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VOL. CXXXIV. No. 6.

Whole Number 3489.





DETROIT MICl‘L, SATURDAY. FEB. 5, 1910.





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FARM NOTES.

Preparing for the Alfalfa Crop.





What would be the chances of getting a

catch of, alfalfa on my land? Theland

is sand ,with a gravelly bottom; no water

ever stands on the ground any length of

time; I have a mammoth clover sod to

plow under. I am thinking of covering

it with barnyard manure and plowing un-

der to the depth of six or seven inches

and then sowing wood ashes on the fur-



, rows and harrowing well and then sowing

the alfalfa and harrowing in without a

nurse crop. How deep should the alfalfa

be harrowed in?



Isabella Co. R. Romans. _





In the writer’s opinion there is very

little doubt that alfalfa sown on such a

soil as,is' described in this inquiry, and by

the method suggested by the inquirer

would make a successful stand. This

,clover sod will insure a. good mechanical

Econdition of the soil, and not a little ac-

ftual fertility is stored ‘up in the clover

roots. The addition of stable manure, as

suggested, will promote an early and

rapid growth of the young plants and.

Ewith the nitrogen contained in the clover

"roots, should make sufficient of this ele-

iment of plant food to cause a vigorous

3and early growth of the alfalfa if there

lis not sufficient of the proper bacteria in

.1 the soil to inoculate the plants quickly

‘Then by sowing on the ashes as sug-

gested and working them into the soil an

available'supply of lime which is consid—

ered essential for alfalfa will be provided,



3 as ashes contain something like 32 per

. cent of lime in one of the best forms for

plants. Then the ashes will contain con-

siderable' phosphoric acid and potash, also

in a form to be easily appropriated by the

alfalfa plants. In preparing this land,

however, care should be taken to have

the subsoil well firmed down so as to

make a good seed bed for the alfalfa.



This working of the soil in preparation

for sowing will kill the weeds that start

early, and the alfalfa should make a vig-

orous and rapid growth from the start.

It would be a wise precaution, however,

to get some earth from a successful al-

falfa field and sow on about 100 lbs. per

acre as a means of inoculating the soil

with the alfalfa bacteria. This may not

be necessary, but a permanent stand of

alfalfa cannot be secured without the pres-

ence of the bacteria, and they do not

seem to be present in a good many soils

on which alfalfa has not been previously

grown. Care _sh0u1d be taken in thus

inoculating the soil to harrow in the earth

promptly after it is sown, since. inocula'

tion will not be nearly so certain if it is

allowed'to lay on the surface, especially

in bright weather.



If more Michigan farmers who con-

template the sowing of alfalfa would pro—

pare for the crop in the manner suggest~

ed by this correspondent, we believe that

many more good stands of alfalfa would

result, and that this greatest of legumin-

ous forage crops would become much

more common upon Michigan forms. a.

result which would be greatly to the ad-

vantage of their owners and the commu—

nities in which they live,



Top Dressing Wheat.



Would you think it a good plan to

spread three or four loads of barnyard

manure to the acre on ground thatuhas

been sown to wheat last fall, or would

it possibly hurt the crop?



Tuscola Co. SUBSCRIBER.



There is no better way in which to use

stable manure than in top dressing fall

sown wheat during the winter or early

spring. It will not only prove beneficial

to the wheat crop, ‘but-will increase the

chance of getting a good seeding of clover

in it. Three or four loads, however,

would be a very light dressing even with

a manure spreader to distribute it, and it

would be quite impossible to apply this

amount evenly by hand. There need be

no fear, of injuring the wheat crop by





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Address





a considerably heavier application than

this.

Growing Potatoes on Poor Land.



I saw by The Farmer that Mr. Lillie

grew a profitable crop of potatoes on a

poor iield of a recently purchased farm.

Now, I have an exceedingly poor field of

sand on a likewise recently purchased

forty; -not worthless. drilty sand, but

simply an exhausted son. This field has

been twice to corn, never to my knowl-

edge having any manure or much clover

on it, .tnd would another year not grow

more than 100 bushels of corn on the

wholc six or seven acres. You see that it

is ctlmplctcly exhausted. Now, commer-

cial fci‘tilizoi‘. I know, would grow a good

t'l'ill) of that and secure a good catclyof

clover zit‘tcr summer fallowing it, winch

rcsulis \\'t'>t1150 get after early planted

potatoes. But can there be enough com-

mercial fertilizer of‘the right kind ap-

plied in paying quantities to secure to one

a reasonablypaying crop of potatoes m-

stend of lcavmg the ground idle all sum-

mcr'.’ .



liillsdulc Co. 31. SHAFER.



This question is not an easy one to

anchr. since much will dcpmul upon the

weathcr tonditions which picvail during

the summer. A soil which has not been

recently fertilized with stabit‘ manure and

upon which clover has no: grown for

some years. but which has been cxhuust-

ed by continued cropping, is gcncrally so

deficient in humus that it will not retain

sufficient moisture to hold the plant food

in an available condtion for the growing

plants or supply them with needed mois»

ture to insure u good crop in a droughty

season. However, if there is a good dis-

tribution of moisture thruout the summer,

enough fertilizer could be applied to grow

a profitable crop of potatoes without

doubt. On the so—called hammock lands.

of Florida, this very thing is done everv

year, since these lands are so deficient

in fertility that profitable crops can not

be grown upon them without large appli-

cations oi' commercial fertilizers. Suc~

ccsscs obtained in growing potatoes on

the wornout and abandoned lands in some

of the t-astt-rn states thru the liberal use

of commercial fertilizers also point to

the sumo conclusion, as do experiments

made :11 a numbcr of experiment stations.

Howcvcr. the fertilizer should be applied

as carly in tlw spring as punticable and

thoroly worked into the soil so that it

may lit-come available as soon as possible

for thc glowing plants. Possibly in the

case of this kind it might buy to apply

iil‘UatiIlISI and in tlic hill. Ui course, in

this kind of an experiment. one would be

more at the mercy of weather conditions

than would be the misc with soil in good

mechanical condition. However. in u.

noimal scuson, one should sort a profitable~

ci‘oD of potatoes and tho Si't‘tb‘t‘lil would hc

unusuul in which n crop count not be so-

cui'cd that would at least pay the expense

of growing.



Spring Wheat for Michigan.



Several subscribci‘s havc .I'vwcntly asked

if spring wheat can be sucw >~f:!7‘-j.' grown

in Michigni‘i and huvc sought information





us to its cultural requirements. There is

no doubt that spring wheat an be suc-

cessfully grown in Michigan. As proof

of this fact it Saginaw county grower





described his cxpcricnce with spring wheat

in the Michigan Former of August 21st,

lflflfl. He has been growing spring wheat

successfully for scveral years on a small

scale, but states that so far as yield is

conccrn<_-<l, he does not find it as satis~

factory as winter wheat. Spring wheat

has been grown to limited extent in var.

ious parts of the state with fair success

but, for the reasons above noted, has not

displaced the growing of winter wheat to

any extent. Its culture has not differed

materially from that suited to'wmter

wheat, except that it is sown in the

spring at practically the same season as

oats, and with a similar preparation of

the soil. It should be sown on a small

scale at first, if at all.
130





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THE BUSINESS SIDE OF FARMING.

.1’rices of Farm Products.



Do not think that there is any royal

road to learning or caSy plan for farmers

to regulate and denominate prices. Among

the [few reasonable, successful strikes of

labor for increased pay was among the

anthracite coal miners. The men had

prepared for this occasion, i. 0.. had the

means of living provided in anticipation,

and educated the public to the actual

condition of affairs. i. their earning

power, manner of living. eoimieusation,

etc. No two men of modern have

so well understood publicity as ’l‘heodorc

Roosevelt and John Mitchell, which after

all. is but the application of that

tural injunction, “t‘omc. let us

together.” The public esteem and confi—





t‘.





times





scrip—

reason





deuce that those aboVe mentioned have.

enjoyed together is almost unparalclcd

and the reason, apparently so simple. is





Well worth while to study on the part of

the business further.



if the farmer would carefully make an

accounting of his business. as any

poration does, and verify it by itemized

account of sales of products. offset by ex-

penditures, charge off depreciation and

losses and publish them, it would dissipate,

the glitter of great gains popularly sup-

posed to attach to farming. It now

only a little past the close of the calendar

.Vt‘ar and since the l'nitcd States census

schedules will call for the it would

be well for farmers to memo—

randa of last year's operations. it would

be of cxceedhg interest to know the av-

erage. the maximum and minimum out-

put. of 40 acre, 80 acre or bill acre farms,

the value of the farm. and the amount

paid for labor, and also the wages or sal-

ary that a farmer should have. outside

of interest on his investment. The writer

has examined into many farm accounts

with somewhat, the zeal that Mark

’l'wain‘s Puddin' Head Wilson had for tak—

mg thumb prints. and tlu- surprisingr thing

is the low by

the farnur. jury in

damage suit that the active earning

capacity of the complainant. aside from

what he owned or had invested. should be





('ttl'~





is





same

prepare





wages or salary received





A judge charged a





ll





considcrcd as the main factor in deter—

mining damages. Now, if this were ap—

plied to the farmer. what would be his





wages or salary? My own observation is

that is is reckonwd too low. The fact is that

the bushel of the pound bet-f

and the multiplicity of products and

measures should include wages of super-

intendent-e. but in the total of the inlini-





wheat, ot'





tosimals, with the calculation necessary

thi-' factor scents to get lost in the

shufllc.



The dollar sense is intuitive in than,





like cattle driven thru a desert that know





water miles away ----- smell it. feel it. or

st'tn'iething. anyhow they know it and

make a lush for the water. \\'hy boys





don‘t stay on the farms is answ'ered eas-

ily. The farms have not offered the

wages that other occupations do. Green

ticlds. immunity from the cares and vex-

:ttions of the city‘s hot and crowded tent.—

ments, the simple life. prose. poetry and

preaching all have been reasonably in-

effectual in stemming the tide toward tlu‘

city. \Nhen one trios to add to each

of the farm products sold. wages of sup-

t'l‘illlt‘lltlt‘l’lt‘f‘, it is like the of the.

centipede who tried to determine the

ordcr of the movement of his feet and he-

came paralyzed in the calculation. "ht-re

to be ol.l time ditty that “No

one so well the farmer knows. how

ttcll peas, beans and barley grows." This

might be paraphrased to read. “no one

so Wt'li as the farmer knows how big

small salary looks.”

()ne of the generally

points of industry is that it should include

those injured or





story





used an





21%





ll





conceded newor

protit to ct'unpcnsalc

ctipplcd in the. line of service. Labor or«

ganizations have made this tenet of

faith, and it is now a recognized liability

almost all industries. Since farming

become so much a matter ma-

t‘illllt’l‘y the fatalities and injuries are

largely augmented. Every neighborhood

has its corn shredder victim, and while no

statistics are available, remttable phy-

sicians estimate farm casualties to exceed

those of railroads. But. like the problem

ot‘ salarv for farm superintcndcnce, there

seems to be no solution of the problem

as to how to include cost of casualties in

the price of the products of the. farm.



These paragraphs are written to serve

a double purpose. viz., to call out some.

scientific suggestions as to including farm

superintendenee and casualties in the

price; and also that farmers might base,

the present advanced prices of farm pro-

ducts on grounds of equality in compari-

son with other industries.





it





in





has Of





The use of publicity is like the quality





, of mercy; it blesses or enlightens not only





'he who gives but he who receives. ‘Much

of the erroneous idea of farm production

is gathered from the. boastful and he who

delights in exaggeration. Never less than

forty bushels of wheat. three tons of .hay





to the acre and four hundred bushels of

potatoes, is a general conclusion. based

on isolated instances. There are Dr.





(‘ook's in farm life, but.unfortunately no

accommodating Danish institution of

learning to examine the data.



(the of the ditiicultics

("ommerce Commission was that railroads

had no uniformity in their systems of ac,-

eounting. This was remedied, so that the

exact relations of- cost to

now ascertained. Advanced ideas

accounting now make it poss‘ble for sta-

tisticians to calculate the





be





ty or local purposes is divided into.





poor maintenance,

is that it holds 0H1—





“11'

ct t‘.





court expenses,

The advantage





cials to a stricter sense of economy, be—j

caust- comparisons can easily be made.

So that the public may know and judge‘

as to farm prices for the year 1909, I

:llnpt-llti a statement of a most reputable

and careful farmer from 1.13 acres of

land. opt-ratml as a dairy farm. The

acreage excludes woodlot area.



Receipts.



iVlilk sold from lit cows .......... $1791.73

(‘alvcs ........................... :wtt

\\'ool ............................. 49.x” ,

liambs sold ..................... . 98.7‘7‘

Five lambs kept in llock ......... 23.00

increase in young slot-k ......... 45.00

rliay sold ......................... 15.00

Potatoes ......................... 9.90

Apples ........................... 25.15

.l’ork sold ........................ till?»

ill-ans ............................ 17.0.7

ltifls’s and chickens .............. 47.30

Sheep ............................ 11.6“

lncidcntals ....................... 2mm



’l‘otal ........................... RAKE-1.12



Expenditures.





lt‘arm rental at who per acre”...

Labor per year, 1 titan and wife”

Silo tilliug and threshing

lnt-idcntals of seed. fertilizer.



repairs, etc.

’l‘aXes and t'cnt-ing





 





l't't'tl.





200.00

1”(.l.t)l)





’l‘otal ........................... Eigzntim





Balance "s 6791':





The analysis of the balance. viz.. $679.12

suth-t-t we might have

(livcrse opinions. ll' allowance Were nu-ule

t'or ordinary labor, there would be

$2.00 per day. if anima.

or the ordinary aver-

t-alt.‘ulal0d. this

l't‘dllt’t'tt much



There wtre from the failure

milk buying concern which. as a



of fact. equaled K per ol' the

proceeds. The usual argument that

had his living off the farm

swered the fact that he lived on

adjoining farm which, from a statistital

standpoint, would offer no offset in that

line. The rental of the farm at 555,01) per

acre includes the use of all personal prop—

uscd in operating. in which tilt'l‘t‘

percentage of annual depre-





is a upon which

some-

where about

(liSt‘tifit‘; accidents.

were





been





age losses item





would have lower,





losses of a

mattt r



gross

thzs

an‘





it”





('t‘lll

man is

by





erty

is a large

elation.

However mtu'tit‘ying to our pride the

fact may Le, farmers are, not. compensat—

ed proportionately to their services, at

the present time when they are attempt—





ing to establish a new standard, the other ,





workers and social factors raise their





voiecs in horror and actually stop t‘lltllt‘:‘?





meat. or think they will. for a brief spell

which undoubtedly will be very brief. If

the proposition was not so overwhel-





iitliculous the farmers might

voke the Sherman anti—trust law and set

cure an injunction as in the lint-ks Stove

wherein the famous. “\‘s'e

patronize you" would be supplanted

drn‘t eat meat.”



no prt'uluctive business

farming in





mineg





(‘ompanv case,

dont

by "we



'l‘hcl‘c is

\voild that





in thtL





equals absolute





economics, 1. e.. no extravagances: there

is constant attention to details and with

this actual. penurious. pinching. where





everybody of the family Works. The, wo-

men do the cooking, board the hired help

and the poultry and the boys all

contribute their labor. The average suc-

sttgar beet factory of 500 or 6th

tons capacity represents approximately}

an equal capitalization that the acres tf

the annual crop of beets grown for it

would be worth; equal partners. so to

speak, if the capital necessary to operate

it were totaled and one-half devoted to

the factory and the other half to owning

the land. Now apply

superintendent-e to the acres and see the

outcome No factory can raise beets as

cheaply as can the farmer. If it were

otherwise the whole business of produc-

tion and manufacturing would be con-T

trolled. Several large manufacturing in-i





raise





cessl‘lll





THE NIICHIGAN EARMER.





of the Interstate





operation can‘[

in .





exact amount.

that :1 dollar of taxes paid for state. coun-

If t

for county purposes, a certain percentage:





in-.





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Just give the wheel a turn—and a whole string of your other mac

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One great advantage of these engines is their ever readiness. They





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There are hundreds of places where you would like to usea power—some-

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The expense is only a few cents for gasoline for the whole day's work.

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You need an I. H. C. engine to take the short cut on your work. Figure

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FEB. 5, 1910.



."\..:r .

stitutions own their own iron ore de-

posits; coal mines and standing timber,

but have newer gone so far as to want to

own land to grow food products to feed

_their employee for the reasons noted.

.In the language of Solomon, there has

“been no end in the making of books"

devoted to the literature of agriculture.

Bulletins on every conceivable subject

from boll weevil to cutting up beef have

been issued, but I am unable to find any-

economics of the farm in the sense that

“System” has applied it to industries

termed business. Common language ap-

proves the expression of a man quitting

farming, and going into business, pre-

sumably because farming was not busi-

nesslike. Publicity could be used to edu-

cate not only the farmer but all industrial

society to recognize increased wages of

superintendent-e in farming. Short term

courses in agriculture, as well as the

regular courses, could advantageously

construct some of the fabrics of farm

econOmiCS and analyze as well as con--

struct a unifOrm system of farm account-

ing to include wages of superintendence

and casualties. JAS. N. MCBRIDE.





SOWING ALFALFA WITH CLOVER

IN WHEAT.



In the further consideration of the in-

quiry by C. C. 8., in January 22 issue of

The Farmer, I wish to say that, in my

experience, such method of seeding has

been very unsatisfactory, especially if

sown on the surface of the ground.



June clover, when sewn on the. surface

of the ground, on any of our heavier

soils, will, if the weather continues wet,

effect an entrance into the soil. Even if

the ground is so hard that the point of

the root fails to effect an entrance, my—

riads of small side roots will start, that

look more like mold than rootlets and

some of these will gain an entrance into

the soil and in a few days the plant is

established. Sandy land is so much more

apt to dry out rapidly after rains, on the

immediate surface, that J-une clover will

not s’o readily become established, as on

the heavier soils.



Alfalfa never gains an entrance into the

soil in this manner; in fact, if sown on

the surface 'of the ground, I do not think

one seed in twenty will usually become

established. Neither do I think it ad—

visable to sow alfalfa seed in any nurse

crop unless sown at the

with it.



For the purposes of inoculation C. C.

S. may derive some benefit by mixing two

pounds of alfalfa seed with his June

clover seed and sowing with a. disk drill

or in some other manner that will insure

a covering of the seed. but he must not

be surprised if he does not get a plant of

it to the square rod, altho if sown early

and the wheat is a light growth or a thin

stand, it may be more successful,



But why not sow alfalfa seed in the

fall with the wheat? I know of a number

of good stands that have been obtained

in this way. As far north as Saginaw

county I would think the snow covering

would be sufficient to give a good protec~

tion during winter.



A year ago last fall my wheat was sown

early and when the ground was too dry

to germinate it and continued so dry all

the fall that, what wheat did not rot in

the ground, made such a weakly growth

that the ground scemcd almost bare over

a. large portion of it, and the winter

nearly ruined what there was left of it

The ground was bare nearly all winter

and froze and thaWed a great many times

during the winter. Yet a number of al-

falfa plants, that must have come from

a few seeds left in the drill from a former

seeding, came thru the winter in good

shape and made a fine growth during the

summer, altho the wheat also made a

good growth yielding more than twenty-

eight bushels per acre.



Last fall I sowed sixteen acres of my

wheat ground to alfalfa, using four and

one-half pounds of seed per acre and from

present indications will have a good

stand, altho the alfalfa may seriously in-

jure the yield of wheat.



In fall seeding of alfalfa in wheat there

are a few requirements that should be

very carefully observed. Most farmers

sow the clover seed broadcast and the

wheat in drills. This I think a serious

mistake. If the root of the clover is

mingled with the wheat roots it is almost

impossible for it to become heaved out

by the frost, while if sown broadcast each

clover plant stands alone unprotected, and

is much more liable to heave.



The ground should be plowed early,

when moi-st, if possible, and if well har-

rowed, and every possible means em-

ployed to secure a firm seed bed as al-





 





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.,





falfa, as well as all other small seeds

seem to do much better when the ground

is firmed below, besides the seed must

not be sowed too deep, not over an inch,

and preferably with a drill that packs the

soil still more as a shoe or a roller drill

as against the disk or spike drills.



In getting a successful stand of alfalfa

much depends on a proper fitting of the

seed bed and sewing of the seed.



Most writers advocate the sowing of

fifteen to twenty pounds of seed per

acre, yet, during the past summer Joseph

E. Wing stated “that it would seem that

when properly drilled in, four pounds of

seed is enough.”





Cass Co. F. E. SMITH.





 





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Not infrequently the automobile manti-

facturer or his salesman is asked the

questions, ”who do you sell your automo-

biles to?” and “have the farmers begun

to buy yet?" He has his answer ready

and it is to the effect that the farmer is

buying cars, that he is buying intelligently

and that at least one-half of the vehicles

sold are for country use. If it so happens

that a city man has made this inquiry

about country business he generally takes

a step backward and opens his eyes wide.

The .fact is. few city people who are not

close to the selling department of the au-

tomobile industry know how important a

factor the automobile is becoming to the

life of those who live in the country, in

their business and pleasure, and in utili-

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tion of all resources.



A man who is identified with the mar-

keting of medium priced cars in the

Thumb of Michigan reports that he has

thirty orders in sight for the month of

,February. Less than'six months ago a

man from a small town in Ohio bot l20

low priced cars selling in the neighborhood

of $600 to $1,200. One of the very large

concerns making a specialty of delivery

wagons, trucks, ctc., gives the informa—

tion that farmers in the states of Illinois

and Indiana, and in other sections where.

the roads are good, have hot commercial

cars for marketing grains and produce.



As yet there is no type of automobile

that is built for exclusive country use and

that is at the same time particularly suc-

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the country if it will do in the country

what is required of it. An automobile is

seldom accepted by a city man unless it

can do country work for the reason that

theicity nian finds his pleasure largely in

the subuibs and in the country. An au-

tomobile built for the country which will

not do as good work as one built for the

city is, surely, not what the country

needs. The present country demand is

for a car that will travel, carry a load

and stand hard usage, and that is the

kind the farmers are buying.



In the country there are times where

from the sheer logic of economy the

farmer is persuaded to buy an automobile.

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BOARDING HIRED HELP.





If there is one thing in which the farm-

cr has not been enlightened it is in the

matter of boarding hired help for. as a

rule, he still does it' in the same old way.

No one who has ever tried it can fail to

appreciate the cost. inconvenience. vexa~

tion and in many cases utter humiliation

in quartering hired help by the year. Not

that farm help is more evily disposed

than any other but it inevitably comes

into such close relations with the farin-

er‘s family that more or less discord natu-

rally prevails.



The city bus‘ncss man does not board

his help. Perhaps it is more excusable

in the case of the farmer but I doubt

whether it is any more congenial for the

latter than for the city man. The farmer

simply docs so because he feels that he

is obliged to, and that the only alterna—

tive would be to go without help. Any

farmer who hires very much help must

necesarily expect to have men of all dc—

scriptions whom he must house. feed and

otherwise treat Very much as equalsm-uot

as subjects.



'I know from my own experience that

even the better class of men will often

make unnecessary trouble for their cm-

ploycrs. One day While working with a

thrshing crew, I heard the lllcll ,iestiug

about the employer's family: they seemed

particularly anxious to stay at the man‘s

house for dinner, altho it was a small job

which they ought to have finished before

that time. The machine not out of order

and it proved to be of such a serious (’3)

nature that it took a long time to tix it.

So this, and that: and the other thing:

went wrongr and the upshot of it was that

they not only stayed to dinner but that in

the afternoon a shower of rain stopped

the work long cnouu‘ll so that the job

listed until supper time! I went home

thoroly disgusted. resolving to let my own

threshing; go if I couldu' have a llt-tit'l‘

tang than that to do the work. It was

the worst crew of its kind I ever sad“,

but it; simply shows the spiilt which coni-

monly ptcvails not only in threshitr:

crews but. in all others where a number

of men are employed who seem bent on

having a high old time at the farmer‘s

expense.



To have the regular hired llt-lp bo-Ird

themseIVes would greatly relieve the

burdens of the farmer‘s household. lie

could afford to pay a little lllol‘t- if they

would. It would be worth more to many

a, housewife than all the labor~savin:—:' dc-

vices combined and might go a long way

toward solving the labor problem. In

short, it would do more toward makina‘

the farmer's occupation an ideal one. Per-

haps many will say that farm help is

scarce, that the men are independent, and

that this would be an inopportunc time

to impose coaditions which they would

not be liliely to stand. And so it is. \\'e

think it safe to say that most of the help

would take French leave in short order

if the farmer should suddenly refuse to

board them, even if extra wages were

offered. But after all. the fault is very

largely in ourselves and is due to condi-

tions which in time can be overcome. If

every farmer hiringr by the year had a

snug little tenant house or cottage his

help could not only board themselycs but

there would, in my opinion. be mort- ap-

plicants for farm work. If we want more

farm help it is up to us to make the con-

litions favorable to their living in the

the country and one of the ctitnditions is

to provide hotISes for them. This is what

the managers of large manufacturing cs—

tablislnncnts do when they locate in a new

city. They often build houses for their

etnploycs which the farmer may likewise

do on a small scale. As far as my knowl-

edge and observation goes such a plan

insures the best satisfaction by all who

have tried it as a means of employing

hclp. Until we get out of the old rut the

hiring of help will be the greatest burden.



Ohio. II, E. I‘VHITE.





LIME FOR ALFALFA.





 





W'ill it prove beneficial to apply lime



to alfalfa sown last spring?

Sunscmnnn.



I think it would have been better to

have applied the lime to the land and

cultivated it in before the alfalfa was

sown. It would. of course. have had

more effect upon the young alfalfa, but

there ‘isn’t any question but that if lime

is applied with a drill or sown broadcast

on the. field next spring the alfalfa will

be benefited by such application. The

more thoroly you can mix lime or ferti-

lizer, or anything of that sort. with the

soil, the better it is for immediate results.

but the lime will gradually be carried





THE MICHIGAN ’FARMER. .





Pull Your " sum mu: m out





down to the roots of the alfalfa. by thel

rain. and the alfalfa will eventually be.

benefited by it. I know that some of the

most extensive growers of alfalfa are'

applying lime in large quantities to old,

alfalfa fields. I heard Ex-Governor Hoard





of Wisconsin, say at a dairy meeting that 400% Stronger





he was applying seven or eight tons of



ground l--mcst0ne to his old alfalfa 'fields.‘

I cannot give you any definite data show-



ing the amount of benefit received from



this application, but I do know that peo-



ple who l‘avc grown alfalfa for a consid-i

crable .cngth of time are convinced that:

the plant needs a large amount of lime.i

I heard Joseph E. “'ing, who everybody,

recognits as an alfalfa expert, and who



has given considerable thot and study for



a number of year.: to this important fotu,

age crop, say that alfalfa could be grown



successfully on the lightest sand. if that



sand was only well supplied with car-



bonate of lime and was made fertile, and

he .tttrlbutcd the failure of alfalfa on

light land largely to the fact that this

land was deficient in carbonate of lime i

It is always better to sow the litnc and:

the feitilizer, that is, the first application.

before the seed is sown, and work it well;

into the soil. You will get quicker re-i

suits. But after the alfalfa field is well,

established of course this cannot be done;

and it must be broadcasted. You Will?

get lr-ticr results the following year from‘

the lime applied next spring on top of the?

ground than you will on the first crop.



but yau will eventually receive the benefit

from It.





THE BEST METHOD OF SEEDING .

CLOVER. l

l

I noticed on the first page of the Jan-

uary 8th issue of the Michigan Farmer,

inquiry in regard to sowing clover seed

in whctt. The weather condition has a

lot to do with this. for instance, last winv

tt-r beingr an open one the best results

were obtained by sowing broadcast early

in February on bare ground. Those who;

did this in this section harvested a crop?

of hay last fall. or had a good pasture. ‘

tlthcrs who used a disc drill with grass

set-dcr attachment and drill set shallow.‘L

sowing in the spring, only got half a stand1

and some, did not get that. Il‘owever. I

think in heavy winters the last method

would be the best.

7 Cass Ct). '_ II. II. ROTH.

PREPARATION OF THE SOIL FOR I

PLANTING AND SEEDING. *





In the proper preparation of the soil

for planting and seeding, several factors

which influence good yields should be»

kept constantly in mind. Perhaps the:

first and most important of these is a'

good seed bed, wliich can be secured only

by packing;~ the sub—surface soil sutlicicntlr

to afford a union between it and the sub-

Soil which will promote the proper dis-

tribution of the soil moisture to the roots

of the arc wing crop thru the aid of capil-

lary attraction. Another Of these import-

ant factors is the proper stirring and mix-

ing of the surface soil which brings about

new combinations of soil particles and.

thru the, chemical and bacterial action

which results from this change, makes

available the latent plant food contained

in the soil. The third in importance of

the many factors of success which should

be kept in mind is the killing of the weeds

as soon as the seeds have germinated. and

the making of a suitable earth mulch oi

the surface to retain a maximum of soill

moisture for the use of growing crops.

The aacomplishment of these essentials





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>tContinued from last week).



Michigan Jersey Cattle Club.

Owing to the fact that the secretary

and treasurer‘s report book was during

this meeting and is still, somewhere in

the hands of the express company. said

oflicer unable to tell annual

meeting this was or to make a report on

the financial standing of the club. The

program while short was an excellent one

ot‘ the speakers were. present and





was which





as all

gave {mod papers.



Dr. \Vaterman on “Superior Points of

the Jersey Cow." devoted not a little time

to pointing out some of the non—superior

points of the hrceders ot‘ tlte .lerscy cow





showing wherein the brecders full to do

their duty. In the discussion that i‘o‘—

lt\\\'(‘d, it SOPllH‘tl It! llt’ lllt' tlltllllttn tilHL





.lersey breeders were, apt to take too much

for granttd when speaking of the Jersey

to those who have never had experience

with her. The good qualities with which

the breeder is thoroly familiar may not be

known to the novice. As. for instance.

the cost of production of dairy products.

Really the basic principle which we

expect to make net proilt in our dairying

business. The man feels that in

the Jersey he has a breed of cattle second

to non on the economical protlttetion of

lttlttOl‘. \\7tt lit-lie‘t't‘ tltltt tllt‘

breed should show more class in breeding

type titan ot' the other





till





.lersey





also Jet's“)?





and more an_\

ltl't‘C‘tlS.



It was also {ll‘gl‘tttl that while the large

were interesting

this was far re-

thtiryntau whr

cows for

of pounds

economically'tltls number

\‘itztl point





world—E wrting‘ records

but their use

il‘ttlll the practical



upon his

number





.‘tiltl 3"“





movtd

tltpt-ittZL- his income,

not tor

l‘llt li':‘.‘t'

be pretttuted is the

sidered by hint.

Mr. .it-nniuus.

‘ieCL "Local

lions.” us

amount.

Southwestern

til





the produced

(will

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the sub-

.\>Sti~'iit

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ttecomplisln-tl by the

Pedia’rt-etl Stock

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tail llll-‘i





dealing With





lil't'tflt'} .\





in

of Jersey





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of good. as

Michigan

which lie.

the

also.





Association, is

believe lit‘ was orizinztloi'

idea and i believe. tlt.1t. the

has bteu due largely to his energy

interest.



l\lr. l‘robcrt, on "Breeding: for Sex." de-





also

silt‘k'i‘F-<





and





livt-red :t very good paper showing cftwo

thot and much study. The only trouble

being that after nearly ptmina‘ certain





points with the experience of 13 years he

rather spoiled the effect by admitting that

this last year the calves ltad turned out

the opposite sex frotn what was expected

and planned.

.\ committee



Lillie. Dr. \Vaterman

tary. was appointed to

proposition for a Michigan (Wow Contest

and report at the next uttetina‘. which

will be held during the Dairytnen's Con—

vention in Detroit.



As stated in the secretary‘s report of

~2ret-dcrs‘ Meeting,r it was unanimmtsly

best





(“olisislin'l’ ol‘ C.

and the set-re-





investia‘atc the





of three,





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tilt:

decided that the Jersey cow was the

cow on earth for the dairyman to own.—

'1'. F. Marston. Sec.



Michigan Shropshire Breeders' Asso-



ciation.



On Thursday, January l:‘.. there was or-

Michig’au Shropshire :s‘htgtgp

Association and the following

were elected: President, C. S.

Benniugton, Mich; vice—presi—

H. Zenncr, Detroit; secretary,

Schantz, Hastings; board of di-

lion. H. E. Powell, lonia, C‘. H.





:anized a

I :reeders'

officers



fiztldwin,

dent, A.

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rectors,





Hutchinson, White Pigeon; A. C, Ander-

son, East Lansing; W'. P. Pulling, Parma,

ll, E. Reed. Howell. There are a large

number of Shropshire Breeders in this

state and this should make a strong. vig-

orous organization—V". H. Sellalltz. Sec.





FEEDING YOUNG LIVE STOCK.





Whenever a young pig. or call“, or colt

has been deprived of its mother at birth

or within a few days of such time. it be-

comes necessary, if there is no other ani~

iual of the same species that can adopt

the little orphan, to feed artificially. This

should not be done with pure or straight

cow‘s milk. in this there is far too much





casein, or curd. It may easily kill a

young pig, as well as a young human

baby, in a very short time unless diluted





; great deal.



At least twice the amount of water to

that of milk, with a little extra cream.

and a small amount of sugar should be





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





given. Little pigs can stand less milk

and- more cream, little colts a little more

sugar but not quite so much cream, and

a very young calf, that misses the heavy,

dark colored first milk that comes from

its mother‘s fresh bag, might be given a

little bit of castor oil, together with an

egg whipped up, and mixed thoroly. This

seems to be necessary to cleanse the bow~

els and remove any particles of worn-out

material: that were not necessary to the

building of bones and muscle.



The little ones should be. kept in a

warm place. They should have room to

run and exercise their limbs for this

helps them to get rid of any harmful de-

posits in their alimentary canal. They

should be fed. at first, quite often:

about once every three hours; after this.

say in about ten days, the time may be

lengthened gradually, to about three

times a day.



lt‘ smut-s develop in these, artificially

fed youngsters. give it little flour, a tea-

spoonl‘ul to a pig. three to a calt‘ or colt

and a little soda to correct the acid

stomach, but do not feed till the stomach

is distended at any one meal. Let them



California. E. M. STETsoN.





BREEDERS’ PROBLEMS.





Sill’





The. Mast Profitable Breed



Several inquiries havcu'eeently come

to hand asking some experienced sheep

breeder give an opinion on the most

profitable breed ot‘ sheep to put upon the.

farm. and his reason why. if this ones-

tlon were submitted to the sheep breed-

ers' of Michigan. there would be as many

different breeds advised. as there are

patrons of the [several improved breeds it.

the slate. Questions of a similar nature

have been recently asked with the request

that Wt' reply to them thru the columns

of The Farmer. and the. reply has always

been that the farmer contemplating going





to





into the sheep breeding“ business should

consider the conditions \t‘lilt-ll surround

hint. and then secure the particular

ltrt-etl ttlaptztble to those conditions for

which it » has a personal preference. There

is no bust bleed of sheep for all purposes.

otherwise breeders Would have found it

out long: ago, and there would now the

tint on.- iniprttyt'tl ltl‘ct'tl. whereas tllOl‘e

are a number of breeds which Michigan

fat-titers lllltl it profitable to breed upon

their farms.



I'nder the conditions which prevailed





years ago, the Merino sheep were found

to be best adapted to the general farm-

er‘s needs. They sheared a maximum

tit-eco of wool, endured hardship well and

retained their usefulness to a good old

aue. llllt with the development of the

rangtit sheep busintss, and the consequent

fall in the price of wool. very many farm-

t'ound the old Meriuos unprofitable

and went out of the sheep breeding" busi—

.I.ater. the price of



the English breeds

found ‘ln opening in this country. and

were introduced by those that they

saw in seine. particular linulislt breed if.“

sheep of the future for America. thus 2' ':

coarse wools, the (‘t'ttswtida the Lint fir»,

and the Icicestcrs. represmting its» 9.":-





CI‘H





altogether.





advanced.





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est of the mutton breeds were .343: .:~ .4"!

in various sections ‘

Sitt’opslthrs. the Horny—WEN“- :35

the Oxfords ft-nwl 231 - : ' ':-

crs. boil: item-tow Ki - -



and the demaui ' '3 ’

these brrttis Hair. 'I. 7:;

“'ith tin» later 3‘5"“?1'r" .r. “.4.- 5w”?

wool tho llan’tln’t 1. 1: ’ '1 L? .T‘

Franco and t," ;:: 7):. '. '1 , t. »-'t

because of it ~.: in: ZJ-x.‘ zut‘:



type in compare-rt “11'; ~ ,- .431 an

or Spanish Merittos, anl {was} turn: in

litany sections both for farm filli‘l rarity;

use. 3m it will be noted that, notwith-

standing the changing twnditions which

have surrounded the sheep business in





recent years. the several breeds have ap—

parently held their own, the one against

the other. and with the revival of interest

in the sheep business, all have increased

in numbers and powvlarity, some strains

of the old Merinos included.



Brietiy stated,‘ the relative advantages

of the different breeds may be summed up

as follows: The Merino types ,shear the

heaviest fleeces, stand the closest. herd-

ing, and afford a very good quality of

feeding lambs, particularly the Rambouil-

lets. The middle wool or down breeds.

so called, including the Shropshires,

Hampshircs and Oxfords mentioned above.

are perhaps more ideal in mutton quality

and afford profitable fleeces of a grade of

wool winch has in recent years brot the

highest price on the market. The coarse.

wool; mentioned above have, on account

of their large size. been extensively used

in cross-breeding in many localities, but





have never obtained the popularity with

Michigan breeders that'has been noted

with the dovvn breeds. The little South-

downs, a special mutton breed, never

became very popular here, but from too

standpoint of mutton quality, they-arc

superior to all others.



Vi'ith these points in mind, each one of

which could be enlarged upon indefinitely,

the breeder should make his choice and,

if he keeps a pure-bred flock, should ad-

here to the choice once it is made. Sheep

breeding is not given the attention which

it merits upon the average Michigan farm.

and as the western flocks disappear thru

the breaking up of the ranges. more ex-

tensive sheep 'breeding will prove neces»

sary to profitable sheep feeding, which

has been an important Michigan industry

in many localities.





 





SOME POINTS ON LAMB FEEDING.





About this time. nearly every feeder

has his lambs in the shed and is aiming

to get them ready for market as soon as

is at all possible. Most old feeders know

that there is a great deal of danger in this

rushing of things. Yet the inexperienced

man is always trying to get them on full

feed as soon as poSsible. This propensity

toward rushing thing‘s almost invariably

results in the reduction of profits.‘espec-

ially so when the self-feeder is used.



I do not wish to condemn the use of

the S(‘lf-f€(’dt’l‘, for we use it ourselves.

However, in this connection. I wish to give

“‘al‘llll‘té‘.’ to the beginner. The self feeder

is to be handled as a soft-shelled egg;

that is, very t-t‘trcfully. During the past

thirty years; of our experience in sheep-

feeding. hardly a single, year has passed





during which we have not lost a few sheep





while starting them on full feed.





Start out by filling the feeder with some‘E

eorn—blow-.





light feed such as oat-hulls,

iug's or bran and then gradually decrease

the amount of light stuff and increase the





fattening: part of the ration until the

sheep are on full feed. Such a method.»

reduces the lasses to a minimum. .»\u-:





other thing to be watched is the chokingr

up of the feeder where it drops down into





the feeding trot. That place should be

cleaned out at least once a day; otherg

wise, the feed being constantly wetted





by the saliva from the sheep. will become





pasty and block up the outlet for the;

grain. So, it‘ it is not kept clean, there‘

is dangcr of the sheep not getting any





grain for several hours. after which they

will till up, with bad results.



It ought not to be necessary to mention

the fact that an abundant supply of good

pure. water should always be on hand.

Especial emphasis should be pttt on the

“always." for if the water is there at in-

termittent hours.

likely to occur.



Feedingdambs relish a change. You

can get exceilent gains by using cornstalks





 





 





 





 





for strai- dict: but it is altogether

lib-:17 {1.21: '1 viii get better results by

r' Jilill: ‘ a little. Clover hay is‘

an . Ht '. ml ::’ all times, but it‘ you

Laie' “1"..th 1! feed evvry day. it is a

2/0.; ?i. :12 :1. t-wl a little now and then.

i" am“: --.'-. rive the feeding lambs a

f'v '~ I'.» ~ straw. Don't do it

' -'.-. or dint try to use it in place

t’ 2: a. 7‘---. bu work it in along

' 'f at. t " t'io‘fer chaff is 0ft-



f'_ .. A >14.

. . t“.’. . te ' («re teady to go, ship

.‘-..“r-: a. .a.tnb is onet- fat‘tcncd, it

:, :t'n‘r- of fut-ti to try to get him be-

'-’:.Irl a, I-rztain point. Also there is dan-

:’-. ' i.:_', it» L'wt at latnl) o'v't-rtlnislit‘tl.

Aft... n lamb rt-u hes a certain stage in

tht- lath-ulnar prom-s". a continuation of





heavy ft‘l‘tllHA‘ results in a sudden rush of

biood to the head, something akin

apoplexy in man. This disease leaves only





the wool for you to sell; and tho wool is





high at present, you want more than that

after you have used the time. labor and

feed incidental to finishing off a lamb, or

yearling.





Ohio. CLYDE A. WAUGH.





 





The wide-spread movement

beef in order to force retail prices lower

is calculated to discourage beef produc-

tion. but it now looks as tho the careful





feeder would come out attend. XVhere

short—feeding is carried on right and a





good grade of medtum-weight beeves sent

to market, profits should be remunera-

tive. but it is not so certain that 1011::

feeding will produce suitable returns. All

that sustains prices for strictly prime

heavy cattle is their great scarcity every-

where, for there is no large demand for





them. The great mistake that so many

stockmen are making is in marketing





their short-fed steers before they are fat

enough.



Kentucky distillery feeders have re-

cently bot liberal numbers of 700 to 900-

lb steers in the Chicago market at $4.40

04.63pm 100 lbs.





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writing to advertisers Justin “Sn

your ad. in the Michigan Musharrw
‘ potatoes and the buttermilk.





   





FEB. 5, 1910.





BUTITERMILK on TANKAGE FOR

onowmc PIGS.





 





Eye is 70c per bu; middlings $30 per

ton. I have several hundred bushels of

cull potatoes. At present am cooking

four bushels of chopped potatoes and 1%

bushels ground rye for plg feeds Would

it be wise to sell rye and hay middlings?

Have ear corn which I feed once a day.

At above prices for feed would you con-

sider good buttermilk from creamery at

15c per cwt. as being a wise and reason-

able feed? Would it be all right to cook

potatoes in buttermilk and thicken with

ground rye or middlings? Would digester

tankage at $40 per ton be more reason-

able than middlings at~$30 to feed with

corn and buttermilk for pigs on pasture

next summer? Would buttermilk be a

satisfactory feed for calves? How does

its feeding value compare with skim—milk?



Hillsdale Co. L. I



Cooked potatoes, ground rye and corn

do not contain a large enough per cent

of protein to get the best results in feed—

ing young growing pigs. Middlings would

be a very good feed with which to re—

place the rye as it contains nearly twice

as much protein as the rye; but even mid-

(llings, and corn and potatoes would not

make sufficient protein, because your corn

and potatoes both are deficient in pro-

tein, while middlings contain just about

the right per cent of protein. or the right

nutritive ration to make a balanced ra~

tion for young growing pigs. Therefore.

I would advise adding tankage to the

ground rye and potatoes, or, if I could

purchase the buttermilk at 15 cents a

hundred, I would use this in the place

of tankage because buttermilk is rich ii,

protein and makes a splendid ration to

help Ibalance up corn for pigs, or corn

and potatoes. The potatoes are a pretty

good starchy food if they are cooked. I

would cook the potatoes in water, then I

would make a slop out of the potatoes and

the buttermilk and feed them what they

would eat up clean of this and then feed

them their corn. Now, to have a good

balanced ration of corn and buttermilk

you want to feed about 100 lbs. of corn

to 300 lbs. of buttermilk, but since you

are feeding potatoes also which are a

starchy food, then I would not feed over

50 lbs. of corn to 300 lbs. of buttermilk,

where you make a slop out of the boiled





 





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One" Pail, or Two ?





k“ Smilimllm'

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I think your

pigs will do exceedingly well on this

and I believe with the present price of

other foods, that you could get no food

that would do you any more good for the

money than buttermilk at 15 cents per

hundred pounds. It is. in fact,

more than this as a food.





The digester tankugo [s a splendid food was sound. for. if you remember, he had a. bone spuvin on the 7/





to help balance tip a carbonaceous ration

for growing pigs, but it is a very concen-

trated food and must he used accordingly.

’l‘ankage contains from 60 per cent to 75

per cent digestible protein while butter-

milk contains only about 3.9 per cent,

consequently if you feed 300 lbs. of butter

milk with every 100 lbs. Of corn to make

:i balanced ration. you should not feed

over 15 lbs, of tankage with the same

amount of corn. 'l‘hci‘efore. if you boi‘.

up your potatoes and make slop out of

boiled potatoes and ground rye, and put

enough tankage into the mixture. so that

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we mean shelled corn rather than corn

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Or, if you do not care to figure out a

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centrated tankage into a barrel of the

boiled potatoes and rye. Mix them up

thoroly together and feed the pigs all they

will want and all they will eat up clean

of this and feed about 50 lbs. of corn to





‘ 300 or 400 lbs. of the slop.





I would not cook the potatoes in but-

termilk, but rather cook them in water

and then add the buttermilk.



I think the calves could soon get used

to buttermilk so that they would do fairly

well upon it, but of course buttermilk is

practically always sour and sometimes

not in very good condition when received

and it would not be considered a good

food for young calves. After the calves

were a month or two old they could

gradually be put on buttermilk and I

think would do well. In fact. I know that

calves have been raised on buttermilk

and have been thrifty, healthy calves.



The feeding value of buttermilk is just

about the same, practically no difference

bet-ween the feeding value of buttermilk

and the feeding value of skim-milk. If

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bit richer in protein than the ordinary

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both splendid growing foods for pigs.



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STORY QF THE BREEDS.





Chester White and o. ;I. c. swine.

iWhen, how, and by whom was the"0.‘

l. C. breed of hogs originated? Are the

individuals of this breed having blue

spots on the skin the nearest perfect?

l have heard it contended that they were

simply the common_- Chester Whites im-

proved by selection: while others say that.

they were obtained by crossing that breed

with the Poland. An authoritative reply

to the above would be greatly appreciated

by at least one of your readers.



Barry Co. C. M. H.



The history of this breed of hogs can

scarcely be more accurately or briefly

told than in the following words used by

F. D, Coburn in his work on Swine in

America.



“The Clester “’hite Breed had its be-

ginning about 1820, or slightly earlier, in

Chester county, Pennsylvania, by the use

of some white boars brot from Bedford-

Shire, England, 'for crossing upon the bet-

ter class of sows then reared in Chester

county. and mostly white. By careful

selection and mating, during the ensuing

forty years, the more painstaking of the

thrifty Quakers, who found a market in

Philadelphia for tlleir surplus swine, had

a stock quite uniform and notable in its

characteristics. These were: Length and





good size, growthiness, good breeding

qualities, remarkably quiet and gentle

dispositions, short legs, ‘ather large,





coarse ears, drooped so much as to almost

obscure the eyes. and hair usually abun-

dant and not too coarse. frequently quite

curly or wavy and always silvery while.

altho the skin itself might sometimes

showc here and there a brown spot 01

freckle.



“Following the Civil “'ar. these Penn-

sylvania hogs had a wide reputation,

which was largely added to by shrewd

advertising. As the supply was confined

to but two or three counties and was,

therefore, quite limited, the demand vas

met by shipment from speculations and

others of almost any sort of white plus

that could be found. especially if the pigs

had large cars. Nondescripts of this kind





\vcrc distriblltt'u over tl‘c country as

pure-llrcd Chester \Vhitcs, and ill consc—

iluence the reputation of the breed re-





ceived a backsct. from which it has ncver

fully rcavcred. A few of the original

breeders kept some of the pure stock, per-

scverine in its brecdinghnd improvonlent

until now thcy have bcttcr (‘hcstcrs than

were known ill the earlier the

demand for and is

steady.



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crossing:





after the close of the Civil

1101111011] ()lIiO men

("llcslcr county hogs stock found

In their locality. and the dcscondants or“

these. are. now recognized breed

somewhat distinct from the others and

dcsignltcd as the ‘Ohio Improved (,‘hcs-

lt-r,‘ or more bzicfly as the ‘0. I, (‘.’

swine. In a general way. tho-st- not

now csstntially diffcrcnt

descended wholly

ly stock,





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from the

from the (‘hestcr coun—

but it may be that the best of

them have slightly more compactucss and

a less lullberly style, fatten more quickly,

.llld reproduce thclnsclvcs with equal ccr-





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tainty. At the same time, only the man

who had reared a given animal could,

from it. appearance alone, be positive as





to which family of Chestcrs it belonged.”



“'i'th regard to the coloring men-

tioned by the inouirer, the scale of point:

adopted by the American (‘hcstcr \\'hite

tecord Association, rcads follows:

“Blue spots in skin, and black specks

shall not argue impurity of mood.” ’l‘ouch-

this point, the of

O. I. (‘. swine, adopted by the

improved ("hcsto-r Swine lli‘ccthl‘s

ciat‘ion, reads: “Black spots in hair dis-

qualify. lint blue spots in hide (freckles)





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while objectionable, do not argue im—

purity."

A BETTER SYSTEM REQUIRED IN





HORSE BREEDING.





\Yhat may properly be called a boom in

horse breeding commenced ill the middle

vest about 1870, From that time to the.

present, immense sums have been spent

annually in the purchase of imported

stallions for the improvement of our farm

draft horses, and yet, after forty years of

persistent effort. there are but very few

districts and they quite small. where any-

thing like a distinct or uniform type of

heavy horses can be found.



The reason is. no definite plan was laid

out at the start. Scarcely anyone had a

fixed type in mind. nor even made a study

of the characteristics of the different

breeds; hence a zig zag course 'has been

followed with unsatisfactory results.



“’ithout considering their fitness for

each other, stallions and mares have





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V THE, MICHIGAN PARMER.





bee-n mated. which only exaggerated the

faults to be corrected and, the blame

was placed on the stallion and a. change

made. ”Requiring mbré style and action

half—blood Perch'eron mares . have, been

crossed with rangy Coachers._ At one

time I was largely interested in English

Coachers as well as Shires, and if a buyer

came forone to breed to draft horses .I

discouraged him all I possibly could: I

explained that while a good Coacher could

be bred to roadster mares with unqual-

ified success the same horse on draft

mares would be a wretched failure; the

produce ’a lank, leggy, no class horse and

unsalable, but my best efforts often failed

—the buyer knew what he wanted and

could not be mistakcnflhencc, exit

coacher.



My advice has always been, stick to

draft stallions with grade draft mares.

If the mares are sluggish or are deficient

in bone, select a compacc, nervy Shire

with heavy, clean bone. straight easy ac-

tion and the result will be favorable ev-

ery time and you wont need a “ton"

stallion to get it either.



In going over my sale book recently,

running back thirty—five years, I find that

the most uniform, good breeders, have

weighed from 1.700 to 1,850 lbs. with

bone in proportion. The trouble with

many stallions weighing a ton or more,

is that their proportions are not correct.

or that they are out of small stock on

one side and their excessive weight pro-

duced by high feed.



Random breeding thus far followed in

America is in marked contrast to the

English system—there, a definite line was

fixed on and followed persistently, the

son taking it up where the father left

off; as a result England has three fixed





'hreetls. the finest and most prepotent in

the whole world: The thorobred racer,

the Coacher and Shire. The good they

have done in other countries where high-

class horses are bred is beyond calcu-

lation.



A great injury to the Shire breed has

been done by American importers bring-





ing inferior and unsound stallions, because





they could be bot cheap and readily sold.

Stal- .





here because of their great weight.

lions can not secure patronage in England

unless they can pass inspection of a com-

petent Vet. and produce a certificate of

absolute soundness. “Government

proval" not required in England for

the avcrage farmer is a born horseman.





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So many Shirc stallions with defective

feet and rough legs having been brot over





because unsalablc at home. has given the

impression that they are (‘ilal'ZU‘ll'l'iSllCS

of the breed, which is not correct. Shires,





as a bl'ccd, havc pcrfcct feet. otherwise:





they could not stand the country roads,

which are all macadamizcd and as severe

on feet as city pavcn‘lcnts.



Shires. as a rule, do have more hair on

their than other and

families have too much. and that course

and curly. It is not necessary to buy

them. for the most popular strains

a light growth of hair. silky in texture

and with it one always finds the Very best

quality of Iiillty bone.



Some stallions of other brecds produce

good colts if suitable mares are selected

which can not always be donc.

needed is one that will mate with all sorts

and show marked inml‘ovcment and that

one is found in the high—class tlp—to-date

Shire with short back, dccp ribs, strong

quarters and heavy fiat, flinly bonc. ’l‘hey

outrank all others in hardy, construction,

strength, natural and endurance.

“bikc begets like“ has long been a recog-

nich principle in breeding.



lllinois. G. E.





THE VALUE OF TONICS TO THE

STOCK FEEDER.



Perhaps the skillful

knows just how to encourage the appe-

tite of each animal under his care, by

feeding a variety of fccds which are nat-

urally adapted to the

petite and the healthful bodily secretions

that make for thrift and rapid growth,

may have little use for those tonic prep-

arations commonly called stock foods.

But not every feeder is a skillful feeder.

Indeed, only a very small proportion of

those who have live stock under their

care may properly be. designated as skill—

ful feed‘ers. Perhaps few of them will lay.

claim to this distinction, but regardlessé

of their own opinion, it is but necessaryi

to look at the stock under their care to

determine intelligently whether they may]

be properly called skillful feeders or not.

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come on umnus'r m Wile for pumcuhrl. '8 “s" Wm“ "001"“!





GEORGE E. BROWN. Aurora, Illinois.

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appearance of their coats and in their

every general expression. But if the feed:

or is not one Who may be properly desig-

nated as a. skillful feeder,, the animals

will show it equally plainly in their de-

jected appearance and general air of 1m—

thriftiness, which is familiar to every one

who is anything of a judge of live stock.

This large class of stock feeders. unlike

the others mentioned. have need of some

agent to promote the appetite and accel-

lerate the digestion of the animals under

their care. since they will not know just

how to provide the natural feeds in the

ration which would accomplish this result

in a natural way. The tonic stock food.

for which the skillful feeder often has an

unconcealed contempt, proves the very

agent which will, accomplish these desir-

able results for the unskilll‘ul feeder in :i

very large number of cases, and the lllilll

who notes that his stock is not doinu‘ as

well as it should. who sees their ('orliS

staring and lacking in that glossy appear-

ance characteristic of the thrifty animal,

will do well to resort to such means of

promoting a. healthy appetite and that

liberal secretion of digestive fluids which

the skillful feeder is able to secure with-

out them.





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LIVE STOCK NOTES.





 





Cattolo stock, a cross between buffalo

and cattle, is being bred on the Bruce G.

Eaton ranch in Colorado, and a fine

young .bull buffalo has been shipped there

to become the head of a herd. Cattalocs

are much valued for their meat, their

hides being much like those of buffaloes,

but their hair is of a more silky texture.



Mrs. Jane Worth, of Nebraska, mar-

keteda lot of prime hogs at Omaha re-

cently that topped the market at $8.60

per 100 lbs., averaging over $25 per head.

When hogs were selling around $8 and

everybody was selling, she figured it out‘

that prices were bound to go still higher

and that while corn was high. there would

never be a period when corn and pork

would sell very much out of proportion.



Two Minnesota shecpmen \vere on the

('hicago market recently with lambs that

sold tillfitific per 100 lbs. above what they

had expected to receive. The lambs nv-

t‘l‘nged 75 and 87 lbs. and sold at $8.60





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Inspect this'Xing of the hayfield before

buying a mowmg machine. The "Admiral."

which is the new “food Mower. has the only





genuine under-draft. There is no side-draft

nor pole Vibration to wear out your horses.

Note the draft rod in cut. with cvenerattachcd

under My tongue. It is the only machine in

the world in which tilting the guards up or

down docs not throw the cutter bar out of

perfect alignment. causing friction. These

and other exclusive features make the





WALTER A.





WOOD





MOW‘ERS AND HARVESTERS





—2e.ncral favorites with farmers everywhere.



The “Admiral" Mower (made in three

styles) is the latest \l'altcr A. Wood triumph.

the result of nearly ()1) years of Mower and

Reaper making. Our line is known. sold and

used the world over. Our written guarantee

goes with every machine.



Writ: fbr aurfru catalogue and 1mm: of nmrut dtallr.

now bzfvru you forgrt it. Our line frirludu Man/err,





Rabi. Ttda‘m. H'arvuterr. Harrnw. Cultivatorx. Ma-

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Box 232 Hoosick Falls, New 'York





 





 





and $8.75. They were dropped last April

and allowed the run of timothy and pas-

ture meadows up to the close of Novem-





ber, after which time they were put inl





corn fields. \V‘lien marketed the lambs

attracted everyone's

count of their splendid breeding and hand—

some uppcarance. Their owners always

have registered bucks to head their flocks

and give both ewes and lambs careful

attention, trimmingr and docking: lambs

from one to two \vecks after their birth.

Few such lambs are seen on the market.



The southern demand for cured hog

meats and lard is excellent. Packers are

getting big,r prices for lard. and there is a

particularly strong demand for hams.

As there. is everywhere a lively demand

for fresh pork products, hogs bring high

prices.



The railroads have been greatly hump-l

ered in moving consignments of live stock.

this winter by the extremely cold weather"

and the numerous big, old‘fzishioncd snow

storms. It is not altogether owing to

these, disturbances, however. that thesel

provokingr delays have occurred, for there:

is a great lack of motive power to move‘

the long trains of live stock, and this.

explains in great measure why stock has"

been delayed as long as twenty-four hours:

while being,r mover 50 or tit) miles to the.

Chicago stock yards. .



XV’yoming stookmcn state that the win-

ter has been unusually severe on the

range. and the rapid disappearance. of

feed has been a matter of no small con-

cern to men who have tlocks of sheep

and lambs. Stockincn are feeding their

hny (‘2,ll‘t‘flllly, tilltl if the severe weather

continues much longer. many cattle will





 





die. from exposure and starvation. A

\Vyomiiig shcepnion says: “A great many





stockmen would no doubt ship the bulk

of their stuff to market right now if they

could get transportation service. but it is

almost as hard to get stock to market as

it is to secure fowl."



'l‘licrr- bus been so much snow and se-

vere weather this winter that sheep and

lambs have not made as good gains as

usual, and it has been :in extremely un-

favorable season for out-door feeding.

t‘olorndo advices are that flocks on feed

urc doing very well compared with for-

mer years, but it is l‘t‘])Hl‘lt-tl

number on feed is only about to per cent

of last year’s feeding.



it surprises (‘hicag'o





commission men





I.» see so many half—fat sheep and lambs.





coming on the market, yet the packers

:ire buying these shipments :it such high

prices, that intending feeders stand but

little show of getting any to send back to

the country. l'sunlly. at this season.

feeders are able, to buy considerable stock

on the market at reasonable prices for

late feeding and shearing~ purposes, hilt

this winter has been an exception. and

less feeder stock has been shipped from

t_‘,liiciigo than for years.



The new Kansas t‘ity Live Stock Ex-

change building. which will not be com-

pleted bci‘orc in-xt autumn, will be the

‘argest oilice buihliliL: in that city, with

31/: acres of floor space. and will be a fit-

ling Sil‘llt‘llll‘o for the clearing house for

live stock for the trans-Mississippi coun—

try.



Down in Missouri they have been hav»

ing a cold winter. and roughage is going

to be short, according to late reports.

Feeders bot most of their corn around

55@60c a bushel, late sales being,r made

at the top price. In Boon“ county there

is a great scarcity of hogs to follow the

cattle, but in Scotland county the usual

numbers of cattle and hogs are reported





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Grins-e", Iowa. ’-_

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‘ (9) int/AN BROS.. South Bend. Ind.





Auction Sale of Jersey Game.

On Thursday, at 1 o’clock, p. m., Feb. 10, 1910,





rain or shine I will sell at auction at 'my farm on

Southfield Avenue In Birmingham (9.; mile from

l center of village) one registered Jersey bull 3 years

‘ old. 36 Jersey cows and heifers, nearly all registered,

and 6 grade cows and heifers.



VeterInary'I certificate of health of all animals

submitted. (3. K. LATHAM, Owner.



M. H. BLUNT, Auctioneer.





JACKS AND MULES.





Raise mules and get rlcli.

300 fine. large Jacks. Jen-

nies and mules. 14 to 17

hands nigh. weigh from 700

to 1500 lbs. .Good ones.

pay a part of shipping.

Mules In teams or car-

load Iota. Stock guaranteed.

Write for prices today.



. KBEKLER’B J AOK FARM

West Elkton, Ohio.





KENTUBKY MAMMUTH JABKS.





J acks. Jonnets And Saddle Horses. 260 head

to talent from. Tamworth Swine, all ages.

Catalogues now ready.



J. F. 000 A: 00.. Loxlnctou. Ky.





KENTUCKY bred Jack,9 you: old.welghs 10751ba.





Good disposition and sure. Bell for half value or

trade for horses. C. H. Elnckley, Middlevme. Mich.





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on feed.





REMEDY CO... Detroit. :Mlch., tel a how, FREE.





, fur 3:1. ..txcianwlavaga.mm,um M





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loamy.



Assume foal solar. mun Ihewor, wmmma.



Weight 1 800 tho. film my chap for ulck am,



or would axon-sue for mother soon croneron

Stallion. Ina tIon Invlte‘d. Adora:



H. L. POLLO :ur EGK. mm, Charlottehfloh.





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Imported and pure bred registered

Stations mmm . ...$400 to $1200.

Mares from.............$230I:o$600.

mm for Art Blotter. .



BURTON £300.. Kenton,0hio.

PEllllllEllflN Slfllllllltl. areas: ilfiftoif‘iiii

on, reasonable prices. 1‘. M. Southworth & Son, 11.13, Allen, Mich.



OR SALE—The Percheron Stallion, Harold N 0.





18580. Sire King of Perche Jr. 8819. Dam Fan-

vette 8803. Write GEO. L. RICH, Paw Paw. Mich.





FOR SALE-agrerearaigr





two years old, fast. F. L. KING. Charlotte. Mich.





 





 





 





 





—Horuea,Cattle.Bheep. Hogs Dogs

For sa'e or Poultry. hourly all breeds: Sires

exchanged. Southwest Michigan Pedigreed Stock

Association, R. E. Jennings. 880.. Paw Paw. Mich.





Fine Holstein Bull

FOR SALE.





A Splendid Animal. Roadyjfor Service





When you want high class stock write

or come at once.





FAIR LAWN STOOK'JFARM,





REED 8: KNOWLES





HOWELL, MICHIGAN.





PUBLIC SALE





_._QF__

HDLSTEIN GOWS

Thursdagtszeb. 24th, 1910.





Five, young reg d cowa all will have calves this

spring, Also 2 well bred bu l chives. one 4 months

old, one 14 months. Send'for Pedigree Corning.



Dr. E. L. Wilkinson 85 Sam. Jackson. Mich





LL CALF WANTED

“OI-STEIN gym to be bad In Mlcnlgnn;

0. I). WOODBURY. Lnuslnc, Michlcnu.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





BREEDIIS’ DIRECTORY. ‘

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





He (l headed by UND'ULA'I‘A BLACKBIRD

1T3 83836. one of the best none of PRINCE [TO

50006. and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit

and Grand Raplda Falra of 1907. 1908 and 1909. Herd

consists of Erlcna. Blackards. Prldea, etc.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ioulu. Mloh.





Amnmns—A Dairy Breed of much merit.

Young stock for sale—also Berk-

I«rill-e Pigs. and ten varieties highbred Cockerela.

Eggs In season. Mich. School for the Deaf. Flint.





 





 





 





 





 





l wants. E. & J. T. MILLER, Birmingham, MIch.

LONG BEACH FARM.





4O "OLSTEIN All Regis-





5 HEAD tered.



. YOUNG BULLS. all A. R. O. stock.860 and 860:



i r. s. KENFIELD, Augusta, (Kalamazoo Co.) Mich.

—BuIl calves for sale from A.



HOISteins B. O.d8mfi, at $25 to $50 each.



E. COLLIER. R. F. D. 5. Fowlervllle. Mich.





TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS.





Top Notch reglstered young Holstein Bulls com-





 





 





 





.hold and have In the past held World'l Records for

milk and butter-fat at fair prices.





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4~yr. old at $25 to 050. E. R. Cornell. Howell, Mich.





 





 





, ‘ noinnMiu smci Him, [Holstein Battle.





JACKSON. MICH.

. Hus more Imported HoloteIu-Frloshui Cows

than any form In the Middle West. Registered

. BU LL CALVES of the most fashionable breeding.





 





lHolstein Service Bulls.





Bull Calves. Yearling, two-year-old Heifers, bred.

and cows, due to freshen In spring for sale. 50 bend

Iii nerd. L. E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.





 





ll0LSTElll FBIESIAIS‘ESJLff‘ZfiSbSES

Mercedes Royal King. W. B. Jones. Oak Grovedllllch.

H I-: R EFOR 05:78.3355536235553533'.





China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mleh.





Northern Grown Jerse s.

ROYCROFT FARM. Sldnuw. Mic .





. ERBEY BULL CALF born May 12. ’09. Dam



gave 10,050]lba. milk. last your test 6%. Bire's Dam's

record 10.060 lbs. in 10}; months, test 5.2;. THE

MllRllAY—WATEBMAN (.‘o.. R. 6. Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





 





 





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allocn- County. Michiuui.





Pun Si. Lamborl JERSEYS gaggffigx‘jegyg' ”3‘3;

CLARENCE BRISTOL. Fenton. Mlch. ll.F.D.No. 5.





Jarsey Bulls, cows and "altars





1 nd and It. Lambert breeding. Also some

I” a chole- cmoc batten.





DUROC JERSEY SOWS





C lee IndIvIduoll sud popular blood Hues. Inspec-

tlgg Invited. Full Informtlon cheerfully furnished.

If you cannot vIoIt our form at once write





 





BROOKWA‘I'ER FARM. Ann Arbor, Mlch.

A. W. MUMFORD. Mon-nor.





‘ JAN. 29: lino.





time FARMSTEAD JERSEYS





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Register of Merit Jerseys. ”£3,233”

'1‘. F. MARSTO'N. Bay City. Michiaan.





DAIRY BRED SEORTHORNfi—Two bull calves

5 months old for sale price 050 each If taken





J. B. HU’MM-EL. Muon. Mlch.





sum.

Oxford - Down Sheep “33.32:“





cattle for sale. A. D. &J. A. DEGARMO. Mulr. MIch.





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also registered Hornless National Deloines and Black

top delalnes. nomeyn 0. Persona, Grand Ledgemllcng





oxrono DOWNS 5.52.513:





sale. H. J. De GARMO. B. No. 1. Clyde. Mich.





OXFORD DOWN EWES





bred to Imported rum: for sale at formers pricel.

B. F. MILLER. Flint. Mlohlcun.





. _ .

llockland Farm Mama: aggroghmgmgflggg

fight. D. E. TURNER a SONS. Kosher-ville. MIch.





130 'Reg. Rumbolllet Ewes for sale. descended

from the belt flock! and bred to a pure Van

Homeyer and o rum IIred by 3 Gilbert run And Im-

ported dam. All In perfect health. In lots to suit buy-

m—none reserved. J. Q. A. Cook. MorrIoe. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





. . —17 grade breeding ewes 85 “ohm

For sale few reg. Shropeweu $15 each. All

good young ewes. M. A. BBAY. Okemoa, Mlch.





sumnuunr IIALI. smelt FABII.





WIll make apeclol prices for thirty duya. on ewes

from He 8 your: old. I“ bred to Imported Cooper.

and Mansell runs to lamb In More): and April. also

on very chotce ewe lambs. thllll to mnke room for on

Importation that Is aolng to strive this a ring.



1.. S. DURHAM In SONS. Concord. ohlcuu.





noes.





BERKSHISE BOAR FOR SALE—Blue Dorothy’s

Ideal 2nd, dam, Oak Grove Princess. Also Jersey

Bull Calf, born Aug. 19th 1909, olred b Hood Farm

Torono. Frsamm‘on‘ runs, ntlnc, Mich.





LARGE ENGLISH 'BERKSHIBES.





Have a. fine lot of spring piss. both sexes. The type

for profitable pork production. Vigorous and strong

rind of but blood lines. Satlufuctlon guaranteed.





 





 





 





 





 





 





l-‘. A. 'BYWATER, Memphis. Mich.

BmsmnEs Eonexcelled In grelelctllngbhsflecged

____ , are. sows an s a. 0 cc all

pigs. T. V. EICKS. R. No. 11. Battle Creek. Mich.





 





type andatrnIna. C. S. BARTLETT, Pontiac, Mich.





 





 





. Breeders and Importers of high ’

mph Hldg‘ Farm class Guernseys. Write us your '





bInIng In themselves the blood of cows which now ‘





McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich. .





ERR}! ll.

BUTTER BRED ’ with...“





NORTHERN 630“ BEIKSIIIRES.





ROYCROFT FARM. Sidnnw. llllch.





 





wo Boers, do for fall Ionics. A few Gilli left. Also a. fine

lot of fall pig: randy for weaning. Either In or pairs

nojkln. A. A. PATTULLO, Dockorville, Iichipn.





 





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case in full; also name and address of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the .same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

the desired information in a reply that

has been made to some one else.





Kidney Disease—I wish .you would tell

me what to do for a six-year—old mare

that stands with right hind foot resting

on left foot. Besides, she apepars tJ

suffer pain. She attempts to urinate‘ev-

ery few minutes; therefore, I am inclined

to believe that she is Weak in back, for,

by pressing the hand on back she flinches.

She is fed hay once a day and straw

twice. This ailment first showed itself

four months ago. G. 1)., Clifford, Mich._——

Give 4 drs. citrate of lithium at a dose in

her drinking water or dissolve it in water

and mix it with feed two or three times

a. day, for a few days, then not_so often,

or in such large doses. This Will render

the urine alkaline and relieve her of itri-

tation of’the kidneys and bladder. She

should not be fed much food which con-

tains acid, such as vegetables. After you

discontinue giving lithia give 1 oz. doses

fluid extract buchu every day or two. This

will act gently on the kidneys. lie sure

and feed her a good quality of food and

supply her with clean water.



Thrush—I have. a three—year-old colt

that showed some lameness in hind foot

seven weeks ago: a portion of the frog

has dropped out and left the foot raw and

tender. I applied hoof ointment, but it

failed to help her. A. 8., Tyre, Mich.—

After applying peroxide—hydrogcn to fatty

frog, dust on some caiomel and cover the

sore with oakum and a bandage.



Canker in Dog's Ears.~I have a very

fine dog that has an eruption in his ears;

quite a number of red spots can be seen,

which makes him uneasy. B. F. S., Man-

celona, Mich.—~Dissolve 1/2 oz. baking soda

in l pt.4of water and add 30 drops carbolic

acid and apply to sores twice a day. Also

giVe 10 grs. bicarbonate soda and 4 drops

Donovan‘s solution of arsenic at a dose in

feed twice daily. If his cars are discharg-

ing pus, use, peroxide of hydrogen.



Injured Udder.—I have a valuable Jer-

sey cow that came fresh the middle of

November. She did well up to a week

ago when suddenly one quarter of her

udder became gargcty and swollen, which

made milking difficult; and lately her milk

is a little stringy, but her bag does not

appear to be tender. This cow is fed

wholesome food. such as oats, corn, fod-

der, and vegetables and is allowed to run

out three or four hours on pleasant days.

\Vhat could have brot this trouble on is

somewhat of a conundrum to me. F. L.,

Twining, Mich—It is very difficult many

times to account for a gargcty condition

of the cow's udder; however, when we

think seriously about the matter we should

not be too much surprised that a cow’s

udder should become infected. bruised 0r

inflamed. I believe your cow suffers from

bacterial infection. Apply hot campnorar—

ed oil twice a day and give four table—

spoonfuls of hypo—sulphite of soda at a

dose in feed once a day. If the udder

blocks give one dram doses of iodide of

potassium at a dose twice a day.



Roup.—The heads of my chickens are

swollen, their eyes are closed and their

heads are turning black. What shall we

do? Mrs. C. O. B., Montgomery, Mich.—

Your chickens suffer from roup and the

quicker you cut the heads off the sick

ones and thoroly disinfect their coop. the

better, for it will not pay you to treat

any of the sick ones. 'l'se kcroscne in

their roosting place. whitewash their coop,

using fresh lime, fumigate thoroly with

sulphur, or saturate the coop with a solu—

tion of formaldehyde, one part to a bun-

dred. or fumigate with a 20 per cent so-

lution. Its fumes are somewhat irritat—

ing but not dangerous. A very useful

solution of formaldehyde is made by dis—

solving one dram in a pint of water.





Looseness of Bowels.—I have a young

mare that has been troubled with loose-

ness of the bowels since last fall. I am

inclined to believe I brot this trouble.

on by feeding her too many carrots. What

had I better give her and how should

she be. fed? L. D., Frederic, Mich. Your

mare was fed too much food that con-

tained acid and perhaps she had too many

carrots. live, her 2 tablespoonfuls baking

soda. 2 tablespoonfuls of ground ginger

and 2 tablespoonfuls of prepared chalk at

a dose in feed three times a day. Feed

her oats and well—cured timothy.



Hernia.-My two—year—old colt has a

soft bunch at navel which, when pressed,

can be pushed into the body t'hru a small

hole. and I would like to know what it is

and if there is a remedy. I am an atten—

tive reader of this department of the

Michigan Farmer but have. failed to no-

tice a similar case; therefore, I hope you

will tell me 110w the. colt can be. cured.

It. \V., Port Sanilac, Mich.—Y0ur colt:

suffers from umbilical hernia (rupture).

The only treatment for suc‘h an ailment is

a surgical operation performed by an

experienced operator. The opening being

small it is not likely to hurt him and if

he was mine I should let him go until

April before I operated. There is very

little danger from this operation.



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blood spavin? My horse has had one for

'12 months. Our Vet. first treated him for

bog spavin. but later tells me it is a blood

spavin; also I would like to know the

best method of shoeing a knee-sprung

horse. H. B. S., Lakeview, Mieh.-—In ad-

dition toyour horse having a bog spavin.

he may suffer from varicose veins: how-

ever, there is no such disease as blood

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chronic bog spavin if the swelling is ex—’





tensive; however, repeated blisters will

reduce the bunch, but if the animal is not

lame I usually advise my customers to

leave them alone, and perhaps you had

better do so with yours. A knee—sprung

horse should be shod level.



Kicked by a Horse—My five-year-old

mare got kicked, making a wound on

shoulder which, when discovered I ap-

plied Deroxide of hydrogen, a few minutes

later applied carbolic acid and water, then

stitched wound. The shoulder swelled

badly, tearing out the stitches; the leg

below is quite swollen, so is the elbow

and shoulder, A portion of the hide and

muscle hangs down which I believe will

not heal. 'VVhat had I bctter do? L. H.,

Jenison, Mich. You have managed the

case very well. The leg will remain swol-

len until the wound ‘heals; cut off the

hanging portion of skin and muscle for

it never will unite, and apply equal parts

powdered alum, oxide of zinc and borac

acid twice a day.



Swollen S‘hcaths.——Three of my horses

are troubled with swollen sheaths. I am

feeding good clover hay twice daily, oat

straw once with a grain ration (accord-

ing to their weight table, under idle

rules), of oats, barley and oil meal

ground, and an appetizing of corn on

car, beets and potatoes as green fond.

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Harbor Beach, Mich.—Swullen sheath is

usually the result of an injury or lack ot





exercise. Your horses need exercise and.

if foul, Should be washed with soap and

water, but be sure and wash off all tho

soap. Give each horse 1 oz. of fluid





extract of buchu or powdered buchu at a l





dose in feed three times a. day until their

kidneys act freely, then use your own





good judgment as to how often it is ncc-t





cssary to give the medicine.



Bunch on End of ’l‘cat——llcifcr Coughs.

—How can I remove a bunch from the

end of a cow’s tcat? I have. applied io—

dine without results. I also have another

heifer that was troubled with a cough

about a year ago, but seldom cvcr coughs

now. Had I better giVo hcr medicine?

C. H, 1)., Montague, l\1ich,—-—’l‘hc bunch

you refer to should be cut off, then apply

equal parts oxide of zinc and powdered





alum once or twice a day. It is not ncc— :





essary to mcdicate your heifer that oc-

casionally coughs.



How to Prevent Milk chcr.—-~I have a

cow that has an attack of milk fever ev-

ery time she comes fresh and 1 Would like

to know if it can be. prevented? B. ll..

Park Lake, lVIlCll.——TlllS disease is almost

exclusively confined to deep milking cows

and your cow must be one of this kind.

Reduce her grain supply for thrce weeks,





before she calves and a few days after,





calving. Exercise her bcforc calving, keep

her bowels open and rather active and if





it is necessary give her some. epsom salts‘

'alves .





or raw linseed oil. \Vhen she

avoid emptying her udder completely for

a few days, milk out a portion only. By

inflating an empty udder with oxygen,

sterilized air, or a solution' of iodide of

potassium and water or salt and water

seems to be a remedy. Now, then, dairy—

mcn who are customers of mine tell me

that following this line of feeding and

milking partially prevents a recurrence

of milk fever. Every farmer who owns

large milk—producing cows should bo,‘

equipped with a milk fever outfit, in order

that thevmay fill the udder wit'h stcri—l

lized air promptly after the cow shows

symptoms of milk fever. This is gener-

ally all ihat is necessary to bring about

a recovery, except the cow should be

clothed warm. the legs bandaged after

being hand—rubbed and cold applications

applied to the top of the head. Never.

drcnch a cow while suffering from milk!

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the throat; this prevents a drench going_

very often down the wind pipe and bring-i





ing on mechanical bronchial pneumonia.

Pigs Ilave \\'orms.—Plcase give me a

formula that will rid pigs of worms, and

also state if the same remedy will do for

sheep. I have been vcry much intcrcstcd

in your veterinary rcplics and have pront-

ed by them. C. H. Y., Charlotte, Mich.~—

Every pig and every hog has worms, but

unless they have quite a few the worms





do not appear to interfere much with the1





health of the hog, but if a pig shows an

unthrifty condition, a roughness of the

coat, a dryness of the. skin and a vora—

cious appetite, you can safely call ‘him

\vormy. The least expensive remedy is





one—half teaspoonful turpentine in thrcei





or four ounces of raw linseed oil given on

an empty stomach once a day for two or





three days and if you suspect that the





hog has tapeworm give 20 drops oil male





fcrn and a tcaspoonful of powdcrcd al‘c—‘





ca—nut in 3 ozs, of raw 1insr-cd oil. This

should be given once a wcck for two or

three weeks, one dose may be. sufficient.

By mixing some ground tobacco stems or

fine. cut tobacco with the shccp’s feed it

will help prchnt them bccoming very

wormy. Also salt them well.



’I‘humps—My il—months—old

boar was

thumps, ate Vcry little for one week, was

treated by a Vet. but is not right. His

appctite is poor at times, but ravenous at

others. I would like. to know if his pro-

duce are apt to inherit his ailment? It).

\V.- M.. Ann Arbor, MiclL—Jl‘hnmps usu-

ally attack young pigs before weaning

time and the causes are none too well

understood; however, fleshy pigs that are

short of exercise arc the ones generally

affected. Your hog being nine months old

may'have indigestion and by giving him

enough epsom salts or castor oil to clean

out the stomach and bowels, he should

get well and keep his bowels open. He

should be obliged to exercise and it is also

important to keep him in a dry, warm

place. The causes that produce colic

will produce a spasm 'of the diaphragm

(thumps). Give him a teaspoonful of

ground gentian and a tablespoonful of

ground ginger at a dose in feed twice a





day.





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THE FOUNDATION OF THE TURKEY

FLOCK.





 





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The unprecedented price obtained for

market turkeys in Michigan, during the

holiday season just past. has renewed in-

terest 111 this too often neglected Source

of income. If, on the many farms where

attempts to raise turkeys have failed.

the causes of'failure were invest'gated,

it would frequently be found that not the.

fowis but the methods used. have 1191111 at

fault. Nine—tenths of the failures may be

attributed to treating 11111 turkeys as if

they wci'c chickens. which tl1cy resemble

neither in manner of living 1101' for-ding.

It may 11c 211111111 also that 11111 prim- of the

finished product differs materially from

1.1111 pricc of 1~l1ick1'~11s. per pound. turkeys

during 1111- season just past having com-

mandcd onc-liali‘ more than choice

ciiickcus.



'1‘11c 11111111111111 of the wild ancestors of

the lit-ll to our prcsrnt domtsiic fowl hos

i)91"ll an old story for so 1111111111111 11'11 11.211 ,1

lost 1111 inicrcsi in it. and flu all p1'1"111tic:1i

purposes 11 11111111 not 1111 cousidcl‘od. But

many :1 Michigan farmcr today raiscs

turkcys for market 011 11111 very 1111111

11111111. as ;1 lm)‘. 1111 shot 1111-11‘ wild pi'o-

g'cnilors. l‘1-1'1:.1p.< 1111 will toil you how

af1cr 111~1

lure of 11111 1111‘111. 1111 occasional bird from

the wild iloclymiujurcd 111' strayed—joiucd

forces 111111 1111- farm family,

its y1‘11111,::. 1111.1 finally hocumc 11s "tame

as 111(- 1'c>i. No loss 1111 authority than

Audobmi 11111s of 11111 i):lil‘ll’lf.’.' of 11111 wild

turkcy 111111 11111 turkeys of his l'1a1'11yar11



But in all 11111 iutcrcsliug' siorics of 1111'-

kcy bunting. who cvci' 1111111'11 of 1110 111,111—

1111' discovcrlug :1 ilock of s'ck turkcys—

or 111111 sick i111'k11y‘.’ 111 11111 curly storics

of 11111 snub-11111111 of Amr-ricu \1‘11 .1'1‘1a1'l of

gi'cai (locks of 11111 wild birds.

liuudi'cris and thousands. 1...:11111' like 11111

512111111 supplicd so l.'111s1111 tlicsc

11'111'11 111111111ss1y 1_1x1crmiuaied by SO-t‘zlllcfl

sportsmcu. ’1111 a icw rcmuin. 111111 101121;:

poultiy pupcrr advertise wild, or half—

wild tuikms 11) brace up 11111 domestic

flock giving 11 111,111' strength and vigor.

This is true of 1i11- t‘uvoi'ilc

11'111'1‘11 111'111'-domicsiicui1011 11nd cx-

c1ss11e size demand toll in 11'11ak1-111g11i

constitutirui. unicss. 11111111111111 to (111111,

the iypc 111.1 strengthened by 11 cross with





11111112siic iurkcy b1'1c;11111:1 11 111::-





lili'l‘i.’ raised





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ilocks of





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1 11111 wild.





After the turkey has been domesticuicd

as many ccniui'lw as 1111- 111111, 1111'11'11 may

be developed 21 type-“111111 survival of tin-

iittcsi for form plil‘pOSusw—lllilt will cudui'c

as much 11111311111}; of his primeval in-

slim-is '1s docs 11111 common 111111. 13111, in

11111 1111>:11'11111111_ if \1'11 would avoid discour~

aging iosscs 111 11111 growing sir '~'. it may

be wcli 1.11 consider that most common

11'111‘ningwtliut warning; constantly ignored

~—-“1)o 11111 1111'21111111.‘ \Yliy not? “'11 1111

know pcopio V1111» do not introduce ncw

blood inio their flock of chickens (1111111 in

ten years, 31”“) 1111.1 writcrs always 111ivisc

it. Their cliickcns got along somehow. ut

lcast 1111-1' luy chIs. Yet 21 Department

of Agriculiurc 111111101‘111'. 111 protcstins

against 11111 ordinary neighborhood 1.1x—

cliaug'e of iurkcys 111111 l'csullillg‘ 111bch

stock “131111111- s1~111i 21 1111111311111

miles for a new mulc them to risk t‘is:

cilanccs of iiibrcwling'.“



3y many pcopic 1111s stuiemcnt will be

dismisscd with 111.11 plii'usc. "(but may bc

all rig in for book farming, b111——it isn't

pructical.‘ ‘1'11y 11111! if 11 111111 br- prov-

en to be 11.111111'11's 111111111111, and if it brings

returns, 1111111 it must be admitted to be

practical.



Naturc‘s 1111111111.] many in

11111‘1- 113-1 11111 11111'1111'11111111', as stated above,

to study at first 11111111. In the dcscrip—

lions of wild turkeys their most striking

and illicl'csli g 1111:1l‘ar'te,11'istic is 1111- gi'I'iil

fall gaihci'iug. .-\s tlic’ young 111.11'11'oa1-l1c1l

maturity thc hens lcft their 111211111 of sum-

mer seclusion. 111111 joined forces with

their neighboring flocks. just as our own

flocks attcmpt to do now. Following





says:





Micliigu 11





wise instinct. and guided by their for-

souuding cry. tin-s1». bands united with

morc distant bands until their number





was enormous. Such a gathering of tlic

clans of iurkcydom. such a babel of gob-

bling v01ces~~in fact, one great mixup, in

which lllf‘ members of one family should

inevimbly become separated. In

the pairing: for the next season there was

little chance of related birds uniting. The

resulting young were vigorous of consti-

tution. sturdy of lirnb,‘strong of wing.





gAs with quail and other similar feathered





forest rangers, the losses were due, not to

Weakness and disease. but' to storms, ac-





cident and birds and beasts of prey. Lat-1

er. they fell before the gun of the hunter

But the survivors were never‘theleiss vig—

orous and strong



Note the contrast in breeding the (lo-

mestio turkey on the average farm, with

the constant battle to prolong the life of

the weaklings until marketing time. The

old male is usually marketed each fall, on

account of his superior weight. If t11‘.1

same old breeding liens are kept they are

apt to be forced to pair with one of their

own young. and again with related birds.

(1111111 no 111111 or care is given to the.

sclcction of the breeding stock for tho

next 511115011, but the left—overs. the late-

liatclicd and undersized. the sick or phy-





sically unfit at market time, remain to

form the foundation of the next year‘s

flock. 13211111 11111 most careless farmer

would scorn such 111ct11ods in selecting

$111111 groin 1111 would not, plant c1111

bcuns. ’i‘licn why not use the same kind





of 1111111111011 sense in selecting the founda-

tion of 1111'- turkcy flock? If a small

fraction of the, time and tl1ot employed

in 11111 busiest port of the summer season

in attempts to 111‘1’1c11 11p the delicate or

dying,r young were ‘uscd months before in

obtaining suiiablc breeding stock, much

time and worry would be saved and larger

profits obtained.



(mly 11111 best 11ml soundest liens should

b.- usud. prcfcrnbly these one or two

ycurs 1111i. 'i‘bcy should be of good but

11111 1-xc1-ssivc size, as their egg' are

1;11';111' 31111 the young sti'miger T111111.

for 1111'1 11111111. 11 strong vigorous bird should

111- obtuim-d from 2111 entirely different lo—





 





 





cality, so avoiding danger of even remotcI

relationship. A1111 each year a new Inf-111:1

bird should 1111 procured

liven 11'111'11'1: "rude hens are kept it will,

b1,- fouual prolimblc to use a pure—brat

malc of “'llzlt1'1-11l‘ lu'c‘cd is preferred. if

”It introduction of f1-1‘1sii blood. by so do-

iug. should insure 1111- living to maturity

of only two cxtru birds- from next sea-

son’s crop. or if a half pound only should

in- .111ldcd to 11111 :1\'cl‘a§:‘L wright of the

young. 111s cost would be i'cturncd.

leputablo breeders sell pure-bred stock

of 1111- various 1.11'1111ds at very reason-5111‘s?

priccs, 111111 11 is :1 misiukcn idea that the

cost is prohibitive. A canvass of many

loading growers of pure—bred turkeys of

11111 vurious brccds in Miciuguu and ad-





joiniug‘ stains shows that, except for

prize-winning fowis, they charge about





twic.» 1111- price. or 11153. that the fowls

\1'111111‘1 bring; 1111 murkct by the pound.

During 11111 fall. and until January 1st.

stock is plentiful. At this season good

birds 111'11 still obtainable, but 11 little later

11111 '111)Ha1$, of "1111 sold out" will become

11111.1.1111111

1111 unsus of lX'W showed that, in spite

111‘ 1111' 11111511111 and the low cost of pro-

duction, 11.1; il1‘c million forms of the Uni-

tcd Stan-s pi'1.n:luccd. 1111 an .11 01.1 ',e but

:1 slight fraction over one turkey apicte.

11". of all 1111.1 farmers who have tried and

111111111. .1 fcw would make another attempt,

rcsoiving 111:.11 tiicii' ilocks should at least

begin rigid, we would 1111ar less about the

diScouragzng business of raising turkeys.

Saginaw Co, E. H. MCDONAGH.

LEG WEAKNESS AND BOWEL

TROUBLE.





 





' Have had trouble

1111.1 past two winters. I built a new hen-

11ouse two years ago. It is 12x16 ft. and

so well built that thcre is no freezing

in it. 11 is well vcntiiaied. The flock

consists of 40 Junc and July puilcts. They

slurtcd laying the first of December and

have laid from 12 to 20 eggs per day since

that limc. iiowevci'. there isn't a day

but what several of them are unable to

walk, s111111111'11g‘ly having no use of their

lugs. First symptoms urc- distress and

1111111 grcat iliirsi. aftcr which they de-

1'1-111p a Willlc diarrhoea. Most of them:

l‘ocnvci‘, but i have had to kill a few of

11111111. 1 111111 a warm mash containing

11 few lard scraps every morning, and

about 3 111s. of wheat and all the ear corn

they VV-‘lili to out. The-y have charcoal.

oystcr shells, a head of cabbage and fresh

clovci' chaff every morning.



Clinton Co. READER.



Your ration and tho method of feeding

it are no doubt :11 fault. “'l1ile the pul-

ieis have been doing remarkably well as

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fattening food and not enough exercise.’

The fact that matters are not worse than

they are is probably due to the charcoal.

and green food they have been receiving.

If you continue using 1111.- mush we sug-

gest reducing the allowance. for if enough

warm food is given to satisfy their wants

they will remain idle thruout the fore-

noon. and this is jUst tlu- time when they

should be busy. Cut out the lard scraps

and substitute. if Dossihic ground or

finely cut green bone. Scatter wheat and

cracked corn in deep littm , and keep them

sufficiently hunm that they will work

for it. Give whole corn only at night. i





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‘ BEE-KEEPING As" A BACK-YARD

‘ INDUSTRY. '





 





Nearly everyone who has even a small

back yard or other open space has felt,

at one time or another, a longing for the

pleasant occupation of tending bees, but

most people are frightened away from

the undertaking by the difficulties which

seem to present themselves. In the first

place, they are puzzled to know how to

fill the old cook—book requirement of first

catch your bare. That is, they do not

‘know where or how to get the bees. A

little looking into the question will usu-

ally disclose the fact that someone within

a radius of fiveor ten miles of you is a

bee-keeper. If this is the case, it is well

to buy your bees close at home, even if

they are common bees and in a common

box hiVe. It may be considered best to

begin with only one colony, which consists

of one queen, a few hundred drones, and

from twenty to fifty thousand workers.

This will keep you fully occupied at first,

and will furnish you with experience

which would be costly if obtained on a

larger scale. The colony of common bees

in a box hive should not cost more than

$2 to :55. Afterwards you can remove

them to a movable frame hive and italian-

ize them.



Some Things Which Have Simplified the

Work.



In the days of the old-fashioned bee

gum and box hives, the bees had no choice

but to build their combs onto the walls

of the hive. There was no way for the

bee-keeper to note the progress of affairs

while the work of gathering and storing

was going on. “'hen the time came to

rob the hives there Was nothing else to

do but kill the goose that laid the golden

egg, in other words, to exterminate the

bees with brimstone, after which the

honey had to be cut out in chunks, an

operation which, of course, caused the

hives to bleed and much honey to run to

waste. With the movable-frame hive all

these difficulties are overcome; the bees

build their combs in neat sections, which

can be taken out and examined at will

without injury to the bees or to the honey

itself; when it is thoroly ripe, it is taken

from the hive ready to market in an at-

tractive form.



From time to time there have been ru-

mors that the making of artificial combs

has become an accomplished fact. but so

far these rumors have proven false, and

the honey bee still keeps the patent royal

on comb making. The most that the in-

ventor has been able to do in this direc-

tion is to furnish the bee with a pattern

to induce her to build her c0mbs straight

and in an orderly, ship-shape fashion.

'l‘hese wax sheets, with the impression of

the cells stamped on them, are called

starters.



Another very important invention is the

honey extractor, a device whereby the

liquid honey can be extracted from the

combs by turning them swiftly, in a sort

of cylinder, the honey being forced out by

centrifugal force. This does not in any

way injure the combs, which are put back

into the hive to be refilled, and thus a

great saving of time and honey is wrot.



New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.

PROGRAM FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF



STATE BEE-KEEPERS’ ASS’N.

Wednesday Morning, Feb. 23.





Secretary’s report and preliminary busi-

ness session. -



Live topics and question box.



Wednesday Afternoon, Feb. 23.



“A new method of getting rid of Foul-

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Northern Michigan Bee-Kcepers’ Associa-

tion, East Jordan.



General discussion

question box.



Election of officers.



Wednesday Evening, Feb. 23.



_“Size, ventilation and construction of

lnves”—R. F. Holtcrmann,

Canada.



General hive discussion.



“The Bee-keepers" real problem"—E. B.

Tyrrell, Detroit.



Discussmn and question box.



Thursday Morning, Feb. 24.



President’s address.



"Some of my experience as a farmer

bee-keeper”—VV. J. Manley, Sandusky.



Discussion.



“Science and theory of bee—keeping”—

Hon. Geo. E. Hilton, Fix—President of Na-

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Thursday Afternoon, Feb. 24.



“A few suggestions”—N, E, France,

Manager of National Bee—Keepers’ Asso-

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Suggestions discussed and question box.



The various sessions will be held at

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Prizes are offered for exhibits of the

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LEADING ARTICLES OF THE _WEEK.

The Business Side of Farming.~l)cal—

ing with the priccs for farm products

and thc salary rcccivcd by l'ar111crs.130

Boarding Hired Hel Snowing thc

tcnant housc to bc thc only practi—

cal moans of rcmoving thc rcgular

help from tho housc ................ 133

The Best Breed.w’l‘l1crc is no bust

lu‘ccd for all conditions, all of thc 1111'—

]11'ovcd ‘brccdu bcing good. clsc they

could not havc survivcd ............. 134

Story of the Breeds—A bricf history

of thc Chcstcr \V'hitc and (1. l. (3.

brccda of swinc .................... 138

The Foundation of the Turkey Flock.~~

Vigorous thrifty. unrclatcd brccdcrs

the kcy to succcss in turl»:cy raising. .14‘)

The Desert Siren.«~A thrilling tale of

Gold—hunting Days in the arid

dcscrt .145

Down the Rhine on a Rowboat.~—'I‘ravcl

articlt- dcscriptivc of thc Rhine Val-

ley and tho grcat vincyards .......... 143

Some Queer Beds—A naturc articlc

depicting the winter habits of various

animals and insects ................. 147

Greatness of Little Things‘.~--—I)cborah

illustrates how one Michigan woman

made life vcry livable under adverso

circumstances

Controlling Contagious Abortion in Cat-

tle.—Dr. Fair, from this cxtcndcd cx—

pcricnce gives the readcrs explicit

directions for handling the trouble-

some disease ........................ 160

An Experiment in Thinning Apples.»

Actual results arc placed before the

fruit growers showing what financial

gain accompanied this practice in a





       





Michigan Jrchard ................... 16-1

The Apple Orchard.——A discussion of

how the old apple trccs bc handled

so as to pay larg- profits .......... 165

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Keeping Fa‘rm Iltllllll't'lnt‘lll in anothcr

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farmcr's pockct :tt'collllt book t'rcr- with

each subscription to thc Michigan Farmcr

undcr thc libcral trial ott'wr plan which is

oullhicd in said a1111t‘1unc1-1111‘11t. 111 the

:ti‘llt'lc: on tho ‘lusinws \ch of Farm-

ing." which will bl; found in this issuc.

apt-cial ctnphasis its givcn to thc import—





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bcst. just what his cxpcns‘cs arc. and all

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in future years. This littlc pockct ac-

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in accordancc with tho instructions which

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dcsirabln rcsults in thc most simplc man-

ncr possiblc. 'l‘hc aVcragc {armor docs

not want a complex system of accounts.

\V'c havc largcr and morc complcx ac-

count books for those who dcsirc them,

but this littlc book has bccn prcparcd

with thc idca of combining simplicity





With practical 1csults in a manncr which

will make it not only practical, but easy

for cvcry farmer to kecp an accuralc ac-

count of his business. not only as a whole





but in its various dcpartmcnts. If this

book has the result of inducing a large

number of farmcrs to kccp an accurate

account of their business affairs. it will

have accomplished the purpose for which

it has been gotten up. (inly onc thing

is 11cccssary for it to accomplish thcsc

results, and that is for them to subscribc

for the Michigan Farmcr undcr thc plan

outlined SeL‘LlI‘L‘ a copy of thc book

and 1"oll'1w tllc simple instructions con-

tained therein.

If r111r- wcrc to

The Increased Cost paraphrase the pop-

of Living. ular campaign qucs-

tion and ask thc

average city man, “Vi'hat‘s thc mattcr

with 1h.- farmcr‘f” the answer would be

quite (lit‘t'crcut from tho usual rcply of

thc political boostcr. By the average city





worker the farmcrs as a class are blaIm-d

almost equally with the trusts for the

high cost of living. and are commonly sup~~

posed. if the expressions 011c- hcars are to

be credited. to be accumulating wealth

almost as rapidly. A Well paid tradesman

upon being~heard to expreSS such senti—

mcnts with regard to the pricc of butter

was recently asked what he thot the cost

of butter would be if the labor which went

into its production was paidlfor at the

same price per hour which he received for

his services. This question, he, of course,

could not answer intelligently. But the

average farmer could, since be well knows

that. under the old established order of-

things. a large part of the labor which

went into the making of butter, for ~in«

stance. was never paid for at all and was

not even charged against the cost of the





product by the farmer himself. Like a.





large part ofthe farmer’s work. it was





called chores and ,Was done before the

regular day‘s work commenced and. after

it was over. Naturally the young men of

the country did not like this order of

things and gradually they havei drifted

from the country. to the citics and towns

to such an extent as to make a very 110-

ticcablc Scarcity of labor upon the farms

of the ccuntry. Under these conditions

those engaged in the production of butter,

for instance. found thcmsclvcs oblig (d to

institute a new onlc1 of things in which

the chores became a part of the day‘s

work in ordcr to kccp the necessary help

upon tl1c farm. This fact, togcthcr with

thc incrcasul population to bc fcd and

thc rapid growth of othcr industrics which

have cmyloycd labor cxlcnsivcly, has had

thc natural rcsult of increasing priccs

for farm products in a proportionatc dex

grcc. Uthcr factors havc. of coursc, cu—

tcrcd into this result, notably the in-

crcascd production of gold, our standard

money, which is claimcd to have chcap-

encd thcvvaluc of our dollar to some c.\'~

tent and to a variety of other causes

which it is unncccssary to mention in this

conncction and which are so complex in

their rclation one to another, that it would

difficult. if not quite impossible, to

and analyze them intelligently.





l1c

scparatc



In thcse advanced form values for ag-

ricultural products there has been much of

c11couragcutcnt and hopt-fulncss for the

Atncrican farmcr. 111 the strcnuous days

of cheap foodstuffs. it was impossiblc for

the farmer to makc even a living without

drawing too largely upon thc store of

fertility in his soil. This he has donc to

an extent which has so depicted thc fer-

tility of the average soil that he must

Now add to the cost of production the

cost of 11ccdcd fertilizcr, or the time re-

quired to build up the soil by natural

nit-thods, a cost which thc opt-ration of





the law of supply and dcmand has passctl/





on to the consumer in most instanccs

during vcry recent ycars 'l‘hcrc has been

111111-11 of satisfaction in this I'cudjustcd

toudition of affairs bccausc it has at‘l’ol‘d-

ctl thc farmcr a fairer rate of compon-

sation for his work. There has bccn

much of hopcfulncss for thc‘futurc be-

cans c it has sccmcd to ,Lnako it possible

for more of the capable young people of

thc country to stay on the furm, since.

it promiscd an (31111531111111ty‘flmr them to

acquire :1 farm homc of theirflown, which

it was difficult for the young man to do

a few ycars ago unlcss willing to do two

days' work in one. the one to make a

living and the other to add to his savings

for the necessary capital topay for :1

farm. The advancement of agricultural

knowlcdgcmcnt and the improvement of

business 1ncthods on the farm have aidcd

him in this rcspcct, and have done much

to raise farming from a mcrc Occupation

to thc rungc of 11 busincss. In the mean-

timc. this incrcastul prosperity of the

Amt-ricau t'armcr has been generally con-

ccdcd to bc a foundation upon which the

nation‘s prosperity has been built.



Possibly all along the line. and ccrt‘uinly

in some lincs. the exploitation of agricul-

tural products thru their manipulation in

distribution. has increased their cost to

thc ct111:<t1111crs to an exorbitant degree.

but lie that it may. a large class of

consumcrs have become aroused over the

increased cost of living. their action in

consequence of such agitation bcing di-

I‘t‘l‘li’d toward an effort to chcapcn the

of meat thru a concerted movemcnt

to rcducc its consumption for a short

period. Let us, thcn. study the possiblc

cause and the probable outcome of this~

i'l'ftll‘t.





H F





(‘USI





“'hile the cost of



Cause and Effect livhg has steadily in:

of Agitation. crcaascd with the

gcncral prosperity





which has marked recent years, yet it has

suddcnly become a favorite themc for

nearly everybody from newspaper writers

to the wisc men who gather at the corner

grocery, Just how the boycott on meat





started is: a matter of discussion. Cer-

tain Metropolitan howspapcrs are very

willing to assume credit. Another report





is to the effect that it started in a joke

in .11 Cleveland factory.



If that were true, and the joke tad been

inspired by the great packing interests.

it is doubtful if it could have had a more

satisfactory outcome for them. or ulti-

mately a more serious result for the self-

sacrificing people who have joined in this

boycott in. the interest of the public good

as they see it. W’hile the packers and

the retail meat dealers have unquestion-

ably levied a greater tribute on the con-

sumers than they properly should. yet the,

very scarcity of live stock has made this

possible. \Vhen the commodities in which





 





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Fad. 5,1919.



’“ihv ;

they deal are limited in quantity, the con—,

ditions are most favorable for the ad

vancement of prices on those products

Under these conditions they are able to

regulate the quantity of the several meat‘

products put upon the markct to the de-

mand for them in such a way as to insure

advantageous prices and large profits.

“'ith the relatively small receipts of live

stock which have been marketed in recent

months, it is not probable that there are

very large stocks of dressed meats and

meat products on hand and. coming just

bt-fore Lent when the demand for ineat is

considerably rcduced, the temporary

slump in the price of live stock which has

been caused by this "agitation is advan-

tageous rather than otherwise to the

packers; and, while the price of meats to

the consumer may and will undoubtedly

bc tcmtmrarily reduced in consequence of

agitation. at pcrmancnt reduction in

the pric‘; of live stock can only come thru

an incrcascd production. and any falling

off in the pricc of live stock is certainly





It.





this





not calculated to stimulate an increased



production with a conscduently lower

rangt of values for mcat pmducts.



The student ‘of



The Real. Situation. agricultural affairs



understands that





prior to the cl«rn.-cl<.1pmcnt of our western

country, the middle. 01‘ then northwestern

states, of which Michigan is one. produced

21 large part of the moat animals to sup-

ply thc nccds of the country. But with

the opening up of the wcstern country

with its vast area of free ranges, the

days of the bonanza. cattle kingcom-

111c11ccd and the industry of not only cat-

llc raising. but slice-p raising as Well. mul—

tipliea mightily, while the cost of produc-

lion was so low that a large part of the

11t‘:tl and meat products consumed in this

country were drawn from this source and

:1 large residue was still left for exporta-

tion to forcign countries. But, like the

proverbial dog. the cattle king had his;

day, and with tho settling up of the more

ft-rlilc sections of our western states by

farmcrs and thc dcvclopmcnt of irrigation

projccts in tho more arid sections, as

wcll as the ctmscrvation policic‘ adopted

by the gov clinncnt with rcgald to its 1‘01-

cst 1csctvcs in the mountainous sections,

have causcd a gradual brcaking up of tho

grcat wcstcrn ranges from which this





supply was drawn and a consequent re-

duction in the amount of live stock rc-





t-civcd at thc great markets.



The far‘mc1s who have follow ed the cat-

ilc kings in this section lune not yet be-

come stock raisers to tho extent which

should insure the liberal supplies which

formcrly came from the west. It is un-

doubtedly true that were the western

farmcrs to engage in the stock raising

businoss cxtcnsivcly, thcy would produce

a larger supply than did thc ranges of

earlier days, but they could not; produce

thcm so cheaply on account of the more

(-‘XDt'llSEVO methods which they must nec-

(«sarily employ. nor will they raisc them

cxccpt at priccs which will compare fav-

orably from tho standpoint of profit with

the staple crops which they are now grow-

ing. The production of live stock con-

sidered in the aggtcgate has again passc‘l

from the hands of the cattle king and thc

ranchman to thosc of thc farmers. and so

long as other products range at fair val-

ucs. which our best cconomists agree thcy

will continue to do, it will bc a vain hope

for the consumers of the country to cx-

pvct meat to I't‘t't‘tle to thc values which

gt-ncrally prcvailcd during the period

wbcn prices Wcrc morc than ordinarily

tlt'Dl'E‘SSCd by thc u11prc~cdc11tcd ship-

1111-1115 which rcsultcd from the breaking

up of the ranges and the reduction of the

range—fed herds.



In the future the farmcr will be the

autocrat of the dinner table, so far as the.

moat supply is concerned. and he will not

incrcasc production cxccpt at prices which

insure a rcasonablc profit. Any agitation

which seems to threaten the future values

of meat animals will only further post-

pone the"d‘ay when prcparations will be

madc for increasing the supply and thus

satisfying: the dcmand at more moderatc

prices. Howcvcr. while a temporary

hardship to producers of meat animals,

the prescnt agitation may in the end

prove beneficial to them by reducing the

margin of profit levied by the packing

conccrns and the retail meat dealers upon

the consumer, whose ability to purchase

in maximum quantities may be limited

when he is compelled to pay too exorbit-

ant prices.



When all has been

said. the earnest stu~

dent of present con«

ditions must arrive at

the conclusion that one real cause of the





(Continued on page 157).





The Real Cause

and Remedy.
' LITERATURE

POETRY

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DOWN THE RHINE IN A ROWBOAT





HILE in England, and even be-



RX] 'fore leaving America, my com-



panion and I had figured on tak-

ing a trip down the Rhine river in a row—

boat of some description. We had planned

on about two to three weeks to make the

trip from Basel, Switzerland, to Emmer—

ick or Rotterdam, Holland.



Now that we were getting tired of

tourists, of the great cathedrals and the

hustle and noise of cities, and as the work

of pushing a bicycle had begun to lose its

charms, we concluded that we could make

the trip down the Rhine, see the cities

and little towns, learn something of the

ideal German life, get a glimpse of Swit~

zerland and her mountains, and finally

land in Antwerp, Belgium,



“'ith this ideal trip in mind we sold our

wheels, after riding thru the southern

part of Holland, and proceeded by train to

Basel, Switzerland. After a little sight—

seeing here, we started out to find a suit—

able boat in which to make our trip.

Alas! here our troubles began. “’8 walk-

((1 practically all over the city, thru its

crooked winding streets, and down the

river for several miles, but could find only

a few fishing boats, and they were not

for sale.



We finally decided that we would not

lose the opportunity of seeing the Rhine

valley if we had to walk, but we hoped to

get a boat before we had traveled far

down the river._ Accordingly we shipped

all our baggage, except one camera and

some films, and our rubber capes, bot us

each a blanket and gepack, and began

our journey.



The river at Basel is from three to

twelve feet deep and about a quarter of

a mile wide. It flows about ten miles

per hour—so fast that it is not navigable.

1t sweeps past the town at a tremendous

rate and its speed may well be illustrated

by one of the curious things of the town.

The ferry across the river is made to run

by the power of the river itself. A long

cable stretches across the river, suspend-

ed about twenty feet in the air. On this

cable is hung a. pulley to which is at-

tached another cable running to the boat.

This is attached, at a tangent, to the

prow of the boat, and the force of the

water hitting the boat drives it across

automatically.



As we were walking down the road and

unconsciously crossing the border between

“Sturtzerland” and Germany, we were

accosted by an officer who demanded to

know where we were going, what we had

with us, and whence we came. ,He saw

our new blankets and at once hurried us

to the station here we had to explain all

about the blankets, what the camera was,

and tell about everything we had with us.

One of the fat officials could not speak

anything but German and had evidently

never been outside of the realm. He had

no mercy for us, and had a very strong

idea that we were smuggling those new

blankets across the border. He would

throw the German at us by the mouthful

and expect us to understand him. IVhen

my companion made the mistake of call-

ing him friend, when asking him not to

speak' so fast, the man went into a rage

and declared he was no friend of ours

nor did he want to be. we finally turned

his pcnuu‘ious actions into a huge joke,

which made him angry at the other in-

spectors as well as ourselves. “’e suc-

ceeded in getting free from the revenue

officers after an hour’s harangue and

more or less of a good time.



The first night out our blankets came

into good use. We had wandered up from

the river to a small town on the moun-

tain side. It was not yet dark, but we

could see that as soon as the sun went

behind the mountain darkness would fol-

1OW Without any twilight, so we travelei

on looking for a sheltered place to sleep.

\Vhen we were half way up the mountain





BY EDWY. B. REID.





 





 





A Wild and Rugged Vale in the Roughest Part of the Rhine Region,





 





and on the outskirts of the village we

came to a hay field and thot we could not

iind a better bed than a LOCK of hay, so

proceeded to make ourselves comfortable.

We arose at daylight and found we had

made our camp in front of a blind fort-

ress. These are way common in the

Rhine district, and on reading the signs

we learned that strangt rs were not allowed

in this region. Accordingly we congratu-

lated ourselves on not being caught and

proceeded to the valley again,



At about ten o'clock We same to a little

town where We found a inhing boat that

was for sale. l'lmvevw, the owner was

not in town but would return at noon.

\Ve went to the hotel and ordered “fries-

tig." which corresponds to our breakfast,

only it consists of simply coffee and rolls.

Then, as we were rather sleepy, because

of our early start, we decided to return

to the river at the edge of the town anrl

sleep a little while to kill time until the

return of the boat owner.



\Vc were just folding our blankets and

i'u'eparing to return to the village, when

we were startled by a series of yells and

a crowd of people running down the hill

toward us. Foremost was the constable.

waving his cane, and 'Lthind him wero

several other officers and a mob of chil—

dren. \Ve knew we wow: in for it, but

eotild not guess what was up. They came

at us talking so fast that the air was full

.of German. In the' midst of it I caught

the words “nicht ai‘beittr" and “gestoh-

Ien,” and was in doubt which offense We

would be held for, not working or steal-

ing. The deputy was fuiious, waving his

heavy club in our faces and shouting all

kinds of absurd stuff. iccziuse we took it

calmly they shouted the louder, and we

wished again for a greater command of

,‘n-rman to give them a piece of' our mind.

\Ve were driven before the mob to head-

quarters and there we wuc searched and

asked to prove our identity, which was a

hard thing to do for the reason that our

letters and other marks ct identification

were in Strasburg. Here our American

express order checks came in handy.

'l‘hcse gaVe us a little prestige and, after

many explanations, we were allowed

to go.



Several, besides the sheriff, went along

to see us purchase the boat. which \Vilri

a long, narrow fishing-litat, about twen-

ty—tive feet long and thru 1‘: :1 wide. built

in the shape of a snow. 'l'hr owner of the

craft spent several hours talking it so it

would float, and We pmmd the time

watching the. good womtn of the town do

their washing in the river.



Nothing would seem to offer less inter-

L'Ft for [l tourist than the clt';tlies—washingr

of the people thru whose country he

travels, yet, on reflection, i think that we

are more, indebted to the. women by whom

this Rhine-side washing is done for the

iinin'ession of life and activity that ap-

pears so fresh in mcnnu-y, than to any

other element, save the innumerable

children. These latter were dressed in

their bathing suits most 01 the time, and

were as tanned as Indians and as good

swimmers. Unc would say, from appear—

ances that the women flock generally to

the Rhino, where, from Monday morning

until Saturday night. they chat. and Scold,

and wash. and laugh. \‘i'hcther all the

washing of a wide back country is done

at the Rhine-side during the three weeks

of the your when we Worc near the Rhine,

I cannot say; but much of our course lay

thin an almost uninterrupted succession

of women washing, scrubbing, pounding,

rinsing. drying and transporting some

form of \vasche.



Finally the boat was made so it would

not leak and we pushed off, amid the

German cheers, one steering and the

other paddling. As I have said before.

the river here flows at a tremendous rate

and we were soon passing the stone-built
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banks, so made to control its spring ram-

pages. at a. speed equal to that of a Ger-

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.much time to view the beautiful land-





scape, as the river was a succession of

Whirlpools and rapids. Toward evening

we had become fairly familiar with the

management of the boat, so we decided

to take the next day to explore what we

could of the famous Schwarzwald, as we

were in its most beautiful portion——

Baden.



From Black Forest to Fair Bingen.



It is necessary to/scc a German forest

to comprehend its beauty, a beauty en-

tirely different from the rigged, mild

beauty of our “'ashington forests. 3e-

t’ore seeing these forests 1 had little idea

of what constituted a well—kept forest.

but after passing." thru miles of the Black

forests, the many songs and

poems which cht-ribe them have a differ-

ent meaning and are more appreciated.

The lilack forest is about ninety miles

in length and twenty—live in breadth. tine

can drive or walk thru it 011 finely graded

macadamized roads, amid the thousands

of majestic trees which are kept in line

condition by the government t‘orestcrs,

free from underbrush and useless limbs,

while here and there a ruined monastery

or romantic castle cuts its profile sharply

against the sombre background. Thread-

ing here and there among the stately

pines, like little streaks of silver. are lit-

tle streams which till the woods with their

babbling voices. And what wonder that

the Schwarzwald is rich in poetic legends.

“'hole books have been written merely

describing them; castle walls preserve

testify to their truth. of the giants. fair-

ies, and princes who inhabited this fam-

ous woods to cnhance the stories of child—

hood. And who will claim that the world

today is not poorer from calling those

legends absurd? .



"The German pe<,»ple need the forest,”

says l: "2111, “as man needs wine." Grant-

(-zl, neither is, essential to existence. \Vero

it not tor the common woods from which

the fuel is cut. the Iuonotony would kill

the soul. Germany must tetain her for-

ests. not tip-rely to keep the ovens sup-





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plied. but also to keep the pulse of the

life of her people warm, and make it beat

,it’uyously.



Proceeding again by boat we were iloat~

in; along in lllt- afttrnoon fast leaviné

behind the scenes of the upper lthine

A great railroad btid: e loomtd up across

the river and we sucursslully shot be—

tween the abutInt-nts, only to see a pon-

toon bridae a short distance below us.

This btidatn like most pontoon bridges

was construttcd of a boats.

some iron and others wood. about ei‘zht

feet wide, forty feet long and six feet

deep. 'l‘liese boats are anchored in pairs.

about twenty feet, apart. to a cable

stretched across the river. and a plank

'road is built over them. “'ell. we saw

there was nothing.~ to do but try to shoot

thru one of these open spaces. Now. the

current goes against these anchored boats

with such force that the water is piled

up on each side of the boats. leaving a

concave watcrshoot about twenty feet

wide with the water foaming and boiling

on either side. '\\'e chose the open space

between the two boats in the center of

the bridge, but the current was so strong

and going; so fast. lirst one way and then

the other. that we soon saw our boat

was too long and heavy to make that

opening. So we tried to reach the next,

“'0 paddled our hardest to the last in«

slant before the boat struck the bridge.

but the best We could do was to set

three-fourths of the boat into the open

space. Enough said. \Ye were soon on

the other Side of the bridge and we were

both lucky enough to come to the surface

near the beat. The brid: e \\ Itthman was

soon in his boat and landed us and the

outlit on an island about a half mile be—

low the bridge. After a few hours‘ work

drying: our clothes and patching the boat

we were ready to start again.





SI'l'iI-s' (ii





The next few days were spent in the

grape country surrounding" Ringen on the.

Rhine. The climate of the valley of the

lower l‘thinc is influenced much by the

proximity of the North sea. whose amel-

iorating influence makes the temperature

remarkably cquablc. Due to this are the

mild. long autumns enjoyed here.’ This

ameliorated climate is favorable to the

ripening of the grapes. its action being

the same as lake Michigan’s or Lake

Iltlrie’s influence on the temperature of the

land near its shore, making possible the

marketing of the fruit. It is to this re-

gion that many people go each autumn to

take the “grape cure,” as it is called.



In many places on the mountain sides

the natural rock is used as fences, and





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘ .1





the whole side of themeuntain doping

toward the river is tenraced,eaeh terrace

being guarded by a stone wall. In many

places the soil on‘ which the grapes are

grown is carried up the mountains and

deposited on the rocky mountain sides,

so scarce is the eroded soil.

part of the river grape-growing is prac-

tically the only industry carried on. In

most places great areas are owned by

one man, and these. areas are sub-divided

and worked by several. Here. as in all

Germany, the rotation of crops is prac-

ticed. it is not uncommon to see a small

patch of ground in the center .of a large

area of vineyard planted to some soil-

value—restoring crop.



In this country where the industry is

so great, one would at least expect to find

grapes growing on trellises of some sort,

but such is not the case. The trellis in

our country is almost universal, but the

pole or stake is almost invariably used

in the Rhine region. Perhaps one reason

for this is the uneven contour of the

around which would make the stretching

of wires a diflicult task.



A chief purpose of the visit to_this'part

of the Rhine Valley was to get an insight

into some of the details of the Rhine

wine and grape





imilustrr. The vintage.





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had not yet begun. nor were the grapes





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be a good season for grapes more often

than oncein four _\'e:tl‘<. and sometimes

ten years have tlztpst-d lH‘th‘tIl satisfac-

tory Seasons.



However. if one has the capital and the

patience, the good years compensate for

all the loss. \\'hcn a good ycztr's product

is offered for sale the suco-n-dinu' year it

sometimes brings as higzh as 53.00 per

gallon on the average. It. bud years the

expenses are quitt- as 1:1'citt as in the

uuod «rites. and the \\'int- is sold—at the

vineyards and without n:IIue~-~t‘ur a very

trifling sum. It is hot chit-lly by the “wine

dot-tots,“ who. by skillful chemical manip-

ulation. convert it into the high-priced

Rhine-wint- ol‘ the restaurants of Europe

and America.



There is a difference in the quality of

the vines or of their product at different

spots on the same hillside. The best

vineyards are worth $10000 per acre. or

about $2.00 per vine. while the poorest——

perhaps- within a few hundred feet of the

best—are worth not more than $1,200 per

acre. The soil of the Rhine, due to its

rec-NIL geological formation, is a strata of

slaty and quartzose rock, thru which the

roots penetrate to a great depth, and

which are supposed to derive chief merit

from their power of absorbing and retain-

ing heat. Animal manure, in considerable

quantity, is very important, but the refuse

of slate quarries and of‘ tunnel~w0rk in

the slate hills, is of great value for dress-

ing the vineyards.





capital to livt-

turns from his vineyards.





The life of full bearing of the vines

along the Rhine is about twenty-five

years, while those along the Mosel last

as long as sixty or sixty-five years. It

was interesting“ to learn that the quality

which a wine has is imparted to it almost

entirely by their “bouquet.” As a chem—

ical compound the wine of the bad years

is almost equal to that of the good. but

the delicacy which gives the value, to the





 





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between the two.





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little good Rhine wine in this country anl’

what is obtained llt'l‘t' is at Very high (70st, .

.\ gallon of wine that costs $4.30 in they





cask at the l'll’leCal'tlH accumulates before.

it is ready for bottling and sale. a mass

of charges for transportation. handling.

sacking. leakage. evaporation, and inter—

est which fully doubles its cost. To this

cost is added the wholesale and retail

profits, so that in Germany the best

Rhinewine sells at $2 to $3 per bottle. in

America one can not get it for less than

$5. The, universal beverage along the

river is the poor or common wine which

is drawn from the wood and bottled as it

is brot to the table.

is so low that beer drinking among the

well-to—do classes is limited.



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haul, their carts, and in fact the vines

were so thick that it would have been

impossible to get the carts into the vine-

yards. The Bordeaux mixture was car-

ried' up the mountain sides in large cans

strapped to the back of man, woman. or

child, and the spray operated or controlled

by means of a crank attached to the bot-

tom of the tank,



In a little town near Bingen we had

the chance of watching the operations of

the whole town starting for its day's

work. This little village impressed us as

did probably no other in our whole trip,

tucked away among grand old hillsides.

clad with immemorial vineyards; among

old valleys wherein a. time-honored sim-

plicity still holds sway; among hills around

which Old World legends cluster;- and in

valleys where all is peace and plenty and

content—here we roamed most of the day

in a, dreamy, blissful, antiquated land,

where the best that nature can do for

hill and dale greeted us at each step, and

where the work of Art's lbest days lies

softened by Time’s lightest touch. In this

little town the peasants were engaged in

carting the spraying mixture to the bot—

tom of the hillside. Their creaking carts

with their heavy burden of Bordeaux

were hauled by two shambling cows which

had already that morning contributed a.

good share toward the owner‘s support.

These cows were as well trained as oxen

usually are and seemed to be acting as

sort of "triple purpose” animals. Every-

one in the village seemed to be at work

and most of them were busy with some—-

thing in connection with the wine indus-

try. Many of the men and women were

an odd sight, being as-blue as the sky—-

hands, arms, face, and clothing. They

had been busy for several days sp‘aying

with Bordeaux mixture and were conse-

quently covered with the blue prepara-

tion. Great quantities of this mixture

were prepared at one time in the great

metal tanks on the wagons or carts and

hauled as far into the vineyards as pos-

sible.



Bingcn itself is a very picturesque little

town, practically given over to hotels and

tourists, as it is the point on the Rhino





. THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





 





 





 





THE DESERT SIREN.





. BY H. D.





SMILEY.





 





 





Chapter I.



The woman was garbed in a strange

mixture of male and female attire. Her

gaunt, bent shoulders were covered with

a tattered canvas coat, and beneath this

was a coarse cotton skirt that reached

barely below her knees. Her feet were

incased in heaVy cowhide boots that were

dry and cracked from many miles of

desert travel. Her face was creased with

a network of wrinkles into which the

desert dust had settled, giving it the ap-

pearance of yellow parchment thickly

covered with deep pencil marks. Her

dingy white hair was cropped short and

on her head rested a battered old som~

brero.



As she entered the store she gave no

sign of recognition to the several men

present, but, without glancing to the right

or left. shambled directly to the counter

behind which stood the storekeeper.



He evidently knew his customer, for

without a word he turned and began to

do up parcels of bacon, beans, candles and

other sundries which he had placed be-

fore the woman, who with bowed head

leaned heavily against the counter.



\'hen he had finished she dropped the

parcels into a sack she had brot in with

her, and reaching into her coat pocket

extracted therefrom a nugget of pure gold

about the Size of a hickory nut. This she

handed to the storekeeper.



The man weighed it in his hand and

nodded silently. Without a word the

woman swung the sack over her shoulder

and shuffled out of the store to the hitch-

ing post where two jaded and decrepit

burros were tied. Fastening the sack on

one of them she took the lead straps and

walked slowly off down the road in the

direction from which she had come.



“\V'ho was that?”



The speaker was





Bruce Hampton, a





Bruce looked puzzled. From what he

had read of sirens they were very beautiful

young mermaids, who sat on the rocky

coast of some land or other anddured

sailer men to their deaths by their charms

and sweet songs. How this old woman

could possibly figure in such an enact--

ment as that was beyond his comprehen-

sion.



“Is there any particular reason for her

being called a siren?” he asked.



“You‘re right sure there is. She’s prob-

ably lurcd more men to their deaths than

all them fairy-tale sirens rolled into one.

And she's still at it, too.”



“But, how?”



“\Yell, it‘s because she is the only per-

son living who knows the precise location

of the Peglcg.”



“"he what?” asked Bruce, still unen-

lightened.



“Didn't you ever hear tell 0‘ the lost

chleg mine, son?"



“Oh, yes, i believe I have read of that.

But that is a myth, isn‘t it?”



“Perhaps so.” answered Long Bill,

dryly. “Howsomever an’ notwithstandin‘,

you‘ll find a considerable bundle 0’ people

hercabonts that don’t think so. You can

pick me for one.”



“ in: how on earth could such a mine

exist in this part of the country without,

being discovered sooner or later?”



“It has been. That woman has been

lugging in nuggets at the rate 0’ one a

month for the past twenty years, and he“

husband shipped a cartload 0‘ it east,

before they busted up."



“Oh, she's been married. then?”



“\Vcll, I reckon. It‘ll probably surprise

you to learn that such a hid‘ous old hag

as she, is ever owned a husband; but I

want to tell you, son, that when she an’

her husband hit Gila City. twenty year

ago, with their little year-old babe in her





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“Well, 0’ course there was considerable

excitement flittin‘ around for a spell—

there always is whenever the Pegleg gets

rediscovered, Everybody gathered around

them two folks and demanded the details.

But, did they get ’em? Oh, no. Them

folks weren't handin’ out any superfluous

information.



“The woman didn‘t go back again, but

put up at the hotel, while the man con-

tinued his little jaunts into somewhere

or other. and returned again with the

regulation load. He made four trips alto-

gether, an' I reckon he toted out fifty

thousand dollars worth cachvtrip. As fast

as he'd bring it in he’d express it east,

just keeping enough on hand to meet the

general expenses.



“It was durin’ his last trip that the

trouble come up and separated him -an’

his wife. There has a tin horn gambler

hangin‘ aiounmhere, thcn, named 'l-lz’mdy'

Jim Belchcr; handsome sort o' feller, an’

considerable o’ a masher amongst the

wimen folk. \Vcll, it was while her husband

was absent that be begun to set up to the

woman—and I want to state for her, right

here, that she wouldn't have nothin’ to

do with .him. But. just the same, he

buzzed around the hotel some continuous,

smirkin’ an' smilin’ an’ tryin‘ every way

he knowcd how to get into the lady’s good

graces, until us boys. who was lookin’ on.

were most plumb ready for a lynchin’.



“\Vell, we never figured out just what.

or how it happened. Some 0’ the boys

had an idea that some one or more 0’ the

numerous prospectors who was scootin’

around the desert. tryin‘ to locate her

husband, preliminary to locutin' the Peg-

leg, met him comin’ in an' imparted some

erronious information. Anyhow he come

snortin’ into town one day. without his

burros, an’ first pop out o' the gun he shot

Handy, dead. Then he sailed up to his

wife's room. What he said to her 1111' what

she said to him, nobody will ever know;

but next thing we did know. he’d took

the kid an’ vamooscd the diggin‘s. Ain’t

none 0’ us laid our eyes on him since

then.”



“And what happened to the woman?"

asked Bruce, apparently niut-h interested,





 





A bit of the Picturesque and Historically





where the most beautiful scenery begins

Here we took the Rhine steamer and,

after leaving the dock, passed the tower

made famous by the myth of a very

cruel bishop supposed to ’have been eaten

to death by mice, the Mousetower of the

Rhine. From Bingen down the river for

perhaps fifty miles the mountains extend

their precipitous sides down to the very

edge of the river. and they are covered

in some places by great vineyards. in

others by the old-world forests. and then

again the sheer rock juts out to the very

edge of the river. These changes in dress

of the mountains make a very pleasing

and interesting sight. On one side or the

other the little inter-vale, presented to

view by the winding of the river, was

filled with village, vineyard, or field, a

high steep hill terraced with vineyards in

the sun or overgrown with forest trees in

the shade. It is not easy to carry relative

heights in one’s eye. and the width of

water has much to do with apparent ele-

vation; but, with no statistics to guide

me, I should say that the hills that en-

close the Rhinc in this region are as

high, as abrupt and as varied as are the

banks of the Hudson, with all the differ-

ence that vineyard cultivation, frequent

ruins of towers and castles, better kept

forests, and thick clustering medieval vil-

lages can give, a difference which, at

least when helped by. the sensation of

entire novelty and strangeness, is all in

favor of the less familiar scene.





young man whose clothes proclaimed him

as but recently arrived from that section

of the country that lies cast of the Missis-

sippi Valley. His question was directed

to “Long Bill” \Vilkins, a grizzled son of

the west, who was seated on an upturned

barrel, ruminativcly chewing on the stem

of an old cob pipe.



The old man did not immediately an-

swer, but slowly raised his head and eyed

the young man quizzically from beneath

a pair of‘heavy eyebrows.



“Son,” he said finally, and with delib-

erate emphasis, “if some liberal-minded

party would happen along an’ hand me

one silver dollar for every time that that

question has been put to me in the last

twenty years, I’d need a full—grown borax

freighter to cart ’cm off—an’ in a whole

lot 0’ instances it has brot fatal results to

the questioner.”



“Oh, I beg your pardon,” said Bruce.

somewhat abashed at this reply. “I meant

no offense, sir. Of course, I understand

that it is none of my business, and—”



He was interrupted by a shout of laugh-

ter from the other men present. Evidently

they saw a good joke in his apology.



“It ain’t that son,” Long Bill assured

him. “Personally I ain’t got no objections

to the question, nor has the lady, that I





knows of—leastwise she’s never made no’





remarks on the subject. Furthermore, I

don’t mind enlightening you a bit. She

doesn’t go by any regular name, but is

known hereabouts as ‘The Desert Siren.’ ”





 





arms, she was about as purty a little

woman as you ever laid eyes on.”



“What caused the Separation?"



"\Vell, that ain’t been just rightly un-

derstood. 0’ course, there's been more or

less theorizin’, an’ it‘s pretty generally

conceded that the woman wasn‘t in no

wise to blame.



“You see, it was this way: ‘Vhen them

two and the babe hit here, from the Lord

knows where, they ’pcared to have a (lcll~

nite object in view. \Ve boys sort 0‘ come

to the conclusion that the man had a map

or something like that. Anyhow they bot

a grubstake and three burros, and, with—

out impartin' any information as to their

object an’ destination, they struck out into

the desert, one night, leaving the babe in

the care 0’ the landlady at the hotel.



“They was back again inside 0' a week

with two 0’ them burros loaded down to

the last ounce they could tote with gold

nuggets, running all the way frorn as big

as your fist down to the size that Buckley

just took in from her. \Vell. every one 0‘

us knowcd right off that they‘d found the

chleg.”



“How did you know it'was the Pegleg’.“

interrupted Bruce.



“Just take a squint at that nugget o’

'lucklcy’s,” answered Long Bill.



Bruce did so. “It looks darker than

gold usually does,” he observed.



“Correct you are. She’s sunburned,

son. It’s so blame hot out there in the

desert that even the gold gets tanned.





 





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“\Yoll, for the next month .shc set, around



in her room, cryin’ her eyes out, an’ re-

fusin’ any comfort the wimcn folks could

offer. Some o’ ‘ein tried to get her to

write to her husband‘s folks and get them

to explain things to him: but, no, she was

so blame proud that she wouldn't do a

thing. Said that he had wronged her

cruelly, an’ that he Could find out his mis.

take for himself. She hadn‘t done nothin'

wrong an‘ she wasn‘t goin' to make no

advances 'to him.



“Then one day. after she'd made up her

mind that he wasn‘t comin' back, She bot

a grubstakc an' a couple 0' burros an’ hit

out into the desert, in the same direction

she‘d took the time she wr-nt with her

husband. That's the last We saw 0' her

for a, month, when she showed up an’ bot

another supply 0’ grub. She's been doin'

that rcg'lar, ever since, an‘ she ain't Spoke,

to a livin' soul fer twenty years—just

plumb broken heartet."



“Hasn’t anybody ever tried to follow

her?"



“Lord! Son, thousands 0’ ’em has tack-

led that game; that's where the lurin’

comes in. While she’s never given nobody (I

invitation to view the Pegleg, there’s been

a lot that undertook to trail her to it.

But she’s as sly as a coyote. an’ has al-

ways led ’em off on blind trails an’ into

strange parts 0"the desert, an’ then,

when they was least expectin’ it, she’d

disappear like the sand had opened up an’

swallered her. By that time most 0’ the
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trailers would be plumb off their bearings,

'an ’all up in the air as to ‘the right way

back. There’s a lot 0’ ’em that never

come backagain, too.”



“What became of them?” asked Bruce.



“Well, son, if you ever have occasion to

get out into that desert, you’ll understand.

The tomperature’s usually around a hun-

dred an’ twenty, in the shade, an’ there's

darn little shade. It’s so blame hot, day

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than any 0’ us fellers could cvcr figure

out. She must have a lot 0’ water holes

located promiscuous over the country in

order to trail around like she does when

somebody thinks they‘re followin‘ her."



“\Vliich is precisely what I believe I

will do,” said Bruce suddenly. “I came

{out here for the cxprcss purpose of mak-

mg :1 stake, and I don't know of a better

Way to do it than to find that Peglcs;

mine—if it is the chlcg."



Long: Bill looked the young man over

from head to foot bcforc he spoke.



"You'd last about as long out there as

:1 snowball would in Hades," he remarked,

dryly.



"Others have done it,." retorted Bruce.



“ch~—an’ a lot aint. Why, son, the

men who've been thru that furnace were,

for the most part, big. husky experienced

prospectors, who’d stomped over moun-

tains .ln’ trails for years before they

dared to tackle it.”



“The woman did it," persisted Bruce.



“Vi"cll, you‘vc got me there. As I re-

marked lcfm'c. thcre don't mc nor nobody

else understand how she ever stood the

racket."



“But she did." said Bruce with con-

viction. "And what a woman can stand.

a man ought to cndurc. l'm going to

make a try for it. anyhow, and if you

gcntlcmcn will kindly zulvisc me as to

what kind of an HuLlll is nccdecl, I'll be

n’lllCh oblige-d I.» you,“



“Son," said Lou's; Bill, in a final cffort

to head the young man off, "you takc it

from me 2111' km-p out 1" that (lcsci'l. You

ain't got no mcl‘c busincss out llici‘c than

a sidc—wim‘lcr has all a tcm‘prcncc mecl-

,ill’. 'l'hci'c's lots o' good prospects in this

lcountry bcsidcs lhc I’cglcg, uu' you don't

have to tukc such risks to find ‘cm, cithcr.

If you \‘.;ml to got a stake l‘cal had, got

a job skinnin’ mules or cowpunchin‘.

That's :1 whole lot safcr‘n what you pro-

posc to undci-lakc. nu‘ you'll uct your stake

a. blame sight quicker, lOO—lf you save

f your wagcs.”



l But Bruce mcrcly shruggcd his shoul-

‘ders and again rcquestcd advice on the

outfit.





 





 





Chapter II.



In tho shadow of an overhanging ledge

of rock, which sheltci'cd him from the

blinding glare of the sun, crouched Bruce

Hampton. Bcl‘orc him strclched a vast

(«pause of yellow solid, (lolt'cd hcrc and

thch by withci'cd bunches of sagc'bi'ush

and straggling clumps of mosquito bushes.



The young mun shiftcd his position and

took a small sip of watcr from his cau—

teen. His face was pinched and dust bc-

grimcd. and his whole body had visibly

Shrunkcn.



And yet, loss than twcniy—four hours

had clapsed since lic had sfiurtcd out from

Gila (lily on his mlcsl for lltc mythical

Pegleg mine. He ll'dtl but at sundown

the night before. with two luu'v'os, an

ample supply of provisions, and r-uoug‘h

water, as Long llill bud judg‘cll, to carry

him ihl‘u to llidalcn Springs.



The westci'ncr 11ml also provide] him

with a rough map of lllc country hc was

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known water lmlcs. illc luul HdVlSlfii Brut-c

to head straight for Hidden Springs,





 





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which place 11c should l'cucll about sun-

rise, and to remain thcrc in thc slicllcr

0f the rocks during the day, as tl‘llYPllllg'

in thc intense hcat of the sun would )0.





,beyond his endurance.





Bruce had i‘ollmvcd his fricnd‘s direc-

tions as best hc could with his limitcvl

knowledge of such things. but the desert

trail. little used, and. in places, cnlirclf-x

obliterated by the drifting sand. had

proved too much for him. “’ith nothing

but instinct and the dim light of the stars

to guide him, he had found it difficult to

keep the trail at all, and some time dur-

ing the night hc had lost it altogether

and had driftcd out into the desert.



thn the heat of the rising sun had

drivcn him to covcr he had crept under

the overhanging ledge, which was the only

shelter in sight. except for the range of

mountains that rose to the right of him.



With a recklessness born of total in,-

norancc of the terrible desert thirst,





territory. Address L. L. Byphers, FortWayne, Ind. ‘Bruce had drawn heavily on his supply





down toxone canteenful.





.ricnccd





me MicmacAN FARMER.‘





of water during the night, in "full confi-

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the springs. As a result he was now

Realizing that

he was lost and that his life depended

on his finding water before this pitiful

supply was exhausted, he had taken but

occasional small sips during the day just

enough to moisten his lips.



His burros, picketcd close by, hugged:

the shadow of the rock. panting wheezily.

Bruce had shared'liis water with them

during the night, but thru the day he had

given them none, and they were suffering

keenly from thirst.



Crawling further into the shadow, Bruce

took a letter from his pocket and read it

thru for the twentieth time. It had ar-

rived 0n the afternoon mail, the day be~

fore. about an hour before he had taken

his departure from Gila City.



The lcllcr was postmarked New York.

and written in a clear, feminine hand.

Over one paragraph in particular the

young man lingered.





You must know. dearest. that had I

been awurc of this thing you are under-

taking for my sake, you would never have

left me. 1 would have married you

against Papa's wishes before I would have





 





 





 





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conscntcd to your going. I was furious

when he told me about it. right after I,

had returned from Elsw’s house party.

It was crucl of him to scnd you off on

such a wild goose chase. and merely bc-;

cause he wants his daughter's future hus-

band to have a fortune before he. marries

her. For my part I would much rather

have started on the salary you were

drawing here and fought out way up to-

gethcr. than to have you tukc such risks.

Ilistinctivcly I fccl that something terrible

is liablc to huppcn to you on this trip.

()h, do be careful for my sake; don‘t do a

thing that will put you in the slightest

dangcr. If I didn‘t know what a deter-

mincd man you arc, I would command

you to come straight back to me. But I.

know you will do this thing. now that you,

arc started. ’.l‘hcrcfru'c I shall pray with

you that you succeed In making the stake

-ou1v Hiakc~su that you can show Papa

that you are cvcry bit the man I know

you to bc. “'i‘itc to me every day that

you can or I shall be frantic: and come

back to me just as soon as you can.

Always your devoted.

ISABEL.

From his pocket Bruce drcw a small

lcuthcr cusc um gazed long at thc plinto-

graph tlicrcin. It was of u. SWt‘Oi, fair-

1'2H‘cd girl. whose cycs lookcd straight into

lus own with an cxprcssion of infinite

trust anti love. She had had the picture

iukcu cxprcssly for him, and as Bruce

watched the face the cycs sccmcd to take

on an almost living expression of under-

standing and lcndcr sympathy.

ltcplw-iug lllc lcltcr and case in his

imckct. hc turned to Long; Bill’s map.

For a long timc llc sludicd the crude trac-

ings of the westel‘ucr, recalling as best he

could the verbal directions that had been





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given with them.



Finally he crawled forth from beneath

the lcdgc and swept thc landscape in a.

vain search for some mark that would set.

him right in his bcarings. He saw only





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tcrcd. ashen vegctation. the gray and

sombre rocks that rose like grim sentinels

licrc and thaw, the intcnsc blue of the

sky. and. in thc distance, the range of

mountains wlu-rciu lay his hope of life.

He bud already given up the idea of

finding the chlcg. ()nc day‘s experience.

with the desert heat had convinced him

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nci. by any incans. g‘ivcn up the hope of‘

lllltllllf—I‘ a stake. but hc \t'nlllnl hunt for





that in the mountains, hw tllol. where he‘ .





would lllltl water and pl‘mcction from the‘

icrriblc i‘cul.



.llc (Jl'.‘.\\lld back lllHlx'l‘ thc lcdgc and

wuilcd until llp- sun bud sunk into the

(lcsn-I'L studs. ulnl llu-n lp- cnmc forth

again and bcgml clumsily to pack the

bumps. 1‘1‘cpal'alm‘y to making his dash

for the mountains.



Chapter Ill. .



Yours before, wbcn a boy back in \‘cr-

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onc autumn, slarlit night. waded‘lhru a

fluid of dcwsladen r'l0\'t'l‘ and crawled

umlcr tlu- orchard four-e into Farmer Car-

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of vcrduul w'ccd-grown land. He had

brokcn the-m opmi against a rock. dug out

grcat handfuls of thc rich, rcd hearts and

conveyed them. dripping and wet, to his

mouth——



An impatient movement of the burros

ln'ot Brut c back to his surroundings. They

had sudzlcnly pushed ahead and were tug-

ging at their lending straps. Plainly they

were excited over something. An expe-

dcsel‘t prospector would have

guessed at once that the animals had

scented water somewhere in the vicinity

and were eager to' get to it. The signifi-

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“Whoa, you brutes,” he said huskily,





 





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MOTHER WRITING LETTERS.





 





BY com A. MATSON nonsON.

What little letters she would sometimes

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wr e

While others were asleep, on Sunday





n t,

Telling,gperchance, how had the baby

grown,

Or how he took his first glad step alone,

Or what the dinner Thanksgiving Day,

Or how the wee one broke her doll at

play.





She loved not lamp-light, and, with snuf-

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The tallow candle’s blaze was soft and

clear.



A dish of apples, golden-green and red,



VVit'hin the circle that the candle shed,





The cradle, with its bright pink quilt

tucked in .



Around the small plump hands and dimp-

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Myself, with ’fancy that could range at

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In this, my task, to keep the baby still,

For, while my foot the rocker .moved ajar,

\Vith Prince and Princess Journeyed I

afar.





And she wrote letters; but the blue-lined





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Filled with home-truths, and maybe,

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Has vanished; not a one is left, of all

Her letters; and but faintly I recall

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SOME QUEER BEDS.





BY DORA H. STOCKMAN.





On the second day of February, Allen’s

father came into the living room with a.

large, partly decayed log on his shoulder

and rolled it into the huge fireplace,



As he piled the smaller sticks about it

he remarked, “\Vell, I guess the ground—

hog saw his shadow this afternoon and

he’ll go back and sleep six weeks."



“What is a ground—hog, father, and will

he. really sleep six weeks?” asked Allen

eagerly.



Mr. Thoreau laughed and sat down by

the tire, taking the small boy upon his

knee.



“A ground-hog,” he replied, “is a. wood-

chuck, the rascal that digs those holes

in the meadOWS in the summer."



“Oh, yes, I remember him,” said Allen;

“he used to look so cute. sitting up over

in the meadow, just like Fido does when

he begs for something to eat. He would

jump down in his hole pretty quick, tho,

when anyone came near. Is that where

he sleeps, papa?”



V“Yes, he digs out quite elaborate rooms

for his castle underground, and he always

has two doors. You remember, when the

older boys tried to smoke one out last

fall, how he came. out on the other side

of the bank and scampercd away before

they could catch him."



‘,‘VVhy does he sleep in the winter?”

asked Allen.



“When it gets cold and the ground

freezes or is covered with snow, he can-

not get any grass or food to eat. So he

goes into his home and sleeps until

spring, unless a very warm spell comes in

the winter when he sometimes comes

out.”



“Don't he have to wake up and eat

something?"



“No, he doesn’t need to eat, for he lives

on the fat he stored in his body during

the summer and fall.”



“That must be why he is so poor, and

thin, and hungry when spring comes.”

reflected Allen soberly. “What a queer

way to live."



“That is the way Mother Nature taught





{DEE MICHIGAN ,IFARMER.





them to live when the weather is cold

and there is no food for them to get, else

they would freez and starve to death.”



“I never thot of that,” said Allen. “Do

any other animals sleep all winter?”



“Quite a number hibernate, as we call

the winter sleep of animals,” Mr. Thor—

eau answered. “There was a big hollow

elm tree near the road where I used to

go to School when I was a boy. One Win-

ter a bear took up his winter quarters

inside the tree among the leaves and de-

cayed wood. One night, toward spring,

we boys were chasing a partridge that

was fluttering along and it flew into the

hollow tree. When we.climbed in after it

we were pretty much surprised, I can

tell you, to find Mr. Bruin lying there

asleep. We didn’t wait even to apologize

for going into his bedroom, but ran for

home as fast as we could go. When the

men went to look for him in the morning‘-

he had gone.” '



“Tell me about some more animals

that lie in bed all winter, para,” begged

Allen, snuggling down comfortably in his

father’s arms.



“I saw one last week, when I was haul.

ing gravel,” said Mr. Thoreau. “After

we had dug down nearly five feet we came

to a snake, standing on its head where it





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in the earth, and there they stay until the

mud thaws out in thepspring.” '

. “That must be what makes them all

sing so loud in the spring, they are so

glad to wake up." mused the boy.



“The turtles also sleep in their muddy





 





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ways of balancing things up and at the

same time furnishing food for the birds.

Besides, all insects do not spend their

winter like these. A great many, like the

grasshopper, the beetle, the caterpillars

of some moths, either as eggs or in some

stage of their lives, hibernate in the





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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bed with the frogs and other small water

animals," added Mr. Thoreau.



“Oh, papa, auntie, look quick." cried

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had burrowed its way into the ground.

It was almost as stiff as a stick.”



“I don’t see 'how they come

again,” said Allen.



“Neither do I, my son, but we know

they do, and so do the toads that also

crawl into the earth and stay there until

spring.”



“‘Vhat becomes of the frogs?” he asked.



“They burrow in the mud in the pond,





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THE SAND DOLLAR, OR SEA-URCHI N.





 





 





The illustrations show both sides of a Sea—urchin,

Dollar, as by either of these names it is\ known.





or Sand





or Sand Cake,

When living, it is covered with

a. hairy moss, but when dried and bleached in the sun, as shown in the illustra-

tions, it loses all these, and is whitish or yellow in appearance. It is made of

carbonate of lime, and is found on sandy shores.





was blazing brightly at one end. ”A

i'l'li‘k(‘t, a cricket.”



Whether Master Cricket thot we were

waiting for a song, or whether, because

of the warmth, he believed spring had

come, I can't say. At any rate, he lifted

up his rasp-likc bow and drew it across

the other wing cover on his back. fiddlingr

and chirping away as if life were all one

summer (1213'.



Allen laughed heartily. “Fiddle away

Mr. Cricket," he, cried. “but what wil‘

you do when your bed is turned up and

the snow is all ow-r tho ground. 11.)

must be another winter sleeper, isn‘t he

pilpa‘F";



“Yes," replied Mr. Thoreau, “tho crirk—

ct. like many other insects, makes his bod

undvr the bark of trees and beneath log:

and fences that will afford him some shill--

tor. You remember how time the birds

sot-mod down in the woods, and how thoy

lln-w around the freshly cut timbor'.‘ You

St‘i,‘ Wt- Lad uncovered the winter bed of

some of tho lllSt't‘lS, and they wore hunt-

ing thom and their (ggs for a meal.”



“Uh I know. papa. I saw some birds

running up and down the fir trees in the

front yard. They were tapping so loud

on the. trees I could hear them in the

house, and mamma. said they were wood—

peckers and nuthatches hunting grubs

and insects to eat. It seems pretty bad

for the birds to haul them out of bed to

eat them.”



"It does seem cruel, yet if the birds did

not eat the inseots there would soon be

so many that they would destroy all the

farmers’ crops.





That is one of nature's





ground during the cold winter months."



“You must not forget the swing beds,”

said mamma, “where, the little moth bah-

ics swing in their silken hammocks,

snugly hid from the winter storms.”



“How interesting." murmured Allen,

thotfully; “what a queer lot of beds there

are in the worlt.”



“\Vondcri‘ul beds, wonderful animals,

and a wonderful world,” adds d his father.





TRAPS AND SNARES FOR RABBITS.





 





BY L. C, “'HEEI.ER.



Boys, now is the time to get out those

box traps and snares for rabbits. I prefer

the snares to the traps, as it is easier to

get the rabbits into them. Nearly every

boy knows how to make a box trap like

the one shown in the illustration. The

trigger is the important part. The one

shown is simple, but if i'irefcrred the.

well—known figure 4 trigurr may be sub-

stituted for it.



To make a snare get some good broom

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lli(‘ bottom of the noose l> two or three

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and Witdh of the picture to be framed,

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When all the straws are cut to the-
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worn properly to apcpar at its best and

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is quite knack to tie a four-in-haml so

that it will look well and retain its posi-

tion properly. To insure this desirable

result, the tie should be so placed in the

collar that the long end will be on the

left side, after the collar is butioncd on.

The tie should then be drawn back and

forth till it can be pulled easily thru the

collar. Then the long end should be taken

in the right hand and passed clcar around

the shorter rather tightly. and again more

loosely before it is tucked under and

drawn down. the second fold taken ap-

pearing on the outside. the cud held in the

right hand being drawn under this fold

and above the first fold 01' Wrap of the

tie about the short end. It can then be

drawn tightly into place, will have the

desirable smooth appearance, and will stay

where it is put. \"itli an occasional pres-

;slng. ordinarily good ties will look Well

.for a long time. and it costs no more in

‘ the end to have a suitable variety of them

‘on hand. Of course, there are many men

who prefer other styles of ties, which are

more easily tied and adjusted. 'l‘hesc are

to be. found in the made—up ties and in

the string ties to which some will ever

adhere, regardless of the mandates of

fashion. But the young man will want to

‘wcar the four—in—hand, the very latest

style in which is the narrow silk or knit

silk tie, 'worn with a closed front collar.;

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THE oases-r SIRE .

(Continued from page 46).





jerking impatiently oh the straps. "You’re

‘not any more anxious than I to get to

those mountains. Take it easy or I‘ll play

out before you get there.”



He had been traveling toward the

mountains for many hours. They had

disappeared with the coming of the dark»

ness, but he had located :1 star in the

north and had kept this before him thru—

out the journey.



In spite of his admonishments the bur-

I‘OS became more and more restless and

impatient, until he had to take their

bridles and hold them, one on either side

of him, in order to restrain them.



In this manner they proceeded for a

short distance, and then, suddenly, there

came a warning “whirl‘” and the animal

at his right plunged sideways and against'

Bruce with such violence as to throw him

heavily to the ground. In falling he lost

his grip on the bridles and instantly tho

burros stampedcd and vanished in the

darkness.



Bruce scrambled to his feet with the

intention of following them, but another

loud “whirr,” just in front, checked him.

Looking down he could distinguish, by

the dim light of the stars, a crawling.

writhing,r Shape forming itself into a coil:

“’ith a cry of fear he sprung back just

in time to escape the fangs of the deadly

desert rattlesnake. Before it could recoil.

ho had crushed its head under the heel:

of his hcaVy boot.



And then he made a terrible discovery.

When he fell. the canteen had been bc-

ncnth him, and he found, to his utter,

dismay. that it had Struck the point of

:1. jogged rock, piercing a. hole near the

bottom, 1hru which all but a few drops

of his prccious water had escaped.



Horror—strickcn at this awful calamity.‘

Bruce stood (lazcd for some minutes. Then

he suddenly rcmcmbcrcd the hurros and

his outfit and started frantically off in

search of them. , f



In his bewilderment he rushed wildly,

about in the darkness, stumbling over:

rocks and sage brush and calling huskily

to the animals. \thtevcr had causcl

them to break away had taken them far

from his limilcd range of vision, and when

he at last paused to listen. nothing but

the death-like quiet of the desert reward-

ed his cars. 1



Chapter lV. '



Daylight found him still wanderingj

about in frantic scorch of his lost grub—i

stake and its bearers. To the south the?

same monotonous scenery stretched away

to the horizon, and bcfore him were the

1'oorhills of the mountains: but tllc burros

and all traccs of them had vanished.



The heat from the rising sun descended

upon him like a blast from a furnace, and;





 





the horizon he was obliged to seek shelter

in the shadow of a tall, sentinel-like rock.

At the best it afforded but slight pro—





whcn the sun had reached its zenith he‘

would be directly exposed to its scorching

rays.



Bruce’s lips were already cracked and

bleeding, and his tongue was a black,

swollen husk that filled his mouth so that

he could not close it. His hcud ached

fearfully and his brain vibrated dizzlly.

He realized vaguely thut he must escape

to better shelter and find water quickly

if he hoped to keep his grip on lifc.



He stood up and swept the foothills in

an cng‘cr scu-rch for some i'ctrcat. Sev-

eral milcs to the west rose :1 mass of

towering rocks. and in thc ccntcr of this.

he thot he could distinguish it (lurk open-I

ing. If he could only reach that place, he?

thot. But did ho still have the strength?)



Suddenly as he waichcd, a huge volume!

of Wntcr gushed forth from the cleft in!

the rocks and spread rapidly out over thelI

sand, forming a shimmering, sparkling?

lake in the morning: sun.



\Vith a hoarse cry of joy the now de—i

mcntcd man dashed forth from his SllOl-i

tor and tore madly across the desert. As!

he advanced the Spreading lake sccmcd

to reach out to meet him. He could seci

little white-capped waves tossing, and'

could hear them ripple and splash as they“

broke on the sand. ‘



At last, after what seemed to him an'

intcrminable time, he reached the shore

of this shimmering lake, and without

pausing, he flung himself recklessly head.L

long into the tumbling water. :



The shock of his fall brot him to his

senses for a second. He reached out

madly for the water, but, instead, found

nothing but the dry hot sand of the desert

beneath him. The water had miracu-

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Made of Hard, Stiff Mre, of Honest Quality

g Woven-Wire Fences must be

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the sheer strength of the wire. Why?





A fence with barbs is protected from excessive pressure 1

because the animal fears the barbs. Remove the barbs and the



greatest strength of the animal is thrown upon the fence.

Hence its wires must be larger and stronger. Therefore, to





have a longlife woven-wire fence you must have a heavy fence.



Among the valuable features that distinguish American Fence is the

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as the largest makers of fence in the world.



Under side stress and strain the resilient Hinged Joint yields to pressure

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wires, the strain being taken up by the heavy horizontal bars.



The real test ofafence is the service you get out of it. Test, judge and

compare American Fence under any and all conditions, and you will

find that the steel, the structure and galvanizing are equal in durability,

strength and efficiency to the hardest usage. -



F. BAACKES. Vice-Pres. & Gen. Sales Agent ‘





AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE CO.





Chicago New York Denver San Francisco

NOTE—Dealers everywhere. See the one in your town and have him show 130“ the different designs l

and ive prices. Also get from him booklct entitled "HOW TO BULL A CHEAP CONCRETE

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HER NEEDS _





“Deborah” Assumes Charge of Household Department.





We are pleased to announce to our

readers that we have engaged the services

of Mrs. Alta L. Littell, as special house-

hold editor and that she will assume

'charge of this department beginning with

this issue. Mrs. Littell is a writer of no

little note in this department of news-

paper work, having for some years had

charge of the VVoman’s Page on one of

the Detroit dailies, and having contributed

lcading articles to that paper since she

retired from active charge of the Depart-

ment, the readers Of which have known

her as “Deborah.” For some weeks she

has contributed to the columns of the

Michigan Farmer over the psuedonym

“Dorothy Hudspith.” Beginning with this

issue, Mrs. Littell will write exclusively

for the Michigan Farmer, and the name

"Deborah,” which she has made almost a

househdld word in thousands of Michigan

homes by her able and common sense

writings, will be seen only in the Michigan

Farmer. Mrs. Littell is exceptionally well

fitted, both by natural ability and train-

ing to make the woman’s department of

the Michigan Farmer of the greatest

practical benefit to every farm house-

keeper. A country girl herself, she has

had the advantage of training in domestic

science at the Michigan Agricultural Col—

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(if-newspaper experience as well as prac-

tical experience as a housekeeper and a

mother, makes her peculiarly well fitted

for this work, besides her rare faculty as

a writer enables her to treat the most

prosaic subjects in an entertaining as

well as instructive manner. We predict

that her writings will be read and appre-

ciated by the men as well as the women

in a great number of Michigan farm

homes during the coming year. In en-

gaging Mrs. Littell for this work We be-





lieve that we have secured the services

of the most capable person to be found

for this difficult place, and in her engage-

ment we have sought the best talent to

be obtained, regardless of expense, in

order to make this department of the

paper of the greatest possible value to its





 





Mrs. Alta L. Littell.

readers. This is the first to be inaugu-

rated of the improvements in the paper

which we have planned for 1910, and we

bespeak for Mrs. Littell the attention

which we know will develop into interest

and appreciation on the part of readers.

-——Editors.





THE GREATNESS OF LITTLE THINGS.





 





Shakespeare has it that those who

spend their time communing with nature

will find “tongues in trees, books in the

running brooks, sermons in stones, and

good in everything.” To my everlasting

shame I must confess that I am not na-

ture lover enough to appreciate the lines.

Human nature is the only sort that inter-

ests me, and I try to make it teach me

enough lessons to cover my deficiencies

in the other line. Every new person is

an unexplored mine to me, and rarely do

I fail to learn a lesson of value from ev-

ery acquaintance.



It remained for one I met this summer,

exempt from public haunts, to teach me

one of the greatest of life’s lessons; teach

it quite unconSciously, so unconsciously

that the teacher will never know what

she has done, because she does not realize

her own capabilities and real worth. In-

deed, at the first glance she would never

reveal that she possessed any desirable

traits. She lives in the center of the

most desolate part of Michigan, :1 country

which has been robbed of all its best tim-

ber and where a few struggling settlers

are trying to start productive farms in

the midst of the second growth timber

and underbrush.



To my mind it was the most lonely, for-

bidding, heartbreaking spot I had ever

seen, and I was just wondering how

women could live there and keep their

reason, when I met my heroine. I must

call her that, altho she wouldn’t answer

to a novelist’s description of such a crea-

ture, and I know the woman and her

family would consider the name a joke.



She was not young nor handsome nor

stylish, «but a middle-aged woman, made

old before her time by hard work and

lack of attention to her person. Her

gown was of faded calico, made after a

style of a decade ago. Her hair was in-

nocent of rat or puffs or coronet braids,

and was combed tightly back into a little

wad at her neck. Altogether her personal

appearance fitted into the landscape. But

when she talked, somehow her soul

Seemed to be living some place else.



“Don’t you find it dreadfully lonely up

here, so far from neighbors and from

town?” I queried, expecting an outbreak

of discontented complaints about her sur-

roundings.



“Why, no,” she replied, “I hadn’t no-

ticed it was lonely. You see, week days

I am pretty busy and haven’t time to

think about it. What with my housework





and my garden and'fruit and flowers to

look after, I don’t know what I’d do with

neighbors if I had them. Of course, on

Sundays I’d like to go to church, but as

I can’t I make the best of it. ’I have such

a line view of the river from my front

windows, I just sit in the parlor or out

of doors peaceful-like and watch the

water flowing by, and rest. And then

my r10wers are so beautiful, they make

me feel good and kind of religious. \Vliy,

l have panises and red and yellow and

pink and white roses, and peonies, and

golden glow, and clematis and lilacs, two

kinds, and snowballs, and ever so many

more I couldn’t begin to tell you all about

them. No, I like it up here. It is my

home and I can have all the flowers I

want and the river to look at, and I don’t

ask anything more. I wish you could see

my flowers, they would make anyone feel

happy.” '



I saw them. There was every flower

indigenous to Michigan, put together after

a fashion that would have given a land-

scape gardener a fit of hysteria. But

they were all there and they all grew and

were hardy, because their owner loved

them. She knew the scientific name of

every one, and altho some of her pronun-

ciations were lame and halt, the names

meant as much to her as the correct pro-

nunciation would have meant. It was

the flowers she cared for; not their

names.



And here in this lonely, desolate spot,

Where I could see nothing desirable, where

I should have sat me down to mope and

complain and bewail the unkind fate

which cast me there, this woman was

happy, because she had learned life’s

greatest lesson, that happiness comes

from within, and depends upon content-

ment and love for its existence; love for

one’s family and for God’s outdoors. ,



I have met and talked with many wo-

men whom the world calls great. But to

my mind they are not so great as this

unlearned woman on a settler’s farm.

Their greatness consists in having done

something to command the attention of

the world, and they are great only be-

cause of an unbounded ambition and a

desire for‘ the world’s praise. They

worked and schemed to achieve their

greatness, and in gaining that, lost much

of the happiness which might have been

theirs in the quiet pursuit of home dut-

ies. This woman was not actuated by

ambition nor famed by the world’s praise.





In a. most unobtrusive way she did the

duty nearest, and found happiness in so

doing._ She has made her particular cor-

ner of the desert blossom like the rose.

Could anything be greater?



DEBORAH.





 





SHORT CUTS TO HOUSE‘KEEPING.





 





This department is opened as a

means for the exchange of new and

successful ideas in housekeeping.

Every housekeeper is anxious to learn

the quickest and best way of doing

her work, and is constantly looking

for new ideas. If you have what you

consider a good idea send it on for

the benefit of your sisters. They will

do the same by you. Please do not

send recipes. Every housekeeper now

has more than she can use. But if

you think you. have the quickest and

best way of washing, ironing, sweep-

ing. dusting or doing anything else

about the house, please write and tell





 





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I once knew a woman who made it her:





life study to devise the quickest and best1

ways of doing her housework. Needless

to say she was a perfect housekeeper:

Her work seemed to be done by magic,

and altho she had three children and a

husband to care for and only hired her

washings done, she was always thru her

work by noon, and had the afternoon for

sewing or for pleasure. ‘



I believe there are many like her who

are always on the still hunt for quick and

easy ways to do their work. Many have

found such good ideas that I want to

ask you to pass them on to the rest of

us. If there is anything about the house

that you have learned a better way of

doing than the old way, please write The

Michigan Farmer and tell- us about it.

We do not want recipes unless you have

discovered something entirely new and

an easier way of cooking an old dish,

Just short cuts to housekeeping, a way

that does the work as well but leaves you

with more time. Men are. always seeking

such ideas, why not women?



To start the ball rolling, I will tell the

readers how I manage when we want

gems for breakfast. We” all love nice,

hot gems or muffins in the morning, but

as I love the forty winks, so essential to

health and beauty, much better than I

do gems, we rarely had the hot dainties





 





until I learned that I could half make the

gems the night before. Now, when we

are to have them, I sift my flour, baking

powder and sugar together in the mixing

bowl, the night before, put the shortening

in the gem tin to be melted in the morn-

ing, lay an egg beside the bowl and meas-

ure the cup of.milk. Then I cover all

carefully to keep out the ever-busy mi-

crobe and in the morning take my forty

winks with the happy consciousness that

within five minutes after I get into the

kitchen the gems will be ready for the

oven.



For the benefit of those cooks who

would like to try the scheme, but who use

soda and sour milk, let me say, you may

proceed exactly in the same way. Dem-

onstrations have proved that you can

sift your soda with the flour and add the

sour milk just as you sift baking powder

and flour and add sweet milk. The result

will be the same as the you mixed the

soda and sour milk in the usual way, and

you need not use quite so much soda.



Mrs. A. L. It.





 





A GOOD MOTTO.





 





“For every evil under the sun

There is a remedy, or there is none;

If there is one try and find it,



If there is none, never mind it.”





It seems to me this would be a good

motto to hang up beside these discussions

on the farmer. He. certainly does exist

in all the types mentioned—but the same

types are found in the cities as well.



It has impressed me that the man who

might be benefited by these papers in all

probability doesn’t read them, and the

only remedy that is apparent to me, is

that the mothers be more careful in train-

ing the. boy to better manners.



If you and I, dear mothers, teach our

boys to bathe regularly, keep the teeth

and finger nails in order, if clean hands

and faces and well brushed hair are a

part of table manners, the “other man".

will gradually disappear.



N. M. K.





 





“I write to inform you that the machine

we purchased of you in April is entirely

satisfactory. We have done a little of

nearly all classes of work. a considerable

amount of llverly fins wiork, all of which



’ are we pease wth.”—Mr .



A. Hart, Bellevue, Mich. s IJames





FEB. 5, 1910.





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Cure Stomach Trouble.





A Trial Package Sent Free.



Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are made to-

give to the system, through the digestive

tract and the stomach, the necessary

chemicals not only to digest food, but to.

enrich the fluids of the body so that it

may no longer suffer from dyspepsia or

other stomach trouble.



We will send you a quantity of these

tablets free, so that their power to cure

may be proven to you.



Thousands upon thousands of people

are using these tablets for the aid and

cure of every known stomach disease,

Know what you put into your stomach,

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Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets contain fruit

and vegetable essences, the pure concen-





 





‘ trated tincture of Hydrastis, Golden Seal,





which tone up and strengthen the mucous.

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strengthen the nerves controlling the ac-

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One of the ablest professors of the Uni-

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this Pepsin was the only aseptic pepsin

he had found that was absolutely pure—-

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to absorb gases and prevent fermenta-

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Liquid medicines lose their strength the

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hence Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are ‘rec-

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If you. really douot the power of these

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It is due your stomach to give it the

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It costs nothing to try. You know what

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tablets prove their value. All druggists

sell them. Price 50 cents. Send us your

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BY ‘MA-Y HOWELL BEEGHE'R.





 





You ask me when I was happiest, dear,

The red-letter day of my ‘life'?



Was it the day that I made my debut?

Or the day that made me a wife?





with scratching steel knife against a perforated

steel-cutting plate without tearing or crushing.

Easily cleaned. Practically unbreakable and

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Was it 'the day that he told me he loved , '

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ENTERP





Many days of sorrow and sadness,

Arc buricd away in the post,



But there lives in my hcsrt a gladness.

A joy that always shall last.





Chopper





It was early in autumn,

The leaves were all turning to gold.





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The tiny hands simyod o'er my bosom,

1 clasped thc dear form to my heart,



And I know that forever and ever,

That day is the one set apart.





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Fertile Farms in Tennessee

to $210 :per acre—

Fortunes are being made on fertile Tennes- .

See farms. ’l‘hey raise big crops of Canta-

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-Green Corn etc..nlso Horses. Cattle. Sheep. Swine. g

Poultryvand Enos. ri me at. once for Free,

Literature. I'll tell you how to set. one of these .

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THE IMPORTANCE OF DOMESTIC

SCIENCE—l.





 





BY MRS. ALTA L. LITTELL. ‘



Housekeepers are accused of .being nar-

row-minded by those women who claim

to have a mind above the common things

of life. The women who hate housework.

with all the pleasures as Well as drudg-

eries the term implies, can never under—

stand the busy housewife who directs all

her energies and her best thot to directing

her household aright. The former woman

snee-rs at the latter, ridicules her attention

to things domestic, declares that all the

housekeeper ever thinks of is recipes, and

avows her own intention of devoting her

mind to higher and to more important

things.



But is there anything higher than home—

making or more important than cooking?

We are all familiar with the verse which

assures us that we may live without

music, art, books and the like but we can

not live without cooks. And as we all ad—

mit the truth of the saying, it seems a

self-evident fact that cooking is the most

important vocation known to woman. It

is certain that life and health depend up-

on the food we eat, and that as badly

prepared food will give us indigestion and

make us unfit for work, so well—cooked

and nutritious foods will keep us healthy

and ready for anything. So that the wise

wife who would see her husband a suc—

cess, will best help him if she sees that

he is properly fed. All of which seems

to prove that a. woman isn't so very nar-

row-minded if she devotes her time to

mastering the art of cooking, instead of

learning to play bridge whist, or to drum

“The Maiden's Prayer" on the piano. -



And in order to know that her family is

properly fed, the cook should understand

her profession thoroly. The day has gone

.by when she can feel that she is doing her

duty if she knows how to make three

kinds of layer cake, has mastered the art

of making pie crust. and can fry pork

sausage so it is eatable. The cook of to-

day must know the underlying principles

which govern perfect digestion; she must

have a knowledge of food values; she

must know what foods are best adapted

to keep that living machine, the body, in

order. and must know the best ways of

cooking the foods we eat.



In order to understand the matter thor-

oly, I am going to ask the housekeepers

who read this article to go over with me

first, the lessons we learned on digestion

in our bygone schooldays. We all remem—

ber that the food must be dissolved before

it can be taken up by the blood. This

process of dissolving. which we term di-

gestion or assimilation, takes place in the

alimentary canal. The alin‘ientary canal

is simply a long canal leading from the

mouth and including the stomach and the

intestines.



The process of digestion begins in the

mouth nd including the stomach and the

mouth and continues thruout the entire

length of the canal, the food being soft-

ened by the digestive juices which are

secreted 'by the glands along the alimen-

tary canal. “'9 often forget this fact,

that digestion begins in the month, and

when we have indigestion complain of

"stomach trouble.” \threas. what we

may have may be “month" trouble. as

nine—tenths of the people do not chew

their food thoroly and mix it with enough

saliva to properly digest it.



Children are careless in this respect

and usually “bolt” their food. They should

be watched carefully and taught the im-

portance of thoroly chewing c\'ci‘_\' mouth-

ful of food before it, is swallowed.



In the stomach the digestion is con-

tinued by the action of the gastric juice.

and it is completed in the intestines by

the intestinal juices, the pancreatic juice

and the bile, or “gall." This last juice is

secreted by the liver and conveyed to the

intestine, while the pancreatic juice is

secreted by the pancreas, or sweetbrcad.

as it is termed in calves, This gland lies

just back of the stomach.



Food and its classes. and the effect of

the digestive fluids upon it will be con—

tinued in further articles.





PRUNE POSSIBILITIES.





 





’ BY E. J. LYNCH.



For a long time I made a practice of

avoiding prunes. I looked on them with

contempt, a kind of last resort for some

despairing housewife who had no choice

between prunes and nothing at all. That

was before I knew Aunt Emma’s way of

cooking prunes or had had a chance to

test the delectable prune dainties which

were produced in her kitchen. Even





stewed prunes, which I had despised, be-

came an article of food which I learned

to regard with special favor.





THE ~MlCHl-GAN FARMER.





“The first thing about cooking prunes

is to understand them," Aunt Emma said.

“You must remeinber that the moisture

or juice of the fruit has been lost in evap-

oration and if you are going to have

prunes fit to eat, you must allow time for

the fruit to abs-orb as much water as it

possibly can. Prunes ought always to be

soaked at least ten hours before they are

cooked. I always soak mine over night.”



This, then, was the secret of the plump—

ness and juiciness of Aunt Emma’s

prunes.



“Then, when you go to cook them,” she

continued, “don’t set them on the front

of the stove and boil them as fast as you

can for a half hour or so. throw in a

handful of sugar and then call that ‘stew-

ed prunes.’ Put them in the water they

have been soaking in, and the sugar, in

a kettle on the back of the stove and let

them simmer slowly for three hours.

Never boil prunes. If the juice is not

syrupy enough to suit you take the prunes

out and boil the syrup down till you have

it as thick as you want it. Put a bit of

lemon peel in if you like the flavor. Then

you have stewed prunes that are “fit to

set before a king."



Aunt Emma used to make a prune pie

by taking the stones out, washing the

skin and pulp soft and smooth and then

adding enough corn starch and the yolk

of an egg to the juice to make it about





.right for a pie filling,





Prune Whip.



I-Ier prune whip was a rare treat which

we had occasionally for Sunday dinner.

She first stewed the prunes, then put

them thru the colander. To a cup of this

rather dry pulp add the stiffly beaten

whites of two eggs, sugar and a little

lemon juice, as you like. Put in a mod-

erate oven for about five minutes, or

long enough to set the mixture. Serve

this cold with a. soft custard or whipped

cream.



Prune Dumpling.



To make this prepare first a rich pie

crust. Spread on it about two cups of

stewed prunes from which the stones

have been removed. 1‘ Roll this’ up. Pinch

the ends securely together. Tie it up in

a floured pudding cloth and boil it steadily

for two hours. This pudding will need a

sauce.



Prune Sponge.



After stewing one pint of prunes as

directed add a heaping teaspoon of gela--

tine which has been dissolved in a cup of

cold water, and the juice of a lemon. Let

this mixture come slowly to .a boil, then

stir in the well—beaten whites of three

eggs. Put it on the ice to chill and serve

it cold with a soft custard made of milk,

the yolks of eggs and a little corn starch.





 





BAKE THE PIE RIGHT.





 





BY E. E. R.



Baking is as important as any part in

the making of a pie. The oven should be

just the right heat, and experience only

can determine this point since ovens are

not generally provided with thermome—

ters. It should begin to bake at once, yet

not so quickly as to brown the crust im-

mediately. Better a rather slow oven

than that. The bottom heat must be good

and pics should usually be put on the

lower grate. “hen the moistened finger

hisscs when applied quickly to the bottom

of the tin it may be considered done. By

that time the top ought to be lightly

browned. Half an hour will usually be

rcquired in the operation, at least. Ii

an apple pie, test With a fork. A half-

linked apple pic is an abomination. For

mince pies thc baking may cease when

the crust is sufficiently done.



Ntai-ly everybody likes a good pie and

no pains should be spared to make that

kind.





GOOD RECIPES WITHOUT BUTTER-

MILK.



Those who havc cream separators and

sell the cream often have difficulty in get-

ting a good buttermilk for cooking. Some

churn only often enough to supply the

family with butter while others do not

churn, but buy the butter of some neigh~

bor. Some buy buttermilk of the cream-

cry but it is of a very poor quality and

is not very satisfactory for cooking pur-

poses.



(‘ream of tartar, combined with sweet

milk. makes a splendid substitute for but-

termilk and can be used with a certainty

of results as there is no guesswork about

it. For every cup of sweet milk take one

rounding teaspoon of soda and one and

one-half teaspoons of cream of tartar.

The inexperienced cook will find this way

much more' satisfactory than using butter-

milk, as it requires the skill of an expe-





 





 





rienced cook to' obtain satisfactory re-

sults, because of its varying qualities.

Even the experienced cook turns out a tin

of yellow biscuitioccasionally when but-

termilk is used.



The most delicious wheat flour pancakes

I ever ate were made with sweet milk,

with cream for shortening and cream of

tartar and soda. These instructions will

apply to any recipe calling for buttermilk

or sour milk. _



Graham gems, short—cake, biscuit and

pancakes are equally successful made in

this way.



When making cookies with sweet milk

use equal parts of cream of tartar and

soda. Here are my cake and cooky re—

cipes which are very good for plain cook-

ing, and might be undertaken by a young

or inexperienced cook with fair chance

of success. The cake is good for either

layer or loaf cake and is as follows:



Plain Cake.



Half cup sweet milk, half cup sweet

cream, one cup sugar, two eggs, from two

to two and one-half cups of flour, one

rounding teaspoon of soda, one and one-

half rounding teaspoon of cream of tar-





~tar. Sift the cream of tartar with the





flour, and add soda in a little milk after



all the other ingredients have been well



stirred together. After putting in the



soda stir up thoroly once and do not dis-



turb again, except to empty in the tins.

Cookies.



One cup sweet milk, one cup butter,

two cups sugar, four eggs, two heaping

teaspoons soda, two heaping teaspoons of

cream of tartar, one teaspoon of vanilla.

Stir in flour as for a thin cooky dough

and if convenient let stand a while as it

improves the cookies and requires less

flour to make light cookies. Standing

over night improves the dough. When

ready to bake add flour to make the

dough of the right consistency and bake

a light brown in a quick 0ven.——-T.





TIMELY RECIPES.





 





Mincemeat.





Cook two and one-half pounds of beef

(this should make two quarts when chop-

ped), four quarts chopped apples, one

pint of currants which have been thoroly

cleansed, one quart of raisins stoned just

before using, one cup of chopped citron,

four cups of brown sugar, one cup of

chopped suet, one nutmeg grated, one





tablespoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls.





of cinnamon. one-half tablespoonful of

cloves, four cups of sweet cider or three

cups of cider that has been boiled down.

Place in an earthen vessel and keep in

a cool place. This quantity will make 1?.

pies.



Baked Macaroni.



(‘ook a cup of macaroni, broken in

inch—length pieces, in rapidly boiling

water until tender; drain and rinse in

cold water. Turn into a buttered baking

dish. Beat two eggs and a few grains of

cayenne until a full spoonful of the mix-

ture can be takeh up; then add one cup

and a half of milk and pour over the

macaroni in the dish. Bake in a moder—

ate oven until the custard is set. Half

a cup or less of grated cheese may be

mixed thru the macaroni before the liquid

is poured over. Serve hot.



Walnut Cookies.



Cream one cupful of butter with one and

one-half cupfuls of sugar; add three beat-

en eggs; put two cupfuls of chopped wal-

nut meats into one cupful of flour and

add this to the batter. Sift one teaspoon—

t‘ul of baking powder and one and one-

half cupfuls of flour together and add the

last thing. Drop by spoonfuls on buttered

tins: dust with granulated sugar and put

a whole walnut meat on each one. Bake

in a moderate oven.



Grandmother’s Float.



Let one quart of new milk come to the

boiling point; have ready the yolks of two

«Eggs. well beaten. and one and a half

teaspoonfuls cornstarch. Beat together

with cold milk: when the boiling milk is

ready pour in this mixture. Sweeten and

flavor to taste. Beat the whites of the

eggs, put in a deep dish and pour the

custard over it. The whites should be

flavored a little.



Date Loaf Cake.



Cream one cup of butter with one cup

of light brown sugar; add two beaten

cggs. half a cup of molasses, three-quart-

ers of a cup of slightly sour milk, a level

teaspoon soda, spices to taste, one cup of

chopped dates, floured, a teaspoon of va—

nilla, and flour to make a rather stiff bat-

ter: a level teaspoon of baking powder is

to be sifted with a part of the flour. Put

the dates in last.



English Tea Cake.



Take two cupfuls of flour, two table-

spoonfuls of baking powder, sifted with

the flour. one heaping tablespoonful of

butter, two of fine sugar, a little candied

orange peel chopped fine, a few currants

and chopped raisins, and mix all together.

Beat two eggs with two tablespoonfuls of

milk; add this to the dough and bake in

rings.



Sally Lunn.



Cut into warmed milk a. large spoonful

of good. butter; when quite cool add one

quart of sifted flour, three eggs well beat-

en, one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in

a little milk; beat this all together and

add a little salt. When quite light pour

into pans and bake in a quick oven.



Lemon Sauce.



A simple lemon sauce is made from one

cup of water, one cup of sugar and two

level tablespoons of corn starch. Cook

eight minutes, then add two level table-

spoons of butter and juice of one lemon.





 





FEB. 5, 1910‘.” ..





' Hard To Drop

‘ But Many Drop It.



A young Calif. wife talks about coffee:



“It was hard to drOp Mocha. and Java

and give Postum a trial, but my nerves

were so shattered that I was a. nervous-

wreck and of course that means all kinds

of ails.



"At first I thought bicycle riding caused

it and I gave it up, but my condition

remained unchanged. I did not: want to

acknowledge coffee caused the trouble for

I was very fond of it. At that time a.

friend came to live with us, and I noticed

that after he had been with us a week

he would not drink his coffee any more.

I asked him the reason. He replied, ‘I

have not had a headache since I left off

drinking coffee, some months ago, till last

week, when I began again, here at your

table. I don’t see how anyone can like

coffee, anyway, after drinking Postum!’



“I said nothing, but at once ordered a.

package of Postum. That was five months

ago, and we have drank no coffee since,

except on two occasions when we had

company, and the result each time was

that. my husband could not sleep, but lay

awake and tossed and talked half the

night. We were convinced that coffee

caused his suffering, so he returned to-

Postum, convinced that coffee was an

enemy, instead of a friend, and he is

troubled no more by insomnia.



“I, myself, have gained 8 pounds in

weight, and my nerves have ceased to

quiver. It seems so easy now to quit

coffee that caused our aches and ails and

take up Postum.” '



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Senator Doll-ver, of Iowa. says 2 '-

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to Canada W: 1 continue."

enntor Dolliver recently paid a visit to

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‘ BY E. E. R. -



The-guest towel newly introduced and

already proving itself eminently popular

has been a. favorite among gift makers





.the present season. Indeed, these little





articles are so sensible in contrast to the.

cumbersome towels usually found in guest

rooms that they cannot fail of finding

favor wherever they go. These towels

are small but of very fine material. ‘The

linen huck from which they are made is

but 14 inches in width and 24 inches of

it makes a towel, or to be quite exact, the

towel should measure 24 inches when

completed. The ends may be finished

with hemstitching or embroidery, which-

ever is preferred, exactly the same as in

a larger one.



Some of these towels recently seen had

the linen scalloped at the ends and heavily

worked in Ibuttonhole stitch with old blue

in fadeless cotton. Just above the scal—

lops in the center was an initial similarly

embroidered. The folds, when laundered,

the center and in plain sight when hung

are in thirds, which brings the letter in

on the rack. One should choose a color

in harmony with the furnishings of each

particular room. as blue for a blue room,

white would be appropriately employed

anywhere, A row of crochetted inserting

just above the hem may be introduced

with excellent effect. The hairpin trim-

ming familiar to all workers with the

crochet hook looks especially well when

so employed. This makes a fine bit of

ornamental needlework for any towel and

is also used with equal effect in pillow

slips.



These little towels may be purchased

ready-made at the shops in fine, soft.

all linen huck, at :30 to 60 cents each. By

the yard the huck costs about 33 cents.

These are so much smaller than the regu-

lar size towels that they at once recom-

mend themselvcs for the guest room

where a fresh one may be used with no

feeling of compunction, such as some-

times accompanies the soiling of one a

yard or more in length, which means con-

siderable labor involved in the laundering.

Possibly other women than the present

writer has felt hesitation at some time

or other when spending a night under the

roof of a friend or acquaintance, to find on

the rack a row of large .ized towels all

very grand and immaculazcly ironed, the

use of one for a. single mornings ablution

requiring that it go into the. wash. But

no one would hesitate on the score of

labor involved to use these scraps of

towels which answer every purpose of the

others.





KINKS.





Kink l.—Beheadab|e Word.





This word has nine letters and means

preference or the act of setting one above.

another. Remove the first letter and get a

word meaning kinship; decapitatc again

and get one meaning excited pleasure;

again and get one meaning transporta—

tion; again and get a suffix;‘again and

get another suffix; again and get one of

the‘products of electrical decomposition;

again and get a proposition; finally and

get a letter.



Kink ii.—Conundrum.





Luke had it before. Paul had it behind,

Matthew never had it. All girls have it

once, boys cannot have it. Old Mrs. Mul-

ligan had it twice in succession. Doctor

Lowell had it before and behind and he

had it twice as bad behind as before.



Kink Ili.——Four Word Square.



No. 1 is to jump: No. 2 is a titled noble—

man; No. 3 a broad piece of level ground;

No.4, what we all enjoy.



Prizes for Straightening Kinks—To

the sender of each of the ten neatest

correct answers to the above Kinks, we

will give choice of a package of 50 past-

cards of general interest, an Atlas of the

\Vorld, or a book. "A Trip to the North

Pole.” Where contestant or some member

of his family is not a regular subscriber a

year’s subscription (750) must accompany

answers. Answers must not reach us

later than Feb. 26, as correct solutions

will be published in issue of March 5. _Ad-

dress answers to Puzzle Dept., Michigan

Farmer.



Answers to December 18 Kinks.



Kink 1.—Transp0sition.-—’l‘here were

three correct answers, one word given was

Livc——evil, vile, veil, Levi.



Kink Ii.——Triangles.—Place three tooth

picks to form the first triangle, then place

the other three in the form of a tripod

above this triangle with their bases at

the angles of the horizontal triangle.



Kink IiI.—Addition Sums.—]. Bassinet

(“bass" and “tine”). 2. Pikestaff (“pike”

and f‘staff”). 3. Pickerel (“1)ick,” “er”

and £i1$)).



Prize winnersz—Mrs. Howard C. North

Mrs. Clio Colby, Fred Amidon.





 





 





 





Hastings. Mich., .Ian. 5, 1910.

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.: .

Dear Sirs:——I received your premiums

today and was well pleased with it._ It

is a good razor strep. I .was surprised

with it. I also got the Michigan map a

year ago that y0u sent me, and it is very

nice.

Yours truly,

E. L. TOWNSEND.





 





" ‘I 'i‘H'E " MICHIGAN FARM’ER}





Summary of Premiums Offered Free to Michigan Farmer Subscribers.





Description is necessarily brief on account. of limited space. W'e will gladly

send 'on request a premium booklet with illustrations and full description. ’Whlle

these premiums are given free, they are not shoddy or worn, but are practical

and good. We 'buy thousands of them and thereby get them at the lowest possible





price.





A Class A Premium is given with a one year’s subscription at 75 cents; a.





Class B Premium, or two Class A Premiums are given with a three year’s sub-

scription at $1.50, or a five year’s subscription at $2.00. We pay all postage,





making the premiums absolutely free.





We believe all premiums will carry safely





thru regular mails. Those who desire premiums insured must send 10 cents extra,

Articles sent .by express safely insured but subscriber pays charges. The

additional value of the articles about equals the express cliargeS.

Premiums must be ordered at the same time the paper is. No attention will

be paid to requests such as “send me premium —, my subscription has already





been sent in,” or anything similar.





It might take a day or two to look the subscriber’s order up and it would be

impossible to send the premium merely 0n a request. While we give them away,

they cost money and We must follow g00d business principles. On the other

hand, should a premium have been ordered and not sent we will immediately

investigate and learn if it has been mailed, or if a premium is not as represented

we will make it right. All the premiums are not mailed from our office but from

the factory. We have no way of knowing if such are always as we describe

them, but we will make it right. We take every precaution in packing and mail-





ing premiums, and will not be responsible





Class A.



No. 101, Double Purse.——Leather lined,

blocked and welted, with double pockets.

By mail.



No. 102, Bill Fold and Coin Purse.—One

pocket for coins and separate fold for

bills. By mail.



No. 106—3!” Book.—B1ack seal grained

book with four pockets. By mail.



No. 108—Rolied Gold Stick Pin.—Roman

finish. By mail.



No. 109—Pen Knife.-—Two razor steel

blades with imitation pearl handle. By

mail.





No. 111—Tape Measure.—Nickel plated ,





metal case with spring winding device.

By mail.



No. 113—Magnifying or Seed Glass.—Use

it to examine seeds, insects, or fungous

pests. By mail.



No. 114—Double Swing Razor Strep.—

Canvas for sharpening and leather for

finishing. By mail.



No. 115—Sta-Fast Shaving Brush.—

Ebenoid black handle with bristles se-

curely clamped. By mail.



No. 117—Brass Case Compass.~—Pocket

size, one inch in diameter. By mail.



No., 118—Ropp’s Commercial Calculator.

———Valuabie information for farmers. Re-

vised pocket edition. By mail.



No. 119—Anti-Rattle.-——Has spring and

safety bolts. Safe and no noise. By

mail.



No. 120—Dominoes.——Double six set,

black with white spots. By mail.



No. 121—Game of Authors—A pocket

edition of this ever popular game. By

mail.



No, 124—'-One Silver-Plated Milk-Tube.

—For sore teats. Three lengths, 21/2, 3

or 31,4; inches. Mention size. By mail.



No. 125—Teat Plug, for hard milking

cows or leaky teats. By mail.



No. 126—Star Darning Machine, for

mending anything from socks to lace

curtains. By mail. .



No. 127—Farmer’s Calculator.—Veteri-

nary advice alone makes this valuable

Book of farm record. By mail.



No. 128—A Stamping and Printing Set.

—Type is lé inch high, in outline. Eight

colors of paints and brush. By mail.



No. 132—Compositlon Whetstone—Fast

cutting for all kinds of knives, scythes.

etc. By mail.



No. 133—Family Record of births,

deaths and marriages, with ovals for ten

portraits. By mail.



No. 137—Fountaln Pom—Hard rubber,

fancy chased barrel with two gold plated

points. By mail.



No. 138—F0untain Lead PenciI.——Metal

case with screw feed so lead is protected

when not in use, with six leads. By

mail.



No. 140—Hohner Marine Band Harmo-

nica—Highest grade; 10 single holes, 20

iccds, two brass plates. By mail.



No. 141—Rubber Stamp Printing Outfit.

—Five alphabets, figures, holder, twezers

and ink pad. By mail.



No. 144—Magic Ruffler. For any sew-

ing machine. Slips on the foot in a min-

ute‘s time. Gathers, shirrs or puffs all

kinds of goods. By mail.



No. 145—Darner for Sewing Machines.

——Fits any sewing machine. Darns stock-

ings, towels, underwear, making a smooth

even darn. By mail.



No. 146—Post Card Album.—Holds 100

cards. It is 81/, inches .wide by 91/2 inches

high. By mail.



No. 148—Gape Worm Extractor.—-For

removing gape worms from young chicks.

By mail. .



No, 152—Carpenter’s 3-ft. Folding Rule.

——VVitli metal bound. spring joints, hold-

ing it rigidly in position. By mail.



No. 155—Roger’s Nickle Silver Tea-

spoons.——Gcnuine silver nickle teaspoons.

Solid metal. No plating to wear off.

Heavy weight. By mail.



No. 157—Perfection Cherry Seeder.—

Stems and seeds at the same time. Does

-the work quickly and better than by

hand. By mail.



No. 158—Silver Plated Napkin Ring.—

Satin finish with fancy engraving. By

mail.



No. 159—Patent Tension Shears—Eight.

inches long, with patent adust‘able spring

bolt. Prevents the blades from spread-

ing. By mail.



No. 160——Watch Fob.—Oxidizcd silver

finish 'on hard white metal base. Black

strap with a nickle buckle. By mail.



No. 161—Tobacco Pouch—All leather

with drawn strings and button fasteners.

V‘Villl hold a good supply of tobacco. By

mai .



No. 162—Salt and Pepper Shakers——

These are silver plated on a nickle silver

base, and will give good service. By mail.



No. 163—Dupiex Poultry Marker.——For

marking poultry by perforating the webb

of the foot. By mail.





 





if they are miscarried or broken.





No. 164—Cut Up Puzzle Map of North

America.—-Map is cut into irregular size

and Shape pieces which puzzles the chil-

dren to get it together. By mail.



No. 166—New Reference'Wall Chartr—

Including world map and map of Michi-

gan and many other attractive features.

By mail.



No. 167—Rough and- Ready Knife. Two

razor steel ‘blades, 'ebony handle, strong

and substantial. By mail.



No. 184—50 Beautiful Post Cards of

landscapes, flowers with mottoes, pretty

girls. By mail.



No. 185—50 Christmas and New Year

Post Cards. By mail.



No. 186—50 Tour of the World on Post

Cards. Bymail.



No. 190—50 Past Cards, “Haw Cook and

Peary Discovered the North Pole.”——By

mail.



No, 192—“The Conquest of the North."

——An authentic account of the finding of

the North Pole by Peary and Cook. Bio-

graphies of each and short history of

Arctic discovery. By mail.



No. 197——Farmer’s Universal Account

Book.—So simple and practical that every

farmer can keep a complete record of his

business. By mail.



No. 198—A Handsome Lace Scarf.—

Nearly an exact reproduction of the gen-

uine lace. Can be used as a cover or a.

small curtain for window. By mail.



No. 199—An illustrated Story Book.—

Something that will amuse and entertain

the young folks. By mail.





Class B.





No. 103—Ladies’ Hand Bag.—Black seal

grain welted, moreen lined. Contains

small coin purse. By mail.



No. 104—Extra Deep Coin Purse. Black

kid leather,'3-inch, 3-ball nickle frame.

One pocket is the size of an ordinary coin

purse. By mail.



No. 105—Squaw Bag.-——Colored ooze

leather with fringed end. Double strap

handle. . By mail.



No. 107—Ladles’ Pocketbook—Coin

pocket, two extra pockets and card case

130cket with a leather lining. By mail.

,No. 116—Seven House Piants.—Ferns,

ctc. “’ould cost about $1.00, if sold by

florists or nurseries. By mail.



No. 122—Safety Hitchlng Strap.——Heavy

cotton webbing, stronger than leather.

By mail.



No. 123—Lock Stitch Sewing AWL——

With straight and curved needles. For

harness, sack, canvas or any heavy sew-

ing. By mail.



No. 130—Sugar Shell and Butter Knife.

——Rogers. Solid nickle silver, no plating

to wear off. By mail.



No. 131—Sanitary Dripless Strainer.—

Madc of polished copper. Ouadruple sil-

ver plated in satin finish. By mail.



No. 134—Roman Gold Locket.—Holds

one picture. Good quality. Guaranteed

for five years. By mail.



No. 136—Stylo ink PenciI.—Uses ink

like a fountain pen but writes with a

round point like a pencil. By mail.



No. 139—Rubber Holder Fountain Lead

Pencil.—Extra leads are contained in the

upper end of the barrel, which has a

screw cap. By mail.



No. 142—U. 8. Cotton Bunting Flag.—

Scwed stripes. Fast color. Very service-

able. Size Zl/éxi feet. By mail.



No. 143—Magic Tucker.—Fits any sew-

ing machine. ls easily adjusted.‘ By

mail.



,No. 149—French Poultry Killing Knife.

—Of ‘oest instrument steel. Finely tem-

pered and ground. By mail.



No. 150—Child’s Silver Plated Cup.~

Good weight to give good service. and

strong handle to stand the thumps which

such cups get. By mail.



No. 151—Rolled Gold Crass.—\Vith

stone setting for ladies‘ neck chain. By

mail.



No. 153—Ladies’ Gold Shell Rlng,—\Vili

wear and look like solid gold. Made of

14 kt. solid gold, drawn over composition

base. By mail.



No. 154—Gold Shell Band Ring.—For

ladies 0r gentlemen. same quality as the

ladies’ ring. By mail.



No. 156—Nut Cracker and Six Picks.—

A good, serviceable, well-made and fin-

islied set. By mail.



No. 168—Gentlemen’s Strap Wallet.—

Made of genuine sheep skin leather. one

drop pocket for bills, and three card

pockets. By mail.



No. 177—Bon-Bon Dish of Silver Plate.

—Quadrupled silver plate. Full gold

lined, crimped sides. By mail.



No. 180—Cook Book.—A very conven-

ient size with white oil cloth cover which

can be washed clean when soiled. By

mail.



No. 147—R0lled Gold Link Cuff But-

tons.-——Roman gold finish. By mail.





 





 





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FEB. 5, 1910;





No. wee-Michigan Farmer Handy At-

lam—Contains maps of every state in the

union and all the countries of the world.

By, mail.





SPECIAL PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS.





No. 170—Outflt to Cure Milk Fever.—

The outfit will protect you against loss.

Save Veterinarian fees, and, if used once

will be worth the price of a valuable cow.

Sent for nine subscriptions. By express.



No. 171—Silver Bread Tray.—Best qual-

ity quadruple silver plate. Guaranteed

for 10 years. Heavy diwork design. Sent

for seven subscriptions. By express. If

nine subscriptions are sent, we will pre-

pay charges.



No. 172—Farmers' Knife.—Three razor

steel blades, special castrating blade, stag

handle, brass lined, German Silver tips

and shield. Sent for five subscriptions.

By mail.



No. 173—Wall Hat Rack.-—The frame

is made of pressed steel. Ormola gold

finish baked on. Mirror in center, with

six removable hooks. Sent for seven sub-

scriptions. By express. If 11 subscrip-

tions are sent we will prepay charges.



No. 174—Imported German Rania—Best

quality English razor steel. Ground by

German grinders and imported by us.

Sent for five subscriptions. By mail.



No. 175—BOy’s Watch.—-This is a good

dependable watch and will last a long

time, if not abused. Sent for only six

subscriptions. By mail.



No. 176—Silver Berry Set—These three

pieces are quadruple silver plate, full gold

lined and crimped sides. Sent for seven

subscriptions. By express. If nine sub-

scriptions are sent we will prepay

charges.



No. 178—Kitchen Outfit—A utensil for

every purpose, and everything in its

place. “lith good quality utensils. Sent

for six subscriptions. By express. If nine

subscriptions are sent we 'will prepay

charges.



No. 179—Moving Picture and Magic

Lantern.—~Machine stands 10%, inches

high on a base 7x31,§ inches. The body is

made of polished blue steel, fitted with

oil lamp and glass chimney. Sent for

seven subscriptions. By express.



No. 181—Toilet Cilppers.~Best quality,

143-inch cut, concealed spring. Sent for

five subscriptions. By mail.



No. 182—Fancy Gilt Clock.—Reliable

one-day movement, with alarm attach-

ment. Given for eight subscriptions. By

express. If 11 subscriptions are sent we

will prepay charges.



No. 183—Post Card Album, 300 Cards.

—Handsome black alligator grain paper

cover. Title embossed in gold, reinforced

binding. Stitched and stubbed to prevent

bulging. Sent for five subscriptions. By

express. If six subscriptions are sent,

we prepay charges.



No. 194——Slx Wiidwood Teaspoons.——

Reliance plate is made by the Oneida.

Community and every piece is guaranteed

for ten years. It is for sale by all lead-

ing jewelers. Sent for $2.18 with the

Michigan Farmer for five years. By m-ail.



No. 195——Berry Spoon.—The same de

sign and quality as the YVildwood tea-

spoons. Sent for $2.18 with the Michigan

Farmer for five years. By mail.





No. 200—Gasoline Bl0w Torch—For





any purpose where cheap, clean and in-

tense} heat is desired, either in hand

work or bench. Free with four subscrip-

tions to the Michigan Farmer. By mail.



No. 201—Combination TOOL—Can be

used for ten different things. Very con-

venient, light and strong. Contains set

of ten oil tempered, well finished, forged

steel tools. Sent free for a club of three

subscriptions. By mail.



For added premiums watch closely 'our

paper each week.



. PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS.



For each club of two subscriptions we

will send you any one Class A premium.



For each club of three subscriptions

we will send you any one Class B or any

two Class A premiums. .



For each club of four subscriptiOns w

will send you one Class A and one Class

3 premium. .



For each club of five subscriptions we

will send you any two Class B or any

three CIaSS A premiums.



The subscribers will also get their

choice of premiums with their subscrip-

tions as given above,



Your own subscription may be included

in the club in which case you get pre-

mium with the subscription and also for

the club.



Always mention Premium Number.



THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

Detroit, Michigan.





 





I'WVe received the scissors and are de-

lighted with them. Thanking you very

much. I remain,” Yours truly, Jos. John-

son, Richmond, Mich.





“Having used a Michigan Farmer ma-

chine for 12 or 14 years, No. 39278 does

good work yet, and lots of it, .ha ving never

paid out anything for repairs. only needles,

Wishing a drop-head, thot I would trv a.

new one.”—Mrs. J. J. Howrigon, Plain-

well, Mich. .



Alto, Mich., Jan. 7 1‘10.

Editor Michigan Farmer: ’ J



Dear Sirz—Am very much pleased with

the fountain pen which I received as a

premium from you yesterday. It is way

ahead of writing the old-fashioned way.

Please accept my thanks for same.



Gratefully yours,

F. WALTON, R. F. D. 55.

Richmond, Mich., April 7, 1909.

The Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.:



Dear Sir:——We received the scissors and

are delighted with them. Thanking you

very much, I remain,



Yours truly,

J. Q. JOHNSON,

Carleton, Mich., April 13, 1909.

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.:



Dear Sirs:—'—I received the self-sharpen-

ing shears and the bureau scarf all right

and thank you very much for it. They

are both very nice. Excuse me for not

thanking you sooner. I did not get

around to write sooner so I thank you

very much.



Yours trulv. -





MISS MARTHA BRANDES.
FEB. '_5, 1910.





(Continued from page 142).





"greauy, increased cost of living is the





modern tendency toward extravagance.

If the residents of our cities and towns.

Whose means are comparable with those

of the farmers who grow the products

which they consume, were to exercise the

strict economy and attention to details

which is so universally practiced in our

farm homes, we believe that there would

be far less cause for complaint regarding

the «high cost of living. But the demand

for the luxuries as well as the comforts

of life, to enable the keeping up Of appear-

ances, is no little strain upon the re-

sources of the average city or town resiv

dent, when city or town residents are con-

sidered as a class. Other factors which

have been mentioned, and some which

have not, such as the trusts, the tariff,

transportation, problems, etc., undoubtedly

have something to do with the situation.

But all of the factors mentioned, in the

writer's opinion, have less to do with it

than the one factor of extravagant living

Which is the price of keeping up appear-

ances in so many .urban homes. If this

be true, then the remedy lies with the

consumer to an even greater degree than

with the producer, since the practicing

of a wise economy will increase the pur~

chasing power of their dollars not a little

without any material reduction in the

comforts of life which have become essen-

tial to their enjoyment. The same atten-

tion which is given to the keeping up of

appearances in the average city home,

would undoubtedly materially reduce the

cost of living in that home, if it were

devoted to the line of endeavor just men-

tioned. The retailer who demands exor-

bitant profits needs his lesson and under

these conditions would receive it. but

there are many people who would not

been seen purchasing goods at a “cheap”

‘storc. or have the “cheap" wagon seen

delivering goods at their door, even if the

goods were known to be of the same

quality.



“’ith the incentive to improve methods

of production which is furnished by pre-

vailing high prices of farm products.

there will be such an increase of products

as the conditions surrounding agriculture

will permit, but such increased produc—

tion can not be secured by any system of

reducing prices thru boycotts or strikes.

since such methods are bound to be re-

actionary in effect.



Notwithstanding the general complaint

against the increased cost of living, the

savings bank deposits of the country have

increased apace during the last decade.

Much of this increase may be charged to

the natural increase of such deposits thru

the compounding of interest, but. on the

whole, 1t is, nevertheless, an evidence that

the increased prosperity of the farmer

has not stopped accumulation among the

other classes of workers who depend upon

him for the products which they must

consume, and who are so generally com-

plaining about the high cost of living.





 





BINDER TWINE.





_...——





The invention of the self-binder was

one of the greatest steps in the agricul-

tural progress of the world. But the work

of this great invention did not reach its

present perfection until a material was

discovered from which a practical twine

could be made. The use of wire. grass,

paper and other materials has been tried,

but all havehad their serious faults; so

that today the two materials that make

the most popular binder twine are Manila

hemp and sisal. The former is the fiber

of Musa textilis. grown exclusively in the

Philippine Islands. the eastern possessions

oi? the United States since the Spanish—

American war. It has long been used'in

the manufacture of rope.



Manila hemp plant's require abundant

rain, a moist atmosphere and a well-

draincd soil, such as are peculiar to that

country. The plants are propagated

either from suckers or seeds and are set

in hills five to eight feet apart. As they

grow very rapidly and soon shade the

ground they require no cultivation. The

plantations last for generations. The.

crop is harvested as soon as the flower

bud appears. which is three to five years

from planting. At this time the plant is

eight to twenty feet high and the leaves.

yield a fiber five to twelve feet in length,

the average yield per acre being from 250

to 500 pounds. The production of Manila.

fiber is the most important industry in

the Philippine Islands. and it constitutes

mere than 'half the exports. '



I As the demand for Manila fiber in-

creased other materials were sought from

which binder twine could be manufac-

tured, and aim] was taken [up more than

any other, The plant that yields the sisal





is known as Agave rigida, and is called

henequln', in Spanish. It is produced most

extensively in Yucatan. a province of

Mexico, but is also grown in the “’est

Indies and in Hawaii. The latter two lo-

calities. however, are not important from

a commercial standpoint. The plants are

propagated from suckers. which arc‘sct

in rows, four to eight feet apart, during

the rainy season. The plants are set in

holes dug in the rocky ground with crow-

bars and pickaxcs. and on account‘ of the

extreme rockincss of the ground the

plantations cannot be cultivatcd. The

outer leaves of the plants are harvested

about three years from planting, and

from ten to twenty leaves are harvested

annually for a period of twelve to twenty-

five years. It is estimated that a thousand

leaves will yield fifty pounds of fiber and

under favorable conditions a crop of 600

to 1,200 pOunds of fiber per acre may be

obtained.



Both of these materials have their

strong advocates and there is a strong

competition between the tradesmen hand—

ling the two kinds of twine. Owing to

conditions under which the raw material

has been produced during the past sev-

eral years each has had its advantage at

times, and the farmers, who are the larg—

est consumers of these fibers in the form

of twine. have come to be pretty good

judges of which is best for them to use

Price considerations are always of first

importance when taken together with the

purpose for whichthe twine is to be used.

but the cousumer must

which will be best for the machine that is

to use it. The smoothness of finish is im~

portant. from the standpoint of working

in the knotter of the binder. Also. in

figuring the price. it is well to investigate

the amount of twine that comes pcr

pound~that is. how many feet—and SH!)

that the difference in price comparcs with

the difference in length of thc twinc, Alsv.

the dealer should be required to guaran-

tee the twine as being up to the quilt .-

represented.





WHICH IS THE CHEAPEST?





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When you are told that you can sub~

scribe for monthly farm papers for '20

cents a year, it seems very chcap to you.

You may think that they are clicuper than

the Michigan Farmer. But arc they? “'itli

the monthly paper, you get twclvc papers

for 20 cents. which is 19;; cents each. and

52 papers would cost you 110 cents. \X'itl.

th-e semi—monthly paper, you get 21 papers

for 40 cents, which is over 13.; cents (:at'll.

and 5:3 papers would cost you 90 cents.

By subscribing for the Michigan Farmer

for one year. it costs you only 73 Cents:

for :72 numbers. or less than 111» cents

each. Fifty-two copies of the monthly.

or semi-Iiiouthly. costs you 90 cents. and

of the Michigan Farmer only 7.7 «cuts at

the yearly rate. 50 cent; at the 3—year

rate. or it) cents at thc 5—year rate. But

the cost of the paper is the least import-

ant consideration. usull of tlicm arc cheap

enough. The important crmsideration is.

does a anlltl‘ly-ni‘ semi-monthly agricul-

tural paper give you all of the information

that you ought to have. and give it to you

when you want it? Of course not. No

progressive farmer would think of depend-

ing upon them for the information and

help that he requires in his work. They

contain no market reports, no news items.

nor many other departments to be found

in weekly papers. No one wants market

reports or news items that are a month

old. and a farmer having a sick animal

cannot wait a month to find out. thru

the Veterinary column, what will curc it.

Monthly and semi—monthly farm papers

are not intended to take the place of

farm weeklics. they only supplement

them.



A LEGAL DEPARTMENT.

Open to Our Subscribers Only.



In reply to a number of requests for

answers to legal questions. we have. ar-

ranged for a method which we think

will fulfill every requirement of our read—

ers, and yet not intrench upon space de-

voted to matters more directly in line

with the objects of The Farmer. We have

arranged with Mr. Standish Backus. 80

Griswold St., Detroit, to answer by mail

all legal inquiries sent him by our read-

ers for the nominal charge of 25 cents for

each question. The charge is made so

that only questions of interest to the

sender will be sent in. Our readers will

thus get their quesrics answered more

promtply and fully than could be done

through The Farmer. and a a very light

cost. Those wishing to avail themselves





of the privilege should address Mr. Backus

as above.





also consider





,THE, MisfiIGAN FARMER.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





, Foreign.



“'hile general conditions over France

and Southern Europe Where storms during

the past two weeks have flooded large

portions of the lower land, especially

along the streams. have generally im-

proved, there is great apprehension lest}

further damage be caused by the rivers;

and streams again overflowing their’

banks, inasmuch as in certain sections

heavy rains have fallen early this week.

In Paris. however. the inhabitants are

.l'l).\'ous over the fact that the River Seine

is again within her confines, and the peo-

ple can pass the streets and cross the

bridges us during ordinary times of busi-

ncss. The damage. to the public works

and strccts of the city. can be meastrI‘Ed

only in a general way as it is impossible

now to make cstimatcs of cost for re—

pairing the dam; gc to sewers, streets andl

other property. chorts reached here on'

Monday that in Italy rivers were rapidly‘

rising from severe storms and also the

streams of Spain were greatly swollen by

downpours of rain.



During tlw past week the results from

the English elections have shown a gain

for the Liberals. They now lack but one

membcl‘ of having an equal number with

the ['uionisis.



A peculiar situation' occurred in the

general election in Ireland in which “'m.

Olfiricu was elected to parliament from

two sepnl‘ntc districts; the northeast dis-

trict of (‘ork county as well as the city

of Cork, both gave him majorities in the

election. He must now choose the district

he will it-prcsent.



"I‘lu- total number of scholarships deriv-

ing their support from the trustees of the

Rhodes scholarship funds during the past

year was 179. (if this number, no scholars

were from the l'niicd States, 78 from the

British Colonies, and 11. from Germany.



National.



One of the worst disasters in the his-

tory of western mining occurred at Pri-

mero. Colorado. Monday. when an ex—

plosion in one of the shafts there killed

at least ltll) men. The last report states

that TH bmlics have been removed. The

(-mu-ussiou was so great that none of the

bodies are recognizable. It will be some

time bcfore the exact number of casual—

ties will be known as the entrances to

the mines have been blocked by displaced,

rocks and timbers.



'l‘hc IIII lo the mines at Cherry. _lll..‘

whcre it is believed that a liuudrtul or‘

more bodies are entombcd. will be lift't-il,‘

this week, it being the opinion of the"

operators and officials that tlu- iircs huvei

gone out. The mines have ‘bccu closed

sinCP last November, following the \lisas-i

ter in which so many lives were lost. I



A grand jury has been culled in Chi-‘1

(ago for investigating tlic bccf trust. l



'I‘lic inquiry into the controversy bc-‘

tween Secretary Ballinger and former‘

Secretary Piuclmt is luaiug conducted in

“'aslilngiou bcforc a committee from the!

House of licprescntativcs and the Sonatc.



President ’l‘ut‘t has directed Iln- Attor-

ney General to imniedlatn'lly take up the

suit against the so-callcd Union Pacific-

Soutlu-rn Pacific merger. which suit was

expected by many to be dropped.



Frederick Marx. who discovered the‘

prOccsscs of making paper from woody

pulp. died near Utica. N. 1'.. Friday. at

the age of SO. .



'l‘hc Eastern Michigan press club hell-

:1 very successful annual convention in

Detroit lust \vcck. ‘ '



A conspiracy thru which life insul'unc-

compauics claim they have been defrauded

out of over $1000.00. is the charge in :1

series of suits conducted at Louisville.

Ky.. New Albany. Ind.. and other placesl

'l‘hc fraud was worked tllru the insuringl

of dying men. i



At a mccting of mine operators at Pitts-

burg. it was decided that tlu- dcmautls;

of the minors for an increase in wages,

would be rcfusetl. It is believed that no:

effort will be made on the part of the

miners to strike. because of this refusal.



The federal corporation tax law. the

constitutionality of which was in question

before the United States (lircuit Court.

was declared a good law by Judge Taylor"

in a decision published last \\'edncsd:iy.l

The case will be curried to the L'nited‘

States Supreme Court. .



'I‘hc coustitutioualily of the Virginia?

statute prohibiting the employment of:

children under 13 years of age, was es-

tablished in a test case last week,



A committee appointed to place before

Congress, the advantages of a scheme of‘

defenses for the cities of ’lVashington

Baltimore, Norfolk. Newport News. An-

napolis. and the great railroad bridges

crossing the Susquehanna River, will meet

in “'zishington soon to present the matter

to Congress.



A new system of subways has been

planned for New York (fity. The cost is

estimated at $240,000,000.



Leslie Combs. of Kentucky. is the choice

of President 'l‘aft as minister to Peru.



It is generally understood in financial

circles. that a movement is on to form

gigantic merger of copper interests.

is held that Morgan is behind the scheme.





 





 





 





 





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CHANGES IN FARMERS’ INSTITUTE





DATES.



Sperintendent Taft announces that after

the list of institutes for February were‘

published it became necessary to change

the dates of several of the meetings and

several additional institutes liave been

arranged.



In Hillsdale Co. the meeting on Feb. 4

is at Cambria instead of Reading. and

on Feb. 7 it will be at Ransom in place

of SoeJeffe'rson.



There will be an additiOnal meeting in

Vi’ashtenaw Co.. at Salem on Feb, 14,

Also one at Gaines, Genesee Co., Feb. 15,

and in Eaton Co. at Mulliken, Feb. 14.



The county institute at Howell has been

changed from Feb. 15-16 to Feb. 18-19.

and that for Ingham Co., at Mason, will





 





 





be on Feb. 15-16 instead of Feb. 18-19.





   





fl<29> 157‘ A





Why does Great Britian buy

its oatmeal of us?





Certainly it seems. like carrying

coals to Newcastle to speak of export-

ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every



car the Quaker Oats Company sends



hundreds of thousands of cases of



Quaker Oats to Great Britian and

_ Europe. -



The reison is simple; while the

English and Scotch have for centuries

eaten oatmeal in quantities and with a

regularity that has made them the

most rugged physically, and active

mentally of all people, the American

has been eating oatmeal and trying all

the time to improve the methods of

manufacture so that he might get that

desirable foreign trade.



How well he has succeeded would

be seen at a glance at the export re-

ports on Quaker Oats. This brand is

without a rival; is packed in regular

10c packages, and in large size family

packages at 2-50. 51





OUr Farmer’s





AccOuniBook

FREE





\l'ith instructions how to keep accounts.

Seventy-two pages. ruled. with printel

headings, handy for the pocket, 61/2X31/2.»

Every farmer should have one and keep

his accounts. lie will be money in pocket.



Separate ruling and heading for casn

received, cash paid out. bills receivable

and bills payable. labor, ‘tltiily g'g‘ I‘C-COl‘Cl.





 





personal ledger accounts, various crop ac»,





counts and others as well as much val-

uable reference information needed almost

daily. All nicely bound in convenient

pm-kct shape.



The Michigan Farmer four months and

the account book for only 23 ccnts.‘post-

ugc paid.





Regular Subscribers

.Can Get It.





PRESENT SUBSCRIBERS who wish

one of these aceount books may send ‘23

cents for one. and we will add four

months to their present time. '“'e have

gotten out a very large edition of our ac«

count book to meet all demands. Ordi-

narily the book alone would sell at retail

for 50 cents. “'e offer one and the paper

four months for only 25 cents, postage

paid.



Sec article about

chd all orders to





The Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





'Niirale of Soda





Nitrate Sold in Original Bags





NITRATE AGENCIES CO.





California ........ 321 Stimson Block, Los Angeles

.....520 Bank San Jose Bldg.. San Jose





them on page





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





Georgia .............. 36 Bay Street. East. Savannah

Illinois ............ 1204 Hartford Building. Chicago

Louisiana... .305 Baronne St., New Orleans

New York. ......... 62 Stone Street, New York

Virginia ........ Citizens Bank Bldg. Norfolk





Washington... ...603 Oriental Block. Seattle



Canada......... 1103 Temple Bldg., Toronto



Cuba Havana

Addrou omce Nearest You





 





Wme for Quotation.





idfhross ‘I‘PAV





Make them pay by using the machines that

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BIG and i [M'itérfiil‘l

SORT ._ 1‘ a; (4/: e.





   





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you

There’s nothing In \ffigc/

potato machinery





up to

ASPINWALL EQUIPMENT





Write for copy of our free book telling how

to make money. growmg potatoes.





ASPINWALI. IIIFG. co. ‘

439 Sabin St, Jackson, us:u.,u.s.A.

Pioneer Makers of Potato Machinery





NOTICE

To Il. F. I). Patrons.





We have a new deviceto benefit both M n

is?! carrler for purchasing auppua. such an 82:13::

.P. Cards, Money ordnrn,ltc.. without

your personal attention to the carrier. A Bonanza

for Leon“. Send as cent: for sample device and

terms. F. H. COLE a 00., Perry. Ilch.





ALWAYS union the mm mm

when you are writing to advertisers. ~
. T'WW~M~‘ rm... 4... . .‘ ..»,





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





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PLEASE MENTION TEE MICHIGAN FARMER i

when you are writing to advertisers. '





t

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INFORMATION ABOUT CORN PLANT: t . HE DAIR





ERS. >



Recently there appeared an article in ‘ Y 4*“

this paper under the heading, “Improve— CONDUCTED BY COLON C' LILLIE'

ments in Corn Planters.” Since then it

has been thought advisable to give aI EFFECT OF THE CLEO LAW'

clearer description of the Superior Corn; ‘ . — _

Planter. This machine is both edge drop! I “a... gleatly Interested ”1 the com-

and round—hole drop both kinds of plates , ments in the Michigan Farmer under date

being furnished without extra cost.. Thei 0f January 15‘ entitled. The Coming F.1ght

user can put an edge drop plate in oneion Oleo, and the situation as outlined

11;) e 1 round—hole late in the . there is undoubtedly entirely correct. The



pp 1' ant a p . . l-consumer has been educated to think the

other, and thus demonstrate to his entire -. . 't . t' d bb

satisfaction which does the best work. danyman an ex or )OIlEI‘ an a r0 er,





 





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Right here let us say that seed corni caught Wlth the goods, and that the





should be graded and then plates of the provisions of the Grout bill has enabled

size holes best adapted to the work se-imm to become 50'



Iected. The more uniform the size of: o . ‘

kernel the more accurate the work. ‘This‘ 190“ largely meieased





.to pass over stumps or stones. ‘ .

ncr heels can be adjusted one independ- secured for dairy products.





being kept in perfect check.





an immediate drop of theseed without that he is being “buncoed. ,

scattering the kernels unduly. \Vllcn the





up to enable the user to turn around. consumer knows 'httle aboutzbut the pro-

The planter is short—coupled and so ar- duccr knows to his sorrow. ()ne creamery

ranged that it can be “backed up” at will I in this Immediate vlclnlty recently closed

without danger (,f springing the framefll'ts doors literally swamped in expense.





The corn hoppers, its Well as the ferti— It does “0t ““lmle a ‘91) “5‘1”“ mind to With the



lizer hoppers tip m.“ completely, thus see, for instance, that a crcamery domg

, . .' . r) , , 7



providing a means of instant examination ‘1 gross busllicss, $4~,400 at an expense Of





or change of plates without emptying $5.100, cannot iii the nature of the case.

the llobpcrs. ()llr rcadcrs should write 1’9 3' paying proposition greater than other

the manufacturers, The American Sced- “”05 0f agriculture.



ing-Machille C‘o.. Incorporatcd. Spring— This, and similar conditions. the pro-

field, Ohio, for thcir superior Corn Planterdm'er is UP against, in "NW dairy 1‘98"





booklet, because \Vc cannot tcll about itlions Of this state, so while the Creamery





here. After getting tllc information want- ; Pth‘lonc may show a fair price for but-





cd, go to your local dcaler and inSlst on tel—tat ‘1 110“ 0f othei Ctmdltmnh 41159 and

seeing the Superior Corn Planter. TO determine what one's 11“ NWT“ D0" bushel





 





pound for commercial butter shall be. And

while I have bccn a patron of a crcamcry

for a” number of years I think pcrhaps

this year‘s prices are as good as any.

260 the best. and 200 the poorest month’s

lincome. Conditions and expcnses of man-

agement vary in different crcameries, but

the fact remains that whatever the con-

sumer has to pay, the producer has not

been getting a fair proportion of the

price. So that if the Bill'leson bill be-

comes a law. the farmer can turn his at-

tention to some line which he can in a

greater mcasurc control for himself. The

idairy craze is responsible for the disap-

ipearancc of many a fine flock of sheep.

which undoubtedly paid the farmer as

much clcar profit over expense as the

cows ever did which came after, so what—

,b ever the outcome of legislation may be,

it probably will not be an unmixed evil.

IVashte—naw Co. C, L. Ross.





 





40m: MAN noes

WORK or TWO





With Iron Age Ridingr Culti-

vators. You can do it easier and.

better. because they are built. on

lines that. make this possible.

Hoes are under cri'cct control.

Can regulate c th and





keep hoes dcsirer dis-



tance from growing



plants. More ad-



vantages in our .

IRON AGE ,





 

   

   

   

   

 





 





Pivot or fixed

wheel. wheels





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A SILO EXPERIMENT.





 

 

 

 





Send for this new

224-page book on Silos and

Silage. 1908 edition—size 5%x

7V2-in.—indexed —- over 40 'illus.

Used as a textbook in many Agricul‘

tural Colleges. Contents by chapters

' follow: "Advantages of Silo.”_25 pages:

"Silos: How to Build.” 76 pp; ' Concrete

or Cement Silos." 10 pp; "Silage Crops,”

16 pp: "How to Make Silage." 19 pp;

“How to Feed Silage,” 22px); “Feeder‘s Guide, '

etc, 56 pp. Avast, amount of knowledge



boiled down—nothing so complete ever

published—answers every silage ques-

tion. Mailed for 100. coin or stamps.

it you mention this paper.

SILVER MFG. 00..

Salem. Ohio





 





At this time of the year there are a

great many farmers debating in their

minds the question of building a silo next

season. Ili this connection a few points

learned from some experiments conducted

a few years ag will probably be of

interest.



A number of calves intended for beef

were Sc‘ttll‘t‘d and divided into two lots.

They Were given the run of two feed lots





\h .

c .wiicrc they had access to good shelter.

iAn equal llllllillol‘ of hogs, averaging the,

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same weight were placed with each bunch

of calves. Corn from a ccrtain amount

of ground was cut and put into :I silo and

3an cqual amount was cut and shocked in





(Soldwithorwithoutelevator the, field. One bunch of calves was fed





\ CRUSH ear corn (with. or wi hout





shocks) and GRIND allkinds of small , silag and the othcr bum-h shook corn.

grain. Use Conic-l Shape Grlndoro. '-

Dmeront from all others.





LIGHTEST

RUNNING.





(Our Circular Tells Why.)





Each bunch was fcd an equal amount of

oats and hay. ’l‘llc calves and hops were

weighed each day and ill the spring it was

found that the calves fed on silagc made-

.———-’~,_‘> "- c r —.-. r. 2' - 2‘;i . -v ,r



ugndytoOpeI-elo. asu”_ .4“ . all .1\(l.l§.( ‘(lllli , tll nylltall} out and

’2t026h-D- 01188120!“ Wind- -- ‘ three-fourth s pounds while those fed on

Wheehlse' ‘l o‘l' "l‘ lli'ld‘ 'l "till of only o c ' l

AleoMake Sweep Grinder-l: ’51 (E (”n ‘ t ‘ é" ‘ ~ n am

two—flfths pounds per day. 'l he hogs fol—





both Geared and Plain.

”- N. P. BOWShel‘ Go. lowing the silage fcd calves made small

gain in weight as compared with those





South Bend, Ind.

following the shock—fed calvos. The total

gain by weight by the shock-fed calves





 





 





and hogs failed to equal that of the other

bunch by a considerable amount.

_ Besides the above, argument. the follow-

Ground very fine With one set of . . . .

Boiler; and Concaves used in the ing points in favor of the silo as a factor

“BULL DOG” in the wintering of calves may be men-

Grmd. allgrain perfectly fine nud1ti0n'3d: The corn can be cut and hauled

sovigfigggte gaffllgf'mzetfgsufio‘ml to the silo while the ground is dry thus

I center of shafts slzesZto 50 h. p. i avoiding injury to the fields. It can also





Eto‘wfit‘tl‘im MFG. co. be out early while other work is slack.





 





 





'THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





While undoubtedly the legislation of can be grown the cheapest, according to

the number of

Superior Corn Planter has what is termed ' farmers engagéd in the dairy industry,

a “start and stop" motion which gives only those so Situated as to manufacture

the cells in the plates ample time to “fill” their own products and place them on the values.

properly. The planter stands high enough.market’ WlthOUt the ma 0f middlemen, tically the same.

from the axle t0 the ground to enable Harem able to reap, bi” m a small degree,

The run-{the enlarged and higher prices therebv

StiH the con-

cnt of the other, thus insuring the cornsumer 0f small income Who is confronted cent of fat.

The seed. with the problem of supplying his family

spout is of solid. smooth steel, insuring_With 400 butter arrives at the COHCIUSIOH





The greater part of butter has come to





furrow openers are lifted out of thejbe manufactured in creameries and that

ground the marker is automatically lifted has entalled a hOSt Of expenses that the 011101“.





133 E. ROAD, cnown POINT, IND The feeding value of silage is not affected 0f it-





by the weather and the manure and litter

made is more easily handled.



Probably the greatest obstruction that

can be advanced against the silo is the

first cost of construction, but the farmer

who is successful does not often hesitate

when he sees an opportunity for increased

profits, therefore you usually find a silo

on the farm of the man who is making

the farm pay.





Ohio. S. C.





 





COMPARATIVE FOOD VALUE OF

ROOTS.





 





I wish to ask for information in the line

of roots. What are the analysis of tur-

nips, rutabagas. mangels and carrots?

About how much of each would it be ad—

visable to feed to milch cows daily? Which





digestible nutrients?



Midland C0. J. McC.



Turnips, rutabagas, mangels, and car-

rots have but very little different feeding

The chemical analysis is prac-

All contain about one

per cent of digestible protein, seven or

eight per cent of digestible carbohydrates

and one-tenth to two-tenths of one per

Carrots are a little bit defi-

cient in protein compared with the other

roots, so we can say that practically they

are all of the same value as to food stuffs.

And the succulency of one does not differ

materially from the succulency of the

Consequently, we would be gov-

erned in raising these crops for cows by

the variety which We can raise the easiest

and at the least expense. I think there

is no question but what you can raise

least expense a larger crop of

mangels per acre, that is more tons per

acre, than ally of the other roots, conse—

quently. we would prefer them. After the

cow gets used to them, you can feed them

quite liberally with good results. If you

have plenty of them you can feed as high

as a half bushel to each cow twice a day

after they get used to eating them. They

will get along very nicely on a peck night

morning. Or you can feed a half

once a day. This will furnish a

succulent food in the ration and will aid,

in the digestion of the other dry foodsJ,

All of these roots have a. higher feeding

value than their chemical analysis would

indicate because they are very palatable

and help make the other foods in the ra—

tion more palatable than otherwise.





 





MORE PROTEIN NEEDED.





 





 





 





 





FEB. 5. 1916.





1:Makc Him

' Show Up





if any cream separator manufacturer

tries to sell you a disk-filled or other

common, complicated machine, tell him

to wait a bit.





Ask him why you should buy his

machine instead of a simple, sanitary

Sharples Dairy Tubular, when Tubulars

probably replace

more common sepa-

rators every year

than any one maker

of s uch machines

sells?





Remind him of our



uaranteeto rmt at

ieast ten ames oi

farmers wiio have

discarded 513 class

of machine ior'l uBu- 7

iai’s, E0 every name The only piece



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I am milking three Durham cows which

give, about 30 lbs. of milk each a day. I;

feed timothy hay and cornstalks, oats and'

corn and cob—meal. What more can I‘

buy to add to this to make a more econ—

mnical feed?



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The ration given, both the roughagel

and the grain ration, contains no food

that is particularly rich in protein. Tim—

ollly hay and cornstalks are deficient, and

corn—and-cob meal is also deficient in,

protein as feed for milch cows. Oats 'havei

a fair amount of protein but not enough

to balance up the other carbonaceous

foods in the ration. ConSequently, we,

ought to add some concentrates rich in‘

protein, and I would recommend cotton-j

seed meal, oil meal. or gluten feed, and;

in the order named for economy of pro-l

ductioll. I think if you will mix your

corn—and-cob meal, oats and cottonseedi

meal in equal parts by weight, you will

get the most economical ration. How-

ever, you llave no succulent food in the

ration and oil meal would be a little bit

better for the cows than cottonseed:l

meal. because the cottonseed meal tends

to be a little constipating. If you will feed,

lhc same amount of this ration with thcl

oil meal added. I am sure you will get

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Picaso tell me if it is right to use the

same pipette for testing cream as is LIScd

for testing milk in a Babcock tester. I:

hare always ulnlcrstood that for cream‘

all 18 cc pipette is required and for milk?

a 17.6 cc. '



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to take a sample of cream. The, reasonf

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cream in order to get 18 grams. 18 grams

by weight is what you want. It is there-

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It is extremely difiicult to get a fair sam—

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Cream is so thick that it does not run as

freely as milk. Consequently it is not'

easy to get a correct sample. Again, the.

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pipette so that you do not get the whole,





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“pipette in taking samples of cream

,- and instead of measuringhit with a pipette,

'5 18 grams Weream are weighed directly

‘ into the. test bettle. For {his purpose one

'has to have a delicate pair of balances,

but otherwise the sample is more readily

taken and it is much more accurate to

weigh the sample of 18 grams than to

measure it. Of course, you understand

with the cream that it is necessary to

have a special test bottle to do the work

.accurately because the cream contains so

much butter-fat that the graduated milk

bottle will not hold the butter-fat in a

sample of cream. If you have only ordi-

nary test bottles, you have to use two or

three of them and then add the readings

on the neck to get the full per cent of

cream. We have special test bottles now

where the neck is larger and longer and

graduated so that you can read to 50 per

cent butter-fat.





 





BEAN MEAL FOR COWS.





 





Would bean meal fed with oats, corn

and bran, make a good balanced feed for

milch cows? The beans are not dam-

aged, but are mostly split beans. Would

the beans take the place of cottonseed

meal? The cows have shredded corn

stover twice a day and clover hay once

a day.



Saginaw Co.. C. C. SPEER.



Theoretically, bean meal would make

a splendid feed fed in connectioa with

oats, corn and bran, and would largely

take the place of cottonseed meal. Of

course, beans are not quite as rich in

protein as cottonseed meal and conse-

quently it would take a little heavier feed

of the beans to make as much digestible

protein in the ration. There are, how-

ever, other things toconsldcr somewhat.

Cows do not like bean meal as well as

they do cottonseed meal and consequently

I do not think they would do quite as well

upon it. Again. bean meal if fed vcry

liberally tends to make the butter hard

and tallowy. This same criticism. of

course, can be made with cottonseed

meal, so I don't know as it would be

against the bean meal on this score. I

think that a grain ration of bean meal,

oats, corn and bran in equal parts by

weight would make a very desirable and

economical ration for the cows and there

would not be enough bean meal to make

the butter hard and tallowy and it would

not be objectionable to 1110 cows. This

grain ration could be fed a pound per day

for each pound of butter—fat produced by

a cow in a week and with the shredded

, corn stover twice a day and clover hay

, once a. day, would make a splendid ration.





 





CREAM FROTHS AN'D BUTTER WILL

NOT COME.





 





Have a cow that is due to come fresh

the 23th of March. Am feeding her corn-





stalks and sweet corn. The last two

churnings of cream would not come. The

cream, would just turn to froth. Why

is it? .



Graiiot Co. \V. R. It





Complaints of cream frothing in the

churn and failing to produce butter are

very common at this season of the year

because the cows usually have been in

milk several months and are fed mostly

on dry feed. Some succulcnt food like

roots or silage should always be provided

for late fall and winter use and this con-

dition would be greatly improved. Cream

will froth more in a dash churn than it

will in a barrel churn, and it will froth



- more when churned at low temperature

than when churned at medium tempera-

ture. Sometimes the frothing is caused

by improper ripening of the cream. Cream

should never be more than two or three

days old when churned and should. be

kept at 50 degrees or below until twelve

to eighteen hours bcfore churning when

it should be heated up to about 70 (lea





gross. I would advisc churning the cream

at a little higher temperature than you





now do, and after you havc churned until

the cream becomes frothy add a little

water to your cream, 80 to ST» or 90 den

grccs, and if this docs not remedy the

difficulty, throw in a few hundsfull of dry

salt and your butter should come in about

40 minutes. ‘





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RYE FOR COWS.





 





I "have several “strippers” and one fresh

cow, more to follow soon. My feed con—

sists of corn fodder, mixcd hay and plenty

of various kinds of straw. What I want

to know is whether I can profit..hly grind

rye to feed these cows. or had I better

sell it and buy other grain? If so, what

kinds and proportions? (Jan I buy some

other grain and mix with rye profitably?

I have no corn to grind and would lyi‘alve



us





to buy that. Have some speltz.

herd contains two grade Jerseys, two

grade Short'horns and two thorobred

Shorthorns. I dolnot know how much

grain to feed. Does a silo pay?



Osceola Co. S. M.





381579 is not considered as good for mllch





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cows as corn meal,,but since you havel

the rye I hardly think it would pay you:

to sell the rye and buy corn meal, and by

mixing oil meal with the rye, you couldl





get a very good ration for your cows. I i.





would recommend mixing 2th lbs. of rye.

to 100 lbs. of corn meal and give the cows

this ration with your roughage.

it would be a little better to buy some

bran and oil meal also, thcn mix 100 lbs

of bran, 100 lbs. of ground rye, 100 lbs. of

oil meal together and feed the cows about

a pound of this mixture per day for every

pound of butter—fat which they

in a week. I would feed all the hay they





would eat up clean once a day, and then‘





once a day you can feed cornstalks or

your straw, or you could feed your straw

in the morning, the cornstalks





The silo certainly pays. especially where

one has good corn soil. As has been

stated many times in these columns by

ensiloing' the corn much of the starch of

the stalk which turns into fiber when

dried. is retained in a digestible state.

and the succulency of cnsilnge is a great

aid to the digestive system of animals. A

corn crop is, therefore, enhanced in value

by being made into ensilage.





I read the question and answer in re-

gard to this matter in a late issue of the

Michigan Farmer, and. having some ex-

perience along this line. would like to

give your readers the result. In the first

place. it is a thing to be prevented and

not one to be cured. Nature bestowed

upon the genus bos, the power to with-

hold thc milk. (except the little that





might be in the teats), for the benelit of.





their own offspring. In a wild state.

calves were apt to steal milk from cows.





not their own mothers, and the power to?





withhold it from all except their own was

intended to protect their offspring. So





when a man sits down to a youngr hcit‘cr:

more ‘





and tries to draw hcr milk. what

natural thing than that shc should with-

hold it. He is not her calf. It is for this

reason that the heifor’s first call' should

not be allowed to fatten by sucking its

dam. She is not apt to take kindly to

the change. when the vcal is ready for

market. and will be apt to form a lifc-

long habit, of holding up the milk. One

of our heifcrs not only formcd this habit

from the above ('allSU, but was very hard





to break, and always disagrvcablc to milk. .





In the story of the “Pionccr Lad.“ mon-

tion is made of the “blood bellow." which

is only anothcr cow trait hands-d down

from the wild state. I have known sev-

eral horscs that would bccomo unman—

ageable and dangerous at butchering time

or whcnovcr thcrc was a smell of blood

around. A neighbor of mine has to call

on sonic onc clsc to cure for - his

horses. whencvcr he has been butchering.

I camo ncar spoiling a young marc by





ono of





trying to draw a stock hog on u stone-l





ncighbor's to scald and





odor





bout ovm‘ to 21

dross. \Yln-n tho of blood bccomcs

sensible to a horse. the natural fear that

was in its ancestors. takes possession,

and it sccms to it that great danger is

lurking near. I mention this as It kindred

Innitci‘ to that of holding up the milk in

cows.





New York. CliA'lt,KE M. ])RAKE.





 





CARING FOR NEW IQI'ILCH COW AND

CALF.





The old saying. “never too old to learn."

is what one man recently said to inc,

when advised to not milk his

first day aftcr calving. I C!’ll‘lf(“1~,‘i~i I was

quite well along in life bot‘ore I had

learned Lottcr. I used to think I must

get all the milk I could out of thc udder

to keep it from becoming cakod.

yet it would cako ul‘tor all my pains. Slut-('-

I have adopted the plan to louvo tln- nii k





coWs the





in the udder what ihc cult iakcs,

l' have had absolutely no iroublc with

cakcd udder. Thcr- arc too many who





take the calf away bcl'orl- ll has suckn-ll





at all, thus depriving it of its natural

source of imurishmont, undcr the im-

pression that it will lcarn to a“ Sooner.





While as a matter of fact. it will not lcarn

as easily. I have one calf now that after

being left with its mother three

drank the first time I offcrcd it a pail of

milk. without looking for anything to

suck. It is seldom necessary to give them

the finger in the mouth. only in the milk.

under the mouth. and they will push while

they drink. I purchased a calf last winter





'that had never been allowed to suck and





it was more trouble to get it to learn to

drink than I was accustomed to. It has}

never done well since. and, tho havingl

good hay and meal, is still poor. - i



Shiawassee Co. B, S. FOSKET. ;





I think l





produce.





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CONTROLLING .CONTAGIOUS ABOR-

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I have a dairy of twenty cows; seven

of them have already aborted. 'The first

one slunk her calf. about four months

ago; six weeks later two more lost theirs

and four weeks later another one, and a.

few days after that two more aborted.

The first one that lost her calf did not

cause me any alarm for she had been

chased by a dog, but the last three set

me to thinking. These cows act natural,

have a good appetite, are fed a bushel of

ensilage night and morning; besides, they

have corn fodder and oat straw at noon.

Our local Vet, thot feeding silage caused

it. Considerable corn passes thru these

cows whole, but tlley do not appear sick.

Four brood sows follow my cows when

they are out doors. 1 am using a thoro—

bred bull and I am told that thorobreds

are more apt to be diseased than grades.

Is this true? My cows are never pounded

or clubbed; besides, I keep no dog to

chase them. My premises are kept fairly

clean and I have been careful to clean

lip after each cow that aborted and have

buried what I thot should be. These

calves that have come from the cows are

about the size of a cat and one of them

was in a discasedcondition. When the

fourth and fifth cow aborted I called our

local Vet. who examined the two cows.

He thot they must have infectious abor-

tion.



Saginaiw Co. G. EASLICK.





I am inclined to agree with your vet-

erinarian that you have infectious abor-

tion in your herd, rather than to suppose

it accidental. There are, of course, two

common causes for miscarriage in cows,

accidental and contagious. If accidental

and the cow cleans properly, no more fu—

ture trouble need be feared; however, if

a miscarriage is the result of either acute

or chronic contagious abortion it should

be regarded seriously, for I assure you it

has puzzled me many times in my prac-

tice to stamp it out of a herd, even when

my client ‘gave me free rein to spend his

money for the latest and most, up to date

remedies; besides, I employ assistants to

~arry out my instructions. SO you can

understand with this information before

you, it will be no easy task for you to

clean up your hcrd and premises. This

may sound like scare talk but it is noth-

ing short of cold facts, Tile first time a

cow aborts it is generally early, the sec—

ond time somewhat later and the third

calf may be carried full time or nearly

so. The germs appear to produce less

irritation after a year or two and become

less active; besides. are not so apt to

infect other pregnant animals or infect

the male at time of service.



Cows affected with accidental abortion

usually show some effects of the acci lent,

but no well marked symptoms of abor—

tion, such as red patches on the lining

membrane of the vagina and vulva. If

the herd bull suffers from this disease he

will show some mucus discharge and if so

should not be allowed to serve cows until

cured. “'lien cows have abortive germs

in their genital tract they can be readily

discovered by means of a magnifying

glass of sufficient strength, therefore you

should proceed intelligently to ascertain

whether your cattle have accidental or

infectious abortion. The history you give

indicates it to be contagious abortion.

Therefore, you had better treat for it.



\Yhen a cow aborts she should be im-

mediately removed from balance of herd,

the calf and aftcrbirtli removed and

burned, the bedding or manure that was

under or about her also burned, the stall

walls and floor tlloroly disinfected, with

germ killing remedies such as is made

by mixing one part carbolic and thirty

parts water, or one part bichloride mer-

cury and one thousand parts water, or

or one part chloride of zinc and one

thousand parts of water, also whitewash

the stall she stood in, and the adjoining

stalls. If the room is needed, fill with

cows that are not pregnant. This I sug-

gest for safety, for contagious abortion

is usually passed to the cow which stands

next to the sick one. The cow should be

washed out with carbolic lotion made by

mixing two drains in one quart of water

or the same quantity of lysol in a quart

of water. or dissolve the same. quantity

of permanganate of potash in three quarts

of water. \Vllichcvcr one you use, use it

freely and keep up the treatment for

three weeks or as long as the discharge

lasts. The herd bull should be treated

much the same way, especially if he

shows the slightest discharge. I have

obtained good results by dissolving one

drain of protargol in a quart of water and

injecting cows once daily v ith this. These

applications should be made thru a rub-

ber tube and funnel. The. hind parts of

cow should not be neglected. \Vash her

with any of the lotions recommended.

twice a day or apply one part coal-tar

disinfectant and thirty of water; but the

sure and use a good article or you will

fail in killing the abortive germs. A cow

that has been treated should not be brot





,THE .MicHiGAN FARMER . ' ' ~- in... 5.1910.





back to herd too soon.» I like to keep _ y ' ’

them away from well cows for three . h' L P ' d' F N ,. _.





weeks. Giving coWs one ounce doses of

hypo-sulphite of soda two or three times

a week is supposed to help them and I

have thot giving cows one-half dram

doses carbolic, or even smaller doses,

helped to prevent infected cows from



aborting. The Burr Automatlc Safety Tackle Block is the great-



Just a word to dairymen. Knowing how est article ever invented for use on the farm. It pays for



difficult it is to eradicate contagious abor~ itself on one job, for one,man can do the work of tour with



“on erm a herd after it gains a foothold it, saving the time and wages of three men. You don’t know



you will act Wisely in doing an in your what you are missmg—how much unnecessary work you



power to keep’ it out of your herd. Don't Qre don-lg and how muCh money you ,are lOSlng—by. n0t haV‘



breed any of Your COWS to a bun unless ing one of these wonderfully convenient Automatic Safety



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no matter at what angle you must use it. even up side down.





that have not carried their calves full

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time; don’t buy cows that have any vagi-



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BALANCING A RATION.





I would like to have you balance me a

ration for my dairy cows. I have the fol—

lowing feed on hand: Corn at 600 per

bu; oil meal at $1.85 per cwt.; cottonseed

meal at $1.85 per cwt.; bran at $26 per

ton; well-cared ensilage, corn stover.

clover hay or bean pods ’once a day. Also

how. old should a Holstein billl be before

he is allowed to serve a cow. The bull AND UPWARD

weighed 450 lbs. as six months of age. ===

Cows are grade Durhams giving about (If. ItTg'iog-ofififl'fafiogfigcyémre

lbs; of milk a day; test about 4 per cent. proposition to furnishabmnd new,



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corn silage and two pounds a. day of the Freight Prepaid





cottonseed meal on the corn silage, er

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TROUBLE WITH CHURNING.





“'ill you please advise me. in regard to D 0 es 1 h e cows





my cream? 1 have not been able to ob-





tain butter for about three weeks. I warm . ~ I , -

the cream and churn it the way I always 51 g a ap o

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have but the butter—fat will not separate

from the milk. lt Just foams up and

looks as if it is ready to “break,” but

will not make butter. The cow will not

freshen until July and tllc milk raises a

good cream. “'0 feed hcr good mixed

hay. with oat straw and potatoes, turnips,

boots and winter radish.



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I would advise heating the milk, if you

set it in pans. to ISO dogs. Then let the

cream rise as before and ripen and churn

in the ordinary way. If you use a sepa-

rator, heat the cream to 180 legs, stir it

while heating, and then cool as quickly

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FEB. 5, 1910‘. 7 .



{gifflé ANNUAL DAIRY MEETING.

"mugmimmfl meeting of the Mich-

fgah mmeh‘S’ ASSOciation Was called

flounder ashort time before the pages of

this issue were closed. A goodly number

of da‘irymen from nearly every section of

Michigan and also from other states were

present. There is not space enough left

in this issue for reviewing the excellent

papers that have already been presented

and the valuable discussions given; suffice

it to say that this gathering of the or~

ganization promises to maintain the high

standard of the past in interest and value

of its program. The excellent exhibit of

:dairy machinery, dairy products and the

educational show of the State Dairy and

‘Food Department, promises now to sur-

:pass any like exhibit ever brot together

'~by the Michigan Association. Nearly all

,the machinery people had their exhibits

in place at the opening session and the

.dairymen and dairy products manufactur-

ers were already studying the merits of

'the different articles which interested

‘them. In our next issue we shall en-

'-deavor to give a review of the addresses

Iandvdiscussions of the splendid program

‘arranged by the officers of the organiza-

'tion.





'WHY M'IL‘K IS DIRTY. -





In an experiment at the Illinois Ex-

periment Station, some figures were ob-

tained as to the amount of dirt falling

from uddrrs apparently clean, soiled and

.muddy. A dish of the same diameter as

'and ordinary milk pail was held under an

udder for 41/2 minutes, while the milker

went thru motions similar to those made

in milking, «but not drawing any milk.

The dirt thus collected was thoroly dried

and Weighed. As an average of 75 trials

made at different seasons of the year it

vwas found that the weight in grams of

dirt which fell from udders apparently

clean, was 0.0152, from udder-s slightly

soiled, 0.1316, and from muddy udders,

0.8831. From these data it was calcu-





lated that from muddy udders one ounce_





'of dirt would fall into the milk in 32





milkings, or that cxery 27:) pounds of milk

would contain one ounceof iilth. After





each of the above tests the udder was-





washed and the dirt collected as before.

,It was found that with uddcrs apparently

clean, 3% times as much dirt fell from

the unwashed udders as from the same

uddcrs after they were washed. “'ith

soiled udders the ratio was 18, and with

'muddy udders it reached 90,

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FALL F-R'E‘SHENEIAD cows AND

GROWING FEED.





A good dairy cow that freshens in the

fall and is well cared for, should give her

owner 11 profit every day thru the winter

and should go onto grass in the spring in

good shape and do nearly as well thru the

summer as a oow that is fresh in the

spring, provided she takes her yearly va-

(ution in the early fall when the pastures

.are dry. Then a man has more time to

-take care of his calves during the. winter

than in the summer and with good, light

comfortable quarters they will do better

at that period of the year than in sum-

mer. By spring; they will be rcudy to go

onto grass and can stand the hot sun uni

flies better than a little young sprint," cult.

‘and you can have the skim—milk during‘

the summer to Iced the piss instead.



But whenever the cows are fresh, feed

,them so as to keep tlu-m doing; their

best. '00 not, think you can let: them

shrink in their milk flow for a week or a

month and then have them make up for

lost time, for they ‘will not do it. They

rmust do their 'work every day or they

'_ will run their owner in debt.



In my dairying I have made special of-

fort for several years to grow crops best

adapted for dairy feed crops, rating high

=in protein, such as peas, soy beans. clov.

Ll-rs. etc, and those that do best in my

locality, and buy in the market such feeds

us I must have, to compound balanced

rations. I have Often heard furthers say:

"\Ve feed field corn because it is the

cheapest feed we have.” But it is not

the cheapest under all circumstances. I

«will admit that in finishing an animal for

‘the block corn is our best feed; but corn

alone for the growing calves, the milk

cows, the colts, pigs or hens, is too ex-

pensive for any farmer unless he has a

good bank account 'which is supplied





from other sources than the farm,



The 'best lesson I ever learned was from

nearly experience in feeding dairy cows. I

had been feeding on the"‘feed only-what-

mn—raise" theory, and at the end of the

M31? Mud .bnt .-sma11 profit, and was,





THE MICHIGAN EARMER.





therefore, forced to change my methods

of work. ‘I discarded this method and

began» to raise such feeds as was best

adapted to my soil, no matter what they

were, and then buy the elements lacking

'in my home-grown feeds. It enhanced

the feeding value of the farm-grown feeds

and at the same time was far healthier

for the animals.



While this system of feeding in the

start was confined to cows alone, it was

soon learned that what made a good ra-

tion for a cow was good feed for other

stock, and for years much of the other

feeding has been from the same feed bin.

And when I give feed to animals I al-

ways feel like saying to them, “you pay

your board bill or you will go to the

butcher.”





Illinois. R. B. BUSHING.





A (30—60 DAIRY EEC—5RD.





I am sending a statement of my herd

of ten grade Durham cows showing the

amount of milk, test, and price received

for each month for the year 1009. The

$1,146.18 is the net amount. which I re-

ceived for this milk. and besides this, I

have had what milk I needed for my fam~

ily uSe. It has cost me $450 65 to produce

the feed, proportioned as follows: $30 for

pasture, 60 tons of silage at $1.50, $196.65

for grain. and $114.00 for hay, halting a

total of $430.65.



I have fed also out of this amount of

feed, three yearling heifers for one year,

and two horses. but have made no de—

duction for this. I sell my milk to a

cheese company and get whey to feed

my hogs.





 





Lbs. Butter-fat



Month, 1909. Milk. Test. per lb. Amt

January 3.768 4.24 .38 $ 02.92

February .8305 4.12 .30 124.231

Mai‘t‘ll ...... H.350 >1 2: .5} 131.1 )

April ........ 8.0l7 4.24 .32 108.77

lVIuy ......... 8.9.17 4.11 .3 113.99

June ........ 7.010 4.11 .301/3 00.9!)

July .7.2u:l 4 Jo {Ill/[3 02 ’6

August ..... 1.923 4 22 121/; 07. )1

September ..::.l»17 4.21 51/; 47.36

October ..... 4.814 4.11 ..lh 71.10

.Novmnhcr “3.137 4.04 .217 70.74

December .0.le 4.11 .40 108.24

80.2% $113166



Milk sold to neighbors ........ 8.52

Total ........................... $1,146.18





(This is certainly a good record for ten

cows. To have ten cows yield on the

average, 8,020 lbs. of milk pcr cow is a

splendid showing and then to have :1 mar-

ket that will puy an average of 311.40 per

lb. for butter—fat for the year, is quite

remarkable. ~3ut few of us have this kind

of a marlvct'. The ordinary cremnery cunt

not afford to pay such prices for butter-

fat. Of course. the crcamcry returns the

skim-milk, which is worth considerable

at present prices for feed and should be

added to the creamery price. Neverthe-

less, this is a very suliSfat-tory price in~

deed. It would seem that the cost of feed

is low when we consider that u tcum of

horses and three heifers were also ch on





 

 





 





 





the $150.00 worth of feed. In our cow}

testing associations we figure 50 cents per 3

week for pasture and this Would make:





for five months, $50 for the cows alone,

and nothing for the horses and heifers.

Cow testing associations also figure en-

silage at $2.50 per ton instead of $1.50,

which would make the cost of feed (-on—

sidcrubly higher. 3ut cvcn ilg'uring‘ at

these prices, it is an exceptionally good

showing and Mr. l‘llcnbuus can well be

proud of the showing. It would be in—

teresting to know if the same ten cows

were kept the entire year, or if some were

disposed of and fresh ones hot and the

ten was the average number, rather than

a real num‘ber.—I<lditor).





A PERSISTENT—Ml—LRER.





Please tell me thru Michigan Farmer

the best way to manag a cow that is due.

to freshen soon and is still giving milk.

V\lll her milk be all right to use up to

the timc that she calves? (‘un't dry her

up. Will be in within a week.



Van Ihrren Co. F. ll. liAltTER.



I would not” use the mill; for two or

three weeks before the cow l‘rcshcns. Feed

it to the pigs.

been milked right along would probably

make the milk all right, but I would not

risk it. The only way you can handle

this cow is to continue to milk her now,

even to the time of freshening. It would

not do to dry her off. You will be liable

to injure her udder. It would have been

better, 1“ things considered. to have dried

her off four to six weeks «before freshen-





'ing. but neglecting to do that. you must ‘





.milk her now. You can increase her ra-

tion of grain and keep her in good con-

‘dition. She will not give a very large

flow of milk. probably, at once after

freshening, 'but she will gradually increase





until she yeilds nearly or quite her nor-.





.mal flow.





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‘ February 2, 1910.

Grains and Seeds.





Wheat—The neWs of the past week has

been of such a character as to make the

probable trend of the wheat market un-

certain. At times there would appear to

be sufficient support to the trade to war-

rant heavy buying. While perhaps on the

following day selling would appear the

wise thing. However, it seems that the

bulls have scored well during the week,

in that Russia, which has been a bearish

factor all thru the past season because

of. her large exports, now comes out with

information of great damage to her com-

ing crop, thereby giving the bulls her

support. Largely fer this reason the av—

erage quotations for the past week are

above those for the former. All along

the demand from flour manufacturers has

been active and these men have not quit

their practice of paying premiums when

necessary to get hold of cash grain. This

has been the backbone to the market thru

the season, and the present condition of

the flour makers should continue for some

time to come. The receipts have been

fairly heavy the past Week. lbut a small

proportion of them have gotten beyond

the millers. One year ago the price for

No. 2, red wheat was $1.071/2 per bu.

Quotations for the week are as follows:



No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. May. July.





Thursday . . . .1.V261/2 1.26% 1.27 1/3 1.05%

Friday . . ..... 1.26% 1.26% 1.27 125 1.05%

Saturday . .1.261/g 1.26% 1.27% 1.06 ’

Monday ...... 1.26 1.26 1.27 1.013



Tuesday ..... 1.261,; 1.2614 1.2714 1.051,;

"Wednesday . .1.2 1.26 1.26% 1.04%,





Corn.~——Ever since last Thursday there

has been a gradual decline in corn prices.

The sagging appears to be due partially

to the situation of the market brokers,

those holding heavy stocks seemingly de-

siring to let a. portion of them go. The

decline in live stock prices is held. by

some to be having influence upon this

trade. The arrivals have generally been

quite liberal, and this has challenged the

courage of the bulls. One year ago the

quotation for No. 3 corn was 620 per bu.

Quotations are as follows:





No. 3

No. 3 Yellow.

Thursday . . ............... 661/3 671/2

Friday . . .................. 66 61

Saturday ................. 651/; 661/;

Monday .................. 65 66

Tuesday .................. (ii 1/2 631,43

\Vednesday ............... 641/2 6.11/5





Oats.—\\‘liiie the feeling in this trade

has followed that in the corn and wheat

markets, yct the variation in price is

along a much lower channel. Primary

receipts in some sections of the country

have been much larger than expected and





this has prevented prices from advancing





dur' g the week. The local market is

stet't y with practically nothing doing, ow-

ing to the small stocks on hand. One,

ycar ago the price for No. 3 white oats

was 53140 per bu. Quotations are as

follows: ’





Standard.

Thursday ......................... 501/2

Friday .. . . ........................ 5011;,

Saturday ......................... 501;

Monday .......................... 50

Tuesday . . . ....................... 501,1;

\Yednesday ....................... 501/;





Beans—The bean market is firm, ac-

cording to the local dealers, but no tran-

sactions are taking place, due largelv to

the fact that holders do not appear to be

attracted by present quotations. which

are only nominal. They are as follows:



Cash. March.

u; . $2 0





ThiiFSday .................. $_._’0 ._5

Friday ..................... 2.18 2.23

Saturday ................... 2.18 2.23

Monday .................... 2.18 2.23

Tuesday ................... 2.18 2.J3

Wednesday ................. 2.18 2.23





Cloverseed.—A great deal of interest is

coming to this trade just now, with deals

frequent and about as large as the limited

stocks will allow. Prices have fluctuated

during the week, with an average below

that of a week ago. It is generally be-

lieved, however, that prices will not get

much below the present basis during the

trading season that has now just begun.

Following are the quotations for the week:



Prime Spot. Mar. Alsike.





Thursday . . . . . . . . $8.70 $8.65 $7.75

Friday ..... . 8.50 8.50 7.7.3

Saturday ......... 8.55 8.60 7.7:)

Monday" ........... 8.50 8.50 7.75

Tuesday .., ........ 8.50 8.421/2 7.50

\Vednesday ....... 8.50 8.50 7.’ 0



Rye.-—Market is steady and easy. No





1 is quoted at 841/20 per bu.

Visible Supply of Grain.

This week. Last week.





‘Vhea . . . . . .......... 26.463,000 26,265,000

Corn t. . ............... 9,764,000 9,986,000

Oats . . ............... 8,755,000 9,118,000

Bye 785 000 749,000





Barley ......IIIZIIIIZ 2,602,000 2,485,000

Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.





Flour.—Demand is active at unchanged

prices. Quotations as follows:





Clear ............ . ...... ..... $6.09

Straight .......... . ..... 6.0.1

Patent Michigan ............ . ....... 6.25

Ordinary Patent ..................... 6.15





Hay and Straw.—-Market advanced.

QuotatiOns are: No. 1 timothy, new, $17

@1750; No. 2 timothy, $16@16.50; clover,

mixed, 316601650; rye straw, $8; -wheat

and oat straw, $6.50fi‘7 per ton.



Feed.—Steady at last week’s values.

Demand good. Carlot prices on track:

Bran, $26 per ton: coarse middlings, $26;

fine middlings, $30: cracked corn, $ 8;

coarse corn meal, $28; corn and oat chop,

2. ton.

$ gagging—This trade continues steady

with the past several weeks. Demand is

fair and prices unchanged. Michigan

grown are selling in car lots at 3363360

per bu. in bulk, ,and in sacks at 30617400.



Provisions.—Family pork, $247,369.25;

mess pork, $24; medium clear; $256326;

pure lard, 13%0; bacon, 161/261110; shoul-





 





ders, 121,60; smoked hams, 151,50; picnic

hams. 12140.

Hide8.—~No. 1 green, 100; No. 2 green,





, 90; No. 1 cured, 12c; No. 2 cured, 11c; No.





1 bulls, 110; No. 2 bulls, 100; No. 1 green

calf, 17c; No. 2 green calf, 15950; No. 1

cured calf, 17c; No. 2 cured calf, 15%0,

No. 1 horsehides, $3.50; No. 2 horsehides,

$2.50; sheepskins, as to wool, 500@$1.50.



Butter.—The large decline in cream-

ery values a week ago encouraged con—

sumption of real butter and as a conse-

quence a firmer feeling pervades the trade

and an advanceo'f 10 is recorded for

creamery products. Dairy grades are off

from the prices of a week ago. Quota«

tions are: Extra creamery, 310 per lb;

firsts, do., 290; dairy, 230; packing stock,

22c per lb.



ggs.——Prices this week show a fur-

ther decline of 4c, placing quotations

slightly below those of other big markets.

Despite this fact the demand is rather

inactive. Current offerings, cases includ~

ed, are quoted at 280 per doz,



Poultry.—This market is dull with quo-

tations slightly lower on nearly all grades.

Quotations for the week are: Live.—

Spring chickens, 15@151/20; hens, 14@

141/20; ducks, 15617160; geese, 1360140; tur-

keys, 1760180. Dressed—Chickens, 1460

161/20; hens, 1560151/20; ducks, 18632190;

geese, 14611160; turkeys, 2061124c.



Cheese.—Prices' advanced sharply at

this week’s opening and the market is

firm a the higher range. Michigan full

cream, 180; York state. 190; limburger,

18c; schweitzer, 210; brick cream, 190

per lb. '



Calves—Choice to fancy, 116911150; or-

dinary. 961100 per lb.



Dressed Hogs—Light, $106311 per 0W’t.;

heavy, $9609.50.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Cabbage.—Steady. Home-grown, $1.75

6122 per bbl.



Onions—Domestic offerings 70671750 per

bu. Spanish, $1.35 per crate.



Apples.——Spy, $3@3.50; Baldwin, $25060

3; common, 3215068250 per bbl.



Cranberries.—Cape Cod berries selling

at $2612.25 per bu.



NutS.——<Blltt(.‘rlluiS, 500 per bu; walnuts,

50c; shell bark hickory, $1.





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.



The local butter market is in a see-saw

condition again this week. with dairy off

10; old creamery up 10. The egg market

has weakened a little, Jobbers paying the

country shippers 290. Dressed hogs are

bringing iii/{361100. Live poultry is weak

at quotations. Clover seed. medium and

mammoth, is worth $9.50. alsike, $9. tim-

othy seed $2.25. (‘lovcr seed will probably

bc $1 higher when spring opcns. The

potato market continues dull. with prices

up the state scarcely reaching 250.



Quotations follow:



Grain.—\Vlieat, $1.22; oats, 490; corn,

671-: buckwheat, 600 per bu; rye, 700.



Beans—“dine. machine screened, $1.85

611.95; red kidneys, $2.65 basis.



Buttes—Buying prices, Dairy, No. 1,

260; creaniery in tubs or prints, 300

pcr lb.



Eggs.——Frcsh, 290.



Apples—50611750.



Yogi-1ables—Potatoes, 4060500; onions,

60c per bu: cabbage, 600 doz; parsnips,

50616011 beets. 500 per bu; carrots, 400;

turnips, 400; Hubbard squash, 20 lb; cel-

ery, 121/20; parsley, 200 doz; vegetable

oysters, 25c doz.



Hog‘s.—~Drcs5cd, 9%63100.



Live Poultry.—~Fow1s, 1261130; roosters,

961100; spring chickens, 1361114c; spring

ducks, 1561‘16c; young geese, 1260130;

young turkeys, 1860200.





New Ybrk.





Buttes—Market unsettled. with prices

fractioiially lower. \Vcstern factory firsts,

231/261241/éc: crcaincry specials, 30%0.



lflggs.——Maikct fairly steady at a lower

range of values induced by steadily in-

creasing receipts. \Vestcrn firsts, 320;

seconds, 3061310; fancy refrigerator stock,

271/20 pcr doz.



Poultry. — Dressed, firm. Western

chickens. broilers, 1591230; fowls, 1463

171/30; tuikeys, 22617250.





 





 





Chicago.



“Twat—No. 2 red, 3112661128; May,

$111120; July, $1.011/2.



Corn.~—No. 3, 621/20; May, 667380; July,

665410 pcr bu.



()ats.—--No. 3 white, 4761471/20; May,

4731.30; July, 431/50.



'hittcr.—Market slow with prices uri—

1-hangcd from last week. Ci‘eameries, 25

61"30c: dairies, 24611290.



1:2ggs.—-Market continues slow, prices

showing a further decline. Prime firsts,

300; firsts, 290; at mark, cases included,

rill/26126960 per (102.



Hay and Straw—Market quiet; nearly

all grades of hay and straw are lower.

Quotations: Timothy, choice, $18.5061119;

N0. 1, $17.506DIS; No. 2 and N0. 1 mixed,

$1661117;No. 3 and No. 2 mixed, 3513691550;

rye straw, $106011; oat straw, $9609.50;

wheat straw. $86179. '



Potatoes—Receipts continue heavy and

the market is easy after a 50 decline.

Choice to fancy quoted at 4360450 per lbu;

fair to good, 40611420. '



Beans. Higher. Choice hand—picked

.225 per bu; fair to good, $2.20; red kid-

neys, $2.2561l2.90.





St. Louis.





Grain—\V-heat N0. 2 red, $1.27;

No. 2, white, 671/20; oats, No. 2, 480.



Hay.—Steady. Timothy No, 1 to choice

is selling at $17@18.50 per ton; No. 2,

$15.50@16; N0, 3, $13; clover. No. 1, $18;

No. 2, $16; clover mixed. $13.50@16; al-

falfa quotable at $19@19.50 for No. 1 and

$166018 for No. 2.



Potatoes.-——Receipts moderate but the

local trade is dull and the market rather

weak. Michigan Rurals are quoted at 53

@560 per bu.





 





 





COI‘D,





 





Boston,



WOOL—With old stocks well cleaned up,

as noted last week, the market has be-

come a waiting one. Trading is confined

to small lots, principally odd lots of choice

wools. Bids for the new clip were mostly

for Utah fleeces. the ruling quotation be~

lng 22c. The leading domestic quotations

are: Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces—No.





 





.THE MienioAN, FARMER.





1 washed, 40@410; delaine washed, 39@

400; XX, 37@380; fine unmerchantable,

310; half .blood combing, 36613370; threea

eigliths blood combing, 3.6611370; quarter

blood combing, 35c; delaine unwashed,

320; fine unwashed, 27@28c. Michigan,

\Visconsin and New York fleeces—Fine

unwashed. 25@26c; delaine unwashed, 31

@320; half blood unwashed, 35@360. Ken-

tucky, Indiana and Missouri—Three-

eighths blood, 34c; quarterblood,’ 32@33c.





Elgln.



Butter.—Market firm at 310 per 1b.,

which is 10 above the quotation of a week

ago. The sales for the week amounted

to 498,600 lbs.





 





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

January 31, 1910.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N, Y.)



Receipts of sale stock here to-day as

follows: Cattle, 90 loads; hogs, 12,000;

sheep and lambs, 9,000; calves, 1,200.



The run of cattle today consisted of 55

cars of fresh arrivals and 35 cars of hold

overs. The market opened dull and

draggy and all kinds of butcher cattle

sold from 10617200 lower than last Monday.

Heavy cattle suffered the worst and in

order to get them sold they had to be

sacrificed. At the close about everything

is sold. Good fresh cows and springers

were active today and some higher.



\Ve quote: Best export steers, $6606.25;

best 1.200 to 1,300— lb. shipping steers,

$5.50615.75; best 1,100 to 1,200-lb. do., $5.35

6115.60; medium 1,050 to 1,100-lb. butcher

steers, $5605.25; light butcher steers, $4.75

@5; best fat cows, $4.606r5; fair to good

do., $4604.25; trimmers, $2.5061‘2.75; best

fat heifers, $5695.25; fair to good do., $4.25

6114.50; common do., $375674; best feeding

steers, 950 to 1000 lbs.. $4.40@4.50; best

feeding steers, 800 to 900 lbs., $4674.25;

700 to 75‘0-lb. dehorned stockers, $3.7561‘i;

600 to 650-lb. do., $3.256j.3.50;' best bulls,

$5605.25; bologna bulls, $375674; stock





 





bulls. $3.256I'3.50; best fresh cows andv





springers, 35561160; fair to good do., $4060

45; common do., $256035.



The hog market opened about steady

with Saturday's close. About everything

is sold and the prospects look fair for the

near future. -



“'19 quote: Mixed, medium and heavy,

$8.65618,70; best yorkcrs, $8.50@>8.60; light

yorkers and pigs, $8.256118.35; rouglis, $860

8.10; stags. $7607.25.



The lamb market opened active, most,

of the best lambs selling early at $8.75.

Market closed strong. iVe look for some

lower Driccs the last of the week unless

the runs should be light.



We quotc: Best lambs, 5587067875; fair

to good. $8618.65; culls, $7.5061‘7.75; skin

culls, $6616.75; yearlings, 57.50618; wetti—

ers, $6606.50; ewes, $550616; cull sheep.

$350615; best calves, 2510671015; fair to

good do., $861191/g; heavy do., $4@5.



Chicago.

January 3, 1910.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep

Received toda‘y ...... 18,000 34,000 18,000

Same day last year .. 9,309 11,584 7,401

Received last week..64.462 116,764 72,901

Same week last year.44,519 151,279 54,277



Cattle sold last week largely 50@75c

lower than the recent high time, cows and

heifers sharing with steers in the down—

ward movement. which was due mainly to

the wide-spread agitation regarding high

prices. The boycott against beef and

other meats has had a very perceptible

influence in lessening consumption, and

the cattle receipts have been larger than

required at such a time, altho the retail

nit-at markets of Chicago and other cities

advertised beef at decided cuts in prices.

To a very large extent such reductions in

prices meant a lowering of the grade, and

packers and butchers generally are calling

for a cheap grade of cattle in order to

meet the popular clamor for cheap beef.

The inquiry is largely for steers that can

be hot around $56116, with not many sales

above $6.25, altho the best heavy shipping

beeves have brot $6.50607.70. The lower

grade of light-weight steers sold at 64611

4.73, but.steers below $5 were largely

taken by feeders. Cows and heifers went

at 83.2061550. a few heifers selling up to

$6. with sales above $5 not very large.

(“antlers and cutters lbrot $2603.15, while

bulls were lower, scling at $3605. Calves

were as much as $1 per 100 lbs. lower than

the recent high time, recovering part of

the decline later, when sales were made

at $3619 for infcr‘or heavy to prime light

weights. Stocke s and feeders were fairly

active and failed to share in the sensa-

tional decline in beef cattle, and actually

sold higher for the choicer lots. Stockers

sold freely at. $3604.60, while feeders sold

at $4.456D5.50, with a few cars of fancy

1,214 to 1,271—lb. feeders taken at $5.70@

5.80. Milch cows were in moderate supply

and demand at $256065 each. Butter and

eggs and other staples have declined

sharply, as well as meats. Another week

opened today, and there was a reaction

owing to the unusually small Monday of-

ferings rather than to any increase in the

general demand, prices ruling largely 10@

150 higher for steers, cow: and heifers.



Hogs took a header last week. and the

market reached a $7.75 country basis,

with an $8.35 top at: one time, and the

market practically 75c lower than two

weeks earlier. It was not a case of large

supplies, but rather of a poor eastern

shipping demand and Chicago packers

taking advantage of the general conditions

to pound prices. Hog receipts at the

western markets continued to fall a good

deal short of recent years, but for all

that, great numbers were carried over at

night in the stock yards, thereby swelling

the offerings on following days. After

the big break in prices there was a rally

in consequence of a falling off in the re-

ceipts, but the undertone was by no

means healthy. Weight is still greatly

lacking, and for this reason heavy hogs.

which are greatly needed for converting

into lard, sell at a substantial premium

over lighter weights. The agitation

against high prices of meats has been dis-

astrous to stock feeders, as it has put





FEB. .5, 1910.





prices much lower and thereby enabled

packers .to replenish their stocks of meats

for placing in storage at greatly lowered

first cost. Hogs were active today and

sold_ largely 50 higher, sales ranging at

$8.0o@8.55, while pigs sold at $6.50@8.

The best light hogs brot $8.40. The hogs

received last week averaged 211 lbs.



Sheep and lambs were affected ‘unfavor-

ably last week by the meat boycott and

experienced serious shrinkage in values

for several days in succession, with a later

rally .on' much smaller receipts, sheepmen

deciding in many instances to hold back

their stock until the demand improved.

Medium grade lambs were hit the hard-

est, and fluctuations were usually more

marked in lambs than in sheep and

yearlings, as lambs made up the big share

of the daily supplies. Still the prices paid

looked good when compared with much

lower quotations in recent years at this

season. Yearlings as a rule have ceased

to command their recent big premium

over fat heavy wethers, with lessdemand,

and it must be admitted that yearlings

generally are not being made as choice

as was the rule some weeks ago. Year-

lings to sell especially high have to be

made fat and light in weight, since they

take the place of fat lambs in the retail

meat markets. Sheep and lambs were

firmer today under small Monday receipts

and a good demand. Lambs Were salable

at $5.5061'18.25, wetliers at $5696.25, ewes

at $3616, rams at $350605 and yearlings

at $6607.50.





Horses have been marketed freely most





of, the past month, and general conditions

were very much better than in December,

the demand being up to normal propor-

tions once more. Heavy drafters were

especially active at $17561-275 per head,

with a few recent sales of extra choice

animals at $28061.>302.50, while a pair of

prime 1.800—l-b, horses brot $820. Express-

ers have been selling at 816560225, and

tcedcrs were taken in good numbers for

eastern shipment at $1706l225, while farm

mares were active at 512561-175 for fair to

choice grades. Small southern chunks

were in good demand at 357560150, and

drivers had a moderate outlet at $16060

300 for fair to prime gradcs. with a lim-

ited call for carriage pairs at $40061165iii.

F.





LIVE STOCK NOTES.



The beef and mutton packers seldom

get left. and once more this is demon—

strated by recent developments of the

boycott aimed against the packers and

high prices for meats of all kinds. It is

a curious fact that in some respects the

agitation is working to the advantage of

the packers, since it has enabled them to

place cattle, hogs and sheep on a lower

basis and furnished them with an oppor-

tunity to stock up with beef. mutton and

hog products at considerably reduced

prices. Lower prices have been recorded

for all kinds of meats in the retail mar-

kets. it is true, but stoekmen have been

getting less for their cattle, hogs and

sheep. The packers have seized the rare

opportunity offered them to load tip with

meats at reduced prices. and they expect

to unload at figures that wiil allow them

substantial profits. Cattle prices have

fallen to lower levels than those of a

year ago. and several grades of beef are

wholesaling at lower prices than at that

ime.



A marked deficit in the supply of live

stock available for food in this countr'.‘

is brot to light in ‘the annual report of

the Department of Agriculture that was

given out a few days ago. Beef cattle

of which there were 47,279.000 head in

January 1. 1910, valuedat $19.41 per head,

make a total of $917,685,390, as compared

With $863,638,710 a year ago, when farmers

held 49,379,000 head. The average price

or $19.41 is the highest on record and

$1.92 higher than a year ago. There were

also 21.801.000 milk cows, Valued at $35.79

per head, which brot the total number of

cattle to 69,080,000. compared with 71,090,-

000 a year ago. Hogs also were valued

higher than ever before, their average

vatue being placed at $9.41 per head 01'

2.59 higher than a year ago. The ’hog

population on the first day of this vear

saood at 47,782,000 head, compared to‘54 -

147,000 .1 year ago. The 500154.000 sheep

(excluding lambs on the farms and

ranges). wcrc valued at $6.55 per head

or a total of $367,350,200, compared with

$192.361,120 a year ago. when the number

on the farms was 1.132,000 head smaller

and the average value 65c lower. The

32030732111167“ meat1 animals was $1,721,-

1 a. on .anuary , com ‘ ' 1' -

41%713120 .1 year ago. mm} mm $1’



eople in Iowa towns are con ' '



of the great difficulty experiencedniiialtrildryg

ing enough hay and fodder for their

horses, farmers being unwilling to part

with thetnhay even at the present ex-

tremely high prices, not knowing but

what severe weather before spring opens

may. necessitate the use of remaining

holdings, Hay sells at $15 per ton and in

sections where corn cannot be gathered

from the fields, hay is greatly needed

The, winter has been the, most seVere

lkqnciwn it? manfylyears, and one good thing

.. ie eun 1 11 i0



secured. e crop that has been



At the national ca ital a

struck at the high priclg of meaili)‘; 122:3?

resentative Garner, of Pennsylvania who

several days. ago. introduced a bill remov-

ing the tariff from cattle imported into

.thlS. country for food. Under such a law

it is believed large number of cattle

would be imported from South America

and Canada, thus materially reducing the

cost of meats.





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Thursday’s Markets.

January 27, 1910.

Cattle.



Receipts, 1,061. Common cow stuff

steady; good grades 25613400 lower than

last week. _



We quote: Best steers and.heifers,

$5.251715.45; steers and heifers, 1.000 to

1,200, $475675; steers and heifers, 800 to

1,000, $4.25@4.75; steers and heifers that

are fat. 500 to 700, $3.75@4.25; choice fat

cows. $4704.50; good fat cows, $3.50m3._ln;

commOn cows. $3fi‘3.25; canners. $1.756)

2.25; choice heavy bulls. $4.50; fair to good

holognas, bulls. $4624.25; stock bulls, $3.25

€123.50: choice feeding steers, 800 to 1,000,

$471460; fair feeding steers, 800 to 1.900.

$3.5OE1‘3.75; choice stockers, 500 to 100,

75(df4; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $3@

5; stook heifers. $3.50; milkers, large,

$40@50; common





I:

young, medium age,

milkers, 2501735. .



Bishop, B. & H, sold Mich. B. Co. 12

butchers av 690 at $4, 4 do av 907 at $3.25,

1 bull weighing 1.550 at $4.50, 3 cows av

1,016 at $3.75. 2 do' av 935, at $3. 1 do

weighing 1,000 at $3. 6 butchers 11v 611

at $4.25, 1 cow weighing 930 at $3.25; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 1 bull weighing 1.410

zit $4.40; to Goose 2 cows av 895 at $53.40;

in Hammond, S. & Co. 2 do av 1.02.. at

$3.25, 2 do av 845 at $2.85: to lorish 21

steers av'1,080 at $5.45; to Sullivan P. (To.

2 cows av 1,035 at $3.50, 5 steers av $30

at $4.50, 5 do av 1.080 at $5.35; to Halt-

kowsky 4 do av 872 at $4.40; to GOUSc 3

cows av 940 at $3.50: to Jonghlin 3 steers

av '843 at $4.75,,7 cows av .025 at $3.20. 3

do av 880 at $3; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 5

heifers av 586 at $3.75, 3 steers av 93-12; at

$4.75.



Spicer & R, sold Sullivan P. (‘o. 6 cows

av 930 at $3.40. 2 heifers av 827. at $3.40.

1 steer weighing 1,030 at $5.40; to Berger

4 stockers av 750 at $4.37., 2 do av 7.20 at:

‘34; to Regan 12 butchers av 661 at $4.27.;

to Mich. B. Co. 27 do av 820 at $4.63.

29 do av 021 at $4.40; to Ktllhl‘l‘lan B, (‘0.

1. cow weighing 1.230 at $4.50. 2 do .‘l\' 897.

at $4; to Bresnahan. .‘lr.. 24 slockcrs av

586 at $4.15, 1 cow weighing 780 at $2.30,

1 d0 Weighing 830 at $2.50; to Null 1 do

weighing 1.070 at .350. 26 stccrs av $71

at $4.75. 3 butchers av 753 at $4. 29 do 11v

870 at $4.75: ~





$3.

9

(J.





to Brcitcnback Bros. 2. do

ziv 904 at $4.50; to Goose 1 bull weighing

930 at $4.50: to Hunt 5 cows av 850 at

$3.35; to Hammond. S. 8: Co. 1 bull weigh—

ing 1.050 at $4.25, 1 cow weighing 1.200

at $4.25.



Haley & Musold Hupp 31 butchers av

712 at $4.30; to Lingeman 4 do av 575 at

$3.75, 14 do av 71.4 at $4.57.. 2 cows LIV 9835

at $3; to Sullivan P. Co. 6 cows av $56 at

$3.75. 3 cows and bulls av 1,033 at $4.50.

1 cow weighing 850 at $2.50, 1 d0 weighing

750 at $3, 11 butchers av 880 at $4.35.



Sharp sold Kamrnan 3 cows av 1.120 at

$5, 9 steers av 996 at $5.40, 5 do av 764

at $4.20.



Bohm sold Sullivan 4 butchers av 992

at $4.85.



Veal Calves.



Receipts, 554. Common 2.30 lower than

“'ednesday; good. steady or 50.771750 below

last week; best. $8.75@9.50: others. $44]

7.50; milch cows and springcrs steady.



Bishop, B. S: H. sold Hammond. S. &

CO. 6 av 135 at $9.25. 8 av 130 at $9: to

Nagle P. Co. 2 av 100 at $7. 10 av 1.34 at

$9; to Sullivan P. Co. 2 av 17.0 at $9. 2

av 145 at $6. 8 av 130 at $9, 5 av 115

(it $8.50; to Strauss S: A. 11 av 130 at

$9.25, 6 av 135 at $9, 9 av 140 at $9. 1

weighing 230 at $9.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 1

weighing 250 at $3, 2 av 100 at $7, 4 av

140 at $9.50; to Mich. B. Co. 17 av 35 at

$8.50. 13 av 140 at $9.



Sharp & “l. sold Newton B. CO. 12 av

140 at $9



Downing sold Hammond, S. & Co. 7 av

135 at $8.50.



Spicer & R. sold Streets 4 av 180 at

$9.50, 1 weighing 110 at. $6: to Newton B.

Co.- 3 av 120 at $9. 1 weighing 120 at $6:

to Mich. B. Co. 17 av 140 at $8.55, 14 av

135 at $8.50. 4 av 140 at $7.25.



Haley & M. sold Breitenback Bros. 9

av 140 at $8.



Dwelle sold Burnstine 5 av 95 at $6.50,

17. av 130 at .



Kendall sold Fitzpatrick Bros. 13 av

140 at; $9.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts. 5.906. Market steady at “7e11-

ncsday's priCeS, or 500 lower than last

'l‘h ti rsd a y.



Best lambs. $7.500‘7.75: fair to good

lambs. $675417; light to common lambs.

55.50 (116.25; yearlings, $6616.50; fair to

good sheep, $4714.75; culls and common.

$3613.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Swift & Co. 9

sheep av 95 at $5, 27 do av 90 at $5. 27

do av 110 at $5. 37 lambs av 75 at $6.27.;

to Sullivan P. Co. 14 do av 70 at $7.50,

26 do av 75 at $7; to Nag-1e P. Co. 257

clip lambs av 77 at $6.50. 23 lambs av

65 at $7; to Hammond, S. & Co. 26 do av

60 at $7. 20 do av 65 at $7.25. 61 do av

77 at $7.25. 2 sheep av 75 at $4; to Micli.

B. Co. 19 lambs av 60 at $7.50, 3 do av

45 at $6; to Swift Co. 77 do av 85 at

$7.75, 17 sheep av 115 at $4.25; to Nagle

P. CO. 11 lambs av 95 at $7.50, 12 sheep

av 120 at $3.75, 198 lambs av 80 at $7.75;

to Fitzpatrick Bros. 27 yearlings av 100

at $5; to Levy 85 lambs av 88 at $7.75: to

Hammond‘s, Co. 13 do av 70 at $7.25.



Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 41

lambs av 83 at $7.55; to Mich. B. Co. 69

do av 75 at $7.35, 24 do av 75 at $7.40, 1

sheep av 60 at $3.50; to Newton. B. Co. 15

lamlbs av 90 at $7.75, 1 sheep av 130 at $4:

to Fitzpatrick Bros. 8 do av 80 at $4. 5

do av 85 at $4.50. 54 lambs av 80 at $7-60.

42 do av 70 at 87.40, 5 yearlings'av 110 at





$6.50, 8, sheep av 90 at $5





' a n. sold Naglé R, Co. 9 sheep

av 115' at $4. 16 lambs av 80 at $7.50; to

Sullivan P. Co. 16 do ‘av 80 at $6.75.





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THE" MICHIGAN" FARMER





. Tamrt sold Hammond, S. & Co. 30

mixed av 90 at $5.75.

_ p.61: W. sold Newton B. Co. 34

sheep av 75 at $4, 80 lambs av 73 at $7.50.

Mayer sold Stephens 108 lambs av '70

at $7.25.

Groff sold Thompson 18 lambs av 70





sold same 41 do av 55

at $6.40.



Taggart sold Nagle P. Co. 24 sheep av

90 at $4, 69 lambs av 67 at $7.

$139311: sold same 100 lambs av 68 a

1. o.



Robb sold same 49 lambs av 60 at $7,

30 sheep av 92 at $3.75. _

$_'I(;2$g,‘gai'r. sold same 145 lambs av 70 at



1. .



Krause sold same 33 do av 80 at $7.50,

4 sheep av 80 at $4.



Harger & A, sold same 19 sheep av 80

at $3, 77 lambs av 75 at $7.50, 131 do av

68' at $7.65.





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Hogs.





Receipts. 2.094. Market 5fi100 higher

than “'ednesday, 30@35c lower than last

weeks close.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, 1582561335; pigs, $790113: light york-

ers, $8.20; stags if, off.



Bishop. B. & H. sold Parker. NV. & Co.

701 av 180 at $8.30, 125 av 210 at $8.35,

156 av 155 at $8.25,



Sundry shippers sold same 275 av 180

at $8.40.



Spicer & R. sold Hammond. S. & Co.

2120 av 200 at $8.35, 75 av 180 at $8.30,

40 av 170 at $8.25.



Haley & M, sold same 87 av 210 at $8.35,

160 av 175 at $8.27..



Bishop. B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co. 103

av 140 at $8.20. 59 av 130 at $8.15, 15

pigs av 105 at $8.





Friday's Market.

Cattle. »

January 28, 1010.

The market opened at the local yards

Friday morning with a light run in all

departments. The cattle iradc was full

steady with Thursday and everything was

closcd out before noon.

lilcst steers and heifers, $5.25frlfifio;

steers :tlld.llcifcrs. 1.000 to 1.200. 34.7541

5.15; steers and lleifcrs. 800 to 1.000, 1.27.41





4.75: steci's and hcifcrs that are fill. 500 to.





700. $3.75fr14.25; choice fat cows, $4614.30;

good for, cows. 337.01.13.75: tommon cows.

$3013.50: canncrs. $175015: choice hcavy

bulls, $4,506,173; fair to good lulltlf—l‘llilS,

bulls. $4414.25: stock bulls. 53.27.171.350;

('llnii‘” l‘ieding' stocrs. 800 to 1,000, $147

1.00: fair feeding slccrs. 800 to 1.000, 343.70

61.11.75: choice stockcrs, 7.00 to 700. $375014.

fair stockci‘s. 7.00 to 700. $3413.75; Stuck

heifers, $3.50; ln‘lkcrs. largo, younzr, lilcll—

illm age, $404,150; common milkci-s, $20

6130.



Bishop, 1.}. & ll. sold Sullivan P. Co.

3 cows :l\' 930 at $3. 1 do w-cighini: $70 alt

$3, 5 do 11v 1.000 at 53.77., 1 do “'(‘lll‘flllllfI

900 at $43, 8 do llv 900 at $3.75. 2 bulls av

1.480 at $4.50. 1 stccr weighing 800 at

$4.50, 12 do my 1.153 at $5.271.



Haley & M. sold Bondino 1 cow weigh-

ing 0.30 Eli $3.30. 7. do av 1,000 at $3.70.



Sliml- sold Lingcman 6 licifcrs av 715

at $4.71.



Roe Com. Co, sold Fry 30 heifers av 754

at,$~l.‘_‘0.



Veal Calves.



The run of veal calves was very com-

mon, only one small bunch ’bel’ng'good

enough to bring $9 a hundrcd. There was

a fair demand for good calves and had

they been here prices would 'have been

fully as high as on Thursday. The com-

mon thin stuff that did arrive ivus not

wanted and this class was considerably

lower. Best grades, $850619; otllcrs. $4

(l 1.1”.



Bishop. 1%, & H. sold Newton 13. Co. 10

av 1'29 :it $8.50.



Same sold Nag‘le P. (‘0. 16 av 130 at $8.



Terhllne sold same 29 av 2:} at $7.50,

4 av 135 at



Lthkt‘ sold Parker, 1". & Co, 14 av 130

at $9.



Buck & 1V, sold Breitenback Bros. 5 av

110 at $6.



Bishop. B. & H. sold Rattkowskv 8 av

125 at $8. '



Same sold Hammond..S. & Co. 13 11V

12:» at $7, 15 av 130 at $7.50, 14 av 125 at

$6. 8 av 105 at $6.50.



Same sold Mich. B. Co. 8 av 1027. at $5.



Sheep and Lambs.

The sheep and lamb trade was steady





with Thursday; One extra good bun-ch

brot $1.80 or no higher. but they were





the best seen here this week.



Best lambs. $7.50fd7.80: fair to good

lambs; 367561725: light to common lambs.

$5616.50; yearlings. $6fi6.50: fair to good

sheep. $4615; culls and common. $3413.50,



Bishop. ll. & ll. sold Levy & Sons 24

lambs av 85 at $7.75, 111 do av 87 at $7.80,

74 do av 75 lit $7.75. 11 do av 07. at $7.77.;

to Newton ll. Co. 30 do av 65 at $7.50; to

A Street 14 sllccp av 110 at $41.51), 5'. all

my 105 111' $4.50. 8 do av 120 at $4. 4 do av

125 at $3. 5 do av 95 at $4.50. 10 do a\' 120

at. $4.25, 10 do uv 100 at $3.50; to Nau‘lc P.

(‘0. 63 lambs av 60 at $7: to Mich. R. Co.

18 do my 63 at $7. '33 do av 67. {it $7.27., 19

do av 00 at $7.50. 27 do av 65 at $7.50, 41

do 111' 73 Lil $7.07».



Buck & 1", sold Bi'eitcnback Bros. 12

shocp llv 130 at $4.25. 109 lambs av 70

at $7.35.



"'l‘cz‘hirnf sold Nag‘lc P. Co. 41 lambs av

1:) Li' -1.‘o..

Hogs.



Til the hog yards the trade was steallv

with Thursday. the tops bringing $3.37..

The run was very light.



Light to good butchers $3.30fi835: pigs.

$790678; light yorkers. $3.20: stags 1,5, off.



Bishop. B. & H. sold Hammond. S. &

Co. 199 av 2 0 at $8.35. 76 av 180 at $3.25.



Haley & M. sold Sullivan P. Co. 35 av

150 at $8.20, 65 av 180 at $8.25, 54 av 195

at $8.35.



The number of cattle now fecdfing at

distilleries for 1910 markets is lot as

large as usual, being estimated at 75.000

to 85.000 head. and there will be no large

marketing of these cattle during the next

few months. During a. recent slump iii

prices for feeder cattle in the Chicago

market a Kentucky distillery feeder bot

about 900 steers that weighed around 850

to 900 lbs, at $4.25@4.65. Distillery buy-

ers of feeder cattle are usually credited

with much sagacity in buying. fattening

and marketing cattle. but they do not

always come out ahead.





'of them died





   





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VETERINARY. . Mich—Winn yofir mare fell she perhaps





 





The back may have gotten Well and the

(Continued from page 139}- shoulder not. I imagine the sore on

Mammitis.—‘I have a cow which fresh- shOulder is a bed sore. Apply equal parts

.ened last April and now in calf. due to powdered alum. oxide of zinc, and boric

come fresh in March. About the last of acid twice daily. There may be a slight





May she had a severe attack or inflamed displacement of a cervicle vertebra but "





bag. affecting the hind quarter, which -1“. not enough to produce paralysis. Apply

513”,“ or all 1 could dostopped the "1”“ equal parts tincture iodine and camphor-

flow from that quarter and for a time the , t'-l .1 (nc , dav' ive 1 (11.. round

whole udder was affected. She finally ‘1”, ,0] .) .e ‘1 f ‘,’dg- u ,g, -

recovered and now has three good quar- "U" mec?‘ and 0m rs. ground CEBU?“

ters. This cow is an extra heavy milker at a dose in feed three times a‘day, she

giving. when all right. thirty quarts a should be well fed and ekerCised some

day. The diseased quarter broke open every day. ,

and has never healed; have applied pcr- Bunch on Hock—My six—vear-old mare

oxide of hydrogen but it failed. Now I has a bunch about the Size of a person's

wish you would tell me how to treat her. head situated on outside of hock. Our

C. G. P.. Birmingham. Mich—Apply equal Vet. put in sczitoil without good results.

parts, powdered alum. oxide zinc and The hide is very much thickened. H. H..

boraclc ‘dCltl to sore twice a day. Bud Axe. Mich.-Your mare being in foal

Strctchcs.~1 would like to know what it is perhaps better not to cut it off until

to do for a lamb that is troubled with after she hers licr colt. Apply equal parts

stretcllcs. This lamb has a poor appetite. spirits camphor and tincture iodine every

M. 01%.. Jackson. l\licll.—~Slretchcs is the dzl_V01‘.tV\'O.

(.‘Oll‘ll’l’lllll nulnc for ('-1‘l.stivclicss and consti- Chronic Cough—Incipient Heaves.~—My

piiilOll ill shccp. Give '3 01' 3 “ZS. 6,!)501“ cie'hl-ycar—old horse had distellipcr two

salts and one driinl ginger daily ililtil the yl-L‘lrs ago and “NH”. fully recovercd front

}t0.?('1,17,"’1’l““g "1' 1L 1h“_”"5t (1‘15“ “f Siam“ it. She has coughed morc or less cvl-r

dalilvé‘l,\,:hfll amn'lls,§u.lt,}gxat? 0f1,(;:,1\(:as1”fllj£}_l slur-o, breathes short and at times there

Lions of soap suds ‘lrc beneficial. V 1i”, a 371‘ng 1”. “‘0 throat. H' D' ““

, ' " ‘ ' ' “aslliugton. l\llcll.—ll‘ccd no clover or

flumors on .i;l\\'.-~l llllvli :1 1'1)\\' that lizlS musty. dusty badly cured foddcr of any

two largo bunt-hos on Jaw and four sinzll— kind: grain v,,g,.l,,l)1,.g and silage is 1}...

lei bilncllcs on tho olhcr sldo of lace and best food for “Wm. ”1“,. 1%, (11‘. fluid ex«

one small bunch lllliit'l‘ tllc cur. Our local ,, _ - . . l . v.“ .. r 1 ~

Vet. calls Illclil illnlis‘llunl tuitiors. Have “‘1“ ”I,filamlln‘um-JP“ " (115.501.1lml

applied iodillc tor the past two weeks "Viva“ 01 “mm“ UW.‘ 1‘1”“ “um (“Wad

which l)l"stcrcll sonic bill the cow is oi Opium at a “USU m il'Cd two or “NICO

worse. The cow cuts and drinks well times a day.

and docsulol St‘lt'lll to bc sick. M. 1. S. 'i‘cat Cut Off—Scaly Legs—I have :1

Chin“ MH'I‘V‘J‘AU‘H' 5“”, "”1 it‘lllt‘llfl‘e‘ 01' four~year—old heifer due to come fresh in

1113011 (illt‘ l‘éll't l‘i‘il Ii_"1|(li‘ lllf'l‘Clll'N llll‘l March, that: lllt'i with an accident when

tour parts lard cvcry live or six days. lower one_1m1f 0f 1“,” “'21s cut “fl“ S'hc

Irritation ot‘ Nosll-ils.-—llilvc a i'oiir- now lcaks milk constantly. 'il'oulil it be

year-old nlurc that seems to hayi- :l tick- safe to ‘burn it with a, hot iron. or acid

lingorsl-ilsltlvcncss oi the nostrils which 5.7, as 10 (.mge 1m. 1,01,. and make 119,.

min”; [11:51.“ng in“: 7”“ 1114‘“: {1 1.”,2'” thrcc icatcd? “'lult causes chickens to

host»- llui lli(ll.‘1i\\.‘slilllilld‘lngtsl‘;lilt‘lldlllli‘kfll liliri “15"” 70”” “‘3‘“? E- 1‘. G” Rockford,

acts illiiic norvbus. Her nostrils arc‘in- Nil‘h'":Pm‘phas“ a teat plug and 1% her

ilamt-d and 1 am “PM“, sure the 1mm)“, inuu- .“L‘, tho‘so work Violl on cows that

is till-re. \\'hcll driven in (1 wind she acts ““1“ “mi" mel‘m‘” ll”‘:“ scaly 1935‘ the

'liziilly. f." 1.. 31.. loliia. Mich. 'l‘hc dust result 1.1 a small parastto that burrows

and cold air acts as an irritanl 1., ll... unit-critic skill and it is well for you to

mucus membrane. but drug‘s will not lll-lp llll'in' tliili it iS Ll 001118430115 dio‘t‘tlfln

such :1 (u‘lSi‘. By covering the muzzle llip lilo chickcils' ll-g’s lip to the feathers

with it \‘cil and wcariug it on licr wllcn ill iii-l'osclio oil and usc licroscnc freely

on tllc road she will bi: more comfortablc. about ytilll‘ clsil-ki-li house. These appli-

Iildig‘csfiolrvl have a cult that 1,: now cllliolls should l..- made two or lill‘("3

30 months old. llc was in fair ilcsll will-ll illllls :i Wot-k. llll‘ll the lcg‘s should ho

tilrlll-d to pug-lun- last spring”. slum lost scrubbed thoroly with soap and water and

ill-sh. l‘t‘llltllllt‘tl thin all summer and \\';:>‘ u lillll- ‘:l.scliilc applied afterwards.

it‘llullil'l‘sl 1111;,“ 51711135111“ 519‘}: ‘l..1,],‘i“§l;.l.,k.‘,'.'.‘ Poo-1.40111 coitwwiu have a ycl'lrlin :

Uur “k“ lc\'.it iw-‘h _ ‘. _ ,‘*“ ,{;_‘ colt with an extra largo bclly and has .i

. .l l . plisli. Nil toi lillll will. ll. _ ”,1. 1,. _, t1 “7 l’ l’ 'l‘l .3,

nil-dicillc inllt‘d to liclp liinl. l\l,\' lli'lLlelIi‘l‘ 7““ 1“" 1'1“”.“(”l 1', ' " ,’" ”n“

tolls 1110* that ilt' cured his lloi‘scs b,“ giving “5'1“" MH‘hrT‘ ”m. H?" shouhtbe gum] '{

them blood rot and sassalras. i\'llat «ii Wm "f raw “”7”“ 9”] (I'll-V “'1‘.“ U ”1M”

you it(l\'l.\‘c l‘nc it.) (lo? ii. 1.1. \v.. Alli-Linn, rill-mitiil 01' iUl'lH‘llllll" mixvd m it. Him

l\’llt‘il.~—~if yiltll‘ coll has .l 54.....1 ”Hindi“. i'i-od him some \\'t‘li salted bran mashes or

which I presume he has. I‘l-l-ll him plouty \‘va-‘tablcs to lump his bowels loose. Also

of mixed hay. all the cuts. bran and \'r'£:'t‘- flu-ll illorc ,L'l‘nlll and loss bulky i‘oddcl.

tablcs he will cat. Giyc .". tablospooni‘uls (livi- u tclispriolli'ul of powdcrcd biic‘llii

o't' (lllllllil'l".< salts at a close ill i'r-wd tlll'cc inaus- and 21 [1‘11 :pooni‘ul of powdcrml

times a day. Apply \':t>‘t‘llllt‘ to sculr “ml, at 1. dugp lll fowl two or three times

l,“”."-‘" t” 51“” PHAT l :13" ”m'] 11"“ 7‘3““ :1 ll.,_\'_ iiillil tho .<\\’l'llill;_‘.' goes down. then

NJIit'llS ihcil “lisu “11.1 soup and palm. m“, :1 1,,,,,(,s,,,,,,,,,-,,I of around gunlgju,‘

()rchilis ~~chlling ol' Scrolllnls~l ll'lYt‘ ,1 ::liltl~.-pl:olli'lll of 1.411130? 111 1135 “Cd 1113i“?

a. bull that met with all act-illl-llt at whit-l. 1.1.,1 nllirnillg',

time his tcsticles were bruiscll and since L -

tllcn till-y havi- liccll inflamed. .\. -\. ”"7“"7'PP‘ WW7"?— d

lloon. Micll.——-l)i.\'solye 1. lb. sugar ol' lcud

ill 1 gl‘llllillblll of water. add 1 him iilllti c.\'— , .

tract lo lli oilllli and apply to scrotum livl- . - . ' - .3

timcs a (liliV. (live him I d-r. iodide pollls— | fanning the light klnd

511.1111 and _ oz. liiti‘atc )l-tllsh at :i don- .

in {coal lhrt-c times a (1211' for a t‘cw days Of ldlid.

lell chil tllc swclliug‘ continent-cs o l'c— 9.. . , , . . . .

Wilt‘ it will not be necessary to on?“ It“, l.l.t why him on land “01th $100 to

nlcdlcinv‘ very often. His- bowclé 511....” 917-0 an acre, producing but one crop a

be lillipt opcli by flw'lilis; well salted bull. “-llcn you Hi“ gct land of inex-

2:,'1TS“,TJ?EI._.I\”“1”th“I slung, 11”“ “lw'm luluslilllc fcrtility ill the San Antonio

llllclimzitism.—l have :i big that is badly “Willy-V 31 ”“1” $2" to $3” a“ “CM” pro—

(‘I'illl‘lli-ll and dislikes to walk. This pic; (lilcillg two or three crops every year.

is live months old alldi‘cd skinlllll-d milk. loud that costs a third as “10011—31161





 





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I‘HERE are fortunes in





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llsllcll. Address





John B. Carrington,





ditl'on .1061 has had plu-nty oi" oxi-l'l-isla

\Vhy burn up your profits in fuel. in

:i (lay. give him 10 gl's. szllicylzltc ol' soilli

ilyi- livl-c ill a l:llltl of sunshine and com-

(‘Hllllllllt‘ giving Illc iodidc ol' potassium

, _ , that forces you to be idle liclirly lltlll' the

Izllalysls.—l have a sow that appear:

loss corll. more outs and oil local. ltlSU' wool: of (ivory month in thc your?

grains citrate of lilllill «'It ,1 (I‘m. in f... ,1 ill:- vcry host of tlansportlltion. good

:llt‘J oil to trick oncl- a (My 11‘ ll ' '

‘ ‘ «.- cl bon- . , _

prosperity, and pci'icct climatic.

, llloyc

trcr-ly.

1)i"',\‘]"‘l .- ._. . -.- , .. _ . ,

h ‘4“ F”“‘ M-‘ in?» 3‘" :lni‘ri‘)‘1‘lilllllf~l. It is tho best “land book' pub-

llli—‘J 1'. mouthful or two will rush buck-

, Industrial Commissioner.



no norms and could not tall lll.- l-ailsc ol‘.





cili'l " 1 ' i l' L‘..' ‘ 4 — . - . -



l lil'dl lull iii dd ill, \. is ill h,ooll ltlll trope 1111.06 times as big.



if}. P., (‘impciS\'illc. MiclL-“Giyc your lili—i’



u are. iodide Potassium at a llosl- twit-v tun-y clothing. and winter feed for stock,

.‘ i:')|]>‘:7 (:‘tS ‘1': '- ' ‘



at a (103,, Um,“ u an}, and H in, shows I“ .11 l\l\0 ll ltl\(, and buns, uhcn you can



lmpi‘oyclllellt ill two or lill‘t'“ wcclvs. (lis—



‘ i'oi't all tllc yl-al‘ llllll suvc that moni’w“?

am; ,L'lYt‘ tlic sallcylzltc oi soda tlli'ec tilin-s \vm- fun“ in ;. 1.11),] of snow and ice

kl (MN. I



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to ll;i\l- lost the list» oi llcl' llllltl (Illill‘lt’l‘H. . “In” "I H tan 1”.m m “'1‘ I“?

.l. l). 1),, Omen...” Micll.--—[<‘1-1-.~l your SH“: clunzilo 21ml ii!t\'~' somctlling to sell every

:4ch ill-l" soilll- \‘cg'etallli-s. _\l.<o :ivc 101 ~ ». -

drops ”Hm “n.1,“, mm “mm,” and 13 in the San .\lltOlllO coillltiy you haie

tlll'ec tln‘lcs ’a day. Apply equal parts llcie'llllorlloods. schools and churches, soil

aqua zlniliionlu. S\\'i*tfli oil and t-aiilplloi'- aw], and j‘it'l], lll-llllll and happiness,

cl‘s arc inclined to be costive give 2 ozs.

oi cpsolll salts daily until they \\'l‘itc for “Farm Facts" (i'rcc), a book



li'l facts for l'urlill-rs illlcrestcll ill Texas

with. tits or spasms: thl-y appear to be

all right. walk to the trof and ai‘ll-r lak-

Will‘dN. falling over and having 21 ill. 0111‘.

which wc cut illlt‘ll. foililll

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the lll‘zllll. or a g'rl-ul llllllly \‘1‘1',\' smzlll

stomach and boWl-l purasitcs. -\s your

llnsci-d oil and repeat the dose daily until

it horses the piss. (livc 10 .Lll‘S. poi-vamp” Wrm hrmlatlnm. 0m nrofliJmm nrolluuliocmumr'

day: Stilt their i‘ood. . . l ,

Injured Back and Shoulder—I am puz-

mct .with an accident: when plowing she:

fell into a washout and must have in—: _

Jtll't‘d. herself for she - ‘as unable to set

up without help. Now when she travels W ”a t .h

own but rout ippouotlloyuad Grub—Oui-

shoulder peculiarly keeps it road

. ,. . ead 011 to the unto

‘ _ get top prices to: thin-nu, M u-

left and hel shoulder is some sore. Onel “Ila-”W'-

another says the bones '

, of neck are dis—5

placed. She is used occasionally for lightl "L—hm ”'IM' In!!!" lei'lOIIk.





pigs weigh about 60 lbs. give them a tea-

Slloollful of turpentine iii 4 ozs. of raw .

sulphate iron at a dose in feed twice a

' I20 Liberty St, New York.

zlcd to know what is best for a mare that

she goes crookcd: she carries the right airflmvmwmg,conwmmmwmimmmbm

local Vet S‘U‘S not‘hin“r ' ' ' '

. .c , t D is wrong With her- I '

-. Danie meysmunfllsbmh.

york and driving. J.oA. T. Oshtemoi

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injured her back slightly. also shoulder.‘
$1647 (36) '





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MENTION THE MICHIGAN FARMER when

waldo. to adv-moors. .

POTATOES FOR PROFIT.



In all parts of the country where‘po-

tatoes are grown as a farm crop, the

Evans Potato Planter, manufactured by

The > American Seeding-Machine Co.,

Incorporated, Springfield, Ohio, will be

found in the lead. There must be, and

are 00d reasons for it. The Evans does _

the ivork right—«more accurately than is the fruit on their overloaded peach trees.

possible by hand. It has the celebrated lNot only does the practice result 1in

Evans Adjustable Pickers which handle larger, better flavored fruit but it a.so

any size seed One man pr boy can 0p_ brings a much higher price, when put

crate the planter anywhere. It is simple. [lupon the fiflrketthefi fizjfigeagfh 5.12:3;

light draft and has many exclusive fea-‘ md a pro in p e y





tures that go to make up the perfect it not also be profitable for the apple

potato planter It can be furnished with growers especially to the one who raises





either disc or runner furrow openers. It fag-y fruit forlcanspetclzjgl fisgkege deter

has more good time and labor saving de- , easoning a g ’ ~

vices than any other potato planter on mined to find out for ourselves whether i.





the market and is sold under such a broad would pay for us to thin. Hence as soon

. 7 - as the 1909 June drop had ceased, we

and liberal warranty that purchasers run





no risk Send to the manufacturers for went carefullyv over our trees Of the

X L ( C .

. 1 o o 11-

an Evans Potato Planter catalogue. read Duchess and ea thy varieties and Du





all about it and then go to your imple-

ment dealer and insist on seeing the





 





 





 





 





 





For some time, it has been the custom

among the best peach growers to thin





 





 





 





 





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King Tree Before Pruning.





: , r E led off a half or two-thirds of the young

’ ' “7 thFelfign‘ilgfliyLafiSdilli$‘i‘lé‘fi‘i apples, leaving them on the average about



' borers and all each diseases. ~. - 7 . - ,7

Everything otpthe best ‘0', Six inches apart. Of the VV ealtliy one tree

Orchard. Vineyard. Lawn. was left unthinned to compare With the





. d. a l . .

Eggnhsotdggfkgn‘iinegsgsto‘zli thinned trees. About the middle of July,





of Superb Cannas, the queen of , - . .

summer flowering plants. 0am the apples weie again thinned, leavmg

Iogue No.1. 112 pages, Free to one tree as before.



Trees and Shrubs. No.2, 1 As the summer advanced the difference





-' es, Free to buyers of Seeds. Roses, Cannes. - - . , .~

taxi-us,Ficus,Paeonies.Geraniums and Cite?!” in the Size of the fruit on the two tiees

house andsteddlng ladnts itu eltiferal. gdailtgiez; became more and more noticeable. In the

’ iva on so Is no on gu ran . ‘

gfiggtutilealawfifillrnsure you the best atfirst coellt. first week of October the apples were





room. 44 greenhwses' 120° “cres' carefully hand picked into half bushel

THE STORRS 8‘EHAEEEISOOIROCO- baskets and as they were placed in the

Box 7 202' PAIN SVI ’ barrels, were divided into four classes,





"kw—I , A W namely, firsts, seconds, thirds and drops.

23 BUSheIS from Each class from each tree was weighed

One Pound of





   





 





 





   





by itself and measured.



The result of the weighing was as fol-

lows: Total weight of the fruit from the

thinned tree was 591 lbs., of which 402

lbs. graded as NO. 1, 95 lbs. as NO. 2, 9

lbs. as No, 3 and 85 lbs. as drops. The

' whole amount of fruit from the unthinned

ltree weighed 403 lbs., of which 12 lbs.

lwere graded as No. 1, 183 lbs. as No. 2.

l172 lbs. as No. 3, and 86 lbs. as drops.



Measured by volume the No, 1 apples

filled three barrels, of which 8% bushels

came from the thinned tree and one-

fourth bushel from the unthinned tree.

The seconds measured up two bushels,

’of which one-third was from tree No. 1

Tand two-thirds from tree No. 2. Of the

'thirds, which were small and fit only for

‘cider, one-twentieth was from the thinned

[tree and nineteen-twcntieths from the

unthinned tree. Placing the value of the

firsts at $1.00 per bushel and the seconds

at 75 cents per bushel and the thirds

and small drops at 32 cents per cwt., we

get the following values for the crops of.

the two trees:



Tree No. 1 Thinned.





Firsts 8% bu. at $1.00 per bu.......$ 8.75

Seconds ;’ bu. at 750 per ‘bu ....... . 1.50

Thirds 9 lbs. at 32c cwt............ .03

Drops 2 bu. at 750 per bu............ 1.50





Total .......................... . . .$11.78

Tree No. 2 Unthinned.



Firsts 1/4 bu. at $1.00 per bu ..... ...$ .25



Seconds 4 bu. at 75c per bu..... .. 3.00



Thirds 258 lbs. at 320 c'wt........... .82





Total .. ...... $4.07

Subtracting the lower figures from the





 

 

 

 

   





 





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work spent in thinning. These are the





 





 





 





 

   

 





 





 

   





 

   

   

 





postal (or

0‘" {"0 ‘ results obtained from Wealthy trees.

book. i .' The effects upon the fruit of the Duchess

. variety was also very marked, the apples

\ ‘ , ,- {being larger and uniform in size.

‘.. I? c. ‘ . .

Inmates fiféiii ‘ .f, “'hile such results might not be ob-

lo Baubles va“/ " tained under all conditions and with ev-

k "0 Troubles ‘ ' ” jery variety of apple, they still give us an





 





snmnnurs.co..su104P autumnal-l. idea of what might be done if thinning





was practiced by all fruit growers. Mich-





l6.00 er cwt. on - . I

ALFALFA SEED a", c": at Dietz, igan is a great fru1t growing state and

Wyo. Bonk ref. given. TOM ROGERS, Pearl, Mont. ibelieve that, With. good cultivation, spray~





   





 





THE. MICHIGAN FARMER.





ing and thinning, no better apples can

be raised in the United States than in

Michigan.





Emmet 00. G. W. LINDSLEY.





 





PRUNING THE oLo APPLE TREES.





 





While we are beginning to appreciate

the value of the old apple trees, we hesi—

tate often to do what we know we ought

because the tops have grown too far from

the, earth. Every operation, with the

single exception of cultivation, is made

more expensive for this condition. But

the situation is not a hopeless one. Even

these old trees are amenable to the right

kind of treatment. The tops can be brot

down, at least, to some extent. The i1-

lustrations show a King apple tree that

had a tendency to lift its head higher than

was convenient and consistent with the

commercial aims of its owner. To be

sure, it was not as towering as many we

have seen but what has been done for it

can also be done for the extreme cases.

The picture of the tree pruned was taken.

from a, different direction which accounts

for the opposite slant to the trunk. But

from the second illustration the effect of

the work is evident. All those upright

branches, which when decorated with

foliage shade and discourage growth about

the lower portion of the tree. are re-

moved. The sunlight can get to the cen—

ter of the tree and we know that where

the sunlight is conditions are favorable

for a. healthy growth of foliage and wood.



Heavy pruning also provokes the de—

velopment of water spouts. These start

from the large limbs usually, near the

trunk. Their growth is upright and for

that reason are not counted good for

hearing wood. This difficulty has been

overcome by grafting, and by training the

sprouts in a lateral position by tying

weights to them as was noted in the re-

cent article of Mr. Hartman.



By cutting down the top and making

use of these water sprouts where neces-.

sary, it is possible to shape the old trees

so they may be cared for at less expense.

And the work being more attractive be—

cause of the convenience with which it

can be done, is not dreaded so much and

there is less to discourage the owner from

doing it on time, to his own and the

tree’s advantage.





 





SPRAYING SUCCESSFUL IN CHEBOY-

GAN COUNTY.





 





October 1, 1908, I moved from Calhoun

county to Cheboygan county, where I had

purchased 40 acres of land. About 19





acres was cleared and the remainder had >





some beech and maple wood and a good

many raspberry and blackberry bushes.





 





 





 





 





Same Tree Primed (Photo taken from

different direction).





About 4.70 apple trees and a few plum

and pear trees- was set out on the cleared

land.



The former owner had not done much

for the orchard, as I found upon inquiry

that the entire orchard had been seeded

and for about six years had been a June

grass sod.



A part of these trees are old enough to

bear. and in the fall of 1908, the entire

winter crop of apples was 41/2 bushels.



I had never harvested an apple before,

having spent almost my entire life in a

city, but I determined to read everything

I could procure relating to horticulture

and learn all I possibly could before the

spring of 1909. Before spring had arrived

I had determined to spray the trees in a

scientific and up-to-date way. I pur-

chased a spray pump and before the buds

opened made the first application of Bor-

edaux. I may as well state here that as

I had so little cleared land it was neces-

sary for me to crop the orchard. While

I do not believe in double cropping the

land, I realize circumstances alter cases.

I sprayed the orchard again in about a





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THE Experienced Fruit Grower

. is the man who realizes the im-

portance of using only high-class

Sprayers. ‘He' knows that spraying is

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week after the blossoms tell, with Bor-

deaux mixture to which I added Paris

green, in the proportion of one—half lb.

of the Paris green to a barrel of Bor-

deaux. Had intended to spray again about

August 1 for the codling moth but found

it would be impracticable on account of

the injury to the growing crops of corn

and potatoes that would necessarily result

if I had driven down the rows with a

spraying tank.



Last springr I went over the orchard

and pruned wherever I thot ncccssary.

This last fall I found I had gathered 130,

bushcls of first—class apples.

think it pays to spray.



Cheboygan Co. L. M. WHITE.





CONTROLL! NG BLACK KNOT.





I certainly .





 

 

 





 





 





fungus growth, some call it “black knot."





ing the tree?

(lratiot Co.





Black knot is





J. B. HALL.

a very stubborn discuss

quires that the treatment be applied Vii;-

ilantly. It is a fungous disease. Growcrs

who have had much to do with it find that





cut out the affected parts as quickly as

they are seen to be affected and burn

them. “here a. tree has become gcncrally

affected and othcr plum trees are in thw

vicinity it is usually best then to dig up

the whole tree and destmy by lirc. Trecs

kept thoroly spraycd with Bordeaux mi.\‘~

ture during the growing season are not so

easily attacked by the trouble as those not

sprayed since the chemicals destroy the

little spores. Which scatter the disease,

when they fall upon the bark whore the

liquid has been distributed by the spray

pump. This, however, is only preventive,

and is of no account when the trouble is





 





 





 





x'ou know how easy it is to sell fine, large perfect apples—

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ioncc hold of thc trcc for then the spray

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ichcrry tries urc susccptible to the .liscase

and if any such trccs are in the commu-

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get rid of thcm for they will as effectually

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WALNUT TREES FROM SEEDS.





Kindly tell me. thru your valuable pa-

per, how to plant walnuts. I have some

very large ones and _Would like to plant

some of them to grow young trees. Should





they be cracked before planting in the

spring or will they burst of their own

accord?





Kalamazoo Co. SUBSCRIBER.



The methods usually followed

plant the nuts in the fall soon after they

are harvested, and to stratify them. The

former method is easy and requires lcss

attention. The nursery soil must needs

be prepared earlier, however, than whcre

the nuts are lirst stratified. By stratifi-

cation is meant the mixing of nuts with

loose poru’s soil and exposing the whole to

winter weather. \‘l'here few are to be

treated they are usually placed in a box.

A’ layer of sand is put in and then a layer

of nuts, to be followed by another layer of

sand and more nuts until the box is nearly

full or the nuts exhausted. Thus pre-

pared the whole is placed out doors to be

exposed to winter weather. If the propa-

gation is being done on a large scale then

the nuts can be piled up outside, Sand or

good garden soil is here sandwiched hc-

ltween layers of nuts, making a pile and

‘the whole covcrcd with sods or litter. The

purpose of this treatment is to aproximate

nature‘s methods when the nut drops int.)

the forest mulch and there thru the winter

is acted upon by moisture and extremes of

temperature which soften and crack the

shell and permit the embryonic plant to





 





push its way into the outer world. The

seeds thus stratified are planted in the

nursery row the following spring.

‘ THE FARM ORCHARD.

l A well managed apple orchard is a.





lmost valuable asset to any farm property

and affords one of the surest sources of

income. In View of the large number of

neglected orchards in various sections of

the state of Michigan, and taking into

consideration the time and expense in-

volved in bringing a young apple orchard

into bearing, it will perhaps be best to

discuss the best methods of improving the

old orchards, rather than to planting

more trees.



Let us consider in their proper order

the things necessary to correct the effects

of from ten to thirty years of mismanage-

ment and bring these old orchards out of

their dormant .corrdition and get them

started to hearing large crops of first-

class fruit.





Let us do a little plain reasoning. We





 





My plum trees are covered with black‘





How can I get rid of it without dcstroy- ,





to fight and because of its pcrsistcncy re-





 

 

 

 

 





about the only effectual way in which the:

trouble can be kept within control is to‘





 





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would not expect to grow a good crop of

corn, if we planted it on land that had

been planted'to corn for thirty years and

no fertility applied, except, perhaps, a

little stable manure‘in the hill; the hills

being planted two‘ feet apart each way,

and a crop of millet sowed in the space

between the rows. The man that would

practice such methods might well be

committed to an insane asylttm. Yet how

much different is the average farm or-

chard treated, and then men wonder why

their apple orchards fail to produce large

crops of choice fruit, and say the season

is wrong.



The first condition that claims attention

in improving (farm orchards is supplying

the trees with an abundance of available

plant food. The average orchard is fairly

well drained, but many orchards would

take on a new lease of life if the soil

could be thoroly drained to a depth of

from four to five feet. Drain tile will

remove the surplus water and enable the

trees to develop larger root systems and

get at the plant food that has been out

of their reach owing to the water—logged

condition of the soil.



The next thing to consider in getting

available plant food is tillage. There is

poor excuse for men to spend money for

chemical or artificial plant food until they

have made use of that which is abundant

under their feet. I believe in the liberal

use of fertilizers, but not until after we

have made the most of the fertility within

the reach of our labor. I look upon the.

principle, function of tillage as the further

liberation of plant food which exists very

abundantly in nearly all our orchard soils.

A wonderful amount of plant food may

be developed by tillage. \Vith improved

implements and superior skill, we may

get plant food more cheaply than by any

other method.



Again, many lands are so poor that

comparatively little plant food can be de-

veloped by skillful tillage and Some posi-

tive addition of plant food must be made

to the soil. How must this best be pro-

curcd? First, farm manures may be ap-

plied, but farm manurcs are not an cvcnly

balanced plant food, they contain too

much nitrogen for the mineral matter

they contain, and so should be used in

limited quantities, or there will be (I.

marked tendency to stimulate the trees

to grow too much wood. that will be ten-

der and liable to be damaged during the.

winter.



This brings us down

that will aid very largely in the whole

matter and also help in controlling the

moisture conditions and obtaining a larg-

er amount of plant food: The incorporat-

ing of green manure plants with our or-

chard soils. The soil has lost to a large

extent, its humus which is always present

in new Very fortunately indccd, it

is possible to increase the amount of

nitrogen in the soil at the same time we

are, growing green manure plants, for

clovers, peas, vctchcs and other legumes

that have the power of appropriating

nitrogen from the atmosphere and de-

positing it in the soil. are the best adapted

of any green manure plants to supply the

soil with humus. By depending upon these

legume crops for humus and nitrogen. we

are not compcllcd to buy nitrogen (the

most expcnsive clement of plant food) in

a commercial form. This brings us down

to the question of supplying the soil with

an abundance of DiltlSIJllOl‘lC' acid and pot-

ash. Potash will give strong wood. hav—

ing a tendency to make the tree set fruit,





to another thing





soils.





increase the starch in the fruit, and to

a degree, at least, heighten the color of

both fruit and foliage. The phosphorus

will perfect the seed. without which no

tree can bear good fruit. and also enhance

the quality of the fruit. One part of

muriate of potash by weight with two





parts of fine ground raw bone, applied at

the rate of about 400 pounds an acre cv—

ery second or third year, will produce

excellent results. If stable manure is

used as a source of nitrogen it should be

broadcasted and never heapcd around the

trunks of the trees. Frcqucut early cul—

tivation and sowing a cover crop along in

August will check the growth of the trees

and hardtn the wood so that they will go

thru the winter in better condition than

when late cultivation is practiced,

Reducing the Amount of Wood.



The first step in the work of pruning is

to take out all of the trees that seriously

interfere with the growth of others. Trees

cannot produce the best and finest colored

specimens of fruit when they are crowded

for room and where the air and sunlight

can not reach the fruit. The work of

pruning an orchard that has been neg-

lected for many years should be done

gradually and carefully. It is better to





me MicmGAN FARMER-





00‘ YOU GET out [Amine-K? «





take ’about three years and during that

time note the tendency of the trees and

shape them as nearly as possible to meet

our ideals. There can be little done to

correct the form of an old tree in one

year, more than to remove such of the

larger limbs that are parallel to each

other and close together and cutting out

the water sprouts, dead wood and remov-

ing the shaggy bark that harbors insect

pests and fungi. Much of the difficulty in

pruning will be avoided if we decide to

allow the trees to hold their natural form,

rather than to attempt to reshape them to

some particular model.





While, in general it is well to avoid top

grafting, there are few farm orchards

where such work is not necessary. Many

worthless seedlings along the fences and

roadside, may be converted into valuable

sources of income. Many orchards con-

tain quite a number of seedlings that were

set out thru mistake or bot from unre-

liable nurscrymcn or tree agents. Many

such trees may be turned into profitable

fruit growers by grafting. Old neglected

trees that are to be worked over. may

with profit, be given a preparatory prun-

ing a year or two before they are grafted.

'I’nnecessary limbs can be removed before

the grafting better than afterward. After

this the ungrafted limbs may be gradually

removed, the cutting out being made an-

nually to about the extent of the growth

of the cions, or a little more. If the trees

have been given a. good, thoro pruning,

most of the conspicuous limbs may be

grafted and some cions set on the side

branches of the larger limbs, to avoid

the long, ill-shapen limbs. The expe-

rienced grafter will leave enough small

branches, or brush, in the center of the





tree to protect the trunk and larger

limbs. All traces of canker and body

blight, borers and other defective wood





that can always be found in a neglected

apple orchard should be removed.

Aid the Trees in their Fight Against

Pests.

Spraying is very valuable and enables

us to hold insect pests and disease in





check, but the man who neglects tillagefiphvsici'tn’s

disease.





SAMPLE BOTTLE FREE—To prove the wonderful





fertilizing and pruning and invests in a

spraying outiit believing that' every tor-

ture of nature can be corrected and large

crops of fruit secured by spraying is sure

to be a very disappointed, but wiser man.

lit-sides spraying one must cultivate and

fertilize the soil and prune the trees.

It is the weak. poorly nourished tree that

is most susceptible to disease and insect

attacks. The less vigorous the tree the

greater the amount of diease and number

of insects and the more difficult and un-

satisfactory the results from spraying,

After removing all of the old shaggy bark

from the trunks and larger limbs, by

scraping them with a short handled hoe,

follow up the. good work before the buds

swcll, with a thoro spraying of strong

copper sulphate, one pound of the copper

sulphate to about fifty gallons of water,

to destroy moss, lichens and fungi. This

should be followed by seasonal spraying

as the trees and season demand.



\Vithin the past three years manv

growers are. going very cautiously with

their spraying. Many reports come from

various sections that the, fruit has been

russeted by using Bordeaux and a com-

bination of the fungicide and insecticide.

For that reason I would advise that the

spraying mixtures be made no stronger

than is absolutely necessary. There is

so much spraying literature in circulation

that the only safe course for a man to

pursue is to keep in close touch with his

nearest experiment station and to study

the problem thoroly, in all its phases,

before he begins the work in his own or-

chard. A visit to the farm of some expe-

rienced grower, while the actual work of

spraying is going on will give a man a

better idea of the work than he can ob-

tain by reading a short article. upon a

subjcct with which he is not familiar with

the terms the writer is compelled to use.

Spraying is a great thing and much of

the future success of the fruit grower

depends upon the thoroness of spraying.

However, the, most skillful fruit growers

frankly admit that there is much to be

learned concerning spraying and mixing

these fungicides and insecticides. Every

season brings different weather and dif~

ferent conditions and the effectiveness of

the spraying depends largely upon the.

ability of the individual to take advantage

of everything in his favor and to make

the best of the adverse conditions. In

other words, after he has mastered the

scientific phases of the problem, he finds

that results depend largely upon the com-

mon sense he exercises in performing the

work.





New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





Michigan Farmer.





 





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Pain or dull ache in the back is evi-

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Danger Signals.



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Prevalency of Kidney Disease.



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amp-Boot is always kept up to its high standard

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is the title of our 1910 catalogue.





It is a book of 200 pages with 700





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We believe it is the best we have ever issued, and the premier

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In addition, all orderin

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ERG :OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-

QFFm'I‘OON OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.

resident—B. A. Holden. \Vixom.

lP/ice-president—Mrs. ’C, A. Mathews,

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QtSe‘chexlary—eMrs. C. B. Johnson, Meta-

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mOTrreasurer—sHenry T. Ross, Brighton.

- Corresponding Secretary—Clayton Cook,

Owosso. . -



Directors—T; B. Halladay. Norvell; E.

C. Hallows, Almont; A. R. Palmer. {ack-

son; Vim. H. Marks, Fair Haven; (“14.

Wright, Caro; E. W. VVoodrul‘f, blan-

chard.



Address all communications relative to

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The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.

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FARM.MANAQEMENT;





 





Paper read by A. R. Palmer, of Jackson

county, before the State Association of

Farmers’ Clubs. ,



The topic suggested is eminently worthy

of attention. Bad management causes

more failures on the farm than all other

causes put together; in fact, success or

failure on the farm, as elsewhere, depends

entirely on the management.



It has been said that- so many of the

elements with whiclrthe farmer has to

deal are beyond his control: the weather.

the abundance or the lack of rain, the oc~

currence of early or late frosts. or bad

storms, the visitation of insects, of dis-

ease among stock, the circumstances of

good or bad markets; that the farmer’s

calling, unlike others— is the creature of

season and circumstance. This may be

true, in part, and in part only, for a single

season, but for a series of years~the

management tells the story.



As to the details of farm management:

The general plan of general or special

farming and the products to be sought,

so much depends upon the circumstances

in the case, the conditions of fertility,

market, season, size of farm. amount of

labor at command, health and strength of

family. capital involved and at command,

taste and capability of the farmer. that it

is diflicult to do more than formulate

some general principles which may apply

to all cases. .



In the first place the farmer more than

almost any other man must. do things in

advance of the time when they must be

done. He must be. forehanded. not in the

sense of having capital ahead. but of hav-

ing his wOrk done ahead. Needs-must be

seen; in advance and" met, before they

come. else he will often find himself so





crowded with work needing immediate at-





 





tention, that it will be impossible to do

all properly, or when it should be done.

He will be constantly annoyed and his

attention diverted by imperative calls to

attend to this or that which should have

been done long ago. This idea was well

expressed in an article written by Judge

Biggie more than ten years since.



“Above most work, labor on the farm

is subject to 'being anticipated; and above

most work, it has its seasons for crowd-

ing, when some part of it is most certain

to be neglected] If all work is left until

it becomes insistent, then of very neces-

sity much of it will be only half done.

And this is the condition of nine farms

out of ten.”



If we consider a little we can readily

see how true the above statement is. how

much of farm work can be done before

the need of it actually occurs and how

important it is that it should be done.

‘he farmer who does nothing until it must

be done is bound to fall.



Finish What You Have in Hand.





In a little farmer’s account book pub-

lished a long time ago by an eastern

farm journal, appeared the motto: “Finish

what you have in hand." an excellent

motto for the farmer, and for every man.

While in a few cases benefit will be de—

rived from a partially completed task, as

for instance, a. course of study, or a half—

roofed building, more often the half fin-

ished work better never have been begun,_

(as all the energy and labor and material

used is wasted if the work isnot com-

Dleted‘.

and never finished are not rare and they

often remain a. long time as reminders of

the folly of their projectors. The farmer

'is not exempt from . this danger and

m, m careful not to undertake more

than he can well perform; and not to

Wake anything ‘wl‘thout carefully





'just as much





Instances of undertakings begun-





countlng the cast and the value of the

expected results. In this connection let

us ask how many sit down and carefully

figure Out the number of days’ work it will

probably require to properly produce and

care for a proposed crop. and determine

whether they have the needed time, be-

fore beginning the work. But when onCe

begun, then finish at ‘all hazards, else the

labor and effort already expended is par-

tially or wholly lost.



Another occasion to “finish what you

have in hand,” is found with many who

waste time and energy, by flitting rrom

one task to another when there is no real

need. This is not to say that one should

always remain by a particular task until

it is complete. for often this is impossible

because of weather or other conditions,

and often a specially favorable time ap-

pears for the performance of some neede-l

work, and other tasks should be left and

the Opportunity improved. But always

the abandoned work should be returned

to as opportunity offers until it is com<

pleted.



Be On Time.



Another essential to success is being

on time; doing all work in its proper sea-

son or, when it should be done. It would

be difficult to name any one thing that

is the cause of so much loss to farmers

as a whole, as this, much of our work is

done at a. time not just' the best._ It is

work—usually more—but

the results are not so good. Crops are

put in a. little late and the yield is les-

sened, the grass becomes a little too ripe

and the hay is not so good. the fence is

not repaired and the stock get out. In the

case of the potato crop we have seen the

entire labor of preparing the ground and

planting, together with 'the cost of the

seed and the partial cultivation lost. be-

cause the bugs were allowed to have

their way a few days too long.



Timeliness is essential in the care of

stock. It is generally a safe. rule to give

attention at once when needed, for all of

anything else. On too many farms the

stock is neglected during the busy season,

much to their detriment. It is not only

the most profitable way, but humanity de-

mands that constant attention be given to

the comfort and needs of the animals dc~

pendent upon us.



The farmer who succeeds in doing all

work, at the Tight time gives evidence of





possessing a prompt, energetic, decisive

character and can but be much better

satisfied "with himself, than he who is





always driven by his work.

Be There.



Lack pf thoroness is another foe to good

management. “'hilc the saying, “VVhat-v

ever is worth doing at all is worth doing

well,” needs qualifying, it contains much

of truth. Things half done are seldom

satisfactory and often, must be done over

again. Examples of the benefit of thoro

work are occasionally seen when a farm

that has been rented until the crops pro-

duced scarcely pay for the little labor

given them, is taken by a different type

of man and the yields obtained merely by

a different method of doing the work are

a surprise to all. Aside from the financial

loss, the effect on the farmer is bad.

Slipshod and shiftless habits soon pervade

everything he does and there is no sound-

ness in him.



Good management involves a constant

effort to stop the leaks. There are wastes

of tlme, of labor, of material, of manure,

of minor products that can not be secured

when at their best. The loss by each is

considerable, but combined, the total

amounts to no small item.



Finally, constant attention should be

paid to preserving the fertility of the

farm. This should be so well maintained

that there is a reasonable certainty of

profitable returns whenever a crop is put

in. This matter of maintaining the fer-

tility of the soil has been termed

secret of success in farming. Another

authority says that “Doing Work on

Time” is the secret of success.



To restate the various general princi—





the





.ples.appl-ying to farm management that





have been insisted upon:



Forehan-dedness in the sense of having

all work possible done. in advance of its

need.



Finish what you have in hand.



Work done on time, that is,

should be done.



Thoroness.



Leaks stopped.



Fertility maintained.





when it





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Flushing, Mich, Aug. 20. 1906.

Gentlemenz—Nearly six years ago I bot

a watch of you and would say it is a

perfect timekeeper, never hasstopped un—

less it run down, and that is very seldom.

Anyone wishing a good watch. would do

well- to invest with the Michigan Farmer.

Also, the tg‘e'wing‘ machine is first-class.

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Our Motto—“The Farmer is of more





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THE FEBRUARY PROGRAMS.

State Lecturer’s Suggestions for First

Meeting.



\Vhy neighbor does not join the



Grange.





Select reading". “The Credit System."



The Farm 3usiness—l, why accounts

should be kept.



Three—minute sketches of our martyred

president s.



Paper—Services rendered by lilinrmn.



Roll call, responded to by sayings of

Lincoln or memories of his times.





my





THE ETHICAL VALUE OF MUSIC.





(Paper presentrwl at a late meeting of

Kent Co. Pol‘nouu by l-Illytlle M. Loomls).

,If I understand correctly the subject

assigned to mo. 1 um to tell you about

the value of music as an intellectual fac-

tor, Or, in other words. the effect of

music upon us mentally and morally.



Sometimes we see :1 definition like this:

“Music is a repctltion of

sounds pleasing to the Yes. very

true. But is this definition complete?

Might as well say: “liming is taking into

the stomach food whh h is lll-‘aSlUg to the

palate.“ “'0 :1“ know that the prime ob-

ject in eating is not to tickle the palaze





succession m'





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but to :zltisl'v a l-rjciue; um-ll of tho pill,»

Sll'lll body. Now, how many will agree

with me in saving that tlu Dl‘lllll‘ objcct





in listening to music should be culture

and rctivumr-m. instant of amusement. and





simply pleasing the l-urs'.‘





“'c liml that music was dcvclopcd to a

high dcgrcc way back in ancient lignu.

and it is now l‘t‘t‘l);}.‘lllZHd (‘\'el‘.\'\\v'll("l‘(,‘ us

one of (h..- mosl pmcm of civilizlug lu—

llucul-es. “1- know that it is inspiring

and highly pleasing in its immcdizltc ct—





thlukcl's and phllosophct's

consider its lullil‘llllt‘d Him“

minds for all time. lr’llyslclaus have found

it to have a soothing. healing power over

the minis of ill“ insane, so it has been

introduced into many of our asyluuis with

gratifying results. And what a charm

music has for our dumb friends! Notice

the proud chargers in our cavalry. Their

lloot's hardly touch the ground when

umrchlln: to martial music. \\'e often

very ordinary carriage horses whose

whole bodies seem to vibrate with pleas—

ure at the sound of a distant brass band.

We all love music. \Vc can no! llt‘ll’) it.

There is an iunutc (leslrc ulthlu us {01

thlngs harmonious. In litrralurc \vc rec-

ognize the good. bad, -and lullll'fcrcut.

classified as such by virtue of

pondlng effects upon the

May we not have a similar

in music? “\Vhy." someone

can't be bad! How can it be





and mast





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feels





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L‘l)l‘i‘t}§1<

human mind.



clusslliczltiv >11

“music

anything





says,





but good?” A book that :tmu-uls to the

best that is in us and inspircs us toll-l

greater and noblcr things. thluk lu'llci‘

and nobler lhots. is indeed a cowl book.

And we have many of them within the

reach of all. And we have u l-lllss of





music productive of the same good ci'l'ccts

as the best in literature.



Beethoven has been culled 11w Shake-

speare of music. To a trained musician

one of his immortal compositions,

rcctly rendered. means oval-Hy us much

as Macbeth to u lovcr of Slllllicspt‘Lll‘t‘.

Words are not always

conveyance of thot between

Let an inspired musician put his

into the selection he is playing and t‘u:

instrun'lelu will tell a story which will

leave a much deeper impression on the

mind than a story told in words.



Classical music suffers grcut injusticc

at the hands of the ignorant. Sumo look

upon it as u of gymnastic ch-rclse

in which the performer shows g'l'eut speed.

strong muscle. etc. Others think it is





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lllt'

individuals.





1'1eccss:.lry for





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Sill't,





something which ordinary minds can not

grasp. That it is only intended for the

few, Not so! liut good music, like good

poetry, or good art of any sort, is some-

thing the appreciation of which comes

thru culture. You would not expect a





person who never reads anything but tlu

cheapest and most frivolous literature to

appreciate our beloved Emerson. or cven

Longfellow. simple as his poems are.

Certainly not. For there is a great chasm

‘between them which must be bridged.

Then be not s'urpriscd that so few enjoy

the very best in music. For between it.

and the kind we hear in cheap theatres

and places of amusement, is a chasm so

deep and wide as to be almost inconceiv-

able by the human mind. Not that the

music furnished at places of amusement

for their mothers to take a personal in-

is bald; Hardly that. The efleets upon





the mind are neither very uplifting nor





music.





, 992.16%

degrading. They simply please the ear.

“7e all enjoy listening to them occasion-

ally, for "they do not cause us to think.

‘We simply rest and let the pleasing jin--

gle, for it is nothing more, charm us.

This class of music I call indifferent, and

it has a. literary parallel in those novels

which are good pastime but lacking in

educational value. '



Now to return to the very choicest in

Some many think, “Would it be

possible for me, having little or no knowl-

edge of music, to ever enjoy the music

called classical?" To such I should re-

ply, “Most assuredly.” As I stated pre-

viously, it takes culture. But we are all

joint heirs in the possession of culture.

All that is required of us is that we be

willing to put forth the effort to obtain it.





By reading about the. great masters of

music and their compositions. and fro—

quenting concert halls where the latter





are executed. the person without the me-

chanical ability to perform will soon be

able to understand the exquisite beauty

and grandeur of these great works. And

the genuine pleasure and educational ben—

efit derived from it can not be told in

words or measured in coin.



“'e all experience some sort of emotion

upon hearing music. Let a violinist strike

up a. dancing tune. His auditors may

never have attended a dance in their

lives. but. notice how unconsciously they

mark time with their feet. The very na-

ture of the music creates the desire to

mark time, and the composer would have

failed in his task had it not created that

desire. “'0 may listen to another

piocc of nlusic, sosad and lonely are its

strains, that it brings the unbillden tears

In the eyes and makes us sympathize with

all who are lonely and sull, “'hy such an

c-uiolion'? lccuusc the composer asks for

lie lllil'lltlt‘tl just such an

Another piece may checr us.

Why? Because the com—

purl of his own good humor

and jollity into his work and \\'c respond

ill it.



This very briefly illustrates how music

may work upon the emotions and crwll~

tlcslrcs. Now, can you not conceivc

music might possibly work for cvil’.’



Many are forbidden the mull-1.

and if I had my way, i should likri 1-»

invite my friends to a big bonfire coni-

posml of about tiling-tenths of the sn-caiiwl

“ru'..'-tfmp”





fill 1110





svmputliy.

will-cl.





make us smile





C‘KF‘ll





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v. .

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ljooks





compositions. Some may take

offense at sut-h a statement. but show

a person who has had good musical

vantages and ncvcl' aspires ubovc “rus—

llmv." and i will show you a person of

vcl'y lo'.v ideals.



Sometinu-s I am asked the

“\\'hcn should a child reCclve its tlrs:

training in music?” In the cradle (tn-l b '

the mother. Most mothers can sing till-l

they can not make the mistake of sina'iirz'

too often to the little child. It not (mix-

entertains tho child but will bc remem—

lu-l';‘ll with .c'l-uliiuvlt-i in after years wilt-u

grown to manhood or womanhood. Ami

the singing more good than tlu

mother knows. perhaps. for it accustoms

Ihc child Io recognize different tones.

thereby making the music lessons

much easier for pupil, instructor 3%

Well.





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question.





thugs





first

and





cher sing it song to a child which cor.—

tulns a single sentiment of fear. any more

than \vould tcll it a

story before putting it to

I know.

dren arc

instance,





you. horrible

bell. Smnc (ll)

Yet llu-y womb-r why their chl‘w

afraid in the dark. Take. l‘w

this lluc in “Sleep Kcntuckv

llubcz” “Sandman am a comin' to ill:

little coon if mine." \l'hy. that wouli

frighten all the sleep out of the averaflc

child, beside-s laying the foundation l‘l)?‘

ncrvousncss and tour which is so pitiful

children. for it has no natural

place in their being. \l'e can not be too

careful in our choice of songs for th‘

Iltllc folks for they are very easily im-

pressed with the sentiment of them.



’l‘hc condition of the musical atmosphere

of Alllt‘l‘lcll is 100 per cent better nor;

than it was, even twenty years ago, There

was a time when good music was a luv—

ury. Now it is within the reach of all.

Great minds have worked to compile the

best in simple form so that the beginner

may receive the benefit of, and learn to

love, the best in existence.



lVlien choosing a teacher, he sure that

he or she has high ideals, and appreciates

the best, in order to be an inspiration to

the pupil. It takes years of patient study.

hard work. and considerable cash for :1

teacher to become proficient. So good in-

struction can not be obtained for a song.

But poor instruction is always dear at any





ghost





in sec in





price. Encourage the children to do their

best. Work spent on them is not wasted.





Nothing will encourage them more than

terest in their lessons and to study with

them.
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Here is a handsome eight—room This is our leader. _

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Large front porch. Re- anywhere, y anybody,_at any

Because it comes

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Front and rear vestibules. Sec- than any house of its

ond floor, four good sized bed built. It Is 23 ft. Wide by 33 ft.

rooms, bath room, closet In each 3 in. long.

room. Amodern plan. Can be bath, pantry and large front

a minimum cost. porch. A perfect home.





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The Chicago House Wreckin 00. was organized in 1893

for the purpose of dismantling t 9 World's air of Chico. 0,

since which time we have purchased and dismantled all t 9

leading EXDOSlthDS:



At the present time our business consists in the purchase

outright from Sheriffs’ Receivers' and Manufacturers' Sales

of immense stocks of general merchandise and sup lies in-

cluding practically eyery known manufactured artic e. '



_ e have spent. millions of dollars acquainting the public

With our won erful mercantile institution and With the vast

quantities of new merchandise and supplies we have for sale.



Our reatest difliculty has been to impress the fact that

our goo s are not ascend-hand; neither are they wrecked

material. nor anything but first class. high grade'goods. just

the same as you would purchase in any mercantile house in

the land. Oui- name misleads the public into the belief

that the goods that we offer for sale are not brand new.



For these reasons we have concluded that if we could die-

cover a name broad enough and eneral enough to correct

these false impressions. we won] willingll pay the sum of

$5,000 See if you can suggest right name? ddrese your reply ,





 





The best





Business Manager's Office, Dept. RI 4





size ever CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING COMPANY. CHICAGO





 





ooms and





 





SHEATHING and BOXING.





4in., 10 to 16 ft. long, No. 2 roof

sheathing dressed ................. 315-00

6 in. pnd wider, No. 3 white pine ‘1 no

aging ...................... e e e '

6 in., No. 2 sheathing tongue and





grooved....... ..... ........,24-..

FLOORING.-





4in.Clearyellowpine----.....-=.. $24 0.





floor-in. ........... . .............





am.





 





 





 





 





OIIIl MAMMOTH FREE CATALOG





The Greatest Price Maker Ever Produced. A book of 500 pages

profusely illustrated. A demonstration of what the OHIOAGO

HOUSE WREOKING GO. stands for as a bargain center.





It’s sue

a book as every buyer of merchandise must have

in his or her possession. It will save you money

every day you buy goods. It’s a pace maker in

the bargain world. It shOWS what vast lines of

merchandise are secured by us at Sherlfls’, Re-

celvers’ and Manufacturers' Sales. It costs

$1.00 to produce each one of these catalogs.

We send it to you absolutely without charge of any

kind and without any (bligation. It contains a

description of our vast stock of Furnlture, House-

hold Goods, Office Fixtures, etc. Fill in the coupon shown else-

where in this advertisement and tell us what lines of merchan-

dise interest you most and We will furnish you With addit-





 





 





‘onal information concerning the material you need. erte today.





h a set of plans of either of the houses described





$2.00 BUYS COMPLETE

SET OF BLUE PRINTS.





That’s the price for either of the three build-

ing shown in this advertisement. We send vou





above including the necessary specifications

and a list of material. transportation

charges prepaid for the sum of $2.00.. This

is only a depoeit. At this price we Will fur—

nish the blue prints and plans including list of

material for t ie barn illustrated and described

above. This $2.00 that we require is only a

deposit or guarantee of good faith and the

proposition we make you is after you receive

these blue prints, specifications and list of

material and decide to place an orderthh us

for the complete bill of material, we Will credit

you with the $2.00 received, so that no charge

whatever is made for the blue prints. _ If you

decide to return the plans, spec1fications andl

list of material inside of twenty days, we Wil

refund $1.50, thereby making the-total cost to

you for this service only 500, which does not

cover our expense in the matter.





0|Ill FIlEE BOOK OF PLANS





This, undoubtedly, is the handsomest Illustrated book 01 deslgns

ever produced. It is a practical work of art produced by the

best architects. We give it away without obligation of any ldnd

to anyone who intends to build now, or has any future prospects



, . of building a home 0r barn. It contains repro-

ductions of photos and is true to life in every

way. Explains in detail our wonderful building;

offer whereby we propose to sell at a given price

the complete bill of material needed to con—

struct houses, cottages, bungalows, barns, etc.‘

We want every reader of this paper who values

such a book to write us for a copy of it. We are

leaders in our methods and our complete build-

ing proposition is the most enterprismgbuilding

offer ever presented to the public. _ _

elsewhere in this advertisement and we Will send this “Book of

Plans" without any obligation on ourpart.





 





 





 





 





CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO., 35th and Iron Sts.,. CHICAGO





 





You tlll In the coupon shown »





Chicago House Wrecking C0,, Chicago, 111.: come to see it, all pronounce it good and





We had an abundance of lumber to com-





Gentlemen2—I have house No. 6’ about pleie the house.





completed and it is a dandy. A number





(Signed) JAMES LATIMORE.





of persons like it. lumber is O. K., and Chicago House Wrecking Co., Chicago, 111.:





you can look out for orders. I know the





 





contractor, Mi; .

responding with you.





 





Scores of people





 





Meadowbank Farm, —, Mich.

Dear Sirsz—I received carload of lumber

. At present writing can find no





, has been cor-





discrcpancies in the talley. Must say-that

all around here pronounce it “too good for

a_barn.” It is not too good for me and

Will use it. I have to thank you for your

prompt attention to my order and think

it will help you to future business.

. Yours sincerely,

(Signed) THOS. W. WILSCH.





 





Chicago House Wrecking Co., Chicago, 111.;

Ill.





Dear Sirs:-——In regardsto my lumber





which I bought of you, I wish to state that

everything was as represented and reach-~

ed us in good condition.





Very respectfully,

(Signed) J. VETTER-