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Are Egg-Laying Contests Worth While?

 

Laid 238 Eggs in 10%; Months.

N a recent publication of one of our
leading poultry journals the ques-
tion was asked: What conclusions
are being reached in Egg Laying

Contests that are of value to the poul-
try public? What can the public safely
follow, after all these years of ex-
perimenting. '?

The paramount lesson which con-
cerns all, and which is repeatedly dis-
cussed as to which breed of poultry is
has been definitely solved.
Most modern breeds and varieties of
poultry have great egg laying possibil-
ities inherent, nearly all of our com-
mon breeds, such as Rocks, Reds, Wy-
andottes and Leghorns being repre-
sented in the “hall of fame” as contest
winners. We may conclude that no
one breed. of poultry has a corner on
egg production, but that higher fecun-
dity is a question of developing an ear-
ly maturing family or strain, regard-
less of breed, the variation of individ-
uals of the same breed being just as
great as the variation between differ-

ent breeds and varieties of poultry.

The choice of a'breed then resolves
itself into a question of personal “likes
and dislikes.” In every case the breed
you favor will prove the most satisfac-
tory, regardless of color, or comb, so
long as one breeds, for quick feather-
ing and early maturity.

Contests have also proven that two-
hundred-egg hens are a very substan-
tial present day 'reality. In the Sev-
enth National Egg Laying Contest just
completed at Mountain Grove, Missou-
rI, thirty-one per cent of all hens en-
tered laid two hundred eggs or more,
during the year. All hens entered av-
eraged 171.8 eggs each, making a profit
over feed of $3.11 per hen—this attrac-

’ ’tion given to the individual.
production of the flock is more quickly"
. and surely brought about by raising,
165 5998 In: FW" Winter Months. the standard of productiOn of the indi- tic, soiled, broken plumage, bleached

Not all t/ze Practicer of T/zose Hand/mg H zg/z-Proa’ao?

z'ng Hens are Safe for
Follow.

t/ze 14 ‘verage Person to

Reaa’ Waat E. C. Foreman

W/zo Selected lyinnerr at tlzz'r Year’s
Contest Says Aooat AMet/zoa’r. '

-tive financial record was made on a

strictly war ration, which only goes to
show that most available grains can
be properly balanced for egg produc-
tion, and that it is not necessary to
feed high-priced wheat in order to se-
cure a profitable production.

On the other hand, ten per cent of
all pullets hatched and matured are
either slackers or constitutionally poor
layers, incapable of breaking even in
the feed‘ bills. When we‘find such a
high percentage of hens unable to pay
for their keep, under perfect environ-
mental conditions, is it any wonder
that under average farm conditions
with damp, dark, filthy houses, irregu-
lar attention and unbalanced rations
that thirty per cent of our hens are
unprofitable.

The American or general purpose
breeds, generally carry off the honors
for highest production, during the win-
ter cycle, December, January and Feb-
ruary and usually finish strong at the

vidual. Mass or flock selection in the
past have proven futile but males from
high-record females of known ancestry,
mated to average flocks, show immedi-
ate results of higher fecundity of the
daughter.

Of recent years many poultrymen
have been working on different so~call-
ed systems and secrets, that would
enable one to select high producers
without the use of trap—nests. As a re-
sult of this investigational work the
“Potter and Hogan” systems have been
evolved as the sure “short cut” to pro-
duction. The “pigmentation test” was
developed and emphasized, the "egg
type” faddist was heard from and
many others of lesser importance.

To say that they were all wrong
would be an injustice, each and all
have merits. Enthusiasm in utility
poultry breeding as a result of egg-lay-
ing contest, and the ever present liter-
ature, or “dope” on selecting the layers
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Leading Pen in Barred Rock Division in Missouri Egg Laying Contest.

close of the contest, whereas, the light-
er breeds such as Leghorns, maintain
a higher production during the sum-
mer cycle of intense heat. The Amer-
ican breeds are not so susceptible to
sudden changes of temperature and
can withstand a more rigorous winter
but their inclination to broodiness is
developed to a more marked degree
than is found in the lighter breeds al-
though this trait can be entirely elimi-
natedby breeding and selection.

, Contrary to general belief, the male
bird has no influnece on egg produc-
tion, After the hatching season is ov-

er, either dispose of him‘ or separate

from the flock, thereby producing the
highest quality market eggs.

Probably the greatest g00d derived

from trap-nest breeding, is the atten-
Increased

coast. The “slacker” hen is forever
doomed. The poultry fanciers have
also seen the light, they realize now
as never before that the “Ideal” hen
not Only combines color and type but
that she must also carry efficient ma-
chinery to produce eggs in large num-

bers and for a long period of years—> '

this means she must have strong con-
stitutional vigor. .

The earlier contest reports decided
that three types of birds existed, name-
ly, egg type, dual-purpose type, and
beef or slacker types of hens.

The egg type, or highest producers,
were generally characterized as being

below standard weight (denoting quick '

maturity), with a cheerful, fidgety dis-

po'sitidn, nervous yet docile, very indus- ‘

‘trious, seeking food at early dawn and
retiring late. Rain or shine her Work

went on. Towards the end of the lay- ' -

'ing‘. season, her appearance was pathe-

 

Record of 268 Eggs in 10%.; Months.

legs and beaks, very late to moult, Oc-
tober or November. She would usually
drop all her feathers at one time and
if properly nourished would moult
and be ready for business again in six
weeks.

The general custom on the farms is
to market the old fowls during these
months, October and November, to
make room for the pullets. The meth-
od for weeding out the market hens is
based on either age or appearance,
which generally results in marketing
a large number of good hens, while in
this moulting condition. The big fat,
yellow leg hens appeal to the eye and
are retained—these are the poor pro-
ducers whereas the so-called “scrubs”
have been the profit producers, they
are consigned to the butcher.

The subject of “egg type” in poultry
has been widely discussed. Most prac—
tical breeders insist it is possible to
select the heaviest layers according to
type or body conformation but their
extreme demands included in this type
such as high tails, beefy combs and
long bodies open up the breach through
which the opponents of this theory
train their guns and open fire._

Whether the shape of a hen’s body
influences egg production or egg pro-
duction influences her shape, the fact
remains that egg types exist.

The accompanying illustrations of
heavy-producing hens in Missouri con-
test were selected on type alone, be-
fore a single egg was laid.

In referring to egg types in poultry
we are thinking more particularly of
the heavier breeds, and in them we de~
mand the elimination of size and
coarseness, to almost the point that

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DETROIT, JANUARY 18, 1919

 

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT

E C E N T L Y the

writer of this
comment overheard a
conversation on the
train between a trav-
eling salesman who
sold an important raw material and a
manufacturer who was a large user of
this material. The talk centered about
the question of production costs and
the future trend of prices for manufac-
tured products. These men, whose
judgment may well be considered ex-
cellent in their line, were agreed that
prices could not be materially cheap-
ened until labor costs were lowered.
The salesman was equally positive that
labor costs could not be materially
lowered until living costs went down.
In this connection he voiced a common
error among urban people that the
farmers were getting more than they
should for their products. In this in-
stance the farmer found an earnest
defender present, and these represen-
tatives and typical business men were
quickly disabused of this false impres-
sion.

This instance is cited merely to
again emphasize the need of a wider
dissemination of facts relating to pro-
ductiOn costs of food stuffs, The aver-
age consumer is essentially a fair-
minded man and will be willing to pay
a price which will cover the cost of

Educating
the

Consumer

production plus a fair profit and a rea- ,
sonable cost for distribution. But it is _

~ only by a better determinatoin of ac-
tual production costs and wider pub-
licity on this point that the consumer
can gain accurate knowledge of what
constitutes a fair price. At the same

time such knowledge will show him‘

that distribution costs are far too high
and interest him in evolving or help-

ing to evolve some plan of distribution ,
which will make possible a marked re- “ -

auction in distribution costs.

The interests of producers and, con-
sumers are not widely at variance in 7,
this matter. The consumer’s first in. ..
' terest should be an adequate supply of '

essential food stalls, and an adequate

supply can be insured only when pro- '

ducers have the assurance or hope of

a compensatory prise. Both produoe1‘t1

and consumers are interested 1h eco-
homing distribution. since this Will at
Once serve. the double purpose *0! as-
sumg ”a more compensatory price to
producers and cheapening the cost of
living to the consumer. This is a case
to which we can apply the old maxim
that “one- half the world little knows
how the other half lives ”

Any and every agency which will
better acquaint the consumer with thew
producer’s problem and give him a
greater personal interest in the prob-
lem of distribution will benefit ’both
classes. Such a mutual understanding
is, howeV'er,\most vital to producers,
and they should take the initiative in
bringing it about so far as may be
possible.

CONOMY in pub-

lic expenditures
should be the watch.
word in both state and
nation with the tran-
sition from war to
peace conditions. The first billion dol-
lar congress Is still fresh in the mem-
ory of Michigan Farmer readers. While
such a vast expenditure of money for
governmental purposes marked prog-
ress which contributed somewhat to
national pride, yet the apparent extrav-
agance of such an expenditure for gov—
ernment purposes was the subject of
common r.emark —

Yet fo1 the preservation of our na-
tional honor and to insure perpetuity
of our liberty we have viewed the ex-
penditure of approximately twenty
times 'that vast sum for war purposes
without criticism if not with compla-
cency. Likewise, we can well remem~
ber when our expenditures for state
governmental activities reached a
grand total of $3,000,000. In like man-
ner we have not vigorously disapprov-
ed of the appropriation of $5,000,000
for war purposes in our own state by
the last legislature and the expendi-
ture of a very considerable proportion
of that sum for purposes related to the
war by the State War Preparedness
Board.

Of necessity, these greatly increased
expenditures for both state and na-
tional purposes have involved the use
of the public credit to a degree which
will impose an unwonted burden upon
the present and perhaps upon future
generations. Unavoidably the expen-
diture of such large sums of money on
the public account has involved costly
mistakes and serious wastes. It is not
our purpose at this time to criticize
such expenditures nor to encourage
such criticism on the part of our read-
ers. The great object for which our
boys were fighting and for which every
one of us was working and hoping has
been attained. The battle has been
fought. the victory has been won, and
the result is well .worth its cost,
no matter what figures the final foot-
ing may reach.

But with a return to peace condi-
tions, retrenchment must be the watch-
word, and good public economy must
be the basis of governmental expendi~
tures, both state and national, if our
future welfare is to be conserved.

War vs.
Peace
Economy

I The . boomerang coupes
our legislature is not a staple one.
The determination at what is and What
is not a wise expenditure "of public
funds is not a simple matter under
preSent conditions What government-
al activities or public improvements
should or should not be undertaken
during the reconstrHCtion period is at
best difficult of determination, but
there is little doubt that the tendency
will be toward extravagance rather
than toward parsimony in the appro-
priation of public moneys which must
he provided by the imposition of some
form of taxation on the people of the
state and nation, since habit is a very
strong factor in the shaping of state
and national policies Which will to a
very considerable degree determine the
extent of public expenditures on'na-
tional and state accounts. The ideal
condition to be aimed at in thisregard
is that the people of the nation and
state shall receive the equivalent in
needed. service or material for every
dellar expended on the publicaccount
under peace conditiOns, an ideal which

manifestly could not be even approach-v

ed under war conditions.

If this verydesirable result is to be
attained, retrenchment must be the
watchword all along the line, and pub-
lic retrenchment is only to be attained
through public interest and the expres-
sion of public sentimbnt on this point.
It is the moral duty of every citizen to
make a close study of reconstruction
policies, and to advise his members of
congress and the legislature regarding
his views on these public issues, to
the end that the burden of taxation
may be lessened and the public inter-
est conserved.

OW that the war

is over and we
are getting on a peace
basis, it is good busi-
ness to take into ac-
count the cost of pub-
lic service in making sound plans for
the future. Under war conditions this
is not always possible, but under nor-
mal peace conditions it is quite as es-
sential that public expenditures be
carefully scrutinized and be made to
yield their value in either service or
material as it is that our individual
business be conducted along similar
lines. It is for this reason we have
sought information with regard to the
cost of the State Constabulary.

This organization was created by the
War Preparedness Board when the Na-
tional Guard was mustered into the
service of the United States as an
integral part of the regular military es-
tablishment. This left the state with-
out a military force of any kind at a
time when there was likely to be ur-
gent need for such a restraining influ-
ence on account of prevalence cf Ger-
man propaganda and I. W. W. activities.
Something of the history of the activi-
ties of this police force has been given
in our columns in recent issues. As
previously noted a portion of this force
has been maintained in the Upper Pe-
ninsula and its principle activities
have been in the apprehension of draft
evaders and liquor smugglers, although

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:owrzer’ .r from!» 9 177 next weeé’ : irate appear: tfieflmt of a
38776.1 ofartzc/e: on “Cooperative Farm Tenancy. ‘

q We would like to hear what land—owner: flow to my, ‘
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who! tenants have to my 072 4/17} Manon of learn, rank,

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crimes, from simple larceny to high»:
why robbery. in own to our. inquiry
the Auditor-General advises that the
total cost of maintenance of the state
constabulary from its organization to
date has been $661,422.58. This sum
includes the. initial cost of supplies,
equipment, etc, as well as the. expense
involved in the entire activity of the
force. The present expense of main-
tenance is approximately $30,000 a
month. It is a reasonable assumption
that under war conditions the ben-
eflts derived from such a State Police
Force were not wholly confined to
their punitive activities. The restrain-
ing force of such a body under war
conditions is an influence which should
not be overlooked. But this influence
is of far less public value under peace
conditions than under war conditions,
hence the desirability of maintaining
this State‘ Police Force should be
measured largely by the public service
which it is likely to be able to render
under such conditions.

The cost of this State Police Force
to date is doubtless greater than its
cost would be for a like period in the
future for the reason that the original
cost of equipment is included in this
sum, but as the depreciation in equip-
ment is comparatively high, this item
of possible future saving may be more
apparent than real. From the date of
organization the report of its command-
ing officer published in December,
shows a total of slightly less than
three thousand arrests, giving an av-
erage cost per arrest of something over
$225 each, which we believe the peo-
ple of Michigan will think is rather
high when it is considered that the
greatest number of arrests were for
crimes of a military rather than a civil
nature. Of the civil arrests the great
majority were for violation of the state
liquor law. When it is considered that
the majority. of these arrests were
made on the Ohio line and that Ohio
will also be ‘a “dry” state within a few
months, and that national prohibition
of liquor traffic will be enforced from
July 1 until the final demobolization of
our troops, it is a reasonable conclu-
sion that the public value of this activ-
ity will be greatly lessened in the not
distant future.

It is a reasonable conclusion that
from the standpoint of general service
as peace officers, the state constabu—
lary would not be worth its cost to the
public generally after this exigency
has passed along with the war need

for such a force. It is equally true that
the safety of the state in case of riots
or other internal disturbances is great-
ly enhanced by an available military
force to preserve public order under
such conditions. It is, we believe, true
that our old National Guard when mus-
tered out of the United States service
will be disorganized so far .as any
further use for state purposes is con-
corned. Provision for some other
emergency military force should be
made by the legislature in case the
state constabulary is discontinued. The
,so-called home guards or state troops
organized for home protection after
the National Guard was mustered into
the federal service, should form a sat-
isfactory basis for such a force and
should prove more efficient in the sup-
pression of riots in case of need than
a small state constabulary maintained
at a probably far greater cost.

This question is one for settlement
by the legislature, since the authority
of the War Preparedness Board to
continue the organization for. long un-
der present conditions is doubtful. It
is a question upon which public senti-
ment should find free expression, and
if so expressed such sentiment ‘will up-
doubtedly prevail to influence the ac-
tion of the legislature.
Will insure a careful consideration of
the relative merits , of the tam was
from the standpoint of public economy, ’
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-HE present yearwill be full of
things which never were before
and unless we are greatly mis-

taken, it Will be a most momentous
year as far as the farm and farm folk
are concerned. This year we have

been most insistent upon- produCtion '

and saving. _.NeXt year we shall see
' other things emphasized. No doubt,
management and efficiency will come
in for a large share of treatment and
cemmunity life will be expanded and
more pregnant with meaning.

In the past we have not troubled
ourselves much about the other fellow.
We farmers have become individual-
ists, following laws in general but our
own desires in greater particular. We
have heard much of cooperation but
haven’ t seen this bird in captivity for
’ very long periods. When the clarion
call to colors resounded throughout the
land, we put our individualistic ways
and ideas up in the attic where they
have since become molded and dusty.
We couldn’t rejuvenate them if we
would, for individualism is anoth-
er name for despotism or absolutism.
. Rich and poor alike have shared the
squalor of the trenches, the safety of
the dugouts and the exhiliration of vic-
tory. The army tolerates no individu-
alist. It proclaims in terms and un-
mistakable that it will have none of
this. Individualism and democracy are
inimical to each other.

Cooperation will be less talked about
and more practiced in the year to
come. Already the flaming torch of
learning is showing the way to better
teamwork and the past is only a half-
brother to the future. Most farmers’
organizations have come and gone af-
ter a brief though often volcanic exist-
ence, but we stand on the brink of a
permanent change. All the world—
business, labor, government and edu-
cation are organized, afl‘iliated and cor-
related—mutually helpful instead of
predatorily preying on each other as a
louse is wont to glean the succulent

Sick

HAT more depressing sight than
an abandoned farm? 'Who has
not seen at least one such ex-
' ample? The gray old house stands
doorless and windowless. The roof of
the empty barn sags almost to the
breaking points. Weeds unmolested
grow everywhere about the neglected
yards. Fields once fenced and culti~
vated now lie open to the commons,
the soil barren of vegetation except
for a few stray tufts of grass and gray
mullein stalks. The cause—a system
of farming which mined its limited
stores of fertility from the soil and re-
turned nothing, or, in still .plainer
terms, soil robbery, due possibly to the
stress of circumstances, but often to
' mere ignorance of the underlying prin-
ciples of permanent agriculture.
While such scenes are rare. in Mich-
igan, for our agriculture is relatively
new, they are not unkonwn. An analy-
sis of the causes of such conditions
here in this new country generally
ends with the discovery that live stock
has been neglected on that particular
farm, either because hay was grown
only as a cash crop and sold off the
. farm, or because it became impossible
to get a catch of clover and the num-
ber of head of stock had to be reduced
for-lackof hay. In the latter case it
is hay, or rather the lack of it, which
presents the most serious problem in
farm management. It is this inability
’to get stands of clover which has be-

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nourishment from its bovine host. Ag-
riculture must likewise hook up its var-
ious agencies and abjure the individu-
alistic state. In‘the name of progress,
this is the next move.

Various clubs and groupswill have
their membership increased; they will
combine their aims and enter the coun-
cil lodge together and in harmony such
as we have not seen in the past. He
who is now outside'should be inside;
one is much likely to see more look-
ing out.

Not only will a better coupling up of
rural forces take place but the owner
of each farm will heed the past and
measure the future by the experience
of that past. Learning and science are
making an earnest and forceful march
onward and he who would find favor
and prosperity must keep under the
kite, always remembering that the kite
string does nothing but follow and lash
the air that has been Whipped into mo-
tion by the kite.

In the past, farmers have said,
“Away with this stuff about increasing
production. What I want is someone
to do my marketing for me.” Even
state officials anticipating future favors
have been known to make like utter-
ances, all of which simply shows that
they have not been counting the public
pulse correctly. As a matter of fact,

‘no sane farmer wants any such thing.

Any activity that takes from the indi-
vidual his incentive to think individu-

ally is destructive and of paternalism.
Understand this, thinking should al-
ways be done individually, then the
wisest counsels should be combined
and action should be taken as a whole.
I have seen a few attempts to supplant

separate thinking and it does not look,

good to me. I have thought much as
to what attitude we farmers should
take towards production, marketing
and education and I have come to the
conclusion that production and mar-
keting, while both important, pale
away into insignificance in comparison
with education because they naturally
follow it. Yet there was a time when
so-called successful farmers ridiculed
the notion of farm education being val-
uable. Many of these men are dead
now and this mistaken idea seems to
have died with them. The generation
now in the saddle believes thz‘t safety
lies in knowledge and that ruin lurks
in the wake of ignorance. Farmers’
meetings are better attended now than
they ever were before. People are
there for what they can learn and their
questions and discussions show a heal-
thy tone in comparison with those of
five years ago.

Management of farm, labor and fer-
tility will be subjects of great import-
ance now. Until a few years ago, few

farmers ever gave any thought to man-.

aging the fertility of their farms. The
farmer sowed and reaped and let fer-
tility matters take care of themselves.

oils—-—Causc and

Evil Consequences from Sflort Hay Crops.

Remedy Lie; 2'72 Céaflge of System.
' By H. L. Barnum

decreased yields, unbearable poverty,

last year, but Michigan has some sec-
tions where the hay crop is usually too
small to support the proper amount of
live stock. Wherever such conditions
prevail the result of this hay shortage
is bad; for, with little clover sod and
stable manure to plow under, cash
crops, like potatoes and small grain,
are fast causing soil fertility depletion,

and abandoned farms. This condition
is serious. It is the beginning of a gen-
eral community decline which should
be headed off before the damage be-
comes irreparable.

The remedy, without a doubt, as
proven by many cases Where soil re-
generation has been accomplished, is a

"Plowing Under a..Second.Crop'of Clover.

He built his barn on a hillside and
expected the river to wash the manure
away. He planted the same crop, year
after year on the same field, pooh,

poohing the idea that there would be
diminishing returns. . He gave no
thought to fertilizers except to deride
them and claim that they stimulated
the land and when once used, must'be
continued. A few of these practices'

~ still linger but many of us have worked

our farms long enough to find that the
danger signals put forth a few years
back now exact attention. The kindly
stream with its valuable load of fertil-
ity has paled and lost some of its
load. The manure spreader has taken
over much of the load and the land
once being constantly impoverished is
being gradually though laboriously
built up again. Those who once said
harsh things about fertilizers now buy
them by the carload and farm manage—
ment is becoming acclimated to actual
use on the better farms.

Surely agriculture has stepped for—
ward at a dizzy pace during the last
ten years. One does not have to be
very old to remember _those who derid-
ed the idea of a perfectly well and
sane man riding on a sulky plow;
when laborsaving ideas were scoffed
at and all new-fangled things were as-
cribed to him of the under-nourished
brain and over-fed body. When the
cross-cut saw oscillated between two
men, wearing itself into a log—those
are only the days of yesterday. With
the old world now doing the quickstep,
who can say what will come with to-
morrow. Undoubtedly manufacturing
will take a big stride in an effort to
provide work for those out of employ-
ment during the reconstruction period.
It is probable that a large number of
inventions will be put on the market.
Probably the only worth-while thing to
do in preparation for this change is to
follow the old adage which runs, “In
all emergencies, keep your feet warm
and your head cool.”

Cure

system of farming which includes more
live stock, the general use of lime, and
the use of acid phosphate, both to re-
inforce the stable manure and to apply
alone with the grain crops to insure a.
stand of clover. In this system cash
crops are used only in a short rotation
consisting of cultivated crops, followed
by small grain, and the grain followed
by clover cut one year only. In this
system the soil is sweetened, and fed,
and rested by frequent and regular
change of crops. '

When the soil on a field or a farm
has been abused so long that clover
refuses to g1 ow no cheap simple rem~
edy will suffice to rest01e it to its vir-
gin condition. Its quickly available
plant food is gone and it no longer
supports a normal plant growth. Its
lime is leached away and soil acids
have accumulated in damaging quan-
tity. Its humus, or vegetable mold, has
disappeared and it dries out too soon.
Such a soil is said to be dead, deplet-
ed, exhausted, run out. It is all of
these, and it can only be brought back
to a profitable condition by recogniz-
ing the results which mismanagement
have produced and then proceeding to
repair the wreck step by step. Such
fields or farms do not by any means
present impossible problems; in fact.
it is not a rare occurence that, by
proper management, the wornout farm,
the eyesore of the community, becomes
the most profitable and productive
farm in the neighborhood.

The first step in reclaiming a. worn. -
out piece of land in Michigan is, amidst

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, WANT to briefly discuss several
’ comparative tests of fertilizers for
fruits at the New York Agricultural

Experiment Station. The first was
_:carri'ed'on for t‘Welve years ,in an. old
apple orchard in which the trees had
practically completed their growth be-
fore the experiment began. The soil
was a heavy clay loam fairly typical
of the majority of the orchards of west-
ern New York. For twelve years ap-
plications of potassium, phosphoric
acid and lime were made on an or-
chard forty-three years old, at the be-
ginning of the experiment. There were
some slight gains in yield for the fer-
tilized trees, but there were no differ.

'ence in color or keeping quality of the

friut between crops from fertilized and
unfertilized trees. Practically, if not
strictly in fact, the results were nega-
tive. The data'showed that it was not
profitable to apply potassium, phos-
phorus or lime to the soil of this sta-
tion orchard; that fifty-five years of
cropping had not reduced this soil to
‘a condition where it needs a “com-
plete” fertilizer. Stable manure or
cover crops plowed under in this or-
chard usually showed beneficial re-
sults the same or the next season. It
would be an assumption to say whether
it is the food or the condition of the
soil brought about by the organic mat-
ter, or both, that proved beneficial
when manure and cover crops were
plowed under.

The second experiment was with
young apple trees and begun in the
spring of 1896. Ben Davis stock set in
April was top-worked to Rome Beauty
in July, the buds having all been taken
from one tree to avoid variations. The
orchard was laid off in twelve plats of
five trees each. In plats one and six,
stable manure was used at the rate of
five tons per acre; plats two and eight,
acid phosphate at the rate of 350
pounds per acre; plats six and ten,
acid phosphate and muriate of potash,
350 pounds of the first and 200 pounds
of the second; plats four and twelve,
the above amounts of acid phosphate
and muriate of potash, plus 250 pounds
of dried blood and ninety-five pounds
of nitrate of soda; plats three, five and
seven and eleven were checks. The
first application of these fertilizers
was made when the trees were three
years old and fourteen applications
have followed. Tillage has consisted
of an early spring plowing and culti-
vation until about the first of August,
followed by a cover crop of some non-
leguminous plant. What are the re-
'sults?

The orchard bore its first crop of
fruit in 1902, trees six years of age,
and has borne sixteen crops since. An
examination of the individual records
of the sixty trees and of the twelve
plats, for the sixteen crops, shows very
contradictory results.

In any way the data are studied it is
impossible to find a very positive ben-
efit for one treatment over another.
The nitrogen applied is for most part
lost. The potash and phosphoric acid
are stored where “neither moth nor
rust can corrupt.” Thestorage, how-
ever, of these two food constituents in
a soil such as ours, where there are
already from fifty to one hundred
times the quantities of them needed,
is unprofitable business. One might
as well ”gild gold,” “paint a rose” or
“throw perfume on a violet.”

These are the facts, but facts signify
little or nothing unless they fit into a
theory. Farm and garden crops on the
station grounds respond generously to
applications of fertilizers Why do not
apples? The answer probably is, that

. there is an abundance of plant food in

the soil and the apple plant is pre-
eminently able to help itself do what
is set before it

 

 

(Part Two)

That there is an abundance of plant
food in most cultivated soil, many

chemists , now agree. In a wheat
field in Rothamstead, England, it was

found on land cultivated for centuries

and then subjected to fifty-four years
continuous cropping with Wheat with
out fertilizers, that there was still nu-
triment enough for a hundred or more
full crops. Much of this food is not
available but it now seems that by the
regulation of the moisture and by put-
ting organic matter in the sell where-
by we'secure the solvent action of hu-
mus and of the bacteria that thrive in
humus, much of the available plant
food in a soil may be made available.
How much, it would be an assumption
to say, as there seem to be no experi-
ments to prove this point. Indeed, to
attempt to prove it would make a prob
lem so complex as to be almost impos-
sible and so variable for different soils
as to require a solution for each par-

Hcdrick

Trees have a preparatory time of
several seasons before fruit-bearing
begins; farm and truck crops ,make
their growth, bear a crop and pass
away for mostrpart in a single season.
Trees begin to grow early in the spring
and Continue until late fall; few an-
nual crops are in active growth more
than half the time that the leaves and
roots of trees are at work. The roots
'of trees go much deeper and spread
relatively farther than do those of suc-
culent crops. Such data as are at hand
seem to show that fruit transpires a
greater amount of water in proportion
to its leaf area than do most succulent
plants, which means that the nutritive
soil solution may be less concentrated
than for grains and vegetables and yet
feed the fruits equally well. Fruit
crops are from eighty to ninety per
cent water and the leaves for most
part remain on the ground; in field
crops the product has a much higher

 

 

ticular soil. Notwithstanding the lack
of definite proof as to how much of
the unavailable plant food in a soil
may be made available, it may, I think,
be safely said from theoretical deduc—
tions that the yearly plowing, the con-
tinuous tillage, the well regulated sup-
ply of moisture and the addition of hu‘
mus by plowing under cover crops,
have made available the plant food the
apple trees in these two experiments
needed. ,

A favorite theory regarding fertiliz-
ers used 'to be, it is still held by many,
that the composition of the crop is a
good guide to the fertilizer require-
ments of that crop. Very unfortunate-
ly, there have been almost no well-
conducted long-continued experiments
to ascertain what the fertilizer require-
ments of fruits are. In America, there
have been less than a half dozen ex-
periments, planned and carried out for
more than two years, that by any
stretch of imagination could be called
fertilizer experiments. Therefore, hav-
ing no definite data for the apple as to
fertilizer requirements, practically all
of our recommendations for fertilizing
this fruit are based on the differences
in the chemical composition of this
plant as compared with the composi-
tion of grain and garden crops. But
the fertilizer requirements of fruits
cannot be correctly apprehended by
comparing chemical composition of the
trees, bushes or vines, with those of
grain and garden crops because their
habits of growth are entirely different
from those of the other crops. These
differences in growth need to be kept
in mind whenever the temptation
arises to draw comparisons between
the fertilization of orchards and of
fields or gardens. Let us sum up the
chief differences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

percentage of solids and the roughage
is not usually returned to the soil.
These differences in manner of feed-
ing, and in the crop 'taken from the
ground, to my mind, largely account
for the lack of results in applying fer-
tilizers in orchards, while in fields
along side farm crops have abundantly
repaid the cost of fertilizing them.

Almost as barren of results as in the
apple orchards are experiments carried
on with commercial fertilizers for
grapes in Chautauqua county, the chief
grape region of New York. Fertilizers
have been applied in six vineyards on
different soils for several years. The
results are confusing, contradictory,
and unsatisfactory but from them in
vineyards well'tilled, only the use of
nitrogen as a commercial fertilizer
could be encouraged—phosphorus, pow
tassium and lime were usually inert or
so nearly so as not to be profitable.

Seven other experiments, all decidu-
ous, tree-fruits being included, are un-
der way in different parts of New York
the number of seasons for each vary-
ing from one to five. It is too soon to
draw conclusions but the indications
are that nitrogen and potassium are
most often the limiting factor, that
phoniphorus is only occasionally needed
and that in these New York soils, lime
is very seldom needed for fruits.

What conclusions can be drawn from
these several experiments? To me
they indicate that in orchards and
vineyards, if well drained, well tilled
and properly supplied by organic mat-
ter from stable manure or cover crops,
commercial fertilizers are little need-
ed. The exceptions will largely be
found on sandy and gravell-y soils de-
ficient in potassium and the phosphates
and very subject to-droughts; or on
soils of. such mechanical texture as-V-to

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limit the root range of the plants or
in soils so wet or so dry, or so devoid
'of humus, or so close in texture that
soil bacteria do not thrive. These ex-
ceptidns mean 1'01 most part that a soil
possessing them is unfitted for fruit
culture. There may be some orchards
now receiving good care and‘planted
0n naturally good soil that: require adé
ditions of one or posSibly two of the
chief elements of plant food. Few, in-
deed, require a complete fertilizer.
What these special requirements are
can only be decided by tests with the
several fertilizers and are probably
not ascertainable by soil analysis.
These conclusions are .someWhat' revo-
lutionary but I' believe that they may
be properly deducted from the experi-
ments discussed, that they are sub-
stantiated by experiments elsewhere
and that they are abundantly confirm-
ed in fruit-growing experiences.

I cannot close without further em-
phasizing the importance in orchard
ing of paying attention to all the fac«
tors which contribute to" plant growth
as well as the supply of food, or any
factors as moisture, soil temperature,
aeration and the texture of the soil
must not be neglected. Any of these,
as well as the supply of food, or any
combination of them, may be the face
tor which limits the yield in an apple
orchard. Moisture is often the limiting
factor, in my opinion, most often the
limiting factor, carrying away plant
foods in open soils and restricting the
root run on heavy soils; in either case
the plant may starve though food be
present because there is not opportu-
nity for the plant to take up the nutri-
tive solution in sufficient quantity. It
is only when the water supply is per-
fectly adjusted that there can be a
fair test of the plant food resources of
a soil. The same is true in a lesser de~

, gree of the other factors named.

In closing, it is my hope that this
paper, much of it contrary to establish
ed teachings and practices, has not
confused you. Beside giving you brief-
ly the results of several long continued
experiments with fertilizers for fruits,
I have tried to present as best I could
the latest teachings of science for the
better understanding of the experi-
ments. The accounts of the discover-
ies made by science in this field, it is
hoped, will show you that fertility is a
problem to be solved step by step and
not a riddle to be guessed. Lastly, I
hope my paper has given you desire to
know more of the many interacting
forces represented in a crop of fruits.

 

EXHIBIT 6F “BLUE-BLOODED"
GRAINS.

 

EXHIBITS made up of samples of
“blue-blooded" grains harvested in
all parts of the state will be assembled
and placed on display February 3-7, at
the ‘Michigan Agricultural College.
The coming grain show, so it is an‘
nounced from the college, will be one
of the central features of the week of
meetings.for farmers, housewives and
home makers. The display will in-
clude representatives of all the pedi-
greed grain families, such as Red
Rock, in winter wheat; Rosen, in the
case of rye; oats of the Worthy strain,
and other grains of equal prestige.
It is the hope of the college to press
home to visiting agriculturists by
means of the show a keener realiza-

tion of the value of using high-yielding

varieties.

As indicating a possible use for idle
barracks in other places, the quarters
vacated by the student army training
corps are to be employed as “exposi-
tion” buildings. One of the barracks
will be commandeered for the grain
show, while others will be made use of
for other features of the week’s can
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HE palatab111ty of roughage de. ‘

termines its profitable and eco—
nomic consumption and has a

great influence upon the health of the.

sheep. It is impossible for sheep, es-
pecially breeding ewes, to keep in vig-
orous condition and furnish nourish-
ment to sustain the grovving fetus on
a low roughage ration. Improving the
roughage ration is a step toward suc-
cess in feeding sheep during the win-
ter. Legumes are the best roughage
crops. ClOVer and alfalfa hay are Won-
derfully good sheep feed and when
properly harvested and stored possess
a very high feeding value. These crops

' should be cut and harvested at a time
. when the leaves can be saved, which

’tion.

add greatly to their food value. On
nearly every farm there is a variety of
crops groWn in the regular rotation
that are admirably adapted for sheep.
A frequent change of roughage induces
a larger consumption and is beneficial
to the health and thrift of the sheep.
To furnish a variety of roughage does
not involve additional expense, and
with the wide variety of suitable crops
grown on our farms there is no reason-
able excuse for confining the flock to
one kind of feed for weeks at a time
during the winter.
Feeds that Insure Strong Lambs.
In compounding feeds for breeding

I y p C,

N discussing the breeding of regis-
I tered dairy cattle it will be well to

omit the “dual purpose” breeds—
that is, cows combining both milk and
beef. They, undoubtedly, have a place
in our American agriculture, but it is
not on the intensively developed dairy
farms where advanced methods of
feeding, breeding and handling the cat-
tle are practiced. The dairy farmer in
undertaking the breeding of pure-bred
cattle should select cows from those
breeds which have for many genera-
tions been bred to a high degree of
excellence for» milk and butter produc-
. 9.
The registered dairy animal is the
result of careful breeding for many
generations. With ancestry on both
sides of good quality'she is but a type
and fair representative Of What her
mother and her grandmother Were be-
fore her and of what her sire’s dam
and grand-dam were in their day. She

has the perpetuated excellence of her

ancestry and in turn properly bred,
will produce calves that will grow up

into 'cows her equal and possibly her

  

superior. It is this invisible dairy
quality inherited by the pure- -b1ed ani-
mal that justifies the greater cost of

.vproducing such an animal over the
common grade.

She has got the abil-
ity under prOper conditions to trans-
mit good qualities to the future gener-
ations of dairy animals. It has taken

‘many generations of animal life to de-

velop the leading breeds of dairy cat-
tle to their present degree of excel-
lence and this development along cer-
tain lines. and taking many years to
accomplish, has improved the qualities
which make them valuable.

It is only in recent years that it has
been possible to give a cow her exact
value and of course, equally possible
to give the breeds their exact value.
For this purpose prize ribbons at the
fairs, milk yields and the general opin-

, ion of the breeder were about all we
" had to guide us in estimating the cow’ s

value. In recent years, however, the

jealousy Of the advocates of the dif-
‘ fere'n't breeds and enthusiasm of breed-

have resulted in official milk; and
itsrwreoends of the many different
tier" such conditipns with

  

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:BYSLestc‘r J. Meredith *

 

    

 

ewes some form of green 'or succulent
food adds greatly to the efficiency of
the ration. It stimulates digestion and
assimilation and tones up the digestive
and circulatory systems. Ewes that
are confined to a dry ration and kept
in small yards and sheds have a ten-
dency to become dull and sluggish
which weakens the growth and devel-
opment of the unborn young. Some
form of succulent food will help to
counteract the irritating influences of
lack of exercise upon the digestive and
circulatory systems. Roots and corn
silage are the most palatable and valu-
able forms of succulence. Small pota-
toes and cabbages are also good and
are much relished by pregnant ewes.
Where no form of succulence is avail-

able oil meal will help to counteract
the detrimental influences of too much
dry roughage and grain foods.

A roughage ratiOn of any kind is not
sufficient. A light ration of grain should
contain as high a percentage of protein
as it is possible to obtain from a mix-
ture of home-grown grains. Corn, bar-
ley, oats, peas and soy beans make. an
ideal ration for pregnant ewes. Corn
may be fed Sparingly, but it is a fat-
producing food and its use must be
tempered with judgment. By feeding
a variety of suitable roughage and
home-grown grain feeds it is an easy
matter to regulate the amount of food
so as to bring the ewes through to
lambing time in a thrifty‘ and vigorous
condition.

Quality and Pro

‘Téree Essentials of the Profitaé/e Dairy

Caw-- C.

authentic and to possess great value.
The actual quality of milk and its val-
ue for butter-making is now determin-
ed with mathematic precision and a
few cows of a given breed have been
tested and compared with a similar
number of cows of another breed.
There have been many tests along
these lines, and each of the tests has
demonstrated the actual comparative
value of the contesting animals as com-
pared with other animals in the same
contest without in any way establish-
ing conclusively the actual relative
efficiency of the different breeds. These
tests, however, cf the milk produced

8. Ford

by the different breeds serve to indi-
cate that the Jersey, as a breed, pro-
duces milk containing the highest per-
centage of butter-fat; she is followed
in order by the Guernsey, Ayrshire and
Holstein-Friesian. The fact, however,
that the Ayrshire and Holstein-Frie-
sian cattle, as breeds, seem to produce
milk with less butter-fat, loses much
of its force in view of the fact that
they produce a much more abundant
flow of milk. These facts are men-
tioned to show how many breeders of
pure-bred dairy cattle have been en-
deavoring to increase the percentage
ofbutter-fat produced by their cows.

 

 

New Jersey Champion

 

OPHIE’S AGNES, a six-year-old J er-
sey,’ owned by Ayredale' Farms,
Bangor, Maine, has just surpassed the
coveted mark of one thousand pounds
of fat in a year. Sheis the first Jersey
cow to reach this mark, and she sur-
passed it by about the same fraction
that her granddam, Sophie 19th of
Hood Farm, fell short of it.
Besides being a remarkable record
of itself, it shows that champions can

be bred from champions, and that great,

sews, are. not necessarily-freaks: {of . na~

ture.
Sophie Tormentor,
greatness on both sides of her family

Sophie’s Agnes is a line-bred
and there is a

tree. She was bred by Hood Farm,
Lowell, Mass, and was sold at public
sale to her present owners for the rec-
ord price of $10,099. She is thus the
record- holder in two ways, and has jus-
tified the high price that was paid for
her. She was left at Head Farm to
finish her record, and she will now
carry her laurels to her new home.
A. J. C. C.

Ewe lambs that are to be retained
to replenish the breeding flock 'should
have the very best of treatment‘during
the winter. It is short-sighted policy
to save feed at the expense of weaken-
ing the future breeding qualities of the
flock. These lambs are the future
foundation of the flock.
of time and money to invest in improv-
ed blood and alldw its value to be lost
by improper systems of feeding and
management, and that is what thou-
sands of men are doing by neglecting
to give their ewe lambs sufficient nour-
ishing food to develop their inherent
possibilities. Every effort should be
made to protect these ewe lambs from
deleterious influences that retard their
physical development.

Provide Comfortable Quarters.

Thoughtful attention in arranging
the barns, yards and feed racks facilio

tates the handling of the flock, and '

enables the man in charge to approxi~
mate the needs of the animals. Grain
and roughage should be fed in separate
racks. If the weather is warm much
of the roughage may be fed in the
yards, providing one has racks. Light
racks that may be easily moved about
save time and labor. They should be
built so as to keep the dirt and chaff
from sifting down into the fleece while
the sheep is eating.

uction

Some breeders who attached too
much importance to breed type and
milk yields produced animals that gave
an enormous flow of milk deficient in
butter-fat. Such milk failed to come
up to the standard demanded by city
milk inspection; then breeders began
to see a light and to breed with a view
of increasing the percentage of butter-
fat through the selection of animals
from families of the breed that were
noted for the quality of the milk they
produced. The percentage of fat in
milk is of particular importance in de-
ciding the question of the yield as, un—
like the quality of the milk produced,
it is not influenced by the quantity or
quality of the food, unless by some of
the skillful feeders who employ forced
methods and unquestionable ways, of
handling the animals that are being
tested. The fat percentage is a heredi-
tary characteristic. The results ob-
tained by a few breeders who have
used sires from ancestry that gave rich
milk may throw light on this phase of
breeding.

In Denmark farmers had for many
years been increasing the flow of milk
regardless of its percentage of butter-
fat until some of their cows produced
more than fourteen thousand pounds
of milk annually. About thirty years
ago when the cow-testing associations
began operation in that country it re-
quired three pounds more milk to make
a pound of butter than it does today.
The improvement in the quality of
Danish milk is the result of selective
breeding. The work of breeding a herd
along these lines is sure to be compar—
atively slow because it is only small
fractions one is dealing with. If one
could reckon with a gain of several
points in each generation there would
be little difficulty in reaching a high
standard. Then, too, the higher we get
the harder it is to advance, but it can

be done and should bedone until a

fair standard is reached.

Many of the most prominent breed-
ers in America are making no special
effort to get above the market milk
requirements. The market is unwifling
to pay for higher quality and it is a.

mistake to try and increase the amount
of butter-fat unless it will“ prove profit?

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UNITED STATES NOW EXPORTS
HONEY.

 

INCE the outbreak of the war in
Europe the supply of sugar has
been greatly decreased, and it has been
necessary to find some substitute to
‘be used in place of it. Of all the var-

ious substitutes tried, honey has prov-.

ed to be the most satisfactory. The
sugar content of honey is very high,
and when used for sweetening purpos
es at the'table it may be substituted
almost measure for measure in place
of sugar. In cooking a slightly increas-
ed amount of honey will be necessary,
but honey has other qualities which
offset the fact that more of it must be
used. Pies, cakes, or cookies, when
prepared with honey, have a superior
flavor and remain moist much longer
than if prepared with sugar.
The domestic science bureau of' the
‘ Department of Agriculture, as well as
the home economics bureau of the
Food Administration, is doing every-
thing possible to teach housewives the
value of honey and how to use it. If
more honey were available in this
country its use would be more gener-
ally recommended by the Food Admin-
istration even now. Ordinarily, the
United States produces about three
hundred million pounds, and import a
great deal from Cuba, Porto Rico and
South America.

Big Export of Honey to Europe.

This year very little honey will be
imported, as most of the southern
countries will send theirs direct to Eu-
rope, where there is an unprecedented
demand for it. The export demand for
honey in the United States has been
greater than ever before. Several ships
with cargoes made up exclusively of
honey have left New York for Italy.
This is the first time in the history of
'this country that a ship has cleared
from- any port with a cargo consisting
entirely of honey. Before the war we
shipped very little honey to Great Brit-
ain, but now vast quantities are being
sent over.

The energy contained in sugar is
more quickly available than any other
form of food. Honey, on account of
'the fact that it has such a high sugar
content, and due to the fact that its
sugars are predigested, is an excellent
form in which to serve sugar to men
1 undergoing physical strain, such as is
necessary‘in the armies.

Honey as a food supply can be in-

creased without doing damage to any-

l'one, because honey is gathered by the

V bees from the flowers in the fields. If
this nectar is not gathered by them,
then it is wasted. The gathering of
nectar brings about cross-pollination,
and in so doing benefits the plants
which yield the nectar. In order to in
crease the honey supply, then more
bees must be properly kept to take ad-
vantage of this food supply, which is
open to all.

INDIANS RAISE FINE HOGS.

 

KLAHOMA Indians are taking a

leading part in introducing better
live stock, particularly hogs, into that
state.

J. A. Childers, of Broken Arrow, is a
breeder of Duroc-Jerseys that have
been winners at a number of fairs this
fall, taking ninety prizes in all. At the
,Broken Arrow District Fair he took
_-the championship on both boar and
sow. He is said to be the only full-
ublooded Indian that has ever shown
palm-bred hogs against .the white man.
‘ Recently he bought a Duroc-Jersey
slow for $500, the top price of the sale
in which the purchase was made. Mr.
‘Childers also took prizes on cotton,
cataohickens. horses and corn.

‘ :R.’ A. 'Wolch, of Red Oak, :1 Choc-

News Of the Agricutural

taw, is the first man in that part of the
country to invest heavily in pure-bred
hogs. He paid a Missouri hog man
$2,000 for a pig and an Illinois breeder
$2,500 for a young boar, both record
prices for Poland China pigs of their
age. On his farm is the ancient coun-
cil house of the Choctaws, and around
it roam many valuable porkers. He
has held two sales in which the top
price was above $1,000. His sales have
been attended by hundreds of persons,

business men in the district practically '

abandoning their ordinary affairs to
attend the sales and welcome the vis-
itors. In his last sale, while Oklahoma
and Texas hog men were the principal
buyers, ~many of the hogs went to
some of the leading herds of the corn
belt. On forty head a general average
of $258 was paid. This is one of the
best six sales of Poland Chinas report-
ed anywhere in the country this fall.

SPEED UP'ROAD WORK.

 

OOPERATIVE highway construc-

tion under the federal aid road
act must be resumed as quickly as
possible in full measure, the Secretary
of Agriculture, D. F. Houston, stated
at a conference of editors of agricul‘
tural journals held recently in Wash-
ington.

From unexpended balances of feder-
al appropriations for the last few years
from state funds beyond what was nec-
sary to meet the federal allotments,
and from amounts available during the
current fiscal year, approximately $75.-
000,000 will be available for expendi-
ture during the calendar year. Next

in

year, if all the balances should be ex-
pended during this year. and we should
have to rely solely on the funds ac‘
cruing next year, there will be about
$20,000,000 from federal appropriations
and probably more than this amount
from state sources, according to the
secretary’s statement. The states, in
addition, will expend sums in excess
of what they have assigned, or will as-
sign, for federal aid road projects.
Would Furnish Employment.

“It seems to me,” said the secretary,
“that we should take a further step——
take this step not only because of the
importance of good roadspbut also be-
cause of the desirability of furnishing
worthy projects on (which unemployed
labor during the period of readjust-
ment may be engaged. There will be
many things suggested for which fed-
eral and state funds will be sought.
Some of these will ‘be unworthy. Clear-
ly such public works as roads are
worthy, and it would be in the public
interest to make available larger ap-
propriations from the federal treasury
to be used separately or in conjunc-
tion with state and local support.

Machinery Now Exists.

“There need be no delay in the ex-
ecution of such a program. The na-
tion has already provided the machin-
ery in the Department of Agriculture
and in the state highway commissions.
The federal aid road act was fruitful
of good legislation, and each state in
the Union now has a. central highway
authority with power and funds to
meet the terms of the federal act. The
two agencies, in conjunction. have
been engaged in devising well~consid-

 

 

Michigan’s 1918 Crop Record

Comparirom of 7722's Year’s Crops wit/z T/zose 0f1917

and 1916 a: Bored Upon Federal Ertz'maz‘e:

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. CROP. THREE caops COMPAREDi wow. J
‘ 13,300,000 bushy
some. 37,625,000 bush.

_ fl 45,375,000 bush.
wm’ren $313332 Susi];
\NH . , , US l.

E” ‘1 i3.280.000 bush.
spams 706,000 bush.
WHEAT. 212,000 bush,

' 8.332.000 bus‘m
111131.151; 3,416,000 bush,
2.450.000 bush.

" 66,320,000 bush.

HATS. 55,800,000 bush.
= .. 122:: 42.690.000 bush.
6.750.000 bush;

RYE. 4.774.000 bush,
4,648,000 bush.

2.21:0 is:
WHEA ' ’ “a ‘
‘7'", ,- 1 770.000 bush.

. , £887,000 b’ush,
UEANB) 3,294,000 busln
J 3.102.000 bush.

_ ‘ 28.560.000 bush. '
HWA'I‘OES, 35.910000 buss

l ‘ 15.360000 bush;

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i _ 2.676.000 tons) ‘
HAY. . g . 3.837.0001ons. i

‘ , _1 . 1.675.000 tons)

- -- ' I l 873,700 tons.
gum :— «mi 1......
.EEIS, . ‘ ’J’ > 1 502,706 tons. 5,

ll _ . .. . . ‘ _" 10,966,000 buab.‘ ’»
Apr-1.93.: . 5.160.000 bush. 3.
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ered road systems and in making our-
veys, plans, and specifications. The
task will be one of selection, and those
roads should be designated for im-
provement which are of the greatest.
economic importance, with due regard
to such military and other needs as
are proper for cbnsideration. There is
no, necessity for any departure from
this scheme. The suggestions made
have been canvassed with the Presi-
dent, the Secretary of 'War, and the
Postmaster General, and they are in
accord with the view that additional
funds should be made available to this
department and that they should be
expended through the existing ma-
chinery.”

DEHYDRATION oF FRUITS AND
VEGETABLESJNCREASES.

 

OLORADO factories canned eight
‘ million pounds of peas in 1918 and
that total could'have been doubled had
the peas been available. ‘And along
with the rapid growth of the canning
business in Colorado, big strides are
being made in the dehydration of fruits
and vegetables.

Dehydration is one of the greatest
achievements of the age. The reduc-
tion of fresh fruits and vegetables by
simply removing all surplus water from
the interior first and then from the ex«
terior by means of properly regulated
steam, heat and air, is gaining much
popularity in ‘the United States, and
promises to greatly decrease‘the year-
ly waste of important food products.

It is claimed by dehydration experts
that the process adds sweetness to
products containing sugar, and that it
does not harm the cellular structure,
thus making it possible to restore the
product to its original size, color, fla-
vor and texture by a simple addition
of pure cool water. No acids or chem»
icals are used in the process of reduc-
tion.

The government has recognized the
advantages of dehydration and has
used thousands of tons of such fruit
and vegetables in feeding the armies
in thi country and Europe. ' Fourteen
million pounds of dehydrated food,
costing more than three million dol-
lars, was purchased by the War De-
partment last spring, and other orders
lately placed aggregate more than

’forty million pounds, costing at least

ten million dollars. The Food Admin-
istration highly recommends dehydra-
tion for the conservation of fruits and
vegetables, pointing out that, since wa-
ter makes up the most of the weight
of such commodities, millions might be
saved each year in freight charges.

The economic aspect of dehydration
is two—fold. The farmer or gardener
will no longer be hemmed in by limited
local markets. His produce when de-
hydrated at a nearby plant can be
cheaply delivered to any point in the
world at from five to twenty times less ’
expense and with much greater con‘
venience than in its original condition.
It will take up less space and will not
deteriorate, but will always remain
fresh and wholesome. Millions of tons
of fruit and vegetables go to waste ev-
ery year as aresult of lack of trans-
portatio'n in the heavy shipping season,

inability to get sufficient labor to gath-

er the fruits and vegetables, before
they become too ripe for shipment
and heavy expense in obtaining cans.
sugar and other things necessary for
conserving purposes.

Green or raw product is heavy to
transport on railways, bulky and in-

convenient to handle in the kitchens,

they rot easily, and fill- our garbage

_ cans with waste, whereas dehydrated,

product is all prepared at the plant

and is ready for immediate use with-

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Gargoyle Mohiloil E”
Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic

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used. For example. ”A” means Gargoyle Mobiloil
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he can earn—becomes every day
more evident.

He realizes at last the vital part
he plays in the welfare of his nation
—and the other workers of the
country are looking to him with a
new respect.

For war has shown the people
the true importance of a man who
produces Food. '

The farmer who has formed the
habit of looking ahead, plans every
year for a marked increase in his
crops. He realizes that the pro-
ductive possibilities of his soil have
not been touched. .

-A sixteen year old boy has re-
cently raised 169 bushels of corn on
one acre. Illinois, our best corn
state, averages per acre 29 bushels.

Recent experiments in Indiana,
by scientific cultivation and fertiliza-
tion of wheat, brought an increase of
over 40% over the
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production per acre is the tractor.

Think of it! Not many years
from now millions of horses and
mules now on the farms will be re-
placed by tractors.

Fewer men will cultivate more
land. Arm labor, leg‘labor and back
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tion. His will be one of the most
interesting,independent and worth-
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F YOU are still setting your milk and skim-
ming by hand, you are losing anywhere
from one-fourth to one-third of your cream. If you
are using an old separator or onetbat is not reliable.
you are still losing an .
amount of cream that
.. would surprise you if you
knew it. Butter fat is
worth too much this year
i to be wasted. Buy a Prim-
rose or Lily cream separa-
tor and stop the waste.
Don’t imagine that
cream left in the skim
milk will fatten pigs and
calves faster. It has been
proved scores of times
that stock thrives as fast
on warm separator skim
milk, when a little meal
or flax replaces the fat.
Cream in 'the skim milk
is dead—loss cream!
Primrose and Lily sepa-
rators get that cream. We
can prove to you that they get it all, except about
one drop in each gallon.
Besides that, they are well-known as simple, easy-

running, easily-cleaned machines, that last and do
the same good work year after year. Buy a Primrose or Lily
and know the satisfaction of usmg a close-skimming machine.
See the local dealers, or, write us for catalogues of these
or any other machines in the list \ low.

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With hair or for on. and make them
into coats ( for men and women). robes,

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3 VIII cool you less than to buy
them and be worth more. . ";

Our Illustrated catalog gives a lot of '

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and care for hides; how and when we
pay the freight. both ways; about our
‘OOIO dyeing process on cow and horse “
hide, calf and other skins; about the
fur goods and game trophies we sell,
taxidermy. etc.

hen we have recently got out: an-
other we call our Feelllen book wholly
devoted to fashion plates 0 muffs,
neckweai‘ and other line fur garments,
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Land Settlement Policy
Federal and State Government: Cooperate in Plum

for t/ze Development of Mic/2229472 ’: Cut— O‘ver Lama's
By Jame: M. McBride

HE commision appointed by Gov« years two per cent of both land and
ernor Sleeper to formulate plans improvement values, and after that
for cooperation with the United forty years is given at four per cent.
States government and the respective All proper safeguards are thrown
states have taken the initiative in prob: around the plan to, prevent worthless

,ably the most forward home-making land being settled‘upOn or sold. The

movement ever proposed in the state. second alternative applies more largely

asked that the respective states pro- ed, in fact’ any farm that is offered

.vide the land and the United States the commission meeting their approv-
would finance the improvements, in« a1. Here the improvement is largely
eluding irrigation, clearing, drainage, an individual affair and just such work
buildings and loans for equipment 0f as every farmer knows should be done
tools and live stock. So broadly drawn to improve his farm_ It may be drain-
are these plans that no state or land- age, buildings, etc., and this land is of

i 1953 than who has agricultural quali- more value than that of the first plan.

fications need be excluded. After the The commission acquires the land as
soldiers have the Opportunity “unallot- in the first plan. Then is authorized
ted” lands are open to other citizens to make improvements for not less
on similar terms. , than twenty-five per cent of the value

The preposition in brief is that the of the land. This is not all, the United
state provide a commission 0f three, States authorizes this board to make
the Chairman being named by the gov- loans for stock, tools, etc. These loans
ernor and the advisory members be- are secured on the chattels and land.
ing the president of the State Agricul- The low interest rates would put the
tural College and state engineer, by capital into northern Michigan where
virtue of their offices. The board then it is badly needed. The Whole activi-
acquires land by purchase or use state ties of the state and nation would be
lands, etc. Alternative in Sec. 7 0f exerted through the various agencies
the proposition is more largely applica- of their agricultural departments. The
ble to irrigated cut-over tracts and loan clause is applicable to both plans
drainage propositions requiring large of settlement, and shall not exceed
expenditure. On these the United $3,000 for a farm or $1,00 for a farm
States is the active agency in reclama. labor allotment. All the money comes
tion and improvement and foots the from the United States. The commis-
bills therefor. It may clear UP some sion holding these liens for the federal
misapprehension as to the legal status loan. Those having $15,000 or posses-
of acquisition by this board of lands to gory rights hereto are excluded from
add that the board may control as trus- the benefit of these plans of settle-
tees. For example, a Gilt-0V9? tract is ment. It is impossible to estimate the
given a contract for deed of lands by amount of new capital that would come
the owner and on the completion of its into Michigan under these plans. Mem-
agreements transfers as trustee the bers of the commission appointed by
title to the settler. It is probable that Governor Sleeper are agreed that no
most Of Michigan tracts W0111d 01‘ COUId such potential service to settlement
be handled in this way. This D1311 and land improvement was ever offered
would not necessitate any constitution-t before, It must be understood that
al Changes in Michigan. A clear 1111- this is not yet enacted by congress,
derstanding of the plan can be main— but that it unquestionably will be and
tained by 1101(1ng in mind that the that the Michigan legislature must act
state acquires or controls lands and in authorizing a commission for this
the United States improves, builds and state in anticipation thereof. The ques-
makes them ready for occupancy for ton of whether the returned soldier
the soldier or settler. This is the line wants a farm is rather academic_ He
of state and national cooperation. The certainly will need food and clothing
language of the proposed plan is “the along with all other people, and this

 

ternative plan shall be that’ the state Elwood Mead, of the University of Cal~

 

 

provide the land needed for settlement ifornia, spent much time in New Zea-
and the United States shall provide land where substantially this plan of

. the money necessary to meet the ex— settlement has been used most suc~

penses of reclamation and subdivision cessfu11y_ The writer had a full pre—
and the necessary improvements and sentation of these plans several years
equipment perform the necessary WOPk ago personally from Professor Mead.
and have charge Of all settlement The hardships incident to the individ~
work.” To those in Michigan Who ual settler upon new soil unaided is
have suitable tracts of land for clear- one of the tradegies that can be alle-
ing up into farms. or undrained areas. viated, and the potential wealth of a
the owners WOUId say to the commis- new country made available at an early
sion, “let us agree on an appraisal, period by governmental action. The
take my .land and have the United California trio of strong men who are
States improve it, construct buildings, urging this plan is Franklin K. Lane,
etc., and transfer it to an actual settler Secretary of the Interior, United.
and pay fOI‘ the land from the settlers States Senator Hiram Johnston, and‘
on long-time payments. The commis- Prof, Elwood Mead. "
sion is the trustee to repay the United
States for the advances, and pay the /
original owner on the unimproved ap- Do you object to a fly lighting on the
praisal. To the returned soldier first, end of your nose, and then transferring
and after that any other qualified Am- its proboscis to some other tenderBDOt
erlcan citizen, the commission would when you wave your hand? If». not,
say, “here is'your farm—pay me as an just think of the many files which are
initial payment two per cent, of the teasing the life as well as the good na—
land value and ten per cent of the im- ture’ out of, your cattle in the moist

 

 

 

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provenients, and then for the next .four WO'ods.

basis of cooperation under the first al- plan is to make provision therefor. '

  
  
    
  

 
   
  

 

 

     

 

      

  

 
 


  

 

 

 

 
 

ALPH WALDoEMERso‘N,
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02. '32 of a distinguished man, said:

"a “He is. put together like a
Waltham Watch.” w

This remarkable tribute to Waltham
greatness is' the result of the genius of
many men whose inventive faculties
have been concentrated for nearly
three’quarters of a century to make it
the wonderful time—keeping device it is.

             
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
   
  
    
   
  
   
   
 
 

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in timevkeeping. And time is the most
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You purchase a watch for one thing—— - . -
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it to you With dependability at any

moment Of the day or nlght’ A watch that represents American leader" '

A good watch, therefore, must have ship in mechanical skill,—

something more than good looks —-it A watch that has revolutionized the art of ..
must have good “works.” watch making and assured accurate and , .,

‘ dependable timevkeeping.
Millions of people imagine that the “best ” watch
is made abroad—or, at any rate, that its works
are imported from there.

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We are going to take you through the,
“works” of a Waltham—lay bare those
hidden superiorities which have led the

Yet, in competitive horological tests at the world’s horological experts of the greatest nations
great Expositions, Waltham has not only defeated to choose Waltham as the watch for the
these watches of foreign origin, but all other use of their government railroads.

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In a series of advertisements we are going to advertisements, which will appear regularly
show Americans that there is a watch built in in the leading magazines, you will walk up
the United States whose time—keeping mechaa to your jeweler’s counter and demand'the
nism is more trustworthy than those of foreign watch you want —because you will know
make,—— ‘ how it is built and why it is superior to the

.' . forei 11 watch.
A watch that IS easrly and reasonably repaired g :

because its parts are standardized, -— Look for these advertisements. Read them.

LTHA

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Rear View Superior No. 6 Four-Row Double Dim Best and Bean
Drill With irrigation Shovels and Concave Faced Press Wheels

 

Made in both Plain and Fertilizer styles. The . is a four-
row machine havuig adjustments for widths between rows as fol-
lows: Plain type—1:6, 18. ’20, 22 and 24 inches. [When used with irri-
gating shovels the center rows can be as or 18 inches (apart, and the
outside rows, with shovels between. 20,, 22, 24, Zfior 28 inches apart.

The Fertilizer type can be adjusted regularly to sow in rows 20, 22
or 24 inches apart ' with irrigating shovels the center rows can be 18
inches apart, an the outside rows‘22,‘24 or .26 inches apart. The
range of adjustment is unequaled by~ anyother Beet Dril .

The Feeds tor-both Beet and Bean Seed and
Fertilizer are Positive Force Feeds with
Great Range of Quantity

The Press Wheels are 11 inches in diameterifié inches wide and have
deep concave face. This wheel presses down and inward, makes an oval-
sha-ped ridge, loose in the center and ofsuffic-ient hei ht to be crushed
by land roller should the soil become crusted. W eels can be used
as gauge wheels to regulate depth of planting. Both furrow open-
ers and press wheels have independent spring pressure. Flat or
cone face press Wheels can be furnished.

TheSUPERIDR Beet and Bean Drill is warranted in‘every way. You
run no risk in purchasing. If you want 3. Drill that will do your
work in the best possible manner—a Drill that you can always de-
pend on—a Drill that will save time. seedhlabor, worr and repair
bills, write for SUPERIOR Boot and Bean Drill folder. sk your im-
plement dealer to show you the SUPERIOR Beet and Bean Drill.

THEAMERICAN SEEING-MACHINE CO. Inc”
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6 Hers/gal“) » l 3 motor goes direct to belt ,pnllcy.and to rims of

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relieving hubs and axles of all strain. It is
transmitted through powerful steel gears. roll-
er bearing, oil-floated. which reduces friction.

Complete Combustion of
Kerosene

is the factor which contribute-to low fuel consumption
and no e eliminating operation. n a I «lay test
run to its full 25 Hi". ca acity the Waterloo Boy motor
consumed an average 0 less than IX gallons kerosene
per ‘hour, ' ‘ onit-dloitrouble

lush w ld give eight "/97"
zomsallot‘l‘imoulddo " 3/};

’ hind wheels, giving greatest pulling leaverage,
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out smoke or carbon
from dirty spark plugs—fun power om every drop.
Easy accessibility of dust-proof years do-
pcndable ignition. one lever oot
edal, automobile type gear shifts. automatic
liibrication, and otherfeetures ombineeolnoke
this tractor efficient in unskilled hands.

Write unfor illustrated catalog. It shows man
views of farms where the Waterloo Boy is at work. wi
names and opinions of their ownen.

JOHN DEERE
4608 W. Third Ave. Moline, Illinois

   
  

    
   
 

  

       
 
 
 
  
  
 

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' HE practice of “hogging off” com,

thereby saving the labor and ex-
pense of harvesting and marketing the
crop and also producing more pork.
from the crop, is becoming a common
farm practice, the value of which has
recently been repeatedly demonstrat-
ed. The utilization of hogs for the de-
struction of soil-inhabiting insect pests

.more especially of white grubs and

:cutworms, however, has received little
attention and seldom has been applied
consistently, although posturing hogs
in grub-infested fields has been
practiced occasionally for the last hun-
dred years. The use of poultrye‘s some-
what more restricted, since it can be
utilized only when ground is being
plowed and cultivated, and then only in
fields near the farm buildings, unless
a portable poultry house is used.

The main objects to be gained by
these practices are eradication of the
grubs, cutworms, and probably such

,other insect pests as wireworms; food

value derived from the ~gru-bs, which is
equal to a hog feed costing $25 to $35
per ton; manuring the land. The Unit-
ed States Bureau of Animal Industry
has estimated the value of manure to
be $3.29 per ton in the case of hogs
and $7.07 in the case of poultry. When
corn ground is “hogged” there is the
additional advantage of a saving of

labor and expense in harvesting and

marketing the crop and the production

. of more pork from the crop.

The fondness of hogs for whit-e grubs
and May beetles is well known and
evidenced wherever unringed hogs

,1 have been turned into pastures. but a

most striking example has been shown
in a case at Ludlow, 111. One hundred
pigs and eight sows were turned into
an enclosed ten-acre corn field which
was badly infested with grubs Within
twenty days eighty-six per cent of the
grubs were destroyed and in twenty-
seven days less than one per cent of
the original infestation remained—a
benefit of over ninety-nine per cent. If
the number of grubs per hill is esti-

HIC wild parsnip may be classed

with the rapidly spreading and
noxious weed pests of many sections
of the country. It is said that the wild
poisonous parsnip and the garden veg-
etable of the same name are one and
the same, except that the latter is not
poisonous. But when plants of the
garden variety are neglected and al-

.by some that they then assume a pois-
onous nature. “7e question the truth
of this commonly accepted belief, but
because of the close resemblance of
the poisonous native wild parsnip and
the garden variety, While growing
“wild,” we do not wish to dispute the
statement that the tame or garden
parsnip may become poisonous when
allowed to grow as a “wild” or neglectv
ed plant. Undoubtedly, the garden
parsnip becomes a noxious weed pest,
whether poisonous or not, when allow-

ied'to ripen and scatter its seed over
ithe farm." The seed is of such light

weight that it is easily carried long
distances by wind orwater. '
,Children and, in {few instpnpes,
stock, have been poisoned from lemtmg
the roots or seed from the native wild
parsnip, which was taken for the tame‘
or {common garden variety. ,"llo avoid

 

all par-snipe, growing. wild. as poison-
ous ‘in root and seed. .

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lowed to grow as weeds, it is claimed -

such accidents, it may be well wto class ‘

Cleaning Up Grubswith '-
HOgs and Poultry

mated as 34.6, the count made at the
beginning of the experiment, and the
number of hills of corn to :the acre as
3,556 (hills three and one-third feet
each way), it is easily calculated that
pigs destroyed something like 1,217,-
083 grubs in twenty-seven days; that
is, 11,278 grubs, or possibly twenty-four
pounds per animal. These hogs, by the
way, suffered no ill effects from the
continuous ration of grubs.

The effectiveness of chickens in con-
trolling white grubs is demonstrated
by an experience at Froelich, Iowa,
where the farm poultry, numbering
about one hundred and fifty chickens,
were encouraged to follow the plow,
harrow, and cultivator in a fifteen-acre
field, badly infested with white grubs,
adjoining the farm buildings. Scarcely
a grub remained after a,- season’s forag-
ing by the chickens.

Occasionally reports of harmful ef-
fects to hogs from a continuous grub
diet have been received, but it has not
been possible to verify them. On the
other hand, well-informed farmers and
expert swine raisers who have had ex-
perience in pasturing hogs on grub-in-

fested land disclaim any harmful or.

poisonous effects from such practices.

Likewise poultry may be fed white
grubs and May beetles without any
harmful results and Without producing
any noticeable effect in the eggs, such
as is noticed when chickens feed con-
tinuously for several days on such cat~
erpillars as the army worm. No dif‘
fer-cut in taste has been found in Euro-
pean tests between eggs from grub-
nourished liens and those from others.
On‘the contrary, the eggs of the former
had better yolks for thickening and
were worth three of the others to color
sauces. No unfavorable effects result-
ed from the use of either grubs or May
beetlesras chicken feed, except in the
case of dried beetles mixed with bread
or potatoes, which proved too exciting
for the older fowls. .

Turkeys are very fond of grubs and
search diligently for ‘them.

The Wild Parsnip .

The parsnip of whatever variety is
a biennial plant—one that makes its
root growth one season, and produces
seed the next year. The plants make
a very vigorous growth on rich soils,
and .each‘ produces a large quantity of
seed which is of fairly strong vitality
but, fortunately, will not grow after it
is two years old, hence the pests may
easily destroyed by the man who
willnot allow any plants to make a
crop of seed for a couple of years.

Indiana. W. F. PURDUE.

The most important business of the
dairyman is to increase the amount of
manurial substances and apply them
where' they are most needed by the
growing crops.

There is no one thing that adds
more to the dignityand general-ap-
pearance of a farmer than to drive into
town with a pair of large, well match~
ed draft mares, hitched to a comfort-
able rig. . Our farming of today de-
mands strong, prompt walking horses,
and invariably the man who keeps
night teams, does not give his farm
good cultivation. -

One man with three large draft
horses can doas much farm work as
two men with four Small horses. All
of our improved ymachinery requires
an emu, steady draft to perform its
best work, and light horses cannot per-
form the work with ease and prompt-
.ness, no ~mattsr how faithful they
may be. .

  

     

  
 
   
     
  


 

 

    
  

    

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_. You have no use for an oil can
’ 5: Wlth the Samson Tractor.

The oil, contained in the reser-
. , . . voir, is distributed to all moving
‘ . parts.

SAMSON TRACTOR COMPANY, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN

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' ‘ fls this Y_Q__ur Stunt? ..
l’ . ,
RE you going to leave it Where
it is?
Your land is your capital—and the
land under this stump is tied up in
a non—productive investment.

Set this [and t0 wart—a little vdyna— f
mite, properly placed, will do the

trick. You can turn your waste

lands into fertile fields by using

HERCULES
DYNAMITE ,

Sign the coupon below and mail it to the
Hercules Powder Co. They will send you
free their ()8 page illustrated book, “Progres—
sive Cultivation.” This book tells you all
about the uses of dynamite on the farm. It
tells you how to plant trees, dig ditches,
break up hard subsoil and do many other
things with the help of dynamite.

Every farmer should have this book. Your
copy is waiting Ifor you. Send for it today.

”LES mam.
87 W. 10th Street
Wilmington Delaware

 

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87 W. 10th St., Wilmington, Del.

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planted either above or below the level without destroying the sloping ,
sides of the ridges. By removing the plow foot you cm cultivate 1r islnteresring, instructive and

works like a "as!“ amide the row.

The Fowler culti vatea 5,
above the crop roots which :1; _ y".
are undamaged completely destroys all grass 1nd weeds-r . _

makes a perfect dust mulch. and assures largely in- '
creased production. The Fowler 1s the best cullin-
tor for corn, cotton. peanuts, tocacco. beets. beans.
peas and truck crops planted in rows. 50.1000mtisc
tied farmers are using this remukahletool. Write for catalog.

 
  
   
   
   
 
 
 
     
   

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WRITE FOR IT TODAY—

~4me It’s Free.

HARRIMAN MFG. COMPANY
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2 to 50 West Bend Automatic Swlndnz Summons. The entire rowof- cows can-be ocked up or reissued ' 3
instantly by one throw of the lever. Cow stops are operated otnme time. nod when set snide vaneocow a
the stanchion. Every user sews wilfhe greatest idea ever brought out in modem *harn equipment. You :5
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Bend Automatic scenarios. ’7; ;

-m, ‘1"-

‘ knife guides.

‘ which does the work fine.

vpasses through the hole in it.
i bolt holds the saw securely and when

.turned, after loosening the bolt.
l board which holds the saw, on the
_ ? edge near the teeth, I found was bet-
' fiter when beveled so that theme ’was

HOME-MADE ROOT CUTTER.-

 

IT does not pay the average man to
buy a root cutter when one like
the sketch can be made at home. It

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» consists of two upright pieces and two

parallel diagonal pieces which act as
A spout is attached to
the cutting table to catch the roots as
they fall. The knife can be a butcher
knife or a piece of steel can be sharp-
ened and used—A. G.

HANDY SAW HOLDER.

 

_ UNTIL recently I always had diffi-

culty when I sharpened my cord-
wood circular saw. I could not find
any way to hold it so that it would be
solid. Finally I rigged up a holder
Since using
this I not only sharpen the saw much
easier and quicker, but I also do a bet
for job. I have found that the time
taken (which, by the way, was spare
time), to make this was worth the
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tion shows how the saw holder is con-
structed, and by means of screws can
be attached to different places, though
with me I have found that my work
bench was just the correct height so I
could get at the saw teeth.

The saw is placed so that .the 'bolt
' This

is sharpened, the saw is
The

a section

room for different angles of the file.

, As shown in illustration, this board is

hinged on its bottom edge.——Gorton.

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HERE are times when it is neces
sary to get hay from the inside or
center of the mow, or hay stack. In

the winter time to pull out with the
than for ordinaryatnnchionsehat must be opened and "

hands is a hard job, besides making
them ache. Of course, it is impossible

; to get the hay with a hay fork. When

hay is needed from a hay stack that dis

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It-‘hat makes it worse. To ayes-come
these difficulties, have a blacksmith
take a piece Jot one-helium film and
and on one end make a harpoon point.
with the prong about four inches long.

 

For the Handy Man

Cut the rod off about four feet long,

and weld a‘ handle on that end at right
angles? the shape of a T about three
inches on each side. When hay is
needed, push the point into the place
from which the hay is wanted and then
pull on the handle and after a few
times there will be an armful ready.

SELF-FEEDER FOR HENS.

 

HEN making self-feeders for the

hang, I use dry goods boxes of
about the shape that I want the feeder
to be. At the end that I use for the
bottom, B, I make an opening, 0, two
or two and a half inches wide across
the side of the box. I then extend the
bottom out two or three inches, and
surround the opening, 0, with the two
sides, SS, and the front, F. I make the
front, F, at least two inches higher
than the opening, 0, to prevent hens
from scattering the contents of the
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edge of F. With this arrangement the
feed will seldom reach half way up the
front, F. I use such feeders for feed-
ing bran, middlings, charcoal, and oys-
ter shells, and Whole grain to'fattening
hens, but not to layers. To layers I
prefer to feed corn on the cob o1- grain
in the bundle, or buried in litter, or
from an exerciser that lets it down
slowly. Layers should be made to work
as much as possible and to eat slowly.
Feeding grain in the bundle is far and
away the best way to feed it; for the
hens get the most exercise when they
do their own threshing, and their
treshing bill is zero; or better than

that, they will pay one well for the

privilege of doing it themselves, be-

sides singing a great variety of accom- .

panying songs.—L. B. A.

COMBINATION SHOVEL AND AXE.

 

EBE is a simple and very useful
time and labor-saving device.
When digging ditches, the roots, bush
and small saplings which cause so
much annoyance are quickly done

 

away with by the blades on the side
of the shovel. The blades are shaped
from steel and riveted to the sides of
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BUTTERMILK FOR PIGS.

 

0n the basis of corn at $1 and oats
at fifty cents, about the usual rations,
please tell me the value of creamery
buttermilk as a feed for growing pigs.
Also as a feed for unbred sows and
hogs_that one wishes to keep in mod-
erate flesh. '

Cass Co. G. P. W..

Careful experiments show that but-

termilk gives practically the same feed
ing results with pigs as skim—milk and

as a matter of fact, its chemical an- ,

alysis shows—very little difference from
skim-milk so they can be consdered
equal and the equvalent of each other
when fed under similar conditions.
Several years ago when the market
value of corn meal was about $1.00 per
hundred pounds, very thorough experi-

ments were made by several experi- _

ment stations to determine the com-
parative value of skim-milk in feeding
pigs. The results showed that when
skim-milk was properly combined with
grain foods that it had the value of
twenty-five cents per hundred. Now,
if corn is worth $1.00 per bushel, that
would make skim-milk worth forty-four
and a half cents per hundred. At pres-
ent retail price of corn, say $1.60 per
bushel, or $2.80 per hundred, skim-
milk or buttermilk would be worth
seventy-two and a half cents per hun-
dred pounds.

Of course, if skim-milk is fed alone
or is fed in excessive quantities com-
pared with the other foods, you cannot
get as good results. To get these val-
ues for skim-milk it should be fed in
the proportion of three pounds of milk
to one pound of meal. C. C. L.

WHEAT CEREAL FEED.

 

Will you please tell me what you
know about wheat cereal feed, what its
analysis is, and is itva good dairy feed?

Clinton Co. C. M.

There is more than one cereal food,
so-called, made from Wheat. 0. M. R.
does not give the trade name of the
food which he speaks of. In a general
way we can say that all of the‘by-pro-
ducts of wheat, when this cereal is pre-
pared for human food, are good live
stock foods. All of them are compar-
atively rich in protein. All of them ‘are
quite digestible, that is, have a rather
small per cent of crude fiber, and the
most of them are quite palatable. The
question of their possible use depends

. .upon the price compared to the farm-
er’s home-grown grains of corn and
oats. These foods do not all analyze
alike. One product, for instance, that
is a by-product of wheat, analyzes
sixteen to eighteen per cent protein. It
is thoroughly digestible but not so very
palatable. Other foods made from
wheat differ in other respects and so it

is not possible to give very definite in?

formation without knowing exactly
which food we are talking about. '
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It is a well recognied principle that
all grain crops thrive best in a fine,
»‘ thoroughly worked seed-bed underlaid
by a solid subsoil. , .
Milk intended to be sent to. the fac
toriesshould be cooled as rapidly as

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Wednesday, January 8.

fonts and is ready for the informal
conferences to begin Thursday or Fri-
day—The list of deaths of United
States troops in northern Russia num-
bered 132 up to January 4.—c1vu war
, commues to grow in the city of Berlin.
-:-. lish troops now menace Prussia.
. .‘ —-Oln'o, Oklahoma and Colorado ratify
’ ~, the federakdry amendment, making a
total of nineteen states Which- h‘ave rat-
ified the act to date—Distillers in see.
‘sion in Chicago have launched a. one
billion dollar program to keep the
country wet—A terrific ' explosion
wrecks ‘ a film exchange building in
Pittsburgh, killing fifteen persons.—
Railroad executives are urging con-
gress to provide for a system of unified
private management of rail lines with
strong public control exercised by a
secretary of transportation in the Pres-
ident’s cabinet.

Thursday, January 9.

’ USSIAN troops of the Omsk dis-
! .trict defeat a large Bolshevik army
:and capture 31,000 prisoners, as well
.as large quantities of war material.—
iInitial peace conference takes place in
Paris—A strike which will virtually
tie up traffic in New York harbor is
called by marine workers—President
'Carranza of Mexico opposes resolu-
tions congratulating President Wilson
on his international policies—Con-
gressman—elect Victor L. Berger, of
Wisconsin, and four other socialist
leaders are found guilty of violating
the espionage law by jury in the fed-
leral court at Chicago—Dr. Chadsey,
superintendent of the Detroit public
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l ALLIES send an ultimatum to the

Turkish government stating that
unless Turkish forces at Medina lay
down arms immediately, the forts at
the Dardannelles will be destroyed.—
Government troops occupy all public
buildings in Berlin, where martial law
has been proclaimed—A battle occurs
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,Aires, Argentine.—-—Federal depart-
ments plan to interfere in New York
harbor strike.-~Live stock representa-
tives in session at Washington predict
.neW high meat prices unless control
of private cars, stock yards and tel-mt
nal refrigerator plants is taken over by
the government—A republic has been
‘declared in an edict published by the
Still Feiners Of Ireland—Republican
national committee consider plans for
the 1920 presidential campaign.
Saturday, January 11.

. HE Ebert government claims to be
,, master of the situation in Berlin.
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—Munltlons manufacturers of Mt
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formal war contracts—Each of the ma-
jor Allies has prepared the draft of a
program for the proceedings of ‘the
peace conference..———The inhabitants of
Luxembnrg have proclaimed a republic
form of government—A new Britisn
cabinet headed by David Lloyd George
is formed. ‘
Sunday. January 12.

HE Ebert government completely

defeats the Spartacus and gains
control of Berlin; reports insist that
Liebknecht, the leader of the revolu-
tionists, was killed during the street
fighting—The strike in Buenos Aires
is brought to an end after a confer-
ence between representatives of the
government and the strikers—Troops
policing western Germany will be re-
duced in number in the near future.—
The republican national committee
makes January 19 the date of national
memorial services in honor of Colonel
Roosevelt—Marine workers’ strike in
New. York harbor ends when strikers
vote to return to work.

Monday, January 13.

’ WENTY-ONE persons were killed
‘ and three seriously injured in a
rear-end collision on the New York
Central east of Batavia, N. Y. The
coach contained travelers mostly from
western Michigan—The Spartacan fol-
lowers have resumed fighting in Ber-
lin, where their losses have already
mounted to 1,300 killed—The supreme
inter-allied council is now holding ses~
sion 'at Paris.——Paderewski, the great
Polish leader and musician, is reported
to have been shot but only slightly
wounded, while on a political mission
to Posen, Prussia—Thomas W. Greg—
ory, attorney-general of the United
States, resigns his portfolio in Presi-
dent Wilson’s cabinet—Japan has or-
dered the withdrawal of her forces
from Siberia—February 9 has been .set
aside as “Health Sunday,” to be ob-
served by the churches throughout the
country.
Tuesday, January 14.
ADICALS are utterly routed in the
- elections held in Bavaria where
the moderates and conservatives re-
turn a big majority-Count Karoyli is
made the new president of Hungary.—~
Information is in possession of the
Allies showing that the Bolshevilc
movement in Germany is being direct-
ed from Moscow, Russia—Martial law
is declared for Buenos Aires and ten
thousand reserves have been summon-
ed to colors, notwithstanding reports
at differences have been adjusted.—
A l official statements regarding the
progress of the peace conference will
be issued by France—A collision 'be-
tween two trains at Fort Washington
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Hog! F ceding EX-
perlcnccs
By. W. F. TAYLOR
I—IEN vegetable products are
changed into animal food, the
luchangé is always made at a
great sacrifice of material. During the
progress of .the war, when we were
putting so much labor. and thought in-
to the task of feeding the world, a not-
ed authority 'upon the subject of nutri-
tion said: “If the world would do
away with the hog,_the rest wouldrbe
easy.” He ‘was""fhinking how much
farther the corn would go in the feed-
ing of human beings than would the
pork the hog was-able to make from
the eating of the same corn.

The human race craves animal food,
and we are not tending very rapidly
Were
it otherwise, were we able to live on
vegetable products entirely, or rather,
I should perhaps say, were we content
to do so, the old earth would support a
much larger' number of people with
less labor than now. .

As yet, we know but little about th
science of nutrition, and perhaps there
is an excellent reason why it is not
éasy to make people believe they can
get along just as well without meat.
Perhaps it was never intended by the
Creator that they should do so.

However, since the ' converting of
vegetable products into animal food is
necessarily done with a great loss of
material, it becomes not only a matter
of profit, but one of duty to study close-
ly the laws governing animal growth,
and to spread the knowledge of the
best known methods of feeding and
caring for animals produced for human
food, as widely as possible.

With this somewhat lengthy intro-
duction, permit me to say something
about pigfeeding, with the hope that
it may atlleast'create new interest and
arouse to ”new thought, some of the
many thousands who read this valua-
ble paper.

I am perfectly sure that many thou-
sands of bushels of good grain are
wasted every year in feeding pigs, be-
cause of the use of a ration that is
lacking in balance, or in the presence
of one or two necessary elements in
proper quantity.

Some of My Own Troubles.

A year ago last spring, I started into
the season with as fine' a lot of pigs as
I ever saw. From the time they were
six weeks old until the day they were
sold, they had free access to grain in
a hopper feeder. They did not have
much milk, for there were too many
hogs for the “milk, and it simply would
not go-round. I took care to provide
a liberal quantity of middlings in order
to furnish the requisite amount of pro-
tein. The pigs were fat all the time,

and the neighbors who came in to look '

at them said many encouraging things
about them. But their bones did not
grow, and I knew all the time that I
must learn something about this work,
something very simple, but necessary,

_ and learn it soon, or stop writing about

feeding pigs.

Well, the pigs were sold after a
While,_and Igot $75 for my trouble
with'them after. paying for the feed.
“Not so bad,” do. you say? No, $75
paid me pretty well for the work, but .I
got that only because I was'fortunate
in buying a fine lot of middlings when
the price was teiripOrarily low. Had I
bought the feed at retail as it was fed,
the pigs would have cost me about as

’ muchas they brought in ~the market.
, Later on, other, late" of pigs, {were fed '

in much the Same way, With/similar re-

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.On over a million farms this cotton collar is be-
ing used in preference _to leather.
‘ .'are cheaper or save leather for other needs, but because
rd Humane Collar means freedom from galls.
(1 horses work in them every day, and shoul-
ders heal 'while in harness. .

Made of closely woven army duck, like a surgical
Stufied with soft, springy cotton fiber that

the. Lankfo
Gall-afflicts

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full play-moves with the pulling muscles, instead of
chafing against them. Cannot swceney.
or harden—often lasts three or more seasons.
Dealers (sell them on the
guarantee that galledfiorses
et well while, workm .in
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cannot supply you, ‘send us
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collar, charges prepaid.

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SUGAR BEETS 0R MANGELS.

What is the analysis of sugar beets
for dairy cows, also mangels? Which
is the best to use with ensilage and
clover hay, with a good dairy feed for
grain?
_ Kalamazoo Co. U. P. B.
For cows there is very little differ-
ence in the food value of sugar beets
and mangel—wurzels. The sugar beets
contain more carbohydrates or sugar,
about twice as much as the mangels,
otherwise the analysis is practically
the same. Sugar beets contain 1.1 per
cent protein, 10.2 per cent carbohy-
drates, and 0.1 per cent of fat, while
mangels contain 1.1 per cent of pro-
tein, 5.4 per cent carbohydrates, and
0.1 per cent of fat. Of course, the ex
tra amount of sugar in the sugar beets
is a valuable food but the most of our
rations for dairy cows contain carbo-
hydrates, starch and sugar, in excess.
Starch is practically as valuable for a
food as sugar, but it is not quite so
digestible, but the digestible tract of
the cow can readily change the starch
into sugar, so in figuring a ration we
would consider starch just as valuable
as sugar. This being the case, as long
as we have in most rations an excess
of carbohydrates, we would not be
willing to pay very much for the extra
amount of sugar in the sugar beets
over and above that in niangels.
One great value of any kind of roots
in a ration for dairy cows is that they
furnish a succulent food which is very
appetizing, and keeps the digestive
tract of the animal in good condition
and enables her to digest: and assimi-
late economically large amounts of
other foods in the ration. Mangels
are just as valuable so far as this suc-
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ALFALFA HAY FOR HORSES.

I would like a little advice regarding
feeding alfalfa to horses. I am feed-
ing it to my horses. but notice that
since commencing on the alfalfa the
urine is more milky or lighter colored.
Does this indicate anything serious?
The horses seem to be all right. My
alfalfa got over-heated in the mow, es-

pecially in the center, where it is
brown, but not moldy. The horses do
not care as much for alfalfa as for

‘other hay, especially where it has com-
menced to turn brown. As I am turn-
ing my farm,into an alfalfa farm, or
rather a rotation of potatoes, oats and
alfalfa, I am anxious to get all the in-
formation I can for feeding alfalfa to
horses.

Emmet Co 11. W.

Alfalfa hay is a very successful food

'for work horses or growing colts, but
it cannot be considered first-class hay
for idle horses, when fed liberally.
Alfalfa hay isrich in protein, a muscle-
forming nutriment which idle horses
are not so much in need of. Common
red clover hay can be fed quite suc-
cessfully as this contains less protein.
Again, in feeding alfalfa hay to idle
horses, one ought to consider the grain
ration. Corn would work in better
with alfalfa than oats, being a carbon-
aceous food. For idle horses or horses
that do light work I would expect to
get satisfactory results by feeding al-
falfa hay and oat straw, or good wheat
straw, once a day, with a grain ration
of oats or a ration of corn and oats.

It can be stated in a general way
that too much protein in a ration is not
good for the health of any animal. An
excess of protein does affect thevkid-
neys. It has been noted'in the west
where liberal and continuous feeding
of alfalfa has been practiced that it is,
not as good for the animal as a com-f
bination of foods, some of which con-
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is used.

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at the entrance: a dense smoke is
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are caught as they rush for fresh air.
Those that escape the traps may be
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pups and kits escape, to be taken later
when they become more valuable. An-
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is pushed into the den by a heavy,
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mink, marten, skunk, opossum, weasel,
civet cat, lynx, otter, wildcat and
muskrat. To remove skins, a cut
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beaver and bear. See that the skin is
free from fat or meat by scraping if
necessary, but do not cut or damage
the skin. Stretch on a thin board, cut
to shape, or on a wire stretcher. Do

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Why Milk Tests Vary

S a general proposition milk is a fer greatly from what it would when

product that is fairly uniform in she was maintained in good flesh con-

composition. At the Maine Ex- dition and given proper treatment.
periment Station the fat content of the Sustenance and attention are the re-
milk from a herd of mixed cows tluc- quisites of obtaining a maximum per-
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yield at the same time. Again, the producer of fat does so because she
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that are on official test shows some re- to bring out the best of her inherited
markable variations, ip some cases the possibilities. . W. M. K.
, percentage of butter-fat varying from
2.7 to 6.7 per cent in the different milk-
ings of two consecutive days.

 

DOG A NECESSITY TO POULTRY‘

 

What causes these variations in milk MEN'
tests of individual cows? As a rule, '
they result from the succulence and HAVE jUSt read the article in your
nutritive value of the food, the temper- laSt issue, “Why the Dog 1’"

ature of the weather and the health LBt me say, I am 110'; .3 dog lover
and condition of the cows. The ordi- but keep a full-blood Airedale from
nary dairy cow on winter feed or good necessrty, rather than chalce. ThlS
pasture in summer will show less var- dog COSt me $10 when a pup, because
iation in the per cent of butt _ at pro— I refuse to keep mongrels of any klnd.
duced than during the mo sin which She is fed wholesome food daily and
‘ her rations are frequently changed. some skim-milk and my purse has felt
The first principle of maintaining a un- thls expense smce war prices began as
iform butter-fat test is uniformity of I believe, 1n terms 0f flour, she eats
feeding and care since cows regularly fully fifty pounds a year. '
fed and handled show more uniform So you see I admit the cost, which
milk and butter-fat production. I charge in full to protection.

It is always a perplexing question This dog is never Off the place ex-
for the breeder of registered dairy cat- cept at my heels on rare occasions
tie to determine accurately between and is chained nights and mostly
the difference in milk tests due to days. I venture the opinion that if
heredity and those due to feeding and five thousand poultrymen were inter-
management. When one studies the viewed all but eighteen would be found
variation in milk tests made by indi- with dogs, for the same reason mine is
vidual cows he is frequently led to be- kept, namely protection.
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portant part in determining the per poultry industry which this state al-
cent 0f butter-fat produced than is pop- ready has Hand WhiCh has been stag-
ularly SUPPOSGd- gering along on a cost, or less than
Successful breeders believe and cost basis, since before the war, is it
maintain that the only way to perma- wise to influence further tax or other-
nently influence the percentage of but- wise destroy about the only protection
ter-fat is through the breeding of the we have to build up a new industry?
animals. That is, that every cow main- Nearly every improved road in this
tains a certain definite percentage of section that you city people enjoy
butter-fat that is normal for that par- with your autos, brings us a two-leg-
ticular cow. While changes in age, ged pest far more to be dreaded than
condition, environment and feed may a sheep-killing dog, thus we are forced
temporarily change the fat content of to the expense of protection.
her milk for brief periods, she will If the framers of a dog law to'suit
eventually return to her normal test the sheepmen will consult any poultry
and maintain nearly the same average or fruit man pestered by thieves and
for each period Of lactation. add an amendment that will make a
Of course, itsoes WithOUt saying food~ producer’s products as immune
that the well-fed, properly treated 00W from theft as railroad property now is
Will show a higher Percentage 0f but- I for one will be not only willing but
ter-fat than the same cow would if glad to dispose of the dog.
poorly fed and badly treated. Excep- -When you consider that one visit
trons ‘may be noted, but-as a general from thieves in the fall often means
breeding proposrtion famihes that pro- the loss, not only of an entire flock
swims: :1. stresses: .. . we
_ . cash outlay for feed, but also a large
that characteristic. Innumerable ex- part of the living for a family through
periments conducted ‘11! an effort to the winter, you can understand why
increase the test of milk beyond the we feel justified, even at the figures

normal limits have failed. .
_ of $40 plus first cost and tax, in keep-
On the other hand, It is a well-known ing the best kind of. protection ob-

and generally recognized fact that if tainable.
a cow is fed a heavy ration of rich ’ '
protein feeds during the time she is Why cant we all get together on
dry, she will not only store up on her this problem and make the dog unnec-
body an excess of lean protein flesh, essary, make hanging the least penalty
but will also, when fresh, if fed a nar- for poultry and fruit thieves and brand
row. but stimulating ration, milk 01? any :‘law sharp” who opposes such 198"
this surplus lean meat, at the samerislation, “a low-down chicken~stealing
time showing a percentage of butter- hound]: make stolen products “50 hot”
fat considerably beyond her normal no dealer can hold them Wlth comfort,
test. This probably explains why it is and add a fat fee for the Peace officer
possible for some'of the famous breed- who (30195 his duty.

ers of dairy stock to make such won- I am for the sheepmen for I still
derful seven-day, thirty-day and sixty- hope to buy a suit of clothes some day
day butter-fatrecords. and I am for myself, first, because I!
The best cow in the world if given am here and have the poultry. fruit.

  
 
          
      
      
       
     
    
     
 
   

improper food and care‘ would probag. etc, and am not protected except by

bly fall considerably, below her normal . the dog.

test. Her production of {at might dif- Ottawa Co. . ,. ,. ‘ H, w. H,

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A colored preacher had just conclud-
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and announced that a collection would
be taken up for the benefit of the par-
son and his family. A member in the
audience objected to the paradoxical
nature of the proceedings and received
this bit of negro logic in response:

“S’pose yo’ was thirsty aii’ come to
a river. Yo’ could kneel right down
an’ drink your fill, couldn’t you"? An’
it wouldn’t cost yo’ nothin’. Dat water
would be free. But’ s’posin yo was to
hab dat water piped to yo’ house, yo’d
have to pay, wouldn’t you’? Waal,
brudder, so it is wid salvation. De
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Pat and Mike were working on a
new building. Pat was laying brick
and Mike was carrying the hod. Mike
had just come up to the fourth floor
when the dinner Whistle blew. His
lunch was on the ground. “I hate to
walk down after it,” he said.

“Take hold of this rope,” said Pat,
“and I’ll let you down.” Pat let him
down half-way, and then let go of the
rope. Mike landed in a mortar bed,
not much hurt, but terribly mortified.

“And why did you let go of the
rope ?" he demanded.

“I thought it was going to break,”
said Pat, “and I had prisence of mind
enough to let go.”

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ROBABLY the worst thing about a

pie is that it used usually to be
taken with little realization of its high
food value. The dyspeptic Yankee gob-
bled it off with the feeling that it was
the mere aftermath of a hearty meal.
With our present tendency to interpret
food much as a fireman looks upon
fuel, as possessing so many calories,
so much desirable bulk or so much
growth production property, we realize
that the pie is by no means an acces-
sory of a meal, at least that it should
not be so regarded.

So when you plan to have pie for
a meal remember that it is a very
hearty little tidbit in itself and make
that dinner one in which you have a
light main course. If the pie crust is
crisp and not soggy, and the pie filling
is not too rich, it is a very wholesome
dish for those whose activities are nor-
mal. Like any other hearty food, it
ought to be looked at skeptically by
the person who gets little exercise.

Apple pie is as Wholesome as any
pie, for the reason that the cooked
fruit and sugar of the filling make an
ideal combination with the fat and pro-
tein of the crust. Moreover, it is easy
to cook an apple pie without letting
the crusts become soggy——much more
so than is the case with a custard or
other very moist filling.

Of late years raisin pies, prune pies
and others made of dried fruits have
become popular and they have much
to recommend them. A raisin and
cranberry pie is a new favorite that is
wholesome. Pumpkin pie and squash
pie contain the nourishment of the
milk and sugar and the slight starch
value of the vegetable. When crisp and
freshly cooked _ they are. wholesome
and nourishing. ' '

Just cut me a slice, of the apple pie
twice,
Or pumpkin, or raisin, or berry,
I’ll take some of each, and if you have
peach, .
A small slice of that, and of cherry.

fi

Oh! the pies were abused, and often
misused,
But again they’re come into their
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“The act would never. have been con-
sidered had you opposed it, Monsieur.
It was your choice, not the governor’s.”
“I would wed you—yes; but this is
no crime. But let us understand each
other. Those were harsh words you
spoke in anger in the room yonder.”
“They were not in anger.”

“But surely—” ‘

“Monsieur, you have forced me into
marriage; the law holds me as your
wife. I know not how I may escape
that fate, or avoid accompanying you.
So far I submit, but no farther. I do
not love you; I do not even feel any
friendship toward you. Let me pass."

He grasped my arm, turning me
about until I faced him, his eyes glar-
ing into mine.

“Not until I speak,” he replied in a.
threatening manner. “Do not mistake
my temper, or imagine me blind. I
know what has so suddenly changed
you—it is that gay, simpering fool
yonder. But be careful how far you-
go. I am your husband, and in au-
thority here.”

“Monsieur, your words are insulting;
release your hand.”

“So you think to deceive! Bah! I
am too old a bird for that, or to pay
heed to such airs. I have seen girls
before, and a mood does not frighten
me. But listen now—keep away from
De Artigny unless you seek trouble.”

“What mean you by that threat?”

“You will learn to your sorrow; the
way we travel is long, and I am woods-
man as well as soldier. You will do
well to heed my words.”

I released my arm, but did not move.
My only feeling toward him at that
moment was one of disgust, defiance.
The threat in his eyes, the cool inso-

fire.

“Monsieur,” I said coldly, although
every nerve of my body throbbed, “you
may know girls, but you deal now with
a woman. 'Your speech, your insinua-
tion is insult. I disliked you before;
now I despise you, yet I will say this in
answer to what you have intimated.
Monsieur de Artigny is nothing to me,
save that he hath shown himself my
friend. You wrong him, even as you
wrong me, in thinking otherwise, and
whatever the cause of misunderstand-
ing between us, there is no excuse for
you to pick quarrel with him.”

“You appear greatly concerned over
his safety.”

“Not at all; so far as I have ever
heard the Sieur de Artigny has hereto-
fore proven himself quite capable of
sustaining his own part. ’Tis more
like I am concerned for you.”

“For'me? You fool! Why, I was a
swordsman when that lad Was at his
mother’s knee.” He laughed, but with
ugly gleam of teeth. “Sacre! I hate
such play acting. But enough of quar-
rel now; there is sufficient time ahead
to bring you to your senses, and a
knowledge, of who is your master.
Hugo Chevet, come here.”

My uncle climbed the bank, his rifle
in hand, with face still bloated, and
red from the drink of the night be-
fore. Behind him appeared the slender
black-robed figure of the Jesuit, his
eyes eager with curiosity. It was sight
of the latter which caused Cassion to
moderate his tone of command.

“You will go with Chevet,” he said,
pointing to theme among the trees,
“until I can talk to you alone.” ’ '

“A prisoner?”

“No, a guest” sarcastically, “but do
not overstep the courtesy.’

We left him in conversation with the
pere, and I did not even glance baCk.
Chevet breathed heavily, and I caught
the mutter of his voice.
eth all this chatter?” he asked gruli'lyr

 

lence of his speech, set my blood on"

‘ trick.

“What mean- ' ‘

“Must you two quarrelso soon?”

“Why not?” I retorted. “The man
bears me. no love; ’tis but gold he
thinks about." ‘

“Gold!” he stopped, and slapped his
thighs. “ ’Tis precious little of that he
will ever see then.”

“And why not? Was not my father
a land owner?”

“Ay! till the King took it.”

“Then even you do not know the
truth. I am glad to learn that, for l
have dreamed that you sold me to this
coxcomb for a share of the spoils.”

“What? a share of the spoils-_ Bah!
I am no angel, girl, nor pretend to a.
virtue more than I possess. There is
truth in the thought that I might bene-
fit by your marriage; to Monsieur Cas-
sion, and, by my faith, I see'no wrong
in that. Have you not cost me heavily
in these years? Why should I not seek
foryou a husband of worth in these
colonies? Wherefore is that a crime?
Were you my own daughter I could do
no less, and this man is not ill to look
upon, a fair-spoken gallant, a friend of
La Barre’s, chosen by him for special
service—"

“And with influence in the fur trade. ”

“All the better for that,” he contin-
ued obstinately. “Why should a girl
object if her husband be rich?” '

“But he is not rich,“ I Said'plainly,
looking straight into his eyes. “He is
no more than a penniless adventurer;
an actor playing a part assigned him
by, the governor; while you and I do
the same. Listen, Monsieur Chevet,
the property at St. Thomas is mine by
legal right, and it was to gain posses-
sion that this wretch sought my hand.”

“Your legal right?” , ,

“Ay, restored by the King in special

Hrder

“It is not true; I had the records
searched by a lawyer, Monsieur Gau-
tier, of St. Anne.” .

I gave a gesture of indignation.

“A country advocate at whom those
in authority could laugh. I tell you
what I say is true; the land was re-
stored, and the fact is known to La
Barre and to Cassion. It is this fact
which caused all our troubles. I over-
heard talk last night between the gov-
ernOr and his aidede- -camp, Colonel
Delguard~you know h1m'P”

Chevet nodded, his interest stirred.

“They thought themselves alone, and
were laughing at the success of their
‘1 was hidden behind the heavy
curtains at the window, and every
word they spoke reached my ears.
Then they sent for Cassion.”

“But where is the paper ?”

“I did not learn; they have it hidden
no doubt, awaiting the proper time to
produce it. But there is such a docu-
ment; La Barre explained that clearly,

 

and the reason why he wished Cas-

sibn to marry me. They were all three
talking when an accident happened,
which led to my discovery.”

“Ah! and so that was what hurried
the wedding, and sent me on this wild
wilderness chase. They would bury
me in the woods—sacroi—

“Hush now—Cassion has left the
canoe already, and we can talk of this
later. Let us seem to suspect'nothing.”

This was the first meal of many eat-
en together along the river bank in
the course of the long journey, yet the
recollection of that scene rises before
my memory now with peculiar vivid-
ness. It was a bright, glorious morn-
ing, the arching sky blue overhead,
and the air soft with early autumn.
Our temporary camp was at the edge
of a grove, and below us swept the
broad river, a gleaming highway of sil-
very water without speck upon its
gleaming surface. Except for our lit-
tle party of voyagers no evidence of
life was visible, not even a distant curl
of smoke obscuring the horizon.

Cassion had divided us into groups,
and,‘ from where I had found resting
place, with a small flat rock for table,
I was enabled to.see the others scat-
tered to the edge of the bank, and thus
learned for the first time, the charac-
ter of those with whom I Was destined
to companion on the long journey.
There were but four of us in the first
group, which included Pere Allouez,
a silent man, fingering his cross, and
barely touching food. His face under
the black cowl was drawn, and creas-
ed by'strange lines, and his eyes burn-
ed with fanaticism. If I had ever
dreamed of him as one to whom I
might turn for counsel, the thought in-
stantly vanished as our glances met.

A soldier and two Indians served us,
While their companions, divided into
groups, were gathered at the other ex-
tremity of the ridge, the soldiers under
discipline of their own under officers,
and the Indians watched over by Sieur
de Artigny, Who rested however, slight-
ly apart, his gaze on the broad river.
Never once while I observed did he‘
turn and glance my way. I counted
the men, as I endeavored .to eat some-
thing, scarcely heeding the few words
exchanged by those about me. The
Indians numbered ten, including their
chief, whom Cassion called Altudah.
Chevet named them as Algonquins
from the Ottawa, treacherous rascals
enough, yet With expert knowledge of
water craft.

Altudah was a tall savage, wrapped
in gaudy blanket, his face rendered
sinister and repulsive by a scar the full
length of his cheek, yet he spoke
French fairly well, and someone said
that he had three times made journey
to Mackinac, and knew the waterways.
There Were twenty-fear soldiers, in-~
eluding a sergeant and corporal, of the
Regiment of Picardy; active fellows
enough, and accustomed to the fron-
tier, although they gave‘ small evi-
dence of discipline, and their uniforms
were in shocking condition. The ser—
geant was a heavily built, stocky man,
but the others were rather undersized,
and of little spirit. The same thought
must have been in the minds of others,
for the expression on Monsieur Cas‘
sion’ s face was not pleasant as he star-
ed about.

“Chevet,” he exclaimed disgustedly,
“did you ever see a worse selection for
wilderness travel than La Barre has
given us? Cast your eyes down the

, line yonder; by my faith t‘. xere is not

a real than among them. ” ‘
Chevet who had been growling to
himself, with scarce a thought other
that the food before him; lifted his
eyes and looked.

   

 
 

 

 

 

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“.Not. so bad,” he answered .finiflly."

' the words rumbling in his throat."“Al-

tudah is a good Indian, and has trav-
eled with, me before, ”and the sergeant

' yonder looks like a fighting man.”

“Ay, but the others?”

“No worse than all the scum. De
Baugis had no better with him, and La
Salle led a gang of outcasts. With
right leadership you can make them
do men’s work. ’Tis nokid-gloved job
you have, Monsieur Cassion.”

'The insulting indifference of the old
fur trader’s tone surprised the Com-
missaire, and he exhibited resentment.

“You are overly free with your com-
ments, Hugo Chevet. When I wish ad-
vice I will ask it.”

“And in the woods I do not always
wait to be asked,” returned the older
man, lighting his pipe, and calmly
pulling out the blue smoke. “Though
it is likely enough you will be asking
for it before you journey leagues
further.”

“You are under my orders.”

“So ha Barre said, but the only duty
he gave me was to watch over Adele
here. He put no shackle on my tongue.
You have chosen your course ?”

“Yes, up the Ottawa.”

“I supposed so, although that boy
yonder could lead you a shorter pas-
sage.”

“How learned you that?” ?

“By talking. with him in Quebec. He
even sketched me a map of the route
he traveled with La Salle. You knew
it not?”

“’Twas of no moment, for my or—
ders bid me go by St. Ignace. Yet it
might be well to question him and the
chief also.” He turned to the nearest
soldier. “Tell the Algonquin, Altudah,
to come here, and Sieur de Artigny.”

They approached together, two spec‘
imens of the frontier as different-as
could be pictured, and stood silent,
fronting Cassion who looked at them
frowning, and in no pleasant humor.
The eyes of the younger man sought
my face for an instant, and the swift
glance gave harsher note to the Com-
missaire’s voice.

“We will reload the canoes here for
the long voyage,” he said brusquely.
“The sergeant will have charge of that
but both of you will be in the leading
boat, and will keep well in advance of
the others. Our course is by way of
the Ottawa. You know that stream,
Altudah?”

The Indian bowed his head gravely,
and extended one hand beneath the
scarlet fold of his blanket.

“Five time, Monsieur.”

“How far to the west, Chief?”

“To place call Green Bay.”

Cassion turned his eyes on De Ar“

tigny, a slight sneer curling his lips.

“And you?” he asked coldly.

“But one journey, Monsieur, along
the Ottawa and the lakes,” was the
quiet answer, “and that three years
ago, yet I scarce think I would go
astray. ’Tis not a course easily for-
gotten.”

“And beyond Green Bay?”

“I have been to the mouth of the
Great River.”

“You-” in surprise.
that party ?”

“Yes, Monsieur.”

“And you actually reached the sea—
the salt water?”

“Yes, Monsieur.”

“Saint Anne! 1 never half believed
the tale true, nor do I think overmuch
of your word for it. But let that go.

“Were you of

Chevet here tells me you know a ,short- ;

er journey to the Illinois?”

“Not by canoe, Monsieur. I followed
Sieur de la Salle by forest trail to the
Straits, and planned to return that
way, but ’tis a foot journey.”

“Not fitted for such .a party as this ?”

“Only as you trust to your rifles for
food, bearing what packs we might on
With the lady the trail is

“As a; the lady I #7111 make my 6m:

decision. Besides, our course is de-

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cided. We go to St. Ignace. What will
be your course from Green Bay. 9” ,

“Along the west sho're, Monsieur; it
is dangerous only by reasbh of the
storms. ”

“And the distance 'i”

“From St. Ignace?”
~ “Ay! from St. Ignace- What distance
lies between there and this Fort St.
Louis, on the Illinois ?” .

“’Twill be but a venture, Monslsr,
but I think ’tis held at a hundred and
fifty leagues."

“0f wilderness?”

“When I passed that way—yes; they
tell me now the Jes-uits‘have mission
station at Green Bay, and there may
be fur traders in Indian villages be?
yond."

“No chance to procure supplies ?"

“Only scant rations of corn from the
Indians.”

“Your report is in accordance with

my instructions and maps, and no
doubt is correct. That will be all.
Take two more men in your boat, and
depart at once. We shall follow im-
mediately."

As De Artigny turned away in obedi-
ence to these orders, his glance met
mine, and seemed to question. Eager
as I was to acquaint him with the true
reason of my presence it was impdssl.
ble. To have exhibited the 'slightest
interest would only increase the. en-
mity between the two men, and serve
no good purpose. I did not even ven-
ture to gaze after him as he disap-
peared down the bank, feeling assur-
ed that Cassion’s eyes were suspicious-
ly watching me. My appearance of in-
difference must have been well as-
sumed, for there was a sound of confi~
dence in his voice as he bade us re-
turn to the canoes, and I even permit-
ted him to assist me to my feet, and
aid me in the descent to the shore.

CHAPTER VIII.
I Defy Cassion.
UR progress was slow against the
swift current of the St. Law-
rence, and we kept close to the
overhanging bank, following the guid-
ance of the leading canoe. We were
the second in line, and no longer over-
crowded, so that I had ample room to
rest at ease upon a pile of blankets,
and gaze about me with interest on the
changing scene.

Cassion, encouraged possibly by my
permitting his attendance down the
bank, found seat near me, and endeav-
ored to converse; but, although I tried
to prove cordial, realizing now that
to anger the man would only add to
my perplexity, his inane remarks tried

,me so that I ceased to reply, and we

finally lapsed into silence. Chevet,
who held the steering oar, asked him
some questions, which led to a brisk
argument, and I turned away my head,
glad enough to escape, and be permit-
ted ‘the luxury of my own thoughts.
How beautifully desolate it all was;

with what fresh delight each new vista

revealed itself. The wild life, the love
of wilderness and solitude, was in my
blood, and my» nature responded to the
charm of our surroundings. I was the
daughter of one ever attracted by the
frontier, and all my life had: been pass-
ed amid primitive condi'tions——the wide
out-of-doors was my home, and the
lonely places called me. The broad,
rapid sweep of the rive up which we
won our slow passage, the great beet-
ling cliffs dark in shadows, and crown-
ed by trees, the jutting rocks whitened
by spray, the headlands cutting on“ all
view ahead, then suddenly—here ex-
tended a panorama of which I could
never tire.

My imagination swept ahead into
the mystery which awaited us in that
vast wilderness toward which we jour-
neyed—the dangerous rivers, the port-
ages, the swift rush of gleaming wa-
ter,. the black forests, the plains of
waving grass, the Indian villages, and
those immense lakes along whose
shores we were destined to find way.

All this possibility had conic to me so
unexpectedly, with such suddénneas,
that even yet I scarcely realised that
my surroundings were real; They
seemed more a dream than an actual
fact, and I was compelled to concen-
trate my mind on those people about
me before I could clearly comprehend
the conditions under which I lived.

Yet. here was reality enough; the
Indian paddlers, stripped to the’ waist.
their bodies glistening, as with steady.
tireless strokes, they forced our canoe
forward, following relentlessly the
wake of the speeding boat ahead; the
little group of soldiers huddled in the
bows, several sleeping already, the oth-
ers amusing themselves with game of
cards; while just in front of me eat
the priest, his fingers clasping an open
book, but his eyes on the river. The
silhouette of his face, outlined beyond
his black hood, seemed carved from
stone, it was so expressionless and
hard. There was something so sinister
about it that I felt a chill run through
me, and averted my eyes, only to en-
counter the glance of Casslon beside
me, who smiled, and pointed out a
huge terrace of rock which seemed a
castle against the blue of the sky. L
think he told me the fanciful name the
earlier explorers had given the point,
and related some legend with which it
was connected, but my mind was not
on his tale, and soon he ceased effort
to entertain me, and his head nodded
sleeplly.

I turned to glance back beyond the
massive figure of Chevet at the steer-
ing oar, to gain glimpse of the canoes
behind. The first was well up, so that
even the faces of its occupants were
revealed, but the second was but a
black shapeless thing in the distance,
a. mere blotch upon the waters.

Ahead of us, now sweeping around
the point like a wild bird, amid a
smother of spray, appeared the ad-
vance canoe. As it disappeared I could
distinguish De Artigny at the stern,
his coat off, his hands grasping a pad-
dle. Above the point once more and
in smoother water, I was aware that
he turned and looked back, shading his
eyes from the sun. I could not but
wonder what he thought, what possible
suspicion had come to him, regarding
my presence in the company. There
was no way in which he could have
learned the truth, for there had been
no communication between him and
those who knew the facts.

Never would he conceive so Wild a
thought as my marriage to Cassion.
He might, indeed, believe that some
strange, sudden necessity had compell-
ed me to accompany them on this ad-
venture, or he might suspect that I
had deceived him, knowing all the time
that I was to be of the party. I felt
the shame of it bring the red blood
into my cheeks, and my lips pressed
together in firm resolve. I should, tell
him, tell him all; and he must judge
my conduct from my own words, and
not those of another. In some manner
I must keep him away from Cassion—
ay, and from Chevet—until opportu-
nity came for me to first communicate
with him. ‘

I was a woman, and some instinct
of my nature 'told me that Sieur de
Artigny held me in high esteem. And
his was the disposition and the train.
ing to cause the striking of a blow
first. This must not be, for now I was
determined to unravel the cause for
Cassion’s eagerness to marry, and La
Barre’s willing assistance, and to ac-
complish this end there could be no
quarreling between us.

The weariness of the long night con—
quered even my brain, the steady
‘splash of the paddles becoming 3. 111118.-
by. Insensibly my head rested back
against the pile of blankets, the gums
of sunshine along the surface of‘the
water vanished as my lashes fell, and. '
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so low down as to peek at me
through the upper branches or trees

lining the bank. Our surroundings had' '

changed somewhat, the shores being

.no longer steep, and overhung with.

rocks, but only slightly uplifted, and

covered with dense, dark woods, sour g

her and silent. Their shadows nearly
met in midstream, giving to the scene

lrook of desolation and gloom, the wa-
ter sweeping on in sullen flow, without
sparkle. or gaiety. Our beat clung
close to the west shore. and I could
look long distances through the aisles
of trees into the silent gloom beyond.
Not a leaf rustled, not a wild animal
moved in the coverts. It was like an
abode of death.

And we moved so slowly, struggling
upward against the current for the ln-
dlans were resting, and the less expert
hands of soldiers were wielding the
paddles, urged on by Cassion, who had
relieved Chevet at the steering our.
The harsh tones of his voice, and the
heavy breathing of the laboring men
alone broke the solemn stillness. I sat
up, my body aching from the awkward
position in which I lay, and endeavored
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condition to grow crops profitably, and
the new system which. will keep it in
a condition of perpetual fertility must
include short rotations, systematic Ter—
tilization, regular liming, and enough
live stock always to consume all the
crops. Cash crop farming depletes the
soil, but live stock farming conserves
fertility and makes a permanent agri-
culture possible.

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in one unit.

your needs.

If a man has an engine, we are con-
tent to sell him the necessary electrical
equipment; no reason why he should
buy another engine. If, however, he
wants a complete plant, we offer him
two kinds:~——(1) the belted type where
the engine is belted to the generator
and is readily available to drive other
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labor saving appliances for the home—
all bearing the familiar trade mark,
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vantage of the high market today: ‘ Ded 1mm
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RAW FURS WANTED

Owing to scarcity of Labor. and High prices of Material. we issue no Price
Lists this year. We prefer to give you the benefit in price “for your Raw Furs. which we .
want badly. and will accept in any quantity.

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' cided We go to St.» Ignace {What will

be your course from Green Bay. 9” _
“Along the west sho’re, Monsieur; it
is dangerous only by reasfi'n Of- .the
storms. ”
“And the distance?”
)“From St. Ignace?”
“Ay! from St. Ignace- What distance
lies between there and this Fort St.

' Louis, on the Illinois?”

“'Twill' be but a venture, Monsier,
but I think ’tis held at a hundred and
fifty leagues. "

"Of wilderness '2".

“When .I passed that way—yes; they
tell 'me now the Jesuits'have mission

station at Green Bay, and there may;

be fur traders in Indian villages be;
yond.” . ’
“No chance to proéure supplies ?”
“only scant rations of 'corn from the
Indians.”

“Your report is in accordance with-

my instructions and maps, and no
doubt is correct. That will be all.
Take two more men in yOur boat, and
depart at once. We shall follow im-
mediately."

As De Artigny turned away in obedi-
ence to these orders, his glance met
mine, and seemed to question. Eager
as I was to acquaint him with the true
reason of my presence it wasimpossi-
ble. To have exhibited the ‘slightest
interest would only increase the en-
mity between the two men, and serve
no good purpose. I did not even ven-
ture to gaze after him as he disap-
peared down the bank, feeling assur-
ed that Cassion’s eyes were suspicious-
ly watching me. My appearance of in-
difference must have been well as-
sumed, for there was a sound of confi-
dence in his voice as he bade us re-
turn to the canoes, and I even permit-
ted him to assist me to my feet, and
aid me in the descent to the shore.

CHAPTER VIII.
I Defy Cassion.
UR progress was slow against the
swift current of the St. Law-
rence, and we kept‘close to the
overhanging bank, following the guid-
ance of the leading canoe. We were
the second in line, and no longer over-
crowded, so that I had ample room to
rest at ease upon a pile of blankets,
and gaze about me with interest on the
changing scene.

Cassion, encouraged possibly by my
permitting his attendance down the
bank, found seat near me, and endeav-

ored to converse; but, although I tried

to prove cordial, realizing now that
to anger the man would only add to
my perplexity, his inane remarks tried

,me so that I ceased to reply, and we'

finally lapsed into silence. Chevet,
who held the steering oar, asked him
some questions, which led to a brisk
argument, and I turned away my head,
glad enough to escape, and be permit-

'ted the luxury of my own thoughts.

How beautifully desolate it all was;
With What fresh delight each new vista
' revealed itself. The Wild life, the love

of Wildernessand solitude, was in my
bloo'd,and my nature responded to the

’charm of our‘surroundings. I was the

daughter of one ever, attracted by the
frontier, and all my life had; been pass-
ed amid primitive Conditions—the wide
out-of-doors was my home, .and the
The broad,
rapid sweep of the rive up which ‘we
won our slow passage, the great beet-
ling cliffs dark in Shadows, and crown-
ed by trees, the jutting rocks whitened
by 'spray, the headlands cutting 911" all
view ahead, then suddenly——here ex‘
tended a. pancrama of which I could
never tire.

My imagination swept ahead into
the mystery Which awaited us in that
vast wilderness toward which we Jour-
neyed—the dangerous rivers, the port-
ages, the swift rush of gleaming wa-
ter, . the black forests, the plains of

‘ waving grass, the Indian villages. and

those immense lake‘s- along whose
shores we were destined to find Way.’

All this possibility had come to me so

unexpectedly, with such suddénness,
fthat even yet I scarcely realized that
my surroundings 'were real ‘They'

seemed more a, dream than an adtual
fact, and I was compelled-'- to concen-

‘trate my mind on those people about

me before I could'clearly comprehend

'the conditions under which I lived.

Yet here was reality enough; the

Indian paddlers, stripped to the‘ waist,

their bodies glistening, as with steady,
tireless strokes, they forced our canoe
forward,
wake of the speeding boat ahead; the
little group of soldiers huddled in the
bows, several sleeping already, thevoth4

ers amusing themselves with game of
'cards; while just in front of me sat

the priest, his fingers clasping an open
book, but his eyes on the river. The
silhouette of his face, outlined beyond
his black hood, seemed carved from
stone, it was so eXpressionless and
hard. There was something so sinister
about it that I felt a chill run through
me, and averted my eyes, only to en-
counter the glance, of Cassion beside
me, who smiled, and pointed out a
huge terrace of rook which seemed a
castle against the blue of the sky. L
think he told me the fanciful name the
earlier explorers hadgiven the point,
and related some legend with which it
was connected, but my mind was not
on his tale, and soon he ceased effort
to entertain me, and his head nodded
sleepily.

I turned to glance back beyond the
massive figure of Chevet at the steer-
ing car, to gain glimpse of the canoes
behind. The first was well up, so that
even the faces of its occupants were
revealed, but the second was but a
black shapeless thing in the distance,
a. mere blotch upon the waters.

Ahead Of us, now sweeping around
the point like a wild bird, amid a
smother of spray, appeared the ad-
vance canoe. As it disappeared I could
distinguish De Artigny at the stern,
his coat off, his hands grasping a pad-
dle. Above the point once" more and
in smoother water, I was aware that
he turned and looked back, shading his
eyes from the sun. I could not but
wonder what he thought, what possible
suspicion had come to him, regarding-
my presence in the company. There
was no way in which he could have
learned the truth, for there had been
no communication between him and
those who knew the facts.

Never would he conceive so Wild a
thought as my marriage to 'Cassion.
He might, indeed, believe that some
strange, sudden necessity had compell-
ed me to accompany them on this ad-
venture, or he might suspect that I
had deceived him, knowing all the time
that I was to be of the party. I felt
the shame of it bring the red blood
into my cheeks, and my lips pressed
together in firm resolve. I should,tell
him, tell him all; and he must judge
my conduct from my own words, and
not those of another. In some manner
I must keep him away from Cassion—e
ay, and from Chevet—until opportu-
nity came for me to first communicate
with him.

I was a woman, and some instinct
of my nature told me that Sieur de
Artigny held me in high esteem. And
his was the disposition and the train-
ing to cause the striking of a blow
first. This must not be, for now I was

determined to unravel the cause for

Cassion’s eagerness'to marry, and La
Barre’s willing assistance, and to ac-
complish this end there could be no
quarreling- between us.

The weariness of the long night con-
quered even my brain, the steady
splash of the paddles becoming a lulla-
by. Insensibly my head rested back
against the pile of blankets, the glint-

‘of sunshine along the surface of the
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changed somewhat, the shores being

.no longer steep. and overhung with.

rocks, but only slightly uplifted, and
covered with dense, dark woods, sum.
ber and silent. Their shadows nearly
met in midstre‘am, giving to the scene

sleek of desolation and gloom, the wa-

ter sweeping on in sullen flow, without \
Our boat clung .

sparkle, or gaiety.
close to the west shore, and I could
look long distances through the aisles
of trees into the silent gloom beyond.
Not a leaf rustled, not a wild animal
It was. like an
abode of death. .

And we moved so slowly, struggling
upward against the current, for the In-
dians were resting, and the less expert
hands of soldiers were wielding the

paddles, urged on by Cassion, who had ,

relieved Chevet at the steering oar.
The harsh tones of his voice, and the

heavy breathing of the laboring men

alone broke the solemn stillness. I sat
up, my body aching from the awkward
position in which I lay, and endeavored
to discern the other canoes.
(Continued next week).

SICK SOlLS—bCAUSE AND CURE.

 

(Continued from page 77).
invariably, the use of some form of
lime, probably marl or pulverized lime-
stone. Thisshould be worked into the
soil after plowing. , It tends to neutral-
ize the acids present and thus fits the
soil for the thrifty and rapid growth
of beneficial soil organisms, like the
nitrogen-fixing bacteria found growing
independently in the soil or on the
roots of legumes. At the same time
the. lime may. become the source of

calcium which some plants require in’

greater amounts than can be secured
from a leached and run-down soil. And
lasz, in case the soil has become life—
less and easily runs together to form
clods, the lime will loosen it up and
make it crumbly. ,.

~The next. step in reproducing a near-
virgin soil is the restoration of avail—
able plant food. Complete commercial
fertilizers will serve this purpose; but
if stable manure can be obtained in
any way, this, with the addition of acid
phosphate to balance the plant food
contained therein, will be better. Sta-
ble manure, besides furnishing consid—
erable amounts. of nitrogen and potash,
also carries into the soil the life-giv~
ing humus which loosens a heavy soil,
increases the water-holding capacity of
any soil, provides a lodging for innu-
merable beneficial bacteria, and by its
decomposition helps to release plant
food from the mineral particles of the
soil. This is why live stock is such
an important factor in maintaining the
productivity of farms.

In case stable manure cannot be ob-
tained, the soil doctor must use the
commercial manures and plan to grow
his, humus in rye and vetch, oats and
vetch, soy beans, sweet clover, crimson
clover, etc., which are plowed under
as' green manure. The soil now ap-
proaches its virgin'condition. It is
sweet from the renewal of its lime con-
tent; it has available plant food from
the commercial and stable manures
added to it; and for the natural mold
of leaves and rotten wood has been
substituted the stems, leaves, and
roots of cultivated plants. It is now in
"condition to grow crops profitably, and
the new system which. will keep it in
a condition of perpetual fertility must
include short'rotations, systematic ‘fer-
tilization, regular liming, and enough

live stock always to consume all the ‘

crops. Cash crop farming depletes the
soil, but live stock farming conserves
fertility and makes a permanent agri-
culture possible.

Maxims are only maxims, after all;
Thousands of people are early to bed

and early to rise, but. only a few are,

healthy, wealthy and wise all at the
time

 

 

 

    

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Get the plant that fits your needs. Don’t fit your needs
to any particular plant.

type, with engine and generator built
in one unit.

We are not interested in selling any
one particular type of plant. You can
choose the one that will best serve
‘your needs.

And remember that the Western
Electric Company with its forty years
experience, offers youinot alone its line
of power and light plants, but its mo-
tors, water system, milking machine
as well as a complete line of electrical
labor saving appliances for the home—
all bearing the familiar trade mark,
Western Electric, your guarantee of

A “bull-tongue” plow won’t do good

work in meadow land; neither can a

« strong arsenate spray be used on bud-

: din-g trees. The right tool for the work

1 -—that’s the right idea! And it is this

idea that’s behind our selling plan for
electric plants.

If a man has an engine, we are con-
tent to sell him the necessary electrical
equipment; no reason why he should
buy another engine. If, however, he
wants a complete plant, we offer him
two kinds:-—(l) the belted type where
the engine is belted to the generator
and is readily available to drive other
machinery. (Z) the direct connected

INCORPORATED

Kirby Ave. and Dequindre St.,
Detroit, Mich.

L500 South Clinton St., Chicago, Ill.

 

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POWER and LIGT

Careful Buyers
Prefer to

 

satisfaction.

There is a Western Electric man near you.
Booklet No. MF -12 and we will tell him to get in touch with you.

I
I Name

Mail the coupon for

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EAR DEBORAH: —Am won-

dering if some of the older
women whose children are now
grown up could be induced to
help us young mothers by writ-
ing some of their short cuts in
housework, and plans for getting
it done alone—Young Mother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

N publishing this Macedonian ap-
Ipeal, I am actuated by the hope

that some experienced women
will take time to reply to this perplex-
ed mother. For I know at the outset
that the average woman would never
follow the “short cuts” and “plans”
which I adopt to get through with the
work which falls to the lot of mothers,
with or without help. As a matter of
fact, no woman will follow exactly any
other womans methods, for individual—
ity asse1ts itself in housewmk as in
everything else and we must all cut
our goods to suit our pattern. But as
women are women, I feel pretty sure
that mighty few would even try to
adopt my plan for I have a strong lean-
ing towards masculine styles in house-
keeping.

To begin with, I make a strong line
of demarcation between “must haves”
and “would likes.” The “must haves”
include plain food, clean clothes and
rooms and lots of soap and water ap-
plied to bodies and house furnishings.
The “would likes” include fancy work,
crocheted doilies, pillow shams, em-
broidered towels, bric-a-brac stuck up
all over the mantel and piano, photo-

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By DebOrah

graphs in like places, plate rails cov-
ered with fancy china, fancy pillows,
lace curtains which take a week’s time
to “do up,”——in short, all the frills and
furbelows so dear to the feminine soul,
and so conspicuous by their absence
in a bachelor’s bungalow.

All these things are nice, if you like
them. I’ll grant they, or a few of them,
play a part in our aesthetic education,
but I contend they are non-essential.
And 0, the time they take to make
them and then keep them nice.

Along with the furnishing, which I
eliminate as time-killers, I include
fancy cooking, frosted cakes, fearful
and" wonderful entrees, desserts and
salads that take an hour to make and
two minutes to eat, and all the related
line of dishes which call for a half-
dozen ingredients and give you an at-
tack of indigestion. These, Hooverism
has taught me, are not only non—essen-
tials, they are criminals. Dyspepsia
lurks in their train and woman’s
strength is wasted in their making.

Add to this list of things out out,
the daily Wearing of delicate lingerie
and house dresses which require much
ironing and you have stricken out
about all that beauty-loving women
dote on. So you see why I say I know
beforehand that no one is going to fol-
low my advice.

I think perhaps the hardest part of
being a young mother is the getting
used to the sacrifices you have to
make for your children. Up to the

time of your. first baby’s arrival you
have been expecting other folks to ca-
ter to you. From the time your first-
born arrives you begin to live a new
life, a life of service to others. At
first the nurse and your mother tell
you you must do this and that .for the
baby’s sake, but before many months
you wake up to find the young tyrant
telling you himself. For some inscru-
table reason, children assume from
their earliest conscious moments that
their mother is their own personal
property with 'no rights which they are
bound to respect. And after awhile
conscientious mothers begin to feel a
little themselves as though their duty
to theirlchildren was paramount.

And as a matter of fact it is. I
heartily believe that the most import-
ant thing a mother has to do is to
serve her children. Children first,
house next, is the true way. Too many
mothers turn it about and make the
children second. A clean, well-kept
house is to them of more importance
than happy children. But they are
wrong. They will have many years to
keep up the house after the children
are grown, but the years when they
can train their children into right
habits of living and thinking are all
too few.

If I were the young mother who has
written in for advice I should sit down
with a pencil and paper and make a
list of everything I try to do in a week.
Then I would go through it and pick

Daintincss and Comfort for

UR readers are presented with
two dainty jackets for babies,
either one of which is sure to
please the most fastidious mother, and
it would be hard to decide which is
most fetching when worn by the little
king or queen. It is the nicest sort of
work for evenings, they grow rapidly,
and do not tire one’s eyes or nerves.

' Number one is perhaps a trifle easier
to make. For it you will require one
and a half hanks of creamy white Shet-
land floss,‘ a yellow celluloid hook,
about number three, or one that will
carry the yarn loosely; two yards of
number three satin ribbon. I may as
well say right here, never wind yarn,
~always nest it to insure fluffiness.

To make jacket number one: Chain
71, turn; in the fifth stitch from hook,
one double; one double in every stitch

, of chain until you have 34 doubles;
chain 2, one double in each stitch of
chain until you have 34 doubles again;
chain 2, two doubles in last stitch of
chain; turn.

Second Row: Chain 3; two doubles
over the chain of two; first row, one
double through back loop of each stitch
until chain in center back is reached;
two doubles, two chain, two doubles
"over it; one double through back loop
', of each stitch; chain 2, two doubles in
‘ .Chained loop on end turn.

Third Row: Same, except put three

  

doubles in front, center back,'and oth-
er side of front.

Fourth Row: Like second.

Fifth Row: Like third.

Keep on the same until there are
thirteen rows; you will notice it is
three doubles, then the next row says
two doubles, they come alternately,
forming a point in center back, also

 

No. 1, of Shetland Floss.

each side of front, and- they just cover
the waist line; break off yarn, and
draw it through last Stitch; from the
fIOIlt and back lower points, count up
14 stitches; sew up 10 stitches. Do the
other side like- it; tie on yarn at the
sleevie go arpund ,_ t back and forth
five times, joining each round with a
slip stitch; break oif; draw. the yarn
through last stitch; work other sleeve
precisely like it; finish ‘neék, fronts,

bottom and sleeves with a small scal-
lop thus:

Tie ‘on yarn anywhere; skip three
doubles, double between next two;
chain 3, one single through top of same
double; make three more like it in the
same place; chain 3, skip 3, one single
between next two; chain 3, one single
in same place; repeat all around it;
break off, draw yarn through, and fast-

 

No. 2, Saxony Yarn.

en it securely on wrong side. out off
half-yard of ribbon, run it in and, out
between every tWo stitches and tie in
a tiny bow; trim both sleeves the
same; use the remaining yard for the“
neck. . .

For jacket number two you will re-
quire three and a half laps of creamy
white Saxony yarn; the same yellow

celluloid book used for number one; a
patent steel chocbet hock No. 5 and

out the things I get done and those I
never manage to get at. I should
study both lists and decide on what .
must be done in order to keep up in
good health and what I want to do be— ’
cause everyone else is doing it. Those
last things. I’d kiss a fond goodbye
until the‘ children are grown up.

If there was anyone in the neighbor.
hood whom I could get to help me a.
few hours each week I should hire
them, even if the farm is not paid for
in the time limit I’d like. A little help
now, and time and strength to enjoy
your babies is of more importance than
a deed to a farm. And I should buy
everything I could in the way of labor-
saving devices to save myself the
drudgery of heavy farm work. You will
have enough of it if you save yourself
all you can. lNo doubt you have a
cream separator. Don’t stop with that.
Get a power washing machine, a man-
gle, a charcoal or gasoline iron, bread
mixer, a fireless cooker, everything
you hear of that will help save your
strength. These things are no longer
experiments any more than tractors.
and motor trucks.» They are things
you really need and should insist on.
having. .

Above all, be your own mistress.
Don’t let neighborhood habits or opin-
ions influence you to try to do things.
for which you have neither time nor
strength. A large per cent of the
things women do are done for no other
reason than because “folks will talk."
Let them talk. You can aflord to if
your refusal to conform to their stan-
dards gives you a few hours extra
time for pleasure or rest.

the Baby

one yard of narrow taffeta ribbon. With
the yellow hook chain 55; into the sec-
ond stitch from hook, put One single;
in each stitch of chain put one single,
making 54 in all; turn.

Second Row: Chain 1, skip first
stitch, then one single through back
loop of each stitch; 54 stitches, includ-
ing one chain at start; always chain
one to begin a row, skip one; it counts
as one stitch; one rib is now formed;

» work back and forfh until there are 29

ribs, (not rows).

Thirtieth Row: Work up 22 stitches
with yellow hook, then nine stitches
with steel one; turn. '

Thirty-first Rib: Chain 1, nine stitch;
es with steel hook, 22 with, yellow one;
continue same until there are 28 of
these short ribs; break off and draw
through, last stitch, finishing one side.

sTo make the other side, count down
23 stitches; tie on yarn; make nine
stitches with fine hook, 22 with large
one; work up and down for 28 ribs ‘on
this piece also; break ‘off, and draw
yarn through last loop; sew the end
to shoulder across thirteen ribs; skip
three'ribs, sew the other piece 'to cor-
respond; to form atinyVne'ck, work a
row of holes, starting half-Way down:

the front; chain 5, skip o" e rib, one ‘ '4
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side. '1'me natives: Chain 36 with;
yellow hook; turn; With small heck- '
work nine singles; With large hook 23 ; ,
turn; chain 1; shape the sleeve at the ‘
top by adding one stitch. each row; go
on down 28 stitches with large hook,'_
nine with fine One; keep on up and
down until there are ‘.ten ribs, then ~
three plain without increasing, then ‘
leave off one ‘st-itch each alternate row

i at top, until you are back to 27 large-

stitches, and nine small ones, 10 ribs,

23 ribs in all; break off, sew up, and ,

overcast it finely in the arm-hole; the
fine work forms a pretty ribbing round
the hand.

To edge sack and sleeves: Tie on.

, yarn, right side out, anywhere, with ‘

fine hook. chain 3; one double beside

it; chain 4, one single through top of _

double; one more double in the same
place with double; skip 2 fine ribs on
sleeve, or one large one on body when
you get that far; one double in next;
one double, chain 4, one single through
top of double, one double beside it;

repeat all way around; join with slip ;

stitch. Run ribbon through holes in
the neck.

 

MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.

 

Any of the patterns illustrated may 5
be secured by sending order to Pattern .

Department, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,
enclosing the amount set opposite the
patterns wanted.

   

No. 2408—Ladies’ House Dress.
in seven sizes, 34,‘ 36, 38, 40, 42, 44
and 46 inches bust measure.
willl require 5% yards of 44-inch mate-
r1a .

yards at the foot. Price 100.

No. 2623—A Cool, Practical and Com— . ‘

fortable Apron. Cut in four sizes,
small 32-34; medium 36—38; large 40-42;
and extra large 44-46 inches bust meas-
ure. Size medium requires four yards
of 36-inch material. Price 100.

 

       

No. 2625—A Serviceable Coat Style.
Cut in five sizes, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
years. Size 10 requires 3% yards of
44-inch material. Price 100.

No. 2236——Gir1s’ Blouse Dress.
in four sizes, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years.

Cut
It

requires 41/; yards of 44-inch material
Price 100.

for a 12-year size.

 

. No. 2634—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four
sizes, 6, 8, 10 and 112 years. Size ‘10
requires 3%, yards of 27-inch material:
Price 10c. 1

. No. 2530—Girls’4Dress.
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HEN Roy Gilson, herder at the
Palo Verde sheep camp, found
'two of-his flock dead in the cor-
ral, one of them half devoured and the
other left with its skull crushed in, he
knew it to be the work of a mountain
lion. A wolf would never have killed
more than it could eat.

For three nights after that Gilson
slept near the brush corral. Determin-
ed to waylay the sheep killer, he
spread his blankets in a little hollow
fifty or sixty yards to windward of the
pen, where the stiff night breeze would
carry the human scent away. There,
with lantern and loaded gun in readi-
ness, he lay down with his clothes on.
“Ted,” the sheep dog, curled up under
a dwarf mesquite a few yards away.

Nothing disturbed the herder or his
flock the first two nights of his vigil,
and he began to think the maurauder
was only a passing visitor, probably
miles away by that time.

The third night, however, an hour or
so before dawn, the herder was roused
by the terrified bleating of sheep, and
a sharp growl from the dog. The thor-
oughly awakened man ran his arm
through the bale of the lantern, and
with a firm grip on his gun, he sprang
up and ran toward the corral gate, fol-
lowed reluctantly by the sheep dog,
who had caught the scent of an un-
known enemy.

The c011al fence was made of thorny
mesquite biush, and the herder was
confident the, night prowler would be
compelled to leap the gate in order to
make his escape.

A crescent of the waning moon was
just peeping over the eastern horizon;
and in the dim light, while he was yet
thirty yards away, Gilson saw a dark
streak clear the gate, and caught a
flesh of white. The suspicious beast
made off with a lamb to eat undis-
turbed.

With scant hope of hitting the tide-
ing mark, the excited herder fired into
the darkness. Then with an encour-
aging shout to Ted, he dashed across
the open ground where he had last
seen the strange animal.

Heartened by the attack of his mas-
ter, the sheep dog now gave chase eag-
erly. Guided by the sharp, eager bark-
ing, Gilson stumbled after, urging on
the chase by an occasional shout.

The trail led through an “orchard"
of prickly pear; but dodging the sprawl-
ing clumps of cactus, the herder man-
aged to keep within hearing of the
chase. He kept doggedly on in the
hope of running the maurauding beast
into its den in case it had one in the
vicinity.

Scratched by treacherous cactus
spines, his clothes torn on the scrubby
mesquite, Gilson finall'y emerged into
more open ground. He paused a mo-
ment to listen. From the side of a lit-
tle hill, a hundred yards ahead, came
the short bark of a baying dog, and he
ran on at increased speed.

From the base of the hill, he was
compelled to proceed more slowly,
picking his way cautiously around bar.-
rel cactus and over huge rocks. Years
before, some misguided prospector had
among the scattering yucca of the bar-
ren hill, sunk half a dozen shallow
prospect holes, two or three of them
burrowing- back into'the hill for sev-
eral yards. ’

 

 

 

AFight in the Dark

By Hugh F. Grinstead

When half way to the top, the herder
beheld, to his amusement, the sheep
dog barking assiduously into a clump
of greasewood scarcely large enough
to hide a rabbit.

Disgusted, Gilson was on the point
of giving the dog a swift lesson on the
folly of chasing rabbits at night, when,
peering into the shadow he saw the
dark outline of a well—worn hole, al-
most hidden by the shrub. -

He struck a match, and carefully
shielding it from the wind, lighted the
lantern. A hasty examination revealed
the choked entrance to an old prospect
tunnel. Rocks and dirt had slipped
down, till an opening large enough for
only some slender body remained.

He searched about for something to
run into the hole. A few feet up the
sloping hillside he spied the slended,
green shoot of a young mesquite, that
had grown almost straight into a fair-
sized branch. Scrambling up, he swung
the lantern at the base of the scrubby
growth.

The light fell upon something dark,
like a flat stone. Gilson attempted to
push it with his foot, and barely saved
his balance by clutching the thorny
branch within reach. It was a black
hole a foot in diameter, that led down-
ward into the mysterious depths of the
abandoned shaft—a cave-in from the
top.

When he discovered that there were
two openings to the den appropriated
by the mountain lion, the herder hast-
ened to block with heavy stones the
one at the old entrance, where the dog
was still industriously scratching and
barking.

Then, holding fast to the little tree,
theroots of which he knew to be firm-

ly bedded in the soil, Gilson reached.
‘_and tried to gather his scattered .‘wits.

out cautiously with his foot, and tried
the crumbling soil at the edge of the
hole. A rim of loose earth and gravel

fell rumbling, into the pit beneath, wid?

enlng the opening to twice its former
size. Still holding to the mesquite, he
stepped out and bore his weight on the
tunnel roof within a foot of the hole;
it seemed to be perfectly safe.

Lying flat, he drew himself cautious-
ly toward the opening till his face was

directly over it; then, IOWering the lan-,

tern as far as his arm would reach,
he swung it about. ~ It is difficult to see
much below a lantern, but he caught
a glimpse of the bottom, apparently
ten feet below, and a heap of earth and
stones directly beneath.

Withdrawing the lantern, he lay

 

 

 

FUR TRAPPING A MONEY MAKER.

 

(Continued from page 91).

not use any “preparagionsfl’ simply
stretch and dry. Never dry by the
fire, or in the sun, but in a' cool place,
sheltered from rain. Most skins can
be shipped as soon as they have been
dried long enough to hold their- shape
They should be laid flat and securely
sewed up in a stout burlap sack with-
out holes,- then shipped by express or
parcel post. "

 

  

quietly listening for several minutes.
He could hear distinctly the crunch of
bones and flesh, and thought he heard
a subdued growl.

In order to make further exploration
he cut a slender branch from the mes-
quite, hung the lantern on a hook fash-
ioned at one end, and again lowered it
into the darkness. It reached almost
to the floor,'but the man lying flat on
the . ground above could see only a
small circle of light.

He swung the lantern from side to
side. An angry snarl scarcely ten feet
from the light announced the presence
of the cornered beast as well as the
limits of the excavation.

Apparently the tunnel was little
more than a yard in width—just wide
enough for the prospector to work in
comfortably—and dipped slightly into
the hillside. Before the cave- -in occur-
red, it had been about seven feet from
floor to roof.

In his eagelness to see farther back,
Gilson shifted around to the other side
of the opening, and leaned downward.
Without warning, he felt the untried
brink drop from beneath him, clutched
wildly at the opposite rim, and pitched
headlong into the pit below.

He struck on his hands, slid harm-
lessly upon the heap of earth, and roll-
ed against the wall. Turning almost a.
complete somersault in the plunge, he
had lost all sense of direction, uncer-
tain whether the back of the cavern
were to his right or to his left.

In the narrow prison with an animal
that would prOVe dangerous when cor-
nered, the lantern extinguished and
covered by“ the falling dirt, his gun ly-
ing on the ground above, there flashed
upon Gilson the full significance of his
dilemma. Crouched low, he listened

Presently he heard a rustling sound
to his left, and looking intently he saw
a pair of fiery balls—the night—seeing
eyes- of the big cat—fiercely regarding
him through the gloom.

Instinctively the trapped herder did
that which a man of action would be
expected to do. He retreated a step,
and reached for his only weapon of
defense—a strong, keen-bladed pocket-
knife. *

He took another. step backward, and
touched the fallen earth and stones
that choked the old entrance—he had
retreated as far as he could.

In close quarters with a-beast of
little less than his own weight, its ev-
ery tooth and claw a piercing weapon,
Gilson, unable to see his hand before
him, appreciated the handicap. Un-
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, back.

Vividly, he recalled a tale he had

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his right arm from the sleeve of his
heavy duck coat, and With a dexterous
movement wrapped the
around his left arm.
Willing to leave the beast at the
other end of the’ tunnel unmolested, if
he could thereby escape, Gilson, 'his
left arm crooked in front of his face,

crept upon the little mound beneath _ .

the ragged patch of light. He hoped

that he could reach high enough to i

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was bowled over, the two rolling to;
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blade against the furry object. If it
were a chance encounter, it now quick-
ly turned into a fight. ’

Maddened by the knife thrust, the
beast struck back savagely with its
forepaw, catching the prostrate man
just under the arm. The herder thrust
his muffled arm toward his antagonist
and struggled to his knees.

He felt the great jaws close on his
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rebound harmlessly from the knot of
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round with an overhand blow, and felt
it glance from the skull of his assail-
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sank into a soft spot, and the animal
released its .hold for an instant.

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to get to his feet. He shrank from the
pain as the sharp claws raked across
his side, and raised his shoulder higher
when he felt the hot breath of the ‘
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it is evident that the farmer cannot
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and early fall. Hens at that time car-
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to raise nearly all of the feed required.
All of these things influence the cost
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About one nest for every six hens
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interest to breed his cattle up to the
requirements of the markets that are
to be supplied by the farmer into
whose hands they will ultimately pass.
The prices paid for milk and the qual-
ity demanded by the city trade and
condensary plants do not warrant the
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Holstein-Friesian breeders so long as
the Jersey and Guernsey breeds are
well qualified to meet the demand for
richer milk at advanced prices.
Absolutely the first concern of the
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man who breeds along approved lines
and saves his best heifers cannot fail
to achieve success as a breeder. But
every time he sacrifices the young
heifers needed for improving his own
herd he slips back the few feet that he
has climbed above the average of the
breed. It is with cows of his own
breeding that he produces the best re-
sults, and no matter how high prices
the females from other herds cost him,
they seldom give as good results as
those he has bred and developed ac-
cording to his own ideals as to type
and productive qualities. The reason
why many breeders failed to make a
financial success is because they dis-
posed of their heifers and young cows
before they knew their value. It is
always safer for the breeder to test
out every young cow before putting a
price on her. Likewise, the value of
young males is not understood until
the-cows in the herd have been tested.
The purchased sire of another line of
breeding can seldom do for a herd
what one of home-breeding and an
equal record can accomplish, although
it is many times advisable to buy one
to obtain new blood for the herd. It
is with the finest of one’s own crop of
calves that the best young animals are
produced.

Holding aherd of dairy cattle up to
a high standard of milk and butter-fat
production, after such a standard has
been reached, isa problem as puzzling
as it is great. Many splendid herds,
created by genius, have passed into ob-
livion through the inability of owners
to hold them up to the high standard
that has been attained. ‘When a high
standard is reached the greatest care

and skill are required to hold it there,‘

~for there is always a tendency to de-
generate. Many of the most skillful
breeders of dairy cattle have been de-
c'eived by the introduction.,of animals
, from other herds into their own herd.
‘ The man who buys“ a sire that is capa-

Type, Quality and Production

(Continued from page 79).

ble of maintaining or increasing the
milk yields of his herd after a standard
of twelve thousandlpounds of milk, or
six hundred pounds of butter-fat per
year has been attained has certainly
been in a measure successful.

When one has a herd of_ cows that
is producing almost up to the limit of
animal capacity, at least such capacity
as has been reached at the present
time, it is very difficult to increase that
production. Indeed, it is a difficult
matter to avoid losing some of what
has already been gained. It is a very
easy matter to select a sire that is
capable of increasing the production
of a herd of cows whose annual aver-
age is below six thousand pounds of
milk or three hundred pounds of but-
ter-fat. Almost any good sire of the
leading dairy breeds would produce
such results. This only illustrates the
extreme difficulty of properly selecting
a head of the herd of already high pro-
ductive quality. It is a problem that
increases in difficulty as the animals
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GRAIN TO BALANCE RATION.

Kindly give me a good balanced ra-
tion for dairy cows. I have plenty of
alfalfa hay, cornstalks, oat straw,
small potatoes and mixed hay. How
much of each shall I feed, and what
would I have to buy?

Charlevoix Co. C. J. S.

Alfalfa hay, cornstalks and oat straw
and mixed hay are all excellent rough-
age feeds. Small potatoes are also, a
bulky food but would be valuable to
furnish succulency. I would not ad-
vise, however, feeding them in large
quantities; ten to fifteen pounds per
day would be sufficient. All of these
foods are bulky and there is not enough
protein in alfalfa hay to balance the
carbohydrates in cornstalks and oat
straw. Besides a ration ought to be
balanced from two Viewpoints. First,
there should be a certain proportion
of protein and carbohydrates; and sec-
ond, there should be a certain propor-
tion of roughage and concentrates.
And so to balance this ration one must
have grain and concentrates and this
grain must contain protein in excess
in order to make it a balanced ration.
A good grain ration would be corn
meal and wheat bran, mixed equal
parts by weight, in addition to three
pounds of oil meal fed to each cow per
day. I would prefer to feed the oil
meal separately if possible so that you
would know just the amount you were
feeding because this and cottonseed
meal, which will do just as well, are
highly concentrated foods and one is
liable to overfeed or to feed irregu-
larly if it is mixed with other grain. \

I would suggest that you feed this
three pounds ofh‘oil meal or cottonseed
meal separately. You can give the
cows the corn meal and wheat bran
and then immediately put the oil meal
in “the manger, say one and a half
pounds in the morning and again at
night, then you know just how much
oil meal your cattle are getting. Feed
a sufficient amount of corn and Wheat
bran in addition to the three pounds
of oil meal or cottonseed meal-to give
each cow a pound of grain per day for
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produced in a day.

If you have sufficient alfalfa feed
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ceding he Dairy Cows

BARLEY, OATS AND CORN. and bran to give each cow a pound of
' grain for every four pounds of milk
she produces daily. If you do not care
to feed the oats you can substitute
corn meal in place of this, but if I did
this I would mix the corn and bran in
the prOportion of one to two, one

pound of corn meal to two pounds 'of
bran. C. C. L.

 

I would like to know in what pro-
portion to feed barley, oats and corn,
crushed, for cows [giving about forty
puonds of milk per day." They have all
the ensilage twice a day that they can
eat, that dould husk about eighty bas-
Put in Septem-

and clover two-thirds hay, good cat
and barley straw. How will I feed
these home-grown crops to get the
best results for a balanced ration. Will
it pay to sell some and buy other feed?
Livingston Co. F. L.
You can’t combine barley, oats and
corn so as to make a balanced ration
when you feed corn silage and mixed
hay as roughage. There isn’t protein
enough; purchase cottonseed meal or
oil meal. If you will feed two pounds
of oil meal per day, or two pounds of
cottonseed meal per day, and then will
feed your barley, oats and corn in
equal parts by weight-and mix this
with one-half this weight of bran, you
will have sufficient protein to balance
the ration with your roughage.
Agood rule for feeding grain to the
dairy cows is to allow them a pound
of grain per day for every four pounds
of milk they produce if the cow pro-
duces less than four per cent milk; if
she produces more than four per cent
milk she ought to have a pound of
grain for every three pounds of milk.
The proper way to feed this grain
would be to feed oil meal or cottonseed
meal separately, giving a pound night
and morning on the ensilage, then feed
enough of the mixture of barley, oats,
corn and bran so that it can make the
required amount of grain.
About one-third of a ration for the
dairy cows should be concentrated or
grain foods, the other two-thirds rough-
age. If you have a ration fairly well
balanced so far as bulk is concerned
and also food nutriments there is no
danger of injuring a cow by over-feed-
ing. You can give them all they will
eat up clean without injury, even if
fed for long periods. C. C. L.

SELLING OATS AND BUYING COT-
TONSEED.

 

We haVe eight cows giving milk;
the price of which is $3.60 per cwt.
for four per cent butter-fat, with nine
cents for each point above. We have
forty tons of silage from corn that
would have husked from thirty to fifty
bushels of corn per acre. Also plenty
of stalks and oats for grain. Would it
be advisable to sell oats and buy con-
centrated feeds? How much grain
should one feed?

Kent Co. F. E.

You do not mention any hay among
the roughage feeds, consequently I
take it that you have no hay to feed.
This being the case it is quite essential
that you purchase a concentrated food
richer in protein than oats, otherwise
you cannot get a combination which
will furnish sufficient protein to make
a balanced ration even with clover hay
in connection with corn silage. Oats
Would not furnish a sufficient amount
of protein. Therefore, it will pay to
purchase cottonseed meal or oil meal
or gluten feed, some concentrated food
richer in protein .to balance these car-
bonaceous foods. It will even take

ration than I would‘like to feed to the
cows, and so I would advise that you
feed one and a half pounds of cotton-
seed meal and one and a half pounds
of oil meal, and then mix your ground
cats with wheat bran, equal parts by
weight, and feed each cow 3. sufficient
amount of this mixture, together with
the three pounds of oil meal and cot-
tonseed meal to make a pound of grain
for every four pounds of milk produc~
ed in a day if the milk tests less than
four per cent. If it tests more than
'four per cent the cow should have a
pound of grain for every three pounds
of milk she produces.

Of course, the bean fodder is of a,
nature similar to clover hay and would
in a measure take the place of clover
hay but the cows do not like it as
well, in fact, much of it is not fed for
cow feed, but it would be‘ a good plan
to give them what they will eat, pro-
viding you do not expect them to eat
all of the bean stalk, let them pick out
the best. The cow should have all the
corn fodder and corn silage that they
will eat up clean without waste.

, C. C. L.

A BALANCED RATION FOR HOL-
STEIN COWS.

 

Can you give me a balanced ration
for 1,000-lb. Holstein dairy cows2‘The
most of them are pure-bred; l have sil-
age, no corn on it, and buy the rest;
can get any feed desired that is in the
market. I have cats but think them
too high-priced. I am feeding bran
and cottonseed meal.

Genesee Co. A. R. G.

Silage may be a splendid feed, even

does not contain many cars is because
it was planted thickly. Of course, we
want the corn well matured.

You say nothing about hay, but I

take it for granted that you have hay GRAIN RATION FOR DAIRY COWS

 

about purchasing it. With clover hay,
or even mixed hay, and this corn sil-
age you have a splendid roughage.
Bran and cottonseed meal will balance
this ration very well but if you feed
a suflicieht amOunt of grain you will
probably get a Slight excess of protein
in the ration. Much will depend upon
the kind of hay you are feeding and
this I do not know, but if it is Clover
’hay , you can afford to feed some
ground cats in connection »with the
bran, mixing oats and bran equal parts
by weight. 'Feed the cows not ‘to ex-
ceed two pounds of cottonseed meal a.
day, a'pound in the morning andalso
at night, on the ensilage, then feed a

I would like a little advice as to the
best ration for dairy cows. I have for
roughage corn silage, shredded corn
fodder and cat and wheat straw. I
have corn, oats and barley and can
buy oil meal at $60; cottonseed meal
9.12360, and wheat bran at $38.

_ Livingston Co. A. F. B.

Your roughage is deficient in pro-
tein. Corn silage, shredded corn fod‘
der and the cat and wheat straw are
all foods of the same nature so far as
.food ingredients are concerned. They
make very good roughage but when
one wishes tobalance a'ration with

 

sufficient amount: of 'the‘ ground oats (led cornstalks. Where one beacon:

 

more cottonseed meal to balance this ‘

grain foods he must use more protein
than. he wouldif he was feeding (3‘10‘.
ver hay oralfalfa hay instead or shreds

   

 
     
            

 


 
  

 

 

silage and claver and alfalfa hay,
grodnd corn and catswlth wheat bran
and «perhaps a little oil meal or cotton-
seed meal iiVill make a splendid ration,
but in the absence of clover ‘hay you
will have to “feed more cottonseed meal
or more oil meal in order to balance it.
Where you have eorn silage I would
not advise feeding corn meal. You
might better feed oats or barley with
the bran.

In this instance, I would suggest that _

you feed a pound and a half of oil meal
and a pound and a half of cottonseed
per day. You could feed the oil meal,
say in the morning on the ensilage, and
cottonseed meal at night—that will
make three pounds of grain per day.
Now, you could mix ground oats or
ground barley equal parts by weight
with bran and feed a sufficient amount

' of this with your three pounds of con-

centrates to make one pound of grain
a day for every pound of butter-fat
your cows produce in a week. For in-
stance, if you have a cow that is pro-
ducing ten pounds of butter-fat in a
week, give her ten pounds of this grain
per day. If you do not test your cows
so that you know the amount of butter-

,fat produced, another good rule is to

feed a pound of grain for every four
pounds of milk produced.
C. C. L.
GRAIN RATION WITH UNHUSKED
CORN.

 

Please give me a balanced ration for
dairy cows. My rough feed consists
of corn silage, unhusked corn and
clover hay. I'have oats, oats and bar-
ley grown half and half. I would like
to feed the unhusked corn twice a day.
What will I have to buy?

Wexford Co. A. H.

Corn silage, unhusked corn and 010- -

ver hay are all splendid roughage
foods. There will probably be some
waste in feeding the unhusked corn be—
cause cows will not masticate this ear
corn thoroughly enough so that you
will get economical digestion. A por-
tion of the hard corn will pass through
the alimentary canal without being
acted upon very much by the digestive
fluids. Where fattening steers are fed
on husked corn, the feeders find it nec-
essary to have hogs follow the steers
to utilize this waste and the same
thing, of course, could be done with
COWS that are fed onunhuske’d corn.
It is necessary to have some concen-
trated food with your oats and barley
to furnish a sufficient amount of pro-
tein to balance up the ration. I would
suggest that you mix wheat bran with
the ground oats and barley, say in the
proportion of one hundred pounds of
cats, one hundred pounds of barley and
one hundred pounds of wheat bran,
then feed cottonseed meal at the rate
or? two pounds per day, giving each cow
one pound night and morning on the
ensilage, and feeding .. a sufficient
amout of the other grain so that each

.cow will receive one pound of grain

per day for every four pounds of milk
produced if her milk tests less than
four per cent. If it tests more than
four per cent, then feed heinone pound
to every three pounds of milk she pro-
duces in a day. C. C. L.

The droppings from the cattle will
benefit the pasture more it they are

spread or broken up with a spike-tooth ‘

harrow with the teeth set well aslant.
This prevents the grass from being
killed out and weeds coming in Where
the droppings have lain.

 

A geod cow in the hands of a poor
dairyman is a poorer prOposition than
a‘poor, cow 'in the hands of a good

dairyman. Both are veryr poor combi-'

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PROF. F. C. JOHNSON
Director of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station.
Norfolk. Va.

“We think it a very good practice for the farmer to
purchase lime during the Fall and Winter for immediate
application, or for application prior to planting crops
in the early Spring."

DR. H. J. PATTERSON

Maryland Agricultural College

“We have gotten very good results by applying
lime during the Winter as a top dressing on wheat
and fall seeded grasses.” .

AGRICULTURAL BUREAU

 

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“finter soil liming has become an established economic farming practice, under the prevailing
conditions of_ labor shortage and transportation facilities.
may be applied to the 8011 during the winter with practically the same efficiency as when applied

For the information of farmers, considering this subject, we here publish the state—-
ments of opinion from these Agricultural College and Experiment Station experts.

We have for free distribution a bulletin on “Liming Soils ln Winter.” Also
Phamphlet No. 2, “Facts about the Use of Lime in Agriculture.” Write for them
today, and secure complete information for economy and profit.

THE LIME ASSOCIATION

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Investigations show conclusively that lime

DR. JACOB G. LIPMAN

New Jersey Agricultural College
“The wisdom of purchasing and spreading lime in
the Fall and Winter is entirely proper. It haspbeen our
practice for some time past to advise farmers in New
Jersey not to leave certain of the farm work that can
be done in the Winter until early Spring.”

DR. ELMER O. FIPPIN

Cornell University

“lirthe matter of the ordering and use of lime in
the Winter, we have emphasized the importance of
farmers ordering their lime in the winter, because of
difficulties of getting cars in the spring. Also they
have more time for such work. We are also recom-
mending in our regular work the practice of applying
lime in the Winter any time when the ground is es-
sentially bare of snow.”

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The “poor-milker”

where disease originates.

KURE on hand always.

Free book, “ THE HOME
COW DOC TOR,” ie your:
for the asking.

Lyndonville, Vt.

‘ A Healthy AYRSHIRE

This champion threeryear-old is a ,
notable example of eerfeet health.
. Her yearly record' to 15,056 lbs. of
'gm'lla and 589.2 lbs. of butter-fat.

‘ “HEALTHY cow'.’

is usually non-productive be.
cause of some disorder of the digestive or genital
organs that is sapping at her-health and strength.
Even apparently slight troubles of this nature usually
lead to more serious ailments so common among
dairy cows, such as Abortion, Retained Afterbirth,
Barrenness, Securing, Bunches, etc.

A sick cow should be treated like a sick person—
with medicine that will correct the trouble.
Kure is the most valuable and best known remedy
for the prevention or treatment of cow ailments be-
cause its medicinal properties act on the organs

There will be no trouble about the milk flow of a
healthy cow; keep yours healthy by having KOW-
Druggists and feed
dealers sell it, in 60c. and $1.20 packages.

DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO.

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MOVEMENT

Present - day. '
prices for dairy
products a r e
making dairy-
men everywhere
t h i n k m o r e
about the milk
production 0 if
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' New folder tells how' 'Silverizcd Silage"
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The E. W. Roee Co., Box 1014. Springfield, Ohio
’ It Pays to Dehom

’ I Dehorned cows give more milk; take
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In the United States alone more than
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one- half the cost of m1lk. Write for booklet:
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after they had obtained a weight of
perhaps forty pounds.‘ _

The middlings were bought at $44
per ton and the pigs were sold during
the month of February'last, at a fine
price. They also paid for their feed,
with a fair allowance for the labor, but
they grew slowly and weighed much
less than they should at the age at
which they were sold.

In the fall of 1917 1 fed an old sow
practically on wheat middlings. She
farrowed eight pigs, and raised seven
of them. They were always fat, but
did not grow normally. After taking
them from 'the sow, I gave them plenty
of milk, but they never grew well, and
cost about as much in expense of feed,
as they brought when sold.

What Was the Matter?

As I now see it, several things were
wrong, all of which I might have
remedied.

First, experiments seem to show that
wheat middlings have been over-esti-
mated as feed for young pigs. Mixed
with other grain, and given in connec-
tion with plenty of milk or tankage,
they are all right, but fed in too large
quantities they are not profitable. It
has been clearly proven that wheat
contains a poison that when taken in
too large quantities prevents growth in
the young animals, and reproduction
later' on.

Again it has been demonstrated that
pigs can not be grown to normal size
by the use of grain alone, no matter
what it may be. So far as is known,
corn contains no poison, but alone it
will not grow a pig normally. In the
first place it does not cOntain sufficient
mineral properties to make the bones,
and it probably lacks other properties
about which we can not speak so defl-
nitely. With plenty of skim-milk ad-
ded, corn will grow a pig to normal
size in as little time as it can be done
in any other way.

When pigs have" the milk of the
mother until they are six or ten weeks
old, with a chance to run in good fresh

. pasture, theyr will develop in time to

normal size by the addition of the ordi-
nary grains. -. But the progress will be
slow ~without either. the skim—milk or
tankage.

One may easily balance the ration
as far as protein, carbohydrates and

fat are concerned, by adding oil meal,

beans or peas to the ration of corn.
But this will not insure normal growth.
The pigs must either have a proportion
of animal food in some form, or they
must be given access to good pasture.

The writer has been trying to make
the hog conform to his way of feeding.

'From now out, if he feeds hogs he is

going to let them have their way.

It is hard enough at best to produce
pork at a profit with grain at the pres-
ent "high prices, and it is therefore
more than ever before necessary that
we should take advantage of every con-
dition in our favor.

If we could furnish the protein lack-
ing in the corn, from cheap cull beans
we should be glad to do so, and we can

tent, but we can not grow young pigs
normally without a proportion of ani-

: mal food or plenty of good past111‘e

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use them to advantage toga-certain ex- ,

Hog Feeding Experiences

(Continued from page 89).

we should use tankage.‘ Tankage is-
very high in price just now, but no
higher in proportion than other feed.
The feeders of a large district might
easily go together and use a car of
tankage which would materially reduce
the price. In any case, it should be
used unless we have plenty of milk.

The hopper feeder is a convenience
in hog feedin, but its value will always
be regulated by what it contains. There
are few cases in- 'which the taukage
may be wisely omitted.~

GRAIN RATION WITH SILAGE.

 

Will you pleaSe advise a good feed-
ing ration for fattening BOO-lb. steers,
and also feeding milch cows from the
following feed, which I have: Silage-
of corn and soy beans grown from seed
which was mixed four-fifths corn and
one-fifth soy beans, and both were ripe
at time of cutting, plenty of oat straw
and mixed clover and timothy hay;
have oats and barley to grind. Would
it be necessary to feed cottonseed meal
with the above amount of soy beans
in silage? I am not feeding it at pres-
ent and steers are growing niCely on
the following ration: One bushel of
silage and two quarts of ground oats
and barley to each steer twice daily,
a good forkful of hay once daily and
all the oat straw they want to eat.

Tuscola Co. 0. P. H.

Soy beans in the silage would cer-
tainly increase the protein content and
therefore it would not require quite as
much protein in the grain ration to
make a balanced ration for your cattle
yet I don’t think oats and barley con-
tain a sufficient amount of protein to
balance this ration without feeding
some cottonseed meal because by so
doing you will get more economical
consumption of rotighage foods, that
is, the cows and steers will not need to
consume as much of the roughage in
order to get the necessaryamount or
protein to produce a maximum flow of
milk or extra growth.

I would suggest that you feed silage,
mixed hay and oat straw, in liberal
quantities; feed all the cows and
steers will eat up clean, then I would
feed the cows two pounds of cotton-
seed meal per day, one pound on the
silage night and morning, and balance
of grain ration, ground oats and bar-
ley. It would be well to get wheat
bran and mix with the oats and barley,
equal parts by weight, and feed the
regulation amount of grain.

A ration for fattening steers would

not differ materially from a. ration for '

milch cows, provided the steers were
kept in shelter the same as the cows.
If the steers are allowed to run out-
doors or in an open shed, they will
need more carbohydrates to keep them
warm than Cows that are kept in a.
warm barn. Otherwise, there would\be
little difference theoretically in the ra-
tion. If the steers are kept outdoors,
I would increase the feed of barley and
you will find it profitable if you want
to turn these steers off as soon as pos-
sible to feed them as much as four
or five pounds of cottonseed meal per

day, beginning with a small amount

C.C.L.

   

and gradually increasing.

, Half ripened cream churns very

-:slowly—ln other words, the butter ,
,from it is a long time coming, and the ‘_:
as trbm disprove "

Yield is not so : ,_
erly ripened .8 die.

   

 

 

 


  

  

        
   
   
 
   

 
 

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GALLoWAY AND GUERNSEY
CATTLE.

 

 

Can you tell me why we hear no,
more of the Galloway cattle? Can,
you give me a brief history of the.
Guernsey cattle, also what advantages,
have they over other breeds?

Genesee Co. ‘ C. . C.

‘ Galloway cattle have not gained a

foothold on Michigan farms because '

they are primarily adapted to condi-
tions where beef production is the
main object. It would seem that this;
breed could be made to pay good re«
turns in some of our northern counties.
The hide of the Galloway, with its
thick and long fall or winter coat, has
a distinct value in itself. Properly
tanned it furnishes a lap robe, over-
coat or floor rug, surpassing in beauty
the pelt of the‘Buffalo, now so highly
prized. Good Galloway rugs or lap
robes sell for frOm forty to fifty dol-
lars, and overcoats of this fur com-
mand high prices. '

The origin of the Guernsey, like the
'Jersey, is quite obscure, but is sup-
posed to have been derived from the
same ancestry. Like the Jersey, the
Guernsey has for many generations
been protected at home by the exclu-
sion of all other breeds. The intro-
duction of this breed into America
dates back to 1842. The size of the
Guernsey most acceptable is about
1,500 pounds for a mature bull, and
1,050 pounds for a mature cow.

The quantity of milk produced by a
Guernsey may be considerable. The
cows are persistent milkers and pro-
duce very rich milk. In numerous pub-
lic tests, and on farms under official
supervision the breed has attained
high honors as butter producers.
Guernsey milk is usually of a higher
natural color than that of any other
breed equally common, due to its but-
ter-fat content. The fat globules are
large and have a deeper yellow than
even the Jersey. In fact, the Guern-
sey breeders seek the rich yellow as
a characteristic claiming that with
this breed it isnotnecessary to color
the butter. While Guernsey cows have.
not been tested as much as either the,
Jersey or Holstein-Friesian cows, they.
have made excellent butter records.

 

THE NEW YORK MILK SITUATION.

 

UST now there is a milk strike on

and no League members are ship-
ping to New York. City- dealers an-
nounced a reduction in price which
would be paid to producers after J anu-
ary 1, amounting to one cent a quart, I
understand. The Dairymen’s League,
which has apparently almost universal
membership here, called a stop imme-
diately, and not a farmer is delivering
milk to the station. At my cousin’s
place he and several neighbors install-
ed_.a separator and a churn in their
milk room, and the producers from
about there bring in their milk night
and morning add all assist in the work
for all. They do considerable sweat-
ing and are considerably inconvenienc-
ed by the unusual work, but not one
complains, and they are looking for-
ward to but a few days of the trouble.

I never saw cooperation between
neighboring farmers carried out so
well or far as it is here. They unite
to rent land, plow, plant, cultivate,
harvest and thresh their products, and
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Dr. Hess Poultry
PAN-A-CE-A

will help make your
hens lay now

a

sfifinms nmtcronrf’

Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Days before date of publication.

 

 

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CATTLE.

Wildwood Farms

Breeders of Best Strains of

Aberdeen Angus Cattle
and Buroc Jersey [logs

Several young bull calves on hand. three of which
are of serviceable age. out of Black Monarch III.
three times Grand Champion. Michigan State
Fair. Also several Al Brood sows. Will be glad
to correspond with you by letter regarding
stock. Write

SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.
Wildwood Farms, Orion, Michigan
W. E. SCRIPPS, Preprietor.

 

 

 

any way you look at it. I never thought
farmers would stick together to the
J. P. M.

EG TE’RED rdeen An . hell ‘
his“... ......fly with?
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431ml. ’

EEDING wormy animals is wasting food. They eat
more but they do not thrive.

Every farmer wants to be up to the limit of production
now while the hungry world is calling for food.

Make every pound of feed you feed do its whole duty.

Drive out the worms and condition your stock for
growth, for work—for beef, mutton and pork, by feeding
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic.

Eliminate Waste and Increase Production

Condition your cows for calving by feeding Dr. Hess
Stock Tonic before freshing. Then feed it regularly to in-
crease the flow of milk. It lengthens the milking period.

It means healthy, thrifty animals free from worms. It contains
Tonics to improve the appetite, Laxatives for the bowels, Vermifuges
to expel worms, Aids for digestion, Ingredients which have a favor-
able action pn the liver and kidneys. ‘

. The dealer in your town will sell you Dr. Hess Stock Tonic ac-
cording to your needs and refund your money if it does not do what
is claimed. Buy 2 lbs. for each average hog, 5 lbs. for each horse,
cow or steer, to start with. Feed as directed and see how your
animals thrive.

Why pay the peddler twice my price?
25-“). pail, $2.25; loo-lb. drum, 87.50

Except in the far West, South and Canada.
Smaller packages in proportion.

DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio

W
Dr. Hess Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice

 

‘ C I'andson of King
Registered Guernsey Bull “1,“ “my? 0, Sn“,
llxirry Hill. flilori‘i3 April: 24thi. 1917. SHlendidi udxlh'idluul.
‘ . . . . . i‘ rst ca 0 mi or u use unis an gran in: ave
Great (“'0 given t“.0 mac”: 8 and pedigrees. EMF-V un- high advanced registry records. Tuberculin t‘ested.
“m“ BEE,“ 1N In; PrL, .PLE' Breeders and feed- A bar I'ain at $170“). Telephone CGFZ.

9" of we“ I“ 1 RNAIIONAL WINNERS srua‘insuuur HILL FARM, Birmingham, Mich.

WOODCO'l‘ ‘ STOCK FARM Ionia, Mich.
GUERNSEYS must reduce herd, so 00's:
a. few choice females of
Glonwood breeding also bulls, all stock of A. R. breed-
”1% herd tuberculin tested.
T. .1110 . - - - - Battle Creek. Mich.

WOODCOTE ANGUS

TROJAN-ERIOAB & BLACKBIRDS (BLACKCAPS)
only. The most fashionable strains of the breed.

 

 

Good unlity bulls of serviceable
Cloverly Angus ageand youn er. Inspection invit-
ed. 000. Hathaway and on. Ovid, Mich.

 

 

For Sale Registered Guernsey Bull

Gov. Cherie Golden Noble & May Rose breeding.
Tubercular tested by state Halcyon Bequal born 1912.
Great grand son of Gov. Cherie sires and grand sires
are all A. R. breeding. Price $250 F. O. B. Amndnles
Hope born Mar. 2;), 1 17. Sire Halcyon Set 1191 Dam
Gertrude ..f Huh-con. Farm price $1.30 F01}. Luella's
Duke of Avopdnle born Jan. 1. 1918 Sire Lord Sunrise
Dam Luella s Mnid. Price $100 F. 0. B. Avondales
Hero born .Jan. 10, 1918. Sire Halcyon Sequel Dam
Sean of Pittsfield. Price $300 F. 0. B. Avondalee Joy
born lfieb. 8. 1918. Sire Halcyon Sequel Dam Wrinkle
of Pittisfield, Price 5125 F. O. B. Avondales Mark born
Apr. 9. 1918. Sire Lord Sun rise, Dam Popular pony, (‘1 UERNREYS Registered bulls two years old and un-
Price $1M F. O. B. 001119 and look our herdover. Tder grade heifers 3" “203‘"!1‘9 your uiremonts.

AVONDALE STOCK FARM, Wayne, MlCh. WALTER PHIPPS FARM, 80 Alfred t. Detroit

GET cutnu5£vs

If you went to increase your dairy profits you
need to know about the cows whose average pro-
duction. under tests supervised by State Agricul-
tural 00116225. is three times as great as the aver—
age of all dairy cows in the United States. Ask JOHN EBELB. 2.
for "The Story of the Guernsey."

no: acumen! GUERONEV CATTLE CLUB,
‘ ‘ PWJLH,

' ' Strawberrv Sail
Registered Guernsey Cow Hm.“ My 15,1, 191 _
Celebrated Masher blood lines. A good individual
but her nose is black. 'l'uherculin tested'. “'ill 83.-
crifice or $225.00. Telephone 561*‘2.

STRAWBERRY HILL FARM. Birmingham. Mich.

G U E R N S E Y Sggfjfi‘gilj’ég
Containing blood of world champions.
HICKS’ GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Mich

 

 

 

 

Registered Guernsey Cow ,3},‘,’,§f’y2f, 315%? 133;;
t

Bose breeding. Very handsome individual. R‘
every way. Tuberculin tested. A good buy at :.
Strawberry Hill Farm, Birmingham,Mlch.. Tel. 56 ‘2;

Re i t d o . '
For sale and‘1 Sggkshlre ugmz. Cobb;
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For sale. 15 mo. old,rig in 7m
. w . Write f cal
OJA. HavENNESEY. Vmuamm

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
    

 

 

 

  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       
   
   
       


 

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Box of My Famous ‘ I
Healing Ointment

I want you to see for your-I
self what a Wonderfulh
ggegarationu CORONA WOIOE ,
Dis. I want
to prove to you on yourI own
horses and cows andW
our AC CENT or 0051' °-n2-¢",,“l,','; W"
how guickly it will heal 1111de
cure alled and sore Shoulders Sore Necks,
Scegihaliegémi' tBfirbfWi re or Ot‘liier uts, Wounds,
, p1 00 re
sore Teats on Cows,Etc. ms, an Contracted Feet.

     
  
   
      
   

   
    
  
  
 
  
  
 
   
   
  

  

is unlike an ing you ever tried or used. Don’t o I ,

with selves w ich contain grease and blister compounds. c T’hiilfgni? I I

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Heals Without Leaving a Scar

CORONA does not burn or blister, ws hair ver sores,
causes no pain. soothes and heals surfpiihingiy life it. Tuhtgfee free and sample

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The Michiganelive Stock Insurance Company

A Michigan organization to afford protection to Michigan live stock owners.

sflWfighgve paid over $17, 000 in death losses since we began business July

Is there any stronger argument for this class of insurance than 817,000
of losses on 81, 500,000 of business?

Your animals are well and sound today but tomorrow somelof them are
dead. Insure them before it is too late.

We indemnify owners of live stock—horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, for loss
by accident and disease.

See our agent in your vicinity.

Colon C. Lillie, Pres.
319 Widdicomb Blgd., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Harmon J. Wells, Sea-Tress.
Grawer Bldg., Saginaw, W. 5., Mich

 

 

FEEDING HOGS'; THEN HERE [5 WHAT YOU WANT!

Ask your dealer for

DIAMOND HOG MEAL

Made from the nutritious hearts of corn kernels
Write to C. FRANClS, 909 Ford Building, Detroit,

for sample, literature and particulars
The Traverse Herd

We have what you want in BULL CALVES, the
large fine growthy type. guaranteed right in
every way. They are from high producing A. R.
- O. ancestors Dam’ srecords up to 30 lbs. Write
éonpeéiigrees and quotations. stating about age
es1re .

TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

H O STEIN S Traverse City, Mich.
L For SB '6 «it a 1541 ii iii. {3110;311qu

lb. 3yr. old. This heifer is afine 3 y.r old. and due
to calve Feb. 1 by a. 35 lb b. b.ull Priced to sell
The young bulls we have for sale are at. once. LeGrande Farm. N F hpmaca, Mgr.

backed up by many generations Of Mam heater, Mic

large producers. Buy one of these

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THE HOLSTEINS am,

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MEAL.

What are the relative merits of cot-

tonseed meal vs. oil meal, (old proc-

esis), used as a supplementary feed to

ensilage and alfalfa hay in the fatten?

ing of cattle. for beef? There is a dif-
ference ‘of price in theSe two feeds of
about $5 a ton and their analysis is
practically identical. How does mo-
lasses feed compare witheither of the

above?

Monroe Co. S. B. W.

These two by-products compare fav-
orably as sources of protein in com-
pounding balanced rations. Cotton-
seed meal contains on the average 37.2
per cent digestible protein, 16.9 per
cent digestible carbohydrates and 12.2

per cent ether extract or fats, while,

linseed meal (old process) contains
29.3 per cent digestible protein, 32.7
per cent carbohydrates and 0.7 per
cent ether extract or fats. You will
notice that cottonseed meal is about
ten per cent richer in digestible pro-
tein but does not contain as much car-
bohydrates while it contains a larger
per cent of fats. The nutritive ratio
or the proportion of carbohydrates to
protein are about the same in each,
but in feeding there is a difference in
them. Cottonseed meal is constipating
While oil meal is laxative. If cotton~
seed meal is fed in large quantities to
breeding animals it affects them, pro-
ducing bad effects, while oil meal can
be fed quite freely, sometimes it is
rather laxative but usually it has a
beneficial effect.

Molasses feed is a diflerent food, be-
ing richer in carbohydrates but defi-
cient in protein. It is more like corn
meal than cottonseed meal, oil meal,
wheat bran or other protein foods.
Molasses food is so different from
these other foods that you cannot com-
pare them. If you were feeding alfalfa
hay for roughage and wanted to feed
some cottonseed meal or oil meal, then
it would be well to mix molasses feed
with the protein feed to balance the
ration, otherwise you would have too
much protein, but where your rough-
age is silage or cornstalks and mixed
hay, you want a grain ration that is
rich in protein like the oil meal or
cottonseed meal. Molasses feed would
not help balance such a ration.

C. p. L.

SLOPPING THE PIGS.

HENEVER I went°out to the pig

pen or pig house to feed the
pigs, I always had trouble, as they
would climb into the trough and up
around the door, and if I was not very
careful some of the feed would be
spilled; especially if it was very much
liquid. I did not care so much if the
solid part was not put in the trough,
as they could find it in time and there
would be no waste; but when liquid,
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mentioned above, I rigged up a Spout
that went to the trough from the‘ out-
side of the pen and Since then I have

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feéd.—-C E. R.

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fSand in Stomach—We had a horse.
called our locall.

taken sick recently; . _
Vet. to treat him, but the horse died,
two days later. I opened him and

such a case be cured? J. F., Pamona,
Mich—The use of a stomach pump l
and plenty of water might have reliev-
ed this case; ‘however, a correct diag-
nosis is seldom made until after death.
Had the horse been fed a balanced ra-
'tion he might have left sand alone.

Voracious Appetite—~Worms.——What

twice as much grain and hay as the
other horses, paws for more and re-
mains thin. The formula you advised
cbntaining Fowler’s solution, quinine.
'etc., I have lost, so will ask you to
again prescribe for him. Occasmnally
this horse has passed worms and the
commercial remedies I have given fails
‘to rid him of them. R. L. F., Fenn-
ville, Mich.——First of all, you had bet-
ter notice that’ his grinder teeth are
not in need of floating. Give him 1 dr.

powdered areca _nut at dose in bran
mash three times a week for two
weeks, this should destroy many of the
worms. Gixe J7é oz. of Fowler’s solu-
tion, 1/2 oz. tincture cinchona and 1 oz.
tincture gentian at a dose, either in
feed or drinking water. Commence
this treatment after finishing givmg
the worm medicine. This horse may
perhaps be one of the kind that is not
inclined to lay on flesh.

Cow Gave Bloody Milk—Teat Poly-
pus—Sluggish Kidey Action.~——l have a
cow that freshened last spring and
who, at, times, gave bloody milk from
one teat, but for only a short 98110th
rl‘hen a small bunch seemed to form in
teat, which is no larger than a pea.
She is due to come fresh in about
three weeks and I would like to know
what can be done with her. I also

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have another cow that is due to fresh-( ’

en in February, which seemsto have
trouble passing water. I might say
she has had one calf. L. J. J ., Breeds-
ville, Mich.——A surgical operation per.
formed by a skillful person is what 1S;
required to remove a teat polypus,-.
but bungling, unclean work will only
ruin her one quarter, or perhaps more
of the udder, therefore I advise you to
leave her teat alone. Give her one tea-
spoonful of acetate of potash in feed
‘or water two or three times a day
until kidneys act freely.

Hip Joint Lameness.——Last spring
one of my cows got hurt in some way;
since then she has been lame in hip.
When walking hip joint would snap,
then she would travel very lame for a
rod or two, then be less lame. During
the summer she improved but since
she has been stabled she is worse. I
removed her from stanchions, and now
keep her in a box stall. C. I. 38., Sum-
ner, Mich—Apply equal parts turpen-
tine, aqua ammonia and raw linseed oil
to hip joint once a day. Give her 1 dr.
sodium salicylate in feed three times
daily. She should be kept warm.

Sow Fails to Come in‘ Heat—I have
a pure-bred Hampshire sow that is nine
months old, which has not yet been in
heat. For the past eight weeks she
has been in pen with boar, but am
quite sure has not been served. She
is fed some corn, middlings, cooked
potatoes and milk. F. D., Springport,
Mich—Keep her warm, feed her stimu-
lating food, leave'her in pen with the
male, and give her ten drops of fluid
extract nux vomica and 30 drops of
fluid extract capsicum at a dose in feed
three times a day. Perhaps she may
not come in heat until next spring. and
it is well to keep in mind some sows
never come in heat or breed.

Nodular Disease.—-—Will you please
«tell me What ails my sheep and how to
cure them? ‘In my flock of one hun—
dred, there are ten of them that are
gradually growing poorer every day,
although they have fairly good appe-
tites, eat plenty of feed, but grow
weaker and are unable to get up. Af-
ter being down a few days they die. I
opened the stomach of one, found it
full of fluid and very little food. G. S.,
Owosso, Mich.—I am inclined to .be-
'lieve that your sheep suffer from para-
sitic bowel trouble, “nodular disease,”
an incurable ailment in sheep. Give

oline in four ounces of sweet mil-k
three times a week for two weeks. In
drenching the sheep avoid holding the
head too high, and do not be in too
much of a hurry. Mix together one
part powdered sulphate iron, one part
salt. and four parts ground gentian and
give aunt your sheep some in ground

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Beginners In Holsteins

Consider what it means to you to be able to buy cattle of breeders who give a
positive guarantee and a 60 day retest with their cattle.

The Central Michigan Holstein Breeders Sell
FORTY HEAD

At Michigan Agricultural College

East Lansing, Mich. beginning at

9:30 A.M. Thurs. F eb.6, 1 9 1 9

Thirty two are cows, seven heifers andtwo bulls.

A 32.36 1b. cow, 3 31.81 lb.

cow, :1 27.3 lb. cow, a 25.6 lb. cow and her22.3 lb. and 26.95 lb. daughters, a 25
1b. Jr. 3 yr. old, a 20 lb. 2 yr. old and a 22.5 lb. cow. Several are yet to be test-

ed and some more ]good records are likely to be made before sale.
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Ten head

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Sired bibutter bred bulls. and
out of igh testing dams.

The Producing Kind
:1th Jo .v type and capacity.
Prices. uonuble. Also a few
bred gilts .(Durocs) and hours.
Breakwater Farm.

Herbert W.Mumford, Own",
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CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Crook.

legal County, Michigan.

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bull calves from figs rig; sire and out of R. of M.

dams for sale. 0 NEB, Allegan. Mich,

For Sale ll islered Jersey Callie

of both sex. Built a Parker, R.4. Howell. Mich

Hereford:

5 Bulls 9 to 14 months old Prince Don-

 

 

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‘Miehigan Herefords

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Young stock for sale at all times.
80 head in herd, all es.

Farm 5 miles south 0 «Ionia. Visitors
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Buy a Hereford Sire Improve your Stock
Herefords 523.123.39.532“ 1521‘s“. $233
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Francisco F arm Shorthorns
We maintain one of Michigan’s good herds of Scotch
and 8 tell T owl-Io T m

_ co . well bred. pro
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to to show them. -
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W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

WILL sell for quick sale at 8125. bull caltEx r-
lence 686277 med Shorthom on] red Apé 20.
1318, dam Lucy 213008 out of Woodland'dOhoice .
If )u want utility and lots of it. with some real booed-
lng do not. 099 this chance. Write

THE JENNINGS FAR. S. Bailey. Mich.

Seven Scotch and Scotch Topped bull.
rt m
for sale. Price reasons lo.
W. B. McQUILLAN. E. '1

”WELL slllllllllnlllls

For Boo! and Milk.

Registered bulls. cows and heifers-Good Scotch and
Scotch-Topped for sale. In prime condition. Modern
sanitary equipment. Farm 10 minutes from N. Y. 0.
hour from Toledo, Ohio. Automobile meet-
nlltrains. Write

BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

‘30: B. Tecumseh, Mich.

Richland F arms-

_ Shorthorns

Home of the Mich. Champions. We have just

purchased the entire herd of Scotch cattlebe-

longing to the Estate of the late A. D. Flintom.

Kansas City. Mo. About Feb. lst. we will offer a

choice lot of young bulls for sale.

C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS,

Ofiice at ’l‘awas City, Mich. Farms at Prescott, Mich.
Bho th no of Q lit Sc tab and

For sale Bootbhgll‘ln ped denggndgntsocfArchers

Hope, Avondale, Maxwafion Sultan and White Hall

Sultan bv the Oscoln Co. Shorthorn Breeders Ass.

JOHN SCHMIDT, Sec. Reed City, Mich.

Bulls ready for service of the choic-
Shorthorn eubmedlng. Write me you wants.
A. A. PATTULLO. R. 4, Deckervllle. Mich.

 

 

Shorthorn Bulls of the choice-t
For sale breeding and ready for service.
LCD HASTINGS. - - - Napoleon. Mich

100 head to select from. Write
Shorthorns me your wants. rice reasonable.
Wm. J. BELL, - ose City, Mich.
The Kent Co.Shorthorn Breeders have both males

and females for sale. Ask about them.
L. H. LEONARD 880.. - - Caledonia, Mich.

Best Hates Shorthorn cows and
For Sale heifers. BullszlllsoldJ
CLARE RIGGS. - - - . -

 

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Shorthorns. Three bulls sired by
oakWOOd Gloster Boy 4696613 to 12 months old.

COLLAR BROB.. R 4, Cnuklin, Mich.
Shorthorns of most noted familos either

Mdkmg sex, all ages, write OSCAR SKINNEB,
Pres. Central Mich. Shorthorn Ass'n., Gowen, Mich.

 

Shorthorn. A fine lot of ymmglbulls for
SCOtCh sale. Phone Pontiac 71.31“?» or Orion Ex-
change. John Lessiter A'Sons" H. 1, Clarkston, Mich.

 

SCOt Shorthorn Bulls including a roan year-
linfixrnspN-tive Iii-rd header a grandson
W1: ENC I“. P.0T’I‘O,Charlotte, Mich.

ofImp.Villagr.

Roan Shorthorn Bull 1 yr. old, also
For sale calves good milking strain.
CHAS. “'ARNER, Jr., Imlay City, Mich.

qillllt'l‘floltN bull call 3 weeks'old. Red, agond
L. [one from good milking strain. First $.30 takes him.
Ill ’lN DOAN, Crosu‘ell. Mich.

 

 

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BUTLER ll END. Young hulls for H8 (._
ROSEMARY FARMS, “'illiauifiton, BIicli.

Stockers & Feeders For Sale

180 Shorthoru Steers are. 106;) lbs. .
170 Hereford Stet-rs are. 980 lbs.
2 cars of yearling Hercfords ave. '
2 cars of Shorthorn yearlings reds and roans.
These steers are deliorned and in good flesh. “'apello
Co. In. is noted for its good cattle. Write
JOHN CARKOW, it. 3. Ottumwa, Ia.

For Sale Registered Guernsey Bull 15 mo. old,

 

 

 

 

 

 

_ also (I few Bull valves.
1‘). J. HIMELBERGEH, ll. 3, Lansing, hfich.
HOGS

Reg. Berkshire Sows & Boars all 8 es.

FOI' sale Priced to sell. 8
ltl'SSl‘lLL BROS“ R. 3. Merrill, Mich.
' Berkshire pigs ready to wean $15 to $2)
Reg|3tered Pal-ll also three M‘l‘l'lt‘t‘ hours fino ual-
it)‘. FAIRMAN FA HM, l’l) mouth. ich.

 

Gilts, Big, Long. Tall, 200 lb.
Duroc Boats! April 1. boars and gilt: of the
elicit-est breeding. Also an A.R.O.1 yr. Holstein bull.
F. E. EAGER 51 ON. - - - Howell, Mich.

DUROCuJERSEYS

E. I). HEYDENBERK, “'nyland, Mich.
Nothing but

WROC JERSEYS mm p...

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Duroc_ bred gilts for March and April furrow with
quality and size. Full Ipiis both sexes not akin.
W. O. ’ A 'L()R. Milan. Mich.

BIG TYPE DUROCS

Unrelated Trioslof fall figs for $60.03.! sin le is $21. 00
Best 81‘ brooding. A eli'k‘xcellent Bug Iglymouth
Bock Cockerels at $3.00 each.

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. Large heavy-boned gilts, bred to
DUTOC Jerseys Junior Champion hour for March
and April farm“; prices reasonable. Come and see
them, free livery expenses {mid if not as represented.
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The markets in this edition were re.
vised and corrected on. Thursday.”-
ternoon, January 16.

WHEAT.

No changes have taken place in
wheat prices during the past week.
The visible supply in this country in-
creased 3,989,000 bushels, making the
present stores in sight to aggregate
129,300,000 bushels. The demand for
this cereal has been somewhat modi~
fled the past few days, although the
grain is being absorbed rapidly in all
consuming districts of the northern
hemisphere. The growing crop is
promising, according to, January crop
reports. One year ago the price for
No. 2 red wheat on the local market
was $2.17 per bushel. Present values

 

here are:
No. 2 red ....... . ....... $2.30
No. 2 mixed ......... 2.28
No. 2 khite .......... . .. 2.28

CORN.

Quotations for corn suffered a de-
cline since a week ago. As is custom-
ary at this season of the year, when
information on the maturing crop in
South America is becoming available,
the bears are making much capital of
threatened importations from Argen-
tine. These importations have never
materialized to an extent that should
influence markets in this country. The
probabilities are that shipments will
be of small volume this year, although
Argentine will have a fair surplus to
export. The natural course of this
corn however, is to Europe rather than
to a. corn-producing country like the
United States. Labor disturbances in
Buenos Aires- have, however, disap-
pointed the bears and a slight reaction
is noted in the majority of our mar-
kets. One year ago the trade was pay-
ing $1.80 for No. 2 corn on the Detroit
market. The visible supply increased
this past week 497,000 bushels to a to-
tal of 3,090,000 bushels. Present De-
troit quotations are:

No. 3 corn ............ $1.42
No. 3 yellow ............ 1.47
No. 4 yellow ............ 1.42
No. 5 yellow ............ 1.39
No. 6 yellow ......... 1.32

Chicago—The trade showed decided
weakness in Chicago, with the market
closing at $1.32% for February and
$1.28% for May corn.

OATS.

The relatively small receipts of cats
gave this branch of the market inde-
pendent strength, although the prices
have declined in sympathy with the
change in corn values. The visible
supply of this grain in the United
States is now 29,444,000 bushels, a de-
crease of 1,358,000 bushels since a
week ago. On this date last year stan-
dard oats sold at 841/20 a bushel. The
present Detroit prices are:

Standard .................. 72%
No.3white ....... ........72
No. 4 white ...............71

RYE.

Dealers are neglecting this grain and
prices are off, showing a decline of
four cents during the week. No. 2 spot
is now quoted at $1.58 per bushel o
the local market. .

BARLEY.

Trading in this cereal has been of a
meagre sort and quotations remain
steady with the close of last week.
Cash No. 3 barley is quoted here at
$2; No. 4 at $1.95, and feeding barley
at $1.85@1.90 per cwt.

SEEDS.

No change is noted in clover seed,
while timothy is 10c lower. Prime red
clover $25; March 25.20; alsike at
$19.25; timothy $5.

BEANS.

Domestic consumption of beans has
improved materially since the first of
the year. This has been offset, how-'
ever, by the failure of the government
to take on additional stocks, and the

net result has been a little easier tone -

in some of our markets, especially on
the seaboard. In New York choice
pea beans are quoted at $10, and me-
diums at $10 per cwt. Quotations at
Detroit have suffered a break and im-

mediate shipment at ‘shipping points

are now quoted at” $8.75., Michigan
hand-picked pea beans, choice to fancy
, noted at $8.75@9, and extra fancy
are igher at Chicago. The best red
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FEEDS.

Each week dealers make additions
to prices for all mill feeds, notwith-
standing the price of wheat holds
steady. At Detroit bran is now quoted
in 100~lb. sacks to jobbers at $55; stan-
dard middlings $55; coarse corn meal
$63; cracked corn $64; corn and oat
chop feed $52.50 per ton.

HAY.

There is no let up in the demand for
hay, while arrivals continue light. The
local market is firm at the following
prices: '

No. 1 timothy. . . .$28.50@29.00
Standard timothy. 27.50'@28.00
No. 1 mixed . . 25.50@26.00
No. 1 clover ..... 24.50@25.00
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culty in disposing of their stock's at cline has also taken place, with west-
prices 50c above those obtaining a“em creamery extra quoted at 69c. ’
Week ago. This, however, holds 5 . .

EGGS-

only with the better grades, Quota- *
Increased receipts are forcing lower

tions are: , .
N0. 1 timothy...$30.50@31.00 - -
- prices and giving an eamer tone to the
1130‘ i lilght mixeg 38.00@23.30 egg trade. At Detroit fresh firsts are
0' 1 clover mx 8'00@2 ' 0 now quoted at 59c and extra firsts,
NO' c over """ 27-50@28‘50 candied, in new cases atfi60c. Citiigazgé;
' ' values are lower, with rats a
A hBUTIrER' 571/60; ordinary firsts 5661256350.
somew at eas er tone is noted in ‘
the buttler fmartliletsb Lower quotations POULTRY. -
are ma e or e etroi‘t tra e, “93h D alers re ort an increased su ply
creamery firsts now selling to jobbers of piultry wilth an easier tone pregails
at 62’é@639‘ The Chicago market ing. Live springers are quoted at 266112
is also lower with creameries at 60@ 29c; hens 29@30c; small hens '27@28c;
650' The situation ‘8 unsettled in NEW roosters 20@21c; geese 28@30¢; ducks
York, with creamery prices ranging 27@280' turkeys 34@35c.
from 63%@68c. In Philadelphia 8. de- ’ - .
POTATOES.

 

 

LiVe StOck Market Service.

In the majority of the northern mar-
kets potatoes are easier than they
were last week. At Chicago the. prices
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Reports for Thursday, January- 16th

BUFFALO.

We sold pigs here today at from
$16.25@16.50 and other hogs at $17.80.
The lamb trade was extremely slow,
with tops at $16.75. Calves sold at
$19.50@20. Cattle moved very slowly
at 25@50c lower than yesterday.

CHICAGO.

Hogs.

Receipts 55,000; held over 37,671;
mostly steady. Tops $17.80; bulk of
sales $17.40@17.70; heavy $17.65@
17.80; mixed and light $17.55@17.70;
packers $16.60@17.25; medium and
heavy- $17.10@17.40; light bacon $16.85
@1750; pigs, good to choice $14@
14.75; roughs $16@16.50.

Cattle.

Receipts 13,000. Beef steers steady;
butcher cattle 15@25c higher; stockers
and feeders steady to 250 higher. Good
to prime choice steers $16.25@19.85;
common and medium butchers $9.75@
16.25; heifers $8@14.50; cows $7.25@
13.75; bologna bulls $8.25@12.75; can-
ners and cutters $6.40@7.25; stockers
and feeders, good $10.50@14; do medi-
um $8@10.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 20,000. Lambs opened
steady; sheep and yearlings strong to
25c higher. Choice to prime lambs at
$16.50@16.75; medium and good lambs
$15@16.60; culls $11.50@13.75; medi-
um and good choice feeders $14@
15.35; choice yearlings $14.50@14.75;
medium and good yearlings $12@14.50;
wethers, medium and good $10.50@12.

Reports for Wednesday, January 15th

BUFFALO.
Cattle.

Receipts 5 cars; slow. Prime ‘heavy
steers $17@18; best shipping steers
$15@16; medium shipping steers $14@
15; best yearlings, 950 to 1000 pounds,
$16@17; light yearlings, good quality
$14@15; best handy steers $13@14;
fair to good kinds $11@12; handy strs
and heifers, mixed $11.50@12.50; west-
ern heifers $13.50; best fat cows $9@
10; butcher cows $7@8; cutters $7@
7.50; canners $6.25@6.50; fancy bulls
$9@10; butcher bulls‘ $8@9; commOn
bulls $6; best feeding steers $10@
10.50; medium feeders $8.50@9; stock-
ers $7@8;, light, common $6@7; milk~
ers and springers $75@150.

Hogs.

-Receipts 10 cars; lower; heavy and
yOrkers $17.80@17.90; pigs $16.50@
16.75 per cwt. . ,

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 15 cars; market is lower;

_top lambs $16.75@17; yearlings $15@

16; wethers $12@12.50; ewes $10.50@
11. “Calves $7@20.

CHICAGO.
Cattle.

Estimating the Wednesday arrivals
at 12,000 head, 74,213 cattle have been
received during the first half of the
week, comparing with 67,220 for the
same time last week. During the 'first.
two days of the week‘prices declined
for the greater part ofthe. cattle from
5063750, withsome lots showing reduc-
tions of 75c@$1; but the market was in
better «shape today, prices averaging
15c or :more higher.‘ Some choice

. er hogs, while .the rough to fair heavy

weighty steers brought $19@19.25 per

having accumulated at that place until
about 200 cars were held on track.
This allowed buyers to force a éieclige.
Prices in Chicago on Thurs ay or
DETROIT Michigan U. S. Grade 1‘10. 1 ranged
Cattle from $1.80@1.90. At Detroit quotations

, ' declined 10c and more during the
Receipts 3:360- Market 500 lower on week, with the above grade selling to
all grades; closed strong at decline. jobbers at $3.10@3_25 per 150-11,. sack.-
Best heavy Steers ....... $14.00@14.50 The same grade from Michigan sold in
Best handy wt bu strs. . . . 10.25@11.25 Cleveland" at $2.25@2.35 per cwt; in
Oixed steers and helfers 9.25@10.00 Buffalo at ”@210; in Pittsburgh at
Handy hght butchers 825g 8-75 $2.16@2.20; in Cincinnati $2.20; in In-

Ifiiiltltcglfighers ---------- 3-336) 3'32 dianapolis $2.05@2.15 per cwt; in New
...... . . . . . . . . . V . . ' -1 . .
(Butcher cows .. ..... 7.25@ 7.75 York $3 40@3 60 per 150 b ”Ck
utters ..... . . . ......... 6.50@ 7.00

Canners .................. 6.00@6.50 APPLES'

Best heavy bulls ....... . 10.00@11.50 The general tendency of the apple
Bologna bulls ..... _ ...... 8.50@ 9.25 market is toward a higher level: On
Stock bulls ........... 7.25@ 7.75 the Detroit market. Baldwins were

125 selling Tuesday morning at from $4.25
@625. In western New York buyers
Veal Calves. are paying from $6.50@7 for Baldwins

Receipts 1,451. Market closed dull'at shipping points.

I“ a on av 18,, GRAND , lDS

Best ............. . . . . . . . 35

Others .' ........... 8.00@17.00 During the past week apples have
moved freely out of storage. Buyers
from Indiana have been in this market
and several cars have been shipped to
that state. The market is active and
16,00 demand strong. Indications are that
Fair lambs .......... .. 14.50@15.25 the amount in storage will be greatly
Light to common lambs.. 11.00@13.00 depleted shortly by withdrawal. Low
Yearlings ........ . 8.50@ 9.00 temperature has caused potatomarket
Fair to good sheep 8.50@ 9.00 to become very dull. Very few are
Guns and common . 6,00@ 7.00 being moved at present. Colder weath-
er has caused a heavy .demand for cab-
HOGS- bage. Dealers now quote it at $3 per
-Receipts 7,750_ Hogs are steady at cwt. .There is an increased demand
$17.50; pigs very dull and 31 lower for onions and the market is a little

than the opening this week at $15.50. higher.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

Increased activity is noted at the
city markets at prices somewhat ad-
to $19.50 or higherdbut not many steers Eugcgd‘eoggfugigsaet o$f1a50vggl§5aggr £1?-
aig gocomglgh goo] erliough to bring beets 750@$1; cabbage 3@10c a head:
3 ' an t e bu .k sel at $14@17'50' carrots 90c@$1 25 er b sh 1' ‘ ’
Fair to fancy yearlings are quotable at 90c@$1' arsn: pl 1 35, e ' onions
$14.50@19, and inferior little canning Woes §1§5@1‘§§.$N@ '2 a Nfi, 196’":
steers sell down to $8@9.. Butchermg turnips 75c@$2.‘ d, 0d h ,0 23@ of
cows and heifers are selling at $7.50@ chi k 40 . li’ resse ogs @24c,
15, with canning cows and cutters go- c ens C, vs poultry 320‘
ing at $6.35@7.45 and bulls at $7.50@ _'
13. Stockers and feeders are unchang-
ed §§135i§19gcé3d dalmand on the basis
of . - an prime selected Western markets are stil
feeders quotable Up to $14, although with hogs, largely of the betierglc‘itatsesl:
comparatively few sales are made Recent Chicago receipts have averaged
above $12.50. 227 pounds, comparing with 219 pounds

Hogs. a year ago, 210 pounds two years ago

Estimating the Wednesday receipts and 194 pounds three years ago. ,
at 32,000 hogs, the receipts for the first Late as it is, there is a fair demand
half of the week foot up,124,114 head, still for feeding lambs, with desirable
comparing with 143,873 a week ago. lots selling recently in the Chicago
Prices have been barely steady, with market at $14@15.50 per 100_pounds.
11103.34 51(2)ng ltlhaxd could be disposed of, To make dairying a success we must
an , ea were left unsold last 1
night, but the market advanced 5@10c make t of interest to the boys.
today on more active buying. The
early top was $17.70, but $17.75 was-
paid later, sales taking place at $17.45
and over for the better class of butch-

Milkers and springers...$ 60@

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 7,000. Market 25@50clow-
er than last week.
BestJambs ........ ......$

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DIRECT MARKETING SERVICE.

 

Readers of the Michigan . Farmer
who desire to build up a mail'order
trade with city consumers will find it

\to their interest to send their names
with a list of theproducts they have
for sale, to United States/ Bureau of
Markets; .316 ‘ Hammond Building,“ De~
troit, ~Mich. "The Bureau 01".,Markets
is ”publishing a -list-.of,£armers Who ,
have produce to ,; sell ~and..-diétri_buti -
it amon‘ city consumers.- sets
ed“, the .,

packers sold at $16.50@17.20 and most
of the pigs at $13@15.

Sheep , and Lambs.

. About 76,750 head have been receiv-
ed'»~here\duri.ng the first half of the
week, comparing with 73,866» arweek
ago. "Receipts for, Wednesday are call-
21,00.0 head, mainly'lambS, and. priced
forlambs are firm to 15c (higher, with , fl ,_ ,,
sales at $13@16.65.‘and~feedins~lambs, large, cities have demonstrat
salable at $14@15.50; v-Yearllngs are - thismethod unmarked curbs
in the usual demand at $11@14.35, and a success, andlet has
wethers at $9.50@11.6o; ewes'at-Siidllényimnonsnt ‘ “of I

    
  
   

 

   
 

     

    

     
   

 

 
  
    

 

    
 
   

 
 
 
 
  
 
 
   
 
  
   
     
   
    
 

 


  
 
      

   

 

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: / census of. 1910, the last official
cenSus that we have, 6,361,592”
farmers ,in the [Uglmd’ States produced;
products or Which they secured 55,.

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487,009,099. making the averase‘ennsala *

grbs-s income of the farmer $363." It
seems to me that something is wrong
when the average income per farm in
this great country of ours is no more
than that. The same census gives the
value of the farm property in this coun-.
try 9.153403914493190.

The same year, according to the
same census, 7,678,578 people engaged
in manufacturing produced goods that
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'tiCks. A $5.004)” makes $60.00
worth of medicated salt—saves you
big money—~A $2.00 size box of
win} by parcel post will ,
medicate a barrel of salt.

Write for club ofier—bookleton
“Nature and Care of Sheep”

a" PARSONS CHEMICAL worms

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erage $2,542 each. Bemember that in'
many instances the farmer had to have
hired help. This is not takeninto con-V
sideration in estimating the number of
farmers which would leave the average
annual income per worker engaged in
agriculture much below $863, while
each-worker engaged in manufacturing
goods received on an average $2,642”
At the same time the capital invested.
in manufacturing at that time amount-
ed to only 318.428.270.000, or not quite
half as much as the money invested in
agriculture. Now, the goods produced
by the farmer is of more value to the
people of the Uni-ted States than the
goods produced by the manufacturer,
if it is proper to make the comparison,
and yet the goods sold by the manu—.
facturer brought nearly four times as
much, as the goods produced by the
farmer. '

Now the question is: Why should
these manufactured articles sell for
more than the farm products? In my
estimation it is largely because the
manufacturers are organized and be-
cause they put more money into the
selling end of the proposition than the
farmer does. The farmer has been in
the' habit of simply-"producing all that
he couldand‘ taking just. what was of-
fered him. The manufacturers produc-
ed what they thought they could sell
at a profit and they devote practically
as much attention to the selling as
they do to manufacturing. Now if this
area of good prices which makes agri—'
culture profitable .at the present time is,
to continue and to be maintained after

the war the farmer has got to pay'pmdskuu Beamisanewpotato'nowofier-

some attention to the selling end; he
has got to pay some attention to the:

amount that willbe needed or we will. I
get back into the same rut and be sell-4 write for catalog

ing goods againb‘elow the cost of pro-
duction.

For this ireaSOn- an economic busi-
ness organization resting on the se-
cure foundation of the Farm Bureau
in each county and being completed
and crowned with the National Cham-
ber of Agriculture is necessary, and it
is our duty now as farmers, as busi-
ness men, to see to it that this great
and practical idea is developed so that
it can be used when the proper time
comes to keep agriculture on a paying
basis. We mustn’t go back to the av-
erage annual gross income of $863 per
farm. That isn’t a good living, let
alone a profit. COLON C. LILLIE.

“I see you are advertising that heifer
The man of whom that was
said took it to heart and he went and
took the poke off the heifer. A little
while afterward the heifer took a walk
toward the butcher shop. I did not
blame the man'at all. An unruly cow,
especially a heifer, is about as poor
property as a man can have for his
own peace of mind. No poke can alter
that fact.

While it would be too much to say
that honey will again take its place as.
a sweet and force sugar from the mar-
ket, yet it will be safe to say that the
increased demandand the greater num.
ber of uses to which it has been put,”
has acquainted people with the advls-'

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Who: (’1 ’i’" ()U
Save Money
On A Range,

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DEL DANE, " The
Old Stay. Mater,”
promised you money-
saving Offers on Kala-
mazoo Ranges. Stoves,
Furnaces. Gas Ranges.
Oil Ranges and Kitchen
Kabincts. We are here to
make good that promise.
- We are manufacturers and sell
direct to you. the user. That enables us to
save you money. "I

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0 .er home necea- _
mes. -
Ask For (”ata-
log No. l 13
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.Mr. POULTRY mamas:

We make a specialty of White Hennery Eggs and
have created a profitable m rket for your eggs the

. » 'earatound. We pay the hi; est premium for your

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494-16th Stu-”t, Detroit. Mich.

' Remember! We guaranteeyon utiliactiou with every shipment.

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Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. calves.
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Shlp To.1‘he om Reliable House
H A I Daniel McCaffrey’s Sons.
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furrow from mature stock of the large
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lahoma state fair. Get our catalogue of Grandell's
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Shadowland Farm
'0. 1. C.’s '

‘ ' 200 to 300 lbs. from prize win-
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’ lings‘andQ yr. oldisou's. big type. grovflhy boa-rs

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00d 0 .1).
l EWMAN'S STOCK FARM. B.l. Mariette. Mich.

 

0. I. C. sprln'g boars also 2 prize Jr.
8 Large Type yr. boar Mich. State Finr 1918.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe. Mich.
, . ‘ .
O. I. C. 8 big type serviceable boars. Yearling

sows and elite bred for spring furrow.
G. P. ANDREWS. . . -

 

ansville. Mich.

 

Big type April boats and bred gilte.
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y from large litters.
“LB. ‘MCQUILLAN. - - - Howell. Mich.

 

0 I CIBoar, 14 months Old. Largo full pigs
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0. J. THOMPSON. - - Rockford. Mich

 

0 I C Service-able boars sold. Gills bred for
' ' 0 March and An'll furrow.
IL “I MANN. Dansvillo. Mich.

 

o 1 c I bred gilts all sold. have some'good fall pigs
' ' v 8 either sex not “kill and 2 last June boum.
OTTO B. SCHK' AZE.

farm lé mile west of Depot.
Nashville. Mk- 1.

Citizens Phone 124.

Bill TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Spring boar and gills. Also fall pigs.
Hillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.

FOR 25 YEARS

This est bllshment has been head quarters for Big Type

 

' Poland lnas. We have a nice lot OI hours and sows

at very low price. Let
ell phone.
- Portland. Mich.

b! strictly big type breedl
me know what you want.
INC. 0. BUTLER - -

urge type P.O. Largest in Mich. Boers all sold. 20
LBrod gilta sired by and bred to the best boars the
breed can produce. with dams of equal merit. extreme
size with quality. come and we them. free livery. ex-
penses paid if not ASl‘eprcsrnted. W.E.l.ivinuaton. Puma. Mich.

w

i; type Poland Ohinas. Spring gilts of the best of
'Bbreedlng. With quality from 1000”). sire's and
8001h.d_sul's. Will be bred to a rent son of the noted
some Gortedale Jone. 9. Also all pigs. '

"W. BBEWBAKER & SONS. R. 4'». Elsie. Mich.

' ' with quality. Spring. sum-
Blg Poland Chm m... and am... bah...
and bred cows. for sale. G. A. BAUMGARDNER.
R. 2. Middleville. Barry 00.. Mich.

i Type Poland gilts bred to Gerstdale Superior and
B ‘erstdalc Lag sonsvof Gerstdule Jones the ‘

boar. L. VS RIGHT. Jouesvllle. Mich

a: e T RC. boars all sold. Spring gllts and young
Ltrfed egg: bred for March and April furrow. Free

“vary from Augusta. W.J,flagelshnu‘, Augustu.Mich.

In
. nrl see them.
£62130“ :REARDPW. 3.3? 3Box: 53. St. Louis. Mich.

Michigan'l Champ n herd of Big Type P. C. bred
E.

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buyers name. J.CARL JEWETT, ManamMich. -

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Gilts bred for April furrow. Fall pip
L’T'P'C' of either sex: inspection invited.
A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester. Mich.

is type P. C. Big boned follows tron Towns greatest
herdsfipcciul prices on H )ringboars and choice bred
gilts. E. J. MATHE SON. Burr Oak. Mich.

 

 

' Sale on big typo full pigs also yearli
SPCCIal big type hour of extra size form an
fl-nlflh. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich

 

A FEW choice. large type P. C. Spring boars
and gilts. also summer pigs.
CLYDE FISHER. R. 3. St. Louis. Llich.

 

B T P C 1 Brod Gilts, the best lot over on the farm
' ' ’ ' at prices any ‘fioud farmer can uffordflo
pa). H. O. SllAll’l Z. l. 37. Svlioolcrnft. Mich.

' hour and bred gilts. Choice
Blg Type P' C' Aug. pigs at a bargain.
A. A. WOOD & SON. - ~ - Saline. Mich.

 

 

BIGfl‘ypo Poland China. Get a Gilt. sired by Giant
ngJu‘ed to Monroe's Big Jones 3rd; throe- bred to
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Mam'mOth 175-211) lbs. 5.12 mouths double Im-
mune. “ rite wants. Clyde “'eaver. Ceresco. Mich.

 

‘ spring hours at a bargain. bred
HamPShlre gills now ready to ship.
JOHN Vl. SNYDER. ll. 4. St. Johns. Mich,

 

' Tho International Grand Cham-
HamPShlre Hogs plun Hug of 1915. both sexes
forklllf’. 8131‘ng deliveries booked nmv
ELI SPRI’ (‘rl‘lll & SON, Saginaw, “I 8.. Mich.

 

 

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r ' of Mich. I have 75 beautiful rc rister—
To The Kids ed Humshirc and Shropshire? ewes
that will have lambs this spring. 1 wish to sell them
to you and buy back tlu- rum lambs next fallat a
mighty good price. Stun now in a small way. Liberty
Bonds taken. “rile at once for particulars, .
KOPE KON FARM. S. L. Wing. Owner,
Kinderhuok. Mich.

 

. Choice natives. coming (:3
200 Bred Ewes years. bred to Shrop Ramos
in lots to suit. '

ALMOND B. CHAPMAN. South Rockwood. Mich.

 

Shropshire Rams {23333; 333...)?“

B.D.KELLY (5: SUN. - - - Ypsilanti. Mich.

. SHI(PSH ‘ J. _
FOR SALE Orr‘ulns, IRE IAMBS cues

ARMSTRONG BROS. R 3 Fowlcrville. Mich.

 

 

Xi‘OBD Don-n Ram lambs. also a few ewe lambs.
Berkshire bodipexes. Booking orders for fall igs.
CHASE dTOCK ARM. R. l. Marlette. ich.

F r Cale Registered Oxford Down rams an
o " ewes; can be seen at FAIRVI .
STOCK FABM. Fred Wolfe. Snover. Mich.

 

 

 

HORSES

 

Saginaw Valley

STOCK FARM

Belgian and Percheron Stallions and Mates
and registered Holstein Cattle, 0f the best breed.
ing. for sale.

2 Eli Sprunger & Son,

Horses Will Be Horses Soon

We have on hand at all times a choice
selection of young Percheron Stallions.

PALMER BROS.,
Balding, Mich. R

Suinaw. W. 8.. Mick.

 

. R. Orleans.

 

Bhorthorne and Duroc Jor-

Percherons, sey Hogs.

J. M. HICKS & SONS. R. 2. Williamston. Mich.

 

Percherons, Holslems, Angus, 8hr shim. llur’m
DORR D. BUILL. Elm II’I. Ichman.

 

Percheron Stallions and mares of reasonablo

ances; inspection lnvlted.
l". L. KING .9 SO . » - Charlotte. Mich.

FOI' Sa‘e Bag. Black Percheron 3 yr.old Stallion

and a number of God sou d grade dim“
colts. calls. all“. Skomos. Mich.

for mic stallions and mares at rea-
PerCheron sounble prices.
\‘Vm. BLAKE. Dutton. Mm.

Salesmen

Wanted

We pay salary to good subscription get—
ters, who can devote their entire time
to our work. The offer our salaried
men handle is especially attractive to
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' Reference Peninsular State Bank.

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kl dot-s for bred s ecti6n_in-
mod. B°flflgo¥fAMBEnLAt . Marco us. Mich

The Michigan Farmer, DetrO‘it

   

  

 
    
 
   
  
    
   
 
   
    
 

  
  
   
 
   
  
  
      
 
  
    
  
  
  
   
   
   
   
 
 
  
  
    
   
  
  
  
    
    
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
      
          

 


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