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The Only Weekly Aigrictiltural, Horticultural and Live Stock Journal in the State.

 
VOL. CXXXIV. No. [7.
Whole Number 3500.

ARBOR DAY.

 
By proclamation of the governor, fol-
lowing a. time honored custom, Friday,
April 29, has been designated as Arbor
Day and will in many places and many
ways be celebrated by the planting of
trees, with appropriate exercises in the
schools, etc. If this day could be gen-
erally and appropriately observed in the
judicious planting of trees, especially
about the farm homes, the outcome could
not help but be a general improvement
in the beauty of the country and the ap-
pearance of the farm homes. That this
fact is appreciated by organized, as well
as individual, farmers in some sections
of our fair state is proven by the ﬁrst of
the two accompanying illustrations, which
shows a new Grange'hall in one of the

northern counties of the. state, about.

which the members planted about 200
trees and shrubs last year. They will
have a similar meeting on Arbor Day of
the present year to further beautify the

environment of their Grange home. Their.

example might well be followed by other
organizations.

The second out 'has an Arbor Day in-
terest, as it shows the method of propa-
gating forest trees in a nursery main-
tained for that purpose. The interest in
practical forestry has increased to such

_an extent in recent years that millions
of these forest tree seedlings are now
produced annually for. commercial plant-
ing. Surely if. the growing of trees in a

DETROIT MICH., SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1910.

As the mature beetles ﬂy only at night,
they are not so familiar to the average
observer as are the larvae, yet they help
to make up the swarm of winged insects
that buzz about trees and shrubs of an
early summer night in such numbers as
to cause the loud humming familiar to
Occasionally one will stray
into a room, attracted by the light, and

although no one
access to the

ﬁelds of these pests,
would want to allow them
lawn for the purpose of eradicating these
troublesome grubs.
thick as described by this inquirer it may
be necessary to remove the sod to eradi-
cate them thoroughly and then renew the,
Although this ’should not be re—

 
75 CENTS A YEAR
Sl.50 THREE YEARS

safer, especially at this season of the
year to use air slakcd lime, applying it
to the surface of the lawn quite liberally.
Another remedy which has been found
effective against some species is kerosene
emulsion. diluted about ten times and
poured on the ground, preferably just be-
i'mc a rain. but this would hardly ho
practicable where 11 large lawn is to be
treated. Probably about the best that
can be done at this season is to apply
lime as suggtsicd. making a liberal appli—
cation on and around the spots where the.
grubs appcar to be working most, remov-
ing the so‘d and l'csodding those places
if desired after working the lime into the,
soil, then making a heavier application in
the fall.

The fact that little trouble will be had
from these and similar insects in the cul-
tivated ilcids where a short rotation of
crops is usu-il, is a strong argument for
the use of a short rotation of crops in
the farm practice. This fact, together
with the fact that the fertility of the soil
may be best mainained 'hrough the use of
a short. rotation is having a beneﬁcial
effect in bringing about a gradual change
in the, average length of the crop rota-
tion on the average farm in favor of the
short rotation. The clovers are not gen-
erally infested with these or other [sim-
ilar grubs, and the oftener clover is made
a factor in the rotation of crops the bet-
ter for the farm and its owner.

Be Sure cf the Quality of Your Seed.

Reports of the poor gciminating quality

   
0f Reed 0111 a . cr ,
commercial way is proving proﬁtable, as Home of Valentine Grange, of Kalkaska Co. FrOm a Photo Taken in the Spring the (0m (1);” Suiting? :}fmm sexeral 0f
it is proving to be in many instances, it of 1909, when the Members Assembled for the Planting of Trees and Shrubs. ‘ ‘ 1e central WQSt'

  
a

 
will pay doubly well to plant trees for
the adornment of the home, the value
as well as the comfort of which will be
greatly enhanced thereby.

 
FARM NOTES.
White Grubs in Lawn and Field.

I would like to know how to get rid of
the large white grubs which are killing
all the grass in the lawn Patches of
grass foul or ﬁve yards square are killed
out, not a bit being left. They started
to work last year ,

Vi’ashtcnaw Co. M. HAMMOND.

These white grnbs, in common with the
larvae of similar insects,
are difﬁcult to eradicate,
dwing to the fact that
they remain in the soil in
the larval stage for two
to" three years. These
grubs are the larvae of
the May beetle, as it '15
termed in the south, or
the June beetle or bug,‘
as it is designated in the
north. These beetles ap-
pear during the month
by which they are desig-
nated, and the female
soon deposits her eggs in
the ground. These hatch
in about two weeks, and
the grubs live in the
ground for from two to
three years in their var-
ious stages before the
mature insects into which
they develop come forth.
There are many different
species“ of these pests, but
practically all of them are
more destructive during
one or two years than
during the intervening
period of their life cycle,
on account of the length
of time required for their
development to maturity
and as they are closely
related in appearance and
habits the same facts and
methods of extermination

 
will apply to all of them. ~ Growing Trees from Seed in a Forest Tree Nursery.

 
fly about, bumping against the ceiling in
an equally familiar manner.
are deposited largely in old sod or weed
they are as likely to be
found in the lawn as anywnere and,
this is one of the most diﬁl-
cult places to eradicate them.
ﬁelds fall plowing is the most effective
remedy, as with other similar pests.
are very fond of these grubs, and it is
generally in pursuit of them that they
root up the sod in an orchard, or make
unsightly 'holes in the lawn when they
can gain access to it.

sorted to until other remedies have been

Lime has been found an efﬁcient remedy
infested places,

used for purifying gas manufactured for

thong ht Into be male efﬁcient than pure
to the Ciude
It is claimed that gas
in September

absorbs and holds.
applied liberally
eradicated the white grubs from
gas lime is poisonous
it would doubtless be

Thus they may be to plant life and

 
So serious has this trouble become that
in one of these states it is reported that
the ministers have been asked to preach
sermons bearing on the subject, to the
end that the importance of procuring
goml sccd may be brought to the atten-
tion of as many farmers as possible.
Similar reports from the states further
north seem to indicate that this trouble
is more or less general. \Vhile the corn
crop in our own state was planted late
last yea1nthe \e1_\ late and dry fall was
{inﬂiabit' for bringing it to mr‘itniitv and
lining it out “hole the sud 1on1 was
properly handled after it was selected.
there is probably no gravo
danger regarding its
vitality, but when the
crib is to be depended
upon for the seed this is
not likely to be the case.
The Wl‘iUI' has observed
a large numbi‘r of moldy
ears in a crib of corn
carried O\‘(‘l‘ winter, that
was well \‘lll't'd in the
shock ht fore husking.
This indicates that the:\
Vitality of many ears
which are apparently all
right will be low and
that many will not grow
at all. if‘criainly under
these conditions it will
not hes safe to dt‘pend lip—
on (1i?) corn for semi, and
even the seed that was
piopeilx saved and cared
for should be carefully
tested to demonstrate its
vitality. The ear test,
many times described in
these columns, by which
several kernels from each
ear are planted in num-
bered squares in a test-
ing box is the only_ satis-
factory one, but even an
old fashioned test of ker-
nels selected at random
is far better than none.
. ‘If this work has not al-
ready been done it shOuld

Millions of these Seedlings Are Produced Annually. not be longer neglected

 
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450 I (2)

on any Michigan farm; From other pares very "favorably in feeding Ivalue
states, notably Ohio, considerable trouble with alfalfa hay, and it". is eagerly eaten.
frOm dry rot of potatoes is reported.“ by stock. Even if the leaves are allowed
This disease is indicated lay-dark streaks to fall before the plants are cut,_ stock
in the tubers. It is caused ‘byva blight. will eat the straw.. ' Soy. beans mixed
The Ohio Experiment Station authorities with corn make excellent ensiiage. These
report that they have found little evi- beans would be very useful to every

dence of this disease in samples secured farmer who is using wheat bran, cotton-‘

from some parts of Michigan, but it will seed meal or oil meal, and would be
be a wise precaution to be on the watch much more proﬁtable than any of these
for it when the seed potatoes are being feeds.
selected and prepared for planting. There are at present seven or eight
Potatoes are too plentiful and cheap varieties offered by, seedsmen. During
this year to take any chances on poor the past few years several hundred new
seed, but the Ohio station has issued a varieties 'have been brought from Asia
bulletin giving instructions how to handle and tested by the government. Many of
slightly diseased seed, by rejecting the these new varieties are so vastly superior
half of potatoes from which the disease to the old ones that we predict when they
has penetrated, the disinfection of knives are grown in sufficient quantities to be
used to cut them before cutting healthy offered for sale, the growing of this
seed, and the treatment of potatoes for plant will be greatly increased, and will
scab after rather than before cutting be much more proﬁtable than it is at
Where this disease is present. But the present.
main point emphasized is the warning About ten years ago the writer became
to farmers to examine their feed to as~ interested in 30y beans and began experi-
Certain if it is safe to plant. This is a menting with them. For many years we
timely warning which should be also grew the Ito San, with satisfaction to
heeded by Michigan farmers. ourselves, and we still think that it is
the best kind for extreme northern con-
ditions. A few years ago we began trying
some of the government’s new varieties,
The soja or soy 'bean is a plant that is and we have been both surprised and
assuming a position of much importance. pleased with results. With the old vari-
Originally a native of Asia, where it has eties we ordinarily secured twenty bush-
been cultivated for centuries in China, els of grain per acre: with some of the
Japan and India, it was introduced into new varieties we think it will soon be
the United States in 1854. I'ntil quite possible to secure about thirty bushels
recently the plant has attracted very lit- per acre.
tle atenion. The various kinds differ so As a hay crop we do not think the soy
greatly in their climatic requirements, in bean will over supplant alfalfa or take
the length of time necessary to mature, the place of red clover, but we do think
in the yiclds of grain and forage, that that it will rank close after these plants.
growers obtaining a variety unsuitable The soy bean is not hard to grow, but
to their conditions have been disappoint- as with all new and unfamiliar crops we
ed with results, consequently the plant would advise farmers to begin in a small
has been looked upon with small favor way until they become somewhat famil-
until quite a late datc. iar with the peculiarities of the plant.
The increased interest in the soy bean The Spy bean will grow in practically
has grown out of the work done by the every state in the United States, with
United States Department of Agriculture, the possible exception Of Maine. a part
which has been experimenting with this of Montana. and high altitudes in tile
plant. The work of the Department has Rocky Mountains. They will grow on
brought to light some surprising facts in any kind of soil. rich or poor, black, clay,
regard to the soy bean. In Farmers’ or sand, limestone or freestone. They
Bulletin 372, issued by the Department of will grow on soils that are not perfectly
Agriculture at Washington, D. C., we drained. They will not do their best on
ﬁnd it stated that 50y bean hay is prac- soils where water stands for any length
tically identical in feeding value with of time, but they will stand wetter soils
alfalfa hay; that soy bean meal is more than many of our crops. On fertile soils
valuable than cottonseed meal; that a they tend to produce luxuriant plant
bushel of soy beans is at least twice as growth and small yield of grain: on poor
valuable as a bushel of corn. In this soils they tend to produce a large grain
bulletin we ﬁnd the average analysis of crop and a small growth of forage. For
seven varieties as follows: Protein 35.40; Michigan conditions we would recom-
i‘at 29.35; nitrogen free extract 26.15. mend our old favorite, the Ito San. We
We also ﬁnd in this bulletin the results hope that the readers of this paper will
of a number of interesting experiments become sufﬁciently interested in this
conducted by the various experiment. plant to try it in a small way this sea-
stations. In one experiment at the Ten— son, and think they will be well pleased
nessee Experiment Station, dairy cows if they do so. To us it is a most fasci-
gave more milk and butter-fat when fed noting study to watch the development
soy bean hay than when fed alfalfa hay. of this plant, and it has the additional
In a test made by the Kansas Experi- advantage of being a most proﬁtable one
ment Station feeding hogs it was found as well.
that with corn meal 100 lbs. gain cost Ohio. CHAS. B. WING-
$3.92; with corn meal and soy bean meal, ————-————-—-
$3.73; with Kaﬁir corn meal and soy bean 'PLOVVING JUST PREVlOUS TO
meal, $3.57. For these computations the PLANTING.
value of corn meal was ﬁxed at $14.00
per ton, Kaflir corn meal at $1300 per Why is it the custom in southwestern
ton, soy bean meal at $25.00 per ton, or Michigun to plow land immediately be—
75 cents per bushel. tore planting. Would not Michigan soil

.1 g , . . brine just as good crops if plowed at any
The Indiana Experiment Station con- time” during the spring, provided ground

ducted an experiment with pork. Upon is put in good condition at planting time?
comparing a ration composed Of two Is [it not best_t0 turn under stable ma-
parts corn meal and one part soy bean marglftsﬁeﬁgly 1CnO-sprmg as pOSv‘VglPlg? M.
meal, With one composed 0f corn meal There are a number of questions to con-
and Wheat middlings in equal propor— sider beforc adopting this system. If the
Home, and with one composed~ of ﬁve season is just right, then this system
parts corn meal and one part tankage, works out all right; but if the season is
the soy bean ration produccd the largest not right. it is a failure. On the whole,
daily gains, and this with the smallest I do not believc in it and would prefer to
quantity 0f ft’ed consumed for 951011 plow as early in the spring as possible
pound 0f gain. and work the ground as thoroughly as
There is no plant whose varieties differ possible, and from time to time before
so widely as the soy bean, and in this planting. For instance_ if one is to plow
fact lies the peculiar value of the plant. down a clover sod for corn. If he 13913“
It may be used as a grain crop, as a the plowing until just before planting
‘hay crop, for silage, soiling or forage. It time, gets quite a growth of clover to turn
would be hard to tell in which capacity under, which is a good thing because he
it is most useful. But it is absolutely adds vegetable matter 101th soil. This
necessary to plant a variety especially works well if there is plenty of moisture.
adapted to the purpose to WhiCh it is But, on the other hand, if the season is
proposed to devote the crop, or dire fail- dry this clover is taking a vast amount
urc and sore disappointment will result. of moisture from the soil, then when
It can probably be used over the widest plowed down if the weather is dry and
area as 3- grain amp The earliest varie- continues dry there is apt to be a lack of
ties will mature in Minnesota and moisture to insure good germination and
Onlal‘itl growth. I have seen this practice cause
All kinds of stock relish ‘both grain and the absolute failure of a crop of corn,
forage and thrive on it. On our own while on the other hand, had the clever
farm all our stock love the grain as well 80d been plowed ,ean-ly, may .in .Apnil. and
as they do corn. We have but little worked down from name 'to time, the dust
trouble from indigestion among out ani- mulch would have prevented the evapora-
mals. The beans are tonic and laxative stion ,af .ghe moisture :frm the subsoil and
in .theiraction. when planting. time came there would
As stated before, say bean hay com- have been sufﬁcient moisture to in-

 
SOY BEANS.

 
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"sure germination and rapid growth, .and
’a' good own would have been‘thexresult:

,Since the farmer has no control;over “the.“
supply of moisture, it seems-to me «that-1m

:(green) 78 cents per ton; ‘cowpeas, 4 tons:

field peas were regarded as the most suc-

THE 7 MICHIGAN amines:

it is geod judgment to take the safest
farm practice under all circumstances.
This principle would-apply to any other
crap like beans, potatoes, or even earlier
to cats, although there is not as much
risk'wit-h the cat crop as there would be
with the corn and potato crop plantefI
later in the season.

As to the idea, if it is not better to
plow the manure down early in the
spring, I. am not so sure. My experience
leads me to believe that we get good re-
sults from leaving manure on top as long
as possible. In fact, some of our best
farmers claim that top dressing is the
only correct way to use manure. I no-
tice where we spread manure on in the
fall and winter and it .lays on the top of
the ground for a long time, that we in-
variably got better results from this ma-
nure than when it is spread on late in
the spring and plowed down as soon as
possible. The manure itself furnishes a
mulch and helps conserve the moisture.
Then again, the spring rains leach the
soluble fertilizing parts of the manurc‘
into the soil and you get the beneﬁt of
them, while where the manure is put on
late in the spring and plowed down im-
mediately, there may not be moisture
enough so that the fertility of the manure
or the plant food in the manure, the
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, is
dissolved and held in solution by the soil
moisture so that the plants can get it.
My practice is to cover a clover sod with
manure during the fall and winter and
spring and plow it down for corn and
potatoes and I think, all things consid-
ered, this is :the best way because it does
not seem practical in my system of farm-
ing to always put the manure on top as
a top dressing. I have no old meadows
and it is not always practical on my kind
of soil to get onto the new seeding very
early, or to top dress the wheat, because
the ground would not be in condition to
run a. manure spreader over it, while you
can practically always get onto the clover
sod and spread the manure. Then, too,
I believe that nothing is lost by plowing
the manure down. “While you do not get
as quick results. you get the results next
year because nothing would be lost: by
.plowing it down. You simply have to
wait a little longer to get your returns.

COLON C. LILLIE.

COTTONSEED MEAL AS A FER-
TILIZER_

 
I have been told that cottonseed meal
is a good substitute for commercial fer-
tilizer. Kindly advise me through the
columns of your paper as to its fertilizing
value for spring crops.

Washtenaw Co. L. S.

Cottonseed meal as a fertilizer is never
used alone, but always mixed with other
substances. It is rich in nitrogen but
contains less than three per cent phos-
phoric acid and less than one per cent
of potash, consequently would not be a
balanced fertilizer used alone. Cotton-
seed meal is really a fertilizer ingredient.
Fertilizer manufacturers sometimes use
cottonseed meal as a source of nitrogen
just the same as they use tankage as a
source of nitrogen, or nitrate of soda,
or sulphate of ammonia as a source of
nitrogen. Then they mix acidulatcd rock
and potash salts with it to get the de-
sired formula. I do not think it would
be a suitable fertilizer at all to use on
spring crops because we need more phos-
phoric acid than we do nitrogen, as a
rule, and this cottonseed meal would con—
tain a very small amount of phosphoric
acid.

COLON C. LILLIE.

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where the farmer “gets off.” by produc-

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GRAINNDRILL FOR SOWING Beers.

 
We are going to grow some sugar beets
up 'here this summer and I~~should like to
know how ydu sow your seed. 1 have a
garden drill, but it would seem a pretty
slow way to drill in three, four or five
acres with that. Can we use a disc grain
drill or is there any danger of getting
the seed too deep in the ground with
that, also when do you consider the best
time to drill in the seed? Any informa-
tion will be thankfully received.

Muskegon Co. ~ A. N. D.

When I first began raising sugar beets,
I used a grain drill to sow the beets, and
it worked very nicely. I presume prob-
ably there are more beets sown with
grain drills than in. any other way in the
state of Michigan. A little later on I
purchased a regular beet drill and it
works a little nicer because you can
govern the depth better; but I should
certainly use a disc drill,_ or even a hoe
grain drill for sowing the beets if I had
an acre of beets to sow, rather than sow
it with a garden drill. As you say, it
represents considerable time and labor
to sow any amount of beets with a garden
drill. It is not the American way of do-
ing things. There is some trouble in gov-
erning the depth in sowing beets with a
regular grain drill. You are not as apt
to get them too deep with a disc drill as
you are with a hoe drill, but with either
drill if the ground is properly prepared,
there is not so much danger. Beet
ground ought to be thoroughly rolled and
packed with just an inch or two on top
of ﬁne mellow dirt. No deep tillage tools
ought to be used in preparing land for
beets, except in plowing. The plowing
ought to be a good depth, but after that
work the surface and thoroughly pack
the subsoil. One man skilled in raising
sugar beets says that the ground ought
to be so thoroughly packed and prepared
that when the horses walk over it in
drilling, their feet ought not to sink into
the ground. Now this means a lot. Just
notice the next time you drill oats or
wheat, or plant corn, and see on much of
the mellow land how deep the horses’
feet sink into the ground, and yet this
ought not to be on the beet ground. It
will do very well for corn, not so well
for oats, or wheat. But for beets the
ground is not in good condition when this
happens. If you will work on the beet
ground enough so that it is thoroughly
packed, there will be very little trouble
about getting the beet seed sowed too
deeply. Every time you harrow over
with a smoothing 'harrow, every time you
roll, every time you go over the ﬁeld it
will help to ﬁrm and pack the subsoil
and get it in this condition. In all of the
later tillage of the soil I would not use
a disc harrow or pulverizer, or a broad
shoveled cultivator, nothing but the
smoothing harrow and the roller. They
both help to pack and ﬁrm the soil and
keep the surface ﬁne. That is just the
condition you want.

There are followers made to put on the
hoe or tooth of the drill to govern the
depth. These are excellent and you can
get them of almost any manufacturer.
Have your dealer send to the manufac-
turer of your drill and get these follower
wheels to govern the depth_ and with
these you can govern the depth as well
as with a regular bet drill. A shoe grain
drill is an excellent thing to sow sugar
beet seed with. COLON C. LILLIE.

 
LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

 
Extra Work.

For the last ﬁve or six years we have
had an unusual amount of extra work on
the farm, work that hindered us very
much with our regular farming. First
it was building over the barns and build-
ing a new one. Then it was an unusually
large amount of tile draining, and so it
has been every year. Last year I bought
two small farms as additions to my reg-
ular farm. On each one was a barn. The
barn is no particular good to me where
it stands, and I have concluded to move
these barns over near the main barn and
make a heifer and young stock barn out
of them. This is under way at the pres-
ent time. I will connect the two together
and put a basement stable under the
whole. But this interferes considerably
with our regular farming, although I
have extra men to do the work. It can—
not be done, however, without taking the
teams from their regular work to get
material and to assist in the moving, and
everything of that sort. I am very fortu-
nate in getting sufﬁcient labor. to handle
theSe buildings without taking very much
of the regular farm labor from their reg-
ular duties. On one of the farms pur-
chased was also a very gmd house and
Lam moving that and‘placing it for an-

 
other tenant house. and ‘ then -we ‘have'

concluded to, rearrange the three other
tenant houses and put them all ma line
on one of the private roads. This will
make quite an extensive job and 'while
we are moving I shall put them all on
good cement block walls, give each man
a cellar of his own and a cistern, and
also a kitchen garden in connection with
the house. While this necessitates a
larger expenditure of money than I like,
yet it ought to be done and might as well
be done this summer as any other. If
we can aceomplish our regular farm work
and do this work, we will be extremely
fortunate. I anticipate that some of the
farming will have to be sorely neglected.
but perhaps I can get help enough and
can manage them well enough so that all
things will progress with-out very much
detriment to 'them.

We are also at the present time ﬁnish-
ing up the tile draining that we started
last spring. We worked up until about
the 7th or 8th of December at this work
but then winter and snow came on and
it had to stop and there is two or three
hundred rods of tiling yet to be done
this spring. This is well under way,
however, at the present time, and a few
more days will ﬁnish it. This practically
completes the tiling of the entire farm.
There is one or two ﬁelds that I would
like to have a few short ditches put in
and will when the proper crop comes in
the rotation so that the tiling will not
interfere too much with the crop. I am
getting tired of this extra work and
would like to see it completed and would
like to have a year or two with just reg-
ular farming. One can do so much better
work. It makes so much better work
all around. It demands too much of my
attention to oversee the whole thing.
There is enough to do with the regular
farming but this work has to be done
and I am rushing it along so as to com-
plete it and get it out of the way.

COLON C. LILLIE.

THE GUN ON THE FARM.

 
No farm can be considered well equip-
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available for use when the same may be
needed. There are numerous posts and
crop thieves that you can eradicate bet-
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these are especially prevalent during the
spring season when wild life is not sufﬁ-
ciently plentiful to become an easy prey
for the maurauders. Chicken hawks,
weasels, rats and other marauders often
prey upon the small chickens and all ef-
forts to capture them in traps prove un-
availing, where a good gun will often be
of more assistance in ridding the farm
of their depredations. Gophers, wood-
chucks, and even the smaller squirrels
and rabbits sometimes become so plentiful
as to be a nuisance and cause consider~
able damage to crops and small trees
growing on the farm. Here, again, the
gun may'be brought into play with proﬁt
and satisfaction to the farmer. The cun-
ning crows, which will soon infest the
corn ﬁeld, and even the sparrows, which
are troublesome about the buildings and
detrimental to other and more valuable
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would prove much more valuable and sat-
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I am ﬁguring on building a. hog house
which will ‘mean ‘quite an outlay of'cash
and material, and as mistakes are dan—
gerous I would like to hear through The
Farmer any comments or suggestions
which'will no doubt prove valuable read-
ing‘for others. The south end will be 32
ft., making a cook and killing room 10x32,
with 8-ft. doors ‘at north and south-ends
and with 8-ft. driveway between pens 'to
haul in bedding and manure out. Pens
to be .10x12 ft., walls 3 feet of concrete

‘ above foundation ‘Wall and 3 feet of double

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walls to driveway, then a 3-ft. raise the
full length in shape of a long cupola with
windows on east and west side for light
and ventilators. Cement floors and trough
and for winter sleeping quarters for
young stock, an elevated platform to rest
on top of cement wall so pigs need not
come in contact with stone wall only
when feeding. 'There will be a stairway
to each nest, also a railing around it. I
havensed these elevated nests before and
like them 'much better than a nest on the
ﬂoor level. This upper ﬂoor will be re-
movable, as I think the cement would
be cooler for hogs to lie on in summer.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Bay C0. F. C. H.

The plan outlined above for building .1
hoghouse would seem to be a very sat-is-
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building would not "haVe quite as good
an appearance, the cost would probably
be less, including the cost of installing,
the ventilating system, while the results
would be more satisfactory.

The writer hasnever used the elevated
nests but has heard a number of readers-
express preference for them. The plan
of having them removable so ‘that they
can be used or not as desired, would
seem to be a good one. The "small doors
tothe outside yards should, of'eourse, be
equipped by some means by which they
can be opened or closed from the feeding
alley in ‘the center of‘the building. This
can be better done. if sliding doors are
used or, better still, doors that are hung
on hinges at the top and provided with
a latch to hold them securely closed at
the bottom, which would interfere less
with the light in case the windows were
located above the doors in the sides of
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central elevation or cupola would improve
the appearance of the'hog house to a
considerable degree, yet, in the writer’s
opinion, it would not be as satisfactory
a way of ventilating as would 'the King
system which we believe should be in-
stalled in any new hog house of this size.

 
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the sides of building instead of cupola
as suggested, they could be placed above
the small doors into the yards, so as to
not interfere with the wall of the ele-
vated nests, .and the proposed plan of
pens would admit of windows of sufﬁ-
cient size without such interference.
Partitions between the pens and the al-
ley should, of course, be of the swinging
type, 'which permit the shutting of the
hogs away from the feed trough while
the feed is being put in,'and also admits
of swinging up to a height which will

 
-much

 
The essential principles of the King sys-

'tem- were deseribed in, our issue of April

2. This system of ventilation will insure
better air in the hog house at a
less expense of temperature than can be
secured by any method of ventilating
it by opening and closing windows. As
stated in the article referred to, if an
outtake or ventilating ﬂue 15 feet in

height is used it should have a ventilating

area of .26 square inches for each hog to
be kept “in the house. If the ventilating
ﬁne is ‘20 rfeet high, then a ventilating

“area of .22 .rsquare.;inches :for each 'hog

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ARBIL.23. 1910.1,
BREEDING PURE'BRED swms.

Management of the Slow and Pigs.

The sow that carries a. reasonable
amount of ﬂesh evenly laid on is uSually
the one that does the best with her litter.
She will be quiet longer than the lean
sow that is prompted by hunger to be
up and looking for something to eat.
Much of the danger that comes to the
pigs at birth will be eliminated if the
sows are kind and tractable, allowing all
necessary help at farrowing time.

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amount of ﬂesh that‘lt'he sow may safely
carry. The sow that has been fed a ra-
tion of forage and small amounts of grain
foods may carry a large amount of ﬂesh
and still be safe to use for breeding.
Many fail to appreciate the value of bulk
and succulence in feeding brood sows
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increasing drain upon her system. Feed-
ing' during this critical period should be
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formed into masses of fat at the first
sign of an appearance of fat upon her
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ferent character—such as growth, exer-
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Exercise and fresh air exert a confer—
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Sows that are fed liberally must have ex-
ercise. The best feeders lay special em-
phasis on the condition of the bowels
during pregnancy, particularly at far-
rowing time. A small amount of linseed
oil meal fed with her slop has a laxative
effect upon the bowels. All concentrated
fat-producing foods, such as corn, Should
be fed very sparingly to brood sows dur—
ing pregnancy. The Winter time is the
most critical period in handling sows and
special attention will be needed to main-
tain her in a thrifty and vigorous condi-
tion, because of the scarcity of bulky and
succulent foods and lack of exercise.
Root crops are an excellent substitute for
forage, care, however, must be exercised
in feeding them, to avoid causing a pro-
fuse action of the bowels. Clover and
alfalfa. cut or ground and mixed with tho
slop affords both bulk and succulence and
has a very stimulating effect upon the
bowels and whole digestive system.

By keeping the sows separated in lots
of frOm ten to twenty, it is safe to allow

 
THE .;MICHIGAN {FARM-ER.)

to look about ’for supplementary foods by
going to the trough with their dam and
nipping bits of forage‘and grass. At this
period it is desirable that we ﬁx a creep
so that they can come into the alleyway
and feed them a. little sweet skim-milk
and wheat middlings three or four times
a day. In this way they will gradually
wean themselves and by the time they
are removed from the sow they will not
miss her and the loss of condition will
be reduced to a minimum at weaning
time. When weaning a litter it is an
excellent practice to leave two or three
of the smaller pigs with the sow for a
few days after the others are taken away
and given them a chance to catch up
with- the other members of the litter.
This is alike beneﬁcial to both the sow
and the pigs for she gradually becomes
dry without danger of leaving her with
a caked udder.

One of the hardest problems confront--
ing the herdsman is to keep the young
pigs free from indigestion and scours.
A litter of pigs that are affected with
this derangement will seldom recover and
make as good development as those that
are kept gaining rapidly. This complaint
comes largely from unsanitary conditions
and for that reason it is judicious to dis-
infect the nest and pens at least once
a week and oftcncr when the pigs are
very small and kept in the pen all of the
time. All sour swill should be kept away
from the brood sow while she is nourish-
ing young. Sour swill is bad enough for
the other hogs, to say nothing of feeding
it to the brood sows while they are suck-
ling a litter. After providing the sows
and their pigs with sanitary surroundings
and abundant room for exorcise the ques-
tion of feed is of importancc.

“'heat middlings are an excellent grain
food for brood sows and young pigs, al-
though a little bran may be used to
lighten them up a little during the ﬁrst
few days and a little digestcr tankage to
add to their nutritive value during the
period when the pigs are pulling down all
the milk the sow is capable of giving.
The feeder must use his own judgment
as to the condition of the sow and her
pigs and plan his feeding accordingly.

No man can tell just how much care
and food a sow and her pigs will require.
Constant attention alone will decide the
question. Good care and rational feeding
during this period has a marked inﬂuence
upon the growth and dcvolopment of the
pigs that can be noticed until they are
full grown and I am thoroughly convinced
that the greatest mistake in growing
breeding swine is made in caring for the
sow and pigs in an indifferent manner.
Start the pigs right, kecplthem growing
every day from birth to maturity on a
well balanced ration and they will make
a uniform and rapid growth. Uniformity
of size is an important factor in a lot of
pigs.

The man who gives proper care and
attention to his brood sows and pigs and
gets them well started has solved about
three-fourths of the problem of growing
good breeding stock. It is by devoting
close attention to every detail and feed—

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or remodeling your barns?

Bureau of Animal Industry.

Write for prices and full particulars
regarding “JAMES" New improved
Aligning Stanchions and Sanitary Cow
Stalls. Also latest catalog and. prices
on “James" Feed and Litter Carriers. A .\
post card will do. Write today. ,.
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They are the standard among dairymen and stock raisers. Approved
by experts, and representatives of the United States

 
cow proﬁts, and tl

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LOUDEII MACHINERY

  
.ng Heap of Good

Cow comfort and cow sanitation result in more

farmer or dairyman to seek these conditions.
Loudcn Sanitary Steel Stalls and Stanch- !
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perfect ventilation, perfect sanitation—a result
impossible with any Wooden equipment.

LOUDEN STALLS AND STANGHIUNSL

are actually cheaper.

Loudcn stanchions give cows more comfort
than other makes, yet. keep them perfectly lined

down when milking.
Latch easily opened or closed with gloved hand.
but can’t be opened by animal.
for free catalogue of sanitary. money-saving

Does the Cows

 
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London stalls of heavy

malleable fittings. have no
t to accumulate—easy to keep
destructible,

     
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Simple and very durable.

  
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1n the springwhen yourhorses are
soft and you put them at the hard
spring work they sweat a great
deal. Theirheavywintercoat holds
this sweat and it dries out slowly.
If left to stand they take cold easily
and at nightthey chill and are liable
to. all kinds of complaints. If you
clip them they dry off fast and there
is no question but they stand much
less chance of takingcold when dry
than if wet. You would not like to

stand 0

suit on.
It pays

better,r

chilly spring night with a heavy wet

necessary on cold nights.
horses dry ofEmuch faster,theyfeel

of their food and do better work.
They are better all around. Is it the
humane and proﬁtable thing to do.
The quickest, least expensive and .
most satisfactory wayto Clip is with

The Great Stewart Ball Bearing Clipping Machine

  
n a raw spring day or on a

Neither do your horses.
to clip them and blanket, if
Your

est better. get m ore good out

   
plow. . ready lot _ guaranteeit for 25 years because the gears are all cutirom the
work is only ..... "— solid stcclbar. They are made ﬁle hard. They are CHLlOSBd

. and protected sale lroin (lust and d in and they run in an oilhnth.
Friction and wear are practically done away with. It is the only bullbcaring clipping machine.
It has 6 hotel high grade ﬂexible shaft and the famous Stewart one nut tension clipping knife.
This is the noted kniie that will stay shurplongcr and clip more horses than any other clip-
ping knile everinade. Price ollhe complete machine all really to use is only $7.59. Get
one from your dealer or send $2 and we willship you a machine C. O. D for the balance.

Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. “5 LaSllae AVe., Chicago '

ing for the best possible growth and de‘
velopment that insures success in saving
the litters at the time they are farrowcd
and getting them well grown and de—
Veloped at an early age.

New York. W. MILTON

 
The price. all OOm- s 50 This machine turns easy, clips fast and willlast aliietime. \Ve
them to run together up to within two 7
or three weeks prior to the farrowing pe-
riod, then each sow should be removed
to the farrowing house and given special
food and attention, as the occasion may
require, up to farrowing time. This gives

   
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her time to become acquainted with her
new quarters and for the herdsman to
study her disposition and cultivate her
acquaintance. (A eorncob
as many term it). It pays to be on
friendly terms with the sows at farrowing
time and means the saving of many
pigs. Sows should be given plenty of
material to make dry and clean nests,
but not enough to make deep nests and
holes for the pigs to crawl in and get
by the
sow. Fenders should be placed around
the sides and ends of the pen, about eight
inches from the ﬂoor, to prevent the sow
from laying on the pigs or crowding
them up against the sides of the pen.
Experience, judgment and a knowledge
of the disposition of the sows afford the
only guide for a man to follow in hand-
ling his sows during the farrowing period.
If the weather is cold it is many times
necessary to stay with the sow and take
the pigs as fast as they come and place
them in a box or basket until the act is
completed and then place them at the
dinner table and see that each one gets
“5- ﬁrst feed. For the ﬁrst few days
after the sow has farrowed a litter she
should be fed very sparingly. After this
her.food should be increased gradually
until she is being fed all" that she can
digest and assimilate. When they are
about three weeks’ oldrthe pigs will begin

acquaintance .

CONDITION AND LOSSES OF FARM
ANIMALS.

 
Reports from correspondents and agents
of the Bureau of Statistics of the United
States Department of Agriculture indi-
cate that the general condition in regard
to healthfulness of farm animals on April
1 was very nearly the average; horses
and sheep were slightly lower in condi-
tion than a year ago and than their ten—
year average condition on April ], cattle
were slightly lower than a year ago but

above the average, and swine were above
both a year ago and the ten-year av-
eragc.

The losses of horses from disease dur-
ing the year were 20 per 1,000, as com-
pared with 18 the preceding year, and
19, the average annual 10s per 1,000 in
the past ten years.

The losses of cattle from disease were
21 per 1.000 head in the past year, com-
pared with 10 the preceding year, ani‘
21, the ten—year average; the losses from
exposure were 17 per 1,000 in the pas‘.
year, compared with 15 the precedingr
year, and 17, the ten—year average.

'The losses of sheep (not including
spring lambs) were about 27 per 1,000,
as compared with 27 the preceding year,
and 24, the ten—year average; the losses
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BUILDING A HOG -HOUSE.

 
I am ﬁguring on building a hog house
which 'will 'mean quite an outlay of‘cash
and material, and as mistakes are dan-
gerous I "would like to hear through The
. Farmer any comments or suggestions
which'will no doubt prove valuable read—
ing “for others. The south end will be 32
ft., making a cook and killing room 10x32,
With 8-ft. doors at north and sout‘h'ends
and with 8-ft. driveway between pens Ito
haul in bedding and manure out. Pens
, to be .10x12 ft., walls 3 feet of concrete
above foundation wall and 3 feet of double
boarding, 'making 6 ft. walls. Roof shin-
. gles or gravel; roof shed slope from outer
walls to driveway, then a 3‘ft. raise the
full length in shape of a long cupola with
windows on east and west side for light
and ventilators. Cement ﬂoors and trough
and for winter sleeping quarters for
young stock, an elevated platform to rest
on top of cement wall so pigs need not
come in contact with stone wall only
when feeding. There will be a stairway
to each nest, also a railing around it. I
'haveeused these elevated nests before and
like them 'much better than a nest on the
ﬂoor level. This upper floor will be re—
movable, as I think the cement would
be cooler for hogs to lie on in summer.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Bay Co. F. C.

The plan outlined above for building .1
hog house would seem to be a very satis-
.factory and convenient one. The pro-

vision for a central driveway through

  
. ventilating shaft: 'The' -:in’s‘taliing so: 'this
the (necessity. of runs canola, as ithe builds,

placed above »the cement 'blrooks in"-the’

~ board walls of the .sides and .wit'h' large!

windowszin {the ends, the adequate light-‘

ing ‘of “the building would be ,well 'pro-' ,

vided‘ forand a, better circulation of air
could be secured during hot summer
weather than would be possible through
the cupola. As before note’d,. While the
building would not have quite as good
an appearance, the cost would probably
be less, including the cost of installing
the ventilating system, while the results
would be more "satisfactory.

The writer has never used the elevated
nests but has heard a number 'of readers-
express .preference for them. The plan
of having them removable So 'that they
can be used or not as desired, would
seem to be a good one. Thesmail doors
to the outside yards should, of‘course, be
equipped by some means by which they
can be opened or closed from the feeding
alley in ‘the center of'the building. This
can be better done if sliding doors are
used or, better still, doors that are hung
on hinges at the top and provided with
a latch to hold them securely closed at
the bottom, 'which would interfere less

with the light in case the windows were
located above the doors in the sides of
the building. If

windows are used in

 
type/U
10.911») 11 g

Which bedding and feed may be hauled
in and the tmanure drawn out. is a very
goodwidea. One must have“ a feed alley
anyhow, and it will not need to be much
wider to provide for this driveway than
would otherwise be the case. While the
central elevation or cupola would improve
the appearance of the hog house to a
considerable degree, yet, in the writer's
opinion, it would not be as satisfactory

 
.32 77: FRONT ELavAv-zom

the sides of building instead of cupola
as suggested, they could be placed above
the small doors into the yards, so as to
not interfere with the wall of the ele-
vated nests, and the proposed plan of
pens would admit of windows of sufﬁ—
cient size without such interference.
Partitions between the pens and the al-
ley should, of course, be of the swinging
type, ~which permit the shutting of the

 
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a v‘ay of ventilating as would 'the King 'hogs away from the feed trough while
system which we believe should be in- the feed is being put in, and also admits
stalled in any new hog house of this size. of swinging up to a height which will
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The essential principles of the King sys-
tem were described in. our issue of April
2. This system of ventilation will insure
imuch better air in the hog house at a
less expense of temperature than can be
secured by any method of ventilating
it by opening and closing windows. As
stated in the article referred to, if an
outtake 0r ventilating ﬂue 15 feet in
height is used it should have a ventilating

,area of .26 square inches for each hog to
- ,be kept in :the house.

If the ventilating
ﬁne is '20 .'feet .high, then a ventilating

will be sufﬁcient, and the combined area
intake dues, of which several
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This. man and that trade mark
have revolutionizedathe meanin

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allow the hogs to be driven under, should,
occasion require it.

Some provision shouldaiso be made for
the easy loading of hogs into a wagon,
which, however, could be easily accompg
lished by the use of a portable chute of

which could be placed for loading when.

Nospeeiel short or:

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ulred. Abeo

   
desiredand the wagon .backed ,up to it.

 
It would .seem that the elevated sleeping
nests might proﬁtably be increased .in.’
size; 6x6 it. would not seem to be too,

  
death‘s mhomoh
* Warmeliuannioad.

 
it .would .encroach less “upon the depth;
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for a window and door in each pen. ..

   
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APRIL :23, 1910.1, ,
aassmno PURE-BRED swme.

 
M’anagementof the sow and Pigs.

The sow that carries a, reasonable
amount of ﬂesh evenly laid on is usually
the one that does the best with her litter.
She will be quiet longer than the lean
sow that is prompted by hunger to be.
up and looking for something to eat.
Much of the danger that comes to the
pigs at birth will be eliminated if the
sows are kind and tractable, allowing all
necessary help at farrowing time.

The quality of feed largely governs the
amount of ﬂesh that the sow may safely
carry. The sow that has been fed a ra—
tion of forage and small amounts of grain
foods may carry a large amount of ﬂesh
and still be safe to use for breeding.
Many fail to appreciate the value of bulk
and succulence in feeding brood sows
during the period ‘of pregnancy. During
pregnancy tw0 facts must be borne in
mind. The ﬁrst is that the sow is doing
double duty. Not only must she keep
up her own condition, but the develop-
ment of the unborn litter is a constantly
increasing drain upon her system. Feed-
ing' during this critical period should be
liberal. Her condition should be good.
It is a mistake to half starve pregnant
sows, thinking that the reproductive or-
gans are peculiarly liable to be trans-
formed into masses of fat at the ﬁrst
Sign of an appearance of fat upon her
back and ribs. The use of the reproduc-
tive organs creates a demand of an un-
usual nature upon her system that must
be met in the same way as that of a dif-
ferent character—such as growth, exer-
cise, exposure to cold, etc., by providing
liberal quantities of the right kind of
foods. No sow can bring a litter of
thrifty, well developed pigs unless she is
fed liberal quantities of the right kinds
of food during pregnancy. Given plenty
of nourishing foods, abundance of bulk
and succulence and pure air and exercise
there will be little danger of overfecding
her.

Exercise and fresh air exert a conter—
acting inﬂuence upon heavy feeding.
Sows that are fed liberally must have ex-
ercise. The best feeders lay special em-
phasis on the condition of the bowels
during pregnancy, particularly at far-
rowing time. A small amount of linseed
oil meal fed with her slop has a laxative
effect upon the bowels. All concentrated
fat-producing foods, such as corn, should
be fed very sparingly to brood sows dur-
ing pregnancy. The winter time is the
most critical period in handling sows and
special attention will be needed to main-
tain her in a thrifty and vigorous condi-
tion, because of the scarcity of bulky and
succulent foods and lack of exercise.
Root crops are an excellent substitute for
forage, care, however, must be exercised
in feeding them, to avoid causing a. pro-
fuse action of the bowels. Clover and
alfalfa cut or ground and mixed with the
slop affords both bulk and succulence and
has a. very stimulating effect upon the
bowels and whole digestive system.

By keeping the sows separated in lots
of from ten to twenty, it is safe to allow
them to run together up to within two
or three weeks prior to the farrowing pe-
riod, then each sow should be removed
to the farrowing house and given special
food and attention, as the occasion may
require, up to farrowing time. This gives
her time to become acquainted with her
new quarters and for the herdsman to
study her disposition and cultivate her
acquaintance. (A corncob acquaintance
as many term it). It pays to be on
friendly terms with the sows at farrowing
time and means the saving of many
pigs. Sows should be given plenty of
material to make dry and clean nests,
but not enough to make deep nests and
holes for the pigs to crawl in and get
tangled up and lost or crushed by the
sow. Fenders should be placed around
the sides and ends of the pen, about eight
inches from the ﬂoor, to prevent the sow
from laying on the pigs or crowding
them up against the sides of the pen.

Experience, judgment and a knowledge
of the disposition of the sows afford the
only guide for a man to follow in hand-
ling his sows during the farrowing period.
If the weather is cold it is many times
necessary to stay with the sow and take
the pigs as fast as they come and place
them in a box or basket until the act is
completed and then place them at the
dinner table and see that each one gets
its ﬁrst feed. For the ﬁrst few days
after the sow has farrowed a litter she
should be fed very sparingly. After this
her.food should be increased gradually
until she is being fed all that she can
digest and assimilate. When they are
about three weeks’ old the pigs will begin

9

 
I

TﬁrE _ ‘MICHIGAN~ FARMBR.

to look about for supplementary foods by

going to the trough with their dam and

nipping bits of forage and grass. At this
period it is desirable that we ﬁx a creep
so that they can come into the alleyway
and feed them a little sweet skim-milk
and wheat middlings three or four times
a day. In this way they will gradually
wean themselves and by the time they
are removed from the sow they will not
miss her and the loss of condition will
be reduced to a minimum at weaning
time. When weaning a litter it is an
excellent practice to leave two or three
of the smaller pigs with the sow for a
few days after the others are taken away
and given them a chance to catch up
with- the other members of the litter.
This is alike beneﬁcial to both the sow
and the pigs for she gradually becomes
dry without danger of leaving her with
a caked udder.

One of the hardest problems confront--
ing the herdsman is to keep the young
pigs free from indigestion and scours.
A litter of pigs that are affected with
this derangement will seldom recover and
make as good development as those that
are kept gaining rapidly. This complaint
comes largely from unsanitary conditions
and for that reason it is judicious to dis-
infect ihe nest and pens at least once
a week and oftener when the pigs are
very small and kept in the pen all of the
time. All sour swill should be kept away
from the brood sow while she is nourish-
ing ymmg. Sour swill is bad enough for
the other hogs, to say nothing of feeding
it to the brood sows while they are suck-
ling a litter. After providing the sows
and their pigs with sanitary surroundings
and abundant room for exercise the ques-
’tion of fccd is of importance.

\Yheat middlings are an excellent grain
food for brood sows and young pigs, al-
though a little bran may be used to
lighten them up a little during the ﬁrst
va days and a little digestcr tankage to
add to their nutritive value during the
period when the pigs are pulling down all
the milk the sow is capable of giving.
The feeder must use his own judgment
as to the condition of the sow and her
pigs and plan his feeding accordingly.

No man can tell just how much care
and food a sow and her pigs will require.
(‘onstnnt attention alone will decide the
question. Good care and rational feeding
during this period has a marked inﬂuence
upon the growth and development of the
pigs that can be noticed until they are
full grown and I am thoroughly convinced
that the greatest mistake in growing
breeding swine is made in caring for the
sow and pigs in an indifferent manner.
Start the pigs right, keep them growing
every day from birth to maturity on a
well balanced ration and they will make
a uniform and rapid growth. Uniformity
of size is an important factor in a lot of
pigs.

The man who gives proper care and
attention to his brood sows and pigs and
gets them well started has solved about
three-fourths of the problem of growing
good breeding stock. It is by devoting
close attention to every detail and feed—
ing for the best possible growth and de~
velopment that insures success in saving
the litters at the time they are farrowed
and getting them well grown and de-
Veloped at an early age.

New York. W. MILTON KELLY.

CONDITION AND LOSSES OF FARM
ANIMALS.

 
Reports from correspondents and agents
of the Bureau of Statistics of the United
States Department of Agriculture indi-
cate that the general condition in regard
to healthfulness of farm' animals on April
1 was very nearly the average; horses
and sheep were slightly lower in condi-
tion than a year ago and than their ten-
year average condition on April 1, cattle
were slightly lower than a year ago but
above the average, and swine were above
both a year ago and the ten—year av-
eragc.

The losses of horses from disease dur-
ing the year were 20 per 1,000, as com-
pared with 18 the preceding year, and
19, the average annual 105 per 1,000 in
the past ten years.

The losses of cattle from disease were
21 per 1,000 head in the past year, com-
pared with 1.0 the preceding year, anl
21, the ten—year average; the losses from
exposure were 17 per 1.000 in the past
year, compared with 15 the preceding
year, and 17, the ten-year average.

The losses of sheep (not including
spring lambs) were about 27 per 1,000,
as compared with 27 the preceding year,
and 24, the ten-year average; the losses

 
Bureau of Animal Industry.

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Symptoms of Worms

Your horse has worms
if he has any of these
symptoms: Nervou-ness.
Itching. rubbing tni ,
rouuh coat. hide-boun .
dandruff unthrlfty con.
dltlon, hloutlna. dusty

 
rectum and
worms.

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454 (6)
being 46 per 1000 as compared with 28
the preceding year, and 32, the ten- -year
average. 1

The losses of hogs from disease were »- 1

lighter than usual,1belng 44 per :1.ooo..as:-

compared with .51’ the preceding year and
56, the ten—year tutelage.
The number of breeding sows in the

country is estimated to be about 8 per.

cent less than a year ago.

 
E,CONUMICAL ’F'EEDING =OF FARM
HORSES.

 
Horses that are worked steadily must
be kept in good condition to do their
best.
good digestive powers.
eral feed without overfeeding. They must
be fed regularly 'three‘ times a day and
given food that is suited to their needs.

There are different .feeds that can be
given the work team which will give sat—
isfactory results when judiciously fed.
Fer a long,r time oats and timothy hay
have been considered a standard ration
for working horses, and I think that this
ration has gained its popularity largely
because of its safety as a feed rather
than its efﬁciency.

As timothy hay is not a very palatable
feed, Jhorses are not likely to gorge
themselves with it. ‘and oats, “having
large, coarse bulls are bulky, and as a
result they become ‘more thoroughly
mixed with saliva during mastication.
and when they enter the stomach are;

more readily acted upon bythe digestive f.

juices.

Through the corn belt where corn is
the principal crop it is also the principal
grain fed to many horses with satistac-v
tory results. Careful tests with
corn to horses do not show any extra
danger ‘from colic. A nation containing
at least a part corn is as satisfactory as
an all oat ration.
almost entirely as the grain -.feed to my
horses. Later I gave them 'corn. and

after one season‘s trial I have continued .

to use half corn and half-oats.

Pound for pound, corn is equal to oats
for feeding mature ‘WOl‘k horses. Practi-
cal experience indicates that a ration of
half corn and half cats is more satisfac—

tory to the horse ‘than either all oats,
or all corn. This gives the horse a .vari—
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Clover bay has suffered much criticism

as being unﬁt to feed horses.

They must have good appetites and ’
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it must be fed intelligently
ciously. When it is used it should be of
good quality and given in small quantity.
Poor timothy needs be feared quite as.
much 'as poor clover if it were palatable,
but since it is not. horses do not gorge
themselves with it.

In an experiment conducted at the Illi-
nois Experiment ‘Station in ‘t’attening
horses for the market it was found that

clover is worth twice as much as tim—
‘0they, pound for pound, in putting flesh
on the animals. I believe its value will
be more 'highly appreciated as a horse—
feed when corn forms at least a part of
the grain ration than where all ‘oats are
fed. Clover hay. being rich in protein,

renders it especially valuable for feeding
young growing horses.

Illinois. V‘V. H. UNDnnwoon. I

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

The April hog report was construed by
the trade as of a bearish nature. owing
to the fact that a number of brood sows
was estimated at 92.2 of ‘tllP number of
a year ago. It was 0\DP( ted geneiallx
that the number 1 ould be materially less
The condition of hogs was gn en at 9:34
compared to 94.4 a year ago and a ten-
year average of 941 The report by states
Shows the large percentage of blood sous
ghen was due very laigely to the high
percentages in a few states where but
few 'hogs eomparativelx speaking we
raised In Nevada and some of the south—
ern states for instance. the percentage
Was placed approximately at 100. while

the percentage. was much less in some of ~

the leading hog raising states.

There is no surplus of matured beef
cattle in the country. The large receipts
at Fort Worth in March were half—fat
glassers in the main, but they brought
higher prices than fat cattle have in re-

cent years. Omaha‘s 1211 go Marc l1 sup-
plx was mainly of cattle anything but
manned and Chicago’s supply was 011

an average far from good in grading

While the cast was pr'attically out of
the sheep breeding and feeding business
two yearsrago, it is back. in it now, and
sheepmen are in many instances increas-
ing the size of theii flocks, the industry
being on a good paying basis.

Warm weather will from now on tend
to stimulate 'the marketing of fat heavy
long- fed cattle which are usually dis-
criminated against by killers during the
warm period of the year. This -,year more
than ever. the dearness of beef every-

where will act as an incentive to turn
meat— eaters against the heavier cuts of
beef and the handv-Weight cattle rma-y
be expected to meet with most “favor-
from buyers while ~buvers in- the market
will raise strong- objections against pur-
chasing lots that are "too heavy "

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and
are in a verygcod condition andottho' VERY BEST
TYPICAL DRAFT QUALITY. We have over 60
head or Stallion: and Moran from two to five years
facade. and weluvitc proopsecilve buyers to come

Our last importation arrived loot’N-ovem her.

to .our uborns Where he will find H‘HE IDEAL
.DBA’FT HORSE. of both breeds above mentioned.
Our termozorollboul.vond every sale is booked up
With the hostel: guarantees.
‘Write. or better—come and see us. Address

’FRI‘SINGERJG SPRUNGER, Doooiur, 'Inillana.

1—30 Percheron Stallions 100

 
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'rbrud.

FOR SALE

Ghoioo Young

Holstein -:Fiiasian Mu

1 Juai ”Ready for Service.
Here Is a rGood *One.

RED 3. KNOWLES.
ncweu, r memos".

HOL$TE|N me‘M“ —Bun calves. Herd

neodid by Camry
Mormllonl-Klng. W. B. dom.03ki0tovsc Mich.

5 ‘llolsioln Scales Bill: :For Sale.

Any one of which have nrecding and individuality
itblt 'qunliflea them to "head ‘any herd. ‘Bull colvco
'IuI-d’c low sobdoo

L. E. CORNELL. Fayette. Ohio.

«Pure bred Holstein Bull
Calf. dropped Munch 4th.
M. W. WILLARD. R.No.14,Gﬁnd Rapids. Mich.

”OJ-'ST E. N BULL .CALF from two

best families of the
C. D."WO0DBURY. Ian-lug, ‘Iﬂchlgon.

 
Will knportlon'o hundred ye mingevi'cs- and Ilium
in Juno for Michigan and the some for Beledeaho.
Brooch of this Form. Will make a fair price on
yoorllng mom-om. yolco on mama owes With
lambs at side. for 60 do
L. 8. DUNEEMﬂSD'NB. Concord. MICHIIII.
100 HEAD of ewes and their lambs. All young
ewes, block and White flees, mixed.
Will be cold. worth the“ money moon: at once.
..B GA,RDNER lock Box 437, Cadillac. Mich.

130 Reg. Bombciilct Ewes {or oole.‘ descended
from the beat ﬂock: and bred to aipuro Von
Homem nudwrom sired by o Gilbert ram and Im-
ported dom. All in pctJhot’henith. 111 lots (031m buy
ere—none reserved. J.Q,. A. Cook..Morrice, .1“ ch.

HOGS.

[RBGE EHﬁLtSH BERKSHIRE-S.

Hove o'tlmilot of epﬂngiplkd. bothl‘oexeo. 'l‘nc‘typc
for proﬁtable pork production. Vigorouconmng
and of but blood lines. Satisfaction guaranteed.

mi. BYWA'l-‘ER. Memphis. Mich.
ﬂU-‘PP FARM BERKS-BIRDS!

WON 189 PRIZES IN 1909.
Stock of hotbac'xea and an ago: for sale. Breeders
of Guernuey Cattle. M. B. Turks I, Barred Rock
Chickens, Palm Ducks. GEO. . HUPP Mgr,
DrawerA Birmingham Michllran.

 
HEREFORDS:Thifﬁﬁf‘ﬁl‘l'éhi‘ﬁiﬁﬁi

Chino hogs. B. .-E..:A.LLBN..Pow-.Pow. -Mlcl|.

Unexoellexrln breeding. Selected

BERKSHIKES “an. ”we and kills. Choice fall

pigs. '1'. V. HICKS, R. No.11, Bottle CreekrMich.

 
JERSEY BULL OAIF born May 12. ’09. -Dom
gave 10.950lbo. milk. loot poor ““51. Blrc' s Dom’n
record 10. 060 lbs. in 10% months. test 62¢. THE
MonvaWAmuAN 00.. B. 6. Ann Arbor. Mich

LlLLlE FARMSTEAD JERSEY S

We hove Iomc splendid young bulls for sole. Sonic
of them are old enough foroervlce. They are from
cows with! records 610300 til/426 pounds of 'butter lost
your, ertc foﬂdolcri tloumud prices

 
“and Mares:
imported and pure bred registered
Stallions L-from ...... . . $400 to $1200.
Maresdrom. . . . . . . . . . .$250 to $600.

Write for Art Blotter.

. “BURTON 600., Kenton,0hio.

 
FOR SALE .WS ——Auction Sale of Home

every Friday at 10 A. M.
Private Boles daily. A number of draft and form
horses-always on bond including some city mares a
little pavement sore suitable for lorm work. All
nonalJ column 1n represented or money refunded,

0S£GEROU HORSE MAR

476 antic: Ave. Detrolt. Michigan.

 
~Brilllont brod registered Perch-
FM 53'. “up eron Stanton. 5 yearn old. Bond
blackliisy han‘dl high. Weight 1600 lbs Bound and
sure. Bell phone J. C. BUTLER, Portland. Mich.

~11 ones. Cattle. Sheep Hoga.'Dogs
F0 r “sale or Poultry. hourly oil breeds. Sires
exchanged. Southwest Michigan Bedtgreed “took
Aamiotlon. B. E. Jennings. Sec" Pow Pow. Mich.

m :mcmv.
CATTLE.

. , m _ , t
Austin Bull Calves. wn'gf'ngm h"°i...'.'.‘-§:o.:f
Whlte & Buﬂ 0r

Ingtona, White '&. Barred Mock
'Light Brahma. hits Leghorns and Whito Wynn-
.dottcoitl-por 15. Mich. School for the Dcof. Flint

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.”

 
* Herd headed by UKDULATA BBLACK

one of the boot sons of1 PRINCE ITO
gTbgoslgsoga’Gnm Champion Bull o! the Detroit
and Grand Ropldo Fair! of 1907,1908 and 1909. Herd
cousins of Erica. “Blockblrde Pridecni
WOODCO'I‘E STOCK FARM. Iotnlo. Mich.
Breeders and Importerl of high
MIDI. ma. Farm close Guernsey's. Writc no your
wonts. E. a J. '1‘. MILLER, Birmingham. Mich.

FOR SALE—LYoung herd 'of Holstein
heifers. 7 ycorllng bulls 8

cum-mu Oldest unbuckled herd in Ind

W. .JACKSON, 715 Box St. South Bend. Ind.

TOP- NOTCH 11015731111 S

' Top Notch registered. young Holstein Bulls com-
bining in mcmoolveo the blood ‘of oowo'vvhlch' now
hold and have in the pool not?“ World’lanecom mt

 
001.011 0. LIL m. Cooper-ville. Mich.
Pun-ii. imminent agreeing: v.21;

(HJAREKCEBRIBTOL. Fulton; Mich. R. F. D. No. 5.

Register oitllloritslorseys. ”sigma?”

'1‘. F. (DIAMONr-ch 01th ”HOMBRE.

BUTT-ER seen ”331%?“ um.

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCKP
Silver Creek. Alloxan County.

Jersey Bulls, ﬂaws and Halters

Island and St. Lambert :broeding. Also some
choice grade heifers.

Choiceiindlvldualo and popular bloodlines. Rupee-3
tion invited. Full Information cheerfully‘furnlohed.
I i you ennui visit our form at once-write
BROOKWNI'ER FARM, Ann Arbor, "Mich.
AA. .w. MUMFORD. Manager.

HHHTHEHH HHIJWH JERSEYS

WITH :BIG ’MIEK ‘ RECORDS.
'TUBEGULXN'TmsTnn BY STATE Vnmuvmun.
ROYCROF'I' FARM. Sldnuw. Mich. '

SB] DWELL STOCK ‘FARM.

EFOR SALE-10 Reg. Shorthtml Bulls.

All good, reds and mono, from 12 to 24 months old.
from. the beat of breeding at .75 to 0125 each. Some of
themﬂcotch and Scotch topped. of the herd heading
type. Aho, young cow: and heihro. oil as“. Fifty.
head in bud. Form— l‘wo block: from Ldkc Shore
Stotlon. LI. BIDWELL. Tecumseh, Micnlgon

BRED SHORTHORNS—No Itock

DAIRY i'orE sale at present. Visitors

welcome. .J. 3.3 . M.MEL Mason. Mich
SHEEP.
Oxford-Down Sheep‘ﬁﬁgﬁ?

cattle for solo. A. D. (in J. A. DEGARMO. Muir. Mich

11111159113 11m 311m 113
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top «chines ’ilomcyn’c. Pumas, Grcnu'hodgeMich

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McPHERSON FARM 00.. Howell. Mich.

 
0R SALE-«BEBEBBIBEsmo-u’h choice Sept.
hour pigs. and o fewtoll slits.alred by Handsome
Prince. A. A. PATTULLO, Dcokcrvllle, Mich

BERKSHIRES of the moat

(union oblc
typo ondotrolns. C. ..S BARTLETT, Ponilocfnlch.

unmggmggw ml limits “gins.

RM. Blundw. Iloh
giggle!“ llEllll of “ESTER WHITES

meri ca. p ng for n!
WILL W. FIVS’HER. Watervlletﬁﬂllohlcals.

ADAMS BROS. thchtield. Mich. brecders of Im-
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would doubtless be interested in knowing
more about the history of the stomach

‘worm and tape-worm that infest lambs.

I lost thirty lambs last summer from this
cause and several that I examined were

infected with both stomach and tape-
worms. I found three separate tape-
worms in the small intestines and as

near as I could determine they were each
over twenty-ﬁve feet long. My lamb
crop was ruined although the old ewes
were apparently healthy. As a remedy
I tried turpentine and gasoline and each
instance the lamb died inside of thirty
Seconds. Later I kept wood ashes, sul-
phur and ashes before them and they ate
it greedlly at times, it certainly checked
the death rate, but the lambs have re‘
ceived a set-back from which they never
recovered. Now I would thank you to
cover the following questions in your
answer:

1. How does a ﬁeld become infested?

2. How longdoes it remain infested
after sheep which were diseased have
been removed?

3. Do the worms ever trouble horses
or cattle that may be running in the same
pasture? \

4. How does the worm and tape-worm
propagate themselves and what are their
habits of growtlh?

5. I have strong faith in sulphur as a
remedy; how much dare I mix with the
salt?

6. Would salt and sulphur have any
injurious effect on horses and cattle if
they had free access to it?

Ionia Co. C. F. G.

The stomach worm matures in the body
of sheep and passes out laden with eggs-
soon to hatch and the little ones seem to
manage to get back in some way into the
stomachs of the lambs. They may crawl
on grass, or fodder, at all events they are
picked up where the excrement of older
sheep is dropped. The cold, frosty
weather seems to either numb or destroy
these worms so there is very little danger
of lambs being infected outdoors during
the winter months; however, in warm or
mild weather these parasites seem to
thrive anywhere. The stomach worm
multiplies rapidly and the embryo seems
to resist the frost of a mild winter. How-
ever, zero weather would perhaps destrOy
it. A ﬁeld may be vacated for twelve
months then not be safe to turn sheep

on. Horses may become infected by
grazing on infected pasture; however,
cattle seldom do, unless it be calves.

Sheep generally harbor one tape-worm,
one fluke and several round worms, es—
pecially if they are kept on low, damp
ground. Tape-worms are ﬂat-bodied
worms made up of small segments joined
end to end and when fully grown vary in
length from one inch to eighty or one
hundred feet. The narrow end termi—
nates in a small ‘head with sucking discs
and a nose encircled with booklets; from
the other end the ripe segments are con—
tinually detached and expelled from body
and by close observation these ﬂattened
white objects can be seen passing over
the soil and vegetables depositing millions
of microscopic eggs with which they are
literally ﬁlled. T'hese eggs are taken in
with the food and water and soon grow
and develop into tape-worms. Of course,
I do not wish to be understood that they
all live. .Tape—worm embryo resists both
heat and cold fairly well. Therefore it is
not strange that our animals should be—
come diseased for one diseased sheep can
spread a whole lot of infection. Horses
and cattle do not suffer from tape-.vorm
nearly so often as sheep. Sulphur is not
a good vermicide and it Ihas little effect
in destroying or expelling tape—worm.
Horses and cattle will often eat too much
salt and sulphur if left to their own dis—
cretion. However, sheep are less apt to
eat too much of it, but I fail to under-
stand why they should be fed all the sul-
phur and salt they would eat, for if they
ate too much it would certainly act‘as a
poison and do them harm. Sulphate of
iron is one of the least expensive worm
destroyers for sheep you can give, or give
your lambs powdered kamala 0r areca
nut. I am told if sheep are fed pump-
kins in the fall that they will seldom be
:roubled with worms the following win-
ter. Try them next fall.

Ohio. W. C. FAIR.

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should state history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the same ailments. If this column 1s
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Indigestion—I have a 5-year—old mare
that has sick spells which our Vet. calls
indigestion. B. V V., St. Louis, Mich.—
Mix equal parts ground gentian, ginger.
cookingsoda and charcoal together and
give her a tablespoonful or two at a dose
in feed three times a day.

Weakness—I have a colt 20 months old
that is very low in flesh and unable to
get up without assistance. H. G. .,
Crystal, Mich—Your colt needs plenty of
good food and a tonic. Mix one part
ground nux vomica, three parts ground
gentian and one part powdered resin and
give him a teaspoonful or two at a dose
in feed three times a day.

Contracted Hoof.—-I have a driving
mare that has a contracted hoof which
causes soreness. C. T B., Coldwater,
Mich—By standing your mare in wet
clay two hours a ,day and applying lanolin
IO hoof twice a day it will relieve her.
Blisters applied to coronet prove benc-
ﬁcial and if you blister, use cerate of
cantharidcs.

Horse Hangs Tongue out when in Har-
ness—I am a reader of the Michigan
Farmer and noticed in the Vet. column
that tongue lolling horses are cured by
wearing a spoon bit instead of a com-
mon bit, but our harness maker does not
keep them in stock. Where can they be
bought? H. N., Shiloh, Micli.—Your har-
ness maker can secure one from any har-
ness hardware dealer.

Laminitis (Founder) Convex Sole—One
of my mares was foundercd which affect-
ed the fore feet causing the sole of one
foot to drop; since this occurred she
seems to be quite tender and lame, the
hoof does not grow and is contracted, es—
pecially the toe. What line of treatmen
do you suggest for such a case? B. F.
“T, Ransomville, N. Y.—When your mare
was t'oundered an effusion took place in
the foot allowing the sole to drop. Now
the best results will follow shoeing with a
wide-webbed bar shoe, using a leather
sole and stufﬁng bottom of foot with
pine tar and oakum. By giving the shoe
a. rolling motion she will travel with less
pain and by standing her in wet clay one
hour night and morning it will help. Ap-
ply lanolin to 'hoofs daily. Mild blisters
applied to coronet, if she is not worked,
stimulates a healthy growth of horn. The
eerate of cantharides or any good home
linimcnt will answer.

Lumbago—Rheumatism.—I have a cow
that has been ailing more or less all win-
ter; when she lies down it is hard work
for her to get up and some of my neigh-
bors tell me her back IS weak, but I am
inclined to believe that it is weakness in
her legs. Last fall she pastured in an
apple orchard; this, I think, brought on
this ailment. whatever it is. S. H, M.,
Decatur, Mich—Your cow suffers from
a acid condition of the blood which pro-
duces a rheumatic condition and no doubt
affects her back and joints of legs. Give
4 drs. salicylate of soda at a dose three
times a day. Also apply spirits camphor
to back twice a day. Also give a tea-
spoonful
fecd once a day.

Anaemie.—I wish you would tell me
what 'lils my sheep; one of them is
troubl'l with a swelling under jaw; it is
not had; besides, several of my sheep
are n: in a. thrifty condition. Several
others of my ﬂock appear to have a little
swelling of the throat. What had I bet-
ter give them? E~ . H., Bannister,
Mich.—The swelling in throat is a result
of other ailments, perhaps their food sup-
ply hus been insufﬁcient or unbalanced.

Feed them ground oats, oil meal, with a

little salt; also give each two sheep a
teaspoonful of the following compound
powder: Equal parts ground gentian,

ginger and fenugreek, night and morning.
Also apply tincture iodine to throat three
times a week.

Chronic Cough.-Sevcral years ago my
mare had distemper which left glands of
throat enlarged. Each spring she is

worse. showing symptoms of heaves, but
gets better as warm weather comes; this
spring she is worse than usual. What
had I better give her? D. A. J., VVill-

iamston. Mich.—.-\pply equal parts~ tinc-
ture iodine and camphorated oil to glands
of throat once a day; also give 1/2 dr.

iodide potassium, 1 dr. powdered lobelia
and 1/2 dr. powdered opium at a dose in
fted twice a day. Feed no clover, nor
musty, dusty, badly cured fodder of any
kind. Grain and grass is the best feed
she can be fed.

Sow Ate HerPigs.—I have a ymng P01-
and China sow, which this spring went
three or four days over her regular time
for farrowing and then was only able to
deliver by the aid' of a veterinary. The
pigs were fully developed but came hind
parts ﬁrst and were dead upon delivery.
I also had two pure—bred Duroc sows,
each of which went over their regular
time. One had seven pigs which were,
dead: the other one had six, two of them
living and after these two were about
three days old she ate them. I fed these
SOWS chieﬂy on middlings. They had
until within about two weeks time for to
farrow. a good yard in which to run.
I also fed them during the last few weeks
prior to their farrowing some clover hay.
They had all eaten ravenously up to the
time of their delivery. Can you give me
any information as to the probable cause
of these results? B. W. A.. Adrian, Mich.
——Your sows may have met with an in-
jury, causing them to give birth to dead
pigs. The two pigs that lived three days

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amount of feed for the maintenance of
the bodies of the animals. So the grain
is rcquired. Vi’ith it the cows will keep
in good health, maintain their weight and
at the same time increase the ﬂow of
milk. The grain ration is often modiﬁd
in quantity as the grass increases in size
and in the per cent of nutrients, but llilS
modiﬁcation should not be much and
should never reach that stage where the
grain is eliminated altogether. Economy
of that kind is not the kind that will as-
sist to make the dairy a success. Feed
the cows grain and a little bay for some
time; rather let the mistake be on the side
of feeding these winter feeds too long
than not long enough.

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ROOM.

 
I have a gasoline engine to run the
cream separator and wish to move it out
by the barn pump and use it to pump
water as well. There will have to be a
house for it, of course, in order to protect
the separator and engine. I want to
build it so it will be fairly comfortable
in winter. Should the house be built to
inclose the pump, built over the well, or
built with one side close to the well, or
rather, close to the pump. I shall use
what thc manufacturers call a “back—
gcarcd pump jack.” How large should
the house he? I simply wish it large
enough to accommodate the little two
horse-power engine and the separator,
with mom to conveniently use the ma-

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Two years ago I built a building for
this same purpose. I wanted room for
tho gasolinc engine, also for the cream
separator, for the vacuum pump for my
milking machine and for a well house.

 
Now, my idea was to have this room
large enough so that I could have the
well insidc and also a good-sized storage
tank for water. When the storage tank
for ualcr is outside it freezes in the
winter time and bothers very much. I
had gained that from former expericncc.
i built my housc 16x24 feet and built it
out of lumber. If I was to build it again,
I would build it even larger and instead
of using lumber, would use cement blocks.
I didn’t shoot it up on the inside as I
ought to. it is so cold that in the winter
time we have to have a stove going all
the while. You want to keep the gaso-
line engine where it is moderately warm.
It don’t run good in a zero temperature,
neither will your separator run good
where it is cold nor can you thor-
oughly wash the separator as it should
be done. Now, my advice would be to
build this building out or cement blocks,
making it good and large. In mine, I
made a cement water tank that will hold

 
about 30 to 35' barrels of water.

It is a
rectangular tank in one’ corner of , the
house. Then I have a smaller tank. for

' storing [cream in the other corner. Vi’e-

run water from the large tank into the
small one in which we keep the ,cream,
all water going through the small tank.
Besides, these tanks have room for a.
stove, a table for washing dairy utensils,
the milking machine, milking pails, the
can-s, separator and other necessary and
convenient things. I also have two gaso-
line engines in this room. The small en-
gine was not large enough to grind feed
so I had to put in a larger engine; There
is room for all these things; but it makes
it just the least bit crowded, and for my
purpose, if I was to build again I would
construct the building 20x30 feet, build it
out of cement blocks, and I think I should
cell it overhead. Then a minimum of
heat in the winter would keep the build-
ing warm enough so that one could wash
dairy utensils with comfort. Now, I don’t
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convenience sake. But the great benefit
is the sanitary effect light has. W'e know
how the sunlight will purify the milk
pails and other dairy utensils.
inﬂuence works to keep the stables that
are well lighted, pure. Direct sunlight is
superior as a sanitary agent than reﬂected
light. It is well, then, in arranging win-
dows to place them so they will allow as
much direct sunlight into .the stables as
possible. The reflected light of the south-
ern zenith is usually more effective in the
destruction of germs than the light of the
northern half of the zenith. For these
two reasons it is better, where it can be
arranged, to have the windows located as
liberally as possible in the southern walls
of the barn.

Men who have given the question study
are of the opinion that tall windows are
better adapted for accomplishing the ends
mentioned above than wide windows of
equal dimensions. Wide window ledges
interfere with direct light and should be
avoided where possible or made as narrow
as is convenient with the construction of
the building.

One is not likely to put in too many
openings for light. He had rather err on
that side than get the stalls dark. When
the building is in the making, or, better
still, while it is being planned, provision
should be made for generous lighting as
then it can be done cheaper and better
than later. Other factors enter into the
proper sanitation of dairy barns, but all
advantages must be taken in these days
of competition and for that reason it is
well to have the importance of the win-
dows before one while he is arranging the
barn.

MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL SCORING
TEST FOR MARCH.

The Michigan scoring for March, which
completes the fifth year of the contest,
was held at Booth Cold Storage, Detroit,
on Friday, April 8.

The butter was an unusually poor lot,
the weather probably accounting for
much of the poor quality. Such warm
weather 5% early in the season, before
farmers are prcpared for it, and before
creameries usually operate cvrcy day,
caused the dclivcry of an unusually large
per cent of poor cream, There Is, how-
ever, little cxcuso for this. if (:rcnmorics
will grade their cream and [my more for
sweet crcam than they do for sour, More
will not be so much poor (-rnmn, Most
of the low scores were due, in Hm opin-
ion of the judgcs, to poor raw material.
Some samples were scored off on ac-
count of mottles and some on poor tex-
ture. There were only 22 samples of
creamery butter and one of dairy butter.
and three of cheese. Fifteen of the 28
samples of creamery butter scored 90
points or above and all the cheese went
above 91 points.

The same

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" " ' ' SILOS.

 
E want to build a silo the coming sum-
mer and want-t0 know something regard—
ing the relative merits and cheapness of
a. cement block 3110 as compared with
steel or brick. I am rather inclined at
present to build of cement as that mate-
rial is convenient to get here, but I want
to know if I would need to put hoops
Sound it in order to make it strong
enough to stand the pressure. It must
be large enough to hold ensilage for 30

head of cattle, not, of course, depending
entirely on this for feed but in connection
with other feed. How much would such
a. silo need to cost in cement or other
material? How would alfalfa do to put
in a silo? This crop is not much raised

here but is beginning to be grown some.

Please give the dimensions of such a silo.
F. E.

Alpena Co.

As for the silo itself, I think a brick
bio would be as good as a cement block
him, but no better. Both would have to
be plastered on the inside to make a good
job and have the ensilage keep well. Both
would have to be supported with hoops
on the outside or with wire laid in the
building as it was being built. It must
be reinforced in some way or.it will not
hold. I think I would prefer the cement.
Neck silo and think it would be cheaper
‘secause the cost of construction would
Tie much less than the brick silo. You
"Would have to have at least an eight inch
wall of brick in order to lay it and it
would cost much more to lay this wall
out of brick than it would out of cement
Rilocks after they were made, and I think
the brick would cost much more than the
cement blocks. Probably a cement block
silo would cost you in the neighborhood

of $300 all complete.

Alfalfa or clover, or in fact any other
green plant if cut and put into a good
silo will keep, but people do not usually
make alfalfa. or clover into ensilage. They
make this into hay because it matures
at a time of the year when it is perfectly
practical to dry it sufﬁciently so that it
will keep, and we want some dry feed to
feed in connection with the silage and it
is better to cure these plants in the form
of hay and feed them in that form rather

-than to make ensilage of them, and save

your silo for the. corn crop_

The corn crop matures at a time of
year and is of such a nature that it is
impossible to evaporate the moisture
sufﬁciently so that it will keep like hay
and not deteriorate in value constantly
from the time it is cut until it is fed;
hence,‘ the silo is the best place to put the

corn crop.

SHALL HE GIVE UP FACTORY WORK
AND BECOME A DAIRYMAN.

 
I am working in a factory at the pres—
ent time, but am thinking of buying a
Binall farm near some city, putting in a.
‘small herd of Jersey cows and starting
in the milk business, that is, peddle milk
from a wagon in the city. Is there any
secret in *bottling the milk? What is the
cost of license? What are the greatest
drawbacks? What are the chances for
success? I have had considerable expe-
Ience in farming and some in handling

sows.

Wayne Co. F. H. S.

I do not feel competent, neither would
I want to assume the responsibility of
advising deﬁnitely, F. H. S. to give up
his factory work, buy him a small farm,
and produce market milk. It is such a
radical change in one’s business that one
must know thoroughly the man and the
conditions before he could give any deﬁ-
nite advice. Even then I would hesitate
about advising deﬁnitely on a proposi-
3ion of this sort. If F. H. S. likes dairy-
ing, if he understands it, if he will study,
3nd take the pains necessary to produce
the best kind of milk, and place it before
his customers, he can make a success
out of dairying. He will be working for
Limself instead of someone else. But if
he knows very much about the dairy
business he kn‘ ws that there is no eight
flour day business here. If he is the
proprietor of a dairy it will be ncarcr 16
hours a day than eight. There will be so
many things that from necessity have to
be looked after. In the production of
market milk one should have certain
qualiﬁcations. In the ﬁrst place the per—
son should be scrupulously clean. You
want to hate dirt and ﬁlth, and then you
must have energy enough to get rid of
it. You must have a. clean barn, your
cows must be clean, your dairy utensils
Jlust be clean and everything in connec-
tion with the work must be clean to pro-
duce satisfactory market milk today. If
you can do this, if you are willing to look
after all the details, you can probably get
a good price for the milk, though I must
say that the price of market milk has
not advanced in prspolrtion to the price
of other dairy products. In very many
«was people are selling milk for the

3/

 
same old price, ﬁve cents a quart, when
at Seven cents a quart it is worth more
per quart than good beefsteak is per
pound for food. A man that will produce
clean milk, certiﬁed milk, ought to have
eight to ten cents a quart if he delivers
it from house to house. It is worth it.
F. H. S. must understand that dairying
is a painstaking business. It is quite
an undertaking just to run a dairy farm,
just to produce the milk without putting
it in shape for the market. The growing
of the crops, their proper rotation and
harvesting, the proper feeding and selec-
tion of cows, reduire thought and judg-
ment. You should be a student and study
all the while, you have got to keep your
mind thoroughly on the business if you
make a success of it. There must be no
careless work about dairying from one
end to the other if you want to succeed.
Now, if you are willing to do that and
can do that, you can make a success
out of it. Whether you can make more
mloney for yourself after paying expenses
than you can working on a salary as a
skilled workman in a factory, is a ques-
tion that I am not able to answer. It de-
pends upon your skill as a dairyman. I
am satisﬁed that if you go out onto a
small farm and by not thoroughly under-
standing this work, n‘ot applying all the
attention that you ought to details, that
you could work hard year after year and
not make as much, or save as much
money as you do in the factory. Many
are doing this same kind of business
now. This idea that everybody is get-
tint,r rich farming nowadays is a very
erroneous one. If we got the same old
prices that we used to get, with our
present expenses, we would go bankrupt.

There is absolutely no secret in hot-
tling the milk. One ought to have a
dairy large enough that an automatic
bottler could be used. Otherwise each
bottle has to be ﬁlled by hand and this
takes considerable time. ‘Vhat you want
is cold milk put into clean bottles. There
is no secret about it whatever. You have
to pay the state a. license of $1.00 a year
for the production and marketing of mar—
ket milk. Many cities also require a
small license of about a dollar a year,
but this amounts to nothing. The object
of it is simply to keep dairymen in line
for inspection so that both state and city
inspectors can see to it that wholesome
milk is being offered for good.

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GRAIN AND MILK TO FATTEN
CALVES.

 
I wish .to ask what is the best to feed
a calf With separator milk to fatten it,
2/1100?" meal, corn meal, fiaxseed meal or

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Branch Co. E, W'. F.

I think without any question that ﬂax—
seed meal is the best kind of feed to feed
in connection with skim-milk to :jatteni
or grow calves. This meal contains about
30 per cent of fat and balances up a ra-
tion of skim—milk very nicely. \Ve make
ﬂaxseed meal into a thin jelly or glue by
cooking it in water and then we give
about a tea cup full in his milk to each
calf. You could gradually increase this
ration until your calf had a sufﬁcient
amount to ﬁnish him.

 
NATIONAL ‘DAIRY SHOW.

 
The 1910 meeting of the National Dairy
Show will convene in Milwaukee, October
1-1-23. The auditorium management has
agreed to improve the ventilation of the
cattle quarters by installation of large
meter driven fans and three, approxi-
mately, six by eight feet ventilation
flues. They have also agreed to make
certain minor improvements asked for
by the dairy show directors. The inter-
est shown in all branches of the industry
suggests that the time is not far distant
when this great dairy exposition will re-
quire the construction of buildings par-
ticularly adapted to its needs. With the
recognition of this fact, the management
has refrained from committing itself fur—
ther than the next show.

The display of the latest developments
in the machinery required in the indus-
try, recognition of the breeders' work and
the maker of yearly performance records,
together with the educational features of
this year’s exposition will be the purpose
of the management.

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of course, without comparative use of different machines.

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and unassembling of parts, simplicity, manifest ease of
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HIGH PRICES AND (JO-OPERATION.

 
How Poultryman and Consumer Can
Lower Prices to Mutual Advantage.
The following interesting paragraph is

taken from a recent issue of a noted Am-

erican weekly having a large city and
rural circulation:

“A commercial traveler who lives in
Indianapolis has formed a plan for beating
the high prices for food charged in our
city markets. He brings in every trip
from the country, where producers’ prices
are low, such produce as he can carry,
thereby saving much money.”

The writer of the above was a bit hasty
in giving credit for this plan to a “drum-
mer,” though he is entitled to a whole lot
of credit for his business sense. and we
may safely trust our commercial men to
see advantages of this kind and grasp
them. This plan, though, goes much far-
ther back than our friend, the drummer,
or than the writer remembers, although
it is lately being more generally used than
formerly. No doubt every reader of this
publication remembers that our city rela-
tives and friends have long desired ship—
ments of eggs, poultry, potatoes, butter,
ctc., from friends in the country, and
“that they have always been willing to pay
more for them than the producer could
get in local markets. In-many instances
the producer has shipped the greater part
of his produce to city friends and won—
dered why they were so anxious to get it
at such prices. But when he is told that
the prices paid for his product fresh from
the farm are less than those asked by
city dealers for goods of which no one
knows theI age, be readily understands
and then wonders why more city consum-
‘ers don't buy that way. They are doing
so today in thousands of instances where
ﬁve or ten years ago there were only
dozens or hundreds doing it. Thus we
see our commercial friend is only one of
many, and not the ﬁrst to operate this
plan.

I note that the paragraph states two
important facts, both worthy of every
producer‘s and consumer‘s notice. First,
“he buys where producers‘ prices are
low.” In order to fully understand this
the consumer may follow the manner of
handling some certain produce under the
common system. Let us take eggs, for
example. Today (March 26) our local
markets in the‘ country (New York) are
paying poultrymcn or farmers 220 in
trade for eggs of any grade, size, or
color at the stores or house. Most of our
egg dealers are grocers in the country,
and this price is allowed for eggs if gro-
ceries are taken in exchange. If cash is
desired, only 200 per dozen is paid. Now
let the city consumer compare this with
the price he paid for eggs on the above
date. Remember, too, that the producer
of market eggs here in the country re-
ceives the same for small, dirty, white or
mixed eggs whether one day or two
weeks old, as he would if he offered noth-
ing but fresh, clean, selected white eggs
weighing 32 ozs. or more per doz. How
about it when the consumer buys? Does
he prefer guaranteed, full sized. clean,
white eggs, or mixed? If he gets the lat-
ter what do they cost him. and I won‘t
ask if they are guaranteed.

The Raund-About System of Marketing.
Let’s follow the eggs from the grocer

in the country to the city consumer. In

the New York market eggs were quoted
on March 25 at 2461259 (wholesale) for
selected fancy whites. Sometimes the
country merchant ships his eggs in cases
of 30 doz. to the city commission man
once or twice a week. ()ft'imes he sells
to a country jobber, who ships to the
city. The commission man sells to a
jobber for the highest bid he can get,
and the jobber sells to the wholesaler, or
to the retail man, who sells to the con—
sumer. Now this is a round—about way,
but it’s the universal system today. It‘s

a well known fact that when an egg is

ﬁrst laid it is in its best possible condi-

tion, though many dealers both west and
cast are seeking methods to improve it.

We may have improved methods for

keeping or handling eggs, but we most

need better buying and selling methods.

Every day an egg is handled and trans—

ferred from one place or hand to another

its value decreases but its cost increases.

Can this method be improved? That's

the problem dealers all over the country

are trying to ﬁgure out, and, most of all,
it affects the producer and consumer.

The second fact to note in our para-

‘ ph at the head of this article is

   
reader of this would infer that this “sav-
ing" of. money was simply because he
bought of the producer for less money
than at local markets. I desire to show
that there is a saving of money aside
from this lower ﬁrst cost, and a saving
of temper and worry. besides. A friend
of mine in‘the city, related his experience
with eggs bought in the local market at
home, and from it you may readily unq
derstand why he appreciates eggs direct
from the producer now. His wife went
to her grocer and told him she desired a.
dozen “strictly fresh" eggs for baking:
that unless he could assure her they were
such she couldn’t use them. He had a.
case “just from the farm,” but he should
have to ask 600 per dozen because they
were select stock. She got a dozen and
when they arrived she began prepara-
tions for a cake. The ﬁrst egg was 0. K.
but the second was bad and spoiled the
whole of the ingredients. Ten cents for
eggs and as much more for other in-
gredients isn’t much, but a woman's feel-
ings toward such eggs “just from the
farm" can‘t be expressed in twenty cents.

Any farmer who desires to make his
eggs yield him more than the country
store price can easily do so by conscien-
tiously grading and packing them in car-
tons containing one dozen each. His
name, address and the dates on which
they were produced and packed sliould be
plainly printed or stamped on each pack-
age. If the contents are not perfectly
satisfactory to the consumer, he knows
where to go or write for an adjustment.
However, if only such eggs as one is
willing to guarantee are so packed there
will 'be no Complaints. If it is not feasible
to ship direct to the consumer, they can
be sold to the retail merchant, for mer-
chants are ﬁnding eggs so packed and
guaranteed very satisfactory as the time
and labor required for handling them is
reduced to the minimum. The returns to
the producer, obviously, will be consider-
ably better than if he chose to market
them by the round«about system, and the
cost to the consumer will be no greater,
in fact, it should be less. This is my way
of getting the best returns from the eggs
I produce, and I know many poultrymen
who are selling ever’y egg they can spare
direct to city consumers.

New York. 0. F. SAMPSON.

 
WHEN DOES AN EGG CEASE TO BE
FRESH?

 
Doctor Wiley, of the Department of
Agriculture, at a recent meeting of a
Congressional committee which is investi-
gating the cost of food, explained and
demonstrated practically an infallible
method of telling when eggs are fresh.
He had a big glass beaker about three-
quarters ﬁlled with a 10 per cent: solution
of table salt. Into this he dropped eggs.
All the absolutely fresh eggs immediately
sank to the bottom while the eggs that
weren't quite so fresh ﬂoated a quarter
or a third out of the water.

He indorsed his method and said it
was poss1ble thereby to prosecute and
convict any dealer offering cold storage
eggs as the “strictly fresh" country vari-
ety. Doctor Wiley stated that he now
has only two inspectors supervising cold
storage methods, but with 25 of them he
believes it possible to keep a close watch
over the industry all over the country,
and with the adoption of regulations pre-
scribing the length of time allowed to
food stuffs to remain in storage, the pub—
lic would beneﬁt thereby.

MICHIGAN BEE CONDITIONS AND

PROSPECTS.

 
I believe prospects are good for a
bumper crop of honey in Michigan this
year. At least this is the impression one
would gain from the reports that are
coming in. in this county (Mecosta) bees
have wintered extremely well and other
indications are good. My own colonies
wintered almost perfectly, the only losses
being due to the fact that I was disabled
and unable to look after them at a criti-
cal time this spring, and a few died from
lack of stores before I could care for
them.

Here are a couple of sample reports
from this county: “Our bees have all
wintered well. Not more than one empty
hive in a cellar and this a queenless one
that did not have bees of a suitable age
to winter; 145 swarms that we had buried
in Gratiot county came out with some
loss of bees in each hive but not serious."

“The outlook for a. 'honey ﬂow from
white clover here in Mecosta county and
in Isabella county is much better than a.

“thereby saving much money.” A casual ‘

 
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county was fair last'yearMitm a-prospect

of being somewhat bettelf this year. In'

Charlevoix county the raspberry will be
better than last year on account of its
better growth since the ﬁre of two years
ago. It is hard to tell what to expect
from willow herb this year, it is so very
uncertain. Taking everything‘into con-
sideration, we expect some more honey
per colony this year than last."

This man has 700 colonies, located in
four counties, his home yard being in
Mecosta county.

Another report reads: “1 never had
bees winter as well as they have the past
winter. There is a much larger acreage
of alsike clover here than usual. Other-
wise about an average prospect.”

I have received nothing but good re—
ports from this county. Clover is in ﬁne
condition in this locality. Raspberry made
a good growth last year and should be
at its prime this year. XVillow herb
should be at its best this season as the
second year after a ﬁre is usually its
best year.

I have received reports from a number
of other counties in different parts of the
state, most of which indicate a prosperous
season ahead for the bee-keeper. At
least, that would seem to be the case
now, although, of course, we are still
dependent upon rains, etc. Here are a
few reports from leading bee-keepers in
their respective counties:

Allegan Co.: Bees wintered in cellars
the best they have in many years. Pros—
pects for a crop of honey very good.

Newaygo Co.: My bees wintered well;
outlook for a crop good unless the season
proves too dry.

Osceola Co.: My bees wintered good:
lost six out of 142 colonies. Prospects
for a honey flow from clover is ﬁne in
thisIlOcality, much better than for several
years.

Antrim Co.: Prospects look good for a
honey crop and the bees appear to have
wintered well. I haven’t taken them all
out of the cellar yet. (March 31). “R-
are having very unusual weather. Soft
maple is in bloom and I saw a dandelion
blossom yesterday.

Cheboygan Co.: Commenced taking
bees out of cellar this morning, (March
29), which is the earliest: eVer. They
wintered in ﬁne shape—little consumption
of stores and no disease. This is due to
their working late last year and the short
winter. Of course, the outIOok is good

now for a good honey flow, but there is.

nothing certain about the crop as tho
ﬁres and drouth two years ago and last
year destroyed most of the wild red rasp—
berry and white clover.

Southwestern Charlevoix Co.: I have
reason to believe that the bees in this
section wintered very well. I have not.
been into mine as, yet, but bees are ﬂying
from practically all colonies. The pros-
pects appear to be very fair for a crop.
The only thing that will be lacking will
be the red raspberry brush, but it will
come on again. There will, however,
never be as much brush as in the past.
as it: is being burned to make room for
more farming.

Genesee Co.: My bees wintered well.
Conditions are favorable for a fair crop
of honey.

Jackson Co.: In answer to the ﬁrst

question, my bees ‘have wintered per-
fectly, not having lost a single colony.
To your second question, if answered
three weeks ago, I should have said the
outlook for white clover was good, as it
was well seeded last season and replaced
that which had been killed out previously
by dry weather. I am unable to decide.
as yet, what the result of this dry
weather will be upon the young clover.
Some of it is possibly injured already.
but should we get rain soon it may prove
all right.

One big bee man out. in the thumb
says: “1 lost 50 per cent. Prospects
very good fOr a honey crop.” '

From Ingham county, too, there comes
a discouraging report. “The prospect
for a honey crop this year is very poor
indeed. Last August was too dry for
clover. Bees did not Winter well. Honey
was poor and it was cold too long and too
steadily. We have lost 12 per cent of all
we packed and what are left are very
weak.”

Now again from \Vashtenaw county
comes good cheer, the report saying:
“My bees have wintered in good condi-
tion. Lost four out of 120 colonies from
dysentery. The prospects for clover are
good, I might say, extra good.” Another
Washtenaw man says: “Bees wintered
well. Lost only two colonies out of about
80. Prospects good for a honey crop‘ if
White clover revives after the backset it
received a year ago last winter.”

Memsta Co. L. C. WHEELER.

How they Fared in Ogemaw.

Bees have wintered well in this vicinity.
Our winter was a steady cold one with
plenty of snow, but the spring is earlier
by a month than a year ago. Last year
was a good one for honey, and our hoes
entered upon their winter with plenty of
stores. The winter being a short one
aided in this respect. \Vhile the winter
was a cold one, we did not have so many
nor so severe and long extra cold waves
as usual, consequently most of our api-
arists are reporting few losses.

At this writing. (April 5), the bees are
at work upon tag alder, willow, and soft
maple. Fruit buds are nearly ready to
burst. Thousands of acres of this north
land, burned over by the forest ﬁres‘of
two years ago. grew up last year with
red raspberry which this year will bloom
in profusion. -Barring late frosts or ex-
cessive droughts, which are unusual with
us, we should have a bumper crop of
honey. _ H. B. FULLER.

 
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In another col-
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appears a brief
'history of the Arbor Day movement
which, as noted, was inaugurated only a
few short years ago and has now spread
to every state in this country and some
foreign nations. The sentiment which
prompted the Arbor Day movement and
which fostered it until it grew into a.
national observation, it has become a deep
rooted one with the American people, but
unlike the sentiments which lie behind
the observance of our national holidays,
Arbor Day sentiment does not ﬁnd ex-
pression at the same time throughout the
country. Owing to the differences in the
proper season for planting trees, Arbor
Day is celebrated upon different dates in
the several states, a considerable differ-
ence being noticeable between dates of
this event in the southern and northern
portions of our country. In Georgia, for
instance, Arbor Day, which has a per-
manent date, is celebrated on the ﬁrst
Friday of December, while FIOI-ida always
holds Arbor Day on the ﬁrst Friday in
February, and Texas observes February
22 as Arbor Day. As the other extreme,
Montana observes the second Tuesday in
May as Arbor Day. A number of other
states have a ﬁxed date which is ob-
served as Arbor Day, while in others, as
in Michigan, the date is ﬁxed each year
by a proclamation of the governor.

Regardless of how much practical ben-
eﬁt may be derived from the setting aside
of Arbor Day for the planting of trees,
there can be no doubt that in the matter
of the growth of a healthy sentiment in
the minds of the young people, Arbor Day
observance is accomplishing a great end.
There is no method by which a noble
sentiment can be so ﬁrmly impla'nted into
the public conscience as through the in-
ﬂuencing of the young mind. “As the
twig is bent, so will the tree incline," and
so the habits of thought and the senti-
ments formed in youth are bound to en-
dure through life. Well may the older
people join in the observance of Arbor
Day to this end. Well may they in the
home follow the example set by the public
school and interest the young peOple in
the observance of the day by the planting
of trees for the further adornment of the
home, or the beautiﬁcation of the farm.
The implanting of a. sentiment of this
kind in the mind of young America means

Arbor Day Sentiment.

 
much for, the future .weil-being of the
country, and to aid and foster the de-
velopment of that sentiment is the most
ﬁtting manner In which we can celebrate
Arbor Day.

The unprecedented
rise in the price of
ﬂaxseed which has
occurred during the past year has caused
a revival of interest in ﬂax production in
many sections and a number of inquiries
have been received from Michigan farm-
ers asking about the practicability of
growing ﬂax on the older soils of this
state. This peculiar condition in the
ﬂaxseed market, which manifests itself
to the average man most forcibly in the
high price of linseed oil and oil meal, is
worthy of consideration at this time, in
view of the interest which 'has been ex-
hibited in the matter of flax production
by Michigan farmers.

First, let us for a moment consider the
cause of this rise in the price of ﬁaxseed

The Flax industry.

'from the usual price of from $1.00 to $1.50

per bushel to the present record breaking
price of $2.25 to $2.35 per bushel, which
now prevails in the Chicago market. Var-
ious reasons are ascribed, such as the
failure of the crop to ﬁll well last year
and a great reduction of imports from
foreign countries, particularly Argentina.
But in reality the more careful investi-
gators believe that "the cause of the short
crop of ﬁaxseed is due to the fact that
ﬂax does not seem capable of being made
a permanent crop in the
any community. It is subject to fungous
diseases which have not yet been suc-
cessfully combated and the plant appears
to deteriorate rapidly Where grown for
long upon any soil or under any given
looal conditions. Thus, while a larger
area is sown each year to ﬂax in the
Dakotas and Minnesota, the crop yields
have fallen off to a marked degree.

As before noted in these columns, the
ﬂax crop has ever been a sort of pioneer
crop in the development of new country.
It f0110wcd the pioneers across the con-
tinent and many a family of their sturdy
descendants still have some of the ﬁne
linen spun and woven by the good old
grandmothers in pioneer days. But with
the passing of pioneer days, the ﬂax
crop has largely passed to newer coun-
tries, partly because it gave place to
other crops and partly because it failed
to give satisfactory results as a regular
factor in theycrop rotation. Large quan-
tities of ﬂax have been produced in the
Dakotas and Minnesota and at present
large quantities are being produced and
for some years will be produced upon the
new prairie soils of Canada, which re-
semble those of the Dakotas and Minne—
sota not a little. It is also believed by
those who have investigated conditions
surrounding its growth and studied the
requirement of this crop carefully, that it
can be grown just as well upon any of
the older fertile lands of the country as
in the new sections which are being de-
veloped, provided it is not grown too
often upon the same land and provided
every precaution is taken to prevent the
spread of the ﬂax wilt and other fungous
diseases which attack it. This may be
done by selecting only good, plump, bright
seed of a good variety and treating it
with formaldehyde solution as grain
would be treated for smut, sowing on
well prepared ground that has not lately
grown ﬂax.

While the price of ﬂaxseed is tempting
it is probable that few Michigan farmers
will undertake its culture, and it is just
as possible that production might be aug-
mented to an extent which may prove
demoralizing to the ﬂaxseed market in
case there was a general attempt to grow
ﬂax upon our older soils. However, as
well informed investigators believe that
on account of the apparent transient na-
ture of the crop flaxseed will continue at
a higher range of value than formerly,
and since it is quite possible that growing
it for ﬁbre may become a more proﬁtable
industry in the future, this is a crop, new
yet old, to Michigan. which may well be
watched with interest for the next few
years, as a possible source of proﬁt to
Michigan farmers.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 
Foreign.

A controversy has arisen between Mex-
ico and the United States regarding the
boundary between the two countries at
El Paso, Texas. The treaty of 1848 ﬁxed
the channel of the Rio Grande River as
the boundary line, but it was later found
that the course of this river changed
considerably due to the fact that Its bed
was largely composed of sand, when
other monuments were made to establish
the limits of the two countries. Claims
are now being made through private par-

'ties that property extended along “the

river for a mile and a, half and varying

an tomes" "

in width to about- four city blocks, is .»

agriculture of '

 
really Mexican, territory owtng to a sud-
den change in the course of the river
due to evulsion and not to accretion. The
state department is now considering the
question; _

An unconﬁrmed report has Just come
to hand of a revolutionary outbreak in
Guatemala. The attack Is against the
president of the Republic and the revo-
lutionists is claimed to be well armed
and have an effective organization.

A plan has been inaugurated for the
establishment of an airship line from
Lucerne, Switzerland, to several points
of advantage in the Alps, the line being
especially prepared for tourists. Two
balloons have already been ordered—one
that will carry eight passengers and the
other 15.

Four occupants of the balloon Delitzsch
belonging to a German aero club, were
killed while passing through an electrical
storm by being struck by lightning.

There is every evidence that another
uprising like the Boxer trouble is at hand
in China. Foreigners are leaving the in-
terior and taking refuge in' the ports
wherever possible. The chief seat of the
trouble seems to be at Chang—Sha where
all the foreign buildings as well as those
rented by foreigners have been destroyed.
Riots also occurred at Hankow. The
situation has been made worse by troops
joining the rioters. -

Demonstrations surpassing any that
have yet been given in honor of Colonel
Roosevelt in his tour through Europe,
took place in AuStria Hungary, where he
was royally received.

The Lloyd expedition organized to as-
cend Mt. McKinley, of Alaska, and inci-
dentally to conﬁrm the discovery of Dr.
Cook, reports that the summit was
reached but failed to verify the route
outlined by Dr. Cook, Measurements
showed-the peak to be 20,500 feet above
sea level.

The American Ambassador at Mexico
City, publishes a report that an intrigue
against this government has been dis-
covered there.

An important biological discovery is
reported from the academy of sciences,
Paris, when a professor of biology of the
University of Bijon stated that he had
developed tadpoles from frog’s eggs by
the aid of a platinum wire.

Twenty—ﬁve persons are reported to
have been killed by a landslide at Kakou—
cache, Quebec, a small place some 60
miles above La. Tuque, where a ballast
train containing the men was buried. by
the moving earth.

The American cruiser Chattanooga
sailed for the mouth of the Yangste-
Kiang river, China, for the purpose of
protecting American interests, as riots
appear to be impending in that commus
nity, following outbreaks in other parts
of the Chinese empire where foreigners
are being subjected to the passions of
the Chinese aroused by jealousies for
their own traditions. Japanese are the
chief sufferers.

There is little likelihood of saving the
transatlantic liner, Minnehaha, which
went on the rocks at Scilly Islands, Sun—
'day. All the passengers were removed
from the unfortunate boat and about a
third of the cattle that were being carried.

British subjects are taking unusual in-
terest in the proceedings of the house of
Commons while the controversy between
the Irish adherents and the English
Chancellor over differences in their ac-
counts are being threshed out,

National.
Not only the city of Nashville, but the
whole state of Tennessee has been

aroused over the action of Governor Pat-
terson in pardoning Col. Cooper from
serving a 20 year sentence for killing
former Senator Carmack. The affair is
sure to open.a political war between the
different political factions in the state,
which will be carried through the June
primary. Mo‘b threats are being made. '

Six ﬁremen were killed while ﬁghting
a blaze in the county jail at New Haven,
Conn., last week.

President Taft will
the early part of June.

Twenty-two buildings were destroyed
by ﬁre Sunday, at Geneva, Y.

The House of Representatives is con-
sidering the administration railroad bill
this week, while the senate is busy with
the rivers and harbors measure.

Under the direction of Mayor Gaynor’s
orders the city of New York had the “lid
on" last Sunday, so far as saloons were
concerned.

The committee having in charge the
street railway strike in Philadelphia,
have agreed to the terms offered by the
railway company and it is expected that
settlement of differences will be com-
pleted soon.

The recent announcement of the Chi—
cago commission men to the effect that
they would hammer down the Elgin quo—
tation for butter failed when the vote
was made, Monday, the Elgin men con-
tinuing, therefore, to be the “makers" of
the creamery quotations for the markets
of the country.

Employes of the New York Central rail-
way company and the operators are ar-
bitrating their differences this week with
the hope that a strike may be averted.

Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, an-
nounces that he will not run again for
the ofﬁce of United States senator. His
departure from the conservative body of
our federal legislature will withdraw a.
personality that has been a. very inﬂuen-
tial factor in important legislative mat-
ters of the national congress for a long
term of years.

It is asserted that cherries in the Grand
Traverse district have been seriously af-
fected by the recent cold wave. Apples
and peaches were not far enough ad-
vanced to be damaged. Strawberries and
nearly all fruits of the states to the south
of Michigan are reported to have sultered
and it is probable that the crop of fruit
will be greatly shortened through the low
temperature.

The American locks at the 800 are be-
ing repaired after the mishaps of last
year’s marine accidents. On account of
the work all the traffic is going through
the Canadian locks, and much congestion
is resulting from the situation. It is ex-

visit Michigan in

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commission by the ﬁrst of May. . -

CROP "AND MARKET NOTES.

Shlawame Co., April 11.—Weather is
colder"with strong prevailing northwest
winds. No rain; heavy frosts. but not
effective enough to kill fruit. Wheat com-
ing on in a ﬁne condition although a few
ﬁelds Were injured by ice. Rye is looking
good and promises a good crop. Oat
seeding well under way. few farmers
have begun plowing for beans. Farmers
are about discouraged with the potato
crop. Very few hogs in the country.
Horses are frequently changing hands at
high prices. Lambs that were on feed
have about gone to market.

Genesee Co., Aprll' 15.—A much needed
rain fell today. Vegetation at least two
Weeks in advance of the season. Oats
seeding about concluded, the earliest in
years. Orchards blooming heavily, little
damage reported from late frosts.‘ Hold-
ers of last season's potato crop will lose
heavily as the market is inactive. Farm
help is scarce and wages high; farmers
are doing the best they can with that
labor they can command. Good roads
construction under supervision of a.
county commisison will be pushed on at
least two main thoroughfares leading
from the county seat, the present season,
macadam being the material selected for
the purpose. All varieties of farm stock
very high. Cows sell from $65 to $95
each, the latter ﬁgure for one grade Hol-
stein at a recent sale. The ﬁgure for
farm horses $335, which was paid for one
on a similar occasion. Yearling colts
bring $150 to $160. Many heavy sows go—
ing to the butcher, thus cutting down the
spring pig crop. Every animal possible
to dispose of is being marketed in alto-
gether too many instances. Grass looks
fairly well, as does wheat. The rain
will help both immensely.

Eastern Oceana Co., April 13.—Our ex-
tremely hot March has cooled off into
cooler April. So far we have had two or
three light frosts, not enough to do any
damage. Our cherry trees are now just
coming into blossom, and promise a full
crop. Wheat, grass and rye are all look-
ing ﬁne but are in need of a good soaking
rain. Oat seeding is now nearing com-
pletion and farmers are turning their at-
tention to preparing the ground for the
corn crop.

Kalkaska Co., April 11.-—March here. as
all through the state, was the marvel of
years; three feet of snow disappeared in
a few days without any rain; there was
no frost in the ground and vegetation
started at once. Much of the stock around
here is now out to pasture. Wheat and
rye are looking Well. A good many oats
and contract peas are already sown.
Prices of farm products remain about as
a month ago, with beef cattle and pork
very scarce. Potatoes, 8@10c a bu; eggs.
18c; butter, 25c; horses being shipped in
231 supply the demand and very high in

cc. .

Gratiot Co., April 16.—This date ﬁnds
Gratiot fully a month ahead of the rogue
lar season. Despite the prophecies that
we would get our March in April, ex-
tremely ﬁne weather has prevailed. There
nave been three freezes on the nights of
the 6th, 7th and 11th. Some fear is felt
for fruit. Only three light rains 'have
fallen since early March and with a few
exceptions no cold winds. Many hesitat-
ed about sowing oats when spring opened,
but for the most part cats have a good
growth. Wheat never promised more
at this date. It has scarcely seen frost
since being sown, for the snow came
early and remained until the cold weather
was over. Pastures are good and feeding
is practically over. New seedings were
never better but old meadows do not
make much showing yet. Many farmers
who drew tile during the winter, began
putting them in as soon as the frost per-
mitted, but abandoned ditching to sow
oats and the tile are still strung along
the course of the intended drain or piled
in the yard. Sheep shearing is well ad-
vanced and the clip is selling at 250. Sev-
eral farmers are holding their beans for
the high prices of seeding time, but they
are now $1.80., The proSpects are good
for a heavy acreage of beans this season.
Butter, 250; eggs, 19c.

Aliegan 00., April 8.—March was a very
ﬁne month as. also, is April so far. There
[has been very little rain, only one shower
this spring that has been of any amount
and it was not very heavy. Wheat and
rye are looking good. Stock enjoying al-
most full pasture. Oats and early pota—
toes are being put in and some oats are
up. Plum and cherry trees are in blos-
som and there is good prospects for a ﬁne
crop of fruit. There have been a large
number of power Sprayers purchased and
much more spraying is being done than
ever before. Quite a lot of potatoes have
been marketed but some are still holding
theirs. They are bringing 12 cents now.
Wheat, $1.10; oats, 40c; corn, 500; hay,
baled, $12@14; eggs, 18c: butter, 20@24c.

Western Marathon and Eastern Clark
Co.,‘s, Wis., April 15.—We had steady
warm weather from the ﬁrst of the month
and an unusually warm March with only
two or three frosts during the last half
of the month. Seeding started about the
25th of March, (something that has not
happened before, to my knowledge, for
the last 25 years), and is all done by this
time. Pasture is in excellent condition
and the occasional warm rains make
things look like the ﬁrst of-June. Rye
and wheat wintered in good shape. Mar-
ket quotations-z Hay about all shipped
out and brought from $9 last fall to $13
at the present time; oats, 38@40c; pota-
toes go begging at 15c per bu., and quite
a lot are in farmers’ hands; butter, dairy,
22@25c; eggs, 19c; good miich cows, $45@
55, and good farm horses very scarce.

Kalkaska Co., April 11.—Weather con-
ditions have been remarkably ﬁne since
Ma‘rch 1. Much spring plowing done;
ground in ﬁne condition to work; not
commenced planting yet. except grass
seed. Stock looking well; all produce
high except potatoes; farmers feeding
large quantities, which Is depleting the
stock rapidly.
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THE FARMER’S SHARE IN THE lNa

CREASED COST OF FOOD PRO-
“DUCTSI

 
Much ‘-has-.-been. said recently, and is
being said now, about the increased cost
of living. ‘Many food products, and es-
pecially that food products, are higher
than "usual and the consumer 'is 'much
concerned. And he‘has a right to be, be-
cause it is not a pleasant idea to con-
template when meat products become so
scarce and so high that the ordinary
'workingman cannot afferd 'to have meat
at his table every day. Yet such is the
case in many of the countries of the old
world. Such has been the history of the
'human race and of nations. In a new
country where land is cheap and abund-
ant, food animals have been produced so
cheapely that 'meat was within the reach
of all and, in fact, nearly as cheap as any
food product. But as a country develops,
as population increases and there is a
consequently greater demand for food,
there has always beenan‘increase in the
cost of animal food products, so that
eventually it was practically impossible
for the “common wage earner to afford
meat upon his table three times a day.
In fact, in some countries we are told
that the laboring man can only eat meat
once a day and in some instances once a
week. Grain and vegetable crops are
much cheaper and so he makes the most
of his diet on these products. This will
probably sometime be the case in "the
United States, and while this state of
affairs is not pleasant to contemplate yet
I expect we must face it, for this has
ever been the trend of history.

At the present time many of the con-
sumers of this country ‘have an idea that
the farmer is getting more than his share
of the increased price of food products.
The consuming public is prone to believe
that the increased price is so much added
proﬁt to the farmer; but this is not the
case. The farmer’s expenses have in-
creased in proportion to the increased
price. The reason why beef and pork
and eggs and dairy products are not as.
cheap as they formerly were is because
the farmer has found out that he cannot
afford to produce them at past prices.
He must have an increased price or he
cannot afford to produce them at all. All
of this comes about from natural and not
from artificial causes. If a farmer can
make more by selling his corn and Cats
and other grain products direct as human
food than he can in feeding them tomcat
producing animals, “he is going to do it—
it is only a matter of business. But the
average consumer does not look at it in
this way. He seems to think that there
is some combination which is forcing up
prices .unduly, but I believe this is un—
true. It .is really amusing to read what
the metropolitan newspapers and maga—
zines print about these affairs. They
seem to ﬁgure the gross receipts from the
farm as net receipts. To read them, one
would think that the farmer is getting
wealthy, that he is simply rolling in
wealth, while, as a matter of fact, we
farmers know that the farmer is not get-
ting so much for his share of the price
of food products. One modern metropoli—
tan magazine writer says that the crops
produced, on the American farms last
year sold for the enormous sum of nearly
$9,000,000,000, more than three times the
amount of money in circulation in the
United States today, and he goes on fur-
ther and says that if all the farmers in
the United States could be made into one
gigantic farmer, and you could turn him
bottom side up and shake his pockets,
that $9,000,000.000 would fall out of them.
Now, this is not so. The farmer would
not have it. He ﬁgures that the farmer
has all the money that his crops sell for.
He ﬁgures gross receipts as net receipts.
NOW after this farmer has paid for the
cost of production, he would not have
nine billion dollars. I .sell $7,000 or
$8,000 worth of products from my farm
in a year. That’s the gross receipts, but
after I 'pay for the 'labor, the taxes, the
cost of repairs and the other expenses,
and deduct that from the gross receipts,
I assure you that I have no more money
than I ought to have from my investment
and my labor, and so after .the legitimate
expenses are paid from this production of
$9,000,000,000 worth of products, the farm-
ers of the United States have no more
than their share. ~Really, I do not believe
they have their share yet. After the cost
of prod-notion is deducted from this, and
the resultant amount is distributed
among the 2,600,000 farmers of the United
States .we ﬁnd .that the amount of ‘money
received by each one, amounts to but lit-
tle-,more than who 4 average wage earner
earns. ”While the rwerage wage earner

m—ou-MWsa . . . . .

'EI‘B, 1 WCHIGAN FARMER.

learns this money alone by his own ef-
iftmts, sin .a great many instances the
amount «received ”by the tanner is owned
by the whole :family, the :wife and the
children assist thefarmer and they uni-

:tedly earn but little more during the year.

than the average icity wage earner.

One 'good authority claims that of the
dollar which the consumer pays, the
farmer receives only 35 cents. Thistle, .of
course, on the average. So far as I know
this statement 'has not been disproved,
and if this is so, then I do not believe
the farmer receives as much as he ought
to. He is not getting his share instead
of getting more than his share. In my
opinion it would be more fair if the
farmer received 65 cents for producing,
than the 35 cents. It don’t look reason-
able that the farmer should receive only
35 cents of the dollar while the cost of
distribution is 65 cents. Secretary Wil-
son, in discussing this question claims
that it is costing too much in this country
to distribuate the food products which
are :pnoducod on the farm. He says that
where 19 men are now employed in such
distribution, only one is necessary. Here,
then, .is .one great cause for the increased
cost .of living 'in our cities. It is costing
too much to distribute our food products.
The :farmer is not getting too much for
his labor. In fact, he is not getting
enough, but after the farmer produces it
it is costing too much to get this product
into the hands of the consuming public.

To be sure, the farmer is getting .more
than he used to, and he ought to. If the
farmer is beginning to have his inning
now, he has waited long and patiently
for it. It 1is time that it is at hand. We
all know that back in the 90’s there were
hundreds of thousands of bushels of the
staple agricultural products of this coun-

try that were raised upon the farms of

America and put upon ‘the market at less

than the cost of production if the farmer
figured his time worth. anything. He .did-

There was no other:
family practically

it because he had to.
way. He and his
worked for nothing.

the increased value of his farm from this,
the farmer would be worth 110 more today
than he was a number of years ago, but
the development of the country has in-
creased the value of his property so that
in this way he has made something, but
not out of the legitimate business of
farming. The farmer 'has never had any-
thing to say about the selling price of his
goods. He has simply produced them,
and put them upon the market and the
great law of supply and demand has
fixed the price. If the time has come
when the farmer can havesomething to'
say about the price which .he is to take
for his products it is no more than just
and only places him on a par with other
business men. Why should the farmer
not add a certain per cent proﬁt to the
cost of production for the selling price of
his goods the same as any other business
man?
COLON C. LILLIE.

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Try ‘This Woman’s Theory and They Will Be.

IKE begets like,” we are told, and
I the saying is proven true often

enough to keep it alive. But it is
just as often false, as the observing have
noticed. For instance, have you ever
noticed delicate children from “strong,
healthy parents and heard the parents
wonder why their children were so puny?
And seen strong, vigorous children from
parents whose own vitality was below
par, and heard all the neighbors wonder

who the children “took after.” In such
cases apparently, “like did not beget

like,” much to the credit’of the sickly
parents, and to the everlasting shame of
the strong ones.

Three generations of one family illus-
trate both sides of this. The grandmother
is a strong, vigorous,‘ robust woman, one
of these women we describe as “a
stormer to work.”
works until seven at the hardest sort of
housework, and has worked this way ail
hcr life. Indeed, her proudest boast is
that she churned, washed a two-weeks’
washing for six people and scrubbed the
kitchen floor the morning of the day her
daughter was born, all by way of proving
her own super—abundant vitality.

The daughter is a listless, lifeless sort
of woman, one of these women who work
just because they feel they must, but
with no energy or enjoyment in the labor.
She is always tired, and while never
really down sick is in that half-dead half-
alive state which is worse than sickness;
a state of chronic weakness and lowered
vitality, but without organic disease. The
children are like the grandmother. vigor-
ous, healthy ,strong little animals who
do not know the meaning of the word
tired and who promise to be stalwart men
and women. \Vhy is it that the strong
mother produced a puny daughter while
the weak mother has such strong, active
children? The daughter thinks she knows,
and this is her theory.

Somehow she never liked to lhear her
own mother tell what marvels in the way
of hard work she (lid before her children
were born. The daughter always had an
idea that those large washings and fre-
quent scrubbings of floors of which her
mother boasted, had much to do with
her own lowered vitality. She mistrusted
that she had been robbed of her birth-
right of strength and health by a dirty
kitchen ﬂoor and soiled farm clothes.
She believed, without actually knowing
it to be true, that the strength her mother
should have saved and given to the bab-
ies who were coming had been turned
into the channel of hard manual labor.
During the years she was growing into
womanhood she thought a great deal
about it and when at last she married
and the experience of motherhood was
coming to ‘her, she asked the family phy-
sician what he thought of it, and if he
thought by right living just now, sne
might be the mother of a strong, healthy
baby instead of a weakling like herself.

The doctor instantly saw the correct-
ness of her reasoning. He advised her as
to dieting and bathing and resting and
exercising and working. In short, the two
drcw up a. plan of living by which they
believed the baby might be given a fair
deal. The mother absolutely refused to
use the little strength she had in doing
hard work, if thereby she was going to

She is up at ﬁve and'

rob the baby. The kite-hen ﬂoor shocked
the grandmother terribly, but the mother
stubbornly insisted that it was better to
live with a dirty floor than to rob a hu-
man being of its divine right of strength.
She had not the strength to scrub ﬂoors
and at the same time give strength to a
growing child, Uherefore she would do the
mest important thing. Floors could be
scrubbed any time, but a child could
have but one chance for life and strength.

The theory held good. The baby was a

by plant fancier-s, the dandelion rallsvun-
der. the ban, being. too commorLto attract
attention from any but the nature lover.

The fastidious lawn keeper anathema-
tizes the dandelion, and much of his
spare time is spent in digging out its
spreading rootlets. But, so far from
spurning this lowly plant, the nature v0
tary dotes upon and delights to see its
golden petals embroidering lane and foot-
path and yellowing the green sward about
his home. It appeals to sentiment not
alone, but to appetite as well; and oft
when hungry for a mess of pottage he
plucks its pleasantly bitter leaves and
converts them into “greens.”

IF * ill

The prettiest lawns seen along one of
the most exclusive streets of a town
through which I recently passed were
thickly covered with dandelion blossoms,
and the suggestions of rusticity which
they served to impart were pleasing and
restful after the stiff grandeur of lawns

 
Gathering
strong, lusty youngster so much like his
grandmother that she forgave the dirty
ﬂoors and lax housekeeping. lie was
trained into regular habits of eating and
sleeping, fed carefully on good, plain,
nourishing foods, milk and eggs predom-
inating at ﬁrst, followed by toast, crack-
ers and well—cooked cereals. He was
bathed daily and kept out in the open air
with warm, loose clothing; slept alone in
his own little bed, and was only cuddled
when he showed he wanted it. Other
children followed and received the same
care. The delicate mother is proud of
her four vigorous children. The neighbors
wonder and talk and have finally con-
cluded that it is only a. reversion to type,
the children have gone back to the stock
of the grandmother and the mother is
merely an incident.

But the mother smiles happily, for she
knows it is her own wisdom and care
which gave to her children their splendid
vitality.

DEBORAH.

 
THE ESTHETIC AND THE USEFUL
SIDES OF DANDELION.

BY LYDIA J. RYALL.

“'herever business may lead, or vag-
rant fancy entice, in and out among farms
anx’d villages that intersperse the average
country-side, the observer is constantly
greeted by that persistent little plant, the
dandelion. A really beautiful ﬂoral pro-
duct, its bright double blossom would be
freely conceded as such but for its
overabundance. However, since rarity
forms one of the cardinal virtues sought

 
Thrifty Plants of Dandellons Grow in Waste Places.

 
1

Dandelions.

adjacent where such common things were
not permitted. \Vith morning dew still
upon them, I saw. in the hands of school
children, two large bouquets of dandelion
blossoms and felt impressed with the
beauty of their missfin~—that of bright-
ening and blessing the wayside.

I once looked into the casket of a great
man—great in good and~useful deeds as
well as in intellectual achievements.
Masses of the rarest ﬂowers lined the
slecpcr’s satin couch and banked it deeply
without; but the blossoms that lay near—
cst his heart was a. simple yellow dande-
lion, placed there by a friend. ‘Vhile liv-
ing this man had ever loved the simple
and unobtrusive, and perceived beauty
where others could not, hence the ﬁtting
character of the offering.

Ctmsidcred in a purely practical way,
the value of the dandelion cannot be over-
estimated. Besides its use by pharma-
cists in compounding medicines, the plant
figures as a culinary article of real import-
ance. being used as such to greater or less
extent in every community. Especially is
this true in early spring, when cellar pro-
ducts have grown scarce and garden sal-
ads are still in embryo. This also is the
season when spring fevery conditions pre-
vail, and a mess of dandelion tones the
appetite and touches and fills a hungry
spot that nothing in the family larder can
reach. Sunny places around deserted
farm buildings, about stumps and rotting
logs, in fence corners, 10w bottoms, and
wherever the soil is moist, rich, and loose
are some of the spots where the dande-
lion ﬁrst appears. The housewife knows
bcst its lurking places under cover of last
year’s leaves. With a. sharp knife she
cuts each plant deep into the earth, thus
to secure its tender, yellow heart, and
deposits in her basket. Having been
carefully picked over and washed through
two or three changes of water, the for-
age is ready for use.

* III II!

There are several ways of serving, Ger-
man salad—a general favorite—being pre~
pared as follows: After frying several
slices of bacon or ham, remove contents,
leaving about one. tablespoonful of drip-
pings in the pan. Place over the ﬁre, and
when hot pour in some good cider vine—
gar, weakened with a little water. Add
salt, pepper, and a bit of sugar. With a
knife, cut the dandelion ﬁne as possible
and 'turn it into the hot vinegar, stirring
rapidly with a fork. A few seconds will
sufﬁce. When slightly wilted, dish up and
serve at once. Too much wilting spoils it.

Another 'way is to make a. thin ﬂour
gravy, adding vinegar, salt, pepper, a lit-

APRIL 23, 19,10.

‘

A Surprise in Brooklyn.
An adult’s food. that can save a baby
proves itself to be nourishing and easily
digested and good for big and little folks.

A Brooklyn man says:
“When baby was about eleven months

 
CIDER

 
old he began to grow thin and pale. This
was, at ﬁrst, attributed to the heat and
the fact that his teeth were coming, but,
in reality, the poor little thing was starv-
ing, his mother‘s milk not being sufficient
nourishment.

“One day after he had cried bitterly

for an hour, I suggested that my wife try ‘1

him on Grape—Nuts. She soaked two
‘teaspoonfuls in a saucer with' a little sugar
and warm milk. This baby ate so raven-
ously that she ﬁxed a second which he
likewise ﬁnished.

“It was not many days before he forgot
all about being nursed, and has since lived
almost exclusively on Grape—Nuts. Today
the boy is strong and robust, and as cute
a mischief-maker as a thirteen months
old baby is, expected to be.

“We have put before him other foods,
but he will have none of them, evidently
prefering to stick to that which did him
so much good—his old friend Grape-Nuts.

“Use this letter any way you wish, for
my wife and I can never praise Grape-
Nuts enough after the brightness it has
brought to our householc.”

Grape-Nuts is not made for a baby
food, but experience with thousands of
babies shows it to be among the best,
if not entirely the best, in use. Being a
scientiﬁc preparation of Nature’s grains,
it is equally effective as a body and brain
builder for grown-ups.

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Ever read the above letter? A
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time. They are genuine, true,
and full of human interest.

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tle sugar; and a hard-boiled egg sliced or
choppedfﬁn'e. It,.-:slwuld»be served vwhile
hot.

A handful of tender horseradish leaves,

or .of “Crowsfoot”—a peppery plant found .

in the wOods—may be added to the dande-
lion, and the whole chopped ﬁne. Served
cold, with sugar, vinegar, and a bit of
salt, this dish has a decided tone and is
well suited to certain tastes.

The best and most appetizing way to
prepare dandelion, howevei, is to boil
with pork until tender. Thoroughly drain,
butter, and serve with slightly sweetened
vinegar. The addition of yellow, or nar-
row-leaved dock, horseradish leaves, wild
mustard, and “lamb‘s quarter” makes a
further improvement. Pared potatoes
may be boiled with the greens.

In nearly every family through many
sections of the country the plant forms
a staple article and is used daily, not
alone in spring, but to a limited extent
the summer through. Yourng plants .come
up from the seed later on in the season—
through the orchard and in other shady,
moist places. These remain tender until
fall.

A novel feature, often seen, is the cul-
tivation of dandelion in gardens where it
is planted in rows and carefully tended.
The plants grow rapidly and are more
tender than the wild ones. Convenience
of access is another point in favor of this
plan.

 
A FOOD RICH IN NOURISHING PROP-
ERTIES.—No. 12.

 
BY MRS. ALTA L. LITTELL.

ERHAPS no class of food is less

P understood by the average house-

keeper or less utilized than legu~
m'inous foods, beans, peas and lentils.
Indeed the 'last named is never used here
at all, or only as a most unusal dish to
be regarded more as a curiosity than as
a regular article of diet, and yet lentils
contain twice as much protein as bread
and three per cent more than beef
Beans, too, contain 23 per cent protein
and dried peas 22 per cent, while the
starch in all three is over 50 per cent.
No other foods contain such a high per
cent of both starch and protein which is
needed for the human system, and there
would be no cheapr nor better food for
man than these legumes, if they were
more digestible.

Unfortunately, these foods are difficul t
to digest, the casein or legumin, which
forms the protein, being the most difﬁcult
of all proteins to digest. Indeed, people
with weak powers of digestion can
scarcely digest beans and peas at all. If
they could, the question of high-priced
meat could be settled'over night, for
well-cooked beans or dried peas would
supply the protein necessary for sub~
sistence. People who are not troubled
with indigestion, however, can not ﬁnd a
more nouris'hing food, and for hard work-
ers, especially those who work out doors,
there is no more nutritious food. As this
nourishment is packed away in a small
bulk, and the dried beans and peas will
retain their nourishing properties for
years if properly cared for, there is no
cheaper food of the same bulk to be
found.

Beans should be well cooked, and a lit-
tle cooking soda added to the water soft—
ens the casein and makes it more digest—
ible. Split peas, or dried peas. are not
quite so digestible as beans. They. too,
should be boiled long and carefully, and
are best used in a soup.

I11 cooking young peas and beans, do
not throw away the water in which they
are cooked and serve them with milk or
white sauce as is usually done, The
water should always be served with the
vegetables as it contains minerals which
are of great value to the body, and which
cook out in the water. Put them in just
a little boiling water, so there will be
only a tablespoonful or so left when the
vegetables are cooked.

We all talk of, Boston b‘hked beans, but
few of us know how to bake them. The
beans should be soaked over night in cold
w,ater and in the morning drained and
put to boil with enough cold water to
cover. Keep the wate1 just below the
boiling point, thus cooking the beans
slowly, until the skins burst. Then drain
the beans, put a slice of pork in the bot-
tom of your bean pot, if you haven’t one
a coverd pail will do, add the beans, put
in the center a piece ,of pork, which has
had the rind cut through in several places.
and pour over’ the beans and pork a tea-
spoont’ul'of salt, a tablespoonful of mo-
lasses and three’of sugar, mixed with a
cup of boiling water. Ifirthis does not
just cover the beans, add enough more

.it will be observed, posses a natural tastel

boiling water to cover. Then cover your
v-‘hean rpot or-pail and bake-very-slowly for
six hours, removing the cover‘ the last
hour to 'brown.

 
SHORTCUTS T0 HOUSEKEEFI‘NG.

 
This department is opened as a
means of exchange of new and suc-
cessful ideas in homemaking. If you
have learned something in cooking,
sewing, child raising, fancy work,
economy, anything which is helpful,
and new, send it in. Twenty-ﬁve
cents will be paid for every article
used, but none will bereturned. Keep
your suggestions short.

 
For your creeping bab‘y make a pair
of black sateen bloomers, or of any dark
goods, run an elastic in the top and slip
on over his clothes.-Mrs. G. A. R.

When you wash men’s overalls and
shirts lay them on the washrbonrd and
take a scrub brush to them with plenty
of soap. You will be surprised how easily
they come clean.—Mrs. G, A. R.

When preparing chopped raisins for
your cooking, try clipping them with your
shears. It is so much quicker and saves
dirtying up a chopping bowl and knife.—
Mrs. G. A. R.

Instead of darning heels in stockings I
crochet them. Chain around the hole,
then double one and miss one until closed.
\Vhen cutting the yarn leave about six
inches and darn back and forth to close

any small opening this; makes a very
neat and quick darn, worth trying.—
Mrs. C. S.

When washing fruit jars, wash in hot
soap suds. Do not dry them, but drain

The result‘will be a
and quick work—Mrs. C. S.

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GOOD TASTE IN DRESS.

 
BY E. E. R.

To dress with good taste a woman need
not necessarily be possessed of a. fat
pocketbook. The simplest attire may ex-
press this quality which is sometimes
entirely lacking in one representing ten
times the amount of money.

Good taste means not alone being he-
comingly gowned but appropriately as
well. A plain tailored Stilt for nine oc-
casions out of ten will be in keeping.
where the elaborately trimmed gown
would mark its wearer as over~dressed.

It is always safer to depend on one
good garment rather than on more than
that number of inferior ones, if the supply
must be limited. Such a garment will
hold its shape and color better, while
cheap goods are never entirely satisfac-
tory in this respect. With several shirt-
wa-ists to afford a change a single jacket
and skirt can be worn for a long time
without attracting attention to the same-
ness of this part of the attire.

Neatness is the first requirement of
good taste in dress. Loose buttons, miss-
ing hooks and dangling braid are posi-
tively repelling as are spots and stains
which betray a carelessness not at all'
attractive.

Good taste is shown nowhere more c011-
spicuously than in hats. In selecting one
for general wear it should be suitable to
the demands made upon it and not out of
harmony with the rest of the attire.
Black, while a stand—by. shows dust badly
and some different color might be more
satisfactory, for wear on country roads.
Freak shapes may be successfully worn
in occasional instances, but something
less conspicuous is certainly in better
taste for the average person. Cheap trim-
mings soon grow shabby and in their
latter estate are inexpressibly less invit-
ing than when fresh.

Neckwear, gloves, shoes and hosiery
as well as underclothing, all call for
taste in selecting. The girl or woman
who would follow this guidon remembers
that nezttness is demanded at all times,
and that a fresh linen stock above a
shirtwaist both immaculately laundered.
goes far toward excusing even a shabby
skirt if the latter is free from spots and
nicely pressed.

Lastly, to be on the safe side, it is
well to adhere to the one—tone scheme
as far as convenient. The woman who
selects the color most becoming to her and
makes that the chief note in her dress
will sccurc an effect in the long run su—

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s cheap at $1. 25 to $1. 50 m stores. We import tl.1em
You can have your choice for a while for only $1. 25. We send them postage

If you want them registered, send 10 cents additional. The ﬁrst one may

 
THE MICHIGAN FARMER, Detmit,~. Mich.

  
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in dress which never deserts them, some-
thing hard to describe yet easy to recog-
nize whenever or wherever found.

HUME QUERIES EXGHANGE"

Dear Editorz—I saw in the Michigan
Farmer that Mrs, D. H. would tell how
to make soap. I wish she would write
and tell how. I had good soap grease and
lye strong enough to carry an egg but
it would not become hard. I would like
to know how to make it hard and how
much ’Ealt to use to the gallon. ~Mrs. P.

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Dear Editor: —I saw your kind offer to
answer questions in the Michigan Farmer
and would like to ask what your advice
would be about my baby. She is ten
months old, weighed eight pounds at birth
and now only weighs 14 pounds Has
weighed 14 pounds most of the winter
does not gain She has only two teeth,
seems well, is very bright and pla_1s like
any other child of 'hei 1ge. For the last
month we have been giving her cow‘s
milk, half 11".ate1 thinking perhaps m1
milk was not nouiisltiug enough for her.
But she does not gain. She has always
been very constipated. The doctor said
to give her glvcerine injections and that
is what we 'use I dont kno11 11 111 she zs
constipated as I am not troubled that
way at all, and our other child. who is
five, was never bothered. The baby seems
to have the colic a great deal, especially
at night. I am verv careful what I eat.
She takes abOut half a pint of ,(0w ’5 milk
in a day now besides what I have for her.
\Vould you please advise me what to do
about her food and What to feed her?
Should I wean her next month when she
has only two teeth. I am a large woman
and very, very nervous and sometimes
I think that affects her. I do my own
work for a family of four and take care
of the milk of three cows and tend the
chickens, so you see I keep busy. Thank-
ing you in advance—Mrs. V., Covert.

The fact that the baby does not grow
shows she is not getting enough nourish—
ment, while the fact that she seems well
and bright shows that what she does gct
agrees with her. I should wean her next
month by all means. Every baby should
be weaned at ten or eleven months, as
after that the mother‘s milk is not good
for them. zegin feeding her toast,
eggs, crackers, well cooked rice, farina,
tapioca and other starches. As she is
constipated. oatmeal would probably be
good for her, as oatmeal is loosening,
while rice is binding. Start ftcding hcr
half an egg in the morning and half in
the afternoon and gradually feed more
until she takes two eggs a day. Give her
the toast dry to chew on and it will help
her teeth to come through. A half pint
of milk a day is not nearly enough. Many
children at her age take a quart, but, of
course, you should not make such a de-
cided change at once. Give her a little,
bit more each day, not more than two
or three tcaspoonfuls a day. until you
can tell by her condition she is taking
all she can digest. Your physical condi-
tion will of course, affect the baby. If
you are very nervous it will affect your
digestion and so act on the baby.

A BETTER CURE FOR SENSITIVE-
NESS.

Dear Editorz—As 1 read the article,
“The World Cure for the Sensitive \Vom—
an,” I am convinced of its truth and its
error. In the ﬁrst place we must divide
the sensitive women into two classes.
There are those who are selﬁshly sensi-
tive and those who are really of a sensi-
tive disposition. For the first class I
should prescribe “The World Cure,” but
let me tell you that for the truly sensitive
soul there is something better than a
cure and I might say the only successful
method, it is prevention. I wonder how
many people who are not so tried ever
questioned what made the sensitive
woman weak? To the strong, dauntless
person this failing may seem almOst ridi-
culous, but remember it is a real problem
stern and severe, to the suffering indi-
vidual.

Sensitive natures may be either natural
or cultivated, or both. \Vhichever the
case may be, correction cannot be made
too soon. Better build up the character
from infancy than to try to repair it in
later years. It is much easier and more
gratifying to the true heart to lend a
kind word or a thoughtful act here and
there than to sl10ck that overwrought ner-
v0us system by ridicule. And who of us
mortals are so unerring in judgment that
we may wisely chastise another mortal?
O, we do not know how deeply or how
fatally our scorn or ridicule may wound
another soul!

I have taken pains to note the causes
which lay the foundations of sensitiveness
and this is what I have observed: Be-
sides disease, it sometimes occurs from
overmuch attention paid to more comely
relatives or playmates; to unkind com-
ments about defects of the manner or

 
THE MICMEAN FARM

person; sometimes to poverty or lack of
advantages; but above all other things, .it
is too often due to a. very disagreeable
habit, on the part of parent or caretaker,
of critising, picking out this individual or
that one and sometimes every one and
analyzing them, either favorably or un-
favorably before the younger members of
the family. This is sure to ruin any
child. The one that is naturally self-re-
liant at once takes the judgment seat and
sits in judgment upon his fellows while
the timid, and often more conscientious
ones begin to analyze their own faults
and wonder 110w others are criticising
them. They begin to look for indications
of approval or displeasure from every one
they come in contact with. They gradu-
ally become apt in the art of discerning
and each success unduly flutters them as
each censure depresses them. Finally they
find themselves the slaves of self-con—
sciousncss. They become despondent and
even remorseful as they see others of
less. or no more. capability out—stripping
them in the race of life, simply because
they can fearlessly wield their powers of
intellect.

Much tact is needed in training such
children for not only their happiness but
their success and health depend upon it.
\Vatch the weak places in the character
and guide the trembling foot over the
slippery places. Study the child; if it is
not perfectly happy there is either sorrow
or ill health or ill temper which must be
checked by a loving hand, not by petting
or scolding but by making them unmind-
ful of their ills. If they are bashful, give
them a little attention and draw out their
best thoughts for others to observe and
it will give them courage and pleasure to
fcel that they have something to offer
that will help to interest others. How-
ever, do not fuss, for fussing is just as
detrimental as lack of attention for it
makes them dependent. See that they
have, some associates of their own age,
to spcnd a little time with now and then.
If some one has been unkind enough to
make remarks about them let them know
that you are sorry, but that it is not of
so much consequence after all, as only
the ill—bred are guilty of such rudeness.
’l‘cll them we should never take notice of
othcrs‘ dt'fects as we see that it may
wound their feelings.

If they are neglected by some more fav~
orcd acquaintance, teach them to find
liappincss in the fountains Which the
world can not foul, in useful labor, in art,
in music, in drives, visits to the parks or
woods and in the companionship of rela-
tives and in the beauty of flowers and
by visiting the sick and afﬂicted. Keep
them busy and interested and they will
not take so much notice of slights.

Mothers and fathers, let your children
know that you love them. Do not spare
all your affection to lavish on them after
they have, felt the bitterness of blasted
hopes. Children are far more jealous of
the parents’ love than their proud little
hearts will admit. Make them your con—
fidants. Make. them feel that all the
treasure, all the, love and all the knowl-
edge you possess is freely theirs as they
need it, that they need not feel driven to
strangers for attention, for love, for in-
formation or companionship, and the sen-
sitive child will not prove a failure.

Even if your carthly store is small you
can give her a reasonable educaion, you
can teach her in all of the necessary pur-
suits of life and faithfulness to duty. Then
if she must shift for herself see that she
has a position which she can, with per-
severance, successfully ﬁll. If she has
been properly instructed in regard to
what the world may expect of her, and
taught to act independently of the influ-
ence of others, our sensitive girl will put
her foot upon the threshold of life and
business to enter the world a conqueror.
The ways of the world will strengthen
her and she, will prove indispensable even
to that unheeding mass of humanity.
But God pity the sensitive, wage-earner
with no loving hand to guide her steps
and no protection to which she may flee.

GRIZELDA LEE.

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APRIL 23, 1910.

g FARMERS’ CLUBS]

 
OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-
TION OF FAR’MERS' CLUBS.
President—B. A. Holden, Wixom.
Vice-president—Mrs. C, A. Mathews.
St. Johns.

Secretary—Mrs. C. B. Johnson Meta-
mora. .
Treasurer—Henry T. Ross, Brighton.

Corresponding Secretary—Clayton Cook,

Owosso. .
Directors—T. B. Halladay, Norvell; E.
C, Hallock, Almont; A. R. Palmer, Jack-

son; Wm. Marks, Fair Haven; C. L.
Wright, Caro; E. Woodruff. Blan-
chard.

Address all communications ‘relative to
the organization of new clubs to Mrs.
P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.

YEARLY PROGRAMS.

 
Columbia Farmers' Club.

One of the latest of the printed yearly
programs to come to the editor’s desk,
is that of the Columbia Farmers' Club
of Jackson county. It is a neatly pre-
pared booklet containing simply the name
of the club and the year for which the
program is to serve, upon the outside
of the cover. On the title page in addi-
tion to the year for which the program is
to serve, appears the year in which the
club was organized, which was 1887. On
the following page is an announcement
of the date of meetings, which, from
October to and including April, begin at
10:30 a. m., and from May to September
at 1:30 p. m., on the second Saturday in
each month. The next page contains a
list of the ofﬁcers and the executive com-
mittee of the club, while the following
page is devoted to the order of business
which is followed at the various meet-
ings. The succeeding pages are devoted
to the monthly meetings for the ﬁscal
year, beginning with March and closing
with February, one page for each meet-
ing. Farms of the members are named
and the farm name apepars with that‘of
the host in each case. At practically
every meeting throughout the year. the
ladies are represented on the program
either with papers or in the discussion of
some practical subject relating to the
farm home life. The musical numbers
are not announced on the program. being
provided 'by a committee appointed for
the purpose. The special features for the
year are a home-coming meeting in Au-
gust, an annual fair in October, and a
special corn day in November. A vaca-
tion is taken during July, no meeting
being held during that month. Roll call
is answered in a variety of ways, includ—
ing the names of native birds, the naming
of our national heroes, quotations, remin-
iscences, mention of leading events,
timely topics, etc. The range of subjects
which are discussed is broad. and alto-
gether the program is one which apepars
to be of a particularly complete and
interesting nature.

 
CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

Crop Reports a Feature of Club Work.
—JThe Looking Glass Valley Farmers’
Club closed its year’s work with a mon-
ster sugar social at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Bush, April 8, over 150 being
present. The'amresident, A B. Niles, and
wife, are moving away, and the club. to
show their appreciation of their faithful
work presented them a silver bread tray.
The vice-president, H, S. Bliss. and wife,
having recently lost their home by ﬁre,
Were presented with a dinner set. Fine
music and recitations made up the pro-
gram, with a resume or the year's crop
reports as follows: Proﬁt on oats per
acre, $14.50; corn, $16; potatoes. $39;
beans, $16; cloverseed, $19: hay. $17.
Proﬁt on cows per head, $45; sheep, $5.80;
hogs, $8.50. Programs for the new year
Were distributed. These include reports
of crops and live stock and an effort will
be made to use a uniform rate of land
rent, and estimate of labor.

The March meetings of the club in-
cluded the reports on cloverseed and hay.
Also a ﬁne local option lecture by Judge
Newkirk, of Ann Arbor. Mrs. Helen
Rowe, of Mt. Pleasant, furnished several
beautiful vocal solos at the meeting of
March 24. Altogether, we reel that the
meetings have furnished not only pleas—
ure and proﬁt to all, but have given a
pronounced moral uplift to our commu-
nity—Bel Maier, Reporter,

Discuss High Prices—The Odessa
Farmers' Club met with Mr. and Mrs.
John Klahn. Saturday afternoon, April 9.
The meeting was called to order by
Vice—President Henry Stinchcomb. and
opened by singing by the young people.
Mrs. Zeno Carter read a nicely prepared
paper on the subject. “Our Club—its
ideals and possibilities.” The reading
was followed by a general discussion.
Marquis Foght took as a subject for his
talk, “Is the increase of population the
cause of high prices?” This, too. was
well discussed and was decided in the
negative. Miss Brown gave an instru-
mental solo. Mrs. Klahn and her helpers
served a nice supper and the meeting
was adjourned to meet the second Sat-
urday in May with Mrs. and Mrs. C. S.
Lawrence—Lottie M. Durkee, Reporter.

 
THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

Organization and It:
Summit Farmers' Club met in March at
the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Vre-
denberg. After the business and dinner
was disposed of we listened to the general
discussion of the topic, “Is organization
of any benefit to the farmer?" led by
F. M. Ellison. “I believe in organization
for social and intellectual purposes, but
not to form a. trust. Everything but po—
tatoes brings fair prices. We must not
lose sight of the fact that supply and
demand regulates the prices.” . E.
Mount, who led in favor bf organization,
said: “Farmers are an indispensable
class, the backbone of the nation. We
are the producers and people live'by
what they eat. Trusts make the prices
for us, whether we buy or sell. If farm-
ers would organize they could have things
things just about their own way, and
they “lie to boss 8. little once in a while,
but in order to be successful they would
need to have higher ideals than the
trusts that predominate today. The ag-
riculture of the country must be devel—
oped in order to feed the world. Let us
organize, not to rob, but to feed; not to
be extortioners, but benefactors. Would
the farmers stand? Think they would
not on the start; would probably make
some retreats,- but the boys in jeans
could be taught that they had a mission
and educated to stand." J. McDevitt:
“The trusts manage all the things we
need. Do not believe in organizing to
form a trust, but for protection, and to
buy the things we need in a business-
like manner." F. M. Ellison: Do not be-
lieve organization would beneﬁt the far-
mer only for social and intellectual pur-
poses." G. E. Mount: “It takes money
and resources to feed the country. Be-
cause farmers in the past did not stand
together is no reason why they cannot
be educated to stand, and if they organ-
ize to better conditions they will stand."
At our next meeting the question for
discussion will be. “Should farmers ask
for the passage of the parcels post bill
now before congress?" to be led by J. L.
Berry and W. Blaker—J. Loinc Eddy,
Cor. Sec.

Hold Enthusiastic Meeting.—The March
me ting of the Maple River Farmers’
Clu was held the last Thursday of the
month at the pleasant home of Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Cook and family. The meeting
was largely attended by both club mem—
bers and invited friends from the city
and other curbs. The meeting was called
to order promptly at eleven o‘clock and
business matters concerning club work
were discussed. The meeting then ad-
journed for dinner which was a promi«
nent part of the social gathering. The
local option outlook was a theme for
earnest discussion by the members who
are strongly temperance in sentiment.
“Sister of St. Patrick's Day" was very
entertainingly presented in an excellent
paper by Mrs. W'illiam Scranton who
reviewed the history of St. Patrick‘s fam—
ily and his influence upon his ‘home
church. His work was principally con-
ﬁned to Ireland and under his manage-
ment one of the most famous schools of
the dark ages was built up and main-
tained.

“Managing a Wife” was ably presented
by Ira Snyder, who found his subject
rather difﬁcult to approach. He had
found that it was not an easy question
to master. He advocated co-operative
sentiment in the family when such could
be sustained. Mr. Snyder thought that
it was just as well to let the wife do her
own ﬁguring as far as possible only at
times interceding simply in the capacity
of a Sign board.

Highways vs. Waterways—“Resolve
that government aid would be of more
beneﬁt to our people if placed upon our
highways than our rivers and harbors."
was the subject of a debate presented by
(I. B. Cook and A. L. Chandler. Mr.
Chandler being absent Mr. Cook took up
the general discussion of the question
and brought out many helpful thoughts.
Mr. Cook thinks that while we must
maintain our water means of transpor-
tation we must not lose sight of the vital
importance of giving more aid to high-
way improvement. Amos Parmenter
favors a better system of road making
whereby the roads may be uniformly im—
proved. He favored a county road sys-
tem for road making. Mr. Parmenter
took the opportunity to score Owosso
Grange on the position it took on this
important question and believes if rc-
submitted to the people would receive
more careful consideration.

The Farm Horses.——The Howell Farm-
ers’ Club was pleasantly entertained at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Marr of
West Howell, Thursday, April 7. It be-
ing a ﬁne spring day a good attendance
was present and a very proﬁtable meet-
ing was the result. An unusual occur—
rence was most pleasing to the president
and secretary, as all who were on the
program were present and responded.
President S. H. Munsell called to order
and after singing America, and roll call,
Frank Crandall then gave a splendid talk
on the subject assigned, “Care of farm
horses.” Mr. Crandall had much sympa—
thy for the horse and thought them the
most abused of all farm animals. Horscs’
feed should be regulated according to the
amount of work done. He recommended
ground feed of equal parts of corn, oats
and bran, also one should use much cau-
tion in regard to horses' shoulders. col—
lars well ﬁtted. and harness should ﬁt
collars. Mr. Ellsworth and others fol—
lowed in discussion and gave many good
thoughts.

Signs of the Times—Mrs. R. R. Smith
gave a short talk on the “Signs of the
times.” She could agree with Dorothy
Hudspith in an article in the Michigan
Farmer entitled “The Unrest." That the
new had outgrown the old and a change
spiritually, industrially and politically.
Spiritually, God was the same but man’s
ideas change in religion, the ceremonial
will be done away with. Industrial, the
logic of events would force it. Politically
the change would be a completed demo-
oracy and the signs of the times, as a
whole, were good. After the completion
of a good program the club adjourned to
meet with Mr. and Mrs. H. Bohm the
ﬁrst Thursday in May at one o’clock.

Scimitar-The ,

 
______ GRANGE _

Our Motto—“The Farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should be
ﬁrst improved."

TH E APRIL PROGRAMS.

 
Suggestions for Second Meeting.

“There is a perfection of the hedgerow
and cottage, as well as of the forest and
palace."—Ruskin.

Farm Business—~V. The coming census:
1. Why a farm census is good business
policy. 2. What questions will the gov-
ernment ask?

Select reading, “A Tree.” _

What kind of trees, shrubs and Vines
shall we plant on Arbor Day, and where
can they be obtained?

Roll callz—How make our home and
school grounds more attractive or health-
ful this spring.

THE GRANGE AND RURAL LEADERS.
--IV.

In this concluding homily on leader-
ship. let us tie a few ends of the strands
we hold as essential in the making of
a progressive rural life. I hope it has
been sufﬁciently emphasized that the
very spirit of a true leader seeks the
good of all. A person may take so prom-
inent a part in his community that; his
name is on every tongue; when any un-
dertaking is proposed everybody turns
instinctively to him to plan and carry it
out. He dominates the community, over-
shadowing all others. Outsiders know
the neighborhood by this one personage.
Perhaps his name is attached to the post-
ofﬁcc or four corners. In a way this
must be. true of any truly great person,
but there are really two classes of so-
called “leaders.”

In the one place. the “leading" man
is truly the mover of all, but other per-
sons are his puppets and simply do his
bidding. His work is not vital; it is
from without and has no heart, pumping
life-blood from the center. It is a thing
detached and brought out upon occasion.
lt poses as leading without DOSS“SSIllg
leadership qualities. It commands a
subservient and blind following without
taking others into its counsel and stimu-
lating self—reliance and initiative in
them. In the other case, the work of
the ‘fleader” is organic, having power of
growth within itself. It grows from
within outward. It is the motive power
that enlivens and sets other forces in
operation.

In the one case. when the head cannot
or does not act, community interests lug
while individuals stagnate and grow slug-
gish or hopeless; and. should others ven-
turc to propose new movements or
changed methods in old ones, their pro-
jects are discredited or supported with a
lukewarm co-operation that amounts to
the same. In the other instance, if even
the humblcst helper makes a suggestion
or shows inclination to originality, he re-
ceives stimulus to correct its defects and
enlarge upon its merits. In this latter
manner younger men are continually be-
ing brought forward and trained to later
take. the places of older. Thus the com-
munity life renews without stultifying it-
self. Thus the stream of its activities
are varied and constantly changing. The
Grange, and other organizations in the
midst, retain their freshness an'l vigor
and extend their leadership influence into
whatever ﬁelds their members afterward
enter. JENNIE BUELL.

 
LENAWEE COUNTY PATRONS DIS-
CUSS LIVE TOPICS.

 
.Lcnawee Pomona‘s last, meeting, held
w1th Cadmus Grange on April 7. was an

exceptionally good one. Patrons were in
attendance from Tecumseh, Rome, Sugar—
town, Hudson Center. Fruit Ridge. Madi—
son, Raisin, Victorsville and Palmyra
Granges. The afternoon session was an
open one and those farmers who tOok
advantage of this fact heard some good
papers and discussions.

“How to T’se Phosphate" was the sub—

ject of a paper by C. P. Hall, which
focusscd attention upon the important
part which fertilizers in general must

assume in maintaining soil fertility and
bringing about that increase in produc—
tion which the consuming world is just
now demanding. The discussion brought
out the fact that there are practically
only three things to buy in buying fer-
tilizer—nitrogen. phosphoric acid and pot-
ash—and a fertilizer that contains a high
percentage of these ingredients with as
little ﬁller as possible. is the cheaper one
to buy. It was claimed that South Caro-
lina rock treated with acid is not a very
good phosphate to use on our soils. al—
though this same rock. by being pur—
chased in the fall and scattered through
the manure during the winter, will be—
come soluble by the action of the acids
in the manure and become a very valu-
able product to apply to the soil. It was
stated that about the best phosphate one
can use for all grain crops is made frOm
bone and blood, having from one to two

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‘ per cent nitrogen, eight to ten per cent

phosphoric acid and two to four per cent
potash, using about 200 lbs. per acre.
Several told of the good results followmg
the use of phosphate.

“Would reforms come about more
quickly if women were allowed all the
political privileges that men now enjoy?"
was the somewhat lengthy title of a well-
written paper presented by Mrs. Rose
Helme. After picturing present political
conditions, she declared that the effect of
giving woman' the ballot would be that
she would begin to ask questions and
demand answers; she would insist on
getting a peek at the inside workings of
politics and the light would be turned
on. She held that man views politics
largely from a commercial or business
standpoint. Woman, being a creature
of the home and the heart and the school,
views it more from the human stand—
point. The reforms that would engage
her attention would be the ones from
which she could get results in her home,
in her family, in the school and in so-
ciety, which are the sort of reforms that
really count. W'oman is by nature re-
formatory and aggressive and progres-
sive. It is the most natural thing in the
world for her to want to help in some
way, help to bring comfort to the un-
fortunate. and help improve conditions
to Ida Tarbell, Jane Addams and others
who are carrying on some reforms for
the betterment of humanity. as well as
referring to Australia and New Zealand
where equal suffrage has had chance to
develop its strong points and to show re-
sults. She declared that it is to the men
of the Grange and to their wives (but
mostly to the men, because they hold
the ballot) that we must look to bring
about this particular reform. The Grange
stands for equal suffrage in practice as
well as in theory.

The next paper. presented by Geo. A.
Smith, dealt with the great tax reform
movement which is now stirring Eng-
land. In reciting thc progress of this
movement Mr, Smith stated that 750
landlords own two-thirds of all the land
in England although the country's popu-
lation aggregates 42,000,000. Something
like 40.000,000 of her people are tenants.
and yet her system of taxation is such
that these have for years borne the major
part of the burden. In the new tax
budget introduced by Lloyd George was
included a tax on land values, that is, a
tax on land exclusive of all improve-
ments, by placing an annual rate of one-
tifth of one per cent on its capitalized
land value and 20 per cent on its future
increase. The House of Lords rejected
this budget last November, parliament
was dissolved and a new election took
place in which the Lloyd George budget
was sustained by the people.

Mr. Smith held that this taxation ﬁght
is of peculiar interest to our own coun-
try for the reason that. under our pres-
ent system we, too, will soon be a nation
of landlords and tenants. Our govern-
ment has natural resources on sale now
at $10 per acre whose capitalized land
value is estimated at $25,000 an acre.
and under the Lloyd George budget would
yield a tax of $50 an acre per year.

Before closing, the Grange discussed
and unanimously adopted resolutions de-
claring that "while contract labor in state
penal institutions is deemed justiﬁable
and advisable. and while we favor a.
policy of contract, labor at all our prisons
and i‘(-‘f(ll‘iiizlitil‘_\' institutions, we condemn
as unjust and unfair the employment of
prisoners in the lines of agricultural pro-
duction so long as so-called free labor is
to be favored by the abolition of the con-
tract system. insofar as it comes in com~
petition with the products of common
manufacture and labor.“

 
NEW GRANGES FOR FIRST QUARTER
OF 1910.

The number of Granges organized and
reorganized from Jan. 1 to March 31. 1010,

 
both inclusive, is reported by National
Secretary Freeman. as follows:
Organized.
Colorado ........ 7 Missouri ......... 5
Idaho ........... 4 New Hampshire. 1
Illinois .......... 1 New Jersey . 1
Indiana ......... 2 New York .......14
Iowa .......... ' . . .0 Ohio ............ 10
Kansas .......... 7 Oregon .......... 8
Kentut kv ,,,,,,, 1 Pennsylvania . . . 19
Maine .' .......... 3 Smith Dakota 2
IVIarvland ....... 8 Vermont ........ 6
Masgnphusotts f} “'ashington .....50
Michigan ........ lT “'ist-onsin ....... 1
Minnesota ....... 3 Total ........ 184
Re-Organized.
Colorado ........ l ()hio ............ 4
Kentucky ....... 1 Pennsylvania . 3
Maine ........... 1 “'ashington 1
Massachusetts .. 1 W'. Virginia 1
IMichigan ........ 1 _
New York ...... 1 Total 15 ...... 1.)
Plainfield Loses a Faithful Patron.—

Rro. \Vill E. Sharp. corrcsi‘mnding secre—
tarv 0f Plainiield (‘iI‘IUIf-z‘c, of Livingston
Cof. sends notice of the death of Bro.
“r'illiam lvllbcrt Smith. one of Plainﬁeld's
ﬁrst and most faithful members. Bro.
Smith was born Aug. 20. 1863. and died
April 1, 10l0. lie was a charter member
of l’lainlleld Orange, and as a tribute
to his devotion to the order his Grange
last year sent The Farmer a group photo
of Bro. Smith and his son and daughter.
a reproduction of which appeared in this
department Sept. 4. 9 His fellow
Patrons will long cite his record for
faithfulness as a worthy example, he
having missed but one Grange meeting
in seven years.

 
COMING EVENTS.

Pomona Meetings.

Oceana Co., with Weare Grange, Sat—
urday. April 23.

Gratiot Co.. with Star Grange, Satur-
day, May 21. L. Oviatt, state
speaker.

Benzie Co., with Thompsonville Grange.
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 31 and
June 1.

Western (Ottawa Co.) with Conklin
Grange, Saturday, June 11.

 
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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.

April 20, 1910.
Grains and Seeds.

Wheat—The past week has been alto-
gether a bear week in the wheat trade,
and in the grain markets Ln general. The
continued long drought that extended
over the entire country was the basis
upon which the bulls had founded their
support, but when the rains came in such
quantities as to leave no doubt that the
plants were getting enough water not
only for the present, but for some weeks
to come as well, the bottom_.fell and let
prices down to a different level as Will be
seen from the figures for the-week given
below. The ﬂour situation is also bad
from the standpoint of the balls, as man—
ufacturers were, during the late wmter,
pushing the flour sales until the dealers
were ﬁlled up with orders. and now there
is no demand for the manufactured arti-
cle and inillers are selling; their wheat ill-
stead of grinding it. From laverpool
there was news of Strength but it proved
of little importance here. One year ago
the price for No. 2 red wheat was $1.39
per bu. Quotatioiis for the past week are:

N .

O. - NO. 1
Red. Whit e. May.] 1/ 13(1):};
‘5 7 ....1.10 1.10. 1. t 4 . 4
1513112112138“ .109 1.09 1.091,; 1.041,;
Saturday ..... 1.03 .103 1.081,; 1031/.
Monday ..... 1.00 1.00 1.061/2 1.02%
Tuesday ..... 1.00 1.00 1061/, 1.0134.

\Vcdnesday ..1.06 1.06 1.06%, 1.01%

Corn.——The weakening of the wheat deal
has taken the stiffening out of this trade
and values are lowered from_the standard
of a week ago. The rains improved the
grass situation which takes the placehof
corn to a limited extent in the feedzng
operations on farms. Early advantages
in spring work which were made poss1ble
bv the weather conditions, have also en-
couraged the bears to think that abetter
chance exists for a good crop this fall.
Present rains are sure to ﬁll the ground
with moisture and, if the conditions later
are favorable, the new crop cannot help
being in a better position for growmg
than without the rains. One year ago the
price for No. corn was 720 per bu.
Quotations for the week are:

No. 3
No. 3 Yell‘tavv.
Thursda ..... 591/2 12
Friday .y. . . . ............... 591/2 601/;
Saturday . . . .............. 531/2 831/2
\londay . . . . . . ............ .1
J'l‘uesday ................. 581A; 59%
\Vednesday ........ . ...... 58 59
Oats—Early seeding gives farmers

hope of a good crop and the improved
pasture brought along by the present
rains is enabling many to stint in the
way of feeding oats where a full ration
was necessary without the grass. The
inﬂuence of wheat and corn was also a
bearish feature of the deal.. The market
is quiet with no material change in the
visible supply. One year ago the price
for No. 3 oats was 571/20 per bu. Quota-
tions for the week are:

Standard.
Thursday ....... . ....... 45
Friday .......... . ...... 45
Saturday . . ...... . ................ 44%
Monday . . ................ . ....... 44%,
Tuesday .. . . . . .................... 44
\Vednesday ...................... 44

Beans.——Although the time for securing
beans for planting purposes is drawmg
nigh the price for cash beans as given
out by the local board is declining. No
trading is being done here. Nominal quo-
tations for the week are:

Cash. May.

Thursday . . ................. $2.05 $2.08
Friday ..................... 2.05 2.05
Saturday ................... 2.05 2.0.1
Monday ............. . ...... ".05 2.05
Tuesday ..' ................. 2.03 2.0:)
\Vednesday ................. 2.06 2.05

C|0verseed.—There is a fair demand for
cash seed and the market is active. The
quotations for the week are comparable
with those of the previous period. Octo—
ber seed is steady and alsike is unchanged
for the past few weeks. Quotations for
the past week are:

Prime Spot. Oct. Alsike.
.. .$7. ‘

Thursday . . . 00 $6.50 $7.00
Friday ............ 7.00 6.50 7.00
Saturday ......... 7.00 0.50 7.00
Monday .......... 7.00 6.50 7.00
Tuesday .......... 7.00 0.7.0 7.00
Wednesday .. . .’ 7.00 6.50 7.00

Rye.—Grain scarce and ﬁrm. The new
crop is looking well, the national report
giving the condition as 92.3 as compared
with a ten-year average of 89.5. No.
is quoted at 80c pcr bu, which is 1/20
above last week’s quotation.

Vlslble Supply of Grain.
This week. Last week.

Wheat ................29.495,000 29,211,000
Corn ................. 12,774,000 13,444.000
Oats ................. 9.973,000 10,048,000
Rye .................. 595.000 607,000
Barley ............... 3,236,000 3,079,000

"Fleur, Feed, Provisions, Etc.
Flour.-—Flour market 1561'20c lower than
last week and slow. Quotations as fol-
lows:

Clear ................................. $5.55
Straight .......................... 5.65
Patent Michigan ..................... 5.95
Ordinary Patent ................ -. . . .. 5 75

Hay and StrawaePrices are generally
lower. Quotations are: No. 1 tim-
othy, new, $176017.50; No, 2 timothy, $16
6016.50; clover, mixed, $166016.50; rye
straw. $750608; wheat and oat straw,
$650607 per ton.

Feed.-——Prices‘ have declined since last
week. Carlot prices on track: Bran,
$26 per ton; coarse mlddlings, $27; ﬁne
mlddlings, $29; cracked corn, $25; coarse
corn meal, $25; corn and oat chop, $24
per ton.

,Potatoes.—Market dull at unchanged
prices. Easy demand and offerings nu—
merous. Michigan grown are selling in
car lots at 2560300 per bu.

Pravlslons.—Family pork, $276028; mess
por, $26; medium clear. $266028; pute

 
bacon, 19@20c; shoulders
1434c; smoked hams, 17%c; picnic hams,
14c per 1b.,

Hides—No. J cured, 11c; No. 2 cured,
100; No. 1 green bulls, 8c; No. 1 green
calf, 140; No. 2 green calf, 13c; No. 1
cured calf, 15c; No. 2. cured calf. 14c;
No. 1 horsehldes, $3.50; No. 2 horsehides,
$2.50; sheepskins, as to wool, 50060$2.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Butter.—'l“l1ere has been a lack of high
class butter and dealers predicted that
advances would be made before the ﬂush
of the early summer supply came. This
week the Elgin board of trade advanced
the quotation one cent and as a result
most of the markets of the country ad-
vanced accordingly. This market shows
a similar change. Extra creamery is
quoted at 32c per lb; ﬁrst do., 310; dairy
butter. 21c; packing stock, 20c. -

Eggs.—~Packers haVe not been active
buyers of eggs the past week, which en-
abled the dealers to keep up pretty well
with the demand. With other food stuffs
coming at such unusually high prices as
prevail this spring. eggs are a popular
product for substitution and as the result
of this extra demand the values are keep-
ing up better than former years. The
price is. however. off a half cent from
the quotation of last week and is now
given as 301/20 per dozen for fresh rc-
ccipts. cases included.

Poultry—All grades are steady and ﬁrm
cxcept.chickens; they are not plentiful
but the inquiry for them is constant and
dealers are hardly able to meet the re-
quirements. Quotations as follows: Live.
«Spring chickens, 18c; hens, 196020c; old
roosters and stags, 126013c; ducks, 1660
17c; geese, 136014c; turkeys, 176018c.

Chasm—Michigan, late made, 1560151/2c;
Michigan, fall made, 161/26017c; York state,
181/3c; limburger, Wisconsin, 18c, New
York, 19c; bricks, 181460190; Swiss, do-
mestic block, 200; Swiss loaf, 2160230.

Calves—Lower. Choice to fancy, 1160
Ill/ﬁe; ordinary, 91/2@10c.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Apples.—-—Market active and unchanged.
Spy, $1604.50; Baldwin, $350604; Steel red,
$5; Greening, $4604.50 per bbl.

Onion Sets.——Tops, 75c@$1; white, $1.75
602; yellow. $1601.25 per bu.

0nions.——Domestic, 80@85c per bu;
Spanish, $1.90 per crate.

Cabbage—Higher. $2.25@2.50 per bbl.

Vegetables.—Beets, 600 per bu; brussels
sprouts, 25c per qt; carrots, 50c per bu;
cauliflower, $2.25602.50 per bu; celery, 45
6050c per doz; eggplant, $2602.50 doz;
green onions, 106012c per doz; lettuce, hot-
housc. $1.50601.75 per doz; mint, 25c per
doz; parsley, 25@30 per doz; radishes,
2560300 doz; spinach, 900 hamper; turnips,
50c per \bu; watercress, 40c per doz; wax
beans, $4.50 per bu; pieplant, 35c per doz.

OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.

Wheat is 4c lower, the mills paying
$1.03 this week. Other grains are steady,
as follows: Corn, 59c; oats, 44c; rye, 70c.
The bean market is very quiet, white pea
quotations on a $1.75 basis and red kid-
neys at $2.60. The live poultry market is
firm, with fowls, chickens and ducks at
16c, an advance of 1c.. Turkeys are. quot-
ed at 16c; geese. 860100. Dressed hogs
are about 1c lower than last week, farm-
ers getting 110 now. Dairy butter is
steady at 25c, creamery 1c higher, bring-
ing the price paid producers to 32c. The
city produce market has opened and the.
gardeners are getting the following prices
for green stuff: Onions, 100 doz; home—
grown asparagus, 90c doz; water cress.
20c doz; vegetable oysters, 20c; pieplant,
75c bu; spinach, 500 bu; lettuce, 7c lb;
radishes, 20c doz; parsley, 10c per dozen
bunches; parsnips, 25c bu. Farmers are
getting $146015 per ton for hay. Clover
and timothy seed are unchanged. -

Chicago.

VVheatr—No. 2 red, $1.08@1.10; May,
$10604; July, 531.00%.

Corn—No. 3, 55@551,éc; May, 577/3c;
July, 60%0.

Oats—N0 3 white, 411/26042%c; May,
4164c; July, 391/20.

Butter.—Market ruling steady for
creameries despite the advance at Elgin,
while dairy goods are lower. Quotations
are: Creameries, 266031c; dairies, 226025c.

Eggs—Practically last week’s basis is
being maintained. Receipts are heavy
but storage men are in the market for
supplies. Prime firsts, 210; firsts, 20c; at
mark, cases included, 171/260191/2c pcr .loz.

ilay and Straw—Market is weak. Quo—
tations are: Choice timothy, $176018; No.
l timothy, $15.506016.50; No. 2 do and
No. 1 mixed. $146015; No. 3 do and No. 2
mixed, $96113; rye straw, $8609; oat straw,
$6617; wheat straw. $6606.50.

Potatoes—The heavy receipts of old
potatoes and the increased offerings of
new has depressed prices. Fancy and
choice stocks are selling at 2361/25c per
bu., while fair to good grades are quot-
able at 206122c per bit.

Bcans.~Markct is quiet and steady.
Choice hand-picked are quoted at $21360
2.14: fair to good, $2.10; red kidneys,
275603.10 per bu.

VVocl.—Prices are holding steady with
former quotations. The attitude of the
eastern houses does not influence Ibuyers
here. For fine unwashed delaine, 256027c
is being. paid.

 
New York.
Batten—High grades of creamery hard
to get. Quotations higher. 1Vestern

factory ﬁrsts, 2260230; creamery specials,
350 per lb.

Eggs-«Heavy receipts of eggs have
given the market a little easier tone.
There is not a great deal ,of activity in
storage circles. Fresh receipts quoted at
231/26025c per doz.

Poultry. Live, ﬁrm. Fowls. 22c per lb,
Dressed chickens *higher, turkeys steady.
Prices on a par with those of a week ago.
Western fowls, 15@190; turkeys, 17@23c.

 
Boston.
Wool.—Sheepmen have been encour-
aged in their stand for higher values by
the action of the marekt here, when, af-
ter an attempt to put prices down. the
manufacturers came around immediately

lard, 1494c;

and Wanted the Wool in store at the re.
duced values. This action stiffened val-
ues, although the situation may not be
said to be as strong. as it was when the
attention of the brokers and manufac-
turers was less given to the west where
the wool is being clipped. The holders of
old stock are now setting. their prices
slightly above the bids of the manufac-
turers and holding for the difference. A
fairly large movement of Ohio and Mich-
igan quarter blood fleeces Was reported
the past week, the former going at 300
and the latter at 29c per 1b. It is expect-
ed that a revival of busineSS will clean
up last season’s. clip which will clear the
road for the present offerings from farm-
ers.

 
Elgln.

Butter.——Market ﬁrm at 320 per 1b.,
which is an advance of 1c over the quota-
tion of a week ago. The sales for the
week amounted to 519.400 lbs., compared
with 479,300 for the previous week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.

 
April 18, 1910.
(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo. N. Y.)

:eceipts of sale stock here today as
follows: Cattle, 165 cars; hogs, 12,000;
sheep and lambs, 20,000; calves, 2,300.

Receipts of cattle on this market to-
day 165 cars, and with 26,000 reported in
Chicago; our market opened dull and
slew, and 25c per hundred weight lower
on all the good cattle of 1,200 lbs. and up;
all other grades were fairly active, and
sold from barely steady with last week
to 10 to 15c per hundred weight lower;
in fact, we think all the good bulls and
the good fat cows sold steady at last
week’s prices. Market closed steady with
everything sold early.

We quote: Best 1,300 to 1,450-lb. steers,
7.7560850; good 1.200 to 1,350—lb. do.,
$7.25607.75; best 1.100 to 1,200-lb, shipping
steers, $7607.50; medium butcher steers.
1,000 to 1,100 lbs.. $650607; light butcher
steers, $5.756l‘6.25; best fat cows, $5.25@
6.25; fair to good cows, $450605; common
to medium do., $3.25@4.25; best fat heif—
ers, $6.50607.25; good fat heifers, $57560
6.25; fair to good do., $5605.75; best feed-
ing steers, $5.75606.25; medium to good
do., $5.25605.75; stockers, all grades, $4.50
60550; best bulls, $575,606.50; bologna.
bulls, $4.50605.25; best milkers and spring-
ers, $556065; common to good do., $256045.

XVith 33,000 hogs in Chicago today, and
75 double decks here, our market: opened
from 306(35c per hundred lower than'Sat-
tirday‘s best time, and closed about steady
with the opening, with a fair clearance.
Chicago quoting hogs today at $9.60 made
our packers very bearish; it also makes
the, prospects look lower here,

\Ve quote prices as follows: Mixed,
medium and heavy. $9.906010; yorkers,
$9.906010; pigs, $9.906010; roughs, $89060
9; Stags as to quality, $7.75@8; few
choice, $8.25.

The lamb market opened up slow, with
best handy wool lambs selling from $10.25
6010.35. and best clipped lambs $93560
9.40. The market closed ﬁrm on handy
lambs, and (lull on heavy ones,. with three
loads of wool lambs and ﬁve loads of
clipped lambs holding over. Look for
steady prices balance of week, unless we
get an oversupply. Sheep were in strong
demand.

We quote: Best wool lambs, $102560
10.35; handy clipped lambs, $9.35@9.40;
heavy do., $9609.15; clipped wethers, $7.75
608; clipped ewes, $675607; clipped year-
lings, $8608.50; clipped cull sheep, $3605;
veals, choice to extra. 892560950; fair to
good, $825609; cull to common, $7@8;
light thin calves, $5606.

 
Chicago.
April 18, 1910.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Received today ...... 26,000 38,000 12.000
Same day last year..2l,665 21,552 19,978
Received last week ..49,068 88,779 60,541
Same week last year.42.143 117,538 62,781

A new week opened today, and one of
the most sensational hog markets ever
experienced was witnessed, prices taking
a tumble of 4060500 or more. There was
an early sale to a speculator at $9.65, but
buyers refused to pay anywhere near that
price, and after a quick fall to $9.50 there
were further breaks until choice droves
were being taken around $9.25609.35.
Buyers refused to touch any but choice
lots. and there was every indication that
as many as 10,000 hogs would be carried
over at the close. On the preceding Sat-
urday hogs sold at $9.606010, and on Mon—
day a week ago sales were made at
5510.15611060. It was difﬁcult to quote
common hogs, but they would naturally
be quotable not much above $9.15. Hogs
received last week averaged 229 lbs.,
compared with 226 lbs. a week earlier, 220
lbs. two weeks ago, 209 lbs. the ﬁrst week
of February, 211 lbs, a. year ago, 222 lbs.
two years ago and 235 lbs. three years
ago. Cattle had a good outlet at steady
to 10o lower prices, there being a large
supply. Sheep and lambs were active
and ﬁrm to 10c higher. wooled lambs be-
ing salable at $7'.506010.20 and shorn at
$8.506r9.80. Shorn wethers sold at $760
8.35 and ewes at $7607.75. These prices
followed advances of 10@15c in sheep and
lambs last week.

Cattle were in extremely small supply
week before last. and although the re—
quirements of the beef trade were no
larger, prices advanced enough to bring
the receipts last week up to normal pro-
portions. The depleted stocks of beef in
coolers compelled killers to enter the mar-
ket and buy cattle. and Monday receipts
of 26,000 head enabled them to stock up
at a decline of 1560250. On subsequent
days the arrivals were so much smaller
that the tide turned, and prices moved up
1060150, with a good general demand. Beef
steers sold at $5.60606.85 for inferior to
fair light-weight killers: $7607.50 for me-
dium grade lots; $760608 for good lots
and 881060865 for choice to extra lots,
the bulk of the cattle going at $6.60@8.10.
The unusually early appearance of warm
weather impelled stockmen to 'hurry then-
heavy cattle to market, and there was

an unusually largos'nOngot choice, tat
steers of strong weights. On. the .wliOle,
they . sold very well, but" buyers were
turning more to the fat cattle of lighter
weights.= 'Cemparatiyeiy' moderate offer—
ings of butcher stock met with 4a lively
demand at extremely high prices, cows.
and heifers ﬁnding purchasers at $4.65@
8, with sales of canners and cutters at
$2.50@4.60, while bulls were active at
53-70@6.60. Calves had quite a slump in
prices under extremely large offerings,
7,569” head arriving on Tuesday, “calf
day. They sold all the way from $3@
8.2:) per 100 lbs. Stockers and feeders
were in limited supply and in only mod-
erate country demand at steady prices,
stock steers selling at $4@6 and feeders
at $0.50@6.60 for common to prime lots.
Mllkers and springers were in light sup—
ply and in fair demand at $306065 per.
head, eastern buyers wanting only the
better class of_ cows. South Dakota. fur—
nished a consignment of 14 fancy 1,60%
lb. Hereford beef steers on Monday that,
topped the market at $8.65.

Hogs took a. downward course last.

week that was a complete surprise to
many people who had taken the ground
that the great shortage would send prices
higher than ever. Consumption of fresh
and cured hog products had been cur-
tailed so much by their dearness, how-1
ever, that killers refused to operate ex-
cept on a much lower basis. As values:
declined buyers purchased more freely
and after the great drop to a point where
packers were able .to buy hogs freely be-
low $10 for the ﬁrst time in about six
weeks there was a ready outlet, but buy-
ers were wondering whether stockmen
would continue good sellers at the pre-
vailing ﬁgures. The receipts were re-
markably good in quality, the offerings
being nearly all barrows, and it was eas-
ily seen that the splendid weather had
resulted in the hogs growing unusually
rapidly in recent weeks. Provisions
shared fully in the breaks in hog prices,
and packers were free sellers on the Chi-
cago board of trade, sensational declines
in pork and lard taking place. An im-
portant weakening factor was the great
average increase in the weights of the
hogs compared with a short time ago and
with recent- years. Light weights and
pigs had an advantage. as shippers want—
ed light hogs, and 195-111. hogs were apt
to top the market.
_Sheep and lambs performed several
lightning c’hanges in prices last week,
advancing sharply and declining 'just as
sharply, the market being largely inﬂu-
enced by the market reports from Buffalo
and other eastern points. Sheep formed
a small share of the daily supplies, and
on some days practically all of the choice
fat sheep were sh‘orn Ohio fed westerns.
Light lambs were greatly favored by buy-
ers, lots weighing under 90 lbs. being
much preferred, and offerings that aver-
aged 100 lbs. or more were strongly dis—
criminated against. Wooled muttons were
scarce and not wanted, and Colorado
clipped lambs made up the great bulkpf
the daily receipts, fat little Mexicans
continuing to top the market. Spring
lambs were very scarce and dear, a few
head selling at $15. Despite any de-
clines in prices for sheep and lambs that
take place from time to time, sales con-
tinue to ‘be made very much higher than
in former years and s-heepmen have been
reaping unexpectedly large proﬁts.

Horses have continued to sell extremely
well, especially those of superior quality,
with an excellent general local and ship-
ping inquiry and receipts most of the
time running well behind those of a year
ago in volume. Sales of fancy drafters
are brisk at 3527060375 per head when any
are offered, but such animals are usually
hard to ﬁnd. The general run of draft
horses go at 817560250, while expressers
and feeders are having a good outlet at
$16560220. Plain, light, second-hand city
horses and work-worn farm mares are
just now slow sellers at $75@150, but.
fresh, sound animals are sold without any
difﬁculty, and there is a fairly large trade
in drivers at $15060300. Horses will av-
erage at least $10@15 per head higher
than a year ago, and high prices seem
assured for a long time, as there is no
oversupply in breeding districts of the
country. Wagon horses are having a.
good sale at $150@200. F.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

 
Nearly 7,600 calves were unloaded on
the Chicago market on a recent Tuesday,
which is known at the stock yards of that
city as “calf day.” Every spring sees
great numbers of these "ba'wlers" shipped
in from the dairy districts of Wisconsin,
Illinois and other states. These big sup-
plies have caused a lowering of prices,
despite the good demand for vealers and.
stockers, and at times the market 'has
experienced a drop of from $1 to $1.25 per
100 lbs. in the course of a single day. Good.
fat veal calves have been in good demand
by slaughterers, while there has been a.
good (utlet to the country for desirable
stock Cilves.

Forty—seven head of Shorthorn cattle
sold for a total of $23,420, or an average
of $500 per head, at the recent sale at.
Waukesha, Wis. Buyers were present.
from New York, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, South Dakota and Manitoba,
evidencing a widely extended demand for
good breeding cattle. The best bulls were
purchased at $1,025 to $1,125 for shipment
to Iowa and Virginia, while the best fe—
males were taken at $1,025 to $1,350 for:
shipment to Manitoba and Illinois.

A splendid car load of draft horses from
Kansas was sold on the Chicago marekt
in recent day, not a single animal in the
consignment weighing less than 1,800 l’bs.,
while a few of the horses tipped the
scales at 2,000 lbs. The twenty head
were purchased on a. special order at

$6,000, and were forwarded to a large'

dealer at Detroit, Michigan. They com-
prised the best average single load that
has been sold on the Chicago market thus
far this year. ‘

Chicago slaughterers have been giving
wooled lambs a cool reception for some
time, and most of the supplies have con-
sisted of clipped stock. .

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VETERINARY.

f APRIL' M 36.30.“- . ' .
. we» THC LAST swim.

, In ﬁrst. edition the Detroit Live
Buck markets orereports of last week; at
1 other markets are right up to date.

a!
- at 8.5 ,_ , _ ,
$£“’$§'inpiﬁgmiasi‘izﬁiféﬁ°‘ T713532 Bishop, B. & H. sold Strauss & A. 12 eat their own pigs; however. it is usually

‘ - a‘v 130 at $8.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 2 av the result of fever, causing delirium and
Egglogrigawgigguﬁaey’ﬁg?elgjatgogdig 130 at 38.25, 3 av 125 at $7.50; to Parker, the sow not being conscious of what she
mailed to those who care more to get the . & Co. 26 av 120 at $7.75. 25 av 130 at is doing when she eats them. f
paper early than they do for Thursday's $8.25. 20 av 135 at $8.50; to Newton B. Co, Feeding Questlon.——VVillooats make 58. a
Detroit Live Stock market report, You 31 av 128 at $8; to Strauss & A. 2 av 140 pasture for brood mares. I am told it
may have any edition desired. Subscrib. at $8.50. 9 av 135 at $8.25. 4 av 100 at $6. might have the effect of producing abor-
erg may change from one edition to an- 2 av 145 at $8.50, 1 weighing 150 at $8.50, lion and if so I do not care to run the
other by dropping us a card to that effect. 4 av 140 at $8.25, 1 weighing 120 at $6, risk of losing our colts. A Reader, Sher-

———-——-————-I 17 av 135 at $8.25, 3 av 100 at $6, 11 av idan, Mich—Fresh young oat pasture is

14 . 0. apt to purge live stock and when preg-
DETHO'T LIVE STOCK MARKETS' 0 at $8 58: H. sold Sullivan P. Co. 12 av nant mares are purged much they are

more likely to abort than if the bowels

130 at $8.10; to Bariage 2 av 250 at $5, 13
av 105 at $6.50, 4 av 155 at $8.50.
Waterman sold Thompson 14 av 130

Jed'ele sold Newton B. Co. 3 av 140 only were erhaps infected at birth. It
is quite di cult to tell why sow-s should

 
(Continued from page 455).

 
190 at 8.35.
Thursday's Market. UFenton sold Burnstine 9 av 145 at $8. are costive or moderately so. All things
April 21, 1910. Truce sold Marx 1 weighing 100 at considered, I advxse you to feed your

mares sparingly On such feed for fear of
it producing too much bowel action.
Heifer Gives Bloody Milk—My three-
year-old heifer came fresh in February;
she gave a nice ﬂow of milk until one
quarter of her bag became affected; since
then she gives bloody milk. I have given
her aconite and niter but it fails to help

Cattle.

Receipts, 1.378. Cow stuff, bulls and
medium butchers 15@25c higher; all other
grades steady.

We quote:
heifers, $7.25@8; steers and heifers,
to 1,200, $6.75@7.15; steers and heifers.

$7.50, 3 av 160 at $8.50.
Sheep and Lambs.
'Riceiptsi, 3.697. Market steady alt lasi
_ and Wee ’s pr ces. Quotat ons are or cippe
Extra dry fed steers 1.000 stock. No wools on sale.
Best lambs, $8.50; fair to good lambs,
$7.50@8; light to common lambs, $5.50@

800 to 1,000, $6606.50; gross steers and ' _ ' .
heifers that are fat, 800 to 1.000, 85.50676: $650.6 ggrmgllambsd 312- fair to Zgé’gd. 4526?” her. What can be done for a case of this
steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to 700, @ - . cu s an common, 3 , Q, _ , kind? W, C. S., Bancroft, Mich.——Your

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co. 28
lambs av 75 at $8.65, 55 do av 76 at $8.35,
17 sheep av 85 at $6; to Breltenbuck Bros.
29 lambs av 72 at 88.50, 16 do av 60 at
$8.40; to Sullivan P. Co. 21 sheep av 90
at $7.25, 27 do av 65 at $6;
C0. 466 lambs av 73 at 88.50; to Eschrlch
023,10 sheep av 52 at $6.50; to Fitzpatrick
Bros. 4 do av 95 at $6, 19 do av 75 at $5.
6 do av 105 at $5.75, 9 lambs av 65 at
$8.25, 9 spring lambs, av 50 at $12; to
Thompson 10 sheep av 100 at $6; to Sulli-

heifer has perhaps injured her udder,
which is generally the case when cows
give bloody milk. If you can ascertain
the cause and remove it then she will
soon give milk free from blood; besides,
careful milking has a good effect. Dis-
solve 1 oz. sugar of lead in 1 qt. of cold
water and apply to injured quarter three
times a day. If her udder hangs low
don’t allow her to step over fences, out
of ditches or over high door sills.

Film on Eye—A short time ago a film
came on the eye ban of my nine-year-
old horse which dims his eyesight some-
what. What can I do to remove it? T.
D., Rushton, Mich—Dissolve 20 grs. of
alum in 4 02s. of clean water and apply

4.50 5.50; choice fat cows, $5.50@6; good
ﬁat C@C)lWS, 85; common cows, $3.75@4.25;
canners, $3@3.50; choice heavy bulls, $5.75
@850; fair to good bolognas, bulls. 8563
5.50; stock bulls, $3.75@4.50; milkers,
large, young, medium age, $406555: com-
mon milkers, $25@35.

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B, Co.
butchers av 865 at $5.25. 1 bull Weighing
1,250 at $6, 1 cow weighing 610 at $3; to
Graves lpbull weighing 1.43:3)?”t $6.50; (:0
Sullivan . Co. 4 cows av a n, o ’ .
av 860 at $3.50, 2 do av 1.340 at $6, 3 do vagpﬁércoéz— 52,131“? asi 15;? at $1921.25.C 46
av 973 at $4.50, 2 do av 940 at $4, 1 heifer; lambs av 75 at £37960. U, ivan . 0.
ﬁeéghirtig sizing; $3} 30 Stleoerdso :vv s2150 2t Haley 8‘ M- 501d MlCh- E Co. 57 lambs
$6.40, 13 do av 768 'at so 4 do av 500 at 33’ 75 at $735. 18 Sheep 3" 80 at. $5; to
$5; to Hammond S. & Co. 29 do av 871 E‘gdgcgéamdgg‘éoeoq$38523 t0 Sullivan P- (tic eye twice a. day and if this medicine

I _ ' . L ,. . OOS ' ’ .
i: 3:855, 1% SSciiliilIiigherP?50%?tggegfegfs 7:: 758231;; ggld6§julléy31551>étcsog 20 sheep av tity 0102;151:121tirnioeiei'eblgnvc:1:316:31 quan
1.017 9t $125. 2 do 3V?” gt $6650. 1% bélgl ickman 8018 Thompson '13 sheep av Navicular Disease-Contracted Foot;—
weighing 1'2“) at1$6b50' to 323 o7n h .ifers 72 at $5. 34 lambs av 67 at $8.25, I 118%! 11 more that our local Vet. thought
1 COW weighing .0 0 at $«- . e 8' Same sold Mich. B. Co. 99 lambs av 70 had lamimtis, she wont lame last Decem-
av 721 at; $6.50, 4 steers av 955 at $6. a, at $8.50. her and has continued to llrnp evcr Since.
12 do av 811 at $6.85; to Hammond, S. & Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S & Co One fore foot is considerably contracted

cow weighing 950 at $5, 4 do av 437 29 shee av 70 at .675' and feverish. The Vet. also thought
at $4. 62 lambg av 70 at $34.35" ttoo gailgalgepﬂgioo there might be pus in foot. What had I

Bishop, B. & H, sold Bresna‘han 3 cows av 65 at $8 16 sheep av 70 at $5 better do for her? H. B, S., Lakeview.
av 1,010 at $4.75, 1 canner weighing 670 ' - Mich—Your mare suffers from coffin
at $3.25: to Sullivan P. Co. 1 cow weigh~ ' Hogs. joint lameness and as a result the hoof
ing 1,000 at “35’ 3 steers av 380 at $6, Receipts, 3,672, Market 70@75c lower has contracted. Blister coronet with

Good grades 5 cents cerate ofi cantharides once a week and
stand. her in wet clay one hour night and
morning.

Diseased Udder.-—What shall I do for a
cow that has a diseased udder? One
av week after she came fresh she injured
125 av one teat and since then I applied an oint-
ment which healed the w0und, but what
comes from the quarter has an offensive
odor. Is milk of this kind proper food

18 do av 989 at 87, 18 do av 936 at $7.25, than last Thursday.
5 do av 1,050 at $5.50, 18 do av 953 at higher than on Wednesday this week.
$7.25, 2 bulls av 1.040 at $5.25, I do welgh- Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ing 1,000 at $4.50. 1 do weighing 1.180 at era. $9.25; pigs $9; light yorkers, $9.10@
$5.50, 6 butchers av 705 at $5.75, 5 do av 9.15; stagg, 1,3 off,
1,016 at $6, 1 bull Weighing 1.180 at $5.50, Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co, 143
3 do av 1.223 at $5.25, 2 steers av 970 at 190 at $9.25, 220 av 170 at $9.20,
$6.25, 18 do av 1,095 at $7.25, 1'.) do av 160 at $9.15.
1.046 at $7.10, 1 bull weighing 950 at Roe Com. Co. sold same 343 av 190 at
$4.75 1 do vv‘eighigigzﬁlﬁlqzo at 35.87151, S: 3913911 B &
butc ers av 86 at 6. . . do av a is op, . H. sold same 30 i 3 av for a calf? I for at to so
$7.10, 1 bull weighing 1.600 _at 35.50; to 115 at $9.10. pg is tinged with 1315) d A. wgiétﬁrtlfﬁnéﬁ
Newtou B. Co. 4 steers av 95:; at $6.85, 12 Haley & M. sold Hammond. S. & Co. ris, Mich.——Milk of this kind is hot whole-
do av 811 at $6.85. 1 cow weighing 880 at 133 a," 190 at 59-25. 340 av 175 at $9.20, 130 some food for calves; besides the quicker
$3.50, 4 steers av 692" at $5.75, 2 do av av 150 at 39.10. you dry the diseased quarter" and discon-
890 at 35_ 13 do av 7,} at $3.50, 2 cows Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co. iinue milking her the better for it will
av 1,065 at $5, 7 steers av 857 at $6.75, 2 250 av 200 at $9.30, 573 av 180 at $9.25, 264 eventually become worthless so far as
$5.50. 1 cow weighing 630 av 170 at $9.20, 195 av 160 at $9.10, 149 secreting a good quality of milk is con-
av 175 at 39-15. . cerned. Apply camphorated oil three
Friday's Market.

parts and tincture iodine one part, once
April 15, 1910.
in; 1030 at $4.50; to Thompson Bros. 10 Cattle.

a day, and give one ounce hypo—sulphite
soda at a dose in feed night and morning.
butchers av 1.005 at $535, 3 d0 av 350 at Receipts this week, 1.771.
$4, 3 do av 860 at $6. 3 COWS 3" 740 at steady at' Thursday’s prices,

Wounded Test—One of my cows cut
Market her teat on a barbed wire, making a nasty
3.25; to Breitenback Bros. 14 steers av 1i ht.
:32 at $6.50; to Bresnanan 7 do av 483 g

run very wound, which I succeeded in healing.
quote' Extra dry fed st e s a d Horn/ever, it! has igroken open and the
' _ . . - e r n m comes rom s e of teat. H
at 3535‘? "1:1 (33:;ng gulls: Wé’aghii‘gst‘él‘ﬁg heifers, $7.25@7.5o; steers and heifers, a case of this kind be treated? 0va $011131?
at $2.5 0t 86390 to Sullivan P. Co 22 do 1,000 to 1,200 lbs., $6.75@7.25; steers and Swartz Creek, Mich—First of all you
av 30 at $7.10. 19 do av 846 at $6 60' 1 heifers“. 800 to 1.000 lbs., $5.75@6.50; steers must insert a self-retaining milking tube
av 0 iahi ' 900 at $5 50' to Newton'B and heifers that are fat, 500 to 700 lbs, and leave it in the teat until the wound
cow :eg‘ rig 986 atH$6 90- to Kammari $5.25@5.75; chmce fat cows, $5.25@5.50; heals. Of course. the lube should be
Co. 1 sltgegs aaV 1025 “93735 to Ham- good fat cows, $4.50@5; common cows, taken out, cleaned and boilcd for a. few
B, C0.S &OC v18'd0 av 855 at $6 75 19 $3.50@3.75; canners, $3; choice heavy minutes or dipped in curbolic acid and
mond. 778 t 2-6 70 1 bull weighing 1-220 bulls, $550; fair to good bologna bulls, water. one part to 30. The edges of the
do a5v50 1 abull weighing 1320 at $5 50 1 $4.50@5; stock bulls, $4; milkers, large, wound should be made raw, stitched
at“? wei hing 1050 at $4 71 do weighing y. medium age, $4o@55; common closely together, and apply peroxide of
10100 at 3%.“); to Farmer 3 stockers av milkers, $25@35. hydrogen twice daily, and ten minutes
393 at 5.
Hale: & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 cow

Veal Calves. lager: applbeoric aciId.

Receipts, 1.577. Market steady at last ,. ronrc argct.-— have a COW that had
weighing 1.300 at $4.75, 4 do av 1,085 at Thursday’s DriCPS- Best, $7.75@8; oth- igaiget 11‘1"“ 3.95;? ind was 1100111186 to be-
”.25. t0 Bresnahan 3 heifers av 677 at ers, $4@7; 'milch COWS and sprin-gers ieve Sf‘e imltgh? ‘9 a1 ﬁght when she
$6.102 to Hammond, S. & Co. 1 cow steady. came 51051 '15 3331f OWE—ﬁver. she is
weighing 890 at $3.65, 1 do weighing 1,080 Sheep and Lambs. aogseremag eieaagi Gwogld “k9 to know
at $5.75 1 do wel hing 1,080 at $4.25, 2 Receipts, 5.087. Market steady at last Yo 0 e ,y wh' 1, in iferson,'Mich.—-
bulls av. 850 at $5. 5, 21 butchers av 900 Thursday’s prices; quality common. our C “:1 5h 1% Yb undi 01’ dairy pur-
at $7.05; to Newton B, Co. 14 do av 782 Best lambs, $8.25@8.50; fair to good 113.53? 39’; diyoufoddei m€8361:1Iurimtfatvtgrii};
at $6.50; to Kamman 7 do av 714 at $5.10; lambs, $7.50a8. light to common lambs, nourishing and she will soon cease giving

- - r . 5 9? l " . , '
to Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull weighing 1,200 $(i-50@gile:pool$éa@n7ibs. $0.-.)@0.75, fdl!‘ to much milk. It is not necessary to drug

60.

Spicer I: R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 2 bulls
11V 1,065 at $5.35, 1 do weighing 1.520 at
$5.50 3 cows av 970 at $5.50, 1 do weigh-

culls and common,

at 35,75; to Fromm 2 steers av 725 at good her.
5?,25; tscé Breiten'back Bros. 5 steers av $2@4. Hogs Ox has Indigestion—I have an ox that
l 4 at . . ‘ 7‘

Weeks sold Michigan B. Co. 14 butchers Receipts, 6.640. Market dull, 5@IOc Sggilgotbieeigatt: ($55112; avsrelwellﬁs he
av 882 at $6.25, 3 cows av 970 at $4.50. lower than Thursday S (”056- fond of grass and is growing mm “(7311:?

Sharp sold same 2 bulls av 1,360 at Range of prices: Light to good butch-

55.50 1 do weighing 950 at $5.25. ers, 89.9060995: pigs, $9.75: light yorkers,
Wéeks sold Thompson Bros. 7 steers av $9.80@9.85; stags, 17$ off.

330 at $6.75, 7 do av 744 at $6.15, 1 cow ~————-

weighing 820 at 33-50- V A recent reviewer of the feeding situa-
Johnson sold same 4 GOWS 3V 10'00 at tion writes for a Chicago paper as fol-

I have done for him fails to do a bit of
good. One of my other oxen seems to be
going the same way. . F., Bellaire.
Mich—It is possible that both of your
oxen have tuberculosis and if they do not
improve in condition soon, have them

 
55.40 lows: “Farm operations have been in tested with tuberculin. The ma 1
Weeks sold Graves 4 cows and bulls av full blast. comparatively little corn has have stomach trouble and if 5;) grags 0;“);
l.095 at $5.40- been marketed at country stations, and be the best food for them. Give each
Sharp sold Sullivan P- CO~ 7 steers 3" pasturage bids fair to develop easily a ox one 02. ground gentian and one dr.

earlier than a year ground nux vomica at a dose three times

5'21 at $6.50, 5 do av 1,000 at $5.75, 3 COWS month to six weeks
mu‘Ch feed to 81'0““ a day. Feed them some oil meal and

{w 823 at 34. ago. This will save
Johnson sold same 12 steers av 746 ing stock, although it will not tend to vegetables.
at 36. save any from hogs and cattle that are Nervousness.—~I would like some advice
W’ilSOn sold same 6 steers av 1.160 at being fatiened, as at the present basis of regarding a mare that seems to fret con-
$6, 4 do av 950 at $6.50. 3 bulls av 1‘200 meat. feeders can realize all the way tinually when working. She is unpleas-
at $5.50, 1 cow weighing 870 at $4. 2 do from $1 to $1.30 per bushel for their corn. ant to work on drag or plow and although
av 800 at $3. 7 butchers av 860 at 85:50. There is the important feature. however, in foal she is equally as bad as she was
Sharp sold same 18 steers av 900 at that there is a plentiful supply of corn, before being bred. T. C., Genesee,
$6.75, 2 do av 1.135 at $15-75. 6 d0 3" 7’16 but a very small supply of live stock." Mich—I know of no better plan than to
at $5.90. Stocks of meats in Chicago. Omaha. put a nice smooth bar or sna‘ﬂie bit in
Veal Calves. _‘ Kansas City. St. Joseph and Milwaukee her mouth, treat her kindly, work her
Receipts, 1,147. Market 25@5QC higher April 1 aggregated 153,919,351 lbs. com- with a free horse that requires no urging,
than last week. Best, ”@850: others. pared with 170,293,332 lbs. a month ear‘ feed her well and work her long hours
$4027.50; milch cows and springers steady. licr and 330,254,941 lbs. 3. year ago. There and every day. I have owned and driven
Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 5 av 125 was a decrease of 11.373.981 lbs, during hundreds of the kind you speak of and
at 33,10; to Nagle P. Co. 8 av 115 at $8; March, while in March a year ago there have never failed to tame them; however,
to Newton B. Co. 4 av 145 at $8.50. was an increase of 5,580,536 lbs. it takes time and lots of patience to sub-
Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co, 20 av 125 The unusually early appearance of warm due them: but if you keep right on as I
at $7.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 21 av 130 at weather this spring, an increasing sup- have suggested you will not fall to ac.
37,50; to Mich. B. Co. 9 av 150 at 87.85: ply of fresh vegetables in the city mar- compllsh results that are satisfactory.
to Goose 19 av 120 at $7.25: to Hammond. kets and big supplies of prime lower- Liver Disease—We are having trouble
S a: Co. 6 av 125 at $8. 8 av 95 at $8, 32 priced eggs have been operating to the with our sheep and those that "have died
a}, 125 at $7.64); to Breitenback Bros. 9 disadvantage of sellers of live stock in had liver disease. The sheep seem to eat
av 170 at 35; to Now'hlsker 10 av 124 at recent weeks. The March boom carried up to a few hours before death, a, E. N'.
$7.50. to Nagle R Co. 42 av 140 at $8.40: prices to abnOrmally high ﬁgures. and the Bellaire, Mlch.—GiVe each sick sheep a',
to sullivan P. 00. 5 av 135 at $8.25. reaction that followed was practically in- teaspoonful of phosphate of soda. in hot
Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. 00. 44 av evitable. water once a day as a dren-ch,

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We are in receipt of many queries ask-
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be sprayed and the mixtures to be used

There are a large list of troubles Hat
attack plums. Chief among them are the
plum rot, shot-hole fungus, black-knot
and curculio. The treatment for these,
pests is usually sufﬁcient to‘keep other;
in control. Certain localities and certain
seasons when conditions are favorable

_ for the rapid multiplication if some sec—
ondary species of fungus or insect, may
require particular attention but. in the
main if the following directions are care-
fully executed the grower will be almost
certain to protect‘ his trees and frui‘ from
damage.

The black-knot should be cut out as
soon as discovered. and burned. Some-
times the trouble spreads very slowly
while again it goes through a, tree and
neighboring trees very quickly, infecting
the larger as well as the smaller branches
and thereby threaten the whole tree be-
cause of the heroic methods required to
cut it out. It 18 economy and prudence
therefore, to remove black—knot immedi‘
ately when it is found. Thorough spray-
ing with Bordeaux mixture tends to keep
the blackoknot in check, but is only pre-
ventive and will do no good where the
fungus has become established.

The curculio is fought by giving the or-
chard clean culture since the pest winters
in the grass and rubbish, by giving hogs
freedom to the lot when the fruits are
failing that they may eat the windfalls
and thereby destroy the young grubs and
by spraying with Paris green or arsenatc
of lead.

The sprays required for the season's
operations are. copper sulphate. both the
weak and strong solution, Bordeaux mix-
ture and an arsenical spray. The meth-
ods of making these were described in
issue of April 9, so repetition will not be
made here. See pasc ill of that number
under the head, “Spraying Cherry Trees.”

The ﬁrst application should have been
made before the buds open with copper
sulphate, using the stronger mixture. The
secorid application immediately following
the falling of the blossoms with Bordeaux
mixture and an arsenical poison. The
third should consist of the same mixture
and be given some 10 days or two weeks
later and this may be repeated if the sea~
son is favorable to the pests after another
two-weeks’ period. If the rot should ap-
pear, and it is generally wise to presume
that it will, an application of weak cop-
per sulphate should be made about the
time the fruit begins to color.

Make the applications thorough for
carelessness will nulify the effects of the
sprays.

 
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thoroughly washing the roots and grind-
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sage grinder; bottles holding about half
a pint are usually used for putting it up,
the bottle is tilled about half or two-thirds
full of the ground horseradish, the re-
maining space being ﬁlled with cider
vinegar; use good clean corks and dip the
top of cork in melted sealing wax, to in-
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could use pint cans. glass fruit jars with
any kind of air-tight top would answer
nicely. As the cost of the jars would be
considerable you should have at least
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to table manufacturers or stored in pits
like potatoes or they may be stored in
sand in cellars and sold at any time.

Wayne Co. J. E. MORSE.

A SWEET PEA HEDGE.

 
There is nothing we get more enjoy-
ment out of as a family than our sweet
pea hedge. Between the lawn and the
garden is a woven wire fence, and each
year on both sides of the fence we plant
sweet peas, and train them up the wire,
and they are a truly beautiful sight, be-
sides sending their delightful fragrance
out upon the air for rods around. Anyone
can make a hedge out of the woven wire
whether they have a fence or not. From
this hedge we pluck great bouquets of tho
dainty blossoms for the cemetery, for the
church, for the sick—room, and for the
neighbors in general; and besides. deco '—
ate our own table and house profusofz';
for 'he sweet pea is one ﬂower you can.
not afford to be selﬁsh with if you choose,
for the more you pick the more freely
will the vines bloom, and the longer will
they retain their vigor. This is a case
when the withholding tendeth to poverty.
There are no ﬂowers that are quite so
nice fer bouquets, and for the cemetery
we ﬁnd them indispensable, and their
influence in the sick-room and in the
home is equal to the roses. Sweet peas
never look well combined with other flow-
ers in a bouquet; they should never be
massed together, for the airy blossoms
will look so much better arranged loosely

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and naturally. We usually use wide-
mout-hed vases, rose bowls or small Jar~
dinieres in which to arrange them. If
you desire some green among them use
a bit of the vine and tendrils. Different
colors can be mixed in one bouquet or
they can be separated and one-color ar-
ranged by itself or sometimes two colors
make a pretty combination.

If one wishes to try any of the new
varieties it is a good idea to plant them
off some place by themselves. Some of
the high-priced, recent introductions are
truly wonderful in the brilli-ancy and deli-
cate coloring of their blossoms, but they
do not prove satisfactory to the amateur,
or at least, very seldom do. We always
like to experiment with a few of these
and sometimes get ﬁne results; but for
a hedge we ﬁnd the old standard varie-
ties, obtained from a reliable dealer, the
most satisfactory, and are lovely as well.

Now. as to the culture, for many of our
neighbors complain that they cannot get
the same satisfactory results that we have
obtained, and I think there are three
principal reasons for this. Either the
seed is not planted deep enough, early
enough, or else the soil is not of the
proper kind. Sweet peas should be plant-
ed in the spring as early as the soil can
be prepared, which will differ in different
states. If the soil is light the seeds should
be planted at least six inches deep; but
if the soil is heavy four or ﬁve inches will
be sufﬁcient. They Will do much better
in a heavy, stiff loam, that is, moist and
cool; if the soil is light and sandy it
should be mulched with well—rotted cow-
manure, and with lawn clippings. If the
soil is not as rich as it ought to be then
dig in with the soil some of the well—rot-
ted cow-manure. We usually have the
soil dug to the depth required, plant the
seed. then ﬁll in the earth two or three
inches, then after the plants have come
up ﬁll in the rest of the soil by degrees.
After the soil has been filled in to the
level of the ground. and the plants are a
few inches above the earth the soil should
be stirred frequently if not mull-lied. if
the season is a dry one. they should be
watered regularly, and the grass clipping
raked around them to hold the moisture.

Of late years so many varieties of the
sweet pea have been produced that it is
difﬁcult to make a selection; but we al-
ways ﬁnd that the Eckford varieties
prove satisfactory. The blossoms are ex-
panded, and each stem usually bears
fmm four to ﬁve blossoms. The Henry
Eckford is a soft ﬂaming orange, deepening
slightly in the center; Lottie @cki‘ord
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Eckford is a light rosy purple with wings
of deep blue. Among the dark, richly
colored varieties Stanley perhaps takes
the lead, being a dark, rich, choeolate
maroon of burnished tint, and the glossy
ﬂowers are of a large size; the Midnight
is perhaps the darkest maroon, being al-

 
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most black, and the ﬂowers are in hooded
formﬁi' Firéﬁy’is a strikingly, rich. sweet
pea of glowing crimson scarlet. Among
the blue we Would mention the Navy
Bide which has large blossoms, having
the effect of dark navy b1_ue, and Romolo
a true violet blue. W'e always have a
partiality to the mottled and striped vari-
eties, and Aurora is one of the most
charming on the list, it has a creamy
white ground ﬂaked with bright orange-
salmon. In the Senator we have a ﬁne
specimen of the striped sweet pea—~a
white ground striped with purplish ma-
roon. Prince Olaf is a very profuse
bloomer and is mottled and striped bright
blue on a white ground. Blanch Ferry
is a bright rOSy pink and is one of the
earliest sweet peas. There are many
other varieties equally desirable, but these
are typical. I ﬁnd that every twenty-ﬁve
or thirty feet of hedge will take an ounce
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PROTECTING SQUASH ES.

 
I would like some information through
your paper in regard to raising squashes.

ast summer the vines were well started
when the squash bugs came thick. I put
on liquid manure or manure—water and
that seemed to drive them away. They
were growing nicely when all at once
something seemed to be at the roots and
they wilted in a day. We are very fond
of squash and I would like to raise some
if possible. Can you tell me what I can
do to make sure of them?

Monroe Co. Mas. J. P.

There is no scheme whereby one can
insure a crop of any kind. Too many
factors enter into their production. How-
ever, the chances can be greatly increased
by a thorough understanding of the
plants, their requirements and the pests
which infect them.

The squashes of Mrs. J. P. were ﬁrst
attacked by the squash bugs, and then
later by the squash-vine borer. The ap-
plication of the liquid manure is very
commendable; while it may not have been
directly responsible for the departure of
the squash bugs, it greatly aided the
plants in overcoming the damage done
by those insects. This is one of the
secrets of successful gardening—to feed
the plants so that their growth is vigor—
ous and constant from the beginning.
Like a well person, a vigorous plant is
far more able to throw off disease and
overcome wounds made by insects than
a plant that is dwarfed or has become
weakend through some fault of its en-
vironment,

The squash bug is usually resistant to
the ordinary insecticides. A spray that
is strong enough to kill the matured in-
sect, is very apt to destroy the vine and
thereby nullify the objection of the spray.
One of the most commonly practiced
schemes for controlling the bugs is to
trap the matured insects by placing
boards about the garden, under which
the bugs will seek shelter and protection
during the cool of the night where they
can be captured and destroyed early in
the morning. The boards should be inspect-
ed in extreme cases, every morning while
the insects are most plentiful and active.
The eggs are laid upon the leaves of the
squash vine, and whenever found should
be destroyed. These can be readily dis~
covered as they have a metallic brown or
bronze appearance and are ﬂattened on
three sides. The young when just
hatched may be killed by an application
of kerosene emulsion. Still another
practical scheme which can be worked
with the others and usually is, con-
sists in planting pumpkins and other
vine plants between the rows of squashes
which the bugs will also attack, thus
diverting the attention of the pest from
the squash vines to the other plants.
This provision can be made more effec-
tive by planting the squash vines a little
later than the others. These temporary
plants are removed when the main crop
demands the space.

'The squash vine borer was probably
the second pest that attacked Subscrib-
er’s vines. The work of these insects are
not apparent usually until they have
gained access to the vines and the plants
begin to wilt. By close observance, how—
ever, their work can be detected by a
yellowish powdery excrement which it
forces from its burrow in the stem and
which usually accumulates on the ground
beneath. But the sudden wilting and
dying down of the leaves is usually the
ﬁrst indication that the ordinary gar-
dener has of the presence of this insect.
There is little to be done with this pest
after it has once gained entrance to the
plants. About the only method is to 30‘
over the vines carefully and, with a
knife, cut out the insect by making a
longitudinal incision. The planting of

THE~TM'-ICHIGAiN‘ FARMER. " ' .. "(21> 469

other squash vines, as were recommend-
ed above for the squash bug, can also be
used here. For this insect, however. it
is necessary to plant the temporary
plants much earlier than the others so
that they will attract a large per cent
of the insects before the late crop makes
its appearance. This leaves a smaller
number of insects to deal with the main
crop. As soon as the early crop is har-
vested, if it can be left long enough to
mature, the vines should be raked up and
burned. The same treatment should also
follow the gathering of the main crop
later in the fall. It is also a wise pre-
caution to harrow the ground after the
late crop has been removed, so as to
expose the cacoons to the elements. Then
by plowing in the spring early to a uni-
form depth the pest will be greatly re-
duced in numbers. A rotation of the
squashes with other crops is helpful in
keeping this insect under control. Clean
premises are also of great assistance
since the pests harbor under rubbish and
other places.

THE FARMER'S GARDEN.

 
There is nothing on the farm that com-
bines more proﬁt and pleasure than the
garden. If the soil is prepared early and
the ground planted in good season, the
vegetables, greens and other spring deli-
cacies will come at a time when they will
be mOSt appreciated.

If strawberry plants have been set out
in the fall, the delicious fruit will afford
a ﬁne dessert on the thrifty housewife’s
table. Peas that are sown early mature
at a time when they are better appre-
ciated than when sowing time is delayed,
It is nice to have green peas all summer.
To do so, have several successive periods
of sowing the seed. Select a moist, rich
soil from which peas have not been har-
vested two years in succession. The yield
will be much better while the number
and size of the peas in the pod will be
larger than when grown on a spot which
has been devoted to raising peas year
after year. Energetic gardeners plan to
have new potatoes and peas for the
Fourth of July.

Black wax beans, when planted in time
to be out of the way of the frost, will
later furnish the table with a nourishing
dish.

Happy is the busy farmer's wife who
has a long row of pieplant stems from
which to supply the family with sauce,
pics, puddings and jelly. If the “guid
maun o' the hame” has kept up the as-
paragus bed and the horseradish bed,
and has sown the kale seed, no one of
the family who is a lover of greens will
be slightcd. Plant many onions. They
have a medicinal value. In some locali-
tics sweet corn can be planted very early
without danger of being cut down by the
frost.

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THE APPLE TREE.

 
What plant we in this apple tree?
Buds, which the breath of summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays;

Boughs, where the thrush with crimson
breast, »
Shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest;

We plant upon the sunny lea,

A shadow for the noontide hour,
A shelter from the summer shower,

When we plant the apple tree.

What plant we in this apple tree?
Sweets for a. hundred ﬂowery springs
To load the May—Wind‘s restless wings,
When, from the orchard row he pours,
Its fragrance through our open doors.

A world of blossoms for the bee.
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For the glad infant, sprigs of bloom,

\Ve plant with the apple tree.

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—VVilliam Cullen Bryant.

THE ORIGIN‘OF ARBOR DAY.

 
In Spain there is said to have existed
for centuries a saying to the effect that.
the man who plants a tree on the public
highway has performed an act which en—
titles him to great credit and distinction.
In our own land a half century ago an
act of that character would have passed
unnoticed. Indeed, while cognizant of
the fact that millions of trees were dis—
appearing annually, no one at that time
stopped to consider that the day must
specdily come when extensive planting
would become necessary.

Public attention was ﬁrst drawn to this
need in 1872 when J. Sterling Morton, at
that time a. membcr of thc Ncbraska
State Board of Agriculture, brought be-
fore that board a resolution pri‘ividing
“that the tenth of April (of that year)
beset apart and consccrutcd for tree-
planting.” "l‘hc idca provcd popular and
spread rapidly. Since that time hundreds
of thousands of acrcs have been planted
to trees in that state alone, and Mr. Mor-
ton will always be known to history as
the “Father of Arbor Day.”

From Nebraska the practice of annu-

 
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quickly spread to Kansas, Iowa, Minne-
SOta and Ohio. The last named state
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of public school teachers and pupils in
the observance of the day. In place of
trees being planted merely as screens
from the wind, fruit trees and beautiful
shade and ornamental trees were set out.
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ant historical events, or for famous poets
and authors, soldiers and statesmen. The
school children studicd about those
events, and these famous pcrsonagcs, and
Arbor Day became a very interesting
occasion. Teachers and children liked to
keep the day, and through the public
schools the observation spread over the
country. In twenty years from the be-
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France, Italy, Australia and even in
South Africa.

HOW VEGETATION IS PROTECTED

AGAINST EXTINCTION.

 
BY WM. F. PURDUE.

How many are aware that if certain
species of plants did not have some
means of protecting themsclves they

would soon be wholly exterminated? This
is true, nevertheless.

This protection is obtained
ways. Some plants which are utterly
worthless so closcly resemble useful
plants that thcy quite frequently escape
notice when they grow in close proximity
to the plants which we cultivate. For
instance, young ragweeds closely rcscm-
ble young tomatoes. I have been puzzled
myself many times, when hoeing in the
garden, to determine whether a certain
plant was a tomato or a ragweed, and
quite likely some of the ragwecds would
escape my hoe did I not examine them
closely in order to make sure that they
were not what they seemed. The nar—
row—leaved dock in a bed of ‘beets is an-
other instance of like nature, of which
the gardener can recall several.

Some plants are protected because of
their seed not being easy of detection by

in various

 
their natural enemies. Some seeds are

 
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of the same hue as the soil upbn which
they. fall, and so escape the notice '01'
birds which might otherwise pick them
up. Other plants, as the dandelion, send
their seed forth with wings to be scat-
tered to the four winds of heaven. More
of these seeds will likely survive than
will the seeds of a plant that all fall di-
rectly to the ground in one spot, in which
case if one is destroyed all may be de-
stroyed.

Another way in which plants may be
protected because of their seed is cited
by Prof. Beal, of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, in the following: ‘

“In portions of Wastiington rattle—
snakes are very abundant, and are much
dreaded by cattle and horses which graze
over large portions of the state.

"In this region grow large quantities
of the his Missouriensis, and, when ripe,
the rattle of the seeds in the pod closely
resembles the rattle of the snake. Graz-
ing animals invariably step back after
hitting these pods, and thus the green
leaves of the plants are spared to work
for future crops of seed.”

Then there are plants that are soldier-
like, and carry with them all the imple—
ments of war to protect themselves. The
hawthorne and the locust are armed to
the teeth with savage spears, which they
stick into the enemy that seeks to de-
stroy them. The gooseberry bush is full
of needles. and the sword grass of the
swamps clarries sharp knives with which
to cut any animal rash enough to try to
eat it.

Then there are the cactus and the
thistle, armed with ugly looking barbed
spears. The cactus family, which to a
certain extent is a desert plant, are all
armed with long or short tough spines
that can penetrate. the thickest 'boot.
Most of the other desert plants besides
the cactus are armed in one way or an—
other. Some exude poisonous sap, others
give off nauseating odors. A plant with
which we are familiar—the jimson weed
rwStlldS forth.a vile odor whenever dis-
turbed, which probably is a great pretee—
tion to it.

of all the soldier plants, perhaps the
most interesting is the nettle, for it arms
itself with poisoned arrows. Tthn it
cntcrs a vacant lot and begins to grow in
thick clumps, choking out other weeds
and grasses, the cattle let it entirely
alone. They know how warlike it is; so
do all persons who have ever been not-
tled, and they also leave it alone.

The nettle plant is like the porcupine
in the fact that it carries millions of ar-
rows which it is ready to use whenever
an enemy appears. Each arrow is pol-
soned, and whenever the small boy, or
any one else, comes in contact with one of
these arrows he speedily receives a
charge of poison. All of which causes
much discomfort to the person stung,
and insures to the nettle an existence
free from disturl‘mnce,

-\Vater plants are a class of vegetation
that derive much protection from the
fact that they grow in water. They root
at the bottom and the leaves and blos-

soms ﬂoat on the surface of the water-

or rear above it. Thus they are out of
reach of animals that might be tempted
to nip the plants.

One of the strangest of ways in which
plums are protected is illustrated by a.
sensitive plant of Nicaragua. A stand-
ing army of ants for defensive purposes
is kcpt and provided with food by one
plant. In this acacia there are two large
thorns at the base of each leaf inhabited
by colonies of ants which bore into the
thorns and make a home for themselves
by eating out the soft inner tissue. On
the leaf stalks there are honey glands
and at the tip of each leaflet there is a
sausage—shaped body, about as large as
a pin’s head, consisting of albuminous
food. The ants sip the nectar and eat
the food besides, and, being contented
with their lot, remain on the plant with—
out doing it any injury.

thn the plant is threatened by an
invasion of leaf—cutting ants, which would

damage it, the ants composing the
plant’s army or police force rush out
and repel the intruders. Plants of the

same species which do not happen to be
inhabited by ants fall an easy prey to
leaf-cutting kinds of ants, which are
vcry plentiful in the tropics.

Many similar arrangements exist in
tropical plants. In one remarkable ant
plant the female ant bites a hole in the
stem and brings up her brood inside it.
By a singular arrangement the plant
bears food bodies which are eaten by the
ants. As the old food bodies are eaten
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TH E WEED-BED;

BY 1G0“ sA. FMATSON .‘DOLSON.

We have a weed-bed in: our :yard.
In our‘baclciyard, the nicest spot,
Fern, frond and aster, orchard sward, _
Swamp pink and brook =f0rget-me-m0t.

When they are blossomed they’re not
"Weeds,

But rettiest of pretty things;
The th tle bird‘looks here for seeds,
iHer mate, our- wild canary. sings,

Frost—grapevine makes a. latticed seat.
A swin where ‘we‘in summer sway:
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BABY DAYS 'IN 'THE ORCHARD.

 
BY FRANK H. SWEET.

.Robin was only three days from the
nest; but in that time he had learned a
good many things, for his eyes were
bright and his mind curious about these
odd things around. The ﬁrst day, after
‘his dizzy half-tumbling fall from the
nest. he had remained on the little branch
which he had clutched desperately just
before reaching the ground, too tremulous
to attempt another journey, even to the
grass six feet away.

He had to depend upon himself now,
for there was no mother close at hand to
explain-about‘ the things he saw and tell
him what were safe and what he should
avoid. He had to study them out, with
his head cocked a little on one side and
his bright eyes regarding them thought-
fully, and then decide for himself. He
was 0 wise little bird, however, and
though he sometimes made a mistake, his
conclusions were generally pretty near
the truth.

Redbreast and Cheerup were still in the
nest, and of course his mother had to
look after them. Rusty, the other brother,
was clinging to a branch on opopsite side
of the Baldwin, thirty feet away, to which
his mother had urged him soon after
Robin’s tumble. By twisting his head a
little to the right, Robin could see Rusty
through the foliage, and the two babies
kept up each other’s courage by frequent
chirps of recognition and inquiry. Cow-
by, the foster-brother, was nearer; but
Robin tried not to look at him. The big
baby was crying and carrying on so it
made him feel ashamed.

However, Madam Robin did not leave
them wholly to their-own resources. After
she had given Redbreast and Cheerup
their dinner, she took a big, white grub
to Cowby, because he was wailing so
vociferously, and then carried one to
Rusty; at last she came to Robin. But
Robin did not mind now. He believei
that he was beginning to understand his
mother.

So he opened his bill smilingly. as if he
would say, “It’s all right mother. I don't
mind waiting a bit. You 'must feed the
babies ﬁrst." .And his mother, with one
quick glance at him, actually smiled in
return. She had expected Ithat of ‘Robin,
but 'felt a sudden relief and pride in him
that it was so. Instead of ﬂying off at
once, as she had done from the other
babies, she took a perch on the branch
beside him.

“Robin,” she said, “I think that you
will be able to take care of yourself now.
But you must remember what I have
said about the .friends and enemies you
will meet in the orchard. Always be on
the lookout for the soft moving animal
with the long tail and big eyes; its claws
mean death. Never stop to listen to its
gentle purring, but ﬂy up as high as you
can among the branches. And there is
another animal, called a skunk, which
would be dangerous if you slept on the
ground; but as it only prowls around in
the night and cannot climb, all you have
to do is to sleep high. The calves and
cows and horses which are often turned
into the orchard will be good friends if
you keep away from their feet; when you
are a little older you may get on their
backs and ride. They like it, and you
will ﬁnd it fun. And there are enemies
among our-own people, Robin,” her voice
becoming graver, “which are even more
dangerous, for they can ﬂy like ourselves.
Always keep a lookout overhead for the
hawk, and at night sleep where there are
plenty of leaves for the owl will be out
with his big eyes. Then .there is the
butcher bird that I pointed out to you
the other day; beware of him. Tonight
you must ﬂy up one branchhigher. 'There
are grubs in the .ba-rk, and at sunset
small insects will be buzzingamong? the
leaves; it you are quick and careful you
can get enough to eat. 'Tomorrow you

. grasshoppers and scrickets;
'e'stay .long, and keep a. careful «watch .for

THE M'i’CHiGAN E'FArRIWI-Eié.

may ﬂy down to the grass for a little
while .and watch some of the delicious
but. do not

enemies. Now,” abruptly, “do you think

you can remember all this and be able,

to take .care of yourself, or shall I bring

food ‘to you for a few more days?"
Robin caught his breath with a. ming-

ling o'fugratiﬂcation and dismay, gratifica-

tion that neither Rusty nor Cowby were '

to be left totheir own resources, and dis-
may at some of the things she had out-
lined. She had chirped quietly of his g0—
ing to a higher branch before dark, and
ﬂying down to the grass for a while in
the morning; and as yet he had not even
dared to slip along the branch which he
had clutched so desperately on his de-
scent from the nest, for fear of toppling
off. But he forced himself to answer
steadily: “Yes, mother; I can take care
of myself all right. You needn’t bring me
anything more. Only I—I—won’t I see
you any more, mother?”

“Of course you will, dear. I shall be
up in the branches, or hunting for food
somewhere about the orchard, and will
keep you in sight. If you ﬁnd anything

that you do not understand, or are not ”1‘.

able to do by yourself, come to me. When
you are a little older we will go for a ﬂy
round the country outside the orchard,

and I will point out other things that you ~
Now good- ,

will be ready to learn then.
bye, and be a good boy."

With this in his mind, and the remem-p f‘

brance of her conﬁdence in him to take
care of himself while yet the much larger
Cowby and Rusty were being looked after,
he straightened up from the branch upon
which he had thus far
and looked sturdily at the limb
It was a long way
feet, but he spread his wings determinedly
and bent his legs into as strong a spring
as he could give and the two would ‘have

above.

carried him up all right only as he start- ‘

ed and realized the depth below he in-
voluntarily closed his eyes.
securing a clawhold upon the limb as he
hoped, he went completely over, and even

missed his own branch as he dropped

down the other side, clawing and beating ,
the air helplessly with his feet and wings. '

For some moments he lay dazed; but
the grass was thick and soft, and at
length he opened his eyes and struggled
disgustedly to his feet.

His ﬁrst act was to glance toward the
top of the next tree. But his mother
was not in sight, and he regained some of
his composure. His next act was to look
critically at the branch. He must reach
that at once, and then ﬂy to the limb
above. It would never do for his mother
to find out; she would lose confidence in
him and insist on his sharing her care
with the other babies. Sometime he
would tell her about it, of course, but not
until after he had learned how to ﬂy.

But he was still tremulous from the
excitement of the fall, and when he spread
his wings he could only rise a couple of
feet or so. After the third attempt and
failure he dropped back into the grass to
consider. He must gain the branch, of
course; and of course he could not do it
until he got stronger. Well, he had al-
ready discovered the best 'way to get
strong was to eat. His mother had ad-
vised him to ﬂy down to the grass the
following day and eat some of the deli-
cious grasshoppers. As he was already
down he would eat them at once; perhaps
they would make him strong enough to
ﬂy back.

Young Robin promptly forgot his morti-
ﬁcation in an eager pursuit of insects.
But catching a grasshopper one's self and
having it dropped into the open mouth by
one's mother are two altogether different
things, as Robin soon found. At the end
of half an hour he was still plunging
and tumbling about in vain pursuit of
some light-winged or nimble—footed in-
sect; and at last, hungry and discouraged
and out of breath, was forced to content
himself with a common angle worm, one
end of which he found showing from un-
der a stone, and which he pulled from
the earth with vicious little tugs.

But as soon as he was somewhat rest—i
ed he began at the insects again, adopt—‘
ing different tactics this time. Instead
of exerting his utmost strength in reek--
less pursuit, he looked about to see where
the insects were thickest and stationed
himself in the grass at that point, re-

maining almost motionless, but with eyes? .

and bin alert. Perhaps the insects came
to regard ‘him as only a part of the sur-
roundings, for soon they were hopping
and ﬂying about in utter disregard of,
his presence.

It was not long before a tiny grasshept

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FEN E POST," furnished free for the asking.

      
which the line wires
are not of equal length. "'-
You can't Ila-kc it set
right, for it isn’t'lnade right.

You can’t stretch the slack out of
one wire because the next one is
already too tight. This defect is im-
possible in ANTHONY FENCE-it‘s made
:ﬂoht inthe ﬁrst place.

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is made right and held right.
accurate and right. The Anthony Knot holds it tight—can't slip.
the tension is evenly distributed.

Unbroken Galvanized Surlace---No Kinks in the Line Wires.
The Anthony Fence machine handles the tough wire used without rupturing the galvanizing
' the Anthony knot makes no kink in the line wires. The result is In
less liability to rust than in fence with sharp angles in the wire.
All this makes Anthony Fence the fence for you—write today for
sample of the Anthony knot and our Booklet, both free.

The Anthony Fence (20., dressage? €382

every line wire
even. because all» are
of equal length -- made
accurately and exactly by our
perfect machines. The stays are
always straight-always upright and
parallel to the posts on level ground,
uphill and downhill.

on FENCE

Our special and exclusive machinery makes Anthony Fence uniform.
Our fence is easy to erect-

     
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We pay nllfrolght. 9? heights of farm
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dial-l. wired apool .1111“! Barb,
Wire $1.56 Cataloguetree.
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his bill. This was Robin’s opportunity.
He made a quick stroke, and the grass—
hopper served as the beginning of his
supper. ' ‘

After this there were some successes
and a good many failures; but altogether
it was an afternoon of great fun and ex-
citement. Only when the thicker shadows
in the grass sent the insects skurrying
toward their homes did Robin realize
that it was near night, and that he was
still upon the ground.

His apple tree was thirty feet away,
and he went to it on the run. But when
he launched himself hurriedly into the‘.
air his wings would only hear him high
enough for his bill to just graze the lower
side of the branch. Perhaps he had eaten
more insects than 'he thought, and his
lmdy had grown heavy; or perhaps he
was not old enough yet to ﬂy so far. At
any rate, he could not reach the branch
tonight, as a second and third attempt
soon proved. For a. moment he felt like
crying out in his terror, but controlled
himself with an effort. He must not get
excited now when he needed every faculty
to provide for his safety. There was that
terrible monster, the skunk, which his
mother had chirped of as prowling in the
night. She had warned him to sleep high,
and here he was unable to leave the
ground. He must ﬁnd some place to hide.

But the grass for twenty feet around
was searched in vain. Then he went to
the trunk itself. He had seen Mr. Downy
\Voodpecker walk unconcernedly up and
down that trunk not an hour before.
However, Downy was made to walk that
way and he was not. If only he could
exchange claws with Downy for a few
moments everything would be all right.

Near the ground a limb had been im—
properly cut off years before, and this
place, out so that water could remain in
the crevices of the fresh wound, 'had de—
cayed almost to the very heart of the
tree. Robin looked at it speeulatively,
but with a good deal of disgust in his
eyes. The hole was not large enough for
him to enter, but inside and around it
was a soft mass of decayed wood ﬁbre.
Robin set energetically to work clearing
some of this out, and soon had a hole
large enough for him to crowd into. Then
with his bill and claws he piled the soft
stuff into the opening again until there
was only a tiny hole to breathe through.

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WHAT of the harvest time? Will you be ready?

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‘ there will be heavy 1655 of time and grain. Perhaps a
breakage will occur on the most critical clay, and un-
less it is an I H C machine you may have to wait long
for repairs.

The Spring rush is on. Each day, for several
months to come, will ﬁnd you more and more
pressed for time.

Look over your harvesting facilities now. Nothing
else is so important. Make sure that harvest time will worth or doubtful character would be equally short-
ﬁnd you prepared to crowd every hour full of rapid sighted. ‘

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work, we I done The test of time, the successful experience of thou- ,

It is very important to have your ﬁelds properly sands of farmers, shows you the way to sure results—
fertilized; and it is important that'tlie seed bed be prop- an I H C.
erly prepared before seeding time. It is also important . . . l
that the best quality of seed be selected and drilled into . Among the SIX styles YO? are certain 0f ﬁhdlhg‘ one
the ground evenly and at a uniform depth; in other words, ~ that W111 JUSt meet 370111: requirements in every particular.
all the preparatory work involved in growing wheatand‘ And whether the conditions for harvest be favorable or
other grain crops is important and, therefore, should be unfavorable, whether you have a ﬁne, uniform stand 01‘
carefully done—but no matter how carefully you may do abeaten down, tangled crop to reap, the work .Wln go
the preparatory work, if the rush of harvest takes you forwardsmoothly, rapldly9unlnterrpptedly1 netting you
unawares and you plunge into your fields with inade- the maximum proﬁt. 1h C353 an aCCIdeht ShOUId happen
quate equipment, more or less loss is inevitable, for I H C interchangeable parts are always ‘11“ch at hand
delays in the harvest ﬁelds are costly. Therefore, it be~ through the nearby 1 H C dealer.
hooves you to make sure that your harvesting machines
are ready to go into the ﬁeld. If repairs are needed,
now is the time to secure them—if a new machine is
needed, now is the time to decide which one to purchase.

Remember what a vital part the harvesting machine
will play in your returns on the year’s business. There
is too much at stake for you to take the slightest risk.
It isn’t necessary. You can insure yourself against loss.
Choose your equipment from the I H C line of machines.

To put your money into a machine of unknown

Every 1 H C dealer carries a. stock of repairs that
ﬁt when repairs are needed.

Repairs having the I H C standard of excellence can
be secured at almost every cross roads or ‘village. This
availability is not only a great convenience, but also
saves valuable time which means money to the busy
farmer in case of accident in the harvest ﬁeld. i

And don’t experiment on binder twine. Some low
grade ﬁbre has been used in the manufacture of binder ,
twine for the harvest of 1910, and it is unnecessary to , ,
state that those who attempt to use twine made from
low grade Manila fibre will have trouble.

Thousands of farmers are secure in the prospect of
reaping all the proﬁt'that their grain will represent in
the fields because they have chosen machines from one
of these six lines—

It is to the farmer’s interest always to keep a
weather eye on the future, and in this particular in-
stance to secure his twine supply, whether it be Sisal
or Manila, at as early a date as possible. Get one of t
the seven perfectly dependable brands of twine and be ,
sure. Choose Deering, Champion, McCormick, Mil-

McCormick Osborne

Plano

Deering
Champion Milwaukee

.. and:

Take your choice from these and be sure of getting

 
It was a horrible place to stay in, soft
and sticky and bad—smelling; but it
seemed his only chance for safety, and

with that thought Robin closed his eyes
detcrminedly. But he did not sleep a

wink all night, thinking of his bed and
listcimig to the strange noises outside.
And when ﬁnally he left the hole, just
before daylight, he rightly considered
himself as disreputable looking a young
robin as had ever called that respectable
orchard home. It took him a full hour to
make his toilet in the wet grass, and even
he had an uneasy feeling that he
was not quite presentable.

By this time the sun was up, and the
insects were beginning to hop and 11:;
among the grass. He decided that he had
better eat his breakfast now, before try—
mg to regain the branch. Food might
not be so plentiful up there, and he cer—
tainly would not L‘al‘t' to fly down to ill"
grass again today. One night in that hole
was enough. But he was careful to make

then

his breakfast frugal; he could not risk
any more chances.

At length. he was ready for the at-
tempt, and he examined the branch criti- ~
callv. Half way out from the trunk was
a slight depression, scarcely noticeable;
but Robin’s keen eyes thought it would
afford a better clawhold. Taking a stand
near the trunk he made a few quick
hops forward and spread his wings. And
this time he did not close his eyes. A
second later he was balancing himself
on the, branch, and already raising his
bill toward the limb above. That was
only four feet away. and without hesita-
tion he SClOk‘lt'tl what he thought would
give the best elawhold. and again spread

his wings.
Ten minutes later his mother Ilew to a
branch overhead and looked down.
“All right, Robin?" she called.
“Yes, mother." he answered

cheerily.
“Never felt better in my life.” >

“'l‘hat’s nit-e. Shall I bring you some
breakfast?”
“No, thank you. l'vc just come up

from the grass, where I had seven grass-
hoppers and a cricket.”

Madam Robin stared a moment, and
he heard her chirp an involuntary note
of astonishment, But all she. said as she
ﬂew away in search of breakfast for the
babies was, “You’ll do, Robin."

That more than repaid him for his

waukee, Osborne, Plano or International—in Sisal,
Standard, Manila and Pure Manila brands. , l

the most work done in the shortest time at lowest cost.

You cannot get a machine under any other name
that will pay you such big dividends on theinvestment.

Bear in mind that if you attempt to pull through

If it is not convenient to see an International dealer
promptly, write for full information and the catalogues

    
another harvest with machines that are old and worn you want. ..
. INTERNATIONAL HARygggg COMPANY or AMERICA .
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