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The Only Weekly Agriwcultural Horticulture] and Live Stock Journal in the State.





 





 





VOL. CXXXII. No. 8.

Whole Number 3439-





DETROIT.IMICH.. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1909.





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VFARM NOTES.





Shauld we Apply Lime to Our Soils?



A'nu'mber of inquiries have been re-

cently received asking for information on

different phases of the above question,

which is sufficient evidence of general

interest in this proposition to warrant a

rather full discusison of it at this time.

The use of lime upon agricultural lands

is not a new proposition. The early

Roman writers discussed its importance

in adding to the productiveness of the

soil. In England and other European

countries lime has been commonly used

as a soil corrective for very many years.

Even' in our own country, its occasional

use extends back more than a century,

during which time farmers and experi-

menters who have proven its value have

advocated its more general use.



The functions of lime in improving a,

soil have often been touched upon, but

a brief review of the same. at this time

will aid the reader to a better under—

standing of what follows. The function

most often mentioned is that of correcting

an acid condition of the soil, which oc-

curs inost frequently as a result of the

slow process of the decay of vegetable

matter in a heavy or poorly drained soil.

It also has a mechanical effect of loosen-

ing up such a soil, making it more friable

in cultivation and permitting a more free

percolation of water thru it. Quite

strangely it has just the opposite effect

upon light soils, binding and cementing

them together in a manner which makes

them more retentive of soil moisture.

It also supplies plant food in calcium,

which is the elemental base of lime,

altho it is not at all certain that most

soils are lacking in sufficient quantities

of this element to satisfy the needs 01‘

most, if not all, plants. A possible ex-

ception of alfalfa, clover and other le-

gumes might be made, as applications

of lime seem to be particularly beneficial

to these crops, except on soils of a cal-

carius formation. It is possible, however,

that the. relation between lime and other

minor plant food elements in the soil

\nay be out of balance and need read—

justment on many soils, as will be noted

later.



Lime. also has a decomposing effect

upon the. mineral substances or plant

foods in the. soil, thereby releasing stored

plant foods, particularly potash. The fact

that lime. does not add potassium to the

soil, simply making available for plant

food that already contained in it, has

probably givcn rise to the old saying

that “The use of lime makes the father

rich but the son poor." Lime. also at—

tasks the soluble phosphorus in the soil,

holding it in a form which appears to be

most acceptable to plants. It also aids

in the decomposition of organic matter

in the soil, hastening its reduction to

humus, which is an important factor in

soil fertility.



How Lime is Applied.



In the early years of its use, lime was

generally applied in the form of quick—

]imc, or caustic lime, the method being to

distribute it in small piles in the field.

cover it with earth until -slakcd, then

spread it on the surface and barrow

or Cultivate it in. applying it at the rate

of 20 to .10 bushels per acre. Modern

methods of manufacture, however, have

supplied it in various forms, as hydrated

or watcr—slakcd lilme, ground quicklimc

or burned limestone, in which the process

of slacking is deferred until applied to

the land; ground limestone which is fav-

ored by many authorities, within limita-

tions as hereafter noted; gas lime, a

by—product from gas plants, and calcer-

ious marl, which contains a high per-

centage of calcium carbonate. ,



For clay soils the best authorities favor





 





 





how the farmer may improve his

Permanent Meadows and_Pastures.—





An Up-To-Date Piggery.——An

corn crib,





provclment of herds, as compared





—XVashington’s

hood of Lincoln . . ........... . . . . . .





 





Onion Culture.—A description of the





A FEW LEADING ARTICLES OF THE WEEK.





Practical Plant Breeding—IL—The second of a. series of articlesshowing





 





Scientific and practical advice on the

seeding of permanent meadows and pastures, by Dr. Beal, of M. A. C..177

illustrated descritpion of a hog house, with

cook and slaughter room,

Family Lines in the Swine Herd.—The result of line breeding in the im-





Successful Methods of Duck Rearing.—Helpful advice for beginners in this

important, but often neglected branch of the poultry industry...........184

Magazine Section.—Desolated Timegad—The Hop Picker from Port Simpson

BirthdaywA Five-Acre Flat—New Facts About the Boy—

.................................. 187- 198

Shall We Double the Yield or Halve the Cows?— The effcct of high butter

prices on the trade must be offset by reducing the cost of production..200





grower whose first efforts in growing this crop were a failure ..........208





crops by plant breeding and selection.175





planned to economize labor.. ...... 179





with the crossing of families. . . . . . . . .179





element of plant food in a readily soluble

condition to this class of plants which

seem to approprate it more freely than

others.

How Frequently Should Lime Be

Applied?



It is the consensus of opinion among

investigators who have made a study of

this problem that once in five years is

sufficiently often to apply lime to soils

which may be found to need it. Of

course, some soils would doubtless be

benefited by more frequent and liberal

applications than others, and this is a.

question which really only the soil itself

can answer properly. \Vhere. ground





 





methods followed by a successful





 





 





 





limestone is used its chemical comp0si-

tion is thot to have a rather important

bearing upon this phase of the question.

It is nearly always found in combination





 





 





 





the. use of hydrated (water slacked) lime

or the ground quicklime (burned lime-

stone) especially where an acid condition

of the soil is suspected, application of

from 400 to 2,000 lbs. per acre being

recommended. On sandy sells a more

favorable influence seems to be exerted

by smaller applications, ranging from 200

to 1,000 lbs. per acre. On such soils,

ground limestone seems to have the pref—

erence with the best authorities, who ad-

vise the application of double the above

named amounts where this form of lime





is used. As above noted, this form of

lime seems to be very generally favored

by alfalfa and other legumes, from 1,500

to 2,000 lbs per acre having been profit-

able applications in many cases, while

at least one prominent and successful

grower of alfalfa in Wisconsin uses fully

four times that quantity of ground lime-

stone per acre on alfalfa land. The rea-

sons for the application of lime to such

land are two-fold. First, it promotes

the activity of the nitrifying bacteria pc—

culiar to the plants and supplies this





 





 





 





 





The Big Silo is Generally an Indication that the Owner is In the Dairy Business.





 





 





The Undergrowth Springs Up Quickly





 





in the Woodlot that is Not Pastured.





with magnesia, sometimes with a high

percentage of magnesia. While such

limestone may be used to correct acidity,

a word of caution is soundcd by good

authorities on the subject as to its fre~

qucnt use on the swine, land. This point

will merit a fuller consideration, but it

has been found by Observation and analy-

sis that soils containing an excess of

magnesia are generally unproductive

soils, notwithstanding the fact that mag—

nesia seems to be a more important plant

food ingredient and more abundantly

present in the seeds of plants than is

lime. It has been found, however, that

certain proportions of lime. to magnesia

must be preserved in the soil in order

to keep its productivity up to the highest.

standard. The limitations of this article

will not permit us to go into this phase

of the, question more deeply than to state

that it has been found that, while some

plants will do Well when the proportion

of lime to magnesia is as l to 1, other

plants require the proportion to be as 2

0r 3 to 1 for best results.



Now chemical analyses show that the

lime content of the soils in humid regions

is much lower than that in arid regions,

owing to the lime in the soil having been

washcd in solution from such lands by

natural processes. This theory being ac—

ccpted, the limestone comparatively free

from magnesia would appear to be much

more desirable for use upon the soil and

is sufficient. reason for the caution noted

above with regard to the frequent use

of magnesia limcstoncs to correct soil

acidity.



The apparent: general intcrcst in this

subject above noted is an indication that

a, vcry considerable number of the more

progressive farmers of Blichigan are. taking

up the subject of soil improvement in a.

more thorn and earnest manner than ever

before. The writer knows of several of

them who have already preparcd to ex-

perimcnt with the use of lime on their

lands in :1 more or less extensive way

during the coming season. One thing,

liowcvcr, is certaine~that the intelligent

use of lime upon any

do no harm,





Michigan soil can

since the limestone soils Of

our country are among our richest soils

and there scents little doubt that a most

bcncticial effect will be sccurcd by the

application of lime upon our older culti-

vated lands which have become worn and

lifeless and unresponsive to even good

cultural methods.

Growing Cow Peas With Corn.



“’hicli is the propcr Way to grow the

cow pen to combine with corn for filling

a silo?



Jackson (‘o. l“. D.



It is doubtful whether sin-h a combi-

nation can be profitably grown in Mich-

igan. Farther south the cow pea- may

be planted with the. corn, the vines run-

ning up the. hills of corn and all har-

vested at the same time and put into

the silo together. This method, however,

does not seem to be a successful one in
174 (2)





Michigan. The writer has seen one crop

grown by this method where the corn

was planted late which gave very satis~

factory results. Alt’ho the corn did not

produce much grain, there was consid-

erable grain in the cow peas and a good

growth of forage was produced. The

writer has tried this plan two different

years, the first year getting a fair growth

of peas but the second year the spring

was cold and unfavorable for the cow

peas and they amounted to very little.

If planted at the same time with the corn

this will generally prove to be the case.

It is possible that they might be planted

into the hills later by hand but this

method will not always give satisfactory

results and if it is desired to put corn

and cow peas into the silo together bet-

ter results can likely be secured by grow—

ing the two crops seperately. This,

however. increases the difficulty of har-

vesting and ensiloing them to such an

extent that it is again doubtful if the

operation would be a profitable one.

Making Concrete Drain Tile.





I hear of some farmers making their

own tile for drainage. with cement and

sand. I would like to hear tlirn The

Fanmer if anyone has tried it and has

been successful and what kind of form

one would need and if more than one

form would be needed for each size of

tile. Also if we could make them cheaper

than we could buy our tile. Four-inch

tile here costs 2% cents per foot.



Mecosta Co.



Concrete tile have been demonstrated

to be a success. The best quality of con-

crete tile are made of one part cement

and four parts coarse sand and three

parts pea gravel. This makes a porous

tile which is most desirable. Two barrels

of cement. one cubic yard sand and three-

fourths yard gravcl will make 300 four-

inch tile, 12 inches long with an outside

diameter of six inches. These are

stronger tile than clay tile. For tile of

about the same strength as clay, one

part of cement to sew-n parts of sand

and four parts pea gravel may be used.

l‘l'ith these proportions. two barrels Ce-

mcnt. one and three—quarter cubic yards

sand and one yard of gravel will make

42:? tiles of the size mentioned. From

these figures the comparative cost of the

two kinds of tile may be easily deduced.

knowing the cost of i’naterial on the farm

where the tiles are needed.



The foinns and tools required are fully

described and illustrated in the booklet

published by t'ln- Michigan Farmer en—

titled. “Concretc Construction on the

Farm,” which is inziilcd to any subscriber

post paid for :70 cents. One form is all

that is needed for each size of tile but

there must be a number of pallet boards

on which the tiles are pIaCt-d to dry 24

hours before being moved.



Alfalfa on Hilly Land.



I have a hilly field of 7 acres and the

Side hills are i'n-d clay and the rest is a

gravclly soil, .lune clovr-r docs well on

this land. I had corn in the field last

summer and will sow to oats this spring

and seed down. Could 1 seed with alfalfa

and would it do well on side hills on red

clay. The hills slope to the south and





east.

I.cnawee Co. Si'iiscnmnn.





The best authorities on alfalfa culture

in the west, where this forage crop has

l't‘IIt‘llt‘d its greutcst dvvclopincnt, seem

to agree that it will do well on almost

any kind of a soil. from a hard clay to a

sandy loam, provided the soil is well

drained. There should be little trouble

with this side hill on that account, and

it might be worth a trial to seed it to

alfalfa. l‘ltl\\'1'\'lll'.' it seems to be well

established that it does not pay to under-

take to seed alfalfa in grain, or to use.

a, nurse crop of any kind in seeding it.

The better way is to prepare the ground

thoroly, making a line seed bcd and got-

ting it as i‘i'cc as possible from weeds.

Then sow when weather conditions are

favorable, any time in .Tune, altho the

season of the ycar is not so particular

as that conditions are favorable for a.

quick germination of the sccd and a

rapid growth of the young plants. it has

been found advisable in Siilllt‘ sections to

imakc an application of lime before seed-

ing to alfalfa. and it is generally con-



Preparing for a “Record Crop” of



Potatoes.



I have a chn‘c of sandy loam land ly-

ing on the shorc of Lake Huron in this

county upon which i grew potatoes for

several years up to the fall of mm. In

the spring (if 1907 T Hou'ctl it to (hits and

seeded with mammoth clovcr, getting :1

good catch. Last year. 'lleR, the clover

grew very rank. 1 did not cut it at all,

not even taking off the Si‘tdl, it is all on

the ground. Please tell me how you

would handle this land this year to get

a record crop of potatoes? \l'lmt variety

would you plant and when- can 1 gct the

seed?



Alcona Co. “Rim."



This soil should be plowed early in

order to give the vegetable matter time

to become partially decayed and convert—





ed into humus before the growingr season





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





for the potato crop is over. If plowed

early and thoroly tilled the soil should

he'sufiiciently. well supplied with nitrogen

and humus so that by applying a liberal

quantity of potash and some phosphoric

acid in the form of fertilizer, a maximum

crop of potatoes might be grown. A- fer-

tilizer containing as much as 10 per

cent of potash should be used on this

sandy land, one with a formula of about

128:]0, using a half ton per acre, if you

want to get a record crop of potatoes.

Then by keeping the soil well cultivated

so as to retain soil moisture, putting on

the fertilize‘ at least two or three weeks

before the potatoes are planted, you

should have ideal conditions for the pro-

duction of a record crop. Use any of the

late varieties which do well in your sec-

tion, probably the Rural \New Yorker

is more extensively grewn than any other

variety in the state and it would be

easier to procure the seed which could be

gotten from almost any potato dealer.



Vl'here one desires to go in for a record

crop he should also plan on spraying for

protection against blight, as it is a fact

established by repeated trials at experi-

ment stations that better crops can be

grown even where there is no blight than

is possible without spraying the plants

with bordcaux mixture.





CATALOGS RECEIVED.





Walter A. Wood Machines and Imple-

ments for the farm are fully described in

a new, handsomely illustrated catalog

sent out by this firm. “'i‘ite Walter A.

Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Co..

Hoosick Falls. N. Y.. for this catalog and

numerous small pocket size booklets, de-

scribing thc several lines of their har-

vesting tools and farm implements in

which you may be interested.



Storrs & Harrison Co., proprietors of

the Palncsvillc Nurseries, Painesville,

Ohio. are sending out a. handsome, illus-

trated catalog of seeds and plants for

farm. garden and home use for 190:). This

catalog contains 170 pages and has nu-

merous half-tone illustrations.



The 1909 sccd annual issued by D. M.

Perry & Co., scedsnien, Detroit, Mich.,

is a 100 page booklet fully descriptive of

the complete line of farm. garden and

ilower seeds carried by this well known

ilrm.



Maple Bend Nursery sends out a new

catalog of fruit and ornament trees,

shrubs. small fruit plants, etc. Write

T. 13. West, prt’iprictor, Perry, Ohio, for

a copy.



The Quarter Century Offering of North-~

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title given the 136 page illustrated cata-

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seedsinen, Minneapolis. Minn. It is a

large size catalog, and contains many

half-tone illustrations.



This Concern Saved Its Customers 3 Mil-

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It would be difficult, if not impossible,

to pick out a farming community in the

TTnite-d States which has not benefited

by the extraordinary low price on build-

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lowa. ’l‘hc saving to its customers, in the

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stocks of doors, windows, mouldings.

roofing, lumber. glass, and innumerable

other items used in the construction of

all classes of buildings require several

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The company has its own private switch

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The recent electrical storm, tho un-

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summer season. “’0 are apt to forget

such dangers until they recur. but We

can practically obviate the danger from

lightning if we fully understand it. Prof.

Ilodd's book. sent free by Dodd & Struth-

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those dangers. and tells how to eliminate

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Potatoes—Choice Seed?





We have raised a very fine lot of potatoes

(over 3000 bu.) on our own farm. under the best

possxble conditions to produce seed free from

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PRACTICAL PLANT BREEDING. ll.





One of 'the can‘tions which makes it

comparatively easy for the ‘ ordinary

farmer to improve his wheat by selection

is the fact that wheat does not naturally

“cross” easily. Seed from the 'largest,

strongest, and best-yielding plants found

may therefore be sown in small plots that

are a part of the general field without

any danger that the improved type will

mix with inferior kinds adjacent to it.

Whatever space is thus allotted to breed—

ing plots and multiplying plots may re<

duce by that much the area given to an

inferior general crop until the whole field

cm be sown with the improved seed.

And' whatever time is given to breeding

operations is constantly putting the

farmer into a position for selling pedi-

greed seed wheat to all his neighbors.

The man whose enterprise puts him in

the lead in this line is the one who may

have either a monopoly of the. business

in his community or at least can con-

stantly outdistance his competitors.



In addition to the advantage from

careful selection of the best plants as

foundation stock for breeding purposes,

there is always the possibility of dis-

covering some absolutely new type of

Wheat which has developed as a ‘sport”

from ordinary varieties. No one has yet

been able to explain the occurrence of

these sports, or mutations—changes from

the prevailing type. $0 far as known

they cannot be produced by any particu-

lar mode of cultivation or fertilizing—

they simply happen, and so may happen

on anybody‘s farm. The, classic example

of sport is the nectarinc, which is some-

times supposed to be a distinct species

Instances are known, howcvcr. where

one branch of a peach tree has suddenly

btgun to bear nectarincs instead of

peaches—a small, smooth-skinnml. very

sweet fruit entirely distinct in quality.

Later, this branch may bear peaches

again for a season or two and then re-

turn to producing nectarincs exclusively.

A bud or scion taken from such a branch

will usually produce an entire nectarine

tree if grafted on a peach stock; and

seeds from such a tree will sometimes

produce other nectarine trees.



The important thing for our purpose

in reference to sports is that they appear

suddenly, without warning, and usually

remain permanent in type, without much

variation; and they occur somewhat fre-

qucntly in wheat. Professor \Vebbcr, of

the Cornell Experiment Station, believes

that upwards of a dozen new wheat

sports might be found each year in the

fields of New York. And some of these

are pretty certain to be valuable as the

foundation for a superior variety. The

great danger is that tiny may be lost

thru ov<~>rsight, perhaps ground into flour

or fed to chickens. 0n the other hand,

a few of the seeds from such sports may

exist in every harvest or purchased bushel

of wheat, and if they find thcir way into

the, next year’s crop may be recognized

in the standing grain. \Yhat an oppor-

tunity is this, by a little cultivation of

the faculty of observation in reference

to one‘s own proper business, to become

a world benefactor.



The. well-known Fultz wheat was dis-

covered in 1862 as a sport from the Lan-

‘aster Red. The 'heads were saved,

planted by themselves, and the seed mul-

tiplied by sale. The Pride of Butte wheat

was found in a California rye field and

saved because of its unusual vigor. Ira.

\V. Green, a farmer of New York, dis-

covered the Gold Coin wheat as a sport

from the Hybrid Mediterranean, and

“fixed” its type by five years’ further

selection and at the same time increased

its yield about ten per cent. “Minnesota.

No. 169" was similarly developed by

llays from the Blue Stem wheat. In

four years‘ selection its yield increased

nearly five bushels per acre. Patrick

Shirreff, the ,noted Scotch wheat im-

prover, tells how he became a plant

breeder in the following words:



“My experiences in the improvement

of the cereals arose from the following

circumstance: When walking over a

field of wheat on the farm of Mungaswell,

in the county of Haddington, in the

spring of 1819, a green spreading plant

attracted my notice, the crop then looking

miserable from the effects of a severe

winter; and the next day measures were

taken to invigorate its growth by remov-

ing the surrounding vegetation and apply-

ing rmanure to its roots. In the course

of the slimmer several stalks were cut

down by hares; but notwithstanding this

loss to the plant, 63 ears (heads) were

gathered from it at the harvest, yielding

2.473 grains, which were dibbled in the

following autumn at wide intervals. For





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the two sticceeding seasons the accumu-

lating product was sown broadcast, and

the fourth harvest of the original plant

amounted to about 42 quarters (nearly

191/2 bushels) of grain fit for seed; and

proving to be a new variety it was named

Mungaswell's wheat."



Notice that it didn’t cost this farmer

anything to make the original discovery;

he was looking over the condition of his

crop, with his eyes open; and he could

see things—in the daytime. Then notice

the scientific “horse sense” in what he

did. He isolated the unusual plant and

gave it the best possible conditions for

surviving to seed production. Then every

seed of the 2,473 was “dibbled,” planted

one in a place—the breeding plot. Next

the resulting product was broadcasted

under field conditions—the multiplying

plot. And finally, with shrewd businessi

sense, the new variety is named and put?

on sale for seed. Not until this thoro

prclinginary development and testing::

was be warranted in the last step; but,i

it paid to work and wait. Such a man,

or such a boy, can afford to be laughed

at by “-mossback" neighbors who think,

he is “fooling away his time” and timef

is always money to the man who would

rather work than think.



But even the man who cannot afford to,

take this degree of care in the improvew

mcnt of ‘his wheat may find some profit,

in doing less than has been suggested.

The great thing is to make the superior

plants, which are nearly always in the

minority, become the majority product

in his fields. Just before cutting the

wheat he may go thru it rapidly with a

pail slung before his waist, so that with

both hands he can pick into it the largest

heads he can find. Enough should be

gathered, if possible, to make a bushel of

seed. Along in the winter evenings, he

and the children may carefully run over

these heads and sct aside any that are

inferior or noticeably dif'fcrcnt from the:

rest. The remainder may be pounded

out; in grain bags and carefully cleaned!

in a fanning mill that has been thoroly;

brushed'out inside. If this seed is sown1

in the usual way across one side of the

general field, it will afford a good place

in which to make other hcad selections

before harvest; and the rest of its product

should be used for seeding next year’s

and. i



This plan will never give as great pos-‘

sibilities as the isolation of complete

plants and the more careful

pi'oCcsscs previously described; but it is

a great improvement over

methods of sccd sclcction and is certainly

within the reach and ability of any

farmer. lt‘ skeptical

value of the more exact methods, one,

can learn enough from the results of thiS|

plan to convince llllllSt'lf that scientific

care—which simply means exact obser-

vation directed by good judgnmnt~does

pay on the farm as elsewhere, and in

the field of farm crops as well as in

stock breeding.



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It is easy work to load such a. sled,

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And by standing on the ground it is

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of time. All things considered, I have

found a. sled, as mentioned above, the

easiest and most economical way of}

drawing out manure. especially in the;

winter. At, this writing, I have the

field, to be planted to corn next spring,

half covered, all drawn out: as mentioned.



Ottawa Co. JOHN JACKSON.



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PERMANENT M EADOWS AND

PASTURES.





It would be a very great favor to the

Writer if you .could give me some infor-

mation regarding the merits of the en-

closed list of seeds said to be best adapt-

ed for grass on the usual type of southern

Michigan opening soil.





lbs. lbs. lbs.

Italian Rye Grass .......... 3 3 3

Perennial Rye Grass ....... 6 6 7

Orchard Grass ............ . 9 7 7

Med. Foxtail ............... 2 .l 3

Hard Fescue ........ 2. 2 2

Blue Grass ............. 2 3 .5

Red Top .................... 3 3 3

Wood Meadow .............. 1 1 1

Rough Stalked Meadow 1 2 2

Meadow Fescue. ............ 2 4 4

Sweet Vernal .............. 1 l 1.

Timothy .................... 2 3 3

Perennial Red Clover ...... 2 2 3

Alsike Clover ............... 2 1 l

\Vhite Clover .............. 2 2 2

Each total ................ 40 43_ 45

Cost respectively, $8.25, $9.00, $9.30 per

acre.





The amounts represented in totals are

supposed to be sufficient per acre

light, medium and heavy soils.



Cost average about 2}c per lb.



The enclosed list was taken from the

catalogue of one of the largest seed

houses we have, and bearing a very good

reputation, but the question is, will the

list of seeds sent you give good results,

i. e.. a permanent seeding good for a life—

time as they say; and again, would it

produce a good hay crop? Hay in this

locality is a very uncertain quality and

the usual farmer is very lax in looking

for something to take the place of clover

and Show results. The piece of ground

I have in mind is of a great variety of

soil, being situated close to a lake and

extending back up quite a bluff while the

soil is of a sandy loam. A half crop of

clover can be obtained, but the second

year shows a lesser stand than the first

and so on until the crop is very spotted.

\Vhat method of seeding would you sug-





gest?



Monroe Co. E. B. GRAY.



The fact that for many years past half

or more of the land occupied for agri-

cultural purposes in Great Britain is

kept in permanent pasture, 'lcads many

men to think that if it is a good thing for

England, Scotland and Ireland, it should

be good for Michigan. But even there,

there is still a question as to the advan-

tage of permanent grass land.



In the southern half of the lower penin-

sula, there is great variation in the rain-

fall in the cold weather when the ground

is bare of show, which subjects grasses

to great injury, causing most or all of

them in a short time to die or become

much weakened. Moles, mice and insects

are often troublesome in Michigan.





Excepting certain rough and untillable

land, it is very generally thot best by

wise men of much experience to break

up land every three to five years in some

rotation of crops. This rough land is an

ideal place for a wood lot.



All the grasses and clovcrs are as

familiar to me as the individuals in a

llt'l‘d are to the shepherd, or the grower-

of Ilolstcin—Priesians or Jerseys.



I have grown all of the forage plants

and many others, usually in rather small

quantity under a variety of conditions for

thirty—five years. Mr. G. must sow seeds

only of plants that may be expected to

survive for ten to twenty years or more.

Italian ltye Grass even in England, rarely

lives over the first winter, and perennial

lye Grass in Michigan is scarcely able

to survive the sccond winter. They grow

well for a short time, occupying the land,

but when gone, vacant places are left for

weeds and .lune grass. \Vood-incadow and

rough-stalked meadow grass are, much

like June grass as grown in this Country,

tho less vigorous and are destitute 0f the

vigorous spreading underground root-

stocks, often spoken of as "roots.” Sweet

vernal was popular with fancy farmers

many years ago, but so far as 1 know

hasn’t a surviving advocate in this coun-

try. It is small and lacks vigor. I know

of no red clover that can be relied upon

for more. than two years, unless cut 01‘

pastured to keep it from going to seed;

excepting a small one, ’l‘rifolium medium,

that spreads by the roots. and this is an

extremely s'hy seeder. \\'liite clover is well

known, a shy plant, going out with heat





and dry weather; coming in with rains

and cool weather. Alsike, a self-seeding





plant, is preferable to white clover.



Let Mr. G. purchase each kind of seed

by itself and save money. On the higher

land sow:



Orchard grass in c‘haff, 7 lbs. per acre.$l.00

Tall oat grass in chaff, 4 lbs. per aci'o,, 1,00

Awnless Rrome in chaff, 4 lbs. per acre .75

Meadow fcscue in chaff, 10 lbs per acre 1.50

Alfalfa, 3 lbs per acre .............. .50





Approximately probably less than..$4.75





For low land, sow:

A little orchard grass . . . . ..... . . . . . .$ .50

Red Top in chaff, 6 lbs. per acre ...... 1.00

Meadow Foxtail in chaff, 3 lbs per acre 1.00

Allsike clover, 1 lb ............. . . . . . . .20

June grass, 3 lbs in chaff ...... . . . . . . .50

Approximately ..................... $3.20





Sow inspring without any. other, crop,





,THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





and be sure to pasture only a little to-

ward the close of the first year. If the

land is thin, it will be economy to add

every year barnyard manure or some

other fertilizer during the growing sea-

son. The longer these grasses survive

the more they need fertilizers.



Do not forget that there are no forage

crops that will thrive on poor land.



Agricultural College. W. J. BEAL.





 





MORE ABOUT THE POTATO BUG'S

ENEMY.





‘Vhile reading my Farmer the other

day I was really amused at a piece writ-

ten by a man from Mecosta Co., signed

H. L. U. Now, as a matter of fact, this

new bug, known as Perillus Claudius, is

an enemy of the potato bug, he is right

about that, but the way he. attacks the

potato bug is very different, in my ob-





servation, from the way he describes.

In consequence of being a very close

observer of the insect species, I have





seen this bug for three years and watched

him very carefully, lest I should catch

him doing some mean thing that: would

overbalance his good quality of murdering

potato bugs, but I haven‘t yet.



But let us see if this man, H. L. S., is

right. Now, if this new bug is really an

egg eater of the potato bug I have never

caught him eating the eggs. I have seen

them attack

times, and this is the way they do it.

They walk along the stalk or leaf where





the potato bugs are, and when they get.





near enough to a bug to reach him they

just reach out with those two front legs

and grab Mr. Potato Bug and hold him

fast. Then they proceed to drill a hole

in his side, sometimes they lose their

bug but they don’t run down the stalk





to find him, or at least I never saw them;





do that.



Now, the bug that deserves the praise

of potato growers and that exterzninates

potato bugs by the ‘millions is the little

spotted lady bug. Any potato grower,

while working at his crop, will see hund-

reds of these little fellows on the vines.

reds of tli‘bse little fellows on the vines.

reds of these little fellows on the vines.

They eat nothing but eggs, as far as I

have been able to learn. I have seen one

ladybug devour a whole batch of potato

bug's eggs, perhaps as many as 25 or 30





eggs. But for them, our trouble would

be doubled. Now, if the other bug is an

egg eater so much the better and we





will be careful not to kill him.

Ingham Co. \VM. DEMUN.





SAVE THE BROKEN FENCE RAILS.





 





Mr. Waugh has been rather slow in

coming to the conclusion that broken

fence rails make good firewood, I have

been accustomed to using them for fire—

wood all along thru my household expe-;

iience. It has always been a source of1

wonder to me why so many farmers'





think nothing fit for wood that is not cut

from a green tiee. I have in mind one

man who would go into his woodlot every

winter and cut good sound trees for his

wood while there were logs lying all

around that were still sound and if cut

and split and piled would make just as

good wood. Any wood that, when cut in





stove lengths, will hold together to split

is good enough for summer wood.

Most housekrmpers would rather have





\vood that will soon burn out in summer,

than wood that will last and keep the,

stove hot so long. I have





down to make room for a

that were burned along with the brush,

and that on a farm that does not contain

any timber at all. B. S. F.

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A Big Bill for POStage.





The postal receipts at the Minneapolis

postoffice will lie largely increased this

month on account of the mailing of the

largest catalogues over sent from Minne-





apolis, by Northrup, King & Co., seeds-

men, 29 Bridge Square, Minneapolis,





Illinn. Over four carloads of paper were

used in printing the first edition and the

bill for postage will be over $11,000. It is





one of the most complete catalogues ever:

printed in the United States, having over,





430 engravings, most of them from photo-

graphs. \'\’e. have learned that in printing





it, one of the largest plants in the north- .





west was taxed to the utmost, being com-

pelled to work seven large up—to-date

presses night and day. If any of our

readers will write this old reliable seed‘

house stating that they are interested

in good seeds and name this paper, a

catalogue will be mailed them without

charge.





Pleased with the Results.





The Leader Jack Co., Bloomington,'

Il'l., who have been advertising their

jacks, in renewing their contract say:

"We are well pleased with the results of

our advertisement in the 'Michlgani

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ALFALF'A WITH BARLEY.





 





I am planning to sow alfalfa this spring





'on a ,clay field which raised a crop of





peas last year. Am thinking of sowing

about a bushel of barley' to the acre as

nurse crop. Please tell me if this is

wise, and if it should be put in as early

as possible, also if I should sow alfalfa

ahead of, or behind the drill. Would

also like advice about my sugar beet

crop. Expect to put in seven acres on





. clay soil with 400 lbs. of commercial fer-





tilizer to the acre. which would yield

the heavier tonnage, to sow in 21 inch





,rows or in 28 inch rows? In an ordinary





season which would pay best, to sell

under the test, i. e., $4 per ten for

12 per cent test and 33%c for each addi-

tional per cent of sugar and the same

taken off if it falls below 12 per cent,

or at flat rate of $5 per ton? Hand labor

costs me $16 per acre in 28 inch rows

and $18 in 21 inch rows. ,

Lenawec Co. P. C. E.





There is some difference of opinion as

to whether alfalfa should be sown with a

nurse crop or not. Some claim that a

light seeding of barley with alfalfa, say

three peeks or a bushel per acre, is a

very good thing, while others claim that

it is better to sow the alfalfa alone. If

you seed alfalfa with the barley, it would

probably be better to cut the barley for

hay before it matures than it would to

allow it to ripen and harvest it for a

grain crop. The reason, of course, is

that you take a grain crop away from the

alfalfa earlier in the season. If the bar—

ley is allowed to ripen and then it 'is

harvested, you take the shade crop away

from the alfalfa during extremely hot

weather and this is liable to be detri-

menth to the young alfalfa plant. I

would sow the alfalfa seed ahead of the

drill teeth, or if you let the seed drop

behind the drill teeth. then I would go

over the land afterward with a light

smoothing barrow. This might be. better

because it would get the alfa'lfa seed

in more evenly than it would to let it run

ahead of the drill teeth. '



Twenty-one Inch or Twenty-eight Inch





ROWs for Sugar Beets.





In all probability you would get a

larger tonnage, all things being equal,

to put the beets in 21 inch rows, than

you would in 28 inch rows. I would na-

turally expect this. The reason Why I

grow sugar beets in 29 inch rows is be-

cause it costs so much less to cultivate

and care for them. In 21 inch rows you

haven’t got any kind of cultivator that

I ever saw that you could do a real good

job with to any advantage, while in 28

inch rows, we can take a two-horse riding

wheel cultivator. or a narrow corn cul-

tivator, (-many of them are made now

so that they can be set up to cultivate

28 inch rows), and do a good job of cul-

tivating. These cultivators have. plant

shields on them so that you can cultivate

the beets when they are real small, just

as soon as you can see the rows, and you

can do a better job than you can with

the small beet cultivators. You say that

the company makes a difference of $2

per acre in the hand labor whether the

beets are put in ‘11 or 28 inch rows. I

think tllcre is more difference than that.

It costs more than $2 per acre extra to

care for beets in 21 inch rows. One re'l-

son is because you can do so much better

machine work.



Selling by Test or Flat Ton Rates.



I think it would be preferable to sell

by test. This is my experience. I never

raised beets that did not average over

13 per cent sugar, Consequently, there

ought to be more than $1 difference be-

tween the price of 13 per c-nt buf‘iS and

the flat rate, and many times the average

test of beets is 16 per cent which would

make you $5.331/fic a ton. As a matter of

fact, I don’t think there is any risk at

all Where there is only $1 a ton difference

between the flat rate and the rate for

12 per cent sugar.



COLON C. LILLIE.





GENERAL VIEW OF FORAGE CROPS.





The subject of forage crops has grown

rapidly within the last 15 or 20 years.

This is due primarily to two causes, first,

to the general increase in knowledge of

what constitutes a food and the best

method of using it. Second, to the in-

crease in demand for dairy products, cs—

pccially of whole milk in large towns and

cities, which makes it desirable that a

larger supply of succulent food be raised

by the farmers engaged in milk produc-

tion near the point of consumption. In

a narrow sense, the term forage crops is

frequently applied only to those crops

that are suitable for use as green food,

and the term conveys the idea of soiling,

or carrying the foods in their green state

from the field to the animal.



Forage crops, or “roughage crops,”





 





 





THE MICHIGAN “FA'RMEER;





includes not only‘ those suitable. and

“adapted to soiling, but those used for

pastures, for hay and for silage; or in

other words, it takes in the entire num-

ber of crops of the different classes used

to supply the roughage necessary in ra—

tions for farm animals. The common

language usage. of forage would make

the term a general one applying to all

kinds ,of rough or coarse natural herbage

food, such as the animals might find

freely, provided by nature; as hay, pas-

ture, herbage of corn, cow-peas and

vetch.



The value of any forage crop is deter-

mined by a. number of conditions; the

first, and probably the most important,

is the amount of dry matter, that maybe

secured from a given area and its use.-

iulness as measured by the kind and pro-

portion of the nutrients contained in it.

A second considrration is its adapta~

bility and usefulness for the various pur-

poses, as for example, for a selling crop,

for pastures, for hay 0r silage. The third

reason is its time of growth and season

of maturity, which influences its useful-

ness at specific times, and fourth, the

nature of the plant, as having reference

both to its composition as a food and the

influence that its growth may exert on

the fertility of the land, is to be consid-

ered. Corn is very highly regarded as a

general forage crop, because it can be

grown successfully over a wide area. It

is capable of producing a large yield of

nutritive substance, highly digestible,

very palatable, and relished by all farm

stock. It serves an excellent purpose as

a green forage for use in soiling; it can

be so grovm as to furnish succulent food

t‘hru a comparatively long period of the

growing season. It is the best crop to

supply succulent winter food in the form

of silage; it also serves as an excellent

source of both dried roughage and of

concentrates when ripened and handled

in the usual way. It, therefore, fulfils in

a larger degree than any other one plant,

the chief requirements of a forage crop.

Because of its vigorous habit and its

season of growth, it is capable of ac-

quiring its food from sources not so read-

ily available to other plants; therefore,

good results can be secured on land that

would not be capable of producing crops

more dependent on immediately available

food supplies.





State College, Pa. H. C. B.





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One of the most interesting advertise-

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AN UP-TO- DATE “PIGGERY.”





The following description, with ac-

companying illustrations, of a “piggery”

which we built last Year may prove of

interest to some Michigan Farmer read-

ers.



Concrete entered into the construction

of the building to a considerable extent

the floor being entirely of that material:

also the walls around pens to a height of

three feet, except at the front over the

trof, where there are doors swinging

horizontally.



As indicated by the half-tone, the

building is two stories high, the upper

st-iry being used for the storage of ma-

chinery and feed, and also as a work—

shop. A hay track has been installed

by which all machinery, etc., can be ele-

vated at. the center, and carried to the

desired location in the building.



At the center of the building is located

the feed and slaughter room, which is

open from first floor to roof, with twelve

foot doors on each side, to allow driving

thru. This room is fitted with chimney,

cookers, kettles, running water, etc.—-

in fact, whatever is needed to reduce the

labor to a minimum.



On either side of this room, there are

four pens as shown in the floor plan,

with a four foot feed alley running

lengthwise between the pens and the corn

crib, which extends the full length of

the building, except at feed room as

shown. The crib, of course, extends to

the roof, and is fitted with two sets or

doors, one, above the. other for conven-

ience in handling the corn. The, inside

wall of crib is of matched boards.



The pens are arranged with the idea.

of getting plenty of light and air. There

are three windows at the rear of each

pen, while the end pens will have the

two etxra windows at the ends of the

building. These windows are 3 feet by

3 feet six inches and the center one

swings down (inside) while the other

'two swing up to the joist. The idea of

this arrangement is to use the center

one for winter ventilation, because swing-

ing from the top down, it will not allow

a direct draft on the stock, while in sum-

mer, when it is desirable to open them

all, the other two may be swung up and

hooked to the joist out of the way.



Ventilators from the pens extend up

thru the roof. These are placed over

the partition wall, between each pair of

pens, so that one ventilator will take

care of two pens.



The stock doors in each pen swing

both ways, and the sill of same will be

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Floor Plan of Lower Story of the H09 House Illustrated above.





being clogged with manure, etc. The

floor of the building is six inches above

grade line, providing for thoro drainage.



The feed trofs are. made of concrete,

and drain from one point in each pen

into a small drain in the alley, for the

purpose of carrying off: the water when

flushing the trofs. A wall four inches

high and four inches wide extends around

the nests.



The doors between pens slide up and

are arranged to fasten at any height, to

allow, if desirable, certain sized pigs to

pass thru while larger ones are kept

out.



The building is so arranged that a.

manure spreader may be driven the full

length of the building and the manure

thrown thru the windows into it.



The entire object of the building is to

care for the minimum number of hogs

at a minimum of cost in labor, etc, and

obtain the best results in pork and sav-

ing of manure.





Wayne Co. C. L. METLER & Co.





 





GOOD GAINS ON WESTERN LAMBS.





I am sending you a report on a bunch





‘of western lambs I have been feeding.





On September 28th, I bot of a local





THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ‘





dealer a bunch of lambs that had been

shipped in from Chicago at 5%c per 1b.,

net. They weig‘hed 641/2 lbs. after they

had filled up on grass, which was just

about Chicago weights.



They were run on pasture until about

November 10th, when they were put in

and fed on clover hay and corn, lightly

of corn till about January 1st, and after

that were full fed but at no time over 2%;

bu. per hundred. They. consumed a little

over 150 bu. of shelled corn (my own

raising) per 100 lambs.



They were sold on January 30th to a

local shipper at 70 per lb. and averaged

941/2 lbs per head, a gain of 30 lbs. in

four months, or a cash gain of $3.14 per

head.



Lenawee Co.

FAMILY LINES IN THE SWINE HERD.





ABNER WILSON.





My advice to the new breeder of pure

bred swine is to select his sows from

some old and well established herd, rather

than to buy them one or two in a place,

whenever he finds such as please his

fancy.





If this rule is strictly adhered to





Gentry’s famous Berkshire family of

Longfellows—the world heaters—just

simply the blood of old Longfellow 16835

over and over again, to which has been

added an infusion of fresh blood thru

the occasional purchase of brood sows,

but this blood never takes a prominent

place in the breeding of the herd until it

has been neutralized by two or more

generations of line breeding to prevent

the introduction of an inharmonious force

of affinities, which would be liable to fly

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affinities and spoil the result of years of

systematic breeding to keep in control;

the type or model of the animals that it;

is desired to perpetuate in the herd. Mr.i

Gentry has not purchased a herd boar

for more than twenty years, but during

all of this time he has been furnishing

breeding boars for many of the leadingi

breeders of the country. I believe that

there is more real credit and satisfaction

in breeding and developing one excellent

sire than in purchasing ten of the same

kind. It clearly shows the index of the

breeder's ability in caring for his herd,

and in the intelligent breeding and selec-





 





 





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in the selection of sows for the formation

of a new herd serious problems in breed-

ing will be avoided, the sows will possess

uniformity in a marked degree and be-

sides they will possess certain fixed and

permanent inherent qualities that can

be relied upon to do the very thing that

we are working for. They should be

descended from such families as have.

provcn themselves successful in the herds

of other breeders and they will do the

same for the beginner if he exercises

intelligent and discriminating care and

judgment in breeding them along proper

lines.



1 think that any successful breeder of

registered swine will agree that the only





true and practical method of fixing a

type and perpetuating the desired quali-

ties is by breeding along family lines.

Keep close to one line of breeding until

the desirable qualites have become fixed

and the animals have sufficient prepot—

ency to enable them to transmit these

qualities to their progeny.



It requires less skill and success is

far more certain to blend blood by line

than it does to outcross and concentrate

it by uniting different families. It re-

quires years of systematic and careful

breeding to sift out the desirable qualities

of different families of a breed and or-

ganize them into a single family that has

a fixed type and prepotency. The breed-

ers who attempt to multiply variations

in their herd cannot succeed like success-

ful breeders who practice line breeding to

fix and keep in control a certain type

and establish prepotency, all the time

maintaining size, vitality and health in

ther herds.



Each violent outcross brings in new

complications—more relatives to multiply

the crop of variations. Breeding back

to the sire cuts out this diffusion of

blood, until the third generation is 87

per cent of one blood and prepotency is

a fixed fact. As in the case of N. H.





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breeder to try and develop a breeding.

boar of his own breeding to have at the

head of his herd. .



Many times the new breeder will order

his foundation stock by letter, and the

amateur breeder invariably orders them

as follows: A bear and two sows not

akin. It is more, than folly for the

breeder to try and induce the beginner

to accept the. two sows and a hour bred

along similar lines until he can be de—

pended upon to beget uniform pigs when

mated with the two sows ordered. The,

result is right at the start he introduces‘

a too violent outcross and invitcs and

fosters the very clcmcnts that will dc-l





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stroy the result of _\‘HH'.\‘, and perhaps

a lifetime of systematic breeding. Ry

mixing the blood of these two families

of animals he invites a conflict between

conflicting form-s and the type is dc~

Stl‘oyvd, illt‘ llimici lost, and heredity It‘lllIR

the animal back to the original scrub_

()r \yoi'se, The. lul‘m-tin-l' (‘nilllclillls lilt‘

breed and tries another with similar re-

sults until it becomes thoroly fixed in

his mind that the pure-bred swine are

no more profitable than the common

scrubs.



As a- practical illustration of what mix-

ing the blood of two or three families

of a. breed may bring about; we may take

the mixing of the blood of two or more

breeds of swine as an example. If fol-

lowed up it will result in the loss of the

standard type of all the. breeds employed

in the cross-breeding experiment. The

practical breeders who are paying one‘

thousand dollars and over for a breeding

boar for use in their herds are close

students of pedigree and will not buy an

animal unless he comes from a line of

practical and systematic breeding for

years and can be depended upon to breed

uniform litters, when mated with the.‘

sows in their herds. They know that a

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lines cannot be depended upon to beget

uniform litters. In a few rare instances

an excellent individual that lacks in

blood lines may be an excellent breeder

and make a name for himself and owner,

but only after a systematic course of

line breeding can the owner reap the

reward of his success. Prepotency in his

blood lines cannot be established until

his descendents possess a large percent-

age of his blood. The most famous sires

that the country has ever produced have

not been appreciated until after their

days of usefulness are passed. It requires

years to demonstrate his powers of pre-

potency and to show that his progeny

can transmit his qualities requires a still

longer period.



In Berkshire pedigree Longfellow 16835

and Lord. Premier 50001 are more popu-

lar today than when in their prime. They

have set a fixed type that can be de-

pended upon to reproduce itself. Among

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FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.





 





I have between 400 and 500 sheep.

Would it be profitable to build a silo for

them? \Vhat part of their ration would'

this silage supply and what other feeds

would you advise?



Kent Co. F. W. R.





That silage may be used profitably in

sheep feeding is conceded by practically

all breeders who have tried it. It seems

to be pretty well agreed, however, that it

should not be made too large a factor in

the ration but where a small amoun ,

say 2 lbs. per day, is fed it adds a needed

succulency to the ration which will take

the place of roots quite satisfactorily and

is considerably cheaper. After the lambs

are dropped and attain a little age, silage

is also a valuable feed in promoting a

liberal milk flow and may be used more

freely at this season of the year. \Vhile

it might be profitable to build a silo for

the number of sheep imentioned in this

inquiry, the writer has always held to

the opinion that it would not pay with

a. small flock upon the average farm,

where dairy cows were not maintainwd in

connection with sheep. Breeding cwcs

will consume a variety of roughagc and

in fact do better when given a varicty

of feeds than when the ration is madc up

exclusively of a single roughage even tho

it be clover hay. (‘orn stovcr, bean pods,

ctc., make good feeds for the flock of

breeding ewes which should not be fwd

exclusively. V‘thre clover hay is fed once

a day and other fM'dS mentioned (inr'w a

day, the grain ration need not be hcuvy

during the early part of the Hmlswn,

but if the lamb crop is early. the owns

should have a libcral ration until turned

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Other things being equal, the care

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tells what to do in case of bleeding,





farmers of any community, particularly

in the winter season.





them too lightly during the winter soa- t





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THE .. MICHIGAN _FARMER





quality of roughage to the horses during



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farm horse during the season when he

year like the present one when grains are

year like the present one when grain are

high in price and when there is a short-

age of available feed upon most farms.

But even if the horse is wintered prop-

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some degree of that same horse sense

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time when it is most needed. Obviously

the horse that is kept closely in the barn

during the winter, with little work and:

no opportunity to exercise daily, even if

maintained in good flesh, is not in a con-

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The best plan is to turn the horses out

in the yard or paddock each pleasant day

for exercise, unless they are in harness,

then as spring approaches they should

be thoroly groomed and fed a little better

so their old hair will be shed early, which

will be accomplished by having them

gain in flesh from now on. Then when

they are put to work the grain ration

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it will be difiicult or impossible to heal

while the horse is at hard work. These

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attention to the harness and to the care

of the shoulders during the early days

of spring work.



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WHERE ARE1WE ON VENTILATION?





 





The writer cannot help believing that,

good ventilation is desirable, even when

he reads the statements of scientists

favoring bad ventilation. Good ventilation

certainly does no harm, while it is a dis-

puted question as to how much injury

bad ventilation does do.



We have always assumed that pure air

is an aid to health and even to comfort.

Generally the feeders of live stock have

been in favor of the largest possible

amount of ventilation. It took an expe-

riment station to start the ball to rolling

in the other direction. If the conclusions

of this station be correct, the only thing

gained will be the saving of heat in the

barns.



One of the Northwestern stations tried

to find out how much harm bad ventila-

tion would do feeding steers. Several

were kept confined in small quarters,

and care was taken not to let in fresh

air; One steer was confined in a closed

stall for 37 days. The experimenters

'report that this steer showed no bad

results from the confinement but was

apparently comfortable. Also no effect

on the steer was shown by laboratory

or clinical tests. Therefore it was con-

cluded that no bad results could be ob-

served. '



But it seems to the writer that the

observations lacked completeness. It is

well known that depriving creatures of

air results in rendering them sluggish.

Some of the men that were held prisoners

in close buildings during the civil war

said that they did not notice greatly the

lapse of time, as they passed their days

in sleeping, on account of the lack of

ventilation in the buildings. In school

houses, the children frequently become

sluggish and dull because of the lack of

ventilation. A man tells the writer that

whenever he goes into a church that is

badly ventilated, he is so strongly affected

that he has a desperate battle with him-

self to keep awake. That shows the

effectsof decreased oxygen. ,



Now the steer in question was being fed

for beef, and sleep is a good beef maker.

To bring about a condition that leads to

inactivity and to sleep is not entirely

against the beef producing process. But

what would have been the result if the

animals had been compelled to sleep with-

out a full supply of oxygen all night and

work every day?



The question does indeed 'have large

bearings, more especially on human be-

ings, relative to their cost of living. For

instance, among school boards there is

opposition to some of the ventilation sys-

tems, because the best ventilation sys-

tems are expensive in coal. We do not

heat stables, generally, and the cost of

fuel is in the form of the cost of feed,

but it exists all the same.



Bad ventilation apparently increases

the chances for the spread of contagious

diseases. Tuberculosis has spread in

the warm stables and seems not to be

able to hold its power where animals

are kept out of doors or in barns that are

well ventilated. In the prisons that are

poorly ventilated it is Claimed that tuber-

culosis affects a large proportion of the

inmates, this fact being supposedly due

to lack of ventilation.



We have supposed that the presence

of carbtm-dioxide was injurious to ani-

mals, when the amount of such gas ex-

ceeds a certain per cent. The experi-

menters referred to assert that we can

safely disregard the presence of carbon-

dioxide, which increases to a certain

point and then cczlscs to increase. This

theory can be labeled “important if

True.”



We should not attach too much import.

ance to a single experiment. It often

happens that an experiment or two seem

to prove one thing, while many experi-

ments prove the opposite. In the light

of the knowledge we now have, it seems

safer to ally ourselves on the side of

good ventilation.





Illinois. H. F. THURSTON.





LIVE STOCK NOTES.





A carload of sheep from Michigan ar-

rived in the Chicago stockyards several

days ago but owing to the Illinois quar-

antine regulations against Michigan con-

signments, the railroad was not allowed

to unload them, and they had to be

shipped back to the Michigan feed lot.

The Michigan shipper was misled by re-

cent reports that the Department of Ag-

riculture had removed the quarantine

from several counties in Michigan and

other states where the recent outbreak

of foot and mouth disease occurred, this

report having caused some Michigan ship-

pers to believe that the Chicago stock,

yards were at last open to them. It is

true that lifting of the federal quarantine

allowed shipments into states which were

Willing to receive stock from the districts





THE MICHIGAN FARMER is»: 181





previously affected by foot and mouth

disease, but the Illinois quarantine has

expressly forbade Michigan shipments.

Cattle exports from this country have

fallen off materially within a year, and





'it is not at all probable that there will





be a re00very this year. Word comes

from England and Scotland that the qual-

ity of the Argentine beef has improved

greatly of late and is now fully equal to

that furnished by good American range

cattle. Exporters in the Chicago market

take medium and good steers, but as a.

rule do not buy prime beeves, as they

are too dear to admit of profits after

being landed and slaughtered abroad.



Chicago live stock commission firms

have been trying to regulate to some ex-

tent at least, the marketing of cattle, as

they see that too heavy supplies at one

time are the bane of the trade, but it

is a big country, and regulating country

shipments is an exceedingly difficult mat-

ter to bring about. It is an old story that

the market is nearly always overstocked

on Monday, with a. large supply on Wed-

nesday, too, and only moderate offerings

on Thursday, with meager receipts on the

remaining days of the week. It is a good

idea for the country shippers to keep in

close touch with an acknowledged lead-

ing live stock commission firm and to

always get its advice as to the best time

for having stock on the market. Expe-

rience shows that it is best in the long

run to not have several cars of cattle on

the market at one time, but to divide

them up, having part of them in one day

and the remainder on other days, rememe

bering the old adage about not having

all the eggs in one basket. It is also

well to see that orders for buying feeder

cattle are placed carefully and that the

cattle are bot at the right time, are se-

lected right and do not cost too much

money. Buying stocker and feeder cattle

right is as important as feeding and mar-

keting them. At present prime feeders

of heavy weight that can be returned to

market in a short time are very scarce

and dear, with sales at $5.10 to $5.40 per

100k pounds. Paying these prices looks

i‘is y.



Sellers of cattle in the markets of the

country have had to contend recently

with a wide-spread falling off in the





consumption of beef resulting from its.





dearness. It is a period when the gen-

eral cost of living is much greater than

in former years, and all kinds of meats,

especially beef and mutton, are ex-

tremely high. The packers claim that

their prices are not unreasonable, but it

is undeniable that ruling prices in the

retail meat markets of the country are





extremely high, and the question as to‘





whether it is the fault of the wholesaler

or the retailer or both is a. matter of no

particular importance to the man who

buys the meat for his family. Wages

and salaries have not increased with the

cost of living, and retrenchment is neces-

sary for thousands of families in plan-

ning the household expenditures each

month. Then the winter has been a re-

markably mild one on the whole, and this

means a lessened consumption of beef.



The sheep trade has been greatly upset

for several weeks by the Illinois quaran-

tine against Michigan fiocks, the sheep-

inen of Michigan having been obliged to

turn to other markets than Chicago for

an outlet. Buffalo was selected as the

most available unloading point, and for

weeks that market has been overstocked,

prices ruling weak much of the time.

Thus Chicago has been deprived of its

principal eastern outlet, and this left the

market in the control of the local buy-

ers. The demand for feeders is unim-

paired, but few suitable flocks are avail-

a le.



The recent sudden boom in the price of

prime heavy hogs to within 5 cents of

the long-predicted $7 top in the Chicago

market made a decided sensation, altho

the cause of the sharp rise was an un-

usual scarcity temporarily brot about by

a snow blockade on the western railroads.

Correspondingly ‘meager supplies were

offered at all other western receiving

points, and it was wholly an exceptional

condition that could not ’last for more

than a day. Of course, the big packers

fully understood this, and they cordially

acquiesced in the big advance in prices

asked by sellers. being aware that the

rise would be, sure to bring about a glut

of hogs in quick time. The big increase

in receipts came quickly, and the decline

in prices was far greater than the ad-

vance that preceded it. It may be said

that butchers, east and west, do not take

kindly to the idea of a $7 hog market,

and the fact that provisions are, already

selling extraordinarily high is looked upon

as a serious obstacle to putting hogs on

a higher basis than they have been selling

of late. Of late, pork has been selling in

the Chicago market fully $5 a barrel

higher than a year ago, and other hog

products have shown corresponding ad-

vanccs, while a short time ago the whole—

sale prices of fresh pork loins were sud—

denly lii'tcd to 12 cents a. pound. (in the.

firstnday of February Chicago stocks of

provisions aggregated 146,533,002 pounds,

compared with 121,225,904 pounds a month

earlier and 120,617,070 pounds a year ago.



Hogs have been sclling of late at re-

munerative prices when of good quality

and sufficiently heavy in weight, and

owners have. reason to be pleased that

they matured them on high-priced corn.

The recent substantial improvement in

the eastern shipping demand is the

strongest factor in bringing about the

advance in prices that has taken place,

and, so far as can be. soon now, this out-

side. buying is destined to continue in-

definitely. At times recently there have

been substantial advances in light hogs,

these having been lowered previously to

unduly low figures as compared with

heavier hogs. Still there is no valid rea-

son for immature hogs and pigs being

hurried to market. So large a proportion

of_the pig crop has been marketed early

this season, that it is not expected that

the western slaughtering by paCkers will

equal the January and February slaught-

ering last year of 7,100,000 hogs, that

record having been much above any

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Mare Poor Milker.—My 4—year-old mare

dropped a colt, only going ten months;

the colt was well developed, seemed all

right in every way. but the mare had

no milk. The same thing happened when

she was six years old. and now is eight

and in foal again. She was fed clover

hay, bran, oats and some corn. The

colts in both cases jumped right up ready

to suck, but no milk. G. H. P.. Jones,

Mich.——Feeding her plenty of milk pro-

ducing food, such as is fed to cows. is

about all you can do. llad you com-

menced milking her a few days before

she foaled she might have given some

milk. Feed plenty well salted bran

mashes, vegetables and clover hay.



Indigestion—Torpid Kidneys-.My horse

has had a few sick spells. Our Vet. tells

me it is indigestion and stoppage of

water. H. E. H., Millington, Mich—Give

a. tablespoonful of the following com—

pound powder in feed three times a day:

Ginger, powdered rosin and fenugreek.



Snag in Body—Nervous Horse—My

mare threw herself last October, falling

on a snag, making a wound which has

never healed. I have applied fat pork,

also used carbolic acid and water; but

the sore discharges pus and I am anxious

to see her get well. \Vhat treatment do

you recommend? I also have a horse

that is very nervous, always on the move

and seldom standing still. “”hen hauling

a load and stopping to rest he champs

bit, paws, bites his mate and is very

uneasy. What can be donein such cases?



" 311., Manistce, Mich—The wound

would have healed long ago if there was

no 'splinter in body. If the injury was

on the rib there may be a fractured

bone. No matter which, cut down and

find out why the wound still discharges,

at the bottom of pus pocket you will find

a foreign body. Apply peroxide hydrogen

twice a day and also carbolic acid and

water. Kind treatment and plenty of

regular slow work will do more. than

sdrugs for your nervous home. It is pos-

.sible that he is placed wrong and should

be exchanged for one that is better

adpated to your work. A nervous horse

is not always suitable for doing slow

work.



1mg Has Worms—I have a dog that I

think a great deal of; he is growing thin

and I am sure he. has worms; what shall

I give him? C. H., Benzonia, Micli.——-Give

1 dr. powdered areca nut with a little

syrup and in 6 or 8 hours give him 1 dr.

J'alap and 11/2 oz. of syrup; this will physio

him.



Sheep Ticks—I have a flock of sheep

that I am feeding .for market and they

are all tI‘ouhlcd with ticks. “'hat can be

done for them? M. G. G., Vassar, Mich.

«You can safely apply any one of the

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regularly in this paper and good rcsults

will follow. You will find the sheep will

thrive better right after the ticks are

killed.



Chronic Cracked Heels—Some ten

months ago I bot a mare that had sore

heels; small sorcs were on hind legs from

hoofs to hock and they have ncvcr healed.

l greased them several timcs but it don’t

sworn to do any good. l“. E. M., Manton,

Mich—Clip hair off sores and apply 1

part oxide zinc and 4 parts vaseline twice

a day. Give 2 drs. Fowler‘s solution

arsenic at a dose in feed two or three

times daily.



Malignant Tumor.——I have a 3-year-old

colt that has a bunch on the insidw of hind

leg. This bunch came on 13 wcvks ago.

I fipllllt‘tl castor oil thinking it a wart;

this ll‘t‘ulllle‘nt has no: reduced it. The

top is raw and a scab falls off it daily.

How can it bu trio-r1 off? \\'. H, New

lloston, )lit-li.~~(";i i‘. of? and apply equal

parts iodot‘orm. imrlv ' and tannic





 





   





 

 





:l(‘ll'l it! SUI‘“ H.’t"*‘ W." T'Vf .

lndiut-stionw .\- iden‘»; A'm‘irtion—XVQ

have, a llhjn-ar-oI-l 'w-r'se test has not

donn- wi-ll of la?» '2'.l rot .vo-r-ing :i like

case in wt. d, r“ write vou for

advice. llv kh :~ ‘ “.xTi floor, first

with one foot ti-wr. * _. ”7‘: there is a

rumblingr in:~i-i~- ‘ - . u : Hli.‘lv“l' food

or Water. and ' i ' .. J: not \‘Hl‘l’

good. \Vlwn \‘ ‘ , z » :‘j-n'ns his

tongue out art? j' , '- H! buns his

head. A 0—12,.“ . u 9 pair of

twin (-:nlv--.< :‘ ‘ . i do not

know the (a: . ~ ‘ , ’11,‘.‘l..2.',' lit-side.

her have gonw " ~ Jr r'. ‘ "x .. W.- appro-





(‘lillt‘t tlli‘ )ll" .;’,' ;‘ w," 31,145- mgr-h

3'021’1‘. (7. I). \V., l'I":r‘. ftln ;. r'iymn‘ ".iol‘fs'f?

is nervous, the result of Indigestion. He

should be (-xvrviH-rl rlai‘v and 2341 plenty

of vegetables, also givi- 1,43 rlr. ground nuv

Vonlica, 4 (ll‘s. grillinn, i rlrg. zinc/or and

L’ drs. powdered rosin at a dose in fcv-rl

three times it day. I am inclined to be-

lieve your cow lllt'l with an accident.

causing her to calvc too soon; howr-vc-r'

this will not 'hurt ht-r or do your other

cows any harm. [lad sln- bm-n infm-on

your other cows could not 1”“. (.gcnppd.



Bony Tumor.—Ilavc a hot-s“ with harr]

bunch on 'hind leg just allow hoof. How-

ever, it is too high up for ring bone. It

does not cause lameness but l have been

told it could be removed with little diffi-

culty. If so what shall I apply? 0. S,

Kalamazoo, Mich—Such bunclws should

be left alone if they are doing no harm,

for they are difficult to reduce.



Collar Boil.—-—We have a horse with a

collar boil which remains raw no matter

what is applied. M. G., Traverse City,

Mich-{Put 1 oz. sulphate zinc and 1 oz,





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powdered alum in 1 qt. water and apply

to collar gall four times a day and sore- . , ,.

Pull Your Stumps

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will perhaps heal.’ If there is a hard

bunch it should be cut‘out. , ‘

Roarer (Thick Winded).—I have a.

horse that is thick winded, glands swol—

len and amtold it was the result of dis—

temper. He is a nice horse. therefore

I am anxious to have him cured. A. C.‘

M., Allegan, Mich.——It is possible that

medical treatment will not help your

horse much and you may have to resort

to a surgical operation before he will,

breathe free and make no noise. Apply

tr. iodine to glands daily, also give 1 dr.

iodide patassiu-m at a dose in feed once

a day. If this treatment fails call a com—

petent surgeon who has had experience

in this line of surgical work.

Laryngitis.——My cow calved Dec. 24th,

she took sick six days later and I called

Vet. who treated her for sore throat.

She still breathes heavy and has trouble

in swallowing food; otherwise not sick.

Have taken her temperature repeatedly

and it has never been higher than 102.

She eats fairly well, chews her cud. \V.

7. E., Howard City, Mich—First of all

you cow has had no fever; the normal

temperature of cattle ranges from 1011,12

to 102 degrees, therefore her trouble can't

be serious. Apply equal parts tr. iodine

and spirits camphor to throat once a day.

also give her 3 drs. chlorate potash at a

dose in feed three times daily.

Lymphangitis.—I have a horse that has

one thick leg. This trouble came on sud-

denly and I am told it is blood farcy. He

is fed corn fodder. some corn, oats and

oil meal. also has oat straw at night, will

cornstalks cause stocking? T. J. F.,

Hart, Mich.—If corn fodder is badly cured

and non-nutritious it may cause the

limbs to stock. Give % dr. ground nux

vomica. 1,2 oz. gentian and 1,5 oz. powd-

ered rosin at a dose in feed three times a

day until the desired effects are produced:

he should have daily exercise and be fed

salted bran mash and vegetables to keep

the, bowels open. j

Bruised Shin—I have a mare that goes?

lame at times but never starts lamef

mornings, and after she has gone a few:

miles and rested she will occasionally

start lame and li-mp for 1/4 mile. I have

known her to show no lameness for a,

week or two then show some soreness

every day. She has not been right for

the past six months. M. J. H., Coopers—

ville, Mich—Your mare strikes herself

occasionally when in harness and is

worse at times. depending on the roads;

the rougher they are the more she will

strike, if she was sprained the farther‘

you would drive 'her the more lameness

she would Show; this is not the case with:

her, therefore she must be sore, and not;





   





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Chas. A. Krausc MillinzCo.

Gentlemen :--I have been

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The Secret of Dan Patch’s Success.





Dan Patch seems to have no age limit.

The champion of light harness horses

established a new world’s record for four

consecutive seasons, and is now, altho

twelve years old, stronger and faster

than ever, and is believed to be ready for

a new world‘s record. This fact has led

to widespread discussion among horse-l,

men. It has bcen generally agreed that

Dan‘s great breeding and his unequalled,

class as an individual are not alone re~l

sponsible. Scientific training and the‘

most careful attention have had much to

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how much can be estimated from the

only interview ever given on this subject

by Harry Hersey, Dan’s trainer and

driver since 1903, and the man who has





 

 

 

 





ve found it: to be an ex-

. ccptionnlly fine feed. Mg

horses had no other grain.



put in 44 acres of Spring

crops and never had my

horses go through the

Spring in better shape.



There was never a day



when they lagged on



me. It cost me about

40: a day, while oats would

have cost me 80c. At the

present time it is costing me

only 20c per day for the team

and they are gaining every

day. I have found the feed to

contain unusual'strcngth and

am recommending it to my

friends. Yours very truly,



(Signed) E. C. WHITING





   

 

 





 

 

 





 





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MLE. C. Whiting. of Owosso Mlch.. knows the value of

Badger Stock Feed. Read his is

Whiti '5 horses are not a bit diflerent than others. And

Badger took Feed is always uniform. I





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drivt-n the champion to fourteen world‘s





rvcords. Mr. Hersey said: “The success . .

of Dan Patch, 1:55, is' due largely to the

(-arc he receives both in winter and dur- ‘





ing his campaigns. Dan's day begins at





 





5 o’clock in the morning, both winter and





 





summer, when he is fed four quarts of

Woll—screm‘wd oats with two tablespoon-

fuls of International Stock Food. which

is one ingrvtlicnt of the champions every

Inna]. He always has a fresh buckct of

water in his stall, and can drink win-n h:-





 





 





and English flackneys.





 





 





likes. After finishing his morningr meal;

he is ‘cross ticd’ in the stall, the straw;

Well shaken out and fresh straw put in.‘

Ho is then brushed off. bandages rot" in town. Free bus to the trains. Byron





 





Those horses are picked from the choicest brccds in Europe. Stables right

is located on the Toledo & Ann Arbor





movml, font picked out, and prcpzlx-QF} for. R. 11., 44 lilllts “mm of Ann Arbor and 7 miles south of Durand on the Grand





his morning jog, which consists of five

or six miles in winter. After his jog he Trunk R- R-

is brot to tln- stable, thoroly cooled off

with as few blankets on :is will protect





These stallions are blacks, bays and chestnuts fro-m 3 to 6 years old.

ALL AT LOW PRICES.





:2: CALKlNS & AUGSBURY, Proprietors, Byron, Michigan.





 





 





and sheet watton, feet washed out and

about ten pounds of clean timothy bay ,0, m, / . '

given him, he being a wry large hay gym c} , .- “”i‘fi’v‘gup-lO-Dale Dalrymen

eater. Dan is then turned Mom in the ‘ are using the Strlte

stall until 11 o’ciork, when he is given Governor Pulley for

:l l'I-‘i'wl (if lVVt’) Illu‘irtg of 1,315 lilltl Tlll‘fift.‘ drivingthelr creamaep—



tors. Llfeistooshort

quarts of bran mash. As soon :is the ~€gturnbyhan¢ Ilit’s

noon mcal is finished the foul box is re- in Butte. you’re sure It’s

movcd and thorolv vmshwl. and he is ’right. For full particu-

lot't alone to enjoy his afternoon nap,





: lnrs.nddreas

which he takes daily, and which lasts Sims Governor Pulley 00.,

from one hour to one hour and a half.





 

 

 

 





   





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. . . a; . a, .x. .

At: 1:20 p. or, his stall is straightr-nr-d ”n... as; 5,§I:I:A:O:IMIIIIIOID°"I' MIMI

up, and another ten-pound bum-b of tim-

othy hav, with a frr-sh bucket of water,





arc givr-n him. At :7 p. m. he is fed four; BUCKEYE MOI-ASSES-

rnizirts of rvnrikf‘t'l oats and bran, two Gives substantialreanltsmixedwithhay orgrain for

l'tlll—il'ls‘ of clean oats and two quarts of: rectum: stock or horses. For sample and full par-

bran that has, been mixed with boilingr tlculars address



water and covert-(l for at lr-nst two hours W. H. EDGAR 5‘ SON' Detroit. Mth'

before feeding. After eating this mm]

the for-r] box: is; removed and washer] and FOR SALE WOTAN—Stalllon6yrs..17hnnds.1500





 





 





 





 





« « r. . . - r - ., N .40877. sire Veto A 18259; Dam

lmn 1” put "“4.‘ for ”It mkh-t' During Darkness.alstel'b:o Nightingale 2:10»: Second Dam

tho season of oxblbltions lmn is fed four Mabel mother Cresceua 2,02%

times per dav. The morning, noon and, CL: NEWTON 2 yrs... ls'hands, 1020 lbs, lire

night meals are the same as in winter, I C Wotan No. 40877:Da.m Vanity K by Pilot Meal-E

but We give one more, mr-al :it 8:30 p. in.. i um 1597_ Also A. J, c. C. Jerseys—cows and belie-tau

a bran mash. The days that he goes his‘ Also farms to rent twelve m'les from Toledo .

remarkable cxhibition milcs he is never B. E. BULLOCK. Samaria. Mich. l





 





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lways mention the Michigan Farmer

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tied to keep from filling up. but is allowedJ

all tho hav he will eat right up to the‘

time the harness is put on him for hisl

proparatorv three miles. This has been

Dan’s daily care for the past four years.

and under it he has continually improved

in snirit. speed and strength until today

he is more fit than any horse I ever

knew anything about.”





N IQO R N ” DA I RY RATIO N . ion°reifi°irinr£°33





every Farmer and Stock Raiser, should know all about. Robert M. Taylor,Towson, Md.,

says his milk output increased 25 gallons daily after feeding Unicorn. You can increase

yours. Send for book, prices, etc. Write, CHAPIN .3. c0., lnc.. Mllwaukoo, Wis.





When Writing to advertisers mention the Michigan Farmer
FEB. 20, 1909.





A ‘ $5000. DAN men STALL





AN ABSOLUTELY FREE AND NOVEL HAIR COUNTING CON.

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sold Dan for One Million Dollars. m You may secure this





of Giving Away a $5000. Dan Patch stallion,— including the special e

will simply Fill Out and WMail Me the Free Coupon Attached.





Write AT onrcr TO M. W. SAVAGE, Owner, Minneapolis, Minn. \





 





 





MY NEWPICTURE OF '





In Six BriHiant Colors





9J3, 3‘9; gig

DAN PATC H 1:5 5‘ I “1"- 3:

'mMAILEnrnEi-zm ”" "





My new picture of Dan Patch 1:55, is the Finest I have ever gotten out for framing. It is '21 inches by 28 \ '. '.

inches, is printed in six brilliant colors and is free of advertising. It gives his age and a list of all the fast

miles paced by Dan. Being made from a “Speed Photograph" it shows Dan as lifelike as if you stood-on the

track and saw him in one of his marvelous and thrilling speed exhibitions. You ought to have a fine Dlthlje 0f

the King of all Harness Horse Creation and the Fastest Harness Horse the world has ever seen. The first edition of

this splendid picture cost me $10,000.00 cash but I offer you one absolutely free.

Beautiful, Colored Pictures of Dan Patch 1:55 free with Postage Prepai





 





' $2,000,000.00





- 51‘ r

35,000. Dan Patch ‘ - -, -. 6%$;6%°A“0 at





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AND OPEN. TO ANY FARMER. STOCKMAN OR POULTRY '1’. o "3-7 '5.

BREED . Can you count the number of hairs drawn in a picture of O -, o 9 0, a 9 #95‘ ‘1‘ .

“Forest Patch." sired by Dan Patch. dam by Monaco by Belmont. Write ‘33- t ‘. '2, 00%:9‘6‘. ¢6$ '74 t. ’4 A

for one of my new Dan Patch Pictures and I will also mail you a photo-engrav- q, "9%, '3 r“ O 03%?) 7‘3“; ‘7 '

ing‘ of “Forest Patch."the Fine Registered Stallion to be given away and ALSO '.° ' ‘ ‘. 65¢ 2’33 '6 (‘9 2°33. %

Drawing showing hairs to be counted and also stating easy conditions. You -_ '35 Q9 ‘fiquv‘ 0 1:3

can easily count the hairs drawn in an outline picture of this splendid $5,000.00 ‘. . 1*, {279, oéc-t 0 Y‘ 43%

Dan Patch Stallion. It means a small fortune free for some one. Ipaid $60,000 ‘ ‘- '.. 0. 6"?» P (39. fix",

for Dan Patch and have been offered $180,000. I would have lost money if I had ' 9‘ ’ ' 0





Stallion Absolutely Free. "Forest Patch" might make you a fortune of $25,000 ‘ 2. ‘.' '._ «6P “5'?“ 3‘1.

to $50,000 as a great stock horse for any community because he will make a 1200 r, I, '. 06‘ ow Q}??-

lb. stallion with great style and beautiful conformation. I guarantee "Forest Patch." ‘ '. '. (a 9 c o

3 years old, weight 1040 lbs.. to be one of the very best Dan Patch colts ever raised on ‘ '.. '._ .7. ¢ \I‘C}.¢ 0 60

my farm. You would be delighted to own this Magnificent Stallion. Write me today your -_ -. ‘3 g ‘2; $09. Qa- 0

name and address On Free Coupon and I will mail you the special engraving showing hairs -,. '. '.. fl‘é. 9 9 6".

' to count. You may secure this $5000. Stallion Absolutely Free. Mail Free Coupon At Once. ‘.. '.. -. o 6‘ o 06

M. W. SAVAGE, Minneapolis, Minn. ‘ -_ .. -. ‘ («v/$7933

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I will mail you one of these Large. \ - .





and full particulars concerning my plan .0.

ngraving showing the hairs to be counted.—if you ‘ Illch.





\ Farmer





CASH CAPITAL PAID IN Also sole owner of — international Stock Food Co. ' ‘

i r Also sole owner of — International Stock Food Farm





 





 





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NE IMPORTED BELGIAN BAY STALLION.



weight 1.600 to l. 700 lbs: 1 Registered MORGAN

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BREEDEIIS’ IIIIIBC'I'IIIIY.

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd headed by UNDULATA BLACKBIRD

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Bargains. freight expenses to buyers of five head.

CLOVER BLOSSOM FARM. Port Austin. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





A ch lo I t of

Ayrshire Calves Ior Sale. “0.21.5.2...

few yearling bulls. bred with greatest care. Berkshire

Pigs—stock from Lovejoy dt Son and C. 5. Bartlett.

Writs for prices. Inspection solicited. MICHI-

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WA NT E D Registered Guernsey Cows

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~ - - HICKORY GROVE STOCK

IIOIIIBIII'FIIOSIIIIS- FARM. Owsn Tsft.ProprIetor.

R. 1. Oak Grove. lev. 00.. Michigan. Boll phone





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the breed—dam gave over 60 lbs. of milk a day only a

little past 2 yrs. old. Big growthy calf. beautifully

marked. 0. D. WOODBUEY. East Lansing, Mich.





W. E. PRICHARD 8: SONS





ILLINOIS.





AMERICAN BREI] PERGHEHUN & SHIRE HORSES





sound young stallions of the real draft





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Special inducements for men who buy two or more to re-sell.

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HOLSTElns—Yearling bulls all sold. Have a few

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Romeyn C. Parsons, Grand Ledge, Mich.





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000 roman BULLS. litanié‘hidrt’ml".





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Three young bulls ready for spring service. out of

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ERSEY BULL CALF. born March 10.'08. Dam’s

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3 Delaine Ewes. 3 to 6 years old. All safe In lamb.

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Three choice. dark red. richly bred. young bulls. ;

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SHEEP.

ERDENHEIM FARM





SHROPSHIRES





EDWIN s. cranes", Owner.

Rams and Ewes for Sale.





WRITE FOR PRICES T0





ROBERT GROVES. Shepherd.

R. F. D. No. 3. Pontiac. Mich.





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line on us. WOOD 4t SONS, Saline. Mich.





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INCUBATOR AND BROODER PAID BIG

INTEREST.



I have used incubators the past five

years, hatching about 2,000 chickens in

that time. Having used three different

makes of machines, I may be able to help

someone by giving my experience.



It doesn't make nearly so much differ-

ence about the make of the incubator

as it does who runs it. \Vhen running

an incubator you have to consider that

first, the other work afterwards. The

turning of the eggs should be attended

to at a certain hour in the morning, and

again the same hour at night. or the

eggs may lie much longer on one side

than the other during the three weeks.



I know my methods of handling the

machine differs a great deal from the

instruction books, and perhaps will be

criticised, but they are satisfactory to

me, as they always bring success.



How Incubator is Operated.



I prefer a 200 to 300 egg machine, as

it requires no more care than a small

one, and one gets thru sooner. I plan

to have the first hatch come off in April,

as I neVer till the machine with eggs

that cost more than live a dozen, and

there’s a reason. Cheap eggs are fertile

eggs. IVhy? Eggs do not hatch well

until the hens are laying nearly every

day.



“'hen I fill the trays I stand the eggs

on end and put in just as many as I

possibly can, always removing all the

turning devices first. Then I put an

empty tray on top of the filled one and

stand on end and crowd them down until

I can put in some more. In this way a.

Zoo-egg machine will hold nearly 300

eggs.



I take a large, heavy comfortable and

throw it over the incubator, not including

the lamp, and this is left on during the

hatch. It saves oil and protects the in-

cubator from sudden outside changes.



I prefer to run an incubator on the

same floor with the living rooms, as it

saves steps. An east or north room is

best. A west or south room gets too

much sun in the afternoon and makes

trouble by overheating the machine.



The instruction book says to get the

empty incubator regulated and then put

in the eggs, leaving the lamp alone, and

also the regulator, letting the eggs come

up to heat as they will, but I find that

this sometimes takes two days. I us-

ually put in the eggs at night and turn

the lamp up high. Vi'ith the number of

eggs I use they are perfectly safe until

morning. I leave the lamp turned up

until the eggs are warm enough, which

usually takes 24 hours. I test the eggs

in from five to ten days and then I can

usually put in the turning racks.



I don‘t leave the incubator to run all

night without looking after, but try to

be up from 1 to 2 o’clock, when I turn up

the lamp. Otherwise the temperature

is liable- to go Si-\‘~ ml (it‘—

before morning. I don't let it

worry 'me if I forget the, eggs and leave

them out seveial hours whilw

them, as I have done two or three

liven if they are nearly cold they will

usually be all right, Also, if the temper-

ature of the incubator suddenly rises to

110 or 115 (legs. while 1hr eggs uri- in

there will be no injury. if this extreme

heat does not continue long. In such

cases the eggs shou‘d bu

sprinkled with warm water and left out

an hour or so.



If you want to go visiting. to be gone

all day, while running the incubator, (and

you hadn't ougut to \‘.'.llil to), b.-

to turn the lamp so that the heat will

run down rather than up, as the eggs

will stand cold much better than too

much heat.



Getting the Chicks Into Brooders.



When the hatching time arrives I

throw the instructimi book away and fol-

low the rule that common sense dictates.

The instruction book says “hands off the

incubator at hatching time,” but I find

that if there time one needs

to be on hand it is then. Beforehand I

prepare a number of boxes and baskets,

covering the bottoms with old cloth,

woolen preferred, and when about twenty

or thirty chicks have hatched and gotten

drv I take them out and put, them into a

basket, covering it with one or two thick-

nesses of cloth and setting it by the fire.

This I repeat as often as there are more

chickens to take Ollt- T110 laump must

1,.-. gradually turned up as the number of

eggs in the incubator decreases. The

first hilf of the hatch comes off rapidly;





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





then they come slower, and then I begin

"helping them out by gradually breaking

away the shell by hand. This lessens the

number of chickens that die in the shell.

The instruction book says that a chicken

that can't help itself from the shell is

lacking in vitality and not worth bother-

ing with, but I have found this is not

true, proving it by keeping them separate

from the others and watching their

growth. Those that cannot even make

the first opening in the shell, but have to

be taken out entirely by hand, are often

good chickens in a few days.



By the time there are only fifty eggs

left in the machine it is almost impossible

to keep up the hrat. with the frequent

opening of the door that'is necessary, so

I finiSh up in the cook stove oven. By

watching carefully heat greater than that

(‘f the incubator may be safely applied

\vhich will hasten the taking in of the

yolk by the tardy ones. Those that come

from the shell with the yolk not yet

taken into the body can Sometimes be

greased with Vaseline. bandaged and

made to come cut all right.



“’hen the chickens are taken from the

incubator as soon as dry and eoyrred

and kept warm, they will immediately

cuddle down, go to sleep and remain

quiet. But if left in the machine and

allowed to drop into the bottom they are

often not warm enough and do not re—

main quiet. By crowding and climbing

over each other they keep the whole

bunch stirred up and often cripple quite

a few.



When I started into the chicken busi-

ness I went to no expense except for my

incubator and brooder." I borrowed the

money for these of my husband. That

fall I was able to return the money, and

$30 besides for interest. In addition I had

an entirely new flock of pullets to keep.

I built my own brooder coops, mostly of

drygoods boxes. My brooder was a good

one for outdoor use and had top and

bottom heat. W'ithi the crate which my

incubator came in I built a sort of tent

and placed it in front of the brooder so

that the chickens could be on the ground

even when outside the tent the ground

was covered with snow. The tent was

covered with unbleached factory muslin

which was oiled with boiled linseed oil.



When the. chickens were taken from the

brooder they Were placed in the breeder

coops. In these coops were built hovers

just high enough for the chickens to

stand in. A hole large enough to admit

a jug of boiling water was made in the

middle to supply heat for the first few

nights and during damp spells. I am

never troubled by the chickens piling up

after they are taken from the brands:

because I always provide hovers as long

as they care for them. It is really FE"-

cssary to keep the chickens in yards for

the first few weeks or a great many will

be taken by hawks, or get caught in

showers.



I will tell you what I fried my chickens.

I feed them johnny cake. This I make

with Street or sour milk, or buttermilk,

soda and salt. If one has middlings or

bran to add to this it makes a better

feed but isn't necessary. I mix and bake

the johnny Cliie in the biggest dishpan

1 can get in the, oven, letting it bake half

a 'i‘i_\'. “'hen you wish to diseontinue

1... johnny cake do so very gradually.

It is bt‘ittl‘ to have the chickens accus—

tomed to some whole grain from the

first.



Barry Co. K. T.

SUCCESSFUL METHODS lN DUCK



REARING.





 





\i'ith more and more attention given to

poultry raising each succeeding year by

American farmers, and with the poultry

crop considered one of the most profitable

branches of agriculture, considering the

amount invested, it seems strange that

nrore attention is not given to duck rais-

ing.



Ducks do not do well when housed with

fowls but should be housed and

yards-d by themselves. The houses need

not be elaborate or expensive. A form

of house used by many large duck raiscrs

is one built in sections, each 8 feet wide,

and 12 feet long. On some of the larger





other





duck ranc'lws these houses are 200 feet

long. The roof slants from front to

rear, the building being 7 feet high in





front with a height of 4 feet at the back.

One sash of 6 lights is all the glasg re~

quired for each pen, and this should be

hinged to allow for ventilation. The sash

of course, is on the south side to get the

the sun. A door on the same side, at

one corner, completes the front. The

house is made of one-inch matched lum-

ber lined with paper. The roof may be

of felt or shingles.





Ducks should have a little more space

than chickens, not less than ‘7 square

feet of floor space being allowed for each

fowl. Early in the season we allow one

drake to four females, but later in the

season we thin out the males until we

have seven ducks to one drake. It is

best to buy breeding stock in the fall,

as the prices are then more reasonable.

However, it costs something to winter

the fowls, and then there is the risk of

losing them. In buying it is always well

to pay the price and get strong healthy

birds, rather than weaklings at a reduced

price, as eggs from the latter will be a

disappointment when you come to hatch

them, and you might conclude that ducks

were hard to raise. If you do not wish

to purchase stock, and still wish to get

into the business, a cheap way is to buy

a few sittings of eggs and set them under

chicken hens or in an incubator. In four

weeks you should be well repaid for your

month's wait.





Feeding the Ducklings.



“'hen the ducks have been hatched

they are much easier raised than chick-

ens. Every breeder will have a. different

ration to feed the ducklings, so I will add

the one I have had success with. The

little fellows are let alone for 36 hours

after hatching, when they are put into

brooders previously heated to 90 degs.

Never put more than 75 in a brooder,

and 50 is better, as they start to grow at

once and the space under the hover is

soon taken up. The floor of the brooder

under the hover is covered with hay

chaff and the runway with sand. About

a foot from the hover we have a trof

filled with mash, consisting of 2%; Wheat

bran and 1A; corn meal, moistened with

milk (but not sloppy). A little, grit is

scattered over this the first day. Near





the feed trof is a drinking fountain made‘





of a pail inverted in a pie tin, which

gives them almple chance to drink, but

no chance to get their feet wet. The

first day the feed is left before them. but

after this they are fed every three hours,

the remaining food being taken away, but

the waterds left day and night. After

the fourth day, 5 per cent of the mixture

is beef scraps, and water is used in place

of milk for moistening. When two weeks

old make the. mash of equal parts of

corn meal and wheat bran, with 10 per

cent of beef scraps, and gradually in-

crease the scraps until they compose 15

per cent of the mash. This, with a little

green food, is used up to marketing at

ten weeks old, when they should weigh

from 5 to 6 lbs. apiece. Those intended

for breeders are fed chopped oats in

place of so much corn meal, and are given

zoom: range. After five weeks they are

fed only three times a day, but water is

always before them.



The brooders should be kept clean and

dry. as the health of the ducklings de-

pvnls upon it. The beat in the brooders

is gradually reduced, according to the

weather, until they are put into cold

brooders. After each feed what is not

eaten in a few minutes should be removed

so as to give them an appetite for the

next meal.



Care of the Breeding Stock.



Breeding ducks will generally begin

laying in December or January, but the

first two or three dozen eggs are seldom

fertile. After this the fertility will run

higher than in hen's eggs, until June,

when the eggs will be almost worthless

for hatching. No breeder has yet found

a "method of caring for, or of feeding,

these, fowls which will produce fertile eggs

after the natural hatching season is over.

The eggs are laid at night or in the

morning; so it is best to keep the fowlg

confined to the houses until nine o'clock,

after which they will be thru laying.

They do not take to nests but make a

nest in the litter. When they leave it

they cover the egg with straw. 'llucks

do not need a warm hoUSe, as they will

stand considerable cold if their feet are

warm. Plenty of straw or other litter

must therefore be provided. it should

be changed as often as it shows damp-

llt‘SS‘.



The feed should be given in

arranged that the ducks can not get in

with their feet to tramp and waste it.

The (hick house should be well ventilated,

but drafts must be guarded against. I’Ve

have frames covered with muslin which

take the place of the window sash during

the mild part of the winter; this also

helps to keep the house dry.



The laying ducks should always be

fed ground feed; we have had good re-

sults with a mixture consisting of 3 parts

corn meal, 2 parts bran, 4 parts of veg-f

stables cooked and mashed, and 1 part

beef scraps. .We feed night and morning





trofs so





and think this sufficient, the there are vice.





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N” some who feed three times a day. Grit

and oyster shells must be‘before them at

all times, as well as plenty of fresh water.

Do not look for many eggs, and especially

fertile ones, if the water dish is allowed

to get empty. In winter we put a. hot

brick in the fountain which keeps it

from freezing for a long time.

Range and Green Food Necessary.



Ducks need lots of range and plenty

of green food. Our yards are sowed to

rye in the fall, which makes excellent

green food in late winter and early

spring. You will have very little sickness

among your ducks if you keep the house

dry and renew the bedding frequently.

q”, Occasionally one will go lame, but if put



in a pen by itself it will soon be all



right. ”When handling ducks always take

them by the neck, and not by the legs,

or you will injure them. Do not think

that because you have no running water

you cannot raise ducks. Many large duck

ranches have no running water, yet they

market several thousand ducks every

year. Water to swim in is not considered

necessary to successful duck raising.



If your young ducks are weak legged,

have sere eyes, or hump their backs, you

may be sure that you are fccding too

concentrated food, with too little animal

food. It is generally a case of all corn

meal.



In hot, weather shade must be provided

in some way if there is no natural shade.

Old doors set up on stakes answerthe





purpose, or canvas may be made to an-

swer the same purpose. If you do not

provide shade you will wonder why your

ducks straddle around and suddenly die.

This applies to the old birds as well as

to the ducklings.



ats are very fond of duck eggs and

young ducks, and must be guarded

against or your profits may be gone be-

fore you realize it.



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HINTS ON HOME HIVE MAKING.

Painting the Hives.



The entire parts of hives should be

painted. Especially do the covers and

bottom-boards need to be well covered

with the preservative, the former be.-

cause they are exposed to the earth’s

moisture and rot soon, the latter so they

will not absorb water and check and

warp out of shape to admit wind or rain,

and sometimes even bees.



There are, so far as I know, just two

high class bee-keepers who contend that

hive bodies ought not to be painted and

that bees do better in unpainted hives.

But against these there are hundreds

and hundreds of bee—keepers who have

never observed any difference in this re.—

spect, and when it comes to durability,

appearance and the keeping of their

shape, painted hive bodies are much

ahead.



The bodies should have two coats. The

edges, too, must be covered. They are

not exposed, I know, yet if not covered

with preservative rot is liable to set in

because water works in between the

edges. The inside need not be painted,

nor the inside fixtures. A small bee-

kecper once propounded to me the idea

that moths would not infest hives that

are painted inside. There is nothing

whatever in this theory.



Bottom-boards should be well covered

.. with paint. They are the parts of hives



t'hat rot soonest. The part of bottom-

boards coming under the hives should

also be painted. In a certain sense this





 





 





 





THE .M'ICHIGAN FARMER. (13)





belongs to the inside, but it is desirable

to have the part covered.



Nothing is so bad about a hive as a.

cover warped out of shape, just on ac-

count cf lack of painting. Give the





under side the same number of coats as}

preserving only this





the upper. For

would not be necessary, but if one side





is left unpainted covers are more apt to;

You see, the moisture from the'





warp.

bees enters the wood and warps it.



The color is also of importance. This

must not be generally known, or one

would not see so many hives painted in

undesirable dark colors. The predomi-

ncnt color is red. I think this is because

it is one of the cheapest paints, and

then some paint may have been left

from barn painting and it just comes

handy for covering the hives.



Dark Colors should not be used, as they

absorb the sun's rays and make the hive.

hot. Light colors tend to expel this heat.

If you have both light and lark colored

hives, just observe and it will be found

that the bees in the dark hives cluster

out sooner when the sun shines real hot.



The best paint is made by using raw

linseed oil and a good brand of white

lead. The latter sometimes is adulterat-

ed, and such will not wear “'cll but will

scale, off after one or two seasons. Buy

a good brand of white lead, even if it

docs cost more. Raw linseed oil is better

than the boiled. I know that the opposite

opinion is held, but the boiled is only





 





 





 





.Naturai Water is Fine for Ducks But Not Absolutely Necessary.





superior when applicd hot.

enter the wood pores well.





makes it more visCouS. Then when ap-

plicd cold it does not enter the wood Well,

but forms a sort of skin on the surface

that will afterwards peel or scale off.

l.css oil is required when boiled because

it does not enter the wood so readily, but

this is economy at the wrong end. Bet-

tcr use a little more oil and have the

painting last a good deal longer.



The oil and white lead should be. mixed

so as to be of a smooth, creamy consist-

ency. If you have never before mixed

any paint let a painter give a lesson in

this, or else use ready-mixed paint.



I prefer a wide brush, and not one of

the cheapest kind either. tub in the

paint well by using plenty of elbow

grease. For new work, have the, first,

coat rather thin and the second one thick.

For wood that already 'has been painted

have the paint of ordinary consistency. l



KVhen repainting old hives first scrape

off the old loose paint, dirt. ctc. If this

is not done it will Scalc off anyway and'





loosen the fresh coat with it. lt is not.}

really necessary to take out the bees for!

painting. Ilives can be painted with‘

bees in them. The edges can not well

be covered and need not be if they have

been painted once before. Neither need

the bottom of covers be repainted. You

see the paint does not wear off on such

unexpOst-d places. The bottom of bottomv‘

boards ought to be repainted. and at thei





front as far in as can be reached With“





the brush. The fronts should be painted

toward evening, after the bees





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DETROIT. FEBRUARY 20. 1909.,





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT.





 





The report of

Reportofthe Country the Country Life

Life Commission. Commission, which

has been awaited

with interest by many country people

who have taken an interest in this in-

quiry, was recently transmitted to Con-

gress by the President, together with a

special message in which the significance

of this inquiry and the reasons for the

appointment of the commission were

commented upon, and a recommendation

was madc that $25,000 be appropriated to

enable this comission to collect and digest

further data on the subject. Lack of

space in which to prcscnt the complete

rcport and the message with which it

was transmitted compcls us to limit com—

ment in this issnc to a rcprmluction of

2L summary of the report which was in-

closcd with the documn-nt as rcccivod,

thc text of which is as follows:



'l‘hc roport of the commission «it-scribes

with some fulness tho cxisiing conditions

of farm lii‘c and points out the causes

that may havc lcd to its present: lack of

organizatitm. it suggosts methods for

the rcdircction of rural society, for ar-

rcsling the (NIH to the city, for maintain-

ing the natural rights of the farmer and

for the dcvclopmcnt of an organizod rural

lifc that will promote the DI’USIMJI‘ll)‘ of

the whole nation.



Broadly spcuking, agricullurc in the

I'nilcd States is prospcrous and the con-





ditions in many of tho gr~-at farming

rcgions are improving. (‘ountry homes





gcncrally are improving in comfort, at-

tractivcncss, and lit-allhfuhwss. Many

institutions, organizalions, and movc.

incnts are activcly contributing to the

increasing wclfarc of thc open country.



There has never bccn a time when the

American fill'nli‘l‘ was as Woll off as ho is

today, when not only his earning powcr

but the comforts and ai'lvani‘agcs he mav

sccure are considered. Thcre has been

a complete and fundaim'intal change in

our Whole economic system within the

past century.



Yet it is truc, notwithstanding all this

progress as measured by historical stand-

ards, that agriculture is not con‘imcrcially

as profitable as it is entitlcd to be for

tho labor and energy that the farmer

cxpends and the risks that ho assumcs,

and that the social conditions in the. opcn

country are far short of their possibil-

ities. . .



Rural society is lacking clncily m a

knowledge on the part of the farmcrs of

the exact agricultural conditions and pos-

SlbillthS of their regions, resulting in the

widespread depiction of soils With the





injurious effect on rural life: in proper

‘1raining for country life in the schools;

in good highway facilities. and in organ-

ization for buying and selling.



There is an absence of any adequate

system of agricultural credit, a shortage





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THE MICHIGAN ; FARMER.





or labor, often complicated by intemper-

ance among workmen; a lack of institu-

tions and incentives that tie the labor-

ing man to the soil; the life of the farm

woman is burdensome and narrow, there

is need of adequate supervision of public

health.



The farmer is handicapped by the

speculative holding of lands, monopolistic

contrbl of streams and forests, waste of

our natural resources, and by restraint

of trade.



Some of the remedies for the conditions

set forth lie with the national govern-

ment, some of them with the states and

communities in their corporate capacities,

some with voluntary organizations, and

some with individuals acting alone.



All organized forces both in town and

country should understand that there are

country phases as well as city phases of

our civilization, and that one phase needs

help as much as the other. All these

agencies should realize their responsibil-

ity to society. Many existing organiza-

tions and institutions might become prac-

tically cooperative or mutual in spirit,

as for example. all agricultural societies,

libraries. Young Men's Christian Asso-

ciations, and churches. All the organiza-

tions standing for rural progress should

be federated in states and nation.



There are several great forces, or prin-

ciples, which must be utilized inxthe en-

deavor to Solve the country life question.



There must be a vast enlargement of

voluntary, organized effort among farm-

ers themselves. It is indispensable that

farmers shall work together for their

common interests and for the national

welfare. If they do not do this. no gov-

ernmental activity. no legislation. not

even better schools, will greatly avail.

The forces and institutions that make for

morality and spiritual ideals among rural

people must be energized.



There must be not only a fuller scheme

of public education, but a new kind of

education adapted to the real needs of the

farming people. The country schools are

to be so redirected that they shall

educate their pupils in terms of the daily

life. Opportunities for training toward

the agricultural callings are to be mul-

tiplied and made broadly effective. This

means rcdoubled efforts for better country

schools, and a vastly increased interest

1n the welfare of country boys and girls





’ on the part of those who pay the school





taxes. Education by means of agricul—

ture is to be a part of our regular pub-

lic School work. Special agricultural

schools are to be organized.



The country people everywhere are

asking for good roads. Everywhere too

they want a parcels post and the exten-

sion of the rural free delivery. - _



The commission has purposely avoided

endorsing any particular bill now before

Congress, no matter what its value or

object. In the opinion of the commission,

however, there are two or three move-

nnents of the utmost consequcncc that

should be set under way at the earliest

possible time because they are funda—

mental to the whole problcm of perma-

nent reconstruction. There should be

organized under government leadership

a comprehensive plan fd'i' an exhaustive

studv or survey of all the conditions that

surround the business of farming'and the

people who live in the country, in order

to' take stock of our resources and to

supply the farmer with knowledge.



Each state college of agriculture should

organize as soon as practicable. a com—

plete department of college extension.

Local, state, and even national confer-

cnccs on rural progress, designed to unite

the interests of education, organization,

and religion, should be held.



There is need for young people of qual-

ity, energy, capacity, aspiration, and con-

yiction, who will live in the open country

as pcrmanent residents on farms or as

teachers, or in other useful fields, and

who, while developing their own business

or affairs to the greatest perfection, will

still have unselfish interest in the wel-

fare of their communities. The farming

country is by no means devoid of load—

ers and is not lost or incapable of helping

itSclf, but it has been relatively over-

lookcd by persons who are seeking great

ficlds of uscfulncss. It will be well for us

as a pcople if we recognize the oppor-

tunity for usefulness in the open country

and consider that there is a call for scr—

wet».



The suggestions of the commission only

outline a general plan whcrcby the strong

resident forces in the open country may

themselves build up a new and better

rural social slructurc. To aCcomplish

this, the entire peoplc must be aroused.

The time for this is at hand.



In his recommcndation for an appro—

priation to enable the collection of further

data. the Prcsidcnt mcntioned the fact

that tho commissioncrs have served with—

out pay, and that the further appropria—

tion would be needed only for the

nm-cssary expenses incident to the col—

arrangement of more com—

along lines already





suggested by the





lcclion and

plcte information

startcd, and othcrs

work already done.

Quotations from

mossage, with which the

rcport was transmittcd to Congress, mak-





Presidcnt Roosevelt’s

commission's





ing clear his views on country life and

his reasons for appointing this commis—

sion, and con’imcnts on tho report itself





must be rcscrvcd for a future issue.





 





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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





Foreign.





The recent elections in Germany‘show

that the socialist party there has fallen

off considerably in the number of voters

appearing at the poles.



Russian officials are again discussing

the question of following the Gregorian

calendar. That country follows the Julian

calendar, which is thirteen days behind





\that used by the remainder of the civi-





lized world. International relations make





it very inconvenient to have a. variation}





of this kind. There is, however, consid-

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During the past few days other earth-

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Italy, and many of the ruined houses of

Messina and Reggio tumbled during the

disturbance. The inhabitants have be-

come so fearful of these conditions, that

they absolutely refuse to live in houses,

and are now mostly residing in tents.



A new system of identifying criminals

has been submitted by an Italian author-

ity. Heretofore an

finger tips has been the best clue to

recognizing criminals. The new system

provides for the taking of a photograph

of the back of the hand; the veination

of which is an absolutely true mark to

identifiaction.



_Announcement of the proposed mar-

riage of King Manuel of Portugal to

Princess Beatrice of England, daughter

of the late Duke of Edenberg, and niece

of King Edward of England, was recently

made. .



Discovery has been made of rich mines

of radium near Cornwall, England. An-

alysis shows that these mines are richer

than the old mines of Bohemia.



The Chamber of Deputies of Spain have

passed a measure, providing for home

rule for the principal cities. This bill.

which is the principle feature of the

present administration, will likely be put

into operation before the end of the year.



The Governor of Venezuela. has revoked

the dccrcc, prohibiting trafific by smaller

crafts between the island of Curacao and

Venezuela.



Henry Vignaud, who has been with the

American Embassy at Paris for the past

34 years, has resigned his position.



Thirty-four lives were lost by the col-

lision of two vessels in the Mediterranean

Sea, February 12th.



A mccting has been arranged between

President Roosevelt and King Victor of

Italy. The President will stop at Rome,

while enroute on his hunting tour in

East A 'ica. "



A ship subsidy bill has been passed

by the German Reichstag, providing for

a line of steamers between that country

and islands in the Indian Ocean and Aus-

lra la.



National.



The whole central west is in the grip

of the worst blizzard of years. Traffic

and communication has bcen generally

disturbed, and in many places it is imm—

possiblc to move trains at all. Much suf-

fering will likely result from the storm.



'l‘hc first mceting of the joint commit-

tcc, sr-lccted to arrange a plan of progress

for the work in conserving our resources

will meet at \Vashington, l'). C., March 1’».

The scvcral state and national commit-

tccs constitute the joint committcc.



Citizens from 42. countics of Eastern

Kcntucky are organizing for the purpose

of putting down all sorts of lawlcssncss

that has bccn so charactcristic of that

section and has prcvcntcd capitalists from

dcvcloping thc rcsourccs thereof.



The national tariff commission conven-

tion is in session at Indianapolis, Ind,

this week.



A movement. national in its character,

has started for the purpose of unifying

the laws of the diffcrcnt states of the

union. A council of 100 men from each

statc is to form the nucleus of the work—

ing forcc.



A fire in a theatre at Acapulco, Mex—

ico, last Monday resulted in 300 deaths.

The flames started from a moving pic-

ture film. There were only three exits to

the building and a large number of the

victims were crushed While endeavoring

to escape. «



The war dcpartment is about to send a

battleship to Liberia, Africa, to protect

the American interests there. Reports

indicate that the government of that na—

tion is very unstable, and outside inter-

fercncos may become ne essary.



Practically every .muni ipality and or-

ganization thruout the country paid

honor to Abraham Lincoln, on the oc—

casion of the hundredth anniversary of

his birth, February 12. Chief among the

ceremonies were those at his birthplace

near Hodgenville, Kan, where President

Roosevelt and other persons of high rank

did honor to the great American. _



A measure has been introduced into the





impression of the'





fire. '20, 1969.





presentcongress to rescind the action by

the last session of that body. providing

for an increase of salary for cabinet mem—

bers as far as it concerns the secretary

of state. This action was taken in order

that Ex—Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania,

may become a member of President Taft's

cabinet. A law exists which prohibits

any member of congress taking advan-

take of an advance in salary while a.

member. . .



A jury has finally been secured for the

hearing of the trial of Colonel Cooper

and his son, of Kentucky, who are charged

with the killing of ex-senator Carmack,

of that state.



The inter-state commerce commission

has ruled that express companies cannot

be cognpelled to collect. for liquor shipped

c. o. .



A movement to modify the recent traffic

schedule, which was proposed for France

against American goods, has been started

by the government there. It was antici—

pated that should the high schedules be

allowed to pass the chamber of deputies,

the American government would recipro-

cate by stablishing high tariffs against

French importations to this country.





 





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





 





Gratiot 00., Feb. 12.—February opened

with plenty of snow but badly drifted.

The first week was warm, accompanied

with heavy rain on the 5th, which took

practically all the snow. The 9th brot

snow, rain and sleet so that wheat is

now partially protected at the root tho

very little snow covers the blade. Hogs

sell from 5@6c; veals, 5%@6$§c; butter,

18@22c; eggs, 27c; hay, $7@8; wheat,

$1.02; oats, 50c. It is thot that stock is

not feeding as well as they would with

steady cold weather.



_Kent 60., Feb. 11.——February came in

Wlth a blizzard and if we don’t get the

proverbial six weeks of winter in March,

we are likely to get all we need. We

now havenenough snow to make a. good

run of sleighlng if properly distributed.

Stock shippers find little to do just now.

String butchers get barely stock enough

to satisfy their trade, the older class of

hose and cattle are nearly all gone, and

fall pigs are scarcely up to the shipping

point in weight. These will begin to go

to market inside of two or three weeks.

The scarcity and inevitable high price

of grain will undoubtedly tell its own

story on the spring and early summer

meat supply. Times quiet and little or no

complaint among farmers. .



Oceans 60., Feb. 13.———While other sec—

tions of the country are reporting bliz—

zards, snow blockades, avalanches, and

earthquakes, Oceana county has suffered

from neither, and only once has the mer-

cury gone below zero—when it registered

five degrees below for a few hours.

There has been a rather uneven distribu—

tion of snow, heaping it in some places

and .leaving others bare. But yesterday

and last night the earth was covered with

a white mantle, so that today there are

smiling faces and jingiing sleigh bells.

All kinds of farm produce are bringing

good prices, which, of course, makes

every producer satisfied. Local dealers

are paying as follows: Wheat, 81 per bu;

rye, 72c: oats, 55c; corn, in ear, 35c:

buckwheat, 65c; potatoes, 60c; 01110113, 40

@700; beans, 31.85632; hay, $10@12 per

ton; straw, $5.50; wood, 32 per cord; but—

ter, 250 per lb; eggs, 25fiil280 per doz;

apples, 800 per bu. The apple crop was

small last season—owing to the heavy

crop the year before. We hear many

prophesying lots of fruit this season. A

large quantity of young trees were plank

ed last spring and many orders have

been given for delivery the coming spring,

peaches and cherries predominating.



Branch Co.—Weather for January gen-

erally unfavorable for wheat. Snow pro-

tected same only for about ten days dur-

ing the month. The last week of the

month saw a few days of sleighing, the

first of the winter. Stock generally look-

ing well, cxccpt hogs, which are far below

the average for this season, both in num-

bers and weight. Wheat, $1.05;’oats, 430,

corn, 63c; clover seed, $4.50@5 per bu;

hogs, 5@5%c; timothy hay, $7; clover, $6

per ton.



Eaton Co., Fcb. 6th.—Priccs have ad—

\'athd since last report. We have had

all sorts of weather, from 21 below zero,

to what sccmcd like summcr, and started

some plows. Thcre are reports of dande-

lion blossoms bcing soon. All kinds of

stock doing well. Wheat has advanced

to $1.05, and beans to $3.10, potatoes to

Giic, timothy hay to $8, clover seed $5, al—

sike $6.6M, hogs $6696.75, calves $6@7,

lambs $66v6.75, sheep $4096, cattle $3fi‘5,

chickens lofl‘llc, eggs 2568280, butter 200.

The storcs pay only 250 for eggs, but one

of the large buyers pays 28c for large,

clean frcsh ones, one or two cents less

for small ones.



Genesee 00., Feb. 6.~Aficr the big

snow storm of January 28-29, when roads

\vcre blocked for several days a warm

spcll caused the snow to disappear vcrv

rapidly and considerable rain fell on the

5th of February. This makes the sccond

fine rain since winter set in and as little

or no frost rcmains in the ground the

watcr soaks in and will fill wells and

springs. something badly needed after tho

excessively dry fall- and early winter

months. Roads arc now gotting quite.

muddy and this interferes with marketing

producc. Grain. hay, live stock, dressed

hogs and poultry. bcsidcs potatoes and

other vegetables have been’ moving rap-

idly, with prices holding up remarlsmbly

well. Farmers are now shipping their

baled hay. Great quantities of this pro—

duct are shipped to eastern markets.

Prices have been from $76,178.50 as a rule.

It is not uncommon to find farmers who

have one hundred tons or more to sell.

Prices on butter and eggs have held up

thru all the soft weather we have had.

Egg have been as high'as 350. The

present price is 50 less, but they are

very scarce at that. Butter ‘has remained

at a good figure all Winter. Farmers are

getting 22@24c, while the creamery pro—

duct sells at $28@30c. One of the most

remunerative cash crops to the Genesee I



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DESOLATED TlMEGAD—Anv African Contribution to Roman History.





It is natural that Rome should be the

lodestar of medieval history since it is

Rome that has most materially influenced

modern conditions and it is the Roman

antiquities which are still so marvelous

and so we'll-preserved as to be the 'de—

light of thousands of historians and tens

of thousands of tourists. “When you are

in Home or the ancient Roman provinces,

see what the Romans did” is already

nearly as prominent a, saying as “When

you are in Rome do as the Romans do."

The life of no nation is more replete with

true historic grandeur and with enthral-

ling fascination. What a host of histori-

cal workshops in which events were

made and what a. setting in which the

world‘s pendulum swung! What scenes

are conjured up when we think of Rome,





 





BY FRANK





Aures Mountain Range in the ancient

province of Nu'midia and was known to

the Romans as Thamugade, while to the

historian of today it is known as Time-

gad or Timgad. It was built for the

same purpOSe as were most of the other

Roman cities in Africa, that of a com-

plete occupation of the country and as a

center from which to disseminate Roman

law. Owing to a complete subjugation of

the people in the region at the time or

construction, it was not considered nec-





essary to fortify the city on all sides as





was done with most Roman cities of the

time.



Its manner of construction is a marvel

of the versatility of the Roman soldier,





General View of Timegad, Algeria, showing its Regular Construction as Restored





by the French.





Pompeii, Carthage, Timegad and a hund—

red other citics which form the crucible

of Roman t‘hot and activity, and made

the progress in art, literature, building,

commerce, war and general mode of liv‘

ing assume a more complete development

than was ever known before. It is true

that other nations excelled, in one or a

few lines of development, what the R0-

mans did, but none had shown such won—

derful achievement in all lines of human

activity.

Ruins of Timegad.



The student or traveller who desires to

make a study of Carthage and Rome

should first journey to North Africa and

view the, magnificent ruins of 'J‘imcgad,

since these ruins have not suffered the

Imarks of time and dcprcdation that have

Rome and Carthage or any of the other

great ruins so charactcristic of the me—

dieval period. Situated as the site is in

the interior of Algeria, far removed from

the marts of trade and rarely visited by

even the native caravans or tourists, it

is natural that these ruins should not be

despoilcd as are those which are easily

reached by the tourist or are -occupicd

by a present city site as is the case with

Home and a few of the loss prominent

cities, It is easy to coinprchcnd that the

final dcspoliation of the city was one

carrying with it some wealth in precious

metals and stones with some art of a

provincial nature but still worthy of a

handsome price. Now the. natives find

only the artistic remains of the heavy—

stoned buildings, which to them mean no

more than any other stone in the Algor-

ian wastcs. and if they pass that way it

is only in pursuit of their business or as

a, chance guide. ’l‘ruly, 'l‘imcgad is a

worn, shattered plaything‘ in the, world‘s

attic storehouse of old relics and is care-

lessly thrown aside by all save a few

historians.



The city was founded in the year 100

A. D. by the Roman Emperor, Trajan,’

who decided there was need for another

City between the cities of Lambesi and

Mascula and hence started it on the site

of a small Roman fort which was already

in existence at this place. Tivmegad is





situated, then, on the last spurs of,,the





Pile at Left Shows ReMains before Restoration.





J. PHILLIPS.





just as Rome itself stands pre-eminent

in an all—round national development of

art, literature, building, etc. Most of the

actual building work was done by these

sturdy followers of the sword and battle-

axe who wielded to perfection the homely

implements of construction, leveling hills

and mountains so that their roads which

were constructed from one to two thou-

sand years ago are still suitable for

travel; erecting cities and mammoth

buildings as tho their apprentice days

had been spent as hewers of stone

rather than as hewers of'hu'man heads,

and above all completing t'hesc marvelous

edifices in an incredibly short time yet

in so substantial a manner as to outlast





more recent works of supposedly great

builders. It is a strong compliment to

the Roman soldiery that they were able

to build as Well as destroy, and that the

growth of the Roman empire was due

nearly as much to their developmental

ability as it was to their ability to sub-

jugate their foes. Modern nations with

large armies could certainly learn a les-

son from the accomplishment of the R0-

mans before they commenced to decline.



'l‘imcgad is highly illustrative of Roman

achievement when the empire was at its

height. It is in a better state of preser-

vation than any of the other remains of

cities which were built in its day or pre—

vious to its time. From its ruins we

may gain a fund of information which

will not only serve to convey a, remark-





 





 





Ruins of the old Forum at Timegad showing Bases of Statues Flanking the Huge

Columns, and the Triumphal Arch in Left Background.





 





 





Gorge of Constantine, in Algeria.—0ne of the Sights on the Way to Timegad. The

Largest and Deepest Canyon in North Africa.





ably good undcrstninling of Roman build-

ings and ltonrln customs in northern

Africa but also grcatly augment that sur-

rounding ltomo itsclt'. \Vc c:1nnot say

that cvcn in its most glorious days it had

a standing as one of the foremost cities

in politics and silvltcgic importance. It

ncvcr had the distinction of large size

but, standing out alone in its desert realm

with the bordcring fringe of magnificent,

grecnclad mountains, its columnar ruins

shoot up like \voll-carvcd pawns on a.

still greater chi-ssboard rso rcgular is its

construction on strm‘ts running at right

angles to each othcrv~and tcach a lesson

bcttcr than the ruins of grcatcr cities of

its time. \Vhat' it serves to show in its

simple. yet wcll pl‘cscl'vctl way means a.

grcat chapter in Ionian history.

Entrance to the Ruins.

Stumbling along over a rambling, stony

trail which leads in the direction of this

ancient city the, searcher finally strikes

the well-built Roman road which led from

liambcsi thru ’l‘i-megad to Mast-111a. This

road naturally forms the main street of

the town and serves as a basis around

which the city is built. Shortly after

striking,r the road, one comes to the city

border and the famous triumphal arch

Which formed a gateway to the city and

which probably outranks all others in

Africa in beauty and solidity. It is a

huge structure with three portals, the

largest of which is in the center and

was for the use of chariots and horse-

men, while the two smaller, flanking

portals were reserved exclusively for peo-

ple on foot. One author describes the

facade as being ornamented with four

marble columns surmounted with Corin—

thian capitals. In the panels are two

niches framed in smaller columns and

holding statues which were undoubtedly

of Trajan and others in the imperial

family. An original and rare, feature

was the circular domes which were placed

above the two wings and stood out from

the line of the center. At the base is

an appropriate inscription telling of the

founding of the city by Trajan and its

building by a legion of soldiers.

Even today this arch, standing as a

ruin, has a resemblance closely akin to
188

its original beauty ,and grandeur. Be-

cause of its immense size and the large“

blOcks of stone used in its construction,

it is quite apparent why it should remain

as the best preserved ruin in the city.

Small portions of other ruins, such as

tablets and portions of columns from the

forum have been found in nearly perfect

preservation, but nothing can compare

in entirety with this massive gateway.

Glancing at it from a distancc.it seems

like a fitting entrance to a live, active

city in which a long past civilization is

still at its height and in which people

long since dead are still busy with their

part in the game of living. Once at the

gate, the full impreSsion of the city's

desolation is apparent, tho the ruins are

easily apparent long before the gateway

is reached. Broken column follows brok~

en column in the diminishing perspective

of the surrounding desert. Some of the

streets which have not been cleared are

partially filled with piles of debris which

remind one of the talus of a rocky cliff.

Cracked and broken tablets in memory

of long past deeds resemble the broken

tombstones seen in our more ancient

cemeteries. An occasional salamander

blinks for a moment in the intense sun-

light and disappears in his rare home of

fallen friezes and fluted pillars. while the

native birds flutter from pile to pile in





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strange contrast to the activities which"





once held sway over the same site. The

French government 'has done a wonderful

work in cleaning up and restoring the

city, but no restorer of even Herculean

power could possibly bring back the ap-

pearance of the city in the days when

the legions trumped its streets.



The main street 'icuds directly past

the forum and straight on thru the city.

It is paved with the large, thick rectan-

gular blocks of hewn stone which are so

characteristic of Roman roads wherever

their remains are found. The road is

well preserved and still well suited for

travel, since frost heaving and freezing

have not affected it as they would have

done in a colder clime. Lack of rain

has also prevented silting and general

deterioration. Ruts are deeply worn in

the paving stones and show that this

main street was a favorite promenade

for_the chariots. Footpaths were not

separated from the roadbed in those days

but consisted of a few feet reserved on

cach side of the roadway.



On a gala day when the chariots were

out in full force, with an admiring pop-

ulace filling the footpaths. this street

must have been an inspiring sight. No

sight of vehicles can compare with a line

of well carved, burnished chariots, each

drawn by four sleek horses and driven

by a sturdy c‘hariotccr richly clad in the

flowing Roman tunic. ln the days when

the Romans employed the richest colors

and gave over to luxury all that could

be given, it would have been a great





study to have watchcd from the house

trips the concourse filling the street. To

the student who had watched the athletic

Roman go into dcclinc thru the encrvaiing

effects of luxury it would be sorrowful;





to one thinking only of artistic effect. it





would have liccn an cpicurcan delight.

This main street is one of the broadest,

if not the broadest of any found in the

ruins of ancient Roman cities: its breadth

is due to the fact that the city was built

all at one time and t'h: rc wore no build-

ings to interfere with the construction of

the streets as was: the (1th in citics of

long continued, gmdual growth, such as

tome, Carthage and l'onipeii. Two beau-

tiful fountains. lit-Signed for the com—

bined use of ilrll'St‘S and people, were





discovered flanking cach sidc of the

street. The base stones are so deeply

worn that it is evident that im-mcnsc

numbers of people gladly made use of

these necessities. In this connection it

may be well to note that the water sup-

ply for the city was brot from the far

distant mountains and was carried to

the city by artificially constructed con—

duits requiring considerable engineering

skill in their construction. These con-

duits supplied the city fountains as well

as the. open canals in which the water

flowed thruout some of the streets much

as it does in a few of our western cities

in the present time. Hygienic engineers

have. declared that this is the ideal way

for cleaning city streets, and When one

arrives on the ancient city site today and

finds the long distance necessary to tra-

verse for water, too great credit can

. scarcely be given to the work of these

ancient builders. Today wine diluted

with water is used to quench the thirst.

and it is only with the greatest difficulty

that sufficient water is obtained for this

purpose.



The Forum.

Just as the triumphed arch is the best





THE 'MICHIGAN .FARMERJ





preserved of the city ruins, so the forum,

which is centrally located, is the most

interesting of the ruins from the stud-

ent’s standpoint, or even that of the

causal 'observer. The main street fur-

nished an excellent place for the prome-

nades and processions, but the forum

was the centre of the city's activities,

both as to-pleasure and the serious

phases of city life. The centre of the

forum is an open quadrangle, still better

paved than the main street, and was

surrounded by a walk which was raised

two steps above the general level. This

walk was covered by a portico to give

shade. Along the two sides of the forum

were flanking rows of pillars which added

materially to the majestic appearance

and hinted of old Rome. At the two

ends were buildings of various sizes.

Compared with the forums of larger cit—

ics this one is small in size, but for the

purposes for which it was needed in this

city it was entirely adequate and tits in

more perfectly with its surroundings

than a much larger forum would have

done. It should be borne in mind that

the city was not well situated for a large

development. and that the respective

sizes of the various important buildings

could be almost arbitrarily decided upon

in the beginning so as to secure a proper

correlation of size. At one end of the

forum was the law—givers' court, or

“basilica.“ which 'was built in :1 rec-

tangular form and 'much more simply

than were similar buildings on the Euro-

pean side of the Mediterranean sea. It

was built of heavy stone with pillars at

the sides and ends of the building, but

with no pillars inside as was usual in

such buildings. At one end, of the in-

terior was placed a stone platform on

which the judges sat and before which

the ancient cases were tried. About the

side walls of the room are scattered

images of several of the members of

Trajan’s family. In the great niche.

which is at the opposite end of the build-

ing from the judges‘ platform. it is evi-

dent that a large statue was placed. No

sign of the statue remains and no abso-

lute proof can be found as to whose like-

ness it was, but as the city was founded

by Trajan, and as statues of his family





are found all along the‘ side walls. it is

reasonable‘to believe that this was the

emperor’s statue. This seems a still

more natural conclusion when it is

known that it was a well recognized c.us—

tom of the time and it would‘be quite

out of the ordinary to find any other

statue in the place of prominence.



At the other end of the forum was

built a rostrum for public speaking, the

“curia,” or town hall, and a famous

statue to Augusta Fortuna. The Romans

were noted for addresses to the populace,

and so a rostrum for public speaking

was nearly as essential as the town hall

or the law—givers’ court. Many of their

greatest speeches were delivered before,

the public, and as the forum was designed

as‘a common m’eeting ground for all, no

more fitting place could be selected for

the rostrum. The “curia” as a meeting

place for the city rulers was magnifi-

cently furnished and probably excelledvin

beauty and decoration all other buildings

in the city. It was, however, much

smaller than the “basilica.” since it was

designed to accommodates muc’h Smaller

number of people. The statue to Au-

gusta Fortuna was the best in the city

and was placed as nearly as could be

between the rostrum and the “curia” it?

what was the most commanding position

in the forum. It was erected by two

women according to the provisions of

their father's. will and was symbolic of

the good fortune which it was hoped

would insure the city a. long and pros—

perous existence.



Along the two sides of the forum were

placed numerous statues to rulers, prom-

inent citizens and other benefactors. On

the side which bordered the main road

were roonis for public comfort while

directly in the middle of the side was the

entrance of the forum, thru which both

the rich and the poor, the scourgers and

the scourged. sought justice, knowledge

and recreation. The comfortable shade

made it an inviting place for the loung-

crs and beggars, and here, too, they

could view the more or less exciting

events characteristic of the forum ac-

tivity, and gain coins by begging in the

forum or at the entrance on the main

street.





 





The Hop Picker From Port Simpson





BY ANNA





All was commotion on the beach. Each

of the long, strong cedar canims was a

center of. activity. \Vomcn carried down

blankets. provisions and cooking utensils

in the form of an iron kettle or skillet

and helped pack their loads in the boats.

Not many words were wasted and the

work proceeded rapidly. Only one canoe

still remained owncrless, deserted. Now

and again some member of the party, us-

ually some of the younger women, al-

lowed her glance to steal in the direction

of the silent boat. .



It was August and in four weeks the



hop crop at Puyallup would be ripe for

the picking. It was easier to pick hops

than to cut logs or to fish. Then, too,

the journey down the coast for miles

and miles afforded opportunity for all

sorts of adventures and visits to the

white man‘s cities. All these considera-

tions had induced the Siwashes about

Port Simpson to start on their annual

trip.

' Most of the canims were ready to re-

ccive their passengers. when there ap-

peared on the path a tall, broad should-

ered young fellow, carrying in a neat

pack slung across one shoulder a bag of

provisions and some blankets, across the

other his cooking utensils, in his left

hand a gun and in the right a fishing

rod. Crossing to the empty boat, be dis-

posed of his load and stood up to look

at his companions.



The older men only grunted at his ap-

pearance. The younger looked interested,

for until now it had been thot that some

of the younger men were to go in the

canim. Each of the other boats had

its full load, ranging from four to eight

persons and the necessary supplies. In

an emergency, it usually took three or

four to manage such a boat, but Skoo-

kum Dan was alone and evidently in-

tended to start alone.



Slowly the canim’s slipped into the

water and glided out past the point and

down the entrance toward the midday

sun. Propelled by the strong pull of the

tide, they moved forward almost silently.

The bright sunshine warmed the air

evening, and gave to all a joy in life that

which had begun to cool the previous

comes to the well and strong in a clear,

almost ideal atmosphere. The voyagers

gazed“ on the familiar sceneistolidly' and





GIRM US.





settled back as comfortably as possible

to make the most of the day.



XVhen the tide ceased carrying them

forward, they landed and waited for its

return. Your Siwash has no intention

of using his muscles when old Mother

Nature has provided a so much greatm‘

force to propel his boat, and time is fol2

the use and enjoyment of man. When

night came they landed and camped. In

this leisurely manner the party pro—

ceeded. .



One evening they reached the mouth

of the Skeena River where they were to

cnt'ump. As usual. Dan neared the shore

first and noted with satisfaction that

there were already several canims at the

old camping place. Evidently the Si—

washes from some rancherie (that gath-

ering of houses in which the benevolently

disposed Canadian government shelters

its red wards of the Northwest), were

also on a journey, possibly with the hop

fields for their destination. If so, the

two parties. might proceed together, for

they were all friendly tribes. Fastening

his own boat at a distance from the

Others, he strode toward the place where

preparations were being made for the

evening meal. .



“Klahowya,” he called cheerfully to

one of the men, who appeared to be 3.

leader.



The greeting was returned in kind.

Then followed explanations, during

which the stranger scrutinized the young

man with interest. In the midst of the

conversation, Dan stopped, his eyes rest-

ing involuntarily on the figure of a

young klooch who had come to the fire

with a large fish dressed for the skillet.

The older man waited for him to finish

his statement.



“There is your party,” he observed

suddenly, as the canims came in view.

“Big Abe I know, and some others. All

go together morning.”



While greetings were being exchanged\

by the other members of the two parties,

the broad-shouldered young giant stood

watching the maid at her fire. And

truly she was good to look at. The

figure, tall and slender for a Siwash wo-

man, would have rejoiced the heart of

her civilized White sister with athletic

ambitions. The face, altho but a shade

less zdushy than. that. of hewoompanionsiv





 





FEB. 20, 1909. .





demanded and received attention. The

features were less dull, less stolid. The

chin was smaller. The soft, red lips

covered small, even. white teeth. The

cheeks were slightly elongated. The





brow was rather high, smooth. and firm.





The heavy black hair was plaited in

braids which, in their turn, were pinned

about the rather small head.



She turned to break up sticks for her

fire, but Dan read her wants. “Wait,

1'11 bring some,” he requested.



Without receiving her consent he took

an ax and in a few minutes returned

with an armful of dry wood. Soon he

had coaxed the fire to a bright blaze

while the dark eyes of the maid observed

him furtively. The broad, erect should-

ers, the alert manner of holding his

head, attracted her. .



She' remembered always that her

father had been white and altho several

of the young men of her grandfather's

tribe had tried to court her, she had

treated them with such scant courtesy

that they had learned to shun her. The

white men whom she had seen, the log-

gers and ranchers who occasionally had

dealings with her people, possessed a.

manner that she liked. She could not

be reconciled to the slow, easy, careless—

ness of the red men. In her heart was

an unrecognized determination to be like

the people of her father’s race, to pro-

gress. She had been eager to start on





this journey to the hop fields for sheer





would have an opportunity to see more

of the white man’s way of living, perhaps

to in some way make it her way, and

at the very outset this broad-shouldered,

black—eyed man of the woods stood at

her fire and she could not treat him with

the contempt she had shown others.

Early in the evening she disappeared

with some of the other women and he

saw her no more until the party was





getting ready to start the next day. The





boat in which she was seated was well

loaded, a. fact which he observed with

pleasure.



Soon his own canim outstripped the

others and when they reached the place

where they intended to camp he had

prepared a. fire and an abundant supply

of fish was on hand.



The third day, when they were about

to embark there was some trouble among

the occupants of the crowded boat. The

girl with the thick braids of hair, hesi-

tated about taking the place left vacant

for her. The dark eyes gleamed angrily

at the two young men between whom

she was to sit.



“Come, Alice,”~ called one of the

women. “You’re the lightest, hurry.

Bill and Joe won’t hurt you. Don’t keep

us waiting.” The other klooches well

knew the girl’s disdain of their brothers

and resented it. To them she was a

presumptious klooch. If her grand-

father’s people had been good enough to

supply her wants so far, they surely

were good enough for her to marry.



“Yes, hurry," admonished one of the.

older men. “The others are all starting."



“One or two of you come in my

canim." invited Dan. “I am alone and

have plenty of room.”



Those in the boat looked at the girl.

Would she disdain this handsome

stranger, too?



“Come,” he called to her, “and another

can come, too," he added as he saw her

hesitate. “Your canim is plenty full

then.”



One of the young men jumped from

the boat and soon the three were on

their way with the rest.



Alice sat silent all the day, but the

men were more sociable.



”VVe’ll use the sail a little here,” Dan

said as a slight breeze arose.



The girl sought to help, but he silently

motioned her back. Her eyes met his

in surprise. Then a gleam of anger

‘lusimd out at him. If he thot to win

her that way! The lips curved scorn-

fully.



Presently the breeze filled out the sail

and the little boat shot forward. Dan’s

eyes watched the sheet eagerly.



The occupants of the other canims

profited by their example and the tiny

fleet of sail boats bobbed merrily 'along.

Even long Dick, the laziest of the travel-

lers, straightened up under the exhilirat-

ing influence of the motion.



Alice’s eyes glowed with excitement

Her face was raised to catch the livening

breeze. She eagerly watched the passing

trees and every nerve of her body

tingled with the desire to do. Dan,

watching his sail, still ‘found time to ob-

serve the maid. His own body thrilled

in response to the tense expression of

hers. He, too, would do, that he might

Win theatcomme' ndatiow 'of' thme, dark
FEB. 20, 1909.





eyes, tho now they held nothing but

scorn for \him.



The camp was noisier than usual that

night. In some mysterious manner a

quantity of white man's firewater had

found its way there. The next day was

spent on the little island altho game and

fish were scarce. When a start was

made the third day, most of the men

were fit for nothing but lying back in

the boats.



Alice silently watched the trees rising

one above the other on the hills until

they were lost in the blue of the heavens,

but her soul saw little of the beauty.

The drunkenness, the squalor about her,

filled her with unutterable disgust, with

unutterable longing to escape from such

surroundings. -



“There is a breeze today, why don’t

we sail?” she suddenly demanded scorn-

fully of Dan, who, while not quite among

the worst of the offenders, was still

plainly suffering from the day after.



The tone stung the young man. His

eyes met hers squarely. “If you wish

it.” He reached to adjust the sail.



“What’d be the use,” she asked. “The

others would not follow. Here the pro-

visions are almost gone and they had to

stay where they could get nothing, almost

two days. Now I suppose they’ll stop

somewhere to beg.”



Dan remained silent. He knew that he

shared in her displeasure. He had never

known a klooch to object so strongly to

firewater. Strangely enough her on-

jections only increased his wish to please

her and when they landed he made

Special effort to catch fish enough for the

entire crowd.



That evening an elderly klooch, Alice's

aunt, found the girl seated on a hill

overlooking the inlet. She sat down by

Alice, who arose to go away.





“Sit down,” commanded the

woman. “I have something to say.”

After a pause she continued. “You must

remember that your ma-idenhood days

are passing. You are much older than

most klooches when they take a man.

You left one after another of the young

men go and now you are acting as if

this stranger is nothing. You think be-

cause of your white blood that you must

have a white man.”



Alice made no answer. Hereyes were

fixed on the water before her.



“You have been allowed to do as you

like until you think yourself better than

your mother’s people, but I can tell you

that if you are proud of your white

blood, this young stranger has every bit

as much to be proud of. even more. His

father, the great MacDonald, was whiter

and bigger than your own father and he

cared for Dan as long as he lived. He

was not ashamed of him.”





The girl winged. Her father had dis-

appeared when she was two years old.

Her mother, as long as she lived, looked

for his return and told her child wonder-

ful stories of the home to which that

father would take them. It was this

that had aroused the latent ambition

inherited from that same father. She

had determined that she should never

be the woman of a Siwash, but if Dan,

too, was a breed, that made a difference.





elder





She did not allow her mother‘s sister

to see her changed opinion, but permitted

her to talk without interruption and.

when she had finished: silently followed

her to the camp. But the next day she

treated her new admirer with less scorn.





Several days later they had reached a

small island on the landward side of

Queen Charlotte’s Sound. The provisions

were rapidly disappearing and they found

nothing with which to re-inforce the

larder. “It’s early,” argued Dan. “W'hy

stay here. Let’s cross over to Tyee

George’s island. We will be sure to find

plenty of fish there and maybe get a

chance to trade some for meat and flour

at some logger‘s camp.”



Big Abe looked for several moments

toward the east. “The trees say that a

storm is coming from the rising sun,"

he said simply.



“Maybe tomorrow,”

impatiently.



“The young are wiser than their eld-

ers.” interposed Long Dick. “Even the

wild animals have hid and the storm is

not far aWaY-"



The other Siwashes acquiesced in this

decision and began to arrange for the

camp.



Dan scowled. He had no intention to

stay on this island perhaps three or four





responded Dan





days with an empty stomach. A bit of

adventure appealed to him- “I am g0-

ing,” he announced shortly. “Anyone





want to come.”

Not one of the men stirred. He started





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





for his boat. As he was about to shove

off Alice jumped in. “Aren’t you afraid?"

he asked. '



“No. Why?” came the answer.



“It may storm.” ‘



She laughed.



He set sail and the slight breeze car-

ried them rapidly westward. For an

hour they sailed merrily toward their

destination, talking of the places they

would see on their trip and of the cus-

toms of the white people, for Alice had

dropped much of her reserve with him.

He had been at Puyallup before and,

finding her a willing listener, told of the

things he had seen. He had never v01-

untarily thot as much as she of his white

blood, but unconsciously he was strangely

fascinated by the neat, orderly homes

and the thrift of the ranchers.



“It must be good to have such homes





Q





garments and at times hid the shore

from view. It required all of Dan's

strength and skill to keep the boat point-

ed toward the land. He found no time

to reef in the sail. I



There came a slight lull in the storm.

Alice half rose to lower the sheet but

the wind veered suddenly and before she

could dodge the jibboom had struck the

side of her head. If Dan had not

promptly thrown himself forward and

grasped her skirt, in a moment she

would have been overboard.



In the interval he lost his bearings and

the coming twilight, together with the

misty rain, hid the island from view. All

that he could do was to keep the boat

from capsizing. Alice lay unconscious,

with her head against his knee. It

seemed to him that he had struggled

thus with the elements for hours and





 





 





Harbor of Algiers, Africa, at time of the Visit of King Edward.





as you tell of," she said wistfully. “To

have meat always, and flour, and vege-

tables even in winter."



“Some of the women,’ he continued,

“wear clean, white dresses every day

and there are no tins around the door."



“And the tirewater? The men never

drink it?" she inquired.



Dan smiled. “Yes, sometimes.”



“Not all of them, for once a man came

to our rancheric and he talked much

against the firewater.”



“That would be a missionary. They

don’t drink it, but why don‘t you like

for men to drink firewater?”



A shudder passed over her. “It makes

me ’fraid,” she explained. “The men

act different, not like themselves."



A gust of wind interrupted their con-





9





that he must give up. A sudden cessa-

tion of rairr showed him the, shore near

at hand but the next instant the wind,

as if afraid of losing its prey, veered

again, striking the sail squarely and up-

setting the tiny craft.



(Continued next week).





WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY.





BY GEORGE BANC'RQFT GRIFFITH.





 





 





This is a holiday as universally, tho

not so noisily, observed thruot our Union

as the Fourth of July, and it llnds the

memory of the Father of his Country

even more revered in the twentieth cen—

tury than it was during his lifetime in

the eighteenth. No country of any age

in history has developed a citizen of such





 





 





 





 





Massive Triumphal Arch—Gateway to the Ancient City of Timegad—An Especially





Well Preserved Specimen





versation. Dan, who had watched the

sky in spite of disobeying the advice of

the older men, was kept busy steering the





canim. Another gust struck them and

still another. Conversation became an

imp053ibility. Besides the present soon





demanded their entire attention. The

wind increased momentarily and the boat

rushed forward like a mad thing. Dan’s

anxious gaze caught a glimpse of the

island in the distance.



The cold rain, which had started in

with the wind, began to soak thru their





of Roman Architecture.





high, enduring and generally accepted

fame. The most noted instant-t of the

bestowal of the Father of the Country,

was that of the Roman Senate upon

Cicero, but that was for a partisan deed,

and, in a few years, and before his own

death, his work was undone, and he had

no political influence upon his country

thereafter. On the contrary, Washing—

ton’s influence is more authoritative now

than it was when he was president. At

that time there was a faction which de-

famed him in a manner which seems





an 189

blasphemous to the present generation.



To the men of this day the words of

Washington are of authority almost to

put an end to discussion, like the words

of holy writ to the believers in plenary

inspiration. After all allowance has

been made for the myths and fables which

have grown up about his name, such as

the hatchet story, the authentic records

of his life and acts are evidence of a

character so noble, a wisdom so pro-

found and comprehensive, that the wise

and cautious join with the simple and

trusting in placing \Vashington. among

Americans as "first in war, lirst in peace,

and first in the hearts of his country-

men.” And yet this great man never

said, perhaps, or wrote, a brilliant sen-

tence. I-lis Imerit was that he said and

did the right thing at the right. time.

With a. scanty, poorly equipped and mis-

erably supplied army he fought thru a

war, which seemed hopeless, to ultimate

success, while from a document which

seemed impracticable, he, more than any

other man, wrought out; a scheme of

government which has lasted now for

nearly 120 years. \Vc owe him a higher

reverence than any nation has ever paid

to one of its great men, and the world

outside has for some time acknowledged

that this overestimate is in no degree

extravagant.



\Vhen the tidings of the dcath of \Vash—

ington reached Congress on December

19, 1799, that august body immediately

adjourned. The day following, in the

House of Reprcscnlalchs, upon the mos

tion of Mr. Marshall, it, was resolved

that the speaker‘s chair be shrouded with

black, and that the members and officers

of the, Ilousc wear black during the ses—

sion, and that a joint committee of'both

houses be appointcd “to consider on the

most suitable manner of paying honor

to the memory of the man lirst in war,

first in peace, and first in the hearts

of his fellchitizcns.” .\ fcw days later

a series of resolutions were enacted,

from which sprang the national celebra~

tion of the 22nd of February.





THE TALES l HEAR IN THE WIND.





BY CHAS. F3. JENNEY.

Oh, why are the tales of the wind so sad,

That T hear in the winter eves,

As it howls and shricks like a fury mad,

Then shivers and subs and grives'?





And what are the

charms

Of its weird and wailing tone,

As it tells of the tcrrors and wild alarms

That this rock-bound coast has known?





ccrie, spcll-bound’





it howls in the attic and shricks thru the

hall.

And whines in the chimney—top:

It whispers thru key—holl- and cranny in

wall,

And its moaning it never will stop.





I may close my cycs as i sit so warm

And sung by thc lircsidc glow, .

But its voice will rise to the height of

the storm,

And listen I must to its woe.





It tells of the days when our Land of the

4‘]“I(I

“his stranger to l‘lng'lish face,

And grw-tcd our fathers from over the

sca ,

\Vith a chccrlcss and cold embrace.





It tells of thc days when the wildcrness





crcpl

To the doors of thc dauntlcss few,

(‘onccahug a t'ocinan who ncvcr slcptvs

“hose wilcs but thc Devil kncw.





And its voicc has a wilder, wcidcr tone

As it tclls of thc :lncicnt timer —



Like the painted I\'arragansctt‘s drone

(if a \‘t'al‘—song, licrcc, sublimc.





No tales tonight ol' the summer days,

(if llowcrs ant] ol' grccnu'ood blow.

tut of ghosts of the past a weird, wild





'lllilZl‘,

lClHVl'allpt-(i in their shrouds- of snow.





(if wreck and disastcr. of shricks for tho

drowned

For scalps at warrior's bclt ticd,

The Night-wind is chanting. lts chorus

a sound

Like demons who laughed as they died.





'l‘hat shriek that is borne on the chilling

blastev—

'I‘hat scts all the nerves a—shock,

\Vas uttcrcd by sonic poor soul, her last,

lire she fclI ’ncath the tomahawk.





And now it is whispering the saddest tale

’l‘hat ever the wind hath lohl;

Oh, bctter the war-whoop howled 0n the





gale,

0r shrieks from the wreck, Wave-

rolled;





it sinks to a whisper. low of shame

For the Past it has seen entombed—

That Past that the wind, even, scarce

dare name.

\thn Salem her witches doomed.





Know then why the tales of the wind

are sad,

Tlutpoh, think how awful the blast

Lang Sync, with its tales which our fath-

ers had

To hear of the days just passed.
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(18) ,

FARMER BROWN ON RURAL ROUTES.





 





BY ALICE J. CLEATOR.





I’ve been a farmer forty year,

An’, fur as I can see.



I've allus stood fer progress in

Our own community.



But they're a gittin’ something up

That don’t exactly suit.



They’re handin’ a partition round

To git a moral roote.





Jim Ransom’s got a roote mapped out,

An's ridin‘ round for names;



An' whether you're a judge or fool

Your name counts jest the same.



But there's one name that they don't git!

(Jim thinks he's mighty cute



A talkin' ’bout his “Uncle Sam"

An’ that ’ere rooral route).





To drive down twice a week fer main—

The way we've allus done——



That's plenty good enough fer me,

(It's enOugh fer anyone).



But Wife 2111' gals, they‘ve jined the crew.

They think ’twould ‘be so cute

To git their mail in a tin box

'An talk of rooral roote.





M-y German neighbor, Burgmullcr,

I s'posed he had some. sense.



I called to him this afternoon

While patchin’ my line fence:

“Hello! Signed that partition yit?”

He says, “Ya'h, dot ish goot."

(He’s big a fool as all the rest



About that rooral roote).





At th’ cross-roads store and postofiice

VVe’vc gathered (us men folks),



An' swapped idees about the war,

An' our country. an‘ cracked our jokes:



Planned fer our country’s future, an‘ held

Political disputes.



VVhere'd be those good old social times

’F we had those rooral rootesl





The feller at the back of this,

As fur as I can see,





Is a rascal called Department, down

To “’ashington, l). C.

I'd like to meet the scamp! He‘d feel





The size of this ‘ere boot,

I‘d let him know a few idees

About that rooral roote.





Today my gal she says to me,

“Why, what's the matter. pa‘?



You look jest like that picture your'n

After you'd been t,‘ warl"



Says I. “You‘re right, my gal;

I guess I'll take a scoot



To some place where no mortal knows

About a moral reote!“





’ii * :1:

I guess I'm taken back for ouct!

Vl’lal, Wall, to think of it!





I'm sick!





Them rooral rootes ‘re the greatest thing





That l've heerd tell of yit.



V‘Ve've got one, an' it works like fun,

It does, you bet your boots!



Jest catch me sayin' another word

Aginst them rooral rootes!





No hitchin’ up to git the mail—

Jest go to th' box au‘ see!

Comes every mornin', 'long about nine.

\‘i'e're “rooralites” now, you see.

It's the slickcst thing I ever saw,

It jest exactly suits

Us farmer folks. I say Hurrah,

Hurrah fer rooral rootes!





THE FIVE-ACRE FLAT.





 





BY NELSON A. JAt.KSO.\'.

“V'cll,

after you





next month





Georgw, what

finish the high school

'3” Mr. “'illits, a

farmer asked as he looked up from

piece of harness he was im-nding

his son came into the shop from school.

“I have been thinking about that

good dcal for Some llllll- past. I

wished to talk with you. but there

seemed to be any opportunity.

you want to do father!”

placed a of board over the

a nail keg and sat down.



“I wish you to feel perfectly free

choice. I know that





are your





lil“





pier-r- end





making your

you do.

prvpare

glad to hl-lp you."





fur suillu Ill‘rlft'SSiQn,





“Thank you, father, for your confidence





and for your ofi't-r of assistance. I want

to be a farmer."



Mr. “'illits looked at his son in sur—

prise. llc had hoped for this but had

not expected it.



“I think you are sensible." he mid,

“and I am very glad that that is your

choice. I shall be glad to take you into

partnership with me, if you wish."



"Now I know that you will think me

queer, but I want college education





also, and that isn’t all; I want a course in

an agricultural college besides that. And

more than that, I intend to pay my own

way thru for the entire course.”



“\Vcll, well, George, you certainly have

plans, but from tny knowledge of you. I

find that you usually have, a way of

carrying them out. Let's have your

scheme for this,” his father said.



“I am only seventeen years old and

it’ll not do .me any harm if I don’t start

'my college work for a year or so.”

George spoke enthusiastically as he un-





folded his plan. “I thot that probably

you would hire me by the month for a

year. That would give me money





enough to buy the five-acre fiat of the

Miller girls. Of course I could only make





plans

COUTSQ

Well—to-(lO

the

when





a

have

hasn't

\Vhat do

George





of





in

you

will be a good lli‘lll and cit‘izt-n \\‘ll;ltl‘\'ct‘

If you wish to go to college and

I should be





 





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THE MICHIGAN FARM-ER





a part payment 'on it at that time, but

could'finish paying for t within a. year.

I have always thot tha. that land was

especially adapted for c lery. In one

year's time I could rais enough celery

on half of the land to nish paying for

it and have enough 1e to give me a good

start towards my college expenses. You

needn’t look so dubious, father,” George





 

 

 

   





laughed, 5‘I have looked into this matter

thoroly. \Vall Brothers say that they can





handle at a good figure all the celery I

can furnish them. After getting the cel-

ery business started I could go to college

and hire someone to look after the crop

for me. Then we are so near the univer-

sity that I could run out home any Fri-

day afternoon and direct things myself

on Saturday. “'hat do you think of my

sclicmc?”_



“In most. boys of your age I should call

such ideas mere idle dreaming, but you

seem to have a pretty level head on

your shoulders, if you are my son,” his

father replied.



"I guess that I must take after my

father."



“Do you know George, at what figure

the Miller girls hold the flat?"



“Yes, sir. One hundred dollars per

acre is their lowest figure and I must

take it all or' none. You are perfectly

willing that I should try this?”



“Certainly. Go ahead, my boy; I'll ad-

vance the money and you can buy the

land tomorrow if you wish.”



“That’s a temptation but I- prefer to

try it out, depending only on myself. If

I fail, perhaps I'll call on you for help.

I fully realize that I am going into a.

big undertaking. There is one thing that

troubles me, the possibility of the Miller

girls selling the land to someone else be-

fore I am prepared to buy.”



“You had better see them," his father

advised, “and get the. refusal of the land;

then you are sure of first chance. If it

is apt to be sold, I guess we can fix it

all right."



“I know, father, you are willing to

help. but I have my heart set on being

absolutely independent in this matter. I

shall see them tomorrow, tho, and get

the refusal."



(m the first of July George was duly

installed as one of the hired metron the

\\'illits farm at $25 a month and home.

One day in the fall he took a load of

apples, potatoes and vegetables to Uncle

Spanner, an old gentleman who was

known to everyone far and near. He was

crippled with rheumatism, so that he was

unable to do much work, but everyone

supposed him to be in comfortable cir—

cumstances. Ilo lived all alone in a neat

little cottage on one of the side streets

of the village. George noticed that Mr.

Spanner seemed more feeble than usual

and that his hands trembled more. than

their wont as he paid for his winter's

supply of farm produce.



(in his way home he stopped at the

post omce. There he found a note for

aim from the Miller girls which told him

that they had a cash offer of $600 for the

flat and that they would accept the offer

unless he could give the same amount in

cash, It was necessary for them to know

his answer the next day. Georgt's feel-

ings went way down as he read this note.

lie was sorely disappointed and at the

same time justly indignant. They had

offered him the land for $500, if he would

pay $200 down and give a mortgage for

the remaining $300. Now they had come,

up $100, demanded cash and gave only

one day’s notice.



“Oh, well, I suppose that they think I

am only a boy and therefore it doesn’t

make any difference," he muttered. “1

guess I'll have to give up the celery

scheme and think about something else.

lie thrust his free hand into his pocket

and rattled in an aimless manner the

live silver dollars which Uncle Spanner

had given him in payment. He had been

in a hurry when he received them, but

remembered that they looked like bright

new coins. He took one out and looked

at it, carelessly at first, but it didn’t

seem just like the common dollar. ‘He

looked at it more closely, turned it over

and looked at the date “1804.” He start-

ed with surprise. “\Vhoa," he shouted

and, holding the lines between his knees,

he took out of his pocket the other coins.

They were all bright 1804 dollars. They

looked as if they had just come from the

mint. A few years before George had

been interested in making a collection of

coins and he remembered that 1804 dol—

lars were worth from $200 to $600 each.

These would certainly bring the highest

price as they were not worn in the least.



“Well, I guess I‘ll have that land now."





he exclaimed joyfully; “why these are

worth $3,000. I can go to college next





week if I wish.”





need the money; what difference did it





He was evidently-talking to the horses. \

'Then a little wee bit of doubt entered his





mind for the first time. He wondered if

Uncle Spanner knew the value of these

silver coins. His better self told him

that of course the old gentleman did not

know; if he had known he would have

sold them. But Uncle Spanner did not





make whether he knew the value or not._

It was a God-send for George; why not

look on it that way and enjoy the bene-

fit of his good luck._ George went over

and over this line of reasoning and there

always came the troubling “but." Could

he really enjoy the $3,000 or would he

always feel as if he had not gotten it

in just the right way. Should he not

tell Uncle Spanner and then do as the old

man said. ‘ ’



He puzzled over it all the way home.

He said nothing to his people, but that

about it more or less all night. He slept

but little and, when he did, he was either

chasing 1804 dollars or they were after,

him. At one time he thot that he was;

buried beneath a large pile of them and:

that their weight was crushing him.



The next morning his mind was set—

tled. He asked for a half day's leave

of absence and a horse and carriage. He

drove directly to Uncle Spanner's, who

was just prepztring his lonely breakfast

when George arrived. “Why, George, tie

your horse and come right in,” the old

gentleman said in a cheery voice as he

hobbled down the steps. “What brings

you here so early? I ain‘t used to early

callers.”



“Here," said George as soon as they

were in the house, “are the five dollars

you gave me yesterday. I can’t keep

them; I don't want them,” and he thrust

the coins into Uncle Spanner’s hands.



“W'hy, what's the matter? I know

they are old; ain't they good? I didn’t

suppose money would ever outlaw,” the

old man faltered. “I didn't mean to

cheat you, George, you know I didn’t."



“Oh, they're good, all right; they are

too good! Uncle Spanner, each one of

those silver dollars is worth $600.

You've got-$3,000 right there in your

hand.”



“Pshaw, George, who's been fooling

you? Thom ain't worth no more than a.

hundred cents apiece.”





 





“I tell you, Uncle, I know what I'm

talking about,” George insisted, “I have

looked up this matter. I have a paper





at home that tells about a firm that is

advertising for 1804 dollars and that they

will pay $600 apiece for good ones."



Uncle Spanner almost broke down.

When he could control himself, he said:

“George, your goodness has saved me

from the poorhouse. Most boys wouldn’t

never done. what you have and it

wouldn't have been dishonest in them,

neither.”



“Why, l‘ncle Spanner, I thot you had

lots of money,” George exclaimed in sur-

prise.





“That's what most everybody thinks.





There are just two people who have

known about my money matters. They

are Mrs. \Yainwright who bakes and





washes for me, and Colonel Johnson, who

owns this house and lot.”





“Don't you own this house?” asked

George, still more surprised.

“No, I don’t own anything, only the





little furniture you see scattered about,

and I have got just 60 cents in money

left. I have wood and provisions enough

to carry me thru the winter. Then I

had planned that the rest of my ti-nn.

here on earth would have to be spent in

the county house for the poor. But I

won’t have to go now," and he seemed

to grow younger every minute.



“Tell me about yourself, won’t you,

Uncle Spanner?” George asked.



“There ain't much to tell. I have al-





ways lived here, used to rent this house.‘





Then when the rheumatism got hold of

.me so that I couldn't work the Colonel

told me that I might stay right on and

never mind the rent. I had saved up

32,000, but the past ten years have used

it all. I have earned a few cents now‘

and then, but the townspeople thot, as

you did, that I had plenty of money.

These five dollars are some my father

gave me over sixty years ago and he

earned them when he was a young man.

I tell you, George, it came hard to part

with them, but an empty stomach will

drive a man to almost anything. I can

live, like a prince all the rest of my life,

but you must have one of these; you’ve

earned it."



The next day George and his father

went to the city. When they returned

he went to the local bank and deposited-

$2,500 for Uncle Spanner. There was not

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WHAT THEY CALL ME...“ MILDRED M’NEAL SWEENEY. .





 





 





 





 





A o

I am Baby Bright Eyes.

When the morning climbs

Early, early up the east,

I am there betimes

With eyes brighter than the light

And blue as any skies

To see the cloud ships come in sight—«

All red and morning-yellow and white.





Every name begins with Dear—





And you never knew





How many names there were to give





Till I came to you.





THE LIE GEORGE W. TOLD.





 





BY MAUDE E. IIYMERS.





Perhaps he didn’t tell a lie

About the cheery tree;

I always have. believed him

The I wasn’t there to see.

Perhaps he was a truthful boy,

But in his manhood’s prime,

Our country’s father told one lie

Which grieves me all the time.





'Twas round about rebellion days,

He said, “When war drums cease,

Long years of quiet shall ensue

And days of perfect peace.”

And this is where he guessed it wrong,

For peace, we know it not;

And round about July, I long

To be a Hottentot





There is no quiet, for the “Fourth,"



With all its horrid noise,



Would rob a nervous person

Of the ghost of promised joys.



I dodge a. cannon cracker here,

Escape a rocket there;



My youngest boy sends up a fuse

That takes off half my hair.





But think you not these tears are shed

O’er physical distress;

I hold my person very cheap

When comes this day of stress.

Ah no, the pain goes deeper still,

The grief the keen is old;

I weep to think how great the lie

Our grown up Georgie told.





 





INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT OWLS.





 





BY MARGARET WHITNEY.

Some boys brot in from the woods one

day a large horned owl about two feet

high. They found it in the woods where





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Fig. .3 Fig.4





it had evidently gotten confused and

could not find its way home before day-

light. It was kept in the yard in the

daytime where it usually sat in one place

winking its large round eyes at the light.

At night it was carred to the loft of

an old house where there were plenty of

mice and rats. Owls have been accused

of catching little chickens but this one

was never known to molest them.



The children at the place where the

owl was kept had an idea that this was

the only kind of owl there was but, be-

coming interested in them, found that

there were many species of these birds,

and they learned many interesting things

about them.



Owls are found all over the world and

in all climates. One species is common

in Asia, another in Europe, and another

lives anywhere from the Arctic Circle to

Cape Horn. There are seventeen species

in North America alone. The snowy owl

of Greenland is white, as its name indi~

cates. Its dismal screech adds to the

loneliness of the long nights there. It;





I am Baby Berry Cheek.



And I sit all day



Playing in the gay May wind



Till you think I’ve been away

Thru the meadow and over the hill,

Where the three leaf’s in the grass

With the berries under, still,

Waiting any baby’s will.





I am Baby Many-a-Smile,



And many a one have I



For who is gay and who is grave



And who is passing by.



How could I keep a smile that qnight

Be cheering all the while



And all my best are to delight



Mother’s good mornning and good night.





Some for love and'some for fun *





And sofine just sweet to hear.





But, oh, it is the early sun





That makes you say the prettiest one.





stays in this bleak, desoiate land until it

can no longer procure its food, when it

migrates farther south.



Owls vary in size from five inches to

two feet in height. Their feathers are

very soft and downy and this enables

them to fly thru the air with almost no

sound, and to drop upon their prey which

has no warning at all of danger. Another

peculiarity of their feathers is the ruff

which consists of several rows of stiff

feathers projecting forward around the

beak, eyes and ears. Their throats are

very large and they swallow their food

whole or in large pieces. Large owls

feed on rabbits, reptiles and even fish.



Owls generally build their nests in hol-

low trees but one species makes its

home in the burrows of prairie dogs,

and Darwin says that often rattlesnakes

are tenants with the dogs and birds.

They seldom leave their nests during

the day and if they happen to be in a

strong light they become confused. If

they try to fly during the daytime they

bump into the trees. The little birds

will gather around to torment them, for

they are at their mercy.



Owls are generally regarded as birds

of ill-omen and from ancient times have

been objects of superstition. This makes

them a prey to ignorant persons and

they are rapidly disappearing. In the

south the colored people have a tradition

that when an owl utters its familiar

“W'hoo, \Vhbof” they must answer it. So

if an owl says “\Vhoo, Whoo" where a

colored person can hear it he will politely

tell his own name and the names of the

persons, if any, who happen to be in his

company.





 





HOW TO MAKE ANIICE-BOAT.





 





BY HA‘RRY A. PALMER.



I believe every boy, who lives near a

lake or river, would enjoy an ice-boat.

it is for this reason that I have attempt-

ed to tell how to make one.



To construct an ice—boat the follow-

ing material is needed: A 16—ft. 2x8

plank; a 12-ft. 6—inch board; a sail 12 ft.





Pulleys





 

   





R0





 





Runner





square; four saplings, 18. and 14 ft. long,

and two 12 ft. long; three skates; 20

ft. of hay wire; four 1/2-in. bolts six inches

long; a broom handle; 50 ft. of small

rope; three awning pulleys; 1/2 lb. of

staples and 2 lbs. of ten-penny nails.



The tools needed are: A file, a saw, a

hammer, a pair of wire pliers, a chisel,

a wrench, and a brace and bits.



Cut the plank into two pieces, one 10

ft. long, and one 6 ft. Lay the longer

picce down and place the shorter one on

top of it, 4 feet from one end so as to

form four right angles. Bolt these to-

gether with two bolts, as indicated in

Fig. 1. In bolting these together, a

piece of board eight inches square with

a square hole in the center may be fast-

ened onto the upper side to fit the bot-

tom of the mast into.



Take the sail (which can easily be

made of heavy cloth) and staple the two

12-foot saplings on opposite sides, as

shown in Fig 2.



Make three blocks of wood so that the

skates may be clavmped onto them. But

first the skates must be filed to a sharp

edge to prevent side slipping. Bolt one

of the skates onto each end of the. short

arms. The other is to be the rudder. To

make this, take the broom handle, cut

a piece six inches long from it, and square

both ends. Fasten one end to the block

on which the skate is clamped, and

make a handle for the other (Fig. 3).

The rudder should be placed in the end

Of the longer part of the large arm.



The mast, after being trimmed and

smoothed, may be cut square at the

larger end to fit into the square hole, be—

fore mentioned. Next, two pieces of the

wire may be stapled on each of the four

opposite Sides and to each of the arms to

stay the mast as indicated in Fig. 4.

These can be made tight by putting a

small stick between the wires and twist-

ing them. Staple two of the pulleys to

the upper part of the mast, and the other

half way between the rudder and the

mast. Make a loop on the end of each

boom large enough to Slip easily on the

mast. Cut the rope into three pieces,





Boom.





 

 

 

 





Boom





Rope





   





Seat





   





Runner





Flg. 5.-The Completed Ice-Boat.





no 191





one 20, one 12, and one 16 feet long.

Run the 20 and 12-foot pieces thru the

pulleys on the mast, and tie" the shorter

one to the upper boom on the inner end,

and the longer piece to the outer end.

The sail can now be draWn up into place

at will. Run the other piece of rope

thru the pulley which is on the long

arm, and tie one end to the outer end 01'

the lower boom. The 14—foot sapling

may be used as a brace on the sail, by

placing it diagonally across it from boom

to boom. The boards maybe used as

seats if they are desired. \thn finished

the boat should look like Fig 5.





NEW FACTS ABOUT THE BOYHOOD

OF LINCOLN.

BY PHILIP LUTZ, JR.



It is a little less than a century ago

that “Abe" Lincoln was the awkward,

long-legged country boy who lived in the

wilderness of southern Indiana. He

spent his years from seven until twenty-

one in this region—fourteen years in all——

and yet how little the historiographer

says about it! They are referred to in a.

general way only; most of them pass up

these years by saying that Lincoln him-

self referred to them as his “pretty

pinching times."



Too little emphasis has been laid upon

the southern Indiana life of Lincoln.

He grew to manhood there and formed

the character that was individually his

and patterned after no 'man.~ “As is the

die, so is the coin,” was true with Lin—

coln and we should strive to know more

of ”Lincoln, the youth.” A little, almost

tumbling, wooden court hourse, support-

ed on coarsely hewn logs and sheltering

cattle beneath it at night, was the place

to Which Lincoln used to go to attend

court. It was then at Boonville, near his

home in Lincoln City, and sloping to the

beautiful Ohio, that Lincoln received his

first impulse to become a lawyer. Once

we think of Lincoln as the lawyer in

Illinois we know his later life like a novel.

To most people his early days appear

veiled in mystery. But no period of his

career is more astir with action and am-

bition, or more illuminated with the light

of romance.



Historians say that Lincoln was born

in Hardin county, Ky. In fact he was





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born in Larue county, which, however, is

a subdivision of Hardin county as it used

to be. Chroniclers continue with their

biographies by saying that Lincoln, to—

gether with his father, mother and sister,

came to Indiana and entered claim to a.

piece of land in Spencer county. AS a

matter of fact, he entered a piece of

land in \Varrick county, which has since

been set aside and named Spencer

county.



It was in 1816 that the party came to

the Indiana side—the same year that

Indiana was admitted to the Union as a

state. Lincoln's father entered a quarter

section of land, built a log cabin and

lived there until 1830.



It was known that Thomas Lincoln.

father of Abraham Lincoln, was in poor

circumstances. To say that Abraham

Lincoln was the, son of a poor carpenter

and farmer gives an insight to the hard

conditions which little “Abe" had to face.

“’hcn he came to Indiana ho was just

seven; he remained until he was twenty—

one.



It is useless to relate the idle tales of

his boyhood; but when he vergcd into

manhood and imbibed into his character

those qualitics and those traits that led

to his greatness, this part of his life is

absorbing. It is well understood that if

Lincoln had done as other boys of his

day did he would have achieved only

small things. int he did not do as the

othcr young men and boys of his day.

Therefore they are interesting.



Lincoln saw hardships, had meager

clothing. coarse food and no advantages

of securing an education. All who knew

him agreed that he Was unlike. other boys.

He was not fully understood, doubtless

holding his real character and disposi—

tion in reserve for his intimate friends
192 (20)





only. He was not fond of work, but

whether from sheer lazineSS or because

he was fender of mental exercise in read-

ing or otherwise is not clear. He enjoyed

books and is known to, have borrowed

much of the reading matter of the neigh-

borhood. rAfter 1820 Spencer county had

at Rockport, its county seat, a public

library of several hundred volumes of

the standard works of that day. Thomas

Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln were at

Rockport at least two times during the

year, but “Abe” Lincoln’s name dOes not

appear on record as a borrower of books

at the library. The field from which Lin-

coln could glean knowledge in that neigh-

borhood was very limited, tho he bor-

rowed every book he could get. The list

is a Short one and the following is al-

most a complete list: “Robinson Cru-

soe,” “Aesop’s Fables,” “Bunyan’s Pil-

grimr’s Progress,” “Weem’s Life of

Washington,” and a history of the United

States.



During Lincoln’s fourteen years in Indi-

ana he had read and reread this list of

literary and historical books over and

over again. His good nature among Lin-

coln City people was not unnoticed; and

all agreed to his honesty and good na-

ture. Questions of dispute and petty dif—

ferences were at first submitted to him

in 'a joking way and later on in a. sin-

cere way until he was complimented for

his extreme fairness and justice to all.

He was told more than once that he

would turn out to be a lawyer.



Having read all the literary, and what

few law books there were in his immed-

iate vicinity, Lincoln heard of the. cuurt

1t Boonville. He resolved to go to that

place, 20 miles distant, and learn what

he could of a real court, which was in

session there several times during the

year. The court house in Hoonville,

then a village of 300, was a marked con-

trast with the beautiful structure that

now stands where it used to. It was a

frame building, the architecture, to say

the least, being very novel. A ditch two

feet wide and two feet deep had been

filled with roughly hcwn logs, on which

was built a stone wall, eighteen inches

high. This constituted the foundation

upon which the building proper rested.

The building itself was never completely

finished; it was weather-boarded but

neither plastered nor lathed. It remained

in this condition until lh‘th, after the

Lincoln family had mchd to Illinois. It

was capable of holding only a hundred

people and could not be used in the

summer. At night cattle would shelter

under the structure. Such a place we

must then imagine to be the abode where

Lincoln received his deep—soulod inspira-





tion. Hcrc it was that Lincoln imagined

himself plcading the case of a heart-

broken mother or a pcnnilcss, helpless





child!



It was to attend court in this rudely

constructed building that young “Abe”

Lincoln walked twenty milos thru the

wilderness to rcach Boonville from his

home in Lincoln City.



He was an ardent listener and the les-

sons which he painted upon his memory-

at this place are the ones that inspired

him to become the great lawyer which

he afterwards. did become. And, from

this fact the little town of Boonville,

noted particularly in the last fifty years

for the grcat men it has furnished the

state and nation, claims also the. dis-

tinction of furnishing to Lincoln the ma-

terial which aided in his later success.



To claim so great a distinction if it

could not be Vt‘l‘ificd would be both false

and unfair, but from the history of young

Lincoln while he was a visitor here at-

tending court, and from the assurance

that he rcccivcd the knowledge he did,

which inspircd him to become the lawyer

he did, it is another laurel in the crown

of the little town in southern Indiana.



John A. Brackenridge, then the ablest

lawyer in southern Indiana and a prac-

titioner at the court in Boonville, noticed

the eagerness and earnestness of this

young man. He inquired into his purposes

and from What section of the country he

hailed. Young Lincoln, who then stood

over six feet, by his awkward and con-

vincing conversation, impressed the dis-

tinguished jurist with an admiration for

this man. He found by conversing with

him that he was a reader of good books,

was interested in law and even had some

hankering to study it some day.

Accordingly Mr. Brackenridgc, being a

hospitable man, invited the young student

to his home over night. He also told

him that he had some good books, which

would be of interest to beginners and

would be glad to lend them to him to

read. ~

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Boonville on. his farm and had his

library there. His old homestead still

stands and, tho a century old, is still

being used as a tenant 'home. His office,

in which he stored away his books, still

shows the marks of the place where at,

that time existed one of the best libraries

in the state. The room is but. eight by

ten feet, and, being pressed for room,

Mr. Brackenridge had his books placed

upon Shelves above the two windows of

his room. When Lincoln caught his first

glance of the library he was astonished

at such a great collection of books, for

nowhere in southern Indiana could one

be found so large. 'Mr. Brackenridge

was the author of a book in the interest

of the Presbyterian church and had sev~

eral of these on sale at his home. The

first night spent in the house found Lin-

coln sitting up the whole night reading

by the burning embers of a log in the

fireplace.



Thereafter Lincoln was a. regular at-

tendant at the Boonville court. More

often was he found upon many nights

reading books in the library of Bracken-

ridge. The latter showed a deep interest

in his young student and did everything

in his power to make Lincoln the lawyer

that he dreamed to be.



The greater part of Brackenrldge’s

library is still in existence, tho some of





show that they have been made brown

before a. blazing fireplace. They are

owned by different lawyers in Boonville

and are valued highly because they are

the books read by the martyred presi-

dent. They have been exposed to the

glaring fireside more often than to the

clear electric light globes in the elabor-

ately furnished law offices where they

now rest. Some of these books have

paragraphs parenthesised, and in all

probability this was done by Lincoln

himself, for they are recitals of the es-.

sencc of character, or deal with funda-

mental principle of law. References to

religion are heavily marked. It is known

that Lincoln borrowed books, but which

ones he carried to Lincoln City with him

are not known. Among those which have

markings and were probably read by him

are the following: Locke‘s Essays, 1819;

Brackenridge's Law Miscelllanics, con—

taining an introduction to the study of

law; Coke’s Institutes, Abridged, 1793;

also Blackstone's Commentaries.



Upon one occasion Lincoln attended a

murder trial in Boonville and heard the

case from beginning to end. The trial

scc-mcd intercstixg to him but the most

exciting feature of the whole case was

the argument before the jury. The most

eloquent plea was made by a Kentucky

lawyer, named lrackcnridge, akin to

John A. Brackcnridge. of Indiana. After

his argument bcforc, the twelve men the





whole court room. rose to congratulate“





him. Lincoln was one of the number and

carried his long, shambling, slender

frame thru the crowd up to the speaker.

Lincoln offered his hand as. a token of

his appreciation of the speech before the

jury but Brackenridge, who was a little

high strung. refused it in a patronizing

way. Lincoln was smitten by this act

and always remembered the name Brack-

enridge.



Several years afterward at the inau-

guration of Lincoln thousands of people

greeted the war president. Hundreds of

this number came from the old Blue

Grass state and Lawyer Brackcnridge

was among this number. Recognizing

him as the man who had snubbed him at

the court many years previous, Lin-

coln grasped the man’s hand in his old

way, and said: “I am more glad to see

you than any man I know of. I haVe

always wanted to congratulate you upon

that speech you made at Boonville years

ago.”



Lincoln did not have to tell him that

he was the young fellow whom he had

ignored at Boonville for Ilrackenridge

followed with a complete apology.



There are perhaps no. survivors in

southern Indiana who used to know Lin-

coln as a boy. They have been passing

across the shadow one by one in recent

years. Redmond Griggsby, a little boy

when Lincoln was a young man, is per-

haps the last to tell of the fcud existing

between the Criggsby and the Lincoln

families. But all these people are gone

now!



The state of Indiana has erected at





the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,

mother of the marytrcd president, a

beautiful monument. The legislature





two years ago appropriated some money

to convert the burial place into a park





and has provided a maintenance fund——-.





one of the monuments to Indiana’s





share toward Lincoln.





 





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THE Five-ACRE FLAT.

(Continued from page 190).





he and Uncle Spanner when he handed

over the bank book with $2,500 credited

to the account of William H. Spanner.

Esq. All that Uncle could say was,

“God bless you, George, God bless you,”

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How little thot is given to common-

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banana, or the orange. To most of us

apples are just apples—big and little, red

and green, fresh and dried.



We have always been intimate with

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windfall and stoned the beauty way out

on the bending branch till it capitulated

or the man got after us.



And yet we should know a lot about

this abundant product, as it is the most

important of the temperate zones; and,

indeed, it is the only fruit that has

passed'the bounds of luxury and become

a staple article.



No fruit of today is of more ancient

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remote times; none that has responded

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golden apples. In Roman times their cul~

tivation reached a high pitch; the quality

and productivencss increased by grafting.



We all recall the familiar biblical ex-

pressions: “Keep law as the apple of

thine eye,” “I raised thee up under an

apple tree,” “Apples of gold in pictures

of silver,” “Comfort me with apples,"

etc.



Shakespeare in “The Tempest” makcs

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have been a superior variety, as thus:

“You shall see mine orchard. where in

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of my own grafting."



Milton, as we remember, tcrms the

fruit of the tree of knowledge apples, and

Dore thus pictures it.



In its wild state the apple tree (com-

monly called the crab) is found over a

considerable portion of Europe. Its native

rogion is generally conceded to be South-

ern Europe. They were brot to Eng-

land by the Romans, and to this country

by the French Jesuits.



Generally speaking, the apple is indif-

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It has followcd civilization in this coun-

try from New England to the Pacific.



Massachusetts and Connecticut grew

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received them from other states. In turn,

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took them from New York, and thus





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Washington and Oregon, where they

have attained their greatest commercial

value, which must be accepted as the

best estimate of their quality.



As to the excellence in quality, and no

doubt a great surprise to many, it may

be stated that the product last year of

yellow Newton pippins grown on less

than an acre in the Rogue River Valley,

Oregon, which is about 350 miles south

of Portland, was 815 boxes (about one

bushel each), and the lot was sold in

London at a not price to the grower of

$1,711.50. The particular three—acre or-

chard from which this fruit was taken

produced an average of $500 an acre a

year for the last eight years.



In 1905 a lot was sold in London at

$5.48. One thousand boxes were sold in

Edinburgh, Scotland, at $4.83 per box: at

the same time apples grown in Scotland

were selling at 30 cents a bushel.



In 1907 an orchard of eight acres. in

the same region, near Ashland, 0re.,

yielded 6,000 boxes of Newton pippins.





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which were sold at the orchard for $2,000

an acre.



The highest price ever paid for apples

from any orchard in the United States

was for Hood River Spitzenbergcrs and

Newtons, the former ranging from $2.60

to $3.00 and the latter from $2.25 to $2.50

per bushel box. Hood River is in Oregon,

about 65 miles east of Portland. ,



In California, 100 miles south of San

Francisco, there are great orchards from

which are shipped annually 1,000 cars of

apples to England, Germany, and other

European countries. It is famous for

bcflefleurs and pippins. The growers just

attend to the growing. The dealers go

there and do the buying while the crop

is unripe on the trees, and plank down

the cash in the commercial center of the

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Steel Shoes, 6 inches high, extra. tine grade

of leather, $3.00 a. pair, excel any 84.50 all-

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ee Shoes, 9 inches hi 11. $3.50 a air, are

better than the best all-lea’tKher $5.00 shges.



Steel Shoes, 12 inches high, 85.00 a pair, are

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Steel Shoes, 16 inches high, $6.00 a. pair, are

better thanlthe best all—leather shoes, regard-

less of cost.





,_ One Pair of “Steels”

WlII 0ulwear 3 to 6 Pairs of

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The comfort of Steel Shoes is remarkable.

Their economy is simply astoundingl Prac-

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BY ELLA E.





Purchasing supplies for the Family.



Nothing about the management of do‘

mestic affairs calls for the display of

good judgment more than the purchase

of household supplies. In this is included

all such articles as provisions and gro-

ceries, clothing, table linen, bedding, also

whatever new is hot by way of furnish-

ings which have to be replenished from

time toptime. ;



The. saying that it is not what a man

earns but what he saVes that decides the

question of thrift and accumulation. of

this world’s goods, is decidedly true and

certainly a. wife is responsible for a.

goodly share of results, be they of one

kind or the other. ‘ .



There, are many men today who owe

whatever of success they have gained to

the helpmate whose good sense and busi-

ness acumen have in reality been the

prime factor in its achievement. 0n the

other .hand there are those who are hand-

icapped by possessing wives lacking in,

these qualifications, thereby keeping the

family continually on the verge of

poverty. ,



‘How true it is that marriage is by far

the most important step in life judging

from almost any standpoint. It decides

the weal or woe of both parties for all

time and this in more ways than one.



Whenever it is so that she can do it

without interfering with her other duties,

I believe it is advisable for the mistress

of the home herself to do most of the

purchasing for the family. She knows

best what she wants for household use

and should therefore be'best prepared to

make selections.



On a farm there are times when it is

not convenient for her to do this and in

many instances the husband is the one

upon whom the duty devolves. As a

rule women are more economical buyers

than men.



It is [a splendid idea to allow children

under the supervision of the parent, to

buy for themselves, beginning in a small

way, of course. This is excellent prac—

tice for boys and girls alike. In no other

way can they learn the value of money

than by actually handling it in a com-

mercial way.



In buying the supplies for a family,

particularly on a farm where it is some

distance to town, it is advisable to pur-

chase certain articles in quantity. By so

doing one gets reduced rates and the cash

saving will amount to considerable in the

course of a year; '



When I get six boxes of matches for a

quarter or an extra cake of soap by tak-

ing a half dozen, I make a nickel on each

transaction. It is not difficult to save a

number of such coins in a day’s shopping

by following this plan, besides enjoying the

satisfaction of having a supply on hand

which will not be exhausted before the

week is out. '



There is no great saving, probably

about one-fourth of a cent per pound, in

ordering sugar by the barrel, yet on the

whole amount represented it means a

pound of good tea or two pounds of coffee

practically free with the purchase. More-

over it saves the annoyance and often

inconvenience of bringing home a few

pounds every time any of the family

goes to town.



Tea bot in five to ten pound lots will

also insure a saving, and the same is true

of coffee. If kept tightly sealed in glass

cans these will retain their strength and

flavor indefinitely.



Laundry soap by the box means an even

greater saving than when hot by the

dozen bars, and the longer it is kept the

better it wears in use. Starch by the

box of five to ten pounds, baking powder

by the half dozen or more cans, these

are two other articles which it pays to

buy in quantity.



Kerosene and gasoline, of which every

farmer's family buys such quantities, es-

pecially where they are used for fuel in

summer, will involve some little loss by

evaporation and leakage if bot by the

barrel unless kept in a galvanized iron

tank. The relief from carrying those

commodities .in the ordinary small cans

with the liability of their contaminating

surrounding articles” when brot home in

a buggy or wagon is considerable and

almost any man would willingly buy the

tank rather than be obliged to bother

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before\ it is worn out. It will last for

years. In fact, it will last longer than

an ordinary oil can which goes banging

arottnd in a wagon back and forth to town

every week or so. This I can say from

personal experience. ‘We had ours made

like a huge round can with a large faucet

at the bottom thru which the smaller

supply can was filled. The cost was four

dollars and a half and would be about

the same if made now. The grocer who

sells t‘he'oil will loan the purchaser a.

pump by means of which the oil can be

transferred from the original barrel to

the tank. After once buying kerosene

oil in this way no one would be willing

to go back to the small can method

again. 4 ‘ '



Many farmers are buying their flour

these days, since the old-fashioned grist

mills have gone out of existence. The

convenience of purchasing by the barrel

amounts to something, but as a rule the

price is abOut the same as when bot by

the sack. . ‘



Rice, tapioca, raisins, baking soda, are

other household staples on which a dis~

tinct saving may be gained by following

this policy.



Going into a stationer’s to buy a pack-

age of envelopes or a padof paper we

find that the ten cent quality can be

had at the popular price of three for a

quarter, while the cheaper grades which

retail at five cents, largely used in the

schoolroom for pencil ‘work, come at six

for a quarter, another nickel saved

whichever way we put it.



In fact, about the only thing upon

which there is no saving when hot in

quantity is the postage stamps. Uncle

Sam does not offer any discount, no

matter how many we purchase. Still, we

get twenty-five good envelopes for a

nickel every time we buy a package of

stamped envelopes. The package costs

just fifty-five cents, regardless of size,

and for this sum we get twenty-five two

cent stamps besides the envelopes.



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A few weeks ago merchants everywhere

were making great'inducements to rid

their shelves of left—over stocks before

taking inventory. Still more recently they

have been offering bargains in odd lots,

remnants, and so forth, as after—inventory

sales. I know of one woman who found

several pieces of cloth, fine and soft,

just the thing for making underclothcs

and all of the same quality. These were

mill-ends and remnants left from full

length pieces. They over—ran measure-

ment from a. quarter to a half yard on

each piece, some more, and on the num-

ber of these remnants purchased she

saved over two yards of nice fine goods.

In cutting these short lengths they “'UI'IUHI

in with little waste, about the same as

there would have been had it been a.

single length. The saving was consider-

able since. the goods had been under-

priced to begin with.



I am reminded right here of the fact

that not all women can have money to

spend as they please. There are men

who maintain a tight hold upon the fam-

ily purse, and it is about like trying to

extract water from a rock to get any-

thing out of them. They will not trust

with a dollar, the woman they have.

chosen to fill the responsible position of

wife and mother of a family. They

bicker and haggle over every expenditure

as if She was the cause of it all and were

it not for her they would never have to

spend a cent. Such villPll apparently have

a very poor opinion of their wives since

they are afraid to trust them with their

money. Yet is it not a fact that for

downright economy women have the men

beaten .to a finish? That is the way the

women look at it, anyway, The most of

them pinch a silver dollar till the eagle,

screams before they let it go, and they

rarely fail to get for it full face value

when it does go.



Of course, there are extravagant ones

and. foolish ones among the sex. Not all-

are captains of finance, by any means.



I believe it is a wise policy on the part

of mothers to take pains to educate their

daughters so that they may make house—

hold purchases intelligently. Take them

to the store when you buy goods and

show them the difference between cotton'

toweling and linen. Show them the glOss

of .a. linen» thread and demonstrate that

,wiihout it.

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_ton and linen to fill it out and make it





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piece of pure table linen and beside:





it place one of cotton, noting the differ- ‘, ,-





ence. Then ,do the same with wool goods. .

Test it as well as you are able for shoddy

and cotton mixture by pulling the threads

and examining the same. Explain why

some goods fade and others prove fast





substances are left in the fabric of cot-





appear heavier than it is. Tell why

gingham is superior in wearing qualities

Why stiff silks break and

crack while soft pieces will not.



Take them to the shoe counter and ex-



amine the different grades of “stock";

as represented in several pairs of shoes.

Tell why one piece wears better than

another.- An obliging salesman will ex-

plain points which are not clear and

give many useful 'hints about buying

foot-wear. '

. Instruction such as this may be followed

up by a. visit to the local meat market

where the different cuts may be examined

and their location in the carcass identi-

fied. Tell why the neck, shoulder and

round, while equally as nourishing are

not so tender as the loin. Show how the

different cuts may be identified by means

of the bone.



All this knowledge is highly useful to

the housewife, and must sooner or later

be learned by the girl. No better time

for this can ever come than the present.

She will not forget the instruction. Such

training as this, could the illy-educated

and incompetent among housewives have

it, would be the salvation from poverty

for many a family.



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Is it putting it too strongly to say that

the well—being of the family lies in the

hands of the wife and mother of any

household? I think not. Upon her rests

the responsibility more than upon any

other person. She may or may not be

blessed with the co—operation of her hus—

band. If she has this, 'happy should she

be. If she has it not, much still remains

for her to do. Her power is shortened

but it is not cut off entirely no matter

how desperate the conditions. W'oman is

the queen of the home realm, tho shorn

of many privileges enjoyed by her more,

fortunate sisters. The minds of her chil-l

dren are molded as she wills and her in-l

fluence upon those about her is not sub-l

ject to any boundaries. Her home is hers

and she can so make it despite any and

all conflicting circumstances. Its atmos-?

phere may not be all that she could de—f

sire yet hers, more largely than that of

any other, is the. mind which may make:

it what it eight to be. IVc see this“

principle exemplified in the lives of wo-,

men all about us. 2'



Just so the frugality or the improvi-

dence of the house mother determines to

a great extent the. thirftiness of the

home. Hers may be the. influence which

shall check expenditure in one direction

and encourage it in another. No matter

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power to control if She does faithfully

her duty in hcr own particular realm it

will not be in vain. If she has not had

proper training along lilies of housewifcry

she certainly shluld not bc blamed for

lacking in this direction. chirly every





woman may be, supposed to do the best

she knows how.





Frugality, the saving which is not

stinginch, economy, which is not miser-

lincss are virtucs without which no one.

can succeed in acquiring the competence

such as should be the aim of every adult

individual. l



In nearly cvcry instance Of absolute?





pchrty mislnanac'cmcnt of some kind will.





be found to be the source. To go a good, , ,





manager niczlns cycl‘ytlling to

as well as to a man.

I believe that, as a rule, it is a mistake





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How to Save $2 on cough

Medicine by Making It

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Cough, medicines, as a rule, are mostly

syrup. You can take a. pint of Granu-

lated Sugar, add half cup of water; stir

and let boil just a moment. This makes

a. pint of syrup as good as you could buy.





Get 2% ounces of Pinex, put in a clean

pint bottle and fill up with the Granulat—

ed Sugar. Syrup. The Granulated Sugar

costs, say, 4 cents, ,and'the Pinex 50

cents. The recipe makes a fullpint of

excellent cough syrup, which keeps in-

definitely, at a cost of about 54 cents.

You couldn't buy as much ready-made

cough syrup for $2.50. This shows a clear

saving of about $2. '



This home-made remedy will stop an

obstinate, deep-seated cough quickly——

usually in 24 hours. It is also splen-

did for colds, whooping cough, pains

in the chest, bronchial troubles and

similar ailments. Dose, one teaspoonful

every one, two or three hours as required.

The taste is very pleasant.





The effectiveness of this remedy is easily

understood. The Syrup is an excellent sed-

ative. The Pinex is the most valuable

concentrated compound of Norway White

Pine Extract, and contains all the natu-

ral elements which make the air of the

pine forests so effective in curing tuber-

culosis. There are many pine tar and

pine oil preparations, but in making cough

syrup on this recipe be sure to use the

real Pinex itself. Your druggist has it,

or will gladly get it for you.





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to buy any article which is plainly ol

inferior quality. Such a purchase is

sure to bc a. disappointment in the end.

The best grades nriy cost :1 little more

at first but tlicy wczlr enough longer to

make up for the diffcrenco in pricc.’ The

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Beavers, Otter, and all fur-bearing animals.





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As New York is the best

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Skunks, Minks, ’Coons.

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had at times and the careful buyer knmvs

them when she secs them, but indiscrim—

inate purchasing of articles of inferior

quality cheapens any home whatever the

means of the owner, while a few really

good ones give it an air of distinction.



Anything which is bot to use or for

wear should be of good quality in order

to be a truly economical purchase.





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'CONCERNING THE EYES.





 





BY CHARLOTTE A. AIKENS.



Three very common forms of eye defects

which interfere with vision and comfort

to a greater or less extent, are far-sight-

edness, near-sightediess, and astigmatism.

The eye-ball itself does not see. It has

been very aptly compared to a camera,

It receives impressions and sends them

by means of the optic nerve to the brain.

If the optic nerve is diseased or the

retina which receives the impression is

diseased we have blindness. The im-

pressions either are not received or are

not transmitted to the brain so that we

are consciOUS of them.



In astigmatism, near and far~sighted~

ness, the trouble is with the focussing pow-

er of the eye. It is difficult to explain the

condition and, in fact, there are many

varieties of these three conditions. If

the eye is of correct form the rays of

light will focus properly on the retina

and there is perfect vision. The three

conditions referred to are all corrected

or relieved by proper glasses. All these

conditions may cause disc01nfort,_but the

near-sighted condition is the most ser-

ious. Many of these cases are hereditary

or have developed as the result of some

weakening disease. No pains should be

spared to correct these conditions as far

as possible, and to save the eye from

undue burdens or strain.



One reason why so many more people

wear glasses than formerly is that condi-

tions are better understood and many

symptoms which in former years were

treated by internal medication are now

referred to the eyes and corrected by

properly adjusted glasses.-



Among thc symptoms of eyestrain may

be a more or less constant sense of dis-

comfort in using the eyes for reading,

sewing, or near work. This often

amounts to real pain and the whole eye-

ball becomes sore to the touch. The eye-

lids smart, itc‘h and burn. There is more

or less redness of the edges of the

lids and eyes. There is an in-

creased sensitivcness to light, especially

artificial light. Quite often there is head-

ache or a sense of fullness in the fore-

head, or the pain may be at the base of

the skull. Oecasionallly there is nausea,

indigestion, dizziness and a general ner-

vousness. Very frequently the symptoms

are so general that it is hard to believe

the eyes are the cause of the trouble.

When it gets to the stage where the

words on the page blur after a few min~

utcs reading or there is a difficulty in

following the lines or the eves contin-

ually “water " it is not so hard to belitve

the eyes are at fault. “'hen one remem-

bers that the centers of sight are in the

closest connection with the other brain

centers, it is not ‘hard to see how trouble

in the eyes may, thru the nervous sys—

tem, affect the stomach and the general

organism. In a child, such signs as





squinting, holding his book close to his





face, or headache, should lead one to at

least investigate the condition of the

eyes. Quite often if glasses are worn for





a while and the general health improves,

they can be discarded,



Styes or pimples on the eyes are not

more serious than pimples elsewhere un—

less the trouble is persistent. If a child

has several stycs on his eyes in succes-

sion it is quite probable his general health

is below par and a physician should be

consulted.



In case of Cinders,

chaff, etc., in the eye, care should be used

that in removing them any instrument

used and the hands that handle the eyes

are clean. I’oulticcs of tea leaves, tobacco

leaves and such things should never be

applied to the eye. The only good that

could possibly come from such poulticcs

is thru the moisture and the heat, and

this can be secured by wringing little

compresses of soft cotton out of hot water

and applying to the eye.



Where the eyes are irritated

flamed by dirt or smoke, or exhausted

by strain from any cause, much relief

can be secured by an eye bath in water

as hot as can be borne. l‘se a small

glass or cup for the eye bath, fill it with

the water and hold {110 (We down in it.

This treatment is far superior to any





particles of dust,





and in-





poultice. It should be continued till each

eye has been in the bath at least five

minutes, and can be repeated without

injury. ‘ '





Cross eye in children can usually be cor-

rected by a very slight operation on the

eyes, and whenever possible this should

be done.



In dropping drops of eye lotion into the

eye, the patient should sit or lie with the

head thrown back and look upward. The

lower eyelid is drawn downward and the





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_ drops dropped in the inner corner of the





eye. The lotion should be allowed to

diffuse over the eye or dry, and care

should be used not to force it out by

closing the eye or wipe it away. Eye‘

droppers should always be cleansed be-

fore using.



When it becomes necessary to use

glasses, be sensible about it. Quite often

children dislike wearing them because

it makes them appear odd, and their

parents are indieffrent about it. When-

ever possible, a reliable oculist who has

thoroly studied the eye and its diseases

should be consulted where glasses are

needed. The eye is a decidedly delicate

organ to experiment with, and the best

skill obtainable should be secured. Us-

ually a few days or a couple of weeks

elapse before one begins to feel the full

benefit of newly adjusted glasses, and a

little patience is always needed. It makes

a good deal of difference also how the

glasses are adjusted and in many cases

the full benefit is not received from the

glasses because they do not fit on the

nose properly, or do not stay in position.



The health of the eye is affected by the

general health and especially by causes

affecting the nervous system. People

who live in the country are less likely to

develop eye troubles than city dwellers,

many of whom must earn their daily

bread by work that entails a constant





1g the stitches thro both thicknesses or

material,

square. ,,



If more elaboration is desired work a

spray of flowers, a swastika, fleur-de-lis

or some other design on the reverse side

of each corner before turning them dOWn,

so the embroidery will fall on the right

side. No special stamping pattern is

necessary, as a rule, it being quite suf-





CARING FOR THE CELLAR.





 





. BY H. E. WHITE.

The most critical time for the house





cellar is during the latter part of winter,

theé





and the month of March when





proceeding thus around the!





 





changeable weather accompanied by much?





freezing and thawing plays havoc with;

poorly protected fruits and vegetables.

\Vhen the sudden warm spells come on

these products are particularly suscep—

tible to decay; they sweat badly while

those near the bottom of the bins or bar-

rels away from the air become so moist,

that they are sure to rot unless they

were perfectly sound when placed there

in the fall.- This is the time to make

the most of thoro ventilation; open the

outside door or windows permitting the

cool drafts of air to have free vent

around the barrels or boxes where the

things are stored. Do not let the barrels

or other storing equipment come in con-





 





This Unique Dolly is Easily made by the Handy Needlewoman.





strain on the eyes. Prevention of eye

trouble is possible in most cases and

every care should be used to preserve the

strength and vitality of these important

organs.





DOILIES FOR BASKETS, TRAYS, ETC.





 





BY MAE Y. MAIIAFFY.



It is quite the fad at present to utilize

low baskets, and trays for passing fruit,

cakes, bread, etc., as well as for the col-

lection of odds and ends on the desk and

library table, or jewelry or hairpins on

on the dressing table. The baskets for

eatables are always inlaid with a pretty

doily and those for other purposes fre-

quently have a pad of silk, satin or cre-

tonne, stuffed with hair or cotton, over

which a daily is placed, or not, as pre-

ferred.



Any doily of the necessary size may be

used for such purposes, but if new ones

must be made a unique appearance is

given them by turning the corners down,





as in the illustration. This little (10in

was made for a jewel basket, and is

equally appropriate as a dainty inside





finish to the bottom of a fancy bag. Made

in larger sizes the same pattern answers

for the dining table trays and baskets.

Any color scheme may be followed

and small squares or oblongs of linen,

crash, or lawn without a noticeable wrong

side, furnish the background material.

with cotton or silk floss for the working

thread. Turn each corner over a little

more than a fourth of the doily’s width

and baste into place. Buttonhole that

portion of one side remaining and work

down along the edge of the corner, tak-





tact with the ground. Pry them up if

necessary and put something under, giv-

ing every chance possible to secure dry-

mess.



I keep a stove in the cellar ready to

light a fire when the cold snaps come

and often hang up a thermometer as a

guide to Weather conditions. If the tem-

perature falls to 24 degrees Fahrenheit

it may be regarded as the danger point

for fruit, while potatoes will not stand

quite so much. It is a good plan to

sort over fruit and Vegetables occasionally

taking out all rotten, frost-bitten or

spec-lied specimens and at the same time

exposing the inner layers to the air so

that they will dry.



The necessary requirements for keep-

ing the contents of a cellar in the best

condition are dryness, freedom from bad

smells and a temperature just cool

enough to escape freezing. I would em-

phasize the first as the most important,

for damp air is bound to \hasten decay

even when the other conditions are right.

The flavor of apples and other fruits is

greatly impaired by the odor of rotting

vegetables such as cabbage or anything

else in a state of decay.

rubbish; its presence is almost nauseat-

ing when warm weather comes and it

looks as slovenly when hidden away in

the cellar as it would if seen above in

the kitchen or dining-room. As a rule

it is best to keep the cellar a little dark





but too much darkness has a tendency songs. OnlyZOc. Geo.W





to breed germs of decay—hence the need:

of some ventilation where much damp—

ness is present if the weather will permit.

ficient to use some small detail of a larger

design already at hand.





Remove all such ‘





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rather as a very low grade baking pow-

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three cents profit on a two—cent food

‘articlc is not, hchver, so important as

the fact that the chief ingredient of

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acid, well known to be injurious when

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,THE MICHIGAN FARMER. . 125). 197

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CLOTHES AND THEIR CARE.





 





BY E. J. LYNCH.



The average girl will do well to avoid

“striking” effects in hats or dreSSes and

if she must make the same suit do two

or three years, she needs all the more to

be careful at the timeshe buys it. A

great many styles are very short—lived.

Others, with a. very little alteration, will

look well for years. I know a. lady who

got a neat, substantial brown suit four

years ago which looks neater and better

today than many suits bot within a year.

The only alteration has been a little

“taking away" from the sleeves, less

fulncss at the cuff and top. She has

various changes of waists which she

wears with it and it has been laid aside

for months at a time, but it is today

a very neat winter suit, which no one

would call out—Eif-date. To begin with,

it was made of good material. Secondly,





it was well taken care of. The coat,





when taken off was never hung up by

one sleeve, as I have’seen girls hang

their coats. She has a set of a half

dozen or so hangers, which she uses for

coats and skirts. She never wears her

street clothes around the kitchen—a.

common reason why many a girl’s clothes

do not long look well. Hangers for coats

and skirts can be bot for a nickel. Skirts

will soon lose their fresh neat appear-

ance if they are carelessly thrown in a

heap or tossed over a chair to lie there

till the next day. Spots of mud should

be carefully brushed away after drying.

A good pressing of a skirt that is platted,





 





after one has been out in damp weather





will do wonders in improving it.





In putting on braid on the bottom of.





a skirt 9. blunder is often made in neg-

lecting to shrink it. All woollen braid

should be wet and dried before putting

it on a skirt. Otherwise it will shrink

and give the bottom of the skirt a

wrinkled look. The appearance of the

bottom of a skirt is a pretty good index

to a girl’s character. If it dips behind

and is allowed to become “bedmggled,” it

spells carelessness. If it is frayed into

fringes and worn in that untidy condition

it very often spoils laziness. The girl

who has not ambition enough to keep her

own petticoats from getting into ribbons

is very likely to develop into the woman

who will not have ambition enough to

keep her‘ husband's buttons sewed on or

his socks darned or his clothing in order.



In spite of the best of care spots will

appear on clothing some time. A careful

sponging with soup and water will re—

move milk spots, Dt'rspiration stains and

other spots. Turpentine will remove a

good many kinds of grease stains. Gas-





.oline is well worth keeping on hand for





removing stains, but don’t forget to try

common soap and water before giving up,

and don’t forget to press it after spong-

ing.



A good shirtwaist box is almost a

necessity in these shirtwaist days. One

can be made for a trifle, taking a com-

mon stout packing box-an shoe box is

a good size—~putting a pair of hinges on

the cover, and covering it with some

cheap material. The matting that comes

around tea boxes makes a neat covering,

using plenty of brass tacks to secure it,

and any quantity of cretonne can be pur-

chased cheaply which makes a. pretty,

fancy cover. The top should be padded

slightly with hay or cxcclsior and the

inside papercd. Such a box will answer

the double purpose of a window seat for

the girl‘s room and keeping llCI‘ shirt-

waists in good condition.



Light dresses should be wrapped in a

sheet, 01‘ an old nighidrcss mukcs a con-

venicnt cover—before being hung up.



All these ways of keeping one’s cloth-





‘ ing in nice order may scour “troublesome”





to many women but if clothes are worth





,buying they are worth caring for and it





is worth something to be able to appear

in public with one’s clothing always neat

and fresh and with a general well~kcpt

appearance.



“Are you living in a. house effectively

sealed against the invasion of cold air?

If you are, you are living in the dirtiest

kind of a house.



Dirty air is vastly more unsanitary and

detrimental to health than is any other

kind of house filth.



The housewife who neglects to air her

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permits the place to be overrun with ver—

min. Dirty air is the greatest offense

to lhczailth——vermin are chiefly an offense

to sight. The first kills, the other merely

disgusts.



To be a good housekeeper you must

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A HINT FOR THE HOME DRESS-_

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BY HELEN MORGAN.



How to make clothes at home and not

have them look home-made, is a problem

that confronts every woman who does

her own sewing but who never has regu—

larly learned the dressmaking trade. No

farmer’s wife or daughter should feel

her self—respect lessened one whit be-

cause her living comes from the titling of

the soil, yet no woman of good taste

and fine spirit wants to look “countri-

fied.” .



A friend of mine lately Showed me a

very pretty fall suit of dark blue cheviot

which she had just completed.



“How is it, Hattie,” I said, “that you

always get your clothes to look'as they

do. This suit looks better than any

dressmaker around here could do it. It

looks tailor-made. That jacket is a real

work of art. I can get along with a

skirt pretty well myself, but I should be

afraid to tackle the job of making a

jacket. How do you manage to give it

exactly the right look?” -



“I had intended to buy my suit ready-

tmade,” my friend replied, “and I still

think that a woman who has lots of work

to do and gets but little time to sew,

would better buy her suit ready-made

unless she is especially hard to fit. If

that is the case, so that the ready-made

is out of the question, then hire a good

dressmaker to make the jacket at least.

The skirt may be gotten up at home if

one does not feel like hiring it done, but

to make a jacket right is a slow job for

a non-professional, and one that requires

the taking of considerable pains.



“As I said, I intended to buy ready-

made. But when I came to look at the

suits, I found that anything I liked at all

would cost several dollars more than all

the material for one equally as good or

even better. Now, I have plenty of time

to sew after doing my limiscwork, and

as I have no way of making money in

my spare time, and I need to economize,

I do more of my sewing than I should do

if my time had a money value. Accord‘

ingly I abandoned the idea, of a ready-

made suit and hot the goods instead.



“The. secret of success in making a

jacket lies largely in the pressing. Most

amateur dressmakcrs do not realize the

necessity of using the flatiron. Of course,

a tailor's goose is best for pressing, but

a heavy fiatiron answers very well. Most

Women have the idea. that they can

make a. garment complete and then run

over it a little with a warm iron, and

that will be all that is needed. They

don't realize the necessity of putting any

more pressing on covert or broadcloth or

cheviot than they would on gingham

0r calico.



“Now in making any kind of heavy

goods, thoro pressing is a vital part of

the work, and the garment can have no

style without it. It is as important as

having a good cut, correct fit, and neat

stitching. Scams and all stiff places

must be dampened ahead of the iron,

Otherwise the pressing will not stay.

“'hen pressing on the right side keep

a piece of cotton cloth between the iron

and the goods, so as to avoid making

any shinncss.



“I don't wait till all the seams are

sewed before I press, but press each

one as soon as it is stitched. I find I

can make a neuter [it by working in this

way. 1 use an ordinary shirt waist board

for pressing. This allows me to get at

the sleeve seams properly. While the

skirt does not show it quite so badly

if the pressing is omitted. still it needs

to take its share along with the jacket.

In making up even light weight \vool

goods, all the scams should be carefully

pressed.



"1 illtt‘rlillcd 11‘le jacket, putting canvas

in the fronts, and shelf cambric in the

back pieces, lilting each nicely to the

outside. The outside and the real lining

are of course scanicd up separately be—

fore. being put together, so that no seams

show. The lining is as well finished as

the outside. Observing tin-so little things

serves to give the garment. a. tailored

effect. As I can not work button holes

of the kind I like to see, I got my neigh-

her, who is an expert, to work the three

buttonholes.”



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SOME DELICIOUS LAYER CAKES.





 





BY MARY Fos’rER sNInnn.



Rich Chocolate Cake—Make a batter

with 2 cupfu'ls of sugar, 1 cupful of but-

ter, 3 rounded cupfuls of flour, 1 cupful

of sweet milk, 3 temtpoonfuls of baking

powder and the whites of .9 eggs. “Wit

the‘buttcr to a cream, stir in the sugar,





THE MICHIGAN FARMER-





add the milk, then the flour sifted with

the baking powder, and lastly the beaten

whites. When well mixed, divide into

two equal parts, and into One—half grate

a cake of sweet chocolate. Bake in lay-

ers, and put together with custard, alter-

nating the light and dark layers. For

the custard add one tablespoonful of but-

ter to 1 pint ,of scalded milk and, 1vtea-

spoonful of cornstarch dissolved in a very

little cold milk; stir until it comes to a

boil, then add the yolks of 2 eggs well

beaten with 1 cupful of granulated sugar.

Stir just a minute over the fire but do

not let it boil, then remove from the fire

and flavor with 15 a teaspoonful of va-

nilla. Ice the cake if wished or dust it

with powdered sugar.



Fig Cake—Cream together 1 cupful of

sugar and 1% cupful of butter, add 1/;

cupful of sweet milk, 11/2 teaspoonfuls'

of baking powder sifted with rather

more than 1%; cupfuls flour, 1 Whole egg,

and the yolks of 7 others thoroly beaten,

1 teaspoonful of allspice and 2 teaspoon-

fuls of cinnamon. The spices may be

mixed with the flour and baking powder.

Bake in layers, and put together with fig

filling made by stirring into a plain frost-

ing as much chopped figs as the mixture

will hold nicely. Spread with plain ic~

ing. This is an excellent cake to make

at the same time the chocolate cake is

made, as the one calls for the whites

and the other the yolks of the eggs.



Cream Cake.~vMake a batter with 1/2

cupful of butter, 2 cupt‘uls of sugar, 1

cupful sour cream, 3 cupfuls sifted flour,

3 beaten eggs, and 1/: teaspoont‘ul of soda

dissolved in the cream. lake in layers

and put together with custard or jelly.



Orange Cakc.~.(")ne cupful of butter

beaten to a cream, then’stirred with 2

cupfuls sugar and beaten again, add 1

cupful of water, 3 eggs, 4 cupfuls of

flour, and 3 teaspooni‘uls of baking pow-

der. Mix thoroly and bake in layers.

Beat the yolk of an egg with 1 coffee—

eupfu‘l of granulated sugar, and stir in

the. juice of 2 large or of 2} small oranges,

heat in the siiilly whipped whites of 2

eggs, and spread between the. layers.

Spread with icing if wished and sprinkle

with fresh grated cocoanut.



Jubilee Cakt'anake a batter with the

beaten yolks of ti eggs, 2 ‘cupfuls of pow-

dered white sugar, 3/; cupi‘uls butter, 1

cupful sweet milk, Ill/é cupfuls flour, 2

teaspoonfuls of baking powder and the

whites of 4 eggs We‘ll beaten. Bake in 5

layers. Make a frosting with the stifily

whipped whites of 3 eggs, 2 cupfuls oi

pulverized sugar, and 1 teaspoonful ol

baking powder; divide into 5 portions,

with the part for first layer mix chopped

hickory or walnut meats, with that for





   

 

 

 





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second layer mix chopped figs and rais-.





ins, for third use, the nut meats again,

and for the fourth the raisins and figs.

Chopped preserved pineam’ile drained





from the syrup is very delicious instead.





of the figs and raisins, for a change.

Spread the plain frosting chr the top

and sprinkle grated cocoanut thickly

over it.



lee Cream (“aka—Make a batter with

3 eggs, 1 cupful white sugar, 1 cupful flour

sifted with 'J teaspoont‘uls ba king lithivl‘.





a pinch of salt, and 3; tcas‘poollfllis boil-z

ing water. Alix wv-ll together and bake,





in layer cake tins in a quick oven. For:

the filling whip a coffee—cupful of the%

thickest sweet cream until it looks like

ice cream, add sugar to make very sweet

and flavor with vanilla, stir in 1/2 pound

of chopped blanched almonds, and put

very thick between the layers. This is

extremely delicious.





OTHER RECIPES.



Ilam Salacl.~—Clmp 1 cupful of boiled

ham rather line and add 4 chopped hard

boiled eggs, season with celery salt, salt,

pepper and a little mustard. Add may-

onaise just before serving and heap

on lettuce leaves on small plates.



Tomato Salad—Scoop the inside from

ripe tomatoes carefully, leaving the shells

thick enough to fill with salad. Take 1/2

the pulp, or the same amount of the red

without the seeds and add 1 cupful of

finely minced celery to each cupful of

tomato. Add 1 cupful of chopped hickory

nuts to half a dozen tomatoes. Season





 





 





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well and crown with mayonaise. Should

not be filled too long before serving.

Dandelion Salad—Carefully pick over

a peek of dandelons, rejecting all that

have blossom tops. Cook tender in salt}

ed water and drain. Keep hot and cut,

thru and thru with a sharp knife. Add al

little sharp vinegar, butter, pepper and

salt. Cover with slices of hard boiled

eggs. Dandelions are very tedious to

clean and pick over but they will repay

the effort because of their healthfulness.





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FEB;.\20,1909. . ., I THE. MICHIGAN FARMER. ‘ m) 199





', , (Continued from page 186). ' ’

county farmer is beans, and large

acreages are annually planted. At pres-

ent they have passed the $2 mark and .

are bringing $2.10 on the local market at





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Flint. Wheat brings $1.08 altho the | AND DAD R ,

gifelrings are rllight. Sornfbrings' 6t81c a DOESN‘r BEAN IE : ,'



us 1e; 0a s, c; pou ry, ows, ea iers

gr, 12d@14c;kdturkeys, 150 1§¥2rg§ight' SHA‘ITER SAVES SHITTEHEB BEANS

:_-__ 7 resse por is active t .. _ per '

_ ‘ cwt. CoWs bring $40@65aand the horse BEANS “D II" LEAVES-

d market is brisk in anticipation of the Rakes clean andloadswithout

a 8 spring. Anything of a good farm team waste—worksascarefullyasyou

brings $400 quick. Considerable wood would by hand. The raking

stroke is the same as by hand.

close and parallel to the ground,





hase been marketed here this winter.



Many farmers are cutting up their rail .

not with the Jerky stroke oi’other load-

ers. but with a long, slower stroke that





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correct Grinding fences and sellingithemzat $2 per corg.

D h b .25 2.50 or

ry ard WOOd rngs 3 @ a c ’ rakes clean. without threshing and





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It pays to grind feed with a. occasmnally a httle a oret an t S breaking. The few beansorleaves that-

Fairbanks-Morse Feed Mill and are threshed out_are caught by solid

Jack of All Trades Engine. The floors and loaded Just the same. Rakes

engine is economical. The .mill clean from swath or windrow. Easi-

grinds the grain and the cobs at ,est running, easiest to operate and

the same time, insuring the per- most durable because it has fewer





-. . ts. Saves the man s ares the

feet mixture so necessary to obtain gr,” and th ' p

, e saving of shattered

the best food. Feed ground this beansor lost hay leaves pays for load- "0





   





       





   





   

 

 

   





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January Weather.———The temperature

was nearly normal during the first two.

decades, but decidedly above from the1

20th to the 29th. The precipitation was,

light until the 22d, when rain and thunder

showers occurred thruout the state, melt- i

ing much snow and ice. Heavy snow fell,

on the 29th. In reply to the question,

“Has wheat during January suffered in-

jury from any cause?” 157 correspond—

ents in the southern counties answer

“yes" and 216 “no;” in the central count-

ies 51 answer “yes” and 86 “no,” and





tin the no thern counties 45 answer “yes" -



ade 63 “£03, Snort pfgiectedkwheatfliln set M "'99 The LOW”.



t e southern coun es . wee s; in . e



central counties 1.92; in the northern Ever Made

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counties 2.62 and in the state 1.54 weeks.

The average depth of snow on the 15th

in the southern counties was 0.62 of an yours to Try Free WNEWROIIOP Food Spreader.

30 Days-Freight reatost thing in the spreader

Prepaid ”"9 ”day 7“ r‘





inch; in the central counties 2.36 inches;



in the northern counties 6.52, and in the



state 2.22 inches.



0n the 31st the average depth in the



southern counties was 6.03 inches; in thuf Letmetellyougomethlnggl’mmgk.



central counties 4.94; in the northern, ingaquomtlon on the Galloway Wag-

on Box Spreader so low that farmers all

over the country are taking notice—

and sendi in their orders while they an

get theme this figure. Thenamo— '





counties 1.67 and in the state 4.96 inches.§

GALLOWAY





The total number of bushels of wheat;

is a ghannm of manure spreader excel-





   





way protects your cattle 'frmntdn- er in short time, DRUMS, SHAFTS,

digestion produced by rapid ea mg, Write for catalogue and name of





and is more thoroughly digested "Ens; GEARS; SPRINGS.

than either whole grain or com- nearest dealer today. _

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(no RE (“DER on GRAPE "

GOOD JUICE '

an be made from a lven amount of

apple. or grapes wi one at our

so than with any other.

e juice will be pnnr and

bring higher priool, while

the extra yield soon pays

lot the press. We make





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marketed by farmers in January at 123

,flouring mills was 156,102, and at 104

‘elevators and to grain dealers 122,461, or

a total of 278,518 bushels. Of this amount





   





 

 





 





 

 





 





 

 





 

 

 





 





 

 

 





   





 





 





   

   





       





   

 





 





     

 





   

     





     

 





       

 





 





 





 

 

 





 





   

 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

   





 

   

   

   

     





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





 





 

 

 





   





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

   





 





 





 





191,342 bushels were marketed in the lence all over the United states—and every

l southern four tiers of counties; 78,203 in 8%?31333: Spreaders ll backed by my ”5,000

' the central and 8,973 in the northern He ' ‘

0' us send Y0“ counties. The estimated total number 0! mm’h'émc'fflzfi'y'igs? ‘ig’lgetlh‘gegn'l; 2212:2202: "aw" kw,

our Book. bushels of wheat marketed in the Sh wagon box Spreader in the U.8. 2. It has'ldlstinct, $25,000 Guarantee

",0“ oodwheelsand good wagonstm will save months, A ugust—January is 6,250,000. :Zpagggomfllginal potenm. Nothing else like lt—or or high-wheel wagon and lsmnde in 1 sizesmp to

you. t of workandmakeyou alotot money—tho Sixty-six mills, elevators and grain an?“ ”1". 0,1,5}: §°§yfltk§§§ggghtgfigfifi 3;": go buffiatd g3 ”‘3" Fr” 3mm“ C‘Wof “1" my

ELEGTRIG STEEL WHEELS 1 dealers report no Wheat marketed (lur- oapaolty.Seventy'Complete Spreadersaday. 4. I 83:13; cent tztr'?ggga?€ond:mavimiémgy03; {1231:

f lng January. The average condition of “133930118 price that all; them. That price is the to me at once. I‘ll make you he lowest price ever

and tho-‘— ' live stock in the state is reported as lo‘i'i’riO‘ifa‘ii‘i-gmgg035:2?an MSDUPBSSPrehder- offered one urn-clu- Spreader—Fromm all paid—

ELEGTBIG HANDY WAeoN. . renews. comparison being with stock in m....yo.¥msoa.§u‘ii‘é. °‘”“’ "N“ easier:sameness 0.... “a“

nymrymt‘theyuethebest. lanthanum-ind lgood. haaltbytt1 and dthrifty cgilditiond; The Gummy Wagon Box Spreader fits my truck Wm. "own-y, tandem.

a matter in llione sold. Spoken united to the 101'595 J ' ca e an swine an

huh. Can't work loose. A set of our whoolswul Sheep 95. ' ' m WM- Galloway 00-. 649 Jefferson Stu, WCtDP'oo’ "l

makoyonr old wagon new. Catalogue ——~———————

ELEcflilc WHEEL cousin 58 Quinchlle. NATIONAL CROP REPORT.

' " I Number and Value of Farm Animals AGENTS

5 .

/ - « _ Av, ’ , The Crop Reporting Igoard of the Bu— WANTED , :PoRolgg ‘ on

* . " ,,_ ,7 reau of Statistics of t e United States , w

§ Department of Agriculture estimates, ,. HEELS

from reports of correspondents and , , »

agents of the Bureau, the numbers and E E3$“5§£¥‘“s§?mw made. A““¥°°"*°“(¥ ”u” Saveeahait-

1 f farm animal f, m a d g . . - a listed withou bolts. sed either as walk.

V91 ues p _ ‘8 on (IF 5 n ‘ . ingot ridin barrow. eeth controlled by lever. Easii cleared or

ranges 1n the United States on January . , _ . ru blah. ade of var best materials. Awarded Gold edals at St.

. :1, 1909, as fol lows ; _ , L03: 32:25:”. rite for free catnloguo describing this narrow.

mm 0102’ 00‘ by. V?» H J I HaDROMCOL I I

ONE MAN DOES figgissfiggiggfiggagg . DCO,Mfrs,York,Pa.

WORK OF TWO es'a'stsemgeggessfirs a,

With lronAgeRldinaCultl- WM “3'5 m" 9’ M “$62 in

vntors. You can do it easier and "(g _ “,3 08 093% 000.3 , m ”

.. '- 3*“ ‘ - a LIGHTNING RODS

nes la maetiis possi e. H' "" . “33”“. "I I H '

goes are under eri’fictcointrol. $2 I 93 1: $5050 $5 § 32. . 3 I 3

an reguate rt an . 0°; ; 0°; ; 00 w 0°; 3 °°_; .... "M’ *

keep hoes desire dis- ‘ p LHHLHHLHHrl—AHHLHHJ—AHH B 111 PrateCt Your PTOPel‘tY

tancefromgrowing wwwgwwwggw' g'C’E’wCD‘D'D a: / -

plants, More...» “mg:- ssaeesmsmseesee ; From Destruction

‘ ' 3 : : 3 - - lorootthefarmlonu in llohlgan m due to light-

: . - . . 2 . . I . . - . . I I I :34 g) *‘d n‘lsflnneil other oauau combined. hut year not a fin!"

: . ' i i t I ' . , L: ‘ ' : ' ' H: 51 ’0 loll Occurred on a building properly protected by lightning

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I : 9: I N: . 9°: ,NJ: 3": S" a” ”g 0 fine“ material. They are endormd by all the large insurance

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‘ (b :1 handling Eclipse Rods. Write us today, or see our local agent

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. 7.“ _ - o o . o o . o o - O o . o o o o {n or greasy rope makes no diifcrence. 600 to 5,000 lbs. a C l l c

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We want representatives In have increased 648,000; mulcs increased I “'19 Valve m0ti0u1§1nd baillibearlngfulov—

every locality in the U. S. to take 184.000; milch (-ows increased 526,000' With ' I ' ' "“0"- ‘°““.m “““cm” “ °"'

subscriptions to the Ilvest maga- ‘ other cattle (lcvrcuscd 604,000; sheep in- the Empll’e Farmers "andY‘ "380" 3 Eff:xtplofiixéngg‘izlmilfilfnif:1:th2?



zme _publlshed. Salary and com- creased 1,453,000; swine decreased 1,~ fitted with “Good-Roads" Steel Wheels Seven sizes: use 16HP.

miSSIon basis. Big money for 937,000. you can hnul from 25 to 60 per cent heavier loads , begitfulryur‘t‘lxieo Giggles and

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creased $0.60: sheep decreased $0.45;

swine increased $0.50.



_ In total value, horses increased 3106,-



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cows increased $52,688,000; other cattle



~11 t t iggrjeasggo $17,1816,000; sheep decreased



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l ers _held in connection with the recent sumption of butter, an average family’l

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Paper presented by P. H. Ineffer, 0‘





the yield of one—half the cows in the

United States?



In order to consider the question in an

intelligent way, it will be necessary to

indulge in figures to prove certain facts

and conditions.



Is there need for a larger output? Has

the increase in the supply of butter been

proportionate with the increase in the

population consuming it? Does our sup—

ply meet the demand?



t‘an more butter be sold at this high

price of production and cost to the con-

su'mer?



In order to have some means of com-

parison we will take the receipts of but-

ter in the four leading markets of the

United States, (New York, Chicago, BOS-

ton and Philadelphia), for the past three

fiscal years up to May 1, 1008. The fig-

ures are:



May 1, ’07-, to May 1, ’06 . . . $08,055,278 lbs.

May 1, ’06, to May 1, ’07 .. . ..:’.4X,Sclh,0£0 lbs.

May 1, '07, to May 1, ‘08 ..... 340,062,760 lbs.



The decrease in the three years, you

will notice, is S per cent.



In examining the census of the United

States we find that in 1870 there were

38 million people; in 1380 there were 50

million, an increase of 110 per cent; in

1800 there were 0'.’ million, an increase

of 2.3 per cent; in 1000 there were 76





Q‘HE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘





that our population consists of 85,000,000

people, and .if our total output of butter

per year is 1,721,329,220 lbs., then do we

find that our present supply is very in-

adequate, as 2014 lbs. of butter per capita

annually means less than two-fifths pound

per week for each person. We are aware

of the necessity of the use of this com-

modity in every household, for it is the

most valuable form of fat eaten. It is a.





Hence the amount of butter required for,



our present population is twice the



amount now manufactured and consumed.



A Big Increase in Production of ‘

Substitutes.



If our present output falls short of the

need, what is the recent growth of the

substitutes offered? In the past three

years there were, produced in the United

States 201.242.7813 lbs. of oleomargarine,

colored and uncolored, which, owing to

the short supply of butter and its ex-

ceedingly high price, was used as a sub-

stitute by a large class of people, wil—

lingly and unwillingly. In the last three

fiscal years. beginning May 1, 1905, there

were manufactured 933.116.1359 lbs. of olco,

colored and uncolored; for the year be-

ginning May I, 1000, tix,:uss_8l;a lbs, and

for the year beginning May 1. 1907, 79,—;

107,274 lbs.



This shows an increase in olcom‘argar-

ine of 48 per cent in three years, whereas

the decrease in butter was 8 per cent:

These are astonishing figures but they'

are cold facts and, should dairymen allow

the growth of this substitute to develop:

by continuing the high price of butter,

the olco manufacturers will soon have

the upper hand. The olco manufacturers

have already taken advantage of the high

prices of butter and are sparing no ex-,





 





 





Cows that will Enable the Dairyman to Lower the Cast of Production.





(Sec article, “Shall we Double.





million, an increase of 22 per cent. Thus

the increase in population is considerably

over 20 per cent each decade and it would

be a safe estimate to assume at least

a 20 per cent increase in this decade,

making our population of 1010 in the

neighborhood of .00 millions. This gives

about 7 per cent increase in population in

the past three years. while the dccrcasc

in the receipts of butter in the four lead-

ing markets was about 8 per cent.



It will be clearly sccn by these figures

that the production of butter is not keep-

ing pace with the increase in population,

actually compelling the reduction of the

consumption per capita as a consequence.



Only 20 Lbs. of Butter Per Capita.



The late Major A'lvord, formcr chief of

the Dairy Division of the l‘)cpartment of

Agriculture, in the year book for 1900,

said that there were 13111707 coWs in

the United States. Of these, 0.700,000

were used in making butter; 800,000 in

making cheese; 300,000 in making con—

densed milk; 7.412.707 in making milk.



From the year book of 1007 we learn

that we have 22.000.000 milch cows and

these, proportioncd in the same way as





by Major Alvord in 1000. gives us 11,815,- the present range of prices. ‘ In order to, .. ' g

236 cows for butter, which, at 145 lbs. increase the outlet and consumption of I 7‘ ,.

per cow per annum, gives us a total pro- butter and keep in the background the W ‘ HIGH GRADE Feed Mills for small power Engines. Grind é

duction of butter for 1907 of 1,721,329,- manufacture of olco, which otherwise “Na“ ~8ar corn and a“ small grains. lightest runningand e

220 lbs. would rapidly take the place of butter, it gok/r\ 33.5541 fame“ grinding mills ever built. 3:5



In accordance with the figures given will be necessary for dairymen to furnish ‘W ' 50 STYLES AND SIZES if?

3’01! concerning “16‘ Dolllllation of the butter at a lower price or in more rea- /_ ‘fii‘l Fully guaranteed Writéforégiztglogand special prices.

United States, it would be safe to assume sonablc proportion to the income of the . , -Hp W THE F008 MFG: 60-, 137 Spilllgfleld, 0.

that we have now at least 85,000,000 poo- wage earner. -.... - , 4





the Yield or Ilalvc the Cows?")





pense in ii'itroducing their product all

over the country. This year, cspecially,l

they are maintaining schools for the ed—

ucation of rcprcscntativcs who are mak-

ing demonstrations in all the l‘ll‘gt‘ cities

of the cast, educating pulpit' to the use





FEB. 20, 1909.





WOULDN’T IT BE FOLLY TO SAY





NITED





1909 STATE





' CREAM





IF WE COULDN’T PROVE IT?





Separator buyers are becoming more and





more critical.





Mere say so has less influence now than ever before.

Buyers demand to be shown proof.

This makes us happy, for the more



critical Separator buyers are, the more



certain they are to become United





States Separator enthusiasts.



Simply ask to be shown and the I909

United States Separator will do the rest.



GREATER CAPACITY FOR

SIZE OF BOWL.



MORE 'THOROUGH SEPA-

RATION THAN ANY OTHER.



In endurance tests has beaten every-

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world's record.





Ask for Catalogue No.1" and it will be mailed you

together with a beautiful lithographed hunger in colors.





Selling Agents in nearly every dairy

town in the Country; if none in your

town, write us and we will be pleased to





quote prices.





Separators shipped from our distribut-

ing Warehouses in every dairy section of

the Unites States and Canada. g





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sitics from the dealer instead of buying

by mail?

You know it‘s because—”Seeing is believing"

~bccausc the Ideal Age has not yet come when

all "claims" may be taken for facts.

For over 16 years we have made the Omega Cream

Separator for the 90 per cent of farmers who want to

know—who want to Ice what they pay their good

money for.

If the Omega was not as good as it is—-

If we could not show the farmers that the Omega is the best

separator and the greatest bargain—flier) we would bc selling

to the 10 per cent. who buy by mail.

But as it is. we can afford to say. go to your good dealer and

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of olco. To permit the lit-uplc to learn.

the use of substitutes is dangerous toi

the dairy interests. The tisc of a cheap

substitute will become a custom difficult,

to overcome.



There is no question but that, this largei

increase in the use of olcomargarine is

due to the short supply of butter and the

cchedingly high price, and it is safe

to state that those people Would have,

used butter could thcy have obtained itl

at a slight advance even over oleomar-l

garinc. I believe that a great many}

people, when they learn from their groceri

that the price of butter is two to 400 per,

lb. not only refuse to use their money to,‘

buy cycn one-half what they would"

otherwise have bot but they discontinue,

its use altogether and may use a Sub~;

stitutc. My observations are that we}

are consuming practically all the butter“

that will be consumed in this country at‘





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the Omega with any other separator made and make him

demonstrate that the Omega offers the most for your .r

money. He will demonstrate that to you. And he

will give you facis~ not "catalog talk.“

To our Guarantee to you he will add his personal guar-

antcc because he knows the Omega and its makers are

good for it.



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Profits.“ and a book giving the .

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If the Omega. doesn't skim as close

as any separator made. day in and

day out. send it back.





EASIEST TO CLEAN

If you don't find the Omega the

easiest of all separators to keep per-

fectly sweet and clean, send it back.





EASIEST TO TURN

If you can find a separator that

turns easier than the Omega. send

the Omega back.





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If you can find a separator more

simple, built for longer service than

the Omega will give yoliaone with

a better record in the past for dura-

bility “send the Omega back.



Look into these points carefully.

They mean the difference between

hard and easy work—short and long

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says that one-half of the working "class

in this country receive between $1.25 and

$1.75 per day. It is conservatively esti-

mated that the average wage of those

engaged in employment for remuneration

is between $500 and $600 per annum.



In the seventh annual report of the

United States Commission of Labor, we

find the following figures in relation to

the consumption of food in proportion to

the amount of wages received: On an

income of $200 annually, 49.6 per cent

is allowed for food; on an income of $300

to $400, 45 per cent is allowed for food;

on an income of $500 to $600, 43 per cent

is allowed for food, and the higher the

income, naturally the lower the per cent

that will be used for food.



Figuring on the basis of 43 per cent

of $600 to be used for food will allow $5

per week per family of four for food, and,

as far as my investigation goes, if butter

could be bot at 250 per lb. this class of

wage earner would buy a sufficient quan—

tity of butter to meet all the desires

of his family; but, it can be readily seen

that at the present range of prices it is

a hard matter even to tempt a man to

buy butter for table use when he can

buy a.- sufl‘icient quantity of substitutes

at prices conforming more favorably to

his earnings.



Mr. Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commis-

sioner of Labor, in 1890, said: “The whole

number of persons in the United States,

ten years of age and over, engaged in

gainful occupations in 1890 was 22,735,-

661, but this number included employers,

partners, officers and clerks—everybody,

in fact, who was engaged in some re-

munerative calling. A classification of

employments into distinct subdivisions

has shown that of the number about

15,000,000 can be considered as wage

earners and a fairly conservative esti-

mate, based largely upon the earnings of

persons engaged in manufacturing and

mechanical industries, gives about $400

per annum as the average individual earn-

ings. This includes boys over sixteen

and women."



This makes our previous estimate of

between $500 and $600 per annum for

every wage earner very liberal indeed.

By Mr. Wright’s figures, there were 15,-

000,000 workers that could be classed as

genuine wage earners when the popula-

tion was 62,000,000.





the same now, in which case each wage

earner, including boys over sixteen and

women, must support four individuals. If

the average wage earner receives between

$500 and $600 per annum, the 43 per cent

to be used for food, as shown by the

above quoted table, would give us about

$250 annually to be used for food. Sta-

tistics already quoted show that 85,000,000

people in this country today average

about two—fifths pound of butter per week

each, but those who eat butter without

restricting their desires eat about 1 lb.

per week. If the national consumption

for 85,000,000 people should be 1 lb. of

butter per week, and statistics prove

that to be more than double the amount

at present consumed, I cannot conceive

of any large proportion of people refrain-

ing from eating butter for any other

general reason than that its cost is be-

yond their means.

Since he has only $250 to be used for

' food per annum, it would be unreasonable

to expect that the .average wage earner

can supply each of his family of four

with 50 lbs. of butter at an average retail

price of 2% to 38c, according to quality.

This will figure up to from $56 to $76,

which you will readily see is out of pro--

portion to the amount of money allowed





for food, as butter is not a necessary

food for the maintenance of health and

strength.

Lowering the Cost of Production ls the

Remedy.



If the increase in the price of butter

should Continue the next few years as in

the past three, it would drive a great





many who are using butter today to the

use of olcomargarine, buttcrinc. or any

other substitutes. as the price now is at





a point that is very nearly prohibitive,





especially at certain seasons of the year.

You will notice that it is highly es-

smitial to dairymen, in order to protect





the dairy business, that they study out a

way of producing buttcr at a lower price.

The consumption of butter can only be

increased in proportion to the reduction

in price, which will come thru cheaper

production. Owing to the fact that but-

ter, because of its nutritive qualities, will

be preferred to any other food stuff not

absolutely necessary, the increase in this

consumption will grow in proportion to

the reduction in price. This argument

holds, good not only on butter, but also

good on Cheese, milk and condensed milk.





It is safe to concede

that this proportion holds very nearly





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.



There need be no fear that the doub-

ling. of dairy products will have any such

disastrous effect on the market as the

doubling of the output of mines and

manufacturers would have on their re-





spective markets. The‘product of mines

and manufacturers may be immediately

doubled by the installation of men and

machinery, but the doubling of dairy

products can only be accomplished thru

education and patience, and must there-

fore necessarily be gradual and take

many years.



Because of the facts quoted, I feel it

incumbent upon me to urge that we

double our present yield and not make

any reduction in the number of cows.





 





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Can sweet corn be successfully used

for ensilage Have been told that it will

get much sourer and will not make first-

class ensilage. If it can be successfully

used Will it require as much extra grain

to get the same flow of milk



Livingston Co. - B. B. S.



I have used sweet corn for ensilage and

I do not consider it as good as field corn.

My sweet corn was fairly well matured

and yet it fermented more than field

corn and made a sourer silage. The

cows ate it and liked it fairly well, but

they were not as ravenous for it as they

have been sometimes with field corn

silage. Sweet corn cannot be made any

better ensilage than field corn, as it has

no higher feeding value and you can't

raise any more to the acre than you

can of field corn. The seed would cost

you considerable more and the seed is

not as reliable as field corn. It’s a

pretty difficult thing to get a good stand

of sweet corn for a large area, at least

this has been my experience, because it

is difficult to cure sweet corn and have

it have as high a germinating power as

field com. I don’t think you need to

worry about having your ensilage spoil

so that it will be a loss to you if you use

sweet corn, but I do not believe that you

would be as well satisfied with sweet:

corn silage as you would with field corni

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I have 3 cows that get all the corn—

stalks and millet hay they will eat up

clean; also about 6 (its. of corn—and—cob

meal, oats and bran and a little cotton—

seed meal each day. In a few weeks’

time they dropped off very badly in pro—

duction. Two of them appear to want to

eat dirt when let out to drink. One of

them went partly dry in one quarter,

the teat appearing to close up.



Kalamazoo Co. .0. S.





I am inclined to think that while you

are feeding a pretty libero-l ration, that

it is not balanced; that is, it does not

contain enough protein. The ration

otherwise is good, but the roughage con-

sisting of cornstalks 21nd millet hay is

deficient in protein, especially is this so

if you allowed the Imillet to get pretty

ripe before you cut it. Millet ought to

be cut when it is in the milk, and makes

a very good feed for cows. I believe that

your oats and bran are too high priced

at the present time, to give you profit-

able results, altho they are both a good

dairy ration. Usually they are too high

priced to be practicable. I would sug-

gest that you mix 2200 pounds of corn

and cob meal with 100 pounds of cotton-

seed meal and 100 pounds of oil meal,

then I would feed about three pounds

of this Combination night and morning,

making six pounds a day. It will, how-

ever, be wise to take into consideration

the amount of milk which each cow

gives.



I think you can overcome the sore at,

the end of the cows teat by greasing it

with vaseline, ‘or with fried meat grease

after every milking. Take a little pains

to work the vasclinc or fried mcut grease

up into the opening into the teat.



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ADDITIONAL REPORT OF HOLSTElNl

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. In making a report of the recent meet-

ing of Holstein Association for publica-

tion In your columns i did not mention a

lino paper by Fred R. McDonald, of Lan—

Slng. entitled. “\Nhat shall be the merits

of tho Holstein bull calf to save him from

slaughter?” Mr. lVTcDonald argued for

Close-r culling of the calves, that nothing

should be saved to head herds except

those of individual merit and from the

Ecslt type of Iproducing cows. Vcal being

Igi, more Siould c kille . ' 0‘

the best. b d keeping only

Michigan’s oldest breeder and importer,

“ . Sexton, of Howell, also talked on

The Holstein then and now, or how I

became, an importer.” Mr. Sexton re-

Vlc‘Ned the successes of the Holstein and

gave a description of the necessary steps

in importing cattle, which was very in~

teresting. He also counseled the young

breeder to “go slow,” as he had known‘

many good men to go down because they

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If actual merit alone prevailed the DE LAVAL

cream separator wouldbe the only one made sold, or used.





But the dairy farmer with his dollars is an alluring i

proposition to those Who “need the money”, so that

every season brings with it anew crop of separator fakes

and fables, withsom'e of the old conjurers over again. and

always a few fresh ones.





Last year the new and improved line of DE LAVAL

machines literally swept the field. This year everybody

has a “new” machine, which is the one thing they

universally harp upon in their talk and advertising. But

it is mostly bosh and nonsense. There is mighty little

new to them. N o more DE LAVAL patents have expired

so that there is nothing else “new” that they can lay hold

of this year.



There’s the usual crop of fakirs appropriating the 'facts

of DE LAVAL separator use and the endorsements DE

LAVAL separators have received, and quoting them as

though they applied to their own inferior imitations of the

standard cream separator.





There’s theconcern which makes an inferior disc

separator and speaks of the “disc” separator being “the

machine which has won out universally in Europe, the

home of the disc separator”. True, but it was the DE

LAVAL that has done the Winning out in Europe, as it has

in America.





 





There’s the political separator concern, With the new “year’ ’

or Hcents” trademark, whose claims it is to be hoped nobody

ever believes, and which manifestly practices the circus man’s

theory that the great American public over likes to be fooled.





There’s the only concern which has stuck to the abandoned

DE LAVAL ”hollow bowl” of 30 years ago, but will this year t

desperately join the procession of 10 year back DE LAVAL

imitations With a Hdisky bucket bowl” machine.





There’s the HTrust” striving to complete its monopoly of

dealer and farmer, harvesting much costly separator experience,

largely at the expense of buyers-for-use, through trying to

build a cream separator like ordinarily made farm machinery.





There’s the Hmail order” outfit, With their cheaply made r

machines, bought here and there, not made by themselves or

sold under the real manufacturer’s name, all claiming the earth,

and many of the things that should be below it.





But the merry lot changes and dwindles every year. They

gradually drop out and leave their unfortunate patrons helpless

with trashy machines. More will fade away this year. The dairy

farmer, like the creameryman, is coming to know something

of separators. He doesn’t swallow mere “claims” so easily. 08%

of the world’s creamerymen use DE LAVAL machines. The

percentage of farm users content with nothing else is always

increasing.





There isn’t a single reason why every man who buys a.

cream separator this year should not buy a DE LAVAL, There

are many reasons Why he should. The best costs no more

than the various grades of inferior imitating machines.





ADE LAVAL catalogue may be had for the asking. A

DE LAVAL machine may be tried for the asking.





The De Laval Separator Co.





 





42 E. MADISON STREET . 173-177 WILLIAM STREET

CHICAGO. General Offices: MONTREAL



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THE MAKING OF GILT-EDGE

BUTTER.





 





Buttermaking seems to suggest labor

to some 'people. Those people are the

ones who have a poor grade of cows and

whose buttermaking facilities are crude.

No task can be performed with any de-

gree of success unless the proper facili-

ties are at hand for performing that task.

Great progress has been made in every

industry, and buttermaking is no excep-

tion. But surely, some people are not

progressive if one would judge by the

amount of unwholesome butter offered

for sale in the stores.



The first essential of butter dairying

is to have a good breed of cows. Good

butter may be made from scrub cows but

in smaller quantities, 'and the ycost of

keeping a poor cow is as much as for

the keeping of a good one.



The cow must have plenty 'of water,

and the water must be clean. Do not

compel cows to drink from a slimy, green

frog pond in summer, or to drink ice

water during the cold season.



Then the cows must have plenty of nu-

tritious food. The farmer should know

what kinds of food will produce the rich-





rest milk, and should grow and feed ac-





cordingly. ‘The cows must have good

shelter. The cow that is compelled to

stand out in the cold uses the fat—pro-

dueing qualities of her foOd for warmth,

instead of giving them off in her milk.

It is of ut'm0st importance that all cows

be kept in healthy condition and that

perfect cleanliness be practiced in car-

ing for the milk.



As soon as the milk is drawn from the

row, it should be taken to the place set

apart for it. Do not allow the milk to

stand in the stable as it will absorb‘the

odors. The milk must be strained as

soon as possible. If the old method of

using pans or erocks is still adhered to,

be sure that no materials liable to pro-

duce odors where the milk is





are near

set. We will suppose. tho, that you have

a separator and that the drudgery of

washing and scalding creeks has been





done away witll.



The next important step is ripening

the cream. Cream should reach a mod-

erate degree of sourness before churning.

Churning sweet cream means that the

hogs will get more than their share of

the butter-fat. After cream has been

put into the ripening can, stir thoroly

when more is added. The can must be

set in a place that is neither too hot nor

too cold. It is a good plan to have a can

sowewhat larger than the cream can

and to set the cream can in the larger

can. Then, by pouring hot or cold water

around it the cream may be brot to any

desired temperature. In cold weather,

warm the cream a little each day. The

day before churning warm it up to 70

degs. and it will have reached the proper

acidity by the next ‘lllnl‘llillg‘. By all

means have a thermometer and then you

can have the cream just warm enough

and not too warm. During the summer

cream should be churned at a tempera-

ture of 60 degs. and in winter at (33 or 64

dcgs.



Hints on Churning.





“Then cream has been brot to the.

churning stage the butter can easily be

spoiled by using all improper way of

churning. The old-fashioned dashcr churn

is nothing but a butter spoiler. In

cream, the butter-fat is in the form of

small globules and the dash breaks these,

forming grease instead of butter. A re—

volving churn does not break the glob-

ules and therefore is to be preferred.





Another thing to be obserVed is the rap-

idity with which cream is churned. Too

much M‘otion is harmful. (‘hurn gently.

’l‘he butter should come in about 7:0 min-

utes. “'hen the globules of butter reach

the. size of a grain of wheat, stop churn-

ing. Let stand it) or 1:? minutes, then

draw off as mueh buttermilk as possible

without wasting the butter. Nl‘Vl‘ pour

in a small Duill‘ul of cold water, turn the

churn a few times and pour oi‘i‘. Repeat

the Operation twice. In the third pailful





of water, dissolve a handful of salt and

let stand over the butter for if) minutes.

By t‘horoly washing the butter certain





elements are removed that cannot be Well

worked out. “'hen the last pailful of

water 'has been drawn off, take. the but-

ter out into a bowl. As you take the

butter from the churn. sprinkle a little

salt on each ladleful. In this way you

can thoroly mix the salt with the butter.

Use nothing but the very best grade of

salt. One ounce of salt for each pound

of butter is about the proper amount to

use. Work the'buttcr until the milk and

water has been well removed. Then set

the butter in a cool place until it has





W mmmflummammmm WWMW - Wm





THE MICHIGAN. FARMER.





become hardened sufficiently to mold into

bricks. ‘



You will now have a product that will

command top prices in any market. If

the local customers do not take all of it

the remainder can be packed in tubs and

shipped to some city, where it will meet

with a ready sale.



Comparatively little more labor is re-

quired to make gilt-edge butter than is

required in the making of a poor grade.

There is always a market for the best,

while the poorer grades go begging for

want of buyers. It is easy to be seen

which kind is the most profitable.





Ohio. S. C.





BEAN PODS FOR cows.





 





Are bean pods a--suitable ration for

milch cows? Some of our neighbors

claim that they “will dry a cow up."

We feed them once a day. Remainder of

ration consists of clover hay, shredded

corn fodder, whole corn fodder, beet tops,

crushed corn-and-cob meal and cotton-

seed meal.



Inghaln CO. H. M. SILSBY.





TVhere beans are pulled before they get

dead ripe and some pains taken to wind-

row them or stack them up so that they

are not bleached too much by the sun

and dew, then properly cared for, they

make fairly good feed for dairy cows,

or any kind of stock. Such bean pods

will not dry cows up. I have seen beans

left until the pods and stalks, were all

dead ripe and fairly well bleached before

they were pulled. Then they were pulled

and left in windrows, were out in a rain

or two and were turned over and bleached

in the sun, then finally gathered. After

they were threshed they were fed to

animals. Now, such bean pods are not

good and I would not blame a cow for

drying up if she is compelled to eat very

much of such food. In fact, I don’t

think she could help drying up. There

is just as much difference in the food

value of bean straw as in clover. If the

beans are cut before too ripe, and are

properly cured, they are palatable, digest-

ible, and a good feed. If they are not,

they are no better than straw.





I think you are taking the right course

in feeding bean pods, and that is to use

them in connection with other feeds, be—

cause to insist upon a cow getting almost

the entire roughage portion of her ration

from bean strww, is not giving variety

enough so that she will relish them.

But by feeding in connection with clover

hay, shredded corn fodder and beet tops,

it makes a good variety and the cows

will relish them. The beet tops, too, add

a succulent food to the ration which is





very desirable. The crushed corn and

cob meal, if fed in equal parts by

weight with cottonseed meal, will make





a very good ration to balance this rough-

age, and from this ration, if fed judi—

ciously, you ought to get good results

if fed to good cows.





A HARD-MILKING COW.





 





As there has been some discussion as

to the truth of the statement that a cow

will milk easier if milked a little bit be-

fore freshening, I thot I would request

your opinion.



Ottawa Co. .I. LA I'IUIS, JR.



1 am inclined to think that milking a

cow just before she comes fresh will have

a tendency to make her milk easier, for





this reason: As the cow approaches





parturition, and from natural causes her.‘





udder becomes filled with milk, the tend-

enr-y of the cow is to prevent this milk

from being drawn because she

wants to save it for her offspring; con-

sequently, the muscles at the end of the

teat are induced to contract and tighten

to prevent the leak. Now if the cow is

milked just before she

especially with a strong hand, the

eney will be to cause those muscles to

relax. At any rate, milking a cow soon

after she comes in, or just before, exert-

ing great strength in doing so, will tend

to overcome the obstinacy of these mus-

eles.



Another way to make a cow milk easier

is to use a hard rubber plug in the teat,

gently rolling the teat between the hands

with the rubber plug inserted. You must

not press too hard or you will cause in-

flammation. This will gradually overcome:

the obstinaey of these muscles in the

end of the teat. Some cows, however,

are very stubborn in this respect and

cannot be encouraged to milk very easily.





away,





 





Sold Out.





John Ricnstra, Parkville, Mich, writes:

“Please take out my advertisement as

I am about sold out. I have had a splen-

did sale of boars. I shall be glad when I

get another crop on hand to use your

paper as an advertising medium.”





Always mention the Michiganvl’mner

when writing to advertisers.





GOOD NEWS FOR

CREAM SEPARATOR

‘ BUYERS





Seems like we all must know Bill Galloway

—the Farmer Manufacturer of Waterloo—

and we all know him by the name “Bill"

Galloway—not as “William”—just because

the name of his firm is The William Galloway

Company. _



For years Galloway has been the largest

individual advertiser in the agricultural

papers of the country. We've all read his

advertisements and seen his picture in his

ads. That makes us feel as if we all knew

Bill Galloway personally.



4‘ His style of‘ad've‘rtisihg‘ has been full oflife

and “ginger"—just like the man himself.

Some competitors say he’s too "breezy"

—but after. folks find out that he has every-

thing he says he has in his advertising, and

does everything he says he’ll do, they com-

mence to like his style of doing business.

.Galloway has grown wonderfully in the

manufacturlng line. It’s only a little while

since he left the farm where he was born and

raised. Twelve years ago he was milking

cows and teaching calves to drink “skim"

milk. Today he’s one Of the biggest Farm

Implement Specialty manufacturers in the

country. ,



First. he started making Manure Spread-

ers, and they "caught on" quick—because

he made the right kind of a machine and

sold it on the right plan—at a price that was

low. Thousands upon thousands of farmers

throughout the country have bought Manure

Spreaders on his plan.



Then he took up Gasoline Engines—and

made a big success with them.



Now he's got some good news from .Cream

Separator users. For five years he says he's

been hunting for the machine that was good

enough for him to endorse and sell on a

liberal plan. Galloway says—"You know

the way I do business is to leave it all to the.

other fellow to decide—so I’ve got to give a

machine that will stand up under all con-

ditions and do the work.” And then—on

my price I don't have enough margin on any

one machine to stand for any mistakes, so

the machine has got to be right before'l'll

push it."



He has just completed his manufacturing

arrangements for 14,500 of his new Galloway

“Oil Float” Cream Separators. Galloway

says—“People have been fooled on Separa‘

tors”——and Galloway ought to know. He

says—“The old line manufacturers have

been charging too much profit on their Sepa-

rators, and the mail order houses have been

going out with “fiy-by-night" machines at a

price too low to make a machine that was

any earthly use at all." He says that he now

has the machine that‘s the highest quality—





 





 





comes in, '

tcnd- Y





has more points of merit than any machine

on the market—one of these points being the

mechanism,which floats in a bath ofoil—just

like the mechanism of a $5,000 automobile——

no oil cups, no oil holes—dust—proof. dirt-

proof and wear and friction-proof. Galloway

says—“I’ll make 14,500 of these machines this

year. I’m sending them out to my friends

and customers on Free Trial for a month or

so. I'll ask them to use them as their own——

on their own farms—just to prove them up.

Then if they like the machine, they can pay

me the low price that I ask for this high

quality machine—it’s up to them to decide

whether they keep it or not.”



Galloway says—"It's a wide-open prop-

osition—it's up to the decision of the man

who tries out the machine-—just the same as

all my other propositions"—on which he’s

built up three of the largest factories in the

West in a few years. Galloway is such an

enthusia tic fellow that some people don't

take him seriously—but when they see the

price he asks for the goods he makes—and

see the saving he really makes to the farmer

—they realize that he‘s dead in earnest in

his business and that he gives them machines

that are right.



We think it's a good plan to just drop a

line to Bill Galloway of Waterloo and get his

Cream Separator Proposition. Owing to

the fact that he has sold over a hundred

thousand machines throughout the country

and that he can easily sell one out of every

ten of these customers a Separator because

they all know he‘s a square dealer—better

hurry up and get in on this first proposition

of Galloway’s because it’s certainly a dandy.





 





 





 





FEB. 20, 1909.





The Saginaw Silo





Makes Dairymen Rich





One successful dairyman says: “If it were impos-

sible to get another. I wouldn’t

sell my ‘Saginaw’ for 5 times what it cost."

Saginaw Silos cut your feed bills in half.

and double your dairy profits. Dairymen

who are familiar with all Silos say the

Saginaw is built better and gives better

satisfaction than anyother.

It puts more and better

milk in your pails. at

an astonishingly low

figure. In short, the

Saginaw Silo is eco-

nomical. practical.

convenient and

simple.





   

 

 

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

 





Pays for Itself

the First Year





What you save in feed

~what you gain in mill:

and butter — actually

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all about Silage. t

this book today and learn all about our

liberal proposition to you. If we did not

make more Silos than anybod also we

could not make such an offer. rite for

the book—judge our offer for yourself.





FARMERS HANDY WAGON COMPRNY

Box 64 . Saginaw. Du Moinu. Minnupollo





   

 

 





 





 





 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





—IEW LOW DOMI—

‘ AMERICAN CREAM

5 SEPARAIOR





Guaranteed to skim closer

than any separator in the

world. Sold direct from the

ac ry. We are the oldest.

exclus ve manufacturers of

hand separators in America.

You save all a. ents'. dealers'

- and even mat order house

, profits. We have the most.

‘ lberal 30 DAYS' TRIAL.

. ‘ freight prepaid ofler. Write

‘_ for it today. Our new

"’ low down. waist high

separator is the finest.

highest uality machine on

the mar et; no other se

orator compares with it :1

close skimming. ease of

cleaning, easy running. sim-

plicity. strength or quality.

_ Our own (the manufactur-

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. on every AME ICAN ma.-

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MEHIGA sensual ci‘. mantle“.

THE lillClt SANITARY cnunn





‘ Made adjustable, and can

be attached to a 4, 5, 6 or

8 gallon stone jar, making

lour churns in one.





We do not furnish the

jar. Churn butterin three

minutes. Dairy thermom-

eter given free. Guarnn-

teed to be the best churn

on earth. Shipped direct

from factory to consumer.

at 83.50 ex press prepaid.



. , ,,= Write for free illustrated



. * catalog of 16 pngel.



COLUMBIAN MAIL CRANE 00.,

898 Factory 51., Columbus. Ohio.





'HEROSS SILO





t‘v

~ pg,» The only Silo on the market

. ' with the following important

features: .

Silo doors on hinges.

Contln uous Ill-wood

ladder. Triple beveled

door and frame.

Oval door frame and ex-

tra henuy hoops and lugs.

Every stove beveled and

hoops bent for exact diam-

eter. Fully Guaranteed.

Write for SEE-page Silo catalog.

THE E. w. Ross 00. Est. 1850.

Box 14, Springfield, Ohio

We are Engineers at the but-linen.





FOR sALE A'l‘1 A (IllicillGAIN, lfully

. equ ppe reame . a most

new. Write C. H. Whittington, East Jordynn. Mich.





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Which ané WillYou

Test on Your Farm





for Ninety Days ?

Freight Prepaid





Which will you try. 30 Days’ Free or 90 Days' Ap-



proval Tcst.’ '

-—Any capacity from 200 to 950 pounds per hour.



according to your needs. and I’ll save you from $25.00



) to $50.00 on the price.

-—’I‘he only Separator whose gearing runs in a "Bath ”



I of Oil’ ' like a $5,000 automobile—Feature Worth $50. 00 alone.





-—Automatically oils itself—Pour oil at the top.once a month

from your oil jug or can—No danger of running dry, or ruining

it like others —No oil cups to remember to fill or turn up twice a day.

gears enclosed—simple but





—l)ust-proof -- Danger-prooi—All

standard built and absolutely dependable.





 

 





“ -—Has the only revolving supply tank—worth $15.00 alone.

-—Ezlsiest to clean and the few parts come out easy and

can't get back out of place.

—liasiest to run-high crank—low tank. With no high

lifting and no “back-breaking” cranking.





or churning. as Nature's true principle is followed without

forcing either the milk or cream the wrong way up or down.

—Skims closest in any climate or season. no matter

whether your milk is warm or cold.

—-ls as handsome a machine. compact and substantial,

as you ever saw or could find. Beautiful finish.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





GALLO WA Y’s .. m..- ‘





HIGH GRADE STANDARD CREAM SE PA RA TOR:





—-Gets the finest quality cream and all of it—no lumps a highest priced $85.00 and $110.00 separators sold by





 

 





 

 





 





—Let me send you my Big New Sep-

arator Book—postpaid—Free. so you and your wife and

the boys and girls can talk it over and then try one ol

my separators under my easy plan for you to do it.



You‘ll call it the best if you test it alongside any of the





 

   

 

   

 





anybody today—makers—catalog housw—dederriobbexs

or anybody else. Write me today.

Wm. Gallon Pros.

mu. mun wa Véoumur

84s Galloway 8:... Waterloo, In.
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'THE M‘xcnmau ’FARMER.





 

   





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Washing the Sharpl‘es 'Dairy Tubular

bowl. The brush.

the firl is using, cleans the inside in a

Easier washed. more durable





Only three pieces.





moment.

than any other bowl.





 





This is the Sharples 1909 Dairy

Tubular “A.”





construction, that the medium sizes can





So simple and perfect in





be turned by one who is seated. Self

oiliné enclosed gears. Low, steady sup-

ply can. Plumb bob attached for quickly

leveling the machine.





 





sk the WIFE

SHE WASHES IT





Your wife knows the difference between washing one dish and washing forty-two.



Why not let her choose between the light, simple Sharples Dairy Tubular Cream Separator

bowl—With just one tiny, plain piece inside, as shown in the upper left hand picture—and the heavy,

complicated “disc ” or “ bucket bowls ” shown in the lower right hand picture?





She Will NOT Want These





Show her these pictures, made from ac-

tual photographs. Ask her which cream sepa-

rator bowl she would rather wash ? She’ll put

her finger on the Tubular every time and thank

you for saving her needless labor. I



You Will appreciate the many exclusive

advantages of the 1909 Tubular ”A” Cream

Separator. V



You will like the low supply can, single fric-

tionlessballbearing supporting the bowl,entirely

enclosed self-oiling gears and ball bearing, the

plumb bob attached to the frame for quickly

leveling the machine and keeping it level, the

single piece frame and the great simplicity of.

the entire machine.





Put your heads together and talk this

over. You’ll agree that the 1909 Tubular “A”

is the finest cream separator money can buy.





Tubulars Are Entirely Different From all Others





Built on 29 years’ experience, in the world’s

greatest cream separator factory. 1908 sales way ahead

of 1907—way out of sight of any other make, it not all

others combined. Write for complete catalog No. 152.





The Sharples Separator Co.





Toronto. Can. WEST CHESTER, PA. Portland. Ore.





Winnipeg. Can. Chlcado. Ill. San Francisco. Ca].





 





 





 





‘ simple Dairy Tubular?"





What woman would choose to

wash any of these heavy compli-

cated “bucket bowls" when she

can have a simple Dairy Tubular

instead '3 What man would expect

any of. these complicated “ bucket





bowls” to be as durable as the





 





 





 





 





 





Something to Remember About Hens.



A. B. C. isn’t simpler, or more easy

to learn, than the business of poultry

keeping, if the keeper will take the

pains to remember one or two facts

about hens. In the first place, the hen

is a liberty-loving bird. Her natural in-

stincts prompt her to roam far a-lield in

search of natural food~bugs, worms,

grasses, etc. In the second place, the

exercise she gets in this daily search for

food is a perfect preventive of disease,

and a guarantee of long life and great

productiveness. Now the hen--man, who

wants to carry on a big business, catches

Mrs. Hen and imprisons her in a close

coop and a, little yard, so that he can

have her handy to feed and not trot his

legs off hunting her eggs. But it's fatal

to the hen, and also to a full egg basket,

unless something is done to replace na-

tural conditions in the hen's life. Here

is where “The Dr. Hess Idea” is of great

and permanent value. Dr. Hess a stock-

man and poultry farmcr~after long

study, formulated Poultry Pan-a-ce—a, a.

preparation used almost universally by

successful povultrymen everywhere, and

which is really the actual cause of their

success. Anyone possessing medical

knowledge or a clear idea of the digestive

process, knows how difficult it is to pro—

servo health in idleness, especially if

feeding be heavy, as in the case of the

lien forced for eggs. Thus, the main-

tenance (‘f a healthy activity of the

whole system is, in the case of the hen,

as also in that of feeding animals, the

one object to be constantly sought. Ev-

cry poltryman should aim, therefore._ to

handle his flock in the most economical

manner; and that is possible only when

perfect digestion prevents food-waste.

If, then, you are struggling with a lazy,

droopy, inactive flock of liens, you can

change a disheartening situation into a

cheering one in short order, by the use

of Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a—ce—u. it is a

tonic—in no sense a food abuse; its mis-

sion is to make food available. That is,

it aids digestion; strengthens the digest-

ive organs, so that the hen gets more

out of her food—elements that make flesh

and bone, feathers and eggs. Thus, tho

confined and denied the hen‘s natural

right to forage at will, she is yet as pro—

lific and healthy when getting this prep-

:lrntion in regular daily doses as the at





 





large. But, further than this, if there are

old' hens, unfit for layers, which are

better disposed of Poultry Pan—a-ce—a





fats them in a very little While, and for

the same reason that it helps the laying

lien—it aids digestion. Chickens thrive

on it; moulting fowls feather quickly when

it's mixed in their feed; in fact, disease

and trouble vanish from the poultry farm

when Poultry Pan—a—ce—a is made a small

Dart of the daily ration.





 





Milk-producing farmers in the territory

tributary to Chicago have formed an as—-

sociation for the purpose of establishing

higher prices, and 'it is understood that

milk is to be raised to 8 cents a quart.

Dairymen of Illinois, Indiana and Wis-

consin have joined the alliance, and five

hundred delegates attended the Chicago

convention.





 





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simply from the way it looks.





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era On 4 Months Absolutely Free Tnal.

Signed M. W. SAVAGE, Minneapolis, Minn.

President of International Flotation 00., Solo M191.

If it is not-the best made. —-most dunble,--casiest to work.

”easiest on clothes and the fastest washer I want you to return

It after 4 months Free Test and i will not ask you to pay me a

cent. I own Dan Patch 1 55. World's Champion, and I

want to mail you Two New and Beautiful Pictures, one shows Dan

died to sleigh and driven by small children. You Must Mail

Me the Free Coupon. Mail me the Free Coupon today,





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Armor Brand Tinware is coated,witb

an extra thick coat of pure tin

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OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-

TION OF FARMERS CLUBS.





President—A. L. Chandler, Owosso.



Vice-President~—-Mrs. Clara L. French,

Pompeii. ~



Secretary—Mrs. W. L. Cheney, Mason.



Treasurer—D. K. Hanna, Caro.



Corresponding Secretary—Clayton Cook,

Owosso.



Directors—D. M. Beckwith, Howell; D.

M. Garner, Davisburg; T. B. Halladay,

Norvell; E. Hallock, Almont; B. A.

Holden, Wixom; Wm. A. Marks, Fair

Haven.



Address all correspondence relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. W.

L. Cheney, Mason, Mich.





 





 





A550ciational Motto.—

The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.





 





Associational Sentlment.—

The farmer; he garners from the soil

the primal wealth of nations.





 





ASSESSMENT OF FARM LANDS.





 





Address of Jas. N. McBride at S. A. F. C.





(Concluded from last week).



The Result of Amortization and Income

Tax of the Farmer is Far Reaching.

Since it forces an exhaustive system



of tenant farming and defers the ac-

quiring of land for ownership. It is only

rarely that a man can buy an improved

farm and pay for it entirely from the

products of that farm. Interest, tax on

soil and labor and amortization and often

the tax on the contract makes the bur-

den great, if not actually impossible. The

same man on the same farm as a tenant

will have a greater surplus earned at the

end of the year than he would as a nom-

inal owner since he transfers the amor-

tization and the taxes to the actual

owner. The landlord refuses to repair

the depreciation of cropping and his de-

pleted revenues, based on soil taxes and

labor taxes, does not permit it. In the

end poorer tenants, a run down and an

abandoned farm.



The National bank act forbid farm or

real estate loans being made, the reason

at that time being that such were not

easily liquidating assets. Several years

ago it was proposed to repeal this fea-

ture of the National Bank act. VV‘hen the

question was asked, “\Vho buys farm

land as a simple interest returning in-

vestment?” “Do you know of farms that

will pay the bank rate of interest, main-

tain repairs and pay a salary to manage?”

No change was made in the bank act.

If I were to sammarize I would have the

fact of soil amortization determined in

all its bearings, social and economic. The

farmer extracts per acre nitrogen, p0-

tassium and phosphoric acid to the value

of one and one half tons of the average

copper ore from the Michigan mines, and

pays taxes, approximately of 50 cents

thereon. Were the same. rate of taxes

applied to extraction of ore as per soil

elements, the burden of taxation would

be ‘more equitable, for Michigan produced

in 1006, 224,071,000 pounds of Copper and

88,522,239 tons of iron ore. \Vhen agri-

culture was the main industry of the state

the relative burden of taxation was not

so great but when diversified industries

makes the farmer in the minority of out-

put, then these inequities are multiplied

and again when farm land reaches its

maximum value. And to further sum—



'marizc the farmer‘s labor should have a.



return as wages or salary and this be



excluded from taxation i. c., a proper

analysis be made to place the farmer

upon the same plane as the business or

professional man, with reference to tax—

ation of salary or income from labor and

base farm values upon rental or crop

values, with allowance for amortization.



Is the taxing value of a farm to include



the personal effort of the owner or should



it be on the real estate as the loan valu-

ation of 50 per cent of,the market value.



The insurance companies who make loans



on farm property determine 50 per cent



of the market value as the point where

amortization and death will not affect

the valuation. In other words, the real

value of farm land is 50 per cent of its

market value, and the 50 per cent beyond



the actual value is purely personal. A



reduction of 50 per cent in Michigan



farm properties would be the proper ad-

justment to other assessments.



There occurs in the writings of the

late James G. Blaine the following: \JOd

has given us a beautiful country with

the ideals of equality of opportunity and

equality of burden. Let us preserve our

country in its beauty and its ideals.”

President Roosevelt urges the conserva-





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tion of' our natural resources. To recog-

nize the fact of soil amortization and

classify such property for taxation pur-

poses as different from propertyto which

values inure is “preserving our beautiful

country” and conserving our national re-

sources. To place the farmer upon the

same plane with reference to taxation

as all other producers of wealth is to ex-

clude ‘his salary or wages from being

measured in his property, and tax the

farm on that basis alone is but preserv-

ing our ideals of equality of opportunity

and equality of burden. It is not only

our right but our duty to insist on a

reform in matters of taxation. 1





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Young People Direct Meeting.e-An

enjoyable meeting was held by the Sher-

man Farmers’ Club, of Newaygo Co., at

the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. \V. Coil, on

Jan. 16. _ After serving dinner to about





50 members and guests the meeting was

called to order by Presidentlv. M. Car—

ter. After opening exercises and song

by the club we had our regular business

session, and an invitation by our presi-

dent to hold the next meeting at the

home of Mr. and Mrs. Carter, Feb. 20,

the meeting was turned over‘to the young

people. They had Mr. Bert Hephins as

temporary president. A fine program of

songs and recitations was rendered.

Then followed the question box. The

following questions were discussed;

“\Vhfch is the most profitable. potatoes

or beans?” answered by Mr. C. Zutima.

who thot potatoes more profitable than

beans. “How to bring the home and

school together,” answered by Mrs, Coil

and Mrs. Gamble, who said parents

should visit the school more than they

do. “Which gives the best results. whole

grain or ground feed?” Members agreed

that ground feed gives the best results,

especially for cattle. The club adjourned

to meet Feb. 20.—Mrs. L. Kemperman,

Cor. Sec.



Receive Report of State Meeting.—e

Twentieth Century Farmers’ Club con-

vened in January at the home, of Floyd

Dancer and wife, with good attendance.

Committees for the year were appointed

and resolutions of respect passed on the

death of Seamour A. Smith, the fourth

member of our club to pass to the higher

life within the year. The delegate to

State Association gave a report of that

meeting that took up the entire after-

noon session and a portion of the report

was deferred until the next meeting. A

social was planned and will be held Jan.

30 at Mrs. Wm. Hutchins’. The February

meeting will be held with Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Stuart. Questions for discussion,

“How to feed rnilk cows for best results,”

and ”Are. the present highway laws sat-

isfactory?"—Jennie M. Ford, Reporter.





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Clubs—«The Hickory Farmers’ Club met

at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Purdy,

Thursday, Jan. 28th. A good program





llild been prepared and was enjoyed by

all. the subject for discussion being,

“\Vhich is the most profitable crop for

the farmer to grow, corn or beans?" It

was well discussed, giving corn the prof—

erencc, taking one year with another.

The day being an ideal one there was a

good turnout, 52 adults being present.

The club enjoyed the presence of Rev.

and Mrs. I'ilanchford, of the Trinity

church, Caro. A committee was appoint-





cd to meet with com‘mittccs from the

Almer and Ellington and Indanfield's





Clubs to make arrangements for a joint

meeting to be held in the near future.

to which all are looking forward with

much pleasure—Cor. Sec.



Every Club Family Represented.~The

Indianticlds Farmers’ Club held the first

lllt‘A‘lIllg‘ of the new year at “Maple

Lawn.” the. beautiful farm home of Mr.

and Mrs. I. N. Taggctt, on Thursday,

January 21. It was a warm, spring-like

day and with two exceptions all the fam-

ilcs represented in the club mmnbcrship

were present. A. bountiful dinner was

served by the refreshment superintend-

ent. Mrs. Robert Park. After a pleasant

social hour the club was called to order

by the president, J .1“. Milli-r. Roll call

was responded to by “Something new

I have lt‘ul‘tlt‘d during the past year,” and

was oftcn 11s ‘humorous as it was instruc-

tivc. Mrs. Ellen C. Purdy read a paper

on “how to make our club more interest—

ing.” A male quartcttc furnished two

selections and were showered with roses

(paper). There were also readings and

rccitations and a very interesting-dc-

bato, “Resolved, that life, insurance is

a detriment to our country." Mr. Robert

Park led the. affirmative and B. H. Smith

the negative. Tho thrcc lady judges ap—

pointed decided in favor of the affirma--

tive. Mrs. Ellen Purdy read a paper on

“Club Extension,” at the Tuscola Co.

Farmers’ Institute, Jan. 22.—~M. R.

Purdy, Sec.



A Gratifying Outlook—The, Hadley and

Elba Farmers' Club has a very gratifying

report, to make on the outlook for 1.009.

V’Ve held our election of officers at Mr.

Chas. Farrar’s, Dec. 17. President, Robert

J. Pierson; viee-prtsident, Chas. Daven—

port: secretary, Jennie Johnson: treas—

urer, Blanche Bates. The day was

stormy, but there was a good attendance,

and every person present joined the club.

Jan. 14 we met with Mr. and Mrs. F. G.

Selby. A large crowd and an over-

flowing question box combined to make

things interesting. The questions cov—

ered a large range of subjects, and some

were tabled for future use in the club

work. Our club now numbers 95, with

many of our old members to be heard

from yet, so we feel greatly encouraged.

The next meeting will be with Mr. and

Mrs. Heman Kelly. Feb. 18th. A hearty

welcome awaits all who accept the cor-

dial invitation extended to everybody:-

Jennie E. Johnson. Sec.



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Our Motto—“The Farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved.”





 





 





 





STUDY OF THE HOME.



A Maryland woman asks: “Does the

Grange present to the women the best

thot on home economics in the same pro-





 





portion that it presents the most ad-

vanced agricultural knowledge to the

men?"





Please read that question again. Does

it not strike you that if we are perfectly

frank we must reply “No?”





There are several very good reasons

for this, but the fact remains, I think,

beyond dispute, that the home is not





studied as carefully in our farm organi-

zations as is the farm.



One, reason that the technical affairs

of the house have not been taken up and

discussed as thoroly as have the corres-

ponding operations of the farm, is be-

cause women have been more diffident

about taking part in the discussions in

most Granges. They have largely left

that part to the men while they have

furnished the feasts and creature com-

forts of the meetings. Another reason

is found in the newness of “Household

Science." or "Home Economics,” or

“Domestic Science”—~for all of these

terms are applied to the study of how

to make the work of the home most

efficient.



The other day I had the privilege of

hearing Mrs. Ellen Richards, of Boston,

speak upon the history and progress of

this knowledge among homemakers, and

no woman in our land knows more inti-

mately of these things than she. I wish

every Michigan woman might have heard

the story she told. I am sure the Granges

and V‘Vomen’s Sections of our institutes

would have listened with keen interest,

for their pulses are. already quickened

in a new way to this really old subject.

We are ready for more systematic and

definite consideration of the work and

healthful care of the home than we have,

for the most part, been able to give it in

the past. \Vhen one thinks of how re-

cently people have begun to ask the why-

fore of these common operations, one is

filled with a great hope for the forward

Work along these lines that is surely

being done, largely t‘hru farm organiza-

tions.



Mrs. Richards says it was only in 1971

that the question was first raised, “Can-

not chemistry help in the kitchen?” It

was in 1974 that the possibility of the

presence of impurities in water was sass

pectcd, and in that year she herself

tested 600 samples of the Boston water

supply for purity. It Was in 1886 that it

was suggested that perhaps milk, also,

might hold impurities; and then the fact

was learned that it not only could, but

actually did, afford the best possible

seed-bed for germs to grow in. In fact,

the “germ” itself was only discovered

about that time and the whole new

science of bacteriology began to unfold

its Wonders, both out on the farm and

in the home.





IVhile these are comparatively new

studies, the women are by no means

going to let the science of the farm





outstrip the science of the home, as a.

few years' time will clearly show.

.IENNIIC BUELL.





THE VALUE OF' AN IDEAL IN

GRANGE WORK.



\Vho has ever measured the value of

an ideal to any individual or association?



The business man without an ideal can

succeed only by accident; the lawyer

without a ideal will be little known be-

yound his unvn; with no ideal, the poli—

tician will soon retire to private life, the

editor will find his subscription list

shrinking, and the teacher will not be

worth her hire. The minister with no

ideal will preach to empty pews while

his people wonder why the gospel no

longer appeals to the young and will

mourn the decadence of religious interest

generally.



What is true of individuals is equally

true of associations. If they live and

grow and are worth What they cost they

must possess an ideal. The Grange is no

exception to the rule. Its life and per-

petuity depend upon the appreciation of

the task before it.



What shall be our Grange ideal? This

question is of primary importance to

every organization of “Patrons of Hus-

bandry,” andupon its answer will depend





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FEB. 20, 1909.





in a large way the success of the Grange

in each locality.



Our interests and capabilities differ

somewhat with our environments, and

so our Grange ideal will vary to some

extent, but in unity of thot and action

there is always strength. In our educa-

tional work we shall be wise if we move

together along the same path insofar as

we are able.



The time was when the office of lec-

turer meant little to the Michigan State

Grange, but within the past few years it

has rapidly developed into a great edu-

cational force. The writer will be glad

indeed if the day shall come when the

State Lecturer’s Bulletin shall be pub-

lished in a paper, thus being placed

within possible reach of every member

of the order.



However, Sister Buell's contributions

to the Grange page of the Michigan

Farmer seem destined to accomplish, in

part, at least, the same great end. If

the Grange is to be “our college,” we

must concentrate our educational 'work

within certain lines more or less defined.

,Vt'e have been working in this direction

for years, and we must take no back-

ward step now. -



The work of thisyear should teach

us ‘much that we need to know of that

very essential animal, the horse. If the

700 Granges in Michigan could carefully

study the “Breeds and Types of Horses”

and their care, together with the recent

experiments along lines of safe and eco-

nomical feeding, animal husbandry would

receive an uplift such as it has never

experienced before. We have very much

to learn about the horse, much that it

will be greatly to our advantage to-

know, and it is hoped that the interest

inspired by the January programs will

not wane until a great deal of good has

been accomplished. A study of other

farm animals and of soils will follow in





time. Let us be ready for each in Its

turn. Let us read our agricultural pa-

pers closely and study the experiment





station bulletins upon the subject at hand,

thus being prepared to realize as fully as

possible this part of our Grange ideal in

education. W. F. TAYLOR.





THE GRANGE IN OTHER STATES.



Value of Grange Fairs—Master Bux-

ton, of Oregon State Grange, recently de-

clared that Grange fairs are beneficial to:

the organization in two ways which 'he

states as follows: First, they are helpful

directly by inciting the membership to

work for the attainment of results in

which they have a. common interest. In

other words, it gives them something to

work for, arouses their interest in the

work of the organization and gives them

useful training in the matter of co—

operation. Second, these fairs are at—

tracting a great deal of favorable atten—

tion from the press and the public.

livery one sees that the Grange is foster-

ing what is universally recognized as a

valuable line of work. At many of these

fairs, as well as at the state fair, speak~

crs have been provided who have in this

way been able to present the work of

the Grange and its claims for their sups

port: to thousands who could not other-

wise have been reached.



Change in Representation in 0hio.—The

recent meeting of Ohio State Grange, at

Kenton, was a most successful one, the

attendance exceeding 1,200. Twenty-two





 





new Oranges had been organized and

large accessions made during the year

to Granges already organized. The





treasurer’s report showed total resources

of $23,788.05. The, committee in charge.

of the trade arrangement,rcported that

tl-l tons of binder twine had been pur—

chased, worth $12,000, and also fertilizer

to the, value of $21,000. An important

change in the representation of the State





Grange was made. Proportional repre—

sentation was adopted which entitles





each county having a Grange to one del-

egate, and each county having a paid up

membership exceeding 500 will be en—

titled to an additional delegate for each

additionallflOO or major fraction thereof,

provided that two delegates shall not be

elected from the same Grange. The

state master’s salary was increased to

$500, with $2 50 per day and expenses

when on the business of the Grange.

The Grange, favored county local option.

forestry preservation, direct election of

l‘nited States senators. referendum on

the 5 per cent basis and initiative on not

over 8 per cent basis, provided that meas—

ures be adopted by the majority of votes

cast; favorcd‘the use of a share of the

farmers’ institute funds for instruction

in household economy in the institutes

and recommended uniform specifications

for road laws, 50 per cent to be paid by

the state, 30 per cent by the county and

10 per cent by each township and abut-

ting property owners. Next year’s meet-

ing of the State Grange will be held at

Columbus.





Cass Co. Pomona recently met with

ITnion Grange. Several subordinate





Oranges were represented and the fol-

lowing officers were elected and installed:

Master, C. T. \Vells; overseer, Geo. Tol-

Jesse Green; stew-

ard, Albert Martin; assistant steward,

Ralph Stewart; chaplain, Mr. Spring—

steen; treasurer, G. H. Redfield; secre-

tary, Jesse Green; gatekeeper, C. C, Sim—

mons; Ceres, Mrs. Redfield; Pomona,

Mrs. Ned Carter; Flora, Mrs. Wm. Wag-

ner; L. A. 8., Mrs. Geo. Tolbert.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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FEB. 20. 1909.

.ADDITIONAL CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





The Salem Farmers’ Club held its Jan.

meeting at the pleasant home of Mr. and

Mrs. Burton Hooper. This was in a large

sense, a. farewell meeting to Mr. and

Mrs. Hooper, as they are going to leave

the farm for a, home in the nearby town

of South Lyon. It is with regret that

their many friends bid them good—bye.

The report of the state'meeting‘at Lan-

sing was given by our delegate, W. W.

Hamilton. The report was instructive

and interesting, containing several new

suggestions for our club work. An ori-

ginal poem on the new year was read

by Mrs. Chas. Ross, which was enjoyed

by all. Our old club friend, L. D. Lore-

well, gave the club one of his excellent

talks. Excellent music was furnished by

the young ladies’ chorus, also by Misses

Ruth Ross and Grace Thompson. An

original poem, which was given at the

state. meeting, was then given by Mrs.

May Atchinson. The Michigan Dairy-

men's Association was entertained at

Salem, Jan. 15-16. It was well attended

and the farmers of the vicinity received

a good deal of benefit therefrom.——~H. C.

Thompson, Reporter.



Do Not Favor Unlt System.—The Jan-

uary meeting of the Napoleon Farmers'

Club was held at “Woodside,” the home

of B. R. Tracy and wife. About 75 mem-

bers were present. The club was called

to order by President T. M. Andrews.

after which a pleasing program was

The bill before the present legis—

lature providing for the unit system of

Schools, was warmly discussed, in which

the “Little Red Schoolhouse" seemed to

have the best of the argument. The

paper of C. Taylor was thoroly discussed.

Club adjourned, to meet with Wm. Wyc—

koff and wife the third Saturday in Feb-

ruary.——R. 'B. Chef, Reporter. ‘



Another enjoyable and profitable meet—

ing of the Looking Glass Valley Farmers'

Club was held Thursday, Jan. 28, at the

pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. H. S.

Bliss. About 100 Were present. The

program began by singing America, fol-

lowed by prayer, a solo and a recitation.

after which Prof. A. C. Anderson, of M.





 





A. C., gave a very interesting talk to

the club. His topic was “The Dairy

Cow." He favored no particular breed





of cows but said, for butter and cream,

the Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey are

equally good. He spoke of the care of

the dairy cow—saying they should not be

out of doors so much—an hour being

sufficient. Also that our barns should

have more sunlight and ventilation. He

also thinks it pays to keep a separator

of some standard make, in making but-

ter. Several other questions were brot

up and discussed after which the meeting

adjourned to meet with Mr. and Mrs.

Royal Miller, Feb. 11, 1909._Mrs. Anna

0. Lee, Reporter.



A Farmer's Club lnstltute.—The insti-

tute held by the Salem Farmers’ Club

on Feb. 3, was especially enjoyable and

successful, being largely attended and

full or interest. W'. I. Moore, of Hanover,

spoke on “Building up the soil," also on

"How to make the dairy cow pay." Both

of these talks were greatly enjoyed by

the farmers and dairy-men of this vicin—

ity, who entered with enthusiasm into

the discussions. In the evening the com-

missioner of public schols, Evan Essing.

spoke on “The Rural School Problem,”

and I. N. Moore on “Character Building."

Both addresses were much enjoyed. The

next meeting of the club will be held on

V‘Vednesday, March 3, when a temperance

program will be given—H. C. Thompson,

Reporter.



Hold Semi-Monthly Meetings—Another

profitable meeting of the Looking Glass

Valley Fm‘mcrs' Club was held at the

pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Roval

Littler, Thursday, Feb. 11. About 70 were

present and the bountiful dinner was fol-

lowed by a lively and interesting pro-

gram. Mr. Leon Boss favored the clul)

with several fine selections on his phono-

graph, and Mrs. Miller gave a recitation.

Roll call was responded to by short.

stories and quotations of Lincoln. “The





farmer‘s vegetable and berry garden,”

was the first subject discussed. Mr. Bliss

led the discussion, taking the question

from a mun's standpoint, and Mrs





Chester Clark followed, giving a woman’s

opinion on what constitutes a good gar-

den. The discussions were interesting,

the general opinion being that the garden

should be large enough that a horse may

be used, vegetables should be planted in

rows and worked early, garden seeds

should be tested before planting. The re-

mainder of the time was taken up dis-

cussing the advisability of starting the,

creamery. The club adjourned to meet

with Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Plowman and

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Batomuu, Feb. 25. a

meeting being held em-h two weeks.~

Mrs. Anna 0. Lee, Reporter.





 





Spencer Leading Shot for 1908.



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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.





February 17, 1909.

Grain and Seeds.





Wheat.—-This week wheat has had a

very strong market. The bulls have had

their own way and prices are several

cents higher. Besides the hold the Chi-

cago crowd have upon the market the

news from every district and factor that

has an influence upon the trade is favor-

able to advances. The receipts from

producing sections are small and the

demand for wheat to grind into flour is

steady and urgent with a good call for

the manufactured article. The disturb-

ance of the telegraph systems of the

country was a hindrance to an active

trade during the opening sessions of this

week but when again in commission it

is anticipated that an active market

will follow. One year ago the price_for

No. 2 red wheat was 941/20. Quotations

for the week are: '



No.2 No.1 No.3



Red. White. Red. May. July.

Thur. ....1.141/«, 1.131/2 1.111/2 1.141/2 1.039;"

F





Sat. ......1.161/2 1.161/2 1.13%, 1.16 1.03%

Mon. ..... 1.161/2 1.161/2 1.1334,; 1.16 1.03%

Tues. ....1.18 1.18 1.15 1.17 1.03%

\Ved. ....'.1.181/,; 1.18 1.151/2 1.17 1.03%





Corn.——-Following the strong market for

wheat, corn has advanced to a new high

mark for the year. The storm> cut off

much of the offerings from country

places and caused dealers to draw from

holdings. The visible supply changed

but little and demand is good. One

year ago the price for N0. 3 corn was

57c. Quotations for the week are:





No. 3



No. 3 Yellow.

Thursday ............... . 64 65

Friday ................... . . . .

Saturday ................. 64 65

Monday .................. 641/; 65 1/5,

Tuesday .................. :5 66

Wednesday ............. 651,4. 661,4





Oats—This trade did not respond to

the strong markets of the two preceding

grains as an advance of only a fraction

of a cent is noted. The price is so high

and the holdings so limited that an in—

fluence of more than an ordinary kind is

necessary to disturb Values. Demand is

better than the supply. One year ago

the price for No. 3 white oats was 5311c.

Quotations are:



No. 3 \Vhite.





Thursday ........................ 551/1

Friday ............................ . .



Saturday ......................... 55 1.;

“1011(lll)’ .......................... 501.1

Tuesday ......................... 551’,

\Vedncsday ....................... 551/2





Beans—There continues to be an ac-

tive demand for beans but the holders

are not anxious to let go at present tig-

ures. No trading is therefore being done.

The following are the quotations made

from bids:



Cash. Illay.





Thursday ................... $2.3 $2.3



Friday .......................... .. . .

Saturday .................... 2.35 2.40

:Monday ..................... 2.35 2.40

Tuesday 2.35 2.40

“'edncsday .................. 2.35 2. i0





Clover Seed.»--’I‘his product is changing

hands actively at prices slightly below

those of last week. it is probable that

the demand for seed for seeding purposes

will soon influence higher values. The

following quotations ruled during the

past week:



Prime Spot. lVIar. Alsikc.

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Thursday ........$...;.0 $5.: 0 $8.00

Friday . . . . .. . .

Saturday 5.50 7.75

Monday 5.50 7.75

Tuesday 5.15 8.00





Rye.~~Market is dull and firm at a {To

advance. Quotation “or cash No. 2 is 80c.

“Wednesday ....... 5.40 5.40 8.00



Visible Supply of Grain.





This wet-k. Last week.





“'lteat ............... l1,472,ooo 3.212.016)

Corn ................. 0.305.000 tLJlIJltu’)

Oats ................. 9.007.000 {roulette

Rye .................. 786,000 uncut;

Barley ............... 2,911,000 2,910,000





Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.





Flour.r~~l"rices unchanged. Quotations

are as follows:

Clear ................................ $5.35

Straight ........................ . ..... 5.50

Patent h'iicliigan ..................... 6.10

Ordinary Patent ..................... 5.65





Hay and Straw.—Prices unchanged.

Carlot prices on track are: No. 1 timothy,

new, $10.506il]: No. 2 timothy, $9.506i10;

clover, mixed, $06010; rye straw, $7607.50;

wheat and oat straw, $6636.50 per ton.



Feed—Prices are unchanged. Bran,

$27 per ton; coarse middlings, $28: fine

middlings, $31; cracked corn and coarse

corn meal, $27; corn and oat chop, $25.



Potatoes. This market is strong. The

tubers have been moving more freely

and prices are advanced. Good stock is

quoted at 90c per bu.



Oils.»—~Linseed in barrels, 56c per gal;

boiled, 570; lard oil, extra winter strain-

ed, 830; extra No. 1, 60c; N0. 1, 560; No.

2, 54c; headlight kerosene, 9c; turpen-

tine by the bbl., 480 per gal.



Provisions.~Family pork, $17.25@17.75;

mess pork, $16.50; light short clear, $18.25;

heavy short clear, $18.75; pure lard in

tierces, 10%c; kettle rendered lard, 11%c;

bacon, 13c; shoulders 8c; smoked hams,

11@111/2C; picnic havms, 8c.



HIdes.——No. 1 green, 9%c; No. 2 green,

81_c; No. 1 cured, 111/20; No. 2 cured,

1 1/2c; No. 1 green kip, 11c; No. 2 green

kip, 91/20; No. 1 cured calf, 16c; No. 2

cured calf, 141/2c; No. 1 horsehides, $3.40;

No. 2, $2.40: sheepskins, as to wool,

lambs, 5OC@$1.50.





Dairy and Food Products.





Button—Demand continues steady.

Prices are unaltered except that dairy

goods area shade lower. .Market quiet.





 





, THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





Quotations: Extra creamery, 30c; firsts,

28c; packing stock, 19c; dairy, 201,40.



Eggs.—Altho quotations for eggs have

fluctuated much recently the storm early

this week was a bullish ~feature and

strengthened the market considerably.

Fresh stock is quoted at 291/2c per dozen.



Poultry.—Receipts are small. 'Market

is strong. Chickens are higher both for

dressed and live offerings. Quotations;

Dressed chickens, 16c; fowls, 141/2c;

ducks, 156016c; geese, 13@14c; turkeys,

young, 22@23c; do. old, 19@20c per lb.

Live—Spring chickens, 15c; fowls, 14c;

ducks, 14@14l/2c; geese, 12%13c; turkeys,

1660200 per lb.



Cheese.——Michigan, old, 150; do. new,

151/2@161/zc; brick cream, Isl/2613170;

schweitzer, 180; lilmburger, 16c per lb.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Apples.—Market firm. Best grades are

quoted at $4@5 per bbl. Western apples

in bushel boxes, $2.25@3.50.



Onions.——Spanish, $1.90 per bu; home-

grown at 800 per bu.



Cabbage.—Home-growln selling at 30

per 1b., an advance of 1/20.



Vegetables—Green onions, 15c per doz;

radishes, 300 per doz; cuculmbers, $2.25@

2.50 per bu; lettuce, 15c per lb; head let-

tuce, $3 per hamper; beets, 45c; tur-

nips, 400; carrots, 500; watercress, 40¢;

per doz; celery, 35@40<2; spinach, $1 per

bu; parsnips, 600 per bu.





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.



The sensation of the market during re-

cent days is the almost daily rise in

wheat quotations. At present quotations

are $1.11, but a. prominent miller of the

state predicts $1.25 wheat within 30 days.

Of course, flour has closely followed the

upward trend and corn and oats are 2c

higher. lutter and egg prices are prac-

tically unchanged. Potatoes are fully 5c

higher, but very little stock is moving

as yet. Dressed hogs are scarce this

week and the few offered are bringing

81/2090. in live poultry, fowls and chick—

ens are 1652c higher, while capons have

advanced 30.



Quotations follow:



Grains.~l\7iieat, $1.11; corn, 66c; oats,

54c; buckwheat, 75c per bu; rye, 700.



Beansxsi-iandpickcd, $2 per bu.



Button—Buying prices, Dairy, N0. 1.

22c; No, 2, We; creamcry in tubs, 30C;

prints, 301/;c.



(‘hccst‘n—JViichigan full cream is selling

at 1560160 per lb; brick, 17c; Swiss, 17c;

limburger, 17c.



Eggs—Case count, 25c; candied, 28

@30c.



Apples.—75c6n$1.23.



Potatoes—706175c per in].



(“attics—Cows, $250613 per cwt.; steers

and heifers, best quality. $3634; dressed

mutton, T6itSc; dressed veal, 61/26081/20;

dressed beef, cows, 41,’2@51/2c; steers and

heifers, 51.43617.



Hogs—Dressed. Slgftflc.



Live Poultry.-Fowis, 121,4;fi‘131/3c: young

chickens. ifl’ul4c; roosters, 96DlOc; tur-

keys. Mfume; young ducks, 13@14C;

geese, .‘l6/loc; capons, 1961200.





 





 





Chicago.



\Vheat.——No. '3 red, $1.]ng6i‘1.19; May,

31.1413; .luiy, 531.0015.



("orn No. 3, t'ifllgfi‘033.ic; May, 65%0;

July, 647,4,(3



(latssr—rllo. .‘l white, 52%;fi54c; May,

Rifle; .iuly, 481,130.



Buttcr.—Steady.

dairies, 2161 25c.



itlg‘gs.~».\‘te2t(l_v. At mark, cases includ-

ed, 206:20e; firsts, 20c; prime firsts, 300.



Potatoes—Car lots in bulk. Fancy, 78

6180c pcr bu; ordinary to good, 75c.





Creameries, 2261280;





 





Pittsburg.



Potatoes—Michigan, 78@80e; in small

lots, 806;.N2C. '



.ltlggs.—Market lower. Fresh candied,

31612l3c: current receipts, 2861::0c.

Apples:Higher. King, $0 per bbl;

Spy, $5615.25: Spitzcnburg, $5615.25.



Poultry. Higher. Dressed. Turkeys,

2661-35c; spring chickens, lTfizlSc; hens,

1765180; ducks, 22c.





 





New York.

Grain—“’heat, No. 2 red, $11934;

corn, No. 2, Tile; oats, mixed. 516154143c.

Eggs—Market firm. \Vestern firsts,





Ric; seconds. 33613211,!30.



bitten—Unsettled. Creamery specials,

206/ flown; western factory firsts, 21

61213142





i’otatocs.—\\'r-stcrn, in bulk, per 180

11’s., $2,257,150.



Poultrywiircssv-d. quiet; western spring

chickens, 126/1011 turkeys, lli6123lc; fowls,

1151/269161A3c.





 





Elgin.



Butter.~l\iurkwt is firm at 200. The

sales of the past week amounted to

437,100 lbs.



Other Potato Markets.

Cleveland.ir\\'hite stock, 756i|85c per bu.

St. Louism-AAvcrage offerings higher,



8861$1 per bu.



P,i|ade|phia.—l<‘or good offerings, 78

@80c.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.



(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N. Y.



February 15, 1.009.

Receipts of sale stock here today as

follows: Cattle. 95 loads; hogs. 12.900

head; sheep and la'mbs, 23,000; calves,

900





 





 





With 22,000 cattle in Chicago our market

opened active at strong last week’s

prices. The quality of the cattle was

better today than last Monday. The de-

mand for heavy weight cattle is limited.

We are selling cattle 0n the market at

$5.75@6. that look common compared

with cattle that we have to sell at $6.25

606.50. We do not think this state of

affairs will continue very long. Every-

thing indicates that there is no great

amount of good‘cattle on feed, conse-

quently we look for the good weight cat-

tle to sell higher in proportion. *





We quote: Best steers, $6@6.50; best

1,200 to 1,300 lb. shipping steers, $5.75@

6.25; best 1,000 to 1,100 lb. shipping steers,

$5.40@5.90; best fat cows, $4@4.75; fair

to good, $3.75@4; trimmers, $2.25@2.75;

best fat heifers, $5.25@5.75; butcher

heifrs, 800 to 900 lbs., $4.25@4.75; light

fat heifers, $325604; best bulls, $4.50@5;

bologna bulls, $4@4.50.



The good hogs today sold 5@100 lower

and the pigs 25@30c lower than Satur-

day. About everything is sold that got

yarded in time for the market. We quote

prices today as follows:



Best ‘mixed, medium and heavy, $6.85

@6.90; best yorkers, $6.75@6.80; light

yorkers, $6.70@6.75; pigs, $6.60@6.65;

roughs, $5.75@5.80; stags, $4.50@4.75..



The lamb market today was about 50

lower than Saturday. All the handy

weight lambs are sold but there are a

few heavy weights going over unsold.

We look for about steady prices the bal-

ance of the week.



Top lambs, $7.65@7.75; fair to good,

$7@7.60; cull lambs, $6.25@7.25; skin

culls, $450,605.25; yearlings, $6.25@6.75;

wethers, $575606; ewes, $4.75@5.25; cull

sheep, $2.506p3.50; best veals, $9.50@9.75;

medium to good, $7.50@9.25; heavy, $4@5.





Chicago.

February 15, 1909.



Cattle.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ......22,000 42,000 18,000

Same day last year..36,732 45,647 27,051

Received last week ..51,037 145,023 64,993

Same week last year.61,336 249,141 69,885



Cattle were marketed unusually spar-

ingly last week. as was natural after the

big decline in prices that was occasioned

a week earlier by the too generous sup-

plies. The market was disturbed by the

holiday on Friday everywhere in honor

of Lincoln's birthday, and on Thursday

trade was very dull at weak and partly

lower prices. The \Vcdnesday market

was decidedly the best of the week, sales

on that day showing advances of 2560350

per 100 lbs. on an average over those at

the close of the previous week. Beef

steers went on that day largely at $5@

6.50, a considerably higher range than has

been seen on other recent days. The

sales of beef steers for the week were at

an extreme range of $4.25607.10, with

packers showing a great partiality for

handy little steers that could be pur-

chased below $5. Butcher stock has

shared in the activity and advances in

prices, cows and heifers selling at $3230

@550, with scattering sales of prime

heifers at $5.7561‘r6.25, while canners and

cutters were much more active than usual

at 5313561325. Bulls sold better at $2.85

6175, and calves were scarce and active at

$3.506ys per 100 lbs. There was a fairly

active demand for stockers and feeders

at advances of 156120c, the principal

drawback to free trading being a lack of

desirable cattle, for killers wanted the

best cattle and generally stood ready to

outbid country buyers for them. Gen-

eral conditions in the cattle trade have

not changed, and the receipts should be

kept: down to small proportions.



Recent sales of stockcrs and feeders

were at $3615.50. The cattle market was

more active today, with a smaller supply

than is usual on Monday. and prices were

stronger to a dime, higher. No prime

cattle were offered.



Hogs were marketed sparingly during

the past week, both here and elsewhere

thruout the west, bad country roads and

dissatisfaction with recent prices causing

much of the decrease in the daily offer-

ings. lot it is becoming evident that

there is going to be a shortage in the

future supply of hogs. as an unusually

large percentage of the last pig crop was

marketed very young. The men who are

still marketing little pigs are. in error, as

they will discover later on. The offerings

(’ollllllg‘ on the market here and at other

markets are still deticicnt in weight, the

rectnt ayerage weight here being but 204

lbs., compared with 212 lbs. :1 year ago,

210 lbs. two years ago and 217 lbs. three

years ago. The spread in prices has nar—

rowed in a marked degree in recent

weeks, even the ordinary kinds selling

well. but the heavier droves are still

bringing the highest figures. Eastern

shippers continue to be the best support

to the market. Hogs had a sensational

decline on Saturday, with a big supply

offered, but there was a good rally today,

with sales at $6616.65.



Sheep and lambs were, on the whole,

good sellers last Week, despite weakness

in prices at times. The strength lay

mainly in the very limited receipts, while

the continued small shipping outlet, ex—

cept for feeders was the worst feature

from the sellers' standpoint. The quar—

:tntinc against Michigan was maintained

by the state of lllinois, thus shutting out

Michigan lambs. and 'thcsc flocks con-

tinued to find their way in large num-

bers to the Buffalo market, thus checking

the eastern shipping demand here. But

there was nothing the matter with the

feeder trade, and feeder lambs had a

lively sale at $(l.25617.1:0 per 100 lbs.,

while feeder sheep sold freely at $42560

5 and feeder yearlings at $5605.75. The

market was higher today, lambs selling at

$-l.7561‘7.75, ewes at $2.50605,35, the best

wethers at $5.75 and prime yearlings at



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LIVE STOCK NOTES.





 





The Chicago cattle market presents

some curious features, and perhaps the

most singular is the extravagant prices

that are being paid for prime heavy feed-

ers by reckless stockmen at a time when

killers show in every possible way that

they will not pay fancy prices for prime

long-fed heavy beef cattle except to an

extremely limited extent. Paying from

343(1550 per 100 pounds for feeding cattle

at a period when killers are turning their

atention chiefly to steers that can be pur-

chased from $5@5.75 per 100 pounds,

looks hazardous in the extreme to old-

time stockmen. True, conditions may

improve in the future so much that the

men who feed these high-priced cattle

nmay make fair profits in the end, but the

work seems to involve too much of spec-





FEB. 20, 1909.





ulation. Recent sales offlnished steers

at $6.50@7.10 per 100 pounds have been

showing an extremely small percentage

of the entire transactions, and by far

the greater part of the steer sales have

taken place below $6. - Fat heifers, as

well as handy—weight cheap steers, are

great favorites with buyers. It seems

a safer proposition to refill the feed lots

with medium-priced cattle, and the same

is true of lambs and sheep, for sheepmen

have gone wild and are paying high prices

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In' the first edition the Detroit Live

Stock markets are reports of last week;

all other markets are right up to date.

Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets

are given in the last edition. The first.

edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-

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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Th ursday’s Market.





February 18, 1909.

Cattle. ,_



930. Market opened 15@250

higher than last week but' closed 150

lower. Common milch cows very dull and

no higher.



. We quote: Extra steers, $5.50@6; steers

and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $5@5.50; steers

and heifers; 800 to 1,000, $4.75@5.25;

steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to

700, $4@4;50; choice fat cows, $3.75@4.25:

good fat cows, $3.50@4; common cows.

$3@3.25; canners, $1.50@2; choice heavy

bulls, $4.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls,

$3.75@4; Light bulls, $3@3.50; milkers,

large, young, medium age, $40@55; com-

mon milkers, $20@'30.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Newton B. Co. 5

steers av 1,120 at $6, 10 do av 75 at

$5.35, 2 cows av 990 at $4.25, 1 do weigh—

ing 1,180 at $4.25, 7 butchers av 1,060 at

$4.25, 8 do av 852 at $5.25; to Mich. B. Co.

2 bulls av 1,330 at $4.50, 12 butchers av

880 at $4.50, 11 do av 832 at $4.50, 6 steers

av 910 at $5.50, 5 cows av 932 at $3.50,

2 heifers av 645 at $4.50, 2 cows av 815

at $3, 6 butchers av 950 at $3.50; to Schu-

man 16 butchers av 600 at $4.35; to New-

ton B. Co. 6 cows av 1,016 at $3, 13 butch-

ers av 1,071 at $4.25, 5 steers av 926 at

$5.35, 3 do av 1,266 at $6, 5 cows av 1.076

at $4.25, 1 bull weighing 900 at $4, 3 can-

ners av 943 at $2.50; to Hammond, ,S. &

C0. 1 bull weighing 1,060 at $4, 3 butchers

av 843 at $4.50, 4 cows av 982 at $3.50.

12 steers av 1,226 at $6, 1 bull weighing

900 at $3.75, 22 steers av 941 at $5.35. 2

cows av 925 at $3.75, 2 do av 990 at $4,

6 steers av 1,133 at $5.65, 8 butchers av

700 at $4.25, 2 do av 660 at $2.50; to New-

ton B. Co. 1 bull weighing 740 at $4.50; to

LaBoe 10 steers av 806 at $5.20; to Fitz-

patrick Bros. 4 cows av 1.005 at $4.15,

1 cow weighing 750 at $2: to Heinrich 3

cows av 1,036 at $4, 23 steers av 982 at

$5.60.; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull weighing

1,650 at $4.25; to Newton B. Co. 6 steers

av 891 at $5.40, 1 bull weighing 590 at

$3.50, 4 steers av 790 at $4.75, 6 butchers

av 941 at $4, 3 cows av 843 at $2.50.



Spicer, M. & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 bull

weighing 1,230 at $4.50, 1 do weighing

1,700 at $4.50, 17 steers av 1,140 at $5.50,

2 cows av 1,160 at $5; to Kamman B. Co.

10 butchers av 910 at $4.25, 4 do av 652

at $4.25, 8 do av 647 at $4.25, 15 steers

av 850 at $5.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 cow

weighing 1,060 at $3.50, 1 do weighing 850

at $3, 1 do weighing 1,040 at $3.60, 1 do

weighing 570 at $1.50; to Goose 2 heifers

av 390 at $3.75; to Newton B. Co.

butchers av 805 at $4, 4 steers av 762 at

$5, 3 cows av 983 at $4, 3 butchers av 806

at $5; to Kamman 1 cow weighing 800 at

2.50, 2 do av 965 at $3.50, 7 butchers av

950 at $4.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 2

cows av 775 at $2, 21 butchers av 600 at

$3.65; to Sullivan P. Co. 5 steers av 784

at $5, 1 bull weighing 1,270 at $4.



Haley sold Schuman 2 heifers av 560

at $4.25.



Same sold Kamman 3 butchers av 683

at $4.25, 1 cow weighing 950 at $2.75, 17

steers av 850 at $5.35.



Same sold Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull weigh-

ing 740 at $3.50, 3 cows av 946 at $3.15,

3 do av 1,000 at $4.15.



Vickery sold same 2 steers av 950 at

$5, 1 bull weighing 910 at $4, 1 cow

weighing 1,000 at $4.



Allen sold Mich. B. Co. 14 steers av 730

at $5, 6 butchers av 445 at $3.75.



McAnninch sold same 1 cow weighing

1,350 at $4, 2 cows av 950 at $3, 7 steers

786 at $4.75, 8 butchers av 500 at $4.



\Veeks soldv same 17 steers av 968 at

$5.50, 2 do av 1,090 at $5, 3 do av 1,150 at

$4.50, 3 do av 1,110 at $4.25.



Robb sold same 8 do av 1,000 at $5.50,

4 do av 610 at $4.65.



Thompson Bros.

960 at $3.85.



Lowenstein sold same 10 cows av 1,128

at. $4.25.



MeAnninch sold Bresnahan 4 butchers

:I\' 600 at $4.35.



Belheimer sold same 6 butchers av 861

git $4, 2 cows av 1,000 at $4, 2 steers av

980 at $5.50.



Haley sold Rattkowsky 1 cow weighing

1.000 at $2.75, 2 d0 av 1,155 at $3.50, 1 do

weighing 790 at $3.25, 3 butchers av 526

at $3.90.



Bohm sold K‘amman B. Co. 4 steers av

865 at $5.25, 1 heifer weighing 830 at $4.77").



\Vagner sold Hammond, S. & Co. 5

steers av 962 at $5.25, 1 bull weighing

820 at $3.75. .





Receipts,





sold same 3 cows av





Veal Calves.





Receipts, 411. Market strong at last

week’s prices. Best, $8@8.25; others, $4

€17.50. Milch cows and springers, good,

steady; common, dull.



Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 5 av

130 at $7.50, 3 av 190 at $5, 2 av 225 at

$5, 5 av 150 at $8, 2 av 130 at $6.50.



Spicer, M. & R. sold Markowitz 6 av

110 at $7.30; to Newton B. Co. 4 av 130

at $7.75; to Rattkowsky 2 av 145 at $8.25;

to Newton B. Co. 11 av 140 at $7.75.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

Co 3 av 155 at $8. 2 av 210 at 38-25;.t0

Belson 1 weighing 90 at $5; to Rattkow-

sky 1 weighing 150 at $5: to Belson 9 av

145 at $8; to vMich. B. Co. 9 av 145 at

$7.75, 16 av 160 at $8.25; to Parker, W. &

Co; 7 av 155 at $8, 4 av 150 at $8.



Wagner'sold McGuire 17 av 150 at $7.50.

-, Berry sold Newton B. Co. 1 weighing

130 at $5, 6 av 125 at $7.75.



Smith, sold, ,Nagle 3 av 140 at $8, 1

weighing 100"at $5.“"“ ' v ‘ .





Vleeks sold same 2 av" 95 at $6, 20 av

130 at $8.



Rice sold Burnstine 2 av 100 at $5, 7

av 145 at $7.75.



Mertz sold same 18 av 135 at $7.50..





Sheep and Lambs.





4,149. Market steady with



15@250 higher than last

week. Best lambs, $7.40@7.60; fair to

good lambs, $7@7.25; light to common

lambs, $6@6.50; fair to good butcher

sheep, $4.50@5; culls and common. $3604.



Spicer, M. & R. sold Nagle 8 Sheep av

90 at $4.75, 57 lambs av 80 at $7.25, 15

do av 65 at $7; to Newton B. Co. 17 do

av 80 at $7, 15 sheep av 90 at $4.50; to

Eschrich 10 do av 69 at $3, 60 lambs av

55 at $5.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Robinson B. Co.

10 sheep av 83 at $4. 13 do av 110 at $5,

9 mixed av 88 at $5, 32 lambs av 90 at

$7.40; to Harland 23 do av 80 at $5.30, 1

do weighing 80 at $7.50; to Young 99 do

av 85 at $7.50; to Mich. B. Co. 29 do av

70 at $7.15, 5 sheep av 93 at $4.50, 11 lambs

av 67 at $6.75, .3 sheep av 95 at $4; to

Sullivan P. Co. 3 do av 130 at $4, 86

lambs av 90 at $7.50; to Hammond. S.

& Co. 6 sheep av 100 at $3.50, 93 lambs

av 95 at $7.60, 63 do av 80 at $7.35; to

Nagle 438 do av 95 at $7.50, 71 do av 95

at $7.50; to Mich. B. Co. 55 do av 70 at

$7; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 24 mixed av 90

at $4.75, 39 lambs av 70 at $7.25, 15 do

av 70 at $5, 50 sheep and lambs av 93 at

$51215, 5 sheep av 150 at $3.50, 16 do av

100 at $4.50, 91 lambs av 97 at $7.60; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 214 lambs av 84 at

$7.50; to Parker, W. & Co. 99 do av 70

at $7.50, 39 do av 80 at $7.25. ,



Wagner sold Sullivan P. Co. 2 sheep

av 90 at $3, 7 do av 80 at $2.50, 22 lambs

av 50 at $6.





Receipts,

Wednesday,





Bohm sold Nagle 37 lambs av 80 at.





$7.50, 3 sheep av 95 at $3.



Rice, sold same 67 lambs av 90 at $7.25.



Smit'h sold same 98 lambs av 85 at

$7.25, 5 sheep av 100 at $3.50.



Berry sold Newton B. Co. 34 lambs av

70 at $7.





Hogs.

Receipts, 2,108. Market 25@35c lower

than last week and very dull; quality





common.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $6.20@6.30; pigs, $5.50@6; light york-

ers, $6096.10; stags, $4, off.



Sundry shippers sold Hammond. S. &

Co. 119 av 160 at $6.25, 24 av 143 at $6.15,

10 av 297 at $6.35.



Sundry shippers sold Parker, 1V. C0.

141 av 175 at $6.25, 89 av 176 at $6.20.



Roe Com. Co. sold same 83 av 166 at





$6.25.



Spicer, M. & R. Sold same 325 av 184

at $6.30, '92 av 179 at $6.25, 22 av 125 at

$6.25, 67 av 139 at $6.10, 51 pigs av 91

at $5.75.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Cooper 36 av 125

at $6.20, 75 av 115 at $6.15, 100 av 120

at $6.10.



Same sold Sullivan P. Co. 115 av 130

at $6.30, 117 av 200 at $6.35, 150 at 120

at $6.15, 43 av 115 at $6.25.





 





Friday's Market.

February 12, 1909.



Cattle.



Market steady at Thurs-

run light, quality common.

We quote: Extra dry-fed steers and

heifers, $5.50; steers and heifers, 1,000

to 1,200, $4.75@5.25; steers and heifers,

800 to 1.000, $4.50@5; grass steers and

heifers that are fat, 500 to 700, $3.75@

4.50; choice fat cows, $3.75@4.25; good

fat cows, $3.25@3.75; common cows, $2.50

((03; canners, $150602; choice heavy bulls,





Receipts, 32.

day's prices;





$4@4.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls,

3.50654; stock bulls, $3603.50: milkers,





large, young, medium age, $40@50; com-

mon milkers, $30@35.

Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts, 31. Market active and 250

higher than on Thursday. Best lambs.

$7.25@7.50; fair to good lambs, $650007;

light to common lambs, $5606.50; fair to

good butcher sheep, $3.50@4.50; culls and

common, $2.50@3.



Hogs.





Receipts, 231. Market steady at Thurs-





day’s prices. Range of prices: Light to

good butchers, $6.606v‘6.65; pigs, $5.75@





6.25; light yorkers, $6606.50; stags, 1/3 off.





 





 





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ONION CULTURE.





My first attempt at onion culture re-

sulted in a failure. At that time I

planted on poor soils, as I didn't know,

any better. I soon learned that onions

like rich, cool soil, and since I have se-

lected that for them. The they require

an abundance of moisture, the soil must

not be wet. In lny experience a rich,

well under-drained black sandy loam is

an ideal soil for onions.



For five successive years I grew them

on the same plot in our garden, each

spring giving them a top dressing of one

or two inches of chicken manure, and a

coat of hardwood ashes, and I saw that

they were the best thing for onions. The

second year I raised them I changed my

chicken yard so that I found that it paid

me to go to the trouble of changing

around. The ground was sandy, black

loam, and had been used for several

years. It had been sown to oats in sum-

mer and rye in the fail and early winter,

and then the chickens fed on the lot in

the winter and summer. So it was ex-

ceedingly rich and needed no other fer-

tilizer.



The soil is prepared as early in the

spring as possible ill order to give the

young (minus the 'most of the cool

weather which they require. I also think

that clovers and cowpeas make all ideal

preparation for the crop. The ground is

plowed about seven inches deep then har-

rowed and dragged and rolled to make a.

fine smooth and Hill] seed bed. “'e use

a seed drill with marker for planting,

marking the first row with a line. Drill

the seed just thick enough to insure a

good stand, thus avoiding the time and

expense of much thinning. The drill is

set to cover the seed just abollt half an

illch deep. I make the rows one foot

apart. As soon as the plants are large

enough for us to follow the rows. culti-

vation begins. “'e use a wheel hoe fm

our implement of tillage. At first he

sharp hoes are attached and run just

underneath the surface of the soil. Latel

the little plows are used instead and the

crop is given shallow and frequent cui-

tivation until the onion tops begin to lop

and we can no longer get till'u them.

Any weeds in the rows that these tools

cannot get are taken out by hand. “'6

find the. hoes of the wheel hoe. when de-

tached alld used by hand. are excellent

for the tedious hand weeding.



Tile first two weedings are the main

work of the whole season; the plants are

so small and grow so slowly ill compari-

son to the weeds that the task is irk—

so'mc. After the young plants once get a.

start their growth is more rapid alld the

weeding becomes less and less tedious

with each cultivation. but the weeds

must be kept cleared out even after the

cultivation is laid aside or by the time

onions are ripe they cannot be found for

the weeds. The hands are the best tools

for this.



As soon as ripe I pull and let dry for a

few days if the weather will permit.

Then I t~p and place them in bushel

slatted crates and stack four crates high,

placing a 2x4 underneath. To let them

have a circulation of air I leave a few

inches between the rows of crates. 1

then COVcl‘ with a good board roof. This

is the best way to cure the crop and

I have tried different methods. \Yllile it

is a little expensive at the start, you

can gradually increase your storage ca-

pacity some each year alld soon can

handle 200 to 400 bushels of ripe onions,

and ill so doing you will not feel the cost

so much. Another advantage is that

they are already cratcd for marketing.

As opportunity offers I sell as rapidly as

possible to commission merchants f. o. b.

here. The red and white bring the best

prices but are rather harder to grow and

it is always more expensive to buy seeds

of the red and white varieties.



As to varieties grown here, I have

tried nearly all kinds. I grow mostly

Yellow Globe and Danvers for green

bunching onions; “'hite IVlultipliel‘s also

make good bunch onions. For large ones

the Prize Taker is perhaps best. Next

comes the Red “'etllersfield, the Red

Victoria, the Mammoth Gibraltar and the

“’hite Globe.



The onion maggot has never given me

much trouble. If I see. an onion turning

yellow in June I carefully lift it from

the ground and destroy it. An applica-

tion of air—slacked lime close to the plants

is the best preventive.



Never under any circumstances use





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





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any cheap seeds. (There is always a sus-

picion attached to them. The germinat-

ing power and vitality of onion seeds are

greatly weakened by age. Everything

else may be favorable, but with poor

Seed you are sure of a. failure. The seed

Imay germinate but the vitality will be so

weak it will not produce a crop. Send

to some reliable seedsman, pay a price

and get a good seed. You have too much

at stake to risk success to save a few

dollars.



Sorting and grading onions are just as

important as sorting and grading other

vegetables and fruits. Layers contain-

ing bulbs of odd shapes and uneven sizes

are not as attractive and will not sell

at a ‘high figure. Keeping onions over

winter is not always recommended, yet

they can be. kept if proper care is taken.

Still you might not get as good a. price

as was offered in the fall. Do not keep

them too warm; about 35 degrees is the

right temperature. Light freezing does

not injure them, but do not handle them

while frozen. When you are ready to

ship sort them over again or the mer-

chants will never buy from you again.



My first crop of onions was planted in

1890 and I ‘have been planting them ever

since, and I see that there is money in

it if it is run right. It needs good culti-

vation and good ground, with plenty of

manure. I prefer chicken manure and

hardwood ashes.



New Jersey. C. A. UMOSELLE.

FERTILIZING ONIONS.





\Vhich will give me the better results,

fertilizer drilled in the onion rows or

spread over the entire surface, and would

the commercial fertilizer be more profit-

able than manure on muck land? Should

rlnanure be spread before or after plowing?



Muskegon Co. F. A. N.





If barnyard manure is available the

maximum of results can'be obtained by

the use of these two forms of plant food





runs a. toot or more above ,the ground

an excellent tool for the purpose where

one doesllot have to take too much of

a load. The frame is adjustable so the

teeth can be made to stand slightly V—

shaped with the wide part to the front

so it will gather in and take along all

trash until full. It will also cultivate

When empty, so? that by the time the

trash is removed the patch is cultivated.

If the trash is taken on? after the.old

canes are out, but before the spring prun-

ing is done, it is more easily done as there

is not so much trash to fill up the cul-

tivator or rake. The prunings can then

be raked up with this tool while culti-

vating without additional labor. It is

a good plan in setting a new plantation,

to make cross roads every twenty rods

to give a place to burn this trash and

to enable the pickers to cross rOWS with-

out going to the end or breaking down

bushes.



We used to thin out the canes of red

raspberries when removing the old canes

in the winter and early spring by taking

out the smaller ones and leaving only

the larger, more thrifty canes, but we

found that when the winters were severe

many of the larger ones would prove to

be winter killed so far down as to be

of little use for fruit the following sea-

son, while the smaller ones would often

be little damaged; accordingly we are

taking out only the old canes and will

thin out and prune the new ones when

the buds have stated sufficiently to show

what canes are alive and how far up.



Those who have several varieties of

plants to sell next spring will do well

to have some plain label stakes made to

take the place of those that have stood

all winter and are perhaps so dim as to

be nearly unintelligible. \Ve always have

a book record of the varieties but we

want plain label stakes in the spring so

we need not refer to the book every time

we dig a few plants, and we do not want





 





 





A Profitable Onion Harvest, occasionally the result of accident—ls quite certain





to follow Good





together. While onions need plenty of

nitrogen to develop well, the soil must

not lack in phosphoric acid and potash in

order to grow a first class crop. How~

ever, if one or tile other is to be dispensed

with, we believe that well rotted barn-

yard manure used liberally will give su-

perior results to the. commercial fertiliz-

ers. The best plan is to precede the

onion crop with some other cutlivaied

crop and apply the manure to the soil

previous to the first crop. Then by cul—

tivating the soil well the manure will

have become tlloroly decomposed and the

weeds gotten under control by there sur-

face cultivation so that the onions will

have every chance to make use of the,

available plant food in the manure and

also will not be troubled with weeds, as

is the case where soil is freshly turned

up for the reception of the onion plants.

Some growers even go so far as to pre-

cede the onion crop with two cultivated

crops and thereby increase the advantage

by two years of surface cultivation.





PREPARING FOR SPRING WORK IN

THE ORCHARD AND FRUIT

PLANTATION.





 





VVllen the old canes and the surplus

new ones are out of the raspberry rows

we still have the problem of getting the-m

out of the spaces between the rows to a

place where they can be burned. Some

kind of horse rake is desirable for this

work if the rows are of any considerable

length. Such a one-horse rake can be

easily made something on the plan of a

weeder but with the teeth which are to

catch the trash slanting somewhat for—

ward and of sufficient length to allow of

gathering quite a load. “’e have found

our horse cultivator. which has seven

spring teeth attached to a frame which



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Culture and Care.





to make any mistakes on varieties. No

man who values his reputation can afford

to be negligent about these things or

reason that his customer would never

know the difference and so substitute

another variety for the one wanted and

say nothing about it.



Burning brush will soon be in order in

many Michigan orchards. I have been

much interested in the forms of brush

burners in use in several Michigan or-

ellards, but most of us do not really need

them yet. In the younger orchards it is

but a short job to throw the fine brush

on the platform of a ‘low-down wagon and

haul it where wanted. In the large or-





 





 





cllards, especially if they have been neg-

lected, there will be enough brush so.

there is no need of hauling it at all.i

There will generally be enough vacant

places to bllrll the brush without injuring?

the trees, or if the orchard is small it}





may be burned around the outside. A.» —»





little dry material is needed to get the

re started and produce a bed of coals,

when the fire will consume the green

brush as fast as two men can pile it on.

“'hcn all at a convenient distance is

dragged to the heap and burned. start}

a fire in another part of the ore-hard.



If it is suspected that the orchard needs

manure, now is a good time to haul it.

If applied when the ground is frozen the

rains of spring will wash much of it





FEB. 20, 1909.





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CRANBERRY CULTURE.





. Please give me information with regard

to the planting and culture of cranber-

ries on soil suitable to this crop. '

,Eaton Co. B. YERKES.





Cranberries may be 'grown successfully

on low or marshy ground where the wild

sorts grow naturally. The requirements

particularly essential to success are that

the ground shall be capable of being

drained of surface water during the grow-

ing season and yet retain sufficient moist-

ure so that the crop will not suffer by

drought. There should be sufficient

water to enable it being flooded and the

shrface should be comparatively level so

that the flooding may be of even depth.

In addition to the location where the

cranberries grow wild they do well on

Swamps which have grown black ash, red

cedar or huckleberry brush. Old

mill ponds are also sometimes utilized for

this crop. 7



The soil should be prepared by first

clearing away all trace of moss and roots.

This may be done either by removing the

turf or flooding for a Sufficient time to

drown out the wild growth. The bog

should then be ditched to carry off the

Surface water. A dam should be pro-

vided at the outlet of the ditch system

which may be closed so that the water

will back up and flood the land. In

winter it is desirable to have the surface

covered with water a foot or more deep

from- December to April or May; this

protects the land both from the weather

and insects. If sufficient water is avail-

able it may be used as a protection

against early spring and late fall frosts.



Plant vine cuttings six to eight

inches long in rows about fourteen inches

apart. While plantings are sometimes

made directly in the muck the better way

is to cover the surface with about four

inches of sand, the cuttings being thrust

;down obliquely into the muck. The sand

‘keeps down the weed growth and pre-

‘vents a loss of moisture from the muck

‘ below; also preventing loo rank :1 growth

lof the vine and permitting work to pro-

Egress in wet weather. This sand may be

drawn on bogs in winter when covered

with water and frozen over. An addi-

tional,.inch of sand should be added each

four or five years. Where the bog is pre-

pared in this way the vine may be run

thru a cutting box and rolled into the

surface. They should, however, not be

allowed to dry out before planting Some

authorities contend that Where cranber-

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BUSH AND LIMA BEANS.





Before speaking of lima beans as a

class, we desire to mention a. few varieties

of the ordinary running, or polc_ beans.

Almost since gnrdcns have been made

those bcans of one variety or another have

held a descrvctlly popular place, cspec-

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caution as to this point, and care as to

thoro culture and generous fertilizing they



are sure to givc satisfactory results.



They are rapid growers under favorable

conditions, and will come into use ordi-

narily only a few days later than the

low-growing sorts. Do not plant until

reasonably certain. of warm, settled

weather. Plant in hills 3 to 4 feet apart,

making sure that plenty of sccd, say 5

or 6 beans to the bill are usod. These

'should be scattcrcd somewhat, leaving

the center of the hill vacant to give place

to the pole.



The Kentucky “Winder is one of

the best of the, pole sorts. Pods grow 71o

9 inches long, are solidly meaty and when

young are entirely free from strings and

of excellent table quality. If the pods

are gathered as fast as matured and not

allowed to ripen, the vines will continue

bearing to the end of the season.



Burger’s Green—Pod Stringless is some-

what earlier than Kentucky Wonder and

so covers a longer season. The pods are

borne in clustcrs, are entirely stringless

and of superb table quality. They are

really a valued acquisition to the. pole

family and should not be omitted from

the list of garden necessities. Lazy

VVifc’s.——I know of no good reason for

calling this bean by the above name any

more than to havc called it Lazy Hus-

band’s. The wives, however, will pardon

this heartless allusion as it is easily one





of the best, if not the superior of all

these pole varieties. It is an abundant

bearer, of high, rich color, lucious quality,

and retains its stringless condition until

nearly ripe. As a dry shell or winter sort

the quality is of the finest.



The Golden Cluster is doubtless the

earliest of all the pole sorts; and for this

reason as well as it really fine quality

is a valuable sort to plant. The Horti-

cultural, or cranberry, is one of the oldest

varieties under cultivation, and is truly

a valuable sort. Its excellent quality,

both as a snap and shell bean, have

given it well deserved popularity. Also,

its hardy nature makes it the safest bean

of all to plant in localities of cool, short

seasons. Other varieties, of course are

listed and are doubtless good. but the

above list we believe, covers all the good

qualities to be found in any and will be

a. safe guide for growers.



Lest we forget it, one point should be

borne in mind, viz., that varieties planted

near each other (and this includes the

entire bean family), mix badly, and while

it does not particularly injure them for

green use, the dry beans will show it

and should not be used for purposes of





 

 





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Taking the average price at which

potatoes have sold for the past few

years, we find that potatoes are un-

questionably one of the most profit-

able crops that the farmer can grow.

Improved potato machinery has made

this great profit possible. Chief among

potato planters is the Evans, manu-

factured by the American Seeding-

Machine 00., Incorporated, Spring-

Ilcld, Ohio. This machine opens the

furrow, plants and covers the sced

in the best possible manner and far

more accurately than can be. done by

hand. When artificial fertilizers are“

to be used, an accurate fertilizer at-

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planting.

The Bush leas.



What has been said as to cultural con-

ditions and fertilizing of running sorts,

applies with redoubled force to the lima

family whether bush or pole. It is littlc

use to expect rcmuncrativc results from

plantings mndc on heavy clay or sour,

retentive soils; but givcn good or ideal

conditions it is a plczising crop to grow,,

either for home or market purposes.

Either bush or polc sorts rcquirc light

but rich soil for best rcsulls. One other

point Should be borne in mind: in gcrmi-i:

hating and growing, the bcan comes bod~

ily up out of the ground, forming the first

two leaves or heavy lobes; for this reason

they should be planted shallow with eyes

down. If planted otherwise, their size

prevents them from turning readily or

breaking the soil so that many of them

fail to grow. For the early crop it is

best to start them in boxes 2 or 3 weeks

before it would be safe to plant in the

open ground, and this will insure a. crop





of almost any variety before there is dan- ' V





 





ger of autumn frosts.

As to varieties, there is a. wide differ-;

ence as to table qualities, yield and sea-j





son of maturing and this last considera-i " "





tion is a matter of vital importance, cs-f





pccially in this latitude.



The Burpcc Improved is a leading

varicty of thc bush limus. It grows more

vigorous than llurpee’s Bush Lima, with

heavier folizlgc and matures sixteen days

earlier. This one, point alone would give

i'mmcnsc advantngc ovcr all others, .cs—

pecially in this class. (in this trial wc





grew pods 63';3 inches in lcngth and 11/J





inches broad. Thc bcnns, of immensc

size and delicious flavor, arc grccn in

color, with very tender skins. It is a





heavy croppcr and should have a place

in every garden. The Fordhook is our

next in choice and is lho- only slimy erect

bush form of tlic Potato lima. The table

quality is excellcnt 21nd the season of

maturing is 2 to 3 \vccks uhcnd of any

of the pole sorts. Drccr‘s Kumcrlc was,

previous to the introduction of the last

named sort, the only bush form of tho

fat Potato lima. It is a most cxcellcntl





variety, as to yield and table quality, buff





 





its drooping habit: of growth makcs 11s

pods somewhat liable to discolor.

While other varieties arc Iistcd and





bidding for favor we believe that the

three sorts abovc named will mcct cvcry

need, either of the home or market gar»

den, and with our present light upon the}





subject we would not seek farther for the? '





bush sorts.

Pole Limas. )





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in this

an im-i

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With the polc sorts, cspccizilly

latitude, carlincss must

pormnt consideration. In

Scibcrt’s Large Early is a gcncral favor-

ite and its heavy cropping qualities make

it durable as a market Sort. llcndcrson‘s

Early Leviathian is generally thot to be

the earliest polc sort under cultivation.

It is very productive and holds up its

cropping quality thruoul‘ lhc cntirc sca-

son., It is :1 strong growcr 21nd lcnacious

clinmber and witllnl is onc of the most

dependable sorts yet introduced. King

of the Garden has bccn our choice of

the pole sorts and our personal experience

has always been satisfactory. It is a

strong grower, very productive and ofl

quality surpassed by no other vuricty.|

The Challenger is a thick, meaty bean of?

good quality and a gcncrous yicldcr. For

latitudes further south it is no doubt al,

desirable sort but for this climate it willi

not be. found dependable except it is‘

started early under shelter.

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The extensive use of this mixture for

controlling the San Jose' scale, other scale

insects: aphides, peach leaf curl, twig

borers, blister mite, psylla and other

pests, makes a brief description of the

manufacture of the same on the farm

of interest here. Further interest is

added by the successful experience that

has attcndcd the application of the spray

in the summer, when it can be used

safely as a fungicide if made one—fifth the

strength as when used upon the trees in

the dormant state.



Fifty gallons of the solution requires

from 15 to 25 pounds of unslaked lime and

15 pounds flour of sulfur. Where a small

orchard is to be sprayed use an iron

kettle for boiling the materials. Put in

the kettle about 15 gallons of water and

let come to a boil. Add the lime, using

the larger quantities if partially air

Slaked; the best mixture is made from

the best unslaked lime but even with a

good quality the spray will in no wise

be injured by an excess thereof. Add





[enough water to the sulfur to make a





paste and turn the same into the kettle

with the lime water. Or the sulfur may

be sifted in and stirred the same as the

housewife makes vmush for the breakfast

table. The former method is better, the

purpose being to keep the material from

collecting in lmnps and not becoming

well mixed with the other ingredients.

Continue the boiling for about an hour

when the color of the material should

turn to a reddish amber. If warm water

is not convenient, the diluting can be

done with cold water to the, required 50

gallons. Apply the spray hot. Vthn the

sulfur crystalizcs by cooling the value 0‘!

the material is impaired.



In making large quantities steam can

be employed to advantage and a building,

where the lifting of watcr may be avoid-

cd by having an elcvatcd storage tank,

is decidedly economical, but the few trees

of the average farmer would not warrant

this expense.





GROWING TOMATO PLANTS.

Everyone knows that the earlier one

can place a crop of tomatoes upon the

market the more they will net the

grower. Thus it is very essential that





one get this plant started early. The

furthcr north one goes the greater is the

cxpcnsc and care involvcd in growing

thcsc plants successfully.



it is ncccssary in this sct'tillll of the,





state to get as much growth to the plants

as possible bcforc setting them into the

ground so thcy may have all the time.

they can after the soil warms up thor-

oly. to grow and malurc this crop. of

course, good tomatocs may be grown

from the earlier spring varieties whore

the seeds are sown in out—of—door beds

during most favorable seasons but this

cannot be relied upon. cspccially whcn

we are striving to ‘mature the crop as

carly as possible.



The cost of starting these early plants

moans quite an itcm of expense to the

grower. l'lcrcin is whcrc a grcat many

make a mistake, Thcy figure that thc cx-

pcnsc of building and 'maintaining the

hotbed will be grcatcr than the c\tra

receipts gained by using earlier plants.

Then again some growers nevcr cousidcr

the hotbed as an investment while, if

properly constructcd it should last scy—

cra'l scasons with but a small outlay for

maintenance.



\Ye have usually sown our seed about

April 1st in flats in good tight hotbeds

having about three feet of fresh and

evenly heated horse manure to furnish

the beds with the necessary heat. (‘are

must be taken to have the heating ma—

terial of the right texture. i. e., not inn

solid, nor too springy which is often the

result of using too much straw or other

litter. Be sure to have the heat even

thruout the pile. before placing in bottom

of hotbed. This may be done by thorolv

forking oycr pile three or four times after

it begins to heat. Manure from grain-

fcd horses is far pi't’tfcrable to those. not

fed grain as it will heat better and far

more readily. From two to three inches

of earth are, placed upon the manure and

seeds are sown as soon as heat has gone

down to about 90° in the bed.



“'9 prefer a rich sandy soil for the seed

bed, i. e., soil containing no coarse.

manure or other material that might

cause trouble at transplanting time by

holding the roots of the plants together.

Do not allow a draft to influence the

plants and keep the temperature as even

as possible. Care must also be taken

in watering. The chill should be re-

moved from the water but too warm





THE , MICHIGAN FARMERJ





water would also be detrimental to the

growth of the little plants by causing

a weak flabby growth.



As soon as the second pair of leaves

are partially developed we transplant

into flats, containing good rich garden

loam with a liberal supply or thoroly rot-

ted ma-ure worked into it, setting the

little plants about two inches apart each

way. The plants remain in these flats

until they begin to crowd or until the

weather grows warm enough to allow of

transplanting to the eoldframes.





\Ve usually do our second transplanting ‘





about May 10, depending upon the con-

dition of the plants and the weather,

These extra transplantings take consid-

crable time but they produce a much

more stocky plant with a more compact

root system than plants produced by the

thinning 'method.



The soil for coldframes we want good

and rich. We usually take from one.-

third to one—half in bulk of well rotted

barnyard vmanure and the balance of

good, rich sandy loam and thoroly work

the. two together. \Vhere the coldframes

are made in sections so that they may

be removed when plants are taken out.

A disk barrow will be found very useful

in mixing up this compost with the soil

before the frames are set in place in

spring. This will save many backaches

and do the work quicker and better than

could be done by hand. After the soil is

]ll‘(-p:ll‘t*(l and frames in place we trans-

plant from the flats directly into the

soil of the coldframe leaving the plants

this time from four to six inches apart

cach way. The more room we can allow

our plants at this time, the more stocky

they will become, especially if we should

have to hold them for some time before

setting out.



For our coldframes we use muslin cov-

ers made fast to long rollers on the lower

edge and tackcd fast to upper edge or

frame. By this method of fastening the

cloth covering it may be rolled down at

night or on windy days. These Cotton

covers should be thoroly oiled with some

such mixture as linseed oil to preserve

the cloth and to protect and admit more

light to the plants. w‘Ve also use a thin

board covering about 4x6 feet in size

made of half—inch lumber.





on cold nights or in stormy weather.

Care must be exercised to give sufii-

cicnt: ventilation that plants may be

strong and healthy and able to go ahead

when planted in the field. The greatest

difficulty we have experienced with start—

ing the plants was to be able to trans—

plant just at the proper time.





one is using hotbeds you must choose





only the very bcst days, i. e., warm days

with scarcely any wind, to do this work,





othcrwisc the plants will receive a check.‘

Then again, we seldom have such days





just whcn wc nccd them and if one could

arrange to have his beds combined and

high enough to work under the glass

he could obviate, to a great extent, all

the bad featurcs enumerated above and

utilize much bad weather such as we

often experience during the early spring.



li‘or thcsc same reasons we have

abandoned our old hotbed method and

constructcd a house 11x50 ft., giving a

bcnch 4 ft. 3 in. in width on each side

upon which to place our flats. The





house is just high cnough to admit of





onc‘s standing crcct in path thru center.

’I‘lu-so sumo hotbcd sash were used as

H covering placing them on rafters, the

housc bcing of even span.



The heat is derived from an arch at

one end of the building which will burn

.‘l—foot wood, the heat passing thru the

partition and along under the benches

thru common .‘l—in. drain tile, with joints

ccmcntcd. There. are two runs of tile

undcr cach bench and terminating at

opposite ends where the four leads pass

into an S in. tile just outside of the build—

ing which serves as a chimney. There

is also a pipe running thru the roof

dircctly over the arch with a tight damper

just above the T, which throws all the

heat thru the horizontal tile when the

dampcr is shut.



.\ transplanting bench is in small room

at north end of building which contains

the arch, also overhead storage for flats.

By this means we are able to keep the

plants undcr cover until time for trans-

planting into cold frames which comes

later in spring after weather has become

warmer. The, ventilation in the house

is given at the ridge which is sufficient

for as narrow a house as this. ..



There is also another factor eliminated

by the use of this style of house. This

far north it is very difficult to secure

the proper soil to fill our hotbeds and flats

as early in the season as one wishes, and





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of every kind shows increased profits to the grower who uses Potash.

It puts hardy, stocky growrh on his bushes, vines and trees, and insures

to their fruit a beauty of color, fineness of flavor and solidity ot flesh

impossible to get without it. _



The market pays for appearance and quality as much as for quantity,

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, is none like them. and when our stock is exhausted there is no more to be had. Samples nailed

; Free. Also our Big Illustrated Catalog of farm, field, grass and garden seeds. A postal card will





bring them to your door. Address





RATEKIN’S SEED HOUSE, Shenandoah. Iowa.





 





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fheerip’s Trees Made Dansville Famous

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HARDY FRUIT 8:. ORNAMENTAI. TREES, in”





Grand lot of PEACH and other FRUIT TREES. We aim to give satisfaction. Send for catalog.

{Address T. B. ,WEST. Maple Bend Nursery, Lock Box 286, PERRY, OHIO.





 





 





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course, the cost of such a house amounts

_to considerably more than the same area.

of glass with simple hotbed construction,

but the idea is this, if it will pay in dol-

lars and cents in a short time is not the

expenditure of a few‘dollars at the start

a good investment? .



The weather is seldom favorable be-

fore the lst of June in this latitude for

transplanting to the open ground. We

have set plants as early as May 20 and

as late as June 10, but usually about

June 1. We always strive to force our

plants so that the early varieties which

we chiefly grow are full of buds, with‘

even now and then a blossom opened at

the time of setting to the open ground.





 





Were we perfect, which we are not, med-E

iclnes would not often be needed. But;

since our systems have became weakened”:

impaired and broken down thru indIscre~:

tions which have gone on from the early:

ages, thru cauntiess generations, reme-‘y

dies ARE” needed to aid Nature in cor-,

recting our inherited and otherwise ac-5

quired weakness. To reach the seat of

stomach weakness and cansequent diges~

tlve troubles, there is nothing so good as

Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, at

giycerlc compOund, extracted from native

medicinal roots—sold for over forty years

with great satisfaction to all users. For

Weak Stomachs, Biilousness, Liver Com-

plaint, Pain in the Stomach. after eatlng,

Heartburn, Bad Breath, Belching of food



Chronic Diarrhea and other intestinal

Derangements, the “Discovery” is a time-

proven and most efficient remedy.





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You can’t afford to accept a secret nos-

trum as a substitute for this non-alcohol-

ic, medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION,

not even tho the urgent dealer may there-

by make a little bigger profit.





Dr. Plerce’s Pleasant [Pellets regulate

and lnvigorate stomach, liver and bow-

els. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to





take as candy.





FRUIT TREES 2





Nursery Agents Price.





 





2 Apple 8 to 4 ft. 00.15 .050

we save You a Cherriel to s it. .35 1.05

$2.50 on a 4 Peach 2m 3 it. .25 1.00



4 Peer 4 to 6 it. .35 1.40

$5.00 Order 3 Plum 3to m. .35 1.05





0 i 16 fl. tho Total

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FARM d’t GARDEN SPECIALTY CO.



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INCREASE THE CROPS

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"Auto-Spray" pump, Write for factory

prices, spraying guide and agency olier.





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SPRAYIN‘E’FRUIT TREES.





jto affect also kale,

lsprouts,





I IState Horticultural Society is to be held,

in the court house in Lapeer, Tuesday:





Of course, a great deal depends upon

their later care, but good stocky plants

which have reached this stage of growth,

when set out, will seldom fail to begin

to ripen their fruits by the latter part

of July and we are sure of the bulk of

the crop maturing before September is:

on favorable years.



Any grower who watches the produce

markets could not help but notice the

great variation in prices for tomatoes

grown from early started plants and

those ripening away late in September

or October. All one needs to figure out

is a difference in cost of production.

Then by comparing prices at different

stages of the season he can determine

whether or not it will pay to start his

tomato plants early.





Kaikaska Co. W. S. PALMER.





HORTICULTURAL PARAGRAPHS. ‘





 





That fine fruit is and can be produced

in Michigan in commercial quantities, is

testified to by many excellent orchards,

that .are considered valuable property,

and that are managed by as capable fruit

grOWers as I believe can be found any-

where. I do not believe that the horti.

culturists of the state are going to con-

cede that a back seat will be necessary

for the reason of inferior quality or un-

profitable yields. But the progressive

menwho still have faith in the industry,

know that ii.’ a. reputation is to be made

for Michigan fruit, and it is to occupy





a. conspicuous place in competition with”





fruit grown in other sections, more thot

and attention must be given by more

growers to such things as soil, selection

of site, fertilizers, cultivation, spraying

and marketing—Prof. H. J. Eustace.





 





The organism causing the black rot or

cabbages and allie ts has been found

collards, Brussels

several varieties of cabbage,

broccoli, cauliflower, 'kohl-rabi, rutabagas

and turnips.



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Wherever plums hang in clusters

touching one another, brown rot develop-

ment is favored, in susceptible varieties.

The spores are washed down by rains

and any which came to lodge between two

plums that touch are apt to be held

there, and to find conditions favorable

to growth. If one plum of a cluster is

seen to be diseased it should be remoVed

and destroyed at once, as othcrs in the





THE MICHIGnAN FARMER.





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' u , THE APPLETON





These New Towns in the

Northwest All Need Men





Hundreds of new towns are springing up all over

the Pacific Northwest.



The big, easy fortunes being made from fruit,

farming and stock-raising, are making these towns

grow fast. They all need men who know trades—T

they need you, Whether you have money to invest *

or not. “



Never, in the history of America, has the man

who works with his hands had such a chance to

make money, as is ofiered in the west today.





You Are Losing Money Every

Day You Stay in. the East





You would not stay another day in the worn-out East,

if you knew even half the truth about the great Pacific

Northwest.



Families, who went there penniless 5 years ago, are

spending this winter in California. They bought good

land at low prices—paid for it gradually—today are

independent.



Opportunities are greater now than ever, because

the country is more developed. .



Ask us on'a ostal to send you our free book, telling

you all about regon, Idaho and Washington. We’ll

also tell you what it costs to go there.





E. L. LOMAX, G. P. A.

Union Pacific Railroad Co.

Omaha, Neb.





 





 

 





 





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‘_‘ (:A‘ Spreader is as strong as steel and oak can make





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~ ' :.can run it, as Well as any man: and so effective

in operation that it never bunches the manure.

but pulverizes thoroughly and distributes evenly

from the beginning to the end of the load.





APPLETON MF’G. C0.

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and \Vednesday, March 2-3. One whole}





session will be devoted to spraying in all‘

of its phases, with such well known nu-

lhorities as Prof. Taft and T. A. Farrand,

loading. Delegates will report the best:

things at the recent state meetings in





Ohio, Illinois





 





New York, and Wisconsin.

The growing of apples in old neglected

orchards will be fully covered, and small





The question of spraying fruit trees to prevent

me depredationa of insect pests and fungous

diseases is no longer an experiment, but a





   





necessity. fruits, peaches and pears and plums will

. come in for a discussion. About forty

practical questions have already been





handed in for answers and a question box

will give all a chance to secure the latest

information. The best speakers in the

state will take part and eastern Michigan

is expected to turn out in crowds. Sec-

retary C. E. Bassett will mail programs

to all who drop him a card, at Fennville,

Michigan.





 





 





High Pressure,

To the potato grower planning the purv

chase of a sprayer, the question of high

pressure must be one of the main con-

siderations. There must be suflicient

force back of the spray to turn the leave-I

in order to thoroly saturate the plant.’

. . We learn that the new Double Cylinder

, « ,--,;_,_ High Pressure Sprayer, recently offered

, _.' '—' ' to the general public by the Aspinwali

Our readers will do well to write Wm. Stahl Manufacturing Co., of ' Jackson, Mich"

Sprayer Co”1301108,],Quincy,Ill.,andgetthe1r develops that extra high pressure so

catalogue describing twenty-onestylesofSDmY ‘Imuch needed» for best results. A book





 





 





 





 





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8. L. BURST MFG. CO.,

I73 North St., Canton.





8 PRAYING OUTFIT

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, ‘ \ 64 Stone Street. New York a

Keyser Building, Baltimore, Md.

1 36 Bay Street, East. Savannah, Ga.

305 BarOnne Street. New Orleans. La.

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Before ordering elsewhere

write us for our catalogue

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lug Outfits and full treatise on spraying the dif— describing this sprayer and other potato





ferent fruit and vegetable crops.which containsI machinery may be had upon request tol'l‘EL





much valuable information,nnd may be had free. the company.





 





the advertisers when writin that on ““

law their ad. in the liohigangl‘srmez'.





Orders for All Quantities Promptly

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A Message to the Man Who Wants a Square Deal; Who Loves Fair Play; Who

Hates Grafting and Who Wants His Dollar to Go as Far as 100 Cents Will Go





An Where I We. the Gordon-Van Tine Co.. the largest independent millwork companyin America. are fighting for our lives. The power-

y I in] combinations controlling the- building materiafliusiness; the graspingclumber trust and the dealers’ secret price agree-

ment” associations hate us like poison. They would. if possible, ruin our trade. drive us from business. and kill the strongest anti-trust competitor

they have. in order to again have their full sway of power over the buyer—to charge him their monopoly prices and give him half value. They

implored us to be "regular.” They asked us to quit; to “come in:” to do less busineSs, if necessary. at bigger profits; to stop selling direct from

mill to buyer: to maintain organized prices; to sell through dealers: to be “good.” They resent our direct quotations and prices to the buyer: they

dislike the 50% saving feature of our selling plans; they deprecate our qualities and sneer at our success. We refused to change. We shall fight to





u I H ' ' I ' I with every dollar and resource

Stop the Holdups . ‘ Stop the Extortion . Stop the Grafting. a, on, command w. sh...

continue to sell to any reliable man or woman. farmer. town resident, carpenter. builder. contractor or reader of this paper. anything in the line Of

building materials we have for sale in our enormous stocks. Direct from America's Largest Independent Millwork. Lumber and Buildind

Supply House. at a saving of' all intermediate dealers’. jobbers’. agents’. trusts’ and mlddlcmen’s profits.

Our anti-trust prices command trade from all classes. We sell at lower figures. quality for quality. than Actual Proof of Money Saved



any other house, whether direct or indirect. trust or anti~trust;' and nine times out of ten. cheaper to you Eagle Grow, 1“,, Oct. 23, 1908.

-—-— ’ girelct than the dgaler himselprays for thehidentical q‘cliaflityb Sign. Mr. Refader. can protect: yourself againist I I have suvgd over $40? 031 tvao cnfiloadlg.

ig . unreasona e prices. 0 matter w at you nee or ui ing new, or improving. c anging or repa r- . a 50. ’0“ one car on ,0 mi W0? .



Home 0' Chas. w' Kelly ing: for building House. Born. Church. Elevator. Residence. Mansion. Coiiade, Store. Hall. Hod ”‘91“de V0 large fancy w1ndows.w °





McCook, Neb. House, Sheep Shed or lien Coop. get first of all our §§§3twaxfa giggffesgngf eggmtions m





. . , . n I I I Yours ver t ul', . VI KER.

Bill“ of Gordon-Van‘Tlne s Materials Slashlng Anti-Monopoly Prices on Lumber, Millwork and y ’ ’ M M" 0



He writes: “ Here is a photo of.my Roofin I On Sash. Doors. Windows. Flooring and Building Supplies of every kind. We will save From ffqnfl'lcmr ‘ Bulldcr

house; also have interior view. which . g' you big "lone“ We guarantee safe delivery, we Ship subjept to acceptance 0“ satisfac- I Am piedé‘ili‘vii‘f‘fiiinde‘ii‘fioldfier

shows off to good advantage the ( ll'il- tory examination, we promise complete satisfaction. and prove beyond question the quality of all material and roofing. Saved 550%,, the bum bill.

't f k fi . ‘h I ‘ ”if :1 to be exactly as represented and up to the ofiicial standard of the grades required by the Sash. Door and The grade is for better than handled by

1 y 0 Vol“ 03 ms ' can. 5“ L y Blind Manufacturers’ Association. Do you want Fair Play? Will you be with us. and protect yourself? our local dealer.

say that .11: cost me less than if I had You can help stop'the Trust’s pocket-stripping prices; their infamous attempts to kill the “ independents.” YQDIB VGl‘y truly, W. A- WILSON-

fimshed it in pine bought from local Every honest buyer despises their underhanded flooding ofour mail with fake inquiries from their employes Lu '1 A—_I 1"” 0 K

dealers. Everything is as good as you and other "cat’s paws:” their attempts to waste our expensive catalogs, time and postage. Their organs m 9;; " {deb N 1; 1903,

claim —and that is as good as can be attack us week after week; their knocks and spies still continue: their instructions to “ cut prices to meet You saved mgg‘gmfjugt tfig'difierence





   

 

 

   

   





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





n Gordon-Van Tine as a last resort. but soak the consumer on something else to make up the differencc”—- 1 t , th - - d -

asked from anyone. these are a few favorite stunts to “keep the money at home" and line their own tat purses at your expense. 1:135:23,“ 1.2.235“ pnce an your price

CHAS- W- KELLY. MCCOOk. Neb. We have saved buyers millions of dollars since we began business. Yours very truly. A. 0. GRAHAM.





 





 





 





. , ' 50% snvmt: "* "mo allPLETE lite". 570 525 STYLES! _

. mm”? new “lulu .. 7—— mu

.Bend tor cui- gal“ all sizes. with and :11 :uiEEi'zsiunqrsglig 5mm; i’ipetld . 5,1??? ,





 





   

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 





 

 





 

   

 

   





 





gr 9. n d n e w highstandurd. 60 lower some trust oods. Our aranteed.

190? catalog of millwork supplies. You can save trust , window and sash fine is cor ilete—one oi the‘largest and 3 "”“35'53‘: mendefigzlgvfiine door «

proiits b consulting our big list or genuine mlllwork bnr- . finest stocksinAmerica. We havomanyflne bargains. 776 shown in top illustration. Trust .3'





inc. verything for interior orexterior at lowest prices. 4 cUP' COMES - .w v— ._.-. Y . rice. $1.60tot2i'oridenticaldoor. ‘.

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Each grade and quality guaranteed, or money back. Window Hardwood veneered? cor.

Trust price, 31.00. is is another great





 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





, 3'20 Finish your home in oak all

- smaiicost. Wesave ou iromutolo

/ on hardwood doors. end for bargain

3' 70 Front. door—24 styles—the

list. _' latest and newest. Pleasigg

designs, variouc woods, grained as desir

Same doors cost twice our pricetrom trust quar- .

tors. Our stock embraces 3.13.1” i “th’k’l-





SENDYQUR / ~ ECGDAVENPORTJA.

BllLTO - VAN TIN roll ESTIMATE .





' 108 cousins rsn'r r . I ' '

' “6 Free Nails and Cement ‘l ‘25 $1 £ESIW MI“ PI'ICCS '

. Gordon Van Tine (Jo’s Flint-Coat- ”22%"! “3:01:02; “3,; ’ i

ed-Fire-Reoisting Rubber Roofing —the . cost fléurcs. Sélld \13 _

, . $26 to $50 Less at (MI. 00. Anti-Trust Prices





Best Penna ent Roofl’rotcction for lion!

Barn. and or guildingsloi’ all kluds' Cheap; and note our notations Millions of :33? (1).! iléittgiiiiwifig

than shingles, more sat s actory t ian tin or slate, superior white Mn elivcrcdht any railroad station, a“ freight Btairwork Job. come high when ordered from

local dco .ers. Al- kinds of fancy profits go in be-

oause the buyer isn’t wise to their tricks. There is





Bathe innumerable prepared rooilngs. It is easily laid—on]



B hammer needed. Contains no tar, will stand strongest. acid Included. Our lumber trust fight 35"” you from 25 to 50

wherethe consumer“pa s the fiddler." Let us

, turnish your stoirwor supplies. We will save





tests; mudeoi long flbre wool felt and soaked in hot asphalt. then gar cent on dimension studdlng, JO'Bt'o sheathlnm burn

you 50% easily; perhaps more. It for a new





lag: giiwéagxoéip. Ailbslze‘s Insane €°"£°"’ stellar), I.“

run c . c; orner ea rus rice ‘—"

Blinds. 91o per air; Sash . c, p ’., 0‘

cord, 75ci Soc ullcys.

8 ca doz;PIcturemou ding.6 operloo

it. and up; Embossed moulding. loo

toot. all styles and sizes. Coupon will

brill. this big Price Cutter.





 





specialt for us. Our sales are enormous—

our: :0 is very slender. Bend for our har-

gt 11 list on barn lash, attic sash, collar 3

gash, transoms, stall each, etc. win-



dows and tromomo pr linseed oil.





   

 





 





 





 





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 





   

   

   





 





 





 





coated with'lllnt by heavy machinery. Easy to lay an a carpet. oards, sidiniro 1100"» timbers, “will”! eommonboards,

Guaranteed lor Six Years! Send for Free Samples and Book ceiling, interior finish, ship lap, lath, etc.





 

 

   

 

 





 





 





 





 





Price per M1- 108 sq. feet Steel Roofing Sale! DOIIVOI‘Bd Anti-Trust Prlces $100t0$300 L933 P" Bar 7 housegsend us your list we will promptly

Bate delivery guaranteed. Send for prices. We also 0n timbers and rough lumber its saving averages 3100 per CM" quo c you the lowed: ”MM-“5" price

of tor whatever material you select.





 





 

 

 

 





Everythingin the line otstairwork

necessities sold by Gordon Van

Tine’s Mill direct to you, ex-

cept rough horses. It you

want to remodel your

home send us your plans.





 

 





I l are . Len—Trust Pricesszm sellsteel roofing-full < 0!! m lxed can

leggei‘sg. 1.50—Trust Prices .350 line at lowest prices. SH'NGI Es! Werecognize nocompetitlon dressed a n d rough

sply pcrsq.‘1,80—Trust Prices.34.50 Send for our Free Root- _—_—_—.— Onsliing‘lefi. We deliverthem lumber $250 saving

ing Samples and Roof at much less than you must pay elsewhere and per car; on finishing

uilding Paper 8’30 i’er Boil. Book.contninsi'reeinfor- from clean, eriect stock. Note what your local lumber, .30 0 saving

motion onquality,prices,shipplng points, our liberal guar. dealer find '5 0 trust are exacting in extra un- per car. Get your

antee, etc. Send us your wants, we quote the lowest prices. earnedpmfltfi- 80nd “3 your wants for quotations. neighbors to joinyou.





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

   





 

 





 

 

   

   





 





 

 

   

   

   





 

 





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___——.——— sizes, ’

Three sizes. Yellow inc. Special reduction in crate. Six styles from 110 per foot up _ Four feet glass. Soldwith or ,_______= _‘

wards. Ladders for every Pl“- 'U' exten- withoutglass. Open "“"-—— ‘





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“Book of Plans." This was compiled by our architect.

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