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DETROIT, APRIL 3, 1920

CURRENT COMMENT

HE failure of the
Michigan 5 u g a r
manufacturers to fav-
orably reply to the ul-
timatum of the grow-
ers to meet them in
conference by March 20 is a disap-
pointment to all who have the best in-
terests of Michigan agriculture at
heart. This result is the more disap-
pointing because of the reports receiv-
ed from the western sugar producing
areas to the effect that conferences
have been, or. are being, arranged look-
ing toward the settlement of the points
at issue between the beet growers and
sugar manufacturers will show an
Obviously, the settlement of this con-
troversy is impossible without the con-
tending parties will meet to attempt
its settlement, or submit their cases to
some fair and disinterested tribunal
for arbitration. The apparent lack of
response on the part of the manufac-
turers, led to the suggestion of such a
tribunal in our issue of March 20. The
officials of the beet growers' organiza-
tion have signified their willingness to
submit their case to such a tribunal;
to be composed of the circuit judges
of the beet producing counties. This
shows a spirit of willingness on their
part to meet the manufacturers half
way in a final attempt to secure a set-
tlement which will save this industry
to the state without compromising
their stand for a fair division of its
rewards. It is to be hoped that the
sugar manufacturers will show an
equal willingness to have their differ-
ences with the growers adjudicated by
such a fair, capable and disinterested
body of public men, to the end that
the available equipment for the pro-
duction and manufacture of beets may
be profitably employed during the com-
ing season, and continue to serve the
balance of the public in a useful way,
instead of lying idle, with a consequent
loss to all concerned.

The time for effecting such a settle-
ment is short if an optimum of sugar
production is to be realized this year.
But there is still time for such reason-
able action, which we hope may be
taken before the opportunity passes.

 

 

 

 

 

Sugar Beet
Settlement
Desirable

. ‘ T first thought it
. - would appear to
.Beneficral the average man. the
Effeas of ' only benefits to be de«

Wdfion rived from organiza~
, . tion for the purpose
of cooperative selling would be in the
elimination of expense in the process
of distribution and a consequent bet-

the

, tor. profit for the producer. "While this.-

’ Grins. ,. objectiona-

  
  

r’ivedifroin «the standardization of prod;

  

quality is a direct result of organiza-
tion for coopérnti‘ye; selling. ‘.-And the
profit to the producers resulting from
this standardization and improvement
of quality may easily exceed the sav-
ing in distribution o’ost effected through
cooperative ‘ selling.

In the first ,. enthusiasm for cooper-
ative enterprises thisfactor is likely
to be overlooked, but experience brings
it out in nearly every‘case. Likewise,
economies of production may be neg-
lected to an unprofitable degree in the
development of distribution plans.
Economic production of quality prod-
ucts and economic distribution by co-
operative action should go together
for best reSults. And neighborhood
cooperation is capable of profitable‘de-
velopment along both lines.

.casesiit. is found that theq‘benefits de- ~ ‘

ucts and the improvement of". their

  

"eighteen to t" of

who know“ values ;

ticai, everyday use; It is‘ early to. se-
cure wishy-wsshy steriesof how John-l
ny 'and Sally have been given, runt
loalves and pigs, and who think that

life on the farm is a. most wonderful

adventure when they get $3.47 of the
proceeds when theanimal is sold. We
know of a few .-go<’1d farmers whOse
families feel that they have an inter-
est in the cow or brood sow regardless
of who may have owned the ‘calf or
pig. We want to hear from farmers
who understand boys and girls, and
who have entered into partnership and
mutual sympathy With them.

We believe that many farmers who
refuse to take their boys into 'some
kind of partnership or mutually satis-
factory business relationship as soon

' as the boys are capable of doing a

T is time for more

- farmers to awaken
Cilfldren to the fact that farms
L’vestOCk like some of the in-
Dollars udustrial corporations

have two kinds of
stock— the “preferred" and the “ com-
mon." The owner of the farm may so
manage the business that dividends on
“preferred” stock—the good things of
life that add to the comfort and happi-
ness of his family are reasonably cer-
tain. But there is no known system of
farm management that will make “com-
mon” stock dividends absolutely cer-
tain. A severe storm may ruin the
crops, or disease destroy the animals
before they are ready for market. If
our farms pay.only one kind of divi-
dends let us make sure of some of the
good things of life that we ought to
be cashing in as we go along. The
farm is not always a failure if it fails
to pay large dividends on its “com-
mon” stock. It somehow appears that
farmers, in some instances, need to be
impressed with a spirit that considers
the “preferred” stock dividends—the
family comfort and happiness more
than mere dollars. The farms do not
pay now and probably never will pay
so large dividends from a money stand-
ard as some other kinds of business.
Their strong attraction is for people
who appreciate things other than mon-
ey: One of the first duties of parents
is to instill a love for these other good
things of life into the subtle minds of
boys and girls rather than holding up
the dollar as the standard of life.

The finest young animals in the
world are the boys and girls, and it is
interesting to watch their development.
When we consider some of the‘flne
things done by the boys and girls in
the club way of growing crops and
calves and pigs when under proper
guidance, naturally the thought is sug—
gested that their interest in farm life
would become more permanent if they
could have the kindly counsel of par-
ents.- If given encouragement to de-
velop along the right lines and put
their personality into the little things
of farm life the chances are ten to one
that they would not think of leaving
the farm. Boys and girls do not al-
ways desert the farm and go) to ’cities
and towns because the social life and

advantages in the country are not suf~

ficiently varied and interesting. In too
many instances their parents are so
busily engaged in endeavoring to make-
the “common” stock of the farm pay
dividends that they overlook entirely
the “preferred" stock. It is probably
due to this fact more than all others
that the majority of desertions from
the; farm result. . -
While many writers have told us
how to feed. train and develop colts.
calves, pigs and lambs, and to care
for our fields, it would be very, inter-
esting, indeed, if some of our. practical
farmer friends would write and tell us
how. they have managedfltqkespwtheir

boysand girls-on the farm. ~- ome live:
articles that would; appeeitoiimghish

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man’s work on the farm deserve
mighty little sympathy ifthe boys de-
sert the farm as soon as they reach
their majority. In many instances the
relations between father and son he-
cOme strained about the time the boy
reaches an age when he begins to think
and reason for himself, especially if he
has ideas and opinions which he is not
afraid to express. To be treated as a
common laborer, constantly nagged,

«his opinions ridiculed and ,given no

share in the profits of the business
hurts his feelings. Real red-blooded
boys will not endure such treatment;
it is brutal, unfair and short-sighted
from a business point .of view.

It is certainly a great thing when
the father can take his son into part-
nership with him and they remain
friends and confidante, and when the
son can tell his father his hopes, fears,
plans and ambitions without fear of
harsh reproval or unjust criticism.
Some farmers are too proud to admit,
even to their boys, that they have not
made a success of their business. Nat—
urally the boys think they are being
treated unfairly when their father'is
practicing economy which to them sav-
ers of stinginess. If the father has
not made his farm pay well the boys
will frequently grasp» the situation
quickly, respect the father the more
fun his toil and his sacrifies, and to«
gether they face the problem. Inter-
est and helpful cooperation between
father and sons is only possible when
there is complete confidence. Tell
your boy about your business, make
him the best proposition you can of.
ford to make him, and then if you fail,
to enlist his cooperation it will not
have been your fault

VERY farmer who

. keeps poultry
Impromng should make an effort
Pow” to establish uniform-
Products ity in his flock. Eggs

and dressed fowls sell
to better adVantage when they are of
uniform quality. The consumers pre-
fer eggs of uniform quality, and if they
cannot get eggs of this kind from the
farmer he prefers to deal direct with
the dealer who grades and sorts them
to conform to the-consumer's fancies.

“The same rule holds good for the pur-

chase ‘of dressed fowls. Experienced
market authorities agree that careful
attention to such details will add from
ten to twenty per cent to the selling
price of eggs. A careful survey of
farm docks in some of our communi-
ties indicates that farmers are neglect-
ing this phase of the business by keep-
ing flocks of, mongrel birds, and as a
result some of their eggs are white,
some brown, some large and some

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small; and all other shapes, “293 and 3am e,

colors between. Keeping such a flock
is poor business policy, especially
when the products must be 'sold‘for

knife of esockifthat Will my

mumfm feed M is», f ' ’ -.

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_ ‘ ho are'lcfipahle,
of putting such knew e‘dge into prise--

from ten tothenty per cent below the _,
Marinate epitome was. The only ‘

       

that «are; alike in. quality. and appear-
such ’a.‘ way as to simplify the feeding.
problem and make it possible to ban-
dle a larger flock with the same
amount of labor? as is .now employed
"in handling a smaller flock. Special-
ization in breeding is not necessary to
establish uniformity in the .farm flock.
The farmer can add the new blood
through the—purchase of eggs or' baby
chicks. This is easier and safer than
attempting to conduct expensive breed-
ing Operations.

 

-News of the Week,

Tuesday, March 23.
ASHINGTON state ratifies the
proposed suffrage amendment

to the federal constitution—Gustav
Noske, German minister of defense, re- '
signs. and the probabilities are that the
Ebert cabinet will quit—Fighting
continues in Leipsic and Halle between
troops and workmen—Orders for the
deportation of 120 radicals held at Fort
Wayne have been issued by the immi-
gration department at Washington.——,
South Dakota holds presidential pri-
maries, being one of the first states to
vote on nominees.—.—Wire communica-
tion is seriously disturbed by an unus-
ual display of aurora borealis or north-
ern lights. _ .
Wednesday, March 24. ~

THE allied supreme council permits

.the Ebert government to send Ger-
man troops into the Ruhr district near
the Holland frontier'to restore order.—
Preliminary returns indicate that Gen-
eral Leonard Wood is leading in the
South Dakota primaries—A note to
the allied supreme council from the
State Department at Washington re-
iterates the American demand that the.
Turks be expelled from Europe—Eight
persons are killed in traffic accidents
in Detroit during the past week—It is
reported that 16,000 anti-Bolshevik sol-
diers were found frozen on the steppes
of Siberia.

Thursday, March 25. ,

INDICATIONS of heavier fighting in

the Ruhr district are reported. The
United States will join with Great
Britain and Italy in Opposing any mil-
itary action in the Ruhr valley—It is
reported that there are over 200,000
cases of typhus in central and eastern
Europa—Suspension of work' in the
anthracite coal fields on April 1 has
been-averted through an agreement be-:
tween operators and workers—Almost
complete reports on the South Dakota
primary election gives Wood a plural-
ity of about 4,000 votes over Lowden
and/about 6,000 votes over Johnson for
the republican nomination for presi-

dent.
F rlday, March, 26.

GREAT Britain seizes a shipload of
artillery rifles destined for Dublin.
—~Wesel, Germany, is captured by ,‘rev-
olutionary workingmen from govern-
ment troops.———President of the French
aero club predicts that it will be pos-
sible within a few years to circumnav—
igate the-globe in four days—The sen-
ate committee on appropriations re-
ports favorably on $105,649,871 for the
legislative, executive and judicial de-
partments or government.——An agent
of the Lenine government of Russia is
reported to be in Germany directing
the present revolt.—-Canada is ready
to demobilize her naval officers—Del-
aware hoids hearing on suffrage
amendment to the federal constitution.
~During 1919, 52.064 Americans set~
tied in Canada;
Saturday, March 27.

THE Turkish commander in Thrace
- orders a mobilization of Turkish
troops, and announces he will oppose
the occupation of Constantinople by
allied troops—The Turkish ministry
resigns—Martial law is introduced in
Russian railroad workshops to put an
end to idleness and slacking.—~Repre-
sentatives of farm organizations ap-
prove bili for marking woolen fabrics. ,
now before congress—Bank clearings
in the United States have gained thir-
ty~flv~e per cent since a year ago.--A
strike in Bnenos Air-es has paralysed
trafic in that port—nFree trade in '
necessities of life is arrang:
‘ Japan and Argentina.
——-Four persons are killed in .a. snow
slide near Salt Lake City. .

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It is not ,pe—
,Culiar to agriculture that there are un-
s‘ol’ved poblems to amuse debate, but
it is in a way peculiar to agriculture

f thatrthe' problems presented are mark-j

«ed by, and involVed in, so many con-
tributing factoi‘s that years are neces-
Sary'. for determining the facts.
Dusting vs. spraying is thus follow-
ing true to horticultural form; Not so
many years ago the debate arose about
the relative merits of lime-sulphur or
Bordeaux, and men were equally posi-
tive on one side or the other, as they
are today either" for or against dust. It
' is interesting to note that in this case
many of the men who Championed Bor-
deaux are using lime sulphur today,
and many who used lime- sulphur are
either casting about for something else
or- are using LBordeaux, as of old.
_ It is the writer’s purpose to review
the case both for and against dusting
and," without being partisan, to attempt
- to dl aw’conclusions from the present-
day findings Being convinced that the
case needs the preSentation from the
horticulturist’s side as well as the
Vplant pathologist's side. I have’ asked
the editor to secure it from a “practical
horticulturist whose judgment every-
one in the state recognizes,'a presenta-
tion of the case as he sees it, as a

practical fruit grower,

Historically, dusting as a plant dis-

HE dusting idea is by no means
‘. new. In dryer sections this re-

course ag‘alnst insect and fungus
attack has been injvogue "for many
years. . In Michigan and other sections
mine or less surrounded by water the
problem of protecting fruits and vege-
tables against their enemies is by no
means easy. In wet seasons nothing

but thejmostthorough methods in

spraying have given susceptible varie-
ties of fruits that freedom from attack
that insures the quality demanded by
our better markets. ,

Dusting has had more to its credit
,in a state like Michigan than many au-
thorities have been willing to concede.

In order to make the duster a factor
in the more « humid sections, a few

‘. principles must be especially noted.

”first, a type of machine that would

s".-develop sufficient power and capacity
’, t0“make the dust reach every particle
of the area to be treated. Second, ma;

terials’ so finely ground that they can
as completely cover every part of the

, ‘ 3 exposed leaf and fruit surface as will

.the inlay mixture. Lastly, it has been

9.1.313 and work out a formula that

“.- i‘ possibilities and limita- ' \
amisht almost say that fruit .1 .

equally positive that their method '

_ be the matter horticultural or be it‘
” any~other sort of thing.

, regular business.
important to get away from any,
: pted schedule found. adequate for

ease control measure is older than
spraying. Nearly seventy-five years
ago French peasants adopted the ap-
plication of sulphur in the dust form
as their control measure against pow-
dery mildew, and exactly as dusting
became a. vineyard practice,_so did the
yield of grapes gradually come back
to a normal production. Dusting was
the one method of control possible at
the time. and it saved the vineyards of
France. From that time, it has been
recognized that sulphur is a specific
against mildews and given dry, hot
weather its efficiency is. all that we can
ask. Even now, in California, where
the conditions in the growing season
are such as to make sulphur most effi-
cient, dusting is the, standard control
measure against the powdery mildew.

Little was done, aside from desul-
tory experiment, in the next fifty
years to control plant diseases. The
knowledge .of plant disease, the study
of theparasites concerned, was in its
infancy. With the epoch-making dis:
coveryof Bordeaux mixture by Mil-
lardet’ of France, there arose the prac-
tice of giving plants a, fungicidal coat
as protection against invading enemies.
For years little was done in plant pro-
tection or the control of plant diseases,

aside from the improvement of the or»

iginal Bordeaux mixture and the meth-
ods and times of its'application. In
the years of work between 1890 and
1900 machinery for spray application
was being improved. And not Without

its own interest is the part which Mich-

Practical Man Views Dusting

By C. B. Coos, County,

possible to do with the liquid sprays.

[There is so much uncertainty about
plant lice that-it is probably safer to
except this pest from the above list of
enemies. It comes so quickly and of.-
ten departs so unexpectedly that it
may be necessary to speak censer'va-
tively; however, both- black

have the reputation of making it warm
for the green louse.
We have also used a strong lime and

sulphur solut_ion~—home-made—success- ‘

fully against this pest. If applied as
the newly-hatched lice cluster on the
buds, before the latter expand enough
to afford abiding place, scale and lice
can be caught at the same. time. When
first hatched, they are covered with a
fine fuzzy coat and only a high pres-
sure at the nozzle can drive the lime
and sulphur fluid through to, the ene-
Inies “hide. ”

Friends of the duster are no longer
rare. Many of Michigan's best fruit
growers; both apple and peach, 'have
adopted this type of equipment as a
In our own experi-
once, we find the dust carrying such
susceptible varieties of apples as Spy,
McIntosh Red, and Show as tree from
any Signs of scab as any treatment we
have ever used

, Our first experience with the duster
came in 1917 when yery wet weather
I?

made the heavy ”pin

 

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" ii M zc/zzgan Agricul2‘22ral College ‘ , -

leafed ,
'_forty and tobacco dust used properly

 

igan took in this work of development
of efficient control measures.

In the period between 1900 and 1908,
dusting was subjected to rather exten-
sive testing. T. -A. Farrand at 'the
South Haven Substation in 1905 was
among the pioneer wmkers who gave
dusting a trial. This work indicated
that codling motlg was controllable by
the method. But Illinois experiments
conducted by C. S. Crandall in 1906
showed conclusively that the dust
method did not give satisfactory con-
‘trol! of scab or bitter rot. A glance at
the pictures in their report told the
story of failure to obtain satisfactory
results. This dusting was with Bor-
deaux dust and Paris green.

.With the discovery by Cordley, in
1908, of the value of lime-sulphur as a.
summer spray in control of apple dis-
eases, a new era in fruit protection
was inaugurated. Quickly, this new
spray was tested by various experi-
ment stations and in this work the
Michigan Experiment Station experts
made an enviable record by their tests
and their contributions to our knowl~
edge of how lime-sulphur acts. In
this connection should be mentioned
the work of Dr. Shafer of the Ento-
mology Department, who worked out
the principle underlying lime-sulphur’s
action as a scalecide.

At the Cornell Experiment Station
was begun a series of tests with sul-
phur dust in the control of apple dis-
eases. This work was carried on by
Mr. Blodgett, who had had experience

Agent, Oakland County

the time required by a large-sized
spraying outfit. During the long run
of. wet weather during that year the
dust held the scab in check fully as
well as did the lime and sulphur solu-
tion that was intentionally used on
parts of our orchards.

In 1918 the price of dusting mate
rials went so high that we preferred
to use liquids already on hand rather
than encourage an almost prohibitive
price on dust.

Sulphur dust is bad for the eyes. If
one desires a “night of weeping” let
him handle sacks of dust and other
sulphur equipment carelessly. Self-
protection and regard for horses as
well, prompts the humane operator to
work with and not against the wind.
Also to keep bare hands that handle
dusting material completely away from
the face and eyes until washed. The
least smattering of this material in the
eyes gives the user an idea of what
the enemy is up against when the
“guns are turned loose.”

. Sulphur dust must be applied fre-
quently if we would play safe with ap-
ple scab in a wet time .Just ahead of
a rain is a very good time to destroy
the spores of disease that may be
lurking around leaves and fruit wait-

ing for a little moisture to give “them

a start. once rooted to leaf or fruit,
these spores become masters of the

day ahd generally get away with their
. victim.

ltd/general impression has been cur-

 

in the control of hop mildew by suli
phur dust. The success of self-boiled
lime-sulphur, which being a spray mix-
ture extremely weak in polysulphides
but rich in free sulphur, gave to this
investigator strong reason to expect

good control when sulphur alone was. ,

used. I With the sulphur, lead arsenate
in dust form was used, and this com-
bination was succesful in producing in
a year when scab was fairly common,
a satisfactory yield of clean fruit.

Since that time the Cornell Station
has carried on year after year of test
and satisfied itself and numerous fruit
growers of the state that dusting has
merits which can not be overlooked.
So confident were they of the value of
dust that the matter became an ex-
tension project of Cornell University
and many demonstrations were start-
ed. Of the outcome of these trials,
more will be said later.

The Michigan Experiment Station
entered the field in 1915 and has con—
tinued each year since then. This work
has been published in Special Bulletin
87 of the Experiment Station, by W. C.
Dutton, who has had charge of this
line of experiment. This bulletin is
still available, and for the Michigan
fruit grower gives a set of results ob-
tained under Michigan conditions,
which are applicable to the Michigan
fruit-growers' problems. This bulletin
also gives complete account of rela-
tive costs, and as such is a valuable
piece of wbrk in enabling a fruit man
to decide upon his practice. Since that
time, at least a half dozen stations
have been dusting and commercial or-
chards have tested the method under
their own conditions.

The fruit man is sometimes a little
impatient with the experimenter when
this man, working on a problem and
cognizant of its many phases, will not

(Continued on page 536).

lasting if used When foliage is damp
or dripping with dew or rain. We are
not sure that a fine dust sticks to a
wet surface better than it does‘to a
dry. Many auto drivers say a machine
cleans up harder after a drive across
the country in a very dry time than it
does when the trip has been made in
the rain. However, we are reasonably
sure that either method followed per-
sistently will give a crop of fruit free
from worms, scab, and other bad fun-
gus diseases. It must be remembered
that dust should be used frequently if
a high degree of protection is desired.
At least two applications to one used
in case of liquids is highly essential on
fruits that scab easily.

We can hardly draw this article to
a close Without a word as to the effect
on foliage and fruit surface. Spray in-
jury is but a nightmare when dust be-
comes the protective, agent. The in—
fluence of sulphur on many varieties
of red apples is well ‘known to the
fruit grower who has pinned his faith
to the lime and sulphur solution. As
far as our observation goes, the effect
of sulphur duSt on such fruits is like—
wise beneficial. Dusted trees show a
strength and vigor of foliage that is
surely gratifying to the fruit grower.
We have never used any class of
spraying material ”that has given ap-
ple foliage such a, fine, luxurious ap-
pearance that tells the grower most

emphatically that a medium is at hand
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RRANGEMENTS have been made

with the National Wool Ware.-
house & Storage Company of Chicago,
whereby members of the Illinois Agri-
cultural Association may pool their
wools similar to the plan followed last
year. The Live Stock Marketing De-
partment of the Iillinois Agricultural
Association believes that, looking to
the future in the interest of better
wool marketing facilities, it is advis-
able to pool Illinois wools, yet no of-
tort will be made to induce individual
producers to pool their wool unless
they feel fully justified in doing it.

Attention should be called to the
fact that this is a presidential can»
paign year and it is quite possible that
the wools will not be sold quite as
readily as they were last year. In oth«
er words, that returns will be longer
in coming in. Plans are being perfect-
ed whereby a representative of the 111-
inois Agricultural Association will be
at the National Wool Warehouse &
Storage Company to receipt for con
signments of wool as soon as they ar-
rive. It is also planned to send the
producer or the farm adviser, a report
of the grading of the wool as soon as
it has been graded.

There was some criticism last year
because of the seemingly exorbitant
cariage charges. This experience
should suggest that local freight ship-
ments on small lots be avoided where.
ever possible and that. by shipping in
carload lots this high cartage cost can
be eliminated. .That there may be no
misunderstanding, there will be a
charge of three cents instead of two
and a half cents per pound by the Na-
tional Wool Warehouse & tSorage
Company and an additional half cent
to their association. No additional
clutrge is being made by the Illinois
Agricultural Association this year.

An early order for wool sacks, figur-
ing two hundred pounds of wool per
sack, will insure an ample supply.
Sacks are scarce and high. If ordered
soon they will cost approximately nine-
ty cents each. Paper twine should be
used in tying the fleeces. Orders for
twine may be made at‘ the same time
sacks are ordered. H. W. M.

INDIANA BERRY GROWERS SEEK
BETTER METHODS.

 

OUNTY agents of the Borden and

. Floyds Knobs sections are work-
ing among Indiana berry growers to
bring about much needed improve-
ments in the grading and handling of
berries from southern lndianavsections
what has been for several years a de-
clining industry.

Many of the trade will remember
the days when the southern Indiana
berry was held in highest esteem upon
the majority of the northern mar-
kets and they will likewise recollect
the period of decline which followed
the placing upon the market of a su-
perior product from competitive sec-
tions. "l‘hat Indiana lost her place in
the sun through the failure of her
growers to keep apace with modern
methods of handling and grading and
because of the poor condition in
which shipments from Indiana points
have been received, has been realized
by the growers and it appears now
that efforts are being made to prevent
the "extinction” of the industry.

V. J. Mann, of Charlestown, has been
particularly active this past season in
securing assistance from the Federal
Bureau of Markets and the agricultur-

;,-_ 81 college in conducting investigational
\‘w rk in connection with the handling

~.' Two special agents from

 

ing at approximately the sa

tion specialist from the university
spent several weeks during the 1919
deal in conducting temperature tests
and other experimental work in con-
nection with the Indiana berry crop.

IMPORTED CLOVER SEED UNSAFs.

 

LOVER seed imported from abroad

or from other sections of the coun-

try is unsafe for Michigan planting.

The best and really cheapest seed for

Michigan farmers is Michigan-grown,

purchased from dependable local deal-

ers—oven though the cost looks high
as judged by past prices. '

As never before, Ilarge out-of-the-

state seed companies are advertising

for sale in Michigan,’seed mixtures at

apparently attractive prices. In real-
ity this seed is usually of lower stan-
dard of purity and ”germination than

that offered by dependable local deal-,

ers, and it may cause great loss to
Michigan farmers.

smallness of the seed. Many who or-
dinarily plant eight or ten pounds of
red clover to the acre may find it eco-
nomical to use four pounds of red and
two of alsike.

In sections where red clover does not
catch well, due to lack of line or, oth-
er unfavorable conditions, a mixture
of red and alsike will often give better
stands than red alone. -Clover seed is
scarce and high, and every effort must
be made to increase the production in
Michigan. Secretary A. M. Brown, of
the M. A. C. himself a practical farm-
er, makes the suggestion that every
farmer in the state buy at least enough-
clover seed to plant a‘ field to furnish
him with enough seed to plant his en

tire clover acreage the next year. In

view of the great shortage, and the
need for Michigan- grown seed, we are
urging that every efiort be made to
plant as large areas as possible of this
important crop, and that farmers make
it a point to harvest as much as possi-

 

 

sixty days.
their work.
where, impracticable to make

pared teacher.

farming.
school home projects similar
Cook county, Illinois.
a social. and civic center
8. A high school education for

ties.

12. The conservation of rural

15. Federal aid in cooperation

 

National Program for Better ‘
Schools

United States Bureau of Education

1. A minimum school term of not less than one hundred and

z. A suflicient number of teachers adequately prepared for

3. The consolidation of rural scho'ols where practicable, and
it is possible to make it by placing therein an adequately pre-

4. ‘The teacher's home and the demonstration farm of five or
more acres as the property of the school and as an illustra-
tion for‘ the community in better home-making and in better.

5. An all-year session of school adapted to local conditions—
ent E. J. Tobin has carried to such a signal success in rural

6. Community organization with the public school building as 1?

7. Free county public libraries similar to the California plan.
allows them to secure such education without-breaking home

9. Such readjustment and reformation of the course of study in
elementary and secondary rural schools as will adapt them
to the lives of the people they are to serve.

10. The elimination of illiteracy.

11. Better civic and patriotic instructions so as to make true
Americans of all who live under the Stars and Stripes.

13. Good roads as related to better rural schools and the im-
provement of country life conditions.

14. The needs of the farm woman.

the foregoing program to its ultimate success.

the one-teacher school the best

to the work which Superintend-

country boys and girls that still

health.

with the states in carrying out

 

 

 

 

 

A warning against extensive seeding
of Giant Incarnate or Crimson clover
is given farmers of the state. This va-
riety is adapted to sections south.of
the Ohio river for fall planting, but it
will not live over Michigan winters ex-
cept when conditions are extremely
favorable. It is not adapted to spring
planting.

Information is reaching the college
to the effect that large shipments of
clover are coming into the United
States from Italy. This seed also is
not adapted to. Michigan conditions.

Michigan-grown seed of red, alsike,_
or mammoth clover is best for Michi-_

gan conditions. Seed. of these varie

ties grown in other northern states or.

in. Canada is also acceptable. The seed-

ing recommended by. the college crops

department for a mixed hay is: Four

 

alsike clover, an from two to tour.
pounds of timothy. Alsiker though sen-
price

 

pounds of red in v'or- two Pounds of V. states

bio for seed purposes. .
East Lansing. Poor. J. E. Cox.

NEBRASKA CERTiFIED SEED
POTATOES.

I

0 further secure the reputation

Nebraska certified seed potatoes

 

' have obtained in southern and middle

western states, H. 0. Warner, secre-
tary of the Nebraska Potato Improve-
mont Association and in charge of po-
tato work at the state college of agri-
culture, has announced that the certifi.
cation inspection service of the state
will be continued this year in western
Nebraska.

Though the inspection service was

first established in this state last year,

NebraSka certified used have already
made a favorable impression in several

women that a anon: or acumen

- ter,

 

Ono Texas dealer. mph: ‘Mr. f'
time within fifteen years after
ho

potatoes which no recently bought

have come from several other states.

Twenty-five thousand bushels of No- ‘

braska certified seed- were produced - ‘

last yeai. They averaged fifty cents a
bushel above the price of uncertifled
seed.

Thirty-foui growers applied (or the
certification se1v1ce last year, and seed

produced by fourteen of them was ap-

proved as good enough to protect the
reputation of the state. The fourteen

growers produced 25. 000 bushels. 11”sz

1y cf the Triumph variety.
The object of the certification serv-

ice is to encourage the development.

of the seed potato industry in west-
ern Nebraska, to help growers of su-
perior seed to find a proper market,
and to give Nebraska growers an in-
spection system whereby they can oom-
pete with other states. Many states
are now demanding certified seed and
Oklahoma will admit no other kind.

A SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS.

 

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HE country is faced with a serious .

shortage of school teachers, chief-
ly through failure to provide adequate
salaries, according to reports to the
United States Bureau of Education.
Conditions are becoming slightly bet-
however, the reports states, in
some sections, compared with those of
last October, when the National Edu-

cation Association conducted an ’in- .

quiry into the situation.

A. 0. Neal. of the bureau’s division '

of rural education said there is an in-
creasing withdrawal of‘ men teachers
from the profession, the percentage of
male teachers in 1918 being only sev-
enteen per cent, or one in every six.

Based on returns from state school :

officials, the reports
February 13 last there were 18,279
schools closed because of lack of

show that on '

teachers, and 41,000 being taught by '

teachers characterized as “below stan-
dard, but taken on temporarily in the
emergency.” Greater shortages are
shown to exist in southern states.
Responding to a questionnaire sent
out by the commissioner of education,
a great majority of the states in which

schools are closed report that chil-

dren are being transferred to other
districts, while -the remainder report
pupils losing their grade. To another
question as to what extent taxpayers
are interesting themselves in paying
better salaries for teachers, the re.
sponse was almost unanimous for an
increase. ‘
Salaries paid teachers in 1918, Star-
tistics show, were on an average of
$606 for elementary teachers, and
$1,031 for those teaching in the high
schools. From salary schedules col-

lected from various states, it is shown
that wages paid rural teachers fell far.

below the foregoing average in many
states, many localities showing salaries
paid as low as $150 and $200 a year.

In 190 state, county, city and private

normal schools, representing sixty per‘
cent of the total normal schoolsin the
country, there were 11,503 fewer stu-
dents enrolled on November 1, 1919,
than during the pro-war period. A sim‘
ilar falling off is shown in teacher-
training departments in colleges, while
other departments show great increas-
es in enrollment.

 

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rights under it be lost by letting" it ’-

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Lake Huron.
map does not wholly satisfy the sense
~of. proportions‘ nor measure the real
‘- distances.
of "the upper peninsula and the ex
treme length from east to west deter-_

V‘ facturing world.

lgan and between Lake Michigan and
A casual glance at the

If a rule is laid on the map

mined, and a similar measurement
made. of the lower peninsula from
.north to south, it may be a surprise to
some to find that the upper peninsula
is' considerably longer than the lower
peninsula, and that nearly one-third of
the land in the state is in the upper
peninsula. Taking the rule again and
placing one end at Detroit‘and meas-
uring the air-line distance to the west-
ern extremity of the upper peninsula
and, with this distance as aradius and
Detroit as the center, describe a cir-
cle.. The ci1cle will pass through Al-
bany, within a few miles of New Ymk
City, beyond Philadelphia, fifty miles
beyond Washington, beyond Ashville,
.between Knoxville and Chattanooga,
and a few miles beyond Nashville, Cai-
r0, St. Louis, Hannibal, Keokuk and
Waterloo, (lowa).
or all of eighteen states as well as a
considerable slice of Canada.

When. we meet a foreigner having
the physical characteristics of his race
well outlined in his face, s0me will
facetiously 1en1ark that he is wearing
the map of his native country. Not
only every native son and daughter of
Michigan, but eveiy normal person in
the world carries a map of the lower
peninsula with him from the cradle to
the grave. A look at your right hand
will convince you of the fact, and that
Michigan beais this singular honor is
a distinction w01 thy of the state When
we summarize and analyze the state’s
great resources, we find that there is
little in the world needed for the com-
fort and happiness of mankind that is
not produced within the hollow of that
hand. It is said that cotton is the
only necessary product that we import,
and our scientists and investigators
are already working on the problem of
supplanting that commodityr‘with the
lint of other plants that are grown
within our borders.

All of the primary resources, agricul-
ture, mines, forests, fisheries, water
power, and water transportation are
present in abundant measure and suf-

ficient to make the state, what it is

fast becoming, a leader in the manu-
'However, this brief
article will be limited principally to a
discussion of its agricultural resources.

It ranks twenty-first in total area.
and in the amount of land‘in farms. In
1910, only a little more than. one-half
of the total area was in farms and
only about one-third had been improv-

red., In 1919, the value of its crops is

estimated at $415, 615 ,,000 or twentieth
place among the states. The value of
live stock on farms, January 1,1920,
was estimated at $236, 000, 000, the

, sta’te ranking thirteenth in this re—'

spect.
mint, chicory and cucumbers than all ~,
other states combined, and in 1919 it .

It g10ws more white beans,

produced more corn than/one- -third of
the states of the Union combined. It

ranks second in the production of rye

and potatoes; third in sugar beets and
claver seed; fourth in buckwheat and
cabbage; sixth in apples and pears;

,Ztenth; in barley and -winter wheat;
'. ,tfvfeifth ’ in‘ tame hay; , fourteenth in ' '
data: I

and seventeenth in corn.

  

NHL 0119 has had the privilege
of visiting every part (if the state 1 .
of Michigan, he can scarcely ap-

‘preciate the size of the empire lying
1 'between Lake Superior and Lake Mich-

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grown on a commercial scale in the
state. The five not grown to any ex-
tent are cotton, tobacco, sweet pota-
toes, rice and flaxseed, but let us see
if we cannot buy our share of these
crops with the proceeds of other crops
that We do grow. ()ur bean crop will
buy us thirteenth place in cotton; our
apple crop; eighth place in tobacco;
our sugar beets, fifth place in sweet
potatoes; our clover seed, fifth place
in rice; and our pear crop, fifth place
in flaxseed. No other state could make
this same substitution and only two,
New York and California could make
a different one. .

With reference to the yield per acre,
let us examine the ten-year average
yields in Michigan with the leading
states in the production of principal
crops. We say “Corn is King," but
not many are willing to admit Michi-
gan to a prace among the corn states,
nor have we ever made any great
claims in that direction. Iowa is first
in the production of corn with a ten-
year average yield of 3.8 bushels per
acre greater than Michigan; Illinois is
second with 2.8 bushels more; and
Texas is third with 14.2 bushels less.
In 1919, Iowa’s yield exceeded Michi-
gan’s by 2.6 bushels; Illinois fell 4.0
bushels below us; and Indiana lacked
2.0 bushels of coming up to our aver-
age. When consideration is given to
the fact that lands of similar charac-
ter bring from two to three times the
price in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana that
they 'do in Michigan, the slight differ-
ence in average yield is a rather poor
return for the greatly increased invest-
ment of capital.

Kansas leads in winter wheat pro-
duction with a ten~year average yield

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03.1 bushels less than that of Michigan;

Missouri is second with a yield of 2.6
bushels less; and Illinois is third with
0.6 bushel less. Last year, the yield
was greater in Michigan than in all
other states except three.

The leader in the production of oats
is Iowa with an average of 2.8 bushels
more than Michigan; Illinois is second
with a yield of 3.9 bushels more; and
Texas is third with a yield of 6. 3 bush-
els less. California, which is fiist in
barley production, has an average yield
of 2.4 bushels more than Michigan;
South Dakota is second with an aver-
age yield of. 3.9 bushels less; and Min-
nesota is third with an average yield
of 1.4 bushels less.

North Dakota now leads in rye pro
ductiombut it required 1,687,500 acres
in 1919 to grow what Michigan grew
on 900,000 acres. However, the aver-
age in that state is only 0.6 bushel
less than in Michigan.

New York leads in potato produc-

tion with three bushels per acre to her»

credit; Wisconsin and Minnesota are
second and third with twelve bushels
each per acre more than Michigan.
The fact that Michigan is falling be-
hind in this one crop, is good evidence
that steps should be taken to improve
these yields through the use of-better
seed, standardized varieties, and bet-
ter cultural methods. The average
yields in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa range from ten to sixteen bush.
els less than in Michigan, but those
states make no particular claim as be-
ing potato states.

Hay yields vary less between the dif-
ferent states than most other crops.
New York leads in production with an
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Michigan; Iowa is second with a yield
of .07 ton greater; and Illinois is third

with an average of .07 ton less. There-'

fore, it may be seen that we are hold-
ing our min on hay yields as well as
on the yields of most of the other
principal crops in comparison with
leading states.

Our real rank among the states is
partially obscured by the fact that our
crops are so varied and our interest
divided among so many different ones.
For this reason our total production of
some of the principal crops naturally
does not come up to that of states
whose efforts are centralized on, and
whose climatic conditions limit their
crops to, a much smaller number. Our
great variety of crops is not merely
the outgrowth of a large. variety of
soils but to the fact that our range of
climatic conditions is unusually large,
due to the proximity of the Great
Lakes, particularly the effect-produc:
ed by lakes Michigan and Superior.

While living in adjoining states, the
writer noticed a marked prejudice
against Michigan 011 the part of home-
seekers. The chief reason for this at—
titude seemed to be a lack of informa-
tion and a superabundance of misin-
formation, for which we of the state
of Michigan are chiefly to blame.
Theme. is no just ens-on why a farm
in Michigan goes begging on the mai-
ket at $100 to $150 per acie when it
would sell quickly at $350 if it were
located in Illinois or Iowa. Why
should we sit idle and allow people of
other states to find out these things
by accident? We have, in addition to
our great agricultural and other re
sources mentioned, a great profusion
of lakes, beautiful scenery, excellent
fishing and the best summer resort
climate of any section between the
Rocky Mountains and the Alleghenies.
Why do we not tell our friends in oth-
er states about them? If we spent
one—fourth as much in advertising our
resources and attractions as does Cal-
ifornia, our land values would double
111imcdiately and we would all be kept
busy in entertaining and producing for
bur tourist visitors.

A few years ago a newspaper man
stated that Michigan needed an alarm
Clock. We agreed with him. \Ve are
not too modest nor too penurious to
speak of and advertise our good quali-
ties, but rather too buSy with our own
affairs to spend any time or money
telling others of the good features of
our State. Advertising of the right
sort pays, and to get, our share of the
results we must advertise as exten—
sively as our competitors. Outside of
the work that our 111eagrely—supported
development bureaus and some of the
railroad companies have been able to
accomplish, which has been of a high-
ly commendable sort, little has been
done in Michigan to attract homeseek-
ers or protect the interests of those
who come voluntarily. Not a publica—
tion is issued that tells the home—
seeker what he would like to know, or
gives the information he needs to
make an intelligent selection of a lo-
cation. Machinery should be provid-
ed by the state t'or the collection of
complete county agricultural Statistics,
and them these figures charts and ta-
bles should be prepared showing the
resources, development and adaptabil-
ity of each county, to which should be
added selected views of choice scen-

ery, and complete and accurate descrip— "

tions of soil, topography and climate
and detailed information relative to
market conditions, educational facili-
ties, social and religious institutions
and many other things of interest to
the prospective settler. Such a. volume

Ave Due Largely to_ the Big would be of equal inte1est and value

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EARINGS on the pure fabric leg-
H islation now being held before
Commerce committee, are attracting
to, Washington quite a number of rep-
resentative wool growers. There are
several bills before the committee de
signed to prevent deception in woven
fabrics, but the Truth in Fabric bill
introduced in the house by Representa-
tive Burton. L. French, and in the sen-
ate by Senator Capper, is evidently the
measure most nearly meeting the ap-
proval of wool growers and the public
generally.

The Rogers bill is general in its
scope, aiming to protect the public
against fraud by prohibiting the man-
ufacture, sale or transportation in in—
terstate commerce of misbranded, mis-
represented or falsely described arti-
cles; but. it is not thought to be suffi-
ciently specific in its provisions to
meet the requirements of a pure fab~
ric act.

The French bill and the Rainey bill
are similar in their purposes, but the
French bill provides machinery for the
enforcement of the act, while the Rain-
ey bill does not. The French bill re-
quires not only the stamping of fabrics
and tagging of garments made there-
from with the percentage of virgin
wool, shoddy, cottonmnd silk they con-
tain, but defines each of these mate-
rials.

The arguments so far have been
strongly in favor of the proposed leg-
islation “to prevent deceit and profit-
eering that result from the unrevealed
presence of substitutes for virgin wool
in woven fabrics.”

Representative French reviewed the
history of textiles for the past fifty
years, showing the enormous increase
in shoddy as compared with wool in
woven fabrics. His bill is based upon
the recognition of shoddy as a useful
product, the supply of virgin wool be-
ing so small that we could not get
along without shoddy; and to say that
the manufacturer would lose by the
use of the name shoddy is to say that
he is selling his products under false
pretenses.

The term “all wool” now means one
thing to the manufacturer and another
to the public. The public understands
that “all wool” means the fresh virgin
wool from the sheep’s back, while the
manufacturer applies the term to shod-
dy made from woolen rags.

Dr. F. R. Marshall, representing the
National Association of Wool Growers,
with headquarters at Salt Lake City,
said the members of his association,
owning upwards of eight million sheep,
were much interested in this legisla-
tion, and were favorable to the French
bill.

It was pointed out by Mr. Bonney.
of the National Sheep and Wool Bu—
‘reau, that the Opposition to the Truth
in Fabric bill was based on the the-
ory that it is to the interest of the
people to be kept in ignorance as to
the contents of the woven fabrics.
Encouragement of the wool industry,
he said, is essential to the security of
the country. No country is safe unless
it is able to clothe its people. Repre—
sentatives of the woolen and shoddy
manufacturers are in attendance and
will no doubt undertake to show that
the methods of marking woven fabrics
as provided in the Truth in Fabric bill
are impracticable.

Secretary of Agricultpre Meredith
recently received a large delegation of
grain growers and elevator men from
the northwest, asking him to modify
the existing grain rules. It was said
that no one was benefited by these
rules except the miners, and they did
not ask for it. They caused more dis-
satisfaction than anything else the
""viarmers he'd had to contend with. _It

the House Interstate and Foreign»

ploy agents to whom’ producers may
_; deliver products of the farm. garden.

was also shown that while the cOuntry
elevator men are obliged to grade much
of the Wheat as No. 2, and No. 3, the
millers mixed these grades with No. 1
in such a way as to make No. 1 flour.
The federal grading system is too tech-
nical, and the buyers use the tech-
nicalities to reduce the grades and
prices.

Congressman Andrew J. Volstead, of
Minnesota, said that ,for many years
Minneapolis grades had dominated the
situation; that they were the result of
a development in which the growers
and dealers had cooperated, and gave
general satisfaction... He argued for a
return to these old grading rules. “If
the Department of Agriculture wants
the support of the farmers,” he said,
“it should give a grading system that
the farmers can understand, one that
will enable the practical man to deter-
mine for himself the quality and prop-
er grade of the grain."

It was asserted that the present
grading system in the three years, in
which it has been in force, has cost
the spring wheat growers sixty million
dollars. Farmers who are members of
cooperative elevator associations get
some of the profits returned to them,
but in the line elevators the dealers
get all the advantages.

Secretary Meredith and other de-
partment officials were much interest-
ed in the discussion, and it is safe to
predict that there will be substantial
changes made in methods of grading
Wheat that will make them more ac-
ceptable to the grain growers.

The National Board of Farm Organ-
izations has prepared and submitted to
the presidential candidates a question-
naire, asking their views on a n-um er
of problems in which the farmers are
especially concerned. Among the ques-
tions asked are these: Will you do
your best to bring about such direct
dealing between producer and consum-
er as will secure to the farmer a fair
shares of the wealth they create; to se-
cure to farmers and consumers the
right of collective bargaining; to see
that the farmers are represented on
boards and commissions in whose
membership various interests are rec-
ognized; to appoint a secretary of ag-
riculture satisfactory to farm organi-
zations; to secure improved credit fa-
cilities on reasonable terms for farm»
ers; to secure the payment of the war
debt by a chiefly graduated income
tax; to enforce the national conserva-
tion policy; to secure and enforce ef-
fective federal control over the pack-
ers and other great interstate combina-
tions of capital engaged in the manu-
facture and distribution of food and
other farm products and farm sup-
plies? The candidates are also asked
if at the end of two years of further
trial of private ownership the railroads
fail to render reasonablysatisfactory
service to the people, will you then
favor reopening the railroad question?

T. C. Atkeson, W'ashington represen-
tative of the National Grange, and 'W.
I. Drummond, chairman of the board
of governOrs of the International Farm
Congress, have issued a statement dis-
approving of the questionnaire, and dis-
claiming any responsibility for them-‘
selves or their organizations.

”The elimination of the profiteer is
sought in a bill introduced in the house
by Representative W. C. Lankford, ’of
Georgia, and referred to the committee
on agriculture. This bill provides for
the establishment in the Department
of Agriculture of 3. Bureau of Rroducer
to Consumer Exchange. The bureau is
to be under the control of a director
appointed by the President, and shall
draw a salary of 1.512, 000‘ a year.

The directm is empowered to em-

  

 

mine and factory. and they shall be
employed in such number and be so
lecated as to receive for transportation
the products offered for sale.

The bureau will encourage the pro-
ducer of foodstuffs and other staple
products; sufficient to supply all de-
mands for such supplies and endeavor
to Secure a profitable sale for such
products. The director is given au-
thority to determine the price to be
paid for products and the price to be
collected at the time of delivery, and
he shall so far as possible pay a suffi-
ciently high price for products to make

”it profitable to produce them, and shall

at the same time negotiate the pur-
chase of said products at a price suffi-
ciently low to' make the, cost to the
consumer as low as possible, An ap-
propriation of $100,000,000 is asked to
finance the bureau.

This is an ambitious program in di-
rect farm to consumer dealing. If fully
developed it would put the private
handlers of produce out of business to
a large extent. and replace them with
government agents. It would turn the
handling of the smaller farm products
almost entirely over to the govern-
ment. I am not aware that any of the
great farm organizations are back of
this movement, but I have it direct
from Congressman Lankford that he
means business and is determined to
put his bill through if possible, to a
successful finish.

Hearings on the Muscle Shoals ni-
trate fixation plant development be-
fore the senate committee on agricul-
ture the past week have brought out
much, information in regard to this
proposition, showing that there is a
wide difference of' opinion regarding
the capacity of the plant and'its rela-
tive importance in supplying the needs
of the country for nitrates.

Secretary of War Baker appeared
before the committee in behalf of the
bill, and presented strong‘arguments
in its favor. It was pointed out by the
experts that the capacity of the plant
will be about 240,000 tons of sulphate
of ammonium a year, equal to about
350,000 tons of the Chilean product.
Upwards of $72,000,000 has already
been spent on the Muscle Shoals plant
No. 2, and $12,500,000 more will be
required to equip it and finance it: op-
eration.‘ But Secretary Baker said that
if the bill passes, the war department
could sell 150,000 tons of nitrates now
in hand for enough to pay the expenses
of developing the Muscle Shoals plant
and operate it until such times as it
becomes self-sustaining without the
necessity of an appropriation.

The government will largely deter-
mine the selling price of nitrates after
the plant is operated. Secretary Baker
thought the plant could be perfected
to produce sulphate ammonium in com-
mercial quantities by next season, and
that when running in full capacity an
annual profit of $2,900,000 would result
from government operation, after sell-
ing the product at a considerable re-
duction under the price now charged
by the Chilean nitrate trust.

It is proposed that the plant be op-
erated to provide the governmentwith
nitrates for military use in times of
war, and. to supply the farmers with
fertilizer in peace times. Nations have
failed through defeat in war onthr‘ough
loss of soil fertility. Here is a propo-
sition which will safeguard both inter-
ests.

Senator Norris, of Nebraska, says it
is time the citizens of the United
States quit paying tribute to Chile in
the form ofan export duty on nitrates.
The absurdity of p‘aylngan export duty

f on something which the country itself
can produce in abundance should. be
apparent to even a, superficial thinker

   

    

alone about $10, 000, 000 annually for
the nitrates she permits us to use. The
farmers of this nation have no voice

in naming prices that are paid for the.

Chilean product." The priCe is fixed in
London by a commission, which fixes
prices for practically all nitrates used
.in‘ fertilizing the soil 'of "the United
States. The farmers are ‘ehti'rely'at’
the mercy of this foreign body. They
must either pay the commission dos
mands or dispense with the needed
fertilizer. . -

“Some of the senators may be ac-
cused of government ownership pro-
clivities,” said Senator Norris. “But a
man may be a. censistent supporter of
the idea that public utilities should be
privately owned, and at the same time
he can be sincere in his support of a.
government nitrate plant. The fact
must not be lost sight of that any pri--
vate organization cannot produce the
needed feltilizer tor the farmers of
this country for the simple reason that
they cannot compete with an establish-
ed system supported by a foreign gov-
ernment and manipulated by powerful
and entrenched agencies in this coun-
try and Europe.” -

Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, has in-
troduced a joint resolution to repeal
the Lever food and fuel control act,
which if adopted, may mean the end
of price fixing on these products.

The Reed resolution to investigate
the activities of the United States
Grain Corporation has been referred
to an investigating committee of which
Senator La Follette is chairman. I am
told that the committee will go to. the
bottom of the wheat deal, and will also
investigate other transactions of the

- corporation, one of which is the bean

deal. This investigation promises to
be exceptionally interesting, and it is
quite probable that the farmers will
be able to obtain inside information in
regard to some of the mysteries of
this organization.-—'E. E. R

MICHIGAN'S PLACE IN AGRICUL-
TURE.

 

(Continued from preceding page).
to every resident of the state as'well.
Existing or newly-created agencies
should be given broad authority and
ample funds with which to create a
strong immigration policy and place
Michigan in its proper light before the
people of other states.

The few comparisons of Michigan’s
crop production with that of other im-
portant states given herein are un—
doubtedly of interest to Michigan peo-
ple, but information of this character
will greatly benefit the state if placed
in the hands of people in other'states
who may have a very erroneous con-
ception of what Michigan can and does
grow, and who would come and look
us over if that impression were cor-
rected. The acute labor situation is
prompting or forcing many farmers to
sell their farms, so that a large num-fi
ber of farms are constantly” on the
market and being sold at ridiculously
low prices. There are plenty of peo~
Die who would like to Ahave these
farms, and who are just as anxious to
know about them as the seller is anx-
ious to sell. Anything that the state
can do in bringing good buyers into it
will benefit both buyers and sellers,
and tend to improve the prices that
our farmers oan obtain for their land.
HomeSteading is practically a thing of
the past, and with new lands coming
under cultivation very slowly and at
considerable expense, the price of our
well~improved farms must inevitably,
increase. Land is relatively the cheap-

est commodity in the state toda and =
the sooner be proper rise
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their origin, value and adapter

' bility for different uses.- In this
country wools are divided into two
classes. Domestic and Territory.

Domestic wools are those wools com~

mg from the flocks east of the Mis-'

souri river and usually from sheep of
the mutton type and breeding. When
compared with territory wools, these
wools are usually cleaner and bright-
er. due to the better protection and
care given the sheep. States produc-
ing Domestic wools are Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania. New York, West Virginia, Ken-
tucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michi~
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 'Terri—
tory wools are those produced west of
the Missouri river and from sheep
which contain a large percentage of
fine wool blood. These wools shrink
quite heavy when scoured, due to the
presence of sand, dirt and considera-
ble yolk in the fleeces. States produc-
ing territory wools are Montana, Wy-
oming, Idaho, Utah. Nevada, Colorado
and Washington.

Upon reaching the market wools are
divided into Domestic and Territory
classes and these in turn into combing
and clothing. Combing wool should be
at least three inches long and is usu-
ally sold from six to ten cents more
per pound than the short or clothing

( 3 21881 “Icat'lOfl ‘0 .
OOLS are classified according to wool; therefore it should be the aim length of staple has an exceptionally

of all wool growers to produce comb-
ing wool, instead of the shorter or centage of yolk or grease.

clothing wool.

Each class of‘wool is again divided
into grades by professional graders,
the grade depending upon the fineness
of fibre, length of fibre, shrinkage and‘

general character.

Following is a classification of Do-
mestic wools, and this being the class
in which we are directly interested, we
will not take up classification of Ter-

ritory wools.
Domestic Woola.

Combing.———Delaine, half-blood, three-
eighths blood, quarter-blood, low quar-

ter-blood, braid.

blood clothing.

In the eaily days of the wool trade,
the half-blood, three eighths blood and
quarter-blood grades referred to wools
from sheep of half, three7eighths and
quarter Merino blood. but today they

have no such significance.

As graded by the usual grader each

class has the following grades:
Fine, (delaine or clothing). half-
blood, threeeighths blood, quarter-

blood, low quarter-blood. low, coarse,_

common or braid.
Fine wool is usually shortest in

"' of braids.
Clothing—Fine, half-blood clothing,
thiee- -eighths blood clothing, quarter-

CI” 103.11

Half-blood of half- blood.
wool, often spoken ofas fine, is not so

Scuthddm.—Ha1f and three-eighths

finely crimped. is somewhat longer of blood (chiefly three‘eighths combing

staple and usually has a lighter shrink.
Three-eighths-blood wool often spoken
ofas .inedium. is less crimped. .leas
elastic, and has a lighter shrinkage

or clothing, chiefly clothing). ‘1
Shropshire. —-Mainiy

blood combing- or clothing. Some

containing less yolk than either of the quarter-blood

above grades.

shrinkage.

half to five inches in length and is par-

ticularly suitable for the manufacture
It is usually very coarse

and has a light shrink.

While it is impossible to assign wool
to a particular grade solely upon the
basis of the breed of sheep, because of
single
breed, yet a fair'idea may be conveyed
from the following lists from United
States Department of Agriculture. Bul-
letin 206, how wool from the various

the wide variation within a

breeds would be likely to grade.
Kind of Wooi Produced by Breeds.

Quarter-blood wool
ranks next in the scale of fineness and
crimps, with’less yolk and a lighter
The low. coarse, common
or braid, as the term implies, is coars-
er, varies in length from four and a

Hampshire..~—Three-eighths and quar-
ter-blood, Combing or clothing.

Dorset. -—Threeeighths and quarter~'

blood, combing and clothing.
Suffolk. —Three-eighths blood comb-
ing and clothing.‘
Cheviot.——-Quarter-blood combing.
Oxford—Quarter and low quarter-
blood combing.
Corriedale.——Three-eighths
combing.
Cotswold, Lincoln, Leicesterr—Low
quarter-blood combing or braid.
Crossbred, long wool on Merino or
Rambouillet.——Half-blood, three~eighths
blood and quarter-blood combing.
Crossbred, Shropshire or Hampshire
on Merino, Rambouillet or western
ewe.—Half—blood and three-eighths

blood

Merino (eastern states)——delaine or “00" ”“1me 0" Clothing

line.

D. WILLIAMS.

Merino (range states)—-Fine and Extension Specialist in Sheep Hus-

fine medium. staple or clothing.

bandry. M A. C.

Problems Confronting Congressmen

ONGRESS is making an honest

effort to cut down appropriations

and thereby keep Uncle Sam’s
expenses somewhere within range of
his income. If it fails it will not be
due to any lack of good intentions, but
owing to the overpowering influence
of political jobbery and'other question-
able practices ol‘ long standing and offi-
cial respectability. At no time in the
history of the nation has there been
more urgent need for rigid economy
in government expenditures than now,
and no one more fully realizes this
than the senator or congressman.

Whenever a bill or an amendment
calling for an appropriation comes be-
fore the house or senate there is a
good deal of objecting. Long speeches
are made in- which the speakers de-
nounce extravagance in the depart-
ments and point out in vivid word pic~
tures the deplorable condition of the
The other day a
senator, speaking in Opposition to a
certain appropriation, said that there
was no limit to the voracious appetite
of the various departments of govern-
ment; their only interest was in spend-
ing, not in saving, the people’s money.
“You seldom hear the executive officer
of a department pleading economy. He
wants to make a big showing, regard-
less of the cost.” “Where are our tax’
es going to come from?” he asked.
“Our exports and imports are going to
diminish. The incomes of our people
will be reduced, cutting down the in«
come tax returns along with the cus-
toms revenues.”

The senator’s pessimistic oratory
was wasted, however, for when the
vote was taken the friends of the ap-
propriation were in a majority.

Much of this congressional oratory
is for home consumption. The senator
or congressman can go back to hisown
state or district and refer to his
speeches in congress in proof. of his
undying devotion to the cause of econ-
omy in government affairs.

Too frequently, especially in the low.-
or house, politicsand trades between

the members,_ are leading factors in

the success or failure of appropriation

  

thousands of dollars for some trivial
matter put through, apparently as a fa~
vor to a representative who helped
other congressmen’ put through ap-
propriations for the purpose of
strengthening their political fences
back home. Then I have seen the low-
er house divide on political lines over
the question of appropriating money
to investigate the green tobacco worm

Never did a congress-labor under
more difficulties in its efforts to please
all the people than at the present time.
The representative who can walk the
political fence without slipping off on
one side or the other, is indeed an ex—
pert. In the old days the well organ-
ized commercial, manufacturing and
financial interests were represented in
Washington by expert lobbyists, and
usually got what they asked for with“
out much difficulty, while the unorgan-
ized farmers received little attention.
Now that labor unions and organized
farmers are ably represented in Wash-
ington by men of influence who are
constantly on their jobs of looking af-
ter the interests of their organizations,
the average law-maker is kept in “hot
water” most of the time.

This situation led Senator Thomas,
of Colorado, to say in an address at a
Washington's Birthday meeting, that
“We, your servants, are threatened,
cajoled, persuaded and warned of ‘the
fate, political and otherwise, that
awaits us if we dare exercise our own
judgment. We’ll be hanged if we do,
and we’ll be hanged if we don’t."

“The galleries of both houses are
constantly filled with representatives
of various class interests. 'You can
not imagine the mental anguish of the
man who wants to be re-electe‘d. Some-
one once said that the most terrible
thing imaginable was to be a dray
horse in the infernal regions, but he
has a happy time of it compared to
some public servants. The surrender
of some congressmen is exhibited in
the statutes now on the books. Just
think! We have exempteci the labor
and agricultural societies trOm the op-
eration of the anti-trust laws, and we
cannot appropriate 9. dollar mines

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These words of Senator Thomas are
significant. They indicate something
of the power that organized farmers
will have if‘the'y ever get into action
and are as well firganized and repre-
sented as is organized labor.

There are many farm organizations
but they are not cooperating as thor-
oughly and« as efficiently as do the
many units which compose the Federa-
tion of Labor.

The National Board of Farm Organ-
izations evidently aims to be a repre-
sentative federation of farm organiza-
tions, but its methods are crude and
its claims relative to the actual num-
ber of farmers it represents open to
question. So fa as I ha‘ve been able
to learn, it has 0 definite program 01?
action or legislative demands. I can-
not find' that it has any eflective means
in force for ascertaining the senti-
ments of the individual members of
the various organizations for which it
acts as the Washington representative.

The Washington representative of
the Grange is bound to the declaration
of Grange principles and national leg-
islative recommendations adopted by
the National Grange at its annual ses-
sions in Grand Rapids, Mich., last fall.
All his acts and declarations must be
governed by this program which is
supposed to reflect 'the sentiment of
the seven hundred thousand members
of the order. The American Federa-
tion of Farm Bureaus is developing a
plan of conducting a referendum of all
the members, so that the officers and
representatives of the farm bureaus
may know the exact sentiments of the
rank and file and be able to ‘act intel-
ligently on all questions.

The National Board of Farm Organi-
zations holds an annual conference in
which all farm societies are invited to
participate. Resolutions are adopted
which are published as representing
the demands of millions of farmers;

'but as the sessions are conducted an

organization with less than a half doz-

en members can have about as much.

influence in shaping the policy and de-
mands as one of a million members

 

Anyone who registers as holding m

lowed to vote, and the conference
could be easily packed by a local
Grange or Farmers' Union from one of
the nearby communities.

I have no criticism to make concern
ing the resolutions adopted at the re-
cent conference, held at the National
Board’s headquarters. Many represen~
tative farm leaders were in attendance,
men who have won and merit the con—
fldence of the farmers. I am referring
to this matter at some length because
I feel that farmers should know who
are claiming to represent them, by;
what authority, and how they are be-
ing represented.

It would/seem that the leaders of
the National Board of Farm Organiza-
tions might devise some plan whereby
voting in the annual conferences could-
be limited to accredited delegates of
the farm bodies, each organization be-
ing represented according to number
of members.

In behalf of those who attended the-
conference, I wilt say that the report

which found its way into. the daily pa- »

pers that the‘ conference went on rec-
ord as being against the government

relinquishing control of the railrodds _
proposition 3
having come before the meeting. The '

was erroneous, no such

associated press report that the confer-
ence adopted a resolution expressing-
confldence in the FedeYal Trade Com-
mission was .also wrong, as this reso-
lution was tabled.

The resolution adopted at the confer-
ence of farm organizations to appoint
a committee to interrogate the presi-
dential aspirants on their attitude to-
wards the demands of farmers and the
farming. industry has evidently had a.
wholesome effect upon congress, and
more especially upon the party cam-
paign managers, It is safe to predict
that the farmers are going to "receive
some consideration from the politi-
cian‘s. But whether this present rec-
ognitlon of the farmers as an import-

ant factor in our government proves ,
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alive values. The film grower has In 1916 the results were decidedly inexperienced help spraying" trees and These are the figures which show in
failed at times to recognize the Wis" against the dust as is shown by the have sought a machine which the own- your bank account. . If the sprayer had
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as glv en 1ts figures and has not tried . 27 13 3 39 0 72 82 9611 100
Stalk '. . . . . . . . . . - - The writer will not pretend. to an-
to d1 aw conclusions f1 om single year. Baldwm , , , , _ , 61.45 73 0 38.55 , 99.27 . 100 th 15' ' Th 1
The work in New York state has Spy 51.6 10. 56 o 48.4 89.44 100 SW” 98,9 We“ 1°“ 93’ are “0‘ 1‘
gone further. It has now continued ‘ ' the domain Of his information. These

In 1917 the dustinggave us as good as to leave some time for needed cul-
control of scab as the'spraying, as {he tivation.
following table from Dutton’s bulletin The problem like many other plant

without interruption since 1912. In
the eight years of experience the ex-
perts have met a wide range of con-

are the things that the grower can
best answer.

, I am frank to say that I believe in
. . ludicates: diaease control problems has to be set-
h . ’ .
[.1]? lens :nddthety a“? rloady tto Stake t e Sound Fruit. tied on the individual farm by the ac- spraying, so far as our present exp eri
stand t at us mg 15 ere o y. Sprayed. Dusted. Check. count book and by the principles of enco goes, as the superior means of
An analysm of dusting experlence Stark 93.4 93.6 0.2 ’ 1 plant disease control. I believe that
for these years is extremely’interest- Baldwin .. 68.0 80.5 0.0 farm management.

with the spray gun and a liberal use of
spray we. can more nearly approach
a higher speed of application than was
possible in former years. I am led to
this position because of my interest in
the control of disease. I believe the
records bear me out in this stand.-

mg~ In 1915 the investigators enthu- Spy 96.2 94.3 We may cite the arguments for and
siastically reported: “It now seems Results in/1918 and 1919 have not against the duster. Its chief Virtues
settled that a mixture of an insecticide been made available, but conclusions have been cited. Nothing has been said
and a fungicide can be applied in-pow- from these years have not been possi- of its value in control of codling moth,
dered form, using air as a carrier, ble, due to the fact that apple scab has the bane of the successful orchardist.
with better commercial results in the not been. a serious factor in the Or- I think all tests have agreed that as a

control of preventable apple diseases chards used for the teSts- means 0f insectdcontrzl in the summer, That, with .better'technique, more in-
and of insects than can be obtained by . Costs. the du,“ metho 1s 8 091d“ to shoul- formation as to times of application
spraying.” The relative costs of the methods der With the spray. Given the addi-

and the like, dusting may become
equally efficient with spraying, I am
ready to admit, and I may say that I
believe such will surely be the case. I
do not believe that the average grower
who does a poor enoughDjob with the
sprayer will do any better job with
the duster.

The results of 1916 when many com- must be considered. Dusting averaged tional applications which the grower
mercial men tested the matter for in the early New York experiments, is prone to apply, it may give superior
themselves, were not so Optimistic. It seventy-seven cents per tree against 1esu1ts to that obtained with the stan-
happened that 1916 was the worst scab forty-three cents a tree in spraying dard applicatlon of four sprays. The
year in twenty years of New York Ninety-five per cent of the cost of dust- failure of the latelsprays in. catching
state records. The previous work had ing is for materials, hence increase in the aberrant broods of codllng moth,
admitted that “in every case but one the cost Iof matorials, as 11an takfln :he‘ tpast seasonthlas already caused the
in which scab was a factor, the per. place 11 t e last ew years, is. irec y rul man grea oss. ' . .
oemage of scab on the dusted plats reflected in the 005* 0f the Process- The high cost of dusting is going to 1W 9 are ”W at the “tmmg ”0““ m
was greater than on the sprayed plats, In the MiChigan exDerinlentS the COSt decrease instead of increase. In this M chigan apple. production. we have
though in some cases the difference 0f four applications per tree 0f dUSt day when everything has doubled it is the chance to insure for our orchards
is insignificant." Tlle weather in 19167 was $1331 against thirty-Six cents for reassuring to know that with superior he be“ markegs 0‘ the WW”, If we
was favorable for the scab fungus; the spray. With the dUSt advocates advis- methods of production of dust and with can turf]: out tke superior product
cold, rainy season made applications ing five and Six applications, itis GVi- greater demand, costs are going to be Whmhlt Iese 1;? étidemang' They (1.0
diilicult. In this year the results were dent that the cost per tree Will mount less. With a finer dust—and many ”St to mate .1 “"18 fd mm any mme
decidedly in favor of spraying. Spray- higher and higher. failures in disease control can be trac- t an the? W111 to elate polor pack. 1
ed trees showed about forty per cent Discussion. - ed to coarse materials—~the cost per fear; that ooreessness 1n pant disease
perfect apples, while dusted trees At first glance, it would seem that tree will decrease because a little will 00:31.31 “'1: give fustoa surglus 0f 599‘
showcd only fifteen per cent perfect there was no chance for difference of go farther. on 3' W ereas or our 3“ suficess
fruit. opinion in the relative values. Here is The good dusting machine which you we must be known for our firsts.

The unfavorable showing was attrib- a new method whioh all agree will re- can buy today has a large enough en- In presentlng these opinions I have
uted to inexperience of the operators, quire the learning of a new technique gine, to do the work, and here again tried to. be falr to the new .method
coarse sulphur dust, and imperfect ma- of application, which requires the «pur— one sees the improvement which the Whlch IS developing. The Situation
chinery. This contention was not at chase of new machinery and which increased demand has brought about. now 15 comparable, as was said, to the
all unreasonable for it must be remem- costs upwards of a dollar or two per Against the dusting method we can introduction 0f lime-sulphur to replace
bered that no fruit man obtained per- "tree to use. In certain years, years always bring the argument, “Let well Bordeaux. Bordeauxds by far the bet-
.l'ect control, with spray the first year of heavy disease attack, control ob- enough alone.” If a man has invested ter all-around fungicide. It had its
he tried it, and the spray machine has tained has not been equal to that ob- years of experience and considerable weaknesses, as experience .has devel~
had years of development behind it in tained in spraying. Where, then, does money in learning to handle one meth- 0Ded- Lime-sulphur, 111 View of its

the perfection of our present-day efli- the question arise? Is not the matter 0d, why follow new gods?” ' greater applicability for ready use in
cient machinery. settled once and for all for the spray If one has invested in a spray ma- the orchard, 19f 307V the standard for
Turning now to the Michigan results method? chine. a duplex or a triplex; has an en- Mlcmgan 3 mm disease “Ont? 01- So.

we find that in 1915, in one test, fifty A hasty answer to this question ov- gine equipment competent to- do his too, we .must expect development in
per cent sound fruit was obtained on erlooks the urge behind this whole work, why add the overhead by anoth- the dusting.

sprayed trees against forty-one per dust- - program. Fruit growers with er machine? The dust has never been Let us, therefore, strive to produce
cent.on dusted trees, whereas the un— large acreages have not been harrassed advocated as a means of scale control, the best grades of fruit and in doing
treated check trees gave no sound fruit by men the last few years looking for so that on.any fruit farm the spray rig this let us remember that the orchard
at all. The question in this year would farm labor. They have turned to this will still be necessary. ‘ is the place where decisions Will be
turn on the grower’s interpretation of machine which works 'two to three Spraying costs are not assessed in rendered.

/

Spring Care of Work-Horses

HE time will soon be here when Although hay is costly to feed in any get what we consider good results. These are the two things that either 3'

the farm horses will be called to great amount to idle horses it does not We keep our horses in about the givesthem comfort or pain.

the heavy work of the spring. pay to omit a meal of hay at least once same flesh the year around, not overly Next, look to their feet. See that
No doubt it would favor the horses a day, along with home grain. Feeding fat, nor poor. When they are kept they are in good condition. If your
more if-corn cultivating, cutting hay, straw through the winter with very this way the collars always fit, and if team cannot go without shoes, watch
etc., were placed first in order after little grain or other roughage, tends to your collars are good ones and fit good that they are not left on too long, thus
the winter’s idleness, but nevertheless clog ’the digestive system, leaving them you need not worry about Sore shoul- causing the foot to grow crooked and
the heavy drawn machines have to be in poor shape to handle the heavy al- ders in the spring. We never use probably break the hoof? We do not
used first and it is our part to get the lowances of grain and hay that is fed sweat-pads on our regular team, they shoe our horses at all unless there is
farm team in the best possible condi- during spring work. _ ,are a nuisance and a damage to the hauling on‘the road to be done. , All-
tion so that there will be no horses . Many horses suffer from indigestion horse’s neck, no matter how well you we do is to trim‘their feet occasionally
laid up with colic, indigestion, lame- colic 01 other stomach ailment just may fit them to your team. They ab- to keep them from becoming ragged.
ness or sore shoulders. when we cannot afford to lay them up, sorb the sweat, gather the shedding Personally, I do not likeoshod horses

Although we did not have much good but it is largely our own fault. If a hair and form it into lumps which are for plowing or other work on a, soft '

oat straw to feed this year on account person used to sitting at a desk is giv- continually causing sores. After a hard field; many times in turning around
of a short crop, we do. not, believe in. en a job pitching hay without any day’s work they are soaked with mois- at the ends or getting into a Soft spot
making a horse spend all his time and preparation what will be the result? tune, which never drys all the time the horses step on each other, some-
energy in trying to digest dry straw. It is exactly the same with our horses. they are used. -’ - times cutting their legs or feet quite
all winter. Professor Henry says: A gradual change of feed must be How many have worn ~rubbers that Severely.

“Farm horses should not be wintered made along with some light work hold the moisture from One day to The first few days of plowing should . .

in the barnyard on straw and corn fod- which tends to strengthen their mus- the other, and‘ always keep your feet not be rushed Islet them takeit
der only, without any grain, for they cles, also their digestive "tract. We cold and damp? Well, it's the same Give them .theiri. “
”will not be in condition to endure the have never had any trouble with our with sweat padsx If you haven't. the ing is hard are
“severe labor upon the sudden opening horses in the spring, and I Would like f h ’rnesses ‘ '
up of spring work.“ .. to tell how we manage 'ur heroes to ' '

  
 
 
 

   

 
       

   
  
   
   
 
 
   
   
  
   
  
     
 
     

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hole 2. If£~the£hndrated limejs‘ as'saod
name other I. wouldrather use It'bem

" - cause Iain ‘quite‘a distance from .a

- railroad. What yariety of ' alfalfa is
" best for this .part of, Michigan, (Cass
county?) Is” the Baltic or Grimm the

i'Vbest?

i :The question of the bestkind of lime

‘i . to, use is‘au important one and is of-

ten asked. ,It was pretty well answer-
ed in a recent issue of the Michigan

. Farmer in an article by Prof. M. M.

McCool, of' the Michigan Agricultural
College. At present there seems to be
,but little argument left in favor of hy-
. drated lime, The price alone'seems
to eliminate it. When we can get the
fine grade of ground limestone that is
now on the market the question of
availability of" hydrated lime is being
overcome. Ground limestone that is
ground finely enough to pass a seven-
ty-five to ninety-mesh screen is just as
available as hydrated lime. We find
that it takes seventy-four pounds of
hydrated lime to equal one hundred
pounds of ground limestone. When
you can buy nearly four tons of the
pulverized lime, it seems to me that
the question solves itself. If hydrated
\ lime is to be used, an application of
from one thousand five hundred to two
thousand pounds would likely be as
good as 'two "to three tons per acre of
finely ground limestone but would not
be as lasting. The second year/you
would see little difference and prob-
‘ably after the second year the differ-
ence would'be in favor of the two or
three tons per acre of the ground lime-
stone, as the amount of lime applied is
greater. The operation would not have
to be repeated as quickly where the
larger amount is applied. There is lit-
tle danger of using too much hydrated
lime. The danger lies in using too lit-
tle, The idea that has formerly gone
out that from four hundred to five hun-
dred pounds of hydrated lime per acre
is enough is wrong. The rate of ap-
plication should be from one thousand
five hundred to two thousand pounds
per acre. W‘ith ground limestone use

denser-.101 using too - much “hydrated '

. i * Essex Almost Doubles

 

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Light ‘ Car if Endurance

Essex Has Performance .Like‘ the Costliest Fine Cars—
Its World Endurance Record Has Never Been Rivaled

The most important thing Essex has
proved is that weight and size are no
longer necessary to finest car quality.
‘ Its 3037 miles in 50 hours is a world
endurance record. The test was official.

Supervisors of .the A. A. A. certified the _

Essex stock chassis in every detail;

Never before was a car driven at top
speed for 50 hours. The grind was equal
to years of road use. Yet the Essex
showed no measurable wear.

What car, the Essex size and weight,
can even attain a mile-a—minute speed,
much less keep it up for 50 hours?

Such Endurance as You
Want in Your Car

These decisive tests proved Essex not
only the supreme performer of the light
car field, but- they showed that the
moderate priced, economical Essex has
such endurance and dependability as
few large, high priced cars offer. .

Greater. size could add-nothing to
Essex. It has the qualities weight and
size arebuilt to give—riding comfort,

Essex is easy to operate. Driving does
not fatigue. Its quick response to the
lightest touch and its smooth, restful
comfort in motion, account for this.

That is Why so many women are Es-
sex owners. They appreciate its safety,
too. Its controls are simple and instan-
taneous. It makes fast time, with
security, even in difficult traffic.

Essex Wins on Quality
Minus Useless Weight

Essex won recognition on the issue
of finest quality without useless weight
and size. That issue is uppermost today.

You will take pride in your Essex
from the-first. Its beauty,luxuriousfit-
tings and its performance give it dis-

tinction everywhere And time will in-

crease your respect for it. You will
come to rely absolutely on its depend-
ability. You will find it always ready
for any demands you may make.
These are reasons why Essex set a.
world’s sales record in its first year.
And orders are now so far ahead it is
certain even that unrivaled mark will

 

solidness, distinction and smooth, quiet

.pace. But in addition it has fuel, oil

" and tire economy. And its great dura-

Grimm, Baltic and Cossack seem to be blhty mefms freedom from repair CCStS

- the three leading strains. Grimm is andposflrvedependabletransportation.
o probably the leader as it is an older ' -

"variety and more of the seed is avail-
Essex Motors, Detroit, U. S. A.
(165)

. lémcccmcmcccmnmc msmnmnmn
i The only Log Saw

great extent as yet. The seed is also
very scarce and high in price. Would
suggest that you make arrangements
‘ With “Arm Swing" Stroke and Leyer
Controlled Friction Clutch for SW
and Stopping Saw. Q q '

    
  
   
  
 
  
  
  
   
  
     
  
  
  
  
   
 
  

" from two tons per acre up. There is

_. no danger of using too much. ‘
i ‘ With reference to the best variety
.3 7 of alfalfa to sow. would say that the

be surpassed this year. , . ' ‘

Thousands, realizing this, are placing
their orders now. We advise that you
do the same, to avoid dissapointment.

     

to get your seed very soon, as the sup-

' ‘ - . ply is light and the demand is the
' q , , heaviest ever known. It will pay to - T OB A C C 0
. , buy the best rather than to take up "om Inomespun" chowins 0r smokina- "°'i‘."ig -’
p .. ' r ' 7 with just common seed. D. W. BAR" fil‘irifnli‘if‘tt’ifiyriuinriiiwill”.gigiii ia‘éiixl’iid. I;

. . Kentucky Tobacco Ass’n., Dept. R. leolvillo.
Direct and Save Sf .20 a Gallon

This is a '31 high grade barn paint which
can’t be beat for looks, covering capacity and
Jwear. no tier how much more you pay.
8! buyingd root, you save $1.00 on the price, and

- 2; loading remittance withordcr you get a discount
10 per cent. which brings down the price to

Only $1.77 3' Gallon

n :Ioflficdlons. hfl-‘iherrfla ofaocnllonsor
gal tops. 0 in one color only—o -

2mt‘rful rich. tumble maroon—tho color- thct . ,0
Good Reading Barglans 1 "“‘z _ '-

loolu batmdluplonzeat. Colorcordonrooueot.
The .crltorlon Point Co. 53%:-
OFFER No. 109. - , -
The Michigan Farmer, one year. .3100 ’ .

       
    

 

 

  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

LEGAL FENCE- Choice Dalhmt Tusel‘fi and Gladiolus
b“ b“ °’ " " Clark-ville. Mich.

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‘ f 6 Description of this Fast §: .;1/
3 Cutting, Practical One—Kan I v n-

ITTE ENGINE WORKS

2l9’7 comm: Avenue 2197 Empire
mm cm. Mo. Molnar-h. Pp.

.. Is the owner of enclosed land legally
. required to maintain a line fence that
4. ' will turn sheep and hogs, or cattle and

’ ' horses only?—-A. J. , . .
‘ The statute merely says that _ all

2;, . -» fences four and a half feet high, in
"‘7 2. f good repair, etc, shall be deemed a

‘ 7’ .' legal fence, and the supreme court has
' said this means/a. fence of such can-

" ' G t l r‘oo. Far-nor
Binder Twnne oaanauviu‘i‘e'dPl‘lroosam 193.
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.dinarily kept on the farm. It is be- .. ‘ People_s..Populai on y g """ ' ' tiiii’Jaciiol’nn «Jinn
Home Life, one year ....... .25 totothcrn .Sowayour

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' ‘ - ' -‘- decided ~ ‘ J R R Household Journal, one year. . . .35 ,. move. so dgn' u to
. _ ,. t . - ' - ' ' ' proveoorclnnna. 10-year

" . , -* -' . , -- . ,. . ears-Wiener
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” A tenant'r‘ents a farni for three years . I
‘ ~ swan an theyput me off - f OFFER No. no. DICKEY GLAZED,
1'99 3’9““? It says , ' The Michigan Farmer. one-year..$1.oo TILE SILOS ~ ‘

 
   

 
 
 

 

“The fruit 11' of ”to Field” ’ ‘
lorly order- lnsoro you having your silo i
when you need it. loud lot catalog NIH.

’ l ’ i-. ms. mom curmxofi,
. :;.?°lf1 if? ~ 2" ' _. " “‘59 . anaconda. in. - " T:

”as, 3 . -_ TMOlmUQ- WWW'"

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t'sel .
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or bin. One man and
gine does the worko 3men
without shoveling or lifting.
Elevatu, Airs,cloano
secure and polishes
wheat or cats. makin

  

it test higher an
bringin a better,
price. ight, durable, _ .
easily moved. Partic-
ulars free.

LINK MFG. 60.

Dept.
Knnsnocny, . Mo.

 

liberty Grain Blower

Fan mill and elevator com- ,
blood. at half the coat ofan ele-
vator. Loadsintobox car jwagon
olineen-

 
   
       
 
      
     
    
    

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Llly W lte
“The Flour the {Best Cooks Use" .

bakes the most delicious bread you ever tasted.

And LILY'WHITE bread looks just as good as it tastes.
That is not all. The bread remains moist longer, is
tender and of good volume and splendid color.

Besides, you‘can use LILY WHITE FLOURior} every
requirement of home baking, for both breadand pastries,
and be assured of the best possible results.

In fact, your dealer is instructed to refund you the.

purchase price if you do not like LILY WHITE FLOUR
better than any flour you ever used.

VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

      

BABY 0Hl0KS§§§§°.’1“ii¥éli-$
Pol.utry Eggs for hatchin Itorsncubo
Brooders, Poultry Supplies. llustrntedtom cir-

4‘ \
u ‘- \
culnr free. Prices low Setisf faction
Q "‘ ‘ nnteed. Write today. .NICHOL L'S UL":
fl TRYF F,ARM Boxm, Monmouth, Illinois.
HORSES

BELGIAN DRAFT HORSES

We have the best and largest bend in the world
to select. from with Grand Champions heading
our herd

    
    
  
 

 

 

 

thing furnished
help, experience and AAgr.
your help problem

Wanted A good large farm t° me 3880: every.

College training, can solve
Brown, South Hmen, Mich.

We won more premiums at the international
Belgian Horse Show. Waterloo. Iowa, 1919 than
any other breeder or exhibitor, competing against
25 exhibitors from iowa, 3 from Indiana. 1 from

dairy prefered, have

 

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fsor 8300 00.001110 and soot

I (annot sell you any more ewes until next fall l‘o
some grown up. I can offer 10 very food \oung Shrop-
shire ewes that will lamb in Apri
lambs (nontricted to me should not more than pur-
c hase Price next fall Also 10 mmighty nice ewe lambs

.L. WING. KOPE—KON FeARHS. Goldwater, “lob.

SHEEP’ We have sold 4 winners at the International Bel.
gian Horse Show to an Iowa breeder. Those at the following prices \
K I D S horses winning again at the International lee

Stock Show at Chicago the same year. Males or females

We are listing mares of Iowa breeders and breed-
ers from other states. to be bred to our Rubi:
8004, whose ofispring won at both internationals

1'01 $400.00 ’lheir
leS.

stallion and mare classes. ales 01‘ females

 

Make your selection early.
Clayton, Mich. 3.

Idle Wild Stock Farms gshmpsh‘” V9“'{‘”‘,§:§i°
WI 11
Clilil‘ollllllildld‘lzgtonnprggfletor.

this year. taking some of the highest honors in}

We can sell 3 on a earlond of stallions and mares
or just one of either sex

We invite 30m inspection and will meet 3ou at
am of the railroad stations if you will write us

 

250 Reg.

Aftei ‘Aug.

 

high quality. . 1 . a

Shropshires offered past season -1ll sold
lot can supply an,» thing
needed Registered Shropshire ewes and ruins of same

in time

Come to Burt Michigan. via Grand Trunk Rail-
way or to St Charles. Michigan. via the Michigan

Dexter. Mich Central Railroad.

 

b klet ith listo breeders.
530T)! LEWB, 22 Woodland Ave"

   

Let American Hampshire Shea
want a Sheep? [Association send u dandg

We are in the market for Registered Belgian
Draft Colts

   
 

   
 

 
 
   
 

 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
    

   

00lllE PUPPY SALE

DIE WEEK ONLY

Natural heelers from farm trained stock

Operated (spayed) females
Also few Thoroughbred Shepherd Pups

Operated (spayed) females -

All stock guaranteed; send check in
first letter as supply is limited.

llr. Ewalt’s collie Farm
Mount (demons, Michigan '

for killing out poison ivy. There is a
small patch in front of Our house“ and

causes us much annoyance R. E. B.
Small patches of poison ivy can be
gotten rid of best by the‘simple expe-
dient of digging 'themout. This must
be done by a man who is immune to
the poison. The best tool, unless the
soil is very stony, is a heavy, sharp
hoe, with which at one blow the stem
can‘be severed two or three inches be-
low the level of the ground. This work
should begin when the first young red
leaves begin to unfold. Unfortunately
one cutting out will not discourage this
persistent plant. It will be necessary
,for the man to visit the place at fre-
quent intervals and repeat the chop-

 
 

  
 

shoots appear. This may mean chop-
ping out the _ plants five or six times
during the summer, but if this is per-
sisted in, not permitting the leaves to
entirely unfold and turn green at any
time, one season’s work will usually
entirely kill out the plants. The p01"
tions of the plant thus chopped oil
should be handled only by an immune

   
  

   

  
     
  

they'will cause no harm to man or
beast. Preferably when dry, they
should be burned, but care must be
taken, that the smoke is not inhaled
and that it does not blow upon passers-
by or into neighboring houses. There
are various poisons with which poison
ivy may be sprayed in order to kill it,
but these will also kill all surounding
vegetation so that they are not to be
recommended for a ya1d, except for
places where it is desired to have no
growth of any kind. Unfortunately.
birds are fond of the berries of poison
ivy and are unharmed by them. They
scatter the seeds far and Wide so that
it will be necessary to keep watch and
cut out any young plants each year as
soon as they appear, before they have
become less established—E. A. B.

  
     
  

    
 

     

 

 
 

COOKED CULL BEANS FOR HOGS.

  
  

Are cooked cull beans a desirable
feed for pregnant sows, or for sows
suckling pigs, and for young pigs?

St. Joseph Co. T.

Cooked cull beans mixed with corn
meal is an excellent food for pregnant
sows or growing fattening pigs. The
. culled beans are iich in protein and
corn meal in calbohydrates and by;
combining the two you have a well
balanced ration. Mix the corn meal
and cull beans in equal parts before
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' 7 ELLO, dad! Come quick! The
H dogs are at the sheep again!”

‘ Mr. Mason and his wife had
just returned from town in the auto-
mobile. It was > just after dark and
Mrs. Mason said she would hurry in
and get supper ready in short order.
Just then Tom came on the run from
the barnyard. _

Mrs. Mason held the horse while Mr.
Mason and Tom ran back to the sheep
yard. There were two dogs visible in
the dusk and they jumped over the
fence as they saw and heard the farm-
er and his son coming on the run.

“If I only had my gun ready I could
have shot one of those mean curs!”
exclaimed Tom.

They both went into the sheep yard
where the thoroughly frightened ani-
mals were closely huddled into the
shed and in one corner near the straw
stack. Three sheep were found more
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dition.

“Unless something is done by the
state to rid the country» of these werth-
'less dogs there are some farmers who
will quit trying to keep sheep! And
I’m one of them!” exclaimed Mr. Ma-
son to his son.

“I don't blame you, dad. But I do
live sheep, and since you have given
me some interest in them I have been
reading and studying how to become
a good shepherd. But there are so
many worthless dogs in this neighbor-
hood and the owners don’t even try to

prevent their running after sheep, ev-
en after they _know their dogs have
been caught at it.”

And this is only one instance out of
thousands in Michigan and elsewhere
where farmers have become discoui~
aged and sold off all. the sheep from
their farms. p

A few days ago we called on Presi-
dent H. H. Halliday, commissioner of
Michigan Department of Animal Inn
dustry, at Lansing. Both he and Dr.
G. W. Dunphy, state veterinarian, were
as busy as bees with correspondence
of all sorts relating to the work and
jurisdiction of the department. The
accompanying picture gives a good
idea of their surroundings on a busy
day.

Both these officials have been con-
nected with the State Live Stock San-
itary Cemmission for a number of
years. Dr. Dunphy was first appoint-
ed by Governor Pingree and remained
at this task during the pioneer days of
the tuberculin test for detecting tu-
bemlosis in cattle.

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dreaded having the state. live stock

 

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StOCk——By f. H. Bron)”

testing of dairy cattle there were many '
successful ‘and prominent is ‘ '

inarian visit their farms for fear they -

might find some of their animals affect-
ed with tuberculosis. At that time the
state paid nothing for the ’reacting an-
imals that were destrdyed, except the
nominal one dollar tor the privilege of
seizing private property for the public
good. ‘

Some farmers were anxious to know
whether the disease had invaded their

herds. They welcomed the test, saw.

it conducted, watched the reading of
the thermometers and study'of the

temperature chart at the close of the

second day’s reading or the thermome-
ters, etc. Almost invariably Dr. Dun-

phy's careful explanation of details in—

taking the preliminary temperatures,
and showing the typical reactions the
second forenoon, caused the farmers to
see the matter in a new light.

Generally those farmers who owned
reactors eventually desired that they
be destroyed. Post mortems were
made by the doctor, and it was seldom
that any farmer or his neighbor was
not convinced of the importance and
necessity of eradicating this terrible
scourge. even‘ though the state paid
nothing to recompense the owner for
his loss. It was generally admitted by
such farmers that it would be only a
matter of time before other cattle and
even the entire herd might possibly be
affected.

But since those days of pioneer work
in the use of the tuberculin test for

 

Mr. Halliday and Dr. Dunphy in their Office at Lansing.

detecting. tuberculosis in cattle many

changes have occurred. And now the ‘

old commission has been eliminated
and the last legislature created the
“State Department of Animal Indus-
try.” The duty of this department is
to care for the health of approximately
7,500,000 animals which are owned in
the state of Michigan. It is estimated
that the value of these animalsis $325,-
900,000, which shows that the respon-
sibility resting upon this department is
no small matter.

The department consists of one com-
missioner (instead of three, as for
merly under the old law), a state vet-
erinarian, assistant state veterinarian,
pathologist, two inSpectors, one ap-
praiser and two clerks. The United
States Bureau of Animal Industry is
cooperating with the state department
in eradication of tuberculosis and hog
cholera. The expense of these inspect-
ors is home by the federal govern-
ment. These departments are all work-
ing from the office of the state depart-
ment of animal industry in the “Old
State Block? Lansing. ‘
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01111th and still manages it. only ”re.

. f' 'cen’tly he has been obliged to move
his family to Lansing. He had lived

continuously on his farm for over fifty

. ' ‘ years, since the date of~his birth. He
' V _ and his brother still continue to han-
‘ , his live stock, and in the years gone
"liy. have bought and handled many
"hundreds of thousands or pounds of

weal. When the old state live stock
sanitary commission was abolished,
and the new department started last
January, Mr. Halladay was reappoint-
ed by Governor Sleeper for another
six years and immediately became the
“Commissioner of Animal Industry” of
the state of Michigan.

Now, in regard to the new dog law,
at the present time farmers are 'more
interested because it 1s entirely dif-
ferent from anything enacted in the
history '01 the state and they feel that
sheep m y come back on the farms
again an become as 'common as they
were so many years ago in almost ev-
ery community.

Briefly stated, the new dog law is
designed to protect the sheep industry
from extinction. In some cities a. few
law-enforcing officers seem to be doubt-
ful of their duties and ability to en-
force theregulations inside the city
limits. Commissioner Halladay will in
due time; impress upon these doubtful—
Thomas law-enforcing officials the need
of getting right on the job and putting
it through every day in the week. The
law is a good one for farmers and their
sheep and ultimately will help in re-
ducing the high cost of clothing to
everyone who wears dude. with wool
in the warp or woof.

The prosecuting attorney of Antrim
county has started out in good shape
to handle‘the work of enforcing this
law. He has taken the proper means
to acquaint every male voter in his
parish with the provisions of the law.
He has mailed out a circular which
covers the Case completely. Under the
heading, “Do You Own a Dog or Keep
One?" he_ states that the new law re-
quires the following of the dog owner:

1. Apply in writing to your township
or county treasurer for a dog license

'and tag. '2.- Application must state

breed, sex, age, color and marking of
the dog, and name of last previous
owner. 3. Application must be accom-
panied by a fee of $3.00 for male; $6.00
for female, and $2.00 for an unsexed
dog. 4. The treasurer will deliver you
a license and a metal tag. 5. Metal
tag is to be affixed to the collar of the
dog and worn at all times exceptwhen
hunting with the owner. 6. This should
have been done before January 20,

'1920. 7. Keep your dog confined on

your own premises from sunset of each
day to sunrise of the next day.

The circular calls attention to the
fact that it is unlawful: .

1. To keep a dog without a license
to do so. 2. To keep a dog without a
collar and tag attached to its neck. 3.
To allow your dog to stray beyond
your premises at any time unless ‘un-
der the control of some person. 4. To
violate any of the provisions of the

‘ dog law.

Bolice officers are authorized to kill
all [dogs running at large unaccompa-

nied by their owners. The sheriff and ,
‘his deputies of each county and the

state constabulary are requested to lo-
cute and kill all unlicensed dogs.

. The prosecuting attorney of each,
- county is to prosecute all who fail to

comply! With’this law. 'The fine is not

to exceed $100. or not to exceed three,
' , months in ~:lllil. ' - r

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I am making plans to feed about
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year my corn crop matured so that I
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for market, but we have had‘ so many
corn crop failures that I would like
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seeding of a few acres of barley. Is it
as valuable for hog feeding .as corn.
and how does it compare with corn
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upon which I can base my use of the
two kinds of grain?

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Many hog growers in Michigan are
handicapped through the frequentlfail-
ure of the corn crop to maturesuffi-
clently to furnish 'sound earsfor feed-
ing hogs. In many instances heavy

‘ expenses for purchased grain could

have been avoided by seeding a few
acres of barley. If all farmers would
plan their feeding operations so that
they would not be dependent upon the
corn crop alone there would be less
risk in growing hogs and a considera-
ble number more could be fed to good
advantage on many farms.

The fact that most experiments con-
ducted have compared barley and corn
for fattening hogs rather than for
growing them leaves us with compar-
atively little data on the relative value
of the two feeds for growing pigs or
for feeding breeding stock. Some
years ago at the Minnesota station,
starting with pigs weighing about fifty
pounds and running the work in peri-
ods of five weeks each, it was found
that for the first two periods barley
proved slightly superior to corn. At
the beginning of the third period the
pigs weighing one hundred and twenty-
five to one hundred and thirty pounds
had attained a. large part of their
growth and were beginning to fatten
rapidly; consequently corn gave slight-
ly better results. Comparing the com-
position of the two grains we might
expect barley to be slightly more val-
uable than corn for growing pigs. Al-
though somewhat more bulky than
corn it. has the advantage of having
considerably higher content of the im-
portant constituents for growth—ash
and digestible protein.

As a feed for brood sows barley of-
fers some advantages over corn. Sows
fed barley suckle their pigs better, the
same as dairy cows produce milk more
abundantly when barley is used‘in the
ration rather than corn. Barley lg.
generally recognized as tending some
what more toward stimulation of milk
production than does corn. The grain
ration fed some of the heavy milk pro-
ducers While making world’s yearly
records shows barley used quite exten-
sively in the grain ration, with no com
except that contained in the silage.

Breeding swine and growing pigs
that are to be kept in good condition
without putting on too muCh fat should
be supplied with rather bulky feed.
For this purpose barley with its slight-
ly greater bulk than corn is advantag-
eous. The brood sow during the pe-
riod of pregnancy should be fed a. ra-
tion supplying an abundance of bone
and . muscle-building material. Though.
a. ration consisting largely of alfalfa
orcther good..f0rage may supply sulfi-
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large frames.

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one hundred and twenty-five pounds,
eight to ten per cent less corn is re-
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comparison of prices will show that
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CROPS FOR HOG PASTURE.

 

I have about two acres of heavy soil
that I would like to plow and plant for
hog pasture this spring. What would
you advise me to seed it with?

Ottawa Co. A. V.

The inquiry does not state whether
this pasture is for a catch crop or for
a permanent pasture.- If to be used
this summer, probably no forage plant
meets with the approval of the farmer
or will give a like amount of green
feed than winter rape.

The ground should be prepared and
seeded as early as conditions permit.
It is usually sown broadcast and cov~
ered by a light harrowing, or with a
grass seeding drill. It is preferred by
some however, to sow in drills suffi—
ciently far apart to permit cultivation
during its early growth. ' One should
not attempt to pasture rape until it is
several inches high, nor should it be

over-pastured during its early growth. J

W. J. R.

SEEDING ALFALFA.

 

I have about ten acres of land that
I would like to seed to alfalfa, and
would like to know the best time to
seed it, kind of seed to use, condition
the seed bed should be in and amount
of seed to sow, as I have had no ex-
perience with this crop. Have three
ten-acre plots, sandy clay loam, or
about half clay and sandy loam. Each
plot could be well drained, and would
grfiw good clover, except the sandy
so .

Arenac Co. SUBSCRIBER...

Alfalfa is sown from early spring to
mid-summer, according to conditions of
soil and weather. Early sowing is gen-
erally preferred. unless extra time is
needed to work down a. loose seed bed
and kill weeds. While there is a lot
of talk about Grimm seed and other
superior strains, their high price and

scarcity will limit their use for some .-

time. The average farmer will con-
tinue to buy common northern grown
seed and, except in rare cases, will ex-
perience fair to good success. The
seed bed should be fine and solid
through generous working. Fall plow-
ing, or simply harrowing a. field which
had a clean cultivated crop last year,
is to be preferred to spring plowing as
a rule. on a well fitted seed bed
twelve to fifteen pounds of seed per
acre is used. Try to buy scarified
seed, and be sure to inoculate it with
a. pure culture of bacteria which may
be secured from the agricultural col-
lege. A twenty-fivecent bottle Will
treat one bushel of seed, Directions
with each bottle. Use your best soil,
the best is none too good for alfalfa.

It would bewise to hays .aflsamplie of

ydur ’soil wasted for
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~ the crop.—D. W.

' which had a growth over he1 eye. She

land is rolling and contains gravel,

clay and sand. Also, what kind or fer- T

tilize-r should I use to met “a good crop
of late potatoes on the same type of

'soils? ~ , .
Berrien Co. G. S.

One cannot advise intelligently what
brand of fertilizers-to, use without
knowing how the land has been treat-

ed. Have you used stable manure. on,

th’is'land for the last two or three
years? Have you plowed down any
clover sod or will you plow down .a
Sod for this crop of corn? This makes
a. lot of difference as to the kind of
fertilizer to use. If you plow down a
good crop of clover sod, or if you have
used a-good coating of stable manure,

If you apply the fertilizer only in the
hill at the time of planting, use about
one hundred pounds per acre. To get
a bumper crop of corn, you could use
as high as five hundred pounds per
acre, or even more, but any amount
above one hundred pounds should be
applied broadcast before the corn is
planted.
Fertilizer for Potatoes.

In the same way one would want to
know how this land was treated to
recommend a fertilizer for potatoes,
Whether a clover sod has been plowed
down or stable manure having been
used recently. You would not have to
apply nitrogen in the fertilizer. A
brand containing ten or twelve per
cent phosphorus and two to three per
cent potash will do, but if you lack
nitrogen then use a 2-12-2 brand and
the same with corn it you need extra
nitrogen. C. C. L.

DISTANCE FOR PLANTING coRN.

 

We are planning to plant our corn
this spring in rows three and a half
feet apart one way, and the question is
whetherv‘the corn would grow .best
thirty inches apart in the row, two
stalks in the hill, or fifteen or twenty

inches apart in the row and one stalk ,

In the hill.
Allegan Co. J. L. F.

Inasmuch as you intend to sow this
“corn just one way, it will make little
difference whether you plant the corn
thirty inches apart in the row, .two
stalks to a hill, or fifteen inches apart
and one stalk to a hill. It will be just
as easy to keep the corn clean with
one method as the other. Because of
the nature of the corn plant, that is,
its ability to reach out after its food,
neither System is materially better
than the other. Your yield of corn
will depend more upon the prepara-
tion of the seed bed, state of fertility
your soil is in and the cultivation of

GROWTH OVER EYE.

 

We had a chicken last November

was one year old and poor, but would
eat and drink good. Now we have a
pulletl that is the same way. What
had I better do for them? .

St. Clair Co. > W. H.

The ocular type of roup may cause
a swelling of the eye. A common cold
may result in a Sort of cold abcess
near the eye. This can be opened and
drained. Rubbing the head with cam-
phorated vaseline will help to reduce
the swelling. Dipping the head in a
solutionof one of the commercial dips
is helpful in curing colds. Isolate any
birds that show signs of inflammation
around the eyes as such colds are con-
tagious and will spread through the

- flock through the medium of the drink-

ing water. Birds that are seriously
devitalized with roup are seldom of

any value and it is best to kill and ‘

burn them rather than risk congestion
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His Milker.

THREE years ago no one in Tom Christensen’ 8

neighborhood had ever used a milking machine.

Mr. Christensen wanted to make more money out

of his farm. But he did not have hands enough
. and there weren't enough‘hours in the day.

It took nerve to resist the scoffs of his neighbors
and to try something new.

“When I first put in my milker" , says Mr.
Christensen, “Everyone around here said, ‘T here' 8
another boob who’s going broke on machinery. He
will ruin his cows and he will lose a lot of money.’

"But my hired men were going to leave and I had to do
something. Today the Perfection Milker has changed this
farm. We have an electric light plant, an electric washing
machine, an electric vacuum cleaner and other improvements,
but I was saying to my wife the other day that while all these
things help us a great deal, it was the Perfection Milker that

started us. ”

The Cows Lick The Perfection

"Instead of my cows being hurt by the milker, they like
it. When I start the milker, I have often heard my cows
bellow for it just like for their own calves and then turn

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Tom Christensen. who had nerve enough to
install the first Perfection in his community.

His Neighbors Laughed at Tom Christensen When He Bought
Now There Are Fifty in His Neighborhood.

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You never heard of a cow licking
the hand of a man who was doing the milking, did you?

' “And the Perfection 1s better for my cows than hand milk~
lng. When a hired man thinks it’s quitting time, he hurrieo

around and lick the pail.

and doesn‘t milk clean. This cuts down the amount of milk
for weeks and makes no end of trouble. But my Perfection
milks each cow just the same every night and it never gets
mad no matter what happens.

“My v1ife and I both had to milk before we had the Pet-
fect1on. Now my two little boys often do the milking alone
and it only take: them forty minutes.’

And The Neighbors Own Perfections, Too

"When my neighbors found cut that my mill: check was
an eraging over $500 a month, they began to have a new idea
about the Perfection Milker. Today there are 50 Perfectiono
within a few miles of my place and everybody is satisfied
with them.’

Mr. Christensen’ s story is the experience of one of
thousand: of practical dairymen.

Send For Names, Addresses and Catalog

,[We will gladly send you his address together with tho
names and addresses of many other Perfection owners to whom
you can write. We will also send FREE, "What the Dairy-
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about milking machines. Write today.

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I By Bert Wood: . ' ' “

age feeds cohsist of~~ silage and timo¥

N face of the present high prices
for all kinds of grain feeds and by-
product concentrates and the cha-
otic foreign exchange situation dairy‘
farmers are facing conditions that de-
mand stricteconomy in every branch
of the business. One possible means
of keeping productiou costs low, and
at the same time providing well for
the fertility of the land, is to grow
more kinds of feed than is ordinarily
produced on dairy farms. Home-
grown and home-mixed feeds are usu-
ally the cheapest and best. The short-
age of labor will prevent many men
from seeding or planting as many
acres of suitable crops as may be
needed for feeding their cows, but a
man who is not in a good position to
produce a sufficient quantity and vari-
ety of roughage for his cattle had bet—
ter sell part of his herd and produce a
larger part of the feed for the cows he
keeps. Dairy farmers, of coui'Se, re-
quire a heavy tonnage of certain feeds,
which they are not in a position to
grow, but there is absolutely no reason
for the average dairy farmer to de-
pend upon purchased feeds to balance
up inferior hay, silage and fodders.

Economical feeding demands that
two-thirds of the uaii‘y cow‘s ration
should be of.roughage; that is, hay.
silage, roots, or all three, and one-third

-. concentrates which include millfeeds

and various byproduct “feeds of com-
merce." A cow weighing one thousand
pounds will consume about thirty
pounds of silage or fifty pounds of

[roots and ten pounds of hay daily. The
Elamount of grain and byproduct feeds
should be varied to meet the require—

ments of her capacity to produce milk.
Some cows will use but six to eight
pounds of grain a day economically,
while some heavier producers will use
from ten to twenty pounds. ‘ If a cow
has a capacity to handle only six or
eight pounds of grain, feeding her
more will be done at a loss. '

A very good ration can be made by
feeding such a cow thirty pounds of
silage and all of the good alfalfa or
clover hay she will consume. The sil-
age and legume hay make up an ideal
ration of roughage. There are times
when the prices of grain and by-prod-
uct feeds are so high that the feeder
can omit the grain from the rations of
all cows that are not giving a full flow
of milk. This will mean feeding larger
rations of roughage. A mixture of
grain that will go well with such
roughage as corn silage and legume
hay consists of four hundred pounds
of ground corn and barley; two hun-
dred pounds of ground oats and one
hundred pounds of oil meal. There
are many millfeeds and by-products
which may be used to equally good
advantage, but few mixtures will prove
more efficient and economical than one
apprdximating the above. Cows that
are fed silage and alfalfa or clover
hay will produce well if fed one pound
of such grain mixture for every four
pounds of four per cent milk produced.
At times when milk is high in price
and feeds are cheap and plentiful grain
may-be fed more libearlly. but as a
general rule heavier grain feeding is
unprofitable.

Corn silage and alfalfa or clover hay
make one of the best roughage rations,
and there are few farms that cannot
produce such grains feeds as corn, oats
and barley. Better results are obtain-
ed, however. inmost cases when some
purchased concentrate is used to fur-
nish more protein. ’Since alfalfa. and
clover hay are rich in protein they will

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The dairy farmer can meet the pres-
ent situation in no other way than by
feeding better cows, practicing more
economical methods of feeding, and.
making plans to grow more of the right
kinds of feed for his cows.
izathns may solve some of his selling
problems,~ and do much to protect his
markets and stabilize prices, but with
little demand for dairy products from
foreign markets there, is sure to be a.
decline in prices which will compel
many dairy farmers to grow more of
their food supply or dispose of some
of their cows. With silage and good
legume hay it is easy to regulate the
feeding problem so as not to suffer 'any
financial reverses even though prices
decline during readjustment period.

VALUE OF,MANURE SPREADER.

F I-were to advise one about buying

implements for a. dairy farm, the
first in the list would be a manure
spreader. ~ .

The main crop a dairy farm should
produce is hay, and the manure spread-
cr is the hay-maker that cannot be
beaten. Two years ago we seeded a.
piece to clover and timothy The seed-
ing came along very good until the
drought struck it, and by the last of
August it didn’t look good enough to
leave for a hay crop, but we needed
the hay badly and decided to give it a.
top-dressing with the spreader.

At this time we hadn’t much- ma-
nure but, used all we had, which cov«

ered about an acre and a, half. The
next spring we went on with the
spreader, covering the whole field

lightly. And say, if anything can per-
form a miracle, manure can. Just be-
fore cutting time i went over the field
to see what kind of crop we had. i
was: surprised to be able to track that
manure spreader as easily as a dog
would a. rabbit on a fresh snow.

Wherever the spreader threw its
“streak of gold” there stood clover up
to my waist and where the manure did
not cover, nothing but ragweed and
sheep sorrel were growing. At the
ends where the machine would lap, the
clover was so rank that it lodged in
such a shape that the mower would
not cut all of it.

This top-dressing was put on in the
early spring, in the forenoons of each
day before the sun cut the frost and
let, the spreader down into the meadow.

Another advantage of putting the
manure on the grass Cl‘Op is, that not»
a. bit is wasted. It is all washed to
the roots of the plant and not down
the dead furrows and larger creek. It
makes a. better and larger crop of hay

and stores valuable plant food for the ,

succeeding corn crop.T. J. ROBERTSON.
HENS *WITH SCABIES.

My hens have the feathers off on the
abdomen and also have a. scab or a.
sore there. What can I do? They are
healthy otherwise, light for feed and
combs are red. but they do not lay.

Newaygo Co. - D. W. M.

The disease called mange or scabies
of fowls is caused by mites at the base
of the feathers. The disease causes
itching and loss of plumage and ser-
iously infested birds are not .apt to be
thrifty or lay many eggs. An oint‘
merit consisting of one part flowers of
sulphur and four parts lard is recom-
mended. .Rub this mixture on the.
parts lacking feathers and extend the,-
treatment a. couple of incheseech iwgy‘
WaShing the affected malts ids
lution (#2750111 ' W “ '

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maining sheila-go toth
the hogs get as much-
from the cow in the ensila’se as they
would had ,the corn been hushed and
not put in the silo? D. M.

Experienced feeders do not give sil-

age a, high feeding value for feeding '

whogs. In some instances favorable re

1 - ports have come from those who have

fed it in limited quantities to breeding

stock and shoats, but it is tdo bulky
for fattening hogs. Then, too, there
seems to be some doubt about its et-
fects on the health of the hogs that
are fed large quantities. According to
experiments conducted at several. sta-
tions there is a slight loss of feeding
value of the corn that is put into the
silo with the stalks. So much depends
uponthe quality of the silage that it
would be impossible to give accurate
data, but from all practical experience
I would suggest that you feed the sil-
age .to other live stock rather than
hogs. W. M; K.

 

SPRAYING APPLE TREES.

We have one hundred apple trees
just beginning to hear. The apples
are always wormy. What do you think
we had better spray with? What do
you think about whitewashing the
trunks? J. R.

If there is San Jose scale on the ap-
ple trees, spray with strong lime-sul-
phur before the buds open. The sec-
ond spraying comes when the blossom
buds are "in the pink. ” Use Bordeaux
mixture or lime- sulphur for the scab
and add two or three pounds of arse-
nate of lead paste to each fifty gallons
of the mixture. ’

After the blossoms‘fall, immediately
apply the same mixture~very thorough
ly as this is the spray that is greatly
needed for the codling moth In about
two weeks the same mixture is repeat-
ed. The second generation of the cod-
ling moth during the first week in Aug-
ust will require the application. re-
peated.

We see little gained by whitewash-
ing the trunks of the trees as the dor-
mant spray of strong lime-sulphur kills
the scale and is the only wash needed
on the trunks. Write to the college
experiment station at East Lansing for
Special Bulletin No. 93, entitled,
“Spray and Practice Outline for Fruit
Growers.” R. G. K.

 

EXTERMINATING MILKWEED.

 

Is it pessible to exterminate milk-

—~ weed on a rich clay loam, and how can

it be done with the least amount of
labor? .
Shiawassee Co. 1 B. M.

Common milkweed should cause no
great anxiety to the farmer. In culti—
vated fields where you’have a rotation
of crops, no particular attention need
be paid to them. They will run out in
a short time anyway, and they seem
to do but little harm to the crop- For
instance, milkweed in a field of oats
does not seem to injure the oats grow-
ing close to it. The stalk of the oats
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oat plant. or course. they are not very
nice to’ have in with the bundle of
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liter-teed. Kyiarm is small and
devoted mostly to fruit, but feed in

that I try to raise a part of what I
need. My meadow was run out and I
planned to sow oats and reseed it,
which by the way, turned out a poor
plan as the seeding mostly died out on
account of the dry hot weather. I
wanted some kind of crop which would
produce an abundance of feed with a
minimum of care as the berry crop
Would 'not allow much time for cultiva-
tion The experiment station at East
Lansing advised oats and Canada peas
so'wed together and cut for hay. I on-
ally decided to give Sudan grass 3
trial. I

, i bought ten pounds of seed and
gave it a thorough trial. I sowed it
the last of May on a piece of ground
which had raised a poor crop of com
the previous season. I should have
waited longer to sow the seed as it was
extremely slow in germinating and get-
ting a start. I thought the spindly,
weak looking plants would never
amount to anything. With the hot, dry
weather of- July, the plants shot up
amazingly and stooled to from ten to
twenty stalks to the plant.

When the grass was about four feet
tall, I made the first cutting and the
stock ate it with relish. I was some—
what disappointed though, with the
yield as the grass dried out to less
than half of its green bulk. This cut-
ting.was made July 28. I made up my
mind to allow the grass to mature
more“ for the next cutting.

The plants began to grow again at
once. I scattered broadcast a light
sprinkling of fertilizer on ”part 01' the
field where the soil was thin but could
not notice any improvenlent. I allow-
ed the grass to get about six feet tall
this time and waited until it was fully
headed out. The stalks were as thick
as a. lead pencil and averaged fifteen
stalks to the plant. Leaves were long
and wide and plenty of them on each
stalk. '

This cutting was made September
15 and the grass was so tall and rank
that my neighbor broke his mowing
machine on the second round. I had
no machine so had 4.0 mow the re-
mainder with a scythe. I sure knew
that I had done something when that
piece was finally mowed. No wonder
the pioneers aged rapidly with their
scythes and cradles. Not for me those
good old days. I literally earned the
cowa’ bread by the sweat of my brow.
only my brow must have been exceed-
ingly extensive for even my stockings
were wet. I raked it by hand, too, and
I might as well have raked sticks as
the stalks were still and hard.

I had my troubles loading that hay
as there was no coherence. The stalks
would not stick together like timothy
that fell apart easily. I could not get

a good-sized load of hay but the stock
would not eat the stalks so I had to
'elean the mangers twice a day and use
stalks for bedding. They did not rot
well in the manure and made a tangled
mess. .

I finally got rid of that not! but reg
istered a vow of never again. The
grass grew up again to a height of
about two feet and I staked my cow
on it. She ate it greedily but ate oil a

or two and was ready for more, so evi-
dently it did not have much substance

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TEE Spring of 1919 I was up again“

this section is so outrageously high

and failed to get a stand.’

a full load on the Kerk for it just would '
not stay together. This cutting made

circle of twenty-foot radius in an hour'

“rass

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head out fully: on the whole, I cannot. ’

recommend it, but perhaps I did-not
give it a fair trial. The land was poor"
and the seed bed not very thoroughly
worked. ,

This year I shall try oats and Can-f
ada peas for a hay’crop. I tried alfal-
fa. twice following the .full' directions
I shall try
a small piece this year and I plan to
sow the seed the last of March with
no preparation on some bare ground
and let the frost work it into _ the
ground. I don’t utterly condemn Sudan
grass, possibly you may like it fine and
have good success with it, but as for
me—nev‘er, no, never again.

Berrien Co. ‘ L. B. REBEB.

GLAD WE TRIED IT.

UR meadows did not produce very

well for a number of years after
we bought the farm. They had been
run for a long term of years, with lit-
tle or no manure or other form of fer.
tilizer put .back. In this respect my
fields were quite like those of my
neighbors, as well as up to the average
for the country. If we take the trou-
ble to look it up, we will be surprised
to find that the average annual produc-
tion of hay is 'only about a ton and a
half to the acre for this entire country.
I know I was startled when I first
found that out.

But it came to us that perhaps by
using lime we might increase our yield
of grass per acre. We applied it when
we seeded the land down with cats,
dressing the land with a few hundred
pounds of the lime to the acre. We
began by spreading it by hand, but
that was not a Very pleasant way of
doing. It got in our noses and eyes
and we felt that it was not very heal-
thy. ‘I know of one man who says he
cannot get men to spread lime by hand
for that new reason. So we now have
a lime spreader which works well. It
gets the lime on more evenly than we
could by hand and is free from, the any
jection that grows out of the hand
work.

Now for the results. That is what
tells the story. We have increased our
production of hay one-half on the fields
where the lime has been used. It is
true that we have used some barnyard
manure along with the lime. I think
that should always be done where we
have, or can get, that kind of fertiliz-
er. ln the absence of manure, a well-
mixed commercial fertilizer will take
its place. -

If all the meadows of this country

could be treated as we have treated

ours, it would not be long before we
would be cutting twice as much hay
on the same land that we do now, and
that means, according to the figures
for last year, about one hundred and
seventy million tons, and the best of it
is, the hay is so much better—E. L. V.

PROTECTING MIGHIGAN’S LIVE
STOCK.

(Continued from page 543). -
be for the owner at the dog first, and
that owner will have to pay all costs
of trip and service papers in the case.
' Even at this late day there are some
dog owners who may claim ignorance
of this new dog law. As soon‘ as the
warm weather comes on there will be.
a round-up a! both dogs and their own-
ers inall notice» of the state. June
15 of this year is the limit when the
county , trauma“ and city andtownq

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place am
0; corn
’ cure a kicking cow .
Probably taking everytfimg into con-
sideration oats are the safest and best
teed that can be ted.to horses. But as
you suggest, you can get splendid re-
sults by feeding corn meal and wheat
' bran, equal parts by measure. Several

V years back we did not grow any oats
atall and the horses were red almost ,

entirely onthis ration of coin meal
and wheat bran with good results.

To Cure a Cow From Kicking.

The first‘thing to do is to find out .

the cause and remove it if possible.
'A COW hardly ever kicks unless there
is a good reason for it. Possibly her
teats and udder are tender, possibly

, they are cracked and chapped and ’

when you milk her it hurts, and if this
is so you can’t blame a Cow for kick-
ing. The udder and teats should be
examined and if they are sore ,or ten-
der they should be attended to. Boiled
linseed oil is about as good as any.
You could use vaseline or camphorat-
ed vaseline. It is very healing and
soothing. "Then again, sometimes the
milkerhas thick callouses on his hands
and this hurts when you squeeze the
teats, or a milker may have long sharp
finger nails, etc.~ Discover the cause
and remove it if possible.
You can’t break a cow from kicking
by abusing her. It does not do to
thrash a cow for kicking. You have
got to let her understand that you are
her friend, that you are trying to do
things for her benefit and when this is
done in the right way there is very lit-
tle trouble. However, there are cows
that are vicious that will kick and
hook and when you get one like that
about the only way is to tie her legs
~when you milk her. Put a ring and
staple in back of her, having a good
wide strap. about the leg, just above
the gamble on, just above the ankle,
draw the rope up tight when the. leg
is in position for milking; In this way
you make it impossible for her to kick,
but; don’t leave her teats and udder
cracked and sore, heal them up.
C. C. L. .

HATCHING AND snooomo
oucxs.

Will you please tell me whether I
can hatch duck eggs with an incubator
and brood the ducklings artificially?
How old may the eggs get before set-
ting?

Bay Co. J. V.

Duck eggs can be saved for three
weeks for hatching purposes if they
are stored in a room where the tem-:

perature is about fifty degrees. Of 9

course, the fresher the eggs the great-
er. the chances for hatching a large
per cent of vigorous ducklings. If
duck eggs are left for several days
. where the temperature is even eighty-
flve degrees, a change will occur and
they will Spoil in a short time. In gen-
eral we believe that duck eggs saved
for incubation 'need even better care

than hen’s eggs if the best results are .

to be expected.

Ducks are hatched very successfully '

in incubators with the temperature
running at one hundred and three de-
grees throughout the hatch. It requires
twenty-eight days to hatch “the eggs

After the fourteenth day of incubation ‘

some breeders sprinkle duck eggs each
day with water at one hundred and
four degrees. This is continued until
the eggs start to pip. Moisture pans

areoften used after the fifth day. The

artificial heat is very drying and there ~ A I
’ will be many dead ducklings in the

She"! 113 if moistureis . isseriously lacking

of ts. Do you w‘think equal parts: .. .
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CHAPTER I.

N the summer of 1850 a tepsail
I schooner slipped into the cove un~

der Trinidad Head and dropped an-
chor at the edge of the kelp-fields.
Fifteen minutes later her small-boat
deposited on the beach a man armed
with long squirrel-rifle and an axe, and
carrying food and clothing in a brown
canvas pack. From the beach he
Watched the boat return and saw the
schooner weigh anchor and stand cut
to sea before the northwest trades.
When-she had disappeared from his
ken, he swung his pack to his broad
and powerful back and strode reso-
lutely into the timber at the mouth of
a little river.

The man was John Cardigan: in
that lonely, hostile land he was the
first pioneer. This is the tale of Car-
digan and Cardigan’s son, for in his
chosen land the pioneer leader in the
gigantic task of hewing a path for civ—
ilization was to know the bliss of wom-
an’s love and of parenthood, and the
sorrow that comes of the loss of a
perfect mate; he was to know the tre-
mendous joy of accomplishment and
worldly success after infinite labor;
and in the sunset of life he was to
know the dull despair of failure and
ruin. Because of these things there is
a tale to be told, the tale of Cardigan’s
son, who, when his sire fell in the fray,
took up the fight to save his heritage
——a tale of life with its love and hate,
its battle, victory, defeat, labor, joy,
and sorrow, a tale of that unconquer-
able spirit of youth which spurred
Bryce Cardigan to lead a forlorn hope
for the sake not of wealth but of an
ideal. Hark, then, to this-tale of Car-
digan's redwoods:

Along the coast of California,
through the secret valleys and over
the tumbled foothills of the Coast
Range, extends a belt of timber of an
average width of thirty miles. In ap-
proaching it from the Oregon line the
first tree looms suddenly against the
horizonwan outpost, as it were, of the
host of giants whose column stretches
south nearly four hundred miles to
where the last of the rear-guard main-
tains eternal sentry-go on the crest of
the mountains overlooking Monterey
Bay. Far in the interior of the state,
beyond the fertile San Joaquin Val-
ley, the allies of this vast army hold a
small sector on the west slope of the
Sierras.

These are the redwood forests of
California, the only trees of their kind
in the world and indigenous only to
these two areas within the state. The
coast timber is known botanically as
sequoia sempervirens, that in the in-
terior as sequoia gigantea. As the
name indicates, the latter is the larger
species of the two, although the fibre
of the timber is coarser and the wood
softer and consequently less valuable
commercially than the sequoia seinper-
virens—which in Santa Cruz, San Mat-
eo, Marin, and Sonoma counties has
been almost wholly logged off, because
of its accessibility. In northern Men-
docino, Humboldt, and Del Norte
counties, however, sixty years of log-

. ging seems scarcely to have left a scar
; upon this vast body of timber.
' withstanding sixty years of attrition,

Not-

there remain in this section of the

redwood belt thousands upon thou-

sands of acres of virgin timber that

 

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a When Christ was crucified In their

THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS

A ROMANCE OF THE REDWoons

By Pat” B. Kym

(The First Installment of Out New Serial)

vast, sombre recesses, with the sun—
light filtering. through their branches
two hundred and fifty feet above, one
bears no sound save the tremendous
diapason of the ’silence of the ages;
here, more forcibly than elsewhere .in
the universe, is one reminded of the
littleness of man and the glory of his
creator.

'In sizes ranging from five to twenty
feet in diameter, the brown trunks rise
perpendicularly to a height of from
ninety to a hundred and fifty feet be-
fore putting forth a single limb, which
frequently is more massive than the
growth which men call a tree in the
forests of Michigan. Scattered be-
tween the giants, like subjects around
their king, one finds noble fir, spruce,
or pines, with some Valparaiso live
oak, black oak, pepper-wood, madrone,
yew, and cedar.

In May and June, when the twisted
and cowering madrone trees.‘are put-
ting forth their clusters of creamy
buds, when the white blossoms of the
dogwoods line the banks of little
streams, when the azaleas arid rho-
dodendrons, lovely and delicate as or-
chids, blaze a. bed of glory, and the
modest little oxalis has thrust itself
up through the brown carpet of pine-
needles and redwood-twigs, these won-
derful forests cast upon one a potent
spell. To have seen them once thus in
gala dress is to yearn thereafter to see
them again and still again and grieve
always in the knowledge of their in-
evitable death at the hands of the
woodsman.

John Cardigan settled iii Humboldt
county, where the sequoia sempervir—
ens attains the pinnacle of its glory,
and With the lust for conquest hot in
his blood, he filed upon a quarter-sec-
tion of the timber almost on the shore
of Humboldt Bay—land upon which a
city subsequently was to be built.
With his double-bitted axe and cross-
cut saw John ’Cardigan brought the
first of the redwood giants crashing to
the earth above which it had towered
for twenty centuries, and in the form
of split posts, railroad ties, pickets and
shakes, the fallen giant was. hauled to
tidewater in ox-drawn wagons and
shipped to San Francisco in the little
two-master! coasting schooners of the
period. Here, by the abominable mag-
ic of barter and trade, the dismember-
ed tree was transmuted into dollars
and cents and returned to Humboldt
county to assist John Cardigan in his
task of hewing an empire out of a wil-
derness. ,

At a. period in the history of Cali-
fornia when the treasures of the cen-
turies were to be had for the asking
or the taking, John Cardigan chose
that which others elected to cast away.
For him the fertile wheat and fruit-
lands of California’s smiling valleys,
the dull placer gold in her foot-hill
streams, and the free grass, knee deep
on her cattle and sheep-ranges held no
lure; for he had been first among the
Humboldt redwoods and had come un-
der the spell of'the vastness and an-
tiquity, the majesty and promise of
these spice of a planet. He was a big
man with a. great heart and the soul of
a dreamerfand in such a landas this
it was fitting he should take. his. stand.

In that wasteful day a timber-claim
was not looked upon as valuable. The
price of a quarter-section was a pit-

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evidence of good faith to a, government ‘

none too exacting in the restrictions
with which it hedged about its care-
less dissipation of the heritage of pos-
terity. Hence, because redwood tim-
ber-claims were easy to acquire, many
men acquired them; but when the lure
of greener pastures gripped these men
and thenecessity for ready money op-
pressed, they were wont to sell their
holdings for a few hundred dollars.
Gradually it became the fashion in
Humboldt to “unload” redwood timber-
claims on thrifty, far-seeing, visionary
John Cardigan who appeared to be al-
ways in the market for any claim
worth while.

Cardigan was a shrewd judge of
stumpage; with the calm certitude of
a prophet he looked over township af—
ter township and cunningly checker-
boarded it with his holdings. Notwith—
standing the fact that hillside timber
is the best, John Cardigan in those
days preferred to buyvalley timber,
for he was looking forward to the day
when the timber on the watersheds
should become available. He knew
that when such timber should be cut
it would have to be hauled out through
the valleys where his untouched hold-

‘ings formed an impenetrable barrier

to the exit! Before long the owners
of timber on the "watersheds would
come to realize this and sell to John
Cardigan at a reasonable price.

Time passed. John Cardigan no
longer swung an axe or dragged a.
cross-cut saw through a fallen reds
wood. He was an employer of labor
now, well'known in San Francisco as
a manufacturer of split-redwood prod-
ucts, the purchasers sending their own
schooners for the cargo. And presently
John Cardigan mortgaged all of his
timber holdings with a San Francisco
bank, made a heap of his winnings.
and like a true adventurer staked his
all on a new venture—~the first sawmill
in Humboldt county. The timbers for
it were hewed out by hand; the boards
and planking were whipsawed.

It was a tiny mill, judged by pres-
ent-day standards, for in fourteen-
hour working day John Cardigan and
his men could not cut more than twen<
ty thousand feet of lumber. Never-
theless, when Cardigan looked at his
mill, his great heart would swell with
pride. Built on tidewater and at the
mouth of a large slough in the waters
of which he stored the logs his woods-
crew cut and peeled for the bull-whack-
ers to haul with ox-teams down a mile—
long skid-road, vessels could come to
Cardigan’s mill dock to load and lie
safely in twenty feet of water at low
tide. Also this dock was sufficiently
far up the bay to be sheltered from
the heavy seas that rolled in from
Humboldt Bar, while the level land
that stretched inland to the timber-
llne constituted the only logical town-
site on the bay.

“Here," said John Cardigan to him-
self exultingly when a long-drawn wail
told him his circular saw was biting
into the first redwood log to be milled
since the world began,“ “I shall build a
city and call it Sequoia. 'By tomorrow
I shall have cut sufficient timber, to
make a start. First I shall build for

my employee better homes than the.

rude shacks and tent-houses they now

occupy; then I shall build myself a
and the '~

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to see that the nations debt to the farmer is paid.

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mess in Sequoia, and to my city I shall
present a church and a schoolhouse.
We shall have a yelunteer fire depart-
ment, and it God is good, I shall, at a
later date, fi’ get but some long-length

freight my lumber to market. And
she shall have three masts instead of
- two, “and carry half a‘ million feet of
lumber instead of two hundred thou-
sand. First, however, I must build a.
steam tugboat to tow my schooner in
and, out over Humboldt Bar. And af-
ter that—ah, well! That is sufficient
'for the present.”

CHAPTER II.

HUS did John Cardigan dream,
and as he dleamed he worked.
The city of Sequoia was born
with the Argonaut’s six—r00m mansion
ofllough redwood boards and a, dozen
three-room cabinslwith lean-to kitch-
ens; and the tradespeople came when
John Cardigan, with something of the
largeness of his own redwood trees,
gave them ground and lumber in order
to encourage the building of their en-
terprises. Also the dream of the
schoolhouse and the church came true,
as did the steam tugboat and the
schooner with three masts. The mill
was enlarged until it could cut forty
thousand feet on a twelve-hour shift,
and a planer and machines for making
rustic siding and tongued~and-grooved
flooring and ceiling were installed.
More oX-teams appeared pen the skid-
road, which was longer now; the cry
of “Timber-r—r—” and the thunderous
roar of a falling redwood grew fainter
and fainter as the forest receded from
the bay shore, and at last the whine
of the saws silenced these sounds for‘
ever in Sequoia.

At forty John Cardigan was younger
than most men at thirty, albeit he
worked fourteen hours a day, slept
eight, and consumed the remaining
two at his meals. But through all
thOSe fruitful years of toil he had still
found .time to dream, and the spell of
the redwoods had lost noné of its
potency. He was still checker-boarding
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verse holdings—the key-positions to
the timber in back of beyond which
some day should come to his hand.
Also he had competition now; other
sawmills dotted the‘bay shore; other
three-masted schooners carried Hum-
boldt redwood to the world beyond the
bar, over which they were escorted by
other and more powerful steam—tugs.
This competition John "Cardigan wel-
comed and enjoyed, however, for he
had been first in Humboldt, and the
townsite and a mile of tidelands front-
ing on deep water were his; hence
each incoming adventurer merely help-
ed his dream of a city to come true.

At forty-two Cardigan was the first
mayor of Sequoia. At forty-four he
was standing on his dock one day,
watching his tug kick into her berth
the first square-rigged ship that had
ever come to Humboldt Bay to load a.
cargo of clear redwood foryforeign de-
livery. She was a big Bath~built clip-
per, and her master a lusty down-
Easter, a widower with one daughter
who had come with him around the
Horn. John Cardigan saw this girl
come up on the quarter-deck and stand
by with a heaving-line in her hand;
calmly she fixed her glance upon him,
and as the ship was shunted in closer
to the dock, she made the cast to
Cardigan. ' He caught the light heav-
ing-line, hauled in the heavy Manila
stem-line to which it was attached.
and slipped the loop of the mooring.
cable over. the dolphin at the end of
the dock. —

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per replied

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short handed,

Cardigan made a long leap from the AC,“ ' .
dock to the ship’s rail, balanced there . _ 7
lightly a moment, and sprang to the

deck. He passed the bight of the
stern-line in a. triplewloop around the.
drum of the windlass‘,. and without
awaiting his instructions, the ».girl
grasped the slack of the line and'pre-
pared to walk away with it as the rope
paid in on the windlass. Cardigan in-
serted a belaying-pin in the Windlass,
paused and looked at the (girl. “Raise‘
a chantey,” he suggested. - Instantly
she lifted a. Street contralto in that
rollicking old ballad of the Sea—“Blow.
the Men Down.”

For tinkers and tailors and lawyers

and all,

Way! Aye! Blow the men down!

They ship for real sailors aboard the
Black Ball,

Give me some time to bIOW the men
down.

Round the windlass Cardigan walk-
ed, steadily and easily, and the girl’s
eyes widened in wonder as he did the"
work of three powerful men. When
the ship had beenfi'warped in and the
slack of the line made fast on the
bitts, she said: .

“Please run for’d and help my fatho
er with the'bow-lines. You’re worth
three foremast hands. Indeed, I didn’t
expect to see a. sailor on this dock.”

“I had to come around the Horn to
get here, Miss,” he explained, “and
when a man hasn’t money to pay for
his passage, he needs must work lt.’?

“I’m the second mate,” she explain-
ed. “We had a succession of gales
flom the Falklands to the Evangelis—
tas, and there the mate got her in
hens and she took thlee big ones over
the taffrail and cost us eight men.
Working short-handed, we’couldn’t get
any canvas on her to speak of—long
voyage, you know, and the rest of \the
crew got scurvy.” - '

“You’re a brave girl,” he told her.

“And you’re a. first-class A. 3.,” she
replied. “If you’re looking for a berth,
my father will be’ glad to ship you.”_

“Sorry, but I: can’t go',” he called, as
he turned toward the companion lad-
der. “Im Cardigan, and I own this
sawmill and must stay here and look
after it.”

There was a light, exultant feeling
in his middle-aged heart as he scamp—
cred along the deck. The girl had
wonderful dark auburn hair and brown ’
eyes, with a milk-white skin that sun
and wind had sought in vain to blem-
ish. And for all her girlhood she was
a woman—bred from a. race (his own
people)—-—to whom danger and despair
merely furnished a tonic for their
courage. What a mate for a. man!
And she had looked at him pridefully.

They were marlied before the ship
was loaded, and on a knoll of the log-
ged over lands back of the town and
commanding a. view of the bay, with
the dark-forested hills in back and the
little second-growth redwoods flourish
ing in the front yard; he built her the
finest home in Sequoia. He had re-
served. this, building-site in. a vague
hope that some day he might utilize it
for this very purpose, and here he
spent with her three wonderfully hap-
py years. Here his son Bryce was
born, and here, two’days later, the
newvmade motheremade the supreme
sacrifice of maternity.

For half a day following the destrch _
tion of his Eden John Cardigan sat
dumbly beside his wife, his great, hard
hand caressing the auburn headwhose
every thought for three years had been
his happiness and comfort. Then the

doctor came to him -and mentioned the ‘

matter of. funeral arrangements.
Cardigan looked up“ "

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‘ shall attend to it "

He ruse and left the house, walking ,
with bowed head out of Sequoia. up
the abandoned and decaying skid-road
through the second-growth redwoods‘
to the dark green blur that marked
the old timber. It was May, and na-
ture was renewing herself, for spring
comes late in Humboldt County. From

an alder ‘ thicket a. pompous cock D E T n o. T s PEC IAL

grouse boomed intermittently; the val-

ley, quail, in pairs. were busy about OVERALL: E :0" Bl NAI
their household afl’airs; from a clump

,~ , 0:? manzanita a buck watched John
“5"". . Ca aligan curiously. On past the land- .
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went, up the skid-road recently swamp- ’ work garments asyou do 1]: buying

ed from the landing to the down tim- farm machinery you’ll buy ,4,
her where the crosscut men and bark- k’l “P. N n_ B d F
Peelers were at work, on into the Fine lg S 088 ran "

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to his woods-boss. They passed through
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a narrow gap between two 10w hills woven material obtainable That mean g

and emerged in a long narrow valley Secondz—Became they are designed to fit.
where the redwood grew thickly and That means they are comfortable to work 1n
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way with difficulty through the under- . . .
brush until they came at length to a some: and kecnest satisfaction.

little amphitheatre, a clearing perhaps Think—Because Finck’s “Pig's N083” Work
a mmdmd feet "1 dmmeter’ °Val'8hap‘ Clothing will save you money. You get longer
, ed and surrounded by a wall of red- . .

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the woods-boss answered. “We’d a
Whisper in the camp yesterday that
the lass was like to be in a bad way.”

-; Cardigan scufied with his foot 9.
* clear space in the brown litter. “Take
two men from the section-gang, Mc-
Tavish,” he ordered, "and have them
dig her grave here; then swamp a
trail through the underbrush and out
to the donkey—landing, so we can carry
her in. The funeral will be private.”
, , McTavish nodded. “Any further or-

—?‘--— ders, sir?"

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gap in the hills, cease your logging and
bear off yonder." He waved his hand.
' . “I’m not going to cut the timber in
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young——- w onever play until I met was closer to him an mOtherly Mrs.
her—'I—o-l’ m a bit foolt’sh- I fear, but I Tully or the halfébree‘d girl, albeit the
'fognd rest bzdd comfort triers, McTav- housekeeper sang to him the lullabys .
is even ore I me er. and I’m that mot ers know while the Di er
- thinking I’ll have to come here often girl. improviSing plank verse ”sf-119
for the same. She-she was a very of. praise and prophecy, crooner: them
superior woman, McTav-ish—very sur to her charge in the unmusical meno- ‘
_ , perior. Ah, man, the soul of her! I tone of her tribal tongue. His father. ' . 31.; , ,.
cannot hear that her' body should rest on the contrary, wasted no time in . -~
:1 in Sequoia cemetery, along with the singing, but would toss him to the cell-
1‘ rag tag and bobtail o' the town. She ing or ,set him astride his foot and . ~ : ‘fr ,
was like this sunbeam, McTavish. She swing him until he screamed in ecs- . 1 3 .
-—She_'." . . tasy. Moreover, his father took him " f .
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“1 £373: fifggfignrcgzvf; 1:18 :3: member of the household had even ‘ l 1
mon or a public spot in which to wait suggested. Together they were wont l
for ye An’ 376.11 be shuttin’ down the to ride to and from the woods in the { 1
~‘ mill an’ loggin’ -camps an’ layin’ off ‘the cab of the logging locomotive, and. \
hands in her honor for a bit?” once they both got on the log carriage . ‘-

.. in the mill with Dan Keyes, the head .
Anciln’teilll :33 1:12: 1:11;??? b24133 1:; sawyer. and had a jolly ride up to the - 1;
the lost time. That will be all, lad." saw and back again, up and back again

, until the log had been completely saw-
diWhen SlaTaViSh was 8011116, John Car- ed; and because he had refrained from

gall sa own on a sma sugar-pine or. in aloud when the eed saw bit
windfall, his head held slightly to one info tghe log with 3 gm?“ wgme' Dan '
y side while he listened to that which in Keyes had given him a nickel to put l
3 the redwéods is not sound but rather in his tin bank. , 1

absence of it. And as he listened, he . . ‘
absorbed a subtle comfort from those Of all their adventures, together,
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stand the usual ligid tests which ale so; he sat down and gazed long and there waiting to cllmb on his shoulder
applied 10 all camelas made by The earnestly at this flesh of his flesh and and semen his 1’00““ for Pme‘nutsla
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makes Pletures 2/14X3 4 inches in Size for now I must love for two. Sorrow eagerness to those frequent trips with
and the negatn 95 are 0f such quality I shall keep from you, pleaseGod, and his father “to the place where mother
”lat excellent enlargements can be happiness and worldly comfort shall'l dear went to heaven.” From his perch
made from them. “Y Th leave you when I go to her.” He nuz— on his father’s shoulders he could look
our [CShlng zled his grizzled check against the vast distances into the underbrush and
baby’s face. “Just you and my trees,” catch glimpses of the wild life there-
was Clean” he whispered, “Just you and my trees in; when the last nut had been distrib-
to help me hang on to a plucky finish. ” uted to the squirrels in the clearing,
There‘s a lot of satisfaction and rofit' m For love and paternity had come to he would .follow a flash 0f blue that ‘ '
having customers not only satis ed, but him late in life and so had his first was a. jay high ‘11) among the ever-
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arms as t e latter sat dreaming on the '
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fOund that peace which he

. breed foster mother proudly exhibited

and presently
sought.
Love such as theirs could never die.

. . . The tears came at last.

At sundown he walked home bearing
an armful of rhododendrons and dog-
wood blossoms, which he arranged in
the room where she lay. Then he
sought the nurse who had attended
her.

closer to his Maker,

son whom he called Bryce, the family
name of his mother’s peoples A Mrs.
Tully, widow of Cardigan's first engi-
neer in the mill. was- engaged as house-
keeper and cook; and with his domes~
tic establishment reorganized along
these simple lines, John Cardigan
turned with added eagerness to his
business affairs, heping between them
and his boy to salvage as much as we
sdble from what seemed-to him, in the
first pangs of his loneliness and deso-
lation, the wreckage of hisli-fe.

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clothes, he Was known only to ”those
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in the thought he grew frequent excursions up to the valley

of the Giants impressed themselves
imperishably upon Bryce’s memory.
How well he remembered their first

trip, when, seated astride his father’s

shoulders with his sturdylittle legs
around Cardigan’s' neck and his chubo
bylittle hands clasping the old man's
ears, they had gone up the abandoned
skid-road and into the semi-darkness
of the forest, telminating suddenly in
a shower of sunshine that fell in an

foundation for a democratic education
all too infrequent with the sons of men
rated as millionaires. At night old
Cardigan (for so men had now com-
menced to designate him)! would hear
his boy’s lessons, taking the while an
immeasurable delight in watching'the

lad’s mind develop. As a pupil Bryce _

was not meteoric; he had his father’s
patient, unexcitable nature;_ and, like
the old man, he possessed the glorious
gift 01’ imagination. Never mediocre,

- he was never especially brilliant, but

was seemingly content to maintain a-
steady, dependable average in all

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Freddie Cooley wen to town to get
his semi-annual hair out last Satur-
day. 'The barber asked how he want-

_- ed it cut. Freddie replied, “Off.” Then
the barber said! ‘_‘Do you want a sham-

poo?” Freddie said. “No, .I always
wait until spring and then take a real
poo down to the creek.”

Some children from New York City
have been visiting in our neighbor-
hood. The other day they heard a.

loud buzzing noise over by the next.

farm and wanted to know about it.
Wife told them they were buzzing

~ wood. “Oh, let’s run right. over and

see them do i," said one kid. ‘I
thought it was just a couple of aero—_
planes.”

Grandpa Cockerhill paid a visit to
his daughter, now in New York City,
and used to tell her children stories
about the olden times. He said, “Chil-
dren, I can remember when I could
look up in the sky all day long and
not see a single aviator.” Willie, who
is inclined to be rude, replied, “Grand-
pa, I think that is a lie.”

Hiram Dingbat has been trying to
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bors’ cats had caught every one of
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Once on a time in April weather

The forest trees met all together;

Oak and ash and elm and pine,

And others I’ll not here define,

Drank each to each of springtime's

wine,
And then in friendly converse they
Told of their plans for future day.

First spake the oak in deep rich voice,
Of all my aims this one my choice:
By yonder wayside I would‘bide,

And throw my shadows cool and wide,
Across the road where horses go
With heavy loads that they must tow;
Perchance some driver kind, humane.
Will bid them halt and slack the min
That they a grateful rest may know
fEre toiling through miry slough.

The hick’ry then took up the one,
And told what best she'd like to do:
My nuts encased in firm tough shell,
The merry squirrels love so well,

I hope I may in autumn tide

A bounteous feast for them provide.

And now the pine in whisp’ring tone
Soft as distant ocean’s moan, ‘

Said, my friends, in shadows deep,
Some weary one I’ll sing to sleep;
When in my branches breezes die,

In dreams, perch'ance, their tender

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was going to go to California, as
soon as he got through high
school, to make his fortune. Some-
way, fortunes look much bigger in Cal-
ifornia and .Arizona and the Philip
pines, than they do in Michigan. And
folks say that they are much more
easily earned, in those places. But the
facts are, that there are fortunes much
nearer at hand, if we could only see
them. A number of years ago, there
was a tiny country in Eur.ope, about
one—fifth as large as Michigan, that
was in a bad way. The finances were
reduced, two of the best provinces had
been taken away by Germany, the roy—
al navy had been lost. Hundreds of
the best farmers and business men
Wei-c leaving for America. It looked
as though there was no future for
Denmark.

But a bishop in the Danish church
by the name of Gl‘undwig, went every-
where telling the farmers that What
they had lost in the two stolen prov-
inces, they should make up by increas—
ed crop production, and increased fer-

ByN. A. Mchme

he would not go to town, where he was
well known, to do the buying. 'He
made his wife go. In spite of his. best
efforts, one cow died, the first winter.
In addition to all this, he did not know
a great deal about farming, as he was
reared in the town. But he found a
way to success. and to moderate
wealth, and to real happines, on what
many people would have called a. God-
forsaken place.

A while ago I talked with a boy who
made $785 on him and a. half acres
last year. He is going to use the mon-
ey for school and college. Every week
day you would see him at the city mar-
ket in Lansing, with a load of vegeta-
bles, five thirty 01' six in the morning.
This year, he did not do quite so well,
owing to frost and other pranks of the
weather. Still he sold $477 worth of
vegetables, and that is not a bad sum-
mer’s work for a. freshman in high
school.

It is not so long ago that a boy in
a tiny country town found himself in-
charge of his father’s ’store. I say
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tility. They were to educate their
youth, for the farms, and for better
ways of living. Bishop Grundwig has
been dead for many years, but the peo-
ple practiced his teachings. Denmark
has more savings deposits in the banks
per capita, than England or America.
Her schools are the best rural schools
in Europe. English, French and Ger;
man magazines will be found in farm
homes, besides those printed in the
native tongue. Cooperative dairies
are to be found everywhere. The but—
ter, eggs and pork shipped to England
from this tiny nation runs in value into
millions of dollars. Denmark’s schools
became so famous that a proverb arose
concerning them, like this: If you see
a. large building in England, you know
it is a. factory, in Germany it is a. bar-
racks, in Denmark it is a school. Den-

mark’s people found gold bricks right
at home, in their back yards and their
farms.

One day at a farmers’ institute, I
listened to T. B. Terry tell how he did
his W‘ming. Mr. Terry was in great
demand at all farmers’ meetings be-
cause he had made such a success on
a small Ohio farm. His fame had come
by his success in bringing up a run
down farm, so that it produced very
large crops.
part was clay, that had washed badly.

« And when Terry began, he cut marsh

hay on the ice, for his cows. He was

 

    

" - poor and had such. shabby clothes the.

Part of it was swale, and,
on.

two. His father was sick. You know
how many country stores are. The
stock looks pretty rusty. Part of it
look as though it had’nt been moved
or dusted for three years. Last July's
circus posters are still in the windows,
and three- legged chairs near the stove
tell of the men who gather there 0’-
nights, to swap stories and run the
government. This young man did not
know any too much about operating a
store. But he had some ideas that he
wanted to try out. He washed the win-
dows. That alone was enough to give
the neighbors something to talk about,
for a week. He took out last summer’ 3
circus poster. He took all the can
ned goods off the shelves and cleaned
the shelves. He said it was a shame
to disturb the microbes. He painted
the interior, and had adecorator fix
up the walls and ceiling He put down
a new hardwood floor, doing the work
himSelf. Then he hired two boys to
go everywhere through the village and
country and advertise a sale. Anybody
who wanted a shirt could have one at
the regular price; white shirts, color-
ed shirts, work shirts, any kind of
shi1rt. And if you wanted two shirts,
you could get the second one for a.
quarter In other words, two dollar
shirts for one and a quarter, and so
And the folks came. It seemed as
if eyery man in all that townShip must
have worn his last Shirt the
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Gold Bricks in Your Own BackYard

who didn’t came in for his two shirts.
One-gentle tiller of the soil who weigh-
ed three hundred and* twenty, was
very sore and said many words, be
cause there was not a. shirt there big

enough for him. Of course, many who,

came for shirts ‘bought other things
besides, just as the young merchant
thought they would. The next Satur-
day he had another sale, and then an-
other. One time it was milk pails and
later it was women’s hats, and another
time it was canned pineapples, and an-
other time it was condition powder for
stock. In short, he kept something
going all the time. The fellows didn’t

gather around the stove'on a. winter’s —

evening as much as they had, not be-
cause they weren‘t welcome, but be-
cause there were so many people com-
ing and going that there wasn’t room
for.,their solemn deliberations.

The youthful merchant made the
country store move. He made money.
The people got good value for their
money. There was satisfaction all
around. By and by he started another
store. He found gold bricks, if not in
his back yard, at least in a. country
store, which is even more surprising.

OUR FRIEND—THE. TOAD.

HIS squatty, waited amphibian is

an asset to any flower or vegeta-
ble garden Wherever he is found. He
is an insect eater of the first magni-
tude and has an insatiable appetite.
Investigations have proven the fact
that, in twenty-four hours, the insects
consumed by the toad equals in quan-
tity four times the capacity of the
toad’s stomach. In other words, the
stomach is 'filled and emptied four
times every twenty-four hours.

One investigator, in order to find
what the toads diet was composed of,
examined the stomachs of one hundred
and forty- nine toads during the months
of April, May, June, July, August and
September. As a. result of this investi-
gation he found that the toad’s diet
was composed mostly of insects, many
of which were injurious. The follow-
ing list shows the per cent of each
article of diet as selected by this
animal:

Per Cent.

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Cutworms 16
Thousand- -legged worms . . . . . . . . . . 1
Caterpillars
Ground beetles . .
May beetles (white grub adult). . . .
Wireworm beetles
Destructive weevils . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Miscellanedus caterpillars . . . . . . . .
Grasshoppers and crickets . . . . . . . .
Spiders . . . .
Sow bugs
Potato beetles
Carrion beetles ...................
Miscellaneous beetles
Snails ....
Angleworms ......................
Unidentified animal matter . . . . . ..

Toads work mostly at night; and hide
under dense foliage or in deep grass
during the day time. Some investigat-
or has said that a. toad in the garden
is worth at least $5 00, but that was
several years ago before the dollar had
shrunk so much. Judging by the. way
that other things have gone up in price
this toad is easily worth protecting.
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ROEN‘A WALTROUS.

’ HREEyears ago the tenant on my

. grandfather’s farm gave me a
grade wether lamb, which I raised on
a bottle

Thislamb was named “Snookum’s,”
after the Newly-wed's baby. As the.
baby was? always crying, the lamb was

’always bleating, so I thought the name

appropriate.

The tenant also gave the boy that
was working for him a little ewe lamb.
In the fall' when the boy left, he was
going to sell his lamb. I wanted to
try to raise a flock so we traded.

This lamb was “Nell." I don’t re-
member what she sheared the next
spring or what I got for the wool. Last
year she sheared fifteen pounds, which
I sold for fifty-one cents per pound.
She also raised a nice lamb which was
sold to a shipper to be shipped to Tex-
as this fall.

All of my father’s sheep were reg-
istered Standard Delaines. He told me
that he would give me the best ewe
lamb in his flock for my grade. So
poor “Nellie” was sold with another
flock. So ended my grade sheep trans-
fers, and I air} now starting in the
purebreds with this one lamb which is
a nice one. She weighs about one hun-
dred and twenty-five pounds, and has
a four-inch staple of wool and I ex-
pect she will shear fifteen pounds or
more. She is one year old this month
and is valued at fifty dollars.

Father is going to fit her for the
fairs this tall. Perhaps some of you
may see her.

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in boiling water, not forgetting to ster-
ilize covers and rubbers. Pack meat
in can, adding one teaspoon of salt
and a dash of pepper,,filling cans only
to the shoulder, for if too full the juice
will boil out, taking the flavor with it.
Put a large tablespoon of lard on top
of the can containing the heart and
tongue, put covers on loosely and set
in kettle with a folded cloth in the
bottom. Fill kettle to shoulder of can
with cold water, set on stove, bring to
a boil and boil hard for three hours,

keeping kettle filled up with boiling ‘

water. Old can rubbers slipped over
the cans will keep them from bumping
together. Seal air tight and cool right
side up. This meat is especially fine
for supper in hot weather, or for sand-
wiches.

The sausage is made of the trim-
mings of lean, with fat enough added
to make it fry itself. It is seasoned by
a recipe that has been handed down
in our family for years. To each pound
of meat add one level teaspoonful each
of salt and sage and three level tear
spoons of pepper to every four pounds
of meat. Mix well, make in balls and
bake in dripping pans in oven till
ready to serve and then pack in cans
in the same way that the fresh meat is
canned, being extra careful to have
t0p piece covered at least one inch
deep with fat when cold. Set the can
where it is warm for a while before
taking out and it will not break up
like it will if taken out cold.

When meats are put up in this way
there is always a greataccumulation
of meat grease on hand and as it
spoils quickly I can it up as fast as I
get it. I have some more than a’ year
old that is sweet and nice. These,meth-

ods are a great deal of work, but more -

than compensate by the time saved in
the summer.

Everyone knows how to try out lard,
but not everyone puts the scraps in a
cloth sack and boils them up in a ket-
tle of Water, taking out the sack when
'well drained .and'lettlng all cool. I get
Iréin a pound to; tire pounds of nice
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FTER you have mastered the art
'of making good plain bread, by
all means learn how to make the
sweetbreads which are so delicious.
Sold to you under fanciful names in
the bakeries, or served in high-class
hotels and restaurants at high-class
figures, you have a. feeling that they
must be very hard to make. But as a
matter of fact, the making of fruit
loaves and nut loaves is so simple that
any woman with a. bit of imagination
can "discover” several fresh varieties.
The foundation is simply bread
dough, or sponge, and to it is added
sugar, shortening, egg, and whatever
sort of fruit, nuts or flavoring the bak-
er desires. For a medium-sized loaf
two cups of dough, two tablespoons of
shortening, a scant half-cup of sugar
and one egg are the prOportions. Beat
the egg slightly and add all ingredi-
ents to the dough at once. The easiest
way to mix them is to cut it with two
sharp knives, provided you haven’t a
breadmixer. ~
For a nut bread add onelcup of chop—
ped nuts, with the egg, sugar, and
shortening. English walnuts, pecans
and almonds make the most delicious
breads, but the nuts found on your
own farm may be used. A cup of rais-
ins, chopped, currants, candied peel
and citron, figs, dried prunes or other
dried fruits may be used instead of
nuts for a fruit loaf. lfyou use dried
fruit, wash thoroughly, remove stones,
soak an hour in warm water, then dry
and chop and mix with the bread, or
leave in rather large pieces and spread
on t0p of bread after.\it is in the pan
in which it is to be baked. If dried
fruits or candied fruits are used the
amount of sugar may be reduced to a
tablespoon or two.
Home-made jams and marmalades
make, but require some skill in shap-
ing nicely. To two cups of sponge add

melted butter, and flour to knead.
may be used as fillings, and give a
product which can take the place of
cake. To make these, the dough must

school nurse had been working for

some time and getting very good
results. There *was also a parochial
school in this city, but the officials of
this school did not take kindly to the
idea of a school nurse and she had
never been permitted to visit this
school.

One day it chanced that the nurse
and the principal of the parochial
school were introduced by a mutual
friend. The nurse saw her opportu-
nity and soon had tactfully drawn him
into a conversation about the school.
She learned that the reason-for. the
existence of the parochial schOol was
to give its pupils a knowledge of the

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a tablespoon of sugar, 3 half cup of,

Bible, that they teach history and 360?.»
' graphy in relation togthe aimed, :’

be‘ mixed stiff enough to roll., These
will need only two tablespoons of sug‘
ar, as the jam gives the desired sweet-
ening. When dough is mixed to the
right consistency, roll into a sheet
about quarter of an inch thick,
spread With the jam or marmalade,
roll like a jelly roll, and after. wetting
the ends with milk or water pinch
them together so that the mixture can
not ooze out as the bread rises and
bakes. '

Professional bakers often cut these
rolls into piedes, making individual
cakes. The amateur baker will do bet—
ter to leave them intact, as it takes a
great deal of experience to manage
them so that they do not become
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Baking Fancy Breads and Rolls

cups of sponge a third cup of melted
butter, one-fourth cup of sugar, one
slightly beaten egg, and the grated
rind of a lemon. Mix the named in-
gredients with the sponge and let rise.
Then add flour to make a stiff batter
and after beating“thoroughly, let rise
again. Beat down and spread on a
buttered baking tin. When light
enough to bake, brush the top with a.
beaten egg and dust thickly with gran-
ulated sugar and cinnamon mixed.
Bake in a hot. oven.

Dinner rolls are made by adding the
stiffly beaten white of an egg to,two
cups of sponge, and kneading lightly,
keeping the dough as soft as possible.
Then let the dough stand until double
in bulk, cut down, and form into rolls

 

 

 

A Variety of Fancy Breads, Parker House Rolls, Raisin Bread, Dinner Rolls.

like a jelly roll, or shaped into rings
and crescents. Let rise before baking.

Of course, every housekeeper makes
cinnamon rolls and “raised” biscuit. If
you have always sprinkled your roll
with granulated ‘sugar and cinnamon,
try brown sugar, instead, next time
you bake.

Parker House rolls sound easy to
Knead about twenty minutes, let rise
until double in bulk, then. shape into
small balls. Let rise again, and when
ready to bake, flour the handle of a
wooden spoon, and press into each roll
until it is almost divided. Brush one
side of the indentation with melted
butter, press the halves together, and
place the rolls on a buttered tin some
distance apart. Let rise again and
bake in-a hot oven.

For Coffee Cake, add to, the two

Bil Elizabeth L.' Parker

interest was rewarded by an invita-
tion to visit the school. Of course,
the invitation was accepted.

“How can I teach health from the
Bible?” Was the question constantly
before her. At first all she could think
of was, “Drink a. little wine for thy
stomach’s sake and for thine oft infirm-
ities." But as she was a believer in
preventive medicine rather than cura-
ative medicine, this'did not seem to
be the thing to say. She began to
study her Bible more carefully and in
the law as given by Moises to the Chil-
drén of Israel she found just what she
needed. 1

The Ten Commandments outlined
(1) duty to God: (2) duty to our “
ssh; (3) duty to other maple».

.side’ the camp and ery"‘Ui1cleanl U111

about three inches long, and an inch
thick, “fingers." ‘ Put in a well-greased
pan and let. rise until light enough to
bake. Glaze with egg white diluted
with water and bake about ten min-
utes. They should be a delicate brown.

English bath buns are made by ad-
ding four unbeaten eggs and a half

cup of melted butter, to the springs-

and beating thoroughly. About four
cups of flour is all that is neoded, as
the mixture wants to be simply good
and thick, not stiff enough to take out
on the board. Beat thoroughly and let
rise until light. Then .Sprinkle a quar-
ter of a cup of sugar and a cup of
chopped nuts lightly over the top while
it is still in the mixing bowl, mix
lightly and drop in buttered gem pans.
Let rise again, 'and bake in a moder-
ate oven. DEBORAH.

The Nurse’s Health Talks

civil,’ financial and the sanitary laws.

The reading of thelaWs on' sanita-
tion and health was ' a revelation.
Here was something which corre-
sponds to the regulations of our state
board of health. (1) what to eat. Lev.
11. (Our pure foodlaw.‘ 1(2) keeping
the camp clean. Deut. 23: 9' 14 (Our
sewerage and garbage system). (3)

keepingthe body clean, washing, bath-y

inglshavmg, washing of garments and

burning of infected clothing. Lev. 11
(Our disinfection—soap, was,

and 13.
tar, are and flame are not back num-
hers today). (4) lepers muSt stay out-

 

 

 

 

 

 


   

 

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E" 23:12- (Our labor laws). They enough to eat with unless they are
had 'no “035mg 00“ With regulation well washed and their finger nails nice
about light and ventilation because and clean.”

they were living in tents. ’

~With this for a basis the nurse be . While preparing 'for this visit a new
gun preparing health talks and keep- and clearer vision of her work came
well stories for all the grades into to this nurse and she saw her work
which she wove this ever fascinating not as a secular occupation but as a
Bible story. For instance, “you re- religious service. In teaching health
member God had chosen people—the she was giving children the idea of
Children of Israel—who were slaves in GOd Himself, Who gave us laws, not
Egypt for a long time. One day God because He was an arbitrary Ruler
Spoke to Moses and told him that He who delights in punishing, but rather
wanted 'Moseg to lead them out of a loving Father who knows all our
Egypt into a land which was to he needs and is concerned and interested
their very own. While they lived in in every phase of our lives. So com-
Egypt these people had had to do as pletely did she become imbued with
the Egyptians had told them but now the real idea of health work that the
God told them what to do. He wanted result of her first visit was to complete
them all to keep well so He told Moses 13’ break down all opposition and there-
to tell them all to wash their hands after she became a regular and wel-
every time before they ate anything. come VlSitOI‘.

Time Tested Meat Recipes

OR a great many years I have been with two-quart butter jars containing
Fexperimenting with every known. spare-rib pieces, also all pieces of back
and some unknown, methods of bone and tenderloin that I do not need
putting up the meat foods of the farm. for immediate use. This meat is sea-
For every three years now, I have used soned the same as any roast, having
the following recipes and have found about one inch of water in the bottom
them the best of all the great number of the crock. Keep jar covered for the
that I have tried. Keeping a good first hour. Remove cover at the end
meat supply through the summer work- of this time and let brown well. When
ing‘ season is an unsolved problem 011 brown enough turn meat and brown on
the majority of farms, and buying from other side, letting cook till the water
the markets in harvest time is not only is all out, and if necessary to keep
inconvenient, but very expensive as from drying out too much, cover again
Well. at the last. When removed from the
‘ we plan to provide the summer pork oven put on a saucer and weight; till
supply either late ill February or early cool, remove saucer and cover one inch
in March. For a good while we did deep with melted lard, put on waxed
just the same as the usual farm fam- paper, with either cotton batting in a
ily. surged ourselves With fresh pork whole piece, or a cloth dipped in para-
as long as we COllld keep it fresh, and ffin and several pieces of paper tied
ate salt pork the rest of the year. NOW tightly over all. This meat will keep
we have fresh pork all summer. also t'ii harvest time if the water is all
must spare-rib. sausage, bacon. boiled cooked out and you hide it where it
fFeSh Pork. and both smoked and un- vxill not tempt you to open it. When
smoked ham. It is no great trouble to Opened lzcat well and pour off most of
cock for hired help when there iS the grease, take out meat, add water
Plenty Of gOOd meat, also unexilected and make dressing and gravy as usual.
Company ceases to be a bugbear. If you have old covers to cans, it is
I always cut up the meat myself, cut- better to save these for canning meat
ting the pieces small enough so they as the grease spoils good covers. Old
will just make enough for one meal, rubbers are just :as well for the fried
and find‘this saves trouble when ready meat, if you are careful to seal tight.
for use. As soon as the meat is thor- The thinnest side meat is used for
oughly cooled through, I begin frying bacon, having all lean removed for
down the fresh shoulder and side poi-1;, sausage and using all thick fat pieces
mixing the meat, and when it comes l'OI' salt pork. The bacon and what
out of the can it is all shoulder meat, shoulders and hams that are not used
of course.
meat reach farther and the difference recipe. putting them on a rack so they
is never noticed. Before I begin fry- will not touch each other but so the
jug I cut a heaping pan of meat, ster- thin top pieces will drain down onto
ilize all cans in boiling water and am the larger pieces.
very sure that they are perfectly dry For two hundred pounds of meat use
and warm before I begin. One pan— five pounds of fine butter salt, two
cake griddle and tWO steel spiders pounds of brown sugar, and one and a
make all the 0001(ng utensils I can half pounds of black pepper. Mix well
Watch at one time. The meat is cut and moisten with one pint of boiling
the same as for the table and fried water in which has been dissolved four
nearly enough to serve. Only a couple ounces of saltpeter. Mix well and rub
of pieces are dropped in the can be- into meat, being sure to rub the skin
fore it has about three inches of boil— side extra well and put meat on rack
ins hot grease poumd into it. Then in such a manner that all sides are
the meat is crowded in till the grease exposed to the air as much as possible.
fillS the can, having the last piece rath- In ten days the bacon will be ready to
er large and working it down under smoke and it should not be left long
the shoulders of the can, so it will hold as it will get strong, Do not soak the
the other meat down. The can is now bacon ,and when it is smoked Slip
set aside to 0001. AS it 00018 the grease each piece into a thick paper Sack and
settles, leaving the meat exposed and tie up tightly. It will keep sweet till
if set away in this condition it Will all is used. At the end of two weeks
soon spoil. When cold remove the top the hams should be ready to smoke
Piece ,of meat. fill can With 1101: grease, and as I always fry mine down, 1 soak
making sure it is air tight, but do DOt them in water over night, scraping
leave can inverted. Meat put 11D in well to remove pepper. I usually fry
this manner Will keep a year and be some without smoking and the rest as
just as nice as it was when first butCh-’soon as smoked. In this way there is
cred. A quart 08-11 Will hOld plenty for very little waste due to trimming and
a family of five for at least two meals. 1 do not have to worry £01. fear it will
Many people fry meat and pack it in spoil. Besides it is most convenient
cracks, but there are many losses from in my busy season.
moulding and it is inconvenient to put The heart and tongue and the upper
away and be m that nothing gets part of legs are canned in the follow-
into it. ; ' , , . , ing manner: Meat is washed well and
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LTHOUGH not a professional
market gardener it has been my
practice for a ”number of years
to give more attention to the growing
(it garden vegetables than that usually
given by farmers engaged in a general
line of diversified farming. A
My most interesting, if perhaps not

I the most profitable, gardening experi-

ence has been derived from the grow-
ing of novelties. and the" but little
Known and unusual vegetables:- Many
of these lesser vegetables I would
hardly consider worth extensive culti-
vation and some are of such difiicult
cultivation or so exacting in their soil
and Weather requirements that their
cultivation is, at best, unprofitable.
Others, while not yet of much practi-
cal value, have evidently been neglect-
ed and give some promiseof possible
future development, and there are still
others that are vegetables of the first
rank that merit the widest cultivation.

In the first class may be placed
plants that are of a tropical 0r semi-
tropical nature, perennials, biennials,
and even annuals that require a very
long growing season. It is useless to
try to grow crops that require a Cali-
fornia, Florida or even a Virginia or
Kentucky climate in Michigan or Min-
nesota. For this reason I never had
any success in growing the green globe
or French artichoke. This vegetable,
while having some popularity with the
French, seems to be in America but
little more than something to begin a

in Bad
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came out, but. “peace to his ashes."

However, it is a. safe rule, before you '
pay out your money for the seed of a j

new vegetable or variety,_to ascertain
whether or not your growing season is

long enough to permit its maturity. '

and you are much safer in getting seed

from a locality to the north of you _

rather than. from one to the south. But
there are exceptions. I once had a
most excellent variety of squash from
the French Kongo, about as tropical a
locality as could be imagined, that—ma-
tured its fruits in abundance, even
when grown in a Michigan climate.

There is yet another class of vege-

tables that it hardly pays to bother-

with; that is, those whose cultivation
is‘ difficult or that require considerable
manipulation or fussing and puttering
to prepare for the table. Among these
I would class those that require earth-
ing up, blanching or forcing in the
dark, cardoon, Witloof chicory, sea.
kale and udu, or a. biennial vegetable
requiring two years for its maturity,
like scorzonera. Japanese and Euro-
pean gardeners who farm under a
glass jar and those who are the ser-
vants of rich epicures may have the

time and patience to grow these fussy ,

crops, and possibly, greenhouse own-
ers who have the space available un-
der the greenhouse benches and those
having convenient root or mushrOOm
cellars,‘may even find some of them
profitable, but it will not pay many
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seed catalog with. There are a few
vegetables that although requiring a
long growing season that may by
means of starting the plants in green.
houses, hot beds or window boxes as
may be available, or, by purchasing
growing plants from the south, be
grown with a limited degree of success
in northern latitudes. Among such are
the edible passifloras, the chayote, the
early roselle or lemonade plant, and
the French, Algerian and casaba type
of muskmelons. Some plants of this
class may attain to sufficient size and
maturity to be of interest in the home
garden but not to an extent that. would
justify any expectation of their'being
a profitable money crop. Such is the
case with the ricinus, the so-called cas-
tor oil bean which, while merely an
attractive ornamental plant in north-
ern gardens where it’usually but little
more than reaches bearing age when
cut bythe frost, is in Florida. a profit

Novelty, but a Profitable Crop.

     

it.

This is true of those vegetables which
require considerable effort to prepare
for the table, such as the Chinese sago
or Mung bean. This is something like
a soy bean and produces a large num-
ber of long slim pods hanging in a.
cluster, that are filled with very. small
green beans. These small beans are

prepared by the Chinese by sprouting,

in tubs of water placed in a. warm sit-
uation, an operation taking several
days, after which they are cooked,

sprouts and all, forming the basis of _

the real chop suey. Some years ago
I saw in a farm, paper an illustration
of a Chinese farmer standing beside
his tubs of American mung beans.
American poultrymen may raise
sprouted cats to feed their hens, but
I can’t imagine many busy American
farmwives taking the» trouble to raise
"sprouted beans to feed their men folks,

at least, not as long as the men will'

eat anything else. I have grown this

able crop when grown for the oil.» mung or sage bean and while I con-

which is extracted, from the seeds, and
whom it reacheslthe dimensions of a
small tree and ”continues to grow and

' hear for several years. , I haveevmi

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inclination Motif-horse or Windsor,
‘ beans. I have neee‘r "yet succeeded in,
gelding~ a singlesbro‘ccmi to head, al- '

though I have had fair success with
cauliflower. And I have never heard
of broccoli being grown commercially
any place in America except in a few
localities along the Baciflc cast.

I have, however, had fair success
With the English broad bean. This
may be described as being in appear-
ance about half Way between our com-
mon beans and peas. It is an upright
growing plant reaching a height of, for
the tallest specimens, of nearly three
feet, and bears large thick pods con-
taining large flat green beans, which
even when dry, are nearly the size of
five-cent pieces. This bean is very
handy and should be planted early
enough to bring the plants into bear-
ing before the hottest weather sets in
or the plants will wilt and the blos-
soms fail to set pods. It is claimed
that breaking off the tops of the plants
will cause them to set pods more free-
ly, and that these tops are good as a
boiled vegetable. The green shelled
beans are cooked as are limas or other
shelled beans‘but in every case they
should first be boiled for fifteen or
twenty minutes in hot salt water.

There are some vegetables that
while now but little more than curiosi-
ties, have the possibilities of deveIOp-
ment by selection and hybridization,
of becoming crops of some real merit.
For example, martynia and the edible
podded or rat-tail radish. This last,
as its name indicates, is merely a va-
riety of radish with exceptionally
large and long seed pods which are
used as a substitute for peppers.

As it would be but little more than a

~waste of time for me to attempt to

cgompete with the catalog compiler, I
will but mention these unusual vegeta-
bles and novelty varieties which I have
tried and found to be of easy culture
and worth growing, giving very brief
notice of such facts as are necessary
for an, understanding of the list. Fol-
lowing the alphabetical order of the
oa.talog,_ they are:

Blue Pod butter and Crimson Beauty
dwarf shell bean; the yellow globe
table beet, which is sweeter than any
of the redvarieties; Chinese cabbage,
also known as Pe-Tsai, Bong Wog or
celery cabbage, of which the true Chi-
nese seed is to be preferred to the
European strain; Vick’s Lemon cucum-
ber, which must not be confused with
the garden lemon or mango melon;
Panmure Long White cucumber; the
Banana, Honey Dew, Bush and the
casaba type of muskmelons, of which
last, the Golden Beauty, is the best
variety ' for northern localities; the
small "individual” size watermelon,
Baby Delight; the edible podded pea,
Giant Sugar Sword, which is eaten,
pods and. all, like string beans; the
Japanese Sakurajima radish, (I have
grown these weighing ten pounds, and
in Japan it is claimed that they reach
a weight of over double that figure.
Unlike the common winter radish,
they require a long growing season.
They are mild and are good cooked
like a turnip); Messina or Florence
fennel, a competitor of celery; scoly-
mus or Spanish salsify; and last, the
vegetable marrow or European type of
summer squash, one of the. very best
mar-rows being catologued under the
name “summer asparagus.” As. an af-
terthought, I might possibly well add
the early roselle or lemonade plant,
the seed pods and leaves of which are
used in making a very good jelly.

Among the newer varieties of the
common vegetables that are worth
looking up in the catalog are the fol-
lowing: .

The White Snap bush, Kentucky '

Wonder Wax pole. Venture Wonder
wax bush, llonstreus bush Mlle-
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Woven Wll'e fence. Send for catalogue.
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chicks—your I has colts, .
horses and cattle.‘ ou’lI get
better ,cbicks—bigger, better
towls—more eggs-better
contented stock. 1’

Chicks areas t to be ten now. ,
Give them ap chance. Seyrinkle i
Louse Killer into the feathers, about
the coo s, on roasts, in nests of lay-
ingan setting hensJ Alwa keep
Louse Killer in the dustb a For
lousy horses and cattle, colts and
calves. stroke the hair the wrong
way and sift in Loose Killer.

We authorize dealers to return your
money it it does not do as claimed.

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Sick Baby Chicks?

There is only one way yto deal with baby chicks
and that is to keep them well. Doctoriug a bun.
tired or more chicks is mighty discouraging work.

It’s spure carelessness to lose more than 10 per
cent of chicks, from hatching to full growth. Many
less so per cent to 60 per cent. and even more. No

it in that
l”IMOul-b b.ook “Care of Baby Chicks” (free) and a
kage of Germozone is the best chickP insurance.
mTH BABY CHICKS YOU MUSTP ‘ EVENT
SICKNESS—NOT ATTEMPT TO CURE. ' I never
had a sick chick all last season"—C. 0. Petrain.
Moline, Ill. "Not sense of white diarrhoeain three
years"-—Ralph Wurst. Erie. Pa. “Have 800 chicks
now 5 weeks old and not a single case of bowel
trouble"—-Mrs. Wm. Christians, Olive Ridge. New
York. “Two weeks after we started last spring we
were amighty discouraged pair. Every day from
three to six chicks Lead A neighbor put us next
.: to Germozone and we are now sure it we had had. it
' ‘ at the start we woulél not haveII’osta single chick-
W.m E. he her cran on,

s CZCNE is a wonder worker for
GERM chicks. chickens. pigeons.
‘ cats, dogs. rabbits or other pet or domestic stock.
9 It is preventive as well as curative, which is ten
5 times better. It is used most extensively for rou
, bowel trouble, shuffles, glect. canker. swelled hes.

-’ sore head, sores. wounds. loss of fur or feathers.
‘ 25c. 75c, 81. 50 pkgs. at dealers or postpald.

3 010. u. can so. Dequ-ss Omaha. Neb.

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son.trol Constructedofcypress, l
the wood everlasting, and built
[or lon use. Nothing fussy, but an honest, scientific.
modern neubstor, sold at a price you can easily pay. Raise
your babyd chicks in the Home Hover; safe, simple. inex-

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‘ in a regular coop;

est in cultivation.
The New Orchid and the Red Cos
lettuce.
Brokway’s Sport, Montreal Market,
Armenian, the Bush, Salmon-tint Pol-

lock, Pages Early and Early Knight

muskmelons.

Will’s Sugar, Angeleno, Chilian, the
Winter Melon, Yellow- fleshed Ice
Cream, and the Excel watermelons’.

The. Denia, Ailsa Craig'and Vaugiard
Winter onions.

Blue Bantam, Quite Content, Pot-

' latch and Perpetual peas.

Thorburn Upright Sweet Salad, Pi-
miento dulce. Glory. Anaheim Chili and
New Yellow Cheese peppers.

Delicious, Quality, Symme’s Blue
Hubba1d, Plymouth Rock, Acorn and
Mandan squashes.

Big Dwarf. Earlibell, John Baer, the
Home, San Jose Canner, Red Rock.
Burpee’s Dwarf Giant, and Millet’s Da-
kota. tomatoes.

As all the above are not offered by
.any one seed house it will be neces-
sary to procure several catalogs from

, different" sections of the country, and

owing to unsettled conditions in the
European seed growing districts, it
may be impossible to secure seed of
every vegetable desired. Last year I
was unable to get seed of the Chen-

, ham Market parsnip, which I consider
' to be by far the best variety in culti-

vation, and had to content myself with
Guernsey, nor did I find any seedsman
that listed scolymus. Before the war
it was quite as easy to buy seeds of
a. foreign house as of an American, it
being only necessary to make allow-
ance for the elapse of about a month
required for the transmission of the

C OMMISSION merchants would like
to call attention of shippers to a.
few points. Shippers should see that
the coops are in good condition before
using, so that they are not liable to
come apart while in transit, as they
are roughly handled sometimes. The
coops should also be high enough to
allow whatever kind ci’ poultry is ship-
ped room enough to stand up. Low
coops should not be used, it not alone
being cruel, but a great deal or poultry
is lost every year by suffocation. For
turkeys higher coops than for chickens
should be used.

Filling of Coops—Coops may be
loaded heavier in cold than in hot
weather. Do not overcrowd the coops.
Putting too much stockin a coop at
anytime is wrong, but in hot weather
especially do not crowd too much stock

into a crop. This should be carefully

attended to in order to prevent as
much .shrinkage as possible. Coops
often arrive with a good deal of dead
stock. Do not blame the commission
merchant for heavy shrinkage or poul-
try smothered in transit through care-
lessness in overcrowding coops.

In hot weather do not put more than
one hundred pounds of live old hens
in cold weather
about one hundred and twenty pounds
in regular size coops. 013- spring chick-
ens, when small, about flity to sixty
pounds, and large seventy to ninety
pounds. '

Keep different Stock separate as
much as possible. If a. shipper has
sufficient stock to fill cobps, it is best
to ship the hens, spring chickens,
roosters, turkeys, ducks andgeese sep-
arately. Of course. if a party has not
enough stock of each kind to fill» a

‘ coop separately, mixed coops can be
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dish
last two varieties being the very earli— ‘

’ed toward the end of the week, and

  

American branch store, one from a
house that caters ”to southern trade,
the catalog or a rewesentativeflalitor-
1113. house, and another iroln a north-
western company that Specializes in
early and hardy varieties, you' can
about complete your study of “the gar-

dening geography of the country and

 

with as large a variety oi'varieties as
could reasonably be desired.
at quantities, the cost of the seed
would not be large, a. couple of dollars
would make quite a showing.

But don’ t get taken in by impossible ‘7

fakes. Don’t buy overbearing straw-
berry seed, strawberry-raspberries,
wonderberries, broad beans sold at ex-
cessive prices as "urgu".beans, blue
Uruguay potatoes, nor don’t expect to
raise turnips and beets that have to
be pulled with a. stump puller, even it
the catalog does picture them, and
don’t ever buy seeds, whether garden
seed, seed potatoes, cats or other farm
seeds, from traveling salesmen or ped-
dlers. Standard varieties and new va-
rieties of real merit are Sold by reli-y
able seedsmen and do not have to be
peddled about the country in this way.
There may be instances where reliable
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for the most part, ‘the concerns who ‘

depend upon glib-tongued salesmen to
market their wonderful new varieties
at high prices, (varieties which are
merely old sorts re-named with fancy'
names which are changed every year)
are but swindlers who figure on catch-
ing a new batch of suckers every
season.

To Shippers of Live Poultry‘d‘lm

Pound and one-half to two-pound chick-
ens sell best, and later in the season
over two-pound weights are preferred.

be in a, position to' stock~yOur garden f

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---Bring $2.60 per miss-1.11...

Genuine Wild Mallard Ducks
Lay 50 to 60 eggs per year—Guaran-
teed to be only from Wild Trapped
Mallards.

Giant Bronze Turkeys -
‘Prize Flock, headed by 55 pound tom.

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Huber: Reliable Chicks

500.000 FOR I920

“By Parcel Post Pr aid.
Deliver ed to You.
antes Live Delivery.
fmflatchin‘ by tho
tin: or too.
mWe have installed the
cat mernod features of
tlhie Batching Industry
hich will insure chickens
Ben a tched
Chicks and Full of Pep

This is our 11th season.
With the great increased
demand for our chicks and
the fine reportsan
we receive from our customers proves that our chicks
are from Stock of Good Quality. Bred forfl savy In;
Production and that they are Pro psrly Hatehsd.
Stop your loss by buying our Re liabolc Chicks.

We hatch ll our hi ks from Bpure bredi free r s
a 8..S ohlJte orns. 8. 5.

15 "d B k andB rown “Loam

cones ar 00 s.

M'inoroas and 8. C. “u a'Orpingt‘nns. Special
combination odor on chicks, hoovers and broods:

stoves. Before buyi elsewhere send for tree illus-
trated catalog and p cos. Pace your order at once
and avoid disappointment in the musk ot the season. a

Hubers Reliable Hatchery

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In the early spring, when chickens
first come in, some small chickens will
sell, but as soon as chickens begin to
be plentiful, then the small ones are
not wanted. Later in the summer,
when chickens are bought to place ins
freezer, one and a. half-pound to two-,-
pounds are preferred, so take it the

near ‘two poundsas possible, sells the
best.

Attention is‘ also called to the fact
that dark-feathered ducks are not as
desirable as the white-feathered chief-
ly for the reason that they do not
dress out as white and clean as the
white-feathered stock.

Poultry should be shipped so as to
arrive on the market from Tuesday

You willbe bepartioularly interest

year round, two-pound stock, or as soil“
Specialist 0! the Agric°ult ural College. - '
Cockersltstzsull CnBro hand tine Barred Rocks. White

D..k Fe

‘lcuu‘: Hand Station.

white eggs.

DAYOLD CHICKS

New Spring Catalog

T1110 Day Old Chick business1s
lets Catalog we have yet pubilighed:The It "Illm hsll’co loo.

Thirteen Hoax Breeds.

Three Especi Egg Breeds.

it: elf“ 0"“ Mint the delta-shear?
bythe Bounty“ Extension

Wyandot rown Leghorn

‘TurksyuOne White Holland Tom.
We solicit your interest in ”113;: Homestead Farm

plan of Pure Breed Poultryr .
STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Kalamazoo; Mich.

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there is enough carried over stock on
hand Saturday to supply the demand.
Merchants, rather than carry stock
over Sunday, would sell at a islacriilce,25
as the stock, when in the coops, loses
considerable in weight by shrinkage
and does not appear fresh and bright.
Besides, Monday is usually a'poor day

Baerred Plyh Rocks. Chica afowinners. Great winscrlay-
100c hoice Cookers hatchin in.g Prices
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to sell poultry.

Tags with the name of the commie-nus
sion merchant and the shipper should

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HADE and fresh water are two lit-
8 tle things that cost nothing, but
assist in growing chicks that will
mature into profit-payers, and it is cur-
ious how many folks neglect them. We

‘ grew one hatch of chicks in a bare lot

several years ago and found that those
had’been kept in the berry patch and
in the orchard where shade was plenti-
ful made the quickest and most eco-
nomical gains and matured into better
adults than those grown where there
was no shade. ,

One gets into the habit of seeing th
big things because they are so evident
but the little things often go unnoticed
and in. the end cause a lot of needless
disappointment and loss. A large, rath-
er flat pan or earthenware vessel filled
twice every day with cool, clean water
helps the chicks grow and it is surpris-
ing how much water they will drink it
it is kept before them in this manner.
Where very deep vessels are the only
ones-available it is a good plan to lay
a brick in the water, then it a chick
tumbles into the water it has a chance
to climb out. '

Where no natural shade is available
old gunny sacks, pieces of canvas or
other waste material tacked over low
frames keeps the chicks from the hot
sun and they will usually~be found an
der them during the heat of the day.
Where a part of the orchard can be
fenced off or where the chicks can
have the run of the berry vines the
problem of shade takes care of itself.
The old hens also need this shade and
plenty of water.

The early hatched chick pays and
we have come to the conclusion that
it is most profitable for us to quit set-
ting hens after the last weeks of April.
This brings off the last of our chicks
early in May and when it is possible
to do so we try to have them all
hatched by the last week in April.

These chicks are kept growing.
They have an open hopper of feed be-
fore them as soon as they are big
enough to eat it and it is always kept
filled. To the person trying this for
the first time it may seem that the
chicks eat too much, but we have nev-
er iound that to be the case. They
usually spend some time in the morn
ing and evening around the hopper,
but range as much as do those without
the mash. ‘We use ground oats, wheat
bran and corn meal as a hopper feed
and have fed meat scraps separately
when our supply of milk was short.
Such chicks mature into pullets'that
begin to lay early in the fall and keep
it up if rightly cared for during the
winter months.

We believe in gettng the chicks out
on the ground as early as the weather
will permit and change the location of
the brood coops from year to year.
This keeps the youngsters on fresh
ground and the death rate is lower as
a consequence. All brood coops and
houses are cleaned twice each week
and when possible we sow a few oats
so tender green food will be available.
This is very easy to do when the chicks
have the run of a plot of ground that
will be used later for a growing crop.
Last year we gave the chicks the half-
acre that was to be put in late pota-
toes. This was first sown in oats and
the chicks kept them cropped close.
Later they were transferred to the
edge of the corn field which supplied
shade and at the same time furnished
green food along the fence rows.
These chicks would leave the mash
hopper to follow the cultivator and
pick up bugs and worms. They grew
well and deveIOped into a very profit-
able flock.

Men high up in poultry matters say
that the next five years will be the
most prosperous of all years for the
poultryman and we ought to plan to
gekwhile the setting is good if that is

As soon aspsacan be deter»

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Making
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There is no longer any mystery in making
tires. Anyone can do it who cares to buy
the necessary machinery and materials.
But to “make tires” and to “make tires
right” are two different propositions.

The extra mileage in a well-made “right"

tire is the result of painstaking, conscien-

and equipment.

BRAEN DER TIRES

'tious attention to details—not only material

are making new

friends daily because of the habit of taking

is right.

pains and the sense of responsibility—call
it conscience if you like—which will not
permit a tire to leave the factory unless it

Michigan Hardware Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.
BRAENDER RUBBER & TIRE CO.

Factory: Rutherford, New Jersey

N. Y.
32 Broadway.

PHILADELPHIA
1352 W. Girard Ave.

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Saves Baby Chicks

Put Avicol in the drinking water.

Most people lose half of every hatch,
and seem to expect it. Chick cholera or
white diarrhoea is the trouble. The U. s.
Government states that over halt the
chicks hatched die from this cause.

Avicol tablet in the
drinking water, will positively
save your little chicks from
all such diseases. Inside of 48
hours the sick ones will be as
lively as crickets. Avicol
keeps them healthy and makes
them grow and develop.

Mrs. Wm. May. Rego. Ind.. writes: "I
was losln 10 or 15 chicks a. day from
diarrhoea ei'ore I received the Avicol. i
haven't lost a one since.” -

It costs nothing to try Avicol. If you
don't and that it prevents and promptly
cures white diarrhoea and all other bowel
diseases of poultry. tell us and your
money will be refunded by return mail.
Avicol is sold by most druggists and poul-
try remedy dealers. or you can send 26c
or 500 today for a package by mail post-
'pald. Burrell-Dugger Co.. 495 Columbia
Bldg.. Indianapolis. Ind.

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There is more than a tingle
of satisfaction when you receive
‘ Ovie's Baby Chicksmhich are beyond
AllTV comparison in quality. from free
AV'IMERW range flocks. That is why. once a
customer. always a customer.
25,000 SELECTED CHlX WEEKLY
Hatched by an expert with our new system
used exclusively by us. in the world’l most
unto-date Hatchery.
14 LEADING VARIETIES

Safe deliver guaranteed by P. P. Dr’enaid.
Write us tori lustrated booklet on Ovle sChix

OVIE'S HATCHERY C0.

24 State Street MARION. IND.

 

Pl mouth Rock eggs for hatching from
Barred fullblood prizewinnln strain {2.00 per 13
post paid. J. A. BARNUM, nion City. Mich.

8.0.Whlte Le horns. bred to lay. After
8.!“ chicks Apr. 1 will sefi chix and eggs from my
exhibition ens. write for prices.
HILLSID POULTRY FARM.

 

Hillsdale. M ich.

4 l'.' ll ts nd cock from. 260 egg
For sale strf‘a‘ir‘:gzmpdl b‘loodaed stock. S. '0. White
Lezhomc. Mrs. Henderson. Leetsvrlle. Mich.

 

CHICKS" AND EGGS

B so and Sin lo Comb R. 1. Beds. Barred Plymouth
Rgcks. Supegior Color. Prolific Layers. Prepaid by
parcel post and safe delivery guaranteed. Illustrated

17 l f
on a oz 1‘96 Box 39“ Lawrence. Mich

INTERLAKES FARM.
C H I C K S C H 1 C K S

12,000 chicks aweek after Mar.20. Grand layln strains

utility S. C. White Leghorns and Mottled nconas.

Strong. sturdy chicks shipped everywhere parcel post

guaranteeg safe arr-lg] Ln! 19:; ago]: looser more. 12th.
. r ow. n ogu .

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‘ Br d-t . ay and Exhibition S. C. W
CthkS Leghognl; stock that produced the win'
cars in the state domonfitrntion farm work. V‘Viuners
at Detroit Toledo and Oil City, Pa. Shows. 810.50 per
50. 5‘30 per loo, $95 per 500. Safe delivery postage paid.
Sunnybrook Poultry Farm. Hil sdale. Mich

’ ' . . W. L .
Chicks that Live $15 per 100 513 gm? 33;“;
Semi for c talog. SNOWFLAKE POULTRY
FARM, it. 1. Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

 

Chi ks Loghorns. Minorcas, Spanish, Houdans. Cam
C ’ pines, Reds. lRockc, Orpingtons, Brahmas.
Wyaudottes. Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fenton. Mich

 

and White Leghorn Cook.

BUff Leghorn erele. from 200 egg strains-
Booking orders for e gs. and chicks.

DRNVILL AM SMITH. Petershurg. lynch.

 

egg contest winners.oggs from strain
Barred ROCkS with records to 290 a year. 82.00
per setting E‘rermid by P. P. Circular free.

RED ASTLING. Constantine, Mich.

 

 

Barred Ro ck Eggs from healthy vigorous strain of
winter layers. now on rang:S 14. :82: 50 86; 100, 811;
postpaid. Warren W. Goble, bloville. Mich.

 

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Barred ROCkS- p118 5min. imhlané‘l‘aideion p"

from Nov. 1. 1919. Lewis B. Avery. Saline. Meigg?

‘ The fluil‘y lively kind. the kind
Baby CthkS that live and row. Hatched
in the most modern incubators huilt,a l e gs are from
pure blood farm stock. Catalogue an price list
mailed upon reques

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NOR\\'A[.K CHICK HATCHERY. ' Norwalk. 0.

,‘MnA‘v am amok}

‘ "a Guaranteed to 1.800 miles. Eggs for

.. 32;} Hatching. Bar. Rocks, 8. o. W.
Leg“ 8. C. 6’: R. C. Reds, W. Wynn.
Bud a W. Orp. Catalog tree.

 

    
 

 

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log to. sii’andan Poultry fires. 3. 4. sfi'erignmn-h.
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Henry Sonncborn
5!. Co.. Inc.

Good clothes just can’t cost less than Styleplus these days. Conditions
will not permit it. Stylish, all- wool clothes, guaranteed to give splendid
service and priced well inside the medium range.’ /

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: two reasons. ‘In
cockerels begin to worry the pallets as "

, they grow older, and in the next place >
we find that running several cockerels
together allows them, to run in the
same breeding pen“ the ne'xt‘Seaéonand
be better satisfied. As fs’oon as the.
cockerels can be marketed profitably,
it is a good plan to, let them go, but be
sure to keep enough for yourneeds or
to, sell as breeders if you have a trade
in them. ,We try to save cockerels
frdm our best laying hens and always
keep a few extra ones. It is easier to
do‘this than it is to find a bird that
suits us sometimes in an emergency. _-
The chicks should have plenty of "
room and we use a three by six colony
house even for a lien and her brood. 7
As the chicks are weaned and grow“
they still have plenty. of room and do
not have to be changed into another“?
house until ready to go into permanent
quarters. Roosts are placed in these
.houses quite early and prevent crowd-
.ing and learn the chicks quickly what
they are for. Little things like these
also save time later and make poultry
keeping worth while.
Indiana. MRS. E. J. SMITH.

BETTER ROADS IN GLADWIN
COUNTY.

LADWIN county will be connected
with Bay City by a complete sys-
tem of hard surfaced roads, running
through Beavel'ton, Hope, Edenville,
and Midland before the close of the
present year. Contracts for a large
section of this road have already been
let and more are to be awarded this
spring.

With the completion of this road it
is expected that a truck line, for both
passengers and freight, will be put in
operation giving the towns along the
route a service which they have long
needed as there is no railroad connec-
tion between Gladwin and Beaverton
or; with Hope, Edenville and Midland.

AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS POPU-
LAR.

 

VER twelve thousand persons have
attended the series of agricultural
schools being held at various places in
counties on the western side of the
lower peninsula. Professor Lovejoy,
of' the University, is telling how it is -
possible to realize more from the wood-
lot in his interesting lecture on “Loaf-
ing Land and Lumber Prices.” 1. T.
Pickford, of the M. A. C.,_ is laying be-
fore the fruit men factors that govern
in the production of fruit, while W. W.
Robertson, a very successful potato
grower, is’helping the producers of tu-
bersrto a better understanding of the
fine points in potato raising. Mrs.
VZella Wigent and Miss Bertha Laws ’

.1 emphasize poultry raising and house-

hold economics. John 1. Gibson, of the
development bureau. is doing much to
make the schools a success, and the
cooperation of the harvester staff is
generally appreeiated.

RIGHT .QF LESSOR- on” LANDS.

W I have just changed »_.tenafits, the
new man buying everything in the way
of stock, tools, grain and feed, and. all
interest except eighty acres ,of wheat
in the ground. This we want to seed
to clover in the spring. Can I have
the new tenant go an disc clover seed
into the wheat?——_B.

The waygoing tenant has the right
to have the crop mature without injur~
ions disturbance. buthe has no right
to possession of the land. If properly

done the dragging or light discing of
the land to cover clover seed would
benefit rather than injure ’the wheah:
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Good art Maoists. County fruit belt. Protected
from met by nearness to Lake Michigan.10.'3 im.
proved 10 heavy hardwood trout stream in pasture.
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113. 000 acres of unimproved l.'1nds,o11 eusy 11 r1115.

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100 Acres, $3300,
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ESPITE the decline in condensed

milk prices andthe facing of

many uncertainties in the dairy
industry, there was not a. do’wncast
face in the delegation .of Holstein
breeders who recently met at M. A. C.
to start the Michigan Holstein Breed-
ers’ Association on'another epoch of
service and prosperity which promises
to eclipse not only the past record of
this association, but to also set the
pace for sister associations in other
states. ’ '

The membership campaign has been
,_ The officials set their
aim highl—higher than they, really felt
that the conditions warranted, but so
generous was the response that they
have already passed their goal and are
still going. In his report Professor
Norton, Jr., stated that the assOCiation
could now boast of over one thousand
five hundred members and that there
were several localities in which meet-
ings will be held soon when he antici-
pates that over sixteen hundred breed-
ers of blackoand-white cattle will be
behind the organization, boosting.

And this boosting can start at once
for the association is in splendid finan-
cial shape to carry out a. full-fledged
program. From the last state sale the
organization realized $2,865 which,
with the $850 odd dollars on hand,
madea total of $3,715 to their credit
when the membership campaign began.
Receipts from the five dollar member-
ships amount to about $7,670, which
gives a grand total of over $11,000 to
work out many of the things that will
help to make Michigan the leading Hol-
stein breeding state of theUnion.

The important item in this new pro-
gram is the employment of a field man.
Some of the vital things that a field
man might do were given by Hon. D.
D. Aitken, of Flint. A careful survey
of the Holstein cattle industry of the
state is needed. This survey should
cover the grades as well as the pure-
breds, giving the number of surplus
animals of each kind, their condition,
breeding and health. This would ena-
ble the field man to intelligently direct
buyers either from this state or else-
where to the exact, farm or farms
where they could find just the kind of
animals wanted. -

Not only would the association be in
a better position to satisfy those who
now have faith in the performance of

the blacks and whites, but the field ‘

man could render invaluable service
to the breeders in adding new con;
verts to the faith. There is great need
of revised ideas on what a real dairy
cow can do and Mr. Aitken’s plan is to
hold demonstrations in sections of the
state not yet developed in a, dairy
sense. And as a complement to this
work in new territory much could be
done to lift the standard in the better
stocked distriCts ‘by eliminating the
poorer individuals of the breed. He
feels that if one—third of the present
holdings was sent to the shambles the
income from the remainingtwo—thirds
would be just as large as it is now.
Supplied with this higher average grad-
ed stock Holstein 'ihen could more con-
vincingly show the advantages of their
animals, and could also bolster up the

great dairy business by making it more

possible to meet increased labor and
feed costs.

Another Service that a field man
could perform is to help local men
plan their sales. _An expert who is ac-’
quainted with the buying field and also
with men who are in need of animals
would render
getting these men out to sales where
catti of the kind wanted are ,_
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- New Organlzatlon‘

white cattle were given a very high H

invaluable service hyt

 

compliment by Mr. Pollock", of the na-

tional association, when he statedthat

there existed here a, genuine coopera~
tive spirit among all the Holstein men
of the state. Also the percentage of
tlié breeders who have identified them~

selves with the state organization is ’

higher than in any state of the Union
and is only excelled in actual numbers
by the New York Association.

This sentiment was cOrroborated by
Professor 'Anderson of the college,
whose survey of the present situation
and prophetic glimpse of things > to

come spread sunshine and gave reason"

for a feeling of optimism on the part
of those dairymen who are producing
milking machines of high order. In
the first place, there is at present a
very big demand for both purebred
and grade Holstein cattle. He stated
that since the opening of th'e‘member-
ship campaign there have been inquir-
ies for from eight to ten cars received
to his office. And the business of sup-
plying good .cows is only started. One
can figure how long it would take to
supplant one-quarter of the mongrel
dairy cows of the country with pure-
bred stock. With our present avail-
able stock to work with, and the very
best of luck in breeding the third and
fourth generation of Michigan breed-
ers will not see that day, netwithstand-
ing' the fact that we have in this coun-
try fifteen times the number of Hol-
stein cattle that there is in Holland.

As a. center for developing the high—
est type of animal Michigan is happily
situated and for this reason it is bound
to be a leader «in-the production of
high-class stock. Three primal condi-
tions, according to Prof. Anderson, de-
termine largely the fitness of a locality
for live stock improvement: Climate,
soil, and a progressive but painstaking
people. Switzerland had these and be-

came the source of the great races of .

animals that stocked the hills and
plains of Europe. England also con-
tributed heavily to the world's live
stock. wealth by reason of suitable cli-
mate and soil and a, great race of
breeders. On this side of the Atlantic
and for the same reasons, we find Mich-
igan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and por-
tions of Ohio, New York, Massachu-
setts and Vermont to be the natural
source of America’s great herds and
flocks.

One step .toward the realization of
this end furnished the. substance of a.
talk by Hon. H. H. Halliday, our effi-
cient Live StockJCommissioner, who
described how th€ work of cleaning up
animal diseases in the state was pr0~
gressing. Just ahead there is a. situa-
tion which promises to bring to a halt
the good service of weeding out tuber»
cular battle, the fund's appropriated to
pay for animals destroyed being prac~
tically exhausted, unless the state audi-
tors will permit the use of the‘ emer-
gency funds on hand to meet the situ-
ation. The breeders present thought
the Public health'furnished a sufficient
reason for the use of this money and
passed the following resolution:

To the Honorable Board of State Aux

ditors:
We the undersigned committee rep-

resenting approximately 1, 600 Holstein ‘

breeders organized for the purpose of

improving the live sto’Ck industry of _

Michigan do earnestly reqhest that am-
ple funds be provided by year honor-
able board to pay all indemnifies on
cattle which are condemned by the
state department 91’ animal industry

on account of tuberculosis, and that

   

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departnmnt may add two more in- _
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supervision and over. fifty accredited
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be tested by local veterinarians.

In the business session it was decid-
ed that there should be an executive
committee or board of directors con-
sisting of seven members who will
have general control of the organiza-
tion work. The committee elected con-
sisted of the following well-known Hol-

  

V 'Mr. Spillane, of Flint, Writes -¥-

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ELMCREST STOCK FARMS

PUREBRED HOLSTElN-FRIESIANS

Flint, Mich, Jan. 24, 1920.

Mr‘. R. W. Chapin, Pres,
Chapin & Co., '

 

stein breeders; A. E. Jenkins, Eagle;
M. W. Wentworth, Battle Creek; Dud-
ley E. Waters, Grand Rapids; Silas H.
Munsel, Howell; R. ’J. Bird, Ypsilanti;
Dr. T. C. Tiedebohl, Colma, and George
S. Spellane, Flint. This executive com-
mittee was empowered to revise the
constitution and by-laws and to elect
the oiilcers tor the coming year. A
resolution introduced by Mr.‘ Aitken,
and unanimously adopted, was to the
effect that it was the sense of the rep-
resentatives present that Horace W.
Norton, Jr., be chosen as field man of
the association.

 
  
   
  
  
   
 
   
   
   
   
   

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ammmrrs 50% FIBRE mt

LIGHT Hoes m DEMAND. urn. a?
CHAPI N &

 

THERE has been the greatest with
ening out of hog prices in the Chi«
cago market ever known at this season
of the year, due to the marked increase
in average weights of the receipts.

The bulk of the hogs marketed sell at

a range of $1.70 per 100 pounds, with 5:11: weigpifltigidifiifietifi
the best light bacon hogs going high- put three years:

est, while the best heavy butchers sell 83:-
about $1.30 below the top quotations. r
Sellers believe that the future will be F??,f‘,‘?,,°’“.mp‘m 8,7,3: 1:11,;
better than the early part of the year, 1 com- 283.77
hogs selling far above their lowest sodays 888.61
time, with a. large shortage in the sup- 305 days 1007-76
Ply. H08 packing returns in the W931; um. Greenfiengerveld 7days 32.19
and east show a heavy falling off in 7yenrl old 305 days 831.43
numbers compared with a year ago, _ ..

and there is a large domestic consump- “hm?“mfidn" K“ ‘ days 8039
tion of both fresh and cured meats m.

and lard at prices greatly below those “at “Mi“ “‘7' ”0'31
paid a year ago. Recent sales were “mm“ 80 “y” ”9'09
made of pork around $10 a barrel low-

 

er than a year ago, with similar reduc-
tions in prices for lard and short ribs,
but it should be remembered that dur-
ing the war provisions were advanced
in price enormously because of the
greatly increased foreign demand.
This former large outlet has been ma-

  

 

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We use no oat-hulls or low-grade materials.

Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:-

You understand that we use Unicorn, not because we

do not feel ca able of compounding a ration that will suit our cows

as well, but or the reason that we realize that we cannot hope

to secure materials of the same choice quality that you can obtain
, if you care to take the trouble.

We have not the facilities for mlxm‘g the feeds prop-
erly after we get them together and consequentlvaould have to
Weigh out and mix for each cow; also experience has taught us
to open each sack of Unicorn with just as much confidence as to
what we will find therein, and what it will do, as we would feel
if we had sacked it ourselves.

It is honest, it is dependable and it is absolutely uni-
form. You doubtless are aware of these things, but it may give
you some satisfaction to know that others are aware of them too.

On some occasions when our local dealer has run out
of stock, we have had to use some other feed. This is almost
invariably followed by a drop in milk production of three or four

ounds per day, which we get back as soon as we give them
{Inicom again.

 

I am frequentlyocalled upon to help some beginner
start his testin work, and in recommending feeds for 1313 use
alwa s advise nicorn if they can get it. I know that 1t 18 safe
for t em to use, much more so than a feed In which they had
tried to mix materials like bran and oats Wlth others llke cotton-
seed and gluten, using a shovel. .

Lbs.
Mil .
mic We have SIX cows on yearly test and two more soon
3016.80 to start. All are eating Unicorn both m testln and getting
5549.90 ready for test. We will let you know later how t ey come out.
8386.70 . , -
21419.00 We trust you w111 feel at liberty to call on us at any
time for any service we may be able to render your_company.
747.50 Our records are open to you and your representatives at all
19021-60 times, and if we are able to assist any other users of your feed,
or if any claim that they are not getting the results that they
5503" should, we will be glad to show them how, if you Will refer them
to us. .
751.10 Yours very truly,
“7"” G. L. SPILLANE & SON.

By H. G. Spillane.

Chapin & Co., Chicago

   

 

 

terially lowered owing to the decline
in foreign exchange, and during a re« -

 

cent week exports from the Atlantic
seaboard were reduced to 5,377,000
pounds of cured hog meats, comparing
with 34,441,000 pounds of lard and 42,-
511,000 pounds of cured hog meats for
the corresponding week . last year.
Hogs have followed the same course
as provisions, and sales are made at
much lower values than one and two
years ago, while much higher than in
nermal years. Within a short time
prime light hogs haVe sold up to $16
per 100 pounds, comparing with $19.60
one year ago, $18.05 two years ago,
$15.05 three years ago, $9.70 four years
ago and $6.95 five years ago. Recent
hog receipts in Chicago have averaged
237 pounds, being four pounds heavier
than a week earlier and eight pounds
more than a year ago—F.

BREEDEIIS’ DIRECWRY

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

Wildwood Farms
Ang’uJ‘

Home of Edgar oi Dalmany one of the world’s
greatest sires.

He produced Erodemas. the grand champion
bull at show in Perth. Scotland in Jan. 1919, and
1 He produced Blue Bell a. cross-bred heifer
which .was awarded the championship at the
Smithfleld. _(Eng.) fat stock show in Dec. 1919.
(The latter 18 En land's equivilent of our Chica-
go Internationals

Edgar know an Anna-lean Citizen, and is
here tor the purpose of bettering the breed in this
country.

Edgar-'3 calves are as yet too young to other tor
sale but the are a promising lot and are being
spoken for nst.

We have a few choice young bulls by Black
Monarch II who won the Mich. State Fair
Grand Championship in 1914-1915-1916, still for

ourherd is under State and Federal supervision
A visit will interest you. write for pai-ticulars.

ernwoon FARMS
ORION, MICHIGAN
W. 3. BCBIPPS. P301)" Sidney Smith.8npt.

W000COTE A NGUS

manuals or my
lmgggm. WINNERS
,ING THE
mum are HERD or 1919
.. .mm 1.301] sale list.
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iGladwin county has a farm bureau
with over seven hundred members and

   
   
  

elevator in the county and also has a
very satisfactory cooperative stock
shipping association, which helps to
account for the fact that more live
stock is shipped annually from Glad—
win than {roman the other stations,
combined, on the Mackinaw division
of the Michian’Central. .-

    
 
   
   
   
  
 

 
 
   
    
  

     
  
     
  

  
     

 

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infmonthgfilg. lenty of

GUERNSEY
BULL CALVES

FOR SALE

$50.00 and up. aired by Noro’s Mayking May-
roso Breeding. This is accredited herd against
tuberculosis from State and .Federal government.
Avondale Farms, Wayne, Mich.

hull calves whose sire's

GUERNSEY dam made 19,460.20 milk.

909.05 fat. T eir mother" ' sire's d m d .
milk, 778.80 rat. " a ma a 15'109 1°
T.V. HICKS, - - - - Battle Creek, wloh.

Federal inspected herd. BullZ rs.

Guernseys old 3. son of Imp. Spotswood ySe-
uel. dam's A. R. recor 419.31 b. f. class G. Bullcalf
Inc’s. old. lbnll calves 2 to 5 mos. old. Satisfaction

guaranteed G. W. lltH. G Ray Albion. Mich.

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GU E R NSEYSSI‘J‘EEIgEQfig
Contalnln blood of world champions.
ulcxs'cusrmgsv Plum. Saginaw. w.s. Mich

GENRIDA ’F ARM

OFFERS
BULL CALF, BORN DEC. 26. 1919
Sire: King Flint. who combines the blood lines
of 2 families of 3 generations of 301m. cows and
2 generations of 1200 lb. yearl record cows.
Dam: Has a2l.30 lb. 3 .recor . Her dam is a
23.99 lb. daughter.“ Jo an Hengerveld Led.

Walter Hilld Davison, Mich.

 

Bazley Stock Farm

YPSILANTI, MICH.

L_ splendid bred {Bull born Dec. 12th. 1919.
Slrea 25 lb. 3 year old son of King of the
Pontiacs. Dam 4 20.47 daughter of Wood-
crert Do Kol Lad 25 A. R. O. Daughters. Sire'l
Dam a daughter of Berl Wayne's Paul De K01
2nd. Nicely marked and guaranteed right in
every way. Price 8125 00.

JOHN BAZLEY
319 ATKINSON AVE.
DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

 

Guernsey Bull Calf, Linded of Walter Phipgs Farm.
Born May 2.1919. “($.00 1.0.1). Novi or irming-
ham. Walter Phipps Farm. 80 Alfred St. Detroit.lMich.

 

 

 

 

 

' We are breeding 'better
"“1de sum: Guernseys Extended Pedi-
rnoloflfiordku toany one except the Postal m

an! M . If i; better Guernseys—we have
then. '3“ J. dowrfinnms. North Adams, Mich.

 

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 LB.
0. ancestors. Dani's records up to so lbs. Write
gigannees and quotations. stating about age

I Guernsey Bulls for sale cheap from Ito 12 months
’ and in producing and tuberculin
tested cows. 0. E. Lambert & Sons. Linwood. Mich.

Guemse heifers 9 months
Three Reg. old. E. . BLACK, 8. No. 3.
Howard City. Michal“).

 

 

. TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL
F IO Registered Guernsey balls. M Rose .
0f .& J 5,391.3): a €1.82” if tffien “$361.?“ or Traverse CHI!- Mich.

 

 

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Greatest Dairy Cattle 1n
the World

The scope of its labors and numerous
details involed in the administration of
the affairs of The Hol'stein- Friesian
Association are best comprehended by
a consideration of the fact that during
the fiscal year ending April 30, .1919,
$212, 257. E10 was receiVed by the Secre-
tary’ 5 office for the registration of pe—
digrees and for transfers. This volume
of business required 68, 350 entries in
the cash books and the issuance of 189
350 certificates, and this prodigious la-
bor is demanded for the conduct of but

.one department of the greatest dairy

cattle
world

Get acquainted with Holstein fadts.
Send for our free booklets.

breeders’ association in the

‘THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSO‘EIATION

   
     
   
     
    
  
    
     
   
   
   
    
    
      
  
 
     
   
   
    
  

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164 Hudson Street
Brattleboro Vermont.

4 Nearest Dams 32.46 lbs.

Bull Born November 11, 1919

Color—nearly 111111 and 111111.

Sire‘s Dam :— Butter 7 Days 32.32; Milk 7 Days
552. 40, A1 erage per cent Fat 4.118.

Sire s Sile' s Da111;— Butter 7 l)a_15 40 32; Milk 7

 

Days 610 20:11111191 30 Days 1115. 22; Milk 30
Days 2695.8.
Damz— Butte] 7 Days 26. (31; Milk 7 Days 5329

Dam s Dam: , Butter 7 Days 30.19: )iilk711)ays
565. 00; Butter 301M} 5 l 24 19 Milk ii) Dav 5 2436 6

bhe heads a 1 umbillation of three (lire<t gener-
ations of thirty pound 0011's.

Price $750.00 1 0. b. Howell.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich

Herds under U. S. Supervision.

 

EGIST EHE i) Holstein bulls sired by King Zerma
All arm a Pontiac. son of the $.10 bull; some from
good A ..() (011x. 0. H. Giddinge, Goblev'llle, Mich_

$125 B11111 Reg Holstein Bull 1 yr, old. Delivered
and guarallu nd K. High class breeding and
agood indiiidual B. B. REA VEY. Akron, Mich.

HOLSTEIN

BULL CALVES FOR SALE

From dams with good records. '
BULL CALVES sun-:1) BY 45111. BULL.
BULL CALVES SIRED BY 34 lb. BULL.
BULL CALVES SIRED BY 33 lb. BULL.

PRICES VERY REASONABLE.

Privelege of return if not satisfied.

A. W. COPLAND,

Birmingham, Michigan.
Herd under State and Federal Supervision.

OLUNY STOGKFARM
A Semi Offical Bred Bull to Head .
Your Ho rd
Maplecrest Application Pontiacflo. 132652 heads

Ho rd

His dam 5 record isu '1344. 3 lbs butter 23 .421. 2
lbs. milk in 365 days. and 35.103 lbs butter and
615. 6 lbs. milk in 7 day 9.
One of his sons from our good record dams will
can these great blood lines into Your Herd:

edigrees and Prices write to
I. lIBllucE MoPHERS 0N. Howell. Mloh.

A BULLY 6001] BULL GALF.

Born July 1919. His six nearest dame have good yearly
records. Amongst them are three worl 11 records
Good individual, nicely marked and worth in any
good herd all he will cost. You can 't pay too much for
this kind. I have a fine four months bull not quite
so well bred but a nice one.

L.E .OONNELL Fayette. 0hio_

Winnwood Herd

—SENIOR HERD SIRE-
Flint Maplecrest Boy (166974)

4 years old and weighs 3000 lbs. We have a few
of his sons ready for service and some little fei-
lows straight as a line and priced right the daugh-
ters of Flint Maplecr cst Boy are making good.
~JUNIOR HERD SIRE—

Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke (249 66)
A} brother to the world champion cow over all
breeds (Duchess Syklark Ormsby) 1506 lbs. of
butter in one year He is the best bred Ormsby
bull in Michigan his dam a daughter of King
aegis Pontiac she is a sister to King Segis Pontiac
Count and the $50, 000 bull King Segis Pontiac
Alcartra. we said get a better bull (we got ours)
one of his sons out of a daughter of Flint Maple-
crest Boy will make some herd sire

JOHN H. WlNN. (Inca:
ROSCOMMON, CH.

 

 

 

 

 

Holsteins of Quality

Five lair-go heiffefi'e fin Mange] extrgl goodI cows ‘dmd to
ran 110110 3 E0 0 via, soc
11:3 heifers. All Federal tezted for Tullem 1:111:13” year-

E. A. HARDY, Rochester, Liich.

AL,

Please mention the Michigan Farmer
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RESIDENT WILSON. realized 1 the
economic value of . sheep raising
when he recently maintained a. herd
on the White House lawn. This valu-
able little animal has long been neg.
lected, 'but anybody with a little graz-
ing land and no sheep, is overlooking
a good opportunity. ‘

While our experience -has proved
that there is no more profitable class
of ‘live stock, yet many flocks of sheep
are kept without proper returns. This
is because of lack of up-to—date meth-
ods in breeding and care. It is wrong

to think that as the main~ purpose .of

sheep on agricultural lands is that of
scavenger it is therefore useless to in-
vest in well-bred animals, as any com-
mon sheep will eat weeds and other
waste.

Sheep will consume and turn into
gold the weeds, sprouts, and other such
things on the farm that are worse than
useless and which other animals would
refuse to eat, but they will pay still
better if fed good rations. Furthel-
more, as a factor in maintaining and

Better
Barns on
the Farm

By Harley M. Wdr’d

GOOD farm is worthy of good
A buildings, and it is truthfully
said that “comfortable buildings
help to make a poor farm good, and a
good farm better.” The strongest
argument favoring good buildings on
a. farm is a visit to a well-managed
stock l‘ann where the general efficien-
cy depends in no small measure on the
excellence of the buildings, both large
and small.
Farm buildings should be property

 

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ticu‘larly in England, was fed certain

 

high- -priced lands the landlord often.
stipulates that a certain. number of:
sheep shall be kept by his tenants in?

order to maintain the fertility of the
soil. . k ‘ -

As the American population fie rap-~

idly increasing, and our acres of good
agricultural land are not, it is import-
ant not only to.maintain but to ill-
crease the producing capacity of our
farms.
of the future will be those able, to “pro-
duce two blades of grass where one

g1 ew before,” and two bushels of grain'

wheie one now glows. They will raise
mme grain on fewer acres, will raise
grasses, clovers, alfalfa and other leg-
ume on a, part of the farm. There is
no animal that will consume these
items and make more meat therefrdm
than a good flock of mutton sheep, they
will furnish residue in the shape of
fertilizer, and in addition they will an-
nually ploduce a fleece (wool) which

 

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inside walls and ceiling with D. & M.
flooring or wall board. This can be
done very cheaply by the farm help

and will save its cost the first winter

in extra feed.

The profits are also seriously affect-
ed by the labor problem, for the barns
and stables may be so arranged as to
conserve labor or to waste labor. In
building it is, therefore, important to
take into consideration the matter of
saving steps and time.

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savers and savers of labor. Farm
buildings may be considered, in one
way, as a necessary expense, but on
the other hand, they should be consid-
ered as a profitable investment.

For instance, take the barn. It is a
factory. In it raw material is convert-
ed into manufactured products.’ In a
dairy barn feed is manufactured into
expensive cream and butter. It makes
a great difference in the profits—
whether this barn factory is so con-
structed that the animals may be com-
fortable enough to make the best pos-
sible use of the feeds given them.

The barn should, therefore, be con-
structed warm and tight. It is cheaper

it, at the present price of feed. By be-
be made to save wonderfully on the

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to build for warmth than to feed for _
ing properly constructed, the barn can "

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Inside Arrangemetn of Stable to Accommodate Herd of 35 Dairy Cattle.

The interior should be so arranged
as to enable the work to be done with
the fewest steps—the least amount of
labor and in half the time that it
formerly took. Therefore, it is best ,to

 

  
 
 

restoring 31111 fertility the sheep stands
in 8. 151385 by itself This 13 better
recognized in European countries, par-

  

The most Successful farmers_
,taught to eat grain as early as possi- 1

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Of course. the breeding of the dock

is a big factor in success or 11111111119. It .
;is important to selecbtypes of sheep ~’

best ;adapted to profit; If you Start
with grades, use only purebred, sires. of
a particular breed. Do not Select a

rain from" one breed one year and one. I

from another the next year, and ex-
pect'improvement to follow, for it will
not. Hewever, the standard of a flock
can be raised very rapidly by using
good sires each year and culling out
the inferior ewe~ lambs.

For best results.“ lambs should be

ble. Corn and oil cake in “pea" form
make a very 'good ration. .The lambs
should be fed grain in a “creep,” that

.is. an enclosure into which therlambs

may pass but whose entrances are not
large enough to admit the ewe. ‘The
first six months of the lamb’s life are
the most impertant, and even though
they may havei'access to abundant pas-
ture whatever one may give them in
the way of grain feed will be well re-
paid by increased thrift and growth.

 

Permanent Farm Buildings Under Construction.

build the barn uponpaper first. After
the first sketch is worked out, lay it
away for a few days and then take it
out again and see if some improvement
cannot be made in the arrangement.
A great many times this will suggest
changes that will cut down the chores.
Spend a few days in visiting the, best
barns in your county,land talk with
the owner; see if he would make any
changes ifhe were building again. Do
not be afraid to talk to men about
barn plans and arrangement. If the
barn is not built right—71f it is notcor-
rectly planned, it may .result in losing

‘money every day. A barn once built

is not easily moved or altered in size,

. shape or arrangement; hence the vital

importance of making Certain that the
barn is correctly designed before it is
built.

A barn should not be built just large
enough .to accommodate the stock on
the farm at the time of its building.
The barn cuts down the labor and the
desire is to get more live stock; the
result is that larger crops are raised
and more room is needed. Therefore,
the farm should be worked .to its max-
imum capacity. The size can. be de-

termined only after a careful study of ‘

the number of acres in the farm and
the quality of stock.

The proper location of a barn is the
first important consideration after the

  
 
   
 

 

 
 
     

 

 

 
 
 
  

 
 
  

 

 

 

 

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Karrangernent is decided upon. ' Good

the big packers in bringing in unpre-

' be paid in that month, a supplies from
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air, good drainage, plenty of sunlight

and good water are all esSential tea-* 1

tures. The barn should be situated
among su1roundings that afford a good-
natuial drainage. Low, damp locations
are ideal tor bacteiial giowth and sun-
light is one of the best disinfectants.

The foundation walls of the barn
should be built at least two feet above
the ground line,, so as to protect all
the wood from contamination with
moisture and manure.

l'l‘he concrete should be mixed in
the proportion of one part Portland
cement to two parts of sand to four
parts of crushed rock, where such ma-
terial is available. Where you have a;
bank run, the mixture of one part of
Portland cement to live or six parts
of the bank run is satisfactory.

The concrete wall is to be made
twelve inches thick and rests upon a
footing twenty~four inches wide. After
the wall is sufficiently hard the sill-is
bolted with anchor bolts not over ten
feet apart. The studding are erected
on the top of the sill, which furnish a
firm bearing for them. The studding
are two by six inches in size for a
barn of ordinary dimensions, spaced
twenty -four inches on centers and are
generally twelve to e11, hteen feet in
length, and have a doubled two by six
inch plate spiked on top, which ties
them together. keeping them in a
straight line and forms a bearing for
the rafters.

The floor joists for the haymow floor
are two by tens spaced twenty-four
inches on centers so that the ends of
each may be spiked against the side
of the studding and at the same time
resting on a two by six ribbon which
is notched one inch into the studding
and running the full length of both
side walls. The lengths of joist are
required to reach from one side of the
barn to the other. Each set of joist
forms a continuous tie from one Side
wall to the other to take care of the
outward thrust of the roof. These
joists are supported by girders, built
up out of four thicknesses of two by
tens continuously from one end of the
barn to the other, with as few joints
as possible and all joints broken.

In.fra1ning the roof, one set of raft—
ers is carefully laid out on the hay-
inow floor, and, after the exact length
of each piece is computed, these are
used as patterns for cutting the requir—
ed number of pieces. When all the
rafters, braces, ties and collar beams
have been out, each set of rafters are
spiked together so as to form a com-
plete arch rib which will reach from
the plate of one side wall to the plate
01" the other side.

This type of construction nas the
advantage of requiring less material
and labor than the heavy timber roof,
is.just as strong, and forms a mow
without any obstructions.

THE LAMB MARKET.

 

LTHOUGH prime polorado and
other lambs are selling on the Chi-
cago market at far above prices of
past years, 1919 excepted, prices are
much below those paid early in Janu-
ary, owing largely to the practice of

cedentedly large supplies from the
Denver market. The increasing pro-
portion of half-fat flocks accounts. for
the many sales at large discounts from
prices paid readily for choice lambs,
the recent top standing at $19.35, com-
paring with $20.25 one year ago, $18.50
two years ago, $14.90 three years ago,
$11.60 four years ago and $10.15 five
years ago. It is learned from reliable
sources that the Colorado lambs will
be mostly marketed by the opening of
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43 High Grade Holstein Cows
, FLINT, MICH.
Apr. 8, 19204--Sale Starts 1 P. M.

Having sold our farm, and being.r forced to vacate the premises, we will
sell 43 very high-grade Holstein cows to the highest bidder. This is the old-
«est and most prominent herd in this section of the state, having been built
up using purebred sires for a great many years. These cows are in vari-
ous stages of lactation, nearly one-half having freshened recently.

They have been selected with great care, and dairymen wishing to buy
heavy producing, fine individuals, with very large, well-balanced udders,
will make a mistake if they do not attend this sale.

The sale includes the present herd sire, Johan Pauline Lad, No. 127548.
who has a 30-lb. own sister. This bull is sired by Johan Hengerveld Lad,
one of the most popular bulls of the breed. Dam, Edgelake Pauline De K01,
26.90 lbs. butter in seven days at eight years.

Some of these cows are sired by the above bull, and nearly all are bred
to him. Also several young sons of the above sire, and out of registered
cows, will be sold Our farm is situated three miles west of Flint on Rive1
Road. Free transportation from end of GlenWood car line, or Phone 1005
W. Terms of Sale, 10 months time on approved bankable notes

MORTIMORE CARTER & SONS, Prop.
To "an” my hendI am 0mm 1... we, LONG DISTANCE

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fem and an l 11 cows. 01' Pure Bred olateln hm Holstein calves of either sex. 01m spare a. nicely
JOSEPH H. lfiUEWE'R Grand Rapids Mich marked heifer backed by seven dams that average

‘ nbo bobveml s, butter 31111210001115. milk in one year.
on Holstein 13111101111 born I" ab. 1 mo. Sires 13 0h°1°° mm" 3°"- A FLEMING Lake'Mm’»
dams ave 31 lbs. P110081“) Re and Del. would
take Liberty bond J RHicks,R agsa Johns. Mich. 10 n1 old bull 4-5 white. 9 nearest dams average
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lbs fmllk. l’rice ltgolbrypa}lcularsw on
our head in. “ohms. ich.

11d dau liters of Ma le Creel: ,
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FOR SALE

A U C T l O N S AL E'

Manchester, Mich.

HARWOOD
HERE F O R D S

A: few young bulls from 10 to 181111111ths.uell 111-1 (1. in
tint condition. Spot ial p111 e for the next thirty (l am
No females (or sale at prestnt Visitors “ck 01.110.

Jay Harwood' & Son, lonia, Mich.

Fa] m Silt 111116.3- South of [on u

HEREFORDS

3 Prince Donald,3 Farmer and one Poll-
ed bulls from 7 to 13 months old, for sale.

ALLEN BROS.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN

J. Taylor Gage,

 

 

 

Spatial low price on the fol-
I"leref‘JrCIsl lowing for ashort tiire. 0118
tour yeai old cow. due in spring. Two 2 year olds with
calves by side. One vearlingl heifer Three bull cal-
ves, about 9 months old one polled, two horned. all
well marked and Egood Idark color.

00 LE & GARDNER. Hudson. Mich.

J_ust purchased 3 new herds, h
Herefordal head; we ofier you an thinnodbsilgg
either sex. harried or polled any age. l’trico reason-
able. HEMCOARTYS. Bad Axe. Mich.

JERSEY BULL $400

Sophia 19th'a ‘I‘ormentor1 724th. dro F
Low ell. Mass. April 4, Anon glldphi at Hood mil:
mental-.11 $7500!) bull b Sophia 19th. Damni sis 23rd.
by Pogls 9th. Fine in ivldual tuberolin teams. enue.
Box . East. Lane 113, th.

The Wildwood Farm

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MICHIGAN"

JERSEYS

Michigan is an ideal place for
the raising of Jersey Cattle
and there are no better cat-

 

Je‘rseys mature early, live
long, produce persistently.
give the greatest amount of
butter-fat obtainable from ev-
ery pound of feed. They are
hardy and vigorous, always
on the job and the greatest
mortgage-lifters that ever en-
tere'd a barn.

Michigan should have more
Jerseys and the Jersey breed-
ers of the state are anxious
-to cooperate with anyone
who is interested in success
in! dairy farming.

MICHIGAN JERSEY
CATTLE CLUB

ALFRED HENRICKSON,
Sec’ y-Treae. SHELBY, MICH.

 

 

 

 

   
  

   
  
 

If you never
owned J erseys—you ve
never received "paid in
full ” value for your feed
bills. Jerseys are the most
economical cows ever bred. They
feed for their udder — not beef
and bone.

They produce the richest quality of
milk, a butter fat average 01 6. 37%
They thrive in the cold Northwest 05
hot Texas. Jerseys are truly the in.
vestment breed because they are the
most. adaptable and most economical.

Ask breeders for pedigrees and
prices and let us send you some
interesting facts about the money-
making Jersey.

The Americas Jersey Cattle Cleh
322-M West 23rd Street
NewLYerk. N. Y.

 
           
       
       
       
   
   
     
   
     
   

 

Maple Lane! Register of Merit Jersey Herd. Bulls
ready for service out of of M. dams and sired
one of the best grandsons of Pogis 99th of 1110011
b.arm ll {V1 \ FOX. Allegan, Mich.

BUTTER BRED ”311%? an?”
CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

FOR SALE“ Jersey Baulls ready for service
. noestors. Raleyish- St

lsmbert breeding. Jerseys stand for econorn

Waterman A Waterman, Packard Rd. Ann Arbor Mich.

ILLIE Farmstead Jerseys—A few heifers bred to
freshen soon. heifers bréd to freshen next fall,
COWLB. of M. bull cal1es.C C. Lillie. Coopersfille. Mich

Two young Show Bulls ready for sor-
meor sale vice. Oxford Lad breedin. Dams prize
E H LL FA ARMS

ore and reducers.
. R. 6. Grand Rapids. Mich

EARDLY BR

ulls ready for service from our herd bull Margueritea
Premier. gdson of Pegisithh of cod Farm, and cows
now on test for H.031. Smith Jr Parker Hon ell Mich.

F0 ALE Purebr LJerseyIBull ICalf
six mont old. Containing

blood from the Hood Farms Sophie's Agnes

a 13. w. PARDEE. Big Raplds. 11111111

Shorihowrn Callie oi both Sex ior Sale

APP. Howell. Michigan.

Bhorthorns of Quality Scotch and
F or Sale Scotch Taped dosesndentsofArchers
Hope, A1ondae. Max 11 on Bolton and Whitehall
Bolton. Model Type, by the Oscola Co. Bhorthorn
Breeders Ass. John Schmidt. Bee. Reed City. Mich

BIDWELL 5121110115

nbull that 11ill put weights on your dairy ca Ives—
the diiference will soon pay for the bull Now selling
floodhfiootc adn til-«Scotch topfied earlings, reason ably

A roan. senior yearlled Mlsme of Villaser
grading a herd bull prospect. edean

BmBlDVt’ELL STOCK F ARM
Tecumseh, Michigan

   

 

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Located ll miles N.W_. of Jackson, 9 11111.. S E; .
of Minard Mill. on Jackson-Swinging", t.»

  

 

 

2 yrs. old. Lord Elbert, 2617201717111 also include 12 head

REGISTERED HOLSTEINS

No.i1.-n-‘-Ne§]herland Helen Sherlock No. 401,392, 2 yrs. 0111:1115 to Mullen
n are

No.A2 2—-Violet Lilith De K01, No. 401394, fresh. Has just mado a sevenzdey
25: A? 0.01 325.0 lbs. milk. 18.098 lbs. butter at the age of 2 yrs, 8 11108.,

a ys.

No. 3.—~ ——Daisy Balteenah, No. 469617, 2 yrs. old. due to freshen in A ril She
has an own sister, as Senior 2-yr.-old with A. R. 0. record 01 07.6 lbs.
milk, 17. 63 lbs. butter in sex/en days.

No. 4.—~Lady Barteenah Dinola No 34110, 4 yrs old, dile to freshen October
1. Own sister to heifer above. '

Five Heifers and Three Bulls Sired by Colantha Coronis Papline King
No. 181361 a 24 lb grandson of Colantha Johanna Lad.

No.1—He1dbood No. 469618, his first heifer to fleshen has just made an
A. R. O. lecord at the age of 18 mos. (no days) of 240.8 lbs milk, 9.043
lbs. butter.

No. 2.——Born April 19, 1919, 100 per cent same blood as the one above.

No. 3.——Born Aug. 28, daughter of an A. R. O. cow.

No. 4.—-—Born Sept. 1: Two half-sisters with A. R. 0. records.

No. 5.-—Born Sept. 28. Own sister to heifer No. 1.

THREE BULLS

No.1—Born‘ Sept. 8. His darn has an own sister With an A. R. 0. Senior
2-yr.-old record of 407. 5 lbs. milk, 17.63 lbs. butter.

No. 2.-Born Nov. 2. His dam has an A. R. 0. record of 449.9 lbs milk, 20. 53
1bs. butter in seven days. She has one daughter and one grand- daughter
with A. R. 0. records, and she is now on Semi- Official test.

No. 3.—Born Jan. 6,1920 Close related to bull No 1.

Herd Tuberculin- tested under State and Federal Will also include 22 hogs.

Livery from Rives Jot. and Parma at 9: 00 to 12: 00 A.

VERNON E. CLOUGH, R. 21

Theloth.0lcottllispersal

PERRY, MICH.
MONDAY, APRIL 1 2, 1 920
SIXTY HEAD

The entire herds of John P. Olcott and Frank A Hart, twelve head from

V. C. Wilkinson and three from S. T. andA B. Service.

RECORDS:- -Nea_rly every cow has a record or is from a record dam.

One isa 1130 lb. jr. 4 yr old with two daughters by the 35 lb. bull.

INDIVIDUALS: An extra good lot of individuals much better average

than is usually found in dispersals.

HEAILTH:- Tuberculin tested and sold with 60 day guarantee and retest
r1v1 ege

gale easy of access and under cover. Seven months time on approved

notes. Bring your bank referenCe. Send ior catalog.

JOHN P. OLCOTT

Parma, Mich.

 

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POLLE-D

SHORTHORNS

AND

Scotch Bred Shortliorns
AT A U C T I O N

Apr. 10, 1920. Mapledale Stock Farm
Edwardsburg, Mich. '

27 HEAD POLLED SHORTHORNS
8 MALES l9 FEMALES ,
_ 5 HEAD SCOTCH BRED SHORTHORNS‘
4 MALES l FEMALE

Westfall's Prince. No. 13712491454 Sultan Lancaster. 1171 latent?
Herd SireS: Sultan u. D 1111 Ann of Lancaster (5th., Jubilee Sultamb
Imperial Sultan a grandson of White Hall Sultan.
Herd Under Federal Supervision.

SEND FOR CATALOG ELMER WESTFALL
aucrs. cots. PERRY, HUNSBERGER, auranarono

0.1. C. SOWS FOR SALE

One heBest Horde in Michigan '
gilts and fall yearlings bred for March, April and May 11111111.. I ah
CPTY'PS 2%., pay express and register in buyer’ s name. _ li’ y011 111111.11 BI

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

Closing out my entire herd of grade cows. One Registered Angus bull. '

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Service:

111?. 1.1311. «111?. 1%
Supséme Why not eyes 111::

gear rdthst barrier the loo thatW it;x unshiel-
northern History. Onl a few real headers
left Write your wants.

(2. H. PRESCOTT I SONS. 1.111;. City. Mich.

7955 ed 1) rd Th
£03613]. 3:119: A11111 Jyotidféfia 1'31 155
~ to u. a n
-Di.t1hgelu 315’ cgllyrlig' ethe‘st l 821K». 5).“, One 511111 and e.
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351111111 1111 1111. 1‘30.“ 111 Bad Axe. Mich.

.Norma'n Carr. Secretary.

i th 13 coders 11.10.0111:
central g (iglfihgg toggles. rwrite for new ll
OSCAR s "111111311, sec. commmo.

ills Ksnl 011., Shoriliorn Assn. 1‘311933531121‘3
for sale. L H. LEO ONARD. Sec. .. Caledonia. Mich.

P‘OR SALE Re (stored Bhorthome of good milking
strain. Bull an thref years old. bul calves'zto
Gmonths. Chas. Warner r. 11.4. lmlay City. Mich.

SHORTHORNS Ch b d Bull l
Milking Herds under Federal Sargent isoni cs ves
Davidsong & Ball, Behind As Beland. Tecumseh. Mich

 

Shorthorn hull of best Bates
RegiStered breedin five months old.
D. L. McLeese. B. 1. Bag. 0. Freeland. Mich.

Milking Shorthorn 132“1§.°.‘312,°c51i3?1‘§3
ROSEMARYl FARMS, Williamston. Mich.

Shorthoms $3123°2222.‘a‘$i’.l‘1‘””' “6
W.B. McQUILLAN, B. 7, Howell. Mich.

Scotch lSc t h T d, l '
Shorthorns a few letl‘t1(stLol)ll:pl-ice apps on y
W..BJ lose 0City. Mich'

Small herd oi.‘ registeredledhonhoms for 'sale.

Priced tor ui k
sums BROS. 11233.5.” Flintrmch.

Fun sw‘lE Two Registered Sher-thorn bulls l4 and 15
mo. old milkln strain. Price 81351 ()0
wsA'noEN'res N. .e :1. Linden. Mich.

HOGS

size with al'i some 9 l l-
Berkshires .fi w11eql‘ou‘1i-in1. 10" “a
M. G. M08 ER 61.30199. steo. Mich.

Duro some 'and gllts bred to ll alts King 92949,

C who has sired more int and 2nd Iilirize pigs

at the State Fair in last 2 years than any ot. er Duroc

boar. Everyone wi ill be a money maker for the
hue Cat. and Krlce l.ist

NEWTON BAR-NH 111. St Johns. Mich.

' June farrowed boars ready for
“I'M" "l" names senice from Ira Jackson and
Brookwater stock. also bred gilts and sows of all ages
for Mar and Apr. furrow, priced right and registered
in buyer's name.
JOHN lIC.°D.‘1‘.‘A111, R 1. Mason. Mich.

DUROG- JERSEYS 1

"A few extra bred sews and 'lt for sale.
1111111 U 1121111011119. _fi'uil'n¢s. M1111:

DUROC JERSEYS

Bred Gilts for March and April fan-ow. Write at once
for description or come and see them Satisfaction
aranteed with ever order.
US 331108. OAK 00D FARM, Romeo, Mich.

DUROC Jerseys. Sprin gilts bred to boar whose
sire took first prize at tats Fair. immune. rice
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reasonable. Jay Cassopolis. ich

offers some exec tionsl
MiChigana Farm values in bred alltg. Also
in tried sows. These are guaranteed to give satisfac
tion and they will shigl onl approvalm responsible

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ROYAL BRED GILTS

ichigsn Cherry Col red to Jacks
69259 3011 or 111.3111 000, champ-
11:13an.! class stock. write

ion. J aoks Orion
ennincs arms. 11.1. Bailey. Mich.

for prices. The

DUROC JERSEYS

Gilts bred for Maroond and April furrow, A Guarantee
back of every $9390
JDlrodt. Monroe, Mich. R 1.

E. D. HEYDENBERK, Wayland. Mich.

Jerse . Bred sense 11 April
Duroc £11 “05;. Si red bi :1- :52: to pmyali‘oiilg‘lfi
herd boar JOB. SOHUEL EB, Weidman. Mich.

bred sows and gilts sired b Orion Cherr

K1111; 00 1. 21111., bred to All Col. 018 211
First class lot. reasonable. W. C. Taylor. in $341911.

DUROC GILTS. Eggnog, “3°" ““1
BOABDMAN FARMS. Jackson. 1351111131111.
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Veterinary. ’ '
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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.

 

Indigestion—Laméness.—-One of my
horses is unthrifty, showed lameness
when first taken out- of stable, but af-
ter ten days' treatment he traveled
sound. I loaned him to one of my
neighbors to haul gravel, and he soon
went lame. Our local veterinary treat-
ed him for sweeny, but he moves stiff.
How shall I treat him? F. M. G.,
‘ ()wosso, Mich—Mix equal parts of gin-
ger, ltian, red cinchona, salt and
fenugreek together and give him a ta-
blespoonful at a dose in feed three
times a day. Apply equal parts of tur-
pentine, aqua ammonia: and raw lin-
seed oil to sore orsweenied parts
twice daily. Rest will do him lots of
gond. -

Out of Condition—Last fall our
threeyear-old mare ran on marsh pas-
ture, lost flesh and, of course, was thin
when I commenced to grain and sta-
ble her. The result is her hind legs
stock and both hock joints are swollen
and tender. What is wrong With her
and is there a remedy? G. A., Law-
ton, Mich.-——Feed her some clover, a1~
falt'a or roots, also give her a teaspoon-
ful of acetate of potash in drinking wa-
ter daily; also give her a dessertspoon—
ful of fluid extract of cinchona and the
same quantity of Fowler’s solution at
a dose in feed three times a day, and
she will soon pick up in flesh.

Spinal Disease—Have a large horse
that has good appetite, but he has sud-
denly gone wrong in both hind legs,
can scarcely walk without falling
down. In looking him over I find_no
bunches or sore spots. E. C., Bellaire,
Mich—~Give him half dram of ground
nux vomica, one dram of salicylate of
soda at a dose in soft feed three times
a day. He should be kept in a warm
stable, and bowels kept open.

Stringy Milk—Infected Udderrfl
have a cow due to freshen in April,
which gives very stringy milk and
when milking her she kicks. Last year
she was in same condition, but when
she came fresh seemed to be all right.
A. P., Scottville, Mich.——A chronic ud-
der ailment of this sort is not easily
cured. Her milk is, of course, unfit for
domestic use. 'Kindly understand, you
should not make the common mistake

that most farmers do, of discontinuing .
to strip all the milk and fluids which.

accumulate from the infected portion
' of udder, for if you fail to do that, look
for the old ailment to return. Give her
a teaspoonful of nitrate of potash daily.

Nasal Gleet.——Have a calf that com-
menced to cough the early part of last
summer and it has never recovered.
Whenever it eats or drinks some of
the fluid or food returns through the
nostrils. This calf had catarrh when,
or soon after it was born. J. 8., Mar-
ion, Mich. Doubtless this calf was
abnormal at birth and will never be
well. You will find washing out the
nostrils with salt and tepid water a
good and inexpensive remedy and it is
made by dissolving a teaspoonful of
salt in each pint of water. The calf
should be treated twice a day.

Chronic Catarrh in Cattle—Is there
such a disease as chronic catarrh in
cattle? If so give me a remedy. C.
A. B., Lapeer, Mich.—-—-Chronic nasal
catarrh is not nearly as common an
ailment in cattle as in horses, but sim~
pie catarrh (cold in the head) is quite
common. If the inflammation of the
mucus membranes of the nostrils and
upper air passages are not relieved
promptly at sub-acute inflammation fol-
lows and if this condition is not rem-
edied the ailment becomes chronic and
very often incurable. Catarrh is a
common disease among cattle. Often
the result of sudden exposure to wet
and cold after being accustomed to
shelter. Illy ventilated stables where
stock are obliged to breathe irritating
gases and, of course, it may be due to
atmospheric conditions and may as-
sume an enzootic form. The disease
is very debilitating and requires very
prompt and judicious treatment. The
animal should be housed in a well-ven-
etilated place, if feverish, give a table-
spoonful of nitrate of potassium in
drinking water three times daily. Dif-
fusable stimulants are beneficial in
most cases, but don’t forget that good
nursing is most important. For chron-
ic catarrh, give a teaspo’onful of dried
powdered sulphate of iron at a dose in
feed three times a, day. Also dissolve
.8 t9 . go! ”It or cooking soda
. . jot tepid inter and wash,

 

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developing our herd.

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In Iowa Cow Testing Associations

Jan. 30, 1920

Gentlemen: ——I am pleased to state that we have used
SCHUM ACHER FEED quite extensively in growing and

It is a great aid in promoting heavy production of milk
and butter fat. We appreciate it much because of its per-
fect balance which makes it a safe feed to use in large
quantities when feeding for heavy production.
We have fed SCHUMACHER FEED with excellent
results to hogs and horses as well as to the Dairy Herd.
Yours very truly,

R. G. KIN SLEY.
8.6. Kinsley’e Herd has been making the best record in
the 31ch Cow Testing Association, which for sev-

eral months has been leading all Testing Associations
in Iowa, having the beat ten highest producing cows.

The Schumacher Feeding

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Will help Your Cows Increase Milk Production

The Schumacher Feeding Plan consists of feedin SCHUMACHER FEED as the carbo-
"Q” DAIRY EED as the protein .part. These two

hydrate part of the rationand BIG

feeds have proven with dairymen everyw

here to be the ideal combination for best health

conditions and maxunum milk production. .They simplify your ration problem—insure
greater accuracy and umform1ty, and require much less labor.

SCHUMACHER FEED is a finely ground, killl dried, carbohydrate ration composed of
various grain by-products that best supply the necessary maintenance for long time

milk production.

to withstand the strain of long milking periods.

BIG “Q” DAIRY RATION is first,

any cow of any

breed.

last and all the time a
wonderful milk producer. With SCHU AC

FEED as the maintenance part of the ration and J '
BIG “Q” as the milk producing part, you have a ' ’ 3‘
ration that assures maXimum production from

SCHUMACHER FEED in addition to being the acknowledged
best carbohydrate feed for dairy cows, is also splendid for feed-
ing all your farm stock. It puts "pep” and vigor into your
horses—makes calves and hogs grow fast and produces big
frames. It restores strength and vitality so dry cows assuring
maximum milk production during the next lactation period.

Get a supply of SCHUMACHER and BIG “Q” from your dealer
—let these feeds do for you what they are doing for thousands
of other successful dairymen and farmers.

I The Quaker (Daltficompan‘y

Address. CHICAGO. U. S. A.

ualitfir protein ration and 3
ER

It affords that much needed variety of grains so essential and neces-
sary to keep your cows in tip-top phySical condition--to prov1de stamina and endurance

 

HOGS

 

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combine size and qu

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o. J THOMPSON, Rilckford, Mich.

 

' I. €.'s.

Big type gilts. fall lyre” tried sows. Mar.
0 Apr.farrow. Summer-and to l
free,satisfaction guar'td. G.P.Andrewa. Duuvlleich.

was. I pay exp.,reg.
and choice B

 

0. I. C.

name.

Gilts bred for March and April furrow. better than

F|or Sa

MILLER Meadow's L. T. P. C. boars all sold. Gilts
sired by General Jones and bred to our youn

bf, .
Alaska. address CLYDE WEAVER. 09mm.iaioi‘.'.

Two Bred Poland C ina Gilts

Litter mates fan-rowed Apr. 3, 1919. Choice individuals

Type breeding. Weighed March 10,
lbs. not fat. Bred for Apr. 7 and Apr.

Ionia.‘,Mich.

cl 1 .
I ”swans. “as" .. n2: iii?“ 31in R~ 6.

ansville.

 

 

O. l. C's Have some Choice Spring Gilts, bred

for sfirnlnfi farrow. _ Chlnas.
TRAY 303-. it. 1. Mason, Mich.

 

0.l.C

.Gilts bred for March and April furrow, guaranteed
' ate with pigs.
Herd immuned by D.

Full pigs and a few service boon.

r. r. c. Burgess. n. a, luon. inch. 95 are low'

oars also sows and pi .
Bred big forg9

rite us your want

Real Bi
.3 years. Sire
tor by Giant Buster. litter 14 out of Mouw's Miss
Queen 2nd. some breedin
b 4 Rust’s Big Joe, out o a Won er Queen, nuf said.
5 we will treat you ri ht, our
0‘. c. BUTLER.

also b

Ty 6 Poland
by Iich. Bus

Butler's Big Joe

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. farmw and
Bpring pigs. A. J.

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nggeclbfig saute. iistag‘tra fine service
9 . I
AF swan F paid, ail.

farm .
w.B. MoQtfi’LLANY
00K 3. '1‘. P. 0.! We are selling at a great sacrifice

for the next 10 d ' .
Apr. choice tag; in?” extra good gilts to farmw in

W B «#3
L. S. P.
2 choice spring [boars and 2 nice fall” been
left. a few extra nice gilts left bred for April
H.0.SWARTZ.

FOR ale-Jame Type Polahd'Ohina Gilts; bred'fifor ,1
forgo i ' Lv B

XW‘WWEfi-m Them? -

l boars. Am bookln orders to
darker a Son. Belmont Mich. :-

. . IG Type Poland China.

I. 0. choice ts bred for March. April and May B‘don litter mate to the Ill. Grand

big boned. deep, long bodied kind at farmer's prices.
Wah-be-mo-me Farms. White Pigeon, Michigan

Sircd b

hampion.

Smooth Masto

The

 

onroe. ich.

Fair, Se is.
n.7, Howell. Mich. tiled. 9

now ready to

. .to
W. E. Livingsto

. expenses
11. Parma,

rsex or a“. LARGE Type P. C. thelargeat in Mich. Spring boars
' ship. Bears for the breeders an
ab ‘ bogsfiofi the {firmiii‘ra (Bionic god age the goal lag-gs
o co ta - ' qua y. roe very rom arms arms 9
0. lo C. M 31] bred tor April and visitors. Look up my exhibit at the Great Jackson 00.
8th wdbif not as adver-
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room for our herd sown.
0N Elsie Mich.

Big Type Poland China:

‘ of both sex, d bred d 'lte.
G. A. imUMii‘Auninii’t'."l “n 8'

11.2.

with quality. at re-

son able prices.

Mlddleville. Mich.

 

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Big Type P. 0.
fun. out
Iowa's greatest herds.

Bred gilts. Fall yearlin
1100 lb. ]fire and
.J . M athewson. Burr Oak,Mlch.

  

mammot , sows

. prize win-
from

 

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11.19.10. Alb n. Mien, 33'9“ phone 843m.
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booked for boar i s a. weaning time from Mich.
Champion Herd. E. fiFLeonardJR. 3. St. Louis, Mich

U. S. FIGURES SHOW

a shortage of 2,578.000 hogs, over Jan. 1. 1919. Just fig-
ure a moment what this will mean to the farmer.
Constructive breeder of Poland China Hogs.

C. A. BOONE, Blanchard, Mich.

R. P. C. Breeder if you want to flat in the King
row. Buy a Gilt bred. to Big Bol astodon, mot.
Grand Champion Blood in his veins than any other
Boar in Michigan. C. E. Gamaut, Eaton Rnpids.Mich

I EONARD'S B. T. P. 0. bred sows all sold. Ordel

 

I am offering Large Type Poland China Sows bred
to F's Orange, at reasonable rices; also fall pigs.
Writeo Call Cl (16 Fisher. St. uis Mich. It. .3.

6n. ANNUAL P. C. Bred Sow Sale March 13,

1920. For particulars write
W. J. HAGQSHAW. Augusta. Mich,
Hogs and Bred

Large Type Poland China Stag“
E. H. EISELE, 11.? Manchester. Mich

All sold out exco t som Fa!
8' T' P' C‘ Gilts. Thanking 31y custgmers‘.
Schoolcraft. Mich.

A FEW NO. 1

Fall boar pigs left. Pairs not akin. A few tried
sows bred. Booking orders for spring pigs. Large
gas. Winning blood linen. Satisfaction guann'

STEUBENS HAMPSHIRE FARM
R. R 3, Angola, Ind.

' Grove Ham shires, “Qualit First" Michigan

Boy. Grand am ion boar o
and owned by us. any other prize winn
Michifz: State Fair 1919. Hog'e for sale all ages.
sex “ to J "

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FIRST. EDITION.

 

The markets in this edition were re-
vised and corrected on Tuesday after-
noon, March 30.

WHEAT

Increasing export demand is having
a tendency to strengthen'the wheat
market. The price advanced five cents
last week and it was expected that this
would bring in large receipts, but they
failed to materialize in time to affect
present quotations. The millers are
going slow in buying wheat. taking
just enough for their immediate re-
quirements. The flour situation is firm

 

and quiet. Present quotations on the
local market are: .
NO. 1 I‘Pd ......... o o fi‘.$2.55
No.1 mixed ............ 2.53
No. 1 white 2.58
No.2red ..... 2.52.,
No. 3 l‘ed .ll‘......‘... 2049
CORN

Owing to the condition of the tele-
graph lines between Detroit and Chl-
cago practically no business was done
on the local market Monday. A few
messages got through by way of To-
ledo and Cleveland. The feeling in
the corn market was firm but the trade
rather quiet. in view of the small sup-
plies at, (‘hicago there is a, tendency
to strengthen values, but the general
spirit of the situation is one of caution.
Present values on the local market are
as follows:

No. 3 corn ...... . . . . . $1.60
No. 3 YEHOW ....... . . . . 1.65
No. 4 yellow... ......... 1.60
No. 5 yellow............ 1.58

OATS

Oats are in moderate demand, but
scarcity of supplies holds the market
firm. The general situation has been
dull for the past. few days. Present
quotations on the local market are as
follows:

No. 2 white................99

No.3 white................98

NO. 4 “Yhiteooaooololiolotoo97
RYE

The demand for this cereal is active
and Prices have advanced two cents.
Foreign buyers are taking more inter-
est in the rye deal and further advanc-
es are expected. Present quotations on
the local market are $1.80 for cash No.

2 rye.
BARLEY

There has been no material change
in the situation as regards this cereal.
Present values on the Detroit market
are $3@3.25 per cwt. for cash No. 2

barley.
BEANS

There is little activity in the bean
deal, but prices are holding and the
market is steady. Choice hand-picked
pea. beans are quoted at $6.50 per cwt
on the local market. At New York the
market is dull and values not well de—
fined. Imported and domestic white
beans are dull. Choice hand—picked pea
beans are quoted at $7.25@7.50 per
cwt. At Chicago sales are moderate
and offerings free. Choice hand-pick-
ed pea beans are quoted at $6.75@7.25
per cwt; red kidneys $13.

SEEDS

The market for seeds is firm and
the trade active. Present quotations
on the local market are as follows:
Prime red clover $35.25; alsike $36.50;
timothy $6.50. ,

FEEDS

The market is active for all kinds
of feeds and prices are well sustained.
Present values on the local market are
as follows: Bran $55; standard mid-
dlings $57@58; fine middlings $586?
59; coarse corn meal $69; cracked
corn $7]; chop feed $61 per ton in 100-

pound sacks.
HAY

Small supplies are coming into the
local market and prices are firm and

: demand lively. Present quotations are
f ‘as follows:

No. 1 timothy $33.50@34;
standard $32.50@33: light mixed at
332-50@33; No. 1 timothy $31.50@32:

~ No. 3 timothy $276228; No. 1 mixed at
831.50@32; . No. 1 . clover $31.50@33;\
rye straw $13.50@14; wheat and out in

straw.,$13.50@14 per» ton in bar-lots.
V-Atlfittsburg’h receipts are lightnand.

  

 

culls COCIQIDOOICfi00003ICO 6|00@ 8000

holdover ‘ . 5.770;; first : sales .' 2.5@

600:1

 

not enough of the good grade arriving '
to supply the demand. The market is
strong, especially in the better grades.
Present values on Pittsburgh market
are as follows: No. 1 timothy $38.50
@39; standard timothy $37.50@38;
No. 2 timothy $36@37; No. 1 clover at
$37.50@38; No. 2 clover mixed $33@
34; No. 1 clover $37.50@38; No. 2 clo-
ver $30@32; oat, wheat and rye straw
$14.50@16 per ton in-carlots.

POTATOES ’ -

The demand and movement of pota-
toes on the local market is moderate,
prices firm and slightly higher. Mich-
igan U. S. Grade No. 1 round white
stock in 150-pound sacks is selling to
jobbers at $8.75@9 per sack. At Cleve-
land the market is in an unsettled con-
dition and the demand and movement
slow. Sales to jobbers of New York
round white stock in ISO-pound sacks
are reported mostly at $8.75 per sack.

BUTTER

The demand for butter is compare»
tively light and receipts are sufficient
to take care of the local demand. Quo-
tations on the local market are as fol-
lows: Fresh creamery 65c; _ fresh
creamery in one~pound prints 63@65c.

EGGS

Eggs are in active demand and sup-
plies are coming in freely. 'The tone
of the market is easy. Fresh are quot-
ed on the local market at 441/2c per

dozen. ..
CHEESE

The volume“ot trade has increased
materially and the supply of storage
cheese is rapidly diminishing in con-
sequence. Production is not sufficient
to supply the prevailing demand and
buyers are depending largely upon
storage holdings. The high grades of
1919 make are steady and firm. A
large portion of the storage stock is
of imperfect quality and inferior
grades are moving slowly. Foreign
exchange is more favorable and there
is considerable interest in the lower
grades for export. Present quotations
on the local market are as follows:
Michigan flats 27%M‘28c: New York
flats,.June make 31%@32c;‘ Michigan
single daisies 280; Wisconsin twins
'280 pound.

POULTRY '

Poultry is in active demand. Con-
sumers want fat hens and high qual-

ity chickensand‘ are willln‘gntopay a.
premium for extra good. stuffy The
supply is light and the trade poorly
supplied. Present quotations on the
local market are as follows: Spring
chickens, large 38@40c; Leghorns -86
@37c; hen-s 43@450; small hens 39@
41c; roosters 24@25c; geese 30@35c;
ducks 40@45c; turkeys 44@45c pound.

GRAND RAPIDS

Notwithstanding the light demand

for flour, wheat is advancing. Friday,.

millers- raised the paying price five
cents per busheh No. 1 (red to $2.35,
and No. 1 white to $2.33. Flours have
reflected the advance from 25 to 50
centsper barrel. Spring lambs will be
in market next week for Easter, deal-
ers having made arrangements. with
some western Michigan growers. They
will retail at 75c per pound. Maple
sugar is in fair supply, retailing at 75
cents per pound. Many farmers state
that, owing to help shortage, many
thousands of maples will not be tap-
ped this year. Fall-sown, wheat has
come through the .winter invexcellent
condition, the best in many years, the
farmers say. Potatoes are in light sup-
ply and higher at many' loading sta-
tions. Government reports this week
quote the Cadillac warehouse priCe at
$5.60@5.80 per cwt. and $5 per cwt to
the grower. Greenville price is $5.40
per cwt. wholesale. Grand Rapids job-
bers quote them at $3.25 per bushel.
Parsnips are more plentiful now that
gardeners can di them. Wholesale
price is $1.75 per bushel. Hay is lower
this week at the city market at $26@
28 for loose timothy. Eggs are more
plentiful this week and dealers pay
producers 40 cents per dozen. Storage
supply is exhausted. Pulverized sheep
manure is $3 per ton higher this week
and cattle $2. .

WOOL

Attention of the wool trade is being
divided between sales in the open mar-
ket, the auction sales and the acquisi-
tion of staple held in the primary
sources of distribution. The interest
in the last item‘ applies both to the
domestic and South American clips,
though particularly to the tormenfi‘he
profitable marketing of the home-
grown territory and fleece .wools is a
big problem this year, but the casing

 

 

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DETROIT

Cattle.
Receipts 901. Bulls dull; all other
grades steady.
Best steers ............. $11.25@11.75
Best handy wt bu steers. . 10.25@10.75
Mixed steers and heifers 8.75 9.25
Handy light butchers.... 7.50 7.75

Light but chers ....... . . . 7.00@ 7.25
Best cows ............... 8.25
Butcher cows ........... 6.75@ 7.00
Cutters .............. . . 5.50@ 6.00
Canners ................. V 4.50@ 5.00
Best heavy bulls . . . . . . . . , 8.00@ 8.50
Bologna. bulls 7.25@ 7.75
Stock bulls O I O I . C O I I O I O O 7.00@ 7150
Feeders coups-00.0.0.0... 8~50@ 9.25.
Stockers 100(6) 8.25
Milkers and. springers. . . .8 65@ 150

- Veal Calves. _

Receipts 662. Market opened steady,
closing lower.
Best .................... $20.00@21.00
Others .......... . ....... 10.00@15.00

.‘ Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 760. Market steady.
Best lambs . .. . . . . ...... .919.00@19.60
Fair lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.50@18.50
Light to common . . . . . . . . 15.00@16.50
Fair to good sheep . .. 12.00@13.50

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Receipts 2,840. Market strong.

Mixed hogs ..... maximums 20

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CHLCAGO -

one. ,
Estimated receipts today are 2,000:

 
    
  

t ”in ”it“ °‘ 2%?°i."“‘°@3 ‘5”
0§3.. '~ 88.....11-33.
and nag :14 @1551 '

  

pigs 130 lbs down, medium, good and
choice $13.75@15.50.

er: "heavy $15@15.75; mixed $16.25,
18.40: yorker: $18.40@16.50:‘;light , ;_
316.631.6150.? 9188 515.7561?“ “ "
5°¢"$13.@18.50; stage ”6310‘

um 200 to 250 lbs medium, good .and
choice $14.80@16; light 150, to 200 lbs
common, medium, good and choice at
$15.40@16; light lights 130 to 150 lbs
common, medium, good and choice at
$15.20@15.75; heavy packing sows 250
lbs up, smooth $13.15@13.75; packing
sows 200 lbs up rough $12.60@13.15;

Cattle.
Estimated receipts today are 1,500;

beet steers and early sales of she stun'
higher; bulls, packers andieeders are
ower.

tations. Stock yard men are on strike.

Not sales enough to make quo-

Sheep and Lambs. ‘
Estimated receipts today are 800.

mostly direct to\packers. One load or
sham lambs sold at $18.25. Not enough
sales to quote market. ' ‘

BUFFALO

tlo.
good, .

Oat .. .
Receipts 4,000; steady to

strong: others easier; shipping steers.
$13 11.25; butchers $9
$12. 0@14.25; heifers $ @11; cows. 34.
@11; bulls ”@1025;
feeders é6@10; fresh cows and.spring—
ers $65 175. . '

13»; yearlings

stockers and

. Calves. - ' '
lggceipts 3,000; $1.25 lower at 360

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- . ' . Hons. .
.Receipts 12,000: slow10@15c his

     

impairs at

 

of conditions by banks inthe matter
a of loans makes the situation more sat. .
isfactory.
heguniin .seVeral localities, but opera: *
tions of dealers are still restricted.»

'NEW,‘ YORK. PRODUCE MARKET.

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Button—The market has been ex-
tremely sensitive during the greater
part of the week. The rincipal rea-
son for that is the fact that about two
and a quarter milliOn pounds of Dan-
ish butter are expected at this port by
Monday or Tuesday of next week and
dealers are somewhat worried over the
prospects. All the Danish butter that
has arrived,of late is out of first bands,
which shows that that butter is clean-
ing up readily. Receipts of domestic
butter have beenhigh during the week »
and trade has. been active except for
the last one or two days. A report
that the Danish butter would be‘ready
for distribution the last part of the
week caused many jobbers to allow
their stocks to become depleted, as
they hoped to purchase the Danish but—
ter at bargain prices. However, the
boat bearing that butter fell behind its
schedule and it was necessary for
them to add to their stocks, which
caused a more active market on Fri-
day. The market closed strong and
active on Friday, with quotations as
'follows: Extras 67%0; higher scoring
than extras 68@681/zc; firsts 63%@67c
and seconds 59613621120.

Cheese.———Considerable quantities
of‘fresh cheese are appearing on mar-
ket and a. quotation for such cheese
has again been established. There is
little activity in fresh cheese and the
receipts are continually growing. Held
cheese .is selling readily and the pric-
es are stationary. There is little export
demand, although some low—grade skim
milk cheese is being exported. Quota-
tions on fresh cheese are: Average
run 22@23c; specials 24@25c.

Eggs—Receipts of eggs are moder-
ate and demand fairly active. There
has been very little change in the mar-
ket since last week. The arrival of
spring would cause one to feel that a
decline in quotations would materialize ‘
in thenear future. Established quota-
.tions are: Firsts 47¥é@49c; extra
firsts "491/2@5OC; extras 5160520.

Poultry—Quotations have changed
very little since last week, although —
there have been slight fluctuations
during the week. Old roosters are .
scarce, as are good ducks and turkeys
and as a ~result’ the market on‘ those
classes is slightly stronger. Chick-
ens are in somewhat light supply. Quo-
tations are: Fowis 43@44c; chickens
36@40c; old .roosters 260; turkeys at
50@55c; ducks 42@45c; geese 20@220.

 

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

 

(Contin “ from page 532).

*Berlin if possi ‘e.—-Seamen on lake

carriers will receive a $5 bonus month- -
ly in addition to their rggular wage
during the coming season.———The Jap-
anese press is somewhat excited over
the announcement by Secretary Dan-
iels that America proposes having the
largest navy in the world in'a few
years—Railway engineers are asking
for the sameadvance that the other
Brotherhoods are to receive in the new
adjustment of wages.
, Monday, March 29."
ONE hundred‘and eighteen persons
are known to have been killed in
six stateswhich weresWep‘t by tor-
nadoes Sunday night. Nine of these
victims were in Michigan. The death -
list will undoubtedly be increased.
Thousands are rendered homeless, and
millions of dollars Worth of property
is'destroyed. The states suflerlng the
worst are Georgia,‘0hio, Indiana, Il-li-.
.nols. Wise sin and Illichigan..~.'rhe 7.
communist , cross of: Germany operatv
shear-Were m ~
, ,_ .. rose-governmen _restore ,
order or, tastier: punishment. will .rol- , ,
,_ _, meremperor William T
._'has,bes1m~mov ' fro‘
castle to :Door -

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Biennium; iésan and van Bur-en

‘COhItifiEhi‘m Bureaus have teatned .

together» a: employing J. w. Simonton.
the entomologist who, for several
years has been in charge of the gov-
ernment station at Benton Harbor.
This action was taken in an attempt
to improve culture in that district. Mr.
Simonton is an expert in his line and
his activities are expected to do much
in mitigating the insect and fungus
trbubles of the fruit growers in that
part of the state. For several months
he has been in "Illinois in charge of a
government station there.

The membership campaign was com-
pleted in Berrien county in the last»
week. 2,007 members obtained out of
2,305 farmers solicited. Scattered re-
turns from Clinton county shows that
the membership campaign standard
was maintained there in the last week.
About 1,000 was the tally. In the final
days of the drive the total is expected
to be boosted to 1,800. The drive be-
gan this week in Calhoun county and
on April 1, it will start in Cass county.

ST. JOSEPH LIVE STOCK MEN,
MEET.

The St. Joseph County Live Stock
Improvement Association held an in-
teresting meeting at the Court House
in St. Joseph, Saturday, March 20. The
general breed associations held their
meetings in the morning and the gen-
eral meeting in the afternoon was ad-
dressed by Mr. W. T. Langley and Mr.
Donald Williams. Mr. Huchings, the
new county agent, discussed the Mich-
igan Farm Bureau and its work. Short
talks were given by Dr. Haines, O. B.
Graham, L. R. Slote, Charles Born and
others. All persons who use purebred
sires on one line of females, whether
purebreds or grades, are eligible to
membership. A‘stock census of the
county is to be taken. Plans have been
made to encourage a fine display of
stock at the county fair this fall.

CREAMERY TO CLOSE DOWN.

IIE Rosemary Creamery Company
of New York has served notice on
the pairymen’s League that its plant
at I’ennellville, New York, will close
for an indefinite period. In explana-
tion the creamery company says:
“The conditions due to the war,
which now‘ face practically all manu—
facturers‘of milk products in this
country, have created a situation
which makes it impossible to dispose
of the output of either cheese or dry
milk without increasing the heavy
loss which the past several months'
operation has entailed. We believe
the Pennellville factory to be one of
the best equipped and most modern
cheese factories in the country, where
cheese can be made as cheaply as else
where. and if our patrons can agree
on a plan whereby the factory can be
operated for their benefit and will

confer with this office we shall co--

operate to the best of our ability to
give the patrons the highest possible
return after deducting the reasonable
operating expenses of the factory.”

COMING SALES.

Holsteins, April 3, Dudley & Roice,
Oberlin, Ohio.

Holsteins, April 7, Vernon E. Clough,
I’arma, Mich.

Holsteins, April 8, Mortimer Carter &
Sons. Flint, Mich.

Holsteins, April 9, Tom McCafiery, Mt.
Clemens, Mich. . ,

Holstqins, April 12, John P. Olcott,
Perry, Mich.

Shorthorns, April 10, Elmer Westfall,
Edwardsburg, Mich.

W'hile demand for condensed milk'

has been low, which has resulted in a
comparatively small trade in" that com-
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HE chimney piece pictured

above will be beautiful in some
home this year, and fifty years hence
it will still be as charming. Visitors
will chat before it; a thousand.
friends will enjoy it; children and
grandchildren will love it; and to
all it will teach unspoken lessons of
taste and refinement.

And it is only one ofa hundred
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Those little gray streaks that you see on the asphalt behind a car
that has stopped too suddenly are rubber—particles of some-
hody’s tires. You would be surprised how many more milesyou‘
would get out ofyour tires :7 you always mahe it a point to get
away to an easy start and to slow down gradually when stopping.

NE out of every ten
men you see on the
street is a motor car

owner.

There is not a man or
woman in the country whose
daily life is not affected in
some way by motor trans-
portation.

Anything that tends to-
wardswaste and extravagance
is a tax on everybody.

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Because of casual buying
the average motorist is being
compelled to pay out more
and more every year for tires.

Once let Americans realize
that a thing is coSting them

Ul'll‘l'Ed States

Fifty-three
» Factories

too much and they soon find
a way to correct it.

They are beginning to un-
derstand the high cost of poor
tires and to stop accidental
buying.

Going 'to the dealer who ‘

not only displays the sign of
good tires in his window, but
who recommends» and sells
good tires because he believes
in their economy.

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The United States Rubber
Company is bending every
effort to keep pace with the
growing demand for tires,
but placing responsibility for

"quality ahead of every other

consideration.

       

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rubber manufacturer 1n the
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It introduced the first
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It produCed the first pneu-
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Two of the greatest. contri-
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The idea of quality in, tires

- is just beginning to take firm

hold on this country.
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