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VOLUME CLIII. NUMBER NINE

DETROIT, AUGUST 30,1919 ’





CURRENT COMMENT





T required a severe



jolt to bring breeds

. ers of Holstein-Fries-

1" the ian dairy cattle to :1.



Milk Pail realization of the fact



that the great mass of

dairy farmers of America are looking

to them to furnish seed stock capable

of.high uniform production rather

than a few exceptional individuals

with phenomenal seven—day butter-fat

records. Of ’course, a cow capable of

producing an enormous amount of milk

with an abnormal percentage of but-

ter- fat must, of necessity, be a heavy

producer for the year, yet a study or

the milk and butter-tat records of ta-

mous cows indicates that many excel-

lent yearly _producers have failed to

develop exceptional speed for .the

shorter race.



The fifty-pound dairy chw'mhy be a

reality; we do- not desire to belittle

the achievements of honest men who

are in the breeding bfisiness to im-

prove the productive capacity 9f so

valuable an animal as the dairy cow,

but 'so far as practical utility is~con~

corned we doubt very much the value

of such individuals from the stand-

point of improving the dairy herds

of“ the country. In the first place a

few such records have done the breed

as a whole, more harm than good, in-

asmuch as it has created a desire on

the part of wealthy men and speculat-

ors to reach out for such prepotent

blood in order that they might obtain

control of it before men with less cap-

ital could get a stream at it coursing

through the veins of the animals in

their herds.



Not only has the use of the seven-

day record as a basis of selection of

breeding animals retarded the develop-

ment of uniformly high producing

cows, capable of making economical

use of farm-grown foods, but it has

resulted in lowering the type and uni-

formity of the cows used for breeding

purposes. ,Few experienced breeders

will deny that the improvement of the

type of Holstein-Friesian cattle has

failed to keep pace with the sevemday

production records made by a few of

the great producers of the breed; and

rig-ht here we wish to make it plain

that the same line of reasoning applies that abnormally high wage scales and

vfith equal, if not greater force, to cheap living costs cannot be for long

some of the other great breeds of dairy coexistent is generally appreciated by

nettle now clamoring for popular tav- all classes, there is apparently no solu-

01‘. in America.‘ ‘





”work Ambitious breeders of other





' cows of their breeds rather than to at-

tempt to make capital out of the mis-

takes of their follbw breeders.

small breeders and the dairy farmers

of the country demand the real facts

and unless they are promptly furnish-

ed the whole dairy industry is going to

suffer “great injury in the years to

come.

Michigan breeders of Holstein Frie-

sian cattle, although they hate furnish-

‘ed the foundation animals for most or

the famous herds of the country, have

never chased the rainbow of high

seven-day records. As -a class they

have always found it more profitable

' to breed'uniformly high producers than

to sacrifice quality and uniformity of

type for phenomenal production rec-

ords. Even though Michigan breeders

have been severely criticized for al-

lowing men from other states to pur-

chase their best cows and produce phe-

nomenal records from them and their

progeny they can now point with pride

to their numerous thirty-pound cows,

and feel» that they have contributed

more largely to the good of the dairy

industry and the great black-and-white

breed, than those who have allow‘ed

commercial cleverness to dull their

sense of intrinsic value in breeding

cattle.





 





 





 





 





 





 





A Tempest





T is to be hoped

that the appeal for

a .« labor7 truce .11th

conditions " return to





Labor

“divining





Costs



made by President

Wilson in announcing the decision oi!

the Railroad Administration with re-

gard to demand-ed wage increases. will

be heeded by. labor leaders in all lines

of industry. There is no question that

the President has spoken Wisely in the

statement to the effect that in the pre-

vailing industrial unrest we are facing

a situation which is quite likely to at-

fect the happiness and prosperity, and

even the lives of. our people more “sor-

1011st than the war itself. This“ state-

ment may easily' prove prephétic if

there is not a ' general realization

among labor leaders that further ad-

vances of wage scales under present

conditions will tend to aggravate rath-

er than‘ remedy the general unrest by

forcing a further advance in living

costs which otherwise have probably



reached their peak. _

Economists have pointed out the fact

that in the distribution of goods from

the producer to the ultimate consumer

two nomproducers are employed to ev-

ery producer. Obviously the non-pro-

ducer must share in the increased re-

muneration demanded by producers in

any department of productibn, with the

result that the price of the goods pro-

duced must be increased to‘the con-





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any possible further increase in his

wage scale.



_ Nor is this taking into account the

increased difliculty in the normal pro-

duction of food stuffs it wage scales





breeds of dairy ”cattle will do well to"

investigate the reliability of the rec;

.ords made by scene or the famous





The'





a more normil basis





sumer in a degree out or preponion to-





are forced still higher. Until the fact





.1.sz and just recompense as well as,

the fellows who actually did the dirty ' _ ' ,

'lo‘nlxdtion along the lines of the“





Farm Bureaus which are beingfrapidly





developed in 111m of our leading agri- “ache;





cultural m including women, at

the present time. »





the ‘mtii‘lty of the sometime p .

, embargo schemetemduee the. cost of

member of the State

Board of 3,3ch% E0‘





The Rural





School

Problem the efleét that there

would be a shortage

of more than five hundred school teach-

ers in Michigan this year has a direct

and important bearing onjche country





school «problem. Naturally this short»

age will bedelt in country school-dis»;





i éhni





dol

, , cps,

which 03m ’the peoples or goodn-





gather an 3.11ch of





living in «this «country. We can

also appreciate, 111 a. measure, the

necessity of the 01:th or budmess

credit to those countries for needed-

goods not only to the end that their

people may be paved ~fromstarvation,

but that a market for Our surplus pro.-

ducts be maintained and our. own con-

tinned prosperity thus assured.





tr‘icts where small schools with onlyza‘





few pupils in attendance are maintain-

ed, and for this reason small wages

are paid the teachers. The better 'jObs

in city and village schools which pay

better salaries will be firstfilled and





the smaller country schools will take





such teachers as are left or go with-

out. .With the prospect that a very

considerable number of schools will

not be able to find suitable teachers

to start the school year, the only rem-

edy in sight Would be the transporta-

tion’ of pupils to nearby schools where

teachers are. obtainable. Thus eco-

nomic conditions which have made a

shortage in school.,teachers as well as

in the ranks of labor and almost every

Andust'ry, may bring about a desirable

degree of consolidation of rural school

districts along the lines which have

been advocated by many educators

during recent years. , For a number of

years the Michigan law has made the

consolidation of rural schools into

township unit systems feasible and

easy where this has been considered

but the plan has not attained general

favor among country people largely,





tation diificulty. While the necessity

for consolidation because of shortage

of available teachers will be regretta-

ble, yet the experience ~obtained 'in

forced trials of this kind- will go far

to demonstrate the! feasibility of con-

tralized rural schools. and may in the

and prove a blessing in disguise.





HILE the prob?



lem of the high



cost of living has

caused not a little un-

rest‘ in this country,



, it cannot be consider-

ed as a serious prob-lem when coinpan

ed to the plight in which the 'people of

the belligerent countries of war strick-

en Europe find themselves. Present

rates of foreign exchange in our mon-

ey market constitute a true index of

the prices which the peopleor fereign

countries must pay for goods purchas-

ed in this country‘due to the lessened

credit oi.’ foreign countries on" account

of their war expenditures "and‘indus-

trial disorganization. Present quota—

tions of the English pound sterling in

our money market indicates a depreci-

ation of fourteen per cent ’in English





Living Cost

Com-

parieons





currency as compared with when

cellars, while present Quotations of the:





Italian as show (’1‘ degradations! ap-

proximately fifty per cent; the French

franc a depreciation of nearly fifty-





eight per cent. and “amazement: “rank "

eight





'9. depreciation of " per cent.





these figures c6111





tion in sight for the industrial unrest (rates of_ one mob

”in « .





iWe believe thoroughly in the hon- which pervades the country at the pres-1"





so and integrity of President Aitken’ out time. Until;- government ofli‘cials,

the members of the executive labor leaders. and ‘

ammteincmemn Ase lie at largehave grasped"?

lea, and no. rainminfl'» the 1119.1

a judgment upon the supply in

atei Friesien records the '

' be! 111111





e consuming pubg





half





News of the Week





Wednesday, August 20.

ENERAL PERSHING visits Ital-

ian battlefields. —~The lower house



of congress repeals the daylight saving





law by a vote of 223 to 101 over Pres- '





ident Wilson’s veto. *Serious damage

is done French vineyards by a. heat

wave Which reaches 140 degrees .F in

some districts.——The town‘s oi? East

Helena and Monarch, Mont, are threat-

ened by forest'fires.——President Wil-

son‘int‘erprets the League of Nations

covenant to the foreign relations com-

mittee of the United States Senate.—

One man is slain in a riot at the pack-

ing plants strike in Milwaukee. -—-The

attorney-general starts with the exam-

ination of officials of retail grocers

and meat dealers’ associations at Lan-

sing before Judge Weist

Thursday, Augult ‘21..



EXICO asks the United States



to ”withdraw troops Who are pur-

suing the bandits who hold American

aviators for a ransom. *President Wil-

son delays speaking tour to hasten

consideration of the peace treaty 'by

the 'United Etates Senate. eltaiian

troops are moving toward the Hungar-

ian frontier. -——Six persons and fifteen

injured in a head-on collision between





we believe, on account of the transpon‘ two Pere Marquette trains at GraWn,





Michigan —--Gov'ernor Sleeper suggests





that he may call an extra session of '





the legislature to enact the necessary

lawsto toour’b measuring-11 confer-

ence of leaders of the iron and steel

workers is being held at Youngstown

Ohio, to consider the advisability of a

nation- wide strike —-United States Sen—

lte confirms the noxnination of A.

Mitchell Palmer as United States At-





, tomeygonerai.





Friday, August 22.



FOUR Mexican bandits are killed by



American troops in Mexico, while

two American fliers are missing. ———The

examination of witnesses reveals the

practice of wasteful and indirect mar-

keting methods, price fixing agree-

ments among, wholesalers. middlemen

and manufacturers—Quebec 2: greets

the Prince of Wales who lands at the

ancient" capitol of “French Canada'.—‘~

The federal government resumes~ ac-

tive control of sugar prices, fixing elev-





en cents as the cost to consumers-s





Herbert Hoover, head of the Interna-

tional Relief Aesociation declares it

hnperative to displace Archduke Jos~

eph of Hungary to give that nation a

chance to establish popular govern-

ment. e—Three hundred navy officers

resign because the pay for this service

is NO 10W. .

. Saturday, August 23.



'LOWER House or Congress amends



the Lever food control act. to in-

sinus clothing, containers of food,

feed, fertilize“. fuel, oil and imple-

merits died in the duction at nodes-

sities and to pena ize profiteerm; by

ma $5,690 fine or two years’ imp risen-

didn’t. .~—-In' the investigation by. 1Budge





~Weist at Lansing into the retail busi:





tress it fit: learnegfithat retails,

selling can a per cent

Whitetails mess —— espite '





, 14mm Mexico; American

contihne their: he





m ‘

Millie Who held Amer!

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osed *





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the living problem





V1
XTENSIVE drainage work being

' carried on in, St. Clair county at ‘

the present time is attracting ‘ _ ,

state- wide attention because of the a typical “in-need-of-drainage” county.

fact that problems are being met and According to O. E. Robey, drainage

results are being attained which are specialist'at the college, about eighty

of interest and value to the entire per cent of ' the land in the county

state. as well as to St. Clair” county. needs drainage, ‘whilebefore the pres-

Nearly three hundred acres, scattered ent Work was started practically no

over the county in twenty-five-acre under-drainage had been put in in the

tracts On a dozen different farms, are county. In general, St. Clair has a

.. being tile drained in the operation, ‘ ' ’

Which is being handled under the direc-

tiOn of the Extension Division of the

\.,M.ichigan Agricultural College.

Inf Michigan’s general drainage prob-

Nlems are too well known to need any'

special emphasis. It can be safely

stated that in many of_ the counties of

the state there is no other thing which

has reduced the yield of crops more

during the last few years than the

need of tile drainage. Much of the”

"‘ most valuable land of Michigan is pro-

}; _ ducing either no crop at all or only a

small percentage of what it could pro-

”mice were it adequately drained. The

value of drainage has been demenstrat-

. ed by literally hundreds of years of

2» experience and the problem facing the

»~._ drainage men of the state today is not

one of whether or not rainage will

pay, but rather one of finding the best level clay soil, with a quantity of sand,

l - methods and showing that the neces- and is not high above the level of the

‘ csary expense of installation is worth lake. In addition to the above, water

l " “while. I :5 ’7 . and unfavorable seasons had been

Drainage problems may be roughly mining the crops in St. Clair for sev-

divided into two groups: 1. The rec- eral Years.

lamation of swampy areas Fy eiten- For these reasons St. Clair county

sive Wtching systems, usually having was picked ~-out for drainage demon-

an outlet into some stream or lake. stration. work; and Mr. Robey, as the

2. The drainage of wet lands which specialist, was put in charge. “He was

are at present under cultivation. but especially 'well fitted for the task,

which are notn'yiel‘ding as they should; having already spent two years in the

The Work in St. Clair dounty fidea-l ’al-x Nicinity laying out drain systems and

together with” the second type of drain-‘ assisting farmers in purchasing tile

- age. Although the reclamation of and getting the work done. The counb

swampy sections is of great impert- t? farm bureau cooperated in the

shoe, the drainage of wet cultivated work. ' ,

lands seems; from many points of view , Hand Methods The Slow. L .

”to deer an even gr r field, and it is” After looking over the situation Mr.

this phase of the work which is being Robey reached the conclusion that the

,’ taken up in the St. Clair prOjGCt _' idly of hand methods in ditching work

8t. their Problems Typical. had-gone by. The scarcity of labor in

\ In taking up the drainage question general and more especially of expert

‘ in the state; the extensicn men oi the drainage fiber, made it out of the

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By J. "B. 'Hasre/mmz





is that the slowness of the operation

tends to encourage incomplete and

therefore unsatisfactmy systems.



As a result, the decision was reach-

ed to secure a traction» ditcher or

trenching machine, capable of cover-

ing large areas in a single season. The

great drawback in hand drainage work





 





 





Using Team and Board Scraper in Covering the Tile.





next step was to line up the tracts up‘

on which‘the work was to be done,





‘and nearly three hundred acres were





quickly and easily secured. Inasmuch

as the fundamental purpose of the

work was to be a demonstration to





show the results of thorough drainage»





and the machine method of installing

it, the tracts selected were scattered

over the whole county in' twenty—acre

plots. The fields were also selected

along main highways where the results

of the work may be observed, for in-

terest in the drainage is already bring-

ing visitors. from, far and wide.

One Hundred Rods a Day.

Results of the operation are exceed-

ing the expectations of those in charge

The machine has been putting in bet-





.ter than one hundred rods a day,a





speed which is partly accounted foi'by

the fact that the "soil of the vicinity

is suitable for machine work, being





level and free from stones.





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on my twenty-acre tract this year, and

so satisfied that it will bring results

that I am planning on draining forty

acres next year,” said H. A. Shaw, on

whose farm one of the early tracts was

worked.



Soil Benefited by Drainage.





“Tile drainage not only removes. the

water from the surface,” declares Mr.

Robey, “but it also changes the char-

acter of the soil, making it easier to

.work. The drainage is therefore a

great help during dry seasons, as well

as a positive protection during wet

ones. On land that needs drainage it

is useless to try to increase the yield

with fine seed and fertilizer and then

have the crops drowned out.”



Tile Bought COOperatively.



The tile used in the St. Clair work

has been bought cooperatively, at a.

considerable saving. Cooperation of

farmers in this project is effecting a

saving all along the line. It is making

possible the financing of a large ma-

chine with an expert crew, and is as-

suring the lowest possible cost in all

the operation.



Farmers in§ St. Clair county who are

in touch with the present work are

showing strong interest in the future

development of drainage in the county.

The county drain commissioner recent-

ly remarked to Mr. Robey: “Every

time you do any drainage work in a

section of the county I have a new

batch of petitions presented to me for

outlet drainage,” and this seems to re-

flect the general interest in drainage

work. In fact, it bids fair to revolu-

tionize the farming of St. Clair county.



' Extension to Rest of State.



H. H. Musselman, head of the Farm

Mechanics Department at the Michi-

gan Agricultural College, who has gen:

eral supervision of the drainage work,

says that present plans call for an ex-

tension of the work into‘other coun-

ties of the state where drainage is

needed. COOperative undertaking of’

the work by groi’i‘ps of farmers. over

the state will be the means used to

spread the drainage efforts.



Already groups are getting together

in St. Clair county to secure the ser-

vices oi’ ditching machines. One group



(Continued on page 237).
News of the





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New ENGLAND FARMERS TO Jom

NATIONAL FARM BUREAU.





 





T Bellows Falls, Vermont, on. Aug-



ust 20, at the Westminster Club,

the representatives of the various New

England states met. All the states

Were represented except Rhode Island.

The Rhode Island representative did

not receive his notice in time owing to

a mistake in the mailing.



Those present from Vermont were

L. K. Osgood, Rutland, and E. B. Corn-

wall, Middlebury, delegates. Mr. Thos.

Bradlee, Burlington, also attended.

From Massachusetts Mr. E. F. Rich-

ardson, Millis, and Mr. F. W. Burham,

Greenfield, as delegates. Also Mr. R.

W. Redman, Amherst. From New

Hampshire Mr. George A. Hill, Con-

cord, and Mr. George M. Putnam, Con-

toocook. From Maine, Mr. George G.

Young, Turner. From Connecticut,

Mr. C. H. Savage, Stowers,a and Mrs. S.

M. Buckingham, Watertown, as dele-

gates. Also Mr. R. E. Dodge, Stowers.



The meeting was called to order by

Mr. E. B. Cornwall, the New England

representative on the national organi-

zation committee. Mr. Cornwall was

elected chairman of the meeting and

Mr. George G. Young secretary. It was

the unanimous opinion of those pres-

ent that all of the New England States

should join the (National Federation

and that each state should have a rep.

resentative at the national meeting in

November. It was felt by all that this

was a movement of far-reaching im-

portance and that it would strengthen

and broaden the activities of the farm

bureaus, and will be a universal or-

ganization representing all the farm-

ers of the country. A proposed draft

of constitution for the national organ-

ization was formulated and matters of

organization and policy were discussed.





 





THE WESTERN NEW YORK APPLE

PROSPECTS DWINDLE.





 





ROSPECTS of an apple cr0p in the

'~' western New York territory are

steadily dwindling. This is borne out

by the August estimate of the Federal

Bureau of Crop Estimates. The crop

_ estimate for the entire district now

stands at'twenty-one per cent, against

the previous estimate, thirty per cent.

By counties in the territory, Wayne has

twenty-two per cent; Monroe eighteen;

' Orleans and Niagara twenty-five; Wy-

oming, Genesee and Yates and other of

the less important fruit counties here.

about twenty per cent of a full crop

based on the last ten-year average. It

is estimated that the pack will run

from' twenty-fiVe to forty per cent A

grade. Scab is in large degree reSpon-

sible for this poor quality as previous-

ly pointed out. The yield will be about

twenty- -eight‘ per cent of the 1918 crop,

which was seventy- -five per cent of an

average. E. E. R.





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PREVENT SPOILING OF FOOD.





 





WITH the cost of living as high

as it is, permitting good food to

spell in transit and in the hands of





’ ‘ dealers is more noticeably wasteful

thgn ever before, Says the Department “





of Agriculture in a statement made





public recently. Yet a great deal of“





food is constantly lost in that way. In





WWW present as much of flash-M,

.mle. we 13W States Department? _ .

hallucinations!” h’b—z 'y,‘





tion on a commercial scale. The work

already- done includes methods of

candling, cooling, packing and ship-

ping eggs; the pre-cooling of plants,

together with model refrigerator cars,

and methods of killing, dressing, pack-





ing and shipping, to permit small chip- '





pers of dressed chickens and turkeys

to secure the minimum of spoilage;

methods of preventing spoilage in com.

inercially canned tomatoes, catsup,to-

mato pulp, and similar articles; ,im»

proved methods of handling, packing,

and shipping shrimp and sardines and

best methods of shipping fresh fish .to

inland cities. investment of methods

in canning salmon. Experiments are

being conducted, also, with a view to

developing methods of drying fruits

and vegetables that will preserve the

delicate flavor of the original products

and to establish a permanent drying

industry in the United States.





 





SWISS NOW‘ IMPORT LIVE STOCK

PRODUCTS.





 





HERE is a general shortage of all



classes of live stock, meats, and

dairy products in Switzerland with

the“ exception of sheep, which have in-

creased in number since the beginning

of the war.” And thus briefly sum-

ming up recent obsbrvations on the

live stock of that country, George A.

Bell and Turner Wright, representing

the Department of Agriculture in Eu-

rope, reportnumerous other facts not

interest to American live stock pro-

ducers.



The feed situation in Switzerland

has been critical owing to the inability

to obtain oil cake andto the fact that

the government required a larger

amount of land to be plowed and plant-

ed to potato and other crops than in

n01mal times. The cattle consequently

'are thinner in flesh' and milk produc-

tion has been greatly reduced. At the

time of the observations of the depart-

ment men, good milch cows in Switzer-

land were worth from $500 to $800,

nearly four times their price before

the war.



Estimates on the number of cattle

indicate a decrease in cows, but an in-

crease' in yearling heifers compared

with the pro—war period. Before the

war Switzerland imported several thou-





sand cattle from other European coun-y





tries every year. This supply is now

largely unavailable. '



Cattle for breeding purposes cannot

be imported into Switzerland, as the





government regulations will not per-





mit such importations. Furthermore,

the American investigators found no

desire on the part of breeders and

farmers to import breeding stock, as

they believe they. have the best breeds

for their conditions. It will be the





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policy, however, to import animals or

slaughter and meats m larger quanti-

ties than formerly until the Swiss

herds are again restored. In the opin-

ion of the department men, this should

occur within three or four years. ,



From 1911 to 1918 heroes in Switzer-

land declined in number about ten per

cent and good draft horses have been

worth from $500 to $800. The coun-

try districts appear to be very shOrt of

horses, but the situation apparently

causes little concern, since the Swiss

people work a large number of cattle.

Cows and bulls are used as draft ani-

male, as well as oxen. Oxen increased

from about 44,000 to 58, 000 head be-

tween 1916 and 1918. Dogs also are

used to a. considerable extent for haul-

ing light carts.



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JERSEY BREEDERS MEET.





 





ABOUT fifty breeders of Jersey cat-

tle assembled at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. B. W Mattoon, south of Cor-

unna, Shiawassee county, on Friday,

August ,,15 in their first annual picnic.

It was a typical Jersey crown. Farm‘

ers from all parts of the county left

their harvest work to get together in

honor of the Island Breed.



Animals Were brought in from near:

by herds and were closely inspected

and criticized by the different breed-

ers. Mr. H. F. Probert, of Jackson,

Michigan, gave a talk on “Breeding

and Selection," that was appreciated

by everyone piesent- -His talk was all

the more interesting and instructive

because he had a. number of animals

for comparison in bringing out the

points which he wished to illustrate.

Even the older breeders felt that Mr.

Probert had given them something to

take home and think about



There are already approximately

three hundred head of pure- -bred Jer-

sey cattle in the county and a number

of new herds being established and to

these new~breeders the meeting was

an inspir\at10n and a help.



Plans are already being laid for the

winter meeting in Owosso and at this

time stress will undoubtedly be laid on

the selection of the right kind of Jet—

sey sires. An attempt will be made

to have as many sires as possible

brought to this. meeting and in keeping

with the Pure- bred Sire Campaign

which at that time will be in full





swing throughout the country it is ex-





pected that great benefit will come

from themeet-ing’.





 





CONDENSERS CONTROL DAIRY

SITUATION IN WASHINGTON.





 





THAT the condensers of Washing-

ton control the dairy situation now

was the statement made by J. A. Scol-





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lard president of the United”. States

Damian’s“ -_ as a recent

combination picnic here of the dairy-

men, farmcrs’ unions and chamber of

cotnmerce of Lewis county. 7‘ “inie

condensing interests are shaping dairy-

ing in the, wrong way, ” he said. "The

condensers at (fireballs last monthpaid

the dairymen' $2 75 per one hundred

pounds for milk which tested 3.8 and





 





the dalryman pays the freight from.





his farm to the. condenser. It, takes

approximately one hundred pounds of

milk to produce One case of condensed

milk, forty-eight tall cans, and the





price to the jobber last month was '.





$6.75 per case. There is a big dis-





crepancy somewhere, and what the,





dairymen’ s organizations in this sec-

tion propose to do 18 to take out that

discrepancy.



The dairymen of Lewis-Pacific and

adjoining counties are pledging $10

per cow toward the purchase or com

struction of creameries in each of the

milk producing centers, he said, and

it is aimed to have these plants take

all the milk the dairymen produce,

manufacture butter and cheese, stan-

dardize the products under one name

or brand, and market in quantities.

Each plant will also be equipped to use

the skim— —milk in the manufacture of

milk powder and other marketable by-





products thus making use of the whole .





milk.





 





MUST SUBMIT PRICES OF Aclo

PHOSPHATE. .





 





HOLDING that a shortage of acid}





phosphate does not justify the

pnices that are being charged by man-

ufacturers of this fertilizer, the Unit-

ed States Department of Agriculture

has notified phosphate miners and acid





phosphate manufacturers not to ad-‘





vance the present prices of rock phos-

phate or bulk acid phosphate without

submitting the proposed increases, to-

gether with specific data on real and

unavoidable highercosts of production

since June, 1919. The department

considers higher production costs the

only possible justification for the .in-

creases in price since June.



Strike in Florida and car shortages

in Flor

ed to reduce production and shipment.

To meet the shipping situatiOn the de-

partment has urged the Railroad Ad-

ministration to make available suffi-

cient cars for fertilizer deliveries in

the interest of crop production.'



The prices quoted for straight acid





- presphate in bags to dealers of indi





yiduals ordering‘ thirty tons or more

in the spring of 1919 was $24 a tent.

0. b. Baltimore, Philadelphia and Car-

teret. The price asked for the fall

trade is $22. 50 a ton. This obviously

is not a reduction of thirty per cent——

the reduction at which the department

has notified farmers they should be

able to obtain mixed fertilizers in the





1 fall of 11919. On July 80 the depart-g

111cm notified all acid phosphate man’us .

hbturers that in the future they. woma-





be required to base the price of

weight acid phosphate on the acids]





spot of the materials of museums.





“allude. plosamasonablepicdnua





”rotate We. and Mindanao





of manufacturing mined; good;





, and Tennessee have combin- . ._





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. , flampshire saloon man is responsible

,forr much of the development of this

', idea He wanted to know same new

Ways” in which he could utilize milk to

sorve his patrons. W . experimented

and feund quite a number.”



And the one hundred per cent health-

fulness of these drinks can not be

controverted: Milk is the one perfect

icod. ' '- '



Mr. Munn is quite sure that no great





 

 





, ‘77- these, the Nations Dairy Council

v ‘ now conducting 3. mg ‘ign for the es-

. 5% tabhshment of dairy ars‘ throughout

.fie- country, especially in those sec-

. f ‘ if" ”tions‘ that were recently caused to

. .5 . 1 mourn the death of John Barleycorn.

t , ' . That there is a great opportunity for

“ * 'i'fllth‘e establiShment of dairy stands or

‘3‘ dairy bars no one will deny it he has

made a careful survey.





-- ' V President M. D. Munn, of the Na~ eating the business man, and the la-





tional Dairy Council, is fostering this boring man as well, into the use of

‘ 'movenient, and he is strongly of the- . , . _ _, ,





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'1 opinion that dairy bars can be con-

,V_ “ducted successfully The old liquor

‘ . bar where beer is ‘no longer sold, will

‘ ' make a splendid dairy bar where milk

produCts can be served that will be

' better, and even pay better, than beer,

and in-time—‘and not a very long time

at thatwprove more popular than beer.

President Munn says ' “There are

dozens of different drinks that can be

sold in a dairy bar, all of them with

milk as the principal ingredient. Sweet

milk charged with a little carbonated

water to give it a tone makes a this

drink. Milk flavored with chocolate,

cocoa or coffee and shaken sufficiently

to aerate‘it is good:' so is milk flavored

with a little root beer or with sWeet

fruit juices and li‘vened with carbOn-

‘1 ated water. Buttermilk lemonade is

4. - p ’ '. ' one of the best summer drinks we

3 " . have, and buttermilk enlivened with

' charged water is delicious."





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‘ These are just a few suggestions of milk combinations for beverage pur-





‘ t 5 iwhat could be served at such a bar poses. Already the business man is

' Others could be» mentioned, everyone learning that a glass or buttermilk

of which is a delicious, foamy, satisfy- does him more good than a glass of

ing, healthful beverage that has beer eer.

backed clear ed the board. _ - For years liquor has been gradually

Then the dairy' bar could sell tasty' dropping into disrepute. Its friends

1 sandwiches made from cottage cheese, and users consumed less and less 013

cream cheese, neufchatel pimento, it Prohib1tion came because the peo-

~ club, or various kinds of nut or fruit ple who wanted it got t0 be in the

cheeses made to Order. . . majority,

These would appeal to practically It logically appears that an organi-

eVery, mans appetite, and besides be- zation having a concrete selling mes-

, ing highly palatable, they would be ex— sage is going to get results Never

_ $- _. >- . ceptionally nourishing to the body , was there a happier and more logical

‘ - -‘ President Munn Says ‘When We combination between~ product 'and po-

got this idea we knew We Were in, rm. tential demand than there 1s in fine

eat amount of e ucati na r case.

Thirsaloon man coulddnot bf; e; iii The saloonkeeper, after all, is aman

to take’ our Word for it; thatrhp could

make more money so ling- milk Ethan

booze. We are going to try to teach

him two things: The first thing is that

, he has. been doing business heretofore

x p ' ’ on an artificial basis. Nobody W‘ho

‘ * ‘ knows me “would accuse me of being a

— crank prohibitionist But I say it for

.q a fact just the same, that the Saloon . é »

: ‘ ‘ mans business 1 heretofore has b' n.

based pretty much upon the-Wes. '

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his understanding of men and his abil-

ity to cater to them in the way they

like. In the first place, the average

saloon is clean,‘while many a restau-

raht and soda fountain is not. The

waiters in the saloon are courteous

and efficient. The service in the sal-





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, strong position so far as selling some- Such action by the women is mostly





difliculty will be encountered in edu-‘





 





J. Barleycorn and Scrub Sires Belong in the same Resting Place.





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con and the saloon restaurant is built prices still highél, to say nothing of

on an intimate knowledge of what the impairment of child growth and

pleases men. The salo'on man is in a health caused by the lack of milk.





 





 

 





thing to men is concerned. due to lack of knowledge and“ for this



And the profits he will make from lack or knowledge, says Mr. Munn,

selling a glass of buttermilk for ten. those engaged in the dairy industry

cents will make the profits from a ten are ‘mostly to blame. The National

cent glass of beer look sick. Dairy Council is going to try to cor- .



The entire campaign of the National rect this. It is going to appeal to the

Dairy Council-is being planned. on the public to increase the consumption or .

basis that"the dairy industry is not milk. Emphasis will be placed upon

sold to the public and not even sold to the fact that there is no substitute for

those engaged in it to a large extent. milk and its products, and that milk,



The need for encouraging greater butter, cheese,yand ice cream a1e pro-

production of milk is shown by’the' tective foods'indispensable to growth

fact that while the country’s popula— and health. Life is prolonged and

tion increased two per cent during the many diseases avoided by a liberal use

of milk and its pioducts, and human

welfare is consei ved and national pros-

perity promoted by the development

. and conservation of the da’iry‘industry. .



Mr. Munn is enthusiastic over what

can be accomblished in the council.

and he sees a great opportunity in this

direction now that prohibition is an

accomplished fact.



“I am sure,” says Mr. Munn, “that

not only the dairy industry, but the

entire country is going to prosperun-

der prohibition as never before.”





 

 





If we can turn large numbers of

saloons into dairy bars, and it is a cer-

Ttainty we can, it will mean a big

thing in increasing the farmer’s busi-

ness, and in helping business in gen-

eral, besides the increasing of people’s

efficiency as a result of using this

healthful food.



People in general the country over .

am enjoying a period of prosperity.

They have more money at their dis—

posal than ever before and also it ap-

pears that with the agitation for short-

er working hours, there evidently will

come more time for recreation.- Peo- 1 ‘

ple insist 0n amusement and places

where they can spend’their time and

money. With the disappearance of

the saloon there must come some-

thing to take its place.





The dairy bar and the soda water

stand promise to be the ones to take

the place of the saloon. Already the

soda fountain is getting a strong hold

in hotels and other public places. Its

future seems a great one. Its develop;N

ment .has been rapid, and in a year

from‘now one will see great soda par-

lors equipped 011 a scale of elegance

and luxury that will exceed many high-

class cafes and restaurants of today.

These parlors will be equipped also to

cater to the lunch trade. , They will be

great recreation centers that will draw '





they have the best of intentions, but the public, and in these centers 0119

it is only evident that such action will W111 find not alone soda drmks and-





tend to decrease pioduction and make light refreshments and dancmg and '

_ games of various kinds, but he will





find dairy drinks as well, ,served in at- ' ,

tractive ways, highly palatable, and

pleasing to the taste. And dairy sand-

wiches with their variety and palate: .~

bility, will find no minor place among

the eatables, for the public will devel-

op a strong appetite for these nutrl-V

tious foods.





year 1918, the number of dairy cows

increased only about one-half of one

cent. Evidently many farmers

were attracted by the high price paid

for Wheat.



The need for greater consumption of

dairy products is evidenced on every

hand. We see unhealthy children

about us every day, and adults who

are weak and incapable of the most

useful life. “The dairy industry is

more than a business,” President

Munn says. “It is an obligation which

imposes almost sacred duties on those

engaged in,_it. This is so because

child growth depends on the milk of

the" dairy cow. We cannot have elli-

cient men and women without milk

and its products.” ‘



Many cases are at hand Where var-

ious Women’s organizations and con-

sumers in general have threatened to

boycott milk and its products as a

means of reducing prices. Of course,





   

 

 

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

 

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   





 





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Work the mine of your own hem .

Dig deep into the affection of the wife

and. little ones.





 

 





Read to them and listen while.

read. Discuss the world’s _,

tions with them. Precious metal l1

And don’t be too busy to get

acquainted With the neighbor

folks. The man who lives near to _‘

heart of others, lives long. we valid.

happily.
V OGKING forward to the future

food needs of this country’s in-





: ’ment of Agriculture, in cooperation

V. {with the state agricultural colleges-and

V other agencies interested in live stock

improvement, announces a 'national

better- live stock Crusade, to get ac-

tively'into motion on October 1‘under

the slogan of “Better Sires—Better

"Stack.”





The plan is to hasten the replace-.





I'nent of the multitude of scrub domes-

tic animals in the United States with

’ pure-bred or high-grade stock and also

to improve the quality of pure-breds

themselves. It has been eVolved

through long and careful observation

of the live stock industry in this counf

try and after extensiVe consultation

with specialists and breeders.





For many years this country has

domiciled thousands of the finest spec-

imens of live stock in the world, but

in spite of that fact the quality and

productive capacity of the average

farm herd and flock is still low. For

instance, the average dairy cow in the

United States yields only about foul

thousand pounds of milk a year,

' .scarcely two-thirds the average pro;



duction in some European countries,

such as Denmark. The United States

has thousands of cows which have

milk yields of more than twelve thou-

sand pounds—double the Danish aver-

age——but on the other hand it has hun-

dreds of thousands whiCh are kept for

milk and yet yield only a small frac-

tion of. the product of the best cows,

although receiving n‘early as much feed

and care.



The difference in milk yield is due

in large measure to a difference in

breeding, but a herd of low production

can be improved rapidly by the use of



' a pure-bred sire from a family of‘high

(producers.



Among all flames of live stock a.

similar condition exists. Proper breed-

ing of beef animals results in better

and more uniform stocks, having a

greater percentage of desirable cuts Of



- meat and a smaller quantity of bone,

' ofial‘, and inedible parts. Likewise in

swine, sheep, goats and poultry pro-

duction, the kind of parent stock very

largely determines the





President





To the. Members of the Holstein-V





Friesian'ASSOCiationzwl had hoped to





be able to wait until action had' been





taken by the executive committee or

board of directors of the Holstein-

Friesian Association before advising

you of the status of the complaint

against Charles Cole in testing animals

I for Advanced Registry.



This matter came to the attention of

the writer at Brattleboro, Vermont,





, through a conversation with the man





who-has charge of testing for Advanc-

ed Registry in that state. This gen-

tleman advised me that they had re-

ceived information, from a source that

was reliable, that Charles .Cole had at-

V tempted to ‘make a fraudulent record

on'a cow that he owned'and was then

under test in Vermont, through the in-

Joc‘tion of cream into the milk, and

that acting upon that information the

intuite of Vermont had employed assist-

shoe and had sent three men to aid in

Mg 3 rte-test made. The descrip-

“conveyed to the Vermont Station



”bribed Cole as wearing a smock

,. overalls with a rubber bottle can

' 3 cream. underneath the smock





enough to reach the poll

W nag over it milking.





I screasing population, the Depart- “





quality and





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1mg; Wilda than any- one;





market value of the products The

mitigate for improvement now to: be





tigations in genetics, of live Stock (fl)-





serrations in many countries, and a. -





close study of public opinion; In most

live stock regions of the World a grad-

ual evolution toward better live stock

has been taking place for centuries.

The rapidity of these changes has an

important bearing on world commerce

and on the Prosperity of the nationsdn

which improvement'has been greatest.



Individual and community efforts in

many cases have resulted in marked

live stock progress. in small areas.

The Islands of Jersey and Guernsey

are familiar examples of, this sort of

accomplishment, but no'large country

so far has endeavored in an organized

way to improve all its live stock sim-

ultaneously.



Officials of the Bureau of Animal In-

dustry and others who have consider-

ed the problem from every angle are

convinced that it is possible to has-ten

the natural course of live stock evolu-

tion with benefit to the nation. They

are confident also that the live stack

men of the ecuntry are eager to under

take the task.



The means of accomplishing most of

the improvement—which affects about





 





 





fmilk this cow under re- -test with smock

and overalls, and .whenheV started to

milk one of the supervisors Suggested

that he remove the smock. Cole de-

clined to do' that by inéisting 'that‘lt

was not necessary. They watched him

closely and when testing the milk it

tested two percent less and was con-

siderably less in,pounds than had been

the previous milkings. Cole declined

then, for reasons be advanced, to

make any further attempt ‘with the





cow, said that the test wasioff, and,





refused to continue with the. re—test.

The writer then suggested that the

gentlemen conic With him to the board

of directors who werethen in session

at Brattleboro’ and life told the same

story to them. A1: his suggestion the

Dean of the Agricultural College was

asked to come and meet with the di-

rectors. He was advibed by the writ-





er, with the sanction. of the board or was :of,





directors, to go on no make his in

vestigation and the Holstein- Frie'sian





Association would pay. an expense of ‘ 1

it, that it looked as though with the





 

 





information 7' they alfihdyafhdd tit

they would he. helm able “to at “‘1





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‘bull’d

bred gires” _ _ . - . .

Once the use of: pure-bred sires be-

comes moral thi'om‘lfout the country,

the process of. grading up ‘will be rap-





 

 





id. Many experiments and also prac- .. .

so to declare that :all his male breeding





tical exporlonce', when good sires are





used, show that within three genera-l

tions most of the individuals in a scrub.

herd headed by a purebred male rat

.ure the progress of the crusade, and

~‘a-t_ the same time obtain valuable sta-





semble pure-bred animals in appear-

ance. In a few more generations, un-





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kind: of: live;stock he possesses and :11-





animals are pure-bred. From the num-

ber find nature of the blanks rec'efiied

the department wiII be able to meas-





der skillful breeding, the former W «tistitml information which will be made





stock is graded 11p tosuch an ‘extent

that for production of meat and other

animal products, they are" practically

as useful as pure- brads. The chief dif-

ferenoe between a “high—grade” animal

and a pure-bred is in the value for

breeding. Orily the latter can be used

in producing pure— -bred breeding stock.

Moreover only pure— -breds‘ are eligible

to registry. , , 1



The Department —of Agriculture.

through its cooperative state agencies

is preparing to suppl) live stock rais-

era with printed information that tells

in popular language the best animal

breeding "methods and the advantages

to be'derived from their use. In addi-

tion the department is to furnish an





 





Hampshire Hogs Are Rapidly Gaining in Popular Favor.





and complete examination, and report

to the superintendent of the Advanc-

ed Registry and the secretary of the

Holstein-Friesian AssOciation at the

earliest possible moment, that the

board . of, directors or' executive com-

mittee might take further action.



it was felt then that publicity 6r

notice might interfere with getting

any further information. There evi-

dently were rumors afloat in connec-

tion with it and before either secre-

tary or superintendent of Advanced





“Registry could get a report from the





further investigatim of the Vermont

station,- I received a W tame

the cash-men of this We mn-

teethathehudmahbterof





.sreat Importance. halting n it would





be possible for no to meet him in

Cleveland. I went, to Clerfland on

Monday. July 28,





 

 

 

 





,. effective distribution.

- ~fer success depends





,_ Crawtord, and it Was then deemed

' in





public at intervals.





The bettérmbnt of the nation’V s live

Stock is by no means a new idea. The

topic has been discussed at

from public platforms and in the agri-

cultural press for many years. Agri-

Cultural colleges, _breeders' assocla‘

tions, "live stock organizations, bank<

ing and business-interests, livestock

judges and' experts——these and other

forces are responsible chiefly for the

progress already made and the senti-

ment for further development. '





A general coordination of the work,

however, now seems desirable, with a





minimum of red tape and a maximum ‘





’of red blood. So far as the actiVities





of the department in the crusade are ‘





concerned; the Bureau of Animal In-

dustry, in cooperation with the state





“ colleges of agriculture, will be respon-





sible for live stock policies, especially





“ the breeding work and scientific prob-





lems. The States, Relations Service

of the department will work in copper—

ation with the colleges of agriculture

for carrying the plan of action thrbugh





«the extension divisions to every live





stock o'wner who can be reached.

County agents and other field workers

of the department and the colleges Will

be local sources of information and

assistance.



While it is believed that stockmen

of the country naturally lock to agri:

cultural officials to inaugurate a cru-

sade of this kind, the problem primar-

ily is one of adequate production and





accordingly

breeders and live stock owners. f

For several» months the department





(Continued on page ..251) ' 1





itken Exposes Coles Tests





hearing the rumors about the condi-

tion in Vermont and still having full

faith in Charles Cole, with whom he

had made a contract to test for him.

he telegraphed -.Mr Cole to meet. him

in Buffalo and he met Mr. Cole in Buf-

falo. Mr. Cole had With him his broth~'

er-fn-law, Mr. Crawford. ‘



During the converSation Cole admi-

ted to him that he had- been making

some large fraudulent records and

"when Williams showed his astonish-

ment Cole went to considerable length

into the different animals that had

made these recbrds. Now the chain

man of your executive committee and

Etc writer had the minors and partial

reports from the Vermont station, had

a report from Mr. Williams that he

had talked with Mr. Cole When there

were present only Mr Cole Mr. Wil-

harms, and Cole’ 3 brotherundaw, Mr "





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tell you, and I’ve“ got kinder-\used to

. it. Women have to talk about so

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, > By]. LH Brown ..





w.» c;. )





Ndwanything about the septic





'3, tank business?“ .



v.._ ’ "Yes, a little bit. 'I read about"



i:31: inIthe" Michiganeg-Farmer,’ and once



. heard a farmers’ institute lecturer‘tell



, how to-make one. ,But I didn’t get it

all in. my head so I could go at it and



:make one.” ' ' ‘





‘fWell,” ‘continued the first farmer,





. “my Wife" has been at me for quite a

"Spell to put in a water system and

. bathroom. 'And she says it’s no big

, job to put in a'septic tank, and that





if I don’t get at it"bretty soon, she





_will. So what am I going‘ to 'do

. about it?” '





' “Oh, well, maybe she’s just blufling

My woman does it often, I can





“Mine don’t.‘ She ain’t'no blufferl-

She acts, and she’s some actor, too,

when she gets started. And she’s

mostly right about’it. .And that’s why

I’ve got to find out all about this sep-

tic»tank business.” 1,. ~ '





Another neighbor‘ drove up in his





, car at this "mement and noticed the

" 'two farmers talking and gesticulating.‘

~ He handed out a circular to them.





H“G‘ood morning. neighbors! “‘ Here's

anotice of the big St. Joseph dounty

farmers’ observation tour and picnic;





. \It’s under the auspicesof our county ..

farm bureau, and county agricultural“

’ agent, J. M. Wendt, is atthe head'of '

“the‘bi‘g” doings. We ’will drive thrOugh





certain «portions of' the county and vis-

it farrhs where we ’can actually see:





, thingsbeing done in the way of :pro:

gressive and profitableudairying, live“





stock breeding, the Waywto- make..peul-'

try "pay, ‘seeztest‘s‘ in, fertilizers-1 taint.





. ferent soils; seeifihat’s being.‘fdbne?7”§n





a ibis laugh. tarm'm growing ”Throw;





V . .. lookdntoinne' ‘or two modern {farm

house kitchens. and. and. tout‘h'ow,’ "to

» _ make a‘ septic tank tor. Edismsfil'or; the

farm abuse Sewage-“'51 .‘Aiidqdflgthe lien;

ergetic farm, bureau member sped; on

his way to} stir up other farmers.

» " “By gouygimi 1 Did you hear what

he .Said' about septic tanks? .I’mr’goi’n’g'

_ right , in and tell my woman about 'i it;

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about how to put in one 0’ them gol-

darned, tanks, seen? we don’t." And

of! he rushed into the house;

. And that“ is about the way it start-

ed. So many farmers received circu-

lane and heard in .one way and another

about the stunt Mr. ‘Wendt was put-

ting on thathwhen the morning of the

fifteenth of July hove around, there

were farmers and their wives and sons

and daughters in their automobiles,

with baskets full of eating stuff, lined

up in Centreville, enough to make the

longest circus parade you ever saw

this side of kingdom come. ‘

:‘It was a new kind- of farmers" insti-

tuterheld in the good old summer time

when all ‘sorts of things Were doing on

the farms. Instead of listening to some

institute lecturer arOund- a big smile





\in some ball, as We .used to do years





ago, these farmers had a great day

traveling speedily from one township

to another and- saw with their own





eyes the things they had read and





heard about and doubted, like Thomas

of old times way down east.





And there were Several farmers and -‘





«their wives” who found out all about

septic tanks and how to install them.





Other farmers were led straight into ‘





more than one kitchen that day to see

how some modern improvements could

be put in that would save steps and be





wives acted as second lieutenants on

this job. There is nodoubt about St.

Joseph. county having about a score

‘0:- more septic tanks on as many

farms before the old moon has waxed

and waned many times more. And

counts; agent J. M. Wendt , and the

farm bureau will be to blame for: it.





._ This was the third observatiOntour





. of the county by the farm-bureauLAnd.





it was the biggest one of the kind ever

held in Michigan, so far’as we know.

The attendance was double that of last

year. There. were over one hundred

automobiles in line and more than five

hundred people.

The tour proper was, arranged by

Mr."jWendt and Miss Laverne Jones,

who is home, demonstration agent of

"that; ecunty. _ Both were assisted by

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AST Lansing was bathed in sun-

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_ Michigan Holstein-Friesian Breed-

6. ers’ Association, Saturday, .August 23.

- From ten o'clock until noon a Stream

of automobiles from all parts of the.

state continued to pour enthusiastic

black and white breeders and their

niamilies onto the beautiful Michigan

AgricuLtural College campus. .- '



, In spite of the fact that reports of

, certain fraudulent seven-day tests

threaten to give the owners of certain

animals a severe jolt, a. general feeling

'of optimism pervaded the atmosphere;

the majority of the breeders. present,

feeling that while a few breeders and

speculators might suffer from the rev-

elations made by Cabana’s man Cole,

regarding practices in testing certain

cows, the rank and file of Holstein-

Fresian breeders of the country will

eventually profit therefrom and in the

future will think more favorably of

their twenty- -five and thirty-five pound

cows than has been the case during

the past-few years.



The Holstein-Friesian breed of dairy

cattle occupies a position more secure

in the hearts and m'nds of American

farmers than any one man, "especially

a self-confessed fakir, and none of us

have reason to doubt the sincerity of

the efforts of President Aitken and the

members of: the executive committee

of the American Holstein-Friesian As-

sociation to throw out every record

that is in any way clouded with sus-

picion. One thing is sure, ‘the‘ breed-

ers of black-and-white cattle who are

in a position to continue the making

of'credible records will find a profit-

able outlet for all of the surplus ani-

mals they can produce.





Prof. A. C. Anderson, the dairyman’s

big brother, explained how the college

« has come to know and understand the

black-and-white breeders of ;Michigan

through cow-testing work. While we

have heard some unfavorable com~

ments regarding cow-testing work in

other states, Prof. Anderson advised

every breeder to withhold all judgment

before‘h‘earing all sides ‘of the case.



In discussing the cow-testing work

in Michigan, Prof. Anderson said: “We

are willing to stake our reputation up-

on the reliability of the records made

by Michigan breeders. In the'past

eight; years of our work we have dis-





covered on an avérag e ‘of one attempt -





at fraudulent practice a year and I am

glad to assu1e you that none of these

attempted frauds have ever slipped by.

We h'ave at various times examined

men to prove to our entire satisfaction

that they carried no concealed weap-

ons, if you please. We have at all

times used our discretion in making

such things public, realizing that false

practice, or deception, on the part

" of sonic one man should have no ins

fluence in creating suspicion that oth-

er men were attempting or practicing

fraudulent methods. ‘In all instances

‘ we have meted out a just recompense

‘ ‘ such work, and I want to say to

;_ u that I am perfectly Willing to

M back of any records made in





ground. One thing I do want to say,

and that is that I know of two cases

where such practices have been at-

tempted as a result of owners cf'breed-





ing farms offering big inducements to





men who have been conducting their

cow-testing work. The system of of-_

fering bonuses has grown up I know,

but it is all wrong, and I hope that

none of our breeders will offer too

great temptations to the men' who, are

doing their testing work. In the two

cases we have had in Michigan the

men who had'a part in the work have

been put out of the business. Lam

sorry to have brought from the closet

the family skeleton, and now let us

put the skeleton back into the closet

and close the door.”



Hon. J. M. Hackney, owner of Arden

Farms, of Minnesota, congratulated

the people of Michigan upon the Agri-

cultural College and its beautiful cam-

pus. “Men,” said Mr.‘ Hackney, “would





be dead within themselves if they did‘





not get inspiration from such institu-

tions as these. I Well remember the

hard struggle we had in Minnesota, to

get the hard-headed old farmers to un-

derstand the purpose of our work. As

a‘representative of the people of the

state On one of the important agricul-

tural committees of the senate my the-





ory was that we had to get the knowl- _





edge of the instructors at the college

across to our people. I suppose you

have faced the same problem here in

Michigan.



“Some of our old farmers resented

our efforts to put out our ideas through

the young men we sent out from the

college. Our results have been so

great, however, that we now are able

to put this knowledge out into the dif-

ferent parts of the state where it is

doing the most good.



“These picnics are splendid things

and I wish that we might have more

of them, for they help to inspire coun-

try people and give them a much bet-

ter impression of their business. When

you think of these old pioneers do you

not feel like taking off your hat to

them for making it possible for us to





*be here and also the black-and-white





cows. We people in the west look up-

on Mr. Aitken as the Governor Hoard

of the United States So far as the H01-

stein- Friesian breed and the dairy in-

dustry is concerned.





“The Holstein- Friesian Association

has demonstiated its poWer as an or-

ganization during the war and the one

thing for us to do is to strengthen our

organization and put over the prob-

lem of producing more milk and but

ter. Some of us doubt where We stand

after reading the reports of this man

Cole’ 8 work, and listening to Prof. An-

derson, and I thank» God that we have

the men in our Organization who will

sift'this th«ing.to the bottom and kick

out the guilty parties. We shall ex-

punge tram the records any cow under.

suspicion, no matter whom it hits.





Ideal Weal6er and Interestmg Program 182mg Ca: Large Aim-Mame





iook upon him as a broken-down man

as the result of this investigation. I

Want you all to reserve judgment udtil

We can get the real’facts of the case.

“Agriculture is based upon what it

can produce, and show me any farmer

in Michigan who is happy and I will

show you a man who is prosperous. I

believe that thé dairy industry is the

greatest industry of all. It is Cash’ ev-

ery month, it keeps the soil fertile and

while it is hard work it keeps the boys





and girls on the farm. Of our cows it





is the average cows we want to bring

up. [I don’t advocate 1,000 pound- a- year

cows as a basis but I do want to see

you raise your present average from

where it is. A raise of fifty pounds of

butter per cow "per year in Michigan

Would mean an increase of nearly $18,-

000,000 to the income of the‘ farmers of

the state. I don’t want you to all get

pure-bred cows,_but for Heaven’s sake

get a pure-bred sire. , ,Any man can fig-

ure out in his head. the value of a

pure-bred sire. It was the result of

using a pure-bre’d sire that caused me

to break into the game of breeding

registered Holstein cattle. I would be

ashamed if you people in 'Michigan

could not showa higher‘percentage of

pure-bred dairy sires than the people

of the great dairying state of Inflation-

sin, where oniy tWentytwo percent or

the dairy sires are pure-bred.



“When I listened to Cole testify at

Chicago I went home and shook hands

with my twenty-pound cows. Forget

about these forty-pound»; records for

the lower producers are the ideal dairy

cows. Annual records are Sweeping

over the country and they are sure to

replace 'the seven-day ‘records as a

basis for selecting high-class dairy

sires. Seven-day records are neces-

sary for men who can’t afford the long-

er ones, but in selecting sires get

them from ancestry that have good

yearly r‘ecor‘ds.’ There will always be

a good market for good cattle and





there is no end to the market for pure- _





bred Holstein cattle. In all the big

farming communities every farmer is

realizing that he must sooner'or later

intensify his farming and raise dairy

cattle, hogs and small stuff. Foreign

orders are not needed, for we cannot

begin to supply our American demand.

If you can’t find a profitable market

for your whole milk you can sell the

cream and feed the skim-milk to the

hogs.”



Particular interest centered in the

address of President D. _D. Aitken who

spoke asiollows: “These are, strenu-

uous‘ times in this country of ours and

there has never appealed to me the

need of greater economy and Courage

than. now, and I want to ~tell you that

it is a great deal easier for some ‘of'y’osu

than it is forfme. We; areirritabl-‘ei and

nervous and note soul cf us knows

what is coming to us. Same of Our

{peliticians claim- that they can tell us

and wfll tell us, more béf6re election.

Some of them will tell us the packers





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home and said I am going to look. Mam, but? Iast ar I do

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paying $18 :60 on foot. So I wonder if .

it would not be a good thing if we had; '

And {this is-





a few packer-s in Flint.

about the way a lot of this bunk about.

who is to blame fer highprices is pass-~

'Economize





the money. Have courage "and ecen-

omize. We must all realize that the

conditions that exist today never be-

fore existed in this country. The very

atmosphere is impressed with a hazy

unrest and men who are making ”$10





to $12 a day are dissatisfied with their.

You on the farms are nor





condition? , . . ,

stirred up so much by this unrest.





“You people are soOn going to real;





ize that if your boys are going to be

proprietors of their own business they

must be proprietors of a farm, for 'ev-





.ery industry. is being managedvby hir-





ed help. You must also realize the

need of better machinery and better

live stock for you cannot withstand

such tremendous losses as you are

now ' suffering. ‘ '



“A few months ago when ‘the farm-

ers were being paid the 'gbvernmont

price of $2.25 for their wheat, bfan‘and

middlings were s’elling’for tram $27 {to

$35 per‘ton. Wheat is now $2.05 and

bran and, middlings are selling from

$50 to $60. Have any of yourbunko

steerers attempted to remedy this cm-

dition? I have ,heard cost plus until

it gives me the St. Vitus dance and I

want to tell you that if you are keep-

ing scrub coWs ‘you are creating V'a.

greater cost than you are. entitled to

receive compensation for. We have

got-.to demonstrate the efllciency‘ of

the Holstein cow'as a producer so We

will be in a position to keep cost of

production costs Within reason when

we are Called upOn to state our cake.”





 





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By E. L. Vincent .





l W I ‘T a meeting of dairymen held reg, ‘





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:r-tier for. New York counties; 3 ,





dairyman made, the statement that it

costs “twice as much to-‘buy a cow now

“as it did a year or 'two, ago,’ adding.

“you can’t buy a good. cow now for.

less than $150 or $200.” At the same

meeting "another farmer spoke about

the‘high'price' of hay and groundieed,

asserting that he was feeding then,

about the last of July, as heavily” as he

did in the winter,» because 'of the short

' pastures, and concluding, “we can get

$30 a tom for hay. Why not sell off

our cows and market the hay?"

' Now, this smoke from \the dairy

shows where the fire is. ' We have

more than..a rumbling from all parts





of the dairy field; it is a distinct thun- .





. der peal, and it means that if things

go on as they are now going, one of

two things will happen. We must get

higher prices for milk or the cows

must go to the shambles. A young

farmer saidpto me a few days before

the meeting above referred to was

held, “I am going to write a letter to

the Dairymen’s League, .telling them

that we must have a higher price for



. milk. We cannot otherwise keep, our





lutely true. ,



Can higher prices be established at

present? If established can they be

maintained? These are questions that

can be "answered only by future events.

Still another question would naturally

follow: “How Will the conSuming pub-

lic take it if the price of milk is push-

ed still higher? Have we not came to

the limit?” . ~ ,



It is prophesied by some thoughtful

men that we are near to a day when

the consumers will rise up and demand

milk prices that shall 'be within the





r'ange of their ability to pay. ‘ When ‘





they do this and take the distribution,

of milk into their own hands, we shall

see better times both for consumers

and producers. Well for all if this

revolution can be brought about in a

sane and sensible_,way, as I, believe it

can be, by all interests concerned sit-

ting d‘own together and threshing the

' problem out. Then dairy farmers‘will

receive _more for their milk and ~'con-

sumers will" not be compelled to pay

'as much as they do now. What will

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iceman and the gtoéeiiyman, it is, time

to take notice. I know what it means





- to pick parsnips out. of, the . frozen





ground, and I hava participated in pro-

ceedings that were more to my liking.

In that, I was not-alone.» Practically

all products of, the garden and field

can be kept in a simple and inexpem

sive storage, that may be. canStructed

' io'nly the

hardy products have been thus kept

but the occasion demands that every-

thing that can be preserved in storage

be kept. '

There are a few principles of stor-

‘age that must be barns in mind when

planning the storage of any product.

An even, low temperature must be

maintained if possible, ‘the product

must be packed so that air may move

about from place to place and the

amount of moisture must be maintain

ed at a high point. Storage pits or

cellars not provided with ample mois-

ture account for so many shrlveled

and soft potatoes, apples and other

products. The demands for moisture

are not “the same, however, for all pro-

ducts. While potatoes, beets, carrots,

and cabbages keep best where the

moisture is abundant. sweet potatbes,

onions, squashes and pumpkins are at

their best only where the amount of

moisture in the airisi relatively low.

So while the cellar may be suitable

for storing potatoes and the root crops

the attic gives more ideal conditions

for the storage of onions, squashes

and pumpkins.



As in canning, it is impossible to

take prime stored. stuff out of storage

unless prime stuff was .put in. When

the fruits or vegetables are placed un-

der low temperature conditions, the

ripening process is simply delayed and

it is carried on much more slewly from





ples that should .be ripe in another

week if the weather continuesat nine-

ty degrees F. throughout'the‘day. If

these apples are oooledyto‘, a~tempera-

ture of thirty-five to forty degrees, it





' can be readily seen that their matu-

\ rlty will be much belated.

keep the longest, apples 'should berkept





under the same temperature as much

as possible. Accurate records show





. that any storage product decreases in,

value more rapidly if the storage tem-

perature is allowed to change very

much. Even temperatures keep the

ripening checked and moisture in the

air keeps the natural moisture of the





product from evaporating.



,When fruits and vegetables are pack-

ed either in bulk or in containers so

that, the air cannot circulate freely,

there is bound to be trouble. Mois-

ture laden air settles into the pockets

and then the temperature there has 9.





these two..facts, molds, rots and de-

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produce. May it also be said. that

mhny millions of dollars' worth of

stun has also gone to' waste in such

pits. Potatoes and apples for early

spring use or sole-mhy be easily and

safely stored in these field pits. Tur-

n-ips, mamas and beets may be stor-

ed in these pits, but .if they must be

used during the winter, the piles

should not be made too largeso that '

the danger of freezing while'some are

being removed is obviated.



' Properly made, the field pit is a

friend, in disguise- The error often

made is in thinking- that pits for all '

products should be. the same. As 'a

matter of fact, potato pits should be

warmer than the others. It" potatoes

drop below thirty-five degrees in stor-

age, they take on that sweet taste

which is relished by but few in pota-

toes. Hence the pit temperature must

be kept between thirty—five and forty

degrees F. for quality potatoes. Put

the pit on a well drained location, heap

the potatoes on the pile, cover liber-

ally with straw. Then put on six inch-

es of dirt. Now another Jayer of straw

covered with from six to nine inches

of soil completes the potato pit and if

these details are carefully followed out .

most fall potatoes should keep until

spring in good condition.



‘ For the, other root crops and apples;

the second layer of straw does not

matter so much. They can stand tem-

peratures pretty close to the freezing

point. Parsnips should be laid out to

freeze before they are put into the pit.

Vegetable oysters and salsify should -

also be treated in the same way. ‘



Cabbages may be stored in a pit but



I find it some easier to put them into

or remove them from a, trench. My

way is to dig a trench about eighteen

inches deep and a foot wide. Put a

layer of straw in the bottom of the

trench. Leave the roots .and leaves

on the cabbage and put it into the

trench. roots up. \ Then put slayer of ‘

straw in the trench but above the

heads and cover the rest of the pit

with 8011.. Cabbages keep well in this ‘

long. pit and may be easily removed

when needed for the table.



Root cellars are“ very desirable , if

built with a ventilator. The trouble

oftenris that the ventilator already on

has been nullified by having a board

put on top of it. ‘ This shuts oh the

air circulation and causes the stored

materials to ripen more rapidly since

the heat of the root cellar is not ,al-

lowed to escape. Root cellars ought

to be watched carefully and ample

ventilation ‘provided at all times.

Many house cellars aretoo dry for

the storage of root crops, although

these same cellars .do well for onions,

squashes ‘or pumpkins. Moisture is

absolutely essential and must be pro

vided‘ in some Way. Of course, there

can be too much moisture. When it

collects on the potatoes, apples or oth-

er materials, the there is too mrch.

Cellars often sufl r from lack of ven-

tilation and it is a good plan to open

a ventilator 0r 'wlndow from time to

time to let , of! warmed . and foul J gases.



There ‘is scarcely" a ram product

thatpsnnot be suede ,W sic-Md.

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‘it,,is some work to prepare‘ them and

foats are :expensive, so many "poultry-

men’swill find that they can get along

'lv‘ery’rwel‘l byii'using mangels and leav-

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1' supply of cabbages ,if the ‘mangel crop

is short and then feed the cabbages

first and save the mangels until late

[in the winter as they will keep better

than cabbages.



Pumpkins are liked by poultry and

I we find that the crop of pumpkins will

not bring much money on the market

-and they are, a bulky crop to deliver.

.It is much better toteed them in the

"winter to the hens and market them

"in the form of fresh eggs. Boiled

pumpkin mixed with'bran is a health-

ful food and very good for forcing the

.. young stock or keeping the old hens

healthy while confined in the laying

house. ' ,





Clover is one of our. best poultry

‘ feeds. It may be rolled in a.‘ cylinder

of poultry .wire and placed in the house

. where the birds can pick at it. Clover

can be soaked in warm Water to fresh-





en it and then placed in'the, poultry -





house in troughs. A fork of clean clo-

- ver hay thrown on the floor of the

house will keep the birds busy while

. they are confined during the winter or

on stormy tall days. ' - y .



Save all of the cull vegetables for

the. poultry. They can .be boiled and

: ted in the form of a wet mash. Such

feed is so much better than a straight

tgrain ration for iowls that no flock

should be without it. It tones up the

s birds during the winter and helps them»

' to lay eggs.~ Even if the: cost. of eggs





‘ in winter is about the value otjthe ,





L—eggs,‘ the hens have to belied some-_





thing so ‘Why not give them ,all they7





ahead ‘and get paid for it rather_~than





. half‘feed them and receive nothing for ,





what they do get. , . 4





We‘have found that a few feedings





each week of boiled cull potatoes‘iare

relished by the'birds and it helps‘to‘

fréduce the ‘cost of feeding them. At





the present price of potatoes they ‘are'





‘not economical poultry teed but there

are aptito ”be "many yunmarketable culls

' especially after a'dry seastm, and they:

“can be: used to advantageJn‘ the poul-

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'Can' do well to purchase any of the





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I have a fiveecre field on which I can’t





.seem to get clover seed to grow suc-





cessfully. Would you recommend sow-

The soil is a

i gravelly loam, and has been broken up

[four years. I would like to know if I

‘ could sow sweet “clover with fall rye,

or .if it must be sowed in the spring?

Or would it be better to sow the sweet





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In this section, Missaukee county,

sweet clever appears to thrive when

~other clovers fail. On my desk now I

have a letter stating that of thirty-

five acres seeded this spring on one

farm, 'only five acres which was seed-

ed with ‘sweet clover has survived.

This is a gravelly loam soil, unlimed,

but the seed was inoculated. It had





EV , not grown this crop before. The other





thirty acres of medium, mammoth, and

alsike came up'but were not able to





‘iwithstand the dry weather and grass‘





: hoppers. All of the. seedings were

made in oats. The writer of the letter

5 says that he is convinced thatosweet

clover or alfalfa, with their deep roots,

are the best hay crops for this type

of soil. "



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Has yielded 37 bushels average per

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bushels per here. Other varieties to

suit every type of soil. «





Boson Rye

Outyields common Rye 10 to 20 bushels per .

acre. Nice long heads well filledwith hr

kernels. Ordinary yield 30 to 4'0 bushe s.

Clover.TImotIIy. Votch. etc. for fall seed-

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surely advise a trial with sweet clover.

Sow the fall rye "a little lighter than

usual. Lime the soil if convenient,

jbut an application of two hundred

3 pounds of acid phosphate per acre will

,greatly help the rye and make a ivory

noticeable difference with the clover.

Saw the inoculated sweet clover in

‘ the 'spring early and cover by the use

of a barrow. Early spring seeding on

' a firm seed bed, using inoculated seed,

seems to give the most satisfiaétory re-

: sults. The are crop the scoond spring

should be “out early, .before the blos-

soms appear, and it should be cut-high

. enough 'so that two or three live buds

'- are left on the Stubble. This summer

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for seed. With theeasooption of the

manner of cuttingthe first crap, sweet

biennial cloverisrhnndled exactly like

medium clover-i“ It is a. biennial and,

like medium .clow'r, fits nicely into a

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late August or early; September to f7

«avoid the possibility, of extreme heat

' and. drynessy during the [middle of the





summer. - , . . _

A good mixture of grass" ransom!“

manent‘ pasture onthis land would be

timothy. alsike, clover, red top, on

chard grass, and tall meadow oat

grass, and it is always advisable to

seed heavily, fifteento twenty pounds

of seed; enough. to make 'a thick, heavy

sod is considered advisable ratherthan

a less amount. Usually June grassis

present so it will come in of its own

accord in. a Short time, but on- this

muck land it might"be advisable to

add this seed also. _ C. C. L.





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Gan we work out our highway tax,

or must we pay it in cash i—W.‘ H. :R.

Under our present state laws, high-

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as any other taxes. Of course, people





may get a chance to earn part or all -





of- their highway taxes by getting a job

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case may be, if the commissioner is

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WEAK PEKIN DUCKLINGS.





 





I have full-blooded Pekin ducks;

they commenced to lay the middle of

March, seventy-three eggs. in all. As

soon as I had a setting I would set

them. They hatched well, never saw

anything grow as those ducklings d'rd.

Those hatched first are all feathered

out and weigh about three pounds.

The second ones, however, are just

where the feathers are starting, and

they seem weak in the legs, have to

rest every little way, and if one gets

on its back it has to be helped up or

it dies. They weigh from one-half to

one pound each, just a pity to see

them and not know what to do for

them. I have lost fifteen. They have

free range, fresh water, oyster shell,

charcoal. Feed one part bran and two

parts coarse corn meal wet with sweet

skim-milk, feed three times a day.

Please tell me what .ails them and

what to do. for them, and is it anything

that the little chicks will catch, as

they all run “together, only feed in sep-

arate pens. The ducks areIShut up at

night in coops- having screen front

and board floor. The coops~=are clean-

edout once a week and disinfected.

Have five ducks that can hardly walk,

but eat good, seems to .be worse at

morning and night. Do you think the

heat affects ducks?



,Van Buren 'Co. . J. F. B.



An excess of Concentrated food and

a lack of exercise may result in leg

weakness. ”Try a mash containing only

about fifteen per cent of the corn

meal and the remainder bran; Add

plenty of green food, such as clover

or green rye to this mixture and also

ten per cent beef scrap ”and five per

cent ‘ coarse ‘ sand." Only feed the

amount that the birds will clean up in

a short time. Possibly the breeding

stock was more vigordus when the

earlye‘ggs were produced and that is

responsible for the quality of the early

hatched stock. Heat may eflect ducks

but poultrymen’ Seem to find :‘that at?





terducklings are a week .old they will '





stand 'quite ‘a little more heat than the

young chicks; Vertigo or dizziness

may occur during hot weather. It is





   





 

 





 





 





 





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' drainage work that we are ready to p

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assistance. But if it was not of record,





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I have a line fence to build. The

land opposite mine is brush not used.





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The law does not require the owner

of land to fence it if he is not using it,

and if the adjoming partywants to en—





close his land he 'must build the fence.





But the moment the adjoining owner.

starts to use the .land,‘ the man who

built the fence and owns the adjoin-

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,(Continued from page 227).

of ten; men in China township, St.





,, Clair county, has already organized





and is ready for business.

Returns Certain.





“While we do not eXpect the bene- ,





fits from drainage to show immediate-

1y,” says Mr. Robey, “in many cases

two crops will be suflicient to pay for

the cost of installation, and in case of

a wetand unfavorable season one crop

will often be enough to pay for the

entire cost of the drainage. There will

be no better land anywhere than that

in St. Clair, after it is drained.” .

Financial backing for drainage work

is quite readily obtained, for bankers

realize the value. of the work. One





banker In a section of thestate where ' '

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We make this stdtement, not 011 any ; .

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'1" is greater than it ever was before. ..

1 It will pay you to see the Lalley”

dealer at once, and learn why farmers

are buyrng Lalley-Light at the rate of



almost 1000 plants per week.



No farmer, we believe, has ever

considered Lalley-Light a downright

expense. _



' Most of our owners possibly in- 7 f

stalled the Lalley primarily for its

.comforts and conveniences.- '



They figured that these advantages

more than offset the investment.

And so they do.



But these men soon discovered that

electric light was only _ one of the

benefits of Lalley ownership.



_ They had an ample‘supply of elec-



tric power. They turned it to use in

churning and cream separating, fan-

ning out grain, and other light work

about the barns.



Their women used it to sweep with

suction cleaners; to run the washer-

to do the 1roning in less time.





Then the Lalley savings began to





 





 





show. The men could begin the day earlier, and

‘do more after dark, because of the fine light.





in: at 1:

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they used to take.



So the preference for Lalley grew greater and greater,

until now, as we have said, it is expressed in sales of close

to 1000 plants a day.



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It is actually true that the Lalley will begin to save for

you the day you put it in. Therefore you can’t afford not

.to have it. ' W



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without undue delay.





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783 Bellows Avenue Detroit, Michigan





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ECOSTA County Farm Bureau

picnic was recently held at:

Horsehead Lake. And if the large

crowd at this picnic is any indication

of ‘the interest in the farm bureau





work, it would show that the people in _





general are very much alive to the

necessity of the farm bureau organiza-

tion. It was estimated that about nine

hundred people were in attendance.

Jason~Woodman gave a masterly ad-

dress on “The Farmer and Conditions

of Farm Life.”



Ottawa County Farm Bureau picnic,





held at Riverside Park, heir Coopers- .





ville, on August 20, was attended by

about six thousand people. Mr. L. D.

Hagerman is one of the live county

agents of the state. He seems to have

the confidence of the people in this





county, and a great good is being ac-I





complished for agriculture. The farm-

ers of Ottawa county are anxious to

help in perfecting a State Farm Bu-

reau organization, and they say that

this is the thing which must be accom-





plished, and is one of the real needs '





of farming. An interesting talk was

given by Mr. Bau'r on “The Boys and

Girls of Today.” Mr. Colon C. Lillie

explained some of the necessities of

getting behind the farm bureau organ-

ization and helping push same for-

ward to completion. ‘ .



Lapeer county picnic was held at

Lake Nepisning, August 21. This is an

'old established farmers’ picnic, being

the forty-third annual event. The at-

tendance was not as large this year

owing to several attractions in the

county on the same date. However,

about nine hundred people were pres-

ent and the farmers showed real enthu-

siasm over the farm bureau organiza-

tion wor.k L. T. Bishop, county agent

for Lapeer county, is helping to bring

the standard of agriculture in Lapeer

county to a higher level.



A big tractor demonstration was

held at the Wayne county picnic at

Avondale Stock Farm, in ,the forenoon,





lasting until about two o’,clock at





which time the merits of: several types

of tractors were demonstrated to their





advantages. There were about five





thousand people in attendance, and all:





.eeemed gieatly interested in the Farm





Bureau organization in general. 0. 1.

Greg, county agent of Wayne county,

is doing good work among the farmers

of this county. Comfort A. Tyler act-

ed as chairman for the afternoon pro-

‘gram. Frank Sandhammer gave a

talk on County Farm Bureau work. A

very stirring address was given by

Milo Campbell on “The Farmer and

‘Farmers’ Organization.” Mr. Camp—

‘bell is president of the National Dairy-

man’s Association, also of the Federa-

tion of National Farm Organization.

He left many challenging thoughts

with the farm folks at this time.





The secretary in his work in the (lit-‘-

ferent parts of the state, finds that the





farmers are really awakening to the

necessity of an, organization represent-

ing their interests. In the talks given

to the farm bureau picnics he finds





that a great deal of interest is taken“





in-the‘ explanation of the state organi-

zation and its relation to the agricul-

tural conditions. Alsoin meeting with





the individual farmers and talking ov- ,





er. the situation .with them, they all

agree that this is the one thing neces-

ovary, and that they are ready to back





up such an organizatibn when it is put _ .

before them in the right light. They ‘ ,

will get behind Same with both finan— ,1 i:

0131 and moral support. This first trip

”011g the miners of the state by the ‘ ‘

Metalw- of the State Farm Bureau

“ , been very satisfactory and turnish— _

, u‘ch encouragement toward the





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car. It merely established its speed qualities

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After exciting chase twice across That the actors’ strike is still prdgres‘sing merrily in spite of the $500,000 Glenn F. Plumb, author _of the

the ocean, resulting from a mis- sult instituted against them, is shown by this automobile-full and Plumb plan tor the nationaliza-

Daisy Belmote, Edna tlon of the railroads and sharing





take in cablegram transmissio their big sign? Left to right: Frances Garson, ‘

met andwere married at Bay Warcker, Clara Campbell; Olga Sarianoff and Elinore Kingsley. of profits by the employes.





Philippine Scouts’ Team of Expert Riflemen, which came all

the way from our eastern posse sion to compete with.

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Henry Ford’s Partypo‘f Famous :Men at Green Island. Left I a t ' t



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‘U-JSK‘fS’hip Teias passing through the Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal, on»

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Tits way Witht New Pacific Fleet to Western Coast, ~Becau‘se' of l'.

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, 1 Factor—clasped to his breast.

flrelight played upon a face premature-





 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





Already the handful of people at the

Fort had gathered. Indians :left the

stem and inland the -;rest the Factor

and Sergeant Geese set out to meet

the little army of relief. God knows





’what Was in the hearts of the Chief





Factor and Jaspar. Hume when they

shock hands. To the Factors “In the





‘ name of ”the Hudson Bay-1 Company.





Mr. Home." there came ”Byrthe help

of God, air," and 'hei‘polnted to the

sled whereon Vane Lepage lay. A

feeble hand was clasped in the burly

hand of the Footer, and than they fell

into line again, C‘loud-in-the—Sky run—

ning ahead of the dogs. Snow «had

fallen on them, and as they entered

the stockade, men and dogs were white

from head to foot.



The White Guard had come back!





‘ They were met with cries of praise,





broken by an occasional choking sound

from men like Sergeant Geese. Jasper

Hume as simply acknowledged his

welcome as he had done the Godspeed

two months and more ago. He with

the Factor bore the sick man in, and

laid him on his own bed. Then he

came outside, and when they cheered

him again, he said, “We have come

safely through and I am thankful. But

remember at my comrades in this

march deserve your cheers in\ this as

much as I. Without them I could have





. done nothing in the perils that lay be-





tween here and the Barren Grounds."

“In our infirmities and in all our





dangers and necessities,” added Jeff





Hyde, “the luck of the world was in

the book!” .



In another half-hour the White

Guard was at ease, and four of them

were gathered about the great stove

in the store, Cloud-in-the-Sky smoking

placidly, and full of guttural empha-

sis; Late .Carscallen moving his ani-

malelike jaws with a sense of satisfac-

tion; Gaspe Tumours talking in Chi-

nook to‘the Indians, in patois to the

French clerk, and in broken English

to them all; and J eff Hyde exclaiming

on the wonders of the march, the Imi-

Rsmg of Varre Lepage at Manitou Moun-





R's; tam, and of himself and Gaspe (Bot

‘ jours buried in thesnow





CHAPTER VII.





N Jaspar Hume’s house at midnight

Varre Lepage lay asleep with his

wife’s letters—~received through the

The





ly old—a dark disappointed face—a

doomed face, as it seemed to the old

Factor. '



“You knew him, then,” the Factor

"said, after a long silence.



“Yes; I knew him well, years ago,”

replied Jaspar Hume.



Just then the sick man stirred in

his sleep, and said disjointedly, “I’ll

make itrall right to, you,,Jaspar." Then

came a pause and a quicker utterance,

“Rose~—I—.love you—Forgive forgive!”



The Factor rose and turned to- go,

and JaSpar Hume, with a. despairing,

sorrowful gesture, worn: over to the

bed. ~



Again the voice said, “Ten years-—

I have repented ten ye‘ars——My wife—

Don’t, don’ t!—-I dare not speak—Jas-

par forgives me, oh, Rose!”



The Few W Jasper Kane’s

arm. ‘Thie is delirium, ” he said. “fHe

has rover. Maud 2! must nurse him,





, Hume. Poem trust me-nydu under-





mine.“ 7;...

1 3%.}! icon trust you.”

“$89. Im- tell you nothing" ‘





or was left alone with woman who

had wronged him.





Ate Jacques:





was the re- -





The feeling most,

active in his mind was pity, and as he

prepamd a drought from his own stock





of medicines, he thought the past and





the present all over. ' He knew that

however/ much he had suffered, this

man had suffered more. And in this

silent night there was broken down

any slight barrier out might have

stood between Varre m and his

complete compassion. Having aflaeed

himself from the calculation, Justice

became forgiveness.



He moistened the sick man's lips

and bathed his forehead. and roused

him once to. take a deleting powder.

Then he sat down and Wrote to Rose

Image. But he tore the letter up

again and said to the dog: “No.

Jacqhesyl cannot: the Factor must

do it. She needn’t know yet that it

was I with the White Guard who sav-

ed him. It doesn’t make any burden

of gratitude for her, if my name is

kept out ofit. And the Factor must

not mention me, Jacques—not yet.

And when he is well we will go to

Londtm with It, Jacques, and we need

‘not meet her; audit will be all right,

Jacques: all right!”



And the dog seemed to under—

stand; for he went over to the box

that held It; and looked at his master.

And Jasper Hurrie rose and broke the

seal and unlocked the box and opened

it; but‘he heard the sick man moan

and :he closed it again and went over

to the bed. The feeble voice said, “I

must speak—J cannot die so—‘not so—

Jasper. "



Anvaaspar Hume murmured, “God

help—him.” And he moistened the lips

once again, and put a cold cloth on

{the revered head, and then sat down

by the fire again And Varre Lepage

slept. As if. some charm had been in

that “God help him,” the restless hands

grew quiet, the breath became more

regular, and the tortured mind found

a. short peace. With *the old debating

look in his eyes, ,Jaspar Hume eat un-

til the Factor relieved him.



CHAPTER VIII.





BRUARY and March and April

were past and May Was mine.

Varre Lepage had had a. hard



struggle for life, but he had survived.

For weeks every night there was a.

repetition of that first night after the

return: delirious self-condemnation,

entreaty, and love of his wife, and Jas-

par Hume's (name mentioned how and

again in shuddering remorse. With the

help of the Indian who had shared the

sick man’s sufferings in the Barren

Grounds, the Factor and Jasper Hume

nursed him back to life. Between the

two watchers no word had passed af-

ter the first night regarding the sub—

stance of Varre Lepage’ s delirium. But

one evening the Factor was watching

alone, and the repentant man from his

feverish sleep cried out, “Hush, hush;

,don’t

both from him—and the baby died be-

cause of that, God took it—and 3680

did not know! She did not keen?!" '



The Factor rose and walked awoy.

The 'dog. was watching him. He said

“Eon arm Jo. good mas-

ter, Jame—4‘00 mod «(and grout ior

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sat umes imatrue would :die, but twice.

despair .Hume had said, “I demand

your life: you ‘O'We it to your wife—

“to cine—«to God!” ’And he had pulled

“’his heart up to this demand and had





“lived. But what lay before. him? He

: ”saw a ettmy track, and he shuddered.





“The Bar of Justice and Restitution





"raised its cold barriers before him; .





and he was ‘nOt strong.

As he sat there facing his future





"start for Edmonton and «Shavanne on

Monday. -I think it will 436 (quite safe,

and your wife is anxious. ,I shall ac-

companyv'you as far as Edmonton; you

"can then proceed to Shovanne

stages, and so on east in the pleasant

weather. Are you ready to go '2"

' “Yes; I am ready.” ,

' CHAPTER x. .

N a beautiful May evening Varre;

Lepage, Jaspar Hume, and the

White Guard are welcomed at

Fort ’Edmonton by the officer in 'com-

maid of the Mounted 'Police. They

are ' :to enjoy \the hospitality of_ the,

.Fort for a. couple cf. days, before they

pass on. Jaspar Hume is to go back





v cellar, and a number of Indian carrier .

em, for this is a journey of business

too. Gaspe' Toujours and Jeff Hyde:

are to press on ‘with Varre Lepage,.,

Who is now much stronger and better“

One day'fiasses, and on the following

mowing Jaspar Hume gives instruc-

tions to Gaspe Toujours and Jeff Hyde

and makes preparations for his going

back. He is standing in the Barracks

Square, when a horseman rides in and

inquires of a sergeant standing near,‘

if Varre Lepage has arrived at the'

Fort. A few words bring out the fact

that Rose Lepage is nearing the Fort.

from the south, being determined to:

come on from Shovanne to meet her

husband. The trooper thinks she is'

now about eight or ten miles away;-

but is not sure. He had been sent on

ahead the day before, but his horse

having met ~with a slight accident, he

had been delayed. He had seen the"

party, however, a long distance “back-

in the early merning; He must DOW‘

ride away and meet Mrs. Lepage, he

said. ‘He was furnished wit-h a fresh





horse and he left, bearing a message?





to the loyal wife frOm Varre Lepage.





Jaspar ~fill-time decided to leave Fort '

Edmonton at once, and to take all the}



' White Guard back with him; and gav‘e"~

orders to that effect. He entered the5





room where Varre Lepage sat alone,

and said: “Varre Lepage, the time

' has come for us to say goodéby. 'I’ am2

starting at once for Fort Providence.”

But 'the other replied:

wait until my Wife comes. You must.”

(There was pain in his voice. .»

“Imust not.” .

.VarrerLepage braced himself for a

heavy task and said: “Jas-par Hume,

it the time has come to say good-by.

it has also come when We should

speak tOgether for once openly: to Set-1

tle, in so far as can he done, a long

. account. You have not let my wife

know who saved me. That appears

:from her letters. shears the name

got my rescuer. WI mmm told

mt today,

*“When you tell her all?”

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Now Jet it end here—but I sWear it. "

. shall.

, . other shook his head negatively; “I, y,

‘4 would have. let ybu die at Mention: _





he said in fierce tones, as the





Mountain if I had thought you would

dare to. take aWay' your wife’ 8' peace“

your children’s respect.” .

- "I have no‘ch'ildren; our baby died.”

Jaspar Hume again softened; “Can

you not see, Lepage? The thing can-

not be mended ”

touched the bdok that he still carried

in his bosom, and as if his mother had

whispered to him, he continued. "‘I





bury it all, and so must you. You will





begin the world againbold, fr1end—

and so_ shall I. Keep your wife’s love

and' respect.

serve it. ” .



Varre Lepage raised moist eyes to

the other and said “But you will take

back the money I got for that!”





There was a~pause, then Jaspar





times, and conditions as I shall here-

after fix. And you have no child, Le-

page?” he added gently. , ~



“We have no child; it died with ’my

fame.”



Jaspar Hume locked steadily into

the eyes of the man who had wronged

him: “Remember, Varre, you begin

the world again. I am going now. By

the memory Of old days, good~by;’.’ and

he held out his hand. Varre Lepage

took it and rose tremblingly tovhis

feet, and said, ‘fiYou are a good man,

Jaspar Hume. Good-by!”





The Sub-factor turned at the door.

“If it will please you, tell your Wife

that I saved you. Someone will tell

her; perhaps I would rather—~at least

it would be more natural, if you did

it”. He passed 'out into the heat of

sunshine that streamed into the room

and fell across the figure of Varre Le-

page, who sat and said dreamily, “And

begin the world again. ”



Before Jaspar Hume mounted, al~

most immediately after, to join the

White Guard now ready for the jour-

ney back, Jacques spran‘g upon him

and phshed his nose against his mas-

ters heart. And once again, and for

the last time that we shall hear it;

“It’s all right, my

Jacques ” ’



And then they started for the north

again. As they were doing so, a shad-

ow fell across the sunlight that stream-

He looked up.

There was 1a startled .cry of 30y, an

answering exClamatlon 01 love, and

Rose Lepage was locked in her hus-





' band’s arms.





A few moments after and the sweet-

faced woman said: “Who was that

man who rode away to the north as

I came up, Varre?

of someone, but I can’t think who

it is.’





“That was the leader of the White '3

Guard, the man who saved me, my

He paused a moment and then ' _ .

solemnly said, ”That man was Jasper" 1



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Wife.”





Hume!” :

The wife rose to her feet with

spring ‘_‘He saved you!



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man who had cared: for her eleven,





years ago; and who had but now sav-

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repeated softly.





Looking down at her, his brow burn-i





ing with a white heat, Varre Lepage

said, “He is a great man, my wife."





“I am sure he is a good man,” she





added.





ed some strength from Jaspar Home,

for he said almost sternly, “He is a.

great man ” / "



His wife looked up half-startled at

the tone and said, “Yes, dear; he is





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“Yes, upon such terms, a good man—and a great man.





The sunlight still came in through

the open door. The Saskatchewan

flowed swiftly , between its verdant

banks, an eagle went floating away to

the West, robins made vocal a solitary

tree a few yards away, troopers mov-

ed back and forward across the square

and a hen and her chickens came flut-





tering to the threshold, The wife look— '

ed at the yellow brood drawing close .





to their mother, and her ”eyes grew

wistful.

asleep in an English grave. But think-

ing of the words of the captain“ of the

White Guard, Varre Lepag'e said, "We

will begin the .world again, my wife.”



She smiled, and rose to kiss: his

{Orchead as the hens, and chickens

hastened away from the door, and a

clear bugle call sounded in the square.



“Yes, dear,” she said, “we will be-

gin the world again.”





CHAPTER XI.





LEVEN years have gone since

that scene wasenacted atEdmon-

ton, and the scene rises for the

last act of that drama of life which is

connected with the brief history of the

White Guard. ' \

A great gathering is dispersing from

a hall in Piccadilly. It has been drawn

together to do honor to a. man who has

aChieved a. triumph in engineering

science. Ashe steps from ’the' plat-





form to, go he is g1 eeted by a fusila'do -





of cheers. He bows calmly and kind:





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served aspect; he has a rare individu-

ality He receiVes with a quiet cor-

diality the personal congratu ations of

his friends._He remains for some time

in conversation with a. royal Dukewho

takes his arm and with him, 1111813611

into the street. 'ThevDuke is a. mem‘

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But with modesty and honest thanks

_ "the great man declines. He pleads an

engagement.”f He had pleaded an en-

'gag‘ement the day before to a well-

: Mom; society. After his health is

flproposed he makes





a West-end square.

streets he pauses and enters a. build-

ing called “Providence Chambers " His

servant hands him a cablegram. He

passes to his library, and standing be-

fore the fire, opens it. It said. ‘My

Wife and I send congratulations to the

vweat man”



Jaspar Hume stands for a moment

leoking at the fire, and then says sim-

fly, “I wish my poor old Jacques was

here. ’L He then sits down and writes

this letter: , a



“My Dear Friendsz—Your cab‘e‘

gram has made me glad. The day is

over. My last idea was more success-

ful than I even dared to hope, and the

.WOl‘ld has been kind. I went down to

see your boy, Jaspar, at Clifton last

' week. It was the thirteenth, his birth-

day, you know, ten years old, and a

clever, strongaminded little renew, He

is quite contented. As he is my god-

child I again clai med the right of put-

ting a thousand dollars to his (redit

in the bank—I have to speak of dol--

lars to you people living in Canada—

which I have done on his every blith-

day. When he is twenty-om he will

have twenty-one thousand dolla:s—~

quite enough for a start in life. We

get along well together, and I think he

will develop a fine faculty f01 science.

In the summer, as I said. I will bring

him over to you. There is nothing

more to say tonight except that I am

as always,



“Your faithful friend.

JASPAR HUME."





A moment after the letter was finish-

ed the servant entered and announced,

“Mr. Late Carscallen." ,With. a smile

and hearty greeting the great man and

this‘member of the White Gua1d meet.





It was to entertain his old Arctic com- .





rade that Jaspar Hume had decliueJ.

to be entertained by society 01‘, club

A little While after, seated at the ta-

ble, the ex-Sub~factor 'said: “You

found your brother well, CarscaI-len?"



The jaws moved slowly as of old.

“Ay, that, and a grand mlnister,.

Captain.”





‘ ”He wanted you to star in Scotland» J





I suppose?”



"Ay, that, but there’s no place for

me like Foi‘t Providence.”



“Try this pheasant. and 3011 are

finMactor now, Caracallenl"



"There’ 8 two or 1111 Sub tactorwefl

Hyde and myselt. Mr Field is old

and can ’t do much work, and trade is

heavy noW.” 1



“Yes; I hear from the Factor now

and then. And Gaspe lTouJours?”



“He went away three yea-rs ago,'but

he said he'd ‘come back. He never did

though. J eff. Hyde believes he will. He

says to me a hundred times: “Carscala

len, he made. the sign of the cross that

he’d come back from Saint Gabrielle;

and that’s. next to the Book with a

Papist. If he’s alive he’ll come.”



“‘Perhaps he will, Qarscallen.

Cléu‘d-ln-the-Sky?”



~“He’s still there, and comes in and

smokes With Jeff Hyde and me, as he





used to do with you sir; but he duesn’t‘





' obey orders as he did those of the Cap-

tain of the White Guard. ,He said to

me when (1 11211311011 seeStranback,

tell him Cloud- lathe-Sky £0911 Indian

“4*? never forget. How?" ‘





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(Continued from 1111362315





_ the county farm bureau andfl A. A:





Soil experhnents on the farms of E.

D. Fairchi’ld and H. C. Sturgis. One

was a sandy loam and the other prai-

rie. The septic tanks were found on-





farms.

on the first farm. At the Curtiss farm

is a splendidly equipped home. The

kitchen is well supplied with all sorts





‘ of labor-saving devices. running water,





a. well equipped bathroom, etc The

septic tank Was complete and in op-

eration. ,



0n the Albert G. Wad-e farm, one

mile west of White Pigeon, is a fine

herd of pure-bred Holstein cattle and

Poland China and Berkshire sWine. At

the Mark Harrison'farm there were

over seven hundred Brown Leghorn

hens scratching around, performing

their toilet and actively engaged in

Exten-





S the male birds are of greatest

importance in poultry breeding

because of their influence on every

egg, it pays to select thém With car’s"





 

 

 

 





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cookerels in the t lowing man er;





 

 





 





 

 





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Mr. Wendi: Tells Farmers the Rewlt of Oat Experiment.

the Fred Pashby and Charles Curtiss





Jones. also Jason Woodman, of Kala-

mazoo county, gave short talks



one picture sfid'Ws Mr. Levin caught

in the act of intently holding the at-

tention of the audience. No one Went

to sleep whe'n‘he was on deck, even

though it was just after dinner and

quite warm, even in the shade.



The writer took several pictures on

the Woodward Brothers' farm. One

shows the peppermint in cleanly cul-

tivated rows. In another Mr. Wendt is

explaining the various plats of. oats in

the trial tests. A bird’s-eye view'of

the farm shows several hundred acres

of muck well drained and in cultiva-

‘tion to various crops. R. E. Zimmer-

man is superintendent of this farm.





 





 





7A Fine Stand’ of Peppermint ori Woodward Brothers’ farm. .





Selecting Male Birds





Vigor should be emphasized in se-

lecting the male birds for breeding. I

saw a cookerel purchased by a farmer





“.‘laSt-- year because he was said to be





   





bred from bred-today stock. His pedi-

gree was undoubtedly all right but

when the bird arrived he had all the





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ambient. ~_ . -. .7, .V» _

The dualiti-flgthe flock of cockerels

saved for breeding is "greatly influenc-

ed: by the”: skill in milling the broiler

an roaster stock. , Keep the well-

mdrk'ed cockerels that feather early,

grow rapidly, shew vigor and are well

"marked for the‘breed. Market as broil-

ers the slow-feathering birds that are

of! color and show any appearance of

being slightly lacking in physical stam-

ina. Never teel

cockerels that fight the other mem-

bers of' the flock and drive them

around. ”They are apt to be the best

and most vigorous and they display

their “pep” ~ and breeding value by

their pugnacious disposition.

" Mark the Cookerels that show qual-

ity with'leg bands and keep the best

bit them for'sale as breeders or for the

home flock. If. ', they are not marked

some of them may be sold as broilers.





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. :,. "1‘ interVals the question of selling -





_ 7 eggs by weight is brought up and

discussed and then dropped fortutu’re

consideration. In the future will the

farmer sell eggs by'the pound and buy-

ers forget the word dozen as the meas-

ure of eggs? There are arguments for

both sides of the question. '



It seems as if the fairest.method of

selling; eggs is by the pound. One

farmer culls his flock and only incu-

bates eggs from the hens that lay a

large-sized egg. Eventually the eggs





produced on that farm are larger than





the ordinary market run of farm eggs.





On another farm no effort is made "to





hatch the best quality of eggs and

’many small eggs are produced by the

'laying stoék. On the average market

the eggs from both terms are sold by





the dozen and ,if the eggs are fresh

and equal in other respects, they bring

ot' the





the same returns regardless

Weight.





Possibly when eggs are sold by the

pound the restaurant and hotel keep--

. ers in some districts will Wishto buy

small eggs and thus get more eggs far

are

fried it. will'be difficult for a custom-

er to estimate whether they came from



'a pair of large or medium-sized shells.

Even bantam eggs might be preferred

by some buyers because of the large

number of eggs they would receive for

«one pound. However, the large eggs

3 . would still Contain more real value

, tor- the.money and there Would be less

shell in proportion to the edible por-





their money. When two eggs





tiohs. ,





One experiment todetermine the av-

erage weight 'of market eggs has plac«

Then a

dozen. eggs would weigh 22.5 oun'ces

At present the sale of

eggs by the dozen is simplifiedbecause

they can be counted out and placed in

crates more easily than they can be





ed the weight at 1.88 ouncos.





or 1.4 pounds.





Weighed.

Changes

come slowly and





measure . of satisfaction.





 





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of





mean toward the‘





in .marketing ~methods-

it. is difliculti to

change any plan that is giving a fair

In some

stores bananas haye recently been sold

by the pound. However, a buyer'has

been used to buying them by the dos-

won because he likes-to know how, many

he is going to get. ‘ If eggrwere grad-

xodnnd sold by «the domain‘ according to

size and quality. such a method would

~correlilll(fund with selling bananas at a

pprice tram twenty to, torty‘ cents per

awoken» densities; on -. their size and,

‘ *"analitr. meaneeuwumetm has





   





‘ s, .. . sauna

eggs, please.” '_I3frobab_ly, it depends

upon the" attitudeot the producers of

eggs. 'As. long. as: they are satisfied

to sell eggs of all Sizes by the dozen,

the dealers will buy according 4to that

methodsand eggs will continue to ,beer

sold by “the dozen and not by the.

pound. .





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Your poundcake weighs almost a ton.

It’s just like lead, and mighty tough,

You surely didn't pound enough.

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And stack of pancakes then with pride

She brought to him and one he tried,

Then whispered, “Tell me truly, Nan,

Is this the pancake or the pan?”

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Some doughnuts then she did prepare



And served them with a haughty air.



He took abite and cried “rny1uck!”



Why .did you leave them in the

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be .free—efreg as water.



At the conclusion of the sermon he

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W!" 5 PM? '1'
. NVESTIGATIONS are the fashion

I just now. Every paperyou take

up tells of some oflicial, suddenly

filled with zeal, who is starting an in-

'vestigation to find out who is to blame

for the present high cost of living.

iCongressman Murdock has asked for

'a half million dollars to lower prices

. ,(and raise taxes), and a general hue

and cry, reminding one somewhat of.

"an early English description of a fox

hunt, is under way. Meantime the rise

1 in prices goes merrily ‘on, the cost to

the consumer of several articles hav-

ing been raised since investigations

began.



But investigations being the rule I

haVe been wondering if it would not

be _a .good thing fer each of us to do

a little individual investigation. Not

of our neighbors, but good, old-fashion-

ed self—examination. To what degree

are we personally responsible for the





chaotic condition which exists in the

world today? Of course, it is popular

to blame it on the Kaiser, he started

the war. But I’ve an idea that he

couldn’t have done it without a great

deal of help from the world at large.

We laid the mine, he simply applied

the match that started it ofi. '

The German idea of the superman

was pretty popular everywhere before

the war, as I recall it. Our reading

was saturated with it, man’s ability to

take care of himself without help from

a Supreme Being. The teachings of

German philosophers were studied by

a great many far more religiously

than was the Bible, and women whose

mothers followed St. Paul, glibly quot-

ed you pages from Nietzsche. I’ve an





‘ ' Canning Left-1..





IXED vegetables are attractive

M and economical in salads, ome-

lets, escalloped dishes and to

use as garnishes for meat dishes. If

the small quantities left from packing

the different vegetables are placed

in one can, many desirable combina-

tions can be made. A good combina-

, tion during the early summer is young

= carrots, peas, string beans and young

onions. A mixture which the fall gar-

den might furnish is peppers, celery,

onions and small lima beans. Do not

-use beets in such combinations, be-

cause they will discolor the mixture.





Corn seems .to give the average

.1 home canner more trouble than any

other product. It is especially import~

ant, therefore, that extreme care be

,used and that directions be carefully

followed. Much depends upon the age

and condition of the corn. Select the

fresh, tender, juicy corn which has

not reached the starchy stage. A little

experience in selecting the ear and the

ability to recognize corn that is just

' between the milky and dough stage

are important.



Gather lima beans for canning when

the beans are in prime condition for

. the table. The sooner the beans are

.;.canned after picking, the better the

product. Blanch for three -to eight

minutes in live steam or boiling water.

' Very large lima beans are often can-

_ ned with corn for succotash, where

.\‘ corn and beans mature at "the same

time.





Select small, tender wax or green.





. beans for canning purposes. Beans

Tit-Which have grown within the pod to

.,_.any size are-difi‘icult to can and the

‘ resulting product is not as satisfactory

as one from younger beans. The soon-

er the beans are in the jar after pick-

,ing, the better the flavor, and the more

' certain they are to keep. Wash, string





 

 

 

   

 

   

   

 

   

   





m ‘y be canned whole or cut in short

. lengths. Those cut diagonally are at-

* ive in appearance.





and cut off the ends of the beans. They





L the vegetables are prepared 3°?"





rubber. Process in water-bath canner

either 120 minutes one day or one hour

on three successive days, or thirty-five

minutes in steam-pressure cooker. un-

der fifteen pounds pressure.



Corn, Tomatoes and String Beans.



A com, tomato and string bean com-

bination is made by using one part of

corn, one part of green string beans

and three parts of tomatoes. The corn

is blanched, dipped in cold water and

cut from the cob. The string beans





Let’ s all Do {a Little

Investigating





idea that the men and women who for

soak [the Godot their fathers for the





teachings of heathen philosophers will





not be held free from responsibility

when the real, day of reckoning comes.

We were drunk with the idea of our





own importance and our right to take





what we wanted regardlessof- the oth-

er fellow. There. was the doctrine of

the survival of the fittest. As interpre-

ted by the many,it meant, that the one

who was strong enough to climb over

his fellows was the one best fitted- to

live. It excused all manner 0f selfish-

ness, rapacity, and crime. In business

and private life the person who could

not take 'care of himself went under,

and many of us were declaring that‘it

Was all right.





' injunction,





We had forgotten the '





 





ought to bear the infirmiti'efs of. the





weak, and not to please ourselves. "





Are we so much better now in Aug

ust, 1919? Has the baptism cf blood





which the world received gone far to





wards cleansing us? Leaking around

i can’t see that we are so changed. as

we were told through all those weary

four years that we Were to be..«,Th_e

old selfishness seems justas strong to.

day as it did before. I can not see

where people in‘masses are thinking

of anyone but themselves, though oc-

casionally individuals seem to have

gotten the vision of‘what We should do.

‘ The :laboring class is lining up 301»

idly for its rights, - the farmers for





their rights, the ‘capitalists for their '





rights, the clerks for their rights and



the employers for their rights, and



never a one givin’é'a thought to the-

(Continued on next page).





ver Vegetables





are cut into convenient lengths and

blanched for four minutes: The toma-

toes are blanched from thirty to sixty

seconds and cold-dipped. Remove the

.SKin and core of the tomatoes and cut

into medium sized pieces. Mix the

three vegetables thoroughly and pack

the mixture in hot glass jars. Add a

level teaspoon cf sugar and one-half

teaspoon or salt, and fill jar with hot

water. Put on boiled top and rubber

and process in water-bath canner eith-





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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_ three successive days.





flared as. for canning, with seaSo

“dock altogether for ten 1111





or 120 minutes one day or one hour on

Corn and Tamatoes.



Corn and tomatoes make a good com-

bination to can. Blanch fresh corn on

the cob five minutes, dip for an instant

in cold water and cut from the cob.

Scald tomatoes from thirty to sixty

seconds and dip in cold water. Rev

move . the skin and Core. ChOp toma-

toes into medium- sized pieces. Mix

thoroughly two parts Of tomatoes with

one part of corn. Pack the mixture in

hot glass jars, add a leVel teaspdon of

sugar and one-half teaspoon of salt to

a quart. Fill jars with hot water. Put





on boiled top and rubber and process,





(boil) 120 minutes in watenbath cannot

one day. or one hour on each of three

suedessive days. .

Concentsatod Vegetable Soup.

An excellent concentrated vegetable





soup can be made from any desired_





mixture of vegetables. A tasteful com-

bination consists of one quart of con-

centrated tomato pulp (tomatoes bell-

ed down until thick), one pint of corn,

or tiny lima beans, one pint okra, and

four teaspoons of sugar and salt mix.





mire—made by mixing sugar and salt ‘





in the proportion of onethird salt to

twothirds sugar. .



To make the tomato pulp. cook to

gather three quarts of sliced tomatoes,





one small chopped onion and half 'a ,





'cup of chopped sWeet red pepper. Put

through a sieve and remove seeds and

skin. Return strained” pulp to kettle

find cdok down to about the consist-





 





 

 





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“We themthat faretstrong V





easy or catsup. Measure. add the corn .





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





i

1

i. -
‘bough; at





.' five cents.





 

 





'Mi remap column ~

traveler wage book‘s. watch fOb,





 

 

 

 

 





Mojaves it ,. is was woven or

beads, ,a. fob- shut ‘ four inches long





1, with a trim making an extra ln‘cli, "





and an inch and a half lWide. The

ground work was of white beads and





‘ the designs—a. butterfly and a conven-





tional desirdwwere woven in with

dark green, light blue and yellow

beads. We exclaimed at the ingenuity





oi the simple savage, and put the fab

_ away for a curio.





The other day we walked down the

street and suddenly rubbed our eyes.





‘ Was, that our watch fob the dapper.





Close in-





young chap. was wearing? .

The de-





spection showed it was mt.





'-sign in his Was the symbol of the An-





cient Order of Hibernians. Inquiries

in astore disclosed thefact that

Indian head work has now become civ-

ilized and been impressed into the

.making of belts, necklaces and all

sorts of .trinkets.



It seems it is very simply .done,.too.

All that is required is a Small loom

like the one in the picture, time, pa-





 





tience, a few beads, skilful fingers and

a sense of the artistic. If you are clev-

er enough to make your own designs

you ,are fortunate, for. then you can

.have "something different." If you are

not, a leaflet may be bought withthe

loom for ten cents, the loom is eighty-

Here you will find sugges-

tions for all sorts of color combina-

tions and numerous designs to be

worked out.



For your warp thread in weaving

you can use either linen or cotton. If

cotton is used choOse No. 40 and wax

it. Thread the loom, using one more





"thread than the necklace or "fob or





belt is to be \beads wide. The Warp

threads should be cut tw'elve inches





' longer than the article to be made. In-





weaving yen fasten the weaving thread

Which should be No. 70, to the extreme

left warp-thread. Pass the needle un-

der the warp threads to the right, slip

on as many beads asyou are to use

once across, press the heads up be-

tween the warp threads and again run

the needle through. them. This brings





- the thread back to the left side again,





where you simply repeat the process.

Be sure that in putting the needle

through the beads the second ‘time it

goes above every warp thread. When

the loom is" woven full the. completed

portion may be wound on the spool,

”which pulls the warp threads up into

position for further weaving.



Bolts of» this bead work are unusu-

ally pretty. A white background with

lavender design in ‘a Greek key, swas-

tika, bow knot or‘star would be effec-

tive for wear with summer frocks. For

an older person- choose black for the

background and silver or gold for the

design.



‘ One sees necklaces finished at the

ends with tassels madeof loops of the

beads. About fifty heads will be re—





. fquired for each loop. A handsome





necklace was made of black beads.

with the pattern worked out in out





_mm‘s, whiehalsol'ormed metas-





eels; MWmlkeavery accept-





able em for anomal- woman a; wear:

~ m firm





 





'i‘m in swim a white





1013 may he fled if either of the” V





, and finds it higher, his prices raise” a





no your all can with gasoline none





Id





societies claim you. Of course, your





Masonic order: emblem may be used. 1 '





or perhaps the emblem of y’our high ,

school or College society. There is no

and to the designs you may utllke. '1



These necklaces and belts cost a.

pretty penny if someone else makes

them for you. But the Cost if you

weave them yourself is comparatively

small. -





LET’S ALL DO A LlTTLE INVESTI- l.





GATING





 





(Continued from preceding page).

other fellow, 0r making an effort to

see the other side of the case. “I’ve '

got to look out for myself. Who is '

thinking about me?”_ is the general

cry. The laborer demands a raise be‘

cause living is so high. The employer-1'

gives it because he has to, then raises?

the' price or his commodity. The farth—

er goes to buy machinery or fertiliser





cent to the buyer, who promptly tacks

on live to the consumer, and another .

wage raise is demanded. And so it

goes round and round in a merry cir-

cle. Vicious is the better adjective,

but we might “as well try to See the:

funny side of it.

es have not even this excuse. The

price is simply raised because‘ every-

body ds doing it, and I might as well

get my share while the getting is

good." It is like the real estate men

baldly claim, “A piece of property is

worth.just whatever you can get some

sucker to pay.” "





I think perhaps the meanest excuso ’

I have yet heard for the unwarranted ~





robbery is that if money is plentiful

enough for folks to go to shows and

movies they mightas well pay high

prices for food and clothes. Why, for-l

sooth, because a person spends ten

cents or a dollar for pleasure, must he.

be asked double the price for a. quart

of milk or pound of meat? Yet I have

heard this “logical” argument advanc-s

ed by dealers who were defending

their prices.



The fact of the matter is that We

are all {out after ours. And no amount





of congressional investigation or agita- J

tion by prosecutors can entirely rem-

“Out of the heart are .





edy the evil.





the issues of life.” And until our





hearts get right, things will go on pret- .

Laws may be '





ty much as they are.

made, but there is always a way to

evade a law,,and a'lawyer who can be

bought to show you how. DEBORAH. '





FROM'ONE HOUSEKEEPER TO

ANOTHER





 





Select the Finest Flowers for Seed;

——-If care is taken in selecting the





seeds from the first and best flowers, ‘





the plants improve each succeeding

year. '

first and best are cut and the inferior ’

left fer seeds Poppies, phiox and ver-

bbnas should be selected in this way.

Watch your flowers carefully, and they

will improve year by year.

seeds'get “ripe and thoroughly dry in

the pods.‘

plenty. of time, clean the seeds and

get them ready for spring planting——

Mrs. J J. G’C





Cleaning the Sewing Machine. -Few ,

things cause the woman on the farm_'





more annoyance than a machine that

has become clogged up and will noti

run. When this happens no amount or?

oiling will have any exect It you have





access to a bicycle pump and use it mi ‘ I,

inherent parts or the machine it will '





Many of the advanc» _





A mistake is made when the -





L6t the .





in winter when yon have .





 





 





force out all particles at thread and"





dust. Alter you have used the pump





 





 





 





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The Fashion Center ‘





of Detroit





 





Visitors to the State Fair

are very cordially invited to





make our Store their shop-





ping. headquarters during

their visit to this city.





Attractive exhibits of the ‘

choicest foreign [and domestic

merchandise will be found

in every department on every

floor. - - {





 





Woodward and East Grand_River
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1A came clear across the state to





vlowance and earnings,





‘in a. while some tool;





 





 





 





 





 





MAN I know of a few days ago





do a piece of carpenter work.





, For some time he had been in the gro-





cery business, and I wondered if he





,had kept the tools he used to have,

"and asked him about it.

'he said,

i kept those ever since I laid down the





“Oh, yes,"

“I’ve got my tools. I have

carpenter work.”



That man was a farmer boy when he

was young and began then to. gather





’together the tools he loved so well.

' His father had very few tools, but he





was pleased when his boy with his al-

which were

small in'those days, bought tools one

after another, until he had a very good

kit. To this collection he added once

and while he

was working in the\. store his mind

kept going back to the work he so

much more loved, and when the call

came to build a house for a friend, he

was ready to drop all and go back to

the old home. And I know when the

house is done it will be well done, for

the farmer boy, now a man, long ago

learned to use his tools right.



There is no finer thing than for ev-

ery farmer boy to invest some of his

spare money in good tools. I say good





‘tools, because they are many which





are not worth taking home. I have

bought cheap screw drivers, for exam-

_ple, myself, and had the tip turn un-





"der pressure the very first timel used

. them.





It is the same way with many

other tools. They do not stand use.

So it is far'better to buy goOd ones

while we are about it. It is money

saved.



’ I wonder how many boys who read

this have really mastered the art of

keeping tools in good condition? It

is easy enough to dull them—a nail or

a stone and the trouble is done. But

it is a different thing to undo the dam-

age. Here is where the farmer boy

may exercise all his skill to good ad-

vantage. On our farm we have a

‘grindstone geared to the shaft of the

milking machine, so that when we are

milking, somebody may be grinding up

any tools that need it. To do good

work one ought to have a good light,

so that he can see how he is coming





on. If there is a big nick in a chisel,





we will Say, the boy may sharpen the

tool up good in a little while. The

steel ought to be held on the stone so





. that the bevel of the edge will be just

.as it was in the beginning.

'may be some temptation to shorten





There





the bevel up, so as to grind the nick

out faster, but if we do that, we injure

the working qualities of the tool. This





? is just as true of axes and other edged





tools as of the chisel.

One‘ of the most difficult pieces of

work of this kind is filing a saw. A





3 good way to begin is to‘ take an old

“ saw that may have seen its best days





and hung round,~ doing nobody any





good. For a small price you can get a

fugood saw set.

to have a little instruction as to the

_ right way to use it, but after a bit of





It miy be you will need





practice you can use it right. Then

comes the filing. If you have no vise

made for the purpose, you can take

two thin pieces of board, put the blade





[of the saw between them with the,





teeth just above one edge, and fasten

‘w and boards in the large vise of the

ark bench and you are ready to





km





The ills .used ought to be small, and





 





bevels. It is a good way to file all that





slant one way, while the saw blade is

as you first placed it in the vise, then

turn it round and do the other bevels.

Care needs to be taken .while filing the

bevel of one tooth not to let the file

come over on the bevel of the next





 





tooth and dull it instead of sharpening

it. If the saw is rusty, a little kero-

sene oil droppedwon the sides and rub-

bed hard with paper will help to take

it off. Or a piece of fine sandpaper

will do it more quickly.



Now, here are a few hints about the





A Junioi‘ Agricultural Club





By J. H. Brown





NE of the Junior 'Agricultural

Clubs of Calhoun county, during

the war got‘into the game with consid-

erable grit and enthusiasm. The pic-

ture shows up the bunch and their

exhibit on the platform and in frontof

the blackboard.

We were" asked to attend the exhibi-

tion and gave a talk to club members

on scoring corn and potatoes. Even





     

   

 

   

 

 

   

 

   

 

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

   

   

   

   





continue to roost on the present high

prices.



The boy at the left sat in his seat

well baCk in the schoolroom during

the afternoon exercises. The teacher

was talking and everybody listening.

Suddenly one chicken pried off one

slat on top of theicoop in the lower

left corner and stuck its head out.

This little boy got excited jinside,





 

 





 

 





'general

a benchups ,irsm some building. The

wa'gOn house may be the most conven- < ‘





“ metal perfectly dry.





 





 





9’: was If- possible have





ie'nt place. Over the bench nut up a.

board shelf, with small holes in it, and

into these holes set the lower end or





the bits, gimlets and other tools. fer

boring. Hooks fa’stened‘to a board on

‘- the side of the wall will hold- the saws-

'drawshave and so on.

will take the planes where they will“





be handy.

Rust is one of the worst enemies of





. tacls of any kind. So always put the





tools you have ‘ used away ‘ with the





cloth, kept handy by, and thoroughly





' applied, will absorb any moisture that





there may be on the metal.





Never leave the tools out round the”

- farm.





It is a common failing with

many to drop tools where they _are

used, forget them and never see them

again, unless it be by chance. On ev-

ery farm tools enough are lost and

spoiled each year to keep the place

well supplied with all needed tools.





Storms falling upon tools will soon

ruin them. A rusty tool cannot be

made to do as'good work as it did

when new. Even a "dew will take the

shine off the best steel.

lying on the earth will.damage the





-metal perhaps beyond repair; You can-





not rub, or scour or grind the original

polish hack on the tool.





Save pieces of hickory and ash and

otherhard wood and lay them away

for handles to' the tecls Which. may get

broken. Take. the spare moments for

replacingmthese lhandles.‘ Father will

appreciate -it if you fix up any lot his

tools that may have been broken.



When at your jobs of grinding, think

of mether’s knives and give them a

goOd edge. The best way to sharpen

scisSors is with a fine file. But wait

till you have had some’ experience be-

fore doing this. Scissors are delicate

instruments to put in order.



Think of your tools as your friends

and treat them acéordingly. . ‘





 





OurPrize ; COnteé’t





FIRST PRIZE.





 





Kind of Stories I Like Best.

I have been reading the letters writ-





ten, by the boys. and. girls on the dif-





ferent subjects, and think they are





- very interesting. So I thought I would





write one, too.





N I like to read stories that are inter-

'esting and in which we may learn ,

“something; as in some fables that are,





written about animals. They teach us





1 not to be boastful, and always wishing "

_that we were richerthan others. .





Then I think that stories which were





_ written a long while ago about the

»_,:_people that lived then are very inter-

3, _esting



: They show us how the people lived' '





and did their work. How differentthe





.. children were brought up in those days

~l'ronr what they are now.

, strange things some of them believed

in. They surely had a hard time gee __



ting along. We ought to appreciate .

‘ what they did for us. " ' 5





And what





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lures-Lit is lots of fun to learn E11»





stories. Juan“ '. ' menial





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Mlddlevule.

Mich. Aged thirteen years. —





 





Housemate MENTlON.





 





The R1I‘Id of Stories 1 Like Best“





.-.: I like stories of Indian life which





story I ever read was an “Indian Win-





tell at their home; their trays of hunt--‘

ing, fishing and trapping. The true

I dian has an intimate knowledge of

the habits of the birds and animals.



A l'dne Indian sent out into the wile,

derness without food, clothing or

weapons can soon find all these, as a

white man cannot The best Indian





ter."



I like stories. of ancient history, es-

pecially the ones that tell about Tom--

peil and Herculaneum, Which were

buried by a terrible eruption of Mt.

Vesuuius. It tells of how people were





' buried asleep in their beds, some in





prison, in cellars, some trying to get

away With their jewels and money be-





 





Our Prize Con fest





To the boy‘ or girl writing the

best letter, of less than 250

words on each of the following

we will give a cash prize of $1.





Subject of letter to be mailed

*by September 8:





“The best day of vacatlon.”





i Suhject of letter to be mailed

by September 15:





“The first day of schOol."





Write neatly with ink‘ on one

side of the sheet only. Give your .

age, full name and address. .





Address your letters to The

Boys’ and Girls’ Dept, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit,» Mich.





 





 





 





fore they were killed by falling rocks

molten lava and hot ashes. Jailers

stood at their posts until the last min-

ute, and prisoners were not released

,from the stocks and chains. _



I like steries of our OWn history,

such as the "Southerner,” which tells

about the life of Abraham Lincoln,

frOm his boyhood until his death.



I like Boy Scout stories I like the

war stories that have been printed in

the Michigan Farmer, also the nature

stories, especially “The White Rabbit.”





John O. Reberts,_Breckenridge, Mich.





 





HONORABLE MENTION.





 





The Kind of Stories I Like Best.

The kind of stories I like best are,





Uncle Tom’s Cabin, .Christobal, a Gay





Charmer, {and the Castle of Gems.

There are a lot of others, but it





would take up ‘too much room. and '





lots of time. ,

I like Uncle‘Tom’s Cabin because it





tells about slaves and the way the peo-'

ple used to treat them, and why we‘





should not have slaves noWadays.





fifi Christobal is a very interesting -1

. story because it, tells how poor people





can have a jolly‘ time, the earne'as'oth-





‘ er peeple can have a good time. Chris- '





tobal was a little lame boy and did not





7. 1 have much of. a home: .





A Gay Charmer is an interesting





I. story, because it tens about people





i. that have a gifl to be their own. They





that is canal! a lira e,





“N 1 .-..

all and had- a castle made for himself! ‘

eta wife, and they lived in the castle ‘ , -





“ ‘Bartshe, Vicksburg. Mich. ‘Age four-

teen years, .1 . g .11}.-





Vperiment in cooperative farming. Re- ,





'cific RailWay under its long, term, easy





 





to thé‘énd 0': their lives: -——Laura May





 





SCHOOL CHILDREN'S FARM.





 





,HE school children of Yellow

Grass, Saskatchewan, have organr .

ized themselves for a remarkable ex-





c‘e’ntly they .“formed- a company which

they named the' Coopelative Schbol

Association, all the stock of which was

purchased by the boys and girls with

their pocket money and. savings.



Then they purchased an acre and a

quarter. of land from the Canadian Pa-s





payment plan. ‘The cost’ was about

$35.00, ten per cent down and the re-

mainder in twenty years. at ‘six;per

cent interest. The land is on the out-

skirts of the term and near the school.

The children propose, to plant their

farm to potatoes this year and share

the profits. All the labor will be sup-

plied by the children. fl



“You can bet it won’t take us kids

any twenty years to pay for our

farm,” says‘ Sandy Macdougal, aged

fifteen, one of the directors in'the as-

sociation. “Plenty of‘farmers in west-

ern Canada have paid for their farms

with one crop of wheat, and we pro

pose to pay for our farm with one

bumper crop of potatoes. When we

begin to make money we will invest it

in more land, and in a few years we

expect to be running a regular man~





 





size farm.. Watch us. ”

MARK MEREDITH.

$2, 500 IN PRIZES FOR CALF CLUBS. .





 





The Pipe





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   





The Williamson is Easily Installed‘No

floor or partitions to tear out. Only one

opening in the floor required. No pipes

to bother with.



The Williamson Gives More Heat—The

recirculating air system and four-inch in-

sulated cold- air jacket sends the maximum

of heat into the house. Only enough warmth

is retained in the basement to keep water

pipes, fruits and vegetables from freezing.



The Williamson is Guaranteed by Bond

--The liberal bond hacked by this million.-

dollar company guarantees the Williamson to

heat your home to an average temperature of

70 degrees, or money back. The firepot is

guaranteed for five years.



The Williamson Pays for Itself—Its

scientific design, the result of thirty years'

experience, insures uniform heat throughout

the house with minimum consumption of





less Furnace





That Is Easily Installed





.sented to each of the first thirty-three





HE American Jersey Cattle Club ‘





has appropriated the sum of tin

thousand flVe hundred dollars for pre-

miums to be given in boys’ and girls’

calf clubs for the year 1919. Seventy-

five dollars of this sum will be pre-





clubs reporting to the Secretary of the

American Jersey Cattle Club after the

fi date of the publication of this notice.

The clubs entitled to participate in

this premium distribution are confined

to those organized during the year

1919, and which censist of not less

than twenty members each, who have

purchased Jersey. heifers. Said Seven-





ty-five. dollars to be ayallable for pre- -





miums for members of such calf clubs

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members as the calf club’ receiving the

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.New York City, if you desire to enter

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the WindoWS havebe‘en‘ smashed out,

and \all would have boon had they not

been boarded up. The lpaint is all

washed off the siding of the- houses.

The» boards ,on the barns are finany of

them flapping in the winds; ‘Fields,

fences and orchards 'are fast gong.

downhill. Why?!





The owners of these farms‘thought

. they could keep up their farms by the





use of, commercial fertilizer and get

along without doing, work necessary

They, sold their cows.

For a few years they bought Some

commercial fertilizer. Then that be-

came more expensive. There was a,

temptation to do without, and from

that point on. the road led down fast.

There was noJarnyard manure .to‘ use.

Plowing under green crops seemed a.

useless waiste." Soon the'farm produc-

ed less hay. Revenue dropped off. Men

either sold their places for what they

could get "or rented them“ and moved

away to town to eat up'the eggs they

had be‘en’storing' When the sunny days

were with them. Renting proved un-

profitable. Homes were left unoccu-

pied. The, firelight wentout inthem

and we have what is known as flaban-

doned farms. ‘ _ ’ 1'



. This picture is not overdrawn. All

farms that are lying idle, awaiting the





time when a new order of things shall.

awaken them to old time prosperity.





The Dairy pail-.15.?)





Over the east there are scores of these





Dairy farming is the bed-rock" o:





-farin fertility. .Thst isa, fact; which





cannot, be (contravened. v.1‘I-Iow many





times we haVe reéd'thatsim'plestate- '

ment; It hasbeen sounded in cut ears :





over" and over again by”earnest-L~men

seeing the danger of crippling. the

dairy business; and still the peril isms.

real one, andmust become more so, if

there be not speedy, reliefffrom the

outrageous costaot production. ‘



So it seems to me milk, prices must

be advanced in the near future. Farm-

ers have come-“tone time when they





know very nearly what it costs them.





to" make a hundred pounds of milk,





and they will not keep on making it at





a loss. Why should they? No other

business man would long stay in the

field after he. had done his best to

earn a fair profit and determined that

it could not be done legitimately.



But as was stated just now, there

will be a limit to the movement for

higher-priced milk. Then what? Now

is, the time to anticipate that and pre-

vent it from materializing. Let repre-

sentatives of the producers, vthe'deal-

ers and the consumers meet and, like

sensible, unselfish men settle upon a.

plan of procedure'thatrWill’ be fair and

just to everybody. 'It can be done.

Peacefulmethods are far better than

war. Is this visionary? Does it seem

impractical? Justice and fair-dealing

never were visionary or impractical.

They never will be.





The Question of Roughage





ODAY I received quotationsof

cottonseed meal, for delivery in



. October, November and Decem-

ber. All of these' offers were above

seventy dollars a ton at factory. Lin-

seed meal is even higher,vand cotton-





. seed..meal can be boughtfor'immedis

. ate'delivery for’less than eighty dol-





lar's. ,Corn meal is selling here at four

thirty per hundred and higher, aécord~

ing to where one‘bu‘ys it,vand_ no grains

are Cheap. - t,’ , A r , . ,



Grain is going to 1' be scarce and

high this winter and there seems no

likelihood of cheap grain for sOme

time to come. The shipments of pro-

tein concentrates abroad will continue





_ and we may expect no slackening in





the demand during the coming months





the old world to warrant the payment

of very long prices for these feeds.





. Naturally, «then, ,weuturn to the censid: .

eration of the question ofvroughage for»





our cows. Talking withour most sue;

c'essful vdairymen we find that -*:al,_l of

them are heavy feeders «roughage;





, if we', would get the most out 015a; 3,30%,





we mu‘St. follow, nature’s way. That is,‘

we . intuit ”provide; :9; be; such feeds.





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concentrated ratioinfi'uu; .

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but her ability to. dispose of a great

deal of bulk in the ration must not be

overlooked. .- Our aim should be to pro-

vide a bulkyvvration, and still to fur-

nish with it 'asuflicient’a'mount for

food nutrients 'to enable the Lanimalv to

preduce 'all this;~ milk of which she is

capable. Were‘wje to feed her largely

on straw, we shou d [furnish plenty ‘of

bulk, but she coul not give 'a nermal

amoimt'of milk for she woiild no’t'héjve

anything out of" which ‘to make it.

Were we‘to give, her‘timothy hay in

large Quantities, and no other rough-

age there would still be no lack of

bulk, but we shduld find our ration

low in protein and lacking in suécu—

lence. While we. might bring up the

content of g protein, ,bY. nitrogenOus

grainsgjournfieeds would still leek the

succulent quality which is indispens-

able' to? the largest milk flow. _ V

my I, pause a‘ moment. to ."di‘scu‘ss

thevalue’onffsucculent feeds in the pro-

duction‘ of milk‘?‘ Last summer. ,a.

.Afriesd. .of mine W119 issng'bfthe best.

dairymen i know was testing several

'éprs for Register .of Mast.- one of

these ‘cows had. previous bands

of fat the previous ~iyé‘glri.s§d,fweg. were

looking for ' much“ better: itlii‘ngs “from

he‘rin this ,dgsegagqehe“ entered the

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, (continued from“ page 230). ,

has . he‘en making an analysis of live

stock sentiment as expressed in the

farm press and. in correspondence re- :

nerves! in: its various ofiices. Of‘all

the topics dls‘cusSed the need for a-

better quality of domestic animals has '

been. Dre-eminent. 'To make the cru-

‘sade against scrub live stock most ef- ‘

fective the department ask for 0011- ~

structive ideas and suggestions from

all 'sources. The following classes of

live stock are to be included in the ~

campaign .tor improvement: Cattle,

horses, asses, swine, sheep, goats' and

poultry. ‘



In spite of the conspicuous merits of

the task about to be undertaken there

are also a number of obstacles. It is ‘

recognized that sentiment in favor of .

pure-bred sires, while strong, is by no

means unanimous. To win the supilort

of those who; through lack of interest .'



. . 3 or opposition, fail to take their part in

'worth of, common. red clover. Clover the crusade against scrub live stock is

hay' (mt at the fight tlme' and pmp' 'ode‘of the problems to be met. ’

erly cured is of great value in the ra-,

'tion of a dairy cow. When we con-

' sider what clover does for the soil—-

how ,costly is nitrogen when we buy

it in commercial fertilizer, ’and how

(cheaply we can grow it in the clover

f plant, it makes us} feel anew the im

portance of getting, a good stand of

clover, and makes us .m-iserable indeed

when we fail, as many offl’us have in

~this unusually dry ,seasOn. There is

Just one kind of roughage that excels

clover, and that is alfalfa. ' I meet

hundreds of good men every year, who

have not yet found out that alfalfa can

be grown in Michigan successfully.

The writer lacked enough day to car-

ry" the .cows ,3 through the winter, and

’ so he bought" the first cutting on five

acres of alfalfa. This/field had been

yielding good crops of this valuable

bay for five years, and this year we

cutwnme “me lacking three hundred culties of an insurmountable character.

pounds from it, theflrst time. , '1 / In connection with the drive on scrub



N0 dam canafford not to fit a sires there will also be wagered a. cam-

portion Of’ 1116 land for alfalfa; unless paign against the “scrub pure-bred,“ as

he is Certain he cannot grow it, and it is called, in the endeavor to elimi-

he ought not to ,give up too soon. hate, as breeding animals, pure-brads

There are few valuable farms in the of inferior quality: It will be observed

state that will~ not grow this ‘import- that the plan in no Way interferes with ,

outcrop, if properly prepared.‘ Ailewr any work in live stock improvement

years ago we had a meeting .. in our now being conducted, but instead it is

pnet'glborhood and a little alfalfa club expected to make all the work more '

was frowned.k A man in the employ of definite and effeCtive by providing ofli-

the state went over a. certain field that eial reéognition for progressive breed-

day, and was‘not very hopeful about ers, including members of boys’ and

the future of the, alfalfa that had been 'girls’ clubs. Friendly competition is

sewn there a few weeks before. This expected to spring up among commu-

year that alfalfa 'yielded more than nities and entire states, each of which

"two tons to the acre to the first cut- will seek to excel in the fate of live



, and though the dry weather in- stock progress. 1

.me the second crop, there will be a S

. ‘Iotof good hay harvested there yet

'this season. , . > .





Some have talked afgood, deal about





have. rough‘ land that is not suited to





.‘_thi-ng3 from it in pasture, even though

""it‘may not last throughout the season,

.hutfwecan not afford to pasturevvam-

able land that is adapted to-«the grew-

ing."e£.'general farm craps. _' 'We can

”grow from ten to twenty tons of en-

cilagebn an acre of good land, liber-





"feed from. three to six cows all sum-

:mer,whiale one cow would require from

oneto three acres of this land- on

whichto live comfprtably if it were

pasture. It is... of course true, that

While the grass was fresh, she would

require: no other feed, and if fed on

ensilage she must receive, some nitro—

genous feeds to supplement her ration,

but there/can be no doubt that one

‘will receive much more by tilling val-

t'uable lands than by pasturing them. ,



No , dairyman shOuld forget the





is another important factor which has

long been an obstacle to live stock

improvement. Cobperative ownership

divides the expense considerably, and

the increased value of the young stock,

raised also helps to overcome that ob-

jection. In addition the. campaign is

expected to stimulate a greater produc-

tion of pure-bred breeding stock of:

good quality. _ ' '3



The question of 3 controlling the,

spread of live stock diseases when an- ,

imals are transferred from one herd to ‘

another or are used in community cir- .

cults, is still another problem; This

matter, however, can be handled by

vigilance in field inspection and by the

adoption by breeders ‘of well—recogniz-

ed preventive measures.





or less knOtty, but'not presenting dlfli- '





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. , 3 '3 ‘ LLEGING that recent advances in

the foolishness 30f trying to \get men . wholeéale lumber prices have nec-

tO grow alfalfa, when 80 many failed. essitnted the move, fruit box manufac-

bill I doubt-itnfiny Of these objectors 'turer's have advanced prices four





see-the results. of"; telligent efforts in





_ ‘ 3 .. . 3 tation twenty‘four cents each. This

this “line. .There- s a lot of land in





is double the figure charged ‘three





tm‘s‘cbuntyihatv‘ will not grow alfalfa «years, agofla‘nd’ ten Cents over last '





3 until it 15,33,1qu end" some at.“ needs year’s prices. Some big shippers are

“a good deal otglnnet but how. much’stfil receiving boxes on contracts made '

1111,33 can one 350113,. t0 drowned spread at last year’s figure. 3





'Webtern growers are said to be hard I.





f tithe flrstecutting. newsman had contracted for bdxes [outing to the

' hetero thepseesenkis aver? high prices. It is said Yakima grow:

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TIX TON-MIX kills stomach worms. destroys diseasegerms and corrects

most ills of animals through internal sanitation in accordance with the

latest ractices of chemistry, science and medicine. ~MIX IT WITH YOUR

OWN ALT OR FEED. So reasonable you can afford to keep it constantly

before all your stock the year» around—so they can doctor themselves.





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'. barrel of salt or 900 lbs. of ground feed.





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95am ot Copy or Cancellations much reach. us





Ten Days before date of publication





bull calf. sired by our imported





“EDGAR 0i DALMENY”





recently sold in Scotland at the Perth

Bull Sale for the record pr1ce of 2,100

guineas, or $10,584.00 in our money.

This goes to show the quality of the





ABERDEEN ANGUS I,





that Mr Scripps is breeding He enjoys see-

ing good stock on "WildwOod" and believes that



THE BEST IS NONE 1‘00 GOOD.

"Edgar of Dalmeny" won the Michigan Grand

Championship last Septemeber at the Michigan

State Fair and was a winner in his class at the

Chicago international last December.



We have a few females with calves at foot and

re—bred to Edgar of Dalmen " that Mr. Scripps

has consented to sell to re uce the fast grow-

ing herd. Write Tb





WILDWOOD FARMS





ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. SCRIPI'S. Prop.. Sidney Smith.Supt.





 





 





 





 





 





wooncors ANGUS





Established in 1900.

TYPE--QUALITY—-BREEDI NC-





The herd (tested annually) is absolutely

Lfre ree from tuberculosis.





A few hulls (no females) for sale

WOODOOTE STOCK FAR“. Ionia. Mich.





Bred cows, heifers and bull

CIOVCI'IY Angus calves of good breedi ngM

GEO. HA'IHAWAY 1! SUN. Ovid, 1011.





Registered Guernseys





Choice May Rose Bull Calves-at prices you can

aflord to pay.

J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams, Mich.





 





REGISTERED





GUERNSEYS





Just two young yearling bulls left,

ready for service. Come and look them

over quick, or write. They are the

good ones. Priced to sell.





iAVONDALE STOCK FARM,





WAYNE, MICH.





 





Pure Bred,3 Bull Calves from one to

Guernsey two 8month old 850 each‘ 'registe red. "

WALTER PHIPPS FARM 93 Alfred St. Detroit, Mich.





G U E R N S E Y 8535313115113

00 nta ainin blood of world champions.

HICKS'GUBRN BY FARM. Saginaw. W. S. Mich





GUERNSEYS must reduce herd. oooifor

a few choice females of

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





in$herd tuberculin tested.

T. . KS - - - - Battle Creek. Mich.





 





 





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For Sale: Guernsey bull calf fawn and white. 10

months old. a beauty, Nancy'sSefiuelcy 56736;W81re.



Halcyon RSegue! 215126: am. N'ancys

Dr. W.R aker. 1360 .West Fort St. Detroit Mich

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For Sale—St Austell Dal-

Guernsey Bulls ton. 43028: born December.

19l5. Sired by Don Diavolo of Linda Vista; Dam Lang-

cater Suffragette A. R. 2346 Class A585 8 hutterfnt.

Also Niavara 2nds Duke 5056i; born December, 7

F.E ‘Bobson. 1100111301 lil.C. R. R. Depot Bldg. Detroit.





 





 





 





$75g gets 1% mo. o'ld gdson Maplecrest Kern. Kong. and



Z'llb. daughter of Johan Hens. Lad. and 18. 48 lb-

daughtor of 11] Jane PAaul Dam is my best milk.

er. Terms. ..L McLAULIN. Redford. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





$150, 000 For Prizes

Publicity And Extention Service





Breeders of Holsteins unanimously vot-

ed to quadruple the fees for recording trans-

ters of their cattlesold. and spend the in-

come therefrom to place the merits of this

greatest of dairy breeds before the public.

If interested in





HOLSTEIN CATTLE





Band for our booklets—and inform yourself

on how to make money in breeding dairy cattle





THE HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

OF AMERICA Box 164, Bnttlehcro, Vt.





The Traverse Herd





We have what you want in BULL CALVES the

large fine growthy type. guaranteed right in

every way. They are from high producing ‘A R

0. ancestors. Dam‘ srecords up to 30 lbs. Write

for _pedigrees and quotations. stating about age





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Trnvoroo City. Mich.





 





 





 





 





The young bulls We have for chicane





backedu by many generations of

131 e pr cers. B ono of these

5111. and give your rda “push”.





Full descriptions, prices, etc on“ request.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.





“Winwood - Her ”





REGISTE TERED





'Hoiste'in- sFriesian‘ Cattle

FLINT NiAriECRI-zsr BOY





Hisdre is Mastecresth Korndyire lHengervold. His

three nearest one each over 30 lbs. of butter in 7

days Iliad am and granddarn both made overWlbs.

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

lookin forto do iver the goodil‘ lint Mas ecrest

0; s an is Glu'ck Vassar-B l 30.571be. o utter

in days and 121 lbs. in so days. eHer butter fat test

is 6.27. e have a few choice bull calves about ready

for service and one or two readv. Remember we are

breeders and not dealers in cattle. Our price is right.

breeding considered. Write us your wants. or come

and look this herd over before you buv, and see for

yourself. You will be glad you came. Herd tuberculin





tested.

JOHN H. WINN, Inc.





Lock Box 249. R0 oscommon. Mich.

Reference Roeoommon State Bank.





WahABe-Me-Me Farms





Pure Bred Registered





Holstein-Friesian Cattle

'I-Ierd Headed by ' .

Segis Pontiac De Nijlander





A32 lb grandson of Michigan' a great 35 lb champion

cow. Pontiac De- Niy'lander. His am. Oak Valley

Korn‘dy ire Beets Seals Fan, 3‘2. 06. also a Miohi an

prize winner last ear and a prize winner in the at-

onal Ass' 11. all e asses, as a 4 year 0 last year. Her

dam is a granddaughter of King Segis and as a 5 r old

has 731.5 be mil 711111. butter in 7 days an 2948. 4

lbs. milk, 116. 9 lbs. butter in 30 days. Segis Pontiac De

Niilandor‘ s dam as a four veer old(she.1's 5 yrs. now)

made 122 1 lbs. butter and 2721] lbs. milk' in 30d ays.

Write for list of bull calves from 18 lb. 2 ear olds to

over30 lb. dams. Rave a fi1eyearold «on o Rag April?

Korndyke 8th. a half brother to the 312. 5.000 bull for

sale. Also Big'l‘ype Poland China hogs sired by alitter

mate to the Illinois Grand Champion Albert G. Wade.

Prop. White Pigeon. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ 600d "BIC istered. Holstein bull o.alves uality

of the best. and at prices within reach of all. rite

GEO. D. (lLA REE. - - assar. Mich.





CLUNY STOCK FARM





100-415618115sz HOLS’I‘EIN8n100

When you need a herd sire remember that we

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

der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual

over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We

have size quality. and production records back-

ed by the best strains of breed ning.





Wri uslyour wa

R. BRUCE McPHE SON,n t3Howell, Mich.





 





 





Holsteinqbull. 9E perorOf Mapleside. No.

1301511121313... nne- halof oars old.

Sire, Johanna 81KorndykeDekol. 41A. .RO ad hters.

Dani. Calamity Wayne Paul: 30. 25 lbs. “Idayb l.bs

346days. test4. 48$. Bull easily handled, is nearly white.

Sold to avoid in-breeding. Breezy Point Farm.

Ironton. Mich.





 





Holstein Bulls 10 months old.

Regi3t¢redp Price $115 each. also Dnroc-Jersey

Bears 4 months old. price each. Merle H Green,

Ashley, Mich.





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LIGHT colored Reg. Holstein Bull 15 mo. old. Sure

bieeder. 30 lb. P reedin Ptrioed 0 soil.





 





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.B. Reavey. Akron.%ii1chigan





 





REGISTERED heifer and bull] calves. of the best

breeding in Holsteins forsa Sage cial price on 2

heifers and bull. 0. H. GIDDINGS. oblevule. Mich.





QM?» 5&6 jig-W





 





 





BROOKWATER FARM A1111 ArborMich.

Herbert Wfi'xumford J, Bruce Henderson





 





LILL IE~Farms ,A few heifers hredto

freshen thlsfall maltose?"





threeB. of 11.00". (101011 e. Coopeuvtllqflich.





3‘3"“: seen mgéusdr” ..





inn! 1,





Silver Creek.





 





THE HOLSTEINS





" At Ma ie 15' . are under vae

on relaunch” . herahavo just {)eenw tnhorornhfil;

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A, " 111111 you IN A an‘dI home two very fine, '

“richly brats. Willi ins-idioms ready “ti-tit” ‘

' V I! ‘" ”mt mm? I" Q“ n 'n’.





box-11111.11. Fayette. 011.1.)





“heifers; and two or .





 





W . 11:11:20 3111 timed. sum

”financier: nails-m





Herefords gob £210.11?" A3119“ 0111111164.-





horned haunts?“ Pflmrig





ii: Axe . ohms.





 





 





Harwocd’s White Paces





 





Owing to labor she orta'gé‘ny .wflT . one

half in herd,consist1ngbf 120111111 of

Re. erefcrds. yearling and two year

01 heifers, co’Ws With calf rat side, re“

bred to 5113111111. Ten short yearling

bulls. P edgri'ght for quicken .





JAY HAR’WBOD « -: Ionic, Ir.

HDTDTOFd 311118st net two yearlinvgcfl‘ “131%;-





on sight at the price. E. J. Taflor. remont. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

   

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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liars and 2 yr. old sought: grgwthy bears

or all I. Will

55111 C reed-gr Evdrytbl





burnt-anemia Li: W“ EwWflnW '





 





BIDWELL “MEWS





For Beef and 'Milk





Registered bulls. cows and 1101 1th Good Scotch and

Scotch-Topped! or Inrsriine condition. Modern

sanitary equi ment. He under “31‘" 9mg.d federal

su 111110 minutes from depo



1£guron W Toledo. Ohio. 4 Automobile meets

trains.





.BIDWELL STOCK FARM





BoxB. Tecumseh. Mich. .





Shorthowrn Cattle cl both Sex tor Sale





spring

. mile west of De p‘gitisens Pilie





 





 





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. 3. Mason, ich.



0.’I. C’r Chane esr s ““2““ I



Clover Lest 8106111111111. PB ling $933583: ’ '





 





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rlni [1 boar.- and this

registered free. 5‘





,O'Na'shvflle, Mich.





o" I ~c1s‘o'n. very

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Choice bred gilts due to ferrow In

ornie





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1.11s

w, NAPP. nowgu. mom tan.‘ ,Weber. 50mg 30111: Phone 408. '

O I C’8 One extra. good fall boar and spring pigs

- r 1 .

Richland StOCk Farm anteed saturagioii.°.loiiiiko. 11kr°1iuzslmafl15i3i

SHORTHORNS - w 1.



HOME or r111: MICH. CHAMPIONS For 25 Years T°m5§omg b53331 3‘8

We offer for sale afew good dual pur- £12th 11 proved blood lnes. Our new herdboaz-

pose cows with calves at foot. Also g9“? “8211111139311? .3333" °°n “3:33 39;:



1 mm W

two three year old bulls suitable for 1533.111 arrowmq"JO?Br819£flgg?BP:gfimanfm





range purposes, We invite inspection.

.PRESCOTT & SONS





OiIioe at Tawas City, Mich. Horde at Prescott. Mich.





Scotch and Scotch Topped cows and heif-

Shorlllomwssrs are priced ri ht. come and see them or

write W. cUQ ILL N. R. 7. Howell. Mich.





Shorthorns of Q11 ality Scotch and

For sale Scotch T filmed descendanteofA

Bone. Avondale. Maxw ulton and White eall

Salton. Model Type. by} the Ossoola Co. Shorthorn

Breeders Ass. John B midt. Sec. Reed City.Mich.





 





 





81:11th1 Topped tow: For Sale. 2.331101%, “M“

“Butler Williamston. Mic





New 10131. 27b lls, 28females. Feb. 1151 ‘

Shorthomsal Central Mich Shorthorn





Breeders' Assn... Oscar Skinner. Secy. ., Gowen. Mich.





 





Th Kent Co. Shorthorn Breeders have both male!

3 and females (or sale. Ask about th N

L. H. LEONARDSee. - Caledonia. Mich.





Shorthorns of best Bates breed'r: and

Milkingo. afiwifieklaflls for sale 1 meg to l





 





year old. - Rfi‘z, Mason,Mioh.

Bates Shorthorn‘s,0 “We. 5““ fl“ °°"'

J. B.Hun11nel.rMason. Mich.





 





SHORTHORNS «11°35?» aggfifglii‘iq‘l





ale. Louis Babbitt, Williamston, Mich





Meadow Hills Shoflhorns’ff'afif'hggmdigg





cludin one aged cow at bargain: also one roan bull

ready or servoe Geo. D. Doster. Doster. Mich.





MILKING SHORTHORNS. S);





bull calves. Davidson and Hall. Tecumseh. Mich.

00w s8250t0 $300.

Bulls 8200 to 8250.





Special (:viier Shorthcrns—

m..J 11911 RoeeGity.‘ 195.

Red Polled Bulls For Stile





also cows and heifers. G. A.0al noon, Bronson. Mich





Registered Red Foiled 2&3? “£51,?





JohnH. Prins. Holland. Mich. 8. No.5

HOGS





For Sale. Berkshire Wig” Iiiis'iétiifiimfii'e

year old. well rown.1finne of a boar,





 





 





 





 





   

   





don' t insbod th si opportunity of matting me of this

amous in your hard. ..-3 m¥oint Farm.

ronton. Mic .

- , . ”’7'

ogistered Berkehir Boa :’ ‘ 1 ’ .-, co Allow-

3%.! an . L. - .A

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812 Growth WM. ’





Registered. Wigs ..,





. . $313339 “1—7;; wwi‘nd: m





 





 





 





   





 





Lanait. of 11. ”19:... from. mm 1152i? if . . ‘

05"“ find» . (“Ami in». 1m, ,

ohii. MW 309W“ AfiVm has? ' :4. '





 





 





 





 





 





 





mutan—

emulating-.1310 emu-alum“. ‘





 





Big Type Poland Chinas





Sired bv Smooth Mastodon a son of A' s Masto-





. den and litter mate to the illinois Grand Champ-





ion. Boar pigs and gilts hred IOWS from above

sire and 31 Bob damat the bi: boned. deep. long

bodied kin at farmer" 9 prices,





~Wah—he-me-me Farms

. . PWhlte Pigeon. Michigan."





0. I1C.’7snd Chests White Swine





 





Strictly B '1‘ with oil 8 f

_ mi? ’95. c ‘loicgylott' $15313?” WiIl‘nwh only

spare a :ofewggrée at pmsr'nt. Wiil ship 0} 0.1)





Newman’ s Stock farm. “ Mariette. Mich. <1). No. l.





 





' Ohio State Fair 1:31;,” “h"“i‘fi‘fitm





for sale. Writefor recs. (1 rice.

Farm. Pontiac, Misfiefu‘ 11 p‘ Lon





 





ARGE Type P. 0!.“ thezmrosst fish

now ready toe Boers to freedom and

boars for the farmers. Come and he real large

type" with Lqu lity.l‘ nfrojn

nil.” 82. ‘5 “5 h?‘é"“ti§¥° A“ ”Wit“

1 we I too as ses-

.E. Divination. arinll.





 





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the records; oft-Till; ascociati‘on. Mr.,_





'neysoidniyithi'nr. William-s went and

‘sawfir: Ohio who they reported . was





perfectly .Wlllillg. to» telIaIl’ I16 knew

about it, and just what. heghad done.

Mr. Colefa‘greed to come to the meet-





' night the executive committee in Chi-

.cago ’on the fourth and fifth, and did





come there. There, in the presence of

the- entire committee and a‘ stenog-

graph-er, he went on and told his story

ofxthe testing that he had done where





‘ he had started in the state of New





York some years ago, went into his

personal history, described many of

thexanimals that he had tested at the

Cabana Farm, explained fully how he

had helped, the cow's, as he had de-

scribed it”: by 'putting cream in the

milk. He told who was familiar with

what he was doing, to whom he had

imparted. the knowledge of the way

that the high records were _made, and

who he had helping him. He express-

ly stated, however, that Mr. Cabafna

had no “knowledge whatever of what

was going on. A He described the large





' bonuses he received for making the





records running into the, thousands of

dollars, of which he received two«

thirds. and Mr. Nieman,’ in charge for

Mr. Cabana, received one-third. In one

particular ‘case the bonus was $3,000

'for alsingle record, in which case he

had $2,000 and Mr. Nieman $1,000.

This statement, which took a large

portion of a day, was reduced to writ-





ing, signed, and sWorn to, and the





committee at that time decided that

these persons whose names had been

.mentioned in connection with this,

who‘owned'cows whose records Cole

claimed were fraudulently made,

should be notified before the board

took any action, and they were tele-

graphed and requested to meet ’at

Cleveland, to which place the commit-

tee adjourned to meet on the sixth.





At the adjournedmeeting in Cleve-





rland Mr. Cabana came before the ex-





ecutive committee, told them how sur-

prised and grieved he was that such

a thing should have taken place, and

that it was absolutely without his

knowledge except as to the bonuses.

He stated that he had paid these bon-





_ uses because others had offered Cole





the same amount, and that he felt

,with the large herd he had he was in

position to pay as much as anybody

for making records.



Mr. Nieman came before the commit;

tee, denied all knowledge of the fraudu-

lent record episode, but did admit that

he had been receiving one-thirdxof the

bonus as described by Cole.



Mr. Brooks, who had be‘en'associat—

ed with Mr.” Cole in the making of

records and who Mr. Cole“. claimed he

had advised 'of the manner in which

they were made, .and the scheme by

which they h ped the cow produce

the results, an who lived at Cole's

house, claimed that the records he

made were all. right. that he never

knew anything about Cole, making any

fraudulent records, that so far as he

knew all the records were straight. ‘



. Mr. Bernhard Meyer, of Finderne,

New Jersey. :12ch hetero the com-

mittee, chagrined and humiliated be-

«use of what Cole stated land taken

place. while testing certain "cows re

cently for him, but he had' no knowl-





edge rod thegtacts. and the only thing





thoth‘eknew about the way the cow’

had been tested was‘wha’t Cole said.

abomit. - ' ' '1 '





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"he ' taken by the "executive committee.





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“The committee realizes, and the

breeders will readily appreciate, the

tremendous scope and influence that

the action of the executive committee

or board of dirctors is bound to. have,

not alone on the animals whose rec-

ords may 'be expunged, but the off-

spring that have been sold in prac-

tically all the states, Thousands and

thousands of dollars have been paid

for the offspring because of the rec-

0rd of the dam, and calves of the off-

spring have been sold at large prices .

because of the record of the grandam,

and the effect is already apparent in

two or more generations.



The executive committee also real-

izes that the Holstein-Friesian Asso—‘

ciationof America is a Record Asso-l

ciation, that One of—its records is that:

of advanced registry; that the main"

tcnan’ce of the accuracy of these roe:

ords are the reasons for its life, and

that while the' expunging of frauds

from our records may bring disgrace,

anxiety, and loss to some of our breed-I

ers the necessity for quick and accu-l'

rate action on the part of the exec-u-.

tive committee or board of directors is!

conceded Ly all. The only question in

the mind of any officer or member of

the board of directors is what is the.

right in the premises, what does jus-

tice, equity, and good conscience de-

mand. and that action will be taken.



There can be no possible question

about the necessity of expunging rec.

ords known to be fraudulent. The in-

jury‘ and wrong would only be con-

tinued to permit them to remain, and

there will be no hesitancy whatever

on, the part of the board of directors

to take action when in possession of

all the facts.



We oftimes hear people say what

they Would do. £01116 of us are overly

willing to adv e opinion when no

responsibility .is charged against us,





 





but this is‘a momentous proposition'





for the. HolsteinFricsian Association.

The Herd Books of this great industry

have been assaulted, and an insult and

injury inflicted upon every breeder of

the black and white wherever located,

because in my opinion the man who

has debauched our records has assault-

ed the good name and fame of the

greatest hreed of animals on the earth.

There was no occasion for exaggera-

tion, there was no occasion for fraud.

The Holstein-Friesian cow has demon-





. strated herself on every occasion to be





the most wonderful. producer of milk





and dairy products in existence, and -





this under legitimate and regular con-

ditions. ’



I feel called upon to make this

statement to the'breeders at this time

before action' has been taken by the

board of directors, because of publi-

cations occurring in papers in Boston

and elsewhere, and 'it seemed to me

that no additidnal harm could possibly

come by giving the membership gener-

ally a history of the case, although my

judgment had been that no report

should be made until action was taken





by the executive committee or board'





of directors and the particular animals

affected, specified, because the great

hulk'of animals- tested by Cole are, not

questioned. It» was only. possible to

perpetrate. the fraud On one while test-

ing six 'for advanced registry, and

when certain, supervisors were in

charge at the Cabana Farm he. made

no attempt whatever to perpetrate the

“fraud. WW only a small num-

ber of the records in





tuition come out before full infor-

mation could begiven ’asgto the ani-

mals that would -he affected, seemed.





mm elm who has bought

was WWW”! mad;





, can be charg- \

ed with fraud, and to have this intor- ’





 

 





Make This

Ma Money Needed '--





tion, Worms,

dred pounds, at the present





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Pay Only When





We will supply yen with enough

for all your animals. No strings to





Send the coupon today, or drop





Alwayohcpazoodul pIyochIt':

Medicated Salt on ham: Feed it as .

a tonic to all farm animals. a-

membcrn-(l parifiol the blood and

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SECOND EDITION.





 





, ‘ The markets in this edition were re-

- vised and corrected on Thursday 5f-

ternoon, August 28.





WHEAT.





, Al though the Wheat market is dull,

. a Yeeling of slightly more optimism

prevails, with prices advancing a frac-

tion on the local market. Atb the op-





 





ening this week, however, Minneapolis





_ quoted lower figures following increas-

ed receipts at western market centers.

Uncertainty as to the future of the

food situation causes miners/and deal-

ers to hesitate about taking hold of the

'market in a strong way. A year ago

No. 2 red wheat was selling on the 10—

cal market at $2.22. Present Detroit





prices are:

No.1 red ............... $2. 27

No. 1 mixed ............ 2.25

No. 1 white ............ 2.25

No. 2 red ............... 2.24

‘ No. ....... . ...... 2.20





CORN.





Last Week holders of corn sold free-

ly upon learning that Texas was ship-

ping new corn into the northern states.

This forced prices to a lower level but

failed to hold them there because the

volume of grain from the Lone Star

state promises to be only a small fac-





tor in the immediate future marketing.





Early this week commission houses

were buying, but there was no large





shipping demand at Chicago. Present





quotations there are: No. 2 mixed

corn $1.94@1.94%; No. 2 yellow $1.94

@195; September 31.8014; December

31.43%. A year ago on the local mar-

ket No. 3 corn was selling at $1. 65 per

bushel. Present Detroit prices are:

No.3 corn $2. 02

No.3 ye1low ..... 2.06

No. 4yellow ..... ....... 2.04

No. 5yellow ..... ..199





OATS.





The position of this grain has been

somewhat stronger than that of corn.

Prices have followed the quotations of

corn, but over a somewhat narrower

limit. Receipts have been less than

dealers were calculating on. At Chi-

cago No. 2 white cats are quoted at

72@76%c; No. 3 white at 73@74c. A

year ago standard oats were quoted at





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Detroit at 710. Present quotations

here are:

No.2white ..... 8.1

No.3 white ...............801/§

NO.4Whlte ....... DOD-OIOOI79%

No. 3 white (new) .........76%

RYE.





Receipts at country elevators are in- ,





creasing, while prices have weakened,

being quoted at $1.50 for cash No. 2

on the local market.





BEANS.





The market has been quiet through-





' out the past week. Lacking specula-





tive interest and export demand, the

dealers have very little to do just now.





,Quotations on the various markets do





not represent actual sales in most cas-

es. In New York choice pea beans are

quoted at $8.50; common to fair $7@

8.25; medium choice $9; red kidneys

ch‘oice $13.50@14. The trade is slow

at Chicago, where the market is feel—

ing the influence of the fight on the

high costof living. Hand-picked pea

beans, choice to fancy are quoted there

at $8.75@9; do fair to good $8@8.50;

red, kidneys $11.50@12. Detroit’s mar-

ket is inactive and easy, with prices

reduced to $8.10 per cwt. for immedi-

ate and prompt shipment.





FEEDS.





The feed market shows no change,

despite the recent fluctuations in corn

prices. Detroit quotations to jobbers

are: Bran $47; standard middlings

$56; fine middlings $64; coarse corn

meal $81; cracked corn $83; corn and





SEEDS.





, In Toledo prime cash cloverseed is

minted at $30; October $30. 40; prime

rehab alsike $25. 45; October alsike ate

$25 45.

prime red clover at $30

_ Himeth r $5 50

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f $16 50@18. 50.





gas 11 33.2113}, §





ing spring.





HAY.





Consumers of hay are having difli~

culty in satisfying their wants. De-

troit prises are unchanged as follows:

No.1 timothy $31@32; standard $30@

31; light mixed $29@30; No.1 clover

$25@26.



Pittsburgh. —-The/ market is dull

with present receipts in excess of the

demand. Quotations are: No. 1-tim-

othy $34@34.50;No.1z-light mixed $30;

No. 1 clover mixed $30@31; No.1 cle-

ver $30@31.





POTATOES. '





Receipts of potatoes are increasing

and prices show a tendency downward

as a result. At Detroit New Jersey

Cobblers at selling at $5.85@6 per

150-lb. sack. At Chicago the demand

and movement is slow with the market

unsettled and prices lower; the Early

Ohios, field run, are selling there at

$2. 40@2. 50 per cwt. The Pittsburgh

market is in a similar position, having

liberal supplies. The late potato crop

is developing satisfactorily in some

regions, and poorly in other'places.





The late Minnesota crop is good, whilebring 45@480.





be much\h1gher this winter and 83m.:-:~'

" rains~ have greatly benefited lateree





the early crop, from that. state

being marketed: In Wisconsinrree





toes; growers, however, are complain-

ing of damage from leaf hoppers and

blight. The New England crop is suf-

fering for lack of moisture.





BUTTER.





Butter markets are holding about

steady with last week, with the prices

for high and low grade stock gradual-

ly widening. Fancy butter is Scarce,





and in the majority of our market qua-f-





tations are tending higher. On the

other hand, lower grades are accumu‘





. lating and dealers are finding it a lit-»

- tle difficult to mOVe such stock.” At,





Detroit fresh creameries are jabbing

at 511,4@52c; at Chicago 46@54c; at

New York 46@571,§c; at Philadelphia

western creamery extra is quoted at





570 per pound.

‘ EGGS.





Trading is on a firm basis with quo-

tations steady to higher. Rhoeipts

are running largely to, inferior grades,

due to hot weather. At Detroit fresh

candied current receipts are quoted at

43@44c,

In Chicago the market





 





 





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BUF F ALO

Pigs sold here today at $22 and mix-

ed hogs at $22. 50@22. 65; compared

with other points, these prices are

about $1 too high. Lambs sold up to

$15.75 and calves to $22.50.





DETRIOT .





* Cattle.

Receipts 2,217 Canners 25c lower;

other grades steady.

Best heavy steers .., ..... $13. 00@14. 00

Best handy wt bu steers. 10. 00@11. 50

Mixed steers and heifers 9.50@10 50





Handy light butchers . . . . 7. 50@ 8. 50

Light butchers . . .‘ ....... ’ 6. 75@ 7. 75

Best COWS 9..00@1000

Butcher cows .......... ' 7. 50@ 8. 25

Cutters ......... . 6.75@ 7.75

Canners ............. . . . . 6. 00

Best heavy bulls 200(0) 975

Bologna bulls 800@ 85

Stock bulls ....... .. . . . . . 7. 00@ 7. 75

Feeders ......... 9..000@100

Stockers ..... 7 00 @ 8. 50

Milkers and springersqr” $ 7 5@ 125

Veal Calves. .

Receipts 1,112. Market steady.

Best .................. '. .$22. 00@22. 50

8. 00@18. 00





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 6,523. Lambs 50c lower;





sheep steady.





Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . .$14.00@14.50

Fair lambs ...... . . . . . . . . 12.50@13.50

Light to 'common ........ 10.00@11.00

-Fair to good sheep . . . . 8.00, 9.00

Culls ...... 4.00 6.00





”098-

Receipts 3, 571. Market 50@75c low-

er; all grades $20. ,





flCHICAGO





H0 08-9



Estimated receipts today are 25,000;

holdover 11,318. Morket mostly $1@

125 lower than yesterday. Tops at

$20. 25; heavy 250 lbs up, medium, good

and choice $17@19. 25; medium 200 to

250 lbs, medium, cod and choice at

$17. 50@20; light 1 0 to 200 lbs, com-

mon, medium, good and choice $18@





,20. 25; light lights 130 to 150 lbs, com

'mon, medium,;good and chOice $17.55





@19 .25 heaVy cklng sows 250 lbs

upé egooth $16“? 361.752;5 1) skin eggs

20 I up. r0 D 38



lbs down, medium, goodgnlg chOice at

«came:





Estimated receipts tedani are 11, 000.

on all killing"





 

 





 

 

 





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The Detroit market quotes might 51100 i;

umbert at 1815,75





 





Reports for Thursday, August» 28th





dium, good and choice $6.75@13. 25; ,





bulls, bologna and beef $6. 50@12. 25;

canners and cutters, cows and heifers

$5.75@6.75; do canner steers ,at $6.25

@925; veal calves, light and handy-

weight, medium, good and choice at

$19. 50@20. 50; feeder steers, common,

medium, good and choice $7. 756,213. 75;





stacker steers, common, medium, good





and choice $7@11; ocker cows and

heifers common, 111 um, good and

choiCe $7@8. 75; stacker calves, com-

mon, medium, goOd and choice $8@11;

western range cattle, beef steers, medi-_

um, good and choice $11@16. 25.; do

cows and heifers, medium, -good and

choice $8. 50@13. 25.

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 38, 000.

Market slow; native lambs mostly 500

lower; bulk of good to choice natives

$15; feeders slow. Lambs 84 lbs down

medium, good, choice and prime at $13





15. 50; do culls and common $8. 50@‘





2. 50; spring lambs, mediumy good,

choice and prime $10@12. 25; ewes, me-

dium, good

cull and common $3@7; breeding ewes

full mouths to yearlm $8. 50@14. 75;





yearlings wethers, med 11m, good and,





choice $13@14.75





BUF F ALO '





Wednesday, [August 27,1919

(Hat: e. . .





Receipts 10 cars. Market is slow.

Prime heavy steers $16@17; best ship-

ping steers $13. 50@14; medium ship-

ping steers $12. 50@13;

yearlings 950 to 1000 lbs $166217;

light native yearlings, good quality at

$12. 50@13. 50; best handy steers $12@

13; fair to good kind at $10.50@11.:50

handy steers and heifers, mixed $12@

13; western heifers $11@12; state

heifers $8. 50@9. 50; best fat can at





$10. 50@11; butchering cows6 - 8@9;

cutters $6. 50@7; canners $5 ancy

bulls $10@11; butchering b ls $8@9:





common" bulls $7 @8 best feeders, 900'

to 1000 lbs $9@10 medium feeders at

$7. 50@8. 50' stockcrs 8768;11 11 ‘ ‘



mon $6. 50@7, {best milker's '-i ‘ ‘

ers $100@150 ' dl $7





Receipts 10 c

Heavy $22 25@

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DETROIT





A good voluma

to the city market 1:

toes are offered freel with the

ranging from 1@1. 2 per bushe



1 apples $2 50 3‘; No. , 'ivax

beans $1. 50@2; green2 119111119 $1.75@

'2 50, cabbage 75c@$1; grapes at $3;

onions $2 25@2. 75;- notatoes 82.5961)

2.75; peppers $1@1. 50; pears $2523. 25@;

peaches $2. 50@4; plums $3@4; celery

40@65c per dozen; poultry, live 346 for

old; 36c for springers; eggs 52@53c.





WOOL





American woOl buyers who went to

England to purchase supplies were dis-

appointed in that they found the Brit-

on anxious to sell medium and coarse

grades and ready to pay a premium

"for fine wools the same attitude that

the trade on this side takes. Mills in

this country are working to capacity

where sufficienthelp is available. Some

fine unwashed delalne sold in Boston





 

 

 

 





 





 

 





 





seesaw-s. Toma-





 





’ recently at 83c with quotations up to





85c. Michigan fine unwashed clothing

changed hands there last week at 63c.

According to government figures Ohio

fine unwashable wool sold in Boston

on the first days of July and August of

this year at exactly the same price





that the same grade brought for the ,





same days of these months in 1918, or

61@62c per pound.





GRAND RAPIDS





. Farmers are sitting tight on their

hay, with the result ‘it advanced $4

per ton at the city market last week.

It is now $30 and only one loadpwas.

marketed and little if any is expected

this week. They will be cautious ‘in

selling. until they know their own re-

quirements. They have been feeding

for some weeks, as pasturage is very

shert, with prespe‘cts of having to con-

tinue through till next season. There

'Were twelve cars or Duchess apples

shipped from this market and loading

stations the past; week. They were

bought at 75c@$1 per bushel. This

Week shippers will start on the crop of

Wealthy variety which is about 70

per cent full. Baldwin and Northern

Spy are. short. The estimate of west-

ern‘ Michigan apple crop is 250, 000 bar- ~





role; 50 per cent less than' last year.





Reporting the potato situation in west-

ern Michigan to the Federal Agricul-

tural Bureau, John I. Gibson says the

early crop, damaged by drought, is on—

ly 10 per cent of full, but that the late

crop. doing well since rainfall, with 90

per cent as average condition City

market price last Week Was $2@2. 25- a

bushel. There is more poultry being

raised than ever before in this part of

the state. Dealers pay 25 cents per

pound for live broilers. ..





 





NEWS OF THE WEEK





(Continued from page 226.)

Sunday, Austin 24. '





FOLLOWING a raid on Fort Han- '





cock by Mexican bandits, more Am-

crican troops cross the £10 Grands to

capture the outlaivs. -—The Anier-ican

Red Cross is asking for $15, 000,000 to

aid in a campaign for the promotion of

public health,— extending the country’s





nursing resources. preparin {or emer-

gene: diSaster relief and 3‘





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':- troéps return ’<
with. mm a,

liter dinnerthe toiletries"





" . Liter enmity singing led byvllr.

isomer, m. Kedzie made as ad-

fiesddl-welcome to the people «who

hid athat?d at. the 0011mm

m . the customary metal rov‘

parts...rzdt. Ahde’isbnrcf the college,

‘fit'ean haters-sting} address open the





ject of “Why the Fm Organ-





. isei” mung. the reasons-Prof. Ander-

' ionsaid. were (I) became they do not





 





 





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





' the Vegetable





[at a fair price for their product} (2.)

W 'rthe? prices they receive are

new that at the cost or preseason;

‘3‘) _me “they do not get a living

wage {or their labor.



Following Prof. Anderson’s address





. Bret. A. G. Brown explained the work





oi: the animal husbandry department

and Prof. EKG. Cox told about the

farm ems department trying out new





. vafietiés of farm crops. The matter





of m drainage was ably discussed

by Prof. Musselman.



The election of officers resulted in

the reelectionmf the old officers: G.

Garden, presidents; I. W. Cargo, vice-

president; Mrs. S. R. Holmes, decre-





tary-treasurer.





 





LIVINGSTON COUNTY BREEDERS.





 





One of the best examples of the ef-





forts of coinmunity. stock breeding to g

5





interest the people or an entire county

in the practice of breeding better liye

stock was "the delegation of more than

two hundred Livingston county Hol-

stein enthusiasts Who attended the





' StateHolstein-Friesian Breeders? Pic-





nic at East Lansing on August 23. Led

by County Agent Dunks this delega-

tion proved an inspiration to other





_ county agents :who are endeavering to





organize strong breeders? organiza-

tiOns in their respective counties.





 





BLE GROWERs' Assocm-





VEGETA

. N OF AMERICA.





T I 0

The eleventh





 





annual' convention of

G-roWers" of 'America

will he held at the Statler Hotel, De-

trdit, on September 9-12.



. . Program. ,

Tuesday, September 9, 10:00 A. M.

The address of welcome by Mayor



(laminae: Detroit, will be responded

to by President Howard W. Selby, of

the association. The businesnsession

and announcements will follow..

, Tuesday afternoon the general sub-

ject, “Cooperation,” will be featured:

“Cooperation Among Producers," 'by

Hale Tcnnant. (in worse of govern-

ment and state cooperative work in

Michigan; "A Producers’ Organization

that Cooperates," by Dorr Bnell, man-

ager of Michigan Potato Gmwers’ Ex-

change ;” “The Ashtabula Lettuce

Growers’ Association," E.» A. Dunbar,

Ohio; “cooperation Among the Toledo

Gardeners,” Louis F. Miller, of Ohio;

“Cooperation in New England,” How-

ard W. » Selby. ' .

Tuesday «evening Alfred Vivian of

Ohio will present-his lecture on "veg-

etable Growing in Foreign ”Countries."

Wednesday, Wemb;r.10, 9330 A. fit.

Market Monet's. Section—“Ex-

perimental Work in Connection with

Ontario Vegetable Growing,” Prof. A.

H. MacLennan, Toronto; _“Developing





“improved— sn-am§ or Varieties of Veg- 14399





stables," Prof; J. W.- Crow, Ontario;

\“Tho 'Use, of' Commercial Fertilizers

and. Lime in Qaufition with Vassar





 





’ city mar'kets. -





{Market Gardeners . ,

« at the Virginia Truck merchant so».





‘ ” m'eerriedou’t rm thespian»

- .m which had been nicely ”ranged

”may“ willoflflesfior the oc-





. contagious aberflon? ‘





My .‘ i6 ..



non trip. wednesday ev—.

eaterrmshfi. and Thursday.

g“*the visitors will visit Detoit’s





Tfiur’sday.'3cptcmhcr 11, can ‘;A. M.

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noun Prof. Ta“ (1. Johnson; of Virginia;

“Work on a ~‘Two-th’ou‘sand-aere Vege-

table Farm,” R. W. Demon. New Jen

sey; “Mushmeiaon Cunard". (illustrate

ed). H. B. Blandford, Michigan. -

' Greenhouse VSection—‘—“Development

of Vegetable Forcing at Toledo, Ohio,"

George Bayer, Ohio;

Work in the Greenhouses at th

Experiment Station,” Prof.



Green; “Some diseases ot'Greenheuse‘

Crops





Ohio





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andtheir Contra? P101. A. D.

Selby. Ohio. . p ,



Huck Land Section—"Growing Cel-

ery in the Kalamazoo Region,” Ezra

Levin; “Onion Growing on Muck

Land,” C. E. Downing. Ronndtabl’e.





discussion on diseases or muck. land. ‘





crops, led by Prof. G. H. Coons.



Thursday ottoman Detroit. garden-

ers have arranged to entertain with a

boat ride and Thursday arresting will

ocean the annual banquet at the Hotel

Station



Frida'y,.8cptember '12, 9:30 A. M.



“Storage of Vegetables,” Prof. H. C.

Thcimpson, New York;

Workvfor Vegetable Growers,” C. E.





Durst, Anna, Illinois; “Possibilities of





State Association Work,” Prof. L. M

Montgomery, Ohio; round-table discus-

sion of diseases of vegetables and

their control, Dr. G. H. Coons.

Friday afternoon special committees

.will report and members will elect

officers. ’





Many of the fields of sand, loam,

clay and much of this state respond

generously to applications of acid phos-

phate.



Every farmer who has not ascertain-’5

ed t0" his satisfaction through field

trials the need of phosphorus on his

land shduld'do so.





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PAIR.





   





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Worms in Horses—Can. you tell me





what to give my horse that is troubled .





with worms? Have used some of the.

commercial remedies which failed to

help him. R. J. K., Big Rapids, Mich.

——Give your horse 1 dr. of santonin

and ,1 oz. of ground gentian in a bran

mash three times a week for two

.weeks. Giving one ounce of turpentine

in one pint of raw linseed oil occasion-

ally is a fairly good remedy. '



Bowed Tendons.-—I have a horse

that is troubled with bowed tendons

and'it there is a remedy for this ail-

ment, please let me have it. D. L.,

Gobleville, Mich—41? your horse trav-

els‘ sound, showing no lameness, you

had better leave him alone; however,

if his tendons are weak, apply one

part cantharides and six parts lard ev-

ery ten days.



Wire Wound on Hock—I would like

to know what to apply to wound on

hock caused by ire cut. I had form-

ula but lost it. One ingredient Was

pewdered alum. F. R., Swan Creek,





Mich—Mix one part powdered alum, .

three parts oxide zinc and four parts -





bor'm acid to wound twice a day. If

this is a malignant, angry appearing

fungus, dissolve one ounce of perman-

ganate of potash in half a pint of wa-

ter, shake well and paint fungus twice

daily.



Barren Cows—This is the first year

I have had trouble in getting my cows

in calf. Some of them have been serv-

ed live or six times. Have heifers that





 





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that we have changed bulls. M. D.,

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clean tepid water and flush vagina two

or three hours before the cow is serv-

ed. You had better use a fountain sy-

.. . Healthy cows that come in heat

regularly will generally get with calf

some time. ‘I know of no better plan





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ECENTLY We attended two pic-





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that county to enjoy a good time and

to learn what could be gathered by

mingling with neighbors and strangers

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ty, where over 1,500 persons came out

to the first county farmers’ picnic.

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general supervision of the county ag-

ricultural agents and their co-workers

in the respective counties.

of Macomb county, and Mr. Scheetz,





of Alpena, and those. who assisted each!





of them, are to be congratulated



One of the reasons of the generous

response appears to be that with the

war over, h'ome.interests and problems

are again taking a major part in our

thinking. The horrors and anxiety at-

tending upon the great world conflict

did not leave room for the close con.

sideration of matters that in cOmpari-‘

son seemed trivial. But with the con-

flict ended 'local problems and inter—

ests are taking on larger proportions

and we feel the necessity and the op-

portunity of dealing with them more

exclusively.



Another reason is that the programs

of these picnics were so varied that

people of nearly every temperament

were appealed to. Besides the usual

basket lunch and speaking program the

managements provided for goodmusic,

games and races, demonstrations, con-

tests, etc. If one felt interested in

only a single phase of the program- he

would go for that part of it. However,

it is a matter of observation that ev-

e1ybody from the grandmothers down

to the babies was on hand at practical-

ly every event



But the enthusiasm and the respon-

sive spirit prevailing has a still more

significant cause, we believe. Back of

the events have been months of pains-

taking effort by county and local lead-

ers, with little groups throughout

these counties and the leaven that was

placed here and there is working into

and permeating the whole lump. The

spirit of cooperation and organization

is in the air and farmers generally

have allowed the germ to get seated in

their systems. There is no longer

much argument on the need of getting





together for business, social and edu-





cational purposes. In the minds of

the majority of these thinking farmers

this need is imperative. The only

thing that troubles them is “how

shall we go about it.”



Here, then, is real evidence that the

respective county agents are perform-

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confidence of the people with whom





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