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VOL. CXXXV. No. 7.
Whole Number 35l8.

FARM NOTES.

Crops for Green Manure.

As I have a 12-acre piece of land that
is sandy and run out, I would like advice
regarding it. It is in corn this summer.
I thought of sewing rye in the corn this
fall, and plowing it under next spring for
beans, as I haven’t manure to cover it.
But some of my neighbors say rye takes
just as 'much fertility out of the land
as it puts back, so I’m at a loss what. to
do with it. Please advise me regarding
this, and as to what other crop I might
better put on this land.

Muskegon Co. A. B.

It is true that rye will add nothing to
the soil which it does not take from it,
and in the sense of adding actual fertility
to the soil is not to be compared with
the legumes as a crop for green manure.
But it does not follow that it will not
pay to sow rye in corn to be plowed
down the following spring on sandy land
of this kind. There is no doubt that such
treatment would be of some benefit to the
soil, and probably more than enough to
repay the value of the seed which repre-
sents the largest factor of expense, since
the corn 'will be benefited by the late,
shallow cultivation required to cover the
grain. This benefit is two-fold. First
the rye will appropriate and hold the
available fertility in the surface soil, some
or‘wnich might otherwise escape by leach-
ing during the spring rains when the
ground is soft. Then the field would be
protected from washing and a covering
of any kind seems to make the condi-
tions better for the work of beneficial
soil bacteria. Then when the rye is plow-
ed down it will add to the vegetable mat-
ter in the soil and with the conversion
of this vegetable matter into 'humus will
better its mechanical condition, which is
quite as important from the standpoint
of» increasing its fertility as increasing its
actual content of plant food. However, if
this rye is grown and plowed down and
the field is planted to beans, this benefit
will be lost and the soil will be left in a
still more barren condition than it is at
the present time. It is impossible to build
up a soil in fertility or to improve its
mechanical condition to any considerable
extent and continue at the same time to
put it into cultivated grain crops and take
more of its available fertility off in the
form of grain which is sold from the farm.
XVhere a sand soil is badly run down the
yield of beans secured is not likely to
prove a profitable one, hence there is lit-
tle in the proposition aside from wages
for the labor put into growing the crop,
and the soil is left in a condition which
makes it more difficult to get a seeding
of clover than it is at the present time.

For these reasons it is far better to try
and grow some leguminous crop for green
manure which will add needed nitrogen
as well as vegetable matter to the soil
when it is plowed down. Clover leads al'
other crops for this purpose in Michigan

DETROIT. Mica, SATURDAY. AUGUST 13, 1910.

and on lands where it can still be suc—
cessfully grown. Where solis have become
so worn that it is difficult to get a stand
of clover by seeding in a, grain crop it
can often be secured by fitting the soil
and seeding alone without a nurse crop.
This, of course, takes a year‘s time, dur—
ing which the land will produce no visible
profit, but if the soil is to be built up
to a profitable state of fertility we must
spend either time or money in the proc-
ess, and the former can generally be best
afforded by the average farmer. In the
northern part of the state winter vetch
is proving a valuable crop for this pur-
pose. It is sown during the latter part
of August at the rate of about three peeks
of the vetch seed and a half bushed of
rye to the acre. The vetch is a legumi-
nous crop and benefits the soil in much
the same manner as clover. If this crop
were plowed down and a liberal applica—
tion of the mineral elements of fertility
applied the bean crop might be grown with
better prospects of a profit and less likeli-
hood of a further depletion of the soil.

further cropping and depend on some mir-
acle to be wrought by a new crop, of
which we know little ‘or nothing, to re-
store it to fertility. The best thing to do
is to get vegetable matter into it and
add plant food at the same time if practi~
cal. Rye plowed down as a green manure
crop, or in fact vegetation of any kind
will help to attain the former object, but
clover will accomplish both to a consider-
able degree, hence the desirability of get-
ting such soils seeded, even at the cost
of considerable time and labor, is appa-
rent.

Disking Versus Plowing for Winter Grain.

I have a field on which I had winter
wheat this year, which I want to sow to
rye, and four acres of spring wheat,
which I want to follow with winter wheat.
Would disking be as good as plowing? I
also have three acres of land which was
sod two years ago, on which I had peas
the first year and oats the second ycar
after plowing. Would oats do well next
year and be a. good crop with which to
seed it down.

Alpcna Co. SUBSCRIBER.

While it is entirely practical to fit stub—

ble ground for fall-sown grain with the

 

 

Good Wheat Crops Have Been Harvested in Many Sections of Michigan.

But vetch seed is rather expensive, and

until it is tried on a small scale we are

not certain that the soil is naturally inoc-
ulated with the bacteria peculiar to the
plant and which is necessary for the
successful growth of any nitrogen gath-
erer. Thus artificial inoculation m‘ght be
necessary as it is in so many cases with
alfalfa, and for this reason it is better to
experiment with the vetch on a small
scale and pin our faith to common clover
where we can secure it, even by sowing
alone without a nurse crop for the reju-
venation and improvement of worn soils.
Other legumes, such as cow peas and soy
beans, which have many advocates for
this purpose, should be handled in the
same way until we become familiar with
them and know how they will grow under
our soil conditions. It is undoubtedly
profitable to experiment with t‘hcse soil
improvcrs, but it is folly to further im-
poverish an already badly worn soil by

disk, and while the best of seed beds can
be prepared in this way if the Work is
thoroughly done, the labor required will
probably be as great as would be the case
if the ground Wcre plowed. This is espe—
cially true in a dry season like the pres-
ent, when the ground is hard, as a good
deal of disking would be required to work
up the ground to a proper depth. Obser—
vation would sccm to show that less
ground is prepared for wheat in this man-
ner than was the case a few years ago,
which indicates that experience with
both methods has led a majority of wheat
growers to prcfcr plowing to disking as
a method of preparing for fall—sown grain,
It will, however, often pay to US“ the
disk before the ground is plowed. In
case there is a good rain just after har—
vest, the disking of the soil will prevent
the rapid evaporation of the soil moisture
before the field can be plowcd. and the.
soil will be in much better condition to

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fit-for wheat than if allowed to dry out
before being plowed. Many farmers who
have tried this plan are of the opinion
that it will pay to disk the ground as
soon as the grain is off, since it will plow
much easier and better if the sun is not
allowed to bake the soil after the grain
is off. It is quite a task to fit soil prop-
erly for fall-sown grain during a dry sea-
son, since if plowed it needs to be well
fined and firmed down to make a proper
Sced bed, but the extra work needed for
proper preparation will be more than re-
paid in the resulting crop.

If the soil is fertile, oats should do Well
after the peas, but seeding after oats is
not as dependable in an unfavorable sea-
son as after fall-sown grain or barley,
because oats draw more heavily on the
soil moisture. However, if the oats are
not: sown too thickly and the season is at
all favorable, good results should be se-
cured on a fairly fertile soil.

Killing Lacust Grubs.

On a farm that I bought this spring is
an abandoned family cemetery. Locust
trees have. been cut off the plot about
two years ago. The plot, consisting of
an acre or so, is now covered with a.
dense growth of locust saplings which are
spreading rapidly. \Vould you kindly in-
form me how to get rid of them, or at
what time of the year to cut them in
order to kill the roots?

St. Clair Co. J. W. T.

These locust grubs will be best subdued

by cutting off in August, leaving them in
the ground until spring and burning soon
after the new growth starts. However,
they probably can not be entirely exter-
minated in this way, as they are vigorous
growers and send up many new shoots
from the roots. if the plot could be en-
closed and pastured off with sliecp fre-
quentl or as soon as the new sprouts start
up, they could be easily killed in this
way. Summer fallowing the plot after
burning by frequcnt cultivations with an
old-fashioned “digger” if such an imple-
ment is available, would also help to sub-
due the grubs. I'Iowcvcr, if the plot is
not so located as to prove unsightly or
make an :1wkward-shapcd field. it might
pay better to let them grow, as this thick
growth would make shade enough so the
borers would not be apt to work in the
young trees badly, and they would de—
velop into valuable post timber in a few
years.
Treating Seed Wheat for Smut.

‘Vill the some trcatmcnt of formalde-
hyde and wutcr as used by some on oats,
also be good to take the smut. out of fall
wheat.

Cheboygan Co. L. H.

The formalin treatment is now gener—
ally used for the trczitnicnt of seed wheat
for smut, bcing easier to apply and ap—
parently just as effective HS the other
methods of treatment which are some-
times uscd. The ordinary commercial
formaldehyde should be used, mixing it
with water at the rate of one pound to
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Alfalfa Curing Under Hay Caps on ‘Roycroft Farm,

 

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110 (2)

this mixture should be allowed for each
bushel of grain to be treated. The grain
should be placed on a tight floor in small
piles and the mixture sprinkled or sprayed
over it, the grain being shoveled over
until the kernels are thoroughly wet. After
the whole has been thus treated, repeat
the operation until from three quarts to
one gallon have been absorbed by each
bushel of grain. Then cover the whole
with a canvas for a few hours to prevent
the fumes of the formaldehyde from be~
ing evaporated. After the canvas is re—
moved the grain should be shoveled'over
a few times to aid in drying it out, when
it will be ready for sowing at any time.
Care should be taken not to use infected
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IN NORTHERN MICHI-
GAN.

ALFALFA

 

At the present time there is a good
deal of interest centered in alfalfa in the
northern counties of the lower peninsula,
as well as in some places in the upper
peninsula of Michigan. The fact that
alfalfa is succeeding in the lower coun-
ties is very encouraging, as it looks as
though it is to help farmers out of
summer troubles by furnishing a cheap
supplemental feed during periods of
drouth, when pastures fail, and also fur-
nish an abundance of rich feed with
which the stock can be carried through
the winter more cheaply than on any
other feed yet discovered.

During a recent trip to the north, I no-
ticed along the way that the severe drouth
had injured crops to a considerable ex-
tent, all along up the east shore. Oats
are short and light in most places; peas
that have been grown in such abundance
in former years were a failure in many
places. The vines are not producing pods
and are being cut for hay. The failure
to produce was caused partly by frosts
and partly by the dry weather.

In I’resduc Islc county I visited the ex—
cellent farm owned by Mr. Merritt hi.
Chandler. On that farm alfalfa is being
grown with both success and profit. One
field, where the alfalfa had been cut once,
was then (July 21st) nearly ready to
cut again. On account of the crop being
forward Mr. Chandler was contemplating
trying to get seed from the third crop,
as good germinating seed can not always
be secured in the market. The piolitablc.
mess of raising alfalfai'n that part of the
state was indicated by the results last
year. If the hay from the same field
had been sold in the market the income
‘would have exceeded $100 per acre.

On another field of 32') acres alfalfa had
been sown this season without a nurse

crop. Corn had been grown on that
held last year, and instead of plowing
the ground to fit it for the sec I, had

been disced and worked up in very fine
shape. On one side of the field where
{:00d seed was sown the plants were
coming up thick and vigorous. ()n the
other part the seed did not grow, and it
will ’hch to be reseeded. As the land
is limestone soil lime was not sown in
preparing the ground for the seed.

Mr. Chandler has found that for feeding
sheep alfalfa it is better to chaff it, or
cut it fine, and then they will eat it all
as readily as they do any grain, while
if thrown to them whole they pick the
leaves first. He is contemplating get-
ting a grinder and then he can make
,meal of the whole crop and use it in the
form of grain, it having a feeding value
equal to or greater than wheat bran.

In Houghton County.

On the Roycrot‘t Farm in Houghion
county, I found that alfalfa is being
grown very suecessfully. The proprietor,
Mr. \V. S. Prickett, says he thinks he
has solved the alfalfa problem, and can
depend on it as one, of his main forage
crops. There are 30 acres of alfalfa mead—
ow on the farm at present, and 60 acres
are being prepared for sccding this year.

Mr. I’rickett‘s management of the al-
falfa may seem a little unique to some,
but as it brings good results. I will men—
tion it. As soon as the blossoms appear
the alfalfa is mowod, carefully cured in
the cock and stored before it is dried
enough to crumble to any great extent.
Immediately after the crop is taken Off
they go over the fields with a spike-
toolh disc, splitting the crowns of the
plants and letting air into the ground,
which promotes a rapid growth in a short
time. This plan was suggested to him by
noticing how rank the alfalfa would grow
up between the furrows soon after it
had been plowed. It certainly brings

good results in promoting the growth of
the alfalfa as well as keeping back the
grasses and weeds.

In preparing the ground for sowing
the seed, a coat of manure is put on, the
ground plowed and worked well to make
a good seed bed. Lime is sown in Nb-

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘

eral quantities and well worked into the
soil. The trinity of points on which de-
pendence is placed for success is: t-hor-
ough drainage, lime and cultivation. The
plan of spreading the soil from the green
patches is a good one, but inoculation
is not considered absolutely essential.
The philosophy of using lime is con—
sidered from a busineSS standpoint. If
it will enable one to get a good stand
of alfalfa, and from its growth one can
get three cuttings of hay per season,
that is worth twice as much for feed for
the farm stock as any other of the clo—
vers or grasses, it is a paying invest.-
Ineut to use it. The lime undoubtedly
hastens the disintegration of the vege—
table matter in the soil, making the plant
food which it contains readily available
just what the young alfalfa plants need
to promote their growth while young.
Another point should be considered:
Calcium, the metallic basis of lime, is one
of the prime essentials as a plant food.
No plant or animal can thrive from be—
ginning to end of life without it. In the
leaves of plants it appears to ‘haVe the
special function of aiding in the con-
struction of cell walls, and no new plant
cells are found without the aid of this
important element. calcium. Alfalfa, the
clovers and other legumes, use so much
calcium that they are sometimes called
“lime plants." If, by the use of car—
bonate of lime on soils that are somewhat
deficient in “natural lime," good results
are obtained when the clovers are sown,
we need not wonder at it.
Vi’ayne Co.

 

N. A. CLAPP.

DEVELOPMENT OF NORTHEASTERN
MICHIGAN.

 

The following address was delivered by
J. C. McDowell, griculturist, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, while with the
Better Farming Special which covered
northeastern Michigan the latter part of
June. \Vhile this talk was briefly re—
viewed at the time, its text is here pub-
lished that all may benefit by reading it.

During the past three or four years
Professor C. B. Smith' myself, and others
of the United States Department of Ag-
riculture have made a careful study of
the soils, farm crops, agricultural condi-
tions, and the agricultural possibilities
of all of the northeastern part of the
southern peninsula of Michigan. We
have driven over every county from Bay
City north to the Straits of Mackinac.
“'0 have visited many of the best farm-
ers in this district and have studied their
methods of farming right on their farms
with the idea of finding systems of farm—
ing well adapted to the different condi-
tions of soil and climate.

I wish to congratulate you on having
some of the best soils that are to be found
in this or any other state; but some of
your soils are medium in quality, and I
am sorry to say that there are large
areas of light sandy soils. It is a part of
our business to find out what crops, crop—
ping systems, and What live stock are
best adapted to these different kinds of
soils. The farmers who are fortunate
enough to be settled on the richer soils
have an easy problem as their soils will
grow almost any crop they choose to
plant, but the problems confronting the
farmer 'who is located on the light sandy
soils are much more difficult. At present
We are giving most of our attention to
the problems of the sandicr districts, and
I must admit that these problems are
difficult to solve.

It does not make any difference, how-
ever. whether your soils are the richest
of this district, whether they are medium
in quality, or whether they are of that
quality so common on the jack pine
plains, careful attention must be given to
a few fundamentals if we are to succeed
in maintaining a successful agriculture
for any considerable length of time. (‘are-
ful attention must be given to maintain—
ing plant food. the moisture holding ca-
pacity of the soils must be kept as high
as possible, the physical condition of the
soils must be looked after, and the soils
must be. kept rich in humus. If the soils
are kept rich in humus they will never
be lacking in plant food. and will seldom
run low in moisture.

I had this fact deeply impressed upon
me two years ago this summer as I drove
over the western prairies making an ag—
ricultural survey for the Ilnited States
Department of Agriculture. During the
long dry spell that occurred early in July,
I found that all the crops were suffering
severely on account of the hot winds and
the extremely dry weather. The wheat
was badly wilted, the pastures were dry-
ing up, and the soils contained no mois—
ture. As I drove along one day I was
much surprised to note one farm that was
altogether different from the rest in that
section; all the crops on this farm were
of a dark green color, vigorous, and ap-

peared to be growing rapidly. I drove
in to meet that farmer, and to examine
his crops and sells more closely. I want-
ed to find out what that farmer was do-
ing that his neighbors were not doing.
His solution of the problem was very
simple. On a farm of moderate size be
was keeping over a. hundred head of live
stock, and 'he was putting into that soil
all the manure that he could get hold of.
We went all over his farm, dug down
into the soil in many places, and found
it full of humus and moist everywhere.
Before I left he said to me, “You know
the farmers all over this western country
say that you must not add manure to the
soil, because if you 'do you will dry it out.
I am putting into my soil all the manure
I can get hold of and you notice the re-
sults.” I noticed the results on his farm,
and I have been looking for the same
results as I have traveled over the states
farther east, and I am finding them, too.
The best farmers right here in Michigan
are the ones who are keeping their soils
full of organic matter. The humus keeps
up the supply of moisture during a long
dry spell such as we are now experienc-
ing, and always gives big results in larger
yields at the close of the season.

Our great problem is to get the supply
of organic matter to add to the soil.
There are only two practical ways by
which it may be obtained. One is to
keep a large amount of live stock and by
so doing get much manure for the soil,
and the other is to produce crops to be
plowed under as green manure. To keep
live stock at a profit, and even to keep
them at all, we must grow crops with
which to feed them. What shall we grow
for this purpose? Among the best crops
to grow on our better lands are corn,
clover, and alfalfa, but as Professor Shoe-
smith has just told you, alfalfa will not
do well under ordinary conditions on the
very sandy land. Clover will grow on
lighter soils, but we can hardly expect
clover to do much on the jack pine land

until the soil has been enriched for it. ,

Even if it escapes the frost, corn can
hardly be expected to do much on, our
very sandy land, until such soil has been
enriched by growing some of the legumes.

I am pleased to be able to inform you
today that we have a. crop, and it be-
longs to the nitrogen, gathering family,
too, that makes a very
growth on some of our sandiest land.
The crop to which I refer is the sand or
winter vetch. I have known the winter
vetch to give big yields in this state on
the drifting sands along the shores of
Lake Michigan. It should be sown about
the twentieth of August, at the rate of
three peeks of vetch seed and a half
bushel of rye per acre. It is best to sow
with a drill at the depth of two to three
inches in this sandy soil. Rye is sewn
with the vetch in order to support it,
and keep it from growing along the
ground. Under ordinary conditions the
vet-ch makes a rapid growth that fall, re-
mains green under the snow all winter,
and goes on growing vigorously the next
spring. By the middle of May or the

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hay, and they are reported by some to do
very well as a pasture for a. short time.
Yields of two tons of hay per acre are
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By growing a crop of rye and vetch,
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AUG. 13, 1910.

PLEASE MENTION THE'MICHIGAN FABMER
when you are writing to advertisers.
COMMON SENSE AND 'PLAIN
' DEALING.

Ralph Waldo EmerSOn once said:
“Nothing astonishes men so much as
common sense and plain dealing.” The
more we think about this statement, the
more we are convinced that Emerson was
right. Common sense enables us to choose
wisely, to make correct deductions, to
avoid snares and pitfalls, and plain deal-
ing gives us the power to do the right
thing by our fellow men and to avoid
misleading statements. The American
Seeding-Machine Co., Incorporated,
Springfield, Ohio, makers of the Buckeye
grain drill, have evidently kept this say-
ing of Emerson constantly in mind, for
their warranty on the Buckeye is so plain
that it would not mislead a child, and the
common sense displayed in the design
and manufacture of this world—famous
grain drill has made it astonishingly sim-
ple, accurate, reliable and wear resisting.
Write to the manufacturers for a Buck—
eye catalogue, read it carefully and then
drop in at your nearest implement deal—
er’s and see what an exceptional drill the
Buckeye is. The feed is of the double
type—that is, two feeds in one—a force
feed having great range as to quantities,
and which will accurately measure and
sow all grains and grass seeds, peas,
beans, rice, beets, etc. The combined
Buckeye grain and fertilizer drill will sow
all commercial fertilizers and is the only

 

 

drill in the world that has an absolutely
non-corroding glass fertilizer feed. The
many good features will surely interest
the careful farmer and We know our read-
ers will lbe pleased to learn more about it
by sending for a Buckeye catalogue.

 

 

    

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The Kant-leak Kleet is the greatest help yet
in applying roofing. Makes seams positively
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hances beauty of the roof. Supplied with
Genasco rolls, when ordered.

Ask your dealer for Gennsco. Gold Medal (highest
award) Seattle, 1909. Mineral or smooth surface. Look
for the hemisphere trademark on the roll. Refuse substi-

tutes of similar looks. Write for samples and the Good
Roof Guide Book.

THE BARBER ASPHALT
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Largest producers of asphalt. and largest
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Put up 6 lbs. 250: 10le. 50c; 20 lbs. 31: 50 lbs. $2.60.
Ask your dealers everywhere.

Jackson Grocery 00., Jackson, Mich.

Do you know that your animals are taking up
from the pasture the germ or egg of the worms that
will breed and develop during the winter months.
Kill the germin the stomach this can be done by
feeding H-E-C Medicated onlo Stock Salt in
the pasture. Ibr sale by all Grocer: and Druggo’sts

H. E. COBB 00., Brooklyn, Michigan.

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Our “Cyclone" three stroke self feed hay press
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THE MICHIGAN .FARMER.

i LIVE STOEE

 

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GROWING THE COLTS.

 

The prevailing high price of horsefiesh
has had the natural effect of reviving in-
terest in horse breeding throughout the
country. Fortunately a better class of
sires have been available for use than has
ever been the case before, especially for
use on farm mares for the breeding of
grade draft animals. True some of the
sires which are now in use are not all
that might be desired, but there are good,
big stallions of some of the draft breeds
available for use in nearly every commu—
nity, and while many of them may not
have the fine points which make for show
quality they are unquestionably an im-
provement over the nondescript sires of
no particular breeding which were so
common in the country a few years ago.
\Vhile the revival of interest in horse
breeding has resulted in the breeding of
almost every available mare, regardless
of her size or quality, yet the average
quality of the brood mares of the country
is better than in past generations, at least
from the standpoint of their fitness for the
raising of grade drafters. Thus in Michi-
gan we are better equipped for the raising
of a type of horses that are wanted in
the market and that will bring prices
which will leave the breeder a fair profit,

mum growth. It is desirable, of course,
to feed a balanced grain ration, using
plenty of bran or a little oil meal or
other nitrogenous concentrate to supply
this need, and good clover hay where it
is available. But variety and palatability
add to the efficiency of the ration, and
the good feeder who takes a personal in-
terest in the welfare of the colts and
has a strong liking for them is apt to
get as good results as the more scientific
feeder who lacks the element of personal
interest above mentioned. The accom-
panying illustration from a photograph
of a well-grown yearling colt shows what
a combination of these factors backed
up by good breeding will do. In a letter
to the writer regarding this colt, its owner
incidentally added a sentence which re-
veals his personal liking for good horses.
This expression was: “Good stock is a
source of great satisfaction as well as
profit to any farmer.” This is but one of
a number of similarly well—bred colts
which its owner has raised from a pair
of pure-bred Percheron mares, which, as
he adds, have been an efficient work team
on the farm in addition to raising this
kind of colts.

It is not so much the purpose of this
article to lay down rules for the proper
feeding and care of the colts as to im-
press upon the reader the importance of
such feeding and care. The good sense
of any farmer will tell him when the colts
are getting such care, and all who have
colts to food should provide for them

 

 

provided the colts are properly grown
while young to bring them to maturity
with a maximum degree of size and qual-
ity which represents the limit of what
their breeding makes them capable of at-
taining.

But in the growing of colts, as with
the development of other young animals,
the care and feed Which is given them
from birth to mziturity is just as impor-
tant as their breeding, if satisfactory re-
sults are to be attained. If every condi-
tion is not made right to secure this de-
sired development at this time, no amount

 

of good feeding in after years can avail
to remedy the error. The growth and
development must be continuous from
birth to maturity if the colt is to attain
either good size or harmonious develop-
ment. Obviously, both of these qualities
are very desirable in the horse, whether
he is grown for market purposes or for
use on the farm. If he is to be sold in
the open market for a drafter or perhaps
an expresscr, size and development mean
added dollars for the breeder. If he is to
be retained on the. form. the extra pounds
and the better developed muscles which
are the result of proper feeding and care
from the start mean added efficiency in
the doing of farm work. It is, then, of
the greatest importance that the farmer
who is breeding and raising colts should
fully appreciate the importance of proper
feed and care for the colts during the
whole period between birth and maturity.
This is also true with other animals for
the most profitable results, but it is true
to a far greater degree with the horse,
for the reason that his mission in life is
not so quickly fulfilled, and the added
efficiency resulting from his best develop-
ment is a continued source of profit for
many years, and has a corresponding ef-
feet in increasing his value.

But how, the reader may ask, is this
desired end to be accomplished? It should

 

not be a very difficult thing for anyone
interested in the proposition to provide
plenty of wholesome, nutritious food and
proper environments to promote a. maxi-

 

Percheron Stallion Colt, James 65217, Foal ed June 8, 1909, Weight 1,100 lbs.,
by M. A. Bray, of lngham Co.

 

Bred

with a bountiful "hand. Watch the needs
and appetite of the young things and
make the ration sufficient to satisfy them,
instead of feeding according to prevxous
ideas or established precedents. If this
plan is followed, the growing colts will
certainly prove to be a source of satis-
faction as well as of substantial profit to
their owners. It is an individual prob-
lem with every individual colt, and, in
the vernacular of the day, “good horse
sense” is needed for its correct solution.

 

FALL PASTURE FOR THE SHEEP.

 

Under normal conditions the question
of fall pasture for the sheep is not gen-
erally a difficult one to solve upon the
average farm where a small or medium-
sized flock of sheep is kept. This year
will, however, prove an exception on many
Michigan farms, for the reason that the
dry summer has so shortened the pas-
tures that all available pasturage has
been so closely grazed that the fall feed
will be necessarily shortened, and the 01d
meadows and pastures will need to be
given an opportunity to develop some
covering and accumulate some plant food
in the crowns of the plants if they are to
be expected to yield a normal amount of
forage next season. This makes the ques—
tion of late fall feed one for serious con—
sideration at the present time. \thl‘e
the corn fields are to be used for some
other cultivated crop next year. it is an
excellent plan to sow rye in them at the
last cultivation. If scasonable showers
occur so that this rye gets a good start
before the corn is cut it will then come
on rapidly and make considerable good
pasture before winter sets in. This late
pasture may not be available until after
the corn crop is all secured, but there will
then be several weeks
may be pastured in a normal season, and
this late pasturage makes a great saving
in the winter forage, which will be none
too plenty on many farms this year. Then
the soil will be the better for the covering
which remains on it over winter, as the

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”Horse Owners

Look to your interests and use
the safest, speediest and most
positive cure for ailments of
your horses, for which an ex—
ternal remedy can be used, Viz:

GOMBAULT’S
CAUSTIC BALSAM

Prepared exclusively
b J. E. Gombault, ex-
V’dterinar Surgeon to
the Frenc Government

 

    
 

   

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Impossible to produce any scar or blemish.
The safest best Blister ever used. Takes the

lace of all liniments for mild or severe action.
Removes all Bunches or Blemishes from Horses
or Cattle.

Every bottle of Cauotlc Balsam sold is
Warranted to give satisfaction. Price $1.50
per bottle. Sold by dru gists, or sent by ex-
press, charges paid, with ull directions for its
use. Bend for descriptive circulars, testimo-
niols, etc. Address

flil LAWRENCE—WILLIAIS COIPiliY, Cleveland, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

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Your Horse 4‘ .
Berna to (liay ‘ CKAGE
0" °n 5’ $3 PA
PERMANENT will cure any case or
money refunded,
$| PACKAGE v
cures pédlnary casesé
l’ostpal on receip o
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Sh uid be kept in every stable

Colic. needs prompt, energetic treatment,
therefore It is important to have a reliable
remedy always on hand.

Bottle 8 Doses D-"vmd by Ma“ $1.00

or send 100. to help pay cost of trial bottle (one

dose.) Seldom necessary to give a. second dose.
W. 0. FAIR. V. 5., Prop.,

DR. FAIR VETERINARY REMEDY 00..

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Stalls. Seven different styles of Stanchions,
Complete line of Feed and Litter Carriers.
Endorsed by the leading dairymen, including
State and United States Dairy Inspectors.
Write for big book showing interiors of mod-
ern dairy burns, to
KENT MANUFACTURING COMPANY
131 CaneStuFox-t Atkinson, Wil.

Seldom See...

a. big knee like this, but your horse
may have a bunch or bruise on his
Ankle, Hock, Stine, Knee or Throat.

ABSORBIN E

will clean them off Without; laying
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substitute because CRKEE‘IP’CE eitsc the oglttiflclc': 3:113:
remedy for Horses,Sheep and Dogs. Sold on
a money back guarantee. If not at your deal-
ers sev‘idn‘fifgaiilzgct 8 FREE Horse Books.
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112 to

growing rye plants will appropriate and
conserve the available fertility in the-sur-
face soil and will also prevent serious
soil erosion during the spring season
where the ground‘is rolling. Then again
this same rye will make some good early
spring pasture, again effecting a saving
of hay at this end of the feeding season
and proving of benefit to the flock by giv-
ing the young lambs a good start.

Then there will be some rye left to
plow down, adding something to the vege-
table matter in the soil, thu-s many times
repaying the value of the seed which is
practically the only cost of this catch
crop for fall pasture.

\Vhere it is considered preferable rape
can be substituted for rye for this pur-
pose, but in a majority of cases will not
prove as profitable a crop. But whatever
the catch crop used for this supplement-
ary fall pasture, it will be found of great
benefit to the flock. A great deal depends
on the condition in which the ewes go
into winter quarters so far as next sea-
son’s lamb crop is concerned. If the
sheep go into the barn in good condition,
only a small grain ration will be required
to keep them in good thrift during the
winter, and this will prove a saving of
grain as well as a benefit to the sheep.
It is difficult to put them in proper con-
dition by the use of a heavy grain ration
during the winter season without impair—
ing their usefulness as breeders. and if
they are allowed to remain in poor con-
dition until iambing time they will fail
to nourish their lambs in a manner to
give the most profitable results. Supple-
mentary feeding at this season of the
year and the provision of some supple—
mentary forage crop for late fall pasture
are important considerations in the poper
care of the breeding flock upon every
farm where the pasture is now short. and
both will pay big dividends. both in the
future profit from the flock and the fu—
ture production of the pastures and mea-
dows which would otherwise be grazed
so closely as to impair the yield of forage
next season.

Oakland Co. A. R. FARMER.
SUPPLEMENTARY FEED FOR THE

PIGS.

The farther or breeder rwho uses port—
able! colony houses for his hogs and has
them distributed through a field of alfalfa
properly fenced for the purpose is indeed
fortunate in a season like the present one.
But he is fortunate because he has de-
voted some time and thought to proper
preparation for the business of raising
and 'fccding hogs in an economical man—
ner. I'ruluestionably the man who is so
equipped at the present timi- will be able
to mature his spring crop cztrl‘er in the
season and at a very greatly reduced cost
in comparison with the farmer who has
made no special preparation along this
line. The alfalfa pasture will keep right
on producing succulent forage, rich in
protein and greatly relished by the pigs

through the dry weathcr when the aVcr~

age hog lot is producing practically noth-
ing. No farmer who makes a specialty
of raising hogs should allow another sea-
son to pass without making an attempt
to get alfalfa cstablish-.-d in some con—
venient lot near the farm buildings where
the hogs can be handled in this advan-
tageous way during the summer season
at least in future years.

But good resolutions of this kind will
not help out the present situation. On
most Michigan farms the pigs are being
fed in a pasture lot which affords them
littlc or no grccn feed at the present time.
if they arc so fortunate as to have the
run of a pasture lot at all. As a result
of this condition they are not making the
best possible use of the expensive grain
ration which they are being fed. and con-
sequently the gains which they are mak-
ing are expensive gains, and in many
cases will not. yield a large profit. cven at
the present exceptionally high price of
pork. ()n few of these farms 1has any
preparation been made for supplementary
pasture crops for the hogs, and in many
localities the weather has bcen so dry
that such supplementary pasture crops
have been practically a failure if sown.
l'iowcver, this should not be made an ex-
cuse for not providing the pigs with need-
c~l green forage. The corn is now suffi-
ciently far along toward its maximum

growth so that a few hills pulled or cut?
(‘th'll (lay and fed to the pigs will supply"
this deficiency. and while it will not take;

the, place of good alfalfa or clover pas—
ture. it will pay a far better profit if fed
to them in the quantities which they will
consume from now on than the same corn
would if allowed to mature and the grain
which it would produce were fed to them
later.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

wn Fuel Bills 1

 

   

 
 

economical range. no one can deny.

  
  

many years. To be n good baker. easy

      
     
   
    
    
   
     
 
   
   
   
 

  

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ARCADIAN
MALLEABLE, NON-BREAKABLE RANGE

The Arcadian pays for itself in the fuel it saves. and a range that does that is an

Only a range made like the Arcadian. of malleable iron and charcoal iron plates with-
out the we of stove putty. could give such economical. first-class servnce for so
to clean and saving of fuel. a range must_ be
absolutely air-tight. So-ulled steel and cast iron ranges cannot be meted nir-
tight. so they are only bolted together and the seams stuffed wnh stove putty. Affa-
six months or a year this stove putty crumbles away and then false drafts enter the
range at every seam. fanning the fire and wasting fuelwhen you have the range
shut off. or deadening the fire when you want it to bum. How

can you do 3 baking with such a range? Do you wonder
that fuel bills get bigger and bigger?
range seam: d or :tufied with stove putty.

The Arcadian ls mad air-tight without the use of stove
on and charcoal iron plates are
tough enough to be riveted lasflngly air-tight. metal to
metal. like a locomotive boiler. No stovesputti to crum-
ble—a perfect baker—easy to keep clean. old
Free booklet—full of money-havinglnformndon nboutrnnzu.
telling the lnuklo fact. nboutrnnge making and showing
up “mu—teaches you to detect weak points

In nngol. Free.
MIDI“ IALLEIBIE RAISE co.
Dept. 56

AUG. 13." 1910.

 
         

 

Be warned against

y dealers.

    

 

 

NR SALEmGgEBNv§EY EEIFER CALF.

Also Young Cow. 'igent. Wamrvliet. Mich.

 

' Breeders and Importers of high
MIND Bldg. Farm clan Guernseya. Write us your
wants. E. dz J. T. MILLER. Birmingham. Mich.

   

TWO-Ill-OIIE

HUPP FARM BERKSHIRES!
WON 189 PRIZES IN 1909.

Stock of both sexes and all ages for sale. Breeders

of Guernsey Cnttle. M. B. Turke l. But-red Rock

Chlckens,PekIn Ducks. GEO. . HUPP, Man.

Drawer-A Birmlnzhnm Mlchlann.

 

   
  

 

 

 
 

 
 

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_ {xi-€43 NEVER-LEAK 5331?;“3.3153..will.."Fillfflll'..rtnzt“rt'§

 

IIIILSTEII FIIIESIAII ‘Eé‘llff‘lfi‘cllfii‘;
Mercedes Royal Kins. W. B. J anal. Oak Grove.MIch.

finding "Ills TOP norcn nousrnms.

Allow for Shrinkage and Expansion Top Hatch Wren young Holstein Bum com-

bining In thunndvu the blood of cows which now
Increase Life of Roofing hold and have In u- put new World‘l Becordn for
50%. Save you 2-3 Labor

milk and butter-fut It Mr flees.
_ McPfim [Al 00.. Howell. Mlck.
Cost Less than Tin Gaps . . .
nsx YOUR DEALER. Sm”... he. 15 llolxletn flows. 6 llolsluu hurling Ilnlm.

Ill Holstein Bull calves Iran I. ll. 0.1km.
waglgngzgenailYtgflbrslg. APO. Pay your money and take your choice from my

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORTHERN GROWN BERKSHIRES for sale cheap—Yearling
sow with litter about ready to wean; three hours ready for
service, at. about pork prices: boar pigs. for winter service.
Need more room for fall litters. For cutalo and prices
address ROYCBOFT FARM. Sldnnw. lehlgan.

BERKSHIRES Eoififitli‘l L“u3'§'i‘llf“ch%ll2°i§fi

plgs. T. V. HICKS. B. N0. 11. Battle Creek. Mich.
f t

B ERKSH 1 RES ‘lm‘lfm $8.";

type andatralns. C. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac, Mich.

 

 

 

Berkshire—A few cholca full Gfltl bred for early far-
rowing and a choice lot of Spring Pigs with prices
right and the right brood. A. A. Pnltnllo, Decker-ville, Mich.

 

ADAMS BROS. thchfleld. Mich. breeders of Im-
proved (‘heater White and Tamworth swine.
Pigs, either breed, by m prlu Stu“ Fair winnorl. Buff Rock,
Buff Wynndotto eggs $1 per 15; W. Orpluston $3 per 15.

 

 

herd of 70. 1.. E. CORNELL. Fayette. 0H0.
IMPERIAL

BULL CALF from two
OLOD CRUSHER HOLSTElN but families of the
“a ROLLER breed. C. D. WOODBUBY. Lancing. Michlgnn.
PULVERIZER

Leads them all ! -30
HEREFORDS: torthfifufil’o‘ 193.3%”.
China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mich.

\ LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS
We hnve some splendld young bulls for sale. Some
of them are old enough for service. They are from
cows with records of 300 to 426 pounds of butter Inst
year. Write for deucrl tIon and prices.
COLON C. LIL IE. Cooper-ville. Mich.

SEND FOR KENT'

Ih so ERSEY BULL CALF born October 4th '09 Dam
l . '
c “GULARS a Pater n lig' 00' omo J gnve9.3861ba. milk In one year. test 5 to 555$. Bire'u
dam'a record 10,0601l‘a. milk in 10% months testfi 2-10

“ARV EY BOLSTEB spnllas per cent. The Murray-Waterman Co.. R. D. 6, Ann Arbor, Mich.

0R SALE—42 rogllterod Jerley Cows of St. Lambert and
island lll- 0d, f om 2 lo 10 years. all fresh or nearly to. Price
QIOI) each If taken u once. C. A. finite), 111'. D. 5.Fonton, Iich.

' BUTTER BRED ”aggregates
CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Sllver Creek. Allexun County. Mlchlaan.
. Register of Merit Jerseys. °“‘.§i§:,‘..¥;“"
T. F. MARS’I‘ON. Bay City. Michlcun.
DAIRY BBED SHORTHORNS. Can spare a few

Harness at Wholesale Prices! man‘s Eastman agar-natal?

 

      
    
     

 

 

 

 

 

Soon save their cost. Make every wagon a Iprln' A
wagon. therefore fruit. vegetables. this. no.
bring more IIIOIIOI. Ask for special pro' ’Jhlllfln.
um, Spring 00., mum s... 3.5... w».

     
  

  

 

 

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WC Can Save You MOMY- WITH BIG MILK RECORDS.
wi-Ite May for I copy of our TUBECULIN TESTED BY STATE VETERINARIAN.

 

——Sowu bred for Aug. and Sept.
lmPWVBd chad": furrow. Choice March and Apr.
fax-row. either sex also W. Wynndotte Eggs .1 for 15.

w. 0. WILSON. Okemos. Mlch. (Both Phones).

DUROC JERSEYS

CAREY u. Eumonns. Human. Michigan.

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DURUG JERSEYS 612.533.3333 ifiiffi 1.3331353
sows. Write for pnrticulnra. .l. U. BARNIJ. (30!de, Itch.

DUROC JERSEY HOGS 2’33;

for sale. I‘Iga In pairs not akin. ready to ship.
Mendowbrook Seed Farms. Willlumsport. O.

nunot: JERSEY SWINE. 8:693:21 egg. 1;.
for 16. .l. H. BANGHABT, Lansinl. Mich.
Chester Whites 3;: segments;

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y, Sept. 25th. WILL W. FISHER. Watervllet, Mich.

 

0. I. C. bred sows all sold. bg?,5..‘g‘;;
hand. GEORGE P. ANDREWS. Dauavllle. Mich.

O I C Hogs all ages. Bows bred.
. . - Males weighing 195 lbs.
and more. H. H. JUMP. Munlth. Michigan.
0 I c —For Gale a few choice pig: of March and

A prll furrow In pnlrs not akin. Satisfaction
guaranteed. A. Newman. Mariette. Mien. B. F. l). 1.

 

 

 

0 I C REGISTERED PIGS. 10 to 12
° - 0 weeks from World’s Fair winnetn.
Glenwood Stock Farm. Zeeland. Mlch. Phone 94.

 

HARNESS BARGAIN Catalog ROYCROFT FARI". Sldnnw. Mich.
—Two Jersey Bulls from

JOE'S HONEST lllllllEfl 00.. Clllll. MICHIGAN. FOR SAL at”... a... m money
kers. Flvin andJExilo of St. Lambert. blood.

F0 SALE

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FRED NOTTE . R. No. 4. Grass Lake. Michigan.
. HOR'I‘HORN cattle of both sexes at reasonable
Three royally bred Regjgteyed Percheron and one prices. I breed for both milk and beef. Comeor

standard bred rezlstered trotting stallions. Title is wrile~ T- 15- SOUTHWORTH, R. N0. 13. Box 13.A110n. Mich
a business proposition you cannot all'ord to miss ns
SHEEP.

they will he sold cheap I‘fMImn at once. Write to-
day for information or come “lid see lgem, MI h
Dr.N. A. WIIllama,Evergreeu arm. auger, c . —‘I‘l 9
Parsons Oxford Rams pogufif;
REGISTERED PERCHERONS For Sale—l mare big. dark faced rams will produce blgger and better
R 2-yr-old & 1 Stallion l-yr-old. greys. Stubblefield lambs. Grade X $15.00 XX $20.00. XXX $2500.
Register. M. A. Bray. Okemos Ingham (30.. Mich. BOMEYN C. PARSONS. Grand Ledge. Michigan.
W V ——H orses. Cattle. Sheep. Hogs. Dogs and Polled'
For saIe or Poultry. nearly all breeds. Sires OXfO rd- Down Sheep Durham
exchanged. Southwest Michigan Pedigreed “took cattle for sale. A.D.&J.A.DEGARMO. Muir, Mich

Association. R, E. Jennings. Sec.. Paw Paw. Mich.
#HfflH—W OXFORD DOWNS gummm
BREEBERS’ DIRECTORY. Bale. H. J. De GARMO. R. No.1. Clyde. Mich.

CATTLE 46 Rams and 100 ewes (reg) Rambouillets descended

from the best flocks. In erfec-t health
I in lots to suit. buyers. J. Q. A. COOK. Iorrice. Mich.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS - 0R SALE-70 Good Registered Shrop Elves. 20 year-

ling rams. 10 ram lambs. one ‘2—yr.~old stock ram
Herd headed by UNDULATA BLACKBIR." bred by Wardwell, I), E. Leland x: Son. R No. 9. Ann Arbor. Mich.
"‘0 83836. one of téne best‘aonaBoflPRIlicgeI'l‘g w—*~--—~—-—
50006 and Grand bump on n at the tro

imd aroma Rapids Fairs of 1907. I908 and 1909. Herd SHBOPSHIRE "ALL STocK F‘RM
consists of Erlcna. Blackbirda. Prince. etc. Will Imrort one hundred yearling ewes and 15 rams

In June for Michigan and the same for Boise. Idaho.
OODCOTE STOCK FARM' Ionln. Mloh. Branch of this Fnr'n. Will make a falr price on

yenxglng ewes (fll' r361". also on some aged ewes with
- Berk-hire swine. Eg a for lam 88” "P- or darn.

WSW" 3"" Calm. aettlnc. High bred 5.00... as. DURHAM canons. Concord. menu...
White & Buff Ornlnyztons. White & Barred Rocks.
Light Brahmas. White Lezhorns and Whlte Wynn-

L dottea :1 per 15. Mich. School for the Deaf. Flint. “065‘
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‘ NGUS and Pnlled Durham Bulls. Hampshire down. South-
. down, Cotswold sheep. Buy them at Kalamazoo. Grand - .
Rapids. a: Detroit State Fair. JAS. H. HALL. Port Austin. Mich.

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3 Have fine lot of nprlng pigs of both sexes. Few
l GUERNSEYs—RULL CALVES. young now: for full furrow. Vlzoroua and strong.

Herd tuberculln the type for profitable pork production. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. F. A. BYWATEB. Memphis, Mich.

 

 

 

tented. ALLAN KELSEY. Lnkov‘hw. Mich.

 

0 I C REGISTERED PIGS March and
0 o - April litters. Pairs not akin.
HENRY RIG'I‘ERINK. Hamilton. Mich.

 

O I C —EPRING PIGS and a few BBED
- 0 - BOWB at reasonable prices.

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Mlch.
FOR SALE—4 P. C. boars ready for nervlce.

Eggs
for hatching & prize wInnIng Regal White dc Col-
umblan Wynndotten. Zach Klnne. Three Oaks.Mlch.

“REE TYPE POLAND CHINAS—Lnrgeat In

Mich. Booking orders for pigs to
be shipped at 4 to 5 mos. of age. Write for weights
and measurements. W. E. Livingston. Pnrmn.MIch.

POLAND-CHINAs-gggg gangs;
to ship. WOOD an SONS. Sallie. Mink.

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PI 0- PIGS Mrlgu’orodn “egg: r031.5lt‘10peli' 1%.
R. W. MILLS. Saline. Mlchllnn.

Poland Chinaszfzzi‘ltfi“: If: All:

price. B. M. WING & SON. Bherdlnu. Mlchlgnn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

' ——Large ntlled. early spring pigs and
Poland-China: older sows bred. Also Short'horn
calves. Prices right. Robert Neve. Pierson. Mlch.

For Sale--5IIII 532:. Yorkshire

Wonned Plus each $5.00.
BROWN’S PIG FARM. Grand Rapids. Mich.

Latgn Improved English Yorkshlus.

The hogs that make good. September gilt: bred to

furrow next August or September. Bptlnz pigs of

either sex. Pairs not akin. Satisfaction guaranteed.
COLON C. LILLIE. Cooperavllle. Mlch.

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[POULTRYM BEES}

 

 

SOME I-FEEDING QUERIES.

-In a. recent Farmer I saw an item in
regard to feeding hens that were moult-
ing. In it, oatmeal, bran and wheat
screenings were recommended, together
with hemp seed. The question is whether
this should be fed in hoppers, where the
fowls are allowed to run to it all the
time, or given to them one to three times
a day. Are the self—feeding hoppers rec-
ommended for Barred Rock poultry?

I have upwards of 100 spring chicks;
have kept them in a pen 16x26 feet until
now I am letting them out in the big
yard around the house for more natural
feed and exercise. I have fed mostly on
wheat screenings, with a little raw rice
at times, keeping bran, charcoal and pure
clean water always before them. Some
of them do not feather out? A few look
badly for want of feathers—eight weeks
old and their feathers nearly as scarce
as their teeth.

\Vhat is the best and cheapest feed for
young chicks at this age for quick devel-
opment and fattening. Should coarse
grain and preventatives be given them in
hoppers with divisions, or should such
foods as corn, oats, rice, barley. wheat,
etc., be fed at intervals of a few days
or weeks?

Calhoun Co. T. H. H.

The advice referred to was good so far
as it went. The products named make
a good mixture, but it is not considered
advisable to feed this or any other ration
in hoppers until the moulting period is
fairly well along. The general practice
among poultrymen who give such mat—
ters thought and attention, is to feed
very lightly for a week or two before the
moult. Some go so far as to maintain that
moulting can be induced somewhat earlier
than it would naturally occur by thus re-
ducing the ration, and that the period
will be shortened, the fowls losing their
feathers more rapidly because the food
given is not sufficient to supply all the
demands of the system, and the feathers
are first to show the effect of such short-
age. They also hold that the fowls will
grow the new feathers faster if they
receive a ration that is above the normal
in quantity and nutrition, consequently
when the new feathers start the ration is
increased and added to until the fowls
are receiving an unusual amount of nutri—
ment. At this time the grain mixture
used could be given in self-feeding hop-
pers»_ to good advantage .since it would
sakig'QJQme‘jime and labOr in feeding. But,
fowls that are growing feathers need a
good lot of protein. consequently must
have something more than a. grain mix-
ture. Skim—milk in liberal quantities is
good. Meat scraps, or green bone, gluten
feed ‘or oil meal, or some similar food
rich in protein should be given two or
three times a week at least. Sunflower
seed is a good and cheap source of pro—

. THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

The chicks that are not feathering prop—
erly do not receiVe enough protein. Now
that they have the run of the yard and
can probably get 'hold of worms and in-
sects they will no doubt do better. Give
them sweet skim-milk to drink and an
occasional feed of some of the protein
foods named above.

A mixture of ground oats, ground corn
and cracked wheat or wheat screenings
makes a good food for growing chicks,
and is comparatively cheap. It may be
fed in hoppers. With it should go an
abundance and variety of green stuff,
with allowances of protein foods suffi—
ciently frequent to balance the liberal
quantities of grain which they will con-
sume. A fairly well-balanced ration is
necessary to proper development and
growth, but when they reach the stage at
which you desire to fatten them, confine
them to a smaller yard or pen, increase
the proportion of corn in the grain mix-
ture and gradually diminish the allow-
ances of protein or muscle-making feeds.

EXPERIENCE JOTTINGS.

 

Thinks Cracknels Worth One Cent per
Pound.

In reply to your recent request for re-
ports on the use of cracknels for chicken
feed, will say that I used all the crack-
nels from last winter’s killing of two
hogs, grinding them up in a food chop-
per and feeding about 1 lb. daily to 29
barred Rocks, with other foods. The
egg yield was increased, if anything, and
had the food been pressed free from
lard I believe it would have made still
better feed. I regard it as a good feed
for winter use, estimating its value for
layers at 10 per lb. or thereabouts. I
would like to hear from others who have
used them on a larger scale.

Your paper seems to be getting better
every issue. or else I'm learning to appre-
ciate it more. Take your choice.

Berrien Co. B. G. BAUCH.

Another Way of Preserving Eggs.

I have used eggs that had been packed

for six months and found they had kept

well. My method of preserving them is
to first dip the eggs in boiling water,
leaving them only a few seconds—just

long enough to count five—and then pack
them in salt or bran, in fact anything
that will keep them from cracking. This
process closes the pores, the air is out,
the eggs will be good when you come to
use them and there is no expense attached
to this method.
'Gd. Traverse Co. OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Home Remedy for Turkeys and Geese.
When your hen turkeys or geese get the
dumps, as I call it, when they sit around
and will not eat or follow the rest of

the flock, give a tablespoonful of good

A MICHIGAN WOMAN'S SUCCESS IN
BEE-KEEPING.

 

Many farm women make butter, raise
poultry and eggs, and in various ways
Seek to earn an income. but few keep
bees. Yet apiculture offers a pleasant,
profitable employment for them, and, to
the woman thrown upon her own re~
sources, would furnish an easy means of
gaining a livelihood. It works in espe-
cially well with fruit growing. It is in—
teresting and fascinating, and no more
difficult to learn than poultry raising, and
the bee sting can be eliminated by using
the bee-veil, gloves and smoker. Bees
require practically no care during the
Winter months when outdoor work is so
cold and tedious, but these days may be
used in the bee—house in preparing the
supers with sections and foundation, and
in putting together the new hives for
the increase of swarms the following sum-
mer.

Mrs. O. E. Gibson, of Saginaw Co, a
half-tone cut of whose apiary accompanies
this article, is one of the few successful
women apiarists of Michigan. Her apiary
has 115 colonies, almost all in chaff hives.
They were wintered in these hives, sitting
on their present stands, with a loss of
only three swarms. This apiary is run
almost entirely for comb honey and, with
less than 100 colonies in 1909, produced
upwards of $700 worth. This year she
has started another apiary of 35 swarms
in dovetailed hives and will run it for
extracted honey. The new apiary is lo-
cated five miles north of the old.

Mrs. Gibson‘s experience in wintering
bees in chaff hives, and in the single-
walled hives packed in sawdust in long
rows, is decidedly in favor of the chaff
hives.
ence. however,
the wrong hives

to the bees getting into
after a winter flight,
causing confusion and starting robbing.
This was probably due to the bees not
properly locating their new positions when
moved to be packed, and to the hives
being so close together in the rows. She
will pack them the same way another
winter, but will contract the entrances of
the hives more, and take precautions to
compel the bees to locate their new posi-
tions.

I noted in the apiary a novel methodl

of transferring. She had a half dozen
swarms, purchased in old box hives. They
were turned bottom side~up, the bottom-
boards removed, and new dove-tailed
hives, also with bottoms removed, were
placed upon them with full sheets of
foundation in the frames. All cracks
were closed excepting the entrance to the
old hive, which would be between the
two. The old comb being bottom side
up. with plenty of room above, the bees

 

 

Apiary of 115 Colonies Operated by Mrs. C. E. Gibson, of Saginaw Co.

tein for those who grew a crop of it last
season, and is excellent for fowls that
are growing feathers. Feeds of this kind
which do not spoil easily if kept dry
might be given in hoppers, as the fowls
would thus get all they want, balancing
the ration themselves. Self-feeding hop—
pers are all right for Barred Rocks or
any other breed so long as they do not
interfere with the fowls securing the re-
quired amount of exercise. They must
not be made to depend upon the contents
of the hopper entirely for sustenance.

lard or any grease you may have, and

they will eat their breakfast with the

others. MRS. E. \V. H.
Likes Old Treatment for Gapes.

I have been much interested in various
cures for gapcs, but Will say that the
removal of the gape—worm with the tiny
web of a soft feather is absolutely certain
to cure 99 out of 100 if skilfully used.
As the worm clings with one head to the
interior of the windpipe. any other method
is not certain to remove the cause.

PRISCILLA PLUM.

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Bee-house in the Background.

will carry all honey gathered into the
new hive, and all from the old hive also.
The queen will lay all eggs there, and

as soon as the larvac in the old comb
hatch the bees will abandon the old hive.
in three weeks’ time the swarm should
be entirely in the new hive. Then it
may be lifted and placed upon its bottom—
board, and the old hive removed. Trans—
ferring in this manner can. be done any
time in the spring after the honey flow
begins.
Ogemaw Co.

 

H. B. FULLER.

She attributes much of this differ—j

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REDUCING FEED COST.

 

I am living in a limestone section where
alfalfa flourishes, even when only ordi-
nary care is given to its cultivation. It
grOWS well in high places and low places,
in rich soil and rather poor soil, and it
certainly looks as if lime was a greater
factor in the successful growing of a1-
i‘alfa than either the preparation of the
soil or the character of the soil itself
outside of its lime content.

Eight years ago alfalfa was practically
unknown here, but now this plant seems
so essential that farmers are beginning
to wonder how they could continue in the
dairy business without it. It is a great
feed, rich and palatable, and liked by all
classes of farm stock. It does away to a
large extent with the purchase of con-
centrated feeds, which are not only stead-
ily advancing in price but are also becom—
ing poorer in quality. Good alfalfa ‘hay
'has been proven to be equal to wheat
bran, pound for pound, as a feed for dairy
cows.

But the beauty about alfalfa is its yield.
Even in this extraordinarily dry season,
the yield has averaged close to three
tons per acre and in good seasons the
yield averages close to five tons to the
acre. No farmer can afford to dismiss
the subject of alfalfa growing until he
has given it a good trial.

With rich corn silage and alfalfa ‘hay,
the cost of feeding cows I believe is only
about one-half of what it would be with-
out them. Not only is each a cheap and
high—class milk producer, but when fed

cattle feeding. It is remarkable how
if anything may be discovered soon that

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Silos are nowadays springing up every-
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dairymen are realizing «that a valuable
asset they are upon dairy farms. It is
not so well understood, however, that

silage should be put up for summer as

Well as for winter use. The men who
offer the least complaint about dry *w'eath-
er this summer are those who have ‘had
silage to feed and there are lots of them
to be found, though the number who pro-
vide silage for summer feeding constitute
but a small per cent of the total number
using silos.

There seems to be a. somewhat prevail-
ing misconception as to the actual amount
of nutrients contained in a hundred
pounds of corn silage. Many have an
idea that a cow that receéves all the
silage she will cat, will have an ample
allowance of feed for milk producfion.
This is a mistaken notion. Think of the
amount of water there is in silage as
compared with hay: From the stand-
point of actual nutrients per one hundred
pounds of feed, silage ranks low because
of the amount of moisture contained in
, it. The economy of feeding silage is found
.chiefly in the enormous yields per acre
and its 'succulence and palatability,

Straw undoubtedly will be a valuable
feed next winter owing to the shortage in
the feed supply. Oat straw especially is
valuable and should be kept under shel-
ter. Even wheat straw will be appre-
ciated next winter as a valuable substi-
tute for—~well—perhaps nothing.

It is well also, to remember that it is
economy to feed corn stover shredded.
Fortunately the larger dairymen now
have their corn husked by machinery
which shreds the stover at the same time,
But probably those mostly in need of
shredded stover next winter have not been
in the habit of having it shredded and it
will pay them to use hand shredders. if
they can do no better. Too much stover
is wasted when fed unshredded.

Wisconsin. JOHN MICHELS.

 

 

WELL FAILS—COWS FALL OFF ON
MILK.

 

Some time ago there was run in these
columns an account of the effect of in-
stalling in the barns of a prominent Mich-
igan dairyman individual fountains for
the cows. Beginning with the instilation
the cows began to improve in the quan—
tity of milk. We were impressed with a
similar result, only that ours worked in
the opposite direction. Our well at the
barn “went dry.” The back pasture field
‘has a good spring and the cattle must

 

go 'to it for their supply or drink from
a creek. the water of which they do not

together, make a rare combination for.

these feeds have cut down the cost of:
producing milk and we sometimes wonder‘

should be made in these barns.

appear to like. However, they will take
the water from the creek in preference
to walking to the back pasture for the
better spring water. As a result of this
di‘scomfiture of the animals they appear.
not to get the water they should have,
and the milk has been falling off from
the time the well at the barn gave out.
Other examples also go to show that the
water supply, handy for the animals, is
not a matter to be slighted by the wise
dairyman. He can well afferd to do it‘
for the animals will respond better at;
the pail, besides they will keep in better
health than when they have not the
necessary amount of moisture to digest
their food, keep up the supply of fluids of
the body and to provide for the proper
distribution of foods to all parts of the
body.

TESTING MILK—CAUTIONS AND REM-
EDIES.

 

Dairymen who are up with the calendarl
can go among their cows and point out
with positiveness which of the animals,
are good earners and which are poor.
Their word is not to be questioned for,
they tell you that this cow produced so
many pounds of milk which tested such
and such per cent. That little Babcock
tester .has been used. More dairymen are
using the testers every week. They are
getting popular. But because of the pou-
ularity they often get in incompetent
hands. The testing is simple and is not
beyond the ability of the very ordinary
farm hand to perform, providing 'he be
careful. The college man, on the other
hand, will get inaccurate results if 'he is
careless about the measurements of milk
and acid. The Missouri experiment sta-
tion has issued a leaflet in which they
give some helpful advice to the tester.
“'e are appending herewith some cautions
and remedies which the author has found
needs especial attention. Here they are:

If a sample coagulates before testing,
start a new one adding a few drops more
formalin than at first.

Sulphuric acid destroys clothing and
burns the flesh, so handle it with care.
If spilled on the hands, wash off with
water at once.

Keep the bottles ‘h-ot while testing, and
they must be 'hot when the reading is
taken. If they become cold, place them
in hot water up to within an inch of the
top of the neck and leave for five minutes
before reading.

If the test has been properly conducted,
the fat column will be clear with no sedi-
ment present either below or above. If a
white, cheesy sediment shows under the
fat column, use a little more acid next
time. White foam on top of the fat col-
umn is usually caused by hard water and
may be avoided by using rain water.

If the fat column is dark or has black
sediment below the fat, use less acid or
cool the milk.

Keep the acid bottle tightly stopped
with a glass or rubber stopper, as sul-
phuric acid absorbs water from the air
and consequently becomes weaker,

In emptying test bottles, first pour out
one-half the contents and shake the re-
mainder vigorously to loosen the sedi-
ment on the bottom of the bottle. This
saves labor in cleaning the bottles as the
svdilllellt is very difficult to remove, if
allowed to dry on the bottom of the bot—
tie.

Keep the neck of the test bottle clean
with a brush.

It is advisable to keep a few extra bot-
ties. one or two extra pipettes and acid
measures on hand.

BETTER STABLE LIGHTING NEEDED.

 

Prof. Plumb, of Ohio, on a trip through
Michigan made an examination of the
dairy barns between Plymouth and Lan—
sing not long ago and found upon ar-
ranging them into three classes that out
of 189 barns 130 showed no windows at
all, 56 had very few windows and three
were fairly well supplied. This does not
speak loudly for the progressiveness of
Michigan farmers if they are aware of
the importance of light in the stables. In
the great battle against tuberculosis the
health of our cows must not be over-l
looked. And in the fight to cut down the
mst of and improve the quality of our
milk product the health of our cows can-
not be disregarded. Light influences
health. It kills disease germs, sweetens
the air and gives the animal a. chance.
Before the animals are taken to the win-
ter quarters, holes to let in the light
Put in
windows, keep them clean so the light

 

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RENEWING THE STRAWBERRY BED.

 

 

 

 

The first operation after the picking
is over is to mow the vines, using the
mowing machine if the .bed is larg
enough to warrant it, and the scythe if it
is not.

The next step with us is to rake the
mulch and dried foliage and stems from
the bed. We use a horse rake to get the
bulk of this raked up. As we use marsh
bay for mulching there is considerable of
this material, and last year we tried us—
ing it again instead of piling it around
trees in sod, as has been our custom,
and could see no bad results from its
use, though from a sanitary point of view
it would not be permissible where fun—
gous diseases were bad. It is also quite
fine from the tramping of the pickers,
and will not go as far as new hay. We
use the new hay on the new beds, re-
serving the old hay for those that are
renewed.

After raking all we can with the horse
rake we haul this and then go over the
bed again to clean up the balance. The
mulch is tramped down so flat between
the rows that the :horse rake will not
pick all of it-up unless it is loosened.
Neither will the teader reach all of it
without striking into the ground. We
have found the quickest way is to go
along with a fork and turn the hay which
remains in the lower places between the
rows up over the rows where the horse
rake can catch it, and a second raking
will take it clean. If one has but a. small
patch it can be cleaned off nicely with
the hand rake.

Some practice burning the beds instead
of raking off the mulch. We used to do
this, but have lost so many plants by
the practice that we have discontinued
it. It also sets the patch back some-
what, as t'he younger leaves which start
as soon as the plants are mowed will be
burned, necessitating the forming of
more. The advantages of burning are
that it is more sanitary, and that the bed
is more easily cleaned out in this way.

After the bed is cleaned of rubbish the
next operation is to work up all the
groug'dn ,outfithe plants, removing all
weeds and leaving a dust mulch over the
entire bed. If the bed is small, this may
be done by hand. If larger, at cultivator
may be used to tear up'the ground be-
tween the rows, finishing between the
plants'with the hoe. If the bed is large
and the rows long, a good implement 18
a one-horse plow, which is set about four
inches deep and run along each side of
the row so as to throw a furrow from
the row. If the rows are too wide they
may be narrowed in this way by cutting
into the row a little. This will leave a
backfurrow between each two rows. If
we are going to fertilize the bed, now
is a good time to scatter fine manure
over it, much of which will find its way
to the furrows by the side of the rows,
where it may be reached by the roots.
‘Ve usually leave the fertilizing until we
have dragged down the ridges with the
spike tooth harrow and partially filled
the furrows, then if we have fine manure
which is free from seeds, we put this
directly over the rows by means of a
row attachment to the manure spreader,
and hoe it in when working out the rows
about the plants.

Next comes some good solid work with
hoes, cleaning out the weeds about the
plants and loosening up the soil. This is
best done when the ground is moist, as it
is apt to be very firm when it is dry.
A hoe with a narrow blade, about four
inches, and with two prongs at the back
for picking up the ground is the handiest
tool we have found for this work.

Where the plants were layered the pre-
vious year they are already spaced prop-
erly, and it will not be necessary to thin
them out or induce runners to set_ simply
work around the .old plants and keep the
runners cut. If the plants are too thick
it will be well to thin them out. with
the hoe to ‘from six to ten inches, so as to
give room to work around them and allow
the plant sufficient space to develop.

The subsequent treatment is to keep
the patch clean, by cultivation and hoe-
ing, and to keep surplus runners cut.

Calhoun Co. S. B. HARTMAN.

CONTROLS STRIPED BEETLES.

 

'As I have been a raiser of cucumbers
for a number of years, perhaps I can give
a little experience which may help Mr.
Hartman. In the first place my ground

is made rich by a liberal application of
barnyard manure every winter, and also
the hen manure which I think very valu-

'sequently the best way to get an orchard

THE MICHIGAN FARMER. (7)

able for the garden. I plow the ground
early and keep it worked till about June
10 or 15; have planted as late as the 20th,
getting an abundant crop. I mark the
ground with my corn marker, which
marks three feet apart. I plant on every
other mark, making the hills 6 feet apart
each way, and putting from.8 to 12 seeds
in a hill and covering one-half inch deep,
taking pains not to get the seed too deep,
as it is a tender seed and will not germi-
nate if it is planted too far down. As
soon as the plants are up I use insect
powder, sifting it on them while wet with
dew, and have never been troubled with
the striped bug. I then start the culti-
vator and hoe, and keep it up till the
vines cover the ground. I sell my cu-
cumbers in the local markets, getting 250
a hundred for the small size pickles.
Branch C0. D. B. SCRIPTON.
Another's Experience.

We have been raising cucumbers on a
black loam soil, and as this is our first
experience we have been using other peo—
ple’s advice.

Some time ago I read an article about
how to keep the cucumber beetle away
from the vines, and after trying it I find
it successful. It said to transplant a
small onion in each hill. Our vines are
strong and healthy and unless the soil
has something to do with it I can see no
reason why it would not keep the beetles
away in other places as well.

Kalamazoo Co. H. E. GUCHESS.

 

GETTING LOW HEADED TREES.

 

I shall set out about 60 standard apple,
pear and plum trees next spring, and I
desire to know whether I can cut them
back so that they will branch about four
feet from the ground, or even less? I do
not want to do unnecessary climbing when
it comes to gathering fruit. I have heard
much said about the advantage of dwarf
trees.

Emmet Co. GIDEON NOEL.

The desirable low-headed trees are eas-
iest produced when one can get the nurs-
ery stock from the nursery without its
being pruned ”up” to sell. But the fact
that one has stock that is pruned high
does not destroy his hope of getting low-
‘headed trees, for if pruning the top back
heavily does not stimulate adventitious
buds to start lower down and develop
into main branches where they are want-
ed, it is not a difficult matter to insert
buds into the bark of the young stock at

 

 

the desired point for starting such a
branch. These, of course, are measures
that the ordinary man would not care to
undertake, although they are by no means
beyond his ability to perform; and con-

with low tops is to get the trees with
branches started low in the nursery. Our
correspondent states that he wants his
tops about four feet or less. Today four
feet is considered a high top, and the
average nursery stock will give him tops
at this height. It would be our advice
that ‘he start the tops less than four feet,
even two feet would not be amiss. Low-
headed trees are not dwarfed in the sense
that that term is used in horticulture,
but are only standard trees with the
tops brought nearer to the ground that
the work may be easier performed and
the evil effects of winds and storms re—
duced.

 

CABBAGE LlCE CONTROLLED.

Would you kindly state through the
columns of your paper what is good to
kill lice on cabbage? Is sweet clover
good to plow under for fertilizer?

A READER.

Cabbage lice are much affected by sea-
sons, some years they are plentiful be—
cause the natural enemies are scarce,
while other years they are few because
they fail to hatch abundantly, and other
predatory insects and fungi are ready to
devour those that develop. This season
has been rather favorable for the insect,
and so complaints are coming to the of-
fice of its work, not alone on cabbage,

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Driving along it will be observed that some fields of

wheat

are much better than others, although the soil may be the same and
the farmers had an equal chance to obtain the same results. The
good field would probably thresh 35 bushels of wheat to the acre,
while the other farmer will get about 20 bushels from the poor field.
He will be lucky to get that much.

Now the question is, in normal seasons who is to blame for
the short crop? No one but the farmer himself. He pockets the
loss and struggles along away behind his wide—awake competitor,
constantly complaining about short crops and hard times, because
he cannot compete with those farmers who produce their crop at less
cost. Therefore, it should be the aim of every farmer to get out of
the soil all that it can bear. Every bushel raised in excess of normal
production means a pure gain and gives him an advantage over his
competitors, and this can be accomplished only by the liberal ap—

plication of our

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Some Fertilizers are better than others. Yes, very much better.
There are inferior goods on the market. Competition from that a
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We have gotten up for farmers, free plans, instructions and speci-
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a concrete porch and steps. You and your hired man can make these
things yourselves at slight expense, and make them with concrete which
is everlasting, fireproof, sanitary and economical. Sidewalks are no
longer solely for the city people. Progressive farmers all over the
country are surrounding their houses with concrete sidewalks and are
putting concrete floors into their barns, cribs, granaries and other farm
buildings. Anything constructed of concrete is a permanent improve-
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but on other crops as well,
Keep the garden clean and give the'
plants good culture. They need vigor to
overcome the attacks of the hungry lice.
If water is forced upon the plants in a.
strong stream by means of a force pump
the damage from the insect can often be)
fully mitigated. Where this fails from
repeated applications, spray with kerosene/
emulsion, the making of which has been
many times described in these columnsl
This preparation should not be adminis«
tered afterthe heads are well developed:
but can be used with a great deal of
certainty of controlling the pest during;
the early life of the crop and up to within l
a short time of its maturity. Another
remedy is whale oil soap, which is ap-i

emulsion. Sweet clover is all right to,
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CURRENT COMMENT.

 

Frequent mention has been
Co-operation made in these columns of
in England. the growth of co-operation
amongr producers, and the
desirability of its general development
throughout the country as a medium for
the marketing of the products of the
farms. Mention has been made of the
example afforded by the farmcrs of the
little country of Denmark in this direc—
tion and gratifying reports have been
published from time to time of the prop:-
ress made in the organization and uncr-
zition of co-Opcrativc enterprises by the
farmers of this country. But there are
many persons who believe that the co-
operative enterprises organized by the
farmers for the marketing of their prod-
ucts should go further in the process of
distribution and thus enable the farmers
to soil their products direct to the con-
sumers and thus climinatc the middleman
and his charges entirely. This. liowcvcr,
has appeared to be impractical where it
has been tried, and in this country. as in
othcrs, those co—opcrativc organizations
which have been developed along com-
munity lines of production and distribu—
icd the products grown through the reg-
ular channels of trade have uniformly
proven the most successful. Thus for the
present, at lcast, until the co-opcrzitivc
principle has been fully developed and
applied along the lincs :ibovc suggested,
it Would seem the part of wisdom for
Amcricz'in producers to coniine their cf-
l‘oris to co-operativc selling in bulk rather
than direct to the consumer.

But pcrhaps the ideal condition of rif-
f:iirs would be Tt‘itt‘lle through the simi—
lar organization of consumers, who would
buy in bulk through their organization
from the co—operativc organizations of
producers, thus saving at both (-nds of
the line and bringing producers and con-
sumers closer togctlicr to the advantage
of both. Co—operation of this kind has
found its highest development in Eng-
land. where large communities are main-
taincd on the co—opcrativc basis. In some
of these communities the co—operative
plan is carried into manufacturing indus-
tries as well as the distribution of the
necessities of life. One of the largest

shoe factories in England is conducted
on a co-operative basis, while co-opera-
tive organizations among workingmcn for
the distribution of necessary supplies are

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

common. Not the least of the benefits
to come from this kind of co-oneration
is that all members are required to pay
for the goods purchased in cash, which
fact undoubtedly makes for economy and
thrift among the membership and in-
creases their purchasing power so far as
the essentials‘of life are concerned in
no small degree. Just now this plan of
co—operation among workingmen is at.-
tracting some attention in this country,
as is evidenced by its being included
among the subjects of lectures given at
Chautauqua. Of course, any movement
of this kind is bound to be slow in its de-
velopment, as the development of the co-
operative principle‘ among producers has
been slow, but it is a matter for con-
gratulation that the idea is taking root
in this country. The co-ordinate devel-
opment of co-operative selling by pro-
ducers and co-operative buying by con-
sumers would certainly be an advantage
to the producers of the country, as it
would solve the vexed problem of bring-
ing producers and consumers into closer
touch, and would eliminate a large per—
centage of the present high cost of distri-
bution.
Due to the efforts of the
A Crusade U. S. Department of Ag-
Against Rats. riculture and the agitation
of the subject in the agri—
cultural press of that section, a crusade
against the rat nuisance has been started
in the New England states. It is more
than likely that this crusade, like previous
efforts toward the extermination of rats
in towu and country communities, will
prove to be spasmodic and soon die out.
However, the annual loss from the de-
predations of rats on the average farm
undoubtedly runs up into a larger sum
than tho average farmer is aware. But
it is a leak which goes on under the cover
of darkness and which is generally so
gradual that it is not given the attention
which it merits by the average person.
Yet it is a leak which is worthy of our
careful thought and attention and which
we can not afford to overlook. The var-
ious well known methods of ridding the
premises of these pests should not be neg-
lected, but probably the greatest degree
of immunity from their deprcdations can
bc secured by proper methods 'of building,
which will exclude them from granaries.
cellars and storehouscs which may con-
tain grain, fruit or vcgetablcs which may
be eaten or ruined by these troublesome
rodents. The American people are too
busy with larger affairs to take the con—
certed action to get rid of the rat pest
which has been adopted in some of the
more thickly populated countries of Eu-
rope, but it would certainly be the part
of wisdom to take every precaution to
protect their property and premises from
their depredations so far as is practicable.
and modern materials and methods of
building make this an easy matter when
the farm buildings are being constructed
or remodeled.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

Foreign.

An aero race between eight flying ma.-
chines started from Paris on the Seventh.
The course is 485 miles longr and ex-
tends from Paris through Troyes, Nancy,
Mezieres, Charlesville, Douai and Amcins
to Paris again where the racc will end.
Six of the eight machines covered the
first 85 miles of the trip.

The political situation in Cuba on the
eve of the fall elections does not look
good to those who have given conditions
there a study. The lottery bill passed
by congress a short time ago to furnish
funds for the government has failed to
produce the revenue expected. Many
small parties have sprung up and 0thch
are being organized for the coming clcc-
iions. This condition alone makes the
future of the island government look
dark. and there docs not appear a real
hopcful mark on the political horizon.

The relations of Spain with the papal
powers at Rome continues to be the big
qucstion 0f the country and the church,
and the occurrencos of thc past few days
reveals a very bitter spirit between the
progressive element of Spain and the
conservativcs or clci'icals. At San Schuy-
tian thc past week it bccame ncccssnry
to call out the troops to prevent rioting
between the Opposing elements. The
queen mother and the royal children are
stationcd there.

At Tcheran, Pcrsia, nationalists are
trying to gain control of the government
and an zirmcd conflict bctwccn tho federal
troops and insurgents resulted in many
casualties and the latter being routed
from their position in the northern 'part
of the city. .

Japanese troops are being opposed in
Formosa by the nativcs, but in spite of
a strong front. the natives have been
compelled to give way and many points
of advantage are now in the hands of the
Japanese.

The government forces in Honduras
were repulsed in an engagement fought
at Pedro Pentada, a small place seven
miles from Ceiba.

An official of the Swedish government
is in America. with the hope that he

 

might discover something of the fate of
the Andree balloon and its pilots who
started from. the most, northerly point of
Spitzenburg in 1897. Reports {have come
down from the‘ northern part of North
America that Indians have reported see-
ing a big ship floating through the air.
and that many have been in possession of
ropes and other materials that corres-
ponded with those of the balloon in which
the explorer sailed. The official is about
to investigate these reports and deter-
mine, if he can, what became of the cour-
ageous explorer.
National.

The collision of a passenger train with
a. locomotive and a caboose on the North—
western Pacific railway out of San Fran-
cisco to Santa Barbara resulted in thir-
teen deaths. The accident occurred at a.
sharp curve. A mistake in orders was
the direct cause.

The national meeting of the Knight
Templars is in session in Chicago this
week.

A broad plan for the establishment of
stations at different points where expert
men will be ready in case of mine disaster
is now being realized by the placing of
the stations. It is the purpose of the de—
partment to insure mining interests and
particularly men working in mines to the
greatest extent possible. By bringing the
most expert men available and keeping
them at the stations ready for service the
department believes the purpose can be
best attained.

A proclamation has been issued by the
governor of Louisiana for the assembling
of the legislature of that state to vote
upon the issuing of bonds for the support

of the Panama exposition planned to be,

held in 1915.

The state tax commission has caused
the valuation of property in the state to
be raised $75,000,000, over $50,000,000 of
which has been added to the property of
cities of more than 10,000 population.

The cash balance in the state treas-
urer’s hands on the first of August was
$1,250,225.54, as compared with $52,810.61,
the amount on hand a. year ago.

As the result of the law passed by the

last legislature requiring judges of pro- -

bate to report as to whether patients for
admission to state asylums have any
property has been an efficient aid to the
state in collecting for the maintenance of
those institutions.

It is stated that the census figures tak-
en this spring will be compiled by the
government clerks by the middle of Oc-
tober. It is forecasted that the popula-
tion of the country will approximate 90,-
000,000 pcople.

The enlisted strength of the army for
the year has been fixed at 87,000 men.

According to the arrangement of the
navy department the battleship VVashing-
t0n_ the largcst of its kind, will make the
trip. about Cape Horn made by the Oregon
during the Spanish—American war.

The big battleship Delaware is now in
the North Atlantic trying out her ma-
chinery preparatory to the inspection by
the government for acceptance.

The 56th annual meeting of the inter-
national typographical union is in session
at Minneapolis this week.

A monument to the memory of the
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Prov-
incetown on November 11, 1620, was dedi-
cated last week at that place. President
Taft was present and gave an address in
which he eulogized the early pioneers.

An attempt is being made to corner the
stock of the D. U. R. electric lines cen-
tered in Detroit.

Navigation was practically brought to
a standstill by a gale over Lake Erie last
Friday. For eight hours boats were
held up.

The Pacific steamer Princess May went
down in the Lynn canal north of Juneau,
Alaska, during a dense fog.

 

NATiONAL CROP—REPORT.

 

The average condition of corn on Au-
gust 1 was 79.3, as compared with 85.4
last month, 84.4 on August 1, 1909, and
82.1 the average on August 1 for the past
ten ycars.

Preliminary returns indicate a winter
\vhcat yield of about 15.8 bushels per
acre, or a total of about 458,294,000 bus-h—
cls, as compared with 15.8 and 446,366,000
bushels, respectively, as finally estimated
last year. The average quality of the
crop is 92.6. against 90.3 last year.

The average condition of spring Wheat
on August 1 was 61.0, as compared with
61.6 last month, 916 on August 1, 1909,
and 81.9 the tcn-ycar average on Aug. 1.

The average condition of the oat crop
on August 1. was 81.5, as compared with
82.2 last month, 85.5 on August 1, 1909,
76.8 on August 1, 1908, and 82.6 the ten-
ycar average on August 1.

The proportion of last year’s oat crop
in farmers’ hands on August 1 was about
6.3 per cent, or 63,249,000 bushels, as
compared with 3.3 per cent (26,323,000
bushcls) of the 1908 crop on hand August
1. 1909. and 5.8 per cent (50,394,000 bush-
cls), the average proportion on hand for
the past ten years on August 1,

The average condition of barley on Au-
gust 1 was 70.0, as compared with 73.7
last month, 85.4 on August 1, 1909, 83.1
on August 1, 1908, and 85.3 the ten-year
average on August 1. About 7,263.000
bushels, or 4.3 per cent of the 1909 crop
was on farms August 1

The preliminary estimate of the area
of rye harvested is 1.7 per cent less than
last year. The preliminary estimate of
yicld per acre is 16.3, against 16.1 bushels
last year, 16.4 bushels in 1908, and a ten-
year average of 16.0 bushels. The indi-
cated total production is 32,088,000 bush-
els, against 32,239,000 finally estimated in
1009 and 31,851,000 bushels in 1908. The
quality of the crop is 92.7, against 92.9
last year.

The acreage of buckwheat is about 816,-
000 acres or 2.2 per cent (18,000 acres)
less than last year. The condition of the
crop on August 1 was 87.9, as compared
with 86.4 last year, 89.4 two years ago,

AUG. 13. 1910.

and 91.1 the ten-year average on Aug. 1.

The average condition of white potatoes
on August 1 was 75.8,, as compared with
86.3 last month, 85.8 on August 1, 1909.
82.9 on August 1, 1908. and 86.0 the ten-
year average on August I. '

The average condition of flat on Au-
gust 1 was 51.7, as compared with 65.0
last month, 92.7 on August 1, 1909, 86.1
on August 1, 1908, and 88.4 the average
on August 1 for the past seven years.

The preliminary estimate of the acreage
of hay is 45,005,000 acres, or 1.6 per cent
(739,000 acres) less than last year. The
average condition of the hay crop on Au-
gust 1, was 83.0, as compared with 80.2
last month, 86.8 on August 1, 1909, 92.1
on August 1, 1908, and a ten-year average
on August 1 of approximately 87.2.

The condition of the apple crop on Au-
gust 1 was 47.8, as compared with 49.6
last month, 46.3 on August 1. 1909, 52.2
on August 1, 1908, and 55.4 the ten-year
average on August 1.

MiCHTé-fii CROP REPORT.

Wheat.———Aside from a few complaints
of smut, correspondents quite generally
report wheat of good quality and the
yield above the ten year average. The
average estimated yield. per acre in the
state and northern counties is 18, in the
southern counties 17, in the central coun-
ties 20 and in the upper peninsula 15
bushels. The per cent of plowing done
for wheat in the state and central coun-
ties is 12, in the southern counties 13 and
in the northern counties 7.

The total number of bushels of wheat
marketed by farmers in July at 87 mills
is 100,758, and at 81 elevators and to grain
dealers 130,426, or a total of 281,184 bush-
els, indicating that the crop of 1909 has
been disposed of by the producers.
Ninety-eight mills, elevators and grain
dealers report no wheat marketed in
July.

Rye—The average estimated yield per
acre in the state and northern, counties
is 15, in the southern counties 14, in the
central counties 16 and in the upper
peninsula 19 bushels.

Comm—The condition of corn as com-
pared with an average in the state is 79,
in the southern counties 77, in the cen~
tral counties 82, in the northern counties
84 and in the upper peninsula. 81. The
condition one year ago was 84 in the
state and southern counties, 83 in the
central counties and 87 in the northern
counties. .

Oats—The estimated yield per acre m
the state is 30, in the southern counties
31, in the central counties 32, in the
northern counties 26, and in the upper
peninsula 25 bushels.

Potatoes—The condition of potatoes as
compared with an average in thestate
is 72, in the southern counties 70, in the
central counties 73, in the northern coun~
ties 80 and in the upper peninsula 75.
The condition one year ago in the state
and central counties was 86, in the south-
ern counties 85 and in the northern coun-
ties 90. 1,.1. ,

Beans—The condition of beans,,.com-
pared with an average per cent in the
state is 85. in the southern counties 81,
in the central counties 90, in the northern
counties 91 and in the upper peninsula
70. The condition one year ago in the
state was 90, in the southern and north—
ern counties 89 and in the central coun-
ties 91.

Sugar Beets—The condition of sugar
beets as compared with an average in the
state is 85, in the southern counties 84.
in the central counties 87_ in the north~
ern counties 90, and in the upper penin-
sula 73. The condition one year ago in
the state and southern counties was 88.
in the central counties 89 and in the
northern counties 85.

Clover.—Thc yield per acre of clover
hay in tons, in the state is 1.31, in the
southern counties 1.34, in the central
counties 1.48, in the northern counties 1.01
and in the upper peninsula 1.21.

Timothy—The yield per acre of tim-
othy hay in tons, in the state is 1.15, in
the southern counties 1.20, in the central
counties 1.26, in the northern counties
0.86 and in the upper peninsula. 0.96.

Pasture—The condition of pasture as
compared with an average in the state is
64, in the southern counties 63, in the
central counties 68, in the northern coun-
ties, 65 and in the upper peninsula 54.
One year ago the condition in the state
was 75, in the southern counties 76, in
the central counties 79 and in the. north-
ern counties 67.

Apples.——Severe frosts. ravages of in-
sects aud the extremely dry and hot
weather during the month of July 'have
so injured the apple crop that this year‘s
yield will be the lightest in the past ten
~years. The prospect for an average crop
in the state, southern counties and upper
peninsula is 24, in the central counties 25
and in the northern counties 22. One
year ago the prospect was 53 in the state,
43 in the southern counties, 61 in the cen-
tral counties and 82 in the northern coun-
ties. The winter varieties that promise
best, are in their order: Baldwin, North-
ern Spy, Ben Davis, Russett, Wealthy,
Wagner and Talman Sweet. Of the early
sorts the most promising are Dutchcss,
Red Astrachan, Fameuse, Maiden Blush
and Pippin.

Peaches—The prospect for an average
crop of peaches in the Michigan fruit
belt is 39 per cent and in the state 49.
One year ago the prospect was 77 and 67
per cent respectively. The varieties that
promise best are in their order: Elberta,
Crawford. Hill’s Chili, Gold Drop, Kala.—

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

 

 

Genesee CO., Aug. 6,—Refreshing Show-
ers have visited this section within the
past two weeks and all vegetation has
started growing anew. Sugar beets stood
the dry weather finely and show good
growth. Corn now adding daily to its
height. While the showing is not equal
to some years the yield will not be bad
as a whole, provided further conditions

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

promo Gavmahle.

AUG. “13. 19”:

Rain! will help been!
and late potatoes «7th am now doing
well. Pastures better than a month ago
but the W lid-cs

WP shortage ,
reported. Weather cool for .a few days ,

following a severe but spell.

anneal: 60., Aug. 5.—This summer has
been \very hot, dry and windy. and still
continues dry with only light scattering
showers, not nearly enough for growing
crops. Hay crop was very light but of
good quality and secured .in fine shape.
Wheat and rye fairly good, but no thresh-
dooe yet so cannot tellwhat yield Will be,

,t'hmeshing will begin in a week or ten

days. Oats very short and light on sandy
soil, a little better on heavy soil but not
up to the average. New seeding all gone
on account of drought and grasshoppers,
which are very numerous in different
localities. Corn looking good in fields
where a good stand was secured, but
many fields have a poor stand, it having
been destroyed by cutworms. Potatoes
looking well but in need of rain. The
bugs have been very troublesome this
season. The cucumber stand is .‘very un-
even, some fields having a fairly good
stand and others very poor. Much re-
planting was done, which will make them
late, picking has been started by those
having the best stand. All kinds of fruit
is very «scarce. Where any apples are to
be found, they are dropping very badly.
Milk supply shortening up, as the pas-
tures have been dried up for a long time,
but cattle are looking well yet. Cattle,
2%@4c; hogs, dressed, 19c; butter, 20c,
butter-fat, 27c; eggs, 170 per doz.
Emmet Co. Aug. 5.——There were sev-
eral fair showers during July which kept
pastures from drying up entirely and
gave quite a. good growth to second crop
clover. August 4 we had a good shower
that her; wet things down good. Corn
appears to the growing nicely but the
stand is uneven. The cat and pea crop
will be light owing to unfavorable condi-
tions prevailing during June: The crop
of early potatoes Will be. light. Later
planted fields are premiering better re-
sults. Winter wheat was exceptionally
good, both as to yield and quality. Oat
and pea harvest under. way. No thresh-
ing done yet in our neighborhood.
Oakland 00., Aug. 6.-—Harvestlng prac-
tically completed and the threshing ma-
chines busy. Grain yields are generally
light, although there are some good yields
of wheat and some oats that yield fairly
well, although the oat crop averages the
lightest in many years, if not Within the
memory of the “oldest inhabitant.” Ex-
ceedingly dry weather has prevailed since
early June, relieved in isolated localities
by local showers during the past two
weeks. Pastures and all growing crops
have been greatly benefited in such fav-
ored localities, but no «general rains have
occurred, and the prospects are very
poor for normal yields in sections which
were not covered by the showers \Vth‘h
have given temporary relief where they
have fallen. Early potatoes are very
small and the late crop will need rain
soon for normal development. Cor-n has
not yet suffered so seriously that rain
Would not relieve the situation, but un-
less rain falls soon it must be a short
crop as ears are now setting. Little prep-
aration being made for fall sown grain
as yet. Clover seedlngs are generally
spotted and an entire failure in many
fields. Farmers are beginning to let go
of their wool at prices ranging around
22 and 23 cents for medium grades. Lit-
tle stock going to market at this time.

Clare and Northern Isabella Co.'s, July
27.——Vcry dry weather with an occasional
light shower. Haying nearly done and a.
rather light crop. Wheat nearly cut and
promises a good yield. Beans looking
well. also corn, but suffering for rain.
Early potatoes a failure with a poor out—
look for late ones. Huckleberries very
scarce and high. Butter, 23c; eggs, 16c;
wheat, 94c; oats, 32c. '

.Laporte 60., lnd., Aug. 5.——C0ntinued
dry, very dry with hot sun. No heavy
rain since May, only light showers. Wheat
good quality and yield 20 to 32 |bu., good
average generally over the state. Oats
and 'hay light crops; corn good but can—
not mature a crop until it rains. Pota-
toes, prospect good for late crop if it
rains soon. Our late crop was planted
last of June and can mature in Septem-
ber with good conditions. Pastures short
and some are feeding bran regularly and
hay once a 'day. Cowpeas did not come
up for two weeks and now growth 15
very slow, too dry, only barely_live. Mad—
ison, Ind., reports 23 days ram in July,
some corn could not be cultivated; oats
could not be cut for ten days after they
were ripe, a good crop but could not har-
vest it. Seymour, medium crop. wheat
good yield but quality not the best. Col-
umbus, corn and Wheat an extra prospect,
oats medium. Extreme dry weather pre—
vails only in the north section of state.
VV‘hcat, $1; potatoes, $1; butter, 3061,3350;
e , 21c er doz.
g\glflvsilllamopCo" Ohio, Aug 2.-——T‘he weath-
er is very hot and sultry. Have had sev—
eral heavy rains and one severe electrical
storm which did considerable damage.
The wheat is all harvested and a good
deal threshed. turning out fairly well for
the amount of straw. Grasshoppers 'de-
stroyed the cat crop pretty badly. I‘he
earlv potatoes are not a very good crop.
most of them taking second growth. The
late potatoes look as if they would be a
good crop. Plums and peaches 'are get-
ting ripe, blackberries are a fairly good
crop for this year. Grass-hoppers are also
destroying the young clover and damag-
in clover seed.

golk 00., Wis., Aug. l.~—We have had
a rain on an average of once a week in
July. Haylng is through With. crop rang-
ing from one to 20 loads on farms. Very
good wheat. Barley is about a total fail-
ure,’ oats a fair stand. Corn is very good
for this time of year, with a good pros—
pect of a lot of ears. Potatoes are not
very good. Some grain is cut. Wheat,

1.1'0; oats, 50¢; barley, 65c; rye, 70c; new

gotatoes, $1; butter, 30c; eggs. 1235c a
dozen. A few farmers have plowed their
hay fields and either seeded to millet or
corn, so as to get enough roughage for
the‘stock.

THE‘ MICH [GAIN FARMERS

 

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

 

WHY FARMERS NEED ORGANIZA-
TJQNS.

 

Some Points to be ‘E-I‘nphaleed at this
Month’s names.

Farmers should organize because their
interests are so nearly identical.

Farmers have interests which should
be protected and this can best be done
in an organized way.

Organization presents the best methods
of business dealing. The farmers should
have the best and the Grange affords
that.

Organization not only demands atten-
tion, but commands it as well.

Organization of capital and labor has
made it possible for the farmers to ob-
tain greatest results in an unorganized
way.

Organization demands organized com-
petition.

Organization ‘is necessary to progress,
so farmers must 'have a progressive or—
ganization. '

Organization insures development; it is
a step forward for the farmer.

Organization brings industries together
to devise ways and means :to better their
conditions; why will not the same asso-
ciation benefit the farmer?

By organization man has been able to
ascend the scale of civilization, so by
organization will ‘he be able to ascend
to a still {higher plane of progress and
prosperity. Farmers are men and agri-
culture by God's will is the greatest call-
ing .of man. Protect it then by organi-
zation.

Agricultural industry furnishes the ma-
jority of the nation’s wealth and is the
basis of all wealth. VV-hy, then, should
not agriculture be the best protected of
all industries? Organization insures pro-
tection.

Organization of inter-est insures respect,
influence, recognition and power; the
farmer needs these things that he may be
able to receive a square deal.

By organization in a compact, conscr-
vative body the farmers can secure wise
and equitable legislation, and be assured
that the interests of agriculture are
fairly represented where lawmakers meet.

The farmers in every community should
have a. permanent economic organization
which recognizes the rights of all men
and insures to them justice, and to the
wife equal influence and dignity, and
where all may meet in advancing a com-
mon cause.

To the American farmer no Organization
can be more highly recommended than
the Grange, because it furnishes the so-
‘cial, educational, fraternal, co—operalive
and legislative features so essentially nec-
essary in completing a well balanced
farmers' organization in whose meetings
all can find something worthy of their
effort.

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THE GRANGE IN OTHER STATES.

 

Massachusetts Granges Defend Birds.

The most distinct victory in legislation
which the Granges of Massachusetts "nave
ever achieved was in the defeat of ‘house
bill No. 395, which proposed to let down
the bars on the present excellent bird
law of Massachusetts and permit spring
shooting of seven different third species.
This bill had tremendous backing, includ-
ing practically all the sporting interests
of the state, and for a time there was
every. indication that it would win out,
espeCially. when the legislative committee
on fisheries and game reported unani-
mously in its favor. But towapd the last
the friends of the birds throughout the
state became aroused, and nearly every
subordinate and Pomona Grange in Mas—
sachusetts took action in behalf of the
birds. Letters by the thousands were
written to the representatives at the
state‘house, While the state was fairly
flooded with literature. On the morning
of the debate it was a general topic of
conversation around the statehouse that
Grange influence on legislation was to be
given a good test that day in view
of the active position the Order had
taken in the matter. The debate lasted
nearly all day and was very spirited, re—
sulting in a, victory for the birds by a roll
call vote of 122 to 85 and the complete
defeat of the fisheries and game commit-
tee. State Master Charles M. Gardner
was one of the most vigorous defenders of
the birds and spoke on the floor very
earnestly against any letting down of the
present protective law on birds. which are
so essential to agricultural success and
progress.

Washington Wants Change in National
Grange Representation.

At the last meeting. of Washington
State Grange, ‘held early in June. the
following resolutions relative to a change
in National Grange representation were
unanimously adopted.

Whereas, State Granges representing a
majority of the membership have now en—

dorsed a enemas in the basis of represen-
-ta.tion in the National Grange. and 'a ma-
jority of these State Grmges have on-
dorsed the federal vplan first proposed on
behalf of the Washington State Grange,
and because it is desirable that there Ibe
unity of action upon the part of the sev-
eral! states, and that the change should be
established without delay, therefore, re-
:solved, that the endorsement of the feder-
al plan of representation is hereby reaf-
firmed; and that the worthy master and
executive committee are hereby instructed
to take up the consideration of this mat-
ter and confer with the masters and ex-
ecutive officers of the National Grange
and all State Gra-nges to the end that a.
definite plan of action may be agreed up-
on and presented at the next meeting of
the National Grange.

Resolved, further, that as soon as a plan
shall have been endorsed by five State
Granges, the executive committee is here-
by directed to formally ratify the same
on behalf of the Washington State
Grange, and immediately to submit the
proposed measure to the subordinate
Oranges for endorsement; also that the
masters and secretaries of all subordi—
nate Granges in this state are hereby
urged to secure prompt action in their
respective Granges, and to return to the
state secretary official reports of said ac-
tion in order that our national delegates
shall have the evidence to submit to the
National Grange at next November's an—
nual session; also that our National dele—
gates are hereby instructed to present this
evidence to the National Grange immedi-
ately on assembling, with demand for
immediate action thereon with a view to
securing the immediate admittance of the
additional delegates, to the end that the
Patrons of all states shall be equitably
represented at the next National Grange
session and all sessions thereafter; and
that these additional delegates shall be
selected in accordance with the plan
agreed upon immediately after the sub-
ordinate Granges ‘have formally endorsed
the plan. and that their per diem and ex-
penses, in accordance with the terms of
payment to all other national delegates
shall be guaranteed, advanced, or paid
by the State Granges, provided such pay—
ments are not secured from the National
Grange, and that this resolution shall be
the authority for the payment of such
amounts out of the State Grange
treasury.

 

COMING EVE NTS.

 

Grange Rallies and Picnics.

Northern Lenawee Co. Grange and
Farmers’ Clubs. at Sand Lake, Putnam’s
Landing. Saturday, Aug. 13.

Kent Co. Pomona, at Silver Lake, Can-
non township, Kent Co., Wednesday,
Aug.

Pomona Meetings.

Charlevoix Co., with Norwood Grange,
Thursday, Aug. 18.

Grand Traverse District Grange, at
Long Lake town hall, Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept. 7 and 8.

Western (Ottawa Co.) with West
Crockery Grange, Saturday, Aug. 13. L.
W. Oviatt, state speaker.

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ANNUAL PICNICS.

 

Ray Farmers’ Club, of Macomb Co,
will hold a basket picnic meeting on
August 18, at the home of VVaIter Green.

The Wise Farmers' Clu, of Isabella Co.,
will hold their eleventh annual picnic at
Stevenson Lake, six miles southwest of
Clare, on Tuesday, August 23. Augustus
Lynch will give the address of welcome
and Senator Dickinson, candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, will respond, and
the several candidates for governor will
do the talking. Everybody welcome.

The Shiawassee County Association of
Farmers' Clubs rwill meet at McCurdy
park Wednesday, August 17. An excel-
lent program ihas been provided. consist-
ing of several addresses by prominent
men on practical subjects and papers by
prominent club members, some of which
will deal with the problems which con-
front ilie ladies in the farm home. Good
musical and literary features will abound,
and altogether the program is an cs-
pccially attractive one, Which should
make the day most profitable as well as
most enjoyable to S'hiawassee county
Club members.

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

 

Children’s Day.—~The Juno meeting of
the Ray Farmers’ Club, of Macomb C0,,
met with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Priest on
Thursday, June 9. Aboutt 70 congregated
to'listcn t0 the recitations and songs of
the little folk. These were intorsporsd
by two violin solos by Mr. . J. Smith,
of Rome, and two vocal solos by Mr. Ed-
ward Newborry. also of Romeo. After
the program, the crowd assembled in the
dining room and did justice to the many
good things prepared by the farmers’
wives. Aflcr supper all adjourned, feel-
ing themselves fully repaid for the after-
noon spent so pleasantly. The next meet-
ing. will be held August 18, in the form of
a basket pi-cnic, in the woods at the home
of Walter Green—Hazel M. Green, Cor.
Sec.

Young People’s Day.——One 0f the most
enjoyable gatherings of the North Mar-
shall Farmers’ Club was lield with Mr.
and Mrs. John Woodwort'h, July 20. It
was young people’s day and the meeting
held with the eldest couple in the club’s
membership. They have traveled life‘s
journey 49 years together. It mattered

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not that their .mug little 'home was a
modern bungalow. for the spacious car-
riage barn had been transferred into an
excellent dining hall where the 70 guests
were served at small tables by the young
ladies with a. small menu known to this
Club. After the social dinner ‘hour the
tables were cleared away and the dining
hall was converted into an entertainment
hall where an excellent program was
given, the host giving two of this enter—
tzuinimg recitals. The water came from a
well that the old. old poem did justice
when it told of the “old oaken bucket”
and the day was one long to be remem-
bered. The August meeting is with Mr.
and Mrs, Edward Kay. August 17.

The institute Wombat—The Maple
River Farmers’ Club, of Shiawa'ssee Co,
held its July meeting at the pleasant
home of Mr. and Mrs, Elm-er Waugh.
The attendance was one of the largest
f0r some time and the program full of
splendid discussions. The busy harvest-
ing season over, a large number of visit-
ing friends from the city and other Clu'bs
were present and greatly helped in their
able discussions of timely questions of
economic importance. Hon. A. B. Cook
gave an excellent talk on “The True
Function of the Institute Worker,’ in
which be somewhat surprised his friends
in saying that all the institute workers
were not the most progressive farmers.
It is a ‘hard matter to get a real busy
farmer to travel over the state and at~
tend institutes at the price paid. The
farmer who is making a great success of
'his business is a business farmer and his
work occupies all his time.

“The Farmer’s Dietetic Errors” was the
subject of a very thoughtful and sugges—
tive paper presented by Mrs. Nettie Rush
Reynolds. The farmer is not as careful
in the selection of eatables as 'he ought
to be. There are two kinds of food re-
quired to build up and sustain the work-
ing of the body. Carbohydrates and
nitrogenous food. Farmers eat too much
meat during the summer months. The
French are less inclined toward eating
large amounts of meat and consequently
are more free from diseases.

The High School.——The program for the
remaining part of the afternoon was fur-
nislied by the young people, Harold Rich-
ardson acting as chairman. “My four
years’ experience in high school" was the
theme of an essay read by Vera Richard-
son, who spoke of numerous incidents
relative to high school life. High school
opens the door to ‘higher education. No
one should feel ahat a high school course
fits them for life‘s work. It simply pre—
pares them to lay plans for future de-
velopment of the mind.

The Passion Play.—Vivian Billiimer
read an excellent paper on the “History
of Passion Play,” in which she reviewed
a biblical incl-dent showing its influence
upon the mind. No other incident 'has
more permanently fixed itself and directly
influenced the mind of mankind than the
passion play. Miss Billiimer’s paper was
ably composed and well delivered.

The_Young People in Club Work—Har-
old Richardson gave a short talk on the
part young people should have in Club
work. He expressed gratitude that a part
of one month had been recognized as a
young peoples day and they had been
given an opportunity to show their inter-
est in Club work. The future Club ma-
terial lies in the young people. If they
are allowed an opportunity to take part
on the program they will grow up feeling
they have a part to perform on every
monthly occasion.

“Entertaining Friends” was the subject
of a splendid paper by Mary Hardy. We
should endeavor to make our visiting
friends feel they are at home when visit-
ing us. They should not be made to
think they are a burden and must per
form daily work. Have friends visit you
when you are least busy and have time
to spend with them.

The Dairy Cow vs. Poultry.——Tlhe Con—
way and Handy Farincrs' Club, of Liv-
ingston C0,, was vory pleasantly enter-
tained at the home of one of the new
members, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ratlibun,
July 2:). Not a large gathering on ac-
count of out harvest, but a goodly number
of both members and invited guests. The
subject, “\Vhicli is the most profitable
investment, $75 in pigs, cows or hens?”
Thomas Sharp being absent. was opened
by Stephen 'Horton, who favored the cow;
the cow has done more for the farmer
and farms than any one thing. Hogs
were all right in their place, but were
hardly ever in their place, could carry
them food three times a day or they
would squeal on you. but of course there
was good money in hogs at present prices.
Hens would do well for him; by digging
up the crops. eating all he would feed
them, lay a few eggs, [lien set the rest
of the limo. ll. lcnjan’iin gave the hens
more credit but thought the cow a good
investment. Mrs. Croop favored ”liens.
F. Curtis thought the row by all means
the bust to keep the farm and expenses
up. F. Ratlibun favored cows on account
of inm'casc and stuady income. E. Collier
thought if ‘he only had $75 to invest he
would buy a lien as he would not want a
cow at those low figures.

The Country Mother‘s Vacation.———Mrs.
Curtis gave a fine paper on “The vacation
for a weary mother with Clllllll‘On.” She
mentioned three classes, wealthy and
working mothers of the city, and country
mothers. \Veullhy mothers were weary
from social duties and “WIN; to the sum-
mer resorts and son shore. Mothers that
work in factories or lake work home
would like to go to a quiet place where
they could be free from their tiresome
task and have good food; nothing could
be better for those mothers than to see
the children growing rosy and their ‘happy
faces, by what nature provides. The
remaining class often stay at home on
duty or go away and worry. Don’t blame
a husband because she has lost her
beauty, most men would prefer her not
to be a crank on Ihousework, but make
a home. If she, too, could go to a, quiet
place where there were no white dresses
and rest with nature and the children:
Mrs. C. Fuller thought to go out with the
children was a change from daily 'home
work and was in a way very restful.
Others followed by short talks. The Au-
gust meeting of the Club will be held at
ahe home of C. Fuller and wife.


 

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MARKETS "

MLAAAALAA AAA_AA
DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.

Grains and, Seeds.

Wheat—The winter wheat crop just
harvested in this country, quantity and
quality considered, is perhaps one of the
best ever grown; on the other hand, the
spring wheat does not promise well, and
the government crop report has cut off
from the prospective yield of that variety
more than was added to the winter kind
because of the latter‘s improvement the
past month. The final conclusion of the
figures of the federal reporters is, there-
fore, favorable to the farmers and the
bulls. But just now there is little pros-
pect for any material advance on account
of the rapid selling by farmers in sections
where threshing is done. The situation
in Chicago is burdensome to the bulls for
they cannot unload the fast multiplying
offerings as they come in from every
wheat growing quarter to the west and
southwest. The little active buying on
the part of western millers does not ab-
sorb the offerings scarcely any and the
demand from abroad being dull, leaves
the trade where better values cannot be
immediately expected, although crop con-
ditions might warrant such a change.
One year ago the price for No. 2 red
wheat was $1.05%c per bu. 'For the past
week quotations were:

No. 2 No. 1
Red. White. Sept. Dec.

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday .. . .1.03 1.03 1.03% 1.06%
Friday . . 1.0414 1.0414 1.05 1.07%
Saturday . . . .1.03% 1.03 IA, 1.04 1.07
Monday ......1.02% 1.02% 1.03% 1.06%
Tuesday ..... 1.02% 1.02% 1.031;1 1.06%
Wednesday . .1.02% 1.02% 1.03 1.06

Germ—During the month of July the
corn crop diminished in prospective
yields, according to the government re-
port, and the observations of the report—
‘ers appears to have had a stiffening in-
fluence upon the trade. The decrease in
points is over five for the country; Mich-
igan's crop went back two points. The
greatest declines were reported from the
western states of the corn belt and the
best crop will be harvested in the south
should the predictions of the reporters
prove true and conditions continue till
harvest time. One year ago the price for
No. 3 corn was 71¢ per bu. Quotations
for the past week are:

No. 2 No. 2

Mixed Yellow.
Thursday ..... 66% 68%
Friday ............. . ...... 67 69
Saturday . . . . ..... . ....... 66% 68%
Monday ....... . . . . ....... 66 68
Tuesday ......... . ........ 66% 68%
\Vednesday ...... . ........ 66% 681/4

Oats.——The crop is given by the federal
authorities as one point below the ten-
ycai' average, and about a half point be-
low the mark for July 1. Standard oats
have shifted to the new-oat grade which
accounts for the change in the quotations
for standard given below. The trade is
firm. Michigan's crop has depreciated
during the month, One year ago the
price for No. 3 oats was 53c per bu. Quo-
tations for the week are:

Standard. Sept.
Thursday . . . . . ....... . . . . . 42% 37%
Friday 42 37%
Saturday . ......... 37% 37%
Monday 37% 37
Tuesday . . . . . ........ . . . . . 37% 37
\Vednesday . . . . ........ . . . 37% 37

Beans.——The state crop report gives the
conditions of beans as five points below
the condition a year ago. The central and
northern counties appear to have the
best crop. The local prices, which are
nominal, were advanced for cash beans on
Friday. Quotations for the week are:

Cash. Oct.

Thursday . .......... . ...... $2.32 $2.10
Friday ..................... 2.35 2.10
Saturday . . . . ............... 2.35 2.10
Monday ....... 2.35 2.10
Tuesday ...... 2.35 2.10
XVednesday ................. 2.35 2.10

Cl0verseed.—On Tuesday there was evi-
dence of activity on the local market and
the price which had been advancing for
the past fortnight dropped 15c. The crop
reports coming to this office indicate that
the yield over much of the state will be
surprisingly small, for the dry weather
was rwith us in just the right time to do
damage. Quotations for the week are:

Prime Spot. Oct.

Thursday ..................$810 $8.10

Friday .. 8.40 8.40
Saturday 8.50 8.50
Monday 8.50 8.50
Tuesday ................... 8.35 8.35

Wednesday . . . ....... . . . . . . 8.50 8.50

Rye—The market is steady and lower.
The nominal quotation is 740 per bu.,
which is 20 below the price of a week ago.

Flour, Feed, Pravisions, Etc.

Flown—The flour trade is active at last

week’s figures, and the mills are very

busy on contracts to be filled. Quota-
tions are:

Clear ...... . ...... ........ $4.60
Straight .......... ........... 4.80
Patent Michigan ......... 5.10
Ordinary Patent ..................... 4.90

Hay and Straw.—-—The quotations helo
are for new hay which accounts for the
change from the figures of last week.
Market is firm and supply short. Quota-
tions on baled hay in car lots f. o. b.
Detroit are: No. 1 timothy. $16@]6.50;
No, 2 timothy, 815601550; clover, mixed.
315601550; rye straw, $7637.50; wheat and
Cat straw, $650637 per ton.

Feed—All grades steady with last week.
Carlot prices on track: Bran, $23 per
ton; coarse middlings, $24; fine middlings,
$27; cracked corn, $27; coarse corn meal,
$27; corn and oat chop, $24 per ton.

Potatoas.—The potato crop of the coun-
try is about 10 points below last year’s
crop according to the estimates of the
crop reporters of the federal government.
Michigan’s margin is larger still. Local
trade is firm. They are quoted at 750

Der bu.
HIdes.-—Steady. No. 1 cured, 10c; No.

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

1 green, 80; No. ,1 cured bulls, 9c; No. 1
green bulls, 7c; No. 1 cured veal kip,
10%c; No. 1 green veal kip, 8c; No. 1
cured calf, 14%c; No. 2 kip and calf, 12%c;
No. 1 horeshides, $3.50; No. 2 horesides,
$2.50; sheepskins, as to amount of wool,

'25@75c.

Pravisions.—Mess pork, $23; family
pork, $23.50@25; medium clear, $22.50@
23.50; smoked hams, 16%c; dry salted
briskets, 14%c; shoulders, 14c; picnic
12%c; kettle rendered, 13%c per lb.
hams, 13c; bacon, 18@190; lard in tierces,

Dalr and Poultry Products.

Butter.—— reamery butter went up an—
other cent the past week. The failure of
the pasture lots is cutting down the of-
ferings. Dairy offerings are steady at
former prices. Quotations are: Extra
creamery, 29c; fruits, do., 280; dairy, 23c;
packing stock, 210 per lb.

Eggs.—Eggs are coming to the market
in good supply from every source and the
demand is large enough to keep the deal
steady and firm at the price that pre-
vailed for a month back. Fresh eggs,
case count, cases included, are quoted at
17 %c per dozen,

Poultry.—Broilers are steady at 17@
18c per lb; hens show an advance and
are now quoted at 15%(0160; old roosters
and stags are down to 100; ducks lower at
14@15c, and also geese at 11@12c, while
turkeys are higher, now selling at 18c
per lb.

'Cheese.——Michigan, late made, 15c;
Michigan, fall made, 17%@18c; York state,
18@18%c; limburger old, 17@180; Swiss,
domestic block, 23@24c; cream brick.
16@16%c

Calves—Steady. Choice to fancy, 11@
11%c; ordinary, 10%c.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Apples.—Indications are that the fall
and winter apple crop will be below the
yield of 1909. They are selling at $3.50@
4 per hamper.

Cabbage.—Steady. Selling at $1.75 per
crate for new.

Blackberries.——Market steady; supply is
limited. Selling at $3.50@4 per bu.

Huckleberries.——Selling at $3.50@4 per
busheL

Peaches.-——Of fair quality. One-fifth
bushel basket quoted at $25.

Vegetables.——Beets, 250. per doz.; car-
rots, 200 per doz.; cucumbers, 40@50c
per doz; eggplant, $1.25@1.50 per doz;
green onions, 10@12c per doz; head let-
tuce, 75@90c per bu; mint, 25c per doz;
parsley, 20@25c per doz; radishes, 15c
per doz; spinach, 65c per bu; turnips, 400
per doz; watercress 20@25c per doz; wax
beans, $1.25 bu; pieplant, 200 per dozen.

 

OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.

Fruit ranged as follows on the city mar-
ket Tuesday morning: Apples, 80cfl1.50;
pears in small baskets, 25c; plums, 900
per half bu.; peaches, $1@1.25; black-ber-
ries, $2.25; red raspberries, $2.50. First
home-grown osage melons appeared,
bringing $2.50 per bu. First home-grown
outdoors tomatoes were on the market,
selling at $1.75@2. Other vegetables
range as follows: Butter beans, 75c; cel-
ery, 15c; onions, 12c; sweet corn, 12@15c;
cucumbers, 15c doz. or 75c bu; cabbage,
80c; red cabbage, $1; squash, 75c; pota-
toes, 80@90c. Dressed hogs are off half
a cent, bringing 11%c. Live poultry is
unchanged at 126.130. The wheat mar-
ket is off 1c; No. 2 red quoted at 94c; No.
1 white, 930. Farmers are getting $15@
17 per ton for hay. The egg market is
unchanged at 17@171/20. Both dairy and
Creamery butter are up 1c. dealers quot-
ing the country merchants 23@29c re-
spectively.

 

 

New York.

Butter.—Prices fractionally higher with
market firm at the advance. Creamery
specials quoted at 29%@29%c; extras,
2861‘28%c; thirds to firsts, 24@270.

Eggs—Market firm. Nearby eggs are
quoted at 28@32c; fresh gathered extras,
20¢ir22c; firsts, 18%@19%c per doz.

P0ultry.—Market irregular like demand.
Live quoted as follows: Western broilers,
18c; fowls, 15c; turkeys, 16@20c per lb.

Chicago.

Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.00%@1.02%; Sep-
tember, $1.01@1.015/g; December, $1.04%.

Corn—No. 2 mixed, 64%c; September,
63%(3; December, 60%c.

Oats—No. 3 white, 36§;@38c; Septem-
ber, 361116136740; December, 38%0.

Button—Market strong with a tendency
toward higher values, an advance of 2c
being made in creamery the past week.
The strengthening influence is the effect
which the dry weather is having upon
production. Quotations are: Creameries,
25@29c; dairies, 2362.260

Eggs—Market steady and higher for
good stock. Prime firsts, 18c; firsts, 17c;
at mark, cases included, 10@14c per doz.

Hay and Straw—Market steady with
the extreme values of the past few weeks
still ruling. Prices given below are. for
old hay. New hay beginning to come in
and quoted $3604 per ton lower than old.
Quotations are: Choice timothy, $21frD
21.50: No. 1 timothy, 61950602050; No. 2
do and No. 1 mixed. swarms); No. 3 do
and No_ 2 mixed, $14.50@17.50; rye straw,
359601050; oat straw, $7.50@8; wheat straw
565060750.

Potatoes—Receipts light, prices show-
ing a sharp gain. Choice to fancy new,
82@85c per bu; fair to good. 75®80o

Beans—Prices show another slight in—
crease and the market has a firm under—
tone. (‘hoice hand—picked are quotcd at
324800252: fair to good, $2.45@2.47; red
kidneys. 337560425 per bu.

VVooL—Trade is fairly active and prices
are 'held firm. Unwashed fleeces from all
bright wool sections are quoted as fol—
lows: Fine heavy. l3fm15c: fine deiaine,
20®22c; fine medium, 22@24c; medium,
23@25c.

 

Boston.

Wool—The growers who held their wool
last spring can take courage for condi-
tions are growing more favorable to the
seller. The manufacturers are not dis-
criminating between different kinds and
this would show a general demand for
the made product. The following are

the leading domestic quotations on the
market here: Ohio and Pennsylvania
fleeces: Delaine washed, 34c; ~XX, 30c;
fine unmerchantable, 24@25c; 1,4-blood
combing, 27@28c; %-blood combing, 28@
29c; delaine unwashed, 26@270; flne un-
washed, 20@210.
and New York fleeces: Fine unwashed,
19@200; delalne unwashed, 24@25c; %-
blood unwashed, 27@28c; %-blood un-
washed, 27@29c; 1,4-Iblood unwashed, 26@
27c. Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri:
%-blood, 23@27c; 1/,,-blood, 26c.

Toledo.

Clover Seed—Clover seed suffered a
break of 27%@30c on Tuesday, while
alsike was off 20c. Closing quotations
were: Cash, $8.30; October, $8.32%; alsike
cash, $8.30; August, $8.30.

Eigln.

Butter.-—The butter trade is firm at 29c,
which is an advance of 1 cent since last
'Week. The output for the week amounted
to 918,000 lbs., compared with 944,600 lbs.
for the previous week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.
August 8. 1910.
(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of stock here today as follows:
Cattle, 125 cars; hogs, 8,800; sheep and
lambs, 6,200; calves, 1,000 head.

With 125 loads of cattle on our market
here today, the feeling on all grades was
much better_ in fact, the cattle all selling
from 15@25c 'per hundred weight higher
than last week, with the exception of
hold over cattle, which it was impossible
to raise the price on.

We quote: Best 1,300 to 1,500—lb. steers
$7.25@7.60; good prime 1,200 to 1,300—lb
do., $6.85@7.25; best 1,100 to 1,200-lb.
shipping steers, $6.35@6.90; medium
butcher steers, 1,000 to 1,100 lbs., $5.40@
5.90; light butcher steers, $5@5.25; best
fat cows, $4.75@5.25; fair to good cows,
$4@4.50; common to medium do., $3@3.75;
trimmers, $2.50@3; best fat heifers, $5.75
((06.25; good fat heifers, $4.75@5.50; fair
to good do., $4.25@4.50; stock heifers,
$3.75@4; best feeding steers, $4.75@5;
medium to good do., $4@4.25; stockers, all
grades, $3.75@4; best bulls, $5@5.50; b0-
logna bulls, $4@4.25; light thin bulls, $3.75
@4; best milkers and springers, $55@65;
common to good, $25@35.

The hog market opened 15@20c higher
than Saturday's close and all selling that
was yarded in time for the market.

We quote prices as follows: Heavy
hogs, weighing from 250 lbs. up, $8.85@9;
mixed and medium, $9@9.20; yorkers,
$9.30@9.40;’ pigs, $9.50@9.65; stags, $6
@675.

The lamb market opened active and
about a quarter higher than last Mon-
day; most of the best lambs selling $7@
7.25. Yearling lambs $5.75@6. Look for
about steady prices balance of week.
Sheep were steady today, and the pros-
pects are for about steady prices the
balance of the week.

We quote: Spring lambs, $7@7.25;
wethers, $5@5.50; cull sheep, 825060350;
bucks, $2.50@3; yearlings, $5.75@6; heavy
ewes, $3.90@4; handy ewes, $4.25@4.60;
veals_ choice to extra, $9.25@9.50; fair to
good do., $7.50@8.50; heavy calves, $6@7.

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago.
August 8, 1910.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep

Received today .....24,000 24,000 32,000
Same day last year..22,053 38.985 20.287
Received last week...50,185 92,916 96,603
Same week last year.42,090 72,999 77,646
Following last week’s sharp price up-
turn in cattle trade sellers were in ex-
pectanCy of a. reaction today but this did
not materialize. Receipts of 24,000 were
quite moderate and included 5,000 west-
ern rangers. A strong demand for good
to choice native steers afforded prices
firm to 10¢ higher than last week for
these grades, while medium and plain
natives were unchanged and the western
rangers sold 100 higher. General demand
for steers reflected all of the strength
noted last week, good indication of a sat-
isfactory beef situation in beef trade 'both
locally and in eastern quarters. Quality
of marketings continues plain although
the influx of thin western rangers is not
as heavy as last. week. The same applies
also to cornbelt grass-fed stock. Rains
in sections where moisture has been badly
needed seem to have put a check on
feeders’ desire to liquidate and this is
proving a material aid in dispelling a
bearish tendency in the market. Prime
beeves topped at $8.50 and a fair quota
of choice grades went at 8775617825. Hogs
were marketed in quite moderate volume,
a run of 24,000 showing up today instead
of an expected supply of 30,000. Prices
were boosted 10@15c higher than last
Saturday. a $9 top being registered for
light weights while choice butchers sold
at $3.90. but best price for heavyweights
was $3.25 and the poor and rough heavy
packers ranged down to $7.25. Average
weight of hogs last week. 254 lbs. was
heaviest since week of Sept. 14. 1907, and
stood 5 lbs. heavier than two weeks ago.
While comparing with 231 lbs. a year ago.
Sheep and lamb supplies at the outset
of the week were 32.000. Native muttons
held steady while breeding stock made
firm rates. Western sheep sold 10c lower
than last week and native and western
lambs went at 25c decline. Best lambs
sold to slaughterers at $6.75. while 66 lb.
ewes, bought for breeders, cost $7. Com-
mon to good native lambs went at $4.75
@650 and choice Idaho lambs made $6.75.
Native yearlings topped at $4.85. western
breeding ewes at $5.50 and native ewes
for slaughter sold largely at $3.75@4.35.
Cattle receipts on Monday last week
were of good proportions, exceeding 23.-
000 head, but they were moderate in vol-
ume at other times. and much of the re-
cent decline in prices was recovered.
Heavy rains in dry regions throughout

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AUG. 13. 1910.

the west were a. boon to cattle feeders,
as they revived the pastures, which were
in wretched condition, and this stopped
the wideSpread liquidation of thin cattle.
There were rather general advances of
50@60c over the low points a week ear-
lier, and extreme instances showed a. rise
of as much as 75c. Native fed steers
went chiefly at $5.50@7.60, with the bet-
ter class of heavy shipping cattle taken
at $7.65@8.50, and not many lots choice
enough to go higher than $8. The poorer
graSSy light steers brought $4.60@5.75,
While a medium class of steers sold at
$6@6.95, with good steers bringing $7@
7.60. Butchering cows and heifers had
a good sale at $3.30@6.40, while a con—
signment of 63 fancy 785-lb, heifers sold
for $7.25. Canners and cutters were
fairly active at $2603.25, and~sales were

made of bulls at $2175@5.25, while calves~

brought $3@8.50 per 100 lbs. and milch
cows $25@60 each, eastern buyers want-
ing choice springers. Stockers and feed-
ers attracted a larger demand, and small-
er offerings put prices largely 15@25c
higher, stock steers going at $3.15@4.80
and feeders at $4.40@5.85, but not many
feeders sold over $5. Western range cat-
tle arrived in much larger numbers, and
their average quality was the poorest
seen in years, causing prices to rule com—
paratively low for the greater part. West—
ern range steers went largely at $4@5,
with feeders selling well below these fig—
ures, while a few prime fat steers brought
$6.70. Western range cows sold at $2.75
@555. As great numbers of common
range cattle are ready to come to mar-
ket, such stock may be expected to sell
comparatively low.

Hogs started off last week slow and
much lower in price, a Monday run of
over 30.000 head spelling disaster for sell-
ers, although shippers took nearly 8,000.
The drop in prices was wired all over the
feeding districts, and to such a wide-
spread extent did st-ockmen withhold sup-
plies that a great falling off in receipts
was beheld on subsequent days. This
imparted strength to the market, although
shippers were very moderate purchasers,
and prices underwent some Sharp ad—
vances, the upward movement being led
by light hogs and pigs, which have con-
tinued the favorite sellers. They are
scarce, and heavy hogs predominate
greatly, the recent receipts having aver-
aged in weight 249 lbs., which is much
heavier than in former years. Extremely
heavy hogs were the slowest sellers and
the last to advance in value. There has
been a widening out in the spread of
prices, and unless the number of 140 to
170-lb. hogs increases 'before long and
the heavy hogs decrease in proportion,
the range will increase considerably
more.

Sheep and lambs were marketed un-
evenly last week, being plentiful-at times
and scarcer at others. The Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming and other ranges con-
tributed the greater part of the receipts,
and lambs were the best sellers, although
fat wethers, as well as feeding Sheenand
lambs sold well. Prices fluctuated con-
siderably, but breeders were firm at all
times, and Idaho breeding ew 5 Were free
sellers at $4@5, while some big bunches
of Washingaon range yearling breeding
ewes went at $6. They were shipped to
Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Feeders
paid $6@6.50 for range lambs, $3.50@4.25
for wethers and $4.60@5.45 for yearlings.
Lambs sold at an extreme range of $5@
7.15; ewes at $3604.40: wet‘hers at $4.10@
4.50 and yearlings at $5@5.75. Large sup-
plies of range sheep and lambs may be
expected for the remainder of the ship-
ping season.

Horses are having a moderate sale at
present, the general demand being as
large as could be expected in early Au-
gust. Supplies are ample, and common
animals are too numerous. Wagon horses
go at $150@185 per head, and small south—
ern chunks are slow att $50@95. Heavy
draft horses sell at $170@300, drivers at
$150@300 and mules at $150@275. Most
of the sales of feeders are made at $170@
225. Local teaming interests are paying
$150@275 for mules. F.

 

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A. L. Brown, of Wyoming, reports
many parts of the range as entirely
bare of grass, while water is scarce, mak—
ing it a hard question what stockmen are
going to do with their cattle and sheep.
\Vhen the entire country was open a
man could drive his stock around but
now that it is all fenced up and the head-
waters and many of the streams con-
trolled by Frenchmen and farmers, it is
only possible to move the stock from
the range to the market. Mr. Brown
adds that very little hay is being put up.
and it is almost impossible to buy or
contract for any. Some good rains have
fallen recently, but the ranges were too
far gone for the moisture to be of any
immediate benefit. It will make some
feed, but that is about all. The cattle
are not in bad shape yet, but they must
be gathered and shipped as soon as pos-
sible, so that stockmen are awaiting anx-
iously the outcome of the corn crop and
the consequent demand for feeders.

Drought-stricken regions have been
marketing thin hogs, but the great bulk
of the hogs coming on western markets
are fat and unusually heavy. No intelli-
gent farmer is sacrificing his healthy
growing pigs at this time unless abso-
lutely forced to by unfavorable circum-
stances. Large numbers of spring pigs
are being fattened rapidly for the market
receiving the very best of care and all
the corn they will clean up. Later on
they will be given green corn as a change
of diet.

Michigan and Ohio stockmen are good
buyers of feeding lambs and sheep in the
Chicago market, liberal supplies of thin
flocks from the ranges forced in by the
drought affording fine opportunities to
pick up good bargains. There is also a
growing demand for good yearling breed-
ing ewes, rangers being usually preferred.

 

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AUG. 13; 1910.
TH“ IS THE LAST EDITION.

 

In the first odidon the Detroit Live
Stock market: no reports of last. week;
all other market: m min up to date.
Thursday‘s Detroit Lira Stool: ,markets
are given in the last edition. The first
edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-
tion My morning. The first edition In
mailed to those who care more to get the
paper early than they do for Thursday’s
Detroit Live Stock market report. You
may have any edition desired. Subscrib-
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DETROlT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

 

Thursday’s Market.
August 11, 1910.
Cattle.

Receipts, 608. Market active and 10@
150 higher than last Week on common
grades. Butchers, good grades, no higher.

We quote: Best steers and heifers.
55.500236; steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200,
$5@5.25; steers and heifers, 800 to 1,000,
$4.75@5; grass steers and heifers that are
fat, 800 to 1,000, $4.75@5; grass steers and
heifers that are fat, 500 to 700, $3.50@4.25;

choice fat cows. $4.50; good fat cows.
$3.75@4.25; common cows, $3.25@3.75;
canners, $2.25@2.75; choice heavy bulls,

$4.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $8.50@
4.25; stock bulls, $3@3.50; choice feeding
steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.25@5; fair feeding
steers, 800 to 1,000, $4@4.25; choice stock-
ers, 500 to 700, $4@4.25; fair stockcrs, 501)
to 700, $3.50@4; stock heifers, $3@3.50;
milkers, large, young, medium age, $45@
65; commOn milkers, $25@40.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Newton B. Co. 4
cows av 907 at $4; to Kamman B. Co. 4
steers av 1,092 at $5.25; to Mich. B. Co.
19 do. av 1.047 at $5.50; to Sullivan P. Co.
1 do weighing 960 at $5, 2 heifers av 785
at $4.25, 1 cow weighing 800 at $3.65, 3
lbulls av 700 at $3.65, 1 do weighing 1,500
at $4.25, 1 do weighing 1,120 at $3.85; to
Erban 3 butchers av 766 at $3.70, 1 cow
weighing 690 at $3, 1 steer weighing 930
at $6, 4 do av 905 at $5, 1 bull weighing
1,100 at $4. 8 butchers av 735 at $3.80; to
Goose 1 bull weighing 1,080 at $4.25, 2
cows av 960 at $3.50; to Sullivan P. Co.
2 do av 1,200 at $4.50, 1 do weighing 1,020
at $3.50, 8 butchers av 1,006 at $4.25; to
LaBoo 4 do av 867 at $4.90; to Bresnahan
1 cow weighing 1.020 at $3.25, 1 do weigh—
1,280 at $4.50. 2 do av 900 at $3, 3 do av
1,000 at $3.75.

Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 31
butchers av 801 at $4.25; to Rattkowsky
9 do av 780 at $4.30, 5 do av 806 at $4.25;
to Erwin 16 stockers av 757 at $3.75,

Spicer & R. sold Bresnahan 8 heifers av
537 at' $3.40, 1 cow weighing 900 at $2:
to Sullivan P. Co. 1 heifer weighing 830 at
$475.34 dow Weighing 1,230 at $4.50, 1 do
weighing 1.000 at $4, 6 butchers av 1,308
at $5.36; 10 do av 820: at $4.60. 1 heifer
weighing 650 at $4, 1 cow weighing 920
at $3, 1 do weighing 940 at $3.50, 5 butch-
ers 3.01:632 at $3.75; to Thompson Bros. 1
cowl-misting 390. at $2.75, 2 do av. 1,125
at $8140? 4‘do'av. 1,120 a134, 5 heifers av
614 all 844; to Goodwin 12 stookers av 600
at $3290; to Kamman B. Co. 31 butchers
av 795 3.1- $4.40; to Gerish 29 do av 851 at
$4.55; to Lachalt 14 do av 802 at $4.45; to
Fry 10 do av 693 at $4.15; to Schlischer
6 do 3.0! 773 at $4.25; to Heinrich 4 steers
av 712 at $4.65, 4 do av 735 at $4.65, 14 do
av 870 at $5, 3 do av 600 at $4; to Rehfuss
6 stockers av 553 at $3.40, 9 do av 633 at
$3.90; to Wilson 8 butchers av 716 at
84.35;.to Goose 6 bulls av 533 at $3.40, 5
heifers av 586 at $4; to Marx 5 steers av

Haley 8: M. sold Bresnahan 1 heifer
weighing 810 at $4.50, 3 cows av 1.145 at
$4, 3 do av 1,045 at $3. 7 butc-hcrs av 534
at $3.70; to Goose 3 cows av 1,040 at $4,
3 heifers av 450 at $3.65, 2'do av 835 at
$3.60, 1 do weighing 780 at $3.25; to Sulli-
van P. Co. 4 cows av 1.090 at $4.40. 1
steer weighing 990 at $5.35, 1 cow weigh—
ing 1,100 at $3.75, 2 oxen av 1,325 at $5, 2
bulls av 975 at $3.80, 4 do av 832 at $3.80;
to Kamman 4 heifers av 500 at $3.70; to
Schuman 5 butchers av 744 at $4.30; to
Thompson 8 do av 775 at $4.40; to Regan
11 do av 560 at $3.90; to Applebaum 3 do
av 533 at $3.40, 11 do av 754 at $4.15; 10
Schlischer 3 steers av 600 at $4; to Erwm
12 stockers av 534 at $3.75; to Erban Bros.
1 bull weighing 1,070 at $4.

Robb sold Regan 11 butchers av 552 at
$3.75, 3 steers av 610 at $4, 11 butchers
av 771 at $4.55, 5 bulls av 606 at $3.25.

McLachlin sold Kamman 3 cows av 1,170
at $3.75.

Same sold Sullivan P. Co. 8 bulls av 553
at $3.25, 1 do weighing 960 at $4.

Johnson so‘ld Schlischer 5 butchers av
784 at $4.30. .

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 486. Market 25@50c higher
than last week. Will close lower. ‘

Best, $9.50@9.75; others, $5698.75: milc‘h

cows and springers, good grades, $3@5
higher.

Calf market closed 75c@$1 lower than
opening.

McLachlin sold Mich. B. Co. 2 av 140
at $8.75.

Johnson sold same 5 av 165 at $9, 2 av
250 at 36.

Sharp sold Hammond, S. & Co. 7 av
170 at $9.25.

Haley & M. sold Thompson Bros. 2 av
175 at $6; to Newton B. Co. 9 av 160 at
$9, 5 av 160 at $9.25; to Parker, W. &. Co.
5 av 165 at $8.50.

Roe Com. Co, sold Mich. B. Co. 3 av
210'at $7, 14 av 150 at $9.25.

Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 14 av 155
at 89, 7 av 165 at $9.50. 5 av 160 at $9.40,
8 av 155 at $9.40, 10 av 138 at $9; to Fried-
man 3 av 145 at $9: to Goose 3 av 200 at
$5, 14 av 180 at $8.50: to Newton B. Co.
25 av 165 at $9.75; to Burnstlne 3 av 250
at $8.50. 15 av 170 at $9.75.

Grofl & I). sold Marx 10 av 147 at $9.75.

Bishop, »B. & H. sold Hammond. S. &
Co. 3 av 155 at $9.50. 6 av 145 at $9, 8
av 160 at $9. 7 av 180 at $9, 6 av 150 at
$9: to Sullivan P. 00.4 av 155 at $7.50, 8
av 180 9.1989, 13 av 160 at $9; to Parker,
W. & Co. 14 av 140 at $9, 8 av 225 at $7.
8 av 150 at $9; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 av 155
at $9.50.

 

THE MICHIGAN «FARMER.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 2,675. Market steady at last
week's prices. ~

Best lambs, 96.75727; fair to good lambs,
$6.25@6.50; light to common lambs, $5.50
@6; yearlings, $5; fair to good sheep, $4@
4.25; culls and common, $3@3.50.

Spioer & R. sold Mich. B, Co. 14 lambs
av 65 at $7, 15 sheep av 80 at $4, 31 do av
95 at $4, 10 lambs av 48 at $6, 71 do av
73 at $6.60, 30 do av 72 at $6.80, 23 sheep
av 90 at $4, 10 do av 120 at $4.25, 2 do
av 105 at $3, 15 lambs av 58 at $6.25.

Haley & M. sold Stocker 21 lambs av
65 at $6.75; to Newton B. Co. 126 do av
80 at $6.50; to Young 66 do av 85 at $6.60;
to Sullivan P. Co. 6 sheep av 120 at $5;
to Thompson Bros. 5 do av 125 at $4.50,
28 lambs av 75 at $6.60; to Gordon & B.
55 do av 70 at $6.60, 5 sheep av 110 at $4.

Roe Com. Co. sold Barlage 10 sheep av
98 at $3.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 11 do av
125 at $4; to Eschrich 93 lambs av 73
at $6.40.

Bishop, 8. & H. sold Hammond, S. &
Co. 2 sheep av 140 at $3, 10 do av 104 at
$4, 10 lambs av 59 at $6, 103 do av 75 at
$6.50, 12 do av 65 at $6.25, 14 do av 55
at $6; to Parker. W. 8; Co. 93 do av 75 at
$6.50; to Mich. B. CO. 14 sheep av 120 at
$4.25, 19 do av 110 at $4.25, 29 yearliugs
av 80 at $6, 21 sheep av 110 at $ .25; to
Sullivan P. Co. 23 lambs and sheep av 55
at $5.50, 6 lambs av 52 at $6, 92 do av 70
at $6.65, 33 do av 75 at $6.75; to Gordon
& B. 56 do av 77 at $6.75. 8 do av 55 at
$6; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 34 do av 70 at
$6.65, 21 sheep av 95 at $4, 29 lambs av
73 at $6.80. 25 do av 77 at $6.50, 16 sheep
av 90 at $4.75, 28 yearlings av 80 at $5.50,
26 lambs av 75 at $6.50; to Hammond, S.
& Co. 10 do av 76 at $6.50, 14 sheep av
80 at $4.50.

Weeks sold Mich. B. Co. 19 sheep av
120 at $4.25, 29 lambs av 70 at $6.60.

Johnson sold same 67 do av 75 at $6.65.

Robb sold same 82 do av 70 at 86.65.

Same sold Thompson Bros. 82 yearlings
av 70 at $5.

Grcifi &. S. sold Marx 24 lambs av 75
at $6.50.

Hogs.

Receipts, 2.162. Market 15@20c higher
than last week on lights.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers, $8.85@9: piss, $9; light yorkers. $8.85
@9; heavy, $8.75; Stags one—third 01f.

Roe Com_ Co. sold Hammond, S. 8: Co.
148 av 220 at $8.90, 18 av 215 at $8.80.

Sundry shippers sold same 199 av 238
at $8.90, 35 av 245 at $8.75.

Spicer & R. sold same 252 av 190 at

$8.90. .

Bishop. B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
360 av 180 at $9, 510 av 195 at $8.90, 250
av 245 at $8.75.

Friday’s Market.
August 5, 1910.
Cattle.

Receipts this week, 568: last week, 1.295;
market steady at Thursday’s prices. Best
steers and heifers. $5.50@6; steers and
heifers, 1.000 to 1.200, $5695.25; do. 800 to
1.000, $4.50@5; graSS steersand- heifers
that are fat, 800 to 1.000, $4.50@5; do. 500
to 700_ 33.5064; choice fat cow's, “$4.50;
good fat cows, 83.75614; common cows,
$3603.50: canners, $2.25@2.50; choice heavy
bulls, $4.50; fair to good bologna bulls,
83.50604; stock bulls, $3@3;50; choice feed-
ing steers, 800 to 1.000, 345000475: {air
feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4@4.25; choice
stockers, 500 to 700, $4@4.25; fair stock-
ers, 500 to 700, $3.50@4; stock heifers.
336133.50; milkers, large. young, medium
age, $40@50; common milkers, $25@35.

Veal Calves.

Receipts this week, 514; last week, 978.
Market strong at Thursday's prices. Best,
$9.25; others, $5608.75. Milch cows and
springcrs steady.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 1,644; last week,
1,598; market steady at Thursday's prices.
Best lambs, $7; fair to good lambs, $6.25@
6.75; light to common lambs, 85.50076;
yearlings, 85.50606; fair to good sheep,
346114.50; culls and common, $3@3.50.
Hogs.
week. 1,725;
steady at

last week.
Thursday's

$8.80;
heavy,

Receipts this
2,304. Market
prices. Light to good butchcrs,
pigs, $8.80; light vorkcrs, $8.80;
$8.50@S.65; stags one-(third off.

 

'The wool market is still showing con—
suierablo animation, and more buyers
have shown up in Boston, indicating that
the manufacturers believe prices have
touched bottom and that. future changes
will bc in the upward direction.

 

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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
wrltcr. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the some ailments. If this column is
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the desired information in a replv that
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reply by mail is requested, it becomes
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accompany the letter.

 

Wire Clit.~—l have a brood mare that
was cut badlv on barbed wire: since then
her legs swell and the wounds refuse to
heal. S. J., Montague, Mich.—~Clip the
hair away from wounds and apply hydro-
gen peroxide twice a day; ten minutes
later dust on some of the following pow—
der: Equal parts oxide zinc, borlc acid
and powdered alum. If the sores are
filled with fungus flssue burn it down
mm a red hot iron or lunar caustic once
a day. until the center of wounds are
lowest.

Cracked Heels—For the past 12 months
my five—vear—nld 'horse has been tmubled
Wlth scratches. I succeeded in healing

-their trouble.
water to their milk, and feed them one- -

 

the sores but they seem to open, dis-'

charge some and bother him more or less
and do not remain cured. I use him for
road driving. He stands in the stable
a whole lot and seems to be
health. J. S., Owosso, Mich—Give 2 drs.

Fowler's solution at a dose in feed three,

times a day for 30 days; also apply one
part carbolic acid and six parts glycerlne
to sore heels twice daily. Perhaps you
are feeding him too much grain,
Diseased Udder.—I am a very well sat-
isfied reader of the Michigan Farmer, and
come to you for advice regarding a cow
that came fresh 3. month ago. Since then

she has done fairly well, but one quarter.

of her udder is swollen and she gives
little milk from it. The tube through teat
is too large. H. F. (3., Bangor, Mich.—-—
Apply one part tincture iodine and four
parts sweet oil to diseased quarter once
a day and give her 1 dr. iodide potassium
at a dose in feed three times a day for
three weeks.

Teat with TWO Openings—I have a
heifer that came fresh very rooenily that
has two holes in one teat. The hole on
side of teat is about one inch from end.

W'lll it be necessary to use a milking tube '

and if so send me one or two and 1 shall
remit by return mail. G. L., Ovid, Mich.
-—In order to heal the artificial opening
the edges must be made raw and stitched
closely together with silk, linen or cat-
gut; the sewing material should be soak—
ed in one part carbolic and four parts
sweet oil before it is used. Apply boric
acid to Wound twice a day. It will be
necessary to milk her through a tube and
if you will measure length of teat before
ordering, it will be sure to fill the bill.
The 3% inch costs 350; 3 inch 300, de-
livered by mail. It may be necessary to
leave the tube in teat part of the time
when not. milking.

Chronic Garget.—I have a cow that had
several attacks of garget last fall and
several attacks this season. However,
none of them were severe. When the bag
is swallen she passes gargety milk, but
the attack only lasts a day or two. A.
S. 9., South Haven, Mich—“men she
has an attack give her IA, oz. fluid extract
phytolatxxa three times a day for two days
and apply extract of phytolacca to udder
twice a day.

Acute Indigestion—Having derived
much benefit from reading veterinary dc-
partmeni of the Michigan Farmer, I come
to you to ascertain what was the cause
of my shoat's death. One month ago I
bought a cream separator and have used
it twice a day, but washed it thoroughly
each time. These pigs are four months
old, are fed some corn with the milk and
have all the clover they care to eat. One
of them died two weeks ago and another
a few days ago. showing same symptoms
as the other did; both bloated badly be‘
fore death. H. M Plymouth, M1011.“
Your pigs died from acute indigestion.
Perhaps the hot weather and over feed-
ing on sweet milk and clover caused all
Add some salt or lime
food sultry

fourth less during hot,

weather.

Garget—Using Milking Tubes—Two-
yc.1r-old heifer with first calf had inflamed
udder when calf was one week old. She
was quite a heavy milker; we milked
three times a day to keep udder emptied
and uscd iodine ointment and gave iodide
of potassium; udder is now all right ex-
cept one quarter. This began to milk
ihard soon after inflammation begun. \Ve
uscd milking lube but tcat keeps closing
and now it is impossible to draw milk
without a lube. I always sterilize tube
but whcn I withdraw it lhcrc will be a
drop of blood on cud of tcat. 'l‘hcre is
no bunch or soreness, simply secms to
be growing up. 1 have another cow that
I began to use milking tube on because
she had a hole in the side of one teat. and
while, bcforc using tubc she was an easy
milker, now it is practically impossible
to draw any milk from that teat without
a tube. “Yould a teat plug opcn this teat
so it will milk again by hand? I begin
to think a tubc is a dangerous thing to
use if it always causes the, teat opening
to contract. A. L. L., Goldwater, Mich.
If you will apply one part red—iodidc mor—
cury and eight parts land to bunch in
udder it will soften it. It always helps a
case of this kind to give iodide of potas-
sium twice daily. iv using a tcat plug
it will help dilute the opening but if a
stricture of the duct has taken place a
steel sound should be passed through
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THE MICHIGAN FA-RMER.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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How Shall the Farmer’s Wife Save Time?
Have You Learned the Art?

 

 

 

an article which fills me with a

great deal of admiration for the
writer, for I feel that she, or possibly
he, is the possessor of a. vast fund of
unconscious humor. To this class belong
those articles which advise farmers’ wives
to spend more time with their children
and Mother Nature.

I always think that the person who
wrote that article was a man who knew
no more about a farm than he could learn
by riding across the state on a 40-mile-
an-hour express. Certainly no one who
knows conditions as they are for the
farmer’s wife would have the temerity to
tell her she should take more time to
“list to Nature’s teachings.” It is some-
thing like telling the city editor of a big
daily paper to take time to say his pray-
ers three minutes before the paper goes
to press, with a big murder just com-
mitted and a graft expose from the city
hall to report.

If there is anybody busier than the
farmer’s wife, during the time when Na-
ture is in the best mood to be studied,
I should like to see that person. “Then
is the high tide of the year" for her, with
a vengeance. Fruit to he canned, jelly
to be made, gardens to he kept up, vege-
tables to be.dried. meals to be cooked,
washing, ironing, scrubbing and mend-
ing, probably sewing, and seven days out
of the week, company from the city to be
entertained, this is the work for many a
farmer's wife in Michigan.

VERY once in a while I run across
lE

Perhaps she has help. probably she
hasn't, as domestic ‘help is almost un-
known in the country. Perhaps she has
children to help her. but it is just as
possible that she has children who are
so small as to need care. She rises at 5
a. m., maybe at 4 o‘clock, and from that
time until dark every minute is full. Her
husband may drop down on the couch
after dinner for a ten—minute nap. but she
washes the dishes while he snores. Usu-
ally the only time she sits down is at
meal time, and during that half hour she
jumps up a half dozen times to wait on
the table.

And it is to this hard-worked woman
a magazine comes, carrying the airy sug—
gestion that she ought to spend more time
with her children and the great, big, beau-
tiful outdoors. “More time,” when the
cry of her life is for 48 hours in the day
with which to get through ‘her work.
“Don’t spent so much time cooking and
baking,” advise those good scribes. “Give
the family plenty of fresh fruit and vege-
tables, buy things already prepared, and

 

 

take the time thus saved to devote to
rest and your little ones.”
Just suppose you live on a. new farm

and haven’t the fruit, what then? Or if

you do have it, is it not to take any
time to pick it and prepare it for the
table? And then, are you to expect men
who do hard, muscular labor to be satis-
fied with a diet of fresh fruit and succu-
lent vegetable which, while cooling to the
blood, have practically no nourishing
power? Men who work like farmers do,

 

 

 

 

 

 

building a sink with proper piping into
which waste water might be emptied. A
small table with casters might be bought
on which all the dishes could- be piled
and pushed from dining table to kitchen
and back to the sideboard or cupboard,
thus saving steps. A gasoline stove or
oil stove to replace the hot wood stove
would make things considerably easier,

but these things all take money, which
in some families is far from plentiful.

If the work of the farmer’s wife is to
be lessened, she is the one to say how
it is to be done, for each family has its
own individual problems. Will not some
of the women who have solved the prob-
lem, tell us how they did it, in a letter
to The Farmer. DEBORAH.

 

Bringing the City Kitchen to the Country.

“What on earth do the women in town
want of hired girls?” queries the country
housekeeper. “What need have they of
help? Why everything is made easy for
them from the moment they get up until

 

 

The Sink is of Yellow Composition.

need something more “fillin’,” and so far
in the scheme of things it is up to the
good wife to cook hearty food. As for
“buying food prepared,” that is the
screamingly funny part of this advice, the
part. which makes me sure the writers
never saw a farm. VV'here is the woman
who lives six moles from a store, that
buys her food already prepared?

Of course the average farmer's wife
works too hard. We will admit that. Of
course. she should have more time to de—
vote to her children, more time for self-
culture, more time for rest—just plain
rest. But where is she going to get it?
If she lives in a community where she
can hire help, then the question is solved.
It would be ‘her duty to hire, even if
the sum of money the good man planned
to save was lessened. Other things might
be done to make the work a bit easier,
such as putting water in the house and

 

Two Compartments of the Big Refrigerator.

they go to bed. They don’t even have to
pump water out of the cistern to bathe
themselves. They just turn a faucet, and
there is a stream of water gushing out.

“They go down to get breakfast, and no
empty woodbox makes them cross and
puts breakfast behind. They scratch
a match, turn a gas jet and a hot blaze
spring up to boil the kettle and cook the
eggs. They wash the dishes at a beauti-
ful white sink, and then just turn the pan
over and the water runs away. A refrig—
erator keeps their milk, butter and meat
cool and sweet without the necessity of
climbing up and down cellar stairs. On
wash day, stationery tubs stand ready to
be used, they turn a faucet and fill the
tubs, and when through washing pull out
a plug and the water runs away. They
have no heaVy tubs to life as we do, no
water to carry or wood to bring in, per-
haps even to split, no back~brcaking work
of any sort. I could do my own work
and g0 visiting every day if I had things
as easy as the women in town." '

Thanks to the march of time and man’s
inventiveness, the country woman can
have things just as easy, by the outlay
of work and money. Even the farm kit-
chen can be supplied with water, gas and
ice, no matter how remote from town.
Many now have the water, the gas and
ice are to follow.

The kitchen of Mrs. H, B. Joy in her
beautiful home at Grosse Pointe Farms
shows how complete a kitchen may be
made, though outside of the limits of a
city. Gas, electric lights, a huge refrig—
erator, a vacuum cleaner system and a
complete home laundry may be installed
in any home, certainly should be in homes
where the husband has all the latest im-
provements in machinery to make his own
labor light.

Imagine doing your work in a great,
light, sunny kitchen. whcre you needn’t
step outside or downstairs, for a thing.
Your work would be simply cut in half.

In Mrs. Joy’s kitchen, light and air are
almost as unobstructed as out of doors,
a point carpenters usually overlook when
building a house. Instead of the dark,
stuffy place we often find, three windows
in the north and two windows and a. sash

door in the east let in floods of sunshine.
Under the middle window in the north
stands the work table, at the right of
this under an east window, the sink, with
its two drip boards, and at the left of the
table the great range where famous din-
ners are cooked. The range is combina-
tion coal and gas with six ovens, includ-
ing a warming oven and a broiling oven.
Think of the way one can hurry things
through on a busy baking day, with all
these ovens to command.

The sink, instead of being white en-
amel, is of yellow composition, which does
not show every stain as do the white ones,
and consequently does not demand so
much scouring. A thorough cleaning out
With a. good washing powder and a scald-
ing after each meal with the use of a.
disinfectant keeps it clean and sweet. The
drip boards are hung on hinges so they
can be folded back out of the way when
not in actual use.

But it is the refrigerator which makes
the biggest appeal to the woman who un-
derstands the value of thorough cooling.
This is built in one side of the large pan-
try, where it can be kept. shut off from the
heat of the kitchen. Instead of the small
ice-box most families own, it is a'collec-
tion of eight ice-boxes, reaching from floor
to ceiling and from the pantry\door to
the side of the room. You who wrestle
with the problem of keeping butter, milk
and cream and vegetables and fruit cool
without the milk and butter absorbing
odors, think of having a separate compart-
ment for everything. One ice—box for but-
ter, another for milk and cream, a. third
for fruit, a fourth for vegetables, a fifth
for meat and two others for other foods.
The refrigerator is chilled with cold air
which is brought up through pipes from
the ice-plant in the basement, no ice be-
ing used in it anywhere. The inside tem—
perature is kept at 40 degrees, a ther-
mometer hanging in one compartment
showing when the interior is too warm
or too cold.

Such a collection of small cupboards
and drawers as -the pantry boasts, would
fill the heart of a true housekeeper with
envy. There is a cupboard for sugar and
one for flour, cupboards for pans and
skillcts and pots and frying pans. Cup-
boards for linen and kitchen towels, in
fact cupboards for everything one could
think of. Shelves for staple groceries,
canned goods and breakfast food, etC.,
and shelves full of jellies and delicious
preserves line the walls. A sink in under

 

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an east] window, with faucets for hot
and cold ‘water. is used for washing up
baking dishes, for the cakes, cookies and
pastry may be, prepared in the pantry,
and thus the necessity of working in the
hot. kitchen is obviated.

This pantry'is connected only with the
kitchen, and contains the utensils and
foods which are necessary for use in that
room. Alongside this pantry is a second
which opens off the dining room and is
stocked with the fine china and silver for
use on the table. The two pantries are
connected by a small window through
which food may be passed to be carried
to the dining room. Both open off the
kitchen, from the side opposite the range,
Work table and sink.

A double sink for washing the silver
and my) glass and china is a feature of
this pantry, also. It, too, is beneath a
window, so that the dishwasher has a
glimpse of the beautiful out of doors.
while at work, instead of the inevitable
blank wall most country homes offer for
study while at this cheerful occupation.
The sinks in both pantries are really sta-
tionary dishpans, being galvanized iron
sinks about 20x40 inches, divided into two
compartments.

Beneath the sink in this second pantry
is a, steam radiator on top of which rests
a. rack where dishes are warmed for the
table in winter. In summer they are
warmed by an electric plate, which is ar—
ranged in a small cupboard so that all
the heat from the current may be hus-
banded.

The question of how to take care of
the platters is met in this pantry. A cup-
board filled with shelves built just far
enough apart to hold one platter. When
one thinks of the cupboards where plat—
ters stand on edge back of the plates and
other dishes, and slide down with a re-
sounding crash if one forgets and re-
moves the prop in front, the wisdom and
economy of this arrangement may be seen.

“How about the floors?" I hear some one
ask, since the cleaning of floors is one of
the bugbears of housekeepers. The fioons
are of southern pine, treated to a coat
of ‘filler and several coats of oil, and need
only to be wiped off with warm water.
Sometimes suds are necessary but not al—
ways. But as plain wood floors are hard
on the feet, squares of linoleum are in
front of range, table and sink, and strips

" Ofi'l'litioleum lead down either side of the

kitchen to the two pantry doors.

On the east side of the kitchen a broad
porch with easy chairs and a small table,
offer an inviting spot to drop down when
a. spare moment comes. From the porch,

, steps lead down into a lattice-enclosed

patch of greensward for drying the
clothes. A large clothes reel with plenty
of clean grass for spreading down any-
thing which needs bleaching insures white,
sweet-smelling linen. For the farmer’s
wife who dares not spread anything on
the grass for fear of the ever-wandering
hen, the dirty—footed dog, or the pig who
occasionally breaks his prison wall, this
enclosure offers a valuable suggestion.

“How can they get gas for the range
if they are On a farm,” do you ask? I
have already said they manufacture their
own ice. The same reply will answer
this question, for they manufacture their
own gas.

THE MENACE OF THE FLY.

 

BY ELLA E. Rocxwooo.

No one thing now existent furnishes
so formidable a menace to public health
as does the house fly. This is the ulti-
matum of scientists of highest rank, men
who have made a study of the habits of
the agile insect and who are now trying
to arouse sentiment leading to its extinc-
tion. That this may be accomplished
at an early day is to be ardently hoped
it not honestly anticipated. So great is
the danger from insect distribution of
disease germs that several states have
already taken action toward the exter-
mination of this nuisance.

It is confidently expected that typhoid
fever will fall far short of its past rec-
ord in claiming victims once this can
be done. Infection by typhoid germs,
heretofore attributed chiefly to drinkiig
water as the medium of communication,
is now believed to be the work of flies.
Instances sufficiently numerous to prove
the fly guilty of this charge have been
noted, and medical authorities agree that
of the two, flies are more to be dreaded.

Aside from being an actual menace to
health the fly is of such filthy habits that
it is a wonder 'he has been tolerated by
the housewife as long as he has. To a
great extent this has been for the reason
that no known method existed of keep—
ing him outside. Spite of screens, how-
ever well fltting, he will slip in. If but
one enters every time the door opens

The MICHIGAN yFARMER'. ' (13) 121

that would be enough to make a sizable
swarm at the end of a week. Evidently
screens are not all that are required.
Fly paper of various kinds are more or
less effective, usually less. Traps, baited
with sweets, catch a few and the familiar
“swatter” is serviceable where their num-
bers are but few. Yet when all have
been tried, everything possible done, the
nuisance will but be abated, not exter-
minated. NOr can the latter be accom-
plished so long as breeding places are
furnished and the eggs permitted to hatch
unmolested.

In sections where war has been openly
declared upon the fly, manure heaps are
ordered screened. also stables, since it is
in these places that the eggs are de—
posited. The suggestion to screen the
stables would probably be favorably re—
ceived by the horses. who would benefit
directly thereby even were nothing gain-
ed otherwise.

The presence of garbage near the house
calls files. Note the numbers seen about
the pails at the back door. To provide
covers for these is a simple matter, and,
by the by, this might save the lives of
many small chickens. since the investi-
gating turn of the youngsters often leads
to death by drowning. The pails are a
necessity. but they may be placed at a
distance from the door, and kept reason-
ably clean.

Years ago some credulous ones be-
lieved that a balm of gilead tree planted
near the house would keep flies from
entering. Certain vines were held to
possess this repellent property also. and
were to be trained over the windows.
A bottle of oil of pennyroyal left uncorked
in a room was claimed to drive out both
flies and mosquitoes. Now we know
all these are failures and nobody de-
pends on such things.

It is clearly up to our scientists to come
forward with aid to the public and fur-
nish an exterminating agent more pow-
erful than any known at present. The.
house-wife hates the fly. She fights him
to the best of her ability. She realizes
the menace he is in the home but up to
date he is simply too many for ‘her. She
can't manage him.

Not alone in the homes of the people
are. files to be dreaded. Think of the con-
tagion possible all during the summer
season and late into the fall through the
presence of these germ-carriers in ice
cream parlors, restaurants, groceries and
meat markets. It is impossible to keep
them off the food we are to eat before it
enters the house, careful as we may be
regarding this afterward. One fly leaves
behind him swarms of bacteria after he
has traveled the length of a piece of pie
or cake upon our tables.

Let us hope some means may speedily
be devised whcrby this nuisance can be
not only appreciably abated. but actually
abolished. As individuals we may be able.
more or less successfully to do the one;
only combined effort can accomplish the
other,

SHORT CUTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.

 

If when making custard pie or pud—
ding you thoroughly mix one tablespoon-
ful of flour into each three tablespoonfuls
of sugar, your custard will not Whey.—
T. F. C. ‘

If the end of a shoe lace, from which
the metal tag has been lost, is rolled to
a point with mucilage or photo paste
and dried, it will be as serviceable as
oven—E. L. R,

'l‘ry turpentine to take soreness out of
cows—E. M. C.

HOME QUERIES.

 

To one peck of beans cut up take one
'handful of salt, one teacup of vinegar and
one gallon of water. Put all together
and boil twenty minutes and can. I
use this recipe every year and it never
fails—E. E. L,

Seven cups of cherries or currants, five
cups of white sugar, one pound of raisins
chopped, juice of three oranges and grated
peeling of one orange. Put all together
and boil till quite thick. Put in glasses
and when cold cover with parafine. It
will keep any length of time—E. E. L.

Dear Editor: Will you please publish
in Michigan Farmer a recipe for making
grape wine?-M. H., Standish.

Here is a simple way to make grape
wine. and it is fine: Pick grapes from
the stems, put in large stone jar a layer
of grapes, then a layer of sugar; repeat
until par is three—quarters full. Place a
heaVy weight on top, put in cool place. let
stand six or eight weeks then strain and
bottle for use—Mrs. N. L., Blissfield.

Dear Editor: Can any of the readers
of the exchange column tell me of a sim-
ple remedy to kill flies around the house
at once without the use of fly paper. I

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My soul goes out to yesterday,
To thoughts of youth and rising sun,
Then swiftly sweeps as if to stay
Within some realm not yet begun.
I hold the master-mind awhile,
Of art and letters, love and prayer,
And know no thought that, shall beguile
The heart of things, as something fair.

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With noonday sun or evening star,
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Of that great good from off afar,
My hope shall not grow old with time
Or stress; the wo1th of things is still
As true as if this thought of mine
Were its own world of God—like will.

GETTING MRS. PARKS HOME.

BY MILDA RICHMOND

“If I could only go home! If I could
only go home!" wailed the sick woman in
despair. “I'm going to die without see-
ing mother! I know I am!"

“Mrs. Parks, if you waste your strength
in this way, you surely will die,” said the
young doctor with just a touch of impa-
tience in his tone. He was very young-—
this was almost his first patient—and he
had tried all his arts without avail. He
took the restless hand in his strong,
warm clasp and endeavored to soothe her,
but she only wept the louder.

“Is she going to die?" asked the tall,
thin girl in the forlorn kitchen as he went
out for a glass of water. “Can‘t some-
thing be done for her?"

“Nothing that I know of unless she
could see her mother," he answered. “Miss
llannah, can you quiet her in any way?
She must stop this crying or she won't
last a week. I don‘t like to give her a.
drug, but l'm at my wits‘ end.”

“I've tried it, too," said Hannah Ros-
well briefly. “ller mother can't come be—
cause she‘s an invalid. But for the sake
of these children she ought to be saved,
if not for her own.”

She lowered her voice so that “these
children" might not understand, and be-
stowed another sprinkling of sugar on the
slices of bread and butter she was hand—
ing out. She had washed the. children
till their faces shone, and their wet heads
still showed signs of the vigorous cleans-
ing they had received at Hannah’s strong
young, hands, but they forgave her. and
eten touch) little Ben stopped sniffling
as he saw his “piece” receive an extra
dose of sugar.

“I‘ll tell you what I think,” said Mrs.
Catch, the doctor’s wife, who had also
taken refuge in the kitchen to escape the
pitiful wails of the sick woman. “We
must get this woman to her mother just
as soon as possible.” Mrs. Gatch was a.
gentle, timid little creature, but she was
wonderfully interested in her husband’s
success and felt that heroic measures
must be taken to save his reputation as
well as the patient's life. She was very
sorry for the sick woman, but under her
sorrow was the professional fear that if
she should die it would be bad for Dr.
Gatch’s reputation in the community.
Their little bank account was rapidly de-
creasing, and she did not want a funeral
credited to her husband right in the start,
as people would surely do in case Mrs.
Parks died.

“Eleanor, that is out of the question,
child! Her mother lives forty miles from
here and there is no railroad to the place.
Besides, Jim Parks can‘t pay for the
medicines she uses, and a journey would
be entirely out of the question.” Dr.
Catch looked as if that settled the case,
but he had yet to learn the ways of
womankind.

“I know how I’d feel if I were sick and
away from my mother,” persisted the
bride of a few months. “Sometimes I
nearly die as it is of homesickness, and
I’m well and strong. besides having a
husband that amounts to something.” Her
gaze wandered to Jim Parks, languidly
doing a few chores about the tumble-
down barn, and unconsciously she spoke
her inmost thoughts. The children had
departed with their “pieces” to the yard
so she could speak out. “And, besides,
Charles, if she—she passed away in her
own home she would be better satisfied,
and folks wouldn’t blame you.”

“Let’s take her home, Mrs.
said Hannah recklessly. “I know of a
DerfeCtly Splendid Dian! W'e’ll put a cot
in that long covered wagon of father’s
and drive to Oak Grove. It would only
take us two days and needn’t cost a cent.
I just know father and mother will let
me 301 if you’ll go along. I can’t bear
to see her die without having her last
request gratified.”

Catch,”

THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ‘

“I’ll go, if Charles will,’ said Mrs.

Gatch. “Let’s start tomorrow morning,
early. I’ll go right in and tell her.”
“Hold on, Eleanor!" cried the doctor,

. -catching his wife’s skirts as she was about

to dash into the other room. “For mercy’s
sake, don’t promise a thing we can’t
carry out. It’s perfectly absurd to think
of such a. thing.”

“Then we’ll go by ourselves," declared
Hannah. “I can drive two old horses as
well as anyone, and when night comes
we’ll stop in some farm house. Mother
will let me have the old gasoline stove,
and we’ll cook like gypsies by the road-
side. It will be a sort of camping-out
.trip and we‘ll combine business with
pleasure.”

“Well, if your folks don’t object we
might try it,” said Dr. Gatch, as the
wails in the sitting room become louder,
and his wife and Hannah pleaded their
case. “If she dies on the road and you
two have hysterics, I don’t know what
I'll do. but we can make the venture if
you are so determined.”

Like a flash Hannah flew home, which
was only a little distance away, and in
a few minutes she was back too breath-
less to speak, but able to nod a trium-
phant assent to the delighted Mrs. Gatch.

Very gently the doctor broke the news
to the discouraged Mrs. Parks, and his
wife and Hannah were jubilant when she
dropped almost at once into a peaceful
sleep. They were flying around making
prcparations—scrubbing the infants and
planning what to take—when the doctor
came out looking very much worried but,
011 the whole, relieved that his patient
was comforted and quieted.

“\l'hat are you going to do with the
youngsters?” he asked.

“Take them along! There's plenty of
room in the wagon, and if we left them
behind she‘d fret about them. I’ve got
to go home now to help mother get the
provisions ready." Hannah shrewdly
guessed the state of the doctor’s finances,
and she determined to see that there was
plenty of food so that no money would
have to be spent. Also there would be
(‘t’llll for the horses, so that the trip
would not be burdensome to Dr. Gateh,
who might feel it his duty to help with
the expenses.

“\Yhat's all this carryin’ on about?”
asked the master of the house mildly, as
he strolled in from the barn and found
the kitchen the scene of quiet but vigor-
ous work.

“I‘Ve are going to take your wife to
her mother tomorrow,” said Dr. Gatch,
suddenly remembering that no one had
thought to consult Mr. Parks about the
matter. “She’ll have to see her mother
if she’s going to get well."

“That so?” inquired Jim Parks in mild
surprise. “Goin’ to take the kids, too?”

“Yes, your wife would not be satisfied
Without them. We are going to start
early in the morning before it gets too
warm.”

Mr. Parks offered no comments or sug-
gestions, but sat smoking his pipe, on
the doorstep and watching the prepara-
tions. Hannah came flying in like a whirl—
wind with an armload of clean clothes,
almost upsetting the children in her haste,
and announced that her mother said the
doctor and his wife must stop with them
all night so there would be no delay in
the morning, an offer they gladly accept-
ed, and it was late at night before si-
lence reigned in the poor little house,

“How does it look?” asked Hannah
anxiously as she led the way to the fine
big barn where the wagon stood all ready
for the start “\Ve have all had a hand
in getting it readv.”

“\Vell, I don‘t believe it will hurt Mrs.
Parks 8. bit to take the trip,” said Dr.
Gatch, allowing some of the anxiety to
fade out of his eyes as he looked behind
the curtains. “I don’t see how you could
do so much in such a little time.”

A cot was heaped with clean bedding,
the gasoline stove was tucked partly un-
der the seat. a box of provisions made a
footstool for the driver, and there were
places for all in the “Ark,” as the Ros-
well children termed the long covered
wagon. Mr. Roswell had picked it up at
a sale years before, and on many ocea-
sions it had proved useful as a picnic
wagon, a wagon for taking grain to the
mill in wet weather, a playhouse for the
small fry. and occasionally a nesting place
for the Plymouth Rock hens that were
the pride of Mrs. Roswell’s heart. On
this very occasion Hannah had rudely
broken up the nest of a motherly biddy,
to get the cot into place. but everything
about the farm should have been used
to the methods of the breezy Hannah
who, in her seventeen brief years, had
done more work and studying and getting
into mischief than any two other girls of
the neighborhood of the same age. She
was just a bundle of energy, but withal so

trustworthy and sensible, that her father
and mother always made no objection to
her plans.

“Do you think we are setting out on a
wild goose chase, Mr, Roswell?” asked
Mrs. Gatch anxiously as they sat down to
a bountiful supper.

“No, I think not,” said Mr. Roswell.
“And if it is a wild goose chase you’ll
come out all right. The horses are
steady, and Hannah won't do anything
rash. Don‘t be discouraged, ma'am, and
you’ll get along all right. Jim Parks is
not much of a manager, but his wife is
worth saving. Any human being is worth
saving, of course, but Mrs. Parks isn’t
like her husband. It may restore her
to health to take her home, and if she
dies there she will at least have the com-
fort of seeing her mother once more. If
I were sick and away from home I’d
be pretty glad to have folks take enough
interest in me to get me back to my old
home, I guess. “'9”. when does the ex-
pedition start in the morning. Hannah?
Six o’clock? All right! I'll have you all
out, and mother will feed you well before
you start. You can go in tw0 days, and
maybe come back in one, but I wouldn‘t
hurry in this hot weather. You’ll get
along all right. I don’t know as I’d be
afraid to let Hannah make the trip alone
in a case of emergency, but I’m glad she
won’t be alone with a sick woman on the
road.”

“With Miss Hannah as commander-in-
c’hief 0f the expedition, I know we will
succeed,” said Dr. Gatch. “Now, I’ll run
over for another look at my patient, and
then'we’d better all go to bed early for
that famous morning start. It was won-
derful how she settled down this after—
noon when she heard she was to go home.
Poor child! It's dreadful to be poor and
ill at the same time.”

”She’ll think she‘s rich when we get
her home day after tomorrow," said
Hannah, briskly. “We wont send her
mother word, but just give her a. joyful
surprise. I can hardly wait to make the
start!” '

t t t I

“How about dinner?" asked Hannah,
as the sun grew hotter and hotter that
August day, and the horses were halted
under a huge oak tree for a, rest. “Let’s
set up our kite-hen in this fence corner
and have some refreshments.

“I’m willing,” said Mrs. Gatch, who
was very tired. Little Ben Parks had
taken a fancy to her, and she had had to
'hold the youngster most of the trip to
keep him quiet. “I’m very hungry.”

Everyone in the party wore shabby old
clothes, the Gatchs having hurried to town
the afternoon before for their oldest gar-
ments, the Parks children possessed no
other kind, while Hannah wore stout
shoes, at short wool skirt and a gingham
blouse. \Vhen the wagon was packed
with necessary things there was little
room left for luxuries, so each person
had planned to stick to one outfit for the
trip.

“I'll take care of the horses and get
the water for the cooking, while you la-
dies get the dinner,” said Dr. Gatch. “I
think a. good rest and a chance to sleep
will help Mrs. Parks very much.”

He even removed the harness from the
tired animals to rest them, and led them
to the farm house close by. In her anx-
iety to see her mother, Mrs. Parks had
urged them out of the walk at which
they started, and a long distance had
been covered when they stopped for din-
ner.

“Taking a sick lady to her ma!” said
the mistress of the farm house when Dr.
Gatch stated his errand and asked per-
mission to water the horses. “I want to
know! Won’t she come in and lay down
on the bed a while? It must be awful,
jolting along in a wagon this hot day.
It won’t take but a minute if she'll only
come.”

“No, thank you,’ said Dr. Gatch po-
litely. “We have her on a cot, and she
ertn’t walk. I‘ll just carry a pail of water
out to make a little tea, and water the
horses, since you are so kind. We are
going to rest until it is a little cooler.”

He hastened back to the wagon and
found Hannah in doubt as to her ability
to make tea for the invalid in a tin pan.
“I thought we had everything,” she
said ruefully, “but the little teapot was
left out. That’s What comes of starting
in a hurry.”

“I‘ll put some tea in a cup and pour
boiling water over it,” said Mrs. Gate-h.
“I think we can manage. She won’t
want very much of anything, and your
mother put in those nice fresh eggs.”

“I’ve come with some chicken for that
sick woman,” announced an urchin, ap-
pearing from the farm house with a. large
granite kettle in his hand. “Ma, she's
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sliced tomatoes. “I don' ,1: see what I was
thinking of not to ask you all over to
dinner," she apologized. “but, of course,
you wouldn’t care to leave the sick lady.
Pa’s coming in a minute to get the horses.

‘He says it isn’t very good for them to

eat green grass on a trip like this, so
he'll feed them hay. No, ‘I don’t want
you to thank me a. bit. I’m sorry you
won’t all come over and rest in the
house.”

“How is this for camping out?" said
Mrs. Gatch, as they all sat down to a
bountiful repast spread on the grass, after
Mrs. Parks had been fed and had drifted
off to sleep. “I call it luxury, myself.”

“I’d feel a little more luxurious if I
were clean,” said Hannah, “but a little
thing like that doesn’t matter. Look at
those children’s faces!” she said, pointing
to the countenances liberally covered with
plum jelly and a sprinkling of road dust.
“Well, everything can be washed off after
dinner at the farm house, for that blessed
woman said we should come over and get
all the rain water and soap we needed.”

“Isn’t she a dear?” said Mrs. Gatch,
selecting another roasting ear from the
heap. “I never saw such hospitality,
except that shown by your mother. Miss
Hannah."

“You’ll find all country people Just like
that,” said Hannah warmly. “I don’t
say that because I live in the country,
but because it‘s true. I've been in town
with my relatives a little, and I don't
like the cold way your next door neigh-
bors treat you. If we'd attempt to stop
in a town tonight they would probably
arrest us for vagrants, but out in the
country people will receive us with open
arms.”

At that moment an automobile came
tearing down the road leaving a heavy
(210le of dust in its wake, and the people
at the lowly table shuddered. They were
leisurely eating the good food, and had
no desire to have it mixed with road
dust, but there seemed to be no escape.
“O, Heracel" they heard a woman’s
\oice say as the car slowed down in pass-
ing, “look at these people! How very
interesting! Back the car up a little so
we can see them!”

Before Hannah and the Gatches had
rcali at had happened, the whole
party was on the ground looking them
over coolly. “How, would you like to
have! like that, Marie?" asked a man in a
long coat loud enough for all to hear.
“Isn’t it an ideal way?”

“IYh‘ere do you suppose they got that
lay .out for dinner?” said another.
“Chicken, and green corn, and fried ham.
and pie, and tomatoes—all the luxuries
of the. season!”

“What an absurd question!” said a lady
with a silvery laugh. “Did you ever
read how an army subsists 011 the march.
These people must be just starting out in
their career, for all the other gypsies I
ever saw had a dozen or more children
and that many dogs. I see only three
youngsters in this party.”

Dr. Gatch was about to say something
when the auto party first began their re-

marks, but a touch of his wife‘s hand
quieted 'him. “Let us hear what they
say," she said in a low tone. “I am

afraid I have been’just as 'impertinent on
occasions in calling on poor people. In
fact, .I am not sure that we have not
treated poor Mrs. Parks as if she belong-
ed to an inferior race of beings—at least
we have her husband.”

“How do people exist in such filth?”
sighed the lady who had implored her
husband to stop. “It is past all compre-
hension with me.”

“Hush!” said her ‘husband. “That fel-
low has a vicious look, and there is no
telling what harm he may do if you make
‘him angry. The best way is not to anger
such characters.” The party climbed
into the car and went on their way,
while Hannah and her friends laughed till
they cried over the "vicious” looks sent
after the swiftly moving car. The roast-
ing cars were given a hot-water bath to
free them from dust, and the chicken
kettle that ‘had ‘been hastily covered
with Hannah’s gingham apron came to
light once more as the feast was finished.

It was three o’clock before Mrs. Parks
awoke and the trip was resumed. The
whole party washed up at the comfort—
able farmhouse, and the good lady press-
ed upon Ifthem a basket of good things
for the evening meal. "I’ll be real anx-
ious to hear from you,” she said at part-
ing. “Do drop me a. card to say how you
got along.”

“We will!” called the departing peOple.
“Don’t worry a bit! We’ll find some nice
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moi-row Hrs. Parks will be with her
mother. Thank you ever so much!
Goodbye! Goodbye!”

The moon was wonderfully bright that
night, so the journey was prolonged until
long after twilight. Slowly the wagon
moved along the dusty highway, and the
occupants so enjoyed the splendor of the
evening, that it was with a start they
found they must hurry to make plans for
the night. Mrs. Parks dozed on the cot,
and the infants snuggled down among the
cushions, so that Hannah and the doc-tor
and his rwife rested as they passed along
between solemn rows of splendid corn.

“I’ll try right there.” said Dr. Gatch,
stopping at an old-fashioned large farm
house where the lawn was so narrow the
occupants of the wagon could hear all
the conversation. “How do you do, ma-
dam? We are looking for lodgings for
the night. We are—”

“We don’t take lodgers,” said a. cold
voice. “You’Ve mistaken the place.”

“I—I guess I have," agreed the doctor,
hurrying back to the wagon. "How’s that
for country hospitality, Miss Hannah?”

“Oh, well," said Hannah, loftily, “there
are exceptions to all rules. Try the next
house and you’ll find things different.”

And her prediction proved true. “Going
to Oak Grove?” said the mistress of the
next farm house. “Well, you've got a
long, dusty trip, I must say. When did
you start? Just this morning? Must
have drove pretty hard to be this fur

along. She ain’t got nothing ketching,
has she? In these days a body has to be
careful.”

“She is just worn out and needs rest,”
said Dr. Gatch. “We would like to get
lodgings for the night.”

“How many is there of you?"

“Four grown people and three children.
Mrs. Parks is 011 a cot and would have to
sleep on that.”

“How old are the children?"

“All under six."

“Is it you and your wife and your sls~
ter?”

"The young lady is a friend of ours. I

am a doetor, and my wife and Miss
Hannah and myself are taking Mrs. Parks
to her mother's home in Oak Grove,” said
Mr. Gatch, uneasily. He was very tired
and anxious to get his party settled for
the night. “Do you think you can find
room for us. We are willing to pay a.
fair price."

“No, I believe not,” said the Woman
slowly. “Vl'e don’t make it a business to
keep lodgers.”

“Why on earth didn't you say so at
first,” muttered the doctor as he hurried
back to the wagon. The children were
fretting and Mrs. Parks moaning, so he
hurried down the road to the next house
in search of shelter. A huge dark cloud
was looming up in the west and he feared
the consequences if they should have to
stay out all night with the invalid.

At the next house it looked as if they
would find shelter, but just as the mis—
tress of the place was looking Dr. Gatoh
over from head to foot, a woman in the
sitting room beyond gave a little shriek
and drew the woman at the door inside.
“Sister, don’t believe a word he says.”
she said, in a. tone loud enough for him to
hear. “We passed that very man on the
road this afternoon. He and some shift-
less-looking creatures were eating right
by the roadside, and several of the dirt!-
est children you ever saw were with them.
Please, don’t let them in!" It was the
woman who had inspected them when the
automobile stopped, and she evidently was
visiting at the farm house. Without wait—
ing to hear the rest of the conversation,
Dr. Gatch abruptly turned and made for
the wagon. He was now sure they would
have to stay in the wagon all night and
brave the rapidly approaching storm. His
wife was bravely trying to keep back her
tears, and Hannah was holding herself
pretty well in hand, but it was an anx-
ious party that drew up at the next little
place—a mere but. but a shelter from
the summer storm if only the people
\vould take them in.

“Drive right into the barn, stranger!”
said the man, 'I’lOSDItalbly, when once
more Dr. Gatch explained their errand.
“A few months ago my house burned
down and we’re living in the new barn
till we ‘build another house. Hurry! The
storm will catch you!”

The great doors were banged shut bv
the approaching storm, but the trembling
little ones and the tearful Mrs. Parks, as
well as Hannah and Mrs. Gatch, felt they
were perfectly safe. Mth the storm rag—
ing and thundering outside they fell
asleep on fragrant beds of new hay, and
nothing disturbed them until the sun was

peering through the cracks of the big

doors next morning.
(Concluded next week.)

THE WEE THREE.

 

BY MARY r. BBOKAW.
In a. bright. happy home that I know there
11 ell

we
The little
well
If this Wee Three
By chance you see,
You’ll think them cunning as cunning
can be.

“Wee Three” that I love so

They are up and alert at break of the

For their
delay.
And each small one,
‘ So full of fun,
Must ‘have a. part in
done.

work, so important, allows no

the work that’s

The cart must be mended, the horse must

be e,
The block houses builded,
«books read.
Compare a bee
W'ith this Wee Three—-
'Twould seem as lazy as drone could be.

and picture

The house must be tended, the babies be
dressed,
The naughty one punished, the good one
caressed,
And these folks wee,
Aged one, four, three,
Are old and important as any can be.
These miniature men, and this matron
sweet,
Through the daylight hours I often meet;
But in twilight gray
They vanish away,
And are seen no more ’till return of day.

And in their stead there come to me,

From out the twilight anothe1 three,
And these Wee Thxee,
Creeping up to me,

Are babies as tired as babies can be.

And I hold them close, as the night draws
men
And pray for my little “Wee Thiee” so
dear,
That they may still,
With as earnest will,
Their places in life so cheeiily fill.

And then I think of the close of d11v
When our toll and strife shall have passed
away,
Of the arms whc1e we,
Like this‘ ‘We Three,”
May lovingly 1est in eternity

 

FROM THE OPTIMIST.

 

Seymour—~“I hear you have evolved a.
wonderful breed of laying hens?"

Ashley—“You bet I have!- They beat
anything I’ve ever seen. They don’t need
roasts."

Seymour—“Don’t need roosts?”

Ashley—“No, sir; they’re laying night

and day.”

 

Brown—“I see your friend, Mr. Waters,
has petitioned the legislature to change
his name."

.Iones—“Yes; he expects to go into the
milk business.”

 

Ethel, aged three,
her cousins, two fun-loving and romping
boys. She had climbed upon her father’s
knee and was telling him of her visit.
“Papa, every night John and George say
their prayers they ask God to make them
good boys.” Then thinking sobcrly for a
few ’minutes, she said, “He ain‘t done it
ye .’

had been to visit

 

“Grandfather, I know what I shall give
you for your birthday—a nice meer-
schaum pipe.”

“That‘s good of you, my dear, but I al-
ready ‘have one.”

“That is to say, grandpa, you did have

one. I’ve just broken it.”

“‘Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Tor-
k1ns, “didn’t you say that horse you
bought has a pedigree?"

“Yes,” was the complacent replv

“Well, knowing how unlucky 1011 are

“ith horses, I consulted a vetezina1y su1—
g1 on You needn’t worry. The doctor
says 1t won’t hurt him in'the least.”

 

“I reckon you have to watch your
porketbook and coat, etc, pletty (lose,
don’t ye e?” a \Vestern visitor asked his
New Yo1k f1iend as they we1e sta1ti11g
out to see the city.

“0, no; ordinary vigilance is all that
is necessary,” responded the other.
“New York is as honest as any other
town."

“IV '1“, I guess Ill kind 0’ keep my
eye. skinned, " xentured the skeptic,

When they “ere lunching in a restau—
rant, the New Yorker observed that hi.-
iriend watched in a certain direction
W1th an expression like that of a cat
at a mouse hole. He was amused but
politely did not remark about it until
near the end of the meal.

“What are you watching so closelv?"

“Jest keepin’ an eye on my ove1coat.”

“Oh. your coat’s all right,” laughed
the New Yorker. "I’m not worrying
about mine. you see, and they’1e hang-
ing together.”

“No. thev ain’.t” drawled the w este1 11—
er. “Mine’s there. but a feller walked
out with your‘n 'bout ten minutes ago.’

 

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Not

Sisters

 

Now and agaln you see two women pass-
lng down the street who look like sisters.
You are astonished to learn that they are
mother and daughter, and you realize that
a woman at forty or forty- -five ought to be
at her finest and fairest, Why lsn’ t it so?
The general health of woman is so in-
timately associated wlth the local health
of the essentially feminine organs that
there can be no red cheeks and round
form where there is female weakness.
Woman who have suffered from
this trouble have found prompt
relief and cure in the use of Dr.
Plerce’s Favorite Prescription.
It gives vigor and vitality to
the organs of womanhood. It
clears the complexion, bright-
ens the eyes and roddons the

cheeks.

 

No alcohol, or habit—forming drugs is
contained in “Favorite Prescr1pt1on ”

Any sick woman may conSult Dr. Pierce
by letter, free. Every letter is held as
sacredly confidential, and answered in a
plain envelope. AddreSS: World’s Dispen-
sary Medical Association, Dr. R.V. Pierce,
Pres., Buffalo, N. Y,

 

 

This Steel Shingle Iloof
Outwears All

An Edwards “Reo” Steel Shingle Roof
will outwear four wood roofs and six
composition or tar roofs. It will save
from four to five times it: cost. Further-
more. it is fireproof and reduces insur-
ance rates from 10 to 20 per cent.

Edwards “REG" Steel Shingles

uire no soldering. You can lay it \our-
gal Need only hummer and nails. Comes
in stamped sheets of finest Bel-131 mor Steel,
5. 6. 7, 8,9 and 10 feet long covering width 21
inches. Furnished pmnt1 d or galvanized.

Fact tory Prices— Freight Prepaid. We
are the largest makers of iron and steel roof-
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Plain, orrng ated Crimp Roofing; Imita-
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about our 810, 000 Guur-
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EMPIRE STATE

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Illustrated and described In our

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Sizes 10 to 400 barrels daily. hand
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Lifetime
Service

Bear The
l H C

Trade Mark

 
  

There IS no need of taking
a chance on your next wagon. You
will be sure to get a good wagon if it bears
the I H C trade mark.

It is the seal of excellence—the guarantee of qual-
ity—it stands for an established reputation—and utmost
wagon value. It is your assurance of getting a good wagon
-—one that will be a source of pride and profit—one that will
give you excellent service for years to come. Choose any one

of these—
Columbus

Weber
New Bettendorf Steel King
They are built to meet every condition—

Look these wagons over carefully. .
to fill every requirement—and whether you buy a Weber. Columbus. New Bet-
tendorf, or Steel King, you will get the same satisfactory service.

Only the toughest. most carefully selected. air dried and perfectly seasoned
wood is used in the Weber construction. Weber wagon boxes and gears are pro-
tected by paint and varnish ot the best quality. applied by workmen who have
made wagon painting a life-long study. For 65 years the Weber wagon has been
king of the wagon world.

Columbus wagons are favorites with exacting farmers. The gears are made of
selected oak and hickory, strongly ironed. The wheels have oak rims and oak
and hickory spokes. The wheel is properly tired and banded. Superior work-
manship and high-class material, assures the durability and light-running
qualities which characterize every Columbus wagon.

The New Bettendorf has given general satisfaction because it has exception-
al strength. light-running qualities, and is very durable. It has a one-piece
tubular steel axle. and the wheels are the same quality as those used on

the Weber. '

The Steel King is a new I H C wagon and it is up to the I H C standard.
It is the only steel gear wagon on the market having an axle and
skein with internal reinforcements and a bolster having an adjust-
able stake.

Visit the International local dealer and let him point
out the many features and advantages of wagons bear-
ing the 1 H C trade mark. Get booklets and
all information from him. or if you prefer.
write direct for the information
you desire.

  
  
  
  

  
 
     
      
  
   
    
    
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
    
       
 
     
        
      
    
  
    
   
      

  
 

 
   

  

  

  

  
  

International Harvester Company
of America

[Incorporated]

Chicago U S_ A

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You Can Make Big Profits

ditching for your neighbors with a
BUCKEYE. Thousands of acres
will be drained this fall by hand
whereas tens of thousands should
and could be drained with

BUCKEYE
TRACTION DlTCllERS.

Place your order NOW, then con-
_ tract for your neighbors‘ work
and you will take the first step
toward earning a large income
this season. Remember the first
man in your vicinity to buy a.
BUCKEYE will be the one who
gets the biggest profits.

Farmers and threshermen, this
should appeal to you. Catalog
“F” tells HOW. Address

SALES DEPARTMENT

The Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co.,

FINDLAY. onto.

Real Economy in Buying a Silo

means more than first cost—it means performance-it means turning out
sweet. succulent. perfectly cured silage not only for a year or two but for an
average lifetime. Judged by perfect performance and long years of service.
the Saginaw Silo is by far

The Cheapest Silo You Can Buy

"e wouldn't know how to im rove it a particle if we secured many times our lot?
rice for it. We honestly believe it to be the Best Silo ever; oflered to a farmer.

: Bon't think of deciding on 4NY Silo until you have read our 8110 Book. It Will open
‘ your eyes on the Silo Question. Better write for“
today while you think of it. It’s FREE. “When
you write ask for our SPECIAL PRICE on the

Whirlwind Silo Filler

the strongest. simplest. sturdicst and easiest running
machine of its kind we have ever seen and we know
" ’ them all. We can't even attempt to describe its won- ,
derfulrmerita i an "ad" like this. but can assure you honestly and truthfully.
that you will MISS SOMETHlNG BIG if you even think of buying n Silo Fille '
or Shredder until you have our catalog and know the merits of this marvel of
mechanics. Ask for catalog and SPECIAL PRICE today. sure. '

Farmers Handy Wagon Co., Main Office and Factory. Sta. 64 . Saginaw. Mich.
Branches: Look Box64. Des Moines. Iowa; Box 54. Minneapolis. Minn.

Please mention the Michigan Farmer when you

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‘ ‘ 'OurAtlalRead Rootin isthe hi host ade ed a I
l l long fiber felt satuiated wit‘h asphaltgand igllookfliGEeaEubbrgg fir gel. 1333.321?

prices to your station are the lowest ever named on this quality. net I: out, half
retail prices. Atlas Roofing ma be used on any new or old b ldin . anyone can
lay it, a Jack-knife and hammer be as all the tools necessary. It nos 5 no painting
or root coating of any kind, it is not affected by heat or cold. does not taint the rain
water. is fireproof and the best Possible roofing for use on farm buildings of every
kind. We have sold hundreds o thousands of ollars worth. with not a com laint.
We sell Atlas Prepared Rooiin in lots of three rolls or more, do ivered
toyour nearest railway station wit all chars? paid. at. the following rices: To
all points in the Atlantic Coast States and u re] West. south to an including
Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansaa and west to and including Kansas. Nebraska.
Missouri and the Dakotas. $1.27 per roll for standard Atlas. 81.58 per roll for
heavy Atlas. 81.94 per roll for extra heavy Atlas. To any int in Oklahoma.
Texas. or Louisian the freight prepaid price is 81.45 for start ard Atlas. 81. 85 for
Atlas. 82.20 or extra heavy tlas. To points in the extreme South and

he freight prepaid price is 81.61 for standard Atlas. 82.02 for heavy Atl
for extra heavy At as. Each roll contains 108 square feet and suflioie'hat
for laps and large headeddgalvanlzed nails. order nt least three rolls
according to the treig t: prepai price quoted to your state and we will make im-

mediate shipment. quality guaranteed.
ll’zou wont samples. we will be glad to send them to you on request or ask us
Ill. tosen

Chicago and

Montgomery Ward & Co., Kansas my

SAVE YOUR GLOVER SEED.

You can make from $2 to 83 more ell at every acre of seed clover or all-Ila by using 0

SIDE DELIVERY BLBVEB BUNGHEH and HAY WINDBDWEH.

Attach one of these machines to your mowing machine and bunch or
windrow your hay just as you cut it, no need of dragging it over the
ground with a, rake thUS threshing out the seed and knocking ofi the
leaves. In some cases where the clover is over ripe as high as 50% of

the seed is lost in raking and handling.
REMEMBER THIS

The Side Delivery Buncher is guar-
anteed to save its cost every day it
is used either in cutting clove}: apd
alfalfa for seed 'or for hay, or for har‘i
vesting peas, vetch, flax, etc. These
machines have been on the market‘for
8. years and 52,086 have beert'wld.

Write us for our tree book and see what lat-mars all over the country have to say abo om.

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in 91”.. t_o fl (mailed free).

You will be well repaid
for readin it if you ever
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The Oids Gasoline Engine

has 30 years of' success behind it.
Every successful farmer will tell you
it pays to buy an engine that is built
by a reliable concern.

You take no chances of it not being worth the money you pay for
it. The Olds, besides being guaranteed against repairs for one year,
has several exclusive features that an engine must have to be satisfac-
tory. The catalogue tells things you should know. ' ~

Sendfar it—it’: waiting for you to as} for it.

Seager Engine Works, 915 Seager SL, Lansing, Mich.

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One man with a Londen Litter Carrier
on Louden overhead steel track system can
clean the barns in half the time that two men
‘ would take without it. That’s Louden econ-
omy. On ever up-to-date farm—your farm
—the Loudcn ltter Carrier and steel track
system will earn its cost many times a‘year.
Track can be bracketed to barn wall—out one door
—in at other and in this-way no switch is needed.
Manure loaded direct. on wagon or spreader—its
’ full fertilizing vaiuethus saved.

Louden Litter Carriers

are made of heavy galvanized steel—wear foryears;
have improved worm gear— I poun on ohqln line 40
pounds In box: boxstands at angse ovation -— raised
or lowered any distance uprto team-have many '.
spool-l advantagesnot found in other makes.

Sen'd today for valuable tree book on manure uses

a d catalog of ha and litter carriers mltary slice

3 oils. cow stanc ions, etc.. for mo e‘t‘n barns.

Louden Machinery Co.,

608 Broadway. Fall-11cm. Iowa