excessive receipts, and even

prlme beeves are away 011‘. 'Many of

the steers selling at $1315 shew reduc-

tions of $1 within a Week, and pack-

ers have, bought. load after load of 500,

to GOO-pound steers of the stocker kind

at $6@6.75, as country, buyg‘rs did not

want that sort, the. demand; running on

heavier feeders capable of being fat-

,tened in a short time and returned to

market...

,' Receipts of cattle in the’seven prino

cipal western markets for the year ,9}:-

ceed 10,000,000. head, showing a gain of .

about 1.600,headover the receipts'for

the corresponding peri d las’t‘year.

3%.increase was large y ink: light ~

_en 7 k, _ ‘ r r . ‘7‘: V .





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whoa-a own
am I It 1am territorial?





more diflcult—to kdop the organization

intact 7'- ‘



one of the principal’obstaeles to suc-

cesstul cooperation is the selfishness .

of the individual.





. ly on the support it receives from its



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portant that the members understand

cIsarly the purposes of the organiza-

tion and the methods by which it ex-

poets to accomplish the desired results

in order that they may realize fully the

responsibility resting upon them- The

members should not be led to exp ct

impossible results from an organi a-

tion. The making of sweeping claims

may Serve to attract people to the as-

sociaticn and may assist in its organi-



- zation, but unless the organization is

able to come up to expectations these

claims are likely to react very strongly

against the movement. Each member

should understand very clearly that

the success of his organization de-

pends upon him and that it is his duty

to do his part. Selfishness and petty

jealousies have no place in any coop-

erative undertaking. ‘



Lack .ol.‘ sufficient business to make

the operation ota marketing organiza-

tion practicable has'been the cause of

many failures. A cooperative mar-

keting association should not be under-

taken unless the volume of business

available is sufficient to make it worth ‘

while. As large a membership as pos-

sible should be secured. because there

is a direct connection between mem-

bership and the support accorded to

an organization. Disregard of this fact

has resulted in the failure of some or-

ganizations.



The attitude of farmers ina cemmue-

pity toward cooperative chart can not

be ignored in organizing an associa-

tion? The statement that a coopera-



_tive organization must be feunded on

a definite and 'well—felt ‘need in order

to be successful, is true to a large ex-

tent at least. If the growers have

not reached the stage where they are

ready to give up individual effort for

cooperative effort, the necessary sup

port to make an organization success-



> £111 is likely to be absent.



Social and Educational. Organisations.



There is a close relationship be-

tween cooperative marketing organiza-

tions and the more general associa-

tions formed for educational and social

purposes. Many communities are not

ready for cooperative-marketing activ~

ities, and frequently a social or educa-

tional organization in such a neighbor-

hood is invaluable in teaching its .mem-

bars the value or cooperation and~hovr



.5 .to cooperate. , Just as a child creeps

before it learns to walk and run, so a

Community has to understand the fun-

niwentals andthe requirements of co

operation before great results can be



, obtained ffrom organisation; An .- edu~

cational or- social association,- 'when

”properly directed, furnishes an excel-

lent place for a full and free discussion

of organization and marketing prob-

lems and in this way lays the founda-

tion for future cooperative marketing

activities.





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INDORSES AGRICULTUHAL

TEMPLE.





 





 





MR" RICHARD T. ELY, of Wiscon-

i am, noted economist and secre-





tary _of the American Association for

Agricultural Legislation, WW

'lows: “This idea of an ’ " tural





Temple in Washington is a splendid

one and I think it will certainly meet

with success I notice that yo); men-

tion particularly bureaus of researc





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The success of a j;

cooperative undertaking depends largo- 1





0n thief account it is imi—- ,





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How the packers have helped

to develop good stockyards





-—-and how this has benefited you as a producer





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WHOSE job is it to provide





and maintain stockyards, or ’





markets, for the open buying and

; sellirlg of cattle?





Who shall see that these mar-

kets have geod pens where your

stock can be properly watered, fed

and taken care of until sold?





Stockyards, in early days, were

not efficiently managed, and were

not financially attractive to inves-

tors, except in the largest markets.





As the packers built their big-

ca'pacity plants at the various live-

stock centers, they naturally





became interested in helping to





develop adequate stockyairds facil-

ities, where stock raisers could

ship their animals. ,





The present high efficiency of

most of the principal stockyards is

due largely to the time, the cfl'ort,

and the money the packers have

put into them.





All stockyards, including those in

which packers are interested, are

conducted as public market places

for the benefit of all.





They are open to all —— to pro-

ducer, commission man, dealer,

speculator, the packer’ 3 buyer —

and with exactly the same rights

to each.





Packer-ownership gives no spe-

cial advantages to the packer and

no control over live-stock prices.





These spot-cash markets have

been a factor of very great impure ‘

tancc in promoting the growth of

the live-stock industry. -





If stockyards efficiency can be

increased by Government owner—

ship and operation, all well and

good. Swift 81. Company ,is con-

tent to stand on its record of hav-

ing helped the live-stock industry

by the part it has played in devel-

oping these market places.





Swift & Company, U. S. A.





A nation-wide organization owned by more than 22,000 stockholders





 





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Eastern Market,





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