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CURRENT .COMMENT





T the general elec-





Vote on - tion to be held on

Monday, April 7, there



the Amend.“ will be submitted to

ments * the electors three prev





posed amendments to

the constitution‘of the state. Amend-

ments to the fundamental law of the

state are the most important proposi-

tions the voters of the state are ever

called upon to consider—more import-

ant by far than the choice of candi-

dates for the various offices to be fill-

ed. For this reason all the proposed

amendments to the constitution should

receive the most careful consideration



of every voter. ,



The first proposed amendment to be

submitted for approval or rejection at

the coming election is an amendment

to Section 10, Article X of the constio

tution authorizing the state to borrow

money to be used for highway purpos-



‘ es and to issue bonds therefor, and to

read as follows:



Section 10. The state may contract

debts to meet deficits 'in revenue, but

such debts shall not in the "aggregate

at any time, exceed two hundred fifty

thousand dollars. The state may also

contracts debts to repel invasion, sup-

press insurrection, defend the state or

aid the United States in time of war.

The money so raised shall be applied

to the purposes for which it is raised

or to the payment of the debts con-



, tracted. The state may borrow not to

exceed fifty million dollars for the im-

provement of highways and pledge its

credit, and issue bonds therefor on

such terms as shall be provided by law.



The effect of this proposed amend-

ment, if adopted,_ would be to enable

the legislature to provide for the issue

and sale of bonds for such amounts as



seems advisable to use for permanent

road improvement in the state. It is

understood that such authorization and

sale of bonds would be for current

needs only. The fifty million limit sim-



‘ ply marks the point beyond which the

legislature cannot go. The proposed

plan under which the money thus rais-



, ad would be, applied to the improve-





 

 

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

   





 





 

 





 





 

 





 

 

 





 

   





compl on

- this pianjwo

in closer" ton-oh ' with ileonsuin‘ers mar;

kets, and, thus» aid 7.,'_i,naterially in: the

solution or the marketingfprcblemgbg-

. sides : the

‘ would accrue from: the completion lift

a trunk line road‘syste‘m reaching ev-

ery county in ,the state. ‘ ‘ ‘





lments would change Section 3, Article

'XVI of the constitution to read as :fol-





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‘ 33m wawflfiiiiifiiiiilll. . Associa- IOWSZ - most promising featureof the planis infipendontistameeerman .industlfifil; ‘ . . 1



“'1'“, wwgggmfisfiamm ‘ mm“ Section 3.. Neither the legislature the bringing about; or a-better' mutual'g‘ai”: :gfgfit'fizegg?t fii‘fififimm“ '1 "

. HILTON KELLY .................... nor any municipal authority shall understanding of the problems of p 1‘0‘ man .md‘fifl” '1 ; ge earnin; s- of _; 5“. .





grant or authorize

to any public officer,

contractor after the service has been

rendered, or; the contract entered into.

Salaries of public officers except Sup-

reme Court justices,





' es, probate judges and judgesofcourts Th1 Road have recently been ; .

33.3323 flfiiisgiiii°it§h§§ia$toieainy' Bondin “"9”“ for detailed 3rl£§3§°°§t ”Deteri‘l‘ia‘iv‘llimf’éfifiefifi

public oflicer be decreased after elec- 9 information in regard vote upon the purchase of the eléctric.



PTOPOW’ to the proposed’expen- car lines Within the city limits. ' . '





tion or appointment.





ment, if adopted, will be to permit the

increase 'of salaries elf-justices of the

Supreme Court, probate, judges and

judges of other courts of record during

their terms of office, in like manner as

the constitution now permits the in-





~lnent of . Michigan roads .is ' outlined





ulti- 'viirins..th1a av , . ,

of live stop, _ a .



Under -. the plan: subcommittees .wtguld ,

be "appointed for .theivar'ious markets.

Milt‘is‘understood that lube, proposal , ' - - :

becomes operative it shall not be con- N CW8

.strued" as limiting the activities of "

the parties to same from working for,"

or against the passage, of pending ;or

future: federal legislation for the regu-

lation. of the packing industry. : The





 





 





 





 





other advantages; which; 3 ; ; .

of" "the; :Weck ‘ ,-

Wednesday, March" 12. ,

HE supreme council at Paris cont.»

- ‘sidersth'e eastern boundaries-of ; - ,

Germany and the’probabilities are that ; .

.east Prussia avill‘rbe formed into an, f j .





The second of thepropos'ed amendj-_





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extra compensation





agent: employe 01‘ Which German: ihdemnlties" are





paid—Bolsheviki forces in northern

Russia, are repulsed by allied troops:

——.Wiiliani.Jennings Bryan declares for

nationalismr but thinks the propos ; ‘

League “of Nations-should be: amend _ ,





'ducers and‘packers, whichis esSential

to their best. solution. .





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circuit court judg- 0 'many. inquiries





Thursday, March 13. ’ ' ‘





A NIGHT attack forces allied troops

in northern Russia .to retreat—r.

Peace conference invites small nations

to present their views on international

relations befbre the conference-The

Bolsheviki troops in Germany surreno

der unconditionally to the government '

and are giving up all arms and ammu- .

nition.—The former Austrian emperor

is seriously ill at Geneva, Switzerland.

-—Within ten days. 1,471 Michigan > “ ;

troops will be due to reach, New York. ' f

——The government announces that the ‘

campaign for the Victory Liberty,Loan ;

will open Monday, April 21 and close —

Saturday, May 10, during which time

$7,000,000.000 of bonds are to be sold.

-——0ntario legislatureis considering the

consolidation of its rural schools.—

President Hutchins of the University

of Michigan resigns. ‘

Friday, March 14.



T is announced that the allies will



raise the blockade around Germany,

provide her with food and invite her to _ g

join the League of Nations after the ;

preliminary. treaty is signed—Twelve

thousand Spartacans captured by Ger

man government troops are awaiting »

court-martial proceedings—The failure

of congress to pass appropriation bills

forces the United States employment

offices to close all employment: agen- ‘ ‘

cies in the state except tWO.-—Mexico _

is asking for guns and ammunition to ,1,

protect American property in that ‘

country—A federal ; grand jury in-

dicts nineteen men who are charged

with bringing liquor into ‘Mich'igan

from Ohio. ‘



Saturday, March 15. .



LLIED and German delegates for-

mally agree on the provisioning 0

Germany and the surrendering by Ger- 3 .



many of her mercantile fleet.—_The or-

iginal plan for the linking together of

the League of Nations‘ and the peace

treaty is being followed by the dele-

gates—Both English and American

aviators will attempt ‘flights across the '

Atlantic within a month—Riots in 7

eighty-five localities in Korea are re- ‘ ‘ \

drowned





, diture of money which

would be derived from. the sale of

bonds-for highwayinprovement in case

the proposed amendment to the con-

stitution is adopted‘that it seems best

to repeat some of the information pre

viously given'in thése collimns.



First, it'should be understood that

in the event ‘of the adoption of the

proposed amendment it would be the

duty of the legislature to determine

the amountof money to be raised. by

the sale of bonds and the manner of its

expenditure. Plans which have been

advanced are merely tentative, as ex-

pressing the judgment ,of highway offi-

cials and public spirited men who have

a broad vision of what a completed sys-

tem of good roads would mean to the

state. ’ .



Briefly, the surveyed plan of— trunk

line systems laid out for Michigan con-

templates the improvement of .more

\than 5,000 miles of ,roads. These trunk

lines embrace two main roads from the

southern state line to Lake Supefior,

one on each side of the state, several

east and west main lines, and numer-

ous connecting roads. The system as

laid out extends into all of the eighty-

three counties of the state. About two

thousand miles of this proposed sys-

tem have already been permanently

improved by counties, townships and

districts under the state reward act.

About three thousand miles remain to

be built, and much of the road already

built needs still further improvement

to withstand the heavy traffic, particu-

larly of motor trucks which was not

anticipated-under the original plan of

improvement.





The promotors of this proposed

amendment have worked out a plan to





The effect of this proposed amend-





 





crease of salaries of circuit court





judges.



The third and last, but not the least

important of the proposed amendments

is one which would add a new section

to Article XVI of the constitution, to

read as follows:



Section 12. It shall be forever law-

ful in this state to import, transport,

manufacture, use, buy, sell, keep for

sale, give away, barter or furnish every

kind of cider, wines, beer, ale and

porter, and to possess the same in a

private residence. .So much of Section

11, Article XVI of this Constitution as

prohibits the manufacture, sale, keep-

ing for sale, giving away, bartering or

furnishing vinous, malt, brewed or fer-

mented liquors, is hereby repealed.

The legislature by general laws shall

reasonably license the manufacture of,

and reasonably license and regulate

the sale and keeping for sale of vinous,

malt, brewed or fermented liquors.

Provided, however, that the electors of

each city, village or township forever

shall have the right to prohibit the

manufacture, sale or keeping for sale

of vinous, malt, brewed or fermented

liquors within such city, village or

township.” .



This is the so-called beer and light

wine amendment, and. its effect, if

adopted, will be to provide for the re-

establishment of the saloon as an in-

stitution in this state under local bp-

tion provisions. Its import is so well

understood by the average voter as to

make further comment superfluous.





 





 





HE tentative plan ported—Nine sailors- were





Proposed adopted at a con. be embodied in subsequent legislation when an American 'naval transport ‘

L. ’ S t k ference of live stock if the proposed amendment is adopted, b32225 from_Ba1t1'lIn1(1)reCto Cioplenhagnen

we .06 producers and pack. under which the counties in which finelme isapfiiflffil—g toe 3:133“? inpxptzl

Committee ers recently held at these roads would be built would 00n~ without giving consideration to the





tariff question.

Sunday, March 16. ,



'1“ is reported that Italy will insist



on annexation of Flume—Belgium

demands the seizure of machinery and

live stock taken by the Germans dill"

ing the occupation of Belgian”. territory.

——Secretary Daniels sails fur Europe to

get information on the probable limita-

tion of naval armaments on which to

base his report to congress—A torna-

do sweeps across Mississippi killing

at least seventeen :persons and injur-'

ing scores—It is estimated \that the in-

come tax returns may reach the billion

dollar mark.-—-Buildings and other pro.

jects in progress and pending show a

total Linvestment for the country of

$1,708,738.936 and for Michigan $121,-





105,394. - _ ,.

' Monday. March 17.

THE allied board has listed thirty-

o‘ne kinds of crimes which were.

committed by the enemy during the ,

wan—Disturbances between American





tribute to the cost in proportion to

their assessed valuation. Under this

plan the eighty-three‘counties would

be arranged in nine groups. The group

having the lowest assessed valuation

or less than $50,000 per trunk line

,mile of road to be built within their

limits,» would pay ten per cent of the

cost' of building, the state paying

ninety per cent. The group having the

largest assessed valuation, or over

$300,000 per trunk line mile of road to

be built within their limtis would pay

fifty per cent of the cost, and the state

fifty per cent. The various intermedi-

ate groups would, under this plan,.con-

tribute in proportion to their assessed

valuation as related to the miles of

road to be constructed within their

limits; The plan, ‘ contemplates that

any- county»m_ay_ pay the total cost of





- Chicago, as noted in

another column of this issue, is wor

thy of the careful consideration of the

live stock producers of the country. It

was the sense of those participating in

the conference, including a score of

representatives from corn belt live

stock organizations, that the coopera-

tion proposed under the plan would be

beneficial to all concerned, including

the consumer; Briefly the plan con-

templates the formation of a commit—

tee consisting of one representative

from the Bureau of Markets, two from

the National Live Stock Exchange, ten

producers representing the cattle, hog

and sheep industries, and ten packers,

with a producer as chairman. Under

the plan the producers present at the

conference will ask the live stock pro-

ducers’ organizations of “the various





 

 





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HE great economic weakness in

the dairy industry is the fact

that the sale of milk and its de—

rivatives is entirely inadequate to meet

the operating charges of the farm and

dairy. After making a careful study

of the inedme and expenditures on f

somé of the best managed dairy farms

in several dairying regions I find that

the proceeds from the sale of dairy pro; .

ducts", no matter how good the cows or

how efficiently they are fed and cared

for; dees not pay adequate returns up— .

on the capital invested and labor ex- -

pended. ’ It is easy for agricultural and

dairy experts to tell dairy farmers how

' to increase their profits through feed-

ing more efficient cows and growing a .

better variety of food crops, but there " ,

is a limit beyond whiCh the skillful '

farmer and feeder cannot succeed in

reducing the operating charges of his tage homes that will induce intelligent

farm and maintaining his cows at max- men to work on the farm. In order to

imum efficiency during the year. 'keep these men busy throughout the

The dairy farmer is in much the year, plans must be made to provide

same predicament as some of the great steady and profitable employment as

railroad cm p01 atIons that have invest- many days during the men as possible.

ed millions of dollars in roadbeds, ter- In many cases side lines must be de-

minals, eliminating grades and curves veloped in order to provide continuous

and Organizing fast freight and passen- employment. This is simplified be-

ger service before the volume of traffic cauSe different crops require labor at

on their lines waIranted such an ex- different seasons and the dairy herd

penditure. In order to put such lines calls for greatest attention when the

on a dividend—paying basis and provide crops requile the least. A little care-

steady traffic for the main line it .is ful study of the time when each crop

often necessary to buy or build, branch 01‘ side line makes a demand for labor

lines to serve as feeders and originate will enable one to develop new sources

new business in the intervals during of income.

the yeaI. Is. it not possible for the Not long ago I visited the farm of a

dairy fad him who is operating his farm young man who employs several hired

and daily at a heavy cost to put his hands during the year. I asked him

_ business on a better paying basis by hOW he managed t0 get around the la-

going out and developing flew lines bor problem He said' “For several

that will bring more business from years I was lip against the labor prob~

such sources as Pigston, Egg Harbor, lem good and hard. I found that 1

Lamb Crossing, Horse Falls, Orchard must .add to my income or cut down

Park, Wheatfield and Spudville? ' my labor force. Then I decided I would

.For many years dairy farmers have try and increase my CI'OD and milk

been lectured to about «the possibili- yields rather than confess my inability

ties of reducing the cost of producing to handle farm labor. In ten years I

milk through growing new and wonder- have more than doubled the crop yields

ful nitrogenous crops. But when we on my farm. The land has been cleared

get light down to “brass tacks," the of stumps and stones. a number bf

most one can do is to seek to increase miles 0f tile drains have been laid

the yield cf standard farm crOps and where needed, fences straightened, and

feed them to daily cows that have the the fields so an ranged that they may

ability to make profitable use of them be worked at a minimum expense for

when supplemented with protein con- labor and team work. I raised the neo-

ceIIII-ates. ’The truth is that after the essary cash and made some careful in-

dairy farmer has'filled his mows and vestments in dairy stock and equip—

silos with clover, mixed hay, and well- ment. The farm began to increase in

matured corn, he: has done' about all productivity and the cost of production

that he can do toward reducing the of. crops and milk lessened. The team

COW’S cost of living ‘ .. ‘ that formerly traveled five hundred

The Help Problem. miles in plowing and cultivating to fill

Most dairy farmers understand the the one silo may now fill both of my

principles and believe in employing silos. The extra silo has practically

more labOI, but to apply them may re- doubled the stock-carrying capacity of

. quire readjustments on many farms. To my farm. ,

rmake labor permanent and dependable “The extra mow of hay gained by

.a good part of it must be made up of the increased fertility of the farm fur-

marIied men living 0n the farm. That; nishes more roughage for the stock to

means one must provide suitable cot— work into manures. The extra bin of





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cw ourccs ‘of Income





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are Causing iniy Farmers to Develop Profitaé/e

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oats furnishes grain to feed the work





homes and young stock kept on the

farm. The improved cows make more

profitable use of the crops raised on

the farm“ One cannot afford to em-

ploy a force of competent men to till

an unproductive farm and wait on a

lot of lazy cows. During this period I

have found it necessary to develop

several sidelines. to help out in the

seasonal distribution of labor. I pur-

chased a large sugaI bush, grow timo~

thy hay for market and rent fifty aCI es

of land for buckwheat. These new

sources of income have proved a big

factor in enabling me to pay good wag-

es and put my farming on a money-

making basis. We have but few idle

days and my men ale loyal and con-

tented The time has passed when one

can make good with a strictly daily

proposition. We must develop new

sources of income or-go out of busi-

ness.”



On many farms, especially in a cli-

mate where corn fails to mature suffi-

ciently to produce sound ears, it is al-

most impossible to grow enough grain

to properly feed the dairy herd. On

these farms where clover, mixed hay

and silage are the main crops, and pur-

chased grain feeds are fed, it is possi-

ble to keep a large herd of cows on .a

small area. Under such conditions

there is a vast amount of fertility

brought onto the farm through buying

rich concentrates. Here the owner

faces the problem of getting the full

benefit of this purchased soil fertility

and providing profitable work for his

hands throughout the year.



'For example, a dairy farmer near

Buffalo, New York, where I visited last

summer, has one hundred and forty

acres of land on which he keeps a

dairy of forty-four cows. He ships his

milk to the city, buys four or five car-

loads of mixed grain feed each year,

and employs two hired hands. He finds

it easy to grow more clover, mixed hay





, and silage than he can feed his cattle





and work teams, and that during con~





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siderable of the time his men and how—

es ale idle. So he plants fifteen aCIes

of potatoes. By buying a little addi-_

tional machinery he finds that he can

add from $1,500 to $2,000 to his labor

income. He uses a few hundred pounds, ‘

of phosphorus and potassium on each'

acre of potato ground. Pretty soon





'he noticed that his wheat and clover





crops made good growth on the potato

ground that has been quite liberally

fertilized. '



The glowing of potatoes did not add

plant food to the soil. On the contIaIy

it Iemoved more OI less of the three

essential elements of fertility, but the

intense cultivation and the use of the

mineral plant foods sort of balanced

up the excess of nitrogen and proved

just what the Wheat and clover CIops

needed to furnish them with ideal con-

ditions fOI gIowth and develdpment.

The potato crop is grown, harvested

and marketed with the same labor and

horse power that formerly stood idle.

The work of grading, hauling and mar-

keting is done during the fall and Win-

ter when the men and teams are not

busy with dairy work. Now if this

dairy farmer had not set about the

problem of developing his branch line

to Spudville he would have idle men

and teams on his farm considerable of

the time during the year, and a large

portion of his milk money would be re-

quired to pay for the grain feeds con-

sumed by the cows.



Pigs and Dairying.



On the averagedairy farm there is a.

woeful waste of skim—milk. It requires

slime careful planning to adjust the

number of animals being fed so that

one can realize the most benefit; from

the‘skim-milk. Perhaps the greatest

loss comes from neglecting to use sup—

plemental feeds so that the rations are

properly balanced to meet the require—

ments of the animals being fed. For

example, a dairyman sold his milk to a.

creamery and had several hundred

pounds of skim-milk to haul back to

his farm every day. For years he fed

this to his calves, giving them all they

would eat, but very little other feed.

He began to study the feeding problem

and decided to improve his methods.

The next fall he started a bunch of ten

heifer calves and fed them liberal

amounts of skim—milk and grain. By

the first of May they were sufficiently

grown and developed to make good use

of the grain and hay rations. By this

time he had six litters of pigs come

and along in June the pigs were put A

in pasture and fed skim—milk and corn-

meal. A little later shelled corn was

fed with the skim-milk and green feed.

By the first of September they were

ready for fattening and were finished

on a ration of cornmeal and skim-milk.

When they were sold he had another

bunch of calves started to take the



(Continued on page 482).
' HE hundreds of letters received





their just «deserts as a result of the in-





from Michigan bean growers vestigation. \ ,





who still have beans to sell show

an appreciation of our effort to aid

them in getting a better price for their

beans. This effort was due to an ap—

parent attempt made by Michigan buy-

ers to take over the balanced the

crop at the low price of $5.00 per cwt.,

which followed closely the distribu-

tion of the government order for 350

cars at $9.25 per cwt. f. o. b. Mich-

igan. This attempt, following so close-

ly. the relief from the congested condi-

tion of bean elevators and its attend—

ant financial strain, promised such a.

sad reward for the patriotic efforts of

Michigan bean growers as to make it

seem vitally essential to call for a

show-down in the bean game.





This apparently sudden abandon-

ment of the' attempt to stabilize the

bean market on a fair merchandising

basis, at a time when government re-

lief had just been extended and furth-

er relief was hoped for, when export

restrictions had just been lifted and

commerce with the central empires

was about to be resumed, called for

immediate and drastic action to save

the Michigan bean market from imme-

diate and disastrous collapse. The ac-

tion was taken in the interest of Mich-

igan bean growers, and, we believe,

with beneficial results. At least it has

clarified the situation and promises the

development of a remedy for those who

desire to avail themselves of it.



The Bean Jobbers’ Attitude.





From the growers’ letters received

it would appear that the attitude of

some bean jobbers was just what

might be expected from the action tak-

en above, and their comments would

not look well in print. But not so with

the officials of the Michigan Bean Job.

bers’ Association. -



Subsequent to thespublication of the

article in our issue of March 8 relat-

ing to the allocation of the recent gov-

ernment bean order, Mr. F. B. Drees.

Secretary of the Michigan Bean Job-

bers’ Association, requested the oppor-

tunity of presenting the position of his

organization in the matter and a con-

ference was arranged for that purpose

at which Mr. Drees submitted the rec-

ords of the association in proof of a.

consistent organized effort on the part

of that body to stabilize the bean mar-

ket at a fair price to growers with only





a small merchandising profit to bean .





buyers and jobbers. Mr. Drees re-

viewed the history of the relations of

the association with government pur-

chasing agencies, beginning with the

so-called “gentlemen’s agreement” for

the stabilizing of prices in a fair man-





ner as previously described and the dif— ~





ficulties subsequently encountered in

securing definite orders on government

account, due to alleged manipulation

of officials of the bean division and

their accomplices in the bean trade,

which are still under investigation as

a result of the evidence submitted by

a committee of the Bean Jobbers’ Asso-

ciation. Before definite evidence had

been secured, the association succeed-

ed in getting two moderate sized or-

ders for government beans at the

agreed price and while negotiations

were pending looking toward the bet-

ter financing of the bean elevators of

the state to enable them to sustain the

market, another good sized .govern-

ment order was. placed for Michigan

beans at the stipulated price, thus su’b—

stantiating the agreement. Subse-

quently a committee of the Bean dob-

‘bers' Association presented evidence

. which resulted in the release tram

' duty of the two men charged with ma;

. nlpulation of government contracts and





instituted . a thorough gorernment inc _,

vemmn'into all of their pilleiainets

they fill mire ilk





   





 





Credit Where Credit is Due.



It is but simple justice to say in

this connection that the efforts of the

officials of the Bean Jobbers’ Associa-

tion toward the stabilization of. the

bean market operated greatly to the in-

terest of Michigan bean growers, for

which they are entitled to full credit

as for the exposure of alleged crook-

edness of officials in the bean division

of the Food Administration and grain

Corporation, of which credit other

cla‘imants have sought to rob .them by

an attempt to appropriate it to them-

selves. Nor do we believe that‘the

oflicials of the Bean Jobbers’ Associa-

ion are in any way responsible for the

action of members of the organization

in making a bad situation worse by of

fering $5.00 per cwt. for beans in grow-

ers’ hands directly after selling nearly

half of their holdings on the recent

government order. Bulletins previous-

ly sent out to members of the associa-

tion urge the discontinuance of pur-

chasing, rather than purchasing at low-

er values, notwithstanding persistent

efforts of certain jobbers alleged to





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elevator having five ears got an order





for two, and so on up on a forty per.

cent basis. This was doubtless as fair

an arrangement as could be made be-

tween elevators, relieVing the conges-

tion in all parts of the state. '



Because of the previous period; of.

stagnation and consequent slump in.

the market is is hard to tell how many

$8.00 beans were in Michigan elevators

at the time the government order was

placed. During this period many ele«

vators bought cheap beans from grow-

ers who felt the need of getting

the money out. of this crop. It is

but fair, however, to say that there

were more than enough to fill the or-

der and had it not been for the action

of many MiChigan buyers in bearing

the market immediately following the

placing of the government order, our

criticisms would not have been war-

ranted. For this action the excuses

made are not tenable. These excuses

include competition of the California

crop and the offering of recent impor-

tation of Kotenashi‘ beans from Japan

at ldwer prices.



Future Prospects.

So much‘ for the history of the Mich-





 

 

 

   





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from outside relief.

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for meat, grains and canned produc





The removal of the sea blockades will permit the ships

ping of American fobd products to several countries heretofore cut off

Nevertheless-these countries must be systemat-

is sure to create a heavy demand

ts. The fact that beans are an im-





portant part of the diet of the people in these countries indicates that





they should begin moving rapidly at higher prices.





Even with small





imagination it will be instantly recognized that those countries devas-





tated, undernourished, and stripped bare of food and agricultural equip-





ment by enemy occupation are in such a condition as to require tre-





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all of the Australian surplus’yill be,

required to relieve the famine condi-

tionlin India, while the food situation

in central Europe is admittedly worse

than. was anticipated before conditions

became generally known. Arrange-

ments have been recently completed

whereby thousands of tons of food.





 





stuffs per month will be sent to the





countries Of Central Europe, while all

European ocuntries must be heavy pur‘

chasers of food studs at'least until the

next harvest is available. 1 Asserlous

shortage of rice in ~Japan also prom-

ises to be a. factor in the situation.

While California beans are plentiful,

many of. them are in- poor condition

due to rain damage and» cannot com-

pete on even terms with the Michigan

crop, which is~of unusually good qual-

ity this, year. The trend of the hog

market since government control was

abandoned and the sympathetic move-

ment of coarse grains is another indi-

cation of the food situation whicil.

should tend to stabilize bean values.





Future Price Adjustment.





While it would indeed be a rash man

who would attempt to prophesy what

the. next few months will bring forth

yet it is a reasonably safe conclusion

that beans are ‘worth considerably

more than $5.00 per 'c'wt. under pres-

ent conditions. As a possible solution

‘of this situation we proposed to Mr.

Drees that members of his associa-

tion consider a plan for a future price

adjustment on beans purchased at the

present quotations if sold to the trade

at higher values. As the simplest

means to this desirable end of rees—

tablishing confidence between bean

growers and bean buyers, it was sug-

gested that buyers take in growers'

beans, advancing them a reasonable

present market value and holding them

for future sale at the grower’s’ option.

This would enable growers to haul

beans to market before the rush of

spring work.» It would insure to the

growers an Opportunity of participat-

ing in any recovery of market values

which may occur. It would insure con-

tinuous employment of the bean piclb

ers until the crop is cleaned up. More

important still it would tend to stop





the inclination among buyers to unload \





on the presentldemoralized market and

depend On averaging up on their losses

by replacing their present holdings

with cheaper beans: . ,



A recent letter from Mr. Drees states

that he has submitted the above

plan 'to several jobbers and that it has



”met with their unanimous approval. It

may aid in the soluion of a, difiicult

problem for many patriotic Michigan

bean growers.



Growers who desire to avail them-

selves of this plan should take the

matter up with a responsible buyer

in their community, and in case the

arrangement is ' made a. written con-





have been in league with discredited igan' bean market» “1‘0““ 8““ ”a“ tree ‘ '

. . . _ t or memorandum of the agree-

o-flicrals of the bean section to bear the ing beans to sell are more mterested. ment should be signed in duplicate in





market on Michigan beans.

Distribution of the Government Order.





The method used in distributing the





in future prospects. An acfim‘fite esti- .order to avoid future misunderstand-

mate of Michlgdn beans 5‘ 1}” grow- ings.. This should establish the deal-

ers' hands is difficult to obtain. The





er’s margin and provide for a. fair de«





recent government order for beans was consensus of opinion among buyers is termination of market values





on the basis of holdings in all elevators -





having a membership in the Bean Job- ,0! the crOp.

bers’ Association. The large Jobbers the total of beans now in Michigan 918‘

who underwrote the order were allovh vators to be less than 600 cars.

total crop as shown by threshers’ re-

turns was 3,288,314, bushels.





ed to put in forty per cent of their

holdings and were required to pur-

chase from smaller elevators the bal‘

ance of the allotment given them in

thedistribution. this action being tak-





every member elegant having choice ’

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A Square Deal for Growers.

What we are seeking is simply- a

square deal for Michigan bean grow-

ers. Marking the price to the growers





Notwith. dawn to $5.00 per cwt., while loading

standing the fact that it is still more out present holdings at $9.25 could not

than six months before another crop be 80 construed. We believe-that even

of beans will be available for distribu-

en to simplify the technical detailslof tion. confidence in the future of the

settlement. 'Under. this arrangement market seems to have hoe





the jobbers who, topk'thls stop now rec-

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, egg production.





HE’ mortality among the chicks _

»'dliri_ng.the growing period is in-



, _, creased or decreased according

to the“ vitality or thechick at birth, en-





-vir0nmen_tal- conditions" being similar.

In other words, the weth'atched'chick‘ “





is half-raised. A weak, puny chick is

at a- disadvantage, and wesmu'st expect

a higher death rate. ,Nor are we de-

ceived in Our expectations. A flock of

poorly hatched, weak chicks are‘ a dis-

couraging proposition, and we would

not prescribe the raising of such, by

peeple suffering from “nerves,” nor are

they conducive to our sweetest dispo-

sitions. -. _. ‘ _



On the other hand, there is no other

branch of poultry culture that will





" stimulate our interest in this industry





more than a flock of thrifty, vigorous

chicks. These fluffy, downy little crea-

tures are often responsible for the out-

break of the disease commonly known

as “'Henitis," and once inoculated with

this germ, the results are fatal to both

man and woman alike. '



Husky chicks are not an accident,

they are not the result of, weak parent

stock. The incubator is not always at

fault When“ weak chicks result.





The breeding pen must consist of

both males and females, showmg an

abundance of constitutional vigor and

in a. good physical conditionif we look

.for.“pep” in the offspring. \ The per-

son who fails to take advantage .of this

simple truth, is overlooking" a factor

that spells success or‘failure.





Fertility and hatchability have Sop-.5





arate and distinct meanings. By hatch-

ability is meant‘ the power .of the fer-





tilized germ to develop "into a strong'





chick capable. of complete exclusion

frOm shell,vwhereas fertility is a nar-

rower term and simply refers'to the

union of the male and female. germ

cells. ' ' ,



Pedigree breeding workloads us to,

believe that the ability of the egg to

hatch is an hereditary quality, and

transmitted chiefly through the female

line, Such being the case, we would

naturally pay special attention to the

physical welfare of the females in our

breeding pens. ‘,



Breeding records of single pen mat-

ings, where all the females have iden-

tical conditions, andare mated to the

same male bird, produce a variety of

results. Some hens will run low in





fertility and hatchability, others will





run. high in fertility, and hatch like

“popcorn.” ‘ Again we find hens which

produce fertile eggs, but on account

of physical weakness, due to various

causes, show a high'percéntage of dead

germ eggs in the course of incubation.

Ingsome cases it is almost impossible

to secure good thrifty chicks, especial-

ly when breeding from immature pul‘

lets, laying undersized eggs, or from

hens that have been forced; for heavy

This physical drain

on the hen’s body is more apparent

when checking over the hatchétbility

records. ’ ’ M , '



A number of factors which control





.'both fertility and hatchability are‘at,





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months, when the birds are closely con-

fined. If the hens are closely confined,

and. fed large quantities of corn or oth-

er whole grains, upon the bare ground,

lack of exertion or exercise,,especially

among our general purpose and heav-

ier breeds tends towards over-fatness,

which results in a weakened system,

hence weak germs. This problem of

insufficient exercise during confine-

ment may be almost entirely eradicat-





‘ed by providing plenty of straw or





some other litter which will not pack

too closely, and at ‘the same time al-

10wing four square feet floor space

per bird. . .

« Green Foods.



In selecting foods for our breeding

stock, We must be a little cautious, be-

cause .. Our aim is to develop a sound

constitution and produce a good physi-

cal development. Generally speaking,





green foods have a. very desirable tonic

effect upon the hens which indirectly

givesstrength to the germ and vitality

to the genering embryo. Some green

foods give better results than others

for example, cabbage, sugar beets and

sprOuted grains are among the best.

Fresh, clean silage also makes a. good

succulent food. On the other hand,

mailgel wurzels, according to data em-

inatin-g from the Ontario Agricultural

College, is undesirable from the stand-

point of hatchability, although as an

egg producer it ranks with our best

sources of succulent feeds.



Animal Foods.



ProfeSSOr Graham, of the Ontario

Station, has developed some very valu-

able data relative to, the effects of dif-

ferent sources of animal protein on the

eggs hatchability. His experiments

covera period of years, the conclusions

drawn are as follows: '



Most of our animalfoods, an more

especially beef scraps are detri ental

to high batches in Rocks, Reds, Wyan-

dottes and most of our heavier breeds,

but . with Léghorns and the lighter

weight breeds this evil influence is

lacking.



Skim-milk or buttermilk give very

satisfactory results with all breeds, and

either‘are superior over any other

source of animal protein. They tend

to keepvthe- digestive system in a sharp

clean voondition. - .





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whereas from the tenth to the thirti-

eth day a rapid reduction was evident,

the fertility being completely lost at

the end of thirty days.



In retaining eggs for hatching pur-

poses, a little attention should be exer-

to the actual incubation cised, such as turning the eggs regu-

operations we are usually confronted larly, especially when holding fOI‘ sev-

with such questions as: “What num— eral days. During 001d weather fre-

ber of females should we use with each quent collections are necessary to pre-

male bird?” “How long after introduc- serve a healthy germ, also the recep-

ing the male will it take before we can taole holding the eggs should be plac-

safely set the eggs?” “How long will ed in a dry, sweet atmosnhere. at a

the eggs keep and produce good temperature as nearly as possible be-

hatches?” and many other similar ques- tween fifty and sixty degrees F.

tions. ‘ A little care in selecting eggs ac-



The age and vitality of the male cording to size, shape, color and qual-

bird must be considered, in rating the “Y 0f 511911 should be displayed. Long

number of females to be bred to him. eggs don’t necessarily hatch cockerels,

No set rules can "be followed, but ordi- nor round eggs pullets, because BiddY

narily we would suggest one male to involuntarily lays the same shape, size

fifteen females in the lightenbreeds, and colored egg every time, SO it is a.

such as Leghorns, whereas a rate of false belief to think that we can deter-

one male to twelve females would se- mine the sex of the chick by selection.





cure the highest fertility in our heav- 0f eggs according to shape.

ier weight breeds, such as Rosks, Reds, We would naturally 8919“ eggs nor.





Wyandottes, etc. “re can safely wid- mal in size, shape and quality of shell

en this ratio in large flocks on free because only from selection could we





hope to standardize our eggs and pro-

duce uniformity, onthe other hand, we

would discard eggs with defective

shells, soft, chalky, rough, uneven tex-

ture, or dirty and washed eggs. Eggs

of these ‘latter types usually indicate

uneven evaporation and poor hatches

of abnormal chicks.





Incubation is usually classified into

natural and artificial. The size of the

. flock maintained, and season for hatch-

ing generally govern which method

shall be practiced. For the average

. , farmer and backlot poultry raiser, the

range, but for open matings m confine- good old mother hen usually performs

ment the above prOportlons are nearly this duty quite satisfactorily. The main

correct: _ . disadvantage'to hen hatching lies in

Feltmt’: 1159311? IS 'plesent three the fact that the hatching season is

days aftel the introduction of the male spread over a longer period, resulting

bird, although better results are obtain- in an uneven flock of pullets in the

ed by waiting a week or longer before fall, also unless we can induce the

saving eggs for hatchlng because we hens to lay during the winter we can—

do not get the highest fertility until not expect them to develop the broody

about the tenth day. After removing instinct early enough in the spring to

the male bird from the flock the eggs get early chicks. .

remain fertile from three to twenty





days. In changing male birds two purposes belong to the Amer’can and

’ k ' ce sho 1d e allowed be- , ‘ 1

wee S 0f gla u b English classes—~11. I. Reds, ()rping-





fore saving the eggs for hatching, in



order‘to be positive that the influence :33:qu:31130th5 agd 2001‘s" Tthe Leg-



of the former male is entirely lost. ‘ _ lg er ree s me 00 ner~

vous and if allowed to mother the





Wha an avera e' fertility? An .

t IS . . . g. _ ‘ chicks after they are hatched, are not

average fertlllty lS eighty per cent. ,

. _ 4 , ‘ capable to educate their brood proper-

Tu elve eggs in every setting should

be fertile A ly, The nervous temperament of the

' hen is acquired by the chicks, making





Milssoirtie“mmaggteifnxguntggl:To? them wild and_ difficult to handle.

‘ . ' y y In building a nest to be used for





11:12:225’ the followmg results were ob- incubation purposes, the primary re-



- quisites are that it be roomy (about

January, 62 Jer cent; February, 75 . ,



er cent. March 82 er cent. A m fifteen 1nches square) and sanltary.



£5 er céngo Ma, 89p er cent: Jfine, By PlaCing a SOd in the bottom 0f the

p ’ y, " p ’ ’ nest, making sure that the corners are





75 per cent. filled ,

_ . .- , , so the eggs wont roll out and

The same station conducted expeil- become chilled, then adding three or





ments comparlng the length 0f time four inches of straw, leaving the nest

01‘ age, eggs for hatching purposes saucershaped. Don’t cramp the hen

may be kept'wlthout any relative de-, in a little box, broken eggs usually re-

crease in fertility. The tenth day seem— sult. .Treat the hen for lice, before

9d to be the dividingeline, up'.to this setting, with sodium fluorid or blue

time complete fertility was maintained ointment. In using sodium fluroid dust

‘ ea‘ch hen thoroughly; if blue ointment

r is used, a small piece about the size of

a pea, rubbed into the skin below the

vent, will exterminate them.

:3 The ‘louse problem is done away

i” with in artificial incubation, also more

uniformity can be secured because the

chicks are hatched together and all.

get an even start" in 'life.‘ "With a va-

wriety of ages; the smaller ones are at

a disadvantage, ‘ ,





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' HE most fertile and'best produce water-soaked up to that level, and-so

V ing lands are the low-lying areas, needs drainage. . ‘ _ ' - , '

swamps and marshes, if properly . .5. Clay solli improperly drained will

drained. These low lands are gener- in continuous drought CHICK open, be-

ally wholly surrounded o rtraversed by cause clay-soaked in water and dried

ridges forming basins where water» Will shrink to the amount 01? space 00-

will remain continuously or until evap: cupied bythe water- The surface wa-

orated, unless artificial means are re ter did DOt have free access'for any

sorted to to remove the same. escape in the :ub-sifil, but r81:alnel1111011:

" the surface orm ng a pas e w, c

For the removal of surface water _ . ', .

open ditches are usually constructed caused the CI'30:}.{8 to iopenidWhten dry.

with an outlet into some natural water- The need 0f drainage 5 ev en '



6. The wilting or curling of leaves





course; until recently, and in many 10- ,

calities this practice still prevails, of corn, beets and potatoes, the severe

these ditches were made very shallow, effect 0f drought, except on poor sand

averaging in depth about three feet; or gravel land, may be due to improper

no calculation was made beyond sur- drainage; mouldy appearance of the

face drainage, and in many places the surface, a certain toughness of grass,

water would have to run up hill 10 en- a. liberal number of crabholes, all indi-

ter them. They were intended for an cate that water 18 too close to the sur-

emergency relief to save the stock, face and that the roots of the plants

both from drowning and starvation, :u'et suffering from the effect of cold

since the greater part of these lands ‘39 - . _ .

were only fit for pasture, even after I am confining myself ‘in this article

. to the treatment by drainage of lands

, . . most suitable for farming, viz:

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be constructed wherever possible, of clay. .

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underdrams at least four feet deep and face of ,well-drained land with the

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let of the tile to allow for some filling frost leaves the ground and be in shape

in without choking the outfall of the to retain and absorb the fertilizing

tile; itis very often necessary and m- chemicals contained in thei'warm'rains

variably the cheapest in the long run successively thereafter.

to construct large sewers or conduits Water can not remain in the upper

for main line drains, thus obliterating strata of the ground until it becomes

the 1053 Of .ground surface, mam- stagnant,"Without injury to plant life,

tenance of bridges, continuous clean— and why?

ing, out, etc. 1. It excludes pure atmospheric air.

Underdrainage. 2. It reduces heat. ’

There "are lands that need no drain— 3. It produces a chemically semi-

,age, such as ranges of gravel, sand poison; - ~ .

and light loam, where the water iS 211- It is well understood and accepted,

lowed to percelate freely down to a‘ that the germination of the seed, or the

depth below evaporation. provided the transformation from a seed to a plant

sub-strata is porous enough to allow takes place under a certain chemical

the water to escape, bUt it is W911 t0 prodess, the main factors being air,

remember and investigate if such sub- heat and moisture; the composite parts

soil is free from water held to a dam— or fertility of the'soil becomes a factor

aging level by intermediate clay ridges only after the plants develop roots as

or other obstructions. Underdrainage feeders for further growth and pro-

of land that does not need it, or land gress,

that will not give returns on the in- If it is conceded that atmospheric

vestment should not be considered, but air is requisite to the germination of

such cases are indeed very few. seed and the growth of plants, we

How are we to determine the neces- should have some knowledge as to how

sity for drainage of farm lands? Let the air can best find its way into the

us observe some cf the most promi- SO“ and subsequently t0 plant l‘OQtS-

nent indications: The mechanical structure of the soil

1_ If low ground, swamp or marsh is consists of individual particles or bod~

covered with water, all or part of the ies 0f e‘Very kind 0f Shapes and size,

time, an explanation as to the need of from boulders, pebbles, down to the 1111'

drainage should not be necessary. est powder, and thus represent in its

2_ 'If a plowed field in part or in mass 3. certain‘amount of voids, which

in wet, undrained soil remains filled

with water to the exclusion of the air

and if this condition remain for a long

period of time it will cause death to

the plants. If the soil is properly

drained the water will be removed from

'the‘ larger voids, forming into arteries

of all dimensions, the ‘finer particles

" 3. If water remains standing in the forming the finfifil arteries and retain-

ing the moisture neCessary ' for «the





dark streaks indicating dampness and

invariably a cold, sour underlying sub-

soil permeated with water, which is

forced to the surface by elementary

'action, and does not bleach in a» short

time to the exposure of the sun, that

land needs drainage.





 





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Estimating 1919 Potato CrOp

SPECIAL reporlts relative to the. before. The matter of natural shrink-





commercial portion of the potato, age in storage and the losses due to

crop, whereby, growers and local' rot and freezing will also be inves-





‘ shippers will be furnished detailed in— tigated. ‘ -





 





1 l . “formation during the growing 53935011 An annual potato report in bulletin

l’ [ - ‘: - on a-scale never before attempted, are. form will summarize all of the data

. being contemplated by the .Bureau Of and information collected by the Bu—





reau during the entire year. This will





CropoEstimates of the United States

furnish to the individual all of the





« L Department of' Agriculture. Data' rela-

. r ‘ five to the fetal or agricultural crop available data, and enable him to study

L '. ‘ will be collected and publiShed as here- and analyze the situation £61- himself,

1 tofore, but it is'recognized that it is‘ rather than to be dependent wholly

the commerCial crop that establishes upon market. quotations and speculat—

the market price, and it is that portion or’s reports for the information that is

L 0f the crop that Will receive attention to govern his actions. Because of the

in the additional reports to be inaugu- removal of tariff restrictions between

rated during the coming season. I the United States and Canada, which

4 ' A conference washeld recently in permits the Canadian crop to become

Washington between officials Of the Somewhat of a competing factor, esti.

Bureau and field agents from the brim mates of Canadian production, stocks

cipal producing states of the~north and in storage, and imports will be pub-



east, at which there were also present lished as data becomes available.

Professor William Stuart, potato spe— Too often the farmer, in marketing

‘ cialist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, his crop, forms his Opinion, or at least

R‘ H' Ellsworth, 0f the Bureau Of Mar- permits it to be biased by local condi-

. kets, and W; H fl‘aylor, 0f the Eastern tions. If the crop is large in his part

, Shore 0f '_V1rglnla Produce Exchange. of the state he assumes that the same

It was agreed that the Bureau Of Crop condition holds elsewhere, and he tries

Estimates She‘lld undertake to collect to be the first one to deliver at his 10-

and publish this special information ’cal station. " If the crop is light in his

relative to the commercial crop in ad- district he is more apt to store hoping

(“hon to its regular estimatesoof the for a higher price. As an abnormally

ael‘eege' condition, ' yield-and rproduc- large or small yield is likely to be at

tlon 0f the agricultural‘crop. . * considerable variance, With the general

Stress was 131d upon the need Of conditions for the potato area as a

o“ growers for more complete information

not'only regarding the crop in their

, ' _own statebut in competing states, and

( that this information would be ex-

tremely valuable just prior to and dur-

ing the harvesting season. The field

#391“? explained the existing condi- and attendant marketing factors. One

tlons m, the”, respective states and expert potato grower emphasizes this

pomtedu 0}“, the particular needs for :fact by stating that-he has followed the

them territory, from which a definite crop reports and gauged his sales there-

‘ program was worked out. by for more than a dozen years, and

L - The field agent 18 to make _a survey has never failed during that time to

”f the areas that producerpotatoes on a sell his crap at the most advantageous

commerClal. scale, utlllzmg data that season. The development of farmers’

[can be furnlshed by‘the Bureau Of Ma!“ cooperative shipping associations in

kets, the county agents, and all other the potato districts is bringing home to

avallable sources. Lists 0f the, grow- the membership of these associations

ers Within these areas will be compil~ the value of data relative to produc-

ed. These growers will cooperate by ' '

furnishing local information, in return of

m for which they will receive‘the pub-





conclusion in both cases. Many potato

growers, as Well as other crop special-

ists, owe their success to advantageous

marketing through a thorough study

and analysis of crop production data





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surplus and deficient production.

They naturally wish to avail them-





lished reports containing the results of selves of the nearest consuming mar-IV





the inquiries, not only for their own

state but for the competing regions in

other states. '

. On September 1 and October 1 an es- tle variation in price throughout the

tlmate Will be made 0f.» the portion 0f season .is the most advantageous to

- the crop that will, be shipped out of the both the producer and'consumer

county where grown. - Because there Th B. ‘ f C E . ' .

is often a rapid change in the outlook . e ureau 0 rep stlmates, in

for a crop during September and Octo- View Of the urgent need and demand

her, due to moisture: and frost condi- for'this additional information regard-

mooo 12st: 32%;: impregstrsrsrl:

on the fifteenth of each orthose' . . ‘ ' -

moooo mM m

ros ects in can ‘of the ‘ ’i ' '

fate itates. These re,portslgillcbrealln:t.l: industries, we will follow with interest

ed to newspapers, mum. Bhi‘eellfjs .re,‘ and prObably profit extensrvely by the,

porters and to county’agents. ‘ On No.

vember 1,1 aneffort will be made to es-

timate ,the portion of theerfjfiginthe

. commerelgrgoustiesthatoutcome run-1 . ,

. der sensitize onwards?” ' ‘

The. December report . F11.





kets, avoid market congestions and

consequent slumps 'in price. It is rec-





 

 





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ognize’d that a stable market with lit— .





encrt'sihat the statistical branch of .

ting forth in’ our. behalf. ,y , _





3 Mr. Howler has received'from Brit-'4

. . A _ . . 13,11! a-‘ish omcials definite inforniation'regarde . _

-‘ revised estimate or congmerclarpredue- :ingme‘ erOp failure in India. ,All as ' “ .



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THE EARLY PIOTATO CROP.





 





ACCORDING to replies to inquiries

sent out recently by the Bureau

of Crop Estimates, the early potato

acreage this season will be greatly re—

duced from last year, the estimated

acreage in 1919 being 132,044 acres,

compared with ’223, 845 acres last

spring. The states represented in the

report include Maryland, Virginia,

North Carolina, South Calorina, Geor-

gia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Tex-

as, Missouri, Kansas, OklahOma and

Arkansas. These states grow early

potatoes principally, the harvest of the

most northern states mentioned begin.

ning early in July.





the following condition:

Indicated Indicated





 





 





In detail the réports received showI





“Among the more prominent rea-

sons given to account for the shortage





Chester Shirltey, Charles Henderson





and others etpressed themselves as





favoring the taking of some definite

action in regard to buying feed and





other supplies to better advantage, and

as a result of the discussion twenty-I





two of the leading farmers and milk

producers of Riley. Colunibus, Wales

and Richmond tOWnships called a

meeting at the village hall in Memphis,





March '17, for the purpose of organizr





ing a farmers‘ buying and selling asso-

ciation. 'Thbse present from Casco

township and the southern part 'of Col-

umbus also arranged for a meeting for





the same purpose at Adair, March 18. -





 





PACKERS AND STOCKM EN PLAN

' COOPERATION.





 





1918 decrease acreage live stock and packing industries

States.“ Acreage. 24700 513,153 is promised as a result of a conference

$3; $6333; 48 , 35:95,; held in Chicago March 10-11, by repre-

N. C. . . . .20,500 40 12,300 tives of live stock associations of sev-

S. C. ~ 10,950 50 5.475 eral states and the heads of about fif-

Ga. ------ 31500 33 2233 teen of the leading packing establish-

13: _____ 3g:;§3 48 4:810 ments in the country.

La. ...... 39,000 50 19,500 I Besides providing for closer cooper-

Texas 131703 33 g’ggg ation the conference discussed ways

11%. ago 25 4:290 and means for the settlement of differ-

Okla 7,130 30 4,991 ences in order “that the finished pro-

Ark ..... 3,705 25 2,778 duct can be furnished the consumer at

22.3, 8 45 132 044 a minimum price compatible with cost





' Commerce.





LOSER cooperation between the





of production. The conference adopted

a plan which calls for a conference

committee of the live stock industry,





I It is disclosed that_,some

of the leading industries of the cann-

try have agreed to the plan and that , ‘

more are coming in. , ' ‘1'

With the United States Steel .Corpor- .

etion. still toe large extent the barom- ” 1 1..

eter of general business conditions, , ' ' '

agreeing to take an active hand in the

price stabilization arrangement, the

members of the“ industrial board or I

preSsed themselves as confident that ‘ {I

the period of uncertainty and business

timidity incident to the chance from

war to peace conditions will be cut in

half. When, through the activities of

Secretary Redfield, price readjustment

was first suggested, and that‘the board

handle the difficult matter of bringing

about trade agreements, it was not be‘

lleved that beneficial results could be

obtained before the middle of the sum;

mer or early fall. Now it is regarded

as altogether likely there will be coun-

try-wide business stimulation on a

peace basis before the end of spring.

The so-called harvester trust has in-

formed the government readjustment

agency it is ready to .cut its prices in

some instances as much as twenty-five

Iper cent. The harvester officials frank-

ly state, however, that in cutting the

price of their product twenty-fiVe.per

cent there is danger that some of the

smaller independent producers may

find themselves in trouble and possibly

have to go out of busmess. Before

slashing the price the officials of the

harvester combine want some sort of





 





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i in acreage this year as compared with

last year are, high cost of fertilier,

high cost and scarcity of labor, high

cost of seed, high cost of packages,

high freight rates and fear of a car

shortage, low price of product an‘ll the

consequent losses in 1918, excessive

1rainfall, preventing the preparation of

land for planting, " said the report giv-

ing the above figures.





composed of twenty three representa-

tives of the producers, the packers and

the commission men, with headquar-

ters in Chicago. There also are to be

located committees at the various live

stock markets.



The plan as developed is a tentative

one, but the live stock men present

pledged the support of their associav

tions and agreed to put the plan be

fore the other live stock associations .

and urge them to join in order that

the plan may be put into effect as soon

possible.



What to do with the restrictions

erning daily fluctuations in provis-





assurance that, because of the price

cut, it will not be made the object of

an investigation by the federal trade

commission. It is understood this as-

surance will be given with the under-

standing that it is not to be taken as

fixing a permanent policy.





WILL SELL SURPLUS WHEAT

HOLDINGS.





 





MILK PRODUCERS MEET.





 





 





HE United States Food Adminis-

tration Grain Corporation makes

the announcementthat since March 15





THE Richimond- Memphis Milk Pro-

. dupers' Association held a meet- as

ing Wednesday afternoon, March 12,





 





. at the farm of Frank Markel near gov





Richmond. An inspection of the barns ion

and dairy herd constituted the first 0f Trade directors

portion of the program and Mr. Markel

received many compliments regarding

his well kept stables and splendid

dairy herd. The twoRegistered'Hol-

stein cows recently purchased in Sagé

inaw county moved to be of special in-

terest and were pronounced very good 1

individuals by the many competen

judges present. '



The Question of federating the var-





within a few days.





counties shipping milk to Detroit

discussed at considerable length and

motion to form such an organization“ t10ns,

was unanimously carried. A meeting movmg

for this purpose will be called later i

the month at Mt. Clemens with a. view

to sending authorized and instructed

representatives before the Detroit Milk' ers

Commission when the price is deter- UOD here,

mined for April.





consider the situation right.





organization of a creamery or cheese the DTOdUCtS Of these concerns.





factory in cooperation with the other organization

locals of the Detroit area to take care public. . , II ,

‘ of their surplus milk during flush pe-





 





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ridds. Under the present arrangement

it is very difficult for the farmer to

know Whether or not a surplus really

exists, and it was believed that the dis-





 





the gbvernment,





other channels would prevent any un-

fair advantage being taken by the“





 





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OATS“) Early white Scottish Chief. Thinest hull

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FRANK. BARTLETT, Dryden, Mn?





large distributors with whom the asso-‘E:





ciatlon deals. It was the opinion of

many that if this were done there cuickéf than had been anticipated.





futures wasdiscussed by the Board

Most of the trade

want them removed. A special meet~

ing of the directors was held Monday

and the situation left in the hands of

market report and provision commit-

tee, who reported back to the directors

and they, desiring to clean up a few

mportant points referred it to a come

t mittee to settle. A decision is expeCted





F. ".S Snyder, of the meat division of .

ious locals in Macomb and St. Clair the Food Administration, has been in

was communicatidn "with the Chicago Board

a of Trade officials regarding the restric-

and it is said that he favors re-

them and has inquired as to

n the advisability should the directors





More than thirty independent pack-

have organized an export associa-

and will establish headquar-.

The members, too ters in New York. A representative





expressed themselves as favoring the Will be sent tO‘ Europe at once to $911

The





s name has not been made





' HROUGH mommy cooperation with

price' readjust.

position of the surplus milk through ments are under W8? and are expected

to be effected within the next month

oh th’ or more basic materials that it

is hoped will stabilize industry and get

the expected prosperity under way





would be little or no surplus milk.





The action or the steel interests of





 





it began selling from its surplus wheat

holdings in an effort to prevent an in-

cr’ease in flour prices.



Julius H. Barnes, president of the

corporation, said the Department of

AgriCulture report, issued today, indi-

cated that "contrary to public opinion,

the crop of 1918will provide no more

than sufficient to meet our home needs

and the foreign requirements falling

upon us,” and added that already mills

‘were‘experiencing such difficulty in ob-

taining wheat for milling that they

were offering as high as ten to fifteen '

cents a bushel above the government’s

guaranteed price to the farmers.



“The grain corporation,” he said, “by

using part of its accumulated stock for

resale in the United States, hopes to 7 '

relieve the public from any material ,

advance in the price of flour}? , . , '



During 1917-1918, Mr. Barnes said

the price of .Ifiour was stabilized by

agreement of millerswith the food ad; 'I ’

ministration, but this agreement no

longerlis in force, and only government

sale of an adequate supply of wheat to

the millers would prevent an. increase ‘

intflour prices, he said.’ ,This, be ad-

ded, wasin direct contradiction of “the

general beli'efthat only the purchase , a .

by the goveinment of wheat‘at the

guaranteed price maintained the price

level for farmers. ” “ ‘ '



The 'gOVernImenIt wheat, Mr. Barnes

said, will be offered for sale on and

after. March 15 at such milling centers

as Duluth, Kansas. City, Chicago and.

St. Louis on the basis of cost plus ao-' ‘





 





 





   





   

   





 





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C. L. Brody, Agricultural Agent for the country in indorinugI the monument-

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Methods of Caring for the Dairy Cow,” and stabilize, through the reconsm

and emphasized the importance of 1191- 11,911 péi'iod, prices of certain raw and

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THRESHING OUTFITS





FOR GO-OPERATIVE OR INDIVIDUAL USE

Below is only a partial list of Factory Rebuilt Engines.





- 9H. P. J, I. Case

12H. P. Port Huron

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12 H. P. Nichols8cShepard 15 H. P. Port Huron

13 H. P. Russell 1

14 H. P. Port Huron

12H. P. Aultman Taylor 15 H. P. Advance





6 H. P. N1chols8c Shepard

16 H. P. Huber

16 H. P. Rumely





WE ARE BUILDING A PORT HURON SEPARATOR_ SUITABLE FOR USE

WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE SIZE ENGINE!

An ideal threshing outfit at a reasonable price.

Write us for information about small separators, and complete list of these





Special Priced Engines.





PORT HURON ENGINE 81 TH'RESHER'GO.

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of Mich. I have 75 beautiful register-

TO 1118 Kids ed Hamshire and Shropshire ewes

that will have lambs this spring. I wish to sell them

to you and buy back the ram lambs next fall at a

mighty good ri.ce Start now in a small way.

Bonds tfikcigig. Kril‘I‘e at once for particulars



NFAR R.M S. L. Wing. Owner.

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SHROPSHIRE SHEEP





We have about 60 ewes in lamb for sale, of best





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HA ARRY E. SAIER, Seedsman.

lot-111E. Ottawa 81:. ., Lansing, Mich.





. L ' 2 years old in goodoo di-



80 Breeding Ewes tion will lamb in Alli-11

must be sold this month.



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LEGAL QUERIES ANSWERED.

, BY JOHN R. ROOD.

Renting Farms on Shares.





Can you giVe the laws in regard to

renting farms on shares, in feeding the

teams on one's own half of the hay.

or out of the undivided hay, and about

the poultry and eggs? Give the law

in all things, raising colts, etc. Also,

can I have who I wish to keep house

for me? The parties want my mother

to move out. She has kept house for

me. Then I would have to hire some—

one else. Can they draw up papers to

make her move out if I stay? I have

worked the place one year.

F. H. P.





Whether the tenant can feed teams

and chickens out of the undivided

crops depends on the" words of the con-

tract, which are'not given. Chickens

also furnish another lesson. They are

a constant cause of irritation in share

farming, and the fewer the better, if

the parties would get along smoothly.



As to the mother moving out, it

would depend on whether it is a lease

or a contract of hiring to be paid in

a share of the crops. Surely a lessee

can entertain such guests and hire





. such help as are not forbidden by the





lease; provided that one, leasing a.

farm to be worked 011 shares cannot

have someone else to do the work he

agreed to do himself. The owner

might be very willing to have him do

the work on shares and not be willing

to take someone he might name to do

the same thing. But if the contract is

one of hiring to be paid for in crops,

then the employer can. as in any other

contract of employment, discharge the

employe at any time, for cause or with-

out cause,‘ provided that he will be

liable to a suit for damages if the dis-

charge during the employment for a

set time was without justifiable cause.

If the time of the lease has eXpired,

of course no papers are needed to end

the rights of the tenant. If he insists

on holding after his lease is up he can

be ousted by summary proceedings.





Protection Against Waste.





.1 am asking your best avice, wheth-

er a man buying a farm and giving a

mortgage of $7, 000 back has a right

after payment of $2, 000 to sell any of

the buildings off the farm? H K.



N0 mortgagor has any right to com-





curity of the mortgage, whethe1 it be

the destruction of buildings, the cut-

ting of timber, the mining of ore, or

other injury. vaanything-of the sort

is threatened, the only effectual pro-

tection is to get a lawyer to procure an

injunction against threatened wrong.





Forms of Joint Deeds.





J. S. bought a. farm, the deed being

made out to J. S. and M. S. his wife.

Does that constitute a joint deed, and

would the wife inherit the land at his

death? ~ M. S





There are four kinds of -co owner

ship in property—co-parcener, tenants

in common, joint tenants, and tenants

by entirety. “Joint deed” means noth-

ing in law. A conveyance to John and

Mary creates an estate by entirety if

they be husband and wife, in the ab-

sence of anything in the deed indicat-

ing a different intention, although

there be nothing in the deed to show

that they were in factthusband and

wife.

lawyer would draw a deed to John and

Mary without saying explicitly that

they are husband and wife, and that

the intention of the instrument is to

create tenancy by entirety. The state-

ment in the deed that theypare husband





by entirety unless they were in fact





would be nothing of record to show the

character of the title after parties are





 





 





 





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doubtful. In order to bolster-up such





But( of course, no Competent,





and wife. wduld not make. it a. tenancy-





validly married; but in the absence of ,_

;. any such Statement in the deed, there"

'ing a coarseaboned breeding boar.





" Friend who know of that- -relation, and ‘3 farmers 3"“ bricks:





precarious titles, the rather unsatisfac-





“ tory practice has arisen of procuring





some Old'resident to make an affidavit

that the persons named were in fact

husband and wife to his knowledge,

and have the affidavit recorded. If the

deed creates a tenancy by entirety,

the survivor does not inherit from the

other. Both owned the “entirety” the

moment the deed was made, and when

the other died the husband and wife

who were “one person in law” is now

the survivor only.





HARVESTING sov BEANS.





 





Please let me know when to sow and

how‘to harvest soy beans when sown

separately, also the usual way when

sown in corn for silage. Are they a.

good feed for horses as well'as cows?

Also have ten acres seeded to June

clover that did not look promising in

the fall as the soil is a gravely loam.

Is there any of the seeds I could drill

in with this clover in the spring and

harvest at same time to advantage?



Isabella Co. A. C. R.



Soy beans should not be sown or





planted until corn planting time, so

you can plant them after you get the

corn crop planted. They don’t want to

be put in early. If you plant the soy

beans in drills or if you sow them

broadcast you can harvest them with

a mowing machine if you want to

make them into hay. They must be

cut when the pods are nicely formed,

then, you can save the major portion

of the leaves and they make a splendid

hay for all kinds of stock.



Probably the most advantageous

way to grow this crop is to put it into

drills twenty-eight inches apart and

give it good cultivation. The crop can

be allowed to ripen so that you can

save the seeds and then the stalks, al-

though they are nearly bare of leaves,

will “be readily eaten by all kinds of

live stock.



When the beans are planted with the

ensilage corn there is no trouble about

harvesting them with a corn harvester

at the same time you do the corn,

then they are thoroughly mixed with

the silage. ‘



It is usually very unsatisfactory to

try and patch up a poor seeding of clo-

ver. It is so late that it doesn’t ripen

with the other clover, and unless the

weather conditions are very favorable

it is a question if it will be profitable

taking time and everything into con-

sideration, to attempt to patch up the

crop. If the field wasn’t worth har-

vesting for hay I would prefer to pldw

it as early in the spring as possible

and sow it to peas and oats and make

this crOp into hay. If these peas and

cats are planted early and harvested

when the oats are in the milk there

is still time if the ground is disced up

at once, to sow to Hungarian grass and

you stand a chance of getting a fairly

good crop of Hungarian grass, which

makes good hay.





ARE YOU COOPERATING?





 





Cooperative threshing, silo filling,

husking and shredding is becoming

popular in many communities. How is

your neighborhood meeting these prob-

lems? Many of our readers have ask-

ed for information" along .these lines.





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Your experience will help them. Write,





and tell us the type of thre‘shers and

kind of power you have found the





cheapest and most efficient. ——Editors. ’





your lack of ability as ‘a feeder by buy-





No wonder city. people try and. sellg

when my see thou?”

lack of judgment they display in west-

mg geod. feed on interior stock. ‘





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The wise man selects his motor car investment in

much the same Way that he selects a first mortgage

bondor any other high grade security.





.He looksf'or permanent, enduring quality—not mere





surface veneer. . He lOOkS to the integrity of the manu-

facturer, the crltical expressions of the average ow‘ner





‘ and the history of the product over a period of years.





It is on this basis that we would have you consider

the Paige. '





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From the standpoint of initial cost, our’s is not a

cheap motor car. There are many cars on the mar-





~ ketthat sell for less money than the Paige and we





could readily build them ourselves if we considered





1 that the best policy. But we don’t.





We firmly believe that iiself’-respect, comfort, and en-'





duringsatisfaction have an actual market value. So

we bur-1d those things into our product.





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pride in our work. And- the result is a real motor car





~not a makeshift or a compromise.





In brief. while we agree‘that first cost is an important

consideration, we are c’onvinced that Ultimate cost





is vastly more important.





We believe that the‘only true test of economy is years

of hard, gruelling service on the road. "





VVe‘believe thatvfreetlom from repair bills and exces-

sive depreciation is infinitely more desirable than

a mere catch—penny list price. ‘





These are our convictions. We have held to them

staunchly during many fitful periods in the motor

car industry. So long as the Paige Company is a.

factor in the making and distributing of motor cars,

we shall continue to adhere to them.





And it is because of these convictions, and their prac—

tical application to manufacturing, that the Paige car

is regarded as a “Preferred Investment” in every

automobile mart of the world. -





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DETROIT, U. s. A.
Limestone Benefits These Crops





ESPONSE of cultivated plants to lime to variable. depending upon

the soil. Records show that some crops will thrive on a given soil

without lime applications, and others will not. Some soils are so



low 1n lime that they are practically barren of plant growth.





Some of the crops that are known to respond to lime ere:





Legumes C R O P S Non-Legumes

Alf-Kn Corn Pm

Execs-Clara 0"“ Carrots



'mson over Wheat 1' .

M mmoth Clover B l m

Julie Clover 11;: .' Cucumbers

Alsikg Clover ' Timothy Wm!

5:: Peer:- Buckwheat Pumpkin

Beans Sorghum Tobacco

Vetch Beets Cobb-no





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Pepper, Pal-snipe, Selsify, Squash. S’s-Och, Rod Beet.

Celery. Ceuliflnewerv, Lettuce and Onion.





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ass through a 50 mesh screen—and? urnace dried. It will produce

healthy. bigger crops for you.

Don’t Waste Profitable Wheat





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$518133: ogur gcgdian Ammonium Sulphate (20. 75% Nitrogen) will produce?“ ullgrowth.





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The Same Delicious

Satisfying Drink





Used for years instead of coffee v by

families who value health;





POSTUM ; CEREAL

Boiled just like coffee





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Rich in aroma. Pleasing in flavor.

Economical. No table drink has

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have enjoyed a national reputation





and have brought the growers some-

a ‘ money.

3 highly perishable crop and, there have





To be sure, peaches are :31

been years, and usually times every





pa‘y expenses of handling and peaches





if could be had almost for the asking, but

growers on the Whole maids some mon-

» ey and continued to plant. orchards.





Occasionally a scourge of the “Yel-

lows” caused“ immense loss but there

were always orchards-on their way to

take the place‘of those thus destroyed

and “peaches and cream” Were sure to

be on almost every table in the county

for a period of two months, providing

of course that the cream could be se-

cured. .





The beginning of the seeming end in





. the peach industry dates back to 'a





February night some twenty years ago

when the thermometer registered thiré

ty-nine degrees below zero. Orchards

were so severely ‘winter-killed at that

time that peaches were a short crop

for a number of years. Growers, how-

ever, reset and peaches were just com-

ing into their old-time abundance when

an October snow storm in the fall of

1907 with a temperature close to zero

caught the trees in full leaf and sap

and again there were seasons without

peaches. The fruit belt really never

recovered from this freeze which indi-

rectly was a good thing as it turned

the course of agriculture in Van Buren

county into different channels. Many

farmers never reset their orchards but

went into general farming and stock

raising, which is safer, for peach grow-

ing always was a “gamble.” However,

following the October freeze a consid-

erable acreage of young orchards again

was set, so much in fact that three

years ago peaches were again low in





price, the mid-season varieties going

for almost nothing, although earlier

and later varieties, brought some

money.





The finishing touch on the peach in-





. dustry seems, however, to have been





inflicted by the severe winter of a

year ago and last season’s crop went

at from $3 to $5 per bushel, with very

few growers making any money: It

was the hope, however, that the or-

chards had escaped and that this yea1

would bring a crop but the indications

now are that few trees have enough

life to make- a crop and large orchards

are being pulled. Some growers who

stuck to the game and planted last

spring are disappointed in the stock

which they set, for much nursery stock

was chilled and did not make a healthy

growth. It is evident that peaches will

bring a good price for some time at

least, and this will induce some to set

orchards, but it is altogether likely

that Van Buren county never again

will rise to its past record as a peach

producing section. ‘





Other factors besides the weather

are also having an influence in limit-

ing the acreage set to this fruit. In

the best locations where peaches have

been grown for years it is almost im-

possible to get young stock to make a

healthy growth and the peach- borer in-

flicts immense damage and is hard to

fight. “Yellows” and “-Littles" are two

diseases always present and so far

these diseases have baffled’all investi-

gation as to nature and remedy. .An‘

other factor'in reducing peach area is

the prominence apple growing has as-

sumed in this sectiOn in the past few

It is edsier to grow apple trees

and the mature orchard requires less

care, and for the average grower turns

a greater profit. Progress, too, has





been made in developing early hearing.





A few years ago it was a common

impression that twenty years was” ‘re-'





 





I j OR’years western Michigan peaches





year, when the market was too low to.





 





years of age. An orchard in this court :1 .'

'ty set nine years ago had as high. as j

fourteen bushels Of apples to the tree.-

last fall and an eleven-yeahdld Orchard ,

paid-a net profit of $254 to the' acre.

'These things are influencing fruit men

to plant apples and where peaches are

Southey usually are fillers in an apple

orchardthe apples being set forty feet '





{with peaches between. Of course, the

prices in the next few years will have;





their influence and Van Buren county

will alivay's grow some peaChes but





fruit giowers generally are “afraid of.

'them” and few orchards will be set





this spring.

Van Buren Co. E. V. ROOT.

PROHIBITION DISTURBS THE New)

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CHOES from the grape districts'

have it that there is considerable

depression over the possible effect of

Federal prohibition on the industry.

For several years past, a good part of,

the grape crop grown in the Lake

Keuka region has been sold to the

wineries. What outlet cah be found for

the products of the vineyards is 110w a

"problem, growers say, and especially is

this the case with grapes affected by

early frost and which cannot be mar-

keted as first-class, fruit.



The grape juice factories have fur-

nished an outlet, but should the gov-

ernment impose the proposed tax of

$56 per ton on grapes used at the juice

factories, it is a question whether the'

industry can survive. However, Paul

Garrett, of Penn Yan, who owns a vine.

yard on the West side of Lake Keuka

and has wine cellars both in Penn Yan

and in Canandaigua, proposes to

launch into the grape preserves busi-

ness this fall. He has already bought

a plot and is fitting up a plant for his

new venture, in Penn Yan.



In a recent communication, Mr. Gar.

ret said that it was his intention' to'

buy grapes this fall. He is devoting

the most of his time to the reorganiza.

tion of the work and obtaining the ma-

chinery necessary to handle the new

preserving business. It is his expecta—

tion to, use not less than 2,000 tons

from the Kcuka district and as many

more from the Canandaigua vineyards

this season.



In conclusion, the letter, which was

directed to his nmfiager, R. I. Shoe-

maker, says: “If our efforts to create

market equals our expectations we ex-

pect to prepare to handle 5,000 tons of

grapes from Lake Keuka, provided we

can get them at a reasonable profit, giv-

ing the grpwer a fair profit and leaving

us a fair profit on our product, We

are going to do everything in our power

to keep grape growing profitable in

those sections of New York state, and

elsewhere Where we have plants. And

while our business will have to be re-

organized to meet the changed condi-

tions brought by prohibition, we ex.

pect to continue to use grapes in one

way or another”



It may be that an attempt will be

made to revise" the market for basket

grapes. At one time the Lake Keuka

district had developed a big market

for its basket grapes But this market

to some extent has been lost through

neglect in maintaining grades and

proper packing, the bulk of the mop,

as told. going to the wineries and juice.

factories.



There is also some prospect that

vineyardists may affiliate into the

Grape GrOWers’ Cooperative Associsié

tion. Lloyd Tenney, of Hilton, is head-5

ing the plan. Mr. Tenheyfor some‘

time was attached to the federal De.

partment ‘ of ’Agrlculture, and snbses ' '





'quently has been with the Eastern





Fruit and Produce Exchange. Last "





fall there was a good demand for. fancy ‘ I E 51’-

It is proposed to 11111111.. ‘

’ meetings, at which organization will





table grapes.
CLOVER seen eITuATIoN.





 





2 HERE is not enough red clover

' ' v . seed to meet’the demands upon

that important legume as a restorer of





ing the strain of War time conditions—l

not enough, that is, unless farmers

practice economy ,"and good judgment

in its use. 3 Both-,thecarry over and the

Current‘crdpfi , _ .



to be below normal, while the need for

seeding a large acreage to red clover

in

greater than for several years. ,‘





 





United States Department” of Agricul-

ture in a circular, “Grape and Live

' Stock-Production in 1919” just issued

from the office of the secretary. To

make‘the available supply of clover

,seed go as far as possible, farmers

are urged to follow the best methods

practicable in seeding and to avoid un-

due risk of wastefof seed by attempt-

ing to secure stands of red clover on

lands unsuitable either in character or‘

condition for this crop. In some cases,

’ ‘it is pointed out, alsike clover can be

substituted successfully, especially on

lands too wet or too acid for red

clover.

Time to Seed Clover. ‘



The time for Seeding clover is now at

hand'or rapidly approaching. During

the past year, due, perhaps, in part to

the desire to produce larger quantities

of grain and in part to the increased

price of seed, a smaller acreage than

usual was seeded down to grass. Clo-



_ ‘ver seed is» higher in price now that” it

was last year, and there is no reason to

expect a reduction this season. Neces-

sary quantities should, therefore, be

purchased at once if they have not al-

ready. been secured». In buying, spe-

cial attention should be paid to qual-

ity. A high-priced lot may/be cheaper

than a low-priced one; For example,

'if one lot costs $45 'a hundred pounds

and contains ninety-nine per cent of

~pure seed, of which ninety-five per cent

will grow, there will be ninety-four

pounds of pure viable seed in every

hundred. This ninety-four pounds will

therefore, cost forty-seven and eight-

.tenths cents per pound. Another lot

selling for $35 a hundred may contain

.ninety per cent of mine seed, of which

eighty per cent will grow. This lot

then has seventy-two pounds of pure,

viable seed, in a hundred pounds, and

this seventy-two pounds Will cost the

buyer forty-eight and six-tenths cents





ing $40 and containing ninety-five per

cent of pure seed, of which ninety per

cent will grow, will contain eighty-five

and one—half pounds" of good seed to

the hundred, and will cost the consum-

er forty-six and seven-tenths cents for

every pound of good seed. Have the

seed tested and be ready to act early

and intelligently. . ,



In general, it is well to so alsike

clover mixed with the red clover, a

practice which has<become very com-



, _ .mon in recent years. It is much easier

,‘ to secure a stand of alsike than of red

J clever, so the admixture of alsike usu-



ally, insures a partial-stand at least.





soils where red clover will .fail, but. it





 





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Alsike will make a growth on pour,





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On' account otthehigfih price-of seed:

it Vis’desi‘rable‘ to; economize "as far as.



streamers the rate‘o‘f“ seeding. one}

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Six drivers start their cars. They are off and

down the read faster than any other driver. That

is such a common performance that owners of

other cars do not often dispute Super-Six right





of way.





Such satisfaction is distinctive

to Hudson.





But Hudson owners do not

limit their praise to its superior

acceleration. They .tell how it

grows in their afl'ections because

of its dependability. They enjoy

its freedom and power.





Such confidence adds much to

one’s automobile satisfaction.





A Quality Not Revealed By

the Specifications





More worth-while records than

any» other 'car has ever shown,

give proof of Super-Six speed,

acceleration and endurance.

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If you want a Super-Six phae-

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‘ the voids and arteries vacated by\ the land containing twenty acres, thenorth; ,

water. _ ’ hillf of which was covered with'cattail's

Regarding heat it is found, that in and sweetflag. I mention this parti‘om

.wet lands where evaporation is the lar case because it represents the trip-

only source for drainage, the cold wan lex condition referred to” above, only

'ter is constantly drawn to the surface. ,thatthe owner had previously. left this

replacing the'evaporated quantity and work entirely to my care. _.

this will keep the temperature too low After providing for an outlet the dis-

for progressive andhealthy, growth of tribution of the laterals was laid 'out' .

the plants. ' seventyane feetapa’rt, and we proceed- -

We have all seen the discoloration of ed to construct every other line. The

dead or stagnant. water in marshes, tile were laid in the stiffest, hardest

swamps and ponds; this is onlyan ex- clay four to five feet deep, every inch

tract of vegetable decay which does beloW‘elghteen.inclieshad to be picked.

not' give nourishment to a healthy some ‘Of ’ the ' wise itfien'ty-four-inch

growth, but acts as a deterrent, a semi- men laughinglya saidufito the owner:

poison, “You must have money to burn; what

In the few suggestions that will be benefit do you expect to derive from

made at this time in regard tounder- such work as that? I offer to bet that

drainage, the golden rule will be .ad- not one drop of water will get into that

hered to: “What is worth doing is tile at that depth,” etc., etc. The own-

worth doing well." I-am not an' advo- erreplied, somewhat in doubt: “I have.

cate of abrogating the law of gravity left this work to the engineer and he

and run water up him, nor do I recom— ought to know.” What was the result?

mend the underdrainage of land by the Mrs. Bell told me that in the first year

use of covered brush, boards or stone, the crop of cats very nearly paid for

or soft burned tile, but only the hard- the whole expense of tiling.

burned, preferably vitrified tile, re- Here is another evidence of the

' membering that a chain is no stronger eighteen to twenty-four-inch man: A

than its weakest link, and that one lumberman and city farmer for whom

broken or collapsed tile will interfere 1 did all the work, both in the field and

with the drainage. if not entirely de- woods, told me to go out to his farm

stroy the efficiency of the entire line. and give levels for some tile his fore-

Cutting a h018 in the larger tile and man was to put in. I suggested that

inserting a smaller is a mighty poor the outlet be deepened and the tile be

and cheap excuse for using a Y OPT) laid about four feet deep, and gave

and making a perfect mechanical jOb- the grade accordingly, and this little

I do not, claim however, that any suggestion of mine pretty nearly lost

kind of drainage to a certain extent is me the job, The foreman knew more

not an improvement any more than I about it than I did, and laid the tile

would claim that to cover a mud road only about eighteen inches deep. From

with material one-quarter gravel to the trampling of heavy horses and

two-thirds mud, or with soapstone, was loaded trucks in the fall and early

not an improvement, for in both cases spring, several of these tile were found





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. : . I READ . most expensive kind. half were found broken by frost.

NI Darchn‘uSLE How Shall the Farm Be Drained? Regarding the depth of tiling, I quote

I 7 ' chi-33¢}, w?” oneE'ER Thé first requirement is an outlet the words of Mr. Gisborne, an acknowl-

, . 8‘29 3:342:41“ {'22: for the water, and this may be divided edged authority on farm drainage:

Wouldn l) you llke to clear $1900 an ' op 15 into two classes: Natural or artificial. What, Then, Shall be the Depth of the

~ If the land to be drained is elevated Tile? ,





in such a short time? It’s a nice





comfortable amount——you can do it above the danger 0f “00d the outlet Take a flowerpot and fill it with dry





may be an open drain, conduit, creek soil 3. foot deep. Place it in a saucer





just as well as Mr. Uvaas did. The or river t

. - con aining three inche of , t '.



work is everywhere about you. If the elevation is below flodd stage first effect will be ma: thewiaetzr 3:3



waiting for some one With a dykes and pumps will be requil‘ed- rise through the hole in the bottom of





‘ We assume that a SUltable outlet has the pot until the water fills the voids

been established, that the elevation 0f in the soil to the level of the water in

the land at different points have been the saucer' this effect is gravity and

determined by accurate surveys, trans- the upper surface of the water is our

ferred to a map 0f the territory to be water table._, From it water will ascend

drained, that the main lines and latex“ by capillary attraction through the

als have been properlylocated and the, whole body of the soil until moisture is

Size and length of mains and laterals apparent on the surface

fixed and determined, the tile ordered Put in your soil at a tem eratur f

. and everything ready to be Stakéd out sixty degrees a reasonabl’e admin;

/ 'and the depth 0f excavation fixed, and heat for nine inches in depth your

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know you have one, you’ll be kept busy; you ‘

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money with a BUCKEYE. Send new for this ‘ man with the tile machine says to the h ted

book, you can make big money too. . ' _ farmer: “Win at does he know about aus - Supply water to the saucer

. . as fast as it disappears and this cool-





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. . ,. , :3 ' my tool box and I will fix the leVel for

362 cu“. Au" Pd“. " oh 3 ~ , - j_~ your tile all right." . , _ '

' — ’“““ " ’ , ‘ A word about leveling. The land

needing drainage is generally level, of-_





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right at this pomt the farmer engineergWm er at forty-seven degrees.



and contractor clash. The attracted water will d

The farmers have been told, and it forty-seven and will (1.1. tascen at

looks plausible, too, that water will not . . . - l lgen y occupy

. ' . itself in the attempt to reduce the

. penetrate into stiff clay and it will be sixty degree soil to it t .

of no benefit to lay the tile any deeper ture Moreover no ‘6 own eliililpera-

than two feet; in this theory he is ably ._ ' ’ 8091.1” W the

. , sail hold water of attraction than the



supported by the gentleman who is to . . ,



lay the tile evaporation. Will begin to carry it off

If I cannot convince my. farmer 32d $335112: 3181.222; cents equen t there-

friend after a long experience and ob- pléc ed b watt; at f 3a er W111 be re-

servation that they are wrong, I “shake . y .0 y-seven degrees

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on until the water in the saucer'is ex-.





This saucer drainage is nothing





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OATS NOT BEST LAMB FEED.





 





ONLY when oats are cheap and of a

> good quality should they be used

to fatten lambs. Oats are high in fiber

content and when compared to corn

they are 10 to 14 per cent less efficient

as a fattening feed for lambs. Oats

tend to 'produce growth rather than

finish and consequently sell for. less a

pound on the market.



Last year the Iowa agricultural ex-

periment station, in co-operation with

the South Dakota and Nebraska ex-

periment stations, carried out a 90§day

feeding test, comparing oats with corn

when fed in conjunction with alfalfa

hay and rock salt to fattening lambs.

In this test the lambs receivedoats as

the sole grain ration, made an average

dailygain of .351 pounds at a feed re-

quirement of 424 pounds of oats,'629.1

pounds of alfalfa hay and 1.50 pounds

of, salt per hundred pounds of gain.



The lambs that received corn as the

grain ration made an average daily

'gain of .349 pounds at a.‘ feed require.

'ment' of 364 pounds of shelled corn, 629

pounds of alfalfa hay, and 1.98 pounds

of rock salt. Besides this, the lambs

that received the corn sold for $16.25 a

hundred, ‘while the lambs that received

the oats sold for $15.95 a hundred, in

dicating that the corn.fed lambs car-

ried a higher finish. ’



Taking the above figures as a basis,

the cost of gains in the two lots would

be practically the same with corn at

the present pricelof $1.32 a bushel and

oats at sixty-two cents a bushel. How-

ever, the faCt that the corn-fed, lambs

sold the highest would show that corn

at4$1.32 a bushel is cheaper than oats

at sixty-two cents, even though the

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. (Continued from page 459).

ing for red clover is eight to ten

pounds an acre and for alsike about

six pounds. It is evident that the

amount of seed necessary to get a

stand can be greatly reduced if meth-

ods ban be used that will insure the

survival'of a. larger percentage of the

seedlings. Several methods assist ma-

terially in obtaining a stand, particu-

larly in wheat, and the following are

recommended :



Sow at the .most favorable. time as

regards soil condition, and cover'the

', seed by sowing and then harrowing, or

Qby harrowing both before and after

sowing, or the clover may be sown.

with a disk drill. ’By any one .of the

methods any injury to the _wheat, or‘

timothy sown in wheat isflnegligible. '





.. . 1r barnyard: manure is ayatlable 1g '

will greatly assist in securing a stand, -





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VERY sign points to a prosperous year for





Prices for farm preducts, due





to a steady domesticand unusual overseas demand, are

at high levels and it is reasonable to expect that they





the farmer.





will remain so





For years you have been cheerfully complying with

Government request to Save materials by repairing

your old machines rather than making replacements.

Now that the need for this has passed, would it not be

the part of real economy to buy a new machine and

be assured of uninterrupted and maximum service at a

time when a break-down would mean serious embarrass-





ment and loss.





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are unusual binders adapted to take care of usual or

Generations of farmers have

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unusual crop conditions.





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with him to have your binder delivered in plenty of

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'Our organization being an essential industry has been

speeded to top-notch efficiency. y

needs and ordering early, you make it easier for us to

take back our soldier boys without disturbing our pres-

It will be wise also to make your





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purchase of Deerlng, International, McCormick or





Milwaukee twine as early as'possible.‘





The service that follows a Deering, McCormick or

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of pleasant comment. That this service be full measure,

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"against. using ensilage as aura-f

tion' for horses. I say prejudice be-





have never given it a. trial. 'IvnoticelE

inthe quarterly bulletin issued by the;

Michigan Agricultural College in No-l

vember, that ensilage' hadbeen fed“ to:

some young horses 'at the experiment:

station for a number of years with" ex-‘

cellent results. This seems to me to

be a- matter which should be seriously.

considered. Most farmers have but;

very little for their horses to do dur—.

ing the winter, and the cost of the feed

used to winter them through is quite a

factor. This cost I am sure can be re-

duced, at least by one—third by using

a. ration consisting principally of en-

silage. ‘ ’



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has been engaged in the manufacture

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teen years, during which time we have

done considerable farming. We have

usually kept from fifteen to twenty

horses and mules, which have been

used principally to haul logs and bolts

to supply raw material for our factory.

The nature of the business is such that

the horses have the hardest kind of

work to do practically every day, and

it takes the very best of feed to keep

them in good condition.



For a, number of years our horses-





 





, were troubled with indigestion, and;we»





were unable to find a ration that would

keep them in good condition, and still‘

be free from digestive troubles.





About six years ago we decided to

experiment with ensilage. We consult-

ed our veterinary who advised against

it, saying that the stuff was not fit to

feed a horse. We, however,rspent the

greater part of that winter eXperiment-

ing with different rations with ensilage

as [the base. We tried at first feeding

it once a day, at noon, and found that

the horses not only ate it with a relish,

but seemed to do well on it. We then

began feeding the ration in the morn-

ing, and at noon, and were really sur-

prised at the results.



With the ensilage we fed we cut

wheat or oat straw, and used for the

grain ration a mixture of ground corn,





parts.

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oats, and wheat bran, mixed in equal

Our method of preparing and





In the first place we did not fill our

silo until the cow was pretty well rip-

ened, in order that'the ensilage would

be quite free from acid. We put an

abundance of water in with the corn,

which helped in packing, and made the

ensilage quite moist when it was ready





After filling the silo we turned the

discharge pipe over into that part of

the hay mow directly over the feed

room. We then put our straw through

' the ensilage cutter, leaving‘the knives

set the same. as for cutting the corn.

It is surprising the amount of cut feed





We placed a round iron tank at the

bottom of .the silo; at a point where

the cut straw could be put into it with

very little labor. We put the ensilage

and cut straw into the tank in the pro-

portion of two baskets of ensilage.to

one of straw, and sprinkled the corn.

,- cat and. bran mixture over the top of

' the mass, and mired it thoroughly with

a fork or scoop." It was now;ready to





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five Winters, and we. could not ask fbr

better results. The cost of feeding has





been. reduced at“ least one-third, and





our horses have kept in a more healthy





odn‘dition than serum.- - ,



For ensilsge’corn we have had; the

best .resultmwith "the large dint varie-

ties, usually the improved King Philip, ,

which we and does well in this locality.

We drill the, corn fairly close. in the.

row, and We find that we get'abo'ut as

many tons of ensilage per acre as from

some of the larger varieties of com,

and we think much better ensilage, on

account of the abundance of leaves





which c0ver» the stalks to the ground. ,





We have never had an opportunity





, to feed alfalfa along with the ensilage;





but it' would seem as though alfalfa

could be substituted with a material

reduction in the grain ration.



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CORN MARKET VALUES IN TERMS

OF HOGS.





 





ITH the passing of the hog stab-



ilizing price and the removal of

pork and pork products from the con-

servation list and lifting of export re-

strictions, pork returns to the old or-

der of marketing on a demand and sup-

ply basis. As hogs ‘arc among the

principal consumers of corn, that cer-

eal must be affected by the market for

pork. The price of one is to be reck-

oned in terms of the other, usually

about ten or eleven bushels of corn to

one hundred pounds of live hogs.



The following table made from a.

compilation by the Department of Ag-

riculture shows the average value cf

one hundred pounds of hogs in bushels

of corn on the fifteenth of each month

of 1918 and the aVerage for the past

ten years:





10—yr.

1918 Av.

January ............‘.11.2 12.0

February ............ 10.3 11.9

March . . . . . . . . . ..... 10.1 12.1

gApri1102 12.0

May . . . . . ............ 10.3 10.9

June .100 10.5..,

July ................. 9.9 10.4

August .............. 10.4 10.4

September ........... 10.8 10.6

October .............. 11.0 11.0

.November ........... 11.5 11.4

December ./ ........... 11.3 11.5 ,,





The average Will vary in different

states, those in the corn belt, for in

stance, giving about ten per cent more

of corn for one hundred pounds of

hogs. But for the whole country the

above figures are a fair average of the

parity of prices between the two com-

modifies.





MOViNG THE WHEAT CROP.





 





 





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have to depend almost wholly on North

America. Russia, the Balkan States,

Austria, Hungary and Germany are in





will be far below normal. Western

Europe and Northern Africa will not be

able to supply their own breadstui’fs.

Mr. Hoover says that in an unrestrict-

ed\market wheat would. sell for $3.50

a. bushel, thein'gh price of the spring

of 1917. There is no reason to think





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sOWedaVWith‘ryelast fall and it shows

arnioe' Stand. ‘In late spring. I want

this field to plow and sew to soy beans

broadcast,‘ and plow that in. Please let

'me know in what stage rye and soy

beans shouldbe plowed and how much

Soy beans should be sown per acre and

which of the crops, wheat, corn or po-

tatoes, would be the. best on this field.

It soy beans will do well-drilled in

with corn and how to mix 1t. I have

a field which I had in buckwheat last

season. I have'a very nice crop for

such a dry season, and I want to make

pasture on that field. How will I. do it

and what kind of pasture mixture

shall I use, as I Want to make it a

steady pasture and I cannot afford to

use 'stable' manure on that field, only





green manure.



Wayne Co. A. T.



Rye is less valuable as a green ma-

nurial crop than soy beans because

you add nothing to the soil in plowing

down rye that the rye did not take

from- the soil in the first place except

a little organic matter in the form of

carbon which the plant takes from the

air. Withso‘y beans the case is differ—

ent because this plant is supposed to

take nitrogen-from the atmosphere and

when you plow this crop down you are

adding nitrogen to the soil as well as

organic matter. Your plan, of course,

will tend to improve your soil quite

fast, but it is expensive to plow down

crops and get nothing except their ma-

nurial value. Land sometimes gets in

such poor condition that this may be

the cheapest Way, but ordinary land

given geod tillage, espeCially with the



' help of Stable. manure, can be made 'to

produce 'fa'rr. crops’and at the same

:time improve. its fertility and not plow

down the entire crop. _



This .rye can be harvested and the

grain sold”. If the ground is at once

plowed _or'disCed it can be planted to

.soy beans and still have time in that

season to get a sufficient growth to

make a good cr0p of green manure,

thenyou would get something for your

work this season—a crop of rye. By

using fertilizer, you can not only save

the rye crap, but you can cut’the soy

beans for hay and have the roots and

stubble to turn’ down, which will im—

‘prove the soil. By using fertilizer you

'will get a. larger growth of these crops

and there will be more crop residue in

the form of roots and stubble to turn

down, which improves the physical

condition ’of the soil. Many times it is

better to plow down the crop residues

and gradually incorporate organic mat-

ter with the soil than it. is to plow

down the crop residues and gradually

incorporate organic matter with the

soil than it is to plow down a full

S’l‘OWth. BY adding 'too much vegeta-

ble-matter to the.soil at once, some-

times we create an ‘acidity in the soil



, which .does more harm for a crop or

two than it does good.

Soy Beans for Silage.



It is getting to be quite a common

practice to plant soy beans‘with ensil-

age [corn to increase the protein con-

tent of the silage. Many people have

grown fairly good crops of soy beans

and: corn. The theory is that the





growth of soy beans will interfere lit-I

tle if any with the growth of corn be- ‘





' hausepthe nature of the'plant is diner-





én‘t from Vth'et'1c,orn_ plant. ”It is on the” «





same principle admixing timothy seed





with 'clbvelj'jsee’d in] growinga hay err-9p; .

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Less than 222,311 miles of our total

of 2,223,117 miles of highways are

improved.





1 We could improve this percentage

1mmensely by spending money on

good roads, rather than on new

tires that bad roads wear out.





Think it over: Boost good toads.





 





 





There’s a rocky road, a bumpy road, or a bad strip of

roadway of some sort, between you and your market. It’s

punishing your titer—putting a terrific strain upon them.



Many tires which may give good mileage under easy

conditions won’t stand up long under this abuse.



3 The strain may not show on their treads. For those

bumps and strains don’t hurt the rubber. They pound

away at the fabric, sometime breaking one or two plies

down underneath. The break may not show for weeks.

But it is there. It spreads. Other plies give way.

Suddenly, you have a blowout. You wonder why.



Mohawk tires don’t giueway even under such severe

service as this. Most sizes have one more ply of {ab-

ric than other makers think it necessary to use.

And this extra ply makes all the difference in the

world in the strength of the tire.



Of course, Mohawks would give good mileage without

this extra ply if they were always used on smooth roads

and pavements.



But the Mohawk Company believes that Mohawk

users cannot always pick and choose their roads. They

have to go where they want to, when they want to.



Because of this we haven’t skimped on a single

feature. We pay more money for our rubber and fab-

ric than most makers so that we can secure the best.



We use a generous quantity of these materials.

Mohawk Tires actually weigh more than other

tires because there is more good rubber in them.

For example, the Mohawk Cord Tire weighs 8 to 10



‘ pounds more than most other cord tires on the market.



We hire the most experienced workmen we can find

and give them plenty of time to put the best they know

into every tire. _



There is nothing mysterious or secret about such

methods. Just a reasonable logical policy of building

honest tires so that every tire produced will give the

buyer a good big value in mileage.



Isn’t that the sort of a tire that appeals to you?



Good dealers almost everywhere sell Mohawks.





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beauty worthy of the'finest._buildings, and one

that reSists fire and weather. ‘





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V HE Michigan Farmer had a very

. prominent part in the job of

helping start “Rural Free Deliv-

ery” in this country, and especially in

Michigan. The story about how the

service was finally organized and an

experiment tried out in one gaming

community in each of several states

during the fiscal year of 1896-97 is

more or less familiar to a very small

portion of the older readers'of this pa-

per». To the majority what we have

to say about it herewith will be more

or less “new stuff,” never published in

these columns, and should prove inter-

esting to every Michigan Farmer fam-

ily who has a rural mail box out in '

the road near the farm house.





During the years 1895-6 congress was

importuned by the National Grange,

Michigan State Grange andother farm

organizations, to appropriate a little‘

money to test out the experiment of

delivering mail to farmers’ doors. The

writer was on the Michigan Farmer

editorial staff at that time, and was

more or less instrumental in stirring

up the demand for, and .in helping to

start, rural free delivery in Michigan.





Finally the National Grange execu-

tive and legislative committees, after

a long stay in Washington, and poking

up the animals more or less constantly,

stirred up.excitement enough in the

Capitol to secure the passage of a bill

appropriating fifty thousand dollars to

do something to molify the farmers

and prove that rural free delivery

would be a fizzle. Many congressmen

were positive it would be a waste of

money, and not a- few hoped it would





pan out so poorly that not a single *





farmer would ever show up or stick

around asking for another dollar to

have his mail taken out of the post

office and delivered to his home way

out" in the country.



But it worked the other way, and ev-

en exceeded the fondest anticipations

of the original R. F. _D. promoters. Con~

gressmen were surprised, and some

bitterly disappointed. The test was

such a success that National Grange

and a multitude of the farmers of the

United States, including the Michigan

Farmer and other leading agricultural

periodicals, demanded that more mon-

ey be appropriated the next year and

the experiment broadened out.



In spite of the demand, congress the

next year, 1897, finally allowed the

measly sum of $40,000 to get out of the

government till, just to get rid of the

pesky farmers who were bothering the

congressmen. Then some of them wash-

ed their hands of the whole R. F. -D.

business forever, and hoped their rural

constituents would be satisfied after

they had done so much for them agin’

their own principles and consciences

in the matter.



Poor congressmen, how they must

have suffered from loss of sleep for the

next night or two, realizing they had

voted to waste so much of the govern-

ment’s money in such a fizzle scheme.





This was ten thousand dollars less '

than the first appropriation, and the '





general feeling among some members



was that it would be the last to use in



such an idle dream. But let's see how

.. it turned out.



In 1896 there was One R. F. D. route

in Michigan, at Climax, ourfarm home

post office, and one each in several

other states. In 1897 there were eighty-

three rural routes in operation ‘in the

United States, and the apprqpriation

was but $40,000. 'In 1898 congressmen

had a fit over the pressure brought, to

bear around them by “the 'pesky'fam





era," and had to hand over 35am to _





get the ruaralites started for home

once more. That year there were one

hundred» and forty-eight rural routes





 





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, we had referred to it inthe Michigan

‘ Farmer, we wrote to United States»

Senator Julius C. Burrows, asking that





T be first Mytorica/ Sketcb bf tfie Estdé- the an, experiment m mm... be





made from our farm home post ofiice

at Clin'iaiL;~ Later on a federal inspec-

tor from the post office department

came to Climax and asked us to help

inspect and lay out the first route. We

spent two days doing this and found

that it would be impossible for one

carrier to get over the roads daily.

80 two carriers were sworn in and the

route divided. Our"- hired man on the

farm, Lewis A.’ Clark, and "'wuus L.

Lawrence, in the village, were appci t-





[isfimmt of Our Rural Mail Service.

‘ By J. H. Brown-





 





75m“" 5"” ed. Then we drew a map of the 11 t

rural free delivery in Michigan and





 





‘deamam .

. printed it in the next issue of the Mich-

igan Farmer, and a copy was also sent

to the department at Washington.





We are wondering if there is not

some farm home in which files of the

Michigan Farmer of the year 1896-7

_ . _, haveteen preserved? We lost our. is-



E. sue in which the first map appeared,



' ' ‘ and which covered the front page of

the paper‘, and the files of that year in

the Michiga‘n Farmer oiiice were burn~

~ ed in a big‘fire several years late. How-

ever, in response to many requests, we

again printed the map, somewhat re-

, duced, in the Michigan Farmer issue

“7 ' of January 21, 1899, just twenty years

ago. This map we append herewith.

It is now a valuable historical curios-

ity, and each reader should preserve

this and consecutive issue , as the

story about the R. F. D. in Michigan is

1 worth handing down to future genera-

\ ' tions. And the R. F. D. service is one

of the greatest things that ever hap-

pened to the American farm home.





, Lewis Clark was receiving good wag-

— ' es, (618 per month), at that time work—

ing on our farm. He had just bought

a new high-grade bicycle and conceiv-





 





 





 





 





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mum mail teammate; 9‘ ,





tion for rural free delivery was $150; 8,466. The 1903 appropriation was :8; ed the idea that he would like to try





000. Number of routes in operation,

three hundred and ninety-one. In 1900

the astounded congressmen shelled out

$450,000, and R. F. D. boys were driv-

ing, biking and wading over all sorts

of roads and trails on 1,276 rural routes

in this great and glorious country. At

the next session of congress there were





some. scared senators and representa—,





tives who had heard from home more

than once, including thousands of let-

ters written in farm homes from both

enthusiastic and irate tillers of the

soil, who wanted their hired man down

at Washington to hop around and do

something so their folks might have an

R. F. D. in good working order in their

midst. And it worked down .at Wash-

ington. Congress shelled out that year,

1901, the whopping sum of $1,760,009

for R. F. D.'activity, and it helped .get

4,301 rural carriers. This was quite a

shower, after the little sprinkled the

first two years of the R. F. D.



In 1902 the appropriation was $3,993,-

740.- Number of routes in operation,





054,000., Number of routes, 15,119. The

1904 appropriation was $12,921,700, and

number of routes in operation was 24,.

566. The tenth (1905) year of R. F. D.‘

service saw congressmen shell out

$21.116,600, and there were 32,055 rural

routes in operation in the various

states and territories.



In selecting the first route in each





one of several states in 1896, the (part





pose of the R. F. D. was stated to be

to carry mails daily, ‘on a fixed line of

travel, to people who would otherwise

have to go a mile or more to a post

office to receive their mail. It was re-

quired that roads traversedshould be

kept in good condition, unobstructed

by gates; that there must be no un-

bridged cricks or streams not fordahle





at all seasons of the year, and that-





each route of twenty-four or more

miles in length domicile one hundred

or more families. A slight variation

was allowed under special conditions.



After the first appropriation was an-

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the new job of rural mail carrier and

use his bicycle when the weather was

favorable. Upon his urgent desire, we‘

recommended him to the 'post office

inspector and he was sworn into' the

service. In those days there were good

bicycle paths along the side of the

road in many localities, so that Lewis

was able to carry mail considerable of

the time during the next few years. In

all he rode over twenty-four thousand

miles on that machine over the route

shown. herewith, and probably there is

not another rural carrier in the United





States who has such a record. He has -





the same bicycle yet in fair rmfning

order, and his two young boys have

used it nearly, every summer for sev-

eral years. The ”accompanying picture

of Lewis Clark shows-him leaving mail

in- out fam'mail box one day during

the first of ‘hisdelivery on his bicycle.

This picture was printed in Leslie’s

Weekly at the time and commented up-

on by the editor as a wonderful endur-

ance run on a bicycle delivering R. F.

D. mail on country roads. ‘

The 'roads around Climax twenty-

two years ago l'last December 3, when

the service started, were like all coun«

try roads. Climax prairie soil is heavy

clay loam and very sticky when it is

wet. only about one-third of the two.

original rural routes were on this prai‘





' rie, the rest being on the diversified





soil and rolling country outside. When

the two original carriers started out

that first morning from the Climax

post office, December 3, 1896, it was

not verygood bicycle traveling. How«

ever, Lowlstiark stuck to it, even in

mid-winter, on certain days when the

ground was frozen. little snow”; and the





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a an all .' ' '

mail for his route in his coatpockets.‘

Sometimes there were less than a doz-

en letters. Hardly a farmer, took a

daily paper. On Fridays and Satur-

days there were a goodly “number of

copies of the Michigan. Farmer, and it

was on such a day that we took the

picture of Lewis'. Clark and his “ma-

chine” at our farm mailbox.



By referring to the map it will be

noticed that Clark went east and north

of the village to deliver mail to about

one hundred farm homes and travel-

ing about twenty-five miles. He lived





east of Climax”, on the Battle Creek

road. Thus he rode his bicycle about

six miles further every day while go‘

ing .to and returning from the post

office. ' .,



Willis Lawrence lived in the village

and drove his horse and cart West and

south. He had a more level- country

to drive over, but the“ roads were no





 





 





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Lewis Clark and His Bicycle.

better, as a rule. Later on gravel was

spread over some portions that were

the worst, and a few years ago, under

the new county system of building

state reward roads, the road south of

Climax was improved. All the other

roads radialjng from Climax village are





little better today than they were





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tractor that will do the work at the least cost is

the tractor you want—provided of course that it has

the strength and durability to give it long life.





, Above we illustrate a comparison of operating costs

—based upon actual oflicial public tests. We take as

an example an oflicial demonstration in which were

entered 29 of the best known tractors. In making the

comparison, we, however, have considered only the 23

tractors entered as kerosene burners, eliminating the

five gasoline entries, and as a basis have taken the

average cost for an acre plowed. On the one ‘hand,

the OilPull plowed at a cost of 45 cents per acre—on

the other ‘the average cost of the 23 competing kero—

sene tractors was 66.27 cents per acre.





This gives the OilPull an advantage of almost one-

third—or in other words, the OilPull proved that it is

capable of doing one-third more work for the same fuel

cost. And remember that we compare the OilPull with

the so-called kerosene tractors only. Compared with

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them are worse. In the work of build-

ing state reward roads in Kalamazoo

county under the county’ system the

county commissioners have neglected

the territory and township around Cli-

max and the farmers and villagers are

highly indignant thereat. They are

now making an effort to build their

_own road east of the village under the

Covert law, and every taxpayer is sign-

ing the' petition.



When Clark and Lawrence started

out, December 3, 1896, they had about

twenty five to twenty-six miles each

dayyto carry mail. The picture shows





 





road carts. We have preserved that

old picture all these years and it now

apepars in has relief on one bronze

tablet on the north side of the new 3.

F. D. memorial monument standing in

.the center of the intersection of the.

two main streets of the village.



In the early days there was" very lit-





tle mail to carry. Only one one or two,





days each week when the Battle Creek

and Kalamazoo weekly papers, and the

Michigan Farmer, came, was there a

sack anywhere near full. But the boys





had some hard work to do some of the ,

time when the weather and roads were

bad, and it cost more than half as

much then for equipment and mainte-

nance as now. Each carrier had to

keep two horses, sometimes using one,-





other times, both. . .





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. On the basis of the $3.00 saved by the OilPull in

plowing 22 acres, you can easily figure the saving in

operating costs .in the day after day, year after year

You can see that the saving in fuel alone

will practically pay for the outfit while your OilPull is

still a young machine. We can’t say justlwhat the life

of an OilPull is because the first ones built ten years

ago are still on the job.





Furthermore, what the OilPull has done in these

public tests is what it is doing in the hands of owners

everywhere. The OiIPuII will plow an acre of

ground at less cost than any tractor made—bar none.





operation.





And not only has the OilPull proved this economy—

its makers give you an absolute guarantee in writing

that it will burn successfully all grades of kerosene

under all conditions, and at all leads to its full rated

brake horse power. The OiIPu-II is the only tractor

that carries such a written guarantee.





Four sizes of the oil burning, oil cooled OilPull can

now be had—12-20, 16-30, 20-40 and 30—60 H. P. A

postcard request will bring you the OilPull catalog.





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had to pay about all his expenses.

Hundreds of farmers used to wonder

how 'the carriers managed to keep up '

. . Of course, "

living expenses were less and feedwas“

much cheaper, but our hired man left

a job-that paidhim $18 per month.

clear profit, jHe. hadhis, board, lodging

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work as you can do with a two-horse culti-‘





talking” earnestly, but the canoe ivas you leaped from the. canoe N ‘

j so far away I 0

"words. Cassion paid sine. -. ,

.What he urged, but, at last, anally utation—





 





“Beyond the Frontier”



I turned” and ran down the bank to the bow of the canoe about, and head-

where the fire yet slowed dully in the ed sQuthward, the return course furtho

hollow emitting a faint spiral of blue er off shore. The Indians paddled with

smoke, dug dirt up with ‘my hands, renewed energy, and," in, a_ few mo-

and covered the coals, until they were ments they Were: so far. away their

completely extinguished. Then I crept faces were indistinguishable, and I

back to the bluff summit, and lay down ventured to sit on the bank, my gaze

to watch. still on the vanishing canoe.





Ward where I rested in concealment. nothing of De Artigny’s presence until

Their course would keep them too far he spoke. .

away from the little Strip of sand on “‘What is that yonder—a canoe?”

which we had landed to observe the g I started, shrinking back, suddenly

imprint of our feet, or the pile of WOOd realizing what I had dene, and the con-

De Artigny had flung dawn. I observ- struction he might place upon my

ed this with an intense feeling of re- action.





covert. canoe. ”



I Could see now clearly the faces of “But it is headed south; it is going

those in the canoe—the dark, expres- away,” he paused, gazing into my face.

sionless countenances of the Indians, “Did it’not come this far?”

and the three white men, all gazing in- , I hesitated; he. had furnished me

tently at the shore line, as they swept with an excuse, a reason. I could per-

past, a soldier in the bow, and Pere mit him to believe the boat had not ap—

Allouez and Cassion at the stern, the preached close enough to be signaled.

latter standing, gripping the steering It was, for an instant, a temptation,

paddle. The sound of his rasping, dis- yet as I looked into his eyes, I could

agreeable voice reached me first. not tell the lie. More, I felt the use-



“This is the spot” he exclaimed lessness of any such attempt to de-

pointing “I saw that headland just ceive; he would discover the fire en-

before the storm struck But there is t1ngu1shed by dirt thrown on 1"- and

no wreck here no sign of landing thus learn the truth. Far better that I

What is your judgment, pere 7v confess frankly, and justify my action.



“That further search is useless, Mom “The canoe, came here,” I faltered,

sieur,” anSWered the priest. “We have 'my voice betraying me. “It went on

covered the entire coast, and found no around the point yonder, and then re-

sign of any survivor; no doubt they turned ”

were all lost.” “And you made no signal? You let



“’Tis likely true, for there was but themgo, believing us dead?"





ea.” Cassion's eyes turned to the oth- cheeks burn with shame.



ers in the boat. “And you, Descartes, “Yes, Monsieur; but listen. No, do

you were in the canoe with the Sieur not touch me. Perhaps it was all

do Artigny, tell us again what happen- wrong, yet I thought it right. I lay

ed, and if this be not the place." here, hidden from- view, and watched

The soldier in the bow lifted his them; I extinguished the fire so they





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“I know little of the place, Mon- so near I c'ould hear their voices, and

sieur,” he answered gruffly, “though distinguish their words, yet I let them

it would seem as if I recalled the fork- pass.” I

ed tree yonder, showing through a rift ', "Who were in the canoe ?”

in the fog. All I know is that one of “Besides the Indians, Cassion,’ Pere

the paddles broke in the sergeant's Allouez, and the soldier Descartes."

canoe, and over they went into the “He was with me.’

water. ’Twas as quick as that,” and . “So I learned from his tale; ’twas he

he snapped his fingers” “and then a, who sought to lift me from the water,

head or two bobbed up, but the canoe and failed. Do you realize Monsieur.

swept over them and down they went Why I chose to remain unseen? Why

again. Sieur de Artigny held our steer- I have done what must seem an un-

ing paddle, and in an instant, he womanly act?”

swung that way, and Ahere was the He was still gazing after the canoe,

lady struggling. I reached _ out and now a mere speck amid the waste 01’

touched her, but lost hold, and then waterS, but turned and looked into my

the Sieur de Artigny leaped overboard, face

and the storm whirled us into the fog. “No, Madame, yet I cannot deem

I saw no more.” your reason an unworthy one—yet

- “You do not know that he reached wait; could it he fear for my life?”

her?” . “It was that, and that only, Mon-



“N0, Monsieur; the lady sank when sleur. The truth came to me in a flash

I lost my grip; -I do not even know if when I first perceived the canoe ap-

she came up again " .. proaching yonder. . I felt that hate



Cassion stood motionless, ”staring in- rather than love 1111886 Cassion to

tently at the bluff. I almost thought make search for us He knew of your





' he must have seen me, but there Was attempt at'1rescue,j-a1id if he found us





no outcry, and finally he seated him- here together alone, he would care fer

gem . g ‘ nothing save revenge. Hé has the pew-



“Go on, round the bug point ydndcr, er, the authority. to cendemn you. and

return,” he said grimly. " ’Tis “my Serve your life, but to keep you out of





there is no need of our seeking lohg‘er. friends at Fort St. Louis "





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binrne nie for being rescued from

death. One does not ask, in such a

moment, who the rescuer is. I feel I

have, chosen right, Monsieur, and yet

I must trust you to never cause me to

regret that I am the Wife of Monsieur

Cassion.”



To my surprise his face brightened,





his eyes smiling, as he bowed low be- .





fore me. '



“‘Your confidence shall not be be-

trayed, Madame,” he said gallantly. “I

pledge you my discretion whatever cir-

cumstances may arise. There is no

our in the De Artigny strain and I fight

Some day I shall be

face to face with Francois Cassion, and

if then I fail to strike home it will be

memory of your faith which restrains

my hand. And now I rejoice that I can



make your sacrifice less grievous."



“In what way. Monsieur. 9”



A “In that we are no longer entirely

alone in our wilderness adventure. I

have fortunately brought back with me

a comrade, whose presence will rob

Cassion of some sharpness of tongue.

Shall we go meet him?”



“Meet him! a man, you mean? One

rescued from the canoe?”



“No, but more likely to serve us a

good turn—a soldier under Monsieur

de la Durantaye, who has camp below

at the portage to the Des Plaines. Out

yonder I ran onto him, hearing some

message from Green Bay—an odd fel-

low, but with a gun at his shoulder,

and a tongue with which to tell the

truth on occasion. Come, Madame,

there is naught now. you need to fear.”





CHAPTER XXI.

We Decide Our Course.





-. ITH- a‘ feeling .of relief 3 in my

V» heartfa sense that my reputa-

tion was safe, .and that the good

God had set the seal of His approval

on the choice made, I accepted De Ar-

tigny’s outstretched hand, and permit-

ted him to assist me down the bank.

The. new arrival was just within the

edge of the forest, bending over a

freshly kindled fire, barely commenc-

ing to blaze, and beside him on the

grass lay a wild fowl. already plucked

of its feathers. So intent was the fel-

low at his task, he ”did not even lift

his head until my companion hailed

him. 1



“Barbeau, here is the lady of whom



I spoke—the wife of Monsieur Cas-

sion."

' He stood up, and made me a salute

as though I were an officer, as odd/a

looking little man as ever I had seen,

with a small peaked face, a mop of

black hair, and a pair of shrewd, hu-

morous eyes. His dress was that of a

courier du bois, with no trace of uni-

form save the blue forage cap gripped

in one hand, yet he btood stiff as if on

parade. In Spite of his strange, un-

couth appearance there was that in his

face which won my favor, and I held

out my hand. ,



“You are a soldier of France, Mon-

sieur de Artigny tell me ”



“Yes, Madame, of the Regiment Car-

ignan-Salliers," he answered.



“I wonder have you served long? My

father was an officer in that command

.Captain 13. Chesnayne. ”



The expression on the man’s face

changed magically.



“You the daughter of Captain 1111

Chesnayne.? he exclaimed, the words

bursting forth uncontrolled, “and mar-

,ried to Gassion- how can this be. 9”



f‘You knew. 111m then—my father ?” _





.1 '“Ay, Madamei I was with him at the





Richelieu, at the village of the Mo-

hawks; and at Bois 1e Blane, where he

died. I’am Jacdues Barbeau',a soldier

for twenty years; did he not speak to

you of me. "” .



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struck Cassion in the mess tent, and





[they were to fight the very morning

lthe Iroquois met us at Bois 1e Blane.





'Twas the talk of the men that the cap-





‘tain was shot from behind.”





‘iBy Cassion ?”

“That I cannot say; yet the bullet





. entered behind the ear, for I was first





to reach him, and he had no other en-

emy in the Regiment CarignaySalliers.

The feeling against M. Cassion was so

strong that he resigned within a few

months. You never heard this ?”



I could not answer, but stood silent

With bowed head. I felt De Artigny

place his hand on my shoulder.



“The lady did not know,” he said

gravely, as though he felt the neces-

sity of an explanation. “She was at

school in a convent at Quebec, and no

rumor reached her. She is thankful to

you for what you have said, Barbeau,

and can trust you as her father’s friend

and comrade. May I tell him the truth,

Madame? The man may have other

information of value ?”



I looked at the soldier, and his eyes

were grave and honest.

“Yes,” I answered,



harm.”



De Artigny’s hand was still on my

shoulder, but his glance did not seek

my face. ,



“There is some low trick here, Bar-

beau,” hebegan soberly, “but the de-

tails are not clear. Madame has trust-

ed me as a friend, and confided all she

knows, and I will tell the facts to you

as I understand them. False reports

were made to France regarding ,Cap-

tain la Chesnayne. We have not learn-

ed what they were, or who made them,

but “they were so serious that Louis,

by royal decree, issued order that his

estates revert to the crown. Later La

Chesnayne’s friends got the ear of the

King, no doubt through Frontenac, ev-

er loyal to him, and by royal order his

estates were restored to his ownership.

This order of restOration reached Que-

bec soon after La Barre was appointed

Governor, and was never made public.

It was suppressed by someone, and La

Chesnayne was killed' three months

later, without knowing that he had 'won

the favor of the King.”



“But Cassion knew; he was ever

hand in glove with La Barre.”





“it can do no





now, after listening to your tale, to be-

lieve that Captain la Chesnayne’s death

was part'of a carefully formed plot. By

accident the lady here learned of the

conspiracy, through overbearing a con-

versation, but was discovered by La

Barre hiding behind the curtains of his '

office. To keep her quiet she Was forc-

ed into marriage with Francois Cassion





 





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His eyes were upon me as he asked

the Question, and I answered] him

frankly.



“He visited often at the home of my





uncle, Hugo Chevet, and, while he nev-w





er Spoke to me directly of marriage, I

was told he desired me for his Wife and

.at the palace he so presented me to

‘Monsieur—La Barre ”



“On pledge of Chevet, no doubt.

Your uncle knew of your fortune?"



“No; he supposed me penniles's; he

thought it a great honor dune me by

the favorite of the Governor’ s. ’T-was

my belief he expected some reward for

persuading me to accept the offer ”



“And this Chevet—what became of

him?”





“He accompanied us on' the journey,





also upon order of Monsieur la. Barre.

who, no doubt, thought he would be

safer in the wilderness than in Quebec.

He was murdered at St. Ignace.”



“Murdered. 'l”



“Ay, struck down from behind with

a knife. No.0ne knows who did it,«but

Cassion has charged the crime against

Sieur de Artigny, and circumstances

are such that he will find‘it difficult to

prove his innocence.”



The soldier stood silent, evidently

reviewing in his mind all that had been

told him, his eyes narrowed into slits

as he gazed thoughtfully at us both.



“Bah," he exclaimed at last, “the

riddle is not so hard to read, although,

no doubt the trick has been well play-

ed. I know Governor La Barre, and

this Francois Cassion, for I have serv-

ed under both, while Monsieur la Ches-

nayne was my Captain, and‘friend. I

was not always a soldier, Madame, and

once I sought holy orders, but the flesh

was weak. However, the experiment

gave me; education, and led to comrade-

ship with those above me in station—-

discipline in the wilderness is not very

rigid. Many a. night at the campfire

have I talked with my captain. And I

have heard before of this Sieur de .Ar-

tigny, and of-how loyally he has served

M. de la Salle. MonSieur de Tonty told

the tale to M. de la. Durantaye, mayhap

a month ago, and I overheard. So I

possess faith in him as a gallant man,

and have desire to serve you both. May

I tell you what, ‘in my judgment, seems

best for you to do ?”



I glanced at De Artigny, and his eyes

gave. me courage. , «



“Monsieur you are a French soldier, ”

I answered,‘ ‘an educated man also, and

my father's friend. I will listen.”



His eyes smiled, and be swept the

earth with his 'cap.



“Then' my plan is thismleave Mon-

sieur Cassion togaihis way, and let me

be your guide southward. I know the

trails, and the journey is not difficult.

M. de 121 Durantaye is camped at the

portage of the Des Plaines, having but

a handful of men to be sure, yet he is

a gallant officer, and no enemy to La

Salle, although he servesthe Governor.

He willsee justice done; and give you

both safe convoy to‘, Fort St. Louis,

where De Tonty knows how to protect

his officers. Faith. I would like to see

Francois Cassion try to browbeat that

one armed Italian—’twould be one time





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conceited. and holding himself a bit

better than others, becauseLhe bears





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said' that he and De Tonty have had . j j ,

many a stiff ,quarrel- since :he came, andfne hundred rounds of ammuni-

b-“t he darenot go toofar. There are lit”.

good men there ready to draw sword if ‘

jitfev‘er‘ came toblows—pe Tonty, Bola-

rondet,’ L’Espirance, De' Marie, and the ' 'u * ..

AIgon‘quins camped on the plain below; , ' We played fool, declared the crown

They would .be tigers. if the Italian Prince- "1 see it now.

(spoke the word; while I doubt not M. -“Huh? .

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“We will accept your guidance, Mon- COUSIN BILL SAYS:

sieur. It is the best choice, and now ' . ' .

the only one, for the time is past when “When a man thinks lie-has left his

we can expect the return of the canoes. watch at home and takes 1t out Of ms

Can we 'not at once begin the journey?” P003“ to see If he has time to go back



It was an hour later, after we had for it, I should call that man absent-

eaten,‘that we left the bluff, and turned minded.

westward into the great woods. Bar-

beau led, the way, moving along the

bank of a small stream, and I followed _

with De Artigny close behind. As we H“Th(z;_t fellow was an impudent fraud

had nothing to carry, except the. sol- ow “1 lenmanage to wheedle money

dier’s rifle and blanket, we made rapid out of you}.

progress and in less than half an hour . .0 1’ J0 in, he told me web. a sad,

we came to the Indian trail, which led pltlful tale about IVS 1’90}. ““36 who

southward from Green Bay to the head was a Wldow With six children.

waters of the Des Plaines. It was so

faint and dim, a mere trace through

forest depths, that I would have passed Tom.——“ Are you deaf to my plead-

it by unseen, but both my companions ings?”

were woodsmen, and there was no sign Eva—“I am.”

their trained eyes overlooked. Tom.——“Dut what if I were to offer



Once in the trail, however, there was you a diamond ring ?"

no difficulty in following it, although it Eva.——“Oh, I’m not stone deaf.”

twisted here and there, in the avoiding ‘

of obstacles, ever seeking the easier

route. Barbeau had paSsed this way

before, and recalled many a. land-mark,

occasionally turning, and pointing out

to us certain peculiarities he had ob

served on his journey north. Once he

held .us motionless while he crept

aside, through an intervening fringe

of \trees to the shore of a small lake,

coming back with two fine ducks dang-

ling from his shoulder. '



Before dark We halted in a. little op-

ening, the grass green underfoot, and

a bank Of trees all about, and made

night camp. There was water near at

hand, and the fire quickly built gave

cheer to the scene, as the men prepar- “Stopped?” asked the shocked moth-

ed supper. Theadventures of the dayger- “Why did you StOP?”

had wearied me, and I was very con- “Why, I thought about all those ten



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Dunne and Harrison ran against

each other in the primaries for nomi-

nation for mayor of Chicago some time

ago. Mr. Harrison has one child, a

daughter of fifteen; Dunne has ten

children of assorted ages. A few‘ days

before the primaries young Miss Har-

rison asked her mother: “Mamma, do

you pray for father’s nomination?"



“Certainly I do, my dear; and I hope

you do too."



"Well,” replied her daughter, “I did

at the beginning, but I stopped after

a while.” ,





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cooked, De Artigny swiftly erected a

shelter of boughs, within which Lwas

to pass the night. After we had eaten,



I retired at once, yet for a long time

could not sleep, but lay looking out at

the two men seated before the fire

smoking. I could 'hear their voices,

and scraps of, conversation—De Ar~

tigny telling the tale cf the explora-



‘ tion‘of the great river to its mouth in

the salt sea, and Barbeau relating

many a strange adventure in the’wil-

derness. It was a scene long to be .re-'

membered—w—the; black shadows all

about, the silence '01} the great woods,

the sense of loneliness, the red and yel— .

. 104W flames «of ,the fire,‘ and the two'

”mien telling tales of wild adventure

amid i; the unknown. _ 5 ; «

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arms, and rested motionless. My own -





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‘ 5 HAVE been thinking a great deal

7 lately about things really

while. Ever since the young moth:

erwrote and asked the help of some

3,: older readers in planning her work so

«1‘ as to get everything done, I’ve been

. speculating on 110w many of us really

‘ plan to do the most important things.

or course, none of us ever get every-

thing done, whether we are housekeep~

{are or farmers, or clerks. One woman

tells me she never sees a day that she

doesn’t plan to do just four times as

much as any one person could‘do, and

while that seems like rather preten-

tious planning, many of us never see a

‘ day that we couldn’t find at least four

times as much work waiting for us as

we ever get done. I have been wonder-

ing about that feature of it, the amount

of work we see and our state of mind

concerning it. Don’t some of us con-

‘ scientious housekeepers see too much?

Isn’t that what tires us? Honestly, is

'it the quantity of work you have done

that keeps you tossing about nights, or





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the worrying ’over _what you should

have done, and didn’t do? Doesn't it

tire you more to think about what you

should do, than actually to do the reg-

ular day's tasks. '



Aren’t housekeepers as a rule, espe-

cially if there are children, troubled

with the overwork habit? Don’t they

Spend too much time at hard labor and

not enough at play? No one knows

better than «I that you could work every

hour of the twentyfour and still not

get everything done. But on the other

hand, haven’t you found when you did

plan to get a little play spell that you

worked all the better for it? You

‘could work with a better spirit while

preparing for the holiday, and after it

you came back with quickened wits

and a new zest for the ordinary, hum-

drum duties.



It has been some time since I was, a

country school teacher, but I still have

a pleasant memory of one home in

which I lived a year. And the memory

is not because of the wonderful cook-





Things WorthWhilc





ery or perfect, housekeeping, though no

one could find'fault with them. It was

a busy farm home, with“ three active

children, and We all know that spells





' work. But every day, rain or shine,





haying, harvest or slack time, there

.was a half hour for a “sing." Every-

one got around the little five~octave or-

gan and someone played while every-

one sang. There were no Carusos nOr

Melbas in the group, but the singing

pleased us all the better because we

did it ourselves and we all felt it. We

sang because we liked to "and the

words had a'definite meaning to us. No

jazz nor “Hawaiian Dreams,” in fact,

no ragtime of any sort. So you see .it

was quite a while ago. For the moSt

part we sang gospel hymns with an

occasional patriotic song from the old

school “Knapsack.” Possibly we sang

off key, .I know one of us'did, and per-

haps no impresario would have stop.

ped in the road to listen, but anyhow

we enjoyed the brief rest from work

and we got something which took us





 





 





 





 





 





 





through another day in better spirit.

You may not care for the “sing. " But

isn’t the idea of taking a half-hour of!

worth something? Perhaps you would

rather read, pr get out doors and walk,

or sit down and rocknand" crochet.





who has secretly pined to do some





special thing and never found the time,





why not'take a half-hour daily for your

“fad '1’" It is surprising how much you

can accomplish in thirty minutes daily.

That means three hours a. week, nearly

a half—day.



We lay t69 much stress on what we

term necessities. Many, of the neces-

,_siti'e's are so only in name. We could

get along without quite a number of

them. . And we pay toovlittle attention

to the really worth-while things of the

mind and soul. Resolve to give your-

self a daily play spell, and you will

find the hours spent at hard labor will

be easier.



DEBORAH.





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





THE slogan of the designe1s of the



hats this season seems to be “a

hat for each particulai weaiei.” Them

8 a tailored off-the-t‘ace hat, and the

urban for the pretty profile, the modi-

'fied tam for the youthful wearer, the

‘chop” brimmed and the transparent

___bri1‘nmed hats for dressy wear, and the

.ewest thing in the milliner’s realm is





HERE is, scarcely a district in

' the country that has not some

child, 01 children who, for some

cation or other cannot attend the pub-

school It may be that some physi-

l disability makes it impossible for

m; perhaps mental deficiency debars

from entering classes with othe1

H‘d’ren; or, if he is a ve1y little child,

may be that he is too far from the

do! to walk there and back. What-





 





 





 





 

 

 

 





«school will be seriously handi-

1 all through life unless an ade-





 

 





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the low- -crowned sailor with many loops

of 1ibbon, flowe1s, foliage or gorgeous

cher1ies tucked away under the brim

at the back, the latter making a splen-

did all-season hat. Many hats show a

combination of georgette crepe with

straw or straw braid, and in some. of

the smartest all-black hats rolling

brims are faced with black satin.





 





This trio of charming spring hats

are particularly suited for early spring

wear. The navy satin hat at the left

has an oddly cut brim of straw braid.

A "quill of the same shade is the only

trimming. In the center is a spring-

time creation, the‘brim of which is a

combination of navy straw braid and:

satin. The crown is formed of inter-





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lacing of navy ostrich,





Hair Possessing Orzgrzha/z'ty

and. Charm





 





and in the

squares thus formed are tiny clusters

of vari- -col'ored rosebuds. The hat which

follows somewhat the lines of the tam

is a clever Combination of fine navy

straw braid and satin, with _ the





‘wired loop and ends of satin constitut- ’

ing the only trimming; a smart hat ’





to wear with the tailored suit.





ildrcn CanhOt Attend SChOOl





By Jamel T 50mm Van Oryde/





home instruction is made all that it is a child. The pity of it is that‘so 18W





possible to make it.





learning themselves. But advanced

knowledge is not so necessary as is an

understanding of the child, and who

should understand a child better'than

his own mother? Nor does it take a

great amount of time. Once a methe‘r

gets well started in the teaching of her

child she will not find it difficult; yery

likely she will become fascinated with

the work.





 





 





 





mother who knows nothing about teach- 1

ing is the method to emblem 32119 old

a, b, c method has been aimed: dishard‘

ed, because a, b c means. Shani tely





and play” method shows ,‘ «

sults accOrdmg to meme _



tried it. It wouldwdq'p ‘

also for, schoolroem inst





mothers have the best opportunity fen;

, Mothers may feel that it is out of the observing it.

,question to start him in the paths of





The thing that will bother most the





 

 

 

 

 





it is not schoolroom education in which

we are interested just now.





The work and play method is really ,_





nothing but guided play. All of the

Child’s amusement is made. an “aid to '

“his education. He is not told that he 2

is learning things, no set task is given , . _

him. He absorbs knowledge by the use - ,

of the games which he is led to play;

by the answered question, by the shg- ‘ " '

gestion here and there, as a sponge

-~absorbs water

[figures with the g"





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' him only. a littlewhile o recognize the ,

written Word as readily as he does the. _,

' color itself. 1‘1” she heipsémm when he .





f be an infomsting part of his play to





' up the Work will find suggestions con-





and bright pictures of animals, birds





. child more than anything else. But it





 





   

   

 

   

 

 

   

   





 





knows every color and can read many





. and the verses are good. Mrs. Wright





, 5 with both or these children.





   

 

   





is playing with his blocks it will soon





spell the word red.

Games Will teach the numbers. Let.





a child play with a box of toothpicks .

and have him sort them into piles of





tw That is nothing but fun. But he

learns how many two are. Later on

he is delighted to become acquainted

with the figure and the word two. He ,

learns what one-half is when. he divides





his apple evenly with his playmate and -

he will soon understand the figure one-~ -





half. . <

Pictures of birds and animals in the

natural {celors are of great educational

value. Children learn the names of}





 





these because they want to and theyl.





are eager to have stories told about

them. _



The reading of stories and verse to

"children and the telling of 'stories is





' one of the leading helps in this" method i





of education. There is no limit to what!

a taste for the right literature may do





‘for a child, and especially for one who





is any way'handicappedin life’s race.

In time, the mother may have the chil-

dren read to her for her entertainment,

not in the recitation of a lesson. They





will forget themselves and do their





very best in reading foranother per-

son's pleasure;



There are a hundred suggestions that

might be given, but in so brief an arti-

c1e only an idea of the method can be

presented. Every mother who takes





 





tinually coming to her and she will her-

self develop, although in a different,

way, almost as rapidly as does the

child.



A word about the child who seems

mentally deficient. In too many cases





no effort is made to educate such a;





child. This is a, culpable mistake. If

he had an atrophied.muscle it would

surely be given nourishment and exer-

cise in the'hope of developing it. Very

often a child “not bright” can be drawn

out little by little until finally he ceas-

es to be subnormal. And he is far-

more likely to respond to any such ef-

forts right in the home circle than he

is if placed among strangers: Colors





and flowers often appeal .to such a





will rest with the mother-teacher to as-

certain what particular thing is most

likely to interest the child and start

the raising ofthe curtainthat obscures

the ‘mind. Something, will probably do

it and infinite patience must be exer-

cised until that something is found.



It is interesting and inspirational to

know "what mothers have actually and

easily accomplished by this method. A

little girl, now five years old, had lost

the power of, speech through illness

when she was a wee baby. Her moth-

er began teaching her by the work-and-

play method while she was still a baby

and gradually drew her out until she

could speak. She recovered fully the

power of speech before she was four

years old and is ahead of the always

normal child in .every way.



The .three-year-old brother of this

little girl can write on the typewriter.

While thisjmay seem precocious, still

is it any more so than when a child- of

the same age .can spell words with his

alphabet blocks? It is simply a difler—

ent method Oi playing very nearly the

sanie game.





The three-year-old son of Mrs. Wright





words, while his big sister of ten has

been writing verse for several years——





has used the work and play method





 





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. is the standard measure of milk: sugar,

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calorie is the measure of the heat fur-

nished by the food as it is burned in

our bodies. To get through with our

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if we know how many calories 'a cer-





spoonful of sugar yields one hundred

calories, a fourth of a cup of light

cream furnishes ' the, same amount,

while'it takes two-thirds of a cupof

milk to give one hundred caldries. An

egg and a half gives one hundred cal-

' cries, as does one-half ounce of butter,

one baked apple, one large banana or

large orange, four small, thin slices of

bacon, one ordinary slice of bread, two

small muffins, one medium baked po-

, tato or a half-cup of mashed or scal-

, loped potato.



- Lists of one hundred calorie portions

have been prepared by'several author-

ities and can be secured by any house-





   





 

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   





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you one hundred calories.-

an orange, banana, a good-sizedpeach,





or four 0r. five prunes will give one 4‘





hundredcaloi'ies. You know how much

broad; and butter or muffins ”furnish

one hundred‘calories, so you can make

your choice from them. Milk is always

safe to make up needed calories, pro-

vided, ydu sip it 's10wly' so that it does

not curd in a} solid piece in your

stomach. — ' '





likely to be the ,chief dish." l-Three-

fourths of a cup of bean ’or pea soup





small pat will give .you one hundred

calories, a half-cup of Irish stew, “-





ts‘ma'll serving of roast ham or an'ordi- _





nary [serving of boiled ham, a small

serving or beef and about an ounce of





chicken are needed for the one hunt





dred calories. You will probably have

pie for dessert. A 'piece of fruit pie

about one and a half inches wide. at.the





crust, or of pies such as lemon, ‘cream,

and custard one inch at the edge will





give you one hundred calories. .

Knowing how much of various foods

is required to give us one hundred cal-

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keeper who is‘interested enough in the

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In this article it would be impossible

to give more “than an idea of how the

diet can be measured. If you know

that two-thirds of a glass of milk,

meaning a glass which holds a half-

pint, will give you one hundred calor-

ies, a slice of bread and a half ounce

of butter will give two hundred more,

a baked apple another hundred, and

four slices of bacon another hundred,

it becomes a simple problem in addi-

tion to find out how many calories you

are getting. ,



Suppose you want to eat a breakfast

of eight hundred calories. You start

it with a baked apple, follow with an

ordinary serving of oatmeal, about a

cup and a. quarter, on which you have

sprinkled a tablespoon of sugar and

poured a quarter of a cup of cream.

You have four hundred calories, ap-

. me, one hundred; oatmeal, one hun-

dred; sugar and cream each one hun-

dred calories. Now you eat an ome-

let, made with two small eggs, ,two_'

small gems of either cornmeal or gra-

ham flour, spread with a half-ounce of

butter, _;and you have'three hundred

.more, the gems or biscuit furnishing

one hundred calories", andsthe omelet

and butter each one hundred. Two-

thirds of a Cup of milk can make up

the other one..hundred calories, You

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Have you a furnace in your home

and some side wall registers, and do

you see marks on the wall paper just

above the registers? Try this plan:

Put up a glass rod such as is used in





:the bath—room for towels, and you will

find that anyone standing in front of





the register will rest their hands on

the rod and so save the wall paper. A

brass or nickel rod placed just at the

bottom of the register makes a good

place to warm one’s feet, and either of

these rods will make a handy place to





dry small articles.'——~Mrs. E. A. F.





Farmers’ wives often have to keep

a meal waiting after it is ready to

serve, as the men cannot always leave

their work at a settime. Vegetables

may be kept hot without being dried,

by placing the kettle -or granite basin

in which they are cookedhin a dishpa‘n.





tor large pan or milk pail of boiling wa- .





ter ‘and keep covered closely—Mrs.

L. T. F. . ‘ ,





when ham has" become *hard- and _' "





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depth that evaporation cease.





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Increased depth reduces the power 'n Their -





of attraction rapidly: if we remove the



water any drainage to a depth of four Own Words... ‘ ,

. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.



With the Martin we do! so





rods 2 feet deep.

3) minutes. using 3 horses and





feet below the wrface we have allowed





have thirty inches for defence against

evaporation. ' ' a '



Water taken from a depth of four

feet is three degrees warmer than at

thirty inches. ' ‘



Beth observation and actual result

seems to sustain the fact that nothing

less than four feet will be sufficient.



We are informed, and the writer has

observed that plant‘ roots ~ will pene-

trate the ground to a depth of several

feet. and the better the soil is prepared

and drained the stronger and more pro-

fuse are the roots; we have also ob—

served the scrubby, dwarfy, sickly up;

pearance of plants trying to live and

grow in‘wet, 'sour and cold ground.



One more answer to the argument

against deep drainage in;'clay soil': A

.hole bored into the clay tour or five _

feet and covered,- will fill with water

up to the level of the water in the ad-

jacent soil. How can the water get

into this hole and not into the tile?



An unprint of a horse’s foot will

hold water like a basin. Why? Be-

cause the clay is puddled. Drain your

subsoil and the clay will not puddle

and the water will be absorbed from

.below. Drain the ground slightly be

low the bottom of the hole and the wa-

ter will disappear.



That hard sticky and tenacious clay

are impervious to water is erroneous;

if you observe closely the excavation

of clay formations you will find that its

structure consists of layers separated

by thin layers of sand and gravel and

sometimes by rusty layers of decayed

roots.



From observation and study of the

subject of drainage, I assert that there

is no earth or clay so dense or tena-

cious in its natural state that will re-

sist the absorption, penetration and

filter of rain water into a tile drain

five feet or more in depth. The action

of drainage «will begin at once; the re-

filled trench will start to take the wa-

ter from the upper strata of the soil





and carry it down through the loose .





earth in the trench to the tile and the

connection and formation of channels

and arteries of drainage will continue

to deepen. broaden and impiove.



The place for the water to enter the





tile is not through the body but at the _





lower half of the joints; the upper

half should be sealed to prevent dry

sand and washed earth to enter and

an the tile. Remember the'hour-glass,‘

how small the aperture and how per:

sietent its action.





If the tile are_'pr0perly laid to a true. ‘





grade, a fall of a few inches in one-

thousanl feet is sufficient, but the

smaller the fall the more care in the.

laying of tile and protection of joints.





In laying out a system of drainage . .





every case requires its individual treat-

ment, and from the time the first stake

is driven until the last tile is covered

it requires we‘melt and skill.

great to complete the whole system at,

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thing for them to speak to father and

see if he would not make some sort of

a, bargain with them, so that they

might get into the sheep business. At

the same time I spoke of boys who

were in sheep clubs for the good they

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der that they might make; a success of

their work along these lines.



Now let me speak for a moment of

a. fine wo1k the boys are doing in the

far west in the way 0f saving lambs

You

know, out on the great sheep ranges

many enemies are all the time in wait-

ing to attack sheep and lambs. The

coyote destioys many eveiy year. In

some places the wolf is a deadly foe

to sheep. It may seem stiange. to

learn that thousands on the back of

thousands of sheep are all the time

drifting across the great wastes of

lands in these western ranges, and hat-

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‘that drop out and would be left if





someone did not come to their 1eScue.



Then, too, many peiish in the cold

of winte1. Nobody knows how great a

percentage of sheep and young lambs

go down evely winte1 in the stmms,

but we know that it is altogether too

great for the highest deg1 cc of success.

Every sheep and eveiy lamb that dies

in this or any other way, takes just so

much off the profits of the season. And

this is one reason why sheep breeding

and sheep giowing me not as profit-

able as they should be.



Now, in comes the work of the boys.

Boys ale keen about a great many

things. They are, as We sometimes say,

“up to snuff.” And they have found

out the danger to lambs of falling out

by the way and being trampled to

death by the stronger flock or perish;

ing in the cold, so they are taking

steps to save as many of the lambs as

they can. Following the flocks, these

young shepherds, if they see a lamb

that acts weak, or that has really fall-

en out and is being left behind, pick

the little fellow up, place it carefully

in a Sack and take it away home to be

biought back to life. And there are

clubs of boys banded together for this

purpose of rescuing lambs. So far as

I can learn, this movement began in

the state of Washington, and it has

spread until now there are clubs in

Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Utah, and

there may be some clubs in still other

states.



The United States has heard of these

boys’ clubs and is-doing all it can to

foster _ them, through the Bureau 'of

Animal Industry. The agricultural de-





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“bum” lambs, as they are sometimes

called, am hi ought back flom the very

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Lamb -..SaV1ngs . Service

By Eégar L. Vincent





partments of the states mentioned alSo:

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Out in the state of Washington, for





example, one boy started out to follOw





the flocks of sheep, eSpecially at the '





time when the lambs were coming. All

over, as far asthe sheep went, this boy

followed on, picking upthe weak little

chaps and bringing them in. In doing

this he walked some days for many

miles, but he had the satisfaction of





saving three or four lambs in one day. '





At the end of one season, he had

brought. in forty-three lambs that prob-

ably would have died and been an ut-

ter loss if it had not been for his

efforts. 1





Of course, it was some work to bring

those lambs up on the bottle, as had to

be done. But it was not long before

the boy’s little herd was old enough

and strong enough to nibble some

grass and eat a bit of grain. When a.

lamb gets once fairly on its feet, it is

pretty apt to live and do well. So the

boy’s lambs grew large enough to take

their place in the flock and take care

of themselves. The ewes were put in

a pasture by themselevs, while the

wethers were sold, usually bringing as

much as $10 a head. in one state the

owners of sheep have been awakened

to the worth of the boys as savers and

shepherds of the lambs, and they hire

the boys to take their blankets, go out

where the flocks are in the pastures





and gather up the weak membeis of ‘





the lamb flock.



This little story will, I am sure, in-

terest every boy and girl lover of sheep

and lambs. A sheep man out in the

Yakima valley of Weshington hea1d of

a school teacher, a young‘girl who was

interested in sheep Collecting a load

of more than twenty "bum” lambs he

drove to the schoolhouse and offered

to sell the little fellows atone dollar

each. The teacher declared a recess,

sent the boys and girls home to talk;

it over with their parents, with the re-

sult that in a little while everyone of

those lambs had a new home. A club

was formed among the pupils of the

school and a new boom in sheep is un-

der way in that neck of the' woods.





Now, on a good many farms it is the

time for the lambs to put in an appear-

ance. The mother sheep need watch-

ing and attention. The men folks are

busy about other work. Could not you

be to the newborn lambs a caretaker,

like the boys of the far west? By

watching the flock now and then

through the day, you may see some

little one that seems weak and unlike-

ly to liVe if it is not cared for at once.

I am sure father would be glad _to have

you 'do this work and without doubt

would give you the lamb you save. This

may be the beginning with you of a.

bigger sheep business than you now

know. It surely is worth undertaking.





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“ Trouble with me is,” he said, “that

I’m farming the way they did a hundred

wars ago. All hand and horse labor. . .



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My Winter with Aunt Rilly

By G. W. T utt/e '





OULD that you could see the one of Aunt Rilly’s pocket cushions.



V» picture as it hangs ,on memory’s The inner circle-—-to which I belonged



I pages—the. house with the long, ——always had two cushions each; one



sloping roof; the giant, well sweep by of the finest material for the Sabbath



3 which sparkling water was drawn from and one of more common material for

the old, old well; the ancient horse week days.



I‘ who stumbled slowly down the old The old horse was my greatest



highway in our Weekly pilgrimages to trial; he was old and decrepit and



the old brick church in the valley; and slow—so slow! Every Sabbath he



last, but not least, the wrinkled but made his wheezy, complaining way up



} strong face, which the old place fram- and down the hills of the winding



5 ed so fitly, the face of Aunt Rilly. country highway to the church. We



' Aunt Rilly would never have taken started early—in the first place it took



a prize at a beauty show, even in her a long time to make a short journey;



palmiest days, but she had the courage in the second place Aunt Rilly believ-





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Farm the Lay Way with





down on two levers, slip on a belt

that connects with a line of pul-

leyshai’tingin the shed,‘and start

the La Milking Machine. Cows

are mi ked in no time. Throw on

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done. Feed mill next—then the '

grind stone or churn.



Then you put the saw rig on

the back of the car with Lay

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of her convictions and she feared the ed, not only in taking time by the fore-

lock, but in beating him to the goal, so

a good half-hour before church time

always found her sitting proudly erect

in her pew. '





face of no man. Even burglars had

‘no terrors for her. Hearing a noise in

the cellar in the noon 0’ the night, she

struck a light, tiptoed softly. to the

cellar door, and confronted a burglar,

who fled in dismay.



One boy after another had lived with

Aunt Rilly. It was currently reported

that she was “sot” in her ways,'also

that she fed the boys very poorly. For

some reason or other she had difficul-

ty in keeping a boy—-—either the boy

became dissatisfied, or she did.



I was to live with Aunt Rilly for the

winter—do her chores, cut wood on

Saturdays, etc. In return she was to

give me board and pay part of my

tuition at a private school.





in the mud on the big hill.

went in the mud one Sabbath mom-

ing. With one spring the spirited old

lady cleared the Wheel, and landed in

the mud. The old horse was rolling

his eyes around as though to say, “I

don’t see how this happened.”

horse was unhurt, but Aunt Rilly fairly

danced with excitement.

said she, “he’ll die, I know he’ll die!

Just look at his eyes!”

neighbor took Aunt Rilly to church

while I returned with the old horse, as





At last the old horse came to grief

Down he





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This marvelous Farm Power

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80 there I was, but not without in- horse and harness were plastered with demmtnmn—the proposition“ th‘tlogical, 4 '

ward misgivings. I had a healthy farm mud. » ' LIA. YOUNG INDUSTRIES. lnc., Detroit, Mich. ,* Name ...... ‘ ......

boy’s appetite. I sat down to the first I remember one interesting incident. ggzzampg¥nggengflflfe 13"? '0'

meal—supper—«with fear and tremb- I had left the shotgun standing under Excludn Canadiannbiagi‘htars n ' 3 Add” -------- no





ling. This was New England, where

pic was the orthodox dessert. I ate

my piece of pie—regulation size, sub-

stantial ‘fillin', etc.‘ When the last

crumb was finished, the old lady look-

ed at me, smiled," and said: “George,





' have another piece of pie!”





0, joy, my fears fled like the dew of

the morning! I could almost have hug-

ged Aunt Rilly then ‘and there. The

did lady ate little, but there was al-

ways plenty of good, substantial mod

for her boy. *



A boy soon, makes discoveries. I

soon discovered an old fowling piece,

long unused. Across the top. about a

foot from the end of the long barrel,

was a large. crack, and the barrel was'

heat downward from the crack to the

end of the barrel. I had all of a. heal-

thy boy's desire to see just how—and

just where—that gun‘ would shoot. I

was afraid that Aunt Rilly would ob-

ject, but opportunity came my way,

and I gripped her hard. The blue jays

troubled Aunt Rilly by eating the food

put out for her chickens. She had set

steel traps fer them, a ‘very unneces-

sary and cruel procedure, it seemed to

me. I broached the subject of the old

gun to Aunt Billy. I was willing to

dispose of the blue Jays. To my sur-

prise the old lady consented. The gun'

was bent so badly that it shot under

about a foot at a distance of- twenty-

five yards, but I was a good guesser as

the blue jays soon discovered to their

sorrow. I even killed some birds on

the, wing with the old gun, a feat

which certainly reduired rapid calcuv

latiom." , .’ ‘



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the eaves of the house one day as I

worked at the woodpile.

warm and the snow on.the roof was

melting. The water ran down the bar-

rel of the gun until the powder was





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well moistened. I knew nothing of

this at the time. Just at night, after

I had carried the gun into the house,

I saw a partridge sitting in a tree with-

in range of the house. Greatly excit-

ed, I stepped out on the porch, and

took aim. Snap, went the gun. Hastily

I retreated to the house and primed

the gun. Snap; went the cap again.

This continued until I despaired of get-

ting the old gun on; so, dropping it, I

rushed over to a neighbor’s, borrowed

an old Springfield army rifle, loaded .it

with a bullet much too small—by using

heavy patches; then by a lucky shot I

neatly decapitated the patiently wait-

ing partridge. What a savory meal we’

had, and how the dear old lady’s face

shone with delight.



Aunt Rilly kept Saturday night.

When the sun set on Saturday night

her week’s work was done. She did

not forbid my studying or doing things

for myself, but I could see that even

these things grated with her, so I omit-

ted them when possible. Keeping Sat-

urday night was an old New England

custom, now obsolete. , It had its ad-

vantages; where work is. continued un-

til a late hour on Saturday night the





flesh becomes . weary, and ‘the mind g





dulled, for Sabbath morning and the

Sabbath privileges, .,



I think. often of the happy winter

I spent with dear, quaint old Aunt

Rilly. ‘ Peace to her- ashes, and restio.





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Given plenty of range, where

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hens are through layingthéir first lit-

ter and become broody.



In such case and also when it is de:





sired that the turkey hens lay more





than one litter some of the eggs may

be incubated underchickens or in the

incubator. ’



About a week before the poults are

due to hatch, turkey hens enough

should be allowed to sit to take. all the

poults hatched. They can be given a

few eggs from the incubator or from

under the chicken hens, and allowed to‘

hatch the poults themselves, or at

night a newly hatched poult can he

slipped under each turkey hen that is

to be given a brood of poults, and by





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Lice are a common annoyance to set-

ting hens, and are one of the worst

enemies of young poults,, To prevent

their getting a foothold, dust the hen

thoroughly with some good lice powder

before she is placed on the nest, and

once a week thew 1ftcr while she is

setting. The nesting material should

be kept clean. and if the eggs become

dirty they should be washed with luke-

warm water.



If the weather is warm and dry no

shelter is required, as the poults do

better in the open. Should it be rainy,





nothing is more injurious than for

them to becomé wet and chilled.



The most satisfactory plan is to con-

fine the mother turkey hens to a coop

and allow the poults to run in and out

whenever rain does not prevent. This

coop should be placed in a. field, where

they can run out and find grasshop-

pers, green vegetation and other nat-

ural feed. The coop should be removed

to fresh ground every day. .



Improper feeding, combined with

close confinement, has been the cause

of many failures in turkey raising

Given free range on the average farm,





the points can easily pick up their own .





living, and one light feed a day for the,

purpose of inducing them to come in

at night is sufficient.





HENS, LAY SMALL EGGS.





 





What is the cause of my hens laying

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condition. _



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A hen’s reproductive organs some-

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probably due to some physiological dis-

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~Most of the dwarf eggs we have seen

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by Observation ofvtrap-nested hens that

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and after the dwarf egg is- produced. It

has also been‘fosnd that the laying oft?





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suitable stick for 13th the ani-

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to bleed them. During warm weather

it is not necessary to use special care





» in skinning the rabbit as the skins are Three children 'came in ’due time, and

not valuable. but in the winter it many





hares or rabbits are killed it pays to ‘and likewise stuck closer than a broth-





save the skins. With a little practice

it is possible to skin and clean a rabbit

quicker than a chicken can be picked.



Some breeders of rabbits kill them





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hind legs of the rabbit in the left hand

and then place the right thumb at the

point where the neck and skull 30in.





 





,The rabbit is then stretched out while

the head is bent backward and the

thumb strongly pressed inward. When

the neck is dislocated it can be felt.

This is considered a very humane

method oi? killing when done by an ex-

pert. but doubtless the amateur will do

more satisfactory work by first stun-

ning the hare with a stick



The skin and the wall of the abdo-

men should be cut with a very sharp

knife. Then remove the entrails but

leave the heart, liver, lungs and kid-

neys in place. A slit can be made be-

tween the tendon and bone of the leg

to hang up the rabbit. Careful dress-

ing is important before placing the rab-

bits on the market or the. meat may be





I tainted and part of the business of the





rabbit breeder now should be to in-

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wives. A clean paper should be used

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ered to a customer. Old newspapers

will not do for wrapping as they do

not give the carcass a pleasing ap-

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. In some communities it will be pos-

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city buyer has not been educated con-

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. (Continued from page 469). \





still‘Clark hung onto his R. F. D. job,





or to all his other appurtenances, all

on a measly $25 plunks for each calen-

dar month. His good wife has been a

help-meet, in the full acceptation of

the term. If she had not, Lewis Clark

would “have gone busted” long ago. l



When the automobile first came

along it.was the joke of the farmers,

their wives, sons and daughters, from

Kdlar'nazoo to Oshkosh and back to

Ypsilanti. And when the idea of utiliz-

ing one of these original gasoline carts

for carrying R. F. D. mail was first pro-

posed to Willis Lawrence he snickered

at it long and loud. Willis was a first-

class mechanic and he thought it

would be a cold day when he got

caught between a rural mail bag and a

chug wagon that was mostly wheeze

and inclined to buck any old time or

place.



But one day, after these two original

R. F. D carriers" had navigated about

71 417 miles over all sorts of roads, in

all kinds of weather, Willis met and

fell in love with a pioneer chug wagon

that probably had been abandoned by

its parents or guardians. We don’t

know just how Willis adopted the poor

thing, but in less time than it would

have taken at Camp Custer, he was

first lieutenant and chief engineer of





the bus and it had the honor of being ‘





the first automobile to carry mail on

the first R. F. D. route in Michigan.

Willis could box the steering gear with

one hand and throw out mail with the





other. When the farmer’s wife or good





looking daughter heard the chug, chug,

a mileor two away. she had time to

change her clothes and be standing by

the mail box when Willis hove to and

threw out the anchor. And then, pro-

vided the chugger couldn’t or wouldn't‘

stop its chugging to catch its second

or third wind Willis would shut one eye

and cast the mail overboard; and the

womenfolks would catch it on the fly,

it the wind was in the right quarter,

and sail into the house to read a spell.



It was during this period that we

one day drove to Climax to take the

accompanying picture. At that time

there were three carriers out of the

village. Willis Lawrence was still mak-

ing his first love go like a charm. Lew-

is Clark had a fine new motorcycle,

and the new carrier, Leo Roof, had

purchased one, and for the first time

in its history the first R. F. D. in Mich-

igan was fully motorized. In the pic-

ture, Lewis Clark is ahead and beside

the touring car.

are well loaded with mail and the boys

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hatched chicks are always the best. My cooker-ole come

from hens with an 81638111 recordM of over 2'30 eggs their pul-

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' White Orpington greatest 6

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s- C Brown I‘Leghorns.5 Heavy laying strain Farm

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silver,G Golden and White Wysndottes. Plenty of

good Glo den and White cockerels SELF FewSll‘

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Wyondottes choice

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skim-milk. All the calves didn’t need

was fed to the brood sows. ‘



After he had his new system work-

ing, his books showed that by buying

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brood sows he had sold $2,500 worth of

pork and has ten better calves than he

had ever raised by feeding nearly all

of the skim-milk they would eat until

.they were nearly ten months old.



The chances are that if this dairy-

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investment. Experiments show that

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when fed to'very young animals than

to the older ones, and furthermore that

it produces best results when fed along





 





 





ment fats removed in skimming, and

yet there are thousands of dairymen

who‘are so busy with crops and cows

that they- do not attempt to develop

lthe other branches of their business.



l Baby Beef. ‘



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a side line on the dairy farm many

dairy experts rise up and say with un—

changing finality, “It can’t be done at

a profit.” I am going to tell how one

of the most successful dairymen in

Indiana has worked‘out the problem.

Mr. Renick appreciated the economic

value of the dairy cow and started

about ten years ago to make milk an

important item in his farm's cash pro-

ducts. In the early days a trial was

made of the special-purpose dairy cows

under the supposition that milk could

be most cheaply produced by-them. Re-

sults in the main were satisfactory

from the standpoint of dairy products

alone, but the discarded cows returned

an insignificant amount, so that the

losses each year from sacrificing cows

and calves was keenly felt.



The choice finally settled upon Red

Polls as being the best cattle for com-





use of high-class sires, and the, buying

of females until a good milk yield is

maintained throughout the lactation

period, which seldom allows the desir.

ed six or eight weeks rest before the

next calving. Some of the cows have

yearly records of from eight to eleven

thousand pounds which attest the dairy

capacity of the cattle. It has been ob-





milkers is a few years longer with the

Red Polls than with the dairy breeds





into ba‘bybeef at a. profit.— 1 -





bred cows‘ Theicalves'rare“raised on





skim-mini .agtteigihe first “few days;





~ are weaned; "Iii-them]! they are-put





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with the proper mill feeds to supple-_





served that the life of usefulness as‘





» formerly kept, and the calves are made ,.





Nearly one hundred cows ai‘ejkl’ept.

on the farm. , When they are unfit to TheWork of caringfor the trees, hair-

keep for dairy purposesthey ‘are’fa‘t- vesting the fruit, andinarketingeomes

tened and sold, bringing about asvmuch at times whenfi'other farm work is not

'. again for beef, abthefdiscarded dairy Dre,581‘ng..-hnd-,th‘emanure, ffamj; =the





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‘New Scurces oflncome . .,





(Continued from page 451)..





pounds of silage and afllberal. ration

of alfalfa and clover hay. It is the cus-

tom to sell two carloads of‘baby beef

in April averaging’about eight'hundred .

pounds in, weight. The calves usually

bring good prices in the big stock mar-

kets. The cows and calves are made





the means of marketing the“ farm's. '





crops. The farm pays good profits and

the business is a success. ‘ " "

Poultry. _ . '



Poultry is a side line that affords an

opportunity for very profitable develop-

ment on the dairy farm. Skim-milk is

a. valuable feed for all kinds of fowl,

and experiment station reports show

that it can be made to return greater

net profits when fed to poultry than to

any other kind of farmsteck. As a

general proposition a flock of two hun—

dred to three hundred laying hens will

pay handsome profits on the dairy

farm; after one gets above that num-

ber the old law of diminishing returns

plays ha'voc with his plans.



Sheep. '



Sheep also pay handsome profits

when the dairyman does not attempt

to keep more than he can handle to-adj

vantage and supply .with the proper





kinds of feed. A few sheep will keep ‘





down weeds in the pasture, consume

waste feeds and give the farm a tidy,

well-groomed appearance, while a larg-

er fiock will prove a disappointment to

the man who is not in a position to

give them proper and almost exclusive

attention at certain times during the

year. Of course, if 'a man has plenty

of time, and has a natural'love for the

business, the raising of fancywinter

lambs will pay greater profits, and he

may be .justiified'in keeping a. larger

flock. For the average dairy farmer

it is myibeliefpthat about thirty well-

bred mutton ewes will prove adequate

on a one-hundred-and-fifty-acre farm.

Horses. '

By keeping brood mares for farm

work and raising a few draft colts for

'sale‘ each year. it is possible for the

dairy farmer to cut down the cost of





bined milk and beef production. Gradu- team work to the lowest possible

.ally the herd has been improved by the





notch and add a tidy sum to his net in-

come. The cost of team work is one

of the heaviest charges against the

dairybusiness and every dairy farmer

should plan to derive this double in-

come from his Work teams, one from

their work on his farm, the other from

the sale of yOung colts or young Work

teams. ‘ The Well-trained colt; is one or

the most profitable finished products

tli’at can be produced on the well-man-

aged dairy farm. 1

Dairying and Oreharding.

Commercial apple :grbwing "is ‘a

branch of horticulture that is’ exceed-

ingly well adapted to manydairyfarms.





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NEW YORK MILK EXHIBIT





HE greatest gathering of dairymen

' and farmers ever seen in New

York City will occur during the week

of April 21, when a series of conven-

tions and a milk and dairy farm expo-

sition will take place in the Seventy-

_first Regiment Armory. It is estimated

thatabout thirty thousand farmers and

others allied with the milk industry

will attend this convention and exhibit.

One of the interesting exhibitsgat

the convention will be that of the

Dairymen‘s League whose membership

numbers seventy thousand farmers. In

this exhibit will be shown what the

farmer does in his daily duties from

4:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon and from 1:00

p. m. to 9:00 p. m.





 





SEEDING CLOVER.





 





EEDING of red and alsike clover



will be general this month through-

out all the clover sections. Broadcast

seeding on winter grain may be done

at any time and where the soil is dry

enough it may be seeded with a drill.

With clover seed as high in price as it

is this year it will pay to be es ecially

careful about the preparation of the

seed bed. When the ground is still wet

nothing can be done in the way of har-

rowing and preparing the seed bed,

but Wherever the ground gets dry

enough to run a spike-tooth harrow

across the rows of grain the seed

should be harrowed in. This will not

hurt the grain, especially if the teeth

of the harrow are slanted backward.

Wherever possible it will be advisable

to seed with a drill as from two to four

pounds less seed per acre will be re-

quired. With seed costing not far from

fifty cents a pound a saving of this

sort will be an important item; furth-

er than that, a better stand is usually

assured when the seed is drilled espe-

cially when care is taken to see that

the seed is put down about one- half

inch deep.





CLOVER CROP DAMAGED.





 





HE clover crop in many sectiqps of

the state has become heavily dam-

aged as a result of the unusual weath-





ing the last year, the Michigan Agri-

cultural College has been informed by

its field agents. Much injury was done





more has been caused by the mildness

of the present winter, it is said. Be-

cause of the unusual openness of the

season, the reports declare that much

“heaving” has occurred.



As substitute one-season hay-crops,

.the farm crops department of the col-

legs is recommending c.orn millet,

peas and oats, sorghum, Sudan grass,

soy beans, or cat hay. If it is desired,

information as to which of these crops

are heat for given localities, can be or»





 





 





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wring to d for his cattle. By hiri g-

' Italian pickers one man can look to





at that season of; the year. As a rule it '





tug with dairying unless aman has suf— 'j

fficien‘t business to warrant hiring help _





‘. Itadairyiarmer wishes to: confine 1

his efforts to a‘lhighlyv specialized dairy

. farming and still have two' strings to ~‘



his- -money- -making how he will be safe , '

' in investing in a few pure-bred cattle ,

and depend upon the sale of improved é





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will double the value of your silage crop; double the number of cattle you

can feed from the same acreage; increase the quantity of the milk and

cream you get; put more pounds on your beef cattle. And think of the

prim those things bring today!



Sixty Thousand Indiana Silos are now in use—many more than any

other make—and the reason is that large purchasing pOWcr and lon expe-

rience enable us to give more value for every dollar invested. Ask Indiana

Silo owners. You needn’t pay for an Indiana until it pays for itself.





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Savcs time spent taking care of horses.

Replaces horses at all inds of farm work on any size farm. Weighs no more than





$250 goes as for as $700 worth of horse feed.

ready have without c ve hitches.

one large horse. That's why it really replaces horses, and really saves money for the

farmer. It' s a tractor that will plow, barrow, drag. drill, cultivate, mow and pull a

binder. Gives you all the power you wont but wastes none. Increases acreage you can

cultivate and the acres you can devote to saleable crops. '





Write for the folder that tells what it will do on your farm.

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NEARLY a third of a century ago the ‘

United States Cream Separator intro-

duced oil-splash lubrication. All the United





States gears and bearings run in a constant





oil bath.





Today the better automobiles use this system. It

assures long Me and smooth running.





The same en 'neers who invented this

and other ex usive United States fea-

tures have constantly worked on other

refinements In the last two years seven ex-

clusive patents have been granted on the

United States Disc Separator.





Besides being the last word in mechanical

perfection, it is the separator that holds the

world’s record for close skimming.





Vermont Farm Machine Company

. BELLOWS FALLS, VT.

Chicago Portland. Ore. Salt Lake City

U. 8. Farm Lighting Plants and Enanes





Watch your newspaperfor this advertisement telling where you can we the I

United State: Separator. Agents and dealers wanted in some localities.

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Feed your dairy

and beef cattle





Write C. FRANCIS, 909





for sample, literature, and particulars





BUFFAL





CORN





GLUTEN FEED





Ask your dealer

for Buffalo





Ford Building, Detroit





 





 





 





 





 





It pays to make your own stock t'onic, condition powder, etc.





Q J

TIX Ton-Mix

A 85.00 box makes 840.00 to 860.00 worth of medicated

salt or 875.00 worth of ”stock tonic" -- saves, -you big

money. A 82.00 box by parcel post will medicate a bbl.

unit or 900 lbs. of cereal for cows, horses, hogs. and sheep.





PARSONS CHEMICAL WORKS





with your own salt or cereal the

year around kecgs animals healthy.





Grand Ledge. Michigan

Leona Park Farm Experiment Station





 





 





 





 





 





 





200 mature.



2 your old andl

yearlings, the

pick or lead-

ing corn belt

herds. ShOW

bulls or stock

bulls, singly or

in cariols.





AT E. ST.,LOUIS,





 





 





 





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—OF THE—-

American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association





AT SIOUX CITY, IOWA, MARCH 25





AT CHICAGO, lLL., APRIL 2





For further information and catalog write.

through your live stock commission firm, county agent or





AMERICAN ABERDEEN? ANGUS BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION >





lLL., APRIL 1





You “ can buy





Avenue, Chicago.





 





 





 





 





 





 





BREEOERS’ DIRECTORY





Change of Copy or Cancellations mulch reach us

Ten Days before date of pulillcatlon





 





WE HAVE A FEW





‘ ABERDEEN ANGUS





~ cowstwith calves at foot,and rebred to





IMPORTED “EDGAR OF DALMENY”

Mich. Grand Champion Angus Bull.





Also have four extra fine Angus

bulls of serviceable age.





‘,‘ BEST OF BREEDING ”

and at a price to sell.

WILDWOOD FARMS, gag:





W. E. SCRIPPS. Prop. SIDNEY SMITH,Supt.





WOODCOTE ANGUS





Established in 1900.

IROJAN-ERICAS and BLACKBIRDS (Blackcapl‘).





Breeders and feeders of many Interna~

tionai Winners.





Choice YoungiBulls For Sale

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM, Ionia, Mich.





 





 





 





 





‘ Al erdeen Angus. Seven bulls from ei ht

Registered to3tweivo months oild]. Clenty Ofds ze

b t f breedin . Prices reasona1e. vome an see

“$311.13) Inquireg F. J. WILBER, Clio, Mich.





Cloverly Angus Bred cows, heifers and bull





calves of good bree 11% .

GEO. HATHAWAY & SON, .Ovid. Inch.





For Stile Registered Guernsey Bull





v. Chene Golden Noble 4: May Rose breedi .

guobemular tested by state Halcyon Sequel. born 19%

and son of Gov. Chene sires and grand sires

. R. breeding. Price 8250 F0. B Avondales

o 1917. Sire Halcyon Sequel Dam

1" rtrude of Halcyon, Farm {nice :15) F.O.B Luella's

Duke of Avondaie born Jan. , 1918 Sire Lord Sunrise

' Dam Luell a's Maid. Prices 8100 F.0.B. Avondales

11,“, born Jan. 10. 1918. Sire Halcyon Sequel Dam

demos of Pitmflold. Price $200 F.0.B.Avo ndales Joy

3 ' 8 1918. Sire Halcyon Sequel Dam Wrinlde

125 F.0.B. Av'ondaies Mark born

(1 Sunrise. Dam Popular Polly.



0. B. Come and look our herd over.

DALE STOCK ,FARM. Wayne. Mich.





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Registered Guernseys

'Bulls.‘3 an]? Bull Calves. good enough for any breed-



in en . ._ g .



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

ing herd tuberculin tested.

. . . Battle Creek. Mich.





11v moss,

G U E R N S EY SEOESIEE‘EIG‘EB





Containing blood of world champions.

HICKS’ GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Mich





Grade IIeifer Calves Registered Bull

Guermeys Calves: write your requirements _

WALTER PHIPPS FARM,80 Alfred St.DetrOlt.M1ch.





Bull calf; he is a right good individual and well bred

will sell for $100.!havc him recorded in buyer's name.

JOHN D. WILEY, Schoolcraft, Mloh.





 





Registered 'Guernsey Bulls}. A- R-

For Sale stock. Prices right





EGGLESTON 11 WILKINSON; Parma,’ Mich.





 





 





HOLSTEIN 00W

EARNS "031'





for $100 worth food.

Do your cows earn 30 per



cent on your feed Invest.

ment? Any purebred Holstein or and grade

will do that easilymfi figures compiled yfloard.s

Dairyman show. Taking the average from

herds of purebred and grade Holsteins. owned

by patrons of a. creamery in Jefferson Countl'.

W'isconsin, it. was estimated that for every dollar

($1.00) spent in feed. $1.54 was reoeiv from the

croamery. Unless your cows do as well, they

are Wasting their feed.





I! interested in





HOLSTEIN CATTLE





Bend for our booklets—they contain much

valuable information.





HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF

AMERICA, ‘ Box 164, Bratiloboro, Vt.





The 7 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 All.

0. ancestors. Ham’s records up to 30 lbs. Write

gorirxgligrees and quotations. stating about age

TRAVERSE ”CITY. STATE .flOSPITAL





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





soon: write

Hollan . Mich.





grim". City. Men. > .





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mission *is cooperating - with . ,the





3 United, States'government i‘n-ucontrOllj





ing tuberculosis ii: this state, the .g‘ov-_,.x!~ '





ernment now having three field menx





' actively cooperating; , and an . equal _

’ number of state inspectors are supposf-





ed to be working With these govern-

ment field men. , .



At the present time, under the coop-

erative plan, 260 herds are being test-

ed for tuberculosis. On the waiting

list there are around ,150 herds. Under

this plan, herds which pass two suc-

cessful tests without any tubercular

cattle having been found, are placed

on an Accredited List as being free

from this disease, and to remainyon

this lfst, annual tests have to be made.

Herd owners are finding it to their ad-

vantage to be under state and govern;





ment supervision, and many buyers '





from outside of the state are coming

here for Cattle which are known to be

free from tuberculosis owing to these

activities in the control of this disease.

Representatives of the French and Bel-

gian governments have been in this





state recently, purchasing cattle from '





these lists. ,

One thousand and twenty-four herds

have been tested by local veterinar-

ians during the last year, which indi-

cates that farmers and stockmen are

realizing the advantage of having good'

clean herds. '

’During the year 1917, the state paid

out for cattle slaughtered on account

of tuberculosis, $35,282.50. On account

of an increase in the appraisement by

the 1917 legislature, the sum during

1918 was inEreased to $52,815.52. The

percentage of reactors in the state is

exceptionally small, which has given

Michigan cattle a good name through-

out the United States - and Canada.





» Health authorities all over the country





are realizing the importance of this

work, not only from the standpoint of

the economical value of the cattle, but

from the standpoint of health as well





 





in the consumption of meat and milk

products. 3



The United States government also

has three inspectors in the field coop-

"crating with the Live Stock Sanitary

Commission in the control of hog chol-

era. The losses have been reduced

from 100,000 three years ago to about

2,500 the present year. The county ag-

ricultural.agents , have cooperated in

the educational work conducted in

these activities.

ians have been given assistance by the

United States Bureau of Animal indus-

try and state men. At no time during

the past year has cholera become ,epi-

demic in any section of the state, ow-

ing to the cooperation of the veterinar-

ians and stockmen in assisting in the

control of this disease.



Outbreaks of rabies have occurred

during the past year in Montcalm,

Kent, Mecosta,'0ttawa, Clinton, Ionia,

and Eaton counties; but since the first

of the year, no outbreaks Of this dis-

ease have occurred;



It seems necessary at this time for

the’enactment of stringent dog legis-

lation, both for the protection Oflhe

human family and domestic animals

against rabies, and also to prevent the

ravages of dogs among our rapidly in-

creasing sheep flocks.





Only five cases of glanders among '

horses have occurred during the past





year.



Number of milch cows in the

January 1, 1918, was 848,000, ora'de-

Crease Of~ about 15,000. Other‘gcattle

have decreased 20,000;;s_heep;have in-

.creased 239,000, and hog‘s have increas-

ed 77,000 during the, past year. ' 2



Sheep Scabies has broken Outin sev-

eral counties ' in j the state. 4 . However,

at ‘ the, presenti’time it; seems‘._bo fbe well





under control, but-will ”99933439111118, . d





during the' coming sadism t3

frOm, j becoming widesprea





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BlatCIlford’s

- comes , -



In the United States alone more than

1.000 000 calves were raised on Blatchfo‘rd's Calf

Meal last year. It puts calves through to a





healthy vigorous,-earl maturity at. , p _ .

one-half the costpf milk. Write for I: at:





‘ ‘How to Raise Fin est Calves on Little orN OM

We’ llsend it free. also name of yourneareatdealer.





Blatchford Calf 'Meal Co. -Dept. 481.81





' IIB‘U‘M Our 119 Year!





sou—ND' '

anthorking Again ' '





 





 





 





um. I

edy foraore lame and blemuhctl'

horses. Sold with Signed cum

to refundmone if it fails tom

.srAvm, ' lone. Thoropin.—'-

or Shoulder. nee. . Hoot

orTendon disease; Irma works too. m

Book. SampleContrnct-Bond and advice—4L]. FREE.





TROY CHEMICAL (20.. 320 tote St. il-EW"N' Y.

' to Everywhere tel Seve-‘I‘he— mth ._. ‘

CLO! we send by Parcel Pastor Emmpud._





islan'SWoLLEnounns





that‘make a horse Wheels.

Roar. have. Thick Wind

or Choke-down, can be

reduced with ‘





_





also other Bunches or Swellings. Nobl-iater.

no hair gone. and horse kept at-work. Eco-

nomical~only afcw drops required at an lppll-

cation. '32. 5031:: bottle delivered. Book 3 Il‘rtl.

“80W“; Jll. e antiseptic linirnent for man-

kind, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Swollen

Veins and Ulcers. $1. 25 a bottle at dealers or

delivered. Book“Evidcnce" free. . _

VLFuYOUNO. P. De F1.288Imlofl.. suflMEOId. M





Lump Jaw 1c





The farmer’s old reliable treat.

ment for Lump Jaw m. cattle.





min ’s Actinotorm





Fle

a bottle under a positive f





8°le fotree‘zsinoe 1896 our money re

' Write today for ' .

nanv more '





ndod if it fails.

WINC‘I VIIT- m

A book or m pace- and 6'! llluatratlona. It la rm.

NIH“ um..ch I“ “sinus.”





MINERAL.”

» ' .HEAvE’E.





 





 





 





Fm '

“Package heading" aatldnormonu



b it. 8115‘: snfli ttorordiuaryenaea.



to run I???" ct. 4113 rmmrnmm he





lllilll.

rs

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llEllli ill HEIIESL... .....,

. , 7 ,_ "_ 3 ' cause—Indigestion. Prevent.

‘ I eller. so years sale. Three

doabottenoures. Jflpermatdnalara’





AIIIII IEIEI All momma ca



‘ Cures Heaven by correcting the



Colic. Sluggers clone“ 00n—



dlnour na Worm n:-



= Q ’ .. emotion-ranted“



, care Room or money rem ed. The

later an '1

or prepaid by parcel post. Booklet me.



7 'flllfilflfll [“1 mm. You... cal.





 





Fls.Burch&Co.'1 . . .HurooSt. t ”it:





 





 





No. 112849.

dam at is

semi-0mm '

yearn ems

1019.23 111.11
' “Winwood Her , ”





The young bulls We boys for sale are

backed u ;.by'-"many generations of

large pr uce . Buy- one of these

bulls, and give your herd a “push”.

Full descriptions, prices,etc. on request.





McPherson Farms 00., Howell. Mich.





 





. . REGISTEIEED ’-

Holsterrig— Friesmn Cattle

‘ " lNT fi’fificassr BOY

I. ' l M lecrest Korndyxe Hengerveld. His

Eggrgdmudam each over 30 lbs. of butter in '1

days. ms dnm‘and‘g'randdam both made over1232 lbs.

of but in one year. It is the yearly cow we are

lookin?orhto de iver the goodsi Flint Maplecrest

80 's an ‘is Glnck Vassar Be] 30.6? lbs. of butter

is ldays and 121 lbs. in 30 do a. fier butter .fat test

is 5.21. This looks about ght tcthe man who goes

We have bull calves from 2 weeks

to 12 months c From A. . . dams and sired by

Flint Maplecrest Boy. which we will sell Stldallifi



farmers price breed ng considered. Just think

more cows to freshen which means more bull calves.

Let usegnow your wants. We wil make terms on

approv . notes.

JOHN H. WINN. Inc.

Lock Box 249, ‘ ' ' Roscommon Mich.

Reference Boscommon Stgte .Bank.





 





egistered Holstein Bull calves from A.R.0.cows up

to $32 lbs. butter in 7 da mgrandsons of the 3.30.000

bull. 0. II. GIDDINGS. Gobieville. Mich.





831 43 lb. butter in 305 days'liii.2 in 1 days: gddam. Jo-

. c hall Heng.Lad. S?she.21.731b.dam of bulllcalf

36 white. Shelter calves" lb. sire not related. ‘erms

. easy. M. L. McLAULIN. Redford. Mich.





THE HOLSTEINS





At Maple Avenue Stock Farm are under Goverment

supervision. The entire herd have just been tuberculin

tested and not one reactor. d place to buy that

bull: you are looking for. an Ihave two very fine.

richly bred. and splendid individuals readamfor any

amount of service. I want to answer any question





k be t them.

'°“ m” u a ' u L. E. CONNELL. Fayette. Ohio





CLUNY STOCK FARM





100——REGISTERED HOLSTEINS--100

When you need a herd sire remember that we

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

der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual

over 6 mos- old regularly tuberculin tested. We

have size. quality.'and roduction records back-

ed by the best Strains o breeding.





, , Write us our wants.

R. BRUCE McPHE ON, Howell, Mich





 





:50 m has or choice of three Registered Holstein

' I" an' bull calves splendid individuals and

bred right sired by ‘a grandson of Ki of the Pontiac 8

buy oneand raise a herd sire.bull calf or sale the some





reading dy for service. marked half white dz black

310:) buysiiln-del. Henry S. Bohlfs, 11.1. Akmn.liiich.

stored Holstein bull calf: Born Dec‘



Fol SB" 13 Ellie. mostly white. Dam dau. of 324.13





lb. cow. write for rice. Delive . I have another

yearling. B. E. STURGIS. St. Johns. Mich.





F Sale at a bargain. A few young bull calves from

‘ or high p ucin! stock. Buy one of these line cal-

ves and raise bull Or next fall.



. F. IOOMIS. - - - - Owosso. Mich.





I accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ and I.“ istered Holstellelbull calves. Raw“,

of the and at prices withi reach of all. rite.

GEO. D. C ARKE. - - - Vassar. Mich.





’ PedigreeStockl'ar oflers Re .Hol-

Parham s stein cattle Chests:- White wine.

extrabargins in calves andfall K‘igs. Bulls half {II-ice.



11.8. PABIIA . Bronson. ‘ ich.





 





Rng-Iolstein Bull Calves $2393.33

del. J. ROBERT HICKS. St. Johns.” ich.





. Re . H l tel bull,

For sale frofin Trifles l‘b. sire &





17 months old.

a . lb. dam.

B. GILKES. Howell. Mich.





 





R ' GI Holstein bull 15 mo. old perfect indi-

vidual. 3‘ white 30 lb. Pontiac breedin .

Price only 8125 delivered. ‘ B. is. Beavey, Akron. Micfi.





Registered Holstein Bull. cnr'ling, extr ood. as





3

lb. randdam s re’s dam 27 lb. gynold.

we at barn. Lawns WALKER, Howell. Mich.





 





aple Lane 8.. of M. Jersey herd. Bulls. bull cal-

mus..- ti‘" avail. ii. .

amp . e's es. so . . .



Cocksrels. both combs. Irwin son'iAllcgnn, Mich.





BUTTER BRED ersgguggtm

cavern. s amo s'roox rAaM





Silver Creek. em County. Michigan.





J ERS'EY BU LLS

mrmfi‘i‘v‘i‘i’r'fih‘hWhfi‘fim Mich.





‘Thc Wildwood' Jersey Farm.

fit‘li‘ml’im‘mii" We Frame: ir-

jesty dams, VIN ALDEN,OOap2c. Mich:





 





 





 





ELIE'Eas-nlstead J ' ' Y b ll

service from not 11:31:33 A gw re?! 1:333:35

cows. _ COLON OCLILLIE. , Ooopersvilie. ‘Mlch.





'For, Sale :chgistsred Jesse bulls ready





' SMITH timid“? , figlggfi, Mich.





'Lskewood‘l‘ierelcrdsm "‘ “flu“ °‘



. . . >1 _. Anxiety ithlt a rein

." l‘totlu i‘lll ’li



tb ‘ lo tho‘connts'y. angliulh class



.' unease. endear-pare. rm





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





. .3. floodlit.

~ “u . u





Mich.





REPEAlesAND" PERFECTIONS





“Young stock for Sale at all times.





 





80 head in ,‘herd. all es. '



Farm 5 miles south 0_ Ionia. Visitors



welcome. JAY HARWOOD, Ionia, Mich.

szsus TELEPHONE 122-4 '



Buy a Hereford Sire Improve your Stock





HEREFORDS





Both sexes and all ages for sale also horned and

polled bulls in service. Governor by Prince

Donald by Prime Lad 9th. Militant Farmer by

Imported Farmer. Fairfax Farmer by Militant

Farmer. Dam by Perfection Fairfax.





 





ALLEN BROS.,Paw Paw,Mich. '





 





H i as Bob Fairfax 404027 at head of herd.



ere or Stock for sale. either sex poi e or



horned any NE. Priced right; EARL CMcCAn'rr,

. Sec‘y. .B. Ass’n. Bad Axe. Mich. ‘





BIDWELL summons





 





For Beef and [Milk





Registered bulls. cows and heifers-Good Scotch and

Scotch-Topped for all . In prime condition. Modern

sanitary equipment. arm minutes‘from N. Y. C.

depot. 1 hour from Toledo. 0 io. Automobile meets

all trains. Write »





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,





Box B. Tecumseh. Mich.





RiChland Farms





Shorthorns





\ Home of the Mich. Champions. We have just





purchased the entire herd of Scotch cattle be-

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

Kansas City. Mo. About Feb. 131:. we Will ofier a

choice lot‘of young bulls for sale.



C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS,

Oflice at Town City. Mich. Farms at Prescott. Mich.





 





Shortliorll Callie oi bolli Sex iorSale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.





Sh Ill" Scotch nnd'Scotch Topped cows and hell‘-

0 "l8 ers riced right. Come and see them or

write W. B. M‘éoiliLLAN. n.7, Howell. Mich.





 





Shorthorns of Quality Scotch and

For sale Scotch To ped descendentsof Archers

Hope. Avondale. Maxw ion 8 ton and White Hall

Sultan b the Oscola Co. Shorthorn Breeders Ass.

JOHN SCHMIDT. Sec. Reed city. Mich.





 





' I Bulls read for service. One

FM Shalil'lilm hcrdbullivlaumold. ‘

w. F. BARR. Aloha. Mich.





Stockers & Feeders For Sale





lilo Shorthorn Steers ave. 1065‘ lbs.

' 170 Hereford Steers ave. as; lbs.

2 cars of yearling Herefords ave. 7:10 lbs.

2 cars of Shorthorn yearlings reds and mans.

These steers are dehorned and flesh. Wapello

Co. In. is noted for its good .cattle. Write

J OHN CABBUW. ii. 3. Ottumwa. Ia.





Milking Slwrthoms Sta. Jainism W





DAVIDSON & HALL. Tecumseh. Mich.





 





 





osemary Farms, Williamston, Mich. youn bulls

ready for service. horthorns bred for milk beef.

Herd estab. by Prof. C.I{.Burges8. Mich. Agrl.00llege.





 





ShOTII'IO Central Mich.Shorthorn Breeders Assn.

ms oiier 37 bulls all ages. 17 females for

sale. Write





Oscar Skinner. 860.. Gowen. Mich.





Shorthorn Breeder a“: ”fight" sale

CHAS. WARNER. Jr. Imiay City. Mich.





1m head to select from. Write

Shorthorns me your wants. [glues reasonable.

Wm. J. BELL. so City. Mich.





 





Th Kent Co.Shcrthorn Breeders have both males

6 and females for sale. Ask about them.

L. H. LEONARD Sec.. - - Caledonia. Mich.





Milking Shorthorns Egg: “1’ 0‘"

o. u. rock. Millington. Mich.





Steakem dc feeders. from 500 to

cal“. Fill Sal. lillil lb. “'rite your wants.

ISAAC SHANSTROM. Fairiield. Iowa.





RITE for description and rice of a 7 mo. old

Grandson of the 800.000 bull. lsoa randdaughter

of Korndyke Butter Boy. Bred to f on Aug. ‘ . .

Breeder of reg.stock on y. H.E.Brown.Breedsvllle.Mich.





 





 





 





HOGS





Servicesble Berkshire 8°” ““1 “”1“" “’3‘





horn Cookers .

PRIMEVAL FARM. 08800. Mich.





, DUROC

OPPORTUNITY





Michigan Breeders and Farmers prefer to buy

Duroc Jerseys at private rather than public ale.

For the first time in five years we_are ab etc

odor as many as 40 bred sow andgllts private-

ly. Same blood has and bred to some prize, win-





‘ni boars as oursale stock. Prices are in keeping

wit‘lgi the individuali and breediu of the ode:-

ing. send for sale . If you a boar we

have them. ,





BROOKWATER FARM“





Ann Arbor. , Michigan





8 RT W MUMFOBD . owner.

Elelihcn HENDERSON. anager.





Dtfit‘; metastases. some





 





,.





 

 

 





Descendants of the ieadin strains: Cherry King.

red to





 

 





f can.





 





Bgfender. ‘Kinglof Col's T e Professor. all h



l. Defender t a each. No. 123705. his sire. Pal's rrc.

inlet Col. T. No. 8102].. Dam Royal Defendress . No.

am no of the most promising herd beam in Mich-

an rises reasonable. Write for prices and fur-





t 1: information. -

THE JENNINGS FARMS. R. 1. Bailey. Mich.





50 DUROC





bred sows and 50 fall pigs. You need alitter biiOrion‘S

Fano King the biggest paint his site ever at nterna-

tion fat stock a ow.‘ atalo te is all.



NEWTON BARNHA '1‘. St. Johns. Mich.





iOA-KWOOD FARM





Nothing for sale at greeent booking orders for spring

piss (Dames). Tax‘ a or and Go! Model breeding.

linen BROS.. Romeo. Mich.





 





 





 





DUROGuJ-ERSEYS





‘ _E. D. HEYDENBERK. W'ayland. Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS





Gilts bred for J one farrow of the heavy boned type

also fall Dis! either sexlpairs not akin.

o F. J. RODT. B. 1. MOnroe. Mich.





 





Duroc Jerseys. A few choice its bred to Brook-

water King Special 1.1146 . (A full brother to

Breakwater Lass D.the»firand champion sow at the 1918

International). Carey . Edmonds. Hastings. Mich





 





Duroc Jersey Sows, Jazz? idfi‘i'bi’fim

‘boar. JOS. SCHUELLEB. Weidman. Mich.





 





' FOR Sale Duroc Jerseys of the big boned type fall





pigs of either sex and takin orders for sprin i .

CHAS. lauAr. Okelnos. glillcfi.





State best Kirices and we g





' b .

we Want Duroc Bred Gilts. fall lhttsatt oars

r BELROSEFAR S. Richford. New York.





 





' l b d it

Ham pshrres mafia? “ ”m“ n m 9‘ 5

JOHN W. SNYDER. R. 4. St. Johns. Mich.





' The International Grand Cham-

HmpSIlll'e Hogs pion Hog of 1918, both sexes

for sale. 8 )rin eliveries booked now.



ELI SPRU GB. A SON. Saginaw. W. S.. Mich.





 





Raise Chester Whites





Like This





the original big producers





 

   





M" ~. “til. " _4,‘





I HAVE s thousands of breeders on the road to

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

my great herd in every community where am not alreauy'rep-

resented line early developers—ready for market at six

months chi Write for my plan. More Money from on. '





e. s. ashram, 3.3-. p_ 10. Portland. Michigrn





 





March‘ and April igs in



ChCSte rs, pairs or trios from erze win-

ning stock prices reasonable satisfaction guaranteed.

F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar, Mich.





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





) Originators of

the Famous

_ O. I. C.

Hogs





Breed The Best





rm: VORLD nsrns LARGE

FAT HOGS ,v,





Why losemoney n; eedin

and feeding scrub hogs

Two of our 0. I. C. Bogs ‘

Weighed 2 8 06 Pounds.

We are the most extensive breeders



and shippers of pure bred hogs in the world.





 





 





Write today for the true story of the real

0. I. C. H029. All foreign shipments



U. S. Government Inspected

We have bred the 0. l. C. Ho since 1863

and have never lost a h wit cholera

or any other contagious isease.





 

 

 

 

 

 

   





WRITE

-—'l'ODAY-

FOR FREE BOOK

‘ - "The Hog (rein Birth to Sale”





THE L. B. SILVER CO.

196 Heights Temple Bldg.

CLEVELAND. OHIO





J





THE WORLDS CHAMPION





big ty 6 O.I.C'S. Stock of all ages for sale. Herd

beads by Galloway Edd. the World 3 Champion 0. I.

0. boar assisted by C. O. Schoolmaster. rand Cham-

ion boar Of Michigan.New York and Tennessee state

airs. Also. C iant Buster. undefeated Senior

boar pig wherever shown and Grand Chain ion of Oh-

lahoma state fair. Get our catalogue o Grandeil's

prize hogs, Cass City. Michigan.





 





Shadowland Farm

‘ I O. I. C.’s I





# l

' 200 to 300 lbs. from prize win-

Bred Gllts ning stock. A few fall year-

llngs and 2 yr. old sows. big type. growthy boars

of all ages. g)uarantced as breeders. Everything

shipped C. . D Emess paid and registered in

buyers name. J.CA JEWE'I'T, Mason,Micls.





O. l. C. and Chester White Swine





Strict! Big Type with QUALITY. I am sold out of

but fail pigs. These p‘iigs are as g —and

I think he tor than anyrI ever bre . I am one of the

oldest breeders of B y e in the U. S.



NEWMAN’S S’l‘OC [A M. B. l. Mariette. Mich.





 





 





 





o l C ’8 big type serviceable boars. Yearling

' ’ ' sows and gilts bred for sprin furrow.

G. P. ANDREWS. .- - Dansvil e. Mich.





O. I. C.'Bred Gilts All Sold.

-, aw





. MANN. Dansville. Mich.





 





 





Large fall pigs

Rockford. Mich





o. I. C. Bfar.h14‘months old.

0. J. Thongs its." m“ .





O mraéiilat: bredffair summer farrolrtgng‘a fgwoffil

s an'o em enou s . . . .

r. C. Bumh’sog. R. g. Muo'ii. Mich.





w in March and April. Also





 





C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich: ,





 





 





001- Ce gilllhmhe horse .

CLovna Lnaflfi'rodx "his. Mouroe. Mich.





" 0. led





 





-" 9 ' ~' 2 last July andi last‘



Co 3 ho“, good wtlly



Earmxmile west of‘De t. gro

- ~orro 3.5%HULZE.





 





Nashville. Lech. , ,





. FRANCISCO FARMS





Th SthRTlggRNS—EPOfLAND CHINAS



rec c o co v 0 one

Also line good 8“ ers an a ew young cows to r.

are attractive.



P. P. POPE. Mt. Plesant. Mich.





~ » W h

For 25 Years r° .“Vl‘l’cl’cfii’é‘ ”W





of the most approved blood {£166. Our new herd boar

"Michigan Buster" is a nighty ood son of the rent

bgiaat lBlueRrer". dig-lull "Mouvg's fillies Qléeenf2'ii me



9 ng care so on exceta ew a at

$25.00 each. J. O. BUTLElf.‘ Portland.p lch.





. A > >

A gingAType Poland Cl‘n 'nas.



b. . N. yearling and a to ' 250 lb. A .~ s .

Quality stillé registered. and choievlla immungir garga-

for Mar. and Apr. furrow. ..



WESLEY HILE. R. 6, Ionia. Mich.





 





 





bred gilts sold. For sale herd boar ros act 17 .

Pvp- old. wgtziiOO lb. with quality. sire usger Gunilla

-ai9.i93 darn Nemo L. 5W0 an wt) lb. sow in flesh. Sire

sold for $1000 ric‘ed‘ reasonable. Free Livery from

Parma. . E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich.





Big Poland Chinas with quality. For





i

fall gilts. Open or bred. as e. summer and

'.G. A. BAUMGAKDNER. R. 2, Middieville, Mich.





 





 





 





Large type Poland China's breed gilts all sold. ‘Fall

pigs of either sex fill‘i-lllle. Sired by 800 lb. yearli .

A. A. FELDKAAVIP, Manchester. Migfi.





 





ICE. (3th ion herd of B T P. .N

Msaie but {all pigs: orders ilf‘bollifilaforce rigging”

E. R. LEONARD, St. floumtlidlch.





Illi'i to Close them out at once.





P. C. Afew 'ltsbedf A

L. 5. row M llfll‘glgl r or pril & May far-

. . U. SWALtTZ, Schoolcraft. Mich.





 





lg ty .9 P. 0. fall boars the big roliii ekl d th '

Bbree ing traces to the best herdpin Illf‘Iowrd. Neel:

C. h. (tARNAN'I‘. Eaton liapids. Mich.





Large Time P.C.Nothing for sale now.W’ill be in mar-

ket Wth beiter than ever this fall. If herd still

counts. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich. ‘





Big Type P. C. boar and bred gilts. Choicl





A . l c

A. A. woo» a SON. - u“- p 1” asiu‘hif‘fi'i‘ch.





 





' Type P. 0. Choice bred sows from Iowas

Blg herds. I138 big bone rolific kind with 55:93:21“:





quality. J. MATHE SON. Burr Oak. Mich.





 





Big Type Poland's all sold out. nothingfor sale at

present. Boukfilliorders for spring pigs. Thanking





my customers. Chamberlain. Marcellus. Mich.





 





Poland Chinas allsold. Ge al

MammOth Jones No. 317249. son of Gangsta-.18

Jones heads our herd. Clyde Weaver. Ceresco. Mich.





 





 





HORSES





. Pure Bred

Belgian Draft Horses





We have some extra good Belgian Stallions for

sale. coming three and four years old. They are

heavy. of good comformation and sound. You

can see their sires and dams. They are raised in

Michigan and acclimated. We have no agents on

the road for which you or we would have to pa .

You cannot buy them any better nor cheaper n

the world. Our studs and mares carry the best

blood Belgium has produced. We prove this b

their pedigrees. We invite you to see our sto

before buying. You can see them any day Of the

week Except Sunday. Write for particulars and

catalog to the ()WOSSO SUGAR COMPANY.

Prairie Farm. Alicia. Mich.





 





 





Saginaw Valley /





 





STOCK FARM





Belgian and Percheron Stallions and Mares

and registered Holstein Cattle. of the best breed-

ing. for sale.





Eli Sprunger & Son, Saginaw. W. 5.. Mick.





 





Stallions For | Sale





One Percheron Stallion and one Im orted E lish

Shire for sale. These stallions will be rigid at sugl'iiice

prices in order to close out abusiness which Ihave

charge of. Arch. Marshall, Trustee. Bear Lake,Mich





 





Horses Will Be Horses Soon





We have on hand at all times a choiceiselection of

oun Percheron Stallions.

AL Eli BROS. Belding. Mich. R. R. Orleans.





 





For Sale Belgian Stallion. if you want to buy a draft

stallion you are invited to see this horse and his

colts. and our ne hbors. ' ‘



. W. J. UIGLEY. R. 2. Grass Lake. Mich





 





Clyde Stallion comin



One Reg. Sired by 1. Im orted Salli??? “iii;



2100 lbs. and out of Imported are weighin lflfilfioe.



the mare won first at Michigan State Fair Iglfi. This



colt Will make a. 2000 lbs. horse. Priced to sell. write



or call at once” ,

“M. I. ORANDELL. Cass .City. Mich.





7—...





 





18223. weight abo t 1

fiood abs 9 guaranteed in every mi}. m lbs. is in

an Mc ntyi-e. R. 1. Box 54. Sault Ste.Marle. Mich.





 





Aged 4 yrs. bred to College Stallion fold this summer.

Good ma





t9.

HARRY E. SAIER. Seedsman.





109-111 E. Ottawa St” Lansing.





 





”assailant? "its" whim





 





Percheron Stilliini’nu‘idnm ‘“‘ W"!

s. I“ In"? t 301? 0°} - pec- “Chill-373%. ulna...





 





two Registered Black Percheron l

.I ‘ll. 01183 oneb ears 0] l ri , '

JOHN fiULEAili,“ 33% City?





F o R s A L E are.





Mr. FRANK cm. a. 2. Bot 46A. iwmc.





, d





 





 





 





ts bred for late springfarrow. Prices ~. ~





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Sialllon {$5318 0” dead‘lle Sylvander’e Fl-VOrite No.





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SECOND EDITION.

The markets in this edition were re«

vised and corrected on Thursday af-

lternoon, Marchmzo. -





WHEAT.





Wheat prices have advanced. The

situation is strong, duelargely to the

ope'ning up of European markets, the

failure of the crop in India and the

shortage of the Japanese rice crop.

The general opinion is that the surplus

stocks of grain that have been a burden

on the market for some time past, are

about to be used up and that a lively

situation will probably develop. One

year ago wheat sold on the local nitr—

ket at $2.17 per bushel. Present De-

troit prices are:



No. '2 red ............... $2.35

No. 2 mixed ............ 233

No. 2 white ............. 2.33





CORN.





Corn prices touched the highest

point of the season at the opening this

week. The news is now mainly bull-

ish. Receipts have been largely cut

off by heavy rains throughout the corn

belt, while the demand for the grain

is rapidly developing through prospec-

tive shipments to central Europe. The

U. S. visible supply decreased 633,000

bushels last week, making the total

visible 3,374,000 bushels as compared

with 12,757,000 bushels a year ago.

Argentine strikes continue. At Detroit

N0. 2 corn sold at $1.65 at this date

in 1918. Present prices here are:



No. 3 corn $1.57

No. 3 yellow ............ 1.60

No. 4 yellow ............ 1.57

No. 5 yellow ............ 1.55

No. 3 white 1.59



Chicago.» Shorts hastened to replen-

ish their supplies this week when the

trading took a strong bullish turn and

prices advanced to the following: No.

3 yellow $1.561/2@1.58; No. 4 yellow

$1.54@1.55; No. 5 yellow $1.49@1.50;

May $1.43%; July $13514.





OATS.





This deal followed the trend of corn

with prices on the local market show-

ing a one cent advance over the close

of last week. Bad roads have reduced

receipts at country elevators. Farm-

ers are generally dissatisfied with the

price now being paid. The visible, sup

ply shows a decrease of 608,000 bush-

els for the week. Rains are delaying

‘seeding in the Ohio and Missouri val-

leys. A year ago the grain was selling

on local market at 950 for standard.

Present Detroit prices are: .



Standard .................. 661/2

No. 3 white ......... . ..... 66

N0. 4 white ............... 6r





RYE. °





Further advances follow renewed

buying in rye circles. An active ex—

‘.port demand has developed since cen-

tral European peoples are especially

partial to this grain. On the local mar-

ket the price is now bid up to $1.60

for cash No. 2. -





BARLEY.





There is a good export demand for

barley and prices are higher as fol-

lows: Cash No. 3, $2,792.10; No. 4,

$1.90@1.95 per cwt.





BEANS.





While the prices are holding about

steady with a week ago and the move-

ment is draggy, a general belief pre-

vails that, with the early opening of

European markets and the lifting of

government. embargoes, the demand

for this product should show im-

provement. It is reported that a

steamer carried 70.000 bags of beans

from New York to Antwerp and anoth-

er takes nearly 25,000 bags from this

country to Genoa. By opening up the

foreign outlet and by prevailing upon

American retailers to reduce prices to

consumers, relief from the present in-

InNew

York pea beans of choice grade are

j quoted at $7@7.25 and medium choice

‘.at $7.25 per cwt. A heavy supply is

reported at Chicago with the product

moving slowly at $675097 for machine-

-picked pea beans, and extra fancv



and-picked demanding a sharp premi-

32:1 over these figures. Some Michigan

Ufbbers who a. fortnight ago were of-

fering $5 have advanced price to $6.

The Detroit market is doing nothing;





FEEDS.





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$45; standard middlings $46; fine mid-

dlings $48; coarse corn meal $60;

cracked corn $62; chopped feed $50 per

ton 'in 100-lb. sacks to jobbers.





SEEDS.





Another advance in seed values is

reported. Prices are: Prime red clo-

ver $27.50; alsi‘ke $19.75; timothy $5.





' HAY. .





The hay market is higher with sup-

plies limited. No. 1 timothy‘$28.50@

29; standard timothy $27.50@38; No.

2 timothy $26.507jt27; No. 1 clover at

$25.50@26.



Pittsburgh.—~The demand for hay is

improving and prices are higher, as

follows: No. 1 timothy $30.5062331;

No. 1 light mixed $..8.50@29.50; No. 1

clover mixed $29@29.50; No. 1 clover

$28.50@29. '





POTATOES.





The tone of the potato market con-

tinues about steady, with narrow fluc-

tuations. Forty-six cars moved from

Michigan points last Saturday and on

the same day sixteen cars were import-

ed from Canada. On the Detroit mar-

ket U. S. grade No. ] are selling .at

$2.60 per 150-lb. sack; in New York the

same grade is $2.75; at ‘ Columbus

$2.75; at Pittsburgh $2.70; at. Cleve-

land $1.85 per cwt; at Buffalo $1.75;

at Philadelphia $1.50; at Cincinnati

$1.757i‘l.85; at lndianapolis $1.80; at

(‘hicago the same grade from Wis—

consin brings $1.75@1.85. Michi-

gan growers are receiving $1@1.15 per





cwt.‘ at Warehouses. Receipts from the

growers are-very light. - g ,





' BUTTER.





The improved demand for condensed





.milkis undoubtedlyplaying a fpart in





the advance for butter prices. ‘On' the

local market fresh creamery stock is





, selling to jobbers at '60 1/261‘, 62c per‘





pound. Butter is higher in Chicago

with 'creamerytgra'des at 55@63. The

New York price .range‘is 63@671/2c;

in Philadelphia western cream’ery/ex-

tra is quoted ,at' 67c. ' *





CHEESE. ,





Cheese prices advanced sharply

last week in harmony with the change,

in butter values. The movement has

been fairly active especially on export

account, as France and the Scandinav-

ian countries are coming'into the mar-..

ket. At Detroit Michigan flats bring

30c; single daisies 301/2c; brick 281/530;

longhorns 32





PCOULTRY.





The demand is active with desirable

hens and chickens especially wanted.

The market for live stuff is firm aS'folf

lows: 'No. 1 springs 33@34c; .stags

26@27c; hens 33@34c;

@32c; roosters 23617240; geese 24@

250;, ducks 400; turkeys 35@360.





EGGS.





Egg values advanced slightly since

the report of last week, but are again

on the decline. At Detroit fresh extra

firsts in new cases are taken by job-





 





 





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Reports for Thursday, March 20th





BUFFALO. V





Hogs sold up to $20.25 today and

pigs at $19. Lambs are going at $21.25

(41121.50 and calves at $19. The cattle

trade is steady with yesterday.





DETROIT





Cattle.





Canners steady; all other grades ac-

tive and 25c higher.

Best heavy steers ........ $15.00@16.50

Best handy wt’ bu strs... 13.50@14.50

Mixed steers and heifers. . 12.00@14.00

Handy light butchers. . .. 11.()0@_12.00

Light butchers ........... 8507111000

Best cows .............. 10.00@11.50

Butcher cows 8.00:0)

Cutters . ...... .. 7.00@ 7.25

Canners 6.0071) 6.75

Best heavy bulls . 9507311000

Bologna bulls 8.50717 9.00

Stock bulls 7.50@ 8.50

Feeders 9.00@11.00

Stockers .. 8.00@10.00

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 65@ 125



- Veal Calves.



Market steady.



Best ................. ,. . . .$17.00@18.00

Others .................. 10.00@14.00

Sheep and Lambs.



Market strong.

Best lambs $

Fair lambs .......... 18.00@19.00

Light to common lambs.. 1400(«01650

Fair to good sheep ...... . 13.00@13.75

7.00,@ 9.00





20.00





Market strong

Pigs

Mixed





. . . .$18.00@18.25



........ 19.25@19.50



CHICAGO. '

Hogs. "



Estimated receipts today 33,000;

holdover 3,053; market fully steady

with yesterday’s close. Bulk of sales

at $19.35@19.70; heavy; 250 lbs. up,

medium, good and choice at $19.65@

19.80; medium, 200 to 250 lbs, medi-

um, good and choice $19.50@19.70;

light. 150 to 200 lbs. common, medium,

good and choice $18.85@19.65; light

lights, 130 to 150 lbs, common, medium,

good and choice $17.50@18.75; heavy

packing sows, 250 lbs up, smooth at

$18.50@19; packing sows, 200 lbs up,

rough $17.25@18.25; pigs, 130 lbs dov’vn

medium, good and choice $16.75@

17.50. _ _ -



Cattle. ,



Estimated receipts today are;15_,000.

Choice butchers, she ~ stock/and best

steers steadY; all anther .cattle j and

calves, 25@t0c.g [critterr '1. Beef- steers



hes we _. "*1’49927195,





9.00 ,





rpigs $19.





"25c hi ' ‘er.

‘$1§:.59@l5.- ,-, .





up, choice and prime $18@20.25; medi-

um and good $13.25@18.25; common

$7.75@13.25; light ,weight,‘ 1,100 lbs.

down, good and choice $15@ls.75;

common and medium $10@15; butcher

cattle, heifers, common, medium, good

and choice $7.23(¢g15.25; coWs, com-

mon, medium, good and choice $7 @15;

bulls, bologna and beef $8.25@12.75;

canners and cutters, cows and heifers

$5.50@7; canners steers $7@10; veal

calves, light and handyweight, medium,

good and choice $14@17; feeder steers

common, medium, good and choice at

$3.23@15; stocker steers, common, me-

dium, good and choice $8@12.75.

Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today are 17,000.

Opening slow but first sales are steady.

Most of the packers bidding lower.

Lambs, 84 lbs down, medium, good,

choice and price $18.85@21; do 85 lbs

up, medium, good, choice and prime

$18.50@20.90; do culls and common at

$15.50@18.25; yearling wethers, medi-

um, good, choice and prime $16@19;

ewes, medium, good and choice $12@

15; do culls and common $6.25@11.25;

feeder lambs, medium, good and choice

$17.25,@18.35. '





BUFFALO. .

Wednesday, March 19.

Cattle.



Receipts five cars; market steady.

Prime Steers $17.50@19; fair to good

$16.25@16.50; plain and medium $12@

13.50; coarse; and common $10.25@

10.75;' prime yearlings $16‘@17; best

handy steers $14.50@15; fair to good

3135031314; light and common $10@11;

best heavy heifers $‘12@13; good

butcher heifers $11@12; fair butcher

heifers $10;50@11; light common $8@

9; best fat cows $10.50'@11; good

butcher cows $9@10; medium to" fair

$7.75@8.50; cutters $6@6‘.50; canners

$5.25@5.50; old rims $4494.25; fancy

heavy bulls $11@11.50; good butcher

bulls $10.25@10.50; sausagewbulls $8@

9; light bulls $7.50@8:_ .best' feeding

steers $10.50@11; common‘to fair at

$8@9.50; best stockers §8.70@9.2.5:

fairvto good $8.25@8.75~;'comm0n $5,_@

7; milkers and saringersfi$75©15m ' ‘





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higher. , Heavy and. yorkeramg $20.25:





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_ . , , ‘ yank grog-1.409.000

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Lambs-$21 5: readings. on 3-,





here at -4017“ and fresh firsts‘at 400. _

Chicago prices“ are 38%@38%c ‘ for, -

firsts, and ‘37%@3Sc for the ordinary.

firsts. .In New’ ork nearby western'

stock is ducted at 42@47c. In Phil-

adelphia weStern.extra firsts and firsts.

are quoted at $12@12.30 per case. '

-._ GRAND RAPIDS



nye has been moving freely all the,

season and overseas shipment orders

out of Grand Rapids have'been be-

tween 20,000 and 25,000 bushels. Milk

ing firms pay growers91cper bushel.’

There has been a. free movement-of

potatoes the past week .butthe prices

showed-no change from the previous

week at.$1@1.15 per, cwt. .Bean are

still dull and jmovement light. \ eal-'

,e‘rs'offer growers «$6 per cwt. for Mi'ch-.

iga’nwhite. Demand for. cabbage and ,

"onions has practically exhausted Mich~

igan grown in this section of the state;

There is yetrsome wheat in farmers’

hands. .Under some changes in the

government rulings «last Week, millers

pay"$2.33 ‘for No. 2 red and $2.31 for,

N0. 1 white, per cwt. W'estern Michi-

gan potato and fruit growers are en~

deavoring to form an“ association for

the purpose of improving marketing

conditions. A m'eeting‘will be held at

St. Joseph on Tuesday, under-the aus-

pices of the Michigan Fruit Packers’

Association.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Very little trading is done on our 10-

cal market with prices generally held

ing firm. Apples are selling all the

wayfrom $2@4.50 per bushel;‘ white

cabbage $1@1.25; red cabbage $1.25@

1.75; potatoes 95c@$1; onions $201) .

2.50; turnips $1.25@1.50; navy beans

7.@71/éc per pound; country butter 600;

dressed pork 22611230; eggs 45@500.





HOG PRICES.

__‘._ ,



The reCent boom in swine prices

makes prices paid in recent year look

low, and yet they were far above the

prices recorded in normal times. Top

hogs brought one year ago $17.80, two

years ago $14.95, three years ago $9.75

and four years ago $6.95. Pigs are

marketed very sparingly, few farmers,

caring to sacrifice healthy growing

pigs at this time. Provisions have had

an enormous boom in prices, following

the same course as hogs, and in a sin-

gle week pork advanced $4.50 a barrel,

with lard and ribs showing similar up-

turns under heavy buying. Pork has

sold a number of times of late as

much as $1 higher in a day. The‘for—

eign demand for American lard and

cured hog meats is on an enormous

scale, far exceeding all past high rec-

ords,. and it is expected to continue

heavy for a long time ahead. ‘





NEWS- OF THE WEEK.





(Continued from page 450).

who suffered losses when the steam-

ship Lusitania was sunk by German

submarine in May, 1915.

Tuesday, March 18.





EMBERS of the American Ex-



peditionary Force are forming a

society of the veterans of the great

war at a meeting in Paris—Dr. Von

Kuehlmann, former foreign minister of

Germany, is quoted assaying that the

Germans will be in Paris by 1925, and»

that Germany is recuperatingfaster

than is generally thought—Finland

recognizes Poland as an independent

nation—Surplus canned goods inthe

hands of the War Department Will be

used. up and not turned back into com—

mercial , channels.-——Steamers building

on the Great Lakes will be ready. to

.move 2,500,000 bushels ‘df grain, as.

,soon as navigation openers—New York

and New Jersey breweries declare they

will resume making. beer containing

two and three-foufthsper cent alcohol

in; spite of the ruling *of the internal

revenue department.—~—Flco’ds in the

Saginaw valley take four-lives and de-

stroy thousands of * dollars worth. of

property.- f ' ’





Herr .vonfBra‘un'saidj} many Wyn :





tons. pit-g; . '

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monthlyaimuortazt
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fleece!- faces for these ranged from

$1.2!!!” quarter-bloods to $1.70 for de-

tainee. Dealers are soliciting consign-

ments in producing states with a now

her of mauve agreements reported



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0mm organizations have gone on

record as flavoring consignments. Very

little m wool combs to the

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mlow in stock at the beginning or.

the week thedenwnd from these scare-4

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week. j ' 'h‘nwe beenheavy be-- ’-





cause at the of last week’s.

which was holdup because of;



he active 10-,



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190m but reserve. stockslhero beam

need to a considerable extent. Severalj

thousand ‘pne‘lmges of .butter have:

been on during the week for

delivery in Scandinavian countries; and

France. he a whole. the week has

been very satisfactory and quotations

on an Where advanced fully 35c"

Theme continues to be a marked sear-‘

city at unsalted butter in spite of the

fact that several cariots have men re-1

ceived‘ during the week. At the close1

yesterday established quotations were

as follows: Extras 611,50; higher scor-

iu than extras ~62@-621,éc; firsts 58%,

66h; seconds 54@571,§c. Unsalted.

butter is selling at a differential of

from 3@5’;§c over the prices of salted

butter. . ' a



Cheese—The cheese market has

been active throughout the week. Re-

ceipts have shown a decided increase:

but have cleaned up remarkably. Do-‘

mestlc trade is good and there has

been active buying by, exporters. The:

export activity seems to be limited to,

the Scandinavian countries and France

but indications are that other coun-

tries will soon- be in the market and an

active cheese trade is expected

throughout the season. High quality

held cheese findslready sale at 37@38c.

Average quality held cheese is quoted

at‘35%@36c. High quality cheese, cur-

rent make, is quoted-at 32%@83c. .Av-

frogs run is selling at about half cent

ess.



_Eggs.-—The irregularity of the egg

market still continues because of the

arrival ' of large quantities. However,

demand has been good and accumula-





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tions are no greater than can be ex~ ,





pected at this season with receipts

high and the price' high. There has

been considerable export buying al-

though that slowed down considerably

because of a cable from England or-

edrlng a cessation-of buying because

of- .increasingsupplies from Ireland.

The first of the week witnessed a weak

market but the demand has caused a

strengthened condition. At the close

firsts are selling at 401/3@42c; extra

firsts at 42@43c; extras at 4335c.





Poultry—Receipts have been fairly

heavy during the'we-ek. The market

was weak at-t-he outset but is stronger

at the close. Good heavy fowls are

selling at, 36c; high Quality chickens

at 32c; stags at '22@28c; old roosters

at 22c. Turkeys are quotedat 32@400;

ducks ,40c; geese 21@22b. " -» ‘





 





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knew-d not'oniy?'to‘ dean up all current





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.' Why does Swift 8:- Company

sell poultry, eggs, and butter?





. For the same reason, Mr. Farmer,

that your R. F. D; postman now

brings your packageses well as

your letters.





He used to bring only letters; but

since he makes his rounds every

day and. has the necessary rig or

“flivver,” Uncle Sam decided to use

more fully his dine and equipment

by handling parcels.





Years ago Swift & Company built

up a nation-Wide, distributing or-

ganization, including thousands of

refrigerator cars and hundreds of

branch houses with refrigerator





equipment, for the marketing of-





meats. And none of this equip-





ment was being used to maximum





capacity.





‘What more natural than that

Swift & Company should take on

other perishable products, such as

poultry, butter, and eggs?





Swift & Company, U. S. A. g '

Established 1868 . - ' '

A nation-wide organization owned by more than 25,000 stockholders:





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Also—those products are sold by

the same salesmen that sell our

meats; they are hauled in the same

delivery wagons; the same clerks

make out the bills; and they go to

the same class of retail dealers.





Also—these retailers are equipped



to handle perishable products and .

want to be able to buy poultry,

butter, and eggs, of us. And con-

sumers like to buy them from the

, same retailer that sells meat.





As a result, our vast organization

is more economically utilized—and

at the same tithe we render a val-

uable service to you, Mr. Farmer.





We make the cash market for

your poultry, butter, and eggs

more steady. ’





We broaden the outlet for your

goods, because our organization

reaches every important consum—

ing center in the country. /





 





 





 





 





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What is yOur Lunmcs'rmw COST 3 year. You can

save a large per cent- ol your oil bill by , yin direct





Will buy guild salary inexperienced H I S C 445 R. n &

wanted: furm muuu er take full charge of V 0 mes, lllwe 0., l.” e

Inn" dairy farm right near )etmit. Good house- up- _

“fading bag-n6 a e31 uiplmept. d d It or 0.1900.

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iron: refiner. We cater exclusively to the armer‘s Man and wife no children for small Shl To The Olll Reliable flm‘ F‘r’r

wants End have an oil (or every rm Tell “5 wanted club. Mun to take care of horses. HAY g‘niel McCoffrey’s so“. .

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BRAND iotor Oil 53.45 Agwonderiul all pp 8

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Game. Highest priceeposslble obtained on arrival.



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