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VOL. CXXXIV. No. 20.
Whole Number 3503

FARM NOTES.

'eeding Alfalfa in Corn.

I wish to inquire through your columns
whether it, would be a good plan to sow
alfalfa in August in standing corn at the
last cultivation?, Would the cultivator
put the seed in too deep? Is August a
good time to sow alfalfa? XVould it be
better to sow Canada field peas this
spring-on this ground—light, sandy loam
recently cleared, had corn last year for
first crop? If the peas were allowed to
ripen and then plowed under about Aug.
1 and the ground then sown with alfalfa,
the peas, of course, would come up thick
and might be a good nurse crop to shel-
ter the alfalfa through the winter, al—
though we usually have plenty of snow.
Would the peas have a tendency to
smother the young alfalfa during the fall
following the sewing? Would the peas
furnish enough bacteria without buying it
especially for the alfalfa? Would it be
better to harvest the peas and depend
for bacteria on the pea roots, sowing the
alfalfa as soon as the peas are taken off,
about Aug. 1?

Grand Traverse Co. W. D. B.

While some growers have reported suc-
cess with alfalfa seeded in standing corn,
it can not be considered an ideal way in
which to seed land to this crop. Experi-
ence in seeding land to clover in corn has
taught those who have tried it that if the
season is a. normal one, with sufficient
uqiqfall so well distributed that the seed
may be depé-hde’d" upon to germinate
quickly and the young plants to develop
rapidly from the time the seed is sown,
an even stand can be secured and the
plants get a sufficient size before winter
to endure the winter and make a good

crop the f0110wing year,

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to the season of the year. Successful
growers in Michigan seed ordinarily early
in the spring or in June on a well pre-
pared seed bed and without a nurse crop,
although some have had success in seed-
ing the crop in barley and cutting the
barley for a grain crop- the same as
clover is ordinarily seeded with this crop.
Some of the best authorities on alfalfa
growing who have had the largest expe—
rience and the widest opportunity for ob-
servation believe that the best way to
sow it is with a nurse crop of beardlcss
barley, cutting the barley for hay in pref-
erence to allowing it to mature. The
writer favors a, thorough preparation of
the soil and soxving without a nurse crop
in May or June at such time as the
weather seems to be particularly favor-
able for its rapid development. Some
authorities who recommend late seeding
claim that the best possible preparation
of the soil may be secured by planting an
early variety of potatoes and fertilizing
them liberally, then working up the sur-
face to prepare a good seed bed and sow-
ing the alfalfa in August after the pota-
toes are harvested. This plan has the
advantage to be derived from mid—sum-
mer sowing. in that the weeds would he
killed and the soil well fertilized in prep-
aration for the potato crop, which crop
would pay the expense of preparing and
fertilizing the land, while the plan which
the writer follows will bring no return
from the field the first season.

The growing of a crop of peas as sug-

plowing the crop down would probably
make such a. vigorous growth as to give
the alfalfa little chance, as it grows
slowly at first.

Regarding the bacteria peculiar to the
alfalfa plant, without which it will not
make a good crop or an enduring stand,

scientists are not wholly agreed whether

it is a different species than the bacteria
which works upon clover and other le-
gumes or not. Apparently, however, it is
different, for the reason that the nodules
which it produces are of a different form
and alfalfa will not always grow success-
fully where clover and other legumes do,
apparently because of a lack of perfect
inoculation. Artificial inoculation does
not always succeed, but it is inexpensive
and is a wise precaution to take when
seeding land to alfalfa which has not
before grown the crop.

Our fund of information upon the cul~
tural methods necessary to success with
alfalfa in Michigan, is not so large as we
might wish, but experiments conducted
in different localities with a variety of
methods can not but prove helpful, pro—
vided publicity is given regarding the
results. There is no question about the
desirability of the general introduction of
alfalfa upon Michigan farms, and we be-
lieve it will be generally introduced in the
quite near future, and to that end every
man who tries to grow it, whether he
succeeds or not at the first trial, will be
doing good missionary work. As before
noted in these columns, the writer has

 

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teria through the soil and make inocu—
lation more rapid and general when al-
falfa is again sown on this land this year.
This land was in potatoes last year and
will be prepared without plowing and the
seed sown the latter part of May or first
half of June, when all conditions seem
to be most favorable.

Planting Com with a Grain Drill.
Have been a subscriber of your valu-
able pnpcr for eight years and found
some gotul advice therein. but failed to
imd this. I have been thinking of drill—
ing in my corn with a fertilizer grain
drill as I have no planter, and putting in
at the rate of 100 lbs. of fertilizer to the
acre, using one hoe on each side of the
one that is sowing the corn. \Vould you
advxse this way or to put the fertilizer in
the same row with the corn? How many
quarts of corn would it be advisable to
plant_to an acre for a field crop? That
is,rdrllling it with a grain drill.
Ottawa Co. IV. J. F.
\Vhile a grain drill will not do as good
a. job of planting corn as a horse planter.
yet there are a good many farmers who
plant their corn in this way and appear
to like the method. Where the corn is
being planted thick for silage purposes
or where it is grown more for fodder
than for the grain orrm this is pronanly
as good a method as any, but where one
is planting it for a maximum grain crop
it is the writer’s opinion that it would
pay better to fit and mark the ground
and plant with hand planters than to
depend upon the more or less uneven dis-
tribution that can be secured with the
grain drill where the corn is rowed only
one way. This will not

 

but only in an excep—
tional season will this
favorable combination of
circumstances prevail. If
the weather is dry in
mid—summer, as it is
very apt to be, with the
corn plants drawing on
the soil heavily for mois-
ture through their exten-
sive root system, there
is little chance for a
small weak plant to dc-
velop and make a good
growth. Alfalfa is natu-
rally a weak plant when
it first starts and needs
the best of conditions to
make a thick and even
stand, which is essential
to success with the crop.
For this reason, it would
not, in the writer’s opin—
ion, be good practice to
attempt to seed it in corn
unless the weather con—
ditions appear to be ex—
ceptionally favorable for
this method when the
time for such seeding
arrives.

So far as August. being
a good time to sow alfal—
fa is concerned, it might
be well to state that in
some sections where al-
falfa is grown extensively
late seeding is considered
preferable to early seed-
ing, and on land that has
grown alfalfa successfully
it would probably be a safe proposition to
seed in August on a well prepared seed
bed. In experiments conducted some
years ago at the Michigan station to de-
termine the best time to sow alfalfa, it
was found that there appeared to be no
best time. With plats of seed sown each
month during the season, early seeding
was found to be preferable in some sea-
sons and late seeding in others. So the
question of when to sow alfalfa seed re-
solves itself into one relating to the con-
dition of the soil and weather more than

 

gested in this inquiry, would appear to
be a good preparation for the alfalfa crop,
but we believe it would be more profit-
able to utilize the pea crop by pasturing
it With hogs, or hogging it down, as it IS
commonly expressed where this practice
is followed, and sow to alfalfa the follow-
ing season, since it would be difficult to
plow down this crop of peas and make
the proper seed bed for the alfalfa and
get the latter in sufficiently early to make
a proper growth before the winter. Then
the peas which would come up after

 

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tried to grow alfalfa without much suc—
cess for a number of years, and will again
sow eight acres this year on ground where
a partial stand was plowed down last
year. Lime will be applied liberally to
determine the, benefit to be derived from
liming for this crop on our soil. “'e ex-
pect a much better inoculation of the
plants because of the fact that the scat—
tering plants plowed down were plants
that had been inoculated in a natural
way, and the cultivation of the land last
season will, we believe, scatter the bac-

only insure a more even
distribution and accurate
dropping of the seed, but
will also be an advantage
in cultivation, as corn
planted in checks can be
kept much more free
from wceds than that
drilled in. In this case a
larger application of fer-
tilizer sown broadcast or
drilled in when the
ground is being fitted will
give good results in the
average scason. One
hundrcd prmnds per acre
is a rather light applica—
tion, but where planted
with a horse planter with
a fertilizer attachment
little more than this is
gotten on, and 3'0! it :lp-

pcars to make quite a
(lii'i'crcncc in the carlv
growth of the corn, How-
evcr, if the corn is plant—
ed wiih a grain drill as
suggested, and the ferti—
lizcr distributed through
three drill itocs, an appli-
cation of say 201) lbs. per
acre, would not injure the
seed. and would doubtless
be profitable.

There is just as wide a
(lifi‘crcnce of opinion re-
garding the right quantity
of seed to use per acre
for a maximum crop of
corn. as there is regard-
ing the best method of
planting. However, for a maximum crop '
of grain about four ,quarts per acre of
average corn is generally considered about
right. However, where the object is to
produce a maximum of feed from the
field both grail and roughage being con-
sidered, it is m at all certain that more
seed than this cannot be profitably used.
In other words, if one kernel is dropped
each foot in the row the stand will be
plenty thick for a maximum crop of grain.
But it will be difficult to, get such nice
distribution as this with a. grain drill,

 

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518 (2). .

hence the above opinion regarding its use
for planting corn.
' When to Plant Beans. -
I would like advise through the col-
umns of The Farmer in regard to plant-
ing early beans. I have a field of 10w,
sandy land which the frost hits early. I
'vras thinking of planting the middle of
May, but some say the frost will kill them
in June. Would it be advisable to plant
at that time or wait until the first of

June?

losco CO. R. H, S.

Of course, only one acquainted with the
local conditions could advise intelligently
as to when would be the best time to
plant beans on” this low land. It is, how—
ever, much preferable to take a chance
on an early frost than to plant so late
that there is a prospect that the frost
will catch the crop before it matures in
the fall. It is. of course, not pleasant to
anticipate having a crop frosted in the
spring when it first starts, but in that
'case there is the alternative of re—plant-
ing it or of growing some other crop on
this ground, while if it is not planted un-
til late and the frost catch-es the crop
before it matures in the fall there is no
remedy, and the season‘s work will be
almost a total loss. For this reason, it
would be better to take a chance upon as
early planting as is at all safe on this
kind of land.

THE CULTURE OF sov BEANS.

 

Please advise me regarding the cul-
tural methods best to employ in growing
soy beans in Michigan.

Calhoun Co. SUBSCRIBER.

Soy beans require conditions and culti~
vation similar to those required by corn.
Good preparation of the soil is necessary,
This should consist of deep plowing and
working with disk and harrow until a
good seed bed is secured, having the up-
per two or three inches of soil loose and
mellow.

Soy beans should be grown in rows and
given sufficient cultivation to keep down
weeds. Sometimes they are sown broad-
cast, but we do not recommend this
method. “'6 plant ours with a corn
planter, using bean plates, and setting
wheels: and boxes 30 inches apart. Some
growers report good results from the use
of a grain drill with all holes excepting
those desired, stopped up. The rows
should be from 30 to 36 inches apart, with
one seed every two inches. Cover not
fess than an inch and a half and not
more than two inches deep. Too deep
planting often results in poor stands,

If soil is full of weeds, cultivation may
begin as soon as the seed is planted. If
it is desired to run a weeder or barrow
over the field, it must be done before the
plants sprout much, as the youngr cotyle-
dons or seed leaves are very It‘lltit‘l‘ and
easily broken, and the entire crop may be
ruined by harrowing after the plants have
started to grow. After they come up,
cultivate as you would corn.

Soy beans may be planted from carlv
spring until mid—summer. If wanted for
grain, plant tt corn—planting time. For
hay, they may be plantod later, and if a
catch crop is desired. they may be plant-
ed still later.

Good seed is of great importance. Soy
beans are apt to be low in germination
unless the seed is fresh and has been
properly‘stored. It is well to germinate
all seed before planting.

Inoculation Necessary.

It is important and necessary to inocu-
late the soil. This may be done by using
soil from an old 50y bean field. or by
using the pure cultures furnished by the
Department of Agriculture. If soil is
used, apply from 200 to 300 lbs. per acre.
'l‘his soil should be applied late in the
afternoon or on a cloudy day, as bright
sunlight will destroy the inoculation bac-
teria. The soil may be mixed with sev—
eral times its weight of ordinary soil, and
either drilled or broadcasted, harrowing
in if the latter method be employed.

As stated in a previous article, soy
beans will grow on all kinds of soil, rich
or poor, clay, black or sand, limestone or
t‘reestone, dry soils or well drained soils.
They will stand Wetter soils than most
crops, and will do well on poorer soil
than corn, provided the soil has been
inoculated.

Soy beans shed their leaves before the
grain begins to ripen, therefore, when bay
is desired. the plants must be cut when
half or more of the pods are fully grown,
but before the beans begin to harden. in
a bulletin on this subject issued by the
Department of Agriculture. it is stated
that cutting should begin after the dew
is off the plants in the morning; that the
plants should be allowed to lie in the
swath until the leaves are well wilted, but
that great care should be exercised t0

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

rake them before the leaves become too.
dry and brittle. The hay should be left

_in windrows for a day or two, and then

put into small cocks. Three to five days
of good weather should be sufficient to
make good SOy bean hay. When the hay
is dry, it should be put into a shed or
made into good—sized stacks. Soy bean
hay does not shed rain well, and if left
in the open field, it should be provided
with a grass or canvas cover,

If soy beans are grown for grain or
seed, wait before cutting, until the pods
turn rather brown, but do not let them
get too ripe, or they will shatter. A self
rake is the best machine to cut the plants
with, but an ordinary mower may be
iscd. Always mow them while the d w
is on, working two or three hours in the
forenoon. Next morning rake them while
the dew is still on. Let them lie in wind;
rows or small shocks until the grain is
fairly hard, then thresh them. The time
required before threshing depends upon
the weather, and may be one week or
may be several weeks. For threshing,
a regular bean threshcr is best. but an
ordinary thresher with the conczives re
moved does fairly well. When growing
beans for seed a regular bean thresher
should be used. as the common thresher
splits many of the beans, making them
worthless for seed, although they may be
used for feed.

One of our correspondents reports good
results from ricking the beans, allowing
them to go through a sweat, and then
threshing them.

Soy beans heat easily, so if they are
grown for seed. they must be allowed to
get as ripe as is possible, consistent with
avoidance of waste, and must be care—
fully guarded gainst heating. After
threshing do not pile the grain up nor
place it in bins, but let it stand in the
bugs for a few Weeks and do not allow it
to become damp.

Ohio. CHAS. B. WING.

 

$0M E CORN QUESTIONS.

 

Fertilizer for Corn.

I have one field of 18 acres. fall plowed.
It was a June grass sod and I want to
put it into com. It has not been 1310“er
‘bet‘ore lll four years. The soil is black
sand and gravel loam. some stony. Would
you advise using fertilizer? Would it pay?
\\'ould you plant with horse or hand
planter? Then I have about .715 acres of
gravel and sand loam which has been run
for years and never anything put back.
It is covered with a tough wire grass and
some places, where quite gruvelly, is bare,
with moss on top of ground. I was
thinking of putting it to beans to try and
kill the grass. so as to get it seeded to
clover. Then I have a field of 40 acres
on which 1 sowed three peeks of rye and
one peck of mammoth clover per acre
last fall with 2:00 pounds of fertilizer.
i am afraid I put it in too deep, as the
clover seems quite thin. [silliere any—
thing I could do to help it? \Vhat do you
think of soy beans and how do they
plant them, in hills and cultivate, or drill
them in? I want to do for the best as I
want to make a sheep farm of it.

()seeoltt Co. - VV. C. IVI.

My experience with fertilizer on corn
warrants me in advising you to use fer-
tilizer on this tield of timothy sod. Of
course. no one can assure profitable re-
turns. I have faith enough in fertilizer
so that I Shall use it myself on an old
timothy sod and I shall be very disap-
pointed if I do not get profitable returns.
My opinion is that, with a favorable sea-
son, you would be well satisfied. There
are two different methods of using ferti-
lizer on corn. One is to fertilize in the
hill and the other is to fertilize broadcast
and barrow it into the soil before the corn
is planted. A combination of the two
methods gives the very best results, but
I have quit fertilizing in the bill for my-
self and apply the fertilizer broadcast
with a fertilizer distributor or with a
grain drill, harrow it in, and then plant
the corn. There is no doubt but what a
great majority of the fertilizer used on
corn is used in the hill. This largely
comes from the fact that i‘ is easily ap-
plied because the most of the corn is
planted with a check row corn planter

~with a fertilizer attachment, and the fer-

tilizer can be applied at the same time
the corn is planted without any extra ex-
Dense. However, if you would use a good
disk drill in distributing the fertilizer be-
t'or you plant the corn, you have wasted
no time because the disk drill helps to
prepare the land for the corn by helping
to make a good seed bed, and no time is
lost. I should use not less than 300 lbs.
of good fertilizer to the acre. broadcast.
Then if you plant with a check row corn
planter with a fertilizer attachment it
would be a good thing to put on about
100 lbs. of fertilizer to the acre in the
hill.

Horse Planter or Hand Planter.
It makes but little difference whether

you plant a field with a horse check mwl
planter or with hand planters. If you
have a. good check row planter, one man
with a pair of horses will plant’ ten acres'
of com a day, while it takes more men
and longer to plant with hand planters-
If the hand planters work good, and the.
men take a little pains in planting, I think
that you will get a little better job done
with a hand planter than you will with
a check row planter, although here again
the man who runs the planter has a great.
deal to do with the manner in which the
job is done.

On this 25 acres which you intend to
put into beans, which has been badly run;
I should certainly use fertilizer, and I
would want to plow the ground somc‘
time before I intended to plant and get iti‘
well worked up, and apply the fertilizer‘
early, long before you want to plant theI
beans, and get it mixed with the soil.
Here I should certainly distribute the for-
tilizer broadcast and work it into the
soil. When a fertilizer is sown broadcast
and worked into the soil, you get a bet-
ter distribution, and distribution amounts
to a great deal in getting results with
commercial fertilizer. I do not see how
you can do very much to increase the
stand of mammoth clover in the rye. Pos-
sibly it is thick enough if the clover all
lives and will make a good stand later
on, You can tell better after you harvest
the rye. If, then, you find you have a
fairly even stand. you can encourage its
growth very much by top dressing withI
barnyard manure. If, however, after you‘
have harvested the rye, you find that you
haven‘t a very good stand of clover, I
think the best plan would be to disk the
ground with a disk barrow thoroughly and
barrow it with a spike—tooth barrow, use
a roller if necessary to prepare a fine send
bed, and seed to clover alone without any
nurse crop, using 200 to 300 lbs. of com-
mercial fertilizer to the acre. You w'll
then have a chance to get a good crop of
clover for next year.

Soy Beans or Canada Field Peas.

Soy beans are an uncertain crop in this
climate. In a hot, dry summer and on a
warm. dry soil one may get a good crop
of soy beans, but they are not reliable.

- Cnnada field pens are perfectly reliable.
in this climate. 'W'e are practically sure
of getting a crop. They really ought to
be sown early in the spring. It is getting
pretty late now to be assured of a good:
crop. But even at this late date for sow-
ing Canada peas, I think the crop would

 

 

 

be much more reliable than soy beans,
To be sure, I don’t know so very much
personally about soy beans because I
never tried to raise them but twice in‘
my life. Both times were failures. It is
a pretty safe plan, always, to raise new
crops in an experimental way. Put the
major portion of this field in Canada peas,
and put a small portion of it into soy
beans. Then if they are not a success],
you don‘t lose very much. ' ‘
It is a pretty safe proposition'to x-
perimcnt with all new things. If you are
not confident that you will get your
money back by using fertilizer on the
corn, and on your beans, I would leave at
least a strip thrOugh the field where, I
didn’t put any fertilizer as a check so
that I could have an idea of just how
much benefit I did get out of the ferti—
lizer. COLON C. LILLIE.

FITTING CORN GROUND.

 

I have carefully read the articles on
the corn Crop, and I notice that most ev-
ery one advocates thoroughly working
the ground before planting. A good deal
depends on the kind of soil that is to be
planted. On sandy soil I think the best
way is to not plow until time to plant,
and plant as soon as titted. And on mel-
low land, in general. all that is necessary
is to roll after plowing. All the time
spent in harrowing and cultivating before
planting is time wasted, which, in these
times of Scarcity of help, should be care-
fully avoided. The crop needs cultivat-
ing, and the weeds can be destroyed at

 

that time. I have read that, if it were
not for weeds to be destroyed, very many
times the corn would be neglected. Fifty
years ago I lived neighbor to a farmer
who never draggid his corn ground, sim-
ply rolled it, then marked and planted.
lie always had good com. I think his
crops were as good as any we have now.

My method of saving seed corn is lot
leave husks 0n the best ears when husk-i
ing, braid 12 to 16 ears together. and tie‘
ends of the braids, then hang them on!
wires in the barn. In this way I have
never failed to have good seed when the
crop got ripe.

Shlawassee Co. B. S. Foams-r.

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The ’
Tenderfoot
Farmer

It was one of these exp'erimental farmers,
who put green spectacles on his cow and
fed her shavings. His theory was that it
didn‘t matter what the cow ate so .long
as she was fed. The questions of diges-
tion and nourishment had not entered
into his calculations.

’ onl a “tenderfoot” farmer_that
wditilsd try? such an experiment with a
cow. But many a farmer feeds himself
regardless of digpstion and nutr1t10n. He
might almost as well cat shavings for all
the good he gets out of his food. The
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the action of the organs of digestion and
nutrition are impaired and the man suf-
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agonies of nervousness.

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

sueoumo QUACK GRASS.

I read with much interest in your col-
umns recently in regard to subduing
quack grass so will give a plan I followed
last year. I double-plowed the ground,
viz., start on one side of patch, haw
around and plow a furrow on the other
side, taking care to keep away from the
quack; then let whcct run in bottom of
furrow, making furrow 14 inches deep:
Then plow alternately one round of quack
then one furrow of subsoil until done.
This gets the roots out of the way of the
harrow and cultivator. and burics them,
thus keeping them from spreading. I
planted the field to corn not expecting to
get much of a crop on ground double-
plowcd. Imagine my surprise to find
shocks 8x8 yielding from 21/; to bu. of
corn. The quack failed to show up by
husking time and I think the job is fin-
ished. I worked the ground with thistle
sweeps to make sure business. Do not
think there is any prospect of the quack
coming on this season. I intend to sow
to oats, followed by wheat and seed to
clover, cut the clover one year then give
it another cultivated crop. I have tried
digging out roots before but made no
headway. My plan may not be practical
on a ’large area, but I very much prefer
dealing with the stuff this way, as the
roots are where they can do no harm
from working the ground,
Kent Co.

0
u

JACOB BRUDI.

USING THE ROLLLER.

In rush seasons we generally are a little
likely to get careless about the prepara-
tion of the seed bed. About that time we
begin to think that the harrow will do the
work Well enough without the roller.
Sometimes it will; at other times it will
not, because the seed bed often needs a

part 30x30 feet for sheep, which would
accommodate a flock of 60 average sized
sheep. If the sheep are of a large breed
they would be crowded a little too closely
and not too much room would be allowed
for the horses and cow stables and an
alley in the 30 feet of width. This pro-
vides no room for the storage of grain
which would seem to be a mistake, but
if room were not required for as many
cattle as above mentioned, a grain bin
could be placed next the barn floor on the
side to accommodate the cattle.

Possibly a better arrangement could be
secured by leaving the floor in the old
barn where it now is, using it as a feed-
ing floor as well as a driveway, and ar-
ranging the horsc and cow stables cross-
wise of the burn on each side of it, leav—
ing an alleyway on the cattle side to give
access to the sheep stable in the. new
addition, and providing a chute for throw-
ing down hay directly into the latter from
the mow above.

The cost of remodeling such a barn de-
pends so much upon local conditions, cost
of labor as well as materials, etc., that it
would be impossible to give an intelligent
estimate. This will be more easily fig-
ured by getting a mechanic to make out
a bill of materials as soon as the plans
are finally decided upon.

 

SEED BEANS AFFECTED WITH AN-
THRACNOSE.

As it is getting pretty near time to be-
gin prcparations for bean planting I
thought that a word of warning from one
that had some sad experience in grow-
ing contract beans last year might be of
some use to my fellow farmers. I grc.v
field last year from seed furnished in
this state, that were very badly affected
with bean anthracnosc according to Dr.
Ben], of M. A. C., and officials of the

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the clods
we like
roller.

little firming, aside from having
broken up. As a clod crusher.
the T—bar better than smooth
The illustration shows the smooth roller
in use on an out field. one in which the
corn had been 1102‘ng down the. year be-
fore and we were a bit afraid of the oats
going down. Rolling small grains usually
helps when you have the time to do it.
Ohio. CLYDE A. XVAUGH.

21

REMODELING A BARN.

\‘Vill you kindly advise me through the
columns of the Michigan Farmer about
the remodeling of my barn. The barn is
now 30x40 11.. and I want to put 30 ft. on

 

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the. end, also put a hip roof on and side
it over. 1 thought the, old siding would
do for roof boards. \Vill have to buy cv-
erything as it is too late to get material
from the woods. \Vant a horse stable for
SIX horses to run lengthwise of the barn
and cattle stable on the other side run—
ning the same way as horse stable, with
an alley between to feed from the drive—
way. Then I want a sheep shed on the
other end of barn and a mow between the
sheep shed and driveway. “'ill want to
keep about (it) sheep. \Vould like to know
how large to have stables. mow and
driveway. \Yhat is your estimate of build-
,ing or remodeling such a barn‘.’
Oakland Co. \V. D. L.
I In rcmmlcling a barn of this kind. the
:problcms to be worked out are rather
more ditlicult than where one is building
a new barn which can be planned accord
,ing to one’s needs. In remodeling this
‘barn after the plan suggested it would
probably be better to put the barn floor
in the end of the old part next to which
the new addition is to be built. If a
12-foot floor is taken off the end of the
ill—foot barn. 28 foot would be left to ac-
commodate the six horses on one side and
about eight cattle upon the other. This
would allow stalls about four feet wide
in the clear, which is pretty narrow for
large horses, but if one box stall is used
next the barn floor room would be left
for four good-sized stalls and this would
probably be a better arrangement, if it
‘ will provide for the horses that must be
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l sent them
growing bcans and ot‘ matured
crop. i never had better slimving‘ for
:1 bumper crop until the pods wezc about
half grown, when the disease developed
to a very great extent. so that I only har-
vestod seven and one—half bushels to the
acre, which were threshcd and St-nt to
the firm as per contract. Now, who will
get these bians this year? Is there a
state law making seedsmcn liable for
sending out diseased or imperfect seed or
have we. t'ari‘ncrs got to take our own
chances?

Ingliam

at \\'.ishington.

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an egg preserver.
‘Nos. 103 and 128, U. s. Department of
LAgriculture, are devoted to this subject.
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”made a complete failure for me.
"in late summer I found ordinary storage
33'5“ a cool, dark room quite as efficient as
packing in salt.
2"salt, if the shells touch one another they
V‘Stick together and break.

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.gfixpERlENCE WITH EGG PRESERVA-
32:.

TIVES.

1.; In the past few years I have tried a
great many egg preservatives, both sim-
ple home preparations and chemical prep~
al‘ations. Common salt, which is one of
he old materials used for this purpose,
In fact,

\‘t'hcn eg rs are placed in

I gave waterglass, (sodium silicate), a

,thorough trial last year and find it much
> more efficient than any preparation I

have ever tried. Government tests have

i: also proved the value of this chemical as

Farmers’ Bulletins

conducted in Scotland,
proved that eggs preserved in sodium
silicate one year undergo practically no
change at all. Those kept two, three or

‘more years did undergo a change, the

white taking on a slightly pinkinsh color
and having a slight soda smell, though
upon eating it is said they had no disa-
greeable taste. Repeated tests have
proven that eggs preserved in sodium sili-
cate for less than a year are of far
superior to ordinary cold storage eggs.

We must not expect sodium silicate to
make bad eggs good, however. We must
select fresh eggs. Then when we sell
them we can guarantee them fresh, so
far as quality _is concerned. I experi-
mented on a small scale last fall by put-
ting down 18 or 20 dozen at 20c per
dozen. That is, they were then worth
20c per dozen. These eggs sold readily at
tile to 36c per dozen in late December,
and the cost of packing did not exceed 20
per dozen.

If the dealer can store eggs at a profit,
why can’t the farmer and poultryman?
This will keep the eggs off the market. in
the rush season, and prevent such low
prices. Then when high prices prevail
the farmer can enjoy the bcnelits as well
as the packer.

For short periods of prescrvafion‘ I rec-
ommend watcrglass (sodium ~silicate) 1
part, to 20 parts of boiled and cooled
water. Prepare this mixture and pour it
over the eggs, which should be placed in
stone or earthen jars or wood tubs. When
the are to be kept for a year or more the
eggs should be placed points down, but I
do not think it necessary to thus place
them for as short periods as four to eight
months.

Remember that only fresh eggs shou:d
be put down, and care should be taken
that none are cracked. If the eggs are
to be cooked by boiling after taken from
the preparation, a small hole should be
pricked through the shell. Otherwise the
expansion of the egg will crack the shell.
The preparation seals every pore in the
shell, thus practically “canning" the egg.

The cost of sodium silicate depends up—
on where you purchase, 25c per quart be-
ing a very reasonable price. 1 11nd a bar-
rel sawed in two lnakcs two tubs that are
just about right for packing. I wouldn't
till a barrel full of eggs for fear the bot-
tom ones would be broken by the weight.

Every farmer, every poultryman, even
the consumer, should study this method
of egg packing, for at a cost of less than
20 per dozen eggs can be held from the
l36115c per dozen price of summer to the
:tSQzAOc per dozen price in winter. Where
have you a better chance for investment?

Indiana. 0. R. ABRAHAM.

COST OF A START IN PURE-BRED

POULTRY.

 

I desire to say a few words on a ques-
tion that interests the man who deals
in pure-bred poultry and also the one
who does not but who feels that he can-
not afford to buy eggs at the rate of 750

to $1.00 per sitting or $1.00 per 100. Now
there are 81/3 dozen eggs in 100. If this

man sets his own eggs. at the present
mice of 200 per dozen they will cost him
$1.65 per 100. He Would, then, be paying
2-35 Der 100 for the eggs from pure—bred
stock, and that is all the man or woman
who makes a specialty of pure-bred poul-
tI‘Y gets for the care and pains required
in impr0ving the flock each year. Not
only are extra care and feed necessary,

but the eggs must be sorted, for the
breeder cannot sell eggs of all sizes.
shapes and colors for hatching. If he did

he would get few return orders. From

THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER.

the average pure—bred flock about half of
the eggs produced are suitable for filling
orders. From experience I knéw that in
order to give satisfaction when selling
eggs for hatching it Is necessary to take
great pains in selecting eggs of uniform
size and color. The very large and very
small, and all ill—shaped eggs, are either
consumed at home or sold to the grocer.
I couldn't guarantee a big egg, that is, an
uncommonly large egg, to hatch, nor
could I guarantee an ill-shaped egg to
be fertile or to hatch a robust chicken. I
find that my eggs sort about half.

I recently read an article on inbreeding
in which an experiment station expert
stated that it is well to breed related
fowls for three or four generations and
then bring in some new blood; also that
the practice of introducing new blood
every year, which the farmer often en-
deavors to do by getting a ,new rooster,
practically prevents improvement of the
flock. I would like to hear from some of
our practical poultrymen on this question.

Barry Co. A SUBSCRIBER.

 

IN ANSWER TO INQUIRIES.
The Columbian Wyandotte.

Please describe the Columbian VVyan-
dotte breed of chickens. Are they good
layers, and how do they dress? Where
and by whom were they originated and
from what crosses? How heavy should
they be?

Kent Co. FARMER.

In the typical specimen of this variety
we have a fowl of the “'yandotte size and
conformation but possessing the plumage
Cf the Light Brahma, with the exception
that the legs and feet are clcan. The ad—
mirers of this comparatively new variety
emphasize strongly its general utilitv,
claiming that it has few if any superiors
in this regard. As layers these fowls rank
with the best in the \Vyandotte family,
while the \l'yandotte size and shape, with
the yellow legs and skin, make them very
attractive as market fowls. The variety
appears to be, rapidly coming to the front
among \Vyandottc breeders, the peculiar
beauty of the fowl making it a favorite
with fanciers, for it must be admitted
that there are few handsomer fowls.
Some exceedingly fme Colombians were
seen at the last state poultry show in
Detroit where they commanded fully as
much attention as any other class.

As to their laying and market qualities
we have said that they rank well up
among the “'yandottes. It might be said,
further, that the “'yandotte is commonly
classed as a general-purpose, breed, along
with the Rocks, Reds and Orpingtons.
In other words, they are classed among
those breeds best suited to the general
farmer who desires both eggs and market
poultry in paying quantities,

Credit for originating this variety has
been given to a Rhode Island breeder who
also originated the \\'hitc \Vyandotte. The
idea of developing a new variety came to
him when, from an accidental cross of a
\Vhite “'yandotte and a Barred Plymouth
Rock, be secured two pullets whose plu-
mage was similar to that of the Light
Brahma. He mated these pullets with a
W‘hite \Vyandotte cockcrel, but from this
point We have been unable to find a rec-
ord of the long series of matings and
crossings which were undoubtedly neces-
sary to the perfection of this variety.
However, it seems to be generally under—
stood amongr breeders that while the (‘ol-
umbian “"yandotte has the plumage of
the Light Brahma it carries no Brahma
blood. \Vyandotte blood. principally that
of the \l'hite and Silver Laced varieties,
judiciously intermingled with that of the
Barred Rock, is believed to have resulted

 

in the development of the Columbian
“'yandotte.
This variety was admitted to the

Standard of Perfection only a few years
ago and we are not informed as to the
weight requirements but presume they
are the same as for other W'yandotte
varieties, which are: Cock, 81/2 lbs; hen,
(31/2 1bs.; cockercl, 71/2 lbs.; pullet 51,43 lbs.
Transferring Bees.

An Isabella Co. reader asks for a sim-
ple method of transferring bees. In their
present quarters the combs are crooked
and criss-crossed and he wants to get
them into modern hives. Probably the
simplest way of making such transfers is
by what is known as the He'ddon method,
which, briefly, is as follows:

First, prepare the new hive, putting in
a liberal supply of frames of wired foun-
dation. Then get ready to handle the
bees and light the smoker. Move the old
hive back a few feet and set the new one
in its place, spreading a sheet or pieces
of paper In front of It as for hiving a
swarm. Then you will need a box about
10 or 12 inches deep with one side open.

Its proportions should be such that the
open side will fit the bottom of the old
box hive from which the bees are to be
taken. Quickly invert the hive, first driv-
ing the bees upward by pulling in a. little
smoke, and fit over ‘the open bottom the
box described above. Then pound the
sides of the hive until something more
than half of the bees pass up into the
box. Gently remove the box of bees and
pour them upon the sheet in front of the
new» hive. As they begin to enter the
hive you must watch for the queen as
the success of‘ the job depends upon get-
ting her into the new hive. If you fail
to discover her it will be necessary to
make a search for her in the old hive.

\V'hcn satisfied that the queen is safe
in the new hive the old box hive should
be turned right side up and allowed to
remain a few feet back of the new one,
with its entrance facing at right angles
to its former position. The remnant of
the colony remaining in this hive will go
on and hatch out the brood which it con-
tains, for which purpose they must be
allowed to remain at least three weeks.
At the end of that time invert the old
hive again and drive the bees into the
hiving box as before except that this time
it is desirable to get all of them. How-
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of the new hive it will be necessary to

 
      

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EGGS FROM ANY OF OUR PENB 01 r 15
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after June 1. H. H. KlNG. Wlllll. Mloh.
EGGS from pure Toulouse Geese 1010: 0] .76.
Pokln Duck E‘I‘I" 11 for 01.26.
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smoke them and also to blow smoke into E Wyondotte and B. P.Bock.01 hunting; .1 50 for

the new hive; otherwise there will be
serious fighting when the late comers en-
ter the hive.

This completes the operation except the
cleaning up of the old hive. It will prob-
ably contain a little honey and some
drone brood. The honey can be extracted
or used as chunk honey if fit for use. The
rest can be converted into wax and the
hive will probably do for kindling. Mod—
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pensive, and every bee owner should rca—
lize that his bees will not be able to give
him satisfactory returns until he gets
them into quarters in Which they can be
handled to advantage.

WHY HONEY VARIES IN COLOR AND
FLAVOR.

 

One cause of the idea, which still pro-
vails to a great extent in the city, that
much of the comb honey is adulterated, is
the fact that there are perhaps hundreds
of different flowers which produce honey,
no two of which are of exactly the same
flavor, and varying also in color.

Among the white honey-producing
plants are the following: Willow herb,
basswood or linden, clover. raspberry,
quajilla, mountain sage, alfalfa, Canada
thistle, orange, horsemint, catclaw, cot-
ton, Rocky Mt. bee plant, sour wood.
gallberry, bellflower, logwood, milkweed,
apple blossom and many others, all of
which are classed as white although they
vary slightly in color. “'illow herb, qua-
jilla and catclaw honey. for instance, has
a water-white color, while apple blossom
is light golden. Southwestern alfalfa is
slightly amber, and some of the clover
honeys have a very slight pinkish tinge.

Generally speaking the southern hon-
eys are darker in color than those pro-
duced farther north.

Some of the amber honeys are made
from the aster, goldenrod, bonesct, queen
of the meadow, heartsease, wild sun—
flower, Spanish needle, sumac, magnolia
and marfgold.

Buckwheat is the most widely known
source of the dark honeys, and perhaps
the only one which has ever become pop-
ular as a table honey. It has a very
strong flavor. displeasing to the taste of
most people who are used to the lighter
grades of honey. But it is much in de-
mand in the cast where that is the prin-
cipal honey produced in many places.
Poplar and whitewood produce a dark
honey of very inferior taste,

Considering the great variety of flavor
and color, (I have named only a small
proportion of them), Is there room for
wonder that people uneducated as to the
sources of honey should come to the con~
clusion that much of it is adulterated?

Mecosta Co. L. C. WHEELnR.

A Poultry Advertiser Says:

LOuis T. Oppenlander, Lansing, Mich,
who has been advertising S. C. Brown
Leghorns, writes: “My ad. in your paper
has been very satisfactory and has
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IlllllEIl Ptmum nocl sausages; get:
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COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersvlllo. Mlehlcnn.

S C. W. LEGHOBNB—Eggs 15. 01:100. 04.50.
. Buy of the mnn that perfects one breeronly,
GILMAN A. GREEN. Clnrklton, Michigan.

My 8. II. Brown Leghorn: lay Eggsfgfi $33,335
dred. WM. J. COOPER, Mt. legnt. Mlcblgnn,

HITE PLYMOTH BOCK EGGS 01 for 15. 01.50
for 30, 02.50 for 50. From blrds of best quality.
BRUCE W. BROWN . Moyvllle. Michigan.

S 0. BROWN LEGHOBN men‘s 01 per 15: gel
. 100. Order from this “ad.” LEWIS T. OPP .
LANDER, successor to Fred Mott, Lanslng. Mich.

w H ITE WYANDOTTES—The nnsnrpmed
buolneos hen. Eggs 01.50 per 15 or 02.50
per 30. A. FRANKLIN SMITH. Ann Arbor. Mich.

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15 for 01.00, 26 for 01.50.50 for 02.50. 100 for 04.50.

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Rocks and Columbian Wyondottes. Eggs 01.25 per
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R C. WHITE LEGHOBN EGGS, from hens
. bred to lay. 01 per 15: 05 per 100. Also
Collie pupa. A. B. GRAHAM. Flint. Michigan.

Rhoda Inland Bed Eggs
R. c. and s- c- 31.00 per 15. 32.75 per 50,
05.00 per 100. BU ELL BROS" Ann Arbor. Mich.

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C. R. I. Reds—Stock selected from the beat layers

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I beat Itrninn, 3d” Wh. it Bf. flax. R.& 8.0. Rodi, S. C.
White, R. a 8.0. Br. Legh'o; Pk. Dkl.; brodtowin loykpny.
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strains. Drawer A. Birmingham, Michigan,

“ MONEY IN EGGS”

S. C. Brown Leghorn—My method and farm rouge
has developed layers with vigor. My eggs produce
layers, one-third foucler’s price and better loyen.
01.50 per 30; 03 per 60: 04 per 100; 00 per 200. Prompt
shipment. J. E. McAR'I‘HY. Enfield. Illinois.

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Eggs $1.50 per 16. Pure bred. free range flocks
05 per 100. All varieties Duck and Geese Eggs
’l‘urkey Eggs. E. J. HABKINB. Plusford. Mich. '

S 0. BLACK MINORCAB—Some choice cock-
. erels and a few yearling hens to spare. Eggs
$2 per setting of 16. B. W. MILLS. Saline. Mlch.

' eggs for hatchln
Whlle Wyandolle select breeding pegs:f;figa
for 15. 01.50 for 28, 02.50 for 50 and 04.50 per 100
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SOME

A writer in The Farmer of April 30
says upon the subject of growing the
lambs well, that the proper time to be-
gin growing the lambs for the early mar-
ket is as soon as they are dropped. The
early feeding of the lamb largely deter—
mines its future growth and develop-
ment, etc.

Now this is very good practice surely;
but if we are to go in to attain best re-
sults and success in this work, let us
begin farther down the line and omit
nothing that may make success more cer-
tain. Let us,,rather, begin back a few
months previous to this time when the
lambs first take on individuality, begin-
ning their short career on earthe-mapped
out for them by designing minds for mak—

ing morsels of tender mutton to tempt
the palates of people and coax them to
part with the price, that pleases and
proiits the prodtteer_

Let us 'go back to the ram, isolated
and alone; confined in some orchard,

small pen or pasture many months of the
year through no fault of his own, but
compelled by conditions that he finds
himself up against upon the average
farm. Some may say, “go back still far—
ther to the hroper selection of the male
and females whose blood we seek to gain
the best results.” but we assume that this
part has been taken tare of, and take
cdnditions as we find them on the av-
erage farm.

Given the breeding stock to start with,
begin here to grow the lamb crop by
preparing the material to make them
with, and laying the foundation to make
conditions most favorable for them to do
their best when born. Begin by feeding
the ram a little grain regularly each day
two weeks or more previous to turning
him with the ewes; a light feed of bran
and oats, increasing the amount to the
limit only of what he will lick up clean,
to tone up and fortify his system with
sound vigor and vitalize his body with

Hugopfitzrich bloodto meet the tax: that na-

tinge,~ imposes in the process of reproduc-
Following a custom of old country
shepherds, supply the ewe flock with in-
.creased feed and fresh pasture for the
same purpose that increased vitality may
be imparted to their progeny from the
beginning.

Succulent feed for the ewes during the
winter, clean, dry. ventilated quarters
with pure water; all these essentials we
have no need to mention here, but which
common sense beseeehcs us to observe,
and not to disregard, all combine to in-
sure success when the lambs come into
being, ready to respond to forced feeding
for the early markets, or any intelligent
care to suit the desired purpose.

Oakland Co. C. B. ATKIN.

BREEDING PURE-BRED SWINE.

 

 

The Business Side of Breeding.

The story is told of a certain city man
of wealth who had a home out in the
country. On one occasion as he was giv—
ing a dinner to a party of his city friends,
he said: “Gentlemen. which will you
have, a glass of champagne or a glass of
milk, the cost is the same.” This man
was evidently not paying off a farm mort-
gage from the proceeds of his dairy.

Sooner or later, in all business enter-
prises, this question must be settled—
docs it pay?

The breeding and management of a
herd of pure-bred swine is no exception
to this rule and, first of all. the man who
contemplates going into the business must
consider how he can conduct his breeding
operations to place his herd on a money-
making basis.

System must be introduced into the
management of the herd. The stock and
their surroundings must be kept in goml
shape, so that when buyers visit the
farm they will form a favorable impres—
sion of the stock and methods of handling
them. First impressions are what count
and every effort should be made to create
a favorable first impression of the steak
and methods of handling them. Make the
lots as uniform as possible in size and
characteristics. They will sell much bet—
ter whether you are selling to experienced
buyers of breeding stock or to farmers.
A few runts and inferior pigs will invar-
iably attract the buyer’s eyes and create
a bad impression of the better individu-
als. Uniformity of appearance is a great

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

factor in creating a favorable impression
to buyers of all kinds of pure-bred stock.

Have the breeding herd and sale stock
comfortably housed in neat and sanitary
houses and yards. Keep away the breed-
ing boars confined in good strong pens and

yards away from the rest of the herd.
Nothing will create a more unfavorable

impression of your herd than to see young
and old boars and a heterogeneous bunch
of sows of all ages and sizes running in
the same yards and pastures. Buyers
wonder, as they have a perfect right to,
how accurate breeding records of the
herd can be kept when such lax and slip-
shod methods are practiced in the man-
agement of the breeding herd. Have sep-
arate quarters on some part of the farm
for the poorly conditioned, inferior ani-
mals and keep them there, or better still,
dispose of them at some price to farmers
who are feeding for pork.
The Utility of Accurate Records of

Breeding.
A private record should be kept that
will show the name and the registered

number of every sow, as well as the name
and number of her sire and dam, date
of service, name and number of the breed-
ing boar that she was mated with, date
litter was l'arrowed, the number in the
litter and the number of each sex, 110W
they were marked and a rreord ot‘ the
disposition of each pig. in fact, you must

 

have a \vcll-delincd system of keeping a
record of everything connected with the
business and refer to it for inl'ormatitn at
all times. Keep every animal Iliat is used
for breeding purposes registered. lf keep-
ing a number of breeding boars keep a
record showing the date that the sows are
bred to certain boars and make a note of
how the sows are to be bred after. Keep
accurate records and have the business
in shape, that if you are called away
or sickness overtakes you, the man who
has charge of the herd can handle the
business intelligently. it is a mistake to
depend upon your memory for everything

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and especially to try and identify pigs
without having them marked. You may

have faith in your ability to know every
pig farrowed, but with one hundred or

more pigs it is quite apt to be a case Oi"

guess work.

A record of all correspondence should
be kept, for here where most of the
disputes arise simply because the owner
forgot what he wrote, the animal he
priced and the way he described it in his
lirst letter. if you keep a copy of your
letter and have it to refer to in case of
further correspondence or in case of dis-
pute, you know just where you stand in
the whole matter and can act accordingly.
File each letter received and your reply
with it and then attach all of the further
correspondence with this buyer or in-
quirer to the Iirst letter and you have the
whole thing in a nut-shell. These rec-
ords of correspondence are of great value.
Many times a breeder can make a more
judicious selection of breeding animals
for an old customer by consulting his old
records. This will enable him to tell at a

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glance the breeding and type of the ani-l
mals he sold the enquirer years ago and;
enable him to form an idea of about theE
kind of stuck that will prove the mosti
beneficial and satisfactory to him at the
present time.

A record of the sales that he has made
through the various farm and live stock
journals that carry his advertising will
enable him to secure the best results from
the money he invests in advertising his
herd. In this way he can save himself
many dollars by concentrating his adver-
tising in papers that will bring him the
largest returns. The business of handling
a fair—sized herd of breeding swine is no
very small matter and it requires the best
of executive and business ability to put

the herd on a sound, money-making
basis.
New York. XV, MILTON KELLY.

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A subscriber asks if cooked
middlings and skim—milk makes a good
ration for brood sows before t‘arrowing.
and states that a neighbor advised him
not to feed skim-milk to sows before they
farrow.

This is a very good ration for a brood
sow. The protein in the skim-milk will
balance up the starch in the potatoes and
the middlings being a well—balanced feed
no trouble need be anticipated from feed-
ing this combination so long as the sow
has plenty of exercise and feed just suffi-
cient to keep her in a thrifty condition.
Potatoes are a rather bulky feed and bulk
is an important factor in a satisfactory

potatoes,

  

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Not since the days of Franklin
has any scientist done as much
to protect life and property from
the destructive consequences of
lightning as has

Professor WEST DODD til

the inventor of the D. & S. system of lightning rod construction. The i

basis of this great claim is due to several very important Inventions for

making rwomm copper lightning rod (able fixtures, and equipment for light-

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oflive stock, in unprotected buildings—much less the home, where the loved
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ONE OF NATURE’S SECRETS.
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It its p1ctty well known among sto k
breeders that in— breeding is apt to weak-,
en tie constitution of stock, and yet many
timeiB it produces the best of results. Just
why; results should be so contradictory is
a ingestion that few, if any, can explain
fufii but many are taking a course that

M ts well in most cases although they
calfztnot refer to any law of nature to
SW why they get the good results.

illustrate: A short time ago the
W,.er was ,talking with a breeder of
p a-bred Brown Leghorn chickens, when
the? breeder 1emarked that he was not
thin biccd' 11g to get show 1ing fowls, but
t11$t blccdeis who did Need for Show
foils took males that were darker than
111397 standard and mated them with fe-
males that were lighter than the stand-
aiifl, producing the finest kind of results.

That poultr1 br1‘ctdeis should select fowls
that 11"13111 off color in pr11f111-nl e to those
that 11' e1e up to the standaId was a sur-
plfise to me,
they did not use perfect birds for breed-
ens. But all the reason he could give was
that they did not get as good results with
perfectly colored birds as they got by us-
in? those that were more opposite in
color.

in one of my sheep papers I noticed a
remark by one of the most successful
Shropshire breeders in New York_ to the
effect that “many fail with pure-bred
sheep because they try to breed both
males and females to the same typc," and
he insisted that the males should have as
strong masculine type as could be found.
while the dams should be of as distinctly
feminine type. Others have taught the
same doctrine directly or indirectly.

I recently read of certain running horses
that were imported from England and
used on American mares. ’l‘hesc horses
were very finely bred. typical race horses,
but whcn bred to the same type of mares
they did not get anything remarkable,
But when mated with the coarser class
of American 111ares the number of record
breakers that were produced was some-
thing remarkable.

Many breeders are Willing now 10 ad—
mit that the finest b11111 stock ate apt to
lack some in tonstitution end that an

-aotzlt-01'oss tends to invigorate the stock.

but this they lay to inbreeding. pointing
to the number of times the pedigrees go
to cettain individuals and forgetting that
each line represents only a very small
fraction of the blood of the present ani-
mals and that in only a very few cases
would it amount in all of the lines to
one half 11f the individual's blood at the
present time. More than that, in cases
that would not be counted close. the re-
sults are often the same.

Recently I read of a gentleman in this
country that owned a champion race
mare and took her to England to breed
her. to a champion horse, thereby hoping
to raise a world's champion; yet, con-
trary to all known laws of breeding the
colt was a complete failure, while Nancy
Hanks, 210415, and others that are known
to be in—brcd have vigor enough to be—
come world champions,

So it is pretty evident
definition of inbreeding does not agree
with man's definition. Man says that the
mating of animals that have 1-111'tain well
defined relationships is inbreeding. Na-
ture says that the mating of an‘mals of
the same exact type is inbrccding.
whether man can figure them to be re-
lated or not. Man tries to get an exact
type for his stock. Nature insists on
variety, and is pretty sure to punish vio-
lations of her laws by loss of vigor. Men
who are furnishing breeding stock to im-
prove other stock with. can stand some
loss of vitality for the sake of fixing more
strongly the good points they arc‘breed-
ing for. knowing that the outcross will
restore lost vigor. But when it comes to
stock for the general market we
afford to lose much vitality for
Ihe sake of getting fancy points. To
illustrate: The Southdown and Leicester
sheep ale the product of the world's nofe-d
breeders, and are very uniform and strong
blooded, yet they are not as popular as
the Shropshires and Oxfords, the product
of 11111 common people, though far less
uniform and not as strong blooded, yet
mme Vigorous and better able to adapt
themselves to popular conditions.

In the .\Ill11l'il‘;1ll troller we have fln~
other example of a br1-11d that is second
to none in (llllllily and vigor. Experts of
the United Slates 211vcrnmcnt arc select—
ing them to start a breed of light harness
horses suitable for cavalry use, in spite
of the fact that there are several Euro-
pean breeds of carriage horses that are

that nature‘s

raising
cannot

so I asked him to tell why'

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

more uniform and stronger blooded, in
the sense of reproducing themselves ac-
cording to type. Yet the experts state
that these uniformly bred European ear-
riage horses can not produce foals that
equal those of our trotting bred horses,
either in speed or endurance, and the cer-
tainty of reproducing speed and stamina
was regarded as a. more valuable asset
than that of style. Yet our trotters have
been bred from a variety of sources and
in a variety of forms and colors.

Now I am not advocating either the
“scrub " or the “cross-breed,” though my

experience and observation shows that
high grade, or cross-bred animals are of-
ten better as individuals than some of the
pure—bred animals. Yet they cannot be
depended upon for breeding purposes. so
we must have the pure-breds to produce
the high grades, and the inlluence of a
well bred sire is not likely to be over
valued. But I believe that the breeder
of pure-bred stock should not sacrifice
vigor for a fad, or trade valuable qualities
for fancy points: and that men that mate
the extremes of their breeds will have
more vigorous animals than those who
mate animals nearly alike. I would mate
coarse, large animals with compact,
smooth, muscular animals of the same
breed, preferring the large, roomy dam
with a compact, smooth s’re to a cross
the other way, But I would not think of
crossing breeds where there was a violent
cross, such as draft and road horses'or
even coach and standard bred trotters or
their grades, because I think nothing
would be gained in vigor and there would
be a loss of speed and other valuable
charactcristics. There is variety enough
among the trotters to keep up their vital-
ity if proper selections are made. Per-
haps in crossing the draft horses there
might be gain enough in vitality to make
up the loss in uniformity for home use but
they would be harder to mate, less re-
liable as breeders and not quite as sale-

able as pure-bred or high grades of one
breed.
In short. I think we can have variety

enough in most breeds to keep up vigor
without breaking tip the breed, provided
the fancy points are let alone, but not
Otherwise.

Isabella Co. F. G. SMITH.

A Montana man who controls upwards
of one million pounds of wool says he will
not part with any for less than 25c per
lb In 1‘, hicago wool removed from Col-
orado- fed lambs has been selling for 18@
211'.’lhus far it has been difficult for
buyers and sellers to agree upon prices
and western sheepmen are largely stor-
ing their wool.

Around Malvcrn, Iowa. a small pig crop
is reported, many pigs being born dead.
Numerous farmers in that section are
abandoning hogs and going into the sheep
industry. regarding that as highly prom-
ising. Ilrceders who kept their sows on
alfalfa all winter. away from the cattle
pens, have as bad results as those who
did otherwise.

In the Chicago feeder cattle market the
demand continues to center on good
steers weighing from 800 to 900 1115., be-
cause stockmen want cattle that can be
finished for market in the quickest pos-
sible period. There. would be a lively de-
mand fer prime feeders tipping the scales
at 1,000 to 1.100 lvbs._ if such stock could
be purchased 50 cents lower, but the
pricts asked are prohibitory so far as
newly all the bu11115 are conc.e1ned With
unsurpassed pastu1age,1"'eI) few f:"11meis
1a1c to part with growing stock, and of
late 111'1y few lllinois,Iow11 or Missouri
light-weight, thin steers have shown up
in the malkct. \Yhenevcr such cattle do
show up killers are sure to want them,
and they usually outbid feeder buyers.
although not long ago a load of prime
Shorthorn feeder steers was purchased
by a country buyer at $7.510 per 100 lbs..
a record-breaking price. These cattle
averaged in Weight :1 little over 1,100 lbs.

During April about 75.000 cattle from
Mexico, of tile f111-Ilc1' class. entered the
Ullitcd States through El I’aso.

For some weeks there has been a keen

eastern demand in the Chicago market
for choice milkers and springcrs, and

prime cows have advanced sharply under
inadequate supplies, With an especially
good demand flom Clncmnati at times

It has ll.l])]’)t 111d several timts that it “as
11tt11'l1 impossible to supply the (.‘inei n-
nati demand, and 11111111 paekels paid fully
as much for bac'kwaid springers as these
sold for to 111111th dealers, fancy cows
have been selling at $706187. per head.
Horses have been marketed this year
much less freely here than a year ago.
many horses having been purchased by
dc alers in the country direct from farm-
crs while no small numbeI was diverted
to other markets With a good average
local and shipping demand, much liigher
pr1ices have been paid than a year ago.
and high figures still prevail. but last
week saw sales of inferior animals at a
decline of about $5 per head. Otherwtse,
prevailing conditions were mainly satis-
factory, with good sales of drafters at
31175617275, while wagon horses were pur-
chased at $160®200 and heavy feeders
mainly at $175@225 Farm mares for
shipment to Michigan were taken at $140
(7175. breeders being generally wanted.
Drivers had a fair outlet at $150@300. In
various quarters there is a disposition to
resume breeding. and a more favorable
time could not be selected. F.

11112111112111.1111

Importers and breeders of

Belgiané Percheron

Stallions and Mares.

 

Our last Importation arrived last November. and
me In a very good condition and of the VERY BEST
TYPICAL DRAFT QUALITY. We have over 80
head of Stallions and Mares from two to five years
for sale. and we invite prospsectlve buyers to come
to our barns where he will find THE IDEAL
DRAFT HORSE, of both breeds above mentioned.

Our terms nrellberal. and every sale is backed up

 

with the beat of guarantees.
Write. or better—come and see us. Address

FRISINGER 81 SPRUNGER. Decatur, Indiana.

FOR SALE HORSE -Auctlon Sale of Horses

every Friday at 10 A. M.
Private Sales daily. A number of draft and farm
horses always on hand Including some city mares a.
little pavement sore suitable for farm work. All
horses sold are as represented or money refunded.

JOS. GEROU HORSE MARKET.

475 Grutiot Ave. Detroit. Michixan.

 

 

-B oraes. Cattle. Sheep Hogs Dogs
For sale or Poultry, nearly all breeds: Sires
exchanged. Southwest Michigan Pedigreed Ftock
Association, R. E. Jennings. Sec., Paw Paw. Mich.

BNEEOERS’ DIRECTORY.
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.

Herd headed by UNDUI.ATA BLACKB IDR
l'I‘O H3836. one of the beat eons of PRINCE I'l‘0
50006, and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit
and Grand Rapids Fairs of1907,1908 and 1909.He1d
consists of Ericaa. Blackbirds. Prices. etc.
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionin. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

berdeen-Angua—Mnles-L—Females. ' Pollen Dur-
hams both sexes. Devons. male & female. Buy
quick at the Clover Blossom Farm, Port Austin, Michigm.

1- Berkshire swine. E gs for
iyrslnre Bull Calves. mung mg“ magma.
White & Buff Orpingtons. White & Barred Rocks,
Light Brahmas, White Leghorna and White Wynn-
dotten $1 per 15. Mich. School for the Dent. Flint.

 

 

1 Breeders and Importers of high
Mapl' NINE. Farm class Guernseys. Write us your
wants. E. a J. T. MILLER. Birmingham, Mich.

FOR SALE—Young herd of Holstein
heifers. 7yenrllng bulls, 8

calves—the oldest established herd in Ind.

W. C. JACKSON. 715 Rex St. South Bend. Ind,

1011 norcn nOLsrvzms.

Top Notch reglstered young Holstein Bulls com-
bining in themselves the blood of cows which now
hold and have In the past held World' 3 Records for
milk and butter-fat at fair prices.

McPIIERSON FARMS (30.. Howell. Mich.

—Bull calves. Herd

“OLSTEIH FRIES|AH headed by Canary

Mercedes Royal King. W. B. Jones. Oak Grove. Mich.

5 Holstein Service Bulls For Sale.

Any one of which have breeding and individuality
that qualifies them to head any herd. Bull calves
and a few good cows.

1" En CORNELL. Fayette. Ohio.

BULL CALF f
H 0 L ST El N best families 13:11:31:

breed. C. D. WOODBUBY. Lansing, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

MAY 14, 1910'."
BIDWELL STOCK FARM.

from the beat of breeding at .75 to 0125 each. Some of
them Scotch and Scotch-topped.
type. Also. young cows and heifers. all ages. Fifty
11 end in herd. Farm—J I‘ wo blocksfrom ke Shore
Station L. I. BIDWELL. Tecumseh. Michigan.

D Al RY BRED SHORTHORNS—No stock
for sale at present. Visitors
welcome. J. B. HUMMEL, Mason. Mich;

.SHEEP.

Oxford- Down 8 heep “335.213“
cattle for sale. A. D. &J. A. DEGARMO, Muir, Mich

PARSONS OXFOBOOOWNS

also registered Hornless National Deluines and'BInck
top delaines. Bomeyn C. Parsons, Grand Ledgedillich

OXFORD DOWNS neiii'lmg‘m

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

SNOOPSNINE NdALL lSTOOK FARM

Will Import one hundred yearling ewes and 15 rams
In June for Michigan and the same for Boise. Idaho.
Branch of this Farm. Will make a. fair price on
yearling ewes or rams. also on some aged ewes with
lambs at side. for 60 days.

L. S. DUNHAM “SONS. Concord. Michigan.

130 Reg. Bambolllet Ewes for sale. descended
from the bent flocks and bred to a. pure Van
Homeyer and a ram sired by 3 Gilbert ram and Im-
ported dam. Allin perfect health. In lots to suit buy.
era—none reserved. J. Q. A. Cook. Morrlce. Mich.

[1065.

LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRE;

Have a fine lot of spring pigs, both sexes. The type
for profitable pork production. Vigorous and strong
and of best blood lines. Satisfaction guaranteed.

1'. A. vamsn. Memphis. Mich.
HUPP FARM BERKSHIRES!

WON 189 PRIZES IN 1909.
Stock of both sexes and all ages for sale. Breeders
of Guernsey Cattle. M. B. Turkeys, Barred Rock
Chickens Pekln Ducks. GEO. C. BU PP, Mgr"
DrawerA Birmingham Michinn.

BERKSMRES Unexcelled In breeding. Selected
boars. sows and gifts. Choice fall
pigs. T. V. HICKS. B. No. 11. Battle Creek. Mich.

OR SALE—BERKSHIRES—Two choice Sept.
boar pigs. and a few full guts, sired by Handsome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Prlnce. A. A. PATTULLO. Deckervlile. Mich

 

BERKSHIRES 111.135.3133

type andntruins. C. S. BARTLETT. PontlncJflcb.

NONTNENN SHOWN BENNSNINES.

ROYCROFT FAR. ill. Sidnnw. Ouch .

POIII‘I'AII IlEllll of on “.75.?

The peer of any in Amerl on...“
WILL w. FISHER. W111

 

 

 

proved Chester White and Tamworth tin/inc.
Pigs, either brood, by in prize Sitto Puli- wlnwl
Bufl Wyandotto eggs $1 per 15; W. 01111113101188 1191-115.

 

——SoWs bred for Au . and Se 1:.

Improved Chest.” furrow. Choice Maigch and A311.
furrow,elt11er sex also W. Wyandotte Eggs :1 for 15.
W.O. WIL SOLN. Okemo’s, Mich. (Both Phones).

 

-—A few fall Guts bred for
Olll'ocs For sale summer. fan-owing. Also a.
few spring piss. M. A. BRAY. Okemoa, Michigan.

DUROO JERSEYS. gfififign‘s’;

Ila-tines. Mich. Nothing for sale at present.
Sb 1: d D . B.
11111101: 111113111 SWINE. $1.32. .3 ,,
for 15. J. H. BANGHART, Lansing, Mich.
ALNUT HILL FARM Hard of Durocn. Brod IOWI all sold.

35 fine full sows, 15 fine full hour! ready for lervlce. 100
spring pigs todnto. Write J. 0. Barney. Goldwater, Mich.

0. l. C. bred sows all sold. $1335.31";
hand. GEORGE P. ANDREWS. Dnnaville. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

0 l C —A few bred sows. Orders booked for
- spring pigs from very choice stock. pairs
not akin. S. J. COWAN. Rockford, Michigan

0 I C REGISTERED PIGS, 10 to 12
0 0 ' 0 weeks from World’s Fair winners.
Glenwood Stock Farm, Zeetand. Mich. Phone 94.

 

 

—B th
H ER E FOR 05: 113 .JS.‘°27&°19312§§?

China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mich.

LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS

We have some splendid young bulls for sale. Some
of them are old enough for service. They are from
cows with records of 300 to 425 pounds of butter last
year. Write for description and prices

COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersvilie. Mich.

 

ERSEY BULL CALF born October 4th ’09. Dam
gavell, 386 lbs milk In one year. test 5 to 5 5%. Sire’ a
dam’ a record 10 060 lbs. milk in 10}; months tests 2-10
per cent. The Murray-Waterman Co., B. D, 6, Ann Arbor, Mich.

d I
Pure 81. Lambert JERSEYS gangmgx'jefig; 11.11:,
CLARENCE BRISTOL. Fenton, Mich. R.F.D.No 5
—Closlng out Linden Le Jerae
AUCTION Herd. JUNE 14th. aCatalog
free. H. S. CHAPMAN, Cnasopolis. Michigan.
Official yearly

Register of Merit Jerseys. 1.00.11...
'1‘. F. MARS'I‘ON. Bay City. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

—J B II C I f 8t 9 . Id.
F0" SALE Flgzgfgirfily 11:11:15: 1111111111031 1331?: 5:301!

cows. A. Newman. Mariette, Mich. R. F. D. No. l

JERSEY BULLS
BUTTER BRED 5,. 1.11.

CRYSTAL sham; swoon PA 11.11!
Silver Creek. Allolnn County. Mlohlcan.

NORTHERN GROWN JERSEYS

WITH BIG MILK RECORDS
Tum man In S'u'rl: VmuxxAnuN.
ROYCR'FOFT FARM. Sidnuw. Mich .

 

 

 

—0rders booked for spring i
00 l- C. from State Fair winners. pgl

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Mich.

30 P. c F!" Pigs‘b’ two champion boars. Book-
‘ug orders for weaned pigs by
10 different boars. WM. WAFFLE. Goldwater. Mich.

11111111 110011111 noes-ggegtggggum g;
for sale from .1 big boars. Send stamp for Informs
ti on J. H. DUNLAP Williamsport. Ohio.

EAVY BONED POLANDCHINA PIGS at
reasonable prices. Eggs from big. business Bur.
red Rocks $1 per 15. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich.

 

 

 

. . - POLAND CHINAS. J- an
Prize Winning Pekln Ducks. EmbdenDGegg:

and Butt" Turkeys. Zach Kinne, Three Oaks. Mich.

 

MICIIIGAN'S GREATEST HERD of big Poland—China Boga.
Big Boned Long Bodied, Big Litters. The farmers hog.A
bigger, better and more prolific Poland-Chin; Write for
whet you want. Boll phone. J C. BUTLER, Portland, Mich.

—Bookl f
POLAND-CHINAS pigs. [Nogggfibgltg 311131?
woon a. sons. Saline. Mich.

Large Improved English Yorkshires.

The hogs that make good. September gilta brefi to

furrow next August or September. Spring pig. of

either sex. Pairs not akin. Satisfaction guaranteed.
COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Mich.

 

 

 

When writing to adver-
tisers please mention the
Michigan Farmer. ~

 

11011 sat-.10 111g. Shorthom Bulls.

All soot. reds and mana. from 12 to 24 months old, .
of the herd heading .

av.

.pMiclnican.
11'
ADAMS Enos. 1141121112111. 111.11.. breedersei Im- '

 

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MAY 14, 1910.

   
 
  
 

  

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_ Clean Up and Disinfect

everything about the barn, hog
pen, cow stable, chicken yard,
sinks, drains, cellar, cess-pools,
etc., with a solution of

 
   
 
    

 

Dr. Hess Dip

, and Disinfectant

One gallon Dip makes 70 to 100
gallons of solution. The greatest
preventive of disease known.
Kills lice, mites, sheep ticks,
fleas. Cures sheep scab, mnage,
eczema and other parasitic skin
diseases of horses, cattle, sheep,
hogs,dogs and poultry. Also heals
cuts, burns and infectious sores.

If your dealer cannot supply
you, we will. Write for circular.

DR. HESS 8i CLARK
Aehlnnd. Ollie.

    
    
     
       
   
   
   
   
   
     
 
   

 

 

 

Wa rra nice!
to give satisfaction

GOMBAULT’S
CAUSTIC BALSAM

A safe, speedy and
positive cure for

Curb, Splint, Sweeny, Ca ed Hock,
Strained Tendons, Founder, ind Puffs,
and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone
and other bony tumors. Cures all skin
diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria.
geiigives all Bunches from Horses or
a e.

As a HUMAN REMEDY for Rheu-
matism, Spraine, Sore Throat, etc., it
is invaluable.

Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is
Warranted to give satisfaction. Price 81 .50
per bottle. Sold by druggists or sent by ex-
press. charges paid. with full directions for its
use. Semi for descriptive circulars. testimo-
nials. etc. Address

THE LAWRENCI-WILLIAIS GOIPANI, Cleveland. Ohio.

 

 

 

Horse. Breeders

   

MAER IMPREGNATORS

We GUARANTEE you can get from 2 to 6 mares in
foal from one service of stallion or jack. Increase the
profits from your breeding stables by using these Im-
pregnators. No ex rience necessar to use them
successfully. Prices. $3.00 to $5.00 eac prepaid.

Popular SAFETXIMPREGNATING OUTFIT especially
yecommended for impregnatm so-called arren and
irregular breeding mares, $7. _ pre aid.

Write for CATALOGUE which i lustrates and de-
scribes our_Impregnatin Devrces, Breedin Hobbles,
Stallion Bridles,Shields, upports.Sei-Vice ooks.Ete.
CRITTENDEN Jr 00., Dept. 86 Cleveland. Ohio

IncreaseYour Profits
You Can’t Cut Out

A BOG SPAVIN PUFF or
THOROUGHPiN, but;

Ansonsms.

will clean them of permanent] and
you Work the horse same time. 068
not blister or remove the hair. Will
tell you more if you write. $2.00 per
bottle at d’lers or dellv'd.Book 4Dtree.
_ ABSORBINE, "2., \for mankind.
. - 31 bottle. Reduces Varicose Veins,Var-
socele, Hydrocele, Ruptured Muscles or Liga-
lleniis. Enlarged Glands. Alleys pain quickly.
l. f. mulls. P.ll.f., 268 temple St. Springfield. lass.

 

 

 

 

     

   

 

 

1 tcreSt is

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

 

A short time ago a Ludington, Mich.,
firm showed up in the Chicago horse mar-
ket at the stock yards with an order for
a car load of farm chunks to supply their
customers, who are short of horses for
breeding purposes and farm work. They
stated that farmers who are dependent
on purchasing their horses are generally
buying mares, with a view of starting
in ruismg their own horses, as prices are
now so high that it requires a large
amount of farm products to buy a team
of desirable farm chunks. About the
same tune a dealer from Bowling Green.
Kentucky, was on the Chicago market
with a choice mixcd cur load of big draft-
ers and combination drivers and sod-
dlers. A Detroit, Mich., dealer purchased
the entire consignment, the lot including
an extremely handsome well—matched
pair of block Percheron geldings that
weighed 3.400 lbs., at $750. The Michigan
farmers have been buying a great many
horses this spring, and of late the prin-
cipal orders in the Chicago market for
farm chunks has been for distribution in
northern Michigan and New England
states, prices ranging at $140 to $175 per
head and upward to $200 for a. limited
number.

Colorado lamb feeders are highly fortu-
nate this season, and they have been sup-
plying the markets or the country with
the great bulk of the offcrings. Fat stock
in the southwest has been reduced to
very small numbers by the drought, and
as a result of the protracted and severe
winter, the “crop" of spring lambs in
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
other states had a serious set—buck.

Michigan, \Visconsin, Illinois, Indiana
and Iowa have been keeping western
markets bountifully supplied with calves
for several weeks, it. being the time of
the ycnr when duirymeu dispose of the
“bowlers" to save tllv'll‘ milk. There is
a good innrkct for them, but the big sup-
ply has caused a grout fall from the time,
weeks ago, when prime venlcrs sold up
to $10.50 per 100 lbs., the highest iigurc
on record. Many of the calves are lilill‘-
kcted too soon, not having uttaincd dc-
sirable size.

Eastern buyers of wool are bearish,
scoured wools having dcclined 10 to 12.
cents this season. but growers are in no

hurry 10 port with their clip, and :it
Pendlcton, Oregon, the season opened
with a sale at 20 cents per pound,

fully as high as a yeur ago. At: Boston
lutcly, fine scoured territory wool sold at
65 ccnts per pound and unmmurcd terri—
tory wool as high as 36 cents. Shearing
has been gcnerul reccntly in l7tuh, Ne-
vadn, Idaho, Oregon and \V‘nshingion. but
very little contracting has bccn done thus
far, whereas a your ago nbout 50 per cent
of the clip had changed ownership. Own—
ers think they should get as high prices
{is were paid last year, owing to the re-
duced clip.

There was a drop of three cents a
pound several days ago on the Elgin
Board of Trade, the quotation falling from
32 to 29 cents, but even that prices was
three cents higher than a your ago. The
remarkable improvement of thc pusturage
of the country was; given us the reason
for the fall in the price of butter. Cows
are now pastured. and from now on
there will be very little of feeding of cows
by farmers. Milk will be cheaper, and
hence buttcr will sell at lower prices in
the markets of the country. The butter
dealers of Illinois, including the Elgin and
Chicago men, are united to light the pro-
poscd cold storage bill now before the
national house of rcpresrxntuiives, und
among the interests especially hostile to
the measure are the big pnckcrs, who
assert that the darting requircmcnt of the
measure is unnecessary und unjust. The
Lodge bill in congress provides that no
butler shall be kcpt in cold storage more
than a year and that all goods put into
storage shall be plainly marked with the
date of their entrance.

Sheepmcn are disposed to store their
spring clip of wool. instead of allowing
buyers to fix the price. "Growers should
carefully consider foreign market condi-
tions before accepting lower prices for
their wool clip." says a grower. “Foreig
markets are active at the highest prices
of the your and home market conditions
are not warranted except through causes
entirely duc to domestic. iniluenccs. Ccr-
tainly the new clip will not exceed con-

sumptive demnnds us we will be com-
polled to import wool for a numbcr of
years to come. Strike threats and ru-

mors of tariff revision may huve bccn de-
pressing influences and there are doubt-
less many who are honest in the belief
that prices of woolen goods in this coun-
try arc too high to the consumer. My
advice is to store wool and not make con-
cessions to the dealer that ure of a sac-
rificial nature. It is going to be a long-
drnwn struggle between buyer and bro-
duccr this ycnr and dealers show a de-
cided disposition to clean up old stocks
before starting out.”

The greatly needed rains that have ful-
lcn in ports of Texas have made first-
class pnsturngc, and for this reason fewer
cattle will be moved to Oklahoma and
Kansas pastures this season than had
been at first expected.

For a considerable period the countrv
has been short of cattle, hogs and sheep.
Farmers are trying their best to bring
about a normal production of hogs, but
it will require a longer period to increase
the cattle and sheep supplies. Grcat 1n-
everywhcre manifested in the
spring pig “crop.” and it is: variously re-
ported in different sections as large. mod-
erate and small. According to the best
accounts, it will fall below the large pro-
portions that are required to restore the
hog supply to proper numbers.

Better hogs than are being marketed at
western packing points could not kbe
asked for. Farmers have certainly ta en
the best of care of their hogs, and bar-
rows fat as butter and unusually heavy
are showing up in Chicago and other

western markets.

 

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VETERINARY i

.LA—LMAMMWHJ
CONDUCTED BY VV. C. FAIR, V, S.

 

 

 

Advice through this department is free
to our subscribers. Each communication
should state history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the some ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will probably find
the desired information in it reply that
has been made to some one elsc. \Vhen
rcply by mail is rcquesied, it becomes
privuto practice, and a fee of $1.00 must
accompany tlhe letter.

 

Lumbago.—I have a heifer that has
been down and unnble to get up for the
past 30 days. She is well and henrty. W.
J. V., I-Iolland. Mich—Sci] hcr for beef.

Hernia—My tlii'ce—yeni‘~old colt has a
bunch the size of a hen‘s cgg lit navel

that has always been on her and never
done any harm. \Vould you advise me to
have her opcrntcd on? C. P.. Traverse
City, Mich—You had better leave the colt
alone, unless a competent person per-
forms the operation for it is not always
successful.

Mule llus Sore Neck—4 have a mule
that is troubled with a sore neck. He
has small boils which appeur undcr the
collar and I have. been unable to keep
him well, although he wears a good col-
1211‘ with zinc pad. E. 11., Holland, Mich.
("lip the hair off and apply pcroxide hy-
drogen; icn minutes later apply the fol-
lowing lorion which is made by dissolving

 

1; lb. sugar of lead and thrcc ozs. sul-
phnte of zinc in a gallon of water. Clean

the collar every time it is used.
Indigestion—Fever. Every time my
cow comes i‘rcsh she has n sick spell
which lasts Ihrcc or {our days. She is
inclincd lo cal rubbish us though she did
not know what she wus doing. and the
sick spcll ieuvcs her with a cough. J. C.
S., Yuma, Mich.»-\\'hcn she i‘rcshcns give
her 1.”) drops iluid cxlrnct nconiic at a
dose i‘our timcs 21 day to kccp hcr from
becoming i‘cvcrish: besides, iced her
lightly and kccp her bowels opcn.
Suri‘cii.—~l have u horse limit is covered
with scubs; :1 few days uficr the scab
ltiUSt'llS the hair drops out. llc cats and
drinks \vcll, but when working pants; I
um told he hus water i‘zli'cy. F_ K.,
“'uync, Micli.——<live 2L dcssertspoonful 0
Donovan‘s solution of arsenic ill a dose in
i'ecd thrcc times at day. Also 1 oz. cook—
ing sodu and u tablespooni'ul of ground
ginger til a dose in feed three times a

 

 

day. He should be washed thoroughly
with soup and wutcr once, or twice a

week, adding 1 oz. kerosene to each quart
of suds.

Sprained Erick—My six-yenr-old mare
wcnt ionic curly last full and has ncvcr
fully recovered from it since. ’l‘hcrc is
no tenderness in the leg or hip, but the
hock is swollen. \Vill it hurt her to do
light work and would you advise breeding
her in this condition? It. C., Howell.
Mich—It It; nlwuys a mistukc to work a
horse when there is much lumcness, cs-

pecially it‘ it is caused by n sprain. If it
is a sprain the animal usually grows
worse when at work than if nllowcd to

rest. Clip the hair off hock and apply
ccrutc of cnnthuridcs; this ointment will
blister lightly and an npplicution should
be mudc every week or so.

Sharp, Irregular Grinder Teeth—Horse
Bobs chd L'p und DOWlL—i havc bccn
having a grcut deal of trouble with one
of my horses for the past year on ac—
count Of his throwing his hcud up and
down. He contracted this habit about u
a. your ago without any apparent cziusc.

0n the advice of :1 Vet. I had him blcd last
August. llc does not throw the bend
ctmtinually; since the warm wcuthei‘ set
in he is worsc. G. F. B., Kibbic, Mich.—~
First of all. have his teeth iloutcd. Be
sure your bridle. collar and saddle ills
him propcrly.,‘ if you iind n sore spot

apply the following lotion: liissolvc one
oz. sugar ot‘ lcud in :1 quart of water and
add i'our ozs. iluid cxtruct opium, apply
it threc times it day.

l)istemper—~Shouldcr Slip—I
colt on the 17111 of March;
I had him he took distemper; have not
hitchcd him up until about it wcek ago
then drove him lo mill; the following tiny
I put him to plowing. The iicld is about
(50 rods across and aftcr going three
rounds he stepped into a holc and acted
peculiar. i then started him for the
burn, but thought he had pcrhnps: dislo-
cated his shoulder. E. 1)., Suniicld, Mich.
—’l‘he colt became wcok whcn sick and
no doubt wrcnchcd his shoulder badly
when it sicppcd into the hole. Give it
rest and apply equal ports aqua ammonia,
turpentine and sweet oil three times a
(lay.

Indigestion—I bought a five—yenr-old
mare last Murch that was quite thin and
secmingly out of condition. Sonic time
later Slit) had an attack of colic; soon
after I had her teeth floated. She is now
ceiling fairly well; when \vorkcd quivci's
in shoulder muscles. \tht hnd l bctler
do for her? P, V. 0., Conklin, Mich.—
Mix equnl parts powdered sulfate iron.
ground gcntinn, ginger, quzlssiu. and fenn-
grcck together and give u. tnblespoont‘ul

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or two at a dose in feed twice 21 day.
Apply one port: alcohol and two parts
water to shoulder muscles twice a day.
Bone S])aVin-—'l‘horoughpin.—l\1y 1,400-
lb. gelding has been lame for the past 12
months, very lnme when stepping over in
Stall, also when starting, but seems to
warm out of it. I imagine it is in fetlock
for he. is free from ringbone and side-
bone. I also have a Shire horse that
weighs 1,500 lbs. which has a bunch above
the back part of hock joint. This swell-
ing was soft and puffy for quite a while‘
but now is hard, causing some lameness.
How shall I treat these two horses? G
(Continued on page 531).

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r Gasoline Prices Rising.

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farm machinery. pumps. sow rip.
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A GOOD SILO.

 

Please let me know what you think of
this plan for a silo: Concrete foundation
4 ft. in the ground, 1 ft. above, 1743 in.
bolts placed in foundation to anchor sill,
silo to be 11 ft. in diameter and 32 ft.
above the wall, 2x4 studding placed 12
in. on centers. luthcd with hard pine
lath, studding,r covered outside with three-
ply roofing felt, elm hoops 1x3 placed 15
in. apart then covered with the roofing
felt again and ovor that a covering of
galvanized iron siding. On inside, plus-
tcred with wood pulp, first coat, then a
heavy cont of cement mortar put on at
once before the first coat has time to dry
for roof after rafters are in place, use
Wire over them about 4 in. apart then
cover with roofing felt cover again with
wire. say 1 in. apart. and plaster some
as inside of silo. keeping some wet until
cemcnt seasoned. W'ill say that l have
had 35 ycars experience in plastering all
kinds of lath and mortar and have found
that elm lath are apt to spring and
buckle, often breaking the mortar. and
by placing studding closer together Will
help 1/2 in. lath to stand the pressure. If,
in your judgment, there is anything in
this plan that will hinder in making a.
good silo. please state your objections.
Hillsdale Co. W. G. B
In so far as this plan of W. G. B.’s
making a'good, first-class silo, there is
nothing to criticise. I would, however,
criticise it from a. practical standpoint,
because it is going to cost more than
there is any necessity for. So for :is I
can see, it will be no better for this evtrzi
cost. I do not see the philosophy of plus-
tering on the inside with wood pulp. rind
then on that also with cement mortar.
Why not put the cement mortar right
onto the lath? All you want is an air—
tight silo. Then again. on the outside
why the need 01' buildingr paper? I sup-
pose the idea is to build :1 silo that won’t
freeze. Now, I think that this is all
nonsense. because I don't believe. no mat—
ter how many air spaces you have, your
doors are going to be opt-n and you l‘ilV"
got to have some ventilation in the top.
and in cold weather you can't keep it

 

  

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warm. The cold weather don’t bothcr
very much anyway. it we have real cold
weather leave a lighted lantern in the
silo. Put a little oil stove up there. It
would be much cheaper than it would to
put so much expense into trying to make
a silo that will not freezc. because I don’t
believe you will succeed anyway. If your
outside is iron siding. what is the use of
the elm hoops? The Iron siding would
certainly have sufficient strength to with-
stand all pressure from the inside and
the elm hoops would be an entirely un~
necessary expense of both time and labor.
If you set the studdinc 12 inches apart
and lath it on the inside with one—half
inch lath. lll(‘ll put the iron siding on the
outside, phlsior it half or three-quarters
of an inch thick with good cement mor-
tar on the inside, you have a perfect silo.
You can’t beat it. It will cost consider-
ably less than the plan outlined by W.
G. B.

QUESTIONS ABOUT CEMENT SILO.

I have been watching the silo ques-
tions in your paper for some time and
have received a good lot of information,
but would like to ask a few questions on
my own account. I expect to build a co-
ment block silo 14x30 l't., with n 10-in.
wall made of hollow blocks. Do you
think that a continuous door would weak—
on it? Or would you advise me to have
doors at intervals. say two or three feet
apart? I intond to lay wire in the wall
for reinforccincnt. \‘tht size wire would
you advise mo to use and how oflcn
should I put them in to make sure it will
stand the pressure all right? Is there
any question in regard to the silage keep-
ing all right in a cement silo if it is plas—
tered and washed with a cement wash
inside? A good many have advised me
not to build of cement on that account.
About how much will a silo of this size
cost me, all complete? Vl'ill it be too
large for 14 cows?

Livingston (.‘o. E. L. K.

I believe I would use a wire between
every course of cement blocks. This prob-
ably is not necessary but it costs very
little to put it in and it will help hold
the blocks in place so that there will be
no cracking of the silo afterward. I
think a. No. 7 or No, 9 wire would be all
right. or smaller wires twisted together
in the form of a cable would be proper
to use. So far as the lateral pressure is
concerned, it would be all right to just
use a re—inforcod wire in the courses be-
tween the door frames. Then I would
use a No. 7 wire. Then you will not have
to use the wire in the course continuous
with the door unless you wish to. The
wire used in these latter courses will,
however, help hold those blocks so that

 

 

they will be less liable to crack, but I do
not think it would be necessary.

If a cement block silo is plastered on.
the inside with 'cement mortar made in
the proportion of two parts flne sharp
sand with one of cement, there isn’t any
question but what the ensilage will keep.
I know of a. great many silos plastered in
the same way and the ensilagc does keep.
No further proof is necessary when it has
been demonstrated again and again by
actual experience there is no theory about
it. It is practically impossible for one
to estimate very accurately the cost of
building such a silo. If you have your
own cement block machine and work at
this work at odd times so that it does not
interfere with your other work, and then
again. if you have your own gravel near
at hand so that it costs but little for
hauling. it makes a great deal of differ-
ence in the cost. I should say that a
silo built in this way, if you figure your
own time as you ought to, and the cost
of building would stand you in some-
where ncar $300 when complete.

A silo 14 feet in diameter is plenty
large enough for 14 cows, but you can
get along with this size. The probability
is that after you get a silo built, you Will
keep more cows because you will have
more feed to feed them. I really think,
however, that a silo 12 feet in diameter
and 40 feet high would be a. better pro-
portioned one for a small dairy than one
14 feet in diameter and not so tall.

A continuous doorway will certainly
weaken the silo unless you have a con-
tinuous doorway frame. You can get a
continuous doomvay frame of any of the
people who manufacture stave silos, and
build your wall up to that, and the wires
which you use to reinforce your cement?
blocks can be attached to this rigid door
frame. This will make you a strong silo
with a continuous doorway. Otherwise
I do not believe you would make a suc-
cess out of it. If you will make good
door frames and put them in every three
l'u-t as you build the silo up, and then
build the wall continuous between the
door frames, using perhaps a little more:
wire between the doors to reinforce it,
you can get a silo that will be perfectly
safe.

 

BUILDS DAIRY HOUSE FOR PRIVATE
BUTTER BUSINESS.

 

I see in The Farmer for April 23, that
J. P., of Tuscola, asks some questions
in regard to building a dairy house. This
interests me for I am now ready to build
one myself. Last winter 1 got logs to
mill and now it‘s all cut out. I shall
build a house 18x10 ft. inside, with S-ft.
ceiling. The roof will be one inch to
foot pitch, studding running above roof
so it will look level at top. There will
be a partition so as to make an engine
room 10x6 ft. I shall use about a 3 h. p.
engine. This house will set on one side
of dwelling and well is on the other side
about 30 feet away from the dairy house.

I am thinking of laying pipe from well ,

to dairy, below frost line, using a pressure
tank pump. In this house I shall put a
cement floor, lath and plaster walls, sheet
it outside, and over the sheeting put clap—

 

MAY 14. '1916.

   
 

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“nit wunw’s SlAllllAllll”

That’s What The

DE LAVAL
CBEAMSEPABATUHS

Han Imm- llsluy Beginning oi
Separators 32 Years Ago.

Why bother with “copies”,“im.
itations”, “substitutes”, “just.
as-good” and other “near” sepa-
rators, that merely utilize cheaply E

.the expired DE LAVAL patents E
and cast-off, DE LAVAL types of 3
construction of from ten to twenty
and thirty years ago?

There is no other cream sepa-
rator made that comes WITHIN
TEN YEARS of the IMPROVED
DE LAVAL of TODAY.

SEE. COMPARE All! TM

or 1910 DE LAVAL for yourself
beside any other separator mode
and you cannot help so decide.

Any DE LAVAL agent will be
glad. to help you to do this. It
will cost you nothing and may
save you a great deal. “You heard
but to ask for the nearest agent’s' .
name and addressif you don’t‘
know it.

The De Laval Separator (lo.

1",” MDUAV ‘70-‘71 WILL!“ 01'-
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boards. In this house we intend to do all
the butter work. We shall have a sepa-‘
rater, churn, workcr, a hot-air wood heat-
er with water pipe coil connected to range,
boiler for hot water. One corner will1
have a washing sink connected with sew-
age drain. I cut all the material on my
form, am a carpenter and can build it
myself.

For four years we have been delivering
butter to city customers. Last year it
uveruged 29c per lb. This year it will do
better than 30c. This is a good business.
we have a very satisfactory lot of cus-
tomers. It took about one year to pick
up good ones. and they are satisfied to
stay by us. Every once in a while one
asks, “Can we take on some friend?"

We have a small farm of 60 acres. I
have been running it on a three-year re-
lation for some few years. When we got
the place it was not the best but now
it is improving. I am increasing the num-
ber of cows—will soon have 10, besides
young stock. ‘We had to build some kind
of a building to make butter in in order to
make it right. Besides, it is too much
work to do it all by hand. Here is where
the gasoline engine will be a saving in~
vestment. We have a storage tank for
water so will be pretty well equipped. If
anyone can better this I would like to
hear from them that I may improve on
my own plans. This is why I write and
why I take farm papers.

St. Clair Co.

 

F. C. C.

SILO‘HLLING
MACHINERY }_

    

There are more
yen-s of experience bo-
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honest effort that hos mode it the boot of its kind in the
world. Fill Your Silo Flrot—P-y 1mm
Ross Silo Filling Inchinery is so good tint it will
prove Itself 1300:! investment. wiibonstbo old of pro-
torsional ”165mm we want you t) satisfy your-
self before paying one cent. Write for tree cstolog.

E. W. ROSS 00., In 14 Spdnglold, Ohlo

 

 
 
   
       
 

    

it strikes when our gravity
sprayer is used. eeps in-
sect pests of! animals
in pasture longer than any
imitation. Used since 135.
. . Thousands of dairymen dupll<
‘3 caic 10 tom gallons annually
. . - 1‘. after testing imitations. Abs).
lutelyharmless :cures allsores.

in. - ‘

30 cents worth saves $ 1 0
worth of mill: and flesh on each cow during fly season.
No Lice In Poultry House or any place it is sprayed.
1! dealer offers substitute. send us his name and $1 for
3-ttrbe gravity Sprayer andenou SHOo-FLY taprotectzoo
cows Name express 0 returned if animals
not mot Free thkla. Special terms to agents

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In wists power. Cn’tstrdn. llus the only Intros
adjustable while running. Eclf feed. Mound or
mounted. lrery machine tested Ind Gaunt-
.y. nu. A lobar—sues and money-molar. Ask
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SIZE, OF WINDOWS FOR A COW
‘ . STABLE. '

 

What are the best kind of windows for
a dairy barn, and how close would you
put them. I am putting up a new barn.

Wayne Co. J. M.

It is immaterial about the size of the
window and also about the kind of win-
dows for a cow stable. One can use the
kind that best suits his fancy. The im-
portant thing is to get sufficient light in
the stable. I like a window three feet
high and two feet Wide. It is best to
have these windows so that they can be
opened and shut easily because in the
warm weather you want them open. Many
times if a warm spell comes during the
cold months, some of the windows ought
to be opened and for this reason it is a.
good thing to have them with a hinge on
the bottom so that you can pull the top
in and get a circulation of air, though it
is not a good plan to depend upon the
windows for ventilation entirely because
it creates drafts and does not remove the
air as it should and furnish a proper cir-
culation. Now, as to how often to put
in the windows and the number of win-
dows in a stable. It is hardly possible
for me to say how thick they should be.
There is practically only one rule to go
by and that is to furnish sufficient win—
dows so that you will have four square
feet of lighting surface for every animal
in the barn. You can easily figure from
the number of cows your barn is ar-
ranged for and determine how many win-
dows you want and then arrange them
at equal distances apart so the barn will
look well. '

 

WEIGHT OF CREAM.

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'W'ill you kindly tell me through The
Farmer what the weight of cream per gal-
lon is? There is some question between
the dealers and farmers on this matter.
Isn‘t there a legal standard weight for a.
gallon of cream and milk?

Oakland C0. G. E. F.

Cream, on the average, will weigh
about eight pounds to the gallon, but it
varies, according to the per cent of but-
ter fat which it contains. It is well
known that butter-fat is lighter than
milk. In other words, the thinner the
cream, the more it will weigh to the gal—
lon, and the thicker, or richer the cream,
, egless it- will weigh to the gallon. Hence

,w‘see that it would be impOSSible to
five a legal weight of cream per gallon.
There is, however, a standard for the per
cent of butter-fat in cream. The govern-
ment of the United States In the food and
drug act fixes the standard for cream at
18 per cent butter—fat. This standard has
been adopted by the Michigan Dairy and
Food Department. The only way to buy
cream is to buy the butter-fat which it
contains. All cream should be tested by
the Babcock tester, for the percent of
butter-fat which it contains. A gallon of
cream is, in a sense, an ambiguous phrase
and really means nothing definite.

 

THE OLD BRINDLE COW.

The cow testing associations through-
out the state are teaching us that the old
brindle cow, that is, the common, native
cow, is a better cow, a more profitable
cow, than many people seem to suppose.
These cow testing records show us that
there are many of these cows that are
good investments. A farmer doesn’t have
to have a pure—bred herd in order to have
a profitable herd. By careful selection
alone he can get together a herd of na-
tive cows with no particular breeding
that will bring him in profitable returns
for his feed and labor. The greatest rea-
son why these cows have not been consid-
ered as profitable investments before is
because the farmer hasn't had faith
enough in them to give them proper feed
and proper care, and consequently they
have never had a chance. If they are
given a chance with the pure—breds, they
will make a good showing. Of course the
difficulty with this kind of a herd comes
when you want to raise calves to per-
petuate your herd. You have native
cows, and cows of miscellaneous breeds
that are selected for their profitableness.
When you attempt to breed them to a
native, or grade bull, you are not sure
of getting any particular per cent of your
heifers as profitable cows. There is where
the pure-bred animal is very much supe-
rior to the grade, or native cow. By us-
ing a pure-bred sire of any of the ap-
proved dairy breeds, one is nearly certain
to get satisfactory results. The sire be~
ing pure-bred makes a strong impression
on a. herd of no particular breeding. a
much greater impression in one or two
generations than when bred to stronger,

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

or pure-bred females. The common, or-
dinary cow, old brindle, is not to be de-
spised. She is yet the hope of the great
mass of dairymen.

 

PEAS AN D OATS.

 

I would like to inquire if those oats
and peas mentioned in a recent issue of
The Farmer are meant for grain for the
cows, and if such is the case please give
your reasons for using them. I have
been growing barley for that purpose as
I have figured that there is more protein
in 50 bu. of barley per acre than in 50
bu. of oats; and we generally get as many
bushels of barley, and occasionally more,
per acre than we do of oats. We have
silage, with which we feed the barley
and cottonseed meal for the grain ration.
But there is perhaps something about
oats and peas that your experience has
taught you that I do not know and would
like to learn. Rains may injure the crops
already sown, in which event I could
re—seed with peas and oats. Oats grow
large and often lodge on this heavy soil;
would the peas make them worse in this
regard? What amount of oats and peas
do you sow per acre?

Huron Co. H. S. TILT.

Yes, the oats and peas of which you
speak were intended to be grown for feed
to be ground and fed to the cows as a
grain ration to help balance up the basic
roughage ration of corn silage and clover
hay. The reason for growing Canada
field peas for cow feed is because they
are richer in protein than any other food
which we can grow in this climate; that
is, any other concentrated food that I
know of that'is practical to grow. Soy
beans and cowpeas are richer in protein
even than Canada field peas, but it is
not practical to grow them here. There
would be no objection to growing peas
and barley instead of peas and oats. The
reason we mix oats with peas is because
the peas have a weak stem and are prone
to lodge so that they cannot be liarvestcd
cheaply. By mixing oats with them, the
oats help hold up the peas and we can
harvest them then with a modern self—
binder and do it cheaply and rapidly. If
oats lodge more readily than barley, then
I should sow barley instead of oats, but
it is a mistake in assuming that barley is
richer in protein than oats. The chemical
analysis of barley shows that it contains
3.7 per cent of protein while the analysis
of oats shows a protein content of 9.2, so
practically there is very little difference,
and if barley would have a stiffer straw
it would save the pea plant better than

oats and I would use. the barley in place you

of oats. llIy experience is, however, that
barley is quite as apt to lodge as oats.
Canada field peas contain nearly 20 per
cent of protein and consequently make a
most excellent concentrate to grow on the
farm to feed with the roughage to balance
up the ration.

 

COST OF CLEAN MILK.

 

 

We hear much about milk inspection
laws. This is as it should be. Only clean
milk is fit for human consumption. The
farmer prefers to use clean milk. If there
is any dirt, it goes to the city market.

The sooiety ladies of New York and
other cities spend much time discussing
the dirt in milk. In their ignorance they
are at the same time condemning its high
price as one reason for the high cost of
liying. If they do cvcr cause any rcduc~
tion in price, it, like the meat boycott,
will react with lower production and ulti—
mately higher price.

The farmer can produce clean milk but
it means added expense. He can not
sweep down the cobwebs each morning,
spend more time currying the cows than
it has previously taken to milk, buy a
boiler and sterilize all the milking uten-
sils, invest in a milk cooler, etc. unless
he has some assurance that the price
will be higher. IIe naturally asks, “\Vill
the town people stand the additional ex-
pcnsc?"

The demand will continue. Clean milk
is necessary to public health. The supply
will probably never exceed the demand.
The town people are slowly but surely
being educated to use the best milk. They
will soon learn the economy of the ad-
ditional cost.

Iowa. FLOYD LAUGHLIN.

FEEDS POTATOES TO COWS.

 

 

I finished our churning in one-half
hour. \V‘e are feeding potatoes with a
little wheat bran in place of corn meal
and bran which we feed during the win-
ter. I give the time required to churn
in, to show that potatoes properly fed
under proper conditions do not retard
churning operations, as is often held to
be the case.

Kent Co. T. LAMBERTSON. 1‘

 

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DETROIT. MAY 14. I910.

CURRENT COMMENT.

 

As the season pro-

The WOOI Market. greSSes, there is a
continued dullness in

the wool market which is not rc-ussuring
lo the grower who had hoped to turn his
new clip of wool into cash before this
date, at prices approximating those rc-
ceivcd a year ago. At a meeting of
Michigan wool buyers held in Detroit last
week, a statement was issued to the
effect that the lack of activity in the mar-
ket is due, in a measure, at least, to the
high cost of living, since the dcmund for
woolen goods has not been as good as
was expected or sufficient to cause liberal
buying of wool by manufacturers. A rc-
vicw of the situation in the east as cvi-
denced by the activity of woolen manu-
facturers and the trend of the Boston
wool market indicates that there is some
foundation in fact for this statement, al-
though the depression in the market is
apparently due in some measure to con-
certed action on the part of wool dcalcrs
and manufacturers to bear the market
until such time as thcy can get posscs-

'sion of the major portion of the season‘s

clip. The reported salcs of Wood in the
Boston market since January 1 have ag-
gregated a total of 30,464,700 lbs, as
against 90,260,000 lbs. for the correspond-
ing period to May 1 of last year. Movc~
ments for thc. last wcek in April amount-
cd to 3,527,000 lbs. as compared with
5,511,320 lbs. for the corresponding week
of last year. charding the slow demand
for woolen goods, it is but fair to state
that the slump in the demand is con-
i'mcd almost entirely to worstcds. “'ool-
cns arc in good demands and it is pre-
dictcd by those who are well informed
in the trade, that the mills equipped for
the manufacture of woolcns will not be
able to supply the demand. Should this
be the case, worstcds would have to be
taken to supply the demand and the man-
ufacturers who have altcrcd their equip-
ment for the manufacturing of this class
of goods when they were in vogue, and
who now are obliscd to run on short time
or remain idle in many cases, will be able
to increase their output to an extent
which will consume a large quantity of
the raw material. I
The“present series of London sales show
a firm tone in the mui‘kct with slight ad—
vances on the bc’itcr medium coarse
grades. Market experts are now admit-

THE " MICHIGAN F‘ARMB‘R. ’

ting that the Boston market will prob-
ably not go any lower this Season and
any renewed activity in the trade will be
very likely to cause an advance." An e'n-
couraging feature of the situation is the
fact that growers have not been free to
part with their holdings at the prices
offered by dealers. At some western
points the wool is being handled in a
co—operativc way, giving the growers a
better opportunity to consign their pro-
duct to warehouses, receiving a sufficient
advance on same to satisfy their present
needs for money. Some wool is, of course,
moving to market in all sections of the
country, but this movement has not been
large and while there is a prospect that
the range of prices secured last year will
not be reached this season, yet there is
every encouragement for the man who is
not obliged to sell his new clip at once,
to hold the same until better trade condi-
tions prevail. American manufacturers
are buying moderately at the London
sales and ultimately the prices paid at
these sales must fix the price of wool
throughout the world, and recent reports
from London are to the effect that many
consignments would be carried over to
the next series of sales, provided values
suffered a further decline, and it is gen-
erally acknowledged that the London
market has touched its bottom point for
the season, the finer grades of wool hav-
ing suffered a 5 per cent decline last
week.

The season's market thus far has ap-
parently been entirely devoid of the spec-
ulative feature which sometimes gives it
activity, ncithcr dealers nor manufactur-
crs having shown any anxiety to pur-
chase, while growers fortunately have ex-
hibited a similar degree of conservatism.
The point at which these three conflicting
interests or factors in the wool market
will finally get together for the transac-
tion of the season's business is yet prob-
lematical, but an attitude of continued
conservatism on the part of grOWers will
have its influence in the final making of
the market upon which the bulk of the
season‘s transactions will be made.

This is peculiarly the
A New Utopia. age of great philan-
thropics, beneficent pub-
lic policies and appealing popular slogans.
The high cost of living, which has been
an ever prescnt topic of discussion, was
recently solved by a local farmers’ club
which declarcd that the problem was bet-
ter stated as the cost of high living,
rather than the high cost of living. The
popular slogan for the development of the
spaisely sctllcd St‘t‘lltllls of -Michigan has
come to be “A farmer for every forty."
Missouri now comcs forward to “show”
us that it should bc “A farm for every
man.” A schcmc was launched in that
state last week which merits more than
a passing notice, both because of its
character and the prominence of the men
who are behind it. Through the initiative
of Governor Hadley, of Missouri, a con-
fcrcnce of prominent men consisting of
well—known capitalists, labor leaders, phil-
anthropists, and others inlcrcsted in the
cause of agriculture and the rural up-Iift
movonicnt, met in St. Louis, Mo” during
the sessions of the Farmers’ Union Con-
gress and'organizcd what is callcrl, ”The
National Farm llomcs Association," with
a capital stock of $1,000,000, $100,000 of
which has bccn plcdgcd. lricily stated,
this scheme is onc for the colonization of
city pcoplc, who «iii-sire to own land, on
the cllcapcr lands of Missouri and other
Silllt‘S, which will be purchased by the
association for the. purposc. Thcsc coi-
ouics will, under tln- plan advanced, con-
sist of a central farm of 160 acres sur-
roundcd by 32 forms of 40 acrcs each.
upon which the colonists will be placed.
No payment is to bc rciluircd from thcm
the first year. after which a certain per-
ccntagc of the principal must bc pziid
cach year, the colonists ultimately owning
the land. Upon the (‘cntrul farm it is
planned to place an agricultural expert
with creamer-y, saw mill, canning fac-
tory, or such olhcr industries. as may aid
in the development of the scction. Co—
operative selling through the medium of
the central farm, which is to be owned
and operated by the association. is also
contemplated as a feature of the scheme.
In fact, it is a true “Back to the farm"
movcmcnt in its conception, which scems
to have taken form simultaneously in the
fcrtile brain of Prof. F. D. Tucker, form-
erly connected with the Minnesota Agri~
cultural College, and State Immigration
Commissioner Curran. of Missouri.

Gov. Hadley. of Missouri, was clccicd
president of the organization. and Hon.
Gifford Pint-hot and Prof. F. D. Tucker
vice-presidents, While the board of direc-
tors contains the names of many promi-

nent and welleknown men. The details-V
of their scheme as announced would ap-
pear to a practical farmer to be some-
what visionary, but the outcome will be
watched with interest, since it. is a new
experiment for this country and one ap-
parently having the backing of a suffi-
cient number of influential men to make
it more than a passing scheme. The fact
that this large extension of credit will be
given to men without capital for the pur-
chase of land is one which will appeal to
a large class, without doubt, yet the
selection of suitable candidates from the
applicants’and the direction of a company
of 32 colonists,who know little or nothing
about the business of farming, is not a.
task the path of which would be strewn
with roses, nor is the ultimate successful
working out of the financial end of such
a scheme as easy in practice as upon pa-
per, and when it is considered that few
cheap lands yet remain which are valu-
able for agricultural purposes and in a.
condition to be quickly utilized, the prob-
lem is not simplified. However, as above
noted, the country and the world at large
will doubtless learn a valuable lesson
from this attempt to stem the tide of
movement from the farm to the city; to
turn a. large proportion of the people back
to the land; to add to the available supply
of food-stuffs and thus help to solve the
problem of the high cost of living, and to
the establishment of a new type of citl~
zcnship which, in the words used in their
prospectus, “will be the best crop which
these farms will afford.”

/

In another column
Of Importance to of this issue appears
Bean Growers. a protest from an Ing-
ham county farmer
who grew contract beans last season, and
secured only a small yield, owing to the
fact that the crop was affected by an-
thracnose, due to infected sced, and who
pcrtiuently asks, “Who will get these
beans this year?” \Vhile it is probable
that the firm for whom the beans were
grown was innocent of any harmful intent
in the matter, for it is incredible that any
good business concern would intentionally
injure their own business by having poor
sccd grown for it, yet this is too serious
a matter to allow to pass without at least
attcmpting to draw from it a helpful les-
son. As has bccn repeatedly noted in
these columns, the destructive bean dis-
ease known as anthracnosc, but more
commonly designated by growers as rust,
lives over from year to year in the lil-
fected seed, and the only safeguard
against loss from this cause is to plant
only healthy seed. One can be sure of
having healthy seed only by selecting it
from healthy plants. If seed can be se-
cured from fields not affected with the
disease there will be practical immunity
in the crop. If this is not practicable,
hand picking of the pods will prove fairly
effective, since the seed will not be in-
fected if the pods are sound and free
from spots. Such precautionary inezis~
ures cannot, of course, serve to protect
the grower so far as this year’s crop is
concerned, yct the trouble may be kept
down to the minimum by exercising care
not to cultivate the beans where the
vines are wet with dew or rain, as the
fungus spores are spread much more
readily under thcsc conditions. Michigan
has no Sccd inspcctiou law, and it is
doubtful if it could reach this case if we
had such a law. But it would be a wise
prccuulion to 1‘(‘tlull'€ a guarantee that
lhc sccd purchased is free from this dis-
casc, which would make the seller rc-
spousiblc. However, where one is sus-
picious of the source of the supply, it
would be still bctler policy to get seed
from the most reliable source possible, if
sccd of which the growcr has no knowl-
cdgc must bc purchased. But the prova-
lcncc of this disease is a matter of too
great importance to Michigan bean grow—
crs to bc overlookcd, and the wise course
would be to secure healthy sced this year
for next year's planting.
The world was
The English Suc- startlcd last week by
cession. the announcement of
the sudden and un—
timely death of King Edward VII, of
England, and the daily press has since
been scanned eagerly by a host of citi-
zcns of this country, as well as by Eng-
lish subjects, for a knowledge of the de-
tails of his illness and death and of the
ceremonies which attended the proclama-
tion making his eldcst son. George V, his
successor as King of England and Em—
peror of English dcpendcncies. The keen
interest which the people of America have
taken in this event shows that there is
a general appreciation of the bond which
unites the English speaking races in the
promotion of the general welfare of the

MAY 14, midi-lit

civilized ‘ world. This unexpected change
could scarcely have come at a. more, up;
propitious time, since the differences
which are finding expressron through the
English parliament are of a grave and
serious nature in comparison with any
problems which have confronted our own
country since the civil war. So serious
are these problems that it is generally
conceded that a crisis is impending in the
English Government and while the King
in a coustitutional monarchy, is not popu-
larly supposed to devote much attention to
the details of state affairs, yet in the im-
pending differences between the two
houses of the English Parliament, in his
position as acknowledged leader of so-
ciety, the official head of the church and
the practical arbitrator between the gov-
ernment and the people through the pow-
ers of d'ssolution vested in him, the King
has need of sound judgment and keen
diplomacy to keep peace between the war-
ring factions and avert a serious crisis in
English affairs. \Vhile speculation is rife
touching the manner in which the new
King of England will discharge the deli—
cate responsibilities which will be im—
posed upon him, it is generally admitted
.by those who have an appreciation of the
situation that he has no easy task before
him, and the bond which unites the
angio-saxon race prompts Americans gen-
erally to echo the slogan of the loyal
British subject, “God Save the King.”

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

Foreign.

Between 10 and 15 persons were killed
and fully 50 others injured by an explo-
8101] at the General Explosives Company.
of Canada, near Ottawa. A fire in some
of the smaller buildings of the plant
spread to the other structures until the
main magazines were ignited, when
scores of persons who had gathered to
see the blaze were thrown to the earth,

some were killed, others injured, while'

hundreds were stunned. Four miles away
from the accident windows were broken.

The whole civilized world is extending
sympathy to mourning England out of re—
spect for her late King. Edward VII, who
died at Buckingham palace May 6, of
pneumonia. after a short illness of but
three days. He was born in 1841. When
nineteen years of age he made a tour of
Canada and the United States: three
years later he was married to Princess
Alexandra, of Denmark. He visited India
in 1575 and succeeded to the British
throne January 22. 1901, upon the death
of his mother, Queen Victoria. His ireign
extended a little over nine years. :His

oldest living son. Prince George,1‘vho ,bb‘é.‘

comes George V, King of England-and

Empemr of India, succeeds to the throne. ,,

The new king was born 45 years ago. He
is less known among his people than was
his father when the latter became ruler.
The present political crisis between the
commons and house of lords places the
new king in it trying position and much
speculation is abroad as to how he will
meet the situation.

News, that is rattler vague in detail.
places the number of killed at around
1.800 persons, in the earthquakes which
shook Costa Rica last Friday. The dis-
turbance so demolished communication
facilities that but meagre reports are ob-
tainable, but the center of the upheavals
is about Cartago in the mountainous part
of the island. “'hole villages are re-
poi'lcd to have been swallowed up in the
maw of the quake. Already 400 bodies
have been taken from the ruins at
Cartogo.

Senor Riano who has been in Spanish
dipomatic service for 24 years, has been
appointed Minister of Spain to \Vashing-
ton and is now on his way to this
country.

The northern part of Italy is suffering
from an influx of criminals who are be—
ing driven north from the Neapolitan
provinces through the efforts of the police
therc.

\Vhilc in Norway, Coloncl Roosevelt was
attacked by bronchitis and his arrange-
ments were necessarily altered to give
him rest. The plan of a personal recep—
tion by Emperor \Villiam, of Germany.
has been abandoned. Mr. Roosevelt will
be in England in time to attend the fun-
eral of King Edward.

Elections werc held throughout Spain
curly this week for the choosing of mem-
burs to the chambers of deputies. Early
returns indicate that the government will
have a working majority.

The Cretan assembly has met and re-
affirmed its desire to be annexed to
}l‘ccce. The public grcctcd the announce-
ment. Following this action the deputies
took an oath of allegiance to the King of
Greece.

A new cabinet has been formed in Costa
Rica following the inauguration of Ricardo
Jiminez as president.

The geographical society of Italy will
receive Commander Robert E. Peary in
May when he will lecture before the or—
ganization and will be decorated with a
medal for his achievements.

National.

The Lehigh railway company made an
advance of six per cent to all of its em-
ployes not affected by recent increases
in wages: and the coke oven men of
Elkins, W'. Va., also received a five per
cent advance.

Believing that the Chicago board of
trade has been instrumental in keeping
up prices of grain, the attorneys of the
govornment are investigating; to deter-
mine, if possible, whether or not this
bePtruieg ‘

res _ent Taft has signed
:l-lnprolrliréaiiiéglflotnfinn for thtgergfi‘i’ggbiolg
ie - a c at leshi ‘ '
“Exam! harbor. D Maine from the
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of the advances in meat prices, the hatch-
er shops being the center of the disturb-
ance. .

The senate committee has assented- to
the measure antherizing states bordering
0., caused the mayo; to issue an order
on Lake Michigan to enter into a compact
toibette: enforce the laws on the waters
of that lake. The measure has passed the
house. ' ,

Alston, a small town of the upper pe-
ninsula; of Michigan, is surrounded by
forest fires. The safety of the town is
feared. Many sections of the peninsula
are threatened with fires. ,

An outbreak of small-pox at Alliance,
closing all schools, churches, places of
amusement, etc.

President Taft narrowly escaped a col-
lision with a fast express train at Passaic,
N. J., where a parade was cut in two by
the train, just ahead of an automobile in
which the president rode. _

The interstate commerce comm-issmn
has decided that a charge of 75c per
hundred for transporting hardwood lum:
her from the west bank of the Mississippi
river to the Pacific coast is a reasonable
rate. They held 85c to be too high for
such service. _

Lawyers all over the United States
have been surprised at the recent d'eciSion
of the supreme court in releasing a man
from prison because, in the discretion of
the high court it was believed the party
had been given an unusual punishment
considering the crime committed. This
is the first time in its history that this
court set a person at liberty on this
ground, and while the matter applies to
federal prisoners, who can claim the right
under the eighth amendment of the fed-
eral constitution, it is apprehended that
a flood of petitions will follow from pris-
oners incarcerated in the different prisons.

The New York assembly passed a bill
including a. clause which in effect is aimed
at the fundamental tenets of faith heal-
ing of certain religious organizations. The
clause is a part of a bill amending the
state medical. law.

Between 100 and 150 miners were en-
trapped by an explosion in a mine at
Palos, A121,, May 5. The rescue work has
progressed slowly because of threatened
cave-ins.

 

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

Jackson 00., May 2.——April seemed
colder than March. About two inches of
snow fell on the 24th and again on the
26th, yet there has been no freeze and we
hope the very abundant rrult blossoms
are uninjured. “Wet weather has some-
what retarded the progress of farm work.
Oats practically all sown, many fields
showing green; plowing for corn well ad—
vanced. Early sown and summer fal—
lowed wheat looking extremely well but
many fields were winter-killed in places
and will be thin. not over 65 per cent of
a; full crop on the whole. Clover of last
year’s seeding very promising; socd corn
where tested germinates well. Good suc-
cess with spring pigs so far as known.
Prices-vary some, eggs about 190, butter
2260266.“:00ws. are not high. Good dc-
mand'lfor work in the city so that farm-
ers can not look there for help.

. . Mecosta Co.—Wheat, rye and
grass are all very early, but not so much
larger as they are earlier than usual. Early
sowed oats look pale and may not be as
good as those sowed later. More cats
are sown this year than last. The cle-
vator pays 40c for cats and sells them for
60c per bu. Ground fcca sells for $1.75
per cwt; butter 240 per 1b; eggs 190 per
dozen; potatoes 10 per bu. Fruit is
pretty well advanced for the season and
does not appear to be hurt much by the
recent cold weather. Horses are higher
than last year. Plowing is more ad-
vanced than common. Spring lzimbs are
doing well, but young pigs are SI'III‘L‘G.

Wayne Co., Ohio, May 3.——\Veuthcr con-
ditions are not very favorable for form.-
ing; about 11/; inches of water full since
May 1, and still raining. W'heat looking
fair. Clover prospects good. Old seed-
ings good; oats about all sown, some up
and looking fair. Bay $11 per ton; wheat
about 95¢ per bu; eggs, 18@19c per doz;
butter 25@26c per lb.

Perry 00., Illa—Weather fair, with a
little too much rain, and nights too cool
for growing crops. Fruit all killed ex-
cept berries, by the storm of April 23—24.
Considerable oats sown in March, doing
poorly. \Vheat fair; some corn planted
in March and early April will have to be
replanted. Corn planting will be finished
by May 15. Pastures not very good. too
dry in March and too much winter in
April. Stock scarce and high. Hogs, 9c;
cattle, 6007c; veal, 6c; horses, 3100630200;
mules, $200@250; hay, timothy, baled, $12;
cow peas, $8; wheat, $1.20; corn, 50c;
oats, 50c; potatoes, home grown, 50c;
buttcr. 18c; hens, 15c; eggs, 19c.

Laporte Co., Ind., May 9.——Have had
another winter last week, the mornings
of the 4th and 5th registering 28 degs.,
with heaVy frost. Apples and strawber-
i‘ics in bloom and the outlook now is
worse for fruit than in April, because the
late bloom is injured. Farmers are not
crowding their corn planting; none plant-
ed yet in this section. Garden crops are
slow coming up and potatoes planted six
weeks not up. Pasture is now good but
grows slow. Dairy stock doing well and
prices the same; 32c for choice dairy but—
for and 250 .for average. We feed bran
yet but no hay. The crop of colts, calves
and lambs is a full average. Beef and
pork are being crowded to market as fast
as matured. Rain Saturday night and
rather wet last week.

Lapeer Co., May 7.—VVeather change-
able thus far this month. Soil filled with
water from heavy rainfall a few days
since. Oats a. long time coming up, say
from two to three weeks. Some pieces
bf oats just sown the past week: it has
been so wet farmers could not get on the
soil earlier. Many are cutting ditches
Mid putting in tile. Fruit buds do not
spear to be damaged by the recent cold
weather. Plowing and preparation of the
soil for spring crops is well under way.
Indications point to an increased acreage
of sugar beets this season. The usual
acreage of potatoes will be planted. Pas-
tures do not seem to be as good as one

would look for after so. much rain. .Whett
not doing very Well, seems too cold for
it, but ‘t is a good season for clover and
timoth seeding, which'is doing finely.
Prices for potatoes warming up a trifle
lately. In testing seed corn we find only
about 70 per cent all right. The demand
for spring pigs exceeds the supply, about

three and four dollars per. head being the

top price. Hay brings $106,912 per ton; cat-
tle as well as hogs are reported by meat
market men to be scarce. Veal calves
lower in price. Prices for oats and beans
are going up again. W'heat steady. The
latest highway laws of Michigan are not
liked by a majority of the people.

MICHIGAN cnop Fla—PORT.

 

Wheat—The condition of wheat shows
a slight decrease from the figures given
in the April report, the average being 86
in the state, 79 in the southern counties,
93 in the central counties, 9’? in the north-
ern counties and 96 in the Upper Penin-
sula.

The average condition on April 1, in the
state was 88, in the southern counties 82,
in the central counties and Upper Penin-
sula 93 and- in the northern counties 97.

The per cent of wheat sown that will
be plowed up because winter killed is 4
in the southern counties, 1 in the central
and northern counties and 3 in the Upper
Peninsula and the state. The damage by
Hessian fly in per cent is 2‘ in the state
and southern counties and 1 in the cen-
tral and northern counties. The total
number of bushels of wheat marketed by
farmers in April at 120 mills is 87,839 and
at 84 elevators and to grain dealers 66,492,
or a total of 154,331 bushels. Of this
amount 112.461 bushels were marketed in
the southern four tiers of counties, 33,431
in the central counties and 8,439 in the
northern counties and Upper Peninsula.
The estimated total number of bushels
of wheat marketed and used by growers
in the nine months, August—April, is 11,—
000,000. The amount of wheat yet re-
main‘ng in possession of groWers is esti-
mated at 1,060,000 bushels.

Ninety-eight mills, elevators and grain
dealers report no wheat marketed in
April.

Rye—The average condition of rye in
the southern counties 1s 88, in the cen-
tral counties 95, in the northern counties
97, in the Upper Peninsula 98 and in the
state 92. .

Meadows and Clover.—The condition of
meadows and pastures in the state and
northern counties is 93, in the southern
counties 92, in the central counties 95 and
in the Upper Pcninsula 98. The acreage
of clover sown compared with an average
for the past five years in the state and
Upper Peninsula is 98, in the southern
counties 97, in the central counties 99 and
in the northern counties 100.

Oats—The acreage sown up to date
compared with an average for the past
five years is 100 in the state and central
counties, 99 in the southern counties, 101
in the northern counties and 96 in the
Upper Peninsula.

Spring Pigs and Lambs—The per cent
of spring pigs saved as compared with
1909, is 90 in the state and I'ppcr Penin-
sula, 91 in the southern counties, 89 in
the central counties and 88 in the north-
crn counties. The per rout of lambs
saved as compared with 1909, is 95 in the
stale, and southern counties, 94 in the
central counties, 96 in the northern coun-
tics and 99 in Ilie Upper Peninsula.

Farm \\/'agcs.——’l‘he average monthly
wages with board, in the southern coun-
ties is $23. ‘3, in the control counties
$24.38, in the northern counties $24.17, in
the Upper Peninsula $27.25 and in the
state $23.14. The average wages by the
day without board, in the southcrn coun—
ties is $1.58, in the central counties $1.48,
in the northern couritics $1.46, in the
Upper Peninsula $1.68 and in the slate
$1.54, The average wages in the state
last year. by the mouth with board, was
.2321 and the average wages by the day
without board was $1.42.

Fruit—There is quite a diversity of
opinion among fruit correspondents rela—
tive to the damage suffered from frost
throughout the state. Correspondents in
the southwestern portion of the state,
where the frost in April was the most
scvcre, report fruit prospects much heilcr
than expected immediately after the
fi'ceze and very generally are of the opin-
ion that the outlook for an average crop
is encouraging. The spraying of fruit
trces has graetly increased this season.

The following table will show the pros—
pcct at the prescnt time for a crop of the
various kinds of fruit in the stale and the
different sections:

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Apples ........ 83 82 87 85 63

Pears ......... 78 74 83 85 . .
Peaches ...... 78 7-1 ‘57 85
Plums ........ 72 G8 75 81

Cherries ...... 76 72 80 84 6)

Small fruit 85 81 S9 92 9

 

NATIONAL CROP REPORT.

The average condition of winter wheat
on May 1, according to the crop reportingr
board of the rlcpnrtmcnt of agriculture,
was 82.1, compared with 80.8 on April 1,
83.5 on May 1, 1909, and 86.7 the average
for the past 10 years on May 1.

The average condition of rye was 91.3.
compared with 93.3 on April 1, 88.1 on
May 1, 1909, and 89.4 the average for the
past 10 years on May 1.

The area of winter wheat to be harvest-
ed was about 29,044,000 acres, or 714.000
acres (2.5 per cent) more than the area
harvested in 1909 and 4,439,000 acres (13.3
per cent) less than the area sown last
fall, 31,034,000 acres,

The average condition of meadow lands
on May 1 was 89.8, compared with a 10-
year average of 89.5, and of pastures 89.3,
compared with a 10-year average of 87.6.

0f spring plowing, 80.3 per cent was
completed May 1, compared with a 10-year
average of 66, and 65 per cent of spring
planting was completed, compared with
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WANTED-JIMMY FEATHEHS

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needs dairy and fruit formats. A small ranch here
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and Water. Ask us about our Improved and uninr
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than lands In provinces farther west in Canada. We
own 74 carefully selected farms. We are not farm-
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Prices are bound to advance rapidly. Now Is the
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FOR SALE—High Grade Farm Lands

in Osceola county near 'l‘ustin, MIchIgaii. These are
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MINNESOTA

HAS 1,000,000 ACRES open for HOMESTEAD
ENTRY, offers CHEAP LA NDS and farm employ-
ment, Write for literature and full information.
STATE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION.
Room 289, State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota.

In the fertile Faginuw
Valley of Mich. Pay for
it quick raising sugar
. beets. Farmers are mak-
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UNITED REALTY 00.. “52°33“ Saginaw, Mich.

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$2,320 Last Year’s Income

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$200. grain 8200. hay 8150,. fruit #50. sacrificed to close
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SUPERIOR VARIETIES AND CARE.

The difference in the care of the Jer-
seys at the St. Louis Exposition during
the contest, and the ordinary farmer’s
cow is as wide as the gulf between the
attention given the street wait and that
extended the children of palatial homes.
But tell me, does it ever occur to the av—
(rage man that the quality of the fruits
of the orchard is all the result of selection
of varieties? Is a Snow apple tree with
dead wood mingled in disorder among the
live branches, that is grown in a heavy
sod dotted here and there with the rem-
nants of brush piles of years gone by, in
a lot surrounded with decaying fences. is
an apple from such a tree crisp and
touched with that delicate quality of tla-
\‘ttr that one of the saute variety grown
undtr uniquely adapted conditions. is? In
other words, does care affect quality?

The writer does not recall another line
of work where these two features are not
associated. In fattening live stock it is
so, and the butcher is quick to get a
carcass of an animal that was properly
cared for during the t‘eedlng period. On
the race track training is acknowledged
to be as essential as breeding. The green-
house man would not think of allowing
his American beauties the neglect that
befalls native plants. The gardener gives
his specialties an extra hoeing. \Vhy?

If one is to be successful with the or-
chard he must start with the right varie-
ties; poor kinds limit success. Good vari-
eties have been brought to their perfec-
tion by attention. If tltey are to keep
up their good graces in the hearts of
consumers that same attention must be
continued. "‘ ‘

Care, of course, means everything out-
side of the inherent qualities of the tree.
It means the location chosen by the plati-
tcr. It means the fitness of the soil and
the skill of putting in the tree. Care in-
cludes the after culture. the spraying.
it encompasses feeding and protecting the
trees and gathering the crop. These,
coupled with a variety ot‘ quality permits
the grower to ask a large price without
being daubed “nervy.”

 

GARDEN WORK IN WET WEATHER.

 

The unusual weather conditions this
spring keeps the gardeners guessing as
to what to do next. March was so warm
and dry that many commenced outside
work which usually cotncs in April and
new we are drifting back into March
weather and ottr gardens are nearly
drowned out. The sturdy peas (First and
lest) are looking very well, though grow-
ing slowly, radishcs and lettuce and on-
ion sets apparently at a standstill, but we
nope when the rains are over and the
ground sufficiently dried out to cultivate,
that they will get a hustle on and be
ready for the table in early June.

'l‘hese rainy days are just the time to
get every tool cleaned up and sharpened,
and to purchase any new ones we may
need to wage war on the crop of weeds
which will surely come on by the mil-
lions. Help is scarce and prices for labor
almost beyond reach of the ordinary
farmer and gardener, hence the necessity
for plenty of tools of the best quality,
that we may do our work quickly and
well.
illere is a list of the most essential
tools: IIoe, garden rake, four—lined fork.
long-handled shovel, spade, dibbcr, wheel-
barrow, garden line, seed-drill. double-
wlicel ltoc with its attachments and weed-
et; to these we might add plant protec-
tors. trowel, watering—pot and sprayer.
’I‘hese for the small garden; the large
market gardens require a still larger
equipment of horse—tools, etc. The gar-
(ltll line is very neCessary, a heavy chalk-
linc. such as carpenters use, with two
small stakes, pointed, to drive easily into
the soil, will answer all purposes. A
smooth. round stick. sharpened at one
end, and nicely rounded at the other, to
avoid bruising the hand, will do very well
for a dibbcr; or saw off the handle of
an old shovel, about 12 or 15 inches,
sharpen the end to a point and you have
a first-class tool for use in transplanting;
a good companion to it is a solid-steel
Ilerist's trowel with spoon—shaped blade.
In our garden operations we make great
use of the tweeder (a home-made attach-
tncnt for wheel hoe). This is simply a
board 1x4 in., and about 30 in. long, Draw
a line one inch in from each edge of the
board, drive spikes (40-penny wire) along
these lines, four inches apart; drive these

THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ~

in the second line so they will stand mid-
way between those of the first row; this
really brings the teeth of our weeder two
inches apart. Bolt this board either
squarely or at an angle to under side of
wheel hoe and you have a weeder which
is sure death to the weeds and which will
produce a fine dust mulch. It is too wide
to push easily, as we work the other at
tachments, but works easily when pulled,
and may be run over the ground either
before or after the plants are up. If
worked in time and often enougi, very
little hand weeding or hoeing is necessary
in any kind of vegetables, and this saving
of labor is a great itetn. Use it from be-
fore the seeds are sown until size of‘
plants prevents further use; after plants
attain this stage we use the steel garden
rake, or the rake attachments to wheel
hoe to keep ground free from weeds and
maintain dust mulch between rows of
plants. Ix‘eep teeth of these rakes sharp
by use of tile on them. The blades of
shortls, spades. cultivator—teeth.
«to. should at all times be kept sharp
and bright; a lt’t—inch flat file will save
time and muscle to a surprising degree,
if used freely on the blades of the above
tools. File the blades to a nice bevel.
wet-king always from the upper side and
never from the lower. File to a sharp
edge. do not slight the work, and see how
much easier and faster you can work
if the tools are rusty soak them over
night in sour milk, in the morning wipe
them dry with a woolen cloth, sharpen
them, and unless wanted for immediate
use grease them with axle grease or any
oil and put aside. They will be ready
for brisk work when wanted.
\Yayne Co. J. E. MORSE.
PEARS ATTACKED BY LEAF
BLIGHT_

Can you tell me what I can do for One
of my pear trees? Its leaves hang limp
and are partly wilted. roll and have red
spots about them; fully half of them did
not open.

Montcalm Co. F. M.

Mi; Magansky’s trees are affected with
pear leaf blight. The trouble is known to
scientists as Entomosporium maculatum.
The disease affects the fruit, stems and
leaves. The dry days early this spring
were favorable for the disease. Small
brown spots appear on the leaves. which
increase in size until they run together
The leaves fall prematurely. On the

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fruits the spots are red, as described by
Mr. Magansky. The Keiffer and Duchess
varieties are somewhat resistant to the
attacks of the blight. The remedy used
against the disease is Bordeaux mixture.
Beginning with the falling of the blos-
soms this mixture should be applied, reg—
ularly every two weeks until the first of
July, usually about three applications are
sufficient although many only make two,
while some. orchardists give four or more.

 

GROWS SQUASHES SUCCESSFULLY.

 

I noticed in last week's Farmer an in
quiry how to raise squash. I will give
my way of raising Hubbard squash. I
never tried any other kind. 1 plant them
with my potatoes. Commencing three
rows from the outside row and four or
five bills from the end of row, I plant
three squash seeds in the hill and then
skip four or live hills and then plant three
more squash seeds, and so on. I have
ntver missed for more titan ten years.
If planted late the squash will not get
ripe. The squash vines will not begin to
run until cultivation is through with, or
should be. lordeaux mixture used for
the potatoes does not hurt the squashes.
lugs. nor anything else. have ever both-
ered our squashes. Try it, and report to
Michigan Farmer next fall your success
or failure.

\l'ashtenaw Co. C. F. BATES.
LAW AGAINST SPRAYING DURING

BLOOMING PERIOD.

 

 

A party who owns bees and lives adja-
cent to fruit growers asks the question,
“Is there a statute prohibiting the spray-
ing of fruit trees while in bloom%" Yes,
there is a Michigan statute to such effect.
The purport of the measure is to prevent
spraying during that particular time
when bees and other beneficial insects
would be destroyed by the application.
Fruit growers ought to respect this meas-
ure, not alone for the benefit of those of
their neighbors that have bees, but also
for their own good, since the killing off of
bees and other insects that fertilize the
flowers of the apples, plums, cherries and
other fruits will lessen the assurance of
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A man in Colorado sprayed
his orchard with Swift's
Arsenate of Lead. Out of 12,000 '
boxes of apples there was found
only one box of wormy ones.
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or scorches the most delicate foliage, outlasts two to four
’sprayings with materials that are washed OH by rain;
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Send for valuable book on leaf-eating insects.

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R O T E C T I N G

crops from para-
sites at the beginning
is a good way to pro:
tect your profits at
the end.

If you use Paris Green,
be sure you get C. T. Ray-
nolds 'pure Paris Green;
the kind that’s not poison;
dark, granular, fine.

For any sort ofspraying of
fruit trees, vines, etc., you
want Devoe Arsenate of Lead;
in paste form, ready to dissolve
in water. Doesn’t do harm
to the most delicate plants.

Be sure of the right name
when you buy. Dealers
who know sell these things. 5

Devoc 8c Raynolds Co.
New York

Ask for our “Paris Green" and “Arscmtc
of Lead " booklets

WESTERN GANADA

What Governor Deneen, of Illinois, Says About It:

Governor Deneen, of Illinois, owns a section
of land in Saskatchewan, Canada. He
has said in an interview:

“As an American I am delighted
to lee the remarkable progress of
Western Canada. Our people are
flocking across the boundary in
thousands. and I have not yet met
one who admitted he had made a
mistake. They are all doing well.
There is scarcely 3 community in
the Middle or Western States that
has not. a. representative in Mani-
toba. Saskatchewan or Alberta."

' 125MillionBushelsoiWhealin1909

Western Canada field cm a for 1909 '
easily bring $170.000,00¥).00 in cushfnu
ree Homesteads of 160 acres.
, and re-emptlon of 160 acres at
" $3.9 an acre. Railway and Land Com-
Riinies have landfor sale at reasonable prices.
, any farmers have paid for their
- landoutottheproceedsofonecro .
. Splendid climate. good 501100 9.
excellent railway accommodation
' low freight rates. wood, water and
" lumber easll obtainable.
For pamphlet ‘ Last Best West, " particular-
.” as to suitable location and low uettlers' rate,
. apply to Sup't of Immigration. Ottawa, Cum.
' or to the Canadian Government Agent. (6)
M. V. McIn 176 Jefl'erson Ave.
Detroit. Mich% A. Laurier. Mar:
quette. Mich.

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Our. Motto—“The Farmer .15 of more

consequence than the farm, and should be
first improved.”

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THE MAY PROGRAMS.

Suggestions for Second Meeting.
“God’s in His heaven—
All’s right in the world." _
’ ——Brown1ng.

Roll call, responded to by quotations or
remarks about the spring season.

What progress in legislation has been
made for: 1. Parcel post. 2, Postal
banks.

Recitation.

In the Home—III.

Due‘t.

Recitation.

How market eggs to best advantage.

Songs and recitations, relating to the
spring season, in charge of Lady Assistant
Steward.

Harmful bacteria.

 

POMONA AIDS _SU BORDI NATES.

 

A zealous ofl‘lcer asks, “What can Po-
mona do for those subordinate Granges
that are not doing anything? We cannot
go to them and they will not come to us.”

Ah, you have asked a question, one
that requires a wiser than I to answer
with a never-failing remedy! This is the
time-worn problem of every Pomona of
any age and which possesses a conscience
touching the welfare of its local Granges.
It is to be supposed that this Pomona
worker has tried those means ordinarily
used to assist these weaker Granges,
such as:

1. Asking that Pomona Grange may
hold a session in each of these Granges
that needs strengthening; and striving
to remove all burden by being self-enter-
taining, or nearly so.

2. Making this meeting a live, attrac-
tive one and fitted to the special needs
of the community.

3. Inviting, by personal and perhaps
written invitations, outsiders who might
make desirable members, to attend the
afternoon meeting where they .are made
to feel thmselves honored guests and are
shown the courtesy and resources of en-
tertainment of the Grange.

_4. sending representatives of Pomona
t5 the regular“s%ssio‘ns of“ the weaker
subordinates and «thus seeking in season
abd out to make patent the fact that the
county organization has a maternal inter-
e'St in its local bodies.

In addition to the specific suggestions,
there are a few general principles that
it is well never to lose from thought. One
of these is the very practical one that a
large and high thought must go before
any materialising of it_into cold fact. In
other words, one must have a good big
conception of what the Grange stands
for before he can work out much of a
real Grange. The higher ideal—held as
the spirit of the real that is to lie—creates
and sustains that actuality when it comes
into being. It is in the very order of
creation throughout that this is so. It is
no less true in the Grange chain of or—
ganizations than elsewhere. The Pomo-
na, then, has a duty to build ideals in the
minds of its members and to keep alive
the’ fires of devotion before them during
times of stress and strain. This is no
passing fancy or theory. Every one of
us knows local Grange after Grange that
has been carried over lapses in activity
through the efforts of one or two faithful
people who, in turn. have been sustained
in their sacrificing efforts by associa-
tion with Pomona or State Grange.

The Pomona, therefore, I reason, that
is maintaining a good work is, in the long
run, making it easier for its semi-dor-
mant subordinates to regain their vigor
and again participate in the county work.
Such a Pomona strengthens the prestige
of its organizations at large; and, though
for a time it seems to fail to reach all of
its charges, it may take comfort from the
saying that "they also serve who only
stand and wait.” JENNIE BUELL.

AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.

 

Onsted Grange, of Lenawee Co., has its
plans all made for a lively membership
contest which begins with its next meet-
ing. .

Mecosta Patrons Have Educational D_ay.
—Mecosta Pomona Grange held an edu-
cational meeting with Fern Grange. on
Thursday, April 21. Among the speakers
were Prof. French, of the Agricultural
College, who made a strong plea for more
practical work in our common schools.
Commissioner Ford urged greater inter-
est in the schools and better co-operation
between teachers and parents. A. V.
Young gave a practical talk showing the
advantage of uniform textbooks, and Miss
Simpson made a plea for a more intimate
acquaintance between teachers and chil-
dren. Music was furnished by the schools

of! “alert is e-r as»,

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‘ ‘THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

of the vicinity, the normal class and the
Clear Lake band.

Nerth Leonl Grange ‘Organlzed.—Na-
tional Deputy John F. Wilde organized a
Grange of 84 members at Crippen school-
house in North Leoni, Jackson C0,, Tues-
day evening, April 26. The following are
the ofiicers: Master, M. H. Crafts; over-
seer, William Trumble; lecturer, Nellie
Daniels; steward, W. M. Sawdey; assist-
ant steward, Merrill Cheney; lady ass’t
steward, Sadie'Wahl; chaplain, Susie Mc-
Donald; treasurer, F. M. Johnson; secre-

tary, Lewis St. John; gatekeeper. Robert,

VVattes; Ceres, Alice Young; Pomona,
Edna Teller; Flora, Emma Ferguson.

Grange Department in State Library.—
The \N'oman’s‘ Work Committee of the
State Grange announces that, in com—
pliance with instructions from the State
Grange, it has arranged with the state
librarian for a section in which to pro-
serve documents and historical and bio-
graphical matter bearing on the origin
and work of the order of Patrons of Hus—
bandry from its earliest inception. The
committee asks the assistance of the en—
tire membership in this state in securing
material for this department, which
should include books, writings, biogra-
phical sketches, with or without portraits,
mementoes, gifts and souvenirs from those
who have been connected with the order.
The purpose of this department is to pre-
serve, in a safe lire-proof building, these
varied features of interest which make
up a practical history of the Grange in
Michigan.

THE GRANGE IN OTHER STATES.

That Washington state has been mak-
ing a wonderful Grange growth is ap-
parent to all who noted the figures for the
first quarter of 1910, which were pub-
lished in this department a few weeks
ago. That report, which came from Na-
tional Secretary Freeman and is official,
showed that Washington organized 50 new
Granges in the three months between
Jan. 1‘ and April 1. Two years ago there
were less than 90 Granges in the state;
now there are about 200. Fifty—nine of
them own their own halls, which are
worth over $53,000; the rest meet in rent-
ed halls mostly, with some meeting in
schoolhouses and homes of members.
Fifty—nine Granges report that they have
co-operated in buying and selling ar-
rangements; 108 report social activity; 117
report regular consideration of matters
of public interest. Secretary Lewis says
that it is these Granges which report as
above that are growing ’the fastest and
exert 'the most influence in their locali—
ties. C. E. Kegley, of Palouse, the state
master, is one of the most energetic and
progressive among the State Grange mas-
ters, and Washington State Grange is
committed to the reform now being pro-
posed by the encrgetic Grange states to
provide for proportional representation of
states in the National Grange.

At its last meeting Vermont State
Grange was composed of more than 300
delegates. The financial report showed
the permanent fund, including interest to
July 1, 1909, to be $823.51. The treasurer
received during the year, including funds
on hand at the close of last year's ac—
count, $13,335.16. He had paid out but
$4,635.81. The report of the secretary
showed that since the last meeting 26
Granges had been instituted. Grangcs in
good standing number 19!), with a total
membership of 18,494. The total number
of Pomona Granges is 24, with a mem-
bership of 6.468. State Master Smith, in
his annual address, advised co—operation
in the matter of buying certain commod—
ities in car lots, asked for agricultural
training in public schools, remedial tax-
ation measures, state support of paupers,
reduced c0urt expenses, another liquor
law referendum, good roads, cow—testing
associations, reforestation and an effort
to prevent the repeal of the Grout bill by
congress. Resolutions were passed favor-
ing a referendum on the liquor question,
a good roads movement, equal taxation. a
parcels post, at least one agricultural
high school, industrial education in schools
and opposing congressional ship subsidy.

The story of how the home Grange of
State Master Wilson, of Illinois, turned
failure into success is interesting. This
Grange, known as Magnolia, was organ—
ized 37 years ago. It prospered for a
time and then declined. A determined
effort was made to revive it and for a
few years the meetings were held in a
schoolhouse. Then as a vacant church
was available it was decided to purchase
it for a, permanent home. After paying
several hundred dollars toward the pur-
chase price it was found necessary to
make some special effort to complete the
payment. The men agreed to rent five
acres of land on which to plant potatoes,
to be cared for by the membership, and
sell said potatoes to cancel the indebted-
ness. This was done, and a neat little
sum was raised in this manner. Then a
Grange fair was undertaken, first in a
very small way with no premiums except-
ing ribbons to signify the superior quality
of exhibits. This work grew annually
and interest was manifested by many
outside the Grange until there were fine
exhibits of live stock. vegetables, fruits
and everything that goes to make up an
agricultural fair. No cigars, whisky or
games of chance were allowed on the
grounds. A fine fioral house. poultry house,
large stables, sheep and hog sheds are
now visible as the result of the earnest
efforts of a harmonious band of Patrons
who were and are interested in the uplift
and advancement of the neighboring tillers
of the soil.

COMING EVENTS.

 

Pomona Meetings.

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

Benzie Co., with Thompsonville Grange.

Tuesday and Wednesday, May 31 and
June ‘1.

Western (Ottawa 00.). with Conklin
Grange, Saturday, June .

’Lenawee Co., with Hudson Center

Grange, Thursday, June 2.

 

 

. MA
OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-
TION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.

President—B. A. Holden, VVixom.

Vice—president—Mrs. C, A. Mathews,
St. Johns.

Secretary—Mrs. C. B. Johnson, Meta-
mora.

Treasurer—Henry T. Ross,

Corresponding Secretary—N.
Northville.

Directors—'1‘. B, Halladay.

 

 

Brighton.
A. Clupp,

Norvell; E.

C, Hullock, Almont; A. it. Palmer, Jack-
son; Wm. 11. Marks, Fair Haven; C. L.
Wright, Caro; E. ”W. \Voodrui‘f, Blan-
chard.

Address all communications relative to
the organization of new clubs to Mrs. C.
P. Johnson, Me'tamora, Mich.

Associational Motto.—

The skillful hand, with cultured mind,
is the farmer's most valuable asset.
Associaticnal Sentiment.—

The farmer, he garners from the Soil
the primal wealth of nations.

 

YEARLY PROGRAMS.

 

The Essex Farmers’ Club.

The latest of the annual programs of
local farmers’ clubs to come to the ed.-
tor's desk is that of the Essex Farmers“
Club, of Clinton county. The cover, in
addition to the name of the club and date.
of the program, contains the announce-
ment that meetings are held on the sec-

ond Wednesday of each month and are
called to order at 10:30 a. m. The title

page is identical with the cover and IS
followed by the associationul sentimcnt as
adopted by the State Assor-iution of
Farmers’ Clubs at the suggcstiou of Ev—
President Daniells, and as it appears at
the head of this column in nearly every
issue. This is a fitting sentiment in this
case, since the Essex Club was led to
adopt the yearly program through the
solicitation of Mr. Daniclls, who is also an
cx—prcsidcnt of that organization. The
next page is dcvoled to a list of the ex—
president and prcscnt‘ officers of the Club
while on the following page appears the
list of standing committccs of the club.
The fiscal year of the club begins with
October and the pages of the program are
so arranged that thc two center pages
come between meetings for the old and
the new ycar. On the first one zippezfrs
a “Merry Christmas.” and on the second.
“Happy New Year” greeting. Another
noteworthy feature of this annual pro-
gram is the fact that the constitution of
the club is printed on one of the back
pages and it contains on the next page
a list of names under the simple, yet ex-
pressive head, “In Mcmoriam," a fitting
tribute to faithful club workcrs whom
death has called from their active labor.

The farms of members are named. the
farm name uppcuring with that of the
host at the head of each monthly pro—
gram. Programs are quite complcte, the

numbers being practically all announced
except the music. An unusual fcature is
the expression of a sentiment for each
month appropriate to the season and the
occasion. The meetings provided for bo-
gin with October and end with Junc, the
March meeting being devoted to temper-
ance subjects, it being the prominent
special feature meeting of the club season.

 

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

The Seed Bed—The Hillsdale Lenawcc
Farmers’ Clu-b met at the pleasant and
hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Strong near Hudson on April 14. Follow-
ing the opening exercises and dinner hour
the discussion opened with “Preparing the
seed bed for the cornng crop." by Mr.

Frank Lowe. The speaker handled his sub-
ject in a manner showing he well undcr-
stood the topic given him, minutely dc-
tailiug his manner of so doing. This was
followed by a discussion with numerous

 

questions askcdnnd answered. The con—
census of opinion was that the better
the seed bed is fitted, the bettcr the

crops; seed after oats with good rcsulls.

Michigan Schools was the topic of an
address by Prof. Relman, who spoke at
some length touching on the importance
of character building in the school as
well as the home. Resolutions of condo-
lence on the death of Fletcher Payne, rm
honored and respected member of the
club, were adopted. The club then ad-
journed to meet at the home of O. \V.
Haynes on Thursday, June 9.

The Advantages of Farm Life—The
Indianficlds Farmers’ Club met at the
pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Pierce, Thursday, April 21, it being the
last all-day meeting. The superintendent
of refreshments, Mrs. Chas. Smith, served
a fine dinner to which the members did
ample justice. At 2:30 the meeting was
called to order by Vice-President R. Park,
After the usual order of business the pro-
gram was opened by M. H. Oakly, who
read a very interesting paper on “The
advantages of home life on a farm," in

° _ (13) 529

which he called attention to the fact that
many of the most successful men came
from the farm. also to the great change
of conditions which has taken place, giv-
ing the farmers even greater advantages
than are enjoyed by their city cousins.
The discussion was opened by I. N, Tag-
gctt, who thought the country boys were
ahead of the city boys, as a rule. “When
the Roses Bloom Again” was a duet sang
by Mrs. C. Taggett and Mrs. J. M. Miller.
Mrs. A. Arnold read a paper, “Youth of
a grumbler." and the patriotic recitation,
“Jennie McNeal.” by Mrs. M. H. Oakly,
was fine. Mrs. G, Carpenter recited “Poor~
house Nan." in her usual interesting way.
The question box was very interesting
and many different subjects were dis-
cussed. One question asked which inter-
cstcd the club was, “\‘Vould it be policy
to enlarge our club of 25 families to 30
familics‘?" Some thought it would be bet-
tcr to have only 25, others 30. The meetv

ing closed by singing “Home, Sweet
Home.” The next meeting, which will be
only an afternoon meeting, will be held

at the homc of Mr. and Mrs. C. Taggctt.
-—Mrs. J. M. Miller, Cor. Soc.

System Applied to Agriculture.~Tho

April meeting of tne Ingbam County
Farmcrs' Club was entertained by Mr.
and Mrs. “'atts and Mr. and Mrs. Fel—

lows at the M. E. Church in Mason. It
was too pleasant a day for a very large
attendance of the active farmers, but
those that attended heard a fine talk by
Dean R. S, Shaw, of the M. A. (I, on
“System applied to agriculture.” He ad-
vised all persons to avoid the fads and
tangents, to use common sense. There
have been three reasons why there has
not been more system applied to an im-

provcd agriculture: Lack of means or
financial obligations, lack of labor, and
lack of fertility of our soils. Too much

and lack of plowing
has made land sour, but one does not
\Vi-tllt to buy commercial fertilizer until
he has USt‘d what is in the land. Much
is said these days about corn schools, corn
lcsts and improving our Sced corn; while
this is ncccssary in a way, do not follow
cxircmcs; if it is good to select your seed
corn it is also good to improve your seed
for wheat, ryc and oats, and whatever is
grown upon the farm. Good methods are
an objccl lesson, and system will help one,
to do things in a common sense, practical
way. As the membership of this club in-
cludes the family, President Ives an-
nounced the arrival of a new member,
Ludell \Yard (‘licucy, and wished to ex-
tend congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Cheney. Mrs. Cheney will be remem-
bercd as the Secretary of the State Asso—
ciation of Farmcrs’ Clubs the past three
years and ref‘uscd an unanimous rc-elec-
lion last Dcccmber. The May meeting
will be hcld with Mr. and Mrs. Diamond
at Maple Lawn. “Success in poultry
raising,” and “The transfer of property”
will be the topics for discussion.—~Mrs.
Tanswell, Cor, Soc.

Discuss High Prices—The Hadley and
Elba Farmcrs' Club, of Lupecr Co., met
at Love Spring Haven with Mr. and Mrs.
l-lorace Kelch on April 7. The meeting
was called to order by President Robert
J. Pierson. Mrs. A. M. Bullock furnished
the opening number, a. vocal solo. J, TV.
Tower spoke on “The cause of high
prices." He notcd the sharp advance in
farm produr-is, and thc causes of the
5.0.1110. increased consumption, scarcity
of farm labor, ctc., and predicted a gen-
cral if not constant upward trend of
priccs. A humorous recitation by Lottie
Kclch was much enjoyed by all. The
farm garden, as piclurcd by F. A. Smith,
was a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
'l‘hc talk was full of practical hints which
it is to be hoped will be put to practical
icst this summer. Miss Lottie Kclch and
Mrs, Fred Ostrum sang (‘lover Blossoms,
as a closing numbcr. A very pleasing
fcaiure of the meeting was the roll call,
answcred by current events. The next
mcctiug will be at the M. E. Parsonage.
with Rev. C. \V. Barnum and family. A
good attendance is dcsircd.—Mrs. C. 1’.
Johnson, Sec.

The Scarcity of Hired Help.—-Twen—
lielli (icntury Farmers‘ Club met in April
with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ford. On ac-
count of a stormy day the attendance was
small, but a thoroughly good time was
cnjoycd by all. The question discussed
was, ““‘lio is to blame for the scarcity of
hired help upon the farm '2” Mr. Edwards,
the opening speaker. thought it was due
to the spirit of unrcst that sccms to have
its grasp upon all, from the youugcst to
the oidcst. Said in his 80 years of lifc
11c had licvcr passml through a period of
greater desire for changc. Boys become
dissustilicd and go IO ihc city, and the
case is much the sainc .with the girls.
They sccm Io bclicvc that $2.00 with board
and laundry bill 10 mccl is bciter than
$4.00 and have these done for them. But
time will show them their mistake. There
is (langcr of going too fast for our own
good. One thought that a farmer being
ashamed of his prol‘cssion, as many seem
to be, would have a tendency to make
othcrs ashamed of it. Be proud of it,
farmers, as without you to feed them
there could be no pron-ssions. Another
who had had the experience said he did
not believe the cause could be narrowed
down to any particular thing, but believed
our line of education had much to do
with it. Another thought that as agricul-
ture is not taught in our schools, bovs
hesitate to take up a business to which
Ihcy have not been educated. Adjourned
to mcct with Mrs. Martha Dancer on the
first Wednesday in May. Question, “What
flgrsmed‘u’cation and science done for the

or. —Jenme M. Ford, Reporter.
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some time ago and thank you very much
for it. It is very convenient. I am well
pleased with it.—Nelson '1‘, Foster, Van-
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May 11, 1910.
Grains and Seeds.

Wheat—There was a general circula-
tion of news during the closing days of
last week to the effect that wheat fields
aggregating over 3,000,000 acres were be-
ing abandoned. This was distastrous to
the bears and prices ran up fully 4c. The
government report, however, disputed the
situation forcefully by stating the crop
to be in better condition than on April
1. Immediately holders were taken With
the selling spirit and the bears were able
to secure their wants at lower values.
All over the winter wheat section copious
rains have supplied all the moisture need-
ed for a time, but the Ilessian fly is now
accomplishing in part, what the dry
weather failed to do. and should the Work
of this pest continue it may become an
important price-izz.~.king factor. since there
are but few 51:: ons where the insect has
not been disrcocztd. ‘Somc apprchensmn
is manifested regarding the spring wheat
crop which all along has been a bearish
feature. owing to the large amount sown
and the general good growth reported;
but the past week has brought rumors
that all is not well with the grain and the
uncertainty is causing unrcst. A year
ago the price for No. 2 red wheat was
$1.50 per bu. Quotations tor the past

week are:
No. 2 No. 1
Red. \Vhite. July. Sept.

Thursday ....1.12 1.12 1.05% 1051/2
Friday .......1.13 1.13 1.06 1.0.:
Saturday ....1.141/2 1.141/2 1.06% 1-001/2
Mondav ......1.14 1.14 1.051,; 1.0-1
Tuesday ...... 1.121/2 1121/2 1011,43 1.0::
“'ednesday ”1111/2 1.11% 1.03% 1.02%

Corn.——Corn has advanced. There is a.
firm tone to the trade, with a good de-
mand. The visible supply shows a large
increase. The weather conditions are
generally favorable for a good preparation
of a seed bed. Planting is progressmg
along the Ohio Valley but promises to be
delayed in the northern states till about
the usual time. One year ago price for
No. 3 corn was 78c per bu. Quotations
for the week are:

 

 

No. 3

No. 3 Yellow.
Thursday ......... .........621/3 631/2
Friday .................. . . . 3 6i
Saturday ................... 63 61
Monday ................ . . . . .63 6}
Tuesday .................... 64 6:3
“Vedncsday ................. 64 6;)

Oats—Thole lb a feeling nf finnnegs in
this deal and prices rulc better than a
week ago. The Michigan crop report
gives the condition of the growing crop

' as on a par with the condition at this
time for the past five years. One year
ago the price for No. 3 oats was 500 per
bu. Quotations for the week are:

Standard.
Thursday .................. . ...... 411,5
Friday ......... . ....... . ..... . . . . . 4:»
Saturday ......................... 44%,
Monday .......................... 44%
Tuesday .......................... 45
“'cdnesday ....................... 45

Beans—This product is not active and
the quotations are only nominal and un-
changed from a week ago. They are:

Cash. May.

Thursday .................. $2.05 $2.06
Friday ................. . . . . 2.05 2.06
Saturday ................... 2.05 2.06
Monday .................... 2.05 2.06
Tuesday 2.05 2.06
“'ednesday . . . . . . . . . ....... 2.12 2.12

Cloverseed.———Therc is nothing doing in
the cloverseed deal and the following
quotations are nominal:

Prime Spot. Oct.
Thursday $675 $6.6

Friday ...... 6.75 6.60
Saturday ........ 6.75 6.6
Monday ........... 6.75 6.60
Tuesday ................... 6.75 6.50
“'ednesday . .................. . 6.50

Rye.—’I‘his grain is scarce. By advanc-
ing the. price buyers were unable to get
any. No. 1 is quoted at 82c per bu., which
is 2c above last week's quotation.

Visible Supply of Grain.
This week. Last week.

\Vheat ............... 24,584,000 26,220,000
Corn .................. 9,300,000 10002000
Oats ................. 8,118,000 0,223.00!)
Rve .................. 585,000 020,000
Barley ............... 2,154,000 2,451,000

Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.
Flown—Market is dull at last week’s

 

values. Quotations as follows: _ _
Clear ................................. $5 : .3
Straight .............. ;. :3
Patent Michigan ...'_;

 

Ordinary Patent
Hay and Straw—Prices are on a par
with last week. Quotations: No. 1 tim—
othv. new, $170,017.50; No, 2 timothy, $16
0016.50; clover, mixed, 816001650; rye
straw. $750008; wheat and oat straw,
$650017 per ton.
Feed—Market steady at unchanged
prices. (‘arlot prices on track: Bran,
$26 per ton coarse middlings. $27; fine
middlings. $20; cracked corn, $25; coarse
corn meal, $25; corn and oat chop, $24
per ton.
Potatoes. Even cold weather cannot
phase the dull tone of this trade and hold-
ers of tubers are compelled to retain them
or take sacrificial prices. Michigan grown
are selling in car lots at 2001;5c per bu.

Provisions—Family pork. $27.500128.50;
mess pork, $20: medium clear. $260128;
pure lard. 1ic: bacon, 19fi‘20c: shoulders.
14%c; smoked hams, 171/éi‘118c; picnic
hams, 131/2c per lb.

Hides—No. 1 cured, 110.; No. 2 cured.
100; N0. 1 green bulls, 8c; No. 1 green
calf, 150; No. 2 green calf, 14c: No. 1
cured calf, 16C‘ No. 2 cured calf. 15c;

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

No. 1 horsehides, $3.50; No. ‘2 horsehide‘s,
$2.50; sheepskins, as to wool, 5000:0342.
Dairy and Poultry Products.

Butter.—-Dairy goods continue steady,
but creamery grades are lower, following
the decline at Elgin, Chicago and .ptlur
points. The heavier recefpis resulting;
from the better pastures prev-ailing
throughout the dairy sections of the coun-
try. Quotations are: Extra creamery.
270 per lb; firsts, (10., 260; dairy, 21c;
packing stock, 200.

Eggs.—The liberal receipts pushed the
price a full cent below the quotation of
last week but a better demand later en-
couraged an advance of a quarter of a.
cent from the low point reached. Fresh
eggs, cases included, are exchanged at
191,;c per dozen.

Poultry.——Chicago showed weakness in
the poultry deal Tuesday but the trade
here is about firm, with values steady
with last wcek except for chickens where
a decline is reported. Turkeys are higher.
Live—Spring chickens, 17@17%c; hens,
1701171515 old roosters and stags, 1207130;
ducks, 150J16c; geese, 12c; turkeys. 18
@lik'.

Cbeese.—-I\Iichigan, late made, 1500151-52c;
Iviicliigan. fall made, 1801181,éc; York
state, 100320c; limburger. \Yisconsin, 17
0118c; New York, 1800100; bricks, 160D
1012c; Swiss, domestic block, 21c; Swiss
loaf, 28c.

Calves.——Steady.
ordinary, 91,20110c.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Apples—Steady and in good demani.
Spy, $4014.50; Baldwin, $4005; Steel red,
$5; Grccning, $4004.50 per bbl.

Cabbage.—Selling at $275013 per crate
for new.

Vegetables.——Beets, 600 per bu; brusscls
sprouts, 25c pcr qt; carrots, 750 per bu;
cauliflower, $2.25@2.50 per bu; celery, 45
0050c per doz; eggplant, $2002.50 doz;
green onions, 10@12c per doz; head
lettuce, $3@3.50 per hamper; mint, 25c per
doz; parsley, 25@30 per doz; radishes,
2001250 doz; spinach, 90c hamper; turnips,
500 per bu; watercress, 2001125c per doz;
vax beans, $3.50 per bu; picplant, 250 per
doz; asparagus, $1011.25 per doz.

OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.

The egg market is steady, and 10c is
the top price paid for eggs delivercd here.
Dairy butter continues at 22c while
creamery is off 2c, dealers paying the pro-
ducers 27c. Farmers are getting 8019c for
veal, thin calves bringing a. little under
those figures. Dressed hogs are steady at
lliéc. The market on live poultry is
easier, ,though quotations for the present
are un‘changcd, as follows: Fowls and
chickens, ducks and turkeys, 16c; old
roosters, We. The potato situation has
improved slightly. farmers receiving 1010
12c at loading stations. \Vhite beans are
steady at 1515501185, red kidneys $15000
2.75. “'heat has advanced Tc since last
wcek, while corn is up 3c. Grain quota-
tions are as follows: \Yheat, $1.08; corn,
640; rye. 70c; oats, 45c. .i<‘armers and
gardeners are getting 400150c per bu. for
pieplant; 80_110c for green onions; 500
per box for tomato and-cabbage plants.
Tennessee strawberries are selling to the
retail tradc this week at $2.75 per case;
new potatoes at $1.75@1.90 per hamper.

Choice to fancy, 11c;

 

 

Chicago.

“'heat.——No. 2 red, $1.16@1.17l/_.; May,
$1.11; July, $1.031/8; September, $1.00%.

Corn—No. 2, 6201;621/20; May, 611,4;c;
July, 62550 per bu; September, 631/20

Oats—N0. 3 white, 41c; May, 42%c;
July, 4063c; September, 38%0.

Butter.-—Buyers have been getting the
beneiit of price changes the past week,
creamery going lower. Dairy unchanged.
Market is steady at the new figures. Quo-
tations are: Creameries, 2311250; dairies,
2201260.

Eggs—Changes have occurred in prices
for eggs, the heavy receipts causing lower
values. Trade is steady at the decline.
Prime firsts, 19c; firsts, 181/2c; at mark,
cases included, 16@18c per d-oz.

Hay and Straw—Market steady. Quo-
tations are: Choice timothy, $170018; No.
1 timothy, $15.50@16.50; N0. 2 do and
No. 1 mixed, $13.500014.50; No. 3 do. and
No. 2 mixed, $12@13; rye straw, $00110;
oat straw, 66.50017; wheat straw, $6006.50.

Potatoes—The advanced quotations of
a week ago attracted large shipments and
valtus dwlincd to near the old level.
Fancy and «'llOlce stocks are selling at
26’4128c pl'l‘ bushel, while fair to good
gradcs are quotable at 23@25c per bu.

Regains—Market is a little easier than
last week. Choice hand-picked are quot-
ed at 821201216; fair to good, $2.10@2.12;
red kidrn-ys, 3013.15 per bu.

\Tool. The deal is firm and former val—
ues Etl’? still prevailing. For fine un-
washed delaine, 25@27c is being paid.

New York.

Butter.—Receipts are coming faster and
dealers have pushed prices down. Market
is steady at the decline. \Vestcrn factory
firsts, 211301230; creamery specials, 29c
por lb.

Eggs—The hcns are supplying the mar-
kct better. Demand is strong but valucs
are lower. Fresh receipts are quotcd at
2111301221,,gc per dozen.

Poultry.——l\iarket quiet with the high
figures cut down. Western fowls_ 1500
19c: frozen chickens, 17@18c; turkeys,
170021c per lb.

 

Baston.

TVool—There is no change in wool con-
ditions, ext-opt that local buyers are be-
coming a little anxious as to what posi-
tion they will take—the eastern brokers
waiting for the farmers to come down on
values and the latter patiently watching
for advances from the broker, leaving the
local buyer in a predicament. As a re-
sult the trade is very slow for this sea-
son. Shearing is getting pretty well un-
der way. The sales here are inactive.
Leading domestic quotations as follows:

Ohio and Pennsylvania fleecesn-No. I
washed, 36011370; delaine washed, 35c; XX,

323003“; §§~biood clothing, 320033c; 21/-
blood combing, 29c: delaine unwashed, 26'
01-27c; fine unwashed, 230024c. Michigan,
misconsin and New York fleeces—Fine
unwashed. 22011230; delaine unwashed, 25
«121343; all—blood unwashed, 31(5032c; %-
blood unwashed, 31@32c.

Elgin.

Button—Market firm at 27c per 1b.,
which is 2c below the quotation of a week
ago. The sales for the week amounted to
:‘0.’l.400 lbs.. compared with 568,600 for the
previous week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Buffalo.
May 9, 1910.
(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stoek Yards,
East Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of sale stock here today as
follows: Cattle, 225 cars; hogs, 14.400;
sheep and lambs, 23,000; calves, 2,500.

With 225 cuts of cattle on sale here
today, the market opened slow and dull.
and buyers bidding 1501250 lower on all
grades of cattle. However, by 10 o’clock
they had gotten their second wind, and
bought all cattle of 1.230 lbs. and up at
strong last wiek’s prices. The medium
and common butcher steers sold 1001150
lower in most cases. Cows, heifers and
bulls about steady. Everything was
cleaned up by 2 o‘clock, except stockch
and feeders, which were very dull and
250150c lower than last week, and in some
cases more; quite a few going over un-
Silid. he think now that our cattle mar-
ket has taken a turn for the better.

\Ve quote: Best 1.300 to 1.~l30—lb. steers,
$7.65fi8.15; good 1.200 to 1.35041). (10..
$7.25@7.75; best 1.100 to 1.200-lb. ship-
ping steers, $6.50017.25; medium butcher
steers, 1,000, to 1,100 lbs.. $6016.40; light
butcher steers, 85.25015'1'5; best fat cows,
555006.50; fair to 1:0th cows, “75005.25;
common to medium (10., 521.5000425; best
fat heifers, 5365001725; good fat heifers,
$5.75@6.25; fair to good do., $5015.75; best
feeding steers, $550006; medium to good
do, $5015.23: stockcrs, all grades, 8400
4.73; lucst bulls, $6006.50; bologna bulls,
$5015.75; tii’n light bulls, $3.75004.50; best
milkrrs and springers, $550165; common
to good do.. $250145.

A few extra prime bulls sold for $6.75
today.

Our hog market opened 15c lower than
Saturday's best time, and closed strong
at the opening, and a good clearance.

“’63 quote: Mixed and mediums, $0.80
@9.85; few choice decks selling as high
as $9.90; best yorkers. 898000985; lights
and pigs, $9.85@9.90: stags, $775008;
roughs, $8.8001885. Prospects look fair
for the near future.

The lamb market opened slow today,
with best lambs selling from $890009.
Market (loscd firm, all best handy
weight lambs selling; few coarse and
heavy lambs unsold, Look for little. bet—
ter prices balance of the week. Sheep
were strong 35c lower today. MOSL of
the best withers selling at $7.25@7.35.

\Ve quote: Handy lambs, $890009;
h ivy lambs,/$8.3501‘8.50; wethers, $7.250?

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.35; owcs, 3562501675; yearlings, 87.7500

cull sheep, $3013.50; skip lambs, $500
50; veals, choice to extra, $8008.25; fair
to good do., $7107.75; cull to common, $6
@675; light thin calves, $5@6.

 

Chicago.
May 9, 1910.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Received today ...... 13,000 26,000 12,000
Same day last year..22.841 41,387 11.283
Received last week ..45,418 88,350 54,961
Same week last year.46,905 120,086 47.222

The new week starts off today with no
more than fair hog receipts for Monday
and remarkably small cattle offerings,
while the sheep and lamb receipts were
very far from liberal. Naturally, cattle
were on the sharp upward course, it. be—
ing impossible for buyers to fill orders for
good beeves. and steers were at least
15@250 higher soon after the opening. no
fancy cattle being received. Butcher
stock was called 20@40c higher, with
prices for the better class largely nomi-
nai. Hogs were in pretty good demand
at a decline of 50, sales ranging at 9.1500
9.50, prime lots of 190—lb. swine going
close to the top. The average weight of
the hcgs received last week was increased
to 234 lbs., compared with 227 lbs. 3. week
earlier, 212 lbs. a year ago, 219 lbs, two
years ago and 234 lbs. three years ago.
Sheep were steady today, with a poor
eastern demand, and the only change in
lambs was a 100 rise in prime clipped to
$0. with sales all the way down to $7.50
for common lots. Clipped sheep were
quoted as follows: Wethers, $7007.50;
ewes, $4017.33; yearlings, 87.2501810. The
few spring lambs received were salable
at $90112 per 100 lbs. for common to
prime.

Cattle rallied 1000150 in prices last week
on Thursday under exceptionally small
receipts for that day. buyers finding it
difficult to fill their orders, but before that
day prices were largely 25c lower than at
the, close of the preceding wcek, there
being disproportionally large offerings on
Monday, when close to 25.000 head ar-
rived. lf supplies were distributed over
the week more evenly, sellers would be
more able to maintain prices than under
present conditions. . ggregate supplies for
the \vtek were not heavy, but require-
mcnts of the beef-trade are. smaller than
when Dl'lt‘GS were considerably lower.
Supplies of maturing cattle in feeding dis—
trict's are evidently larger than has been
supposed, and the recent great decline in
prices for feeding cattle has encouraged
their sale. llecf steers sold last week
mainly at $6.5001‘7.80, with the cheaper
light killers selling at 5255000650, and the
better class of shipping beeves of strong
weights at $7.65@8.35. Any cattle that
were good went as high as $7.25, and
after Monday there was a small showing
of steers choice enough to sell for $7.75.
\Vhile cattle prices were lower than a.
short time since, they were still much
higher than at corresponding dates in
past years, but it is generally expected
that by the time the grass cattle come to
market values will be decidedly lower.
Cows and heifers have shared in the re-
cent decline, selling at $4.10@7.40, but

1 MAY 14. 1910.

not many'soldu-p to $7, whilecanners and
cutters sold at 82.500134, bulls at-$4@6.50
and calves at, $3.25@8.25. Stockers and
feeders have suffered declines of 4000600
per 100 lbs. from recent high figures, the
former selling at $4605.65 and the latter
at $5.70@6.65. The demand for these
cattle comes main] from Indiana and

bio, with a fair Ilinois demand. Milk—
ers and springers have met with a good
eastern demand at higher prices, sales
ranging at $300085 each. Not many prime
cows were offered.

Hogs underwent- lightning changes in
prices last week, just as they have done
in so many recent weeks, advances of 250
in a single day following declines of 2500
30c. As usual, the Monday receipts were
much larger than those of other days, and
buyers improved their opportunity to force
the greatest decline of the week. Monday
saw hogs selling at ”0500042142, while
later in the week prime hogs were quick
sellers at $9.75, under meager offerings.
Eastern shippers have purchased a good
percentage of the offerings, taking 7,228
hogs Monday and much smaller numbers
other days. Stags of heavy weights con-
tinued to cotnmand a liberal premium,
while boars were not wanted and sold at
a big discount. The course of the re-
ceipts was a good indication that stock—
mcn throughout the country were not dis—
posed to market hogs freely on lowered
prices. while the packers were as bearish
as ever. Hogs are still extremely high
compared with former years, despite the
great fall from their highest time. The
hogs now coming to market are mainly
used for the fresh meat trade, and stocks
of provisions in Chicago warehouses are
down to 67.874,776 lbs, compared with
71,731,130 lbs. 3. month earlier and 142,-
352,680 lbs. a year ago. ’

Sheep and lambs were not marketed in
large numbers last week. the only fairly
large “run" being 13.268 head received

ionday, but the meager shipping demand
acted as a barrier to firmness in values.
Monday saw a decline of 2500500, and
there were further breaks all along the
line on subsequent days. shippers taking
only a few hundred head daily. Eastern
markets have been getting plenty of sheep
from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and eastern
feeding districts, while frozen Australian
mutton dumped on the New York market
was reported unsalable except at prices
that meant heavy losses to importers.
Thus far spring lambs have been scarce
and readily salable at stiff prices. Recent
receipts at Louisville were poor in quality.

Horses have sold well recently only
when grading well, the commoner ones
having been slow of sale at declines of
$10 per head from quotations of a few
weeks ago. Farm mares and small chunks
are neglected at $125@165, while small
southern chunks are slow sellers at $6501)
110. Expressers sell at $175,002”. feeders
at 3117001225 and drivers at 55150011300.
Heavy drafters are good sellers at £225

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LIVE STOCK NOTES...

 

Among the foreign dealers operating in
the Chicago horse market recently was
Jose Ballina, of Mexico, who filled an
order for 28 head of fine carriage horses
to take home with him. Mexico is now
about the only foreign country that takes
any considerable numbers of horses for
export, prices having been advanced to a.
point that has shut off the foreign de-
mand.

Some big declines in prices have taken
place at different times of late in stocker
and feeder cattle offered in the Chicago
stock yards, offering fair opportunities
for country buyers, providing they had
left buying orders with their live stock
commission firms. Of course, cheap cat-
tle of these descriptions these times are
wholly out of the question, as offerings at
all times are limited, and even on breaks
in prices, they sell much higher than in
former years, but even then reductions of
from 2501140c per 100 lbs. are important to
the buyers, and the part of wisdom is to
leave buying orders with expert buyers,
fixing the price limit, so as to be able to
take quick advantage of declines in val-
ues. Stoekmen, who are in the market
one day and off the next, are unable to
get the benefits of many of these de-
clines. Pasturage is exceptionally good,
and many farmers want stock to fatten,
but so long as the packers insist upon
buying the best feeder cattle to kill, tho.
shipments to feeding districts will be
greatly curtailed. As in the past, packers
are drawing heavily on the future beef
supply of the country.

George Cross, of Iowa, who sold steers
and heifers in Chicago recently at market
topping prices, is the owner of one thou-
sand acres of rich pasture land in Ruth-
erford county, located west of Des Moines.
Last winter he fed 150 head of cattle,
for the first time giving them mixed ra-
tions of cottonseed meal, fiaxseed meal
and corn, in addition to timothy bay for
roughness. He used a car load of the
meal, mixing it in equal quantities, and
could see at once that it was an improve-
ment on straight corn and timothy hay.
The cattle thrived, but he is not sure that
itt “kill pay}1 to feed in this way where
son men ave an abund
aliI'alfa hay. ance Of good

t is stated that Iowa will have a
many hogs for the July and August 51223
kcts, but very few before that time. Var-
ied reports are received concerning the
Iowa pig “crop.”

Lee Potter, of Illinois, who sold not
long ago a car load of prime 1,653-lb. An-
gus steers at $8.50 per 100 lbs. on the Chi-
cago market, fed them seven months on
crushed corn, clover hay and corn fodder
He said he knew of only three car loads
of cattle that will be dry-fed in his section
thz coming summer.

“Pt Profit of approximatelv P. ‘
figured by W. J. Robinson o‘f in'diggnas
in fattening 1,600 sheep the‘ past winter,
the last of the flock having been marketed
recently. The sheep were bought in the
ChlcagO StOCk yards last October and No-
vember at prices ranging from $2003.60
per 100 lbs., and received no grain before
December. when their owner began feed-
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My 14, 1910.

THIS IS THE LAST WM.

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Thursday’s Market.
May 12, 1910.
Cattle.

Receipts, 486. Market 25@50c higher
than last week; very light run.

We quote: Extra dry-fed steers and
heifers, $7.25@7.50; steers and heifers,
1,000 to 1.200. $7687.25; steers and heifers,
800 to 1,000, $6.50fur6.75; steers and heifers
that are fat, 500 to 700, $4.50@6; chomp
fat cows, $5.50; good fat cows. $5015.25;
common cows. $3.50@4; canners, $3; choice
heavy bulls, $5.50@5.75; fair to good bo-
lognas, bulls, $5Gy5.25; stock bulls, $4707
4.50; milkers, large, young, medium age,
$40@55; common milkers, $25@35.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. CO.
7 steers av 971 at $6.85, 4 cows av 870 at
$4.75, 1 do weighing 1,060 at $5, 19 steers
av 950 at $7, 2 butchers av 725 at $5.25, 2
do av 945 at $4.25; to Thompson 9 do av
860 at $4.75, 1 heifer weighing 780 at $6;
to Newton B. Co. 20 steers av 892 at $6.25,
1 bull Weighing 1.050 at $4.50, 3 cows av
1,170 at $5, 10 do av 1,032 at $6.25; to Sul-
livan P. Co. 15 steers av 1,025 at $7, 5 do
av 894 at $7, 1 do weighing 840 at $7, 2
bulls av 945 at $5, 2 butchers av 990 at
$5, 6 do av 891 at $7, 2 do av 775 at $5, 2
cows av 875 at $4.50. 3 do av 1,043 at
$5.75, 7 butchers av 900 at $6.90, 1 COW
weighing 1.160 at $6, 12 butchers av 1,057
at $5.25, 1 cow 'wcighing 950 at $3, 11
steers av 936 at $7.25, 13 do av 1,056 at
$7.25, 9 do av 981 at $6, 9 do av 1,076 at
$7.25, 1 do weighing 1,100 at $6, 2 cows
av 930 at $3.25; to Newton 13. Co. 27 steers
av 900 at $6.15, 4 do av 870 at $6.25, 2
heifers av 550 at $3.25.

Spicer &. R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 12
steers av 1,072 at $7, 2 bulls av 1.150 at.
$5.50, I steer weighing 850 at $6.50, 2 cows
av 1,100 at $6, I do weighing 1,050 at
$5.50; to Thompson 1 do weighing 1.000
at $4, 1 do weighing 1,100 at $5, 1 bull
weighing 500 at $4.50; to Kull 3 steers av
663 at $5.75, I bull weighing 350 at $4; to
Newton_,B. .Co. 1 cow weighing 660 at $3.

Roe Corn. Co. sold Thompson Bros. 6
steers law 970 at $7.25; to Sullivan P. Co.
2 do av 1,015 at $5, 13 do av 904 at $6.85,
6 cows av 1,075 at $5, 1 cow weighing 930
at $6, 1 steer weighing 800 at $6; to New-
ton B. CO. 3 do av 825 at $6.50, 5 butchers
av 650 at ._$4.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 16
steers av 956 at $6.75.

Merritt, sold, Sullivan P. ‘00. 1 bull
weig'hing'TIttOO dt“$5.‘75, 1 do weighing
1.050 at $5, 1 cow weighing 880 at $4.50.

Wagner sold same 3 steers av 883 at
$6} 2 COWS av 1,250" at $5.

Holmes &‘H.' sold same 7 steers av 860
at $6.50.

Stephens sold same 11 steers av 870 at
$6.60, 1 cow weighing 830 at $5.

' Veal Calves.

Receipts, 826. Market strong at last
week‘s prices. Best, $7@7.75; others, $4@
7; milch cows and springers steady.

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 5 av 110
at $6, 49 av 135 at $7.50; to Goose 19 av
120 at $6.80; to Parker, W. & Co. 1 Weigh-
ing 350 at $4, 9 av 110 at $6; to Mich. B.
Co. 37 av 150 at $7.65.

Haley & M. sold Schlischer 2 av 125
at $5, 10 av 150 at $7; to Nagle P. Co. 29

av 135 at $7.50.

Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 4
av 145 at $7.35, 13 av 135 at $7.35; to
Mich. B. Co. 14 av 130 at $6.75, 6 av 110
at $5.50; to Goose 13 av 135 at $5.65; to
Breitenback Bros 5 av 120 at $6.50, 12 av
130 at $7.50.

Wagner sold Newton B‘. Co. 19 av 125
at $7.25.

Merritt sold Parker, W. & Co. 7 av 160
at $7.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
12 av 130 at $7.50, 1 weighing 110 at $7.25,
33 av 125 at $7; to Goose 16 av 130 at
$6.80; to Mich. B. CO. 12 av 140 at $7.50;
to Sullivan P. Co. 1 weighing 110 at $5,
2. av 220 at $3; to Hoffend 13 av 135 at
$7.50; to Nagle P, Co. 26 av 130 at $7; to
Rattkowsky 7 av 135 at $7.50; to Sullivan
P. CO. 4 av 135 at $7.50, 5 av 145 at $7.50:
to McGuire 30 av 130 at $7.50. 2 av 110
at $6; to Brcitenback Bros. 7 :iv 115 at
$7.25, 9 av 140 at $7.25, 4 av 110 at $7.25,
1 weighing 100 at $7.25; to Sullivan P. Co.
16 av 135 at $7.25, 9 av 130 at $7.25; to
Newton E. Co. 24 av 135 at $7.25.

Stephens sold Burnstine 7 av 135 at
$7.25.
ancer & K. sold same 30 av 140 at
5

$7.. .

Cheney & H. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
2 av 95 at $5, 8 av 150 at $7.50.

Adams sold Nagle P, Co. 6 av 130 at
$7.35.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 2283. Market strong at last
week’s prices.

Best lambs. $8.50fi1855; fair to good

lambs, $7.50@8.25; light to common lambs,

'$4.50@5.50; spring lambs. $106711; fair to
good sheep, $6@6.75; culls and common,

$3.50@5.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 5
Sheep av 120 at $5.75, 32 lambs av 65 at
$7.75: to Sullivan P. Co. 12 do av 65 at $7,
6 sheep av 118 at $5.50: to Eschrich 24
lambs av 65 at $7.25; to Haire 54 do av
60 at $7.50; to Newton B. Co. 10 do av 60
at $7.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 5 sheep av 60
:it $2.50. 6 do av 95 at $5.50, 8 do av 90 at
3:1: to Parker, W. & Co. 26 do av‘ 90 at
3’6, 119 lambs av 75 at $8.40; to Sullivan
1". Co. 11 do av 67 at $8.50; to Fitzpatrick
T’ros. 129 do av 75 at $8.55, 6 sheep av
125 at 36.25;. to Mich. B. 00.21 do av 130
ct, $5.50: 'to Fitzpatrick Bros. 18 lambs
av 77 at $7. '

Spic'er & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 38 lambs

/

THE MICHIGAN FARMER;

av 75 at $8.50, 27 sheep av 85 at $6.50,

2 do av 95 at $5.50, 9 lambs av 75 at $8.10.

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 20 sheep
av 105 at $6, 8 do av 85 at $6; to Fitz-
patrick Bros. 4 do av 90 at $4, 12 do av
95 at $6.50.

Sharp sold Newton B. Co. 20 sheep av
95 at $4.25, 22 lambs av 75 at $7.50.
chele sold same 59 lambs av 65 at
8.25.
$ Noble sold same 25 lambs av 75 at $8,
5 shccp av 60 at .

Haley & M. sold Thompson Bros, 16
sheep av 85 at $7 to Mich. B. Co. 64 lambs
av 70 at $8.50.

Cheney & I‘I. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
9 lambs av 70 at $8, 6 sheep av 95 at $5.50,
3 do av 80 at $3.

Hogs.

Receipts, 4,622. Market slow. packers
bidding 10@15c lower than on Wednesday.
Nothing sold at noon.

Range of prices: Light to good butch—
ers, $9.65; pigs, $9.65; light yorkers, $9.65;
stags 1/3 off.

Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 570
av 190 at $9.65.

Haley & M. sold same 196 av 185 at
$9.65.

Sundry shippers sold same 2-l0 av 180
at $9.60.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 434
av 190 at $9.65.

Bishop, B. & H. sold some 2,977 av 190
at $9.65.

Friday’s Market.
May 6, 1910.
Cattle.

Receipts this week, 2.092; last wcck,
1,664; market steady at Thursday’s prices.

\Ve quote: Extra dry fed steers :ind
heifers, $7@7.25; steers and heifers, 1.000

to 1.200 lbs., $650607: steers and heifers,
800 to 1.000 lbs., $6606.50; steers and hcif—
as, that are fat, 500 to 700 lbs., $5605.50;
choice fat cows, $5505.25; good fat cows,
$4.25C5; common cows, 33.50404; canners.
$2.50@3; choice heavy bulls, 35(71'1550; fair
to good bologna bulls, $4.50@5; stock bulls
$4@4.50; choice feeding steers. 800 to 1.000
lbs., $5.50; fair feeding steers, 800 to 1.000,
$5@5.25; choice stockers, 500 to 700 lbs.,
$5.25@5.50; fair stockers. 500 to 700 lbs.,

$4.75@5; stock heifers, $4@4.50; milkcrs,
large. young. medium age, $40@55; com-

2507135.
Veal Calves.

Receipts this week, 1.925; last week,
1.672; market dull at '1.‘hursday"s prices.
Best grades, $7.50; common, $501.6; milch
cows and springers steady,

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 4.337; last week,
2.456; market dull at Thursday‘s priccs.
Best lambs, $8.50; fair to good lambs.
$750678; light to common lambs. $150776;
spring lambs, $96910; fair to good sliecp,
$6606.75; culls and common, $350015.

Hogs,

Receipts this week. 6,398: last week,
4.784; market steady to strong at Thurs-
day‘s prices; few extra fancy trifle high-
er. Range of prices: Light to good
butchers $9.75@9.80; pigs. $9.:{5@9.50;
light yorkers, $9.65fi'975; stags ’6; off.

mon milkers,

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

J. A, Greenless, of Iowa, one of the big
stock feeders of that section. believes
fewer cattle will be dry-fed the coming
summer or grazed in corn bell: territory
than at any time in years. lle says it
does not look right that car loads of food-
ing cattle that feeders’ mouths arc water-
ing for should be bought by the packers
cvcry day in the week. and he regards
prices asked for feeders us dangerously
high. He says he believcs therc are more
cattle still on fced in the country than
are generally thought to be. and hc con-
siders it time to cash in matured lots.

The two Axmear brothers, well—known
stock feeders of Iowa, marketed recently
in Chicago four car loads of fat cattle and
a load of hogs. all of their own fol-ding.
Shorthorns averaging 1,275 lbs, brought
$7.95, while 1.000—lb. Angus yearlings sold
for $8. The feeders had the cattle on feed
for half a year, furnishing good clover
hay and car corn, giving them Ilic shcltcr
of a good barn and supplying plcnty of
pure watcr. They always feed our corn,
believing the best results arc obtained by
allowing the cattle to do their own grind-
mg.

In the Chicago market. of late most of
the demand for cattlc to fatten has come

 

from Illinois. Indiana and Ohio, whore
pnsturcs generally are in good condition
for this time of the your, but much of

the time there has bccn a prctly good in—
quiry from Pcnnsylvania buyers for good
stockcrs of light weight. Ruycrs hove
bcen complaining that the plainer light
stockers cost relatively higher than the
well—bred good cattle. It has bccn im-
possible for dealers in smokers and feed-
crs at stock yards to accumulate. large
supplies. as the demand has taken most
of the good stock as fast as it showed up.
It would require a prolonged period of
dry weather to force large numbers of
thin, light steers on the market.
Lending Chicago live stock commission
firms are advising their country shippers
that the season is 'six weeks earlier than
usual, with plenty of corn to make cattle
fat, and when the “grassers” begin to be
marketed prices will take a sudden tum-
ble. This applies ,more especially to the
killing grades. but even the best beeves
will also be affected. It is better to be
a week or two early in getting the cattle
to market than a week or two late. Prices
of cattle are so high that they could be
lowered $1 pcr 100 lbs. and still be high.
It is impossible to say just what will hap—
pen when the grass Texas cows begin to
arrive at the Missouri river markets.
Much of the country is long on grass
mu} short on cattle. with feeding steers
selling so high as to be out of sight for
the average farmer. Calf marketings at
Chicago have been the largest on record
recently. and therc were lots of prettv
good little steers among them that should
have been allowed to grow up into hoof.
There are a few orders in the Chicago
horse market for strictly fancy show

pairs of heavy drafters at around $1,000.
Few such are offered, nor is there a call
for any large number.

Branch Co., May 1.——Wheat, except for
injury from ice, is looking well, but the
damage from this source was severe,
some fields being nearly ruined by it.
Oat sowing occupied a long season this
year. Some fields of oats were up nicely
before April 1, while drills were busy in
two other fields as late as April 29. Tim-
othy sown with wheat last [all has made
a nice start, and meadows, both of clover
and timothy, are looking well. \Vealhcr
cold enough to freeze ice as thick as win—
dow glass, on April 23:, after pcach trees
had blossomed, seems to have very scr—
iously injured the peach crop. l'eurs.
however, seem to be all right, with chor-
ries in doubt, A few inches of wet. sticky
snow on April 26 apparently did no dam-
age, as it did not freeze. But it certainly
looked strange to see apple trees. white
with buds, bending low beneath a load of
snow. Strawberries, where mulched, had
not yet blosomed and were uninjurcd, but
those unniulchctl or from which the cov-
ering had been removed early in the sen-

 

son, are believed to have been injured.
Apples probably all right.
VETERINARY.

(Continued from page 523).

M.. Pcntwater. Mich.~'l‘he history of your
horse's lameness indicates bone spuvin.
therefore I suggest blistering him with
equal parts red iodide, mercury and can-
lharides and eight parts lard. Apply
iodine ointment to thoroughpin once a
day.

Abortion—I have a cow that had a calf
three years ago, was bred to havc second
call 18 months ago but. came in boat live
months after she was ser‘xcd and some

 

time later was brcd to comc frosh one
year ago, which she did and raised hcr
calf all right. She was again bred lam:
February and lost ll(‘l' culf a few days
ago. I know she has not mct with any
accident. F. B. B.. (.‘orunna, l\lich.v«

For fear your cow suffers from infcctious
abortion inject hcr with tho following:
Dissolve one dr, pcrmanganalo of potash
in three quarts of water and flush out
vagina daily, using not less than thrcc or
{our pints each time Disinfectants should
be uscd frccly about the stable. '

l‘lccp Milking Marc.~l have a seven-
ycar-old more that is due to foal May 21.
which has a full. feverish uddor, but when
worked seems to soften and cool down.
Sln- had an ullack of l‘arcy last l‘:'ll and
it left the hind legs in a stocked condi—
tion. I own her mother and shc has
raised live line colts. Some time ago she
had a slight attack of ('UIlC, but recov-
ered; it was brought on by eating too
much grass. J. 1V. Alanson, Mich.—
b‘ecd the more less grain, keep the bowels
open and active. Apply equal parts ex«
tract witch hazel, alcohol and water to
udder twice a (lay.

Chickens Are Lousy.—I have a flock of
45 Plymouth Rock chickens that are only
laying nine and ten eggs 3. day and some-
times not that many. I have fed thcm
poultry food mixed with wheat and corn;
they look nice and are pretty active. but
I would like to get more eggs from them.
Mrs. \\'. ll. 0., Shelby. Mich.—'l‘herc may
be one or several things wrong. Your
chickens may be lousy. if so kill the lice,
using any one of the Iii-e killers adver-
tised in this paper. They may need more
cxcrcise and a chungc of food. You are
in a position to figure out thc cuusc bet-
ter than I can. perhaps some error is

committed in the management of them.
l‘hcy may need more exercise or more

green food.

How to Feed :1 Brood More before Foul-
ing—I have a live-ycur—old mare weigh-
ing 1,200 lbs., due to foal June 5; this will
be hcr first colt. Kindly advise me as to
feeding and working her as 1 am obliged

to. use hcr in my team. R. C., Ithaca,
Mich—Brood marcs that are worked
moderately, but not drivcn fast or over—

louded seem to do almost as well as mares
that are ullc. it is always a good plan

to {cod :1 brood inarc fairly well before
fouling; howcvcr, it is a mistake for the

bowcls to bc constipated or to have them
too loose. No special change in the diet
is required, other than to increase the
food allowance in order that she may
properly nourish her unborn colt. It is
nccdless for me to say that if a mare
fouls in the stable. the barn should be
made as clean as possible and thoroughly
disinfected and as soon as you discover
Iln- colt the naVel cord should be tied
with a sterilized silk or catgul string and
onc part (arholic acid and .‘lo parts ~water
applicd to end of cord until it hcnls. There
are many other healing remedies that are
equally as good. I very often apply dill
ferent ones and find very little difference
in their effect; but remember. the navcl
of all young animals should be i'TE’EILl'tl
and if so it will save the lives of a
great many.

Dislocation of Stifle Joint..—I have a
mule colt three years old that I worked
some, three weeks ago, one stifle dislo-
cated. I applied l'iniment, which seemed
to do good. but a week later the other
stifle slipped out of place; now, what. is
the cause and what had I better do? S.
B, B., Yale. Mich—If you will clip the
hair off both stifle joints and apply aerate
of cantharides it will blister the parts and
perhaps strengthen the ligaments which
hold stifle cap in place and eventually
cure your mule. However. if you want
to use him apply equal parts turpentine.
aqua ammonia and sweet oil daily. or as
often as necessary to stimulate and coun—
ter—irritate the parts to almost a blistcr—
ing point. When the hind feet are kcpl
a few inches higher than fore and the
hind foot tied to the collar. preventing the
foot from slipping far behind fore foot,
it has a tendency to hold the stifle in
place, but I hardly think it will be neces-
sary in this case.

Garget.—After separating my cow’s m'lk
the inside of bowl was thickly covered

(15) 531

with a slimy substance; I presume it.is
the result of garget. If her bag is dis-
eased in any way it is not noticeable.
She is now running on grass, and being
the only one we keep for domestic use I
would like to have her made well. W'ould
you advisc us to use her milk when in
this condition? P. H. 11., Six Lakes.
Mich—I imagine that your cow suffers
from bacterial udder infection. Give her
1 dr. Bcechwood creosote at a dose in
feed twice a day. and apply one part
tincture iodine and five parts cumplioratcd
oil to udder once a day. I do not believe
her milk is dangerous to use and it is
possible that the milk becomes contami-
natcd after it is drawn from the uddcr;
therefore I suggcst that you be especially
particular in churning the milking utensils

and allowing thcm to remain out in the
open air and sun light between milking

limes; besides, if you milk hcr in the
barn. clczln tho stable thoroughly and dis-
infect it. You undcrstand that milk picks
up surrounding infection \‘cl‘y readily,
hence the necessity of cleanliness about
the stublc. and bcsidcs, the pcrson who
milks should be dressed with clean cloth-
iig and have clean hands. Furthermore,
the udtlcr of a. cow should be kept clean.

Chronic ’l‘liickcning of Shin and Hook.
*1 have «‘l colt that got, hurt, causing shin
and hock to swa-ll. The skin has not
broken at any place on the leg and the
colt is not lnmc, but travels a little stil'l‘.
I have applicd two blisters, but without
result. E. A. if. Armada, Michs—lt is
almost impossible to rwlucc a swelling
such as your horse has; howcvcr, you will
obtain fairly good rcsults by applying
Iodine ointment daily. but understand.
the swcll‘iugr will subside \‘cry slowly.

Blood Poison—I would like some infor-
mation regarding my heifer that came
frcsh only four \vi-t-ks ago and has not
done well since. }lcy' appetite is poor and
when shc cnmc t‘rcsh gave a nice mess of
milk. but for tho past three weeks her
milk flow has boon extremely light. I
have given her different kinds of fccd. but
shc docs not gain. A- H._ Temperance,
illicit—(live your cow 8 ozs. of epsom
salts daily until hcr bowels loosen and
not fairly free. Also give 1 dr. ground
nu); \‘omica, 1 oz. ground gcntian, 1 oz.
bicarbonate soda and 1 oz. powdered
charcoal at a dosc cilhcr in feed or as a.
lll't‘llt'h two or three limos a any. Grain
and grass is the best food for her.

Spr:1in.—~I wish you would tell me how
i.» prcparc a. uscl‘ul home linlment that is
suitable for scvcml purposes. ‘ G., Cc-
tlzir. .‘vlich.~~~.\ vcry useful and not expon-
sivc liniuicnt is made by mixing equal
parts of turpentine. aqua ammonia and
su'cct oil. or if a milder effect is required
mid some more sweet oil. This is a very
useful home linimcut: besides. a. good one
to kccp in thc slublc.

Barrcnncss.—I have a cow that fails to
get with calf. although she has bccn mat-
cd to several bulls; when in heat she acts
wild. The last time she was served she
came in heat some three days lzltcr. 11'.
(1.. Montague. Mich—«Your cow suffers
irom a chronic irritation of the ovaries
and I am inclincil to believe will remain
barren no mattcr what is done for her;
however, you might try diluting the open-

ing into the womb; also dissolve :2 ozs.
bicarbonate soda in three quarts tepid
water and wash out vagina daily until

she is brcd. She should not be muted
closcl' than live or six hours after using
the lust injcclion.

t'hronic Luryngilis.—“’c have a horse
tint is now 18' years old which is in good
condition, but coughs ocasionally when
eating grain. but has no symptoms of
cold or cuturrh. C. V., llutlsomiile,
Mich.~—.\pply cquul parts tincture iodine,
spirits of cnmplun' to throat every two
days. Also dissolve 1 dr. chlorate potash
in »l ozs. of water and, gurglc throat twice
a (lay.

itctcntion of Placenta (Afterbirlh).-—I
have a cow that came fresh April 13, and
as she did not clean I was obliged to take
It away from her. Since then she has
not done badly, but some of my neighbors
l~ ll me she will always have similar trou-
blc and if so i thought perhaps she had
better be foiled instead of my keeping
her for dairy purposcs. 'l‘hcrcl‘ol'c I should
likc to have your opinion. l cng‘ugctl in
farming 18 months ago at which timc I
subscribctl for the Michigan Fnrmcr and

am well plcasctl with it. M. 1‘). S, Mel-
\‘iii, Mlcli.~~ll‘ your HHV is a good sin-ci-
1117‘” and is prolllnblc for dairy purposes
you should lvccp hcr. for i know of no
reason why she should not clcan after
having her ncxt calf.

Impuclion.—-'l‘lu'ec of my cows were

taken sick some Iiuic ago, shon'cd consid-

crublc pain, were quilc um-usy illlli run
about, hulking u great rival of noise, Hill!
I imagine Ihcy must havc bccn in pain.

Our local \'ct. though! they sul‘l‘crcd from
impaction. in 15‘ hours \\'t\ succcmlctl in
opcning their bowels, but llicir milk flow
almost ccuscil. Several sort-s :ippczlrcd on
their nosc which linully ln-ziln-tl and the
scab Sl‘illt'll off. 011 the buck a swelling
took place which sonic limo later also
nil-med a sczib but the trouble on back
may have bccn lhc rcsull ol‘ :Ill injury.
’l‘hcy urc now outing all right. but do not
give nearly us much milk as they gon-

crully do. -\ l’aruicr il\‘lllf_:' ncur \\'cst
(llive says that sm‘ci‘ul (lairymcn have
had cows al‘l’wlcil much the same way
uiul thought it must bc a disease and
calls it Lakc Show lliscusc. \Vhat had I
bctlcr ilo to pz'cycnt il'.‘ ll, ll. V\'., Cun-

nntlaigua. li'lich.~v-.\n ailment of this kind
is usually the rcsult of cows eating fod—
dcr that is hard to muslicate and difficult
to digest. 'l‘hci'ci'orc. it is possible that
quite a number of cattle may have been
troubled with impaction in your localitv
1\'l1cncvcr ('alllc become very costivc it
is good practice to give themepsom salts
twtcc daily to loosen their bowels. Of
course, it is bcltor to move them by feed-
ing vegetables or snlling their food which
will lnCl'PaSe their thirSt causing them to
drink more water, which will have a.
tendency to open their bowels besides
the bowels will move more freely and
oftener if the animals are exercised At
this season of the year fresh grass. will
act fully as certain as salts. 1299px their
bowels open and you need give no other
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THE ‘MlCHlGAN FARMER. ‘

 

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HER NEEDS

‘ WOMAN AND. e:— l

LO THE POOR KITCHEN GIRL!

 

She Is Just Now a Much

OW’ is the high tide of the year for
N the servant girl. Those workers,

whom we have long been told were
downtrodden and abused are just now
having their inning, and rich is the liar-
vest they are reaping.

“'ithin a block of where I write a.
woman is offering six dollars a Week for
a girl. only three in the family and the
washing sent out. and she has no takers
for the offer. A block farther. seven dol-
lars a week is offered for a nurse girl for
two small children. and the mother can
not keep a nurse. Still anothcr woman
has offered seven dollars a wook. for a
family of three in a flat, and not being
able to get the girl she has closed the
flat and gone to boarding.

Every week the papers in Detroit con—
tain columns of advertisements asking
for domestic help, many offering six dol—
lars a week and nearly all holding forth
the alluring promise, “\Vasings sent out.”
Employment agencies are servantlcss, and
to your cry for help they retttrn bttt one
reply, “Girls for housework are as scarce
as hen’s teeth.” The women census tak—
ers are besieged by housewives to come
and work for them when the job of census
taking is over. “'omcn who have girls
are raising wages and doing half the
work for fear the girl will leave, and
those who can‘t get help are openly en-
vious of those who have.

Verily, if the servant girl has suffered
in the past, she is now reaping hcr re-
ward.

That is why I advised a friend of mine
yesterday to send her daughter out as a
houscmaid. The daughter has not enough
education to earn a living in any profes-
sion nor would she ever have if shc was
kept in school until she was 3:0 years old.
She must earn her living some way, and
for an uneducated girl the kitchen offers
the best field just now. For years back
girls have been shunning domestic ser—
vice. Stores, factories. offices looked bet-
ter to them on account of holidays and
evenings free, and to these, avenues girls
have tttrned. The result has been a les-
scning of the number who will go into
kitchens, until now such girls are at a.
premium.

Of course, the maid in a city home
hasn‘t always an enviable lot. especially
if she comes from the country and has
no friends she can visit. She is not re-
garded as a friend, as shc is when she
goes into a family in her own neighbor-
hood. The mistress, all too often, takes
little interest in her welfare, ncvcr thinks
of chatting with her, never under any

Sought After Personage.

circumstances introduces her to friends,
and never expects her to eat with the
family or sit with them of an evening.
\Vhen her work is done she climbs to her
room, which, all too often, is the most
cheerless one in the house, and if she
has been used to a jolly family circle,
imagine her loneliness. If she has callers
she tnust entertain them in the kitchen
or the dining room. anti sotne women are
so mean they are mad if the poor girl has
a bean. She can not go out and in the
front door, in short. she is an underllng
and is not allowed to forget it.

This is the dark side of the picture, and
so 1 show it first. For in countless homes
the, girls are contentcd and well treated,
in spite of rtstrictlons. There are many
kind mistresses who are not afraid to
be interested in the girl who does their
work, many women who look ottt for her
health and her moral and social welfare
and try to throw all the brightness they
can into her life. Then the question of
money is to be considered. A maid even
at three dollars a week is better off finan-
cially than the majority of clerks, factory
girls, and even many stenographers. Her
three dollars are all profits, while the
other girls must count on paying board,
room rent, and car fare. Besides, girls
who go out every day to work wear out
clothes faster than those who stay in, anti
they must have a different quality of
clothes. A kitchen girl can get along
nicely with two or three print dresses
and one good suit. The girls who meet
the. public can not wear print. They must
be smartly dressed or lose their jobs.

A look at the qttcstion of food shows
the servant is better fed, too, than the
girl in other vocations. She has her three
warm meals every day, and as a rule they
are substant‘al ones, while the girl who
proudly refuses to do housework but
spends her hours in store or shop, is all
too often undcrfcd because she does not
know how to order her diet wisely. \Vith
a good mistress, the kitchen girl is bet-
ter treated than the shop or store girl.
11‘ she is indisposed the work is lightened
for her and she is given a chance to lie
down. The girl in other employments
must keep at work no matter how she
feels, or lose her time, which she can
illy afford to do.

Take it all in all in this particular year
of grace, the housemaids and cooks are
prosperous. They do not have to go
seeking work. they are well paid, and
they are treated with a deference once
quite fore‘gn to the attitude of mistress
to maid. DEBORAH.

 

Michigan Country Women as Money Earners.

No. 4.

Bee-Keeping Is a Profitable Employment, and Easy for
the Fearless.

Several Michigan women have taken to
bee-keeping as a means of money mak—
ing. Among them is Mrs. Luella Spcller,
whose photograph accompanies this
sketch. She lives on a line farm of 120
acres in Palmyra township, Lenawee
county.

About four years ago Mrs. Speller, hav—l
ing been advised by her physician to en-
gage in some outdoor work began to be
interested in bees and found that, not
being afraid of them she could handle
them nicely, so she soon came to take the
entire care of them. The start was made
with four swarms and at present there
are seventeen, made, strong by removing
the queen when a swarm leaves the hive
and allowing the bees to go back.

The expense has been very slight since
the new hives needed are made at home,
and considering the small outlay of mon—
cv, the enterprise has paid well for the
investment and time. used. This year,
notwithstanding the year was a very poor
honey year, she sold $10 worth, besides
having‘a very liberal amount kept for
home use.

But the real gain was found in health
and interest. The youngest of her family
of five children was old enough to share
her interest and help when he was need—
ed. Mrs. Speller says: “It seems as
though almost any one could be success-
ful with bees if they were to set about it.

The main thing is not to be afraid, and
then to find out all one can about them,
by reading, and by watching them." As
pioof that the work does not require so
much time after all, Mrs. Speller has
this last year made about $250 from her
poultry.

Pcrhaps the first step is to acquire an
interest, perhaps by the work of some

practical bee-keeper or by the display at
the fair or by reading. Then the next
step is to get all the bee literature you
can b‘eg or borrow. Then find some pa-
tient bee-keeper and ask questions, and
if possible make a long visit and as fre-
quent ones to his place of business as
possible and keep your ears and eyes
open.

Then decide which branch of bee-keep-
ing you wish to embark in, and choose
your location. If you have access to a.
dealer in bee supplies lay the case before
him and he should be able to advise you.
If not, send to one and from his cata-
logue make your selections. You can get
nuclei from the one-frame nucleus up to
the la‘ge colonies in 10 frame hives, and
the price varies with the. time of the
year, and ranges from $2.00 to $12.00.
These are without the queen and with
these as with the bees, the price is mod—
itied by the time of the year and the
social standing, so to speak, of her royal
highncss. Her price will range from $1.00
to $12.00.

If you should be able to get hives with
comb, near at home, you can send and
get bees by the pound. There are from

    

3; .‘i - , ‘
Mrs. Luella Speller.

4,000 to 5.000 bees in a pound. They afia
sent in boxes made of very thin bass-
wood and wire net. They will cost with-
out queens, $1.50 to $3.00 per full pound,
according to titne of the year. It is
much cheaper to buy them this way as
the weight of the hives and comb is
many times greater than the bees alone,
and the express counts. As to what other
supplies one mttst actually have the taste
and inclination of the bee-keeper will be
the guide, some, liking to afford more;
some more resourceful and able to get
along with less, bttt the outlay need not
be large. Of course, if one is fortunate
cnt'lug'h to purchase the bees at home it
is well to do so, only in buying them
away one is sure of pure stock. As to
what: may be expected in the way of
increase, a one—frame nucleus will make,
if properly handled, a good strong colony
by fall, and it is claimed that the three-
frame will, with right management, be
increased as many as ten full colonies by
fall if purchased in the spring. Rgard-
ing the yield of honey one could expect,
one well known bee-man has been able
to make his bees average 1141/2 lbs. per
colony even in a poor year. And a glance
of the market reports will give one some-
thing of an idea of the returns.

Thcre are many races or varieties of
honey bees, most of them named for the
let‘ality from which they came. They
have very distinct characteristics.

As a general favorite the Italians hold

 

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MAY 14, .1910. ‘

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A little boy down in N. C. asked his

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She says Grape-Nuts was first brought
to her attention in Charlotte, where she
visited.

“While I was there I used the food
regularly. I gained about 15 pounds and
felt so well that when I returned home
I began using Grape-Nuts in the family
regularly.

“My little 18-months-old baby shortly
after being weaned was very ill with
dyspepsia. and teething. She was sick
nine weeks and we tried everything. She
became so emaciated that it was painful
to handle her and we thought we were
going to lose her. One day a. happy
thought urged me to try Grape-Nuts
soaked in a little warm milk.

“Well, it worked like a charm and she
began taking it regularly and improve-
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well and round and fat as fast as pos-
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“Sometime ago several of the family
were stricken with La Grippe at the
same time, and during the worst stages
we could not relish anything in the shape
of food but Grape-Nuts and oranges,
everything else nauseating us.

““‘e all appreciate what your famous
food has done for our family.”

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MAY 14, £910.
an easy-lead, being by 1a: the mast prot-
itable, since they are very prolific, indus—
trious and good natured; In appearance
they are distinguished by golden bands
running around the body. They are the
most easily handled and the best liked of
all bees.

Next as a favorite, though perhaps this
may not be agreed to by all, are the
Carniolans. These resemble the black
bees, but are gentle and have no good
points to excel the Italians, unless it be
the fact that they deposit the least prop—
olis of any of the races. But Since—they
are inveterate swarmers, a very undesir—
able trait where the production of honey
is aimed at, this quality is of small ac-
count.

Then there is found in nearly every 10-
cality the black, or German, bee. These
are incline to rob, are quite savage, very
nervous. The only points in their ‘favor
are the whiteness of the comb honey and
the fact that they do not cling so tena-
ciously to the comb as do some of the
other varieties.

The Holy Land, or Syrians, are dis-
tinguished by the enormously prolific
queens, making them desirable to those
who specialize in queen rearing.

The Cyprians resemble the Italians but
have a way of getting into tremendous
tempers, which detracts from their good
name, as the same trait does among
“humans.”

The best bee-hat is a large straw with
a curtain of black mosquito netting
around the rim. Always use black be-
cause it doesn‘t dazzle or blind the eyes
as white does.

People used to make hives of straw,
twisted into a large rope and made into
a dome shape, and later made boxes to
keep them in, then when the bees had
gathered the honey they had to be killed
with brimstone smoke that the honey
could be taken out. Nowdays, hives are
made with movable frames so that the
honey maybe taken without destroying
the bees. The size of the frames varies
in theWfilerent makes of hives. One is
called a hangstroth, for Father Hang-
stroth, who was the inventor of the mov-
able frame hive. The lower part is the
brood chamber where the bees raise the
young, The worker comb has {me cells

'5: tmflie’inch. ~ The drone comb has .about
. four cefls..t0the inch.

The comb is made of beeswax, secreted
from the body of the bee in tiny scales.
Each betel has eight little wax pockets on
the underside of her body. A bee must
eat from 10 to 20 pounds of honey to
secrete a pound of wax, so it is much
more economical to have the honey made
in large sheets and extracted, and the
honey put up in glasses or bottles, or
larger pails, for the market and the
empty combs returned to the hive to be
filled up again.

When the queen is getting old. the
bees know it and get another to take her
place. They make queen cells, making
queen cells larger after the egg is laid
so that they take up the space of about
three ordinary cells. The worker bees
fill up the cell with a milky substance
called royal jelly, made like the food of
the other larvae, of a mixture of honey
and pollen which has been partly digested.
The royal jelly, though, is a perfectly
digested and highly concentrated food
with a very rich, creamy taste, slightly
tart, and a strong, rank flavor. There. is
something very mysterious in this as it
seems to be the means of producing a.
highly organized quecn from the very
same egg that, hatched in a worker comb,
and fed on the common food of the bees,
would produce a worker bee. It takes
nine days from the time the egg was
laid until the cell is ready to be scaled
up and in seven days more the queen will
emerge. She does this by cutting the
thick, heavy wax cap from the inside, in
a nice circular lid like the top of a tea
pot, and pokes her head out and sizes up
her new dominion. Sometimes the worker
bees tear down the thick’ wax about the
queen cell leaving only a thin wall for
her to break down.

There are queer things told of bees.
Think of bees having lice; imagine a
skunk watching out in front of a bee-hive
to gobble up the bees and eat them for
the sake of the honey they have in their
honey sacks! Then, honey-dew is secret—
ed by bark-lice on the leaves of certain
trees, basswood, maple and poplar, and
does not fall from the. skies. as people
used to thinkkand if bees get too much
of it, it may make them sick.

Received the knife you sent me, and
will say I am. more than pleased with it.
It is really nicer than 1' expected_ Thank-
ing you. I am. yours respectfully, Judson
A. Swift, Washington, Mich

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Zinc put in the tire will clean out the
chimney—M. G. W.

Put a little earth in a jardiniere before
putting the plant crock in. It will help
the plant—Mrs. J. NV. '1‘.

Dear Editor:-I have. had experience
with a panama. I cleaned mine with gas-
oline but last of all I put it into the tub
and washed it. It washed tine, never fad-
ing or shrinking. They are supposed to
have been shrunken before they were
made Lip—H. E.

Glycerine and listerine with a. few drops
of carbolic acid to half a pint of the 10-
tion is the best remedy for chapped
hands I have ever found—Mrs. G. E. G.

Try rubbing New Orleans molasses on
the grass stains or ink stains on the
children's dresses and aprons.~—Mrs. G.
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HAVE YOU BOUGHT THE LITTLE
ON E’s COAT?

If you have not already bought a spring
coat for that four-year-old boy or girl,
why do you not buy one of those natty
little checked coats which are so popular
this spring? The mothers have worn the
checked suits for some time and now
some fashion—maker has been enterpris-
ing enough to see that the check is as,
good for the little folks as for the
grownups. !

I hear some one saying, “But check is
so hard on the eyes. W'ill it not be bad
for the children?" Not so bad by a good
deal as the vivid reds they have been
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A FLASH FROM BLACK EMBERS.

BY .I-XOLMAN F. DAY.

(Continued from last week).

Without a word Nicola began his pain-
ful and wavering trip to the shore, Mur-
tha‘s big hand gripped in the slack of his
coat for support.

On the way down Telos lake Murtha
kept the reflector of his lantern trained
on his prisoner in order to make sure of
all of his movements. Dawn was break-
ing when they reached Telos splash dam,
In making the short carry Nicola hopped
as best he could on his stiffened legs. He
welcomed this bit of movement after the
long hours of trussed agony in the canoc.

Telos stream leads down to the river
and the river is the waterway to the set-
tlements. Martha. with his ironshod set-
ting—pole, eased the craft down the roar-
ing shallows, past the rocks that combed
the water into white froth, and paddled
the quiet stretches.

The sun was near meridian when they
swung in sight of Castonia settlement, a
little cluster of houses at the meeting

 

 

 

 

place of Telos stream and the river. It is
in the heart of the big woods.
Murtha had not intended to pause

there. He proposed to haul up a few
miles below on the river, feed his pris-
oner and keep on. He knew that the
Dionnes, Levesques, Heberts and others
of Castonia were poachers themselves. and
he did not care to tarry there, even

THE -. MICHIGAN FARMER.

the rest of the Canucks,” said the man-
ager. _“The state gave 'em fifty thousand
acres of land there and made their squat-
.ter titles good. That ought to be enough
for ’em. Bateaux will be along some
time this afternon. In the meantime
we’ll have their duffel onto the bank here
and ready, and those shacks torched.
\Ve’re going to burn, Murtha!"

”It’ll be the only way to clean out the
nest," assented the warden.

“You can’t evict those people that
way.” cried Nicola, a strange tremor in
his tones. “There’s a state law that pro-
vides that squatters in possession of land
for three years must be paid for improve-
ments to it.”

“That Injun thinks he knows a lot of
law,” remarked Murtha satirically. “He
was tellin‘ me all about the game laws
last night before 1 arrested him.”

The manager had been starting up the
bank. beckoning his party to follow. He
looked back over his shoulder. “You
needn't worry about. the law end of this
business. Injun." he said, contemptuously.
“That's all been looked after, and we’re
posted on what we're doing." Turning to
the warden, he said: "A few hundred
paid to settle damages is better than
having a fire start here that will sweep
several thousand acres of our best tim-
ber. And when we once get this gang
off I’d like to see another squatter spry
enough to get‘a toehold on our property.”

Murtha stepped back, took a look at
the bonds of his prisoner and tightened a
few knots. The spectacle on shore was
too interesting to be missed.

“I’d advise you to stay quiet
canoe, Injun," he suggested

in this
grimly.

The girl who came was tail and slen-
der. There was apprehension in her dark
eyeslas she gazed from face to face, but
she had self-possession that showed con-
tact with the world outside. She lifted
back the heavy mass off her forehead
and looked at the manager with simple
directness when he spoke.

“This call today, isn't exactly a pleas-
ant one, Miss,” 'he said, “but duty is
duty and business is business. The pulp
company has reclaimed this land—its own
property—~tlirough due process of law and
we've got to put off these squatters.”

“But these are our homes, sir.”

“There‘s plenty of room back at Ste.
Agathe."

“It was why we came here—there were
no farms for the younger ones. We are
all of the old Acadian stock, sir, and the
farms the refugees took up have been
divided and divided until they are little
more titan lattes. And the Acadian stock
stays by the farms and does not go away
to the cotton mills in the cities. So we
have come here. 0111‘ men have tried to
buy this land. “'e will pay for it."

“But it isn‘t for sale, it never has been
for sale. and it won‘t be for sale,” said
the manager. “\Ve don’t want settlers

here. The fires endanger thousands of
acres. You’ll have to leave.”
“But there is no room on the old

farms,” protested the girl. ,

“Then Canucks better cut down the
size of their families,” suggested the
manager, brutally.‘ “It isn’t our fault if
you are crowding your own selves off the
earth.”

“At least you can wait until our men
come back,” pleaded Evangeline—this

 

 

 

 

Castonia

though he knew that most of the men of
the settlement were aWHy for their sca-
son‘s work in the lumber camps.

But as he came in sight of the place
he saw a half dozen men landing from
canoes on the sandy strip bcforr: tilt; set-
tlement. They had cvidcntiy just ar-
rived, coming up the river, and the giint
of badges on the breasts of three of
them interested the warden. 'l‘hcy wait-
cd for him and he discovered that the
men with badges were deputy sheriffs
that he knew. The man in charge of the
party was the woods manager of the, big
pulp company that controlled the dis-
trict. There was a lawyer with them
whom he knew anti the forestry expert
of the company was along.

Murtha drove his canoe ashore and the
party inspected his captive with interest
while they listened to his story.

“\Ve're on a house—cleaning trip our—
selves.” explained the pulp magnate.
“The company has got an order from the
court evicting this crowd of squatters
from our property anti we‘re here to do
it. They started a hundred-acre fire last
spring, brush burning. If we don’t Stet
'cm off they‘ll have half this township
into farms before we know it."

“it‘s :1 good time to tackle the place,”
observcd Murtha in congratulatory tones.
"Only the women folks and young ones
left here.” He surveyed the scattering
houses, little cots with stove funnel chim-
neys. From the door of each house wo-
men had issued and were gazing on the
new arrivals with interest. “What ye
goin’ to do with ’em?”

“Bateau ’em back to Ste. Agatha where
they came from and make ’em herd with

 

 

Settlement Extends Down to the Water's Edge.

“You've, made threats to me. I‘ve got
witnesses here to stand by me if I shoot
you. And there’ll be shootin’ if you try
to act funny.”

He hurried
others.

Out of the gathering huddle of women
and children an old man advanced to-
ward them, a pathetic outpost of defense.
“'ith the instinct of those close to na—
ture he. scented disaster of some sort. lie
blinked up at them mcekiy, scratchinr at
his grizzly stubble of heard, his face the
mild, amicaiing countenance of the habi-
tant Canadian.

“Uncle Johnny Quedaw—or whatever
your name may be,” said the manager
brusqueiy, “we’ve come to say you’ve got
to move. IVc’ll help you move and do it
all eaSy and quiet if your folks will be
easy and quiet, too. You go explain to
’em. You can understand Yankee talk,
can’t you?”

“Som' leetle I talk. m‘sieu. But I t’ink
I not understand. It‘s to move—I not
understand licem.”

“Sortez—go off—get out of here—all of
you—be moved ,back to Ste. Agathe!
That’s what I mean, Uncle Johnny!”

The old man’s wrinkled face went
white. There was a look of anguish in
his eyes as though he understood—yet
was struggling to convince himself that
he had not understood—so dreadful was
this newg.

He turned his head to the group behind
him and called piaintively, “Evangeline!
Evangeline Hebert; Venez ici et parie a.
ces messieurs! She have ban on de beeg
school. She can talk some good. She
can understand.

away in pursuit of the

Evangeline of the modern days, beholding
in real life what had been the pitiful
tradition of her race—~eviction from their
homes—-tyrannical, brutal, instant evic-
tion under the aegis of law.

“lixeitable Qucdaws are hard folks to
deal with,” said the chief of the expedi-
tion. “\Vc want to do this the easy way.
So we. have come now. Your interests
will be taken care of.”

“But we have rights,” cried the girl
pliFFlHnillt’dy. “11‘ law is directing this,
thcn both parties have a right to be

hcard before the tribunal. I have been
to school and I know those things!”

“Say, Miss, you ought to go down and
talk with that Injun in my canoe,” re-
marked the warden. “He’s been to
school, too, and he knows a lot of law
that ain’t so. He‘s a good-lookin’ Injun,
that Nicola fellow, and it might help you
pass the time away whilst we are helpin’
your folks move.” .

There had been such bitter distress in
the girl's face that human emotion could
paint little more there. But had those
been men of better discernment in mat-
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the gaze she bent on the rtcumbent fig-
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seen the girl run down to the canoe and
throw her arms about the prisioner's neck.
If anyone had been near and listened he
would have heard her sobbing on his
shoulder and would ‘have known that they
were' lovers.‘ But one would have needed
keen ears to'catch the rapid interchange
of passionate words between their lips,
for those lips were so close that they
Yet it
was ._not all of love. In a moment his jaw
muscles ridged tensely and he gave her
some swift commands. The warden's pack
She, still on her knees,
that her movements might not be dc-
scried above the river bank, secured a
knife and cut the bonds. Nicola rolled
out upon the sand and. when she was in,
pushed off and sprang in. They swung
on with the current, hugging the shore
so closely that they could not be seen
{rein the settlement. A few rods below
a small logan indented the river bank,
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Daddy Jake looked across the green
meadows to the hill beyond where he
could see his son cultivating the corn. The
breeze came from that direction and ev—
ery now and then it bore to him the
cheery whistle of the land.

“Aye, he’s right happy now. He
muttered Daddy .l'ake as he tilled his pipe
for a smoke. The only time he (ever
smoked was when he had something on
With this soothing influence.
upon him, he picked up the letter that
had fallen to the floor of the porch and
.carefully read it again.

“It’s what I‘ve always wanted. And
how I did want it! Now it's come I’m as
unsettled as if; the idea was hull new to
me. Marthy, you ain't read the letter
yet!" li§:“flilled, raising his voice.

In answer there appeared in the door-
way, a stoop-shouldered little woman with
the peaceful ‘love light of sacrificing
wifehood and motherhood on her faded
face. . J ‘

“No, “Ja’lte,” she answered, “I see you
was busyfiksiudying an’ I reckoned you'd
tell the when you was ready." Then she
adjusted her steel-rimmed spectacles and
slowly readitlie typewritten words.

“Don’t seem noway possible, do it,
Jake?” she remarked when she had fin—
ished the letter and put it. methodically
folded, back into the em'clope.

“It'd be a lot of money. Enough to
keep us real comfortable for the rest of
our lives without a stroke of work and
it'd give Joe such a start in life that he'd
have an easy row to hoe,” said the 01:]
man.

The little woman started. “Not a
stroke of work! Land, what'd be the use
of living, Daddy! The only ones who
could be satisfied with not a stroke of
work'd be the ones who has their hands
folded for the long rest.” '

”I used to think that such grubbing for
a living was too much for the Almighty
to lay on any man," mused Daddy Jake,
“and I wanted money—handfuls of ready
cash—instead of always trading out for
everything. Now, after all these years of
working and I‘ve got the chance to have
all the ready money I want. I begin to
think of some of the young fellows back
there who started out when we did with
more money than they knew what to do
with and I wouldn't change places with
one of ’em now. And I’ve begun to think
maybe it’s one of His ways of giving
happiness. He maybe blesses us by giv-
ing us work."

There was a long silence—a silence em—
phasized by the twittering of the spar-
rows in the caves of the house. and barn,
and the contented clucking of hens in the
barnyard. Then the boy in the cornfield
turned the brow of the hill and came into
view.

”But there's Joe," Said Daddy Jake.
“There's Joe, Marthy! Our cpurse is
nearly run and it don't so much matter
about us. There‘s him to think of!"

They saw Joe turning toward the house
and knew that his afternoon’s work was
finished. Daddy Jake went down to the
barn to meet him and together they did
up the chores while Marthy busied herself
about the supper. It was while they were
milking that Joe told his news, his face
transfigured with the wonder of it all.

“Dad, I’m going to be married next
falll"~ '

‘Marr-iedl Oh. no, you're only a little
boy yet," said the father.

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

The boy laughed. It was a fresh,
hearty laugh, good to hear.

“I stand six feet in my stockings,

father, and I'll be twenty-three next
month!”
“Well, well!" exclaimed Daddy Jake,

now joining in the laugh. “I just can't
think of you anyway ’cept a little bare-
footed tad that has to be looked after."

“And, father, it‘s Alma! Think of Alma
caring for poor me. Dad, how does it
come that we stay so poor. Other farin-
ers have gotten rich and sold their farms
and moved to town. ‘Vhat's the matter
with our place?"

The old man was thinking of the money
in the bank of which the boy knew noth-
ing. And he was pondering upon the
letter offering a price for his farm which
even now seemed a big one and a few
years back would have been fabulous.

“Ain‘t we comfortable, Joe?" asked the
father. “Ain't we happy here? Do you
think you'd find any more content in the
big city than you'll find right here in the
little house yonder? Lad, is it having
gold, or is it having health and peace at
mind and the power to work for a good

living in the fresh outdoors that spells

happiness?"

“Vi'hy, dad, I’m not complaining.
we‘re happy. Come to think of it we‘re
just powerful happy.
money‘s nice to have.”

““"liere are you and
live?" asked the man.

“\Vhy—wvhy, I hadn't thought of
thing 'cept that we'll live right along here
and I'd take care of the farm same, as
now. You couldn‘t do it alone and moth-
er—why, she just loves Alma!"

“But if you'd money, a prctty good pile
of it, what'd you do? liow'd you live?”
questioned Daddy Jake.

The boy's eyes glistcncd.

“I can't exactly tcll. But I believe I'd
get a lot of city clothes. real swcil 111105.
and then I guess I'd go to town to live——
anyway. we'd take. it easy," said the boy,
accepting his father's supposition]. much
as he would have if hc'd bccn asked how
he would like a trip to Mars in an airship,

“And yet, you'd be right contented to
live here and work the farm? Real
happy?"

“Why, Daddy,” cried Joe, eagerly, “I
ain't ever complained yet, and now with
Alma, why. it'll be the blcsscdcst spM. in
the world! Happy! “’cll, I just guess so.”

The old man‘s fare glowed with a
beautiful peace. Ilc know now what was
the right thing to do.

“From now on. Joe. you‘ll get a cleair
two—thirds of everything from the place.
You‘ve served me well and It‘lVillg‘ly. ()ne-
third'll be plenty for mothcr and me."

“Talk of being rich," said Joe. ”\Vllfl,‘
that's far and away the best news you
could give me!"

That night after supper when Joe had
gone to sec Alma, Daddy
tha of his decision.

“It's my opinion it'd be the spoiling of
his happiness outright to turn over that
money to him now. The farm‘ll not be
sold while we live, Marthy. \Ve‘ll let
them know the real joy that comes from
working for a home. And, Marthy.
ma’ll be coming here in the fall. They’ll
want a little honey-mooning spell to them-
selves. l)on't you mind how it was those
first weeks of ours? Let's you and me
take ourselves on“. WVe've worked our
day, we've carncd our holiday. “'c‘ll take
a nice little chunk out of the bank and
we’ll see some of those sights we've heard
about and we won’t stint for money,
neither. Then when we tired we'll
come back home. It‘ll our golden
honeymoon trip, eh?"

Alma going

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expericncc in Russia. Iiis sleigh
pursued over the frozen wastcs by a pack
of at least a dozen tarnished wolves. He
arose and shot the foremost one, and the

others stopped to devour it. But they
soon caught up with him. and he shot
another. which was in turn dcvoured

This was repeated until the inst famished
wolf was almost upon him with yearning
jaws, when“

“Say, partner," broke in one of the
listeners, “according to your reckoning
that last famished wolf must have had

’leven inside of him."

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the other

“Well: come to think it over.’ said the
story teller, “maybe he wasn’t so darned
tarnished after all."

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A PEEP INTO A FISH HATCHERY.

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BY_BESSIE L. PUTNAM. -
The sportsman and epicure alike doff
their hats before any movement which
tends to increase the number of fish in
our lakes and streams, and the general
movement of the national government,
seconded by every state in the Union, for

iaising fish to stock the streams meets
with general approval.
A visit to a hatchery, further, reveals

many curious habits of fish, and to one
interested in popular science it is bound
to furnish many facts for reflection later.
During a recent visit to a Pennsylvania
state hatchery, the writer was surprised
at the many curious traits observed of
the different fish, and is by no means dis~
posed to challenge the statement of an
attendant to the effect that ”we learn
Something new every day."

In this hatchery part of the work is
done by artificial methods, part in ponds,
according to nature's rules. At the time
of our visit, early in December, the arti-
ficial plant was idle, the water being too
low to run it. But we were taken through
the building and given an insight into the
work. The battery, consisting of several
long conduits for water, one above an—
other but the upper flowing into the lower
by connection at either end, was so ar-
ranged that large glass jars could be at-
tached along both sides. Into each of
these was thrust a long glass tube, its
upper end being connected with a stop-
cock in the battery. The water thus con-
stantly trickled through the tube into
the lower part of the jar, thereby keeping
the water in the jar constantly in motion,
a necessity to the hatching of the eggs
which it contained. ’.l‘he surplus water
was driven to the top and fiovved out of
the spout into a trough below. The join-
ing at the stop-cock must be air tight,
for if a bubble of air should gain entrance
it would force the water out with a rush,
and the embryonic fish would be hurried
down into the channel and lost to the
hatchery.

“'hen all of the 380 jars for which the
battery was adapted are filled, it keeps
one attendant constantly employed. A
well—trained car will detect if the flowing
of the water into a single jar should
cease. Surely here is the “music on the
waters” of the poet, where even a single
skipped note breaks the harmony. And
he who is not alert to connect the broken
chain may besurc of a defective hatch.
“One night,” said our guide, “I was kept
so busy that I got no supper, and did not

even have time to attend my fire. They
were ‘eyeing,’ at which stage they in-

crease to about double the first size. My
jars were filled to overflowing, and I had
to empty part out into washtubs or any
tank room I could find.” ’l‘his but shows
the constant supervision incessarj.’ to
bring to perfection the millions of lives
with which the. hatclnrry is entrusted.

\\'hcn first hatched, whitetish are, “about
the size of a mosquito,“ and in a day
they are from one»fourth to one—half inch
long, when they are ready to ship. ‘Ship—
ments are made in tin cans.

Fishes are cannibals, though at err-
tain stages some species will fight des-
perately for their young. For this reason
only young ones of the same age can be
kept together safely. a fish even a third
larger being able to prey upon and digest
its smaller brothers. Though so many
millions are sent out annually, but a
small part of them ever reach maturity,
birds. mammals, reptiles, and disease
dccimating their numbers. Yet there are
protective instincts and adaptations quite
as interesting as those peculiar to higher
types of life.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

MILDRED M. NORTH.

'l‘here’s a shimmer in the sunshine

Like King Midas‘ hoardcd gold,
'l‘here‘s a glimpse of skies of azure

'l‘hru white clouds looped fold on fold.

There’s a tinkle in the raindrops
Falling soft from low'ring sky.

That the sad—voiced rains of Autumn
("‘annot mimic if they try.

In the woods. like babes’ of fable,
Where the moss a carpet weaves,

There spring's shyest, sweetest blossoms
Peep among the rustling leaves.

And the birds, all unafrighted
That the trees are leafless quite,
Know in bird lore that sweet blossoms
Soon will heap the branches white.

List the chorus in the tree-teps,
Vanguard of the feathered throng,

Laughing, chatt‘ring, scolding cooing, ,
In their silvery, warbling song_

Winter is most loath to leave us,

See, he frowns and treats us ill,
' But he’ll hasten soon, and Springtime
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were not disappointed.

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you are harvesting your crops will be costly under the
most favorable circumstances. and it may destroy the
profits of a whole year's work.

Preparing the soil~planting good seed—at the
right thne—-these are highly important—but they are
only the means to an end—only steps that lead to the
all important time when you reap your reward.

You cannot reap your full reward without the
proper machines any more than you can reap reward
without proper care in the preliminary steps.

To reap all the profit that should be yours you
must be prepared with the most efficient harvesting
machines.

And now is the time to select them—to make sure
you are ready. You are going to be busier every day
from now on.

Start today to look over your equipment. Find
out what you will need. Think what it was that would
have helped you out most last year. Resolve that
this year you will be ready.

There are many points to consider in choosing a .
harvesting machine. You must consider them all
carefully. You not only want efficiency, depend-
ability, durability—but you want the machine that
will meet your particular requirements.

You can only be sure of getting all these by taking
the proper time to make your selection. And your
first consideration should be to find now a line of
established reputation that will give you the greatest
number to choose from.

Your first step therefore should be a visit to an
International dealer.

Under these names—

McCormick Osborne

Milwaukee Plano

Champion
Deering

-—You will find the machines that will meet your re-
quircmcnts.

Thousands of farmers. hard-headed business men
with just the same problems that confront‘you, have
had their problems solved by some one of these ma-
chines. They did not buy a Champion, Deering,
McCormick, Milwaukee, Osborne or Plano because
they were prejudiced in their favor. They bought
because they were convinced that these machines
represented the highest standard of excellence in
harvesting machines—because these machines met
their requirements—because they felt they were get-

pense has been spared to make them better. Every
year finds the experts responsible for the design and
construction of these machines in the field making
notes—watching to see wh_erc any improvement, how-
ever slight, can be made to increase their efficiency.

The manufacture of these leading machines by
one organization means much to you because—

-— It permits the manufacturer to control ore mines,
steel mills, timberland and saw mills so that he can
be absolutely sure of the finest quality of raw materials
and secure them at the lowest cost.

—-It permits the concentration of forces on im.
provements. the employment of the most skilled labor
—the installation of the most up-to-date labor-saving
machinery. It means in a "nutshell" improved quality
at a reduced manufacturing expense.

—It permits you to purchase a superior product
at the lowest possible price.

Were it possible to make as good a harvesting
machine as any one of these six .leading lines under
any other condition, the price would be so high that
it would be impossible to sell it.

You cannot afford to experiment at harvest time.
Smooth, rapid, uninterrupted work is an absolute
necessity. Each machine made under one of the six
names mentioned is tested under much more trying
conditions than will ever be encountered in the har—
vest field before it is scntout. Nothing ever goes‘wrong
on one of these‘machincs without mighty good cause
—but no machine is proof against accident. .

If your team Should run away and a smash~up re~
sult, the extra parts can be quickly had from a nearby
International dealer. Every International dealer
carries a stock of extra parts that fit. This means a
lot to you because at harvest time you can’t afford to
go skirmishing over the country. hunting for an extra
part. When the grain is ripe for cutting it has to be
cut. It won't wait several days for a repair part from
some far away factory.

The success of any undertaking depends on care
fuI preparation. Insure the full yield of your harvest
by preparing for it now. See your dealer at once.

Choose the machine that fills your requirements.

If you don‘t know an Intcrnationaldealer, write to
us and we'll give you the name ofthe one nearest you.

International dealers also sell the seven most do-
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