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VOL. CXXXV. No. 10.
Whole Number 351 1.

DETROIT, MICE. SATURDAY. SEPT. 3, 1910.

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FARM NOTES.

Sweet Clover and Alfalfa.

Will you please inform me as to what
kind of hay sweet clover makes? Some
tell me it is no good, that stock will not
eat it. I understand it inoculates the
ground for alfalfa and if so would like
to sow some.

Otsego Co. C. L. S.

It is the writer’s opinion that sweet
clover, if cut at the proper stage of
growth, would make fairly good hay
which might be made a profitable factor
in the ration of farm animals. This is
also the experience of some farmers who
have experimented with it, it being even
contended, and seemingly with good rea-
son, that cows will learn to like it as
green forage after they have become ac-
customed to pasturing on it. ilut there
is no question that alfalfa is very much
superior to it as a forage plant. This is
true for many reasons. Stock does not
have to learn to like alfalfa hay. it is
palatable as well as extremely nutritious.
It also grows much finer than sweet
clover which makes it more suitable as
a ‘hay plant. Then it is more enduring
than sweet clover, being perennial in its
habits and occum'ing the land profitably
for many years when once well estab-
lished. On the other hand, sweet clover
is a biennial, the first year's growth be—
ing tender and fine in comparison with
the second year‘s growth, when the stalk
is more tough, fibrous and branching, as
is always the case with plants that seed
the second year and then die. 'Thus it
will be seen that there is no comparison
between these two plants for forage crop
purposes, and no one should think of sub-
stituting sweet clover for alfalfa on this
ground.

Now, so far as sweet clover inoculating
the soil for alfalfa is concerned, there is
no advantage to be gained by sowing it
for this purpose. It is true that the 'bac—
teria which cause the nodules on the
roots of the two plants appear to be the
same, and land that is covered with a
stand of sweet clover would doutbtless be.
well inoculated for alfalfa. But it does
not follow that it would pay to sow sweet
clover for the purpose of inoculating the
land. In fact, if one Wishes to wait for
inoculation to occur in a natural way it
would probably be better to sow the al-
falfa at once, since one would be just as
likely, if not more likely, to get a stand
of ,the alfalfa as of the swect clover.
Neither will thrive unless the bacteria is
present“ in the soil. Just because sweet

clover is a more or less persistent weed

in waste places and by the roadside where
it has gotten established, we get the
idea that it will grow anywhere and un-
der any conditions. This we believe to
be a mistake. \Vhen sweet clover is get--
ting established on ground where bacteria
is not present in abundance it will be
spindling and small and will not ‘be no-

tlced particularly.‘ But there will be
some plants that will find the bacteria

awaiting them, or perhaps carry it into the
soil with the seed. and these furnish the
starting point f0r natural inoculation,
while the plants mature a large number
of seeds at two years of age and these
fall on a. soil better prepared for them,
and so natural inoculation is carried on
and the plant spreads rather rapidly as
the seeds are matured and scattered.
But if the seed were sown over a consid—
erable area under field conditions without
inoculation of either seed or soil, the re.
sults would probably be a surprise to
those who have noted the rank growth of
the weed by the_roadside. This is not
theory alone, but is substantiated by ex-
periments made with the plant. In a.
recent issue of the Michigan Farmer, Mr.
Lillie wrote about an experiment of this
kind which he conducted this year. He

s.

had sufficient faith in sweet clover to
secure some of the seed and sow it, with
oats last spring, and under exactly the
same conditions he seeded alfalfa in oats.
In reporting the results he stated that he
had a good stand of alfalfa, but could
not find a spear of the sweet clover alive.
Thus it will be seen that it would not pay
to sow sweet clover instead of alfalfa
because it is easier to grow or as a
means of getting the soil inoculated for
alfalfa. But where patches of sweet
clover are growing by the roadside, the
soil from these patches may be used for
inoculating the soil to be sown to alfalfa
instead of getting the soil from an Old
alfalfa field or using the pure cultures
made for the purpose of inoculating the
seed if so desired. Alfalfa, like sweet
clover would finally get established on
any soil suited to its growth if it were

since if the plants are cut down. before
they have matured seed and are kept cut
they will disapepar more quickly than
they get established.

Fresh vs. Old Clover Seed.

Please tell me through the columns of
your paper how long one may keep and
expect clover seed to grow if kcpt in a
dry place. Do you think it will keep its
germination for any length of time or is
the time limited?

Lapeer Co. J. R. M.

The germinating power of sccd depends
not a little upon the quality and ripeness
of the seeds, as well as their storage and
care after harvested. The. percentage of
germination secured is also dependent to
a considerable degree on the conditions
which obtain when the seed is sown, such
as moisture and temperature of the soil,
the suitability of the seed bed, etc. The
age of the seed is also a factor in its gcr-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sown persistently every second year with
that end in view. Natural inoculation
would take place the same as it does
with the sweet clover, but the trouble
is that it would take too long and be too
expensive. Artificial inoculation, where
needed, is the short cut to the same re-
sults, and is a factor in the successful
culture of the plant which should not be
neglected. But time is no object so far
as the sweet clover is concerned, and the
lapse of time required to develop the big
patches of this weed which are an eye-
sore along the roadside is not noticed or
reckoned by most of us. But in the mean-
time the plants that become inoculated
are reseeding the plot every second year,
and in fact every year, since all will not
mature in a single season. ,This habit
of the plant affords a'useful hint for its
control where it is desired to eradicate it,

The embryo or
inside the seed must be
there can be no germination and growth.

minating power.
plant

young
alive or

This embryo gradaully loses its vitality
and finally (lies. The length of time re-
quired for this change varies considerably,
even in seeds from the same sample, and
the percentage of germination will be
found lower each successive year. Not
only is this true, ‘but the vigor of the
plants resulting from those seeds which
do germinate will also vary to a consid-
erable degree. For these reasons fresh
seed is to be desired for the best results.
Just how old sed may be profitably used
is a matter of dispute between authorities
on thesubject. For practical purposes,
however, it has been determined from a
variety of sources that clover will retain
sufficient vitality for two years to make
it safe to sow it. This does not mean

that older seed may not grow and give-
a satisfactory stand, but that it should be .
looked upon with suspicion, and germina~
tion tests made. Such tcsls can be easily
made by the use of wet blotting paper as
a, germinating medium, or some other (19-
vice which will supply lnoisluro in needed
quantities and pcrmit of removing the
covering for the diffusion of the gases

given off by the sprouting socds and
for the daily admission of fresh air.
This test should cover a period of ten I

days for clover seed. It is essential to'
obscrvc the proportion of vigorous seeds,
that is. thosc. that germinate quickly.
and send forth a vigorous sprout, since
those, that gcrmiuatc slowly and send out
a \vcak, spindling growth would be far
less likely to survive and produce profit—
ablc plants under Iicld conditions. Upon
the percentage of secd that germinates
properly will depend the value of seed for
sowing. Something can, of course, be de-
termined from the color and lustre of the
seed, but this is not a safe guide with
old seed.
Sowing Timothy in Last Year’s Seeding.
I have 12 acres of new seeding off which
I cut 22 loads of clover this year. I sowed
plenty of timothy seed but it hardllv
showed at all. As I am anxious to leave
It another ycar for hay would it. be prop-
er to sow timothy again this fall, as I am

afraid the clover will winIcr kill. HOW
should it be sowed? At what time and
how much?

Wilyne Co. B. C.

\thre timothy is sown with clover and
the latter makes a good stand and a good
crop the .i‘ollowing ycar the timothy will
sometimes make so little showing that it
will scarcely be noticed. It is possible
that with the coming of the fall rains and.
tho starting up of thc new growth the
timothy plants will he found to be more
numerous than this inquircr expects. In
this case the timothy may be expected to
come on and make a fair crop next year
without any supplemental sowing. If,
howevcr, it is desired to sow more seed
it should be done at once, using a drill
for the purpose. so that the seed will be

gotten into the ground, whcre it will
germinate quickly, since there is now

none too much time for it to get a. suffi-
cient growth to insure its coming on and
making a fair stand next year. In the
writer‘s opinion, however, this would
hardly be a profitable procedure. It would
secm to be much bcltcr to let the stand

alone and in case it docs not come on
satisfactorily next spring plow the field
for corn or some other spring crop and

supplement the hay crop by sowing oats
and pcas for this purpose.
Treating Seed Wheat for Smut.

Although a rcquest for this information
was answcrcd in a rcccnt issue of The
Farmer, the answer docs not seem to
have been observed by many readers, for
a number of similar requests for informa-
tion on this point have been received
since its publication. lint the treatment
of sccd grain for killing of the smut
S]"Hi‘(‘S which may bc present in it is so
important that we will briefly reiterate
the method of treatment, so that those
who did not see it in the previous issue
or those who have not preserved their
papers may have the {information at
hand.

The best treatment for use is known as
the formalin treatment. In applying it
mix one pound of commercial formalde-
hyde with .10 gals. of water. Clean the
seed thoroughly to blow out as many of
the larger masses of smut as possible.
Then spread the grain thinly on the floor
or place it in small piles and spray it
thoroughly with this mixture, shoveling
it over and applying more of the mixture
until every kernel is thoroughly wet.
Proper treatment will require three quarts
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of grain. When this wetting has been
thoroughly done shovel the grain into a
compact pile and cover with a canvas or
blanket for two or three hours. Then
spread out thinly to dry and shovel over
frequently to hasten the drying process.
The floor upon which the treating is done,
the implements used, the bags in which
it is taken to the field and even the drill
should the treated with the solution to
make sure that a thorough job is done.
The grain will swell slightly from the
water absonbed, a fact which should be
borne in mind in setting the drill to get
the required amount per acre.

The dipping method is preferred by
some, but it involves more labor, and the
sprinkling method above deseribed will
prove efficient if carefully done. When
the dipping method is used the grain is
immersed for ten minutes in the solution,
being placed in a lose burlap sack for
the purpose a bushel or so at a time.
After treatment it is dried and handled
as above described where it is sprayed
or sprinkled.

THE FARM WORK.

 

Our drouth has finally been broken by
a couple of showers which have wet down
to the bottom of the furrow in oat stub-
ble, and moistened the potato hills. How—
ever, some claim that the first shower,
which 'was accompanied by a heavy wind,
did more damage than good. The corn
is blown over badly and considerable fruit
was «blown off. We have barreled some
of the windfalls of winter fruit, hoping to
realize something from it. However, I do
not think many of the grumblers would
care to give up the rain to be rid of the
damage the wind did.

‘Ve can soon tell now whether new
seeding will be worth leaving or not. We
have one piece that may pull through. I
would rather give it a chance even if it
is a little spotted than to put it to wheat
again as this field is lacking in humus
and needs all the clover roots 'it can get
with some tops and manure thrown in.

The second crop of June clover is about
ready to cut for seed. The growth is
light but what healds there are are fairly
well filled, and I think we can get enough
of it with a buncher attachment to the
mower to more than pay for the labor,
and the knowledge that we have. clean
seed with no danger of introducing for-
eign weeds, is of some value.

Now that there has been a rain I think
we will go through the late potatoes once
more, taking,r the spike-tooth cultivator
and going shallow with the teeth next
the rows set more shallow and slanting
backward so as not to cut into the roots
about the hills. The field is clean and the
only object of this cultivation will be to
conserve moisture. This will not agree
with the theory of some growers. One
is sure that no further cultivation should
be given, another would take a shovel
plow and hill them up, and still another
would use a double shovel and throw a
little soil toward the rows. I do not know
who is right but am inclined to favor
level, shallow culture. We would like
to consult the crop on this matter and
may do so by experimenting with a few
rows. The wind has blown the corn down
so that further cultivation is out of the
question anyway and the crop is now far
enough along so it is already made or un-
made. We have in mind several fields
that were planted late and given little
cultivation and are now covered with
grass and ragweed, preventing a good
growth of corn. Some of these fields are
on rather low ground and would have
grown an excellent corn crop this season
if more work had been put on them. It
may be possible to injure a crop by over
cultivation, or perhaps I should say in—
judicious cultivation, but where one is
injured from too much intelligent culti-
vation, ninety-nine are injured for lack
of it.

It 'has certainly been a hard season on
the cucumber crop. The new factory put
in twelve tanks of 800 bushels capacity
each and have not filled two of them.
The quality is poor also, as there are
many short, nubby, and crooked ones that
have to be rejected, and as so few form
there is a tendency to leave them until
they become quite large, which draws the
nourishment from the vines. Our acre
has been yielding about two bushels every
second day, Which at 25 cents for picking
the small ones and medium grade. and 10
cents for the large ones, would not pay
enough to keep pickers. We finally found
a party who is to pick the crop every sec-
ond day for the cucumbers until rains
make it worth while for us to handle them
again. _

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wheat and will ha-rrow'd-own the ground
as soon as dry enough and try to keep
enough’of the moisture to start the crop
as we‘ may be in need of it again by that
time. We will now turn our attention to
hauling manure from town to put around
young apple trees and top dress new seed—
ing before corn cutting, seeding, apple
picking, and potato digging are on.
Calhoun Co. ‘8. B. H.

FERTILIZER FOR CLAY SOILS FOR
WHEAT.

 

I write to ask you-r advice about the use
of fertilizer. I have never used any, but
this year I have a field that I wish to
sow to wheat, and have about enough
barnyard manure to cover half of the
field and I am thinking of using an arti-
ficial fertilizer on the balance. This field
is clay land. Last year it was in corn
and yielded 85 bu. of ears to the acre.
This year it was in oats and will yield
40 or more bu. to the acre. What kind of
fertilizer would you use on this field for
wheat? That is, what would be the best
proportions in nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash? Some of the farmers about
here, and let me say that they have not
had much experience in the 'use of fer—
tilizer, are going to use one -with 10 per
cent phosphoric acid and two per cent
potash (no nitrogen) at a cost of $18 per
ton. I see by your writings in the Mich-
igan Farmer that you are much interested
in alfalfa. Now, then, there is a neigh—
borhood near 'Newport, Monroe county.
that has been raising alfalfa for the last
15 years, and they are very enthusiastic
about it and I don't believe one of them
has ever heard about the necessity of
using a culture to get a stand. All of this
land about here is clay loam or heavy
clay soil. It seems to me that a. repre-
sentative of the Michigan Farmer might
learn something about alfalfa being adap—
ted to Michigan by looking over this
neighborhood.

\Vayne Co. J. F. B.

I am glad that an experiment will be
made with commercial fertilizer, compared
with stable manure. Of course, nobody
who has studied the question carefully
will argue that fertilizer is better than
stable manure, but certainly some years
on certain soils, fertilizer gives just as
good or better results on wheat than sta-
ble manure. The only fault we can find
with stable manure is that we don’t have
enough of it. Now I suggest to J. F. B.
that he put stable manure on half of the
field and then instead of Sowing the fer-
tilized on he other half, he drill the wheat
crosswise of the application of stable
manure and sow the Ifertilizer at the same
time. Then he will have fertilizer on the
ground where he put stable manure and
also on the pertion of the field that re-
ceived no manure at all. I made this ex-
periment once. Some of the very first
fertilizer I ever used I put on in this way
and I was very much surprised to find
that the fertilizer di-d apparently just as
much good on the ground where I 'had put
the stable manure as it did on the ground
where I bald not. It simply shows that
fertilizer supplements, or goes with sta-
ble manure.

A. 10:2 fertilizer is not a bad fertilizer
for clay soils. Clay soil, however, does
not need very much potash, “but if you
are going to seed to clover, the potash
will not be wasted. On a good clay soil
for the Wheat crop alone I would just as
soon have the 10 per cent of phosphoric
acid with little or no potash. \Vhile clay
soil is rich and contains quite a lot of
nitrogen, much Of this nitrogen is apt not
to be very available and I like to have a
little soluble nitrogen in the fertilizer.
On a clay soil for wheat, I use a fer-
tilizer containing one per cent ammonia,
10 per cent of phosphoric acid and one
per cent of potash and I believe this to
be a good formula for up-land clay soils
in the state of Michigan. A 10:2 fertilizer
at the price you name would be a very
good fertilizer and that is a fair price.

Alfalfa.

I am very glad indeed to learn that
alfalfa is (being successfully grown in sec--
tions of Monroe county. This is not the
only place where people have. made a
marked success of alfalfa and, in fact,
there are farmers situated in almost every
county in the state who have made a
success of it, and no doubt a representa—
tive of the Michigan Farmer could learn
very much about alfalfa in Monroe county
by going down there. But that is not the

idea. What we want to do is to get
everybody all over the state to try al-
falfa, in a small way at first. That is

the only way to get it un‘iversallv adop—
ted. People don’t believe what you say
about Monroe county, or what I say
about Oceana county or Jackson county.
They are slow to believe anything except
what the try themselves. Now if we can
get practical articles in the Michigan
Farmer and get people interested so that
they will try alfalfa on their own farms,
then we'have accomplished a great deal.'

COLON C. LILLm.

 

LACK OF MONEY

Was a Godsend In This One.

It is not always that a lack of money is
a benefit.

“A lady, of Green Forest, Ark, owes
her health to the fact that she could
not pay in advance the fee demanded
by a specialist to treat her for stomach
trouble. In telling of her case she says:

“I had been treated by four different
physicians during 10 years of stomach
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who told me he could not cure me; that
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I went to a. specialist who told me I
had catarrh of the stomach and said he
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“So I stopped coffee and gave Postum
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“I dreaded to quit coffee because
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to believe it was injurious to me, and»

was the cause of my stomach trouble and
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“To my surprise I did not miss coffee
when I began to drink Postum.

“Coffee ‘had been steadily and surely
killing me and I didn’t fully realize what
was doing it until I quit and changed to
Postum.”

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

 

 

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The cry of back to the soil must in charcoal kilns. The real reason the
part leave in the minds of those already Japanese are disliked on the Pacific coast
there a home-coming of welcome. If the is that they seek to become land owners,
returning ones are to be employes, in- merchants, etc., and actually change an
adequate tools and uninvitlng quarters Anglo Saxon civilization into one of their
will make their stay temporary for they own. It seems rather strange that white
have known regular hours, good equip- children who have a sincere affection for
ment to work with and proper housing. colored “mammys” and old “uncles,” can-
They have also learned the needs of so» not abide the Japanese. There seems to
cial life in their sojourn in the cities. be that innate fear of a. different civiliza—
Brooks Adams, the historian, points out tion that intuitively precedes reason. The

’ the subtle incidents of history that change negro with all his faults is never a force
national life. Moses was brought. up in to subvert civilization. A railroad see-
the courts of Pharoahs that he might tion house, where live the Jaapanese sec-
learn the arts of Egyptian civilization tion hands, is only one stage in advance
n and leadership. During our civil war of a den of animals in all that is sup—

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the schoolmasters went to the front as
minor commissioned and non-commis-
sioned ofl‘icers and women took their
places in the schools. Now a man in
country school work is very rare. In-
stead of the stern faced wielders of the
birch there appeared the Winsome, white
aproned “schoolmam” who, by her lady-
like presence banished rowdyism from
the school. These schoolmams, as the
wives and mothers of men, have largely
eradicated coarseness and brutality from
the homes and have done more to estab-
lish real gentleness than probalbly any
other single force. The genius of soil
reclamation by public irrigation works
was President Roosevelt, who, as a cat-
tleman on the little Missouri, saw the
effect of water on the sun—scorched val—
leys of the arid west. Fertile fields and
fruitful orchards grew where formerly
there was but sage brush and greasewood.
History is but the record of what people
have done and there is a national destiny
that is shaped, “rough hew it as we
will.”

During the past three decades, me—
chanical and scientific application has

posed to make for reasonable physical
comforts. I never saw a Negro cabin so
devoid of home-likeness. The Negro will
sing at his work and works all the better
to rhythms of harmony. At night he
sings and plays the banjo and forgets his
day’s toil. The stolidness of the Jap-
anese worker is very marked in contrast,
both at work and at rest.

The railings at the average farm labor
would never be heard of if one has had
a taste of dealing with the classes just
described. It is for this reason that ag-
riculture will be better served by the
genius of the Anglo Saxon with compen-
sation and surroundings in accordance
with 'modern ideas. The actual difference
between labor with a “blue—print” in his
head of the job and the equipment neces—
sary to accomplish the work effectively,
and one who is a “brother to the ox," is
great. The effect of training or mind dis-
cipline among workers is very noticable.
The miner who has worked in a dozen or
more different mines learns the methods
and adaptations of each, and is more re~
sourceful than the man of less training.
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A Good Type of Portable Hog House—(See the Pigs In Summer Time, page 164).

been the main factor in industrial lifeoriginally

and in transportation. The return of the
close application of business training and
mechanical skill to‘the farm from its
place of training to be superinmopsed on
present farm practice will make for an
invincible rural population.

A southern lad who ‘had worked on a
farm in North Carolina at the low rate
of wages paid there was transplanted to
a western ranch in Utah. Here heavy
draft horses handled modern farm ma-
chinery; a mechanic kept tools and equip:
ment in good condition; a field level de-
termined the road and irrigation ditch
grades, and farm and stock papers were
on the table in the men’s quarters. This
southern boy said the transition for him
was as great as the difference between
freedom and slavery. In the state he left
he said work was done by “main strength
and ignorance.” The supremacy of the
industrial period which marked social and
political life during the past 30 years is
of necessity to transfer itself to the farm
as its field of activity.

Already in some sections of the country
the slavic and Italian people are buying
land and establishing centers of foreign
influence. A Bohemian will buy a. piece
of land and soon his relations from the
‘home country, and they are legion, settle
around him. The Bohemian, Croatians
and Hungarians seem to have an endless
chain of relatives and they keep coming.
Every one of the family works and they
perform prodigious amounts of labor on a
very cheap ration. A camp of woodchop—
pers, all Croatians, would have a pot of
coffee, really chicory, at 4:30 a. m., and
then go to work. One of them said that
some alcohol in the coffee was a great
improvement. At nine o’clock a break-
fast of meat and beans stewed together,
and the same dish for supper with rye
bread, made up the daily bill of fare, and

called “free schools,” was
adopted, many were the complaints about
educating other people‘s children, yet in
actual financial gain the system has been
a success to the employer who did edu-
cate his neighbor’s children. The work-
man with the trained eye and hand has
actually more within his vision to see the
elements that are necessary to the work
in hand and to provide against interfer-
ence. Through some misunderstanding
of orders an Indian boy from the Grand
Junction Indian school went to a certain
field and waited all day, and for three
successive days, for the man to appear
fer whom 'he was to work. A boy of the
dominant white race would have “con-
nected up” in some way and made use of
his individuality to know why. The effi-
ciency of the man who has had access to
good tools is greater than if raised as a
boy where no tools existed. It was good
labor philosophy when he whom the com-
mon people heard gladly said, “Mah liv-
eth not to himself alone.”
Shiawassee Co. JAS. N. MCBRIDE.

 

SEEDING ALFALFA IN JACKSON CO.

 

I have read Mr. Lillie’s note on alfalfa
and will give my experience. April 15th
I plowed two acres of corn stubble that
was well fertilized with stable manure
last year. The ground was in a good
state of fertility and contained lots of
humus. This piece was well worked until
May 18 or 19, when we applied 600 lbs.
of hydrated lime and sowed 20 lbs. of seed
per acre, the seed being treated with the
culture from the agricultural college. I
have a very nice stand and it looks very
healthy, being of a dark green color, and
does not seem to be affected by the dry
weather. We clipped it July 15 and have
a very nice growth again.

Jackson Co. F. NOTTEN.

 

DETROIT

SEPTEMBERIBJA

Positively the most complctc and elaborate exhibition ever
presented the people of this or any other state, will he witnessed
the week of Sept. 19. The expenditure of a quarter of a million
dollars in new buildings, improvements and attractions will amaze
fair visitors. All departments are larger and better than was ever
possible licfoi‘! and the displays of Machinery, Farm Products, Manu-
factured Articles, Automobiles and Live Stock will set a new high
mark for cxccllcnce.

Wright Bros. croplanes

Michigan’s fair was the first to contract for these marvelous
machines. Brookins and Hoxscy with their two new model
bi-plancs will make four flights daily. This is considered the
greatest attraction cvcr offcrcd at a state fair and will alone be

worth the trip to Dctroit.
IN HARNESS

$40.00 pauses.

The racing features of the fair take on the hue of the Grand
Circuit meeting. The Harvester, The Abbe, Darkcy Hal, The Eel
and other famous horses together with “Pop” Gecrs and celebrated
drivers will be present. The ”Michigan Stake” for $5,000, a
similar purse for the 2:12 pace, two events for $3,000 and none
on the card for less than $1,000 11] ‘ans racing of the Grand Circuit.
stamp. This is the most elaborate ‘acing programme ever offered
in Detroit or elsewhere, at a state fair.

Nightly Horse Show
OF BIG PROPORTIONS

Michigan’s horse interest, always alive, will appreciate this
feature. Celebrated stables of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Kentucky are represcntcd and the gaitcd saddlcrs, roadsters,
Hackneys, business horses and ponies will draw thousands each
night. The show ring is the largest in the country for night horse
show purposes and conditions will be ideal for both spectators and
performers.

IMMENSE FIREWORKS DISPLAYS

Each night excepting Saturday will see the most elaborate
fireWorks diSplay ever presented in Michigan. In all the programs
will cost $5,000 and dozens of absolutely new features will be shown.
The ”Fall of Port Arthur” an interesting spectacle, will also be
given two nights.

Many Free Attractions

The best band music obtainable will be heard at the fair. Sig.
Liberati’s celebrated concert organization, assisted by a, double
quartette of grand opera stars, and the 91st Scotch Highlanders with
Soloists and dancers, will appear twice daily. afternoon and cvcning.
The Flying Banvards, acrinlists; Mamie Francis and her Diving
Horsesfimd chr twenty Midway shows gathcrcd from all over the
Country will offer unusually attractive entertainments.

Mammoth Bench Show

Over 600 canine prize winners will be shown under the rules
and sanction of the American Kennel Club. Two hundred dogs
from Michigan alone will appear. This is a new feature at the
Michigan fai ' and will be a popular one.

Fair will be completely ready Monday morning.
Plan to stay the entire week—you’ll have to, to see it all.

Reduced Rates on all Railroads.

“Remember—be there, Michigan State Fair.”

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There are several things necessary to
make- the pigs thrive at a profitable rate
in the summer time. A large amount of
feed alone is not all that is necessary,
One kind of feed is not suflicient; a. va-
riety of the right kind of feeds is neces-
sary. Corn alone is too heating. Corn
and middlings mixed, equal parts, is bet-
ter and these fed in connection with skim-
milk and clover is still better.

Regularity in feeding is one of the
prime essentials. If it is the custom to
feed twice a day, when feeding time
comes, if any fixed time is observed, the
pigs are looking for their feed. The pigs
stomach is not large and can hold only
about enough to last about ten to twelve
hours before it will get empty, and they
will suffer the pangs of hunger. It is no
wonder that they squeal for feed and act
impatient. They are justified in offering
a protest against waiting a. long time be-
fore they are fed.

When the pigs are small I think it is
better to feedthem three times a day as
their stomachs are not large enough to
hold enough feed to last from early in
the morning until feeding time at night.
Of corirse, they ought to have some coarse
feed and that necessitates feeding often
to keep them satisfied and doing their
best at growing. When they are with
their mother they take luncheon several
times per day. After they have been
weaned from their mother it requires
some time to get where they are able to
eat enough coarse feed, such as the grain
mixtures and grass, to last 12 hours.

Making Pigs Comfortable.

Pigs will not do well if they are not
comfortable. On some farms it may be
quite a difficult task to make them com-
fortable, while on others there are shade
trees in the grassy field. and running
brooks where they can have access to
clear water at all times.

There are three things necessary to
make the pigs comfortable; a. sufficient
amount of palatable feeds to satisfy them
at all times, an agreeable temperature
and freedom from flies and parasites.
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used liberally will fasten the few lice that
may be in hiding in the crevices.

The pigs themselves, if the herd is
large, can be dipped in a'dipping tank,
put in a convenient place where the pigs
can be driven through it. If the herd is
small and the pigs tame enough so that
one can get to them, applying equal parts
of kerosene and common machine oil and
rubbing it into the hair with a. scrubbing
brush is a safe and an efficient method
of getting rid of the lice. This mixture
of oils will generally stay until both lice
and nits are destroyed. If any appear
again in a. week or ten days, the mix-
ture can be applied again. The scrulbbing
is certainly a benefit to the skin, clean-
ing it and making the surface more heal-
thy than when allowed to become crust-
ed with dirt and the skin chapped. After
the pigs have been scrubbed a few times
they learn to like it, and it is not a diffi-
cult nor a disagreealble task to treat them
and keep them rid of the pests.

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THE IMPROVEMENT 0F PASTURE
LANDS.
Too Clase Grazing.

Many excellent pastures have been ser-
iously damaged by too close grazing dur-
ing the summer. Allowing the stock to
bite off every trace of green—yes, even
the roots themselves; baring the soil: so
that no protection is afforded the ground
against continued sun burning, so that
bacterial action, which we are just be-
ginning to learn is responsible for .plant
growth, is positively checked, will ruin
the most productive pastures in a few
years,

It is no uncommon sight in the autumn
to see pastures bare and brown. Then
is when they should be producing good
yields. It takes a long time for an abused
pasture to be restored to its former pro-
ductive condition. Of course, severe
drouths are responsible for much of the
decline in our pastures, yet much of this
trouble can be avoided by proper treat-
ment. Our stock is too often turned into
a pasture as soon as the grass 'begins to
grow. The soil is soft and the roots of
the plants are damaged and the soil pud-
dled by their tram-ping. The pasture
should have ample time to recover from
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but the temperature may be controlled to
a considerable extent, by supplying water
to lie in and a liberal circulation of air
in a shady place. Shade may be provid-
ed in several ways; ’bushes. sheds and
colony houses made in the right manner.

At Roycroft Farm. in Houghton county,’
I saw a colony house that seems to m '
has some features that are an improve«
ment over the A—shaped houses that are!
quite universally used. It is a light attain:
nearly square. and built on runners soi
that it can be readily moved where it is
desired to locate it. There are posts}
about three fect high at the corners, and!
three boards side it up to the roof. Thel
middle board on the side is hung on.
hinges so that it can be raised to make 9.3
window all the way across the side which}
lets in the air. There are wire screens:
over these side openings, and when ’both
sides are raised there is a chance for a
delightful breeze to circulate through the
pen that will drive away the flies and
produce an agreeable temperature.

For use in wintcr time these pens can'
be shut up so as to make them comfort-l
able. for by putting down the windows on
the sides and closing the door, it, is pretty
tight. Then if more air is needed the

can be raised to let pure air in and the
foul air csczipc. If still more air is need—
ed. the upper roof boards are hung in a.
groove so that they can be lowered to
admit just the amount of air one mayi
desire to let in. Altogether it seems like
a useful devicn that can be utilized to
make the hogs comfortable. (See cut on
page 163).
Getting Rid of the Pests.

In order to get rid of the lice that very
frequently get into the pens it is neces-
sary to be very thorough in cleaning and
disinfecting. ”The lbedding should all be
taken out and burned. The crevices in
the sides of the pens should be cleaned
out, and the sides and floors of the pens
saturated with some strong disinfectant.

 

If proprietary dips are used, it is a good
plan to add to the dip as described in the
directions. two .per cent of crude petro-
leum. After spraying the pens with the
dip_ a good whitewash to which two per

0 Prim Sent Fro. j cent of carbolic acid has been added, can
‘ he 0 Scale ‘ o wbe used with benefit. as it will sweeten
ag O .the odor emanating from the pen, and If.

in the season is very deceiving to an in—
experienced or unobserving man.
Another equally bad practice is to
allow stock to remain in the pasture as
late in the fall as they can find grass. It
is very poor economy not to leave a mulch
to protect the roots of the grass during
the winter months. Grass roots need

e! protection during the winter. The experi-

enced farmer knows that it is not often
wise to graze the aftermath in a meadow
or to cut it for hay. It is the growth
that nature provides late in the fall to
cover the roots and protect them during
the winter. The same principle applies
to the pasture lands.

Just how to plan to keep our pastures
stocked so as to secure the best results
requires the mind of a master farmer.
Eccentricities of the weather and various
unseen conditions over which we have no
absolute control frequently upset our
most carefully laid plans. The grass
grows much faster during the early part
of the season than it does during the heat
of the summer. Insufficient grazing is
better than over-stocking the pasture. If
the grass gets the start of the cattle it
can be mowed. This should be done early
so that a fresh growth will be secured
that the animals will relish. Whenever it
is practicable more grazing will be se-
cured if our pastures are divided so that
the stock can have the run of one for a
few days while the other is recuperating.
This is better for both the stock and the
pasture, because it enables them to se-
cure their food with much less exertion
and prevents them from tramping about
while they are eating.

The fertility of a few acres of pasture
land may ‘be improved very rapidly by
utilizing it for a night pasture and plow-
ing it up and reseeding it after it has
been well manured. Harrowing it often
to spread the droppings from the cattle
will insure a more even crop of grass and
prevents noxious weeds coming in where
the droppings have smothered out the
grass. A common spike-tooth harrow is
the best tool to use fer this purpose.

New York. W, MILTON KELLY.

ANY PICNICS? _

We will be glad to publish the dates
and place to be held of any picnics or
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.gacS‘ELZEG-T'A WELL-BB‘ED RAM.

No part connected with summer man—
agement ofrsheep is more vital and im-
portant to the interest of flock owners
than the selection of avram to head the
flock. There exists a wide degree of ap-
preciation among sheep men in general
as to the value of a well-bred ram. The
average quality of males used on flocks
in this country is far below a meritorious
standard. On many flocks cross bred
rams possessing an intermixture of sev—
eral {breed types have been indiscrimi-
nately used, and as a consequence, the
lamb crop gives evidences of lack of uni-
formity and breed conformation.

Flock owners should give more atten-
tion to the selection of pure—bred rams
to head their flocks. A great many seem
to doubt the advisability of using pure—
bred males on account of the additional
cost and inconvenience of securing ani-
mals of the desired type and breed. In
so far as the in-creaseed cost is concerned,
there ought to be no question, providing
jud‘icious care has been exercised in the
selection. A great many flock owners
have attempted using pure-bred males on
their flocks and have become discouraged
on account of unsatisfactory results in
securing as good lambs as when males
of intermixture of blood have been used.
It is a generally conceded fact that many
breeders of pure-bred sheep rear for
breeding purposes animals unfit to head
flocks and dispose of same to flock own-
ers who are least acquainted with essen-
tial breed qualifications.

The selection of a prue-bred male to‘
head the flock has numerous advantages, 3
providing thoughtful attention is directed
to choose an animal of superior merits.
If the ram is selected from the flock of a
reputable bireeder, his judgment and ad-
vice as to the kind of animal best to use
on certain types of ewes is invaluable.
The average flock owner. it is safe to say,
is quite unfamiliar with breed conforma-
tion and type of the animals to select to
insure best results. A breeder of pure-
bred, sheep can be of great assistance to1
a flock owner who is simply keeping a
grade flock and desires to secure blood
for mutton and wool production.

The use of pure-bred s’ires promotes
breeding to a fixed standard which ulti-
mately leads to the establishment of a
pure—bred flock. No flock owner can for;
any length of time use pure-bred rams to
head his flock without noticing the in—
fluence imparted to the progeny and the
strong tendency to promoting constitu-
tional vigor. As a rule, pure-bred stock
possesses more t'hrift and vitality than
cross—bred or animals having been pro-
duced from several different matings. A
,pure-bred animal is the product of a
long line of ancestors that have been
carefully selected by a fixed standard.
\Vith this aneestrial breeding behind them
they are far more likely to transmit to
their progeny their desiraible characteris~
tics and perpetuate their good qualities
in the flock.

Inlbred males and males produced by
mating animals of small size, low in vital-
ityyweak in constitutional development and
unthrifty should never be used for breed-
inig purposes. It is not a safe proposition
to purchase a ram on the supposition that
he will develop into a desirable animal,
simply on the strength of ancestria!
breeding. For some unaccountable rea—
son, the progeny from parents of good
breeding do not always mature into first-
class animals. The ram himself should
possess desirable qualifications. Not in-
frequently a young ram may give evi—
dence that he will develop into a promis~
ing animal and is used on the flock. It
is not a safe. proposition to reply too
strongly on immature qualities in young
rams, as they are uncertain and unre-
liable. It is much preferable to use well
matured animals.

Flock owners will find, in the long run,
that it is money well invested to visit
pure—bred flocks and select their rams for
breeding. The additional expense and in-
convenience come back several fold _in the
first progeny and the permanent influence
upon the flock is immeasurable. It is not
advisable to wait too late in the season
before making a selection of ram to head
the flock. Some breeders discount on}
prices of rams late in the season rather
than carry them over, but invariably the
quality of stock is ‘helow the average
standard. The flock owner who desires
to select the best quality of stock for his
money will lose no time in locating his
new blood. It is to be recommended that
every flock owner visit the flock from
rwhich he intended to make a purchase
and not only make a. careful examination
of the animal to be secured, but the par-
ent stock as well. LEO C. REYNOLDS.

 

 

 

 

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great deal of corn. Quick farting comes from an economical use of com;
from a_ way or system of feeding which enables the hog to take the food elements out of corn—by
good digestion—and put them on his bones as flesh and fat. Good digestion i: the great secret of quick

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fairing ; and good digestion ’ is a strong and permanent characteristic of hogs and other domestic animals
which receive daily small doses of

DB- HESS STOCK "FWD

This preparation is no! a ration, but, when added to the ration given, acts as a tonic to aid and strengthen the digestive
apparatus. This is “the Dr. Hess Idea" of feeding which teaches that “a poor ration, well digened, is better than the
best ration,paorly digemd.” In actual practice, Dr. Hess Stock Food shorten: the time necessary to fatten a hog, steer
or sheep and Jame: many time: it: cart in decreased food-loss. It increases milk flow for the dairyman e cuts
3 or 4 weeks of? the fatting period for a steer; keeps horses in prime condition; makes sheep husbandry pay

and relieves minor stock ailments. Sold on a written guarantee.

100 lbs. $5.00 Except in Canada and extreme West and South. DR. RE [AR
25 lb. poll C130. Smaller quantities at a. slight advance. ”Misghgo K

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a day in soft feed it increases egg production as no other known preparation will. It is a tonic, and is as benc-

A ficial to growing chicks as to laying hens. It helps through the inoulting period and fats old {owls in a short
time. It cures Capes, Cholera, Roup, etc. A penny’s worth feeds 3o {owls one day. Sold on a written guarantee.

1% lbs. 25c. mall or express 40c; 5 lbs. 60c; 12 lbs. $1.25; 25 lb. pail $3.50.

Except in Canada and extreme West and South.
Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48-page Poultry Book free.

INSTANT MUSE KILLER mus no:

    
   
     
   

Given Free for Only 7 Subscriptions to The
Michigan Farmer at 75 cents; or for4 Subscrip-
tions at $2.00 each for Five Years.

on Can Easily
et This

andsome Oak
ocker Free 1

Solid Oak Hand Craft--Correct
Mission Design-~Early English
Wax Polished Finish.

Tan Spanish Banoka
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Your home can not
have too many
comfortable rock-
ers. Here is one
that is not only
comfortable b u it
beautiful as well. It
stands 36 inches high
with large roomy seat
20 inches wide and 17
inches deep. Made of
best grade solid
white oak, Mission
style, Early English
finish, with Tan Span-
ish Banoka Leather
seat over cotton floss
layers, on three-ply
wood panel.

Strong, substantial
and serviceable.

A similar rocker of
.equal style, quality and
finish will sell for $5.50
but we will give this
free for a club of only 7
yearly subscriptions to
the Mich. Farmer at; 75
cents each; or for only 4
subscriptions for 5 years
at $2.00 each. All new
subscribers get the Mich.
Farmer free for the rest -
of this year under ei-
ther of these offers.

Don’t let this opportunity go by as never
before have you been able to secure such a
handsome and serviceable premium for so lit-
tle work. Subscriptions may be either new
or renewal. Your own included.

Also given free for a club of only 20 new
subscriptions to Jan. 1, 1911, at 25 cents each,
or chair and Michigan Farmer five years for only $5.

'i‘HE MICHIGAN FARMER, Detroit, Mich.

 

We want an agent to attend every picnie, fair or farmer gathering of any kind.
We pay liberally to good, hard workers. Write for terms and state when you
can work and tune you can give. Address Tllli MICHIGAN FARMER, DETROIT.

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Advice through this department is free
to our subscribers. Each communication
should state 'history and symptoms 01’ the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the same ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will probably find
the desired information in a reply that
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reply by rmail. is requested, it becomeS~

private practice, and a fee of $1.00 must
accompany the letter.

Lump Ja-w.~—-I have a three-year—old
heifer that has a hard bunch on jaw
which I do not believe is painful although
she is not very gentle; I have felt the
lbunch when she was eating and she did
not ilinch. O. , Freeland. Mich—Apply
one part red iodide mercury and four
parts lard once a week and give her 2
drs. iodide of potassium at a dose in feed
or water twice a day for 20 days. If the
bunch breaks and discharges remove her
from among your other cattle.

Keeping Flies Off Cattle—Will you
kindly tell me what to use as a spray to
keep files off cattle? J. Russell,
Pa.——By mixing one part crude petroleum
and two or three parts cottonseed oil you
will succeed in keeping flies off cattle
fairly well. Of course, you understand
it would be a mistake to apply much
petroleum to tender-skinned animals;
therefore a light spray is all that is nec-
essary. You can safely use any of the
fly remedies that are advertised in this
paper.

Chronic Looseness of the Bowels.—I
have a 12-year-old mare that has been
troubled with looseness of the bowels for
three years. She raised a colt this year
and I am inclined to believe that the colt
is going to be affected the same way. T.
VV., Stanwood, Mich—Chronic looseness
of the bowels is not easily remedied: how-
ever. your mare will be benefited by giv-
ing her a teaspoonful of powdered sul-
phate iron, two tablespoonfuls ginger and
a tablespoonful of powdered catechu at
a dose in feed twice a day.

Blood Poison—My cow calved some
three months ago anti has not been in a
thrifty condition since. Her appetite is
not good and whenever she is in heat she
passes some blood. I would also like to
know if her milk is fit to use. J. H.
Frankfort, Mich—Give, two tablespoonfuls
of the following compound powder at a.
dose in feed three times a day: Ginger,
gentian, fenugreck. bicarbonate soda and
charcoal and mix them thoroughly. You
had better not use her milk for domestic
purposes.

Barb \Vire Cut—Enlarged Leg—I have
a. Colt that got tangled in a barbed 'wire
fence, receiving a cut on the right fore
leg which, no doubt, injured the bone. I
am succeeding nicely in healing the
wound, but on the hind leg there is a
bunch which is feverish and the remedies
I have applied fail to reduce it. I have
been advised to apply Spanish fly blister,
but thought best to wait until I heard
from you. S. A. P., Cedar Run, Mivch.~——
Apply to the wound equal parts of oxide
of zinc, powdered alum and iodoform
twice. a day. To reduce the bunch apply
one part resublimed iodine mixed in eight
parts lard, every day or two.

Cow Fails to Come in Heat—I have
watched the \r'eterinnr)r column for some
time. but full to get the required advice.
Therefore, I write to know what I shall
do for a five-year-old cow that does not
come in heat. She had her second calf
early last spring an'd has not come in
heat since. H, D. H., Evart, Mich—Give
her 15 grs. powdered cantharides at a
dose in feed twice a day. The neck of
womb has perhaps closed; therefore, it
should be opened.

Poorly Developed Udder.—One-half of
my cow’s udder is poorly developed, al—
though she seems to give almost as much
milk out of it as the other one-half. I
«would like to know how the small quart-
ers can the expanded. I would also like
to know what will kill chicken lice and
eradicate them from a hen house. H. W.
J., l-‘ircedsville. Mich.—If you will gently
hand—rub her udder it will have a tend-
ency to develop it, but not very much.
Drugs, either given or applied in such
cases, do not produce satisfactory results.
By using any of the lice powders that are
regularly advertised in this paper you
will soon succeed in ridding your chickens
of llt‘l‘. Saturate their roosting poles
with kerosene once a. week. Whitewash
your hcnhouse and clean it thoroughly.
Kindly understand it may be no easy mat-
ter to get rid of the lice entirely; how—
ever. if you will keep at it you will soon
kill most of them.

Brittle Fore Hoots—Rheumatism. —I
have a five-year-old horse that is troubled
with brittle front hoofs, making it diffi-
cult for him to wear a shoe any great
length of time. He also appears to suffer
some pain in hind legs for he keeps shift-
ing positions with them almost constantly.
(3". (Vii, Lowell, Mich—Stand your horse
in wet clay for two hours a day and up-
ply lanolin (wool fat) once a day. Give
him 1 dr. ground nux vomica and 1 dr.
iodide potassium at a dose in feed two or
three times a day. If his kidneys do not
act enough give him 1 oz. fluid extract
buchu or the same quantity of powdered
leaves at a dose when necessary.

Partial Paralysis of Hind Quarters—I
have a pig five months old that is seem--
ingly losing the use of his hind legs. There
is some swelling of the navel and hind
legs, but his appetite is ifairly good. I
gave ‘him sulphur and juniper berries but
it has not helped him. A. D. P., Omena.
Mich—Feed your pig no corn, [but feed
some oats and oil meal; also give him a
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Laying-Bred s. c. While Le horns—fillerfilfifi
Yearling hensslnow. ED. R AN, Brighton, Mich.
— h ' l' . P it if
FOR SALE Enereialséiii‘éf 0. flash:
Harcus No. 32163. Percheron. Benno No. 2233. Import-

ed German Coach; 'l‘hos. (lassidy. No. 42755. Trotting
bred. Address Geo. L. Keeler, Admrs.. Concord. Mich.

 

 

EGIS’I‘ERED PERCHEBONS FOR SALE—1 mare
2-yr-old and Istallion l-yr-old. rays. Stubbleiicld
Register. M. A. BRAY. Okemos, ngham 00., Mich.

—Horses. Cattle, Shoe . Hogs, Dogs.
For sale or Poultry, nearly a1 breeds. Sires
exchanged. Southwest Michigan Pedi reed Stock
Association. R. E. Jennings. Sec.. Paw aw, Mich.

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-—F0ur young Shorthorn bulls. milk-
For saIO ing strains. price $30 to $50. Also
five Collie Puppies. eight weeks old, 55 each; two
female Ilies. one year old. price 810 each.
J. J. SHEARER. Plymouth. Michigan.

 

HOBTHORN cattle of both sexes at reasonable
prices. I breed for both milk and beef. Come or
write, '1’. M. SOUTBWORTH. R. No. 13, Box 73. Allen, Mich,

 

 

SHEEP. -
LINCOLN SHEEP-$32323? 33%;;

Lambs. Write orphans. A. H. WARREN, Ovid. Mich.
—These po ular bi

Parsons OXIOI'II Rams dark far (I rams wi‘ll

goduce bagger and better lambs. Grade X $15.XX $20.

XX $25. . Romeyn 0. Parsons. Grand Ledge. Mich.

 

 

 

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ABERDEEN-ANGUS.

Herd headed by UNDUI.ATA BLACKBIRD
ITO 83836, one of the best sons of PRINCE ITO
50006. and Grand Chain ion Bull at the Detroit
and Grand Rapids Fairso 1907 19:8. and 1909 Herd
consists of Ericsn, Blackbirds. I’rides, etc.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. hilt-ll.

‘YHSH'BE “ULL c‘lVE Berkshire swine. Eggs for

9 setting. High bred‘stock.
White & End 01' ingtons, “hits & Barred Rocks.
Light Brahmas. 'hite Le horns and White Wynn-
dottos $1 per 15. Michigan chool for the Deaf. Flint.

 

 

NGUS and Polled Durham Bulls. Hampshire down, South—
down. Cotswold sheep. Buy them at Kalamazoo, Griind
Rapids, & Detroit State Fair. JAS. H HALL. Port Austin. Mich.

' Breeders and importers of high
maplfl “Idge FII’II, class (inornseys. Write us your
wants. E. b J. T. MILLER, Birmingham, Mich.

CHOICE“ BBEII HOLSIElli-FRIESIIII 23.1.3233:

prices. Cole Bros. Ypsilanti Farms. Ypsilanti. Mich.

LIOLSTEIII-FIIIESIQSII8’33’i4212‘33‘ésbi' .il‘i

lug. Bulls all sold- W. . Jones. Oak Grove. Mich.

TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS

Top Notch registered young Holstein Bulls com-
bining in themselves the ood of cows which now
hold and have in the past held World’s Records for
milk and butter fat. at. fair prices:

McPI‘IERSON FARMS C0.. Howell. l’Iich.

 

 

 

 

 

15 Holstein flows, 6 Holslein Yearling lieilers,
10 Holstein Bull Calves from I. ll. 0. dam.

Pay your money and take your choice from my herd
of 70. L. E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.

 

—Holstein Friesinn herd bull. pedi-
For sale gree and photo on application.
W. C. Jackson, 715 Rex St.. South Bend. Ind.

H E R E F0 R D Shims?“ fill}. $1.135?

China hogs. ALLEN BROS.. Paw Paw. Mich.

LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS,

We have some splendid young bulls for sale. Some
of them are old (men h for service. They are from
cows with records of to 42") )ounds of butter last;
year. Write for descri tion an prices.

COLON C. LI LIE, Coopersville, Michigan.

 

 

 

ERSEY BULL CALF born Oct. 4th. ‘09. Dam gave
9.386 lbs. milk in one year. test 5 to 556%. Sire sdum’s
record 10.060 lbs. milk in 10% mos. test 5 2~10 per cent.
The M tinny-Waterman 00., ILD. 6. Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

FOR SALE-‘12 registered Jersey Cows of St. Lambert and

Island blood, from 2 i1.) 10 years. all fresh or nearly 50. Price

$100 each ifztiiken at once, 0. A. Bristol, R. F. I). fi,l-'cnton,lilich
JERSEY BULIS

BUTTER BRE FOR SALE

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

Register 0i Merit Jerse s.?ffi§§30y.?fl.“
T. F. MARSTON. Bay City. chigan.

NUHTHERN GROWN JERSEYS

WITH BIG MIILKSTIIESOVRDS'BH
Tun mm. szn y MI W.
.ItOYCrEOFT FARM. Sidnaw. Michigan.

 

 

 

feed twice a. day. Green food is good for
him, so is skim-mi1k fed in moderate
quantities.

‘Telephone. J. B.

AIRY BRED SHORTHORNS. Can spare a few
. Al b II 12 months old. Citizens
D females soHIIIMMIIEL. Mason. Michigan.

OXFORD DOWNS $.53! Iggdgflle‘l
H. J. DE GARMO, R. No. 1, Clyde. Michigan.

Oxfo rd - Down 8 heep “63.222.“
cattle for sale. A. D. (It J. A. DE GARMO, Muir. Mich.

 

 

46 Rams and 100 ewes (reg) Rambouillets descended
from the best. ooks. In 1{i/Ierl’eot health

in lots to suit buyers. J. Q. A. 000K. orrice. Mich.

 

HROPSHIRE yearling and rum lambs. the best.
k. of wool and mutton type from registered stock.
GEO. P. ANDREWS, Dunsville, Ingham 00.. Mich.

 

AI’LE RIDGE SHROPSHIRES——Closin§;1 out sale
choice yearling rams. Ewes all ages. w1 I be sold
without reserve. H. STEWART. Lennon, Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—70 Good Registered Shrop Ewes, 2) year-
ling rams, 10 ram lambs, one 2-yr. -old stock ram
bred by Wardwell, E. E. Leland & Son, R No. 9. Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

2 PURE BRED SHROPSHIRE RAMS for sale

12 lambs and I2 yearlings. Extra fine stock

from Imported rams: The low down, blocky kind.

well wooled. Must be sold bv September lst. Address,
L. B. SLOTE. Constantine. Michigan.

SIIIIOPSIIIIIE HALL STOCK FARM

Will importi one hundred yearling ewes and 15 rams
in June for Michigan and the same for Boise. Idaho.
Branch of this farm. 'ill make a fair price on your-
ling ewes or rams. also on some aged ewes with lambs
at side. for 60 days.

L. S. DUNHAM & SONS, Concord. Michigan.

 

 

 

HOGS.

LARGE ENGLISH BEHKSHIHES

Have lino lot. of Spring Pigs of both sexes. Few
young sows for fall furrow. Vigorous and strong,
the type for profitable pork production. Sutisv
faction guaranteed.

F. A. BYWATER. Memphis. Michigan.

HUPP FARM BERKSHIRES!

WON 189 PRIZES IN 1909.
Stock of both sexes and all ages for sale. Breeders of
Guernsey Cattle, M. B. Turkeys, Barred Rock Chick-
ens. Pekin Ducks. GEORGE C. HUPP.’ Manager,
Drawer A. Birmingham, Michigan.

 

 

ORTHERN GROWN BERKSHIRE“. for sale cheap-Yenrling
sow with litter about. ready to wean; three hours ready for
service, nt about pork prices; boar pigs. for winter service.
Need more room for fall litters, For catalog and prices
address ROYCROF FAIIDI. Sidnuw. Michigan.

BERKSHIRES Unexcelled in breeding. Select-
_ ed boars. sows and gilts. Choice
full pigs. '1‘. V. HICKS. R. No. 1L Battle Creek. Mich.

BER KSI‘IIRES flfaii’ifin’iifiié

type and strains._ 0. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac. Mich.

 

 

 

erkshlre—A few choice fall Gilts bred for early for
rowing ands. choice lot of Spring Pigs with prices
right and the right breed. A. A. Pnttullo, Dcckervillc, Michigan.

 

DAMS BROS. Litchfield. Mich. breeders of im-

. proved Chester white and Tamworth swine. Pigs,
either breed by lst prize State Fair winners. Bull Rock.
Bufi Wyandotte eggs $1 per 15; W. Orpington $3 per 15.

DUROC JERSEYS.
CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.
W300 fi”!lfifi.°i°iiin"h‘3.i’fli§$°§$°m° ““hl’liii
lows. Write to! particulars. J. C. BARN“, Goldwater. Rich.

 

 

DUROC JERSEY SWINE. pegged D... B-

e . $1
per 15. J. H. BANGHABT. Lansing. Mich.

 

change of buisness and everything for sale before Sept.
25th. WILL W. FISHER. Watervllet. Michigan.

IMPROVED CHESTERS.

Choice Pigs of March and A ril furrow either sex
W. 0. WI SON. Okemos. 1011. (Both Phones)

0. I. C. Ho soberinglgfdsm‘di‘t

and more. H. H. JU . Munith. Mic igan.

 

 

 

o I c —-—For Sale a few choice pigs of March and
. . - April furrow in pairs not. akin. Satisfaction
guaranteed. A. Newman. Mariette. Mich.. R. I". D. L

0 I REGISTERED PIGS. 10 to 12 weeks
0 o o from “’orid's Fair winners. Glen-
wood Stock Farm. Zeeland. Michigan. Phone 94.

C REGISTERED PIGS March and
o o . A iril litters. Pairs not akin.
HENRY RIGTERI K. Hamilton. Michigan.

0 l C —-SPRING PIGS and a few BR ED
0 o 0 SOWS at reasonable prices.
C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Mlchlgam~

RECORDED MULE FOOTED HOGS

are said to be immune from hog cholera. Stock of all
ages for sale. John H. Dunlap. Williamsport. Ohio.

150 POLAND-GHINA

SPRING PIGS

either sex, with size. bone and quality. Bargains
on early fall weaned pigs. I ship 0. o. d. and
furnish pedigree promptly. Write for prices.

WM. WAFFLE, Goldwater, Michigan.
'l‘iiE FARMER’S no ‘géth‘sfifiifmh‘sfi

Get. big. 'row fast. keep easv. A bigger, better and
more pro lfio Poland-China. airs and trios not skin.
from three In western boars and big sows. 100 on
hand. J. C. B TTLER. Portland. Mich. Bell phone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

' ~Lnrgest in Mich. Pi
Large Type Poland-Chinas m... mammmmwmgfi
from 150 to 160 lbs. at 4% months old. Will deliver
what Iadvertise. W. E. Livingston, l’armn, Michigan.

POLAND-CHINA -F.”;e,.g;;t..:r“;§
ship. WOOD & SONS, Sal‘in‘ls. Miohigaii.
P C Bar ains~3 choice. boars ready
forSSept..farrow. ZgKINNE. $333533} $5.322
POLAND CHINA 2%.???“ liissai‘é?
E. D. BISHOP. Route 38. Lake Odessa. Michigan.
()LAND-CHINAS—Sows bred. for Sept. furrow:

Boars ready for scruce: spring pigs, either sex.
“'rite L.W. Barnes & son, Byronfihiawassoe Co.,Mich.

P. C. PIfiSfil‘l‘fll .‘E‘T ..“‘e.z‘””§i.5ii°te$kiflsl

BS
. . MILLS. Saline. Mic igan.

' —-Boars, Gilts and Pi
POland'Chlnas of quality at the I‘Igfi:
price. B. M. WING & SON. Sheridan. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

_ ' —-I.arge st-yletlgrowthy spring pigs also
Poland Chlnls fall pigs‘ Semi for snap shot liotos
and lowest prices. Robert Nove, Pierson, ich.

For Sale-500 0:22.: oioorkshire

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fiEP’I‘. 3, 1910.

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EPOULTRYMBEESl

“MAMA-A1
THINKS THAT “PECULIAR AILMENT"
DUE TO LICE.

 

 

 

 

Referring to the article, “A Peculiar
Ailment,” published in your issue of Aug.
20, I wish to give my experience with this
trouble and also the remedy I used to
overcome it. I had a great deal of trou-
ble with hens having those swollen eyes.
After considerable experimenting I con-
cluded it must be an irritation caused by
a louse of some kind, so one day, when
not very busy, I secured a hen that was
affected and watched her head and eye
closely for nearly an hour. Finally a
long flesh-colored louse approached the
eye and disappeared beneath the eyelid.
About a minute later 'it re-appeared and
went back to the thick feathers about the
neck and head. After a short time, per-

' 'haps ten or fifteen minutes, another would

come and do the same thing. Now the
peculiar part of this is that you cannot
find these lice in the feathers. They came
out of the short feathers on top of the
head and descended to the eye.

Now for the remedy: I simply took
some good old black machine oil and
greased the hen’s head thoroughly, work-
ing the grease into the skin. I did this
for two days and about the third or fourth
day the hen appeared to be free from the
trouble. This was over a year ago. I
have had several cases since that time
and have not lost a case. I ‘handle pure-
bred Buff Rocks that cost me a dollar
apiece and I could not well afford to lose
them. I believe that I have found the
cause of this trouble and hope that my
experience will benefit those readers of
The Farmer who may have fowls similarly
affected.

Lenawee Co. F, J. COLLINS.

 

AFTER-EFFECTS 0F ROUP.

Roup remedies are many but absolute
Cures are seldom made after the disease
has reached the stage when one can really
feel sure that it is roup. Although treat-
ment is given, malignant sore-s that spread
the disease, and slow wasting, which is
really tuberculosis, are likely to follow.
In 'fact, nearly every disease in the cat-
alog is liable to follow in the wake of
so-called cures of roup. I have cured
hens of roup, only to find that a month
later they died of enlarged liver, or that
familiar trouble known as “going light.”
Only this season a pullet that showed a
swelled head was remedied, but a few
months later she developed “limber neck,"
a sort of paralysis having taken place. In
my opinion the only safe and sure cure
for roup is the hatchet, and by its prompt
use we can stamp out or prevent many
other diseases.

Hillsdale Co.

THOUGHTS FOR THE POULTRY

BEGINNER.

PRISCILLA PLUM.

 

When one reads of so many failures on
the part of those who embark in the poul-
try bus‘iness with very little practical
knowledge of the work, it is interesting
to note once in a while one who can
start in on book knowledge and start
right.

I recently visited a farm which was
purchased a year or so ago by a man who
had been a traveling salesman for twenty-
five years. His health failed to some
extent and, as he had always had a desire
to own a farm, he came to Maine and
bought a good-sized place, with broad
level fields and plenty of chance to spread
out. He plans to make poultry his spec-
ialty. He has some over 300 chicks well
started and next spring he sets his mark
at 1,500.

This man talks like an old poultryman.
What he knows is‘ largely what he has
absorbed from reading, but he has the
faculty so important to any and all of us,
of separating the practical ‘in what he
reads from the impractical. He gets what
he wants and leaves the rest. You can
approach him on almost any phase of
poultry work and find him sensibly posted.

He is proud of his farm and proud of
two‘ acres of nice garden truck near the
poultry yards where he spends his leisure
time. Although we are experiencing a
dry spell his garden soil is so nicely work—
ed and the surface so well protected by a
dust mulch that it shows little effect of
the-dronth.

I venture the prediction that 'he will
make a successful all-round farmer and
an especially good poultryman, for he is
level-headed and enthusiastic. I believe
a good many more would succeed where

into their heads that there is something
to the poultry business besides gathering
eggs. It is a business that requires atten-
tion to details and, when this is appre-
ciated, a, flock of 200 to 500 hens will be
found a money maker on every farm.

Enthusiasm counts for somethingin any
line of business, for an enthusiast is hard
to down. He generally finds some way of
getting around dbstacles.

Maine. D. J. RYTHER.

DETECTING AND HANDLING COLO-
NIES HAVING FOUL BROOD.

 

 

The one crucial test is the color and
consistency of the larvae affected with
the disease before it dries up. At this
stage the matter composing the dead lar—
vae is always ropy. All foul breed has
this one particular characteristic. Other
characteristics of the disease which are
useful in aiding in its discovery are the
peculiar odor and the appearance of the
cappings of diseased cells, such cappings.
while they vary ‘in color, being generally
darker than those of healthy cells. They
are almost always sunken or flattened,
often have irregular perforations of vary-
ing sizes, and the comb presents an un—
prosperous, sickly appearance. The odor
is very unpleasant, being described as an
“old smell.” Anothei good description
is that it resembles a poor quality of glue
when heated.

The cure of foul brood is difficult only
because it is difficult to discover the dis-
easc in its incipient stages in every col—
ony, and to ferret out colonies in which
the germs are lying dormant ready to de-
favorable conditions present
When the disease has been

velop when
themselves.

disseminated among the bees in a neigli—.

borhood, especially among wild bees. a
final cure may ‘bc the work of years, but
with care, even under the worst circum-
stances, it may be kept in such subjection
that the injury therefrom will not be
great, while under favorable circumstan—
ce-s it may be quickly exterminated.

In the evening. or when there is no dan—
exchange the old hive on
the stand for a new one. Shake all the
bees into the clean hive. which should
contain two—inch strips of comb founda—
tion in six or eight frames. I also cage
the queen and fasten the cage between
the starters. Close the hive, also part of
the entrance, and let them alone four
days. After four days exchange these
frames and starters for clean frames and
sheets of foundation. Release the queen
and see that they have feed from this
time on.

The cure of any particular colony is
very simple and certain, the cautions to
be observed having to do with preventing
the access of bees from healthy colonies
to the diseased combs, since such access
would almost certainly spread the disease,
To preclude this danger all the necessary
operations must be performed when no
bees are flying, or when the pasturage
offers so much nectar that there is no
disposition to rob.

Sometimes, when the disease is discov-
ered in its early stages, there are large
quantities of healthy broo’d in colonies
that. are to be treated, and the disposal
of this is a problem that deserves consid-
eration. Some times such colonies cast
swarms in the swarming season. In such
case, hive the swarm on foundation or on
frames with starters, always avoiding
combs for that purpose. ‘Then 'in three
weeks shake out the bees from the old
hive according to the directions already
given.

Colonies are sometimes greatly reduced
in strength Iby the disease. As the bees
are mostly aged under such circum-
stances, it is advisable either to unite or
destroy them, but in doing this extreme
care is necessary to prevent the escape
of any of the bees into hives containing
healthy colonies.

When there is but little honey in the
combs it is best to boil the combs at once
and secure the wax. If there is honey
which it ‘is desired to save, first cut out
all parts of the [comb containing brood
and boil or burn; then extract the honey,
which may be used for the table or may
'be boiled with one or two parts of water
and used as food for the bees.

To prevent the disease from spreading
in a colony there is no more reliable or
efficient process than to stop the produc«
tion of brood, for where no brood exists
none can perish and putrefy. The healthy
brood will mature and emerge in due
time, and the putrid matter remaining in
a few cells will dry up and be removed.
by the workers. All this will certainly
result from a well- timed removal of the
queen from such colonies,

New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.

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DETROIT, SEPT. 3. i9io.

 

 

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

 

The total count
The Census Figures. of the population

of Michigan as
shown by the census figures given out
from \Vashingi‘on this week, shows the
present population of the state to be
2,810,173. This is an increase during the
last decade of 389,191, or 16.1 per cent.
The last census showed Michigan to be
eighth in point of population, and it is
said that the state will probably retain
the same relative position among the
states of the union in this regard. One
interesting phase of the figures so far
published is revealed by a. comparison of
the figures given for the several counties
of the state. Such a. comparison plainly
shows that the growth has been made by
the cities and that many of the agricul-
tural counties of the state have fallen
off in population since the taking of the
last U. S. census. Whether this reduc-
tion in rural population means less people
on the farms, or whether it is due to a.
shrinkage in the population of the villages
in the agricultural territory cannot be
accurately determined from the figures
given out. It is stated in despatches from
Washington, however, that the falling off
in the population of agricultural counties
is attributed largely to the last named
cause by the officials of the census bu-
reau. Be this as it may, it is certain that
there has been a decrease in the popula-
tion of 26 countics in Michigan during the
past ten years, and as will be seen from
the following list most of these are the
populous counties of the southern part of
the state. The only county in the upper
peninsula. of Michigan which shows a de-
crease is Menominee, which is the lead-
ing agricultural county of that section of
the state. The counties in which a de-
crease in population is shown are as fol-
lows: Antrim, Arenzic, Bran-ch, Cass.
Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot. Hillsdaie, Ionia,
Iosco, Lake, Lapeer, Lenawec, Living«
ston, Macomh, Manistee, Mecosta, Me-
nominee, Midland, Montcalm, St. Clair,
Sanilac, Shiawassee, Tuscola, Van Buren
and ‘Washtenaw.

The total loss of population, in these 26
counties, however, is not an occasion for
alarm, being but 27,482 in» the aggregate.
In eight of these counties the decrease in
population may be ascribed to the deple-
tion of the lumber supply and the conse-
quent reduction of the number of men
employed in this industry. The greatest

THE? MICHIGAN FARMER.

decrease is, however, noted in the more
populous agricultural counties in the 'list
which have little in the way of manufac-
turing industries within their borders,
Which eems to indicate that the indus-
tries of the cities have been calling the
young men from the (arms during the
recent years of unprecedented commercial
activity. These counties and the decrease
in each are given as follows: Branch,
2,206; Clinton, 2,007; Eaton, 1,169; Gratiot,
1,069; Lapeer, 1,608; Idvingston, 1,928; St.
Clair, 2,889; Sanilac, 1,125; Washtenaw,
3,047.

A careful consideratién of the above
figures would prove profitable to the av-
erage country young man who is about
to choose a. calling. Such reflection will
prove the mlore profitable if these same
young men would stop to consider that
the cityward movement from the farms of
Michigan has probably been much great-
er than these figures would indicate, since
it is a well known fact that good farmers
from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have been
coming to Michigan by the hundreds in
recent years and settling upon the good
farms of the state which they have been
able to purchase at a. relatively much
lower price than they could get for the
farms which they left in the states men-
tioned. All this time the market for ag-
ricultural products has been improving
and the farmer has been nearer to com-
ing into his own so far as a. fair oppor-
tunity is concerned than ever before in
the history of our country. At the same
time the profession of, farming has been
rising in the scale of dignity and import-
ance as looked upon by the average men
of affairs, while the application of science
to the art of agriculture has made farm—
ing a far more attractive business, Truly,
the young man of today should‘consider
the problem well in all its phases before
he leaves the farm home for the grind of
city existence.

A subscriber

Ownership and Control asks for infor—
of Highways. motion as to who
‘owns the high-

ways running through the country on sec--
tion lines or otherwise, and asks how, if
the same are owned by the abutting
property owners on either side, the state
can compel such property owners to cut
the brush and weeds along the roadsidcs;
and how, if the state owns the highways
it can compel the owners to perform the
same service and then tax them for the
improvement and maintenance of the
highways and permit the highway officers
to expend the money wherever they may
desire within the township. As a. matter
'01" information to this subscriber and oth-
ers who may have debated the same ques-
tion with themselves we will say that the
constitutional provision authorizing the
legislature to provide by law for laying
out and maintaining highways within the
state is very broad, placing no restriction
on their authority to provide by law for
such procedure, except as to the amount
which may be raised rby taxation for the
purpose in any one year. The land with-
in the boundaries of our highways is
owned by the abutting property owners,
but is dedicated to the use of the public
for highway purposes. Under our laws
the highways are laid out by local au—
thorities and under the constitution can
be taken up or discontinued only by the
same authority. In all other respects the
legislature has the power to enact laws
which it may deem best suited to the
proper maintenance of the highways so
as to best serve the purpose to which
they are dedicated. Undoubtedly the
legislature has the power to enact a law
compelling abutting property owners to
cut the weeds and brush along the high-
ways, and to provide for its proper en-
forcement. There has ‘been such a law
requiring the cutting of weeds along the
highways for many years, but the man-
ner of its enforcement was changed in
the new highway law enacted at the last
session of the legislature, and the penalty
was added for its non-observance or non—
enforcement as noted in comments on this
subject in previous issues. There appears
to be some ambiguity with regard to the
wording of the provision requiring abut—
ting property owners to cut the brush
along the roadside. or at least with re-
gard to the application of the penalty in
case of failure or refusal to do 50, yet the
intention of the law is clear and it would
probably be upheld by the courts in this
respect. At least the burden of testing
it would lie with the person upon whom
the law is enterced. So far as the pro-
vision regarding the cutting of weeds is
concerned it is perfectly clear and there
can be no question about the legality of
its provisions. This law even goes fur«
ther in that‘it requires abutting property

owners to cut'the noxious weeds in their.
fields on or .before specified dates each
year. and. makes the enforcement of this
provision obligatory upon the highway
officers. As before noted in these columns
this law is a. good one for the community
it bad M the individual in some cases,
and is worthy of general support and
commendation, since allowing noxious
weeds to scatter their seeds promiscu—
ously undoubtedly constitutes a public
nuisance which should be abated.
i In another col-
Are You Planning on umn of this issue
the Fairs? we are publishing
as complete a. list of
Michigan fairs as we have been able to
gather, with the date of each. So much
has been said and written regarding the
importance and benefit of state and local
agricultural fairs to the industry which
they represent that the subject is already
worn threadbare, yet we cannot permit
the occasion to pass without adding an-
other ‘word. The farmer who does not
patronize these rfairs to the extent of his
opportunity and ability is allowing an
educational privilege to pass by him
which he can ill afford to miss. Unques-
tionably any farmer can get enough
knowledge which will be of value to him
by attending any of these agricultural
fairs to many times repay him for the
time and money invested in patronizing
them. If he makes an exhibit he will gain
a. double benefit since he will Observe and
study the other exhibits more closely, par-
ticularly in the line in which he exhibits.
Then he will be helping to advertise his
business, his state, his county or his 10-
cality, as the case may be. Great indus-
trial expositions are held with no other
purpose in view and no other benefit to
be gained, ranging in relative importance
from world’s fairs to local industrial
shows. But none of these are of as rela-
tively great importance to the industries
which they represent or so far reaching
in their benefits to those industries as are
the agricultural and live stock expositions
to the farmers whose products are repre-
sented at them. When we take this fact
into consideration and think of the ben-
efit of the outing to the entire farm .fam-
ily, surely we cannot afford to miss either
the local, district or state fair Which is
representative of our business.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

The Japanese government has recalled
Consul Igawa from the Philippines be-
cause of his political activity and of his
association with a group of Philippine ir-
i'econsiables. His recall was asked by
Secretary Dickinson of this government.

Official announcement has been made
to the governments of the world of the
treaty between Japan and Korea, by which
the latter is to be annexed to Japan on
Monday of this week. The present gov-
ernment is too weak and incapable of
meeting the demands upon it and it is
evident to both Koreans and Japanese
that a. change is necessary. and the pro-
gressiveness of the Japanese has im-
pressed the wisdom of annexation.

The past week has not been so favor-
able to the cholera situation in southern
Italy, 18 new cases and 14 deaths being
reported on Monday morning for the pre-
ceding 24 hours.

Unusual attention is given the death of
the American philosopher, Prof. William
James, of Harvard, who died Sunday, by
the French press, the publishers contend-
ing that the American was a great influ«
ence in French schools of philosophy,

Fully 900 delegates and 700 visitors are
present at the opening of the socialistic
congress at Copenhagen. Effort is being
made to hold the next meeting of the
congress in the United States.

In order to avoid international compli-
cations the city of Bogota Columbia, has
purchased the street railway of that city.
The lines were owned by Americans, ‘but
the public sentiment against granting the
franchise to Americans was so strong
that trouble arose and because of attacks
made upon the employee of the concern,
and boycotts. the deal was made with the
city. $800,000 was paid for the interests
of the Americans.

The anxiety regarding the M. A. C.
students who went west to aid in the
forestry work and incidentally to fight
fires now raging in Idaho and Montana,
has been quieted by a. report that all the
boys are safe.

The placing of the blame for the recent
wreck on the main line of the Grand
Trunk road is difficultr each crew charg-
ing the other with causing the accident.
Eleven persons were killed and several
others more or less seriously hurt.

The national window glass workers are
in session in Detroit and among other
deliberations they are discussing a 40 per
cent raise in wages as a. reasonable de-
mand from their employee.

The naval board has decided to ask for
more battleships, cruisers. torpedo boats
and submarine craft, besides a better re-
pair ship for the Atlantic fleet.

provisional government has been
domed in Nicaragua with Gen. Juan Es-
trada at the head. His appearance at
the capitol was acclaimed, with .much
celebrating. Soon 'after his arrival be
appointed his cabinet. which consists of
conservatives. Leaders of the opposition
were arrested as consipretors.

Considerable rioting attended the elec-

tionsi‘in Portugeien mm. Theeei'iiu?

been a. great gain for, the republicans}
throughout the different provinces. ' Vio- ,

lence result/ed from conflict-s at some of
the voting pieces.

New records. in aero lane. flights the
past week consist of . oran’s ascent to
the height or 6,692 feet and of Breget's
success in carrying into the air five per—
sons with a combined weight of 921 Lbs.
Both of these feats were accomplished in
France.

Cholera. has broken out in Germany.
Two cases are known to have developed
at Spandau.

The Russian government has planned
to build four dreadnaughts this coming
year. They are to be used for the Black
Sea. fleet. '

The American squadron has arrived at
Lima, Peru. It will proceed south from
that place. ‘

National.

Salt Palace, an amusement place of
considerable fame, was destrowed by fire
at Salt Lake City, Monday, entailing a
loss of $25,000.

Ofliciai announcement of the result of
the investigation into the Ballinger-Pin-
chot controversy, will be made public at
Minneapolis at the meeting of the con-
servation congress early in September.

Colonel Roosevelt is now making a tour
of the western states, where he is being
enthusiastically greeted by the people
of the towns, cities and country through
which he is traveling.

Three surgeons of the United States
marine hospital service in the Philippines,
have discovered that it is possible to
grow the germs causing leprosy outside
of the human body, and as a result of the
discovery it is the belief of scientists that
the disease can now be controlled through
the serum developed by the growth of the
baccili.

Estimates by experts indicate that the
timber consumed or damaged by the re-
cent fires in Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana will amount to fully 750,000.-
000 feet. The greatest loss appears to be
in Idaho.

P. Dean Warner, foster-father to Gov.
Warner, died at Farming, Mich., on Sun-
day, from ills incident to the infirmities
of old age, he being 88 years Old. He was
born in New York state in 1822 and
moved with his parents to Michigan two
years later. He leaves a widow, who is
two years his junior,

Two boat capsizings off the Rhode Is-
land shore resulted in five dro-wnings
Monday. Eight others were bravely saved
by life savers and newsboys who hap-
pcnedvnear.

A general review of available census
figures shows that the growth of small
places has been proportionately larger
than the larger cities. Comparing cities

of from 100,000 to 200,000 population with

those of like size during the period cov-
ered by the previous census shows that
less growth was made during the ten
years from 1900 to 1910 than from 1890
to 1900.

Scientists of Buenos Ayres are reported
to have succeeded in photographing the
motion of the mind.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

Branch 60., Aug. 23,—At last we have
had a. rain, 8. good soaker. It came early
this Tuesday morning, and only we who
have ’been longing for it nearly a month
and trying to plow where no moisture
was to be found, know how to appreciate
it. Oats were only half a crop owing to
the severe drouth. Field peas are almost
a total failure from the same cause.
Mammoth clover seed a. good crop, but
acreage less than usual. The first crop
of June clover was so short and cut so
late that the second. or seed crop, will
'be late and many will cut it for hay in-
stead of saving for seed. Wheat yielding
well and the acreage this fall likely to be
increased if sufl‘icient moisture falls to
permit fitting the ground. Apples, peach-
es, pears and plums are a. better crop than
the average for some years’ past, which
is not saying much, as apples especially
have been of little account for some
years’ past. Corn generally doing well
except where the drouth has injured it.
The stand of corn is, hOWever, poor and
the ground unusually weedy.

Marion C0., lll., Aug. 24.——VVe have had
some good rains this month, on the 7th,
16th and 23d, with some showers at
other times of a. local nature. Most corn
is looking fine. Some threshing; oats are
making from 25 to 45 bu. per acre; wheat
from 6 to 12 bu.; no rye. No fruit. Pas-
tures are fair. Stock in good condition.
Hogs scarce. Oats are selling at 28@30c;
wheat, 95c; corn, 540 for shipping, 65c
for good meal corn. No trading in horses.
Some young mules selling at from $60@
90 per head. Cattle, $3.50@4.50 cwt;
milch cows, fresh, $35@50 each.

Wayne Co., 0., Aug. 22.——The weather is
very dry. Have not had a rain of any
account since the 27th of July. Oats all
harvested, some being t‘hrcshed; averag-
ing about 40 bu. per acre. Wheat aver-
aging 18 to 20 bu. per acre. Late pota-
toes poor stand and blighting early; needs
rain badly. Corn caring out 'heaVy but
late; will be late to ripen and in danger
of, frost. Pasture is short, and some
farmers commencing to feed stock.

Montgomery 00., Ohio, Aug. 29.—-To-
bacco is going to be a. short crop owing
to dry weather. Corn is badly fired on
clay ground, while that on ‘the black
ground is looking good. August 25th we
'had a good rain which came a. little late
to do much good. Live stock scarce and
high in price, especially Jersey chs and
good draft mares. The markets are as
follows: Corn, 60c; wheat, 90c; oats, 32c-
butter, 20c; eggs, 18c; potatoes, 70c. '

Steuben Co., lnd., Aug. {la—Threshing
has been the business of the day for
smne time, but is about wound up now.
Wheat is yielding unusually well and of
a splendid quality, yields of above 40 'bu.

er acre being quite frequently reported.

ats have not turned out as well as was
expected, yielding around 30 bu. This is
not an oat county, but very few farmers
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PERRY’S VICTORY on LAKE ERIE

BY CLYDE A. ‘WAUGH.

the mind of the student of history

that memorable sea fight which
forms one of the brightest pages of Am-
erican history. A few years hence will,
no doubt, see a fitting observance of the
one hundredth anniversary of that de-
cisive vidtory which was fraught with
tremendous consequences to a struggling
young nation, and the fascinating story
of the glorious achievements of the gal»
lant young officer who led the expedition
will be told and retold, to the end that
the name of Perry shall ever occupy a
'high place on the roll of the nation’s he—
roes. The manner in which he overcame
serious obstacles in the building of his
fleet is an interesting story in itself, but
the average American loves best the thril-
ling account of the great battle.

Imagine a most beautiful morning on
lake Erie, with just enough 'breeze blow-
ing to make the ripples dance and gleam
like diamonds under the September sun.
With the sparkling water in the fore-
ground, and with South Bass Island in
the distance, the scene was indeed a most
peaceful one. One could hardly believe
that a grim—visaged fleet of war lay at
anchor back in the island-locked bay at.
South Bass.

Indeed, the peacefulness of that mem-
oralble September morning was as the
calm which precedes the storm. Com—
modore Perry and his brave men were
eagerly awaiting the coming of the fleet
with whom they were bound to contest.
But a few days before they had passed
the British forts at Malden at the upper
end of the lake. 'Yet, the enemy’s menu
of—war lay under the cover of those forts
and allowed the challenge to go unan-

THE coming of September brings to

swered. The plucky young commander
was literally waiting for something to
happen.

Just as the sun stood forth above the
slopes of the islands the lookout spied
the oncoming force

victory. But they say that “great oaks
from little acorns grow;” and so a few
small sailing vessels, most of them hastily
and rudely constructed from trees grow-
ing on the shore of the lake, man-
ned by untrained seamen, hearing all told
not more than 54 guns the range of which
was not greater than that of an ordinary

which were larger and better built than
ours. These vessels mounted 64 guns of
larger range and larger calibre. Men
who were thorough seamen, trained before
the mast, manned these ships. The offi—
cers were all experienced men, while
Commodore Barclay, who had lost an arm
in service under the great Nelson at the

 

 

 

 

Perry's Great Battle—From an Old and Familiar Painting.

revolver, were to Win a fight which was
in turn to help win an empire. \Vonder~
ful, wasn’t it. The crews numbered 400
men, many of these being landsmen‘; all
the officers were young men. The expedi-
tion depended upon patriotism as its
principal asset.

The British~ fleet comprised six ships,

famous battle of the Nile, commanded the
fleet.

Perry and his following sailed haughtily
westward to meet the enemy. He wanted
close action; so did Barclay. In the light
wind the British sailed slowly but' defiantly
down the lake to meet them. The wind
died away and the sails of the vessels

seemed that some good
was striving to postpone
And Well did it succeed.
the mcrcy of the slight

hung lifeless; it
spirit or other
the contest.

They were at

breeze. 'The flagship Lawrence was far
ahead of the rest and would soon d rift
within range of the British guns. The

other eight were helpless—they could not
get into action, neither could they aid the
flagship.

At a quarter of twelve the British com-
mandcr opcned the from his flagship, the
Detroit. Perry replied. But the. shot
only splashed in the watt-r. not carrying
half the distance. Perry saw no use of
firing, so hc savctl ammunition. Hire the
greater capacity and lotigor range of the
British guns came into play. Each of
their shots told. A crashed through
the rigging and Lioutenant Yarnefl was
badly wounded. Dazed and bleeding, he
staid by the guns. Soon tho concentrated
fire of the entire British squadron was
traincrl upon thc Lawrcnce. In time the
sails and masts were all shot away and
the dcad and wounded covered the decks,
which were running red with blood. But
they still thought of the blue flag. They
had no intention of giving up the. ship.
The rest of the fleet stood helplessly
watching the one-sided contest. But the
wind would not blow.

Shut

As soon as the American fire would
have telling effect the guns were again
manned. The upper parts of the craft
having been shot away, no sails were left
with which to work the vessel. Indeed,
the outlook seemed dark. But she drift-
ed among the enemy’s vessels and her
cannonades i) gun to tell. The British
masts began to drop. The blue flag still
flaunted. Only seven guns could be. work-—
ed, but the Lawrence still held her ground,
despite the fact that the. fire. of 35 guns

was concentrated upon her. The execu—
tion was terrible, but the Americans
avenged themselves in telling manner

Perry knew that

 

of Captain Barclay.
As Lieutenant El-~
liott climbed up the
side of the Law-
rence to get his
commander‘s order,
he exclaimed, “The
day has come at
last.”

“The one we have
long been wishing
for,” answered
Perry.

Perry was a man
of quick decisions.
It did not take him
long to decide upon
a plan of action.
He stepped upon
the deck and from
beneath his arm
took a blue flag.
Soon this flag
flaunted from the
'halyards of the lit-
tle craft. It bore
the words of the
d yin g Lawrence,
“Don’t give up the
ship”—words which
will live as long as
the American navy

 

lives, which will
ever add lustre to
i t s achievements

and which will ever
bring to mind the
greatest inland na-
val lbattle ever
fought on the west-
ern continent.

It jars our sense
of proportions to
think that so small
a. fleet should win
so magnificent a

Perry's Wlllow at Put-ln-Bay—the Restlng

Place of Three Amerlcan and

 

three Brltlsh Officers Killed in the Battle.

to surrender the
flagship would re-
move every chance
of Victory. His
men realized it. So

they fought on.
Shot tore entirely
through the Law—
rence. Man after
man was torn to
pieces while at the
guns. Lieut, Yar—
nell was wounded
four times. Perry’s

life seemed charm-
Cd. As Lieutenant
Brooks Ifell he ut-
tercd the prophetic
words, “if Perry’s
life is saved he’ll
win us out of this.”
And he did. Every
officer on the flag-
ship, except Perry,
was citht-r killcd or
woundcd, together
with three—fourths
of the crew.

During the two
hours of this awful
Single-handed fight,
a slight breeze 'had
arisen and the oth-

er craft were en-
abled to get into
action. The LaW~
rcnce was so de»
molished that it;
was impossible to
move her. Some-
thing had to be
done. The crisis
had come. But

Perry was a man
of a c t i o n . He
quickly seized upon

 


 

. the Niagara

170 (10)
a new plan. Desperate and brave it was,
but desperate straits call for desperate
remedies.

The! motto was hauled down and wrap-
ped about his arm. A small boat was
manned and, with the brave commander
standing cooly in the stem, ‘the yawl
pulled off toward the Niagara, with the
combined fire of the entire fleet cutting
the water into a spray which fell about
the craft. How did it happen that a ball
did not sink :the boat, or a stray shot
hit the commander? The enemy could
not but consider and admire the mettle
of the man against whom they were pit-
ted. Nor was he the less thought of by
his own four hundred.

This suddenly conceived and dar‘ingly
executed plan turned the tide of battle.
When the enemy saw the motto pennant
come down they expected the flag of sur-
render to go up in its place and for a
moment they ceased firing. But the blue
flag was quickly hoisted to its place on
the rising breeze waved i‘t
defiantly aloft, and the same breeze bore
the Americans toward the enemy. The
entire American force caught the inspira-
tion and cheer after cheer went through
the haze of sulphur smoke to meet the
cloudless sky overhead. The British saw
victory snatched from them just as they
were about to grasp it.

With the Niagara leading the fleet, and
the brave Perry ordering close action, the
Americans swept right and left among the
British vessels. The battle raged hot and

 

   

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fierce. Valiantly did the Americans fight,
but. none the lesslbravely did the battle-
scarred veterans of many wars respond.
No cowards were there. It was man
against man for the glory of Britain or
for the freedom of the west. But with the
thoughts of their leader, and with the
motto on the blue flag ringing in their
ears, the Americans fought with. the ardor
of madmen. Their fire was swift, well
directed and telling. One after another
the British vessels were engaged and
quickly riddled and left helpless.

As the breeze carried the smoke away
it showed a British officer waving the
white flag of surrender. Perry, with the
promptness characteristic of the man. im—
mediately gave the command “cease fir-
ing,” and the battle of Lake Erie was
over. '

Perry was rowed back to the Lawrence
to receive the surrender; When the Brit-
ish oflicer offered his sword, Perry said,
”I request that you keep your sword. It
has been ‘bravely used and won.”

The following day the dead sailors of
both fleets were buried in the waters of
the lake. The bodies of three American
and three British officers were taken over
to Put—in-Bay Island to be buried, and
today, on the shore of Put—in-Bay, stands
a Willow tree surrounded by a fence, That,
the burial place of the six officers of the
fleets, is the only thing we have to re-
mind us of one of the most spectacular
and memorable victories in the history of
the American navy.

 

ROMANTIC LIFE of HERBERT FURLONG.

Thrilling Experiences of a Soldier of Fortune, Ranchman
and Federal Detective.

BY J. W.

Vi'hcn quiet was restored with the In-
dians, I decided to settle down to a
peaccful life. About this time there was
a great deal of excitement and talk about
the money being made in cattle ranches,
and. having a few thousand pounds that
I had saved and deposited in New York,
I dccidcd to go into it. Besides, there was
some excitement in the business. I set-
tied on the Big Powder River in VVyo-
ining, which is about 150 miles from Miles
City, .Montana, (then a little hamlet). The
railroad had just advanccd there. I well
remember seeing buffalo robes awaiting
shipment. They were stacked about 12
feet high and five or six hundred feet
long. The price of them was $2.00 each,
and they were beauties—-i.hey are worth
a. hundred dollars each today and scarce
at that. I picked up a large number on
my ranch that had been discarded by the
hunters as not being good enough to ship
and had them tanned by the Indians, who
became very friendly.

Aitlllf,“ about this time things looked
flourishing on the ranch. The cattle were
multiplying and I was looking daily for
the arrival of two young Englishmen to
join me. They were coming overland
from Miles City and I had a vague idea
that I might meet them at the ford below
which, in the present swollen condition of
the river, would be impassable and they
would be compelled to wait for the river
to subside. Having nothing particular
to do abOut that time my foreman and
myself decided to ride down to the ford.
but not finding the mcn there we started
homcward. Ahead of us appeared, high
up on the bluff, a clump of trees and
bushes, and as we drew near a sudden
caprice seized us. Dismounting we teth-
cred our ponies and then climbed the
stecp embankment. “'0 intended to knock
around in the brush a little and prospect
the place before resuming our journey. A
fine specimen of an eagle caught our eye,
perched high up on the dead bough of a
tree.

Moving around to get a good position to
pick him off with my rifle, so that his
body would not be torn, I caught sight,
through an opening of the trees, of an
immense herd of buffalo browsing and
moving slowly in our direction. We
movcd forward a little to get a better
view of the herd, when the eagle, una-
wares to us, spread his pinions. When we
looked again for him he was soaring at a
safe distance from our rifles. We were
on the leeward side of the herd and con—
sequently safe from discovery if we took
ordinary precaution among the trees. It
was a fine spectacle which they present-
ed, and what was more we were in just
the mood to watch them. The land un—
dulated but was covered for many acres
with minuter undulations of dark brown
shoulders slowly drifting toward us. We
could hear the rasping sound which in.
numerable mouths made chopping the

GRAND.
crisp grass. As we looked, our ears
caught a low, faint rhythmical sound

borne to us from afar. We listened in—
tently. The sound grew more distinct,
until we could recognize the tread of an-
other herd of buffalo coming from an op-
posite direction.

We skulked low through the under-
growth and came to the edge of the
wooded patch just in time to see the van
of this new herd rounding a 'hill. The
herd was evidently spending its force,
having already ran for miles. It came
with a lessening speed, until it settled
down to a comfortable walk. The two
herds discovered each other at about the
same instant. Our herd was at first a
little startled. But. after a brief inspec—
tion of the approaching mass, the work
of clipping the grass of the prairies was
resumed. The fresh arrivals came to a
standstill and gazed at the thousands of
their fellows who evidently had pre-
cmptcd these sections. Apparently they
reached the conclusion that the region
was common property, for they soon low-
ercd their heads and began to shave the
face of the earth of its green growth.
The space separating the herds slowly
lessened. The outermost fringes touched
but a short distance from our point of
observation. It was not like the fringes
of a lady‘s dress coming in contact with
the lace drapery of a window, I can as-
sure you. Nothing so soft and sibilant
as that. It was morc like the fringes of
freight engines coming ‘in contact with
each other when they approach with some
momentum on the same track.

Two powerful ‘bulls had unwittingly
found ihemsclvos in close proximity to
each other, coming from either herd, Sud—
denly, shooting up from the sides of the
(.ne whose hcrd was on the ground first,
flumes of dirt made graceful curls in the
air. They were the signals for hostili—
ties to commence. The boots of the powv
eri‘ul beast were assisted by his small
horns, which dug the sod and tossed
bunches that settled out of the air in his
shaggy mane. These belligerent demon-
strations were responded to in quite as
defiant a fashion by the late arrival. He,
too, was an enormous affair.

Unquestionalbly the two fellows regard»
ed themselves as representative of their
different herds, the one first on the
ground Viewing the other as an interloper,
and he in his turn looking upon the for-
mer as reigning, because no one had the
spirit to contest his supremacy and show
him where he belonged. They sidled up
nearer each other, their heads all the
while kept low to the ground, and their
eyes red with anger, rolling in fine fury.
This display of the preliminaries of battle
drew the attention of an increasing num-
ber from either herd. At first they would
look up, then re-commence their eating,
and then direct their attention more in—
tensely as their combatants began to

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measure their strength more closely. And
when the firght was on they became quite
absorbed in the varying fortunes of the
struggle.

At last the two huge fellows, after a
good deal of circumlocution, made the
gran-d rush. I reckon it would be your
everlasting fortune if one of you college
fellows who play football had the force
to make the great rush which either one
of these animals represented. The col-
lision was straight and square. A crash
of horns, a heavy dull thud of heads. We
thought surely the skull of one or the
other, or possibly both, was crushed in.
But evidently they were not even hurt.
Didn’t they push, then? The force would
have shoved an old—fashioned barn from
its foundations. The muscles swelled up-
on the thighs, the hoofs sank into the
earth. But they were evenly matched.

For an instant there was a mutual ces-
sation of hostilities to get breath.
they came together with a more resound—
ing crash than before. Instantly we per-
ceived that the meeting of heads was not
square. The new champion had the best
position. Like a flash he recognized it
and redoulbled his efforts to take its full
advantage. The other appeared to quad-
ruple his efforts to maintain himselfin
position, and 'his muscles bulged out but
his antagonist made a sudden move which
wrenched his head still farther off the
line, when he went down upon his knees.
That settled the contest, for his enemy
was upon him before ‘he could recover.
He was thrown aside and 'his flank was
raked by several ugly, upward thrusts of
his foe, which left him torn and bruised
all in a heap. When he could get upon
his feet he limped crestfallen away.

The victorious fellow lashed his small
tail, tossed his head, and moved in all the
pride of his conquest up and down through
the ranks of his adversary’s herd. How
exultant he was! We took it to be rank
impudence, and though he had exhibited
some heroic qualities of strength and
daring, it displeased us to see him take
on so ‘many airs on account of his vic-
tory. But his conquest of the field was
not yet ent‘irely complete. As he strode
proudly along his progress was stopped
by a loud snort and, looking aside, he
saw a fresh challenge. There, standing
out in full view, was another bull, a
monster of a fellow, belonging to his
late enemy’s herd. He pawed the earth
with great strokes and sent rockets of
turf curving high in the air, some of
which sifted their fine soil down upon the
nose of the victor.

As we looked at this new challenger
and took in his immense form, we chuck-
led with the assurance that the haughty
fellow would now have decent humility
imposed upon him. The conqueror him-
self must have been impressed with the
formidableness of his new antagonist, for
there was a change in his demeanor at
once. Of course, according to a well-
established buffalo code. he could do noth-
ing but accept the challenge.

Space was cleared as the two monsters
went through their gyrations, their toss-
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snorts and their low bellows. This ap-
peared to them a more serious contest
than the former, if we could judge from
thelength of the introductory part. They
took more time befOre they settled down
to (business. We were of the opinion that
the delay was caused by the champion,
'who.resorted to small arts to prolong the
preliminaries. We watched it all with
the most excited interest. It had all the
thrilling features of a Spanish bull fight,
without the latter’s degradation of man.
Here was the level of nature. Here the
true buffalo instincts, with their native
temper, were exhibiting themselves in
their most emphatic and vigorous fashion.
It was the buffalo’s trial of nerve,
strength and skill. Numberless as most
have been these tournaments in which
the champions of different herds met to
decide [which was superior in the long
ages during which the buffalo kingdom
reigned supreme over the vast western
prairies of the United States, yet few had
ever been witnessed by man. We were
looking upon a spectacle exceedingly rare
to human eyes, and I confess that I never
was more excited than when this last
trial reached its climax. It was a ques.
tio'n now whether the champion should
still hold his position. It stimulates one
more when he thinks of losing what he
has seized than when he thinks of failing
to grasp that which he 'has never pos-
sessed. Undoulbtedly, both of these ani-

 

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looked at thtls latest arrival in the arena,'
we about concluded that he was the realj
leader.
While these and other thoughts werel
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We wlll be glad to publish the (late:~

land place to be held of any picnlca or

farmers' gatherlngs of any kind, if those
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THE COUNTY FAIR.

 

BY LALIA MITCHELL.

I’m going, yes, ‘I’m going
To see the County Fair,
For all my friends andneighbors
Are certain to be there.
We’ll meet the Daskam people,
And some from Hunter’s Lake
With cousins on a visit -
From Neath and Hagensake.
Oh what a time for learning,
Of those I used to know,
And who is fat and forty
And how the babies grow.

I’m going, yes, I’m going

To see the County Fair;
Somehow it never changes,

Though change is everywhere.
The cattle in their stables,

The sheep in fold and pen,
They’re very like the winners

When you and I were ten.
The pies and cakes and muffins,

The quilts and rugs, I know,
’Are kin to those I looked at

A. score of years ago.

I’m going, yes, I’m going
.To see the County Fair;

What memories ’twill waken
Of days beyond compare.

What pleasures it will bring me,
And just a little pain,

For there are joys remembered
That will not come again.

And there are faces tender
That, missing, still I love,

Of those who wait to greet me
On Fair Grounds up above.

MAN’S PROGRESS IN THE ART OF
FLYING.

 

 

Nowadays the world reads and hears
much about “the conquest of the air." It

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' THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER.’

MASTER LEE SHOOP AND HIS CLIPPED COLLIE ROADSTER.

ing the machine upward or downward,
while in the rear is a rudder, by the prop—
er use of which the craft is directed prac-
tically at the will of the operator.

The remarkable success attending the
numerous demonstrations of the aero-
plane, both in this country and abroad,
during the past two years need not be
detailed here. Suffice it to say that the
promising manner in which this type of
flying machine met the tests made by the
government last year, and the recent ex-
tended flights, notably the one from A1-
bany to New York city and the 'one from
New York to Philadelphia and return,
have drawn the attention of the entire
world. Those who witnessed the demon-
strations at the State Fair grounds in
Detroit during Elks week in July of this
year were strongly impressed with the
undoubted superiority of the aeroplane
over any other type of flying machine that
has yet appeared. ‘ While its development
has not reached a stage which would war-
want the prediction that aeroplanes will
soon be as common as automobiles, its
success appears to mark one more step
in the direction of the ultimate solution
of the big problem and should prove of
decided worth to the mechanical world
since it completely disproves the generally
accepted theory that a “heavier-than-air"
era-ft could not be made to navigate the
air. At any rate, those in attendance at
this year’s State Fair at Detroit will have
the opportunity of judging how nearly
the aeroplane approaches their ideas as
to what the practical flying machine

 

 

COmlng Down the Home Stretch at the State Fair Grounds.

 

Flying Close to the

Ground is Not Especially Difficult with the Aeroplane.

is only a few years ago that the ardent
students of the science of aeronautics
had made sufficient progress to give the
public the opportunity of witnessing the
seemingly wonderful feats performed with
the dirigible balloon, or airship, which
was conceded to rbe a distinct step in
advance of the balloon that flew with the
wind. A great many of the readers of
this magazine have, since that time, wit-
nessed dirigible balloon flights, and while
unconvinced that this style of airship
could ever be turned to practical use the
progress which it exemplified encouraged
the hope that the great problem which
has baffled mankind since the world began
would yet be solved.

Familiarity with the dirigible balloon
had scarcely been gained when a group
of aeronautic students, who had been
working along a very different line, suc-
ceeded in catching the public eye and, to
a very large extent, in monopolizing the
attention of the aeronautic world, To the
persevering efforts of this group of stu—
dents and inventors is due the perfection
of the so-called aeroplane, an airship or
flying machine which employs lightly con-
structed planes instead of a balloon or
gas bag. The invention of the light but
powerful motor made this type of flying
machine possible, as it was found that
any device having a large horizontal sur-
face could be made to rise in the air if
driven at a sufficiently high rate of speed.
The modern motor has, therefore. proven
an all-important factor in the develop—
ment of the aeroplane. since by its use
the craft is made so light that. on the
development of high speed and the proper
adjustment of the planes, it will soar in
the air and can easily be kept there so
long as the speed is maintained. In ap-
pearance the aeroplane resembles a large
box kite \with only the upper and lower
surfaces in place. The motor and the
operator ride upon the upper surface of
theibottom plane, midway between the
ends, while directly below them is a set
of light wfheels upon which the craft runs
while gathering momentum preparatory
to rising in the air. Some distance in
front of the operator is a smaller adjust-
able plane which avids materially in guid-

should be, as daily demonstrations of the
capabilities of this type of air craft will
be given throughout fair week,

LITTLE ESSAYS OF FACT AND
FANCY.

 

BY CARL S. LOVVDEN.

 

Little Strokes.

A college president once said: “That
stone step you see there was worn as it
is, almost half in two, by the footsteps
of the students.”

At first thought it seems impossible
that leather should wear away stone, but
it will, little by little. That stone had
been there for thirty years, and thousands
of students had entered that building.
liven the stone could not resist the little
strokes of shoe leather often repeated.

\Ve are generally inclined to discount

 

SEPT. 3, 1910.

 

How a Humane Michigan Lad “Dresses" His Patient Collie in Hot Weather.

 

the little things. We reach out for the
big things. That is why there are so
many failures, for the little things must
be overcome first before the big things
are attempted.

There is a nameless bit of prose.
little and is about little things:

“Little words are the sweetest to bear;
little charities fly farthest, and stay loll"-
est on the wing; little lakes are the still-
est; little hearts are the fullest, and lit~
tle farms are the best tilled. Little books
are read the most, and little songs the
dearest loved. And when nature would
make anything especially rare and ’beau-~
tiful, she makes it little; little pearls, lit-
tle diamonds, little dews.”

The importance of little things is a big
topic and much can be said about it.
Little strokes are really big, for they do
cause great oaks to fall.

After all, the point to the proverb is not
so much the littleness of the strokes, but
the frequency of their repetition that
counts. In fact, the bigger the strokes
the better, but unless each stroke is fol-
lowed by another the great oak will not
fall.

When George Washington cut down the
cherry tree and was too good to tell a lie
about it, he made use of the policy out-
lined here. He used little strokes. Of
course, the tree came down. As it hap-
pened the tree was little, so was George,
and so was the hatchet. A little man
with a little hatchet and little strokes cut
down a little cherry tree. George did a
little thing. If the tree had been large,
it would have been a. big thing. All the
same this bears out the. truth that little
strokes do fell great oaks.

The lesson 0f perseverance is valuable.
Nothing, no venture is so big that it can-
not be accomplished lby little strokes. Na-
ture does things slowly. The most solid
rock finally crumbles and decays. \\'aler
will wear away stone. Continual drops of
water in the same spot will make a hole
in the hardest rock. Little acts of kind—
ness advance the deer and certainly nev-
er harm him. Little words, timely said,
cheer up and invigorate both the bearer
and the sayer. The days of tree chop—
ping are over, but little things still do

It is

 

 

 

 

The Aeroplane Arose with the Ease and Speed of a Blrd.

big things the same as in the ancient
past

ANCIENT ANN.
BY SOI’lll’G ll. Mt; KHNZIE.
Rainy days are bad enough if you are
in your own home; but if you are boarding
at the seashore, rainy days are dreadful.
You can't have sham battles, play Indian
or any other lively game, because the
grown—up bourdcrs in the next room
might be disturbed. Of course, there are
sitting-down games, like flinch and au-
thors,. but what are they compared with
bathing. rowing fishing. digging clams,

 

 

 

 

 

High Enough to be Exciting.

catching crabs, and building forts on the
beach!

On the afternoon of this second rainy
day the four Ames children began to
play school, with Edith, the eldest, for
teacher. The pupils, however, soon be-
came so noiSy and disobedient that their
unhappy teacher had to invite grand-
mother to act as superintendent.

“I wouldn‘t know how to be superin-
tendent," said grandmother, “for we
didn’t have them when I was young—we
had a committee. But I could tell you
what happened to me once, when the
chairman of the committee visited our
school.”

“Tell us!" exclaimed the excited pupils,
and their teacher gladly dismissed them
to listen to grandmother’s story.

“To begin with.” said grandmother, “I
lived in the city until I was twelve years
old, after which my parents moved to
the country and I had to go to a district
school.”

“\i'hat is that?" interrupted Arthur.

“A school with pupils of all ages. taught
by one teacher. There were little boys
and girls just learning their letters, and
big boys and girls such as go to high
school now.”

“Children don’t learn their letters," cor-
rected Edith.

“They did when I was young," replied
grandmother, “and well I remember the
switching I got because I would call ‘M’
‘W.’ ”

“There were more than thirty—five pu-
pils in this school and the teacher could
scarcely have time to hear so many dif—
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der, now, that she didn't give me a more
cordial welcome!” '

“I can see, too, that I didn't conduct
myself very wisely during those 'first
weeks. I gave the other scholars to un-
derstand that I had been to a city school,
and therefore knew more than they could
even be supposed to know. I was impo-
lite enough to tell the teacher that She
didn't do things the way my other teach-
er did. Naturally I soon found out that
I was unpopular, but I didn’t care. I
thought they were jealous of me, and I
rather enjoyed that.”

“One afternoon a stern-faced man
walked in without even knocking, and
seated himself behind the teacher’s desk.
‘The Committee,’ some one whispered to
me. Everyone seemed afraid of him—-
even the teacher.”

“Our class in grammar was parsing
this sentence: ‘The ancients 'believed
that the earth was flat.’ A big boy, who
sat next to me, was trying to recite. He
wasn’t good at grammar, anyway, and
with the dignified committee listening, he
failed completely. ‘Next,’ said the teach-
er, reprovingly, and I went through the
sentence quickly and correctly. and sat
down with a very superior air.”

“At the close of the recitation our vis-
itor asked the school general questions in
mental arithmetic, history and geography.
Though many of the pupils knew the an-
swers. they failed because they were
over—awed. But I wasn‘t awed a bit, and
replied glibly to the questions he put.”

“But when I heard him say to the
teacher, ‘Who is the new scholar, and
what school did she come from?’ I felt
my face growing very red. Then he
turned to me so quickly and said in such
a Severe tone, ‘Tell me What you have
been taught about the shape of the earth,‘
that I was confused and couldn't answer.

The Mnemoxn FARMERS

Every eye was upon me. I must say
something. So I stupidly repeated, 'The
ancients believed that the earth was
flat.”

“ ‘Is that what you were taught?’ ”

“ ‘Yes, I was taught that the earth is
flat.’ ”

“I knew right off that‘I had made a
dreadful mistake. A giggle went around
the room—«even the teacher, I thought,
looked pleased, and the ‘committee’
seemed puzzled and amused.”

“When school was dismissed, how I
hurried for home! The boy who had
failed in parsing the sentence shouted
gleefully, ‘Ancient Ann! Ancient Ann!
She believes the earth is flat!’ The other
children took up the croy, and as long
as I could hear they shrieked those hate-
ful words, ‘Ancient Ann, Ancient Ann!’ ”

“I was crying when I reached home, and
mother heard, between my great sobs, the
story of my troubles. ‘I just hate the
name of Ann, anyway,’ I loudly an-
nounced, ‘and Ancient Ann is awful! I'll
never go near that old school again!" '

“ ‘Oh, yes, you will,’ replied mother.
‘Besides, Ann is a very nice name, your
grandmother‘s name. People called 'her
‘Agreeable Ann.’ I expect her namesake
to win that ~title, too.’ ”

"Before going to sleep that night I
thought it all over. Because I had been
proud and disagreeable the pupils and the
teacher, too, as I thought, had been glad
to have me fall. I made up my mind to
do differently, and I did.”

“Nevertheless, I entered the school-
yard next morning to the tune of ‘An-
cient Ann! Ancient Ann!’ and the nick-
name clung to me for some time. But,
as children are always just, when they
saw that I was trying to be kind and
helpful they gradually stopped calling me
by that name, and I spent two very hap—
py Years in the district school.”

 

HOW To MAKE

BY I.

In Fig. 1 the sail wagon is shown com.
plete with an end view at “a" showing
the steering arrangement. A board about
3 'feet, 6 inches in length, by 18 inches
across and about 1k or 5%, inch thick, is
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ing board, narrower at one end than at
the other. A 1—inch piece of board is se—
cured to the front end to give strength
for the mast and steering gear.

One pair of large wheels and one pair
of small ones must be procured or made
as described further on. The large
wheels and axle can be secured to the
bottom board by means of two blocks of
wood as shown in Fig. l and Fig. 2, the
latter being a view of the under side of
the wagon.

‘The two small wheels must be rigged
up a little differently. A board about the
same thickness as the axle is shaped at
one end into a round handle, which should
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end of the wagon. The broad end of this
board rests on the axle, and is 'bolted to
two pieces of board the same width;
which came down on the front and rear

A SAIL WAGON.

G. B.

sides of the axle, and are bolted to it,
Fig. 2 A, A. The fifth-Wheel bearing is
made out of tough wood, and placed so
that the steering wheel turns easily (Fig.
I “a." A round stick is put through the
stern of the piece‘, to press the feet
against when steering (Fig. 1, “b.”)

Some boys make a. rail (Fig. 1, “0”)
around the end, that they sit on, out of
barrel hoops and laths, but this is not
altogether necessary.

The mast can be made from a round
stick about 4 feet, 6 inches long. A broom
handle will do for the cross arm, to
which the sail is attached. The sail
should be so arranged that'it can be very
quickly lowered should the wind get the
best of the wagon. This can be done
either by having a. small pulley at the
mast head, through which a rope is passed
and the said thereby raised or lowered,
or the end of the sail can be loosed and
allowed to fly.

Should it 'be found inconvenient readily
to procure a set of discarded baby buggy
or express wagon wheels, they can easily
be made by an ingenious boy as shown in
Fig. 3. A but) is made from a round
block of wood, as shown at “c," and
round sticks, cut from light curtain poles
or broom handles, made into spokes as at
“b," care being taken to get them all the
same length. The rim is made from bar
rel hoops, although some boys make them
of thin ‘wood, well soaked in warm water

 

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and bent into shape. A nail or screw is
put through the rim at each spoke, as
shown at “a,” the completed wheel.

VV‘hile this is a general description of a
sail wagon, it does not take the average
boy long to make one to suit himself out
of almost any old thing he is sure to find
about the place. It is interesting to no~
tice the many and difierent designs of
wagons and sails when once the craze
is started. Smooth roads, an open space
and plenty of wind is all that is necessary
for a successful sail-wagon race.

ANY PICNICS? .
We will be glad to publish the dates
and place to be held of any picnics or

'farmers’ gatherings or any kind, if those

interested will let us know.

 

 

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This F all Just Think it Over!

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This gun has a positive ejector which throws out the
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It Is Made to Shoot Both Black and Nitro Powders.

Special “Electro” steel barrel, choke bored .and up to the Stevens standard

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THE FACTORY 0F PRECISION. ‘

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These shells cost a little more than black powder loads,
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as there is no smoke to hinder the second barrel. They are
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market. When you buy, insist upon having them.

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They are made especially for Michigan
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passing through our minds the two
mighty contestants sduared and made a
tremendous plunge at each other. What
a shock was that! What a report rolled
on the air! The earth fairly shook with
the terrific concussion of buffalo brains,
and both ‘burly fellows went down on their
knees. Both, too, were upon their feet
at the same instant; they looked horns
with the same swittness and skill, and
each bore down on the other with all the
power he could summon. The cords stood
out like great ropes on their necks. The
muscles on thighs and hips rose in huge
welts. We were quite near these fellows
and could see the roll of their blood-red
eyes. They braced and shoved with per-
fectly terrible force. The froth began
to drip in lOng strings from their mouths.
The erstwhile victor slipped with one hind
foot slightly. His antagonist felt it and
instantly swung a couple of inches for-
ward, which bowed the unfortunate buf-
falo’s back and we expected every instant
that he would go down. But he had a.
firm hold and he swung his antagonist
back to his former position, where they
were held panting, their tongues lolling
out.

There was a slight relaxation for
breath. Then the contest was renewed.
Deep into new sod their hoofs sank,
neither getting advantage of the other.
Like the crack of a tree broken asunder
came a report on the air and one of the
legs of the first fighter sank into the
earth. The other thought he saw his
chance and made a furious lunge toward
his opponent. The earth trembled be-
neath us. The monsters there fighting
began to reel. .We beheld an awful rent
in the sod. For an instant the ground
swayed, then nearly an acre dropped out
of sight.

We started back with horror. Then,
becoming reassured, we slowly approached
the brink of the new precipice and looked
over. ‘This battle had been fought near
the edge of a high bluff. Their great
weight—each one weighed over a ton——
and their tremendous struggles had
loosened the fibres which kept the upper
part of the bluff together and, the foun-
dations having been undermined by the
current, all were precipitated far below.

As we gazed downward we detected two
moving masses quite a distance apart and
soon the shaggy fronts of the animals
were seen. One got into the current of
the river and was swept down stream
Later, the other was caught by the tides

. and swept onward toward his foe.

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A “tough” in the white of an egg.
A fellow in a hat.

A limb in a representative.

Eager in a politician.

Despicaible in behavior.

To bring up in gloomily.

A domestic animal in a French coin.‘
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Weaving Rag Carpets and Rugs.
By Ella M. Rogers.

0ST of the series of articles en-
M titled, “Michigan Country “'0-
men as Money Earners,” have

given a description of how some individ«
ual woman is pursuing some line of work,
and the methods by which she is making
it Win out. In gathering the material for
presenting the subject of weaving rag
carpets and rugs as a field in which some
farm women may be able to make money,
I have conSulted several practical women

 

The Fly Shuttle Loom and

who are earning in this way, and have
gained helpful information from each.

So 1 shall not try to give a full account
of how Mrs. Slocum, of Traverse City,
almost 70 years old, has been weaving
for three score years, since she began
when she was a child of nine and her
little feet would hardly reach down to the
treadles. Although I should have liked
to get for readers of The Farmer a pic-
ture of this white-haired lady sittingr at
her loom, the latter of the old-fashioned
kind, with square beams which 'her hus-
band hewed out of forest trees, when
they were pioneers. She is making a
good carpet yet, and can weave about six
yards at day and do her work. She de—
clares she never found weaving hard
work, never made hard work of it.

Nor shall I give a history of how Mrs.
H. C. Snyder and her husband, owners of
a fine farm near Copemish, Mich, have
during the last nine years, “'OVt‘ll 10,000
yards of carpet, he carrying on his out~
door work as well, and she a busy house—
wife; but I shall present the subject in a
somewhat general way, using the knowl-
edge gained from all sources.

The weaving of carpets and rugs offers '

one of the best opportunities I know of
for country women who have time at
their disposal to earn money, for the rea-
sons that the work can be learned easily
and quickly, the capital required is small,
and, generally speaking, it is an occupa-
tion that is not at all overcrowded. There
is good demand for the work in almost
every community, and once let it be
known that you are prepared to do good
weaving, your patrons come from far and
near, bringing their rags and warp with
them. In this respect it is a refreshing
contrast to so many side lines that wo-
men take up, in which the “tug of war”
is to sell the product after it ismade.

Not much education is required. A
common school knowledge of arithmetic,
with a little gumption for calculating,
will enable one to make the simple com-
putations necessary to plan a piece of
carpet and proportion the rags for the
stripe, etc.

A woman must have a good degree of
muscular strength, and, what is equally
necessary, one’s strength must “come
right" for the work. Weaving is not suit-

ed to trail or weakly women, nor to such
as can snatch only an hour now and then
from other duties.

Some women seem to stand it very well
indeed. One should not try to do too
much in a day. “'here there are two
women living in one household, one may
spell the other at the loom. On a small
farm, the man himself may have some
leisure in winter and on rainy days, and
work very nicely with wife or sister, he

 

its Product.

doing the actual weaving, which is the
hardest part of the work, and she taking
care of the lighter processes that require
time and patience, I have known men who
earned many an honest dollar in this way,
and whose farms were not neglected
either. But weaving, taken in modera-
tion, is perfectly practical for many wo—
men, working alone.

I suppose it might be possible for a very
pcrsevering and ingenious person to take
an elaborately detailed book of directions,
and, having purchased a loom, to warp
and put in and weave a piece of carpet
without having received any personal in-
struction from any one. But it is far

The “Seersucker Rug.”

better and easier to learn from some one,
and since, for a person of fair aptitude,
only a few days apprenticeship is neces-
sary, I shall not attempt here to tell just
how the warping is done, nor to explain
all the mysteries of lathes, reeds, heddles,
and temples. Go to some good weaver
and be taught for a short time; that is
the best way to begin.

The principal investment necessary is
a loom. On almost every farm there is
some place in the shop or other outbuild-
ing, or else some room in the house,
where the loom may be set up. One must
have a place Where there can be fire in
cool weather. A fly shuttle loom costs
from $50.00 upwards. Some still prefer
the old-fashioned looms, but one can
weave faster with the modern fly shuttle
kind, and I think most will consider them
best after they learn them. A loom must
be sufficiently heavy and strong, for there
is considerable strain upon it, and one
that is not staunch enough is a poor
thing.

The loom on which Mrs. Snyder weaves
is a four-harness loom and cost $115. It
will weave two yards in width. But she
tells me that it is extremely hard work to
weave so wide a. wab, and there is a
ridgy place through the middle. For all
ordinary weaving she thinks a two-har-
ness loom costing less money is just as
good. If one is weaving a large room—
size rug, she advises weaving it in strips
a yard or less in width and sewing them
together, rather than attempting a two-
yard web.

Anyone wanting to know where to get
a loom may write me, enclosing return
postage, and I will send names of some
firms who deal in them. Almost all the
needed accessories come with the loom
except a set of scales, which, while per-
haps not an absolute nec‘essity, is so great
a convenience that every weaver should
have them. A common, inexpensive set,
which likely can be picked up second-
hand, will answer.

The woman who engages in weaving
should take pride in her work and be am-
bitious to make carpet and rugs the hand-
somcst and of the best quality to be
found in her section of country .

To make good carpeting, good warp
and good rags are indispensable. The
rags should be clean, out fine and even,
and neatly joined, so there will be no
ends to stick up. Poor warp and dirty,
coarse, rotten rags are very annoying to
the weaver, and no one can make a de-
sirable carpet from such material. Allow
one-third of a pound of warp and from a
pound and a. quarter to a pound and a
half of rags to every yard of carpet.
Rags must be very fine and nice or a
pound and a quarter is not enough. Af-
ter rags have been colored, all the free
dyestuff should be washed out, else they
will be stiff, dusty, and, from some dyes,
rotted.

Having been furnished good warp and
good rags, a. correct and even tension of
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they will be firm and even, and thorough
beating up are necessary on the part of
the weaver. Some say beat every thread
twice, while others consider that with
soft rags one heat is sufficient. Too
much emphasis can not be placed on the
proper beating up, sinbe sleazy carpets
will ruin the reputation of any weaver.
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width for rag carpet, " it is customary to
vary. this somewhat wlién necessary to do
so to make a carpet that will fit a given
room, fer no one wants to cut a breadth.
It generally is better to make the
breadths less than a yard wide rather
than to try to run them much over.

Care should be taken to make no mis-
takes in the stripeing, as a carpet that
will not match when the Ibreadths are
put together, is, of course, always un-
satisfactory.

The carpet weaver, if possessed of good
taste and a knowledge of the harmony of
colors, naturally becomes a sort of local
oracle upon what is correct in shades
and striping, and by word may easily pre-
vent many a hideous combination of
orange and black and scarlet and yellow
that would otherwise be perpetrated. A
good rag carpet is so durable that if it is
a thing of beauty—and it may be made
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contains gaudy colors that jar and clash
with one another, it may be an eyesore
and a thing of ugliness when handed
down to future generations.

How much weaving can 'be done in a
day? Of course, it takes considerable
time to do the warping and put the piece
into the loom, but even after this is done,
just how much is a day’s work is a hard
questiodt'o answer. Mrs. Snyder, on the
Friday afternoon preceding my visit, wove
151/2 yards and “filled her own rags,” but
she'said that was really more than she
ought to do. I will explain that “filling
the rags" is the process of winding the
rags off the balls and feeding them into
the tin cylinders that are placed in the
shuttles. It is done with a simple little
machine made for the purpose. When
two are working together, the lighter
hand fills the cylinders. Mrs, Snyder has
frequently woven 20 yards in a day, but
considers 15 yards a fair average day’s
work. Mr. Snyder has woven as high as
44 yards in a day. I should say that a
woman of ordinary strength would better
content herself with less than 15 yards in
a day. The prices charged for weaving
carpet seem to be about 14 cents per
yard for striped and from 10 to 121/? cents
for hit and miss.

Now as to rugs. Let me say right here
that anyone who takes up weaving should
not fail to get abreast of the times in the
matter of making rag carpet rugs. There
is a genuine revival of the rag carpet
floor coverings, and rugs made of this
old-fashioned material are now in high
favor.

In a large city store I recently saw rag
carpet rugs, not the heavy‘ones but ordi-
nary carpet thickness, made, I thought,
with new calico filling, about one and a.
half yards long by a yard wide, striped
and fringed nicely at the ends, but noth-
ing at all remarkable about them—priced
at $2.75 each. I saw, also, some of the
room-size rugs, woven all in one piece,
with flower and leaf borders; but so far
as I was albie to learn, these are made
only in factories.

Mrs. Slocum told me how a pretty 'bor-
dered rug may be made by the home
weaver on an ordinary loom. Say you
want to make a 9x12 rug. Weave two
strips each one yard wide and 12 feet
long, making them with hit and miss or
plain center and striping them 18 inches
at each end: Then weave one strip 12
feet long, all striped like the 18 inches
at the ends of the other stripes. Along
each side of the center of this strip, stitch
ten or a dozen times lengthwise of the
whole strip on the sewing machine. The
stitching is to prevent raveling. Then out
the breadth in two exactly in the center,

 

using the halves for bordering the oppo-
site sides of the rug. A 9x12 rug may be
made on this plan by weaving four strips
nine feet long if preferred.

There are rugs and rugs. There is the
rug made from old ingrain carpet, and it
is ‘both comely and serviceable. We will
suppose the carpet has become too much
worn to be used as a carpet. Rip the
breadths apart and wash them. Then cut
all portions that are still fairly strong and
good into.strips two and a. half or three
inches wide, cutting lengthwise of the
breadths. Then ravel Several ofthe warp
threads from each side of these narrow
strips, leaving enough through the center
of each to hold it firmly together. Join
thestrips together at the ends, and wind
into balls the same as ordinary carpet
rags. These are used as filling for your
rug, the fringed edges of the strips mak-
ing a sort of napped or “velvet" surface.
The impossible lilies and roses of the old
ingrain carpet of course do not appear
in the new rug, but instead is a soft
melange of color, far more pleasing to the
cultivated eye.

In rag carpet rugs a distinction should
be noted between those made of rags of
ordinary Size and the heavy ones made of
rags two inches Or more in width. For
narrow rugs to be used in bathrooms,
doorways, etc., the heavy style is more
appropriate, since they stay in place
'better than the lighter weight.

For the heavy rugs a little change is
made in the warping. Instead of one
thread up and down as in the ordinary
carpet, weavers use tw0 threads up and

,two down, or four up and four down, or

make other variations.

For all kinds of rugs colored warp is
generally best, and the ends of the warp
may form a fringe on the ends of the rug
if desired. I think rugs made with dull,

-rather dark centers, and striped a. little

at the ends with colors brighter but still
harmonious, are the prettiest.

I must not omit speaking of the “seer-
sucker” style of weaving, which is used
for rugs of either fine or coarse rags. To
make this the weaver uses say 12 threads
of warp, then skips the space of 12
threads, then uses 12 threads again, then
skips again, and so on across the breadth.
The filling naturally bunches up a little
in the spaces where there is no warp, and
this gives a ridgy effect to the rug.

A friend of mine has a very nice little
“seersucker” rug. made with five threads
warp, then skip five. She prepared wide
rags very painstakingly, and the weaver
did a truly wonderful job of beating up
on that rug. My friend willingly paid
the 35 cents per yard which was charged
for the weaving.

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charges by the rug, according to size.
Thus have I briefly indicated some of
the possibilities of rug making.
for whole floors will doubtless continue
in use to some extent for many years to
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than $7.50 for my shoes. I got one pair
once for $5.00, but they were cheap look-
ing things.
and have mine made to order. I couldn’t
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them you would find they fitted you as
well as they do the rest of us.” Instead
of being impressed with the lady's mag-
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everyone present was disgusted at her
rudeness, even angry to think she had
hurt the feelings of the little woman. who
first spoke and who could only dream of
made-to-order shoes.

All of us number some such woman
among our acquaintances, and the wonder
of it is that the worst offenders are the
ones who make the greatest pretensions
to gentility. Their entire conversation is
larded with references to themselves, their
brilliant family, the distinguished per-
sons they have met, the sterling silver
they own, the number of fine dresses they
have, and the property they are going
to inherit when someone else dies. Noth-
ing is a. surer mark of bad breeding than
such boastfulness, and yet these boasters
will tell you of what a. good family they
come and how blue is the blood that
courses through their veins. .

The safest conversational rule for all
is, “Never talk about yourself.” No one
is as interested in you as you are in your-
self, not even your dearest friend. Your
bad luck makes as poor a subject of con-
versation as your wealth and magnifi-
cence, for no one likes to hear a cronkcr
any more than he does a boastcr, so the
wise thing is to steer clear of all allu-
sions to yourself and family,

It has always been my experience that
the people who have brains. good breed—
ing and culture never have to tell of it.
if you amount to something, it will show
for itself, and show far more quickly if
you don‘t try to call attention to the fact.
A long time ago it was said, "A city sat
on a. hill can not be hi(.” No more can
good breeding, fine blood, elegant clothes
and refinement. Then don’t use a mega-
phone to call attention to these qualities
in yourself. DEBORAH.

 

SHORT CUTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.

 

A small embroidery hoop and a piece of
cheesecloth make an excellent strainer for
a little milk or something of that sort.
It is much easier to manage than the
cloth alone. Hang the hoop over the
kitchen table and have several cloths in
a draw near by.-—M. M. N.

Butter rubbed on a. marred spot on fur-
niture will restore the color and make the
spot almost invisible—Mrs. XV. H.

\Vash string beans before they are cut
up ready to cook. If washed after it
spoils the fiavor.——A. D. P.

Try making dust cloths of squares of
cheesecloth. Dip them in kerosene and
hang outdoors for 24 hours before using
and your furniture and floors will look‘

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like new.—H. G.

If you have no fireless cooker and want
to keep a. meal hot without keeping up a
fire, try a. wooden or papier-mache wash~
tub and old blankets or quilts. Put the,
pots in quickly while boiling, cover up;
thickly all around and you may go to‘
church or anywhere for many hours.‘I
Your meal will be piping hot when need-
ed.——Mrs. A. H.

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enougl'r, dreary enough. Don‘t lengthen,
it by shutting doors and closing down
windows the first time the thermometer’
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goes down. Don’t remain indoors eve-
nings any sooner than you have to. Don’t
bring in the porch furniture and take up
the matting so long as there is a leaf
left on the old apple tree.

When a cold day comes, leave the doors
wide open and the windows raised, but;
build a fire in the heater, if need be, to“
keep the house from getting damp, as it
is very apt to do in the fall. You mayi
burna little more wood, but wood is
cheaper than doctors’ bills.

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A good way to can string beans is to
pick from the vines and neither string or‘
cut them, but place whole in a fruit can
all it will hold, then place the can in a
pail of cold water so the can and beans
are fully covered by the water, then
screw the cover on under water. They
will keep fine until you wish to open
them, then string, cut, and. cook them the
same as you would at any time—E. R.

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We are ready for your stove order right now with enormous stocks of our
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give you such stoves and ranges as we offer at anywhere near our prices and
if you pay a penny more than we ask you are simply throwing money away,
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throughout the country so that we can make quick shipment to you and deliver
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Write Today for Our Stove Catalogue

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. SEPT. 3‘, 1910.” -’ ' 1
Farm I0]. Reg-ngAggngpe t1311:.)alllgg'r11ndmodairy

Five year lease, ":0 Michigan Farmer.

FIRMS 1111 1111111111113
101 $111 on EXIIHAIIGE

M IO H IGAN FAR M57313? ifllii‘él.‘

Write forlist. TOLBERT d1 00.. Charlotte, Michigan'

-—0ak1and County—Excellent soil;
'60 ACRES b85acres timber balance cultivated;
2 good houses; 2b arns, 1 new 111 Itlouh houses new silo:

ood w;ater near electric line and good market.
$10 per acre. .N. KIN N,G Ortonville, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

BUH FIIIM III OEIITIIIL MICHIGAN 3";2'.’.I.'.".'1"1'1

crops, Fruit t. Sto lnDairying, at a roflt. Best of Mar-
rets, Schools, Churches. Water. ur big new “1th Free
for the askin. Dro a card today. Mich vfian

Home 00.. I) So. afayette St.. Green le. Mich.

OWN A HOM 15-“e sum-w

Vs Hey h a 3
great Inducements for the homeseeker. Write to-
day. UNITED REALTY 00.. Saginaw, Michigan.

"IGHIG‘" FAnns—Improved fruit, stock

and grain farms, in Barry
and Eaton counties. .26 to $75 per acre; 11 iendid
water. schools and roads. Low taxes. Write or List
No. 4. BUCKLES dz MATTE EWS, Hastings, Mich.

Cash For Your Farm or Business. {.3315

and seller together. no matter where located. If you
went to buy or sell address FRA CLEVE-
LAND. 948 Adams Express Buildlxli‘g, Chicago. Ill.

when you can buy
the Best Land in
Mich] an at from
08 to 10 an acre

near Saginaw and Bay City. Write for ma and par-
ticulars. Clear title and easy terms. Its eld Bros..
(owners) 16 Merrill bldg.. Saginaw, W. 3.. Mich.

A BARGAIN TO BE HAD

g own I(no agent) % section cut over North Michigan
arm land This land _will be sold or exchanged for
hardware stock, at a rice which will net the investor
00")" 111 five years. ine location soil and water.
Write for1partic11lnrs and prices. Signe
ARREN. ALPENA. MICHIGAN.

MICHIGAN FARMS

FRUIT, STOCK and GRAIN FARMS in BARRY
and EATON Counties—1 to 300 acres, from $15to $100
per acre: ood water, roads and schools. We have one

ofthe lea in? farm real estate agencies in Southern
Michigan. ieferenres. any bank or merchant in
Hastings Send for free list No.

C. R. BISHOP s: 60., Hastings. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Hundred Farmers iifigdugfigfgegfggifi

our list of Farm Properties for sale in various
States. Of these 300 enq11iri1 s
130 11 anted farms in New York.
26 in other Eastern States
12 11 anted Indiana and Michigan farms.
in Illinois, Iowa. and Wisconsin.
nMinnesota and the Dakotas.
9' 1n nNebraska and Colorado.
7 in Missouri and Arkansas.
33 in Texas and Oklahoma.
35 in various Southern States.
If 1011 went to bu}. Send for our classified list of
farms for sale. Address McBI RNEY. S’IOCKI NG &
00.. 277 Dearborn Street. Chicago. Illinois.

Fertile Farms in Tennessee
—85 lo Sill per acre

Fortunes are being made on fertile Tennessee
farms raising big cm s of grain and grasses of al-
most every kind also' antaloupes. Cabbage. Toma-
toes String Beans, Green Corn, etc. also Horses
Cattle, Sheep Swine Poultry and Eggs. Write ms at once for
Free Literature, which advises how to get one of these
splendid farms for $5 to $10 per acre. Act quickly! II. F.
Smith. Traf. Mgr. N. C. & St. L. Ry. DeptP. Nashville,’l‘enn.

 

 

 

 

 

FOR INFORMATION AS TO LANDS IN

The Nation’s
Garden Spot-

'I'IIA'I' GREAT FRUIT and TRUCK
GROWING SECTION—

along the

A Atlantic Coast Line

RAILROAD

in Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabsms and Florida, write to
WILISUR McCOY
A-JL l. Agt. forFlorida.
Alabama Georgia,
Jacksonville, Fla.

..N CLARK
A. & 1 Ant. for Virginia
and the Carolinas,
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colts and to make a. variety in the feed
of the work teams. We have had rather
too much rain all this month and corn
has come on in grand shape and promises
now to make one of the biggest crops this
county has ever seen, but, of course,
there is yet a. chance that it may be
damaged by an early frost. There is a.
good crop of clover seed and the machines
are kept buSy hulling when the weather
will permit. The yield is better than
for several years. The young seeding
of clover is rather poor and, perhaps
about half of the fields have been plowed
up. A few farmers have even plowed
their old sod fields to put to wheat. I
believe there 'will be at least 30 per cent
more wheat sown than last year. It is
selling at 970 from the machine. A good
many of our neighbors have the alfalfa
fever and a number of fields have been
sown in as many different ways. One
with cats in early spring, some on well
prepared ground in July one piece in
standing corn, one after early potatoes
and some after oats and except that in
standing corn it all looks Iwell now.

 

'SOME GOOD MICHIGAN‘FAIRS.

Tuscola COunty Fain—The Tuscola
County Agricultural Society will hold its
45th Annual Fair at Vassar, Mich, Sept.
6- 9. We have the largest and finest dis-
play of live stock, outside of the State
Fair, shown anywhere in Michigan. The
other usual free attractions races, etc,
will be offered to the public.—-W. J.
Spears, Sec.

Lenawee County Fain—The Lenawee
County Fair and Southern District Fair
and Pleasure Carnival will be held at
Adrian, Mich., Sept. 26-30, inclusive. This
is the 33rd consecutive year for this fair,
and its high character is well known
throughout the state. Geo B Horton of
Fruit Ridge, is its president

Otsego County Fair.-Thfs event will be
held at Gaylord, Mich., Sept. 14—17, in-
clusive. For premium list and particulars
regarding this fair address A. H. Van
Dusen, Sec, Gaylord, Mich.

Deckerville Fair.——T'he Tenth annual
Fair and Races, on Sept. 13-14-15, at
Deckerville, Mich. promises to be the best
ever held under the auspices of the Deck—
erville Agricultural Association. We ex-
pect to have the raciest races ever seen.
Great exhibits, something good all the
time. For premium lists address John
Baird, See, Deckerville, Mich.

Croswell Fain—The dates of the Cros-
well Fair this year are Sept. 28-30. A fine
list of special attractions has been so-
cured for the entertainment of visitors,
and the indications point: to the most
successful fair the society has ever hcld.
Exhibit-s promise well 'in all classes as
crops in this section are the best in years.
—Robt, Morrison, Sec.

Elkton Fain—lime 1910 Elkton Fair W111
be held at Elkton, in Huron county. Sept.
14-16, inclusive. For premium list and
further information about this fair write
R. P. Buckley, Sec, Elkton, Mich.

Eaton County Fain—The 56111 Annual
Eaton County Fair, to be held at Char-
lotte, Mich., Sept. 27-30, will be equal in
its various features to preceding fairs.
Exhibits are expected to surpass those
at previous fairs. Pinses aggregating
$1, 900 will be given in the speed depart-
ment. The attractions in front of the
grand stand will be unique and the pro-
gram of special sports will give the crowd
something to look at from morning till
night. —V G Griffith, Sec.

Manlstee County Fain—Be sure and at-
ten-d the biggest and best little countv
fair held in Michigan at Onekama, M2111
istee county Mich. Sept. ’27— 30 Good
races, free attractions and a good displav
of fruit and farm produce Everybody
come—Jim McGuire, Pres. H. R Brodie
Sec and Trees Bear Lake Mich

Milford Falr~—The only fair held in

Oakland county will be in session from
Sept 27 to 30, inclusive. Aside from the
attiactive exhibits shown this fair al-
ways presents a. good racing program and
other entertainment features and the
event is the occasion for the gathering
of farmers and old residents from far
and nearH—M C. William-,3 Sec.
. The Northern Distrlct Fair will be held
at Cadillac, Mich. from Sept. 13 to 16,
inclusive. This fair is efficiently man-
aged by representatives of the newspap—
ers of the district and is one of the pro—
gressive agricultural fairs of the state.
Its liberal patronage in the past speaks
for its character, which will be 11p to
the same high standard this year. Perry
F Powers is president and J. M,Te1--
williger, secretary.

Alpena COUM)’ Fain—The annual fair
held under tho. auspices of the Alpena.

 

(ountv Agricultural Society will be held

'THE' MICHIGAN FARMER.‘

at Alpena, Mich. Sept. 13.- 16, inclusive.
On each of the last three days there will
be three races, and other free attractions
will Ibe presented in front of the grand
stand Fine exhibits are expected in all
departments. ——-Paul DeLaval Sec.

Armada Fain—The prospects for a suc-
ceszul fair were never better than at
present. This fair will be held Sept. 5-7,
and the Armada Agricultural Society have
spare-d no effort to make it the best in
the history of the organization. H. L.
Edwards is president and Orvy Hulett,
secretary.

‘The Emmett COunty Fair Association
extends an invitation to all readers of
the Michigan Farmer to attend their an-
nual fair to be held at Petoskey, Mich.,
Sept. 6-9. At this fair can be seen the

stock of horses, cattle. sheep. h0g8. DOUI- 1

try, also fruit, grain and vegetables, that
is produced in northern Michigan. Take
a vacation and enjoy the beautiful climate
of the north—L. A. Lilly, ,Sec,

MICHIGAN FAIRS FOR 1910.

 

Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich.,

Sept 19- 25.

12W7Wt Michigan Grand Rapids, Sept.
Allegan County, Allegan, Sept, 27-30.
Alpena County Fair, Alpena, Sept. 13-16.
Arenac County, Standish, Sept. 23-25.
Armada Fair, Armada, Oct. 5-7.

Barry County, Hastings, Oct. 4-7.

Bay County, Bay City, Sept. 14-17.
Calhoun County, Marshall, Sept, 13-16.

28011211'191'0111 County, East Jordan, Sept.

~30.

2"Crglgnton County Fair, St. Johns, Sept.
[-1 .

Croswell Fair, Crosswell, Sept. 28-30.
Cass City Fair, Cass City, Sept. 27-30.

5Deckerville Fair, Deckerville, Sept. 13-

1 .

Eaton County, Charlotte, Sept. 27-30.
Elkton Fair, Elkton, Sept, 14-16.

6 EEmmet County Fair, Petoskey, Sept.
Flint River Valley, Burt, Oct, 3—7.
Fowlerville Fair, Fowlerville, Oct. 4-7.
Grand Traverse County, Traverse City,

Sept. 7-10.

Hillsdalc County. Hillsdalc, Oct 3-7.
Huron County, Bad Axe. Oct 4-7
Imlay City Fair. Imluv City Oct. 4- 6.
Ionia County, Ionia. Sept. 27— 30.
Kalamazoo Fair, Kalamazoo, Sept. 5-9.
Lenawee County, Adrian. Sept. ’6— 30.
Manistce County, Onekama. Sept 27-“

Marquette County, Marquette, Sept.

6-10.

Midland County, Midland, Sept. 14—17.
Milfmd Fair Milford Sept 27-30
SNorth Branch Fair, North Bi'. lllCIl Sept.
2 30

Northeastern Indust1ial, Flint, Sept.
lNorthern District Fair, Cadillac. Sept.
3-16.

Occuna County, Hart, Sept. 2—l L’I
Osceola Countv Evart, Sept l...-16

Otsego Couutx Gaylord, Sept l4-l7.

Ottawa- \Vest Kent, Rcl'lin. Sept. :0—23.i

St. Clair
13—16.

’l‘1'i—County, Reed City, Sept. 20-23.

Tuscola County. Vassar, Sept. 6—9.

West Allcgun—Soutll Ottawa, Holland,
Sept, 27-3 ‘30.

State Fairs and Expositions.

Michigan Detroit, Sept. 10—2

Illinois, Springfield. Scpt, 30—Oct. 6.‘

Illinois (International 1.11m Stock), Chi-
cage, Nov. 26-Dec. 3.

Indiana. Indianapolis. Sept. 12-16.

Iowa, Des Moiucs, Aug; 25—Sept. 2.

Kansas, Hutchinson, Sept. 10—17.

Kentucky, Louisville, Sept. 13-18.

Minnesota, llamline, Sept. 5—10.

Missouri»American Royal, Kansas City,
Oct. 10-15.

Missouri, Scdalia, Oct. 1-7.

Nebraska, Lincoln, Sept. 5-9,

New York, Syracuse, Sept. 12-17.

Ohio, Columbus Sept 5—9.

Wisconsin, Madison, Sept. 12-16.

County, Port Huron, Sept.

 

CATALOG NOTICES.

The Western Electric 00., 463 West
stineet New York, has recently published
a booklet entitled, “How to Build Rural
Telephone Lines, ” giving precisely the in-
formation needed and illustrated with
diagrams so simple that amone (an un-
derstand them This booklet may be had
by Michigan Farmer waders who will
write the Western Electric Co. at the
above address. It demonstrates that the
operation of building farm telephone lines
is as Simple as building a fence around
the farm and that no community of farm-
ers need be without this modern conven-
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Two Harrows in One

 

Imperia “2121i" Harrow

That 15 it exactly- —two harrows' 1n one
machine. It has just twice the capacity of
any other form of harrow for it works the
sod twice in one operation, savin labor
and time. And it does better wor ,too,
leaving the soil perfectly level 111 all parts
of the ield.

The forward gangs of the Imperial our
the soil and throw it outward and the reat
gan s cut. it again and throw it back before
the reshly cut ground has time to dry out,
preserving the moisture in the soil.

Disk your corn stubble with an Imperial
Harrow and you will save much time.
You won’t have to wait to go over the
land I(nice, but follow the first trip of the
barrow 11itl1 your seeder.

You should know all the facts about the
Imperial double disc Harrow—write for
them. We will also send you the address
of the neawst dealer who handles the
Impei 1.11 He will let you try a machine
011 you1 own lzu1d,f1'cc of change,

Write today. ,

7719 Bucher & Gibbs Plow Co.,

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PROTE

Your
Stored Crops

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of many a man’s hard -earned summer's
work in the twinkling of an eye.

Professor
West Dodd’s
Wonderful

Invention

D. d S. Woven Copper Cable Lightning Rod
and System of Installation
is the only safe and reliable protection to
life and property againstthe terrible ravages
of lightning. This positive declaration and
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ual Insurance Companies of the UnitedStaies
and Canada (over 20001cad1ng comparues).

W

Endorsements of leading fire insurance
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More D. 61 S. Rods sold than any other
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Send for catalogue and book. "The Laws
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Make Yoursell, Your FImlly and Your Prnparly salt. 1
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cessful state Fair ever held will be at Columbus

next week.
Open Day and Night.

portatlon. Street cars on schedule

cars from Union Station to Fair Ground gate every

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fifteen minutes.

Battle of the Breeds by Day.
Clouds by Night. Paln’s fireworks
given in the Middle West.
aim entertainment.

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Women's Free Day, Monday, September 5th.

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improved and beautified.

Battle of the
greatest ever

In America.

 

Covered walks eliminate bad weather dangers. Ma-
chinery Parks will amaze.

Record breaking attendance is assured. Amer-
icans are not afraid, not easily scared, and seldom
swerve from their purpose.

The speed ring will have the winners.

and money to see the most instructive State Fair

Agriculture Is at the front with the right of
Farmers are not at the foot of the class.
They are going up head.
declare that now is the time to show their colors.

compare.

Grounds
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Progress.

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sand exhibitors have builded an exhibition beyond
Products of soil and toil arrayed by those
who are masters of the art.

Ohio is determined.
Ohio wins by doing things.
made by attending Ohio’s splendid fair.
rates on bed and board.
We bid yOu come again.
and friends will greet you.
or know where to get it.
better than you can afford to stay away.

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Good wages

Excursion
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You can afford to come

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August 31, 1910.

~ Grains and Seeds.

Wheat—The tone of the trade has
shown a. little more strength than it did
a week ago and quotations rule a little
higher. Just now the chief bearish fea-
ture is the liquidation of the September
options, the normal conditions of the mar-
ket being more favorable to the bulls. In
the southwest there is some slackening
to the selling and in the spring wheat
districts the complaints are louder that
the crop is very short. The world sup-r
ply is known to be under normal and it
is predicted that Europe will have to.
come to this country for about 87,000,000
‘bushels to properly fill her bins for home
consumption. France has already been
here to get the grain. Liverpool was
weak the past few days owing to rumors
of an increased movement of wheat from
Russia and Austria. The visible supply
of the states increased materially but not
so much as for previous Weeks. Farmers
in the winter wheat sections have sold
most of what is necessary to satisfy their
present wants and it is expected that
they will 'wait with the rest until prices

improve. One year ago the price for No.
2 red wheat was $1.071/é per bu. Quota-
tions for the week are as follows:

0. 2 o. 1

Red. White Sept. Dec.
Thursday . . . . 1.01 .98 1.01% 1.0614
Friday ....... 1.01 .98 1.01% 1.0614
Saturday 1.02 .99 1.021/2 1.0714
Monday ...... 1.02 .99 1.02%; 1.07
Tuesday ..... 1.0114 .9814 1.011/2 1.0614
Wednesday . .1.01% .9894 1.02 1.06%

Cormmtjlement weather gave depressed
farmers of some sections renewed hope
for the corn crop, and prices have fallen
Off since last week correspondingly. The
receipts at Chicago are now well up with
those of last year at this time; on Mon«
day the arrivals were 295 cars compared
with 235 for the same day a year ago.
Michigan corn is keeping up with its
chances of the past few weeks, the great-
est fear now being an early frost. One
year ago the price for No. 2 corn was 710

per 11311. Quotations for the. past week are:
No. 2 No. 2

Mixed. Yellow.

Thursday ................. 631/3 651/2
Friday .................... 63 05

Saturday ................. 023/4 64%,

Nionda y ................... 013/4 63 34

Tuesday .................. 611/3 631/2
\Vednesday ............... 61 63

Oats.—~»’l‘he acceptance of oats at coun-

try plates has been very large the past

week and the visible supply has shown the
largest increase of the season. \Vhile poor
crops are numerous, the threshing can be
said to be showing better yields than were

expected. One year ago the price for No.
3 white oats was .‘lSl/gc per bu. Quota~
tions are:
Standard. Sept.
Thursday ................. 35%,, 35%
Friday .................... 351,4 351,4,
Saturday ................. 351/4 351/2
Monday .................. 35 35
Tuesday .................. 343/3. 34%
Wednesday ............... 341/2 34%
Beans.—October beans are up 3c. Cash
quotations remain where they were last

week. There appears to be no important
change in the condition of the growing
crop, poor development of the legumes
being the chief complaint. Quotations for

the week are:

Cash. Oct.
Thursday $210 $2.15
Friday ..................... 2.40 2.18
Saturday ................... 2.40 2.18
Monday .................... 2.40 2.18
Tuesday ........... . ........ 2.40 2.18
Wednesday ................. 2.40 2.18

Cloverseed.—The market has seen new
high prices for the season the past week.
The crop is not showing up well and
farmers are generally of the opinion that
there will be a shortage of seed for sow-
ing purposes next spring. Both common
seed and alsike enjoyed an advance for

the week. Quotations are:
Prime. Oct. Alsike.
Thursday .........$8.40 $8.40 $8.50
Friday ..... . . . 8.40 8.40 8.50
Saturday ......... 8.40 8.40 8.50
Monday ........... 8.75 8.75 8.60
Tuesday .......... 9.00 9.00 8.60
\Vednesday ....... 9.20 9.20 .. .
Rye.~«'l‘he market is dull and lower.
The nominal quotation is 720 per bu.,

which is lc less than the price of a week
ago.
Visible Supply of Grains.

This week. Last week.

Wheat .............24.998,000 22,362,000
Corn ......... 2,165,000 2,673,000
Oats ............... 12,551,000 8,025,000
Bye ................ 232.000 263,000
Barley ............. 786,000 705,000
Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.
FIour.—The fiour trade is firm at last
week’s figures. Millers are active and
are finding a good call for ilour.
Clear ................................. $4.60
Straight ............................. 4.86
Patent Michigan .................... 5.10
Ordinary Patent ..................... 4.90
Hay and 8traw.—«Market steady. Quo-

tations on baled hay in car lots f. o. b.
Detroit are: No. 1 timothy, $16@16.50;
No, 2 timothy, $15@15.50; clover, mixed,
$15@15.50; rye straw, $7@7.50; wheat and
cat straw, $6.50@7 per ton.

Feed—Bran is lower, others steady.
Carlot prices on track: Bran, $22 per
ton; coarse middlings, $24; fine middlings,
$27; cracked corn, $27: coarse corn meal,
:27; corn and oat chop, $24 per ton.

Potatoes.—Market a. little easier. New
potatoes are quoted at $2.50 per bbl., or
$1.90 per 2 bu. sack.

Provisions.—Mess pork, $23; family
pork, $23@24.50; medium clear, $236224;
smoked hams, 16@16%c; dry salted bris-
kets, 14c; shoulders. 14c; picnic hams, 13c;

\

THE” "MICHIGAN FARMER .

bacon, 17@18c; lard in tierces,-13c; kettle
rendered, 14c per lb.
Dalr and Poultry Products.

Butter. arket is firm at the ruling
prices of last week.‘ The demand contin—
ues strong and the supply is diminishing.
Quotations are: Extra creamery, 300;
firsts, do., 29c; dairy, 23c; packing stock,
22c per lb.

Eggs.——Eggs are not coming in fast, yet
the demand continues good and advances
in quotations are the only alternative for
the dealers to make. Fresh receipts, case
count, cases included, are quoted at 211,40
per dozen.

Poultry—There is not change enough
in the conditions and the prices for poul-
try to make note of it. Hens are still
selling around 140 per lb; broilers at 15c;
roosters and stags at 100; ducks at 14@
15c; geese 10c, and turkeys at 17@180 lb.

Cheese.~Michigan, late made, 150;
Michigan, fall made, 17%,@180; York state,

171/2 «018C; limburger, old, 17 @180; Swiss,
domestic bIOck, 21@22c; cream brick,
161/2 @17c.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Apples.—Values steady. Supply is good.
Duchesg are quoted at $3603.50 per bbl.,
and common stock at $2fl3.

Cabbage—Steady. Selling at $1.50 per
bbl, for new.

Huckleberries.—Steady
Quoted at 64((1‘425 per bu.

Peaches.—Although somewhat scarce the
offerings appear to be improved in qual—
ity. Prices range from $1 to $1.75 per bu.

Tomatoes—The receipts of tomatoes
are liberal. Market lower. Generally
quoted at 75c@$1 per bu.

OTHER MARKETS.

and scarce

 

Grand Rapids.

Dry weather and the high price of hay
has made timothy seed high, the price now
reaching $4.50 per bu. Cloverseed is also
firm at $9.50. Tuesday morning’s market
was big for this season and fruit prices
ranged as follows: Grapes, $175602 per
doz. 4-lb. baskets: apples, 90cfi.$1 per bu;
peaches, $1.25f1‘1.50; pears, $1.25; Lombard

plums, $1.60; crab apples, 65@75c per half

Tomatoes are. coming in freely now,
the price averaging about 500 per bu.
Potatoes are in better supply, bringing
7561900. Other prices paid growers on
the market are as follows: Cucumbers.
50c; radishes. 5c: beets, 25c per three
bunches; lettuce. 65c: cabbage, 90c: corn,
1201)]50: string beans. 90c; muskmelons,
$2; cauliflower, 75c: squash, $1. Dressed
hogs are firm at Ill/160120 Prices for
live poultry, delivered. are as follows:
Chickens, 13c; fowls, 111/2c; ducks. ill/get
turkeys, 13c. Butter, both creamery and
dairy, are. unchanged at 30c and 24c re,-
spectively. Eggs are higher, bringing 181/2
@19c. The mills are paying the following
prices for grain: Wheat, No, 2 red, 970;
corn, 66c; rye, 600; buckwheat, 550, oats,
37c per bu.

bu.

 

Elgin.

Butter—The butter trade is firm at 30c,
which is the quotation for last week. The
output for the week amounted to 793.200
lbs., compared 'with 827,400 lbs. for the
previous week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

 

Buffalo.
August 29, 1910.
(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of stock here today as follows:
Cattle, 16 cars: hogs, 10,400; sheep and
lambs, 9.600; calves, 1.000.

With 165 cars of cattle on our market
here today, and 25,000 reported in Chicago
and lower, our market was from 10((Dl5c
per hundred weight lower on all grades.

We quote: Best 1,300 to 1,400-lb. steers
$7.50@7.75; good prime 1,200 to 1.300-lb.

steers, $6.85@7.25; best 1.100 to 1.200-lb
shipping steers. $6.25@6.75; medium

'butcher steers, 1.000 to 1,100 lbs., $5.25@
585; light butcher steers, $475695; best
fat cows, $4.75@5.25; fair to good cows,
$3.75@4.50: common to medium do., $3@
3.50: trimmers, $225693; best fat heifers,
$5.50@6.15; good fat heifers, $4.25@5; fair
to good do., $4604.50; stock heifers; $3.75
@4; best feeding steers, $5@5.25; medium

to good do., $4.25@4.50; stockers, all
grades, $4.25fi450: best 'bulls $5fl5.25;

bologna bulls, 33375417425; light thin bulls.
33.50614: best milkers and sprinigers, $55
(1‘65; good milkers and springers, 640617
50: common to good. $25@35; common
stockers were rather draggy on our mar-
ket today.

“'ith 65 cars of hogs on the market
today, market opened 20@30c higher than

Saturday on the best heavy hogs and
mediums, and about 15@20c higher on

yorkers, and about 5@10c higher on pigs,
and closing steady at the opening with
a good clearance for all that arrived in
time for the. market. Prospects look fair

for e near future.

Vie quote: Heavies, $9.50@9.65: medi—
ums, $9,60W9.70; yorkers, $9.60@9.70;
pigs, 2596011965; roughs, $7.90@8; stags,

$6.50@6.70.

The lamb market opened active today
and about: a half dollar a hundred higher
than last Monday: most of the best lambs
selling at $7@7.15; yearling lamlbs, $5@
5.50. Look for about steady prices the
balance of week. Sheep were strong to-
day, and prospects are for about steady
prices balance of week.

We quote: Spring lamlbs, $7697.15;
wethers, $4.75@5; cull sheep, $2.50@3.50;
bucks, $2.50@3.50: yearlings, $5@5.50:
heavy eweS, $4.25@4.35; handy ewes, $4.25
@450; northern Michigan lambs, 36.7561)
6.90; veals, choice to extra, $10@10.50;
gair7to good do., $7.50@9.50; heavy calves,
6@ .

 

Chicago.
August 29, 1910.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep
Received today ..... 26,000 23,000 30,000
Same day last year..22,786 30,151 23,910
Received last week...61,887 90,166 31,306
Same week last year.57,482 94,239 101,333

Cattle d a natural reaction last week
after ther recent sensational advances,
pretty well stocked beef coolers enabling

 

packers to hold 'back and take an inde-
pendent stand. Neither local packers nor
eastern shippers took hold with their re-
cent freedom, and While native butcher
stock continued to sell actively on local
and shipping account at. stiff prices, re-
ductions of 25@40c took place in native
beef steers. which sold largely at $660
7.90. The better class of these cattle
brought $7.50@8.50, with no late sales
near top figures, while the commoner
steers sold at $4.85@5.75. Cattle that
passed as good sold as low as $7.25, and
large numbers of medium steers sold be-
tween $6.25@7.25. Cows and heifers sold
actively at $330677, with canners and cut-
ters going at $2@3.25 and bulls at $2.75
((35. Calves were active on a basis of
$3.25@9.25, while milkers and springers
sold for $256065 each, with the eastern
demand mainly for springers. The stock—
er and feeder trade was the best ever
known. farmers in sections where recent
rains had improved pasturage hastening
to restock their feed lots. and prices av-
eraged 15(({,25c higher. Stockers sold at
313.4005, while feeders brought $4.40fii6,
but most buyers refused to go above
$5.50. The middle west called for a good
class of cattle for (feeding, while the
south purchased a cheap grade of light
stockers. \Vestern range cattle Sold to
much better advantage than the same
class of natives, with a good butchering
demand, and many went for the feeder
trade. Range steers sold at $4607, not
many going near the top, while range
cows and heifers brought $2.75@5.60. This
is the time of the year when range cattle
must be shipped if at all, and they will

be offered liberally for several weeks
longer. Cattle feeders should watch the
market closely and select a favorable

time for selling. but half fat stock should
be kept until finished off well.

Hogs, which several weeks ago were
so weak in price, have changed about and
sold briskly to local killers and eastern

shippers at materially higher values. In
the sharp upward movement all kinds
have had a'full share, and while light

hogs and pigs are still market toppers,
even rough, heavy, old sows have been

 

I SEPT. 3. 1910.

placed on a. muchihigher basis. Next to
light hogs and pigs adapted for the fresh
meat and bacon trade, the best sellers
are good medium-weight butchering hogs,
but there has also been a good demand
for heavy lard hogs, for lard has been
having a larger outlet, as well as cured
meats, the latter being in'specially good'
demand for the southern markets. Top
prices for hogs were very high, but the
great bulk of the offerings had to go far
below extreme prices. Receipts have
lbeen falling off a good deal in volume
both here and at Missouri river markets,
and meanwhile there has been an im-
proved eastern shipping outlet. The sit—
uation appears to be favorable for feed—
ers of hog-s, but by another month or two
much larger marketings are likely to be
seen, and it is the prevailing belief that
large numbers of young hogs of very
much heavier weight than those of a year
ago [will show up in western markets in
October and November.

Sheep and lambs have continued to be
marketed freely for another week, the
great bulk of the offerings, as is always
the case-at this season of the year, com-
ing from Idaho, Dakota, Wyoming, Mon-
tana and other ranges. The great fea—
ture of interest 'was the extremely lib-
eral demand for range feeders to be for-
warded to various feeding states. and it
'is clear that feeding the coming winter
is going to be a favorite occupation of
many farmers. The corn crop promises
well, and farmers naturally want to have
stock to feed it to. They have been tak-
ing a great share of the range offerings,
and such is the case at Missouri river
markets also, and they have paid close to
the prices paid by killers. Too many in-
ferior native lam'hs have shown up in the
market and sold at low prices. but the
general sheep and lamb'market has been

much better than it would have been
with the feeder trade eliminated. There
has been a big demand for breeding-

ewes, and prime flocks of yearlings from
the range country sold at $666.10 per
100 lbs. the top figure being a new high
record. Sales of breeders were made all
the way down to $4 for a common class.

 

 

THIS IS A PAID ADVéiiTISEMENT.

 

 

SENATOR J. C. BURROWS

Republican Candidate for
Renomination at the Primaries
September 6th

of the soldier.

in the primaries.

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EVERY REPUBLICAN

SHOULD VOTE FOR

SENATOR BURROWS

He served with honor in the Civil War and is the warm friend

He is a party builder—not a party destroyer.
His record of achievement in Congress is not excelled by that
of any man Michigan has honored.

He is at the threshold of his greatest usefulness. He will head
the great Committee on Finance.
Michigan cannot afford to lose this prestige and power.

Senator Burrows should have an overwhelming endorsement

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His wise course in both
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday’s Market.
September 1, 1910.
Cattle.

Receipts, 910. Market active at strong
last week’s prices on all grades; quality
common. .

We quote; st steers and heifers,
$6; steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $5.25
@550; steers and heifers, 800 to 1,000,
$4.50@5; graSS steers and heifers that are
fat, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@5; grass steers a d
heifers that are fat, 500 to 700, $4694.; ;
choice fat cows, $4.50; good fat cows, $4@
4.25; commOn cows, $3@3.75; canners,
$2.25@2.75; choice heavy bulls, $4@4.25;
fair to good bolognas, bulls, $3.50@3.75;
st0cl: bulls, $3@3.25; choice feeding steers,
800 to 1,000, $4@4.65; fair ‘feedin‘g steers,
800 to 1,000, $3.50@4; choice stockers, 500
to 700, $3.50@3.75; fair stockers, 500 to
700, $3.25@3.50; stock heifers, $3@3.25;
milkers, large, young, medium age, $40@
55; common milkers, $25@35.

Roe Com, Co. sold Parker, W. & Co. 29
butchers av 855 at $4.25; to Breiten’back
Bros. 29 do av 833 at $4.40; to Applebaum
11 do av 520 at $3.60; to Sullivan P. Co. 5
do av 510 at $3.50, 12 do av 500 at $3.50,
3 bulls av 943 at $4, 2 cows av 1,050 at $4,
11 butchers av 836 at $4.50, 1 cow weigh-
ing 780 at $2.50, 1 do weighing 1,150 at
$4, 18 steers av 916 at $4.75; to Schlischer
10 do av 710 at $4.75, 6 do av 680 at $4.50.
$ Lovewell sold Fronn 6 cows av 860 at

3.25.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.
3 butchers av 887 at $4.50, 3 do av 823 at
$3.75, 12 do av 800 at $4.50, 4 cows av 937
at $4, 6 butchers av 850 at $4.75, 1 cow
weighing 1,040 at $4. 1 do weighing 810 at
$3.25; _to Breitenback Bros. 5 butchers av
760 at $4; to Heinrich 10 steers av 842 at
$5.25; to Hammond, S. & Co. 2 bulls av
900 at $3.75, 3 butchers av 700 at $3.75,
7 do av 703 at $4; to BreSnahan 4 heifers
av 467 at $3.50; to Applebaum 4 cows av
912 at $4; to Lachalt 6 steers av 646 at
$4.40; to Hammond, S. & Co. 8 butchers
av 516 at $3.75, 4 do av 532 at $3.50, 3 do
av 777 at $4.50, 1 bull weighing 850 at
$3.75, 2 cows av 685 at $3.25, 8 b‘utc ers
av 632 at $4, 6 steers av 813 at $5. ., 2
cows av 1,085 at $4, 1 do weighing 860 at
$3, 5 do av 946 at $4, 2 bulls av 1,125 at
$4; to Kamman 2 cows av 965 at $3.75, 1
steer weighing 840 at $5.

Spicer & R. sold Rattkowsky 1 bull
weighing 880 at $4; to Cooke 5 b'utche 3
av 626 at $4.35, 4 do av 720 at $4.60, 15 0
av 903 at $5, 3 do av 750 at $4.50, 2 do av
700 at $4.35; to Kamman 3 cows av 933 at
$3.60, 1 do weighing 1.220 at $3.70, 1 do
weighing 1,000 at $4, 6 butchers av 840
at $4.50, 1 cow weighing 890 at $3.50; to
Heinrich 30 steers av 747 at $4.65; to
Kamman B. Co. 31 do av 75$Q at $4.60; to
Marx 16 steers av 986 at 4.50; to Kuli
18 butchers av 800 at $4.50; to Goodwin
10 feeders av 780 at $4.25; to Breitenbactk
Bros. 2 cows av 1,165 at $4, 1 do weighing
800 at $3.50; to Schuman 10 steers av 900
at $5; to Fromm 4 do av 700 at $4: to
Schlaack Bros. 13 butchers av 792 at
$4.25; to Goose 2 cows av 985 at $3.40, 1
bull weighing 810 at $4; to Hammond, S.
& CO. 1 steer weighing 1,270 at $6; to
Sullivan P. Co. 1 cow weighing 1,100 at
$ .25, 1 do weighing 730 at $2.50, 2 do av
8 5 at $3.75.

Haley & M. sold Kamman 4 cows av
1.062 at $4, 22 butchers av 600 at $3.75; to
Goose 10 heifers av 404 at $3.50, 9 butch-
ers av 722 at $3.90; to Regan 16 do av
634 at $4, 4 do av 512 at $3.75; to Sullivan
P. Co. 15 heifcrs av 425 at $3.50; to Schu-
man 1 bull weighing 920 at $3.65, 4 butch-
ers av 902 at $4.40; to Hammond, S. & Co.
3 cows av 1,040 at $3.60, 3 do av 1,133 at
$4.25; tn Breitenback Bres. 6 do av 1,060
at $3.75, 1 bull weighing 1,210 at $4; to
Rattkowsky 2 cows av 1T005 at $3.20, 2 do
av 860 at $3.20, 2 bulls av 1,000 at $3.80,
3 butchers av 473 at $3.50; to Spencer 37
stockers av 600 at $3.75; to Erban Bros.
2 heifers av 500 at $3.50,

Taggart sold Hammond, S. & C0.
canners av 925 at $2.50, 3 butchers av 747
at $4250, 1 bull weighing 1,000 at $3.75, 2
heifers av 785 at $5. .

Sharp sold Marx 1 steer weighing 1,160
at $5, 1 do weighing 660 at $4.

Grofl’ & S. sold Mich. B. Co, 6 cows av
1,005 at $4, 1 do weighing 780 at $3, 3 bulls
av 1,157 at $4.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 450. Market active and 250
higher. Best, $9.25@9.75; others. $4@9;
milch cows and springers, $3@5 lower.

Spicer & R. sold Friedman 2 av 165 at

ea

$9.25, 2 av 135 at $9.25; to out 13 av

150 at $8, 3 av 200 at $5; to ich. R, Co
2 av 250 at $7.50, 1 weighing 120 at $8.l1;
to Kull 8 av 155 at $8.75; to Mich. B. 4 w.
9 av 150 at $9, 5 av 130 at $9.25, 15 av 155
'at $9.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 av ll'f) at
$ .25; to Goose 3 av 250 at $5, 4 av 159
at $7.50.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 1
weighing 250 at $7.50, 2 av 170 at $9.50; to
Mich. B. Co. 14 av 160 at $9; to Goose 3
av 215 at $5; to Mich. B. Co. 15 av 150 at
$9.25, 2 av 225 at $7.50. .

Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 weighing
190 at $9, 4 av 150 at $9, 1 weighing 230
at $9.50, 7 av 180 at $8.50; to Locke 2 av
245 at $9: to Parker, W. & Co. 27 av 315
at $4.50; to sc‘ludch 12 av 180 at $5.50; to
Newton 13. o. 17 av 160 at $9.75.

Sharp sold Marx 3 av 145 at $6, 15 av
'150 at $9.

Johnson sold Sullivan 3 av 160 at $9, 3
av 350 at $5.50. -

Bishop, B. & H, sold Bront 8 av 155 at
$7.50, 3 av 125 at $7.50; to Burnstine 9 av

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' \ THE; MICHIG-‘AN FABMER .

,Co. 11 av 170 at $9.50; to Hammond, S. 8; 1

156 at $9.50; to‘Mich. B. Co. 10 av 143

$8.75, 2 av 135 at $9; to Parker, W. ,8: Co. ’=’
3 av 175 at $9, 20 av 160 at $9 50, 6. av 155 "
at $9.25, 1 weighing 110 at $7; to Burn-
stine 11 av 155 at $9.50; to Sullivan P.

Co. 5 av 160 at $9.25, 2 av 160 at $9.
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 3,339. Market active and 250
higher than last week. Best lambs, $6.25 ‘
@650; fair to good lambs, $5.25@6; light
to common lambs, $4.25@5.25; feeders,
$6@6.50; fair to good sheep, $3.75@4.25;
culls and common, $3@3.25.

Spicer 8: R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 63 l

lambs av 67 at $6.25; to Newton B. Co.
18 do av 70 at $6.35, 6 sheep av 85 at $5;
to Stocker 20 lambs ‘av 50 at $6; to Gordon
& . 9 do av 53 at $5.50, 2 sheep av 100
at 3.50; to Bray 14 do av 85 at $3.50; to
Sullivan P. Co. 2 do av 100 at $3, 8 lambs
av 80 at $5, 41 do av 73 at $6.

Groff sold Bray 39 sheep av 90 at $4, 52
lambs av 75 at $6.25.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich, B. Co. 52
lambs av 67 at $6, 2 sheep av 120 at $4, 5
do av 105 at $4; to Newton B. Co. 45
lambs av 65 at $6.25; to Sullivan P. Co.
44 sheep av 75 at $4, 10 do av 86 at $2.50,
19 lambs av 45 at $5.50, 14 do av 60 at $5;
to Stocker 10 do av 79 at $6.25; to Gordon
& W. 30 do av 65 at $5.50; to Fitzpatrick
Bros. 34 sheep av 110 at $3.75, 14 do av
120 at $3.50; to Parker, W. & C0. 5 year-
lings av 77 at $5; to Harland 41 lambs av
73 at $6.15, 5 sheep av 120 at $4, 4 lambs
av 80 at $6.50; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 27.do
av 75 at $6.25, 45 do av 73 at $6.25, 48
sheep av 80 at $3.25.

Haley & M. sold Gordon & B. 30 sheep
av 110 at $4; to Mich, B. Co. 79 lambs av
80 at $6.25, 46 do av 75 at $6.25, 62 do av
85 at $6.15, 8 sheep av 105 at $3.75; to
Barlage 28 lambs av 65 at $5.50, 31 do av
47 at $5.25; to Sullivan P, Co. 28 do av
67 at $5.35; to Newton B. 00. 119 do av
73 at $6.50; to Eschrich 24 do av 70 at
$6.25, 11 sheep av 100 at $3.50.

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 25 sheep
av 120 at $4, 31 lam'bs av 78 at $6.25; to
Newton B. Co, 117 do av 75 at $6.40; to
YOung 57 do av 77 at $6.25.

Johnson sold Sullivan P. Co. 10 sheep
av 128 at $3.75, 6 do av 130 at $3.75. 10
lambs av 50 at $5.25, 69 do av 75 at $6.25.

McLoughlin sold Mich. B. Co. 59 lambs
av 73 at $6.25. .

Lovewell sold Hammond, S. & Co. 9
sheep av 100 at $3.50, 29 lambs av 75 at
$6.25.

Hogs.
Market 25@4OC higher

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers, $9.50@9.75; pigs, $9.50@9.75; light
yorkers, $9.50@9.75; stags, one-third off.

Spicer & R. sold Parker, 1V. & Co. 175
av 200 at $9.65.
wiggle); & M, sold same 254 av 180 at

Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &
C0. 476 av 175 at $9.65, 329 av 170 at $9.50.
552 av 180 at $9.60, 263 av 190 at $9.70.

Same sold Sullivan P, Co, 16 pigs av 120
at $9.50, 24 do av 90 at $9.25, 57 hogs av
160 at $9.60.

Roe Com. Co. sold same 120 av 185 at
$3.60 110 av 210 at $9.70, 24 av 225 at

. t),

Haley & M, sold same 89 av 190 at $9.70.

Sundry shippers sold same 75 av 180
at $9.75.

Receipts, 3.101.
than last week.

 

 

 

Friday’s Market.
August 26, 1910.
Cattle.

Receipts this week, 888;
1.064. Market steady at
prices.

Best steers and heifers, $6; steers and
heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $5.25@5.50; steers
and heifers, 800 to 1.000, $4.50@5; grass
steers and heifers that are fat, 800 to
1.000, $4.50@5: grass steers and heifers
that are fat, 500 to 700, $4694.40: choice
fat cows, $4.60; good fat cows, $4094.25;
common cows, $3@3.75; canners, $2.256)
2.75; choice heavy bulls, $4004.25: fair to

bolognas, bulls, $3.50@3.75; stock
bulls, $3@3.25; choice feeding steers, 800
to 1,000, $4@4.75; fair feeding steers, 800
to 1,000, 83.50694: choice stockers, 500 to
700, $3.50@3.75; fair stockers, 500 to 700,
$3.25@3.50; stock heifers, $3@3.25; milk-
gs, large,uy{oung,$ogn@eg%um age, $40@60;
mmon m ere, .. ‘ mile
springers, steady. ’ h cow... ”J
Sheep and Lr 711:3,

Receipts this ween. 2.455; last wee
4,300. Market steadv at ’1‘h1_,,::lay’s price}:
Best lam’bs, $660643; fair to good lambs,
$5@5.75; light to rimmon lambs, $40715;
feeding lambs. $6076.10; fair to good
339w, $3.50@4; culls and common, $2.60

last Week,
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Hogs.

Receipts this week, 3.549; Past? wc ’
2,739. Market steady at Thursday’s rife;

Light to good lbutchers. $9.25@9.35; rigs
moans; light yorkers, $9.25; heavy H.83-
(v9.25; stags, 1,4 off. ’ -

Veal Calves.
Receipts this week 540' 1*“ -
, . . w .l., 811.

Market steady at Thursday's pricgs. Best
$283.25; mediums, $7.50@8.50; heavy,

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Eastern cattle feeders have b

large attendance at the Chicagoeegtori‘l:
yards recently. some coming from as far
east as Maryland and Virginia. These
buyers 'want the light, cheap class of :tock-

ers, while those from Indiana, Ohio and ‘

Pennsylvania are in search of

heavier stockcrs and feederiiettbliyfillg'
mainly at $4695 per 100 lbs. and even as
high as $5.50 for ch'oice, heavv feeders
that can he fzittened in a short time.
Many country orders i struct commission
firms. not to pav over $.. while some place
the limit as high as $5.50. Limited num-
bers of heavy feeders of superior quality
have been selling for $5.60@6.15. Stock—
g: havvleibefenegelling anywhere from $3.40

.. e e er ~
:43? tafim upwards: have found buyers at
si ery feeders figure th

be able to buy their kind of ilgmtéifnglI-l
cm range cattle around $4.50 per 100 lbs
if the September marketing from the
range proves as heavy as expected.

 

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'CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.

 

 

 

 

ARE THEY SINCERE?

 

An uninformed listener at the oleomar--
garine hearings last spring might have
gained the impression that both sides to
the controversy «were seeking the same
results. Nearly every witness who ap-
peared before the committee emphasized
that his whole aim was to prevent the
fraudulent sale of oleomargarine. He
was anxious to protect the buyer of but-
ter against oleomargarine and the ’buyer
of oleomargarine against butter. The
oleomargarine people were loud in their
claims that they want their product to
sell for just what it is and that they
wish to 'build up a reputation for their
product upon its own merits.

'They even went so far as to attempt to
prove that the person who consumes
dairy products is in danger of contracting
tuberculosis and that oleomargarine is a.
more healthful article of food.

Let us see if these two claims will hear
an analysis. If they are sincere in their
position that they wish to have their
product sell upon its own merits? Why
is it necessary to call it “Jersey,” “Hol-
stein," “Creamery,” etc., butterine, and
why do they use the. word “dairy,"
“creamery,” etc., in the names of their
companies?

If dairy products are not healthful, why
are they used in the manufacture of oleo-
margarine and why is the wholesale price
of the product regulated by the percent-
age of dairy products in it?

It is not unreasonable to conclude that
they are not sincere in making these
claims. If they are not, then is it reason-
able to conclude that they are sincere in
whatever specific remedies they may pro-
pose for the accomplishment of the pur-
pose to which they claim to be com~
mitted?

Let no one be deceived by the scheme
which they have presented in the Burle-
son bill for preventing fraud in the sale
of oleomargarine. \Vould you follow the
suggestions made by a law violator in
formulating a plan to compel observance
o aw? If not, then don’t be deceived
into believing that the oleomargarine in-
terests really wish to prevent the sale of
oleomargarine for butter.

E. K. SLATER,
Sec’y Nat’l Dairy Union.

CARING FOR A DAIRY IN SUMMER.

 

There are many people who seem lost
to enter upon the business of winter
dairying, but to me the summer dairy
presents more difficulties.

Short pastures are general throughout
the state and the question of how ‘best to
provide for the cows in summer is be-
coming more and more important. The
pasture is a very convenient and profit-
able asset of the dairyman during May
and June. It is usually worth something
in July, but bare and brown in August
and only a little better during the balance
of the season. I am aware that there is
some territory in the northern part of the
state where the pastures are green
throughout most of the summer but this
territory is limited to parts of a {few
counties and considering the growing in-
terest in the business of dairying we can
but feel that this problem of summer
feeding is a very important one to most
of those who read the Michigan Farmer.

We can get along very well during July
with oats and peas providing we have
made two or three different sowings ibut
August usually finds the latest of them
hard and dry and to feed them in that
condition is to incur an extravagant
waste. Upon here and there a farm
the second cutting of alfalfa will meet
all the requirements, but only a few
dairymen grow alfalfa. Crops planted
late in the season for soiling purposes are
often failures on account of dry weather
and even if they succeed a portion of
them must of necessity be cut before
maturity, thus limiting the yield. The
summer silo offers the best way out of
the difficulty. Every acre of corn put into
the silo represents the largest possible
feed value for that area, for it is cut
when it is at its best and kept in perfect
condition until it is needed.

A soiling crop is always harvested at
increased expense. The extra labor breaks
.into the regular routine of work and
creates disorder and confusion. If we
undertake to do a large amount of it we
must have suitable machinery. If we
leave our instruments exposed to the
weather we shall suffer loss and if we

 

attempt to keep them housed, this will
mean a lot of extra work. We can grow
the corn and fill the silo, using the most
modern implements all the time Without
apy extra latbor. We can plan out our
work and execute our plans and not be
distressed or distracted by a variety of
odd jobs so trying to the nerves of one
who finds it necessary to employ every
hour of the working day in the regular
work of the farm. When we open the
silo, we shall find it filled with as good
roughage as the dairy cow ever ate and
though we shall have to feed some grain
in addition she will pay fer it and return
a liberal profit also.

In caring for a summer dairy we must
not neglect the heifers that have lately
freshened. Unless the pasture is very
good they will require a grain ration.
Only a little grain is necessary at first
but the amount should be gradually in-
creased to meet the needs of the animal.
Corn meal and wheat bran make a good
grain mixture for summer feeding. If
silage is fed then cottonseed meal, oil
meal or gluten meal should be provided
to increase the content of protein. If
cows are permitted to fail in their milk
flow to any great extent for want of suf-
ficient feed it will be found very difficult
to bring them~back to a normal quantity
by any new method of feeding.

The dairy herd should be sheltered
from severe storms. Summer showers
will not injure the cows, but they should
the protected from long, heavy rains. As
the summer wanes this matter increases
in importance. A long, drizzling October
rain is very taxing to the cows, especially
if they are exposed to it during the night,
If the stable is well ventilated I believe
it is best in most cases to keep the cows
in at night. It saves labor through the
busy season and later on it insures them
comfortable quarters when there is dan-
ger of sudden changes in the weather.
Nature has provided the cow with a
means of caring for herself in some de-
gree. She has a. furnace inside her body
by which she can keep fairly warm under
ordinary conditions. She can even en—
dure very inclement weather. She can
fire up this furnace of hers, boil the wat-
er out of her hair and recover from her
chill after we have left her to shiver for
hours on the leeward side of a clump of
bushes in a cold October rain. But she
will chose her own fuel and it will be
butter-fat worth 30c per lb. It will not
pay. “’e may far better drive ‘her to the
barn and make her warm and comfortable
until the storm is over.

‘The summer calf, too, presents a prob-
lem of its own. Those who patronize a
whole—milk creamery find it easy to raise
calves during the winter. The milk can
easily 'be kept sweet and the calves can
be fed a ration that is uniform in quality
but it is very hard to keep the skim-milk
which comes back from the creamery
sweet during the summer. In fact, much
of it is sour before it gets back. Calves
will get along nicely with sour milk if
they have it all the time, but to sandwich
it in bet-ween feedings of sweet milk is
to invite a lot of trouble. Many of us
feed our claves too much milk during the
summer. There is not much reason in the
a-peptite of a calf, in a general way, and
in hot weather it is often stimulated by
thirst. The sooner the dairy calf can be
taught to eat dry grain, the better. The
saliva. is mixed with the grain, the labor
of chewing develops the muscles that
manipulate the jaw and the condition of
the calf generally is apt to be very sat-
isfactory.

I am becoming more and more positive
that we should try to do away with the
summer calf. Our cows should freshen in
the fall. Just now when our pastures are
bare and brown, when the weather is hot
and countless millions of files hold their
jubilee at the expense of our herds we
should give our cows a rest. The dairy-
men need a few days vacation. \Ve don’t
want it in the winter, we want it when
we can lie in the shade. \Ve want to
attend the farmers’ picnic and the grangc
rally and if we happen to get home a lit—
tle late we don‘t want to milk the whole
herd. We want our cows to fight the
flies, to eat what they can get in the
short pasture, the rest in the barn, and
cease from the labor of milk production
until the weather is cooler and the bill
of cow fare is appropriate to their needs.

The cow that freshens in the fall will
give a splendid flow of milk all winter if
she is properly fed. She will give nearly
as much upon good pasture during May
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spring. She will do quite well during
July and when August comes again with,
heat and drouth and innumerable flies;
she will do the only sensible thing left?

Oceana Co. W. F. TAYLOR. ‘

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You Have Preyed on the Soil bond Enouéh!

It is time to pay back something to it. What shall it be? Will you give
back soluble, concentrated food, or will you “buy bulk” in big bags of
low-grade, badly-balanced plant food? If you can’t break yourself of the
“same old brand” habit, buy some Potash—real. soluble, high-grade
plant food—to mix with the old brand.

'Ask your dealer to carry Potash in stock—
we will sell him, or you, n carload or a ton

Write for prices, and for our new pamphlet on Fall Fertilizers, telling you how to
improve the old brands and how to mix better ones at home for less money. It will pay

you to do it, for
Potash Pays

GERMAN KALI WORKS. Continental Buildlné, Baltimore. Md.

 

INTERIOR OF DAIRY BARN AT MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. EAST LANSING. MICE.

A. C. ANDERSON’S LETTER.
East Lansing, Mich, March 24th, 1910.
Kent Manufacturing Co., Fort Atkinson,Wis.:

Gentlemenz—The James Sanitary Cow Stalls which we purchased from you
last spring have been satisfactory. They enable us to keep our barn cleaner and
are labor savers as well as conveniences. Yours very truly, -.. «r

A. C. ANDERSON, Professor of Animal Husbandry.

In these days of progress of agricultural education the great state schools
and experiment stations are looked up to as authority in methods and equipment
in farming and animal husbandry. Everything is done not only to instruct the
farmers and dairymen in the various lines of production, but to demonstrate in
actual use the desirability of improved apparatus. The James equipment appeals
to the best practice in dairying, because ‘it meets fully the modern requirements
of sanitation, cleanliness, cow comfort, and consequent increased production and
improved quality of products. No dairyman, even though he has but a few cows,

should neglect to secure the very best. The item of labor saving alone will pay
for the complete James equipment in one year and the increased product will
stand for clear profit, above cost. Write for complete catalog and particulars to

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I am contemplating building a. lath and
plastered silo. How close should the stud-
ding be placed? Do I need a circular sill
or can I set the studding in the cement
foundation? How would metal siding do
for outside. covering, or would a. good
grade of rubber roofing be better? I can
get a. cement silo, 12x30, put up for $150
by furnishing the gravel and material for
scaffold, and boarding the men. Do you
think I could put up a lath and plaster
silo of the same dimensions for any less

expense ?
Jackson Co. Suescmesn.

The studding on a. lath and plastered
silo ought not to be farther than 16 inches
apart. It makes a rbetter job if they are
put every foot. You can readily see this
because in a small silo like one 12 feet
in diameter, it is impossible to get patent
board lath to spring around to the stud-
ding, and they must be cut and nailed on
each studding. When you do this it does
not make a smooth, true circle. How-
ever, when you come to plaster the silo
this fills up and makes it round and
smooth. The farther the studding are
apart, the more difficult it is to make it
round and smooth; but this does not
make so very much difference in the val-
ue of the silo.

I think that metal siding would do well
on the outside, and if you use good metal
siding on the outside, have the strips run
around and then lap. on the same prin-
ciple as clapboards. I do not see why
it would be necessary to use any other
material. This metal siding would be of
sufficient strength if nailed to the stud-
ding so that no hoops or wires would be
required. I really wish that when I built
my last lath and plastered silo, I had in—
vestigated this matter. I thought of it
after I had made different arrangements.
and it was too late, but I would like very
much to see some one try metal siding
on the outside. But when you use this
it would be my opinion that it would be
unnecessary to use any other material for
supporting the structure. '

I am of the opinion that a silo 12 feet
in diameter and 30 feet high can be built
inside of $100, all complete. If you should
think of using prepared roofing on the
outside of the silo, you would have to
clapboard it first. because the prepared
roofing would not hold when simply tack-
ed to the studding. and it would give you

in the material used on the outside as
well as on the inside to make the silo
absolutely safe.

WINTER WHEAT BRAN VS. SPRING
WHEAT BRAN.

 

Is a ton of winter wheat bran worth
more as cow feed than a ton of spring
wheat bran? If so about what is the
difference?

Gratiot Ce. L. J. M.

There is very little difference in the
feeding value of spring wheat bran and
Winter wheat 'bran. There is a. slight
difference, however, in digestible protein
in favor of the spring Wheat bran; but
this is slight, less than one per cent, and
in some instances there is no difference.
And whether the spring wheat bran
would be really more valuable than the
winter wheat bran would depend entirely
upon the balance of the ration you fed.
If the balance of the ration was a Wide
one, containing lots of carbohydrates and
you wanted to narrow it by your concen-
trated food, then a food a little richer in
protein would be a little more valuable
than one that was not. On the other
hand. if your roughage was fairly well
balanced, it would make practically no
difference. I certainly would not want to
pay very much more for spring wheat
bran than for winter wheat bran for the
purpose of balancing up a ration for dairy
cows. As a usual thing, however, you
can buy spring Wheat bran cheaper than
you can winter wheat bran. This all
comes from the notion that farmers have
that the winter wheat bran containing
some middlings is better feed but this is
not so. The middlings which the bran
contains is not as rich in protein as the
clean bran and consequently if we want
to balance up a ration of corn silage and
hay, spring wheat bran would be a. little
more valuable than winter wheat bran.

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MICHIGAN'S FRUIT AT DETROIT
SHOW.

 

L. R. Taft, superintendent of the horti-
cultural department of the coming Mich—
igan State Fair, Sept. 19-24, feels that
the display in his department will be
above the average in spite of the fact that
in many parts of the state the fruit crop
will not be normal.

Peaches are reported good nearly all
over the state while those grchrs who
have taken care of their orchards have
good showings of apples, pears and plums.
A new feature of this year's fruit ex-
hibit will be some 1909 apples which have
been held in cold storage. By this ex-
hibit fair visitors will be given a good
idea of what well grown and perfectly
ripened Michigan fruit is like.

Another idea which will be found work-
ed out in the coming fruit display will be
that of presenting fruit of various kinds
arranged in an artistic manner as regards
coloring. This will be in addition to the
plate exhibit. Fancy fruit will also be
shown in many new forms of commer-
cial bushel boxes and other commercial

by insects and the destruction of the in-
sects is the only method knowu whereby
the trouble can be controlled. It is more
than likely that this is not the trouble
with our correspondent’s tomatoes.

It is probable that the apple tree is
affected with twig or fire blight. The
remedy most used is to keep the trees‘
in a well—fertilized condition (seeing that
food elements are properly balanced ini
the soil so that soft wood is not produced
by an excess of nitrogen), to prune out
affected branches, cutting below the dis-
eased part some distance to make sure
that none remains, and to keep the prem-
ises clean. The twigs cut from the trees
Should be burned immediately.

 

 

WINTER RHUBARB. ‘

 

With the scarcity of small fruits of
nearly every kind, the question of the
winter supply is something of a problemfl,
and it stands the good housewives in
hand to cast about to see what can be
done for the betterment of present condi—
tions. I know of no vegetable which so
nearly takes the place of the apple as does
rhubarb or picplant, and when it can be
so easily and inexpensively grown during
the entire winter season it ought to be;
introduced into every home. There are
so many ways of preparing dishes as pies,

 

 

 

Bumper Crop of Cabbage on the Farm

packages which are coming into quite
general use for this kind of product. In
the canned and preserved fruit exhibits
arrangements are being made for an un-
usually large and well arranged display.
Many of the largest canning factories in
Michigan have arranged a special exhibit.

The general premium list is 10 per cent
larger this year than ever before and this,
together with the special premiums of-
fered by both the Northeastern Develop-
ment Bureau and the \Vestern Michigan
Development Bureau, will result in a very
fine display in this department.

TOMATOES ROT—APPLE TREES ARE
BLIGHTED.

 

 

 

What will be good to put on the toma—
toes to keep the fruit from rotting on the
end? We also have an apple tree that
the leaves seem to wither and die, all but
the very topmost leaves. The new growth
this year seems all right. The tree is
seven years old.

Osceola Co. A. L. B.

From the information given in the com-
munication we are unable to identify the
disease that is doing the damage to our
correspondents tomatoes, but it is per-
haps, brown rot, downey mildew, or fruit
rot. The two former are similar to the
diseases that attack the potato and are
treated the same, bordeaux mixture be-
ing the standard remedy and is applied
four or five times after the vines have
been transplanted to the permanent beds.
It is a wise plan to rotate tomatoes so
they will not be planted on the same
ground in succession. This will tend to
discourage the growth of the disease and
will give the tomatoes a chance that
they would not enjoy if on ground infest-
ed from the previous season Still another
precaution to take where these diseases
are interfering, is to get the crop off as
soon as possible, as the disease usually
does the most damage at the close of the
tomato harvest.

The other disease, fruit rot, is a bac—
terial disease and is most commonly
found on the blossom end of the fruit.
The portion affected stops growing and
forms a sunken area which usually makes
the tomato unmarketable. Bordeaux
mixture is of no avail in combatting this
trouble. The germs are probably carried

 

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Joslin, Wayne County. The;

sauce, jelly, marmalade, cool and refresh-
ing drinks for the sick, etc-., that the won-
der is that so few grow it or even give it
a place in the garden for summer use.
Many, of course, do give it a chance for
existence in the garden but after a few
weeks of growth it is left to work out its
own salvation until another spring. Thus
we leave it to care for itself, never think—
ing that the best time of all to grow it is
in winter when nothing else can be grown
unless we are the fortunate possessor of
a greenhouse.

All that is required for an entire winter
supply is a few roots and a darkened cor-
ner in the cellar with a small oil stove or
even a lamp for a little heat.
the outfit necessary.

Wayne Co. J. E. MORSE.
SOME STANDARD STRAWBERRIES.

Advise me as to the best varieties of
strawberrles for home use.

Lapeer (‘0. SUBSCRIBER.

it is impossible to advise what is the.

best variety of strawberries, or any other
fruit. for we have no absolute standard
to judge by. Persons differ in their judg-
ment of the different kinds, and the same
variety product-s varying results under
extreme conditins. Some of the standard
kinds are the following, from which a'
choice would not go far amiss: Of the
early kinds, 01de Greenville, \Varfield,
Lovett and Michael; of the mid—season
kinds, Brandywine, l-Iaverland, Glen Mary
and Marshall; of the late kinds, Grandy‘
and Sample.

IMPROVED GRAPE CRATE.

 

An improved grape crate or barrel which
may he. used for shipping other fruits, is
described by the Bureau of Manufactur-
ers in a recent report from Almeria,
Spain. The barrel is cylindrical and has
four separate compartments or flat cir-
cular boxes—shaped like cheese boxes——
each of which holds about 12 pounds of,
fruit. This insures good ventilation, and
at the same time presents a cheap fancy
package, which is what up-to—date grow—
ers are after. The entire barrel can be
made by machinery and there is prac-
tically no waste of wood. Any kind of
wood, it is stated, may be. used.

 

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The one and only basis on which you can afford to choose your roofing is that
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Do not be deceived by extravagant claims and high-sounding guarantees.
They are merely made for lack of proofs of what a. roofing has done. Insist
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We can point out roofs of proof, right near you, where Ncponsct PAROID
Roofing has lasted as long as the highest-grade shingles. It has been on
Government buildings, dairy barns, stables, poultry buildings and railroad and
industrial buildings everywhere for over a decade. We have been in one line of
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State Lecturer“: Suggestions for First
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“Give- me the making of a nation’s
songs and I care not who makes its laws.”

Roll call, responded to by each member
telling an anecdote about his birthplace.

Book review of "A Man Without a
Country.’_’

Dr. W. J. Beal and his work at M. A.
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Select reading, “Who . Cries Hard
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Cement farm improvements, paper or

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Why encourage work with children
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as I have said, the Grange is supposed to

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The Charlevohc Pomona Meeting held
with Nor-wood Grange Aug. 18, was de-
cidedly successful. When it is known
that the lecturer’s program consisted of
four formal addresses, three recitations,
seven songs, flve selections of instru-
mental music, one dialogue, and several
impromptu talks and discussions, its val-
ue and completeness will not be ques—
tioned. State Master Hull made addresses
afternoon and evening, in which he fully
demonstrated his capabilities as a leader,
and 'by which he left an impression that
must materially promote Grange efficiency
and extension. It was decided to discon-
tinue the practice of calling district con—
ventions for the purpose of naming candi-
dates for representatives to State Grange,
for endorsement of annual convention.
The time and place of next annual county
convention was fixed at Ironton, Oct. 4.
Ironton Grange was declared the banner
Grange for the quarter ending June 30,
1910, Barnard Grange being a close second.
Three candidates for the fifth degree were
given an impressive initiation by Marion
Centre degree team. Special committee
on By—laws ordered discharged, and the
standing committee on same was instruct—
ed to take up their work and report at
the next meeting. In the evening State
Master Hull gave a complete exemplvifica-
tion of the unwritten work. Next meet-
ing will be held with Barnard Grange,
Nov. 17.—Sec.

COMING EVENTS.

Pomona Meetingo.
Grand Traverse District Grange,
Thursday, Sept. 7 and 8.
Grange Rallies and Fairs.
Fifth annual fair of Crystal and
ternut Grange Fair Assn, in the

 

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The Members of Acme Juvenile

possess. It remains for the Grange to
turn its formative, influential power more
designedly into channels of service to
the children within its boundaries. Go to
a Grange meeting, to a picnic or rally,
or even to a Grange Children’s Day, and
notice the little ones_ for there are almost
always some of them present. Occasion-
ally a few of them “recite pieces" on the
program, and always they come in for a
generous share at the dinner table. This
is well as far as it goes, but watch fur-
ther and you see that during the remain-v
der of the time these little folks sit or
stand silently by, or topple off to sleep,
while their elders visit or conduct the
program. When members of a Grange
talk about a new hall they plan for a
room “where the children can play,” but
in most cases this means nothing more
than a place for the little ones to romp
in without direction or supervision—the-
yOnd a. “HuSh” whenever the play be-
comes so boisterous as to disturb the older
people. Did you ever attend a. Grange
Children’s Day where not a game was
played and not a. child could be induced
to play a game? I have. The little folks
did not know ‘how, they were not ac-
quainted with one another and not accus-
tomed to playing together. More than
that", we “older children” did not know
how to play, either, for we have not been
much in sympathy with the real uses of
play and have never cultivated it with
any definite idea of its service ‘in making
wholesouled wholesome characters. We
have not understood how “team work” in
games brings out the finer qualities of
co-operation and nobleness, nor ‘how the
low moral aim discloses itself and iso-
lates its possessor under the strain of
games among children and young people.
The Grange ought to look into these mat-
ters; ought to discuss them, and then
take such action as seems most feasible
in its several communities. The Grange.
in short, in every neighborhood ought to
unite with the best 'homemakers and the
school in making that local‘ity thoroughly
attractive to its young and vigorous life.
We want fewer young men and women
to be asking, “How shall I get awaY?"
and more to be saying, "How can I make
conditions so that I shall be glad to
Stay?" vam BusLL.

 

Grane, of Hillsdale C0unty, Mich.

Luevan building at Crystal, Thursday and
Friday, Sept. 29 and 30.

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* FARMERS’ CLUBS]

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

President—B, A. Holden, Wixom.

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

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

Treasurer—Henry T. Ross, Brighton.

Corresponding Secretary—N. A. Clapp,
Northville.
C, Hallock, Almont; A. R. Palmer, Jack-
son; Wm. H. Marks, Fair Haven; C. L.
Wright, Caro; E. W. Woodrufr. Blan-
chard.

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

 

 

 

Associations! Motto.—
The skillful hand, with cultured mind,
is the farmer's most valuable asset.

 

Associaticnal Sentiment.—
The farmer, he garners from the soil
the primal wealth of nations.

 

PICNIC MEETINGS.

 

Tuscola County Clubs.

The Indianfields, Hickory and Elling-
ton-Almeri- Farmers’ Clubs, of Tuscola 00.,
held a union picnic meeting on Aug. 18,
in Richardson’s grove, near Caro, in which
town all business places were closed from
9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m., to enable pro—
prietors and clerks to join in the festi-
vities of the day. Rain the night before
and in the early morning undoulbtetlly
frightened many away, but Caro got
scarcely more than a sprinkle in the
morning, so the grounds were in fine con-
dition, while the cooler air that had pre-
vailed for several days made the grove
a delightful resort. After the picnic eat—
ables had been disposed of the program
was rendered at the upper edge of the
grove where a platform had been erect-
ed and seats provided for about 500 per—
sons. The seats were crowded, and
hundreds stood as near as possible while
other hundreds made no attempt to hear,
but visited in groups and in a field hard
by engaged in ball practice, shooting clay
pigeons, pitching quoits. etc. The crowd
was variously estimated at from 1,500 to
2,000 people while as late as ‘3200 p. m..
numerous persons were seen going to
enjoy the later events.

President Charles Smith called the
crowd to order and the Caro band played

 

THE MICIBIGAN FARMER;

America while all joined in singing the
words. Rev. Howard A, Field offered
prayer, then President Smith made a few
remarks by way of welcome. The Hick-
ory C-lub then led in singing “Work for
the Night is Coming," and Miss Ethel
Andrews sang a solo. Mrs. Vilas Ward
gave a recitation, “The City Man," the
band played and Miss Gladys Miller re-
cited. Dr. R. M. Olin talked for ten min-
utes about “The Farmer and the Fair,”
in which he told the company something
of the good things the management had
prepared and took pains to impress upon
the farmers the fact that it would be all
for naught and the fair 3. fizzle unless
they, every one, woman and man, helped
by bringing the best they have of stock,
grain, vegetables, fancy work and ex-
amples of every sort of domestic science
for comparison. His remarks were hear-
tily applauded. A quintette from the
Hickory Clulb sang and Mrs. Castle Tag-
gett recited a. selection, as di'd also Miss
Gladys Smith, both receiving generous ap-
plause. A semi-chorus from the Elling—
ton-Almer Club did a turn in costume
and blacklface, making a. hit which re-
sulted in a recall. Led by the band the
crowd joined in singing “Nearer My

to Thee,” and the musical and literary
program was at an end.

Many then enjoyed beating on the river,
others watched the match shooting, many
of course witnessed the games and sports
and a large part of the crowd was at-
tracted to the game of base ball between
the "Fats" and “Loans.”

Shiawassee Gaunty Clubs.

A union picnic meeting was 'held by the
Farmers’ Clubs of Shiawassee Co., on
Wednesday, Aug, 24. at M-cCurdy's park.
Every Farmers’ Club in the county was
represented, not by a few members but
by nearly every member of the various
Clubs. A picnic dinner was enjoyed dur-
ing the noon hour and when all had fin~
ished dinner they made their way to the
casino where the program of the day was
carried out. It was at about the close of
the noon 'hour that the rain, which the
farmers welcomed with open arms, made
its appearance. The program of the day
was nicely carried out. J. D. Leland,
president of the association, had charge
of the meeting. A, L. Chandler was llrl--
able to be present and give his address
on the subject, “Law and Order,” but
the subject was ably handled by William
Kilpatri-ck, of Owosso.

The program was a long one and many
became restless during the afternoon. not
'because the program was not interesting.
but on account of the intense heat, which!
made life miserable for those who could‘
not find a cool place. However, the ma-'
jority «of those present decided to bear the
heat and hear the program, 1

Colon C. Lillie, State Dairy and Food‘
Commissioner, was present and gave a1
short but instructive talk, which was en-l
joyed by the farmers as well as the oth-i
ers. He spoke along the lines of the work
done in his department and asked that
the farmers become more familiar with
the work that department is doing.

Odessa Farmers' Club.

The Odessa Farmers’ Club held their
annual August picnic in the village grove.
Over 100 mem'bcrs were present and the
crowd, until dinner time, enjoyed one
good old visit as it was one of the largest.
meetings of the year. At noon hour the‘
dinner was brought forth from the nu—
merous baskets and spread out on the
tables. The program which came after
the dinner was good being in charge of
President Leon Carter, Mr. Lowrey’s ad—

 

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dress being exceptionally fine. A short
business meeting was then held after
which the Club adjourned.

THE :OME COMING.
Written for the occasion of the Home‘

Coming meeting of Columbia Club, of'
Jackson county, by Mrs. R. E. Smith. {

Wide open your doors to the home-com-;
ing guests, 1

Bring out from your treasurers the rar»
est, the best, i

Love freighted each token, each servibei
is sweet,

Right royal the welcome their coming to
greet.

 

Bring flowers, fair flowers with richest
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From the south with its wealth of beauty
and bloom,

East and west at the magical name of

ome,
With hearts full of love and remembrance
they come.

Joy, life and love in each sparkling eye,;
With thoughts of happy years gone by, ‘,
And proudly we welcome them home,

again, 1
Our boys and girls with a sweet refrain?

But true to the measure fair nature]

sung, }

In their childhood days, when the future:
flung r‘

A glamour of light, now false, now true!

But we know as we hear the old, old,
strain

That the farm has proudly conquered
again.

 

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We bear with us as the swift years fly,
The kindly words ere the last good—bye,
Knowing well as we pass through the
golden gate, '
There are mansions
ones wait,
And the home-coming there in the golden

 

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glow,
Of the Father’s smile we all shall know.,

ANY PICNICS’Z ‘

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CEDAR SHINCLES.

Lot No. 923. Common Star A.
tar 6 to 2, 16 in. Red Cedar Shin-
les, 0 in. clear butt.
rice per 1000 ......... ’. . a

These shingles are an excellent

\ grade for repair work, just the kind to use to

.overing sheds, barns and other buildings 0
like character. We sell many better grades.

Butt Dimensions Shingles at low priccs.

PERFECT ELECTRIC WELD FENCING.

We secured this Fencing
at Salvage Sale. Aside
, from being weather beaten
~—m it is as good as new.

Wt. per rod 7.5 lbs. Price per r
24r—26 in. Stays, 12 m. apart.
Wt. per rod 6.8 lbs. Price er rod. . C
We have a complete stock of ire and Fencing.

SPECIAL SINGLE BARREL SHOT GUN.

  
   
 

 

gauge: reinforced breech,
case hardened frame; good quality fore end and
full istoi gri stock; rubber butt plate-
Weig t about 6 lbs. .

16-3-1510. 12 guage, 30 or 32 in. single bar-
el, with eJector, $3.70. 16 gauge sin- $3 70
lo barrel, With ejector, 30 in. barrel. a

  
   

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y' 1 arm «1.1820

$3.60 BUYS 3} BARREL TANK. l

Made of Heav Galvan-

ized steel, and stee bound.

Larger sizes at low prices.
3 U Bu 8 Five Feet
a Stee Hog Trough.
Made of i-in. thick boiler ;-
steel With heavy legs and
cross bars. Built so strong no animal can break

 

We Red Cedar, White Cedar,also Fancy and Squar 01' injure. 5 ft. long, 12 in. Wide. 3 in. d009-
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Send for special tank and trough circular. .

Open Face, Dust Proof Watch.
, A price wrecking offer on this
I watc . Century movement guaran-
teed for three years. Solid nickle
. case, screw back and front: richly
\ engraved. Stem wlnd;hardend
:. and tempered hair 5 ring. Latest
x, model. Will last a ife- 1 95
time. 28-B-W-3. Price. -
' Postage on Watch 80. By register-
ed mail 16c 30 days allowed.

 
   
  
 
 
  
 

$1 3 8 For a first-class,
. . . practical cement
buxlding block in a c h i n e '
Blocks 8x8x16 in. You can
make Whole, half and quarter
blocks. Turn out a 100 blocks
aday. We can supply you
complete equi ment for mak— ._
mg cement books and other .1 "
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Read what the Chicago House Wrecking Company customers say:

—-—-————, Nebr.
Chicago House Wrecking Co., Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemenz—My car of lumber came
all 0. K. I have no fault to find with it.
It was really better than I expected. The
flooring is fine, the best I ever saw. It
created quite a sensation in our town.
(Signed) S. H. BABE.

-—-—————, Pa.

Chicago House Wrecking 00., Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen:—I Wish to inform you that
I have today received the doors, windows,
window frames and‘porch columns and
wish to thank you for your fair and
square dealing. I saved at lease $80.00
on my order of $220.00 and am ready to.

speak a good word for you any time.

You will ve likely get more orders
from this locality. My local lumber deal-
ers saw me unloading the material from
the car and I certainly had nothing to
kick about.

(Signed)

Yours truly,
Emmi. E. Wanna.

—————, Ohio.

Chicago House Wrecking Co., Chicago, Ill.

rGentlemenz—House Desig No. 147 is.

almost completed. Everyth ng has come

out all right. I must say that it is beyond

my expectation. I would also like your
latest catalog at your convenience.

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